#Oscar Grimm

[paintedlight1]

It's been a year already?

[raniamich]

How it Started

How It's Going

[i-lavabean]

Sometimes a family is a 97 year old field agent and his feral children

[han-ban-bam]

I shall be on the floor if anyone needs me.

[otterlyart]

Brained and Brawn for @xombigirl

[elemental-plane]

no one asked for this. but i was bored so! CANDELA TEXTPOSTS BE UPON YE PART THREE

(part one & part two!)

[littlebosslady7]

Ofc Sam was wearing Red Crocs under the table.

[geminison]

i don't want new year to come early i want January 4th to come early so i could watch next candela obscura episode already 😤

[twinklestarss]

“Oscar, we're here again. It's just you and me in the dark. How many times has this happened to you? This'll be seven. Again and again and again. Maybe this time you hope it would be different, but it feels just like every other time. Oblivion and weightlessness. But you're still there. There's nowhere for you to go but back. I'm going to ask you, you can feel it in this space. I think some part of you knows that you won't keep the understanding of this back there. But you have to pay a price every time. You don't get to choose it. You will return again. You can't stay down. What do you give to whatever this is that pulls you back?”-Aabria/Oscar

CO Chapter 3 Episode 1: The Antiquarian

[math-rocks-and-lizard-bats]

It is no longer the circle of tide and bone I will forever call them the circle of baby and girl. Bc they’re all baby girl.

[essektheylyss]

I am also thinking so much about the strange dynamic that Oscar and Cosmo have: Oscar churlish, pessimistic, hating himself, and Cosmo who remembers, even as old as he is, who probably remembers everything that Oscar's forgotten.

And Oscar's repeated statement of, "It should be the other way around. I should be the one taking care of you." It sounds at first, before you know, like frustration of a young man who feels like too much of a fuck up to take care of his elderly relative, even though Cosmo clearly has plenty of help. But once you flip it, it feels almost more incongruous—Oscar feeling like he's failed as a father, perhaps because he hasn't been able to act as an example for Cosmo, perhaps because of the amnesia, perhaps because Cosmo has seemingly dedicated his entire life to helping Oscar, even to his advanced age. But it doesn't seem like Cosmo is concerned about that.

As old as Cosmo is, as determined as it sounds like he is to fix Oscar's plight, it almost feels like he's lived this long out of spite and force of will. This is his purpose and his life's work, and it's not finished yet.

But if they succeed at ending this ritual or curse, what becomes of either of them? Cosmo, certainly, can rest then, and Oscar can in theory live out the rest of his life in peace, but at that point he's no longer forgetting anymore. He'll live out whatever remains with the belief that Cosmo's life was dedicated solely to this, and unlike Oscar, he won't even have the chance to have a life beyond it. I wonder if Oscar, knowing this, is so pessimistic by this point because no matter the outcome, he's already failed Cosmo on a fundamental, irretrievable level.

There's very little chance, even if Oscar doesn't live for long after this ends, that Oscar won't be the one burying Cosmo, rather than the other way around. A father isn't meant to outlive his children.

[paintedlight1]

Candela Obscura: Circle of Tide & Bone - Episode 2

*internally screaming*

[raniamich]

tag yourself, circle of tide and bone edition! (what have I done)

[i-lavabean]

Tide and Bone scribbles

[captain-archernerd]

[greatfairymagic]

I wasn't ready for this absolute freight train of charisma

oh god he's confident and kind of a dickhead and they have TENSION

OH NO HE'S HOT AND SAD