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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

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What sort of future canon TOH content you'll like to see?

https://www.reddit.com/r/amphibia/s/BbYm9GTseN

Hmmmm...I'm not sure I would want more, or at least not in the same way that there's extended content for other shows.

If there was a fully-plotted, full-length S3 (which Dana Terrace has confirmed there was not, and she has also said she's happy with how the show ended), of course, that would be interesting to see, because it would be interesting to see what the writers originally had planned at the time.

By this point, however, I think a few things are clear--one, Dana Terrace isn't really interested in working with Disney any more, and she has stated before that she doesn't want to only be known for doing TOH, and she's working on other projects. Fan demand shouldn't have to equate to artistic output. Secondly, because time has passed, and the fandom is so big, a lot of fan headcanons and personal visions have arisen and been solidified, and considering the diversity in the fandom, releasing any new canon content risks people being disappointed. Look at the response to the 'Harvey isn't Willow's bio dad reveal', and that was over something that ultimately makes only a tiny amount of difference to the world, and focuses on very minor characters.

I'm not totally opposed to any new content--Dana Terrace's TOH sketches are awesome, and I'd love to see more, and I think things such as scrapped episode ideas could be cool. I am just not crying out for any more canon content. My one caveat is that if she has a really good vision for the Wittebane backstory, I would love to hear her vision and what she considers canon, but otherwise, I personally am happy for the characters to be in the hands of the fandom.

Re: Amphibia getting new content, I feel like that's a bit of a different story, purely because the fandom is smaller and the show wasn't shortened, meaning there's a much less significant base of fans who are rabid for any new content, which reduces the chances that Matt Braly is only doing it because of fan demand and not out of passion. Additionally, I think because the fandom is smaller and nigh-exclusively focused on something they know isn't canon and is never going to be canon, something exploring the world and the characters is less likely to send headcanons toppling on the same scale

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shoutout to the utter madlad who heard me mention Stonemover x Farsight on their message board and then wrote an entire oneshot for it

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s1 jacob hill from abbott elementary 🤝 hooty from the owl house

"that guy? oh him. yeah, he's a fixture of this place. he just kind of goes around trying to talk to people and desperately attempt to befriend them. everyone loves him deep down, but no-one actually wants to be the one to, you know, get stuck in the conversation with him or sign up to be his new BFF."

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The Wings of Fire fandom is wrong in general about Clay being 'oblivious' towards Peril's feelings, because he's really not that oblivious. People like to portray him like Phineas Flynn--like he wouldn't know if somebody liked him if they said it to his face, but that's really not Clay.

I think there are two major reasons that this interpretation arises--aside from the fact fandoms love to flanderize 'oblivious' characters--and those are 1) Clay being confused when Tsunami jokingly describes Peril as his 'girlfriend' in TDP, and 2) by the time EP rolls around, Peril's feelings for Clay have gone unacknowledged by Clay. However, I don't necessarily think either of these factors point towards the complete romantic oblivion that most people like to portray him with, and I'll break it down.

1: Clay being confused when Tsunami jokingly describes Peril as his girlfriend

The DoD are, for the most part, very much written like teenagers, and I think that's pretty clear in TDP, where Clay is somewhat consistently portrayed as finding the whole 'relating to girls' thing quite confusing. When Glory and Tsunami are frustrated with him over stating that Peril could be their 'wings of sky', his response is to ask if it's a 'girl thing he doesn't understand'. He's genuinely surprised whenever any dragon expresses that he's attractive. He is the only one of the Dragonets Of Destiny--Sunny aside--to not even slightly pick up on Starflight's feelings for Sunny (interestingly, I never see anybody integrating 'utter obliviousness' into Sunny's fan perception despite how blindsided she was by Starflight expressing his feelings). I think at this point it's pretty safe to say that Clay isn't so much oblivious as he is just new to the concept entirely and that relating to the opposite gender within the framework of potential romance rather than just 'his sisters and Kestrel' is pretty new ground. Also, when Tsunami makes the 'evil girlfriend' quip, Clay has only known Peril for a few days, and he hasn't necessarily considered her in that light, so he's a bit confused when Tsunami goes there.

Next, and more pertinently:

2: Clay has not acknowledged Peril's feelings, at least to her by the time Escaping Peril happens

By the time Escaping Peril rolls around, it seems like everyone but Clay can tell that Peril likes him, but Clay apparently hasn't made any moves one way or the other towards her, making them the only Arc One implied couple to not have had some form of resolution by this point in Arc Two (Fatespeaker and Starflight are nigh-inseparable throughout A2, we've seen Glory and Deathbringer interact in Winter Turning and being quite affectionate towards one another; and Riptide and Tsunami are not together because neither can get the guts up to actually reach out first, but they both think about each other a lot), which leads a lot of people to assume that Clay is simply unaware of Peril's feelings. However, that's not reflected in the text. Clay is explicitly confronted about Peril's feelings towards him in chapter four, and his response isn't to be 'who? me? no she doesn't!'

That's not the response of someone who is being confronted with the Entirely New Concept of someone liking them. This reads more like Clay is aware of Peril's feelings and is concerned that Ruby will assume that the reason he's willing to pardon Peril is either a) because they're dating and he's willing to look more kindly on her or b) he's flattered by the attention. He also seems to want to shut down Starflight's implication that Peril's redemptive feature is her loving him. Additionally the epilogue of Darkness of Dragons features Clay asking Peril to fly with him in what is generally implied to be a romantic gesture, but only after we see that she has integrated into the school--she has friends, she has interests, she's shown a degree of moral development.

This all reads to me like Clay is aware that Peril is interested in him--and perhaps he's interested in her too--but he also knows that in her emotionally disastrous current state, where she is using him as a template for her sense of morality and has invested her entire sense of stability and self-worth in his affection for her, it would be a terrible idea for him to act on those feelings. Clay steadfastly believes that Peril can be a better dragon and he doesn't want that linked simply to himself. This is reflected in the beginning of Escaping Peril when Peril asks 'what do you want me to do?' and his response is that he's not going to become a new Scarlet for her--Clay's not going to engage with her beyond his usual brand of friendly affection until he's sure he's not the centre of her whole world, and that she's able to find a sense of self-worth outside of him. Which is the smart and healthy thing to do--if he did decide to act on her feelings, the obsession would likely become worse and if the relationship ended poorly, she'd only become more volatile, distrustful and murderous. Shout-out to Clay for handling the Peril situation really well, actually.

TL;DR: Clay's actually cleverer than we give him credit for, especially in matters of emotions, even if it took him a while to get there.

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does anyone want to hear about my Wings Of Fire The Owl House AU? because I want to talk about it

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one of my favourite things about the first arc in Wings of Fire is Tsunami spends her book being like ‘ugh, my friends think I’m impulsive and annoying and they don’t trust me to make good decisions’, and then whenever we’re in anyone else’s heads (with the possible exception of Glory) they’re like ‘tsunami is our fearless leader, and noisy and rash as she may be, we trust her and would be nowhere without her’ and Clay and Starflight both actively aspire to be more like her. I love that.

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"[Thing] is NOT for kids!! If it was for kids, then how could they have THIS in it??" and it's a scene where one character dies in a fairly bloodless and non-descript way and is quickly moved on from

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I was playing Mario Kart with my siblings yesterday—for context, I am very bad at Mario Kart—and I just kept falling off the same bit of the track, and on about the fifth time I fell off the track, I got so fed up that I announced ‘mmm I rebuke that’, and went on my merry way losing the race. The next race, I forgot that the race had three laps, and cheerfully stopped after the second lap, content with thinking I’d come in fourth.

my conclusion: the spirit of Barbara Howard briefly overtook me.

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The feeling of dragging your best friend into one of your fandoms (and monitoring their progress over their shoulder).

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One of my and @mymanyfandomramblings's TOH next-gen OCs, Julius Porter.

(I usually do digital art - this is my first traditional art in a while! Also my first realism in a while. I don't know if I got the glasses effect quite right. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.)

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shout-out to Bria. my favourite one-off TOH character. Gus's first crush. has an extremely sunny personality (that I am not fully convinced is just a persona) and is okay with graverobbing. the graverobbing is implied to be a trauma response because she's treated as weak by her peers. at one point has four teenage boys entirely willing to do her bidding by sheer force of a good attitude and oddly specific threats. is the only one allowed to refer to Matt as 'Matty'. seemed to legitimately like Gus until he turned on her and psychologically tortured her. ran away and was never seen again. is a villainous character but her introduction had her rescue a child from a rampaging slitherbeast. I love her so much.

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took me a while but here's the stuff i made for @huntlowfanzine!

highly encourage you to buy from the leftover sale since a lot of amazing and talented artists helped bring this zine to life!

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imagine a Caleb + Tariq team up. two himbos vs. the world (specifically vs the Abbott staff trying to do their jobs and have a normal day). it would be hilarious and I want it now.

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you're now named after the last thing you ate, is your new name good?

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✶ . ၄၃ . FIC WRITER ASK GAME !

any [insert __] is for the sender to fill in :)

1 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any one of your wips without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), which fic would you choose? tell us about it if you want!

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3 ⧽. what's something you like about your writing?

4 ⧽. is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?

5 ⧽. is there a certain kind of fic that feels the most satisfying to finish? any reason why?

6 ⧽. if you were to write a part two/sequel to a fic, what fic would you want to write it for?

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8 ⧽. what part of [insert fic] is your favorite?

9 ⧽. tell us about a wip/idea that you're excited about!

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11 ⧽. if you were to rewrite [insert fic] with [insert different character/ship] how do you think it might change?

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13 ⧽. do you have any writing projects/goals/plans you're working on/want to work on?

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15 ⧽. if you wrote a fic called [insert title] with [insert character/ship] what do you think it might be about?

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17 ⧽. are there any songs you want to write a songfic for?

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Little bit of Owl House musing. I was thinking about Odalia Blight and whether or not she could be redeemed. It all depends on what Dana would want to do with her if there were ever a continuation. It's a tall order, considering all the horrible things she did and how awful she was about it.

But I think one potential thread that could make it work: even near the very end, she was insisting what she was doing was "the best for our family."

If you were going to try to redeem her, that's the key link right there. Every awful thing she did was justified in her mind because it was "helping her family." They were going to be rich, powerful and perfect. No matter how much damage it caused it would all be for the best if it all just went to her plan. In her own warped and delusional way, she thought everything she did was for the greater good for the people she cared about.

and I think that, if the writer chose to interpret it that way, could pave the way for a believable redemption arc. Taking the one positive trait she has and building on it from there. Having her realize everything she did was horrible and was never going to end well, and she did the exact opposite of what she wanted.

But that's just my personal interpretation and how I'd do it if I were in charge. I could be completely off base.