#this is a hyperbole btw

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I get that THW was going for a sobering message of "sometimes you have to let people go" and "some friends can't stay forever", but it was hilariously unsuccessful.

It's still baffling to me, the amount of raving reviews calling it "the perfect ending".

Apart from the wild thematic inconsistencies, and the endless flaws with Hiccup's logic of "oh, yeah, I know that things have never before been this good for dragons, I know that Berk is living proof that even the most stubborn people can change their minds on dragons, I know that dragons thrive on companionship and love their humans, I know that good people exist, I know that I'm the instigator of a huge revolutionary period, butttttt..... because bad humans exist I'll lock away the entirety of the draconic population in a glorified underground cage, in the hopes that one day humans will stop being bad and learn to cooperate with the creatures that they question, or even forget, the existence of a measly decade after their disappearance. Magically.", this message plainly didn't fit.

Not just in a thematic context. I mean that it literally doesn't fit in this situation, and it doesn't fit the characters.

It doesn't even fit reality, because you have to let go of people for reasons. Some friends can't stay forever, for reasons.

Valid ones. Reasons like, you grew apart, you don't have shared interests anymore, they betrayed you in an unforgivable way, they're not good for you, they're not good to you, they died, etc etc.

Had any one of these happened? At any stage? The one thing you could, albeit pointlessly, argue is that they grew apart. That they outgrew each other.

Only that...they didn't? Did I miss something? Because Toothless flying away for, what, a day to spend some time with his love interest, is not outgrowing. Toothless finding romance does not mean that he and Hiccup grew apart.

And this isn't just about the Light Fury. I'm not discussing whether or not she's a good character (she isn't), and I'm not discussing whether or not she deserves Toothless (Ha, you're funny). Even if she were the absolute best, most perfect match for Toothless and a compelling character, it still wouldn't even remotely mean that he and Hiccup grew apart.

In fact, if you grow so far apart from your best friend that you can say goodbye to them forever, just because you found a new partner, then I really don't know what to tell you. (Except that you're probably not a good friend.)

Hiccup realizing that Toothless doesn't make him who he is, and doesn't define him, that he doesn't need Toothless in order to be someone, or even that he doesn't need Toothless at all, doesn't mean that he outgrew him. Not even slightly.

I mean, come on, I don't need the vast majority of people in my life. Arguably, I might not even need any of the people in my life. This doesn't mean I don't want them there.

This doesn't mean that I won't fight for them to stay right here, by my side.

Oh, look, how's that for a change? How about a movie where your friends refuse to leave you? Because that's what I want, and that's what How To Train Your Dragon deserved.

That's what Hiccup, and the rest of the Berkians, deserved. And that's what fit. That's what thematically fit, what fit reality, or at least the httyd reality, and what fit the characters themselves.

This movie treated the dragons as mindless pets, whereas in every other step of the way, they were treated as people.

Toothless isn't a just slobbery puppy.

Toothless is intelligent, curious, kind, understanding, funny, snarky and sarcastic, graceful, elusive, protective, loving, wary, and fucking loyal (plus much more).

I can't think of a character that has demonstrated as much loyalty and protectiveness as this guy.

And yet he was barely any of the aforementioned things in thw. He became unrecognizable.

All the dragons became unrecognizable, for no justifiable reason.

The final message shouldn't have been that your friends sometimes have to leave you, and that you have to let them go.

(The humans left the dragons just as much as the dragons left the humans btw)

It should've been that they'll fight tooth and nail to stay, even when the going gets tough, even when priorities shift, even when you tell them to go.

No matter how passionately you insist that caring for you is rotten work.

It's not to them.

[multitrackdrifting]

in case you were thinking about buying or building a pc soon:

[landscaping-your-mind]

honestly i sort of pity people with superwholock urls, like, i bet you watched season 6 and didn't want to kill yourself

[snobgoblin]

courtiers <3

[beanbagstab]

The struggles of a double sun relationship ☀️☀️

[capitalisticveins]

Say what you will abt that bitch Alexis, I hate her more than everyone combined, but I’d pay amazing money to any artist to see her in those 50s hairstyles and dresses bc you KNOW she served in those😭

[charpim]

Rewatched funny puppets i only care about yellow guy now Ignore the red in the corner of the 2nd pic this isnt about him okay ? okay

[millionsknives]

they call me millions text post memes because i have been making. millions of text post memes [2/2]

[ceasarslegion]

Look. I understand the rage and hurt everybodys feeling. I get it. Its awful whats happening and i want it to stop. But when i see people saying that not constantly posting about a literal genocide happening on the blog thats supposed to be their little happy corner of casual internet shitposts on a niche social media website that is not, in fact, the fucking news, is being a selfish piece of shit that doesnt care about people dying, you start to sound a bit like this

About those of us who, in this point of our lives and the miniscule amount of power we have to do anything, can only realistically do this

[storybookprincess]

okay it’s day 4 of being sick with the upper respiratory infection from hell & i’m fairly certain that i’m in one of those episodes of the twilight zone where the main character is experiencing some unbearably horrible & unexplainable event & then at the end it’s revealed that this was actually like a test of the human mind’s capacity to endure loneliness or whatever except this one is testing how sick a person can get before they actually go full yellow wallpaper

managed to get like 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep without waking myself up coughing until i gag so i know the scientists studying me are like “okay the level of sleep deprivation has decreased. hans, please increase sinus congestion and body aches to maintain the integrity of the experimental conditions”

[eddiegettingshot]

i just think it’s sooooo funny that 2 weeks into me even being in this fandom some white european hyperbolically said she’d fucking kill me because of something she misunderstood me saying about the bucktommy storyline and then all the people who are up in arms right now went to town agreeing with her even though she responded badly and in a racist way when i was like i didn’t say that stop talking about me. and since then we’ve had people saying we should drop dead, that they’d like to slap us, punch us, fight us, that we’re bitches, dykes, cunts, little girlies, trump supporters (?) etc. etc. etc. because of the very obviously hyperbolic stuff we (also gay people! hello!) say about tommy, who is crucially. not fucking real. and sometimes it’s not even because of the hyperbolic stuff, it’s because of normal stuff, like that we didn’t like a scene or we don’t like his personality or we don’t like his past. these people are fucking insufferable truly and the day that man gets written off this show will be a win for normal prosocial human beings

[t4tails]

posting something about voting for kamala harris and loving incremental change and vote blue no matter who is already cringe as fuck but proceeding to pay real money to blaze it on however many random people who may not even be usamericans dashboards is maybe the lamest thing you could possibly ever do

[7-andahalf-rats]

doodle to get back in the swing of things. rex be upon ye

[archiveofliterature]

anyway i have Thoughts™ about how ramy is perceived to be just a mouthpiece for rf kuang's anti-colonialist views

at this point i'm genuinely gonna have to reread babel for a 3rd time to see what that means bc. huh?

of course disclaimer preface whatever you are allowed to have your own views you're allowed to feel what you feel you're allowed to not like a book

i just feel like – it's the way a queer character just exists in fiction and in the real world, where they happen to experience prejudice in regards to their identity, but cishets just perceive them to be making "queer" their entire personality

it's the same thing here? when you see a brown character talking about how he feels about britain settling in india (britain, who ends up murdering 100 MILLION indians during this settlement btw!!!) and therefore witness how that naturally results in his strong-willed anti-colonialist views – how is that just his personality? how is that just all that he is? is that all there is to pay attention to whenever ramy opens his mouth?

from what i recall, ramy loves reading and translating, loves cooking even though he's bad at it, loves his religion and okay maybe there is a reading on colonialism in those bits too but when you are literally living in a colonial world, i don't know how you expect none of it to link back. that's how writing works and that's what it means to be a poc in a white man's world

again, just some thoughts lol

[wrestlezon]

matt jackson grabbing the mic and desperately pleading for them to turn off the music because hes going to go into debt if final countdown keeps looping holy shit lol

[deermouth]

wait actually the best part of this silt verses was "don't let the bed gods bite!! nghehhehghghehe" ok you weird little warmongering freak