This are carnivorous plants...
There was a fair in a part of the city and there were a couple of really nice stalls. One of them was of carnivorous plants. Just carnivorous plants.
The man in charge of the stall was really nice and explained to me when I asked about the one in the second photo. If you see this post and see that what I am saying is wrong, feel free to say so.
Anyways, he said that there was like a substance on the "mouth" of the plant. I understood that the insect was sort of attracted to it. Then I'm not sure if the insect got like stuck and started to slide down on the tube where the liquid of the plant got sort of digestive.
My explanation sucks and I should have checked on google. Truly, I simply thought that the man was really polite and good for explaining that to me and that him having his little stall filled with big and small carnivorous plants (the photos are of the small baby-carnivorous-plants that are no bigger than the palm of my hand because I liked them) was kind of great and wanted to put it here.
Megamind, getting out of a car: thanks! See you on Monday!!!
Minion: WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN???
Roxanne: WE THOUGHT SOMEONE KIDNAPPED YOU
Megamind, sipping an iced coffee: oh, yes, that men kidnapped me.
Minion: and you're gonna see him on Monday????
Megamind: yes, because he's a therapist and he wanted to torture people changing their happiest childhood memory into a nightmare
Megamind: but we spent like four hours trying to find a happy memory of my childhood (there's none) and he was actually very concerned about my mental health so we made a deal.
Megamind: He does not kidnap anyone else and I go to therapy on Mondays. Everyone's happy except for me, therapy sucks.
Minion:
Roxanne:
Minion:
Roxanne: at least he's going to therapy....
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Soulmates au,, Tom tries to kill his soulmate but his soulmate is suicidal so every time Tom get close to kill him, Sev would smirk and Tom's urge to kill him would disappear because Sev seems happy and he doesn't want him to be, and Sev would scowl at him for not killing him and it would be Tom's turn to smirk. Like Severus would constantly try to anger him and mock him for their soulmate bond and Tom would fall for it for a sec but then be like "oh no darling, you're stuck with me. This punishment is worse for you than it is for me."
I had a similar idea, but also very different. Also I want to keep this :)
Concept: post-war Snape and post-war Voldemort going back in time, forms a soul bond, trying not to kill each other, and fall in love.
No, but see. Snape knows Voldemort is bad news, but, he also knows about horcruxes, and a lot of the weird changes in the Dark Lord now makes sense to him. He hates Voldemort, fears him, idolizes him, wanting him dead yesterday but can’t help but imagine a strong and sane Voldemort doing good things to the wizarding world. Second chances and all that. Voldemort just hates Snapes gut for betraying him. Snape, who he once trusted the most, once favoured, whom he once saw himself in. All he wanted was to kill Snape in the most gruesome way.
Snape plans to save Voldemort, while preparing for plan B and plan Cs in case he failed, he wouldn’t allow a mad Dark Lord in his world if he can do anything about it. And he is doing something about it. According to his original plan, he is going to kidnap Voldemort somehow, collect whatever horcruxes that was already made, and somehow find a way to piece them together, show his lord about the consequences of his madness, then convince him that no, your old plan isn’t gonna work.
Voldemort plans vengeance, while looking into how not to fail this time, looking for reasons that he failed the last time. Now that he’s not processing on 1/7 of brain power, he sees that his methods perhaps needs some improvements, and maybe, just maybe, 7 horcruxes is a bit much even for him. So while tracking Snape down, he slowly changed strategies, because he truly does want good for the magical world. It’s just, his perceptions were a bit skewed, but death has a way to fix that.
The thing is, neither of them know the other one is also back in time, so, there’s some hilarious miscommunications. Like the assholes they are, Voldemort doesn’t care the Snape in the past doesn’t deserve his wrath, and Snape doesn’t care what Voldemort wants at all.
So Snape forced a soul bond on the two of them, taking advantage of the instability of a fractured soul, trying to use his own soul as an anchor to stabilize Voldemort’s soul. Because he is an suicidal asshole. Now Voldemort can’t torture Snape without feeling a portion of the sensory feedback and can’t kill Snape without dying himself.
Snape is pissed off because he was still angry this version of Voldemort is the one that killed Lily. Yes he is still bitter about it. Voldemort is pissed off because a soul bond is definitely not in his plan of torturing Snape to death, and now that he realizes that this IS the Snape that betrayed him, he wants him dead even more.
But they have to make do, right? They now have a common goal in mind, which is to piece the soul shards together, so that Voldemort can be hopefully completely sane again? And hopefully their bonds will break when the second party of the bond never consented and now a stable and unfractured soul can deny the bond so perhaps it will break?
Because of the bond, they are in each other’s mind. Snape knows he would definitely die a terrible death but at least Voldemort can’t do anything to him now, so he has zero restraint in telling Voldemort that his is a fucking idiot whenever he’s making some bad decisions in anger, like, raiding a muggle village and all that nonsense. Voldemort hates every minute of it, but he is a little grateful for it too.
Anyway, they also research together. The bond is like a google docs in their brain so they’re sharing their researches and adding to each other’s part and for the two geniuses like them, that is probably one of the best research experience they ever had. They understand each other so easily.
Hostility dies down a bit, Snape got injured somehow and Voldemort forces him to stay at his place. Nothing, if you die I will die too and that’s just awefully inconvenient and all that. Imagine the awkward domesticity.
Then, they figure out a way. They prepare for the ritual, both knowing that after that things are going back to trying to kill each other and not die game, and truthfully, they are not too fond of that.
And Snape is Snape, the angst king of all angst. He thinks that Voldemort will absolutely kill him as soon as the ritual is done. But he doesn’t want to kill Voldemort anymore, and he hates himself for being so selfish, and hates himself more for wanting to kill Voldemort.
Voldemort is still suspicious that Snape is going to betray him somehow. But he wants to trust him again. He hates Snape for making him feel that way, and hates himself for being soft.
So. The ritual thing happens. Voldemort is whole again, but the bond did not break. They are both disappointed but a little glad about it.
For the first time in a long time, Voldemort feels his mind is clear and void of the voices telling him to kill and to hurt. For the first time in a long time, Snape no longer has a goal that his life depends on and at risk of dying for. They both feel, a little, empty.
They goes back to the routines. Domesticity is no longer awkward this time and they feel so natural around each other. After spending so long not hiding anything, they feel they can trust each other more than anyone else in the world.
And somewhere in the way, they fall in love, enjoying it while denying it. Both trying to out-flirt the other while pretending that no, there’s absolutely no feelings between them. They have a purely professional relationship sharing the same political insights and the same academic interests. They are NOT a couple. No. What are you talking about Lucius.
And it just became so natural. They wake each other up from nightmares, laugh at the silly and untrue stories on the newspapers, discussing their childhood and their dreams, sharing Thanksgiving dinners and wake up on the Christmas Day smiling and muttering sleepy g'mornings.
One day, Snape says, “I have never apologized for betraying you, have I?”
“Are you apologizing now?”
“No, you were wrong, and you were an asshole, and I am not sorry for going to Dumbedore.”
“Well, I’m sorry for killing you though, and your death had been completely unnecessary, sorry about that too.”
“I am not sorry for the action of betraying you, but I do regret that my choice had hurt your feelings.”
“Thats not apologizing.”
“I told you I’m not apologizing.”
“You are terrible. I should have killed you.”
“Why didn’t you though? We both know that the bond didn’t break because you are holding on to it. For some reasons.”
“It’s just such a pity I guess.”
“For what?”
“I love too much for that, I guess?”
“You guess?”
“I know.”
“Um, you know what? Me too.”
That’s it. The end.
This is the maybe 20k story that’s never going to get written because I don’t have enough brain power to plan out how these two lovely genius assholes scheming to kill each other. I’m no Slytherin.
Someone please write this. I want an LVSS fic so badly.
So...
Dumbledore is a complex character. Some put him as a hero, some as a villain. Both are good, honestly.
I think my favorite representation so far is from "Falling Apart", a Severus Snape centric fic.
And, I'm pretty much a Snape fan.
I'd like a bit of a more friendly relationship between them, but not the mentor-apprentice kind. More like, two very exhausted adults, one too old who thinks he knows everything, one too young, who knows too much and is done with life.
And, please listen here, Severus calls Albus 'Wulfric'.
Imagine, Severus just coming from a meeting and Dumbledore asking in an overly happy manner 'How are you, my boy?', even though Severus told him not to call him that.
'Very well, Wulfric. You?'
'All is well, Percival.'
'Just peachy, Brian.'
All the time. Alone, with Order memebers around, other memebers of staff or in front of Hogwarts' children. He would do it in front of Voldemort if he had the chance.
Imagine, Severus calling Dumbledore 'Wulfric' the same way the headmaster calls Voldemort 'Tom'.
Once again thinking about: "He was only fifteen-" "I'm fifteen!"
Imagine being Harry and finding out that one of the worst people you've ever met who does nothing but belittle and degrade you, who has become the antithesis of everything you aspire to be, is the victim of the exact person you believed to be the gold standard.
Because for years, everyone was telling Harry one thing about James while Snape was saying another and, for years, Harry had been comfortable believing Snape was the one who was wrong.
So, imagine being Harry and all you have left of your parents is the memories people choose to share with you, so you take all the scraps and make this Frankenstein idealistic version of your parents because, for a moment, it makes you feel like you actually know them.
And then, just in case you forgot, reality reminds you in maybe the worst way that you don't know these people at all.
Because of the lack of leader role models in the world, it only makes sense for people to not know what makes a good leader. These are some of my ideas because I am also on the lookout for a good leader
—Understanding the people they lead. Their different beliefs, what they want, and the overall approval their actions have with the community they lead. Yes this even can be done with massive countries
—Good speaking abilities. Clear, confident voices, staying on topic, being able to answer as many questions as possible
—Addressing issues based on fact rather than opinion
—If they are unaware of ongoing issues (ex: not enough evidence is known at the moment), not going off of speculation and remaining rational as to not accidentally create hate towards the people/s who may or may not be responsible
—Showcasing personality/beliefs in a way that doesn’t overshadow their policies
—BEING CLEAR. Clear with intentions, ideas, plans, everything
—Working with as many people as possible, followers, co-leaders, other leaders, ext.
—Respectful to the issues being addressed by other groups
—Organized
—accountable for their own actions, behavior, and how they got to that point
Ok, I need to ask this. Am I te only person who thinks Silver looks a little bit like Chase in her human form?
It's something on the shape of her face.
Do you know what would also be interesting?
A serie of one-shots like this. A group of what-ifs. And some characters reacting to them.
So, like you said, what if Lily survived along with Harry, and not understanding his true roll in the war, sent him to Azkaban?
What if Lily helped Severus on the day of his worst memory?
What if he changed schools?
What if he left the Wizarding World?
What if he'd been sorted into Gryffindor? Or Ravenclaw? Hufflepuff?
And some others that, at the begginig, seem to focus on someone else, but they end up focusing on Snape somehow.
What if Riddle hadn't hidden his true upbringing, but still managed to form the Death Eathers?
What if James got over Lily?
What if Dumbledore found out about the horrocruxes earlier?
What if Grindelwald escaped and formed a third party on the war?
And... Well, you get it.
I just think it would be hilarious to have most people realize that, yes, Severus is important. All the while Dumbledore and Voldemort are squeezing their brains, trying to think of a way to ensure tge man's loyalty.
And Severus only thought is an absolutly miserable "Why me?"
Lily and Harry survive, Lily throws Severus into Azkaban. She watches with gleeful pleasure as the dementors suck all the happy memories away from him. She hears him beg "Please don't take her away from me" and wonders who he could be talking about. A few days later she goes to him to gloat but he doesn't recognize her. The story could focus more on Lily finding out all the things Severus did in the first war since he switched sides. One could create a few dramatic and painful choices he would have had to make then as well.
Ending with the grim prospect of the dark lord rising soon on the horizon and no spy to keep the pace of the war in check. ----
Maybe make a few known and beloved characters attempt to spy only to fail miserably/go insane/ switch sides.
Those who fail of course get tortured and killed for information, making the war even harder.
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The entire focus of the fic would be to highlight how monumental Severus Snape's contribution to both wars was.
Question for MLB fandom...
I don't follow the show that much, but I like it and I like the content the fandom creates. I only wanted to point out a thing. Why does Hawkmoth akumatizes people?
With Adrien it has already been proved that sentimonsters can be akumatized and use miraculouses. So, Gabriel doesn't need people to akumatize nor a person to use the peacock miraculous. He could create (or make someone else create) a sentimonster to use the peacock like Felix did, and control it. He could create a number of sentimonsters and akumatize them and make himself Scarlet Moth, etc.
Anyways... Penny for your thought?