#that audience is me

[gargoylegeckooo]

Long story short. My two main special interests are Formula 1 and How to Train Your Dragon, so welcome to my short list of why George Russell and Hiccup Haddock III are the same person: told in pictures.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

[watmalik]

Wolverine being a confirmed boy kisser by Hugh Jackman.

[nipuni]

the snake of eden 🥰

[dragonomatopoeia]

i'm always a bit unsettled by disdain for intellectual or creative labor in leftist spaces. there's this commonly held belief that academics are a bunch of rich old white men, rather than a wide variety of people who are barely getting by. most lecturers in universities are adjuncts living paycheck to paycheck. authors make very little money as a general rule. most researchers are overworked and underpaid. and yet there's still this idea that academics are overcompensated to sit around and smoke cigars together while making shit up

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's just guys night talk! Don't worry about it!

(Read Tiger Tiger and shake this man awake so he can finish that thought!)

[possamble]

hiii everybody are you normal about Falin showing Laios the same little spell that Marcille showed her? are you normal about Falin remembering it fondly enough that it was one of the first things she showed her brother while trying to teach him magic?

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[hinamie]

new official illust of them with puppies healed something in me

[livixbobbiex]

You know what's fun?

They seem to have made Percy more on the inattentive end of ADHD than hyperactive. Aside from the capture the flag scene, we mostly just see him zoning out, 'daydreaming', the line "I don't think it's the marshmallow's fault I never pay attention".

ADHD barely gets good representation as it is, but I don't think I've ever seen the inattentive type in media like this before. This is going to be huge for a lot of people who don't fall under the hyperactive stereotype umbrella.

I'm just really excited that more people will get the chance to see themselves.

[mylols16]

any one else completely forget that straight men are marvel fans like sir these characters are for the girls and gays wdym straight men are the target audience?!?

[marlonbrandto]

THE MAYNOS GAMBIT

The ethereal Aun’Shar makes planetfall on Maynos to negotiate an arms trade with the League of Votaan. The meeting was to take place at the ruins of the Armillarum. A dilapidated observatory containing a still functioning map of the entire planet. Negotiations… were short.

1. Upon arriving at the Armillarum, nothing but dust and wind greeted Aun’Shar’s escort. Something was amiss, cloaking devices hissing awake, Stealth team Obscurus took point, but as soon as they approached the Sphere, war cries echoed through ruins, as if the ghosts of long dead Maynosi manifested in protest of their trespass.

2. Screaming of ancient battles and unpaid debts, dwarves explode from the ruins. Three hover bikes rush the Tau patrol, Shas’nel Kas’Mi engages his targeting system and his cyclic ion raker flashes plasma across the field, sending 2 bikes rolling into balls of flame. Before they can react, Fireblade D’tano hears the whistle of a mortar, and his strike team desperately scrambles to a dilapidated wall while the terrain explodes around them.

3. A team of berserkers spit insults towards Kas’Mi’s ghostkeel, breaking into a full sprint. Kas’Mi doesn’t notice the quickly encroaching danger as he vaporizes the last bike, leaving only a scorch mark in the sand. Aun’Shar rallies his team and orders volley fire on the rampaging dwarves, but every shot that pierces their skin seems to only enrage them further. It wasn’t until the holes left by the pulse rifles were large enough to separate their legs from their bodies that they started to fall.

4. Only one berserker reached the ghostkeel, the snap of his bones could be heard from across the battlefield as his power fists propelled what was left of his arms into the Ghostkeel’s leg. Kas’Mi noticed the sudden balance shift on his instruments, turned and corrected the balancing error, by crushing the berserker beneath the battlesuits’ hoof. The Leagues’ firing line then fell promptly to the combined fire of Aun’Shar’s patrol. The perfect Kauyon lure.

Why would the Votaan breach their trade contract with the Empire? Why were they screaming of prophecies and history in lieu of their usual war hymns? The answers to these questions died as the last dwarf’s face smacked into the the slurry of blood, sand and leaked plasma coolant that pooled beneath their remains.

The Armillarum has revealed the location of a vault, containing something known only as The Calamity Equation. There seems to be a Department of Records building on the planet that should hold the key to said vault. With what is known about the Maynosi, this Calamity Equation could be a weapon powerful enough to end worlds, or a technology so advanced it would usher the Empire into a new era. Aun’Shar had to make a choice. While it would be prudent to wait for the fleet to arrive and inspect the vault with a full compliment of Fire Warriors, it would be foolish to assume they would be the only ones to learn of this vaults existence, time is of the essence. Aun’Shar informs D’tano of the import of the Calamity Equation, who gathers the ethereals retinue and prepares to march for the Department of Records. It was time for Mont’ka, the killing blow.

[call-me-clevy]

Relative to What??

I am developing a version of it. Not sure how far it will go, but it already has a lot behind it! I didn't make this AU of course, I'm just messing with it.

Original designs by HoodedJelly

[contactlessdrivethru]

just finished opla mood

[nikoisme]

I'm a proud soldier. It will be a big day on 4th of july

[inktho]

🎯 critical hit

[ddeck]

north caucasian miku💥