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that feeling when you find out that one of your best friends sa’d his little brother a few years ago

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btw hiccup drinks black coffee bc of his tortured artist/scatter-brained inventor image. Astrid drinks matche lattes

#this is where my “clean girl in metalhead/emo disguise” comes from btw #how to train your dragon #httyd #hiccup haddock iii #astrid hofferson #hiccstrid

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planning a fic and just describes Astrid as a "clean girl in metalhead/emo disguise"

think I just came up with the greatest Astrid description ever

#how to train your dragon #httyd #astrid hofferson

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I'm my own target audience

#writing #writers of tumblr #target audience #fanfiction #writing memes #writer memes #writer things #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #ao3 writers

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pet peeve: people saying camicazi = astrid

All they have in common is that they’re both blonde and they both have a dragon named stormfly 😭 they’re nothing alike and even the shared dragon name doesn’t mean anything because Hookfang was Stoick’s dragon in the books!

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I don't think vikings really did dating at all, most marriages were for economical reasons, not true love. and dating with no goal of getting married is pretty modern, so I don't find it weird that everyone assumed they were going to get married. and maybe they counted the 6 months after the announcement or they got betrothed or wtvr you say after dating for a while.

the gifts for both of them isn't that weird at all to me. maybe that's because it's common for both parties to get an engagement ring where I'm from? and Astrid doesn't wear her necklace all the time, so it's not hasty to assume that valka wouldn't either.

and the adults weren't in either of the episodes mentioning this, so (right?)

these are the answers I came up with for myself when I was confused. I'm basically just seeing it as canon. also, dragon cartoon for kids. but it would be fun if they fleshed it out a little more!!

berkian courting rituals???

in sandbusted fishlegs says that the betrothal gift must be exchanged between the "betrothed" 6 moons/months after their announcement of their betrothal

yet in shell shocked hiccup and astrid choose not to announce their relationship for privacy reasons, not tradition or not wanting to be "betrothed"

which is another thing "betrothed" means to be engaged to be married, but they treat it as though it means "courtship" or "dating" so does berk only do dating with the end goal of marriage and is it frowned on to announce a courtship without the intent to marry?

and the gift itself is strange since it seems to function sort of like an engagement ring except for both parties not just the woman. only valka wasn't wearing hers when she was taken (otherwise stoick wouldnt be able to give it to hiccup), and hiccup is fine with not recieveing anything from astrid at all.

and none of the adults mention this at all despite valka and stoick obviously partaking in this, so is it a big deal or not?

if it was solely for the chief/cheif's heir then surely it would be treated as a bigger deal???

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rip hiccup haddock you would’ve loved imagine dragons

#bc dragons #how to train your dragon #httyd #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #hiccup haddock iii #hiccup haddock #imagine dragons

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"Again and again I make the same leap, I dodge the bright and black murderous blades, I catch the axe before it lands, I make my own luck."

Cressida Cowell, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

#how to train your dragon books #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #book hiccup horrendous haddock iii #book hiccup haddock #how to cheat a dragon's curse #cressida cowell #quote #quotes #book quote #book quotes

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challenge for bbc merlin editors: make an arthur edit without the rose, side profile chin, crossbow, sword in the stone, or “cut her down” scene

#bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #edit #merlin edit #bbc merlin edit #arthur edit #arthur pendragon edit #edit challenge #ur mum

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i'm getting so much money cuz my mom died 7 years ago

her inheritance goes to me!!! what would have been her pension goes to me!!!

#not to brag #but I'm rich

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i hope everyone knows that every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year of ever decade of every millennia of every eternity i WILL be thinking of how to train your dragon. be it characters, soundtrack, plot, fanfiction, etc, etc, there is one part of my brain that is reserved for how to train your dragon

#how to train your dragon #httyd #im so normal about it i swear #im not ;P

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I can never think too much about Httyd 1 Astrid before I get too emotional.

At 15, this girl was so bitter and harsh and kept everyone at a distance and hard on everyone, including herself, and she didn't allow any emotions of hers to shine through beyond anger and its varying shades. I mean, how could she?

She grew up around blood and death, destined to inherit the same war her parents and grandparents did, stuck in an endless cycle of violence no one truly knew how it got started in the first place other than the very plausible reason that their enemy was simply cruel, unreasonable and would never stop coming. Not until one side finally eradicated the other, never knowing that the annihilation of one side would without a doubt automatically mean the destruction of the other before the unknown third party in this war, the Red Death, inevitably moved on to rinse and repeat elsewhere.

Astrid had no prospects for the future and she knew it. She would live out her life as a warrior, fight and get injured until the day she would inevitably die, probably in battle. Except maybe she would get to see her parents die a brutal death before she goes. Maybe even her future husband. Maybe even her future kids. That is, if she even got that far in life.

So no wonder she just stood by and watched with a vaguely sad look as Hiccup was bullied. No wonder her best pieces of advice were "he's never where he should be" and "pick which side you're on." No wonder she got pissed as hell at Hiccup when she fought to get just the littlest bit of an edge in a cruel and unjust world only to have it stolen right out from under her by the chief's son, who basically breezed his way through dragon training thanks to Toothless. No wonder she was ready to tell on Hiccup's ass when she found out he was making friends with the enemy, the same one who would come at night and steal their food and destroy their homes, leaving them to starve exposed to the elements.

And no wonder, when Hiccup shows her that a bleak future of endless cruelty isn't the only option for her anymore, she blooms open like the most beautiful goddamn flower in the entire north. She loves Snoggletog, experimenting with cooking, pranks, big romantic gestures. She gets truly in touch with her emotions and finds it important to build up the guy who literally gave her a future.

Astrid makes me so emotional, guys...

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i love how much attitude hiccup has even when his entire tribe hates him. bro has never and will never be a people pleaser🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

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this gave me motivation to start writing again. i can’t let my characters down they need to live outside my brain

Deepest apologies to the well-thought-out characters that I created but never wrote the stories for.