mothwing | Entries tagged with da

If you are on DeviantArt and love HP witches, please consider joining

It's a new community (and as yet in need of another co-mod, too) dedicated to the lovely witches of the Harry Potter series, especially the adults. There are of course also plenty of other great Yuri groups who have a lot of lovely art showing teenaged witches from the series, but I couldn't find one specifically for adult witches. So here is one.

I'm going to teach my fidgety students in a room without chairs tomorrow, since they find it so hard to sit still and learn better standing up. I'm curious about how that'll work out - all of them said that when they study at home, they don't do so at their desk but while walking about. I'm curious as to whether this will be applicable to larger groups, too - I know for a fact that part of the reason why some of these kids stop being able to concentrate at some point is because they simply can't sit any longer, and I don't see a disadvantage to having them walk about the room while teaching or have them stand while writing as long as they pay attention. My reading backs this up, too. Should be interesting.

Also, I'm having a lot of fun in the Groups on DA right now, and my day was made when I discovered the picture below, drawn by ~nattherat, the best Worst Witch artist on that site.

Not only does she manage to capture the style of the books perfectly, she's also a fan of Ms Hardbroom AND Drill/Hardbroom.
My day is made.

Current Mood: busy

Sometimes I suspect that my main reason for hoping I'll find a job as soon as possible come June is that I'll get around filing for state support. There are no words for how scared I am of those forms, filling in those forms some wrong way, getting things wrong in general.

They always make me seriously need cheering up, so I looked at funny HP comics on DA and tried to cheer myself up reading the "Help with Life " forum (short version of one of my favourite threads today: you're suicidal? Get your lazy ass to a gym already!).

I'm a big fan of ~ProtoWilson's comics which have Snape and a very short angry arts teacher OC insert (example here), which never fail to cheer me up.

Oh, and *rufftoon's Reality Shift strips, which are also awesome (the first one is here.)

Now I wish those forms would just either magically fill in themselves or dissolve...

Then I discovered some of the specimen that populate DA.

Oh boy.

TL;DR - or rather, too pink, didn't read - yeah, that's Severus' little sister, half mugle, is obviously not only in Gryffindor, but also stood up to their father and was sent away for that, she's also Sirius' One True Love, Remus is her best friend and she dislikes Peter. Note the animagus shape there.

At first I thought that this was some kind of rather overdone technicolour parody, but not so. Also, the artist (age 21) doesn't seem to realise that anything might be ... off about this character and is impervious to irony or subtly incredulous questions as to wtf is going on here.

There's apparently also a fic, but I don't think that anyone can be more mind-numbingly awesome than this picture.

I'm still hoping that this is a parody. Oh, please let this be a parody.

Current Mood: losing more faith in fans

And yes, I have seen wolves before. I just can't draw them properly, though I did try to stick to some of the canon descriptions of what werewolves are supposed to look like compared to real wolves. Well. I'm quite pleased with the general mood and the grass, though. How come the backgrounds always turn out better and are more fun than my foregrounds?

Anyway, this is Minerva telling off Remus for following Severus out of the Shrieking Shack. James may have saved his life in the Shrieking Shack, but he didn't take him back to the castle.