I Don't Know Why I'm Here

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[zebida]

Guys if I see one more fic that says that Shane Hollander or Ilya Rozanov are about to go on a run in the middle of winter and tHEY’RE PUTTING ON SHORTS I’M GONNA LOSE IT.

It’s Canada. In winter. No one is wearing shorts outside.

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Where the hell is the ginger long wavy hair on star stable, it’s not in Fort Piñta, it’s not in Moorland, it’s NOT IN SILVERGLADE, IT’S NOT IN ANY SALON THAT GOOGLE OR THE PEDIA’S OR DATABASES HAVE SAID I’M GOING CRAZY

BITCH WHERE ARE YOU

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I’m convinced it doesn’t exist even though everything says it does

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Ao3 come back

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My sister just told me that Ao3 IS GOING TO BE DOWN ON MY BIRTHDAY?? MY BIRTHDAY

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This is a cry for help, I can’t find a full face picture of this image and I need it because he’s being my muse for art class

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Connor Storrie’s ass is the ass SirMixALot was talking about

BABY GOT BACK

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The fact that we don’t have a filter for our history tab on Ao3 is lowkey atrocious

Ik that’s like years of fics to filter for most people but like it would help, right? 😭

Maybe I’m just desperate.

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Y’all ever see a fine man in public, and then you overhear something come out of his mouth that only a man would say and suddenly he’s the least attractive thing you’ve ever laid witness to?

[animentality]

[cosmicretreat]

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*My best reporter voice*

🎤 Mr. James Gunn do you think there’s a chance that we can have Oliver Queen and Bruce Wayne be Rich BuddiesTM?

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I just finished Red Dead Redemption.

I am so unchill about this.

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Y’all ever wake up in a cold sweat being like “Oh my god I forgot to do my homework” and then you fully wake up realize that it’s July.

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Buddie is so Love Me or Leave Me by Three Days Grace core

[lover-of-mine]

Hi, welcome to blue and red and parenting in 911.

Let's start with the easy to track stuff. For me that usually means looking at madney, mostly because we watched every step of the relationship unfold, so a lot of the patterns go back to them or are established with them. But the combo is present when they talk about wanting kids someday in 301, and when they find out they are pregnant in 318 and 806.

But the combo is explicitly established at the beginning of s3. 301 with the madney conversation and the bathena conversation at the hospital about not wanting more kids. 303 with buddie and the "we already have a kid" conversation. And 304 with Henren and the "having more kids will affect our family in more ways we expected"

But as with any color metas I write, every element of the scene matters, so we can go back a little bit more to 218 when Henren decide they want more kids.

The blue and red ends up attached to henren's journey into fostering and eventually getting Mara. For instance, being the color in 311 when they get Nia and 705 when they are trying to get through to Mara.

So, we established this is used with outfits and with other elements of the scene, right? So let's get into the fun stuff.

I was watching 313 yesterday and I was very 👀 about Michael and Bobby and the whole thing with Harry and the trip. Because Michael is in this reddish color and Bobby is in a neutral green. BUT when they are talking in the end about how Michael wants Bobby to be a father to Harry if he ends up unable to, Bobby suddenly has a bunch of blue around him. It's also the moment Michael's shirt looks the most red.

Another key thing with Bobby is during 516. That episode is the episode May says Bobby is her dad too. And she starts the episode in this sweater. Yes, there are other colors in it, but the bag, the belt, all add to May herself being the blue and red. Mostly blue since above we put Bobby as the blue parent.

And May is wearing the blue uniform in that episode and that leads to the scene where she calls Bobby her dad.

Something 911 occasionally does is put the sirens in one color when convenient, this is one of those moments. The sirens in this scene only flash red. So we have both of them in blue uniforms bathed in red light.

Something else that happens in that episode is the way Bobby's suspenders are clearly setup in a way to add red to him.

But Anna how do you know that's on purpose?

Well, everyone else who is wearing the suspenders has the yellow part showing. And we have a lot of people with the suspenders walking around that scene, so Bobby's being mostly red is fully on purpose.

So the combo is present when Bobby promises to do his best to be a father to Harry and when May explicitly acknowledges Bobby as her father.

So now let's talk Buck and Christopher. I made a post about this the other day but let's remake my point.

The tsunami is the event that turns Buck into a father, right? I feel like we can all agree that the thing there is to show Buck that he does in fact love Chris as if Chris is his.

So, they start out with Buck in pink.

Then the tsunami hits effectively making Buck's shirt red.

The tsunami literally turns Buck red. Honestly, this blows my mind every time I think about it. But there's more attached to this arc.

When Buck is searching for Chris, he is white. But he is carrying a piece of Chris that happens to add red to him, in a similar way that the show did with Bobby in 516.

Eddie has been blue the whole time this is happening because of the uniform, so the red ends up being a bit more symbolic, because Buck was killing himself trying to find Chris, and when he finds Eddie he needs to accept the fact that he failed. And he hands the glasses back to Eddie almost in a defeated fashion, because at this point Buck is basically putting them both in the worst scenario a parent can be in. In his mind, he doesn't deserve that piece of Chris.

But that's when Chris shows up. In red.

At this point, Chris himself ends up being that symbol.

Eddie is also holding blue gloves throughout this whole interaction.

And all of this leads us to the introduction of buddie's parenting maroon. This arc has Buck moving in shades of red until the moment Eddie tells him there's nobody else he trusts with Chris more. Clearly in blue and red.

The buddie parenting maroon shows up a few more times, on Eddie at the end of 318 when Chris is going to camp even though he was conflicted.

On Buck during 414 when he steps in to take care of Chris.

On Eddie again in 710 when Chris leaves, again both of them are blue and red here.

So yeah, personally, I think this is a very well established color combo lol.

Also, final addition. Eddie's panic attack about someone assuming Ana is Chris' mother? Same combo. But then the idea is instantly shut down by making it a trigger for Eddie.

Anyway, that's all for today, if you read this I love you 💜

[limesandcoconuts]

I don't see anyone talking about how they showed Astrid's character development through her hair so I'm going to.

In HTTYD 1 we get this very emo lookin cut. Since the first movie is told through Hiccup's POV, it matches how he sees her: unapproachable, scary, and tough. Even the back of her hair, it's tied up tightly to show her uptight and no-nonsense attitude.

But after she sees Hiccup for who he is, she pushes her hair out of her eye so he can see her entire face. Almost like she's "letting him in", if not to be cliché. He gets to look her in the eyes when he talks to her, whereas before he avoided her stare.

Then we get to RTTE and her fringe is shorter and doesn't completely cover her eye as much. Her hair is much softer, showing how she herself has softened (preferring capture over kill missions as she says). And the back of her hair is looser and bounces about the place.

In HTTYD 2, there's not a huge change because RTTE happens pretty close to the second film but her hair is on the side now. You could take this as her being less uptight and war obsessed because a braid on the side isn't very practical for battle but she's a lot more relaxed about it now. Edit: also there hasn't been as much war in the last 5 years than there was before HTTYD 1 so choosing aesthetic over function is a lot easier to do. She doesn't have to sacrifice her beauty anymore for the sake of fighting.

And in HTTYD 3, her fringe is out of her face and her hair is fully let down. She's relaxed and comfortable with her femininity as well that she's so toned back from how angry she used to be in HTTYD 1 like she said, "I'm the person I am today because of you," - it really shows the effect her relationship with Hiccup has had on her. That he's made her comfortable to embrace her feminine side.

(side note, her hair in HTTYD 3 was gorgeous)

And you could even say her marital braids represent Zephyr and Nuffink.

I've just always loved how they showed her change through her hair, it's such a cool and subtle way to do something like that. And of course, it's beautiful 😁

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i don't know if this makes sense but the idea that hiccup helped astrid embrace her feminity is so heartwarming for me because that's just so sweet. like yes girl you go!!

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ITS LITERALLY THE SWEETEST

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seeing the live action astrid now and her design is really pissing me off ESPECIALLY after this post.

Ive come around a lot on Nico Parker, I actually think shes looks so much like Astrid in the face but what the hell is with her design in the la ??

Astrid in the la has TWO BRAIDS I mean fine maybe its not that important but that completely debunks everything said in the post above, I think. Like Astrid having two braids is saved until she has children TWO children because thats what they represent. Or maybe they dont and its just hair and it was never that deep idk fuck me ig.

i think the thing that pisses me off most with her design is the RED 😭 WHY IS SHE WEARING RED ? again, maybe its just some clothes and its not that deep but i always thought Astrid wears blue in movie 1 because thats HER colour

then she wears red in movie 2 BECAUSE THATS HICCUPS COLOUR AND IT SHOWS HER SWITCH AND HER CONNECTION TO HICCUP and ITS SO CUTE its like hiccup having the deadly nadder symbol over his heart - theyre subtle designs to show they belong to each other, that theyre always with each other despite spending most of httyd 2 separated

and then in httyd 3 she wears BOTH colours, like her hair, shes come full circle and is comfortable being independent and herself but also being hiccups girlfriend.

NO. YOU KNOW WHAT? ITS MORE THAN JUST HAIR AND CLOTHES. ITS STORYTELLING. And its one of my favourite characters developments in media purely because of how subtle it is but it makes all the difference.

oh and not to mention her wearing blue is supposed to foreshadow stormfly, just like other riders. And you might say “but Astrid does wear blue in the movie, at the end” but she shouldnt be wearing red in one of her most important scenes, where we are first fully introduced to her because Astrid’s associated colour is BLUE. The same way that black and red or green and brown is associated with hiccup. if we dont associate her with blue, we dont associate her with stormfly.

but whatever. maybe I’m giving the original franchise too much credit…

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If I don’t see a Moana 2 edit to the so g legends never die I will cry. It’s literally a perfect song