#also cressida!!!

[lizzibennet]

im so sorry to all of you who expect me to hate penelope. i find her so deeply likable. sorry!!!

[chalkrub]

reminiscing about childhood books after that ask - all due respect to cool sleek movie toothless....but to me, he will always be a mean little gremlin

[iheartbookbran]

My favorite part about the Debling plot was Penelope and Cressida doing the most over there top cat-fighting in order to win him over, not because they genuinely liked the guy, but because they wanted to escape their families and also lowkey just hate each other.

[butyouaremymess]

Polin Bonus Week: Day Four

♡ Favorite Show Quote

S03E04: Old Friends: " They do seem upset, do they not? Eros and Psyche, battling it out."

[seeleybooth]

[theceaselessidiot]

Eloise Bridgerton being an absolute mood:

and Cressida's reaction of 'this girl is so weird, but I'm into it??? Wait am I into this??'':

[swedenis-h]

A new light

[reynolds-here-over]

As a gay bridgerton watcher I gotta hold out hope for as long as I can with season 3 part 2 nearing so I’m just going leave these here:

a tall blonde and shorter brunette

…….

[myfairstarlight]

now between this, the eros and psyche line, and her calling out eloise, cressida really was just clocking the bridgertons the whole season huh

[that-was-anticlimactic]

just saw an article criticizing the httyd books for having a ten year old protagonist... said the movies fixed it by... by making hiccup older... and then criticized the fact that toothless was small... and that the movies fixed it by making toothless bigger so hiccup could ride him... as iF THE WINDWALKER ISN'T RIGHT THERE!!! it is very well established in book one that these are hunting dragons not riding dragons. there is a DIFFERENCE. anyway the DISRESPECT saying the movies "fixed the books" shut up

[emilykaldwen]

the friendship break up hurts, I totally get it, and it was big of Eloise to tell her that she was too hard on herself. But also I think it's really important that you know what? sometimes there's fuck ups you can't come back from, and actions have consequences. Because the whole Whistledown plot says a lot about pen's character and there needs to be long lasting fallout from that. Because it's not just Eloise Pen hurt, Pen hurts and continues to fucking hurt so many people.

[sammtheunicorn]

Cressida: « it does not sound like you hate Whistledown. More like you are jealous of her.. »

Colin:

[midnightmushroom0731]

Guess who just watched season three of Bridgerton?

[willowcrowned]

Cressida Cowell's httyd series falls into the trap that a lot of episodic fiction series fall into, which is that with every successive book a fact not-quite-integral to the last one is retconned in favor of the present book's narrative. (I am, by the way, a hater of this. But also who cares.) Unlike a lot of fiction series, though, this actually works for her. Because the person doing the retcons isn't her; it's Hiccup.

We get, in the very final installment, Hiccup-the-Narrator admitting his own fallibility as a storyteller, making good on the promise from the very first book: that he and Hiccup-the-Character are not the same, that these stories did happen to a different person, and therefore they are subject to the uncertain nature of secondhand accounts. Hiccup-the-Narrator, in his final comments, admits that he himself has started to believe his own lies, that at times even he has begun to believe the dragons never existed.

Hiccup-the-Narrator is not, in the end, telling his own story as it happened, but telling the story of a mythic figure, embellished on by the storytellers of the Viking tribes since the very moment of his crowning, when a Bashem Oik shouted that he was being lifted by the hand of Thor. It just so happens that once, long ago, he was the basis for the mythic figure.

So really, the retcons and inaccuracies do not have to be Cowell rewriting her own lore to make her next wacky adventure fit. (They are! But they don't have to be.) They're Hiccup-the-Narrator, old and forgetful, writing down the myths of Hiccup-the-Character's adventures as they may have happened. And like any good storyteller, every time he tells it, he adds something new.

[sapphiceloise]

Thinking about Cressida and Eloise in the masquerade ball... They don't know each other through the masks, both has changed... So close yet so far. But then, they run into each other trying to fetch refreshments...

[justablah56]

hi guys have a cressida <3 just cause I felt like it <3

also bonus closeup on the little roy in the corner bcs I love him