#and just... got bombarded

[dragondawdles]

the beastie <3

[solvicrafts]

#am here for the violence this evening!

Oh good 'cause I've got more:

'this series has no nuance at all and is really dumb and stupid and the only reason it's still going is because the stupid crazed Drizzt superfans won't stop buying it'

well clearly this series is too high brow for you, maybe you should try 'Everybody Poops'?

My other favorite thing about LOD discourse over the last decade is how every time a book comes out people start griping about how the series has gone downhill and it's garbage now but of course the Drizzt fanboys will gobble it up because they're stupid and that's the only reason these books still sell

but listen

I'm very sorry you had trouble understanding the assignment. Maybe you should dial it back a bit and go back to picture books or something.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

i will never understand how or why the httyd movies did the books such an injustice.

the movies aren't even an adaptation - they stole the name of the series, the name of some of the characters and places, and the general idea that there are dragons. honestly, i would be fine with the movies and maybe even like them if they didn't capitalize off of cressida cowell's incredible books that never get any credit.

the books are an amazing story about the cycle of violence and how vengeance and revenge is dangerous. hiccup says that the past is a ghost story, one we need to learn from to better ourselves. the books are about how everyone deserves freedom, how every creature, every being on the earth deserves to be free. we see that in the slavemark, with the dragons.

and like... hiccup is so different. they did him a severe injustice. he's scrawny and intelligent and learned to talk to dragons simply by observing them! he chooses kindness first above all else; instead of yelling at toothless to train him, he is kind. and in the end, that kindness is why toothless chose to save him. bc even toothless himself says that dragons are inherently selfish creatures who care only for their survival. hiccup is brave - his beliefs differ drastically from both the vikings and the world.

hiccup is a child who chose to do the right thing even at the expense of himself. he agreed to free the slaves on nobert's ship, and in return, they gave him the slavemark which is easy to give but cannot be removed. he was like twelve. and having the slavemark means he cannot be with his tribe or his family, it means he isn't considered a human being anymore. and he keeps it a secret for awhile until it's revealed and when it is everyone turns their backs on hiccup. his family, his tribe, his mentor, people he TRUSTED. everyone except fishlegs, and, once she got over the shock, camicazi. he was thirteen. and even when he lost his memories and was really injured, he persisted. he was told to go to tomorrow and to save the dragons and he did bc in his heart he knew it was right even though he didn't know who he was or how he got there.

and fishlegs,,, oh my god FISHLEGS!!! the did him SO DIRTY!!! fishlegs is hiccup's best friend, one of the main motivators for hiccup. he steals norbert's potato for the sake of fishlegs, he gives fishlegs his dragon and goes to retrieve another, he takes the blame for fishlegs. and fishlegs does the same for him. he takes the slavemark with pride. he refuses to turn. he gives hiccup his lobster claw necklace which is his most prized possession. he is brave for hiccup, he believes hiccup is alive. he fights for hiccup harder than anyone else ever has. he does not turn. his is loyal, has allergies, has asthma, has a squint and a limp, has glasses bc he's blind without them... and he's still a hero despite being a runt, despite everyone even the adults telling him he's hopeless, telling hiccup to leave him behind.

and they cut camicazi! i'm sorry, but astr*d is nothing compared to camicazi. camicazi is a tiny, feral child who can easily best hiccup, fishlegs, and pretty much anyone in a sword fight. she can bring a grown man to tears with her rudery and smack talk. she is recklessly brave and craves adventure and follows hiccup blindly bc she trusts him that much. she isn't in love with hiccup - in fact she doesn't care about romance and love. she gives up everything to help hiccup bc she has a strong sense of justice. she is the motivator, the cheerleader, she finds a positive in everything. she never gives up. literally never gives up. and that's one of the most inspiring things about her: she always has hope.

and toothless! god!!! toothless is *thought to be* a common or garden dragon. he is horrifically tiny, he is literally toothless, and is the biggest brat in the world. he will cause problems on purpose. he has a stutter, he's the most selfless selfish dragon around. he and hiccup can talk to each other. he masks his fear with singing and being annoying. his growth is remarkable. he starts off refusing to obey hiccup, doing the opposite of what he says, making life harder for literally everyone around him, and he's still somewhat like that. but he's also braver, more caring, more willing to make sacrifices for the sake of others. he's clever, which he needs to be to make up for his size and aggression. he protects hiccup with everything he has, therefore, he protects what hiccup cares about just as hard. he was the only dragon that didn't abandon the vikings in the first book bc he cared about hiccup.

and snotlout,,, god,,, i will never forgive the movies for butchering snotlout. hiccup's cousin, the bully character, the one who is horrifically jealous that hiccup's dad was born before his. the one who desperately wants to prove himself, to be worthy, to make people proud. and you hate him, you despise him. he betrays everyone many times bc of the nothing promised to him by alvin and his mom. he loses himself, turns his back on himself, all bc he wants to prove himself. all bc he wants to be better than hiccup. and hiccup still forgives him and gives him chances, sometimes out of pity, but also bc snotlout is his cousin. he can't just turn his back on him no matter how miserable snotlout made his life. and in the end, snotlout sacrifices himself for hiccup. he gives up his life for hiccup in one last attempt to set things right. his death and the events preceding it are one of my absolute favorite moments in the book. gives me chills. makes me cry.

that's the thing with the books - they're so realistic. there is no inherently happy ending where everything works out. the first book begins with "there were dragons when i was a boy", implying that they're gone now. the books show there are consequences to our actions. they enslaved the dragons, they fought against them during the dragon rebellion all bc alvin and his mom said to, and now they're gone bc a simple apology doesn't fix hundreds of years of enslavement. and the only way for the world to move forward was for the dragons to leave and heal on their own. and now they have to learn to live without them. and yeah i've heard the third movie ends like that but. it doesn't have the build up. it doesn't have "there were dragons when i was a boy". it doesn't have eleven books of development to back it up, to make it feel meaningful.

i know that the movies are really special to a lot of people. i know that, on their own, they're genuinely good movies. i can acknowledge that the soundtrack is amazing and the animation is beautiful. i just can't see past the way they butchered the world that i love, the world that i grew up with. i can't see past the way people yelled at me for saying i liked the books better, the way that people gave me weird looks when i showed them a picture of the original toothless, when i tell them that nightfuries aren't even a type of dragon. cressida cowell created hundreds of different dragons, and the movies couldn't even pick from that. i can't forgive the way that barely anyone knows there are books bc the movie barely gives credit to them. i cannot forgive the way they capitalized off the books and then shoved them aside. i know cressida thinks they're good movies and i know a lot of httyd book fans also like them. but i just... i cannot get over how much they changed and how they missed so much and ignored the books. also they got rid of camicazi so hiccup could have a love interest and that is unforgivable to me.

if you disagree, that is a-okay. we're all entitled to our own opinions. i just ask that you, perhaps, try the books out. give them a chance. bc they're amazing works of art and also just like. don't yell at people who don't like the movies? whether it's bc they prefer the books or just aren't into that kind of movie. and just remember that dreamworks didn't come up with the story; cressida cowell did.

[con-clavi-con-jae]

Idk who needs to hear this (like every Sleep Token fan on tiktok at least), but you are not, in fact, entitled to *any* of Vessel's personal information (or anyone in the band for that matter). Not his name, not what he looks like, not what other bands he may or may not have been/is in, not what his life is like. The mask is there for a reason, and he has chosen to remain anonymous.

You're not entitled to an unmasking either, Vessel has made it clear that the mask is a boundary he's not comfortable crossing. So please, just like. Respect the one and only boundary this man you say you admire and love has put in place. And for the love of god, don't fucking tell others who don't want to know what Vessel's real name is. Please. If you do that I hate you.

Thankfully most of the fans I've seen around here are pretty respectful, but yeah. I'm a little bit pissed.

[chiliconsharls]

Modern royalty AU my beloved....

Edited: I posted the first chapter of this 😅👉🏼👈🏼

[cherrirui-official]

Birth

@saltydkart-reblogs @sanctoklinge

[mkaylater]

Cooperate Worker AU /j

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[frmulcahy]

One thing about Good Omens fans is that everyone’s gonna rewatch Michael and David’s entire filmographies so I am once again getting my dashboard flooded with Wilde and Takin Over The Asylum gifs

[oreolesbian]

the absolute lack of media literacy from people who haven’t even seen oppenheimer is making my head spin but whatever

[sels-ships]

Me: I am not going to get more F/Os when I start this piece of media.

Also me: Anyway meet my new F/Os from this piece of media!

Proshippers DNI

[ashedrose]

so you've got a lotta blogs, but not a lotta patience to be signing in and out between em? i'm about to save your life !!

i. let's start with the email trick!

ps: i have only ever done it with gmail. if you use a different one, give it a try anyway! but i can vouch that it does work for gmail. it's super simple: youremail@gmail.com -> youremail+musename@gmail.com you just add +musename and you can create a new tumblr account while still having everything in the same email account! (you do this during the "sign up" component on tumblr, not your email! it'll automatically add it to your email. you can also add the +musename part to your email in account settings)

ii. now, multiple sign ins!

google chrome: profiles! on your browser, up top, right next to the settings you'll see a button for the profile attached to that browser. when you click it, you'll see the existing profile, and the option to "add" a new one. each profile is its own browser page, which allows you to sign onto a different tumblr account in each! i like to name mine according to the muse it belongs to so i can keep track. firefox: there's an extension called 'containers' which allows you to have multiple sign ins on the same site open!

if you've got any other tips to ease the process of having multiple muses and blogs, feel free to let me know and i'll add it to this!

i hope this helps! let me know if it does or if you've got questions about it!

happy roleplaying <3

[strangeauthor]

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[princescar]

The Milk Carton is going into my Mukuro playlists

[pusangkambing]

Also i fucking knew it was suspicious as hell that the Federation was just letting these people go investigating all willy nilly, atleast for cellbit that is. Its always been suspicious to me why they werent doing anything about the players' attempt at investigating to escape the island. I chalked it up to either they had no idea the islanders were investigating, which is highly unlikely (they havent been really secretive about it nor the fact thay hate the federation) or they let them investigate as they want they have nothing to find.

I think they couldve done this to anyone but cellbit has been the one to consistently pursue these mysteries and is somewhat the leading figure to all the investigative attempts on the island. The federation Knows this about him. I genuinely believe they saw this man with all his enigmas and went "If he won't stop his ceaseless efforts might as well make use of all his investigative skills for our benefit" and manipulated him into helping them.

I also genuinely believe the whole 'he's still a Federarion worker' thing was just an added in bonus to fuck with his head. They Know he doesn't see himself as a part of the Federation, they know he vehemently hates them, how fucked up would it be to play him like this and make him think they made him do this because they still think he's a part of them.

[polyshowtime]

gonna start reposting my art from twitter over here YAYYYY 🎉 have a mirabelle ^-^