you ever think about how the Owl House uses hair as a metaphor for control?
like how Lilith straightened her hair and dyed it black when she joined the Emperor’s Coven, and after she left the Coven, it began to return to its natural, frizzy state
like how Amity dyed her hair green and kept it short and neat because her mother liked it that way, and after she stopped following her mother’s orders, she dyed it purple and let it grow long
like how Vee kept her hair short and brown when she had to pretend to be Luz, but now that she is her own person, her hair is colorful and fluffy
like how Camilla used a straightening iron on her hair and after she refused to allow society to tell her how to parent, she threw her straightener out and let her hair be curly again
like how Hunter had his long hair and that one strand of hair because Belos wanted him to look just like Caleb, and after he escaped Belos’s control, he cut it short and became his own person.
and when Belos possessed him, Hunter’s hair grew long again
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I just recently stumbled across the storyboards for Thanks To Them's opening, and well....
Turns out, Camila originally made a mom joke, lol.
Source: https://www.hayleynwong.com/work/the-owl-house-samples
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THE OWL HOUSE - LUZ'S NEURODIVERGENCE
I know when people talk about representation in the Owl House, they mean the big stuff, the queerness. And yeah, Thanks to Them has a lot of that, and it was great, but there's one moment in the episode that particularly stuck with me.
THIS SCENE
THE NEURODIVERGENT REPRESENTATION
This is something I've seen people on tumblr talk about a lot. About how the school system isn't designed for everyone's brain, and it shouldn't be a measure of who is the cleverest, or who puts in the most effort, or who is the most worthy.
Luz is clever. Just not at the kind of subjects they teach. And even when she is, it comes and goes, or she can't focus and applies herself too little, or too much and just generally can't operate on the level they require from her 100 percent of the time.
The fact that they finally outright say it, the reasons she's been struggling in her own world, and point out her difference in such an obvious way makes me so happy.
Because think about it. Think about it the way you think about Amity and Luz asking each other out onscreen, or Raine's pronouns. There are children out there right now too young to voice themselves on the Internet, who sit around and watch this show.
Children who might be struggling in school, and see themselves in Luz. Children whose struggles and stories are finally being voiced, and who are being shown that it's okay to feel this way. You're just like this character here. You were built to excell somewhere else and it's okay that you are.
It's satisfying and sad. Real life children won't get to escape to the Boiling Isles, but they might see this scene, and push aside the narrative that they are a failure. That they'll never be more than the problem child.
All because of this wonderful show which voices, inspires, and represents people who have been waiting for it their whole lives.
Please don't think I'm trying to discredit the LGBTQ+ or poc or any other kind of rep in the show, I love it all, I just really wanted to talk about this side of it.
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Grim-thing
GUYS DID ANYBODY NOTICE THAT??
he didn’t even try to move
THE STRAIGHT CONFIRMATION OF THEORY THAT GRIMWALKERS ARE INVULNERABLE TO HIGH TEMPERATURESБ
WHY NOBODY SAID THAT??
i know, smart people could get this from the 1st ep of s2, but now this was for those who didn’t catch this earlier! Now the only way to say this clearer - to say that out loud.
also, here
DAMN HE WAS TOO CLOSE TO THE EXPLOSION
AND HE JUST
little sceared, but unharmed!
good for him, good for him.
damn i love him so much.
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I like to think that Caleb was just as much of a blushy mess around Evelyn as Hunter is around Willow
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