#beaters

And with that, the Legacy House Heroes Event is complete (moreorless - except PVP tasks but I’m not gonna bother with them) and with 12 days 9 hours and 45 minutes remaining…I honestly thought it was gonna be impossible to unlock all 4 Hogwarts Legacy Heroes in 2 weeks but honestly, competing in 25 Matches per character didn’t seem so bad…it’s just a massive relief that they’re now a part of my Quidditch team.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63428341?view_full_work=true

Beyond Broomsticks & Bludgers

A Sebastian Sallow & Garreth Weasley fanfic

Both boys are beaters on their Quidditch teams, but while Garreth is comfortable with who he is there are parts of Sebastian he hides form everyone, including himself.

Drums are an essential part of shamanic work; we use them for journeying, healing and celebration, both for ourselves and for the community. The drumstick or beater is also a significant shamanic tool and has a powerful spirit and sound of its own. The best drumsticks are made of strong hardwood with a padded, leather covered head. They are usually decorated with fur, feathers, bead work or engraved with sacred symbols.

Different beaters work better with different drums to bring out the tone qualities. By using different parts of the drumstick to play on different parts of the drum, different timbres can be produced for transmitting different meanings. There are hard beaters, semi-hard beaters, soft beaters, and rattle beaters, which are simply beaters with a rawhide or gourd rattle attached to the base of the handle opposite the head. The clicking of the rattle adds not only an interesting sound effect, but also produces an offbeat, which adds a new dimension to the sonic experience.

The repetitive sound of the rattle, like that of the drum, helps induce trance states. The shaking of rattles creates high-pitched frequencies that complement the low frequencies of drumbeats. The high tones of rattles resonate in the upper parts of the body and head. The low tones of drums act primarily on the abdomen, chest, and organs of balance, while stimulating an impulse toward movement. Rattles stimulate higher frequency nerve pathways in the cerebral cortex than do drums. This higher frequency input supplements the low frequency drumbeats, thereby boosting the total sonic effect.

Furthermore, the beater has certain uses independent of the drum. In Tuva (southern Siberia), the rattle beater or orba, with its spoon-shaped head covered with animal fur and metal rings attached for rattling, is in part for practicing divination, purifying sacred space for ritual, and drawing the attention of the spirits. The rattling draws the spirit world and its inhabitants into the material world, whereas the drum carries the shaman into the spirit world. The snare sounds associated with metal, stone and bone rattlers attached to beaters and drum frames are described as "spirit voices."

When Tuvan drums were being confiscated and destroyed during the times of Soviet repression, some shamans used only their orba for rituals. Throughout history in different cultures around the world the traditional practice of shamanism has often been outlawed and driven underground. The shamanic worldview is an integral part of the shared history of all humanity, but that worldview has been deliberately stolen and suppressed. The shamanic worldview was perceived as an extremely potent threat -- to the point that possession of a shamanic drum has in almost every case been outlawed, and a policy of confiscation and destruction of drums implemented. Hence, the percussive use of the drum became impracticable in populated areas due to its distinctive sound. By using only their rattle beater in rituals, Siberian shamans found a covert way to continue their practice of the shamanic arts.

Beater Babes: Rising Star, Rath, Fireball, and Tigress

The baddest females to ever swing a bat

Whew, this took a minute to draw, but I did it! I got inspired by @kc-needs-coffee post from not too long ago:

https://kc-needs-coffee.tumblr.com/post/655279045246926848/the-squad-is-complete-with-the-most-beautiful 

And I just HAD to bring it to life. It was definitely worth it.

I hope you guys like it @kc-needs-coffee @that-scouse-wizard

Fun little bonus edit:

i also headcanon them both as beaters together, for at least one year.

SO i develop this headcanon, and what if their team numbers were ... 5 and 9??