Because Of How Different The Viking Age Was To Modern Day, I Love That There’s So Many Career Paths

There’s this art I found on Pinterest by mdoodlerfandomart and it’s so funny because it basically went like this.

Hiccup: is tied up and being held hostage in Viggo’s ship.

Viggo: pacing around a white board with a model of the earth in hand.

Viggo: “ You see dear Hiccup! This proves the earth is round. It’s a circle! Look! It rotates! It’s not flat! Its r.o.u.n.d!

Hiccup: who is trying to figure out if this is a ploy to make him let his guard down or if Viggo actually thinks the world is a sphere.

Wait omg do you want me to credit you or?? Also thanks for this wonderful photo because it is hilarious

I like how most of RTTE is hiccup being a mother hen to his very crazy toddler children.

And then the opposite happens whenever he’s on an inventing frenzy.

Very much inspired by this photo a friend sent.

Question- I’m about 1/3 through writing my httyd princess bride AU and have enough material for around 3 chapters.

If you were to read it, would you want it to upload with a 3 chapter buffer or as a bigger word one shot?

Key question; chapters or one shot uploaded likely in around 1-2 weeks?

Tuffnut: Okay, here's where things get a bit weird.

Hiccup: Things have been bit weird for a while.

Tuffnut: Here's where things continue in that general direction.

Youve been reading too much fanfiction

Absolutely. Probably. Most likely. 😭

y'all. how to bread your dragon was not supposed to be literal, but since i posted that i cannot stop thinking about it. so have the (possible) opening to the fic

Hiccup had never been your ordinary Viking. He wasn’t tall, or muscular, or fixated on killing dragons like the rest of his peers. He was… different. And not in a good way. This all changed however, when he met Toothless. Toothless was different too. And now everything had changed since then, the Vikings had made peace with the dragons, and the dragons with the Vikings. Now Hiccup was free to pursue his real passion.

Baking.

why do you want to go see the live action in the cinema? i thought you disliked it, why would you spend your money on it? /genq

I think there’s some fun in it. I have a big love for the series and even though I dislike pointless remakes, I do want to compare them via big screen. Also I never had the chance to listen to test drive on the big screen. That’s a small part of it.

It’s me mainly wanting to consume more httyd content, even if it’s a semi lifeless remake.

Who knows, with the original directors on it, maybe it’ll be good.

“He thinks he has to lead alone… because his father had to”

That scene left me somewhat sour when I first saw it, and it still does. Valka is trying to give Astrid advice as she was the woman married to the Chief. As Chieftess one would assume Valka had responsibilities as well, and her first duty was to her husband.

But like, I don’t think Valka had the right to be coaching Astrid? First of all, the reason Stoick was left alone was because of YOU, Valka. Hiccup has this impression of his father because Valka was never there. Hiccup figures that if his father, who would always be mourning the death of his wife, could do it, so could he. And honestly, I think Hiccup doesn’t like to mess up, not necessarily that he thinks he has to lead alone. He can be in his head sometimes, but we’ve seen him incorporate other’s ideas (in RTTE which was totally not taken into account in THW) and I don’t think Hiccup has ever admitted that he thinks he has to lead alone anyway. So I’m not sure why Valka thinks she’s right. Unless it was said offscreen, but what would that matter if the audience didn’t see it.

The movie lacked any real scenes between Valka and Hiccup imo.

And then Valka suggests Astrid console him, as though Valka knows Hiccup all that well. I know she means well, and had known Hiccup for a year, but I don’t think she had the right to play parent when he’s a grown adult who’s leading the village.

I get Valka is the voice of reason like Stoick was to Hiccup and Astrid (we see that mainly in RTTE between him and Astrid), but personally, she didn’t earn the right to give advice regarding the son she left behind for twenty years.

You wanna play wise parent now? Too late.

Again, I know she means well and is able to recognize her husband’s challenges in her son, but I just think the conversation was unnecessary. Astrid already KNOWS what to do with Hiccup. Astrid’s really the only person that can get Hiccup to spill and he’s always honest with her. Astrid knows how to handle him, and she knows how to communicate. Heck, Astrid knows Hiccup better than Valka does.

I’m sure the writers must’ve realized too late that there weren’t any scenes between Valka and Astrid (which sucks because I feel like Astrid would hold some resentment towards her on Hiccup’s behalf, and that would’ve been an interesting conversation) and they needed to come up with a scene. I don’t see Valka as wise as Stoick was. She’s cool yeah, and this post wasn’t made to bash her, but her character overall was just not handled right from the start.

Toothless and Hiccup spend the first movie getting their themes in sync - the first time we hear this is the iconic moment in Test Drive

Then the second movie opens with Hiccup and Toothless not just in sync but their themes have become a whole song. Not just matching but in perfect harmony with each other