newt: i just ended a four year relationship
theseus: wait, what? are you alright?
newt: hm? oh yeah, i'm fine. it wasn't my relationship
*dumbledore and grindelwald fighting from across the room*
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Cold Cases #4 - Bohemian Rhapsody, The Crimes of Grindewald, Mirai
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Holidays 11.16
Holidays
Birth of the Blues Day
Clarinet Day
Dagur Islenskrar Tungu (Icelandic Language Day; Iceland)
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty (Estonia)
Hecate Night (Wicca)
International Day For Tolerance (UN)
Mother’s Day (North Korea)
National Black Marketeers Day
National Button Day
National Check Your Wipers Day
National Indiana Day
National Moms and Dads Day
Remembrance of Things Past Day
Resident Aliens' Day
Revolution Day (Mexico)
Statia Day (Bonaire, St. Eustatius & Saba)
World Historical Motors Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Famous San Diego Chicken Day
Have a Party with Your Bear Day
National Fast Food Day
3rd Wednesday in November
GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems) [3rd Wednesday]
National Educational Support Professionals Day [Wednesday of American Education Week]
National Zinfandel Day [3rd Wednesday]
World COPD Day (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) [3rd Wednesday]
Independence Days
Oklahoma Statehood Day (#46; 1907)
Feast Days
Africus (Christian; Saint)
Agnes of Assisi (Christian; Saint)
Dodo Grieving Day (Pastafarian)
Edmund of Abingdon (Christian; Saint)
Elfric of Abingdon (Christian; Saint)
Eucherius of Lyon (Christian; Saint)
Gertrude the Great (Roman Catholic Church)
Giuseppe Moscati (Christian; Saint)
Gobrain (Christian; Saint)
Herschel Gordon Lewis Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Hugh of Lincoln (Roman Catholic Church)
Margaret of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
Matthew the Evangelist (Eastern Christianity)
Mr. and Mrs. Slop (Muppetism)
Othmar (Christian; Saint)
Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn (Christian; Saint)
Roch Gonzalez, Juan de Castillo, and Alonso Rodriguez, SJ (Christian; Saint)
Ruyter (Positivist; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [29 of 32]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Amélie (Film; 2001)
Beowulf (Film; 2007)
A Clash of Kings, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 1998) [A Song of Fire and Ice #1]
Donny & Marie (TV Variety Series; 1975)
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, recorded by The Animals (Song; 1964)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald (Film; 2018)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Film; 2001) [Harry Potter #1]
Home Alone (Film; 1990)
House M.D. (TV Series; 2004)
Jingle All the Way (Film; 1996)
Love the One You’re With, by Stephen Stills (Song; 1970)
The Menu (Film; 2022)
The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard (Play; 1982)
Silver Linings Playbook (Film; 2012)
The Sound of Music (Broadway Musical; 1959)
Today’s Name Days
Margareta, Otmar (Austria)
Matei (Bulgaria)
Agneta, Gertruda, Margareta (Croatia)
Otmar (Czech Republic)
Othenius (Denmark)
Aarne, Arne, Arno, Arnold (Estonia)
Aarne, Aarni, Aarno (Finland)
Gertrude, Marguerite, Mégane (France)
Arthur, Margarita, Otmar (Germany)
Ifigenia, Mathaios, Matthaios (Greece)
Ödön (Hungary)
Margherita, Procolo (Italy)
Banga, Dzirkstīte, Glorija (Latvia)
Edmundas, Gerdvilė, Gertrūda, Vaišvydas (Lithuania)
Edgar, Edmund (Norway)
Aureliusz, Dionizy, Edmund, Gertruda, Leon, Marek, Maria, Niedamir, Otomar, Paweł, Piotr (Poland)
Agnesa (Slovakia)
Edmundo, Gertrudis, Margarita (Spain)
Vibeke, Viveka (Sweden)
Matthew (Ukraine)
Gertrude, Iris, Chase, Chasen, Trudy (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 320 of 2022; 45 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 46 of 2022
Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Constraint) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 10 (Lùyuè), Day 23 (Gui-You)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 22 Cheshvan 5783
Islamic: 21 Rabi II 1444
J Cal: 20 Mir; Fiveday [20 of 30]
Julian: 3 November 2022
Moon: 50%: Third Quarter
Positivist: 12 Frederic (12th Month) [Ruyter]
Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 7 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 55 of 90)
Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 25 of 31)
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Holidays 11.16
Holidays
Birth of the Blues Day
Clarinet Day
Dagur Islenskrar Tungu (Icelandic Language Day; Iceland)
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty (Estonia)
Hecate Night (Wicca)
International Day For Tolerance (UN)
Mother’s Day (North Korea)
National Black Marketeers Day
National Button Day
National Check Your Wipers Day
National Indiana Day
National Moms and Dads Day
Remembrance of Things Past Day
Resident Aliens' Day
Revolution Day (Mexico)
Statia Day (Bonaire, St. Eustatius & Saba)
World Historical Motors Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Famous San Diego Chicken Day
Have a Party with Your Bear Day
National Fast Food Day
3rd Wednesday in November
GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems) [3rd Wednesday]
National Educational Support Professionals Day [Wednesday of American Education Week]
National Zinfandel Day [3rd Wednesday]
World COPD Day (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) [3rd Wednesday]
Independence Days
Oklahoma Statehood Day (#46; 1907)
Feast Days
Africus (Christian; Saint)
Agnes of Assisi (Christian; Saint)
Dodo Grieving Day (Pastafarian)
Edmund of Abingdon (Christian; Saint)
Elfric of Abingdon (Christian; Saint)
Eucherius of Lyon (Christian; Saint)
Gertrude the Great (Roman Catholic Church)
Giuseppe Moscati (Christian; Saint)
Gobrain (Christian; Saint)
Herschel Gordon Lewis Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Hugh of Lincoln (Roman Catholic Church)
Margaret of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
Matthew the Evangelist (Eastern Christianity)
Mr. and Mrs. Slop (Muppetism)
Othmar (Christian; Saint)
Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn (Christian; Saint)
Roch Gonzalez, Juan de Castillo, and Alonso Rodriguez, SJ (Christian; Saint)
Ruyter (Positivist; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [29 of 32]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Amélie (Film; 2001)
Beowulf (Film; 2007)
A Clash of Kings, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 1998) [A Song of Fire and Ice #1]
Donny & Marie (TV Variety Series; 1975)
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, recorded by The Animals (Song; 1964)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald (Film; 2018)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Film; 2001) [Harry Potter #1]
Home Alone (Film; 1990)
House M.D. (TV Series; 2004)
Jingle All the Way (Film; 1996)
Love the One You’re With, by Stephen Stills (Song; 1970)
The Menu (Film; 2022)
The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard (Play; 1982)
Silver Linings Playbook (Film; 2012)
The Sound of Music (Broadway Musical; 1959)
Today’s Name Days
Margareta, Otmar (Austria)
Matei (Bulgaria)
Agneta, Gertruda, Margareta (Croatia)
Otmar (Czech Republic)
Othenius (Denmark)
Aarne, Arne, Arno, Arnold (Estonia)
Aarne, Aarni, Aarno (Finland)
Gertrude, Marguerite, Mégane (France)
Arthur, Margarita, Otmar (Germany)
Ifigenia, Mathaios, Matthaios (Greece)
Ödön (Hungary)
Margherita, Procolo (Italy)
Banga, Dzirkstīte, Glorija (Latvia)
Edmundas, Gerdvilė, Gertrūda, Vaišvydas (Lithuania)
Edgar, Edmund (Norway)
Aureliusz, Dionizy, Edmund, Gertruda, Leon, Marek, Maria, Niedamir, Otomar, Paweł, Piotr (Poland)
Agnesa (Slovakia)
Edmundo, Gertrudis, Margarita (Spain)
Vibeke, Viveka (Sweden)
Matthew (Ukraine)
Gertrude, Iris, Chase, Chasen, Trudy (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 320 of 2022; 45 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 46 of 2022
Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Constraint) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 10 (Lùyuè), Day 23 (Gui-You)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 22 Cheshvan 5783
Islamic: 21 Rabi II 1444
J Cal: 20 Mir; Fiveday [20 of 30]
Julian: 3 November 2022
Moon: 50%: Third Quarter
Positivist: 12 Frederic (12th Month) [Ruyter]
Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 7 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 55 of 90)
Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 25 of 31)
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in Italian Art
As November 2018 heralds the worldwide release of J. K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald, it would be interesting to take a brief look at how legendary and mythological creatures were depicted in Italian art from eras past and described in world literature.
The Basilisk
Pliny the Elder, in his Historia Naturalis, described the basilisk as follows:
“Anyone who sees the eyes of a basilisk serpent (basilisci serpentis) dies immediately. It is no more than twelve inches long, and has white markings on its head that look like a diadem. Unlike other snakes, which flee its hiss, it moves forward with its middle raised high. Its touch and even its breath scorch grass, kill bushes and burst rocks. Its poison is so deadly that once when a man on a horse speared a basilisk, the venom travelled up the spear and killed not only the man, but also the horse. A weasel can kill a basilisk; the serpent is thrown into a hole where a weasel lives, and the stench of the weasel kills the basilisk at the same time as the basilisk kills the weasel”.
The Centaur
Both the Ancient Roman poet, Ovid and his Medieval peer, Dante Alghieri describe the centaur as a gluttonous creature possessing a strange physical and emotional duality.
The Chimera
Homer recounts that the Chimera is, “a monster, sent from Heav'n, not human born, with head of lion, and a serpent's tail, and body of a goat; and from her mouth there issued flames of fiercely-burning fire.”
The Griffin or Gryphon
The Griffin is described by Aeschylus as a “sharp beaked” creature, whereas, almost eighteen centuries later, Sir John Mandeville, stated that ‘one griffin hath the body more great and is more strong than eight lions, as such lions as be on this half and more great and stronger than a hundred eagles.’ Perhaps this is why the Griffin was accorded the task of pulling the carriage that transported Dante’s muse, Beatrice Portinari, through Purgatory.
The Mermaid
Over time, mermaids and sirens have become slightly confused. their physical and characteristic attributes becoming strangely amalgamated. The mermaid however, was traditionally half woman, half fish and benevolent in nature. The siren - half woman, half bird, was malevolent and intended harm to her victims.
The Phoenix
Ovid, the ancient Roman poet, wrote about the phoenix and stated that, “these creatures receive their start in life from others: there is one, a bird, which renews itself, and reproduces from itself. The Assyrians call it the phoenix. It does not live on seeds and herbs, but on drops of incense, and the sap of the cardamom plant. When it has lived for five centuries, it then builds a nest for itself in the topmost branches of a swaying palm tree, using only its beak and talons. As soon as it has lined it with cassia bark, and smooth spikes of nard, cinnamon fragments and yellow myrrh, it settles on top, and ends its life among the perfumes.
They say that, from the father’s body, a young phoenix is reborn, destined to live the same number of years. When age has given it strength, and it can carry burdens, it lightens the branches of the tall palm of the heavy nest, and piously carries its own cradle, that was its father’s tomb, and, reaching the city of Hyperion, the sun-god, through the clear air, lays it down in front of the sacred doors of Hyperion’s temple.”
The Dragon
In antiquity, dragons were thought to exist in India and Ethiopia. A mortal enemy of the elephant, the dragon is variously described as the greatest of serpents, possessing an incredibly strong tail and an insatiable thirst. A cave dweller and hunter by nature, the dragon is also capable of flight.
References: Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009
Homer, The Iliad, trans. E.V. Reiu, London, Penguin, 1950.
Keala Jane Jewell ed., Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2001.
Alison Luchs, The Mermaids of Venice: Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art, London, Harvey Miller Publishers, 2010.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. A.D. Melville, With an Introduction and Notes by E. J. Kenney, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1986.
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, A Selection, trans. John F Healy, London, Penguin Books, 1991.
The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages website.
Images: Paolo Uccello, Saint George and the Dragon, c.1470, oil on canvas, 55.6 x 74.2 cm, The National Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons.
Unknown, Figure of a Basilisk, 16th Century Milanese, bronze, 24.5cm, Private Collection. Artnet.
Unknown, Arms of the House of Visconti, Archibishop’s Palace, Milan, Italy. Wikimedia Commons.
Sandro Botticelli, Pallas and the Centaur, c. 1482, tempera on canvas, 205 x 147,5 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Wikimedia Commons.
Unknown, The Chimera of Arezzo, c.400 BCE, bronze, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence. Wikimedia Commons.
Carlo Bianconi, Design for a Cartouche with a Coat of Arms containing a Griffin,1732–1802, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of leadpoint, 22.4 x 18.1 cm, The Metropolitan Museum, New York. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952. Public Domain.
Master of the Antiphonar of Padua, Dante is Led to Beatrice, 14th Century, tempera, pen and gold on parchment. In Divina Commedia : Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, with a short Latin commentary; the Capitolo (ff. 187-187v), MS Egerton 943, British Library, London. © The British Library
Unknown Roman, Siren, ca. 1571–90, bronze, overall (confirmed): 32 1/8 × 44 3/4 × 13 3/8 in., 130 lb. (81.6 × 113.7 × 34 cm, 58.9676 kg), The Metropolitan Museum, New York. Rogers and Edith Perry Chapman Funds, 2000. Public Domain.
After Master of the Die, A phoenix sat atop a tree, wings open, an assortment of animals below, engraving, Italian, Rome, ca. 1530–60, The Metropolitan Museum, New York. Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962. Public Domain.
Leonardo da VInci, A design for a costume of an imaginary beast, c.1517-1518, black chalk, pen and ink on paper, The Royal Collection Trust, England.
Posted by Samantha Hughes-Johnson.
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Am I angry about things JK Rowling and Johnny Depp have done? You bet I am! Am I still going to see Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald to show my undying love for Newt Scamander and Ezra Miller? You bet I am!
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I love that now since it’s canon that Nagini is a human woman, people are creating theories and speculating about Mrs. Norris and what her relation with Filch is actually...
I mean at this point are any of the animals in HP real animals.
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After duel Albus did everything that he could to prevent execution or putting Gellert in to Azkaban.
He made ilusion of home and sea in his cell and visited him 3-4 times a week. They fcuk, talk, read sometimes fight. When they got old they were two madly in love prics, and Gellert complained all the time that Albus brings him wrong dumplings and they dont taste like they used to. Sometimes Gellert was in bad mood. He was mad that he was imprisoned, but then, cynical as he was, Albus said ,,what can i do? Im a selfish man. At least you can not run away from me again,, and everything was forgiven. They were happy most of the time. So he realy have seen pair of socks in the mirror at that time. He had everything He ever wanted. In the end they spend their lives together as they planed. The illusion disapeared after Albus death.
It was like that
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I love how throughout his performance, Callum Turner never misses to show that Theseus is scared
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And who can blame him? Grindelwald’s magic is beyond anything even people he works have ever seen, but they and the public expect him to lead the fight against it ... and he has no other option but to try - he’s capable, and not a coward ... but he’s terrfied to fail them, and by that, perhaps their entire side
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Gellert Grindewald. Leader of purebred magician.
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To my fellow Theta shipper
(I know you’re out there please don’t let me down)
I finally saw the deleted bal scene thanks to scamanderbrothers on ig (and my emotions are all over the place) but because English isn’t my native language and because my ears aren’t very functional, I couldn’t catch a word of what was being said. Could somebody help me with that ? And also, does anyone know when it takes place ?
It’s for fic purpose...
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- Grindeldore -
Song lyrics are from;
Halsey's - Haunting.
Aesthetics is for mine and @Danish-las Roleplay! ♡
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