The good news: you get to pick your new soulmate! (You can define "soulmate" however you want: platonic/romantic/partners in crime/etc. But they will be in your life, constantly.)
The bad news: you don't get to pick where they come from.
Spin this wheel until you get a fandom with characters that you recognize. As soon as you do, stop. One of those people* is going to be a constant presence in your life, whether you like it or not. So choose wisely.
*broadly defined
Hey Rose ! What was your fave book / TV growing up, and do you think it would hold up?
I have a few!
Let's go with "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin (which is definitely one of my all-time favorites). It absolutely 100% holds up. I honestly highly recommend it for adults as well as kids!
(As for TV, I didn't watch a whole lot as a kid, so...books make more sense.)
You know it's super frustrating that people can't seem to remember that for some of us we can't afford to buy the books when they first come out or even get them from the library or even have time to you know read them immediately since the book has come out less than a week ago...
I have had so much of "sunshine on the reaping" spoiled for me thanks to the hunger games community that I have pretty much no interest in reading the book now. And it really hurts.
This happened to me back when I was in another fandom and I never bothered reading the last few books of a series that I really enjoyed thanks to people spoiling it.
It's one thing to spoil something that's been out for several years... It's another to spoil something that's just come out.
I am really disappointed with how inconsiderate people are being. I get wanting to squee about things, but at least have the courtesy to tie them a spoilers or put it behind a read more.
Just :/
Guys. "Sunrise on the Reaping" came out six days ago.
Use spoiler tags, for fuck's sake.
can dogs be jewish? I was told animals can only be Jewish if they're kosher so a sheep is Jewish but a dog is not
Dogs can absolutely be Jewish if they are members of a Jewish family. Please reblog with photos of dogs participating in Jewish family life. We will be taking no further questions at this time.
okay, to give a less glib answer since we really do want to encourage asking:
Animals (whether kosher or not) can’t be halakhically Jewish—that is, have the status of a Jew for the purposes of Jewish law and practice (see our answer about otters and songbirds for more on that.)
That said, beloved pets can absolutely be part of a Jewish family and participate in Jewish life, and as such we do consider them genuinely Jewish. When we say that a given book is Jewish, we are not counting it in our minyan (i.e., giving it ritual status as a Jew)—we are recognizing it as belonging/originating with the Jewish people. That is what we mean when we say dogs can be Jewish if they are part of a Jewish family. Also, we did really want to see everyone’s dog photos.
also dogs can have Jewish personalities
You want Jewish dog photos? Have my sister's dog celebrating Passover a couple of years ago!
it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore
I have a birthmark smack dab in between my eyebrows.
I like it when ppl play with my hair :)
@amy-r0z3 @luv-again @d3lly1000 @reinafish @jjdrawstuff @jokerandthethief @glitch-studios @raine-ydays & anyone else who wants to join ^^
I tend to try to mimic different characters voices. (I succeed mostly 😊)
both my elbows are double jointed, i can bend them inward
If I remember correctly I have anisometropia.
i have been bitten by a nandu once
I almost got dropped down a cliff once while rock/cliff climbing outside, luckily my camp councilor saved me from being dropped all the way down. I was in a full bat-hang before she grabbed my rope to save me.
And for a less story-riddled fact I’ve got a somewhat scar on my face that kind of looks like a question mark.
@dragonfanplaugedr @thishumanformislimiting @theshelteredbrat @spookys1fan and anyone who wants to join in!
When I was a year and a half old, I jumped of the high dive at my local pool thing, I climbed up the ladder, jumped off as my parents were watching, and fucking survived without passing out and kept myself above water long enough for my parents to get to me
I also jumped out the window when I was a baby, went into my backyard while my mom was doing mom shit, and played with leaves while my mom was freaking tf out and just sat there as she ran around looking for me
i obsess over really weird and niche characters. like, for around 1 year I was fucking GEEKing over sun/moon from FNAF. dunno why, but I was. now I'm obsessive over my own character. haha funny evil frenchman
Sorry to disappoint, but I think everyone does that hun ^^
I absolutely obsess over anything deku from Mha related, it’s honestly the only one hyperfixation that I’ve never gotten over, and it’s to the point where I stopped waiting for it to go away and just started feeding the lil obsessive little corner of my brain. So Yee, you def not alone in that! ^^*
Honestly I find telling ppl that kinda embarrassing bc of the fan base and stuff, and the impression it made on ppl and myself, so honestly I kinda just keep it below the depths… deep down.. far below :)
But anyway, love yall! ^^ <3
Me and my twin brother have matching scars above our right eyebrows
I have been medically dead more than once
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I got my appendix removed when I was 4-5 because it was starting to leak and would have probably burst pretty soon.
Oh!
And someone once called the police on my dad, brother and me because they thought my brother and I were being kidnapped. (We weren't. We were just black kids with white parents. lol)
@rapogirl13 yeah three times to be exact, once when I was born, once when I was ten and one more time last year that I would honestly rather not talk about publicly
When I was in I primary school there was a rumor that I had accidentally killed two people by knocking them overboard the side of a cruise ship.
I once got a mild concussion from having sex on a very hard and solid table. My mom had to drive me to the doctor at like 11pm
I have had ~20 concussions and no history of sports
My undercounted list of medical conditions is 25
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I was homeschooled (obviously) and went to college early (possibly also obviously). I was initially hauled furiously out of school by my mother who had varying levels of justified beef with THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. One of these was the school suggested I was autistic (derogatory).
but when examined by psychologists for autism at the age of six they essentially concluded that I was not in the least neurodivergent, due to being funny and charming, with SUCH fascinating interests and SUCH humour.
They’d…. This is in my psychological report from when I was six…..
They’d…never heard so much about jockeys 💀
(Anyone who wants to can do this)
Age 11, making dinner. My dad works out of town.
(My mom can't cook -- to this day I joke that I learned to cook in self defence. The woman microwaves unseasoned chicken. She can and has burnt water.)
Age 11. I am making pasta. I have made pasta many times. At age 11 I still love cooking; I like to make strange things out of my dad's copy of Take a thousand eggs or more.
I am making pasta. I am watching tv. I am cooking from habit. I reach for the cooking wine and add a splash to my sauce.
Friends. It was not cooking wine.
It was my father's Glenfiddich.
When I was six years old, I was playing in the library with my younger sister, and I hit my head on the corner of a table. I ended up needing stitches in my forehead.
I am now a librarian.
These two things are (probably) not connected.
We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.
My cousin died when he was 20, and he didn't have a will.
He didn't personally own a ton of stuff, given that he was a full-time college student who still primarily lived with his parents. His parents were clearly his next of kin and obviously were going to inherit everything he left behind. (I suppose a case could've been made for his 16-year-old younger sister, but she was a minor and I think parents take precedence over siblings, and he didn't have a spouse or children. And his parents were [and are] still married so there wasn't even the divorced parent splitting issue.)
But because he didn't have a will, his "estate", such as it was, still went through a whole lot of steps before actually getting released to his parents.
A year and a half later, I turned 18. Within a week of my 18th birthday, my mother took me to a lawyer, sat me down, and said "you're writing a will." Because she'd seen what her cousin had to deal with and knew it was better not to have to go through that.
That first will left everything to my sister (I've updated it since then) and even though I'm clearly not dead, I have zero regrets writing it.
So yeah. Even if you don't own much, do you have specific items you'd like to go to specific friends? Do you have a pet whose care you want to designate to someone specific? Do you want whatever you do have going to your automatic next of kin, who may not be someone you get along with?
You can find a basic will template online and you can get stuff notarized at a local bank. Get a will. It's important.
I'm just gonna say something, Bar/Bat/B'nai mitzvahs are a celebration, they often but not always come with an after party and depending on the means of the parents of the lucky 13 year old they can be over the top sometimes. Much like rich kids with sweet 16s or Quinceañera.
okay thats out of the way, what I wanted to say is, I'm SICK of every media depiction of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah as a 100 million dollar, biggest party on the planet celebration of conspicuous consumption. Almost ALWAYS missing the you know Bar Mitzvah itself, and again depicting Jews over and over again as INSANELY wealthy. Like not everyone, hell not MOST people's Bar Mitzvah was huge and expensive.
another thing, I know by definition no 13 year old is cool, by definition they are greasy and annoying and cringe. But EVERY depiction of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah where the boy or girl of the hour is both an awkward loser and (particularly the boys) sleazy little creeps who are trying WAY too hard to impressive with their garishly massive (and expensive) party (and how often they quote how much something costs as if a 13 year old would know or care) it just seem a little close to the old antisemitic stereotype of Jews as crass and uncouth social climbers desperately trying to use their money to buy their way into classy society and forever failing.
hey writers i have a resource for you
Im gonna tell you about my bnei mitzvah party
So, Im autistic and dislike parties so my family decided we were instead gonna have like 15 different crafting activities out on tables and just play moderately calm music for ambience. We had tote bags and fabric markers, origami paper, beads, terrarium supplies with little mini plastic doodads, you get the idea. The most fancy thing there was the caterers had hors d'oevers and that mostly consisted of me being hand flappy giddy at how good the little crackers tasted with salmon on top and everyone encouraging me to have as many as i want cuz it was my party. i took a nap in the quiet room because i was undiagnosed at the time with a serious chronic illness then i went back to lightheartedly fight with my friends over available mushroom colors for the terrariums. everyone enjoyed it enough i had to have awkward conversations because we had to clean up and needed people to skedaddle
btw for both me and my siblings parties my parents spent a little extra money on the venue to have a quiet room. there was no rich jews having lavish whatevers just us being like "we want everyone to have a good time here and are willing to put in the work to outfit a quiet room with board games in order to achieve that"
I mean don't get me wrong i am glad to have the privilege to have exactly what i wanted but this was the level that rich kids have their regular birthday parties, it was nothing insanely extravagant and remember it was a party to celebrate the shit ton of work i did to learn torah and read in front of the entire congregation
When I was twelve, I was thoroughly uninterested in a party with a DJ and dance floor. I was however very into theater.
(Both of these things are still true.)
So my parents found a torah drama group to do a workshop for all the girls in my grade (about 20; I went to private Jewish school) to do a workshop on understanding Torah stories through creating dramatic presentations of them.
This was held in our backyard on a Saturday evening, after a weekend in which I led about 2/3rds of the morning prayer service, did about half of the weekly Torah reading, and gave four Diverei Torah in which I explored various issues brought up in the torah reading, and my parents sponsored kiddush (food for the community after services.)
Now, as I said, I'm a theater kid, so I did more standing in front of the congregation than a lot of 13 year olds will do. In the Modern Orthodox community where I grew up, a lot of the girls didn't lead services or read Torah in public at all, instead focusing their energy on a charity or community service project, which they would discuss in a speech they gave in shul.
And the key here is "focusing their energy".
Because that is the baseline for a bar/bat/bnei mitzvah. One to two years of work, culminating in a weekend which is, to a significant degree, about presenting all the work you've done to the community, and then a celebration of all of the work you've done and the Jewish adult you are declaring your intent to be.
The biggest issue with all the bnei mitzvot I went to was that the kids were bored. Dancing with adults wasn't fun, magicians are cool but can (ironically) only be in one place at once, and are super duper expensive.
As a result, we hired a room with a divider so we had a meal on one side - the kids had tomato soup and pizza, no pretending we were adults here thank you very much - and then the kids (myself included) went across to the other side where we had hired a bucking bronco which was significantly cheaper than a magician and also gave a fun show to those watching as well as whomever was trying to ride it. The adults also were obsessed. It was a super chill evening where basically me and my cousins and bar mitzvah group from shul played on a bucking bronco and my parents and their mates had a boogie.
I grew up in a very rich area of the US (Westchester County, NY) and went to a private Conservative Jewish school through 6th grade, then public school after (but a public school where a solid 50+ kids in my grade of 300 were Jewish). So I did see a lot of the "typical" rich kid bar/bat/b'nai mitzvahs.
But the truth is, a lot of it isn't necessarily as "fancy" as people think.
Like, my bat mitzvah party was in the gym of the synagogue, and that was extremely typical -- because you could do your party at your synagogue for *cheap*. Most of my friends and family had their parties in their synagogue gyms. And a lot of them weren't decorated at all other than the tablecloths.
*Everyone* knew who the one really rich family was, the one that spent way too much on each of the kids' b'nai mitzvah parties. It was too conspicuous consumption for most of us, though, and while people were somewhat jealous, it was also in a very "can you *believe* them?" sort of way.
On the opposite end, my friend Lindsay decided she didn't want the big party, so she had the service (including the Torah reading, etc.) and then...did something private with her parents, I forget the details (it was almost 30 years ago), instead of a party. She wasn't the only one either, just the one I remember best.
And as other people have said in the comments, pretty much all the money I got as gifts went straight into the savings account to pay for college, and then I spent two months writing thank you notes for all of them.
Also, the focus really is on the learning and on becoming a Jewish adult. I spent a solid year studying -- learning two aliyot of my Torah portion, my haftarah, a large portion of the service so I could lead it, and writing a speech. And that was on top of going to school.
And honestly, one of the most validating aspects of becoming bat mitzvah was that my dad's mother died four months after my bat mitzvah and I was able to go to synagogue with my father once a week and help make the minyan (quorum of ten Jewish adults needed in order to say certain prayers) because, even though I was 12, I counted as a Jewish adult. I have extremely fond memories of going to synagogue with my dad every Tuesday morning and then going to get bagels before he dropped me off at school.
The bat mitzvah ceremony and party were nice, but they didn't last. The other impacts did.
What do you think a genderswapped Harry Potter (Harriet Potter?) would've been like?
For starters, I don't think Ron would have bonded with her on the train as easily as he did. Young Ron is honestly pretty uncomfortable/awkward around girls... unless he's able to put them into a category like "little sister" (which doesn't count.) Or "Hermione" (which doesn't count.) It's kind of a plot point in Book 4 that it takes him a while to realize she's a girl he could potentially ask to the dance.
The only way Ron is bonding with Harry on the train is if Harry is a HUGE tomboy... which I don't think is the case, because Petunia is dressing Harry at that point, and would be dressing her pretty femme (because Petunia is so strict Gender Binary herself. Instead of wearing Dudley's old clothes, Harry's probably wearing Petunia's old clothes.) I really don't think Harry would have been treated better/all that much differently at the Dursley's if she were a girl. Maybe less physical bullying from Dudley... but Dudley honestly doesn't manage much physical bullying as it is, because Harry is so much faster than he is.
If anything, Girl!Harry would have just reminded Petunia even MORE of Lily, and stirred up even MORE complicated emotions. And we'd get even more of live in chef/maid Cinderella!Harry. It would all feel very Matilda.
I actually think that Harry would be at kind of loose ends on the Hogwarts express, and get sucked into the search for Trevor the toad as something to do, so she would end up bonding with Neville. Hermione would be there too but well - Hermione rubbed Harry the wrong way at first in canon, and it would be even more the case here. They're both (functionally) muggleborn girls - but Hermione is SO much better prepared, and has SUCH loving parents, and won't shut up about any of this. In a way that Canon!Harry kind of fixates on Draco for ending up with his Ideal Life, it's possible that Girl!Harry might fixate more on Hermione.
11-year-old Draco would have treated Girl!Harry exactly the same, meeting her at Madame Malkin's and later on the train. He'd still have his obsession with her, and yeah, it probably does read as more of a crush to his Slytherin buddies... but I really do not see that stopping him. If his father can't get him to be normal to Harry, then that's just how it's going to be. Harry still gets Sorted into Gryffindor. But I don't see her getting close with the other Gryffindor girls: Lavender and Parvati just have very different personalities. And Harry and Hermione... are both very intense people who work best when they're able to take breaks from each other. In Book 4 when Harry is exclusively hanging out with Hermione, he comments that she's not as *fun* as Ron. And we see that dynamic again in Book 7 when it's just the two of them in the tent. Like they're incredibly effective, but seem to be wearing each other down a little. I think that forcing young (less emotionally mature) Harry and Hermione to be roommates would just end up with them getting on each other's nerves.
Hermione might get pulled into the friend group when Harry and Neville need help researching Nicholas Flamel, but she could easily stay more of a supporting character or even a frenemy in this version. Girl!Harry would still be the youngest seeker in a century. (Draco would be even more motivated to steal Neville's Remembrall if Neville was Harry's best friend... so that face-off would have gone down exactly the same.) Once Harry is actually on the team, I could see her falling in more with the upperclassmen, and hanging out with Fred, George, Lee, and Angelina (especially if they put together that she's a bit lonely.) It could be Harry, Neville, maybe Hermione, maybe the twins solving the puzzles at the end of Book 1. They'd still suspect Snape, who... would honestly be just a slightly different flavor of antagonistic and weird to Harry, if she were a girl.
Second year, Ginny would be Sorted into Gryffindor and I do think that Girl!Harry and Ginny would get along great, absolutely be bros, especially if they bond over quidditch and Harry can get more of a sense of Ginny's actual personality. I have to think 11-year-old Ginny would be much less awkward around Harry if she were a girl.
Which would be really intense actually, because Ginny would have shown up to school with the the Diary, and it's... sort of important to the plot that she's isolated and has no friends. If she shared it with Harry as a cool thing to look at - Harry would ABSOLUTELY get obsessed with it.
And since Harry's a much better *get* for Tom (Tom talks about being *so* pleased when powerful, important, future nemesis Harry starts writing to him instead of Ginny...) I think you just get Possessed!Harry opening up the Chamber of Secrets. Also, would Harry have a crush on Tom? We know that Canon!Harry thinks he's very handsome, and Tom Riddle can absolutely turn on the charm when he wants to, and might be inclined to play it slightly differently for a girl. He'd work VERY hard to to get Harry to distrust her friends. Really, you'd just get Harry's plot about being isolated and possessed by Voldemort in Book 5 being moved to Book 2. Tom would get Harry to write "her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever" on the wall, and lure her down to the Chamber of Secrets.
However. I do think that Lily's magic would make it impossible for Tom to actually drain Harry's life, although he would try. It's be like the moment at the end of Book 5 where Voldemort tries to possess Harry, and Harry fights him off. So... I think Harry just wakes up in the Chamber with a basilisk she can control, since of course she's still a parseltongue.
The question is... what happens to the Diary, now that Harry knows it's dangerous? I'm thinking that when Harry disappears, Ginny freaks out and tells one of her older brothers, who tells Arthur, who tells Dumbledore. Dumbledore now has Harry and a Horcrux that still works... and it seems like if you've got school-age Tom Riddle right there, that would be a much easier way to get an answer to the question 'how many horcuxes did he plan on making?' So he'd get a head start on that project.
Harry now effectively is the Heir of Slytherin. She can go to the Chamber whenever she wants, and the basilisk is just her familiar I guess, which is cool. I could see a Harry who gets more *interested* in Salazar Slytherin after this. I don't think this helps her relationship with Draco any, who would literally die of envy if he ever found out that Harry Potter was hanging out in the secret Slytherin Chamber, able to control a millennia-old snake. But Harry might try to pick like, Theo's brain or something.
I don't see all that much about Book 3 changing until the climax - because the crew Harry takes down to Hagrid's after dark *would* be different. Neville, Ginny (not the Twins - I think they give Harry the Map and peace out, they've got their own things going on in the background and don't want to hang out with their much younger sister.) Maybe Theo? I could see him taking on a very Hermione-ish support role.
But that's also a problem, because if Ron isn't there, Scabbers isn't with him. And if Scabbers isn't with Ron - I don't think Remus notices Peter on the map, and so just stays inside and drinks his Wolfsbane, which means Snape doesn't go down. And since Sirius' target was never *actually* Harry... I think this is just a universe where Sirius first-degree-murders Peter, and doesn't have a confrontation with Harry at all.
I do think Voldemort still comes back though. Trelawney would still have made her prophecy ("His servant has been chained these twelve years. Tonight, before midnight... the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master.") But in this universe the prophecy would refer to Barty jr, finally starting to throw off the Imperius curse. Which we know he does do, at around this time.
Bertha Jorkins still goes on her trip to Albania, and I think... Voldemort just possesses her the way he did Quirrell. It's probably easy to do after someone's been sort of fried by a memory wipe. Also, being in her head, I have to assume he's going to eventually gets some inkling of the fact that Barty is still alive, and so goes looking for him. Harry is still at the Quidditch World Cup because she's friends with Ginny, her scar is still hurting (she probably writes to Lupin about this, instead of Sirius, but Lupin gives her pretty similar advice. He will have still left Hogwarts, because Snape will have still outed him as a werewolf at the end of the year.)
Harry still ends up as Champion... although I'm thinking Big Sister Fleur would be a little more protective of Girl!Harry than Boy!Harry. Also... I think Harry just straight-up has a crush on handsome, nice, good at Quidditch Cedric. Rita could write about the Harry/Cedric/Cho love triangle, instead of the Harry/Hermione/Krum love triangle.
(Harry asks Cedric to the Yule Ball. It doesn't work. She goes with Neville as friends, and Harry/Neville miiiight be the endgame ship in this universe.)
I'm not sure Barty would be able to take care of Voldemort AND prep the ritual to bring him back to life AND impersonate Moody though. He needs a different man on the inside. I think at first he tries to use his father - but as we know that gets risky, because Barty Sr is remarkably good at fighting the Imperius curse, and also just knows way too much. He's a huge risk, because if he goes rouge, he'll tell Dumbledore everything (as very nearly happens.)
So I think Barty Jr. targets Barty Sr.'s assistant Percy Weasley instead, after he can no longer control his father. Uses him as a way to affect things in Hogwarts. He might imperius him, but he also might just like... Polyjuice himself into his father for short periods, and manipulate Percy in a non-magical way, to make sure he helps Harry, and gets her to the cup first. Once Percy realizes what he's done... I think he re-commits to his family in penance, and stops being a such a Ministry man.
Voldemort rising works as kind of a reset button, so things would start looking a lot more canon again after that, only with Ron and Hermione swapped out for Ginny and Neville. Main difference being, Voldemort has Barty now. I absolutely think he would have survived Book 4, and I actually don't know what the dynamic between him, Lucius, and Bellatrix would be. Probably pretty antagonistic, because I get the feeling Voldemort would have fun playing them off against each other.
So I'm going to leave this what-if here for now. Thanks for the ask, this was a lot of fun to think about.
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#first off i gotta say i always thought the prophecy seemed barty flavoured bc it talks abt “his servant being chained”# but then i remembered barty only “escapes” after the world cup? i think? so the timing wouldnt match up?#not too sure abt that but wouldnt be hard to say he did break out that night so hell yeah barty!
In order to make it work, I'd just say like - that was the first night he was 100% able to throw of the Imperius curse, even though he wasn't able to escape the house until later.
#neville and ginny being harrys trio buddies is pretty fun and id love a more explored ginny esp one who isnt as high strung around a girl#wait actually what if she doesnt like harry. like it can go either way#like with guy harry theres a crush aspect#with girl harry you COULD say she wants to be her friend so bad a la draco
Draco also... does a lot to completely rub Harry the wrong way. Like he reminds him of Dudley, I'm honestly not sure how Draco could have screwed up that interaction MORE. 11-year-old Ginny might still be in awe of Girl!Harry, but probably in a way she processes as more 'cool babysitter' and less 'crush.' And then she'd get to school, and see that Harry's hanging out with Neville (who's a little hapless and bumbling) which would make Ginny comfortable. And Harry *likes* Ginny - he thinks she's funny, and cool, and good at quidditch. Especially if Harry doesn't really gel with Gryffindor girls in her own year, I think she and Ginny would get really close - even just because of proximity.
because this new trio replaces the silver trio which had luna#and i do think an early luna harry friendship would be really good#Neville is also an outcast while ginny isnt so they could have that going
Ginny doesn't have her glow-up until like Book 5, so at this point I think the dynamic would be Harry, Neville and Ginny being weirdo buddies. But... weird in the way that's a little cool. Like you look at then and they've very clearly got their own thing going on, and their thing looks interesting.
It would be really fun if Luna got added to the group earlier than in canon... but I'm not totally sure how. I look at the interactions between Ginny and Luna on the train in Book 5... and Ginny is polite sure, and is aware of Luna is in a very 'don't worry about her, she's harmless' kind of way. She does call her "Loony." But... just doesn't seem to know her that well? It's very 'we've interacted briefly in a friendly fashion at a few neighborhood barbecues.' And the Lovegoods are sort of the Weasley's neighbors, so that makes sense. It's Luna joining (and being a pretty integral part of...) the DA, and also the way she and Harry get along so well, that really raises Luna in Ginny's estimation.
#idk about it not working in the chamber tho like would harry destroy the diary first before leaving it? but anw that would be#a rly funny way of making a more slytherin involved harry. fucking pet basilisk#whats it gonna eat now its awake bruh
My thought is that Voldemort's inability to physically touch Harry, which is something he only fixes in Book 4, would prevent him from physically possessing Harry. Also, he does try and fail to possess Harry in Book 5, so I'm just going to go with that. It'd be a little anti-climatic, but I think that Tom's plan just *doesn't work,* and Harry just brings the intact diary to Dumbledore.
And are you kidding. Hagrid would be on CLOUD NINE if Harry had a pet basilisk. They would would take care of it together, it would actually be so cute. Instead of the bast-ended skrewts in book 4, it would be "we're all going to take care of Harry's basilisk."
(Draco would possibly die from envy. and write many MANY letters about this to his father.)
(but there's nothing Lucius can do, since Dumbledore has dirt on him, for this specific thing.)
I can't help but imagine that in this universe where Harry is a girl and has a basilisk that there is a very good chance that Draco Malfoy would be like, actively wanting to marry her. Like he probably wouldn't make that clear to her, but he's definitely writing his dad like, "She went to the Yule Ball with LONGBOTTOM, when she could've asked ME, Father how do I do this?!"
(would be great idea for a fic where Draco is trying to court her with wizard traditions, and she has no idea what is going on).
Oh no. Oh no you're right. They're taking care of *Harry's Basilisk* in care of magical creatures in year 4 and Draco is like. She's the heir of Slytherin. I. Father I. She's Champion and. She's just seen me be turned into a ferret. A ferret Father. Rita Skeeter says she likes Diggory because he's good at Quidditch. *I'm* good at Quidditch Father. I think I need to either marry her, or transfer to Durmstrang, immediately.
There is 100% room for a "secret admirer" comedy subplot where Harry keeps stumbling Draco's very traditional pureblood courting rituals, and isn't sure if they're coming from Neville, Theo, Cedric...
(she never considers Draco)
Honestly I wonder if Luna ends up friends with Hermione in this universe.
Because Ron would probably make friends with Seamus and Dean, Harry's got Neville (and eventually Ginny), Lavender and Parvati are their own duo…leaving Hermione very much the odd one out in their year in Gryffindor. And let's be real, the troll incident hasn't helped, because I 100% believe Hermione was still crying in that bathroom because of what Ron said, and while Harry may have rescued her, they're still not close friends after. And Ron almost certainly treats her even worse -- and the rest of Gryffindor wouldn't be great.
Like sure, Harry and Neville go to Hermione when they need help, but they don't go to her when they want a friend.
She's probably buried herself in books, tried to make friends with the Ravenclaws (but failed because she's so socially awkward), avoided the Slytherins, and somewhat ignored the Hufflepuffs. Her closest "friend" is probably someone like Penelope Clearwater or Percy Weasley, who's four years older but willing to be helpful to the sad little firstie who spends all her time in the library -- but isn't really a close friend.
So after a truly terrible first year, Hermione returns in second year, prepared for another year of just burying herself in books to avoid feeling like she's a failure at making friends, and she meets this kid who's getting bullied even worse than she is, who fits in even less than she does. And sure, Luna's a bit odd, but she's also smart. And so those two outcasts band together (mostly in the library) and become surprisingly good friends.
The fact that having emotions make you physically exhausted is such a bug in the human body the devs have better patch that in the next update
Having big emotions? Okay so the body's response to that is [checks code] "feeling like you've been hit by a bus" 🧍💥🚌
Game Changer is now a precision puzzle-platformer.
I'm not actually sure this changes things very much.
The news: Sims 2 edition.
"Coming to you live from Strangetown, reporting on Bella Goth: is she truly missing, or has she just run away?"
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I hate how the maps provided for Panem don't take into account all of the country side space between each district.
you're telling me district 12 that has about 8000 people. that has one town centre and is a walkable place takes up that much room on the map!?!???
the only reasoning I can think for this is that they're capitol provided maps that are intentionally not showing the land accurately
it doesn't also include the actual areas where the industries would most naturally occur. It's why I like using the following map done by @fanficallergy and @rosefyrefyre
This is a good map is really good and I would recommend to take a look at what they created.
what a thoroughly designed map and well thought out secondary industry resource! thank you for sharing @mega-aulover !!!
Thanks for mentioning us, @mega-aulover!
We had a lot of fun coming up with that map, as well as a lot of...well, we'd seen terrible maps.
Many many many terrible maps.
@fanficallergy is the one with the earth science degree, so she deserves the lion's share of the credit, but we absolutely took the time to think through what made actual sense in terms of geology/history/etc.
@shewakessupwiththesun I do think the Capitol would provide inaccurate maps, and there may be land that is "part" of a district officially but not within the fence. But still, there have to be gaps, and there have to be places to put the Arenas.
So yeah. We love that people are still using our map, and we hope you all enjoy it!
Had a dream that I drew this dragon and felt disappointed when I woke up that it wasn't real so I drew it all over again.
Getting an email from Ingram Spark on the final day of January about upcoming changes to book pricing and royalties like
Right? I've got enough shit to deal with. Don't do this to me. 😭
“Good news! Some books will cost less to produce. Others will cost more.”
*sweating nervously intensifies*
And Ingram Spark doesn’t even have the decency to notify you if your books fall outside “acceptable pricing ranges”. It’s absolutely maddening.
It’s genuinely such an evil way to run things. Everything is a fucking surprise with them and you only find out after it’s all gone to hell.
But hey, at least they removed upload fees… (just don’t think too hard about the fact that they charge $25 per half hour to reach customer service on the phone. Email is free, but I’m pretty sure no one is reading those anymore…)
that should be literally illegal wtf
They get around it because email is still available and free and the “fee” to talk to someone on the phone is a quicker service. (Note: big name publishers who use their services are not subjected to these fees, nor any of the other bullshit fees Ingram have tacked on since 2020)
Nevermind it’s taking them weeks to respond to emails for problems that require immediate attention. So if something goes wrong with your book and you want to pull it from the market—something you used to be able to do at will on your dashboard—you now need to contact them to take it down. Which required a phone call.
They’re also currently illegally holding my ISBNs, which as the author and publisher I own, so that I can’t take them and republish through draft2digital. This is illegal, and D2D advise everyone attempting to switch to D2D that Ingram are making the process so difficult and time consuming that you need to be prepared to make several phone calls and make a stink about it. Basically, they’re relying on people giving up so that they can keep books being distributed through them and keep the profits.
I haven’t had the energy to fight them in the longest time, but this is the reason I’m switching all my future paperback distributions through draft2digital.
Literally, dealing with Amazon as an indie publisher is actually more beneficial for me than using Ingram at this point. The bar is in Hell.
And on top of that their quality has just gone to utter shit. See: the debacle with your hardcovers.
Also they're not great for libraries -- Ingram is not even bothering to notify libraries when books won't be available by the publication date. (Source: my library system's listserv.) Other publishers are having delayed delivery, but they at least inform us when stuff will be late.
So yeah. Ingram is shit.
this poll is for people who read fan fiction on ao3
bookmarks are not included in this poll
this poll is for writers who post their work on ao3
i hope my brackets aren’t absurd but i have no frame of reference 😅
How...how do people subscribe to that few authors/artists? I follow 494 users, 60 series, and 56 stories (the series and stories are generally when I like one thing by an author, not everything). That's just AO3! I also still follow 73 authors and 1 story on ff.net, and I still get the occasional email from other sites where I subscribed to various authors.
(I have 105 people subscribing to me another 1000-1500 subscribing to my stories [I don't have the spoons to do the math right now], along with however many subscribe to my series -- that number isn't accessible anywhere that I can find. A lot of those are co-written with @fanficallergy so I'm sure she's got even more.)
I just...I suppose I've been on AO3 for 13 1/2 years, so I've had time to grow those numbers, but *still*. I'm just boggling at how low the average number on this poll is.
