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“Hey! Eyes on me!”

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There is a throwaway line from the HTTYD remake that I can’t get out of my mind.

I can’t remember the exact wording, but early in the film, Stoick tells Gobber something to the effect of “I don’t have time to train the recruits this year, you’ll have to do it.”

Wait a minute! You’re telling me that Stoick usually teaches dragon training?

Stoick the Vast, Chief of Berk, a man who surely has a million different things to worry about, chooses to spend his spare time teaching teenagers how to fight dragons? I can’t even picture it. What would he be like as a teacher?

It gets better when you remember that in this version, Ruffnut and Tuffnut have taken the course four times and they keep failing. So now I’m just picturing Stoick being like. “Please, I can’t deal with those twins one more year, Gobber! You’re taking over for year five!”

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You just gestured to all of me.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2025) dir. Dean DeBlois

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they’re so dear to me

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parallel play (liking and reblogging your mutual's posts but not talking to them)

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nothing makes me feel dumber than being introduced to a boardgame with more than three rules

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“It’s rather chilling to consider that one of the most indelible images in the Star Wars saga is its heroine silenced, stripped down, and in chains. I know a lot of men have positive feelings about this particular costume — in fact there’s an entire episode of the popular sitcom Friends that’s devoted to it — which is why it’s kind of hilariously ironic that Han Solo was blind during these scenes. That is, the one man who is romantically attached to Leia is the one man who never saw her in the golden bikini. Which means Han Solo is more attracted to a mouthy space age shield maiden than he is to a tight female body on display. In fact, if I could be so bold, I would suggest that Han Solo would be more turned on hearing about how Leia strangled Jabba the Hutt to death — using nothing but the chain that enslaved her — than he would be hearing about how his sworn enemy turned the woman he loved into a tawdry plaything.”

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HAN SOLO: WAS THE ‘STAR WARS’ HERO A NOT-SO-SECRET FEMINIST? (via laurenbacal)

#the time he’s moved to breathily declare that he loves her on screen?  #she’s about to shoot some dudes and wearing a huge Skywalker Poncho™

(via zombeesknees)

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Shout out to people with auditory processing disorder!!!

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Speef is real to me. I'm sorry for that.

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"ADHD - Hyperactive/impulsive type"

I didn't want to write this

But I have no other choice.

My captor smirks, as she binds my hands,

and demands to use my voice.

"Don't think!" she cries, "Just speak! Just speak!"

Her hungry eyes are wide.

"These are your friends! They love you so!

There's no reason to hide!"

"It's-"

"It's not that I don't want to share,"

I say, my voice pitched low.

"But, aren't there things that, maybe,

just the two of us could know?"

"What???" her shriek is high and shrill

"Be so for real right now!!

You honestly believe that you don't have to-

That you can- ...wow."

"I know, I know," I mutter,

"Being vulnerable's my thing."

"That's right!" she crows, "Did you forget

the benefits it brings?"

"You share the joys so others

can partake in your delight!

You share the hardships and the hurts

to encourage them to fight!"

"And what if they misunderstand??"

her voice has reached a shout.

"Unless you tell them everything,

there's always room for doubt!!"

She softens, and she smiles at me

Her steps toward me are slow.

"Everybody shares themselves,

and it is good. Now-"

"No"

I take a breath. "That's not the same

Please don't pretend it is.

There's healthy vulnerability,

and then there's...all of this."

"Others might disclose some parts,

but don't give up the whole

Other people don't feel shamed

if they don't bare their soul."

"Why must I keep going, going,

past all hope of rest;

desperate to be QUIET, acting like

a man possessed??"

"Would it really be so terrible

if I were more unknown??

Can I be permitted ANYTHING

that's mine and mine alone?!"

"No," she says. "But why?" I ask,

as tears fall from my eyes.

My head jerks back, my scalp's on fire

"I'm hungry," she replies.

"You think that it's enough?" Her breath

is cold against my face.

"That those sorry scraps you offer me

can really take the place"

"Of the endless, roaring static buzz

that lives inside my gut?!

That pithy words and careful plans

can keep the black hole shut?!"

"Those pills you give me only

make it easier to tell

how long it's been since last I ate.

But I suppose it's just as well."

"It's not like anything you do

could match my appetite.

You could resist," she whispers,

"but we know who wins that fight."

"You speak when I direct you,

you say what I advise.

You buy and move and think for me

with all that that implies."

"If you won't give me what I need, then,

this is how it has to be.

The voice may still belong to you

but you belong to me."

A new sensation: Sharp. Against my skin.

Just out of view.

"Go ahead," she says,

"Spill your guts. Before I do."

A desk appears. I take the seat.

My wrists are still bound tight.

I take the pen she's holding out,

and then I start to write.

I didn't want to write this

but I have no other choice.

My captor sits and smiles brightly,

laughing with my voice.

DO NOT REPOST

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"Every year, everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation, whose meaning none of us will ever know." - In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver, with images from the 2023 Watermill Theatre production of The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale

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Thank you, for saving my son. Well, most of him.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2025)

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It's the first day of August! Happy Tuck Everlasting day!

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when your beloved mutual turns your zero note flop post into a one note flop post <33333

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How to Train Your Dragon (2025) dir. Dean DeBlois

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Based solely on the title, this is the first good article that I've seen about the HTTYD live action