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It’s also possible that this was to an extent a one sided relationship.

Like an adult dragon spoke to toothless like three times and he was like ‘yes this is my mother now’.

It does seem even among the wild dragon cliff dragons who don’t seem to care very much when their hatchlings get kidnapped, toothless is pretty isolated and sleeps alone et cetera, so I get the feeling he doesn’t really have a standard dragon family.

But at the same time toothless attaches strongly to hiccup fast - and he seems to see it much more like ‘you are my weird older brother and I indulge your weird human customs’ rather than ‘I listen to you because you give me food’.

Which is partially because of how Hiccup treats him but I do wonder if maybe toothless just does this.

Are Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus nest parasites?

Toothless talks about his mother teaching him things but never mentions that she is really huge. Teaching survival skills to a tiny infant is hard when you are orders of magnitude bigger. Are Seadragons common/garden mimics that switch an egg out for their own? Or do Seadragon babies provide some kind of benefit for raising them? (Like geriatric care, idk.) I kind of doubt a dragon could be "tricked" into believing the egg is their own, they're much more intelligent than say... warblers.

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so sad. so sad they're confirmed monogamous

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Fuck

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unfortunately the awful little freak everyone hates has saved the world so now we all have to try to be nice

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vampire failgirl whose always tired, has trouble standing up without fainting, and has really bad eye bags. she's always asking her roommate for blood because going out to the closest blood bank is too hard. when she drinks she keeps saying thank you thank you thank you thank you. her roommate keeps her muzzled

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(!! Httyd book 7 spoiler !!)

Okay..wow, that went deeper than I thought it would be.

Usually the epilogue after the story would be some additional details and notes old Hiccup would make. But that was completely a whole different thing.

Cressida was spitting facts at you, at kings and leaders of the world, and at their people. You don't need another land to build a better life on it, because the problem is not the old land, it's who lives on it. It would indeed be easier for Hiccup to turn a blind eye on all the treachery, the unfairness, the cruelty of his own society. In fact we would all find it easier, but we can't hope for the world to change itself, we should make an effort, fight for what is right and have the will to make a difference. Even if the result wouldn't show in our generation, we would be closer to it than before we started, and the generations ahead would do the same thing after us. But they can't make a change if we give them nothing to work with in the first place.

I love the way this series is heading towards.

(also if I hear one more thing about Alvin the Treacherous I'm CRASHING OUT. The best condition this man could be in is the old worm from SpongeBob that loathes chocolate)

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I feel like i am unable to express into words how important the HTTYD books are for me and what an fantastical experience it was to grow up with the characters, so instead i will express my feelings by talking about my first time reading the last books, How to Fight a Dragon's Fury.

For context, i read book 11 before book 12 was published and i didn't knew when book 12 would come out, i didn't look in the internet or anything. I only found out the publication of book 12 when i saw it in the shopping mall bookstore. Me and my dad where about to exit the mall when i decided to visit the bookstore, i went straight to the children's and youth section i saw a big display in a table to a new book with a turquoise cover. Surrounded by other children, I approached the table so I could see the cover of the book, the first thing that caught my attention was the gigantic reptilian eye, then i noticed the name right above : Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III.

Recognizing that this was the long-awaited conclusion to my favorite series, I nearly screamed in the middle of the bookstore before picking up the book and begging my dad to buy it. He bought it and I was so excited to find out what happened that I started reading it in the car, even though I have severe motion sickness when i am in a vehicle and not looking directly at the windows. When I got home I just read, non-stop, because I needed to know what was going to happen to Hiccup and Toothless. I started reading in the middle of the afternoon and when it was 2 in the morning my mother came back from a Carnaval party and noticed the lights of my room were still on, she opened the door and found me lying on my bed in the fetal position crying desperately. I had finished the book, but I felt like my childhood had ended with it and I felt so much pain saying goodbye to the characters I had followed for so long. These feelings, along with the grief I felt for Furious and that beautifully written epilogue made me burst into tears, but I didn't feel bitterness or frustration, the ending was perfect, the message was perfect.

To this day i say that How to Fight a Dragon's Fury is one of if not my favorite book, because even though I've grown up and read many wonderful works since then, nothing will ever stay with me more than the story of a little Viking who had to become a hero the hard way.

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"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third my aromantic son

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I love how these are from an Unreality subreddit but to my eye they just read like regular Tumblr shitposts. Did we cross-pollinate or something

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ehhhhhh who cares anymore, post oc content

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if you like it, PLEASE REBLOG IT

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Also Cowell has such a beautiful way with words, and mixes hope and tragedy together in a way that always fits the tone she’s going for like - hats off.

And the epilogues!! Like you finish the main story and think ‘what a fun collection of hi-jinks and clever deeds of daring-do’ and you read the epilogue and it’s like ‘teehee this whole story was actually a highly poignant thesis on the human condition and growing up that will stick with you for the rest of your life. Get jumpscared loser, cry about it.’ And then you do.

Example (Spoilers):

‘Huh he never actually landed on the strange new country, okay then’

*Reads Epilogue*

OH

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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Glad we see eye to eye...even if its for different reasons

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it’s as if jenny holzer is sitting in the oval office

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Care for a drink?