Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

tyrianterror:

roachpatrol:

nearly-headless-horseman:

totalnerd666:

her-my-oh-ne:

#can we just stop and appreciate Harry’s face in this scene? #I mean, he’s literally waiting for someone to say something about Hermione’s blood status #she’s the only Muggleborn in the slug club full of purebloods and well known people #and Harry’s there just like “say something I dare you” #and if you look at her face, you can see the actual hesitation and somewhat fear of what will happen next after telling of her parents occupation #Harry truly is acting like Hermione’s big brother, which I absolutely love #i just adore this scene

I love that Neville looks genuinely interested in what hermione’s talking about.

Harry: I wish a motherfucka would talk shit right now
Say something, make my day
Das right

Nevile looks like he’s just made a private mental note in flaming red ink: WHATEVER THE HELL A DENTIST IS, DON’T MESS WITH ONE. 

#this is a harry potter blog #seriously any profession that turns out a kid like hermione #must be utterly terrifying #neville finds out it involves rearranging people’s teeth with wires and drills #and drugs and scrapy knives #and is like AHA #I KNEW IT#I KNEW THEY WERE TERRIFYING #hermione granger: horrifying storm of a girl since day one #(so do the muggles have to be hunted down for that or does the government assign you targets) he asks her one day #she squints at him for a long time #’they volunteer’ she says eventually #neville shivers #muggles are HARDCORE

Including tags because oh my fucking god.

First time through I laughed hysterically, second time through I sat here like a stump because oh my God this is so accurate, what the actual fuck is wrong with us????

(Source: pottergifs, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

vixyish:

ellidfics:

cecilyjeanne:

devil-whore-bitch:

jacqueline-carlyle:

They’ve got civilians trapped.

I love that while the avengers fought the aliens you also see them helping to evacuate people so they are safe. It’s not just fighting, it’s rescue as well.

YES THANK YOU! This was my huge and horrible problem with Man of Steel. No help. Buildings falling left and right. I just kept saying “There’s another 10,000 dead people…oooh, and another 10,000 right there!” And no one cared. It left me feeling a bit sick, actually.

In the same movie Captain American *repeatedly* goes out of his way to rescue civilians, order the local police to make sure that the civilians are safe, tells people to get underground in a deleted scene, and leaves the main battle to rescue an entire bank full of terrified people from the Chitauri.  He damn near gets blown to pieces doing the last, after losing his cowl so that the entire world can see his face and realize that the guy in the Captain America outfit is the lost hero from 1945 who sacrificed himself to save the entire Eastern Seaboard.  

Want more?  Don’t forget that Thor offers himself to save an entire town of people he doesn’t even know, and that a couple of years later Jane runs through a library screaming at people to get away from Malekith and his ships as they ravage Greenwich.  And what the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Nova Corps banding together to save an entire planet?  Tony Stark sending his precious armor to save Pepper, then ordering her to remove Maya from the battle zone before thinking of himself?  Bruce Banner going underground to heal people in the most literal sense?  Sharon Carter taking the extra second to kick the launch technician’s chair out from under him just in time to prevent Crossbones from blowing him to hell?  All those poor doomed SHIELD agents trying to take on STRIKE teams with hand guns to prevent those helicarriers from getting intot he air?

Best of all, after spending two years working beside Cap and going on the lam with him, Black Widow, the most morally ambiguous character of them all, shouts “Get out of the way!  RUN!” as she flees for her life from the Winter Soldier.  This is a woman who a worldwide reputation for black ops, and even she puts non-combatants above her own life.

It’s one of the things I love best about Marvel:  their characters are more than muscle and speed and grandstanding against impossible odds.  They have heart and soul and spirit, and every single one of them, without exception, is willing to take the extra second or two to protect the innocent and the defenseless even if it means their own lives.  There’s a moral core there that the Superman of Man of Steel lacks, and it’s a reason why these movies are so popular:

We know in our bones that if we lived in their universe, they’d do what true heroes do, and they’d save us.  

Superman, at least in Man of Steel, doesn’t.  

That makes all the difference.

Also why Christopher Reeve is and will always be my Superman.

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holmesillusion:

I heard the explosion, I guessed it was you.

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chrisdwoo:

lyinginbedmon:

catoverlord:

the-goddamazon:

gladi8rs:

Adorable. Imagine the detailed work of the hair movement which is on point.

Somebody put so much love into the animation of those curls.

don’t they usually animate hair like this with physics rather than actually animate it by hand?

Correct, hair is usually done using a physics simulation because to individually animate every strand (or even just every cluster) would take months or years.

CG hair actually has a pretty amazing history. If we go back to 2004, the time of The Incredibles (which notably features the long-haired character of Violet) long hair was basically impossible. The physics calculations would make it wrap against itself and stick in place or violently fly around haphazardly. The Incredibles had to engineer the technology to simulate Violet’s hair mid-production to get it to work as well as it looks in the final release (they also did great work with wet hair too).

Prior to that, the best example is 2001’s Shrek, where hair simulation had to be done wholesale for the character of Donkey and for Princess Fiona’s braid. Having the hair be short or restricted in its movement made it a lot easier to simulate, but Shrek was still very pivotal in how fabric simulation progressed (a whole other can of worms, to say the least).

Now we have movies like Monsters Inc. and How to Train Your Dragon, where not only is hair varied in style, length, and volume, but it’s all simulated with physics rather than animated in the traditional fashion. Characters like Sully or Stoic the Vast would have been utterly impossible only 10 years ago.

So yeah, it’s maybe a little bit of a let-down to find out that hair such as in these gifs isn’t hand-crafted on a frame-by-frame basis, but that doesn’t really make it any less impressive I think.

Cool commentary.

(Source: ride-a-dromedary, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)