Ik Im Like 10 Years Late But I Finally Watched Httyd And I Haven’t Drawn For Myself In Forever But

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I think the s5 finale of she Ra is really the first time we see Adora really relax. Of her own violation. And honestly when she does at the end, it makes me wanna tear up.

Like you see her body physically melt. Her expression relaxes. She’s done. She’s free. She can just be Adora.

SOTR SPOILERS

What if Burdock survived but Prim still got reaped and so Katniss still volunteered.

So now he has to face his old best friend who has never sent back a kid in 24 years. He has to face his best friend in order to try and save his daughter.

And Haymitch does it. He brings her AND Peeta back. So now Burdock has a traumatized teenager in the exact same situation as Haymitch once was and he was no idea what to do.

Now he lives in the Victors Village and sees Haymitch so often that he can’t help but miss him. Peeta and Katniss force family dinners so they have to see each other.

Katniss being in the same situation as 16 Haymitch with Snow coming over to threaten to their family and Burdock finally understands why Haymitch drove them away.

Katniss and Haymitch bonding because he knows the horrors she’s been through and she finally has the uncle she was meant to have.

Haymitch and Brudock are family again.

And somehow, despite everything. It all works out.

A fun exercise I did in my art class today.

The "tiktok ban" should scare you and here's why.

Rant made by an autistic, history-loving, chronically online American tiktok cosplayer. Please let me know if I've gotten anything wrong and I will edit the post.

Reblog to spread awareness!

This is not just about Tiktok, and it's not about national security. The Tiktok ban is wrapped up in the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" which has the ability to ban any foreign website or app that the United States government sees as a threat to their "democracy." Not only that, but if the gov't didn't want China to gather data, then they would ban things like Shein and Temu (the latter which they advertised during the Super Bowl), which collect similar data that Tiktok does. If they wanted to prevent our data being stolen in general, they would ban companies like Meta, which monetarily supports the Tiktok ban and had to change their name because "Facebook" was associated with the largest data leak in history.

The documentations of the Tiktok court interrogations prove how incompetent our government is. Repeatedly asking the TikTok CEO Mr. Chew if he's Chinese while he repeatedly assures them he's Singaporean. The officials being concerned that they can't find Singapore on a map. The officials then being confused why the app would be able to have access to their wifi because it needs wifi to load.

The possibility of the US buying Tiktok exposes a greater issue in America: monopolies. The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890 that restricted the activities of large companies known as monopolies, which started out as small companies and would either buy other companies or buy the factories which produced all their materials. This eliminated competition in the market and gave the monopolies almost full control of quality and prices of items, and it was considered very anti-American at the time. Since the US already has multiple major social medias, including Facebook (Meta), Instagram (Meta), Threads (Meta), X (formerly Twitter), Snapchat, and Reddit, adding Tiktok would mean that nobody could compete with the US in the social media market. This makes them a monopoly, and it's incredibly dangerous.

Banning Tiktok breaks several American trademarks. A) the Republicans banning Tiktok are very concerned about their second amendment right to own guns, but they seem to not care about the first amendment right to freedom of speech and press, which Tiktok delivers. Of course there are app guidelines, but for the most part you have fairly uncensored political and ethical commentary like no other social media. B) the only other countries that have banned Tiktok are either heavily demonized by America or are direct targets for American propaganda (ex. China), which really doesn't make the ban look good. C) banning a social media for the purpose of censorship is a trademark of communism, which Americans are INCREDIBLY wary of.

Your country may follow in suit. Because of America's influence as a global superpower and an ally to many other major powers, America banning Tiktok would likely lead to a domino effect in other countries.

The rich get richer. There is a concept called social darwinism, in which it is the rich's beliefs that the poor must fend for themselves without the help of the government in order to make a living - "survival of the fittest." Tiktok contributed around $14.7 billion USD in 2023 and $24.2 billion in 2024, and it supports around 224,000 jobs [source]. The actual Tiktok website says in 2023, they contributed $15 billion USD in revenue and supported 7 million US businesses [source]. Without these jobs, there could be in increase in homelessness, debt, and sickness due to withdrawals (if you're incredibly addicted to Tiktok) and lack of quick dopamine hits (due to the rapidfire nature of the algorithm).

Remember that the president is not your friend !! Many of the political figures rallying to support Tiktok right now, such as President Biden, initially voted for the ban. President Biden is likely supporting now so that Trump won't get credit for it, and future President Trump is likely doing it for brownie points among younger generations.

The Xiaohongshu migration exposed the American government and its lies. The stories from American 'Tiktok refugees' about the questions from native Chinese on the Xiaohongshu / Rednote / Redbook app (considered the Chinese mixed of Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook) posed a lot of conspiracies and realizations about the American government. The Chinese actually own their homes, they have lower food prices than we do, and they have a slim homelessness rate. Whether this is true or not, it has greatly influenced how we see ourselves in the grand scheme of the American oligarchy, and that is not something that can be suppressed with an app being banned.

Tiktok is not totally Chinese! The CEO is Singaporean, as I've already stated, and there are multiple headquarters in the US, with the main one being in Los Angeles.

In conclusion...

Whether Tiktok is banned or not, whether permanently or not, no matter who saves it or rallies against it, remember that it is harder to scare and control someone when they are in a group. And if you think this was interesting, I'd love it if you could reblog to show some support and inform your friends as well. <3

THIS IS NOT RIGHT VS LEFT❗️IT'S UP VS DOWN❗️

I wish they interacted more :(

This is really random but I think asking the question whether a character deserves redemption is a dumb way to have a deep conversation.

There has been so much debate on certain characters redemption but the main thing is whether they deserve redemption or not. But the thing about that question is that there is no answer that isn’t in some way personal. It changes on every person and will likely just lead to agreements rather than discussions.

Here’s some of my favorite questions to ask about a characters redemption that I think have sorted my feelings out about it.

1. What were the writers trying to accomplish with the character?

2. What message did this character bring? This is important especially in kids shows.

3. Was the redemption well done?

4. What were the characters reaction to the redemption?

5. Did the other characters forgive the character?

6. How did they do the redemption and why?

7. Why was this character redeemed?

8. Did they make up for their actions in any way?

All of these are more on the objective standpoint rather than one that changes person to person.

Now you can still ask if a character deserves redemption or not but it’s important to understand that we ourselves are not moral judges and the line between redeemable and irredeemable is nothing but based on our own perception.

I just think there needs to be a balance.

I'm re-watching Dragons: Defender's of Berk on episode 13 Scouldy. Hiccup is discussing the dragon classes he teaches with the twins while trying to encourage and help Ruffnut to train the scouldren. It reminded me of some moments in Race to the Edge when the twins talked about the different people who tried to instruct them over the years. (Example: The wedding axe episode, when Toughnutt failed to complete the Mariage Officiation course) I just had the thought that Hiccup is probably one the few, if not only, teacher that never gave up on them. He always valued the twins and all the riders for their unique qualities. Hiccup is a wonderful person and a great leader.

Is it just me but I LOVE the fact that Caleb Wittebane haunts the narrative. He’s everywhere!