Catherine of Woodlands

23F I like magic and science and romanticism and good sense. If my presence here resonates with you, I'd love to chat :)

[golden-biro]

Day 19 - Ponytail

Featuring baby Nagini!

What happened to Tom Riddle in those intervening years prior to the first war? What dark magic did he toy with that left his features “burned and blurred”, “waxy and oddly distorted"? Answers on a postcard.

[erdeihely]

I love this portrayal so much! He’s beautiful and striking and also a bit burned and blurred! Excellent linework! 10/10 Nagini!

[sunflorall]

Love can be suffocating sometimes. It can make you feel pressured.

[erdeihely]

I never thought about this before it happened to me

[erdeihely]

And it took me almost exactly two more years to escape! I can’t believe I posted this so long ago!

If you feel pressured/suffocated/controlled by someone who loves you, you will probably be much much happier away from them and their love!

[chiwi-la-capybara]

Your Snape ship says a lot about why you like Snape.

Snape/Lily

You either love tragic love stories or can’t stand them and are ready to fix it. You like wholesome childhood romance Snape. You like Snape when he’s on his best behavior.

Snape/Hermione

You are all about the professor-student dynamic but in the nerdiest of ways. You are a sapiosexual. You get off on the meeting of the minds. Your Snape is cerebral, repressed, dominating, sometimes paternal and possessive in his romantic affections.

Snape/Harry

You like Snape at his worst you lovely weirdo. Your Snape is passionate, angry, self-loathing, fiery, masochistic and sadistic in equal measure.

Snape/Black

All the things that were true for Harry with an extra dash of the ol ultra-violence. Your Snape is more of a masochist than a sadist.

Snape/Lupin

Your Snape is flawed but not too flawed. You like Snape at his most functional. This Snape is capable of respectable adult relationships. Maybe you’re into hurt-comfort and fluff. 

Snape/Minerva

You like Snape for his struggle. You want to see him grow. Your Snape is young, immature, and hurting: a man-child in need of guidance and mothering.

Snape/Luna

You like Snape because he’s funny, an oddball, a victim of bullying. You like him bewildered. You want to see him accept kindness and laugh. The age difference is incidental.

[erdeihely]

Wow - this is very insightful.

[memewhore]

[xiaoguiwang]

i cannot stress enough how you should consume and interact with more than just popular media and culture. and this isnt me saying "read some classics and watch obscure movies made in the 60s" i mean this as in read nonfiction! read articles about things youve never thought about! watch documentaries and educational shows and read up on the history of weaving or how trade systems worked in the 9th century byzantine empire and look into philosophical questions from cultures you're not a part of!

branch outside of your interests and comfort zone because not only will this widen your worldview, it also improves the way you conceptualize things and will help you think critically about whats happening in ur life and the media u consume normally. also, you might learn some fun things for trivia night :)

[erdeihely]

I want to lie down on a bed of pine needles and melt into the soil

[erdeihely]

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

- Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

[erdeihely]

It was cool and clear and ephemeral

[erdeihely]

I went north recently. How I've missed the bite of the air and the cool, torrential chaos if the autumn winds

[nanabafem]

I think tiger king perfectly encapsulates how society treats shitty men as opposed to shitty women because there were guys on there who straight up ran a sex cult and confessed to really horrific shit, but everyone fixated on Carol who was just accused of killing her husband by a complete crazy.

[sailor-moon-rest-deactivated202]

^^^^ i watched tiger king for the first time recently with a few of the men I share an apartment with. They had already seen ot. Every episode I was yelling at the tv, "i hope this man dies!! How does it keep getting worse" and the like. These men kept insisting, "wait till we get to the episode about carole baskin" and we did... what an overhype. I immediately clocked that this first husband she supposedly killed in cold blood had groomed her, taken advantage of the fact her previous husband was abusive, and was financially and emotionally abusing her (specifically probably threatening her "pet" tigers), was basically untouchable due to his wealth, and that she was well within her moral rights to kill him. Male roommates: "Oh, I didn't realize that, but you're right... all those tweets making fun of her suddenly seem in poor taste... yeah i guess she's better than the guy who runs the sex cult"

... what did i learn? men see abusive behavior as normal if the victim is a woman; they can't or won't identify the patterns of abuse if its a woman being harmed. Even men who try to be feminist allies. (Maybe more so, because anti-feminist men will acknowledge abuse but say its deserved.)

[erdeihely]

I've been waiting ever since Tiger King came out for this sane take. Can't believe it's taken so long.

[faustandfurious]

Not sure how universal this experience is, but Tolkien’s concept of sea-longing resonated with me because I grew up in a coastal town and every time I have to live for an extended period of time away from the coast, I get this almost claustrophobic feeling that only goes away when I return to the seashore

[faustandfurious]

There was a famous Norwegian author who described the ocean as “the last healthy thing in a sick world” and I feel that

[erdeihely]

This is about me

[weedplantar]

pro tip, if you’re ever feeling overwhelmed or upset for no reason, check the holy trifecta

have i eaten?

have i had water?

have i showered?

these questions will literally change your LIFE. if you’re feeling icky for no reason, there’s a 90% chance it’s one of these.

[leitharstjarna]

— Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe (1977)

[starlightthroughbrokenglass]

[ID: Four photos or scans of a poem titled A Toast to the Alchemists. The pictures are cropped so that the text is almost taking up the entire image. Behind the poem one can see the text on the back of the page shine through. The poem reads:

A Toast to the Alchemists

Alchmists, you were right, it is possible. We have the proof now. There are equations.

If you could come back for a day, if you could conjure yourself into this chemistry classroom, if you could read the textbook or watch the professor writing the answers on the board…

Alchemists, you would see that you were right, even though you didn’t know about alpha and beta radiation, even though you didn’t understand isotopes, you knew it was possible, that some elements can change into other elements, that transmutation can occur.

Alchemists, there is proof now that it is possible, although each new element, having a brief half-life, would keep changing into other things.

Alchemists, you were right, you can make anything, anything, uranium, plutonium, tel- lurium, mercury, copper, cobalt, platinum, silver, and gold, you can make gold, an isotope so radioactive it would sparkle before your eyes.

Alchemists, you were right. It is magic.

/end ID]

[erdeihely]

I'm trying to re-learn zoning out and wandering off to private spaces in my mind. It's simultaneously a transformatively liberating and comforting thing to do

[greelin]

“that’s the spirit” i say as i gesture to the spirit that’s been haunting my home for years. when will they leave or start contributing to the household by doing something like helping with laundry. when will they pay rent

[erdeihely]

I so long to go to some small patch of clean, wind-swept grass on the rocks above the sea, and lay down and sleep under the watch of the open sky where I can breathe in the smell of brine and spruce trees and the hardy roses on the beach

[perfectquote]

“I don’t want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie