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Anxieties

Worries consume my thoughts All good that could be vanishes No longer is the pathway clear No more can I see what lies ahead Uncertainty and chance are all that remain But even those feel unstable A thousand different cries A million tears being shed in frustration Not knowing Not having a clue All the voices say the same What’s next?

#poetry #i love you

pokemoncap

#pokemon #ash #pikachu #misty #anime #brock #god dammit brock #not in the fucking face!

happyhealthybalanced

I <3 Pibbles!

Source

10000steps

<3

#pitbull #dog

ultrafacts

What Cat Behaviors Actually Mean

More facts on Ultrafacts

#cat #cat facts #facts

risewiththemoon

These are my favorite opals. Don’t they look like hatching dragon eggs? My mom has a bunch, but we went into an opal store and they had cases and cases of them. It looked like an incubator lol

gloomkittie

NEED

#opal #opals #tag your porn #these are beautiful

katiki-summerwind

NO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND

#animal crossing new leaf #bees

ryumain

i told my mom that god has killed babies in the bible and she didn’t believe me so i searched it up and to my surprise

wait

what

there’s a list???

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

in conclusion god is an asshole

dragon-in-a-fez

for comparison:

okay well I mean ten murders is still bad though so

wait

damn.

ryumain

god gambles with your souls pass it on

List of Harry Potter Spells

Accio: Brings an object to you

Aguamenti: Creates a gush of water from the tip of the spell caster’s wand

Alohomora: Opens locks

Aparecium: Makes invisible ink become visible

Avada Kedavra: The Unforgivable Curse; Kills your opponent; taken from “Abra Cadabra”

Avifors: Turns things into birds

Avis: Makes birds fly out of the end of your wand

Bombarda: Causes a small, locally contained explosion. To make a bigger explosion, one could use “bombarda maxima”

Colloportus: Closes a door and binds it so that it can’t be opened.

Confringo: AKA the Blasting Curse; Causes the item targeted to explode

Confundus: Confounds your target, or makes them temporarily confused

Conjunctivitis: Damages the eyesight of your opponent, making them seem to have pink eye

Crucio: The Second Unforgivable Curse, the Cruciatus Curse; Tortures your opponent mercilessly

Deletrius: Erases the last spell cast by a wand so that it can’t be discovered

Densaugeo: Makes teeth grow out of control

Diffindo: Makes seams split open, severs an object into two pieces

Dissendium: Opens a specific passageway into a cellar, may be useful in other instances; may be only a password

Duro: Turns an item to stone.

Enervate: Mistaken spell. Changed to Rennervate. Used to wake up a stunned person

Engorgio: Makes an item larger, as in swollen

Episkey: Heals relatively minor wounds.

Evanesco: Causes an item to immediately dissolve away, as if it had never existed

Expecto Patronum: Creates Patronus

Expelliarmus: Disarms the target of the spell, such as knocking their wand out of their hand

Fera Verto: Transforms animals into water goblets!

Ferula: Binds a broken limb with a splint and bandages, tightly wrapped

Fidelius: Allows a secret to be hidden within the secret keeper’s soul; very powerful spell

Finite Incantatem: Stops any spell

Flagrate: Allows the user to write or draw in the air with fire

Flipendo: Also knows as the Knockback Jinx, pushes or flips something backwards

Furnunculus: Causes a person to break out in boils

Geminio: Creates a duplicate of an item (a twin, as in the zodiacal sign Gemini).

Homorphus: Man-Shape; makes a werewolf or person disguised as an animal resume their human shape

Immobulus: Immobilizes the target

Impedimenta: Puts up an impediment that slows down something or someone that is coming toward you

Imperio: The third unforgivable curse. Allows the user to assume complete control of another person

Impervius: Repels water from a surface

Incarcerous: Conjures up ropes, which then bind an opponent

Incendio: Lights a fire

Legilimens: Allows the user to gain access to another’s mind and memories

Levicorpus: Turns your opponent upside down and dangles them in thin air

Liberacorpus: “Liberates”, or frees a body that has been caught up by the levicorpus spell

Locomotor Mortis: The Leg-Locker Curse; locks an opponent’s legs together

Lumos: Creates light, usually by making the tip of the wand glow. More light can be created using “lumos maxima”

Mobiliarbus: Used to move a tree from one place to another

Mobilicorpus: Used to move a body from one place to another

Morsmordre: or Morsmorde Used to summon the Dark Mark

Muffliato: Causes a buzzing noise to surround a limited area so that those in the area can carry on a private conversation

Nox: Extinguishes light, used to douse the light created by “Lumos”

Obliviate: Makes a person “oblivious”, erasing their memories of an event

Orchideous: Conjures a bunch of flowers from the user’s wand

Petrificus Totalus: Total petrification; petrifies an opponent totally

Point Me: The Four Point Spell; makes the user’s wand act like a compass

Portus: Turns any item into a Portkey, which can then be used to transport a person or persons to another location.

Prior Incantato: Reveals to you the last spell that a wand was used to cast

Protego: Protects the user, and sends a spell back on an opponent

Quietus: Makes things quiet, used to muffle “Sonorus”

Reducio: Shrinks an item

Reducto: Blasts solid objects into pieces

Relashio: Releases something from being constrained or held

Rennervate: Was originally “ennervate”, but corrected by author; means to energize or wake up

Reparo: Repairs broken items

Repello: Repels something

Repello Muggletum: Makes an area invisible to Muggles

Revelio: Causes something that is hidden to be revealed

Rictusempra: Causes a person to curl up in laughter, as if being tickled

Riddikulus: Makes a boggart assume a “ridiculous” form, thereby making it funny instead of terrifying

Salvio Hexia: Unclear; seems to strengthen other protective spells, or to deflect any hexes cast toward a specific location

Scourgify: Used to clean dirt or other material off of a surface

Sectumsempra: Causes lacerations to appear all over an opponent’s body, as if they had been cut by an invisible sword

Serpensortia: Conjures a snake

Silencio: Makes the target of the spell unable to make any sound.

Sonorus: Amplifies the user’s voice

Stupefy Stupefies an opponent, or knocks them insensible temporarily

Tarantallegra: Forces an opponent’s legs to dance uncontrollably

Tergeo: Scours something clean

Waddiwasi: Removes a stuck object, as in a wad of gum that is stuck in a keyhole

Wingardium Leviosa: Allows the user to make an object levitate

#harry potter #spells

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Because kids only care about love regardless of their parents’ genders

fiveandcountry

There’s been discussion about head-to-body ratio and body proportions over at feministdisney, and I just wanted to point this out because this is something I think about whenever I watch these two movies.

One of the most common features of animated characters, especially in children’s movies, is a high head-to-body ratio. The human body is usually between 7 and 7.5 heads tall; animated characters often range between 4.5 and 6 heads tall. In this case, Nani is five heads tall and Aurora is six heads tall.

Both have very small waists compared to their heads, but Nani is somehow more “normal”-looking than Aurora in terms of her body proportions.

The reason why becomes obvious if you adjust the size of the heads (excuse my photoshop). When you make Nani’s head smaller, so that she is seven heads tall and proportioned like a real human, her waist and hips are a believable size, significantly larger than her head.

Nani has narrow shoulders, small breasts, a bit of belly fat, wide hips and muscular legs. She’s almost a little pear-shaped. The animation style also causes her to be very rounded-looking in general.

If you resize Aurora’s head, however, it is still larger than her waist. She is extremely wasp-waisted, with a large bust and very narrow ankles, wrists and neck.

I have a few points here. The first is that most of the Disney princesses are horrendously proportioned; the second is that it’s possible to create a character with that apparently oh-so-desired head-to-waist ratio without making them ultra-thin. I love the character designs in Lilo and Stitch; their large heads and hands and rounded bodies make them very expressive. By contrast, Aurora is not very appealing to me.

chatboulon

Hi. Might I may add a few things?

Some Disney films, like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty used something called Live-action referencing. This means they used a live model for the artists to reference from. So, Aurora, the princess you don’t like so much, is modeled from a real person. If you throw in your personal preference, you much prefer an unrealistic view on the female form, than what females really are.

But, seriously, if anyone is bitching about fucking cartoon characters, let’s see them design, plan, draw and animate an almost two hour feature. Disney’s had a long practice in doing what they do, and I really think a critique on two different artists’ designs from two different eras, drawn in two different ways, is complete ridiculous.

czarcaustic

Are you seriously trying to say Aurora is a more realistic depiction of the human form because she’s ‘based on a real person’?

First off, can you provide proof that the artists designing and animating Nani didn’t use a reference to the human form? It seems to me that they may have just done their jobs, you know, better than the people who worked on Aurora.

Second, base a character off a real person all you want, you’re still not gonna find people walking around with waists smaller than their heads. I don’t even see how your part about Aurora being based of a real person was relevant, unless you truly believe she is an unexaggerated example of the human form. In which case I invite you to actually observe the people around you.

Third, movies, particularly Disney animated movies, are not created in a vacuum. Many people contribute to the creative process and review what is being created, and all of these people bring certain things to the table. You act like you are defending two specific artists but in reality you are defending an entire group of industry professionals, and you’re trying to tell me that in the case of Aurora it was okay for this entire fucking group to pass this character design without thinking ‘damn, this is a super unrealistic human form, could this have negative ramifications on our young and impressionable audience?’

Fourth, has Disney stopped creating impossibly thin and disproportionate Disney princesses? Uh, not even a little bit. So how is it relevant that these two examples are from different eras? Lilo and Stitch was a lucky hit in a storm of years of animated movie bullshit, and it’s a mistake to view it as progress on Disney’s part.

chatboulon

XDDDD!!! I pissed one off! Someone owes me $5.

Chill out. It’s just an opinion, and a fact, but more of an opinion. When people judge on looks, it’s completely shallow. I got a good laugh from your explanation. Thank you. :)

czarcaustic

Look, I appreciate all the undermining bullshit you used to try to invalidate my argument but it’s the least substantial way to make yourself look credible. Adding passive aggressive smiley faces and telling someone to ‘chill out’ are just tactics to make yourself look superior, because clearly people who are angry about things are irrational, right?

I can take angry rebuttals, but passive aggressive ones are just bullshit.

chatboulon

I don't understand the problem. I give my opinion on the OP's post and you come out of nowhere, bitching about something I said. Seriously, chill out.

fiveandcountry

There’s been discussion about head-to-body ratio and body proportions over at feministdisney, and I just wanted to point this out because this is something I think about whenever I watch these two movies.

One of the most common features of animated characters, especially in children’s movies, is a high head-to-body ratio. The human body is usually between 7 and 7.5 heads tall; animated characters often range between 4.5 and 6 heads tall. In this case, Nani is five heads tall and Aurora is six heads tall.

Both have very small waists compared to their heads, but Nani is somehow more “normal”-looking than Aurora in terms of her body proportions.

The reason why becomes obvious if you adjust the size of the heads (excuse my photoshop). When you make Nani’s head smaller, so that she is seven heads tall and proportioned like a real human, her waist and hips are a believable size, significantly larger than her head.

Nani has narrow shoulders, small breasts, a bit of belly fat, wide hips and muscular legs. She’s almost a little pear-shaped. The animation style also causes her to be very rounded-looking in general.

If you resize Aurora’s head, however, it is still larger than her waist. She is extremely wasp-waisted, with a large bust and very narrow ankles, wrists and neck.

I have a few points here. The first is that most of the Disney princesses are horrendously proportioned; the second is that it’s possible to create a character with that apparently oh-so-desired head-to-waist ratio without making them ultra-thin. I love the character designs in Lilo and Stitch; their large heads and hands and rounded bodies make them very expressive. By contrast, Aurora is not very appealing to me.

chatboulon

Hi. Might I may add a few things?

Some Disney films, like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty used something called Live-action referencing. This means they used a live model for the artists to reference from. So, Aurora, the princess you don’t like so much, is modeled from a real person. If you throw in your personal preference, you much prefer an unrealistic view on the female form, than what females really are.

But, seriously, if anyone is bitching about fucking cartoon characters, let’s see them design, plan, draw and animate an almost two hour feature. Disney’s had a long practice in doing what they do, and I really think a critique on two different artists’ designs from two different eras, drawn in two different ways, is complete ridiculous.

fiveandcountry

Just because rotoscoping was involved doesn’t mean that Aurora’s proportions are more realistic. Rotoscoping was used to create realistic movements and body language; the model’s proportions were almost never copied directly onto the screen. For reference, here is an article about rotoscoping where you can see the model they used for Aurora. Check out that waist-to-head ratio. It makes the animated Aurora’s look even more teeny-tiny.

And even if Aurora had (somehow) been rotoscoped directly from a live model, all that would tell us is that they chose a really thin model to use for the rotoscoping process, and that wouldn’t make Nani’s head-to-waist ratio any more or less realistic by comparison, because—this may come as a surprise—women come in many different shapes and sizes.

And that’s the problem. Not discussed in my post was the larger issue: not that one Disney princess has a disproportionately thin body, but that all of them do. It’s true that Disney has been at this for a long time, and when it comes to the designs of their female characters, they’ve been doing pretty much the same thing, over and over, that entire time: churning out princesses with bodies that uphold demanding, unrealistic, unhealthy standards of proportion, in the name of beauty and with the excuse that “it’s just a children’s movie.” It is, frankly, insulting, and has reached extremes recently with the character designs in Tangled and Frozen—but that’s a different story.

chatboulon

Wow, first off, thanks for the link to the rotoscoping. That term completely slipped my mind! ^_^;; And sorry if I seemed like I was snapping on you. I’m just a huge Disney fan and it really upsets me when people bash the characters because they’re a “bad influence” on children, when that’s not it. Sure some of these characters are exaggerated, but these are still animated characters, designed to look a certain way. And when people base a character’s worth on just their looks…. That’s just completely shallow. (And, I might add that the image of Aurora you chose really bothers me, because her waist is viewed from the side, which will make it smaller in appearance, in reality.)

However, most of these Disney classics have been based on European fairy tales. The stereotypical image for those characters is, more or less, “perfect”. And if people are really holding up for that kind of image, they need to look at real people instead of manufactured body types. Disney is suppose to be about the story, not becoming the next Barbie doll. Of course, we all have our personal views of a good body. It really shouldn’t be about looks, but more about overall health. Once again, sorry.

fiveandcountry

(she’s shown from the front in the picture in the article I mean seriously)

I chose that particular image because it was the first one I found that showed her full-length. I wasn’t overly concerned with the fact that it was in profile because her waist is essentially the same width viewed from any angle.

We are affected by the media we consume, and the majority of the media we consume is poisonously sexist, whether it’s in small ways or large ones.

Your “not judging someone by the way they look” would be valid if Aurora was a real person. She’s not. She’s a fictional character created by the combined effort of a large group of people (mostly men, it’s worth noting), all with their own biases and preferences, which would in turn have been influenced by the world they lived in. Aurora is not a real person who happens to have Barbie-like proportions; she is a result of a group of people making the conscious decision to give her those proportions.

Young girls are constantly fed the message that they must be beautiful in order to be worth anything, and that they must adhere to impossible standards in order to be beautiful.

Visually, the princesses are our society’s idea of perfection. There’s something wrong with that. Not only is it literally unachievable (I’m thinking here not only of the princesses but of the photoshopping of every woman who’s ever been on the cover of a magazine), it is so pervasive it is inescapable, and it is damaging us. It is damaging children.

“The writer was saying that most people think girls want to be skinny because of Hollywood and Vogue. This girl wanted to be skinny because she wanted to be aprotagonist.

She didn’t expose herself to mainstream fashion magazines or TV; she was interested in art films and books and indie music. But no matter how alternative the movie, the protagonist was almost always skinny. And wanting to be a protagonist means wanting to be someone, as most people do. Apparently, your story is only worth hearing, you’re only someone, if you’re skinny – it’s like, the blueprint of a human.”

-Tavi Gevinson, “How To Not Care What Other People Think of You”, inRookie: Yearbook One

Also, I don’t get the point you’re trying to make about “overall health.” Show me a healthy full-grown woman whose waist is smaller than her head and I’ll eat my hat. Or something. Aurora is not healthier just because she’s skinnier.

chatboulon

I think there's been a misunderstanding. If you had your Ask opening, I would talk to you there, but it's not. =/ I'm not talking about Aurora anymore... If any girl is looking at a cartoon character for a body image, I think it's more of a personal problem.

People put a modern spin on cartoons set in "fairy tale" times and bitch about why they're so skinny... as if Aurora or any other character can go into a 7-11, snag a bag of Cheetos and plop down in front of the computer or TV for six hours.

And honestly, I think the examples you picked weren't the best, since there are many, many more females in Disney. What about Lilo in Nami's reference picture? She's like three heads tall. Lol

fell4

You know what annoys me? The fics were Severus Snape just turns out to be a decent guy or just lonely or whatever. Yes, he is to a degree, after what you find out in Deathly Hollows, I would like to find anyone who denies he has any merits at all. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t play with his character more than people already have. As a part of the Phantom of the Opera fandom, I’ve read a bunch of fics were Erik DOESN’T love her enough to let Christine go—not that I’m endorsing that, but it’s an interesting look into another facet of Erik’s character, another look into a ‘what-if.’ So I’m tired of reading all these fanfictions were he is eventually understood—give me some angst! Maybe I haven’t been in the fandom long enough, or found the right fics but it sure doesn’t seem like there are any.

chatboulon

This oddly inspired me. I'm currently working on a fic myself and I'm trying my hardest to make Snape as canon as possible. I think I'm doing a decent job, since I'm on Part 23 and Snape is just barely tolerable for my main character. Thank you for such inspiring words. :)

#thank you