#post-Watching and Dreaming

[notgeorgelucas]

Hunter has so much on his mind. The new palisman he's carved hasn't yet awoken, and then there's Willow, his Captain. There's so much he wants to tell her, how much she means to him, but every time he looks at her the words go fgrgjipgadf... It's not easy being him.

[stars-and-birds]

Dana’s last ‘fuck you’ to Disney

He/they collector

Genderqueer/bi-gender papa king

TWO girlfriend kisses

Onscreen mlm kiss

Implied aladarius

a happy ending to the bi/enby couple

A happy ending to the aro/ace character

And

Death to the white Christian puritain

[piningpebbles]

years later and it's STILL got its claws in me don't ever think otherwise

[luzity]

first vs last appearances

[selineabanto]

hexsquad! 💫

edit: updated version with vee here!

[noyob]

exploring the isles (and getting lost along the way ;p)

[rafry]

time-skip Collector: space-traveller!

[smallpapers]

thank you for loving me

(Edit: now available as a print!)

[awakefor48hours]

I love that Luz was able to realize that she was in a dream because “my weeb girlfriend would never make that mistake.”

[anglerflsh]

Siblings

[space-owl]

One thing I really love about Titan Luz' desgin is that it looks evil! Like.... as if she would be the bad guy! If you saw this in any other childrens media youd be straight up like "Oh yeah shes the evil one!"

Like look at her! And together with the magic shes casting it looks even more "evil"

All those purple, black glowing magic with a hint of gold. It looks powerful. And sharp. All things we do consider and connect with the "bad guy"

King and Eda dont really "help" in that case! Eda has black pupils just like Luz does, she has sharp claws and a tooth peeking out of her mouth. King is basically just a skull on a wolf body. And when you know how his beta desgin looked like, you know that he couldve looked even more "evil".

But no, those three are the GOOD ones in this scenario! And do yall wanna know how the true evil looks like in his real form?

Like THIS! THIS guy! If you didnt know anything about the show and you saw that guy next to Luz, Eda and King, who would you say is the protagonist and who is the villian? Most likely youd assume that this man right there is the good guy, right?

So, bascially, what happened here is that Luz walked straight out of a Hot Topic to beat an old conversatives white grandpas ASS!

Kinda personal but as someone who grew up as a girl who always loved to dress "alternative" and was shout weird things at in school and who always saw the "goth person = bad person" in media this is so refreshing and good to see. Im so glad they did all of this!

[notgeorgelucas]

Philip Wittebane reaches the Afterlife.

[genderfeel]

how this scene went in my heart 🥺🤧

[kyurochurro]

they did the monster mash!! 😳 🎃it was a graveyard smash!! 🦇👻

[marvelandponder]

one amazing thing about the Owl House finale is that it finally contextualized for me one of the central metaphors of the show. Spoilers for the series finale Watching and Dreaming ahead.

we good? no one spoiling themselves? beauty

for a long time now, I thought we had a pretty standard coming-of-age metaphor dichotomized by the show's central antagonists. you've got your protestant witch hunter Belos who introduces a maturity and ugliness to Luz's narrative; he clearly represents a particular, restricting form of adulthood, and just when Belos becomes his most threatening, boom, enter the Collector, Luz's dangerously naïve inner child to ruin all her development on the Boiling Isles. Seems simple enough

what I didn't anticipate was just how specific and personal their roles in the story actually are to Luz once you have the full context from the series finale

look again

this story - this whole series - is about the grief that a neurodivergent kid experienced at a young age, introducing the cruelty of loss and adulthood before she was ready to handle it. and, how to reclaim a more whole understanding of herself as she rebuilds her life with people who get her

Belos is designed to infect the titan carcass like a disease. a cancer. it's super goddamn significant that the titan is King's dad (King, who became Luz's younger brother). they set up Belos not just to be another fascist kids' cartoon villain (although yeah, he do be doing some of that), but to specifically become a force that oppressed the weirdness from the one place that understood Luz. the Iles. the dad. And by the end of the story, Belos's goopy body-horror isn't just for show, he's just like the cancer or other terminal disease that took Luz's dad from her

he's the thing Luz hasn't processed in season 1 that comes in at the end like a warning. he's the threat that forces Luz to grapple with her own humanity, feeling somehow (often completely unjustifiably) harmful to those around her, through the grief she doesn't want to be a burden or the weirdness (neurodivergence) others don't understand. he's the force that says there is something wrong with you, Luz, give in to your grief, this is what you can't face. this is the lie you've been telling to those closest to you: that you're okay

then you have the Collector. (notable that he's a collector, and we see Luz's mom and dad had quite the collection of nerdy memorabilia)

the Collector is the child too young to understand death. Too young to understand consequences, or why their playmates don't feel like playing anymore with someone so weird and maybe a bit too involved in their own world. The Collector is Luz's inner child, that kid we see right before the "worst week ever" — the one who didn't and couldn't understand what was about to happen even as it was going down. unapologetically weird, a bit destructive and short-sighted, but wholly colourful, wholly themselves. that's why the Collector wants to live out Luz's adventures, but without all the depth. just the fun escapist fantasy

but don't think I forgot the internal conflict! :D

because Camila's role also gets an added depth too: Camila was framed at the outset of the series as someone who loved Luz, but wanted her to fit inside a box that she just didn't. later, Luz completely misconstrued her mom's breakdown when she learned that Luz chose to run away. as many people have pointed out by now, Luz misremembers the actual dialogue that Camila says: Camila only wanted her daughter safe, not to lose her. Luz meanwhile felt like she had to choose to destroy this part of herself, or give up her connection with her mom altogether

but we know now Camila actually deeply relates to Luz. she may not understand Luz's fascination with horrific things like on the boiling isles (very akin to a kid getting more grim hobbies in the wake of a death, like Luz's taxidermy), but she loves Luz for who she is. all of her. she never wanted Luz to change

Luz was the one framing the central conflict of the show as go back to her mom or stay in the boiling isles. Luz was the one who felt like she had to punish herself by rejecting the one place where she felt like herself. once Camila realizes what's been going on, and how deeply connected it is to the loss of Luz's dad, she knows Luz is trying to make a "very bad choice for herself." And she won't let that happen (what a great mom!!)

But Luz does have one real choice ahead of her

because of the inner child who once again has to confront death (this time, Luz's own), Luz is able to connect with a father figure, the titan, the one place she feels understood. in the form of a power-up that makes her into a fantasy witch straight out of the Good Witch Azura, the one place she got joy after that huge loss, the titan gives her the strength to face the cancer—a force draining everything good in her life from her and making her question she deserves it in the first place—but only if she can choose herself

and that means choosing happiness, choosing found family, choosing love and friendship and self-discovery in the place she feels most at home! every bond she's forged, everything she's worked for, it all comes down to choosing to face grief and move on in life with weirdos who stick together.

hoot hoot, that's some good metaphor

[mostly-natm]

Take a minute with Mr. Data in the Holodeck!

Still frame under the cut!