At the Golden Door Festival this weekend, to support the short movie MISSED. I can’t say enough good things about this movie that puts me in tears every time I see it: James Kacey @giuseppedoesit, you wouldn’t recognize him, transformed and gave an outstanding performance with his great screen partners in this deep and delicate story written by Keith Armonaitis, directed by the gifted Fokke Baarssen and a mention also for the cinematography! I wish this movie a road full of selections, screenings and awards. You need to see it!! #goldendoor #goldendoorfilmfestival #filmfestival #newjersey #missed #short #shortmovie #actorslife #melissamars https://www.instagram.com/p/BoJwjT6HMwV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rr5247497ifu
name: vegas
timezone: pst
hogwarts house: hufflepuff, duh.
favorite hp canon character: i’m always gonna love hermione, she’s the real hero -- the wizard this world needs tbh ;__;
favorite plots: twin and sib plots, estranged father/daughter, toxic ships, divorced folks who are still stuck on each other, angsty gang related things, age gaps for days, the more complicated the plot the better tbh.
favorite faces: naomi scott, scarlett johansson, sebastian stan, jai courtney, willa holland, misha collins, angelina jolie, naomie harris, dj cotrona, eiza gonzalez, phoebe tonkin, amber heard, logan lerman, nick robinson, idris elba, jensen ackles, sophia bush, and frankly too many other peeps.
values: i need communication, creativity and commitment; if i can’t scream about my feels what’s the point?? and the crazier the plots the happier i am?? idfk, man.
name: val
timezone: est
hogwarts house: ravenclaw or hufflepuff
favorite hp canon character: oh man....either luna or minerva
favorite plots: found families, friends-to-lovers, rivals-to-lovers, characters with very firm moral guidelines interacting with characters who operate in a grey area
favorite faces: stella maeve is one i’m really digging right now
values: welcoming atmosphere and a close community
name: basil
timezone: est
hogwarts house: i’m 100% a hufflepuff
favorite hp canon character: it’s hermione, always has been tbh
favorite plots: I tend to like anything that turns me into an emotional mess so that could include anything from family plots to slow burn romances to enemies turned into friends. Honestly I’ll give a lot of plots a go.
favorite faces: to many to list it chnages as I go. I like to play around with different faces.
values: a good group of people that are friendly and not cliquey. I used to have a group that I would join sites with but has since disbanded due to some bs so joining sites alone is a little nervy and I want to at least feel welcomed and not have to attempt to fit into a clique.
stares at the fake tree christmas tree half assembled in the living room of her nearly brand new home. one that had been built on top of the city that had been razed to the ground.
she’d gotten the base down and the first layer secured - by hand, the way her family always did, without the help of her wand - before wondering about lights and bulbs, and whether her mom had extras in the basement—
but there is no basement.
there’s no more mom either, her mind reminds her.
she wraps her arms around her knees and brings herself into a tiny ball of barely human on the carpet.
she’s gone through them all. twice. thrice. whatever the word for twenty-four times was too.
something more potent brewed in her gut. worse than denial anger and depression combined.
briefly she wondered, as she poked at the box of homemade ornaments that laid near her on the ground, how many people felt guilt, self-doubt and shame when someone they loved died.
four someones, even.
though numbers didn’t even matter anymore. they were only a handful out of hundreds.
hundreds and hundreds you couldn’t save, her mind helpfully supplies.
her hand pushed the box of bright globes away.
you don’t deserve color. you don’t deserve glitter.
not when the pleading, desperate sounds of “help help help” ran through her mind more than her own thoughts.
she shakes her head, and rises on unsteady legs. tosses the pieces of the christmas tree back into its box with wobbly arms and shoves it back under the stairs along with the rest of the ornaments.
she pushes it out of her mind. pads over to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea, though more sleeping tonic than water.
on the couch, she’s nearly sleeping, when she stands to go to her room.
her toe catches a box under the coffee table. one she’s missed when packing away the christmas decorations that were never to be used.
the small box is new, unopened, and she wonders what’s inside.
it takes her a moment to pick apart the tape on the box with her nail to get it open, and shuffles the ornament out its carefully wrapped tissue.
baby’s first christmas.
she throws it against the wall and it breaks with a clatter that sounds more like her heart bursting into a million pieces rather than pale porcelain.
name: Brittney
timezone: Eastern
hogwarts house: Ravenclaw
favorite hp canon character: I'm not sure. Perhaps Hagrid, Hermione Granger, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Tonks, and Luna Lovegood as well as the Queen Miss Minerva McGonagall.
favorite plots: Friends to lovers, Enemies to friends, sexual tension, best friends, Alice in Wonderland-type thing, sisterly bonds as well as family bonds, mother/child, many others.
favorite faces: Holland Roden (her acting. I don't follow her personal life and don't know anything that might be problematic about it.), Madison Davenport, the cast of the Magicians, the cast of Penny Dreadful, many others.
values: Commitment, diverse plots, and engaging with other people.
