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6 reasons ‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’ is better than the Variety Talk series nominees
John Oliver won the Emmy for Best Variety Talk Series. Samantha Been wasn’t even nominated. But In the freshman season of her TBS talk show Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, Daily Show alum Samantha Bee accomplished something that few other hosts and executive producers of nighttime talk shows have been able to do.
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Demons vs Angels
Acts like a demon, but isn’t one:
Aries, Leo, Pisces
Acts like a demon and is a demon:
Scorpio, Capricorn, Aquarius
Acts like an angel but is a demon:
Taurus, Gemini, Virgo, Pisces
Acts like an angel and is an angel:
Cancer, Libra, Sagittarius
CHECK OUT your differences in wand technique here and how fluidly and casually Ron throws a curse in comparison to Harry and Hermione Hermione has done the reading and is technically perfect of course Elbow straight; wrist bent Wand tip aligned with left sightline left arm held loosely behind her for balance Harry hasn’t ever done the reading Grip too tight; elbow locked Shoulders raised Left elbow cranked in awkwardly against his body Kids’ll imitate his awful technique and Junior Aurors it’ll make their parents nuts; don’t twist your neck like that I don’t care what Auror Potter does When you save wizardkind you can hold your wand however you want until then drop your shoulders Ron’s been around wand users since birth practiced with twigs and then his brothers’ wands Look at how the movement flows from his center the way he uses his whole body throws out his opposite hand behind him to counterbalance the movement Harry and Hermione get their wands into position and then throw the curse Ron’s spell starts mid-motion because he knows his wand will be in position in time (helenish)
Mmmmmmm, yes.
There will be a day when I see this and I will scroll past.
Today is not that day
Plus Ron is casting his curse non-verbally. That’s very difficult and it requires training and practice to successfully cast a nonverbal spell. It’s success is determined by the amount of concentration and mental discipline of the witch or wizard. But this is Ron Weasley he likely didn’t put training and practice into casting non-verbal spells, this advanced magic comes to him naturally. The only other time we see him cast a non-verbal spell is when he accidentally made it snow in the great hall, and that was only because Lavender was glaring him down after he said Hermione’s name while he was unconscious in the hospital wing. He felt crappy and his emotions were so intense he unknowingly made it snow. Here he’s trapped in a muggle cafe, with his best friend and the girl he loves. He’s probably scared, and angry but most of all protective. He wants to defeat these Death Eaters without anything happening to his team. His emotions are intense again and that allows him to cast a powerful non-verbal spell. No, not even a spell, a curse. We’ve seen Hermione cast non-verbal spells loads of times but even here she says the curse to ensure it’s potency. Ron is concentrated and disciplined enough in this moment to curse a Death Eater without any words at all.
Ron posts always make me happy
It’s fun to look at this. It has a kind of hypnotic effect that makes you think it could be real.
ambedo n. a kind of melacholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life.
Column: White people don’t understand the trauma of viral police-killing videos
Read it in full here: http://to.pbs.org/2cUDCYn
#WeegeeWednesday
Weegee at a demo on crime photography.
📷 Hillar P. Maskar, 1946 http://buff.ly/2dH0mKz
I have always loved everything about you. Even what I didn’t understand. And I have always known that, at heart, I would have you no different. But most people don’t know how to love. Nothing is enough for them. They must have their dreams. It’s the only thing they do well. Dreaming. They dream up obligations. New ones every day. They long for undiscovered countries, fresh demands, another call. While some of us are left with the knowledge that love can never wait. A shared bed, a hand in yours, that’s the only thing that matters. The worst thing of all is fear. The fear of being alone.
Albert Camus, The misunderstanding. (via devil–in–suit)
Someone looks fly for fall: this Smithsonian staff member from the 1880s.
Fashion inspiration courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
New Poster: ‘Rogue One’ – Dec 16
I’m actually interested to see it, although I’ve been bored to nauseating death with the Death Star since ROTJ.