March, 27th. James isn’t going to lie, he loves all the attention. Happy Birthday, Prongs! 🦌
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It’s literally dark by 4pm. Do you think that’s good for me? Do you think I am loving that
Birthday Month Drabble #19
Prompt: The kiss breaks a spell
Rating: G (just some minor swearing)
Keywords: Eighth Year, Spell Mishap, Draco in the infirmary, suffering friend Blaise
Word Count: a little over 1.5k
Notes: This was another prompt that my friend chose for me… Enjoy!
Title: Pomfrey Sends Me
Hermione sat in the Hogwarts library, books spread out all over the table in front of her and encroaching on the neighbouring one. She wanted to have that annoying essay done for Transfigurations. However, whenever she went into the shelved area to research a detail, she had come up with more information about inter-species transfigurations.
She was so focused on her essay that she didn’t hear the steps approaching her table.
“Granger?”
“No tutoring on Tuesdays,” she replied without looking up.
“I’m not here for tutoring, Granger.”
When she heard a chair being moved and a person collapse into it, she finally graced them with a glance. She was surprised to find Zabini sit on the other side of her table, one of the few Slytherins who had returned for an eighth year at Hogwarts as a chance to gather redemption points with society.
“What do you want then?” she said after another second, leaning back with her arms crossed. “If it is about Malfoy, forget it.”
Zabini snorted at her response, dismissing it with a nonchalant shrug, only the clenched jaw betrayed him. “Pomfrey sends me.”
That stopped Hermione in her tracks, just as she opened her mouth for a retort. Her brain needed a second to process Zabini’s words. “Wait… What?”
According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
leave the light on sometimes all night | multichapter
June 1986 Steve is lonely. He’s always been lonely, honestly. An empty house, absent parents, friends that didn’t really know him. Frankly, he probably doesn’t really know himself, either. It used to be easier to ignore—between sports and parties and searching for the next girl to hang around with. Then Nancy Wheeler told him he was bullshit. In the wreckage of the storm, he realized she probably hadn’t been that off base to call his life bullshit.
[Life in Hawkins, Indiana is boring, ordinary, no supernatural entities. Steve still changes.
Luckily, he still makes some new friends, too. Certain people are simply meant to be in the same story.]
i hate you summer i hate you heatwave i hate you summer i hate you humidity i hate you summer i hate you sunburns i hate you summer i hate you sweat i hate you summer i hate you i hate you i hate you
people with bad taste are always like “yurr hurr The Beach is about zuko and mai and how they’re a great couple” while intellectuals know that Actually The Beach is about mining any and all of the untapped friendship potential of this striking exchange
One of the best twist moments in Avatar is when Ty Lee suddenly and dramatically turns against Azula at the Boiling Rock. Azula was completely convinced that Ty Lee would obey her without question forever, but Azula wasn’t the only one fooled. Mai is just as shocked when Ty Lee rebels as Azula is. Ty Lee’s survival instincts were so sharp that she never let anyone know what she was thinking, not Azula, not Mai, and certainly not Zuko.
Zuko really believed that Ty Lee didn’t understand who he was at all. He completely bought into the act that she’s just a puppet for Azula, who lives in her “little Ty Lee world where everything’s great all the time”. But the thing is, Ty Lee is one of the most perceptive characters in the show, and she’s excellent at keeping that on the down low, but she sees a lot more of Zuko than he thinks, and a lot of what she sees is very familiar to her.
Overshadowed by prodigious siblings?
Wanting to be acknowledged for the talents you have rather than the talents you don’t?
Kept in line by fear?
Spending your whole life bending over backwards to fit the persona the royal family has set for you?
So yeah Zuko. She knows you.
This characterization is definitely emphasized with Ty Lee’s acrobatics, flexibility, and ability to hit pressure points. There’s a level of subtlety and precision that is required for such skills. She had to know her own body to be able to bend it in such ways, and she has to know other people’s bodies to be able to disable them.
And pretty much from the moment you meet her, it’s fairly clear that there’s more to her than her lighthearted, bubbleheaded persona, long before she uses her battle skills. Look at what happens when Azula recruits her.
Azula used blatant intimidation tactics to get Ty Lee to comply, ordering the net to be set on fire and all the animals released (which, for the record, would not only have endangered Ty Lee but the circus creatures themselves–I bet Ty Lee was attached to them, and that would’ve been a double threat in itself). Ty Lee is visibly terrified, but instead of calling her out or letting Azula see that she was intimidated, she says this:
Instead of endangering herself by pointing out that Azula crossed a line, Ty Lee falls back on her talk of “the universe” and “auras,” talk that canonically gets her indulged or dismissed but never taken seriously.
She knows that Azula’s dangerous. There’s no way she doesn’t know that Azula is threatening her. But if she can keep Azula from realizing she knows that, she’s a little safer.
Because she’s one of maybe two people Azula never considered as potential enemies–even (especially, but that’s another thread) Ozai is a threat in her mind, but Mai and Ty Lee are the closest thing Azula has to trusted friends, right up until their betrayal.
Ty Lee’s spent a lifetime cultivating a personality that not only allows her to stands out among her siblings–it protects her from being treated as a threat. When you’re friends with Azula, that is an essential facade to maintain. and she does it consistently enough that no one ever sees through it.
All of the Fire Nation kids are so messed up. Zuko’s just the one who gets in the most trouble, because he’s the only one who doesn’t have a mask.
Amazing discussion and there’s one more thing to add to it, specifically in the context of the episode with The Beach.
Azula gets jealous of the male attention that Ty Lee is getting. It’s not the same as being a threat, but it does put Ty Lee in a dangerous position because she has something Azula wants. It doesn’t take much for Azula to turn dangerous and threatening when there’s something she wants and perceives an obstacle in the way, and Ty Lee knows this. And with just a few words, a compliment to Azula, she sets her at ease and makes herself seem vapid (“just laugh at whatever they say even if it’s not funny”) while giving advice. Which means Azula can take or leave her advice but won’t perceive Ty Lee as a real threat to the attention she craves because Ty Lee is getting attention for “being vapid” and not because she’s naturally beautiful and charming.
Its a simple, efficient, and incredible manipulation of a very dangerous and volatile person. Again the agility and flexibility, and no wonder Azula didn’t see her betrayal coming. Every time Ty Lee has entered even the possibility of being a threat to Azula in any realm, she’s immediately flipped the situation to put Azula seemingly back in control and put herself back into a nonthreatening role. Right up until her betrayal.
vampires, although dead, provide so much life for us sad fucks on the internet
I love how muppets walk I wish I could walk like that
dustin endlessly pestering eddie to get together with robin until eddie tells him he’s gay, and then dustin just blinks, takes a second and then starts pestering him to get together with steve
001 was right. Every day we wake up, eat, work, get queerbaited, die
tumblr is an awful place full of awful people and i hate every single one of you. “mr. sandman” came on and without blinking i sang man me a sand.
Make him the cutest car door man hook hand
steddie is “grumpy one is in love with sunshine one” except the metalhead with all the tattoos is the sunshine one and the popular pretty boy is the grumpy one