#otgw episode 4

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Day 4: Songs of the Dark Lantern

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Finally, some good luck! Let's go to this creepy tavern and ask for directions.

Asks and submissions are now open for Episode 4 of Over The Garden Wall! Please send us your thoughts, reactions and memories in the askbox, or tag us in posts and fanworks related to the episode, and we'll be sure to reblog.

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[moosegbt]

Steven Universe: The Movie VHS

Here's a render of my box art draft! It's coming along pretty well, and I put some pretty neat Easter eggs in this one.

Unlike my Over the Garden Wall tape, I'm deciding to go for a partial wrap around design. The front, top, and side are all part of the same image, with the back being reserved for a scenic shot of Beach City.

I got in trouble (permanently banned, actually) for using the FBI warning logo in my art when trying to print OtGW at a print shop, so this time I'm replacing it with the age rating.

If you look closely, the number on the side is the last 4 digits of the mysterious girl's phone number from season 4 episode 6 Last One Out of Beach City.

Additionally, the bar code is the bar code for a GameCube! I thought this was fitting since Steven owns a GC and he plays it constantly. It is also just a super nostalgic console for me, and I can't be the only one who related to Steven a little extra because of his console choice.

The most difficult part of creating this physically is definitely going to be finding a pink VHS tape. I haven't been able to find the specific shade of pink that I want, but I've come pretty close with some VHS releases of Sky Dancers “The Sky’s The Limit” “On Wings Of Song.”

Unfortunately this leans more hot-pink purpleish, and looking for the exact shade is a little hard because I've got Finn the Human syndrome (just a little colour blind). Worst case scenario, I find an off-coloured (lol) tape and I treat it a little bit with bleach or something.

And now to the pan and scan part of the project:

Editing this movie is hard. Really hard. This movie has a very stylized intro credits, most of which are formatted specifically for a 16:9 screen. I'm honestly considering reverse engineering the entire opening credits and just building it from the ground up for a 4:3 aspect ratio.

As for opening ads/title cards, I'm absolutely going to put an Over the Garden Wall trailer. I might just make an MCU type deal where all my tapes reference each other. That would be funny I think.

Anyway follow for more updates or to see silly little guys I make in blender every tuesday!

[chaifootsteps]

Over the Garden Wall had ten episodes, three of which are 11 minutes long and seven are 12 minutes. The series is 117 minutes, which is 1 hour, 57 minutes long, yet it had slower pacing than Hazbin Hotel's first season, which had eight 30-minute episodes, averaging out to 240 minutes, or 4 hours. 

Even Infinity Train's first season, which has ten eleven-minute episodes, did better with its pacing than Hazbin Hotel, despite only having 110 minutes, a.k.a., 1 hour, 50 minutes. Both OTGW and Infinity Train had half the time Vivziepop had, but had slower pacing and better development than Hazbin Hotel.

Helluva Boss, a show she has control over, has poor pacing, character, and world development because she doesn't have the patience to explore her story slowly. Vivziepop is the issue with the pacing in her writing, not the length of her shows.

Exactly. Other shows have done so much more with a tenth of the resources and opportunities she's been given.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Well look at you!!! Are you dressed as Wirt from Over the Garden Wall!!??? I really love that show, although I really don’t watch it as often as I should. I first watched it like any old kid does, pirated through YouTube with the actual episode in the corner as a tiny square and the rest of the screen filled with other nonsense! Boy, you really haven’t lived if you haven’t done that at least once in your life. Once watched someone’s upload of the entire Toy Story 4 movie like that — can you believe it? Someone posting the entire Toy Story 4 movie on YouTube! The best part is, it stayed on there for like four weeks! What a fun time.. now, fortunately nowadays with me being on the interwebs more often I know some peeps have posted the whole OtGW series on Google docs which they’ve then shared around, which is pretty nifty indeed! Really appreciate folks doing stuff like that, because otherwise digital media can just vanish into the air with the way streaming is nowadays. Rotten stuff.

Oh, anyway, Over the Garden Wall! Yes, I remember when I first started watching that show. I remember watching the very opening, thinking, “Scenes of the past? No, scenes of fantasy? No… perhaps passing memories, fleeting dreams and thoughts?” I like to think I was pretty right, personally! I like that we’re shown… well, I won’t say much, but with such a simple opening everything happens in plain sight. Even moreso when you look at the Easter eggs, like the intro of each episode!!! Gosh, I felt amazed when I learned all the things it hides!!! I used to gobble down theory videos one after the other about the show! A good show really has you thinking and looking at things with a keen eye and ear, doesn’t it? Over the Garden Wall is such eye candy too, it’s funny how a show can have a simple style like that and yet so detailed too, I’m sure the art style took a while to brew and develop.

My very favourite character was Wirt, no doubt you can guess, when I watched OtGW I was but an insecure teenager myself and as an oldest sibling who plays clarinet, well, it was like a match made in the Unknown! Now that I’m more grown Wirt comes across more silly to me now, ha. Funny how that is you know? When you grow up, you can see the same story at different points in your life, but relate to different characters. That happened to me once with this book about a primary school age girl in foster care. When I was a younger kid, I related a bunch to the main character and her frustrations and struggles, but when I later read the book again as a… teen maybe? I found myself relating more to the adults in her life. It was a strange kind of thing to experience. It helps me remember that to children, things that may seem small to adults, can be really major and big! Children’s concerns should be taken into account all the same, they shouldn’t be simply brushed off as nonsense. Teenagers’ too!

Actually, hey! Speaking of Over the Garden Wall, this I hope you’ll like, I put a little reference to it in my most recent tumblr fake dashboard post! I haven’t seen anyone point it out at all!?? It is none other than fishblr user burgle-the-turts! Their icon no doubt confirms it: a teapot, similar to the kettle Greg wears — I mean, sorry, his elephant costume. The “burgle the turts” line lives in my brain, what can I say. I dropped many other fun references to media in the post, for example, fishblr user greenXD is a reference to that funny thing Master Wu says in the Lego Ninjago movie. THAT’S RIGHT I WATCHED NINJAGO but I haven’t sadly seen the movie and I kind of fell of the show when Zane was kidnapped..?? I did watch the snake stuff, and the whole season where…..

(I proceed to elaborate at length. You never receive your candy.)

trick :)

[wheelie-butch]

Showing gravity falls (or as we call it, grabbity balls, after i saw a tumblr post that made me cry laughing) to my gf who has never seen it and

1) this time i truly understand why all the transmasc dipper hcs, like his masculinity is constantly under scrunity and being tested every episode it's a huge topic of the show.

2) the jokes about grenda (greta? Idk) are kind of uncomfortable like it does just come off like there is a trans girl that many people are transphobic to frequently (frequent comments about her voice + saying she's manly, the bit where she says she used to sound like pacifica until her voice changed.) I'm surprised I've never seen fan stuff like earnestly hcing her as trans?

3) i am going to earnestly hc her as trans and imagine a beautiful future where she becomes butch when she's a bit older and then dipper also becomes a transfem butch (inspired by a post where this happens and he continues looking the same.) And they can be friends :)

4) i feel like i want to put wirt otgw, dipper, + joe from the kings of summer in some sort of specially constructed observation wood to see what happens

[spiderandme]

princess tutu is a cool show so far, just finished episode 4. i love how it opts out of making its setting feel detailed or lived in as a conscious artistic choice—it's supposed to feel unearthly and unreal. the school and the town have no name, the characters never mention family or friends from back home, the only non-main characters we see exist only to act out episode-specific parables. it's like OTGW if OTGW didn't even bother to name the unknown. and also all the dancing is rendered with so much love—style is substance style is substance

it is really thematically and narratively lumpy tho. i sense a dilemma for the writers wherein they're committed to Ahiru/Tutu as the sole protagonist with Mytho as a distant and mysterious figure, but all of the emotional development resulting from the Princess Tutu transformations necessarily occurs 100% within Mytho. the episodes all focus on Ahiru for like 15 minutes before culminating in cathartic sequences that have nothing to do with her and have to rely on brute force monologues and visual spectacle to get you to feel something (they are really really gorgeous to be fair). feels like a flawed formula that i hope the writers figure out a better version of before too long

[catboycafe]

Halloween Movie List 2023!!

OH GOD I HAVEN'T POSTED THE FINALIZED LIST YET!!! This year's list looks psychotic and for that i am sorry BUT. i promise i have a system

🦇= i haven't seen the movie before!*

Day One: The VVitch (+Courage the Cowardly Dog Pre-show) Day Two: Scooby Doo and the Witch’s Ghost Day Three: Over the Garden Wall (Episodes 1-4) Day Four: The Green Knight (+OtGW Pre-show)🦇 Day Five: Beetlejuice (+OtGW Pre-show) Day Six: Coraline (+OtGW Pre-show) Day Seven: The Addam’s Family (+OtGW Pre-show) Day Eight: The Addam’s Family Values (+OtGW Pre-show) Day Nine: Possession (+OtGW Pre-show)🦇 Day Ten: Malignant 🦇 Day Eleven: Sweeney Todd Day Twelve: Mike Flanagan’s Fall of the House of Usher (Episodes 1-3) 🦇 Day Thirteen: House of Usher (Episodes 4-5) 🦇 Day Fourteen: The Menu (+House of Usher Pre-show) 🦇 Day Fifteen: No One Can Save You (+House of Usher Pre-show) 🦇 Day Sixteen: Quatermass and the Pit (+House of Usher Pre-show) 🦇 Day Seventeen: The Exorcist Day Eighteen: The Crow Day Nineteen: Pale Blue Eye 🦇 and 2012’s The Raven double feature Day Twenty: Severance (Episodes 2-3) Day Twenty One: Late Night with the Devil (+Severance Pre-show)🦇 Day Twenty Two: Slasher (Episodes 1-3) Day Twenty Three: The Hour of the Wolf (+Slasher Pre-show)🦇 Day Twenty Four: Creature from the Black Lagoon (+Slasher Pre-show)🦇 Day Twenty Five: The Bay (+Slasher Pre-show) Day Twenty Six: Queen of the Damned (+Slasher Pre-show) Day Twenty Seven: Van Helsing (+Slasher Pre-show) Day Twenty Eight: [i’ll be at a halloween party so there’s no movie </3] Day Twenty Nine: Cartoon/Sitcom Halloween Special Marathon Day Thirty: Scary Godmother’s Halloween Spooktacular (+Courage the Cowardly Dog Pre-show) Day Thirty One: Halloween 🦇

2022 list \\ 2021 list \\ 2020 list

*"hey, i looked at your other lists and there is some inconsistent bat marking!" sometimes i don't finish the list so there are some movies on lists prior that i just didnt watch 😔 i'm a fail man

[speaking-at-the-theater]

otgw

watching over the garden wal!!! obviously spoilers so like, watch out for that. this is gonna be a long one as i plan to do the whole series at once so we go on until the picture limit breaks and then we start another post

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the intro has such vibes. the best part about it being a miniseries is that it doesnt worry about like. spoilers. it can just tell you “this is the short of it, now lemme tell you the long of it.”

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the chorus that starts playing when wirt is like “where are we”??? haunting. where can i find it?

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whoever wrote this knows exactly how to write kids i love it

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“welcome to the unknown boys, you’re mor elost than you realize” indeed

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greg- greg no- bad idea. dont go towards the forest.

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what is up with that turtle???

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“it is your burden to bear” thank you mr woodsman

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ep 2

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the drawings in the wood in the intro. what’s up with that

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“the good woman of the woods”....i dont believe that. that’s sus.

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that festival seems so interesting??? –

what do you mean the fucking pumpkin *talks*

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love that “patient is the night” song

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oo that was…a plot twist

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that “you’ll join us someday” is…….something

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the fuck. is up. with the leaf.

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ep 3-

“see, no willpower whatsoever” ms beatrice. what. 

i mean its true though

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aww, that school concert was such a clever idea! and that small twist. when you hear greg say “let’s steal the instruments” you think he’s still thinking about giving them back to the school for fun. but then the concert is revealed and you see “oh, greg isnt as stupid as he seems”, it’s cute.

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ep 4

songs of the dark lantern??? sounds interesting

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that highwayman animation is so???? idk. it’s weird. thy were bordering the uncanny valley for this one and i think it was on purpose

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the fuck. is up. with those trees. i want answers.

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haha. the beast is fucking terryfying i’ll be seeing it in my nightmares now.

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ep 5

this illustration is so good tho??

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this guys just having an entire existential crisis mood

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beatrice used to be human? that’s interesting

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what is up with these fainting ladies and mr-s? –

two pennies for the ferry…like two coins for the charon?

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also love how the twist here wasnt that there were supernatural shenanigans but that there werent supernatural shenanigans

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the fish?????? what have the coins got to do with anything??? hmm????

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ep 5

that frog song is really nice

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beatrice is sus.

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also, i love how wirt is slowly warming up to greg??

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aaand yep. adelaide is bad. fairytale back. has anyone written a fairytale re-telling of otgw? it has the themes…

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oh….poor bea

andd just like that the character development is gone.

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chapter 7

also just noticed the eps are labeled chapters! like books! –

oh dear….the woodsman is….wow.

“ we should talk”

we’re never seeing the woodsman again i think.

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auntie whispers is so fucking creepy??? is there a single adult with a house that is also not entiwned with any dark magic?? not a single one??

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huh. so it was lorna alla long huh…..yk what they say about appearances

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did whispers never think to say “begone evil spirit” or????

also. if whispers isnt lorna’s real aunt, but they still consider eachothr family…..how did they meet?

it must have been a sad story, though.

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“there is only the forest and there is only surrender”

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i want a story for the beast. even if it’s just “it sprouted from the ground one day”. i need mor eof it.

oh well, fics must exist. if not, i’ll make one.

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ep 8

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aand wirt lost hope. 

bye.

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this episode is…sooo weird

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it’s snowing?? already?? wasnt it autumns just a few episodes ago???

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….at least now i know where the edelwood trees come from.

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what did gregory wish for tho???

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.....

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9 ep….were going at the speed of light huh?

—”into the unknown”....they do say be careful what you wish for, no?

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oh….oh wirt’s…teenagery. which means Really Fucking Mean.

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10

:((((

oh…sio the beast is setting tasks for wirt, fairytale style, so he’ll give up, huh?

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the beast’s eyes are the same as the dog’s after it ate the turtle…..maybe it’s some sign of corruption? or evil??

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“take on the task of lantern bearer” how bout no.

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WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE BEAST WHATS IT MADE OF WHAT THE FUCK

it looks like wood but???? holy shit??? trypophobiaed wood. 

if the beast is made of wood and it eats the sap (oil) from trees is it a tree vampire????

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HOLY SHIT HE DID IT

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lovely ending is lovely

this show met all my expectations, and surpassed them, too!

[takethistoyourstardust]

okay i was really annoyed with the first episode of OTGW but i watched up to ep 4… i’m sorry i was mean to your first episode.

[kinetic-elaboration]

October 10: OTGW 1-4

I was really tired again today, unsurprisingly, literally almost fell asleep at my desk; it was that bad. I got myself home and meant to take like a 40 minute nap and then it was 3 hours later. Like I don't remember turning off my alarm or anything. I think I was having quite weird/intense dreams though I don't remember them.

Anyway, got an unsatisfying dinner and now I need to make tomorrow's lunch and take a shower and go back to bed ASAP.

Over dinner, continued my first time watch of Over the Garden Wall. Literally every year since I joined tumblr I've been telling myself to Watch the Thing and I never have. I really didn't know what to expect, other than the aesthetic which is obviously what I see around here, but I'm really enjoying it even more than I thought I would. I knew it would be beautiful and autumnal and it is. But it's also weird, surprisingly spooky and dark for a Cartoon Network show, and endearing in its characters.

I've seen the first four episodes so far. Definitely Ep 2 is my favorite so far and I don't honestly think anything subsequent will top it. I liked the spookiness of the first two episodes more than the musical-ness of the next two, but they were still cute and Ep 3, with the animal school, was really quite endearing, with just enough strangeness to it to keep with the overall vibe.

I like that it started out with just 'we're in the woods and we're lost' no exposition, no context--it feels very much like a dream, in a way. You know from that alone that you're in a place with no rules because generally people do know why hey are in the places they are. So, now, anything can happen here.

Aesthetically, it reminds me both of CN shows of my childhood, specifically in its characters and their style of humor, but also of older books and media, sort of Wind in the Willows with the talking animals, but with an added spooky quality. Not like pastoral England but like... perpetual autumn fairy tale. But then there's also a surreal and again dream-like quality where things happen in a completely unexpected and unpredictable way while still sticking to archetypes--hero's journey...literally everything in the Tavern of Singing Archetypes (side note: the highwayman song was pretty good), Jane-Eyre-style orphanage/school, the threatening Beast in the woods, etc. Except it's animals and pumpkins and skeletons and time has no meaning and every sentient being just accepts the world around it without question in a way not unlike children do, because they discern certain rules about the environment but not the reasons for them.

I probably have some other thoughts rattling around in there (my brain) but I'm just so tired. I'm so tired. I really wanted to make a crisp tomorrow and I guess I could still do that (if I get enough sleep tonight and feel better) but I didn't do any of the prep work like cleaning my kitchen today... I don't know. Get sleep first I guess.

[c-a-r-0-l-i-n-e]

thanks for the tag! :)

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Last movie: god knows, i never watch movies

Last show: I watched an episode of the x-files, does that count?? before that i watched otgw!

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Other blogs: nope

Do I get asks: almost never

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Instruments: used to be able to play the piano, can’t anymore but i can play the banjo a bit?

What I’m wearing: oh a very cool look (not). lose black dress with pink-ish t shirt over it and cozy socks (i’m not leaving the house today clearly)

Dream job: just having a homestead and living off the land :) not going to happen but god i wish

Tagging: just anyone who sees this and wants to!!

(i keep getting hung up who to tag in these posts, leaving it my drafts, and subsequently forgetting it exists oops, so i’m just not tagging anyone in particular on this one)

Thank you for tagging me @puuvillaa :)

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I tag @snape-under-my-skin @r0seart @asikubi-soda @smilingformoney and anyone who feels like doing this little ask thing :)

[loreweaver-universe]

ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME

[deer-watcher]

Over the Garden Wall is so cute but so eerie & unsettling at the same time, I love it

[rolanslide]

Finished my annual otgw rewatch and god. The fact that Greg and Wirt are normal ass kids plopped into the middle of a fairytale purgatory is expressed so perfectly.

Like... the residents of the Unknown don't act like normal people. They talk in this way that's weird and expository, like characters in a children's story would generally act (The Woodsmans vague prose, Ms. Langtree suddenly talking about her ex every few minutes... you get it). Even Beatrice, at the beginning, talks like this (albeit, it's a front to trick Wirt and Greg, which I find interesting inet of itself). The characters act strangely so the story can continue the way it needs to; the way the Beast wants it to. For example, Lorna could just tell Wirt and Greg that she turns into a horrifying monster sometimes and might eat them, but the story needs to continue in a certain way, so she doesn't.

It's clear the Unknown operates on fairytale logic- there's bluebird curses, animal schoolhouses, children's wishes being granted by cloud people, people being turned into trees, souls trapped in lanterns, etc. All of it feels like a story- because it is. Everything but Wirt and Greg, that is.

Wirt and Greg are two very normal kids with very normal problems. They're quirky, sure, but they act like ordinary kids. We learn about them, their personalities and their history in a very organic way. We learn that they're brothers because the Woodsman says "You and your brother" to Wirt in the first episode. We only learn they're half siblings after they're prodded about it in episode 4. We know next to nothing about their lives and how they ended up in the unknown until we see it in a flashback. They (mostly Wirt) are constantly weirded out by the Unknown and it's residents, and are obvious outsiders.

In fact, them being the only people who don't function on fairytale rules is what saves them in the end. Any ordinary protagonist- or any resident of the Unknown- would accept the Beasts offer. But because Wirt is Wirt and Wirt is normal, he immediately clocks that the Beast is lying, and it saves him, his brother, and the Unknown as a whole.

[princess-of-the-corner]

ok so

there are 2 of these things that asnnoy me so much

and its that they had gumball x sarah when gumball x penny was the whole ship in the show

also no bubbline

I'm analyzing this so much. And i just. What???

Dexter/Blossom: Iirc this got popular in crossover fanfic circles back in the day. How this ended up here I have no idea.

Lapis/Peridot: Is popular I'll accept it not a favorite but fair.

Deedee/Mandark: I haven't watched Dexter's Lab in a while but wasn't this incredibly one-sided?

Eddy/Nazz: I do not remember any romance in this show other than the fuckin sister trio being horny on main. Did these two get an episode to themselves at some point that everyone went off on or...?

Gumball/Fiona: First off, why the genderswap ones??? Secondly, assuming things are similar in the genderswap universe thing, this ship would be one-sided and not endgame given both Finn and Bubblegum's endgame ships.

Gumball/Sarah: Yeah isn't. I never kept up with Gumball but did something happen to Penny???

Numbuh 5/Numbuh 4: ?????? It was always Numbuh 3 and Numbah 4?????? What the fuck? I think the more popular Numuh 5 ship was either Numbuh 1 or Heinrich/Henrietta.

Kid Flash/Jinx: I feel like I missed an episode here was this a thing?

Chowder/Panini: Very onesided from what I remember but at least canon-ish and popular.

Kevin/Gwen: Despite my opinions, at least this one was a canon and mutual ship.

Lorna/Writ: Can I admit that I haven't watch otgw yet? Idk if this is a thing.

CJ/Mordecai: Didn't they break up and get acknowledged as bad for each other or am I misremembering again?