#httyd brainrot

[saturnniidae]

I love the idea of Hiccup being plagued with guilt whenever he's not able to bond with a dragon or has to fight one (despite it often being self defense he has no choice in). Like, the whole thing with the skrill probably weighed on him for years until they caught it again and he chose to release it.

[botan-kiri]

I HAVE HTTYD BRAINROT!!!

HELP

I HAVE FUZZY BRAIN AND I WANT TO LET IT OUT BUT IDK HOW

[rosiethedragongeek]

I can't stop thinking about how Hiccup and Toothless' relationship is built on trust and has been built on trust the whole time. But more than that, it was built on trust from their very first scene.

Hiccup holds Toothless' life in his hands and he chooses to let him go, even though Toothless could very well (and might) kill him.

Toothless then has the power and he could easily kill Hiccup. He probably considers it just like Hiccup did, but he responds to Hiccup's kindness with kindness of his own, and he lets him live.

So when Hiccup goes down into the cove, there is already a tentative understanding between them that neither means to bring the other any harm. You have spared me, I have spared you, we are equal.

But both are still wary.

So Hiccup makes a decision to trust Toothless with his life again when he throws the knife into the lake. Not that the knife would have protected him much from Toothless, but it is presumably the same weapon that Hiccup would have taken his life with to begin with, and it's more about what it represents. So Hiccup gives the power in the situation over to Toothless when he throws the knife away. Now that Toothless doesn't see Hiccup as a threat to him, he calms down.

Toothless trusts Hiccup when he eats the fish Hiccup brought with him the first time, and the basket of fish the next time. Eventually, both of them are relaxed. Hiccup can just sit on a stump and draw in the dirt, Toothless can nap, there is no worry that one will kill the other. There is mutual trust.

They bond, Toothless shares his fish, Hiccup smiles (which Toothless clearly understands to some extent bc he smiles back), Toothless draws, Hiccup plays along w Toothless' game, until finally Hiccup decides to reach out to touch him.

He tried before, when Toothless was resting in the sun, but that didn't go very far, bc Toothless didn't trust him. But NOW, things have changed. They have spent enough time together that Toothless is less wary. But not entirely.

Hiccup sees this, that he is asking for trust from Toothless, so he puts his trust in Toothless first. He closes his eyes and turns away, and just like that, Hiccup once again shifts the power from himself to Toothless. (Cutting the ropes, throwing the knife). And so Toothless trusts him.

[sboochi]

Let's blur the line

[sukiiwake]

The new httyd trailer pulled me out of art block😮‍💨 I missed drawings branch, I’ve been making some arcane fanart on the side which has been taking up some of my trolls time. They are constantly in the back of my mind though that’s for sure!!

[mrsnaildood]

Hopefully it's still February 29th somewhere in the world :] Happy Birthday, beloved Hiccup

[b1asho]

So yeah, how to train your dragon is a big deal to me. I'm not going to watch the live action movie grrghhhhg

Here’s some design stuff? Headcanons?

I my head toothless is literally just that weird anchovie as a dragon. He buzzes around like a bug, and his species intentionally mimics common or gardens as a part of their life cycle on land. The only things that mark him out from the bazillion actual common garden subspecies are the blue wings and webbed feet. He looks all big headed and has no teeth because relative to that 1000 year life span, he’s just a fish fry.

Speaking of common or garden browns, I think it’d be funny if Horrorcow actually *was* herbivorous or mostly-herbivorous because that’s just what subspecies she was and the humans just can’t tell the difference because ’it’s a dragon it must eat meat duh’ and they lump all them together. Honestly it’s prolly for the best she peaces out to the caves for a bit, girl is not built for being in that close proximity to a Main Character.

Fireworm is just a bully, Rottweiler sized and classically dragonish. I tried not to think about making them all super realistic or thinking about how all their species could be related because the books don’t really do that super in depth and that’s part of the fun, so she just looks like a dragon (tm) even though the term dragon also covers things that have fur, or feathers, or produce milk, and look vastly different, Her claws are retractable and her leg spurs help fight off other monstrous nightmares. It’s so funny to me that she just immediately defects to the rebellion, it’s so in character even though she seems to have at least sorta vibed with snot.

I really liked drawing Stormfly as a kid, and the fact that she’s dragon meowth/ can just speak Norse because she can is also fun. She’s not feathery, those are like. Skin flaps or something that can move and change color. Very squirmy.

Windwalker is also one of my faves, I’m sad we didn’t get to see the metamorphosis but the mystery of it is also fun. It was also nice to see him start talking again after meeting hiccup. His ability to out-altitude other dragons is his species’ general hunting strategy and eventually his wings will straighten out (but his are in particularly bad shape because of his time working in the enclosed tunnels of the mines.) (Btw it's still crazy to me that dragon and human slavery is just a thing in the books and we just have to deal with it)

Wodensfang is that classic shriveled Old Man. I think that over time, they molt off their size (through literally freezing up, shrinking a little in a shell of their skin, melting bones and muscle and then coming out smaller, like the reverse of shedding skin to get bigger. Just don't think about it too hard, magic is basically canon here ) over time and leave the ocean to leave more room for the whippersnappers who are just coming in from the land. He’s missing most of his teeth, but the envenomed fangs still work.

I also have the book of dragons, it’d be fun to one day go through and draw all of them (I’ve already done that but those were on notebook paper and lost to time)

[ash-and-starlight]

divorced zukka + “you’re just as beautiful as the day i lost you” scene from httyd. is this anything.

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

Hiccup disguised as a Sunfire elf for the Dragon Prince au.

(He's doing totally legal things that don't involve protecting and releasing dragons and keeping them from getting killed)

first part of the Dragon Prince au

[sanfangirl-cynicalromantic]

“Now, go talk to them,” Astrid nudged Hiccup forward. He turned to her incredulously.

“What? Why?”

“You’re good at talking to people.”

“Uh, no I’m not. I’m an antisocial introvert.”

“An introvert who knows how to get along with people, unlike me.”

“I can’t talk to a peer!”

“Hush. They’re a stranger. You’re great at talking to strangers you’ll never see again. Your conversation is only pathetic when you’re trying to make friends.”

“Gee, thanks.”

(High school au in which Astrid is on the newspaper but doesn't like to conduct interviews, so she forces her good friend Hiccup to do them for her.)

[fairielux]

hiccstrid 🤝 zelink

best t4t couples

[saturnniidae]

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

"It wasn't your fault, Bud. They made you do it. You'd never hurt him. You'd never hurt me"

[000marie198]

My brother just asked me "What does 'S' stand for?" regarding something particular and without even paying attention I automatically responded, "Snotlout"

[rosiethedragongeek]

I love the fact that Hiccup has a whole little speech that he periodically gives Astrid to remind her that the twins serve a purpose like what else does he have to constantly remind them of

The 'Snotlout is clearly going through something rn just let him be stupid' speech

The 'Stop telling Tuffnut you're gonna eat Chicken, I can only handle him sobbing in my hut for so long' speech

The 'Stop jumping out at Fishlegs at night' speech

The 'Don't interrupt Astrid while she's throwing axes bc I can't save you' speech

The 'No you CANNOT shove the dragon eye up your ass no matter HOW MUCH you want to see if the projection scome outof your mouth' speech (that one's mostly for Tuffnut)

[sboochi]

Last week I watched Ladyhawke for the first time

[multifandom-nerds-blog]

There are so many httyd post on my feed lately. I feel like Tumblr wants me to rewatch race to the edge.