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'm addicted to making them!

To be clear, the guy in the gif is Mr. Straight and Narrow. His brother is the Rebel With a Cause. But Mr. Straight and Narrow has a lovely (if heartbreaking) character arc in the second movie, much like Percy Weasley's arc throughout the book series.

I love the new films. The second one was a mess in terms of narrative structure, but the characters are great. It's worth watching for Jude Law as Dumbledore, if nothing else. He embodies Dumbledore's quirky, cocky rebel spirit as no one else has IMO. And shows us a Dumbledore secretly plagued by guilty nostalgia and remorse. Jude Law got that tightrope walk *just right*.

I think all of us went to town on our college textbooks, LOL!

You know Sprout was growing the good stuff! :D What I love about Cedric is that he was popular, handsome, a champion, etc., and it could have easily gone to his head, but he was so modest and down-to-earth about it. Quite the contrast to his father!

[walgesang]

Ahhh, I got it mixed up. Sometimes Mr. Straight and Narrow can be fun to *cough* break. ;) I will really have to check it out.

So much for the resale value! :D Not that there was any of that ever, ugh.

Hee! And you're so right about Cedric, I think he's one of the people that Harry kind of falls for because it's not like Cedric lives a charmed life but he was so modest. The scene after with his father is like a punch to the gut. I still can't quite wrap my head around that being in a "children's book," but wow, was it effective.

[sportivetricks]

AGHHH that scene kills me, maybe even in the film more than the books. A pivotal moment in the series, for sure. When things Got Real.