Another round of potions on me
I tried my hand at pixel art for the first time, and here’s what I got.
His name is Ant.
10/01/20
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I love him!!
Also it’s pretty cool that you posted this today because today was my first time trying my hand at pixel art.
That’s awesome!! Would you be willing to share? It’s super okay if you’d rather not– no pressure at all.
Yeah! I spent several hours googling and watching tutorials, trying to figure out how people make clean-looking pixel art (because how in the world do you do that without just making your art look blurry?). So it’s been a long trial and error process. Even though it’s super simple and it’s not quite done, I’m happy with the progress I’ve made.
So anyways, I think this may have been done before, but… I really wanted to try making an Undertale-style battle sprite of Spinel.
It’s not much, but I really like it. On top of that, I really want to try making this into a little animated gif (I’ve never really animated either, but there’s a first time for everything right?). This all came about because I recently found this 16-bit remix of Other Friends, and it sounds just like an a typical Undertale boss theme (which is to say that it’s really cool and of course I had to try making this). I’d like to get permission, if I can, to use that song to post a little animated video. I’ve made a box and everything.
I just need try out the animation part. So… I guess wish me luck! And good luck to anyone out there who’s also trying out new mediums for the first time. I’m proud of you.
Also, back to the @thejoanglebook, I really like the shading you did on Ant. It honestly looks so good and the colors are so nice. Someday I may try color, but for right now I’m just going to stick with working on my black and white, haha.
Omg this is SO good! I had no idea what I was in for!
Great things about gen 5
-Putting MUSTACHES on your pokemon and other silly accessories
-Touko
-IRIS
-every single character
-it introduced fully animated battle sprites and kept our beloved pixel art
-seasons!!!!! beautiful seasons
-a plot line that was actually engaging and unique
-Come on these games were absolutely gorgeous
-the litwick evolutionary line
-absolutely everything
gen 5 is my fav tbh
Okay but what if all of the potions edits in Snape’s old textbook were just things he overheard James say in potions class because “no Padfoot you crush the bean! Cutting it doesn’t do anything! Trust me my dad told me”
But I love this because then when Harry always talks about how the prince is a much better teacher than Snape he would actually be learning from his father and grandfather…
I’m not crying
My eyes are just glistening with the ghost of my past
Based on what I’ve read on Pottermore, that’s basically 100% accurate cause James’ dad created a ton of potions (like Skele-Gro and the hair potion Hermione uses for the Yule Ball) and got super rich and that’s why James never had a job and left Harry tons of money. James would have handy potions making knowledge of that sort.
That’s exactly what I meant
A lot of people took this to mean that James was the one who was really good at potions and it was his favorite subject but all I meant was that he was probably very knowledgable about potions and couldn’t help giving his friends advice that Snape probably overheard
Like my dad is a doctor and although science may not be my thing I’m still probably more knowledgable than the average person especially with all of the lowkey medical work I’ve done over the years
OMG OMG OMG!
Ok, ok ok,
You know that joke that went around about “Why didn’t Harry recognize The Prince’s handwriting when he’d been staring at it on the board for 6 years?”
What if that was because it was James’s handwriting? He wrote the notes and Snape stole the book from James as a “Haha, fuck you, lets see how well you do without your cheat sheets” Then writing ”This book belongs to the half blood Prince.” to gloat that he took something from James Potter.
James is the only one we see use Levicorpus besides Harry.
I know that means James created sectumsempra, but still, it was a time of war and death eaters, maybe he created it as a last resort thing.
New head cannon
It actually makes more sense that James would have notated Sectumsempra “for enemies” because what would Snape care? If he wrote it, he would know what it does. Maybe James even overheard it or saw it used and wanted to warn himself in case he ever remembered the word but not the context and what would happen.
THIS THIS THIS OMG THIS @icanhelpyouthere @mangoapplepie @lycanthropuns THIS (also cry with me because harry wouldn’t know what james’ handwriting looked like)
That’s ok I’ll just cry myself to sleep tonight.
And it makes sense for Snape to want to get much better at Potions. Lily was repeatedly said to be the star of the class by Slughorn, and Snape must have wanted to impress her just to have something in common to talk to her because let’s be real, they deviated from each other when he started hanging with the dark magic practitioners. And who better to cheat off from than James Potter, the guy who’s like his archnemesis?
HOLY FLYING SHIT it just makes so much SENSE though, i feel like that’s a hidden obviousness J K Rowling has been waiting years for us to get
To diverge slightly:
What if it were Lily’s textbook, and her notes? Sectumsempra might seem out of place, but this is the same woman who would, only a couple years later, defy the scariest, Darkest wizard in the world not once but three times, and then again a fourth time when she stood between him and her son. The war was already pretty bad by their sixth year. Having probably lost friends who already graduated Hogwarts, she might have developed the spell expecting to have to defend herself in the very near future.
And then, after stewing in his bitterness and obsession all year, Snape stole her potions book at term’s end and marked it as the Property of the Half-Blood Prince, because it’s literally the only way he could ever lay claim to any part of Lily.
lush employee: hello, how can I–
me: hello, potion seller. I am going into battle and I need your strongest potions.
“In case one gets caught by the enemy.”
a harry potter au where potions is taught by gordon ramsay
neville: *messes up his potion*
gordon ramsay: *holds neville between two slices of bread* what are you
neville: an idiot sandwich
no no no!
Imagine that this is Gordon Ramsay a la Masterchef Junior
Neville: *messes up the potion, realizes it, starts crying quietly*
GR: What’s going on?
Neville: *explains how he messed up*
GR: Oh gosh okay…we can fix this, don’t cry, see, it’s fine now? Just be more careful when you’re adding the Newt’s eyes, all right? Drop them in gently. There we go. No more tears.
Neville: *giggles wetly, wiping eyes*
Yes, he only screams when he’s dealing with people that claim to know what they’re doing and clearly dont, when he’s teaching he’s very kind and patient because they’re still learning.
He’d probably do the bread thing to Malfoy.
nononononono. I get that Malfoy is a bit of a twat, but he’s still a kid. It’d be the teachers fucking up that he’d have trouble with.
Ramsay: All you had to do was treat it with a fucking Beozar!
Slughorn: It was a stressfu-
Ramsay: How long have you been teaching potions?!
or
Ramsay: So you’re going to raise this boy SPECIFICALLY so he can die as part of your twisted little scheme?
Dumbledore: It’s for the greater good, professor.
Ramsay: The greater fucking good?! *holds two slices of bread either side of dumbledoor’s face* What are you?
Dumbledore: Am I, per chance, an idiot sandwich?
Ramsay: Yes, you fucking are.
Okay, now I can reblog it!
ok but hear me out, quidditch games in the middle of the night
- all students praying mcgonagall wont find them out
- begging hermione to be the judge of the game
- the students playing IN THEIR PJ’S
- all houses playing together it’s a mess
- draco complaining about everything but begrudgingly having the time of his life
- “malfoy honestly you are gonna slip off that broom in those silk pj’s”
- slytherins and hufflepuffs vs gryffindors and ravenclaws
- they do it almost every friday night
- hagrid watches every single game and cheers for everyone equally
- the house elves all know and prepare them a feast of junk food after every game
- they have sleepovers at each other’s common rooms after the game because they are too exhausted to go to their own
- “can we crash in the slytherin dorm today”
- house unity AT ITS FINEST no one gives a fuck
- they are all tired af but no one wants to go to sleep so SLEEPOVERS
- everyone having extra mattresses under their beds for these occasions
- the paintings helping them sneak out by warning them if there’s a teacher coming or not
- THE TEACHERS NEVER FINDING OUT (actually they all know they just pretend they don’t)
FINALLY! A Harry Potter universe headcanon that isn’t sad
Hogwarts Classes as John Mulaney Quotes
Care of Magical Creatures: You need to show dominance over your puppy.
Defense Against the Dark Arts: STREET SMARTS!
Potions: I grabbed it, drank all of it, and said “It’s perfume.”
Flying: Cars were pulling up and looking over to see who just did that piece of shit move, expecting to see like a hundred-year-old blind dog, who’s texting while driving and drinking a smoothie. Instead they see a 28-year-old healthy man trying his best.
Transfiguration: This is an on fire garbage can. Could be a nursery.
History of Magic: That’s like when your gram would be like, “We’d all go play jacks down at the soda fountain!” and you’re like, “No one knows what you’re talking about, you IDIOT.”
Muggle Studies: “I think Emily Dickinson’s a lesbian.” And they’re like, “Partial credit.”
Frog Choir: So we put in seven dollars and selected 21 plays of Tom Jones’ “What’s new pussycat”