#stamatis

Once upon a time, Hogsmeade weekends had meant small fortunes spent at Zonko’s, snowball fights played on Slytherins and daring Wormtail to drink just enough butterbeer so that he actually became funny. Since Lily Evans was in the picture, Hogsmeade weekends had shifted towards James being insufferable until he was left alone with his date, and suddenly Wormtail didn’t want to drink butterbeer anymore so Sirius just roped Moony into ditching him so at least they could have some fun.

Only Moony was still tired from the last full moon, and he was taking his N.E.W.T. studying way too seriously, and how had he convinced Sirius it was a good idea to just hang out at Tomes and Scrolls again?

“You do realize there is a perfectly fine library at Hogwarts that we can use, right? You can be all boring in there and nobody will bat an eye, and you don’t even have to spend any money! Yes, it’s the perfect solution, now come on—”

“You can surely be patient for just a second more. There might be something in here that may be helpful for Transfiguration—Oh, look, they have Madame Flintsquick’s Treaties! Can you believe it?”

“Can I believe it,” Sirius deadpanned. Moony wasn’t even going to buy all of the books he’d placed on the tray he was strolling along. “Wait, you’re just messing with me, aren’t you?”

Ooh okay here we go...

Sexuality headcanon: okay honestly I think Proko is mostly into dudes. Like I think for a while he was really confused because he was forced into heteronormativity from a young age, so when he realized he liked guys he was a little freaked out. However, I think he would identify as queer rather than gay because he’s not that into strict labels. He’s had crushes on a couple of girls and just doesn’t feel like defining it in a specific way, so he just goes with queer.

Gender headcanon: this one I had to think a little harder about. I don’t think he’s non-binary and honestly wouldn’t be opposed to a little ftm transguy Proko hype, but personally I just see him as a gender non conforming guy.

A ship I have with said character: am I allowed to be basic and say Prokopinsky? Tbh that’s my number one ship with Proko I have ~a lot~ of feelings about it, just never got around to writing it (though I have some planssss ;)) I’m going to go with Prokopinsky cuz I’m honestly not that into many other ships with him and/or I haven’t seen enough content to get invested.

A BROTP I have with said character: Proko/Jiang. Not really sure why but I can see Proko just annoying the absolute shit out of Jiang and him threatening to deck him and that just being their typical banter. Like they act like they hate each other, but they’re actually super chill and defend each other at all costs.

A NOTP I have with said character: ooh I’m gonna have to go with Proko/Ronan. Just the idea of it makes me vaguely uncomfortable because I feel like by nature Proko is a jealous little shit (I say this in a loving way I swear) so when Ronan and K get close I bet he really wasn’t having it... I can see him and Ronan maybe agreeing to have a truce, but I can’t see them involved in any sort of sexual or romantic relationship that ends well.

A random headcanon: idk when or why I came up with this but I like to think that Proko used to be a dancer - a ballerina, more specifically - but he quit when he was sent to Aglionby because it brought up too many ~memories~. Not sure why, I can just really see him being a dancer, like he just gets really into the music and is in his element and when he dances, no one can touch him and it’s his own little way of taking back his power. When he leaves Aglionby, he doesn’t know what he’s doing with his life for a while and becomes lost and one day he sees an ad for ballet classes and he goes and becomes super emotional and everything comes rushing back... (shit should I write this??? 👀👀 I might add it to my list, no one steal that lmao)

Your Mister Impossible bingo card was a thing of brilliance, so really you should be telling Us about your HCs. 

Alright, well, Liliana consuming the Barns is a hunch I feel strongly about, but have the least amount of ... canon connective tissue for, so to speak. 

I really, really think the Barns is going bye-bye. I think Maggie foreshadows enough to believe that it’s going to burn down. 

And with Liliana - this is what I think: so she literally ‘blesses’ the innocent children who remain unharmed, and then basically sucks the life out of the people around her while having a vision.

Their life force feeds her visions and her - turning the clock back and making her young again (Visionaries learn to turn this inwards, using up their own life force, causing them to die early). 

Also, I think Maggie deliberately showed Liliana killing a field of cows as a substitute for people, so we know she can use animals to power her visions too. 

But ... and here’s where I’m reaching a bit , so brace yourself ... it’s not life force that she uses, as much as people’s ... time? Or even potential? (I was reminded of those Angels from Blink in Doctor Who)  

Declan Lynch was on his ass.

Thankfully, a quick glance around informed him he wasn’t the only one. Granted, the majority of other skaters who were on their rears, sliding gently over the ice, were toddlers. He looked up to Jordan’s outstretched hand, and she was grinning at him with mirth in her eyes. Careful not to pull her down with him, tempting though it was, he accepted her help and wobbly got back up on his skates.

“How did you talk me into this again?” he asked, dusting frost off the back of his dark wash jeans with a sigh.

“I believe you said ‘would you like to go ice skating after dinner?’ and I said yes,” she laughed. She dusted the thumb of her mitten across his cheek fondly then started to skate backward, pulling him along with.

To Declan’s credit, he managed to stay on his feet this time. One foot in front of the other, and soon he was holding Jordan’s hand as they skated along instead of clinging for dear life. Clearly, his present-day romantic self hadn’t thought to consult grade-schooler Declan, who had gone to a skating rink on a class trip and ended up with so many bruises Ronan teased him for days. But now that they were gently coasting along the outer edge, he could appreciate that he’d asked Jordan to do this.

“I knew you’d get the hang of it, mate.”

anyway your sprinkles of filipino rep always spark joy. now i'm going back to read the rest!

19. Are there dragons?  If so, are they literal or metaphorical?

No dragons, alas. Because everything is made better by dragons.

20. Does anyone get murdered in your story?  Who and why?

Quite a lot of people will end up murdered, tbh.  It’s bad to try and torture witches. It makes them mad.

I actually didn't know this! The cover art doesn't really reflect that, does it?

This actually makes me want to read it more - at 24 I find it harder and harder to relate to YA, and there are very few triggers I can't handle, luckily.

Oh, I am so glad I’m not the only one! I feel like they should be paying at least one of us for the space they’re taking up.

So since this is the relatively sfw blog, I’ll be discreet. By Our Rules and On Our Terms originally existed as one story with all of that as the title. It was originally supposed to be the “Pynch discovers and experiments with kink story.” Because I’m very into romantic kink and negotiating and discovering what makes a partner happy and exploring all those things in fic.

This was also about the time I was jokingly entertaining the Declan/Gansey ship, and at the last minute, I ended up writing an epilogue where it was pretty much confirmed that Gansey was in a D/s relationship with Declan and would end up talking to Adam about it after that first experience with Ronan in the piece I posted.

So then Gansey week happened, and I ended up writing this great pre-ship piece with Declan and Gansey, where they talked about rules and following them or breaking them, and it hit me that I could actually write a story about how they came together the way they did, and how Gansey would be so happy about passing on what he learned to Adam. So that’s when the two became separate fics going in their own “origin story” directions.