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🔥 choose violence ask game 🔥

the character everyone gets wrong

a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

worst discord server and why

which ship fans are the most annoying?

what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

worst part of canon

worst part of fanon

number of fandom-related words you've filtered

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

worst blorboficiation

that one thing you see in fics all the time

that one thing you see in fanart all the time

you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

there should be more of this type of fic/art

it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

part of canon you found tedious or boring

part of canon you think is overhyped

your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

ship you've unwillingly come around to

topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

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Drip Dry

Separate Tides aftermath

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Chapter 6 of the TOH Hunger Games AU is out, in which terrible things happen, and you'll all hate me

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also The Prince Warriors series by Priscilla Shirer. They're kids books, but pretty good, and quite allegorical.

Anyone have any (new-ish) Christian fantasy/sci fi recommendations to share?

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Chapter Four of the the TOH Hunger Games AU is out!! Feat. Willow and Gus making their first proper appearance, and Amity having a great time (not!)

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Chapter Three of the TOH Hunger Games AU is live, and the Games have officially begun:

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my piece for the @huntlowfanzine yay!! had such a blast working on this.

+ my polaroid design:

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Chapter Two of the TOH Hunger Games AU is now live, featuring other members of the Hexsquad, some Lumity crumbs and the beginnings of Amity's existential crisis:

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Do you guys remember the TOH Hunger Games AU I was talking about weeks ago?

Well, I just published the first chapter:

If you want to check it out that would mean THE world

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May I ask if you have any Gus and Amity's friendship headcanons? They have many things in common and friendship potential but it's sad that the writers doesn't give them any screentime to interact.

I think they can bond over both being 'gifted kids' and prone to overworking themselves, and stressing out. I'd like to think they have a tendency to try and keep each other in check when they start to spiral over schoolwork or magic. I also think that Edric and Emira see Gus as their honorary little brother (bc they have illusions together) so Amity also gets Gus as an honorary little brother by the transitive property of siblings. I also think that they both tend to like satirical humour in a way that their friends don't.

I wish I could think of more headcanons, but that's what I've got for now.

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Actually, you're all wrong if you think she wouldn't have multiple looks, throughout the evening, Met-Gala style.

i think mabel somehow finds a picture of stan and ford's prom outfits and goes ham recreating the suits for her and dipper's prom

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@letsplaythermalnuclearwar

when ur talking abt headcanons w/ ur friend and they start typing for a really long time

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Favourite owl house character??

THIS GUY

how can you not love the silly dork!!

in case you're wondering who my second and third favourite characters are, here are all my most beloveds in the same gif!

They're beyond precious to me

(if gifts aren't loading for you, it's Gus, followed by Willow and Hunter)

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On relationships: what are your thoughts on Lumity? Do you think Amity's character after her redemption felt a bit more washed out?

Also for Amphibia: what do you think of the fandom trend to ship the three girls together?

First question: Lumity

Lumity is nice. It's good for what it is, and I know that a lot of people love it for being a central, unproblematic, canonical, sapphic ship in a mainstream cartoon, and it's really good at being that. And I like it--they're cute together, and their dynamic is fun. Sure, they're uncomplicated, but uncomplicated is okay.

As for Amity's character--yes, some of her more interesting personality did wash out with her green hair dye. Because TOH doesn't tend to let good characters have 'bad' flaws--that is, flaws that genuinely hurt other people for reasons other than 'i want to protect you' (and yes, there are exceptions to this), Amity's redemption meant that a lot of her rough edges disappeared, or were minimised. Much like every other member of her family, the episode where Amity was best and most perfectly written was Escaping Expulsion. Amity showed all her good qualities there--her strength, her resolve, her iron will, and her loyalty--but she also makes a big mistake, and not an easily excused one. When her mother expels her friends, Amity does exactly what pre-redemption Amity would have done--she lets her fear of her mother override her moral compass or her love for her friends, and it's not until Luz's life is on the line that Amity is able to stand up to her parents, and do the right thing. It would have been nice if as the show went on, she occasionally continued to slip into her old ways--perhaps if she responds too harshly to something, or acts overly haughty at times. But she's still a good character, she's just a bit...smooth.

Second Question:

I'm not going to tell people not to ship, and I hate getting involved in fandom politics. BUT.

You know the classic 'there is more to fandom than shipping' thing? I've never felt that more strongly in a fandom than Amphibia. Shipping is fun, and if you're a big Sashannarcy fan, I'm not going to be the one to say 'how could you ruin the fandom' or something. All I'm saying is that Amphibia is a beautiful, stunning, poignant story which does heaps of fleshing out of non-romantic relationships, and I think that a lot of dynamics and thematic elements in the story fall by the wayside in fanworks in lieu of a non-canon ship. But that said, ship and let ship is the policy of fanworks, y'all do y'all.

the one thing I will say is that the ship should be called Marshanne. it flows so much better than Sashannarcy

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mutuals reblog THIS post to tell PREV what fruit of the spirit they embody

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Any headcanons for toh?

Oooooh. I have several, including an entire section dedicated to my love of the terrible Blight family dynamics. Here we go:

Luz and Gus both love Hamilton. Amity does not love Hamilton, but she tolerates it.

Amity's music taste is either 'the softest, lightest, saddest pop music' or 'heavy metal'. all happy songs on her playlist were added because she associates them with Luz or her friends, not because she listens to them.

Luz is convinced that Elvis is alive somewhere on the Boiling Isles.

All of the Hexsquad are the type to call each other in the middle of the night because an idea occurred to them. it's usually Willow who ends up being called.

Willow has tried--and failed--to understand the hype with either The Good Witch Azura or Cosmic Frontier. She however does know so much lore about both, and is so good at pretending, that her friends have yet to figure out that she doesn't care about their fandoms beyond 'you're really happy talking about it'.

Edric and Emira see Gus as their unofficial little brother

Darius makes Willow's wedding dress, when she gets married.

When Hunter and Willow get married, Gus is a combination of best man/man of honour and Luz is a combination maid of honour/best woman. Amity's just a bridesmaid, but her feelings are unhurt by this.

Hooty writes terrible RPF

Lilith likes Raine just fine but she will not let them know this.

Luz and Gus will corner Hunter at some stage and be like 'listen, we know you like Willow. If you're going to date her you have to treat her like a princess. Spare no expense, leave no stone unturned. when you ask her to Grom you must do a big romantic gesture."

Willow does not like big romantic gestures nearly as much as Luz and Gus do.

Gus helps Luz and Amity plan their big dramatic Gromposals, so that they both ask at the same time, with equally massive fanfare.

Amity is not naturally a big romantic gestures person, but Luz is, so she has adapted to a big romantic gestures person.

Eventually Gus and Luz will figure out that neither Hunter or Willow are 'big romantic gestures' people. it will take too long for them to figure this out.

Camila and Darius are appreciative of each other for raising Hunter. Beyond that, they don't actually mesh all that well. She doesn't understand his dramatics.

Darius is occasionally prone to calling Raine and Eberwolf in the middle of the night to drag them on sidequests.

Back when Lilith was head of the Emperor's Coven, Eda used to go to wherever the coven heads would meet, and she'd sit under the window with a boombox and blast the Boiling Isles equivalent of 'You May Be Right' and 'Everybody Loves Me Baby'. This stopped after Lilith left the Emperor's Coven, but a little while later, Scooter Crane resigned, Raine Whispers ascended to head of the bard coven, and Eda and her boombox returned.

When Hunter starts attending Hexside, he isn't sure what he wants to study, and with the track system being far more flexible--and him being very traumatized and not very well-socialised--Principal Bump lets him have a blank schedule and go to whichever classes whenever. This often ends up with him spending much of the day in Plants, where it's peaceful. or at least he says it's because it's peaceful.

Grimwalker physiology is pretty similar to witch and human physiology, however it has some strange and inexplicable quirks. One of these things is a complete and utter lack of a detectable heartbeat.

Eda and co. would not all have survived high school without Raine there to keep the peace, and rein in the more stupid ideas.

Also, my incessant headcanons about the Blight family:

Odalia's family used to be one of Bonesborough's richest and most eminent families, however either thanks to a bad business deal or a scandal they lost most of their fortune and repute while Odalia was a child, and by the time she started Hexside, she's been living in genteel poverty for years. This has given her high-class trappings, memories of having wealth, and a desperation to regain it.

Darius was the one to originally introduce Odalia and Alador. he eventually regretted this.

Odalia wasn't always a terrible person. She was always unscrupulous, sharp-tongued and a social climber, but she is also capable of genuine pleasantness.

Odalia and Alador once did like each other--or at the very least were attracted to each other originally. This soured over years of an unsuccessful marriage.

They got married very young. Odalia was keen to lock down the last heir to the Blight fortune as soon as possible, and Alador thought she was pretty, and a good business woman.

Everything started falling apart when the twins were born, and properly fell apart when Amity was born.

Odalia's pregnancies have never been easy on her, and she experienced bad bouts of post-partum depression after both.

Alador is most definitely autistic. and also undiagnosed. among the things he finds overstimulating are a) children and b) Odalia when she's in a bad mood.

so when Amity was born and suddenly there was a crying baby, two chaos twins, and a very irritable post-partum Odalia, Alador's response was 'spend as little time in the house as possible.'

This is about when any last love between Odalia and Alador left the marriage.

Back to general headcanons, Edric gets bad asthma attacks

Emira is like a very immature mother to her siblings. they'd be lost without her.

Amity is unambiguously the favourite child. not that this gets her preferential treatment from her parents, but it does foster resentment among her siblings.

it took the twins much too long to figure out that Mittens has other emotional needs beyond 'an ego check'.

Alador just...gives them their inheritance when they asked for it. Amity put hers into saving, Emira uses it to be the hot rich single aunty to her nieces and nephews, and Edric spent his all at once on something like a waterslide for his house.

Edric needs budgeting lessons ASAP. he's not very good at it.

Post-divorce the twins joke incessantly about the fact that their mother is in jail.

That's all I can think of right now.

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Having watched all the finales of TOH, Amphibia and Gravity Falls, which do you think hits the hardest?

Ooohhh. Tough question. I think each finale had it's strengths and weaknesses, and I've actually had to think about this for a while.

Gravity Falls, for example, I can't think of obvious weaknesses--it was very thematic, cathartic and heartwarming, and the tension and stakes were well built and maintained. The only thing I can think of that weakens it--and even then, it only weakens it in comparison with Amphibia--is that it's a pretty safe finale. Stan gets his memories back, all the relationships are repaired, all the baddies are either defeated or redeemed. Dipper and Mabel are feeling better about high school and they're coming back next summer. This is fine--it's the perfect finale for the show, and it's the right conclusion for the themes emphasizing the importance of family and that it's possible to face your fears as long as you have people you can trust. So, I wouldn't even really consider that a 'weakness'.

The greatest strength of Amphibia's finale is that it doesn't shy away from the hard stuff. Instead of being an indulgent, happily-ever-after, it commits to it's theme hard, and shows an ever-after that isn't perfect but is still happy. I think the fact that the Amphibia finale is both satisfying and heartbreaking is what makes it such an incredible finale, because there are a lot of flaws with The Hardest Thing. The extra conflict with the moon, the cat guardian, all that was rather jarring, and I felt All In resolved the conflict in the way it needed to be resolved, without a last-minute stake-raising. But The Hardest Thing remains an extremely gut-punching, yet satisfying finale and the perfect conclusion to the series.

The Owl House finale is a good finale too. The conflict made sense, and it escalated in a linear form--there was no false ending, like in Amphibia. My two major complaints are about Luz's fake death and about the poor utilisation of the cast. On the first one, Luz's 'death' didn't have the same impact as Stan losing his memories or Anne dying because it wasn't the same culmination of her character arc as it was for the others, and also because we didn't get many character reactions. Eda and King were there (and the Collector), and while I do appreciate them not overstuffing the cast at such a crucial moment, it was kind of weird that Luz's mother, friends and girlfriend didn't even get to react to it. This ties into the whole 'poor utilisation of the cast' ideas--their Hexsquad got Luz to the head, and then they just hung around in the archives, and Hunter didn't even get to be present at Belos's defeat (and Raine did, which didn't make sense for the characters, really). And the epilogue was very sweet, I like (most) of the timeskip designs, and the future suited them. It was very self-indulgent, but that's okay--those kiddos went through so much, they can have a happy future. And while I do think the eventual finale didn't really tie in with the whole 'you have to separate reality from fiction' thing from earlier, the show pretty much dropped that theme a long time ago, and the finale was fitting for what the show had become. If we're talking about season finales though, Clouds Over The Horizon + King's Tide are unreal. Dare I say that they blow True Colours out of the water. Maybe I won't go that far, but still the TOH season two finale was incredible. So I know they can write a killer finale, and altogether, Watching and Dreaming was pretty good.

TL;DR: Gravity Falls has the strongest finale, the best part about Amphibia's finale was the way it committed to it's themes, and The Owl House's finale was also good, if flawed. The way each show ended was perfect for that show and it's themes.