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The Gruffalo

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so. erm. tonight on Unpopular Opinions with Rags: I think.... well, tbh it makes me sad how many people disagree with the ending to The Wingfeather Saga. Not just dislike. (See my blog history, you are allowed to dislike things lol.) But to disagree. To think it should have gone another way. That the author lost sight of the story or whatever. I think maybe this says more about the audience's expectation of the story than anything else.

Is the ending a neat and tidy, "and they all lived happily ever after" resolution? No. Does it very clearly echo and continue and press into the reader's heart all the themes the author clearly implanted in the series from the beginning, realizing all the character arcs as they were presented to us? Yes. ((...Did the author write the book and then have it tragically lost in a computer meltdown and have to rewrite it from essentially scratch and maybe certain ways things led from one to another that might have felt more organic in that early draft than the finished product contribute to this reaction by fans? Maybe. And maybe not. First drafts are terrible anyways.))

I didn't like the ending at first. It didn't fit the molds and tropes and expectations I had, but I realized those expectations were outside ones I had brought to the story and very definitely not false expectations given to me by the narrative itself. There is no gotcha or ill-fitting ending here. It is, by most measures, the ending we should have expected and wanted, based on all the author's writing of the previous books. It just isn't the normal ending we are used to, particularly by modern storytelling expectations. And that's okay. It's okay to recognize the subversion, to say "oh that isn't what I expected/wanted." But I think it's entirely unfair to suggest that the ending was in anyway incorrect.

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"His Heart Beats" by Andrew Peterson

I love this song, as well as Andrew Peterson's other songs and work, such as the book series The Wingfeather Saga, which I've been rereading recently. The Wingfeather Saga has also recently been made into an animated series, though I do not know anything about that.

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(!! Httyd book 9 spoiler !!)

Excuse me barmaid ! I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring.

I ordered an extra useless boy with boney arms, extra embarrassment and pathetic on the side!

This here, this is a talking aura

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Whenever someone starts reading the httyd books for the first time I start drawing so here we are

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Come here old guy we're friends now

This poor boy holds the weight of the world on his shoulders 😭

He's doing his best

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Procrastinating doodle.

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He’s just a little guy!!

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Part four :)

<<FIRST<< <PREVIOUS< I finally did the thing! Oh and cami and fishlegs will show up pretty soon so you can look forward to that.

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part 3

<<FIRST<< <PREVIOUS < >NEXT>

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to the glistening eastern sea (4/4)

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Y’all I’m starting Art fight!!!

History: Ira Williams grew up in rural Georgia near the sea and by a swamp. His family were dirt poor and worked on a soybean farm. Ira spent his childhood romping in the woods, catching fish to sell in the creek, and turning in tin cans for pennies. He was very close to his father who fought in world war 1 and worked every day to provide for the family. When he was eight, his mother had triplets; three girls named Hadie, Annie, and Dixi. Ira and his father worked harder than ever to support them. At twelve, Ira found and adopted a mutt coon hound whom he called Bex, and with her help, he began a somewhat successful career as a coon hunter. This went on until he was fifteen and his father died in a freak accident. This completely devastated the family both emotionally and financially. Ira soon had to take up the slack for the family and went to work in the fields. As soon as war broke out, Ira enlisted so as to better provide for his family.

Appearance: Ira is based off of an osprey with a shaggy spiked up mane to match its crest. He keeps his mane as long as regulations allow. He has bright yellow eyes and dark markings on his face to cut down on glare. On D-Day, many paratroopers dropped through enemy fire including Ira. He caught several bullets in the wings causing small holes that fortunately don’t affect him much.

Personality: Ira is loud and wild. You will almost always hear him before you see him. He tends to have fun in almost any circumstances. Despite this, he is a wonderful soldier, due to his fierce loyalty, great aim, and eye for details. He deeply loves his family and wants to be like his late father, yet another reason he enlisted.

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im an artist idk

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One thing I haven't seen people talk about in the HTTYD books is how Alvin and Hiccup actually have a lot in common. Alvin (as far as I can remember) is the only person besides Hiccup who even tries to speak Dragonese, he's got Latin down too, he lacks the huge belly and muscles and beard of most Vikings, he's also more inclined to use cleverness over brute force and strength, etc. When you stop to think about it, Alvin shares a lot of Hiccup's strengths.

This is a common thing for foils, and it works really well in these books. Those similarities emphasize their differences--they highlight the fact that what makes Hiccup a hero is not just his cleverness and smallness and knowledge and all the other things that set him apart from the other Vikings, it's the choices he makes, the friendships he gathers, the character he develops. Alvin has much of the same cleverness and skills as Hiccup, but the two of them use it so differently, and that's what distinguishes them. That's what makes Hiccup become a hero while Alvin becomes more and more twisted.

Cressida Cowell the genius you are

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the road to el dorado when in the context of a d&d game is the most astounding and hellish streak of 1′s and 20′s

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the way the how to train your dragon books handles destiny is so funny. the fates are always like, "THE MORE YOU STRUGGLE AGAINST DESTINY, THE MORE THE NOOSE TIGHTENS, FOOLISH MORTAL" but then every so often some wretched awful little brat will survive childbirth, get named hiccup, and just absolutely wreck shop. like, 100% should not be alive. getting tangled up in the strings of fate like a wet soggy cat. and the more fate tries to course correct the worse it gets. you'd think that after managing to finally kill one of the hiccups early, only for a seadragonus giganticus maximus to swear vengence upon all of humanity, the fates would've given up. but no. maybe THIS time we can stop hiccup from changing the course of history. and then it's 12 books of the fates getting unintentionally dunked on by a ten year old who'd reaaally rather just go home

the fates get a lethal dose of their own medicine

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I have six of my own drawings in my httyd Pinterest board and not a single one was uploaded by me and it's a jumpscare every time I see a new one