#how to basic training your dragon

[otiksimr]

Blanc

[snekky-arts]

if you saw me post a version of this a few days ago no you didn't

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[tharkflark1]

im a hater through and through and Stormfly is done NO BETTER than the other dragons!!! I hate this shit dawg ;0;

[bberry005]

cousins (post rtte vs pre httyd 1)

[pixiatn]

Ngl, if Hollywood actually gave a shit, they would just fucking buckle up and make a Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons movie

[lex-crow]

For an au I probably won’t write

Heather: I don’t want hiccup to die.

Heather: You don’t want hiccup to die.

Heather: Now we just gotta make sure hiccup doesn’t want hiccup to die.

Eret: amazing plan but have you met him.

[of-fandoms]

So I looked at the live action nadder and thought “not bad but also not great”

Then I looked at all the nadder designs we got over the years: the original, the animatronic and the live action. Specifically their heads

And that made me realize what I find so off-putting about the new one:

The mouth is less beak like, the horn on the nose is *massive* for some reason and the horns on stormfly‘s head are smaller and also just slightly curved. Which yeah, not a big deal, but it just...wasn't hitting the way the original design did for me. So I tried to make my own version of what I'd make the live action version look like (although this is just like a base concept, so not as spiky, or colored accurately and stuff; it's more about the general look):

I wanted to keep the beak but...gotta give it to the live action, it just didn't work out. I did like the bigger nose horn *however* i would have made it more similar to the animatronic's. I also would have kept the larger horns on the head, they make the dragon look far more imposing in my opinion. Also bigger nostrils. These are tracker class dragons for fucks sake, make them look like it! And something that annoys me on all of the live action designs: the teeth. I don't care if it's "unrealistic", these are dragons! All the dragons have these small teeth and i really wish they had kept at least some of them bigger, even if it's just for the look of it

[cryptidstealingyourcreditcard]

i feel like we as fanfic writers don’t take advantage of the fact that tuffnut canonically has a bad eye nearly enough

[neytui]

Heyyyy........

[ominousgradient]

Tried my hand at making the main dragons as Palicos

Toothless:

Hookfang:

Meatlug:

Barf & Belch (just pretend they're twins)

Stormfly:

[thethreegoblins]

[P] Stormfly

One more dragon for the soul ✨

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[vaguely-concerned]

walking through lucanis' mind prison. the tam lin of it all

[otwdfanfic]

Jakk Frostbeard, son of Smulder Frostbeard, chief of Chilblain

[bluejulius]

soooo I answered an ask about him earlier but I’d like to properly introduce another HTTYD OC, Jev the Jumbled (aka Jev!)

Jev lives on NoWhere, an isolated island far away from Berk. He’s mainly an inventor, a jack-of-all trades enthusiast with several doom piles of work-in-progresses in his cluttered house. He’s considered an outcast, living on the outskirts of the village in a shabby house on a hillside. His ultimate goal is to invent something that will improve peoples’ lives! (he’s not been very successful thus far) You will often find him holed up in his house, leaning over work in his assumed shrimp-posture, or testing out his experiments with the local village folk (terrorising them, unintentionally)

More about him below the cut 👇

He is best friends with Sif, who washed up on the shores of NoWhere one day. Jev was the only one in the village who helped her recover from her ordeal. Sif does lots of fetch quests and helps Jev run errands, as thanks for saving her life and giving her a home.

He has an elderly Nadder named Stoven (AKA Stove) who helps him light fires for experiments (and also insta-cooks his dinner when he forgets to eat). The village is wary of dragons but tolerates Stoven, as he is useful protection and lives with Jev on the outskirts of the village. Stoven is going blind, and so his spine shots are never accurate. Jev also uses his nadders’ shed spines as a makeshift way to put his hair up!

Jev has fibromyalgia, a condition that would not be discovered for hundreds of years. (He is based off my friend who has the same condition and came up with a lot of his character traits!) All he knows is that his joints hurt all the damn time, and he has serious fatigue spells. Jev has created a few mobility aids for himself to get around, and he helps Sif build saddles for their dragons.

[the-raccoon-in-your-walls]

The hiccup cult possessed me even though i don't have tiktok

enjoy my contributions anyways

basically what's happening on tiktok these days: ⬆️

and this thing:

[laughingwith-bluelips]

I finally got why I love so much the "dragons are gone" ending in the books while I hate it in the movies:

The books set the dragons free.

The movies simply sent them away.

That's basically the idea but I had a vision yesterday at 3am so I will be getting into detail below the cut.

The books have a very strong message about slavery. Some would say that it is a concept that is only important within the context of the last five or four books, but the ones that have been paying attention to the saga as a whole knows that there are things happening in the background. You know, stuff like

People eating dragons

People stealing dragons from their families so

The dragons can serve the vikings

And they're expected to obey because

People threaten to turn them into bags.

That's mostly the first book.

Dragons are constantly showed as unsatisfied with the status quo trough out the books, some more annoyed with the vikings than others. We have complete monologues from different dragons before the war is even a possibility. Sincerely, when it happens, it feels natural.

The idea of freeing the dragons is not one that comes up in the last book, not even close. The first time it is considered an option is in book 9 (I think), and, by the time being, we've already stablish lots of concepts as slavery within human beings, the dangers of a war, how this could lead to the end of all and freeing the dragons is the only option.

It is fatalist to say the least, but it's not going out of nowhere. There is a lot of worldbuilding (more on that later), but it is also the right thing to do. By the time Hiccup is presenting the option, Cowell has made us root for the dragons to be free and wild and do whatever they want, even if what they want is to hide under sea for thousands of years. Or if they don't want, or if the want to but just not in that moment, they can do it.

Oh, yes, because they leave GRADUALLY.

It is a sad ending, but still manages to get as satisfactory because, yet again, we know this happens and the books remind us this will happen eventually every time they can. “There were dragons when I was a boy” is literally the first phrase in the saga.

And then we got the movies.

The movies never followed the books. Like, not very much. The writers decided that they wanted to tell a story of a broken relationship between a father and a son while using dragons, the heroic and prophetic aspects of the books were getting on the way of that and they scrapped the idea. So, no, you can't tell me the movies actually follow the books.

However, if you're very technical, you know the Hiccup we see in the movies resembles Hiccup I, the one that stopped the war between vikings and dragons in the books, stablishing an equal relation between the two races. And this idea of the movies being a prequel can work for the second and specially the first movie, disregarding the fact that there are no prophetic or magical elements at all.

But THW exist and... Exist.

Suddenly the writers and producers decide that they want to follow the books and want to get rid of the dragons, something that is completely against the message of the other two movies.

(I am just talking about the movies, the shows-books relationship is very different and I will someday make a post ranting about it)

The movies do NOT talk about the dangers of dragons being with vikings or how the vikings mistreat the dragons or how bad is slavery or anything like that. The second movie does, yes, but the second movie also sends a message about how people benefit of being with dragons. They have their dragons and they're strong because of that friendship. Being at war with one another only brings loss and suffering for both bands while being together promises an actual future. A bright future that no one imagined before the first movie and that now they cling to.

Dragons and vikings are friends and together cand do basically anything.

That's a very strong message, you know?

And you know what? The third movie decided that such a strong and important message about friendship should leave the franchise completely.

“Free the dragons” it's a concept that doesn't fit with the movies. They're not slaved, they're not away from wildness and, most importantly, they CHOOSE to be with the vikings in the first place. They are already equals, they can do what they want and, you know, they are with the vikings because they want to.

But no, let's do a movie about letting friends go as if it could actually fit in the saga.

(I know it could actually fit but the execution was terrible).

As I said before, the movies resembles Hiccup I befriending dragons and we know how it ends. And someone who has never read the books will go and say "well, it was bound to end that way, why are you mad?” I tell you the difference right now: there's 1000 years of difference between the befriending and the parting in the book, 1000 years in wich we witness the deterioration of said friendship (from being friends and equals to being slaves). That's no what happens in the movies. The films give us 6 years and the only deterioration is within Toothless' character and how they made him a horny dog.

The dragons shouldn't have leave. This was a whim from the writers that thought that ending both stories the same way would be cool. It isn't. At all.

Long story short, it doesn't fit thematically. The movies and the books have different themes with different concepts and different characterizations of the dragons. While the books got story building and present the theme's since the beginning, the movies get it out of no where ignoring the themes in previous works.

Anyways, go read the books they're jewels and the ending isn't as shitty as thw make it look