Anon Re-Sort #8
I think I identify with bits and pieces of characters mostly. Ones that always kinda stand out to me are Fleur and Luna.
For Fleur it's the connection to her sister, while we never know any details the fact that she was the one picked to be at the bottom of the lake says a lot. I have younger siblings as well and while they are not children anymore I am still protective of them for sure. Also I did like her standing up to Molly, I don't know when it happened but at some point I was a bit over Mollys characterisation and seeing someone telling her off in a way was nice.
With Luna I just saw myself the older I got with how comfortable she was with herself. While she obviously didn't want to be lonely, she was fine being alone and didn't bother not being here weird self to fit in with people who didn't get her. She has a more quiet self confidence that really resonates with me.
I can't really think of a moment, the books in general mean a lot to me though for nostalgic reasons. I grew up with them, like a lot of people, so they shaped my early fandom years, not in wide circles or anything, but with my friends. I might've outgrown it now and JKRs actions and behaviour has killed any interest in expansions of the world, but I can't deny away the influence the story had on me and my imagination.
Me and my loved ones being content with ourselves and our lives. While grande things are of course fun, I want a stable life first and want that for everyone I care about, because the peace of mind that brings is so important. I don't have huge ambitions for my career, so that wouldn't be much of what I'd see and rather a nice home I really love and signs that I have the time to keep up with my hobbies to a fullfilling extent.
Mh I think I'd like my patronus to be a whale shark, I just think they are really cool and it would be badass if one would float around me as protection. The memory is a bit tough, I know this might be trivial but I always feel really happy in a hot bath.
I think (assuming there is no chance he'd transform into a werwolf) Remus would be good, he knows the forest, is level headed and knows how to protect us with magic. For the object, this might be a bit of an overkill but a flame thrower. I need something with reach to protect myself and thinking about all those spiders in the lair I also need something that covers a lot of ground.
Looking back I had no proper concept of jobs as a child. My mum took me to work with her one time and I got to sit on her coworkers desk (he was on vacation or something) and played around with Paint the whole time we were there. And I thought that was my mums job so for a long time that was my dream job, until I learned that she was obviously not playing around with Paint all day. Then I had no real idea what I wanted to do.
My ideal job now is something with minimal stress, that can at least partially be done while working from home and that gives me the feeling I am advancing something, though that doesn't have to be world changing at all.
I have been through all the years always been fascinated by wand making, so I think that would be something I'd like to do in the Wizarding World. Though I'd like to be more creative with the core choices and maybe the wood choices as well, Olivander seems to be pretty set on his combinations.
Ones where I can't go back and pick the other option if things don't work out. Like say I applied for 2 jobs I really want and get an offer from one, but have not been rejected by the other and have to make a decision if I take the first one before I will know if I am also being offered the other one. Like what if I take job 1 but then it is not the fit I thought it would be, I won't be able to drop it and try out job 2 because they will have given that to somebody else.
Working in retail, because it humbles you and gives you a reality check.
Like I worked in retail for almost 4 years, not even full time and in a sector that gets only a selected group of customers and even then the things I had to witness...people need to work in retail to learn how to be better customers and to stop shitting on people working in retail. It's a hard job, if you live in a place that celebrates Christmas, December is draining so much out of you, and people who never worked retail in my experience often underestimate how hard the job is.
That I am cruel. While I do my best to not hurt the people around me with my actions or words, it can happen by accident. But being cruel means you go out of your way to hurt people and I don't want that to be said about me.
Quitting a job because I had nothing new lined up. Yes I had savings that would last me for a while, but still. I fell into the job after university, first as a side thing cause I simply worked 2 jobs, then I upped my hours to be in a more stable form of employment and so quitting like my first proper job after university felt really hard, even though I knew it was the right decision cause things weren't going well at that place.
You certainly need to look at both, though intentions weigh a little more for me. Assuming intentions stay the same, if someone has good intentions they will hopefully learn if their actions are not properly thought through and had bad consequences and they will do better so that the consequences of their actions line up with their intentions. If the intentions are bad however and the person will try to "do better" next time, well then the consequences will be even worse.
Camaraderie and support. My friends are my found family (I do like my family too, but found family is very important as well) and I want to feel safe and comfortable with them and know that I can go to them for help.
When people are too stubborn to accept a perfectly fine compromise and are unwilling to understand that they can't get something their way.
Ambition - The speed at which you are working to achieve a goal.
Courage - Managing to do something that scared you for some reason.
Intelligence - Knowing how to stop. (This might sound a bit weird but it ties in with how I see WisdomxD)
Justice - Balancing out bad things so people can move on in a positive manner.
Kindness - Being caring and loving to the people around you, no matter if they are close to you or not.
Loyalty - Sticking to something/someone because you believe in it/them.
Power - Being able to influence things to change for better or worse not just for yourself but also for others.
Wisdom - Knowing when to stop.
Organized - I am like the mum/parent of my friend group a lot of times, my brain just holds important information the others apparently can't always keep up with
Helpful - as in I always want to be helpful when I can
Efficient - When something can be done in one go instead of picking the task up multiple times, I like to get it done in one go or at least do whatever I can in prep work so when it's time to do it, everything is ready and I just have to do final touches
Optimistic - I don't think you just have to think positive and everything is gonna be alright, but I try to find positive things to keep an optimistic mindest as much as possible at the end of the day
Introspective - while I might not analyse myself, I do check myself to better myself, so I don't have to rely on getting input from somebody else to grow (though that is appreciated I don't want to put that work on the people around me all the time)
Grudge holder - not always in an open way, but I just keep moments in my head where I was mad at someone and I won't let them go, even if they were small things we have moved past it
Judgy - again not necessarily out in the open but still, even if I never say the judgy things I think to anybody, I certainly know they are there and that they influence me
Impatient - when something comes up I sometimes want to figure out a solution/way to handle it right that moment, even though there is time to figure things out, I just want it done so it stops pestering me at the back of my mind
Unperceptive - while I try to be better at this, I feel like I don't catch things as easily as others and wish I would, so I would be able to reach out to people when they might need it instead of learning they had a hard time by hearing someone else talk about it who noticed
Overplanning/thinking/complicating - this kinda goes with the impatience I think, I want things to be done or at least prepared to be done that I sometimes go a bit overboard with the solution I come up with instead of taking a second to think about it and see that it can be simplified and still lead to the result I want