sunshine-challenge Prompt 3: Yellow

[sportivetricks]

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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Comments

[sportivetricks]

Thank you!

I can see why you'd want to claim Neville for your own. :D But I'm afraid you'll have to fight me for him. :D

Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw both get short shrift in the books. It can be both a gift and a dilemma, from a fic writing standpoint.

[silveradept]

It's true, although when Luna jobs the few, the Ravenclaws get a little more polish and fleshing-out. With Cedric, the possibilities would have been a lot, but we learn almost nothing about the Puffs despite their House being in the spotlight.

[sportivetricks]

Poor Luna! No friends, ostracized by her own House, forced to go around at end of term collecting her pilfered belongings. Taken with Marietta Edgecombe and Helena Ravenclaw, it doesn't paint a pretty picture of Ravenclaws, does it?

[silveradept]

It makes them the ivory tower house, full of snobs who are concerned solely with their cleverness and intellect and with no tolerance for lateral thinkers like Luna. (She's absolutely in the right house, based on the Hat songs, but very few people get to see why, because her strength isn't conventional.)

[sportivetricks]

Oh my, I hope there is more to them than that! :D Apologies for the sidetracking. I'd been writing a fic featuring a Ravenclaw (a first for me, I think?), so they were on the mind. I can certainly see why you'd feel short-changed by the books if you identify as a Hufflepuff.

[silveradept]

No worries. As you said, there's probably more to both houses, but they're almost always out of focus because the narrative is obsessed with the Gryffindor-Slytherin rivalry as a metaphor for good versus evil.

[sportivetricks]

Yup!