Snape Appreciation Month day 19: Costume Appreciation
I know there are a lot of different robe designs around, but while I try to portray Snape as I imagine him to be in the books, I can’t help but draw him wearing the costume that Alan Rickman wore in the movies.
And I was inspired by one of his interviews, in which he says: “I was very involved in the costume. I was very specific about it. I said ‘the sleeves should be really tight, and there should be a lot of buttons. Because it helps me, the idea that he has to do this *mimicks buttoning up the coat*”
So I decided to draw Snape doing the same, fixing the neck of his frock coat, buttoning up said coat, buttoning up the sleeves and finally putting on the outer black robe (which I also love because of how it billows behind him when he walks).
As we all know, Naruto is an anime notorious for its flashbacks. I remember being so annoyed at seeing the same flashbacks multiple times in an episode when I first watched it. So way back in July of 2017 I got curious and wondered how many flashbacks there were in total. And yes it took me almost 3 years to complete this. I watched every episode and tallied every flashback I saw and categorized it as well. And now as of July 2019, I have finally finished. And here are my findings:
18 flashbacks about Naruto’s childhood/years in the Academy
47 flashbacks about Sasuke/Uchiha Clan
12 flashbacks about the conflict with Mizuki/Mizuki’s life
56 flashbacks about the Land of the Wave Arc/Zabuza & Haku/Inari & his Dad
21 flashbacks about Itachi
23 flashbacks about the Sasuke Recovery Arc
10 flashbacks about the Uchiha Massacre
12 flashbacks about Kimmimaro
3 flashbacks about the Kyuubi Attack
11 flashbacks about the Third Hokage
7 flashbacks about Iruka/his childhood
3 flashbacks about Kyuubi sealed into Naruto/Naruto’s birth
22 flashbacks about Naruto saying inspirational words/speech
44 flashbacks about Team 7 or members of Team 7
10 flashbacks about Naruto training
12 flashbacks about Naruto having moments with others
31 flashbacks about Naruto & Sasuke having fights/moments
19 flashbacks are misc or I don’t know how to place
98 flashbacks about the Chuunin Exams
32 flashbacks about Team Gai or members of Team Gai
9 flashbacks about Sakura & Ino (their friendship)
22 flashbacks about Orochimaru
24 flashbacks about Hinata & Neji
20 flashbacks about Team 10 or members of Team 10
36 flashbacks about the Sand Siblings & their childhood
35 flashbacks about Jiraiya & Tsunade/their childhood
30 flashbacks about Team 8 or members of Team 8
9 flashbacks about Idate Morino/his childhood
5 flashbacks about Land of Rice Feilds Investigation Mission/Fuuma Clan
7 flashbacks about Kurosaki Family Removal Mission/Ranmaru & Karashi’s past
3 flashbacks about Gosunkugi Capture Mission
14 flashbacks about Cursed Warrior Extermination Mission
5 flashbacks about Anko/her past
6 flashbacks about the Kaima Capture Mission/Isaribi & her life
24 flashbacks about the Star Guard Mission/Sumaru’s Past and family
6 flashbacks about the Peddlers Escort Mission
18 flashbacks about the Konoha Plans Recapture Mission
13 flashbacks about the Yakumo Kurama Rescue Mission
10 flashbacks about the Gantetsu Mission/Todoroki’s past
6 flashbacks about the Menma Memory Search Mission
6 flashbacks about the Sunagakure support Mission/Matsuri
The grand total of all flashbacks is: 791
So yeah, that’s how many there are. Some of them were rather difficult to decide if it was a flashback or not but I think I did pretty well. Now I’m onto the real challenge-Shippuden. If I don’t upload another list by 2021 then I’m probably dead.
The last paragraph has me shook. OP are you telling me this list does NOT include Shippuden.
If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would
“Please oh please open up your computer to a porn virus! If you don’t you’re evil!”
Freeloader Comin’ through!
We didn’t start this war internet users have with ads - We might have moaned about banner ads, but it was only when they started making noises when we might be listening to music or a podcast or whatever, causing two sound sorces at once, that we started trying to block ads universally rather than just a specific type of ad (pop ups).
And since then ads have gotten worse - Actual malware rather than merely breaking one of the fundamental sins of web design - though shalt not autoplay anything with sound. And the more aggressive a website is with ‘please turn off adblock’ the less I trust it to bother to vet ads and advertisers to make sure they’re not installing malware.
Not to mention that the idea that avoiding ads is “freeloading” is hilariously backward. Advertisement is a transaction between the platform and the advertiser, the user has no obligation to provide the views/clicks the platform has promised. Using an adblocker isn’t freeloading in the same way that leaving the room to get a snack during a commercial break isn’t cheating the tv network.
Ok y’all, I work as a web developer and I’m here to tell you that you are 100% right and that it’s shit. SO I’m going to tell you how to get around websites that block you from using their website if you’re using an adblocker.
Every website uses a language called JavaScript; long story short it’s a website language that allows developers to do the crazy shit you see on websites. Now the easiest thing to do is to disable JavaScript to stop them from knowing you have an adblocker:
Oh no! I’m blocked from viewing the website. It would be a terrible shame if I were able to right click and select the “inspect” feature
Click the three dots in the top right and open the “Settings” Menu
And then scrolled down to “Debugger” and checked the “Disable Javascript Option”
I introduced a friend to ATLA a few nights ago, and they had only
known two things about the entire show: the cabbage meme, and that Aang
apparently wants to ride every large and dangerous animal he can
possibly find. We got through the first five or so episodes, and my
friend noted that Aang is exactly what a 12-year-old would be like if
given godlike powers, and that this is literally just what he
could do with airbending. He can’t even wield any of the other elements,
and he’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, because he’s an
airbender.
And that got me thinking.
This snippet from Bitter Work is one of the few pieces of concrete information we get about the airbenders, at least in ATLA. Iroh is explaining to Zuko how all four of the elements connect to the world and to each other.
Fire is the element of power, of desire and will, of ambition and the ability to see it through. Power is crucial to the world; without it, there’s no drive, no momentum, no push. But fire can easily grow out of control and become dangerous; it can become unpredictable, unless it is nurtured and watched and structured.
Earth is the element of substance, persistence, and enduring. Earth is strong, consistent, and blunt. It can construct things with a sense of permanence; a house, a town, a walled city. But earth is also stubborn; it’s liable to get stuck, dig in, and stay put even when it’s best to move on.
Water is the element of change, of adaptation, of movement. Water is incredibly powerful both as a liquid and a solid; it will flow and redirect. But it also will change, even when you don’t want it to; ice will melt, liquid will evaporate. A life dedicated to change necessarily involves constant movement, never putting down roots, never letting yourself become too comfortable.
We see only a few flashbacks to Aang’s life in the temples, and we get a sense of who he was and what kind of upbringing he had.
This is a preteen with the power to fucking fly. He’s got no fear of falling, and a much reduced fear of death. There’s a reason why the sages avoid telling the new avatar their status until they turn sixteen; could you imagine a firebender, at twelve years old, learning that they were going to be the most powerful person in the whole world? Depending on that child, that could go so badly.
But the thing about Aang, and the thing about the Air Nomads, is that they were part of the world too. They contributed to the balance, and then they were all but wiped out by Sozin. What was lost, there? Was it freedom? Yes, but I think there’s something else too, and it’s just yet another piece of the utter brilliance of the worldbuilding of ATLA.
To recap: we have power to push us forward; we have stability to keep us strong; we have change to keep us moving.
The air nomads brought fun to the world. They brought a very literal sense of lightheartedness.
Sozin saw this as a weakness. I think a lot of the world did, in ATLA. Why do the Air Nomads bother, right? They’re just up there in their temples, playing games, baking pies in order to throw them as a gag. As Iroh said above, they had pretty great senses of humour, and they didn’t take themselves too seriously.
But that’s a huge part of having a world of balance and peace.
It’s not just about power, or might, or the ability to adapt. You can have all of those, but you also need fun. You need the ability to be vulnerable, to have no ambitions beyond just having a good day. You need to be able to embrace silliness, to nurture play, to have that space where a very specific kind of emotional growth can occur. Fun makes a hard life a little easier. Fun makes your own mortality a little less frightening to grasp. Fun is the spaces in between, that can’t be measured by money or military might. Fun is what nurtures imagination, allows you to see a situation in a whole new light, to find new solutions to problems previously considered impossible.
Fun is what makes a stranger into a friend, rather than an enemy.
