Off-topic? Ha! No such thing! :)

[krissielee]

So this is sort of an overall off-topic post for all other random things that don't quite fit the purpose of the request post.

You know, questions you'd like answered, random other bits of fluff, discussions about how thus-and-such pairing rocks way hardcore ...

So ... *claps* Get to it! Post to your Disney-loving heart's content! ♥

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[afterandalasia]

Okay, so yes, we should stop clogging up the thread over here with HTTYD talk. I know it's not Disney, but Elsa & Hiccup friendship is also fast becoming one of my favourite things, pfft

Return of The Thing {1/5}

[afterandalasia]

The trick to life in general, Hiccup had found, was to appear completely nonchalant about everything. Even if that still left Gobber looking at him rather suspiciously when he wandered back in at sunset, with slightly scratched hands and a willingness to eat anything that was put in front of him. The former was not that unusual; the latter, more so, at least where Gobber’s mutton stew was concerned. When it came to cooking, Gobber was generally all right, and he could gut a fish in ten seconds flat, but mutton stew used up the last bits of the most recent sheep and Hiccup was always wary of eyeballs

Return of The Thing {2/5}

[afterandalasia]

He drew out and flattened the metal until it was a thin strip, a little over an inch wide and about a foot long, and bent it halfway down. Elsa had been about his height... he slipped off one boot and held the cooling metal by his foot, seeing if it would look reasonable. A couple of knocks to curve around the heel, and he set that piece aside. He produced two thinner rods to go down either side of her leg, and then went rooting around in the scraps of leather to find something that would hold them all together

Return of The Thing {3/5}

[afterandalasia]

“All right, then, let’s move onto this,” he said. He pulled out the leather and metal brace that he had put together overnight, seeing Elsa’s cautious glance in its direction. There was a boulder not far behind her, a bit algae-slick but probably still better than sitting on the mud. “Come on,” said Hiccup, pointing towards it. “Let’s get you onto that

Return of The Thing {4/5}

[afterandalasia]

Nobody knew how many wildlings there were. Some of the people who had gone into the Wildlands to hunt or explore had claimed that there were villages out there, but they had never been able to find them again. Hiccup was pretty sure that the largest group ever seen around Berk had been four. The result of that was that nobody knew where they were from. For a long time, they hadn’t even been sure wildlings were human, but they died like humans even if some of them had magic that made it more difficult to catch them. Cursed, some said, or consorting with evil spirits for their powers. But Hiccup wasn’t sure that anyone had ever said whether or where they were born. Nobody in Berk had magic, though, not even Gothi, and though Stoick had not wanted to talk about it, Gobber had said that he had never known anyone with magic in any of the places he had travelled to before settling down on Berk

Return of The Thing {5/5}

[afterandalasia]

It took him a moment. “Thank you,” he blurted out, and paused just long enough to give her what he hoped was a reassuring smile before almost running back down the tunnel and scrambling to the surface.

Gobber was waiting in the smithy with a pair of tongs on his left arm and a dubious expression. He looked over Hiccup, from his muddy knees to his scraped knuckles where he had been climbing out of the tunnel, and just shook his head.

“I’m not even going to ask. Now, apron on. Donkey needs shoeing, we’ve some tools need fixing, and the Nuts need their helmets strengthening again.”

“Yes, sir,” said Hiccup, grabbing his apron off the wall.

And I miscalculated, because I was originally going to stop at the line about Snotlout. Apparently I really, really cannot count

Re: Return of The Thing {5/5}

[ashleybenlove]

That fic is amazing. Gobber cooking for them, Hiccup working in the forge to help Elsa, Stoick and Hiccup's attempts to talk to each other. Hiccup being somewhat bilingual is my favorite part. He totally would be though. And that line about Snotlout is really great. Are you using a specific language for Elsa's wildling language or is it something you've come up with? Just curious because languages are awesome. I totally wish I could speak fluently more than just English

Re: Return of The Thing {5/5}

[afterandalasia]

Hah, thank you! I'm having almost too much fun here.

In Cast Out Part II, Gobber doesn't just bring a fish for Toothless, he checks on the food as well. And somehow I can't see Stoick being too much of a cook insert men and BBQs joke here. I don't know how old Hiccup was when Valka disappeared, but he talks about worrying he's going to forget her (in Breakneck Bog, I think?) so I figure he was maybe 4-6, just old enough to have a few memories. So someone had to have taken over running the house, and I'm putting my money on Gobber

Re: Return of The Thing {5/5}

[ashleybenlove]

I think he fishes the fish out of a cauldron and then tosses it to Toothless. But, hey, he checks on the food and everything. And it seems like Hiccup and Stoick mostly subsist on chicken? (The amount of chicken that Berk must go through for people and dragon must be tremendous...) And in Breakneck Bog, Fishlegs mentions that Hiccup loves Fishleg's mum's crabcakes. Gosh, I hope that means he had dinner with the Ingermans or Fishlegs brought them to the academy one time because both of them are a cute image. Hiccup having dinner with his friends' families. XD

Yeah, I thought the same thing with that Breakneck Bog comment about how he's worried about forgetting her, where I was running under an assumption that Hiccup was maybe 5 years old when his mother disappeared, but the sequel sort of makes his comment confusing because HTTYD2 apparently has it that she disappeared when Hiccup was an infant, so him having ANY memories of Valka is so dubious. It's sort of like how in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi has Leia talk about her real mother

Re: HTTYD Thread [Frozen Mention]

[afterandalasia]

Now I kinda want to go through and make a note of all of the food references in the series. At least it's only about 13-14 hours of stuff (only!) so it's not as bad as trying to get my housemate caught up on Grimm or something. Though "yak butter parfait" is still getting to me because parfait was only invented in the nineteenth century kshjgkjdh. I know it's probably just rule of funny and not supposed to mean anything, but I'm sort of going lalalacan'thearyou over there. Or pretending they mean fondue.

I think Dagur goes beyond shipping and into fantasising about them. Dagur stop being so goddamn rapey holy shit. Like, you know he was trying to cop a feel when he kept putting his arm around Hiccup in The Night and the Fury. And then there was the "Nobody hurts Hiccup... except me." Well, I suppose I should have figured you for a sadist in the bedroom, Dagur

Re: HTTYD Thread [Frozen Mention]

[afterandalasia]

One of the things I am worried about with this fic (which is still The Thing on here, apparently, and saved on my computer as How To Train Your Sorceress) is the fact that I don't want Elsa's parents to look like complete dicks. Like, sure, Arendelle is so terrified of magic that they want to get rid of people, but willingly giving up your 8 year old daughter to live in the wilderness definitely counts as a dick move. And yet they were good enough people for Anna to grow up reasonably well adjusted, and in the movie they clearly mean well, just go about it in a questionable way. To be fair, I get the feeling that the Queen was really, genuinely scared of Elsa's powers. Not necessarily Elsa herself, but definitely her powers. The King is the one who's willing to come forward and interact. If you look at the Queen's expression, she looks really pained by it, but I'm pretty sure that she's scared. And the King, well, I said towards the top of the thread that "Elsa, what have you done?" is a pretty dickish thing to say. But I don't want

Re: HTTYD Thread [Frozen Mention]

[ashleybenlove]

Ooh, finding all the food references would be interesting. I mean, crabcakes and chicken and elk parfait and FISH, OMG SO MUCH FISH. And let’s not forget about the yaks. That confuses me the most, because yaks aren’t from Scandinavia, they’re in Asia. I mean, yeah, perhaps these Vikings traded with Asians at some point, but maybe it’s just tv writers not doing their research. And seriously, this show is not the first time I’ve seen Yak mentioned in conjunction with a Norse/Viking character. Rose Nylund in The Golden Girls, who is of Scandinavia/Norwegian descent, in one of her stories about her ancestors does mention yaks (well, yak skin).

Dagur totally fantasizes omg. And Dagur, no STOP TOUCHING Hiccup. Like, jeez. And even when they first see each other in that episode, it’s because Dagur has PINNED Hiccup down. Like, omg, show, seriously. (In a slightly different context, Astrid straddles Tuffnut when she attacks him for scaring her, Fishlegs, and Hiccup in Breakneck Bog). I half-expect him to make a comment to Hiccup where he

Re: HTTYD Thread [Frozen Mention]

[ashleybenlove]

Maybe you could make it so they had no choice? Like, it was either that or see their daughter burned at the stake or something? That way they aren’t complete dicks.

And ooh, that’s a good way to reference the trolls.

Gosh, that Doric dialect is hard to understand. I think I’ve seen at least one translation of something he said, but the rest, I wish he had subtitles for.

Yeah, that makes sense that Berk and the Beserkers would be speaking different dialects of the same language and it’d basically be like US-UK difference. That explanation totally works for me.

Maybe Hiccup and Toothless being shot down would cause the loss of the tail fin and Hiccup’s leg? Or just, Hiccup and Toothless getting shot down outs them so to speak and then KABOOM, Stoick’s livid and ready to go find the dragon nest. Or even both.

Re: HTTYD Thread [Frozen Mention]

[afterandalasia]

(Post 1/2 again. I did not realise I was being this horrifically wordy omg.)

...Okay, yeah, I gave up and started making a list of the food that gets mentioned. Only into Animal House so far, though. So that's happening.

Hell, yaks. How did that not strike me as weird. I'm going to put that down as another tick in the 'post-apocalyptic' box and leave it at that.

Yeah, when Astrid starts straddling people, it's usually because she's beating them up, and it doesn't manage to look too sexual. However, Dagur manages to make just about everything look sexual. I may see if I can come up with some sort of insinuation for him to make, because there is no way I am not using Dagur at some point in this. And having Dagur get rapey at Hiccup. And possibly have Dagur get rapey at Hans, because I just have that wrong sort of sense of humour and I think Hans getting rapied at would be fucking hysterical especially after he's been seen macking on a 15-nearly-16-year-old. How do you like it, eh, Hans

Re: HTTYD Thread [Frozen Mention]

[afterandalasia]

But before that point, I'm still gonna go with Hiccup trying to shoot down a dragon, but the connection between "wildlings aren't that bad" and "dragons aren't that bad" hasn't been made in his mind yet. So he thinks that he's missed, and then Elsa brings him to this injured dragon and there's the whole SHIT, GET AWAY FROM THAT THING IT'S DANGEROUS only for her to look at him like it's hurt, you dumbass, and then everything starts to fall into place for him. So yeah, just shift that meeting slightly, and then go with a slightly different angle on Hiccup being around the dragons. It also means that he might be able to make friends with them more slowly, so the bit where he puts the others on dragons at the end isn't so out-of-nowhere. (Because movie, I love you, but it was out of nowhere.) And at the end, Stoick takes Toothless, and Hiccup is left locked up somewhere, only both Astrid and Elsa come to rescue him. Hiccup will make some joke about that, I'm sure

Re: HTTYD Thread [Frozen Mention]

[ashleybenlove]

I can’t wait to see that list, omg.

Hans and Dagur could be very happy together. Or a terrifying force to reckon with. Omg, I want this now. Political marriage between Hans and Dagur that literally is just two super evil dudes causing so much trouble for the rest of the world. Oops.

I guess Snotlout figures out a way to get Hookfang into the house when he’s sick because Race to Fireworm Island and Dragon Flower (both where he is ill) either show or mention Hookfang being in the house. Aww, Snotlout you do care