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Inventor | Youtuber | 25 | Ravenclaw alum

[pandoraflourish]

thexeno-lovegood​:

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A smile spread across his features, as he felt her hand run through his unkempt locks of hair. “Pencil skirt?” he raised an inquisitive eyebrow, a smirk taking over his face as he pictured her. “Trying to weigh up whether it’s better or worse than yoga pants.”

Pulling her closer he placed a kiss to her temple. “Nonsense, I will always value your insightful opinion my love.” 

“Of course,” he teased, taking a sip of his coffee, before placing it on the bedside table. “All she needs to do is gaze at me with her beautiful eyes and I’m in a trance, completed intoxicated by her beauty wondering how on earth she is sat next me.”

“Do you need a camera man to capture you looking cute?” he quizzed, resting his hand on her upper thigh. “That sounds amazing! Maybe you could pick up tips on beekeeping, I’m sure we have room for a hive.”

Pandora laughed at the expression on his face and leaned over to press a kiss against his lips. “Oh, the new yoga pants I ordered are way worse, I promise,” she mumbled. “You charmer, you.” 

She pressed another kiss against the corner of his mouth. “That would be lovely. You’re really good at candid pictures.” She giggled, “I’m sure we’ll get a lot of hashtag couple goals comments if I post them.” Pan smiled happily, knowing those comments were absolutely correct. 

“Oh! You think so?” she sat up, a thoughtful crease between her eyebrows, “I suppose we could have one near the back, where they won’t be bothered. Oh, wouldn’t it be so cute to have little bees bumbling around?” 

[pandoraflourish]

Xeno: Do we need any melons?

Xeno: Or any cress?

Xeno: Who ever goes to Sainsbury's and buys a sprig of mint?

Xeno: What type of person doesn't just grow mint on their window.

-1 minute gap-

Xeno: Butternut squash is a weird looking veg

Pan: Melooooooooons! And don't we have cress in the garden? Or did Chiquita eat that?

Pan: I'd say they were heathens, but a heathen would know not to buy mint from the shops...

Pan: Personally I find butternut squash to have a very pleasing feminine shape that radically contrasts with the phallic-shaped dominance present in produce.

Pan: Do they have donuts?

[pandoraflourish]

regulus-stygianlion-black​:

Regulus would be lying if he said that the blonde witch hadn’t taken him a bit by surprise. Whenever he came in, especially alone, it was easy for him to get lost in his own world. He recognized her quickly, her bubbly personality having not changed much from when they had been in school.

“You’re alright. I was actually going to ask the clerk if there were more books by this author, but it seems my questions have been answered. ” He replied before looking back to it. “I’ve been good actually.“ And you, Pandora?” He managed a slight smile.

“I want to say ask me anything, because I practically grew up in this bookstore, but I did actually grow up here, so...” Pandora says, with a soft giggle, “Genuinely, any obscure books you’re looking for, I got you! Dad likes to hide his favourites under stacks of romance novels.” 

She was pleased to see Regulus hadn’t changed all that much from the kid she’d met in the library. Still had a bit of that startled deer energy about him. Grew into himself, that was for sure. 

“I’m good,” she replied, backing off a little and leaning against the bookcase next to them, “Had a few hours to spare, so came over to have a cuppa in the back. If, by any chance, you had a particular craving for ginger cookies, it’s your lucky day.” 

[pandoraflourish]

Hectic | open

“I know. I know! I’m sorry! It’s been such a long time. Way too long! I really wanted to meet up sooner, I swear.” 

“How are you? You good? How are things with the-” she gestures wildly, “You know, the thing.” 

[pandoraflourish]

Bookended | Pan & Regulus

Pan is bored. 

Pan is very bored and it doesn’t bode well for any of the casually perusing customers in Flourish and Blotts. The times of her life where Pan had been bored like this it had resulted in plans and pranks of the accidentally setting things on fire or dousing people in mysterious liquids variety. 

She has half a mind to do something like that anyway, though dad probably won’t be to happy with either of those things happening in his bookshop and even the apple of his eye probably shouldn’t push her luck. 

Pan shuts the book she’s been trying and failing to focus on with a frustrated huff. She knows she needs to find something else to occupy her time with, so she gets up and starts towards the front of the shop. She might just go get a sundae at Florian’s. The walk might clear her head. 

It’s then she spots a familiar, dark-haired boy in between the stacks of books. She pauses for a second, trying to place his figure, and then exclaims, “Regulus! Hi!”

She bounds over, delighted to have someone to channel some energy towards. “Ooh, that’s a good topic,” she says, as she peers at the tome he’s holding, “We have more by this author somewhere up top- oh, sorry.” She takes a step back, “What I meant was, hi! How are you?” 

@regulus-stygianlion-black  

[happyheidi]

[melisscan]

[pandoraflourish]

extraordinarylovegood​:

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“Wouldn’t you like the suits that he wears though?” he mused, taking her hand gently placing a kiss on the back of it. “I’m happy with my love that accepts all hours as bedtime.”

He smirked placing a head behind his head, “sounds like a swell guy. You will need to introduce me to him bet we’d have a lot in common and could talk til way past 3 am.” 

Xeno turned to face her, “My day, involves filming and then maybe some chess with this really cute blonde girl who I’m pretty sure is trying to romance me with breakfast in bed.”

“Oh that’d be nice, wouldn’t it?” she teased, “Could you imagine? I could buy a pencil skirt to match.” She giggles, scrunching her nose, “I prefer the scruffy vibe.” She ran her fingers through his hair to make her point.

“If you met you, I don’t think I’d ever get a word in sideways.”

“Is it working?” she asked, as she picked up her cup of coffee, warming her perpetually chilly fingers on it.

“I thought I’d head out for the the market in town, today. I’m in the mood to look cute with a basket full of vegetables. It’s one of those special yearly markets and they’ve got a bee keeper with fresh honey and honeycombes.”

[pandoraflourish]

extraordinarylovegood​:

Xeno mustered his best grin towards her as he slowly massaged his temples. Her energy and readiness in the morning had always been vastly opposite from his groggy slow demeanor. He could put it down to their age gap but he had always been a reluctant morning person.

“Good morning,” he replied placing his hand on her thigh. “One day I will learn not to stay on the computer editing until three am.”

He knew he wouldn’t.

“Coffee and croissants sounds perfect,” he lifted himself to lounge against the headboard. “Thank you for bringing the painkillers.” He placed a kiss on her temple before taking two of the pills. 

“What are your plans for the day?”

“Hmm, hmm. Sure you will,” she teased gently, as she leaned over to plant a kiss on his cheek. “I’m just happy you’re not a nine to five guy. I’d rather have the 3 AM’s.” 

Pan smiled, “Oh, nothing much. Just hanging out with this guy I really like. Between you and me, I think he has a bit of a crush on me, but is too awkard to tell me.” 

She lowered her head onto the pillow next to him. “How about you? After eating croissants with me in bed, of course.” 

[pandoraflourish]

extraordinarylovegood​:

Morning headaches || Xeno & Pan

Xeno rubbed his temples as his eyes adjusted to the morning night. Him and Pan had been working tirelessly all night planning their trip to New York; never ones to miss an opportunity they had mapped out perfectly the two weeks.

Turning onto his side, he saw that Pan’s side of the bed was vacant. It wasn’t unusual for him to sleep longer than her but something was different today. He blinked his eyes trying to adjust to the light in the room but his sleep induced haze wasn’t seeming to budge and a throbbing sensation began in his head. He knew the perils of late night computer usage yet he never learnt his lesson.

“Pan, my love, can you bring me some painkillers?” he called out.

@pandoraflourish​

Pan was humming to herself, as she filled their coffee-maker up with some fresh fair-trade beans. She’d always been quite fine on little sleep and she hoped that would continue to be true for the next couple of years. 

She smiled as she heard Xeno’s croaky voice from upstairs. “I’ll be right there!” she called. Pan grabbed a roll of rice crackers, a mug of water and the bottle of painkillers from the medicine cabinet and hopped up the stairs. 

“‘Sup old man,” she greeted him, as she slipped through the door of their bedroom. “Got the screen ache?” 

“Don’t worry,” she said, hopping onto the bed with gusto. “Coffee’s brewing and I took the liberty to order some fresh croissants.” 

[pandoraflourish]

thewrong-alice​:

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Alice actually adored that Pandora followed her on instagram. Alice adored each and everyone of her followers and tried to answer every time they commented. It was hard work, but she valued her platform. She wanted to use it for good, so didn’t mind putting the effort in. “It means a lot that you follow me….” Having friends with good follower counts helped her own follower count, and that made her happy. But, she also just simply adored being friends with Pandora, so it just made her happy.

“Everything has been going pretty well actually…..” She murmured with a smile. “Or well….. as welll as it can anyway” She continued a few seconds later with a laugh. “I’ve been on desk duty since my accident in December. It can be boring at times, but I’m trying to find the positives” And she was learning a lot, and seeing a different side to the Aurory. She hated it sometimes, but it was going to benefit her in the long run. “How have you been?”

“That makes me excited too…..and happy” Alice put on a confident front, but sometimes new things made her nervous. This was a whole new thing, and had the potential to go so wrong. But knowing Pandora’s team were excited to work with her made it feel a little better. “That’s so cool….. “ And hearing that actually really made her feel part of the team, rather tan someone they were just putting in cross of the camera and getting to say lines.

“Hmm…..” Alice was quiet for a few moments as she thought about things. There was literally so much she wanted to teach kids, but she wanted to remain focus. “I’ve always been really passionate about being who you are, and not changing for anyone….” How she had seen herself had always had a huge impact on how positive she was, and she knew it was an important message she’d want to get across. “Being happy, and content with who you are….. is so vital to mental health, which is as important as physical health”

She paused for a few moments, and just smiled at Pandora. “My parents were never happy with who I wanted to be, and I want kids to hear a message that it’s okay to be yourself…. even if others don’t like it?” She felt like she was just blurting things out, but hopefully it would all come together and just work. “So…. maybe something along those lines?”

“Well, of course! Who else would get me to do my stretches in the morning!” Pandora laughed. There was an honesty and an openness about Alice, both in person and in her social media presence, that Pan really enjoyed. More people needed to see that spark, she felt. 

“Oh yes, quite the ordeal wasn’t it? I hope you got my flowers!” She’d immediately gone online to get Alice something nice to cheer her up while she was in the hospital. She was on a tour for the foundation at the time, so she wasn’t able to visit. “I’m sure desk duty is boring, but sometimes things that don’t seem fun at all can turn out to be great opportunities! One door closes... and all that!” 

She looked over, as an employee approached them. “Hello. Caramel latte for me, please.” She glanced over at Alice, “Anything you fancy? My treat.” 

“I think you’ve got some great general ideas brewing,” she said, once they’d given their orders to the waitress, “Self-acceptance, and therefore better mental health, being an important factor in phyisical health- I like it! Inclusivity of all bodies and backgrounds. We can totally work with that.” 

Pan leaned over to pull a notebook from her bag, jotting down the idea. “Fair warning, things like this often have to be dumbed down a little bit, especially if you want to present them to a large audience.” It was a hard lesson to learn if you didn’t expect it, so she wanted Alice to be prepared for it. 

[pandoraflourish]

thewrong-alice​:

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Alice was really excited to see where this collaboration lead. It was the first proper collaboration that she had done with her fitness. Of course, she’d had a few paid promotional posts on instagram but this was different. Not that she didn’t love doing instagram paid promotions, but the collaboration with Pandora was going to allow her to do something she was really passionate about. She hadn’t done much in terms of inclusion and so she was excited about it.

She had a smile on her face as she flicked through the foundations website on her phone. Of course, she had done a lot of research already. She wanted to know what she was getting involved with. She wanted to be a good ambassador, and that meant that she needed to know about the organisation. It looked pretty great, but she hadn’t doubted it. It only made her more excited to get involved. She couldn’t wait to see how successful their collaboration would be.

She looked up as she heard Pandora’s voice, and the smiled. “Hey Pandora!” She murmured with a nod. She locked her phone, and slipped it into her pocket. It wasn’t very professional to have her phone out, especially when they were going to have some sort of business meeting.

“Oh don’t worry. I think I was a bit early actually” Alice had a really bad habit of turning up to things early. Though she supposed it wasn’t much of a bad habit really. “I’m really excited too” She murmured, a big smile on her face. “I love everything your foundation stands for, and I’m so excited to work with you!”

Pandora’s smile broadened significantly. “It’s so good to hear that,” she admitted. There was always a part of her that was afraid that she wasn’t doing enough or doing something wrong, so some validation was alawys nice. 

“It’s been ages, too!” Pan said, as she took off her jacket and put down her bag, “How have you been? An instagram follow just doesn’t cover everything, does it?” They hadn’t really caught up in quite a while. Try as she might, Pan found it hard to keep up with everything, even in the fast world of social media. Well- especially in the fast world of social media. 

“So, the thing is, the entire team is really excited to work with you on this, we’re quite ready to kick off, but I really want you to know what you’re getting into and for you to have a say in what we’re doing. The team’s come up with some great ideas that I’m sure they’ll go over with you, but I’d like to hear what your ideas and expectations are going into this.” 

Sure, they could put Alice in front of a green screen with some props and have her say lines, but Pan knew that wouldn’t cut it. It had to come from Alice, from her heart and her passion. She was really the one to facilitate, even though Alice had agreed to help her. 

“What’s something you would really want people to know? What would you want to teach kids about what they do, about their bodies and their health?” She giggled, “Sorry, it’s a lot of questions, please take your time.” 

[pandoraflourish]

extraordinarylovegood​:

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“Poking your tongue out at people can also be considered an annoying quality,” he remarked with a smirk. “You can’t let me keep all the annoying qualities to myself, we need to share.”

“Excited work talk is allowed along as its under twenty seconds,” he teased, tickling her side a little bit. “We could link it to actual ghost stories we learn from the walk.”

“Of course, anywhere you want to go we will go.” He placed a kiss on the top of her head. He was scared of heights so wouldn’t want to be travelling to the top of buildings but he’d consider going up for Pandora.

“It is interesting. I see it as the muggles deep down knew that magic existed and let their imaginations run wild into the possibilities of super humans.” he pondered out loud. He loved being able to debate with Pandora, it helped them grow as a couple. 

“The real question is though, what super power do you want?”

Pandora nods sagely, “Good to know- I guess you won’t mind when I do this then!” She gets up on her knees and attacks his sides with her fingers, tickling where she knows it’s gonna make him squirm. 

“Oh, it could even be a series!” she says excitedly, “Like a ghost tour, or conspiracy tour. All the creepy spaces. That sounds like a great time.” 

Pan pushes herself up from the couch, grabbing the pizza boxes to take them to the bin. “Tea?” she calls over her shoulder, while continuing the conversation, “I suppose it’s innate in people to believe in incredible things. That’s why they love you so much.” She smiles, so proud of Xeno’s achievements. “Magic, superpowers, science, there’s some overlap between all of them I imagine.” 

“There’s not a lot of easy superpowers when you have magic, when you think about it,” she replies, as she comes back with two steaming cups. “Mind reading, maybe? I’d never have to worry about what other people think of me- though I’m not sure if that’s positive or negative.” She makes a face, thinking of all the stupid youtbe comments, coming live to her from people’s brains. “What about you?” 

[ofwxtches]

When Pandora had messaged her Alice had to admit that she was excited. She’d been friends with the girl at school, they had been i the same year after all, but since they had both graduated they had grown apart. She knew what the woman was up to though. Who did? She was an internet sensation after all. Alice was pretty in awe of her. She made it look so simple. Alice struggled to keep to her own instagram schedule sometimes. She loved what Pandora stood for, especially her Future of Magic Foundation. Alice had a passion for inclusion within the magical and muggle community. It was something that drove her to do all that she did. She’d ended up disowned because of it, refusing to put her feelings aside for the sake of family. It had set her on the track she was on now, and even now she was still finding her feet in this world alone, and without a lot of money. But she would never change anything for the world.

So when Pandora had messaged her, the woman had been so excited. She’d have willingly volunteered in some capacity with the foundation, but with a physical health and safety campaign, it seemed right up her alley. Physical health and fitness was another of her passions. She’d actually carved up some time in her busy schedule to fit a meeting with Pandora in. She was excited to get some things up and going outside of work. Since her accident she’d put some things on hold, so she couldn’t wait to get started.

She smiled to herself, flicking through the Foundations website, as she sat in the book shop, awaiting the arrival of Pandora. She was excited for this collaboration with Pandora, and all that it held for the wizarding and muggle world.

@pandoraflourish​

[pandoraflourish]

Pandora had forgotten first her wallet and then her phone leaving the house in her excitement to meet with Alice. She always loved doing things for the foundation- as much as she loved youtube, the foundation was truly her passion. When they’d decided on doing the physical health and safety campaign, she’d known immediately who she wanted to ask for help. 

Though they hadn’t talked much since Hogwarts, her and Alice had been following each other on social media since the beginning and it’d been very lovely watching Alice make waves on Instagram. Alice was perfect for the campaign and Pan was doubly excited to reconnect with an old friend for a good cause. 

She greeted Matilda at the desk, as she entered Flourish and Blotts, where they’d decided to meet up. It was still quite nice that the shop had expanded to provide a seating area, where a few drink options could be consumed while reading or, in their case, meeting up. 

She spotted Alice quickly and dropped into the seat opposite her. “Oh my goodness, hi! It’s been such a long time, how are you?” 

“Sorry I’m a tad late, I forgot like twenty things leaving the house,” she laughs, “So thanks for waiting! And agreeing to meet me in the first place. I’m so excited about this!” 

[fracturedscrapbook]

Pandora making sure she and Xeno don’t get seperated on the bus during a night out.

February 2020

[pandoraflourish]

DM | Pandora & Severus

@princehdg: Hello yourself

@princehdg: long time no talk

@princehdg: I'm alright-- roommate has a date over for the first time ever so I'm trying to not be a lurker but I'm definitely being a lurker

@princehdg: How are you?

@princehdg: and I'd be happy to lend my expertise-- what's up?

@Techwitch: oh, how nice! I hope she has a nice date :) Although maybe not nice enough that she kicks u out haha

@Techwitch: Yeah it's been a while, sorry! I had no idea how intense going on tour for FoM was going to be.

@Techwitch: I'm good! I've taken some time to rest and be a human, but I'm excited to get back into filming!

@Techwitch: aaah Princey you're amazing :D WELL I'm going to talk about the dangers of magical apps and I was hoping we could talk about techniques people might use to get personal info. Anonymously, of course!

[pandoraflourish]

DM | Pandora & Severus

@Techwitch: Hey can I ask you some questions for a video?

@techwitch: It's about privacy in magical apps

@Techwitch: and you know much more about that and the software than any expert

@Techwitch: also HELLO how are you?