Httyd - Blog Posts
People wanna be my friend and then they realise I put more commitment into talking and analysing everything about how to train your dragon than an actual friendship
I think the reason people are using dreamworks to hate on Disney is because Dreamworks relies on more of a fantasy element where there's magic and fairies and it's all set in the past or in a magic land where everything's interesting whereas Disney relies on pixar and Marvel to make shitty movies that all have the same character tropes and the same morals that are all set in the modern world or the future
Dreamworks can acknowledge that people don't really like the present because of the whole screen addiction thing so they stick to a timeline and a theme where screens are rarely and sometimes never necessary while Disney likes to focus on being inclusive so they modernise all their stories.
Also Dreamworks is more open to experimental work and the animators have more creative freedom to draw things in different styles or give the characters different features and personalities and details and little mannerisms and habits (Take Hiccup for example: handicapped, left handed, talks with his hands alot, adventurous, smart but stupid about it, very peaceful) while all Disney's characters are hollow and a sort if copy and paste theme.
Dreamworks takes more risks to put out movies with plots and characters that no ones ever seen before while Disney just takes stories they've already done, changes up the characters a little bit and them adds a message about generational trauma.
This leads to my rant about how much I hate httyd 3.
The soundtrack was too melodramatic. And the visuals were all bright and colourful to get the attention of 2 year olds. The light fury design was pathetic. The only reason the light fury exists is to be Toothless's girlfriend. Then they went against everything they'd worked for within the first 2 movies. In the first 2 it was all about how Hiccup and Toothless are bestfriends and stick together no matter what. That was even the moral in the 2 shows, first Christmas special and one of the short spin off films. But the third movie went against all of that and made them separate. It ruined the trilogy! The second movie however. The soundtrack fit perfectly for each scene and the colour scheme was perfect. In the scenes where Hiccup discovered his mother and the bewilderbeast nest the colours are appropriate and bright while not bombarding the screen with flashing lights and colours while the scenes featuring Drago had a more dark and sinister colour scheme, as well as the music becoming more heavy and ominous. Where as in the hidden world the colour scheme always had bright colours which made it feel less dark and scary. They modernised the Viking age so that it would be more appealing to younger generations. But the thing about the how to train your dragon fan base is that it mostly consists of people aged 12-27.
“there will always be a Hiccup and Astrid, always”
Can we get more Windwalker drawings 🥺🙏 /hj
plz don't judge the way I drew the Windwalker I just wanted to experiment a little😭😭
I'm not the best at drawing backgrounds but I've gotten better at drawing grass I think!
Little doodle pages in my sketchbook
Me and bro celebrating after beating the dating allegations
The entire httyd experience summed up in one sentence
i feel so bad cause no matter how capable/intelligent hiccup is im like aww what a cutie
And Bolt!! Bolt is good too!!
me watching literally anything: hm not as good as How To Train Your Dragon (2010)
October - December httyd books doodles dump!
Sometimes I log on to tumblr just to look at this because it makes me happy
On a road trip so here's a wobbly doodle of Hiccup beaming over his first child.
i love this movie but this part always made me sorta laugh
TYSM FOR TELLING ME I WAS TRYNA FIGURE IT OUT 😭
Do yall think Camicazi is adopted or do u think Big Boobied Bertha is her bio mum??
Do yall think Camicazi is adopted or do u think Big Boobied Bertha is her bio mum??
Sobbing because I spent so much time and effort being hyperfixated on how to train your dragon and the audiobooks are what led to my downfall into my new doctor who hyperfix
I didn't like it it just felt anticlimatic. It was a great book don't get me wrong but it's not as good as the other ones
this might be a stupid question but why does everyone hate book 5?
Genuinely have no idea, so this is an open invitation to everyone who feels like they can add to the discussion to please do so in the reblogs and replies of this post
so, I did a thing
my brain vomited on a piece of paper about ✨cowboy✨hiccup because idk man. i just think a wild-westified httyd au would be pretty neat. but with dragons, because i know jack shit about drawing horses
bonus from @spacenintendogs:
#makes sense httyd is just a horse girl franchise
Nothing to say, i just love this picture
I listened to the httyd audiobooks too much and now my thoughts either sound like Fishlegs, Hiccup, Camicazi or just straight up Dsvid Tennant
I just found out yesterday that the httyd audiobooks are free on youtube and I'm already on book 4
@howtopostanaudiobook on YouTube (they also have the 1st 2 books of the wizards of once)
This is perfect. This is beautiful. I like this a lot.
some hiccups ft. his dragons<3
Valka and snotlout would have such a cute familial relationship if dreamworks didn’t suck
Hiccup has dad-brain and needs to cycle through a series of names before getting his kids' names right and eventually he just gives up, especially when he's flustered.
Example of him calling Zephyr when she's causing trouble: "Nuffink! Toothless! Ruff-! Snot-! You! Goblin child! Come here please, thank you. I said *no* biting!"
I'm going feral
someone explain to me why he's like this
This is so adorable oh my god
he's so sad
he needs his hyperfixation buddy
"How do I look??"
"I don't know I can't see 😭"
I have a request for when you wake up if that's okay!! What about Hiccup wearing glasses and being a little embarrassed and sheepish about it?? 🥹 (not a modern au unless u want to ofc, but if u want we can just pretend glasses existed then LOL)
And maybe Astrid trying on his glasses?? 🥹
THE ULTIMATE SILLIES
TYSM FOR THIS I LOVE THIS IDEAAA
modern things in the httyd universe is such a funny thing im keepin it goin
One of the things I live about tumblr is that uts literally amazing for all my fandom needs. Like, you could have the rarest hyperfixation ever and there will be an entire community for it on tumblr filled with fanart, fanfics, rambles, info dumps, theories and memes. I love tumblr.