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Strasbourg, France by stras_pix.

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shiv roy walking around like an open wound and people having the audacity to call her emotionless

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Fred & George: We are your older brothers!! You can always come to us with your problems.

Ron: Absolutely not.

Percy: I have free period next.

Ron: Thank Merlin, Morgana, and all the Ancestors!!!

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Percy doods bc I’m fixated on him again..,. defending him forever

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Bill: See we know how our youngest siblings act. Fred and George are somewhere experimenting, Ron is with his friends doing things they shouldn’t, and Ginny is fighting our mother because “only daughter”.

Charlie: But when it comes to Percy, well. Merlin save us.

Bill: He could be burning down the ministry, getting into a fist fight at the pub, crying in the library, or he’ll come home with seven different job offers from random foreign governments.

Charlie: We never know. One time he came back with a stack of books he “saved”.

Bill: They were hundreds of years old and worth millions of galleons. We were terrified the aurors would come in and arrest him.

Charlie: But we love him. But we do get nervous every time a letter comes.

Percy: *panicking* I don’t know how to feel. . . .

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Melancholic skies and miserable dreams;

Love isn't a dream but our meer memory

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I think the one thing that helped me with my relationship to shifting more than anything was making an effort to separate my DR from my shifting journey. Because ultimately, those two things are so fundamentally different.

Your DR is a full reality. Your shifting is an activity. You need to be able to separate these two things in order to process each fully. A lot of shifters will talk about the beauty of letting go, of not caring as much, etc. I think this lends itself to the notion that you really just need to separate the reality of your DR from the actual practice of shifting there.

Your DR is a full place, a full reality where you're living. It has places, people, a whole life for you. Your DR is not shifting, your DR is a place you already are. It's a life you already live. When you're thinking about it in your daily life, think of it like that. Think of it like your life. It's just another day! It's just another part of your life. Don't put it on a pedestal, don't associate it solely with shifting. Think about this life of yours as if it is as simple as your CR life. Recall these thoughts and memories as you would those of your CR.

Because shifting is but a means to bridge the gap. Shifting is a method you use to get there. It's a tool. Your DR doesn't exist because of shifting. Shifting exists to get you to your DR. Shifting is a small part of that entire life you're living in your DR.

I encourage you to take time to meditate on your DR and not at all think about shifting. Just meditate on what you're excited for about your DR, what you're expecting in your DR. Meditate on your life there. Meditate on your script. Do not think about shifting, just allow yourself to get familiar and comfortable with your DR itself. Allow yourself to realize that your DR is not shifting. Allow yourself to realize that your DR is its own life, and that shifting is nothing more than a means to get you there.

Feel free enough to ponder your DR without the weight of shifting. Let yourself fall fully into this space without that weight.

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thinking about the teenage young adult roy siblings

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Downtown Detroit skyline at dusk, 1970s. Globe Photo Archive.