#strange magic 2015

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Finally I could finish this drawing I had from the past year! ✨

I really love this couple and the movie itself! Have watched it so many times and every time it hits me the same 🥰

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Concept Art for Strange Magic (2015) Fairy Guards | Derek Stratton

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Underrated detail in Strange Magic is how Bog’s ‘villainy’—imprisoning Sugar Plum, destroying the primroses—is actually pretty reasonable in the context that the Sugar Plum Fairy won’t stop making what amounts to mind-control potions for anyone who asks.

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Bog King:

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*taps mic* ahem! Bog and Dawn in the barbie mugshot meme, please draw it

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Why I believe Bog is part Fae and what does it say about the Fairy Land and Dark Forest societies

One of the most noticeable things about Bog when we compare him to other Dark Forest Folks is that he has wings.

No one else in his Kingdom is seen with wing outside of firefly mount. and the only other species to have wings are fairies in the Fairy Land kingdom.

But you're going to tell me it's a bit of a weak theory and in itself yes if I didn't have any other proof. Griselda wear clothes.

and why is it important ? Because no one is the Dark Forest wear clothe, Bog technically doesn't wear clothes either and he is King (he as a bit of armor at best). But who else wear clothes ? The Fairy Land folks. You don't see any of Bog army wear clothes nor pretty much anyone in the Kingdom except :

One of the potential bride Griselda want to present to her son. Griselda was Queen (technically still is). Bog is King so the lady he decide to mary would become Queen so those ladies must be high society.

We never really get an explanation about why the Dark Forest and Fairy Land kingdom are at odd. But the language proximity (because I'm gonna take that as a real intention) show the two populations to have been close if not one for a long time and only recently parted.

One of the reason might have been the drastically different ecosystem of the meadow and forest which lead to branching evolution and different flora and fauna.

There might have been a conflict birthing when one part of the fairies melded with goblin and elves (DF) and another part rejected the idea (FL) it broke the society in two. In Fairy Land royalty stayed "pure" fairies and elves are clearly below them in society has there is no elves in the Fairy Land Kingdom party (Sunny being at odd here and won't be staying as a guest) :

In the Dark Forest, there is not really that separation. I believe as the fairies melded and had children with goblins and stayed in the Dark Forest, their appearence changed and culture too. No one in the DF look like the fairies in the FL, but Bog is tall and slend just like FL Fairies, that ant-like lady is tall and slend too. Griselda and that other lady wear clothes and even if it seem to be a rare thing its present and it call back to the FL society and habit.

Which prompt me to ask why would the DF fairies stop wearing clothes ? because as they blended with the goblin, their bodies stopped showing sexual attribute (read breast and genital) the one that wear clothes might do so because they still show those attribute.

They also lost their wings and I believe it's mostly because of the environnement. Bog is the only one to have wings in his kingdom, they are thin and damaged. and I believe that's because the fairies that stayed in the DF kept damaging their wings, this attribute started to become rarer and rarer. the FL is a meadow, there is more wind and less obstacles, flying would also be a faster, whiles in the forest you can go easier on foot because there is always roots and branches and plants to ease your way on feet and find shortcut and flying is harder/less free.

You can also look at ears, as some goblin do have fairy like ears

So, the DF society became what is was thanks to tolerance of interspecies relationship and acceptance of less conventionnal beauty standard countrary to what we see in FL. Bog thinking he is too ugly to be loved might be because out of every DF folks we see he looks the most like a fairy.

The FL society kept a distance between species, the King reaction (fainting) to Dawn and Sunny is very telling that normally elves and fairies relationship is a "no no". The FL fairies almost all look the same, their appearence is very even and it pushes for a certain specific beauty standard.

We can hope Dawn and Sunny relationship to prompt the same tolerance that made the DF folks what they are.

[interfacefox]

strange magic

god this movie was my whole childhood. i love it sm but rewatched it a couple times recently and, being older, saw all the things wrong with it, unfortunately.

i am aware that i have never posted about this and likely will never do so again, and i'm p sure this is rly niche and there are abt 2 other ppl in the world that have watched it, but i have THOUGHTS and i am going to TALK ABT THEM

Some of the main things i find criticisms on are the pacing and song choices, and the songs being unnecessary, not advancing the plot, etc. Now i do agree with those but they don't bother be that much.

what DOES annoy me, especially as an aroace person, is that the message of the movie seems to just be "if ur not in a romantic relationship ur miserable"???? idk, it just seemed to me that it was framed that there was something wrong with marianne and the bog king until they fell in love and were "fixed." don't get me wrong, the bog king WAS miserable and needed companionship, but why did that have to be romantic? if anything, he wasn't in a good mindset to be having a romantic relationship at the time, he still hadn't healed from his last one! According to this post, in an earlier version, dawn was meant to stay single i think that this would have been much better. (go check out that post, it's rly interesting!!) I think that in movies like strange magic that are so romance heavy, it's really important to ensure that it doesn't make out that romance is THE most important thing for everybody, it doesn't have to be "in-your-face" about it, just something. and i think dawn recovering from the love potion but remaining single would have been perfect for this.

Also the way it was like, a girl wears darker colours and learns to use a sword, oh no! a tragedy! i wouldn't have an issue with this if it wasn't for the fact it was framed as if marianne gaining independence and her own fashion sense was awful and the only reason for it could be because something horrible had happened or there was something wrong with her. (mariannes dad: you're a.... unique..... girl😃....)

don't even get me started on how morally questionable (at the least) the concept of a love potion is and how the movie just. ignored that.

and despite the animation being absolutely beautiful, icl i do find all of their eyes extremely unsettling

there WERE things i liked tho, like how the bog king was "ugly" and just allowed to be that way. there was no magic curse to break to fix him and make him attractive, he was just loved the way he is. i loved how in the beginning, the dark forest was terrifying to marianne, but by the end she had given it a chance and ended up finding it beautiful.

idk tho, i am open minded. feel free to lmk if u think smth i said is completely wrong.

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The Bog King's Info Post.

Cecil Stedman's Info Post.

[captain29thegamer]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon), Strange Magic (2015) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Luz Noceda, Amity Blight, Gus Porter, Willow Park, Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House) Additional Tags: Eventual Romance, Musicals Series: Part 6 of Movie nights Summary:

The kids watches strange magic

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🦋🕷️🥀🍂🖤✨

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CRINGE BUT FREE ERA

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Happy Valentine's day!💕

I wanted to draw their wedding so so much and it's finally done! I hope you like it (Am I the only one who smiles when sees Bog smiling so tenderly?) 🦋💕🦟 Also I have to mention the inspiration I got thanks to the marvelous work of EndoratheWitch on AO3! Go and check out her work (Also if you are reading this Endora, thank you so much for your work, I really love it so so much!, most of my favorite Strange Magic fics are yours) Have a happy and lovely day!

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Strange Magic (2015) | The Fairy Ballroom

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Sketch of Marianne from Strange Magic, for @shy-fairy-levele3 ♥️

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I've looked at some Strange Magic screencaps today and I've been thinking about the differences between male and female fairies. You know, like a normal person does in their spare time. The general difference between the two is visually obvious. Female presenting fairies have iridescent looking wings with little to no patterns (other than the black and white pattern lining Dawn's wings like those of a monarch butterfly). Male presenting fairies have more neutral coloured wings with markings and lines and spots on them.

Because of how unpopular and generally small the fanbase is I couldn't find anything concrete as to why that is the case. I've seen a single concept art depicting the male fairies as moths although the wings do not match the final design in the movie. The Fandom wiki dubs them all to be butterflies though as a whole I do not trust what Fandom says. You could also argue that they're different because it's Disney and Disney loves its stereotypical gender differences. And of course searching through interviews showed me nothing as of yet.

However, even whilst having nothing to support this, I have an idea as to why they look so different.

Something I have never realised, and now refuse to let slide, is that butterflies show sexual dimorphism. Their wings are different between male and female members of the species which could explain the different wings in the film (other than it being a cartoon made for kids and the fact it's not that deep). Most often these differences are small, like a particular small pattern change or slight variation in the hue of the wing colour. However, certain species show very strong dimorphism:

^ Males of the species are blue, females are brown (Images taken from this article on FloridaMuseum)

Which is sort of what is going on in the Strange Magic movie, only reversed with the females having the more vibrant colours:

^ I think the differences are best seen in butterflies that show both female and male wing patterns (Images taken from this article on Washington Daily). And if anyone is interested, the condition is called Gynandromorphism (wikipedia page)

In this case, it's possible that all fairies have butterfly wings. And yeah, I would have gone into way more detail but I kind of got tired by the end if you can't tell by the way I'm cutting it short. I think the way they fly also resembles butterflies more than moths, buuuut they also fold their wings flat on their backs with is more accurate to moths than butterflies. Either way, sexual dimorphism is my go to theory now.

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Strange Magic

Rating: PG

Director: Gary Rydstrom

Cast: Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Elijah Kelley, Meredith Anne Bull, Sam Palladio, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph, Alfred Molina, Bob Einstein, Peter Stormare, Robbie Daymond, Llou Johnson, Kevin Michael Richardson

Release year: 2015

Genres: fantasy, family, romance

Blurb: A love potion works its devious charms on fairies, elves, and the swamp-dwelling Bog King as they all try to possess the potion for themselves.