#loving a show as children also love it

[break-me-open]

Thoughts about The Owl House’s run

I truly enjoyed the third (and final) season of The Owl House, and I’m so grateful for the work that was put into the series. It’s hard, though, not to feel a bit sad about the what could have been. 

I don’t need every questioned answered in a series, personally, but there’s so much more that could have been explored, that I wanted to see. To know that there was more that was likely intended to be told about this world, but if we ever do get it, it almost certainly won’t be in television form...

It feels especially unfair and ridiculous when I think about how it wasn’t given a full chance. I know I’m just a random adult who watches some kids’ shows, so yeah, okay, maybe I’m not the target audience. But the kids I’ve worked with this school year? They are prime target audience for Disney Channel. And working with them has made me realize how important word of mouth can be for children’s media.

At the start of this school year-- so, after the first two seasons had aired, before season three started-- there were for sure three kids in my class (of twenty-one) who where into The Owl House. These were the only ones I initially ever heard talking about it. (They also talked to me about it directly sometimes after one time when they were talking about it near me and I interjected to correct Raine’s pronouns without really thinking about it. They lost their shit, they were so excited.) A lot of kids seemed to not have heard of the show.

By this point in the school year, I know there are at least nine students in my class who have watched the whole show. They talk about it regularly. Everyone in the class knows what it is.

And that kind of word-of-mouth fanbase building takes time! Especially-- and sorry to bring up COVID, but-- when kids have spent so much of that time out of the physical classroom, resulting in less casual discussion with kids they’re not already friends with. You build your appreciation of a show over time, then you talk about it and share it more and more, then more people check it out, and the show ends up with more fans. But you have to give it that time!

And The Owl House didn’t get that. There’s definitely some “we know why” stuff going on behind the decision, but it also seems like they just made a poor decision based on not really understanding how kids’ shows become popular. When I was a kid, it was Avatar: The Last Airbender that I thought about this with. That show’s run wasn’t cut short, but there was a mess in its marketing, products, overall treatment from the network. And now, years later, it continues to make the network-- I assume-- so much money.

Maybe that means ten years from now, there will still be new Owl House stuff coming out in some form or another. I don’t know. I hope so! I hope the girl in my class who loses her mind whenever she sees Hunter gets to experience him as  part of pop culture throughout her life. I hope the girl who described her crush as, “I’m Amity, she’s Luz” gets to recall that description to other people who remember the show clearly years from now. I hope the boy who was reading a Wikipedia article about Puritans to figure out Belos gets to work that connection into a future essay.

But whether it reaches that point or not... at least they got to have those experiences now. At least we all got this show.

[navree]

my adventures with superman turning deathstroke the fucking terminator into an anime twink is the single greatest thing i've seen in the history of animation i have not been able to stop laughing

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt in Memes 6

Let's make it some in-world memes this time :)

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - San Fransokyo

[bixels]

I'm not getting into The Giving Tree discourse...

[anders-hawke]

colin 🤝 anthony: making an heir in s3

[oifaaa]

Bridgerton is one of my comfort shows mostly bc I think its so funny that the Bridgerton family is just the worst they're all deeply unlikeable insufferable people and watching each of them find love despite how utterly horrible they all are gives me hope

[laurrelise]

they would be friends argue with the wall

[silvkatt]

A heck ton of resh/alef/eden elder designs i have found on skyblr that I have doodled, namely to see the many different designs of the favorite stinky elder fella. All the little comments are made in jest btw!

List of credited people (untagged because i dont wanna disturb the creators because im shy as heck but if anyone who owns one of these designs see this then omg I like your design OTL) (also hidden under readmore because this is long):

@/manuellarts

@/aura-morgenstern

@/lonksadventure

@/coenubiaseraph

@/rivershards

@/serxiensky

@/slink-a-dink

@/mistyplace-ghost

@/masked-constellations

@/wrathevil

@/black-suns-rim

@/lelanida

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Bonus, my personal Resh design

They’re a sad fella

[aliveaudiencegang]

I wasn’t sure what I saw in his face. There was no clear sign of love or approval. Nothing to encourage me. It was like looking at the ocean: some days, you could tell what mood it was in. Most days, though, it was unreadable, mysterious. - (The Lightning Thief)

There was a different light in his eyes, a fiery kind of pride. “You did well Perseus. Do not misunderstand me. Whatever else you do, know that you are mine. You are a true son of the Sea God.

[The Lightning Thief]

I wasn’t sure how he would feel about seeing me again, but the corner of his eyes crinkled with smile lines. He nodded as if to say It’s okay.

[The Titan’s Curse]

I turned and found Poseidon smiling at me […] “Hello Percy, you’ve done well.”

[The Titan’s Curse]

“[…] And you Percy, are my favourite son.” He smiled, and at that moment, just being in the kitchen with him was the best birthday present I ever got.

[The Battle of the Labyrinth]

He held out his arms and gave me a hug. I realised, a little embarrassed, that I never actually hugged my dad before. […] When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me.

[The Last Olympian]

Poseidon ‘showing no clear signs of love or approval’ towards Percy throughout the series

[earlgodwin]

honestly marketing couldn't get cuntier than that

[sukibenders]

Aegon, Aemond, Helaena, and Daeron looking at Alicent after she washes her hands of a war, that she (and Otto) dragged them into, and the throne, that she (and Otto) forced them to grasp/fight over even though they obviously didn't want it, and goes off to live her best life while they are all still stuck in a cycle forced on to them without their input (obviously this is about the s2 final):

[not-equippedforthis]

why am i crying over space children. jake going against his father's orders just to teach nog how to read im bawling my eyes out. sisko being so proud of him at the end. oh my god.

[strawbebbiesart]

chimckens 🐓🌽

[egophiliac]

have you seen the reveal for kamen rider gavv yet? i've fallen in love with him, he looks so great. not to mention that he doesn't have an overt animal motif this time, i've been missing having a non-animal themed main rider since zi-o. and it's just funny trying to see people guess what animal he could possibly be (i've seen rabbit, cat, jackal, and kangaroo so far).

YEAH he's so purple and shiny! 💜🧡💜 I love candy themes/aesthetic and I'm SO jazzed to see a whole series based around that; really looking forward to the trailer/press conference in like. a month. :') though I had assumed he was supposed to be reminiscent of a...cutely-rounded gummy beetle or something, because Rider? they look more like horns than ears to me at least!

oh my god I REALLY need to catch up on Gotchard

[retributory]

gx is so crazy how do you explain to someone with a surface-level understanding of what yugioh is that the series after dm features a hermaphroditic dragon-demon card spirit fusing their soul with the main character, who also has apparently been continually reincarnating for 100s of years with the card spirit's primary goal being to protect him, and when they embrace to fuse he says they shall never part again because they will forever and always from that point on be one jointed soul and body, and also he commits a borderline genocide against the card spirit race (???) and straight up kills some of his friends (they get better), and also there's a character who got his leg broken during an archeological dig and they replaced the broken bone with a dinosaur bone (???) and now he's like part dino and has fucking dino dna (?????????) and they send him to space as his dinosona to destroy a satellite that is about to destroy the earth (????????????), and also one of the teachers in the school (seto kaiba's duel school for dueling) is a homunculus and when he dies his soul (???) gets eaten by his cat and for the rest of the series he is living (?) inside of the cat's body, and also on top of all that theres a cool rival character as expected of a show targeted towards young boys who looks cool but in actuality he's lame as hell like he canonically stinks like shit cause he doesn't wash his clothes and he joins a cult and they get him out of the cult by reminding him that his real personality is being a rancid little stinky smelly bastard loser and no one likes him and he spends the entire series getting completely dunked on and also his main archetype is these things:

and then you have to concede that at the end of the day it is still an anime for a children's card game designed to sell the cards so if you ever try to explain the impact this had on your developing mind at 7 years old you'll sound sick