#TNR

[thereweredragonshere]

As much as The Nine Realms sucks absolute ass, I fucking love the snifflehide. The colours, the obnoxiously large nose. Ugh. Let me pet it

[changretta]

Flea bath penalty

[otiksimr]

This is by far the most unfaithful 'redesign' I've done so far. But that being said, I don't call myself a butcher for no reason.

I don't enjoy how TNR brings back dragons from the original series, as it's set far, far into the future the fact that those species still exist and are practically unchanged is well, weird to me. The fact that NIGHTLIGHTS still exist is also extremely odd to me, as they are a hybrid species they should be long gone due to the fact that Nightfuries have been long extinct (Toothless is an outlier).

This redesign is mainly just me having fun tbh. That's what most of my redesigns are. it's less what the og could've done better and more what I would find more interesting as a concept. There's quite a few tidal class dragons in the HTTYD franchise, yet there's not really any that are a 'main rider dragon.' This is one part appreciating Tidal class dragons and one part an ode to the book series.

[bigbigtruck]

This is Barry Bluejeans. As of noon today, he is neutered and vaccinated against FIV, FELV, and Rabies. He is the most social cat I have ever trapped. Most strays I TNR are feral and get re-released where they came from; this little duder took a week to warm up to me outside and then last night straight up walked into our house and set up shop on the cat tree in my studio. As of midnight on September 25, he has discovered laps and gives them an 8/10 so far.

If you are in the Austin area and looking to adopt a wonderful young, affectionate, talkative cat, please HMU in an Ask (not Direct Messages; they don't load properly for some reason). He's approximately 1YO, 10lbs, and friendly with other cats. Medium-short coat and fluffy tail, solid build. He's a honk-squeaker. Talks a lot when nervous but calms down fast. Gives headbutts on your forehead, loves to cuddle. Got a few videos of him over on my Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/bigbigtruck.bsky.social/post/3l4ucrh4i6x2g

[rennebright]

アスナ by TNR [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[wolfchanw]

TLDR: kitten season is here!

The long story: I am friends with the vet who sees my animals, and from time to time she will reach out about a kitten emergency.

Another client of hers has been trapping a colony near his house, and is down to just three known cats left to spay/neuter: two females and a male. When he trapped one of the females and realized that she was about to give birth he decided to let her have the kittens in his bathroom rather than have a late term spay/abortion performed.

This kind man is also the full time caretaker of a disabled relative, who went into the bathroom to see the kittens and accidentally let mama cat outside. So the man called the vet who contacted me, and now I have five beautiful kittens who will need round the clock feeding for awhile yet.

Soon to be four kittens, I think, as the buff girl is going downhill rapidly. Send good vibes for the other four, who are bright and hungry!

[zoomzooml]

Redesign concepts of Webmaster and Feathers

After a year

WEBMASTER

My biggest problem with the Webmaster design is how cluttered it seems; there's just a lot going on here. So I tried to calm it down a bit; I took away one pair of legs to make him less cluttered but keep (more or less) original body lenght. And I know that in his episode Jun says “if something has eight legs, she doesn't like it,” refering to spiders, but I think eight limbs works too.

I also played around a bit with his colors and markings. As well as body structure and proportions, noting this dragon's show-off skill - spinning webs.

When he puffs up his “cheeks” just before he spits, you can hear a sticky, mushy sound - you know that something is going on inside. The muscles are moving and pushing something with a sticky, gluey consistency. I would like it to be somewhat repulsive.

When he spits silk in attack it does not come out as big ball of burning web. It's more like net in "V" shape, in form of many separate threads of silk shooted at the same time. Similar to actual spiders, but on the bigger scale. His webs also don't burn; I feel like it's an overkill.

I changed the arrangement of his forelegs slightly. I know it's not quite in line with the style of HTTYD (see Speed Spingers' front limbs) but in his case I think arranging his hands in a similar way to therizinosaurus gives him a more menacing look.

Deadly Spinners are dragons that give a very unpleasant first impression. They are not the most beautiful dragons around (at least not by the standard) and their behavior can be repulsive to some. The type of dragon that people are willing to pin an unfriendly, sometimes unfair patch on more easily than on other dragons - as many people do with spiders or snakes and other similiar animals.

Deadly Spinners don't live in large groups - either small groups or solo. But when they are in a group they have very close bonds and spend a lot of time socializing among themselves.

FEATHERS

She is a challenge to me, not gonna lie. She definitely is the most changed among my redesigns so far. She just seems very basic to me.

The most bothering thing to me about her are those "feathers". Because, Alex in s1ep3 calls these "feathers", as well as Olivia in s5ep2, wiki calls these "feathers-like scales", but they can move and are thick what implies they are more like Furies'/Night Light's head numbs? I absolutely can pass the crowns as feathers, but Queen's horns and holes in her meaty tail were here the last straw to not to

And yes, I made a shitty video because I'm really confused and wanted that confusion express lmao. I hope Tumblr won't take it down.

So idk, I wanted to clarify what the frick those things are and go from there. I had two main ideas - either give her actual feathers or quills similiar to those of Bewilderbeast. When drawning I wasn't sure about either idea but finally decided for the latter one. Feels more HTTYD-like I think? And very flammable feathers don't seem like the best survival choice when almost every other animal around can spit fire.

I reimagine Featherhides as way more nervous and skittish dragons. Changewings were mysterious but usually seemed calm and strategical. Featherhides' nature is more in type of "flee" than "fight" (tho they can get so smoke when needed, they are not defensless or smth). They are very easy to spook and sometimes will flee in panic from something very trival just to return seconds later when they realise there was no danger at all, or are curious of whatever scared them. They often make rapid little movements, much like birds - especially if something catches their eye and they are not sure what it is.

Featherhides also live in large flocks without a complex hierarchy. If they can - they run, if any of them can't - at least some of them also stay behind.

Once Feathers bonds with Alex she would be very protective of her little human.

When Featherhides mimic sounds they do not do weird things with their faces like in the show. It looks much more like like some birds do that. But that's just a sidenote.

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[lumiidragon]

The Nine Realms dragons redesigns~

So I wanted to just play around with some ideas for redesigns for Feathers, Plowhorn, and Wu & Wei. Mostly, I wanted to doodle.

I re-designed feathers to actually have more feathers instead of just a few on her head and tail. She's partially based off of a nightjar bird and I wanted her to be a bit more bird-looking over reptile-looking.

Plowhorn kept her rhino-like look, but I added more armor plating instead of the beetle shell. I also wanted to add more crystals along her body to carry out this design choice smoother.

Wu & Wei's designed were changed to represent that of moray eels, specifically a wink to Floatsam and Jetsam from The Little Mermaid. I wanted them to really carry out that aquatic-look and I think the idea of a dragon being eel-like makes for a more interesting design choice with its irony, haha~

I didn't add Thunder on here because I already have a re-design of him and I just didn't have time for Webmaster.

[thereweredragonshere]

I pretended that The Nine Realms is canon for a bit and gave the inbred a re design

Thunder they did you so dirty you could have been so cool🙏

Also hey hi hi my hand is better I can draw again

[some1s-sista]

Ms. Nugget watching me run around and clean the guest houses (both are booked this weekend!). I swear, she has the saddest looking kitty face ever. But it’s just her markings. She’s really a sweetheart. And she’s plumped up a bit since she was spayed.

[otiksimr]

I don't really have any strong feelings towards the Featherhides design, but I feel like they could've done a lot more with it.

[bigbigtruck]

This is Spoompls. He's just under 2 years old, healthy, neutered and vaccinated, and had full flea/tick treatment on 11/10/2024. We're working on socializing him and he's coming along so fast! He's still a little skittish from living on the street but he loves pats and hanging out and making biscuits, and likes other cats. He goes in to the Austin Humane Society's adoption program on 12/2, if all goes well! If you're in the area and looking for a sweet young friendly kitty, please keep Spoompls in mind <3

[rennebright]

アスナ by TNR [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[serenayonaka]

It’s been a whole year now since we first met Peter and he is still searching for his forever home. He is the sweetest guy, just looking for a permanent lap to sit in. 💔It blows my mind that a cat with a personality like his is taking so long to place. This cat is so friendly that I didn’t even have to trap him, he just walked into the house himself. Please share his poster, especially if you haven’t before. You never know who is on your friends list that might be looking for their purrfect companion! 😻 Located in Leesburg, FL. Willing to travel for the right forever home.

[rosiethedragongeek]

Okay so I'm thinking about The Nine Realms (for obvious reasons lol) and I think I heard or saw somewhere (this is totally not my original idea, but I don't remember where I got it) someone saying that it would make so much more sense and be so much better if TNR actuallyl took place ON New Berk years later and w the new kids discovering dragons and the hidden world due to their proximity w it.

I think this is SUCH an awesome idea and would honestly be so much better because it would give the show much stronger ties to the orginal series (imo) and open it up for a lot of cool references and callbacks that don't make sense. Why is there an arrowhead or wtv in the Hidden World w the strike class symbol on it? Why is Hiccup's diary in the Hidden World?? WTF?? They're not, they're hidden somewhere on New Berk.

That way it doesn't disrupt canon saying that they LEFT THE DRAGONS ALONE, and it feels less forced. The new kids could all be descendents of the gang, too. I know that having them be descendents w similar features or characteristics or wtv is REALLY far fetched after all of this time and I think that realistically it wouldn't be like that, but for a storytelling purpose I think it'd be okay.

And I think it's fine if Tom is a descendant of Hiccstrid, and all of the rest of the kids are somehow tied to other members of the gang, but I think it'd be REALLY funny if they all had different last names except whoever was related to the Jorgensons. Like the Jorgenson family pride in their name and their lineage just like,, transcended a thousand years and many many many many many generations. It just stuck bc they refused to give it up. (this is like actually the point of this post lol)

Anyway now I want to work on a proper TNR rewrite/reconceptualization with THIS premise and just see how it goes lol