#but if I get inundated I'll try to get to them all as soon as possible

[jandjsalmon]

2024 FRC - March🍀

This one is a scheduled posted because as we speak, I will be living it up on my vacation to Venice and Croatia - but I'll screenshot my word count first thing on April 01 - so that it'll be up to date. If you're following me on SM - I apologize in advance for the plethora of pictures I'll be inundating you with soon. 😉

In other non-vacationy news, as in past years, my daughter and her amazing basketball team defended their title as Provincial Champions and successfully won Back-To-Back Championships. If you were here last year, you'd remember that this was the first time in school history and so doing it again was even more momentous. I chose a close-up this year. Kinda bittersweet that she's played her last game - but really happy with how this season turned out. 🏀

Okay - back to the fanfiction. Things in the @fanfic-reading-challenge are progressing nicely. If you’re looking for a fun way to get out of your comfort zone, you should come check it out. and for those of you who are new here - over the last couple of years, I’ve not only been participating in the fic challenge (which is still open for new members jsyk and the Discord is pretty neat) but I've been tracking all the fic I've read and reported back here once a month with some stats and some recs, and a little bit of boring stuff about my life. That’s what this post is.

Below the cut are my March stats and some fun fic recs. I’ve been tackling the challenge tasks and am nearly done the ‘extreme’ mode. I'll crack 6 million words on the airplane back home on Friday. 😉

March 2024

As for my recs for you! Try these - you might enjoy them. The pairings are all over the place - but if it is something you've never read before, let one of them be your first foray into the ship.🖤🖤

I actually stumbled upon this fic accidentally to pass off a task for the challenge but Folie à Deux by @cypresssunns (E 1/1) - is a super delightful Knives Out fic and I'm SO glad I read something new!. The pairing is Marta/Ransom and it is a "Marriage of Convenience/Ransom remains a sociopath but Marta kinda likes him like that" kinda fic. It was delightful and if you're into co-dependency and couples where no one is really a good person - this is the fic for you!

Of course I never go a month without recommending at least one Wenvier fic - and Pomegranate. by @theravenandtheartist (T - 1/1) was fantastic. Wednesday in particular felt perfectly in character. Xavier is adorkable. And honestly, I just have a unhealthy love for Hades and Persephone - so while this is NOT an AU, the mythology does play into the story and I loved how it was done. Great read!

Anyway - I have lots of tasks yet to complete - so if you have a fic that you’d like to recommend - let me know! I'll see you when I get home! 🖤

And seriously, COME ON. racing the yellow lights is a Hallie/Society Assassins AU (M - 1/1) and it's fantastic. I've read it about a bajillion times and it is ALWAYS delightful. Of course the great @smc-27 writes one of the best Harrys in the whole fandom so it's completely unsurprising that this fic has me in a chokehold. If you like The Society - and you like Hallie and fun AUs - don't forget to review! 💛

#2024frc #2024 fic reaching challenge #reading fics with jandy #vacayqueue

[thessalian]

Thess vs The Co-Workers

So there's some good news - I don't have to work overtime today and I might not have to work overtime anymore. That is ... basically it for good news in the work sphere.

The bad news? Oooooh let me count the ways.

First off, it's entirely possible that I might have to work Saturday. See, Goblin's away again tomorrow. I mean, not that she does all that much anyway, but given how things are going at the moment, it'll be enough.

The reason I say this is because "how things are going at the moment" have devolved into every other person who even touches the typing throwing all the hard shit at me while meandering through the short easy stuff. See, we have some new junior doctors (YES, AGAIN; we have so many more junior doctors than our current typing pool can handle even if we weren't inundated with unexpected absences), and they are both very, very bad at dictating. Guess who gets stuck with them? Not to mention the ones with the difficult accents, the ones who handle complicated cases, and the ones who dictate unnecessary bullshit and make the dictations longer than they need to be? That would be me; everybody's punching bag.

The end of the day today was particularly cheeky, as I'd ploughed through several longer bits of typing already and happened to notice that someone else had taken the other two, which was great, I thought! ...At least until those two ended up back in the queue at 5pm. So someone took them out of the queue, ignored them for a good chunk of the afternoon in favour of short snappy reports, and then went, "Oh, I guess I don't have time to do these ones; back into the queue they go! [Thess] can handle them!"

(Side note: I only had the time to handle one of them because the guy who did the dictation for the twelve-minute nightmare made such a mess of the block key that I spent fifteen minutes trying to figure out what the fuck he was doing before I gave up, bolded the problem areas, saved it to PDF, and emailed it to him - copied to our quality control department as per protocol - with the professional version of "THIS IS A MESS; SORT IT OUT".)

It's only now that Scruffman bothered to tell me that he was having issues with putting in my overtime hours; that apparently I had to if he was signing off on them. Of course, no one has ever actually demonstrated how to do that on our system, but I think I figured it out. I say "I think" because I don't see any evidence that the applications are pending and Scruffman apparently didn't have time to get back to me about whether or not there were any issues. That's a significant chunk of overtime pay, and if I don't get it in this month's paycheque, I'm going to be pissed. Though I guess if push comes to shove, it's extra Christmas present money instead of extra MCM Comic Con money.

So at this point, odds are pretty good that while I may not have to work today or tomorrow, I'll end up putting in a few hours on Saturday. Just because my colleagues (including the new temp, who I shall simply call Newbie; I have seen that this individual exists, though they're taking lessons from Temp insofar as leaving me with the long bullshit goes) are lazy fuckers.

Anyway, point is that I'm not committing to doing anything on Saturday because even if I don't have to work, I am a fucking wreck right now. I hurt very badly, I haven't been sleeping properly, I have a stress headache and sinus pressure that's probably going to turn migrainous fairly soon, and overall it's just not good. Like, at all.

Don't even get me started about what's going on in the UK at the moment. I cannot even think about the shit being spewed at the Tory Party Conference. I'm miserable enough without the reminder about how much this country hates me. I would love to say it's not specifically me they hate, but they do hate almost everything I am - or rather, everything I'm not - read, a British-born able-bodied wealthy cishet white male, since I only have one of those going for me. I don't really want to talk about it but it's there. Lurking. It adds to the stress, y'know? And I need way, way less of that.

But my Placid Plastic Duck Simulator has more ducks thanks to a certain bestie. So that's something.

#Thess has a day job #Thess vs the Tories

[the-firebird69]

Today was incredible as the idiots not there fooling people so I could go look at stuff and steal stuff and they're saying that they're going they're gone and getting killed and they're saying it to our son and laughing and he says back stand and Biden started it and their fleet was about 120th in size of the empire The empire picked it up because you're in their face blaming them because it looks like empire ships and it is and it worked and they're devastating you for real so I don't know why you say it's fake you're a bunch of losers and con man conning yourself. So they turned around and said screw you you don't need to know and they're saying that I don't need to know I don't really care to know but you're the ones we need to know and your garbage cuz you have no idea what you're saying. Turned around again and said we know all about it and I said I don't think you know about it idiot. You told me to shut up and put him in a body bag I kept yelling so they hit him and they pull them out of there with an ambulance while you were there and they went around the back no they went right by and stuck him in the ambulance. It was stan and he's saying I'll get you to our son. He's riding the ambulance saying screw you to everyone all sudden you said that I'm screwed I'm done these people suck so damn bad and Mac is there saying you got to calm down you're in the middle of all of them telling them to go to hell the place was fully loaded with these s*** heads. You drew us into it to stop these idiots and he's helping any kind of ratted on himself and he's stuck in there. He's laughing it's easy riding out no but he wrote out a few minutes later and they told him said good at chop them up myself and they said what are you saying that for since he keeps riding on me and riding on me and then it said well you know that's your actual attitude we can take your s*** cuz I don't want to f****** put up with it from you either you sound like a retard they checked in his frontal lobes are retard so you're letting the guy get in charge. He leans way back and says I can't help what I'm saying also they said this we're inundated so they called people in it's actually what it was I said they're everywhere I couldn't see any max out there at all if Stan walked by I wouldn't know him from Adam cuz they're screwing around with everybody so all of a sudden he goes like this you can't tell who anyone is he's idiots have trouble with it anyways and you sincerely can't see yeah that I'm doing it too stupid they're saying you're next and stuff. You shouldn't be out there all alone and when you're doing that you shouldn't you should have a big crew here he goes oh yeah yeah I think it's a key without it you can't open those big ones and he started laughing and said there's some kind of thing like you can't it might sit down inside it and it might not even be lopsided on purpose it was okay cuz like at the edge you might want to break it up a little and Max said that makes actual sense and we say it makes sense. You start laughing and say this one it's out and it has to do those diamonds yeah everyone's making fun of me even the non retarded people. So I pulled you out I guess Stan laughs a little was here for the gold you had it out he leaves and says everyone's had everything and he's trying to sit there and these people had him all the time and me pretty soon to be out cuz what happened happened Stan lead into it was attacking bases and it pulled the ball out and they started attacking Max and Max were forced to do it now

Thor Freya

[inherstars]

I have said it EIGHT MILLION TIMES, the worst thing about rescue is the people.

So I've been doing TNR at the local mobile home park for probably about 2 years now. The way the local feral clinic works is that they open up appointments every two months, and you basically have to just grab them as fast as they're available. These are "clinic days" where everyone brings the cats in the morning, picks them up at night, so it's kind of an assembly line thing.

Trapping is hit or miss. A few days before I start "dry baiting" the traps (put in stinky food but pin the doors open so they won't close) to get the cats accustomed to eating inside. The day before I set them live, and cross fingers that I get somebody.

Some areas of the park are easier to trap than others. I can't hang around so it's good to have someone nearby willing to periodically look out and see if the trap is sprung, so they can call me. Some areas of the park, the people don't WANT the cats trapped, and they'll go out and trigger them shut as soon as I leave. One guy has a serious problem with women, and would encourage me to set traps on his CLEARLY OVERRUN property, then go out when the traps HAD CATS IN THEM, release the cats, and chide me for "using the wrong kind of bait."

*STRANGLENOISES*

Also, if it's rainy or sleety at all the cats won't come out. So if it rains on a trap day I know there's no point in even setting a trap. I HATE wasting the appointments, because they're hard to come by, so if I know we're due for inclement weather on a trap day I'll post on some of the local groups / sites asking if anyone has an indoor or indoor-outdoor cat that they cannot afford to get fixed.

Sometimes nobody response, sometimes I'm inundated. Last time I put feelers out I was inundated, and I had to scramble to find appointments for a woman with a 1.5 year old old female and her four 6 month old kittens that were probably on the verge of inbreeding each other all to hell.

Another woman (outside the park) also reached out to me saying that she had a friendly indoor-outdoor cat that needed to be neutered, and that her neighbor was making her life a living hell about this cat. I tell her I'll take the cat to my next appointment (this Sunday) and I'll call her neighbor and reassure her that the problem is about to be handled (most of her complaints were about behaviors typical of an intact male.)

So I make arrangements with the first lady to pick up her cat Saturday night, and I leave a message for the other woman (who has called me like 3 times to rave for twenty minute straight about CAT DRAMA happening in her garage) just to let her know that, hey, it's happening, so now you guys maybe don't have to be assholes to each other anymore (said it more nicely than that.)

She calls me back and proceeds to RAGE AT ME that this cat is still running around (uh... yes? I know that?) and that she can't catch it (nobody told you to?) and that the owner doesn't care, and has abandoned the cat, and that it's a menace and yadda yaddda on and on.

And I'm like... look, I don't know what to tell you. You're unhappy with this cat. I have arranged with the owner to get the cat fixed. I really don't think she would make plans with me if she did not intend to get the cat fixed. This is very clearly her pet that she is trying to take care of.

"BLEEAAHHHR THERE ARE FOUR CATS SHE'S A LIAR SHE IS DESTROYING MY FAMILY'S LIFE I NEED TRAPS NO ONE IS LISTENING TO ME THIS CAT IS A MENACE I WATCHED IT CRAWL INTO HER SHED THEY ARE ALL LIVING IN MY GARAGE."

I had to tell her that whatever was going on with her and her neighbor, I could not and would not get involved. I am there to get the cat neutered and bring it back, and I'm doing this shit out of pocket. End of story. If you need more help, you're gonna have to call somebody else.

"I HAVE A JOB I'M GOING TO BE LATE SO i'M GOING TO HAVE TO CALL YOU BACK."

Okay great, yay. :|

#personal #tnr #rescue #it's not cats that are the problem #it's 100% the people

[rogue-durin-16]

FIREWORKS AND STREAMERS

Request: I have been insecure about my curly hair lately and was wondering if you can you write something with one of the weasley twins where the reader is insecure about her curly hair and one of the twins makes her feel better.

Pairing: Fred Weasley x Hufflepuff!Reader

Genre: fluff

Tags:

Requested by: @wildcat1434

Fred Weasley: @whiskeyn-rain @lumos-solemn

Permanent taglist: @elia-the-bibliophile @randomparanoid @karlthecat15722 @thebutchersdaughtersblog

Warnings: none

A/N: So like, incoming fluff bc this idea was cute and sometimes I do be needing fluff, that's about it, enjoy <3

Rogue-durin-16 masterlist

The relationship between me and my hair had always been... Bumpy, you could say.

There were periods in which I would find it quite lovely; during those times I would let my curls free, showing them off with a proud demeanor, knowing my hair was unique. Those times began to turn less and less usual since the middle of third year, though they were still there.

However, after the summer prior to my sixth year, those moments had banished; I only wished to hide my hair, and my friends ended up noticing. They told me surely there would be a spell or potion able to change my hair.

As if they had summoned it, the next day in Transfiguration, Professor McGonagall introduced us to what seemed like my salvation; Crinus Muto, an advanced spell that modified the caster's hair with no restrictions.

My best friend advised me against using it, claiming it wouldn't help my insecurity— if only, it would worsen it.

I really wanted to do as she had told me and completely dismiss the spell's existence, but two nights after I had a big mental breakdown about it, caused by the most stupid thing ever.

"Is Weasley staring at you or am I blind?" One of my friends whispered, her eyes trained on the Gryffindor table.

I didn't even bother to look up, not wanting to know whether it was true or not, before responding with a quiet "You're blind."

"I mean, it's hard to tell with two rows of students between us but," She nudged me, urging me to avert my gaze from my dinner and redirect it to Fred. "it kinda looks like he's... staring."

Curiosity killed the cat, I guess. My eyes finally left my plate and were, in fact, met with Fred's brown ones. As soon as they met, though, he looked away, pretending to be focused on his food, just like I had been doing seconds ago.

"Of course he's staring." Hannah Abbot, who sat right in front of my friend, commented with her mouth full. "Have you seen your hair?" She swallowed her food, looking me up and down before adding, "No offense, but it's an absolute mess." My eyes opened widely in shock at her bluntness. "You should take care of it, really."

"Has someone ever told you you're an ill-mannered bitch, Hannah?" I heard my friend talking back at the younger girl while I got up and started to make my way out of the Great Hall.

Of course, I didn't see Fred shooting up and attempting to go after me; ultimately he decided to stay in his place, since he saw my friend walking out too.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was very aware of all the pair of eyes that had been laid on me the very moment I entered the greenhouse where we would be doing the Herbology tasks.

When I had met my friends at the Hufflepuff common room that morning, I had received divided opinions about my straight hair. At first I had been very convinced that it looked way better than my curly hair, but seeing my friends' reaction, I wasn't that confident about it anymore.

I didn't have time to undo the spell before class, so I decided to go along with it and see how the day unfolded.

I took a deep breath, my eyes trained on the ground as I made my way to an empty seat; maybe there weren't that many people staring, maybe it was just my anxiety.

I finally gathered the courage and looked up, nervously scanning the glasshouse so I could shake off my fears.

There was only a couple of my peers staring, which would have put me at ease, if one of them wasn't Fred Weasley.

On top of it, of course, he wasn't even trying to be subtle, it was almost as if he wanted me to notice his judging eyes; I could feel his gaze on me for the entire class.

The instant Professor Sprout dismissed us, I shoved everything in my bag and left the greenhouse, thanking a couple of Gryffindors who complimented my hair on my way out.

Again, I didn't notice Fred leaving the class as soon as he could to run after me.

I threw my bag against a tree near the lake shore and, as I fell against it, I heard someone jogging in my direction.

"In a hurry to sit by the lake, Y/l/n?" I followed the tall ginger with my eyes while he circled me and sat down by me. "You alright?"

"I just needed a break from... People." I vaguely explained, focusing on the water instead of on the boy besides me.

"Understandable." He hesitated for a second before adding, "Do you want me to leave?"

"No, it's fine." I surprised myself at how calmed and collected I sounded, as if I wasn't chatting with my crush.

"What happened to your hair?" His genuinely curious inquiry took me aback, and I struggled to find something to answer.

"Why?" My heartbeat picked up, anxiety inundating me once more. "You don't like it?"

"It looks weird." Fred looked at me up and down with a grimace. "You don't... Look like yourself." I was about to enter fight or flight mode, but he seemed to notice, and panic made its way to his face. "But it doesn't matter what I think," he was quick to add, his eyes wide open as if he knew he had said something he should have not. "I mean— I think it shouldn't matter, if you like it, that's great— I mean, you don't need my opinion about that either!"

"Calm down, I understand." I tried to reassure him, before his rambling drove the both of us crazy. "Can I tell you a secret?" He nodded with pursed lips, surely afraid he would fuck up if he spoke again. "I've been very insecure about my hair lately— like, very." I sighed. "My best friend told me not to straighten it, but last night I got a not so nice comment and—"

"So that's why you left?" I nodded, tugging my sleeves. Fred went silent for a moment, and then cleared his throat and scooted closer to me. "I know this won't do much, but I really love your hair. Kinda reminds me of fireworks and streamers." He gestured around his own head, mimicking the fireworks' movement. "Dunno I think is fun and pretty awesome." I raised my brows at him in surprise. "Like you."

"Aw, that's very sweet." He offered me a sheepish smile as I felt my cheeks blushing. "It does a lot, actually." I confessed, fidgeting with my rings. "I guess I kinda needed to hear something positive about my hair."

"Well, whenever you need to hear something positive about your hair," he pointed at himself. "I'm your man." He winked at me and I let out a chuckle. "I can also tell you positive things about you in general, but that has a price."

"And what is it?"

"You'll have to let me buy you a drink at The Three Broomsticks this Saturday." I tried not to let panic slip through my recently eased demeanor; was he asking me on a date? "And give me a kiss after." He wiggled his brows at me and my face turned red. "the kiss is negotiable."

I casted my gaze down, fixing it on my shoes, not sure of what I was supposed to say at that. His foot tapping mine snapped me out of my thoughts.

"So?" My eyes traveled to him once more, only to find his studying me already. "What do you say, Y/l/n?"

"Well," I shrugged, trying in vain to play nonchalant. "Seems like an affordable price, so it's fine by me."

"I'll pick you up after lunch, yeah?" Before I could agree, he gasped, his eyes going wide. "I'm a genius."

"Come again?" I frowned, confused as his sudden frantic behavior.

"Don't mind me, love." He jumped up and jogged towards the castle, leaving me puzzled in there. I was about to grab a book from my bag when Fred rushed back, crouched down and pecked my cheek. "Your hair's amazing." He assured me. "See you!" My fingertips graced my now flushed cheek as he headed off.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was finishing my lunch when two towering redheads entered the Hall running; while George, slowed down, Fred made a beeline to the Hufflepuff table, his casual clothes already on.

"Ready?" He asked breathless.

"Yeah— you didn't have lunch, did you?" I pointed out, getting up to stand in front of him.

"No, but I'll eat something later—" his eyes roamed over my carefully picked outfit before stating, "You look... very pretty."

"Why, thank you." I offered him a smile and looked over my shoulder at the Gryffindor table, where his friends were very attentive to all we did. "You sure you don't wanna eat something?"

"Hundred percent." He tilted his head towards the gates. "shall we?" He prompted to walk before him, and it was then that I realized he had his hands behind his back. Once we were out in the yard, he tugged my hand and made me turn to him. "I made something for you."

"You didn't have to." Was the first thing that came to my mind when I heard his words. Then the wording dawned on me; he didn't get me something, he made me something. "What is it?"

"So, you know that I told you your hair reminded me of fireworks and streamers?" I nodded, not quite knowing where he was going with that. "Well—" he then showed me what his back was hiding; a delicate, tiny firecracker with my name written on the side. "George helped me so I could finish it on time."

"I'm—" at my loss of words, I could only let out a happy laugh. "This is so cute— am I supposed to ignite it?"

"Duh!" I gently pushed his shoulder in response to his teasing. "Do you know how to do it?"

"I've seen you do it plenty of times." I admitted, grabbing the firecracker with one hand and my wand with the other; it looked so pretty, it was a pity I'd have to ruin it.

With a brief firemaking spell, the firecracker set off. Fred pulled me back slightly before it happened, though.

I was in awe at the beautiful fireworks before us, which looked like a color-changing, expanding version of my hair.

When the colors died out, I turned to Fred, whose attention was already on me, awaiting for a reaction. Surely, he was not expecting the kiss he got, but he didn't complain either; while my hands rested on his chest, his traveled to cup my cheeks before I could pull away.

"So you liked it?" He questioned quietly against my lips.

"I loved it." I whispered back with a wide smile. "You're a sweetheart." I pecked his lips before retreating. Holding his hand in mines, I made my way back into the castle. "We're not leaving until you have lunch."

"You are a sweetheart." He responded, following my lead without offering resistance. "By the way, your hair looks gorgeous." The corners of my lips twisted into a bigger smile at the sweet words he spoke only for me to hear as we went back into the Great Hall.

Maybe my hair wasn't that bad after all.

#fred weasley imagine #fred weasley x reader #fred weasley x y/n #fred weasley #fred weasley x hufflepuff!reader #fred weasley x you #fred weasley x gender neutral reader #fred weasley fanfics #fred weasley fluff #fred weasley fanfiction #fred lives au #fred x y/n #fred x you #fred x reader #fred x hufflepuff reader #gryffindor x hufflepuff #harry potter fanfiction #harry potter #fred weasley masterlist #fred weasley aesthetic

[autumnsnuggling]

Prompt: Imagine Draco insulting Harry, who just cries because he's having a shit day. Cue Draco panicking because he hadn't been that mean and now he's made the Saint cry.

Okay, so, I said I was writing this yesterday, and I did. I wrote a 5k thing that is still being Alpha'd. It was still inspired by the same prompt, butI got very carried away and I honestly don't know if it even works. SO! I have also written this 😂 At some point I will upload the 5k thing (I've worked too damn hard on it to abandon it) and you can have a proper fic, but for now, enjoy this!! Sorry for the wait, I hope it satisfies your fluff and angst needs!

EDIT: I HAVE NOW WRITTEN THE FIRST PART OF THE LONGER VERSION. You can find it on AO3 HERE. If you like this story then I would LOVE you to check out the longer, slightly different version. It's currently 5k and I will be adding more soon, but if you just like the short one, that's fine too. Thanks guys, on with the short version!

~

It just couldn't get any worse.

Harry sighed as the laughs and gasps echoed around the Great Hall, drawing more stares from his fellow students and even the teachers. It took every ounce of his self-control to resist the urge to hex himself into oblivion.

On the table in front of him sat a Hagrid sized teddy bear, holding a heart the size of a human head, adorned with an arrow. It had taken 11 owls to carry it in, and had made the entire table jolt when it was dropped down, sending breakfasts everywhere flying.

It was in dire need of an Incendio.

Being the Chosen One in Eighth Year was proving to be more difficult than he anticipated. Each morning he was inundated with gifts, love letters, and thank you notes, each more embarrassing than the last, thanking him for defeating Voldemort, asking him on dates, and generally offering to worship his feet.

To make matters worse, he still wasn't sleeping properly, being hounded by nightmares that detailed how The War could have ended, so he watched his friends die repeatedly every week. Those same friends had also all paired up in a Post-War love making frenzy, leaving him with lots of extra time on his hands whilst they engaged in activities he definitely didn't want to be involved in. It wasn't that he didn't want them to be unhappy. Of course he did! He just didn't expect relationships to take up so much time.

To top things off, NEWT level work was kicking his arse, even with the extra time he had to study. All he wanted was a quiet year, one where he didn't have to worry about anything other than his school work. Why was that so difficult?!

As the laughter and staring continued, the glass eyes of the soulless bear baring into his own, he'd had enough.

“I'll see you in Charms,” he quickly muttered to Hermione, leaving before she could form a word.

This just couldn't possibly get any worse.

*

Draco grinned as he watched Potter storm out of the Great Hall in the wake of his loving fanmail. It honestly sickened him how much people adored Saint Potter, but seeing him getting frustrated with his gifts made it a little bit more bearable.

Throwing it in his face helped a lot.

Without saying a word, he quickly followed the Golden Boy, knowing his friends weren't awake enough to miss him; no one really liked mornings in Slytherin. A flash of raven-hair down the corridor had his jogging to catch up.

“Off to make out with your lover, Potter?” He drawled to the unruly mess of hair.

“Poor them, I say. Who would want your ugly face and crooked glasses on theirs?!”

*

The sound of Malfoy's laughter echoed off the stone walls, reverberating through him. He shook his head, trying to ignore the taunt and kept walking. To his annoyance, the sound of Malfoy's footsteps followed him; each slap of leather on the concrete drawing more hairs on his neck upright.

What was that git's problem?! Why couldn't he just leave him alone? Couldn't he see that he hated this?! Before he could put a decent distance between them, Malfoy's sneering voice reached him again.

“The whole school knows you're awful in bed too, Potter! You couldn't even keep the Weaselette for a whole month!”

Cold slammed into him like a dragon protecting her offspring, forcing him to stop in the middle of the hallway. Rage boiled through him, crawling up his arms, his legs, squirming in his stomach. He shook, breath coming in gasps, tears forcing their way into his-

Oh fuck…

Harry swallowed as his anger was consumed almost instantly. He tried to keep his breathing even, he tried to calm down, but it was futile; his body betrayed him. Within seconds, he was drowning in a tidal wave of hysterical pain that originated from deep in his core, overwhelming his senses with a desire to wail in despair. He was powerless to resist or fight the tears that were spilling from his eyes.

Everything was just too much; he'd fought too long, too hard to pretend that everything was okay. He was done with being the Golden Boy, the Hero, the Boy Who Lived. He just wanted to be normal.

*

Draco paused his pursuit as Potter stopped. He was ready for the backlash, the sparring, the insults. He held his wand tightly in his hand, mentally selecting the spells he would fire first. He was prepared, he was waiting, all he needed was Potter to-

“Angm-hh”

… Choke? What the fuck was that?

Draco watched as Potter's muscles tensed repeatedly in his back, shoulders shaking ever so slightly, hand swiping at brought his face.

“Potter?”

He edged forward, half expecting the Gryffindor to turn and fire a hex at him.

The quivering of the man's shoulders became more insistent, more jagged, and another gasp met Draco's ears.

Oh, shit…

As he stepped in front of The Boy Who Lived, his stomach dropped to the floor.

Potter was crying.

Not just crying, but sobbing. Strangled, choked little sobs he was obviously trying and failing to contain, were bursting past his lips.

Fuckshitballs!

How had he made the Saint cry? He hadn't been that mean, had he?! Why was the Great Harry Potter reduced to a weeping mess at having his sexual prowess insulted? Everyone knew he could have any girl or guy he wanted! He was their Saviour!

As Potter continued to choke in front of him, Draco's mouth started working on its own.

“Potter, I'm sorry, please stop crying, I didn't mean it! You know anyone would be honoured to have you! I was just playing around, honest!”

His words were doing nothing, if anything, Potter was crying harder now, body wracked by the sobs that he could no longer contain. Draco ran a hand through his hair, searching the corridor for inspiration. If anyone found out he'd reduced the great Harry Potter to a weeping mess, he was done for!

*

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! You stupid boy, what's wrong with you?! Pull yourself together!

But it was no use, the seal had been opened, the plug had been pulled, and the emotion was unstoppable.

As Malfoy rambled on beside him, Harry felt his control slip even further, tears hot and fast streaming down his face as the sobs were ripped from his throat, more frequent now, causing his breath to judder more violently.

He tried to shake his head, to communicate that Malfoy had basically nothing to do with this; it wasn't his fault.

But he couldn't.

He was stuck, completely at the mercy of his emotions, stood like a pillock in the middle of the corridor for all the world to see.

Just perfect.

*

An idea struck him. Literally struck him. He felt the pain in his head from where it landed.

It was crazy. It was stupid. It would never work and would land him several punches to boot. Punches which, for once, he wouldn't contest.

But as green fluid threatened to escape from Potter's nose, Draco knew he had to do something.

It was the only idea he had.

*

Harry jumped as something warm and solid wrapped around him, pressing close. Foreign scents struggled through his congested nostrils, interrupting the storm of emotion, and the sound of awkward shushing filled his ears. His head was gently guided onto a hard surface, chest pulled close to warmth, and something was moving his hair softly, rhythmically. As a hand settled around his back, he realised with a start that Malfoy was hugging him.

His insides squirmed, desperately wanting to push him away; it was bad enough crying in the first place, especially over something as stupid as a teddy bear and a few insults. He needed to get a hold of himself. But his emotions had other ideas.

Unbidden, one hand latched onto Malfoy, gripping his clothes tightly as if to prevent him moving away. His head readjusted, finding the hollow of the other man's collar bone, relishing the faint heat he could feel through it. His other arm wound around Malfoy's slender back, anchoring him to his chest.

It was pathetic. It was stupid. But as his tears continued to fall, hiccups and sobs rampaging through him, it made him feel just a little bit better; safer.

As Malfoy adjusted against him, his hand clenched around the man's shirt once more, one thought running through his mind: Please don't leave me.

*

Draco could barely breathe. This couldn't be happening. The Saviour of the Wizarding World could not be sobbing into his neck like a child!

But, as the wet patch on his shirt grew and the fist threatened to tear a hole in his uniform, Draco had to admit, it was undeniable; he'd become Potter's comfort blanket.

The man shook against him, still sobbing in earnest. At a loss for what else to do, Draco hummed slightly, running his fingers through Potter's (surprisingly silky) locks. A strangled cry punctuated the sobs and sniffles, giving him pause. Did Potter not want that?

A few seconds later, the first coherent words he'd heard from Potter all morning were whispered against his neck.

“Thank you.”

Swallowing his shock and confusion, Draco merely nodded, squeezing Potter closer as the man continued to cry.

If this was what Potter needed, this was what Potter would get.

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[the-firebird69]

Several things are happening today and yes sometimes I need to announce and it's to help us there are three races today no there's two left actually there's one left and it's at 3:00 in Portugal and 10:00 a.m. eastern time One race and it's two races in the bag and yes Trump placed so this third race is also qualifier but his sales are through the roof people want to buy his bike because they're his people and we're located in his people with it and we located where they're in quantities and they have to call in so here isn't a nutshell and their sales went way up to about 5 trillion in area he's not keeping up with production and all he's not making the bike well enough that someone would buy it again some of them fall apart in the first ride and you can't put it back together for some reason it's a crappy bike but he sold tons of them now we're going to give them a bike that they bought in place but there's too many souls and too many of them are his people it's going to let his people fight it out in other words if he doesn't deliver and they pay for it they're going to come and take over the factory over and over and the idiots only got like two factories and yeah they're in the upper Midwest right where Chicago motor cars was it's actually not far from there it's about 5 mi from the Chicago motor cars assembly factory and they're not making those bikes at all, there's too many of them up there to take the stuff and we were trying we had to get rid of tons of them but it probably seven or eight quadrillion trying so now it's going to be them versus them and even trying to do stuff to the water and other things I'll be getting rid of them shortly and they're going to go up there to try and get bikes Chicago motor cars bikes and they're going to be ordering them the only problem is we're going to be sending them so it really won't be going up there if they get a bike and they order it but we're not going to be sending it to Trump's people who use the same address

This is huge huge line of people waiting to get into punta Gorda this motorcycle races are not helping and it's probably good to say that there's too many the line extends all the way to Tallahassee

We will handle that and one way or another well this is what I want to say at the factory of theirs will be inundated already is actually there's probably $250,000 people went up there a minute I don't hear about it the problem and they think that they'll have a job or something I got to love the other place I'm starting to sell the bike and a huge orders for it about 10 million bikes we had to new website up for about 5 minutes apparently they look for it a lot and we can identify Trump's people firstly we have their names. Secondly their crass assholes to everyone they say it's spying. But we've sold about 5 million bikes half were Trump's people half of them I don't know why they're listening to anything these guys and Trump has an invisible people but before these guys and that means our people is his Target so we're going after him and his group and we're going to attack them now. We have also heard that we have about 10,000 people up around Chicago motor cars factory more coming.

Is there from last night is working superbly we have new car companies new motorcycle and truck and everything and he was right we have some companies he needs here and somebody doesn't a lot of people buy knockoffs without questioning you so many of the other companies are going to be out of business soon the parts all different. And response places in America with these knockoffs soon they'll dominate so he's announcing sales he's getting production up there so he can and it's shutting down a lot of dealers and pulling in and taking over it's pretty cool and stealthy and it's fast and they get pissed off and they said armies there's nobody to oppose you what a great idea. He likes it a lot that it's working. We're doing it globally so far we have about half the world's automobile new car business and said this less than I thought. It's true too it's not as good as we thought and that means there's a ton of factories we're not driving that's a lot less than he thought he said half of the new cars made are by S and yes that's what I said our son said the last few sentences he said it's abismal. I agree with him and we need a huge Force we need people to sign on step forward and help us with it it's very good reasons for it we have about 700 million volunteers now it's 8 billion 10 trillion and it's going up if we need every single one of them and 100 trillion and soon it'll be a quadrillion hopefully I need many quadrillion and if you have a friend or family member anyone's worked in the Auto industry and if you're not doing anything the whole family can do it now I have several septillion. We're taking volunteers all day today and till midnight so if you find your family and you want to talk to them about it it's great and our friends and by the way we need other industries that are similar heavy highway heavy equipment that is all sorts of machines for doing construction we need tons of volunteers we need tons of equipment and we need people to run them too but we need them for the factory first and we need them all over the world huge huge numbers are needed and for trucking and we need them now and we need to a hefty amount of volunteers for our new business the covert hard knock USA and we need them now we need huge numbers by the way for that business anybody who wants to sign up for hours please do so we're we're in need of you and as Zeus and Hera say if we had us all signed up right now we'd win the war but we do need you now for manufacturing

Thor Freya

We produce about 50% of the motorcycles on Earth and that's not bad it's a tough industry and he broke into a weld on it with hard knock kicker 5150 at first yes. But with his new idea we need personnel and we need tons of personal and we need personal now by the way he's going to make knock off sports cars and motorcycles nothing's for sale here in the United States that's Sim or SYM or practically anything the only thing that's selling and knock off cars we need cover and he's going to flood in they expose it actually but people start buying them because they buy these other chunky ones online they buy a ton of those by the way.

It's an awesome idea I'm just going to sell everything he's got all sorts of names and he's going to change his motorcycle car here and under the Chinese name it's going to sell tons of them today tons my son will be able to buy something and that's the idea and it's it's to enable ours to have something Chinese are saving everybody used to say it and then you figured out we can't buy this crappy bikes and it'll sell enough

[the-firebird69]

This is a pile of sorry sacks I'm going to go after them. He's right now they're trying to make a surface but we're here anyways so just sit here telling us we can't get him anything and they're not going to so extorting us you're not doing a job or a good job at all but I'd like to turn it up or not you too to shut them down I don't want them getting back up to get down to get back up this time there's way too many clothes there's too many of them we have to commit to eliminate them that's what we have to do and there's a ton of them being huge assholes to him. Gigantic losers with this Terry was here bothering you he is such a f****** a****** that guy man nothing to knock him out 500 times a day yes we what's stopping me so I figured I'd always saying is it logic or anything it's not for moving in here tons of small stores and shops like they have but also stuff and some of them around see what they're doing with things and being mean with him the assholes are taking it from him forms are just about to watch a massive invasion on the west coast and under the East Coast and it's going to be something to see it's a huge fight up north I sent another a crew of about a hundred thousand septillion and about half of a Connery from fighting each other it's a big joke soon to be none of them left and we're going to get rid of the rest here foreigners and us and we're into manual before and it's pretty good that's what we're holding out for and he says we don't have to do intermingle but we have to be here and we can look just like these people and we figured that out we're doing it too but I have to get in there so you got a whole bunch of money coming from the court and they're resting tons of people already there's money coming from punta Gorda they're sending it today it's going to go out in today's mail actually it's in today's mail is it it is and it should be there today and it around 3:30 as usual and they're all going to try and stop it you'll be fighting over it so I think they look like you if they have that money it's from the court so they're going to arrest a whole bunch of people and it's about $700 and for the lawsuit that we mentioned and then they're going to try and pursue you for fraud and so forth finally fraudulent case when they heard the case and actually can't file that and they can't file fraud against you it would be against the lawyer firm but you going to look at the case and say they approve this yes and then they'll start attacking us and we're going to send tons of it through because of it and he said to him is how clever this old man figured out how to operate a carriage a shopping cart over several years of intensive training and he's very proud of it like a chimpanzee would be it's just vulgar with their life they're disgusting f***** that's one of Tommy f guys believe it or not and he's here to try and hassle our son and he was and he is he's hassling Terry and he responds inappropriately so going after him I have a whole bunch of money that needs to go to our son too so I'm going to sign it to the court to send to him so much better game we're going to get inundated too you know how to handle it

Bitol and Goddess Wife

I'll tell you what it's for for that gimmick that they did they pulled a fast one on you in the restaurant no it was back in punta Gorda come from this court and you're suing someone nearby for money that he took $700 yeah I don't remember that I mean if it's not him no it's not him the screen around your money when you first got here and then maybe spend more money than you have to I was saying it to him it's not stand either it's just the government agency and they owe you money so it is actually the court that's sending it this is a real case we're going to say they described by you and you're supposedly ruin all the cases and you'll start screwing around with John remillard and then he'll start screwing around with them I'm going to use it to empty the shadow dome it's a matter of fact your idea got approved going to use Corky cuz we've done it before and he's going to force his way in and then Trump will follow the max will follow let me go after a little kid and he'll fall but we're going to be forced to go in there because of your proximity and the bombs and things that he brings in there we go ahead and start doing that now fairly soon

Vital and goddess wife Jesus

[the-firebird69]

There are tons and tons of Max at the holes in the middle they're huge numbers there because they just keep screaming out they start fighting they fall in and get most it's a huge huge gathering tons of special weapons ships we need teams there now this is a boon we got to get in there look at all those guys

Thor Freya

I've never been inundated so quickly in my life is like 700 million people outside my door here in St Pete looking for explanations all sorts of things so I open the doors to see if we can take him one by one see what's going on here they're going in

Bitol and Goddess Wife

We got a lot of customers here too they're a ton right over here in that Park this name you're not remembering but we were right next to for years the one next to us Northport house his mom left him because he was nuts because of what the max did her brain 100% understandable anyone can figure it out and understand it and have sympathy but not the Max and he said man you seem like her most of the time you did very well together you just can't take the max take a break and I'll take care of them and melt you alive she started crying youll come back. Cork versus MAC if you ever wakes up. She saw it and started to cry he gets it a little Holocaust Purge remember world war II at the Call uss and yourself

We see a pile of them here they're all going at it looking for this ship the ship has made a square we're bringing soil it's not as deep but it's going out wide it's about 4 miles today will be 5 and soon to be 7:00 but this one will be ready right away she might leave at the same time which is good because those have to leave the same time and if not we're going to lift that one off to suck everybody out of here that's how we're going to do it cuz I heard it and thought it was great and I got it permission from Thor Freya and Olympus it rocks what he's doing here Susie had to he was in dire need in trouble in trouble and going to be in real big trouble that he was just doing it here it's like well everybody else is in trouble Hera told him.

We request troops it's just a giant huge group up here it's huge they're trying to run things from the prison trying to mess up a verbage to send out stuff confused trying to figure out which side is which they just do whatever it says it's stupid. We advanced shortly we're going there and pull them out because of what we're learning they're gross or assholes they get stashes everywhere and we need those out they're too explosive we need them out now I'm putting it to Olympus that we need to have teams going right now and he's electing Duke Nukem Blockbuster this is a professional job

Savage Oppress

And you're right he's our expert but we're involved heavily and I'm in there too and going to the meeting we're going to get this done it's amazing this is a boon and thanks to your son

Frank Castle Hardcastle

Thank God for all of you this is finally working Monday or Tuesday is a lot better than next week

Hera

We try for less we're accelerating everything we've got tons of people and tons of parts and they're all professionals it's going in and it's going in quick the show is thick enough in the South or outfitting the ship and it's going to be ready tonight and he says it goes out tonight then we're going to put in a bunker don't you want to be there able to point your finger and have it done in like 30 seconds instead of 10 minutes this is yes that's the result says I know it I'm going to have a meeting on it in a few minutes

Thor Freya

You see you pushing and we're going to see what it is these people are nuisance they're going to go down there too it's going to think we're there

Nuada Arrianna

It's kind of a boon to have them in there then again we're probably going to go down there and croak

Mac daddy

Natural Born Killers is in full swing the right has begun the prison is in disaster zone and part of it is because of what the hearing is happening we're pushing in Fargo will empty today in Arizona in the west of the North upper Midwest and then it'll work away South and then we'll go to work our way East again

And hold...leap frog yes

Hera

We do that we LeapFrog find 10 MI we do it because it'll show her pushing and start doing it in the South too the cities aren't and start pushing around them and if we go up over them we will cut encapsulate them give them a way out

Thor Freya

We take all the factories in the cities in the upper Midwest now all of them

Olympus

[the-firebird69]

No Country for Old Men | 'Coin Toss' (HD) - Javier Bardem | MIRAMAX

So you try to make it a deal with him it didn't work out too great you said you know the language and customs and thier invading and they're going after this stuff. They came to some kind of agreement then I'll sudden they said no then yes I said this is terrible you find it everywhere and that's what's happening this place is completely inundated and overrun with foreigners and it happens all the time and these idiots don't do anything except make it much worse screaming at them calling them days and Zues said it was hard for him any accidentally offended some of them at some points then these idiots had him screaming and they were completely offended and start the whole project off against the idiots and Max. Mac having a meal as well they got creamed by it.

They do manage to clean them out but they keep coming from foreign countries too so it's a huge hassle we're going to nip it in the bud pretty soon so there's a huge number coming up and they fight in the in-fight he says we want all the gas stations in now so we're going to do that I'll start taking over the petroleum industry trying to use the empty once this bunkers and it's completely illegal

Thor Freya

We have found them trying to rig smaller Wells entirely full of explosives all c4 and I'm talking about a crater like 400 yards wide and 400 yards deep underground a ball and a matter of fact that would that would blow up a huge chunk of the Earth and go flying off probably about 100 miles deep it'll cause earthquakes for about 350 mi all of them are high enough to just destroy everything and kill everybody that's what they're trying to do came out in James Bond movie

We are now putting out there we're hiring everybody who's ever been in the petroleum industry whatsoever all the way down to what our son here is done Zeus with her up in mind and sometimes I decide in a different format you pump gas and he ran a gas station by himself for a quarter shift at night every night for quite a while few months and finally it was too dangerous we had to money but it was the middle of all these bums. Mostly it's remote viewing RC robots that kind of thing and it's not very hard and it's not challenging work it's just that we need to and distribution to and refineries and moving to take them all over people are a bunch of assholes and I can't stand them and I do a drilling as well and this tons of people signing up now it's a huge huge flow in

What else are requesting anybody who has worked in the food industry distribution and growing fast food especially we're opening tons and tons of fast food restaurants changing the menu and everything and we're also getting into schools is very important nursery kindergarten one through four seven sorry and High School and college and we are going to start providing food for all of it and all the grocery stores on Earth we need grocery store workers clerks managers manager general managers anybody with any grocery experience if you are a manager for a month or a week or even a few days we're going to hire you because you're our people and you remember how it works even if vaguely it's not extremely complicated in your shop and you know how it works and you know what we've been doing and trying it's more advancing their stuff if you've grown food for at least a month if you worked growing food for a month we're hiring you now and we have a lot of people have done that we're going to hire all of you right now we need to land out there and we need to hire you to take that land I'm going to hire you right now on the spot and assign units to you and you can go out there and take it back

Thor Freya

Hahaha my husband starts saying I'm going to stick it and throw it says no stop it

Hera

Geeeezus

Zues

Haha I'm working on now I work on it hard I'm going to get everybody together I'm going to call everybody I'm going to call Duke Nukem Blockbuster have them do it too he knows tons of people and his people no tons of people who've done this and they haven't done too much but they're doing work but they don't like the kind of work that Duke Nukem Blockbuster has it's very tedious dangerous and extremely nerve-racking and it is difficult and the work is similar but it's not the same they have to look out for it before but once they do it according it off they just do regular maintenance and it's going to be a lot easier and they can do what they love keeping us alive

Frank Castle Hardcastle

We work right now and I have stuff to say I'm going to work very fast on this I'm going to get people out there and get people that know people I got to get them to go get a whole bunch of people and sign up people huge huge Bunches of people I'm going to go out there and we're going to get them trucks tractors and all sorts of things scare them and do all sort of stuff and it off sign it over to him and have them skin and check them right away take over tons of territory so this guy done as fast as I'm talking and I'm hired again but really it's just a bad joke and he knows it so I'll stop that but really we need to hire people and we need to hire people fast what I'm thinking is this is going to hire more people than we probably need no but it's going to have a lot of people we need a ton of people because the grocery stores distribution centers are huge and there's tons of grocery stores way more than they need they're everywhere canning facilities bottling facilities bottle facilities where they make bottles can't even facilities where they make canning

Duke Nukem Blockbuster

He's huge folks and he's a few bucks it's ridiculous what they're doing to him you won't be able to change reality like they say you can and they're ridiculous so it's getting dangerous for him so we have to help out and there is an idea and Hera is the one to go to because she wants to meet him somewhere and wants to sell him a bike and wants to be doing that kind of thing and she wants to be him but she's not in the position he's in and it makes sense and he's she's going to learn how to do it and he'll have to learn from her where is he usually learns she usually learns from him

Freya

Yeh man

Thor

Olympus

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