Something about the how to train your dragon books no one talks about is the intense desire you get to be a better person once you finish reading them
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Happy birthday to the legend herself, Cressida Cowell!
This woman and her books shaped my entire childhood bro :)
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Btw if you don't know, David Tennant reads the audiobooks for the How To Train Your Dragon book series.
He does character voices and sings and everything.
It's a heavenly experience and there are 12 of them
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First three requests! ✨
Holmes for @cryptidcaper
Bertie for @technecat and @cool_lilegg - not playing piano but I hope the infamous banjolele will be also satisfactory 🪕
Something HTTYD for @startheviking I chose His Most Mighty Murderousness Alvin the Treacherous, hope you don't mind (also thank you for this, always a pleasure) 🐉
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I love how hiccup and the woden's fang and the windwalker try so hard to teach Toothless manners only for him to pick a completely random "polite" word to put in front of his normal statements
Saying "please" or "excuse me" or whatever before hurling seething insults is the funniest thing I've ever read
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Plotlines, details and moments from the httyd books I would have LOVED to see in the movies/TV shows:
Hiccup and Snotlout being cousins PERIOD
I think it would have been SO funny if Sharpshot (Hiccup's Terrible Terror in Riders of Berk) actually acted like book Toothless and had book Toothless's book 1 arc of being disobedient and then saving Hiccup at the end
The dramatic sword fight that reveals Hiccup is left-handed
Hiccup inexplicably speaking perfect Latin and French as well as Norse
Fishlegs's lobster claw necklace. Where was the lobster claw necklace DreamWorks 💔
The quest to find the vegetable-that-should-never-be-named (aka The Great Potato Heist)
Hiccup's mom's ex showing up on Berk, becoming his bodyguard, and then immediately trying to kill him
Hiccup celebrating his "third" birthday
Hiccup and Co having to break into a heavily guarded library to steal another copy of a book Toothless ate
Participating in a swimming race where they swim in full battle gear and the winner is the last person back
Fishlegs writing an illegal love letter that Hiccup pretends he wrote (and proceeds to immediately become Engaged)
Fishlegs's entire character arc about who his parents were and being adopted and coming to love his found family and (LISTEN I JUST LOVE FISHLEGS OKAY)
Hiccup and Fishlegs being kidnapped together because someone said to "kidnap the heir to the Hooligan Tribe, he's the most pathetic looking boy in the group you can't miss him" and the kidnappers couldn't decide which boy looked more pathetic
(Just,, more instances of Hiccup being downright pathetic,, sopping wet cat of a boy 😂)
Camicazi. All of Camicazi. She should have made a cameo in Race to the Edge, on this hill I will die
On that note, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Second.
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the First.
Logically I know dragonese wouldn't work for the DreamWorks series but I would have liked to see it at least mentioned!! Maybe with Valka?
Also at least mention Grimbeard the Ghastly, Hiccup's ancestor who was once king of the entire archipelago and a fearsome pirate
Snotlout's little sister Adelaide
Hiccup and the other vikings singing. That was so important to me
The absolute blatant fact that Hiccup was not only a runt but was an "accident" and his name "Hiccup" literally means "accident" and his parents were technically not supposed to keep him
I've got more but this post has already gotten pretty big 😂
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See if there's one thing to take of note, the live-action How to Train Your Dragon is going to be DreamWork's first.
They're taking the same path as Disney (ngl no matter how you try to frame it- feels like a money grab) where their movies are being turned into a live-action. And they picked HTTYD to be the one submitted to that fate.
But at least they're making some good efforts, there are highlights. I'm still scared as to what the end product will be, but-
Dean Deblois is still directing.
John Powell returns as the soundtrack composer.
Gerard Butler is reprising his role as Stoick in live-action format.
I even saw on Instagram that Cressida Cowell, author of the HTTYD books, even visited the movie set.
One of DreamWorks' most popular movies was picked to become a live-action. One that was already so well praised for its revolutionary animation. I want to say it's DreamWorks legacy, but that's always a matter of opinion. The Kung Fu Panda trilogy is also brilliant. Well I guess no longer a trilogy.
Anyway, I am both excited and terrified for what the live-action could come to be. A friend of mine weighed the option that maybe they're taking this opportunity to have it be more book proportionate, that I'm more doubtful of.
And then, what if the movie comes to be a success, that's what I get on about. Like, enough to make sure the 3 movies are made live-action too?? Why I dwell on it, is because of the brilliance of the shows. If the live-action does actually garner some good attention, is there going to be a possibility of the shows being made live-action too.
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