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Dani: So you just copied Superman's whole thing?

Jimmy: Tries to explain it was an accident

Kon: He did not

Jimmy:???

Kon: He's got replicas of Superman's powers that look the same but work completely different. He didn't have any choice in the matter, as he was at the mercy of crazy scientists working with the science equivlent of the dark arts for a supervillian with an unhealthy obsession towards destroying a hero because he doesn't think that hero deserves to be viewed as a person. He's copying ME

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Hollywood, call me. I can have this script done on a weekend.

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they need to invent the opposite of an nda called an fda where u have to tell everyone everything

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It is canon that at some point, while Hiccup was still in a coma, Gobber went through his room and workshop to find the schematics for Toothless's tail. I cannot imagine that Stoick did not join him.

What must it have felt like, seeing all of Hiccup's drawings and models of Toothless? There is so much to unpack about what they would have thought.

They must have been struck by how little Hiccup hid his things (a canon detail!), because Hiccup knew they didn't care enough to notice. He left drawings of Toothless out ON HIS DESK and never worried about it.

Can you imagine? Your child loves something so deeply that it has become intrinsic to who they are, and you know they knew you would hate that thing if you found out, and you realize that they felt like they didn't even really need to hide it because you never looked at them enough to notice. And they were right.

And, also, Stoick and Gobber must have appreciated for the first time how incredible Hiccup's inventions are. Gobber had to break down the tail schematics to recreate it, which meant he had to fully confront how the tail control mechanism was light-years beyond any other piece of technology on the island.

They would have found, too, Hiccup's first few attempts at the tail. They would have been confronted with the fact that when given the space to test things, to try things and iron out the flaws, Hiccup is a genius. All those old inventions that almost worked but malfunctioned in some way? Yeah, if the village hadn't stopped Hiccup, if they had let him take notes and try again, those inventions probably would have worked.

Can you imagine what they felt, realizing how badly they had stifled and mistreated Hiccup? Realizing that if they had given him space to be himself, he would have been creating miracles his entire life?

ALSO, Stoick and Gobber must have truly understood for the first time how deeply Hiccup cared for Toothless. Hiccup made technical drawings for the tailfin, yes. But he also canonically drew a lot of art of Toothless just. Being Toothless. In the Live Action he even made a wooden carving with articulated wings! It is so evident from his space how much he loved Toothless. What do you think Stoick felt, seeing that, knowing how he himself treated Toothless after the arena fight?

There is just so much that comes from that small detail of Gobber making a new tailfin, and I desperately want, like, a novella from Stoick and Gobber's POV of that time period.

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The cast of the Original Trilogy had cliched, boring character concepts that were executed wonderfully enough for it not to matter. 

 The cast of the Prequel Trilogy had interesting concepts that were executed poorly enough to make them seem utterly stupid. 

The cast of the Sequel Trilogy had amazing, thought-provoking concepts that were executed in the town square and put up on pikes as a warning to others.

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Fanon likes Sick!Tim to persevere through the illness so he won't be a burden, but consider instead Tim's only frame of reference for what to do when having a cold being A) the Bats and B) his parents.

Of course Tim is fighting Killer Cros in the sewers while down a spleen, beset with a cold, and sporting open wounds. Bruce "a broken back is just a temporary setback" Wayne and Jack & Janet "I have a flight in two hours to a remote mountain two continents away full of cool rocks and only God Himself will keep me from making it there" Drake do not good role models make.

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Why did I draw this? Why to show off Shadow's sick under fit of course!

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Chapter 4 is live! Only one more chapter until it's all new content!

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"New Yorkers bite more people than sharks annually" is an excellent example of how statistics can be misleading. Like yeah no shit, do you have any idea how rare it is to even encounter a shark in the wild? They're not exactly urban animals. I'm pretty damn sure that if sharks were living in big cities like pigeons, just strolling down the streets looking for food scraps, you'd see a lot more news stories about New Yorkers biting them.

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@darckcarnival

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still not over the stephen colbert thing, the way they're punishing him so much by not only essentially firing him but cancelling the show he loves in its entirety, which means also punishing all 200 people who work for and with him on the show.

it is setting an example. it's saying, "this is what happens when you speak truth to power. we will not only punish you. we'll punish the people around you that you've led and loved. is it worth it now, stephen? would it be worth it, other late night talk show hosts? if you don't keep quiet, we will quiet you". the other late night talk show hosts are not all under paramount (iirc, it's just the daily show), but this sets a precedent that tells them they are all vulnerable.

"it's not a big deal" idk man it really seems like it is

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Given all the times I've seen things about speedster metabolisms, I think fat should be something healthy for speedsters. It's insurance their body has reserves and they won't accidentally run themselves into their bodies burning their own tissue for fuel. A skinny speedster is one dangerously close to one push over their limit permanently effing up their bodies.

I think the weirdest form of fatphobia I keep bumping into is writers suddenly becoming deeply concerned with physical realism when a fat character is involved even in contexts where everybody's physical capabilities are explicitly bullshit. "They're fat, it wouldn't make sense for them to have super speed" and it would make sense for the 98-pound twink to be able to run at Mach Fuck? That's something skinny people can do in real life, is it?

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Friday The 13th (1980)

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I'll be real with you. I'd take the clown incidents over whats happening right now

Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents