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[kingofthewilderwest]

swinging a bat at a hornet's nest. Contrarian Dispreference for HTTYD, go!

Oh.

Oh.

Oh yeah that's a bullseye on the hornet's nest, help.

It's a secret. 😭😭😭😭😭 It's always been a secretttttttt on main.

[winces in the direction of the general public] Astrid?

Personally a character I hype on main, but internally don't have connection to. Nothing serious beyond she's not "my type." I'm ambivalent to her to the point of strong disinterest, where I will make decisions, steer away from, or lose enthusiasm for things based on that. While my ambivalence would exist without the fandom's opinions, that parts of fandom adore her can solidify my internal self-content that I'm ambivalent. But hey, that's how fandom works: we all have different preferences and things that make us tick. ^.^

Ahhhhh how dare you make me BE HONEST. It's Be Honest 2k26 now. Oh nooooo the cat is out of the bag I'M SORRY (there are other cats, other bags, and other ways to learn about The Secret Lives of Haddock Minds that may be Spicy and maybe I'll start saying more ahhhhh)

[peachdoxie]

yo. unusual asks. 3, 11, 16, 21

3. rant. just do it

Okay so something that really pisses me off is when there’s a confrontation between two people and the person who was wronged continues to interact with the other people and borderline antagonize them? Like, I was looking through the Public Freakout subreddit today and there are so many people who get confronted by a racist person or whatever and then also call them names and argue with them?

Like??? What the fuck are they thinking? Continuing to argue with bigots is a futile effort. Telling them why they’re wrong isn’t going to work. Trying to get them to admit they’re wrong isn’t going to work. Insulting them isn’t going to work. All it will do is make them madder which will just escalate the situation further. And like, yeah, there’s some enjoyment in watching bigots get really pissed and lose control but also like....it’s not going to solve anything!

All continuing to antagonize bigots does is add fuel to the fire of 1) why they hate the people they’re bigoted against and 2) makes their victim complex even bigger. AND! It gives them a platform and a rallying point for OTHER bigots to find! It just makes all the divides in the country worse!

While I have sympathy for people who are attacked by bigots, I only have so much when they continue to goad the bigot in the first place. The ONLY solutions are to leave, shut up, or repeat the same non-insulting phrase over and over (the broken record method). It’s not an argument. Bigots want a reaction. The ONLY way to fight them without contributing to the cultural problems in this country are non-interaction.

And this also applies to internet arguments as well, because people will go on and on against a bigot. They’re not going to concede the point. It’s not a debate. Stop giving them a platform! If you feel you have to respond to them, do it ONCE and then move on.

Note: obviously, things can turn violent. Don’t fucking instigate the violence.

So many people are just fucking idiots when it comes to “shutting down” bigots or whatever the term is. The best shut down is non-interaction or deescalation.

11. what unusual talent do you have?

Honestly, I don’t think I have an unusual talents. The things that I’m good at are either common talents or skills that I have deliberately developed.

16. if you had to get a tattoo right now, what would you get and where?

The musical notation for the two main melodies of HTTYD played at the same time, tattooed on my left forearm (one of the cues I’m talking about is here.)

21. what’s a conspiracy you believe in?

Parts of the art trade among the uber rich are just money laundering schemes

[kingofthewilderwest]

okay taking the concept of eating ants and expanding it for a second: what if the ants were the ants from A Bug's Life? hell what if the plot was ants vs grasshoppers in part because people ALSO eat grasshoppers, and they're doing a Bugs Bunny vs Daffy Duck type dealio where they're arguing over whether it's Ant Season or Grasshopper Season

You just had to bring A Bug's Life into this, didn't you. You're making me vibrate at the speed of light. Let me try to be normal for five seconds ahhhh okay. Normal. Normal. Norrrrrrrmaaaaaaal.

I feel like Hopper needs to be 50% less intimidating for this to work. But ngl it would be lowkey funny if, instead of being afraid of birds, Hopper was afraid of human fingers. And we have these giant human fingers the ants have to make out of leaves to scare Hopper. We're not making a bird. We're making a creepy disembodied hand. And there's these real giant human fingers that reach down to Hopper at the end. And we see this human fucking mouth and........... XD

[kingofthewilderwest]

Character opinion bingo curveball: Zapp Brannigan from Futurama ;D

;aeroijga;oeigja;eorijga;eorijg amazing prompt

Zapp was a brilliant addition to the Futurama landscape. The parody was self-evident from the first half-second of screentime.

I do think that, as seasons continued in Futurama, there were too many characters repeatedly brought back that took unexpectedness and spontaneity out of the show. It's a good way to make something go stale. Not every entertaining character needs to be a recurring character. Lrrr and Ndnd come to mind. Or Morbo. Isn't it more fun if we have a variety of news anchors once the joke behind Morbo was delivered? Honestly, I could list a TON of characters in Futurama.

In the case of Zapp, he fully deserved to be a recurring character. They made the right choice. But the type of parody Zapp is can easily tire someone watching. That's why I put "they got too much screen time" and "they work better as part of a dynamic." With the inclusion of Kif, etc., characters like Zapp have more longevity on screen. Zapp wouldn't have worked as well through the seasons if there weren't dynamics with other characters to keep us appreciating his personality contribution.

[kingofthewilderwest]

would you ever really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Anonymously ask me some “would you ever"s

yes I sure been absolutely really would decide to been further and further maybe decide to use to the point do want more look alike that but also sort of do been like to vary looking like and been going far and near

[kingofthewilderwest]

more weakness poking: Paul Warren, and Josh Graves :)

Send me a Fictional Character and I’ll rate from a scale of 1-10 if I would date them and why!

You are out for my carcass tonight, aren’t you. This isn’t for other tumblrites. This is to make me *DIE*. Bwahahaha.

So to follow up from this unending shameless post, I may have... a disproportionate number of emotions... for all members of a first generation bluegrass band known as Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. Dorris Paul Warren was the fiddler of the band from 1954-1969 (when the band disbanded) and Burkett “Josh” Graves was the dobro player of the band from 1955-1969. Paul Warren was a wonderful boingy boy who played the fiddle with much gusto (and had an unendingly vast knowledge of old-time tunes, so cool) and Josh Graves had this facial expression with his eyebrow where every time he sings I want to die and drown in his face.

Paul Warren: like a 6 or even a 7? I mean he’s a member of the Foggy Mountain Boys. That automatically means I want to be around him. Paul’s the personality I know the least about of the Golden Age lineup, but he seems like a cool dude. He’s got a bit of a cutie face. I would be willing to hop out to a restaurant or something with him because I COULD GET TO KNOW HIM so yeah would do a date. I MEAN IT’S FIDDLING PAUL WARREN why would I say “no”???

Here, I’ll put in photos, so that everyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about can look at the photos and Judge Me. That’s Paul as a smol. 

Josh Graves: Solid 6. If you make me sit on this post longer I’ll accidentally type a 7 or higher. Look. He’s pretty. I crush on him. My favorite parts of every Flatt & Scruggs TV Show is when he and Jake do their duet and part of it is because I get to stare at Josh’s face for two minutes straight. I believe he got into Adventures™ when he was younger, so I don’t know how much of his younger lifestyle would be my taste. But this is also??? a majorly awesome musician??? with some major class, too? Heard he was a cool and usually chill dude, and all interviews and video footage I’ve seen of him attest to that. If we could get along, I would have zeeeeero complaints.

[kingofthewilderwest]

okay we all know the answer to some of the obvious questions, so here's a curveball trio! Philip j. Fry, Turanga Leela, and Bender, all from our favorite show Futurama!

Send me a Fictional Character and I’ll rate from a scale of 1-10 if I would date them and why!

Oh!!! These are great prompts.

Fry. About a 5. There’s a sweetness to his stupidity and a deep loyalty that courses through him that I find appealing. Out of the three on this list, Fry has the best shot of being in a long-term relationship with me. It would be hard starting off because I wouldn’t be appealed to his initial uninspired life, but if I got to know his personality more? The number goes up.

Leela? 7. This answer is especially for appearance (though I do like the character’s personality in the show). I’m sorry, you give me a strong woman who flies a spaceship, and I’m supposed to say “no”? Blasphemy.

Bender? 5. Just for a one night romp around the bars with him, though.

[kingofthewilderwest]

1. You have to tell the world now, my friend >:) but also: 7, opinion on a controversial linguistics issue, and 15.

unusual asks

1. who’s your celebrity crush?

For the love of... [laughter] Of course. Of course. I KNEW that the second *YOU SPECIFICALLY* saw this ask set, you would send me this prompt.

Celebrity crush? Earl Scruggs! One can do worse than the best banjo picker in the history of recorded music, right? ;) Especially when he was a freaktastically wonderful human, too.

We’ll just ignore that he was born around the same time as my great-grandfather.

7. Opinion on a controversial linguistics issue.

Uff-dah. XD Which issue do I pick? Ummm.... the over-reliance on Chomskyan linguistics in some academic circles is to the huge detriment of linguistic study. Noam Chomsky with his position on things like universal grammar is not the best approach. His ideas (that we all are hard-wired with an internalized innate grammar) have not stood the test of scientific research and is too extreme on one end for nature vs nurture factors. For the sake of not turning this post into a long discussion (I don’t want to turn this into a discussion at all bwahahahahaha), I’ll leave it at that! XD

15. what’s a question you constantly get asked?

On tumblr? “Do you think rtte is canon?” Answer: Yes. Feel free to check out my FAQ tag and see my consistent rants about how canon =/= consistency. XD It’s like. The number one hill I will die on on tumblr: the only distinction that matters in material being accepted by someone in the fanbase is whether or not something is published from an official source. Everything else is an obnoxious debate missing the point of why and how consumer fiction is made in the first place. I want to stuff that discussion in a rocket and launch it to a distant, uninhabited planet to be forgotten about forever. XD Haha, with all love guys, I’m so sick of that discussion. <3 <3 <3 It’s become a pet peeve.

Irl? The usual linguist’s nemesis: “How many languages do you speak?” Answer: I know my field of research isn’t as well-understood by the public, so let me explain! Linguistics is the scientific study of languages. It is not the pursuit of speaking as many languages as we can. Just as you wouldn’t ask a heart doctor how many hearts they have, asking a linguist how many languages they have is technically irrelevant to the heart of what we do.

That said, because linguists like languages (there’s a reason we study ’em!), we often do choose to learn how to speak several languages. And it’s very valuable to know several languages to better study languages.

I personally am only fluent in English. But I am borderline conversational in Spanish (great reading/writing, shitty speaking/listening). Also, I have learned bits of Khmer and Koine Greek, and am teaching myself Japanese.