she by empathy ,

her hair was long [ . . . ] her foot was 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 and her eyes were 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙙

[yoraak]

call down the hawk — maggie stiefvater

[prolonglaughter]

the amount of time i spend thinking about “think of something happy, we’re all still here, we’re still fighting” is honestly unhealthy

[prolonglaughter]

 ━ ☆ﾟ. *   sometimes people go and they don’t come back.

❛     that’s not true at all harry.     ❜     soft - spoken    ,   their head tilted to rest gently on his shoulder    ,   arm twined with one of his.    as often occurs   ,    luna thinks of their own mum   ,   whose bones lie undeniably buried under grass and have for a very long time.   the same mum who visits in dreams    ,    sits with luna for tea and soup and used to ask about their studies as though luna had come home and sat at the table and told her all about their class schedule.   hand - made wind chimes and their own loud laughter and a million other things that have so often made luna feel very much accompanied.

all this in mind   ,   it doesn’t feel as though harry would find great comfort in hearing about visits in sleep.    ❛     the people that love you always love you.   they’re always with you because love never leaves to begin with.   it’s just not the way you want them to be.     ❜    and   ,   really   ,   the last thing either of them needs to be told about is death.   if anything   ,   they have a considerable amount more of expertise than most.   they can’t make him find comfort in any of it   ,   and they can’t make him smile   ,   and trying wouldn’t help.    clutch on his arm tightens   ,   their legs side by side.   ❛     i won’t be going anywhere   ,   though.   i think maybe we should just be sad for a while.    ❜

 ━ ☆ﾟ. * featuring :   @lingeringscars as harry potter .

[blxckberrying]

when jenny slate said, “My vulnerability is natural and permissible and beautiful to me, and it should remind you of your responsibility to behave like a friend to me and the world.”

[prolonglaughter]

i know what jkr said but in my world the crumple-horned snorkack was one of the first creatures luna discovered upon traveling after she graduated from hogwarts 

[prolonglaughter]

  ━ ☆ﾟ. *   it’s so rare that we’re actually given the opportunity to be honest about everything. we might as well try it once and see if we like it.

❛     is it rare   ?     ❜      contrary to popular belief   ,   she’s very rarely been unaware of what’s being said around her.  it only takes a functioning ear or two to hear shock   ,   and not even that to sense it   ,   every moment she’s said something glaringly honest that’s caught someone by surprise.    if anything   ,   she’s more inclined to be confused by the extensive amount of people who apparently spend much of their time avoiding what comes out anyway.  whispered in their ear or happened upon  ,   there’s no sense in trying for dishonesty.     it never lasts   ,   anyway.

her hum is considerate   ,   regardless   ,   quiet under breath.    before he answers   ,   her own conclusion circled back while deciding she’s been right the entire time.     ❛     no   ,   i don’t think it is.   i’m surprised you do.   you’re rather honest.     ❜    here   ,   her hand settles gently on his shoulder   ,   though what comes out is as conversational as if she was asking what they’d be having for lunch.        ❛     sometimes you’re rude about it   ,   though.    have you noticed   ?     ❜

  ━ ☆ﾟ. * featuring :   @outlivespast as christian ozera .

[hunterschaf]

HUNTER SCHAFER by Ryan McGinley | Vogue Magazine’s rising stars for 2020

[toskka-deactivated20210124]

She thought (…) of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness;

Vladimir Nabokov, from Nabokov’s Dozen: Thirteen Stories, tr. by Dmitri Nabokov

[prolonglaughter]

   ━ ☆ﾟ. *   i was only gone for thirty seconds!

❛     you’ve startled him   !     ❜    uncharacteristically accusing is tone as she kneels   ,   nose to beak with a chicken that’s just set lavender curtains on fire.   hands held out   ,   palms up   ,   quietly consoling.    they suppose he’s not technically supposed to be in the house   ,  but it would be unfair to lay blame on the bird when it was pansy who left the door open.   even that is short lived   ,   out of mind once she’s knees on floor.   she doesn’t dare move   ,   not yet   ,   but as an afterthought is glance to other when the room grows warmer.   ❛     put that out   ,   please.   i was fond of those.     ❜

   ━ ☆ﾟ. *   featuring :    @parkinsn as pansy parkinson .

[prolonglaughter]

in the deathly hallows after luna is taken off the hogwarts express due to the support for harry potter published in the quibbler  ,  xenophilius chooses to change what the quibbler publishes to a very different tune.   luna only learns about this later  ,  when she’s staying at the shell cottage.   luna is a very understanding and empathetic person, and she’d never judge her dad for making that choice.  she understands it   !   if it had been her choice  ,  though  ,   she would’ve wanted him to keep publishing the truth.   i think xenophilius knew this  ,  because he knows luna  ,  but couldn’t bring himself to keep publishing something that might have gotten luna killed.

[prolonglaughter]

𝑾𝑯𝑨𝑻    𝑾𝑬𝑹𝑬    𝒀𝑶𝑼𝑹    𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑫𝑺    𝑴𝑬𝑨𝑵𝑻    𝑻𝑶    𝑫𝑶    ?

CREATE     :     maybe there aren’t any gods, but you can build your own world.   you are driven, but for what? for something to calm the storm in your mind, or to shake the world with your own thunder?   endlessly searching for answers only our own reflections can tell you. you long for people in eras after this to see the scratches you left, and you love the ones left from ages past. when you taste spice, you savor it. you want to climb to the top of the world and scream ‘I was here!’.    you are wind, its endless flow, its eternity, the way it turns itself into song.

tagged  by :  @rebelblck  ♡♡♡ tagging :  anyone that wants tag me i’ll vouch !! 

[prolonglaughter]

DEATHLY HALLOWS CANON EXPANSION   /   DIVERGENCE

( note  :  i didn’t call this only divergence because i don’t believe much information in dh goes against this  ,  but as the books obviously don’t focus on luna  ,  this is more an expansion on happenings during certain times she was present  ,  touching on very minor divergences. )

at fleur and bill’s wedding  ,  at the arrival of kingsley’s message  ,  luna is among one of the quicker people to react.  she’s very intuitive  ,  and though she certainly didn’t know anything would happen  ,  i think she had a certain suspicion it wouldn’t all go smoothly.  the very first thing she does is urge her father to go home  ,  promising to meet him there.  xenophilius disapparates home immediately under the impression his daughter will be right behind him  ,  though with how well he knows luna i have to think a part of him isn’t surprised when he arrives home and luna does not appear in the room with him.  luna does in fact stay behind to help in warding off death eaters so that others can get out safely.  after this  ,  luna  ,  along with the others that remained  ,  was interrogated for hours for any information they had to offer on harry’s location.  though luna was very much aware that harry had been at the wedding  ,  they offered no information and didn’t know where harry had gone  ,  anyway.  luna isn’t able to go home until well into the early hours of the following day.

early in the hogwarts year  ,  luna along with ginny and neville attempt to steal the sword of gryffindor from snape’s office.  they do get caught  ,  and as punishment are sent into the forbidden forest with hagrid. 

throughout the entire year up until christmas  ,  luna  ,  ginny  ,  and neville continue dumbledore’s army meetings even as it grows increasingly difficult to run undetected.  

on her way home luna gets abducted off the hogwarts express at christmas break.  she’s taken directly to malfoy manor and kept there for roughly four months.  luna was placed in the malfoy manor cellar instead of azkaban due to her closeness to harry  ,  and the idea that she was more likely to have information directly related to him and his whereabouts than other supporters of his  ,  though she didn’t.  she was tortured for information  ,  i will presume by bellatrix  ,  several times during her stay.  though as more time passed and she revealed nothing  ,  it turned into more of suffering by neglect in the sense she was barely fed and barely given water or anything else.  anything she was given she often split her share with ollivander  ,  since he was weaker.  she would have preferred to stay and help harry and ron and hermione  ,  but she was weak  ,  wandless  ,  and at the time admittedly would have just done more harm than good by not leaving when they asked.

luna stays at the shell cottage until hermione  ,  harry  ,  and ron arrive at hogwarts and neville alerts her  ,  where she immediately returns to help.  if you want to get specific  ,  the line of hers “i’ve never stunned anyone except in our D.A lessons” is null on this blog because in my portrayal she stayed behind at the wedding to assist  ,  and that was her first time stunning anyone outside of the D.A.

i don’t have her movements mapped during the battle or anything  ,  except that she tries to stay near her friends and at one point casts her patronus on top of helping harry to cast one to clear out a good hundred dementors  ,  and later duels with bellatrix alongside ginny and hermione.

[prolonglaughter]

    ━ ☆ﾟ. *   so… we’ll talk later.

❛     oh  ,  no  ,  you’re welcome to talk now.     ❜     unlike girl standing opposite  ,   luna’s own features don’t stray from an everyday calm.   silver gaze remains set on something squirming before her   ,   mushroom head luna cups gently between hands.    there’s no reason for them to see that whatever jasmine wants to discuss should wait.    after all  ,  horklumps aren’t even among her noisiest companions  ,  the only sound currently coming from table top is a wet drag when it moves.       ❛     they’re rather uninterested in household gossip.     ❜

    ━ ☆ﾟ. *   featuring :    @lingeringscars as jasmine anderson .

[frostwill]

critical role sentence starters !!!

so… we’ll talk later.

why won’t you stay down and die with dignity?

no. no further.

this is not over. it can’t be.

try not to have too much fun without us.

i have this blink candle. it’s formed from various animals that blink.

it’s so rare that we’re actually given the opportunity to be honest about everything. we might as well try it once and see if we like it.

you know i’m in love with you, right?

you seem… like a person. and that’s great.

those are coins! you’re not making it rain, you’re making it hail!

i’m killing someone, hold please.

your secret is safe with my indifference.

my heart is someone else’s.

do not go far from me. if we are out of earshot, you are too far from me.

um, i don’t know if it’s the food you made or the fact that we’re going to die tomorrow, but i want to kiss you.

i was all kinds of fucked up a few weeks ago.

you’re all kinds of fucked up all the time. we all are. and that’s why we’re together.

i just want to let you know… i am possibly the worst person you’ve ever met.

i think i kind of hope… not necessarily to hurt you or harm you, but i hope that one day… that you can know just how awful i can be.

you can curse, it’s okay. you killed one of us.

i think i’ve always been in love with the idea of you.

i was only gone for thirty seconds!

i encourage violence.

i can give you the means to protect them.

i do not want to die who i am. i’d like to live long enough to be someone else.

you’re on your own, fuckface.

a volcano is - is nature’s candle!

sometimes people go and they don’t come back.

do you spice?

so we’re going to kill everyone that we see in the next ten seconds.

i don’t want to be here if you’re not.

i told you before. no one kills you but me.

he traded his life!

i don’t have very many things that i care about and i don’t have anything that cares about me.

i’m great! well, not really, but i’m just going to pretend i’m happy so everybody can be okay!

i’ve been in a barrel for an hour. i fell asleep in there!

yes. i heard. it was the only thing i heard.

don’t cry. i’m just a little cold.

i bury my shame.

i should have told you. it’s yours.

forgiveness - that’s the key, isn’t it? it’s the only way to really grow.

your hair’s a mess. sit still.

you are my heart. you are me. you are my other half. you are welcome with me always.

you don’t always have to put on a brave face, dear.

we’re friends, right? are we friends?

i know we don’t always agree and i know i can be unkind, but… you know you’re family, right?

i’ve had a terrible thought. and it is sort of my business to have terrible thoughts.

take me instead.

we walk towards glory.

that’s mine! that’s mine!

did it choose me because i was broken, or did it break me?

please bring him back to me.

you think you care about me?

this was always supposed to happen, wasn’t it?

i love you. if i can find you, i will. if not, stay alive.

if he’s gone i won’t be the same.

i’d watch your moral panic all day, it’s delightful.

in many ways you are my total opposite. but you are also my best friend.

i made a choice. this is my family.

i forgive you. but i cannot let you leave.

please. please. i love him as much as you do.

fix him. fix him!

i like this family. i’d like to keep it.

i want you to know that you are like a brother to me.

talk about my sister again.

it’s been a while since we’ve had one of our depressing chats!

i can’t have you gone. i need you here.

i think we’re very broken people. but i think together we’re much greater than the sum of our parts.

don’t ever fucking do that again.

you didn’t die. but you did! but you didn’t. but you did! and then you didn’t.

i don’t want any of this! i don’t want any of this.

i’ve just had a near death experience and i’m craving some lasagna. 

you know, you’re getting weirder.

you and i are very different.

i’ve killed two of those who’ve wronged me and nothing is better. nothing feels better. nothing is avenged.

call me “child” one more goddamn time!

if you’re lucky, you die last.

some people have no sense of fucking honor!

i’ll take my clothes off if it’ll inspire us.

thank you for believing in me.

you’ve never done anything for me! never! you’ve never risked anything, you don’t know me!

everyone else believes in you. why shouldn’t you?

how many fingers am i holding up?

what’s the first letter of the alphabet? this you know.

yay! teamwork!

you fucking died!

don’t touch me right now! i’m not - don’t touch me!

i’m going to go get a sandwich.

you had us all very worried.

your reckless impulses will get you killed!

i’m done with gods. they will not help me. perhaps you will. 

this is too fucking much.

come here, you shithead.

it has been an honor.

screw you! i want my final words with you to be indignant and irritated.

you’re the face i saw when murder entered my heart.

i’m undecided about you.

never forget you’re my favorite. and i’m so sorry.

i’m not leaving him.

you’re a better man than you believe.

feel like making a home here?

you’re an idiot and i’m very proud of you. don’t do that again.

sound off if you’re alive.

it’s not going to work.

[prolonglaughter]

thinking about luna + ‘there goes the most shameless woman this town has ever seen’

[prolonglaughter]

thinking long and hard 24/7 about luna’s brand of disarming honesty that’s not blunt nor harsh but just ... very real  !!  and how she doesn’t lie nor does she let herself be lied to  !!

[moonbirdy]

*cuts up strawberries and shares them with you