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Okay is there anyone else who's interested in httyd fandom history out here? Because I am desperate to know where the beginning of the consensus that the Red Death used mind control came from. Does anyone know?

I am this close to waybacking ff dot net and ctrl-F'ing every fic that came before Hitchups. Do we know?? Was Hitchups the thing that came up with this and codified it as the most popular reading??

[avannak]

Hi.

It’s me. I’m the—(sorryNotSorry life happened)—the problem for whomever still follows.

I’m sorry I just had to pop back in after a Titanic amount of years and give a well deserved shoutout to @santathegrey who’s, to my surprise, been recording and posting Hitchups on his Spotify channel (I gave full permission beyond my old lady memory, which led to PEARL CLUTCHING DELIGHT)

I figured he’s been advertising it every time he makes an episode but he does SUCH an amazing job and I’ve caught up tonight and HOLY SHIT was I kicked in the hoohah.

Anyway, I am humbled and awed by his talent and dedication, and whomever is left following this blog I beg you to check out his material… that said he has a bunch of fics if Hitchups isn’t to your taste.

That said… Hello. Goodbye. I just had to throw out a well-earned shoutout because he deserves it.

For his talent. Not for teary-eyed nostalgia keeping me awake.

[noctusfury]

What is the True Date of HTTYD? (DreamWorks Dragons)

So I know that there have been several people who’ve already discussed this topic, like, eons ago, such as @dyannehs​ , @kingofthewilderwest​ , and @avannak​ , @yv-sketches​ , @arduennas​ and others. (Here are their posts here, here, aaaaand here.) Buuut I’m gonna do my own, because this is too interesting of a topic not to dive into and blowing it way out of proportion like one of Toothless’s plasma blasts. LOL XD

Sorry to those who are wanting this old topic to just DIE already, and be water under the bridge and into the sea by now. But I need to scratch this itch. LOL XD

Please keep in mind that this article will be discussing the current timeline of HTTYD, not Hiccup’s birth.

So the general consensus is that Hiccup was born around 995 AD, though there have been those advocating for a later period in favor of the dragons leaving Berk by 1060-1100 AD (which was technically the medium range of when the Viking Age ended, supposedly). This would mean that by HTTYD 1 would be around 1010 AD, which we see in a HTTYD short here:

However, some would argue that this is based on the date that HTTYD 1 was in theaters and not a true date. By the end of HTTYD 3, it’d be 1025 AD, so meh. Of course, since most people don’t accept that film as canon, then we can skip that little tidbit. The year 1060 would be when Hiccup is 65 years old, if we accept this as a canon date. Which would fit.

Btw, for your information, here’s a fun fact for ya! 

If Hiccup lived to 1100 AD, he’d be 105 years old!!! WOW!!! He’d be ANCIENT!!! O_O 

Of course, since the Archipelago is isolated from the outside world (aside from what traders give them), there are those who’d argue that the population would continue on in their Viking ways, and the Viking Age would never truly end. Just with dragons. 

But that’s them. We’re talking about the end of the conventional, historical Viking Age — the world isn’t going to know about a population of Vikings that live on a half-frozen and isolated archipelago, so this doesn’t count! XD

So for those of you who don’t accept this time period, I’ll give you a pretty neat alternative. ^_^

In Season... 5, I guess in RTTE? In episode 1, we see this scene where Johann tells them an interesting story I never thought would be mentioned.

(This was a veeeery old pin I posted on Pinterest.) 

I checked it out, and it turns out this happened during 811 AD. This means that this date could be anywhere from then to 830 AD. Which, if you look at the due dates of the How To Train Your Dragon book in the Books, it sorta fits.

Regardless if you support the “Traitor Johann Arc” or not, the fact remains that we don’t know how recent this story is, or if this was an old story that he picked up that was decades ago. So the current HTTYD date could be anywhere from 811-850 AD, roughly. (Or it could be 1015 AD, LOL XD)

Again, though, in the film, Hiccup states that Vikings have been killing dragons for “300 years”. While this is more or less in a fantasy-like setting, the Viking characters themselves are quasi-historical, so it’s unlikely that the 800s AD would make sense if it’s been 300 years, since it’s around the time of the end of the Viking Age, in the 1000s AD. That being said, though, this could easily be whatever you wish to be since this is a fantasy setting, and since this the Archipelago, the Viking Age could’ve lasted much longer than their European kin due to their isolation. Could’ve started SOONER for them as well, such as anywhere from 500-700 AD. And it could’ve ended much LATER as of 1200 AD. 

We’ll never know. So that’ll be left up to us fans.

For those of you who want a date from the BOOKS, well, I’ll do that for ya! ^_^

The latest date on the book that Hiccup uses is 866 AD. Of course, since we don’t know when it was since this book was last rented, the current date could be anywhere from 866 AD to 1000 AD.

But for those of you who are strong advocates of the “Dragons Leave Vikings at End of Viking Age” Camp, deducting the correct numbers, the current date of the first HTTYD book that Hiccup is in right now would be... anywhere between 995 AD (if deducted from 1060 AD) and 1035 AD (if deducted from 1100 AD), since Hiccup was 10 years old in the first book, and was 75/76 years old by the series’ epilogue. That’s assuming that he died around the time period of the Viking Age’s decline, which was 1060-1100 AD.

So are you for the Film Timeline, the RTTE Timeline, or the Books Timeline? Or do you have your own timeline you follow?

Thank you for reading, my fellow Furians. I hope you enjoyed reading something old and redundant. See you in the next article!

Long Live the Night!

— Noctus Fury

[frozen-vikings]

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This is my Christmas gift for @avannak. A few years ago, Avanna, you asked if I could record this for you. I hope each year to make it better and that this is dance-worthy!

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So, I finished reading @avannak HTTYD fanfic, Hitchups…

That damn story had me up at 2 in the morning reading it. I completely (well, maybe not completely) abandoned the Tangled fandom JUST to go read this 40 chapter-long fic. I ignored almost everything that was going on in my life to read this story. This one scene in the story kept me up last night because just the idea of it made my angsty heart soar. And now that I’m done reading it, my mind’s all hnnnnnnn sequel.

It was totally worth reading. I honestly like this au more than the canon.

Now I’m gonna go and draw some angsty art for it.

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@avannak I love Jóra so much?? I love how she’s a mix of her parents and grandparents, and still has her own character? Her love of meat pies and being a gorgeous little thing makes me wish she was canon.

I also really, really love Nánná from the Donor!AU and I often dream of both Jojo and Nánná being in the same universe and being super close sisters going on adventures together (I know it’s not possible, but still!!)

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sf!naruto/naruino brotp - learning the hard way (1/2)

OKAY SO! my love for this AU has gone too far but i had gotten permission from my favorite writer/artist avannak (you deserve much love) to write a small (long af to the point where i had to break it into two fucking parts) scenario about sf!naruto (sexfluid naruto)/naruino brotp because i feel like this AU needs more love and recognition because this is just an overall amazing idea and i can’t get enough of it anyway be sure to follow @avannak​ if you’re interested in this AU and be sure to go through her sf!naruto, naruino, naruko & naruoino tags! (also be sure to check out her fics cause they’re amazing as well) -- i also pushed the scenario under keep reading cause damn this is long-- 

A full week.. A full fucking week, Naruto (or Naruko)  was stuck as his female counterpart and there was nothing he- she could do about it. The only upside to this was that she still remained the same height even with a different form, the blonde sighed as she leaned against the gate entrance to Konoha and waiting for Ino as she had written a letter for Naruto saying she wanted to meet up with her after she and Team 10 got back from a quick mission. So far only a few people knew about Naruto’s ‘problem’ or at least that’s what Sai calls it. Naruto was getting tired of waiting, how much longer until they were back? She was about to turn around and walk away until she heard Ino’s voice.

“Hey! Naruto! Wait up!!” She called out as Naruto turned back around, a streak of anxiety hit her as she waited anxiously for Ino. Something about his female counterpart taking over for a week and only having a few people she could trust made him full of worry. She was scared of having other people in Konoha view him differently than usual especially his own teammates. Naruto still identified as male no matter what form he was in, Ino on the other hand still loved the fact Naruto even had a female counterpart.

It meant she had someone to hang out with besides the other girls she was friends with like Hinata, and Sakura and to help with new training while his female counterpart took over Tsunade had set up a Kunoichi only sort of program as a strength for Naruto to control his female counterpart. It was gonna be a hassle but he seemed to be controlling his ‘other side’ well enough. Well- until he found out he was going to be stuck as his counterpart for an entire week then things seemed to crumble down faster than usual.

“Hey, you okay?” Ino waved her hand in front of Naruto’s face as she nodded and smiled slightly. “Y-yeah I’m fine, let’s go..” She spoke and began to walk. Hinata also knew about Naruto’s situation and she had let him borrow a few of her clothes including one of the fishnet shirts she didn’t wear as much, Ino made sure she wore a bra this time because the last time that happened it was the most embarrassing moment and sometimes it’ll be brought up as a joke but never as much as whenever Sai comes around and calls Naruto dickless; the neverending joke with the boy who never showed any sort of emotion. Naruto fixed her orange and black sweater, the one Jiraiya had bought even before this situation had occurred.

Being the Kyuubi’s vessel and having to deal with being able to phase into a female was something he did not sign up for but something he had to deal with no matter what. Before anyone else besides Ino had found out rumors had went around about how Naruto had a “girlfriend” all because Sakura had went looking for him and found a pair of panties lying around in his room which then led to Kakashi finding a drawer full of them for the apparent “girlfriend” and the rumors grew more. After Naruto found this out he hadn’t left his house in weeks until Ino came by more concerned than ever and offered to let him stay at her house for a while and made sure to comfort him.

Later on he ended up telling Sakura the truth and made sure to show her too; meaning he had ended up letting his female counterpart take over and by the end of the explanation Sakura realized how embarrassed and anxiety ridden he was about his transformations from time to time and decided to help out whenever she could but because she was so busy with Tsunade's training she could rarely help but made sure he knew she was there for him whenever she had a chance to be.

On the other hand Sasuke somewhat learned to put up with it, they still had to share a room together, they still had to stay in the same hot spring together whenever Team 7 went out on missions and they stayed at hotels. He knew he was still Naruto it was just his female counterpart he couldn’t get used to but he pretended not to care as much as he really did. Kakashi found it interesting and decided to look more into it which ended with Naruto finding out that there would be days where his female counterpart wouldn’t take over for days, weeks at that and there would be days where he would change into his female form and that would last days and weeks.. This happened to be that week. Sometimes he’d wake up as a fully fledged woman and wouldn’t bother reacting like he use to and just go about his day while everyone in Konoha asked who the woman wearing Naruto’s clothes were or why she seemed to resemble him so much.

Today Naruto and Ino were heading out of Konoha and to some nearby village to go shopping because Ino knew about Naruto’s fear of being shamed by the place he called home. “Hey..” Ino spoke looking over at him with a small smile on her face. He could tell that she knew something was up. “Everyone will have to deal with it, sooner or later. They can’t hate you for something you don’t have the power to control yet.” She spoke, resting her hand on Naruto’s shoulder. Naruto looked over at her as he nodded silently. “And if it helps, we can come up with a name for your female form, so that way it’ll be less stress.” Ino suggested as she moved a strand of her own hair behind her ear, her green eyes looking over at Naruto’s female form as he shook his head but didn’t bother to protest as the kunoichi continued to talk. “Naruto,” she spoke firmly before stopping in her tracks, causing him to do the same. “I know how you feel about everyone back in Konoha finding out, but you Uzumaki Naruto, are better than this.” She spoke, Naruto blew the bangs out of his eyes as he nodded carefully. “From now on, we’re going to call you Naruko, Uzumaki Naruko.” She stated. “Ino..” Naruto― Naruko mumbled softly, her voice tangled with slight guilt and embarrassment. “Thank you.” She spoke hugging Ino tightly, tears threatened to fall from her eyes and they did, staining the girl’s purple top but she didn’t care. She was just glad that she was able to let Naruko know that she wasn’t going to be alone in these situations.