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spellwrites · 7 months

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I made business cards for Imogen bc I am a nerd and it was fun lol XD

#it is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness nothing more ( aesthetic )#the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#all was well ( verse )

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sofoulandfairaday · 9 months

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Hcs about Sirius? Thanks

Let's see how many people come screaming in my inbox for these

Tall. Taller than James, definitely taller than Remus (ya know, like the text implies).

Tall and conventionally handsome. Not the skinny/androgynous/emo kind. I don't hate those hcs, they're just not how I picture him. He's very very conventionally handsome in quite a masculine way although I can see him not sporting a beard until after Hogwarts, maybe even after his escape from Azkaban.

You can have your makeup wearing, skirt sporting, femme Sirius but it's just not for me.

Also. Also. Also. Can I just say? Wizards wear robes. They all wear skirts.

Prefers animals to people (and animals prefer him).

Can fly a broom, and can do so very well, most likely since before he ever got to Hogwarts, but he wasn't on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He maybe played once or twice if someone was injured and James was begging him, and only exclusively against Slytherin to spite his Seeker brother. I can see him being in the Duelling Club, though.

Practice duels against the Slytherins got vicious.

An absolute prodigy in Transfiguration (he and James were Minerva's favourite students), also excels in Charms, DADA, and (what a shocker) Astronomy. He's very good in school in general though, and has very high grades. Considering how much time James must have ‘wasted’ being Quidditch Captain - time that Sirius probably spent studying in his last two years of school - he was probably the best, academically speaking, of the Marauders. He was also probably the most powerful wizard of the four.

Took Muggle Studies to annoy his family (he was mildly interested, but he wasn't passionate about the subject), and dropped it after his O.W.L.S. to better concentrate on the ‘important’ classes, especially since there was a war out there by 1978. Definitely got into a slight quarrel with Lily about this - more and more people were dropping out of Muggle Studies out of fear at this point and to her, it was about making a statement. Sirius's reply was ‘I think a curse right between the eyes is a better statement against the Death Eaters - I can only do that if I train’.

But Sirius- I've said this before, but I'm much more interested in all the ways Sirius is like his family than the ways he isn't. Definitely had to unlearn many of his biases.

Amongst which: his classism. Which he does display in the books, especially in the case of Snape.

I'm sure he would get into arguments with Remus (who was clearly hurt by some of these - which is precisely what prompted Sirius to reexamine some of his views more consciously), where Remus would say ‘But not all werewolves are like that, Sirius!’ when talking about, say, whether or not they should be allowed in certain jobs or whatever, and Sirius saying ‘well, yes, Remus but what if they do attack someone’ (Wolfsbane isn't a thing at this point in the canon).

I've said this before and I'll say it again: Remus was Sirius' exception, much like Lily's was Snape's. And this goes for many things.

Gradually, he unlearns many of his beliefs, especially when he goes back home as a teenager and sees his points of view reflected in the mouths of people like Rodolphus Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy - which disgusts him.

Sirius, in the books, has very famous lines (“The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters...”) but he very famously does not live by that morality. He's a person, to me, with an extremely black-and-white view of the world. He can hex and curse students for fun and it's fine because he isn't using Dark Magic. On the other hand, most Slytherins suck because they are all racist evil gits who will end up as Death Eaters anyway.

He did not have Slytherin friends, that's probably one of my least favourite headcanons ever. He knew these people because he was a Black, which is why he can list them off to Harry in GoF, but he definitely did not hang out with them or like them in any way. Also, who were the Slytherins in his year and above/below anyways? Avery and Mulciber who played cruel (and maybe slightly illegal) jokes on Mary MacDonald? Evan Rosier (to me he actually wasn't, in my headcanons he's 4 years older than Bellatrix, which makes him about 13 years older than Sirius, but for the sake of argument) who was a Dark Wizard TM and blasted off half of Mad Eye's nose? Barty Voldemort Fanboy Crouch? Regulus??? Snape?????

Good at Potions, never top of the class (those were Lily and Snape)

Tactless at times, but not as much as James.

An asshole. A complete and utter arrogant toerag, and definitely more than a little immature. He was popular, like James, and I can see him having other friends outside the Marauders, but never establishing deep and meaningful relationships with them. He was definitely more unapproachable than James, much more intimidating.

(Definitely meaner jokes, too.)

James was the love of his life (platonically, but I can get behind them as a ship). He was loyal to James, first and foremost (which is also why he and Moony grew apart and suspicious of each other in the First War). Also, both of them were James' friends first. The Marauders were James' friend group.

He was definitely jealous when James first got together with Lily because she was stealing his best friend, his second, better brother. He liked Lily, but he was obsessed with James, who definitely grew up before Sirius did.

I've always headcanoned Sirius as straight/bi and Regulus as gay. But the point is more that while I can see Sirius experimenting a bit in Hogwarts (after all, he was full of girls who probably liked him) I can't really see him as either an arrogant/douchebag playboy. I also don't think he ever had a serious relationship. Ever. Especially in his Hogwarts days. If you're not worthy of his time, he won't look at you twice let alone give you a chance.

Any partner of Sirius' would have to be quite exceptional anyways (brilliant, intelligent, talented, funny - he was all of these things after all - and maybe even a bit mean). I can't see why a girl like that would put up with Sirius' arrogance.

Loved McGonagall, lowkey hated Slughorn. He was definitely invited to the Slug Club and I can see him turning down meetings. That particular brand of cunning weaselling cowardice is quite literally the opposite of what Sirius was and it drove him up the wall.

My boy Sirius never worked a day in his life, especially after Uncle Alphard left him gold.

Also: it's very likely that given his nature (he doesn't open up to strangers easily), his vaguely intimidating aura, his less-than-perfect track record in school (I know this fandom likes to ignore that he cursed students for fun, but. like. he did.), the fact that he probably didn't have a job and spent his post-Hogwarts years in secret missions for the Order, and general ruthlessness- people knew him mostly as just another Black. It wasn't that unthinkable then that he might have been seen as Voldemort's number two.

(This enrages Bellatrix by the way lol)

And speaking of Bella. Sirius likes to go around saying Andromeda was his favourite cousin. Nu-uh. He wishes that was truly the case. These two have history, and I find it hilarious that what they hate in the other is precisely what they love in themselves (their respective loyalties).

Saw each other/could hear each other in Azkaban. Bellatrix's taunts of ‘See? We were right. You betrayed our family for these traitors and this is how they repaid you’ made the whole stay that much worse.

More likely than not had promised each other that they would be the ones to kill the other.

Bellatrix didn't mean to kill him though, I am convinced of this. In the books, she hits him with a Stunner and probably yells because she won the duel. Then, it's only after it's sunk in (after her run from the DoM to the Atrium) and when Voldemort is getting closer that she taunts Harry about it.

Personal headcanon: the last time Sirius saw his cousins was at Narcissa's wedding (nice parallel, because I believe that the last event Andromeda ever attended was Bellatrix's wedding). Now, it happened around his 5th/6th year and guess who was also there? Yup. Snivellus (as Lucius' guest). The two almost got into a brawl. Bellatrix was not happy with them almost spoiling Cissy's big day.

Once tried to beat up Rodolphus during a skirmish in which they had both lost their wands, in the First War. It did not go well for him.

I'll stop this now, but I def have more. Don't even get me started on Walburga and Orion and how this fandom does not understand abuse at all.

#sirius black #remus lupin #james potter #the marauders #bellatrix lestrange #hp headcanons #headcanons #the noble and most ancient house of black #asks #answered

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spellwrites · 9 months

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Was Imogen ever involved in accidental or deliberate tomfoolery at school?

OH, SO MUCH TOMFOOLERY.

Shall we talk about the time she got into a duel on her first day at Hogwarts? And then cheated in said duel twice?

Or when she got back at Snape for all her T grades by starting a rumor so convincing that years later kids were still saying he was a vampire? Or when she purposely got detention with him to ask incriminating questions about her father without risk of anyone overhearing?

How about all the times she snuck into the Restricted Section? Or snuck out of the castle?

Or maybe her tendency to sass professors in her essays? The "Days Since Last Pun" poster she installed in the Ravenclaw common room to track Flitwick's bad jokes? The weeks she spent determining the best way to derail History of Magic class? (Using modern sources and interpretations to argue with his dated lectures proved most effective. Magically pushing the wall several feet forward until it passed through him proved most entertaining.)

Then there's the time she messed up an experimental spell and couldn't get her wand to stop spouting water for a full day, so she pretended Moaning Myrtle was haunting her dorm room and led the entire Ravenclaw House on a wild goose chase trying to banish Myrtle from the tower?

Or the time she convinced Dumbledore to let her skip school to hang out in the Hog's Head all day? (She wanted to surprise Aberforth for his birthday by giving him a day off work, so that tomfoolery was at least wholesome.)

So, yes, not only was Imogen involved in Hogwarts Tomfoolery, she was the reigning champion of Hogwarts Tomfoolery until the Weasley twins arrived to knock her off her throne.

And I haven't even touched on all the flat-out criminal activity she got up to during her school career. She taught herself blood magic out of her father's old books and invented illegal spells for fun. There was a lot of it.

#witchgaunt #the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#i checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading ( verse )#you think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? you think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble? ( verse )#you are fighting that which is unfixed mutating indestructible ( verse )#help will always be given at hogwarts to those who ask for it ( answered )

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spellwrites · 10 months

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a study of your muse's body language.

bold what applies to your muse, and italicize what applies only in certain scenarios. please respost, don’t reblog !

defensiveness: arms crossed on chest, crossing legs, fist-like gestures, pointing index finger, karate chops, stiffening of shoulders, tense posture, curling of lip, baring of teeth.

reflective: hand-to-face gestures, head tilted, stroking chin, peering over glasses, taking glasses off and cleaning them, putting earpiece of glasses in mouth, pipe smoker gestures, putting hand to bridge of nose, pursed lips, knitted brows.

suspicion: arms crossed, sideways glance, touching or rubbing nose, rubbing eyes, hands resting on weapon, brows raising, lips pressing into a thin line, strict and unwavering eye contact, wrinkling of nose.

confidence: hands behind back, hands on lapels of coat, steepled hands, baring teeth in a grin, rolling shoulders, tipping head back but maintaining eye contact, chest puffed up, shoulders back, arms folded just above navel, wide eyes, standing akimbo.

insecurity and anxiety: chewing pen or pencil, rubbing thumb over opposite thumb, biting fingernails, hands in pockets, elbow bent, closed gestures, clearing throat, “ whew ” sound, picking or pinching flesh, fidgeting in chair, hand covering mouth whilst speaking, poor eye contact, tugging at pants whilst seated, jingling money in pockets, tugging at ear, perspiring hands, playing with hair, swaying, playing with pointer, marker or cane, smacking lips, sighing, rocking on balls of feet, flexing or cracking fingers sporadically.

frustration: short breaths, “ tsk ” sounds, tightly-clenched hands, fist-like gestures, pointing index finger, rubbing hand through hair, rubbing back of neck, snarling, revealing teeth, grimacing, sharp-eyed glowers with notable tension in brow, shoulders back and head up - defensive posturing, clenching of jaw, grinding teeth, nostrils flaring, heavy exhales.

tagged by stolen from: @witchgaunt tagging: anyone who wants to!

#the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#i still need to come up with a tag for dash games

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spellwrites · 10 months

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑how do they feel about having multiple partners at once? have they ever done it?

It's... not for her. She doesn't quite understand the appeal of healthy polyamory, and if she encounters it, she's either suspicious of the motives behind it or, if it the relationship holds up her her scrutiny, treats it with a "you do you" sort of baffled astonishment.

In her own life, she can get insecure about other people's feelings for her, so she likes the total security and comfort of knowing she's her partner's favorite person (singular), and vice-versa. Total security in a relationship is already enough of a fantasy for her that adding more people with feelings to worry about would just stress her out. Hence the baffled astonishment that this works for some people?

Actually, the one potential exception to all this would again be @dvarapala lol :)

#Anonymous #the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#help will always be given at hogwarts to those who ask for it ( answered )#dvarapala

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spellwrites · 10 months

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HOLD THE FUCK UP

I had said that Imogen, inspired by Hermione's galleons, used Ministry Single Entry tokens to communicate with her spies

BUT

FUCK THE COINS, SHE'S USING CHOCOLATE FROG CARDS NOW

#the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#i've chosen my side ( verse )

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spellwrites · 11 months

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𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄'𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒

RULES: Bold what always applies. Italicize what could apply / applies only to some verses. (* = it's complicated)

tagged by: stolen from @familyname

tagging: EVERYONE!!!

#the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )

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spellwrites · 10 months

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🏳️‍🌈what’s their sexual orientation? have they ever experimented outside of that [for more binary orientations such as heterosexual/homosexual]

Imogen remains tragically heterosexual. The only person who'd have any chance of changing that would be @dvarapala :)

#Anonymous #help will always be given at hogwarts to those who ask for it ( answered )#the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#dvarapala

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spellwrites · 2 years

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Me, thinking about Imogen's parents and their relationship:

Lucretia is the quintessential pure-blood aristocrat: she'll keep all her emotions right here [John Mulaney gif] and then one day she'll die. She very rarely expresses her feelings -- positive or negative -- through words or facial expressions or anything like that. That's distasteful and embarrassing, and she'll leave it to the less civilized folk. Imogen has been taught to behave similarly, though it doesn't come naturally to her like it does her mother, and she has too much of her father's temper in her to be entirely successful at it.

(This doesn't mean they don't show their feelings in other ways. You just have to read between the lines and pay attention to what they do, not say.)

Cygnus, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. It used to perplex their friends to see them together, until they realized it was precisely their differences of expression that initially drew them to each other (not to mention their shared attractiveness and intelligence -- one thing their friends were always sure of: they would never have stupid or ugly children), and it was learning to see through those differences to the depth of true emotion underneath that made them fall for each other.

But back to Cygnus. He is larger than life in everything he does, and emotion is no exception. He's dramatic -- explosive in his anger (though his loved ones know they never have anything to fear from his outbursts, and he'll be back to his usual cheerful self in a few minutes) and effusive in his affection. No one ever has to doubt what he's feeling.

In love, he adores making extravagant gestures and grand declarations and public displays of affection (nothing indecent, of course, he's not an animal). He goes all out showering Lucretia with gifts and devotion for Valentine's Day, and he never misses an opportunity to show off how much he loves her and how wonderful she is, and he's absolutely the type to stand beneath her balcony at absurd hours of the night just to recite dramatic love poetry on a whim, and --

Oh no.

@squibbed OH NO.

#i swear i've known all this about cygnus forever i just never put it in words and made the connection askjdhfklajsdgfasd #the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#squibbed #don't talk to your mother like that ( lucretia )#your father is alive in you ( cygnus )#to have been loved so deeply even though the person who loved us is gone ( lucretia & cygnus )

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spellwrites · 2 years

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shitty horoscopes

(use the drop-down menu at the top to see more)

tagged by: @thewrongsorts tagging: you! steal it!

Imogen: Scorpio (Nov 13, 1972)

what did you ever do to deserve this? in all probability, something terrible

in the process your body is subsumed piece by piece

you may not want to change, but the world is unforgiving and will do it for you anyway

you will not be swayed by the morally destitute

you are every mother's cautionary tale

it pays to kill with kindness when you're your own worst enemy

suspend belief. expel fear. throw reason into a frigid cell, never to be seen again

anathema - me without you

being loathsome and lovely in equal measure is probably a talent. somewhere

grief and growth live hand-in-hand

in the end there is no blaze of glory

you've long seen your downfall spelled out in another's bones

ok but the way almost every single one of these is spot on for Imogen is uncanny. damn

#the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#thewrongsorts #i need a tag for dash games

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spellwrites · 2 years

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12. someone who taught them a valuable lesson

((Introducing Imogen's default-verse (ex-)boyfriend, Daniel "Danny" Heap:))

A rueful huff of laughter escaped Imogen's lips. "That's Danny Heap. He's my ex, plus the reason I had to find a new favorite stationary shop to frequent, and honestly it's a toss-up as to which one I'm more mad about.

"I met him right after I got my shopfront off Diagon Alley. He was the clerk at Scribbulus - still is, the prick - and he was hot, he was in a band, he was into me, he was fantastic in bed... We dated for a few years, even moved in together. I thought I was happy, but... I don't know, I reckon part of me always felt like I was settling. Guess I still need to work on being honest with myself.

"Anyway, things were going well - or I convinced myself they were - and then the war started again, and I joined the Order. I felt bad about keeping it a secret from Danny, but it turns out I was right not to, because he didn't want to believe You-Know-Who was back, and nothing I said could convince him. So I was running around behind his back fighting a war he denied was even happening. Fun, right? It gets better.

"Fudge finally admitted the war was real, and Danny couldn't pretend anymore, but in the meantime, he'd noticed my disappearances for Order business, and he started to suspect I was seeing someone else. Eventually, he confronted me, and I had to come clean. Stupid of me. I should have just lied, said he was right.

"Danny freaked out. He didn't approve of me risking my life for wizardkind. He said it wasn't safe, that I should leave the fighting to Dumbledore and the Ministry. As if there'd even be a Ministry left if everyone had that attitude. I managed to talk him around eventually, but he was never happy with it. Too scared he'd lose me, he said.

"I thought... I thought, if we could just make it through the war, we'd be okay. Things would go back to normal. We'd pick up where we left off in our old life. I was lying to myself again. I should have known that life didn't exist anymore.

"Everything came to a head one night with a Patronus from Minerva saying there was a Dark Mark above Hogwarts and Death Eaters in the castle, and they needed backup. Danny couldn't take it anymore, tried to stop me from leaving. We had a huge fight... Finally, he said - said I had to choose. Either us or them, because he couldn't watch me get myself killed, and I couldn't have both. He was right. So I walked out the door and never looked back.

"I figured I'd crash at one of my safe houses 'til I found a new place. Little did I know they were all about to be compromised by Severus turning 'traitor.' But that's a whole other story.

"You know what really ticks me off more than anything else, though, about Danny? The arse had the audacity to hit me up a few years later, after the war, to see if I wanted to make another go of it. As if I'd ever want to be with him again after he showed his true colors like that. Please."

#help will always be given at hogwarts to those who ask for it ( answered )#anonymous #it matters not what someone is born but what they grow to be ( meta )#the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#all was well ( verse )#i've chosen my side ( verse )#and that's what matters. trying ( verse )#we are only as strong as we are united as weak as we are divided ( danny )

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spellwrites · 2 years

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does your muse trust their instincts?

When it comes to matters of safety? When it's a gut feeling, a 'something's wrong and I need to do something about it right now' feeling? Always and immediately.

When it's a matter of right or wrong? A moral issue? She spent so long when she was young trying to deny any moral instincts that went against her upbringing - and then when she was older any that upheld her upbringing - that she doesn't think she can afford to trust herself in that regard.

#help will always be given at hogwarts to those who ask for it ( answered )#thewrongsorts #the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )

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spellwrites · 2 years

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What’s something your muse isn’t proud of, about themselves?

A lot of things. So many things. Most of them, she's open about, but what she isn't open about is how much she sometimes wishes she could have stayed willfully blind to... well, to all the things she isn't proud of about herself.

#help will always be given at hogwarts to those who ask for it ( answered )#thewrongsorts #the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )

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spellwrites · 2 years

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What does kindness look like, to your muse?

To Imogen, being kind means being understanding, or at least trying to be. It's often hard for others to be understanding of her (for good reason, she knows), so she really notices and appreciates when people do make that effort, and she tries to extend the same courtesy to them too. (That's assuming she hasn't decided to cause problems on purpose, of course.)

#the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#thewrongsorts #help will always be given at hogwarts to those who ask for it ( answered )

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spellwrites · 2 years

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how does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?

Prior to the Great Moral Realignment, the vibes she gives off are not so much the ones she tries to give off as the ones she kinda wants to give off. She's trying to give off "I am just a normal non-blood supremacist child and there is nothing suspicious about me and I think Muggles are cool actually" vibes. (She fails miserably at this.) Her actual vibes are more "You know nothing about me except I won't hesitate bitch" Which... isn't entirely unsatisfactory for her. Sure, it gets a little lonely, but maybe she should have thought of that before she alienated everyone who even once offered her the benefit of the doubt through her bitter and suspicious nature. That's on her.

After the Great Moral Realignment, she tries to clean up her image a bit so she can better guide the younger relatives of Death Eaters at Hogwarts. It's a bit like the boy who cried wolf trying to raise awareness about the importance of honesty, if the village he lived in was also pretty sure he murdered a guy for his family's Nazi-parallel cult. It's tough going. Pretty much the definition of insanity. But hey, if Imogen's Revenge Quest proved anything it's that she really doesn't know when to quit.

As an adult, her reputation is strange and contradictory. She still won't hesitate bitch. She'll tell her own clients off for trying to haggle prices too low (Witton, as her assistant, is literally begging her to stop doing this. A storefront off Diagon Alley isn't going to pay for itself you know, especially if you keep driving away potential clients Imogen). She's bitchy, judgemental, and highly resistant to apologizing for either of those things.

BUT. You ask the right people, and they'll tell you how she's incredibly understanding, empathetic, and willing and able to move heaven and earth to help those she cares for, with no expectation of reward or recompense. You couldn't ask for a more loyal friend than Imogen. (Granted, the people who say this are mostly ex-Death Eaters and their former sympathizers, but they're reformed, people! They're harmless!)

#the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#i checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading ( verse )#you are fighting that which is unfixed mutating indestructible ( verse )#all was well ( verse )#help will always be given at hogwarts to those who ask for it ( answered )#squibbed

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spellwrites · 2 years

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Imogen does not kill.

(Part 2 of 2)

(Part 1) For three years, this works well enough, and she thinks just maybe she can make it out of this war with her soul intact. Then comes the Battle of Hogwarts.

The Battle of Hogwarts is the first (and last) real, true battle in the war. Imogen is used to duels or skirmishes between small groups, but this is utter chaos. She's never fought like this before, and though she adapts quickly – because the only other option is death – it's overwhelming. She can barely keep up.

And her policy of incapacitating her enemies falls apart in the worst way.

Many of the Slytherin students, rather than flee as they were ordered, went to call on backup for either side before returning to fight. And a good deal of that backup, by virtue of the students' family connections, ended up coming from Imogen's spy network of disillusioned pure-bloods.

During the battle, Imogen ends up commanding a loose coalition of these spies and students – all with connections to the Death Eaters themselves – simply because she knows them, trusts them, and they trust her. These are her people, her responsibility, and when they're attacked –

It turns out, when it's to protect the people she cares about, she doesn't hesitate to kill.

Just like coming so close to becoming a killer all those years ago triggered her moral realignment, killing this Death Eater now... it's like a levy breaking. He's the first, but he's far from the last Death Eater she kills that day.

Most of them, she doesn't even know their names, but that first one she makes sure to find out:

Matthew Higgins.

His friends called him Matty. He liked fine whiskey, and chess, and the Wigtown Wanderers. He was a Death Eater, and he had to die – it was either him or them, and Imogen doesn't regret her actions – but underneath his hood, he was also a person. Just like her mother and father.

Matty had a wife and three children. The youngest is just three years old, a little boy. The oldest is a girl of eleven years named Erin.

Soon, Erin will start her first year at Hogwarts. She'll have to spend the next seven years of her life – studying, socializing, living – in the same building where her father was killed just a few months before she arrived.

When Imogen has a bit too much to drink and spends the nights staring into an empty bottle, frequently her thoughts turn to Erin. She wonders if, in eight years' time, it'll be her on the ground staring down the shaft of a vengeful girl's wand. She wonders if Erin will lower hers. She wonders if Matty knew her father. She wonders if Lupin ever stayed up staring into an empty bottle wondering about Cygnus Selwyn's daughter. (From what she learned of him during her time in the Order, she thinks maybe he did.)

It's funny, really. She has to acknowledge that much, if only because the only other option is to climb into that bottle and never come out.

#alcohol tw #the world isn't split into good people and death eaters ( headcanon )#it matters not what someone is born but what they grow to be ( meta )#i've chosen my side ( verse )#and that's what matters. trying ( verse )

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