#leave httyd alone

[sweetmoonbeam17]

also every time I re-watch the first movie I always make myself laugh thinking about how fast astrid got to hiccup after he wakes up at the end of the movie. because it's either

a) astrid's house is not that far from his

or the funnier and more superior b) she lives across the island but heard the crowd forming and she morphed through her wall, ran 100mph & shoved aside every viking in her way

[neytui]

Hi if you're still taking requests, literally anything from your sun Hiccup thing. You added Crane Wives lyrics to one of the drawings and it hasn't left my mind since

I got carried away my bad

I dont know if this count for sun concept? but sun Hiccup thingy kinda

[screenshotsonpinterest]

I’m torn because I don’t want a live action httyd per say, because I don’t believe live action is the final form for all stories and the movies we have are amazing but I’ve just got to say

LOOK AT HER

Look at the shape of her jaw and her big green eyes what do you MEAN she doesn’t look like Astrid look at her for a goddamn minute she’s got about as close to a cartoon face as a real person can have

Astrid’s voice actor wasn’t white, dragons aren’t real I don’t want to HEAR IT ANYMORE I’m sick of the thinly veiled racism hiding behind pretending to know shit about Scandinavia

[futurealchemy]

with the amount of times hiccup has had dragons scream directly in his ears at a very close distance, it would be surprising if his hearing wasn’t at least a little impaired honestly.

[royaltea000]

I finally watched Gift of the Night Fury and I gotta say this is my favorite characterization of Astrid ever. Like I have no hate against her she’s always just been a yeah she’s cool kinda character to me but her being so optimistic in gotnf bordering on manic is so good to me. Her trying her best to forcefully bring cheer during sad times is so entertaining and gives her the chaotic touch that I always felt her character was missing. And those moments when it’s apparent that she’s really bad at comforting people sometimes is so funny to me it makes her feel a little more real.

Also I think the art style really helped I don’t know how to explain it other than it feels like they syringe fed like two tiny droplets of Tim Burton into it - it gives all the characters a slightly insane look in their eyes favorite animation style for em yet <3

[freevoidman]

I don't want to condemn or encourage the live action HTTYD movie off of one image (well, technically a couple bc of leaks, but... you know what I mean)... but man I'm so tired of live action remakes.

[useless-moss]

Premise: Viggo falling so hard for Hiccup because Hiccup was the first person to ever show him a sliver of genuine kindness.

Just... Just hear me out.

Viggo is a hunter. He's shown to be manipulative, scheming, cruel, and most of all smart throughout the show. He makes himself known as a man who most people seem to fear even talking about. The Grimborn's, in general, seem to have that reputation.

This means Viggo probably grew up like that. He likely grew up with 'allies' that he always needed to keep an eye on. A "trust no one, never turn your back, and never be vulnerable" kind of mentality. Every enemy Viggo has dealt with in the past probably shamelessly, openly, tried to kill him. Some might have even gotten close to succeeding.

And then he finds himself at war with an up incoming chief who rides a night fury, but who won't actively kill. He meets this man who tries to compromise. To make deals, to talk. Who will actively command his dragon and team to hold their fire. Viggo meets a man who doesn't fear him, who doesn't outright hate him, and who repeatedly tries to show mercy and extend an olive branch despite Viggo being stubborn and cruel and damn near sadistic at some points.

For the first time in his life, Viggo met someone he could try and feel safe around. Someone he could attempt to be open with. And he doesn't know how to react to this.

[countlessofvoids]

You hate the third movie because you can't stand endings that aren't "and they lived happily ever after". I hate the third movie because it actively destroys the first movie's message in favor of a lazy "humans bad, animals good" narrative and fumbles every interesting idea it presents. We are not the same.

[physalian]

HTTYD to get a live-action remake. Yay.....

Gettin' real sick and tired of this "animation is inferior" bullshit. I'm sorry but the original film is gorgeous and this Toothless looks sickly, not cute. It's not the artists' fault, I know, but goddamn. Enough with the shameless cash grab remakes. Enough with the shot-for-shot reproductions.

It's like they just copy-pasted Toothless's rigging into this high-def version of him. What even is the point? Hiccup looks like he's wearing (very well done) Hiccup cosplay.

Animation is not inferior. It does not need "fixing" and is not always transferable to a live action format. The larger-than-life colors and expressions and fantasy of both Dreamworks and Disney movies is part of what makes them timeless. Dreamworks' giant moon in the backdrop of so many of their films is iconic.

Just make new movies damn it. Tell new stories. It doesn't matter if this movie is, by itself, inoffensive once it releases. It does not need to exist. There is no justification.

If you want to make a live action HTTYD, the original books and original character designs and stories are right there for the taking.

Leave 2010 Toothless alone.

[wickedcriminal]

 So if Big Tooth is considered the elders twin from another species. Does that make a little tooth?

Little Tooth is Minicup's self-proclaimed baby child 😂 Baby Toothless is like a stray cat, see. He just planted himself on Minicup's shoulder one day and decided that was where he was Going To Stay from now on, whether anyone liked it or not

[sadfilmbro]

i truly dngaf about the live action how to train your dragon casting discourse, but i need y’all to know that saying “i have no problem with astrid’s actress, but i hate who they cast as ruffnut” is not the woke take you think it is.

[screenshotsonpinterest]

I am dangerously deep into HTTYD fanfic and I just want to know which one of you heathens decided that Astrid needs to go through hell for any experience even remotely related to motherhood

[headfullof-ideas]

Wartihog has SOME girls he won’t flirt with for…varying reasons.

[westwiiind]

“rahh they shouldn’t have sent the dragons away for their own safety! they were giving up and admitting defeat! they can easily take any threat!” first off, no they can’t, hiccup basically fell to his death like two seconds before sending the dragons away, and the year before that the fight over dragons cost him his father and berk its chief, not to mention how many homes were destroyed and how many ppl were hurt in both the second and third movies. drago’s bewilderbeast’s ice destroyed the village. grimmel burned it down a year later. that kind of perpetuity of violence is so irresponsible for a leader to allow to continue indefinitely???? just bc “we can win though probably!” ?????? things are different in the earlier movies and tv shows BC THEY SHOW THE PROGRESSION OF VIOLENCE. after the first battle, they’re not gonna give up trying. after the third battle, they’re not gonna give up trying. after six YEARS of trying to change the world for the better (and the TWENTY YEARS hiccup knows valka spent trying to do the same thing), only to find that his island of people and dragons is in just as much (or really, even more) danger than before? yeah, excuse them for maybe considering “giving up.” in the first two movies and the shows, they hadn’t lost enough for it all to amount to such a drastic decision. by the time of thw, they had lost so much, and u guys apparently can’t comprehend the toll that takes. hiccup’s goal was always to protect dragons. how is leaving them vulnerable protecting them???? how is letting them continuously battle for their lives protecting them??? do u guys think these ppl and dragons have an endless battery for war and violence?????? the point was that violence was unavoidable, and no good leader of humans or dragons would let that continue even if there’s a noble cause.

[bcyoureallthatmakessense]

BEGGING for them to stop making live action shows out of animated shows and beloved book series 😭

[incorrect-thuggory-quotes]

Thuggory: The Sharkworms are becoming quite the pest, aren't they? We should probably thin their numbers out. Hmm... should we have a Sharkworm Fishing N' Hunting Competition?