Happy birthday to you, Dibyarup! May you have a good one this year.

As everyone else in this post, I find it difficult to choose only one song and my preferences fluctuate a lot based on my mood - but here are ten songs that are part of my current favourites! Do note that some of these songs may deal with sensitive topics and/or have some language that is not PG-13....

Oh, boy, that is a tough one. I wouldn't know how to begin to classify my list, so I went online and found an actual Pokemon preference sorter for this. According to this sorter (and after a million comparisons between different Pokemon), here's my top 10 list: 1. Zoroark 2. Lycanroc 3. Decidueye 4....

I am a huge fan of The Kingkiller Chronicles, much to my frustration. I've read the first two books ages ago (seriously, it must have been 10 years ago or so) and I am still waiting on the third book because Rothfuss has not finished writing or revising his writing. I sometimes wonder whether The Do...

I'd love to walk around Knockturn Alley, to be honest. I know that some areas get a bad reputation because they may be hubs for less-than-legal activities, but that doesn't mean there aren't hidden gems there! This makes me think of Kabukicho in Tokyo, which has a negative reputation because of some...

I was wondering today - what is your favourite style of game, and how do you usually play that kind of game? I am a huge fan of social deduction games / "try to understand people's thinking process" games (with some of my favourites being Town of Salem, the board game Insider and the board game Code...

I am not super into Eurovision, but a very close friend of mine (Ereshkigal Csintalan) has constantly told me - compelled me, even! - to give it a try. Although I'm not as much of an Eurovision fan or buff as she is, I've come to grown some of the pieces that have been performed in the last years. I...

I've been reading the Atlantis Grail book series and it definitely does not disappoint! I must admit I am drawn to books that have tests and challenges because of my very type of personality, and that series has quite a few interesting tasks. I still have to read the last book, but I might save it f...

I am really addicted to music (it's one of my common mechanisms to deal with emotions, both good and bad!) and for that reason I decided to write my Media assignments on songs that I feel represent what the powers of the course mean to me. Without further ado, here we go! FAITH: Kamelot - One More F...

Hello, everyone! I am Caius Magnusson, a second-year Slytherin who's currently in charge of the Magical Applications of Kanji course. There are two main reasons why I joined the course - and, to be perfectly honest, none of them are directly related to the content covered. The first thing that appea...

I'd like to do a Nurikabe puzzle for this edition!

My goals this term are quite similar to the ones I had last year! 1. Get a total of 10 quills. 2. Get 300 points for every class I take (600 points for full year classes). 3. Get a total of 50 awards. 4. Grade all work received in my current ongoing course in a timely fashion. 5. Write my next class...

I've decided to take the following courses:

- Astronomy 101
- Quidditch - The Wizarding Way
- W.O.M.B.A.T.
- Wand-Making
- Word Magic

Astronomy 101 will be my first full-year course! As soon as I saw the website for it, I knew I was ready to invest a full year into that course.

If you’re still writing that column, I’d love to participate!

I'm sending 21 beans to Prof. Will Lestrange for making me feel so welcome throughout my first year at HOL!

Today I came by accident into a Parseltongue verb that is usually described through the use of a noun in English - that is to say, the verbal phrase 'to have fun'. I am a huge enthusiast of roller coasters, and was entertaining the idea of bringing I'oʃin with me so he could try it out and see wheth...

Hello, everyone! I am Caius Magnusson, a first-year student who is strongly passionate about the best and worst in humanity. It's no surprise that dystopias, therefore, rank quite highly in my list of interests! I personally believe there's truth in what's ugly, and that this truth makes us more cog...

Being the ambitious Slytherin that I am, I decided that I didn't want to discover a concrete noun. No, I wanted to go for an abstract one, and take my time in finding a way to explaining my thoughts in Parseltongue. My first attempt was the word 'philosophy', which I failed at. I'oʃin kept telling m...

Meet I'oʃin. https://i.imgur.com/QpkV0Kr.png To be honest, I'oʃin is so distinctive that I really do not know what kind of snake he is. I have tried to ask him about his species, but he refuses to answer this specific line of inquiry. For him, " snek snek " (snakes are snakes), and the concept of sp...

Hello, everyone! I am Caius Magnusson, and for the time being I have decided to write my name as Kai'us Magnus Iang in Parseltongue - although this might change once I find out how snakes approach patronymic naming conventions, that is! I am a member of Slytherin. I decided to take Parseltongue owin...