#amphibia bog

[wormpharm]

A jolly horse leech crossed my path

[your-official-gingerartist]

Sometimes I’m just minding my business playing with my f/os like dolls and then get bodied by ratigan. Who wants to be the center of attention.

[cinnamonbloom]

oh yeah right art

Well they sure are kids

Here's Sunstone (Sun or Sunny), Aster, Fyre, and Ky

New iteration? What's that? Hahahahahahhahahaha ☺️

[detentiontrack]

Thinks about the implications of how canonically Sasha startles really easily, and how it's implied she was that way even before amphiba

[speilsese]

The Mexican Staring Frog Of Sri Lanka needs your help to save them. Anne Boonchuy & Amphibia fandom.

[talistonfam]

Bad headcanon; Amphibia edition

Grime didn’t lose his eye in battle. He lost it at his promotion to Captain when Percy opened a bottle of champagne directly into his face.

[shrekshrek]

was playing songs in my own head and realized that the chanting in Fearless Hero around 3:40 would work with the ending themes from both The Owl House and Amphibia and 80 minutes later i have created this using BeepBox. it would go farther if it weren't for beepbox's limitations but this is pretty good for now!

[queen-anne-au]

How did Bog redeem himself and earn Anne's trust? I thought we might get that story in "A Time Before the Crown", but it didn't happen.

Bog actually didn’t redeem himself at all. He’s still the same jerk as always, only now the person who he bullied and subjugated has immense power over him. In the chapter he appeared in he was noticeably anxious when first talking to Anne, and the only reason he was called in was because he had information about a possible attack or rebellion. Therefore was obligated, by duty, to inform his superiors about the sightings.

When I wrote his appearance I’m pretty sure I said he was still captain of the South Tower, though due to some behind the scene lore changes and how I’ve reworked the military in the story, he probably won’t be keeping the position

[drneque]

Amphibia Vol. 2 Part 68: Drunken Lullabies

Bog Grog hits hard

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[magicaldogtoto]

There's a way fandom gets bogged down in details and facts of their favorite things that I sometimes wonder could be impeding actual creativity and ideas in the long run.

Knowing the history of the fandom/genre you're in is important, but to expect it to be omnipresent when someone brings up a thing they like about something (especially as a "gotcha") feels too limiting.

I keep thinking back to when Guillermo del Toro made Pacific Rim, and he mentioned in interviews that he made a conscious choice to make the film while avoiding looking back at his favorite mecha shows and kaiju works as much as he could during the creative process. His reasoning made sense: he didn't want Pacific Rim to be a movie that could only be enjoyed if someone knew about Godzilla or Patlabor, among other things. And it seems to have paid off; a lot of Gen Z mecha fans I see online seem to have fond memories of Pacific Rim. Which probably also explains why Uprising was so damaging to them that they'd rather pretend it never happened.

This even applied to the design of the film, since Del Toro told the artists to use real-world technology and wildlife as inspiration for the Jaegers and Kaiju. It goes well with this comment I saw once that a problem with modern mecha works (In their opinion, anyway) is that the people working on them are more fans of mecha anime and manga as opposed to, say, fans of the machinery that inspired those early mecha that they reference. It's true that you don't have to fix what isn't broken, but I'd say repeating the same designs over and over again also has the risk of going stale.

I keep thinking about this in contrast to discourse I saw regarding Amphibia. People like pointing out how the show references classic anime, and it's not the first American cartoon to do that. But sometimes I wonder: if you pack in so many references to older things in your own work--instead of, I don't know, going further back and looking up other non-pop culture things for inspiration--how much of you is in the thing you create?

[thisbelongsto-nohbodys]

[On Amphibia, the Calamity Trio, the Plantars and Bog’s Moving Crew are carrying stuff into a recently built human-sized cottage]

Sprig: Are you sure about this Anne? I mean, I’m planning on adding a few rooms at the farm for when Ivy, Maddie and I start having tadpoles. I can have a room built for you guys too.

Anne: Awwwww, Spraddivy babies— no, don’t get distracted by the shipping cuteness…

Anne: Sorry but my wives and I can’t sleep in my old room all the time we’re here in Wartwood. We need our own place, plus we’re neighbors so it’s not like we won’t see each other all the time anyways.

Sprig: I know, I just miss the old days of living under the same roof like when we were kids.

Anne: Hey no matter what there’s one thing that won’t change. (Holds up a fist) Spranne against the world.

Sprig: (fist bumping) Spranne against the world.

[Anne and Sprig briefly hug]

Sasha walking by carrying a heavy box: Besides we needed the new place because we don’t want to have to worry about you frogs hearing us in bed with the thin walls at the farm.

Anne: //////SASH!!!

Marcy walking by carrying a box: Plus Anne’s loud during so it’d be an awkward breakfast the next morning and we’ve been avoiding that so far.

Anne: ///////////MARCY!!!!

Sprig: Okay, well I’m gonna go see if Bog has anything heavy to lift and hope it crushes me so I don’t have to think about what I just heard anymore. Maybe I’ll get amnesia, that’ll be fun.

Anne: oh frog…////

[theguardiandragon1]

@mage-of-words

Chapter 57: Toads to Redemption

The gang encounter three toads that they are surprised are still alive. But they want to improve themselves. Sasha doesn’t believe them but Anne is willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. So, they work to help the toads improve themselves with the citizens of Wartwood. But Bog has a harder time to adapt due to his own personality.

[tooningin]

Amphibia season 3 rewrite

New Normal: Mostly the same, just replace the quarantine song with a scene that involve Anne and Sprig reflecting on True Colors

Turning Point (22 min): Don’t hammer it in our faces every 30 seconds that Sasha feels remorse, we can clearly see she does. Also make Wartwood more distrusting

Adventures In Catsitting/Croak of Duty (Im not sorry): Sasha and the Wartwood resistance bond building and trust gaining lets goooo

Fight at the Museum/Temple Frogs: Integrate Dr. Jan telling Anne and the plantars about the vase into the ending of the former episode 

Sprigs Birthday/Below Battle Grounds

Below Battle Grounds: Sasha and Grime discover the Plantars’ basement and try to convince Wartwood to go through with this  change

Fixing Frobo/Anne-Sterminator: Nothing changes in Fixing Frobo. Anne Sterminator, simply have her opening up to her parents about everything (The opening or Mr. X mentioned she did, but I would’ve liked to see it)

Confronting Old Warts/Olivia and Yunnan: 

Confronting Old Warts: Sasha backstory, we cry, and this is when she gets her new look

Toad out of the Bag/If You Give A Frog a Cookie:

Toad out of the Bag: News has spread of Anne’s return to her friends’ parents and they got questions

Froggy Little Christmas: Andrias sends Darcy out for a test drive on Earth, messing up Anne’s Christmas plans for her mom. Towards the end, they send out that Anne, The Plantars, and her parents defeat. They then go home happily, but then see Darcy lounging on a chair in the kitchen. They give a sinister “Hi Aaaaaaaaaannnnneee”, the screen cuts to everyone’s’ horrified faces and the screen goes black 

Escape to Amphibia: Anne and the Plantars prepare to return to Amphibia, qnd in the process Anne and Darcy duke it out (Darcy unfortunately gets away). The rest of the episode is essentially just a more abridged version of ETA

Commander Anne/Sasha’s Angels:

Commander Anne: Anne is conflicted: she’s very happy Sasha’s alive and has been able to manage, but remains very suspicious. They both also express far more concern over Marcy.

Sasha’s Angels: Their argument gets more focus, and throughout the episode, Darcy (With a slightly weakened connection due to the fight. Here there’s no wire BS) lurks, planning their next move. Anne and Sasha have the conversation they had in the actual episode, but then a drone with a large trap swoops in and grabs the 2 girls. Mrs. Croaker, Maddie, Toadie, and Loggle try to save them but to no avail. 

The drone lands at Andrias’s throne room, and Darcy comes out. 

Darcy Strikes Back!: Anne vs Darcy Electric Boogaloo, this time with Sasha.

Marcy is saved, yaaaayyyy-

The Core, with the remains of stone power it got through possessing Marcy, is able to take on a new shadow form.

Olm Town Road/Mother of Olms:

Olm Town Road: Things are AWKWAAAARRD between the girls

The themes of second chances in this episode are primarily used for Sasha and Marcy. The latter is wracked with guilt over what she did, and the former emphasized and wants to help, but has her own feelings of bitterness and lingering resentment. In the end the 2 manage to help each other.

Mission: Cloak!/Down by the Bog

Mission Cloak: Resistance mission involving Cloak Bots. We explore more of S and M’s dynamic without Anne, M&M, plus flesh out the newt wives.

Down by the Bog: Grime is emo and not happi. Sprig’s like “Suck it up man” and we get a backstory of how Grime lost his eye. 

The Core and The King: Expand on what the actual episode showed us.

The Beginning of the End: The girls begin to wonder if their friendship can truly be saved, but Saving the world’s far more important

All In: Mostly the same, Marcy just has much more of a role

Hardest Thing: Mostly the same

[floatingcamel23]

categorizing mobs

hello travelers. are you to gain knowledge on mobs? well your in luck. this post will categorize mobs on what they are, how they look and there purpose. it will add mobs that were scrapped, spin off games, lets jump in shall we? the first category is the simplest. these are the undead. creatures that burn in the sun with rotting flesh or no flesh at all! some have abilities like hunger and poison! the following are these. undead: zombie, husk, drowned, lobber, bouldering skeleton, wither skeleton, bogged, wither, mossy skeleton, stray, frozen zombie, jungle zombie, wraith, phantom, red phantom (pet mob in minecraft dungeons), zombie piglin/pigman, armoured zombie/skeleton, zoglin, zombie pig (pet in minecraft duongeons), giant, zombie horse, skeleton horse, vex, necromancer, sunken skeleton, tower wraiths, vanguard, zombie villagers, bone spiders, skeleton wolf, skeleton horse traps, zombie rabbits, nameless one, wretched wraith and finally the wither storm (?).

some of you might ask why the wither storm is on the list. it is a command block corrupted version of the wither. therefore, undead.

next one has a wild range of mobs. known to be the main villains in the game and have been the center of theorization and fanart, i give you, the illagers. these lovable gray psychos inhabit the world and raid villages. plundering and thievery are there main skills. whats interesting is that some are known to have powers. lets take a look.

illagers: vindicator, pillager, evoker, witch, ravager, illusioner, iceologer/chilliger, tower keeper, guildsmith, powersmith, uniquesmith, enchanter, geomancer, mountaineer, rampart captain, pillager captain, royal guard, tower guard, vindicator chef, wind caller, pillager/vindicator raid captain, giant royal guard, warrior, giant royal guard, mage, arch illager and finally the viler witch.

this category is one of the famous ones. creatures that will help in battle and more. presenting, the golems! (yay!) this category consists of mobs that can be made or summoned. magically and manually.

golems: iron golem, snow golem, love golem, wither, wither storm, copper golem, tuff golem, agent, glowing abomination, jungle abomination, glowing ministrosity, mini abomination, redstone ministrosity, squall golem, redstone cube, corrupted cauldron, redstone monstrosity, redstone golem, tempest golem, mooshroom monstrosity, obsidian monstrosity, jack o lantern (unused minecraft doungeons mob) , mob of me (minecraft earth), furnace golem, melon golem, cobblestone golem, grindstone golem, stone ministrosity, mossy golem, plank golem, first of brick, first of oak, first of diorite, first of stone, key golems, (from now on it will be the minecraft story mode golems) golem in a box, icy golem, magma golem, prison golem, prismarine soldier, larger icy golem, giant magma golem and prismarine collosus

the last one does not have a name yet. lets call this category the sprite/spirit category. some may be undead and others living. its a mixed bag.

sprites and spirits: allay, vex, blaze, breeze, glare, wisp, guardian vex, soul wizards, wraith, wretched wraith, wildfire, build and gather allays.

ok heres a bonus one. a very small category that has one mob only. introducing, the sculkoids.

sculkoids: warden. thats it. this is part 1 of me categorizing mobs. next one will be: animals (uh oh. a lot of them-) insects (cool) and finally, amphibians! (AMPHIBIA VIBES GIVE US SEASON 4 MATT BRALY-)

if you have a suggestion for a theory, feel free to type it in the comments and i will make a post abt it! camel out!

[minecraft-sex-mod]

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[mdhwrites]

Thanks for your response to my ask about the Guardian’s choice! You make a good argument; adherence to logic shouldn’t come at the cost of thematic consistency and compromising the message you’re trying to tell with your story. I do think logic and thematic consistency can coexist in stories, but that’s a whole other argument I won’t get into.

I’ve read some of your thoughts on Anne’s arc in season three, and it was both surprising (and fairly refreshing) to see someone argue that the way Anne reacted to the events of True Colors was appropriate for her character and fitting for the show, since so many viewers think Anne (and season three as a whole) should have been far more angsty. It’s given me a lot of food for thought regarding an argument I’m still conflicted on. I think you made a valid point that Anne is far too young to properly process such trauma, and that Amphibia has never really been that angst-focused of a story.

With that said, I think the reason so many people expected the story to go darker, even if that would go against the previously established tone, was because of how severe True Colors got with its stakes. While I understand your arguments, I don’t think people can necessarily be blamed for assuming a more serious tone would be an appropriate continuation to True Colors.

So do you think season three could have been darker while still maintaining its identity as Amphibia? Take Olivia & Yunan, for instance. That episode is often cited by fans as the darkest episode, but it still has good instances of humour and levity, so it never really gets bogged down by the dark stuff. The only downside is the tonal whiplash that occurs when following episode transitions back to wacky hijinks with the Plantars. But it shows, in my opinion, that Amphibia can go darker while not losing the wit and charm that defines it in the process.

Now, I don’t think season three would have worked if every episode was as dark as Olivia & Yunan, but I’m still curious as to whether you think the show could have been able to still be itself while adopting a darker tone.

Sooooo... No. I talked about this before but people are OBSESSED with trauma nowadays, especially in cartoons. However, if you actually understand basic storytelling, literally the most basic storytelling format, let alone fantasy storytelling... True Colors doesn't do shit.

True Colors is the start of the darkest hour for our heroes where all hope appears to be lost. Now when I say 'darkest hour', I'm not referring to genre or theme. I am explicitly referencing the Hero's Journey here with that statement for a reason. That's how ubiquitous it is. How many shows have the main character, or their best friend, get fucking stomped on shortly before the finale so as to give everyone the motivational boost they need to take on someone so much larger and more powerful than them? A LOOOOOT of anime, especially shounen anime, does this. If you look at the Rescue Sasuke arc from Naruto, fucking EVERYONE almost dies in that arc and it doesn't make the show more mature or dark, it is just the amplification of stakes to make the challenge and victory for our heroes all the more exciting.

This framing even fits with the narrative uses of the shocking elements in True Colors. Sprig getting his life threatened and Marcy being stabbed are catalysts. One pushes Anne to a new level while the other forces everyone to be ripped apart so that they can go on the journeys of self discovery that will make them ready for the final fight. Before then though... True Colors is still fun and 100% Amphibia. It ends on a dour note but spends the majority of its run time still being the same fun self that Amphibia always was with bits of seriousness because it's a season finale. Even Sprig having his life threatened is met with the same grandness of emotion that fits the show so well. The melodrama that makes epic fantasy so fun.

And then the show gives itself time to breathe and be back to itself for half a season to make sure that you understand that the show is still going to be what you expect from it. Injury may be more possible now but Amphibia is still Amphibia. It was never going to become Game of Thrones cartoon edition like I feel like some people push that it should have become. Admittedly, most of those people seem to quite literally only be interested in the show for the trio which is missing the forest for the trees.

There is one other element that signals to the audience that this isn't a real big deal. After all, who gets stabbed?

The sacrificial lamb.

Marcy is the weakest part of the show. I know that's controversial but unlike the rest of the characters, she is the one who is always playing to a narrative role. The only one that the writers would actually be willing to fridge for the sake of another character or shock value (with Frobo being the closest to ever have this happen to otherwise). So even if I had not been spoiled on it already, I would never have expected Marcy's stabbing to actually amount to a lot. She was never a genuinely important character. A fun, likable character? Sure. It'd be like killing Willow in TOH though. You killed the person who mostly just existed for others to react against? Why should I care about that?

And the show doubles down on this issue. I actually don't like Yunan and Olivia as an episode much. I don't think it's much darker than a good number of other S3 episodes (though I do understand why people consider it the darkest). Not any darker than Commander Anne at least because the darkest element to me is the fact that the world is fucked. But Marcy? Even Olivia admits that Marcy only matters because of her intelligence and its relation to Andrias. She doesn't give a single fuck about Marcy as a person besides, you know, thinking that a teenage girl shouldn't have her autonomy taken away from her.

But her autonomy was never there to begin with. Not to me at least. Her fear is the only one treated seriously in the episode, the other two are jokes pretty much, and even then it's all about Sasha and Anne, which her character was always facilitating more than her actual relationship with them. It's why I don't like Marcy at the Gates because Marcy is mostly just a smart cardboard cutout for Anne to angst against and the scavenger hunt episode is the same way. So yeah, we get an episode about her fear that then ends with her being fridged a SECOND TIME and the only real exploration of that is for making Andrias sad. I don't really find that dark, I just think that sucks.

But it NEVER meant the show should be darker. The fandom just wanted that because it'd be brave and edgy and blech. Especially since again, no one in the fandom seems to be willing to recognize that the girls do deal with their trauma. Hell, Sasha does by wanting to throw Marcy away and be told that she doesn't need to care about her friend anymore. Doesn't have to think about what happened.

So while I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to have expected the show to get a little more mature post S2, asking for it to get 'darker' A: requires understanding what that actually means because TOH fans really struggle with understanding what 'dark' means for storytelling as well and B: actually requires stuff to happen that isn't a part of almost any fantasy story. You can talk about how awful it would be to actually have to happen to you but fantasy works off different logic. Dark fantasy is not just fantasy where a couple people get stabbed. Dark fantasy is where the entire system is corrupt and the story is exploring how those elements can be twisted to sin, greed and pain against others. Not just having characters cry, at least to me.

Hell, just as a last minute shout out: The toads from a meta perspective are actually one of the darkest elements of the series. They are oppressors, they are cruel and they profit off of the need others have for protection due to this being a harsh environment to live in. They practice the calculus of war and are self serving to the point of dehumanizing other races to justify their conquests. No one talks about that though because the show doesn't portray it darkly because this isn't dark fantasy. Instead, they're funny and relatable and actual people because framing does have a large part to do with a story's tone.

But stabbing? Lord of the Rings doesn't suddenly become more serious when Boromir dies. Besides mourning him, it doesn't signal a shift in the majority of the storytelling. It exists more to amplify stakes and to add tension to the journey and sell the new threat. That doesn't make it dark though, that just makes it a more exciting adventure with a sad moment for contrast.

Marcy getting stabbed is unfortunately just another side of that same coin so many stories use. So many regular fantasy stories, not dark fantasy ones.

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As a note: Yes this ask, and kind of this chain of asks, is what motivated my previous blog about the confusing nature of 'dark' stories.

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