#i have opinions okay

[intricatecakes]

new hobbs movie: bring Luke Hobbs back into the main storyline of fast n furious, showdown w Dante where Dante obvs gets away like the slippery lil fish he is, Deckard Shaw busting through a door w his mum and asking wtf Luke did to make such a mess, end credits

fast xi: Dom, Luke, and Deck mighty team up to take down Dante once and for all, Lil B calling deck Uncle Shaw and Queenie immediately turns around and asks him which one of his siblings this kid belongs to, lil bonding moment at the family barbeque where Luke steals someone else's seat so he can sit by Deck and swing an arm around his neck all faux friendly and ask him why he never called him back, end credits

hobbs & shaw 2: our fantastic duo back together to save the world again, intermixed with Sam being more of a major character who keeps pushing her dad to date, makes him a Tinder profile and then a Grindr one when that doesn't seem to work, Deck is messing w his phone and then Luke's phone makes the Grindr notification sound and everyone turns to look at him, Luke goes What and looks at his phone and does the eyebrow thing, end credits

hobbs & shaw 3: the mighty duo politely gritting their teeth at each other across a cute lil cafe table somewhere in france, insulting each other as per usual, Deck asks how Sam is doing and Luke snarks back that He'd Know if he ever had time to spend w her and before they can argue more ppl start shooting and they have to get to work, a whole movie of shenanigans later and they save the world ofc, someone shoots Luke's wallet and a picture of him and Sam falls out and he complains bc it's His Favourite, and when he unfolds it it's of him, Sam, and Deck, Deck promises to print him another one, Luke pretends to be surprised he has a copy, end credits

hobbs & shaw 4: big giant gay honeymoon interrupted by the world about to end agai-

#fast and furious #fast x #hobbs and shaw #shobbs #i have opinions okay #give us more of these idiots together on screen

[kitticicl]

According to my sister, I make hot chocolate too rich. This is nonsense. There is no such thing as too rich hot chocolate.

#i have opinions okay

[druckkugelschreiber]

I need to violently rant again and twitter limits my word rage.

I saw a TikTok and I couldn't even finish watching it cause I got angry -judge me if you want but do so silently- as I was severely disagreeing with just about everything I heard in the first 15 seconds.

Basically it was a TikTok about why the House of the Dragon dragons look different to Dany's dragons. And I don't care what the show runners said. I'm talking about this from a strictly biological point of view.

The Targaryen dragons are not domesticated. Basically the point of this person was that the Targaryen dragons in HotD are domesticated and Dany's dragons weren't. They looked different because they were hatched from fire and magic and fossilised before.

First of all, domestication. "Domestication is a sustained multi-generational relationship in which humans assume a significant degree of control over the reproduction and care of another group of organisms to secure a more predictable supply of resources from that group." [Zeder, M.A. (2015). "Core questions in domestication Research". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America].

As underlined, multi generational is the key word here. Do you know why wolfdogs are only seen as dogs after a certain amount of generations without wolf blood in them? Because wolves are not domesticated, but dogs are. A wolf pup growing up with a human, however tame it may be, will never be a domesticated animal.

A wolf born and bred in captivity will never be domesticated. Dragons born and bred in captivity also doesn’t make them domesticated. 

Domestication is breeding for specific traits you want in your animal over generations. Hunting dogs, sport horses, chickens bred for eggs or meat. It's selective breeding among other things (there is more to it of course).

First of all, imagine the difficulty of doing selective breeding with dragons. They live for hundreds of years, breeding goals would be incredibly hard to meet and no one human would probably achieve whatever mating goal they wanted.

Dragons generally seem to be picky about reproduction, don't grow well inside and are very hot tempered. People weren't even sure when a dragon was male or female, which means there could have not been selective breeding.

Not to mention the last dragon apparently laid a clutch of eggs, but had no mating partner, which opens more questions than it answers. Do dragons even need a mating partner? Is there only one dragon gender? Can they change genders?

They weren't even sure what made a dragon egg hatch, though we can assume some degree of magic was needed as dragons and magic are hinted to be connected multiple times throughout the series.

Also the fact that dragons didn't grow to their full size in captivity -which is untypical for domesticated animals*- would also have made selective breeding nigh impossible.

Also how would you even set that up? If a dragon doesn't want to, the death and destruction caused would be incredibly high and we know they're highly intelligent.

*since domesticated animals usually have better care and access to food all around they tend to be bred to be bigger, especially animals who are supposed to carry weights like horses (or dragons).

Domesticated animals also usually are bred to be nice to humans and live with them. While it's true the dragons in the dragon pit do seem tame, they are by no means friendly. Many a rider gets injured or killed when trying to bond with a dragon and the old Valyrian freehold was known to use dragon horns to tame their dragons which hints to the fact that their dragons also weren't domesticated.

Like sure the average dog needs training, but it’s supposed to be friendly from the get go. It’s not supposed to need extensive training to not be so aggressive to humans that it would fry them with fiery breath like dragons need to. 

And if the dragons in the freehold weren't domesticated, the dragons Aegon the Conqueror brought with him weren't either and their eggs are the dragons we alive and well in HotD.

So, now that I wordily explained why the dragons aren't domesticated. Let's go on to the last statement: blood magic. Since this involves magic and I'm not a mage to my distress, this is very much what I think about the whole thing. My opinion with a bit of science sprinkled in.

Fossils hold DNA. Fossilised eggs can hold entire embryos, which I always assumed was what Dany's eggs were. Now also here eggs were said to be from the Shadow Lands beyond Ashai. It's entirely possible that when dragons still lived, the subspecies there was different than the dragons of the freehold.

So, I always assumed Dany's eggs had three fossilised dragons preserved inside. The eggs look like they're in pristine condition anyway and who knows what a not stone dragon egg even looks like? It's entirely possible that is what dragon eggs are supposed to look like or the eggs from Ashai look like that.

To note the dragon eggs we see in HotD look incredibly similar.

Fact is: I don't think Dany's dragons look different because they were born from magic. In my opinion that is bullshit. The magic revived the cells from the dragons that already were inside the eggs. It didn't just magic dragons into existence and made them look different. I don't know why that statement ticks me off so much, but it does.

The person also went on saying that we might see wild dragons and how different they look. Like all the 'wild' dragons we know off -except maybe the cannibal- were hatched from Valyrian eggs as far as I am aware. They didn't just spring into existence. There is no reason for wild dragons to look that vastly different to their 'domesticated' ridden counterparts.

I also want to point out that if the wild dragons hatched from valyrian eggs, they are actually half wild. Like the mustangs in the USA as opposed to the truly wild horses of mongolia. And in turn half 'domesticated' if they were domesticated that is.

Now that we covered that all, why do I think the dragons look different? Honestly, I just think the showrunners had fun and wanted to show that it is a different time with different dragons. They wanted to offer some excitement. I do not think there is a logical in world reason for the dragons to look that different.

If I had to make an assumption: as I said, Dany's dragons could be indeed a different subspecies. Next up: who says dragons don't naturally have a big genetic variation? Why do humans always act as if we have to be the only species with a huge genetic variation? Dragons could be just as versatile in genetics as we are.

Also as for Dragon designs we have seen in the show so far: Caraxes, Syrax and Seasmoke. Granted Caraxes looks very different, that could be a unique mutation or something less rare but since dragons live for so long it's hard to say how unique Caraxes really is. Like if Caraxes mutation happens ever other century or so it would be incredibly rare for humans but just the blink of an eye for a dragon. 

Syrax: doesn't look that different, especially the tail is similar

Seasmoke looks from the silhouette almost exactly like Dany's dragons, again proving my point somewhere along the line up there.

In conclusion: Dragons weren't domesticated, magic didn't make Dany's dragons look different and with all likelihood the 'wild' dragons aren't actually wild.

Thank you for coming to my rant, I don't think anyone will read the entirety of it but it had to be said.

Of course, this is my opinion and if you don't agree please just fuck off, I'm not arguing about this.

If you want to discuss dragon genetics though, I'm all here for it.

#just ranting #biology #genetics #house of the dragon #game of thrones #dragons #i have opinions okay #fan theory #i suppose

[betawooper]

ok my thoughts on the orv official designs now that i can actually look at them

sun wukong has a mullet why does he look like that [sob]

oh fuck metatron has long hair umm, i dont think im gonna change my description of him in the au bc whatever

nirvana gnc af

oh ive been imagining dionysus with a pot belly this whole time, still gonna do that bc fat king

i was right the breaking the sky sword saint’s design is boring af, my imagined design for her is much better

oh fuck hayoung has short hair,,,, im gonna keep my imagined design for her though bc cringe (i will consider the blonde thing though)

mia has twin tails? thats so cute

kyrgios’s design is sick as fuck, probably the best and most interesting of anyone ive seen honestly

#i have opinions okay #also i cant tell if hayoung has blue eyes but if she does #not in my house bitch youre gonna get grey ones idc #we dont do blue eyes if we can help it #sauce reads orv

[gettingnowherefaster]

people are so braindead for this. Jack Sparrow was fun in the early movies but he was NEVER the best part. Kiera Knightly as Elizabeth Swan? Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa?? Bill Nighy as Davy Jones?? my god

my apparently hot take is a pirates comeback movie would be so fun if it has the same overall vibes and an all new cast. just give us fun characters and action sequences and hans zimmer and we're good

#i have OPINIONS okay #in 2021 when i went down the pirates rabbit hole I had a whole dream cast for another movie but all I remember was Daveed Diggs was in it #At the time I didn't know about Ayo Edebiri yet tho and that was my loss #i would LOVE to see her in this #its so hard being in the good taste minority

[eyeballsoup7310]

“We need more morally grey female characters” we absolutely do but some of y’all can’t even handle Vanessa afton

#her worst trait is that she’s a cop and I can completely accept trashing her for that #but some of you guys are. wild #just talking #five nights at freddy’s #fnaf movie spoilers #fnaf movie #fnaf #vanessa afton #edit: okay clarification. it’s fine to dislike her I’m not gonna force you to have an opinion #some of y’all just seem to hate her in really really specific ways that you Don’t apply to the guy characters who do the same things

[starwarjotta]

Day 3 - cloak thankfully Obi-Wan's robe cloak is big enough to wrap around a certain Commander who might've been tossed into the freezing river during a mission oh and when there's a chance to make something even more Codywan? ofc I'll do it, here's a bonus

it was a long mission, okay

#codywan #CODYWAN #ofc codywan #star wars #starwarstober23 #obi wan kenobi #commander cody #any chance to have Cody wrapped up in Obi-Wan's oversized robe is taken in this blog #it warm and soft and big okay #very comfy #also Cody is so done #stupid missions with stupid rivers #Cody is soaked and he's not happy about it #Obi-Wan thinks he's kinda cute all drenched like that especially since he's grumpy about it #but also doesn't want him to catch a cold so ofc he'll give Cody his cloak robe thing #which makes Cody even CUTER in his opinion #idiots in love #btw did I mention CODYWAN

[obsob]

making and weaving and loving! like we have done for millennia!!

#mine #original #ough. hello. #happy new year!!!!! first drawing of th year!!!!!!!! #also LAKSBF 15k followers. hello. welcome #i taught bf how to crochet n hes making a blanket....the irl insp for this piece... #im so proud of these colours....i used an actual real life colour palette..n i think that is th way forward #also . gradient maps my beloved #why have i always refused ur warm embrace....... #dont pay attention 2 the wool bowls okay ive seen a picture of one like once #i do want one however. tho why r they so expensive #its a bowl w a hole in it. relax #ive been listening 2 the silmarillion audiobook as ive been working...i love it sm its like incomprehensible #like. idk what ur talking abt but i love it all th same!! #i tried reading it last year n was like.......okay anyway #rereading gay nuclear disaster book rn....natasha pulley would it kill u 2 write a smut scene #i want 2 see th horrible little scientist man get railed #next book after this is . 1030 pages oaodghsdugd #my goal is to read 50 books this year but i do not think that will happen bc i refuse 2 read books less than 400 pages skjdgbskjd #someone ask me about books. i have so many opinions abt books #okay good evening. i leave u w love

[katabay]

Robin Hood and Little John walkin' through the forest--

alright! so! early robin hood ballads and narratives don't have an origin story for little john, but a later ballad (robin hood and little john) does. they fight on a bridge in it, but I like looking at illustrations, so I've swapped out the bridge for that tree peaking out of the panel in the first panel bc I enjoy louis rhead's illustrations a lot.

this is some kind of introduction scene after they fight and climb out of the river!

Robin Hood & Little John (edited by Stephen Knight & Thomas Ohlgren)

#read something that compared robin hood and little john to gilgamesh and enkidu and oh my god. christ. fuck!!! okay then #robin hood #little john #outlaws in the woods tag #komiks tag #some other text was like 'ah yes robin hood was young and blond' i am choosing to ignore that. he's young and filipino and has dark hair #its my comic and nothing i do will be as objectively terrible as that fucking 2018 movie #or honestly a lot of the movies that decide they want to have an opinion on the crusade #'katabay why did you draw little john like cassius' tbqh i forgot how i was previously drawing john's hair #it'll happen again 😔 but maybe not. i want to draw robin hood more ngl.

[calware]

genuinely what is the worst that could happen if you stop apologizing for liking homestuck or if you stop saying things like "homestuck is cursed don't read it it's so bad don't make the same mistakes as me save yourself while you can etc etc" when in actuality you enjoyed it. what's the worst that will happen if you just enjoy it like a normal person

#yes there are going to be people who don't like homestuck that will find you annoying for liking homestuck #and i understand that you can't jedi mind trick your way out of feeling the need to have everyone like you #but i promise that it's okay if someone finds you annoying. you can't have everyone on the planet like you. and that's okay!! #you shouldn't value the opinion that every single person online has of you

[bloodstainsontengensfloor]

Luke calling Percabeth an old married couple just to remind OG readers that Luke doesn’t have romantic feelings for Annabeth this time around 😭

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #does this count as book spoilers if it’s smth they are changing for the better? #literally that weird ass love confession ruined Luke’s character in my opinion #i know some say it’s up for interpretation but I also know there’s evidence in the books I’d have to scour #Luke’s redemption arc is this tv show #“she’s my sister #omg you guys r a married couple and I’m okay with that because I don’t like someone who I met at age 14 and she 7 #annabeth chase #percabeth

[titsthedamnseason]

eras tour lookbook: my favorites edition

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #candy swift #my edit #eras tour #CAN I GET SOME COMMOTION FOR THE MOST UNDERRATED LOVER BODYSUIT. AND THE YELLOE DRESS #AND UNPOPULAR OPINION THE GREEN FOLKLORE DRESS WILL NEVER BE THE WHITE FOLKLORE DRESS #mine #this has been in my drafts since JULY 😭😭😭😭 #because originally i had the black and gold the man jacket here but that was soooo hard to make a usuable gif of #and then once i finally was happy with how it came out taylor debuted the midnights bodysuit with the cutouts and i was like oh crap #that was also somewhat hard to make a cohesive gif of but i persevered #i just have to say though that IVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE YELLOW DRESS FAN SINCE SHE FIRST WORE IT OKAY #there’s so much lore associated with it now but it’s been my darling all along #also my unpopular opinion is preferring the empire waist bronze dress but that was just impossible to find good footage of tbh #also my original efforts at this gifset were all for naught regardless bc i’ve changed my mind and like the silver jacket better now #this also all preceded the debut of the pink bodysuit and jacket but idt they would have made it on here anyway

[kitticicl]

I have a theory that the US education is designed to either:

1. Fail the majority of it's students

or

2. Make everyone who passes through the system a perfectionist

#i have opinions okay

[montanabohemian]

i can't believe the venice film festival is "trending" on this hellsite and not a single one of you is talking about brendan fraser getting a standing ovation before the premiere of his film followed by a six minute standing ovation afterward where he broke down in tears.

that man is to be treasured.

#venice film festival #brendan fraser #venezia79 #i literally don't have an opinion on the film #that's not what this post is about #i have an opinion on brendan fraser getting the god damned love and respect he is fucking owed #i would give that man a standing ovation if he walked through a parking lot #okay?

[andorerso]

Rogue One + zodiac signs

#rogue one #rogueoneedit #cr1post #swedit #starwarsblr #thestarwarsdaily #starwarsfilms #starwarshub #swcreators #starwarsedit #filmedit #filmgifs #*gifs #*ro #*300 #okay im not sure about bodhi #i was swinging back and forth between cancer and pisces #i’m still not sure but eh #sorry to exclude k2 but it just felt weird to apply astrology to a droid idk #anyway obvious disclaimer: these are just my opinions! you don't have to agree #but i'm pretty set on everyone except bodhi

[celadonlonghorn]

"aww dedf1sh didn't get fuzzified--" why are you upset your girl didn't get MORE diseases

#THIS IS A JOKE I KNOW WHY #i didnt have an opinion on her before this but yall aren't treating her right she's my rescue blorbo now #JOKING #okay i will miss the concept of Musician That Attempts To Get Every Disease though. that shit was funny #splatoon #cowposting