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Thank you @mdoodlerfandomart for the ink art. I had fun coloring my favorite HTTYD ship.

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This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

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Mermay 2023 - #09 Modern - HTTYD Hiccup and Astrid

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Hiccup never would have thought Gobber's stories about mermaids were true, yet here he is staring one in the face.

I'm tempted to do this to see how much I can fuck up the ai system and get paid to do so.

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ok. I've been looking for the answer to this for a long time and I can't find it. Who actually watched the wedding night? I guess the chief and the gothi but were there any others?

WHO WATCHED THE VIKING WEDDING NIGHT?

IN OTHER WORDS, WHO WOULD OBSERVE HICCUP’S AND ASTRID’S CONSUMMATION?

Oh ho ho.  Isn’t this the million dollar question…And the answer may surprise people.

The truth is that no one watched.

I’m going to assume you’re asking this for the purpose of HTTYD, so I’m going to speak in terms of that.  And basically reconstruct the entire wedding process from start to finish.  If you only want to know about the wedding night, skip to the part in bold and then to the very end.

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Ah well shit this is me when I'm on my meds.

Whenever I start to fall down the doubt spiral of ADHD doom (“but what if I don’t have ADHD, what if I’m actually just a terrible person who doesn’t try hard enough and who somehow accidentally managed to manipulate a specialist into thinking I have ADHD?”) I like to take ADHD “tests” to remind myself that yeah, actually, my brain is 13 trash fires masquerading as 12 feral cats in a trench coat and that actually, my ADHD is both

a) pretty severe and

b) entirely unmedicated due to my physical health being the equivalent of a meteor strike masquerading as 13 trash fires.

Anyway, this one has a cool pie chart with colors which I found quite helpful compared to the usual number scales. But also, lmao, help...

Edit: link for anyone that wants it. (This is obviously not a complete or comprehensive diagnostic tool. I just thought the way it was laid out was cool and way more accessible compared to others I’ve seen in the past.)

Penguins. I have over 10 stuffies and a few shirts

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I've been sharing some stuff I use on tt and ig so here's a compilation of it for y'all too

all except for two of these are totally free btw

happy arting 🤙🤙

WTF do you know how many gluten-free foods have soy in them. Like little over half, they're taking that much away from people who need to be gluten-free.

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There has been a massive (literally millions of pounds) recall on Prosante (owned by Cargill) soy flour used in manufacturing gluten free foods due to the potential to contain more than 20ppm of gluten. This recall affects several countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, and Guatemela.

This recall is relatively new information, and the FDA hasn't listed a press release for this event yet (for now it only shows up on their weekly enforcement report, probably because it was a firm-initiated recall), but if the figures are accurate, this could have far-reaching effects across gluten free food products. A glance at Cargill's website shows this flour is mostly used in meat alternatives, but be wary of products with soy flour included until we know more.

ROTBTD Incorrect Quotes / Dialogue

* Starts to rain somewhere*

Hiccup: Oh wow today's weather looks just like you, Merida.

Merida: The forecast did say several inches of rain I heard, can you imagine more than one inch. 

Hiccup: I think I'm having trouble maybe if you moved a little bit that way into the oncoming dragon swarm. Then, the entire world and I would have the peace and quiet necessary to envision such a thing. 

Merida: I would but then who would take care of our dear Rapunzel? What would she do without her best friend? 

* Hiccup pushes Merida into the rain.*

Hiccup: Oh, you didn't melt the stories lied to me.

Merida: I hate you.

Hiccup: I hate you more.

Astrid redraw:>

I've never tried to exactly redraw an image in digital before, as I did in traditional, although I think this is an oversight))

Hope you like it, I tried very hard on this, her skirt is just a pain🥲

my favourite cousins (rtte edition)

Sketching to practice human anatomy and I used Hiccup Haddock from HTTYD movies as a reference

Thank you for the 14 followers! Sorry have not posted anything original, I have been struggling with medical issues and school. Good thing is that medical issues might be resolved soon and school is almost over. The comic outline I have been working on is up to the 8th chapter.

It works on dragons, too. 

real boy hours

colors are hardddddd

Finally!! The words in this were based off of Hiccup’s narration in the first book of the How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell. I’ve been working on this for a few months now (on and off) and finally just finished it for the Dragons 2 release. Happy flying for those who are going to see it!!! :)

I had to oddly compress everything because of Tumblr formatting x__X make sure you click the 3 mini pictures after the first/second panel!!!

Oh shit, here we go again.

I have good news and bad news.

The good news is the twins are finally back!

The bad news is they've brought a Whispering Death with them. A Titan Wing Whispering Death. An angry Titan Wing Whispering Death. An angry Titan Wing Whispering Death that is currently chasing them through the village as we speak. Someone should probably do something about that.

We're going to send them to dragon island. They got themselves into this, they can sort it out themselves.

It IS concerning that we now have to deal with the carpenter again. We're not exactly on good terms with him.

Ah, that answers a lot of questions thank you.

A little while ago you reblogged(?) a post about not using certain monsters because they belong to certain cultures unless you belong to those cultures - I’m not trying to be offensive or ignorant, I was just wondering, if enough research is done and appropriate respect is taken to those origins, is it ok to use them? I mean, is there something to be said about sharing parts of stories? Is it any different than using monsters from Greek mythology?

You’re referring to this post.

It’s complicated, but it boils down to “Since so often the research isn’t done and appropriate respect isn’t given to the originating cultures, it is better to err on the side of caution; as part of that, abstain from using those entities (especially as they’re typically presented in pop culture), and instead use these substitutes.” 

I mean, is there something to be said about sharing parts of stories?

Yes, there is something to be said about sharing–when it’s shared by someone who it belongs to.  Otherwise, it’s theft.  And cultural theft–of dominant cultures taking the “fun bits” of cultures that they find interesting and discarding the rest–is a massive problem right now.  

Let me give an example that’s particular to my culture.  My culture is Jewish–or, speaking more specifically, Rabbinic Judaism, which developed from Pharisaic Judaism after the destruction of the Holy Temple by Rome almost two millennia ago.  For the last 1900 years, my culture has been living in diaspora at the (dubious) mercy of gentiles, and we’ve developed a wide array of religiously and culturally meaningful rituals, stories, foods and so forth.  These cultural artifacts are ours, and I can say without hyperbole that we have been brutalized and killed for practicing these parts of our culture.  We have paid, in blood and lives, for our right to these practices as part of who we are.

Now, after centuries of having killed us for our culture, Christians are instead stealing bits of Rabbinic Judaism’s cultural practices for themselves.  Christian “Seders” at Passover are a thing.  Christians write thinkpieces on why they should celebrate Channukah.  After centuries of persecuting Jews for practicing Judaism, It’s considered cute and trendy to take the “fun bits” of Judaism for themselves.  (And that’s not even touching “Messianic judaism” and it’s wholesale theft of Rabbinic Judaism’s cultural practices in an effort to convert Jews by trickery).  

Imagine how I feel about that sort of theft, seeing it again and again and again…

So you’re asking me if you can use the Golem in your stories?

Well, why should you?  Do you know that the Golem was made as a protector by the head rabbi of Prague to protect the Jewish community against the Christian community during a period of repeated accusations of Blood Libel?  That it was essentially made as a defender that wouldn’t abandon us, that wouldn’t take our money and turn on us like mercenaries did, when the mobs came with torches and knives to kill the Jews who they believed were kidnapping Christian children to use their blood?  That it was a story told by Jewish parents to Jewish children that we would have a magical bulwark to stand between us and a world that wanted to kill us in horrible fashions?  

Why should you take that and get to turn it into a generic constructed monster built by a wizard as a dumb defender of his wizard’s tower when there is a perfectly acceptable substitute in the form of elementals, which don’t have that baggage of coming from an abused culture watching the stories that they’ve kept for themselves be torn away from them and used for the enjoyment of the people who persecuted them?  Why do you have to take it?  Why does your desire for it outweigh our wish that you leave it to us?

As for the difference with the Greeks–while the Greek pagans are making a comeback, the original religion of the Greeks has been destroyed and paved over with Christianity.  There’s a fundamental difference between taking from a dead culture and a living persecuted one.  

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Thank you for the screencap and all the others. They are useful for reference

I'm new so I don't know what is going on but I am afraid to ask.

My friend just got struck by lightning (not predicted by the weather wheel). VIKING FUNERAL!

Fun fact vikings didn't actually put their dead on boats in water and set it on fire. The fire has to be REALLY hot in order to cremate a body (which is why we have special furnaces for cremating people instead of just chucking them on your ol camp fire pit) so if they did that, there's just be flaming boats of half burned corpses washing up, because water is also cold and puts out fire.

What they ACTUALLY did was preserve the body in a mixture of alcohol and other chemicals to preserve them until they could bury them in mounds, because frozen ground is annoying to dig in. If you're rich you get a literal ship in your grave, but most people just got the outline of a ship made with rocks. They thought that was good enough to manifest a ship in death to take them to the afterlife for them, if they didn't get Valhalla.

I can't remember sources off the top of my head, but if you google it, you'll find plenty of articles about it.

Hey everyone. I remember reading an HTTYD fanfic titled "My Hiccup," and one of the plots was Alvin enslaving the Berserker tribe with Dagur trying to free them. And though why the hell not make this into a ROBTD comic with Alvin as the main bad guy? Of course, Pitch and others are in this too.

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Rapunzel design for Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons. From "Watching the Big Four" by Camkablam on Fanfiction.net

1st post on Tumblr. Hiccup Haddock in his THW outfit.