#the-silverstarling

[benchtrio-updates]

Why does tubbo get capped at 3 hours per day for the hardcore smp?

Because Tommy thinks it's funny. That's it. Well, and he's scared Tubbo might get overpowered if left to his own devices in a new SMP for upwards of six hours.

- passive

[jellilyy]

I love your dream smp michael watercolors!! They're super cute and I love the art style 😍

thank you! :--] 

[missmentelle]

Why does the military has such huge incentives to get married early? How did you see those situations affect veteran mental health?

It’s a relic from a bygone era. Way back in the day, when women were still overwhelmingly homemakers and stay-at-home mothers, a family could be left destitute if the breadwinning husband died or became disabled. That made the army kind of a hard sell for married men; if you knew that your death would mean your wife and kids going hungry, you’re not going to sign up for a job that involves getting shot at, especially when you can get a much safer job for similar pay. Moving around constantly is also a greater hardship when you have a spouse and children. A single person can throw their stuff into some boxes and hit the road, but a person with a family has to uproot their spouse, pull the kids out of school, make the kids say goodbye to their friends, etc. Again, that made the army a hard sell for married men. 

Having married men avoid the army was a big problem several decades ago, when people tended to get married very young, in their late teens and early twenties. Without married or engaged men signing up, you’d have a hard time meeting your recruitment goals. So in order to attract married men to the army - and prevent single men from leaving the army once they got married - the army had to pile on additional perks and benefits to make up for the added hardships. If you knew that you were going to be able to provide your family with housing, income and excellent health insurance, even if you died, that makes the army a considerably more attractive option. These benefits were never intended to incentivize early marriages to people you barely know - they were intended to make joining the army an attractive option for men who were already married, and to account for the fact that married men used to have increased costs without a second income to help them get by. The army changes at the speed of continental drift, and so those pro-marriage structures remain, even though it is no longer common to marry at the age most people join the army, and even though two-income households are considerably more common. 

The big mental health impact that I saw from this came from the fact that rushed, young marriages that were hurried along by money tend to be bad marriages, and being in a bad marriage is terrible for your mental health. The whole situation is a melting pot of stress that almost seems designed to ruin someone’s mental health. Although there are obviously exceptions, young marriages have terrible odds of lasting; getting married young is one of the biggest predictors of divorce. Your brain and personality are not even close to set when you are in your late teens and early 20s; most people change dramatically between the age of 18 and when their brain starts to settle down in their late 20s/early 30s. People who marry before that point in their lives have to contend with the fact that they are a rapidly-changing person, married to another rapidly-changing person, and that the two of you might not change in ways that are compatible with each other. 

On top of that, many army recruits truly do not fully understand what they are getting into when they join the military; the underestimate the horrors that they will see, and the impact of being away from friends and family so long. So you end up with young, inexperienced servicepeople trying to cope with trauma that they can’t fully talk about, turning to their equally young and inexperienced spouse for emotional support, while both people are trying to deal with the stresses of a long-distance relationship, being away from friends and family, loneliness, boredom, natural changes in their personalities and priorities, low income, and, possibly, trying to raise children while one parent is overwhelmingly absent. Are there people who successfully manage it? Absolutely. Are there a lot of people who absolutely cannot manage it? You bet. And so you end up with a lot of young, traumatized and possibly disabled people coming out of the army in their mid-20s, with no idea how to navigate the civilian world, few applicable life skills (the army is real big on pushups but not real big on job interview skills, and the real world is kind of the opposite), possible long-term health problems, and to top it all off, a failing marriage or impending divorce. Again, some people absolutely can and do navigate or avoid these stressors, but there are an awful lot of people who don’t. Many people are confused to learn that combat soldiers actually have a lower suicide rate than soldiers who never saw combat, but it makes sense - combat exposure is just one small piece of the veteran suicide crisis puzzle. 

[ravenclaw-headcanons]

I just realized- if boggarts like dark spaces like closets and gaps beneath beds they’re the reason muggles are scared of the dark and closets at night and the monster under the bed. I wonder if boggarts terrorize muggles also or just wizards

[dramiones]

 albus dumbledore. | for @the-silverstarling

“ of course this is happening inside your head, harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? ”

[nandalorian]

Great question! Sometimes it's easier to tell than others. A lot of movie and TV wigs are outstanding--think Game of Thrones. But the giveaways are when someone's hairline looks just a bit too full at the front, or the part is too severe and/or perfect, or again, looks just slightly too full, or their overall hair is just very dense. Most people have sparse or uneven hairlines that are hard to fake, even with an excellent lace-front wig. (And this goes, too, for people with naturally thick hair. The hairline is always the thinnest part, and the part of your hair will always look a little thinner along the edges, rather than going from a knife-straight part to boom, dense hair.)

Of course, the biggest giveaway is if the shape of the person's head at the back or top looks not quite right, although that's often hidden in post through the wonders of movie magic. But I’ve worn many a wig in my day and can recognize one when I see it!

The two most common and effective methods of installing a wig or hairpiece are either to glue it down and use makeup to hide the lace, or set the wig slightly behind the natural hairline so the front is the person's actual hair. From there you line up the part of your hair with that of the wig, then use makeup or temporary colour to match the wig. The method all depends on what kind of hairstyle it is, or if it's a closeup shot, etc. Hair without a part automatically has to be glued down in front, for instance, because there’s nothing you can blend it with to make it look natural, and no part to line up.

In TWS you can see they used both methods on Scarlett:

The wig is behind her natural hairline here. The front of her hair is slightly lighter in colour (because she’s naturally blonde, and they coloured the front bits of her hair copper) and less dense, and you can see the line where the wig is darker and fuller. It also looks really full toward the back of the crown where most people’s hair tends to naturally lie more flat unless they’ve backcombed the shit out of it.

In this picture you can see the slight line of the lace at the hairline, if you look closely. I’m certain they glued the wig down here because her hair matches more uniformly in colour, and it looks more dense at the hairline than in the first picture.

For comparison, here’s Scarlett’s natural hairline:

It’s more uneven and has some sparse areas, not because she’s losing hair, but because people just don’t tend to have the hairline a wig creates. Especially people who use a lot of styling tools on their hair--mechanical damage can often thin the hair in front, or leave more baby hairs.

But the most telling giveaway is in the BTS shots, like this one.

The colour and shape of it just don’t look natural at all, especially at the back. It’s too full and kind of sticks out farther than the line of her skull because her natural hair is stuffed underneath, creating a bump. That is obviously a wig.

You can see it’s a wig in Ultron as well. Almost identical hairstyle to what she had in Avengers 1, above, but the hairline is totally different--too perfect, too uniformly dense where it should be uneven and wispy in places. She was pregnant here, so it makes sense that she wouldn’t be dyeing her hair.

For what it’s worth, I think it’s totally reasonable for Scarlett to have switched to wearing wigs for her MCU films. Red is a bitch to get out of blonde hair (I speak from experience), and I wouldn’t want to deal with having to bleach it out four times after every film. That’s hard on the hair.

And another thing: if you thought Chris Evans wasn’t wearing a frontal (wig) in Infinity War... think again. Cap’s mad flow was more unnatural than the CGI they did for Proxima Midnight. It suited him, but Chris Evans does NOT have that hairline. Girlfriend only wishes she did.

Even when he’s wearing a similar longer hairstyle, you can see his hairline comes to more of a gentle point and is slightly more sparse. Men’s hair especially tends to do this more as they age, going thinner at the temples first and creating a more pronounced shape at the front of the hair.

The H&MU team almost nailed it, but not quite (and they nailed it on some days more than others, because his hairline changes in the movie, going from natural looking at times, with that gentle peak, to too-straight and fake). It also shortens his forehead a little. Not that he’s got a fivehead, but it’s not that small, and his hair isn’t as thick at the temples like in the photo below:

They gave him a fake beard for reshoots too, but that’s another post entirely.

They done you dirty there, Chris.

Anyway, hope that answered your question and gave you some insight! There are some really fantastic YouTube videos out there about applying lace-front wigs to make them look more natural. It’s a fascinating process and some people are mind-blowingly good at it. I am not one of those people. The first time I met @formerlyfebricant I got loudly called out by a drag queen for wearing a wig (I was going through a tough hair transition period, okay), and it haunts me to this day. She literally called me Wig all night in front of a packed bar. And that's the story of how I know about what gives away a bad hairpiece.

[wandlores]

What do you love about leta lestrange?

I love how complex and real she is. I find her character and background incredibly intriguing. She shows that you can be a good person or become a good person after your mistakes. Good people make mistakes, and simple mistakes can change your life. Her past really shows that. She clearly loves with her whole heart. She sacrifices everything for those she is loyal to. She spends her whole life trying to make-up for what she did wrong. I just admire that, and I love that she isn’t perfect. Perfect characters are honestly boring, in my opinion. Her flaws are what make her amazing. 

Also, I think she is AMAZING Slytherin rep to show that not all Slytherins are bad like people try and say. She shows so many of the positive sides that come along with Slytherin traits. 

[captainevans]

What are your favorite steve Rogers/Chris Evans tumblrs? I’m looking for more to follow

i got you! 💖

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@captainsamerica, @spacenerdevans, @hasan-minhaj, @forchrisevans, @stevn-rogers, @msmarvel, @misskamala, @chrisheavans, @blackwidow, @jensenackesl, @chriseivans, @evanss-chris, @crboston, @stars-bean, @marvelouschrises, @hotmessfassy, @andialmostdo, @stevensrogers, @thewintersoldiers, @nochillrogers, and @heartfulloffandoms all either post a lot of him or are content creators themselves.