Okay, while there were a huge amount of stuff I’d l o v e to yell about from the HTTYD 3 trailer, there was one shot that got me wondering:
I might be overthinking, but I feel the missing shoulder is very significant to Hiccup’s character growth in HTTYD3 and in the series as a whole. (I haven’t seen all of RTTE yet but if this relates to it too? Yay!)
Some part of me believes that Hiccup building the Night Fury armour is a manifestation of his insecurity when it comes to feeling whole and valuable without Toothless, that isn’t to say it doesn’t look totally badass, but I feel like it’s strongly linked to what Dean discussed about Hiccup dealing with this issue throughout the course of the movie. Maybe he feels he’s useless without his dragon, so he attaches as much of his identity as he can to Toothless perhaps because he feels he can’t be strong for both himself and his people without him. I don’t? really know how people’s minds work, I haven’t taken a phycology class in my life so I’m just basing this part on the fact that ya boi did kinda the same thing years ago whilst I was dealing with insecurities about my appearance BUT anyways, this is just my hot take on the situation. Or hiccup just really wants to be a dragon. Or both.
Now as for this shot in particular? Hiccup is exposed, the shoulder piece has been ripped off as what I think is a signifier of how by the end of HTTYD 3, Hiccup might’ve confronted his self worth issues and realized that Toothless does not make him whole. Sure, he’s an incredibly important factor in who Hiccup is and his journey, but he isn’t what makes Hiccup valuable as a character. The other shoulder pad still remains, but the balance between the bare shoulder and the covered shoulder could be a metaphor for how Hiccup learns to let go of the idea that his identity is defined by Tooth and allow his true self to be exposed, and in the process learns that he can let go of toothless should he have to leave. I mean, the armour piece that’s taken off is the one with the Night Fury symbol. I don’t really want to take it as a sign, because it kinda confirms what I really Did Not Want to happen by the end of this film, but as @howtodrawyourdragon reminded me, HTTYD has always been full of symbolism, so it’s probably a sign? God, this movie is going to end me.
Or! Dean could’ve purposely thrown that shot in there to throw us off entirely, and nothing bad ever happens to Hiccup and Toothless ever, the end.
Okay, while there were a huge amount of stuff I’d l o v e to yell about from the HTTYD 3 trailer, there was one shot that got me wondering:
I might be overthinking, but I feel the missing shoulder is very significant to Hiccup’s character growth in HTTYD3 and in the series as a whole. (I haven’t seen all of RTTE yet but if this relates to it too? Yay!)
Some part of me believes that Hiccup building the Night Fury armour is a manifestation of his insecurity when it comes to feeling whole and valuable without Toothless, that isn’t to say it doesn’t look totally badass, but I feel like it’s strongly linked to what Dean discussed about Hiccup dealing with this issue throughout the course of the movie. Maybe he feels he’s useless without his dragon, so he attaches as much of his identity as he can to Toothless perhaps because he feels he can’t be strong for both himself and his people without him. I don’t? really know how people’s minds work, I haven’t taken a phycology class in my life so I’m just basing this part on the fact that ya boi did kinda the same thing years ago whilst I was dealing with insecurities about my appearance BUT anyways, this is just my hot take on the situation. Or hiccup just really wants to be a dragon. Or both.
Now as for this shot in particular? Hiccup is exposed, the shoulder piece has been ripped off as what I think is a signifier of how by the end of HTTYD 3, Hiccup might’ve confronted his self worth issues and realized that Toothless does not make him whole. Sure, he’s an incredibly important factor in who Hiccup is and his journey, but he isn’t what makes Hiccup valuable as a character. The other shoulder pad still remains, but the balance between the bare shoulder and the covered shoulder could be a metaphor for how Hiccup learns to let go of the idea that his identity is defined by Tooth and allow his true self to be exposed, and in the process learns that he can let go of toothless should he have to leave. I mean, the armour piece that’s taken off is the one with the Night Fury symbol. I don’t really want to take it as a sign, because it kinda confirms what I really Did Not Want to happen by the end of this film, but as @howtodrawyourdragon reminded me, HTTYD has always been full of symbolism, so it’s probably a sign? God, this movie is going to end me.
Or! Dean could’ve purposely thrown that shot in there to throw us off entirely, and nothing bad ever happens to Hiccup and Toothless ever, the end.
I got to bring a tattoo I made at 15 (6 years ago) finally to life in my body like I’ve always wanted!
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Real talk, though, because it needs to be said: as much as we all joke that porn was the only good thing this place had left, the reality is that it being the only place where one could regularly engage with and promote sexual content being gone is really not understanding at all what makes this place special. I mean we all joke about “horny on main” and all that, but the reality is that for a lot of the LGTBQ+ community, particularly younger members still discovering themselves and members in extremely homophobic environments where most media sites were banned (but Tumblr wasn’t even considered important enough to be), this was a bastion of information and self-expression. For a lot of artists too, this was a great place to come and post NSFW work and get traction that became Patreon pages that became honest jobs.
The problem with “family friendly” social media is that more often than not, the ones hit the most by the whole family friendly nonsense are marginalized groups that have no vehicles to express themselves. Stuff like YouTube consistently bans or flags simple content featuring something as innocuous as two men kissing as “adult” content and makes it hard for LGBTQ+ content creators to compete with their non-queer peers for a lot of those reasons.
The ultimate problem isn’t even that banning of NSFW content, it’s the general mess surrounding it and unintended consequences to these groups. For MONTHS Tumblr has had a huge problem with porn spam bots and outright child pornography, and for MONTHS the majority of the userbase has been in general consensus that both of these things needed to stop. Tumblr did NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. When Apple finally removed their app from the store, SPECIFICALLY because of the child pornography, Tumblr decided to do what any rich corporation owning a social media site with zero understanding of what makes it popular would do, and decided that the best course of action was to eat itself like an Ouroboros. Rather than admit that they have done an absolutely shit job at keeping pedophiles off this website and rather than hiring the necessary staff to carefully moderate content, they decided to loose a poorly programmed bot that literally deleted perfectly SFW blogs with thousands of followers, and rather than properly handling moderation, they decided that it was best to simply go the lazy route and block anything even remotely NSFW.
They run this site in the worst way possible, and I don’t understand how @support or @staff or their completely oblivious “CEO” plans to keep this sinking ship alive.
I guess they’re trying to “make tumblr great again” just like their president…
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