#so my only issue is Money bc I don’t have it and being blonde is expensive

[wewontbesleeping]

I need blonde hair I think ……

[katakosmos]

xenodora coworkers>>>>

she wants to be employed without her family’s help and the only place that will hire an inexperienced 18 year old research assistant who gets easily distracted is xenophilius’ lovegoods brand new newspaper with a terrible reputation

xeno is abt 10 years older than her (so 27-28) and hes initially extremely intimidated by her. shes extremely intense, simultaneously so distant from her job while being probably the most dedicated employee. I don’t think pandora thinks much of him at all at first?? Her family is pretty much in the gutter at this point and shes trying to distract herself from that by being like “i have a job and this is the most important thing in my life” and xeno is only a factor of that

the reason they get closer is how often they get stuck together during after hours. they see each other most nights and pandora starts letting herself actually talk to this guy. she thinks hes pretty much a complete quack but four months in and theyre both a little drunk on the office floor and xeno’s on his seventh conspiracy rant and she’s thinking “wow hes so ridiculous…but why is he kinda—” it doesn’t help that xeno is quite kind and on the exact same brain length as her. Pandora has literally never had a crush in her entire life so shes just standing there very stunted and fixing him with the most intense stares which in turn makes xeno go “😳” bc hes a virgin pushing 30 and doesn’t know how to properly talk to women he likes. They sort of just pace around each other for a long while before they’re finally drunk enough to hook up.

breaking my silence saying that age gap xenodora is not really my thing (simply because i like to think that they already knew each other before they started dating). buttt in this case i can accept it if i imagine that xenophilius and the twins were family friends. pandora barely remembers him because when she was 8 xeno left for college and they never saw each other again. then, she only heard gossip about him: he had a bad friend group, he was an addict who spent all his money on drugs, his life was ruined... until his father, taking advantage of the family name, forced him to work.

when she has to look for a job, she immediately goes to xenophilius, hoping that he'll remember her. he has changed a lot: his blond hair is all white, and he looks very fragile. often, even at work, he feels sick and has to go home. pandora is incredibly embarrassed at the idea of showing up there, completely poor, to ask for a job. but xenophilius knows that feeling very well; he hires her immediately.

they both heard stories about each other at that point, and they can't even look at each other, let alone talk. but when he's with her, xenophilius is so kind, even if shy and awkward, and ashamed.

it all happens very slowly, they find out that ignoring each other just makes everything much more weird and uncomfortable.

(they are a very functional couple, pandora needs a little sweetness and xenophilius needs someone strict to control his life and not make him fall back into drugs).

and anyway evan should just shut up, cause he's fucking a skeletal sewer rat with psychedelic blue eyes and some serious mental issues

LMAO

[revive-the-fandom]

God it’s so frustrating. Ik I haven’t talked abt it much but I made a post years ago and the only interaction I got was “women weren’t warriors in Viking times” like dude, they literally found a woman’s body in a Viking’s grave, historically you are wrong. And guess what it’s fiction, and the clearly the norm is women are warriors too, just admit that the execs got lazy and didn’t make female animation models for anyone other than heather, mala and the wingmaidens.

Like u said, you can like something and still be critical about it!

I don’t have it on me but the art book for httyd 2 talks about how Eret’s crew’s designs were based off of the Inuit people, which is a massive missed opportunity for diversity. America Ferrara is a poc voicing a white skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired woman. I’m sure Kit Harrington could have voiced an Inuit character (although casting an actual Inuit person would have been better, I think something is better than nothing and clearly they were grabbing at bigger names since he was used in a lot of promo stuff).

Httyd 3 came across as kind of racist as well, as the bad guys were very heavily asiatic. Httyd 2 got more of a pass tbh but only bc their poc Drago didn’t even come across as poc despite being voiced by a black man. Most of his crew and ships are actually Asian or Polynesian inspired, and his character design does have dreads and a slightly darker skin tone, but he honestly looks more grey than poc? I honestly didn’t twig that he was supposed to be from outside the archipelago until after I read the art book bc it’s so vague. Idk maybe that’s just me.

It’s incredibly lazy, esp after playing AC: Valhalla which has tons of Asian/Middle Eastern characters despite being set in very early medieval England and Norway.

Johann is his own issue, tho I will say I didn’t twig the antisemitism until u mentioned it (I defo see it now tho lol, big nosed trader comes into town and works behind everyone’s back to get money and power? Wow). But I’ve already said my piece about Johann and his absolutely fucked writing, so I won’t go into it here.

Me: narratively speaking it doesn’t make sense for the dragon hunters, outcasts or berserkers to be comprised entirely of men.

Berk clearly has women warriors and doesn’t discriminate or delegate them to safer roles such as home defence. Women seem to be encouraged to be warriors and be muscly. There is a lot of interesting backstory to delve into with this, either drawing inspiration from the irl female vikings, or the darker implications of a war torn Berk desperate for all the warriors it could get its hands on regardless of birth rates (a man can have a hundred children a year, but a woman is limited to 1).

There are other tribes who blatantly follow these same practices, in some cases to higher extremes than berk. The Wingmaidens value female warriors above males as they are unable to manage the razorwhip population due to the animals gender bias. The defenders of the wing have equal male:female ratios in their village and seem to have a mandatory military service for all citizens, including women as all are in armour. Not to mention that they have a queen rather than the stereotypical chief, possibly mimicking the dragon kingdom that they worship.

Dagur doesn’t take offence to heather being a warrior, and there seems to be warrior women on berserker island, but the armada is shockingly made up entirely of men. The outcasts and dragon hunters take it a step further and have no women visible at any point. Compared to berk, the wingmaidens and the defenders of the wing, this is a massive discrepancy.

The obvious answer is that the creators didn’t have the budget for multiple character models, and so they prioritised the male models to fit the audience expectations. The defenders of the wing only have 1:1 gender ratios because their models are reused hiccup and heather models. The wingmaidens are the only culture with consistent multiple female models because it came later in the series, when the creators realised they had an extreme male heavy cast.

This is incredibly gross and should be talked about more as most modern (5 years old is still modern) cartoons have a male heavy focus in both characters and viewerbase despite a great deal of people claiming that women are fairly represented in media, and that feminism is no longer needed.

Tumblr Guy: women weren’t included for historical accuracy.

The dragons: 👀