Bookish Blooms

Emma, she/her, all things books, baking, craft, fandoms, writing and music. Previously: im-a-queen-of-the-broken-scene

[grishaxverse]

THE CELESTIAL TRIO THEY ARE GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD

[lynsstrange]

we might watch them dive into tartarus together one day

[hangryhana]

Cake live!!!! 🥂<33

[ashtonsunshine]

you’re already everything 🥹 baby clifford 11/11/23 🤍

via Michael's instagram. 12th June 2023

[hogwartslegacypics]

The Quill of Acceptance and The Book of Admittance

“In a small locked tower, never visited by any student at Hogwarts, sits an ancient book that has not been touched by human hands since the four founders placed it there on completion of the castle. Beside the book, which is bound in peeling black dragon-hide, stands a small silver inkpot and from this protrudes a long, faded quill. These are the Quill of Acceptance and the Book of Admittance and they constitute the only process by which students are selected for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.”

“At the precise moment that a child first exhibits signs of magic, the Quill, which is believed to have been taken from an Augurey, floats up out of its inkpot and attempts to inscribe the name of that child upon the pages of the Book. Those few who have observed the process agree that the Quill might be judged more lenient than the Book. A mere whiff of magic suffices for the Quill. The Book, however, will often snap shut, refusing to be written upon until it receives sufficiently dramatic evidence of magical ability.”

[almondmilkhunnis]

LUKE HEMMINGS Etro fashion show during Milan Fashion Week | June 18, 2023 (credit)

[fryingpan1234567]

some CHB headcanons

every cabin has LEDs around the inside, but there’s a constant battle over what color they are

Percy has his rippling back and forth from teal to blue and it looks like light dancing through water all over his walls and floor

the Apollo cabin can usually settle for orange and yellow as a common ground

the Aphrodite kids have a different color for each time of day and sleep with pink on the lowest brightness setting

the Hermes cabin has like ten different strips and they’re all constantly shifting

Demeter cabin’s shifts with the seasons

ANYWAYS MOVING AWAY FROM THE LEDS

they have movie nights, which I will talk about in a different post

before everybody goes back to school, the Aphrodite and Hecate cabins have a massive salon at the end of the summer with new haircuts and magic hair dye and outfit recommendations and fake but enchanted sturdy nails and a whole bunch of other stuff and basically it’s a week straight of spilling hot tea between everyone in camp

if someone asks where a camper got their hair done when they get back to school they just go “oh, um… summer camp.” and their friends will snort and be like bro isn’t summer camp the opposite of a makeover?? but they get no argument, just a shrug and a half smile

when I tell you pride month over there is a fucking riot

because Mr. D is in on it, right?? because he’s the god of gender?? and Chiron is aroace and has been raising dumbass gay heroes for literal centuries?? PLUS the sheer fucking amount of queer peeps up in there?? dude yeah

cabins competing for who shows the most pride

Demeter’s roof is covered in rainbow flowers

Hecate’s is enchanted to emit actual light in whatever flag colors of whoever uses the front door, even when they’re straight (it’s just a rainbow)

Percy collects a bunch of shed scales from the hippocampi at the bottom of the lake and then puts them all over his cabin

I could make a whole post about CHB pride but

every single Apollo kid is also a theater kid fight me

Rachel Elizabeth Dare painted a skateboard for Percy’s birthday and he brings it everywhere now, it even sits in his backpack at school

Leo, Annabeth, Percy, and Piper fucking love horror movies. Frank, Hazel, and Jason fucking hate them. They watch through their fingers, if at all

Piper loves the band Surfaces with all her heart, but she also is a die hard Green Day and P!ATD fan

Jake Mason is covered in burn scars up to his neck, just like Deadpool, just not bald lol

Hephaestus and Apollo kids faintly radiate warmth

the Stolls sometimes stay at camp year-round because their mom is off on international missions that are too high-risk for them to help with

the seven are AVID Smash Bros players

really everyone but

not as many people go to the Athena campers for help with homework as you might think, but whenever anyone does, they’re happy to help

the sun chariot blasts music at a frequency only the Apollo kids can hear, so their life kind of has a shitty soundtrack that consists of a mix of Broadway, Queen, modern stuff, and random bits of Beethoven every now and then

the Romans swear on few occasions

the Greeks know when to swear and when to be polite

the Valhalla peeps swear unbridled and all the time

the Egyptians never swear (in English)

for the longest time, Will Solace thinks the only gift from his dad is his healing prowess— which is obviously great, but he expresses being upset over the fact that he’s not very good at archery

well, considering this is the dumbass who didn’t bring a weapon to actual fucking Tartarus, Nico drags him to the weapon shack thing immediately afterwards and made him pick something out

he's immediately drawn to the Celestial Bronze shotgun.

Nico’s just like “what in the redneck shit did you just pick up” and Will jokingly aims it at his chest and grins and says “you know I’m from Texas, right?”

that’s how they find out Will is one of the damn best marksmen in Greek demigod history

some of the Disney nerds in the Apollo cabin sing What Once Was Mine to the little ones who need bandaids for knee scrapes and give them lollipops afterwards

Percy Jackson absolutely used to make poverty and struggle meal jokes all the time, but he got weird and concerned looks for it at CHB, so he kind of just stopped. But one day, aboard the Argo II, the PERFECT opportunity came up and he just HAD TO and as per usual— everyone else looked at him like he’s crazy— but Leo laughed so hard chocolate milk came out of his nose and that’s the story of how the two of them became Best Friends

[electricbones]

House of Hades

The Sun and the Star

*through tears* Anyway...

[just-a-girl-who-likes-sharks]

What an icon <3

[ohwhpotter]

Who’s ready to go back to Hogwarts?

[sakura-haruka]

Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

[cilly-murphy]

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE 2005 | dir. Mike Newell

[bookish-blooms]

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Australian Bushfires 2019/2020

So basically Australia is burning. And has been for months and will continue to burn for many months to come.

I’ve seen lots of posts about what is going on in New South Wales, which don’t get me wrong is absolutely horrid. But down here in Victoria we’re suffering just a bit. I am very lucky where I am that we are currently not under any threat. But, the entire eastern part of our state is engulfed by fire.

To provide some context, where I currently live is in the blue circle in a place called Bendigo and the purple circle is the area which I grew up in and where my parents live which is currently a little bit surrounded but bushfires in areas that crews can not access. And it is only 227km (141 miles) apart.

But that’s is not why I am here, see that big red blob in the map above? That is a place called East Gippsland, this area is a pretty touristy area at this time of year, and as a result of that there are thousands of extra people who are in these areas that shouldn’t be and are therefore being impacted by these hellish conditions. If you look to the far right of Victoria there is a tiny little tourist town called Mallacoota. This place basically was destroyed and the 4000 civilians and the 12 CFA Volunteers from around the state were forced to take cover on the beach and in boats in the ocean.

Scary, huh? Now, yes I know this isn’t affecting me directly by being my backyard on fire. But it does affect me, my dad and boyfriend are both CFA volunteers. In 2019, my boyfriend was deployed in a strike team in New South Wales before we began to burn back home. He was on the list to go Mallacoota as soon as they were able to get transport into the cut off town. But was taken off of the list because they needed at least one of the brigades Leiutennts to man the station back home. And if it also wasn’t for the fact that we are going to America next week he would have already been on the Navy Ships and Army Blackhawks with a strike team to relieve the 12 exhasted CFA members which one of his best mates happened to be one of. But instead, he is manning the fire station everyday for the next 10 days before we leave to make sure that if we do have any more fires in our area that we are safe and protected like he did in the photo below of a grass fire that was deliberately lit last Saturday.

These fires are expected to burn through out extremely drought ridden and dry state for months to come. I want to take this moment to thank our CFA volunteers who drop everything in their lives to go and help strangers in a time of crisis and for months at a time. Thank you to the brave CFA volunteers who in Mallacoota, gave up all of their own dust masks for the civilians around them so it was easier for them to breathe in the heavy smoke and as a result are suffering some from of smoke inhalation. Thank you to the relief crews that finally found a way to get in and help in east Gippsland. Thank you to our volunteers, we wouldn’t survive without you.

Since posting this 2 days ago everything as gone to, please excuse my swearing, absolute fucking shit.

All of these fires to the south east of Victoria have now converged together, there is a massive fire in the north east which is racing into New Soutb Wales and there are a heap of bushfires in the mountainous high country started by lightning from the Pyrocumulus clouds (I’ll explain) which can’t be access by crews that are rapidly growing towards civilisation.

Now these Pyrocumulus clouds, these clouds are basically the smoke of bushfires that create their own weather systems. As the smoke cools, it creates clouds and then thunderstorms, short down bursts of rain and then lighting. The god damn lighting then causes more fires.

These fires that are in the dense high country ( the centre most fires, near the binocular image) are so close to where I grew up that my family is preparing to evacuate. The animals have already have been taken to my Nanna’s in town, my mum has everything in her car ready to go, my sister is on her way there to pack up her things and my dad is carrying his CFA gear with him where ever he goes just in case he gets ‘the call’. And to top it all off, my boyfriend who lives 3 hours away got ‘the call’. The call to drive head on into an area near mum and dads to do what he can to help save the people, the property and the animals.

I honestly don’t know how else to explain this feeling that I know a lot of fellow Australians feel towards what is happening. From hundreds of kilometres away I can’t do anything for my family who are right in the middle of it. It is frustrating that no one in higher power (Looking at you Prime Minister Scott Morrison), will do anything to help. No foreign aid because he says so, no funding to the CFA, RFS being pushed their way because he said so, it’s all about building the economy he says not about the climate catastrophe that we are facing. We need all the help we can get. I’ve seen many different fire situations in Australia over the last 14 years since first almost losing my childhood home and this is by far the worst ever. Yes we’ve had terrible fires like Black Saturday but there has never been this vast amount of our country burning at any one time before.

So here I ask, Mr Morrison what are you going to do? Visiting one town with one bag of supplies isn’t going to help. What are you going to do ScoMo?

[rainberrycurses-archive-deactiv]

5SOS things to remember from this decade:

Luke's obsession with penguins

"Michael, you are YeLLinG."

"It's a volcano! Ah ah ah ah!"

"Oh, that's great! I'd love to sleep with you! Oh no, that sounds bad."

The tour vlogs

"Okay, thank you."

"Oh it’s blood… I mean EW BLOOD"

"Quiff it BABY! Ow!"

"Stop being a baby. Your hair is unquiffable"

"UNQUIFFABLE Ah! *flinches at hairspray*"

"Tadpoles are baby mosquitoes aren’t they?"

"It’s a COW luke!"

"So you go down this cliff." "I go down this cliff."

"I’m sorry, I didn’t invite you to this BBQ so why are you all up in my grill?"

Malum with the megaphones

"I’ll kill you with your own lemon tree."

"What’s a mattababy?"

"Fake betch"

The keeks

"Roberto"

Ketchup, the dog

"Sell the kids for food."

"iT sOUndS a BiT LoUd fOr An aCOusTiC seT, CaLum."

"You giant don't stop."

"_______, let's fucking dance!"

All of them dressed as 80s "sexy" rockstars for Halloween

Calum's pink glittery G-string

"Ashton, my best friend..."

The video where they dressed as retirees

"Let's play titanic. You'll be iceberg and I'll go down."

Their emo hairstyles

"Pretend I'm a girl!"

Ashton's Shaggy hair

"Valntyne"

Them calling Ashton the "dad" of the band

"I'm Calum Hood, I play BASS."

The Cocktail Chats

"Why can't we choose em'?" and "mA hEArt!"

Calum's pink "X" bass

"tHe TrUTh"

Them playing 5 Second Rule with Ellen

"I wanna be a jedi!" "You'll never be a jedi, you're an idiot."

Their obsession with Will Smith

"What kind of dog do you have?" "He has a fat one."

Smash, Mike-Ro-Wave, Dr. Fluke and Cal-Pal

Mint Michael

"I'm Michael, i-i play the triangle."

"Press my cheek against the glass... Glass? Gloss? I don't know who I am."

Luke's constant identity crisis

"Oh my God I just seen Calum's penis."

Ashton in oversized sweaters

"dO My bALLs!"

"I wear heels bigger than your dick."

Ashton's red hair

"iT's A ChOcoLAte miLK PaRTy!"

Calum buying a role of fabric to use as a blanket

"ALrigHT, LoS aNGeLes!!!"

Ashton's Late Late Show tattoo

"This one looks like it's gonna piss me off"

"You nasty, you little nasty!"

That Rolling Stone cover

"We are 5 Seconds of Summer. Summer? SummAh?"

"Fuck you, guys! I'm leaving too!"

"Heyyy, don't swear!"

"I do what I want! I'm punk rock!"

"No, you're not... yOU hAvE piNK HaiRrR."

"Because I like cheesesteaks"

Luke's lip ring

"You had me wrapped around your fucking finger."

Calum's curls

"I am often the hype man on stage, much like Lil Wayne."

Youngblood Era Ashton

"We like polka dots!"

"We like white shirts and leather jackets!"

"Hey man, go fuck yourself."

Luke's quiff

"Twist, bro!" "I'm twisting, mate!"

Calum's blonde streak hair

"We're having fun!"

Michael's red hair

"Is that you? "No, he's awful"

"Fuck me at a quarter to three"

500 Years of Winter - Pizza Song

"DoN't GEt bEtwEEn mE anD mY tEQuila!"

Bandana era Ashton

"I don't know who I am."

Luke in plaid shirts

"You guys are such cunts today."

All of them in black ripped skinny jeans

"I don't like people, I'm not a people person."

"These are my parents." "What happened to them?"

The Buzzfeed video where they read thirsty tweets

"You wanna know where it is? It's at your mom's house."

Their cover of I Miss You

"bUt iS iT baLSamic?"

"Pure fuego."

"It's like you don't even know me sometimes."

Ashton not drinking the pig blood

"Michael, wHat DiD sHe sAy???" and all of Michael's answers to it

"Youngbleh, sayuami, sayuami, out yolaif."

Calum's "Empathy" hoodie

Ashton in glasses

"ThE BoDaCiOUs, tHe CAaaLUm hOOd!"

Literally all of MYT Live

"That's cRaZY."

Their cover of American Idiot

Their tank tops

"Is that marijuana?"

Ashton drinking from that boot

[bravelittleocelot]

I don’t want to feel like this anymore

Please rain

Please please rain