#Elinore Wizards

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Elinore and Avatar - Wizards animation cels (1977)

[buriedaliens]

Who will teach me all the magic I've left to learn? Only Avatar can make me a full-fledged fairy. As you can see, I'm only half there.

Elinore from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1977)

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A Mucha inspired piece with Elinore. Inspired by a piece of concept art from Wizards modeled after his Monte Carlo piece.

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I rewatched Ralph Bakshi's 1977 Wizards again recently and now y'all have to suffer through me talking about it.

[docgold13]

Profiles in Villainy

Blackwolf

In the wake of a world wide nuclear war, the humans who survived the apocalypse had been transformed into mutants who live in the dark lands of Scorch.  Whereas humanity's true ancestors, the fairies, elves and dwarves, have resurfaced and live in the idyllic land of Montagar.

While her people celebrate 3,000 years of peace, Delia, queen of the fairies, fell into a trance and gave birth to twin wizards: the kindhearted Avatar and his evil, mutated brother Blackwolf. After Delia's death years later, Blackwolf attempted to usurp her leadership, but Avatar defeated him in a magical duel. Blackwolf was banished from Montagar, vowing to return and conquer the realm in the name of the mutants.

Three thousand years later, Blackwolf had established himself as the tyrannical leader of  Scortch, where he raised a powerful army of mutants, orcs, goblins and trolls.  He began his campaign to push the borders of Scorch into the lands of  Montagar.  Furthermore, Blackwolf had discovered an ancient projector and reels of nazi propaganda footage from World War II.  He used this with his magic to generate an overwhelming form of psychological warfare, inspiring his own soldiers whilst horrifying enemy troops into submission.

Accompanied by the fairy, Elinore, and an elfin warrior named Weehawk, Avatar set off on a mission to sneak behind enemy lines and destroy Blackwolf’s secret weapon.  It does not go smoothly, but the heroes prevail and Blackwolf was killed.  The propaganda films were destroyed and the villain’s army, now leaderless, dispersed.  

Actor Steve Gravers provided the voice for Blackhearts, debuting in director Ralph Bakshi’s 1977 animated film, Wizards.  

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5 characters from your favorite books whose real ages are hard to guess

As we enthusiastically leaf through another book, we vividly imagine the appearance and character of all the heroes of the story. But sometimes film adaptations of literary works turn out to be so memorable that we involuntarily replace the existing image with what was shown to us on the screen. And we unwittingly add extra years to the character or, on the contrary, make him younger.

Severus Snape from "Harry Potter"

Snape once attended Hogwarts with Harry's parents, so when the young wizard first appears at school, the Potions professor is relatively young - only 31 years old. The filmmakers invited Alan Rickman, who was 54 years old at the time of filming, to play the role of this controversial character. Therefore, on screen Severus looks more experienced and sophisticated than he really was.

Ellie from "The Notebook"

In the novel by Nicholas Sparks, at the beginning of the story, the main character, Ellie, is 15 years old. The creators of the film adaptation decided to add a couple of years to her so that the girl would be a little more mature. So they cast Rachel McAdams, who was 24 at the time. Considering that the main events unfold 7 years after the heroes met, such a decision is completely justified.

Elinor Dashwood from "Sense and Sensibility"

In Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, Elinor's older sister was 19 years old. But in almost all film adaptations the girl was played by older actresses. For example, Emma Thompson was 36 years old at the time filming began. Thanks to this, the creators were able to achieve a more authentic image of the reserved and reasonable Elinor, which the young actress would hardly have been able to create.

Rubeus Hagrid from "Harry Potter"

Hargrid in the film version looks quite young for his age. According to JK Rowling, he was born in 1928, which means that by the time he met Harry he was already 62 years old. Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played this role, was only 50 years old. Perhaps the filmmakers decided that Rubeus aged a little differently than ordinary people, since he was half giant.

Ashley Wilkes from "Gone with the Wind"

At the beginning of the novel, young Scarlett invites her neighbor's son Ashley, with whom she is hopelessly in love, to run away from home and tie the knot. At that time the young man was 21 years old. However, in the film he seems much older, which is not surprising - the actor Leslie Howard, who played this role, was 45 years old. Therefore, the on-screen relationship between Scarlett and Ashley looks ambiguous - a wise man carefully refuses the eccentric girl. The audience gets the feeling that Wilkes was the same age as Rhett Butler, although in fact the difference in the characters' ages was more than 10 years (Rhett was 33 years old).

By the way, the appearance of literary heroes also sometimes changes when transferred to the screen. Some differences are not noticed by the attentive public, while others are simply noticeable.

[the-weirdos-mind]

Incorrect Quotes 30

In honor of Treasure Planet’s 20th anniversary, here’s some incorrect quotes

Andrew: *pushes a door that won’t budge* Oh

Andrew: *pushing the door harder, still won’t budge*

Cetus: Dumba** it’s pull

Cetus: *pulls the door but still won’t budge* What the h***? *pulls harder*

Silver: Godd***it, just shake the d*** door till it unhinges!

Andrew, Cetus, and Silver: *yelling and arguing while trying to open the door*

Normua: So when will tell them it’s locked?

Elinor: *passing snacks out to the kids so they can watch* In a minute

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Luca: Where’s Illysabeth, Ollie, and Lyka. I gotta talk to them about something

Emma: They’re outside fighting water

Jim: FOR THE LAST TIME IT’S CALLED SWIMMING!!

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Jim: Where are you going?

Luca: To get MYSELF a gift cause somebody didn’t get me one!

Jim: I told you I did! It’s coming here on Friday!

Emma, Lukas, Ollie, and Illysabeth: *knowing full well that he got them an engagement ring* *eating popcorn*

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Tori: Poison is a magic transmutation potion that turns people into corpses

Victor: This knife is a magic wand

Lyka: Meet me in the Denny’s parking lot for a wizard duel

Illysabeth: *cocks gun* Magic missile

Andrew: What the **** is wrong with you kids??

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Ash: *watching power lines fall down* Flint, Bones! The town is exploding and it’s very pretty!

Masterlist

Andrew and Cetus belong to @aalbliii

Normua, Tori, and Victor belong to @authorchan-love (deactivated)

Elinor belongs to @emerald-echeveria-plant

Luca belongs to @sleeplessdreamer14

Illysabeth belongs to @fandomcringe

Ollie belongs to @sailingthespiral

Lyka belongs to @uselessalexis165

Lukas belongs to @wallymcflubberfins

Ash belongs to @ash-pirate25

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"I'm too old for this sort of thing. Just wake me up when the planet's destroyed."

I liked the part with the giant rat.

Wizards is a movie I'd like to enjoy more than I do. I'm a sucker for a post-apocalyptic setting, and the concept of the forces of magical good fighting technological evil has a lot of promise. However, much like the first time I saw it maybe fifteen years ago, I just found it underwhelming.

I really like a lot of the visuals, although there are so many differring styles of wildly varied quality that whether any given scene will look good is a total grab-bag. The roto-scoped battle segments are truly unforgettable, with their surprising brutality and striking style. I do question the choice to include Zulu warriors within the demon Nazi army, though it may simply have been a shortage of battle scene stock footage to paint over.

Avatar himself is easily the most fun and likeable part of the movie. He's a sarcastic, lecherous, cigar-puffing, Columbo-voiced wizard, who brings a Luger to a mage fight. What's not to love? That final confrontation between him and Blackwolf is certainly the best scene, and remains one of my favourites from any movie.

It's a shame then that the rest of Wizards is so messy. Weird pacing, bizarre tonal shifts, strange dialogue with stilted delivery, and a general difficulty in making sense of what's supposed to be happening, especially in the middle third. Oh yeah and what the hell was with Weehawk yelling "Slut!" at Elinore when he thought she had betrayed them?

As much as I love the concept, the movie itself is just... alright. That said, it's short and has some very interesting elements, so I do recommend seeing it.

[whizzbees-ocs]

Willa Barker

willa barker (she/her) // first female heir of the barker family fortune, the last living descendants of the salem witch trials // hogwarts transfer student, gryffindor // located in salem, new york city, and london

allies // hermione granger, the weasleys, harry potter, neville longbottom, parvati patil, lavender brown, nolan jackson, cedric diggory, sebastian fox, elinor barlow, reggie jessop, juliette bishop, kingston chance [@goldenlilium-ocs], daphne greengrass, and many more

enemies // voldemort, entire malfoy family, pansy parkinson, rita skeeter, cormac mclaggen 

love life // single, but constantly thinking about ron weasley 

aspirations // potions master and professor

enjoys // reading, laying outside, learning how to garden, discovering no-maj music, mindlessly knitting with hermione, playing wizard’s chess

face claim // chase sui wonders

“designer clothes, million galleon inheritance, and access to all the hottest eligible bachelors in the wizarding world, yet, all she’s seen doing is teaching snot-nosed kids in the middle of nowhere and galloping around with an unknown redheaded wizard. what a colossal waste!” — rita skeeter, the daily prophet 

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Pink Elinore icons 💞💕💝 Feel free to use them if you wish! Credit is not necessary but it is appreciated 😘

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Elinor and Juliette drinking ecstasy blood:

“We drank some drug blood and now I’m a wizard”

[dykemerrilll]

committing to character-driven rp by making elinor a transmutation wizard even if i have no idea how to play one

[hirokiro]

I'm sick out of my mind so not in the mood to look up exact details. So let's see if memory holds. Left to right, Navine rogue tiefling(me) Brenne half elf Forge Cleric, Blaire asamire Bard(And chaos goblin) ....... Name that's very hard to remember Eladrin Wizard I think. Nyx gnome wizard and Elinor, half elf Paladin.

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May 2023 Wrap-Up

Rereads

The Chalet School at War/Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (Chalet School #15) (mg school adventure fiction)

School for One/Judith Weil (ya realistic Jewish fiction)

5 stars

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt/Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by James Ransome (historical fiction picture book)

Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood/Nathan Hale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #4) (mg historical non-fiction graphic novel)

4.5 stars

The Chalet School in Exile/Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (Chalet School #14) (mg adventure fiction)

Inside Out and Back Again/Thanhha Lai (mg historical based-on-the-author novel in verse)

Loveless/Alice Oseman (na coming-of-age realistic fiction)

4 stars

Apples Never Fall/Liane Moriarty (adult domestic thriller/mystery)

Riding Lessons/Jane Smiley (Ellen and Ned #1) (mg realistic horse fiction)

3.5 stars

Changes for Kirsten/Janet Shaw, illustrated by Renne Graef and Keith Skeen (Kirsten Larson #6) (first chapter books historical fiction)

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute/Talia Hibbert (ya romance)

What Moves the Dead/T. Kingfisher (Sworn Soldier #1) (adult horror)

Winter of the Ice Wizard/Mary Pope Osborne (Merlin Missions #4) (first chapter books mythological fantasy)

3 stars

Bishop’s Opening/R.S.A. Garcia (adult sci fi romance)

2.5 stars

The Call of the Wild/Jack London (adult animal fiction)

Confessions of a Shopaholic/Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic #1) (adult chicklit romance)

Kirsten Saves the Day/Janet Shaw, illustrated by Renne Graef and Keith Skeen (Kirsten Larson #5) (first chapter books historical fiction)

2 stars

Sister of the Bride/Beverly Cleary (First Love #4) (ya realistic fiction)

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# books read: 18

Most read age groups: MG and Adult

Most read genre: Realistic fiction

Average rating: 3.3 stars

[potatoesandsunshine]

wizard time...... once more i will inflict jane backstory on the dash

     “Ice wraith tears, ivy leaves, salamander skins—no caster mistakes these things for magic. There is nothing about a silver bell or a vial of blood that makes it anything other than what it is. We call them components, which is a flawed term.” 

   Doctor Aravis pauses her lecture for a moment, casting her eyes over the small group of students in the upper-level spellcraft course. There’s the gnome boy with his crooked nose who plays at sword fighting with the fencing team, folding his spells into the blade like it’s something to be impressed with. The conjurer who had seemed so promising at the start of term, a dark-haired human with a scar on her forehead, who has proven with each project to be more and more mundane. The loud tiefling who cares only for making fires larger, the irritating half-orc who twists each discussion around to transmutation no matter the reading, the tabaxi that makes breathtaking illusions without a care for anything real—disappointments, all of them. 

   When she was a child, Elinor Aravis’ grandfather liked to take her fishing. They’d go out on his little boat, wobble their way to the middle of the lake, cast their lines, and wait.

   Scribbling notes at the left-side desk, the plain half-elf fills yet another page. Jane Consequence is quiet, a listener, and if grading participation was something Doctor Aravis actually intended to do she would be at the bottom of the course. She watches her classmates, watches her professor, scribbling and scribbling and scribbling all the while. One of the bookish ones, and if there were any substance to the rest of the students she wouldn’t even bear considering.

   Still, without her this would be a waste of a term. All these hours, every week, time that could’ve been spent in the lower laboratory—but no, Doctor Aravis can be patient. She’s been casting over and over, inspecting her catch and throwing it back each time, every single one leaving her wanting.

   Doctor Aravis takes a sip of water. “Equations and logical proofs and runic structures,” she says, curling her lip, “appear to be more than they are. And the movement of a hand is just a movement. A spoken incantation is only sound. It is the height of absurdity to believe these things are ‘magic’. If you leave here knowing anything, know this: they are keys, nothing more.”

   The ever-present scribbling has stopped. Ah, there, at last. The final fish on the line.

   “Then what is magic?” Jane Consequence asks, leaning forward, a spark in her plain brown eyes. Wriggling on the hook, working it deeper into her own flesh.

   Doctor Aravis smiles, reels, “Magic is a door.”