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sportivetricks) wrote2020-07-09 08:29 am
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sunshine-challenge Prompt 3: Yellow

Three Yellow Things Right Now...
1. A recent scrap yarn bag, crocheted in panels and sewn together with whipstitching and single crochet:

Definitely went my own way on this one, but I think it paid off. Best crochet advice I ever got: "Put your hook somewhere. Draw up a loop. Do something with it." I think that approach speaks to many creative endeavors.
2. My favorite Hufflepuff! This war hero and Auror right here, in all his cocky, shoulder-padded glory, who's about to have his arse handed to him by his brother's girl:
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UNF.
I can't wait to get more Theseus canon. I was lukewarm on Newt in the first FB movie. It took Theseus to make me fall in love with Newt, and now they're a package deal. I love that they show us two very distinct types of Hufflepuffs — Mr. Straight and Narrow and Rebel With a Cause. An exciting dynamic when the two come together.
And Newt playing Theseus? Perfection. Mad props to Callum Turner in that scene.
3. Highlighting
I don't use it in books. Pencil underlining is for books. But I use it in my writing process as I throw ideas at the page. It's for those stray ideas that aren't quite right, but I'd better leave them for now, just in case. And make it so I can easily maneuver around them.
(Example from a WIP here, linked for kink negotiation related to consent play. Yup, realized pretty quickly that angle didn't need to be there, LOL! But just in case....)
It's also for those bits that I know are self-indulgent and going too far. But darlings!! Highlighted for my amusement until I'm forced to kill them.
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Such beautiful colours and patterns in that bag! A couple of years ago (before I was back to writing fic) I asked my mother to help me relearn crocheting, but I didn't get hooked. Your advice sounds inspiring!
My favourite Hufflepuff must be Tonks. I can't remember where in canon her House is mentioned, and I write about her (and everything else) only on the basis of the first five HP books, but in any case it suits me well enough that she's a Hufflepuff (as mentioned in the HP Lexicon) and I decided to refer to that in a fic.
No highlighting for me! Too garish in my eyes. When studying I've done only underlining – and too much of it, underlined almost everything.
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I didn't get hooked
LOL! A year ago, I never would have guessed I'd be crocheting, but yeah, totally hooked. Starting to think about alternative materials now. Twine, ripped-up tees, shredded plastic bags... it's a versatile craft.
Wasn't Tonks a brilliant addition to the world? I don't remember where it was mentioned, either, but I can see her as a Hufflepuff. Fair-minded and candid (the latter to a fault sometimes). Clumsy but a tough fighter. I can see her tripping up onto that sorting stool, her mother's family in mind as she stubbornly thinks "anything but Slytherin."
too much of it, underlined almost everything
Yup, been there, done that.
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Yes, that's a great description of Tonks as she was when entering the story (or – extrapolated – before). I remember seeing people praise the inclusion of an interesting female character. Regardless of the gender, I think, it was a gift for the fandom to have a young adult character (in book era), and I enjoyed reading about her in fic particularly before HBP.
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