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Gonna need everyone to go rewatch the beginning of Gift of the Night Fury because this exchange between Hiccup and Toothless where Hiccup imitates dragon noises is the cutest goddamn thing I've ever seen.

Look at this little nerd and his adorable dragon.

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‘There he acknowledged the wild applause with solemn bows to the right and left, slightly spoiling his dignity with the odd “Cock-a-doodle-doo!” of smug self congratulation.’

YAY ive finished reading book 1!! i had so much fun reading it

I’ve just started reading book 2 but this time ill take my time cause i actually don’t want to finish reading it so soon lmao😭😭

anyways hope you guys like this toothless and hiccup drawing i made, have a great day!

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BeholLD MY TINKER HICCUP FAIRY DESIGN!!

Been having this on my head for a whilee and really wanted to give the desing a go. Why? I don't know, but a Neverland au sure it's fucking cool

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Tried to redesign the riders to be a little more believable? … as in convincing but not historically accurate? Tried taking the ac:Valhalla approach, I think they look kinda cool (pls ignore hiccup he was my test & I can’t get him to look any better but this is more abt design than polish I guess)

The helmets were kind of a nightmare and irl Viking’s defo wouldn’t wear any of those designs but I wanted it to still feel like their helmets. Snotlout esp needed his horns they’re too cute I’m sorry.

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Okay I’m not 100% happy with this, but I don’t think it was going to get much better. It’s off my mind now I can finally move on to other things.

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I like to think hiccup IS a good fighter

But he isn't fight like a traditional viking, he fight thinking in all. As a strategist, and this is partly thanks to Stoic, who clearly raised him as a future leader and chief of the tribe. I think this, combined with his innate intelligence, gives him almost a gift for guiding, directing, and commanding.

The group asks him to train with them, and it's both rewarding and frustrating. Because they never know what to expect from him. The only signal he gives them is "anything is allowed except killing or seriously wounding," and while the twins, for example, are resourceful in certain ways, no one can completely keep up with him. Even their father pauses to think for a moment about what just happened.

I think Berk is also partly grateful that a) Hiccup is someone peaceful, doesn't look for trouble for others, and doesn't actively want to hurt anyone with pranks like the rest. And b) that he's such a good person that his friend the Night Fury isn't used as revenge. The people of Berk started to value their lives a little after seeing him fight seriously against his friends. It's like they started to think about how bad they had been before the Red Death...

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To fool and gossip around, friendship 🫂

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The sillies in college au. Hiccup and camicazi have their fencing kits with them and fishlegs has a guitar. Hiccup is a natural history major, and I haven’t quite figured out what the other two are. Fishlegs writes poetry, maybe he’s an English or music major. I don’t know why they’d be matching outfits but it’s cute. Oh and toothless is a cat.

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Some dooples on just some of my favorite characters

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snotlouts snotlouts oi oi oi!!

i think I'm getting more comfortable drawing different faces and stuff ☺️☺️

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Have I already posted something like this? Yes. Am I gonna do this anyway? Also yes.

*clears throat*

Reasons why you should read the How To Train Your Dragon books if you haven't already (regardless of whether or not you're a fan of the movies)

The drawings throughout the books can range from being silly little doodles one moment to unforgettable portrayals of some of the most intense scenes in fiction you'll ever read.

Toothless is A Baby (and a bit of an asshole, but in the same way that a cat is an asshole).

Hiccup can verbally communicate with dragons, and the dragon language is canonically composed out of absolute nonsense

Fishlegs is ten times more important to the story due to being Hiccup's best friend, and he also has an incredibly lovely arc of his own.

Speaking of arcs, Hiccup's arc throughout the series is a beautiful portrayal of a misfit becoming a hero in his own way and advocating for the rejection of all of the flawed ideals that his ancestors put into place.

Seriously, this is a book series about choosing to be intelligent, imaginative, and empathetic in a society that wants you to be the opposite of all of that.

While Astrid is great, Camicazi---the character who was probably her jumping-off point, since they both have a dragon named Stormfly---is a feral gremlin of a girl who we should all aspire to be (also, as far as I can recall, there's never any hints of there being something romantic between her and Hiccup, or her and Fishlegs---it's just a great platonic friendship between the three of them, which is a win for me personally).

Alvin the fucking Treacherous. This, to me, is something that the movies absolutely should've added, because he is one of the best goddamn villains... ever. I genuinely cannot think of any other piece of media that shows the main antagonist developing side-by-side alongside the hero, becoming a worse and worse threat as the story gets darker and the stakes get higher, but my god did it rewire my mind as a kid... and for spoilers, that's all I'll say about it!

The dragon designs are the. Most. Fun. Every single kind of dragon in this series is unique, memorable, and more often than not, really hammers in the fact that "dragon" is a word that encompasses a vast number of traits---really, it just means a creature that's weird and somewhat reptillian, and these books take that concept and run. With. It.

THE LORE AND FORESHADOWING IS FUCKING LEGENDARY. If I go into any detail, I will spoil so much, but let it be known that if you're writing a story, and you want to work in foreshadowing and big reveals in both a mystery and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it fashion, these books are a masterclass in how to do it. Loose threads that you don't even know existed will be woven in right when you least expect it.

Honestly... I don't think it's too much of a stretch to compare How To Train Your Dragon to Adventure Time, because their way of storytelling is similar in all the best ways. Yes, at first, it leans more on the comedic side of things, but as you delve further into the story, it unfolds into a truly fascinating epic about growing up and what it means to be a hero... and it also gets very, very dark. I'm not exaggerating when I say that some parts of the later books gave me nightmares, and I loved every second of it.

Big fucking kaiju sea dragons with eyes that shoot lightning what more could you WANT

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a Hero fights forever!

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"be nice!" Hiccup says to Toothless in Dragonese.

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the crossover we all need!!!

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Tuffnut is definitely the Gobber to Hiccup's Stoick.