Book 7 gave me nightmares as a kid about getting taken by Norbert the Nutjob and sold into the Viking slave trade and I was petrified of Bearcub's grandma
we always specify the difference between the earlier books and the later books in the HTTYD franchise as "books 1-7 are whimsical, fun child fantasy and books 8-12 are absolutely fucked" but... i don't believe that's true.
the later books are consistently fucked up and complicated and mature and wonderful and tend to leave me with tears in my eyes. the early books trick you into believing that they're fun children's stories and then jumpscare you with the most messed up set of paragraphs you've ever read in your entire fucking life AND THEN just pretend like nothing ever happened.
the books all take place in the same universe, the same fucked up, horrible world. the early books are through the lense of a child who hasn't yet grasped how fucked up the world is, who hasn't been exposed to the fuckery yet. the later books are through the lense of the same child who has now been burdened with Knowledge. once you have the context of the later books, the earlier books start to make too much sense. and holy fuck do they get a lot darker upon reread.
the books are all completely fucked up. the only difference is the consistency at which the books are fucked up.
you know what book seriously messed me up as a kid? book 2. DEAR GODS BOOK 2.
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i just post whatever i want idc 💔💔
one thing i love about the writing of the httyd books is that there are no rules. none. its written in the same way someone with adhd tells a story. going off on tangents all the time with a bunch of parentheses and dashes and incorrect grammar. like its so refreshing.
I told my friend about this idea and he said they should make them go hand gliding and their outfits will be ranked off of style and aerodynamics.
Httyd but instead of how to train your dragon it's how to train your drag queen and they have drag shows where every drag queen is given a dragon that they have to base their outfit off of
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.
"a joy to have in class" aka This Child Will Not Be Diagnosed for at least Eight Years
My favourite thing about Link is that you play as him and he's the most important guy ever so there's so many different ideas of what his personality is like because you can just make him do whatever the fuck you want. He's a lover boy, a soldier, a chef, a photographer, a pyromaniac, a dirty little unemployed child, a femboy, a tough as guts macho man, autistic, anxious, outgoing, outrageously confident, reckless, idiotic, strategic genius and that's all because he's everyone who's ever played tloz because Link is whoever you decide to be when you play him Everyone is some variation of Link and I love it
Experiencing writers block please give me prompts for a pjo, hoo, totk/botw/eow or Arcane fanfic (if you see this don't just like and repost please give me a prompt)
P.S No smut, furthest I'll go is a makeout or 2 but I can write fluff, angst or action. I write for literally any character, please just request something (might not be great at eow fanfics cus I only got it yesterday and I'm stuck on the fight with Jabu Jabu)