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Just your average fangirl

@sorryimdaydreaming

random stuff: DC, Marvel, Harry Potter, HPHM, AWAE, good vibes all the time
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Hi, thought this would be appropriate for my first post of my MC for HPHM. I’m new to tumblr and HPHM but I got so sucked into all the theories and I wanted to put my ideas in one place. So, without further ado, here’s my MC and yes I was very inspired by @marmotish​ art style and didn’t realise how our MCs are quite similar in appearance until later haha…

*Name: Juniper Hamia Hasni-Moss but prefers to be called by Juniper Moss.

*D.O.B: 16/01/1973                                                                                     

*Blood status: Half-blood (Pure blood father, half-blood mother)    

*Nationality: Half Scottish, half Algerian                                                  

*House: Ravenclaw                                                                                    

*Wand: 11 inches, Hornbean, Dragon heartstring (I’m only on 4th year so I haven’t gotten my 2nd wand).                                                                      

*Pets: Owl named Mewles and the family pet cat Mr Mosley (nobody knows the origin of the name)                                                                                         

*Best subject: Charms                                                                               

*Worst subject: Herbology                                                                  

*Patronus: Tiger

Bonus info: 

*Juniper is very outgoing and is the type to have many friends but not many friends that really knows her properly. 

* She suffers from some form of anxiety and insomnia but keeps it well hidden from most of her friends but some fellow Ravenclaws have noticed her wandering to the bathrooms at 2am.

*Becomes an adrenaline junkie over the course of her curse breaking adventures at Hogwarts.

*Despite having being named after plants, Juniper is a plant murderer.

*Her blue hair colour is her natural hair.

Juniper is so pretty and your art style is lovely! :)

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The day people start seeing redemption as an ongoing series of choices that someone decides to make because they want to be better rather than an abstract concept that someone is rewarded with because they're inherently ““deserving”” of it is the day I will know peace.

“But Character A had a sad backstory! Why weren't they redeemed?!”

Because explanation =/= justification. They also have to acknowledge they were wrong and try to make amends.

“But Character B didn't deserve redemption!”

Maybe consider if you're saying ‘redemption’ when what you really mean is ‘forgiveness.’

“But Character C suffered more than Character D! Why did D get redeemed and not C?!”

Trauma isn't a competition and pain is not an effective way to improve someone's moral character.

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that’s not………. how child speech works…………………………………………..

god okay in an attempt to be less of an asshole, here’s how child speech DOES work (or tend to work, at least)

  • kids tend to hypercorrect — this means that they tend to say things like “sleeped” instead of “slept,” “writed” instead of “wrote,” “goed” instead of “went,” etc
  • kids tend not to make errors such as omitting verbs (“i hungry”)
  • kids also tend not to make errors in the i/me, she/her department (“me am hungry”)
  • simplification of difficult sounds — consonant clusters especially, so things like st, sp, ps, etc., as well as f, v, th-sounds, ch-sounds, etc.
  • “babbling”-type utterances (“apwen” for “airplane,” using one babbly word for multiple objects, things like that) generally occur in children under the age of three and a half
  • say it with me: an eight-year-old child is not going to be saying “me hungwy”
  • do not confuse child speech with stereotypical learner english mistakes, that’s not only incorrect but also gross on the stereotypical learner english front (“me love you long time,” anybody?)
  • if you’re going to write kidfic please do some goddamn research
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prokopetz

Totally. It can be helpful to remind yourself that young children tend to speak as though the English language actually made sense. Our brains are pattern-recognising machines: children are really, really good at puzzling out the implicit rules of the English language, but they don’t necessarily know all the silly exceptions and bizarre edge cases that break those rules yet - those can only be learned through experience and rote memorisation.

Basically, when children who speak English as a first language make mistakes, it typically reflects a tendency to treat English as more grammatically, syntactically, and/or orthographically consistent than it really is. In some cases, this can be compounded by the fact that some kids will get offended at how little sense “proper” English makes, and insist upon using the more consistent forms even though they know very well that they’re technically “wrong”.

for a long young portion of my life I insisted on pronouncing Sean “SEEN” because that’s how it’s spelled.

As someone who spends a good majority of her time working with kids, it irks me to no end when I see children written as if they’re babies.

Past the age of about five or six years old, children can have deep, intellectual conversations about the most bizarre of things. I HAD A CONVERSATION LAST WEEK WITH FOUR THIRD GRADERS ABOUT THE GAS PRICES AND TAXES IN HAWAII.

Were they entirely correct in the facts they were giving? No, because it was all from what they had heard from parents or on the news. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that I was having a genuine conversation with four eight and nine year olds about taxes.

Just about the only speech problems most kids have, unless they have a speech impediment, is not being able to pronounce certain consonants (replacing ‘th’ with ‘fw,’ for example, and some letters are harder to form with your mouth than others) and doing exactly what the person above said: using the English language the way they know how, which isn’t always the way English works.

Kids aren’t stupid. Stop writing them like they are.

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Yk the more I think about it the more I doubt that Obi-Wan ever even found out about the chips. He immediately cut himself off entirely and lived on Tattooine, a place that probably saw very little Imperial activity; how could Obi-Wan know anything about the chips? Maybe Bail told him eventually, but it took a lot of time for even the clones themselves to know that they had chips; I doubt he found out for a while. In addition to losing Anakin and being betrayed by him in just about every worse way possible, did he wonder if Cody somehow hated him too? The two people he trusted with his life more times than anyone else aside from Qui-Gon both tried to kill him on the same day and he probably never even truly knew why.

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made a page for Elena

👋 hey, to my hphm mutuals and followers, I wanted to share that I’ve made a page that’ll be dedicated to Elena and hphm! So if you’d like go give @elenaathogwarts a follow and if you for some reason like all the other stuff on this blog and want to keep following you’re welcome to do so :)