(Tfw you're the most reliable person in the roster and you're only like 12)

Httyd 2 is where the Hooligans start to think Elder may be too carefree and naive to be chief, Snotlout is too gradious to do the job right, and find that they truly appreciate the wise, diplomatic nature of Younger. Maybe we should make the little guy chief instead 💁

Bonus:

#1 most irresponsible older brother 😂

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Hiccup the Younger: If I had a gold piece for every time Gobber told me to usurp my brother for the throne of Berk I'd have three gold pieces and at this point I'm starting to think he's being serious

Little Fishlegs: Well, why not? It's a very honorable position– and you'd be great at it!

Younger: Sure, but that's Hiccup's job. It's not like I WANT it. Besides, Snotlout's the runner-up heir, not me, so I'd have to challenge him, too. I'm in Last Place, Fishlegs. Maybe it's better that way.

Little Fish: You sell yourself too short. Most of the tribe would be happy to see you on the throne instead of Snotlout. Heck, they're prefer you to Mr. Elder! All the adults say Mr. Elder is too immature. Gobber even says they're going to approach Stoick personally about lifting your rank.

Younger: Very funny.

(Silence)

Younger: WAIT— ARE YOU SERIOUS?!

...

Astrid: Shirking your heirly duties, as usual.

Astrid: You know, maybe Gobber's right, and Minicup should usurp you and take over the tribe.

Astrid: NO— YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO AGREE!!!

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

I am actually. I am so emotional over the Salazar parents and I need to share this to tumblr too.

A lot of stories where the MC is adopted I feel. Either dismiss the biological parents and the impact they have on the kid's life, or makes them evil and abusive, framing the loss of the bio parents as a good thing, or at least something we shouldn't think about just look at this new family.

But Genrex doesn't do that. From the start, Rex wanted to find out more about his parents - it's one of his primary character motivations, next to helping people. He loves them, even though he doesn't know them.

And the more he finds out about them, the more he realizes they loved him. Rylander is consumed by guilt but as Rex's first connection to his pre-Event life, the first thing he does is hug him. And when he tells Rex about his parents, the two things Rex knows is that 1) they were scientists, and 2) that when he was in danger, they were desperate enough to use their secret, experimental technology to save him. Technology built from their desire to help the world, to save countless lives and end countless suffering.

And then. When he finds out that they were dead, he doesn't stop caring. It'd be so easy, too, to tie it up there - his parents were good people, he got his answer about them, the end. But they don't. He doesn't. Because the show is saying once again that they are his parents. He still calls them mom and dad, even as the show makes it clear Holiday and Six adopted Rex as their son. Even as the show even parallels Six and One with Rex and Six (and I will talk about that more later if I don't forget, trust me), to really drive home how much they're family. Rex even says he considers the two of them family, and later that he considers Noah, Claire and Annie family.

He has new family, the show tells us, but his old family still matters to him. He's upset that he never has the chance to meet his parents, that everything he hears about them, about his time with them, is secondhand knowledge. It tells us clearly that not only does Rex still love them, but that he still wants to know them. And everything we find out about them reinforces the love that they had for each other.

We see Abuela and the family in Mexico, who connect him to his birth family and tell him that he was so loved back then, and still is now. We see their office in Abysus through Rex's eyes. The picture of him and his dad on his desk. The drawing Rex drew, proudly pinned to the wall.

We see it in the familiarity of the drawing. That that robot, that build, was what Rex created when he was lost and scared and alone - that it was made to keep him safe. That it first appeared in his mind in a place he felt safe.

The show says, tenderly and softly, that the love is still there. That the fact these people died was nothing but a tragedy, that their love is a big part of what made Rex who he is today - that every molecule in his body is filled with their final gift to him. That every time he cures someone, every time he uses a build, every time he makes a machine - we see the love that they had for him.

And the way he quietly absorbs his father's face. The way he freezes and whispers "Mamá?" when he finds out Zag-Rs has their mother's voice. The fact that she even has her voice as a testament to Caesar's love, too - that it was meant to bring comfort and safety. The way Rex yells at Caesar when he finds out they have a family property, a connection to their past, the way he fights to protect it.

And, none of this takes away still from Six and Holiday being Rex's family too. None of this removes the work either set of parents did for him, the love either set has - the show says that it was unfair that the Salazar parents were lost. That Six and Holiday are not replacements, that they still love him as parents but play different roles in his life. They can not, and have no desire to, replace the Salazars. But Rex needs parents, he needs protectors, and so they will do what they can for him - at first out of necessity, to keep this kid they barely know safe, but then out of love. They aren't replacing what was lost, but are doing their best to do what Rex's bio parents would do. And they do mess up in it - they mess up in ways Rex's bio parents might not have. Six is clearly bad with showing affection, affection we saw the Salazars give Rex so easily, and Holiday is overworked and stressed constantly, sometimes breaking under the pressure and snapping at Rex and Six, things we never saw the Salazars do.

It's just. It's about how sometimes things will not be the same. They will be different. That doesn't mean the people you lost aren't still with you.

You are a ray of sunshine in this world full of darkness and demons. Do not worry about the ones that screech at you. They're only jealous of you cause after all, only demons are made of negativity. It is your light that makes me smile.

I don't have the right words to express how happy this makes me, but the Tom Hanks gif is a good substitute

“but i fear that they already got all the best parts of me” goes so hard

I cannot stop thinking about the weird pull towards Stede I’ve been feeling since I watched ofmd. It’s not attraction; he’s very much not physically my type and while I enjoy his personality, it isn’t in the same way I enjoy my other favorite characters. It might be more that, except for the flair for theatrics we don’t share, I’m seeing a character who thinks, acts, and experiences the world in very similarly weird ways to me. It’s seeing my own impulse to ramble about niche things I love and the rare delight when someone actually listens and appreciates it. It’s seeing the same insecurity I have that comes from always feeling like you’re not on the same page as everyone else so you fake it as best you can. It’s seeing someone else finding peace and escape in fiction because real life feels like a prison sometimes. Getting to see him successfully walk away from a life that didn’t suit him, that was making him miserable, was really cathartic.

Finished replaying the main story of explorers of time,,, it still hits hard. Top ten emotional moments etc etc

One of the games of ever for me personally

i hope things will start to feel okay in 2023

So Erica Max and Lucas looks really upset and are going into creel house. Everybody in the dnd game got knocked out except for Erica who saved the day, and Max and Lucas weren't at the game at all so if the party gets sucked into the upside down or almost killed or something it would make a lot of sense if they were the 3 that were left

that moment when: everyone's lives are restricted and constricted and these imposed consequences are attributed to anyone's continual individual failures to seek, find, and follow the Correct Path through Life, and so everyone is left on their own to only be seeking & finding these failures as well as the only answer to how their lives can be better....versus Not seeing the world as the free marketplace meritocracy of everyone's personal failures/successes, nor everything in your own life, and thus not forever having to scrutinize Where You Must Be Bringing It Upon Yourself by fucking up or at least failing to do the correct thing, and exist only in perpetual punishment for your ongoing failure and occasional temporary reprieves from it. recognizing everything that wasn't & isn't & wouldn't be [this is because you're bringing it upon yourself] and thus having more capacity & capability to look at the realm of your personal individual self, reality, experiences, life through the perpetual instances of seeking, finding, and following your own needs/wants through one's inherent personhood and exercises of autonomy and recognition of where & when & how one recognizes moments of their existing freely & in more resonant genuine alignment with themself, you know? endless examples to be found in endless fractals of [where & how are people's lives made smaller]. and that of course this doesn't preclude the ability/option at any time to question one's choices, since you'll be able to find more Actual choices available to you (and, also crucially, find more actual choices made by others that are in the pursuit of limiting Yours) to look at, and people getting to exercise their autonomy isn't the same as "everyone doing anything they want regardless of how it affects others" since that [how does it affect others?] element instead being Regarded would be able to lead to recognizing that, in fact, an effect might be the infringement on others' autonomy, hence: There's A Problem....like the ability to just go ham with [questioning???] anything in existence, certainly including oneself, b/c the "norm" is such that rather you're only supposed to be able to question yourself for your failings (or those positioned as less than, thus, beneath you) and not even have the language to express a questioning of aspects of life beyond that b/c stop calling anyone "cis" they're just Normal, Just Be Normal and it would all be fine

i have no one to talk to irl about this race right now (everyone in the house has gone to sleep it’s 3am here) so im sorry in advance for dumping this on here but this is a warning for the tag vent(that i will definitely be deleting soon) because i love u all and care about your dash experience so if you don’t want to witness a disjointed minor breakdown look away lmao

I’m a disappointment to my guitar teacher btw

on the one hand they should invent a way to reach my goals where i never have to ask anyone else for help or favors. on the other hand i really am So lucky to have and thankful for people who WILL help me...

This is a trap many insecure people fall into, so I feel like it needs to be said: do not try to 'save' and 'heal' a person you preemptively dislike and consider 'broken'.

Patience and advices and criticism are nice, but they can only do so much if you do not even have anything nice to say about the person. Yes, 'saving' someone might do wonders to your broken ego, hell, you might even actually believe this person deserves help and better life, or maybe you want to 'finally feel like you did something good', or maybe you once 'failed' someone you actually loved in the past and want to prove your capacity by attempting again, or maybe you want a person who will be thankful to you forever for 'fixing' them. I understand, the devastating task is tempting, I do not think there is a shame for wanting such things, it is human. But like

Such people tend to feel lack of love and appreciation. Without actually liking this person, you can only do so much - in fact, you might only make it worse for both them and yourself. Pity and sense of 'duty' can't replace true love. Besides if you do not even like them - odds are, you will keep lashing out at them and bash their interests and habits and traits and compare them to people you DO like in frustration. How can that help them, exactly? They will not take it as a challenge to become 'better', they are not that strong and confident lol. Also maybe consider not trying to 'fix' a 'broken' person if you do not even have therapist training.

Honestly, people who are mentally down in the worst ways and whom everyone gives up on without trying are both 1) used to pain anyways and 2) can do without those that only see them as either a moral duty or an ambitious hard task. Odds are, they need professional help, but more than that - they need people. Just people that genuinely appreciate them and can name at least few things they like in them. Such people are often still capable of love and care despite what hurt them, right... with those that love them BACK, you know.

If you are just severly disappointed in this person and do not like them - do not be stubborn. Just leave before you suffered, for the task nobody asked you to take to begin with. Because they feel when your caring is loveless, they feel you are not genuine, and it will only make them worse. Love is not about 'saving', you either love this person or you go away.

hold my beer as i attempt to re-create luke’s music box theme from his 1st anni ssr on my kalimba