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This was hilarious. Seriously. I have no other words to describe it. Simon's rambling is as ridiculous and adorable as always (and Raphael clearly agrees). 

8/10

"My friend is out of town and I’m supposed to be taking care of her pet fish but it died and you work at the pet store help me find one that looks the same so she won’t notice!"

This plot is well known, so it's not like you'll be surprised at any point. No, what you should read it for are characters. I love the way Raphael was portrayed. He is the sarcastic and dramatic Raphael we all know and love, but he flirts so much I just can't and he's still very much in character. And do we love Raphael speaking spanish? Of course we do! Well, there are no whole sentences, more like spanish endearments, but for me it's quite enough.

On the other hand, Simon is a stressed out rambling mess that's smitten with Raphael at first sight and as big of a nerd as always. I laughed the hardest and laudest at the things he said/thought and I can tell you that he has a deep knowledge of inner working of soulmates and he's ready to share ... but maybe later. When he'll stop taking baths in Raphael's literally like melted chocolate from Dunkin Donuts eyes. He's so flustered with Raphael's flirting he unfortunately (for him) starts to flirt back. And apparently this Simon is even more dramatic than the real one (i didn't know it was even possible), so he dies and almost gets married every 5 seconds. So, in short, I love him ❤️

There are also mentioned other ships like Malec or Clizzy, but as it's a short fic, there won't really be much of them in there. And let's not forget about one of our main characters!  Chairman Meow! He may not have a lot of "screen time" but he has one of the most important roles here. After all, Si would never meet Raphael if not for him 😉  

So, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.

There are a lot of posts and articles about it, about the mechanisms of the game, tricks and payments. So I didn't want to write about that. Right now I'm a bit further in the game, because I'm in the middle of the second year and I know a bit more about Hogwarts Mystery.

The game is not so bad. A lot of people are disappointed and tell you that the game is terrible and, really, it just depends on what you want from it.

The payments are not so bad. You don't actually have to pay. You just have to wait. About an hour nad a half if you want to have full energy once again. And, for me, that's completely normal. It's a free game, that's how they work. Nothing new here. And you can buy energy with gems you constantly win during the game. So, as I said, not so bad.

On the other hand the story is terrible. It's boring and ridiculous. Nothing to hold your breath for. If you want to play for the main story, then go for a different game. And once again we have the evil character in Slytherin. Seriously? We've been complaining about bad Slytherin representation for years now and we get this? Boring, stereotypical and done to death.

The game is kinda pretty. I'm not saying it's the most beautiful thing you'll ever see but it's nice enough. Characters look like Sims. The creating of you character look like in the Sims. But who cares really?

You get to experience Hogwarts and that's awesome. You can choose you house, see a common room, meet the profesors and some of the known characters (Tonks, Bill Weasley), go to classes etc. It's fun. You can explore Hogwarts in a fun way and interact with characters from the movie. I'm not saying that you can go wherever you want or something, but it's still good.

Sometimes I want to throw my main character into the wall. Even with 2 or 3 possible answers, sometimes there's nothing good and the character is so arogant and fanciful I just can't.

The accuracy is ... non-existent. There are a lot of things that doesn't make sense, doesn't match with books and a timeline is fucked up. It can be frustrating. Very frustrating. It shouldn't be so hard to actually check your facts. Read a book. Or seven, but you get me.

Okay, so this work? This is a masterpiece. This is beauty, infinity and universe. It's one of the reasons I'm happy to be alive. I'm not exaggerating. Go read it now.

9/10

In which Draco makes it his duty to protect Potter, and drags the rest of his friends into it. Of course, he's only doing it for the sake of winning the game, nothing personal.

Yeah, so the summary gives you something. Basicaly it's about what would happen if someone thought "our students should move more, let's start PE and make it obliggatory". And they play paintball. With magic. Yes, I know.

It's a drarry so there is obviously quite a bit of Harry and Draco's relation, but you know why you should read it? Read it for the Slytherins. Seriously. It's a fanfiction with a very good slytherin representation. What makes it even more awesome it's slytherins as seen by someone from another house, namely Harry. He is a part of their team and observes their interactions.

Slytherins in this story are cunning and ambitious, wanting to win the game they don't even want to play. There is famous slytherin fratternity and loyality (for god sake, they literally call themselves a "pack"). The will use every means to reach their goal (even blackmailing their friends if necessary, but really, all Blaise had to do was play and it wouldn't come to that). They have plans and strategies and they are so obviously a team with a long history and traditions and inside jockes it hurts. And most important, they are mental. Really. You go to the slytherin and for everyone else you are mental. Mad. You lost it. In the best way. They are ridiculous and no one will understand it but another slytherin.

Theoretically Potter is a team leader, but even he can see that Draco always will be a leader of this group and he wholeheartedly lets him do his thing. And let's himself be pulled along. At first he's mostly observing but with time he just can help himself and chant the Dragon of Doom with them. Even he feels like a part of the group. And it's not only in the field. He starts spending his free time with them, they become friends. But it doesn't mean that he understands them more. Nope, they are all still mental.

One of my milion favourite things in this fic is Draco openly and blatantly flirting with Potter. He's not trying to be insulting, he's not even trying to get anything, it's like breathing: Breath in, flirt with Potter, breath out. And sometimes he's complimentng him, sometimes hes insulting his, but most of the time it's both. And Potter is responding, oh he is so flirting back. And the sexual jokes, no too much, not too little, always hilarious.

God, this work is golden. You have no ideal how hard of the time I had picking the quotes for it. I had, like, half of the whole fic in my notes. It felt like picking your favourite child. Heartbreaking (you can see it just by looking at the amount of quotes in this post). And all of this is so ridiculous and hilarious. I've been crying with laughter most of the time and this was a third time I've read it. It's like looking at my and my friends conversations at, like, 3 am when we have no filters and no shame.

Okay, so I've never thought that I'd ship this guys. Well, not really, because I kinda ship them but it's a low key kinda thing and I've never thought that I'd activly ship them. But the internet is a strange place that takes you to even stranger places and I became curious. It turns out that there is not a lot of Joey/Chandler storys and even less of them are good (let's be real, it's easier to find something really good when there is more of it), but this one was good, really good.

8/10

Chandler's an FBI agent in need of a case; Joey's the simple-minded, good-natured caporegime working under his father, the head of the Tribbiani crime family. But Joey's more interested in Chandler than taking over the family business, and Chandler's growing pretty fond of him too. When the line between friend and target begins to blur, Chandler has a decision to make. S1. AU.

It's a story of Chandler being interesten in Joey and Joey being interested in Chandler. Then Chandler has an Amazing Idea and uses Joey for his career. But they fall in love with each other and Chandler is in Deep Shit. So that's the short but strangly accurate description.

The stoy is well written, funny and logical. And all of our characters are, well, in character and the oryginal ones are well written. I like the progres of their relationship, it's natural and kinda slow, but not really since as I said before, Chandler is interested in Joey from the beginning. And the progress of guilt on Chandler's part is nice too (yeah, I like them to suffer a little bit, sue me). I’ve never thought that I’d use this word, but the story is really sweet most of the time. 

Oh, and the nice thing is that Chandler is not a badass FBI agent who kicks ass and is almost a god. He is doing little of the important work and even less of the excitnig one. And that's nice because it's something so much more like him, being an FBI Agent and still having a boring job xd No, but, seriously, I wouldn't bought it any other way, that's why I was so weary before reading it, but it's good.

8/10

I absolutely loved it. I laughed so hard. I had exactly the same emotions as Potter in this one and that's saying something.

These are the things Draco has recently learned: 1: Don’t apparate while drunk or you’ll end up in Potter’s living room without fail 1a: This is a Big Problem. 2: Draco is unable to keep his mouth shut while drunk 3: Pansy is a shite friend 4: Potter has nice thighs 5: Draco maybe possibly doesn’t mind his apparation problem as much as he lets on 5a: Potter doesn’t seem to mind much either

Okay, so at first I thought that it would be completely ridiculous, 5/10, wasted time. But then I thought, ah, why the hell not? and went for it. Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous (more than a bit), but it's so well written that it just makes it hilarious.

Drunk Draco is my favourite thing. He's hilarious and cute and you want to laugh at him and coo at the same time. And that's exactly what Potter does. And they are way softer than most of the time fandom likes to imagine them, but they are still in character and very well written.

(I'm in love with Draco talking to himself like Smeagol. You’ll know when you see it.)

And for everyone that likes our Slytherins - we have a lot of Pansy Parkinson. There are also Blaise and Greg, but Pansy is the main Best Friend in this one. thecouchsofa shows us a slytherin friendship on its best and Pansy is intelligent, funny and exasperated and completely understands and supports Draco. So everything that we love and don't get enough of.

SPOILER

There is also a scene at the end with Potter's friends and let me tell you, there is zero hostility, really. A little unbelivable? Maybe, but the fic takes place some time after the ending of the book and I guess they had time to, well, grow up.

END OF SPOILER

So the first trait is a traditionally hufflepuff one. But as I said, I believe in each of the houses possessing all of the traits, just in a different way.

So, let's start with the Hufflepuffs as it is their trait. They are working hard for what they believe in or what they have to do. It's an honest hard work, people doing what they have to do, learning and not taking shortcuts.

Gryffindors are the kind of people who will procrastinate what they have to do till the last moment, but the night before the exam is a very busy night. Well, most of the time, because you know, cheatsheet also exist. And all-nighters are a thing. And coffee. A lot of coffee. (They also are the ones that are getting distracted during study sessions when/if they take place and remembering about studing after 3 hours of bullshit).

Ravenclaws don't consider what they do as "working hard" because are they really? Well, they did just spend 18 hours straight learning about astrophysics, but that was for fun! It was a passion and not work. They didn't do it because they had to, but because it's interesting. They don't really perceive it as work when they have fun.

And Slytherins. Well, they are the ones with the plan. You can't work smart without it, can you? Because that's the thing: they don't believe in working hard, but in working smart. They are the ones with color coded notes, tables and graphs. With the master plan. "No sir, it is not a plan of taking over the world, just math".

Hi guys! I's been over 20 years now since the first Harry Potter book and for most of us the most important question still is: which Hogwarts house are you in?

It should be easy, right? When you look at internet quizes most of them are like:

Are you:

a) brave

b) smart

c) a cinnamon roll

d) Satan

(yes, it's from this one post that I loved)

So everything's clear? But what when you are a smart Satan?

No, but seriously. What when you are smart, but also loyal? Or brave and ambitious? I respect the hybrid houses that fandom created. You can always be a Gryffinclaw. But students in a Harry Potter world can be sorted without it, so how does it work? Does each house has a monopol on some traits? Can only Hufflepuffs be hard-working?

Well, if you ask for my opinion (I'm so happy that you do, thank you, I feel real validated) then everyone can possess all of the traits.We are not that simple. The question is which traits are the most prominent? The most important? Are core of your existence?

You can go with your day-to-day life being brave and just and all of that. But when you are really up against a wall, do you go blindly into danger and are brave, or do you stay in place, think and find the back alleys? If you choose the second option, you are a Slytherin. Because it doesn't really matter what you do when you are comfortable, when you are in your comfort zone. What matters is what you do when you have to make a choice now, when your instincts and deeply hidden personality traits come into play.

And sometimes people think that they are in a different house because they don't have to "use" their house personality traits in their everyday life. I'm a Slytherin, but I have a loving home and amazing friends and kinda an easy life, so I don't have to be cunning or "use" much self-preservation. I can't find my life goal so I'm not very ambitious. And I'm most deffinitely not traditional. But at the end of the day I'm still a Slytherin.

And you don't have to possess all of the house traits. And you don't have to have all of them well developed. But what do you value? What approach do you wish to take? What traits would you wish to possess and are actually trying to develop? That's what matters. And that's why The Sorting Hat listens to you, to which house you want to be in and why. Because it's your choice that matters.

But we have gone off topic.

So you don't have to possess all the traits of your house. But what if you have traits of more than one house? Well, I think that's completely normal. I think (what a revolutionary thought it will be) that all of us possess all of the traits (or at least most of them).

So, you can ask if not only Gryffindors can be brave?

Yeah! Exactly! All of the houses can be brave. Just in different ways and in dfferent moments.

So, my new series of posts will be about how each personality trait manifests in each house. I'm really curious how this will work out :D

The Fanart of The Week!

And here comes the new fanart of the week on The Fandom Theory. Unfortunately, I don’t know who’s the artist, but I found it on @dianapforlunch‘s blog. It’s a beautiful piece of art with a gorgeous light. It shows us a more delicate and vulnerable Wonder Woman, or more like Diana, while still allowing her to be herself with her weapons and armor. 

Okay, so here are SPOILERS THERE WILL BE PHOTOS DON’T READ IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE IT

Breaking Point by psyraah. I liked this one enough to read it two times. It's a birthday present for @uchiha-umeko​ and written around some of her art (which is amazing, and i love it and you'll see some of it now).

7/10 🌈

“Roy,” Ed gasped. Roy’s heart hurt at the sound. “Ed, we’re coming, just—” “Roy,” Ed repeated. “Love your stupid ass.” And Roy hadn’t been able to reply.

In the end notes psyraah asked if we can tell that they got lazy with the tittle and summary. Well, I have to admit that the summary don't give us much. So, this story is about Ed getting hurt and then recovering, or more like Roy being worried and stupid because his husband is hurt. So yeah, POV's changing, but for most of the fic Roy's the narrator.

I needed art in this post, so here is a first piece. It's kinda a spoiler but it happens within the first few sentences so it really doesn't count.

(I love this one so much ed in uniform ed’s hair ed’s everything i love it ❤️)

Ok, so here we have SMALL SPOILERS because when we don't have those?

I love the way Ed's waking up was written, so basically all of his POV. It was believable and with every sentence you were kinda cheering him on to wake up already. And the way Roy was graving-but-not-really, my heart was breaking in the best way.

END OF SPOILERS

So, theoretically there's angst. Kinda a lot of it. But I still consider it a fluff all the way through. I've got fluffy feelings reading it and didn't cry once and as I said before my heart was breaking in the best way, so fluff. And it's lovely and please go read it and the go see more @uchiha-umeko​​‘s art, it's worth your time, believe me.

And here is one more art (or two, really) which is not directly connected with this fic, but was still mentioned in the notes:

(I love Ed’s face and hair, it’s a very lovely face and hair. And arm. Don’t forget the arm)

And this one is a spoiler so I'm gona just post a link, but go see it because it's hilarious and below the art is a bit of a story (also hilarious and very Roy x Ed 😃).

http://uchiha-umeko.tumblr.com/post/148074172866/royed-week-day3-silver-lining-i-know-what-a-ring