#I made myself watch a httyd clip to get that last one

[darlingfella]

There are two wolves inside of me ✨

(He/They)

[tenebrius-excellium]

I was looking for the Sandbuster/Deathsong amber scene on Youtube, and watched several RttE clips. And gosh. That hurt. RttE is beautiful. RttE is so well made, and I am telling you that I have honestly not seen anything decent made since the end of the Httyd era. The Httyd franchise is such a good story, and I miss it dearly. Douxie from Wizards was a short glimpse, a quick and sudden spark of something that could have become amazing. But he was gone as fast as he had popped up, and nothing since has been lasting or worthwile. 

I feel spoiled, and privileged to have had 10 years of the best story in the entire world to myself. I admit that I don’t know who I am without it. I want to be part of it. I want to be an animated figure in that world; I want the world to function and abide by the laws of the Barbaric Archipelago. Httyd made life so much easier. It was a clear compass of love that helped navigate so many of my decisions.

I constantly think about Hicctrid’s conversation in Httyd3 about how “everything is going to be a lot harder now”. But then, if it wasn’t true, why did the Httydverse ring such a unique bell within me, making me believe that this is the kind of love the world wants? Httyd made me feel so loved. There must have been some truth to it. It remains the ideal I need to see in the world, even though so much has changed and I feel like a mess since the third movie. I feel very vulnerable. 

I want the kind of stability the Httydverse had. Where you make your own adventures, are guaranteed to win if you just try hard enough, and where luck is on your side. Idk, sickness in the Httydverse for example is mostly self-inflicted/ avoidable. There’s poison, losing limbs due to dragon bites or accidents, and there are sharp blades. There are clear culprits. But there is no inexplicable cancer, or arthritis or sudden shortsightedness or dementia; y’know, stuff that you didn’t do anything to deserve yet still can’t prevent from happening to you. Httyd assumes that you decide the level of danger connected to your fate yourself. There’s more control. Astrid’s unexpected blindness in Blindsided is the one event that broke this in-universe law and tbh I would have liked to explore her dealing with that a bit more. Cuz where’s the hope in staying blind?

Anyway, just thoughts. The Httyd movieverse manages to give a lot of hope and I’ve been missing that. However, like I just explained, it conveniently happens to exclude some of the more dire turns of life that are exactly the downward vortexes stealing mankind’s hope. Anyone can get over Httyd’s problems since they have to do with your own actions and decisions, like, your mindset. However, there are those injustices in real life that prevail and that continue to rob hope because they cannot be fought against by a single person. And as soon as Httyd arrived at those problems in the third movie, it ended. Dayum. 

Just stuff that I’m thinking about.