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[areskane-deactivated20200720]

Gryffindor Christmas Party

Quick and easy way to get five friends together.

Niles flopped back into his favorite spot on the sofa and kicked Ares’ feet off the coffee table. “Feet off the table. Raised by wolves the lot of you.” He brought his drink to his lips and smirked. It was nice to have everyone together again. He’d worried it would be weird but so far things were going well.

Ares grunted when Niles kicked his feet to get them off the table and sighed as he slouched back into the cushions next to him. “Shh! How dare you speak about my mom like that!”

Gil smiled as she came around the corner from the kitchen and perched on the arm of the couch next to Niles and handed him his firewhiskey. “More like raised by lions.” Gi rolled her eyes and shook her head. “Sorry, that was corny.”

Reyna sped into their living room to avoid Harriet’s wrath from squirting her with her water bottle. “Popcorn? Did you say popcorn? Harry, bring popcorn.”

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[gilanavelluto]

A couple days after Christmas, Gilana started feeling a little lightheaded. Her throat hurt and her nose was a little stuffed. She would like to say that when she started feeling sick she could pull herself together, take some flu medicine and a cat nap and feel well enough to go about her day without being a complete baby but that would be a complete lie. After only a couple hours of fighting through a throbbing headache with absolutely no ability to breath through her nose, she slumped on the couch, curled among all the blankets she could find in the flat and surrounded by a sea of used tissues. When Niles finally walked through the door, Gilana whined and pointed uselessly at her bottle of water across the room on the coffee table. “Niles, please.” 

@nmorandi​

[outterridge]

“Did you know veela are legally required to state their blood status on all official forms? Including on things like rental applications, even job applications? Where it’s not even relevant? It means so many veela families are forced into bad housing or unemployment just because of their blood status. The Ministry’s response has just been to make registration for other beings even stricter. Could you sign our petition for the Ministry to make laws safer and fairer for veela, and all our community?”

[gilanavelluto]

“I thought I’d see you out here, but I didn’t think it’d be so soon after Christmas. Aren’t there other things you want to do with your winter break?”

[princesszeldazbyebye-deactivate]

magic is real you fools it happens when you make your friends smile

[haybalemaze]

[gilanavelluto]

giggle-me-this‌:

Nate sipped his own fresh drink, laughed, and rolled his eyes. “Please, those two are in a constant state of being butthurt about something-or-other, anyway—I can’t be held responsible for every permanently pissed off Gryffindor with excess testosterone now can I?” He flashed Gil an overtly innocent expression and then said, “So tell me, is No-Maj college all it’s made out to be in the movies? I can’t believe you would willingly subject yourself to more school…”

“You see, that’s not very encouraging for your invitation to our Gryffindor Christmas party,” Gil worried she’d get a headache from rolling her eyes so hard in Nate’s presence. “It’s what I’m good at and it keeps me busy,” she shrugged. “Well, as long as magic isn’t involved. I grew up Muggle and Uni was what I had planned to do before getting carted off to Hogwarts.”

[gilanavelluto]

giggle-me-this‌:

Nate hummed, smirking, swirling the ice around in his empty glass before signaling the bartender to bring them another round. He was dramatic, no point arguing that. His interest perked up immediately when Gil mentioned her correspondence with Harriet and he had to light another cigarette just to make it seem like he wasn’t hanging off every word. 

He took a drag, exhaled slowly, and then said with carefully crafted nonchalance, “Really? Well we should do something together then, make a night of it—if you can get away from your schoolwork and your Snack, that is. You know, I thought escaping fucking Scotland would be liberating, but…things have actually been kinda boring, with Harriet traveling and nothing else to do but work.“

Gilana snorted into her glass and took another quick sip after their new drinks were set down in front of them. “There will be a lot of Gryffindors ... You aren’t going to try to piss off Ares and Niles too much, are you?” She liked hanging out with Nate, but he didn’t really want to deal with Niles and Ares’ tempers when Nate inevitably pushed their buttons.

[gilanavelluto]

sondermink‌:

“Oh my gosh he’s hard to miss! He wears this cute top hat, old style magician style!” He felt very lucky. He knew so many people didn’t like their families or they were mean or they’d died. Lots of stuff. But Sonder had a whole support system in place, which was the only way he’d been able to deal with his break up. “Are there any particular properties you’re looking for, or do any of them speak to you? Apparently if any of them feel particularly important to you you should bring it home! No pressure of course. I quite like the purple, the amethyst. It’s good for communication and relationships. Meant to cool hot heads, you know? I need that sometimes! Working with your dad isn’t always fun and games. We still argue! But there’s always love. Maybe it’s the amethyst!”

She laughed and turned around again to scan the store and finally managed to see the tippy top of a cute muggle style magician hat bopping down the aisle. “I’ll make sure to say ‘hi’ once I’ve looked at everything. My grandparents took my to a magic show once and I tried to convince them to get me a magic rabbit of my own.” Like Sonder, Gilana had a support system that encouraged her to follow her heart. They may not have been her biological parents, but her mothers parents had been in her life from the very beginning and, as sad as it might be, she rarely thought about how her life would have been if she was raised by her mom and dad as opposed to her grandparents.

The amethyst was pretty, but it’s properties weren’t something she needed. However, she could think of one or two Gryffindor boys who it might benefit and she still had a couple Christmas presents she still needed to buy. “Do you have anything else? Maybe something that’ll help me organize my time better? I’ve been running around like crazy this last week trying to catch up with everyone and after the holidays I’ll have to go back to Uni which is a whole other time management issue. Maybe something to focus?”

[gilanavelluto]

giggle-me-this‌:

Nate raised his brows at Gilana as if to say, Who else? “Wow, you’re saying that yet another hot-blooded Gryffindor has some random baseless vendetta against me?” Nate replied sarcastically, “Color me not at all surprised.” 

He smirked and sipped his drink. It wasn’t any secret that his sister’s former housemates—the male ones particularly—didn’t care much for Nate, likely based on the fact that Nate took significant enjoyment in purposefully pushing their buttons. Gryffindors had short tempers and were so easy to rile up. “Well that clears up the mystery of why it’s been months since we graduated and I’ve hardly seen you, let alone you and Snack’s adult digs…has Harriet been allowed the honor?” He said it as casually as he could muster, attempting not to sound as eager as he was for any information on Harriet. “…if so I’ll have to grill her for all the more lurid details.”

“Not a vendetta,” Gil drawled, rolling her eyes. “That’s dramatic.”

To be honest, they’d all been too busy to even think about inviting anyone to their apartment. Gil met Reyna in Hogsmeade a week ago, but that was because Niles was sleeping in after a late shift at Mugshots. Harriet hadn’t seen her since graduation, but she had expected that. She talked about traveling once she graduated to get out of England and hadn’t told her an exact time she’d be back home. “She’s sent me a couple letters over the last couple of months, but in her last letter we made plans to meet up over the holidays.”

[sondermink]

"So I decided to stop being sad and start being hot." He finished with an ironic smirk. He was still sad of course, but that morning Sonder had awoken to a need to put on a full face of makeup. "People think my migrant parents must be so disgusted but my dad asked if I can do his eyes sometimes! He's very cute! Did you see him when you came in? He's around somewhere. Any way, what do you think of the shop? Charming, right?! I love it here! I feel so lucky dad employed me even though he's probably alright on his own." Sonder was standing at the counter of his father's muggle magic shop. It sold black wands with white tips, card trick manuals, and whoppie cushions. But it also stocked a range of crystals and books on how to harness your own energy. "My idea." He gloated proudly.

[gilanavelluto]

“You know what? I don’t think that I was able to see your dad when I came in. Maybe he’s in the backroom, or down one of the aisles I didn’t see yet.” She smiled and set her bag down on the counter in front of her. “It’s nice that your family’s business is something you both can enjoy together. Do you mind telling me a bit about the crystals you’ve added to the shop?”

[gilanavelluto]

reyna-moreira‌:

Reyna smirked into her drink as Gil did seem to be a bit stir crazy, her hands constantly moving. She reached out and held Gilana’s hand to the table. “So you’re looking for something to keep you as busy as Uni or are you looking for something of a spa day? I personally could die for a spa day.”

Uni kept her a little too busy. She was still undecided as far as what she would specialize in so her courses were more than a little varied. “I wouldn’t mind a day or relaxing. You can catch me up on everything you’ve done since Hogwarts. It’s been way too long since us Lions have hung out.”

[gilanavelluto]

giggle-me-this‌:

“Sure thing, Gillyweed,” Nate said, lighting a cigarette and taking a long drag. He smiled at her but it didn’t quite reach up to his eyes; he was tired, and stressed, and about at his wit’s end with Xiomara’s whiny self-destructive bullshit, but he figured following up on any lead regarding Harriet was worthwhile at this point, and a text from her former roommate and best friend asking to meet for a drink seemed like a pretty fucking decent lead. “How is the co-ed life, by the way, and your little Italian snack? You two settling into No-Maj domestic bliss or what?” He smirked, the private irony of his much shittier ‘domestic’ situation with Xi not lost on him.

Gilana laughed and set her drink down, shaking her head. “Do you mean Niles? I think if he heard you call him that he’d have a cow. I mean, he would probably be flattered, but not if it came from you.” She shrugged, “I’m not sure what his issue is with you, but he’s a little sour I came out for drinks with you.” Harriet and Niles would sometimes beat heads over things. She assumed it was because they were too alike-- they both wanted to be the best-- and that competitiveness transferred to Nate as well, or that’s what she thought at least.

[frsrr-deactivated20151031]

i feel bad for math. its such a calm and friendly discipline full of beautiful and complex patterns and theres absolutely nothing inherently bad or oppressive about it but ppl treat it as though its evil and malicious. a lot of pure math lacks any kind of practical application or end goal, and just exists for the sake of stimulating peoples minds and pushing the limits of the medium as far as is possible. much like almost every kind of art

math means u no harm friends

[faye-chamberlain]

safe harbour 1.02

[gilanavelluto]

“Thanks for coming to meet me! Uni had kept me pretty busy, but now that term ended I’m running out of things to do and getting stir crazy back at the apartment.”

[beautorigine]

Phoebe Tonkin photographed by James Wright for So It Goes Magazine

[gilanavelluto]

tylermagnusenvest‌:

“Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind.” Tyler gave an affirmative nod, he might definitely need some help at some point, he was starting off with very basic recipes and attempting to master the simple things before he moved onto anything more complicated. “I won’t keep you any longer and unfortunately I still have half a dozen CVs to hand out before the day’s out. It was nice running into you, Gilana.”