#The Wizards of Once

[flynnwiththeonering]

Happy birthday to the legend herself, Cressida Cowell!

This woman and her books shaped my entire childhood bro :)

[anhttydbookfan]

I’ve been thinking about the unsatisfying ending of The Wizards of Once, but I still think it’s very interesting from a narrative perspective.

For one, the death of Caliburn instead of Wish is treated almost as a deal with fate rather than a cheap subversion. It promised a death, and Caliburn must die to save Wish.

Again, the tragedy being handed off to another mythos, while feeling unsatisfying, almost leaves the series with a somber tone. In the same vein as its predecessor series, it ends before the conclusion where the heroes have failed. While they have won for now, the children celebrating together today will be at eachother’s throats tommorow. Their kingdom, while great, will not last forever, torn apart by their actions, as they are fated to do for all of time. Their story does not have a happy ending. Even if they were to prevail, the dragons are in hiding, and magic will have to leave through the Which Ways. Even if they could solve their problems on Earth, even the highest powers in the universe are seeded with corruption and lies.

But for now, all is well. And if it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end.

So we must leave them there, sleeping under the stars.

that is an EXCELLENT reading of never and forever and may have singlehandedly changed my entire opinion of it. Thank you!

[iamafule]

One of the things I live about tumblr is that uts literally amazing for all my fandom needs. Like, you could have the rarest hyperfixation ever and there will be an entire community for it on tumblr filled with fanart, fanfics, rambles, info dumps, theories and memes. I love tumblr.

[selkie-tea]

SURPRISE DRAGON BOOK GANG I BET YOU THOUGHT YOU'D SEEN THE LAST OF ME!!!

BUT NO I COME BEARING ANOTHER CHAPTER OF WHAT I CALL THE 'we haven't had a book in a hot minute so I thought I might as well write one myself' PROJECT!

Preview:

Sychorax Ferrouhg’s office was not what Hamish had expected it to be. From his overall impression of her, he figured she would be the type to keep her space barren and cold, like those showrooms at furniture stores that had about the same amount of personality as a dentist’s office; so when she opened the door and gestured for him to step inside, he was surprised to find the space to be rather whimsical. The walls were plain white, but they were peppered by shelves of potted plants, books and trinkets of all shapes and sizes littered about the place. Rows and rows of jars encasing bones and feathers were stacked at against the wall, and Hamish spotted more jars tucked into the corners of bookcases all over the room, ones that looked like they contained dead animals suspended in clear liquid. “Please, sit,” Sychorax gestured to a seat in front of the desk. Hamish sat. “Wait here, I will be back in just a moment, she said. And with that she left the room. You’re just going to leave me here unsupervised? Hamish had no intention of doing anything that might get him into even more trouble than he was already, but he felt like on principle, leaving a teenage student alone in a private office was generally not recommended.  A flutter of movement from the corner of his eye.  Hamish looked up. In the back corner of the room there stood a wide cage. In it, a large white parrot perched. It cocked its head to the side and raised its feathered crest. Hamish looked away instantly. Those eyes glittered with an unsettling kind of intelligence. Okay, maybe I’m not entirely unsupervised, he thought. He sat up straight in his chair and whistled a tune in a way that he hoped seemed absentminded. It probably didn’t...

also no I totally didn't retcon the spelling of Sychorax's surname wtf are you even talking about

[yv-sketches]

Hear me out on this one—

[campichor]

I am young, I am poor, I can offer you nothing

all that I have is this bright pair of wings

[lunaislandcitizen]

Wizards of Once

Another fandom I wanted to make art of, so might as well share it here.

The wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell, I felt like a kid again reading these books, truly recomend it if you like fantasy books.

[oncetherewasmagic]

These get more and more off base everytime

[wickedcriminal]

Hiccup are you gonna finish your Hero's Destiny, you don't seem to like it and Xar is starving

[misterrttegrimborn]

[maipronouncedmay]

Also, I can't believe that my little joke of comparing The Wizards Of Once to Murder Drones would be so accurate, at least to the sheer amount of main characters just dying and then getting up as if they only got hit with a softball and not a nuke

Crossover au when?

[shiori8]

The assistant bodyguard, the boy of destiny and the girl with magic that works on iron

aka more doodles for the wizards of once series. This time our main trio Bodkin, Xar and Wish.

Part 1

[anhttydbookfan]

Again, I'd love to see a Wizards of Once movie. I'd love to see an opening narration that introduces the Darkwood and how wild and dangerous it is ("more dangerous than the Warriors?" "Oh, please, this place eats warriors for breakfast.") and how even the prettiest looking flower could be hiding a nasty secret. As the narrator says that last remark, the screen focuses on a very pretty but suspiciously jaw-shaped flower (with an X the color of witchblood displayed prominently on the petals because I like my foreshadowing to be extremely on the nose), and a bumbling, fuzzy little... flying creature buzzing on top of it to admire it. Xar swings in from offscreen and catches the baby sprite just as the petal-jaws start closing around it. Xar is revealed to be the narrator when he says "...But you don't have to be afraid of any of that! Because I'm the leader, and I, Xar son of Encanzo, can protect you from anything!"

[iamafule]

I adore the httyd books with a passion but I honestly think twoo is a tiny bit better. My opinion on this does vary but most of the time I truly think twoo had so much to offer. And that's not to say httyd doesn't have as much to offer, I just liked the aesthetic of twoo so much because of all the whimsical magic fairytale vibe. But twoo had so much to offer and no one really acknowledges it. And a lot of the time when they do acknowledg it httyd creeps it's way into the conversation. I think twoo was a beautiful book but it's so underrated it's honestly wild to me.

[selkie-tea]

Read it here!!!

Centuries after his Hiccup’s passing, Toothless is unsure of what to do with the rest of his very long life. All of dragonkind has gone into hiding, the kingdom of the wilder west is nothing but a crumbling ruin, and all that’s left of his glory days are the memories that he relives in his dreams. One day he is suddenly visited by a strange and ominous dream involving his former master’s afterlife. It looks like Hiccup may be coming back to the mortal world, and Toothless decides he will stop at nothing to find him.

Hamish Hermann is nervous about starting the new school year. attending a preppy boarding school in Southern Wales is sure to be a drastic change from being homeschooled by his father. Hamish has no doubt he’ll be forced to face cliques and bullies, and having recently come out as trans isn't exactly bound to help, but he’s ready for the backlash that’s bound to come with that. What he’s not ready for is a random dragon to turn up and tell him that Hamish is supposedly a reincarnation of his former master, some great Viking hero named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. It also turns out that he and his new reptilian sidekick will be needed in a very important quest: one to defeat on ancient evil threatening to re-awake ofter a long slumber.

With their new friends; Finn, Hamish’s shy but empathetic roommate; Cassie, a feisty jock who's afraid of nothing; and Willow, a quiet girl with an eyepatch who knows on ancient grounds of the old school they attend; the group will dig up a long lost history… and hopefully save the world from imminent doom while they’re at it.