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@beastmasterr
"Beasts, in the eyes of man, are animals that defend themselves when they are attacked." (Jean de La Bruyère)
indie rp blog for Newt Scamander from the Harry Potter universe
main verse set before the first Fantastic Beasts movie
21+, might contain adult themes
penned by Tak, discord available upon request
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I still remember the unhinged time when we would liveblog Eurovision on our rp blogs and every European rper would just take over the dash for the day.
Do you celebrate Christmas? Do you enjoy the holidays?
"I do. It reminds me of home, especially when I'm travelling at the time. There is something comforting about the cyclical return of certain activities and events. Not that I ever really take a day off... But my sanctuary also adapts to the changing of the seasons, so around Christmas the center tree and meadow are usually decked in snow."
𝑯𝒐𝒈𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆…
mun vs muse
Tagged by: @sashaofravenlock
Happy Easter, Pessach, Ramadan, or whatever else y'all are celebrating!
I hope you've all been good this year or else this easter bunny won't be bringing you any eggs.
Things I wish the Tumblr RP comm would get back to or be comfortable with again because I’m rp old and I’ve seen how much has changed and man the rp comm is not as fun as it used to be.
Crossovers. Just crossovers where we ignore canon cast and it’s okay again to have two different muses from vastly different series interact. Like seriously why do I never see crossovers anymore what happened they were genuinely fun.
Reblogging general aesthetics / musing / music about our muses without ‘clogging other people’s dashes’. I don’t know when it became a general dislike when someone reblogged stuff related to their muse, but for whatever reason it’s distasteful now and I don’t get why.
When we all were stans for familial / platonic relationships and how deep those went.
Promos being reblogged instead of just liked. Liking doesn’t do a thing on tumblr no matter how much they try to make it work. Reblogging gets peoples muses seen.
Interacting with people’s ooc posts to show interest or support toward other people’s muses.
That small window of time when people were happy to give female muses and ocs a chance.
Also that small window in time when multi-muses weren’t as harshly criticized but now we’re back to that.
Generally just being far more open and nurturing creativity without worrying.
@rosydreamiing (x)
The freckled wizard was met with a small smile and a near inaudible ‘hello’ as Aurora slid into the cabin with him. Everywhere else was full, and truthfully? She was sort of happy to see another Hufflepuff sitting by themselves. Taking the opposite seat the blonde wondered whether it would be intrusive of her to start a conversation – the road ahead was long and she would love to have someone to talk to, but perhaps the other was simply looking to rest and mind his own business. Or, perhaps he was just shy, like her. A silence hovered upon the two, their eyes meeting a couple times though she always turned her head away, bashful.
At last an opportunity presented itself when Aurora remembered a bag of Apple Rings in her pocket. She took one herself, then handing the bag of jelly sweets to him. “Would you like some?”
When the train kicked into motion, thick clouds of steam rising from its front like the smoking nostrils of a dragon, fogging up the windows, Newt was kind of pleased with himself. That he had succeeded in securing a completely empty cabin for himself bordered on a miracle. None that would last, surely, but anything was better than apologetically sliding into a random compartment already filled with a chattering group of friends. At least with him claiming the first seat, nobody could accuse him of being an unwanted intruder. If anything, they were. And the rustling of the sliding door told him that they had already arrived.
Newt only glanced up briefly to scan the newcomer. A blonde girl that he had seen at the Hufflepuff table before. He did not know her name as she was not in his class, maybe a year below, or two. Her presence felt soft and unobtrusive, although she had not been sensitive enough to ask for his permission to sit. Then again, whom would Newt save a seat for? His friends? Yeah, as if.
Giving a nod in response to her tiny greeting, Newt returned his gaze to the book in his hands. Douglas Storkart’s sixth edition of the“British Beastiary”, an alleged encyclopedia of magical creatures native to Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland, and their surrounding waters. Newt found that it sounded more like a list of safety guidelines than anything else, but since it was the official material for his Care of Magical Creatures class this year, he figured that reading it early could only be beneficial. There was no point in questioning a book you had never read, after all.
Once the girl was done storing away her suitcase and had settled on the bench before him, silence fell over their cabin. The rhythmic noise of the train‘s wheels rattling against the tracks and the distant grunting of the steam engine delivered the only sound. Much to Newt’s relief, the cabin door did not open a second time, and the girl remained his only company. He tried not to look at her too often, but Storkart’s melodramatic narrative about the aggressive behaviour of the common Kneazle (’...an animal of ill temper and questionable loyalty classified deceptively low as XXX by the ministry of magic...’) could not really hold his attention. Newt blinked slowly as he tried to read the same sentence for the fifth time without comprehending it. The rustling of the candy bag barely registered with him. That was, until a soft voice suddenly broke the silence.
“...I.. uhm, excuse me, what?” Newt looked up from his book. “Did you say something.”
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Her head jumped up as she heard leaves rustling and him thud to the ground, the trapped fey even more surprised as she noticed him now seated on the ground. Blue eyes studied him, carefully reading his amicable smile and relaxed body language. She nervously shuffled her feet, it was better and he was right about that, though it killed her to admit it to herself.
Could he possibly know what she was? If he did, what type of danger could she be in? The fact that he found her in the woods in this form meant that there was no way for him to know her true name, which was her main concern. From there, what other danger was there… He could keep her in this form as long as he wants, however, she was already looking at that prospect just on her own. If he realized what she was he could turn around and sell her, though a fey with no true name held little value these days.
He was a wizard… if he were willing to help her, perhaps he could break the curse on collar and release her. Then again, he was a wizard and her kind did not have a good history with them… At this point, there were more benefits if she tried to trust him rather than run.
She heaved a sigh as he spoke to her and let herself lay down, nodding her head when he asked if she could understand him. So he wanted to help her, but he didn’t know about the curse and she had no way to tell him either. Keeping herself low to the ground, she crept over to him, getting close to him before backing up a few steps so she wouldn’t lay on the chain. Newt… Okay… I’ll trust you. The fey nodded again.
Although Newt felt confident in his theory that the creature was not actually a dog, he found it surprisingly difficult not to treat it like one. The impulse to stretch out his hand and give it a few reassuring pets was great. The view unfolding before him was a true picture of misery. Still, Newt resisted. Instead, he knelt down besides the creature, his wand safely tucked away in his chest pocket, and displayed his bare hands.
“I am going to take a closer look at your collar now, alright?”, he asked and finally leaned in.
The collar, he found quickly, looked more like a shackle than anything else. An unassuming metal ring seamlessly wrapping around the dog’s neck, irritating fur and skin. A ring protruded from the side, onto which somebody had attached a metal chain. Newt picked it up. It was heavy, and seemed to be of the same material and craftsmanship as the collar.
“No seams, no lock”, he muttered to himself, as if to take notes. “It hasn’t been closed around the neck, it was already a full ring. But the head....” He gently took the collar in both hands and attempted to push it up over the dog’s ears. “.... does not fit. This can’t be the work of a muggle. No wonder you’re scared of me, hm?” He picked up the chain again and held it to his face. The surface of the metal seemed slightly rough, like iron. Newt sniffed. It also smelled like iron. One testing lick--
“Iron, definitely.” He nodded to himself. This was no coincidence. Pure, cold iron was not considered one of the most potent materials for binding and repellent spells for nothing. Faeries, ghosts, spirits, and in certain circumstances even wizards and witches could be subdued with it. Whoever had collared the creature with this had done so intentionally, and with all the details in mind. “Somebody really did not want you to look like yourself again.”
Chinese giant salamander (娃娃鱼) a.k.a ‘baby fish’ due to the sound they make that sounds like a baby crying.
The Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world. It is fully aquatic and is endemic to rocky mountain streams and lakes in the Yangtze river basin of central China.
The Chinese giant salamander is considered to be a "living fossil". Although protected under Chinese laws, its population has faced severe declined over the last 70 years and is currently (2022) listed as threatened. There are evidence indicating that the Chinese giant salamander may be composed of at least five cryptic species, further compounding each individual species' endangerment. It can reach up to 50 kg (110 lb) in weight and 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length.
Here is a video of a 200-year-old Chinese giant salamander that was found in a cave.
Here is a video of it making the crying sound.
Here is another video
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Piebald spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) [x]
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I wonder if Newt had a pet when he grew up, like a cat or an owl, that he took to school with him. I imagine at first his mother didn’t want to give him one, hoping that he’d pick up other interests and talents during his first school years. But she eventually just gave up because Newt kept sneaking in different creatures for fun or for fostering all the time anyway, and she allowed him to pick a pet, and that is how in his fourth year Newt got an emotional support salamander.
...the other kids teased him relentlessly over this.
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You know, I’ve always kinda struggled with the in-world logic of wizarding society existing parallel to muggle society, even in the main book series. Wizards not using fountain pens, not knowing how muggle money works or what basic muggle clothing looks like (when there’s only ONE village exclusively inhabited by magical folk in ALL of England?? what?? you never go out there and talk to your muggle neighbours?? you think your kids, who are surrounded by muggles over and over, will not want to shop at the stores muggles shop at and wear what their muggle friends wear?? or do you just forbid your magical kids from ever talking to any other non-magical children down the street so everyone is forced to only make friends with other wizards and witches and if you don’t like them WELL TOUGH LUCK YOU WON’T MEET ANY OTHERS UNTIL YOU’RE ENTERING SCHOOL) is just ridiculous.
But of course, while it’s bullshit storytelling, it is immensely practical when it comes to marketing the franchise to a wide audience. The HP series is, in quite a few aspects, very timeless*, since technical devices, real world politics and any other sign of societal progression are barely mentioned. You won’t find a single mention of floppy disks or famous real life (muggle) musicians. Barely any big events apart from one tiny mention of WWI. Even 20 years in the future, almost half a century after its first publication, the story will not feel much older.
Similarly, the first film featuring Newt is set in the 1920s, yet you’ll see little consequence of that in how the story unfolds. Like– you get a BLACK WOMAN as president of the American magical government. No questions asked. That’s just a thing. Which would have you assume that wizard society is a lot more progressive than muggle society, and while I am willing to believe that in a few aspects, I also think it doesn’t really make sense, in the grand scheme of things. You can have a black woman be president of the US but you’re still using a quill and ink bottles that spill all over your paper (oh, sorry, I meant parchment of course because this is the middle ages) 70 years later? C’mon.
It’s an easy way to serve a historical aesthetic to a modern audience without offending modern tastes and values. You don’t have to deal with the racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, post-war society and all the other atrocious stuff. None of that matters. You can pretend like none of that even exists. You just look at the cool outfits and go “ohh vintage” without actually gaining a sense of the time and space you are in. Which, from a marketing perspective, is so, so, clever and practical, and allows for a completely different focus of the story.
But it’s also the reason why so many, I think, forget what the 1920s were actually like. And that the character I’m writing is from that time. I get it, I forget about it too, sometimes. If I were to overhaul the in-world logic of wizarding society and remedy all these poor concepts, Newt would not be half as lovable to our modern perspective as he is right now. He’d likely think and say and believe quite a few things that would upset a lot of people. The fact that he fought in an insanely terrible war the likes of which the world had never seen would not just be a throwaway mention in one scene.
And personally, part of me kinda mourns the loss of all these interesting tidbits and conflicts and messy contradictions. It also presents a ‘cleaner’ image of the story than the franchise actually deserves (we all know why), which is VERY problematic.
….The other part doesn’t, because Newt and the HP story is an immense source of escapism for me for this very reason. Because the real world is terrible. And with Newt, I can pretend that in his world, it is a little less so.
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(* Nevermind the author’s… *cough* let’s say, bigoted and outdated choices that speak of a time when stuff like that could easily slide in popular media without anybody batting an eye. But that’s not what I want to talk about here.)
beastmasterr:
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random addition cause I cannot stress how stupid the world building is in this regard:
you think
you honestly think
that wizards and witches would NOT go into muggle movie theatres and watch muggle films because “oh no we’re in hiding and this is weird primitive muggle stuff”
or do you think that wizarding society has its own equivalent of movies, just like they have their own version of a radio (which, for some reason, is not considered a technological muggle oddity that Arthur Weasley is hiding in his shed)??
is there a wizard hollywood?? wizard special effects?? famous wizard actors and actresses producing films like the Weird Sisters are producing music that is exclusively consumed by wizarding society???
do you honestly believe that no witch or wizard in 1998 would listen to ACDC or Madonna or Michael Jackson???
yunno the golden trio’s 5th school year looked pretty bleak and all but also that’s the year Dragostea din tei dropped and if you don’t think that half the school was blasting that to annoy the fuck out of Umbridge, you are wrong
What are vampires like?
"It depends. Creatures are usually classified as vampiric when they depend exclusively on either blood or the life force of others to survive, but there are exceptions. The term is quite vague if you ask me. In some parts of the world humans also mainly depend on the consumption of goat blood or milk, yet nobody calls them vampires. Or take dementors, which feed on the life force of humans, but are considered non-beings. Put that aside and most vampires don't actually have that much in common.
The Bolivian Abchanchu is a shape shifter for example, while the Scottish Glaistig is a female spirit, and the German Alp has a taste for breast milk. I'm not an expert in that area though. I got to meet an Impundulu once, though. They are a blood-drinking type of bird and a popular companion among wizards and witches in South Africa. They are quite remarkable."
