#kingofthewilderwest

[noctusfury]

What is the True Date of HTTYD? (DreamWorks Dragons)

So I know that there have been several people who’ve already discussed this topic, like, eons ago, such as @dyannehs​ , @kingofthewilderwest​ , and @avannak​ , @yv-sketches​ , @arduennas​ and others. (Here are their posts here, here, aaaaand here.) Buuut I’m gonna do my own, because this is too interesting of a topic not to dive into and blowing it way out of proportion like one of Toothless’s plasma blasts. LOL XD

Sorry to those who are wanting this old topic to just DIE already, and be water under the bridge and into the sea by now. But I need to scratch this itch. LOL XD

Please keep in mind that this article will be discussing the current timeline of HTTYD, not Hiccup’s birth.

So the general consensus is that Hiccup was born around 995 AD, though there have been those advocating for a later period in favor of the dragons leaving Berk by 1060-1100 AD (which was technically the medium range of when the Viking Age ended, supposedly). This would mean that by HTTYD 1 would be around 1010 AD, which we see in a HTTYD short here:

However, some would argue that this is based on the date that HTTYD 1 was in theaters and not a true date. By the end of HTTYD 3, it’d be 1025 AD, so meh. Of course, since most people don’t accept that film as canon, then we can skip that little tidbit. The year 1060 would be when Hiccup is 65 years old, if we accept this as a canon date. Which would fit.

Btw, for your information, here’s a fun fact for ya! 

If Hiccup lived to 1100 AD, he’d be 105 years old!!! WOW!!! He’d be ANCIENT!!! O_O 

Of course, since the Archipelago is isolated from the outside world (aside from what traders give them), there are those who’d argue that the population would continue on in their Viking ways, and the Viking Age would never truly end. Just with dragons. 

But that’s them. We’re talking about the end of the conventional, historical Viking Age — the world isn’t going to know about a population of Vikings that live on a half-frozen and isolated archipelago, so this doesn’t count! XD

So for those of you who don’t accept this time period, I’ll give you a pretty neat alternative. ^_^

In Season... 5, I guess in RTTE? In episode 1, we see this scene where Johann tells them an interesting story I never thought would be mentioned.

(This was a veeeery old pin I posted on Pinterest.) 

I checked it out, and it turns out this happened during 811 AD. This means that this date could be anywhere from then to 830 AD. Which, if you look at the due dates of the How To Train Your Dragon book in the Books, it sorta fits.

Regardless if you support the “Traitor Johann Arc” or not, the fact remains that we don’t know how recent this story is, or if this was an old story that he picked up that was decades ago. So the current HTTYD date could be anywhere from 811-850 AD, roughly. (Or it could be 1015 AD, LOL XD)

Again, though, in the film, Hiccup states that Vikings have been killing dragons for “300 years”. While this is more or less in a fantasy-like setting, the Viking characters themselves are quasi-historical, so it’s unlikely that the 800s AD would make sense if it’s been 300 years, since it’s around the time of the end of the Viking Age, in the 1000s AD. That being said, though, this could easily be whatever you wish to be since this is a fantasy setting, and since this the Archipelago, the Viking Age could’ve lasted much longer than their European kin due to their isolation. Could’ve started SOONER for them as well, such as anywhere from 500-700 AD. And it could’ve ended much LATER as of 1200 AD. 

We’ll never know. So that’ll be left up to us fans.

For those of you who want a date from the BOOKS, well, I’ll do that for ya! ^_^

The latest date on the book that Hiccup uses is 866 AD. Of course, since we don’t know when it was since this book was last rented, the current date could be anywhere from 866 AD to 1000 AD.

But for those of you who are strong advocates of the “Dragons Leave Vikings at End of Viking Age” Camp, deducting the correct numbers, the current date of the first HTTYD book that Hiccup is in right now would be... anywhere between 995 AD (if deducted from 1060 AD) and 1035 AD (if deducted from 1100 AD), since Hiccup was 10 years old in the first book, and was 75/76 years old by the series’ epilogue. That’s assuming that he died around the time period of the Viking Age’s decline, which was 1060-1100 AD.

So are you for the Film Timeline, the RTTE Timeline, or the Books Timeline? Or do you have your own timeline you follow?

Thank you for reading, my fellow Furians. I hope you enjoyed reading something old and redundant. See you in the next article!

Long Live the Night!

— Noctus Fury

#noctusfury #httyd #httyd fandom #httyd timeline #httyd articles #httyd theories #httyd headcanons #httyd franchise #httyd series #hiccup haddock #httyd books #httyd films #kingofthewilderwest #dyannehs #yv-sketches #avannak #timeline #history #historical timeline #vikings #barbaric archipelago #httyd 1 #dreamworks dragons #race to the edge #cressida cowell #alternate timeline #rekindling an old conversation #with dragon oil #sorry-not-sorry #XD

[berkcastteam]

We're back join HC, Wolf, @kingofthewilderwest, and @jayalaw as they talk season 1 part 2 of Inside Job. As always we hope you enjoy, and let us know what you think.

-Wolf

#the outcast #outcast podcast #outcast #podcast #review #kingofthewilderwest #jayalaw #inside job #inside job season 2 #inside job season 1 part 2 #Inside job review #inside job season 2 review #inside job season 1 part 2 review #inside job podcast #netflix #netflix originals #Youtube

[ashleybenlove]

would you ever visit somewhere with *extreme* temperatures / weather, like Antarctica?

YES!!!

I would love to go to Antarctica. It seems really neat. I don't know if I could handle staying there for an extended time period, but it would to go there even briefly.

#askbox #kingofthewilderwest

[tenebrius-excellium]

Hey what’s a tag that you unapologetically stole from someone else because you loved it?

#pain love it #from kingofthewilderwest #tag meme #wherethekiteflies

[jayalaw]

Thoughts About Light Yagami Being A YouTuber

Thanks to @cacklingskeleton for starting this idea, and @kingofthewilderwest for talking with me about this.

For reference: I am referring to Light from the first five volumes of the manga mainly, rather than the various spinoffs. We will not speak of the horrendous Netflix version. This would be taking place after the Lind L. Taylor incident, which confirms that Kira is in the Kanto region for the whole world.

What's fascinating about Death Note in modern times is that it came out before social media. Light has to get all his news about criminals from newspapers and television, to the point that he had to hide a mini-television in a potato chip bag to avoid surveillance.

Social media has changed things; you can find information about criminals and trials in real-time. The Internet is forever, and we all have smart devices now. Kira could kill a criminal as soon as their mugshot hits Twitter. Not to mention that with the right credit card, you don't need shinigami eyes; you can find all the info that you need on a person.

King and I were disagreeing about one point: would Light do well at YouTube? I think so because Light knows how to control his image, and L was the only person who could see through it. King doesn't agree, because Light's mask falls away rather quickly in the manga. He may know how to plot murder, but his ability to act normal fades away rather quickly.

So let's consider these two angles. There are two ways this could go:

If Light Yagami Is Good At YouTube

Light is calculating and intelligent, good at building his image. I remember this from the manga, how he is popular both in high school and college,

My headcanon is that Light would do videos talking about justice systems in fiction. You have stories about if the apocalypse in Mad Max has appropriate punishments for the antagonist, and if the chickens in Chicken Run have any legal rights. He knows that you can go viral for the wrong reasons, and chooses his topics carefully. What's more, his dad may not understand YouTube, but it would be shameful if Soichiro Yagami's son was caught doing something uncouth.

If Light has some disagreements with YouTubers? He knows how to do what James Somerton did: hide behind an aura of feigned innocence and send his fanbase against them. And how can he be a bad guy? He doesn't even have a Patreon or crowdfunding! All his YouTube revenue goes towards charity, because he has a full-ride to university and his needs are few since he still lives at home to help out with his little sister. She posts videos of them dancing to Misa-Misa's songs. All the other YouTubers are more worried about their careers and are just jealous little shits.

Here is the thing: people leave patterns. And there are whisper networks. Light may think he's leaving no trail, but computers have screencaps, and memory.

If Light Yagami Is Bad At YouTube

He gets by with his channel topics due to his natural good looks. I admit that Light isn't my type because he seems too dark and broody, plus the whole what he did to Naomi Misora, but he might have been appealing.

In this case, the channel topic could be anything: Let's Play video games, reactions to vines and viral videos, "The Best Snacks To Eat While Studying for Entrance Exams." No one doubts that Light can cook, even if he eats those nasty potato chips.

So let's go with King's interpretation. Light is someone who is big talk about general topics, but if you look up close, it's really shallow. People follow him because he's good-looking and has a lovely voice. It's a voice that makes you want to go into battle. Some of his more impressionable fans wonder why he wasn't scouted by a J-pop band. It wouldn't have worked; Soichiro Yagami would stake any manager or agent that would dare keep his son from the college path.

The problem is when Light gets the Death Note. He still posts videos, but he starts getting sloppy. Though he doesn't want to admit it, murder is a huge weight on the human soul. And he takes it out on the communities that welcomed him, in subtle ways.

The Video

Hbomberguy has noticed some trends. Any YouTuber that crosses Light Yagami, even for pointing out something like, "Dude, you took footage from me," somehow gets hit. Light is careful to go only after small people, the marginalized that may leave YouTube from the harassment.

He is careful. After all, if you are going to accuse someone of plagiarizing videos and using his fanbase to destroy the competition, including YouTubers that considered Light a good friend, you need hard evidence, and backups. So hbomberguy brings the receipts, with permission from the victim.

The Kira stuff is the real bombshell; Hbomberguy cites what happened with Lind L. Taylor, and how Light is one of the biggest international YouTubers from the Kanto region, who is bilingual to boot. And something something how he figured out the shinigami thing because there have been incidents of people online talking about writing names in notebooks, getting creeped out when others died, and tossing the books away. They talked about having seen mysterious figures. Yes, it could be Internet hearsay, but the heart attacks match the pattern.

The video goes viral. Light can only watch in horror, because hbomberguy points out that if he dies of a heart attack now, Light will be the prime suspect. Ryuk is cackling.

And somewhere, L is leaning back in his weird crouched position and puffing out a deep breath of frustration. Several months of subtle investigation down the drain, thanks to YouTube drama.

#death note #fandom #death note fanon #hbomberguy

[australet789]

@kingofthewilderwest

#australet liveblogs #helluva boss #sorry for the tag king but you are the first person that came into my mind xD

[the-sage-libriomancer]

TRIPLE DIGIT BOOPS ACHIEVED!!!! *fireworks explosions incoherent screaming*

I'd like to thank my publisher my father my two beautiful children Amy and Poggers but most especially @raj-bear, @austencollins, @daisyrosekitty, @anakinskywalk-r, @applejarjar, and @kingofthewilderwest, and my beloved mutuals @jade-efflorescence @anisaanisa and @backgroundcharacterno15. Couldn't have done it without you guys <3

#i would have made this post once it hit 100 but the boops just kept coming and coming O.O y'all boop so FAST #this booping business has given me so much serotonin you have no idea #now i just need to boop enough people to catch up with the received column #i will not rest until 250 people have been booped #sage speaketh #only on tumblr #boy i definitely need a boop centric tag

[queenofthearchipelago]

I know what happens in the Fire Tides.

Richard Hamilton, who was a writer for the Fire Tides and had a hand in other Dragons stories that we love, did an interview of sorts with Audrie Greywind on her youtube channel. The entire interview is almost two hours and he spends that whole time telling Audrie, and us, the entire plot of the Fire Tides.

She also has another video on her channel revealing the winner of the Shirtless Hiccup art contest, where Richard Hamilton chose a fan's art to be the Official Canon representation of Shirtless Hiccup, since the Fire Tides hasn't been released visually.

@howtodrawyourdragon @sasstrid-and-dorkcup @nightfury-2001 @frostyviking @tenebrius-excellium @despiteherself @evilwriter37 @slavicviking

@afriend410 @learning-to-fly-on-my-own @kingofthewilderwest @only-girl-on-a-dragon @winxrus @per4mancecheck @peachdoxie @audriegreywind

#httyd #dragons #thefiretides #the fire tides #hiccup #shirtless hiccup #tagging audrie so she can add to this post if she wants #and I've tagged some of my old favorite dragon friends who I know would love this #httyd fandom #thoughtsfromthequeen #Youtube

[yv-sketches]

A goodbye I think?

Unfortunately I won’t be around here for much longer, but I wanted to say you tumblr people made me incredibly happy. Thank you all so much!

@httydbooks-doodler @readerofthewilderwest @juniemunie @historyrepeatsitself @lovewizardswarriors-blog @aeinridi @lobster-child @astridthefearless @spamalamam @triplettroublex @katlikespie @therewerepotatoeswheniwasaboy @hairyhooligan @thefellowshipofthedragonmark @zerodestiny169 @kingofthewilderwest @ieatpockey @queenbovine @thedragonmissionary @howtodrawyourdragon @wiznearbi I’m pretty sure I am forgetting people...

[smallfrogpleasedtomeetyou]

10 songs and 10 people!!

Tagged by @evilwriter37 (thanks :D)

Rules: put your playlist on shuffle and pick out 10 songs then tag 10 people :)

Cold Island by My Singing Monsters

Bird Song by Florence + The Machine

Dr. Sunshine is Dead by Will Wood and the Tapeworms

My Ordinary Life by The Living Tombstone

World's Smallest Violin by AJR

Dog Days are Over by Florence + The Machine

Wrecking Ball by Mother Mother

The Consequence of Imagination Is Fear by Junie & TheHutFriends

Can I Have a Ride home? by carpetgarden

Butch 4 Butch by Rio Romeo

hey this was super fun i love sharing my music with people <3 also if u wanna listen to my playlist I will link it right here its just kinda my every day mix so I update it pretty often I don't really have a set music taste its kinda here and there

also the tags list :DDDDDD: @rosiethedragongeek @lydiagrimborn1117 @kingofthewilderwest @velociraptrix @misterrttegrimborn @mdoodlerfandomart @toothbrushfingers @hiccupismyking @nippythebee @itsss-harvester

if u dont wanna do this totally cool have a wonderful day to anybody viewing this post <3

#woooo this was fun #music is legit my life #cant do anything without it

[firstofficerrose]

10 songs, 10 people

Thanks @toribookworm22, sorry it took me a while!

As for people to tag... well. I don't feel like I really know people here very well, so let's try @specialagentartemisis, @kingofthewilderwest, @midnight-and-his-melodiverse, @mooseofthesea, @the-cat-queen-peasants, @adverbian, @olfactoryventriloquism, @pratchettfan87, and anyone else who wants to play.

The songs, from a playlist I made called Brain On Fire.

Spaceman, by The Killers

The Mind Electric, by Miracle Musical.

Curses, by The Crane Wives

Fire With Fire, by AlicebanD

Eat You Alive, by The Oh Hellos

Wolves of the Revolution, by The Arcadian Wild

Lying Beast, by Run River North

Bones, by Wens

Arrow, by Half Alive

Conquest Of Spaces, by Woodkid

#10 people 10 songs #tag game #I really like this version of the playlist #there's an *arc*

[astridthevalkyrie]

Tag nine people you want to get to know better!

thank you for the tag @heichoudarling! it's been so long since i've had the energy to do one of these lol

Three ships: in aot my biggest ships are probably erejean, mikannie and rivetra. i think. not sure tbh.

First ever ship: in aot, rivetra or jearmin. in general, probably aladdin x jasmine my loves <3333

Last song/album: laga prem rog by alka yagnik and kamaal khan (an absolute fucking BOP)

Last movie: what's love got to do with it (2022) with lily james. cute watch, not for traditional desi audiences but i liked it.

Currently reading: nothing aside from a few different fanfics, but i have a read list on my desk that i haven't touched :(

Currently watching: my hero academia, sloooowly. i'm on season 5 now. once i'm done with this, i need to finish shadow and bone season 2 although i got bored once the crooked kingdom plot was finished in like three episodes (and they wrote out dunyasha and replaced her with some creep???). also something i need to catch up on is buddy daddies.

Currently consuming: kabab roll

Currently craving: to have the willpower to do anything. reading, calligraphy, eating healthy, just anything aside from work and lazing in bed.

Tagging: @athingofvikings, @bibblelevi, @kingofthewilderwest, @vennilavee, @juminhandfs, @evilwriter37, @hello-em75, @mochimorti and @lacheri

#tag game

[firerose]

Tagged by @howtowhumpyourhiccup,

I can tell which Whumptober prompt youre using :)

Share the last line of your work in progress, then tag as many people as there are words in it.

Whumptober day 2:

"Everything is fine. You found us at just the right time",

so tagging: @fictionalnormalcy, @perseusjackson-jasongrace

@stanning-reyna @ashleybenlove, @drakaina-amore64

@emilydaughterofapollo @thelost-trio, @percabeth4life

@kingofthewilderwest, @renee561, @iwasbored777

[peachdoxie]

10 fandoms / 10 characters / 10 tags

Tagged by @schniggles

The Locked Tomb — Harrowhark Nonagesimus

Danny Phantom — Maddie Fenton

How to Train Your Dragon — Toothless

Stormlight Archive — Kaladin Stormblessed

Hollow Knight — Hornet

Mistborn — Vin

Rise of the Guardians — Jack Frost

Megamind — Megamind

Kung Fu Panda — Po

Shrek — Shrek

Tagging @mysterious-prophetess @lightraize @kingofthewilderwest @nonposter @that-cheer-up-anon @theriverbeyond @catgirlpygmymarmoset @miandra-silverwings @aplpaca @beeonastrawberry

#anecdotes by peachdoxie

[tenebrius-excellium]

About this year's destielputinelection post circulation...

It has cracked 8000 notes and is thus the biggest post of my Tumblr career (the one before that was the dragon duck Eret shitpost which somehow reached 2000 notes)

the only thing that matters to me is that @/kingofthewilderwest and @/peachdoxie, the two biggest Httyd fandom icons in existence, reblogged it

I owe it all to @bluheaven-adw because she was the one who sent me the ask, and I gotta ask in return, are you receiving all those notes too buddy??????

Yeah it's wild and it's nice to be reminded of this day :)

#destielputinelection #november 5 2020 #wherethekiteflies #update on reddie's life

[jayalaw]

https://medium.com/permanent-nerd-network/embracing-your-imperfections-in-how-to-train-your-dragon-8390d85d9e40?sk=25147db087d9449d3b2ba5823f316aaa

This is for all my dragons peeps, and for anyone who grew with Hiccup.

@evilwriter37 @ashleybenlove @fictionalnormalcy @hcsp1 @avannak @kingofthewilderwest

#how to train your dragon #hiccup haddock #httyd hiccup #fandom