[saltoncity]

im not a girlblogger im an ADULT. im a WOMANblogger this is WOMANblogging

[innerchildabortionclinic]

your ex is a narcissist? so he must struggle with close friendships, right--oh, he's respectful to his male friends? he only acts this way around women? that's crazy, they should invent a word for such a phenomenon

[roycohn]

"the world you grew up in is gone" but not in a reactionary "there are too many brown people" way more like i woke up one day and suddenly everyone is illiterate and believes jewish people are literal demonic pedophiles, raw dairy and steak cure cancer, and AI chatbots are their friends. and i want the old world back

[iron-dad-is-my-new-kink]

marvel was actually insane for making tony stark say “my dad never really gave me much support so i’m just trying to break the cycle” to peter parker to really solidify that THAT BOY IS HIS SON

[depsidase]

[victusinveritas]

If you are looking for a good book on the Bhopal Disaster perpetrated by Union Carbide...

I remember reading Five Past Midnight (LaPierre/Moro) in college and being really struck by it.

[dyke-husband]

I am your worst fear//I am your best fantasy. After Donna Gottschalk.

Letterpress on latex gloves, stymie 30 point medium and bold.

[aerithpilled]

the butch/femme scene of 1990s san francisco by chloe sherman

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

[the-mechanica]

my problem really deeply is how shallow a tolerance younger people have for old queer media. like yes, it's dated and some of the politics don't hold water anymore, but to ignore older media simply based on that is to loose EVERYTHING we have bc we don't have a lot. just because queer themes caught up more recently doesn't mean we should rehash everything to fit into a more "presentable" format that is only considered modern bc of the puritanical blacklash of the last several years and sanitization of queer themes.

[meerawrites]

@marquis-de-sade-official being honest, we still should kiss Juliette’s buckled leather shoes. We owe her an apology for misunderstanding so repeatedly and viciously.

[tayloralison]

we need to slow down a little I'm so serious. all these quick short videos on tiktok, ig reels, and youtube, artists releasing quick little songs for the trend, tv shows releasing episodes at once, people using chat gpt and google ai overview because they get answers quickly but no validation done for the source, we need to sloww downn i really do not think our brains should be running this fast

[mearchy]

my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

[rivertalesien]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[gwenthebard]

I dont think homophobia existed in Oz, but I do believe Glinda made Madame Morrible invent it. Slurs were invented in Oz after Morrible was woken up at 1am by Elphaba demanding she get dressed and invite Glinda to join sorcery classes

[fairycosmos]

honestly theres always been something really wrong with me but whatever

[local-dragon-haunt]

"It's okay, I won't hurt you." " THATS NOT THE POINT OF THE SCCEEEEEENNNNEEEEE. "it's okay, I won't hurt you." YOU ALREADY DID!!!!!! YOU'RE MAKING AMENDS FOR IT!@!!!!! THA'TS FTHE FUCKING POINTT OF THE MOVIEEEE!!!

"It's okay, I won't hurt you." BITCH THATS THE OFFSPRING OF LIGHTING AND DEATH ITSELF!!! YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT IT HURTING YOUUU!!!! THAT'S THE POINT OF THE SCENE!!!! YOU'RE HELPING HIM EVEN THOUGH IT COULD KILL YOU BECAUSE YOU NEED TO MAKE AMENDS!!! YOU DON'T NEED TO SAY THAT, THE SCENE IS SUPPOSED TO DO THAT FOR YOU!!!! I'M GONNA THRHWOW SOMETHING THIS IS GONNA BE SO BAD.

[subtle-knife]

if you’re gonna do a live action httyd you should go all the way. get some game of thrones cgi dragons and really show the brutality of the war between vikings and dragons and why it was so essential that hiccup ended that war via compassion. make it so startlingly real that the viewers truly understand the horror of it all. why else would you make the visuals more realistic if you’re not going to make the story more realistic too.

[tenebrius-excellium]

HI I CAME TO HOP ON THIS SCALDING HOT TAKE because YES. THIS. THIS. I was going to make a post about this too but you already said it better than I could have.

WHEN YOU TAKE AN ACTUAL LOOK AT THE PLOT AND SETTING OF HTTYD; IT IS A HORROR STORY. PEOPLE GET EATEN ALIVE. ANIMALS GET CRUELLY SLAUGHTERED FOR WAR TROPHIES.

"Just wait 'till you spill a Nadder's guts for the first time! And mount your first Gronckle head on a spear! WHAT A FEELING!"

YOU WANNA MAKE A REAL ACTOR MAN QUOTE THIS IMPERIALISTIC; SADISTIC STOICK THE VAST LINE???? YOU WANNA MAKE HIM SAY THAT WITHOUT SHOWING THE REAL BLOOD THAT HE SPILLED TO BE ABLE TO SAY THIS???? YOU WANNA PUT THOSE WORDS IN A MOUTH WITHOUT SHOWING THE COST?????

EVEN THE ORIGINAL BOOKS ARE AN ACTUAL HORROR STORY.

It somehow became bearable and cutesy because of the animation and the kids factor. They changed the genre. Barely. The animated one worked because they kept the seriosity to a degree.

They wanna revert back to "realism"? HORROR.

THEY'D NEED TO MAKE A HORROR STORY.

Hate to say it but it's Hunger Games/Game of Thrones all the way.

There's gotta be actual blood. Stormfly maniacally laughing at Snotlout's attempts to throw an axe at her needs to be a hair-raising experience. Because Stormfly, a living T-Rex, eyeing Snotlout must tell him that he is dead.

[howtodrawyourdragon]

What are we crying about today in the Httyd fandom? How about Hiccup and Toothless in Httyd 1 and if Toothless realizes how much he matters to Hiccup in the first movie!

Because here you have this boy, this Viking boy, who doesn’t fit in and actually refuses to fit in. Because he doesn’t want to change, he wants to be accepted for who he is because he knows he can never fit in the way they want him to.

Stoick has certainly tried to make him fit in, but he does so by attempting to steer Hiccup away from what he wants to do in order to prove himself. A.k.a no dragon training, no coming out during raids, etc.

Then there is Gobber, who also wants Hiccup to fit in the Viking way, but he does it by having Hiccup do exactly what he wants to do, but in the Viking way. A.k.a convince Stoick to let Hiccup join dragon training so he can train together with the other Viking kids, do his job at the forge, etc.

But Hiccup knows that he can’t lift a hammer, that he can’t swing an axe, that he can’t even use a couple of bolas. So he tries and tries to prove himself as a dragon killer with his inventions, saying that it’s for popularity’s sake, that his life will be better, that he might even have a shot with Astrid.

And then Option C comes along and that is Toothless.

Toothless, who accepts Hiccup for who he is when he knows these few things about him:

He’s actually a friendly.

Tries to fix his mistakes.

Listens to Toothless.

Can draw.

And Hiccup’s attempts to fit in on Berk stop immediately. Because one person accepting him for who he is was enough to Hiccup. Just one.

I could go on and on about how sad it is that Hiccup’s attempts were big enough for an entire village to notice, (Like, he could’ve gone after any dragon, but he decides to go after a Night Fury of all things?) when apparently one person looking at him and going “yeah, you’re allowed to exist the way you are right now” was enough to stop any and all further attempts to fit in.

But instead I want to consider this and focus on how much Toothless must’ve meant to Hiccup in Httyd 1 specifically.

Because Hiccup did gain popularity, he did get friends, he did "fit in", he did make his father proud, he made his entire village proud. And yet, what does he do?

He makes class end quicker to see Toothless quicker. Time spend at the forge is time spend on Toothless. If he’s not drawing blueprints for Toothless, he’s drawing Toothless, etc… And then he becomes the champion of his dragon killing training class and what is his first instinct?

It’s to leave. It’s to take Toothless and leave.

Because he knows explaining he can’t kill a Monstrous Nightmare means exposing his “tricks and lies”, it means exposing Toothless, the one person who truly accepts him for who he is. And Hiccup is willing to leave his village, his newfound friends, Astrid, Gobber, his own father, his “acceptance” just to keep Toothless safe.

And that while Gift of the Night Fury possibly implies that Hiccup didn’t even believe Toothless was there to stay. He was willing to do all of that for just the one person who accepted him, who he thought was a very temporary thing.

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

Ngl I thought the fandom had moved on from httyd1 and gotnf and as a person who dislikes httyd2 and was traumatized by httyd3, it makes me immeasurably happy to see recently-written meta analysis on my dash