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[aleteia-ff]

Hi again! =) I'm sorry it's taken me so long to follow you! I kept meaning to and thinking I had, only to see i hadn't! I just wanted to say I'm pretty new to the httyd fandom too and I hope your experience has been awesome so far! Have you seen RTTE by any chance? Also what's your favorite dragons if you don't mind me asking? You don't have to answer if you'd prefer not to of course! I hope I havn't bothered you!

Ah, don’t worry about it! Sorry it took me a few days to answer this ask too ^^ 

Allow me to welcome you to the fandom! My experience has most certainly been thoroughly awesome so far. Yes, I’ve seen RTTE! I’m very fond of the series, in fact ^^ 

My favourite dragons… Now that’s a question I have never really thought about! 

One would be the Death Song ^^ I think its design is very cool and it also had the series acknowledge that dragons in fact do eat other dragons. 

And how cool are these guys!? 

Speed Stingers are great too! The fact that they can’t fly but are dangerous for completely different reasons makes them stand out ^^ 

Those are just a few of my favourites! Of course I love all of the original gang’s dragons too, but I felt these dragons from the series deserved a chance in the spotlight ^^ 

[justgotawesome]

Happy Easter!! 🌼 I hope you have a nice day today! =)

Oh hey thanks, you too!

[incaseyouart]

Hi~ I just found your page and your art work is just lovely~ Are you taking prompts/requests by any chance? If not then i understand!

Hello! Thank you!

No, requests are closed thank you! :)

[avannak]

Oh also! Do you like Spitelout's RTTE design as well? I like how in the later seasons (when he looks more like his 2nd movie design) he wears a bit of color rather than all black & brown and I love the green eyes they gave him! A bit more dark and bright than Hiccup & Toothless's eye colors. =)

Hi again! I never really considered ruffspite until I found your blog and I really like the thought of it~ I was happy to see a little Eret/Spitelout too cause I’ve been thinking about it since seeing the 3rd movie, trying to imagine Snotlout feeling like Eret’s a rival for Valka & Ruff’s affection, only to see him kissing his dad >w> I’ve noticed you aren’t really a fan of show Spitelout, could you tell me what you think of him if you don’t mind? I hope I havn’t bothered you!

No bother at all!

And yes, I see you

To answer your questions: his design was par for the course in the TV show. His character… eh. It didn’t match up to the movies for me. At all, really.

As I’ve said in several posts (posts you’ve must have run into by now) movie-canon and TV-canon are different. Yes, they follow the same ‘canon’ timeline, and yes the showrunners tried to do their homework where they could to keep from clashing with the movies by consulting with Dean and yes, if people want to shoehorn that TV show into the movies fully, then that’s their prerogative. But they don’t match up. The writing is different, is what it comes down to. They’re literally written by two different parties, there’s too many details that misalign (especially for fans that had broken the movie down long before the TV show aired), even the humor and interactions were noticeably more juvenile in comparison (and, uh, don’t get me started on the Hiccstrid part). And for several areas of dispute, long-standing headcanons are so much better and more satisfying to the movie atmosphere than what the TV show produced. My two cents, anyway.

And Spitelout is a perfect example. His relationship with his son comes off as completely different in the movies compared to the borderline emotionally abusive relationship he seems to have with Snotlout in the show. In fact, they’ve managed to make him a flatter character in the TV show than in the movies, where his handful of words, grunts, and many, many expressions paint a fuller person. We don’t get that abusive subtext at all from the movies. And the movies, what makes them so rich, is the subtext. The TV show is like a bull in a china shop compared to the movies, tbh. But like I said, different writing. And the audience is obviously aimed at… what was it? Oh yeah, 9-13 year old boys.

I’m glad you like Ruffspite! I mean, it’s purely a crackship for me, but it still holds some appeal, even now.

Now this Eret/Spitelout… that’s something I’m going to look for whenever I see the movie again. Where was it? I’m genuinely curious. It’s an interesting idea if Gobber and Spitelout were to start a silent rivalry over Eret. You know, the kind the whole village is aware of and watches for like the gossipers they are.

In HTTYD1 Snotlout says “my parents’ basement” which makes me think he has a mother in the picture (Freda, I believe her names was in the books). Maybe she died in Drago’s attack! Or maybe she’s just hiding. Maybe she left Spitelout because she couldn’t conform to the new Berkian lifestyle! Oooh, so many mabeys…

Maybe she took Snotlout’s sister and joined the Bog Burglars. Yum, I like that.

[kingofthewilderwest]

Ah sorry for asking you so many questions, and thank you for being so being so kind to answer them all ;v; So what was your favorite new dragon in the movie?

Can we give it up for Moosie Boi?!?!

[saieras]

Hello! I'm sorry if this sounds weird, but I liked your add on answer to the headcanons! =) I love the thought of Stoick & Spitelout being brothers in law (or half brothers) and Spitelout comming to respect and support Hiccup when he's questioned is great! Would you mind if I asked about your fanfic and Spitelout's tragic story in it? I'm very curious!

Hi! Not at all weird!

So my fic is available on AO3 or FFN, and it’s set 20 years after THW. It’s centered mainly on Zephyr and Nuffink and their adventures and coming-of-age during a time when trouble might be brewing on the horizon. Snotlout/Spitelout’s backstory was touched upon in one of the chapters, although of course as author I would prefer if you didn’t skip ahead :P

Let me know if you end up reading it! I’d love to know your thoughts!

P.S. to the Anon who sent the Ask on pregstrid headcanons, I haven’t forgotten about your Ask; it would just spoil quite a bit of a future chapter, so I’m holding off on answering that until I finish that chapter.

[shinneth]

Hello! I just finished reading Travels of the Trifecta! on ao3 and I absolutely adored it! Without a doubt the best Pokémon story I've ever read and just so beautifully written! >w< I don't mean to gush, just wanted to let you know how much I loved it and that I left a nice comment on ao3! I don't know how often you visit your page there ;v; It's even encouraged me to catch a Smoochum & Castform in Pokemon Sun! Anyway I hope I haven't bothered you!

Hey now, if you’re taking time out of your life to express how much you enjoyed anything I write, that’s never something I’d get bothered about! It’s very much the other way around. 

Nowadays, I don’t have much to pride myself on outside of my ability to write. So it really does mean the world to me when I get comments/reviews/messages for any of my stories; especially when effort is put in so I’ll know exactly what I did right and how it affected the reader. 

Even though I’m very much an author with the philosophy of only writing for myself with no regard to what the public would want, I consider it a gift to be told that any work of mine meant so much to someone other than myself. It goes a long way in sustaining my (perpetually low) self-esteem, so I’d never ever ever be bothered by anyone who goes out of their way to tell me what they experienced while reading anything I write.

Really, the only bad thing is that I haven’t updated Trifecta in forever so I end up feeling like a dick leaving readers hanging. I can say with certainty that it isn’t dead. Trifecta is not dead until I say it is. It’s all about my mindset and how to get into the right form of it when the planets align, because the freaky phenomenon that struck me at the start of this year proves I’m capable of writing an insane amount of material in relatively short periods of time. 

I’m still trying to figure that out, honestly. In 20+ years of writing, this has never happened to me before until this year. 

… on top of that, you picked a good time to do this! I’m in a really craptastic mood this weekend (coincidentally due to other stories of mine), so I really needed something like this to help pick me up. So rest assured I’m very grateful for what you’ve done for me!

(I’ll admit I’m curious why there’s been a spike of interest in Trifecta recently… it’s been getting a lot of attention this month even though I’ve done nothing new for it in ages!)

[evilwriter37]

That's fair, I don't like how he's treated Snotlout at times either. And your right, a good character dosn't have to be a good person. I suppose I just don't see him as badly as some, even when he's said something mean to Snotlout he never came off as malicious to me, like he was purposely trying to hurt his son. To me it came off more as he dosn't realize how he makes Snotlout feel at times, and they do have nice moments together too in the show and it's clear he loves Snotlout.

Ah not that it makes it okay how he treats Snotlout of course. I'm not trying to excuse it, just share why I don't dislike him like most fans do.

He cares for Snotlout in the wrong way and is way too controlling of him. His pushing for Snotlout to strive to be better than everyone else is also not good for him. So yeah, he cares, but it definitely comes off as abusive.