#heorot

THE 13TH WARRIOR (1999)

The thirteen warriors, lead by Buliwyf, arrive at Heorot, the mead-hall of King Hrothgar and his son, Wigliff.

The film, one of my guilty pleasures despite not being anywhere near as good as it should be, is based on Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead.

Heorot fanart for the 1.0 launch of Last Epoch!

Haters are going to completely miss the point of the narrative and call it woke or offensive.

Nobody’s gonna read the book

LGBT/disabled/POCs identifying with Grendel because of how isolated and lonely he feels

People who only saw Beowulf 2007 bitching and moaning about the movie is woke and not faithful to the legend because Grendel’s Mother is a wicked awesome puppet and not being played by Naked Angelia Jolie™️

As the only other prominent female character, Wealhtheow will be infantalized and despised by the fandom, who will call her sexist, unnecessary, and bland

Grendel will be woobified, vilified or infantilized by people who don’t understand the point of the story

People will want to screw the dragon. I may be one of these people but we’ll see when the trailer drops

Fanon Hrothgar will be reduced to a senile old man

Nobody’s gonna read the book

People will ship Grendel with everything BUT Wealhtheow despite him wrestling with a romantic attraction to her. Additionally, Grendel/Wealhtheow shippers will be attacked because the ship is “problematic” while their attackers nut over even MORE problematic ships, such as Grendel/Beowulf, Grendel/Hrothulf (Hrothgar’s child-aged nephew) or Grendel riding the Freudian roller coaster with his own mother

Trans Grendel headcanons because he doesn’t have visible male genitalia and is referred to as a “he” (I don’t mind that headcanon at all actually, I would LOVE to see where people take it)

Fanfic and fanart about Grendel interacting with The Shaper and seeing him as a surrogate father

Fanon Grendel will suddenly have a positive relationship with his mother

LOTS of fluffy and adorable child Grendel fanart

So many memes replacing Grendel with The Dude from The Big Lebowski

People suddenly remembering that Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981) exists and decrying that it is MUCH better than the Jim Henson movie

People nutting over Unferth because Aiden Turner (valid)

People nutting over Beowulf because Dave Bautista (also valid)

Fanart of Grendel meeting the other Muppets because they’re all created by Jim Henson. I myself hope to one day see him vibe with Uncle Deadly and Gonzo

So many historically inaccurate OCs

OCs that take note from Norse mythology

So much Unferth/Grendel smut because enemies to lovers I guess

The dragon is Grendel’s father theory

The Shaper is Grendel’s father theory

The dragon is The Shaper theory

People calling Grendel an incel and modern AUs where Grendel IS an incel

Omegaverse fanfics where Grendel is always the omega

Fanfics about Beowulf not killing Grendel and keeping him as a kinky pet

Incels identifying with Grendel and turning it into a major problem

What if we were both bugs and we kissed? Haha just kidding.....unless?