#AND we could watch OTGW!!!

[tatoasting]

Hehe, I really like them <3

[theygender]

My kitten has a new favorite teeny tiny mouse toy that we got at her first vet checkup and she loves it so much. We call it her mousey. She goes crazy over it and could play with it for hours, but sometimes she bats it somewhere she can't reach and we have to get it for her

Today she was getting into a bunch of stuff she shouldn't and I realized that I hadn't seen her playing with her mousey all day. So I asked out loud (rhetorically) "where's your mousey?" and started looking for it so I could give her that to play with instead. As soon as I said that though she walked over to a box of my gf's craft stuff and started pawing behind it, and when I moved it the mousey was right there

She knows the word mousey and she led me to her toy so I could get it for her 🥺 she's such a smart baby

[graysongraysoff]

the problem is i find myself wanting to have like. a classic sleepover/slumber party for my birthday this year. that is where my heart is. but my apartment is. small.

[taidelmoro]

spoonie penpal wanted!! 🥄

♿ looking for a chronically ill and/or autistic penpal!

Hey, hello! :]

My name's Tai, I'm 22 years old, from Brazil & I'm looking for a pen pal!

I'm specifically looking for a chronically ill, disabled and/or autistic penpal to share experiences only spoonies would understand - if you are not a spoonie yourself but u are supportive and respectful, you can still send a request if you're interested! ♾

🌼 About me!

🦇 I deal with multiple diagnosis;

Autism, Connective Tissue Disorder (currently investigating Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome), dysautonomia & autoimmune conditions (SLE) + comorbidities like IBS, food intolerances, mental disorders, etc).

All diagnosed, but we still have more questions than answers.

🦇 I'm an artist 🎨 [Tradicional & Digital] ;

🦇 I speak english & brazilian portuguese;

🦇 I'm kinda new to penpaling;

I've always loved writing letters & crafting gifts, but I'm new to actual penpaling, so you could be my first ever actual penpal! (I also researched a whole lot about it so call me experienced >:] )

🦇 I might need to take breaks;

I might take a bit longer to send letters or need to take breaks from time to time due to my health conditions.

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🤎 Hobbies: All sorts of art, journaling, baking, gardening, listening to music (i love SOAD) & watching cartoons (i love OTGW);

🤎 Interests: Art, nature, halloween, animations / cartoons, minecraft, all animals!!, paganism/witchcraft, alt styles, etc.

☆ Special Interests: Commemorative dates & festivals, nature and studying about neurodiversity and medical conditions.

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🤎 Ideal penpal:

• Snail mail preferably, but digital's also ok!

• Long term (preferably);

• Any gender, any location, any age above 18;

• LGBTQ+ friendly, trans ally, etc;

• If not disabled themselves, respectful towards disabled people;

• Likes getting creative / crafty w/ their letters, but is also open to share thoughts, ramble and build a friendship (i don't mind long letters!!!);

• Is someone who can be patient and understanding about my mental and physical limitations;

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👻 What else to expect from me? 🖍

• stickers!!! • poems • tea • trinkets •

• pretty letters • pressed flowers •

• lots of drawings & doodles • existential crisis •

• we can talk about the extras we have / would like!! ♡

Anyways, feel free to DM me or comment if you're interested!

☆ e-mail: fantasmalberto@gmail.com

Lets chat for a bit :] ⭐

[cookinguptales]

I can't tell y'all about the most recent thing I wrote yet, but I can bring back another one of my old fics for the OTGW anniversary!

OTGW is one of those canons that I have felt very little need to write for. It just feels kind of perfect as-is, y'know? I'm more of a meta person than a fic person for that one, really.

That said!

Several years ago, I did write a short OTGW fic for the trick-or-treat exchange, and I wrote it about one of the characters who we didn't get to hear a lot from during the show itself: Sara.

Sara is an interesting character because, like The Beast, we hear a lot about her before we finally meet her. And then... she's so normal, y'know? She's a nice kid. She's good for Wirt. But her existence, like everything else, was heightened in Wirt's Unknown.

So I did think it was fun to bring a little bit of The Unknown to Sara, and to let her come to know it in a way that only she could.

Puddle Jumper Over The Garden Wall | mild Sara/Wirt | PG | 2k words After Sara agrees to watch Jason Funderberker (the frog) while Wirt (the human) goes on vacation, her dreams turn... strange.

[crazylittlejester]

4 10 14 and 26 for the asks :)

- hero-of-the-wolf

4 Whats your favorite feeling?

that feeling you get when you step outside after a storm and it’s still raining a little

10 When was the last time you laughed so hard you cried? (or just felt really good afterwards)

when my fiancee was showing me the things they named their bg3 saves 😭 I WAS DYING. and i was real close to tear last night when TWO people sent me the same big hero 6 edit and it also popped up on my fyp because it was so insane and ridiculous 😭

14 Whats something upcoming that you’re excited for?

GENUINELY, FALL BREAK. because i intend to make my friends watch OTGW with me and do crafts and maybe i’ll force them to get cider n donuts with me too who knows

26 If you could live anywhere with anyone you want, where would it be and who would you bring?

Silly answer: id want an apartment building and id put all the mutuals in it because all of us in the same building would be so funny and chaotic

Genuinely tho, i’d wanna live somewhere like where i am now, maybe with more open space and a little closer to the actual fields, and with my fiancee. because we’re gonna have some incredible ass home decor and also ENDLESS SLEEPOVERS? GAMER TIME AT 2 AM FOREVER??? and also i’d bring our friend too, because then we could all be silly

[hoardingpuffin]

Over the Garden Wall Fable AU Concepts

Okay, so - when I was across the pond to see my partner, them and I watched Over the Garden Wall. @the-uninformed-zennial had never seen it, and it's so very much their vibe so obviously we had to. And, as we are both Fable nerds, we ended up talking about potential AU ideas. I'd had two possible concepts for AUs floating in my noggin for a while and we fleshed them out together a bit.

Now, between (hopefully) finishing Three Wishes, and the holidays, and that pesky 30+ page bachelor thesis paper, I won't have time to write them as actual fics anytime soon, so I figured I'd at least put out the concepts somewhere, and Tumblr seemed like a good choice.

For anyone unfamilar with Over the Garden Wall: It's a mini series by Patrick McHale that aired on CartoonNetwork a while ago, focussing on two brothers stuck in the mysterious Unknown trying to get home and experiencing wacky halloween-y hijinks on the way. The Unknown is often interpreted to be a sort of afterlife/limbo, and the series has a lot of themes of that direction, but it's still quite charming and cute and funny (as it is made for kids).

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Concept 1 Icarus and Rae are in the place of Greg and Wirt – they got into some sort of fight in the real world and ended up in a situation that made them enter the Unknown as a limbo between living and dying. In this case, the characters from the Unknown would be remaining a lot more like the ones we know from the show, so the Woodsman is just The Woodsman, the Beast is just The Beast, and so on. I’m not sure who’d be in the place of Beatrice, but there are a few possibilities. If we’re going with the popular interpretation that the Unknown is a form of the afterlife, then it could be someone from canon who has passed already (if we wanna be angsty, it could be Haley maybe? I am not sure if I want her to be though), or alternatively Beatrice could just be a random soul who, like in OtGW Canon, is trying to free their own family.

In this AU, the story would probably progress similar to the one in OtGW – Icarus and Rae trying to get home and through the Unknown, getting into more fights along the way, until Icarus ends up losing faith in being able to get home completely. Rae – much like Greg – would offer himself to the Beast in order to get Icarus home, and Icarus in turn would have to step up and be a responsible older brother and save Rae from turning into an Edelwood.

There’s a lot of similarities between Icarus and Wirt, I feel like, though Wirt’s anxious poetic nature seems more alike Rae. But both Icarus and Wirt have this streak of blaming their younger brothers for stuff that those brothers weren’t necessarily responsible for, and lashing out at them, so I can see Icarus in Wirt’s place rather well. Plus, well, Rae, like Greg, going on a whole arc of “maybe this is actually my fault so I’m gonna go with the Beast to try and fix it” seems fitting for him to me.

Concept 2

Now, the other concept I might actually like more by just a little bit – in this, the people lost in the Unknown would likely be Athena and Jamie, who (due to something other in the real world) are finding themselves in the woods, where they meet the Woodsman – who would be Rae. I can just see Rae being someone to devote themselves to being the Lantern Bearer for the Beast, if it meant to keep the soul of a loved one alive (though in this case it wouldn’t be the child, but likely Aax and Caspian) – plus, the Beast has the whole antler aesthetic going on, so that can overlap neatly with the warden in my opinion. Maybe it’s just cause the Woodsman is such a tragic figure already in OtGW canon, but I think it would be a neat spin to see that character lead the ones lost in the Unknown instead of just sending them on their way, to make the idea that he might be the Beast even worse of a betrayal, which I always thought OtGW was a bit light on. I wish they’d have given that betrayal as much weight as Beatrice’s betrayal. And then, once revealed to the Woodsman that the Lantern holds the Beast’s soul, not anyone else’s, the big fight feels in character for Rae to me, too. Rae’s devotion to the ones he loves is immense, and him fighting the monster that deceived him so – especially to also keep two innocent souls safe in the process – would not only be in character, but also give a quite triumphant turn for him in this AU. Plus, he’d get the happy ending he deserves once he actually slays the Beast and returns home to see that his loved ones are actually there and likely have been all along. The unfortunate side to his AU idea is that most of the characters in the Unknown, like Rae, already being dead and likely for a long time. However, Zenni presented an alternative idea, where the inhabitants of the Unknown aren’t always actually the souls of the deceased, but might also be sort of mirror-verse representations of them. I’m not sure how Athena and Jamie would get to the Unknown then, but it would be an interesting concept to explore, and give more detail to the world – plus, give Athena and Jamie both more of a reason to trust the Woodsman and either for the believed betrayal to hit even worse or for them to not believe it because they know Rae so well in the real world.

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Now, obviously, these are just concepts, not nearly as fleshed out as I would make an actual fanfic - and some stuff might be jumbled as I've not actually written it out before and the whole Putting Things In Your Writing Brain Into Actual Writing thing is difficult as fuck.

Anyways. Those are the two ideas I came up with and have been mulling around my noggin. I don't know if I'll write them, gonna be honest, but - they are concepts alright.

[dukeceitbrainrot]

This is so fun, I love your blog.

I want to try asking for numbers, if you don't mind :D

43, 55, 56?

You are amazing 💚💛

Ooh I don't mind in the least!

43 - Who would give their life for the other without a second thought?

Remus for sure. But only because he is far more impulsive of the two, and by his nature Janus is one to have many thoughts before doing something.

55 - Do they like watching clouds or star gazing?

YES! We even see Remus laying back for a spot of stargazing granted on some train tracks in the OTGW video!

Whether it be clouds or constellations, the two would make a game of pointing out formations and either claiming that it looks like something utterly horrific/sexual (Remus) or just completely making up what it is he's seeing (Janus).

56 - What do they do turn the other on/put them in the mood?

>:3

Okay so, because of Remus' nature aka his his usual "always dtf" attitude, Janus could do literally ANYTHING to turn him on, even when he's just doing the mundane thing imaginable Remus would just glance his way and then just rips his whole outfit off in one go and pounces.

Though I do imagine that if Janus is on purpose going to turn Remus on, he would do very small but obvious physical touches. Like tracing his fingertips gently along the slope of Remus' jaw, a light brush of the hand on the small of his back etc. Lingering, tingling touches that leave Remus craving for more.

And when he doesn't feel like beating around the bush, sexy lingerie. Remus immediately explodes upon witnessing Janus in sexy lingerie.

coughcough I totally haven't drawn art of Janus in stockings and garter-belt and Remus as an erect little gremlin nope you can't prove it coughcough

On the flipside, if Remus wants to put Janus in a mood he has to play a fun game called, "Janus looooooves pretending he isn't turned on by something so you've got to chase him around a little". And that's not sarcasm there, I HC that Janus genuinely gets a kick out of lying over his own arousal and Remus ramping up seductions to higher and higher levels to get him to crack.

[penguin--person]

It’s my ship bingo so I get to ask for three ships if I want too! (You can do any of them that you want or all of them, whatever you like.)

Vastgiver!

The princess x the princess killer from Slay the Princess (it’s my understanding that there are multiple aspects of both of these characters, so please pick your favorites)

and! Beastnoch

i answered this w vastgiver last time i did this bingo i think, and im afriad my thoughts on them havent changed at all since then... only now i am slightly more mortfied to be reminded of them (i love lifey w my life (hehe), but tva.. stomping on it until its nothing but a small purpe stain) so ill do beastnoch and LQ x the den BEAST IMEANT BEAST!!!:3 stp spoilers for the latter one - stp seems like smth you'd enjoy!! :) its a rlly good game

as you can see um i think that theyre uh um i think that. um . i think that. uh um. i think um. i think that. Runs into heavy traffic i think that its very cool when (spoilers warning, again, and talking/gushing about gore) the BEAST eats you like GOD its awesome!! ok so ive already went crazy about this before, but the gore in this game is INSANE!!! its so well drawn!!!! and it perfectly shines in the BEAST chapter - she eats you Alive and you can see her gut n shit !! and you can (try to) claw your way out of her stomach, but at best, you stab her heart just in time before she finishes devouring you. this leads to like, my 2nd favorite princess, the wild:) my 3rd would be the spectre or prisoner i think (spectre was my first ever princess, and i like her a lot, but the prisoner intrigues me a bunchies).. tbh the wild would be my fav if she had gore. but she doesnt:( BEAST has her themes AND gore!!! so like :3 hehe the BEASTSdeal is that she wants to have you in her belly so that she can leve the cabin (cant leave it without you), but like, she needs to hunt you down first. her cabin is sooo cool and i like the voice of the hunted:) shes just like hunting you !!! pouncing on you !!! shes a BEAST dude shes an ANIMAL!!!!! like shes just so cool!!! the wilds sooo. what if i ate u and then we were fused and we could never be 2 people again bc we're forever 1 person, and what if maybe that wasnt such a bad thing what if it was awesome what if we had the time of our lives chilling as one being. its Awesome!!!! consumed by devotion vs devoted to consumption fr...

first of all i admire your dedication youve been these guys' number one soldier ever since i met you, most likely even before, so i want to give you a shoutout‼️🔥💯 they intrigue me !! like, how there can be multiple readings of them, yknow??? multiple interpretations, n they can all be interesting!!! yknow?? to me theyre like, a lighthouse ... if u get what i mean.. goddd i havent watched otgw in SO long it would literally not even take me a day, i should do it again. and then i can think about beastnoch!!! shamefully enough i dont have any big thoughts on them... or any tbh... i think they're cool, and i wouldnt have thought to put them together on my own, but i can def see the appeal!!! :) theyre aweosme... theyre like a cousin ship to me tbh.. my friend beastnoch:) the body horror potential is awesome i think - like, both their relationships to their bodies must be at least Kinda fucked up, right? likei said, awesome!!!

[babacontainsmultitudes]

OMG FUN !!! i actually haven't seen Over the Garden Wall yet lol I think I saw the first episode? and I really did wanna watch it eventually but I just never did 😭 my older sister even downloaded all the episodes for me at one point. BUT I HOPE U HAD A FUN TIME WITH UR SISTER !!! :D <333

I'm happy cause my dad brought home some filipino sweet bread and I looove sweet bread >:] i just finished dinner so im gonna eat one then get back to work on the charms bc im so close !!! I can TASTE IT I'll probably finish the art this weekend and then I just have to figure out the manufacturing logistics hehehehehehe MWAH MWAH MWAH

I'm a lil brain empty rn just feelin the vibes yk its like. this is the exact kinda moment when I wish there was an online way to just sit quietly in a room next to u 🥺💝 <333333

[Grabbing your shoulders] THERE'S STILL TIME CAL YOU CAN STILL WATCH IT ahem aha genuinely if ever you get the chance at some point I'd highly recommend it! It's rare for me to rewatch things in general tbh but otgw I end up rewatching just about every Fall to show it to someone new :]

Hhrrrnnnngggg sweet bread... Just a big bread fan all around actually LOL but those sound good mmmmmmmmm. I've loved seeing the progress on the charms! YOU'VE SO FUCKING GOT THIS! THEY'RE GONNA BE SO COOL! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU! 💜 :3 Very excited to get my hands on a couple and be like "Oh this? Heh, yeah, my cool friend Cal made this."

🙃 and yeah me too brain empty (if that much isn't obvious sjsjjsks) kinda just vibing... Super sleepy and not very talkative but... Also social?? So. Yeah I super duper feel you like if I could teleport you here and we could just lie around and do our own thing but be in the same space? All I want rn actually.

[moorwood]

Hi, I'm not sure how to word this in a way that doesn't sound a little rude so I'll just say up front that I'm trying to compare my experiences and figure stuff out. What does having alters and switching front feel like? How can you tell the difference between a switch and just a dissociation-moodswing-identity meltdown triple swing from your brain being a dick to you?

Okay, so. First and foremost I want to say that I’m sorry if this isn’t the answer you’re looking for, I’ve been there. I know just how frustrating it can be. But I will try to describe this the best I can.

Our system tends to go through cycles of activity. There can be days and weeks at a time where no one is fronting, and it sucks. Our communication isn’t the best either. Most of our time is spent blurry, as it’s usually referred to, where there’s still a detachment to the self and body but no clear identity in control. Some systems can summon a headmate to front, others can’t. We can if said headmate has specific (positive) fronting triggers, but most of the time it is a seemingly random process.

Because of this, having alters/headmates for us can feel like nothing and it can feel like everything. Sometimes you feel completely alone, but you’re aware that there’s something else there. Like something is watching you from the shadows, from behind the bushes. Some headmates have stronger presences than others, but their existence is just… a gut feeling.

Other times you feel like you’re in a room full of people with no way out. We don’t get multiple alters fronting at once most of the time, but when we do, it can feel crowded and overwhelming depending on how many. We’re usually aware that these things are happening entirely inside our head but depending on who it is or how deeply dissociated you are, what’s “inner” or “outer” world can be confusing.

For example, part of our innerworld is an OTGW-esque autumnal forest and we’ve gotten pretty familiar with how it looks and feels since we first discovered it. Someone from the forest fronted for the first time today and what our body was doing and seeing was completely foreign to them. Even if we know something as a whole, it’s not guaranteed that every alter will have the same knowledge and they may need to relearn things. When this happens, it feels like they’re aware of the knowledge, but actually being able to collect and process it is impossible. It’s just out of sight, hidden behind a metaphorical (or physical) door.

But! Not everyone is like that. Some headmates front for the first time and immediately know what’s going on. I’m not sure how to describe fronting since that too varies but if someone else is still conscious for it, it can feel like a body possession. We like people describing it as someone else taking over driving a car and you ending up in the passenger seat. Sometimes you still have your own stream of thought, sometimes you hear someone elses. Sometimes it gets blended.

Fronting can be an immediate switch-over, but it can also take hours. Headaches and confusion are common. Same goes for splitting/a new headmate forming, but that can take days. For a while it can feel like the metaphorical door, where their presence is noticeable but their identity is unclear or locked away. Most of our headmates are fictives (present as/identity with a fictional character) so sometimes you can have a Vibe or be presented with certain thoughts/mannerisms and clock them.

I guess it can be hard to distinguish things from other causes, but my advice is to take note of unusual thoughts, mannerisms, memories, feelings, etc. Not every headmate is going to be completely different from one another, but if something feels Different, look into it. Taking notes did us a lot of good when we were first figuring out our situation. Some things will be more obvious than others, do whatever feels right.

There’s a lot more we could say but we’ve rambled enough in this response. If you have alters, they will change and grow with you. The way things function inside your head may change too. Remember that. You’re not faking if something doesn’t line up the way it used to.

Not every part of being plural needs to be dramatic and profound. It can be as simple as hearing comments from someone who isnt you or just… not feeling alone inside your head. It can feel like your imagination, and that can cause a lot of doubt, but trust in yourself. Plurality can be determined by so many different things and there’s no right way to be multiple.

[vacz]

I still remember when I watched for the first time.

I was 9 years old back then, I saw the trailer in my tv on cartoon network's channel and in the first moment it captured me. The fairytale aesthetic of it, the voices, the colors and the design were like something mysterious but also something that for some reason I wanted to watch, so I did it when it first aired and oh boy, I love it

However, I was little back then and I didn't know what a fandom was, so looking back I felt like I just missed the hype of this series when it first came out, and couldn't truly enjoy it with others. For some reason, I have been obsessing with this series by a year now (On Wirt especially) and it was this year that I could finally re-watch the series entirely after so many tries to find it

And that causes me to want MORE, more of the characters and the story, I couldn't read all the comics that were out for the simple fact that I didn't find them (yet). But, with the ones I read... Some of them I didn't like very much. I mean, they are entertainment but nothing else, just 'little nice adventures of Wirt, Greg and Beatrice' that makes me realize that what I am looking for isn't just seeing them again but watching them in a story with the same weight and good writing of the original story, keeping it serious and mysterious aura... which I don't think I should ask

I see that some people have this problem too, because Over The Garden it's so good and at the same time it's so short, but it's perfect for the way that it is, it's not a series that has gone cancelled or anything but something with a ending

It lives in our memories, and the thing is that we crave for more because we miss the feeling of magic that gave to us the first time we watched. Not matter how many times it's re-watch it, people would like to see something new, not truly new-new but something more of these characters in this world and what mysteries have and what lessons we could learn, what moments of fear and reflection we could have again, a story so good as the first

Which may not happen again, not with this world and its characters. And in fact, maybe it's better but we think that because of the fear of the possibility that if something new comes, it may not be as good as the first one, and it ruins our perspective of how perfect Over The Garden Wall is

And yet at the same time people still re-watch it over and over again, in every fall and in every Halloween

I'm 18 years old now, and I wish to experience what everyone experienced when otgw first came out: talking with people about it, making drawings, seeing fanarts and edits everywhere and shearing ideas of the characters and the story, otgw being massively popular again like Gravity falls's was just right now, now that I have the knowledge to enjoy it completely and not back then when I was 9 years old

It's nostalgia, nostalgia make us crave for more But... Is it bad to want more?

It's natural, that's for sure. I rather think it's neutral, it can be good or bad but it depends on the creator's will

Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary stop motion short by creator Patrick McHale and Aardman Animations

[yappingmil]

Im actually feeling good rn just hmm repression not good and problem identified say something. I get a lot out of sharing my interests with people and ive been planning on getting my friends to watch otgw for a while and most of them canceled and its like oh :/ I get it entirely but I wanted to share this with you… I need to at least try to set up another isat play session but I’m sure itll have similar issues including my own energy levels. And like as people age this is what happens we get more busy but they hang out with eachother all the time and thats cause it’s convenient but arghhh. Why must they all be in the same major while im here alone. I love my internet friends at least, i dont feel too alone and my friend that is coming and always meets up with me early is here, and the others are too im just hurt from my time of being isolated by my peers during crucial parts of my life.

Another thing I wanted to add but does not fit is i have a draft on my main thats about isat and its like this is gonna make me be more passionate about my interests irl and it has I talk about it my interests more then I used to but man I could do with yapping about it to my irls more

[thescrapbookingscientist]

Bimonthly Media Roundup

- Coraline (Movie) - Not much to say about this as I kinda only half watched it, it's a very visually stunning movie I just happened to be unusually tired that day. It's always nice to see stop motion and the other mother has a great design.

- Frieren (Anime) - Correctly assumed my sister would be a fan, so I did a re-watch with her. I talked about it previously this year and everything I had to say then still stands: Fern and Frieren's relationship is wholesome and adorable as is Fern and Starks, The exam arc is really good with a lot of interesting obstacles and characters to show off the simple but engaging magic system, the animation and music is great, and the overall themes of appreciating the small moments and every encounter/ relationship in life are nice and well executed. It's honestly a very pleasant watch that I would recommend to most people. That being said, I do feel that it's an exaggeration to put it on the tippy top of most best anime ever lists as it's frequently been. For one it's incomplete, so it's too early to say if the story will stand the test of time. It also can be a bit clumsy with it's use of flashbacks - I understand using Frieren's past and present as parallels to show how the people she loved had changed her, but they are often way too on the nose, literal, and frequent that they become a bit comical after awhile. Girl is like a sleeper agent that goes into That's so Raven flashbacks whenever someone says anything that she said to Himmel at any point lol. I also don't quite understand the reactions to Frieren and elves in general in this world, I understand that they don't want to waste time having people shock and awe every time she shows up but given how rare elves are and how famous she is the sheer nonchalance of the populace towards her is just strange. Also this is a nitpick but, man, Does Frieren really never get a single new outfit in like 100 years. Everyone else could get one too honestly, I want to see it. Anyway looking forward to the 2nd season, 2025 seems like it will be rather stacked.

- Over The Garden Wall (TV) - Annual fall re-watch of OtGW. This was also just on in the background but I've seen it enough to wholly recommend it. The vibes are spooky and pleasant and wholly unique, the soundtrack is great as is the voice acting, the stories are strange and memorable with really good character designs all around, and the length is just right for the story to feel complete without overstaying it's welcome. Go watch it.

- Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime) - Uh oh, We had a good run but alas, the hyper-fixation is slipping away. I'm sure I'll watch the next season when it comes out, or at least try to, but I can't say the latter half of the story seems all that interesting from the spoilers I've seen of it. Most of my favorite characters are out of commission and the world building is kind of laughably bad, uh but hey the past arc and thinly disguised homosexuality was fun.

- Malevolent (Podcast) - Officially caught up, I've definitely been having a lot of fun with seasons 4 and 5. I stated before that I was glad to get some more secondary characters, which is true, Noel and the Butcher and Oscar where all fun editions, to say nothing of Kayne and the sheer chaos he provides. The first few seasons where fun as well but I've really liked the heavy emotional storytelling and more involved plot-lines of the later seasons, as well as the fact that Arthur and John are finally more or less on the same page. Season 5 especially has included some much needed levity as well as a cool location switch, with some great John and Arthur moments already. Also the Christmas special was hilarious and the reveal of what was actually happening during it is a really great use of Kayne's character to make something absurd and sinister at the same time.

- The S Classes That I Raised (Webcomic) - S Class is one of the few things I tend to keep up regularly with but with all I've had going on lately I did get a bit behind. Catching up has been nice as it's always great to spend more time with this cast; I love the recent Han brothers scenes as well as the yuri-fication of Kang Soyoung upon discovering the hot playgirl dragon lady that is Riette (Girl me too). Jellyfish has a cool design so I'm interested in getting more of them, and it's nice to see Han Yoojin utilizing his pull over the gods more. Man I hope the ORV anime goes well and they give this one a chance, It's way to good to be as overlooked as it is.

- Dandadan (Anime) - Only two episodes in so not too much to say yet. For positives I love the main girls design, the bizarre premise, and the fact that the leads have pretty good chemistry even this early on. The animation is fun too, with the silly expressions and good action shots. For negatives I'm not thrilled that both the ghosts and aliens main motivation is committing sexual assault, particularly when it's played for male-gaze-centric fanservice at the expense of the female character. Hopefully that's just a one off thing as I do want to like this show, but we'll see how it goes.

- Dungeon Meshi (Manga) - I was putting off finishing this as I knew I would absolutely adore it. When I picked it back up though I gave in and ended up binging it straight to the end, because as I expected I absolutely adored it. I'll probably elaborate on it more later but for now, the art, characters, themes, world-building (specifically in the speculative biology vein), comedy, relationships, character designs, plot, and ending are all really stellar, and I can't wait to see the rest of the story animated. Most of the negatives for me lie in missed potential, as the series was a good length but I do feel some of the characters and plot elements (ie; Kabru and the Canaries) could have had more time to shine or been worked into the latter half of the story better. A lot of my favorite elements of the story such as the antagonist and character motivations are pretty big spoilers, but I can say they are very well done. For non spoiler compliments I adore the monster designs and how much detail went into working them into a believable Ecosystem. Falin in particular of course looks amazing and outside of her design her, her brother, and Marcille are all top tier characters that do a great job carrying the story. I do understand that the begging can be a little basic to get through especially for anime onlys, but I really urge anyone to stick with it, I promise it's not just a silly cooking show with stock characters and no consequences - the characters have a lot more depth than it appears and oh boy are there consequences.

- Genshin Impact (Video Game) - Since I have Navia I wanted to try to go for Xilonen once she dropped, as a geo healer is perfect for that team. Shockingly I got her on my first try, the first 10 pull, despite getting 2 five stars the last time I pulled (Alhaitham and a 2nd Keqing). In general I seem to have really good luck with Event banners but still, insane. I haven't leveled her up enough yet to be truly useful but I like her roller skates and voice so far.

Listening To: Dial Drunk by Chloe Breez, Rule #18 - Lion by Fish in a Birdcage, Let Me Love You by Alex Goot, The Killing Kind by Marianas Trench, Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World, Feeling Good and Stick Season by Reinaeiry, Break My Heart by Hey Violet, Could Have Been Me by The Struts, The Main Character by Will Wood, Rabbit Heart by Florence + The Machine, Bittersweet by Panic! At The Disco, HOT TO GO! By Chappell Roan, Tongues and Teeth by The Crane Wives, Taste and Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter.

[wolfvirago]

DYNAMICS!!! for potential relationships! :D glad to b mutuals!

SO YOU WANNA INTERACT? [accepting] [x]

;; hi hi!! Good to see you!

The muses of yours I do know are the following: fern, fionna, betty (tho i haven't watched a.dventure t.ime in many years and need to sit and binge it one day), len, teto, kris, zenitsu, cassidy and crona!

I am interested in your TOH and OTGW muses, I just need to watch their media sources first. I think Wirt would be easiest to write with from that category since the aesthetic of his source media fits Robin's v well!

So here's what I have in mind for possible dynamics-

AT muses + Wirt: Adventurers who stumble across Robin and her domain, perhaps with varying degrees of what they can tell her about the outside world.

Kris: I also need to replay Delta.rune, but the basic dynamic could be sibling-coded! Robin being a big sister to Kris and they can be Light bringers together.

Zenitsu: Slayer shenanigans. Robin being this cool mentor figure but also banters with Zen when he's being a lil annoying.

Cassidy: assuming they're the ghost child still in the interaction, Robin can communicate with the dead/undead and would want to help Cassidy out in whatever they needed. Maybe they wind up sucked into the Lost Woods or Freddy's does?

Lmk your thoughts! I think we have one another's disc.ords so DM me :3

@collectalong

[kitkatopinions]

With this post in mind and having just watched OTGW again...

Tree = Death concept???

Imagine if instead of the grossly mishandled suicide angle, we got Ruby getting consumed not on purpose but accidentally, because of her despair the way we saw Wirt starting to get branches grown around him. Imagine a somewhat similar to Little 'Greg' inspired character that's been trying to help Ruby trying to sacrifice themself in her place, and Ruby fighting for both of them. Imagine if the Ever After was (like the Unknown) this space between death and life where Team RWBY were trapped and lost, rather than the tOtaLlY wEiRd AnD wAcKy randomness of the fake Wonderland, and the girls got tempted to stay, but soon realized that staying means dying.

Imagine instead of the Chesire Cat inspired Curious, we got a Beast inspired character trying to trick the girls into staying.

If we have to have a timeskip Jaune, we can have it be a Woodsman inspired Jaune desperately trying to make up for his losses and not even fully realizing that he's been doing harm.

And btw, in this version I'd have Jaune stay old and stay behind in the Ever After/Unknown like the Woodsman does.

Special versions of Grimm all vaguely reminiscent of this

We even have people that define themselves by occupation and role rather than by name in Over the Garden Wall. We could have a location inspired by the Inn and people like that who only know what to do instead of who they are, to question Ruby (who in this would take on a Wirt-like role,) on what she is.

Seriously, I feel like all the ingredients of things I even liked the concept of (vaguely) in V9 would be three times better if it was all Over the Garden Wall, and the aesthetic would somehow fit better and get across that Team RWBY are lost in a place different than usual at the same time.

Idk I'm just thinking about this a lot.

RWBY Volume 9 would be much better if it was more Over the Garden Wall than Wonderland.