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That Christmas Trailer

That Christmas is a "series of entwined tales about family and friends, love and loneliness, and Santa Claus making a big mistake, not to mention an enormous number of turkeys!" (Netflix)

Based on the children's books by Richard Curtis, That Christmas is directed by Simon Otto. Curtis is onboard as writer and an executive producer. The animation is by Locksmith Animation. The film stars the voice talents of Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker, Lolly Adefope, Alex Macqueen, Katherine Parkinson, Sindhu Vee, India Brown, Zazie Hayhurst, Sienna Sayer, Jack Wisniewski, Rosie Cavaliero, Paul Kaye, Guz Khan, Andy Nyman, Kuhu Agarwal, Bronte Smith, Freddie Spry, Ava Talbot, Bill Nighy, and Rhys Darby.

Now these are what Simon Otto took inspiration from to make the Light Fury.

But the Light Fury doesn’t share any of these traits other than being white. With a blue belly. To me, it’d make more sense for her to grey with a lighter underbelly with rosettes. She should also have feet that aren’t smaller than her eyes.

If she was truly made with axolotls in mind, her ear and side nubs should be bigger and she should have more than one (especially since the nubs kinda act as whiskers. She needs help with sensory).

If she was made with terns in mind, her wings would surely be shaped like them and not this.

Those wings aren’t made for flight, they’re more suited for a water dweller. Especially the tailfin.

We aren’t even going to talk about how small her mouth and claws are. Or how round her teeth look (granted, Toothless also has round teeth) or how she has no actual scales (and yet has two glitter hearts on her head). And we know it’s not because of the invisible thing, because Toothless can also go invisible, despite having actual scales.

BUT ANYWAY!

The Light Fury is supposed to be a Night Fury subspecies, right? Well subspecies aren’t that different from each other. Think of Darwin’s Finches. The only differences they have is their beaks. But compare these two.

They don’t really look that similar.

When the worst snowstorm in history has an impact on the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea it is about to impact everything they had planned for Christmas. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading That Christmas (2024) Review

According to Simon Otto, the Light Fury’s design is based on “axolotls, terns and snow leopards.”

Us, pretending we’ve never seen her: “oh, so she’s dark coloured and iridescent, like wild axolotls?”

SO: “Uh, well… not exactly…”

Us: “and her wings and tail are tapered and look adapted for fast flight, yeah?”

SO: nervous laughter “well, uh, they got a little more… rounded… in post.”

Us: “and she has big paws like a snow leopard? Maybe some nice rosettes?”

The Tall Grass -

Love, Death & Robots - Season Two: The Tall Grass

Update on my HTTYD room! :D

I changed my HTTYD Fandom wall’s place and I really like it!

I added all the pictures from Annecy 2019 with the Annecy Team @poppysfanworld @megtoons @furydiver @haddock-the-third 😄

And also the pictures with Dean Deblois and Simon Otto ❤️

There is also all my friends’ art: Fury’s pictures of Meg’s cosplays with my dolls, Poppy’s drawings, a lot of @martabm90 stickers and art aha and also drawings some kids gave me at the kids club this summer when I was doing the HTTYD week!

This wall means so much