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( Argh. Screw you, Minesweeper! D: )

Okay so. My birthday is coming up on Sunday. And you know what would be an awesome birthday present? For the people I love (all of you) to join this really awesome new game that just opened! :D

The game is called Sidelines and you can find it at sidelinesmods! It's a canon-minus-epilogue-compliant game set in 2007, and it's very much a social-based game, and pretty much the entire point is to focus on the SIDELINE (i c wut u did thar) characters in the 'verse, so that means NO Harry and NO Ron and NO Hermione. And probably NO Draco? idk. It's up to the mods to decide who constitutes "major characters."

AND unlike most games, there isn't a particular cast list, or even just a "pick a name in the Lexicon and hit us with it, bro" type of thing. On the holds page is a list of wanted characters & storylines, and you hold one of those! This automatically guarantees you in-game connections right off the bat, because who supplies the wanted characters & storylines? Why, the people already in the game, of course! I mean, doesn't it suck when you find a cool new game and you hold a character and do their app and get accepted, and then you feel like "OH GOD I DON'T KNOW HOW MY CHARACTER FITS HERE D:" or something? THAT WON'T HAPPEN AT SIDELINES. Sidelines gives you connections to come into the game with.

In short: it's a totally awesome concept, yo. So you should check it out.

And since it's my birthday coming up and I can cry pimp if I want to, these are my characters and who they, specifically, want.

( Click! )

And there's other characters and storylines listed on the Wanted Characters & Holds page for you to check out!

But you really should check the game out and join because IT IS GONNA ROCK.

Okay guys. This question is completely random and in no way indicative of anything.

Really.

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( I love you, Netflix. (Cut for a picture.) )

I've been reading y'all's comments on my question about fat wizards yesterday, and y'all have awesome points. But, now that I'm less almost-asleep, I wanted to expand a bit upon more what I was talking about.

I know in the movies and in RP, wizards are generally by default "pretty" simply because we have Hollywood to thank for that: actors and actresses were cast in the movies, and they're pretty people, and the people we have to choose from for PBs for RP are actors, actresses, musicians, models, etc, and they are generally rather pretty, too.

I was focusing more on in the books. I haven't read them in a while (that might be my next series reread), so I might just not be remembering properly, but ... well.

Harry was raised a muggle. He might be a wizard, but he comes into the wizarding world the same way the rest of us do: with an outsider, muggle perspective on everything. It's a great plot device to introduce the reader to a new world and rules without having to outright go with Department Of Backstory, or "Oh, Ron, I know exactly how this works, and so do you, but let's talk about it anyway just ... because." Which means, regardless of what wizards raised in the wizarding world might think of beauty, our main narrator is an outsider like us, so he's bringing with him the same muggle prejudices we do.

And, yes, we don't get a lot of physical description of a lot of characters, and a lot of them just have a few flyaway comments about them: Hannah Abbott's blonde braids, or Hestia Jones' rosy cheeks and black hair, or Emmeline Vance's ~stateliness.

But he does very specifically seem to note people who, to his "muggle" perspective, are particularly skinny (Trelawney) or particularly large (Dudley & Vernon, Crabbe & Goyle, Millicent, Fudge, Sluggy, and everyone else that y'all mentioned in comments). I remember reading somewhere (an article or book on description and reader prejudice) that, with lack of description, the reader tends to "fill in the blanks" with a general sense of "normality": they either picture all the non-described people as looking more or less like themselves, or they picture the non-described people as more-or-less resembling the main, narrative character (in the case of HP: white and relatively "normal" in terms of weight).

It feels sort of like JKR is doing this with the vast majority of the wizarding world: by introducing us to the wizarding world by way of a muggle-raised character who doesn't know anything about this world and has similar body image prejudices that we have (though, admittedly, Harry's are British and a little less Hollywood-directed than ours here in the States), and then specifically identifying some characters as overweight and some characters as underweight, she is sort of indicating that everyone else in the wizarding world is a more normal, healthy weight, because our muggle-prejudiced guide into this world isn't noting "wow, all these people are particularly heavier than the majority of the muggles I've grown up around!"


idek if I'm explaining my thoughts right, but ... idk. Though I do like the idea of the magic itself sort of burning calories (so does that mean that since Trelawney's a stick, she's super-duper magical?), or the wizards basically being able to use magic to make themselves look (or even actually be; magical weightloss?) skinnier.

Why aren't wizards fat?

I mean, the HP-verse seems to tend toward a highly sedentary lifestyle. They have accio so they don't have to spend forever looking for something (and if they lose the TV remote -- if they even had tv, lol -- they could just accio it instead of having to get up and change the channels manually), and the one sport we really get to look at ... doesn't actually involve a great deal of physicality. Yes, the beaters most likely have pretty good upper body strength from using the bat to hit the bludgers around, but what about the rest of the team? The Keepers and Chasers are more on the hand-eye coordination (and throwing skillz for the Chasers), and the Seeker only has to be fast. Plus, it seems like the Quidditch players would be a relatively small portion of the population.

So ... why aren't more wizards overweight? I mean, there's the fitness nuts in any population of people, and the people who diet and work out like crazy just to be skinny, but .. what about the rest of the population? And with such a mostly-sedentary lifestyle, wouldn't the public opinion of "healthy weight" be something higher than what Hollywood shoves down our muggle throats? At the very least, I think it'd tend more toward wanting to be rounder, simply because that was historically a sign of wealth and prosperity and power and such: it's indicative of having enough food. And, with all the magic around and the seeming lack of muggle illnesses and such striking the wizards (and if they do get sick with muggle illnesses like the cold, it seems to be rather easily taken care of with magic), I have to wonder if they would have the same health problems associated with being overweight: heart problems, diabeetus, etc. I think the only real cross-over would be the extra strain on your joints from carrying around extra weight, but ... magic could easily help with that.


So why aren't wizards fat?

I need a new project. I've just spent so much time recently playing with things on my wiki, and working on updating bios and personalities and such for a few characters for a revamp of a game that's opening soonish (I hope!), that now that I'm done with those things, I feel at loose ends. I'm working on an icon set (Blake Lively in Elvis & Anabelle), but my wrist's been bugging me the last few days, so I can't do much mouse-work for very long without taking a break.

I need something new to work on or I'm gonna go crazy! D: I don't even care if it's just busy work that would have no real value, I just need something to work on.


(This is also why I'm suddenly posting more here about random things. xD Boredom does that to me.)

I kinda want to join a non-HP game. But idek where to look to find games anymore. And my knowledge of most other fandoms is rather limited. :/

I have just made myself sad by randomly looking at an old character on my wiki tonight.

Which leads me to ask:

What character from your own RP past do you miss the most? Why? If you had the chance, would you play them again, or would it just not be the same?

It is not sad the amount of headcanon I have for a fictional wireless serial that I occasionally work into HP games that I join.

Really.

It's not.




... SHUT UP.



also, I in no way, shape, or form based any of the characters or relationships or anything off characters or anything from General Hospital. really. PURE COINCIDENCE.

I suppose I ought to do my own assignment, since I've asked all of the rest of you to do so.

Hello duckies, I am Hans Amsel, your resident psychiatrist. I have five children and six grandchildren. If you have only recently joined us from Hogwarts, you may know my youngest daughter, Abigail. My apologies if you do, I understand that Gryffindor is where you keep your loud ones?

Now that we have met, though I already know most of you anyway, I can tell you that I occasionally enjoy listening to horrible muggle pop music on occasion. This "Ke$ha" from the States is atrocious, but thanks to Abigail, I have heard her song "Tik Tok" so many times that it will be stuck in my head forever.

I miss Hans.

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Okay so. I decided that since I spent all morning making the graphics, it'd be a waste to not post them. >> (Also, Carrah said she'd read it, which was really all the incentive I needed ... what can I say? I'm a whore.)

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