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WHATS GOOD
HEYYYYY, WE SHOULD DO A WRITING COLLAB TOGETHER ABT THAT ONE TELEMACHUS THINGY YOU STARTED WRITING
It's my 2 year anniversary on Tumblr ๐ฅณ
MY MOLECULES HAVE STARTED TURNING PINK
crying
here yโall
your - possessive (this is your pencil)
youโre - you are (youโre so pretty)
there - a location (the car is over there)
their - possessive (thatโs their car)
theyโre - they are (theyโre over there)
itโs - it is (itโs really hot today)
its - possessive (each room has its own bathroom)
yโall- you all (yโall can save this for later)
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS OMG THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE I SEE MESSING THIS UP MAKES ME WANT TO CRY ๐ญ
dream a little, dream of me
CW : major character dead (mentioned, not graphic), aftermath of death, mourning
Stars shinin' bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper, "I love you" Birds singin' in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me
The music flittered through the air, sweet and lilting tones that made Draco think of waltzes in the kitchen. The smell of coq au vin sizzling away in the oven, ingredients scattered around the kitchen isle, a bottle of half-finished wine. A warm, solid body against his.
He remembered brilliant green eyes and a shock of ever messy hair. He remembered sheepish laughter and aching toes, because Potter couldn't dance for the life of him ('Merlin, we'd all be dead if the key to defeating Voldemort was your dancing skills'.)
The kitchen was bare now, the countertops pristine. Even with the music, the silence was loud and suffocating when there was no throaty singing to accompany it.
Draco didn't even go to the funeral. Harry would've hated it. It was an ostentatious affair, with no less than half of Wizarding Britain in attendance to mourn the Chosen One's passing. Speeches from war heroes, and Ministry officials. All black and formal and cold.
He could just imagine what Harry would've said about it. Slouching in his seat, pulling at his starched collar, pouting and growling and fidgeting until Draco would have to tell him to fucking sit still. Harry hates this stuff. Hated.
The thing is, death didn't suit Harry. Harry was life. He lived recklessly and passionately, he burned with a vitality that was as addicting as it was blinding. He was always moving, always throwing himself into everything. He was bright and vivacious and daring. All Draco could do was hold on tight enough to the whirlwind that was Harry Potter.
Their cottage was never quiet with Harry there. Never still. It felt still now. As if frozen in time, waiting for its life back.
Harry's life only existed in his dreams now. Blurred around the edges, the colours washed out like a faded picture. The exact shade of his eyes was uncertain, and was the mole on his neck on the left or right side?
Though, in his mind's eye, Draco still sees that dancing, laughing pair, as they twirl around that bare, dead kitchen.
heartbroken </3
do yโall just ever like a post (like a one-shot, blurb, etc.), click on โread more,โ and then realize that the rest of the story is NOT AT ALL what you wanted it to be?
for example, i was in the mood for some fluffy drarry, and liked several sm*t stories that started off fluffy, before scrolling through them and becoming terrified of what i just read (and disappointed that it wasnโt the fluff i was hoping for). ๐ฅฒ
harry: my old archenemy, draco malfoy
voldemort: i thought i was your archenemy?
harry: i have a life outside of you, tom
voldemort: *offended*
harry: stay mad
Me: โI love Harry Potter.โ
What I actually mean: โI love Harry Potterโs parents, godparents, and basically all of their schoolmates.โ
omg slayyy!! guys, itโs my 1 year anniversary on tumblr!! thanks so much for the love and support yโall ๐
Jealous (Professor Longbottom x Fem!Reader)
โSorry? I didnโt quite catch what you said, Y/N/N.โ
โI was jealous, Nev.โ
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHEN Y/N overhears a few seventh-year girls giggling about the oh-so handsome Professor Longbottom, she canโt help but feel jealous.
Warnings: Fem!Reader, Wife!Reader, Pureblood!Reader, mentions of blushing, fluff, jealousy, unedited writing, and thatโs about it :)
first of all, LOVE your blog your writing is one of my faves on here!!! can i see draco and frenemy!reader with the only one bed trope where draco needs to cuddle something and reader teases him for it but doesnt move away AAAAAA (feel free to change it as you like too!!)
DM. SWEET DREAMS
short one shot
Iโd hope to be favourite but โone ofโ your faves will do igโฆteasing, thank you so much! And thank you for being so kind + sending in such a lovely idea, I hope you love this!! ps I changed it a LITTLE <3
The door swung open and collided against the wall with a thud, and I couldnโt help the smirk that stretched on my lips as Draco jumped from his desk. His head turned to shoot a glare in my direction, and I smiled at his expression as I sauntered over to his bed. I plopped myself onto the edge and lay down, spreading my arms and sighing in satisfaction.
โBlaise and Pansy are getting it on and Iโm being kicked out of my own dorms, so I guess Iโm crashing here for tonight, roomie.โ
I closed my eyes, feeling the soft bedding smooth and silky against my fingertips. I distinctly heard a chair being pushed against the tiled floor, and then footsteps approaching my direction. โWhat makes you think Iโll let you?โ
Iโm giggling like a girl in loveโฆ
โฆoh waitโ I am a girl in love.
my first one-shot thingy??
i REALLY wanted to do a tiny one-shot about professor longbottom x fem!reader where theyโre married, and fem!reader (his wife) gets a lilโ jealous when she hears some seventh-year girls talking about HER neville. it should be out in a few days?? like tomorrow, or maybe even in a few hours??
whoops ๐ ๐
iโve been really inactive latelyโฆ iโm on wattpad way more often, soooโฆ yโall can follow me on there @/sage-like-the-herb. thanks for sticking with meโฆ iโm at 48 followers!! love yโall <3
ik we all want to be covered in blood but which way sounds the best: splattered across your face, dripping out of your mouth or poured over you carrie-style?
dripping from my hands, obviously.
screaming crying throwing up ๐ญ๐ญโ
Wednesday: I'm cold. Tyler: Here, wear my jacket. Wednesday: This feels nice. What's it made out of? Tyler (mumbling): Boyfriend material. Wednesday: What? Tyler: COTTON.
smooth ๐ i kinda want to use that on my friends, but โgirlfriend material,โ respective to my gender & pronouns.
consider: teenagers arenโt apathetic about everything theyโre just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about
Teen: *gets a job*
โI GOT THE JOB!โ
Parents: Well, when I was your age, I already had 5 jobs and was supporting my family
Teen: *gets all Aโs*
โI worked really hard!โ
Parents: Well, of course you did, this is the expectation, not a celebration.
probably why so many teens take to social media where they can enthusiastically share their interests and achievements and get positive feedback that their parents never gave
A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
I remember once, when I was in my early 20s, I was an afternoon supervisor at my job, and I worked with mostly teenagers, and the one day this one kid, who was like 15, was bored so I suggested he could clean out the fridge. He did and when he was done I said he did a good job.
After that, this kid was cleaning out the fridge at least once a week, and I was like, โwhy are you always cleaning the fridge?โ Like, I didnโt mind, but it seemed odd. And he said, โone time I cleaned the fridge and you said I did a good job. I wanted to make you proud of me again.โ
Literally, I changed the entire way I interacted with teenagers after that. I actually got a package of glitter stars and I would stick them on their nametags when they did a good job, and they loved it.
My manager had commented on how hard these kids work and I said, โtheyโre starved for positive feedback. They go to school all day then come to work all evening and no one appreciates it because itโs expected of them, but theyโre still kids. They need positive feedback from adults in their lives.โ
Like, everyone likes feeling appreciated. Everyone likes being complimented and having their efforts be noticed. Another coworker (who was a mother of teenage children), hated that I did this, and said they were too old to be rewarded with stickers, but likeโฆ it wasnโt about the stickers. The stickers were just a symbol that their effort was noticed and appreciated. I was just lucky that I learned this at a time when I was still young enough to remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was only 2 years out of highschool at that point and highschool is fucking hard. People forget this as they get older, but ask anyone and almost no one would ever want to go back and do it again, but they expect kids to suck it up because theyโre young so they should be able to do school full time, plus homework, and work, and maintain a healthy social life, and sleep, and spend time with family, and do chores and help out at home, and worry about college and relationships and everything else, and then just get shit on all the time and treated like theyโre lazy and entitled. And then they wonder why teenagers are apathetic.
For a german exam I had to argue against an article that was essentially โkids these days, they donโt care about anything and are constantly on their phonesโ and really it was the easiest essay Iโve ever written.
Teens donโt talk to adults bc adults only ask โso, howโs schoolโ to then interrupt them two sentences in. And because they canโt engage in a conversation about buying houses and working in a bank. I wouldโve loved to talk about philosophy and politics and history with family the way I did with friends and in class but because I was young no one took what I had to say seriously.
And no, teens arenโt always on their phone. Theyโre on their phone when theyโre bored. You think Iโm on social media when Iโm with my friends? When Iโm talking about something Iโm interested in?
Maybe the reason kids are so distant and always on their phone during family parties and the like is because youโre failing to engage and include them.
Whoop there it is
When you respect kids, they really respond and learn from you. But if you treat kids like โtheyre just a kid, what do they know??โ then youโll never find out.
As a Disneyland Cast Member, Iโll add my own experience onto this โ
Very frequently, when I first speak to a child while Iโm at work, theyโll kind of withdraw and act uncomfortable and shy. Their parents will then rather frequently tell them to not be shy and try to coax them to talk to me โ whenever that happens, I always, without fail, politely dissuade the parents from pressuring them.
โIโm a stranger,โ Iโll tell the kidโs parents. โI donโt blame them for not talking to me โ if they were anywhere else, theyโd have the right idea, to not immediately trust me.โ
I cannot tell you how many times Iโve seen that same kid โ simply after hearing their initial reaction being validated, instead of reproached โ immediately open up to me after that. I also cannot tell you how many times that child and I would go on to start a frigginโ marathon conversation, and I got to hear all about how great their day was or what their favorite Disney movies were or what rides they liked and didnโt like or how much they like a certain Disney character or songโฆall from me validating that initial feeling and showing genuine interest in what they had to say.
This isnโt just young children, either. I will always remember being positioned outside the Animation Academy one day and starting up a conversation with a young lady, perhaps 12 or 13, who joined the line with her father a full 25 minutes before the class was supposed to start. Now keep in mind, we do a drawing class every 30 minutes: there was no one else in line at that point, and no one else joined the girl and her father in line for a full fifteen minutes. So I could tell pretty quickly that this girl was very emotionally invested in getting a good spot for the drawing class: a conclusion all the more bolstered by the fact that she had a notebook under her arm. I asked her if she was an artist โ she said yes, but seemed uncomfortable at the question, so I skipped even asking her if I could see her work, instead admitting that I myself wasnโt very good at art, but that Iโm trying to get better and that I love the history of Disney animation. On the screens around us was video footage of different Disney concept art and animation reels, so I pointed one of them out (for Snow White) and asked if she knew the story behind the making of the movie. Upon confirming that she didnโt, I proceeded to get down on the floor so I could sit next to her and her father and dramatically tell the whole story of how โUncle Waltโ created the first full-length animated motion picture, even though everyone and their mother thought he was an idiot for even trying, and how the film ended up becoming the first Hollywood blockbuster. After the story was over, the girlโs father said that his daughter really wanted to be an animator when she grew up, and she finally felt comfortable enough to open her notebook and show me some of her artwork. It was wonderful! Every sketch had such character and you could tell how much work she put into it! And I could tell how much telling her that โ and sharing that moment with her, where we got to connect over something we both really enjoyed โ had meant. And after the class was over, she sought me out to show me what she and her father had drawn โ and sure enough, hers was great! (Her fatherโs was too, really. XD)
People, kids and teens included, love sharing what they love and how they feel with others. You just have to give them the chance to show it.
A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
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I feel like I am obliged to add one more thing: donโt ever think that the kids wonโt feel your unspoken judgements cause they do!
I felt always like a โproblemโ in my family, until I was about sixteen, I got this teacher who was litterally the first to tell I was worthy. He changed my life up till this day.
Also how do grown ups imagine how โweโ will ever learn to engage in conversations with adults properly if you donโt teach us?
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Everything
I told one of my new coworkers (who is 26) that he was doing really well and that I was proud of him and his progress. I thought he was going to start crying for how quietly he saidย โreally?โ.ย
Positive feedback makes the biggest difference to everything.
iโm extremely lucky that iโve always gotten positive feedback and proper attention + engagement from my parents.
i can count on one hand the times iโve gotten it from anyone else.
teenagers are so attached to their phones at school because itโs one of the only things we have all day that makes us feel vaguely alright
Zare why would you hide this nugget of glorious truth in the tags this is literally everything I want to say but couldnโt figure out words for it
When I ran up to my parents with my nigh-perfect grade school grades and they responded by going โI see, thatโs niceโ, that didnโt spur me to work harder. It fundamentally and permanently changed my relationship with them for the worse.
I was 15 years old and my conclusion was that these people didnโt have my best interests at heart.
They went from โmy parentsโ to โthese peopleโ
Kids know
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