Rags And Bones Cover

It occurs to me the guy with the Starfleet badge could use a Vulcan persona, and dress as an elf, ears fully visible, no knit cap needed!

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A+ trope-subversions short story

In fairy tales and fantasy, two types of people go in towers:  princesses and wizards.

Princesses are placed there against their will or with the intention of ‘keeping them safe.’ This is very different from wizards, who seek out towers to hone their sorcery in solitude.

I would like a story where a princess is placed in an abandoned tower that used to belong to a wizard, and so she spends long years learning the craft of wizardry from the scraps left behind and becomes the most powerful magic wielder the world has seen in centuries, busts out of the tower and wreaks glorious, bloody vengeance on the fools that imprisoned her. 

That would be my kind of story.

An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

A Grimmauld Place cover I made for Vorabiza’s Drarry longfic “Secrets” https://archiveofourown.org/works/8184311/

My very first Tumblr post, so I can share it on the Archive! (I still haven’t figured out/remembered the simpler method I used to know to “Paste Transparent”, but I found a workaround.)

Alternate version “Secrets” cover w/solid background for -ECRET-.

Thank you, /r/ProgrammerHumor, I love you endlessly.

Redditors competing to make the worst volume sliders possible...

Remus Lupin's name is a sad joke, indeed. Especially if *cough* <i>Fenrir Greyback</i> targeted him out of black humor, which seems plausible, assuming he happened to hear the boy Remus's name.

But ... it's theorized that people often DO choose careers or hobbies related to their name [because the name got them interested]. Look up nominative determinism (plus aptronym, though that doesn't imply causality).

How JK Rowling's Overly Obvious Naming of her Characters Creates a World of Unimaginable Horror

So Latin in Harry Potter seems to be super important. It tells magic what to do and how to act. Accio is derived from accerso which means to summon so when you say it your magic goes and gets the thing you want, lumos is derived from lumen which means light sp your magic becomes light ect.

But it’s not just spells that Rowling uses Latin for but also names. Remus Lupin who’s named after a man raised by a wolf and has the last name meaning “grey wolf”, Severus translates directly to “harsh” or “severe”. Albus translates to “white”, Bellatrix translates to “warrior” and so on.

It’s a bit of a coincidence that they all somehow managed to become a person perfectly summed up by their name. So what if just like with spells magic just did what it was told but with names.

Severus’ magic mum calls him Severus and magic makes him more severe, Bellatrix’s magic family calls her Bellatrix and she becomes more of a fighter, Albus is called Albus and he becomes a figure of purity and goodness, Sirius becomes more like a dog just as the star he’s named after is the Dog Star, Minerva McGonagall named after the goddess of wisdom is wise, Pomona Sprout who’s name comes from the Latin word for fruit becomes the herbology professor. Draco meaning dragon or serpent is a Slytherin through and through. And then poor Remus Lupin who seems to just have his fate magically decided for him, his name creating a prophecy that must be fulfilled.

Hell its not even just the Latin names that magic seems to work with. Malfoy is derived from the word Mal meaning evil and Foi meaning belief from Old French, the Ancient and Noble House of Black is associated with darkness, Sybill Trelawney has a name derived from the sibyls of Ancient Greece who were oracles, Argus is the mythical watchman with 100 eyes much like Argus Filch is the watchman of the castle who sees everything, Rubeus Hagrid in Old English basically means red faced drunk.

Each name with magic behind it pushes the person into a representation of it. So yeah let’s face it JK Rowling probably just wanted to “hide” some meaning in the names that hint about their character but the scarily accurate names could imply something darker. A world where names are actually a curse that follows a person for the rest of their life and alters reality until you are your name.

"Nah, I'm enjoying a natural wind tunnel ride!"

This is PERFECT! 😆😍 (And I'm very picky about portraits.) Oh, I didn't even notice the communicators at first! 😉🏅

Stargate: Enterprise

(This art was made for the Russian Fandom Battle - the Stargate Team. Check it out cos it has more cool art!)