When I was a kid I would get leg cramps ALL THE TIME, and my mom would get upset like "thats a really bad sign, you're too young" but now that I'm am adult I haven't had one in years
I’m, like, in a pleasant dream, and I kind of half walk up, and then i start falling back to sleep, go to move my leg in the dream, then CHARLEY HORSE.
I think it was the second time in my life that happened, and the first while I was asleep. Ow.
Mukesh Ishwar Suryawanshi - Know More About Charley Horse
Mukesh Suryawanshi - Have you ever experienced sudden, intense muscle cramps or spasms, especially in your legs? If so, you may have encountered a Charley Horse. Although the term "charley horse" may sound cynical, the pain it causes can be quite debilitating.
Here are Frank, Charley, and Mary from Merrily We Roll Along as my little ponies! :D I really loved drawing them and I am pretty happy with their designs.
This may be the most niche fan art I’ve ever posted (and it’s a high bar) but if there are any merrily/mlp fans out there other than me then this is for you. I mean, they are both shows about friendship.
This is intended as a loose, not-that-serious “generalization,” but I feel like you can sorta tell the age of a httyd fan based on how they react to Stoick’s relationship to Hiccup in the first movie.
Other life factors aside, someone young is more likely to side with Hiccup and relate to the ways that Hiccup feels uncomfortable with his father’s disappointments and expectations. They’re more likely to call Stoick unfair, perhaps even go so far as to say he was abusive.
Meanwhile, I feel like many adult fans understand and sympathize with Stoick. They understand the nuance and struggles of a parent trying to help your kid, steer them away from wrong and dangerous paths, appropriately call out and discipline bad behavior to protect them from worse consequences, puzzle over your kid’s seemingly contradictory claims, handle the weight of many stressors, and sometimes make mistakes, even big mistakes (it doesn’t make you a bad person, but, like every parent, imperfect).
I first saw HTTYD when I was in high school. I saw things from Hiccup’s view. Now I’m 30 and I see things from Stoick’s. I think that’s part of the magic of HTTYD - both father and son are relatably real, struggling through things an everyday father or son would. To say Stoick is an abusive parent is as inaccurately reductive as saying Hiccup is a menace. Stoick made a few poor and questionable remarks that hurt Hiccup, and Hiccup did wildly questionable, disobedient, reckless, and dangerous things that hurt or scared Stoick and the rest of the village. Both sides had blind spots for how the other felt that exacerbated the other’s stress. I love that HTTYD understands both sides made mistakes, both sides are intended well, and both sides struggle with miscommunications.
I love that HTTYD didn’t reduce either Hiccup or Stoick in depicting a miscommunicating, on-the-opposite-side-of-the-coin, still-love-each-other family.
Yeah, posts will be spotty over the next couple of days. Last night, an excruciatingly painful cramp in my leg put a premature end to my weekend. I'm spending the rest of it in bed recovering.