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[sodomymcscurvylegs]

…feEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN NO ONE ELSE CAN FEEL FOR YOU ONLY YOU CAN LET IT IN

[neenarchive]

me: you literally have a disorder. this is symptoms

me: no perhaps my soul is rotten

[urtwigg]

Ive been trying to eat this thing for a while now

[letterful]

i do love listmaking…

[letterful]

here be two decidedly incomprehensive lists based on highly arbitrary criteria — off the top of my head and in no particular order:

rattling like a bag of bones:

"gretel, from a sudden clearing" & "the promise" & "what the silence says" & "calvary" by marie howe,

"i watched you disappear” by anya krugovoy silver,

"the song of hen's head" & "this is a photograph of me" & "a sad child" by margaret atwood,

"bruise ghazal" & "i go back to may 1937" by sharon olds,

"harold's leap" & "deeply morbid" & "the orphan reformed" & "do take muriel out" & "not waving but drowning" by stevie smith,

"we who are your closest friends" by phillip lopate,

"the loft" by richard jones,

"eating together" & "death poem" & "party" & "you with the crack running through you" & "the numbers" by kim addonizio,

"thanks" by w. s. merwin,

"the bee meeting" & "lady lazarus" & "daddy" & "sheep in fog" & "fever 103" by sylvia plath,

"yesterday he still looked in my eyes" by marina tsvetaeva,

"we don't know how to say goodbye" & "the last toast" by anna akhmatova,

"unknown girl in the maternity ward" & "lessons in hunger" & "the truth the dead know" by anne sexton,

"anne sexton’s last letter to god" by tracey herd,

"aubade" & "the mower" by philip larkin,

"the blue bowl" by jane kenyon,

"her long illness" by donald hall,

"myth" by natasha trethewey,

"the drowned girl" by bertolt brecht,

"in bertram's garden" by donald justice,

"ovid in the third reich" by geoffrey hill,

"report from a besieged city" by zbigniew herbert,

"napoleon" by miroslav holub,

"me up at does" by e.e. cummings,

"snow line" by john berryman,

"the hollow men" by t. s. eliot,

"dedication" & "in warsaw" by czesław miłosz—

resonating like a bright bell:

"what the living do" & "my dead friends" & "magdalene, afterwards" by marie howe,

"funny" by anna kamieńska,

"woman unborn & "i'll open the window" &  “tomorrow they’ll cut me open” by anna świrszczyńska,

"the book of hours" by b. h. fairchild,

"there is a gold light in certain old paintings" by donald justice,

"when eurydice saw him..." (an excerpt) by gregory orr,

"sometimes, when the light" & "the blind leading the blind" & "there are mornings" & "monet refuses the operation" by lisel mueller,

"try to praise the mutilated world" & "transformation" by adam zagajewski,

"the end and the beginning" & "the tower of babel" & "discovery" & "thank-you note" by wisława szymborska,

"all in green went my love riding" by e. e. cummings,

"while eating a pear" & "the dead" by billy collins,

"never again would the birds' song be the same" by robert frost,

"a meeting" by wendell berry, 

"death at daybreak" by anne reeve aldrich,

"next time" by joyce sutphen,

"the god abandons antony" by c. p. cavafy,

"musee des beaux arts" by w. h. auden,

"failing and flying" by jack gilbert,

"goodtime jesus" by james tate,

"all my friends are finding new beliefs" by christian wiman,

"i’m glad your sickness" by marina tsvetaeva,

"angels" by maurya simon,

"the saints" by margaret atwood,

"dirge without music" by edna st. vincent millay,

"a refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in london" & "fern hill" & "do not go gentle into that good night" & "and death shall have no dominion" by dylan thomas,

"high windows" & "an arundel tomb" by philip larkin,

"please read" by mary ruefle,

"it was not death, for i stood up" by emily dickinson,

"men made out of words" by wallace stevens,

"ash wednesday" by t. s. eliot,

"on angels" & "this world" & "if there is no god" & "encounter" by czesław miłosz.

[femmeidiot]

sorry I always felt undesirable my entire life and it gave me kinks of wanting someone to desire me so extremely it's uncontrollable for them as if that's my fault

[smoking-area]

what if my kink is just being in love

[sel-xn]

[seal-of-unknown]

me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please

a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself

[goldiisms]

hey tags! i’ve been dragged back into,,,,rp somehow and have some muse for certain hp ships, plots and dynamics!! you’ll find them below the cut. if you’re interested, please like this post or message me and we can discuss! 

about me

hi hi! i’m rae. i’ve been rping for abt?? 8 years now? generally very casual during discussions but i promise i know how to capitalize when necessary.

right now i’m looking for regular rp partners who can maybe do a reply / checkin once every two days? i’ve got a full-time job so i’m not on all the time, but i think it’d be nice to have some constants :]

in terms of my rp style, i’ve moved to preferring discord RP with faceclaims. i like the short para style (3-5 paragraphs) just bc it’s easier to develop plot that way, and am also down for text-type rping as supplementary.  

marauders-era

james / sirius - please give me these two idiot bros,,,, completely in denial that they’re IN LOVE with each other,,,i hate them so very much,,,love them so very much,,,,i think it would be fun to play james in this scenario but i’m also down to play sirius ! 

wolfstar - the og bffs plot!! just---sirius being generally a non-caring asshole except when it comes to moony. soft soft. them (plus pete n james) against the world. remus just an 80-yr-old gandalf in a young body;;; but also he’s ! he wants to be young!! he wants to live a normal life!! angsty bean. willing to play either in this scenario! 

andromeda/lucius - me and my absolute garbage self just ships these two for the angst!! like imagine if andromeda was the one initially engaged to lucius and they LOVED EACH OTHER but she couldn’t stand the pureblood bs hahahu. i’d love to play andromeda in this ship! 

mumu - i have some zany plots that i’m keeping under wraps in case i want to turn them into full-fledged rps one day, but basically i’m down to do either straight up canon, zombie apocalypse-y rp, canon-divergent, etc! 

characters i’d like to play: petunia evans, alice longbottom, kingsley shacklebolt, regulus black (lil whiny angsty baby), james potter

trio-era

flintwood - quidditch rivals! idiots! in-love but very in denial! i’m very into it! willing to play either but drawn to ollie

seamus / dean - no one can tell me they aren’t together, sorry 

lavender / parvati - v down to play lavender, lots of hurt comfort but also! giggling and friendship and gentle touches ;_; would prefer to play lavender ! 

ginny / luna - the big f/f potential of trio-era...astounding. willing to play either! haven’t done this at all but i think it’d be interesting to play out

padma / blaise - my god please let me relive the padma/blaise childhood friend rp where they’re on opposite sides of the war,,,i imagine it would be post-war, with padma/blaise as fwb but still in love with each other. :( i would like to play padma in this scenario! 

hufflesquad plot - just a slice of life where they’re all in love with each other lol. i do want to play either justin or ernie, + susan bones. susan vs zach smith: FIGHT

characters i’d like to play: cho chang, millicent bulstrode, oliver wood

founders / riddle-era

founders era rp - i’d like to play godric n helga,,,,the POTENTIAL for helga/salazar and godric/salazar!! and helga/rowena!! and godric/rowena!! PLEATHE actually all the dynamics would be really good. i had a founders rp up before but it never took flight. :c

minerva / tom riddle - very indulgent;;; wrong-side-of-the-tracks sort of ship;;; just minerva being very strait-laced n trying to convince tom to abide by the rules ;_; i just ship them ok. here i’d like to play minerva!

grindelwald / dumbles - two young, foolhardy, PROUD mfers and one’s descent into darkness!! boatloads of angst, dramatic declarations! willing to play either.

characters / plots i’d like to play: most noble house of black vs the world !!

[goldiisms]

“God,” she said, rolling her eyes. “What a mess these wizards have made with the set! Who put all the wind spells? Who thought that a near-fucking hurricane would be a good idea?”

[alannasroleplaymemes-moved]

Reblog this if you’re interested in developing and planning epic plots that intertwine our muses’ stories across many threads and further their growth as individuals.

[flowercrown-writes]

What a better way to start to get to know all our characters, then with a throw back ask meme! Other writing prompts might be prompt ideas for starters, or a topic to write a drabble about, or anything really. Of course they aren’t mandatory or anything like that, use them at your own leisure! All you need to do for this prompt is reblog, and wait for the asks!

First impression of Hogwarts

Favourite Subject

Favourite faculty member

Favourite Ghost

Least favourite subject

Leas Favourite faculty member

Yule Ball or Halloween Feast

Favourite place in the castle

Would you rather dive into the depths of the lake or get lost in the forbidden forest 

If you could go back in time and change your date to the Yule Ball who would it be

What would you do on a typical Hogsmeade weekend

Have you ever made out somewhere in Hogsmeade, if so with who and where

Have you ever made out in the castle or on the grounds, if so with who and where

What was teenage you’s Boggart 

If you could be any other house, which would it have been

If you could have attended any other witchcraft and wizardry school which would it have been 

Favourite thing from the trolley on the Hogwarts Express

If you had access to the Marauders map at Hogwarts, how would you have used it? 

Least favourite Hogwarts memory

Most favourite Hogwarts memory

[goldiisms]

                                          a shipper // profile for pansy parkinson

full name: pansy darika parkinson

nicknames: pans, pansy, p 

d.o.b. and horoscope: 24th december, 1979. clear capricorn; she’s in it for the long haul.

ex-hogwarts house: slytherin, naturally.

gender/pronouns: cis female, she/her.

sexuality: pansexual demiromantic

occupation: editor at the daily prophet. heads the lifestyle section after having written for it the last three or so years. they were the first ones to give someone like her a chance; the steel in her eyes during her interview, her legs elegantly crossed as she stared down the editor-in-chief, was really what won her the job. given the slow creeping in of muggle technology, her job is a busy and exciting one. 

residence: a flat two blocks away from diagon alley. it’s a lot quieter, plus the rent is cheaper once you do the calculations. she goes home to see her family every so often, but they live too deep in the country side for pansy to stay. 

physical appearance: short hair, blue eyes, freckles, elegant fingers, lacquered nails, calluses on her fingers (from handling plants and her camera), 5″6,  slim figure, big feet, flat-footed but you’d never get her to admit it. 

personal style: functional but chic clothing with a lot of pockets.  after the war, she browses the muggle magazines and looks for what is practical.

mannerisms & habits: knuckle-cracking (when nobody’s looking), raising one eyebrow to unnerve, brisk-walking (TM) , rolling a pen (or coin, or her wand if she’s feeling daring) between her fingers, yoga every saturday, dinner with the parkinson women every sunday.

personality: INTJ - quick, strategic, hard-working, arrogant, judgmental, perfectionist.

motivation: be the best, create a name for herself, enjoy life. 

[goldiisms]

Below the cut are some of my thoughts on Polyjuice Potion and how it works, as well as how I think it ought to work. Sort of related to morality in the HP universe, character depth, etcetera. Maybe it'll be interesting to you. Maybe not. Possibly relevant to HP RPs, so tagging it as such.

I've been thinking about Polyjuice Potion recently and why it looks the way it does. In Chamber of Secrets, Hermione says this: ""Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry. Oh, you know what I mean — Goyle's Potion looked like bogies." Throughout the books, Goyle is described as mean, stupid, everything nasty and petty that a bully could be described as. Meanwhile, Harry's potion is described to be golden (very subtle with the Golden Boy allusions, isn't it?) and if not delicious, palatable.

Now, I'd like to think that every character in the HP universe can (through the fandom's efforts) be made into a well-rounded individual, with dimensions beyond single-word descriptions. Assuming that Goyle has a personality beyond 'bully' means that there ought to be a litlle more nuance in his Polyjuice Potion. Sure, it could smell sour, an indicator of his outwardly nasty personality, but there should also be something to balance it; no human is completely despicable, and this should have been apparent in his potion, at least in a little way.

I propose, then, that the appearance and taste of Polyjuice Potion has as much to do with the brewer as it does of the person whose DNA is placed in the drink. I think it's highly likely that the feelings of the brewer toward the person the potion will turn them into influences its colour and especially its taste. 

This resolves the seeming one-dimensional-ness of the Slytherins indicated by the colour and taste of their Polyjuice Potions. Rowling has always been a little biased against them, but fandom's interpretation and discussion about them reveal possible nuances to their characters, ones that would be there had morality not been so black and white in the HP universe. 

[goldiisms]

Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible - Council of Nicea  Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte  Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov   The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold  Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie  Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce  The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery  The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole  A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

[goldiisms]

rae's gif hunts: maria valverde

under the cut, you'll find ### gifs of the lovely Spanish actress, Maria Valverde. she has no gifs in her 'gifs' tag and very few in her 'gif' tag, so I've decided to compile this. none of these gifs are mine. if you take offence to your gif being here (there were no warnings on the gifs I'd saved), drop me an ask, and I'll remove it. as this is for my personal use, it's haphazardly organised. however, I've tried to make sure that there are no repeats.

if this is useful to you, please like this post.

photoshoots

(from babalinamaldita)

(from kristinasays)

various photoshoots (from pandabakers)

(from photoshoot-gifs)

glamour (from erica-hale)

films

cracks (from eliseeatydendivu, jennyleelindberg, verafarmigan, sweartoads, cariatides and others)

los borgias

the anarchist's wife (from pandabakers)

three steps above heaven/ i want you (from truecolorsoftherainbow, babalinamaldita, kristinasays and various others)

weakness of the bolshevik (from fornootherreasondave)

miscellaneous

[goldiisms]

rae's headcanons: helga hufflepuff and salazar slytherin

Though Helga was not Salazar's first friend among the founders, she was certainly the most loyal. They kept in touch even after he left Hogwarts, and on his deathbed, she held his hand, tears threatening to fall.

In their youth, the two had always been at each other's throats. Helga, though compassionate, was very headstrong, and this often led to arguments with the also hard-headed Salazar. He was the only one who could make her blood run hot, the only one who could ever claim to be attacked by Helga Hufflepuff. She was, however, the only one whose hands he trusted to heal him after rough duels.

Rumours of a supposed romance between the two often went around, and they weren't unfounded. Salazar never mentioned it to her, but he'd fought with Godric after he found out the two had lain together, despite Godric's protestations that it was merely a one-time thing between friends. What Helga and Salazar had was deeper; the two understood each other in a way that no one else could, though they could see each other's faults in clear light. 

After Godric and Salazar parted ways over their opinions in blood status, Salazar went to Helga to complain. Her reply was an arrow straight to his heart: "My parents were both non-magical, Salazar. Perhaps this means I too am unworthy of your friendship."