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seasonsandcenturies · 5 years

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I have Feelings about the new Good Omens

and almost all of them are about What Is Up with all the demons looking Like That so can we please talk about it

In Good Omens, angels look like people. Human people, that is. They have the right number of arms and legs, and they wear clothes that would more or less blend into a crowd.[1] The angels seem to skew androgynous - Michael is a woman, probably, as is Uriel, but there’s a little bit of room for doubt. The higher-ups seem to be trying their best to appear relatable (Sandalphon’s not exactly stereotypically glamorous, despite being very well dressed and blinged out; Gabriel conspicuously engages in the Extremely Normal human activity of jogging in a park) but even so, there’s just something about them that comes across as unnervingly otherworldly.

Demons, on the other hand, aren't even close to anything that could blend in with a crowd of humans, although they seem to share the angels’ predilection for androgyny. They are physical embodiments of decay and sickness and filth, designed to disgust and horrify, who can possess human bodies (says Aziraphale, who goes on to prove that angels are just as capable of it). The most powerful demons (Beelzebub, Lord of Hell; Hastur, Duke of Hell, and Ligur, presumably same) all have an animal/insect theme to their appearance.[2] Ligur's chameleon changes colors with his mood. Beelzebub not only wears a giant fly as a hat but is actually surrounded by flies. Hastur has a frog and vaguely frog-like eyes; on Earth, his hair seems to hide the frog, but when he isn’t trying to pass for human it’s clearly visible. Even Dagon has a suspiciously furry collar and very sharp teeth.

There are a few different interviews with the series’ hair and makeup artist and costume designer about how they came up with the costumes, but this article specifically states (emphasis added) that ‘Hastur, Ligur, and the other Dukes of Hell wear what they died in.’ Frankly, that’s a baffling concept, because why would a human become a demon? Throughout the series, humans are repeatedly referred to as being distinctly separate from either angels or demons. It’s heavily implied that the demons are angels who Fell a long time ago, as Dagon reminds them that while they may have lost the so-called Glorious Revolution, they are now (supposedly) “tougher, smarter, more dangerous!” - meaning they aren’t anything new, they’re just improved.

So why do the demons look the way they do?

I’m pretty sure @neil-gaiman was joking.

But. It could work.

When they Fell, maybe the demons lost their angelic forms, wings and all, and ended up stuck as animals, although they didn’t lose their abilities. Over time, they found out that going around on Earth looking like an animal wasn’t exactly the fastest or easiest way to get anything done. They needed human bodies so they could fit in, even though the ones they got never looked quite right. They leaked, a little, or they smelled. Sometimes they were already dead. But they did the job.

... I mean, just think about it. If a demon’s true form is animal-shaped, it’d explain a few things, including that strange quote about wearing the clothes they died in -- for example, Crowley telling Hastur he’d have liked the 14th century wouldn’t mean Hastur had missed it because he didn’t exist at the time, but simply that he hadn’t been paying much attention to what was going on topside. (Besides, Hastur probably didn’t acquire his current human body until the early 20th century, if his clothes are anything to go by.)

But what about Crowley? Obviously he’s got the whole animal motif thing going for him just like the others, he’s a snake. But he’s different. He’s the only demon who can unquestionably pass for ‘human’, being not only pustule-free but not actually very snake-like at all, excepting the tattoo on his face, his eyes, and a suspiciously sibilant manner of speech. He’s the only demon we see taking any kind of ‘angelic’ form, looking a little bit ragged at the Garden of Eden (an apparently intentional nod to the fact that he Fell fairly recently) and later unfurling his wings when talking to Adam. And he’s also the only demon we see actually shifting to and from an animal form.[3]

As God points out, Crowley has something the other demons don’t: an imagination. Which could mean he never had to resign himself to being worn like a hat and possessing some body to get around because he actually had enough imagination to transform himself.[4]

But even Crowley’s imagination has its limits. After all, he imagined his Bentley was a perfectly functional car that he would definitely not burn to death in, but that didn’t change the reality of the situation, which was that his car was on fire. This wasn’t like doing a miracle. So while he may have been perfectly capable of imagining himself looking the way he was last, ruffled feathers and all, he couldn’t completely change everything. He was a snake, now, so his eyes stayed mostly the same, and there was that little tattoo on his face that he couldn’t exactly hide but could at least play down. Even so, it didn’t turn out too badly, for a first attempt.

[1] The rest of Heaven isn’t exactly fashion forward. Aziraphale, when discorporated, inexplicably ends up in a tuxedo. Meanwhile, the army of angels preparing for battle, even more inexplicably, look like they’ve come off the set of Wee Willie Winkie.

[2] The only other demon who seems to eschew an animal form is Satan, possibly. One could argue the horns are symbolic of something, but I’d rather not.

[3] Hastur’s escape from Crowley’s ansaphone doesn’t count. He wriggles through the call center phone line with flesh-eating maggots and kills everyone in the room. That’s not the same thing as shifting himself into another form, that’s just-- I don’t know, gross and unnecessary.

[4] I should probably mention that this theory only applies to the TV adaptation, as the book already has a perfectly reasonable reptile/insect/other animal-headgear-free explanation about the Effort involved in appearing human. I think. It’s been a while.

#good omens #good omens meta #good omens headcanon #good omens theories #crowley #gotv #i have been thinking about this for the past WEEK #absolutely love how creative everything is in this adaptation but absolutely want more answers and explanations #and also to have a better headcanon than 'it's like ratatouille!'#because that was pretty much the first thing i thought of when i saw the ask and the second was return to oz #i could not find a gif of crowley shifting his head to a snake form to scare the paintball human which is a little bewildering #has that scene really not been gif'd? it seems like the entire rest of the show has #and same for discorporated!aziraphale in heaven and the angel army #i wish there was an easier way to credit gifs because now i can't even find where these came from yikes #anyway uh #the last time i paid attention to good omens as a fandom everything was on livejournal and yuletide was its own actual website #that's what i think

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cartoonessays · 5 years

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OFF-TOPIC: All the Rage

Dave Chappelle has just released his latest stand-up special on Netflix, Sticks & Stones. This stand-up special comes after four other comedy specials that have been beleaguered with criticism over Chappelle’s material about the LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender people, and about the women who accused Louis CK of sexual misconduct. And Sticks & Stones has attracted just as much controversy as any of Chappelle’s other Netflix specials if not more.

And that’s by design.

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The special opens up with this quote from Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA”

Tell me somethin’ / You mothafuckas can’t tell me nothin’ / I’d rather die than to listen to you…

In Sticks & Stones, Dave Chappelle sets himself up as some kind of defiant martyr fighting the good fight against so-called “cancel culture” or any moral busybodies who get offended by any jokes he or any of his other comedian friends might have told at any point. Many of those who express praise and enthusiasm towards Sticks & Stones defend it on similar grounds, writing off any criticism of it as people being “too sensitive”, “offended”, and “trying to cancel Dave Chappelle”.

Enough dancing around the subject. I found the special really tired and juvenile. What he’s doing here is thumbing his nose at any critic who had dared to take issue with anything he has said in his prior Netflix special in a way that eschews the thoughtfulness that Chappelle is capable of for petulance. That might have been okay if it was funny regardless, but I didn’t think it was. A better version of what Chappelle tried to do here was more than 30 years ago, in Eddie Murphy: Raw. Eddie Murphy opened up this special complaining about criticism he got for his last special from Mr. T, Michael Jackson, and the gay community with much funnier jokes. The crescendo of this bit was his brilliant story of Bill Cosby calling him on the phone to browbeat him about his foul language.

A bunch of the critics praising Sticks & Stones are calling it revelatory and a breath of fresh air in this moment of time. Really? All this is is Chappelle’s version of “PC gone mad” in response to criticism, which is not a novel concept. Carlos Mencia’s whole shtick 15 years ago was to crack jokes using racial stereotypes and then spend the next ten minutes guilt tripping the audience into laughing by expressing faux-martyrdom aggrievement over “political correctness” or “sensitivity”. This is as cliche a comedy staple as “take my wife, please”. Other comedians who have gone this exact same angle include Jerry Seinfeld, Roseanne Barr, Larry the Cable Guy, Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, Chris Rock, Andrew Dice Clay, Lil Duval, Jim Norton, Patrice O’Neal, Nick DaPaolo, Joe Rogan, Doug Stanhope, Rob Schneider, Lisa Lampanelli, Eddie Griffin, John Cleese, George Carlin, Aziz Ansari, Sarah Silverman, DL Hughley, Tracy Morgan, Adam Carolla, Amy Schumer, Tim Allen, Aries Spears, Russell Peters, Redd Foxx, Dennis Miller, Mike Epps, Patton Oswalt, Jeff Dunham, Sam Kinison, and Louis CK just to name a few.

Despite this being a cliche, I think taking the angle Dave Chappelle took here is more expedient for himself than ever. A part of the reason is because our society has become more politically polarizing than ever. A lot of the discourse around Sticks & Stones falls along politically partisan lines (yes, I know that includes myself too). Most of the people defending Dave Chappelle so ardently are right-wing pundits/publications like Breitbart, Dana Loesch, and Gavin McInnes and most of the people criticizing Chappelle are liberal/pro-LGBTQ+ publications. Chappelle and his defenders are using this special as a denouncing of “cancel culture”. I hate that term and I hate the framing around it even more because it’s so vaguely defined other than the fact that it’s nakedly partisan. The screeds against “cancel culture” are not so subtle digs at the left and reinforce a narrative that the left wants to censor everything and that the right are the true defenders of free speech and free expression. It’s weird that the “cancel culture” designation never applies when the right-wing gets upset about Nike, Gillette, or Keurig coffee makers.

I think a better name for all of this is “outrage culture” and it’s nonpartisan. So much of our public discourse is handled on social media, particularly Twitter, that rewards shorter and more attention-grabbing hot takes over lengthy, nuanced analysis. And one of the easiest ways to grab attention is by being outrageous or inflammatory. In response, online publications of all political stripes write their headlines in inflammatory ways that grab attention in order to be shared on social media. Even if the actual article has more nuance to it, most people don’t read past the splashy headline anyway. In regards to politics, it has further defined people, whatever their personal views may be, in reaction to what they aren’t or what they disagree with. It’s partially why so many people have blamed things like the 2016 Ghostbusters film or Star Wars: The Last Jedi as the reason they voted for Trump or why they’ll vote for Trump again. It’s also why so many of the people praising Sticks & Stones so zealously have attempted to use it as a rallying cry for Trump and Trumpism. This also goes for any liberals who expressed a desire to buy Nikes or Gillette razors after the right-wing meltdown over them.

Sticks & Stones was a rallying cry to anybody that has defined themselves or their politics to being anti-politically correct (which isn’t only right-wingers, but largely encompasses right-wingers) to look to Dave Chappelle as a hero to wrap themselves around. I felt the same way about Louis CK’s stand-up “comeback” where he mocked school shooting survivors, millenials, and non-binary kids. CK was hugely popular on college campuses and liberal crowds despite never being “politically correct”. He was also often very thoughtful in the way he towed that fine line when tackling touchy subjects. But in light of his sexual misconduct scandal, he must have figured that he permanently burned a bridge with that crowd so he pivoted to a crowd that doesn’t care that he sexually harassed multiple women. This same crowd also tends not to think too highly of the Parkland shooting survivors for their gun control activism or trans and non-binary people.

The thing is, Dave Chappelle and Louis CK don’t give a damn about any of these right-wingers or their pro-Trump causes. They’re just looking out for number one. Breitbart wouldn’t write fawning articles about Chappelle if the focus was on him expressing discomfort over a white person’s laughter over a blackface sketch he was doing on his show. They wouldn’t rally around Louis CK either if he was still telling jokes expressing confusion as to why women would want to date men based off violence against women statistics. Conversely, Nike and Gillette don’t actually give a damn about putting an end to police brutality or toxic masculinity. If they were to discover that they could make more money off of using “Blue Lives Matter” sentiment or objectifying women, they would do it in a heartbeat. This is all this whole shit is.

I suppose that’s ultimately the joke in all of this. I don’t find it very funny, but I suppose I’m just too sensitive, right?

#dave chappelle #sticks and stones #comedy #stand up #cancel culture #marketing #cartoon essays #just my thoughts

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thisiskatsblog · 5 years

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Soup, Sex and Sun Salutations

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“We had the chance to sit down over some miso soup with Harry Styles. We didn’t talk about his new album at all but were charmed by the way he challenges gender norms and by what he had to say about sexuality, his female fans, feminism, while male privilege, toxic masculinity, his publicity relationship stunts, and how meditation and yoga have helped him deal with it all. ”

Challenging gender norms

He’s got a white floppy hat that Diana Ross might have won from Elton in a poker game at Cher’s mansion circa 1974.

His nail polish is pink and mint green.

He’s also carrying his purse — no other word for it.

He hosted the Met Gala with Lady Gaga, Serena Williams, Alessandro Michele, and Anna Wintour serving an eyebrow-raising black lace red-carpet look.

He is the official face of a designer genderless fragrance, Gucci’s Mémoire d’une Odeur.

Harry said in his speech (note: for Stevie Nicks). “She knows what you need: advice, a little wisdom, a blouse, a shawl.” He added, “She’s responsible for more running mascara — including my own — than all the bad dates in history.”

Refusing to put a label on his sexuality

Harry likes to cultivate an aura of sexual ambiguity, as overt as the pink polish on his nails.

He’s asking questions about culture, gender, identity, new ideas about masculinity and sexuality.

He’s dated women throughout his life as a public figure, yet he has consistently refused to put any kind of label on his sexuality

On his first solo tour, he frequently waved the pride, bi, and trans flags, along with the Black Lives Matter flag. In Philly, he waved a rainbow flag he borrowed from a fan up front: “Make America Gay Again.” One of the live fan favorites: “Medicine,” a guitar jam that sounds a bit like the Grateful Dead circa Europe ’72, but with a flamboyantly pansexual hook: “The boys and girls are in/I mess around with them/And I’m OK with it.

He’s always had a flair for flourishes like this, since the 1D days. An iconic clip from November 2014: Harry and Liam are on a U.K. chat show. The host asks the oldest boy-band fan-bait question in the book: What do they look for in a date? “Female,” Liam quips. “That’s a good trait.” Harry shrugs. “Not that important.” Liam is taken aback. The host is in shock. On tour in the U.S. that year, he wore a Michael Sam football jersey, in support of the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team. He’s blown up previously unknown queer artists like King Princess and Muna

His worst fears

“While I was in the band,” he says, I felt so much weight in terms of not getting things wrong. I remember when I signed my record deal and I asked my manager, ‘What happens if I get arrested? Does it mean the contract is null and void?’ ”

About Rainbow Direction

“Now, I feel like the fans have given me an environment to be myself and grow up and create this safe space to learn and make mistakes”

“It’s a room full of accepting people.… If you’re someone who feels like an outsider, you’re not always in a big crowd like that,” he says.

At one of his earliest solo shows, in Stockholm, he announced, “If you are black, if you are white, if you are gay, if you are straight, if you are transgender — whoever you are, whoever you want to be, I support you. I love every single one of you.

What do those flags onstage mean to him? “I want to make people feel comfortable being whatever they want to be,” he says. “Maybe at a show you can have a moment of knowing that you’re not alone.”

“To me, the greatest thing about the tour was that the room became the show,” he says. “It’s not just me.”

About vulnerability, toxic masculinity, and meditation

“I’m discovering how much better it makes me feel to be open with friends. Feeling that vulnerability, rather than holding everything in”

“I feel pretty lucky to have a group of friends who are guys who would talk about their emotions and be really open,” he says. “My friend’s dad said to me, ‘You guys are so much better at it than we are. I never had friends I could really talk to. It’s good that you guys have each other because you talk about real shit. We just didn’t.’”

“I was such a skeptic going in,” he says. “But I think meditation has helped with worrying about the future less, and the past less. I feel like I take a lot more in—things that used to pass by me because I was always rushing around. It’s part of being more open and talking with friends. It’s not always the easiest to go in a room and say, ‘I made a mistake and it made me feel like this, and then I cried a bunch.’ But that moment where you really let yourself be in that zone of being vulnerable, you reach this feeling of openness. That’s when you feel like, ‘Oh, I’m fucking living, man.’”

Doesn’t this ambiguous sexuality clash with his public image?

He’s dated [a string of high-profile] women throughout his life as a public figure, yet he has consistently refused to put any kind of label on his sexuality - [and] he never gets caught uttering any of their names in public.

We’re off to the pub,” he tells his mom. “We’re going to talk some shop.” She smiles sweetly. “Talk some shit, probably,” says Anne.

“It’s not like I’ve ever sat and done an interview and said, ‘So I was in a relationship, and this is what happened,’” he says. “Because, for me, music is where I let that cross over. It’s the only place, strangely, where it feels right to let that cross over.”

So how does he feel about the industry?

“Only a city as narcissistic as L.A. would have a street called Los Angeles Street,” he says.

About his female fans, and about feminism

He’s always had a fervent female fandom, and, admirably, he’s never felt a need to pretend he doesn’t love it that way. “They’re the most honest — especially if you’re talking about teenage girls, but older as well,” he says. “They have that bullshit detector. You want honest people as your audience. We’re so past that dumb outdated narrative of ‘Oh, these people are girls, so they don’t know what they’re talking about.’ They’re the ones who know what they’re talking about. They’re the people who listen obsessively. They fucking own this shit. They’re running it.”

“To me, the greatest thing about the tour was that the room became the show,” he says. “It’s not just me.” He sips his tea. “I’m just a boy, standing in front of a room, asking them to bear with him.”

He doesn’t have the uptightness some people have about sexual politics, or about identifying as a feminist. “I think ultimately feminism is thinking that men and women should be equal, right? People think that if you say ‘I’m a feminist,’ it means you think men should burn in hell and women should trample on their necks. No, you think women should be equal. That doesn’t feel like a crazy thing to me. I grew up with my mum and my sister — when you grow up around women, your female influence is just bigger. Of course men and women should be equal. I don’t want a lot of credit for being a feminist. It’s pretty simple. I think the ideals of feminism are pretty straightforward.”

About white male privilege

“It’s not about, ‘Oh, I get what it’s like,’ because I don’t. For example, I go walking at night before bed most of the time. I was talking about that with a female friend and she said, ‘Do you feel safe doing that?’ And I do. But when I walk, I’m more aware that I feel OK to walk at night, and some of my friends wouldn’t. I’m not saying I know what it feels like to go through that. It’s just being aware.”

I’m aware that as a white male, I don’t go through the same things as a lot of the people that come to the shows. I can’t claim that I know what it’s like, because I don’t. So I’m not trying to say, ‘I understand what it’s like.’ I’m just trying to make people feel included and seen.”

On tour, he had an End Gun Violence sticker on his guitar; he added a Black Lives Matter sticker, as well as the flag. “It’s not about me trying to champion the cause, because I’m not the person to do that,” he says. “It’s just about not ignoring it, I guess. I was a little nervous to do that because the last thing I wanted was for it to feel like I was saying, ‘Look at me! I’m the good guy!’ I didn’t want anyone who was really involved in the movement to think, ‘What the fuck do you know?’ But then when I did it, I realized people got it. Everyone in that room is on the same page and everyone knows what I stand for. I’m not saying I understand how it feels. I’m just trying to say, ‘I see you.’”

Heartbreak and loss

As Stevie starts to sing “Landslide” — “I’ve been afraid of changing, because I built my life around youuuu” — Anne walks over to where Harry sits. She crouches down behind him, reaches her arms around him tightly. Neither of them says a word. They listen together and hold each other close to the very end of the song. Everybody in Wembley is singing along with Stevie, but these two are in a world of their own.

[Note: I doubted a bit whether to include that last part, but then I did, because this HS2 is apparently an album about sadness, and the description of that moment reminded me painfully of the real heartbreak and sadness Harry and Anne have had to deal with in recent years. So here’s a little shoutout to Anne who lost Robin, so recently still. Wishing her all the courage to continue building her life without him at the center of it. We love you.]

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fivesoskingdom · 6 years

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The prey. - l.h

Summary: Luke and Michael made a bet. Michael said that Luke could never get the girl, but Luke knew he could.

Warnings: Mention of sex.

Attention: This is a narrative story, there's no dialogs. (but I swear that it's good, just read it.)

Hope you guys like it, don't forget to reblog, so I can know that there's someone out there liking my stuff. 💋

Seven days ago, Michael and Luke made a bet. The two of them knew each other since they were kids, always best friends, always side by side, it only seemed obvious to live together in college, while Michael was studying Game Design, Luke was getting his degree in Biotechnology. Both of them were always popular between girls, obviously in different ways, since Michael attracted them by his mysterious yet funny way, Luke was the kind of guy that got attention not matter what, his beauty too obvious to be ignored. Michael said that Luke couldn't get a girl in his Genetics class, Luke said he could, so the bet was made.

Five days ago, Michael had choose Y/N as the target of the bet. He had never saw her before, neither did Luke. Luke said it was going to be the easiest girl he ever got in his life, but Michael knew that that wasn't true, she looked like she was ready to ran away at any minute when someone was looking at her, no way she would believe that a guy like Luke would like someone like her. Not that she was ugly, not at all, she was just... Boring. Her clothes weren't of much help neither was her glasses or her ponytail always messy and not in a sexy way. She was a boring mess.

Four days ago, Luke talked to her for the first time and she didn't ran away, she held the conversation and smiled at him like shy girls do, like both of them were part of some teen rom-com. He asked her for help in the subject of the day, even though he was the best in the class, but she didn't mind to help. She was pretty good too.

Three days ago, Luke asked her if she didn't wanted to have a coffee with him, the coffee soon became lunch that then turned in some kind of study session to end up with them walking around the campus talking about nothing particular. Luke always knew the power of his charm.

Two days ago, Luke and Y/N kissed for the first time before class. It was, supposedly, by mistake, but it made him smile and she blush. And they only touched each others mouths. In that afternoon they decided to study together again, since they were going to have a test in the next morning. At the end of the day, they kissed again, this time a full kiss. Luke got impressed with how good kisser she was, she actually made him get a boner just with it and all she did was play with his neck with her long red nails.

In the morning of the eighth day, Luke asked if Y/N wanted to go to a party and she accepted. By the night he took her to his friend's house, where the Maori boy was having his birthday party. No one seemed to understand why Luke was with her because no one seemed to know her. She only said that she was good at being invisible.

In the firsts hours of the ninth day, Luke managed to get her to Calum's bedroom in the middle of the party. He already knew that she was a great kisser, but the bet was about sleep with her. Y/N kept surprising Luke at each time they did something new, but she refused to have sex with him at first, so they just kept kissing for a couple of hours before he convinced her to give him a blow job. Luke couldn't remember the last time he had cum that way. Y/N's mouth were like magic and he even asked her how she learned to do that, she blushed and shrugged, saying "Porn", making him laugh. They had lunch together that day and Luke forgot about the bet, they spent the afternoon together watching old movies on TV and kissing. He got another mind-blowing blow job as well at the end of the night.

By the morning class on the tenth day, Y/N were already the first thing his eyes looked when he got in the room. She was hidden in her lilac sweater, the hair messier than normal and she blushed when they met. She was afraid that he would stop talking to her after he got what she thought that was all that he wanted. He promised that that wasn't the case.

In the eleventh day, Luke started to think about call off the bet. He started to like Y/N, the way she always blushed with him, how smart she was, how good her mouth felt in both ways. But he knew that Michael would tease him forever if he did that, so he just decided to go until the end.

On the twelfth day, Luke and Y/N got to another party, people were still staring at her, that day she seemed to be even more messy than all the other days together, but Luke tried to not care about it. She wasn't much of a party girl either, she just got there, by his side, while he drunk. That night he drunk too much because of the guilty. And she spent the night at his place taking care of him.

On the thirteenth day, Luke woke up with Y/N by his side, she was already wake, watching him sleep. She smiled at him and gave him medicines, leaving his place only when he said that he was feeling better. But that was a lie, because he was felling worse. He knew what he was doing wasn't fair. He didn't talked at all with her for the rest of the day.

On the fourteenth day, Luke and Y/N got to a beach house with his friends. No one wanted her there, but he took her anyway. They spent the whole day together, by themselves, walking on the beach and doing couple things. Luke felt truly happy and Y/N seemed to be happy too. At that night they had sex. For the first time he saw her mess as a beautiful thing, the way she said his name, her moans, her first orgasm. And she amazed him again, she was great in bed, she was capable of things that he didn't knew that he would try some day even less with someone that looked so innocent, but that was the best part for him, discover all her secrets underneath the shyness and messy stuff. At the end, when he saw her with her eyes closed, peacefully sleeping, he realized that he had fall for her. And he whispered that to her before falling sleep too. He missed the way she smiled.

In the morning of fifteenth day, Luke proved Michael that he had slept with Y/N, but confessed that he had fall for her as well. Michael just laughed and congratulated him, asking what he was going to do about that. Luke decided to tell everything to her and beg for forgiveness. He wanted to do everything right and ask her to be his girlfriend.

At the night of fifteenth day, Luke took Y/N on a special date. She was, on his eyes, prettier than ever, but he could see as well that she made a little effort to dress better to the occasion, she was using make up, even! He loved the way she still couldn't look him in the eyes for too long or how she always blushed everytime he said anything cute to her, even more the way she seemed to shudder underneath his touch even after the night they shared. When they finished dinner he decided that was the time to tell her the truth. And he did. He told her everything since the beginning, told her how it all got all of control because he fell in love for her. That moment she looked him in the eyes, he could see her eyes sparkling behind the glasses when she asked if it was true and if he had won the bet. He said it was and that he did, but that didn't matter because he wanted to be with her for real. He saw her eyes start to spark even more while her smile got bigger, he could swear that the world stopped spinning when she smiled.

At the end of the dinner on the fifteenth day, Y/N took off her glasses and got her hair down, she took off the ugly sweater that she was wearing over the gorgeous black dress that held her curves in all the right places. She showed her true self to Luke in the middle of the restaurant. A gorgeous, breathtaking, stunning woman. She thanked him for falling for her because she won her bet with her friends as well. She was now 5000 dollars richer. And then, she left him there, saying that she knew that she was the better thing he ever had, but all he was to her was part of a game to prove him wrong because she couldn't stand men like him.

And in the firsts hours of the sixteenth day, Luke knew that he had made the biggest mistake of his life.

A/N: Well, I was reading this fanfic with the bet prompt and thought about this one. I must admit that I wasn't expecting to write the whole thing without a dialog, but I really liked the way it turned out. And who doesn't love a powerful woman, right?

#fivesoskingdom #michael 5sos #5sos #luke 5sos #michael imagine #luke 5 seconds of summer #luke hemmings #luke imagine #5sos au #college!luke #college!5sos #luke hemmings imagine #luke 5sos imagine

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elizabethrobertajones · 7 years

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Angels are watching over you [eye emoji]

I just saw a note on that post I did with the reindeer from 3x08 where I was laughing about Sam having a lil staring competition with it, and made a joke about it and got a random bit of hate out of the blue for my troubles... Suddenly remembered one of the only other times I've actually SEEN any of this mysterious fandom hate that I rarely actually encounter, was when I was commenting somewhere or other that Destiel starts in 1x12 (I mean I was being simplistic, *obviously* it has roots further back in 1x07 or 1x11 when we talk about narrative or symbolic character stuff)...

Anyway, concluding that apparently the most intolerable thing is getting your grubby little hands all over the early seasons by ever daring to even mention that in the future Dean is going to have one HECK of a thing for the angel, in the way that you can analyse any other part of the show for upcoming stuff such as knowing they'd been yearning to bring Mary back since at least like season 10 or something so all the little Mary-related things you find peppered through Carver era really are the build up to her return or whatever.

I'd like to just take a moment to bask in the fact that since 2x13 (also, you know... pre-Cas, in that holy untouched ground before Kripke decided to ruin the show by smearing angels all over it), Dean confirms that the last thing Mary ever said to him was "angels are watching over you", and we see the Winchester family pre-goodnights in 1x01 in the very opening scene of the show, and so in the background of the very opening of the show, we have this important Destiel-related moment occurring; once retconned in in season 2, from then on that scene has the little gap where Mary says goodnight to Dean and makes the entire fucking show from the first 30 seconds about Destiel.

And of course Mary returning in season 12 immediately brings us to the subtext that this is a part of their lives. I remember a previous rewatch, before season 12, I was getting weepy about 2x20 and Dean using the "angels are watching over you" line as a way to prove to himself that the Mary of his dream was real. And wondering how when he got the real Mary back, he would use that to convince himself. Instead, he was the one who ended up convincing her, and then when we see it from her eyes, after telling her the barebones facts of her life as proof he knows her and a lot of her secrets like the deal in ways that she would never have told anyone so literally just, like, Azazel or Dean from 2016 could have told her this... :P

He takes her back to his secret Batcave and if we take her life continuously it's been a couple of hours since she told this to her toddler Dean, but here is his actual angel who watches over him, rushing in for a hug... Again, just the way it looks to Mary... vindicating this thing she said, in an unexpected way, and despite how corrupted that line was in 5x13, turned into one of the few good and pure things to discover in the future. I even think that Cas was rushed back to the Bunker so quickly by the writing so that, because of the weight of 2x20 and answering it as fast as possible, using Cas to show Mary that she had been right about saying it...

And for season 12's arc for Cas, that was actually a significant part of his own personal arc, feeling like the guardian angel. We talked after 12x01 about Mary casually using Cas as a tool with that "hurt him" comment because she had read how Dean surface level seemed to use Cas and misunderstood the dynamic (and again in 12x03, assuming he belonged and this was what he wanted/how he was happy living with them), because for her seeing him as a guardian angel was such a natural assumption given what she had said and how Cas of all things seems to be the most remarkable but also the easiest for her to absorb into her world view, because after all, she already believed it to an extent...

And by 12x19 Cas's feeling about being a guardian angel is being laid right out in the open with it now being shown as a dangerous mindset in the same vein as the codependency - Cas's attachment to protecting the Winchesters without involving them or consulting with them, drawing out the attitude behind season 6 ("I still considered myself the Winchesters' guardian") ... and having just watched 11x17 which was a magnificent deconstruction of the issues behind the codependency, a template for what Berens and Dabb felt needed to be discussed about this all, in 12x19 Berens and Glynn deconstruct Cas for us and show us the underlying danger to himself of the patterns he's fallen into (by, of course, making him fall into them and then fall prey to a cosmic force seeking a guardian angel of its own, and with a universe so full of dick angels, the one who has fallen closest to humanity and been twisted into something kind and loving and devoted to being a guardian like no others do... There is no replacement for Cas, the ultimate guardian angel. Like other seasons such as 5 which used Michael and Lucifer as the sibling parallel to Sam and Dean to show some of the issues in their lives, Jack exposes Cas's core problem... that in the narrative, Mary once said, "angels are watching over you" and through enormous trials and with great irony, Cas has ended up being that angel and to her eyes, passing with flying colours in that job within hours of meeting him...

(And Mary is so important to the narrative and the way she unconsciously bent the entire Destiel narrative in this direction from the moment we found out what she said to Dean back in 2x13, Cas could not escape it... Fell into it in season 6 and Edund used this mindset maginficently to justify Cas's actions...)

And... Anyway, when we analyse a show, all parts of it are on the table as puzzle pieces to move around as we see fit, and many pieces from past seasons fit with future seasons, and many episodes or characters fit easily to others, like one of those super simple kiddie puzzles where all the bits are the same basic shapes, and the artist has made a design that loops up almost any way you connect it to create a different, four dimensional picture that honestly is impossible to visualise and leaves me thinking of my attempts to meta as always being the person with the wall covered in bits of paper and photos with all the red string linking up... Anyway, for me, Destiel has all the red strings converge down in season 1 and 2, filling up the background of everything that's going to happen with the pieces that are going to fit into the middle of so many character arcs and storylines in ways we never could have foretold but have now been built from the ground up from these ancient tropes and ideas on the show...

So yeah people who think of the first 3 seasons as some precious, untouched place Before Cas and Before Awful Destiel Shippers are actually Dead Wrong because as it has all unfolded, not just the shippers but the show itself has gone back time and time again and smeared its grubby, Cas-covered hands ALL over the show right back to the opening minute.

(The reindeer joke remains, however, a one-note blow air out of my nose moment and I am still baffled about why that of all things brought down brimstone and fury from someone with nothing better to do :P)

#obviously i have nothing better to do either #but at least i'm having smirky snarky eyerolling fun instead of hammering holes in my keyboard #weeping globs of snot into it that the show ever dared talk Misha into trying that part again but as an angel this time :P #their keyboards must be disgusting #okay that's enough tag padding #wank for ts #1x01 #angels are watching over you #despite the rest of the content this post is primarily about the first minute of season 1 #just recontextualised and here's the context #season 12 #destiel #Mary F Winchester

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Throne of Night Theory Builds Part 4: The Deathless Golem Wielder of Book 3 *updated*

It’s an interesting feeling of nostalgia. The last time I even remotely talked about Throne of Night on here was 2018, but I hadn’t discussed anything seriously since 2017, and only then it was to answer a question regarding the AP. Before that, it was 2016 to discuss a module I found online, and how to convert it from AD&D 2e to Pathfinder 1e so that some people could actually finish the adventure path with some grace and dignity, and without spending money they likely wouldn’t be seeing again. I think all of us are at least somewhat bitter over the experience.

For those of us who had supported the Kickstarter, July 2015 saw an update that essentially gave us a very basic summary on books 3 through 6, but not the extra adventure with the half-god prince. That’s okay though as I have done my own version of that.

In the update it talks about the final encounters for books 3 and 4. Book 5 is more vague about what the final encounter is, but the picture makes you think it’s a mob of aboleths. Book 6 shows a star spawn of Cthulhu, and considering it’s a CR 20, that seems like enough of a challenge by itself, but it’s possible that the party is also supposed to fight a pleroma aeon, which is also a CR 20. It’s unsure whether you do that all at once, or back-to-back, as the aeon does seem to have its own lair. Considering Way of the Wicked had the party fight an encounter that was equivalent to a CR 24, I’m going to assume there’s a few templates on that star spawn to make it a CR 23 (if you’re fighting it by yourself). Personally, I’d go with mythic Invincible template, then Fighter Creature simple template, and finally advance the HD until it had enough hp to rival a CR 23. If that was too weak for your group, then adding mythic Agile might be the way to go.

But I digress. I made this update because I’ve been looking over the July update and contemplating “what would these be?” to an almost unhealthy degree when I should be doing way more productive things. Like finish writing race books or prepping for PFS. But no, I’m researching spells and builds, and trying to come up with builds and tactics for these particular encounters.

Before I showcase the builds, I just want to emphasize that all images shared here were done by the forever fantastic and amazingly talented Michael D. Clarke, aka SpiralMagus.

For space reasons, cropping the encounter build.

NEW EDIT: Cleaned up the stats, altered the picture, and made a huge change to the feats. Also gave it gunzarak.

Book 3′s write-up discusses the party coming into contact with a morrigna. The picture shows her, her spider swarm, and a large tarantula? behind her. She is searching for a dwarf that has managed to achieve immortality.

EDIT: I looked into it further, and it was after the dwarf made a dark pact with a deep dragon, and a good portion of the encounters in Book 3 are the offspring of the “deadless” king and the deep dragon. Even further, the king is a “dragon king”. That means he’s got a draconic bloodline of some kind. Likely magma or underworld, but it’s kept vague. Probably because it’s easier to just use red dragon bloodline for the same effect and not have to worry about non-OGL sources. However, if it’s the full plated creature that I found, especially since the dragon dwarf king is controlling the cannon golem, that definitely limits how it gets those bloodlines. And, unfortunately, this likely means a feat tax.

As for the golem control rod, there was an item back in 3.X that did this, and was a rod found in the Arms and Equipment Guide. It used dominate monster back then. Nowadays, we have control construct from Ultimate Magic. The easiest way to go about it is to say that the rod is a morningstar with the power of the amulet of construct control. This keeps it in with other Pathfinder 1e products.

I looked into it, and it seemed too cheap to make him a lich, and looking into how each undead comes into being, I finally decided upon the graveknight. They fuse with their armor after dying in some horrible way that involves an element (typically fire). Michael had been drawing a lot of black fire in his pictures, and it seemed rather fitting that it would likely be that he would die in that fashion. Also, corrupted? Sounds like someone having fallen from grace and embraced evil. Antipaladin. It continues saying that he wields a deadly weapon of dwarven design, and then shows a picture of a cannon golem. In Way of the Wicked, this exact place in Book 3 was a CR 16 encounter so I mimicked it. The former king is a CR 13 as the golem is a CR 15.

For its CR, the antipaladin is lacking in armor, but hopefully it’s ability to heal itself (and possibly do damage to others), will be enough to offset lower AC.

Note that the armored being in the picture below may not be the king (at least it’s not said he is or isn’t), but it’s how I assume he died and this picture is called “Golem Driver”, so maybe? This is more of a placeholder than proper representation, but either way it’s drawn by SpiralMagus and has the Fire Mountain Games stamp on it.

KING OF DAMMERHALL THALRON BOLDREST (CR 14; 38,400 XP) Male unique elder dwarf graveknight antipaladin 10/mobile fighter 2 CE Medium undead (augmented humanoid) Init +7; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +15 Aura cowardice (10 ft.), despair (10 ft.), sacrilegious aura (30 ft., DC 23) DEFENSE AC 31, touch 14, flat-footed 28 (+10 armor, +1 deflection, +3 Dex, +7 natural) hp 188 (12d10+118) Fort +27, Ref +16, Will +21; +2 vs. poison, spells, and spell-like abilities Defensive Abilities agility +1, channel resistance +4, deep warrior (+2 dodge bonus to AC vs. aberrations), rejuvenation; DR 10/magic, DR 3/—; Immune cold, disease, fire, electricity, undead traits; SR 25 OFFENSE Speed 20 ft. Melee +1 conductive gunzarak morningstar +21/+16/+11 (1d8+7/19–20 plus 3d6 fire), slam +14 (1d4+3) or 2 claws +19 (1d6+7) Special Attacks ancient enmity (+1 on attack rolls against elven humanoids), breath weapon (30-ft. cone, 10d6 fire, R-DC 23, 1/day), channel destruction, channel negative energy (W-DC 23, 5d6), claws (2, 1d6+7, treated as magic weapons, 10 rounds/day), cruelties (cursed, diseased, sickened), devastating blast 3/day (30-ft. cone, R-DC 23, 8d6 fire), smite good 4/day (+7 atk and AC, +20 dmg), undead mastery (60 HD, W-DC 23) Antipaladin Spell-Like Abilities (CL 10th; concentration +18) At will—detect good Antipaladin Spells Prepared (CL 7th; concentration +15) 3rd—defile armor, vampiric touch 2nd—bull’s strength, invisibility, silence 1st—death knell, disguise self, inflict light wounds, read magic TACTICS Before Combat If Thalron has time, he activates his fiendish boon (unholy against dwarves, wounding against drow), cast’s bull’s strength and defile armor, then applies an oil of bless weapon on the golem control rod. During Combat Thalron knows that mortals are susceptible to fear and corruption. On the first round, he uses his Dazzling Display to demoralize as many people as he can, then determines who in the party is good-aligned before targeting them with smite good, focusing on divine casters. In following rounds, he attacks with his conductive weapon to deliver his corrupting touch, often selecting the cursed cruelty (DC 23 Fortitude negates) to lower the target’s Dexterity.

While the cannon golem is firing at targets, Thalron activates his longarm bracers to attack opponents from a distance so the golem doesn’t have to adjust to avoid attacking him.

If Thalron is reduced to less than 90 hp, he backs off, casting invisibility, then healing and buffing himself as needed before attacking again. Morale Thalron believes himself invincible now that he’s found the golem and has achieved immortality with his rejuvenation ability. Intruders must be dealt with, and he fights until destroyed. STATISTICS Str 24, Dex 16, Con —, Int 14, Wis 18, Cha 26 Base Atk +12; CMB +19 (+21 grapple vs. aberrations); CMD 33 (37 vs. bull rush and trip) Feats Critical Focus, Dazzling DisplayB, Eldritch Heritage (draconic), Improved Critical (morningstar)B, Improved Eldritch Heritage (draconic), Improved InitiativeB, Mounted CombatB, Power Attack, Ride-By AttackB, Skill Focus (Perception), ToughnessB, Weapon Focus (morningstar) Skills Bluff +21, Intimidate +31, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +7, Knowledge (engineering) +7, Knowledge (religion) +10, Perception +15, Ride +9, Sense Motive +15, Spellcraft +10, Stealth +6, Survival +9; Racial Modifiers –4 Acrobatics when jumping, +8 Intimidation, +8 Perception, +8 Ride; ACP –2 Languages Common, Dwarven, Gnome, Undercommon SQ aura (strong evil), code of conduct, fiendish boon (weapon +2, 2/day), lorekeeper, phantom mount, ruinous revivification, stonecunning, touch of corruption (5d6, 12/day), unholy resilience, weapon familiarity Combat Gear oil of bless weapon (2); Other Gear +1 gunzarak fullplate, golem control rod (+1 conductive gunzarak morningstar), amulet of natural armor +3, ring of protection +1, Crown of the High Dwarf King (mithral crown acts as a headband of alluring charisma +2), cloak of resistance +2, gloves of arrow snaring, golembane scarab, longarm bracers, pearl of power (2nd), pearl of power (3rd) SPECIAL ABILITIES Agility (Ex) Thalron has a +1 bonus on saving throws made against effects that cause him to become paralyzed, slowed, or entangled. Channel Destruction (Su) Any weapon a graveknight wields seethes with energy, and deals an additional 1d6 points of damage for every 4 Hit Dice the graveknight has. This additional damage is of the energy type determined by the ruinous revivification special quality. Devastating Blast (Su) Three times per day, the graveknight may unleash a 30-foot cone of energy as a standard action. This blast deals 2d6 points of damage for every 3 Hit Dice a graveknight has (Reflex half). This damage is of the energy type determined by the graveknight’s ruinous revivification special quality. Exceptional Stats (Ex) Thalron is a prodigy who believes he was destined from birth to be the greatest ruler of Dammerhall. As a result, his ability scores were generated using 20 points, rather than using the standard 15 point buy used to create most NPCs. Additionally, Thalron has much more gear than an NPC of his level would normally have. These modifications increase his total CR by +1. Lorekeeper (Ex) Dwarves keep extensive records about their history and the world around them. Dwarves with this racial trait receive a +2 racial bonus on Knowledge (history) checks that pertain to dwarves or their enemies. They can make such skill checks untrained. This racial trait replaces greed. Phantom Mount (Su) Once per hour, a graveknight can summon a skeletal horse similar to a phantom steed. This mount is more real than a typical phantom steed, and can carry one additional rider. The mount’s powers are based on the graveknight’s total Hit Dice rather than caster level. A graveknight’s mount looks distinctive and always appears the same each time it is summoned. If the mount is destroyed, it can be summoned again with full hit points 1 hour later. Rejuvenation (Su) One day after a graveknight is destroyed, its armor begins to rebuild the undead horror’s body. This process takes 1d10 days—if the body is destroyed before that time passes, the armor merely starts the process anew. After this time has elapsed, the graveknight wakens fully healed. Ruinous Revivification (Su) At the time of its creation, the graveknight chooses one of the following energy types: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. This energy type should be relevant to the graveknight’s life or death, defaulting to fire if none are especially appropriate. This energy type influences the effects of several of a graveknight’s special abilities. Sacrilegious Aura (Su) A graveknight constantly exudes an aura of intense evil and negative energy in a 30-foot radius. This aura functions as the spell desecrate and uses the graveknight’s armor as an altar of sorts to double the effects granted. The graveknight constantly gains the benefits of this effect (including the bonus hit points, as this aura is part of the graveknight’s creation). In addition, this miasma of fell energies hinders the channeling of positive energy. Any creature that attempts to summon positive energy in this area—such as through a cleric’s channel energy ability, a paladin’s lay on hands, or any spell with the healing subtype—must make a concentration check with a DC 22. If the character fails, the effect is expended but does not function. Undead Mastery (Su) As a standard action, a graveknight can attempt to bend any undead creature within 50 feet to its will. The targeted undead must succeed at a Will save or fall under the graveknight’s control. This control is permanent for unintelligent undead; an undead with an Intelligence score is allowed an additional save every day to break free from the graveknight’s control. A creature that successfully saves cannot be affected again by the same graveknight’s undead mastery for 24 hours. A graveknight can control 5 Hit Dice of undead creatures for every Hit Die it has. If the graveknight exceeds this number, the excess from earlier uses of the ability becomes uncontrolled, as per animate dead.

Tradeouts: scholar dwarf (+2 Int, +2 Wis, –2 Con), ancient enmity for hatred, deep warrior for defensive training, and lorekeeper for greed.

Gunzarak (true mithral) special material.

CANNON GOLEM (CR 15; 51,200 XP)

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Be sure to check out Part 5 for the next set of stats.

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If you didn’t know already… I have an amazingly nerdy piece of furniture in my bedroom.

Say hello to the Mirror of Erised jewelry cabinet.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ~ ! I got it!

Bo got it for me for Xmas. He’s the BEST. (It’s from Pottery Barn Teen’s Harry Potter line. LOOK FOR SALES!)

Well, I’m finishing up the designs in my bedroom, and thought I could use a little something that speaks to both my nerdy side, and my Native American side (I’m possibly Apache, and definitely Choctaw; I’m related to Chief Pushmataha, you can read about him on Wikipedia; something like 8+ times great-uncle, I kept loosing count in my family’s lineage book).

Family history aside, the Mirror of Erised needed a buddy, and I thought I could jump on the band wagon again and make me a Harry Potter-themed dream catcher. I’ll actually have two dream catchers in my room then. One for both me and Bo! Only, I may hang them on the wrong wall… need to go do some research real quick.

Alrighty, found a site that doesn’t look like it will be funded by crystal sellers. This is an actual Native American history site, so we’re going legitimate history:

Dream catchers originated from the Ojibe, commonly known as the Chippewa. As most Native American history is passed on orally through stories and traditions, the first known documented account of a dream catcher was by Frances Denmore in the early 1900’s. He learned that dream catchers were most used to hang over a baby’s cradle, to “catch and hold everything evil as a spider’s web catches and hold everything that comes into contact with it” (Chippewa Customs, 1979). The web was a deep red color, according to descriptions, but today’s methods are more modernized, forgoing the “bloodroot” color and opting for more lighter and more aesthetic choices. Children’s dream catchers were meant to be temporary and offer up symbolism and lessons through the materials used. Adults could also create dream catchers and were made from more lasting materials, but traditionally were not meant to add a feather to the center of the web, that was for babies.

I am still one year away from earning my MSW, so I’m in full-bloom academic APA style writing mode. Did you see that I cited the original text? That cracked me up, and then I cried a little. One. More. YEAR!

I very much like the idea of a dream catcher with a dark red web, so I’m going with that. I am also going to bring in some nature and collect a few lovely sticks. Even though I am not of Chippewa descent, it was so nice to learn about the origins of the dream catcher. I know, making this a Deathly Hallows dream catcher is not very traditional, but this is my own dream catcher.

Here is some inspiration I found on Pinterest:

Check out my process below!

____THE TUTORIAL____

The SUPPLIES

Hoop (mine is 8″ diameter)

Four sticks (length will depend on the hoop size, and your preference).

I went on an adventure at a nearby park to pick out my sticks. It’s so hot in Texas right now (we’re averaging 102 degrees) so I waited until dusk. I tried to find sticks that looked like they were from the same species of tree, and the same thickness in order to keep a uniform look.

Fourth stick should be thinner, like a wand. You could substitute for a official Wizarding World wand, or DIY your own with a chopstick. I made my own to look like the Elder wand from the movies, but more natural like it was rough-hewed and done in a hurry, like it should have been, because Death don’t got time for trickster brothers, he’s got places to be; it was the Middle Ages, there were plagues galore for goodness sake, he was real busy.

(I’m basing the time period to be in the Middle Ages because the Three Brothers tale was based off of Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s Tale, and he was a poet at the end of the Middle Ages. Good old J.K.!)

Stringing cord

I used wax-coated black cord; it was most effective for weaving

Black craft paint and foam paintbrushes

Hot glue gun and glue sticks

Feathers (natural or store bought; I got mine at Michael’s)

Various charms, beads, and findings

Extra fabrics/cords/ropes/ribbons for hanging and decoration

I used black satin ribbon, sheer black ribbon, rope, and a thrifted gauzy black scarf ripped to shreds

The DIRECTIONS

Trim sticks/branches to size around the hoop. Since my hoop was rather large, I had to get much longer sticks. Do not attach anything to the branches yet.

Sanitize the branches. Excess bark, mushrooms, and moss were growing on some of my sticks, so they got shaved down with an I stuck to wiping down the surfaces with a cleaner (bleach is best), rinsing them off with warm water, and then putting them in the oven to dry at 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 10-15 minutes. The heat will also help sterilize the branches. NEVER LEAVE UNATTENDED, it’s a fire hazard. Duh.

Make a triangle with three sticks. Wrap the ends together with black fabric. I used my black ribbon. Hot glue if necessary.

4. Wrap hoop in black ribbon. Attach to the three sticks, making sure to use the same black ribbon to wrap at three points in the middle of the sticks. Hot glue if necessary.

5. Weave between the hoop and the three sticks like a dream catcher. I recommend watching a tutorial, because I improvised mine the whole time.

6. Make the Elder wand if you need to. I kept the wand black to match the color scheme. I sealed it with Mod Podge to give it a shine.This took some time to build from a dowel rod. A sanding rotary tool and hot glue is most effective. Wear a mask or filter of some kind!

Affix the Elder wand, or fourth stick to the center of the hoop and triangle to complete the Deathly Hallows symbol. I used hot glue and a little fabric.

8. I needed to paint my rope black, and left some of the ropes’ natural color to peak through at the creases.

9. Tie on pieces of fabric, ribbon, and cording on the bottom stick of the triangle. I tried to make mine follow an arrow shape that started in the middle. The easiest way to tie on the various materials was to take a long piece, loop it once around the stick, and pull the ends through the loop.

10. Hang on wall and done!

Deathly Hallows Dream Catcher If you didn't know already... I have an amazingly nerdy piece of furniture in my bedroom.

#alternative #crafty #deathly hallows #decor #decorating #diy #dream catcher #fanart #halloween #harry potter #history #home decor #j. k. rowling #my version #Native American #nature #project #tutorial

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Podcast: What is Mental Health First Aid?

We all know what first aid is. Many of us even have first aid kits that we’ve purchased or put together ourselves. We pull them out when we have a minor injury and grab the bandages or whatever we need. But what about first aid for the mind? It’s not a kit you can pick up at the pharmacy, but there is mental health first aid that you can learn. Find out more about it in this episode.

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Michael Cox is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Texas and is the co-founder and therapist in private practice at Whole Life Priorities. Cox is also a level II restoration therapist and a master trainer for Mental Health First Aid. He has more than 20 years of experience working with adolescents and their families, individuals and couples. Prior to entering the counseling and mental health field, Cox was a vocational minister.

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Narrator 1: Welcome to the Psych Central show, where each episode presents an in-depth look at issues from the field of psychology and mental health – with host Gabe Howard and co-host Vincent M. Wales.

Gabe Howard: Hello, everybody, and welcome to this week’s episode of the Psych Central Show podcast. My name is Gabe Howard and with me as always is Vincent M. Wales, and we are here today with Michael Cox who is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Texas and is a co-founder and therapist in private practice at Whole Life Priorities. But we’re here to talk to him today because he is a master trainer for Mental Health First Aid. Michael welcome to the show.

Michael Cox: Oh thank you.

Vincent M. Wales: We’re glad to have you.

Gabe Howard: We are excited to have you on the show because we’ve heard a lot in the last few years about mental health first aid. It’s everywhere. We’ve read tons of good stuff, tons of questionable stuff. There is a lot of conversation about what mental health first aid is and who it’s helping and what it does. And we’re basically counting on you to answer all of it. So can you explain to us exactly what is mental health first aid?

Vincent M. Wales: No pressure.

Gabe Howard: No pressure.

Michael Cox: No pressure. The first thing the easiest thing is, if you looking for a plug is MentalHealthFirstAid.org is the plug but mental health first aid or Mental Health First Aid USA is probably going to give you a whole lot more information. I want to give you however briefly the history. Mental Health First Aid started in Australia in 2001, came to the United States in 2008. And what we now call our adult curriculum and in 2012 we started a pilot youth mental health first aid where it’s for adults that work with youth. There is now a teen Mental Health First Aid for teens ages or grades ten through twelve and the basics of first aid is to be able to help individuals who are non clinicians. Individuals who are not trained in the mental health field to know how to help an individual who may be just having a mental health problem. So something that interrupts their day to day life or in a mental health crisis. So very simply let’s use CPR First Aid but for mental health. Just know what to do. Build some confidence around individuals to know what to do if their friends, families, or someone the community is experiencing mental health problems and then know how to get them to the appropriate help if needed.

Vincent M. Wales: Well that sounds like a good thing.

Gabe Howard: Yeah. That sounds incredible. Now in the interest of full disclosure, I have taken both curriculums. I’ve taken Mental Health First Aid youth which is sort of designed so that adults can work with young people, it’s not designed to educate young people on how to spot a mental health crisis, but rather for adults to help out young folks. And then the Mental Health First Aid adult curriculum is for adults to help out other adults. So I’ve taken them both, and they’re both very good classes in my opinion. I think that they’re in some ways, speaking as somebody who lives with bipolar disorder, I don’t think that they go deep enough. Because it’s mental health, it’s not mental illness. It’s looking for that spark. And in other ways I think that there’s just so much missing information when it comes to mental health, mental illness, and psychology that eight hours isn’t enough. So can you talk a little bit about what somebody walking out of the eight hour class is really trained or educated to do specifically.

Michael Cox: Yeah. When someone walks out of class the first thing that, you know, the biggest goal of mental health first aid is that education and awareness. So the first thing is just to give a very basic understanding of what a mental health problem is. When an individual is experiencing a mental health problem, what does that look like? So it’s bringing that stigma down, reduction of that stigma and helping people be a little bit more aware of signs and symptoms and so to know what is what a person might display and I might be going on in an individual’s life and it could be you said a mental health crisis earlier and it could be in a crisis situation or just in a day to day life. And so not everybody with a mental health problem they’re necessary to the point of an actual crisis an individual walking out that class will be able to know when there’s something that happens disrupting an individual’s life for a long period of time say about two weeks. To know something’s happening, something’s going on. They may not. They’re not going to be able to diagnose and I’m not going to be able to come out with an actual diagnosis of what that problem is but get a very general understanding of what the problem is. On the adult curriculum they go into a lot more detail with those specific disorders just to get a little bit more understanding. As you can imagine for adults, most adults, if they’re experiencing a mental health problem are pretty much going to be in the throes of it. And so what is presented in adults can be different than in youth and so in our adult curriculum individuals are able to walk away with a little bit more understanding of what are depression, anxiety, psychosis, suicide awareness, and just some basics around suicide. And then once I see someone experiencing these problems disrupting their life I know what to do. There’s a little more confidence and being able to respond. So if you just simply faced something like CPR First Aid you know we don’t go in and give you the tools to do heart surgery or reset a bone but know what to do initially. So someone else that has more training than you to be able to help, that kind of stabilizing. And so Mental Health First Aid does that. And we do it in those different modules as you said. You have an adult to adult, adult to youth, and that’s a youth program. And then now our newest one is teen with teenagers in high school 10th grade to 12th grade. And so just building a confidence and an awareness around what to do if someone experiences a mental health problem and or a crisis and how to definitely respond and how to get them to the help that is necessary.

Gabe Howard: One of the things that I think we should probably clarify is that you know so many people think that mental health first aid is designed to help people respond to people who are mentally ill. It’s like well this is a way the society can interact with the mentally ill, help the mentally ill, stop the mentally ill, prevent the mentally ill, etc., etc. You know obviously I think it’s very very important if I myself am in a crisis because of bipolar disorder I want somebody to help me. But it’s called Mental Health First Aid for a reason. Because there’s a world of difference between mental health and mental illness. Can you talk about that for a moment?

Michael Cox: In the training we kind of purposely use the words like mental health problem to kind of give this kind of a broad overview and we use that for a couple of purposes. One, for your average mental health first aider they are not going to get the skills and techniques to know how to diagnose and so we don’t want someone walking away thinking like they’ve got that tool but we’re just talking about something that’s disrupting an individual’s life. And so, for a first aider, if I’m engaged with someone I can tell that something’s happening that’s outside of their norm that maybe outside of what they’re experiencing and going through. And may maybe interrupting their ability to go to work. Their ability to engage in their daily activities or ability to have satisfying relationships. So something’s going on, something’s happening and I can figure out how do I engage as a first aider here? And then help that individual or aid individual and if needed professional help is needed. We try to connect that individual to professional help. The opposite end of that is an individual who actually has an actual diagnosis. And so an individual who’s been to trained professional and has been through the process of assessment and has an actual diagnosis with an actual mental illness. And so, you still can utilize Mental Health First Aid in those situations. The first aider is not going to walk away with the ability to make that diagnosis and so we learn or try to teach folks what their role is in those individuals lives. And we use the general term mental health problem, just to help community individuals know, they don’t really have to worry about it or try to focus on the diagnosis itself. It is just simply noticing someone experiencing the problem or crisis. And what do I do in the situation to help them out? The distinction is mental health problem, we use that as a general term when it comes to identifying with something disrupting an individual’s life. And then we look at actual diagnoses, for an example of depression, or anxiety disorders. We look at what those are, what the criteria for those are, and what an individual might be experiencing in those. And just for general education for the community to understand those and get a better understanding. And what how to respond in a specific situation. Each participant walks away with a manual that goes in to much more detail on some of those disorders, and more specifically on what the role of a first aider might be in the lives of individuals experiencing specific illnesses or disorders.

Vincent M. Wales: Thank you. I have a question about one of the, I guess you call them, modules. You have the adult and you have the youth and you mentioned a teen one now. Is that one similar to the adult one in that it’s for adults to recognize the symptoms in teens? Or is it for teens to also be involved in that end of it?

Michael Cox: I’m really excited about this. Well, it’s in the pilot stage. We have eight high schools or youth communities across the country. They currently are our pilot sites that are piloting this brand new curriculum. And so the National Council for Behavioral Health. partnered with Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation to bring this to the United States and so this curriculum also started or originated in Australia. But the format is completely different, it is for adults. Adults will be teaching the course, but they are teaching teenagers from 10th grade to 12th grade, or 15 to 18, and they are being trained to be first aiders so very similar to the adult curriculum and then the youth adults working with teenagers. This is for teenagers. For their peers to know exactly how to help when they’re in certain types of situations. And the biggest premise of that is to be able to recognize signs or symptoms, but also to know how to get that young person to a trusted adult. It is not helping teenagers take on the problems or diagnose or any of those things. It’s simply like the other two curriculum. When something’s going on, something’s happening, I recognize something going on with my friend, how do I intervene if necessary and how do I get them to a trusted adult?

Vincent M. Wales: Excellent. I was hoping you’d say that.

Michael Cox: Yeah. It’s great. I got the privilege of being one of the National trainers to help develop an instructor training. I will say the curriculum is amazing. I work with teenagers on a regular basis and constantly hear them trying to help their peers in many new and different ways. But they’re really just not feeling equipped. And so this really does give them a chance. The format right now is developed and meant to be taught in schools. It will be part of the curriculum and so they can either do five 45 minute sessions or they can do three 75 minute sessions. And they are taught within the school settings. It can be done outside of the school, but it’s been set up right now that a majority of our pilot spots are in schools.

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Michael Cox: Oh thank you.

Vincent M. Wales: We’re glad to have you.

Vincent M. Wales: No pressure.

Gabe Howard: No pressure.

Vincent M. Wales: Well that sounds like a good thing.

Vincent M. Wales: Excellent. I was hoping you’d say that.

Gabe Howard: We’re going to step away to hear from our sponsor and we’ll be right back.

Narrator 1: Thank you for listening to the Psych Central Show. Please rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes or wherever you found this podcast. We encourage you to share our show on social media and with friends and family. Previous episodes can be found at PsychCentral.com/show. PsychCentral.com is the internet’s oldest and largest independent mental health website. Psych Central is overseen by Dr. John Grohol, a mental health expert and one of the pioneering leaders in online mental health. Our host, Gabe Howard, is an award-winning writer and speaker who travels nationally. You can find more information on Gabe at GabeHoward.com. Our co-host, Vincent M. Wales, is a trained suicide prevention crisis counselor and author of several award-winning speculative fiction novels. You can learn more about Vincent at VincentMWales.com. If you have feedback about the show, please email [email protected].

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Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives with bipolar and anxiety disorders. He is also one of the co-hosts of the popular show, A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast. As a speaker, he travels nationally and is available to make your event stand out. To work with Gabe, please visit his website, gabehoward.com.

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Podcast: What is Mental Health First Aid?

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About Our Guest

MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID SHOW TRANSCRIPT

Editor’s Note: Please be mindful that this transcript has been computer generated and therefore may contain inaccuracies and grammar errors. Thank you.

Michael Cox: Oh thank you.

Vincent M. Wales: We’re glad to have you.

Vincent M. Wales: No pressure.

Gabe Howard: No pressure.

Vincent M. Wales: Well that sounds like a good thing.

Vincent M. Wales: Excellent. I was hoping you’d say that.

Gabe Howard: We’re going to step away to hear from our sponsor and we’ll be right back.

Michael Cox: Oh thank you.

Vincent M. Wales: We’re glad to have you.

Vincent M. Wales: No pressure.

Gabe Howard: No pressure.

Vincent M. Wales: Well that sounds like a good thing.

Vincent M. Wales: Excellent. I was hoping you’d say that.

Gabe Howard: We’re going to step away to hear from our sponsor and we’ll be right back.

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