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this is totally appropriate and necessary to start teaching

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Why Motion City Soundtrack’s break up is breaking my heart.

MCS has always been a solid part of my life since I was about 14 years old. I remember riding around with my older brother and our friends belting out the lyrics like we were pouring our hearts out, hell for me that’s what it was. I’ve always related deeply to their lyrics about depression and self doubt and worrying too much about everything. I felt connected to other human beings in a way I could never verbalize. Someone understood; someone knew what it felt like in my head and his name was Justin Pierre.

I grew up with this band. I’ve always had somewhere to turn when I couldn’t turn to friends or family. When I’m at my darkest moments, drowning in apathy and depression, I turn to them to bring me out of the sadness. When my anxiety overruns me, I always turn on “Everything is Alright” and I know, in that moment, someone finally gets it. Someone knows what it feels like to stress over everything and nothing all at once. Someone knows what it feels like to not be able to control where their mind goes, even when that’s all they want to be able to do.

They were the first concert I was able to attend, 2010 at the Fillmore in Detroit. They played with Say Anything and Saves the Day. We managed to get to meet them before the show and it was like a dream come true. I remember joking around with Tony and Matt about how odd it was when people asked for parts of their body to be signed. Since that time I’ve seen them in concert I believe 6 more times. The best being the two day four album shows, which were a blast and one of the best weekends I’ve had.

This band has seen me through loss and victory. From moving 800 miles cross country and being devastated about leaving all my friends and my home to finding my way back, I always had MCS to turn to. They picked me up, dusted me off, and helped me push through those tough days when I didn’t think anything could. They are my go to when I’m stressed about anything. I’ve danced more around my living to these songs than anyone else’s.

Even If It Kills Me is a song that pushes me to this day to be a better person and to fight for my happiness. It reminds me that even if I fail, that its not the end of the road until I quit breathing. There’s always time to improve. There’s always a reason to fight to be happy and to be better. Even when we are exhausted and pushed down by life, there’s always hope.

Motion City has been my constant through my ever changing adult life. Through changing friends and broken hearts and spirits, this band has been the one thing I’ve always relied on to feel like I had stability. No matter what, no one could take away this group and these melodies, they were forever just a click away.

And now, while still a click away, they will be gone at the end of this year. No more new songs or albums to get excited about. No more concerts to attend. No more silly videos on youtube, (‘cause lets all be honest, those early music videos are the silliest but best things I’ve seen) no more songs to grow up with. I’m 23 and I feel like I’m losing my most consistent and relatable friend. Panic Stations is literally what I feel like on most days, and I’m gonna miss having someone to sing me through life as I age and reminding me that I’m not alone in these feelings.

I’ll miss you boys. Thank you for everything. I wouldn’t be the same without you.

randarookaboom

So, quick update to this. Earlier last year Motion City announced a reunion tour. The moment the pre-sale became available, I snatched two tickets up. Months went by and today I got to stand in Saint Andrews Hall again and scream my lungs out to my favorite band. Standing in a room with 1000 people who have spent 4 years waiting for our boys to come back, it was like coming home again.

More than once tonight there were moments of us just screaming TONY! Over and over again, because let's face it, the band was never the same without him. We've missed him for longer and seeing him back behind those drums made my heart so happy.

Tonight I got to feel like a 16 year old again. I stood there side by side with my friends, screaming songs we'd sang together for years, and I just haven't felt this happy in so long. This band has been in my life longer than a lot of the people I have around. As they played through so many of my favorites, I found myself thinking about all the memories I have associated to the songs. I remembered that in college I wrote an essay on my interpretation of Last Night. It was a 2 paragraph assignment that I somehow wrote 3 full pages on. I thought about summer nights on Lake Michigan and driving down the coast in the moonlight singing L.G. FUAD with my siblings. Or even that time I was so stressed about a job interview that I sat in the parking lot before hand singing to Everything is Alright.

Tonight brought back so many feelings. My heart feels so full. Thank you for coming back boys.

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Hey y'all

So, it's been a few years... Hi! Life has taken many a turns since my last check in. I've moved a few times and a lot has happened.

But basically, to catch you all up, I live with my boyfriend Eric. I'm happier than I've ever been. Things are way different than I really ever expected, but I'm okay with that. I had to get a big kid job, so I work as tech support in the real estate industry, but still working on my photography. I've done a few gigs for some friends, which I've loved doing.

Not a whole lot else to report. It's been a lot of change these last few years. But I'm thinking I've found some permanency for awhile. The job thing I'm working on changing, but for the most part I'm pretty happy. Attaching a few pics to show you my current life 😍

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CHECK OUT your differences in wand technique here and how fluidly and casually Ron throws a curse in comparison to Harry and Hermione Hermione has done the reading and is technically perfect of course Elbow straight; wrist bent Wand tip aligned with left sightline left arm held loosely behind her for balance Harry hasn’t ever done the reading Grip too tight; elbow locked Shoulders raised Left elbow cranked in awkwardly against his body Kids’ll imitate his awful technique and Junior Aurors it’ll make their parents nuts; don’t twist your neck like that I don’t care what Auror Potter does When you save wizardkind you can hold your wand however you want until then drop your shoulders Ron’s been around wand users since birth practiced with twigs and then his brothers’ wands Look at how the movement flows from his center the way he uses his whole body throws out his opposite hand behind him to counterbalance the movement Harry and Hermione get their wands into position and then throw the curse Ron’s spell starts mid-motion because he knows his wand will be in position in time (helenish)

Mmmmmmm, yes.

stephiecarcar

There will be a day when I see this and I will scroll past.

Today is not that day

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Plus Ron is casting his curse non-verbally. That’s very difficult and it requires training and practice to successfully cast a nonverbal spell. It’s success is determined by the amount of concentration and mental discipline of the witch or wizard. But this is Ron Weasley he likely didn’t put training and practice into casting non-verbal spells, this advanced magic comes to him naturally. The only other time we see him cast a non-verbal spell is when he accidentally made it snow in the great hall, and that was only because Lavender was glaring him down after he said Hermione’s name while he was unconscious in the hospital wing. He felt crappy and his emotions were so intense he unknowingly made it snow. Here he’s trapped in a muggle cafe, with his best friend and the girl he loves. He’s probably scared, and angry but most of all protective. He wants to defeat these Death Eaters without anything happening to his team. His emotions are intense again and that allows him to cast a powerful non-verbal spell. No, not even a spell, a curse. We’ve seen Hermione cast non-verbal spells loads of times but even here she says the curse to ensure it’s potency. Ron is concentrated and disciplined enough in this moment to curse a Death Eater without any words at all.

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and isn’t his “eat slugs” curse also non-verbal? because I doubt that “eat slugs” is the actual incantation for that curse and actually if I recall correctly from the book, he says “eat slugs, Malfoy” in an “eff off” sort of way but his wand isn’t even out. then a minute later when Malfoy calls Hermione a Mudblood, he takes out his wand and it backfires on him. and he’s TWELVE when he does this! it’s another moment where his emotions are running high because his friend has just been called the most awful word he’s ever heard.

Ron is a great wizard, so much of his magic is natural and intuitive and he doesn’t have to think about it the way Harry and even Hermione do. it’s just a part of him.

how-queerious

AND NO ONE GIVES HIM ANY FUCKING CREDIT ITS LIKE “OH LOOK ITS THAT STUPID WEASLEY AGAIN” YOU KNOW WHAT FUCK YOU BITCHES RON FUCKING WEASLEY IS A BOSS ASS BITCH AND YOU CAN JUST NOT! *straightens robes* But us Ravenclaws are still cool right? Sorry for my outburst professor McGonagall.

dtwizzie

This is the kind of quality content I crave!

ginniewheezie

I am down for Ron being a more powerful wizard than anyone, including Molly, ever gave him credit for.

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I AM DOWN FOR ALL OF THIS! RON WEASLEY IS SUCH A GOOD WIZARD AND NO-ONE EVER GIVES HIM CREDIT FOR IT!

cheeseanonioncrisps

This actually fits very well into a fan theory that I read once. Basically, the Weasley family are secretly very talented at magic, and very sensitive to it as a result.

That’s why Ginny was so strongly affected by the diary, and why Ron was later so affected by the locket. Even in Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling mentions specifically that Ron has the most trouble shaking off Moody’s imperius curse. He also seems to be particularly susceptible to Fleur’s Veela powers.

This could also explain why Fred and George were able to create a swamp that impressed even Flitwick, before they even finished school, how Percy got top marks in all 12 of his OWLs and why Charlie and Bill do so well with magical creatures.

Arthur Weasley enchanted a flying car, which looks like it would have been very complex, and Molly Weasley regularly performs nonverbal spells— INCLUDING A BLOODY KILLING CURSE. “Not my daughter, you bitch!” is not an incantation.

The whole Weasley clan is actually incredibly in tune with magic and nobody ever notices.

But what this means is that, not only is Ron a very talented wizard, but it also suggests that his abandoning Ron and Hermione in Deathly Hallows (which is the thing that is most often held up as a reason to hate Ron) wasn’t just him being selfish and jealous.

He wasn’t imagining it, he actually was affected more by the horcrux that Harry or Hermione.

rehfan

And I’m only saying this because no one in the previous posts has out-and-out mentioned it: The Weasley family is one of the Sacred 29 families - purebloods stretching back centuries.

Not to be too Slytherin about it, but I’m thinking that counts for something too.

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The Slug Vomiting Charm he uses in second year is indeed a nonverbal casting, as the incantation for it, at least according to the wiki, is Slugulus Eructo.

So yes, Ron managed to nonverbally cast a hex at age twelve, that, despite it backfiring on him, worked exactly as it was supposed to. With a broken, hand-me-down wand that was never quite right for him.

Step up your damn game, Harry “But I Am The Chosen One” Potter and Hermione “I’ve Read The Entire Library Twice” Granger.