How to Train Your Dragon.
Everybody's heard of it? American films based loosely on British books. While the films and TV shows are splendid, I want to talk about the differences between the two.
Number 1) CAMICAZI!!!
Any fan of the books remembers our favourite bog-burglar, Camicazi. A girl with blonde hair who enjoyed petty stealing and insulting bad guys while defeating them. Instead, we have Astrid. Essentially the same abilities, but Camicazi has more personality.
2) Alvin the treacherous
The main villain, along with his mum. He just doesn't appear at all! I can excuse a villain change, for the plot to advance faster, but I can't excuse
3) Toothless
My poor baby common-or-garden dragon. He went from a whiny little baby that lived in Hiccup'd helmet and ate fish to a night fury, which isn't even a thing in the books!
4) Hiccup
Hiccup is ginger. This is ginger erasure.
5) Fishlegs
He is small, skinny, and has a glass bottle for an inhaler. His new dragon has three heads because his mum was cool. He wears glasses.
6) dragons
In the films, dragons are hunted. In the books, a group of kids is sent into the mountains, into a nest of dragons to steal one without waking the others. Hiccup got a lane dragon (who isn't that lame)
7) They never speak Dragonese, or have the plotline with the fury, or discuss the first row Hiccups!
8) the twins don't exist
9) they have absolutely nothing in common except Hiccup and the fact that there's dragons
10) THEY DID ALL THE ACCENTS SO WRONG!
BERK IS A SMALL ISLAND OFF SCOTLAND. WHY ARE SOME AMERICAN? AT THE BACK OF THE BOOK, COWELL SHARES THAT SHE USED TO GO ON HOLIDAY TO THAT ISLAND AND IT INSPIRED HER.
I understand that your can't fit every book into a film, but a bit of plot from any of them would br nice.
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The httyd books being a foundational part of my childhood and then blowing up into a movie series with so much changed is surreal. You say Toothless I think of an asshole little green dragon who snarks at hiccup. You say Fishlegs I think of a dweeby bard with athsma and eczema. You say Astrid I think of a tiny little bog burglar who looks like this.
You say Hiccup I think of the boy who almost died due to poison but got saved by an arrow with potato juices on it, the boy who almost discovered America and got branded as a slave in the process, the boy who became King and made peace between not just humans and dragons, but vikings and other humans.
Idk man these books were buckwild but they also had a lot going on thematically and now I want to reread. Also Hiccups mom was alive the entire time and he knew it she was just off questing. Love that for her.
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After last month's fracas with the stalker/hate-fic writer, I've found myself dwelling on one of their comments. Specifically, that they hated and actively wanted to punish me for writing wlw characters in relationships with men. "These characters don't belong to you!" they said... when literally the majority of them are my OCs.
And it's like...
All right. I'm writing an Alternate History story based on the idea of dropping the first How To Train Your Dragon film into Real Life History, along with some other material from the HTTYD franchise. As part of that, I adapted several things from history and the books (like the all-female Bog Burglar tribe), and made "concubine" into a gender-neutral, temporary-but-legally-acknowledged spouse, rather than "illicit sex partner". This allowed homosexual couples of either gender to take on a concubine for a period and have legally legitimate and acknowledged offspring, as well as allowing polyamorous triads/groups to legally exist.
Is it perfect? No. I've been exploring some of the issues with that setup in story. But overall, it's a far sight better than mandatory marriage and the sort of strict clannish compulsory heterosexuality that was the norm for most in that time period.
But to that person who wrote the hate-fics...
The fact that I had lesbian couples engaging in procreative sex with a man at all, a man who was effectively nothing more than a legally-acknowledged sperm donor? That I had bisexual women in a relationship with men?
That was so beyond acceptable to them that it justified writing over 30k of hatefic and gifting said hatefic to me.
And they tried to say that they're not a TERF, but what else can you call that mindset but something that's direct from Radfem ideology? (along with a heaping sense of entitlement to having themselves directly catered to in media, which is a whole other can of worms).
(That's all I have to say for now; I spent eight months waiting for the harassment to continue from this person, and now I'm just processing.)
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Sims 3 - Gameplay enhancing mods: In-game fixes and other mods.
A category-based mod post. Mods and links previously featured in our Masterlist. All credits to their rightful owners.
Categories include small mods fixing in-game issues, No More Autonomous, Autonomous mods, and mods that don't fit previous categories.
Honorary mentions to: Anach's Sims 3 Mods, Ani's Sims | Downloads , aa6x7 : Quick Links, simlogical.com
Fixes:
Just Sit (script mod)
Invisible Sim Fixer Mod by Consort (simlogical.com)
Change At Home After Work
Opportunity phone call fix (and more)
Trait Discovery Fix
Harvester Fix
Random Sim Fixes 2.0
Get to Know Fix
Certificate Reward Fix (UPDATED for Late Night)
Sunbathing Fix by Inge (simlogical.com)
Interaction on sloped terrain enabler
Base Game Half Walls FIXED!!!!
Write Thank You Notes Fix
Inventor's Workbench fix for Bridgeport.
Read Toddler to Sleep - Fixed Interaction
Pet Tombstone Shadow Fix
Fixed horse tails (no more shiny horses!)
University Life Visual Fixes (Send Insulting Text, Texting Idle, Heat of the Moment Kiss)
A Proper Fix to the Proper Trait for 1.67 [UPDATED:~8/1/2016] - *Supernatural Required*!
Restoration Spell Fix
Hanging Lantern Fix
ITF Perigee Planter Fix
Watch Laser Rhythm-a-Con FIX
Spicy Animation Fix
Better Bloom Interaction
Pigtail Glitch Fix
Opportunity Phone Call Fix
Laundromat Fix
Nectar Squishing Makes You Dirty
Fix for photograhy issues. Patch 1.55 (moreawesomethanyou.com)
(No) Autonomous mods:
No Autonomous Go To Home at The Sims 3 Nexus
No Autonomous "Check out new object"
No more autonomous computer use (1.67)
No Autonomous "Read Something" Interaction
More requested no autonomy mods for Pets and Generations.
No Autonomous Sprinkler
No Autonomous Tag
No Autonomous Skinny Dipping/Get in HotTub/Pool with Flavours
No Auto make Processed Baby Food
No autonomous Deep Fryer or Ice Cream Maker
No Autonomous Wishing Well interactions by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)
No More Autonomous Scatter Hay by CyberBob (simlogical.com)
Autonomous "Clean Up" Plate
No (or fewer) automatic memories (with custom tool to make your own mod)
No More Autonomous 'Put Away' Fire Pit Action
No Autonomous Play In The Ocean
No More mods:
No Sledgehammer Flash
No Relationship Sparkles
No Woohoo Hearts
No Simoleon Effects When Selling Paintings
No Fight Effects/No Slap Effects
No Musical Notes!
No Build Sparkles!
No more stupid outfits. +Sniper296's Curfew remover integracion.
No Sleep Zzzs - Now with No 010101s (Amb) and No Vvvs! (LN)
No Pregnancy Chime and No Woohoo Harp Sound
No Parasols (XML tuning mod) by Consort (simlogical.com)
No Unfinished Room Moodlet by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)
Showtime Mechanical Bull: No changing into Cowboy/Cowgirl outfits by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)
No More University Life NPC Protests
No Bad Night Sleep & Backache Moodlet
Snoring be gone!
No Romantic Interest On Kiss (1.67 compatible)
No Mutated Hair/Eye Colour
No Scales for Human Mermaids
Curfew Disabler
No Foot Tapping While Waiting For Clear Route!
Perfect Honey and No Auto Clean the Hive
Bog Off, Bobby: No/Reduced Curfew for Teens and Children
No More Crying Over Plants
No More Heckle
Other mods:
Annoyances Disabler
Online Center V30 (December 2nd, 2014)
The Third Person Mod
Burglars Steal Simoleons Too
More Senarios Upon Moving
[Public Beta] The Randomizer Mod - REWORKED!
Moar Interactions
WrittenWord - Sim written books found in Bookstore under General tab.
World Loading Screen Overhaul v2.0
No pets waking up sleeping sim, less ice cream truck and more or less CAS money
Put Away All Books *Compatible with 1.67*
Put Away All Scraps
Store All Fish and Harvestables at Once *Compatible with 1.67*
More Gem Cutting Options (Best, Random, Hidden, Unlocked Cuts) *Compatible with 1.67*
SimTransformer for TS3
Portrait, StillLife, MemorizeScene quality fixer
Cow Plant mod: Only Paparazzi can Eat Cake & Occult can Eat Cake Redux
Throw Bigger Parties whenever you want!
SmartPhone Camera Upgrade
More Unique Adventures per Day
Make Travels Free of Charge (Supplement to NRaas Traveler)
Umbrella Tuning (Unbreakable + More)
Greatly extend lot opening hours - The City That Never Sleeps
More Frequent Burglars (5 Flavours)
More intense fire
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