ASTRID GOES FOR A SPIN

https://archiveofourown.org/users/Astrid_Goes_For_A_Spin/works httyd fandom old. httyd1/boneknapper/gotnf truther. returning to my roots of hating on RoB/DoB and httyd2 with all my might

[ajcrowlor]

big tshirt that says MY INTERPRETATIONS MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL on the front and THIS IS FUN TO ME on the back

[knifebucket]

haven is crazyyy there is a guy whose wholesale trouble is manifesting UFOs and then he gets abducted and when the troubles end we NEVER FIND OUT WHERE HE WENT

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

I think about this all the time. He absolutely had to have died. Same with the taxidermy family

[mightyuncomfychair]

Lest we forget about Ray whose on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Or the family who breathe water who got no warning 😖. Considering Nathan is still there and alive there's a chance of the troubles were still in effect when they left they are in effect permanently now 🤔.

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

Sorry, I’m confused—have you finished the show?

[knifefightscene]

[renthony]

Every time I express that I think it's shitty to say that genAI "hallucinates," people get weirdly pissy and combative with me.

But until real human beings who experience hallucinations are treated like human beings worthy of respect and dignity...I think perhaps it's shitty to keep associating hallucinations with being non-human, dangerous, and a liar.

It actually really fucking sucks that hallucinating is seen as monster-movie-scary, dangerous, inhuman, and worthy of scorn and/or mockery. It actually really fucking sucks that people who hallucinate or experience delusions can't get compassionate help or understanding, because everyone thinks it's an automatic sign of being dangerous, violent, and a liar. It's a massive problem that people look at hallucinations as "dangerous crazy person shit" that should be gotten rid of or locked away.

I find it crass, at best, to flippantly use the term "AI hallucinations" when real-life people get abused, imprisoned, and killed because they experience hallucinations.

But what do I know, I'm just a crazy person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[renthony]

People in the notes keep proposing alternatives or asking me what they should say instead, and I really think y'all are overthinking it. You don't need to coin an entire new term. You can just say "AI generates misinformation." If you need it as a noun, "AI misinformation."

If you want to be provocative, "AI spits out garbled bullshit" works, too.

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

something that is really starting to bug me is the fanon that the other kids/Berk as a whole didn't respect or admire Hiccup until after he and Toothless killed the Red Death

this is. so fucking wrong, my friends. We see that this is objectively not true in the actual plot of the actual movie. The other kids and adults become obsessed with him during dragon training. They don't realize what's happening, but they are correctly recognizing his innovation and astonishing results. And while the adults side with Stoick when the dragon secret gets out, the kids don't. It's not about the Red Death to them; Hiccup has already won their loyalty. They volunteer because they respect and admire him and the whole finale just shows that he deserves it. (And the adults switch back to respect and admiration when they do fully understand the situation again later)

He earned it with his performance in dragon training, but he doesn't think he did because there was so much deception involved. But that doesn't undo that he was actually generating so much knowledge that becomes incredibly useful to his people. AND THEN he saves them all from dying! It's not "oh they respect him now because he almost died for them." It's so much more than that

(this is one of the reasons I absolutely can't fucking stand RoB/DoB. Instead of these kids looking to Hiccup as the leader of their group, enjoying his company, and admiring him, they...are all replaced by cartoon stereotypes that are infinitely less nuanced and interesting than their httyd1/boneknapper/gotnf selves and are so fucking mean to each other and Hiccup)

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

I feel like as a fandom we do not appreciate enough that Stoick is so moved by Toothless's loyalty that he feels completely fine about inviting a dragon into his house and leaving his unconscious, new amputee son alone with him

[sycamorality]

writing a canon divergent fix-it fic while also shaking my head to show that i actually really like the canon's tragic narrative and am not trying to say i think it would be better if canon was like this

[guerrillatech]

[theladytrickster]

If a flaming old queen in a cape wants to kill off racists in power I say have at it

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

That wasn’t even his plan!! His plan was to make the senator a mutant, so he’d have to advocate for mutants or be destroyed by his own policy, and tbh. It’s the best villain plan I’ve ever seen. The goo was the plan unexpectedly failing. 9/10 only bc he was going to kill Rogue. Next time use someone willing to sacrifice herself for the cause, pls. No further notes

[official-megumin]

I like how his plan in like real world terms, was to turn desantis gay but instead he exploded

[tavina-writes]

like to charge reblog to cast tbh

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

Wild to see this post just randomly cross my dash. This is by far the biggest contribution I’ve made to tumblr culture?? Hi friends

[makingqueerhistory]

Anti-Book Banning Bingo

We made this for an event with the Writers' Guild of Alberta to fight the book bans in our province. Feel free to use it, and if you want to fill in the "support a trans author" square, consider becoming a paid patron of Making Queer History!

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

Friend can you please explain what the >>> punctuation means in this context? Google is not helpful

Oh sorry, it’s the greater than symbol! So when you put a word or phrase in front of it, it means the thing is better than anything else 😅

[wyrmscraft]

Stash!!!!!

I found these in my stash (looking for something else ofc) and immediately wanted to do a Luminous Nine Patch.

Now, now listen.

I know I seem to be making a few of these.

But they turn out gorgeous! How could I not make them?? They’re so easy and fun to do.

[wyrmscraft]

She is on fire!

Look at this thing! I love her! She’s gorgeous!

She’s bold and dramatic and demands attention!

I think this one is one of the best Luminous Nine Patch quilts I’ve done.

I’ll use orange thread to quilt it and put black cuddle on the back, along with black binding. I think that’ll finish her off nicely 💖💖

[wyrmscraft]

I was correct. The black cuddle and binding are just fab with this.

I did actually find a more golden yellow thread called Dessert Sunset that I used instead of orange to quilt with, and I love it.

Man. It looks so good in the sunlight.

[bongopteris]

happy disability pride month for every fellow hiccup and toothless out there 🌻🤎

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

I will not be watching new ATLA installments bc frankly I have not trusted Bryke since the year 2012 and this will bring me nothing but psychic damage ✨

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

For no particular reason, will be sharing two old and beloved fics...

Rebirth and Transformation by Becca Stareyes, 2008

Ten years after the final battle, Aang worries about the future of the airbenders. A surprise shows him that things are never as simple as he thinks, and reminds him about where his powers come from. Background Aang/Katara, Sozin's Comet spoilers, Jossed by Legend of Korra

The First Airbender by Shadow Wasserson, 2008

Some unbalances in the world need fixing.

[violaboss]

I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)

stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

sleep (eric whitacre) (added by thelonecomposer)

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

symphony no. 5 mvt. 4 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

marche slave (tchaikovsky) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

vocalise (rachmaninoff) (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

egmont overture (added by shayshay526)

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

jazz suite no. 2 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

concierto de aranjuez (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

moto perpetuo (paganini)

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

le tombeau de couperin (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

carnival of the animals (added by shadowraven45662)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

violin concerto in d minor (sibelius) (added by eternal-cadenza)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

also, thank you to viola-ology, iwillsavemyworld, shayshay526, eternal-cadenza, tropicalmunchakoopas, shadowraven45662, and thelonecomposer for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!

[neurodiversitysci]

I love this!

The Sean from Carnival of the Animals by Saint Saens is also great falling asleep music.

[podfixx]

The final bullet point entry made me chortle and LOL!

[expressions-of-nature]

by punbibi5658

[comradekatara]

My avatar hot takes?

Kill the franchise already

The biggest problem with Korra is the switch from episodic to a linear structure.

if I could go back in time and kill the franchise in 2008 I would. even if it means never getting the awesome yangchen novels and korrasami….. it would be worth it overall… pull the trigger piglet…

and yes, lok is far more serialized on an episode to episode basis than atla is (although both narratives are linear, and I would argue that atla is ultimately more of a linear narrative than lok is, considering it follows a far more coherent, teleological narrative arc across three seasons. but I know what u meant lol). that said, I don’t think that’s inherently a problem, since there are plenty of ways to write a serialized tv show well. while the structure of lok is poorly done, I don’t think a show being 4 seasons of 13 episodes each, with a directly propulsive plot, is necessarily a flaw. atla is structured uniquely well as a quest narrative spanning three seasons, with each season encompassing its own coherent arc, while telling a focused overarching narrative with a well established and followed through telos from beginning to end. lok is structured very poorly by contrast, as each season is self-contained to the point that any attempt to gesture to a thematic & narrative throughline feels like a lazy afterthought rather than a conscious writing decision. it’s clear while watching lok that the writers had no real plan from one season to the next, and good storytelling (almost) always requires knowledge of the ending from the very beginning to make the narrative cohere thematically, especially in the kind of traditional quest narrative the avatar shows adhere to. while I wouldn’t even claim that the pacing and structure is lok’s biggest problem, it is certainly a glaring problem (one of many) in its writing that you could easily point to, especially in comparison to atla. I agree that if lok was more episodic in its structure, then its structural faults would feel far less glaring, but I do also think it would have been possible to write a more serialized tv show that works within its narrative context. ultimately, the problem with lok is that the writing is just straight up bad, and its structure and pacing is but one of many facets in which its writing is deeply, terribly flawed.

[comradekatara]

my atla fandom hot take that is unobjectionable but for some reason consequential due to its prevalence is that toph wouldn’t consistently refer to sokka as ‘snoozles’ the way she refers to aang as ‘twinkle toes.’ the epithet of ‘snoozles,’ which she uses exactly once, in “bitter work,” is entirely dependent on its context, which is that she woke up early because she was excited to train aang. if anything, toph is far more of a “snoozles” than sokka is. when he tells them in “the painted lady” that they’ll have to wake up 43 minutes earlier from from on to make up for the day they spent in jang hui, toph emphatically declares “well i’m not waking up early.” and mind you, these are toph’s sleeping habits on a regular day, whereas sokka is usually regimented and disciplined to the point that toph mocks him for it (see also, “finagle away, o schedule master” earlier in that scene):

she also refers him as ‘sleuthy one,’ in “sozin’s comet,” but that’s just as context-dependent as snoozles. it would be weird of her to call him that consistently, the same way it would be weird of her to call him by a nickname that implies he’s in any way lazy, when in fact, she is far more likely to mock him for being an overly-organized hard-ass.

aang is the only character who is actually bestowed a consistent nickname. while the epithets with which toph refers to katara follow a generally consistent pattern—first ‘sugar queen’ in “the chase,” then ‘sweetness’ in “the earth king,” and (my personal favorite) ‘madame fussy britches’ in “the runaway”—she never uses the same nickname twice. she refers to suki as ‘honey’ in “sozin’s comet,” but i wouldn’t even call that a nickname per se. and zuko’s only nickname by a member of the gaang, ‘sifu hotman,’ is coined by aang, not toph. with the sole exception of aang, toph primarily refers to her friends by their names, and only uses nicknames in specific contexts, when the occasion actually calls for her to employ a mocking epithet.

however, if toph were to refer to sokka by a consistent nickname, the obvious contender is clearly ‘captain boomerang.’ although it’s a somewhat silly name, it’s evident through her tone when she calls him that in “sozin’s comet” that it is sincere. when she is hanging on to his hand and says “aye aye, captain,” she is not being remotely sarcastic; she is expressing dire fear for their lives, but she trusts him completely. even the shit ass comics are able to recognize that this is toph’s ultimate nickname for sokka, because it represents how she truly views him. beneath her irreverent recalcitrance, toph clearly holds a lot of respect, fondness, and admiration for sokka as a friend and as a leader. she does not think of him as ‘snoozles’; she thinks of him as her captain.

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

thank you for this work of important scholarship addressing one of the smaller yet most annoying fanon things in this cursed place