For anyone who cares, here's my rant about HTTYD books vs movies. Yep, I just said books. There are books, you know. AND THEY CAME FIRST!

(Warning: the rest of this will be in all caps to give more emphasis.)

THE HTTYD BOOKS DID INDEED COME FIRST, BEFORE THE MOVIES. BUT THE MOVIES GET ALL THE CREDIT, EVEN THOUGH THE BOOKS ARE BETTER. NOW HOW COULD ONE BE BETTER IF THEY HAVE THE SAME PLOT? YOU ASK. WELL, THEY DONT. THE MOVIES ARE SO HORRENDOUSLY NOT LIKE THE BOOKS ITS DISGUSTING. IM FINE AND ALL SITH A FEW CHANGES, BUT THEY LITERALLY CHANGED THE ENTIRE PLOT. YES, YOU HEARD ME RIGHT. THE. ENTIRE. PLOT. 

NOW NOT ONLY DO THEY CHANGE THE PLOT, BUT THEY REPLACE MY BELOVED CAMICAZI, FROM THE BOOKS, WITH ASTRID. APPARTENTLY ASTRID WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SYMBOL OF STRENGTH AND BRAVERY TO YOUNG GIRLS. NOW, I WOULD BE FINE WITH ASTRID, BUT THEY ALREADY HAD A SYMBOL! CAMICAZI WAS EVERYTHING ASTRID WAS AND MORE. CAMICAZI IS AMAZING, AND ALWAYS WILL BE. BUT THEY REPLACED HER WITH ASTRID, WHO HAS BASICALLY THE SAME PERSONALITY, BUT THE MOST GENERIC AND UNORIGINAL VIKING NAME EVER.

NEXT, LETS EXPLORE HOW THE BOOKS GET NO CREDIT. ONCE A FRIEND TOLD ME SHE THOUGHT THE BOOKS WERE FANFICTION. I ALMOST CRIED. BECAUSE THEY ARE MOST DEFINATELY NOT. THE BOOKS CAME FIRST AND WERE WRITTEN BY THE HONORABLE AND AMAZING CRESSIDA COWELL. EVER HEARD THAT NAME? NO, YOU PROBABLY HAVENT. SHES THE ORIGINAL CREATOR AND AUTHOR OF THE HTTYD BOOKS. SHE GETS ZERO CREDIT, WHICH IS REALLY RUDE AND UNACCEPTABLE, BECAUSE LET ME TELL YOU, THOSE BOOKS ARE INCREDIBLE.

THOSE BOOKS MADE ME CRY, THEY MADE ME BECOME A BETTER PERSON. THEY MADE ME LAUGH, THEY MADE ME FIND A PURPOSE TO MY LIFE, THEY WERE THE BOOKS THAT ORIGINALLY INSPIRED ME TO START WRITING. BUT I CAN ALMOST NEVER FANGIRL ABOUT THEM TO PEOPLE, BECAUSE EVERYONE THINKS IM TALKING ABOUT THE MOVIES, BUT SINCE THE PLOTS ARE SO DIFFERENT, NO ONE GETS ANY OF MY REFERENCES. 

THAT IS THE END OF MY RANT. READ THE BOOKS. PLEASE. PLEASE. READ THEM, AND SPREAD THE WORD, THEY ARE TWELVE BIG GLORIOUS PIECES OF WRITING THAT GET BETTER AND BETTER AS THE SERIES GOES ON.

So yeah. And please, please, don't be offended by this. You have every right to love the movies, continue to do so. I'm not angry at people who like the movies, I'm just mad because the books get no credit. Again, don't be offended. Just read the books, because they need more love.