the-gateway-to-madness - Tumblr blog

the-gateway-to-madness · 1 day

Text

"Jack frost is a twig" "jack frost is secretly ripped" can't we all get along and agree that he'd be best suited to the sort of lean, toned, flexible muscle he probably developed after years of manual labor as a human? By the age he was in the movie he'd have been doing woodcutting or farming or hunting for years

Given the fact his hair hasn't ended up longer or shorter or different at all in 300 years, I think we can safely assume that how he was when he died and was raised by the Moon is his baseline appearance/state of being, which means he'd still have ye old colonial muscle. His legs n arms are proportionally long n thin because he was deliberately stylized that way, as I recall, and all the balancing and precision snowball yeeting and parkour he does take no small amount of strength, even with magic on his side.

I mean, here's a canon baseline for how slender his wrists are compared to his hands

He's proportionally pretty balanced through the arms, shoulders, and chest, that's all im saying

#jack frost #rise of the guardians #rotg jack frost #rotg #and today on my longstanding crusade to get people to portray jack closer to canon-

10 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 2 days

Text

vol. 2: Overly Sarcastic Productions!

youtube

my favorite youtube channels, plus some recommendations!

vol 1: Cinema Therapy!

youtube

#overly sarcastic productions #Youtube

7 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 2 days

Text

my favorite youtube channels, plus some recommendations!

vol 1: Cinema Therapy!

youtube

#rise of the guardians #jack frost #rotg #rotg jack frost #big hero 6 #bh6 #hiro hamada #big hero 6 the series #phantom of the opera #avatar the last airbender #Atla #atla zuko #avatar zuko #Youtube

7 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 2 days

Text

it's that time of year

#miss congeniality

0 notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 2 days

Text

Platonic dynamics I want to see more in the (tiny) Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fandom:

Jack being like an older brother to Hiccup and sort of seeing an older version of Jamie in him and not scoffing at how nerdy he is ("holy crap you MADE this? Man show me how it works!!")

Rapunzel post-her-movie being all gung-ho and cheery, and Merida trying to get her to stop being so naïve, only for Rapunzel to calmly list all the ways she was betrayed and abused throughout her adventures (and you'd only have to go through the canon events of the movie and show to make this work, btw, girl's been through STUFF) and tells Merida she is upbeat and kind because she chooses to believe that most people are good, because so many people stuck with her through so much and so many people came back to her after betraying her. And Merida is like "well dang ok, wanna learn to shoot a bow"

Jack being calm, responsible, and protective of the others without becoming too angsty in the process- playing harmless little pranks to bring everyone's spirits up, that sort of thing

Merida being annoyed by Jack at first, but it's because she misses her brothers, not because she categorically dislikes the pranks. She tells Jack this and he asks her to join him doing pranks. She has much more fun after this.

Rapunzel is good at many things, but not so much inventing, as we see in TTS; her trying to assist Hiccup and him being good-natured about it but entirely accidentally outclassing her

Jack very deliberately keeping his past and loneliness to himself, and the others figuring out something's off because they never catch him sleeping, he's pensive when he's not interacting with them, he's got such wide and extensive experience, and he starts admitting bits and pieces like "I'm older than I look" etc etc

Jack never openly getting angry with the kids because they're kids and he's a Guardian, so instead when one of them is upset or trying to pick a fight with him, his staff will glow brighter or it'll get cloudier or windier or snowier- his magic responds, but Jack refuses to, making his calm all the more scary.

Jack being the first to realize Rapunzel has been through Stuff and sitting down with her when the other two are asleep "what happened to you?" entirely gently and patiently because HE'S A GOOD BIG BROTHER DANGIT I WANT THIS SIDE OF HIM TO SHOW MORE-

Hiccup worrying/getting upset/doing that I Have To Stand Alone thing and Rapunzel approaching him like "you're not the only one who grew up alone, you know. It's okay to rely on us, we won't let you down"

Hiccup doing the I Have To Stand Alone thing in general cause I don't see that a lot in crossovers or at least the arts

The others finding Jack in weird places because super-balance go brr

Jack being reluctant to touch any of the kids for any reason because he doesn't want to see the way they treat him change once they realize how cold and inhuman he really is

Merida recognizing Jack immediately as the only other obviously competent fighter by the way he moves (she was raised around all manner of warriors and guards, after all) and immediately setting about allying herself with him because Heaven knows they all need as much protection as they can get

Merida helping Hiccup to have a moment like he has in the HTTYD books where he realizes he's actually a really amazing swordfighter when he actually uses his dominant hand

Hiccup and Rapunzel asking Merida and Jack what siblings are like

Jack just treating them all like his little siblings

Jack and Merida gathering ingredients together and, depending on the region, Jack teaching Merida the safe local vegetation and herbs because he's been everywhere. Also, Jack teaching the others how to cook with local ingredients

Jack knowing a lot about herbal medicine and helping and teaching the others

After much internal deliberation, Jack choosing Hiccup to hold his staff while he takes care of two-handed tasks

Jack knowing how to style hair because of Mary, and he and Merida helping Rapunzel tame her hair

#rise of the guardians #rotg #jack frost #rotg jack frost #tangled #tangled rapunzel #tangled the series #brave #pixar brave #brave merida #how to train your dragon #hiccup horrendous haddock iii

19 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 3 days

Text

My dash keeps breaking like it's going out of style, making it very awkward to do these posts. ANYWAY

This week's boards are by Stephen Sawran from the 3Below episode, The Arcadian Job! Given the Blanks pop ins appear in Max Lawson's work on the same episode it's very possible they were a later visual addition/this particular sequence didn't have them prior.

youtube

This whole bit is never not funny.

#this sparks joy

32 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 4 days

Text

the lesson of the moth

decided to turn this into a dtiys because I feel like it's the sorta idea the rotg fandom would have fun with

No closure date, tag me if/when you finish, have at it.

The poem I drew inspiration from is "the lesson of the moth" (shocking, I know) by Don Marquis.

#rise of the guardians #jack frost #rotg #rotg jack frost #madmothdtiys #jack frost art #jack frost fanart #jack frost rotg #jackson overland frost #jack frost dtiys

27 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 6 days

Text

I honestly felt so powerful during this shoot. I'm going to retire Jack because I've had him over ten years and no one cares anymore but I felt SO GOOD as him. Photos: Nastasia Zibrat Photography

#We still care!! I still care!! I've never been able to go to a con but when I do I want there to still be some Jacks out there!

28 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 6 days

Text

jahina nonsense

Mahina's body temperature varies depending on the nighttime temperature, and she's cuddly, which means Jack finally gets regular, comfortable physical contact from someone as cold as he is.

Jack's picked up a bunch of artistic and musical skills, and so has Mahina, so they'll sit together and draw or do musical duets.

Mahina's and Jack's preferred color palettes both include dark blues and white, so they make a bunch of matching outfits together.

Mahina hyperfocuses on drawing or sewing pretty regularly. Jack thinks it's adorable and watches her, brings her food and water and reminds her to consume them, and regularly has her sit up so he can massage her shoulders and back.

Jack loves exploring and Mahina loves learning, so he'll choose a place and Mahina will research the history and share facts about the place while they look around.

Mahina has trouble sleeping due to 1. being nocturnal and 2. having nightmare issues; once she and Jack know each other pretty well she asks him to watch her back while she naps.

#rise of the guardians #rotg #jack frost #rotg jack frost #Rotg oc #oc x canon

3 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 7 days

Text

my violin wrote this cause she missed me (i got an itch and sat and improvised for almost three minutes straight while I was supposed to be asleep)

#violin #classical music

0 notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 7 days

Text

Today I offer you: theories about Jack's memory loss and Manny's chronic lack of communication!

Lack of Communication: The Man in the Moon is incredibly powerful. He only seems to communicate really directly to save Jack, give him a name, and then with the Guardians- in one of their strongholds, probably the most well-fortified and difficult to reach of the strongholds. I mean, Pitch didn't personally appear at the Pole until he was certain he'd already won. Maybe Manny didn't talk to Jack because it would have been a beacon to dark spirits that could have destroyed or corrupted him in his immortal infancy. Maybe he doesn't have the power to communicate often- he seemed to have to wait for a full moon to raise Jack.

Memory Loss: Remember kiddos, the Man in the Moon is just a being like the Guardians in the grand scheme of things. He's powerful and respected, but he must have limits. Jack died in the afternoon and seems to have been resurrected a few hours into the night; that indicates he was deceased for several hours. Between that and dying by drowning, I don't want to imagine the kind of brain damage he had, let alone cardiopulmonary problems. Maybe it took everything Manny had to restore Jack to a functional semblance of life and left the memories for spirits like Tooth to restore.

Or maybe it was to protect Burgess and Jack's family. How do you think he'd have reacted to his unwitting transformation if he had the life experience and memories of a late-1600s-early-1700s colonial American? He'd believe he was some sort of monster or demon, he'd flip out, and being a brand new spirit he'd probably lose control so badly he'd flatten his own home. Instead Manny left Jack with his natural upbeat personality and curiosity and took away the memories that would make him panic about his current state, thereby protecting everyone around Jack. Maybe the adjustment would have just been too much, and Jack couldn't fully embrace being winter itself if he had human memories.

There's such a narrow perception of Manny's actions that I don't think I've seen anyone bother to consider the ways Manny may have been trying to help Jack in the bigger scheme of things. Jack was lonely, but he was still himself, and he was still alive, and maybe that was the best Manny could do for him.

#jack frost #rise of the guardians #rotg #rotg jack frost

22 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 9 days

Text

Cara's adoptive parents, sorcerer and siren Jordan and Sofia Hall.

#tales of arcadia #3below tales of arcadia #toa 3below #Toa oc #Tales of arcadia oc

4 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 10 days

Text

a shot of krel from every episode of 3below pt 2

Season 1:

Season 2:

#tales of arcadia #3below tales of arcadia #toa 3below #krel tarron

12 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 10 days

Text

Yo @tenyai and @aaronwaltke

If Aja and Krel's parents were near Arcadia at the kissing tree before the town was even founded, whose initials are already carved on that tree? Who, pray tell, were RB + CH, and what were they doin out there in the middle of nowhere??

#3below tales of arcadia #tales of arcadia

8 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 12 days

Text

Shoulda thought of this when I originally commented rip but-

Idk if I ever posted this? If this is a repeat I’m so sorry 🙏 but here’s another design for my httyd herbalist au Jack with some of his belongings

494 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 15 days

Text

moment of appreciation for how krel crouches like a complete gremlin

shrimp pose

#tales of arcadia #3below tales of arcadia #krel tarron #toa 3below

29 notes · View notes

the-gateway-to-madness · 15 days

Text

Potentially pg-13 subject matter, placing under the cut even though I don't find it very offensive just in case

Okay maybe the funniest thing to see since joining Tumblr is actively watching the public opinion on physical intimacy swing like a pendulum

because you have a generation that was sexually reserved, and the next generation or two were really open to rebel against their ideology and establish their own identities, and seeing all the downsides to being too repressed. And the reserved generation thinks the open generation is horrifying, and tells them they're wrong, and the open generation thinks the reserved generation is overbearing and wants them to quit telling them how to live.

And now that the original reserved generation is going away? Boom, the latest generation is swinging back towards being reserved, seeing the downsides to being too free with your body and feelings, and now the open generations are disturbed and are trying to tell the reserved generation they're wrong, and the reserved generation wants the open gen to stop telling them how to live, and like. Maybe actually the healthiest balance ain't either extreme, and the two ends of the spectrum should like leave each other alone or something because CLEARLY THEY'RE NEVER GONNA BE HAPPY WITH EACH OTHER LOL

history repeats itself but like, the turntables. it's super funny. everyone always thinks their position has to be the correct one. this never changes. look at humanity humanitying it up again

#idk what to tag this as #Genuinely #social media #Social patterns #?#Generational cycles

3 notes · View notes