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Viggo *upset*: This arrangement was meant to humble you. Why would you agree to marry me?

Hiccup: It was necessary *thinks about the benefits of being married*

Monetary benefits! Peace between their tribes! Frequent kinky sex! Chance to teach Viggo about dragons!

What was that last one?

Uh, chance to teach Viggo about dragons?

No, the one before that.

Peace between their tribes?

No, no, the one between those two.

@thedragon-and-hisboy @eat-your-milk i know you two love this too<3

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hiccup: according to clause vii of the berkian marriage accord, as ratified by the tribes of the northern reach, the highland clans, and the isles of norvegr, as your legal spouse i now hold shared jurisdiction over all your property, holdings and military assets. which includes full command over your fleet :)

viggo: you what—no, you can't do that.

hiccup: yes, i can. and i have. it's explicitly stated in the marriage contract that you signed, right beneath the clause about ceremonial yak exchanges.

viggo: well, then i'll claim equal rights over berk. we're married, aren't we?

hiccup: ah, but you designated me as the 'wife' in the official documentation, didn't you? when you said, quote, "hiccup haddock, i will make you my wife", unquote, which, under berkian inheritance law, means you've relinquished any claim to my tribe's assets. authority over berk remains solely with me and my bloodline.

viggo:

hiccup: it's an old legal structure, you see. wives manage all household and clan property by tradition, originally implemented to prevent a husband from exploiting his wife's status for political or financial gain, seizing her clan's resources, abandoning her with dependents, or leveraging the marriage for power.

Like, plenty of these legalities have been moot for ages because who has time to fuck over their spouses when they're busy fighting dragons and might not even still have a spouse by the next day? So Viggo, in his research, finds the more current wedding contracts, the ones that are much simpler and designed to give spouses what remains of assets and dependents if the other were to fall in battle and/or have to remarry. He assumes the most up to date contracts are what Berk will reference for his and Hiccup's marriage.

In assuming so, Viggo doesn't bother to read over the contract Stoick prepares or question why the Chief of Berk is so easily signing away his only son and heir. Berk is full of barbarians, after all.

But Stoick knows the old laws because he once thought he'd have to prepare to marry away his fishbone of a son. He wanted to find all the underhanded ways to protect his boy if he was put in a marriage where his spouse might try to do exactly what Viggo is trying to do. And while he hasn't worried himself with these fears since Hiccup trained dragons, he's glad he still has all that paperwork, that his council is familiar with the laws and are willing to fight and enforce those laws.

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Your tags made me think of Hiccup doing that before Dagur was redeemed, and it was such a habit that when Dagur sends Important Correspondence Because War that Hiccup isn't expecting, there is at least once where Hiccup begins to burn it until he remembers that he's allies with Dagur and there might be a chance that it's important and tries to panic put it out.

UEGH I don't think anyone truly understands what I mean when I say I'm obsessed with HEX...................... who am i kidding, you probably do.

There is an ongoing case in Australia currently (the hearing has concluded but the ruling has not been announced) where Roxy Tickle, a trans woman, is suing the Giggle for Girls app and its founder for $100,000, plus another $100,000. Giggle for Girls is a platform exclusively for women, and Roxy was banned from the app after joining.

The app already has a lot of problematic features on it. For example, any new user is required to submit a selfie-- a photo which is then analyzed by ai to determine whether or not the user is a woman. For Roxy, the ai wasn't the issue, however-- in fact, she used the app for several months with no problem. Instead, the owner of the app manually and purposefully overrode the ai, revoking Roxy's access to the app, because she saw her profile. She then refused to reinstate her account and blocked her.

The founder of the app, Sall Grover, has knowingly and persistently misgendered Roxy dozens of times in interviews, articles and posts. I have a chrome extension that shows if a website is queerphobic or not, and when I look up Roxy's name there are only two results not in red.

As well as this, the additional $100,000 dollars Roxy is suing for? That's because of an online campaign waged against her by Grover, who has a large platform on Twitter. Katherine Deves, who had been representing Giggle in court tried to get the case thrown out. And Grover quite literally called in evolutionary biologist Colin Wright to advocate for her case. He's giving evidence for the trial.

There is a fundraiser to "reclaim sex based rights and protections for all women and girls" created specifically for this case. It has raised over $500,000, and that number is still growing.

Anyways. I don't know if I was just the last one to know about this, but the fact that I even found out about this case was because of a post a terf made scares me.

If anyone else has any more information, please add onto this post! And if I missed anything, or said anything wrong, please correct me.

Thank you for taking this time out of your day.

If you want to read more about the case, I would check out these articles:

@lilithtransrights @catboybiologist @coelii @beatrice-of-the-stars @amongussexgif

See, when I started driving, I would get irritated by people who drove Soooo Slowly... like, the ones who slow down to 10 MPH to take a turn kind of slow. And then one day I was taking a vase of flowers to an event, and even though I'd strapped it in carefully you can bet I was taking the turns extra carefully to keep it from tipping over, slowing way down, and... oh.

as a giant bug would be

alright too i guess

Like. The first popular touch screens I knew of were high end new-edition ipods and that was their defining trait. No buttons.

"But how do we use it without buttons?" Well. It has three buttons. Power and volume.

My whole class full of middle class kids had ipod nanos, ipod shuffles they got for Christmas. I had an MP3 player, and before that, a cassette player and a portable CD player.

The 'ipod touch' was goddamn crazy. Like, space-age shit.

I swear to god when I got one as a gift from a well-off relative it had no music, no games, I didn't know how to connect it to the internet, nothing, but the reality of a smooth screen that responded when you touched it like some kind of goddamn hologram, like a pocket mirror with color-changing cuttlefish skin that knew I was touching it, that I just spent a solid hour and a half in my room just swiping the screen back and forth.

And the idea that you could connect to the INTERNET on it?? And not the expensive shitty pixelated crap you paid $50 a minute for on your flip phone, but WHOLE WEBSITES? JUST LIKE ON A LAPTOP? Ooooooooooohmygod.

And it was small enough to hide under the covers with!! I could read after bedtime!!! Before that, I had a second-hand digital camera, and I'd take photos of my comic books during the day so I could read through them later on the tiny ass 2"x2" view screen. And before THAT, it was a bedside lamp I'd scramble to turn off if it sounded like someone was getting close to the stairs.

And after the ipod touch, card readers started getting touch screens. I didn't think I'd ever get used to being encouraged to smear my fingerprints on the glass.

And SMARTBOARDS? Hoooooooooooooooly shit.

Like. I'm not even old yet, and every so often I just suddenly remember that the world I knew at that age doesn't exist anymore.

And what's all this going to become?

"... “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.