#his name was toothless

[noornight]

Long distance besties. This definitely happened after the third movie (source: trust me bro)

Based on this

[juniemunie]

Still thinking about ROBTD stories where hiccup is the only one that finished his movie because he and toothless need to be together but everyone else still hasnt gone through their character arcs yet and it makes me laugh

[that-was-anticlimactic]

i will never understand how or why the httyd movies did the books such an injustice.

the movies aren't even an adaptation - they stole the name of the series, the name of some of the characters and places, and the general idea that there are dragons. honestly, i would be fine with the movies and maybe even like them if they didn't capitalize off of cressida cowell's incredible books that never get any credit.

the books are an amazing story about the cycle of violence and how vengeance and revenge is dangerous. hiccup says that the past is a ghost story, one we need to learn from to better ourselves. the books are about how everyone deserves freedom, how every creature, every being on the earth deserves to be free. we see that in the slavemark, with the dragons.

and like... hiccup is so different. they did him a severe injustice. he's scrawny and intelligent and learned to talk to dragons simply by observing them! he chooses kindness first above all else; instead of yelling at toothless to train him, he is kind. and in the end, that kindness is why toothless chose to save him. bc even toothless himself says that dragons are inherently selfish creatures who care only for their survival. hiccup is brave - his beliefs differ drastically from both the vikings and the world.

hiccup is a child who chose to do the right thing even at the expense of himself. he agreed to free the slaves on nobert's ship, and in return, they gave him the slavemark which is easy to give but cannot be removed. he was like twelve. and having the slavemark means he cannot be with his tribe or his family, it means he isn't considered a human being anymore. and he keeps it a secret for awhile until it's revealed and when it is everyone turns their backs on hiccup. his family, his tribe, his mentor, people he TRUSTED. everyone except fishlegs, and, once she got over the shock, camicazi. he was thirteen. and even when he lost his memories and was really injured, he persisted. he was told to go to tomorrow and to save the dragons and he did bc in his heart he knew it was right even though he didn't know who he was or how he got there.

and fishlegs,,, oh my god FISHLEGS!!! the did him SO DIRTY!!! fishlegs is hiccup's best friend, one of the main motivators for hiccup. he steals norbert's potato for the sake of fishlegs, he gives fishlegs his dragon and goes to retrieve another, he takes the blame for fishlegs. and fishlegs does the same for him. he takes the slavemark with pride. he refuses to turn. he gives hiccup his lobster claw necklace which is his most prized possession. he is brave for hiccup, he believes hiccup is alive. he fights for hiccup harder than anyone else ever has. he does not turn. his is loyal, has allergies, has asthma, has a squint and a limp, has glasses bc he's blind without them... and he's still a hero despite being a runt, despite everyone even the adults telling him he's hopeless, telling hiccup to leave him behind.

and they cut camicazi! i'm sorry, but astr*d is nothing compared to camicazi. camicazi is a tiny, feral child who can easily best hiccup, fishlegs, and pretty much anyone in a sword fight. she can bring a grown man to tears with her rudery and smack talk. she is recklessly brave and craves adventure and follows hiccup blindly bc she trusts him that much. she isn't in love with hiccup - in fact she doesn't care about romance and love. she gives up everything to help hiccup bc she has a strong sense of justice. she is the motivator, the cheerleader, she finds a positive in everything. she never gives up. literally never gives up. and that's one of the most inspiring things about her: she always has hope.

and toothless! god!!! toothless is *thought to be* a common or garden dragon. he is horrifically tiny, he is literally toothless, and is the biggest brat in the world. he will cause problems on purpose. he has a stutter, he's the most selfless selfish dragon around. he and hiccup can talk to each other. he masks his fear with singing and being annoying. his growth is remarkable. he starts off refusing to obey hiccup, doing the opposite of what he says, making life harder for literally everyone around him, and he's still somewhat like that. but he's also braver, more caring, more willing to make sacrifices for the sake of others. he's clever, which he needs to be to make up for his size and aggression. he protects hiccup with everything he has, therefore, he protects what hiccup cares about just as hard. he was the only dragon that didn't abandon the vikings in the first book bc he cared about hiccup.

and snotlout,,, god,,, i will never forgive the movies for butchering snotlout. hiccup's cousin, the bully character, the one who is horrifically jealous that hiccup's dad was born before his. the one who desperately wants to prove himself, to be worthy, to make people proud. and you hate him, you despise him. he betrays everyone many times bc of the nothing promised to him by alvin and his mom. he loses himself, turns his back on himself, all bc he wants to prove himself. all bc he wants to be better than hiccup. and hiccup still forgives him and gives him chances, sometimes out of pity, but also bc snotlout is his cousin. he can't just turn his back on him no matter how miserable snotlout made his life. and in the end, snotlout sacrifices himself for hiccup. he gives up his life for hiccup in one last attempt to set things right. his death and the events preceding it are one of my absolute favorite moments in the book. gives me chills. makes me cry.

that's the thing with the books - they're so realistic. there is no inherently happy ending where everything works out. the first book begins with "there were dragons when i was a boy", implying that they're gone now. the books show there are consequences to our actions. they enslaved the dragons, they fought against them during the dragon rebellion all bc alvin and his mom said to, and now they're gone bc a simple apology doesn't fix hundreds of years of enslavement. and the only way for the world to move forward was for the dragons to leave and heal on their own. and now they have to learn to live without them. and yeah i've heard the third movie ends like that but. it doesn't have the build up. it doesn't have "there were dragons when i was a boy". it doesn't have eleven books of development to back it up, to make it feel meaningful.

i know that the movies are really special to a lot of people. i know that, on their own, they're genuinely good movies. i can acknowledge that the soundtrack is amazing and the animation is beautiful. i just can't see past the way they butchered the world that i love, the world that i grew up with. i can't see past the way people yelled at me for saying i liked the books better, the way that people gave me weird looks when i showed them a picture of the original toothless, when i tell them that nightfuries aren't even a type of dragon. cressida cowell created hundreds of different dragons, and the movies couldn't even pick from that. i can't forgive the way that barely anyone knows there are books bc the movie barely gives credit to them. i cannot forgive the way they capitalized off the books and then shoved them aside. i know cressida thinks they're good movies and i know a lot of httyd book fans also like them. but i just... i cannot get over how much they changed and how they missed so much and ignored the books. also they got rid of camicazi so hiccup could have a love interest and that is unforgivable to me.

if you disagree, that is a-okay. we're all entitled to our own opinions. i just ask that you, perhaps, try the books out. give them a chance. bc they're amazing works of art and also just like. don't yell at people who don't like the movies? whether it's bc they prefer the books or just aren't into that kind of movie. and just remember that dreamworks didn't come up with the story; cressida cowell did.

[draco-after-dark]

Dory verse: Halloween shenanigans

Eldest's costume may have been lost in translation because i forgot about the word teddy bear and only read bear.

oops

Eldest belongs to @matmiraculous

Feral belongs to me

Hitman belongs to @lemony-and-zesty

[flwrkid14]

Damian Wayne’s all-time favorite movie is How to Train Your Dragon—and he will never admit it.

It all started when one of his classmates recommended it. Damian scoffed—an animated movie about dragons? Please. But he decided to give it a chance because, well, it was about dragons. He figured if nothing else, he’d get to critique its poor depiction of such magnificent creatures. Within 20 minutes, though, he's completely hooked.

He sees so much of himself in Hiccup. The whole ‘being raised in the shadow of your father’s expectations’ and ‘feeling like you don’t fit into the world you’re born into’ hit way too close to home. Not to mention, the bond between Hiccup and Toothless reminds him of the relationship he has with his pets—loyalty, trust, and that deep understanding of being an outsider.

It’s become a secret comfort movie. Whenever Damian’s had a tough day, he’ll sneak into the Wayne library, find a quiet corner with a tablet, and put on httyd to de-stress. He may have been the Demon’s Head heir once, and now he might be robin trying to live up to batmans legacy, but he's still just a kid who finds fascination in the world of dragons.

The rest of the Batfam doesn’t know—except Alfred, who caught him watching it once. Alfred, being the legend he is, simply raised an eyebrow and said, “An excellent choice, Master Damian,” and then never mentioned it again.

Of course, if anyone were to find out, Damian would deny it with every ounce of his pride. “That movie? Absolutely not. A juvenile depiction of mythical creatures with lackluster character development.” But if anyone ever walked into the manor late enough at night, they might just catch Damian rewatching it for the umpteenth time, a tiny smile tugging at his lips whenever Toothless is on screen.

And you know he’s named one of his animals ‘Toothless,’ but good luck getting him to admit that.

[midnightcoffes]

its funny how we collectively forgot that Hiccup has a cat on book one

[tridentrans]

have you trained your dragons lately 🤨

[beast-feast]

I've been rewatching RTTE today and aough I miss my boy

[disabilityshowdown]

[IDs: Hiccup is a light skinned teenage boy with brown hair, dressed in leather armor and with the bottom of his left leg replaced by a simple metal prosthesis. Toothless is a green eyed black dragon, standing next to him. Peppermint is a girl with medium skin tone and mid length white hair that has been dyed blue at the ends. She is wearing a punk looking jean jacket and jean shorts combo, with white shirt and white tights. She is pointing a pink gun at the viewer, and has a pink prosthetic for her right leg in a very similar mechanical style to her gun]

Disabilities OP knows: All three of them have a limb prosthesis

[redbootsindoriath]

Whichever anon sent me this today, thank you. There's no way you could have known, but a couple of days ago I suddenly and without warning lost a cat that I raised from the day he was born. When I saw this in my inbox I was confused at first, because what...checkmark...huh...but then I realized that it meant somebody had sent me something--out of the blue, just because--at a time that I really could use something good in my life, even something silly and fun. So, really, thank you. And green is my favorite "real" color, so having one of the checkmarks be green is pretty neat.

I've not really been able to draw anything worth anything lately, believe it or not, so here's the last picture I have of my Night Furry. He loved drives and walks, so earlier this summer on a road trip I took him to the top of the continental divide for a little hike.

(Yes, he's wearing a harness. He had an adventurous and independent temperament, so there was always a risk of him running off to explore someplace where he shouldn't go alone. I didn't just make him wear it because I'm a cruel and stifling cat butler.)

[thirsty-4-ghouls]

Stuff taking up space on my phone when trying to name my khajiit

Blorbo from my mind:

Just my cat 🐈‍⬛

[that-was-anticlimactic]

the lack of respect for the httyd books pisses me off ugh

[yeoldwebkinzcollector]

New webkinz has arrived!! I'm so happy he is here, my brother had a bat webkinz when we were younger but it was one of the ones that got given away before i became invested in collecting them

also, my bat doesn't have a webkinz mark on his foot?? Its a little weird but i still love him

[kandidandi]

I went to get lunch with my mom yesterday, amd then we went to B&N. I found this pathetic beast and bought him on impulse. I thought you might appreciate him. His name is Goop.

i love him i loev him ivoe hm lo h

hes such a beast i just wanna twirl him around by the tail /aff

[the-dragon-club]

Remembered I loved the Light Fury so so much so I made an edit for her because I still think that the fandom mistreated her so terribly. She's literally just a sparkly dragon who was captured and abused acting on instinct. She didn't "take" Toothless from Hiccup, she courted with him and he chose to go with her. She saved Hiccup's life in the end, she just doesn't immediately trust humans because humans tried to end her life and locked her in a cage. They muzzled her and used her to try and kill another dragon. She's literally just a wild animal who wanted to survive and find a mate and I love her so fucking much you don't understand.

[howtodrawyourdragon]

I'm glad that Toothless found room in his pity-party to help Hiccup rescue Fishlegs, lol.