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ninjabobanekokyrie · 5 years ago

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Osomatsu-San; Some People feel the rain(Others just get wet) Chapter 1-Todomatsu

Summary; 'Close' wasn't the first thing that came to mind when Todomatsu thought about his relationships with his older brothers.

Osomatsu was a shitty eldest, Karamatsu was painful, Choromatsu was boring, Ichimatsu was a creep, Jyushimatsu was annoying and then there was him, the stupid youngest.

But as much as his brothers pissed him off, he truly did love them. And that included painful Karamatsu.

Which was why when he looked on his phone one day and saw his history was full of suicide methods after Karamatsu recently borrowed it, his non-existent heart almost stopped beating right then and there.

WARNING: Mentions of self-harm, depression, etc.

Chapter under the cut!

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'Close' was not the first thing that came to mind when Todomatsu thought about his relationships with his older brothers.

It certainly wasn't the first thing that came to the minds of his brothers themselves. Or even his friends whom noted that whenever they were out together, when they would see one, a few or all of Totty's brothers Todomatsu would shove his friends roughly in the other direction.

He couldn't stand the idea of being near his brothers in public. He had to do that at home.

And for him, that was enough.

The feeling was mutual as far as he knew. His brothers didn't really have much of an inetrest of being close with him either.

He was fine with that.

Todomatsu supposed he had an okay relationship with Osomatsu. His eldest brother was such an ass and shithead most of the time, but he had his sweet moments. And even though those were rare, he tried to make the most of them when they did come around. In fact he had been spending quite a bit of free time with Oso lately. Maybe it was because he'd been less of an ass lately for some reason or the other.

He never spent too much time with Choromatsu, but whenever he did it was always nice and he wasn't as much of an ass as Osomatsu was.

His encounters with Ichimatsu were uncomfortable and awkward, but he supposed they had their good days.

Jyushimatsu annoyed him, but he was one of the few older brothers Totty could stand and after all, Totty was his one and only baby brother. The time Jyushi didn't spend hanging with Ichimatsu or playing baseball, which was pretty frequently, he spent one on one time with Totty. Todomatsu had to admit, he enjoyed the bonding with him.

Karamatsu was painful.

Osomatsu wasn't the only one who got broken ribs or headaches or stomachaches from his painful acts. He always flinched whenever his second eldest brother talked in his painful English or did one of his weird, dramatic poses.

He used to be closer with Karamatsu than he was with Osomatsu. Growing up and back in High School before things got all weird and uncomfortable.

Even though things were far better now, he still couldn't stand being around his painful brother.

Like Osomatsu and his other brothers, he had his moments with Karamatsu. But those were even more rare than the ones with his other older brothers.

And that truly was saying something.

Karamatsu had been distant lately with Todomatsu and their brothers. It was weird.

He wouldn't walk into the room, making a dramatic entrance with a hearty "Hello my wonderful Bruzzahs~!" Or randomly throw his arms around one of them or just start chatting about shitty, painful nonsense.

Again, it was odd. However despite how odd it was, Todomatsu didn't mind. He sort of enjoyed the silence.

After all, it wasn't his problem.

So here he was now in the living room, lying on his stomach with one cheek in his hand as he scrolled through pictures of different things on his phone.

He was the only one in there as of right now.

It was so peaceful--

Suddenly, the door to the living room slid open.

"Totty! My precious, wonderful baby brother~!"

Todomatsu groaned at the familiar painful voice.

So much for peaceful.

"What do you want, Karamatsu-niisan?" He huffed, puffing out his cheeks as he heard his older brother approaching and looked up at him scornfully as he stood in front of him.

Karamatsu merely laughed, placing his hands on his hips. "Isn't it a lovely day outside, brother? I could bask for hours in the lovely sunshine--"

"Stop." Todomatsu cut him off impatiently. He wasn't in the mood for his painful speeches. "What do you want?" He repeated.

Kara laughed somewhat nervously, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. "It seems you caught me, brother. I was just wondering if I could use your phone for a little bit? There are a few things I would like to look up, and--"

"I'm going out in a half-hour." Todomatsu cut him off again coldly, glancing at the clock before back at his brother with a perplexed expression. "What do you need my phone for this time, Karamatsu-niisan? I already told all of you that I didn't like seeing pictures of breast all over my phone the last time one of you used it."

Kara turned red slightly at the mention and he thought back to Osomatsu's dopey look when he confessed. Shameless, shitty eldest brother.

Karamatsu chuckled, adjusting his glasses and did one of his poses. "Non non brother, I have no interest in looking up that sort of thing. There are just a few questions that I would like answered, and your phone always provides the information that I need."

Todomatsu chewed the inside of his cheek, staring at him for another minute before rolling his eyes.

"Ugh. Fine, Karamatsu-niisan." He stood and shoved his phone rather roughly into the second eldest's chest, causing Kara to fumble as he clumsily caught it. "Have it back to me before I leave. And don't go looking up any weird shit."

"I wouldn't dream of it, brother!" Karamatsu said in his painful English with a big grin and struck another pose, causing Todomatsu to flinch.

"Whatever. Don't make me come hunt you down." Totty said as he moved past him to exit the room. "Oh, and Karamatsu-niisan?"

"Yes, Totty?"

"Stop being so painful." He bit out in annoyance.

"O-Of course. My apologies, Bruzzah."

Todomatsu failed to notice the drop of Kara's smile as he shut the door behind him.

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"Tot-ty~!"

Said Matsu looked up from the magazine he was reading while lying on the ground to give an annoyed look at his eldest brother who was on the couch.

"What is it, Osomatsu-niisan?" He sighed, disinterested.

Osomatsu grinned, patting an empty spot next to him. "Onii-Chan had a long day, come snuggle with me~!"

Todomatsu rolled his eyes. "It's eleven a.m., Nii-San, it's barely noon. Second, go snuggle with Ichimatsu-Niisan or Jyushimatsu-Niisan they're a lot better than me. And since when do you take naps this early?"

Osomatsu frowned and groaned. "Totty, you're starting to sound like Choro-Chan...he never wants to snuggle with me."

"Maybe if you didn't annoy him so much, he would here and there. He's not a physical person, Osomatsu-niisan." Todomatsu suggested, raising a brow.

"But your Onii-Chan needs snuggles so he knows he's loved! C'mon Totty, please~?" Osomatsu begged eagerly, smile reappearing.

Todomatsu sighed, glancing at the clock. "Osomatsu-niisan, I have to leave in 40 minutes."

"It'll be a short nap then. I'll try to wake up early so you're not late. Pleeeeaaaase? Totty, pleeeaseeee?"

The youngest huffed, shutting his magazine. "Alright, Osomatsu-niisan. I'm coming."

Since when did he let himself get manipulated so easily by his older brothers?

Osomatsu grinned in triumph and laid down, pulling his youngest brother into a laying down position on top of him and pulled him close to his chest.

Todomatsu grunted in discomfort. "I'm only doing this so you stop your whining."

"And Onii-Chan loves you for that, Totty," Osomatsu chuckled, nuzzling his face in his hair as he rested his chin on top of the youngest's head.

Todomatsu only snorted as he shifted slightly before laying still, blushing in slight embarrassment. It was pretty rare for Osomatsu to announce that he loved any of his younger brothers. Perhaps this was one of his sweet moments.

Even so, he was still a shitty eldest.

They laid there for a few minutes, Todomatsu staring at random corners of the room as Osomatsu began to drift off to sleep.

"Ne, Nii-San?" He found himself asking after a few minutes.

"Mmm?" Osomatsu hummed sleepily, popping one eye open. "What?"

"Has Karamatsu-Niisan acted...weird at all to you?" He asked quietly. "Like, I dunno, distant or something?"

"Karamachu?" Oso yawned, stretching out some. "Mm...a little, I guess? He hasn't said anything painful lately, but shouldn't we consider that lucky?" He let out a small laugh, waving a hand nonchalantly. "I'm sure Karamachu will go back to being the same old painful Karamachu soon enough."

"Yeah..." Todomatsu mumbled, assuring himself that whatever weird feelings he was having were nothing. "You're right."

"G'night, Totty." Osomatsu yawned again. "You sound like you're tired too, so get some rest. Onii-Chan will wake you up in a little bit."

Totty chewed his lip uncertainly before nodding. "'Kay."

The last thing he felt before drifting off into slumber was the even rise and fall of Osomatsu's chest, and the rattling feeling of something being seriously wrong.

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isidar-mithrim · 5 years ago

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Muggle clothing in the Wizarding World

Hello everybody!

This week I happened to read this post on tumblr about how the Marauders should have really looked considering they lived in the 70s, and that made me think a lot about if/how much Muggle clothing influenced wizards and witches, and I chatted about the topic also with several people on the Hinny discord (thanks for the help, guys! ^^)

I’m not a fashion expert so that won’t be the real prospective of my considerations: I just searched several key words about Muggle clothing in the seven books and drew some conclusions, and as such I got far from the main topic of that tumblr post, even if I’ll share few thoughts about that as well.

NA: I haven’t take into account TCC not the Fantastic Beast movie saga.

There will be some objective informations and some subjective considerations: please feel free to share your opinions and suggestions, to point out missing informations (I’ll forget something for sure!) or key words I should implement, to make additions etcetera ^^ I won’t mind in the least! Consider it an open conversation ;)

NA I didn’t address the topic of the Hogwarts uniform, unless it wasn’t strictly related to other considerations.

Ps: it’s a very long post but most of it are quotes! Nonetheless… brace yourself :P

Let’s start from few general informations/considerations:

“By and large, wizard clothing has remained outside of fashion, although small alterations have been made to such garments as dress robes. Standard wizard clothing comprises plain robes, worn with or without the traditional pointed hat, and will always be worn on such formal occasions as christenings, weddings and funerals. Women’s dresses tend to be long. Wizard clothing might be said to be frozen in time, harking back to the seventeenth century, when they went into hiding. Their nostalgic adherence to this old-fashioned form of dress may be seen as a clinging to old ways and old times; a matter of cultural pride.

Day to day, however, even those who detest Muggles wear a version of Muggle clothing, which is undeniably practical compared with robes. Anti-Muggles will often attempt to demonstrate their superiority by adopting a deliberately flamboyant, out-of-date or dandyish style in public.” [Pottermore]

EDIT: this is actually just an extract of a larger article (a quite amusing one, I may add!) that also thouches more about respecting the Muggle fashion of the time and children being more at ease in wearing Muggle stuff, you can find it here. I’ll quote the most inetresting bits in the conclusions ^^ Thanks @glisseowrites for the input!!

About that, there’s also an interesting thought I found in this beautiful one shot by keepcalmsmile:

“Since most wizards as a rule didn’t need to engage in manual labor, pants never became useful nor, by extension, fashionable.”

It’s a very interesting concept, imho, even if we have to consider that robes may not be the most comfortable clothe to ride a broom. It doesn’t appear as wizards and witches use brooms that much outside of Quidditch, though, so broom riding it’s probably not a good enough reason to implement trousers daily. (We’ll come back on the topic ‘wizards wearing trousers’.)

We should also point out that even in normal circumstances it seems wizards and witches aren’t that careful about wearing Muggle clothing.

“A tiny man in a violet top hat had bowed to him once while out shopping with Aunt Petunia and Dudley. After asking Harry furiously if he knew the man, Aunt Petunia had rushed them out of the shop without buying anything. A wild-looking old woman dressed all in green had waved merrily at him once on a bus. A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the street the other day and then walked away without a word.” [HP1]

Another important bit is this one:

“He [Harry] had rarely seen Mr. or Mrs. Weasley wearing anything that the Dursleys would call “normal.” Their children might do Muggle clothing during the holidays, but Mr. and Mrs. Weasley usually wore long robes in varying states of shabbiness.” [HP4]

We’ll see several proofs that the Weasley kids wears Muggle clothing during the summer (and on the Hogwarts Express).

Now, going deeper in the matter, these are the key words I looked for:

T-shirt, shirt, sweatshirt - Trousers - Jeans - Jacket & Coat – Sneakers & Trainers – Jumper & Sweater – Skirt (spoiler: there are none!) – Dress – Suit

I will make a general consideration about each, focusing on in what circumstances they are used.

I’ll copy the quotes from the books where I found them and some specific considerations (it’s up to you if read the all or not), but please be aware I have NOT included:

⁃ quotes about Harry wearing Muggle clothes when he’s not at Hogwarts or in formal wizard situations (basically, Bill’s wedding and the hiring) – so, I won’t include quotes about his clothes at home, at the Burrow, in the Hogwarts Express before changing

⁃ quotes about Muggles (like the Dursley)

⁃ quotes about sweaters, since we know Molly knitted them, and jumpers when the word was used to mention Weasley’s sweaters

⁃ quotes about dressing gown, nightshirt, nightdress, pajama and similar items (there’s an awful amount of mention of dressing gown!)

⁃ quotes very similar to a quote I’ve already shared (like, the Fat Lady wearing a pink dress)

⁃ multiple quotes from the same scene (if referred to the same piece of clothing)

I might repeat a quote if it mentions different piece of clothing (there’s a high chance I’ll forgot to do that, though XD)

Ps I wanted to put all the quote in Italic but I’m writing from my note app (where I have the automatic spell corrector, which unfortunately I really need) and I can’t do that here, and I don’t want to lose hours to do that on tumblr ^^’

T-SHIRT, SHIRT, SWEATSHIRT

These seems to be piece of clothing ‘adopted’ from the Muggles world, since they’re mostly used in informal situations (and with that I basically mean outside-Hogwarts situations).

On the other hand:

⁃ Tonks has a Weird Sisters T-shirt, so proper T-shirt were produced and sold in the Wizarding World as well. Unless Tonks made it on her own, without caring about copyright :P

⁃ Fudge uses a shirt while acting as Minister of Magic

⁃ Ron is mentioned to have an untucked shirt in a circumstance where he’s actually supposed to be wearing school robes.

⁃ Hagrid uses a shirt

⁃ James and Sirius wear a T-shirt emblazoned with a golden bird in the ‘prequel’ (the motorbike chase with the police)

All these details make me think that shirt were if not common at least embraced by the Wizarding population, so I’d presume they were sold in Wizarding shops as well, even if it’s not necessarily like that.

HP2

⁃ He and Ron had pulled off their sweaters, but Harry’s T-shirt was sticking to the back of his seat and his glasses kept sliding down to the end of his sweaty nose. [Notice that they’re not at Hogwarts]

HP3

⁃ Hagrid was sitting in his shirtsleeves at his scrubbed wooden table; his boarhound, Fang, had his head in Hagrid's lap

⁃ Harry took off his black school robes, removed his wand from his pocket, and stuck it inside the T-shirt he was going to wear under his Quidditch robes. [Harry is using a T-shirt at Hogwarts, but it seems like an extra misure he adopted to keep the wand close, and anyway he wears it under his Quidditch robes]

HP4

⁃ Charlie had a large rip in his shirt, and Percy was sporting a bloody nose. [Notice that this is set during the World Cup, where they were supposed to dress as Muggle]

HP5

⁃ Tonks stood just behind him, her bright bubble-gum-pink hair gleaming in the sunlight filtering through the dirty glass station ceiling, wearing heavily patched jeans and a bright purple T-shirt bearing the legend the weird sisters.

⁃ Their trunks arrived from Hogwarts while they were eating lunch, so that they could dress as Muggles for the trip to St. Mungo’s. Everybody except Harry was riotously happy and talkative as they changed out of their robes into jeans and sweatshirts. [This is a confirmation that the Weasley kids used jeans and sweatshirt out of school too]

⁃ Harry going at the hiring: Mrs. Weasley had laid out his freshly laundered jeans and T-shirt at the foot of his bed. [This is how Harry is going to dress for the hiring]

⁃ “Well, Minerva,” said Fudge nastily, straightening his torn shirtsleeve, “I’m afraid this is the end of your friend Dumbledore.”

⁃ Weasley, your shirt’s untucked, so I’ll have another five for that. . . [This is one of the very rare case when we see students wearing supposedly Muggle clothing at Hogwarts, but they’ve actually just left Herbology class, so they theoretically they were wearing their school robes!]

HP6

⁃ “Blimey, no,” said Hagrid, wiping his streaming eyes on the bottom of his shirt. [Hagrid wearing a shirt again]

HP7

General consideration: the trio seems to be wearing Muggle clothes all the time.

⁃ Harry watched, horrified, as she tore open Ron’s shirt.

⁃ she placed it [the horcrux] around her own neck and tucked it out of sight down the front of her shirt.

⁃ His black hair was overlong and his clothes were so mismatched that it looked deliberate: too short jeans, a shabby, overlarge coat that might have belonged to a grown man, an odd smocklike shirt. [Snape in Spinner End, dressed as Muggle]

EXTRA

⁃ Both were dressed in T-shirts emblazoned with a large golden bird [James and Sirius in the ‘prequel’]

TROUSERS

There are few mentions of ‘normal’ trousers in the books, but they seems to be both Muggle and Wizarding clothing. As for the shirts, so, I’d assumed you can find this piece of clothing in the Wizarding world as well, even if they’re not that common and not all kind of Muggle trousers are used. Again, we see Hagrid and Fudge using trousers (as they used shirts).

Also the troll and Grawp have trousers.

There’s also an additional consideration to make: it’s at least plausible that wizards and witches wear trousers (or not robes, at least) when they’re wearing a sweater (but we’ll see later it doesn’t happen very often in a wizarding environment).

HP1

⁃ �� He wiped it on the troll's trousers.

⁃ Hagrid was sitting in an armchair outside his house; his trousers and sleeves were rolled up, and he was shelling peas into a large bowl.

⁃ Fudge took off his pinstriped cloak and tossed it aside, then hitched up the trousers of his bottle-green suit and sat down opposite Harry. [Fudge has a cloak, so he’s dressed as a Wizard, but has a suit beneath it.]

HP4

⁃ One of them was a very old wizard who was wearing a long flowery nightgown. The other was clearly a Ministry wizard; he was holding out a pair of pinstriped trousers and almost crying with exasperation. // “Just put them on, Archie, there’s a good chap. You can’t walk around like that, the Muggle at the gate’s already getting suspicious —” [At the World Cup]

HP5

⁃ “It was my father’s,” said Sirius, throwing the ring into the sack. “Kreacher wasn’t quite as devoted to him as to my mother, but I still caught him snogging a pair of my father’s old trousers last week.” [So, a proud Pureblood used trousers too]

⁃ Mr. Weasley was not wearing wizard’s robes but a pair of pinstriped trousers and an old bomber jacket. [Mr Weasley going to the hiring dressed as a Muggle – the pinstriped trousers are mentioned again as ‘Muggle’]*

⁃ Next to Tonks was Lupin, his face pale, his hair graying, a long and threadbare overcoat covering a shabby jumper and trousers. [This is outside the platform, so presumably in a Muggle attire]**

HP6

⁃ dressed in a jacket and trousers each the size of a small marquee, was the giant Grawp,

*“No, I usually Apparate,” said Mr. Weasley, “but obviously you can’t, and I think it’s best we arrive in a thoroughly non-magical fashion . . . makes a better impression, given what you’re being disciplined for. . . .”

**At the front of the group stood Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, dressed in their Muggle best

JEANS

Jeans seems to be a piece of clothing used exclusively in ‘outside-Hogwarts’ and Muggle situations, with a single exception (as far as I found out). Harry is the one to use them the most, but presumably also all the Weasleys (I’d guess Molly excluded) seem to have a pair, as does Tonks.

HP4

⁃ He [Arthur] was wearing what appeared to be a golfing sweater and a very old pair of jeans, slightly too big for him and held up with a thick leather belt. // “What d’you think?” he asked anxiously. “We’re supposed to go incognito — do I look like a Muggle, Harry?” [Getting ready for the World Cup]

⁃ “Accio! Accio! Accio!” she shouted, and toffees zoomed from all sorts of unlikely places, including the lining of George’s jacket and the turn-ups of Fred’s jeans. [heading to the World Cup]

⁃ He slipped down from the bunk and reached for his clothes, but Mr. Weasley, who had pulled on his jeans over his own pajamas [World Cup]

HP5

⁃ Harry noticed that Ron kept moving his prefect’s badge around, first placing it on his bedside table, then putting it into his jeans pocket, then taking it out and laying it on his folded robes, as though to see the effect of the red on the black. [Ron packing for Hogwarts – he’s going to wear jeans on the Hogwarts Express]

⁃ Mrs. Weasley had laid out his freshly laundered jeans and T-shirt at the foot of his bed. [Again, Harry going to the hiring]

HP6

⁃ It took Harry a few moments to realize what McLaggen was talking about. // “Oh . . . right . . . Quidditch,” he said, putting his wand back into the belt of his jeans and running a hand wearily through his hair. “Yeah . . . he might not make it.” [This is the only time jeans are mentioned while the boys are at Hogwarts! – For context, it’s the evening and Harry is in the Gryffindor common room]

HP7

Notice that the book where jeans are mentioned the most (not counting when Harry’s wearing them) is the one where the trio doesn’t go to Hogwarts. Notice also that Hermione is never mentioned to wear jeans.

⁃ “Yes, they’re here,” said Hermione, and to Harry and Ron’s utter astonishment, she pulled out a pair of jeans, a sweatshirt, some maroon socks, and finally the silvery Invisibility Cloak. [Notice that Hermione doesn’t need new clothes – she is presumably dressed with a Muggle dress for the wedding, but we’ll come back to that]

⁃ Ron bounded off the bed and got there first. One arm around Hermione, he fished in his jeans pocket

⁃ “D-diffindo,” she said, pointing her wand at Ron, who roared in pain as she slashed open the knee of his jeans, leaving a deep cut.

⁃ “It’s no wonder I can’t get it out, Hermione, you packed my old jeans, they’re tight.” [Ron has had at least another pair before this one]

⁃ Ron glared at her, then pulled a small silver object from his jeans pocket.

⁃ “Serves him right,” said Ron, examining his torn jeans and the cuts to his leg.

JACKET & COAT

This is a piece of clothing mentioned quite often, and jacket are available in the Wizarding World as well (for example, Fred and George buy dragon leather jackets).

Notice, though, that jackets and coats are never mentioned to be worn by students while at Hogwarts. However, Hagrid (who seems to use a jacket/coat regularly), Grawp, Slughorn and Flich do (but of course they don’t wear school robes).

HP1

⁃ Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat gray rat, which was asleep.

⁃ Wiping his streaming eyes on his jacket sleeve, Hagrid swung himself onto the motorcycle.

⁃ “Neville, you can look!" Ron said. Neville had been sobbing into Hagrid's jacket for the last five minutes.

⁃ pulling off their wizard robes and putting on jackets and coats; pulling into platform nine and three-quarters at King's Cross Station.

⁃ A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the street the other day and then walked away without a word.

⁃ From an inside pocket of his black overcoat he pulled a slightly squashed box [Hagrid – many mentions of his coat in all the books. It’s moleskin]

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HP2

⁃ He [Ron] dropped his books into the cauldron, too, and started toward Malfoy, but Harry and Hermione grabbed the back of his jacket.

⁃ After a quick half a dozen bacon sandwiches each, they pulled on their coats and Mrs. Weasley took a flowerpot off the kitchen mantel- piece and peered inside.

HP3

⁃ Filch, the caretaker, who had taken off his usual brown coat and was wearing a very old and rather moldy- looking tailcoat. [Filch dressing up for Christmas]

⁃ Fudge consulted the large gold pocket watch dangling from his waistcoat. [Again, Fudge seems to dress differently than most wizards]

HP4

Jackets are mentioned several times during the World Cup.

⁃ “Accio! Accio! Accio!” she shouted, and toffees zoomed from all sorts of unlikely places, including the lining of George’s jacket and the turn-ups of Fred’s jeans.

⁃ He slipped down from the bunk and reached for his clothes, but Mr. Weasley, who had pulled on his jeans over his own pajamas, said, “No time, Harry — just grab a jacket and get outside — quickly!”

⁃ Harry dug in the pockets of his jacket for his own wand — but it wasn’t there. The only thing he could find was his Omnioculars. // “Harry, come on, move!” Hermione had seized the collar of his jacket and was tugging him backward.

⁃ Up at the staff table, Filch, the caretaker, was adding chairs. He was wearing his moldy old tailcoat in honor of the occasion. [Again, Filch is dressing up for Durmstrang and Beauxbatons]

HP5

⁃ Mr. Weasley was not wearing wizard’s robes but a pair of pinstriped trousers and an old bomber jacket. [Again, going to the hiring dressed as a Muggle]

⁃ “I came on the Knight Bus,” said Hermione airily, pulling off her jacket before Harry had time to speak.

⁃ After a hurried breakfast they pulled on jackets and scarves against the chilly gray January morning. Harry had an unpleasant constricted sensation in his chest; he did not want to say goodbye to Sirius.

⁃ …unshaven man in a tattered over- coat materialized right in front of them. [Mundungus – it’s mentioned more than once]

⁃ Harry was relieved to hear her say this; his hands were growing numb on the Firebolt’s handle. He wished he had thought to put on a coat; he was starting to shiver.

⁃ Professor McGonagall, looking very odd in a Muggle dress and coat, though she also seemed too busy to linger.

⁃ Her eyes traveled over Hagrid’s discolored and swollen face; dragon blood dripped gently onto his waistcoat in the silence.

⁃ They all followed her up the escalator, Moody clunking along at the back of the group, his bowler tilted low and one gnarled hand stuck in between the buttons of his coat, clutching his wand.

⁃ Rita blotted the front of her grubby raincoat, still staring at Hermione.

⁃ Next to Tonks was Lupin, his face pale, his hair graying, a long and threadbare overcoat covering a shabby jumper and trousers. [At the platform, to greet Harry]

⁃ Fred and George, who were both wearing brand-new jackets in some lurid green, scaly material. [At the platform, to greet Harry]**

HP6

⁃ “The Minister of Magic only reveals him- or herself to the Muggle Prime Minister of the day,” said Fudge, poking his wand back inside his jacket.

⁃ The wandlight sparkled on his shiny pate, his prominent eyes, his enormous, silver, walruslike mustache, and the highly polished buttons on the maroon velvet jacket he was wearing over a pair of lilac silk pajamas. [Slughorn description]

⁃ Slughorn was wearing a tasseled velvet hat to match his smoking jacket.

⁃ dressed in a jacket and trousers each the size of a small marquee, was the giant Grawp,

⁃ Dumbledore drew his wand from an inside pocket of his suit jacket, pointed it at the shabby wardrobe in the corner, and gave the wand a casual flick. [Dumbledore in the pensive at Tom’s orphanage]

⁃ “I didn’t put it in!” said Harry, grinning broadly. He slipped his hand inside his jacket pocket and drew out the tiny bottle that Hermione had seen in his hand that morning. [This is the one time a student is mentioned wearing a jacket at Hogwarts – this is after the Quidditch match]

⁃ Fred and George, who were wearing jackets of black dragon skin.

⁃ Harry knew this must be Ogden; he was the only person in sight, and he was also wearing the strange assortment of clothes so often chosen by inexperienced wizards trying to look like Muggles: in this case, a frock coat and spats over a striped one-piece bathing costume. [mentioned several times]

HP7

⁃ Slughorn stood up, his bald head gleaming in the candlelight, his big waistcoated belly casting the table below into shadow [mentioned several times]

⁃ said Dedalus, pulling an immense pocket watch out of his waistcoat and examining it.

⁃ The beaded bag containing all of their possessions (…) was tucked into an inside pocket of Hermione’s buttoned-up coat.

⁃ Luna, who was huddled in one of Fleur’s coats,

⁃ Draco Malfoy was standing there with his wife and son, a dark coat but- toned up to his throat.

**they have dragon jackets, as Moody has his cloak, but “At the front of the group stood Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, dressed in their Muggle best”

SNEAKERS & TRAINERS

Among the wizard (beside Harry) only Ron is mentioned to have them. They both used them at Hogwarts too.

HP1

⁃ Ron's were a bit short for him, you could see his sneakers underneath them.

⁃ Drenched and sputtering, Ron staggered sideways into Harry, just as a second water bomb dropped — narrowly missing Hermione, it burst at Harry’s feet, sending a wave of cold water over his sneakers into his socks. // “Says who?” said Harry, taking off his sneakers and emptying them of water.

HP5

⁃ Harry pulled some crumpled robes out of the very bottom of his trunk to make way for folded ones and, as he did so, noticed a badly wrapped package lying in a corner of it. He could not think what it was doing there. He bent down, pulled it out from underneath his trainers, and examined it.

HP6

⁃ “I thought so,” he said jubilantly. “I heard Goyle’s trunk hit you. And I thought I saw something white flash through the air after Zabini came back. . . .” // His eyes lingered for a moment upon Harry’s trainers. [Harry on the Hogwarts Express]

⁃ “I expect your trainers are too small, Won-Won,” said a voice behind them, and Hermione stalked past, smirking.

⁃ He [Harry] skidded around the corner, his trainers slippery with blood; Snape had an immense head start.

HP7

⁃ “And that one,” she pointed at an ancient sneaker, “should have been Dad and Fred’s, they were supposed to be second.

JUMPER & SWEATER

It seems to be a Wizard things as well since Molly made several of them. I’ve only included quotes where someone is actually wearing a sweater in a ‘magical’ environments (and I didn’t include Dobby). Only once Harry is actually said to having worn the sweater at Hogwarts, and during the Christmas morning.

HP1

⁃ Fred and George were wearing blue sweaters, one with a large yellow F on it, the other a G. [It’s unclear if they’re wearing them on they’re pajamas, they went into Ron and Harry’s dorm very early]

HP2

⁃ He [Percy] was already dressed, his Hogwarts prefect badge pinned to his sweater vest. [?? Not sure what this is…]

⁃ Harry didn’t even care that Draco Malfoy was making loud, snide remarks about his new sweater from the Slytherin table. [That’s the only clear evidence that Harry wore a sweater at Hogwarts@]

HP3

⁃ Not a quote: Harry and Ron unwrap their sweater, but it’s never said if they also wore it (Hermione comes in with Crookshanks)

HP4

⁃ Not a quote: again, Harry and Ron unwrap their sweater, but it’s never said if they also wore it

HP5

⁃ Lupin, his face pale, his hair graying, a long and threadbare overcoat covering a shabby jumper and trousers.

HP6

⁃ Everybody was wearing new sweaters when they all sat down for Christmas lunch, everyone except Fleur [At the Burrow]

⁃ By the time they had got dressed, padding themselves out with several of Mrs. Weasley’s hand-knitted sweaters and carrying cloaks, scarves, and gloves, Ron’s shock had subsided and he had decided that Harry’s new spell was highly amusing; [the trio going at Hogsmeade]

HP7

The trio is mentioned to wear sweaters several times

SKIRT

There’s only one mention, but it doesn’t seem like it’s a proper skirt – just the bottom of a robe.

⁃ “Urgh,” said Hermione, holding up the skirts of her robe to avoid the puddles of sick. [Hermione as Mafalda before entering in the Minister to detail the Horcrux]

DRESS

This is a very generic word, and it’s not always clear if a ‘dress’ is a ‘dress robe’ (and also wizards uses them, not only witches – they are the formal wear I’d say) or a ‘normal dress’ (as the one we would wear). Notice that it’s very plausible that ‘normal dresses’ are sold in the Wizarding World as well. The only time ti’s specified that a dress is a ‘Muggle dress’ it’s when Harry saw MgGonagall wearing one for and Order mission.

We should highlight that, as mentioned before, “Women’s dresses tend to be long.” [Pottermore]

HP1

⁃ At the very end of the corridor hung a portrait of a very fat woman in a pink silk dress. [Since it’s made of silk, it seems likely it’s a normal dress]

HP3

⁃ Snape stumbled; he was wearing a long, lace-trimmed dress and a towering hat topped with a moth-eaten vulture, and he was swinging a huge crimson handbag. [Snape dressed as Augusta: since she’s a very old witch, I’d assume that’s a dress robe. but being lace-trimmed it could be a normal dress as well]

⁃ It was Professor Trelawney, gliding toward them as though on wheels. She had put on a green sequined dress in honor of the occasion, making her look more than ever like a glittering, oversized dragonfly. [Again, the material may suggest it’s a ‘normal dress’]

HP5

⁃ he also caught sight of his Transfiguration teacher, Professor McGonagall, looking very odd in a Muggle dress and coat [I think that’s the only time it’s actually specified!]

⁃ a formidable-looking old witch wearing a long green dress [Again, Augusta wearing a non better defined ‘dress’]

HP6

⁃ I think we’d better do Madam Malkin’s first, Hermione wants new dress robes, and Ron’s showing much too much ankle in his school robes

⁃ they heard a familiar voice issuing from behind a rack of dress robes in spangled green and blue. [Draco Malfoy buying dress robes]

⁃ a girl whose ragged gray dress [Merope – would she use Muggle dress with such a father…?]

⁃ Lavender that took in everything from precisely what Ron had said about her new dress robes

⁃ Everybody was wearing their dress robes and no one seemed very hungry. [Before Dumbledore’s funeral]

HP7

⁃ his dress robes felt hot and tight in the full glare of a summer’s day. [Harry at the wedding – all the men are wearing dress robes, and Fred complains about it]

⁃ She was wearing a floaty, lilac-colored dress with matching high heels; [Hermione at the wedding – since she’s using heels and later on after the attach in London she doesn’t take clothes for herself from the bag, I’d say it’s a Muggle dress]

⁃ Fleur was wearing a very simple white dresses and seemed to be emitting a strong, silvery glow [I’d assume it’s a normal dresses]

⁃ Ginny and Gabrielle, both wearing golden dresses, looked even prettier than usual [as above]

⁃ Harry and Ron joined a number of oddly dressed men descending into what appeared to be an ordinary underground public toilet, tiled in grimy black and white. [sneaking in the Ministry]

SUIT

Again, we have a few wizards using them: Fudge, Hagrid, Filch, Tom Riddle/Voldemort

HP2

⁃ The stranger had rumpled gray hair and an anxious expression, and was wearing a strange mixture of clothes: a pinstriped suit, a scarlet tie, a long black cloak, and pointed purple boots. Under his arm he carried a lime-green bowler. [Fudge]

HP3

⁃ Fudge took off his pinstriped cloak and tossed it aside, then hitched up the trousers of his bottle-green suit and sat down opposite Harry.

⁃ Mr. Weasley marched Harry across the short stretch of pavement toward the first of two old-fashioned dark green cars, each of which was driven by a furtive-looking wizard wearing a suit of emerald velvet.

⁃ Averting his eyes from this unpleasant sight, Harry saw a gigantic, hairy brown suit and a very horrible yellow-and-orange tie hanging from the top of Hagrid's wardrobe door. [Hagrid wearing is horrible brown hairy ’best suit’, mentioned more than once]

HP4

⁃ Both were dressed as Muggles, though very inexpertly: The man with the watch wore a tweed suit with thigh-length galoshes; his colleague, a kilt and a poncho. [World Cup]

⁃ Barty Crouch was a stiff, upright, el- derly man, dressed in an impeccably crisp suit and tie. [World Cup]

⁃ A harassed-looking wizard was holding his small daughter tightly by the ankle while she flapped around his head using the immensely large, feathery wings that had sprouted right out the back of her romper suit. [Saint Mungo’s]

HP6

⁃ The house-elf returned within minutes, followed by a tall young man Harry had no difficulty whatsoever in recognizing as Voldemort. He was plainly dressed in a black suit; [Voldemort at Miss Hepzibah’s house]

⁃ This younger Albus Dumbledore’s long hair and beard were auburn. Having reached their side of the street, he strode off along the pavement, drawing many curious glances due to the flamboyantly cut suit of plum velvet that he was wearing. [Dumbledore going at the orphanage – mentioned more than once]

⁃ Madam Pince standing be- side Filch, she in a thick black veil that fell to her knees, he in an ancient black suit and tie reeking of mothballs.

EXTRA (for no real reasons :P)

HP2

A few of Gilderoy Lockhart’ robes:

⁃ Gilderoy Lockhart came slowly into view, seated at a table surrounded by large pictures of his own face, all winking and flashing dazzlingly white teeth at the crowd. The real Lockhart was wearing robes of forget-me-not blue that exactly matched his eyes; his pointed wizard’s hat was set at a jaunty angle on his wavy hair.

⁃ Several seats along, Harry saw Gilderoy Lockhart, dressed in robes of aquamarine.

⁃ Gilderoy Lockhart, however, was immaculate in sweeping robes of turquoise, his golden hair shining under a perfectly posi- tioned turquoise hat with gold trimming.

HP4

Rita Skeeter

⁃ This is Rita Skeeter,” he added, gesturing toward the witch in magenta robes.

HP5

Harry dressing up for his date: Harry had had very little time to spare on conversations with Cho since they had agreed to visit the village together, but suddenly found himself facing a Valentine’s Day spent entirely in her company. // On the morning of the fourteenth he dressed particularly carefully.

HP6

Luna for the Christmas party: She was wearing a set of spangled silver robes that were attracting a certain amount of giggles from the onlookers, but otherwise she looked quite nice.

Dumbledore funeral:

⁃ Everybody was wearing their dress robes and no one seemed very hungry.

⁃ Harry glimpsed Slughorn at the head of the Slytherin column, wearing magnificent, long, emerald green robes embroidered with silver. He had never seen Professor Sprout, Head of the Hufflepuffs, look- ing so clean; there was not a single patch on her hat, and when they reached the entrance hall, they found Madam Pince standing be- side Filch, she in a thick black veil that fell to her knees, he in an ancient black suit and tie reeking of mothballs.

CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

⁃ Hogwarts informal wear

Personally, at least until watching the movies I’ve always imagined the students wearing the school robes all the time, with whatever shoes they liked.

In general, I feel like until HP6 there aren’t clear evidence of the contrary beside the mention of Draco mocking Harry for his new sweater in HB2, so my first impression seems at least legit.

In HP6 we have Harry wearing jeans one evening and a jacket after a Quidditch match, and Ron wearing a shirt (but in a moment where he should have had school robes, so it would be legit to assume shirts were part of the uniform.). To be honest, I can’t help wondering if JKR had been partially influenced by the movies at that point, or if she’s always imagined it that way and didn’t specified.

It’s also possible that Harry never ‘registered’ these things because everybody dressed in jeans and T-shirt after the classes or on the Hogwarts Express, and that was totally normal for him.

Anyway, the lack of informations about other kids clothing beside the Weasley makes hard to imagine what the kids wear outside the school and – especially – what they wear in the informal moment at Hogwarts, if it’s indeed allowed to wear other things beside the uniform.

My guess would be that more open wizards and witches as the Weasleys wear also proper Muggle pieces, like jeans, but that more conservative wizards and witches as the Malfoys or the Blacks might prefer the usual robes to trousers, sweaters, jackets, shirts coming from the Wizarding World.

⁃ Did the Marauders embraced the fashion of the 70s?

Even if this was the topic that originated all my thoughts, I believe I haven’t grabbed any really useful information to help me understanding that.

Because, yes, we know the Weasleys kids used Muggle clothing, but that’s basically the extend of it. It’s not clear how many kids do the same (many, probably), it’s not clear if they bought these clothes in the Muggle world or in Wizarding shops, it’s not clear if they were fashionable clothes for their times (I assume that at least in partial they had to be, if they bought them in the Muggle world).

Personally, while I can imagine Sirius and Remus buying stuff in the Muggles world (for different reasons: the first out of spite/taste, the second because he’s mother is a Muggle), I have a harder time imagining James doing the same at least until he lived at home, if not to ‘emulate’ Sirius. And in general I’d say that probably only Sirius could have been really interested in being ‘cool’ in the Muggle way…

Still, we know they wore T-shirt in the little ‘prequel’ JKR wrote (while they’re clothes while they are in the Hogwarts Express with Lily and Severus aren’t described.)

Anyway, imho buying clothes from a Muggle shops doesn’t automatically means embracing the Muggle fashion of the time in other aspect, like the hair cut; I think that about that it’s also important to consider how the Marauders are presented in the narration: Harry doesn’t ‘register’ them as having odd hair or things like that – on the contrary, James has the same hair, for example, and I’d consider that as a clue that wizards didn’t necessarily follow the Muggle fashion of the time.

There’s also to say, though, that I’m biased on the matter, because I read the books for the first time when I was a kid, and as such I didn’t even know what the 70s were, so I’ve obviously imagined them as looking ‘contemporary’, despite the robes.

Actually, for a long while I’ve took for granted the HP saga in general was contemporary: I’m not sure when I found out it wasn’t the case. May be JKR did some statements about? I believe I knew it before reading James and Lily’s date of birth and death…

That’s to say that in general she probable hasn’t put that much attention in setting the story in a specific time/fashion: after all, I’m not sure it’s that likable, even for the very spoiled Dudley, that he had a personal computer in his room at least since 1991… But may be in Italy computers arrived later in the houses, who knows.

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Young vs Old wizard and witches

Last consideration!

Assuming that almost every kid wears Muggle clothes during the summer (or Hogwarts informal moments) as the Weasley do (which is quite likely, despite the lack of proofs), we still have to ponder if that’s:

⁃ a new thing, a sign of the progress of time in the Wizarding World, and as such those kids will kept wearing Muggle clothing in informal situation even when they’ll get older [so, the Marauders may have not do it – again, Sirius could have been the exception]

⁃ a constant that repeats itself in each generation, with kids wearing Muggle clothes when young but normally switching to robes when older (or when they start working, for example)

Personally I’d like to imagine it’s the first option, since I believe the Wizarding World should be more open about that ;)

EDIT 2: There’s actually a third option I had’t consider at the beginning: both statements could be true! So, we can imagine that while until the 90s only the kids were at ease with Muggle clothing, after the second Wizarding War vs Voldemort those who are kids/teens in the 90s will keep using Muggle clothing outside the office, at least from time to time ^^

EDIT1: “Younger generations have always tended to be better informed about Muggle culture in general; as children, they mingle freely with their Muggle counterparts; later, when they enter magical careers, it becomes more difficult to keep in touch with normal Muggle dress. Older witches and wizards are often hopelessly out of touch with how quickly fashions in the Muggle world change; having purchased a pair of psychedelic loon pants in their youth, they are indignant to be hauled up in front of the Wizengamot fifty years later for arousing widespread offence at a Muggle funeral.” [Pottermore]

So basically I was wrong about both LOL :P

Ok, I think I said it all, or at least I hope so ;) Thanks for getting that far!!

Again, feel free to share your thoughts!

#harry potter #muggle fashion #muggle clothing #wizarding world #wizarding fashion #essay #i know it's very long #I'll pretend it's because of the quotes #i'm very nerdy #and yet the soothing hat doesn't think I'm a Ravenclaw #which may be is a good thing #who knows #70s #marauders #wealsey #harry #jeans #robes

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cherriesonaversatile · 6 years ago

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“I’m sorry for walking out on you.” He holds the silence again. “I’m just... I’m not really inetrested in being gay-”

“You don’t necessarily have to be exclusively gay, you do realize that?” I ineterrupt, reminding of his fucked up thinking. I get angry slowly, as if regretting that I even fetched him, that I had allowed him in and the whole act in front of Jamie was perhaps to get some other gay guy to fuck his brains out, since that what he seems to be lacking in his fucking relationship.

“Like, I said... being gay-” I close my eyes and he continues. “I’m just... not interested.”

“Yet you still had sex with me.” I rant. “It’s not about orientation, I don’t give a shit what you identify as, you still had sex with a man, you do realize that, don’t you, Alex?”

I feel my voice being an inch away from getting properly raised.

“Maybe you’re right, maybe I should leave-” He states coldly, puting the mug which seemed to be in his hands until now. I feel my chin shake lightly and I keep my eyes closed and I open them to see him avoiding my gaze and as if speaking to the window, lie to himself.

“Yeah, have fun. Knock yourself out, fuck Jamie next. Since you seem to be very into sex between two men. Or maybe just fucking log in Grindr, you’ll have a bunch of guys down your pants once they hear that lie of yours. And maybe all of a sudden, you’re not so fucking straight now, are you?” I snap, digging my nails into my skin, as he just turns to look at me. Neither of us starts a fight even if it’s taste is vivid in the air like an old hallucination and resolution. Alex pushes me harshly on the floor and goes on top of me.

Fuck.

“Go on, tell me now you don’t want me.” Alex is pinning me down and I can feel him hard against me. Fucker. My hands are pinned down, so all I can do is raise my head and kiss him. He bites my lips back, moaning, defying himself as our tongues rub harshly against each other and he even bites too hard, as he lets go of my hands, travelling down to my belt.

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tumblunni · 6 years ago

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Okay my lets play is taking forever to upload, so have a link to the first episode of the anime! It’s available free on the official channel, which is great cos its been a fuckin nightmare tryin to find the rest of the series, lol.

I like how well they animated Whisper’s hammy nonsense, and wow this kid is kind of an asshole but i’ve gotta admire that. Sees a fuckin ghost, “give me a refund or get lost”. Nobody has ever wanted to be the protagonist less than this man, and that makes me happy cos i was feelin real salty about the male protag getting all the screentime in every adaptation ever. Also there’s straight up a scene of the female protag roasting him so Okay Yeah, Thank You. Tho it seems to be some sort of ‘she’s too cute and ditsy to know she insulted him’ kinda thing cos she’s supposed to be a love inetrest or something...? At least she probably won’t be a boring love interest!

Also SERIOUSLY

Whisper: *tutorial things* The Dude: ugh cant i just get the audiobook or something Whisper: HOW DARE you suggest i’d be so lazy- oops Mr Guy: YOU WERE READING THE WIKI THE ENTIRE TIME?!

Tho i am kinda peeved that the anime has a completely different theme song to the games and this one FUCKIN SUCKS. like holy shit mr music have you ever even HEARD of a genre? nothing has ever got me so Catchy’d and then Negative Catchy’d. ITS LIKE THREE SEPARATE SONGS WITH NO RHYTHM. Also what the fuck is with those awful generic fake rap song lyrics like excuse me how is the fart man the police. WHISPER DOES NOT GO CRACKA LACKA BOOM BOOM he doesnt even fight at all! but most importantly HOW IS THE FART MAN THE POLICE! but hey no time to dwell on that its time for sudden soulful sad ballads??? AND WHY WAS GERA GERA PO ESTABLISHED AS A CHORUS AND THEN NEVER REPEATED AGAIN im so confused

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Well At Least It Was Equally Terrible In Japanese

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for once a cheesy dub song is The Superior

#srsly wtf the japanese one sounds more 4kids than anything else

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gophrr · 8 years ago

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The Cancellation of Sense8

This website is getting lost in hysterics so let me outline the single biggest reason that Sense8 was cancelled:

THE SHOW WAS TOO EXPENSIVE TO MAKE.

The first season alone was $9 million per episode, or $108 million per season.

By comparison, House of Cards costs about $60 million per season, and each of the Marvel shows cost around $40 million per season. That means that one season of Sense8 is as expensive as 2 1/2 superhero shows (and the money for The Punisher has gotta come from somewhere).

If you’re gonna be spending $108 million on only 12 episodes of television, you had better have a large audience watching. For example, The Flash on The CW is estimated to cost at least $77 million a season, but that show not only has advertisers, it’s usually The CW’s #1 most-watched show. The CW justifies the spending because they know they’ll get a return on their investment.

The same isn’t true for Sense8.

Because of the trippy nature & mature content of the show, it would be impossible to air anywhere else besides HBO/Showtime or another streaming service - advertisers don’t exactly love orgies - so they don’t have the benefit of commercials. Game of Thrones is about as expensive, but it’s one of the most-watched shows on television that draws blockbusters audiences with every episode.

The same isn’t true for Sense8.

it’s just isn’t pulling the kind of audiences Netflix needs to continue spending that kind of money. They’re currently getting better returns on shows like Daredevil or House of Cards, which combined are still cheaper than Sense8. They pull in big audiences, and they’re easy to advertise to the mainstream.

The same isn’t true for Sense8.

How do you explain Sense8 easily?

How do you market such a high-concept, hyper-progressive, almost psychedelic X-rated sci-fi action/thriller story to the general public? It seems Netflix themselves couldn’t really answer that question either, so their marketing never reached the levels of other shows, like House of Cards running fake political ads or Daredevil being plastered on billboards & buildings.

Additionally, when you begin to inflate an already bloated budget due to last-minute additions to the script like locations like Brazil, you make for a very frustrated network.

Now, the showrunners could have negotiated for a truncated third & final season with a reduced budget to tie up loose ends, but right now it doesn’t appear that way. (To be honest, I’m not sure how much of a heads-up, if any, JMS & the Wachowskis were given about the cancellation)

It is inetresting to note that many of the same problems befell The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann’s musical drama/70′s period piece about the origins of hip-hop in New York, another well-made Netflix show praised for its inventiveness & diversity, that unfortunately was also too damn expensive for its own good: $120 million for the first season alone!

This is largely why middle-of-the-road shows like 13 Reasons Why are renewed: they’re inexpensive to make & they draw in easy crowds. I can’t currently find what the budget for the show was, but I can confidently guess that a modern high school drama set solely in America costs a fraction of what an international sci-fi adventure shot on location does.

With shows this expensive, it is absolutely vital that as many people watch them as possible, or else the network will begin to view them as excess fat that needs to be trimmed.

If you really love a show, tell literally every single person you know about it, especially for Netflix series - word of mouth is key to a show’s success.

#television #netflix #sense8 #the get down

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btglifestyle · 7 years ago

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So we got a first look trailer, the HBO hackers are threatening a Game of Thrones finale leak by the end of this week, the title of the finale was released (It is ‘The Dragon and the Wolf‘) and we know that the episode will be the longest in the series to date, with a run time of 89 minutes (1 hour 21 minutes).

Now on top of this, we’ve got a bunch of new photos from the upcoming episode! You can check them out below:

New Game of Thrones Finale Photos

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Game of Thrones Season 7 Finale – The Dragon and the Wolf

I reckon that not everything will go completely smoothly in King’s Landing. Someone’s going to screw up in some way, or one side will purposefully attack the other and we will see some bloodshed.

Meanwhile back at Winterfell, the younger Stark siblings seem divided, with Bran off being a robot, and Sansa and Arya at each other’s throats. But them eloquently passing that dagger around makes me think… Are they planning something special for Little Finger? Will these kids outplay one of the biggest and most intelligent players in the Game of Thrones since the start of the saga? We’ll just have to wait about 4 days to see!

It’s inetresting that we see no visuals of Daenerys or Euron in the promotional material (I mean we do see his ships, but that’s it). They have both featured quite dominantly in previous episodes of season 7, so their presence is definitely missed in these trailers and photos; which makes us even more suspicious that they will play an important role in the finale (at the very least Dany should since she is a key player).

Game of Thrones Finale Preview Trailer

In case you missed it, you can see the preview trailer for the finale of Game of Thrones Season 7 below, with the title ‘The Dragon and the Wolf’:

What are your overall thoughts on the season so far? What do you think will happen with all the major players left in the game meeting and discussing the approaching threat of the Night King and the White Walkers?

Follow BTG Lifestyle on Twitter @btglifestyle and LIKE us on Facebook. Subscribe to the BTG Lifestyle movie blog for updates, and email us at info [at] btglifestyle.com if you have feedback, or would like to collaborate with us.

#GameofThrones Season 7 - New Images from the Finale, #TheDragonandtheWolf So we got a first look trailer, the HBO hackers are threatening a Game of Thrones finale leak…

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Discovering Great Britain, I spent most of my time here wondering through the scenic City of Bath, Somerset County, England.

Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, west of London, England, or so Google says. I only rode the bus there. This city is a popular tourist destination because, as the name implies, the city is known for its hot springs and Roman-built baths. Yes, back in 60AD, Romans used to come from far and wide to soak and enjoy the hot springs.

Roman Bath (Source Wiki)

Roman Bath (Outside)

Avon River

Ferry on the Avon River

Roman Bath (Entrance)

Roman Bath (Outside)

Today, the city is an educational hub hosting two universities: the University of Bath and Bath Spa University, but more importantly, it’s rich history makes it a popular tourist destination, attracting over a million visitors every day, and like the Island of Goree, it is a World Heritage Site.

The city boasts over 100 restaurants and pubs, more than 300 hotels, bed and breakfast and numerous international fast-food brands like Waitrose, Costa, Sainsbury’s and ASDA. To facilitate sight-seeing, there are several “double decker” open top buses taking visitors on tours around the city, showing historical places, museums, theatres, and sports centres. To top it all, the Bath Market is popular for souvenirs, and the malls host international fashion brands and a bureau de change, making the city ideal for sightseeing, shopping and entertainment.

During my stay, my accommodations were in Melksham, a medium-sized English town about 16 km east of the city of Bath. I took the bus which cost about £6 and 40mins. On this note, I recommend that if you are visiting Bath on a budget, get a hotel in Chippenham, Trowbridge or Melksham. the cost-savings is worth it.

Tourists, mostly Asian and American, students from both Universities and the locals who live and own businesses there make Bath a very populated city. The streets are crowded with tourist during the day and buzzing with students and teenagers by night. To my dismay, there were hardly any Black Africans in Bath. After over five hours of wandering about, taking pictures and people-watching, I saw only two black families. It may even have been one black family who passed by me twice.

There are so many notable sites, too many to see them all. But first a history lesson!

War History Despite its relaxing springs and religious focus, Bath has a long history of war and violence. Having been the site of the Battle of Badon (c. AD 500), in which King Arthur is said to have defeated the Anglo-Saxons. During the English Civil War, the city also surrendered. Bath was again retaken during the Battle of Lansdowne on 5 July 1643.

More recently and most heartbreaking was the Bath Blitz in World War II. This refers to the air raids on the city by the German Airforce on the night of the 25 April 1942 during World War II. That weekend, Bath suffered three raids, from 80 Luftwaffe aircraft. Few citizens took cover, even when the first Pathfinder flares fell because they thought the aircrafts were headed for Bristol, which had been bombed daily for over four months.

The attack began at 11 pm on a Saturday night while most residents must have been sleeping, and lasted till 1.00 am. The German aircraft then left, refuelled, rearmed and returned at 4.35 am. Bath hadn’t even gotten its head around from the fire from the first raid before they were hit again. The third raid started early on Monday morning. It lasted only two hours but the damage was extensive. The bombers dropped high explosives and then sprayed the streets with machine-gun fire. A 500 kilogrammes high explosive bomb landed on the south side of Queen Square, resulting in houses on the south side being damaged.

Over one thousand residents were injured and 417 killed, many of which I believe were whole families and if you zoom in on the pictures below you can see the names.

Bath was shelled as part of the“Baedeker raids”, where targets were chosen for their cultural and historical value. Consequently, over 218 architectural monuments were destroyed.

The remains of this attack are still being uncovered till date. In 2016, a live 230 kg bomb was discovered under a playground in Bath. The bomb had been there for over 70 years.

Bath Abbey The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, popularly called Bath Abbey is a notable tourist building in Bath City Center founded in the 7th century. Standing 161 feet tall the abbey is crafted from Bath stone, with The West Front has sculptures of angels climbing to and from heaven on two stone ladders on each side. For some reason, I found the angel climbing downwards a bit creepy. You might be able to see it if you zoom in on the first image below. The building has been rebuilt twice, once in the 12th and again in the 16th centuries.

The Abbey has the grandest wooden door I have ever seen, adorned with carvings which include two guilds. I just love this door. I think I’m obsessed with doors and ceilings. I can’t get over the Silver door in Amber Fort. However, I found the side entrance even more interesting. the walls seem to be covered with eulogies to many different people who died ages ago. Frankly, I felt like I was standing on top of Maggy Pringle and John Ogle.

The Tower

The entrance

Massive wooden door

Silver Door in Amber fort, Jaipur

viewed from the South-East

Tower from Orange Grove

Inside the Abbey Entrance

On the north side of Bath Abbey stands my favourite piece; the Rebecca Fountain. A historic drinking fountain dating 156 years with the inscriptions “take the water of life freely” and “water is best”. The fountain is life-size woman pouring water from a jar into a large wide bowl. The fountain was to give people the option of water rather than alcohol. I just love that she’s been standing there for over a century offering water. Other tourists drank of the fountain, but you know how I feel about public water.

The Rebecca Fountain, – Water is Best

The Parade Garden The Parade Garden is a lovely park right next to the River Avon overlooking Pulteney Bridge and Weir. It is said to be of Victorian heritage and is home to some of the world’s rarest flowers and has won numerous British awards for its blossoms. If you were considering a destination wedding, this is where you want to say “I do!”. While the bandstand has a capacity for 20 guests, the lush lawn can accommodate everyone else.

The bandstand

Sally Lunn’s Eating House Sally Lunn’s is one of the oldest houses in Bath History has it to have been the actual kitchen of a legendary baker Sally Lunn in Georgian Bath and she was the first to create the first Bath bun. To give this some perspective, these buns look a lot like round loaves of bread which are as wide as, if not wider than the average sauce. This will end your ketogenic diet pronto. Personally, I didn’t come to the Queen’s Kingdom to spend pounds on big bread, so I didn’t have any.

Sally Lunn’s Eating House

The house is said to have been standing since 1482, and lovely Sally lived there about 200 years after in 1680. To be honest, I think they might be making these dates up.

OTher inetresting architechtural sites include Queen ‘s Square, the Circus and the Royal Crescent.

Unlike India and Senegal, I’m certain I’ll visit Great Britain again and I’m looking forward to it. With time and money constraints, I didn’t get the chance to soak in the Thermae Bath Spa, Britain’s only natural thermal spa which is said to possess healing and rejuvenating properties from over 42 different minerals. However, I certainly will on my next visit.

I’d also planned to see the Stonehenge but I fell ill and ran out of time. Finally, having visited other cities which include Lancashire, Liverpool, and Manchester, I hope I will finally get to see London and of course tell you all about it!

Next, pack your bags and let’s go to Budapest, Hungary!

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Discovering Great Britain – Bath City Center Discovering Great Britain, I spent most of my time here wondering through the scenic City of Bath, Somerset County, England.

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nirah10 · 8 years ago

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From ohwhataname,

The news opinion panel show I normally watch (a left wing show, well, by Amercian standards.) acutally ran a Clip commenting on the article Kate shared here.

I think this is inetresting as it is coming from Americans who think of themselves as very left - wing and very liberal. For example, they were a Bernie Sanders man.

https://youtu.be/XhzQDE3iQdc

What do you think of their reactions?

Dear ohwhataname,

Okay. Wow. That was quite surreal. I’m really surprised to see someone working on a pro-LGBT liberal show saying so many things that sound suspiciously like the homophobic version of saying “I’m not racist but...” I mean, I know enough about that show to know that they aren’t homophobic but, man, that clip really doesn’t make them look good :/

First of all, that man (I don’t know their names) needs to read the article again because there are several things he talks about that he seems to have just invented.

“Raised to think being gay is cool”: He mentions that the kid might think he’s gay because the parents make a big point of having gay friends. How the hell does he know they do that? The author mentioned they have lots of gay friends in her article to explain that her child has grown up around gay couples. She never said anything about them emphasizing that they gay friends to her kid. In fact, the whole point of her mentioning that they have gay friends in the article is to explain that her child has grown with homosexual couples around his entire life, so he thinks that it’s totally normal (AKA not special). The only reason he said he was gay in the first place was because he overheard him mum saying that they didn’t know if he was gay or straight, so he let her know.

“Go for it!”: He also talks about how he doesn’t think the parents should be so strongly encouraging their son to be gay in case it turns out that he isn’t and they’ve “steered him down the wrong direction”. How did he get that idea? The author explains pretty clearly that they don’t make a big deal about their kid saying he’s gay. They acknowledge that he’s said it and make sure that he knows they don’t think that’s a bad thing, but how does that equal the over-the-top enthusiasm that the host was talking about? There was no mention of enthusiastically encouraging their son to be gay or that being gay is somehow super amazing. The mother said that when her son first told her he was gay, she simply told him she loved him. When her son says he’s gay in front of his dad, the dad will do something like ruffle his hair and say something like “And you’re awesome”. I think he’s somehow confusing “you’re awesome” with “being gay is awesome”. Acknowledgment is not the same as screaming “That’s so great!”

“Making a big deal out of it and telling everyone”: Uhhh . . . no? There was no “celebration”. They didn’t throw their 7-year-old a coming out party and invite the whole town. There was definitely no “neon sign saying he is definitely gay”. They had a conversation with his teacher to explain that their son is identifying himself as gay. They didn’t say that he is gay (which I feel the need to say because the host was acting like they could somehow be wrong), but that he identifies as gay. That’s a plain and simple fact. Even if the kid grew up and realized he was actually straight the entire time, that doesn’t make the fact that he identified as gay when he was 7. Anyway, the parents went to the teacher to explain this so that the teacher knows to be prepared for it if it comes up in class (especially because it might cause other kids to ask questions) and to emphasize that their son is not to be told that being gay is wrong in any way. That’s not celebrating and making a big deal and telling everyone. That’s telling someone who is responsibe for the care of their child for a huge portion of his day something that is very important to him so that they know what the parents’ wishes are, should the topic come up. That seems pretty reasonable to me.

And then we get to the things that are just kind of ridiculous in general...

“I wanted to be Indian”: He’s comparing something that is entirely possible to something that is not. You can’t change your genetics and saying you want to be something is not the same as saying you are something or stating what you like. I don’t know if the host even realizes that he chose something that is impossible to achieve to compare to something that is quite ordinary in order to make it sound ridiculous. A better comparison would be if he said “When I was a kid, I said my favourite colour is maroon”. Maroon is an unusual colour for a kid to pick, so maybe you would have some doubts. Does the kid actually know what maroon is? Does he really like maroon or is he just saying he does because he learned the word “maroon” and thinks it sounds cool? Even if you had these doubts, I really don’t think you’d feel the need to discourage your kid from saying he likes maroon or that you’d be muttering that you’re pretty sure he really likes red and just says he likes maroon. Because, seriously, who gives a shit if your kid’s favourite colour is different than the one he currently says it is? Which leads to the next point...

“He might be mad”: When the female host very sensibly asks “What’s the worst case scenario?” the answer he comes up with is “He might be mad”. So a kid tells his parents that he’s gay, they acknowledge and support him in that claim, the let his teacher know so that his teacher knows to acknowledge and support him if it comes up at school, and they never try to discourage him from saying he’s gay. The kid grows up, realizes that he’s not gay and was just saying it because kids do weird shit. The worst reaction I can see from this is basically the equivalent of every person ever that groaned and complained to their parents for letting them do something embarrassing. “Oh my god, you guys, I can’t believe you let me walkaround carrying grandpa’s toupee telling people it was my puppy”. “Why the hell did you let me wear my Santa’s elf costume in public for an entire summer?” “Aww man, I can’t believe you guys let me run around telling everyone I was gay”. The alternative, however, is that your kid actually is gay and, when he told you, you weren’t supportive--you didn’t necesarily react negatively, but you didn’t openly acknowledge or accept what he told you. Then, when he starts telling other people he’s gay, you tell him that maybe he should keep it to himself or maybe even give a nervous chuckle and tell whoever he’s talking to that he doesn’t know what he’s saying. Then he tries saying it at school when you’re not around and his teacher just stares at him, not sure what to say, and he interprets that to mean that he’s done something wrong. Congratulations, your kid is now one of countless LGBT youth who get to grow up feeling isolated and ashamed because, even though no one ever said anything bad about it, he can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong with him for being gay. I’m pretty sure a little bit of embarrassed whining over misidentifying himself at a young age is way better than growing up thinking that his parents won’t love him if he’s not straight.

Whew! That turned out way longer than I intended it to be but I did feel that it just needed to be addressed. I seriously hope that, after that show was filmed, that entire crew thought long and hard about their answers and why they gave them. A lot of what they said sounded a lot like the kind of shit my religious family said to me when I came out as bi or when my sister came out as asexual. Guess what? Those kinds of comments didn’t do anything but drive wedges between people and words tend to hurt children much more than they do adults.

Good topic though. I’m interested to see if anyone else here has differing opinions and why. Thanks for sharing ^_^

#hello friend #submission

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