Headcanon that an outraged 6-year-old Charlie Weasley writes to an elderly Newt Scamander wanting to know why Gringotts keeps a dragon locked up underground and begging him to fix it. Newt writes back saying that sadly he’s been fighting that fight for years and no one ever wants to listen to him because the powerful families whose money is being kept safe by the dragon always shut him down, and that Charlie is the first person he’s heard of who’s as angry as he is about it. Charlie decides that day to dedicate his life to finding out everything he can about dragons so that one day he can free the poor Gringotts dragon. After the war, when they hear that Harry, Ron and Hermione freed the dragon, they celebrate and immediately begin petitioning to have it made illegal to imprison dragons so that nothing like that ever happens again. It’s only when Hermione becomes Minister that it’s finally signed into law.
This is the best Harry Potter headcanon I’ve ever seen
yes yes yes
Just imagine how that conversation would go though, like Charlie’s been learning about dragons his whole life, studying them, learning about the laws surrounding them, practising the jailbreak of dragons by smuggling one out of Hogwarts, preparing for the moment when, one day, he can free the Ukrainian Ironbelly from Gringotts.
And Ron’s like “Oh, yeah, don’t worry about it—we broke into Gringotts and used him as our get-away vehicle. He’s just chilling in the wilds somewhere now so, yeah. Job done.”
Ladies, I am holding out my hand. Do you trust me?
I need you to open Google Maps. Locate your nearest mall. Get in your car. Drive to Yankee Candle.
Past the seasonal pumpkin display, near the back of the store, you will find a trash pile Man Candle section. You will see candles called MMM, Bacon!. Riding Mower. Man Town. (I’m not kidding. Man Town.) Stay strong. Not in this section, but likely very near this section, you will find a candle called Mountain Lodge.
Hold this jar in your hands like a talisman. Close your eyes and picture a man.
I want to be clear: I’m not talking about a Hugh Dancy. Or an Andrew Garfield, a Ben Whishaw, even a Tom Hiddleston. This exercise requires someone in the Chris Evans weight class. The Richard Armitage department. Someone with smile lines around his eyes who could chop the cedar for your bower with his own hands, strangle an alpha wolf, carry you home when you sprain your ankle in the woods, bench press your entire body. Picture this man in your mountain home with a full beard, a slightly grimy white henley, a fond half smile he reserves only for you. Now open the lid and smell Mountain Lodge.
Steady yourself on the man candle display. Give yourself a second. No, you’re not wrong. Yes, the Yankee Candle Company has just eliminated the need for men. This medium tumbler Mountain Lodge candle jar is now your boyfriend. The Yankee Candle Company has effectively replaced the need for contact with the male half of our species with a compact and clean-burning candle in a jar.
“Do you like this one?” the cashier asked, ringing me up. “Every man should be required by law to smell like what this candle smells like,” I replied intensely. “That’ll be $12.01,” she said.
MOUNTAIN LODGE
it literally smells like waking up on a cold night to find a bearded richard armitage adding another quilt to the bed before he gets back in and pulls you snugly against his chest
I’m not fucking around I feel like I should be watching chris hemsworth in flannel and suspenders whittling a delicate masterpiece in front of a fireplace rn
All right, Tumblr, I saw this post a few months ago and immediately realized I had to smell this candle. I have never in my life experienced such a burning need (pun intended) to smell what the Yankee Candle website described as a warm aroma of cedarwood and sage, but what Tumblr described as my new boyfriend.
The trouble is that nearest Yankee Candle Company store was a bit of a trek, and my schedule tended to prohibit this olfactory adventure.
So for the last few weeks, as I’d scroll my Tumblr dash and look at images of attractive manly men, I’d sigh and wistfully think, if only I could engage another sense with this image. If only I could I could truly fathom the ideal fragrance of this man.
And then this happened.
And I knew.
I knew whatever was happening, I needed to get to a Yankee Candle Company. The scent of Mountain Lodge would transport me instantly to this scene. The aroma of this infamous candle could make me live out a self-insertion Avengers fanfic.
So I got in my car, made the drive, and located the Yankee Candle Company. The store was crowded with holiday shoppers. My nose was immediately assaulted by hundreds of warring scents.
I battled through the sea of humanity and the Angel Wings-Merry Marshmallow-Magical Frosted Forest assault, buoyed on by my need to understand what Steve Rogers ripping a log in half with his bare hands smelled like.
I waded toward the back of the store, only to discover the man candle section seems to have been discontinued. What was I going to steady myself on, once I found my scented gateway to hanging out with the Avengers on Hawkeye’s farm? I felt lost, adrift, unable to find my bearings amid Soft Blanket-Fluffy Towels-Home Sweet Home.
And then… rising from the “Fresh” display, there it was.
Mountain Lodge.
It was the moment of truth. What would it be like to smell this infamous candle?
I opened the lid. I took a deep breath.
And I giggled.
Ah yes. This was it. This gentle, pleasantly masculine fragrance, in fact, reduced me to what I’d probably do in the actual presence of Chris Evans: giggle like an idiot.
The smell makes me smile, makes me laugh, makes me gently swoon: all reactions that, indeed, can be elicited by an ideal man. I can barely handle the true power of Mountain Lodge.
Several months have passed since this discovery. I have regaled friends with the saga, and after hearing of it, they, too, felt the burning need to smell the candle. One by one, we have all become Mountain Lodge converts.
In times of need, this candle is our refuge. Our group has developed escapist superpowers, infused by the Yankee Candle Company.
THE CANDLE, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND.
MOUNTAIN LODGE.
This is how you do advertisement
we love everything about all of this. We will always be there for you, just light your Mountain Lodge candle and know that our love burns bright for you.
The official Yankee Candle™ tumblr account has recognized the Mountain Lodge mythos. My work on the material plane is finally complete. A being of pure light, I slowly ascend to the aether.
@sashafoxx also if you go to @theyankeecandle ’s page, people ask about Mountain Lodge all the time. I don’t think it’s going anywhere anytime soon.
This was Team Jercy’s submission for the first round of the Heroes of Olympus Ship Olympics! Everyone put a ton of effort into it, and we’re all super proud of how it came out, so please give some HUGE kudos to my awesome team members:
I did the initial sketches and pulled everything together in InDesign Hika did the lining, coloring, Percy’s handwriting, and helped with the script Leed took care of the monsters, did Jason’s handwriting, and helped with the script Asa helped with the script and provided the lovely doodled stick monsters Leo came up with the entire concept and helped with the script Charlie helped with the script
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Kissing his freckles when he isn’t paying
attention
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Running up behind him and tickling him, making
him scream
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Baking cookies and Sean stealing one from over
our shoulder, then complaining when it’s really hot in his hand
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Him flying you around above the mansion in the
day time, then flying you about at ight and landing on top of the building to
look at the stars
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Snuggling on the floor together, leaning against
the sofa, whilst you chat with the group
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Sean playing with your hair as you chat away
with Alex and Hank and curling tresses around his fingers, pressing his nose to
your hair
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Him loving how you smelt, your shampoo, your
shower gel, and especially the scent of just you
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Having to grab his hand when you first start
dating because he doesn’t want the other guys teasing him
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You overdoing it on the PDA, 1. To embarrass him
and turn him red, 2. To break him and let him know its ok to hold your hand and
kiss you occasionally in public
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Sean being a terrible drunk and you having to
drag him back to his room before he tries to fly
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Sean taking you on date to the bowling alley, or
an aquarium where he sends little sound waves into the whale tank and they try
and communicated back (I have not done my research, don’t hate me)
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Sean wrapping a blanket around the both of you
when it’s cold and drifting off to sleep together
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Tickle fights when you try to leave the bed in
the morning
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Him getting really excited to see your reaction
at presents he got you, peering over your shoulder and grinning when he sees
you love it
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Being really proud of himself when winning you a
giant teddy bear in a fair
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Shoving candy floss in each other’s faces and
going “ Taste This!!”
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Collapsing on your bed together at the end of a
long day out and cuddling into the sheets together
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Jace: [In a crowd and can’t find Alec] This calls for drastic measures
Jace: [uses hands as a microphone] ALEC LIGHTWOOD, MAKE ME A PIE
Alec: [from across the room] ONE, I DO NOT HAVE ANY PIE INGREDIENTS
Alec: TWO, I DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO MAKE A PIE
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