Help Me Save Toothless!
Help us. We need it.
You might know me – I’m Astrid Goes For A Spin. I usually reside on Fanfiction.net :
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3526686/As ... For-A-Spinand am an active member and admin of Sticks and Stones :
http://s4.zetaboards.com/Sticks_and_Sto ... e/3922430/Dean Deblois believes that an ending to HTTYD3 could include these words – “There were dragons when I was a boy.”
And if you care about dragons? Help me stop it in its tracks. My small forum, Sticks and Stones, has so little power compared to the internet. But we can do it. The petition is below.
https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/ ... r-dragon-3I’ve been a part of this fandom from Gift of the Night Fury, and
How To Train Your Dragon is everything to me.
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I've long come to believe that this movie was a personal gift for me from the man upstairs - it provided something to focus on, something to get excited about, something to inspire learning about everything from the earliest prosthetics in Ancient Egypt to how to properly light a scene to the method of making a dragonship. It's honed my writing skills, and my analytical skills - something that I can keep looking at, and it doesn't stop giving. There's never a shortage of new things to see, new things to learn. It showed me the world in a completely different light, and because of it, I've found a place on the internet and even in "real life" where I can speak freely with no fear of embarrassment about what's important to me and collaborate on things that eventually reach past Berk.
I've always had a fantasy world at my beck and call - whether it was taking a field trip through a large intestine with Ms. Frizzle on her Magic School Bus, bumping along a new trail west in a covered wagon with Laura and Mary, flying on Appa's back on the way to the Fire Lord with Katara, Sokka, Toph, and Aang, walking along the halls of Hogwarts with Harry, Ron and Hermione, or safely residing in the squadroom of NCIS. Things that link these interests have been the familial relationships - between the Friz and her class, Laura and her Pa, "Team Avatar," Gibbs and his team, and Harry and his two best friends. They show me hope - hope that all people aren't selfish and miserable, that there are heroes, self-sacrificing and brave and bold. They help when the world hurts.
But since 2010, my fantasy world of choice, my place to recede from the world and reassure myself, is in the skies with Hiccup and Toothless, where utter dependency ties them together in the best way, where love trumps guilt and passion overcomes tradition and cowardice. And even though they don't wield guns and badges or the power of the ten thousand previous Avatars or even Harry's power of love, it's with them that I feel the most safe.
But if Hiccup and Toothless are separated or Toothless is killed, it will stop giving. It will stop providing and shielding and reassuring me. It will stop reminding me that not everyone is bad (because there had to be good people to think of the movie!). The first movie, my sanctuary, my refuge, will lose the magic that rescued me, the magic that gave me a best friend, a group of people to develop my skills and interests with on the internet. Berk – the rustic wooden houses and the perfect family I imagine I eavesdrop on that exists between Hiccup and Toothless. For them, the sky isn’t the limit.
DreamWorks, please don’t break this. Dean Deblois, I appeal directly to you: don’t chain them – and me – to the ground. In your own words, you can do better. Try.
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Sign this. Put it on DeviantArt. Post it on Facebook. Tweet about it, blog about it on Tumblr. Shout it from the rooftops. Tell your neighbor’s little cousin, or the brother and sister you saw pretending to be Hiccup and Toothless in the grocery store. Send it to the New York Times. Be annoying. Be persistent. Show your Viking stubbornness issues. I will. Help me. Help everyone who cares, and everyone who keeps returning to Berk for the same reasons I do.
Please.
