#lotbd

[thefangirlibrarian]

somewhere in the back of my head there is brewing a land of the beautiful dead harrymort AU, but i fear this is so niche it would have zero audience.

just imagine. voldemort the eternal, voldemort the lord of the living dead, and harry showing up in the city that once was london to demand the master of death end his Eaters.

#land of the beautiful dead #lotbd #harrymort

[nightfury-2001]

Wait, the Boneknapper isn’t canon anymore? Since when?

Yep, a couple years ago Richard Hamilton straight up said it wasn't "officially canon" on Twitter.

Personally I don't really care about what's actually "canon" anymore (the last official HTTYD thing I truly enjoyed was like...HTTYD 2) but it sucks that we probably won't see the Boneknapper in anything official ever again. :/

#httyd #how to train your dragon #lotbd #legend of the boneknapper dragon #boneknapper #reply #anonymous

[onewomancitadel]

Bizarrely enough - my thoughts having taken some time to percolate - Land of the Beautiful Dead was almost more moving and more poignant through its exploration of grief just as pronouncedly its romance. Or rather, it’s an excellent demonstration of how romance, part-character study, part-mystery, part-horror, part-whateverthefuck, can be used to explore ideas in really unique and special ways...

it’s so heartbreaking and beautiful, like, in the name Land of the Beautiful Dead - you get this idea that, oh, there’s Azrael’s idea of beauty, which is this type of incorruptible yet necroromantic influence, and everybody who has arisen fucking hates his guts, but he loves them desperately - and he can’t let go - but then you realise as the book unfolds what is beautiful is death, which he actually spurns. He doesn’t let people die. And to die is horrible, but it is also necessary, and it is also beautiful, sweet relief, and because he cannot die he cannot understand how to live, but Lan turns up.

All those little heroes who wanted to kill him could not understand his wound (and he’s literally a walking wound - he carries deep and plentiful pains), and obviously - major spoilers - she comes to intimately understand him by the end and become just like him, deathless, but appreciative of life. Azrael, because he cannot die, you’d think, would never be able to understand life and how precious it is, but through Lan he does, and he appreciates her death equally too, but they can also have their cake and eat it and be together forever. He has finally learnt his lesson, and so too has Lan: people, even dead, aren’t really gone, as they name their new home after her mother, and she can finally confront the wound of her mother’s death, the wound that had equally helped her heal the world and help Azrael.

Such a devastatingly beautiful book.

#land of the beautiful dead #lotbd #and then there is also the fact that he is ostracised and he is ugly but Lan loves him for it and finds him actually beautiful #equally like he and Lan learn the preciousness of life and death #so it's like #grief AND beauty

[punkbarbarian]

the legend of the black dagger—

After plundering a royal trade ship too close to the island nation of Fallinel, the crew of The Black Dagger is being hunted by the Elven royal navy. Their escape brings them knowledge of the nefarious plans of the Abernant family, who are seeking to start a war with the nation of Solace. The crew resolves themselves to stop the Abernants before it’s too late.

chapter one: fabian

this is my first d20 fic! i’m very excited about it and i hope you all enjoy! it will be updated on sundays and wednesdays :)

#writing #dimension 20 #dimension 20 fanfiction #fantasy high fanfic #fantasy high #fabian seacaster #riz gukgak #adaine abernant #fig faeth #gorgug thistlespring #kristen applebees #fabriz #trackerbees #figayda #gorgug x zelda #the legend of the black dagger #lotbd #talking

[pennyhaddock]

Eh, safety's overrated.

Gobber the Belch

#httyd #httyd2 #httyd3 #thw #lotbd #legend of the boneknapper #gobber the belch #gobber

[yourfavispure]

The Hammerhead Yak and Hammerhead Whale from Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon are pure

Requested by an anon

#hammerhead yak #yak #hammerhead whale #whale #lotbd #how to train your dragon #httyd #httyd hammerhead #pride #legend of the boneknapper dragon #pure #pure pride #Favorite #yourfav #your fav #fave #fav #your fave #yourfave #your fav is pure #your fave is pure #yourfavispure #yourfaveispure

[queenofthearchipelago]

Always cannon

#lotbd #legend of the boneknapper dragon #dragons #thoughtsfromthequeen #httyd #dragon nip

[berkedits]

“Aren’t you cute? Yes you are! Yes you are!”

#httydedit #lotb #lotbd #legend of the boneknapper #legend of the boneknapper dragon #animationedit #dreamworksedit #* #boneknapper #gobber #gobber the belch #500

[astridthefearless]

But the frozen Viking was still alive! 

He started punching me in the face! 

Oh, my tooth!

@fanwriter02  you asked for it :) Based on this post by @the-fanaddict

#httyd #httyd2 #lotbd #gobber #bewilderbeast #hiccup #how to train your dragon #how to train a dragon 2 #legend of the boneknapper dragon #i added the tooth part #:d #my gifs

[renofstarlight]

Well I finished Land of the Beautiful Dead last night. I figured after my cat puked on my bed that I might as well top off the day with a potentially awful chapter. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be, not nearly as triggering as I was expecting, but still very sad. I haven’t wept and sobbed over a book in a very long time. (tbh I think I just wanted an excuse to cry since I had been holding it in all damn day.) But it ultimately had a happy ending and that was really nice.

That book is definitely on my favorite books list now. It was amazing.

Shoutout to @ohtze for live blogging it so I could find such an amazing book. You’ve got me actually reading books again and I’m grateful for that. <3

#land of the beautiful dead #lotbd #personal

[dailyhiccstrid]

REQUESTS ARE OPEN!

Firstly, sorry for not being so active lately, both of us were pretty busy. Secondly, I’m working on the poll for the favorite quote thing, hopefully, we can start it the next weekend.

So, to get this blog active again, your requests would be a huge help. You can request from anything, from the movies to the series, we’ll gif them! :)

Don’t be afraid to ask us!

#dailyhiccstrid #admin post #by luta #hiccstrid #httyd #httyd2 #rtte #gotnf #bod #lotbd #dotdr #request

[onewomancitadel]

She reached the edge of the dais and stopped, staring up at him—  Azrael the God, the Conqueror, Azrael Who Is Death— and he leaned forward over his table to look down at her— Lan, who had no more home and who was no one’s daughter.

The Land of the Beautiful Dead, R. Lee Smith.

#lotbd #land of the beautiful dead #lord of death/just a girl with a dead mother who loved her #WHO WILL WIN? #I adore this book so much

[punkbarbarian]

the legend of the black dagger—

chapter 9: riz

Riz offers some advice. Fabian makes a move.

new chapter is up! i hope you enjoy :)

#oops fabriz time #talking #the legend of the black dagger #lotbd #fabriz #fantasy high fanfic #dimension 20 fic #fic

[lonepower]

i love him i love him i love him i love him i love him i love him i love him i love him i love him i lo

#chi reads lotbd

[afterblossom]

Redesign the cover of Land of the Beautiful Dead

#Book cover #design #illustration #land of the beautiful dead #R.Lee Smith #LOTBD #Azrael #Lan

[corseque]

I’ve been listening to this romance novel and it should be my kind of thing... the plot is like “wizard-king has an arranged marriage with the daughter of his most hated enemy”

but the plot is so external...? like everything that happens is a physical threat to the princess’ life and she keeps getting nearly beat to death by her dad and sickness and wild animals and poison attempts and evil wizards, and the incidents don’t really reveal anything about the characters... at first I thought this was kind of fun, but after the fifth time she gets nearly mortally injured and wakes up recovering in bed, I’m like please... I need more internality and quiet witty conversations with your hot enemy husband. When you already have an antagonist in your love interest, all these wild animals slicing you open are wasting my gd time... (and then I think maybe all this is just my own utter inability to write an external plot talking and I should be taking notes, but I’m not sure)

#writing #romance novels #it’s ‘the winter king’ and i’m reading it cause it #was on a list of ‘so you love grace draven and are crying cause there’s #only like five other authors who even come close’ list #i liked this book toward the beginning but both main characters are real static #there’s no atmosphere or nuance it’s all explained to death idk #it’s hard to be satisfied after land of the beautiful dead ;_; #i want to re-read some juliet marilliet as a chaser #and then I go to plot my fic and I just don’t find external threats that exciting........ #maybe i just need to find metaphors to enjoy about it... #the people who loved this book were probably the ones that hated the internality of Land of the BD’s plot lmao #even when LOTBD had an excellent ongoing external plot that was Thematically Relevant and Revealed Character