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I loved this
I am in love with both the elaborate welcome this little fellow received as well as the look of complete bafflement on the puppies’ face that clearly says “I am eight weeks old and what is this.”
The way Birds of Prey’s cinematography went OFF
Looking at this again I’m noticing how it this movie wasn’t afraid of putting things center frame. A lot of people come out of film school thinking the 2/3/golden ratio rule is the only way to compose shots and Marvel movies are especially bad about using that composition technique to draw the audience’s eye away from women’s faces to their boobs. Mad Max Fury Road is famous for the director’s insistence on using center framing to emphasize action
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Rima Horton and her late husband, Alan Rickman’s former home, Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, City of Westminster, central London, which was listed on 22 February 2016, the day after Alan’s 70th birthday. The terrace flat originally belonged to Rima as early as 2006 based on electoral rolls where Alan later moved in with her; in 2004-05, she had previously lived with her niece, Sarah Melanie Rickman Hodges (then unwed) and a friend in Upper Addison Gardens (UK electoral registers 2002-2014. Census, Land & Substitutes. Print). The home previously served as a shooting location for Michael Birt’s July 2006 portraits and appeared in a couple snapshots of Alan with his close paternal second cousin once removed, Saski Farrington.
I have re blogged this post purely to say that the original detail in regard of it, is wrong. The person writing the above detail is speaking about two very separate propertys.
HI PLEASE TELL ME SEVERUS VOLUNTEERED TO BE LOCKHART'S 'ASSISTANT' IF YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS PLS SHARE
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// OMFG FRIENDO THIS IS ACTUALLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE HEAD CANONS.
PLS. Gilderoy Lockhart did NOT think of the dueling club idea. Honestly. Do. You. Think. This. Man. Has. Practical. Ideas?
WHEN ー in the ENTIRE book does this man think of a practical idea? WHEN ー is he ever shown doing anything practical? IN FACT, what we learn about Gilderoy Lockhart is that all the practical “how to” advice he offers in his books is completely plagiarized. Lockhart’s entire life is a sham, a lie, a fantasy.
You know who is practical??? You know who is pragmatic? You know who FREQUENTLY throughout the series works behind the scenes and puts HIS ideas into other people’s minds to get THEM to carry them out? You know WHO asked Albus Dumbly Doodles NOT to reveal the good work he is doing while he simultaneously goes behind the scenes to carry out necessary, practical plans?
Severus Fucking Snape.
Besides, who else besides Dumbledoodles and Voldemort EVER gets Snape to do anything he doesn’t want to do? Do you honestly think Lockhart asked Snape and Snape was like “Gosh GOLLY Gildertoots, I’d LOVE to be your assistant!” Do you believe for even an instant that Lockhart would be capable of persuading Snape to do something he did NOT want to do? Do you think Lockhart wore Snape down until he agreed to be his assistant in the dueling club?
But we ALSO know ( because of the above ー Snape doesn’t want people to know what he’s up to. He doesn’t LIKE being the star of the show. ) that Snape probably doesn’t want to set up this dueling club and lead it himself. Besides, he’s probably practical enough to know that if he’s the one leading it then only the Slytherins will show up because the other houses don’t care for him so much.
So what does he do?
My theory is that Snape obviously knew that the students weren’t going to get any decent DADA education from Lockhart but thought it was important they learn how to duel. So, if I think that Snape came up with the idea for the dueling club, why wouldn’t he go to McGonagall, Dumbledore, or Flitwick with it? Because those three are all COMPETENT. If they were leading the dueling club they wouldn’t NEED an assistant. And, even if he were to assist, he’d have to compromise by doing it their way. No, Snape wanted it run the way he wanted and that meant choosing someone popular enough to draw student interest but also incompetent enough that Snape would be able to step in and make all the important decisions without doing the heavy lifting of advertising it, garnering interest, explaining dueling, etc. ( Remember when Slughorn turned himself into a FUCKING ARMCHAIR to try to get out of teaching at Hogwarts? ) Yeah, trying to get other people to do the heavy lifting while you sweep in at the last minute and steamroll them with your genius ideas is THE MOST SLYTHERIN THING EVER. Besides, Lockhart IS the DADA professor so the dueling club does fall under his purview, instead of McGonagall etc.
I think Snape probably lowkey mentioned a dueling club to Lockhart in the teacher’s lounge or somewhere, probably suggested he could assist, and Lockhart ( predictably ) ran with the idea as he does with ALL ideas where he has a chance to show off and have a senior faculty member playing the role of his assistant, thereby making himself look EVEN better.
Then Snape, predictably, with that Slytherin ambition, cunning, and pragmatism, smoothly takes over the dueling club with Lockhart ( debatably ) not even realizing he has done so.
And what spell does Harry learn in the dueling club?
Expelliarmus.
His “ signature ” spell, as it’s called in the Deathly Hallows.
Who does he learn it from?
Snape.
Harry even acknowledges it himself in the SAME BOOK. When Lockhart tries to wipe Ron and Harry’s memories, Harry uses expelliarmus to disarm him and toss his wand out the window. And THEN HARRY SAYS to Lockhart “shouldn’t have let Professor Snape teach us that one!”
Harry KNOWS Snape was leading the dueling club. Harry KNOWS Snape is the only one who did any teaching in the dueling club.
And I’ve seen Snape get some shit for pairing Harry with Malfoy instead of Ron, knowing full well the animosity that Malfoy and Harry have for each other, knowing full well that Malfoy won’t fight fair.
But Snape is putting Harry in EXACTLY THE SITUATIONS HE WILL FACE THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE BOOK. SNAPE KNOWS THE DARK ARTS. SNAPE KNOWS THAT DEATH EATERS DON’T FIGHT FAIRLY. SNAPE, IN SLYTHERIN FASHION, IS OFFERING HARRY THE MOST PRACTICAL DUELING EXPERIENCE POSSIBLE.
NOT ONLY THAT. WHAT IS IT THAT SNAPE SAYS TO HARRY AT THE END OF THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE? WHAT IS IT THAT MOODY TELLS HARRY?
YOU HAVE TO MEAN SPELLS FOR THEM TO WORK PROPERLY.
Pairing Harry with Ron or Hermione in the dueling club would have been pointless. A “duel” against a friend is just a play duel. It’s just fun and games. Snape knows that what Harry WILL BE FACING is NOT fun and games. It’s serious. It’s against people who WANT. HARRY. DEAD. It’s against people like Bellatrix, like Voldemort, who will cast those spells and MEAN them. Snape pits Harry against Malfoy because he knows that when Harry duels Malfoy he will MEAN IT. Snape is teaching Harry how to go to war. Snape is teaching Harry DEFENSE ( a much more mature philosophy from the sectumsempra written in his childhood textbooks ). Snape is teaching Harry how to DO what he MUST do to fulfill his destiny. Snape isn’t playing around like Lockhart is. Snape is pragmatic. Snape will protect Harry. But if Snape dies, AND HE DOES, Harry will need to know how to protect himself. And THAT’S what Snape teaches him.
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The amount of serotonin it gave me to watch this grandma react to her new galaxy light 🥺
It’s dark in here- *gasps in excitement* OHH SARAH!
OHH SARAH! *giggles like a little kid* OHhHhH!!
My ceiling is filled with blue lights… and stars and everything!!
OH Sarah! I can go to bed at night looking at this. OHHHH it’s beautiful!
ppl forget the innocence of the elderly… if there was ever a glimpse of them as a child, this is it
“I can go to bed at night looking at this!” 🥺✨
I love grandmothers. I miss mine every single day. This is beautiful.
I have one! I’ll deadass be in my room with it on listening to music and disassociating for hours 😂
It has a buncha colors but these are my faves
Purple bc insanely gorgeous 100/10 just beautiful
Then the light blue/green makes me feel like I’m underwater, 11/10 love to imagine I’m drowning
And then dark blue bc it feels like I’m in space, 10/10 would love to go there and stop breathing
@haileyhurts where did you get it?
I would love to cry my eyes out in a room this pretty
@yanderrre you can just go to galaxylight.com or if you dont feel like typing: shorturl.link/galaxy
My cat trips balls when I use mine 😂 the stars are lasers so she goes nuts thinking it’s a 1000 laser light toys!! Still cracks me up every time
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This woman is a national treasure. She was dead serious too while telling that story.
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Natasha’s sacrifice in Vormir was for Yelena.
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I have no idea if anyone has talked about it here, but hear me out…
Natasha was devastated, we saw it in Endgame and we have no doubts about it. But I always felt it was about something much bigger and deeper than what was being shown.
Natasha was relentlessly in her search for a solution, she was the only one who couldn’t move on (and didn’t even want to!!). Which even our great Captain Steve Rogers had come to terms with, he was doing his things - adapting as he could to the “new normal”… “We’ll find a way to bring everyone back”, he would say, but HOW? While Steve only propagated this hopeful speech, Natasha not only kept her hopes up but also looked for something tangible to work on. Natasha worried about the “how”. Yes, Cap! let’s bring them back… And what do we do now?
Natasha Romanoff was the most involved in not giving up on finding a way.
I’m sorry, but I really feel like it was about something much bigger for Natasha. It’s clear, especially now after Black Widow (2021), that Natasha was the one who loved the most among the entire team, but Steve wasn’t that far behind when it came to what happened to the rest of the world with Thanos’s snap. Not even Thor, who went into a huge depression over what happened.
Now, with Black Widow (2021), we know someone else carried a large part of Natasha’s heart with them. Yelena and Natasha’s relationship was the most sentimental and emotionally charged thing I’ve seen in MCU. The post-credits scene shows this to us in the most painful way possible.
Thus, nothing makes me think otherwise than Yelena was blipped and all that was going through Nat’s head in Vormir was to bring her sister back to life at all costs. I feel that this was the puzzle piece that was missing to understand Natasha’s feelings in Endgame. She was devastated. Because of her team? Yes. Because of the rest of the world? Yes. But mostly because of her sister.
Natasha Romanoff & Yelena Belova parallels | Black Widow (2021), dir. Cate Shortland
That tweet about Tricia Lockwood’s cat is going around tumblr again as a sort of semimeme and I wanted to commemorate it. Had to look up a bunch of pics of her for ref
been trying to read into different types of steel for cutlery purposes, and obviously the most important thing is just plain how its shaped because you can cut yourself on a flimsy blade of grass and you wont on a completely smooth surface of glass, but do you know of good resources on understanding the material science between what materials (esp high alloy metals) are capable of greater edge retention properties, as well as how the nature of things like the grain size would affect its uses in different types of 'cutting' (eg, the slice of a scalpel is more like "true" slicing, vs a serrated steak knife which partially rips the material with the serrations, or a saw. as well as the difference between slicing vs push cutting with a plain edge, push cutting with serrations, flat-out chopping, etc).
sorry for the long ask! hope you have a nice day.
No need to apologize for any long asks, but I will apologize for the delay in answering!
So, you’re actually on the right track in that edge retention, so to speak, is the main factor. Anything can be sharp if it’s thin enough, which is the difference between a scalpel and a serrated knife. Personally, I’m not sure how one would define “true” slicing - unless your device is atomically thin, any cutting action is going to remove some material.
But what you were asking was for resources on understanding what materials can have greater edge retention, and what influences this, to which the answer is a number of materials properties.
Here’s a casual website on kitchen knives which focuses on four materials properties:
Hardness. Hardness is a double-edged sword, so to speak, when it comes to sharp material. Knives with lower hardness need to be resharpened more often; knives with higher hardness are more difficult to sharpen and can chip during resharpening (harder materials are typically more brittle as well).
Toughness. This property isn’t as significant, but materials which aren’t tough won’t be able to handle impacts (and toughness is, as with hardness, related to brittleness).
Wear resistance. Damage, however little, is going to happen every time two materials come in contact. High wear resistance will help with edge retention.
Corrosion resistance. This property is more about maintaining properties long term, as corrosion can degrade the above properties.
The article also mentions edge retention, which, in my opinion, is a combination of the above factors.
Wikipedia actually has a list of blade materials if you’re interested in looking into specific alloys; it’s mainly steels, but it also includes the effect of alloying elements in steel.
If you want to get into other materials factors, like grain size, in my opinion that would be more of an indirect effect. Instead, grain size would influence hardness/toughness/etc., which would then influence edge retention. I’ve made a post before, way back in 2016, on “Structure and Strength: The Relationship between Microstructure and Mechanical Properties“, if you’re interested in that info, or the resources from that. Long story short: finer grained materials tend to be harder and stronger.
You could also look into machining resources, such as this website, or this casual article on saws, if you’re interested in the types of cutting.
Let me know if this doesn’t answer your question, or if you were hoping for a more comprehensive list of resources, or a more technical answer, and thanks for the ask! If anyone has more information, don’t hesitate to chime in!
I would suggest contacting the major international knife manufacturers such as: Shun, Chicago Steel, J.A Henckel, Sabitier, Kyocera for Cermic Blades and then the Max Planck Institute for Steel Alloys in Solingen, Gerrmany. Then for other specialty cutting blades we have: Obsidian, Flint and Diamonds. Each of these and a few more have done extensive research into how the alloys or composite materials are manufactured and what the Physics is for making a cutting edge surface work.
