MadnessUnleashed

Just a girl looking for my peace of mind Bisexual cisgender female. She/her Love random conversations! Drarry lover and math fanatic

[orange-peony]

Written for @drarrymicrofic with the prompt "dystopia".

I run my fingers through your dark curls, and they're so thick and soft. I don't know why, but I assumed they would be full of knots and that I would get stuck, but they're lovely. It feels surreal that I get to do this with you, when the world is falling apart.

You mumble in your sleep, and turn around, pressing your body against mine. And you're so warm and skinny that I feel a lump in my throat.

I don't want to let you go.

What if he finds you again? What if he kills you again, and this time you don't come back to fight and you leave me alone, being a spy for the Order, when I have no courage without you? When I don't have the strength to fight for myself, but only for you?

"You need to sleep," you murmur, your fingers sneaking under my robes, your palm flat at the base of my spine, making me hold my breath.

"I can't," I whisper in the darkness.

Tomorrow we're going to fight.

Maybe you'll kill him this time.

But what if you don't?

"I promise when this is over," you say, your green eyes still closed, "I will get you an ice-cream." Your lips are chapped, and your clothes are torn and dirty, scars all over every inch of exposed skin. You're so gorgeous that I can't hold back the tears.

"Mmh."

"I will take you on a date," you promise, and it feels impossible, like a distant dream, but your eyelids finally flutter open, and you look at me. "We'll do something stupid like get fish and chips on the beach, and we'll laugh and be happy and…normal. We will, Draco. I promise"

"Okay," I murmur. "I've never had fish and chips."

"Posh twat," you mutter, the smile reaching your eyes, and it suddenly hits me.

What if we die tomorrow and I haven't kissed you yet?

You seem to read my mind, or maybe you notice the way my eyes linger on your lips, because you reach for mine and press our mouths together. And it's so perfectly imperfect, because I'm still crying, and you're clinging too hard, but you're soft and warm and I love you so much that my heart is going to fucking burst in my chest.

I want to believe you.

Everything will be fine.

I will take your hand, and we'll walk on the beach. Eat that dreadful Muggle greasy thing. And we'll be happy and normal.

Alive.

[quotemadness]

“Be with someone who treats you as a destination, not a stop along the way.”

— Mandy Hale

[quotemadness]

“I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me? I don’t know. And I don’t know how to make it stop.”

— Victoria Aveyard

[quotemadness]

“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.”

— Beau Taplin

[quotemadness]

“So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

[quotemadness]

“That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

— Arundhati Roy

[quotemadness]

“Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight, but I believe in that click.”

— Ann Aguirre

[quotemadness]

“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”

— Shauna Niequist

[shelbys-advice-blog]

I want to live by myself when I move out of my parent's place but I'm really afraid of money problems? I'm afraid that the only place I can afford will be in the ghetto and it'll all be torn apart and I'll only be allowed to eat one granola bar a week. I'm really stressing out about this. I don't know anything about after school life. I don't know anything about paying bills or how to buy an apartment and it's really scaring me. is there anything you know that can help me?

HI darling,

I’ve actually got a super wonderful masterpost for you to check out:

Home

what the hell is a mortgage?

first apartment essentials checklist

how to care for cacti and succulents

the care and keeping of plants

Getting an apartment

Money

earn rewards by taking polls

how to coupon

what to do when you can’t pay your bills

see if you’re paying too much for your cell phone bill

how to save money

How to Balance a Check Book

How to do Your Own Taxes

Health

how to take care of yourself when you’re sick

things to bring to a doctor’s appointment

how to get free therapy

what to expect from your first gynecologist appointment

how to make a doctor’s appointment

how to pick a health insurance plan

how to avoid a hangover

a list of stress relievers

how to remove a splinter

Emergency

what to do if you get pulled over by a cop

a list of hotlines in a crisis

things to keep in your car in case of an emergency

how to do the heimlich maneuver

Job

time management

create a resume

find the right career

how to pick a major

how to avoid a hangover

how to interview for a job

how to stop procrastinating

How to write cover letters

Travel

ULTIMATE PACKING LIST

Traveling for Cheap

Travel Accessories

The Best Way to Pack a Suitcase

How To Read A Map

How to Apply For A Passport

How to Make A Travel Budget

Better You

read the news

leave your childhood traumas behind

how to quit smoking

how to knit

how to stop biting your nails

how to stop procrastinating

how to stop skipping breakfast

how to stop micromanaging

how to stop avoiding asking for help

how to stop swearing constantly

how to stop being a pushover

learn another language

how to improve your self-esteem

how to sew

learn how to embroider

how to love yourself

100 tips for life

Apartments/Houses/Moving

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 1: Are You Sure? (The Responsible One)

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 2: Finding the Damn Apartment (The Responsible One)

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 3: Questions to Ask about the Damn Apartment (The Responsible One)

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 4: Packing and Moving All of Your Shit (The Responsible One)

How to Protect Your Home Against Break-Ins (The Responsible One)

Education

How to Find a Fucking College (The Sudden Adult)

How to Find Some Fucking Money for College (The Sudden Adult)

What to Do When You Can’t Afford Your #1 Post-Secondary School (The Sudden Adult)

Stop Shitting on Community College Kids (Why Community College is Fucking Awesome) (The Responsible One)

How to Ask for a Recommendation Letter (The Responsible One)

How to Choose a College Major (The Sudden Adult)

Finances

How to Write a Goddamn Check (The Responsible One)

How to Convince Credit Companies You’re Not a Worthless Bag of Shit (The Responsible One)

Debit vs Credit (The Responsible One)

What to Do if Your Wallet is Stolen/Lost (The Sudden Adult)

Budgeting 101 (The Responsible One)

Important Tax Links to Know (The Responsible One)

How to Choose a Bank Without Screwing Yourself (The Responsible One)

Job Hunting

How to Write a Resume Like a Boss (The Responsible One)

How to Write a Cover Letter Someone Will Actually Read (The Responsible One)

How to Handle a Phone Interview without Fucking Up (The Responsible One)

10 Sites to Start Your Job Search (The Responsible One)

Life Skills

Staying in Touch with Friends/Family (The Sudden Adult)

Bar Etiquette (The Sudden Adult)

What to Do After a Car Accident (The Sudden Adult)

Grow Up and Buy Your Own Groceries (The Responsible One)

How to Survive Plane Trips (The Sudden Adult)

How to Make a List of Goals (The Responsible One)

How to Stop Whining and Make a Damn Appointment (The Responsible One)

Miscellaneous

What to Expect from the Hell that is Jury Duty (The Responsible One)

Relationships

Marriage: What the Fuck Does It Mean and How the Hell Do I Know When I’m Ready? (Guest post - The Northwest Adult)

How Fucked Are You for Moving In with Your Significant Other: An Interview with an Actual Real-Life Couple Living Together™ (mintypineapple  and catastrofries)

Travel & Vehicles

How to Winterize Your Piece of Shit Vehicle (The Responsible One)

How to Make Public Transportation Your Bitch (The Responsible One)

Other Blog Features

Apps for Asshats

Harsh Truths & Bitter Reminders

Asks I’ll Probably Need to Refer People to Later

Apartments (or Life Skills) - How Not to Live in Filth (The Sudden Adult)

Finances - Tax Basics (The Responsible One)

Important Documents - How to Get a Copy of Your Birth Certificate (The Responsible One)

Important Documents - How to Get a Replacement ID (The Responsible One)

Health - How to Deal with a Chemical Burn (The Responsible One)

Job Hunting - List of Jobs Based on Social Interaction Levels (The Sudden Adult)

Job Hunting - How to Avoid Falling into a Pit of Despair While Job Hunting (The Responsible One)

Job Hunting - Questions to Ask in an Interview (The Responsible One)

Life Skills - First-Time Flying Tips (The Sudden Adult)

Life Skills - How to Ask a Good Question (The Responsible One)

Life Skills - Reasons to Take a Foreign Language (The Responsible One)

Life Skills - Opening a Bar Tab (The Sudden Adult)

Relationships - Long Distance Relationships: How to Stay in Contact (The Responsible One)

Adult Cheat Sheet:

what to do if your pet gets lost

removing stains from your carpet

how to know if you’re eligible for food stamps

throwing a dinner party

i’m pregnant, now what?

first aid tools to keep in your house

how to keep a clean kitchen

learning how to become independent from your parents

job interview tips

opening your first bank account

what to do if you lose your wallet

tips for cheap furniture

easy ways to cut your spending

selecting the right tires for your car

taking out your first loan

picking out the right credit card

how to get out of parking tickets

how to fix a leaky faucet

get all of your news in one place

getting rid of mice & rats in your house

when to go to the e.r.

buying your first home

how to buy your first stocks

guide to brewing coffee

first apartment essentials checklist

coping with a job you hate

30 books to read before you’re 30

what’s the deal with retirement?

difference between insurances

Once you’ve looked over all those cool links, I have some general advice for you on how you can have some sort of support system going for you:

Reasons to move out of home

You may decide to leave home for many different reasons, including:

wishing to live independently

location difficulties – for example, the need to move closer to university

conflict with your parents

being asked to leave by your parents.

Issues to consider when moving out of home

It’s common to be a little unsure when you make a decision like leaving home. You may choose to move, but find that you face problems you didn’t anticipate, such as:

Unreadiness – you may find you are not quite ready to handle all the responsibilities.

Money worries – bills including rent, utilities like gas and electricity and the cost of groceries may catch you by surprise, especially if you are used to your parents providing for everything. Debt may become an issue.

Flatmate problems – issues such as paying bills on time, sharing housework equally, friends who never pay board, but stay anyway, and lifestyle incompatibilities (such as a non-drug-user flatting with a drug user) may result in hostilities and arguments.

Your parents may be worried

Think about how your parents may be feeling and talk with them if they are worried about you. Most parents want their children to be happy and independent, but they might be concerned about a lot of different things. For example:

They may worry that you are not ready.

They may be sad because they will miss you.

They may think you shouldn’t leave home until you are married or have bought a house.

They may be concerned about the people you have chosen to live with.

Reassure your parents that you will keep in touch and visit regularly. Try to leave on a positive note. Hopefully, they are happy about your plans and support your decision.

Tips for a successful move

Tips include:

Don’t make a rash decision – consider the situation carefully. Are you ready to live independently? Do you make enough money to support yourself? Are you moving out for the right reasons?

Draw up a realistic budget – don’t forget to include ‘hidden’ expenses such as the property’s security deposit or bond (usually four weeks’ rent), connection fees for utilities, and home and contents insurance.

Communicate – avoid misunderstandings, hostilities and arguments by talking openly and respectfully about your concerns with flatmates and parents. Make sure you’re open to their point of view too – getting along is a two-way street.

Keep in touch – talk to your parents about regular home visits: for example, having Sunday night dinner together every week.

Work out acceptable behaviour – if your parents don’t like your flatmate(s), find out why. It is usually the behaviour rather than the person that causes offence (for example, swearing or smoking). Out of respect for your parents, ask your flatmate(s) to be on their best behaviour when your parents visit and do the same for them.

Ask for help – if things are becoming difficult, don’t be too proud to ask your parents for help. They have a lot of life experience.

If your family home does not provide support

Not everyone who leaves home can return home or ask their parents for help in times of trouble. If you have been thrown out of home or left home to escape abuse or conflict, you may be too young or unprepared to cope.

If you are a fostered child, you will have to leave the state-care system when you turn 18, but you may not be ready to make the sudden transition to independence.

If you need support, help is available from a range of community and government organisations. Assistance includes emergency accommodation and food vouchers. If you can’t call your parents or foster parents, call one of the associations below for information, advice and assistance.

Where to get help

Your doctor

Kids Helpline Tel. [phone]

Lifeline Tel. 13 11 44

Home Ground Services Tel. [phone]

Relationships Australia Tel. [phone]

Centrelink Crisis or Special Help Tel. 13 28 50

Tenants Union of Victoria Tel. [phone]

Things to remember

Try to solve any problems before you leave home. Don’t leave because of a fight or other family difficulty if you can possibly avoid it.

Draw up a realistic budget that includes ‘hidden’ expenses, such as bond, connection fees for utilities, and home and contents insurance.

Remember that you can get help from a range of community and government organizations. 

(source)

Keep me updated? xx

[brihann-deactivated20220622]

Reblogging for myself

[bridgyrose]

reblogging for those that follow me that may be starting to move out

[hogwartscastle]

whats your type?

Fictional men written by women.

[old-fashioned-villain]

(from @drarry-toogoodtobetrue )

Freeze! You’re under arrest for being so lovely. Copy this message to 10 other blogs that you think are beautiful and deserve it. Keep the game going and make others feel beautiful!!! 💕💕

This is so sweet thanks!

[iamnmbr3]

Actually, I found DH much shippier than HBP. I mean, Draco showing a few signs of second thoughts about being a Death Eater caused Harry to spend an entire year obsessing over ambiguous morality.

That’s actually a fair point. I mean I feel like HBP will always be the ‘official drarry bible’ since it made the ship explode so much (even if I wasn’t around for it at the time) and since it has so many classic moments and since it is literally an entire book dedicated to Harry obsessing over Draco.

BUT. That said. I think some of the best (and my favorite) drarry moments are actually in book 7. I mean book 7 has:

Harry not feeling angry at Draco at all, but rather feeling terribly sorry for him and totally accepting that he doesn’t want to be doing what he’s doing - to the point where a vision of Voldemort forcing Draco to torture someone bothers Harry so much that it is described as being “burned into his retinas.” 

Draco risking his life and the lives of his family, throwing away their one chance at redemption and the opportunity to get all the power and glory he always thought he wanted, just to give Harry a fighting chance at survival, knowing full well the price he and his family will pay. 

Harry dropping everything (literally) to save Draco from the Fiendfyre.

And of course. HARRY DEFEATING VOLDEMORT WITH DRACO’S WAND which feels “friendly” to him and works better for him than any other wand besides his own.

[gallifrey1sburning]

Drarry is an immensely popular ship partially because fandom is full of queer people searching for representation of themselves.

Drarry is also an immensely popular ship because JKR basically wrote it into the plot without meaning to 😂🤷🏻

[quotemadness]

“I need something different. I don’t know what it is, but I need something new.”

— Unknown

[hxrcrucs]

Harry: I want a cat.

Draco: we aren’t getting a cat

Harry: why not!? Give me a good reason why

Draco: *mumbles*

Harry: what was that?

Draco: it’ll get more attention than me...

[dont-be-tumb]

Why not both...

[hereliestimothydrake]

fandom purity police: why is this character, who did bad things, learning and changing?!?!

me: 

[harrypotterandtheshittysideblog]

It is almost like people are complex and in many cases they are not “bad” or “good” they’re somewhere in between. I think when we read fiction we tend to fully demonize characters that are portrayed as villains when you have to remember that we’re mainly hearing the perspective of the protagonist.

Harry has a pretty black and white understanding of morality throughout the series so it doesn’t come as a surprise that we only ever see him thinking of Draco as a villain. I think a huge moment for Harry is when he sees Snape’s memories of his father- and when he finds out Snape is only on their side because of his mother’s death-and let’s not forget Regulus. These things in my opinion would slowly reshape Harry’s ideas of good vs evil. It would show him that despite what he’s believed throughout the story some people are somewhere in between. I think this is a really good argument for why post war Drarry is more realistic at least from my perspective. By then Harry has a much greater understanding about morality and he would be much more open to the redemption of the Slytherins as a whole.

I will forever argue that Draco Malfoy deserved a redemption arc far more than Severus Snape. Snape became a death eater willingly despite being in love with a muggle, he continued to choose the death eaters until Lilly was killed. Whereas Draco was a teenager during the entire war and he really had no choice, he either had to obey or be killed-and sure he could have taken Dumbledore’s help, but what you have to remember is Draco up until this point has only seen adults use each other for personal gain. So not only did he have to worry about his parents potentially being killed if he left Voldemort, he was probably very very wary of Dumbledores intentions.

We also see Draco struggling with the choices that he’s being forced to make quite a lot. He chose not to kill Dumbledore, he didn’t give Harry away when he absolutely could have. Harry might not have been ready to see Draco as someone in a moral grey area but he truly was.

Many characters can be redeemed in fiction- redemption arcs are a really compelling storyline and I love every single fic writer that takes the time to craft these beautifully written redemption arcs because Draco really deserved one and it satisfies a part of me that canon completely failed.

[justsomeantifas]

them, wrong: a venn diagram is just when you shove a bunch of circles together, see like this them, wrong:

me: ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WRONG. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE I’M TIRED OF THIS. IF YOUR ALLEGED VENN DIAGRAM IS SO RIGHT THEN WHY ISN’T THERE AN INTERSECTION OF ONLY ENVY AND GREED AND NOTHING ELSE

me: MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE THIS ISNT HOW VENN DIAGRAMS WORK

me: U WANNA SEE A VENN DIAGRAM OF SEVEN? I’LL GIVE U A VENN DIAGRAM OF SEVEN

me:

me: i’m just so tired of the lies.

[andmaybegayer]

If you’re the kind of pedant who cares about this the correct term for the first thing is a Euler diagram. Venn diagrams have to represent every possible combination of all the sets involved which is why the highest order one we have today is only like 11 or 13 or something.

[andmaybegayer]

Ah yes I remember now, HERE is the 11th order venn diagram. Do you like this? no, of course you don’t. This is a bad image.

[justsomeantifas]

love this lil bad boy.