Happy How to Train Your Dragon Day!

Happy How to Train Your Dragon day!

I can’t believe that the film How to Train Your Dragon is six years old now.  I didn’t watch it while it was out in theaters, but I watched it back in 2014 and I’m so glad that I did.  It became one of my favorite films about dragons, not to mention that it introduced me to an incredible fandom that I’m glad to be a part of.

Anyways, since I didn’t celebrate this day last year, I plan on celebrating it by watching How to Train Your Dragon later tonight.

Without How to Train Your Dragon...

Looking back on things a bit here, I’m so glad and grateful that I watched the film How to Train Your Dragon and got into the How to Train Your Dragon fandom last year.  If I hadn’t done both of those things, then several things wouldn’t have happened.

I wouldn’t have found a film that had a tie with Dragonheart as my favorite film about dragons.

I wouldn’t have found the blog of Toothless the Nightfury/usertoothless (which I found only thanks to someone on a forum site that I’m a member of who is a fan of How to Train Your Dragon) – and I wouldn’t have subsequently created my Disqus account to comment on said blog and chatted with other How to Train Your Dragon fans.

I wouldn’t have joined the How to Train Your Dragon Wiki (though I haven’t really been active on it because I tend to forget about it).

I wouldn’t have joined Berk’s Grapevine and met the wonderful people on there – and I wouldn’t have subsequently chatted with some of those people on Skype.

I wouldn’t have watched a few episodes of the series Dragons:  Riders of Berk (I would’ve watched more episodes of it, but I lost interest in it after a while due to being busy with other things).

I wouldn’t have watched How to Train Your Dragon 2 – a truly amazing sequel that exceeded my expectations when it comes to sequels – while it was in theaters – and I wouldn’t have subsequently found a film that had a three-way tie with How to Train Your Dragon and Dragonheart as my favorite film about dragons.

I wouldn’t have watched the shorts Gift of the Night Fury (which I really like) and Dawn of the Dragon Racers (which I found to be disappointing, especially after watching How to Train Your Dragon 2).

I wouldn’t have gotten into John Powell’s music a bit (especially since I hadn’t heard of John Powell at all before I heard of How to Train Your Dragon).

I wouldn’t have had all of the HTTYD-related dreams that I’ve had so far (some of which – a few of the ones that have had my dragon guide in them – have led to me wondering about who I am a bit more).

And, of course, I wouldn’t have started my own blog about How to Train Your Dragon and dragons (especially since the blog of Toothless the Nightfury/usertoothless inspired me to create said blog).

Needless to say, I owe the film How to Train Your Dragon quite a bit in my life.  :)

A How to Train Your Dragon Marathon

I’m glad to say that last week, two of my friends and I made up for the How to Train Your Dragon marathon that got canceled at the last minute on the one-year anniversary of the release of How to Train Your Dragon 2.  It went a little different than originally planned, though.

Seeing How to Train Your Dragon Mentioned in a Very Unlikely Place

While this really doesn’t have that much to do with How to Train Your Dragon or dragons, I felt like posting it anyways.

Recently when I was reading through the comments of something, I saw a comment that said that all that you have to do is learn “How to Train Your Dragon”.  Now, while I see comments like that when I read through comments of things that have to do with How to Train Your Dragon or have to do with dragons, what I was reading through the comments of this time had absolutely nothing to do with How to Train Your Dragon and had absolutely nothing to do with dragons.

What was I was reading through the comments of when I saw that comment?  I was reading an online article about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is a proposed regional “trade agreement” between the United States and 11 other countries that is currently being negotiated in secret.  (If you want to know more about the TPP, Google it.  As much as I’d like to say more about the TPP, this blog isn’t the place for it.)

Who knew that How to Train Your Dragon would be mentioned in the comments of something like an online article about the TPP?  I certainly didn’t.

My Birthday

Well, seeing as it’s my birthday today, I thought I’d write a post about some of the things that happened during my birthday and some of the gifts that I got.

Two HTTYD-Related Things

I thought I’d share two HTTYD-related things that happened to me last year – the first of which is somewhat funny and the second of which is somewhat interesting.

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After one of my friends and I saw How to Train Your Dragon 2 in theaters (it was my friend’s first time seeing it and my third time seeing it), my friend asked me if I had memorized all of the lines in How to Train Your Dragon 2 now that I had seen it three times.  I answered him by saying, “No, but I have memorized some of the lines.”

Seeing as it’s hard for me to remember things sometimes, there’s no way that I could have memorized all of the lines in How to Train Your Dragon 2 after seeing it only three times.  I would have to see How to Train Your Dragon 2 many times before I could have all of the lines in it memorized (and even then, there’s a very good chance that I would easily forget at least a few of the lines in it – but at least that would be an excuse for me to watch it more).  XD

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I was with another one of my friends (who is a fan of How to Train Your Dragon) and we were talking about How to Train Your Dragon.  At one point, my friend (who knows that I write poems) said that I should write a poem about Hiccup and Toothless.  I responded by saying, “No thanks.  I’ve got more important things to write poems about for now.”

As interesting as writing a poem about Hiccup and Toothless sounds, I’ve got other things to write poems about for now.  Maybe – just maybe – I’ll write a poem about Hiccup and Toothless sometime in the future, but not now.