Trompe L'oeil
The artist recreates a realistic depiction of the torn paying card, paying attention to the right color and shadow definition of its counterpart.
“Realism Challenge: Playing Card” Artist. Mark Crilley
Allow me to emphasize what I’ve already said before: it’s because too many people think they liked Harry Potter…it turns out, they’re interest in the series only extends to superficial BS (I.E., nothing to do with the actual story) that doesn’t sustain satisfaction or interest in, you know, the actual story.
EXAMPLES
JK Rowling: Here’s something interesting - horcruxes and how Voldemort used them to attain immortality
Y’all: Whatever, aren’t Hogwart’s houses interesting?
JK Rowling: Here’s a deep exploration of Voldemort’s backstory and family history etc…
Y’all: *Makes joke about Voldemort not having a nose* anyway, aren’t Hogwarts houses SO fucking interesting, like-
JK Rowling: Here’s Snape’s tragic backstory and Pettigrew’s betrayal and Dumbledore’s tragic backstory-
Y’all: Hogwarts. Houses. so. fuCKING. COOL.
JK Rowling: Okay, well here’s an examination of Wizarding communities worldwide and their justice and political systems
Y’all: WAIT, I GOT SOMETHING EVEN BETTER: Hybrid houses!
JK Rowling: Hi, yes, that’s very interesting, but how about an interesting conflict between a clandestine Barty Crouch Jr and his government official father, who ends up-
Y’all: BITCH IM A GRYFINPUFF-
JK Rowling: -UGH here I’ll introduce some badass, flawed new Auror characters and-
Y’all: QUIDDITCH MAKES NO SENSE
JK Rowling: -what about a Fantastic Beasts series exPLORING THE NATURE OF FASCISM IN THE WIZARDING W-
Y’all: ANIMALS?! COOOoool I guess uh
JK Rowling: So, Credence Barebone comes from an abusive anti-magic household and develops a parasite called an Obscurus and it links back to the Dumbledore family and-
Y’all: WHAT? PLEASE FOCUS ON CUTE ANIMALS INSTEAD OF PLOT AND STORY! NIFFLER
JK Rowling: But, I’m an author - this story is about Dumbledore’s untold history and the fight against Grindelwald in the Global Wizarding Wa-
Y’all: BITCH idc where are the chocolate frogs
JK Rowling: …so, here is the Wizarding community of France, the history of the Lestrange family, new in-universe literature, and intriguing themes relating to fascism, Naziism, and modern po-
Y’all: BITCH IM A SLYTERPUFLL
JK Rowling: -AND NEXT INSTALLMENT WE’LL GET MORE DUMBLEDORE BACKSTORY AS WE EXPLORE MORE OF GRINDELWALD’S ARMY AND GO TO THE WIZARDING COMMUNITIES OF BERLIN AND RIO D-
Y’all: QUIDDITCH! SLYTHERDOR MOTHERFUCKER, SHOVE A NIFFLER UP MY ASS, *SQUEE*, WHATS YOUR HOUSE THREESOME, ID FUCK A RAVEN AND A BADGER, IM A RAVENPUFF-
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The point being: STOP BEING OBSESSED WITH IRRELEVANT SHIT! Jesus, there’s so much hate for Rowling now because too many people have ignored her complex and sophisticated storytelling for so long that they don’t know how to follow something that’s extremely plot heavy and dispenses with bullshit like Hogwarts houses and Quidditch, which are ephemeral elements that have existed since book 1.
Once you stop selectively attending to irrelevant shit like Nifflers and magical sports, maybe then you’ll start to understand and like her stories more. Jesus.
TLDR; This is a post reiterating some of the things I said in my two previous rants regarding the reception to The Crimes of Grindelwald and the current nature of Potter fandom that I made because I’m still seeing a lot of the same unfair, aggravating shit being thrown at Rowling and the stories she’s written.
*it's a crisp autumn morning*
Ravenclaw: Finally, I can wear a sweater!
*when the sun comes out later that afternoon*
Ravenclaw: *sweating* I...I love sweater weather...ha...ha
Ravenclaw: *looks up spoilers for a show*
Ravenclaw: Oh my god, I can't believe people spoiled that for me!
Ravenclaw: I’m tired.
Hufflepuff: You just woke up!
Ravenclaw: Nope, I just got out of bed, that doesn’t mean I slept.
This couldn’t be more accurate! 😂
Hufflepuff: Creates a detailed outline evenly breaking up the work they need to get done each day to finish.
Ravenclaw: Claims to be researching for the assignment, actually has just been looking up other things. Eventually throws together something a few days before the due date.
Slytherin: Has a flawless idea of what they want to write about. Still spends the month tweaking and changing the idea to make it “perfect.”
Gryffindor: “Who dares me to do the assignment the night before lol?”
Im a Ravenclaw and this describe me and my relationship with any type of homework/assignments perfectly 😂
Anger mail
Ruki (reading mail): “This mail is about the strange behaviour I see sometimes from people sitting next to me on the night bus during tours. Once the person beside me took out a jar of kimchi, and just put his chopsticks right in and ate it as a meal, he even drank all the juice, and to top it off he put the jar on the floor and it was rolling around all night”
Kai: R U SERIOUS!!?!
Ruki: “I couldn’t sleep because of the smell and the sound. I think you guys uses buses on your tours, but has anything shocking like that happened to you before?”
(everyone laughing)
Uruha: Would you be allowed to open a window on a bus? If it smelled?
Kai: (laughing) But idk that’s kinda…
Uruha: But imagine if it was a bullet train, like if it smelled like alcohol or something omg
Everyone: HUHUHUHUHU
Kai: Ah yes, I guess we should talk about who ended up being behind that pudding incident from a long time ago?
Ruki: Why do we have to?
Uruha: Why are you forcing it?
Everyone: uuhuhu
Kai (laughing): Who did the pudding incident!?
Aoi: Was it someone you know?
(everyone chucklin)
Ruki: PUJJING INCHIDENT
(everyone dying)
Ruki: WHO DID IT
Reita: But we haven’t used a bus in a while.
Kai: Right.
Aoi: Yeah definitely….
Uruha: Huh? Didn’t we use one in Sapporo?
Reita and Aoi and Kai: AWWWW
Kai: That was just you!
Reita: It was an Uruha-kun-only bus.
Uruha: No no no
Reita and Aoi and Kai: mmfufufuuhuhu
Reita: It was an Uruha-kun-only bus~
Ruki: But when we did take buses, everyone would just start playing games right away and not talk.
Reita: Oh, like back in the day?
Ruki: Yeh
Reita: Yeh
Ruki: But there was a kinda fragrant smell…
(Everyone bursts out laughing)
Reita: Smell of what!?
Ruki: HUHU……HUHU……….
Reita: Everyone was quiet…just playin games on their screens…..
Ruki: I would put in earphones and not be listening to anything
Kai: What!?
Uruha: That’s dark!
Reita: That’s scary! …I bet your phone wasn’t even on.
Ruki: And the glass in Sapporo was super foggy. [I guess the bus windows??????]
Uruha: Let’s have Ruki join us sometime and play Monster Hunter!
Reita: You already made Ruki play Monster Hunter with you a long time ago!
Uruha: Ahh…
Reita: Yeah, and he killed a Velocidrome, and you were watching from the side like “Wow! Amazing! You killed it!”
(everyone dying laughing)
Reita: You were just talking shit, like you were entertaining a guest or something…
(everyone still dying)
Kai: Wait, are we gonna finish the conversation from before?
Reita: Nah it’s already over
there is a segment where people write in about things that the members have said that have really stuck with them, whether it was funny or inspirational or simply life-changing
someone wrote in about an interview in the past where the subject was something along the lines of “being free like a bird”
ruki said, “but are birds really free?”
to which uruha added, “yeah, they can’t even hold chopsticks.”
present-day uruha heard the mail and was like, “did I say that? I don’t remember.”
I think this is truly life-changing
The theme is things the members have said that left an impression on u
Reita (reading mail): “I love what Ruki said in this interview from 2005. The question was, when did you decide that you were going to pursue music, and he said that it was when he met Uruha and Reita. I think all of you guys coming together was a miracle, but firstly I’m grateful for the miracle that Reita-san and Uruha-san met.”
Uruha: Aw.
Reita: Well this was from 2005, so it was quite a while ago.
Uruha: Hmm.
Reita: But I guess he said that.
Uruha: Oh really?
Reita: Yeah — I mean, this is the first time I heard it
Uruha: Yeah, same…
Reita:
Uruha:
Reita:
Uruha: Huh?
(Both giggle)
Uruha: So it was when we first met huh…when was that anyway?
Reita: Well it was when we made the band, no?
Uruha: Ummmmmmm…
Reita: I mean, you and I were the only ones from the other band — from our band before. And in Ruki’s band, there were three members.
Uruha: Mhm.
Reita: And like, you’d think he was getting along with his members, but for some reason the three of us came together.
Uruha: So at that time, Ruki — wait what was it?
Reita: Huh?
Uruha: What did he say?
Reita: (laughing) Wait what what
Uruha: What did Ruki think at that time again?
Reita: He said that it was when he met us
Uruha: What was when he met us?
Reita: That he knew he wanted to pursue music.
Uruha: Right. But like, that was the time when we were the most messy, you know? Linking up with all kinds of other bands, talking about leaving members behind and stuff — I think that the fact that Ruki really thought that [about us], in the middle of all that is amazing.
Reita: Yeah it is ~
Uruha: It was a kind of uncertain time you know?
Reita: But we did come together real quick lol
Uruha: It was quick wasn’t it lol
Reita: Like we started meeting every day and stuff
Uruha: Did he not think like, what about the other members?
(Both giggle)
Uruha: We didn’t really know what was going on
Reita: Yeah for sure
Uruha: I mean, we were only two
Reita: Yeah, yeah, and they were three. So like, we should have been more ashamed [that they weren’t much of a band I think] and yet…
Uruha: Yeah. And like, if Ruki was gonna join us, he should have properly like, left his other band — it’s like, break up with ur ex-girlfriend man.
(Reita laughing)
Uruha: But he just kinda dragged it out. We were like, “so uh when are you gonna leave your other band?”
Reita: (laughing) That’s true eh
Uruha: Yeah ~
Reita: Well that brought us to where we are now ~
Uruha: Yeah~
Reita: Yeah~
Uruha:
Reita:
Uruha:
Reita:
Uruha: Wow you’re doing a bad job today
Reita: No, no, no — Uruha-kun u suck
Uruha: (laughing) What did I do!?
Reita: Your reactions have been so weak!
Uruha: No they’re not!
Reita: You must be tired from the lives ^^
Uruha: Well you’re not being very articulate today.
Reita: Stop lying!
Uruha: You’re not expanding on anything!
Reita: I’m not expanding pls
Uruha: You’re just throwing stuff around like an MC.
Reita: You’re joking right?
Uruha: Oh, I get it — you’ve gotten too used to MCing.
Reita: Okay, whatever u say. Let’s read one more.
(Uruha chuckling smugly)