#apperception

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Do you know, I have literally less than one scene to finish writing for Apperception and it'd be ready to post? I'm screaming at myself for procrastinating this shit gdi

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i have no idea if anyone even cares anymore but the next (and last) chapter of apperception is nearly complete and will be posted soon. i’m having some personal issues at the moment (and some uni ones haha) so that’s why i haven’t been on here for a while and why apperception hasn’t been updated

or green vine for that matter, oh gods

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Chapter 5 of Apperception is now up, as I promised at Christmas (forgive me).

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hey, hey look, it’s a snippet of Apperception, Chapter Five:

At the far end of the room was a metal door, worn and heavy-looking. Newt made right for it, still sticking close to the edge of the room, mindful of hidden spells and traps in the room. His magical awareness kept him from tripping on the most innocuous of cracks and alerted him to a detection spell on the handle of the door.

His wand would be much more useful for this sort of unravelling of spells, but Newt had handled himself well enough in the past when he was wandless. Flicking his wrist in a sharp motion, the handle moved, and the door opened; the detection spell bypassed completely. Whoever had cast it obviously not thought anyone would attempt wandless magic to open the door, they hadn’t even cast the spell properly!

Newt quirked a brow, considering how useful that knowledge would be in the future. If these smugglers were amateurs, then that boded well for him but not so well for the creatures. Amateur smugglers tended to lose a lot of their ‘stock’ purely out of ignorance and lack of knowledge.

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“You’re so certain of your own goodness, Newton, but we both know you’re not as good a person as you lead others to think,” Grindelwald replied, eyes flashing. “The Hufflepuff who everyone dismisses for his Gryffindor brother. They don’t realise you’re the deadlier of the two; just like everyone thought Albus so good and noble.”

And here we see a very good reason to NEVER TALK TO GRINDELWALD EVER NEWT! WHAT DID I TELL YOU!

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Snippet of Apperception for ya’ll because ya’ll have the patience of saints for waiting so long for me to write this!

Like seriously, patience of saints

@deadcatwithaflamethrower, @meabhair, @sanerontheinside, @lilyrose225writes, @eclipsemidnight, @maawi, @stonefreeak, @kyberpunk​,

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Theseus frowned briefly, eying his brother closely even as he picked up his own copy of the ingredients. “Not sure. What does ‘anoxia’ mean?”

“Water that doesn’t have any oxygen in it.” Newt and Theseus both looked at Tina in surprise. She shrugged. “What? Queenie learns the oddest things and tells me anything she thinks is interesting.”

“You can’t crush water though,” Theseus pointed out, looking between the other two. “Different things, then?”

Newt nodded slowly. “When researching Egyptian magical creatures, I came across six different species of scarab beetle, one of which was called the Anoxia Beetle.”

Tina looked at her own copy of the ingredients. “What are the chances that whoever is trying to make this noticed the difference?”

Newt smirked. “Considering how rare Anoxia Beetles are, and how much work it took for me to gain enough trust of the priests that guard the temple they’re found in…”

“Probably not that high then,” Theseus finished, grinning. “Well then, should be fun to see who tries to put liquid ‘gold’ in their cauldron full of water to see how long their set-up doesn’t last.”

At Tina’s confused look, Newt explained, “there’s no such thing as liquid gold unless it’s heated, obviously,”—Tina nodded—“but that would make it useless unless the temperature was high enough to keep it in its molten state—”

“Which this potion doesn’t,” Theseus cut in.

“—so that means the list must refer to some other type of metal. One which is a liquid at a much lower temperature, likely room temperature since there’s nothing in the potion’s details which suggests the metal is heated prior to being added to the potion.” Newt grinned sharply. “One of the only metals I know of, one I learnt about from a Muggle scientist in Germany in fact, is Caesium.”

“Caesium?” Tina repeated, curious.

“Caesium is one of a group of metals that really doesn’t agree with water,” Theseus answered brightly. “When whoever our mysterious potion-maker is adds it to their cauldron with anoxic water that finally has access to some air—”

“—we’ll probably hear the explosion from a mile away?” Tina guessed, a smile growing on her face.

Theseus laughed.

“The amount of alkaline and acidic ingredients this potion has, and the fact it wants two primary feathers from a Snidget too? Oh, most definitely.” Newt laughed.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Fanfic

“I’m not an expert in potion-making. I’m proficient but I have no idea how long this potion would take to create based on the ingredients alone.” 

Big thanks to @imjz for their invaluable assistance with the potion from hell

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Little snippet from Apperception (yes, another one):

“You’re not alone in having panic attacks, Newt,” Theseus said softly. Newt’s brows drew together. “I used to have them a lot after I found all those kids… I’d keep seeing their faces, hearing them scream and cry out for help and I couldn’t do anything!” Theseus scrubbed at his eyes furiously. “The nightmares were bad enough, but whenever I came across anything that even remotely reminded me, or could end up the same way, I’d… well, I used to freak out. Freeze up. Not move.”

“You never told me,” Newt said quietly, honestly surprised. Theseus had told him he’d had nightmares, yes, but panic attacks? No, he’d never mentioned those.

“I was ashamed of it,” Theseus admitted bluntly, looking at Newt with a glimmer of faint humour in his eyes. “You used to look up to me—the big brother who was brave and tough and who everyone loved. I didn’t want you—didn’t want other people—to look at me like I was broken.”

All aboard the angst-train??