Frieren Quick Color Study.

stan is the only member of the pines twins^2 to never make a deal with bill and i think he needs more credit for that.

ford makes, just, so many deals with his demon boyfriend

dipper literally trades his body to bill in sock opera

and while i will die on the hill that it was never her fault, mabel is tricked into making a deal with him for weirdmagenon.

but stan never gets tricked. the only time he comes close was when he was pretending to be ford but that was with the sole purpose of getting bill erased. never does bill get to him or twist his thoughts. for being the "dumb one" he's surprisingly rational in this was.

nobody matches bill intellectually, ford's fatal flaw is that he thought he did, and the pines family wins because they have an emotional core that bill never had (the power of sibling bonding saves the day and i love it) but ill go out on a limb and say that out of everyone, stan is the only one to match bill's street smarts.

bill's a master manipulator but stan is a professional con-artist with no respect for the law, you tell me who's coming out on top.

stan successfully faked his own death, ran a business for 30 years, taught himself some sort of advanced engineering to repair the portal, evaded local, federal and international authorities from the age of 18, and did it all without any support.

and going back to when he pretends to be ford to get bill to enter his mind, that scene makes stan the only character to ever outwit bill.

anyways this has been a stan pines appreciation post, thank you and goodnight

Hiccup is the type of person to never assume someone likes him back unless they tell him to his face… maybe multiple times, just to be safe.

Snotlout is the type of person to be so intensely delusional he confuses pure hatred for fondness.

This screws both of them over horribly.

“There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, would be a pity to damage yours.” Is such a hiccup line

I WILL be stealing half of Wesley’s lines for Hiccup in my Princess Bride AU because they fit perfectly.

“As you wish.” Hiccup says as he’s rolling down a hill.

I’m having Snotlout be Vizzini because I can see him just using the word “inconceivable!” Over and over again.

“He didn’t fall?!” Snotlout exclaimed. “Inconceivable!”

“You keep using that word. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.” Tuffnut says.

Hiccup and Tuffnut sword fight scene:

“My name is Tuffnut Thorston and you killed my sister. Prepare to die.”

“Do you happen to have six fingers on your right hand?” Tuffnut would ask.

“Do you always start conversations this way??” (Hiccups line.)

It fits almost too well. Every single scene that has the masked man in is just pure Hiccup sass and chaos.

Hiccup: Do you ever just see something that changes your life and you're just like, huh.

Astrid: I saw you.

Hiccup: ...Honestly that's so cute and sweet and it makes this really awkward because I was just gonna show you this drawing of Snotlout as a turkey.

katniss: how do you think haymitch won the games?

peeta: he outsmarted the others

haymitch in his games: drinks poison water, falls asleep in a blueberry patch without attempting to cover his tracks, tries to pet a bunny during the countdown, makes an alarming number of bunny-related decisions in general

Drawing Hiccup in math class.

My silly boy, i love him.

So apparently not everyone had noticed this, but… 

Hiccup is left-handed (this is the part pretty much everyone knows), BUT he actually tries to use his right hand sometimes when trying to “fit in” with the others, when he’s trying to act in a “traditional” way (and usually failing). 

The most prominent instance of this, I think, is the part where he finds Toothless tangled in the bola-ropes in the forests, and plans to kill him. During the “I’m going to cut out your heart…”/“I’m a VIKING!” speech, he’s holding the knife right'handedly. 

But then he can’t do it, because he’s not like everyone else, so instead he cuts the ropes to let Toothless free… And he uses his left hand to cut those ropes. 

He’s also seen holding weapons (or, well, trying to) right-handedly in dragon training. 

But yeah he’s clearly left-handed; he writes and draws with the left hand, he uses his left to do metalwork and so on and so forth. 

He’s fundamentally different from everyone else, and while the filmmakers never brought up Hiccup’s handedness the way the books did, they did something a bit more subtle with it. When Hiccup is doing something different, something he’s good at, he’s using his left hand, and that’s when he succeeds at stuff. He released Toothless from those ropes left-handedly. He made that artificial tailfin for Toothless left-handedly. He does things others don’t do, and that way, he makes new discoveries others never did before. 

It’s when he tries to be just like everyone else when things don’t work out for him. And the filmmakers subtly made him use his right hand during many of those moments. It’s what everyone else is doing, and they seem to succeed at it without too much trouble, but Hiccup isn’t just like them, so when he tries, he fails. 

And when we consider the whole left tailfin/leg thing between Hiccup and Toothless and how that becomes a fundamental part of their relationship…symbiosis…thing, it might sort of connect the symbolism to that as well (but I’ll have to think more about that before I could possibly make a sensible post out of it.)

inner monologues of the hunger games characters: coriolanus snow: deranged insecure manipulative sociopath with every attachment issue ever haymitch abernathy: dork who happens to be charismatic and tends to switch between smart and stupid constantly katniss everdeen: autistic