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[captainmera]

YOU CHANGED.

[a-magpie-in-gravesfield]

#Wittober day 30 !

[antanariva]

I was browsing twitter and found a great stupid meme for such moment!

[83subatomicparticles]

It's already been like two years since Hollow Mind, that's crazy

[saysomethingabout]

Say something good about this character!

[jess-the-vampire]

Happy Halloween!! Be sure not to run into any beasts now!

[pani-zmijka]

[for-those-who-wait]

boop boop. trick or treat!

Happy Halloween! I rolled a 6d and you got a 3: a doodle!

[morablackbird]

Never give up

long story short, I have a new pc, so far so good, was very lucky to get it. Bad news, a program I've had since 2014, ten years, and still own but cannot have is my adobe photoshop cs6. Adobe won't let me have it because I guess it's on two dead pc's (one being my laptop) and even though they know this, they said they can't reset it, they can't give me access to it, and just said, "here is six free months of this program, go suck lemons" and I refuse to accept any offer but what I bought. It's not the fault of the employees they are doing the best they can, but if I can help it, I will never use Adobe ever again and I recommend anyone of you who wishes to do so to be careful, and those who have yet to try it, don't bother, there are better programs out there it just has a learning curve, industry standard or not its time they understood that they can't own you. You deserve better. That being said some files were saved, and these two were the last I had worked on before the crash. I managed to recover both by the skin of my teeth and most of the rest. The moon aka Philip had gotten corrupted, and I believed it was a lost cause, that I would have to redraw him, start over from scratch as his whole face was cut up to glitchy pieces. However, in an ironic twist of fate, if you can call it that, the sun card Caleb saved it, it had managed to reconstruct it from nothing, lurking on the file, as I had drawn Philip first and Caleb over him for the sun.

So in lieu of that, I decided to add the Gravesfield portal to their backgrounds, I was going to make them center stage like the star/collector, but this... this is good for them... Never give up.

sincerely Dove

[juno-but-not]

Possessed Nerds!!!

[hamletunfortunately]

Oh, brother!

[lavenderpearls]

Alyona and Philip by @a-magpie-in-gravesfield ♡

[a-magpie-in-gravesfield]

Wittober day 31, Ghosts ! It's finally complete !! Idk what I was doing with this one, I went pretty experimental lol The digital one is for a dream sequence in a thing I'm working on but it really fit the theme so I added it too :p

Wittober HD files download : https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t8sq0hdy0w5colpp4mphz/AJLwgESzaVdP7Xm6o8nfTLc?rlkey=k8pgkok55db0bweu1rkzlh7zj&st=ydqddnbf&dl=0

[let-us-cultivate-our-garden]

The way people talked about Doug Walker's take on Belos. Sure, I wasn't expecting people to change their minds (either instantaneously or with time), I'm fine with people disagreeing with him. But they legit got mad at him, as if he commited this awful sin just cause he dared criticize (one aspect of) the show despite how positive he was throughout his video on TOH.

Not everybody's gonna think the show's 100% perfect guys geez (I will give them this, they at least didn't accuse him of being a bigot).

I addressed my response to Doug Walker's Owl House video here. It's been awhile since I've watched the video and read the comments but I don't recall a lot of people getting mad, just very defensive.

And yeah, it is annoying that people can't even handle the most mild criticism without rushing to justify every writing decision. The Owl House is not a well-written or well structured show and I'll stand by that.

It's also okay to like a show that isn't great. You can enjoy it for its flaws because it has something to say that is meaningful to you. Honestly, people would be much happier and less prone to lashing out if they admit their favorite children's show is kinda mid.

[mymanyfandomramblings]

For TOH:

Which is your fav character?

What do you think of Belos as a villain?

How does TOH compare to Amphibia and Gravity Falls in how it handles it themes and character arcs?

What are some things TOH could have done better?

Which is your fav character?

Gus! Closely followed by Willow and then Hunter. Honestly, there's very few characters I don't like in this show.

What do you think of Belos as a villain?

He was a great villain, A+ villain design--he was powerful enough to prove a threat, intimidating in design, he had a sense-making motive, but not one that absolves his actions in any way. His defeat could have been done better (couldn't Hunter have been there, instead of Raine--as lovable as Raine is, they had zero thematic reason to be one of the very few characters at the final defeat scene), but Belos is a great villain for the themes.

How does TOH compare to Amphibia and Gravity Falls in how it handles it themes and character arcs?

TOH is a good show, but it is nowhere near as good as the other two shows with handling its characters. It's written as though Dana Terrace was afraid of ambiguity or giving good characters flaws/bad characters strengths. This isn't to say that all the good characters have no flaws, but the show seems scared of actually acknowledging those flaws.

Luz does have an external arc of going from 'naive girl who wants to learn magic' to 'less starry-eyed girl who is very good at magic', but her internal arc doesn't make as much sense--the show seems like it's deconstructing escapist fantasy at the beginning and Luz needing to have an arc about seperating reality for fantasy, but that kind of gets lost along the way, in favour of a 'you're perfect just the way you are and people just need to understand you' arc, and giving her quirks, instead of flaws. Similarly, Odalia is made into a cartoonishly evil character, so that Amity is absolved of all blame for the way she treated Willow, which I think does all three characters--Amity, Willow and Odalia--a disservice. Compare this to Amphibia, which pulls absolutely no punches when it comes to the main characters being horribly flawed and accountable for their actions, or Gravity Falls where the characters flaws very much drive the action, in a way that they don't in TOH.

The other way I think that GF and Amphibia write their characters and themes better than TOH is by making key character moments tie in with their themes. The best example to talk about this through is by comparing Anne's fake death to Luz's. Anne's entire arc has been about one main thing--learning to do the right thing instead of what is easiest--and her main character flaw from the beginning is that she prioritises her own comfort over doing the right thing for herself and for others. Anne sacrifices herself for Amphibia--doing something incredibly hard, but for other people, which is the perfect culmination of everything she's been learning. Luz's fake death results in her becoming the Titan's Chosen One, which contradicts the arc shaping up in S1 where Luz had to learn that there are no Chosen Ones and that the Boiling Isles aren't a fantasy world. To be totally clear, this does make sense as part of her arc--harnessing the power of the Titan is the final piece in Luz truly becoming a witch, but her entire arc is external. Her internal character doesn't significantly change over the course of the show, because it can't because her flaws are all written off as 'quirks' and the show's big thesis is that weird people should be able to be weird. (This is coming across as really complainy, I'm sorry. I promise that I genuinely really enjoyed the show.)

What are some things TOH could have done better?

Write the Blights better. Escaping Expulsion was the best episode for the Blight family dynamic, with Odalia being awful, but not cartoonishly evil; Alador having a conscience but also being a pretty checked-out and neglectful parent, and Amity seeming actually influenced by her mother's influence

On that note--let Amity take at least some accountability for the way she treated Willow

Put finding Phillip Wittebane's diary, Amity's hair-dyeing, and the first Lumity kiss in any episode other than one of the only Gus-centric episodes in the whole show

Allow characters to be more morally grey and let redemption arcs take some time

Reduce King's-ego-trip subplots by AT LEAST 50%. I didn't actually enjoy him all that much until Echoes From The Past because I found his whole trying-to-take-over-the-world shtick a little annoying

I think that's all

Once more, I actually really, really enjoyed the show and had a great time watching it, I just have lots of feedback