#I expect more magic

[dancingfaces]

So Much (for) Stardust + a couple of lyrics currently destroying me

#first fob edit in what? seven years I think? #expect more to come #i simply needed the magic of smfs to motivate me back into making edits again! #my edit #fob edit #so much for stardust #love from the other side #smfs #heaven iowa #lyric edit

[justheblueberry]

falling 🌠

some close ups 💜

blank sky!

aaand the speedpaint

#WHEW #my hand hurts #this turned out a lot more spiderverse esque than i expected but i DID use like a million references of it so. #i am so alive i love art #dcmk #kaitou kid #kudou shinichi #detective conan #meitantei conan #magic kaito #kaishin #ort #right handed drawings #(partially) #gave up at the end cause i just wanted to finish lol

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

1: Magic is a Metaphor < 2: Morgana is a Lesbian < 3: Merlin is Gay < 4: Arthur is Bi

Do you remember when you were bullied in middle school? Because if you're reading this, I think it's fair to assume that you were. And your parents would say to you, 'that boy is just being mean to you because he likes you'. That's what this is.

Arthur is just so repressed. He has really bad daddy issues, and he doesn't know how to express his emotions, and he's really uncomfortable with physical intimacy, especially with other men, especially with Merlin. And this isn't me trying to psychoanalyse away his heterosexuality. It is a very evident part of his character.

And another big part of his character is that he has inherited all of these bigoted ideas about magic from his father that he has to work to overcome. Because, of course, Arthur himself is born of magic, but his dad is so ashamed of it that he hides the true circumstances of his birth from Arthur. Honestly, I don't know exactly how that would fit into this whole metaphor. I do have a half-formed theory that it could be interpreted as an allegory for intersex identity, I know that a lot of people headcanon Arthur as trans, so idk there could be something there. But regardless, it is only through his relationship with Merlin that he is able to overcome this magicphobia, because he realises: how could it be wrong when everything about Merlin is so right. And I just feel like there's a metaphor in there somewhere.

Of course, I have to mention this iconic quote from the audio commentary of the final episode: when the executive producer refers to Arthur taking off his royal seal to give back to Guinevere as passing over "the last vestige of his heterosexu- oh sorry, I mean his marriage." So, they knew exactly what they were doing.

I also thought I would just draw your attention to the fact that at one point Arthur says, "I only care about my men, they're more than friends, more than brothers." Now, I think we can all agree that out of context, that is a very gay thing to say, and yet somehow the context is even gayer, because Arthur is pretending to be talking about the Knights of the Round Table, but he's actually talking about Merlin, how Merlin is the only person he cares about, more than a friend. And then Merlin responds, "I understand. I wish I didn't, but I do." It's barely subtext at that point. This of course, brings me to my final argument:

Arthur risked his life to save Merlin at least eight times. It could be more than that, I genuinely lost count. And you have to keep in mind that Arthur is the King of Camelot and he doesn't have any heirs. It is quite important that he stays alive. And yet anytime that Merlin is in the slightest bit of danger, he will just drop everything to protect him.

And it's really only in those moments where he's faced with the thought of losing Merlin that he shows him genuine emotion. Such as in this scene (which was cut out of 4x02 purely because it was too gay) where Arthur is planning to sacrifice himself to protect Merlin, again, and he gives Merlin his mother's sigil, the only thing he has left of his dead mum and he wants Merlin to have it as something to remember him by. Also, apparently in medieval times giving someone your family crest was basically a marriage proposal, so that's pretty gay.

You know what else is pretty gay? Telepathically communicating with Merlin and then immediately leaving Gwen in the middle of an active war. This is literally the last time that Arthur and Gwen ever see each other. Poor Gwen.

In conclusion, Merlin is the story of gay sorcerers and bisexual knights getting into love triangles. Everyone in this show is queer and you cannot tell me otherwise.

#because I realise this is the first post you'll see on the dash: this is all taken directly from a tiktok I made over a year ago #my thoughts on this point especially have developed a bit since then. and this is written for a more entry-level tiktok audience #so it's very lukewarm takes to my fellow soldiers in the trenches #but I'm not expecting this to get much notice and idc/idk how to articulate my thoughts better so just take it for what it is #arthur pendragon #merthur #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin meta #the magic of metaphor

[completeoveranalysis]

[8]

(low key hilarious in the most painful way: Syaoran not even emoting when he gets stabbed)

(The contrast between Lava Lamp's outright horror at Syaoran's stabbing,and Syaoran just like :| )

BUT ALSO HE REACHES OUT TO DO A MAGIC BEFORE HE SUCCUMBS TO HIS WOUNDS

Oh! Oh wow, Big Magic?

A Very Big Magic. The biggest spell we’ve seen.

Is he… is it going inside Evil Wolverine’s dimension? Is he ripping the portal open?

PULLING THAT DIMENSION ALL THE WAY OPEN WITH HIS MASSIVE FAI MAGIC??

WHY IS THAT THE END OF THE CHAPTER

THAT WAS AMAZING

#Last week we had One Stab #THIS WEEK WE HAD TWO STAB #EACH STAB MORE DRAMATIC THAN THE LAST #Ides of March lives on indeed #Just not how I was expecting #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 209 #Syaoran #Lava Lamp Guy #Evil Wolverine #Fai #Kurogane #What a TIME for Fai’s magic to be exclusively Non Healing Magic #I mean yeah if you could ONLY use it to destroy #You might as well rip Evil Wolverine right out of his hiding hole #BUT OH the amount of STABS we’ve HAD

[danthropologie]

Ricciardo opens up on his McLaren departure: “I didn't care anymore" | Goodwood Road and Racing

#daniel ricciardo #m:sm #dan #red bull redux #HELLO??????? #i know people have posted parts of this but it's NOT ENOUGH!!! THERE'S SO MUCH MORE!!!! #and even this i would say isn't all of it #the christian of it all!!! the simon of it all!!!! going back expecting ridicule!!!! so fucking loved and doesn't even know it!!! INSANE!!! #also that first quote about christian specifically mentioning simon is soooo like. simon IS coming back and daniel's gonna make sure of it #whether that's convincing simon to do it of his own volition or just reiterating over and over how impactful that was for him #to the point where OBVIOUSLY christian is going to have no choice but make the executive decision that simon needs to come back temporarily #just to help daniel ease the transition back #but of course all of this is happening knowing that the second simon gets a taste of that magic again there's no way he's giving it up 😈

[rotomartsblog]

Magical Girl Strawberry Shortcake concept

Huck and Orange concepts

#rotomart #this isn’t my regular style don’t follow if you’re expecting more of this #the idea I had is that strawberry shortcake is her magical girl name #and she just has a regular name as well #like idk charlie or something #also her hat is a baker’s cap it’s kinda hard to tell #strawberry shortcake #rotomart ssc #ssc #rotomart fav #strawberry shortcake[character] #magical girl #alternate universe #magical girl strawberry au #anime #magical girl anime #strawberry shortcake 1980s #strawberry shortcake 2003 #strawberry shortcake: berry bitty adventures #strawberry shortcake: berry in the big city #strawberry shortcake: harvestglen #I’ve now created four versions of strawberry lol #sbsc #rotomart sbsc

[5ftboy]

How well does the DNDHAT cast know each other?

#dungeons and dragons honor among thieves #dndhat #justice smith #chris pine #michelle rodriguez #sophia lillis #daisy head #regé jean page #justicesmithedit #mine ** #justice unexpectedly foreshadowing his future work happens More than expected #(((aka it's proof he's magical))) #but also i had this in my drafts for awhile & forgot 🧌 #(((justice also sings !!! pls check out 'bed' by justice smith on spotify 😎)))

[worstloki]

Tom Hiddleston once suggested Sif's actress Jaime Alexander could have played Loki instead of him.

Do you think your feelings about Thor 1 and 2 would change in any way if Loki were cast as a woman? (if the plot stays exactly the same or minor differences)

I feel like it absolutely would change my thoughts about Thor 1 and 2 but hear me out because the gender change in the context of what I understand of Asgardian society would mean Loki starts out as a younger sister thanklessly expected to mediate Thor’s violent tendencies and by the end of the movie she’s turned into what is basically Hela

#I think throwing Loki under the bus by making her a woman but not changing the plot would have a lot of implications #like as a man/prince in asgardian society there was the whole warrior life thing going on as an expectation #and idk if that pressure would be more or less if Loki was a girl? #I’d assume the pressure is less but if Loki is still struggling to be loved/respected it’s like. of course she’s trying to be a warrior too #Loki would 🤝 with Sif a lot more directly in terms of situation #Sif having no solidarity for that would be wild but could make sense I suppose #if magic use was frowned upon even if Loki is a woman it would be ‘oh of course she should be allowed to she needs to make up for lacking X’ #competing with Thor would be so much more savage fr #like you’ve told a stolen/fostered daughter that she’s got the same shot for the throne as your son. in a patriarchal warrior society #in a place where men and women have different cultural expectations and the person on the throne should always be ready for war #like. bruh #also Odin saying he wants to forge peace between their realms obv means the possibility of Odin wanting to marry Thor and her at some point #unfortunate

[caehum]

my favorite part of summer game fest tbh

#kingdom hearts #kh4 #kingdom hearts 4 #sora #sephiroth #ff7 rebirth #ff7r #b3d #kh4 clownery aside i genuinely dont think we need it shown this year i mean we have so many bangers coming out in the next few months #id prefer if they took their time if we want something truly amazing #like bro theres ff16 and then spiderman 2 and then ff7r #what more could we want #keeping your expectations in check makes everything so much more magical when it happens for real #ff7 rebirth is gonna be amazing #TWO DISCS #i can't wait

[sa9vva]

Moreee kaitou kid inspired outfits OR outfits with kaitō kid's color scheme tbh

I personally like the 1st two and the 3rd left one 👀

#kaito kid #wip #magic kaito #inspired outfit #this wont be the last time i draw kaito kid inspired outfits #expect more someday #dcmk #im gonna cosplay one of this and see if people can recognize it #TinyNekoWip

[tippenfunkaport]

POV: you are about to be turned into the world's sparkliest newt

For the @flufftober prompt "I've got you."

Heads up that I am going to be trying to post a little something for as many days of October as I can but I'll be jumping around between prompt lists (and will probably continue doing the Flufftober ones into November / December since they don't mind late submissions and there are lots of cute ones I can use as warm-ups).

#glimmer #spop #shera #she ra #halloween #witch #fanart #flufftober #i was looking for spop halloween edits the other day to use as a pfp #and realized i could just make something myself #so expect more as the month goes on #magic #tippen attempts art

[emmuowo]

WAO I didn't expect to get so much love on my silly goober!!!! I don't have too much digital to show of her atm BUT here are some unrefined spreads from my sketchbook ^^ apologies for my handwriting and the dookie quality fnrnfnfbfb

#hpma oc #harry potter magic awakened #hp magic awakened #hpma #oc art #traditional art #sketch #ty guys for all the love ;w; #also pls ignore the way her name looks in the first pic my marker bled SO BAD on this paper #so i tried cutting washi tape to fix it #and now it looks... bad DJGNFNRNNR #also if anyone in ridgeback server wants to be fwiends w me... 🥺 #expect more content soon ehe

[aceredshirt13]

Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) - The Better Version

This movie - the earliest extant Jeeves adaptation - is overwhelmingly terrible and you shouldn't watch it. However, despite being completely out-of-character, about 25% of it is honestly still kind of fun. So as a collaborative effort between myself and @beetle-goth, we are happy to present you with a supercut of all of the scenes in this movie that are entertaining, with nearly all the rampant racism and sexism cut out. Will it make the movie good? Maybe not! But at least it will be... better.

This version has a few silly editorial comments inserted in by the both of us. If you want the version without our silly comments, you can find it here.

#red randomness #jeeves and wooster #thank you jeeves (1936) #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #jooster #wooves #it is actually embarrassing how long some of these edits took lmao #i had to relearn how to use video editing software #but this was very fun #expect one or two more edits of the entertaining bits of awful movies based on old british literature to come your way #increasingly convinced david niven is incapable of not making his character and his costar's character feel like they're married #even in a bad movie like this #it's his magical power

[jahiera]

pondering on a meta diving into Gale's abstract brand of selflessness (willingness to go away to a corner of the world to die so that none of the faceless masses will be harmed by his mistake) vs his personal selfishness (willingness to stick by tav despite being repulsed by tiefling camp murder + general vocal approval or interest in accumulating more power) and Gale's status as someone who is good aligned but generally ineffectual at enforcing actual good (the way that wyll or karlach will actually leave the party) which is fascinating for a fairly good-aligned person. just love when the Good Guy is actually kind of fucking weird. edit: tumblr cut off my tags Okay. and how all of this ties back in an interesting way to his relationship and power imbalance with mystra. he was wronged, deeply, but he also desires still that ... status / closeness to divinity in some way, by her influence. Gale thinks that he would be a better god simply by virtue of his mortality but he cannot escape the appeal of holding himself apart from others and being more than, greater than, something closer to godliness and thus inherently removed from mortal values and standards of right and wrong, which the gods themselves don't adhere to in the same way.

#it's just one of those things that's really compelling about his character to me in terms of ... #Gale hesitates with the shadow lantern not really because he's put off by the magic #in fact if a sorcerer Tav condemns dark magic he rebukes it and argues that all magic is inherently neutral; some simply more #frowned upon than others #He appreciates good acts. he'll say We Should Do The Good Act. but he's not going to really fight FOR doing the right thing the way #others might; and when you get beyond the act itself he can very quickly rationalize #necessity. or mistake. or the value of power + strength behind it. #the dichotomy between his fearful willingness to die at Mystra's behest while not really tamping down his interest in power and survival #that peers out and I think (?) feels almost obfuscated behind his eloquence and his manners and charm and general clockability as a #guy who approves of good things. #and there are things he says & does that are further beyond the expectations of what you might expect from someone who is 'good' #the initial interest in a deal with Raphael; the approval of taking tadpoles despite the uncertainty and possible cost; the acknowledgment #that powerful forms (slayer form or ascending astarion) will be useful onward #His Fucking Speech to Tav after the grove slaughter where he's outraged and disgusted but can be swayed to stay #he's so... sunk cost fallacy too I think. at some point the ends must surely justify the means right #and his God of Ambition thing is sooo compelling because it really drives to the max the part of gale's personality that is always there #but obfuscated by his immediate insistence that he's a moral person right. you know him to be of sound judgement. trust him. #He likes seeing good happen and he's happy to go along with doing good things and he'll #state his opinion when he thinks something EVIL is happening. but he's not necessarily #going out of his way here either if tav isn't -- and to be fair game mechanics technically mean #no one is - but we can read from Wyll/Karlach removing themselves from the situation #(need to double check but can't Wyll also leave a slayer dark urge?) #that they CAN go out of their way #Wizard Apathy Baby! you feel benevolent toward others but you crave what is beyond humanity and #deeply rooted in the arcane; which you see as beyond too basic concepts of 'good' vs 'bad' magic; neutrality that sways with intent #you trust good actions but you didn't ACTUALLY use your power at the time For Others either; you probably could have but #you craved MORE. something BETTER. #and there's a lot there in how that interacts with his relationship to mystra too #his desire to achieve something closer to godliness and both thinking that he can do better because he's mortal but at the same time #has proven that he can separate himself or his technical moralities from a situation if it means exploration of power/knowledge Beyond

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

#greenteacup asks #sidebar: I know Minister “of” Magic is an Americanism but mea culpa #Someday I might actually bite it and pay someone to britpick Lionheart but I can't do it now #because I have a ban on editing published fic unless it's finished. Otherwise I'll never get around to writing the actual ending #I have a Process #is it the best process? likely not! but it makes the words go. so here we are. #I also think the fact that JKR is Gen X makes a difference here. careers worked differently in the 80s and 90s than they do now #i.e. we have the gig economy and a lot more mobility and EXPECTATION of mobility in your early life #that means career changes & professional pivots through your 20s and 30s are increasingly normal #and in fact have always been normal — but the image of the 'true' or 'ideal' career has changed #so we look at those careers and go hm. really? none of them changed? #none of them even went to uni? do wizards... just not? #but again. I believe the epilogue was written almost completely without consideration as to what happened between the BOH and then #I really believe that JKR did not know what happened to Harry except a wedding and 3 kids. because that was the whole point #I don't think she even knew what his career was when she wrote that scene #It existed to marry everyone off and do a quick munchkin headcount #because of the understandable temptation as an author to keep your hand on the wheel. but it didn't even matter! #the epilogue changed NOTHING! it was the most useless chapter in the series! I just — GOD #you can absolutely accuse me of being sour grapes about my ships getting nixed. I AM sour grapes. I AM a hater. #AND I have plot/theme/craft reasons for disliking it. #I'm not objective. I just want credit for being a sophisticated hater. my grapes may be sour but they're still artisinal.

[movedtodykedvonte]

My personal feelings in the Fionna and Cake ending is that it was perfect.

The story showed about how we can only control what is in our very personal and small world and not worry about or take on the responsibilities of that outside ourself.

We will make mistakes and wish we could rewrite them over and over and over until it’s perfect but we can’t. We will hate aspects of our lives and adore aspects of lives we don’t know the intricacies or hardships of but we can not insert ourselves. We have our own lives to live and rather than define it by a given purpose let us define the purpose as we go along. Not everything is revealed when it’s over, you may not get the answers but it’s okay to go somewhere and not know.

Some endings are happy, some are sad and some are just that, endings. They don’t have neat little bows or a “The End” on the last page but they allow us to put the past down and move on to whatever else lies ahead.

#Betty is a chaos god Simon is just a guy and it’s okay their worlds don’t match them or each other any more #change happened and the more they fought it the more it hurt them #fionna learned this is just her life and that’s fine #I think people expecting a big emotional ending forget the show was mainly about after the healing process when you are just allowed to #drift and find what to do next like Simon or a sedimentary moment like fionna #everyone more or less already moved on they just needed to accept it like Simon finally did #and fionna had to except sometimes the moment is all there is and you have to move with it and not past #betty Simon fionna made their choices and now they live with them there is no change only being heard and they all got that and the peace #they could gain from it and ya missed the point if you think someone was cheated or their fate was left ambiguous or unfair #they are going to be what they are now fionna a non magical normal woman #simon a guy out of his time but okay about it #and Betty a being past itself and the world #it’s not extravagant but it’s what it should be the world goes on and sometimes the only change is you noticing it’s still spinning #fionna and cake #adventure time