Great Detail Challenge Meme
Day 07 – Your best friend, in great detail

My best friend's name is Beth. She's on LJ, but I'm not sure if she wants me spamming her name across the internets so I won't post it here. She's actually the one who introduced me to LJ, so if you know me from here you have her to thank. I don't see her much, she goes to school out of state, but we both the same passive approach to friendship so we're a good fit. She's the only irl friend I have who I can geek out on Harry Potter with. She's creative and funny and I admire her. Oftentimes we end up trouncing about in high heels and looking super dressy. We're just cool like that. Also, we tend to eat a lot when we're together. There's more I'd love to say about her, but idk if she wants her LIFE STORY spread across the pages of my LJ. In pre-cal, we used to pass RIDICULOUS notes to each other and I'm pretty sure that our remembrance of those epic notes is the sole thing fueling our love nowadays (I jest, I jest I swear!). Also, we have a penchant for buying the same or really similar clothes without meaning to.


Day 08 – A moment, in great detail

This is a sequence I know. I've drilled it for hours, both in class and out. I fingered through it during English, listened to it in my room. It had been my goal not to be cut from it and I had succeeded. And now, as my stand partner marks through it in eighth notes and half time, I soar. My fingers slip easily from third position to first and they fly through the rapid sixteenth notes. I reach the trills at the end, and my fingers move before I can even think of where they need to be. I look up from my music and my eyes meet Ms Campion's baton. My bow leaves the string and I vibrate through the last note. There is no applause, this is a contest and not a concert, but I still feel that same swell of a good performance.

I'm sweating, and when I stand I can feel my knees shake. We take our bow and leave the stage. I fucking love Dvorak.


Day 09 – Your beliefs, in great detail

I was raised by a mother who was raised Baptist and a father who studied in a Buddhist temple. I was not raised "with God" per se, but I was raised to be a good person and to always do what I felt was morally right. When I was seven, a friend I knew through Girl Scouts was shocked to learn I didn't know who Jesus was. About a year later, I started going to an after school bible study group for elementary school kids. About two years after that ended, Ben took me to youth choir/youth group at his church. Both churches were Methodist churches, and some of the things I learned there really resonated with me. Others did not. I said I was Christian, that I was Methodist, but it just didn't feel right. So I started reading into different means of religious expression and I finally came across one that just. felt. right.

It was deism.

Now, saying you're deist is kind of like saying you worship knowledge and/or reason. I believe that my relationship (and the relationship of others) with God is very personal. It's not something that can be learned from a sermon, but something that must be built upon by garnering knowledge about the world I live in--the world that God created. I believe in the Universe's divinity, nature's divinity, and my own divinity...all divine because we reside as creations of God. I do not, however, believe in divine intervention of any kind. God is all powerful and all seeing, but S/He does not need to reach down and plan or change our lives. There is no divine plan. S/He set the Universe into motion and has no need for any influence within it beyond that. I believe in prayer as a form of self-meditation, but as nothing more. I believe I can learn more about the Divine Being by learning about the Universe S/He created and the people and things that exist within it.

But what is most important to me of my beliefs is the relationship between the individual and the divine. There is no right or wrong way to find God. There is no right or wrong way to worship God/Allah/Jah/Him/Her/Zir/Whatever you want to call it. Your beliefs are just as valid as mine because belief and meaning is derived from individual experience and study.


_{Day 01 – Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love, in great detail
Day 03 – Your parents, in great detail
Day 04 – What you ate today, in great detail
Day 05 – Your definition of love, in great detail
Day 06 – Your day, in great detail (part one) | (part two)
Day 10 – What you wore today, in great detail
Day 11 – Your siblings, in great detail
Day 12 – What’s in your bag, in great detail
Day 13 – This week, in great detail
Day 14 – What you wore today, in great detail
Day 15 – Your dreams, in great detail
Day 16 – Your first kiss, in great detail
Day 17 – Your favorite memory, in great detail
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday, in great detail
Day 19 – Something you regret, in great detail
Day 20 – This month, in great detail
Day 21 – Another moment, in great detail
Day 22 – Something that upsets you, in great detail
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better, in great detail
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry, in great detail
Day 25 – A first, in great detail
Day 26 – Your fears, in great detail
Day 27 – Your favorite place, in great detail
Day 28 – Something that you miss, in great detail
Day 29 – Your aspirations, in great detail
Day 30 – One last moment, in great detail}

Title: Say We Did
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Scorpius Malfoy/Albus Potter
Warnings: gen, no pairing
Summary: Al wants to study, Scorpius doesn't. (Lool, I suck at summaries!)
Notes: For schmoop_bingo. Prompt: "friendship" (Needs some editing, but I'll do that before posting to s_b. I'm going for a Malfoy-family blackout!)

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