[bitchin-tubs]

Not really finished but I thought it was funny

[renstriderthedragonrider]

What happened to the Night Furies?

Night Furies are one of the rarest and most intelligent species of dragon. They are incredibly elusive, tending to avoid both humans and other dragon species as they prefer to stick to their own kind. Their natural camouflage and blinding speed make them extremely difficult to track, so much so that most villages have never gotten a proper look at a Night Fury or managed to kill one. As a result, Night Furies have developed a terrifying and even mythical reputation, being described as the “unholy offspring of lightning and death itself” in the Book of Dragons. 

Just as other dragons migrate during the colder months to lay their eggs, Night Furies also follow this pattern. According to old folktales, they have their own hidden island far to the east called Nóttsheim, more commonly known as Night’s Home or the Isle of Night, where they make nests, lay their eggs, and raise their hatchlings without fear of violent humans or dragons. This island has become a safe haven for the species in the last couple of centuries as hunters and trappers have increased their search efforts for the secretive dragons in the hopes of gaining notoriety. The only people who have fought to protect the Night Furies are found on the island of Nóttsheim itself. A small human settlement has gathered there over the years, learning to coexist with the species and even forming bonds with them. Those who befriend a Night Fury and learn to ride one are called Night Riders. They not only protect the island from invaders but also search for wild Furies beyond the island and lead them back to safety. 

Toothless lived with the last Berkian flock of Night Furies, which included his parents and siblings, on Dragon Island. They served the Red Death by attacking Berk and bringing her food, just as the other dragons did. However, when the Red Death was defeated by Hiccup and Toothless, the other Night Furies fled the island. Now old enough to fend for himself, Toothless remained with Hiccup while his family made their way to Nóttsheim, where they have lived ever since. 

[krillin-pro07]

HTTYD 1 Toothless my beloved 🙏🏻

I miss his markings so much.

[howtodrawyourdragon]

I'm gonna say it; Hiccup did nothing wrong. We're treating him as the biggest problem of THW when literally his worst crime in is somehow losing his freckles and that's not even something he has control over. Oh and that kind of incredibly stupid plan of literally moving an entire people by going "let's just fly straight until we hit something :) even though I, Hiccup Haddock, somehow don't believe the world is round."

The entire rest of the movie is everyone else around him being horrible and out of character.

Berk is a mess in the beginning of the movie, yes. But it was also just a year ago that his father was horribly murdered in front of him because Draco Bloodyfist-Or-Whatever decided to sent his mind controled best friend after him. Everybody expects Hiccup to be put together and solve all problems immediately and remain a Dragon Rider when he should be buying a therapist a mansion and a yacht with all those billed sessions.

Then there is being told more than once that he's putting Astrid second when he literally isn't. And told he should meet her standard.s

There is all that stuff about how he's been a horrible pet owner to Toothless when he had legitimate and real fears about Toothless not making it out in wild and about the Light Fury turning on him and about him not coming back. (Like... he's a disabled dragon, for Gods' sake??? Toothless will literally NOT make it without human intervention)

He's called out for not embracing change when his name was literally synonymous with change before THW and every bit of change he proposes in the movie is met with backlash unless Astrid, their not-chief, says it's okay.

His mother, who abandoned him for 20 and came home with him after the traumatic loss of his father spends most of the movie not being the mother she promised him to be in the second movie and even advocated for the Riders to be less dependent on dragons when she was with dragons for the entirety of those 20 years.

And then there is all the bullying. Making fun of his voice, telling him- a disabled person- to LOSE THE LIMP, telling him he's not worthy of Astrid the warrior goddess (completely forgetting how Hiccup is both parts warrior and diplomat in at least the previous two movies, let alone the movies and the shows) and these three things are all said by Tuffnut! "Forgets he has a sister in THW" Tuffnut!

And let's not forget Snotlout's "who died and made you chief?!" when Snotlout was literally crying at Stoick's funeral. And then proceeds to hit on the dead man's wife and his best friend's mother while also putting said best friend down!

Like... none of the things said to him in the first movie were as bad as some of the things said in THW.

The entire movie is also basically Hiccup being pulled from one direction to the other.

It's "You're a bad chief because you're not changing anything" yet it's also "how dare you make this change!"

It's "you should step up as chief" yet it's also "we will only listen if Astrid says it's good."

It's "you were literally keeping Toothless captive for 6 years :/" yet it's also "Uuuhhh, time to cut the umbilical cord, don't you think? 🙄"

It's "you let Toothless go free, what did you expect?" yet also "uh, you let him go???"

It's "you are literally nothing without Toothless, sorry :/" yet it's also "Toothless only showed you what was already inside."

It's "you should put Astrid first for once" yet it's also "I, Hiccup, will literally listen to every single word you, Astrid, says even if it's hurtful."

It's "I, Astrid, will suggest to you, Hiccup, that we go find Toothless in the hidden world" yet it's also "I, Astrid, will blame you, Hiccup, for deciding to go to the Hidden World, making the Light Fury, who you have no control over, to follow us back home"

It's "hey man, can you help me with this dragon tail? :(" yet it's also "I will literally not listen to you when I'm about to break this branch that I and the dragon tail are on."

I mean, my God! I'd sent the dragons away if I had to listen to that for the past year after I watched my father die a gruesome death.

And that's not even the worst part. The worst part is Toothless abandoning Hiccup for the most shallow reason there is; chasing dragon tail that doesn't even want anything to do with him unless he does something that impresses her when he's the king of the dragons.

So yeah, probably an unpopular opinion, but besides one bad plan, Hiccup did nothing wrong besides listen to what all the people around him were saying, no matter how much they contradict themselves.

Really, what he needs is a hug. A Real one. :(

[berkedits]

make me choose between... @spacenintendogs: test drive or romantic flight?

[sourdoughbreadtulip]

A forbidden Friendship

[xxnullblog-deactivated20241027]

httyd 1 hiccup was more competent than any other movie hiccup

[misterrttegrimborn]

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Toothless was literally so cool in the first movie why did they do that to him in thw

[juniemunie]

My feelings for THW can be summarized in this one video I made last night in a manic frenzy

[000marie198]

Okay so, the prospect of dragons becoming 'softer' and 'less strong' and 'pet-like' due to living with vikings for a few years is so messed up!

This is partially due to how Toothless was characterized in THW. His character in Httyd 1 & 2 + GotNF +RoB/DoB + RTTE + other short movies is leagues different from THW Toothless. And amongst the common reasons theorized for this is dragons having become 'softer spoiled pets' due to 'being away from the wild'. And I hate it!

These dragons, especially the ones who have riders, are canonically stronger, faster, smarter and stealthier than any wild dragons due to all the experience they gained over the years. The dragons of Berk, particularly the gang's dragons, have travelled tremendous distances in single flights, fought battles with armadas and hunters and submarines and entire flocks and practically giants, been to habitats far and wide where wild ones don't dare venture, been through so much, have had near death experiences countless times and came out of those stronger than before. Heck they've even planned and strategized before! They have sharper instincts, faster reflexes, higher endurance and stamina than the wild ones who live in their own habitats. These guys have experienced and survived going through all kinds of habitats. I really doubt that the gang's dragons, the first and last line of defence, the researcher assists, the protectors and best friends of the most competent group on the island would get soft just like that.

AND! And, each of these dragons, Toothless, Meatlug, Hookfang, Stormfly, Barf and Belch, they were becoming smarter and smarter by the day. Toothless in the first movie was intelligent, curious, kind, stealthy, elegant, scary, dangerous, adorable, protective, strong. And he remained as such throughout the series. Why turn him into a... A senseless dog?! Where did his grace, his speed, his stealth and intelligence and protectiveness and loyalty go? That was NOT Toothless. Why was my boy treated like a silly pet and nothing else? Did they just up and forget everything he did throughout the course of the franchise? Toothless whose first thing to do when he got a controllable tailfin was go out to find Hiccup's lost helmet that fell in the ocean and then he broke that tailfin because he valued and treasured this friendship over potentially distancing freedom, Toothless who had defeated and befriended multiple feral dragons without being able to fly, Toothless who ate an eel to keep his best friend safe, Toothless who played possum to fool the outcast guards and escape on his own, Toothless who was willing to drown because he couldn't leave Hiccup alone, Toothless who broke the most Intense mind control hold of the Bewilderbeast because the bond he had with Hiccup was stronger. Are we talking about the same Toothless even?

Gah, I just despise that last movie for so many reasons. I might've given it grace marks if it was just the theme being sad but everything in it was wrong and messed up and illogical.

[h1ccvpxtccthl3ss]

Abandoned this blog for months then suddenly came back and fell back into a "thw salt" rabbit hole. It's good to be back

[howtodrawyourdragon]

I'm gonna say it; Hiccup did nothing wrong. We're treating him as the biggest problem of THW when literally his worst crime in is somehow losing his freckles and that's not even something he has control over. Oh and that kind of incredibly stupid plan of literally moving an entire people by going "let's just fly straight until we hit something :) even though I, Hiccup Haddock, somehow don't believe the world is round."

The entire rest of the movie is everyone else around him being horrible and out of character.

Berk is a mess in the beginning of the movie, yes. But it was also just a year ago that his father was horribly murdered in front of him because Draco Bloodyfist-Or-Whatever decided to sent his mind controled best friend after him. Everybody expects Hiccup to be put together and solve all problems immediately and remain a Dragon Rider when he should be buying a therapist a mansion and a yacht with all those billed sessions.

Then there is being told more than once that he's putting Astrid second when he literally isn't. And told he should meet her standard.s

There is all that stuff about how he's been a horrible pet owner to Toothless when he had legitimate and real fears about Toothless not making it out in wild and about the Light Fury turning on him and about him not coming back. (Like... he's a disabled dragon, for Gods' sake??? Toothless will literally NOT make it without human intervention)

He's called out for not embracing change when his name was literally synonymous with change before THW and every bit of change he proposes in the movie is met with backlash unless Astrid, their not-chief, says it's okay.

His mother, who abandoned him for 20 and came home with him after the traumatic loss of his father spends most of the movie not being the mother she promised him to be in the second movie and even advocated for the Riders to be less dependent on dragons when she was with dragons for the entirety of those 20 years.

And then there is all the bullying. Making fun of his voice, telling him- a disabled person- to LOSE THE LIMP, telling him he's not worthy of Astrid the warrior goddess (completely forgetting how Hiccup is both parts warrior and diplomat in at least the previous two movies, let alone the movies and the shows) and these three things are all said by Tuffnut! "Forgets he has a sister in THW" Tuffnut!

And let's not forget Snotlout's "who died and made you chief?!" when Snotlout was literally crying at Stoick's funeral. And then proceeds to hit on the dead man's wife and his best friend's mother while also putting said best friend down!

Like... none of the things said to him in the first movie were as bad as some of the things said in THW.

The entire movie is also basically Hiccup being pulled from one direction to the other.

It's "You're a bad chief because you're not changing anything" yet it's also "how dare you make this change!"

It's "you should step up as chief" yet it's also "we will only listen if Astrid says it's good."

It's "you were literally keeping Toothless captive for 6 years :/" yet it's also "Uuuhhh, time to cut the umbilical cord, don't you think? 🙄"

It's "you let Toothless go free, what did you expect?" yet also "uh, you let him go???"

It's "you are literally nothing without Toothless, sorry :/" yet it's also "Toothless only showed you what was already inside."

It's "you should put Astrid first for once" yet it's also "I, Hiccup, will literally listen to every single word you, Astrid, says even if it's hurtful."

It's "I, Astrid, will suggest to you, Hiccup, that we go find Toothless in the hidden world" yet it's also "I, Astrid, will blame you, Hiccup, for deciding to go to the Hidden World, making the Light Fury, who you have no control over, to follow us back home"

It's "hey man, can you help me with this dragon tail? :(" yet it's also "I will literally not listen to you when I'm about to break this branch that I and the dragon tail are on."

I mean, my God! I'd sent the dragons away if I had to listen to that for the past year after I watched my father die a gruesome death.

And that's not even the worst part. The worst part is Toothless abandoning Hiccup for the most shallow reason there is; chasing dragon tail that doesn't even want anything to do with him unless he does something that impresses her when he's the king of the dragons.

So yeah, probably an unpopular opinion, but besides one bad plan, Hiccup did nothing wrong besides listen to what all the people around him were saying, no matter how much they contradict themselves.

Really, what he needs is a hug. A Real one. :(

[lilliths-matori-blog]

the one thing he did wrong in my eyes is overpopulate berk in the first place. he knew the dangers of overpopulation back in defenders of berk when the screaming death sunk all those islands. he knew what a fire break was at age 16 when he re-encountered adult!torch, so why does berk look the way it does? like i get he's worried about wild dragons being trapped and ig he wants to keep them under his watchful eye at all times (completely fair), but like- dude you have a whole forest to work with... the city design of thw!berk sucks basically and hiccup is a talented engineer who probably should've known better. 16 year old hiccup would probably die inside if he saw the state of thw!berk.

BUT THAT'S LITERALLY IT.

and like. after all he's dealt with...

can you blame him??

he's like. one guy. who has just suffered so much trauma throughout the past year. finding his dead mother, losing his dad to toothless of all characters, almost losing toothless, having berk attacked by a stark raving warlord and a giant grumpy cat, becoming chief (which was NOT something he wanted to do), not to mention the events of the serpents heir, dragonvine and the fire tides (fuuuuck). he's clinging to his dream of a peaceful world between vikings and dragons, trying to make it happen (more power to him), making some bad decisions, and nobody else is picking up on it and if they are they're not telling him. except fucking Gobber who is NOT someone hiccup is going to listen to considering the apparent dialogue between them (the pressure to get married and all, like i'd struggle to take anyone seriously if that was one of their gripes with me, especially the way gobber phrases it). dude is messed up and nobody around him is helping him because these are not the same characters as we once knew. snotlout would never. tuffnut would never. astrid would never. ruffnut would never. even fucking fishlegs should know better than to bring a baby to a battle like dude wtf didn't you learn anything from the Garff Incident in season six??? valka feels so wrong and eret's in character i guess but literally does nothing like what even is his role?? the only one who feels even particularly in-character is gobber and he's so weirdly mean-spirited in thw that its jarring. these characters are not helping him, not pointing out these issues, nothing. fishleg's line about almost feeling like a team broke my heart like- what happened between rtte and now to kill that bond?? what happened to the honesty and care for each other that they showed in, say, a grim retreat or darkest night?? what happened to these guys being family??

[10blue10]

50+ Problems with HTTYD:THW

50+ Problems With HTTYD: The Hidden World

The Books  

1. “That’s how the books ended!” No, it actually isn’t.

A) The dragons left when Hiccup was an old man, over a long time.  

B) The movies diverged from the books from the very beginning.  

C) Dean liked the first line of the prologue and stapled it to his own work, like trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole.  

2. It’s a world with dragons, historical accuracy went out the window.  

3. This ending is only ‘foreshadowed’ in the 3rd movie itself.  

The Logistics  

4. How is Berk this freaking overcrowded?  

A) Grieving or not, an in-character Hiccup wouldn’t hoard dragons like this.  

B) They’re building up one tiny part of one small island.  

C) Hiccup says “we have the Alpha!” as if that makes it okay.  

D) The art book says dragons stayed after paying tribute to Toothless. The alpha is making things worse.  

5. The Hidden World makes no sense!  

A) There can’t be a giant hole in the ocean that never fills up.  

B) Plate tectonics and a worldwide network of caves don’t mix.  

C) How will the dragons have enough space? Or food? Or fresh water?  

D) Moving animals out of one ecosystem into another is a BAD IDEA.  

6. An entire village packs up and leaves their island (of 300 years) overnight.  

7. A huge fleet of huge ships can keep up with a flying dragon.  

8. How much time has passed? They get an awful lot done in a few days…

The Characters  

9. Most of the supporting characters are flanderized like hell.  

10. Snotlout has devolved as a character from the previous movie.  

11. Astrid is reduced to ‘protagonists fiance’ and supportive Love Interest.  

12. Valka gets no development because they wanted Stoick flashbacks.  

13. Stoick now believes in a mythical home of dragons that he wants to ‘seal up’ (not destroy) so dragons and humans won’t fight.  

14. Hiccup makes terrible spur of the moment decisions that affect everyone around him based on his own emotions and insecurities.  

15. Grimmel is an incompetent liar who succeeds through plot convenience.

A) He gets the Light Fury onto Berk…and then just leaves her there?  

B) No way in Helheim one guy wiped out a whole species of dragon.  

C) Especially a species as OP as Night Furies.  

16. Toothless is dumbed down, a terrible leader and completely OOC.  

A) He’d rather play fetch and court the Light Fury than lead his pack.  

B) As soon as a female he can mate with shows up it’s like Hiccup (his best friend) is nothing. She almost kills Hiccup and he barely reacts.  

C) Toothless makes his flock go into cages and slavery when the Light Fury is held hostage.  

The Plot Devices and Holes

17. The LF represents the ‘call of the wild’ which must be “Breed.”

A) She’s deliberately designed to be as feminine as possible.  

B) She barely has any discernible personality beyond ‘wary’ and ‘cute’.  

C) Despite saving Hiccup’s life she’s apparently untrainable.  

18. Deathgripper venom does whatever the plot needs it to right then.  

19. It makes no sense for one dragon to be the King of all of them.  

20. Shouldn’t the Hidden World dragons already have an Alpha?  

21. The LF camouflages by heating her scales up to give them mirror like qualities, but…

A) Being reflective is not the same thing as being invisible.  

B) She’s muzzled at the start of the movie and yet still camouflaged.  

22. Now Toothless can turn invisible? Using lightning? WTF?  

23. Toothless’ new auto-tail holds up against lightning and lasts 10 years. Maintenance? What’s that?

24. Boy it sure is convenient that every dragon in the world heard that one roar!  

The Separation  

25. The characters just give up. After all they’ve accomplished.  

A) The riders - by themselves - wipe the floor with that armada. So much for being a major threat.  

B) After defeating Drago, Hiccup’s resolve is stronger than ever…after defeating Grimmel, suddenly it’s too hard?  

C) No one even tries to protest! Do they not even care about this?  

26. New Berk is all but inaccessible by boat and has plenty of room.  

27. It ignores perfectly good parallels and foreshadowing for the dragons to welcome the humans as the humans welcomed them.  

28. The Hidden World dragons are made overly hostile to humans in an attempt to kneecap any chance of them living there, despite Toothless being the ‘king’ and the Berkians having six years of practice at befriending and training dragons.  

29. Who says there aren’t cultures (like China) living in peace with dragons already? What happens to them?  

The Epilogue  

30. Hiccup and Astrid are bad parents, giving their children a taste of what it’s like to fly with a dragon and then forbidding it forever.  

31. Toothless and his family are just conveniently outside when they get there, what are the odds of that?  

32. Toothless displays hostility towards unarmed humans that’s worse than when Hiccup first earned his trust in the first movie.  

33. According to Hiccup, all of the dragons have disappeared. And their eggs? Their skeletons? Did they take those with them?  

34. Dean has confirmed that in his mind, the reunion was…

A) A ‘final joyride’ to show that they’re both ‘thriving’ with wives and kids (cos that’s the pinnacle of life, right? Marriage and babies?)  

B) The first time they see each other in a decade during which time Toothless ‘kind of’ forgets his old life despite wearing the auto-tail.  

C) The last time they see each other ever. Because drama.  

The Themes and Implications  

35. The movie prioritises romantic love over platonic friendship.  

36. It uses Toothless’ attraction to the LF to drive a wedge between him and Hiccup.  

37. “If you love them, let them go” only works if it affects solely the individuals involved, not the whole freaking world.  

38. Hiccup already let Toothless go in GOTNF and he came back.  

39. He wasn’t keeping Toothless prisoner or diminishing him by being his friend. If anything he was making Toothless’ life better.  

40. It’s possible to ‘stand on your own’ and still have a support network.  

41. Hiccup and Toothless’ relationship is not clingy or co-dependent.  

42. The movie just says “Toothless is gone so now he has to ‘stand on his own’, ha ha!”  

43. Grimmel wanted a world without dragons. Now, thanks to Hiccup, that’s exactly what happens. The villain gets a posthumous victory. His other goal of killing off the Night Furies has also been achieved before the movie even starts, apparently.  

44. If dragons represent the ‘other’ (or the ‘them’ of ‘us versus ‘them’), then Grimmel’s rhetoric is reminiscent of a facist - and he wins.  

45. The idea that the world will change for the better without anyone actively making an effort to change it is ludicrous.  

46. How are the dragons even going to know when humans are ‘ready’ for them?  

47. How will humans ever be ready if dragons have faded into myth?  

The Rebuttals  

48. “It’s just a kids movie/your opinion!” The thing is…  

A) Plenty of ‘kids movies’ don’t mess up this badly. There are standards, animated film or not.  

B) My opinion is based on facts and an understanding of how to write.  

C) I’m not saying you can’t like it, but it’s still a badly written movie.  

49. “The dragons are animals/need to be free!”  

A) Humans are also animals. And why do dragons get their own world?  

B) Yep, now they’re free to live underground in caves forever. Oh wait.  

C) The dragons were never not free when they lived with the Berkians.  

50. “This movie is good cos it made me cry/humans are terrible!”  

A) There’s this little thing called ‘emotional manipulation’…  

B) According to this movie, because some people do bad things, we shouldn’t try to make things better for anyone ever.  

C) It is not a profound message to say “life isn’t fair”, and suggest we shouldn’t change things.  

June 27th, 2019 4:30pm httyd 3httyd thw

[exosalt]

no but i am SOBBING over gift of the night fury…

Hiccup thinking that Toothless just flew away as soon as he got his new tail fin when really Toothless just wanted to return the favour and do something nice for Hiccup by finding his helmet 🥺

The look on Astrid’s face when she sees that Toothless has returned and knows how happy Hiccup will be

and then Toothless destroying his new tail fin - which enabled him to fly around independently without a rider - and pulling out Hiccup’s old saddle because he would rather fly with Hiccup than on his own 🤧

“that year i gave my best friend a pretty great gift… he gave me a better one”

[albertothechihuahua]

this is the money dog, repost in the next 24 hours and money will come your way!!

[jaxblade]

ehh what the hell

[jaxblade]

OH MY GOD SO NO FUCKIN BULLSHIT I SWEAR To GOD. I reblogged this an hour ago and IM NOT Lying My Tax Refund which I did in late march popped into my Bank Account, and it was a Decent sized amount……

WHAT THE FUCK Is THIS MAGIC!??!?!?! Im trying this again IM NOT BSing hahahaha thats actually pretty cool xD

[jaxblade]

yooooo

yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

FUCKIN YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

no BULLSHIT I KID YOU NOT! Look what I found while walking Home…..

OH MY GOD

OH MY F*CKIN GOD

THIS POST FUCKIN WORKS?!?!?! THIS IS PAST A COINCIDENCE NO WAY!??! NO FRIGGIN WAY!!! 

Im Going to reblog this every day to test this, its MAGIC ITS FRIGGIN MAGIC 

[que-pasadena]

I need to believe in the heart of the post…

[perlexnoire-deactivated20150716]

Oh? Well… *reblag*

[zer0will2live]

i reblogged this and now my uncle is giving me 250 to dye my hair nani the fucko

[villasukkahaha]

Bunch of grumpy Hiccups from that one RTTE episode where Hiccup punches Snotlout