#Avatar of the Web!Dumbledore

[queerregulusablack]

The Magnus Archives AU, Starchaser, 1.7k words

(James POV)

His hands drew James’ eye first.

The shape of them, of course, was lovely, long fingered and elegant, with narrow palms and neatly trimmed nails. The skin he could see was pale as the rest of him, near-translucent, with blue veins peering through in snaking pastel tracks across the pronounced lines of his tendons.

What really had James staring, though, were the tattoos they were covered in.

On the back of each of his hands was a gorgeous, stylised depiction of a closed eye, inked neatly onto the skin and then surrounded in rings of more ink, almost like a mandala. James could see more closed eyes, and alchemical symbols, and in one or two places neat little spirals tucked in amongst the rest. The patterns were intricate, and beautiful, and stretched down his wrists to disappear beneath the sleeves of his jumper, and down the length of each of his long fingers.

When he lifted a hand to tuck an errant strand of long dark hair back behind his ear, James caught a glimpse of his palm, and saw it was just as heavily tattooed; but at the very centre, the eye was open, the iris inked a bright, piercing silver.

He swallowed, and readjusted his jacket to make sure his knife was covered, and then shuffled over to sit in the empty chair opposite the boy in the cafe.

There was a long moment during which James half suspected he was going to be ignored, the other not looking up from the book open in front of him, intermittently taking sips of tea from the ceramic mug on the table; before he was finally graced with the full focus of those eyes, and he half wished he’d been ignored after all.

The eyes that met him were the dark grey of a storm, and piercing. After a stretched out moment of study, the boy closed his book and sat back in his chair.

“The Hunt usually sits over there,” he intoned, nodding in the direction of a corner table - the one Marlene was sat at, ironically enough, her own knives strapped to her spine, making a very obvious show of not looking at the servant of Beholding they’d followed into the cafe - and James wet his lips and laced his fingers together on the edge of the table.

“Maybe I’m broadening my horizons,” he offered; and a corner of the boy’s mouth quirked up in an amused flicker of a smile before the expression disappeared again, and he tilted his head, examining James curiously.

He was, James admitted to himself begrudgingly, prettier than most of the would-be Avatars they crossed paths with. Servants of the Flesh were, hands down, the worst to sit across from. It was the Stranger, funnily enough, that tended to put a pretty face on its servants; too pretty, usually, wrong in the uncanny way that made chills run up your spine.

Beholding didn’t seem to care all that much. Usually its servants just looked tired. But this one was…

If James hadn’t spent years learning to see people for what they were, he would have looked twice at this boy anyway. He stood out, Korean in a predominantly white part of London, and he was just- well, pretty. Pale and lithe, his hair ink-black and falling halfway down his spine even tied loosely back in a braid. In another life, James would have been angling for his number.

In this one, he was trying to figure out if he’d crossed the line between servant and Avatar; and if he was the latter already, just how ravenous his appetite tended to be.

“Really. I was under the impression that your lot preferred to keep your horizons particularly narrow. Certainly I didn’t think you made a habit of making conversation with your meals before you partake; your friend has no interest in a chat before she sinks her teeth in.” He nodded in the direction of Marlene again, and James didn’t need to look to know what he’d likely see, that by now she was probably watching them through her jagged fringe, irises washed yellow with the anticipation of a proper hunt after weeks of tracking regular humans with no idea what they were messing with; and James grit his teeth, and set both hands on the table.

“Are you saying there’s a reason for her to put her teeth in you?” He asked, holding the grey eyes watching him in return; and there was another brief flicker of emotion across his face, amusement that was there and then gone, before he lifted his hands in a defensive gesture, palms turned toward James-

-except the irises were a bright, sickly green, and so were the boy’s eyes, and James reached for his knife only to find his wrist caught in a vice-like grip, the boy half-leaned across the table.

His eyes were back to the usual grey; and behind him, James heard Marlene yelp, and then the sound of a chair scraping across the floor sharply, before the cafe was filled only with the usual quiet chatter once again.

No one had looked up. No one else had even flinched.

“What,” the boy asked, quiet and pressing, “you’re allowed to follow me all around Canary Wharf but I’m not allowed to Know a little more about my pursuers? That doesn’t seem terribly fair, does it?”

“I’d say it’s less fair to know someone’s secrets without their permission,” James snapped in response; and the smile he got for that lingered, small and lovely while the eyes above it brightened, before it was tucked away with the others.

“If I wanted to Know your secrets, James, I’d ask for them, and you’d give them to me. This way was kinder.” 

James was caught between laughing at the idea of having his mind rooted through - as he could pretty confidently guess had just happened - being kind, and shuddering at the cold shiver that tripped down his spine at the boy knowing his name; and the Avatar of the Eye continued, quiet and conversational.

“You struck me as being unusual for the Hunt when you first walked in, and I can see why, now. It would be more accurate to say you’re in league with it; running with a true servant because your goals align. You’re not really of anything yet, are you? Not the End, despite the hooks it has in your eomeoni. Not Slaughter, though it dogs your footsteps the longer you keep fighting your war. Even that which actively covets you doesn’t have you yet.”

The boy released his wrist in favour of snatching his fingers up over James’ shoulder, quick as a snake, fingertips just brushing his jacket, before he pulled his curled fingers back toward him; and James stared as he slowly uncurled them to reveal a spider sat in his palm, long-legged and unsettlingly still.

It looked wrong; and strangely, the longer he looked at him, James thought it looked frightened.

“I hate the Web more than I’m fully capable of expressing,” the boy offered, tone still casual and conversational, before he closed both hands over the spider, cupping his palms around it, and James could have sworn that in the instant before his hands closed the irises were green again; and then he opened them, and his hands were empty, and the tattoos were back to normal.

James was coming to the conclusion that he was massively out of his depth; and he startled violently when a chair was suddenly dragged up beside him, and a stranger dropped heavily into it.

He… couldn’t tell what colour her eyes were.

“Pandora,” the boy snapped, tone hard and reprimanding; and the girl laughed, the sound both lovely and horrible at the same time, and turned her kaleidoscope eyes on him instead.

“Dorcas is thinking puppies,” she informed him, her words mystifying; but the boy scrunched his nose in distaste, and then nodded and pulled a pair of gloves from his jacket pocket. James watched him shut the book and stuff it into the satchel, watched as the girl - Pandora, he’d need to remember that - walked her fingers across the table in hypnotising little circles, all the silver rings covering them clinking together discordantly; and jumped when gloved fingers touched his chin, and the Beholding Avatar lifted his head enough that their eyes met once again.

The Spiral girl who had joined them laughed again, quiet and like nails on a chalkboard and the trill of birdsong, and James grit his teeth, and didn’t look at her.

“Take care of yourself better, James Potter. Whatever your boss’ end goal, he’s still Web; and the strings he pulls are as likely to strangle you as those you hunt with your friends.”

He held James’ eyes for a long moment, something about his expression complex and indecipherable; and James swallowed, and took a hold of his hand to pull it away from his chin, studying how the change in contact made his eyes soften at the corners.

“What’s your name?” He asked, quiet and firm; and the boy smiled at him again, fleeting and empty, and pulled his hand away.

“It’s Regulus. You won’t need to do very much research to know me, James Potter; just tell Sirius that our mother’s dead, and if he wants to talk, he knows where the house is.” Regulus dropped a handful of loose change onto the plate beneath his mug, ostensibly a tip for the waitress cleaning tables around them; and James watched him go as he turned for the door, joining Pandora in the same moment they were joined by a tall, dark skinned girl with hundreds of tiny braids twisted up into a bun on the top of her head, exposing where the symbol for The People’s Church Of The Divine Host was tattooed onto the back of her neck in gold, but had a scar slashed through the centre of it, long healed but stark on her skin.

The Eye, the Spiral, and the Dark, all exiting together, immediately falling into friendly, teasing conversation.

James scrubbed a hand across his mouth, and tried to banish the memory of Regulus’ eyes from his mind.

#starchaser #jegulus #james potter x regulus black #regulus black #james potter #QRABs Fic #fanfiction #TMA!AU #Avatar of the Eye!Regulus #Avatar of the Spiral!Pandora #Avatar of the Dark!Dorcas #Avatar of the Hunt!Marlene #Also implied that Effie is an avatar of the End/tangled with one at some point #Oh and #Avatar of the Web!Dumbledore #I really liked doing this I liked it a lot #Korean!Black Family #Korean!Regulus

[confessorcanary]

Inky and Kaden’s Sortings: A Masterpost Update [2022]

Because Tumblr burped and @sortinghatchats disappeared, Inky and Kaden have had to build it back up from scratch. That means my old post, from 2017, has a bunch of broken links now. But never fear! I’ve spent the past few years tracking down every last reblog on this site with an unusable ‘search’ function. 

Sortings by Inky and/or Kaden 

Marvel Cinematic Universe 

Agents of SHIELD  ——More on Melinda May, Jemma Simmons

The Avengers  ——Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Nick Fury, Agent Coulson  ——Natasha Romanoff, Maria Hill, Jane Foster, Sharon Carter, Pepper, Sif, Darcy ——Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, Vision, Ultron, Loki ——Steve Rogers ——Bucky Barnes

Daredevil

Guardians of the Galaxy  ——Peter Quill

DC Universe 

DC Women  ——Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Barbara Gordon

Books 

The Chronicles of Narnia  ——The Pevensies  ——Addressing their popular Sortings

Diana Wynne Jones ——Charmed Life  ——Conrad’s Fate

Harry Potter ——The Golden Trio, the Silver Trio, Draco, Dumbledore   ——More on Harry’s Secondary  ——More on Hermione’s Secondary  ——Bellatrix Lestrange  ——The Marauders, Lily Evans, Severus Snape

The Hunger Games

The Lord of the Rings  ——The Hobbits

Outlaws of Sherwood

The Tortall Universe  ——The Women  ——The Men

Inky’s novels 

The Alliance Trilogy

Leagues and Legends (Parts 1-3)

TV series 

BBC Sherlock

Firefly  

Friends  ——Phoebe

Game of Thrones

The Get Down

Gilmore Girls

Orphan Black

Sense8

Supernatural  ——More on Dean Winchester

Teen Wolf (Parts 1-2) 

Veronica Mars

White Collar

Web series & Web comics & Podcasts

Check, Please! 

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries 

Welcome to Night Vale

Musicals 

Hadestown 

Hamilton 

Legally Blonde 

Les Misérables ——Javert 

Wicked  ——Elphaba, Galinda 

Movies 

Disney Princesses  ——Tiana ——Moana  ——Mulan 

Star Wars  ——The Force Awakens 

Animated series 

Avatar: The Last Airbender 

The Legend of Korra 

#sortinghatchats #hogwarts sorting #harry potter series #shc sorting #shc repost #a masterpost update

[cealesti]

Hehehehehehe.

Well, don't mind if I do then.

First off, the tma/hp crossover "Terminus"?

I am SO curious about that one, cause since terminus is the fear of the end and death and everything, I'm guessing it'll have to do with the hallows? And the idea of death as the concept it is in tma being brought into the hp world give me brainworms.

(Tma in general give me brainworms, if you didn't notice the several liveblogs I wrote in, like, a week and how much I was losing my mind writing them. I did NOT sleep a lot at that time, ngl.)

Mate, I understand COMPLETELY and that's why you've hit the nail on the head: it IS about the idea of death as it exists in TMA being brought to the HP world. As well as all the other lovely entites in TMA!

The annoying thing about HP crossovers is that, more often than not, you'll see characters from other works being re-imagined in the context of the Wizarding World. But I don't want that! I want to think about Harry Potter in the framework of TMA! I want to reimagine Hogwarts and how terrifying it is and how sweetly it would feed all the entities! I want to think about which characters would be marked, or would become Avatars and about what that might mean for our story!

Some are easy, of course. Bellatrix is an Avatar of the Desolation if I've ever seen one. Dumbledore is an agent of the Web, as natural as breathing. Luna is clearly of the Spiral or the Stranger.

And Harry, well.

The boy is, at first glance, a wisp of a thing. Narrow shoulders and knobby knees, bird-boned beneath the large jumper that sits oddly and misshapen on his thin frame. The shock of unruly black hair on his head and his bright green eyes only lend credit to the almost fae quality of his movements, stilted yet graceful, like a newborn foal. To her left, a tape recorder switches on of its own accord, and Gertrude frowns. When she looks back, those bright green eyes are looking straight at her. Gertrude is no stranger to piercing gazes, to the sensation of being Seen and Known beyond reasonable doubt. She’s grown accustomed to them -- as much as anyone can grow accustomed to endless voyeuristic terror and paranoia. This is not a Knowing gaze. But there’s certainly something more to it; something that has her biting her tongue, staving off the urge to compel a statement. The boy walks towards her, motions unhurried, head tilted to the side in curiosity. His fringe moves as he does, and she spies the lightning bolt scar cutting through his forehead and brow, just shy of touching his eyelid. Ah, she thinks drily. Of course. The End, then.

#id wager that the magnus institute & its sister orgs are all aware of the wizarding world #and that gertrude & harry would know each other and he'd go into the wizarding world knowing about the fears #eve.txt #wip tag game #writing updates #asks

[orgumimi]

Album Dumbledore from Harry Potter would be such a web avatar.

#tma #harry potter

[naomijameston]

For the Headcanon ask: NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM

Headcanon A:  realistic

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

Neville Longbottom

A: While he remains fairly shy and retreating throughout his life, he will occasionally give impassioned speeches about conservation, and is invited around the world as an expert on flora. He is particularly fond of one plant in his collection- a South American variant of the Venomous Tentacula. This variety, instead of actively hunting and seeking prey with its vines, spins a web and waits for prey to become entangled in its sticky sap. He was caught in such a web while on a mission in Peru, but was saved by his later-wife Luna Lovegood. He kept a cutting from the plant and brought it back to England with him. When he became Herbology Professor at Hogwarts, he brought this plant along and installed it in his own personal greenhouse. It dominates the space now with large webs in every corner, and keeps the Potions Professor well supplied with Chizpurfle carapaces and fangs.

B: Neville once shaved every inch of his body. He’d been drinking with Dean and Seamus, both of whom had been sporting the colors of their respective football teams. Neville expressed mild interest, one thing led to another, and he ended up with a head full of purple hair. However, there was an interaction between the Muggle dye and the magic used to set it, and he started sprouting purple hair everywhere. It only took two minutes for him to resemble a werewolf and less than five minutes to pass for a purple Cousin It. Dean and Seamus tried every spell they could think of  but nothing removed the hair. They purchased a Muggle hair clipper and a variety of razors, and the three of them spent hours shaving him. They eventually prevailed and the magical growth stopped. Neville’s hair grows much more slowly since then and he refuses to dye it again.

C: He can cure his parents at any time. And he did once. He snuck into their hospital room late one night and cast the ritual around them. It was very dark magic and required delving deep into their brains- both highly illegal actions that would have given him life in Azkaban had he been caught. However, the ritual went off without a hitch and he was able to slip into his mother’s mind. But while he had theorized that his mother’s mind was intact and she was simply trapped in her broken body, he was backwards- his mother had gone insane. The avatar in her mind screamed at him and attacked him, scratching at his face and beating him bloody. He barely got her away from him before she started throwing herself at the walls until she herself was bloody and bruised. He tried to reason with her, to remind her of the woman she was, but she was gone. And when he pulled out of her mind, he found that not only was she screaming in real life, his father was, too. He could hear the nurses running down the hallway so he quickly cast a powerful Obliviate at them both, knocking them out, and hid himself in a corner under Harry’s Invisibility Cloak. He watched the nurses soothe his parents and cast spells over them, and sound the alarm at the dark ritual a Death Eater must have been performing on them. Tears poured down his face, but he couldn’t let himself make a noise. He never told anyone about the ritual or what he’d discovered in his parents’ minds.

D: He actually *was* the Chosen One but he chose not to follow that path. His grandmother had been grooming him to be the hero but once he met Harry, Neville stepped back. He acted more timid than he actually was, putting himself in the way in the first year so that yes, Neville Longbottom might actually be brave and certainly has House loyalty, but he was not The Chosen One. Dumbledore shifted his attention fully to Harry and began grooming him instead. Neville’s grandmother never forgave him, even after Harry died because, and to quote her: “He came back anyway. It’s not like he stayed dead or anything.” She and Neville never really saw eye to eye at the best of times, and her dismissal of Harry’s death (and the potential that it had been Neville) led to their falling out. Neville moved out of the family home and never set foot in it again until his grandmother’s funeral two decades later. 

[sbooksbowm]

The ‘Does this make sense?’ check: Chapter 3, Part 3, reading experience and community boundaries

Part 3 puts the two together, looking at how the reading experience unfolds with these two textual features and how reading fic maintains the boundaries of a fandom

Part 3: reading experience and community boundaries

Intertextuality contributes to the aggregation of fanon, and including fanon in fic contributes to its enjoyment. The reader is thus situated in within the context of intertextuality (e.g. meta-analysis), generated in the response zone of the community model, which is upheld by the community infrastructure (e.g. tag wranglers). Juli Parrish suggests the collective Brownian motion model to describe fic writing, departing from Henry Jenkin’s oft-cited textual poacher. On a micro level, the textual poacher is a good analogy to describe how a reader or writer selects the elements she enjoys and expands upon them in her own work. On a macro level, the repetition of this selection process moves the fandom in one direction or another: Harry is South Asian, Percy is Afro-Latino, Zuko and Sokka end up together [1]. As a mathematical model, Brownian motion describes how the aggregate random motion of particles shifts an object in a given direction overtime. In fandom, the particles are fanworks (fic, text posts, and meta-analysis); the motion is interpretation; the movement is solidification of fanon. Brownian motion models how the aggregation of commentary, analysis, and interpretation collectively contributes to a framework through which readers or reading groups interpret and create fanfiction. The fic thereby becomes context dependent, accruing meaning through this ongoing process [2].

In established interpretive fan communities, this aggregate motion is underwritten by ‘share[d] central readings and values; this allows [fans] to create particular reading norms and practices as well as core analyses and stories, all of which affect consequent interpretations’ [3]. Brownian motion does not suggest universal agreement within fandom (Goodman already noted the improbability of that). Rather, this motion describes how pockets of fans develop interpretive communities with agreed-upon interpretations, often grafting in identifiers like race or sexuality, or exploring alternate characterizations, such as dark or morally grey characters. As I learned from first-hand experience, generalizing about interpretations is fraught; in a weekly wrap-up post, I referred obliquely to Albus Dumbledore Critical discourse as an example of how an interpretive community has solidified in the Harry Potter fandom. It was immediately challenged by a pro-Albus Dumbledore fan. There are exceptions to all rules.

Goodman argues that a fic’s intertextuality and paratexts create a mutual mythopoeia from which fic writers draw and to which they contribute. She writes ‘variant retellings of common legends accumulate to build a shared repertoire from which classical authors borrowed characters, events, and plots, each giving it his own twist, often while referring to each other’ [4]. This referential mythopoeia, which is another term for intertextuality, is part of the pleasure of fandom for reader, and the collective rewriting of a source text often skews readers’ perception such that they can no longer read the source text as the original author dictated. Melissa Gray notes that this shirking of original intentions is exactly why

‘fandom is so rewarding: the vast sharing of points of view and creativity that makes it our universe, belonging to the fans as well as the creators of the canon, with our own characters and settings and situations. I can no longer watch episodes the way TPTB [The Powers That Be] likely intended. I bring not only my unique experiences to my viewing, but also the wealth of fanon background material that I've absorbed over the years’ [5, emphasis mine].  

This mythopoeia, a depot of references that are fun for a reader to unravel, fits cleanly into Goodman’s expansion of the principle of minimal departure, which suggests that ‘because a finite text is always necessarily incomplete, it is a standard part of any normative reading practice to imaginatively supply necessary information’ [6]. Goodman argues that this principle operates in production of fic, which often adds, substitutes, or intervenes in missing information with imaginative works. For example, gedsparrowhawk’s ‘Hogwarts, to welcome you home’ responds to the unanswered question of what happens after the war with an alternative universe where Harry. This interpretation returns the readers to Hogwarts, reorienting reader perception of the epilogue such that it is more difficult to imagine the original ending.

Available data agrees that intertextuality is among the most fun and favored part of fic, suggesting that the referential-ness of a fic is what makes it pleasurable to read and possibly to write: citing in-jokes, niche knowledge, and crossovers include the reader in an unraveling process as they read. Fansplaining, a podcast about fandom, ran a survey on fic tropes that received 7,610 responses and found that the most favored tropes ‘are absolutely intertextual, requiring the reader to understand the original story before they can fully appreciate the fanfic’ [7]. I return to the resonance of dirge’s concluding line in ‘the last son’, which nods to the reader’s knowledge of an alternate universe where events work out differently. Or, to return to an example from Chapter 2, the reveal in ‘The Changeling’ of a subtly developed secondary character, Tori, as the future wife of Draco Malfoy was a payoff that spoke to Annerb’s facility with the source text. As Busse points out, fic ‘also engages with a host of other texts—be they clearly stated requests, shared interpretive characterizations, or even particular instantiations of the universes that the fan writer chooses to expand upon’, as dirge executes with reader-submitted prompts or ideasofmarch accomplishes by expanding on the universe posed by couldnt’s post [8]. Intertextuality with the source text is like an inside joke; and intertextuality with conventions of fic itself (e.g. waspabi’s use of various tropes) that play with readers’ knowledge of how fic works situate reading in the broader genre.

The consequence of this intertextuality, as Melissa Gray wrote, is an interpretive web that makes it difficult to sort out the fannish interpretation from the nonfan interpretation, original characters in fic from canon characters [9]. Paratexts indicating the central characters of a fic can lead to very different stories contained within the same fictional world. Fanon, which results from the repetition and affirmation of these interpretations, helps maintain the boundaries of the fictional universe; paratexts are one expression of how a fic fits into that universe.

Harry Potter from Harry Potter, Percy Jackson from Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Zuko and Sokka from Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Kristina Busse, Framing fan fiction pp.100, 141; Juli Parrish, ‘Metaphors we read by: People, process, and fan fiction’, 5.5.

Busse, p.100.

Lesley Goodman, ‘Disappointing Fans: Fandom, Fictional Theory, and the Death of the Author’, p.668.

Bethan Jones, ‘Fifty shades of exploitation: Fan labor and “Fifty Shades of Grey”’, 2.2.

Goodman, p.665.

Flourish Klink, ‘Five Tropes Fanfic Readers Love’. The top tropes include canon-divergent alternate universes, fix-it fic, missing scenes, minor character focus, and point of view shift, all of which require the readers to know what was in order to appreciate the magnitude of the changes.

Busse, p.131.

Goodman, p.666.

#does this make sense check #dissertation #research #Kristina Busse #Lesley Goodman #Bethan Jones #Flourish Klink #Fansplaining #fic readers #paratexts #intertextuality #community boundaries #Juli Parrish

[bharatiyamedia-blog]

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is Pokemon Go together with magic wands

http://tinyurl.com/yyedacxn Niantic Labs and WB Video games Out now in the US, the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite augmented actuality sport will likely be acquainted to anybody who’s performed the wildly profitable Pokemon Go and even Niantic’s first sport, Ingress. (Here’s how you get started playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.) Relying in your telephone’s GPS, you progress across the bodily world and work together with beasts, objects, factors of curiosity and different witches and wizards you come throughout in your sport’s map. The sport, first announced in 2017, is a joint effort from WB Games San Francisco and Niantic beneath the Portkey Games label. The sport is out now within the US for iPhone and iPad and Android devices, coming to the UK on Friday, June 21, and to worldwide territories quickly after. Again within the spring, the wizarding AR cellular sport was far sufficient alongside in improvement that Niantic invited a handful of journalists to its workplaces to get an replace after which play a prerelease model. Following out brief runthrough, Niantic made the sport out there for beta testing in New Zealand and Australia. Prowling the waterfront of San Francisco on a wet morning, I used to be shocked by how a lot I loved this Potter-meets-Pokemon-Go expertise. Now enjoying: Watch this: Harry Potter: Wizards Unite gameplay particulars revealed 1:53 What’s Harry Potter: Wizards Unite? A registry web page with gadgets to gather. Niantic Labs and WB Video games I am strolling to my bus after a day on the workplace holding my wits about me. As an alternative of dodging visitors or the man making an attempt to get me to signal a petition, I am anticipating magical beasts from the world of Harry Potter. Dueling darkish wizards and overpowering magical beasts is a troublesome job, however it’s all in day’s work once you’re holding the Muggle world protected from sudden calamity. And it is all taking place on my telephone. An unexplained calamity is scattering magical gadgets throughout the Muggle world. It is unclear who’s accountable and the way lengthy the magical artifacts will keep hidden from Muggles. As a part of the Statute of Secrecy Activity Power, your responsibility is to search for magical traces of the calamity and piece collectively clues to uncover the trigger. Whenever you come throughout proof, you enter it in a registry of your discoveries concerning the anomalies. The sport builds on the Harry Potter books and flicks and the 2 Fantastic Beasts movies to create a compelling and acquainted wizarding world in your telephone. As a fan of the Potter franchise, I could not wait to step into the magical universe to forged spells, encounter beasts and confront darkish wizards. What are the sport fundamentals? Wizard’s Unite makes use of a lot of the identical underlying expertise as Niantic’s different video games — Ingress and Pokemon Go — to create the map, factors of curiosity and AR surroundings. If you happen to’ve used the map on these different video games to navigate to a portal or a gymnasium and in the event you’ve traced a glyph or tossed a Poke Ball, you’ve got bought a head begin right here. However as acquainted as the sport feels, it is distinct sufficient that I did not really feel like I used to be enjoying a reskinned Pokemon Go. As an alternative, I used to be in a brand new and unusual world. A part of the contemporary expertise comes from a number of methods not present in Ingress or Pokemon Go that enhance shared multiplayer AR environments. (You’ll be able to catch a glimpse of that in this Niantic video.) And in contrast to in Pokemon Go, you are armed with spells in Wizards Unite. To forged one, hint a spell trace along with your finger in your telephone’s display screen. The onscreen motions should not in contrast to the glyphs you hint in Ingress. How do I get began? Studying the Auror occupation. Niantic Labs and WB Video games To get going, create your wizarding avatar. Use your telephone’s digicam to snap a photograph of your self. You’ll be able to then outfit it with witch and wizard garb. Whereas cooperative play makes up an enormous a part of the sport, your avatar is not mechanically shared with others and is saved simply to your machine. (The sport additionally will include parental controls to assist adults handle kids’s accounts.) The sport permits you to decide your Hogwarts home and select your wand. However do not agonize over your decisions: You’ll be able to swap homes and wands at any time. If you happen to’d slightly be sorted right into a home than select one, head over to the Harry Potter official web site and have the Sorting Hat place you. You additionally select a occupation — an Auror, Magizoologist or Professor — which every supply job-specific expertise and skills you improve to as you go. As with homes and wands, you are not locked into your occupation. How do I play? In your sport map, you may see magical buildings, provides on the bottom and glowing magical traces that signify somebody or one thing displaced by what the sport calls the Calamity. The buildings embrace Inns, the place you accumulate wizarding meals to make use of as vitality for spells, and Greenhouses, the place you collect potion-making elements. You may also discover potion-making supplies on the map, together with gadgets that seem solely in distinct biomes and through totally different climate situations. Together with Inns and Greenhouses, you may discover Fortresses on the map. A bit like a Health club in Pokemon Go, a Fortress is the place you be part of forces with as much as 4 different gamers to dispel magical creatures and Demise Eaters. You battle in actual time with the opposite gamers in a shared area. After you defeat one opponent, you possibly can transfer on to a different till the Fortress is cleared. The map, with factors of curiosity. Niantic Labs and WB Video games However the principle sights are the magic traces you uncover on the map. “Magic at all times leaves traces, generally very distinctive traces,” Professor Albus Dumbledore instructed Harry. It’s true within the books and flicks, and it is true within the sport. The magical traces are gadgets the unexplained Calamity has displaced from elsewhere within the wizarding world, previous or current. Every hint factors to a pair of things: a “Foundable” and a “Confoundable.” Faucet a hint, for instance, and it’s possible you’ll uncover Harry Potter — a Foundable — beneath assault by a Dementor, a Confoundable. A magical-exposure clock, much like one seen in Unbelievable Beasts and The place to Discover Them, measures the menace degree of the hint to the Muggle — or because it’s referred to as within the US, the No-Maj — neighborhood and provides you an thought of how troublesome the confounding magic will likely be to defeat. Forged a spell to overpower or dismiss the confounding magic and return the discovered object again to its correct place. Efficiently dismissing a Confoundable earns you rewards and goes towards leveling you up. You additionally could come throughout darkish wizards on the map whom you possibly can duel. Duels are quick paced, and you might want to swap briskly between defensive and offensive spells to defeat your opponent. As you forged spells, you wish to precisely hint the spell hints in your display screen. Watch out because you’re penalized in case your wand work is simply too sloppy. Potions might help with the accuracy of a spell and heal harm attributable to an opponent’s spell. For me, figuring out the mechanics of finding an opponent, focusing on them, casting spells and minding my well being took just a few battles to work out. However after I discovered the method, battles had been thrilling. Unsure I reached the informal confidence of Sirius Black battling Demise Eaters, however I felt simpler than a first-year Ron Weasley. And at last, yow will discover on the map after which use a Portkey to move to an immersive VR-like magical location to discover and collect provides. Now enjoying: Watch this: Lego’s large Hogwarts brings Harry Potter’s college to… 1:00 Can I play it on my telephone and in my nation? Transporting with a Portkey. Niantic Labs and WB Video games Niantic and WB Video games San Francisco stated, to start out, the sport needs to be out there in 19 languages — together with English, French, Spanish, Japanese and each simplified and conventional Chinese language — however did not decide to which areas the sport could be out there in at launch. Likewise, whereas it stated the sport would run on a broad number of iOS and Android phones — from high-end gadgets to older fashions — it would not focus on particular gadgets. Nor would it not touch upon whether or not the sport would work with {hardware} equipment, like possibly a wand, or have smartwatch integration. There’s excellent news for individuals who nervous the sport could be filled with microtransactions: Mary Casey, Government Director of Product for WB Video games San Francisco, stated the aim is to permit folks to play via the sport with out paying or hitting microtransaction partitions. Inns and Greenhouses have a cool-down interval after you collect provides, very like a PokeStop does. And as in Pokemon Go, you can purchase provides if you would like. When is it popping out? The sport is out now within the US for iPhone and Android devices, coming to the UK on Friday, June 21, and to worldwide territories quickly after. Niantic has been beta testing the game in New Zealand and Australia.  Jonathan Knight, Studio Head of WB Video games San Francisco, guarantees that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will likely be a deep role-playing “endlessly sport,” with the Calamity forming a multiyear story arc. On the occasion, I could have seen a little bit of the arc. Throughout the briefing I noticed a fast reference to “The London 5,” 4 Ministry of Magic staff and one “Every day Prophet” reporter who’re lacking. The lacking 5 did not seem throughout gameplay however could present up sooner or later within the story. Might it’s as large as Pokemon Go? Uniting the wildly in style Harry Potter and Pokemon Go franchises appears to be like like a stable guess for a success sport. The sport builders additionally have done a good job of constructing pleasure amongst Harry Potter followers, offering neighborhood members with early entry to promotional movies and hints. A demiguise, confounded. Niantic Labs and WB Video games This is not the primary time Warner Bros. has tried to create a sport for Potter followers. Final 12 months, Portkey Video games labored with Jam Metropolis on Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, a roleplaying sport set within the 11 years between Harry’s start and his coming into Hogwarts. Whereas gamers appeared to benefit from the story and gameplay, they complained that a lot of the sport was pushed by microtransactions. Within the 12 months since its launch, Jam Metropolis has labored to make the sport much less depending on transactions. Followers will even should hope Niantic discovered from Pokemon Go’s launch three years in the past. The corporate wasn’t ready for a way shortly the sport blew up in the summertime of 2016 and spent months catching up with the calls for of the passionate and vocal participant neighborhood that shot up. After early stumbles with wobbling sport servers and an inauspicious first festival, Niantic has executed a greater job of rolling out updates over the past 12 months. Is that this the sport Pokemon Go and Potter followers need? Niantic has proven if gamers come and stick round, the corporate will create an expertise gamers get pleasure from. And I used to be unexpectedly happy that the sport felt each comfortably acquainted and contemporary. I look ahead to enjoying when it lastly launches. Initially printed March 11. Replace, April 11: Provides data on reserving your identify. Replace, April 17: Provides data on beta testing. Replace, Might 2: Provides details about expanded beta testing. Replace, June 19: Provides official launch date. Replace, June 20: Provides US launch data. Source link

[cealesti]

brain has been buzzing with a tma/hp crossover. harry as an avatar of the end and dumbledore as an avatar of the web make total sense to me as a concept, but i'm admitedly a lil stuck on Vee. there's a little of the eye to him, a little of the hunt... i have bellatrix pegged down as desolation, but Vee isn't as obvious

#eve.txt

[confessorcanary]

Inky and Kat's Sortings: A Masterpost Update

Since Inky and Kat themselves have evidently gone on hiatus, I have taken it upon myself to update the masterpost that links to all their Sortings. Their version simply isn't current. This post will only include their Sortings. It does not include their FAQ, which hasn't been updated, or Sortings by fans who use this system. (I may make another compilation post of those someday, though, because they're just as interesting.)

Sortings by Inky and/or Kat

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Agents of SHIELD ——More on Melinda May, Jemma Simmons

The Avengers ——Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Nick Fury, Agent Coulson ——Natasha Romanoff, Maria Hill, Jane Foster, Sharon Carter, Pepper, Sif, Darcy ——Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Vision, Ultron ——Steve Rogers ——Bucky Barnes ——Loki

Daredevil

Guardians of the Galaxy ——Peter Quill

DC Universe

DC Women ——Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Barbara Gordon

Inky's novels

The Alliance Trilogy

Leagues and Legends ——Part Two ——Part Three (Spoilers)

TV series

BBC Sherlock

Firefly

Friends ——Phoebe

Game of Thrones

The Get Down

Gilmore Girls ——Rory, Lorelai, Richard, Emily, Luke, Dean, Jess, Sookie, Jackson, Paris

Orphan Black ——The Clones, Felix ——Rachel ——Beth ——Gracie

Sense8

Supernatural ——Dean Winchester

Teen Wolf ——Jackson, Malia, Isaac

Veronica Mars

White Collar

Books

The Chronicles of Narnia ——The Pevensies ——Addressing their popular Sortings

Diana Wynne Jones ——Charmed Life ——Conrad's Fate

Harry Potter ——The Golden Trio, the Silver Trio, Dumbledore, Draco ——More on Hermione's Secondary ——More on Harry's Secondary ——Yet more on Harry's Secondary ——Bellatrix Lestrange ——The Marauders, Lily Evans, Severus Snape

The Hunger Games

The Lord of the Rings ——The Hobbits

Outlaws of Sherwood

The Tortall Universe ——The Heroines ——The Men

Web series and Web comics and Podcasts

Check, Please!

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Welcome to Night Vale

Movies

Star Wars ——The Force Awakens

Disney Princesses ——Tiana ——Mulan ——Moana

Animated series

Avatar: The Last Airbender

——Aang, Katara, Sokka, Zuko, Toph, Azula

The Legend of Korra

——Korra, Bolin, Opal, Mako, Asami, Tenzin, Jinora

Musicals and Music Albums

Hadestown

Hamilton

Legally Blonde

Les Misérables

——Javert

Wicked

——Elphaba, Galinda

#sortinghatchats #hogwarts sorting #harry potter series #a masterpost update