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Crookshanks being an unpaid intern for Sirius Black is my favorite thing about Prisoner of Azkaban. He had that cat running ERRANDS. Ordering the Firebolt for Harry, stealing Neville's list of passwords. Crookshanks was Booked and Busy

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BLOOD IN FILM:

Gone Girl (2014) Jennifer’s Body (2009) Ready or Not (2019) Carrie (1976) Revenge (2017) It Chapter One (2017) Helter Skelter (2012) The Call (2020) The Descent (2005) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Raw (2016) Evil Dead II (1987) Hush (2016) Possession (1981) Crimson Peak (2015) Byzantium (2012) Candyman (1992) Scream (1996) Ginger Snaps (2000) The Love Witch (2016)

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I found this at my Barnes and Noble. I feel like this accurately describes your writings.

That made me smile on a cold, rainy day.

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The Curious Case of Capricorn

written by #astrolocherry

Capricorn is the God of Time, the spinner of clocks and reminder our inevitable mortality. The promise of death produces the Capricorn's need for meaning and purpose in life. In another manifestation, the interplay of the Moon and Saturn turns the inner Capricorn clock backwards. Many ages wither in one, they are forced to motion backward with time in spirit, but progress forward physically. Saturn the ruler of Capricorn, is itself ravaged by the destruction of time, the rings formed from the dust of collisions and shards of a moon, spinning madly on. To experience one timeline in reverse, the Capricorn child can exhibit the qualities maturity, hindsight, and perspective of an adult three times its age. They can inherently take on the responsibilities and conceptual fears and worries reserved for the adult's in their surroundings.

This dynamic make the younger Capricorn feel at odds with their peer and age group, and therefore find greater comfort or familiarity in the presence of older people.

In the myth, Cronus swallowed his own children, a recital of the slain inner child in Capricorn.

By the time they grow older, Capricorns have the ability to really let go and delight in simple things in a childlike way. Maybe this associates with the reunion back to heaven, the birth of the Christ child in Capricorn after the maturation of nine months from Aries to Sagittarius into Capricorn, the tenth sign.

One potential tragedy is the discovery of youth when it is anatomically too late. Despite their sense of timing, it's vital they don't miss their chance while its there, the guardian of time must guard their own closely.

Cherry

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The lack of believability of the Tommy and Grace ship (Peaky Blinders)

Warning: Anti-TommyxGrace and anti-Grace

I really don’t understand the appeal of Tommy and Grace as a couple. I know that within the narrative Grace is sold to the audience as being the love of Tommy’s life and their relationship as the epic love story of the series but I don’t get why.

Their interactions in season 1 didn’t strike me as anything particularly special. There was an attraction between them, that much was clear, but in terms of Grace telling Tommy she loved him; it didn’t feel earned. What did they really know about each other and what had they shared? Sure, they killed a man together and the nature of sharing a traumatic and highly emotional thing like that can bring people together. But in terms of the two of them falling in love I never saw it. The two of them seemed to be from completely different worlds with nothing in common. Tommy said she could help him to deal with all the shit in his life but how? What did Grace really offer Tommy? How did she help him? She didn’t seem to understand him as a person or his lifestyle. She was drawn to Tommy for the same reason all of the other women around him are - because he’s intruiging, exciting, unpredictale and dangerous. Like May said, he knows how to make a woman feel alive. But that by itself is not love. 

When you factor in Grace’s absence from the majority of season 2, their love seems even more unbelievable. There were moments throughout season 2 where we’re told that Tommy was still missing her and pining for her, but it didn’t make sense. Tommy’s interactions with May in season 2 were equally as significant as his interactions with Grace in season 1 (in fact, I’d argue Tommy had more of a connection with May than he did with Grace), yet Grace was still the woman he loved. I know I keep repeating myself but why? When Grace returned in season 2 they had sex, she found out she was pregnant and we fast forwarded to their wedding. There was zero time spent on developing what was (and is) supposed to be the main love story of the show. Even in season 5 we were still being bashed around the head with the fact that Grace is the love of Tommy’s life and he will never be able to let go of her. But even when they were married I didn’t see anything significant enough to support that statement. 

A lot of my issue with this ship stems from the complete lack of development given to Grace’s character. She was a blank slate; a pretty young woman with no defining characteristics, personality or motivations that female viewers could project onto and experience through her what it was like to love and be loved by Tommy. The only real bit of information we ever learned about her was that her father was killed by the IRA, but even that was not fully developed. If someone asked me to explain or describe Grace’s character I wouldn’t be able to. The only defining trait she had was that she was Tommy’s love interest. This is a problem in a lot of shows where female characters are written with the sole purpose of being the main male lead’s love interest. The problem with Grace was that her only defining trait/relationship wasn’t even written or developed well. 

Tommy is such a well fleshed out character with a huge personality and in comparison, Grace was completely flat and one-dimensional. How can I buy into a relationship like that? I can’t wrap my head around somebody like Tommy being in love with someone like Grace; someone so uninteresting and stagnant.  If you take away her beauty there was nothing appealing about Grace, nothing to attract Tommy to her and cause him to fall in love with her. Tommy’s psyche is so complex and emotionally he finds it hard to connect to others and let people get close. He doesn’t just fall in love or attach himself to anyone, so for him to love someone the way that he loves Grace, she should be pretty someone damn special. Someone whose soul he connects to and who gets him and knows how to reach him and speak to him in a way no one else can. But I just don’t see his relationship with Grace as fulfilling these things. In fact, I’d argue that of all of his romantic relationships with women, Grace is the person that fulfils these functions in his life the least. 

I’m all too familiar with the “bad guy falls in love with a pure angel who silences the demons and makes him a better person” trope. It’s a cliched trope and overused in television, but I get it and sometimes it works very well. But with Tommy and Grace it never worked. Again, I know that’s what they were supposed to be, but I never believed it. Grace wasn’t “good” enough to make Tommy a better person and she was too passive to make a real difference to Tommy’s life. She never challenged or questioned him, she didn’t support him, she wasn’t his confidante or champion or moral compass, she was just there (and she wasn’t even there for large periods of time). 

Likewise, I’m familiar with the “enemies to lovers” trope, which again, can work very well when it’s done right. Unfortunately, it wasn’t with Tommy and Grace. For one thing, it was so damn predictable it wasn’t even fun to watch. But there was also a complete lack of build-up and tension between them. None of their scenes were emotive (at least not for me, I appreciate this is down to perspective) and even though I could sense that there was supposed to be a certain level of angst, passion, tension and attraction in their scenes, I never felt it. The chemistry between Cillian and Annabelle just wasn’t at the level it should be for a ship that was pushed so hard as being an epic romance. 

So when I watch season 5 and Tommy is haunted by Grace’s ghost and has repeated visions of her I can’t help but ask myself why? Why is this woman apparently so special to Tommy that even in death he’s still in love with her and thinking of her? Particularly when I see Lizzie as being much more able to connect to Tommy and fulfil his needs than Grace ever was. The issue for me really comes down to the fact that as a ship Tommy and Grace are all tell and no show. We’re told repeatedly that Grace is the love of Tommy’s life, we’re told that he can’t get over her, we’re told he made her happier than anybody else, we’re told that he needed her. But I never saw it, I never felt it and I didn’t believe it. 

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peaky blinders + text post meme [15/?]

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Édouard Bisson

French, 1856-1939

Les messagères de l'Amour (detail)

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if you want you can come meet me in the astral realm tonight and we can hug

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medieval beekeeper & plague doctor but make it cute 

prints / insta / twitter

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Everything I’ve learned about Elon Musk has been completely against my will.

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The Fixed Sign Witches  Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius 

I always imagine the fixed signs as having a secret ceremony together in the blanket of the night. They conduct their daily lives as if they are performing rituals, self regulatory patterns of prescribed procedures that are forms of personal preservation, honour, and regeneration of the inner Goddess. Like they have sceptre wands fused into their hands, every action has an intended outcome and every movement is a subtle manipulation of the universe. The Fixed signs are revered in astrotheological history. They are written in the Book of Revelation as the Four Beasts of the Apocalypse, and the architecture on the Chartres cathedral built between 1194 and 1250 displays the four Fixed signs with a Taurus Bull, a Leo Lion, a Scorpio Eagle, and an Aquarius Angel encircling the Christ figure at the entrance. It gives even more mystique to these Prophetesses, meeting in seclusion inside old cathedrals and raising through the symbolism that immortalises them in mythic form. They can call upon the elements like any ancient and present sorceresses, and all of the particles magnetise and move to their hands held together. The Taurus prophetess calls upon Mother Earth and Mother Moon to align gravity and activate divine consciousness The Leo prophetess calls upon the Light of the Sun and conjures a honeycomb hex. The Scorpio prophetess calls upon the Spirits trapped on earth to rise the underworld Gods into a ceremonial service The Aquarius prophetess calls upon the sky and the clouds, conducting lightning and acid rain drops that activate the frequency of the soul itself.  The Fixed modality know the intricate cosmic ingredients that can bend or break the laws of physics completely, and they can follow the enduring, precise, technical and methodical sequence of preparing and casting spells. It’s just as they move throughout the day, as if the routine of living follows the procedure of an ancient magic charm. The fixed signs are very aware of the tidal wave across the world that their tiny breath could stir, and their operative depth in the function of the universe.  This is how they know they can raise, spellbind, and disrupt it. 

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art by Mel Macklin 

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things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

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happy Thursday the 20th