#night shift dragons

[thatone-highlighter]

I love you albums. I love you songs connected by similar themes. I love you listening to songs in a specific order picked by the artist. I love you reoccurring motifs throughout the same album. I love you album covers. I love you albums with extended editions. I love you songs that reference each other.

[saturnniidae]

Headcanon: As well as the abundance of scales dragons shed, many species also lose and regrow their teeth periodically (like sharks) and it's always been tradition amongst vikings to display parts taken from dragons they killed as trophies, but now Berkians celebrate and use things dragons lose naturally. For weaponry (like how the dragon riders used shed scales for their armor) for jewelry, accessories and decoration.

Dragons have always been an integral part of Berk's culture but over the years the reasoning behind it has shifted, now they wear teeth or scales of their dragon's in pride of their beauty and the bonds they share, or for remembrance of the deceased. They put up tapestries and include them in their architecture no longer as displays of their dragon killing prowess, but in celebration of them, their nature and the peace they've made.

They're proud of their dragons, they love them and want the world to see it.

[vintagerpg]

Classic cover, classic short story collection: this is Night Shift, by Stephen King, the 1979 Signet edition. It was King’s first collection and is brimming with classics (there are plenty of clunkers, too, though even those have an unusual charm, as they display aspects of King that have since fallen away as he formalized in the years since. A lot of movies spring directly out of this one — Maximum Overdrive, Graveyard Shift, Children of the Corn and more. My faves are the duet of Jerusalem’s Lot and One for the Road, both of with extend the story of ‘Salem’s Lot.

Cover art is by Don Brautigam. I love it, though I don’t think it lines up with King’s work in a meaningful way. YMMV.

[lookitsgrim]

i haven’t drawn dragons since artfight and i was feeling that itch again so here’s my attempt to relearn the tribes starting with a rainwing and a seawing!! i want to draw the pantalan tribes next because i’m obsessed with the bright colours lol

[tmmyhug]

gdi i read too many different fics in too short a time and there’s one line from somewhere that’s jumped into my brain and attached itself like a barnacle but i can’t for the life of me remember Which of the hundreds of fics from the past few weeks it’s from but i need to find it so bad it was justice league pov of batman and it was diana ruminating on bruce and thinking that she admired his methods because despite appearances he is a gentle man. she wonders if the others have noticed. something something. the way robins cling to his cape and nest in his shadows <- that’s the line driving me crazy i don’t even have the words right I know but the imagery is impeccable i have to find it I have to find it im losing my mind ! !! all of it!!! out the window!! falls over

[kiddphel]

every day i come here and post abt fucking eustass kidd at like 3 in the morning. you can imagine the things i am going through

[spookyreader23]

Showing off my Stephen King bookshelf and collectibles for King's birthday today. I currently own 21 of his books so far. It's a growing collection, and this doesn't even show the movies and TV shows I own that are based on King's books. What's your favorite book from Stephen King? Mine are "Pet Sematary", "Later", "Carrie", "The Shining", and "Doctor Sleep".

[that-dreaming-dragon]

I’m having feelings and experiences faster and vaster but even more abstract than I could have the word for.

Having shifts that the long list of glossary I got in my hoard doesn’t match to, having identities that I barely had the terms tagged on to.

I’m fine. Everything’s fine /genuienly

Just vibing honestly. I just want to speak of my appreciation to terms that actually have meaning and the coiner took the time to really figure them out, especially niche terms.

I also equally appreciates all the umbrella term that actually does what they are suppose to.

And I’m more thankful for the community’s combined effort to keep them so, and maintain the balance. It’s hard fight, inward or outward, people trying to twist the words, misunderstanding and misinformation rampant. Yet people fight—knowledge of culture and history, preserved. People share story, gives encouragement, and opens their hearts and minds just to accept, to understand.

I know I’m all over the place. But I want to talk about many things, how I holds terms like alterhuman, nonbinary—precious. How I keep solarian, maverique, kardiatype, paratype, and all the nichier words—close to my heart.

I struggle with words, and putting my thoughts in a linear, coherent way. The terminology, the well defined with care ones, are so, so important to me.

[gedehamster]

So i work nightshifts at an amusement park hotel, half the time there isn't anything to do, so in general it's pretty nice, i work from 10 pm to 7 am, so when we reach the 5 -6 am mark i start zoning out quite a bit.

There is a giant dragon in the lobby, it just hangs out, normally it makes sounds, luckily those shut off at around 10 pm so i don't have to listen to them all night.

But, the sounds start up again about 30 minutes before i get off work, and i've noticed i now have a physical response to this dragon roar that just fills me with joy and a burst of energy ontop of my tired mind.

Like "here he is! The dragon! To save me, to take me away from this horrible place! He rings in the horns of the morning shift! Claim me! Be my prince!"

All this to say, i think it has made me crush on dragons now.

[superbeans89]

Found a wood dragon at work

[water-your-plance]

Omfg please tell me someone has done this

Like I’m absolute ass at editing, but with the balcony scene and the season 4 trailer rayla and callum moments edited to night shift... I would lose it istg

like 5:35-6:26.... I would SOB  

[draconesmundi]

btw I'm procrastinating serious science stuff to rearrange Dracones Mundi in the hopes that the new format will kickstart the project. I'm so pleased that I have all my info in a spreadsheet, I'm really excited that I'm doing some writing

[howtowhumpyourhiccup]

On These Bloodcurdling Nights

Whumptober 2022 Day 9!

Summary: Written for Whumptober 2022 Day 9. Set in my Httyd Zombie AU. It’s Astrid’s turn to keep watch at night.

Warning: Zombies, Psychological horror

Rating: Teen and Up

Characters: Astrid, Hiccup, Toothless, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut, Tuffnut

Pairing: /

Words: 728

Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon

Prompt: THE VERY NOISY NIGHT - Sleeping in Shifts | Tossing and Turning

Whumpee: Astrid, Toothless, Hiccup, Snotlout, Fishlegs

Author’s Notes: No matter how many one-shots I've written for JaK and it's continuations so far, I still find more things to write about.

Like this idea right here! I've been thinking about this concept ever since I read the prompt for today.

Constructive criticism is appreciated.

Enjoy!

AO3

Astrid shoots awake in the middle of the night, she didn’t mean to fall asleep. She woke up because Toothless roused her, he’d grabbed hold of her vest and yanked, hard, because she was nodding forward and would’ve fallen right into the fire the teens had made to keep warm tonight. It’s on the tiled floor and they left the windows open.

A little uncomfortable with this realization, she takes her chair and moves it back a little. She was sitting so close because she wanted the heat, she didn't think she would actually nod off.

Seated once more and Toothless lying back down, Astrid takes a look around the room at everyone as they lie on their sleeping bags. She’s supposed to keep watch, so that’s what she should do. She can tell who’s asleep and who’s still trying to sleep.

The twins, for example, are out like a light and snoring. They had no problem dozing right off. Astrid thinks everything that’s happened in the past couple of months just seems to… slide right off them. Like water off a duck’s back, as the saying goes.

She's not angry at them for it. At least there's someone getting some sleep.

Snotlout is in the process of dozing off, though there’s that infamous sleep start keeping him from his sleep. She’s been watching him toss and turn. Every time it happens, he tries the other side. Again. He’ll probably give up eventually and stay up with her. She can hear him grumble and mumble under his breath, growing more and more frustrated.

Fishlegs doesn’t even try. Too frightened, he lies awake on his back, looking out the window at the clear night sky. He tries to count the stars, but not even in an attempt to sleep, but just to try and calm down. He's quiet and lies so still he hardly dares to breathe.

And then there’s Hiccup, who’s been out cold for hours already and hasn’t moved a finger with Toothless lying by his head, also without sleep. The only reason why they still know he’s alive is that they can see him breathing. And because his dragon isn’t freaking out. But who can blame him? He lost his leg recently, it’s only natural that he would sleep this much once it finally finds him. He lies the softest as they found him blankets for under the sleeping bag and two pillows. One for his head, the other for his leg. It's to help him rest.

It’s a good thing that he can sleep sometimes. For some reason, the nights aren’t quiet here.

The undead, they’re… They’re screaming.

None of them know why. The only one who would want to investigate can’t and Astrid is much more concerned with keeping their group away from the zombie horde. That doesn’t stop the night from being filled with shouting, crying, screaming. Every noise the human throat is capable of; they’re making it and they have no clue why. They sent shivers down her spine, they make Fishlegs whimper. They had no idea some of these noises were even possible before they settled here.

But alas, they can't ask Hiccup to move, not in his state.

This city that they're in is the most crowded they've been in since the pandemic ruined the world.

It’s honestly a surprise that anyone’s getting sleep tonight. She knows that they’re keeping Snotlout up and that this is why Fishlegs has such an easy time not giving in to his exhaustion. As for why Astrid could nod off, she is just so fatigued and her body doesn’t usually do well with a lack of sleep.

She rubs in her eyes. It’s unbecoming of her, but she actually wants to whine and then kick something nearby. That’s how frustrated and sad and angry she is at… Well, at everything! She wants to act like an overstimulated toddler desperate for a nap.

Right now, she hates those noises from the undead the most. She can’t even see them out there, something knocked out the power to all the streetlights in their area. So these are bloodcurdling screams coming from the darkness outside and they come every night without fail.

Astrid covers her ears and presses her forehead against her knees, but she can still hear them. She can always hear them. Every. Single. Night.

[harpysongs]

I shouldn’t be doing all this bullshit. I should be wandering some arid landscape in the distant past

[tenth-sentence]

Laurana felt the stones start to shift from under her.

"DragonLance Chronicles: Dragons of Winter Night" - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[wolf-elf]