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Me as a writer: Gotta add a little bit of fluff, a handful of laughter and sarcasm, and just a dash of angst.
Also me as a writer: Just. A. Dash. Of. Angst.
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ben-solo-is-my-only-hope:
Me as a writer: Gotta add a little bit of fluff, a handful of laughter and sarcasm, and just a dash of angst.
Also me as a writer: Just. A. Dash. Of. Angst.
@rayshippouuchiha @thepartyresponsible @not-poignant @goodmorningbeloved
@siavahdainthemoon
I have nO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT
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Scrambling for Stable
Apr. 7th, 2018 01:07 amvia https://ift.tt/2uR5OVk
theotherguysride:
theotherguysride:
Hey guys. I hate that I have to keep asking for help, but right now I’ve got 13$ in my account after paying for school things. School starts Monday April 9th. I’ve got four days to scrape together the bare minimum.
I need in order:
100$ application fee. I can set up a payment plan, but I do not have ANY of it right now. I’m gonna be getting some cash from a job soon, but for now? I’m broke.
I’m going to need to get TO and FROM school. That’s 4 days next week, 15$ a day with bus and train fare both ways. That’s also 60$ I don’t have.
As for eating, I’m gonna have to figure that out. I have some lunch things at the house, and some food stamps renewing soon, but for right now my income is still zero, not including food stamps.
Anything helps guys. Y’all have already been amazing, and THANK YOU for everything you’re doing to help out. I’m looking at crowdfunding options for this, but also I’m in the process of taking out further student loans. I’m also looking for a part time job that’s going to pay me enough to scrape by.
Until then, much as it GALLS me, I do need your help. I wouldn’t be this far if it weren’t for this awesome community, and I’m hoping y’all can help me get a little farther.
Paypal.me/theotherguysride
Evening reblog!
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theotherguysride:
theotherguysride:
Hey guys. I hate that I have to keep asking for help, but right now I’ve got 13$ in my account after paying for school things. School starts Monday April 9th. I’ve got four days to scrape together the bare minimum.
I need in order:
100$ application fee. I can set up a payment plan, but I do not have ANY of it right now. I’m gonna be getting some cash from a job soon, but for now? I’m broke.
I’m going to need to get TO and FROM school. That’s 4 days next week, 15$ a day with bus and train fare both ways. That’s also 60$ I don’t have.
As for eating, I’m gonna have to figure that out. I have some lunch things at the house, and some food stamps renewing soon, but for right now my income is still zero, not including food stamps.
Anything helps guys. Y’all have already been amazing, and THANK YOU for everything you’re doing to help out. I’m looking at crowdfunding options for this, but also I’m in the process of taking out further student loans. I’m also looking for a part time job that’s going to pay me enough to scrape by.
Until then, much as it GALLS me, I do need your help. I wouldn’t be this far if it weren’t for this awesome community, and I’m hoping y’all can help me get a little farther.
Paypal.me/theotherguysride
Evening reblog!
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No Statute of Secrecy AU
Apr. 7th, 2018 01:42 amvia https://ift.tt/2qbRuSF
gudegudeland:
I lost the source post that inspired this, has to do with playing off the stereotype of America being the sort of black sheep child of the world and being the one country not under the International Statute of Secrecy
No-majes freely co-existing with full awareness of magicfolk so please consider:
After the big witch hunt, somehow they decided to educate one another and work towards a harmonious society, and so already this removes the biggest cause and motivation for Second Salemers who’d be more of an underground radical hate group rather than the hidden-in-plain-sight operation trying to maliciously expose magicfolk like in canon
This already changes Credence’s role and character since with MACUSA at full liberty to keep a closer eye on the Salemers as they please, he would’ve been rescued much earlier and his magic healed and cultivated before he became an obscurial (yeah, I still orphaned the poor thing)
Percival adopts him, raises him as a protégé of sorts and Seraphina becomes his godmother/Aunt Phina
Legislation-wise, a completely different set of laws that require a little more finesse and cooperation in terms of both political powers deciding limitations as to how involved magic can be and what applies to both or one of them
Taking the Unforgivable Curses for example—would the punishment of getting caught for using them depend on whether the target is no-maj or not? Is it harsher if casted on a no-maj because they are more vulnerable by default of having no magic and would squibs fall under that category as well?
Is Beatrice’s dead mother allowed to live with/haunt her no-maj daughter?
To prevent unfortunate accidents, they enforce a no-magic policy outside of school like Hogwarts to protect minors
With law enforcement, they generally keep their issues separate and deal with them respectively but there exists a special council consisting of both no-maj and wizardfolk to act like judges and juries to handle overlapping cases or particularly heinous crimes
Anyway lots of grey areas, moving on
So, the war—they fight together but discreetly since the other countries aren’t ‘out’ so to speak and wizards/witches don’t explicitly help the no-maj side of the battles but they’d occasionally check up on them to see how they’re doing. When they’re spotted together, the others shrug it off, operating under the collective unspoken agreement not to expose one another (also it’s the middle war, things hardly make sense anymore)
Percival especially does so Jacob, one of his best friends whose bakery he frequents back at home, who joins him for drinks after work, who he introduced to a Miss Queenie Goldstein under his employment. Percival is determined to bring him back to her, alive if not well
Grindelwald can happen or not and if yes, he’d have to come for a different reason since an obscurial no longer exists. Or it does, but as another child. Maybe Modesty can actually be one, slipping under the radar of MACUSA and an unexpected success for the Salemers
Fun part of this would be that thanks to their collaborative newspapers (New York Ghostly Times or whatever), the no-maj would know when he lands on American soil and he’d be too flabbergasted to put up a fight when actual muggles give him wide-eyed looks of recognition before ringing a charmed bell that works sort of like a 911-call to summon aurors
So how about Newt Scamander? Seeing as we already have a canon divergence since even before Grindelwald, he’d honestly just visit to find the puffskein breeder (magical beasts laws may differ in this AU as well)
Cue the introduction scene with a creature causing suspicious unlatching of the suitcase, security guy eyeing it as Newt hands over his passport
But then he reads the ID and face lights up much to Newt’s confusion, only increasing when the man jovially says, “‘Scamander’, is it? Related to War Hero Scamander by any chance?”
“Oh, um, he’s. He’s my brother,” Newt stutters out in shock before he can think then bites his cheek as his mind starts racing Merlin’s beard, I need to obliviate him—
“Great, nice to meet you! Welcome to America, sir. Alright then, you’re good to go. Just head on over to MACUSA and they’ll give you proper accommodations as an honoured guest,” the man says, handing back his passport after making some kind of note. Newt’s mind completely blanks. “Make sure you keep that thing locked up, though; wouldn’t want to be causing trouble your first visit here, right?”
“Right,” he mutters absently, snaps the latch back on his case, realizes as he’s walking away that he even forgot to flick on the muggle switch for it
He tries to remember that he should let MACUSA know they have an unobliviated muggle handling their security at the ports, but his brain is too scrambled by the time he arrives due to too many ‘what did I just see’ moments on the way there
@gudegudeland @auroargraves @fantastikobskurials @thegaypumpingthroughyourveins @funkzpiel
This is AWESOME. Newt’s brain is going to be broken so hard until he gets an explanation - and then he’ll be over the moon. This is everything he never even dreamed of! Magicals and non-magicals living together peacefully; no hiding, no lies, no one lording anything over another, it’s - everything he never knew he could have.
And just think of the American Magical Creatures.
Newt would almost - no, scratch that. Newt literally would cry at the thought of it. His creatures, in nature preserves. With no need to hide. With everyone loving them for the miracles that they are, with laws protecting them, with children growing up dreaming of seeing unicorns and dragons and - Thunderbirds flying freely above cities, feathered serpents coiling peacefully in major rivers, merfolk coming to barter over the morning’s catch with fishermen, this is a beautiful dream and he never never wants to wake up.
Newt has - something like culture shock, at least at first, with everyone treating him as a ‘country cousin’ - understanding that he’s from a different culture, but so damn baffled at why the British Magicals enforce such a ridiculous separation. Newt would be offended, but he’s too flabberghasted and - I think that Graves might fall in love when he watches Newt dare to cast his first tentative spells in public, and sees the smile growing like the rising dawn on the magizoologist’s face.
(On a side note, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is a best-seller in the USA. Pretty much every household - no-maj and wizard and any permutation thereof - has a copy.)
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gudegudeland:
I lost the source post that inspired this, has to do with playing off the stereotype of America being the sort of black sheep child of the world and being the one country not under the International Statute of Secrecy
No-majes freely co-existing with full awareness of magicfolk so please consider:
After the big witch hunt, somehow they decided to educate one another and work towards a harmonious society, and so already this removes the biggest cause and motivation for Second Salemers who’d be more of an underground radical hate group rather than the hidden-in-plain-sight operation trying to maliciously expose magicfolk like in canon
This already changes Credence’s role and character since with MACUSA at full liberty to keep a closer eye on the Salemers as they please, he would’ve been rescued much earlier and his magic healed and cultivated before he became an obscurial (yeah, I still orphaned the poor thing)
Percival adopts him, raises him as a protégé of sorts and Seraphina becomes his godmother/Aunt Phina
Legislation-wise, a completely different set of laws that require a little more finesse and cooperation in terms of both political powers deciding limitations as to how involved magic can be and what applies to both or one of them
Taking the Unforgivable Curses for example—would the punishment of getting caught for using them depend on whether the target is no-maj or not? Is it harsher if casted on a no-maj because they are more vulnerable by default of having no magic and would squibs fall under that category as well?
Is Beatrice’s dead mother allowed to live with/haunt her no-maj daughter?
To prevent unfortunate accidents, they enforce a no-magic policy outside of school like Hogwarts to protect minors
With law enforcement, they generally keep their issues separate and deal with them respectively but there exists a special council consisting of both no-maj and wizardfolk to act like judges and juries to handle overlapping cases or particularly heinous crimes
Anyway lots of grey areas, moving on
So, the war—they fight together but discreetly since the other countries aren’t ‘out’ so to speak and wizards/witches don’t explicitly help the no-maj side of the battles but they’d occasionally check up on them to see how they’re doing. When they’re spotted together, the others shrug it off, operating under the collective unspoken agreement not to expose one another (also it’s the middle war, things hardly make sense anymore)
Percival especially does so Jacob, one of his best friends whose bakery he frequents back at home, who joins him for drinks after work, who he introduced to a Miss Queenie Goldstein under his employment. Percival is determined to bring him back to her, alive if not well
Grindelwald can happen or not and if yes, he’d have to come for a different reason since an obscurial no longer exists. Or it does, but as another child. Maybe Modesty can actually be one, slipping under the radar of MACUSA and an unexpected success for the Salemers
Fun part of this would be that thanks to their collaborative newspapers (New York Ghostly Times or whatever), the no-maj would know when he lands on American soil and he’d be too flabbergasted to put up a fight when actual muggles give him wide-eyed looks of recognition before ringing a charmed bell that works sort of like a 911-call to summon aurors
So how about Newt Scamander? Seeing as we already have a canon divergence since even before Grindelwald, he’d honestly just visit to find the puffskein breeder (magical beasts laws may differ in this AU as well)
Cue the introduction scene with a creature causing suspicious unlatching of the suitcase, security guy eyeing it as Newt hands over his passport
But then he reads the ID and face lights up much to Newt’s confusion, only increasing when the man jovially says, “‘Scamander’, is it? Related to War Hero Scamander by any chance?”
“Oh, um, he’s. He’s my brother,” Newt stutters out in shock before he can think then bites his cheek as his mind starts racing Merlin’s beard, I need to obliviate him—
“Great, nice to meet you! Welcome to America, sir. Alright then, you’re good to go. Just head on over to MACUSA and they’ll give you proper accommodations as an honoured guest,” the man says, handing back his passport after making some kind of note. Newt’s mind completely blanks. “Make sure you keep that thing locked up, though; wouldn’t want to be causing trouble your first visit here, right?”
“Right,” he mutters absently, snaps the latch back on his case, realizes as he’s walking away that he even forgot to flick on the muggle switch for it
He tries to remember that he should let MACUSA know they have an unobliviated muggle handling their security at the ports, but his brain is too scrambled by the time he arrives due to too many ‘what did I just see’ moments on the way there
@gudegudeland @auroargraves @fantastikobskurials @thegaypumpingthroughyourveins @funkzpiel
This is AWESOME. Newt’s brain is going to be broken so hard until he gets an explanation - and then he’ll be over the moon. This is everything he never even dreamed of! Magicals and non-magicals living together peacefully; no hiding, no lies, no one lording anything over another, it’s - everything he never knew he could have.
And just think of the American Magical Creatures.
Newt would almost - no, scratch that. Newt literally would cry at the thought of it. His creatures, in nature preserves. With no need to hide. With everyone loving them for the miracles that they are, with laws protecting them, with children growing up dreaming of seeing unicorns and dragons and - Thunderbirds flying freely above cities, feathered serpents coiling peacefully in major rivers, merfolk coming to barter over the morning’s catch with fishermen, this is a beautiful dream and he never never wants to wake up.
Newt has - something like culture shock, at least at first, with everyone treating him as a ‘country cousin’ - understanding that he’s from a different culture, but so damn baffled at why the British Magicals enforce such a ridiculous separation. Newt would be offended, but he’s too flabberghasted and - I think that Graves might fall in love when he watches Newt dare to cast his first tentative spells in public, and sees the smile growing like the rising dawn on the magizoologist’s face.
(On a side note, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is a best-seller in the USA. Pretty much every household - no-maj and wizard and any permutation thereof - has a copy.)
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“Legend of the Guardians Owls of Ga’hoole”
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“Legend of the Guardians Owls of Ga’hoole”
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No Statute of Secrecy AU
Apr. 7th, 2018 07:27 amvia https://ift.tt/2EsklpN
gudegudeland:
hamelin-born:
gudegudeland:
I lost the source post that inspired this, has to do with playing off the stereotype of America being the sort of black sheep child of the world and being the one country not under the International Statute of Secrecy
No-majes freely co-existing with full awareness of magicfolk so please consider:
After the big witch hunt, somehow they decided to educate one another and work towards a harmonious society, and so already this removes the biggest cause and motivation for Second Salemers who’d be more of an underground radical hate group rather than the hidden-in-plain-sight operation trying to maliciously expose magicfolk like in canon
This already changes Credence’s role and character since with MACUSA at full liberty to keep a closer eye on the Salemers as they please, he would’ve been rescued much earlier and his magic healed and cultivated before he became an obscurial (yeah, I still orphaned the poor thing)
Percival adopts him, raises him as a protégé of sorts and Seraphina becomes his godmother/Aunt Phina
Legislation-wise, a completely different set of laws that require a little more finesse and cooperation in terms of both political powers deciding limitations as to how involved magic can be and what applies to both or one of them
Taking the Unforgivable Curses for example—would the punishment of getting caught for using them depend on whether the target is no-maj or not? Is it harsher if casted on a no-maj because they are more vulnerable by default of having no magic and would squibs fall under that category as well?
Is Beatrice’s dead mother allowed to live with/haunt her no-maj daughter?
To prevent unfortunate accidents, they enforce a no-magic policy outside of school like Hogwarts to protect minors
With law enforcement, they generally keep their issues separate and deal with them respectively but there exists a special council consisting of both no-maj and wizardfolk to act like judges and juries to handle overlapping cases or particularly heinous crimes
Anyway lots of grey areas, moving on
So, the war—they fight together but discreetly since the other countries aren’t ‘out’ so to speak and wizards/witches don’t explicitly help the no-maj side of the battles but they’d occasionally check up on them to see how they’re doing. When they’re spotted together, the others shrug it off, operating under the collective unspoken agreement not to expose one another (also it’s the middle war, things hardly make sense anymore)
Percival especially does so Jacob, one of his best friends whose bakery he frequents back at home, who joins him for drinks after work, who he introduced to a Miss Queenie Goldstein under his employment. Percival is determined to bring him back to her, alive if not well
Grindelwald can happen or not and if yes, he’d have to come for a different reason since an obscurial no longer exists. Or it does, but as another child. Maybe Modesty can actually be one, slipping under the radar of MACUSA and an unexpected success for the Salemers
Fun part of this would be that thanks to their collaborative newspapers (New York Ghostly Times or whatever), the no-maj would know when he lands on American soil and he’d be too flabbergasted to put up a fight when actual muggles give him wide-eyed looks of recognition before ringing a charmed bell that works sort of like a 911-call to summon aurors
So how about Newt Scamander? Seeing as we already have a canon divergence since even before Grindelwald, he’d honestly just visit to find the puffskein breeder (magical beasts laws may differ in this AU as well)
Cue the introduction scene with a creature causing suspicious unlatching of the suitcase, security guy eyeing it as Newt hands over his passport
But then he reads the ID and face lights up much to Newt’s confusion, only increasing when the man jovially says, “‘Scamander’, is it? Related to War Hero Scamander by any chance?”
“Oh, um, he’s. He’s my brother,” Newt stutters out in shock before he can think then bites his cheek as his mind starts racing Merlin’s beard, I need to obliviate him—
“Great, nice to meet you! Welcome to America, sir. Alright then, you’re good to go. Just head on over to MACUSA and they’ll give you proper accommodations as an honoured guest,” the man says, handing back his passport after making some kind of note. Newt’s mind completely blanks. “Make sure you keep that thing locked up, though; wouldn’t want to be causing trouble your first visit here, right?”
“Right,” he mutters absently, snaps the latch back on his case, realizes as he’s walking away that he even forgot to flick on the muggle switch for it
He tries to remember that he should let MACUSA know they have an unobliviated muggle handling their security at the ports, but his brain is too scrambled by the time he arrives due to too many ‘what did I just see’ moments on the way there
@gudegudeland @auroargraves @fantastikobskurials @thegaypumpingthroughyourveins @funkzpiel
This is AWESOME. Newt’s brain is going to be broken so hard until he gets an explanation - and then he’ll be over the moon. This is everything he never even dreamed of! Magicals and non-magicals living together peacefully; no hiding, no lies, no one lording anything over another, it’s - everything he never knew he could have.
And just think of the American Magical Creatures.
Newt would almost - no, scratch that. Newt literally would cry at the thought of it. His creatures, in nature preserves. With no need to hide. With everyone loving them for the miracles that they are, with laws protecting them, with children growing up dreaming of seeing unicorns and dragons and - Thunderbirds flying freely above cities, feathered serpents coiling peacefully in major rivers, merfolk coming to barter over the morning’s catch with fishermen, this is a beautiful dream and he never never wants to wake up.
Newt has - something like culture shock, at least at first, with everyone treating him as a ‘country cousin’ - understanding that he’s from a different culture, but so damn baffled at why the British Magicals enforce such a ridiculous separation. Newt would be offended, but he’s too flabberghasted and - I think that Graves might fall in love when he watches Newt dare to cast his first tentative spells in public, and sees the smile growing like the rising dawn on the magizoologist’s face.
(On a side note, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is a best-seller in the USA. Pretty much every household - no-maj and wizard and any permutation thereof - has a copy.)
WOW THIS IS SUPER CUTE this movie would basically be Newt Scamander in wonderland and it’d be one feel-good scene after another and the audience learns with him how this whole co-existence thing works and it’s just massive world-building while introducing the various creatures as Newt imparts his wisdom and knowledge about them.
And yeah, maybe Percival Graves is his tour guide because he remembers Theseus and the stories about his amazing, creature-loving brother the man told to him who served in the dragon corps. And he tries to be a proper host but every other word that comes out of Newt’s mouth is about how amazing everything is accompanied by the brightest smiles and Percival catches himself smiling back. Newt’s enthusiasm is more contagious than he wants to admit.
The day is long yet short and they need to eat so, Percival also introduces good food as well and it’s just him being nice. But then they talk as they eat and Percival is helplessly drawn by this man’s liveliness and passion, and if his eyes shine that much more, it’s the lighting inside the restaurant. As for Newt, he needs to see more so please, if it’s alright, can Percival spare some more hours in the next week to guide him?
No, Percival should say, because he’s a busy man and he can spare an auror to do that, someone who’d be better at it than him.
“Of course,” he says instead, hiding his own smile behind a cough when Newt beams at him.
@auroargraves @elenothar @gudegudeland @coffeesugarcream
In this scenario, it’s a reciprocal introduction to entirely new aspects of existence - Graves is introducing Newt into a world where he can stand and work magic in the open sun, with no thought or care to whomever might be watching. And Newt - Newt is hesitant at first, caught by the habits of a lifetime.
But then a flock of no-maj children playing nearby recognize him as a wizard (or, at the very least, recognize Director Graves and come running over to say hello) and, upon learning that this man with the funny accent is a foreign wizard, they beg him to do ‘something magical!’. …Newt is helpless to their big, wide eyes and pleading expressions, and - slowly, hesitantly, he gingerly conjures a swarm of glimmering bubbles -
And Newt’s disbelieving smile lights up his face like the sunrise as the children laugh and scatter, trying to catch the bobbing constructs, and Graves can’t tear his gaze away from that smile.
But Newt - Newt, in turn, helps Graves see - not only the beauty of his creatures, but the beauty of his country all over again. Percival has been - inured, over the years, to a world where the wizards and the non-magicals stride side by side; it’s not a perfect world, but when you tend to see six impossible things before breakfast each day, it’s easy to - to overlook the sheer wonder of it all. And - it’s in Newt’s disbelieving joy that Percival once again realizes how amazing, how incredible his home is.
Newt would have so many questions. And Graves would be happy to answer each and every one of them in turn. And arrange a trip for Newt to visit the dragon reserves with him, he thinks that Newt might like to see them…?
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gudegudeland:
hamelin-born:
gudegudeland:
I lost the source post that inspired this, has to do with playing off the stereotype of America being the sort of black sheep child of the world and being the one country not under the International Statute of Secrecy
No-majes freely co-existing with full awareness of magicfolk so please consider:
After the big witch hunt, somehow they decided to educate one another and work towards a harmonious society, and so already this removes the biggest cause and motivation for Second Salemers who’d be more of an underground radical hate group rather than the hidden-in-plain-sight operation trying to maliciously expose magicfolk like in canon
This already changes Credence’s role and character since with MACUSA at full liberty to keep a closer eye on the Salemers as they please, he would’ve been rescued much earlier and his magic healed and cultivated before he became an obscurial (yeah, I still orphaned the poor thing)
Percival adopts him, raises him as a protégé of sorts and Seraphina becomes his godmother/Aunt Phina
Legislation-wise, a completely different set of laws that require a little more finesse and cooperation in terms of both political powers deciding limitations as to how involved magic can be and what applies to both or one of them
Taking the Unforgivable Curses for example—would the punishment of getting caught for using them depend on whether the target is no-maj or not? Is it harsher if casted on a no-maj because they are more vulnerable by default of having no magic and would squibs fall under that category as well?
Is Beatrice’s dead mother allowed to live with/haunt her no-maj daughter?
To prevent unfortunate accidents, they enforce a no-magic policy outside of school like Hogwarts to protect minors
With law enforcement, they generally keep their issues separate and deal with them respectively but there exists a special council consisting of both no-maj and wizardfolk to act like judges and juries to handle overlapping cases or particularly heinous crimes
Anyway lots of grey areas, moving on
So, the war—they fight together but discreetly since the other countries aren’t ‘out’ so to speak and wizards/witches don’t explicitly help the no-maj side of the battles but they’d occasionally check up on them to see how they’re doing. When they’re spotted together, the others shrug it off, operating under the collective unspoken agreement not to expose one another (also it’s the middle war, things hardly make sense anymore)
Percival especially does so Jacob, one of his best friends whose bakery he frequents back at home, who joins him for drinks after work, who he introduced to a Miss Queenie Goldstein under his employment. Percival is determined to bring him back to her, alive if not well
Grindelwald can happen or not and if yes, he’d have to come for a different reason since an obscurial no longer exists. Or it does, but as another child. Maybe Modesty can actually be one, slipping under the radar of MACUSA and an unexpected success for the Salemers
Fun part of this would be that thanks to their collaborative newspapers (New York Ghostly Times or whatever), the no-maj would know when he lands on American soil and he’d be too flabbergasted to put up a fight when actual muggles give him wide-eyed looks of recognition before ringing a charmed bell that works sort of like a 911-call to summon aurors
So how about Newt Scamander? Seeing as we already have a canon divergence since even before Grindelwald, he’d honestly just visit to find the puffskein breeder (magical beasts laws may differ in this AU as well)
Cue the introduction scene with a creature causing suspicious unlatching of the suitcase, security guy eyeing it as Newt hands over his passport
But then he reads the ID and face lights up much to Newt’s confusion, only increasing when the man jovially says, “‘Scamander’, is it? Related to War Hero Scamander by any chance?”
“Oh, um, he’s. He’s my brother,” Newt stutters out in shock before he can think then bites his cheek as his mind starts racing Merlin’s beard, I need to obliviate him—
“Great, nice to meet you! Welcome to America, sir. Alright then, you’re good to go. Just head on over to MACUSA and they’ll give you proper accommodations as an honoured guest,” the man says, handing back his passport after making some kind of note. Newt’s mind completely blanks. “Make sure you keep that thing locked up, though; wouldn’t want to be causing trouble your first visit here, right?”
“Right,” he mutters absently, snaps the latch back on his case, realizes as he’s walking away that he even forgot to flick on the muggle switch for it
He tries to remember that he should let MACUSA know they have an unobliviated muggle handling their security at the ports, but his brain is too scrambled by the time he arrives due to too many ‘what did I just see’ moments on the way there
@gudegudeland @auroargraves @fantastikobskurials @thegaypumpingthroughyourveins @funkzpiel
This is AWESOME. Newt’s brain is going to be broken so hard until he gets an explanation - and then he’ll be over the moon. This is everything he never even dreamed of! Magicals and non-magicals living together peacefully; no hiding, no lies, no one lording anything over another, it’s - everything he never knew he could have.
And just think of the American Magical Creatures.
Newt would almost - no, scratch that. Newt literally would cry at the thought of it. His creatures, in nature preserves. With no need to hide. With everyone loving them for the miracles that they are, with laws protecting them, with children growing up dreaming of seeing unicorns and dragons and - Thunderbirds flying freely above cities, feathered serpents coiling peacefully in major rivers, merfolk coming to barter over the morning’s catch with fishermen, this is a beautiful dream and he never never wants to wake up.
Newt has - something like culture shock, at least at first, with everyone treating him as a ‘country cousin’ - understanding that he’s from a different culture, but so damn baffled at why the British Magicals enforce such a ridiculous separation. Newt would be offended, but he’s too flabberghasted and - I think that Graves might fall in love when he watches Newt dare to cast his first tentative spells in public, and sees the smile growing like the rising dawn on the magizoologist’s face.
(On a side note, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is a best-seller in the USA. Pretty much every household - no-maj and wizard and any permutation thereof - has a copy.)
WOW THIS IS SUPER CUTE this movie would basically be Newt Scamander in wonderland and it’d be one feel-good scene after another and the audience learns with him how this whole co-existence thing works and it’s just massive world-building while introducing the various creatures as Newt imparts his wisdom and knowledge about them.
And yeah, maybe Percival Graves is his tour guide because he remembers Theseus and the stories about his amazing, creature-loving brother the man told to him who served in the dragon corps. And he tries to be a proper host but every other word that comes out of Newt’s mouth is about how amazing everything is accompanied by the brightest smiles and Percival catches himself smiling back. Newt’s enthusiasm is more contagious than he wants to admit.
The day is long yet short and they need to eat so, Percival also introduces good food as well and it’s just him being nice. But then they talk as they eat and Percival is helplessly drawn by this man’s liveliness and passion, and if his eyes shine that much more, it’s the lighting inside the restaurant. As for Newt, he needs to see more so please, if it’s alright, can Percival spare some more hours in the next week to guide him?
No, Percival should say, because he’s a busy man and he can spare an auror to do that, someone who’d be better at it than him.
“Of course,” he says instead, hiding his own smile behind a cough when Newt beams at him.
@auroargraves @elenothar @gudegudeland @coffeesugarcream
In this scenario, it’s a reciprocal introduction to entirely new aspects of existence - Graves is introducing Newt into a world where he can stand and work magic in the open sun, with no thought or care to whomever might be watching. And Newt - Newt is hesitant at first, caught by the habits of a lifetime.
But then a flock of no-maj children playing nearby recognize him as a wizard (or, at the very least, recognize Director Graves and come running over to say hello) and, upon learning that this man with the funny accent is a foreign wizard, they beg him to do ‘something magical!’. …Newt is helpless to their big, wide eyes and pleading expressions, and - slowly, hesitantly, he gingerly conjures a swarm of glimmering bubbles -
And Newt’s disbelieving smile lights up his face like the sunrise as the children laugh and scatter, trying to catch the bobbing constructs, and Graves can’t tear his gaze away from that smile.
But Newt - Newt, in turn, helps Graves see - not only the beauty of his creatures, but the beauty of his country all over again. Percival has been - inured, over the years, to a world where the wizards and the non-magicals stride side by side; it’s not a perfect world, but when you tend to see six impossible things before breakfast each day, it’s easy to - to overlook the sheer wonder of it all. And - it’s in Newt’s disbelieving joy that Percival once again realizes how amazing, how incredible his home is.
Newt would have so many questions. And Graves would be happy to answer each and every one of them in turn. And arrange a trip for Newt to visit the dragon reserves with him, he thinks that Newt might like to see them…?
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Piano Lesson by AquaSixio
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It seems like a more accurate name would be “Owl about to start some shit”
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Piano Lesson by AquaSixio
@copperbadge
It seems like a more accurate name would be “Owl about to start some shit”
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unforth-ninawaters:
seananmcguire:
possiblestalker:
indianajjones:
opalescentlesbian:
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katfiction2001:
“writers always know exactly where they are going with their work!”
r u sure
“no writer does anything by mistake, it’s all very strategic”
r u sure
“they use symbolism in everything. for example, a simple sentence symbolises directness and-”
R U SURE
The best moments in writing is when you discover you did something absolutely genius by complete accident.
A miscellaneous world-building detail from ten chapters earlier accidentally saved a character’s life once
“Omg this line is genius and the best reference!”“Thank you I did that entirely on purpose!!” *sweats*
READER: “(points out symbolism and foreshadowing and depth)”
AUTHOR:
I once literally flipped a coin to decide which character was going to die in a multi-award-nominated novel.
I was once rereading a manuscript before editing it and discovered that in an early chapter I’d put in a line without any forethought that ended up aligning perfectly the plot and is now my favorite line in the entire book even though when I wrote that sentence I hadn’t even come up with that plot point yet.
In my book series, I have done various things on accident and then, looking back, yelled BRILLIANT and went with it. And, often times, my characters just DECIDE things, like one character was in love with another and I was “WHAT?” but went with it because it was actually a VERY good story and made some of the plot stuff that much more interesting.
If you ever wanted to know my creative process for writing, congratulations, this is it.
Writing a story like
There’s an author’s note in an Isaac Asimov short story collection - Isaac Asimov, mind you - and I can’t for the life of me remember which it was because my mom has a billion of them, but basically he went to a lecture on his books where the teaccher was lecturing on all the symbolism and themes and such and Asimovewent up to him and was just like “Uhhhh…. I didn’t put any of that in? It just…. no? Not really?”And the lecturer legit looked ISAAC FUCKING ASIMOV straight in the eye and said, “What do you know, sir? You’re just the author.”And Asimov described it as being a fairly profound moment in his career.
This is all completely true.
this is all very very true
The Isaac Asimov story is great because it underscores how meaning is made. No, the author didn’t necessarily intend every single bit of symbolism you found in your attempts to write that academic paper. That doesn’t mean the symbolism isn’t there! Meaning, themes, symbolism – these things happen consciously and unconsciously, purposefully and by accident. Meaning is a group effort and constantly shifting. If you can make the case for the existence of a theme or symbol and you have enough evidence, then it doesn’t matter what the author intended! It’s there anyway.
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kristinalmeister:
keybladewyvern:
claricechiarasorcha:
ryntaia:
sirikenobi167:
unforth-ninawaters:
seananmcguire:
possiblestalker:
indianajjones:
opalescentlesbian:
entropyalarm:
katfiction2001:
“writers always know exactly where they are going with their work!”
r u sure
“no writer does anything by mistake, it’s all very strategic”
r u sure
“they use symbolism in everything. for example, a simple sentence symbolises directness and-”
R U SURE
The best moments in writing is when you discover you did something absolutely genius by complete accident.
A miscellaneous world-building detail from ten chapters earlier accidentally saved a character’s life once
“Omg this line is genius and the best reference!”“Thank you I did that entirely on purpose!!” *sweats*
READER: “(points out symbolism and foreshadowing and depth)”
AUTHOR:
I once literally flipped a coin to decide which character was going to die in a multi-award-nominated novel.
I was once rereading a manuscript before editing it and discovered that in an early chapter I’d put in a line without any forethought that ended up aligning perfectly the plot and is now my favorite line in the entire book even though when I wrote that sentence I hadn’t even come up with that plot point yet.
In my book series, I have done various things on accident and then, looking back, yelled BRILLIANT and went with it. And, often times, my characters just DECIDE things, like one character was in love with another and I was “WHAT?” but went with it because it was actually a VERY good story and made some of the plot stuff that much more interesting.
If you ever wanted to know my creative process for writing, congratulations, this is it.
Writing a story like
There’s an author’s note in an Isaac Asimov short story collection - Isaac Asimov, mind you - and I can’t for the life of me remember which it was because my mom has a billion of them, but basically he went to a lecture on his books where the teaccher was lecturing on all the symbolism and themes and such and Asimovewent up to him and was just like “Uhhhh…. I didn’t put any of that in? It just…. no? Not really?”And the lecturer legit looked ISAAC FUCKING ASIMOV straight in the eye and said, “What do you know, sir? You’re just the author.”And Asimov described it as being a fairly profound moment in his career.
This is all completely true.
this is all very very true
The Isaac Asimov story is great because it underscores how meaning is made. No, the author didn’t necessarily intend every single bit of symbolism you found in your attempts to write that academic paper. That doesn’t mean the symbolism isn’t there! Meaning, themes, symbolism – these things happen consciously and unconsciously, purposefully and by accident. Meaning is a group effort and constantly shifting. If you can make the case for the existence of a theme or symbol and you have enough evidence, then it doesn’t matter what the author intended! It’s there anyway.
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FAMILY OF RIVENDELL
You had a better heart than me, always, and I wish I had told you that. Instead, you have the bravery of a King, of a half God, I plate you up in my armour and send you off to die. You’re different in this haze, softer, but maybe you’ve always been like that, things have changed me. I can’t tell where we are but that doesn’t matter now, none of it does. Your eyes burn and you smile, offer out a hand I’ve never been worthy of. I take it because pride and honour can’t get us now, neither can fame or reputation. And the poetry is there because you are too.
[ INSP. ] [ POETRY. ]
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FAMILY OF RIVENDELL
You had a better heart than me, always, and I wish I had told you that. Instead, you have the bravery of a King, of a half God, I plate you up in my armour and send you off to die. You’re different in this haze, softer, but maybe you’ve always been like that, things have changed me. I can’t tell where we are but that doesn’t matter now, none of it does. Your eyes burn and you smile, offer out a hand I’ve never been worthy of. I take it because pride and honour can’t get us now, neither can fame or reputation. And the poetry is there because you are too.
[ INSP. ] [ POETRY. ]
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Struggles of Rey Kenobis’
Antis - Only care about Rey’s lineage in hopes of sinking the good ship Reylo. ReySky and REYSOLO live here.😒🙄
Other people - Rey doesn’t need a lineage to be important or powerful! She can be individually gifted without needing any lineage to explain it.
Rey Kenobi’s - For God’s Sake!!! We don’t want her to be a Kenobi to explain her abilities! She’s powerful because she’s Rey! We just purely want some damn happiness for Obi Wan Kenobi! The man who gave, and gave and gave… And got nothing in return. Two lonely souls connected. Two rational souls caring too much about a stubborn and moody Skywalker because they have that big Kenobi heart and won’t back down! Damn it! To have force ghost Obi Wan all smug and trolling force ghost Anakin because his badass granddaughter is kicking ass and taking names. ((Cut to the scene on starkiller base when Rey strikes Kylo and runs away with the Force ghosts watching. Anakin is shaking his head remembering Mustafar. Obi Wan nudges him while holding a handmade *Go Rey!* sign - “She gets that from me”. Anakin glares at him)) And you best believe he’s sipping that tea out of a “I’m the proud grandfather of Rey” mug. *begins sobbing* Obi Wan would just be so proud of Rey for being wholeheartedly herself!
*Sometimes I forget just how much I love Rey Kenobi*
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hopewritteninthestars:
Struggles of Rey Kenobis’
Antis - Only care about Rey’s lineage in hopes of sinking the good ship Reylo. ReySky and REYSOLO live here.😒🙄
Other people - Rey doesn’t need a lineage to be important or powerful! She can be individually gifted without needing any lineage to explain it.
Rey Kenobi’s - For God’s Sake!!! We don’t want her to be a Kenobi to explain her abilities! She’s powerful because she’s Rey! We just purely want some damn happiness for Obi Wan Kenobi! The man who gave, and gave and gave… And got nothing in return. Two lonely souls connected. Two rational souls caring too much about a stubborn and moody Skywalker because they have that big Kenobi heart and won’t back down! Damn it! To have force ghost Obi Wan all smug and trolling force ghost Anakin because his badass granddaughter is kicking ass and taking names. ((Cut to the scene on starkiller base when Rey strikes Kylo and runs away with the Force ghosts watching. Anakin is shaking his head remembering Mustafar. Obi Wan nudges him while holding a handmade *Go Rey!* sign - “She gets that from me”. Anakin glares at him)) And you best believe he’s sipping that tea out of a “I’m the proud grandfather of Rey” mug. *begins sobbing* Obi Wan would just be so proud of Rey for being wholeheartedly herself!
*Sometimes I forget just how much I love Rey Kenobi*
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toodrunktofindaurl:
think before you speak/type or the chokehold fairy will get you
reblog/retweet, don’t repost
I don’t know that I ever slammed reblog so fast.
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toodrunktofindaurl:
think before you speak/type or the chokehold fairy will get you
reblog/retweet, don’t repost
I don’t know that I ever slammed reblog so fast.
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jlavisant:
The fact that we see Ardyn standing among Noctis and Luna and the bros as a welcome member of their family really means so much to me.
This is better than any OTP being confirmed canon. Ardyn was alone and walked with only himself and the influence of the daemons he saved so many from writhing inside him, refusing him the right to die. Fueling within him nothing but hatred and spite.
That must have been an absolutely traumatic and devastating way to live when all you wanted was to save people.
I have BEEN there. I have given EVERYTHING for someone who took ALL from me. And he stole from me, stabbed me in the back, and left me hurt, hateful, and bitter. Ardyn dealt with that on a massive scale.
if not for Ardyn I wouldn’t be where I am now. With hope and friends.
Ardyn didn’t have it so good.
But this new art just…. it’s important to me.
Even from such ugliness and betrayal, you can find people who will fight for you, love you, and keep you close and protect you.
Ask me again why I love and cherish Ardyn fucking Izunia.
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jlavisant:
The fact that we see Ardyn standing among Noctis and Luna and the bros as a welcome member of their family really means so much to me.
This is better than any OTP being confirmed canon. Ardyn was alone and walked with only himself and the influence of the daemons he saved so many from writhing inside him, refusing him the right to die. Fueling within him nothing but hatred and spite.
That must have been an absolutely traumatic and devastating way to live when all you wanted was to save people.
I have BEEN there. I have given EVERYTHING for someone who took ALL from me. And he stole from me, stabbed me in the back, and left me hurt, hateful, and bitter. Ardyn dealt with that on a massive scale.
if not for Ardyn I wouldn’t be where I am now. With hope and friends.
Ardyn didn’t have it so good.
But this new art just…. it’s important to me.
Even from such ugliness and betrayal, you can find people who will fight for you, love you, and keep you close and protect you.
Ask me again why I love and cherish Ardyn fucking Izunia.
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seerya:
THE BROS: If the Royal Tombs had been left in better condition, we’d have more weapons for the Armiger.
THAT 2,000 YEAR OLD FUCKER WITH HIS 117 WEAPONS ARSENAL: Yes…too bad…(kicks walls)…the old kings…(tears down a pillar)…didn’t know…(pours gasoline)…how to build things…(lights a match)…to last.
WHAT A PITY. “Natural” decay. Pff.
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seerya:
THE BROS: If the Royal Tombs had been left in better condition, we’d have more weapons for the Armiger.
THAT 2,000 YEAR OLD FUCKER WITH HIS 117 WEAPONS ARSENAL: Yes…too bad…(kicks walls)…the old kings…(tears down a pillar)…didn’t know…(pours gasoline)…how to build things…(lights a match)…to last.
WHAT A PITY. “Natural” decay. Pff.
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liberalautisticnerd831:
geeko-kat:
neuroatypically-speaking:
cultural-temmieism:
moody-poet:
cultural-temmieism:
New rule, non muslims can’t say the word jihad. Until you stop conflating a word that means personal struggle with faith and temptation with terrorism youre just not allowed to say it.
I’m not a Muslim but I just thought I would reblog this because I think it’s definitely worth listening to.
It’s totally okay for non muslims to reblog this, and i encourage it. Im just glad you’re listening.
Oh god, finally someone said it. Every time I see words like “jihadist” I want to scream, but I’m not Muslim, so I wasn’t sure I should say anything.
Jihad means struggle. It doesn’t mean holy war or anything like it. In fact, there is no word in Islam for holy war, because the nature of Islam does not leave room for holy war. Islam has a juridical system, not a Pope who can just say “Go wage holy war.” Conflating the personal nature of jihad with violence is so very gross and it needs to stop. Period.
Actually, there’s another word non-muslims in the media shouldn’t use:
Allahu Akbar. It’s not a statement of terrorism. It means “god is great”. It’s something we say to praise our lord. It’s what we say when we pray. It’s not a statement of terrorism. Allahu Akbar doesn’t mean terrorism stop using it as one
I would really appreciate it if non Muslims understood this
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liberalautisticnerd831:
geeko-kat:
neuroatypically-speaking:
cultural-temmieism:
moody-poet:
cultural-temmieism:
New rule, non muslims can’t say the word jihad. Until you stop conflating a word that means personal struggle with faith and temptation with terrorism youre just not allowed to say it.
I’m not a Muslim but I just thought I would reblog this because I think it’s definitely worth listening to.
It’s totally okay for non muslims to reblog this, and i encourage it. Im just glad you’re listening.
Oh god, finally someone said it. Every time I see words like “jihadist” I want to scream, but I’m not Muslim, so I wasn’t sure I should say anything.
Jihad means struggle. It doesn’t mean holy war or anything like it. In fact, there is no word in Islam for holy war, because the nature of Islam does not leave room for holy war. Islam has a juridical system, not a Pope who can just say “Go wage holy war.” Conflating the personal nature of jihad with violence is so very gross and it needs to stop. Period.
Actually, there’s another word non-muslims in the media shouldn’t use:
Allahu Akbar. It’s not a statement of terrorism. It means “god is great”. It’s something we say to praise our lord. It’s what we say when we pray. It’s not a statement of terrorism. Allahu Akbar doesn’t mean terrorism stop using it as one
I would really appreciate it if non Muslims understood this
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frejann:
snowflake-collections:
iron-ice-the-elemental-warrior:
crrdcaptor:
Reblog the strawberry kitty for good luck!🍓🐱
Dawww
Have some lucky power plant strawberry kitten :3
I had to draw it :’3
Not chancing it by not reblogging
@yesiamplease
<3 A very good and wonderful energy radiates from this post <3
@poplitealqueen
I wonder what one would feed Strawberry Shortcake’s cat?
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hunterjaegerthings:
queen-of-the-crows:
frejann:
snowflake-collections:
iron-ice-the-elemental-warrior:
crrdcaptor:
Reblog the strawberry kitty for good luck!🍓🐱
Dawww
Have some lucky power plant strawberry kitten :3
I had to draw it :’3
Not chancing it by not reblogging
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<3 A very good and wonderful energy radiates from this post <3
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I wonder what one would feed Strawberry Shortcake’s cat?
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I think they did a good job coming up with a horror-story worst-case-scenario foil to Noctis when they crafted Ardyn.
As in, Noctis spent his whole life aware that he was going to die, thanks to the Ring of the Lucii and the price it takes from the Martyr Kings. Also Noctis was aware that his eventual kids would also be doomed to die for it. So Noctis basically grew up Out Of Fucks To Give, and then there was the Prophecy King Destiny that got dumped on his head and everything was horrible.
Now on the part of Ardyn, he’s basically what Noctis might become after the Gods fuck up and the Prophecy doesn’t work in the beta version. Then Add Extra Spite because if Ardyn doesn’t even get to die after he fails then everyone else has to suffer along with him. And so after a few centuries we have the Ardyn from canon, who has outlived all his Morality Chains and Sanity Anchors and is now trying to wring whatever paltry enjoyment he can get out of the Hellworld he’s trapped in. Because the Gods Are All Liars and Destiny Is Fake.
Which is why killing Ardyn in the end is actually an act of mercy, because that man has been dead inside in a way that there’s no coming back from. And it’s something you can weep in pity of, because Ardyn probably started out his Quest as someone similar to Regis and Noctis in personality. And that changed, little by little, as Ardyn’s emotional exhaustion crept up on him and he finally gave up and stopped caring. At all. About anything. Except ending it. And if that means the entire world needs to die too? Then Ardyn would destroy the world so he can finally rest.
Which is why I think any Ardyn fix-its would need to involve time travel and a Nail to happen sometime pre-curse. (A time-travelling Gilgamesh from post-Dawn would be amazing, possibly with added chocobros for Antics. Or a Cor with additional mixed Crownsguard and Kingsglaive entourage gets up to Shenanigans involving the sword he nicked off Gil and the Crystal. I dunno, there are so many things I can do with recursive time loops and dialogue reinterpretation.)
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I think they did a good job coming up with a horror-story worst-case-scenario foil to Noctis when they crafted Ardyn.
As in, Noctis spent his whole life aware that he was going to die, thanks to the Ring of the Lucii and the price it takes from the Martyr Kings. Also Noctis was aware that his eventual kids would also be doomed to die for it. So Noctis basically grew up Out Of Fucks To Give, and then there was the Prophecy King Destiny that got dumped on his head and everything was horrible.
Now on the part of Ardyn, he’s basically what Noctis might become after the Gods fuck up and the Prophecy doesn’t work in the beta version. Then Add Extra Spite because if Ardyn doesn’t even get to die after he fails then everyone else has to suffer along with him. And so after a few centuries we have the Ardyn from canon, who has outlived all his Morality Chains and Sanity Anchors and is now trying to wring whatever paltry enjoyment he can get out of the Hellworld he’s trapped in. Because the Gods Are All Liars and Destiny Is Fake.
Which is why killing Ardyn in the end is actually an act of mercy, because that man has been dead inside in a way that there’s no coming back from. And it’s something you can weep in pity of, because Ardyn probably started out his Quest as someone similar to Regis and Noctis in personality. And that changed, little by little, as Ardyn’s emotional exhaustion crept up on him and he finally gave up and stopped caring. At all. About anything. Except ending it. And if that means the entire world needs to die too? Then Ardyn would destroy the world so he can finally rest.
Which is why I think any Ardyn fix-its would need to involve time travel and a Nail to happen sometime pre-curse. (A time-travelling Gilgamesh from post-Dawn would be amazing, possibly with added chocobros for Antics. Or a Cor with additional mixed Crownsguard and Kingsglaive entourage gets up to Shenanigans involving the sword he nicked off Gil and the Crystal. I dunno, there are so many things I can do with recursive time loops and dialogue reinterpretation.)
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nannyoggskitchen:
mehofkirkwall:
fangirltothefullest:
squirrelstone:
uswe:
just-shower-thoughts:
A werewolf film written by a woman wouldn’t be as interesting because they know how unrealistic it is to be caught by surprise by something that happens regularly every damn month.
#run right into queue#no no no no no the exact opposite#by this standard a werewolf film written by a woman would be much more interesting because it would be more /varied/#some werewolves who are prepared not only for their own shift but also for those of six of their closest packmates#some werewolves who wake up already covered in fur and look at their ruined clothes and think ‘oh /shit/ that was yesterday’#some werewolves who can’t be assed to figure out what day it is and therefore have an alert set in their phone#so that once a month they wake up not to a blinking ‘wake up’ message but to ‘wake up and Be Prepared’ and dramatic hyena music#(and then inevitably lose/break/forget to charge their phone the day before and spend hours humming uncomfortably#before suddenly remembering at the least convenient moment possible and rushing off stripping as they go)#not to mention the one werewolf who only transforms one night a month and then has to refrain from gloating#while they help their one packmate who’s been shifted for an entire goddamned week and has started dreaming of murder (via @ereborne)
And then there’s that werewolf who goes three full moons without transforming, then transforms one night during a waxing crescent moon.
Now I’m imagining some on the werewolf form of the pill and having to regularly keep up their schedule and one werewolf telling another that they used to have such irregular changes but the pill now makes things so much easier and the other werewolves being like oh man I should talk to my doctor about this.
All i imagined is some poor fucker that’s like “you think you have it bad. I got my first change at 9 and change sporadically every 4 months or so. For 2 weeks. Sometimes it happens randomly so i just gave up.”
#for days before the change you’re extra growly and constantly want to go for walkies
@writernotwaiting
Why. Is this not a thing already. Why.
Wake up pissed and agitated with a headache and slam some aspirin with no real thought to the matter because it must just be a shit day. Halfway through the day they just “…oh shit that explains so much fuck fuck fuck”
@teland
I don’t usually reblog stuff, but this is just golden.
@lightshadowverisimilitude
@crescent-the-grumpy-bunny, it’s funny you tag me on this becuase I’m having my first period in over a year and wondered why I was having a meltdown this morning.
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gallusrostromegalus:
fjuri-the-fury:
papermonkeyism:
hushpiper:
angstriddentrashhuman:
malicemanaged:
pedeka:
nannyoggskitchen:
mehofkirkwall:
fangirltothefullest:
squirrelstone:
uswe:
just-shower-thoughts:
A werewolf film written by a woman wouldn’t be as interesting because they know how unrealistic it is to be caught by surprise by something that happens regularly every damn month.
#run right into queue#no no no no no the exact opposite#by this standard a werewolf film written by a woman would be much more interesting because it would be more /varied/#some werewolves who are prepared not only for their own shift but also for those of six of their closest packmates#some werewolves who wake up already covered in fur and look at their ruined clothes and think ‘oh /shit/ that was yesterday’#some werewolves who can’t be assed to figure out what day it is and therefore have an alert set in their phone#so that once a month they wake up not to a blinking ‘wake up’ message but to ‘wake up and Be Prepared’ and dramatic hyena music#(and then inevitably lose/break/forget to charge their phone the day before and spend hours humming uncomfortably#before suddenly remembering at the least convenient moment possible and rushing off stripping as they go)#not to mention the one werewolf who only transforms one night a month and then has to refrain from gloating#while they help their one packmate who’s been shifted for an entire goddamned week and has started dreaming of murder (via @ereborne)
And then there’s that werewolf who goes three full moons without transforming, then transforms one night during a waxing crescent moon.
Now I’m imagining some on the werewolf form of the pill and having to regularly keep up their schedule and one werewolf telling another that they used to have such irregular changes but the pill now makes things so much easier and the other werewolves being like oh man I should talk to my doctor about this.
All i imagined is some poor fucker that’s like “you think you have it bad. I got my first change at 9 and change sporadically every 4 months or so. For 2 weeks. Sometimes it happens randomly so i just gave up.”
#for days before the change you’re extra growly and constantly want to go for walkies
@writernotwaiting
Why. Is this not a thing already. Why.
Wake up pissed and agitated with a headache and slam some aspirin with no real thought to the matter because it must just be a shit day. Halfway through the day they just “…oh shit that explains so much fuck fuck fuck”
@teland
I don’t usually reblog stuff, but this is just golden.
@lightshadowverisimilitude
@crescent-the-grumpy-bunny, it’s funny you tag me on this becuase I’m having my first period in over a year and wondered why I was having a meltdown this morning.
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another-normal-anomaly:
evolution-is-just-a-theorem:
nolrai:
defectivealtruist:
velteris:
can someone… pls explain to me this New Tumblr Feature where. if u put a readmore into ur post all ur quotation marks turn into arcane symbols while on desktop dashboard. but once u click on the readmore, or if ur on mobile, or on ur own tumblr to view to post, then it goes back to being normal???
i was wondering this also, so i investigated!
tumblr is turning regular apostrophes and quotation marks into the special unicode characters U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK, and U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK. there is no real reason for tumblr to do this.
then, tumblr encodes them with the UTF-8 character encoding. the special characters use three bytes each. somehow tumblr managed to do this bit right.
then tumblr tries to decode them with the Windows-1252 character encoding, which only supports one byte characters, so it turns them into three garbage characters.
it only does this on the dashboard and in the sidebar blog thingy. this is because tumblr uses different code for the dashboard/sidebar versus everything else, even though they do exactly the same thing.
finally tumblr encodes them with UTF-8, again, and sends them to you. the chain of stupidity is complete.
ugh. That’s a monstrosity.
You know how you sometimes get intrusive thoughts, like “I could jump off this bridge” or “I could drop whatever I’m carrying into the storm drain”? I get those and also “I could go work for Tumblr and try to fix their codebase”.
@thebeastswrite
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another-normal-anomaly:
evolution-is-just-a-theorem:
nolrai:
defectivealtruist:
velteris:
can someone… pls explain to me this New Tumblr Feature where. if u put a readmore into ur post all ur quotation marks turn into arcane symbols while on desktop dashboard. but once u click on the readmore, or if ur on mobile, or on ur own tumblr to view to post, then it goes back to being normal???
i was wondering this also, so i investigated!
tumblr is turning regular apostrophes and quotation marks into the special unicode characters U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK, and U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK. there is no real reason for tumblr to do this.
then, tumblr encodes them with the UTF-8 character encoding. the special characters use three bytes each. somehow tumblr managed to do this bit right.
then tumblr tries to decode them with the Windows-1252 character encoding, which only supports one byte characters, so it turns them into three garbage characters.
it only does this on the dashboard and in the sidebar blog thingy. this is because tumblr uses different code for the dashboard/sidebar versus everything else, even though they do exactly the same thing.
finally tumblr encodes them with UTF-8, again, and sends them to you. the chain of stupidity is complete.
ugh. That’s a monstrosity.
You know how you sometimes get intrusive thoughts, like “I could jump off this bridge” or “I could drop whatever I’m carrying into the storm drain”? I get those and also “I could go work for Tumblr and try to fix their codebase”.
@thebeastswrite
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fishonthetree:
Hello friends.
I’m reaching out because I really need your help. Last night we were robbed while we slept. The thief got away with our TV, a work Macbook, and my husband’s expensive new gaming laptop. The police had been contacted but the chance to retrieve our valuables are slight.
The worst loss right now is the gaming laptop. It’s my husband’s major mental health outlet and the only thing that helps him really wind down after work. Without his outlet, he’s going to have a really hard time functioning. Right now, he’s the only one supporting the four of us as I’m out of workforce with a 4 months old baby to care for.
We need 1200 USD to replace it. If you can, please help, if only by boosting it. You can donate through my Ko-Fi here: https://ko-fi.com/A5201K8D
If you are from the US and you donate $30 or more, @hecallsmehischild is offering to ship you a wire tree or small wood painting as a thank you gift (or you may choose to receive a custom written poem or oneshot story) and you can contact her through her Tumblr. Please contact her with a screenshot proving your donation and your shipping address, and she will ship you your thank-you gift. (Gifts available until the $1200 is met.)
Thank you for listening.
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fishonthetree:
Hello friends.
I’m reaching out because I really need your help. Last night we were robbed while we slept. The thief got away with our TV, a work Macbook, and my husband’s expensive new gaming laptop. The police had been contacted but the chance to retrieve our valuables are slight.
The worst loss right now is the gaming laptop. It’s my husband’s major mental health outlet and the only thing that helps him really wind down after work. Without his outlet, he’s going to have a really hard time functioning. Right now, he’s the only one supporting the four of us as I’m out of workforce with a 4 months old baby to care for.
We need 1200 USD to replace it. If you can, please help, if only by boosting it. You can donate through my Ko-Fi here: https://ko-fi.com/A5201K8D
If you are from the US and you donate $30 or more, @hecallsmehischild is offering to ship you a wire tree or small wood painting as a thank you gift (or you may choose to receive a custom written poem or oneshot story) and you can contact her through her Tumblr. Please contact her with a screenshot proving your donation and your shipping address, and she will ship you your thank-you gift. (Gifts available until the $1200 is met.)
Thank you for listening.
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Things Ardyn has been called:
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lethalsaber:
A daemon piñata
Thousand daemons in a trench coat
Ugly hat man
Daemon hat
Fashion disaster Daemon
Immortal pain in your ass
Mistake so bad God tells you to stop
Noct’s weird uncle
That one family member
2000 years of spite
Zombie daemon
Old as balls man
Immortally annoying
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lethalsaber:
A daemon piñata
Thousand daemons in a trench coat
Ugly hat man
Daemon hat
Fashion disaster Daemon
Immortal pain in your ass
Mistake so bad God tells you to stop
Noct’s weird uncle
That one family member
2000 years of spite
Zombie daemon
Old as balls man
Immortally annoying
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