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differentiating my blonde-haired blue-eyed white girls. I am a birds of prey 1999 and young justice 98 fan first and a person second.

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just like the old days

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felt bad that i did all the other yj girlies and no anita, so here she is. i love her dearly.

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Mom!vellan doodles bc we love milfs here

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Hiccup needs to eat some fuckin mutton brah goddamn. Astrid can wear him like a fox scarf tho so there's that

Conscious neck pillow

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“I can’t imagine a world without you in it.”

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“Astrid, there is no way you’re flying in your condition. All right? I am sorry. As leader, I am putting my foot down.”

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I have a theory that when Valka went missing when she was still nursing Hiccup that Snotlout’s mother nursed Hiccup instead. She had milk because she was nursing Snotlout and Snotlout and Hiccup are cousins so it would make sense. I would like to think that as that result that Hiccup and Snotlout grew up together a little

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HICCUP HADDOCK & ASTRID HOFFERSON | BLINDSIDED

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now do long haired hiccup

Happy dude

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all these movies and i still don't know how to train my dragon

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"I'm not one of them"

I was going through the Live Action Trailers of How to Train Your Dragon. Not that I don't want to see the movie, but I'm already noticing a difference. It's in the scene with this line.

Let's go over what we know so far:

In the trailer, it starts with him tossing his dagger, and then setting his helmet on the ground as he tells the dragon he's "not one of them."

In the animated movie, he drops the dagger, drops the shield, and then after heistantly removing his helmet, tosses it to the ground.

These different displays displays two different variations of Hiccup's character mindset. I don't one or the other is bad, just different.

Let's start with the animated scene: After the dragon is released, Hiccup is understandingly terrified of what comes out. The dragon is pure aggression, what if it won't listen to reason? Now this might not change much in the live action, maybe Hiccup will breathe heavily in this scene to show his fear. Now for the major changes.

Hiccup drops his dagger and shield, as opposed to when he tosses his dagger. What is the mindset when someone "drops" something? It is stopping an attachment to an activity or item because of an interruption of some sort, as opposed to the action of "Tossing" which is a removal. When you drop something, it's implied you're going to pick it up again but won't in that instance because of a particular reason.

Hiccup dropped the dagger and sheild. He is not saying he is giving them up entirely, he just won't use them in this instance. He's telling the dragon "I won't use them for you," for the viking crowd they might assume he's scared and can't use them at that moment. They were confused at this instance not appalled.

If you've seen the show, Hiccup advocates for offense and defense at multiple times, usually when regarding other humans, sometimes for agressive dragons. To show peace towards the Nightmare, he tells it "For you I won't use these." To make someone an exception to your rule is very telling in both positive and negative affects. This is already a huge gesture in brokering peace.

Next, he tosses his helmet, a gift from his late mother, someone who was taken during a raid, believed to be killed by dragons. Not only that, but every viking worth their salt has a horned helmet; it represents everything they are, their warrior culture, their people, their tribe.

He tosses the helmet. He hesitantly takes it off his head, and in a look that mixes anger, disgust and disappointment, he tosses it to the ground. He's hesitant because it's his mother's, he's hesitant because he's been apart of these people his whole life, they were his home.

He tosses the helmet because he realizes he's not like them and he doesn't want to be. He's angry at what they are (These people shunned him for not being like them, they never accepted him, the dragons do), he's disgusted by what they are (his own people would mindlessly slaughter these amazing creatures, his best friend, they make it their mission to kill them. Why do they have to do that?), He's disappointed by them (They are his people, his family, they never accepted him which is all he ever wanted, and now he has to reject them, to save the dragons).

He's outright rejecting his own people. Later he gets disowned, but Hiccup in a way is disowning himself from his own people. He's saying "I'm not like them and I never will be."

This is appaling to the others, Stoick gets out of his seat, the other Vikings gasp in shock. Stoick is outright furious and rightfully so. Hiccup did an equivalent of giving everyone the finger. Then Hiccup tries to explain that what they're doing to the dragons is wrong. Now this might of worked (probably not) if Hiccup didn't just give the equvalent of the finger to everyone just a moment ago.

Insulting everyone and then trying to explain why endangered animals need our help is not exactly the best way to go about things, but Hiccup was feeling a lot in that moment.

Now for Live Action: My guess, toss the dagger, drop the shield and set the helmet on the ground. Real life reason probably being you don't want to break the helmet by throwing it on the ground, it's only a costume, it's not really made of horns.

Anyways, the shield will probably still be dropped, but the dagger and helmet get different treatments. The dagger is tossed here. Hiccup is now overtly against agression towards the dragon. Similar with Toothless before, he was tossing the dagger as far away as possible. He's telling the dragon, "There is no way I would ever hurt you or anyone." It's a major way to gain trust, even if it's not entirely true (They probably still kill the Red Death). This more highlights Hiccup's character in general, to try to broker kindness and peace before agression. He doesn't even want the dagger in the room when there is an aggressive dragon. He is still throwing away something of his people, their warrior nature. He's saying "I'm not a killer and I never will be." This would be confusing, how are you going to be a viking and not a killer.

He later sets his helmet on the ground. It's important to him, it was his mother's (Maybe?), and even if not it's what symbolizes him as one of his people. He cares about his people still, they are his people after all. They are his home, he could never truly abandon them. He removes the symbol, but he doesn't throw it away. He may keep it, but he won't wear it. It's apart of his life, but it's not how he chooses to live.

This is actually a lot more mature than how Hiccup in the animated dealt with it. Hiccup here is trying to be calm as he explains to his people "You know that way you want me to be, I'm sorry but I can't be that way. You don't have to be that way either."

Vikings however are stubborn. Try telling them that they're wrong. Try telling your father, who's had to deal with the trauma of the war for so long that you don't have to kill the enemy; that you're not going to kill them because you sympathize with them.

It's also telling that in a later scene, Stoick is crying when arguing with his son about the Dragons, and Hiccup seems more angry than him. In the animated, Hiccup was mostly worried about Toothless even if he was angry in that fight. Also Stoick seemed angrier there than in the Live action. The argument in the live action is probably is done being reasonable and just lets his anger because his best friend was just taken from him and his father has the audacity to say he's in the wrong. In the animated, Hiccup knows he's betrayed his people, betrayed his father, but also knows his friend's fate lies with them, so he's trying to appeal to them mainly. In the Live Action, I feel Hiccup is going to try to appeal to him but then when Stoick mentions how he's been betrayed, Hiccup snaps and goes on about how no one ever accepted him except for Toothless.

So these characters seem to have the same emotions, but they display them at different times. Hiccup being angry during the final exam vs trying to be reasonable, Hiccup trying to appeal to Stoick through self sacrifice vs anger. Also Stoick getting angry from an insult and betrayal vs just the betrayal, as well as Stoick getting upset after disowning Hiccup vs getting upset because he just doesn't understand how his son could betray him.

Overall, I find the story told these two different ways to be very interesting and I hope it does well.

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Weird question! But is the black part of Baet's outfit a belt or an undershirt?

an undershirt with suspenders!

that part of his outfit is a little hint towards Bart's future March Hare look (if we ever get that far lol) which is just his regular costume minus jacket and plus a top hat. he's doing the sitcom trope of constant quickchanges so he can be at multiple events at once

im gonna add a concept drawing i did of Bart as the March Hare under the cut so the outfit kinda makes more sense:

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ANOTHER VENTURE SKIN HAS HIT THE OVERWATCH

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How I feel each time they give me something about Venture:

Mask Venture(? Royal(? Venture!!! 👀💖

DOKIWATCH IS ALMOST HERE AND I AM SO HYPE ABPUT THE STADIUM MODE AND VENTURE SKIN! I hope in the battle pass the is more for them 🥰

Also!! Omg MY JUNO! YOUR MYTHIC SKIN IS SO PRETTY 🥺💖

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I can't help myself but want to fill your face with kisses every time I see you🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

💫💛I AM SO IN LOVE WITH YOU SLOAN 🗣💜

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Sometimes I think about lesbian icon renée vivien lauging so hard she had to leave a lecture bc the man was talking about how a book of anonymously published love poetry was the pinnacle depiction of a young man’s desire towards women…… but it was her book. She wrote it. About her girlfriend.