* 𝐒𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐊.

worse than having too many secrets is having no secrets at all.

[judvs]

there’s a lot to be said for humility and taking your lumps. vanity, in a fairytale, will make you evil. vanity in the real world will drive you NUTS. vanity makes you say things like, i deserved a better life than this. which leads to entitlement issues, anxiety, depression, an inability to approach the divine - out of frustration, refusal or blindness - and a SHITTY attitude.

#JUDVS. a dependent marietta edgecombe established by rachel on the 26th of october, 2022.

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[judvs]

𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃  :  was that a friend of yours ? 𝚁𝙴𝚀𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝙱𝚈  :  @rebuildeds / clementine weasley  ! 𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽  :  cup o'magic !

"no... definitely not." it definitely could've been worse. marietta counts herself lucky as far as that, since pansy parkinson had never exactly been the kind of person that one wanted to mess with at hogwarts - if she didn't exact vengeance herself she had all sorts of people on side who were willing to do it for her, and the LAST thing marietta really needed was the kind of fresh hell that she could unleash. that dirty look and the none too gentle shoulder barge that followed it probably looked rough from an outside perspective, but marietta figured it was nothing more than a strategic blowing off of some steam - after all, she hadn't even timed for it to come when she was holding something hot, which for pansy seemed... almost kind. considering the embarrassment that she'd gone through recently, she was willing to set aside any of her usual tendencies towards grudges, just this once. it would just have to be ENOUGH to turn back to clem with a wince and talk some quiet shit behind her back. "i'm collateral damage. i sort of... played best man for her ex fiancé, and i think she's feeling especially sour, considering how shit that turned out for her. believe it or not, that was a pretty good mood."

[twoheadedfawnn]

you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out

[dailyflicks]

PEARL (2022) dir. Ti West

[burnedglory]

location: outside of brigg’s brooms in diagon ally, london

open starter, anyone is welcome to reply!

if anyone were to ask him why he was here, ron wouldn’t be able to come up with an answer. he’d likely fumble over his words and his cheeks and ears would tinge red with embarrassment. he had no reason to shop for a new broomstick. it wasn’t like flying was a hobby of his, and he hadn’t played a proper quidditch game in ages. plus, he had his old broom stuffed in his closet at his flat. ron used to have harry’s as well, but he gave that back to his friend after he returned from the dead. still, he had been strolling down diagon ally’s streets, and seeing brigg’s brooms brought back so many memories.

memories as a child, tagging along as charlie, then percy, then fred and george, and finally himself, got to go to diagon ally and pick up school supplies . . . he’d always run straight over to brigg’s brooms, where he was standing now. he’d press his face and palms right up against the glance, his eyes comically wide as he observed the best, fastest new brooms on the market. for the rest of the year, he’d talk about it constantly, until the next visit where he saw the next broom. it’d been a simpler time . . . at least for him . . . until things with voldemort got really serious. now, everything was a mess. he was a mess.

ron was so deep into his thoughts that he didn’t notice that there was another person heading his way until the bumped into his shoulder.

[judvs]

she's lucky. she repeats that like a mantra, all day long; she could be one of the wix rushing around all in a tizzy, desperately trying to track down the perfect gift for their lengthy list of loved ones. it'd be a nightmare. she'd hate it. there's nothing wrong with a shorter list & the only search being for the perfect white elephant present, due in the office sometime next week, but no matter how much she TRIES marietta cannot convince herself of these tiny lies she often tells, most especially to herself. her mood is AWFUL, automatically worsened when she manages to shoulder barge, of all people, a weasley. "godric above, weren't you looking where you're going?"

[judvs]

𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙽𝚈𝙼𝙾𝚄𝚂 𝙰𝚂𝙺𝙴𝙳  :   🎧

COP CAR by MITSKI : sits pretty low on marietta's playlist, but was one of the first songs i associated with her because of 'i get mean when i'm nervous like a bad dog' and 'i don't think about the past, it's always there anyway'. they're two extremely marietta statements ! they shaped my interpretation on her as someone who bites back more often than not when she's thrown into a situation that makes her uncomfortable or unhappy, and as someone who doesn't regret the mistake she made as much as the consequences of it.

𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙸𝙲 𝙼𝙴𝙼𝙴 »  currently not  accepting  !

[judvs]

「 ♡ 」   𝙼𝙴𝙼𝙴 𝙽𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃   »   currently accepting music meme & arcane sentence starters  !

[judvs]

𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙽𝚈𝙼𝙾𝚄𝚂 𝙰𝚂𝙺𝙴𝙳  :   pumpkin pie & hedgehog!

PUMPKIN PIE / WHICH FOOD ALWAYS MANAGES TO MAKE THEM HAPPIER? :  going with my gut here, i think marietta is very into macaroons but specifically. the kind her mother would make when she was younger, which she stopped doing when she got too busy at work and now will only do so on very special occasions, which never include her birthday.

HEDGEHOG / DO THEY HAVE PETS? WHAT DO THEY MEAN TO THEM? :  answered !

𝙰𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙼𝙽 𝙰𝚂𝙺 𝙶𝙰𝙼𝙴 »  currently not  accepting  !

[judvs]

𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙽𝚈𝙼𝙾𝚄𝚂 𝙰𝚂𝙺𝙴𝙳  :   fog!

FOG / NAME FOUR THINGS THEY'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT :  the radium girls ( special interest ), poetry ( she writes it, but she doesn't think she writes with any talent; she'd love to pick her favorite poets mind and learn to do what they do, without recognising that it's not a bad thing she does what she does ), obliviation magic ( she's still technically a novice ) & hermione granger's greatest weaknesses.

𝙰𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙼𝙽 𝙰𝚂𝙺 𝙶𝙰𝙼𝙴 »  currently not  accepting  !

[judvs]

𝙷𝙾𝙶𝙶𝙻𝙴𝚂𝚆𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙰𝚂𝙺𝙴𝙳  :   salted caramel, forest walks & hedgehog

SALTED CARAMEL / SWEET OR SAVORY? :  savory, every time !

FOREST WALKS / WHAT DO THEY DO TO TAKE THEIR MIND OFF THINGS? :  it used to be ballet ! marietta might have had a complex relationship with dance and performing and of course her mother, who pushed her towards both and made them seem so important, but she was also very good at it and at points in her life was able to use it as a needed escape. now i think that marietta lacks anything that even comes close, though she chases it in other ways - reading, maybe. listening to music. going for a walk and listening to music, when she realised that the former in total silence did the exact opposite of 'get her mind off things'.

HEDGEHOG / DO THEY HAVE PETS? WHAT DO THEY MEAN FOR THEM? :  she does ! his name is mojo, and he's a registered emotional support cat of the ragdoll variety that she got three years ago, or so. he doesn't really provide any actual emotional support, due to all his typical cat behaviours. he's a big fan of eating charging cables and knocking the vinyls she has on display over at least once a week, but usually more.

𝙰𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙼𝙽 𝙰𝚂𝙺 𝙶𝙰𝙼𝙴 »  currently not  accepting  !

[judvs]

𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃  :  i'm going to dress up as the grim reaper because i feel like death. 𝚁𝙴𝚀𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝙱𝚈  :  @bemyhcro​  /  paxton holloway  ! 𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽  :  obliviator headquarters, the ministry of magic !

she really doesn't need to put voice to the thought running through her mind. marietta's face quite often speaks FOR her, and this is no different - 'okay, edgelord,' she thinks, pausing in the stirring of her midday coffee to fix him with a look, all knitted brow & scrunched up nose. she doesn't even try disguise it. not her circus, not her monkeys, of course, and it's not as if she plans to put effort in herself ( this is how it always goes; night of, she'll have a change of heart ), but... "funny joke," she tells him, completely deadpan, "but you can do better than that."

[judvs]

「 ♡ 」   𝙼𝙴𝙼𝙴 𝙽𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃   »   currently accepting autumn asks & halloween sentence starters  !

[judvs]

𝚁𝙴𝙱𝚄𝙸𝙻𝙳𝙴𝙳𝚂 𝙰𝚂𝙺𝙴𝙳  :   12, 15, 25!

12. WHAT IS A BOOK THAT INTERESTED THEM SO MUCH THEY TOOK IT WITH THEM TO THE BATHROOM? :  honestly. every single book marietta reads, probably. i think the last one i put on her goodreads was the bell jar, but i'm also thinking she might be on an r.f. kuang kick ... maybe babel.

15. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THEY WERE HELD, AND TRULY HELD, FOR SEVERAL MINUTES? WHO WAS IT WITH? :  answered !

25. ARE THEY MORE AFRAID OF BEING ALONE WITH THEMSELVES OR WITH OTHERS? :  equally both, i fear ? is that allowed ? marietta is someone who THINKS she's completely fine all on her own and puts a lot of value in her own solitude while simultaneously suffering the very worst when she's on her own. she's also someone who is never really comfortable in any sort of crowd, with any kind of group, and only tolerates certain people for any length of time. she overthinks way too much for all that, and tends to think the worst. she dreads everything.

𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙸𝙴𝚂𝚃 𝙳𝙴𝚃𝙰𝙸𝙻𝚂 »  currently not  accepting  !

[judvs]

𝚅𝙸𝙸𝙺𝚃𝙾𝚁𝙸𝙾𝚄𝚂 𝙰𝚂𝙺𝙴𝙳  :   7, 15, 18

7. IS THERE AN ARTFORM THEY'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY (GLASSBLOWING, WOODWORKING, PAINTING, ETC) BUT NEVER HAVE? IF SO, WHAT ABOUT THE ARTFORM SPEAKS TO THEM? :  i still don't think it counts, but i'm going to go with the same answer i gave before - poetry ! marietta is and has always been desperate to express herself in a way that captures the way she feels all of the time, but she has no way to do it. she'd find the words coming to her a lot easier than she thinks they would if she'd just sit down to try, and i think she'd find catharsis in it, but i also think she's always holding herself back from actually giving it her all. she's deeply envious of people who are able to put words to what they're experiencing and feeling and make other people understand it, too, but she's not helping herself out.

15. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THEY WERE HELD, AND TRULY HELD, FOR SEVERAL MINUTES? WHO WAS IT WITH?  :  you know. i cannot clock a moment in marietta's life, at least this past decade or so, where i can say with confidence someone would have, or that she'd have even allowed it - which is, in itself, the part i keep getting stuck on. marietta does not want to be seen as soft. she doesn't like weakness, and when she starts breaking down she also tends to lash out. i don't think she's been held for a long, long time, and i don't think she even realises it !

18. HOW DUSTY IS THEIR HOME? SPOTLESS, LIVED-IN, DUST BUNNY HAVEN?  :  pretty standard ! marietta despises housework, but she also doesn't really have much that can gather dust in her home - she's only recently set up a wall for framed pictures and put her vinyls up in her bedroom, and aside from those, her apartment still feels distinctly unlived in.

𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙸𝙴𝚂𝚃 𝙳𝙴𝚃𝙰𝙸𝙻𝚂 »  currently not  accepting  !

[judvs]

「 ♡ 」   𝙼𝙴𝙼𝙴 𝙽𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃   »   currently accepting tiniest details  !

[rebuildeds]

PROMPT : ‘ maybe they’ll brood each other to death . ’ LOCATION : the atrium ( ministry gala ) FEATURING : @judvs !

“ here's hoping. ”    tempest raises her champagne flute to clink against marietta's own without looking away from the brooders in question. to a point they can understand the anger and frustration from those who had been snubbed at the ministry gala this year, but honestly she doesn't know what they had expected. it's the same thing that happened last year, and they hadn't kicked off nearly enough of a fuss about it at that time, so why wouldn't karkaroff go a step further ?  tempest would've immediately made much more of a hubbub if they were in the da's shoes, so their sympathies were waning with each minute that passed without something drastic happening. it didn't help their attitude that they were getting bored, as well.   “ they're here, aren't they? made it in. they could at least make a scene. ”

[judvs]

it's a relief to have finally found someone so likeminded. cho is too soft. dudley too close. countless acquaintances have misunderstood marietta's chagrin, read far too deeply or, more commonly, found themselves unable to see beneath the surface of her complaints. she knows that she comes across quite poorly. the sly comments she makes and the dirty looks she sends are childish, no denying, but the HURT that fuels them is very real, and she is never more able to indulge in these more negative emotions than when she's stood at their side, holding a flute of expensive champagne that she's hardly touched, casting evils at the wix currently earning her ire. "i don't get why they bother coming," and there's real confusion coloring her words, this time, influencing the way she looks from them to tempest, divet forming between her brow, "what's the point, if they're just going to huddle together looking sour ?" the irony, of course, is somewhat lost on her.

[cloudswamp]

the piano teacher, elfriede jelinek