glad you're feeling better !!! for drawing requests i'd love to see some of your au stuff – i know this isnt very specific but maybe a scene/event you like to think about a lot? i just rly love ur au :D

what do you do when the backbones of your friend group nearly end their friendship?

tuffnut and fishlegs were friends before anyone else in the gang. as kids they lived a few doors down from each other & often ran into each other at a local playground. tuff's outgoing & curious nature helped fishlegs feel more confident in exploring & they could discover things together. fishlegs' sensitive & skittish nature drew tuffnut in & got tuff to slow down every so often. they have more opposite approaches when it comes to learning & as little kids, they just LOVE learning. fishlegs being quiet also helped tuff find someone to confide in, while tuff being louder helped fishlegs find someone who can teach him how to stand up for himself.

as they become friends with the rest of the gang (tuff already has ruff obv but!!) they find they have less in common than they thought & while they still care & hang out, it's no where near the same as when they were little. esp once they're teenagers.

by the time they're 14 they've basically become friends but wouldn't rlly hang out with each other alone or confide in the other.

tuff & ruff obv aren't the types to hold back in their comments towards the others & in the shows even make fun of fishlegs for his weight/tend to go off on side tangents that seem irrelevant to the topic at hand. this hurts & annoys fishlegs. fishlegs (as well as the others in the group) tend to get snippy & make snide comments abt the twins being stupid & brushing them off when they try to contribute. this hurts & annoys tuffnut, esp bc as they grow older, fishlegs gives off a "know-it-all" attitude.

they're both internally bitter & don't understand what changed between them from when they were kids. why they seen to have disdain towards each other. it reaches its breaking point when they're in college. it's not fishlegs who snaps, it's tuffnut.

fishlegs rolls his eyes at a comment tuffnut makes & it's the final straw. tuffnut just asks "do we have a problem?" and it opens a whole can of worms, esp bc it was in front of the entire gang & ends with tuffnut & fishlegs storming off (ruffnut hesitantly going with tuffnut out of pure shock of what just happened).

& now every time the gang hangs out or goes to work at the sanctuary & tuff & fishlegs are there, it's just tension. they give the silent treatment towards each other. the rest of the gang feel stuck bc they feel like they are being forced to pick sides & try their best in hanging out with everyone but maybe not having tuff or fishlegs there with each other & it's a hassle. hiccup & astrid try to get them to stop being stubborn & talk it out. snotlout is completely lost & can't help but make it abt how it's affecting him bc he doesn't know what else to do. ruffnut is supportive towards tuffnut, having heard him talk abt his frustrations with fishlegs for years at this point, but does try to push tuffnut to talk it out with fishlegs, too, albeit, not as hard as hiccup & astrid.

reconciliation only comes when tuffnut & fishlegs are scheduled to close the sanctuary together alone (not on purpose, it's just how everyone's schedules lined up & the rest of the gang dreaded that it could be the true final straw).

while closing, tuff sees barf and belch haven't moved since the afternoon when he arrived (& even since the morning when astrid & hiccup opened the sanctuary). he checks & sees the dragons haven't eaten or drank any water all day either. he panicks and gets the first person he can think of, which is fishlegs.

they both work together in discovering a few of the zipplebacks, including barf and belch, have come down with vorpentitis, due to a venomous vorpent getting into the pen. they quickly gather potatoes (the cure is known & had here, unlike book 4 of the httyd books... sorry for spoilers there lol). it's during this that they both feel regret & after everything has calmed that they apologize to each other, more calmly explain their sides of the story, and hug each other for the first time since they were kids.

they'll never go truly back to where they were as kids, they've crossed too many thresholds. too much has changed. but they can work on what they have now & it'll be equally as strong.

my (very late) secret spirit gift for @shutupthepunx111!!! you wanted a cute piece of shou and ritsu flying through the snow and I really hope i did that well :) I’m sorry it was so late, I was sick a lot and there were some technical difficulties. But nevertheless i hope you enjoy :)

@mp100secretspirit

I wrote and finished a short drabble I can't believe it's fucking Divergent

Summary:

Set as the gang is escaping Dauntless soldiers in Amity (Insurgent). Short and sweet attempted character work.

whats your modern au all about :D

ough!! i'm gonna kinda copy & paste a lot bc i was infodumping to @artinandwritin last night & didn't realize how much i'd talked abt!!! but!!! this is more the plot that parallels the first movie!!! bc if i kept talking abt it beyond that it'd get super long 😭 (longer than it already is)

for my au, the dragons are obv a thing & are more large dog sized than giagantic beasts but i think there'd be more of a conservationist push to it. the sanctuary already exists & valka is more like hiccup's mom in the books where she's absent for long periods due to traveling for work (dragon conservation) & hiccup is indoctrinated to it at a young age

so when he's 15 & meets toothless he already knows dragons are good & cool. it's the establishment of trust between him & toothless that stays the same as toothless is harmed by hiccup still, on accident but also not(?), in that they have traps set up for dragons for tracking purposes but hiccup sets his up wrong

so toothless loses his tail & while it leans more into hiccup making the automatically working tail like in gift of the night fury & httyd 3, he's still very present & active in toothless' learning of how to use it & their bond is SUPER strong (bestieeees)

obv with valka being so absent, stoick struggles with maintaining a relationship with her & bc hiccup looks up to her so much, they also have communication issues bc while stoick in my au doesn't see dragons as evil that *need* to be killed since they're relatively common animals, but he sees a danger in caring for them as well as seeing valka's more extreme version of conservation to be detrimental to having human connection

he also is just very Dad™️ in not having the same interests & struggles to connect, so he's harsher than he should be sometimes when it comes to hiccup & toothless

hiccup losing his leg is still caused by the red death, as it's a gigantic dragon thought to have long since gone extinct

hiccup lowkey has been keeping toothless a secret to this point bc if it got out he might have the potential last night fury, he'd get a lot of media coverage & he's afraid he'd be forced to give toothless up :(

but at the core of it all it's abt spreading education abt dragons as they are endangered & hiccup makes that his mission & takes over the conservatory (with stoick paying the bills until hiccup can do it on his own lmao)!! they go around locally & do "shows" to help spread the word & get younger kids into conservation work!!!!

the poacher & hunter issues come later but this is the basic gist that sets up the entire au & is the big initial plot!! all while hiccup is dealing with being a loner & missing his mom & wishing he could connect with his dad (two out of three of these are generally resolved/being worked on to success :))