#Willow sequel

[allgirlsareprincesses]

But Queen Sorcha accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction:

Generational Trauma!

Thus, Team Willow was born!

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Kit Tanthalos, Jade Claymore, and Elora Danan as The PowerPuff Girls

🎨 by me with love to Craig McCracken

[ipusingularitae]

willow ep7 LISTEN------ HOMOEROTIC SWORDFIGHT+THE DIALOGUE+KISS

nO ONE FUCKING TOUCH ME I'M FREAKING OUT DO Y'ALL HEAR ME SCREAMING

[agir1ukn0w]

Willow fandom now that it isn't being canceled:

[whattheforce]

Following Willow - Versary

Happy First Anniversary Questies! It's time for #willow - Versary with a special #followingwillow episode & a State of the Realm 🌱🎂💜 with @allgirlsareprincesses

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[shoshanagrauer]

Just realized that Kit's so deeply in denial that she would ask Elora for advice on how to talk to Jade in episode 5 that she--at least for a moment--OVERCOMES THE TRUTH PLUMS and tells a lie

[someonetooksendnoodles]

questies…what we thinking?

personally? i see the value in limited edition stuff, but if the whole premise of Disney+ was to have disney content accessible at anytime by buying access to this app, then it makes the app pointless??? and also, if it was meant to be limited…market it that way?????

i also can’t help but think of the WGA strike rn and i don’t know their contracts, but i imagine these streaming companies were like “we will pay you somewhat less bc you’ll make it up in streaming residuals” and idk i can’t see how this doesn’t fuck over the workers in the new streaming economy we find ourselves in.

[starkmartell]

Great costumes?? Yes

Gays? Yes

Sword fights and magic??? Yes

Good humor??? Yes

Rock music??? Yes

As good as the movie?????

Me says yes

I NEEEEDDD more people to watch Willow lol

[do-necromancy]

Y'all I did not have "Homoerotic sword fight ending with a kiss" scene on my 2023 bingo card. And definitely not from a Disney show.

[fuckyeahwillow]

Forget all you know... or think you know...

[tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine]

Tbh nothing cracked me more up than the trolls being sophisticated. Greeting each other in the halls, supervising workers not at all in a "you maggots over there" way but in a "I need someone in aisle 4" way, being sassy. Loved it.

It's just such a breath of fresh air. Yes they Look animalistic and yes they kidnap people but they are not creatures or beast that can't articulate like eg monsters in other fantasy stories. And yes they can talk and they aren't pretty and they are probably evil but there culture doesn't seem to be based on violence, ugliness, unpleasantness etc like it is with orcs eg.

Just it took me completely by surprise and that made it funny and I love their portrayal.

[vetiverriver]

Chapters: 12/12 Fandom: Willow (TV 2022) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jade Claymore & Kit Tanthalos, Jade Claymore/Kit Tanthalos Characters: Jade Claymore, Kit Tanthalos Additional Tags: Smut, Tanthamore, It was pure smut but then a plot developed, Happy Ending Summary:

Four orders and a request.

Our story follows Kit and Jade from the night of the siege through a new found alliance between Tir Asleen and the Bone Reavers.

[allgirlsareprincesses]

Mythical Husbands in Willow (2022)

(Adapted from my Twitter thread)

Ok, time for a stream-of-consciousness thread about mythical husbands in #Willow: lost husbands, enchanted husbands, false husbands, mortal husbands, and demon lovers. #Graylora

After Ep4 of #Willow, I count at least 4 mythical husbands: Airk, Graydon, the Lich (stay with me), and... Madmartigan. I'm not including Willow himself in this, at least until we find out what happened to Kiaya.

False husbands and false brides are very common in folk tales, but usually the FIRST bride is the True Bride, while the SECOND husband is the True Husband. A True Bride has to master trials in order to prove herself, while a True Husband must humble himself to recover his bride.

There are many variations of the false husband, including the Demon Lover (sometimes the literal devil), a Revenant (undead lover), Incubus (avatar of the bride's sexual fantasies), the prince's beastly form, or a mortal man whose mundanity leads him to abandon his bride.

Thus far, #Willow seems to be blending these a lot, which is great in that it gives these husbands a lot of complexity. First, Airk: as @whattheforce has suggested, he's likely a false husband, most obviously the mundane mortal who fails to appreciate his extraordinary bride.

One example of this type of husband from myth is Theseus, who relies on Princess Ariadne to defeat the Minotaur and escape the Labyrinth, but then abandons her on an island. She wakes to find the god Dionysus, who makes her his consort.

Airk's immature love of "Dove" is a sort of emotional abandonment, showing that he is an inadequate partner for Elora even if she rescues him. Further, if the Crone manages to corrupt Airk, he will be a demon lover, who is sometimes (but not always) a false husband.

We see some other aspects of the Ariadne myth in #Willow, especially with how Elora is "tied" to Airk by the bracelet he gave her, and then tied to Graydon by the binding he tried to release in Ep3 and the belt she tied around him in Ep4.

Airk could also be classified as Elora's Incubus, given how sexually aggressive she is with him. This will be especially true if the Crone attempts to use her attraction to Airk to lure or corrupt her. Important note though: an Incubus is not necessarily a false husband (Kylo)!

The Lich qualifies as a demon lover when he uses Graydon as a vessel to pursue Elora. Specifically, the Lich is a Revenant or undead lover who tries to lure the bride into the underworld. Sometimes the Revenant can take the form of a lost lover, like Graydon using Airk's voice.

When possessed by the Lich and his past brush with dark magic, Graydon is also HIMSELF a demon lover or beastly husband, particularly demonstrated by his scarring and later facial deformity, the beastly skin which Elora must burn or consume to reveal the true husband underneath.

My favorite example of a Revenant tale is The Blood-Drawing Ghost, in which Kate finds a blackthorn wand atop a fresh grave. When she grasps it, the corpse demands she carry him to a manor where he drains and eats the blood of three young men. When she returns him to his grave, he tries to drag her in, but Kate outwits him and escapes, returning to the manor to feed the young men their own blood (which she cleverly refused to eat), reviving them. She then chooses one as a husband, discovers the dead man's hidden treasure, and lives happily ever after.

In #Willow Elora discovers her magic (making her the rightful owner of Cherlindrea's wand) and then is pursued by the agents of death. The Crone tries to use the blood of Airk, Kit, and Graydon to revive herself, and Elora fights back by cooking for or feeding others.

Graydon, though a prince and therefore a fitting partner for a goddess by fairy tale logic, can also be considered a mortal husband. The goddess of the dawn Eos or Aurora was known to take mortal lovers, notably a Trojan prince whom she gifted immortality.

Elora too is a goddess of light with a name that sounds very similar to Aurora and whose story includes many references to Sleeping Beauty variations like Brunhild. This Valkyrie was cursed to sleep under her shield and surrounded by a ring of fire until a hero could revive her.

Sleeping princesses are typically revived by the appearance of their true husband, and sometimes by that husband calling her by her true name. Immediately after Willow reveals Elora's identity, Graydon is the first to address her as such, awakening her from her disbelief.

In some tales, a sleeping princess is awakened first, and then her husband is cursed and must be healed. This is exactly the pattern followed by Elora and Graydon so far. Further, a ring will often play into the lovers' reunion, so I would expect Graydon's ring to be significant.

Lastly, a prominent lost husband in #Willow is Madmartigan, and I feel it is extremely likely that he, or at least his unreslved loss, will play a role in this season's conclusion. Because Sorcha chose to retreat behind the Barrier to protect her children, she never sought him the way that heroic brides typically do. As a Snow Queen archetype, Sorcha's role is to let her children go, and given Kit and Airk's unresolved issues with their father's disappearance, they may complete the quest she should have taken (Elora too).

Furthermore, Madmartigan could himself have become a demon husband in his time away - he might be dead (in the underworld) or transformed in some way, in which case he would need to be healed or integrated in some way by a power associated with Sorcha (likely through Kit).

Lastly, just in case anyone is wondering why Elora NEEDS a husband at all, it's the same reason that Kit needs a bride: alchemical union is the path to wholeness and the healing of the world which as #Willow said is out of balance!

/end (for now!)

Sources:

In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender by Barbara Fass Leavy

Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty & Snow White Tales From Around the World by Heidi Anne Heiner

https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfgw/tfgw33.htm

[lost-adrift-and-gone]

Non-spoilery(ish) spoiler:

TrollBlocked is a thing now??

[agir1ukn0w]

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[whattheforce]

I had the Opportunity to write about Life Death Life and why Willow is so Mythically important

[shoshanagrauer]

On Displays of Physical Intimacy

Welcome back to another episode of Shoshana Talks For Too Long About Why She Likes A Choice That Understandably Most People Are Kinda "Meh" About.

Namely the lack of physical displays of intimacy and affection between Kit and Jade in the finale, namely from Jade.

While watching episode 5, I remember being kinda baffled that Elora would say Kit couldn't love Jade back because SHE'S BASICALLY ALL OVER HER. Well, that's a gross exaggeration, but Kit's constantly touching Jade in this casual, comfortable way that's somewhere between "I need to reassure myself you're here" and "hey I'm here for you."

In short, I'm obsessed. In long, it was pretty obvious to me from the jump that while Kit is much more comfortable with physical affection both when they're alone and in front of people, Jade is most certainly not.

Jade's been repressing her feelings for probably at least a decade, of course she's gonna be reluctant to touch Kit pre-confession. Even post-Jade's confession, some of the few times we see Kit and Jade touch pre-kiss are the adorable hug, which is more mutual, and Jade touching Kit's arm post-daddy issues sword extravaganza (which we kinda get a repeat of in the finale).

We only really see Jade break and touch Kit in a more intimate way RIGHT after she almost drowns (I will forever be bitter we missed the moments right after Kit got launched outta wyrm lake). There's also the moments when Jade's helping out waterlogged Kit post-drowning, but those felt more like Jade could rationalize that away as continuing to do her duty to both Sorsha and Kit. The more distance Jade can put between herself and her feelings, the better lol.

I feel like even though Jade maybe feels more safe expressing herself with Kit physically one-on-one once their feelings are out there, she CLEARLY doesn't feel the same in front of the rest of the group (we really only see them physically touching in a more relaxed way in front of the others that one moment on the beach, which is ADORABLE). Jade's got a long way to go before she fully shakes off the whole "can't touch the princess I shall pine from afar" baggage.

So like even thought my little shipper heart was screaming "hug her" when Kit popped out of the dust pile after Allagash's possible sacrifice or in a million places during the finale, it really tracks for me that Jade wouldn't be in that place. Physically comforting Kit isn't her first thought like it seems to be with Kit for Jade (which we literally get as early as episode 1). Like even when Kit is a disaster because she thinks she's gonna have to off someone she loves, an experience Jade both has had and wanted to protect Kit from experiencing, she's standing back clenching her fists because she doesn't see herself as belonging in that moment. It was for the royals, not for her. That little voice will always be there in the back of her mind.

As much as I wanted All The Content in this first season, I also would like more seasons, which means this relationship needs somewhere to go. And aside from any potential external conflicts that may pop up, I love a potential growth area for Jade being her becoming more comfortable initialing physical affection. I'm usually one for slowburn in terms of when the characters get together, but I think a slowburn in terms of characters growing more comfortable and taking more ownership over what they want to be in their romantic relationships is also fun as hell.

I also deeply need some more Jade Gets Hurt content next season. It's all I want, I am a hurt/comfort girlie.