#eda and lily

[talonmom]

Trying a different style out,

I'm eh on lilith but i like how eda turned out.

Perks of drawing fluffy messy hair is it can cover areas you are iffy on

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[crossroadsofchaos]

Some time ago I saw these edits of Eda with a nose that's shaped more like an owl's beak, and I love that idea, so here's some screenshot edits!

Plus two bonus Amitys with a nose that's more like Alador's, because I love that headcanon/redesign as well. And I guess I also gave Lilith a larger nose in that last one.

[whoishotteranimepolls]

"Who is Hotter?" Dressed to the Nuns

[aroacemisha]

Speaking of lipstick- It’s such a constant part of the sisters’ present day designs that I didn’t really think about this before, but in FtF they have been living in what’s basically an apocalypse for months, and I like the implication that even in these circumstances, both of them remembered and cared enough to put on their lipstick. And for Eda this would also involve learning to put on lipstick with her left hand instead of her right.

They really went “someone’s gotta keep slaying in these trying times, and Odalia ain’t it”

[lo-toh-takes]

What is your opinion about the episode ranking video?

It's bad. REALLY fucking bad. I'll admit there was a handful of things in the video I agreed with but 98% of it was just pure bullshit. Here are my full thoughts on it (Warning, this post is very long):

POSITIVES:

-Lily’s picks for the best list are completely reasonable. Knock Knockin on Hooty’s Door, Eda’s Reqeum, Young Blood Old Souls, Looking Through The Glass Ruins and Witches Before Wizards are all pretty good episodes.

-Her analyses of Eda’s Requime and Looking Through The Glass Ruins are particularly insightful with how she talks about what the episodes do for the characters. You made an insightful analysis for once Lily, good job.

-Some Witches Before Wizard’s appreciation is nice, it’s a pretty underrated episode imo. Would’ve been better if this wasn’t a Lily Orchard video, though.

NEGATIVES:

-The best entries for Knock Knockin on Hooty's Door and Young Blood Old Souls suck. Not because of the placements of the episodes, but because Lily's analyses of the episodes is compeltely surface level. For KKOHD, Lily just sums up the episode as "one of the, sweetest most heartfelt stories in a animated show ever told". She never really goes into why the episode is good and what does for each of the characters, her anaylses is solely surface level, which just shows that Lily still has this surface level viewing of media even when it comes to things she likes.

-The Young Blood Old Souls segment is particularly awful as well, not because Lily's pick as the 3rd best episode is bad or anything, but because most of the segment is spent less with Lily actually praising the episode and more with Lily throwing a bunch of spite at season 3's characterization of Luz. The entire segment is just comprised of Lily just praising the episode for making Luz look like some kind of badass "girlboss" in response to her truama, slinging more shit towards season 3's characterization of her for changing her truama response. I already talked about before on my main blog why Lily's argument about Luz's truama response doesn't work but Luz's truama response did not change in season 2B and Season 3, the only thing about Luz that changed was that she was despressed now, which Lily's true problem.

It's telling throughout this whole segment how Lily wants Luz to respond to truama. She doesn't like when Luz experinces actual emotions, she only wants Luz to be "fun", and when Luz stops being "fun" she gets mad and rights Luz off as a bad character. She only wants Luz to respond to truama by being a violent girlboss because when Luz is being that she's a "fun" character to her, and when a character stops being "fun" and experinces any kind of deppressive emotions or sadness, Lily gets pissed. She only wants Luz to be a violent girlboss and that's it.

And may I remind you that Luz is coping with the realization that she helped a dictator + failing to save the boiling isles when she has NO IDEA what's happening to her found family AND seperated her friends from their parents. Of course she's going to be depressed from all of this, Luz being a girlboss isn't somehow going to solve that. Lily's lack of empathy towards Luz here is disgusting. All because she stopped because the cinnomen role she was in season 1 and started experincing actual negative emotions.

It's the same shit she did with Hunter; she only likes characters when they are fun, and when they stop being fun they just become completely angsty to her.

-The best list generally while being positive still has a lot of spite levieded towards season 2B and season 3. It really seems like Lily can't praise something without tearing down something else.

-Lily further shows no empathy towards Luz when she says that in Season 3 she became "another type of insufferable teenager". At this point I've already grown numb to it.

-The blandest entries for Very Small Problems and Once Upoun a Swap are also fairly surface level; she doesn't do anything to explain why the episodes aren't good. For Very Small Problems she doesn't even talk about the episode's quality and just gives a summery of the episode first THEN makes joke about King suppousedly getting sidelined and that's it. And for Once Upoun a Swap Lily just makes a joke about body-swap episodes being overdone and moves on. That's it. She says nothing of substance in these segments.

-That's at least better than what she says in the Wing it Like Witches segment, where she writes off the episode as a pinning episode between Luz and Amity. Then she says that the episode started out as a Willow plot before devolving into an Luz and Amity plot....

....literally what???? The only real Lumity content Wing It Like Witches has is a bunch of small scenes of Amity blushing around Luz. That's litteraly it. The episode does not develove into a Lumity plot and I do not know where Lily is remotely getting this.

-The Hunting Palisman segment is where we start getting to Lily's hatred of Hunter. The segment features Lily blathering about her usuall wrong take about how Hunter became boring after Seperate Tides and that Hunting Palisman is the begining of this. Notice how Lily reducs Hunter down to base his base archetype in order to call him "shallow", when in reality he's a character with quite a few layers to him.

She clearly shows her bias here with how she only labels the episode as bad just because it the episode that began giving Hunter real depth beyond being the "fun" sassy character she wanted him to be. Like I already said, Lily only wants characters to be "fun", and when they aren't "fun" she whines and complains. Hunter stopped being fun to Lily like Luz and so she complains. It's all cuz of her bias against Hunter's archetype; she wanted a sassy antagonist and was mad that wasn't the direction the show was going for, rather it was an archetype she didn't care for, so labels Hunter as objectively bad because he no longer meant her rigid standards.

-The For the Future segment isn't nearly as bad as the other segments in the blandest list but the takes still aren't particularly good. Lily simply just sums up the episode as "nothing happening for the first 30 minutes where the characters angst and refuse to talk about their problems".

This is a very disengenous description of the episode, as a lot of things DO happen in that 30 minutes. The scenes with the collector and King, Willow's arc this episode, the begining scenes foreshadowing the big moments in the episode, Boscha's redemption (as bad as it is), and a lot of other things. Lily only seems to be mad at the episode because to her it's comprised of characters "angsting", and as I've said before, Lily doesn't like it when characters go through arcs that involve them expressing negative emotions in anyway, she'll just call it "angst" and that's it. Lily's analysis of this episode is also fairly surface level. She also complains about Stringbean's reveal being dragged out after she hatches and like. Lily. Of course the show wants to save the big pay offs for the end because...that's how story telling works...? But Lily clearly doesn't have an understanding of how basic story telling works so why am I suprised.

-The Reaching Out segment is god-awful. We are now getting into the worst list and this is by far the most painful third of the video. This segment is just under a minute, but there is SO much bullshit being slung in here it gave me stroke for a sec. Buckle in, because there is a LOT to unpack here:

-Lily first claims that Reaching Out is an example of an "issue" she has with Luz's characterization in Season 2B and Season 3, where Luz starts being "angsty" rather than proactive in response to her anxiety/truama. Lily doesn't seem to realize that being proactive isn't going to magically fix Luz's issues, this is another case of Lily only wanting Luz to respond to her truama in a particular way rather than actually experincing sadness or, "angst" about it, which is, ya know, a fairly reasonable response to truama that anyone would have

-Lily also seems to miss that this is not the same as before. Luz is being reminded of the death of her father and it's the anniversry of the day where he died, and she can't be there for mother on this day due to being in a different realm. That's a lot of mental weight on Luz's shoulders and being proactive isn't going to fix that. It's not the same as Eda getting captured in Agony of a Witch or Young Blood Old Souls. This further shows that Lily only wants Luz to respond to her truama as a violent girlboss even when that isn't going to fix anything. We are only 17 seconds into the segment and there is already so much bullshit being spewed. Joy.

-THEN she makes the horrendouse claim that Reaching Out is an Amity episode and Luz gets sidelined. HUH???? Reaching Out is an episode directly centered on the development of BOTH characters, Luz and Amity both share equal spotlight here. Just because Amity shares some focus with Luz doesn't mean that it's solely an episode about her. Luz's issues get just as much focus and time as Amity's. She's not being "sidelined".

-Lily then claims that Amity is a supporting character and so she shoulden't get much spotlight or her own episode, even though Amity is a MAIN CHARACTER of the show and gets a lot of spotlight in both season 1 AND 2. And like I said earlier Amity gets eaqul amounts of focus in this episode as Luz. This is continuing Lily has had for a while about Amity suppousedly being a character with little depth, and that she was just a supporting character to Luz. She reduces Amity to just that to further her racism narrative but I won't get into that here.

But Amity is a character with enough material to get several episodes dedicated to her, hell this same season has Escaping Explusion, an episode which while dedicates a lot of screen time to Luz, is an Amity episode due to furthering her development and kickstarting her arc this season; her reletionship with her parents, which is the natural continuation of her initial arc in season 2, yet Lily insists on reducing Amity like this which is part of how she furthers her narrative about the fandom.

-Her Edge of the World takes are also bad. She begins the segment with more slander towards Luz's characterization in Season 2B and Season 3 + some random spite thrown towards steven universe.

-Then she makes the claim that the reveal of King being a titan has no effect on plot and is just Dana wasting time again....even though the revealation of King being a titan is LITTERALY THE CONLCUSION TO HIS WHOLE ARC IN SEASON 2. Not to mention it becomes very important in the season finale and all of season 3. Dana isn't wasting any time here, she's resolving a major character arc she put for one of her characters.

-The Any Sport in A Storm segment is just as awful as the reaching out one. Immediantly begins the segment by once again reducing Hunter as a character as a character to just Amity's backstory + angst in order to make him sound shallow.

-Her description of Hunter's motivation here is innacruate af. He wants to prove his worth to the emperor's coven, he's not trying to be "as good as the other golden guards".

-She claims that Hunter got bodied by Willow and was then stuck onto her flyer derby team. Saying that Hunter got "stuck" with the flyer derby team implies that he was forced to join Willow's team, however, he was not. Hunter willingly joined Willow's team once he saw how capable they really were.

Lily's description here of Hunter being forced to join the flyer derby team makes it sound like Hunter has less agency here than he actually does, which is likely done to further her claim of Hunter being a "passive" character. However, when you actually watch the episode and pay attention, you'll see that this isn't the case. Hunter is not a passive character and Lily is deliberately chosing to lie here to further her narrative.

-Lily then says that the entire episode is about Hunter moping about to the right thing, which is a very rudective description of the scene.

-Lily then claims that the episode is the third time of Hunter going through the same arc of moping around to do the right thing until he does at the end. TF you mean third time? I'm assuming she's talking about Hunting Palisman and Eclipse Lake but that was not what was happening in those episodes.

Hunter initially going to betray Luz but backing down not him waffling around to do the right thing. Hunter having a mental break down and stabbing Amity in the back is not him waffling around to do the right thing. This episode is the ONLY TIME where Hunter is remotely conflicted about doing the right thing. Lily is once again lying about Hunter to further her narrative about him by giving out a completely disengenous description of his whole arc.

-Lily then makes a remark about Hunter being Dana's favorite to remind you of the many narratives about Hunter she pulls out of her ass.

-She then claims that Hunter has no importance to the plot and you can remove him and lose nothing, which is also completely objectively wrong. Removing Hunter would change major things about the show and course of how each episode would go, he plays a major role in each episode he appears in. Not to mention his purpose in the plot is to add more depth to Belos with the whole story of him being a grimwalker.

There should be an award for spewing so much objectively wrong shit in just one minute. Two more segments to go and I'll finally be done with this trashfire of a video.

-Two more segments to go and I'll finally be done with this trashfire of a video. Unfortunetly it's only going to get worse from here. She immediantly begins her Labrynth Runners segment by misrepresenting the moment between Gus and Hunter in climax where Hunter comforts Gus by saying it's "Gus being told to overcome his insecruities by Hunter".

This is a grossly innacurate description of this moment and once again Lily is lying about what happens in the show. Hunter does not tell Gus to just get over his insecruities, that's not the point of the fucking scene. He tells Gus that he knows what it's like to be in Gus' position, and says that despite what Gus might tell himself, he's not as stupid as he thinks he is. He's comforting Gus by refuting the negative thoughts Gus thinks of himself, not telling him to just "get over it". Lily is once again misrepresenting and lying about the content in the text.

-She then claims that Gus' insecruities are used as a vector for Hunter even though they aren't, and like I said that was not the point of the scene between the two. The episode spends as much time developing Gus' arc in this episode as Hunter. If anything, Hunter is being used to further Gus' arc here by being directly involved in it's resolution.

It seems that Lily thinks that whenever a Hunter is paired up with any other character, he instantly sidlines that character just by existing, even when that other charater gets equal amounts of focus and development to him.

-Then she claims that the subplot between Amity and Willow goes unresolved even though it litteraly doesn't. You can clearly see that by the end of the episode Amity respects Willow as an equal to her.

-And then the rest of the segment is just devolves into Lily going into a tangent about Hunter once again being Dana's favorite character and how she sidlines other characters in favor of him when that isn't true.

-And then Lily claims that Hunter has "no likeable character traits" or "interesting things to do" and that the writers just "staple" him onto other characters. At this point I don't think I need to explain why this is just objectively wrong. Hunter has many interesting things about him that make him a layred and compelling character, but Lily constantly choses to reduce Hunter to one-dimensional traits so she can make him sound like a shallow character. She's lying about him once again.

And her claim about Hunter being "stapled" onto other characters also falls flat because she's simply describing Hunter interacting with other characters, yet she twists it into making it sound sinister and like it's bad writting.

-Guys. We've made it. The Hollow Mind segment. The final segment of both this list and video. Finally. The suffering is nearly over. Unfortunetly, it's the longest and most painful one yet. She first starts off the segment by slandering for the future more by claiming that nothing happened within the first 30 minutes. I already explained why this critique holds no water so I wont do it again.

-Lily then sums up Hollow Mind as " wasting the audience's time by giving vague hints until the end where it reveals something the audience already knew". Lily is once again giving a grossly disengenous description of the episode, as major things and character development's do happen here.

It's a turning point for Hunter as a character where he breaks from the emperor's coven as he's faced the reality of Belos being evil. It's a turning point for Luz she's faced with the revelation of helping Belos which utterly breaks her and sends her down a downwards spiral. We even get confirmation of the grimwalker twist here. Things DO clearly happen in this episode.

-Lily randomly throws slander towards Amphibia even though from what I've heard she haden't even watched the show. Cool.

-Lily clearly shows her impatiance as a critic as she complains about it taking "too long" for us to see what Luz's palisman was for "no reason". Lily clearly doesn't want the build-up for impactful moments, she wants those moments to happen quicker, ignoring the fact that there needs to be build-up and development for these moments to end up being satisfying.

If Luz's palisman hatched before FTF than the understood scene would've just felt rushed. It's too early to resolve her arc about her palisman like this. But since when did Lily care about pacing? She only wants things to happen quickly rather than letting stories take their time.

-She ends the segment off by saying that Hollow Mind only reveals things that other episodes already revealed to the audience...keyword, to the audience. First, Lily misses the fact that the reveal of Luz being Philip Wittebane serves as a revalation to Luz, not the audience.

Second, Lily thinks that a blink and you'll miss it piece of writting on paper in Them Break's Kids is somehow already enough confirmation about Belos' plan. Ya, sure. You really expect people to just pause on the screen to look at that tiny ass text, Lily. I'm sorry but it's a lot better to have explicit confirmation rather than blink and you'll miss it confirmation.

THIRD, the point of this reveal was not that Belos was evil, the point as that it was meant to be a revelation to Luz about Belos' true identity as I already said. FOURTH, there is new information being given to us about Hunter's origin and the fact that Belos is repeatedly killed his brother over and over again. Sure it's being kept in paintings but it's still there and is referenced in later episodes.

And FIFTH, Lily once again gives a fairly disingenuous description of the episode here. Many things do happen in this episode beyond a bunch of big reveals as I already explained. Lily's reducing the episode to make it sound like it's bad.

-Lily ends off the video by making a very sexual comment about a 16 year old boy. I don't think I need to explain why that's gross.

This was painful. Genuinely a god-awful video and one of the worst TOH videos Lily has ever made.

[dougydoug8797]

Happy New Year’s Day from Camila Noceda, Edalyn “Eda” Clawthorne, Lilith “Lily” Clawthorne, and Raine Whispers

[marlene-mylove]

'every fictional woman can't be your wife'

Bullshit

[bobo-archive2]

Comic I made of ftws!raeda. What did Raine do you must be asking? They forgot to get her favorite ice scream at the market.

[bluebellpeppers]

And just like that, Lilith became my favorite Clawthorne.

[thisbelongsto-nohbodys]

Lily and Azura are playing Hexes Hold 'em. Lily has just won the game.

Azura:[amazed] How are you so good at this game? It's your first time playing and you've won ten games in a row.

Lily: I guess I inherited my mom's knack for strategy and battle tactics.

Azura: Do you want to play again?

Lily: Sure.

Eda walks in.

Eda: When you're done, I'm taking her with me to Grimgrub's Pub. It's Hexes Hold 'em night, and first prize should just about cover my tab.

That feeling when a family member likes a friend (or in this case, a Frenemy/Rival) more than they do to u because of some unexpected skill they have.

[blazethekat]

Owl House sketches I did ages ago

[talonmom]

I got bored

So have something i just finished like five seconds ago

[conceiteddemon]

Owl House AU where sometime during the timeskip King ends up with wings like his dad had!

smash cut to Eda knocking on Camila’s door in the middle of the night because she’s got experience with the whole ‘mom’ thing AND is a beast keeper. Right? So like, is it cool to have an overwhelming persistent urge to throw your son off of a high surface or is that not normal

[stuff-diary]

Our Little Sister

Movies watched in 2024

Our Little Sister (2015, Japan)

Director & Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda (based on the manga by Akimi Yoshida)

Mini-review:

Hirokazu Kore-eda is the master of slice-of-life cinema (something I already knew, of course). He's just the best at seamlessly putting together everyday vignettes and situations, like in this case. Not much happens in the movie, but all the characters are so complex and fascinating, even the ones that only show up a few times. The movie really draws you in and makes you feel part of these characters' lives. The star-studded cast does a fantastic job, showcasing the naturalistic acting style and the homely chemistry that characterize Kore-eda's films. And the cinematography is lovely as well, obviously. So yeah, Our Little Sister is classic Kore-eda and a must-watch for his fans.

[aroacemisha]

I already mentioned that I love the new designs, but I also wanna add that I like how in the first 2 seasons (including a few flashbacks), Eda used to wear a ripped dress, whereas now Lilith wears one and she doesn’t - they switched, basically.