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[corishat]

I think I need a trick or treating/some kind of Halloween Newtina fic…

Basically what I need is modern!Tina dressed like a witch.

That’s all I really want.

Because it’d be adorable, that’s why.

[teacup-occamy]

“I like your costume, ma'am!”

Tina grinned down at the little boy who’d tugged on her sleeve, already reaching into her bag for some no-maj candy. The child wore strips of white cloth wrapped around him from head to toe and a down jacket far to big for him.

“Why, thank you, dearie,” Tina said, doing her best to make her voice scratchy and frail sounding. The fake nose made her real one itch, but she ignored it in favor of dropping the sugary tidbit into the boy’s plastic pumpkin. “But it’s not a costume, oh no, I’m a real witch here to oversee the Halloween festivities! Gotta make sure the goblins and ghouls behave,” she let out a cackle, pleased with how sinister she managed to make it sound. She loved Halloween, it was the one night she could honestly tell these no-majs the truth and they’d just laugh along with her.

“Oh, right! Of course,” the boy giggled, placing his finger over his lips like he was sharing a great secret with Tina, and scampered off towards the gaggle of children clustered around Newt. They watched in mixed awe and amusement as he brought out his completely non magical lizard with fake wings perched humanely on its back and proceeded to give them a very real lesson on hatchling dragons.

Tina settled into her chair, adjusting the large knit shawl around her shoulders, and took a moment to enjoy the crisp autumn air. Later, Newt would take to the stage in his fake beard and knobby staff to perform sleight of hand magic tricks for the festival goers, but for now their main job (well, mostly Tina’s since he was too busy entertaining children) was to keep an eye out for any nasty magical creatures that might show. Too many wizards drunk on fire whiskey thought it would be fun to crash no-maj Halloween parties and cause a very real magical ruckus. Tina sighed, having already had to chase off 3 wizards and an errant kobold in the past hour alone.

“Trick or treat?” Came a tentative voice at her elbow. She peared down her long, fake nose at the little girl shyly clutching her bag of candy. A pointed black hat was perched atop her bushy dark hair and her smile was a bit buck toothed, but her cheeks were rosy with excitement. In her hands she gripped a broom far too small to meet regulatory safety standards for flying. A breath of magic stirred around the girl and Tina could feel the grin splitting her face.

“Aha! A fledgling witch, is it? You mind your studies and keep an eye for the owl post, it’s very important, you understand?” Tina dropped the candy into her bag. The girl nodded hesitantly, confusion clearly written on her small face. She paused a moment and then asked a question Tina was not expecting.

“Is this sugar free? My parents are dentists, you see.”

[teacup-occamy]

I saw this illustration by Andy Virgil and thought it was too perfect

[fantasticbeasts]

Mads Mikkelsen In Talks For The Role Of Grindelwald In ‘Fantastic Beasts’ 3

Mads Mikkelsen is atop the list of actors being considered to replace Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beast 3. Sources said to Deadline that he is Yates’ choice to play Grindelwald and he is in early talks. 

The aim is to keep on track a picture that recently moved its original November 12, 2021 release date to summer 2022. The cast led by Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law are already shooting.

[siren-of-redriver96]

7 hints to Abernathy being the lost Corvus V (theory)

Hi there :)

Hope my obsession with this constantly showing up character will be a litte calm after this post - it’s mostly a summary of earlier ones going over this theory, plus a few new ones ^^

Hope you too ^^ Enjoy :)

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1. Let’s start small - he grew up in America, yet his actor, Kevin Gurthire, is scottish … when possible so far, people were chosen specifically for some roles, and I feel like, especially with a possible casting pool as wide as the american, they wouldn’t cast someone from Britian just like that …

2. (see above) Apart from sharing more than enough visuals with the Sabine Crossen (playing Clarisse Lestrange, Corvus Vs mother) to be her son, he is the almost spitting younger image of Keith Chanter aka Corvus IV, facial features, eye colour, everything - we’ll get to a possible new naming for him in relation to his parents by the end. Below, while Sabine Crossen often changes her hair colour, in her one appearence in this movie, it’s definitly his.

3. He would be the right age - born around 1901, Corvus V should be around 25/26, and though he’s already in a high position at the MACUSA when we meet him, he seems by far young enough, especially in TCOG

4. In the beginning scene of the movie, we see him almost drown during Grindelwald’s escape, before being rescued by latter - I think he very well may have in the past once realizing the other baby that would become Credence was safe (and before he became convinced he was a squib since he repressed his magic and couldn’t be the Obscurial either due to his age). It would make sense for him to bring two potential (maybe all he thinks there are) “Great Avengers” to his side - and he may need Corvus in relation to the Lestranges, maybe due to being of the blood of a family of the Sacred 28, maybe due to being entitled to their inheritance - or….

5. … to have acess to specific tools in their possession? Now we get to the biggest hint for this theory:

Although he is a wanted man by this point (since Spielman survived) Abernathy accompanies Rosier to the French ministry of magic, where they retrieve the Lestrange family tree - and he hands her a bundle to carry it, implying that he’s the one who will take it from the shelf, maybe due to a protective spell that only allows family members to touch it - this thought is furthered by the fact that when we see the box again, in the Lestrange family crypt, he is seen looking right to the spot where it is found later on, in a very significant shot …

You could even add that, when Leta retrieves it, she summons it directly, maybe to avoid anyone else in the room touching it. He was there to look for his past, and she was there, being the only one knowing the truth (which Grindelwald knew about as well, either over a vision or, exactly, since he was there that day and kept track of them both).

6. Small hint maybe, but we never learn his first name, though he’s there from the first movie on … JK likes to hide meaning in names, and Abernathy on its’ own is originally from Scotland, aka Gurthires’ home country …

I wonder if his first name, maybe one Grindelwald gave his adoptive parents, is some variation of Corvus .. maybe a little more hidden like “Bertram” (bright raven, hence the white one on the dark veil towards the finale, maybe even in relation to his mother Clarisse (bright).

Also, JK has used this name before for a fellow student of the Marauders (Bertram Aubrey) :)

7. Last small one: when Grindelwald conjures him a new tounge, it’s split  🐍 

(which you can’t make a pleasing screenshot of, hope that’s okay)

It may be a special reward for his services that grants him the ability to speak and understand parsel - and another hint since later on, Leta is seen being in Slytherin, the House most Lestranges went to, though she’s not like them - maybe another hint to Abernathy not being entirely bad either? Adding this to my notes for sure :D

What do you think, could this be one of the reasons why we see him in this movie so often?

Thank you very much for reading :)

[teacup-occamy]

But with all my education I can’t seem to commend it And the words are all escaping me And coming back all damaged And I would put them back in poetry If I only knew how, I can’t seem to understand it  X

[user-tardis]

I’m not supposed to say. I got this picture of you from the paper, but it’s interesting because your eyes in newsprint. See, in reality they have this effect in them, Tina. It’s like fire in water, in dark water. I’ve only ever seen that… I’ve only ever seen that in… Salamanders?

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) dir. by David Yates

[teacup-occamy]

@whistling-in-the-dark replied to your post “Queenie going back to the bakery every day just to talk to Jacob even...”

Oh my god... Please let me write a drabble?..

Yeah! Go for it!

[teacup-occamy]

How do you make these 3D gifs??

Hello! You just make a normal gif and put the white bars over them and for each frame you want something to be passing in front of the bars you erase the bar. You do that for each frame you want the object in the forefront.

You do this for each frame where the object is supposed to be in front of the white bar. I like to drop the opacity of the white bar while I’m erasing so I can see where the edges of the object beneath it are. Hope this helps!

[frunbuns]

Oh Pickett 100% definitely sleeps in Newt's hair sometimes you cannot change my mind

[teacup-occamy]

Rolf was 3 years old and tired. He had never been one to argue with nap time and he was starting to get very upset that he wasn’t asleep despite the late hour (2 o’clock in the afternoon, to be precise, but he was 3 and couldn’t yet tell time.)

They’d had a picnic, which had been jolly good fun, and he’d been all set to drift off to dreamland on the blanket when his grandfather had picked him up, telling him it was time to go. 

He knew it was time to go. 

Time to go to sleep. 

Rolf made a noise somewhere between a whine and a grumble, rubbing his eyes and dropping his head to he grandfather’s shoulder with a disgruntled thunk. Nanna didn’t tolerate tantrums but he was feeling one creeping up his spine, causing him to wiggle petulantly.

“Almost home, Rolf,” Grandpa said soothingly, patting his back. It helped to calm him, just a little bit, but he could still feel that tantrum looming like a grumpy runespoor. He wiggled some more, feeling his distress mounting until he was sure he was going to start crying.

A soft chittering sound distracted him, causing him to look up. Pickett was poking his head out of Grandpa’s white streaked hair, clearly having just woken up himself. His long, twiglike fingers were gripping a few of Grandpa’s curls and he was swaying slightly in time with Grandpa’s steps. Rolf tracked the motion with his eyes, feeling the steady rhythm lull the tantrum’s oncoming tide. Very carefully, Pickett extended forward to gently stroke Rolf’s cheek until the toddler’s eyes dropped closed and his breathing evened out. Once Pickett was satisfied he was truly asleep, he receded back into Newt’s hair to resume his own nap.

“Thanks, Pick,” Newt said, gently shifting his grandson’s now limp weight before he slid out of his arms. Pickett responded by burrowing deeper into Newt’s hair, somehow giving off the distinct feeling of ‘I’m too old for this’ despite being a twig.

[cherylblossom]

“You got a pack of nifflers now?”

[teacup-occamy]

I saw this illustration by Andy Virgil and thought it was too perfect

[teacup-occamy]

Newt can be gentle with Tina without it being patronizing and while respecting her strength of character and I think that's very important

[silvertonedwords]

Salamander eyes and social scripts

What’s beautiful about this scene is that it relies on raising and then subverting our expectations.

“She has eyes just like a salamander.”

“Don’t say that. Nah, look, you just tell her that you missed her. Right, and then you came all the way to Paris to find her. She’ll love that. And then, tell her you’re losing sleep at night for thinking of her. Just don’t say nothing about no salamanders, all right?”

“Right. Okay.”

The reason that Jacob tells Newt not to compliment Tina’s salamander eyes is that it’s not in the usual social script for that kind of moment. So he gives Newt the script. Missed her. Came to find her. Can’t sleep. And all of the things he says are true, of course, but they’re not Newt, they’re not honest. It’s not the way he thinks of or interacts with people.

Still the story sets us up to expect either that Newt will say something else, or that he will compliment her salamander eyes and it will be a little awkward, a little strange.

At Flamel’s house, when Tina runs off, Jacob asks, “You didn’t mention salamanders, did you?”

At the ministry, when Newt is finally explaining, he cannot help staring at her eyes, the feature he thinks about when his mind wanders to Tina. “You know, your eyes really are…”

“Are what?”

“I’m not supposed to say.”

But Newt and Tina aren’t stereotypical characters, and so he starts to say it anyway, because it’s what he really means. “I got this–I mean, it’s just a picture of you from the paper, but it’s interesting because your eyes in newsprint…See, in reality they have this effect in them, Tina…It’s like fire in water, in dark water. And I’ve only ever seen that in–I’ve only ever seen that in–”

The script has set us up for a joke. “Your eyes look like salamanders”, an awkward silence, a need to explain. But no. Newt, who isn’t always comfortable with eye contact, who can’t always express himself well in words, is explaining that he cut out a photograph of her and was disappointed, because her eyes are more fiery and alive and beautiful and unique in real life than a photo could ever capture. 

Not only is it a beautiful compliment, but Tina completely understands. “Salamanders.”

They don’t need social scripts. Their communication with each other is all its own, and it’s so much more honest, more interesting, more heartfelt. The writing sets up our expectations and then surpasses them by leaving them behind.

[teacup-occamy]

More vintage smooches

[stevetomjohn]

I was thinking this weekend about how awkward it was that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them insists that Americans call muggles “no-maj.” First off, it just doesn’t sound like an abbreviation we’d use, and it sounds even worse in plural. But I finally realized the more important point: it’s too direct. Especially for the time period, Americans would never have been that straightforward in talking about a topic that sensitive. And so I would like to submit, in the spirit of early twentieth-century slang, a list of possible euphemisms we may have used for muggles:

He washes his dishes with a cloth.

He pays in nickels and dimes.

He rides the trolley to work. 

He takes his boots to the cobbler.

He’s grateful for Mr. Edison.

He’s one of Grisham’s boys. (here imagining that Grisham was a prominent wizard who famously fathered no magic children)

He dances on the ground.

He writes with a pen.

He’s fond of a two-piece suit.

He’s more King Arthur than Merlin.

He’s got to wind his pocket watch.

He gets his wax from bees.

His wife darns his socks.

He treats his ailments with tonics.

His portraits stay put.

His broom is only for sweeping.

I’m having a little too much fun with this, so if you have any to add, please send them over.

[vixiana]

I think to most fun thing about this is that after a while of these phrases being popularized, they would end up getting shortened, like Trolley boys or Two-piecers.

I’m just saying, imagine how scandalized (or ecstatic) Arthur Weasley would be if he found in America, muggles were called “Arthurs”.

[teacup-occamy]

So if I asked for writing prompts would anybody give me any?

[teacup-occamy]

I'm feeling the urge?

[hogwartscastle]

“Well, we’re meant to start shooting in the beginning of next year. The script is still being worked on. That’s nothing – I’m literally giving you nothing! I’m trying to do that thing of talking about it and saying nothing, because of the fear of getting told off. But no, it’s happening, and it’s really exciting.”

— Eddie Redmayne about Fantastic Beasts 3