There were dragons when I was a boy

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[frostyviking]

I’m not too active on here anymore

find me at @everlastingfable

[sternkhan]

[sarakipin]

My piece for the upcoming Gallery Nucleus tribute show "Together From Afar: A How to Train Your Dragon Tribute Exhibition" ! Opening Reception is on April 11th from 5–8 pm 🐉☁️

[crowwkui]

𓍊𓋼𓍊 My piece for "Together from Afar: a How to Train Your Dragon" tribute exhibition at Gallery Nucleus! The show runs from April 11-26 and opens tonight from 5-8pm (free + no RSVP needed) 𓍊𓋼𓍊

I love Astrid and Stormfly, so I was really honored and excited to get to draw them🙇 John Powell was on full blast the entire time 🙇🙇🙇

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Honestly, who needs a weighted blanket when you have a dragon?

[frostyviking]

Item: A Cursed Amulet Rarity: ✶ Rare

Best video game villain?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

so I've only played two games with a villain and neither of them were particularly great but I got the cursed amulet so I win

[httydpolls]

let's give hiccup

a gun

a knife

a nap

a dragon

a nuke

some nuggets

a kiss

a crossbow

a smartphone

a paintbrush

a saddle

an egg

Voting ended onApr 7

[arduennas]

nobody:

literally no one:

not a single soul:

me: the sheer rawness of hiccup saying “i AM older and i still don’t understand” in how to steal a dragon’s sword in response to stoick’s defense of slavery as a necessary evil blows my mind?? the concept that loss of childhood doesn’t have to mean the same thing as disillusionment or letting go of idealism, that idealism isn’t inherently a “childish” trait to have, that you can become an adult and a leader without compromising the moral values you held as a child despite the world telling you that those moral values were a sign of immaturity and inexperience?? and on the flip side how cynicism isn’t synonymous with wisdom or experience, and in fact cynicism is more of a crutch for characters to excuse their own passivity and justify how they are complicit in an evil social structure simply by upholding the status quo?? go OFF cressida cowell

[rotten-m3]

I like httyd

[thestormfly]

Book accurate httyd adaptation i dream of you like the dead wife I never had the privilege of loving

[000marie198]

Something about the symbolism of Hiccup throwing away his helmet to show Hookfang that he's not like the others and Stoick freaking at it and escalating everything because that viking helmet represented them as a whole tribe and Hiccup threw it away for a dragon VS. Stoick hurriedly removing and throwing away his helmet without a care to hear his son's heartbeat and his voice growing thick with relief, joy and tears when he realizes that this dragon brought him back alive..

It stuck with me.

[eat-your-milk]

I just really wanted to draw some scrungly Tooths.

[mushroomburial]

[kilgarraara]

I got converted so hard it's embarrassing

I wasn't really in the fandom, but was familiar with it, saw an amazing animation by meltsmelt for the Of The Northmost Winds and Skies fanfic, got very intrigued, saw on tumblt that that this story is extremely loved. I read it. I literally can't start thinking about it without crying. I can't explain my feelings fully, but to say that I love it would be an understatement.

[sonderdd]

One of my favorite things about the httyd books has to be how it instills this sense of wonder into the world. It tells you that there's this magnificent universe just outside your periphery, that if you look close enough, you will see dragons soaring through the sky as stars, scuttling through the grass as brief shadows, sleeping deep beneath the earth where no man has yet to touch. Things that's can't be proven true, but can't be proven untrue either.

The world of httyd dragon is fiction. I mean, dragons aren't real, no one has ever seen one. But then they put in the book that hiccup deliberately made it so that stories untruthfully sang of their non-existence, that no one has ever seen one because they are hiding.. And dragons are wonderful at hiding. That somewhere out there, they are there. That some time long past, there was a king and a hero. Somewhere out there, toothless is still sleeping. Someday, the world may be just as wonderful. There is only one way to reach this world, and it is to make the current one a better place.

It sounds a bit cheesy but isn't that such a wonderful message? That until the world becomes a place where creatures of any kind are no longer oppressed, where greed does not rot the mind, where the weak have a place in, where people lead with kindness just as hiccup did, then it cannot truly be wonderful.

There are no dragons, in this world. Maybe not in your entire lifetime and a dozen lifetimes after yours, but history is a succession of noble failures. Do not be afraid to fail, just as hiccup did, do not be afraid to care. Success may be improbable, but an effort made in the right direction is still a change towards a better world. Even in failure, there is hope. Until then, even if the world isn't wonderful just yet, if you look close enough, perhaps you can still see some of its wonders.

[frostyviking]

I had a dream. A foolish dream, a hope that perhaps human beings and dragons could coexist in the world.

[mizuchiwolf]

''I want you to be free. Our world doesn’t deserve you. Yet.''