Come sit here at our table of fellowship.

There are warm candles to light, good food to be eaten, and deep words to be said.

[undercoverossifrage]

Welcome to the show!

I realize that I haven't made an about me post ever and certainly haven't pinned one. Oops. Regardless, welcome to my blog! I go by Ossi around here. I am a female Christian and am studying to get my Bachelors degree in History and Communications. I play a bunch of instruments but mostly guitar and like all kinds of art. I mainly do watercolor and digital art. I also illustrate children's books and paint portraits. I love anything history related but especially military history and strategy.

Main fandoms:

How to train your dragon books

The Wingfeather Saga

Lord of the rings

100 Cupboards

The hatchet series

Narnia

Mysterious Benedict Society

Percy Jackson

Tangled the Series

Gravity Falls

Winnie the Pooh

Band of brothers

1917

Jojo Rabbit

Hacksaw Ridge

Over the Garden Wall

Avatar the Last Airbender

Chernobyl BBC

Epic the musical

The Odyssey

Probably I forgot a few but anyway, that's mostly it! Feel free to settle here for a bit and enjoy the trees!

[petrova-line]

rocky’s design notes from james ortiz’ instagram :) going insane at the reason rocky put two arms together when giving his name was to show his family crest

[nikoisme]

i love drawing him with babies..

[c0wardlyle0]

Book Hiccup drawing I did a few months back.

I feel like my styles kinda changed a bit since then, but also I’m still so happy with this drawing so I’m posting it anywho lol.

[c0wardlyle0]

I drew this how to train your dragon fanart like a month ago and I’m still really proud of it.

[sharrrrknight]

Yknow the lil fanfic trope where a character, usually non-human, purrs like a cat. In this case it would obviously be Rocky but what if it was Grace instead hear me out-

[wolfythewitch]

Doodles

[catnippackets]

I've never met Adrian but I already like them

[quiet-art-kid]

Thoughts on Hiccup being "The last great Viking Hero"

When I first read that Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the last king of the Wilderwest and the last great Viking hero, I always thought that meant the Wilderwest fell apart after his death, unable to endure without a Hiccup at the helm, but that is admittedly a very pessimistic take.

Right now, I have a slightly more hopeful point of view. What if Hiccup was the last great Viking hero, not because no one else could ever be as great a hero as him, but because no one ever needed to be?

Despite the awesomeness of daring quests and clever plans, underneath it all, it were the suffering people who needed Hiccup. It is never wise to rest the fate of society on one person. Hiccup was an exception to this rule, though he chose to be the exception. He really was that fantastical good king who is wise, fair, and just. But a good king does not necessarily mean a good bloodline. Grimbeard the Ghastly hailed from Hiccup the First’s lineage, and yet the two could not be further apart. Hiccup knows that he cannot control what his descendants become.

I think that during his life, Hiccup phased out the monarchy, as he did with the dragons, in favor of a more republic/democratic system, where instead of there being one glorious hero tasked with saving everyone, problems were solved collectively, with each person doing their own small part.

This solution lacks the romance of the epic tales of heroes of old (which might explain the slightly wistful tone of the books)

Robin Hood peacefully filling out forms for state-provided aid to feed the poor and helping pass legislation that limits taxation on low-income individuals just does not hit the same as Robin Hood bravely robbing the greedy rich and challenging evil sheriffs to sword fights. Still, it is a much more realistic solution.

I don't think that this means that there weren't people who would step up in times of crisis. I think there were definitely heroes after Hiccup, but none to the degree that Hiccup had to be

[vampirejuno]

Can you imagine being stuck in space completely alone with only the corpses of your friends for company, and the first living thing you meet after 46 years of that misery is a fucking weird alien creature who just rolls up with crazy advanced tech and goes "hi let's work together" and makes it possible for you to save your world through the power of friendship and molecular biology. AND THEN you find out that in this creature's language, its name means "mercy". Happened to my good friend Rocky btw

[gaynaegis]

Looking forward//thinking backward

[stealthetrees]

Rocky should have an identical twin and they conspire to prank Grace so the twin goes to visit him pretending they’re Rocky but Grace instantly knows it’s not cause they’re different colors despite being the exact same shape and texture.

[applejaymi]

touch starved

[applejaymi]

im sorry everyone i made them hug

[omgitskaii]

im quite fond of them.

[keysmashing-bees]

…They told me that the end is near…

[kinstein-art]

everyone and their mother has already drawn them in this pose and im no exception. i love them so so muuuuuucccchhhhh

[sticker-stars]

y'all project hail mary is peak

i watched the movie three times and bawled every single time

i love grace and rocky so so so much