celebrating httyd rarepairs

There are several constants in the world, Hiccup is stubborn muttonhead, Vikings like fighting, the sun will probably come up tomorrow, and Astrid is strong.

chap ½, 10.1k+/-, tuffstrid, onesided hiccstrid, set during rtte, mutual pining, character introspection, astrid pov. 

also rare pair bingo is still going!!! I’m so close to a bingo jsut gotta get my butt into gear. im stressing about influence, and appropriateness of how i write adult-esque topics!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CANT BELIEVE I FINISHED THIS.... all 34k words

HTTYD RarePair Bingo - “Sparring Practice” (Tuff/Dagur)

#httydrarepairbingo - comfort after a nightmare

Storms

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“What is that?”

Normally Dagur never interrupted Boynut when he told one of his humorous anecdotes. Hiccup’s friend could be rambling and nonsensical at times, but he liked the rider’s voice.

He’d made an exception this time however, pointing at the strip of skin across his stomach that Tuff’s shirt was showing. He’d stretched his arms out wide, trying to convey just how big around the boar in his story had been.

Tuff stopped mid-sentence, realizing, and hurriedly dropped his arms, adjusting the shirt so it covered him. He wasn’t wearing his usual tunic and belt today, just a loose blue shirt and his leggings.

The Twins and Fishlegs had been assembling their winter gear from Berk and had returned to the Edge just an hour ago, far later than they were due to arrive.

Their arrival had been oddly tense and weird - Fishlegs had immediately apologized for their lateness before Astrid could demand what happened, saying that he’d been stuck choosing which books and how much ink and parchment to take. Ruff had been the very image of calm before a storm, hand on her brother’s arm, and Tuff had simply looked exhausted.

He was more animated now, with some food and warm mead inside him, and to all appearances it had just been the long ride that explained his earlier solemn mood. However, the glimpse of skin Dagur had just seen was dark and mottled. Something was wrong.

“What? Is it the color?” Tuff asked, redirecting. “I know, it doesn’t look as good on me as green. My tunic got covered with dragon slobber.”

It was a lie. The others did not appear to pick up on it, giving sympathetic groans. Snotlout commiserated by bringing up how badly Monstrous Nightmare drool stained in comparison to the drool of other dragons.

“Guys, come on, it’s not a competition,” Hiccup sighed.

“Shut up, Hiccup,” the others retorted amiably in unison. Hiccup grumbled but leaned back in his chair, scratching Toothless under the chin.

Fishlegs countered by reminding everyone that Gronckle saliva actually burned holes in things, and as things started to heat up in the dragon slobber fandom, Dagur caught sight of Tuff slinking back toward the kitchen area of the Clubhouse.

#httydrarepairbingo - crashing the wrong wedding 

Tuffnut being gay and liking scars.

HTTYD RAREPAIR BINGO

WHEN: 3/21 to 4/21

HOW TO PLAY:

There are 24 prompts on a bingo card, and two kinds of prompts to choose from: (A) Word or (B) Plot prompts. Below are samples of each.

(A) Word prompts

(B) Plot prompts

To play bingo, you must get an unbroken line of prompts completed - horizontal, vertical or diagonal. You can do art, writing, sculpture, comics, gifsets, music videos, cakes, puppetry - whatever! It just has to be completed. There are no stakes and no prizes - just a fun challenge to do while stuck at home trying not to die in a “first-world country”.

Anyone can sign up at any time, either sending me an ask or a message and choosing card (A) or (B). Tag your work ‘httydrarepairbingo’ and @httydrarepair will reblog it on their tumblr for all to enjoy.

It should be noted that @httydrarepair​ will reblog with discretion to make sure everyone can comfortably enjoy the game. Please include appropriate tw warnings in your tags.

Early next year we are planning to run another larger HTTYD rare pair event, like that of the 2018 Micro-Bang. A couple of options that are being considered are:

Micro-Bang, 5k words min. We have 2 confirmed writers but I don’t know about artists so we might possibly ask that you also write a small fic to go with their piece. We have a discord group and there’s lots of chatting and fic help!

WIP Bang. Where you work on a long standing WIP you’d like help with. Again on the discord group to chat and help out!

Or maybe a prompt fest where people submit prompts and others claim them and write them.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21267866

1st Nov: Routine // “You can’t be here right now.”

The season is changing from spring to summer - days getting longer and warming. 

Rules are rules, but there are always loopholes. Liminal spaces can be times, places, any in-between space the two lovers can find in order to see each other when they aren’t supposed to.