#but as an adult who can think critically and evaluate things outside of 'magic is fun!'?

[cassiefisherdrake]

every single piece of news about that fucking H*rry P*tt€r games makes me hate it more and more, I am so tired of hearing about this stupid game.

[yourlifefun]

20 Best Secrets to Strip Fat Everywhere

Find out the way to melt fat from even the foremost stubborn trouble spots on your body.

Whether you're disgusted your beer gut or can't lose your cankles, we all have trouble spots we wish we could reduce. Unfortunately, you cannot specifically target fat loss in precise locations in your body. Its simple science: Everyone's body is different, and a few individuals are genetically predisposed to lose (and gain) weight in certain areas of their body compared to others.

But you'll reduce overall, and as you're doing so, your body will lose inches everywhere. You’ll also target specific muscle groups through exercise. This can not only tone and firm your body, but it'll also assist you to build leaner, fat-burning muscle.

  20. Eat three square meals every day

Although some diet experts swear by smaller, frequent meals throughout the day, sticking to the fundamentals might just be what's best for blasting away belly fat. A study published within the journal Hepatology found that eating in between meals increased abdominal fat. The researchers suggest three square meals every day would be better for your waistline.

  19. Ditch diet soda

Think a sugar-free and calorie-free beverage is additionally good for your waistline? Re-evaluate. Consistent with a study published within the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, drinking diet soda was linked to weight gain and a rise in waist sizes. One theory is that the synthetic sweeteners in diet drinks trick your metabolism into thinking its ingesting sugar and spiking insulin, which stores in your body as belly fat.

18. Stop stressing

If you're balancing your career, family, social life, which never-ending to-do list, stress is inevitable. But an excessive amount of stress can cause how bigger gut. When you're stressed, your body releases the strain hormone cortisol. Cortisol is critical to managing important bodily functions like sign and fluid balance. But if you have an excessive amount of it, studies have shown your body finishes up storing it in your midsection. Although stress is some things that are difficult to tackle head-on, confirm you evaluate the foremost stressors in your life and seek therapy if necessary.

  17. Try a HIIT workout

HIIT, which stands for high-intensity interval training, is that the recent new because of computing, consistent with fitness enthusiasts. And thus the benefits are worthwhile. Not only do I reap the advantages of high-intensity workouts during a brief er period of a short time, but it also can help blast belly fat. Greek researchers studied exercisers who performed intervals for 20 minutes and another group that ran for 20 minutes straight on the treadmill. After eight weeks, the group who did intervals ended up losing two inches of belly fat, while the treadmill group lost but one inch. Although strength training and cardio are both keys to a successful fitness plan, confirm you're incorporating intervals, too.

  16. Fill up on fiber

Fiber is slow to digest, so it helps keep you fuller, longer. Loading abreast of this important nutrient will help keep you feeling satiated and assist you to kick those food cravings to the curb. Fewer empty calories mean less back fat. Load on whole grains, beans, and nuts for a much-needed fiber boost.

  15. Work your lats

While you cannot magically get fat to reduce from your back through some exercise, you'll target the often-ignored latissimus dorsi muscles, or "lats," to assist you to lean out. Your lats are located around your middle back and fasten to your spinal column. Target them with lat pull-downs: once you sit at the pull-down machine, grab the wide bar overhead in conjunction alongside your palms facing forward, ensuring that your hands are placed at a wider distance than your shoulders. Stick your chest out, exhale, then pull the bar down until it reaches your upper chest. Hold briefly then raise the bar copy slowly. Confirm you're feeling your back muscles, and have enough resistance so it's tough but not impossible (if you are feeling it in your forearms quite your back, inform see your form).

  14. Lay off the sugar

One of the quickest ways to pile on fat, including on your back, is with sugar. Sugar is in everything and is detrimental to your health beyond the empty calories. Sugar causes weight gain quicker than other calories because it spikes your blood glucose and causes your insulin to extend, leading your body to store more fat. Abandoning sugar will cause quite a health benefits, less hunger, increased energy, and losing inches, especially in your back and belly.

  13. Do push-ups

Although people typically think push-ups are mostly for your chest, they also help strengthen back muscles and support your spine, helping torch back fat within the tactic. To undertake to an accurate push-up, lie on rock bottom face down in conjunction alongside your hands at your sides, just outside your shoulders, and your feet hip-width apart. Raise your hips, thighs, and chest off rock bottom so your weight is supported by your toes and palms. This is often the starting position. Exhale as you straighten your arms and push your body up until your arms are straight. Decide to keep your head, hips, and ankles aligned as if your body could even be a straight plank. After a quick pause at absolutely the simplest, inhale as you lower yourself down. Repeat for ten repetitions.

  12. Avoid booze

One way to spice up overall weight loss, which can reduce your face, is to urge off on the empty calories from booze. Jim White, RD, ACSM HFS, owner of Jim White Fitness and Nutrition Studios, recommends curtailing on alcohol if you're looking to reduce. Although he usually lets his clients have 150 calories of whatever they need a day, which might be a glass of wine or a light-weight beer, any longer is often a slippery slope to weight gain. Plus, alcohol is dehydrating, which causes your face to bloat and appearance puffy. Try sticking to only one alcohol at a time, and ensure you chase it with a glass of water.

  11. Eat more carrots

If you're affected by saggy face skin and an unsightly "turkey neck," load on carrots. The colorful orange veggie is chock-full of carotenoids, which prevent cell damage and premature skin aging by protecting the skin from free-radical damage. The less aging and wrinkles you've on your face, the thinner it'll look. Plus, carrots are crammed with vitamins and antioxidants, which may combat inflammation.

  10. Get more vitamin C

For a brighter, thinner complexion, load on vitamin C. Research published within the Journal of the American College of Nutrition found that folks who have adequate vitamin C levels oxidize more fat during exercise than those with low vitamin C, meaning you will get more fat-burning effects out of your workouts. Vitamin C also brightens your skin tone and may help fade the looks of dark spots and other blemishes. Load on fruits and veggies like oranges, grapefruit, kiwi, spinach, kale, and bell peppers for this essential vitamin.

  9. Lay off the salt

If you're keen on dousing your meals in salt, it is time to place the shaker down. A Spanish study published within the journal Nutrition Hospitalaria found that sodium intake may promote weight gain. Plus, an excessive amount of salt can cause your body to retain water, leading to face bloat and puffy eyes. Albeit you're doing not use salt that always, sodium lurks in many processed food in large amounts, so inform read your labels.

  8. Do more upper body workouts

"Focus on hitting upper body workouts 3 times hebdomadally," White says. He recommends doing a mixture of hammer curls, preacher curls, dips, dumbbell kickbacks, and tricep press downs. "To tone, these areas stick with 12-20 reps per set," he says.

  7. Stop eating after dinner

Doing all the arm exercises within the planet isn't getting to help if there's still a layer of fat covering your upper body. "The more body fat you lose, the more muscular tonus will pop," White says. He recommends to chop down on eating after dinner the utmost amount as possible to spice up weight loss.

  6. Cut portion sizes

White also recommends curtailing on portion sizes to spice up weight loss. In one study of 329 overweight people, 40 percent of these who practiced portion control for 2 years lost 5 percent or more of their weight. Within the same study, folks that did not gain weight! Measuring out your food and sticking to proper servings will assist you crop on calories, and reduce overall, exposing those toned and fire arms.

  5. Get more vitamin D

If you tend to know the weight in your arms and have a troublesome time building muscle, you'll have a T-type somatotype, meaning your body doesn't produce enough of the hormone testosterone. The thanks to boosting testosterone production are with vitamin D. Take 1000 IUs of a vitamin D supplement or eat more vitamin D-rich fish like salmon or sardines.

  4. Hit the load room for HIIT

Toning your legs takes time, White says, and it's going to take a quick time to work out any real progress. But an honest place to start out is within the load room. "In the load room consider high-intensity training. Super-set a mixture of squats, lunges, leg extensions/curls, and leg press," White says. "Since legs are how bigger muscle, consider 8-12 reps per set."

  3. Up your veggie intake

"Oftentimes, the layer of fat covering the leg muscles can blur the definition," White says. And more veggies could help burn fat; a study published within the journal Nutrition Research found that overweight adults in Brazil lost more weight once they ate more fruits and veggies. White recommends eating more fruits and vegetables to spice up overall weight loss, which can boost your toned legs. He says to aim for a minimum of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day.

  2. Take a spin class

Incorporating cycling into your workout routine are becoming to be a double-whammy for understanding your legs. The increased resistance and motion will work your leg muscles, and thus the moderate to the high intensity of the workout will help torch calories and boost weight-loss. Plus, many spinning classes contain intervals; a study published within the journal Obesity found that folks who performed high-intensity intermittent exercise experienced a rise in fat loss.

  1. Focus on lean protein

"The food you eat can positively or negatively affect the looks of your legs," White says. He recommends that consider lean protein, which may help build more fat-burning muscle. Protein has also been proven to assist people to feel full and reduce if you stick within the daily range (about 1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight). Some good sources of protein include chicken, fish, Greek yogurt, and nuts.

[homenum-revelio-hq]

Welcome to the Order of the Phoenix, Emmy!

You have been accepted for the role of SEVERUS SNAPE, along with the biography changes you have requested! I am so incredibly thrilled to have you as our Severus, and to have a Severus at the start of this roleplay. You brought his personality and his drive to life so clearly and I can’t wait to see you play his switch over to the Order! I am so excited to have you as part of this roleplay!

Please take a look at the new member checklist and send in your account within 24 hours! Thank you for joining the fight against Voldemort!

OUT OF CHARACTER:

NAME: Emmy

AGE: 25+ (Old)

TIMEZONE: EST

ACTIVITY LEVEL:  Variable, but available for posts at least every week and on the dash likely every day.

ANYTHING ELSE: I don’t like clowns

CHARACTER DETAILS:

NAME: Severus Snape

AGE: 21

GENDER, PRONOUNS, and SEXUALITY: Masculine, He/Him, Greysexual

BLOOD STATUS: Half-Blood

HOUSE ALUMNI:  Slytherin

ANY CHANGES: A small/large change on the bio

The bio talks about how Severus views James has having ruined his life and Lily betraying him by dating him, but if he truly did see James as still looming so large in his life, he would have gone out of his way to have killed James already. Severus hates him, obviously, but it doesn’t rise to blaming him. That would both be saying his current life is ruined, and be denying Lily the power of her own choices. Severus and Lily were separated by his screwup – and he doesn’t feel entitled to Lily afterwards. He never felt entitled to her; Severus didn’t feel worthy enough, and was too afraid of losing her, to feel entitled, to have that sort of arrogant self-assurance. He still loves her, but there isn’t that possession. He wants to protect her, and earn back her trust and friendship and he does not like her choice of Potter, and it hurts but at the same time, why wouldn’t Lily date Potter? He’s handsome (please read with a dismissive sneer), rich, a Pureblood, which means something, and has that charming manner he uses to convince so many he’s not an absolute asshole and bully; he hates and resent Potter because of all his successes, which means acknowledging them. Only makes sense that Lily would acknowledge them too – and she always did want to see the best in people. On his own, James Potter has very little ongoing impact on Severus’s life and motivations. It is only because he’s involved with Lily, and that involvement endangers her, that Severus gives him any thought in the present.

CHARACTER BACKGROUND:

PERSONALITY:

‘Friendly’ is not a term anyone would ever apply to Severus Snape: more likely terms are ‘acerbic’ and ‘abrasive’. Even with the few friends he has, he is extremely guarded, relying on his sharply honed dry wit as a form of defense, as well as his more harshly violent reactions. He is a man who knows the world as an unforgiving place of hurt and judgement, and that is how he behaves in response to it. Naturally a pessimist, only one person has ever given him hope that perhaps he was wrong and things could be different. Respect and power are the things he knows is a guard against that harsh world; knowledge is how Severus sees his pathway to those two things. Ambition combined with natural genius and skill leave him far ahead and beyond most of his classmates, to the point where the majority of classes he took in Hogwarts bored him. His seeking out of darker magic is rooted in these two things: as something new for him to learn, to challenge himself with, and for the simple desire to know it. Knowledge alone can never be dark; ignorance is the true darkness. No, ‘evil’ magic is as evil as the person wielding it. That so many refuse to see that, want to suppress and silence swaths of magic because they are frightened or, perhaps worse, judgemental of it, appalls him. The people Severus trusts is a small number; it is something rarely extends to even his few friends. Failed again and again by the adults in his life who were supposed to take care of him, starting with his parents and continuing to his teachers and then the professors at Hogwarts, he’s developed a wariness of others, especially those in authority, and a disinclination to accept help from anyone. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, he has a sense of loyalty towards his fellow Slytherins; they accepted him. That doesn’t give them a pass from his critical nature, or excuse them from his high and demanding standards. Severus had never truly believed blood gave anyone an entitlement to magic; having magic made you special, different, better, and that was the simple end of it. Plenty of people who had it certainly didn’t deserve it – that perhaps the reverse was true is a thought he tries not to linger on. He has too much resentment and anger for the Muggle world to want it to be true, anyway. His practical alignment with the Purebloods involved with bloodism started merely because they were the people who took him in; certainly their influence over the years has made him question and re-evaluate his stances, but there was never a full hearted agreement with them. Not that it ever seemed to matter; they were the ones with the influence, the power he craved. And now it’s clear that they are the ones who are going to win. He cares too much about his ongoing survival to let his uncertainties about anything show – especially not this. Lily is, always has been, and always be the exception to most things in his life. But not how closely guarded he is; no one knows the extent of her ongoing importance to him. Perhaps some closest to him might know enough of the past to tease him about his prior misguided association with the mudblood, but how many others would really think much of that odd pairing that fell apart, or give it any significance. No, to the outside world, Lily means very little to Severus now. He prefers it that way.

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF FAMILY:

Eileen Prince has always viewed herself as a tragic romantic; underappreciated, destined for more, at the center of a story more sweeping and doomed than anyone could fathom, with a vividly private fantasy life. . She has also always been selfish and spoiled and stubbornly refuses to see anything except through the lense of her sense of gothicly romantic drama. Going against everything her family stood for and seeing a Muggle man, even after the heavy threat of disownment? How just like a novel! Especially when Tobias Snape was the swarthy, Byronic man of her dreams. With an ardency that would have surprised her schoolmates, who always found her a sourly straightforward dullard, Eileen threw herself into a relationship with little regard for the practicalities. The romantic bliss landed long enough for Eileen to become pregnant, but not much longer. The cramped, dingy terraced house lost its allure as Eileen failed to be capable of any of the things Tobias might have expected her to do, left home alone during the long hours of his shifts at the factory. Or at least unwilling to do them, so used to a life of house elves taking care of such grungy practicalities as dishes and scrubbing floors and changing linens. A task not made easier by the constant, pervasive soot from the nearby factory. Severus was born into this atmosphere of growing discontent and resentment and, in the normal way of babies, failed to make anything easier. Arguments became more common, and Tobias took to spending more time out at the pubs to avoid the wife who was perpetually disappointed in him, only stumbling home drunk early in the morning to more recriminations and disgust. Thus Severus grew up in this atmosphere of self-fueling misery, anger and Eileen’s stubborn refusal to take any responsibility. She could have, after all, swallowed her pride and returned to the family willing to take her back (at least until she finally and definitely alienated them), bringing her son with her to give him a much better environment. But that would have reduced her ability to cast herself as the tragic victim, the downtrodden, corrupted vision of her childhood dreams. Instead she fed Severus a steady diet of fantasies and stories of what should have been his birthright, if not for the stultifying, suppressing influence of this dreadful Muggle world.

OCCUPATION:

Potioneer and Magical Researcher: Severus works in a potion shop in Diagon Alley; he started merely stocking shelves of ingredients, but when the owner discovered his brilliance with brewing, he was moved to the back workshop, where he makes the ready made potions the store sells. It suits him fine; less interaction with customers. What he considers his real occupation, though, and what his income as a potioneer funds, is his magical research. His fascination with spellmaking didn’t end with his time at Hogwarts, and while he has yet to get any of his work published in the theoretical journals, he is refining his studies and working towards that goal.

ROLE WITHIN THE ORDER/THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ORDER: 

He’s only here for one person. He thinks the Order is doomed; aside from them being fractured in purpose and goal, the surviving people in it are mostly morons. Severus’s only purpose here is to keep Lily safe and convince her to get out before it’s too late. If that means betraying everyone and everything else around him – so be it.

SURVIVAL: 

Severus Snape has survived purely on his own merits. Being on the winning side isn’t without its dangers, after all. He is cautious and guarded even with his fellow Death Eaters. His inner thoughts are hidden from Voldemort himself. He has always operated on caring for himself first – well, second. It is not for nothing that he is a snake; cunning, willing to use people, ambitious for his own goals.

RELATIONSHIPS:

Severus has been functioning as a follow of Voldemort since essentially the late days of his schooling, and will only be coming into the Order in a plot drop as he turns traitor against the Death Eaters; he largely doesn’t have any standing relationship with the majority of the Order Members in play. His general opinion of them as a collective is, as stated before, that they’re a bunch of idiots clinging to a lost cause. His relationship with them going forward is bound to be tense. Below are some stances on past relationships and connections. James Potter has lived a live totally opposite to Severus’s: born to parents who loved him and could provide him everything he could ever want, he is also well liked, with a charming manner paired with a handsome face that earns the admiration and respect of seemingly everyone he meets. The bloody bastard has it so easy and doesn’t even realize it. Of course, that lone Severus could have ignored – it was the boy’s relentless need to rub it in his face how much more he had then Severus all through school that earned James his lasting loathing. Despite that, though, Severus wouldn’t care about the man now, aside from one thing: he’s dating Lily. An association Severus is certain is the only reason Lily is involved in the Order, endangering herself with that doomed cause. Idiot Potter. Only an idiot like Sirius Black would willfully ignore all advantages he was born to, and flaunt how he threw it all away. A stable family, the advantages of wealth, the respect of society simply because he was born Pure. Even worse than his mate Potter, Black seemed perpetually determined to mock Severus for not having what he was born into. Severus would have liked to forget him, but there is the constant awareness that given a chance, Black would kill him without hesitation. He’s done it before, as well, and with less fuel for twisted motivation. Plus, Severus has further first hand experience with how unhinged the Blacks as a whole can be. Frankly, he wouldn’t classify Black as anything above a loose canon, dangerous to everyone around him. He doubts he would have enough sense of mind to be a spy, but knowing that others suspect the man brings him a gleeful sort of joy. Severus’s childhood memories of Lily are the things most dear to him – and the most closely guarded thoughts in his mind. Losing her friendship, and the trust, respect, and love that came with it, is the single most devastating event in his life to date. And yet, at the time, it came with a finality, a definite end. They were taking separate paths, and all he could do was wish her well. Only now she isn’t well. This war is a mess, he’s fighting for things he doesn’t really believe in, keeps glimpsing her on the other side, so close to death and destruction, and he can’t bear it. So, fine. If it means swallowing his pride, giving up those bitter prizes he’s earned in a life without her, and getting repeatedly kicked by those idiots in the Order for having the audacity to point out their obvious flaws, he’ll do it to keep Lily safe.

OOC EXPLORATION:

SHIPS/ANTI-SHIPS: 

Largely, Severus has bigger issues to be concerned with than romance. This is a war, after all. But hey, this is a war and shit happens. He’s not going to cross any student/teacher lines, but that shouldn’t be an issue in this game.

WHAT PRIVILEGES AND BIASES DOES YOUR CHARACTER HAVE? 

Severus’s biggest privilege is being accepted among the people who are winning. They trust him, all the way to the top. Of course, his participation in the Death Eaters is still illegal, but for how much longer? It’s only a matter of time before they’re completely in control. Severus’s driving bias is and always will be Lily. What he considers necessary to her well being will come first – even if it goes against what she wants. His own survival comes next, as an extension of necessity for protecting Lily. He is deeply capable of holding grudges, and does, against the people who hurt him. The few people who have genuinely helped him (primarily the Malfoys) have earned his respect, consideration, honest friendship, and his willingness to go out of his way to help them as long as it doesn’t interfere with his primary motivations (the survival of Lily and himself).

WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO?

The exploration of the shades of ‘Good’. The differing, even conflicting motivations of this group of people we, growing up with the stories and perceptions of the ‘Good Guy Order’, tend to metagame out or flatten. Getting back to this being a vigilante group of deeply flawed people in a society of not always acknowledged biases, and the deep realness of that