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skinnyqueengreenbean · 4 years

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Cedric Diggory X Beauxbatons Reader. PT. 3 or 4?

Warnings ⚠️ - language, Annie And Claire being idiots, Cedric is hot. + spelling errors

“Silence Everyone please” Dumbledore started. He when on and on about the “pride” and “glory” it is to win. I think its bull shit, all you get is a couple pictures and most likely a damn plastic trophy. But I swear to god if I get picked I’m gonna throw hands at that shady ass school. But it was a risk, and I took it. I was stollen from my thoughts as soon as Claire nugged my shoulder and pointed at the goblet. The flames were a blinding red color instead of the ocean blue it was before. A small sheet of parchment flew out. Dumbledore snatched it and read aloud, “The Durmstrang Champion, Victor Crumb!” The Drumstrang table roared with slight claps form other tables. Victor walked over and joined the other professors and shook hands with all of them. My stomach was in a knot. What would I do if my name gets pulled, oh god I fucked up, i fucked up big time. The crowd was silent until the Blood red color appeared again. With another parchment. “The Beauxbatons Champion, Y/F/N.” My stomach was spinning in circles. But I kept it real and walked over to the professors table and shook everyone hands then walked over with Victor and shook his hand as well. The Third piece of parchment flew out. “The Hogwarts Champion, Cedric Diggory!” The Cedric walked up with a proud smile on his face. Damn that smile gave me butterflies. We was so perfect, not to mention like 028837733 feet taller than I was. As he walked over to the professors table shook hands and walked over to him and just as we made eye contact I winked. Yes your herd me right winked. W I N K E D. I saw a slight blush arise on his face to as he threw his head down. The hairrrrr oh my god I just want to- “land that concludes our” a professor dressed in all black walked past us and I gave him a funny look until I realized what was happing. Another light arose from the goblet. ANOTHER peice parchment paper flew out. “Harry Potter” “HARRY POTTER” To be honest, I don’t really care that he’s the “famous kid” and all, I would think the same if he was a cat but most likely some high ass teacher put his name in. Take it or leave it there’s my prediction. As Harry made his up here he tapped me on the shoulder. “i don’t think that was supposed to happen” he whispers “yeah, no shit” I reply. I hear a light chuckle from Cedric. Oh my god not the laugh to this man is to close to perfection. I just again keep it real and roll my eyes. The professors then lead us down to a room ful, of trophies. I walk in and “look around”. Oh please, I’m actually trying to find a way to sneak out with my friends and meet by the lake. Untill I hear. “Harry” HARRY POTTER” Dumbledore runs up to Harry and pins him against a wall knocking down some plates. Then they ask Harry questions and give Harry answers. This school must drive kids crazy. Then send us back to our dorms to supposably go to sleep but my friends and I have other plans. When I get back I change put pj pants and a black crop top on and exclaimed to my friends to my friends the plan. “okay so now that everyone’s changed and ready to go, the plan is to break out this window get on our brooms and ride down. Simple, easy, awesome.” “aren’t you gonna tell us how it went-” I’ll tell you at the lake we just kinda have to go.” Everyone nods and puts bathing suits on and grab towels. I walk up to the window and as quite as possible unlatch the first lock and use a hair pin to unlock the second. I move slowly and try to not make the window squeak. I successfully open the window and call my broom with a whistle. When my broom arrives I step out onto the roof and try to get on but my broom was to far away. I was hesitant about jumping because we were on like the 10th floor but I though “ come on, your going to becompeting in this dangerous event we have to to take some chances here.” I I jump and barely make it by grading the wood part of my broom stick and pulling myself up. All my friends laugh. “ Wow Y/n that was impressive” “oh shut up, but I suggest trying to make your brooms go closer to you next time.” Once everyone is on we start to head out. I was the only one that took quidditch lessons, but the others were pretty good flyers. The moonlight guided us up to the lake and as we landed Iimmediately looked up and the night sky. “they have a really pretty sky up here” Annie starts. “yeah no kidding” I add. “Enough small talk, let’s get to swim-en!” Claire takes off her clothing and stands next to the water. “layout sure there’s nothing in the water?” Liz asks and looks a me. I sneak up behind Claire and say. “lime not sure any monster in there might try and - GET YA” I tackle Claire she let out a streak and started to fight back. At this point we were all about to die laughing. “I’m just messing, nothings in there.” “ Prove it then, go in first” “okay” i take of my clothing and yell “PUSSYS” and cannonball into the Lake. “Wooohooo” I scream. Everyone starts to hop in. We have chicken fights, tag, we even played Marco Polo. After that we dried off and had a small sip of vodka and we all promised to monitor each other so we wouldn’t get drunk. And thankfully no one did. we headed back to our dorms at about 4:50am and went to bed. I woke up at 7:50 and looked at my note sheet that I wrote out yesterday at some point. “Oh Fuck” I yell I forgot I had an interview at 8:00 that I had to be there for. I did my make up in a rush,(but still slayed the look obviously) then put my uniform on and put small curls in my hair grabbed my hat and ran out the door at 7:58 I ran like the wind the get to the halls as it just happens that my dorm is the farstest away. As soon as I get there at 7:59 I mumble ““not to shabby” and fix my hat. Harry laughs “you could have just taken the secret passage” I take my attention from my hat to Harry. “wait so no one told me that I didn’t have to run all the way here” I take a big breath. Harry nods. “welp it could be worse.” “lash here we have our three” she looks around “four Champions” everyone looks at each other and shrugs. We start with a group photo. I’m in the front sitting on a chair, Harry’s on the back left standing, Victors on the Right standing, and Cedrics right behind me sitting.“I'm Rita Skeeter, I write for the daily prophet. But of course you know that don't you. It's you we don't know, you're the news. What quirks lurk beneath those rosy cheeks?” She puts he hand on my cheek and I move her hand away “what mysteries do the muscles mask? does courage lie beneath those curls? In short, what makes a champion tick. Me, myself and I want to know. Not to mention my rabid readers. So, who's feeling up to sharing? Mmm? Shall we start with the youngest. Lovely.” Harry gets pulled into a broom closet. Silence fills the room until Cedric starts a small conversation. “ I don’t believe that we have all have properly meet each other” he starts. “ I’m Cedric” he puts his hand out for Victor to shake. Victor looks at Cedrics big ass hands then back at Cedric. “Victor” he says and shakes his hand. Cedric then moves his arm over to me. I look him up and down and bite my lip. “y/n” I answer. He Gives a Warm smile. “Okay” Harry gets shoved out of the closet. “Who wants to go next?” “Ladys first” Cedric whispers thankfully Rita Couldn’t hear. I kick his shin. He lets out a mone “okay- I’ll go” he looks back at me. I just smirk.

#Back off cho #cedric diggory #cedric diggory x fem!reader #hogwarts

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annakie · 5 years

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Notes on a Blog Cleanup (& some other stuff) Part 4

Made it all the way back to to page 1000.

Started with 3021 pages. Currently have 2954 pages, adding in posting 10 - 13 times a day for the last month... deleted somewhere around 87 pages of posts (or around 1300 total). I’m in April 2015. So it took two and a half years to do 50% of my posting here and nearly another year and a half to get that down to 2/3rds. It’ll just speed up from here.

Anyway, here’s a bunch of words about tumblr, fandom, and Doctor Who.

I’ve found myself deleting more news articles lately. There’s almost no cringe-y stuff left. If I go back and do this again it’ll be even more deleting current events stuff unlessI connected to it somehow.

A LOT of the content creation I ever did happened in this time. I did so much giffing for Who’s Line, a lot of video game stuff, especially Mass Effect, cause you know, it’s me, and a lot of edits and such. Some way better quality than others. I was also getting thousands of notifications a day from the few things I did that were really popular back then (still sometimes get notes on that Whose Line/Elmo/Game of Thrones gifset to this day).

I know I’m not like, the best at gifs and edits, but hey, I think some of it is like, pretty good? There’s a few things I’m a little sad about that just never took off, but I bet all people who try and post OC on Tumblr feel that way about some of their stuff. A few things I made did surprisingly well, though.

I still will make the odd gif/photoset there that’s more than just “here’s some nice screenshots I took slightly edited” but honestly, I feel like these days it’s so hard to get many notes on tumblr at all? Like there’s just so fewer people making stuff, and even less reblogging gifsets/photosets? Idk, maybe it’s something more specific to my overall followers and who you all follow? But I made a joking post a couple of days ago about my dash feeling weird because not everything is specifically tailored to me after scrolling through my blog, but on the OTHER hand, I also feel like, overall Tumblr has become just yet another place to post memes and text posts and has the big problem of the Reddit/Twitter/Tumblr/Instagram (+TickTock) circle where each place is like 50% screenshots/reposts of content the others? This obviously isn’t a criticism of any actual people, but just... what tumblr has become the last year or two? Is it just me? Like you can find some gifsets and such with a couple thousand notes here and there but... just not as much is being produced now? Does that make sense?

Like a month or two ago I spent a couple of hours specifically looking for good general fandom blogs specific to several fandoms I’m in and... it’s hard to even find those blogs anymore. Like, “fuckyeah” type blogs that are someone’s sideblog about a specific topic. And hey, believe me, I’ve created and abandoned several of these kinds of blogs on my time here (and at least one I’d keep up with but.. it just doesn’t have any content being generated for it so it’s just... sparse) so I get it. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places, I don’t know.

I keep wondering how much longer I’m going to keep doing this little project, and then every 10 or pages I come across a post I didn’t tag properly that’s now been found, or something I just really wanna get off my blog and I’m like “Welp, when I stop finding these, I’ll stop looking. So maybe in like, 2018. :p LIterally finding posts I forgot I ever made in the first place and like has made it worth it.

Notes on TAH Fandom

This was also the phase of being heavily heavily like SO heavily into The Thrilling Adventure Hour. And I have a lot of thoughts on that, too.

Literally, one of the best decisions of my life, tbh. Not every moment of being like a SuperFan of this thing was sunshine and roses, but most of them really were. Honestly, I made such good friends. I had some extraordinary experiences, doing things that I wouldn’t have otherwise done, for sure. I traveled to Seattle, Chicago, New York twice, and LA three times, hanging out with new friends, and getting to know the cast of a thing I loved so much, and also somehow getting to be known by them as well. There were things that happened that I didn’t blog about here because I never wanted to come off as braggy, or just to keep a confidence. There were a few not-as-great things that happened during that time, but basically, 2014 through mid-November 2015 will likely go down as one of the best time periods of my life, for a lot of reasons, but a good chunk of that was the experiences I had through TAH.

Hoo boy though, I blogged about it a LOT. Like, it felt like almost as much as early blog was about Doctor Who. I was, uh, real enthusiastic and am now kinda regretful about some of those early fandom tags. Also turns out some of the TAH people looked at my blog more than I knew, I think, so a little yikes there thinking back on it now. But also I was kind and helpful a lot, so all of that was good.

This is a good recap post of all of the awesome stuff. And even that glosses over a lot of the really cool stuff, or skirts around some of it, just to try and stay brief about it.

One of the big things I learned from that experience was that being a very involved person in a fandom is such a double-edged sword. For one thing, it honestly became somewhat of a second job for me, which I 100% put upon myself. But running FYTAH (with Shannon!) and admining/writing a large percentage of the TAH Wiki (with Ange!), working in the booths at conventions (with Jena + Shannon/Kitty/Jamie/Dani) and being available to help in a variety of other ways was A Lot. Which again, I took on willingly. And Ange warned me about it several times but I was like “No I want to do this.” So then it also kind of turned into like a customer service job even outside of working at the cons. After awhile you gotta smile and be nice allllll the time. I ended up taking a lot of things offline to a small subset of friends. And most of that came from other fans, not from the show itself (except like, feeling like I couldn’t show my true disappointment when the show was ending, or feeling like I couldn’t air any criticisms I had about the show except in very private conversations.)

At one point I was having an email conversation with a couple of those friends and realized that, for the first time in my life, I was like a “popular kid”, which was weird. And I tried my damnedest to be as welcoming and inclusive and not to let anyone feel left out. But also there’s a point where like, you can only take on so much, and you can only be actual friends with so many people? You can be kind and welcoming and enthusiastic and all, but you only have so much time and energy to give away. There were so many messages I never answered still sitting in my / the FYTAH inbox or in email and some on twitter because I just didn’t have the bandwidth to give away sometimes. It was a weird lesson to learn because I knew it so well in general in my personal life, but had never had to apply it... in this way before? Does that sound weird? Or braggy? I feel like I’m walking on land mines with this one.

For a more specific example of what I mean, in March, 2015 ten of us rented a house and lived in it for a long weekend for the TAH 10th anniversary show + a fun getaway vacation. Everyone invited was someone I knew or were close with someone else in the group. A few more people had been invited but couldn’t afford it, so word got around a little bit. And it was AMAZING. But I later heard that there were a few people, most of whom I didn’t really know, were hurt that they weren’t invited. Jena and I spent dozens of hours and put a lot of financial risk into being the custodians of the trip for even the ten of us, and it was a huge undertaking. It was never meant to be a thing for the entire fandom, just a group of people who were already friends. But there was still a small kerfluffle from a few people about it. Which, I TOTALLY get feeling bad about being left out but... it was always supposed to be a relatively small thing, never any kind of “Official Fandom Get Together”. And we definitely didn’t have the time/money/ability to host an “open call for anyone to come” type thing. Just coordinating 10 people (and about 25 - 30 overall getting together to hang out at designated times over the weekend) was... more than enough.

At one point sometime later people started suggesting that we organize and hold an actual TAH-Con and I... let that one pass me by without really talking about it. It was definitely too much, and even then I knew it. And I mean, the shadow of Dashcon was still hanging over all fandoms heavily in those days. I wasn’t about to become the next Dashcon. It never got past a few emails being passed around.

So yeah, to be honest, if I could go back and do those years again, I absolutely would, it was like 95% awesomeness. But I think in regards to some of the fandom-specific things, I’d be a little less of a doormat, and I’d be a little more careful about spreading myself too thin.

So now that the show is “back”, I am enjoying listening to it, and I’ll reblog some things or post big news on FYTAH, but I’ve been lazy about even helping out with the wiki (I keep meaning to get back to it, Ange is still doing great) because... although I’m still a HUGE fan, I also am gonna be more laid back about it now.

I also haven’t REALLY loved a thing in the same way since TAH. The closest there has been is Critical Role, and I’ve been real careful to stay out of any actual fandom stuff there. I really love the thing, but I’m gonna keep with my group of 5 or 6 other fans I already know (all from other fandoms) who love the thing too, and stay out of wider discussions. With some of the stuff happening there lately, it was a good decision.

Wow, that was a lot of words. Sorry.

Hey one last thing to catch up on.

Doctor Who Rewatch 2019!

I’m now already at 6x01, into the Silence episodes.

So I did finally rewatch the Desert Bus episode that I hated so much before and like... this time... it was fine? Cheesy and all, but not so bad that I should have hated it as much as I did? Also noticed the Doctor doing the classic “gonna hit on this girl really hard in the beginning then drop her so quick at the end” thing to the companion of the week. Ah, Ten. The most bi-polar of all Doctors. I’m gonna be honest, I decided to skip on through Waters of Mars because I realized I was just ready to be done with Ten at that point. I’ll probably go back to it at some point but I wasn’t ready for another Ten Temper Tantrum, maybe the worst one of all, in that episode.

So I finished Ten (and oh man that whole two-parter to end Ten with... like the whole Master plotline is such a stinker. The first half, in particular, is so bad, the only really good scene is the one in the cafe with Wilf. The rest of it... wow. Wasn’t that whole thing written like the week before filming and never really edited or something? IDK.) The last half hour or so is really good though, with Ten’s sacrifice (after a tantrum) and then all the companion goodbyes (except Joan Redfern’s granddaughter, bleh).

But yay, on to Eleven and Amy and Rory and more River!

Season Five is... wow it starts off strong and really stalls there in the middle for a bit. Picks back up a bit with Rory returning, then somehow has two great episodes without Rory and ends strong, though the first pretty nonsensical Moffat-era “this doesn’t make sense but it looks and sounds so good you don’t care, right?” season arc and ending. Season six, I’m already remembering, is way, way worse for that. But anyway. Rory remains my second favorite companion ever. And episodes with Amy, Rory and River continue to be my favorites. Also? Matt Smith is so good.

But even early on in season six I’m remembering how really dumb the overarching plotline is... Moffat is great at “Oh man this will be cool so I’m gonna throw it in there! (and it really is some very cool stuff!) and hope it all makes sense later! Or just don’t think about it too hard!”

Honestly though, despite all the quibbles, most of the episodes work on an individual level if you don’t think about the the overall arc Moffat is trying to do. Even those that are a bit sloggy, like the Cold Blood/Hungry Earth two-parter, have enough great moments to justify watching them. (Ambrose is still maybe one of the worst “regular people” characters to ever be on this show, though.) There’s still no “Fear Her”. And that’s pretty good.

Also? The blog itself is now about as Doctor Who oriented as it is in the last year. Like... oh the season is airing? There’s a lot more good stuff to reblog, I’ll reblog good stuff. Season not airing, a scattered post here and there. It’s a much better place to be.

After Amy and Rory leave, that was about the end of my true like “Doctor Who Obsession” phase. On my Blog we’re in the break between Amy and Rory leaving and Clara showing up. I never really clicked with Clara, I think like a lot of people. Like I really liked the season with Danny, but after that season I never really rewatched episodes, so I’m looking forward to getting there and experiencing some stuff again for the second time.

#personal post tag thingy #notes on a blog cleanup

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