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[tenebrius-excellium]

Hmmmmm.

Very well said.

You really did your research, I couldn't quote half of these RttE refs off the top of my mind

I still struggle to accept this analysis and I'm trying to think of why.

I guess it's because to vikings, violence is an ordinary language of communication when somebody oversteps their boundaries. Heck, not just when somebody oversteps, it's just a day-to-day language. Sometimes even a love language! People will be violent for no reason at all, because they're so used to it that they do not know how else to convey their intentions sometimes, plus they occasionally think it is very funny. When something - anything - happens, some of the vikings' first reactive instincts is to respond to it with random violence. We see this with Astrid, with Ruff & Tuff, and more. So.

The distinction I would try to make is, to whom is Hiccup a pacifist?

Because in the viking world, Hiccup is giving people like wayyyy too many chances. He often seems to let his enemies trample all over him before he too decides that enough is enough. In this viking world, this httydverse, Hiccup is too trusting, too naive, too sensitive in comparison to his peers who would often JUMP at the opportunity to blast something to bits as soon as he allowed them to.

The distinction might be between a perception of Hiccup in his own tough, unforgiving viking universe vs. a perception of Hiccup by us, the modern audience, through the screen who know that the rating is kids-friendly. I remember how appalled I first was when Hiccup was using weapons like normal tools post-Httyd1. That he even designed more weapons! (Super silly me, of course.)

But there might be two different perceptions here, and they are simply about in-universe and ex-universe logic.

Perhaps compared to the other vikings, Hiccup is THE pacifist. He is frustratingly, sheepishly kind in a very rough world that wouldn't give two shits about him dying.

Perhaps to us, Hiccup is still a very violent person. Because as a modern audience in Western countries, his decisiveness when it comes to killing still counts as cold-blooded to some.

Does that distinction make any sense? Idk

Again, very well said on your part!!! Gave me some stuff to chew on!

Hey! Do you really think that pacifist Hiccup is fanon? No judgment, just...again, surprised by this interpretation. I'd imagine that if canon really thought Hiccup was balanced, they would have shown more of a moral struggle over the deaths related to him, no? But it's often left ambiguous (see Drago or random dragon hunter #3 who gets blasted out of the way Idk), which (to me) means people happily lived. Because they disappeared left and right without regard or mourning. We see no dead dragons or people on the ground after the Battle of the Bewilderbeast, for example, which makes the assumption that a lot of humans and animals must have died there, "objectively" wrong. Of course they needed to keep it kids-friendly, but I'd think if Hiccup was truly ruthless towards any threat to his family, they would have made the cost of peace a little more of an apparent theme. Thoughts?

I genuinely believe that Hiccup being a pacifist is a fanon thing because there's nothing in the actual canon to prove that he is.

Does Hiccup oppose war? Yes, he does. Httyd 2 is all about him wanting to prevent it from happening. In R(D)oB the thing with hiding the dragons away from Dagur was also to prevent a potential war with the Berserkers. (A war that did end up happening, although because Hiccup and Berk lied to Dagur and Hiccup fake protected him.)

Does Hiccup entirely oppose violence? Even as a means of settling disputes? No, he doesn't and every battle ever proves that. (More on that in the RttE section)

And if Httyd had a higher rating, we probably would've seen those bodies and we'd probably also see Stoick lying in pieces or at least disembowled from taking a plasma blast to the chest for his son and said son covered in his blood. The fact that we don't is simply because Httyd needs to appeal to all audiences and for the majority kids, like you said.

But this doesn't mean that people aren't actively dying in the tv-shows.

Barely passable screenshots, but these are from 'Heather Report Part 2' when Alvin holds Astrid above a cliff and that's not the face of someone who wants to be careful as he tells his Night Fury to blast him away.

Alvin gave Hiccup a choice in that scene; "surrender or I'll... well, you know the rest." Which in this context means that Hiccup should surrender or Alvin will drop Astrid to her death. Hiccup chooses to instead tell Toothless to "do it." And I doubt this means he holds no value for Astrid's life, but letting Alvin get away with the Book of Dragons just isn't an option either.

And let's not forget 'We Are Family Part 2', in which Hiccup and Toothless are so angry at Alvin for taunting him after hurting them (it's stated for days) that they don't think clearly and turn back around just to hurt him. A calculated move on Alvin's part, who hoped Hiccup would be too angry to think clearly. Angry people don't make for merciful people either.

Moving on from Alvin, shipwrecks are already hard to survive. You would need to wait for help to come to you and that is if you:

Don't drown first

Don't get picked off by predators

Die from lack of food or drinkable water

Die from exposure

Die from sickness

The USS Indianapolis is famous for having most of it's crew survive (like, 800 to 900 men?) the initial sinking of the ship only to lose most except for a little over 300 to exposure, lack of food/water and sharks. This crew started with over 1,100 men and only a little over 300 survived for four days until others learned of the sinking and send help. And that's a ship that sank in WWII, let alone a Viking ship that's mostly wood and doesn't have fancy ways to send for help.

Remember that comedic moment of Dagur vowing he's going to make Hiccup kiss his boots in the 'Smoke Gets in Your Eye' episode? When he's sitting on a piece of driftwood after the Smothering Smokebreaths tore his ships apart by taking all the metal out of them?

A funny moment, but Dagur genuinely could've died from either of the causes listed above and it's not like Hiccup looked back and had second thoughts, he went home and was glad Dagur wasn't terrorizing his village for another day.

There are plenty of times in RoB and DoB in which Hiccup and Toothless hurt people and dragons alike. Is it his intention to kill? Absolutely not, but he doesn't shy away from violence either.

For a character the fandom largely appears to consider a pacifist, he sure does spend a lot of his time committing violent acts.

Even his future wife has a tendency to show love and excitement by punching him in the dorsal fin button before giggling. Would a real pacifist put up with that? He literally spars with her for fun and she gets to throw him around, they both like doing that!

Would a pacifist even survive in a place like Berk? Where everyone is so rough and disputes sometimes easily escalate to violent action with sharp objects involved? If that is the case, we might as well call Stoick a pacifist, because he's the one going around stopping these disputes from escalating that far.

But anyway, moving on to RttE!

In Snow Way Out, this is what Hiccup says:

"If there's one chance to settle this without bloodshed, I have to try."

And seconds after, Hiccup has this interaction with Ryker:

Ryker - "In that case, surrender and you won't meet the same fate as your dragons."

Hiccup - "Okay, here's my offer. Leave now and your men won't have to find out what burning flesh smells like.

Fanon and canon agree that Hiccup is a bad liar. If he wasn't, he probably would've been able to come up with a better excuse then "I'm making... outfits!" when Astrid is on the cusp of finding out about Toothless.

Which means that Hiccup is not lying in this scene. Which means Hiccup intends on following through. Could be just a bluff, he and the rest of the Dragon Riders are kind of cornered in this scene, but that doesn't mean he isn't willing to fight his way out if his only other options are either surrender or die.

And he says it quite easily for a character so many consider a pacifist. A threat to burn Ryker's men alive.

The thing is, Hiccup probably does know what burning flesh smells like, he grew up in a village torn by war in which the other side are fire-breathing dragons. He's also literally one of the oldest children of three (he, Astrid and Snotlout are canonically 20 in Httyd 2 while Ruffnut, Tuffnut and Fishlegs 19) and the kids that aren't his peers are years younger than him. If you pay close attention to who walks around on Berk in Httyd 1, there are huge gaps in ages that continue into the tv-shows and the other movies.

So Hiccup probably is desensitized to seeing all of that, which could explain his lack of a reaction to taking lives, (a tsunami gets more of a reaction out of him) but that doesn't mean he can't mourn the failure in preventing more loss.

And let's not forget that this is also the episode in which Hiccup gave Toothless the order to shoot down Windshear, Heather and Ryker. Windshear and Heather who he considered friends until recently.

In the Guardians of Vanaheim episode, he has that moment in which he almost kills that Flyer with the Dragonblade in retaliation for the "deaths" of the Sentinels. The Riders genuinely think Hiccup is going to kill that Flyer, you can see it on their faces, which means even they think he's capable of that. Now ultimately, Hiccup decides not to and he tells the twins that they won't be torturing the prisoner. (And it's probably because of moments like that that fans decide Hiccup is a pacifist, despite all the violence he regularly partakes in)

But that doesn't change the fact that Hicctooth, Stormstrid and Snotfang chase after the Flyers with the intention of making sure that they never tell Johann about Vanaheim.

Flyer - "All I know is Johann will be very interested to learn of its existence. The others left to inform him,"

Tuffnut - "We should probably tell Hiccup."

Hiccup - "I heard, Tuff. Let's go everyone. We have to catch those Flyers."

And that is what they do. They catch up to the Flyers and make sure that they don't tell Johann about Vanaheim's existence and Vanaheim isn't mentioned again, implying that Johann never did learn about it.

Now, the show does decide to show us the Flyers surviving (one of the few they actually show us surviving, too) but that has more to do with RttE's rating than whether Hiccup is a pacifist or not. Because Hiccup really did use lightning to down them and being struck by lightning can be very, very lethal. For both the Flyers as well as the Singetails.

(And honestly, are we meant to think that they never left that little island? Considering Johann never found out about Vanaheim? Still leaves their survival kind of up for interpretation.)

In the King of Dragons two-parter, Hiccup tells his Dragon Riders to make sure Johann's ships don't make it out. That is a thing that he says.

Hiccup - "All right. Ruff, Tuff, Snotlout, you take out the ships. Make sure this is their last voyage."

All three of these moments show us Hiccup's willingness to do what it takes and it does include taking lives.

Although Hiccup does draw a hard line at when innocents are involved. Like how he didn't want to hurt the Singetails that were being forced to carry the Flyers. But it's also worth mentioning, that he did not plan on holding back when it came to the Rumblehorn that he believed threatened Gobber's life. (In RoB/DoB he didn't hold back with the Whispering and Screaming Deaths either. Even amongst dragons, Hiccup makes a clear distinction between "good" and "bad".)

That we either don't see the bodies if they're dropped by Hiccup and friends or see the enemy survive somehow (unless someone neutral or the enemy themselves take them out) has everything to do with the rating and Httyd's audience. Even the Red Death's death was bloodless and she exploded. Bits of her should've been everywhere! Instead we had the ash gently falling down to the earth.

This franchise isn't Game of Thrones, it's Httyd and Httyd has a rating that makes it appropriate for all ages. GoT level rating for Httyd probably would've given Hiccup+dragons Targaryen+dragons levels of carnage. And that isn't the case simply because of Httyd's intended audience.

And as for Hiccup's lack of a reaction to deaths supposedly caused by him, if we go back to the desensitization thing, if you used to watch people and/or dragons die in battle every other night for 15 of the most influential years of your life, you're not going to look up when you head into battle as a (young) adult on the back of a fire-breathing dragon and weep for every life snuffed out by you and your best Bud. Because one is a casualty of war and the other murder and something Hiccup hasn't done is murder.

^^^^ That is Hiccup's face as he looks into the water to see if he can spot a single sign that Drago has survived. He doesn't look like he's remorseful for Drago dying, instead he just looks worried. And knowing Hiccup's history with Drago and the reason why he set out to change his mind in the first place, it's not worry for Drago himself. It's worry that he might've survived. That he could come back to hurt his loved ones and (most importantly) his village again.

^^^^ Followed be the face of someone who wishes things had gone differently.

This is probably the biggest proof that Hiccup was meant to be chief. He set out to protect his village and he'll remain worried for his village. Maybe a hottake, but thematically/from a writer's standpoint, that points towards Hiccup destiny to be chief.

Of course, we know Drago canonically didn't survive due to the re-writes of Httyd 3 and the cancelation of The Fire Tides.

Now, I could talk about the Serpent's Heir.

I could talk about the absolute decisiveness in Hiccup's expression and everybody's lack of a reaction to Hiccup setting a guy on fire (the most we get is Astrid stating how she couldn't keep him out of trouble) and how this is the clearest evidence of Hiccup taking lives with his own two hands to protect himself, but most importantly, Toothless. (And just like many villains before him, Hiccup did try to talk sense into Calder)

I could talk about Dragonvine (I don't have an online version of that comic) and how Toothless was poisoned and Hiccup almost hurt young Silkspanners because he believed they were about to make Toothless' last few hours in life Hell. (Meaning each comic gave an example of Hiccup protecting Toothless against a human and dragons respectively)

But the movies and shows are teeming with examples of Hiccup getting his hands dirty (either with his own two hands or through Toothless) to protect either himself or someone he loves. And that makes him the exact opposite of a pacifist. Because Hiccup will use violence to protect who he loves and what he believes in.

But like I said, Hiccup isn't a one-dimensional character and it's true that he doesn't want violence to be his first option. Rather he'll often give his foes the chance to resolve things peacefully if it prevents bloodshed on both sides. I've mentioned it once before in another post, but with how many casualties there are on the opposite side at all times and none on the side of the Dragon Riders (minus the occasional arrow wound or Stoick's death) it's only fair for Hiccup to give his foes the chance the back out. It's just that they never do, always underestimating him and the Dragon Riders.

And with the Red Death that kind of was never an option to begin with and Hiccup knew that.

But we do see him try to forgive his foes even though they've either stabbed him in the back before or are obviously planning to and that is likely where the "naive" part comes from. But Hiccup is also 15 to 20 years old, he doesn't even have half as much life experience as his foes do, who are every single one of them grown-ass adults well over a decade older than him.

And we do see him have moments of remorse, like in RttE when he tells Viggo that things didn't have to end so fatally in Shell-shocked Part 2 or when we see him make a big deal about not hurting the innocent Singetails in season 5 or even when deciding to give the fishing boat with the Scourge of Odin a proper send off. I think that's where the "pacifist" part of the fancanon probably comes from.

Even though we not only see Hiccup actively partake in violence without lying awake about it, but also be smug about both big and small wins and simply enjoy the thrill. (And to repeat once more, he actively enjoys sparring with his wife who likes punching his dorsal fin button to show him just how excited she is about something)

But anyway, a veeeeeeeerrryy long way of ranting about how the proof that Hiccup isn't a pacifist is from Httyd 1 all the way to httyd 2 (And the two comics) and that actual on-screen deaths are only not there purely because the franchise's audience is still largely children. :)

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Tagged by @evilwriter37

From a July Break Bingo fic I'm just a few words away from finishing.

“I’m not trying to get pregnant. Now please, leave it alone!” He uses a firmer tone and then grabs his pegleg. Snotlout’s accusation still stinging.

Yes, that is that last line I just finished writing when I got tagged, lol.

From the fic "Far From Okay" that I'll be posting somewhere this month.

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Some Art of HTTYD & RTTE!

Please don't mind me posting tons of GARFF ART! I'm a massive Garff/Deathsong Fan! :)

Baby Garff!

Yeah I wanted to share my fav drawings of HTTYD I've drawn in the last few years, sadly I haven't done much recently....I do hope people love the art though....ENJOY and Goodnight!

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[evilwriter37]

20 Questions for 20 Writers

Tagged by: @howtodrawyourdragon. Thank you!

1. Is writing a hobby or way of life?

100% a way of life. It kind of has been since I was a child. I was sick all the time and had story ideas, so I started writing them down when I was too sick to go to school. I got bored of just reading and wanted to make my own.

2. A journal full of writing notes or a clean, completed manuscript?

Well, currently I have folders upon folders of notes for my fantasy novel, but obviously I would like a clean, completed manuscript at some point. The entire work is 28k words at the moment.

3. Who (or what) is your writing inspiration?

My special interests for sure. Obviously How to Train Your Dragon, but when I get into something, I really get into it. Lol, one could say autism is my writing inspiration.

4.Which is worse: someone you "idolize" reading your first draft or listening to you sing?

Probably someone I idolize reading my first draft. I'm getting a lot better at receiving rejection and critique but it's still very hard for me. I had a good singing voice before I had covid. (The band teacher and the chorus teacher in high school would fight over who got to have me. I chose band.) Covid has absolutely wrecked my singing voice, but I think I can get it back with practice. So yeah, I'll take someone listening to me sing over reading my first draft.

5. Has writing from someone else's POV ever changed your own perspective?

I don't think so, no.

6. Tumblr, AO3, LiveJournal, or FFN?

Ao3. One time ao3 logged me out and I was like: "What are you doing? I live here!" I do have fics on tumblr that have over 100 notes and I have no clue how that happened, especially when I look at interaction now. Interaction and fandom as a community are just dying on this website. Oh, and fanfiction.net was so horrible that I deleted all my stories from there and never looked back.

7. AO3 wordcount, and are you satisfied with it?

3,125,805. I'm more than satisfied. I'm stunned. And for some reason self conscious? I've had people call me crazy for writing so much fanfic, especially for the same fandom, and it just hurts, because this is my passion. What did you think I was going to do? Hit 1 million words and stop writing? No fucking way.

8. What movie/book/fic gripped you irrevocably?

Movies and shows: How to Train Your Dragon, Good Omens, Teen Wolf

Books: Hard to say because I only really recently got back into reading. I haven't written fanfic for a book since I wrote a single Captive Prince fic. Oh man, Captive Prince was so good. Thank you pro censorship people for recommending it! (People got so mad about it and the themes in it that I decided I had to read it. So worth it.)

Fics: I'm so, so gripped by @lifblogs Bad Batch fic: Brother, Hold Me Up. That thing is an absolute work of art.

9. What's the highest compliment you could ever be given, and have you been given it?

I think the highest compliment I got was someone reading Infernal Fascination of all things with their book club. Like, this person would give me updates about what was said during meetings and they just devoured it. It was awesome.

10. What defines your writing style?

Visceral description and poetic prose. I like to think.

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[lifblogs]

Since it is Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day, I want to give a special shoutout to some excellent people. I’m not very good at reading fanfic lately as it makes me anxious for some reason, but even if I haven’t read all your work, I see the great stuff you’re putting out there. Now, in no specific order I appreciate @kybercrystals94, @just-here-with-my-thoughts, @marvel-starwarsfangirl, @fanfoolishness

@clownery-and-fuckery, and @squad-724

And I appreciate my other friends who are writing fic or have written fic that I haven’t read because of being in a different fandom. Shoutout to @howtodrawyourdragon, @ashleybenlove, @cascigarette, and @envydean! I’m proud of you even when you’re writing and even when you’re not writing.

Last but not least! @evilwriter37, my crazy brother. Can’t wait till you hit 2000 fics, bro.

[ashleybenlove]

@howtodrawyourdragon wrote this awesome comment on my most recent fic and I love their interpretation.

That Hiccup's on his phone throughout the entire interaction, looking at pictures of Toothless lol.

[tenebrius-excellium]

I'm a bystander in all this, but I do wonder why you have such trouble believing that hiccups isn't some naive pacifist when in the very first film he chooses to kill the red death instead of trying to tame it? Or at least try and understand it? Like for the pacifist you think he is, that would be the very, very last option even when his loved ones are in danger, for any pacifist that would be the last step the one he didn't want to do (which he obviously did as every show/film after that shows hiccup feeling no remorse or disgust over it). And for hiccup letting his enemies walk all over him, that's most likely a self-preservation thing? For all the years of abuse and neglect he's been through, just because he's letting that happen doesn't mean he's not still thinking of ways to destroy them It's just to keep himself safe? This isn't hate or anything towards you, I like your blog, but I just think it's really part of the phenomenon that's so prevalent in fandom spaces nowadays that fanon/someone's hcs get so big they often get mistaken for canon and not a lot of people are engaging with the actual story in any way after a while, or they skim it so they don't get the depth of what's actually the truth. Again no hate obviously but I guess It's difficult for people like me to see takes like 'Hiccup is a pacifist' when everything else tells us otherwise or tells us he won't feel bad using violence and death to get what he wants or to get results when we know a real pacifist is usually a centrist and hiccup is very much not that

Heya! Hoo boy there are some misunderstandings making the rounds now oops.

My original take on this was: Og Hiccup, which means Httyd1 Hiccup, and Httyd1 Hiccup ONLY, is NOT a pacifist. Og Hiccup knows exactly what's at stake and acts accordingly. Og Hiccup is careful to extend his trust, as are the dragons he comes into contact with. And og Hiccup gives his love fully and lavishly when his trust is rewarded while simultaneously not hesitating to take out the Red Death because that dragon is clearly the source of all the pain that Berk and the other dragons have been through.

To me, every other Hiccup, especially RttE and Httyd2 Hiccup, is a pacifist. @/howtodrawyourdragon correctly opened my eyes to the fact that Rob/Dob Hiccup might not have been a pacifist after all, because that's when Berk was still characterized as tough and violent and everyone was still cooling off from the whole 'killing dragons' mindset. Enemies were also not 'misunderstood friends' yet. Like. The first enemies young Hiccup encountered were literal Outcasts. I don't remember if it was ever actually explained if the Outcasts are merely a tribe like the Berserkers, but the term Outcasts alone gave me a kind of impression that made the Berkians correct in treading with caution around them. Like. Outcasts are typically people who have failed to be integrated into society, so they have been banned to Outcast Island, no? Idk, anyway, it was full of evil-meaning thugs. There may have been a reason for Hiccup to stay vigilant.

What surprises me, through and through, to this day, is that Httyd2 Hiccup was written to be such a well-meaning pacifist. Like. Httyd1 Hiccup wasn't like that, why suddenly go there? It's like the director fumbled an arc out of his sleeve that Hiccup had to "go through" for growth, only... to me, Hiccup never needed that particular lesson. "A Chief protects his own", please, what else was the fight against the Red Death? The fights against Alvin? Hiccup had been doing that already. It was a fictional lesson to create plot for Httyd2.

Hiccup went soft in Httyd2. Artificially soft. Pacifist soft.

THAT is what I was aiming to analyze. I should have specified more.

RttE Hiccup fluctuates, but I don't want to open that can anymore.

I do not think og Hiccup is a pacifist. I think Httyd2 Hiccup was unnecessarily written as one. THAT is what surprised me. To write Hiccup as a peace-loving animal activist with a flower crown who can't understand, even after repeated warnings, how Drago might not share his starry-eyed opinion. When he had been fighting his own father on his stubbornness for at least a whole summer back in the first movie. Hiccup is not that blind, or dumb. Especially at age 20.

So I agree that the fandom milked Hiccup a bit too much for his supposed pacifism, but it's clearly a canon post-Httyd2 issue as well. Since RttE came out AFTER the second movie, the RttE writers had to somehow match Hiccup's character with what would lead up to his decisions in the second movie. That, to me, is why RttE is a bit sketchy in this regard.

It's all in good faith here, thank you for taking the time to send such a lengthy ask. You made very good points, especially considering the fact that Hiccup was an underdog who had to learn how to stand up for himself first (the 'keep head down out of self-preservation' thing). This is very true and might have made a better arc for Httyd2 imo. Telling Hiccup "babe, wake up, you're not being bullied anymore, you have actual influence now and people want you as Chief. You just gotta find the confidence to believe in yourself." Yeah.

Does that clarify things a little bit?

Cheers

Reddie

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I know what happens in the Fire Tides.

Richard Hamilton, who was a writer for the Fire Tides and had a hand in other Dragons stories that we love, did an interview of sorts with Audrie Greywind on her youtube channel. The entire interview is almost two hours and he spends that whole time telling Audrie, and us, the entire plot of the Fire Tides.

She also has another video on her channel revealing the winner of the Shirtless Hiccup art contest, where Richard Hamilton chose a fan's art to be the Official Canon representation of Shirtless Hiccup, since the Fire Tides hasn't been released visually.

@howtodrawyourdragon @sasstrid-and-dorkcup @nightfury-2001 @frostyviking @tenebrius-excellium @despiteherself @evilwriter37 @slavicviking

@afriend410 @learning-to-fly-on-my-own @kingofthewilderwest @only-girl-on-a-dragon @winxrus @per4mancecheck @peachdoxie @audriegreywind

[howtodrawyourdragon]

Look at that! Howtodrawyourdragon drawing dragons!

Turns out, once you let go of your anxiety regarding drawing you can, in fact, draw. And also, I feel like I have so much more control with traditional tools than I do digital ones.

Please do not repost. A reblog will do.

[sdbingo]

SEASONAL DELIGHTS BINGO QUEUE UPDATE! (NOV 20-26)

❄️WINTER WONDERLAND BINGO❄️

Finished Cards (that were sent out this week) : TheRainRogue, rai, rai, pxgophagia, angelus2hot, endlesstwanted, a_gay_poster, just-ten-cents, blackmagie

Cards (still) in Queue for this Week : 0

Total Sign-Up's : 55 (all of which were sent out)

💜FNAF BINGO💜

Finished Cards (that were sent out this week) : 00

Cards (still) in Queue for this Week : 00

Total Sign-Up's : 27

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Total of Created Cards Before :❄️55 & 💜16

Sent Out on Nov 1 : 17 ❄️ - 42donotpanic, Sivan325, sis, cywscross, svgurl, endlesstwanted, SubukuNoJess, Flick, Aerica_Menai, Foxywrites, prettysophist, DrElizabethGreene, HadrianPeverellBlack, sweetpeapod, Lupi, ChrissiHR, howtodrawyourdragon

Sent Out on Nov 2 : 07 ❄️ - LyriaBlackFrost, crowbjection, Lychee Jelly, Chaos, 5soshow, Tori, Otter-Love-ASL

Sent Out on Nov 3 : 06 ❄️ - sadbi-hours, The Butcher, Summerwritesfics, Morgana, Alleine Dyren, Chantal Dormand

Sent Out on Nov 4 : 09 💜 - Chaos, Flick, Lupi, Sivan325, SubukuNoJess, Howtowhumpyourdragon, Hadrian, Willow, cywscross

Sent Out on Nov 5 : 05 ❄️ - Winchesterek, shells, seles, Revelations Chapter 6, red_crate

Sent Out on Nov 6 : ❄️07 & 💜06 💜 - Chaos, prettysophist, SundialCat, pxgophagia, slyth, shells, tellmewhatyousee ❄️ - Machi, sweetpeapod, NeonCrayons, SundialCat, ChaoticQuill, Courtney

Sent Out on Nov 7 : 03 ❄️ - sarah, slyth, willow

Sent Out on Nov 8 : 02 ❄️ - foxywrites, brilliantdance

Sent Out on Nov 20 : 09 ❄️ - TheRainRogue, rai, rai, pxgophagia, angelus2hot, endlesstwanted, a_gay_poster, just-ten-cents, blackmagie

[evilwriter-originals]

10 Songs, 10 People

Tagged by @mariahwritesstuff! Thank you!

Rules: Put your music on shuffle and put down the 10 songs that come up. Then tag 10 people.

Instead of putting my entire music library on shuffle I'm just going to do the playlist I've been using for my writing recently. That way the selections won't be so random.

How Villains Are Made - Madalen Duke

Afterlight - Eternal Eclipse

Tears of War - Colossal Trailer Music

Charges from the Sky - Joseph William Morgan

This is How the World Ends - Kat Leon

Witness the Masterpiece - Ganyos

A Storm is Coming - Tommee Profitt & Liv Ash

Arise Like Fire - Jonathan Buchanan & Michael Lister

Undone - Tommee Profitt & Fleurie

Hold Your Breath - Astyria

If anyone's interested, the playlist is here! It's a mix of alternative, cinematic alternative, and epic orchestra, and I love it so much.

Tagging @howtodrawyourdragon @lifbitch @knowerofuselessfacts @jayalaw @fictionalnormalcy @lilliths-httyd-blog @smallfrogpleasedtomeetyou @whumpfan @painful-pooch @steelandblood

[evilwriter37]

New look for August! Icon was a birthday gift from a couple years back from @howtodrawyourdragon!

Here it is full size!

[lifblogs]

Last Line Tag

Tagged by: @clownery-and-fuckery, and @just-here-with-my-thoughts

I actually wrote something!

“Hunter, I’m not sure this is a good idea,” Crosshair voiced. Tech couldn’t help but agree with him.

Tagging: @evilwriter37, @howtodrawyourdragon, @envydean, @cascigarette, @clownery-and-fuckery (again), and

@marvel-starwarsfangirl

Sorry if I missed anyone!