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the heart doesn't die so easily!

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Another silly post-it note doodle of Toothless being the adorable pest that he is.

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Furious and hiccup II , I love them

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I've been slowly making my way through the httyd books. and I've only got a few pages of book 11 left. but- NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT SNOTLOUT??? LIKE??? he's just a boy!!!!

HES JUST !!!!!!!!!! god. snotlouts death just breaks my heart every time. book 11 is such a drastic recontextualising of snotlouts behaviour and it really emphasises how much hiccup has had to grow up and how quickly. snotlout doesn't hold any power over him any more, or respect, or ability in any way. in book 1 he was like - well i wouldn't call him a major antagonist next to *gestures at the green death* but baby 10 year old hiccup spent a lot of time worrying about him. snotlout was the dickish older cousin for so long and in book 11 it just. it means nothing. snotlout becomes more than just what he did to hiccup, because hiccup's got much, MUCH bigger problems. and where does that leave them?

all we have left is the sum of snotlout's actions, and it isn't a very nice sum at all, and we get to see just how devastating his behaviour is on even himself, becuase he isnt a bully caricature hes a person too!!!!!! we might not have clocked it even with the message that these books hammer in time and time again, but hes a person too. beyond what he's done. becuase of it.

it doesnt seem like much next to hiccup, who throughout all 12 books is one of the kindest protagonists ive ever read, but snotlout is just a kid HIMSELF. like he literally. god. i'm all choked up. he's like. sixteen. he's a kid. he's a kid who won a medal for bravery one day from his teachers and carried it around for years. a kid who took it upon himself to carry on the values of the elders he idolised, instead of challenging them like hiccup did, and GOD. they were so wrong. and it broke him. when i think about the fact that by COMITTING TO THAT DIVERSION AND TAKING THE DRAGONMARK HE WAS TAKING ON HICCUPS' VALUES INSTEAD OF THE ONES HE'D GROWN UP WITH?? WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE RESPECT HE IMPLIES WITH THOSE FINAL ACTIONS? RESPECT IT MUST HAVE SEEMED LUDICROUS TO GIVE TO HICCUP EARLIER, HICCUP WHO HIS WHOLE LIFE WAS HIS INFERIOR?? SNOTLOUT?????

when i think about grimbeard the ghastlys last song. he was raised on the same myths hiccup was, after all. the same chants and stories. they were cousins. grimbeard the ghastlys last song... its like winning the black star all over again, only this time the honour he's fighting in is hiccup's, and his black star will be a death that lets hiccup live. god. snoutlout was never born to lead, was he? we should have seen this coming right from the start.

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Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell?

Somewhere around here, I reckon

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We need etsy to get bought by someone who will run it like the navy i need to only see small businesses in eastern europe weaving baskets by hand and anime yaoi keychains with original fanart

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The Gruffalo

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so. erm. tonight on Unpopular Opinions with Rags: I think.... well, tbh it makes me sad how many people disagree with the ending to The Wingfeather Saga. Not just dislike. (See my blog history, you are allowed to dislike things lol.) But to disagree. To think it should have gone another way. That the author lost sight of the story or whatever. I think maybe this says more about the audience's expectation of the story than anything else.

Is the ending a neat and tidy, "and they all lived happily ever after" resolution? No. Does it very clearly echo and continue and press into the reader's heart all the themes the author clearly implanted in the series from the beginning, realizing all the character arcs as they were presented to us? Yes. ((...Did the author write the book and then have it tragically lost in a computer meltdown and have to rewrite it from essentially scratch and maybe certain ways things led from one to another that might have felt more organic in that early draft than the finished product contribute to this reaction by fans? Maybe. And maybe not. First drafts are terrible anyways.))

I didn't like the ending at first. It didn't fit the molds and tropes and expectations I had, but I realized those expectations were outside ones I had brought to the story and very definitely not false expectations given to me by the narrative itself. There is no gotcha or ill-fitting ending here. It is, by most measures, the ending we should have expected and wanted, based on all the author's writing of the previous books. It just isn't the normal ending we are used to, particularly by modern storytelling expectations. And that's okay. It's okay to recognize the subversion, to say "oh that isn't what I expected/wanted." But I think it's entirely unfair to suggest that the ending was in anyway incorrect.

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"His Heart Beats" by Andrew Peterson

I love this song, as well as Andrew Peterson's other songs and work, such as the book series The Wingfeather Saga, which I've been rereading recently. The Wingfeather Saga has also recently been made into an animated series, though I do not know anything about that.

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(!! Httyd book 9 spoiler !!)

Excuse me barmaid ! I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring.

I ordered an extra useless boy with boney arms, extra embarrassment and pathetic on the side!

This here, this is a talking aura

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Whenever someone starts reading the httyd books for the first time I start drawing so here we are

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Come here old guy we're friends now

This poor boy holds the weight of the world on his shoulders 😭

He's doing his best

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Procrastinating doodle.

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He’s just a little guy!!

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Part four :)

<<FIRST<< <PREVIOUS< I finally did the thing! Oh and cami and fishlegs will show up pretty soon so you can look forward to that.

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part 3

<<FIRST<< <PREVIOUS < >NEXT>

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to the glistening eastern sea (4/4)