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A poem I wrote at 1am a while ago ‘bout chronic illness and things:

I conduct myself

with the appearance of someone preparing to fall.

Up and down

don’t make much sense

up here.

Weightless

floating in the sun’s orbit.

When my bones first filled with chickweed

I left the ground.

The air became thin

fossils emerged from my veins

calcified in my heart.

My skull is now

A ricochet of porcelain.

Limbs carried onward

By hummingbirds.

My body became a garden

Of the most tangle-bricked design

Falling is like reaching for heaven:

Down is up

Right is left

Pain is home

Chickweed

Is made of stars.

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Hey, remember the very helpful balloon gronkle from how to speak dragonese? Remember how Horrorcow is a gentle soul? You ever get the idea that Toothless' speech about dragons being selfish and heartless might just have been his upbringing via abusive parents or none present at all?

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Always listen, he'll never lead you astray...

No little Viking boy, don’t listen to the dragon on your shoulder

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I’m still trying to get my head wrapped around the book and new drawings. I still get excited every time I think about it and the thing she (Cressida Cowell) said at the very end (for those of you who still haven’t read it please do).

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Dooble <3

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My fav Hiccups in chronological order

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I have not been posting on here because I am incredibly swamped with uni work and regular work, so have a quick doodle of Toothless saying “your mom” in Dragonese

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what if Heroes of Olympus was illustrated…..?

this is my official pitch to Disney btw

(I used auto generated text on the pages, it is not meant to be read!)

take a look at my pjo version here

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I’ve not been well over the holidays so decided to mock up how i’d illustrate PJO instead lol - all in lorem ipsum so I don’t get in trouble with the big mouse!

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a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

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Lil Fish boy warmup. I’m out of practice!

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i'm having trouble drawing so i... wrote a poem about the burning maze instead. i know it's a little unconventional as far as fanwork goes, but i've never worked harder on anything in my life so i hope you enjoy! the sun trio oooh the sun trio...

(in case you are unfamiliar with this format, this is a contrapuntal poem: you can read it as three separate poems, or as one big poem, left to right as you normally would and ignoring the breaks)

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Jorge you are a blessing to this world, I love the Ithaca Saga soooo much!!! ❤️

I can’t stop thinking of Athena in I Can't Help but Wonder as Odysseus hallucinating, thinking she is still there with him. So feel free to join me in the pain :)

"You might live forever, so you can make it be" 😭😭😭

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Just you wait...

I’ve read like… 1 and a half of the HTTYD books and HOLY MOONS I LOVE THESE TWO

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Someone suggested I draw a dragon decorating a Christmas tree :)

I don't think there was Snoggletog in the books, but the Norse mythology book we have says it was traditional to roll a flaming wheel down a hill, so that's cool

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Redesigned my beloved Anxious Horse

No wings because I can't be assed to draw Feathered wings right now, but they are shaped like a Falcons :]

Anyway! I kept the same colour palette and markings as I had in my original design since I literally can not imagine them any other way in that regard. Beyond that, I changed the shape of their head a bit, removed their horns, gave them whiskers and bigger, more expressive ears, and made them fuzzy.

Bonus doodles + colour palette

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I really love the way you've thought through all these designs and their details! This is beautiful :)

So yeah, how to train your dragon is a big deal to me. I'm not going to watch the live action movie grrghhhhg

Here’s some design stuff? Headcanons?

I my head toothless is literally just that weird anchovie as a dragon. He buzzes around like a bug, and his species intentionally mimics common or gardens as a part of their life cycle on land. The only things that mark him out from the bazillion actual common garden subspecies are the blue wings and webbed feet. He looks all big headed and has no teeth because relative to that 1000 year life span, he’s just a fish fry.

Speaking of common or garden browns, I think it’d be funny if Horrorcow actually *was* herbivorous or mostly-herbivorous because that’s just what subspecies she was and the humans just can’t tell the difference because ’it’s a dragon it must eat meat duh’ and they lump all them together. Honestly it’s prolly for the best she peaces out to the caves for a bit, girl is not built for being in that close proximity to a Main Character.

Fireworm is just a bully, Rottweiler sized and classically dragonish. I tried not to think about making them all super realistic or thinking about how all their species could be related because the books don’t really do that super in depth and that’s part of the fun, so she just looks like a dragon (tm) even though the term dragon also covers things that have fur, or feathers, or produce milk, and look vastly different, Her claws are retractable and her leg spurs help fight off other monstrous nightmares. It’s so funny to me that she just immediately defects to the rebellion, it’s so in character even though she seems to have at least sorta vibed with snot.

I really liked drawing Stormfly as a kid, and the fact that she’s dragon meowth/ can just speak Norse because she can is also fun. She’s not feathery, those are like. Skin flaps or something that can move and change color. Very squirmy.

Windwalker is also one of my faves, I’m sad we didn’t get to see the metamorphosis but the mystery of it is also fun. It was also nice to see him start talking again after meeting hiccup. His ability to out-altitude other dragons is his species’ general hunting strategy and eventually his wings will straighten out (but his are in particularly bad shape because of his time working in the enclosed tunnels of the mines.) (Btw it's still crazy to me that dragon and human slavery is just a thing in the books and we just have to deal with it)

Wodensfang is that classic shriveled Old Man. I think that over time, they molt off their size (through literally freezing up, shrinking a little in a shell of their skin, melting bones and muscle and then coming out smaller, like the reverse of shedding skin to get bigger. Just don't think about it too hard, magic is basically canon here ) over time and leave the ocean to leave more room for the whippersnappers who are just coming in from the land. He’s missing most of his teeth, but the envenomed fangs still work.

I also have the book of dragons, it’d be fun to one day go through and draw all of them (I’ve already done that but those were on notebook paper and lost to time)