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Potter Ramble :P

Tilly here!

okay so this post isn't undertale based but its still a babble and its our blog so whatever! Imma gonna post it here because I made it for rambling and im in a Harry Potter mood

because I was reading through my Harry Potter book I got from the studio tour, would 100% recommend getting for any die hard potterhead!

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Okay so we know that Caput Draconis is the first Gryffindor password, as shown in Philosophers (or sorcerers I believe if your American) Stone, the very first movie, as well as book.

'Caput Draconis' specifically means 'dragons head' in Latin and is the Gryffindor password used at the start of each year- I assume. It just makes sense in my mind to always have the same password at the start of the year as the students haven't had a chance to see the new password posted in the common room before actually entering said room.

And the its been shown that while prefects are to let the first years into the common room, older students are on their own.

And that lead me to wondering how such an importAant password was picked out... At first I was wondering if it had something to do with the schools motto of "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus" which of course translates to 'never tickle a sleeping dragon'

…but then wouldn't it make sense for the other common rooms to have starting passwords of the same sort...?

And so I, like the good person I am, looked it up, and while it may be from hogwarts legacy, im not entirely sure as I haven't personally played a Hufflepuff and it was a passing g though train so I wasn't too thorough in my research so I will bow my head if im wrong and get corrected by an educated individual, but it seem to already disprove my original theory.

[Meagre Research: ]

Hufflepuff common room

The Hufflepuff common room was the common room for Hufflepuff House located in Hufflepuff Basement. In general, it sported several motifs, s

and honestly it makes sense as the traits of hufflepuff are hard working, loyal, friendly, honest, and impartial. Though officially it's trustworthy, hardworking, loyal and kind I suppose if we're to be finicky. They'd be trusted with an unchanging password. Gryffindors are brave to the point of reckless and I think can be easily manipulated to let others in, and Slytherins are cunning and would do anything to achieve their goals, while Ravenclaws enjoy a good riddle and like to exercise the mind so their one makes sense too.

[I would like to point out google provided a different answer to Hufflepuffs password and really I need people too tell me which is true because my second result is: "Hufflepuff's Common Room PasswordTo enter their common room, one must provide the password "Nebulous Min Balto Nia." This unique password ensures that only Hufflepuff students and authorised individuals can enter, maintaining the security and privacy of the Hufflepuff common room."

Discover the hidden secrets of the portraits in the incredible world of Harry Potter

but personally I trust the Wiki's best right off the bat]

SO going off the fact that im assuming there's another reasoning behind the Gryffindor common room password "Caput Draconis," which I did in fact triple check meant "dragon's head" just incase, I found it's associated with an auspicious divination symbol of the same name. The geomantic figure "Caput Draconis" is "fortunate with starting or beginning new things." So that gives us a new one to go off- Maybe its the fat lady herself who chose it after some thought, or Godrick Gryffindor thought it up himself, though it matters not to me really, as I was long past curious about that particular point by now. At the beginning of the 1890–1891 school year, the Slytherin common room's entry password was "Aspiration". - according to Google, as always~

So I suppose it has to do with granting luck for the new year while still keeping reference to each housed traits in order to appeal to the students sorted into the house itself. Aspiration is in fact fitting for Slytherin. And it could be seen as a way of telling them to aspire for greatness in the coming year.

And now that I think about it Ravenclaws from what I can tell are a fairly neutral house in the ongoing house wars and rivalries, which makes sense why the way to enter Ravenclaw Tower is to answer a question and give your reasoning… I believe that Rowena Ravenclaw would have welcomed anyone with the wit, as knowledge it to be shared and passed around and that is essentially the point of Ravenclaw, for those who thirst for knowledge.

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if you read this all the way- consider me impressed, I didn't exactly format it to be comfortable for reading, and it may in fact be entirely illegible, but I got excited and this is what this blog is for.... so BYE LOVELIES! If you like it- though I doubt you will, I have a bunch more rambles of the most random things if you want hear it!

[tuath-alone-fr]

Relationships ?

To the seven people following this meager Tumblr of mine, I'll probably be ranting about the fact that being in a relationship is not a goal in life for everybody. If it ever happens to not be to your liking, feel free to ignore it, I promise I won't feel offended in any way. If you're still reading, then, without further ado, let's do this. I've lived 23 years (and a few months, to be exact) and I happen to have experienced life in such a way that I've grown to not care much for relationships in the past year. Be it friends, whom I almost never call now, and whom I had never relied on to begin with, or lovers, considering that I've been single for about a year and a half after a relationship that left me emotionally devastated for a few months.

As much as possible, I try to learn from my experiences and from the mistakes I have made. And so I did. I thought about it a lot, tried to view things from different perspectives, and I concluded that, while I was only partially responsible (50/50, I guess) for the end of my relationship, that my faults mainly lie with my attitude towards myself and my expectations. As such, I came to think that I should probably take some time off the whole "I want to have a fulfilling relationship" to try and determine what exactly should be done, like learning to have some proper self-respect and self-appreciation before setting on a journey to find someone. What actually happened is that I ended up questioning my expectations. What do I want from a relationship ? Something serious, something that I feel involved in, not just a fling or something not exactly serious. But at the same time, as an introvert, I need some time off, to myself. And I don't think that many girls my age have the same expectations as I do - or when they do, it's not with me, but after dating me. And because I am a self-centered introvert guy lacking proper confidence, I ended up thinking that, to girls, I have only ever been the "overall good guy we can love but not the one we wish to have something lasting with". And since I know girls have a lot to deal with on their own, and because I don't want to think like a bastard, I make it a point to try not to blame anyone. Whether I always manage or not to do so is another story. So, I thought about my priorities about life, and I ended up with the following thought : I don't actually care that much for a relationship. Considering that I don't feel like I have more confidence or self-appreciation, I'd probably do the same mistakes again, and considering that I don't want to date a girl that may not take me as seriously as I'd like her to, I've started looking much more positively on being single. Of course, I still miss all the things that make a relationship something extraordinary, but I don't feel that these things are worth risking emotional devastation in the long run. At least, I haven't met a girl who could make me feel otherwise lately, and I haven't had any experience so positive that they made me change my self depreciating views completely

I guess that what I want to say is, I feel more comfortable on my own, and I don't want either a girl not committed enough to hurt me again, nor do I want to possibly hurt a girl who could be committed enough. All in all, I'm better left alone at the moment - until I get a life-changing experience or experience love at first sight again, I guess.

[merryhearted]

this is just to say

yucky braincrack.  feel free to ignore. 

There's this guy.  

I used to know him really well and also not at all.  It was that kind of thing.  We dated and we didn't and were friends and not-on-speaking-terms and we orbited each other with careful orchestration for years.  like, seven.  And this relationship sort of defined and informed my interactions with other guys in a lot of ways.  I can't exactly bring myself to regret it, but there is a decent argument for serious regrets.  

In any event, several years back, we had a falling out.  Actually, we had an I-have-come-to-the-realization-that-we-are-100%-toxic-to-each-other-and-should-never-speak fight in which I read off of a list all of the reasons I  didn't want to know him (most true, a few calculated to really stick in his craw), then hung up and cried for a few days.  But it did work.  It totally broke our nasty cycle of fight, stop speaking to each other, start talking, fall in like, come to the inevitable conclusion that one of us (we took turns) is a huge jerk, repeat.  So, I felt guilty about saying things that I knew would cut deeply, but overall good about making a healthy decision.  

Two months ago, he emails me.  Out. Of. Nowhere.  Said he'd seen my twitter account and what was up and how the heck was I? Gave me the highlights of his recent life and wasn't it funny how we weren't friends anymore?  Told me that he couldn't even remember why we'd stopped talking.  I was half pissed and half incredulous.  (disclosure: one of the major points of contention between us had always been his pot use which meant that, among other things, he frequently had no recollection of whole days).  So it's possible that he really doesn't know why we fought.  Either way, it has been a little maddening for me.  

We have since exchanged a few emails (mine brief and impersonal, his rambling and weird.  He keeps calling me 'lady dude' ??)  And I am proud of myself.  I have managed to keep a handle on this.  I haven't conjured up one of the guys I used to imagine him growing up to be and fantasized about our future.  I haven't romanticized his -isms or invented smart, alluring subtext.  Finally, it seems, there's enough distance between myself and that whole debacle for me to see clearly.  To keep a cool head.  To actually know what I want and recognize when it's not there.  So, naturally, I'm a wee bit conflicted.  Almost mourning the fact that this time there isn't anything to mourn.  At last, I have stopped waiting for him to change or for me to be enough and instead of celebrating personal growth, I'm grieving for all the possibilities I used to believe in.  And I'm going through all of the things I wrote when I was waiting.  Some of it is not half-bad.  Silver Lining.

Summing up my night Life:

"If there was a movie about you it would be called I Am Overthinking This" 

My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares

[wishdog]

My Best Purchases in 2010

There were no Roku or Tivo or 360s this year. So things that I blew my allowance (yes, I get one) on aren't as epic.

May 25th - Casio G-Shock DW290-1V. This is the basic tank model, made since the early 1990s. I've had all kinds of watches that set themselves based off the US time thing in Denver, or they do whatever, etc. But the G-Shock lasts. And a watch I don't have to even think about is the best watch.

July 23rd - NZXT M59 computer case, Sentry II fan controller, Raidmax Power Supply. There's more that was bought to rebuild my computer into the machine it is today. But these three are the core. The Evercool Buffalo and the stupid little northbridge heatsink and fan do deserve a mention.

October 23rd - iPod Touch and GoGroove Move speaker frame dock thing. This is my first Apple product as it's the first one that there's really no competition in that field. The speaker frame is something I use every night so my iPod can charge and it can function as a normal alarm clock.

October 29th - Hipstamatic and Infinicam apps for the iPod.

November 6th - Sleepcycle Alarm app (click that link, it's cool). I use this every night. It makes graphs of my sleep patterns and, something I've always wanted to do, tracks how long I sleep each night. From this I've determined I am undead. (it can also function w/o the alarm for waking up late when possible)

November 30th - Sims 3 Ambitions app. Didn't play this nearly as much as I eventually will. My sim never recovered from her initial bad habit of kicking over the garbage can of anyone, friend or otherwise. Of massive, massive note is that the other Sims on iPhone can't speed up time. I cannot deal with that.

December 16th - iBomber Defense app. No game since Project No.3 or any of the Ratchet & Clank games has me replaying it more. This is a great, simple tower defense game set in WWII, which really doesn't fit my MO, but it's great. I still play this.

December 20th - Mirror's Edge app. Great game, too short. I got it on sale for 99 cents, normally $6 or something. Oh, and those who compare it to Canabalt are out of their mind.