I see this post has brought on some confusion lately
@selznick @wordswordsorswordswords
Understandable
I too routinely mistake fully grown men for chipmunks
So I have made for you all this handy chart for you to reference, in the hopes that this will assuage any future confusion
I will add more information if the need arises and there is still confusion, but i feel this should be enough to tell the difference in the meantime
It's the one titled 'once there were dragons' btw :)
Just posted a fic about the httyd books u should read it (I've only got the first chapter so forgive me for that but I swear it's good)
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.
Sitting on my floor crying because I whole heartedly believe I will never read or write a story as good as the httyd books and I'll never be able to read them for the first time ever again
Whenever I have an English assignment and I have to make a draft and a final copy I just put spelling mistakes and don't use fullstops or anything and then for my final copy I just copy my draft word for word and correct the mistakes cus I'm too lazy to write a better version of what I already wrote
Percy lays on Annabeth's chest while she reads and tries to figure out what's going on by listening to her heartbeat.
HELP IT LOOKS LIKE THE EDITING WAS DONE WITH AI
Sure it’s soulless and only exists to be a lazy cashgrab but at least now it’s a REAL movie unlike that toddler cartoon /s
“Old Wrinkly, Camicazi, and One Eye sat at Hiccup’s bedside. One Eye didn’t seem as happy as he might have been two days ago at the thought of one less Human in the world. A big tear rolled out of his one eye and down his Saber-Tooth and plopped onto the ground.” - How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse HTTYD Book 4 Cressida Cowell
I can just imagine Toothless, when he stopped licking Hiccup’s face, going over to One Eye and trolling him despite his master about to die. (Based on that one Harry Potter meme with Dumbledore and Snape iykyk)
AAAAHHHH I CAN’T BELIEVE I JUST NOTICED THIS, BUT AT THE END OF HTTYD WHEN EVERYONE WAS GOING TOWARDS HICCUP BECAUSE HE FINALLY WOKE UP, HICCUP WAS LIMPING AND STOICK SAW AND HE HELPED HOLD HICCUP UP TO WALK AND I JUST AJKDFLSJSL
AND IDK IF YOU CAN SEE IT, BUT HICCUP HAS A REALLY BIG SMILE ON HIS FACE. UGH JUST STAB ME IN THE HEART. IT’LL HURT LESS