— THE HOGWARTS NEWSPAPER

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i’ve had this in my script and my drafts for a while, but i saw @beatrixshifts mention on my tl that it would be cool so that’s why i’m posting it >:)

(also, I did not come up with the name of the newspaper, i got it from another user yearsss ago, so cred to them !!)

“The Daily Prophet and their flobberworm of a head reporter can keep their drama— we don’t twist our stories to fit some stale Ministry narrative.” — The Editor-in-Chief of The Puffinton Post

THE PUFFINGTON POST is a chaotic yet strangely efficient operation run out of a repurposed classroom on the third floor (which is lovingly referred to as The Quillery.) run by a rotating team of overachievers, gossipmongers, and one sleep-deprived layout wizard, it’s both a battlefield of deadlines and the social pulse of the school. the editors use enchanted Quick-Quotes Quills to speed up production, though it’s anyone’s guess if the quills capture actual facts or just the juiciest version of the truth

HOW IT’S RUN

the team is led by an Editor-in-Chief (usually a loud, opinionated seventh-year), assisted by a handful of section editors who wield red-inked quills like weapons. each week, they hold heated brainstorming meetings, where the room crackles with enchanted floating parchment and enough spilled tea (literal and metaphorical) to fill the Great Lake. submissions are open to any student, but staff writers get first dibs on big stories—assuming they can charm the editors, who love a bit of drama

THE NEWSPAPER TEAM

REPORTERS . scout the juiciest gossip, biggest news, and weirdest happenings on campus. practically unstoppable, they’ll dive into the Forbidden Forest for a scoop if it means landing the front page

EDITORS . ruthlessly revise articles and argue over headlines, aiming for maximum drama without ending up on a professor’s radar

PHOTOGRAPHERS . armed with charmed cameras that capture moving images, they often risk life and limb chasing Quidditch players mid-match or snapping Peeves in action

ILLUSTRATORS . craft whimsical moving cartoons or hauntingly detailed sketches, depending on the tone of the piece

LAYOUT TEAM . use advanced spellwork to arrange articles, images, and enchanting advertisements that sometimes wink at readers

SECTIONS & NOTABLE STORIES

HEADLINE NEWS . covers Hogwarts’ biggest events. Recent splashy stories include “Are the House-Elves Planning a Union?” and “Hagrid’s Pumpkin Patch: A Site of Magical Growth or Magical Mischief?”

QUIDDITCH CORNER . tracks team stats, with columns like “Is Gryffindor’s Seeker Actually a Golden Snitch Magnet?”

SOCIAL SPOTLIGHT . a slightly catty, endlessly entertaining rundown of who’s dating, who’s fighting, and who’s been caught sneaking butterbeer into the Astronomy Tower

MYSTERIES & ODDITIES . a deep dive into Hogwarts lore, featuring pieces like “The Hidden Staircase That Eats Shoes” and “Who Really Haunts the Fourth Floor Lavatory?”

OPINION & SATIRE . snarky takes on everything from new potion regulations to the controversial topic of house unity, with regular features like “Why Ravenclaws Think They Know Everything” (written by a Ravenclaw)

CREATIVE SHOWCASE . poems, short stories, and student artwork, like “An Ode to Dobby” or fine-tip pen sketches of the Black Lake’s grindylows

DISTRIBUTION

The Puffington Post is distributed every Friday morning via enchanted paper airplanes that zoom directly to breakfast tables in the Great Hall. the magic wears off if you take too long to read, so dawdling isn’t an option. prefects often complain about students reading under their desks during Charms, but professors secretly subscribe, too.

SPECIAL EDITIONS (every one is a chaotic affair, jam-packed with so much Hogwarts spirit you can almost smell the butterbeer stains on the parchment)

— THE VALENTINE’S SPECIAL : Love, Lies, and Lacewing Potions

this edition is dripping with enchanted hearts and aggressively pink margins, with stories like “Top 10 Secret Spots to Swoon Your Sweetheart” and “The Most Romantic Love Potions You Absolutely Shouldn’t Use (But Totally Will).” the gossip column goes full throttle, outing secret crushes (with questionable accuracy), while the Creative Showcase features poetry so sappy even Madam Pince has been caught dabbing at her eyes

— THE FIRST-YEAR SURVIVAL GUIDE : Sorting, Snitches, and Surviving Snape

released every September, it’s a crash course for newbies. expect practical tips like “How to Get the Moving Stairs to Chill” and “10 Ways to Not Cry in Potions (Impossible, But Worth Trying).” veteran students contribute anonymously to the “Unofficial Rules” section, which includes gems like “Don’t Look the Bloody Baron in the Eye” and “If Fred and George Weasley Offer You Candy, Run.”

— THE YULE BALL EDITION : Fashion, Feuds, and Footwork

a glossy, glitzy masterpiece with enchanted images of past Yule Ball outfits and step-by-step charms for fixing last-minute wardrobe disasters. the Social Spotlight section is essentially a pre-ball betting pool on who’s showing up with whom, while Opinion dives into debates like “Should Durmstrang Boys Be Banned from Stealing All the Dates?”

— THE END-OF-TERM SPECTACULAR : Grades, Gags, and the Great House Cup Debate

published in June, it’s part celebration, part roast. professors get “awards” (like Flitwick for Most Patient and Snape for Most Likely to Kill You with a Glare), and there’s always a cheeky exposé on house-point shenanigans. expect tear-jerking farewells to seventh-years alongside brutally honest year-in-review recaps, like “Was That a Troll in the Dungeon or Just Another Tuesday?”

EXTRA, EXTRA !!

— RIVALRY . there’s a (very one-sided) feud with The Weekly Wizard, a smaller Ravenclaw-run zine, though it’s been dismissed by most students as “too niche and painfully dull”

— BEHIND THE SCENES . the staff always keeps a stash of Honeydukes’ chocolate for late-night edits, and their mascot—a tiny enchanted quill named Zippy—flits around leaving motivational doodles on unfinished articles

if Hogwarts has a pulse, The Puffington Post is the enchanted quill jotting down every thrilling, bizarre, and scandalous beat

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shifting is scary and exhilarating at the same time

tried a method last night but I wasn’t all that into it so I just turned over and decided to go to bed,,, (I’ve been swamped with assignments and final exams and shifting was an impulsive decision that I gave up on halfway through)

nothings wrong with understanding that you’re just not ready to put in the effort to shift,, dependent on your preferred methods, or lack of, it can be extremely draining or super easy

but I decided that I would rather sleep than shift cus it was really late and I haven’t been getting much sleep the past few days,,,

as I’m laying there super annoyed that I can’t fall asleep, my vision turns like completely black,, its early morning by this point and I’ve got a small nightlight that’s semi bright,, it’s never completely dark in my room

and then the feeling,, it was weird,,, I hate roller coasters but I imagine this is how they feel,, it was like I was in a tunnel, like one of those optical illusion ones, and my vision was being like pulled forward with this tunnel thing all around me,, it felt like memories and stuff were rushing past me too

the best way I can describe it is that scene in Doctor Strange when he gets his soul like punched out of him cus that’s exactly how it felt!

it felt like my soul, or my consciousness in this instance, was being pulled out of my body here and being pulled into another one somewhere else

my heart started racing like never before and suddenly my hearing went completely silent too,,, I sleep with a white noise machine and it was like it simply faded out of existence

the whole process felt, both, excruciatingly long and extremely fast at the same time, and by the time it had ended, my heart still racing, I looked over and found that it’d only been 15 minutes,,,

because I wasn’t planning on shifting and was mainly focused on sleeping, I didn’t really know what to do,, I affirmed a bit but I was so jostled that I didn’t really know what I was affirming

eventually it ended and I felt myself wake up back in my bed with my heart pounding like I’ve never felt it do before, and I went to sleep

am I upset that I didn’t shift? kinda,, but at the same time, this is such a huge step that I don’t really mind,,, if anything it just gave me a full day to prepare, script, and make up my mind about where to shift to and what to do because I was so lost man

I'm super excited to feel those symptoms again and actually shift this time! I’m getting closer and closer to traveling realities at the drop of a pin, I can feel it

trying to manifest.

in manifesting, we don’t try to manifest. there are three steps to it ⋮ 1 ⋮ picking a desire ⋮ 2 ⋮ assuming it to be yours and ⋮ 3 ⋮ persisting in that assumption aka enjoying it in imagination. none of these steps include "trying" because whenever you "try" to manifest, you automatically fail.

there is no trying.

you aren’t trying to manifest. when you manifest, you don’t attempt to. you simply BECOME. you simple ARE. you simply HAVE. the more you try, the more you will experience trying it. but he more you ARE, the more you will experience BEING it.

the state of trying.

my perspective on trying to manifest changed when i understood that to try represents a STATE as well (shouout to edward art). it's a CONCEPT of self. it's a FEELING. trying to get, trying to achieve, trying to attain, trying to resolve, trying to attract … these are all FEELINGS. feelings that you internalise within and take with you before you imagine.

the trying self.

if you keep trying to manifest, you will forever continue to remain in this state of trying, not embodying or experiencing. remember, self must be expressed and your assumptions of self must harden to fact. the outer world can only reflect your inner world. if you identify as the version of self that tries and waits for their desires, this version of you HAS to be expressed. only when you truthfully BECOME your desired version, your external reality will have to reflect it back to you.

trying and being.

let’s imagine two people. person A and person B. person A and B are both manifesting their desires. when you ask them about their desires, this is how they would respond:

A · i manifested my desires. i am experiencing them in my imagination. i already am who i want to be and have what i want to have.

B · i'm trying to manifest my desires. i'm trying to live in the end but i don't fully believe in it. i haven’t really identified with my desired version of self so far.

person A is identifying as a person who already has become their desired self whereas person B hasn't. one person is identifying with the END while the other one is still identifying with the PROCESS.

less trying, more being.

the feeling of trying is nowhere near the feeling of being. it’s incomplete. it’s unfinished. it will leave you feeling unfulfilled and dissatisfied. the state of trying will only drain you out of energy. and it will forever hinder you from feeling the feelings you wish to feel.

but before a feeling or a state (they both mean the same) gets materialised, it has to exist somewhere before. before it occurs on the OUTside, it first occurred on the INside. in conclusion, ALL states belong to you. ALL of them can only exist if you permit them to. only if you give allowance and acceptance to a state, it can take place in the physical.

moral of the story? don’t try becoming it. just BE it.

with love, ella.

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sstruckbycupid

1 month ago

3 deep breathes mindest

If this message resonates with fellow shifters who are mindful of their thought processes, I encourage you to try incorporating these affirmations :

“Every night, I shift effortlessly into the void by only taking 3 deep breaths.”

(p.s it can be 5 claps , 7 glasses of water , etc . whatever suits you)

“oh but i’ve seen this technique before and it seems too simple & easy to change my whole mindset-” girl lay down and relax I BEG.

Don’t treat this exercise as a method. Changing your shitty mindset is not something that happens overnight (mostly). I dare you to prove to yourself that you’re patient enough.

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sstruckbycupid

11 months ago

do you ever just love a dr so much you need to like scream and cry because you cant show your love to the people there yet and this is all you can do

(screaming and crying in both a negative way and a positive way)

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sstruckbycupid

2 months ago

i enter pinterest on a mission to work on my dr’s boards but i always end up getting completely distracted by pictures of my s/o’s instead..

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sstruckbycupid

11 months ago

I both did and didn’t understand feeling so attached to the reality you’re shifting to that it emotionally affects you,,

like I understood when people would talk about their family or their significant others or their friends or their children in other realities and talk about how much they miss them,, I understand the concept of loving and missing someone

but I had never, personally, experienced it,, I had missed hanging out with them before and thinking of things we’d do if I were in that reality in that moment in time, but I hadn’t experienced longing over someone in another reality

but I do now and by the gods is it both the best and worst feeling in the world,,

I miss his voice and his dumb accent and his stupid witch cackles and the shitty way he dresses and his dumb flirting

I miss being in his arms and feeling him run his fingers through my hair and his hand in mine and how soft he would hold me like I was made of glass and how he loved me despite neither of us knowing what love was

I miss him

I’ve never missed someone like this before

it’s weird and it hurts, but I like it at the same time