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Big Post™ #13 on a Friday spoopy

shout-out to @lilcreaturethingfromthewoods for the idea for the 8th one

more aot memes

ladyshinga

shout out to this tweet for RUINING my ability to hear "the time being" without thinking about this

syn4k

i like the phrases "it's not for me," "it's not my thing," and "i'm not the target audience" because they're the most concise way to express "this thing that you enjoy has merits but idgaf about it" without being aggressive

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innerchildabortionclinic

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I believe that you are… and always will be… my little princess. A Little Princess (1995) dir. Alfonso Cuarón

armandology

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

campsis

Lily Anna Armstrong

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daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

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the summoning

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furious

kingofthewilderwest

So how exactly does the Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus life cycle work? And do young ones look like terrible terrors? Do they all look like that, only bigger?

[Note that this explanation includes spoilers from the eleventh book].

Not too much is known about the Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus life cycle. The Wodensfang’s comments do help us get some grounding, but all the details of it has yet to be explicated. From a broad overview of the life cycle, he says, “Sea-Dragons start out small, but they grow into immense size, like the fat full moon. And then they wane again…”

We do know Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus dragons hatch as very small dragons. Toothless is between the ages of five or six years old when ten-and-a-half year old Hiccup discovers him. At that tender young age, Toothless is said to be about the size of a Highland Terrier. He looks a bit like a Terrible Terror in some ways, though not entirely.

We can see that the young Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus has large ears, two horns on the top of their head that are about the same size as their ears, and a roundish face. They have pointed spines along their back and a barb-like tail.

Very slowly over time, the Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus grows to be the size of a mountain. We do not know the time period in which the dragon reaches its peak growth rate. However, we do know that Furious is a little over a hundred years old and already frightfully enormous. So they can grow very large in even the span of a hundred years, and we can expect that Toothless, even within Hiccup’s lifetime, will grow much larger than his Viking friend.

Since Furious is blue in coloration, I would not be surprised if this image from “The Complete Book of Dragons” depicts him. That dragon size is, at least, comparable to some of the black and white illustrations we see of him in other books. They still have much the same physical features as when they were young, but their snouts increase in length, their claws become large and fearsome, and some other physical differences. But they don’t look much like Terrible Terrors at this point in their life cycle.

Now Furious is not the only Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus who is shown to be in his enormous state. Merciless the Green Death and the Purple Death are other Sea-Dragons in the book of enormous size. The interesting thing about them is that they are a lot, lot, lot older than Furious. They have dwelt on the ocean floor for several hundred years, so long sea creatures have begun growing on them. In fact, these dragons have been sleeping on the ocean floor for longer than Furious has been alive. And they are some of the largest Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus dragons to live.

As far as their age is concerned, we know that Merciless was alive and the leader of the Dragon Rebellion during Hiccup the First’s time, and that he was already considered a Great Sea-Dragon - so he was already pretty well grown. But time estimates are wonky as far as how old he is; we don’t know exactly how long ago Hiccup the First lived, after all! In “How to Betray a Dragon’s Hero,” the Wodensfang says that Hiccup the First lived a thousand years ago. But in “How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword,” he estimates that Hiccup lived five or six centuries ago. Oops. Someone’s memory is becoming foggy in his old age! But either way, since the first book says that the Green Death has slept on the ocean floor for six or seven centuries, we can assume that Hiccup the First lived a thousand years ago and that Merciless is well over a thousand years old! He might be about 1,200 years old if I had to take a guess.

So they start small, then keep growing for several hundreds of years until they are HUGE. Then there is a turning point. The Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus’ life cycle growth reverses, and the dragons begin to shrink until they are the size as they were infants. The Wodensfang is an example of a dragon in this stage. He and Toothless are comparative sizes, and he has many of the same physical features as Toothless… just more wrinkled and worn. The Wodensfang says he has been shrinking for several hundred years. I imagine that the shrinking process takes just as long as the growing process does, so this could mean that the Wodensfang has been shrinking for about five hundred or six hundred years.

To the point he looks like this.

But their life cycle is not that simple.

Because Merciless the Green Death is older than the Wodensfang.

I’m serious. The Wodensfang was a companion to Hiccup the First. And when the Wodensfang met Hiccup the First a thousand years ago, he was a young dragon, only about the size of a Saber-Toothed Driver Dragon, and still in the process of growing larger - much larger. So this means that the Wodensfang was still a young dragon when Merciless the Great Sea-Dragon was a threat to Hiccup the First. Merciless was implied to already be an enormous, mature Sea-Dragon by the time the Wodensfang was still in the earlier stages of his growth.

So the Wodensfang has grown and shrunk much faster than Merciless. The Green Death is still an enormous Sea-Dragon during Hiccup the Third’s time… and yet the Wodensfang is the size of a toy dog.

How could this possibly happen?

I have a theory about why the Wodensfang aged much quicker than Merciless.

According to the first book, Merciless has been sleeping at the bottom of the ocean floor for six or seven hundred years, digesting a particularly large meal. He has entered a Sleep Coma. The narrator tells us, “Dragons can stay in this suspended state for eternity, half-dead, half-alive, buried under fathom after fathom of icy-cold seawater. Not a muscle of this particular Dragon had moved for six or seven centuries.”

I think that the Sleep Coma suspends everything - even the aging process.

The Wodensfang appears to have been active up until the time of Grimbeard the Ghastly. Then he decides to guard Grimbeard’s Crown and sleeps there until Hiccup the Third finds him in “How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword.” This means that Furious has been guarding the Crown for a hundred years, so he has been sleeping for only a century tops. And he might not even be in a Sleep Coma, for these comas would not be quick to wake from, and yet he needs to guard the Crown carefully. So the Wodensfang has been active and living his life for a thousand-some years while the Green Death has been at the bottom of the ocean in suspended animation.

It makes me think that the Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus’ life span is about a thousand-some active years of living.

I tried to make a timeline of this, though it’s a little hard to read. Basically, I made a timeline spanning over 1,200 years, with the following points and time estimates:

Year 0: Merciless the Green Death is bornYear 100: The Wodensfang is bornYear 200: Hiccup the First livesYear 600: Merciless, a 600 year old Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus, enters a Sleep Coma at the bottom of the oceanYear 1100: Grimbeard the Ghastly and Hiccup the Second liveYear 1200: Hiccup the Third and Toothless are born

This guesstimate would have Hiccup the First be born a thousand years before Hiccup the Third. This would have Merciless living six hundred years before entering hibernation, meaning that he would be entering his Sleep Coma near the peak of his size in the Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus lifecycle. The Wodensfang would be active in this life cycle for 1,100 years, almost double the amount of time Merciless has been active. This would mean that the Wodensfang would have the time to grow to his full height around 600 years of age, and then shrink for the next five hundred years to his present size in the books.

This would make the Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus lifecycle about 1,200 years, where they grow for the first 600 years and then shrink for the following 600 years.

Lastly, for entertainment: this lifecycle makes Toothless an incredible infant. Assuming a human’s average lifespan is 70 years and a Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus’ average active lifespan is 1,200 years old, then Toothless at six years old is the equivalent to a 4 month old human baby.