Untitled- Yup, That’s Me. Untitled

[gryffindorhealer]

This seems a worthy idea. Particularly since I am rather pants at self promotion. I thought about organizing them in "my" story timeline order, and decided nah, just the order I posted them. Some of these are also on FFN and SIYE, I use the same name there.

War & Peace, Volume No. One

On the first Christmas after Ginny finishes Hogwarts, Harry has to work.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Meanwhile, Back At the Burrow

War leaves scars. Sometimes they are visible. Sometimes not.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

When Ginny and Harry Eloped … Sort Of

It's a press and paparazzi feeding frenzy when one of Wizarding Great Britain's most famous couples announce their engagement. (There’s more in this summary…)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Animagii

It's an Alternate Universe. With, you know, Alternate Events. (There’s more…)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Happy 39th Birthday, Harry

Wherein Harry, attempting to be considerate, discovers it may not be wise to thwart his wife’s plans. Even if he doesn’t know she’s planning something. (Posted on 31 July, 2019)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Molly’s Nightmares

Wherein Harry learns more about being a dutiful son-in-law-law.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Excellence

We don't always know where we're going. Sometimes we've got a plan, though not necessarily. And often we don't remember where we've been, or what effect that has on others. Until we're reminded.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Echoes

A moment between generations.

(Another one I had fun writing, using an old Japanese poem format.)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Nexus

After Harry faces Voldemort in the Forest, he doesn't go to his mental construct of King's Cross Statio.? Rather he finds himself on the shore of the Black Lake in a host of Guardian Angels (one a little odd, another disturbingly familiar looking), and a tall, hooded black-robed figure. On a white horse. Named Binky... (AU, obviously, with some crossover characters)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Proposals

Three. Because it's a nice, prime number. And, the third time is the charm.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Dreaming a Life

Ginny has a Quantum Leap moment… (the actual synopsis is a bit longer… It’s an AU and not an AU, with a host of Guest Star Characters; Written for the Harry & Ginny Discord’s 2020 Incognito Elf Exchange)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28311546

Prank and Be Pranked

Revenge is a dish best served cold...

(Written for @velvethopewrites as a natal anniversary gift)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31858642

Honeymooners

What could possibly go wrong on one's honeymoon? (Written for the Harry & Ginny Discord’s 2021 Birthday Challenge. The Telly had to be in the fic, and all of us received a twist from another writer, which we all needed to include. Oh, and more Guest Star Characters.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32594851

Portrait

During the week between their wedding and their honeymoon, Ginny and Harry fail to notice some changes happening at Grimmauld Place. (Written for the Harry & Ginny Discord’s 2021 Incognito Elf Exchange)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35907376

Vignettes

In the set of people writing fanfiction, there is a subset of people writing about Live Celebrities. Also, while the Wizarding World may not (yet) generally access the Interwebz, they do have fanzines… (Written for the Harry & Ginny Discord’s 2021 Incognito Elf Exchange)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35919973

Year of the Kneazle

Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,A pair of star-cross'd lovers…

But wait, forsooth, a diff’rent scene we’ll see!Not fair Verona; grudges none I fear,But households two alike in dignityIndeed, and star-cross'd lovers also here...

(I had fun writing this one.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36899512

Service

What is lighter than air, heavier than mountains, more valuable than gold, and brighter than stars? (Written for the Harry & Ginny Discord’s Minor Character Challenge, featuring one of my favorite minor characters.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37995115

Thursday, 1 September, 2022

Sweet dreams are made of cheeseWho am I to dis a brie?It’s Camembert world and Edam seas -Everybody’s looking for Port Salut

(Written for the Harry & Ginny Discord’s Hogwarts Express Challenge. The word limit, 750 words. When I finished the first draft and did a word count, 749. I kept that number during edits.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41760039

[sirius-for-life]

Do you like Albus Severus Potter name?

Oh, I LOVE the name.

Most people have a problem with the 'Severus' part, and I feel that Harry naming his son after Severus Snape, his bully and arguably the most grey-est character in the series, summarises Harry's character so well.

My boy is the most forgiving person in the entire series. During the last duel he even asked Voldemort, who was the literal enemy, to feel remorse so he would not die (i don't have the books on me currently to quote it verbatim)

Harry Potter is a coming of age story. There's a great reddit thread i once read which pointed out that Dumbledore and Snape have so many parallels. Both were haunted by their guilt because in their youth they took the dark part because of a girl and then later in their life worked selflessly to repent.

Since the starting of the series, Harry sees Dumbledore as the "right" figure, and Snape as an "evil" figure.

Later in the story, during DH, Harry finds stuff about Dumbledore which tarnishes his holy figure and Harry puts him off the pedestal. Similarly, Harry finds stuff about Snape which lightens his dark image.

There's a reason the epilogue was Albus' first day of school. Not James. Not Lily. But Albus.

Albus Severus shows the growth Harry had made. It shows Harry understands the world is not divided between "good" and "bad". Between professors wearing white robes and has twinkling eyes and professors wearing dark robes and has haunting eyes.

So those who say "Harry would never name his son after Severus Snape." Do not understand Harry's character at all.

Albus Severus Potter IS the epilogue. He IS the growth Harry had made.

[mckitterick]

[tastefullyoffensive]

[roachpatrol]

i enjoy that every single human’s reaction to penguin is unrestrained delight

[ayellowbirds]

And penguins lack large terrestrial predators, so their reaction to humans tends to be, “HELLO STRANGE GIANT PENGUINS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU HAVE ANY FISH?”

[it-is-bugs]

I will reblog this on my deathbed.

[huggableotter-deactivated202010]

Please let him science 🐧

[mrshamill]

i think at least half of the million reblabs on this are from me

[ekjohnston]

There is an international treaty that says we’re supposed to stay 6m away from penguins, and it’s really difficult because no one told the penguins, and they all desperately want to wander up and say hi.

[catchymemes]

blue sunset on Mars is a real phenomenon caused by the way Martian dust scatters sunlight.

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

[madonnalouise-ciccone]

By Martin Schreiber 1979

[sadeolutola]

Week 12 of the artist way, I just put my dreams, fears, worries and resentments into this vase, it was really interesting because I noticed that I had few ambitions, maybe 4 I came up with? But I had like 20 fears ! That’s at least 5 fears which came with each dream of mine. Sometimes I would write a dream which would inspire me to write more and more fears. Writing them out made me understand how silly some of them were though, for example, “I’ll never succeed in the music industry and this was all a huge mistake”. Spoiler, it was not. I have never been so fulfilled than I am right now!

Taking time to to breath this morning and let God handle all my worries xxx

[world-beauty]

Gravel Ejected from Asteroid Bennu

Credits: NASA, GSFC, U. Arizona, OSIRIS-REx, Lockheed Martin

[palant1r]

the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years

[palant1r]

[ms-demeanor]

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

Don’t forget the latest version, Ten Years

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

@vividaway​ Randall Munroe is an internet cartoonist who runs the ‘xkcd’ online comic series, which has run from 2006 up to today, with new comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Xkcd isn’t an ongoing story, just a series of funny, wholesome, depressing, or oddly scientifically informative comics.

In 2010, Randall’s fiance was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. He didn’t share too many details at first, but things tended to bleed into his comics: sometimes funny, sometimes sad.

Often in this time, other cartoonists would write in guest comics for Randall, or he’d put in short filler pieces, to try and fill space while nonstop cancer treatments took up most of his time.

In 2012, he posted a comic called ‘Two Years’, about the time since the diagnosis. It’s the one that hasn’t yet been posted here (although parts of it are included in the other comics), and it commemorates some of the things that had happened in the two years since the diagnosis.

There are representations of Randall and his fiance being together for her treatment, worrying together, traveling the world, and getting married. It’s still depressing, but it’s a lot more hopeful, showing how they’ve still managed to have happy moments together, and things will still get better.

Themes of cancer continued in xkcd, but they increasingly became less about fear and nihilism, and more about hope, or just cool facts related to cancer.

At the top of this post is the comic posted in 2017: Seven Years. In it, Randall and his wife are traveling more, trying to have fun and continue old and new hobbies, with cancer ever-present in the background of it all. At the end, the two of them observe the 2017 solar eclipse, and despite all the uncertainty that comes with the thought of another seven years, agree to watch the 2024 eclipse together too.

There are just about no cancer comics between that one and the most recent comic, the one I posted: Ten Years, written in 2020. It’s by far the most hopeful of the three in the little series: the two of them are happy, they’re playing with rabbits and riding on handcarts and going out hiking and stargazing, together. At the end, Ten Years breaks the format with a conversation in which they talk about how unbelievable it is that it’s been so long, and share their worries as well as their hopes. It even ends on a much more lighthearted joke about immortality.

It’s a good comic. Definitely in my top two comics wherein internet cartoonists express emotions about an illness suffered by their wife.

“The ten-year cancerversary is traditionally the Cursed Artifact Granting Immortality anniversary.” -Randall Munroe.

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

And now, at long last, Fifteen Years:

[nasa]

Moon Joy June: Lunar Inspo

Moon Joy June artists!  This is the second week of Moon Joy June, and the prompt is “Moon.” If you’re an artist looking for some inspiration, we have a treat for you: four new and previously unseen images from our Artemis II mission!

All four of these images were captured on April 6, 2026, during flight day 6 of the mission, when the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft conducted the lunar flyby of their ten-day journey. During the lunar flyby, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen captured photographs and collected scientific observations of the Moon in meticulous detail.

You can find more images from the lunar flyby here. If you’re feeling inspired to make some art dedicated to our celestial neighbor, you can share your creations on Tumblr with the #ArtemisArtShow hashtag!

[misfitwashere]

I wrote a eulogy

"I wrote a eulogy for my best friend last week. Then I read it to him. At the pub. On a Tuesday."

He was alive, holding a pint, looking at me like I'd lost my mind. Maybe I have.

I'm Mick. I'm 70. The man across the table was Barry. Seventy-two. Best mate for 46 years. Met on a building site in 1979. He dropped a plank on my foot. I called him something unrepeatable. He bought me a pint after the shift. Haven't gone a week without talking since.

Three months ago we went to a funeral. Bloke we'd worked with. Cancer. The eulogies were beautiful - people saying what he meant to them, things they'd clearly never said to his face. And all I could think was, he can't hear any of this.

Every beautiful sentence. Every "he changed my life." Said to a room of crying people and a box of wood.

I turned to Barry. Whispered, "What a waste."

Drove home. Couldn't sleep. Because I realised, if Barry died tomorrow, I'd stand up and say extraordinary things about this man. Things I've never said in 46 years. And he'd be in the box, missing all of it.

So I wrote them down. Took a week. Harder than expected - not finding the words, but admitting I had them.

Rang him. "Tuesday. The Crown. Need to read you something."

"Have you joined a book club?"

"Just come."

Same corner table. Pint of bitter. Crisps. I pulled out the paper. He saw my hands shake.

"Mick. What's this?"

"Your eulogy. I'm reading it now because I'm not wasting it on a day you can't hear it."

"Have you gone mad?"

"Probably. Shut up and listen."

I read it. In a pub. To a man very much alive and very much uncomfortable.

I told him about the plank and how it was the best injury of my life. About the night he drove forty minutes in rain to help change a tyre. About how he rang every day for three months after my divorce and never once asked "Are you alright?" - just talked about football and weather, because he knew I didn't need a question. I needed a voice.

I told him he was the funniest man I'd ever known and his jokes were terrible and both things were true. That he'd been a better father than he thinks. That his wife's a saint and he knows it. That I'd have been a worse man without him.

He didn't look at me. Stared at his pint. Jaw tight. Doing that thing men do when the feelings arrive and they'd rather swallow glass than show it.

When I finished, long silence. Then he picked up his pint, took a sip, and said,

"You're paying for the next round. And the one after."

That was his answer. Perfect. Because Barry doesn't say "I love you too." He says "you're buying."

But in the car park, he hugged me. Not the quick back-pat. A real one. Thirty seconds. Neither let go first.

And he said quietly into my shoulder, "Don't read that again at the real one. I want new material."

Who would you write a eulogy for - while they're still here?

Don't wait. The flowers can't hear. The box doesn't laugh. Say it now. At the pub. Over a bad cup of tea. You'll feel ridiculous.

They'll look uncomfortable. It'll be the most important thing you've ever done.

Read them the speech while they can still hug you in the car park.”

.

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Illustration "Basilisk mit dem Basler Wappen das er mit dem Schnabel am Riemen hält." (Basilisk holding the Basel coat of arms by its strap with its beak.) From Holzschnitte des Meister DS. Herausgeben von Elfrie Bock. Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1924.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

M104, Portal to another World

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Crescent Saturn

[darrenmoregrey]

Basilisk & Weasel

Harry Potter: A History of Magic 2017

“Pliny reported that, although the basilisk was only twelve inches long, both its touch and breath were deadly. Intriguingly, the basilisk could be killed using the scent of a weasel. If weasels were let loose in their lairs, they were able to slay the basilisk with their odor.”

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[nasa]

Moon Joy June: Launch Inspo

Moon Joy June artists! Looking for a little inspiration? The prompt for this week is “Launch.” Here is a small collection of photos of the launch of the Artemis II mission, which took place on April 1, 2026. What followed was ten days of our Artemis astronauts circling the Moon, returning to Earth, and experiencing pure Moon joy all throughout.

You can find more launch photos here. If you’re feeling inspired to make some art, you can share your creations on Tumblr with the #ArtemisArtShow hashtag!