All Natural Disaster

I hate ending my stories. I will drag a story on long after it should have ended even though I know it should be done with. If anyone else struggles as well, here is a list of the different types of endings that are common.

Full Circle – Mirror the beginning of the story, show how the tone has shifted from start to end

Bittersweet – Character wins at the cost of something else, creates emotional depth

Emotional resolution – Focuses more on the growth of the characters than the events of the story

Twist – reveal something that changes the readers perspective or understanding

Open – doesn’t answer all the questions or solve all the conflicts of the story, leaving room for interpretation

Quiet – Subtle, reflective ending rather than a dramatic event

Sacrifice – The character has to give something up to achieve a greater goal

Hopeful – Despite the events of the story, there is a distinct sense that everything will be okay

Consequence – Shows how the characters choices throughout the story impact the world or their relationship

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Following the countless requests @bixgirl1 and I have received for one of these (and the complaints that the chapters aren’t all visible under #virgin draco), we present - The Masterlist. Hopefully we remember to update it regularly (LOL cause we’re both like really old women, I’m 93 she’s a 112 and we forget things).

Also this is the first masterlist I’ve ever made and I have no idea what I’m doing. 

Like I said, I’m 93 years old. What is this machine I’m typing on?

(Book 2 - Masterlist)

(Book 3 - Masterlist)

Chapters: 

1 - Harry Asks Draco Out

2 - The First Date 

3 - Misunderstandings and Their Purpose (i.e. Snogging)

4 - How Draco Malfoy Nearly Lost His Way To His Own Office 

5 -  Lunch With Pansy–Who Wishes Draco Would Read The Goddamned Book 

6 -  The Universal Answer to Most Questions: Mouth Pressing    

7 -  PG Weekdays and R-Rated Weekends  

8 -  In Which Ron Questions His Friendship With the Randy Prat and Hermione Is Done With the Both of Them  

9 - Wine Connoisseur

10 -  Parental Advice and Ill-Thought-Out Plans

11 - Teachable Moments

12 - Pyjamas

13 - Pansy’s Book

14 - The Proper Use of a Breakfast Table

15 - Harry Potter – Boy Who Lived, Star Auror, And A Goddamn Blessing

16 - A Premature Birthday Fuckup  

17 - Harry’s Birthday Present

18 - A Pub, Two Purebloods and A Storm

19 - Kiss The Rain

20 - Eleven

21 - Coming Home

22 - The Amazing Bouncing Ferret

23 - Afternoon Delight With A Nightmare For Dessert

24 - Dinner and A Show

25 - Kink Negotiation. Sorta.

26 - Calm Before the Storm

27 - Never Push A Slytherin

28 - The Assignment

29 - Trading Secrets, And Other Revelations

30 - St. Mungo’s

31 - The Perks of a Long Convalescence

32 - Reading Material

33 - A Declaration With Friends (and the rest of the world, too)

34 - The Article (and That Very Important Question)

Ничего лучше этого я уже не нарисую

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one.  Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to.  But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from.  It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely.  Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction.  But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

For you and your internet friends! 💙