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eruanna1875 · 1 month ago

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Wow.

When we watched the first episode (both halves) of Over the Garden Wall last night, my husband and I had this exchange:

"So the townspeople are skeletons dressing up in the pumpkins and stuff?"

"Yeah."

"Creepy."

Which doesn't sound like much, I know, but something about that struck me:

People's first impressions probably ARE that it's creepy.

And I totally forgot that was a thing.

Like, for me, I don't even really see it as creepy anymore? It's literally just things like "a place for the placeless", "a rest for the lost", or "the complete inverse of the Beast" to me. Not "here's where the undead dress up as jack-o-lanterns".

To me, it's "Come Ye Thankful People Come", not "Come Wayward Souls" (even though we hear the tune played there).

I look at it and see concepts like "harvest" and "peace", and that's why I like Pottsfield.

But most people, on first glance, see concepts like "creepy" and "morbid", and that's why they like (or dislike) Pottsfield.

And that's just so foreign to me at this point, I had to stop and think about it.

#it's also funny because i feel like I'm turning into guidesman woodsman myself #because (spoilers) he kinda forgets to tell the boys about Pottsfield's whole deal with the skeletons #i wondered a little if that was realistic with how he's been watching over them #and i previously chalked it up to “he is terrible at communicating”#which is still true #but honestly now it kinda makes sense #if you'd seen Pottsfield the way he does for as long as he has #it'd be hard to think of it any other way #ESPECIALLY as something creepy or morbid #so while he still needs to work on communication this particular failing is understandable #(because it literally happened to me lol)#over the garden wall #salt and light #otgw pottsfield #otgw enoch #otgw woodsman #guidesman au #in the tags #also no hate to people who see the creepy side more #this is literally just me realizing that you exist

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