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@amybonehouse

Well, don't mind if I do

3 Dead Magpies has currently 4 versions that I plan on writing: Inferno, Frost, Mist, and one that still hasn't received a name. The reason for the names are connected with the powers and Snape lore I have created.

Inferno – It's the original version of this AU. In it female Severus Snape has a fire affiliation – a result of a deal with a demon – which causes much trouble. I plan on showcasing just how disadvantageous she is – both as a teenager who dropped out of Hogwarts after 5th year, and later as an adult who has a better grip on her situation though does spiral after the death of the Potters and unwillingly gaining custody of Harry. The teenage part will contain abuse and torture – mental, emotional and physical. The later years will show her struggling to not slip back to her old ways and raise Harry properly.

Frost – Sephira (female Severus) dies of hyphothermia when she was young and makes a deal. She kills her parents and is taken in by her aunt Shirley. The story will focus more on her time in Hogwarts.

Mist – I plan on making this story mostly told from James Potter's view. It starts with the last days of 5th year and continues from there. James notices Perdita (female Severus) on the feast and that's the last time he sees her and it isn't until nearly a decade later that he hears any news about her again. The War slowed down when Voldemort disappeared and people moved on with their lives. James realised that being married to Lily isn't as great as it once was, he swears there's something wrong with his 5-year-old son, Wormtail has left their little group and Sirius seems to be more on edge these last few months, reminding him of when they were aurors during the war.

The unnamed one – is an attempt at comedy? Dark comedy? Snape disappears, new teachers are brought in who actively oppose Dumbledor and encourage old practices and illegal spells, there's a new woman who shares the position of headmaster, and many voices who up until now have been silent have started talking and demanding changes. At the welcoming feast for the marauders' last year Snape returns only she isn't as she used to be. And for some reason lords are fighting each other muggle style for whose son will marry her????

There are two other versions but they either don't have a clear story or they're iheavily nspired by another story (that is not mine).

If you're interested in my Snape lore just say the word

tag game!!

thank u lovely @lauraneedstochill for the tag <3 adding a cut because my answers got a bit long at the end hehe

your name? it’s not actually my name but for the sake of privacy i go by aurore/ro on here xx

your sun sign? scorpio baby

the last thing you listened to? heat wave by snail mail! i’m at the hair salon and their playlist is really good)

what are you wearing? bell bottoms and a green cropped flowy top

how tall are you? 5’7 i think?? or in between 5’6 and 5’7

piercings? two on each ear!! i want a helix and nose piercing but i’m too chicken (i also choose peace while living with my parents)

tattoos? none and i don’t have plans for any but they’re so attractive

glasses, contacts? glasses. i used to wear contacts when i was in high school for a period of time but ultimately returned back to old faithful

last drink? water

last thing you ate? avocado and egg on toast!

any pets? no </3333 one day i will have an orange cat and my life will be complete

do you have a crush? once more, i wish but i get the ick so easy and i haven’t met anyone i actually want to crush on

favourite fictional characters? jo march (laura how kindred of us!!) anne shirley cuthbert, jason todd, alicent hightower - there’s SO many but jo and jason are so dear to my heart

a movie you think everyone should watch? i was wracking my brain for an answer to this and then i realised the movie i tell everyone to watch the most is the boy!!!!! i genuinely unironically love that movie, like, i loved lauren cohan from the walking dead and supernatural, and she was great (speaking subjectively as someone who doesn’t Watch Films). it’s probably not objectively great and it’s a bit silly but i love it anyway, and my best friend and i love brahms. he is my friend actually.

a book you think everyone should read? you deserve each other - romcoms get such bad press but i am a rom com girl till the day i die!!! this one was so special to me because i don’t think i’ve actually read second chance (?) romance books that actually convince me they should have given it another go. it sounds silly to say but i learned so much from this book and the characters are so so dear to me even in their ridiculousness. it’s very much millennial humour and cringey at times but i love them anyway and i think sarah hogle wrote a masterpiece. i recommended it to all my friends because it was so important to me. i could write an essay on the feelings i have about this book. so so good. so important. i loved the characters and their insecurities and miscommunication and how they addressed every issue that had caused their relationship to sour in the first place and worked to do better!! usually with second chances/grovelling it feels very superficial and i still hate the male lead even by the end of it but i came to love nicholas by the end. he and mr darcy are the only two times i’ve ever seen characters pass the reread/rewatch test - every time i watch it/read it i get nervous i’m gonna realise they’re still an asshole at the end but they always prove me wrong. i hated him so much in the beginning and by the end i was wishing he was real.

last place you travelled? the gold coast

no pressure tags: @st-eve-barnes @rottingviserys @1800-fight-me

Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Steve Coogan, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento, Molly Shannon, Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, Marianne Faithfull, Jamie Dornan, Aurore Clément, Tom Hardy. Screenplay: Sofia Coppola. Cinematography: Lance Acord. Production design: K.K. Barrett. Film editing: Sarah Flack. Costume design: Milena Canonero. Music: Dustin O'Halloran. I fear that Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite (2018) has spoiled the historical costume drama for me, even the ones that like Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette take an irreverent, somewhat tongue-in-cheek approach to the material. Lanthimos deconstructed the genre in his film, while Coppola merely mocks it behind its back, lavishing the resources of costume and setting while setting up a few cognitive dissonances by using contemporary pop music in the background. Her courtiers sometimes behave more like spoiled rich kids than like 18th-century aristocrats, which is very much to the point she's making. I just wish she'd had the nerve to take it further, the way Lanthimos did. Still, it's full of grand eye candy with its luxurious scenes set at Versailles, and Kirsten Dunst is a charming performer. It's slightly overlong, even though it crams the fall of the aristos into a scant quarter of the film, never letting us glimpse a tumbril or a guillotine but instead mostly having the news of the revolution brought to us by messengers and summed up in a final shot of Marie's ruined bedroom après le déluge.

@ms-emmelinevance

“Connie?”

Antonin turns around from the bar where he’s been plopping an outrageous amount of cherries into Connie’s shirley temple, only to find she’s run off. A flash of brown hair. A giggle. He spots her running and hops over the counter, long legs quickly closing the distance, even among the crowd. “Let go my daughter,” black eyes blaze, wand already out and poking into the neck of who ever has their arms around Connie. She isn’t his daughter, he and Iris aren’t even courting technically but it was the first word in English he could grab. 

A very tenuous moment passes before he recognizes Emmeline and slowly he lowers his wand. Antonin frowns at the little girl and the auror, “vhat you doink? Vhy you run avay,” his attention shifts back to the adult woman, “vhy you lettink my girl run up to you Emmeline? Give me vorries you try hurt her.”

Title: Marie Antoinette

Rating: PG-13

Director: Sofia Coppola

Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Coogan, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Asia Argento, Molly Shannon, Shirley Henderson, Rose Byrne, Mary Nighy, Danny Huston, Marianne Faithfull, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hardy, Al Weaver, Sebastian Armesto, Aurore Clément

Release year: 2006

Genres: history, drama

Blurb: Marie Antoinette is an iconic but ill-fated queen from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

MWF from gravity falls, rugrats/All Grown Up!, Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir, and MWF from the loud house and the casagrandes? Female characters only please. Thanks!

Okay, I'm sorry about the wait on this reply, but after doing some research on the fandoms that you are asking for in this ask, we would absolutely love to see Wendy Corduroy, Grenda Grendinator, Pacifica Northwest, Mrs. Priscilla Northwerst, Tambry, ‘Lazy’ Susan Wentworth, and Shandra Jimenez from Gravity Falls ; Angelica Charlotte Pickles, Susanna Yvonne ‘Susie’ Carmichael, Mrs. Diane ‘Didi’ Pickles (née Kropotkin), Mrs. Charlotte Pickles, Mrs. Elizabeth ‘Betty’ DeVille, Mrs. Kira Watanabe-Finster, Mrs. Dr. Lucille ‘Lucy’ Carmichael, Alisa Carmichael, Mrs. Louise ‘Lulu’ Jonston-Pickles, Sarah ‘Taffy’ Maynston, Savannah Violeta Shane, Beatrix ‘Trixie’ McGee-Pickles, Melinda Finster, Mrs. Elaine Robinson-Kropotkin, Miriam ‘Mim’ Pickles, Mrs. Shirley Dalmond-Finster, Mrs. Colleen McNulty, Coco LaBouche, Emica, Leslie Myers, and Brianna from All Grown Up! / Rugrats ; Marinette Dupain-Cheng from Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir is currently reserved for Tessa right now, but we would absolutely love to see Tikki, Alya Césaire, Chloé Bourgeois, Mrs. Sabine Cheng-Dupain, Nathalie Sancoeur, Lila Rossi, Kagami Tsurugi, Socqueline Wang, Alix Kubdel, Mylène Haprèle, Rose Lavillant, Aurore Beauréal, Caline Bustier, Ms. Mendeleiev, Mrs. Audrey Bourgeois, Penny Rolling, Nadja Chamack, Manon Chamack, Mrs. Marlena Césaire, Nora Césaire, Ella Césaire, and Etta Césaire from Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir ; and lastly, we would absolutely love to see Lucy Loud, Lola Loud, Lana Loud, Lisa Loud, Lily Loud, Mrs. Rita Loud, Ronnie Anne Santiago, Maria Casagrande-Santiago, Rosa Casagrande, Mrs. Frida Puga-Casagrande, Carlota Casagrande, Mrs. Becca Chang, Adelaide Chang, Sid Chang, Stella Zhau, and Girl Jordan from The Loud House / The Casagrandes !!

And you’re welcome, ‘nonnie !! And we hope that will help you out !!

- This is ridiculous. - This, Madame, is Versailles.

Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola (2006)

Aurore “Rora” Maria Morvant

(The Late Resurrectionist)

 (Rarae Aves’s slasher/necromancer OC)

“You know, I’ve often found the best things take time. Flowers bloomin’, mushrooms growin’… reassembling some little critter you’ve taken apart, and trying to make it last. I don’t have pretend to have many virtues, sweet pea, but believe me when I say that patience is one of them.”

[Previously, before Volume I…]

age: 39-ish. (9/9/1982 - 9/9/1999, but she brought herself back, so it’s complicated. also a virgo and displays all the more… persnickety traits.)

birthplace: greymoon, calcascieu parish, louisiana usa

height: 5’7”

current location: likely the gardens of morvant mortuary in greymoon, louisiana. (…though you might check your attic. just to be certain.)

favorite book: we have always lived in the castle - shirley jackson

(what she thinks her walk-on music would be: take me to war - the crane wives.

what it actually would be: sunny came home - shawn colvin.

fc: eva green, in all her resplendent forms.)

hobbies: Idle hands are supposed to be the devil’s workshop, but Rora’s still manage to give him a run for his money when they’re always moving. From a young age, she was always keen of mind and eye, and picked up some in-depth and complex hobbies that veered far from her mother’s idea of what was... “suitable” for a young lady of her stature. While often forced to join her mother in the garden to keep her supervised and out of trouble, Rora soon came to care for the beautiful, precious flowers her mother raised, and became fascinated by their brief but lovely life cycle. She only became more fascinated with the poisonous ones when she’d find small creatures from the yard dead nearby every so often, and so began a lifelong obsession with beautiful things that held the power of Death. Her passion for horticulture soon encompassed all sorts of ominous blooms and mushrooms, which she cultivates herself with pride. Her curiosity only burgeoned further when she compared the tiny, still corpses to the bodies on her father’s embalming table, and she began dissecting them to figure out how they worked. When she took up taxidermy like her grandfather before her, her family tolerated her “art,” but only just - bending the little lifeless things to her will, often literally, in macabre tableaux and whimsical dioramas depending on her mood. But when her flowers and fungi aren’t agreeing with her and she finds a dearth of “subjects” on the House grounds, she still manages to keep herself busy. She’ll often say the one useful skill she picked up from her mother is sewing, and often passes afternoons altering her own clothes and repairing other things in the House as needed along with the skin, muscle, and sinews of her latest experiment in the family art of necromancy. In her rare lighter moods, she’ll sometimes turn her attention back to her old childhood dolls, removing their factory paint and hair and replacing them with versions she creates herself, along with tiny clothes straight out of a storybook. (But don’t tell her brother and cousin about it, she couldn’t stand to hear them gushing over her having a hobby that doesn’t involve mortal danger for someone.) Overall, Rora loves anything that can keep her hands and eyes busy while her mind goes on whirring away in the background planning her next move to secure the mantle for herself --

and with how she feels about you, this can often work out in your favor.

occupation: Only recently back from the dead, Rora’s still figuring out the whole “how to make money” thing. Currently, she’s trying to revitalize the gardens that surround the family House and Mortuary, hoping to provide homegrown flowers for services and memorials her twin brother directs. The process so far is slow and painstaking, but her lilies are coming along wonderfully. White as bone and looking lively well beyond their cutting, they’re quickly gaining popularity as requested arrangements. One might swear they’re almost... bewitched, somehow. But what would be the purpose in tampering with something as simple as flowers?

"I do find I’ve been enjoyin’ things more the second time around,” Rora confesses, a smile playing about her lips. Even in the sunlight of her garden, on her knees in the dirt, she is still unearthly pale. Parts of her skin seem nearly pearlescent, in places - lines of scar tissue under her jaw and on her cheeks, in confusing arrangements on her décolletage. Her bare hands gather dark soil around the base of the lily in front of her. “It’s funny how much of the pressure we put on ourselves when we’re alive is just... nothin’, in the end.” She shakes her head, her dark hair obscuring part of her face like a curtain. “Just little things we made up, tryin’ to fit the story someone else is tellin’ us about ourselves.” Her eyes find yours, a green that’s almost too bright. “You know, if gettin’ back weren’t such a bitch, I’d almost recommend more people should shuffle off for a bit.” Her smile curls into a cold, knowing smirk. “You learn a lot about yourself when you’re dead.”

the present, in a way:

Rora had thought things would be simpler when she came back from the other side of The Veil. Things should be, ideally, less complicated in the land of the living when you figure out how to orchestrate your own resurrection from beyond the grave.

Well. Joke’s on her, she supposes, because she forgot just how... complex the living could be in their own right.

Not only did Rora bring herself back into a world she barely recognizes at times, with her two closest relatives both adults and nearly strangers to her, she has a about twenty years of living she suddenly feels as a lack, an absence. When you’re dead, there’s still plenty to learn - she’s not the petulant teenage girl she had been when she succumbed to a failed attempt to give herself an advantage in her Ritual. Her time beyond the Veil has shaped her into a shrewd, clever woman who’s been working with entirely different priorities than the typical mortal needs. But when you’re suddenly faced with the actual reality of being alive again, and achingly aware of a fresh pulse counting down the expiration time on your current body... it’s different, after ages of feeling atemporal. Time is suddenly much more precious than it had been before, even the first time around.

The plan had been fairly straightforward: Come back, fill the power vacuum her twin brother and cousin had left by fucking around and not laying claim to the family’s seat with They Who Decide, re-establish the Morvants as a family to be feared as they had been under her father’s reign, and his father’s before him, and so on. Something she’d been scheming and plotting for years in the sleepless dreaming of the dead. 

But now she’s back, and not only have Maxi and Hector changed, she might be remembering just how much she loved them the first time. 

On top of that, despite the endless burden of the family’s discipline of necromancy and their arrangement with They Who Provide, they both seem... happy. Maxi has even found himself a little mortal he’s grown attached to, and Hex definitely seems to have someone new on the brain lately. She hadn’t thought about what it would mean to try to live as herself - her real, genuine self, the one she always had to hide with her parents breathing down their necks and cudgeling the lot of them with their unachievable expectations.

She doesn’t expect to find anyone like the boys have. And definitely not a mortal. She’s too... complicated for that, in multiple senses. She wouldn’t ask anyone to try to understand, much less love, what her life and death and rebirth have made her. She was never a girl who was meant for that, and she’s known it for a while.

But damn, if thinking about actually enjoying being alive doesn’t have her sincerely considering revising the timeline of that “straightforward” plan of hers.

Sunlight and dirt are much more pleasant on this side of the grave, and she’s missed them so.

favorite snippets not in the main arc:

be the sunlight in my everyday

The Morvants and skinnydipping

Rora and nightmares

Rora and pet names

The Morvants and an S/O who hasn’t finished with a partner before

(Relevant playlists, other stories, and chapters in the overall continuity can be found on the main masterlist here.

all her usual tags are included in this post.)

Keel-Billed Toucan (Ramphastos Sulfuratus)

©Aurore Shirley

1 Day In Izamal: One Of Mexico’s “Pueblos Magicos”

Photographer: Aurore Shirley

For the ask--R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

@the-hot-zone​ I LOVE THIS QUESTION!!

fic writers:

@waspabi // waspabi on AO3: their Harry Potter fic, Stately Homes of Wiltshire, was like, one of those fics I read and enjoyed at the time, and then as time went on I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It’s so, so clever in a non-flashy way. The plot is just, Auror Harry Potter visits Draco at the Malfoy Manor and sorts out some ghost stuff. But it’s SO funny, and there’s so much good details about DIY and historical preservations, and I love how the author uses the crumbling manor as a way of talking about like, the weight of family history and Draco’s family’s own Death Eater past - incredible.  And it’s so clear that the author loves british history and big old houses, but they’re capable of writing about history without fetishising or idealizing it. This is the sort of Harry Potter fic I WANT.

@nimmieamee​ // nimmieamee on AO3: their Captain America fic Shoeless Joe and the Sunshine Kid  basically lives in my head rent-free.

"What you did?" Steve had said, blinking. His wholesome blue eyes looked down at Bucky, half-amused, half-worried. "You changed my life, that's what. Bucky, everything I am... I have to give you credit for it. For looking out for me. Protecting me. Always. In a way, Captain America deserves to be forgotten. It should be you, Bucky. You. The real hero for this country. I mean, what am I? A shield. Defense. But you know who really embodies what that means? You."

This was supposed to anchor Bucky. It did. It did. Every time. It always washed over him, it was like the breeze running through the trees outside and shaking out all the leaves and leaving the park nicely settled. Steve spoke, away went the doubts; they fell to the ground, and Bucky relaxed. Steve had the magic words to do this. You're the real hero, Buck. You.

It’s honestly one of the MOST astounding pieces of fiction I’ve ever read. It’s disturbing, so people should check the trigger warnings, but if people think they can handle it I highly, highly recommend reading it through without looking at ANY of the info and the tags. 

I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that this fic like, taught me how to write. It taught me more than some of my real uni classes how literature works, how stories work, how you can use language and motifs to build a story around a central theme, how to build a story with an unreliable narrator, how to weave the past and the present together through thought and memory. How names are powerful tools. How to leverage what characters know against what the reader knows. It’s almost embarrassing to link this fic because I owe so, so much to it, but there you go.

non fic writers:

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn // Shirley Jackson // Min Jin Lee Pachinko // Ursula K. LeGuin // Louise Gluck // Mary Oliver // Terry Pratchett 

Envy

Pairing: Theseus Scamander x reader

Words: 1174

Requested by anonymous: Hiiiii Queen!!! ❤❤❤ Could you write a Theseus imagine/hc where reader who is also an auror is jealous of Theseus's assistant who flirts with Theseus and one time she's ha enough and confronts with her not knowing Theseus is listening to their conversation and he later teases her for it. Could you also add something where assistant is talking with Theseus and reader comes and kisses him or grabs his arms or something,giving the assistant death glares. MUCH LOVEEEEEE ❤❤❤❤❤

Note: Sorry in advance to all the Shirleys out there :(

Warning: A lot of stomping?

Masterlist

You couldn’t help but scowl that seem almost permanently on your lips for the past week at The Department of Magical Law Enforcement, it seemed that your good friend and your boss, Theseus Scamander had taken a liking to a certain new assistant of his named Shirley and you barely got to see him because of it. You never went on your regular lunch with Theseus anymore once ‘Shirley Temple’ started replacing you.

You really tried your best for it not to annoy you, but your irritation rose rather drastically whenever you saw Shirley with him, you really just couldn’t help it.

Your crush on a particular Head of Auror was undeniable as much you tried to deny it. Theseus was your good friend and your boss for Merlin’s sake. You never wanted to take the risk of ruining your friendship that had bloomed from years of working together. However, you didn’t see how Shirley the Assistant helped with this friendship of yours anyways. You and Theseus had only drifting apart.

You were making your way to Theseus’s office to pass some paperwork under Travers’ orders. You never would have gone if it wasn’t for Travers forcing you to do so.

As you knocked on Theseus’ door, you heard laughter from the other side. A woman’s laugh particularly.

Of course, Shirley had to be in there.

As the door opened, you were greeted by the one and only Shirley.

You prevented yourself from rolling your eyes and you internally groaned to yourself.

“Hello, Y/N. What can I do for you?” she smiles

“I just need to pass this paperwork to Mr Scamander.” you replied, trying to hide the bitterness laced within your voice.

She could feel Theseus’ stare on her from behind Shirley as he sat at his desk, probably because of the fact you had just called him Mr Scamander.

“Oh, alright. Thank you, Y/N.” she snatched the folder from your hand and literally slammed the door in your face.

You were beyond furious. How dare she do that?, you growled under your breath as you stomped away.

On your way out from work, you spotted Shirley putting on her coat from afar. Your rational side would have ignored her and walked away but you let your rather irrational side that was responsible for most of the idiotic things you have done in the past take over. Before you know, you found yourself calling out her name as you made your way towards her.

“Oh, Y/N. What can I do for you?” she says. You literally could tell she was internally rolling her eyes.

You wondered whether this was such a good idea after all.

“Well, you know I’m actually kind of Theseus’ best friend and you know, uh, I-I just wanted to know whether the two of you have a thing going on? Because I haven’t been seeing much of Theseus and it's probably because you’re spending so much ti- ” so much for confrontation. Shirley somehow made you so incredibly nervous and it was probably because she hated you to the guts.

“Are you jealous or something?” she interrupted.

Rude.

“What? No? No. Of course not.” You let out a not so convincing nervous laugh.

“Good because it’s really none of your business.” Shirley swiftly walks away, flipping her hair. You weren’t sure whether she had done that on purpose. You sighed as you put on your hat and apparated.

Little did you know, Theseus had been quietly eavesdropping on your conversation with Shirley, unintentionally of course.

-

Your week after that conversation have made your life in the Ministry a lot more interesting. Slightly bizarre actually. Theseus had started talking to you again but in this case he was not talking to you most of the time but as a matter of fact flirting. He had constantly bugged you about how you were jealous of Shirley because you liked Theseus. Of course, you denied it as much as possible partly because you didn’t want Theseus’ head to grow any bigger than it already is but you could not help but suspect that Theseus was probably Legilimens. How could he have possibly known that you had a massive crush on the man? Even if he had overheard your conversation with Shirley, you doubted he would have been able to catch on the fact you were actually a little jealous.

Shirley was a beautiful woman and an intelligent witch. You knew you could not possibly live up to her standards. Theseus totally deserved her but something told you deep inside that you could have a chance with him. He was your best friend after. He had seen the best and worst of you and yet he never ran away like all your other friends did.

That has got to mean something, right?

You were walking down the hallway as you made your way to Travers’ office when you heard a laugh so infuriating that you were tempted to rip all your hair out. It was Shirley, of course, and she was laughing at what Theseus had said. That didn’t really bother you but what she had done next bothered the hell out of you. Merlin’s beard, you could have hexed her at that very moment. You knew Shirley noticed you form the corner of her eye and you knew she had purposely stepped a little closer to Theseus as she tugged on the collar of his coat. Theseus, however, felt extremely uncomfortable at how close Shirley was to him.

You were beyond infuriated at that point and there was no point in denying that you were extremely jealous. She was after all stealing your only best friend in this whole office and it doesn’t help at all that it was the man you were head over heels for. Blinded by envy, you stomped towards the both of them angrily and did something nobody would have ever suspected you to have done.

Theseus turned around and noticed that it was you. He would have smiled and teased you but his face dropped at the sight of his best friend stomping towards them furiously.

Theseus had never felt so afraid in his life.

You grabbed him by the collar and the next thing you knew, you had slammed your lips to his, nearly knocking out the air out of his lungs.

Strangely, everything felt right. But Theseus was your best friend. Merlin, you were kissing your boss. In the office. It may have gone on for a few minutes before you broke away, realizing what you had done. Theseus' eyes were wide, his face was completely flushed and so was yours. You took a few moments to compose yourself before turning to Shirley who looked like she was about to actually kill you at any moment. You beamed at her innocently and winked at Theseus before making your way to Travers’ office, leaving Theseus completely dumbfounded.

He had always wanted to that for a long time but you obviously beat him to it.

fanfic rec:

If you love a good murder mystery in the likes of Sherlock Holmes and the fabulous Agatha Christie spiced with the magic of Harry Potter, you will surely like The Mysterious Affair at Foxglove by Misty_Rey @hpfanfictalk! It will suck you into the mystery of the murder of Ariel Yaxley, and everyone in her family and household is a suspect! The two heroes, Jeanne Washington, a disgraced would-be Healer, and Shirley Locke Hawkes, an auror in training, have wonderfully constrasted personalities that complement each other and you won't be able to stop reading until you see how the two of them solve the mystery!

link: The Mysterious Affair at Foxglove

something else to go on the bingo card of this year, the bali bomber being arrested after 18 years. a whole child's life. but anyway. scott and the whole byron bay thing happening and the beach. beaches again. and those names again. more names. matilda, rebecca, ocean, gilda, jessica, layla, dolores, mabel, tully, genevieve, bruce, dean. films with names as their titles. in regards to the songs that have names as titles; jessica (and maybe some variants of, i can't remember the list from just the top of my head) and layla are the two that come up matching. but i think my bias for the name layla with the song connection etc is clouding my judgement. as of course there are the spelling variations of layla which then cancel it out doesn't it... at least carrie has her layla etc. so jessica is what comes up connected here. my best friend, but she doesn't even like the name. so maybe... maybe. of course here as well, ocean is a word name. but i just thought that was funny too remembering that baby that was called ocean. so anyway. matilda, rebecca, gilda, jessica, dolores, mabel, tully, genevieve, bruce, dean. be right back.

anyway... anyway. other names on the shortlist were clover, constance, ingrid, lisa, mona, olga, prudence, shirley, fiona, gretchen, hazel, lars, earl. but then even dolores is basically lola. matilda. rebecca. gilda. jessica. mabel. tully. genevieve. bruce. dean. nine names. nine, nine, nine. i spoke about aurora rebecca. with the nickname rory. which i love. but of course, again, there's aurore! aurore, aurore! rebecca would always stay the second, the middle, name - because i don't really like the nicknames. maybe reb. i think that's cute. but i just know people would call her/them bec; which isn't awful. but also becky - which i absolutely hate. always have. so it would be jessica rebecca. jessica. rebecca.