You know... as much as I hate the Light Fury, there's one thing after all these years that makes me genuinely feel bad for her.
The Hidden World sets her up as this poor abused, traumatized soul. She has been tortured and intimidated so much by humans that she can't connect with them. Just getting a glimpse of one makes her turn tail and flee for her life.
And yet, the movie robs her of her own revenge. She doesn't get to fight Grimmel, or the hunters. Leading up to and during the film's final battle, she's tranquilized, bound, has her life directly threatened, and then gets taken control of again and used against Toothless.
And she doesn't get revenge for any of it. She doesn't even get to fight in the armada battle. The one scene where she at least growls at her captors was animated specifically for the trailer, and isn't even in the final version.
You can argue that she got some form of control by choosing to save Hiccup and not Grimmel (thus killing him), but even so, there's no focus on her victory. It doesn't feel like a victory connected to her abuse, but instead, another setup that the movie forgot to pay off.
DreamWorks wanted a tormented, broken dragon, but forgot to let her fight for herself.
Even I can admit she deserved that much.
Can someone explain to me what the heck pastamonsters is/was? When I look at the tag it seems to be mostly Jeff drawn in like a very specific style and I'm obsessed with it, don't get me wrong, but I need to know just what the heck this whole pastamonsters thing means.
T.I.A, from a clueless fandom veteran
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i will shut down
friendly reminder that gypsy is a slur and if y'all gadjo keep saying it i will fuck u up :-)
Cigarette Daydreams by Cage The Elephant
I am grateful for headphones for allowing me to listen to songs on repeat forty times without completely maddening other people.
thinks about this shot in httyd2
Yet Lana has been glorifying abuse in her music for years and you're sleeping
CARROT CAKE SLAPS
gonna say something controversial and it’s that carrot cake is fucking delicious and possibly the best cake flavour
Boy IDC what Doja Cat is doing. I don't follow her. The fact that you're still reaching this hard for any leverage at all is just depressing.
Give it a rest.