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Guillermo del Toro Opens a New Official Trailer for His "Cabinet of Curiosities"

Guillermo del Toro Opens a New Official Trailer for His "Cabinet of Curiosities" @RealGDT @Netflix #CabinetOfCuriosities

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Okay but set during Halfblood Prince! Female pronouns, Ravenclaw reader.

The reader is friends with Rolf, Luna, and Hannah. Rolf and Luna are the couple goals of the friend group. Also the reader is crushing on Neville, who secretly has a crush on her. Hannah is more focused on school than dating. Meanwhile, Seamus can't get a date to save his life and Dean starts dating Ginny. The reader, Dean, and Seamus start a little folk band (yk kinda like that Ed Sheeran song Galway Girl) and she starts dating Seamus because she doesn't think Neville is interested. You decide if it ends in fluff or angst.

Galway Girl (Neville Longbottom x Female Ravenclaw!Reader x Seamus Finnigan)

Okay so this is a really cute request. Honestly, Neville is 100% my comfort character so this is also kinda sad for me. But let's go!

Listen to the song while you read. You know, for the vibe. Also I left out some details from the song because I didn't know how to fit them in? So I hope that's okay?

Request: Yes/No

Summary: When all the reader's friends seem to be lucky in love, she feels left out. It seems like even Neville has been on dates with Hannah, who doesn't date. The only person in the same boat as her is Seamus. Dean and Seamus convince their Ravenclaw friend that they should start an Irish band. But does it solve or cause problems, when their friends find out about the little band at a Gryffindor party?

Warnings: Angsty but fluffy?, underage drinking, implication of weed, canon ships, emotional cheating, miscommunication, idiots in love, and also implied Irish reader? (a Galway Girl is a girl from Galway which is in Western Ireland)

It all started about four months ago, Rolf Scamander had asked you advice for a date with a girl he really liked and you gave him advice. You didn't know who Rolf could possibly have a crush on but you were hyper aware of his sudden fascination with your housemate, Luna Lovegood. She was your friend and so was he. The two of them had never been close until they began hanging out four months ago. You hadn't thought much of it until they became your couple goals. They officially started dating after the third date. Everything about their relationship seemed to be like they were always meant to be together. It reminded you of how when you were twelve, you believed in soulmates. But it wasn't long before they realized that their own mutual pining made them blind to the fact that you had a crush on Neville Longbottom for years. They immediately felt bad and made your crush their business. Luna was pretty close with Neville and made sure he spent more time around your small friend group. But you were pretty sure he'd never like you. Hannah Abbott was the only other member of your small friend group and she spent most her time studying. She always said she was much too busy for dating but she also seemed to be rather close with Neville. Actually, the more you thought about it Neville had more friends than you. He was seemingly friends with Harry Potter and his friends. But Neville's closest friends were Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan. But then as of recent due to Luna and Rolf's interference, Neville's friends became yours. The friend group went for from four to seven.....eight when Dean started dating Ginny Weasley last month.

You were trying to get the group together for a group for a Hogsmead e trip but everyone had different plans . Ginny and Dean had a date. Rolf and Luna had a date. Hannah and Neville didn't really say what they were doing but both mentioned the greenhouses so you kind of assumed. So it was just you and Seamus. But it wasn't a date, you were just friends. It was obvious by how this forced date-like atmosphere made you both uncomfortable. So you both just went back to the castle and threw yourselves into studying in the library. After the third time of being ditched by your friends for dates, you guys just knew it was easier to go to the library and study. However, Seamus brought up something this particular time he hadn't brought up before. "Do you like Irish folk music?"

"Who's asking? You or Dean?"

"What?"

"Dean's going through a rough patch with Ginny and she likes Irish folk music."

"Right...thanks. Hey, want to start a band? You, Dean, and me?"

"What do I get out of it?" You raised an eyebrow and Seamus shrugged. "The joy of knowing you helped out a friend or two." The only problem with it was you didn't think Ginny genuinely liked Dean. "No. Tell Dean to find someone else." You got up and walked away.

You'd been dodging Seamus and Dean for days, when they'd finally managed to corner you. You were in the Gryffindor common room looking for Neville. You were ready to finally confront him about his relationship with Hannah. It was irritating enough that you knew Hannah didn't tell you she liked Neville but the least they could do was admit they were together. You could have asked Hannah for the truth but something told you it'd feel more true if you'd heard it from Neville. Maybe you needed closure? However, you didn't find Neville because you ran into his two best friends. "Y/N, I know you think Ginny and I fight a lot." Dean started and you cut in harshly. "You do fight a lot." He took a sharp intake of breath before continuing. "But this isn't just for me. This could be good for all of us. Seamus won't be that Irish kid who can hold his whiskey. We can book gigs and make money. You can finally afford that trip to America you're always talking about." You couldn't help but be a little interested in the idea. "I'll think about it. But you have to make me a promise. Neville can never know I was here today." The two boys looked at each other then back at you before Dean grinned. "We promise, he won't know." You nodded and left the Gryffindor common room.

It was that weekend, the three of you were in the library whispering amongst yourselves about this band of yours. You were secretly passing around a small flask of fire whiskey under the table and sitting at one of the back tables where not many people would sit. "So are we going with trad tunes, newer stuff, or our own music?" You asked with a bit of curiosity gracing your face and Seamus shrugged. "Why not all three? How about instruments? Y/N, you should sing." You frowned. "I can really wanna play the fiddle but in songs where it's not needed I'll sing." Dean nodded. "I can sing most times then because Seamus can't sing worth shit and honestly I think we'll need like a piano." Seamus rolled his eyes. "We'll need some base so Bodhrán? We'll probably sound like shit but at least we'll be ridiculed as friends." Those were the last words said before you guys spent the rest of the Quidditch season doing band practice instead of supporting your Quidditch teams.

You were ecstatic when you heard Gryffindor got the Quidditch Cup but extremely disappointed. They'd beat your team. You quietly walked over to your table in mock shame while the Gryffindors celebrated. You walked over to Neville after the feast and asked if you were invited to the party to celebrate Gryffindor's win. He informed you that he'd thought Seamus or Dean would have invited you since you seemed to be with them a lot lately. There seemed to be a hint of anger in his voice. And you couldn't hold back the vile feeling that built up inside you. "Well excuse me for wanting to actually hang out with my friends. You and Hannah seem to always be at the greenhouse. Luna and Rolf are always together. Dean and Ginny.... they're on a break. And Seamus...well he and I are in the same boat." You quickly walked away catching up with Dean and Seamus. It seemed like your body relaxed almost instantly as you started laughing with them about some inside joke Neville couldn't understand. "She doesn't mean it, you know." He recognized the voice but turned to look anyways. "Yes, she does. She's right. You and I are always together lately. I didn't think about how that must look to our friends until..."

"The girl you like said it?"

"Yeah."

"Back in third year, she said you were her type."

"Do you think I still am?" Hannah shrugged in response to the question. They quietly walked to the Gryffindor common room where the celebration for winning Quidditch Cup was being thrown.

When they got to the common room, Neville saw you chatting with Dean, Seamus, and Ginny. From the looks of it Dean and Ginny made up again. You looked really happy and you had a drink in hand. He turned his attention to Ron, who everyone in Gryffindor was praising, and was shocked by Lavender Brown suddenly kissing him. But he clapped along with everyone else in the room. It didn't even occur to him to care that Harry and Hermione left or that shortly after Lavender and Ron left. It seemed pretty normal behavior. He just went back to watching you with his two best friends. He joined the small group only to notice you were ignoring him. "Seamus, I'll bet 5 gaellons I can beat you at darts." It was shook on and sure enough you won. "Double nothing for pool." He said he conjured up a pool table and you nodded. In agreement to his terms. Sure enough, you beat him. "You owe me 10 gaellons, Finnigan." He rolled his eyes and you smirked. "You know what? You're really cute, I'll excuse your debt." All at once three voices screamed "WHAT?!" All male Gryffindors and your friends. You pulled him into a kiss and kisses him like no one else was there. He didn't know Neville had a crush on you. How could he? Neville was always with Hannah! He pulled you closer and kissed back. It was only a few minutes before he pulled back and you both grinning. "Debt paid." Neville walked away in what looked to be an annoyed state. You cringed but you didn't do it to hurt him. You did it because you felt like you needed a win and whining over a boy with a girlfriend wasn't a win. "Seamus, wanna go to Hogsmeade together sometime?" You asked with a bit of regret and he nodded but didn't seem to know what to say. You knew he usually had a crude sense of humor but in the past few weeks you'd grown so accustom to it.... actually kinda found it funny. And in that same way, grown to rather close to him and Dean. But his sense of humor isn't why you felt regret. It was the brunette boy, who was talking to Luna. Luna looked at you in shock and then shrugged at Neville. She didn't have an explanation and you didn't expect her to.

Neville seemed shocked as Ginny announced that a had a surprise had been arranged for Gryffindor. The music that was playing was stopped while Ginny explained what the surprise was.

You, Seamus, and Dean were singing and playing your instruments to traditional Irish songs. Dean seemed so uncomfortable with how close you and Seamus suddenly were. Neville, Luna, and Rolf sat in a corner talking about this surprise. "I just can't believe it. Just yesterday, she was complaining about how Neville was dating Hannah." Rolf muttered and Neville rolled his eyes. "I'm not. We've just been hanging out in the greenhouse together. We're friends." Luna laughed slightly. "Hannah didn't tell you?"

"Tell me what?"

"Y/N had a crush on you."

"Well Hannah told me that."

"Well... sometimes she hides her feelings."

"What are you trying to say?"

Rolf cut in. "Well, you could ask Y/N or you could retreat over there." He pointed to a group of Gryffindors with a cloud of smoke surrounding them. "And relieve your stress how you usually do." Of course Neville didn't want to confront the girl who just kissed his best friend so he walked over to the group of Gryffindors. They probably got it from his dorm mates anyways. He was actually doing a pretty good job of tuning the little band out. It wasn't until heard the song "Carrickfergus" that he had to look up. He'd heard Seamus play this song a million times over. But he'd never heard it sang so sweet. You were amazing to him.

After awhile, Seamus and Dean had enough and wanted to get back to the party. But you still wanted to sing your heart out. This wasn't for Dean or Seamus. This wasn't for your band. You were doing this for you. You shot back another glass of fire whiskey and were back at it. Except this time you had to sing a capella in and use your feet for a beat. Seamus was amazed at your enthusiasm and couldn't stop calling you his girlfriend to anyone that would listen. Neville, however, was silent. He was memorizing everything about you in this moment. He wanted to have your voice playing on repeat for a week. Any normal person would think you were singing to the boy claiming to be your boyfriend and maybe you should have been. But you weren't. Your heart immediately wanted to reach out to the boy who'd liked since you were like twelve or thirteen. But the part you were unaware of is even this packed room, he would swear on his life you were singing to him. But his hopes and dreams were crushed Cormac McLaggen convinced you to let him play some Weird Sisters and other Wizard Rock music. Seamus immediately grabbed your waist, kissed you on the neck, and then took you by the hand. You smiled at the boy nervously like you didn't know what was happening. He smiled in a way that was actually comforting and said, "Baby, I just want to dance." But the entire time you were dancing with Seamus, you were thinking about Neville.

When the few Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws that showed up had outstayed their welcome, you walked back to your common room with Neville. Luna had convinced Seamus it was safer if Neville took you back since he hadn't drank as much. And if Seamus wasn't so drunk maybe he would have thought about how Luna was going to the same place as you anyway. But he was still shooting back firewhiskey and couldn't think straight. So you were holding hands with Neville as you walked through the corridors.

Come tomorrow you'd be Seamus' girlfriend but tonight you could be Neville's. He smelt of smoke and whiskey. It was so intoxicating but your lungs were full of the cool night air that the stone castle walls let in. You smiled at him and whispered. "I swear I'm gonna put you in a song that I write."

"I'm not Seamus you know."

"That's why it'll be about a Galway Girl and her perfect night."

Neville shook his head in disbelief. He was convinced you wouldn't remember it tomorrow so he spoke words he shouldn't. "Then I guess you're my pretty little Galway Girl."

WHAT JS FHE GALWAY LORE PLEASEEEE

sapnap played the song on stream with george on vc and george said that sapnap described the song as a “certain type of song” when he played it in the car which might be a nothingburger to most but knowing that song is what george plays in the car is everything to me. especially because back in 2022 george played it on stream and one chatter implied they disliked ed sheeran which got george to pull out the Umm statistically you should like him 🤓☝️, something he did with hannah as well that made sylvee dub him “the biggest ed sheeran defender”

Autumn Day by Rainer Maria Rilke tr. by Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann

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Some Interesting Asks

Thanks so much @goodboybadrep-ooc for asking!

What tv show that you watched as a child gives you the most nostalgia?

It's definitely a tie between House of Anubis and Lizzie McGuire! Lizzie and Gordo were one of my first OTPs (still salty over the revival show being cancelled!), and watching episodes on Disney now always reminds me of catching reruns on Disney Channel after school when I was younger~ House of Anubis was the first teen show that I had watched that had continuous storylines - it was almost like a soap in that way, and boy, was I hooked! They even had an omnibus during the weekend (like soaps do) and I used to rush home to catch the next episode during the week, or binge through the eps during the omnibus xD English boarding schools, teen comedy/drama, so many ships, and an Egyptian mystery that single-handedly set off my lifelong love of escape rooms xD Honourable mentions (only because this is getting super long xD): Zoey 101 (Zoey and Chase are everything, and it's such a great show overall), and Foreign Exchange, a show that no one remembers except for the fact that it has a young Robert Sheehan in it xD It was a Irish/Australian co-production about Brett (from Sydney) and Hannah (from Galway) who discover a portal between Brett's house and Hannah's boarding school... and shenanigans ensue xD A brilliant ship that was teased but went nowhere due to the show being cancelled~

2. What is your favorite episode of your current favorite tv show?

Major spoilers for Dramaworld and Dramaworld 2 incoming...

So, I love k-dramas. Dramaworld came out on the streaming service Viki in 2016 - a 10 episode webseries about Claire (played by Liv Hewson) an American girl who loves k-dramas, and ends up being transported into her favourite k-drama while watching an episode on her phone by magic xD It's a playful homage to the k-drama genre, with parody, comedy, lots of romance, tropes, and the odd cameo or two. It also introduced me to Claire and Joon, a ship between Claire and the male lead actor of her favourite k-dramas, Joon Park (played by Sean Dulake). I love these two dorks, I really do xD Claire has to keep the story of the fictional show running while she is stuck in Dramaworld, and that leads her to get to know Joon, they end up falling in love, everyone gets their happily ever after... but do they? Seth (played by Justin Chon) originally tries to be Claire's guide on how the fragile ecosystem of Dramaworld works, but even he ends up turning bad and tries to force his own narrative... but he's stopped by Claire and Joon and Season 1 ends with Claire returning to the real world... that is until we get a cliffhanger of Joon bursting into the family sandwich shop in a tuxedo desperately searching for Claire!

That was all we heard from Dramaworld for years... Until Season 2 (named Dramaworld 2) of 10 episodes (or 13 in some listings... it's complicated) began to air on TV in Asia in 2021, with it now able to stream through Freevee on Amazon Prime (in the US, so yay for VPNs), and rumoured to be included in ITVX in the UK (it's also scattered across the internet if you look hard enough xD). High profile actors were added to the cast, the budget was so much bigger, and the overall storyline was so much more ambitious. Claire, now in college with Evan (played by Brett Gray), both get summoned back to Dramaworld where things are going horribly wrong - Seth is back, and threatening to destroy the world from within it! Episode 10/13 is the series finale, and spoiler alert... everything turns to crap. Seth has manipulated Joon so much that he turns to the dark side, dumps Claire in the cruellest way possible, joins Seth's almost-cult, and Dramaworld is falling apart, partly due to Evan turning out to be a traitor working for Seth since the start of the season (even getting Claire to fall in love with him in the classic love-triangle storyline). Season 2 is so much more nuanced, and layered, and the final cliffhanger of Claire in an utterly hopeless situation with no way out, and no resolution of the storylines works perfectly - Dramaworld (the ecosystem) is broken, so the story is broken. Nothing's going to plan, and the unresolved ending to Season 2 reflects that~ The series of scenes where Joon breaks up with Claire are so effective with the writing, the cinematography, the lighting... I could gush about it all day xD

Here's the episode in question, if you're interested BTW~

3. What fandom (or three) are you currently the most invested in?

Coronation Street, for sure - @beautywithin16 and I are practically running the Spider and Toyah ship resurgence online - originally from the late 90s, and now back in the show in 2022 xD Also, cheeky plug for my fanvid here~ and my very ambitious fic, Utopia, whereby Toyah gets lured into a cult (based on a similar idea from the show itself in the 90s) here~

4. Who are your top three favorite characters right now?

Spider Nugent in Coronation Street

Ethan Hardy in Casualty (obviously xD)

Jamie Mitchell in Classic Eastenders (I could write an essay on that boy's arc during the time on the show and long-standing legacy to this day - super underrated)

5. If you could marry a fictional character, who would it be?

That's tough! Probably Peter from Ballykissangel? I mean, the guy's adorable, and he'd treat you well~! xD

THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR <333

my BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL AMAZING BEST FRIEND bro i love you so much ive never had a friend like you before and im so grayeful i have u every single time i see u u j make me so happy and i hope we never change. i cant even believe we only became friends last year. i wish id known you forever but now i have you i dont ever wanna lose you no matter what. youre so loyal and i tell everyone i meet about how much of an angel you are. you are one of a kind jemma never change

my other best friends!!!!! i love you guys so much truly. youve fr made me such a confident and happy person, i love every moment with you girls, you are so loving and idk what id do without ye

my momma - mammy i know we didnt get along last year but i hope you know i love you so much. the world doesnt deserve you you are such a strong person and i appreciate all the love you give me everyday and i need to tell you more

my dad - ur a legend. never change

my school - i know i had those panic attacks last week and couldnt go in but i genuinely do love that school. its so comforting and the community is so strong. never seen anything like it

galway

gaeilge

myself and my growth

colouring

music

hannah no explanation needed

my ex - yes you did everything you could to try and bring me down and make me think bad about myself. and it worked for a while but now i know thatyou'd be lucky to have another conversation with me. asshole!

there is sm more that im grateful for but im tired

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities | First Look

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities will premiere on Netflix on October 25, 2022 with two episodes daily until October 28, 2022.

Episodes:

"The Autopsy" directed by David Prior (The Empty Man)

"The Outside" directed by Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night)

"The Viewing" directed by Panos Cosmatos (Mandy)

"Dreams in the Witch House" directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight)

"Lot 36" directed by Guillermo Navarro (Narcos)

"Pickman's Model" directed by Keith Thomas (Firestarter)

"Graveyeard Rats" directed by Vincenzo Natali (In the Tall Grass)

"The Mourning" directed by Jennifer Kent (The Babadook)

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Netflix Opens Guillermo Del Toro's 'Cabinet of Curiosities' on October 25

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A Bowl of Roses by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Galway Kinell & Hannah Liebman You saw angry ones flare, saw two boys clump themselves together into a something that was pure hate, thrashing in the dirt like an animal set upon by bees; actors, piled up exaggerators, careening horses crashed to the ground, their gaze thrown away, baring their teeth as if the skull peeled itself out through the mouth. But now you know how these things are forgotten: for here before you stands a bowl full of roses, which is unforgettable and filled up with ultimate instances of being and bowing down, of offering themselves, of being unable to give, of standing there almost as part of us: ultimates for us too. Noiseless life, opening without end, filling space without taking any away from the space the other things in it diminish, almost without an outline, like something omitted, and pure inwardness, with so much curious softness, shining into itself, right up to the rim: is anything as known to us as this? And this: that a feeling arises because petals are being touched by petals? And this: that one opens itself, like a lid, and beneath lies nothing but eyelids, all closed, as if tenfold sleep had to dampen down an inner power to see. And, above all, this: that through the petals light has to pass. Slowly they filter out from a thousand skies the drop of darkness in whose fiery glow the jumbled bundle of stamens becomes aroused and rears up. And what activity, look, in the roses: gestures with angles of deflection so small one wouldn't see them if not for infinite space where their rays can diverge. See this white one, blissfully opened, standing among its huge spreading petals like a Venus standing in her shell; and how this one, the blushing one, turns, as if confused, toward the cooler one, and how the cooler one, impassive, draws back, and the cold one stands tightly wrapped in itself among these opened ones, that shed everything. And what they shed, how it can be at once light and heavy. a cloak. a burden, a wing, and a mask, it all depends, and how they shed it: as before a lover. Is there anything they can't be: wasn't this yellow one that lies here hollow and open the rind of a fruit of which the same yellow, more intense, more orange-red, was the juice? And this one, could opening have been too much for it, because, exposed to air, its nameless pink has picked up the bitter aftertaste of lilac? And isn't this batiste one a dress, with the chemise still inside it, still soft and breath-warm, both flung off together in morning shade at the bathing pool in the woods? And this one here, opalescent porcelain, fragile, a shallow china cup filled with little lighted butterflies, and this one, containing nothing but itself. And aren't they all doing the same: only containing themselves, if to contain oneself means: to transform the world outside and wind and rain and patience of spring and guilt and restlessness and disguised fate and darkness of earth at evening all the way to the errancy, flight, and coming on of clouds all the way to the vague influence of the distant stars into a handful of inwardness. Now it lies free of cares in the open roses. Claude Monet 1875 Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist’s Garden in Argenteuil, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston