#truly magical homes

[rockingrobin69]

red-eye

Harry got home a little after two in the morning, bleary-eyed, mouth bitter with the taste of airport canned-air and mints. Rolled the suitcase as quietly as he could, probably making a racket: two in the morning, and he was dizzy-tired, all emptied out from the long layover, and the two-hour wait on the runway, and the taxi ride he absolutely insisted on when his flight was delayed yet again.

Gently, gently opening the door, which creaked so loud the whole world had to have heard. Sneaking inside his own apartment: Draco would be fast asleep, would need to be up at half-five tomorrow for work. Harry’s chest squeezed at the thought, Draco all wrapped up in their duvet, rumpled and sleep-warm, and—

On the sofa, all twisted in between the cushions, arresting and lovely and still in his fancy trousers. With his mobile clenched in his fist. His neck’s going to kill him, and Harry forgot how to breathe.

“Darling,” barely able to swallow the grin. “Draco. Darling.”

“Hmm?” long eyelashes blinking. “Harry? What’s the—fuck, I fell asleep?” grumbling himself up into sitting, flushed and so, so, sweet. “I was going to stay up.” Frowning. “I was going to pick you up!”

“Sorry,” laughing, wrapping an arm around him, trailing kisses down his nose, cheek, neck. Draco’s scent, warm and lemony and familiar, intoxicating. “Silly creature. You have work in the morning.”

“I haven’t seen you in ten days,” Draco yawned into his neck. “Did you bring me anything.”

Still laughing, “Of course. C’mon, let’s get you to bed. It’s so late and you’re—darling, come on.”

To Draco’s grey eyes blinking up at him all sparkling with delight. “Gift first. You know the rules, Potter.” There was a mark on his cheek from where he rested it on his wrist. Harry felt lightheaded with it, a rush of fizzy, scorching affection.

“All right, but don’t get your hopes up. It’s truly a small one this time.”

Leaning away for his case with Draco hanging on to him, smile so thick it hurt his face. “You’re not making it easier,” mumbled into his hair, and a kiss on top of his head, irresistible. “Here, darling.” From the front zip pocket he produced the tiny stone, dark grey with a thin white vein crossing it. “From an actual river this time. I woke up at five the last day of the conference and hiked up the hill.”

“You’re mad,” Draco said, but his smile gleamed. “It’s hideous. I love it.”

“I’m the mad one,” herding him up and then down the corridor, “it’s three in the morning, you absolute knobhead. You’ve no time to sleep.”

“What a tragedy,” Draco said, then turned to pull on Harry’s tie, to pull him closer. “Suppose you’ll have to find a way to keep me up.”

Harry was knackered. He hadn’t slept well in ten days and the flight, and the delay, and the layover. In his own bedroom, with the sheets that smelled like heaven, with the soft light and, god, his bed, his real actual bed, so inviting and so—looked at Draco, felt this warmth sizzling in his belly and growing only warmer.

“Suppose so,” he conceded with a grin, and kissed him again.

It’s been ten days. The plant on the cabinet grew at least three new leaves. Harry missed this place so badly he was sick with it: now, with his partner in his arms, with his back muscles screaming and a no-sleep headache—now he was happy enough to melt. Did, a little, in Draco’s arms.

Home.

(For flufftober day 23. Find the soft AO3 collection here).

#drarry fic #so soft omg #600 words #flufftober2023 #prompt: trinket #no magic AU #rockingrobin69 #i know i keep writing this moment again and again but it truly never fails to amaze me #how coming home can feel so - deeply like coming home

[wizardlyghost]

#i don't think i realised before that the entire lief section of book one takes place in like. less than 24 hours lol. #lief truly gets home after sunset learns about his parents' past learns barda's secret gets a sword a cloak a map a belt and a quest #sneaks out of the city with barda wanders into the forest gets caught by monsters gets looted by some random girl almost gets eaten #has a treetop midnight snack sets out again travels branch to branch for the rest of the night fights a ghost almost dies AGAIN #gets saved by the same random girl who was looting him earlier brings barda back to life and finds a magic gem. #by which point it's like brunchtime the next day. truly one of the birthdays of all time. #deltora quest #roddacember #roddacember 2023

[skitskatdacat63]

Just watched the Weekend Warm-Up and learned some insane fucking stats about Fernando.

He's going to have participated in 1/3 of all F1 races ever held??????? 365 races is insane in general(a race for every day!), but when you consider that it's 365/1,086 races...AND THAT'S 33% OF RACES!!

So....he'll have participated in 33% of races held, he's literally in garage and pit box #33 this weekend, and he's at his home race which was his last race he won 10 years ago...PLEASE THE STARS ARE LITERALLY ALIGNING

Guys I'm feeling delusional.

#qué grande eres magic! #but seriously 33 is literally everywhere #that partipation stat is fucking insane like actually insane #my brother was shocked and hes usually a realist with race winners but he literally said when i told him all of that info above: #'the stars are aligning for my guy Alonso' #(i stole the line from him thank you sir!) #but the percentage is crazy when you realize he didnt even race in 2002/2019/2020 yet still hit this record #also the fact that hes literally in garage number 33 #PLEASE CMONNNNNNN IM BEGGING ITS HIS HOME RACE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE #notice that i do not say it directly 🤭 not risking jinxing that bro #also apparently this is his 33rd helmet design so..... #its truly coming up fernando street #manifesting red bulls committing a spain 2016 what can i say #catie.rambling.txt

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

ah yes, she's concerned about the aggressor and attacker who was invading them six months ago. something is wrong with the empire right now, poor edelgard; whatever could've happened to her? :(

like... what. why do you care about what's going on with her specifically when she's the person who made the decision to invade leicester? does the whole war just mean nothing to marianne? it's just totally fine that all those people died in a war edelgard started? poor edelgard, something happened to her after she started her attack? you're concerned about the leader who gave the order to attack your home?

hopes has stupid lines but this one is top tier of the top tier and just an excuse for more edelgardjerking from the writers.

#DCB Three Hopes Run #like no sorry if someone attacked the country i live in and then suddenly their army was a mess #i would /nooot/ be concerned about the leader who ordered an invasion of my home #you'd never see a character being like wow i sure am worried abt dimitri and claude #who are just defending themselves and fighting for their lives out there #but here we get marianne being worried abt the person who declared war on her people #this game tries so so SO hard to make edelgard seem justified and doing a good thing #and also has tons of characters being like wow i sure do just want the best for her #like no i would not want the best for someone who invaded my country unprovoked #being worried abt the civilians in the empire is one thing bc the imperial army was out of control #but just wanting edelgard specifically to be okay? uhhhh. seems like this was just #the only way the writers could keep it in their pants without having shez make a sex joke at edelgard like byleth can #like does marianne not realize the end goal here was to defeat and thus kill edelgard? #it doesn't happen bc of the plot bc thales' magic and yadda yadda #but ultimately without that happening she would've had to be killed to be truly defeated #she's not like claude who would prioritize survival. she would fight to the end #like if you're that concerned about the person who started this war then why are you fighting against her? #either join her side or stay out of the war. really don't understand why anyone from leicester in ag would be worried abt her #they can't even use the classmates excuse bc they weren't even classmates for that long (and it's a stupid excuse even in gw) #but like no rly this game just has ppl love up on edelgard for absolutely no reason #she comes in and starts killing their soldiers for her conquest and marianne six months later is like wow i sure am concerned abt her!! #literally like imagine someone from crimea being like ''im concerned abt ashnard''

[writhe]

#TAGS TLDR YOU CAN NEVER TRULY GO HOME BUT DO YOU WANT TO? #writing a little for d&d and having feelings about this #it was really interesting jasper and i were working on some game mechanics and we kept getting stuck at weird parts and it developed into #this conversation where we realized we experience the world #in such fundamentally different ways. like specifically talking about how paranoia #manifests and stuff but even later in a broader sense like our experiences of time and everything is so different #and they'd be like 'well what if this is something that happened to lock' and id be like 'how could that be something that anyone would #experience' and they were like 'oh because i do' #(example here was my character not realizing he had been magically transported and filling in the blank with vague memories of travel but i #was like. are you not acutely aware of every single moment you are awake and in motion even if it is excruciatingly boring. and jasper #was like. 'oh...no. i could be transported from one place to another and if time passed i wouldnt even think about having traveled or not' #which was WILD to me but then we were like 'okay i guess this cannot be something that happened to lock' because i couldnt even fathom that #but like anyway idk we got weirdly deep dive-y about d&d stuff and personal lives and i had big feelings on it bc genuinely i feel like #there are facets and caverns in myself i have only ever touched in storytelling but particularly in this campaign #and i've joked a lot about Lock and other chars in this game being self inserts #but i mean it in a good way #like the ways we tell stories or experience a world we created together is going to be through an extension of ourselves etc #but it's interesting to me to consider the limitations that brings yknow? we all live by such vastly different sets of rules and #understandings #and im writing out some stuff now and im like. yknow. #lock can never truly go home. i can never truly go home. none of us can ever truly go home #home as shifting impermanence home as transience etc #2017 levi is back apparently but hes always been right

[yohankang]

shit went down at work today and there's a chance they'll fire me 🙃

#my boss will talk to the ceo tomorrow and it's entirely up to him....... #multiple people at work saw me crying and i was so ashamed i wanted to cry even more lol #i'm just so bad at this job and i hate it but it's so hard to find a job when you dropped out of uni twice #and they pay well and i truly love some of the people there #like my boss expects me to do better (if i won't get fired) and she wants me to propose some improvements #but like. the problem is me. the workload is too much for me and there's no magic way to solve it #and the worst part is i'm so emotionally unstable i can't even talk about it without crying #i'm crying even now lol #and i know if i start crying tomorrow it will only annoy him #and i'm not doing it to seem pitiful i just can't control it at all #godd i'm so tired #i wish i could just cry it out today and then have a serious conversation tomorrow but it doesn't work like that #i had plans today but i start crying every 10 minutes so i just came back home and opened a beer #maybe it will put me to sleep idk #at this point i'm also annoyed with myself #i will let you know how it goes tomorrow 🙃 #k.txt #dl #btw please don't try to comfort me because it only makes me cry harder lol i'm just writing to let it all out

[slained29]

bruuuh. BRUUUH. I think all my gacha luck went into twst.

ALSO WILL U GUYS BELIEVE ME THAT I GOT ANOTHER SSR AFTER THIS? LMAO

guess I'm honorary Heartslabyul now ╮⁠(⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)⁠╭

on another note, I've got like, 5 SSRs now from the anniversary banner lol but still grinding for Dorm Uniform Idia and that sweet sweet event key,, I've got 110/150 tokens now tho so just a few more aaaa

#twst #twisted wonderland #twst en #if anyone's interested the 5 I got are Sebek Jade Rook Riddle Trey all in all #which is #nice #especially since i'm f2p #but also #i pulled hoping for silver floyd and idia #and #well #funny coincidence by the mouse since i got their duo magic cards instead sheesh #also i'm still not done levelling up my babygirl Birthday Boy Malleus #truly suffering from success #DORM UNIFORM IDIA COME HOME😭😭😭

[bumpscosity]

starting an origins server with some of my siblings friends and i just found out everyone's making characters up for it i feel like the combo i picked has so many possible outcomes

#i'm thinking of going a grimwalker route where they like a memoryless clone of someone they never knew #my spawn is in the nether and i def wanna make it my home base. i don't think anyone else is spawning in the nether so that'll be fun #interesting for me bc i'm usually the one leeching off others recourses to build stuff but ALSO story wise very isolating #you wake up in hell and it's gross and weird but something about it is familiar. #not in memories per se but muscle memory. not things you did but knowing what not to eat #what's friendly. what hurts. maybe they know their a reincarnation of someone else deep down. #but that person was a blip in time. discipated into the endless seas of molten lava a long time ago. #their soul and magic just now mustering up the strength to become whole again. to become SOMETHING. #it was many eons ago that that person existed. their belongings and home have long since decayed and become one with the hellish landscape #there is no time to think of who you once were. there is only survival. #but the moment you have a home and supplies and are truly safe. you feel a deep fear. #a fear of who you once were long ago. who they could've been. what you should be. momories you no longer possess. #a longing to understand and go back to being a self you never were. #a person who's existence has been lost to time. #you shake off these feelings as best you can #but every time you find yourself in the overworld looking out at the vast ocean #you can't help but wonder wether they hated the deep blue sea as much as you do. #sassy speaks #mc #WHY DID I WRITE SO MUCH HELP I DIDNT MEAN TO DO THAT-

[ceruleancattail]

ooo you should do kei for the duet thingy!! I also added some more info in the post!!

Oh!!! He looks so cute hehe!

I give you Cinder, and your song is!

Let Me Stay Here, by Ceres Fauna

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Cinder:

風にさざめく妖精 午後はおやすみ

ユニコーンの背中で

高いお城の塔から シャボン玉受け取ってね

王子さま

En translation:

Rainbow in the sky little blue birds

Come and sing, let's dance in a circle

In the evergreen trees, floating in this dream

Bewitched to fall in love

A fairy rippling in the wind, good night in the afternoon

on the back of a unicorn

Receive soap bubbles from the tower of the tall castle.

prince

Kei:

It's just a fairytale

So it'll melt away like a lollipop

Riding a flying whale

Wondering when I'll wake up

お願い ねえ Let me stay here

En translation for the last line:

Please, hey, let me stay here

#twisted wonderland #twst #twst oc #ok Kei gave me some sort of fairy tale vibes #just another soul #searching for somewhere #to belong #to truly call home #maybe twisted wonderland is just a sweet dream to him #somewhere magical #mystical #but eventually he knows that he has to go #this will not last #but could you fault him for dreaming? #URM YEAH #these were the vibes I got hehe

[deus-ex-mona]

it’s ✨okay✨, right~?

#s o rry rant incoming im just. re a l l y crabby after working for 8.5 consecutive hours with no proper break okie~? </3 #ayEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE ADMINS AT MY WORKPLACE CAN GO K I C K R O C K S #their time management is somehow worse than mine and i suck balls at it?????? SJCFJFFHDHHD I THOUGHT Y’ALL WERE BETTER AT YOUR JOBS MANSSSSS #the!!!!! admins!!!!!! sent in over a hundred samples without any info sheets and stuff so the morning shift literally couldn’t get started!! #doing the morning shift’s part of the job was. annoying. to say the least. especially when said work could’ve actually been done (ʘ‿ʘ) #dammit workplace admins you had one job </3 #and n o it’s not to send in the sample info sheet things at the same time as the pm shift’s reporting time </3 #and as if that weren’t enough.. the!!!! admin!!!! refused to go home in the evening?????? and sent in like 80 samples at like 8.30pm?????? #and that’s not counting the samples that were yeeted in at 5pm </3 truly sadge #and o f c o u r s e we haaaaaaaad to be short-staffed today lmfao. the two workstations life compels me to lay down on the floor and c r y . #but bc i’m just ✨too great✨ at my job you see (lies) i finished my stuff way too early and had to do other extra tests too s o b s #and that included a test that i don’t fully know how to do (sadge) #well. at least that test involved the use of a microscope. thank you past me for attaining magic skills with microscope zooming and stuff #seriously. thank you past me. i can almost forgive you for choosing to enter the f r e a k i n g ✨s c i e n c e✨ industry of all things #but hmmmmmmm im amazed that i actually managed to finish everything across those two stations. am i too good at my job or ✨w h a t✨ (lies) #but man. m a n. none of this even gets into my secret beef with the data entry admin. #she can’t spell for her life. it s e r i o u s l y grinds my gears whenever i see her spell the word ‘content’ as ‘contant’. #but no. her spelling got on a w h o l e new level of questionable when she spelled the word ‘crackle’ as… ‘cracker’. like??? how???????? #and she told me to ask the senior analysts if it was possible to retrieve the results for a test that we’d write the results for ✨by hand✨ #from some kind of system????? like i was just so!!!!! baffled!!!! that she couldn’t understand that there was no system to check???? #though. hm. i guess saying that i have ✨secret✨ beef with that admin would be an understatement. i think none of the others like her either #but! i do have secret beef with the janitor bc he alwayyys magically appears behind me whenever i’m doing something important/holding acids #well! at least we don’t cross paths when i’m working the pm shift. the janitor dude was spared from my presence for the week lmao #hfhfhfhhfhfhfhffffffff well. m. i’m sorry if you read all that. i’ll be more normal tomorrow i swear!!!! (blatant lies) #i feel like tling something ✨t o x i c✨ to match how im feeling thoughhh… hm. maybe the p a r a s ite chapter from the d*27m annequin anth…? #been thinking about that song lately ngl.. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. #oh wellssssss at least i can try to enjoy what’s left of my long weekend lmaooo goodnighttttt #inedible blubbering

[skhardwarevers1]

I can’t wait for the weather to get warmer,,

#Random I know but spring and summer (esp summer) are much more home to me #Something about it just hits different yknow? #Like yeah don’t get me wrong I love fall and winter but they’re such cold and lonely months to me #I like the summer when I can just go outside and feel warm…it’s a nice feeling #And I can’t wait to travel again…to have at least one night where my sister is inside and my parents are out for a little #And I get to do my traditional sit on the balcony and admire the beauty of it all routine #Where I can’t go back inside for a good while because my face is stained with tears #And any time I say something to myself my voice cracks and I can’t help but laugh at how cheesy I am #But it’s truly amazing to know I can look forward to that #And I’ll always take pictures and they’ll be better than the ones I took last year but they’ll never fully capture how it felt to me #It’s a kind of intimacy that only exists for a brief moment on summer nights between me and my surroundings #With one AirPod in playing Mrs magic of resonance #And for a moment I’ll take it out and I’ll probably cry some more because the silence is even better #So yeah. I can’t wait for the weather to get warmer #S.K thinks #Live laugh luv ranting in the tags

[kazz-brekker]

it’s interesting to me that for a series that promises an unflinching look at the reality of a world where the wealthy have access to magic and don’t care about the negative impact that it has on other people (and i think does largely do a good job of showing that!), the ninth house series seems to sort of … pull its punches when it comes to the suffering the characters endure at the climax of each story? recently reread ninth house for the first time in years followed by hell bent, and the scene where the souls that marguerite belbalm consumed then consuming her felt sort of. ikd. optimistic? after all the emphasis on “consumption of souls” heavily implying the idea that those people had totally ceased to exist and had only become fuel for belbalm to draw upon it was a bit confusing to learn they were actually all still around and could take vengeance on belbalm. and then in hell bent tripp turns into a demon instead of completely dying which is probably not, like, a super fun experience, but he seems to almost completely maintain his personality from before so it almost feels like nothing major really happened to him, as opposed to linus reiter, who seemingly was utterly eradicated by the demon who took his place. idk. both of those things kind of made me go “this feels like it is breaking the established rules of the universe in order to make things not be as bad as they would actually be.” i don’t know if there’s a bigger conclusion from this, i’m just thinking about it since i recently finished hell bent.

#obviously alex held darlington's soul without consuming it but she was trying NOT to do it #and darlington seems to have maintained his personality mostly but whatever he went through seems quite different from tripp #idk. i still like the series and i think it's good #considering how dark it is it's strange that i want the characters to suffer even more #but both of these things rang a little bit hollow considering the rules of the world? #idk. food for thought #pie says stuff #ninth house #hell bent #alex stern #oh also turner dawes and alex should have smashed the horrible amethyst table made by slave owners #considering an amount of page time was dedicated to talking about how it was a fucked up artifact i wish they had done that #might have done a bit more to drive home the theme of how some of these magical artifacts #are truly awful and made for bad purposes and should not be used #anyway! i did overall like hell bent. i simply like to overthink things

[r3dblccd]

What I truly love about Welcome Home is the attention to detail.

#misc; ooc #//what's up with the horror genre and all the recent good works having home in their title?/jk #//but seriously I can see just how much love has been put into the project #//it's truly amazing discovering all the secrets hidden in the web pages and learning more about the world building #//and welcome home is proof that mascot horror can be done really well instead of simply being a cash grab due to the popularity it gained #//kudos to everyone working on the project really #//idk but i've really been drawn to the type of horror that all looks innocent on the surface but once you start digging it's all messed up #//like let's say the everything is fine webtoon #//i've heard good reviews on nina's magic chest too but I haven't gotten around to read it yet #//rose's ramble over

[heart-of-ep]

Wishing I was back at Graceland. ❤️

This trip was the first time in a long while where I truly felt at peace. I was so happy the entire time. I wasn't anxious or depressed, I just felt...okay. Even on the days when things would seemingly go a bit haywire (our first tour of Graceland left us wet and cold lol), we still had a blast. Everyone was sweet, welcoming, and I never felt overwhelmed.

But now I'm back home and it seems like everything is unraveling. I mean, my first day back at work and I found myself crying five minutes into my shift. All those feelings of anxiety and depression just came rushing back to me. :(

But despite that, I couldn't help but find it amazing that E is able to bring me so much joy and peace, even if it's just for a short period of time. Whenever I need him, he's there to bring me some level of comfort, whether it be through his music or his movies, or whatever else. So until I can return to Graceland, I guess I'll just look to E in these moments.

He's like a best friend that I can always count on. 💕

(This got deep for no reason oops 😂)

#i consider this to be elvis magic in the works #imagine finding someone that brings you that level of peace #and ive never even met the man lol #truly magic #even graceland felt like a second home #id love to hear what elvis means to everyone else or how he helps you personally #he's special to everyone for different reasons and I think thats amazing #anyways ramble over #in short #i love elvis aaron presley #but yall knew that already lol #elvis #elvis presley #elvis aaron presley #graceland

[vidalinav]

Aside from the deranged and almost derailing way that Nesta ended up in the House, I actually love the House as a symbolism for Nesta and her personality. A house that is hard to reach, covered in unshakeable rock, menacing and looking down at everyone. A house that has too many stairs to climb so climbing is a punishment or lesson and no one can really reach unless they’re born with a particular set of wings. A house that’s warded away from the rest, which means that effort must be made to reach it. A house that’s used for courtly functions, who’s value is based on its purpose. A house where its cold and lonely and secluded from the rest, and which was never really going to be anyone’s home...

A house that for the people who find themselves here when they have no where else to go, who find themselves seeking refuge from dark and decrepit things, people so broken they feel they can never be fixed... for those who find value in the rock, love this mountain so high that there’s no easy way down, it’s a house that means security, a solid foundation... a library and friends and even some magic hidden in its heart. Such wonderous understanding. Empathy in its depths, even if it at first appears to be monstrous. A house that cares. A house that loves. A house that lives despite all odds. A house that reminds me so very much of Nesta Archeron that it’s marvelous that it’s an expression of self-love. 

#nesta archeron #You know I don't mind that Nesta lives there even if she doesn't have an easy way out #I figure she'll get a pegasus and that issue will be solved fairly quickly #a magical horse car #even if she didn't #I still don't think the issue is her leaving #it's the lack of choice she had about being there at all #the trickery and coercion no matter the positive outcome #If Nesta had truly chosen this house I wouldn't feel so bad that she lives there #that it's some gift from Rh/ys as if to say hey I did this to you and for you here you go #ugh such manipulative bs #But the beauty and function of the house itself I love #it's honestly one of the more solid things in this book and sjm could have really milked it way more than she did #I actually wrote a fic about the dichotomy of a home and a haunted house #it was my 20000 word fic that I never finished #but damn it would have been good

[hermithomebase]

i love the kpop disxussion tonight. everyone stream the cuntiest boy group comeback of 2023 trouble by evnne

AND WE WILL BE STREAMING! 🫡

#prompt.input #i admire every kpop stan’s dedication to being on the marketing team it’s truly magical 2 me #it’s like home to me <- 2019 musictwt