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[luisamariatraumer]

.... And here we go again

Honestly I don´t know if I liked it or not! .... whatever

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[vertigoartgore]

Neon Genesis Evangelion's Eva - 01 by artist Dike Ruan (2020).

[maliciousalice]

You guys ever have revelations?

[definegodliness]

In other news, yesterday night I watched Princess Mononoke, which was my first Studio Ghibli movie, and those two hours plus flew by breathlessly. It ticked all the fantasy boxes in me. As in, prior to me watching it, if you would have visited my favourite dreamscapes there's a big chance that film would play. In aesthetics as well as subject matter/inner conflicts. Perfect. I've been innerly gushing about it all day today. Which raises the question:

How do I recover from this?

[andy-clutterbuck]

Men's Fitness | 2014

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[sugarpasteltmnt]

I've been asking myself this over and over and over again til finally got the courage to ask...

So your name is sugar, pastel... sugarpastel?? I'm sorry if this has already been asked or you said it before and I missed it ><

WHOOPSIEDOODLE i just now realized i never put anything in my description box-- sorry about that!

I prefer Pastel, but sugar is okay! also i use she/her pronouns ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

but i will also answer to early 2000's dude slang names. Dude. Bro. Broseph. My Guy. (etc) LOL

[asiaphotostudio]

Nanning, 1995 Nanning, Guangxi, China. 中国 広西 南寧市 西郷塘区 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

[morettevan]

[sofiadragon]

A Note on Severus Snape as a Teacher

In Order of the Phoenix, Snape makes his O.W.L. warning speech the first day and says he expects the class to maintain his high-pass level. This implies that he has better statistics than previous professors, or perhaps he is comparing to equivalent tests at the other European magic schools. He makes other comments to this effect and nobody contradicts him. Harry takes the fact that Umbridge doesn't go after Snape so much as being because they are both horrible people, but he clearly hates her just as much as the rest of the staff and it seems she's scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get something to hold against him. If he had poor statistics, an auditor type like that would have been all over it. Either way, the implication is that despite being an absolute trash fire of a person and tearing down student confidence as a hobby, he's managing to actually teach potions well.

I read so many fanfics that imply or directly state that the reason Harry isn't doing well in potions is because Snape is bad at the job: He never learned basic prep skills, Snape only shoots recipes up on the board and doesn't explain, all his lessons are practical with no lectures. I submit that this isn't the case. Never was, as we do hear about lectures even if the books aren't great at giving us any kind of sensible timetable. Harry is distracted in Potions by the hostile environment, and that is Snape's fault, but the curriculum as presented isn't the problem. It's the fact that the class is with the Slytherin students, and that Snape makes a lot of ad-hominem attacks instead of telling Harry or Neville exactly what went wrong. Harry, because he is the living embodiment of all Snape's trauma just walking around giving the man flashbacks. Neville, because Snape gave up on him rather quickly. That's bad, flat out, and he even grades Harry unfairly... but Harry is still learning the material.

In Half-Blood Prince, we can even see that if Harry could learn from a version of Snape who wasn't hostile to him for some reason, he'd do fantastically well. Unfortunately, nobody told Snape to go talk to a therapist after the war, and frankly with how he treats Harry's Gryffindor class that should have been made a requirement for keeping his job. Handle your trauma, do not give it to a new generation of kids.

This is not an excuse for the way he acts as a bully, but Harry being 'bad' at potions isn't because Snape isn't presenting the material to him correctly. When acting like a teacher instead of like a bully, Snape is clearly very good at his job. He puts his everything into it, and can have the high bar of only accepting O students into his N.E.W.T. classes because he has enough students getting Os that the school board never had to call him out for not having enough students in the class.

Finally, Harry isn't bad at potions! This is before grade inflation, look that up if you aren't familiar or have a very different school system to the UK. Getting a top-level grade in any class was HUGE. The tests are hard enough the average person would not know all the answers. I took a science exam in the 90's and placed 4th in my state. I'd gotten 2 questions completely wrong (I'll never forget the differences between types of clouds again) and it was better than the thousands of high-school kids who took the test, except for the one person who got 1 partly wrong and 2 people who got 1 question wrong. Nobody, and I mean nobody, got a perfect score that year. That's what these tests used to look like. Hermione is a BEAST. Harry and even Ron are doing great! Straight Cs (or As in the HP world) used be fine. Average, even, and you could graduate with Ds even if you might not want any potential employer knowing about that if it was relevant.

[ssaalexblake]

every day recently (and understandably) i see comments about the radicalisation of teenage boys but honestly, ask Little girls how the boys treat them. Not teenagers, little girls.

You will not like what you find out.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre

[greenheartart]

Ink!

[cadencewishes]

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[vertigoartgore]

Star Wars Galaxy 4, Young Obi-Wan Kenobi & Baby Princess Leia (1995). Art by Kevin Nowlan.

Han P (Comic Art Fans) : This Kevin Nowlan painting titled "A Child of Destiny" was originally commissioned by Topps for their Star Wars Galaxy trading card series back in the mid 1990's. It was most likely intended for the Star Wars Galaxy III series (1995). After more than a decade later in 2009, Topps brought SW Galaxy back with series IV and this art became part of the "Lost Galaxy" subset featuring artworks that were previously rejected by Lucasfilm for various reasons. 

Here's Nowlan's quote from his website post dated July 31, 2009 about this art: "The card was published recently, years after it was rejected for content. I picked it from a list of subjects supplied by Topps and (I would assume) approved by Lucasfilm. But after I did the painting, they rejected it because Lucas was about to start the new movies and didn't want anyone dealing with material that he was going to cover in the prequels. Glad they finally changed their minds."