#How To Train Your Dragon

[bluebrey]

@thereweredragonshere twinkcup x buffstrid in a nutshell 🤣

[trainsdragons]

“Maybe all Kings should bear the Slavemark, to remind them that they should be slaves to their people, rather than the other way around. And to help them never to forget what it feels like to be a child... to be small and weak and helpless.”

— Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, “How To Train Your Dragon: How To Ride a Dragon’s Storm” Book 7 (by Cressida Cowell)

[otiksimr]

I feel like the biggest issue with transferring fantasy to a live action movie is that the redesigns focus too much on realism in context to our world. If that makes any sense. A fantasy creature from a world different from ours wouldn't follow the exact same laws our animals do.

Like in Avatar. The alien monsters are well, alien. But it is an alien world, by all intents and purposes, they are 'realistic.' I guess I should trade the word 'realistic' for 'believable' instead. They fit in with the world around them, they make logical sense in the world that you are presented with.

All of this to say uh. Be silly. Be goofy. Exaggerate those shapes and ecology!!!

[remisnightfury]

[r-i-03-17]

This is canon, you can't convince me otherwise. Also this definitely happened during RTTE

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this incorrect quote from @httydberserker-incorrect for a week now so I had to get it out of my system 

[mahoganyrust]

Part 6 of werewolf&vamp AU.

Someone’s being persistent 👀.

[bluejulius]

*sabrina carpenter’s “please please please” plays in the background*

[neztune]

Needed to color something while practicing with other dragons, so have a Stormfly doodle!

It’s been a while since I last doodled her…

[thegremlininmyhead]

So I love that you mention Valka had no choice, couldn't kill Cloudjumper but she also didn't run away - Cloudjumper took her. She didn't choose to leave - she simply wasn't brave enough to return.

At every avenue, Hiccup had a choice. He chose not to kill Toothless. Then he chose not to leave. Then he chose to help the people that had rejected him.

Hiccup saw who he was in that first moment with Toothless and then proceeds to make very deliberate choices to be who he is, not who everyone else wishes he was

Something I would like to point out while rewatching HTTYD2 that I think is very interesting and also not at all talked about is this.

HTTYD2 brings lots and I mean LOTS of parallels whether they are visual or spoken but the one I hear spoken about the most is between Hiccup and Valka and them not killing a dragon. Even the movie tries to make this seem like a parallel. They bring it up even!

“Ehh it runs in the family.” Hiccup says after the flashback scene.

But something I noticed is that it is not a parallel. Mainly because of a few key things. It’s more almost perpendicular. They head in the same direction and they have the same realization, then go in complete opposite directions.

Valka runs away. A key part of her character I’ve noticed while I’ve been writing my analysis of her is that she oozes of cowardice and willful ignorance. Now that doesn’t mean she’s a bad person, it simply means that she ran away and chose to stay away. But that’s not the main reason I brought this up.

Remember the flashback where they draw attention to how similar Hiccup and Valka are? They talk about it in a very specific way.

They bring attention to two points. Both of them looked into a dragons eye and saw themself. Then they both didn’t kill a dragon. They show this as some kind of parallel. Maybe to show that Hiccup has someone who understands him, maybe to add a bit of layering to the first movie and how he’s just like her.

But it’s not a parallel.

What’s the difference in this scene?

One dragon is tied up.

One isn’t.

It’s a matter of choice.

“You and your father nearly died that night. All because I couldn’t kill a dragon.” Quote Valka.

“300 years and I’m the first Viking who wouldn’t kill a dragon.” Quote Hiccup.

Hiccups statement STILL rings true. Valka had no choice in if she wanted to kill Cloudjumper or not. That’s why I brought up Valka’s cowardice. Valka was in a trapped house with an injured newborn and an unbound dragon 5x her size. She was in the middle of a raid with people all around. Stoick was around the corner. She simply couldn’t kill the dragon. It wasn’t a matter of would or wouldn’t.

Hiccup on the other hand was alone in a forest with a tied up dragon. He made the decision to not kill Toothless. He wouldn’t. Because he absolutely could have killed Toothless.

“I was a coward. I was weak. I wouldn’t kill a dragon.”

“You said wouldn’t that time.”

This scene (in my own opinion) is meant to show that Hiccup was never the hiccup. He was never a coward. He wasn’t weak. It’s meant to be ironic.

Hiccup let go one of the most dangerous dragons in the world and it was brave. He went against his culture, his tribe because he thought it was the right thing to do.

That’s where Valka and Hiccups story become perpendicular. Hiccup was brave. Valka was a coward.

Hiccup chose not to run away. He chose to change their minds. He thought their minds could change.

Valka ran away. She didn’t listen and didn’t think change was possible. She held this belief until Hiccup comes along.

Valka’s path is where she believes that dragons are more than they seem. Then, “This wasn’t a viscous beast, but an intelligent gentle creature whose soul, reflected my own.” She has the revelation. Then she runs away and stays away. Now she had her own reasons and I am very much phrasing this in a biased way but it’s meant to show a point. She stays away and doesn’t change much. Because she couldn’t kill a dragon.

Hiccups path is where he does not see much to dragons. He wants to kill one to be accepted into the village. He shoots down Toothless and- “Everything we know about you guys, is wrong.” Or- “I looked at him and saw myself.” Hiccup and Valka’s paths cross here. But Hiccup doesn’t run away and he changes Berk’s mind. Because he wouldn’t kill a dragon.

Anyways I think that’s about it for that topic and I think it should be discussed more! Because if you really think about it, there are almost no parallels in Valka and Hiccup. And if there are, it isn’t well executed enough that it leaves a strong impact. I definitely will talk about this more but it’s late and I crave sleep.

[krikunjayvoice]

Stormfly defends Garf fiercely

[neeeeeoposts]

httyd au

[d1s4strous]

the httyd movies/series and the httyd books tell stories that are completely different from each other but both of them make you autistic

[tragisbawls]

Rebloging this after watching the new httyd live action trailer, I think I got Hookfang's live action desgin pretty solid before I even saw him 😼

Only think I "dislike" is his horns, wish they remained thinner and looked like high motorcycle handlebars.

Art dump...

The finished drawing of Hookfang, doodle of teen Snotlout, and a peice of my httyd OC/persona, Viknek.

[thereweredragonshere]

He’s just a lil’ guy

[pumpkinraventrick]

Skullcap and Juniper having fun in the snow! I'm really enjoying using the lasso tool to do my backgrounds now!