Last night I was about to get on the plane and realized I had forgotten to actually like

have anything to do on the plane

so I frantically went to the list of fanfics I had been browsing recently (in this case, how to train your dragon, because I wanted fics where he fucks the dragon) and downloaded the highest rated impossibly long interesting looking fic I could find. Thank God I got lucky and hit "rationalfic but they're trying to insert berk into the actual politics of 1040 AD"

some history weirdo going "okay so can I have hiccup meet king Magnus the good of Norway and then try all try and then marries ruffknut who becomes queen of norway" is exactly the sort of trash I needed for a 5 hour plane trip

Snoutlout headed south to search for glory and has ended up in the complex political situation caused by the death of Michael IV and his successor Michael V's actions. Also there's dragons. This is exactly what I needed.

It's fun because the "well I'm just more normal about everything like slavery and modern jncentions then everyone else" rationalfic protag brain isn't because they're From Earth or some shit it's because uh

HTTYD was written by modern people who projected modern values onto the characters

and the "bad empire" they have to consider is

the warring British states and the holy roman empire

Macbeth is there. Like the actual historical guy