in hindsight, growing up as an aromantic person who didn't know aromanticism was a thing...it woulda been really easy for me to assume that something was wrong with me, that I was "broken" or "missing" some piece of humanity.
luckily I was autistic, oblivious, and had a huge ego. it literally never occurred to me to frame it as a "me" problem. i just thought every single person i knew was a dumbass
not trying to be mean, that was just the natural conclusion of a judgemental aspec teenager forcibly surrounded by other teenagers. classmates would go on and on about their Longings and Yearnings and id be like. girl u r fifteen
This was me, though a combination of being a late bloomer and also being a sheltered homeschooler. I was very confused when my fourteen year old friend said "the girl I'm dating" and I was like "what do you guys do on your dates you're fourteen" except I didn't actually say that I smiled and nodded and said "that's nice" and that friend is now my husband.
I have no idea what they did at 14, but we were long distance for two and a half years and spent our date nights on video calls, usually playing a computer game together.
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Hiccup was on his own for most of his childhood so he wasn’t taught what certain things were called until he was much older so little pipspeak Hiccup would come up with his own names for things and when he’s sleep deprived he reverts back to his made up vocabulary and the gang can’t understand him
in hindsight, growing up as an aromantic person who didn't know aromanticism was a thing...it woulda been really easy for me to assume that something was wrong with me, that I was "broken" or "missing" some piece of humanity.
luckily I was autistic, oblivious, and had a huge ego. it literally never occurred to me to frame it as a "me" problem. i just thought every single person i knew was a dumbass
not trying to be mean, that was just the natural conclusion of a judgemental aspec teenager forcibly surrounded by other teenagers. classmates would go on and on about their Longings and Yearnings and id be like. girl u r fifteen
This was me, though a combination of being a late bloomer and also being a sheltered homeschooler. I was very confused when my fourteen year old friend said "the girl I'm dating" and I was like "what do you guys do on your dates you're fourteen" except I didn't actually say that I smiled and nodded and said "that's nice" and that friend is now my husband.
Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.
He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"
"What?"
He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"
"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."
Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.
Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.
to my student who emailed me today asking if she should title her essay “what does grendel eat for breakfast? danish” or “no arm, no foul,” thank you. you don’t know that i was in the middle of hashing out how i’m handling your classmate’s intentional plagiarism, but receiving that email reminded me that some of you take your teenage rebellions in the right direction, and i love u for that.
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Recently binged Frieren, and I have A Lot of emotions about Fern and Stark, so buckle up.
First of all, they're so clearly teenagers, in all of its confusing, annoying, unreasonable, beautifully chaotic glory. Fern's been sheltered her entire life, she's never really known anyone outside of Hieter and Frieren since she was, what, five? No older than 8, for sure. Stark has been living under a metric village's worth of expectations and survivor's guilt, not particularly helped by Eisen's tough love training. So obviously, when two sixteen year old kids from those very different backgrounds come together, there's going to be some clashes. Fern assumes he's a pervert with no evidence to support that claim, Stark is constantly wary of how she perceives him (and what she's going to do about it), and they are constantly either bickering (Stark) or giving the silent treatment (Fern).
And you know what? That's totally freaking normal developmentally for a couple of teenagers, especially ones who have no concept of "social life" or "human interaction".
But the thing is, they also have such child-like trust in each other in high-stakes situations. Frieren thrown in the dungeon by the guy who's trying to make a peace deal with the demons? No time for actual conflict, time to break into the manor. Stark pinned down by that same demon? Immediately prepares to dodge Fern's attack, he knew exaxtly where she was going to be. Giant frog monster chasing us down through an anti-magic cave? Stark has grabbed his girls and taken off, no questions asked. And the thing about that last example is that it could so easily have been turned into a "Fern assumes he's looking at her butt because she's draped over his shoulder" gag and had her confront him about it later, but they don't. There's no question in combat/ situations that they implicitly understand and trust each other in every sense of the word, and it's only when they're doing the social stuff that they have conflicts with each other.
And also? They deal with those conflicts. Not always well, but they always come out the other side just fine.
Another part that I absolutely love is that anytime they hear about some awful monster or scary hazard ahead of them, more often than not they're holding onto each other's hands for support and comfort. They make direct eye contact when Frieren is being ridiculous. They slip into their travel roles automatically. When they fall, Stark gets magically carried - most of the time by Fern.
I just love them so much for being real, genuine, honest characters who aren't perfect, but aren't stereotypes of obnoxious teens either. They're people learning and growing and discovering how to be people together and that's a beautiful thing to see.
Did I ever tell you guys about how last year I did a PowerPoint night with some friends and made my entire PowerPoint about Goncharov? I had a whole plot summary and everything, and the rug pull of the fact that none of it was real was beautiful. Only two friends knew about it before, and everyone lost their minds when I told them (AFTER the plot summary) about the fact that I'd been gaslighting them for the last ten minutes.
rewatched the entire PoTC trilogy on an international flight and I can't believe I forgot how funny it is.
Barbossa is the most exasperated character in any scene he's in, unless he's winning. then he's the smuggest son of a bitch on screen (he literally returns from the dead smugly eating an apple). but majority of the time, he's 'why am I the only adult here'. man rolls his eyes so much I half-expected him to turn straight to the camera.
when Will asks Elizabeth to marry him while they are fighting Davy Jones' crew, stuck in a maelstrom, and trapped in the final battle, the first word out of her mouth is "Barbossa!". she then continues by asking Barbossa to marry them, but for a split second Will's face goes like 'Barbossa? Barbossa?? I didn't even know he was on the map of this convoluted love quadrangle!'
when they're in Singapore and Sao Feng threatens the spy he found and Will, Elizabeth, and Barbossa all look at each other to confirm that none of them have snuck in a spy they forgot to tell the others about, before shrugging and telling Sao Feng to go ahead and kill him.
Barbossa's eyes just getting wide and wider the more weapons Elizabeth pulls out of her clothes. c'mon man, let a woman have her toys!
rewatching really gives you the full picture of how many people are scheming at any given time and how each person's schemes intersect with the others, even if they're nominally on the same side. everyone also gets So Upset when their scheme is foiled, accidentally or intentionally, by someone else's scheme, as though they themselves aren't scheming at that very moment.
Barbossa's iron balls. I'm sorry, this is the funniest dick joke in the trilogy that defines how many dick jokes Disney can stick in a movie before it stops being PG-13. Jack's reaction really says it all.
rereading this list I see it's quite heavily tilted in favor of Barbossa which I now realize is because I empathize with Barbossa way more than I did as a kid. I too am frustrated to be surrounded by idiots while I'm the only adult around. man just wants to eat his apple in peace goddammit. so he did a little mutiny and maybe some more murder and mayhem and also maybe unleashed a pagan god upon the world. the guy really likes his apples, is that a crime?!?
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You know, I've seen a few people talk about how the twins are smarter than they seem, but Ruffnut and Tuffnut are way more than comedic relief. In two almost back-to-back episodes, it's proven how much they genuinely do care. Ruffnut is so ready to do anything for Tuffnut in the episode about the Lycanwing. And the twins would do anything for Barf and Belch in The Zippleback Experience. Sure, anything included roasting Snotlout alive. But it also probably included a lot worse than that (I say as someone who does absolutely love Snotlout, please don't come for me). They care. A lot. And they will think up anything. They just dont want to be obvious about it, because if they were, Hiccup would make them do stuff. And they hate doing stuff. (Which ironically proves even more how smart they are).
My favorite scenes in the LotR books are the ones where Legolas has vital information and just decides it's not important to share.
Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??
Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??
It's because legolas hasn't spent enough time with non-elves to remember that they don't know what he knows.
gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"
"I wonder what aragorn is listening for? must be hard to hear, what with all of the horses. How many horses are there, actually? 1... 2... 3..."
"What do your elvish eyes see?" is Aragorn saying, as politely as possible, "Because the REST OF US are at a significant disadvantage, Prince Dipshit."
because I've been rewatching the whole dragon riders series with my friend, we've came up with like some dnd (5e) headcanons for the characters. With some characters we knew things with 100% certainty after just a few episodes, with some we needed to wait until rtte to confirm it and with some we are still on the fence, but I'm gonna share them here anyway. It's gonna be chaotic and some are more detailed than others(because that's as much material as we managed to gather) but I'll happily elaborate more on each point. enjoy ^-^
(putting this under keep reading because it's kinda long for a silly post)
With twins we immediately zeroed in on them having high wisdom score, with Ruffnut having a very high insight bonus, being quite aware of others emotions or having a hunch when something is up (especially with Gruffnut). Tuffnut on the other hand has a very high perception bonus (he was able to notice invisible changewings or spot or hear ships people and dragons a lot in advance compared to other riders). They also have a lot of knowledge about the world but it comes from experience rather than just dry facts, another reason for high wis.
First we aimed for them being warlocks with high wis considering their chaotic behaviour, but the first episode of rtte cemented us that they are both clerics of trickery.
Snotlout was an interesting specimen to analyse since a lot of hc I've seen put him as a fighter or a barbarian, but it became abundantly clear to us that he is a bard (subclasswise he would be a mix between college of valor or college of swords, either way a spellsword). He leans heavily on charisma and it's very high stat. unfortunately he has negative rizz and "poor rolls" so we often see him fail. but we see him encourage his friends (often in a panicked way; that's bardic inspiration for you) and when encountered with a difficult situation he relies on his talking rather then brute force, not to mention he was chosen to be the one to infiltrate hunters' auction and managed to pull that off. Snotlout also loves to dramatise and exaggerated his responses and that's such a bard thing to do.
Additionaly he has very high constitution considering how many explosions, falls, or Hookfang throwing him around he survived it's only fair to assume that.
Next we have Fishlegs and no surprises here he would be a wizard. His knowledge about dragons is extensive and he loves to gather more of it, he has his specialty with gronkles and boulder class like wizards do with schools of magic. Still it sits to some extent in this theoretical realm. Additionaly he has high strength (not typical for a wizard) a remainder of Thor Bonecrusher still existing in him.
Hiccup is an artificer, no subclass in particular but he tinkers sooo much! They had the dragon eye for 2 seasons and he was able to recreate one so it functions to the extent they needed it to (replicate magic item ability) not to mention the flaming sword, dragonfly or that damn multitool shield. So along with Fishlegs they are the characters with high intelligence but low wisdom, contrasted with twins who are high wis low int. Both of them often needed time to pick up on things twins were able to catch in seconds. And also like any self-respecting artificer Hiccup seeks out dangerous situations as if he doesn't feel alive unless he feels death breathing down his neck.
Astrid is a paladin through and through. She definitely has fighter abilities and vibes but she also has her own convictions and moral compass she sticks to no matter what. She is often this voice of reason and keeps things serious. Also she has some charisma (being able to intimidate others). She is also friends with Heather a very common combo I see during dnd games, a paladin and barbarian friendship.
Because Heather is a barbarian. She's stubborn, hot-headed, has a cool deadly weapon and if she fixates on something can be easy to anger (barbarian rage 😌). She's also very individualistic and prefers to do things her own way (and come on wouldn't it be funny for her to be a berserker barbarian?)
We also decided that Ryker is a ranger, with a dip in fighter, with his favoured enemy being dragons (duh). He has extensive knowledge of dragons and experience on hunting them being able to smell the exact species.
Viggo seems to elude us with his abilities, since we would mostly see consequences and effects of his actions rather then the actions themselves, so the best we could pinpoint for him was rogue adjacent thing (an investigator or mastermind subclass most likely) we did notice his persuasion and deception skills are extremely high, along with his intelligence ability and wisdom/insight (but this one is only focused on his current adversary) he was also quite evasive to the riders being able to completely disappear on them (stealth expertise and all and it's typical for rogues to get over 30 when rolling for stealth at higher levels). He's also like a crime boss and you know rogue-crime kinda self explanatory.
Stoic, Gobber and Alvin have been put into the specific category of npc's called "lvl 20 shopkeeper" that can only be hurt by the game master and only for the plot reasons. While Savage gets to be an evil upgraded minion.
Krogan also gets a mention of for being a strength based fighter with a dip in ranger for the favoured enemy.
Special shout-out goes to Mala, who fits perfectly into being a kensei monk, with her katana, hand combat abilities, and being able to catch an arrow ("a perfect fit for a weeboo with a karen haircut" to quote my friend)
Last but not least we have Dagur, who we initially thought was a fighter/monk multiclass with his high constitution, high dexterity and high strength. But boy were we wrong, because you see Dagur is a DM PC or the overpowered NPC that was supposed to be and antagonist but was converted into an ally along the way. Because outside of very good combat abilities, being extremely durable to all forms of damage, great reflexes and being very physically capable in general he poses rather high int (tactical planning ie) high wis (very perceptive and good at reading people) and despite being a complete maniac he managed to lead a tribe and hunters as well (high charisma)
Additionaly he has a somewhat innate abity for bonding and training dragons considering he was able to fool riders, who have been flying for almost 5 years now, after having Shatter master for less than a day and befriended a dragon that has been forced into cage fights(!!!) by being what? polite?? (Ruff and Tuff also seem to have a similar ability considering their interactions with dragons who are often considered difficult or impossible to train, I believe it's a different one then the one Hiccup has)
We also decided that Dagur has a special ability that allows him to automatically taunt his enemy if he has any history with them, but also has disadvantage when somebody else wants to taunt him.
And well when it comes to all the riders all could have a few levels in ranger or an ability to give them advantage when interacting with their preferred dragon type, while hunters have this kind of ranger's favoured enemy with dragons, but that seems like a given so I'm only mentioning it at the end.
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You have my support and my sympathy, I understand the suddenly running out of adrenaline for surviving. I'm currently coming to terms with the chronic illness that resulted from my own survival mode for so long. Lots of prayers for you and your family ❤️
