#stonequiet

Just read your tags that your finished the PHM book before the movie, it must have been quite the experience!! I juuust finished the book today itself. Honestly if I had read it first I would have been squealing screeching at the twists and turns of the story!!! I try to imagine an alternate timeline where I read the book first and enjoyed it better lol. Glad you got that experience hehe

hi hi!! i think tumblr did eat the ask, this is the only ask i got :/

it was SUCH an experience, i'm fully riding the "i liked it before it was popular" high lmao. i gloated to my siblings for a week bc i had to drag them to the cinema to watch the film when it came out and they loved it 😌😌 the book was such a surprise to me, i picked it randomly from the shelf bc i stopped off at a book store after meeting a friend & i was about to go on holiday (5h drive) and i wanted a book to pass the time. i saw the author was andy weir & i LOVED the martian and bought it solely based off that, hadn't even read the blurb, so when rocky turned up i was flabbergasted bc the martian is so realistic, i really did not expect an alien to turn up 😭 it was wild, im so glad i went in blind.

3. Did you play School of Dragon? If so, what dragon(s) did you have?

i tried back in 2018 but my laptop couldn't handle it. i never got past the tutorial with toothless and immediately uninstalled it and then was still devastated when they shut it down :')

10. What are your favourite songs from the soundtracks?

the big 3: forbidden friendship, test drive, and romantic flight.

see you tomorrow is a BANGER

all of the jonsi songs!!

once there were dragons is also so good... listened to that on repeat after i saw the hidden world in 2019

16. What is your favourite plot arc?

edit: i realized this said plot arc and astrid's character arc doesn't rlly count but for plot arc: hiccup & snotlout's arc of learning to respect each other more in riders/defenders of berk. basically the screaming death arc!!

astrid's in the first movie... it's near perfect and her role in the story is so vital bc her mind being changed makes stoick's mind being changed so much more believable. astrid's arc is such an interesting throughline to see the movie through. astrid being the most viking like of the teens and taking everything so seriously only to decide to give hiccup a chance (yes she was hanging off a tree rlly high off the ground and then only apologized bc toothless was whipping her around as payback for her attitude lol) but once toothless calms down that's when astrid rlly sits back and gives toothless & hiccup a chance & you just. see her relaxed for the first time in the movie and smiling so wide and it's SOOOOOOO. i love her so much.

17. Do you read or write HTTYD fanfic? If so, give some recommendations!

i do both!!

for reading, i haven't done a lot & i am kinda particular abt what i read (i heed tags & stuff seriously!! they're there for a reason!!) but!! from recent memory & my bookmarks

promises, promises is by @artinandwritin and it's abt her httyd ocs and @beebooca's oc set post the hidden world (except the dragons are still there!!) and it's such a fun exploration of the effect things can have on oc characters based on what happens to the canon characters they're connected to!! it's very good (and i am honored to have helped beta read :'))

translations by @bignostalgias is a hijack fic where jack frost ends up on berk after following silver dream sand (and ends up becoming "alive" again) and there's the whole thing where he's confused abt how berk exists and seems to be behind modern day and dragons exist. everything is so thought out and carefully put together and i just can not wait for more!!

frowny kisses by @tysonrunningfox bc my snotstrid loving ass adores those losers so much and op has got them DOWN!! the original snotstrid person fr fr i am begging y'all to pls check out their stuff!!!!!!!!!

also fics by @eemoo1o-tfrmoo & @kolasharkattack are also rlly rlly good!!!!!!

This is a free coupon/excuse for you to infodump on the current topic you’re obsessed with. Take some time away from internet discourse and share with us something you find interesting. ✨

Aria hii!! ❤️

I don't really have any topic for infodumping rn but I made art for this ask?? to dump a little? I hope you don't mind! <3

I knew that eagle pfp was familiar!

How have you been?

Hiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found u again and wanted to say Hello! But I've kinda turned into a fulltime ToA blog now, so I wasn't sure about....Idk do you like that too? Glad to know YOU'RE still here and active! Still doing Httyd, I see!

Man, scrolling down your blog was a rabbit hole haha. So much nostalgia! I'm not sure I will ever truly let go of the best franchise in the existence of the world. But I'm trying not to dwell too much on what is now past. Life moves on... :)

I've had a really good year off Tumblr! I both deeply regret deleting my old blog and at the same time, doing so flipped a switch in me that made me feel like myself again...in a way that I haven't felt since I was a little child. I haven't entirely processed that development yet. It felt amazing and yet, I missed my Tumblr niché so much. Oof.

Anyway, I watched Rise of the Titans and it basically made me so angry that I created a blog again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ not sure how long I'll stay though, because the ToA story arc is closed now as well.

Thanks so much for your kind message!!! It means a lot!!!

How have you been?

Cheers

“Isn’t fate artistic?” might be my favourite quote from the books!

And the silver phantom, yesssss! Honestly that entire scene made me feel so sorry for Hiccup, his own mother was chasing him on her scary super dragon. Here’s a quick sketch for your sister 👇

16. Any guilty pleasure trope(s)? 

I don’t know, really... Some would say fanfic in general is already a guilty pleasure. Or my personal focus on romance in general. And as a trope, it would be everything about Forbidden Romance, in all its facets. But all over, I don’t really see any of my interests as guilty pleasure. I like it and I don’t care much how others think about it. 😊

25. Have you ever daydreamed about side adventures/spin-offs from your fic? Tell us about them!

Ohohohohoho... Okay, you better take a seat! 🤣

Okay, where to start...

In For The Love Of A Princess, there are several spin-off ideas roaming about in my head.

One that probably (sadly) won’t make it into the story but is fun to think about is The Adventures Of The Chaos Squad. ( @deathberryhime this is your fault!) Just the idea of Hiccup, Eret, Dagur, Snot, and Daniel (and Milburn) travelling around, making camp around a fire, fighting bandits, and just generally try to survive with all their chaos and sass. It’s hilarious to think about the options.

Another one is more a crack idea than anything else, really... At the beginning, many thought Eret was with -- or at least in love with -- Daniel. Others mentioned that they could see Daniel with this or that other character, with Cami, with Dagur, with Hiccup. From that, the slightly cracky idea was born to just... let every character be in Daniel's harem and be done with all the problems. 🤣

Further, there’s still an ask in my inbox (for over a year by now. oops!) with an idea that doesn’t fit into the canon of the story, as that person admitted themselves, but that’s too good not to write out as an alternative idea.... eventually...

Then there are other stories where I also get sidetracked with additional ideas. Like additional chapters/epilogues I still have planned for What It Means To Be Chief, Not One Of Them, Lessons In Dancing And Dreaming, and several originally-planned-as one-shots.

Oh, and there was an additional part I’d planned for the I Shoud Go-verse It was supposed to take part shortly after the first part, with Hiccup being at home and recovering from his injury/relearning how to use his leg and getting... ideas about how to best pass the time and thank Astrid for being there for him. It was meant to shed light on Astrid’s past, on how the ten years they spent apart passed for her. It’s hinted occasionally that these years weren’t easy for her, either. That some of her previous relationships were anything but rosy, that she got abused. But I never got around to actually write it out and at some point decided that I don’t want to write it, either. I don’t think I could do it in a respectful way anyway.

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