Thinking about lamb harry and snake tom

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Thinking about lamb harry and snake tom
tom riddle & a bespoke suit
This is a repost without the ears lol
I thought I'd redraw Harry since I've recently improved on drawing masculine faces and like the idea of a darker skinned Harry but that turned out to not be as easy as I thought and looking at this drawing for so long started giving uncanny Valley effect so I'll probably just completely start a new drawing once I have free time
I FINISHED MY UNDERWORLD ANIMATION PRACTICE! :’D (Not te best quality gifs… but it’s something (?))
You can watch the full video HERE
Art for my fic.
Something in the wind has changed—it calls you by a different name.
time lapse of the 29.
Ohmugosj I love Harlequin rasboras 😩😩😩👍🏼💗💗💗💗🦋🦋🦋🦋
these cories are so pretty, the orange is a lot brighter in person.
Harry goes through so much hurt and confusion he briefly degenerates from coloured to sketch 🥺 his scar even flips around 😔. I feel like Tom wouldn't gaf when rejecting a child so here it is, that one tiktok sound.
ignore the art style changing each panel im a being of ⭐️ inconsistencies⭐️
Pov harry decides to ask the dark lord about the mysterious mark that's appeared on his tongue
Imaginary scene from The Train to Nowhere by MayMarlow
Kind of fixed the nose idk what's going on
i forgot Harry's shoes but I hate drawing that stuff anyway so I'm not very sorry but I am sorry that I think if you look closely at tom he kinda resembles Elsa
Anyway I still haven't completed my research essay but it's due date has been extended to tomorrow so I am ok and drew that one scene from In Wonderland by Hyugahime instead of working on my essay, of Tom and Harry at the Fountain and Harry being like I'm not your dad lol and Tom going wdym yes u are
Ah I really should've been working on my research essay instead of this but the latest chapter was just 😩😭💗🕺🏻😣👊🏼
https://archiveofourown.org/works/7502151/chapters/86804668
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imma say it. “kung fu panda” did more for body positivity and saying that you can be fat and still be healthy and liked than ANYTHING any beauty companies trying to get your money.
kfp also respects women more than any beauty company too.
It also did “letting go of physical attatchments” MUCH better than certain other franchises did, as @tyrantisterror can clarify.
Well I’m not really an expert on that subject but people have yelled at me about it a lot so I’ll try my best.
Ok so, as many tumblr Buddhists and Star Wars prequel apologists have informed me recently, “letting go of attachments” is supposed to mean that you don’t let your love for others or yourself to become obsessive. It’s sort of a combination “if you love it set it free” and accepting that bad things can happen without dwelling on them - an acceptance that you can’t be in control of everything, and that the world doesn’t revolve around you.
In Kung Fu Panda 2, Po, compassionate and heroic though he may be, is weighed down by a great deal of anxiety about his life. He still isn’t sure if he really deserves to be treated as a hero, he discovers he was adopted and is filled with anxiety about his family, and just as he’s finally making friends with his fellow martial artists a threat rises that is trying to kill them all. Po’s friends, family, and very sense of self are threatened in this story.
His antagonist, Lord Shen, is a perfect foil for him. Shen was born into a wealthy family that was renowned for making fireworks, but wants to use that technology to make canons and guns - weapons that, in the world of this story, are unthinkably powerful - which he can then use to conquer all of China. He is warned that if pursues this scheme that a hero of black and white - a panda, he assumes - will rise to kill him. Rather than pursue a less horrible goal, Shen opts to wipe out all the Pandas in China. Horrified at what he has done, Shen’s parents exile him from their family home, and later die of grief.
Yet despite being given palpable evidence that his current course is wrong, Shen remains committed to his mad dream. He refuses to question the morality of his actions, or accept the consequences of it. He paints his parents as traitors who rebuked his love of him, believing that they were the ones who wronged him by exiling him rather than supporting his ambitions. After all, wouldn’t his plan have benefited them as well? Did they not see that he was trying to bring glory to his family, to increase their wealth and status? Did they not see how special and important and perfect he was?
Shen is defined by his attachments. He obsesses over what he feels he is owed, what he deserves, and is incapable of seeing any of his own actions as wrong as a result. He’s incapable of accepting the consequences of his mistakes, even when they cost him things he loves and values. Every setback he faces can’t be accepted as an accident or a result of his own mistakes - it HAS to be a result of other peoples’ faults, of some monstrous conspiracy to keep him from claiming his rightful place.
He assumes others think like this as well. When Po finally confronts Shen, Shen assumes Po would be furious and vengeful at him for, y’know, exterminating Po’s race. The fact that Po is unaware of their personal connection is amusing to him, and being the egotist that he is, Shen can’t help taunting Po about it.
When Po finally presses Shen to tell him what Shen knows about his family, Shen tells a horrible lie. “ Oh, you want to know so badly? You think knowing will heal you, eh? Fill some… crater in your soul? Well, here’s your answer: your parents didn’t love you.” Interestingly, this exact lie is what Shen has told himself to justify his actions - he knows how much it hurts to believe your parents hated you, how much of a betrayal that is, how much you suffer when someone you’re attached to does not share the sentiment, and tries to trick Po into suffering the same way.
Of course, we learn that this is false for both Po and Shen - Shen’s parents did love him, and were killed by the grief of what they allowed their son to become.
By Shen’s logic, Po should be consumed with grief and anger over what Shen has taken of him. Shen expects Po to be just as deranged and vicious as he is - he expects Po to be broken.
Instead, when Po learns the truth, including what Shen has taken from him, Po… let’s go. He let’s go of the sorrow. of the anger, of the grief. He let’s go because he knows he was loved and, more importantly, is loved. He let’s go because he knows that while there are bad times, there are also good times. He let’s go because he knows he can’t control the past. He can’t control what happened to his mother or to his people. He can’t control Shen’s actions. The past is history - it’s the here and now, the present, that matters. Po has people he loves and who loves him, and he has the opportunity to act on their behalf now.
Shen: How did you find peace? I took away your parents. Everything! I I– I scarred you for life!
Po: See that’s the thing, Shen. Scars heal.
Shen: No, they don’t. Wounds heal.
Po: Oh yeah. What do scars do? They fade, I guess?
Shen: I don’t care what scars do.
Po: You should, Shen. You gotta let go of that stuff from the past ‘cause it just doesn’t matter! The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now.
Even after learning everything that Shen has taken from him, Po tries to heal and teach Shen during their final battle. He doesn’t dwell on the grief, he doesn’t succumb to hatred, he simply tries to stop the violence by any means, the ideal way would be to change Shen’s mind rather than to kill him. Shen ultimately forces Po to fight back, and in the process kills himself. Shen was the warrior of black and white who spelled his own doom all along.
But Po isn’t the best example of a character letting go of attachments in the Buddhist sense that this series has to offer. No, the best, most literal example, would be Master Oogway.
In the first Kung Fu Panda movie, Oogway selects what is, essentially, an heir to his role as the ultimate master of Kung Fu. His choice is Po, which surprises everyone since Po is a big, out-of-shape noodle vender, and has no training in kung fu. Yet Oogway is confident that Po is the correct choice, even though everyone else, including his greatest student Master Shifu, insists it was an accident. “There are no accidents,” Oogway says to Shifu, “You must learn to let go of the illusion of control.”
Oogway’s final words to Shifu are to accept that, while we can affect important change in the world, we cannot control everything - that we have to work with what we are given, and accept that things will not go the way we expect or want them to. His plea for Shifu to believe in Po is also a plea to try and work with the situation as it is, instead of stubbornly trying to force it back into the plan that Shifu had concocted in his head.
And when Shifu agrees to do so, Oogway lets go in the exact way Buddha intended - he leaves the material plane and ascends to a higher existence.
In Kung Fu Panda 3, Po briefly ascends to the same spiritual realm that Oogway currently resides in, and Oogway explains how he knew Po would live up to his legacy - how he saw the past, present, and future of Kung Fu in Po, and knew that the world would be safe in the panda’s hands. Oogway’s last attachment to the physical world was his concern for its safety in his absence, and since Po could and would ensure its safety, Oogway was finally ready to let go completely.
Completely letting go of attachments does not work for a traditional hero’s narrative, because the concept isn’t about heroism - it’s not meant to be, either. It’s a philosophy geared towards breaking the cycle of reincarnation, and transcending the problems of a mortal life. Letting go of attachments is what you do to prepare to die, not what you do to prepare for a fight with the Evil Empire.
But letting go of some attachments can be used in a heroic narrative, which is what the Kung Fu Panda series does. It applies Buddhist and Taoist philosophies to a heroic story in a way that makes sense and stays true to both, because it was written by people who are much smarter than George Lucas.
bro tf most people are snickering about sniddies here you got a full on heavily sourced essay on this….hello take my post???
Thank you! I’m just very fond of Kung Fu Panda.
You, mean, and several people I’m close to are all really fond of Kung Fu Panda, so it’s weird how we never seem to talk about it that much?
ok so like…. you know how in miraculous ladybug marinette says she adds rice flour to her french baguette recipe? i actually added rice flour to my baguette dough and the end result is fucking. ethereal. im still thinking about it a solid 12 hours later. I want to make more but then I would be eating bread all fucking day!!!! it’s so good!!!! I’m trying to isolate the other things I did differently but the only major difference is the rice flour so that must be the difference!!!!!!
r…resippy??
UPDATE ON THE BREAD RECIPE: I made it again and this time wrote down what I was doing and used ACTUAL MEASURING EQUIPMENT AND A TIMER OMG so it’s slightly different from the half-remembered one I posted earlier!
anyway in a big measuring cup or small bowl you need
2 cups warm water 2 tsp white sugar 1 tsp honey 2 tsp whole milk ½ tsp flour
mix this together gently and let it sit for about five minutes or until it is nice and foamy!
While you’re waiting for it to foam up, in a separate bigger bowl, mix together
4 cups bread flour ½ cup sweet white rice flour 3tsp salt Now pour your yeast concoction into the flour mixture, I used a spatula to mix it all together. the dough is VERY sticky.
Let the bowl sit in a warm room, covered with wet towel, for 2 hours. it should have doubled in size. knead it with your hands until you’re satisfied (unfortunately no exact measurement for satisfaction has been discovered).
This makes enough for two loaves! I immediately plopped one unshaped onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets and baked at 365 for an hour.
I left the other to sit out in a warm room overnight to see how it differed and just finished baking it. It looks pretty good!
they were both nice and crunchy-crusted, fluffy and chewy on the inside, and overall super delicious. but I slightly preferred the one that I immediately threw into the oven over the one I let sit out overnight.
[id: two photos of The Bread!! the first is from the front, so you can see the fluffy insides. the second is from above. the bread is a nice, light golden-brown color. /end id]
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