"the Longest Day" Is Fucking Hilarious. The A Plot Is Hiccup And Toothless Going Absolutely Through It

Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.

I’m in the middle of RTTE s4 and it’s my first time watching it.

But like…Johanns a twist villain right? HE HAS TO BE? That man is way too suspicious and his design SCREAMS villain. I’m so sure of it. There’s no way he’s not some kind of evil mastermind or something.

Or I could be overthinking this. I swear I’m not crazy.

sometimes i randomly remember toothless and hiccup’s reunion at the end of the 3rd httyd movie and start sobbing hysterically

First time watching RTTE and this is something I noticed.

I think one of my favorite things about Hiccup is that he’s such a good leader. And while he has the trademark charm, charisma, and intelligence that every leader needs. He has the essential thing known as respect. Yes the gang respects him as does Berk but what stands out is the respect he gives the others.

His best ideas come from the twins chaos, his strength comes from Astrid, his knowledge comes from Fishlegs, and weirdly, his lack of ego comes from Snotlout. He respects who they are all as people and listens to them and cares for them. Making them all feel important. And that’s why he works so well as a leader. He’s kind and compassionate but he’s also open minded and willing to change and admit defeat. That’s why he was the one to change Berk for the better and be able to end two wars.

That’s why he is SUCH a good leader.

Hiccup I love you, you’re so well written.

Update, I’m going to use terrible terrors. It’ll become dragons of unusual size. Basically they will be very very tiny in this version and dragons are known for being…bigger.

I’m writing a princess bride hiccstrid AU and this is very important.

What should the ROUS (rodents of unusual size) be? There are already dragons so I need something quick!

Maybe some type of dragon or something I can’t think of right now.

"No one gets to kill you but me"

I'm listening

I love the fact that the more you look and analyze Stan’s character more and more, the more tragic and sad it becomes.

Going from silly comedy man to haha im sobbing is not easy.

I’ve been reversed pranked and I am not enjoying it

watching blue eye samurai, one of the most criminally underrated and depressingly under-blogged anime of all time, again. t’s such an insanely gorgeously animated and cleverly crafted story. the protagonist being a woman pretending to be male isn’t told in a disney-fied “girlboss” way, she’s a fully fleshed out character. the series follows heavy themes of revenge, otherness in being biracial in edo period, the position of women in this time, and even disability. and it’s so fucking good and raw and incredible, this is extremely well done storytelling created by a woman. so not only do you get to watch a spectacular series, it’s finally a story that doesn’t feel like it’s trying to punch you in the face with artificial care for diversity. it’s so refreshing. y’all are truly missing out.

I like to think that Hiccup would be more of an affectionate father because he somewhat wished that Stoick was. Hence the birth of this sketch. I also love the more domestic side of Hiccup and Astrid, and can’t resist drawing cute family moments lol.

p.s.

Zephyr hates her father’s affection.

Look me in the eye and tell me these two aren't related in some way