Lyärsa

Imagine finding out you have 90 minutes to tie up a love story that's developed over thousands of years. You create something beautifully in character and completely on point for the plot. You pay homage to the original writer's legacy in a fitting and poetic way and create an ending that not only shows the depth of two people's love for each other but the wider love they have for the thing that brought them together in the first place.

And then you go online to find the loudest outcry is that everyone hates it and "THEY DIDN'T EVEN KISS!"

We’re asking, where does the soul live?

For those who think that who we are is shaped by a life time of experiences. That we grow and change with each each heartbreak and trauma. We see the ending as something horrible. We’re witnessing the death of our beloved characters and we are grieving for them.

For those who believe in a soul, who believe that Asa and Anthony are Aziraphale and Crowley because of the something intrinsic that lives inside them, what they’re seeing is a rebirth and a second chance. In that sense the ending is beautiful. They both get exactly what they’ve always wanted. To live as humans without the pressure of heaven and hell. In that sense, the ending is a joyous one.

Sadly these beliefs are deeply held, often the roots begin as far back as our childhoods. No amount of screaming at each other about media analysis is going to change anyone’s mind. Please just accept that there are multiple ways that one can view the ending and that those who are upset are experiencing grief. This is an extremely normal and valid reaction to end of something so meaningful and should be treated with care.

That said, your grief is not an excuse to lash out and those who don’t deserve it.

Still You

this scene tears me apart... all the pages oz spends telling gil why he can't stay with him, telling him to leave him, his words supposedly pushing him away...but the whole time he's saying all these things, oz is holding onto gil so tight, like he's terrified that he might actually do it.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

Like of fucking course Hiccup is talking to dragons in their own language, of course they flock towards him without anybody's input when he needs help, of course he jumps off cliffs and has no sense of danger from height, of course altitude sickness is not even a thing to him, of course he'll hiss at you like a disgruntled terror when he's too sleepy and cranky and of course he'll eat the raw fish without noticing when the twins try to prank him with it, of course the one proper weapon he made is on fire, of course he finds eels repulsive, of course he has no problem scaling cliffs or slinking through rough rocky terrain, of course he feels cranky and cooped up when he hadn't gone flying for a while, of course he growls when he's too angry. Next thing you'll know, the kid is allergic to blue oleanders and dragon root

Luffy:

Always thinking about how to use his Devil Fruit in creative ways

Understands political matters (speech to Vivi in Alabasta)

Most emotionally intelligent character in the series.

Amazing at recruiting new crewmates

Powerset requires great spacial intelligence.

Lowkey makes a lot of good tactical decisions.

Zoro:

Taught himself basic Haki in Alabasta. He hasn't even heard of Haki at this point.

Knows quite a lot about pirates and bounty hunters

Very good with numbers, even in flashbacks! Capable of remembering exactly how many duels he has lost.

Capable of thinking on his feet. (First two examples that come to mind are him testing Nami's character in Arlong Park and him moving the cage in Orangetown.)

Also, imagine Asetrid training in the woods and runs into Hiccup on his way to toohless(or on his way home from T), kinda like in the movie, but here, she has no reason to really be angry at him or suspicious. It happens a few more times, and he tells her he comes out here to invent stuff, everyone knows he invents, Astrid, and you know what? She falls for it, bc she's focused on training. BUT they keep running into each other, and Astrid starts to notice him in the village more. Also the way everyone treats him and how absent he is.

The whole point of the original post is the angst, but i think it would also be cool for Astrid to start to notice the value of inventions (i.e. Hiccup), and start to try to talk to him. And have the whole realization that as nervous and appeasing he is to her, he doesn't trust her.

So now she wants him to trust her and trying to be his friend. It wouldn't matter to her at first bc training and being a viking is her life, she understands where they stand in the war, BUT. He doesnt trust her. The chief's son, reckless and unfit as he is, strange, talks weird around her, doesn't trust her. Doesn't really trust the village either.