#How to Train Your Dragon Fandom

[nightfury-2001]

hey fyi, that weird "brahh brahh" art-thieving guy is back on tumblr, this time under the url "y/ummysquishycurrvywervy". just got a follow from him so probably best for people to block while they're ahead of the game

This is an old ask that I never ended up replying to (already had him blocked, etc.), but I'm answering it now because it seems like this dude has become extremely active here again and has changed his username for the millionth time:

If you've been active on the HTTYD side of Tumblr recently you've probably seen this blog spamming the inboxes of many different HTTYD blogs with random text taken from various HTTYD posts. That's him, and I recommend everyone block him and not respond to any asks or messages he sends........especially since from what I've heard this guy is waaaay worse than just an extreme art thief - he's a legitimate fucking creep that has made incredibly disturbing comments about what he's done to his dog irl, sexually harassed minors, made violent threats towards and stalked many people, etc. etc.

Like this guy is legitimately an awful awful person, I'm begging everyone to just block and ignore him so he fucks off again.

[evilwriter37]

How to Train Your Dragon Whump Week

September 8th-September 14th

Ao3 Collection

Prompts

I’m running this a little differently than your usual whump event. Instead of providing prompts, you will be creating whump centered around a specific character on each day.

Day 1: Hiccup

Day 2: Astrid

Day 3: Tuffnut

Day 4: Ruffnut

Day 5: Snotlout

Day 6: Fishlegs

Day 7: Free Day (Pick any character! Repeats are okay!)

You do not have to complete a piece for every day. You can still participate by doing one day or a few days.

Rules under the cut

Rules

NO AI - The use of AI for this event is strictly prohibited. You must create your piece yourself.

Please post the piece on your own blog instead of sending it in an ask.

Please only post the piece the day of the event in your timezone. Late pieces will be accepted.

Use a read more if necessary. 

Anything Goes. Really. Think your piece is too dark? It will still be accepted and reblogged. Just make sure to tag and warn for themes such as “graphic depictions of violence”, “major character death”, “noncon”, etc. 

Rating: Any rating is allowed.

Warnings: Please put content warnings at the beginning of your piece or as part of the caption. 

What kind of pieces can you make? Anything! Absolutely anything. Have fun with it. Write a fic, do some art, make a moodboard or edit, etc. I’ll be accepting anything you can think of. 

No sending/spreading hate or harassment. Whump is a tricky topic, and people have squicks and triggers. However, harassment of others based on their pieces is unacceptable.

Does it have to be whump? Well, whump is a rather broad genre. You can make something that’s hurt/comfort, less hurt/more comfort, hurt/no comfort… You get the idea. If you think it counts as whump, you can definitely share it!

Tagging: The official tag for the event will be #HTTYD Whump Week. Please put this tag at the beginning of your tags. Also, please tag what character the piece is about. Tag any warnings you think are necessary.

Example: #HTTYD Whump Week, #Fishlegs Ingerman, #blood

Community Labels: I am not going to be strict about these. Use tumblr’s community labels at your own discretion. 

[mothmansbakery]

Hey httyd fandom, looks like the same guy that @jesse-the-writer called out has another alt account, the idiot called me my deadname in my inbox knowing dam well it’s not on the internet other than my PayPal

Nice try Geoni

[rainye]

When I find I am unhappy I try to remind myself of the nice compliments people have given me, like “You look like Hiccup from How to train your dragon” or “You remind me of Hiccup from How to train your dragon”

[storyweaverofgondor]

How To Train Your Dragon

It has been so long since I’ve drawn anything HTTYD, literally years. I just  had to draw this iconic scene and am really proud of how it turned out.

[anythingforstories]

It’s getting close to March of Dragons ‘23!

March of Dragons is a fan-run prompt game celebrating the anniversary month of the first How to Train Your Dragon movie. You can participate in as many or few prompts as you want on whatever social media platform or forum you like best!

Share this post or repost the graphics on another platform so your friends can join in the fun!

[grayyylake99]

THIS!!

Does Berk think Hiccup is frivolous in Httyd 1? Maybe a little bit aloof?

Stoick tells him to stop joking around in the opening scene of the movie, after the dagons have left. "This isn't a joke, Hiccup!" He tells him. And he tells him that after his rant about how he has things to worry about, like making sure the village doesn't starve in the coming winter, Hiccup answers to with a sassy "the village could do with a little less feeding, don't you think?" Which really only manages to make Stoick even more mad.

After their first lesson in dragon training, Gobber asks the class "where did Hiccup go wrong?" and Astrid's response is "he's never where he should be." I think she means it literally. Why is Hiccup, of all people, in dragon training? Ruffnut and Tuffnut make sense. Snotlout makes sense. Even Fishlegs makes sense. (especially since Fishlegs has already shown effort by memorizing the Book of Dragons, effort Astrid clearly approves of given her shock at the twins and Snotlout disregarding Gobber's order to read the book.)

But Hiccup? Hiccup McSassyPants? Who gets told that his village could starve in the winter and answers with "well maybe they should eat less"? Who steps outside during a raid and actually causes more damage than the dragons pretending he's capturing a Night Fury? What is he doing in dragon training? That class literally ended with Hiccup almost losing his life to a Gronckle.

This is further backed up when after she has to protect both herself and Hiccup from a Deadly Nadder, which happened because Hiccup wasn't paying attention the whole time, getting them both in trouble. (Which is because he's fixating on figuring out a certain Night Fury, but they don't know that. To them, it just looks like he's annoying Gobber with meaningless questions. Why are you asking about the Night Fury? The one dragon who's single instruction is "hide and pray it doesn't find you"?) She explicitly asks him "Is this some kind of a joke to you?"

Followed up by "Our parent's war is about to become ours. Figure out which side you're on."

Once again someone questions Hiccup about how serious he takes things. But it's more than that, she's trying to give him a wake up call! Wake up, Hiccup, our parents are actually fighting a genuine war here and someday it'll be your turn! Stop making everything a joke before you get yourself or someone else killed!

Astrid actually isn't as much against Hiccup at this point as people often believe. There are actually a few points in which she eithers feels sorry for him or tries to help him in her own Astrid-y way. (And if the deleted scene hadn't been deleted, there would've been an almost friendly conversation had between the two before dragon training even starts)

Let's also not forget Hiccup's and Stoick's talk before dragon training even starts. When Stoick shows some actual vulnerability by laying his son's life in his son's and Gobber's hands when he decides to give in and let Hiccup go to dragon training while he's off on a voyage.

Hiccup tells his father "I don't wanna fight dragons!" in a tone that is rather pleading. To which is father chuckles and says to him "come on, yes you do!"

Remember in the opening, Hiccup practically makes the claim that he lives and breathes to kill dragon, it's "who he is." And now he suddenly claims he doesn't want to fight dragons at all? Can't fight them?

Stoick keeps his tone light, telling his son that he will fight dragons, don't you worry about that, Hiccup. With Hiccup doubling down that he's very extra-sure that he can't fight dragons, which makes Stoick double down in return, his levity disappearing.

"Can you not hear me?" Hiccup asks, desperate to be heard.

"This is serious, son!" Says Stoick. Which makes this three times that Hiccup is explicitly told to take something serious. (And you can just see the disbelieve or realization in Hiccup's eyes as he's once again not being listened to.)

(Followed by Stoick telling him to act like everyone else and to stop being Hiccup, which gets him, you guessed it, a sarcastic remark from Hiccup.)

We know that Hiccup changed his mind about participating in dragon training because he found out he couldn't kill Toothless. (or rather, he can't kill the scared and the defenseless, as the Red Death would later show) But Stoick doesn't know that. Berk actually seems to know very little about Hiccup and that's why they think that he's joking around at all times.

I'm willing to bet that the "disasters" he causes "every time he steps outside" aren't much of a help either. (and I wonder how many of these are actually Hiccup's fault or if Hiccup happened to be involved, so the blame is just automatically put on him.)

And this isn't a post to bash Hiccup. I love him to death, I love his sass as much as any other fan. And I am very much of the opinion that Hiccup's sass is a defense mechanism.

His feelings get hurt, so he tries to hurt someone else's back. Like when he probably feels guilty about his father worrying about the village getting through the winter, so he makes that comment about how the village could eat less to offset that guilt. (Which again, only makes Stoick angrier.) And I think the proof is in the rest of the franchise.

Hiccup sasses the most when he's 15-16, a.k.a from Httyd 1 to DoB. But by the time we see him again in RttE (chronologically) he sasses a little less and in a friendlier and more playful context, but he has also matured to deal with his negative feelings differently. RttE is, chronologically, when Stoick actually begins to consider if his son is ready to be chief. He can see how much Hiccup has matured, especially when there's such physicaly distance between them. It's the equivalent of not seeing someone over summer break or watching someone go traveling and see how much they've changed when you reunite with them.

(also, he can knock Snotlout unconscious with a single punch, I bet that helps as well.)

But it is the way Hiccup chooses to defend himself, giving sassy comments (think "Thanks, I was trying!" to Snotlout's comment about the mess he made) to either painful comments about him or actual serious statements like the ones Stoick makes that still gets him in the feels that make him seem so shallow and unserious in the eyes of Berk.

Then there is his apparent history of crying wolf. When he actually does manage to shoot down a Night Fury, his father doesn't believe him and Hiccup explicitly says "this isn't like the last few times, I mean I really actually hit it! It went down!"

When you combine all of this, you get a teenager who doesn't appear to take anybody serious, including the lives of himself and others. Terrible traits to have as a person, let alone when you're the chief's son.

Somehow, a narrative of frivolity and aloofness was build around Hiccup that he just could not escape no matter how much he tried to crawl out of it. At some point, Berk put him in a box, marked it "jokester" and Hiccup's efforts to get out of that box only grew and grew. When his efforts failed, whenever he sassed back, Berk just pushed him even deeper into that box. Not looking further into what Hiccup actually needed or was trying to say.

Do I think Berk was right? Not at all, because this is all surface-level, things Hiccup legitimately says and does to protect himself and nobody realizes this.

Toothless doesn't speak a single word to him during the Forbidden Friendship scene, yet he can get across exactly what he expects from Hiccup (mainly "keep your distance, I don't trust you enough") without being mean about it. He doesn't snap, he doesn't bare his teeth. He just gives him faces that Hiccup understands. Only growling or hissing when Hiccup passes a boundary Toothless very clearly isn't comfortable with. (or, let's say, when his feelings are hurt, like when Hiccup steps on toothless' first drawing.)

And it's because he's not mean about it that he actually makes more progress with Hiccup in half a day than Berk does his entire 15 years.

And that's sad. That's what this post is about. About how sad it is that Berk takes Hiccup at a very shallow level and decides that must be his entire self as a person.

[thoughtlesssadness]

THE SHIT (GOLD) YOU FIND IN THE OCEAN (YOUTUBE COMMENT’S SECTION)

[lucinfernos]

heart of a chief, soul of a dragon 🐉💚

[grayyylake99]

We didn’t get enough Hiccup and Eret.

My favorite thing in httyd has to be the deleted scenes having random moments where the faces are just

[nightfury-2001]

the live action httyd is real 😐😐😐😐

[goldendeerr]

A somewhat quick drawing of a Sentinel, one of my fav dragons due to how powerful they are. Also, their design is pretty cool.

[mahoganyrust]

Happy Birthday Jack!

Did I draw this on unhealthy levels of caffeine? Yes. Do I regret it? It’s 3am so maybe but it doesn’t matter BECAUSE IT’S JACK FROST’S BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYY

[yourl0calrayy]

Toothless with his markings💘

[slitheringss]

WHAT

LOOOK WHAT I JUST GOT TODAYYYY I WILL WEAR THAT TILL I DIE

[anythingforstories]

March of Dragons ‘23

YAY! Time for March of Dragons ‘23 to kick off! March of Dragons is an annual prompt challenge based around the movie’s anniversary.

Prompt 1: Introduce yourself

Hey! I’m Rachel, and I get around on the internet. While this tiny little blog of mine is about storytelling through words and art, I also have a few different usernames in the HTTYD fandom. These days, I mostly hang on out forums.berksgrapevine.com, and that’s where lots of my fandom buddies are.

I hope to meet some more members of the fandom, though! Feel free to say hi or to make your own posts in this challenge—I’ll be looking through the tag to find some new faces. :D