#toh edge of the world

[rockymountainqueen2]

D'aww! He finally gets to meet his family!

GUYS I THINK I KNOW WHERE KING IS

[juliettedunn]

Thinking again about Luz getting called his big sister in this exact same episode. A big sibling, supposed to look out for him, she always just wanted to protect him. And here there is literally nothing she can do. What could she even say?

He’s clinging to her for some form of comfort but she’s just as helpless, and still hasn’t processed her own trauma that happened the day before. She can’t even care for herself and here he just went through unimaginable trauma there’s no way she could make better. Right after both calling her his sister and his confession over how much the thought of her leaving terrifies him.

But all they can do is go home, to a parental figure who is just as lost and helpless as them, even though Eda tries so hard to conceal it in OTWAT. All they want is to protect their family but they’re grappling with things so far beyond their control hitting them one after another, sometimes all they can do is just stand like this.

King was almost stabbed to death and skinned. Luz just saw the dismembered bodies of his siblings as a trophy display. She makes King breakfast. She gives him a hug. What else can she do? Insane episode.

[icy-watch]

...Cypher?

[idkwidatp]

I was looking at pictures of the collector both to figure out how to draw their hair WHERE TF DOES THIS VERSION OF THE COLLECTOR COME FROM?????????

[pespillo]

I'm a path of cinders , burning under your feet You're the one who walks me, I'm your one-way street I'm a whisper in the water, secret for you to hear You're the one who grows distant When I beckon you near

[jamgrlsart]

Playing with value

Screen cap redraws from Season 2, Episode 17, Edge of the World

I had to draw this because just look at Eda in this moment; I’m obsessed with this pose. And Luz!!! 😭

[redg5]

I’ve been left alone again so it’s time for “random thoughts that seem to have taken over my brain” TM:

Why is there two Collector Mirrors? There is the one Belos had, but there is also the Trappers’ mirror, which by the time we see it is already broken. What was the point of there being two mirrors? Who made the mirrors? And why was one broken but the Collector still trapped?

Ok, so we know that the Trappers’ mirror is broken by the time we see it. We also know that the Collector’s mirror that Belos had breaks when King frees them. When King, I guess, astral projects himself into the In Between we see what looks like shards, of which look similar to the mirrors, floating around the Collector’s prison.

I kinda have to ideas of what this could mean. I think no matter what, the mirrors we see are meant to be a communication device. Either between Archivists, or whatever you wanna call the Collector’s species, themselves or between them and the Trappers.

If it’s between the Archivists and the Trappers then they’d only need two mirrors. This would allow the Trappers to contact the Archivists when they found another Titan, and allow the Archivists to give the Trappers orders. Of course this is under the assumption that the Archivists formed the Trappers, not the Collector, which I think makes more sense anyways when it comes to the Collector as a character. Sure, you could say they made the Trappers and somewhere along the line there was a disconnect in communication which lead them to hunting Titans but there is still that picture in the Archive House.

So the disconnect could get you the “even when those trapper jerks started acting weird” but it doesn’t explain this photo which implies the Archivists themselves started the Trappers. So with the assumption that the Archivists created the Trappers, the mirror could have been used to give/receive orders.

However this doesn’t really explain how there are shards around the Collector’s prison. So, if the mirrors are used to talk between Archivists, well there are at least four older Archivists.

Maybe they each had their own mirror to talk to one another. If that’s the case, then the Collector is probably too young to have one himself. That means there could be upwards to four mirrors and maybe if one of them breaks it’s no longer able to communicate but is still somehow connected to the other mirrors. This could explain why we hear the Collector’s laugh in Edge of the World when the Trappers are about to sacrifice King. Then the main question would be how did the Collector bring them into the In Between when he was trapped and how did the mirror shatter?

I’m less confident in the four mirrors honestly but oh well. It still gets me to how the Trappers’ mirror broke. Maybe their mirror was used to trap the Collector and that’s how it broke. We already know they break when set free, what’s to say the same can’t happen when reversed? Not to mention we aren’t really given a clear answer on how the Collector was trapped anyways. I don’t think one of their siblings could have been trapped as well because both the Collector and Papa Titan make it seem like they were the only ones left at that point.

Idk. This is all just speculation that I felt should be typed down somewhere. I don’t even know if this is coherent anymore. Or if it ever was.

[crossovercharles-art]

[forgot to post this last week 😅]

Happy Anniversary to these episodes!

Around last year, April 30, 2022, these 3 (4 if you split Amphibia's 10-minute eps) episodes aired. When I learned of this schedule, I wanted to draw my own teaser poster for all 3 of them. And a year later, I wanted to recreate it full-colored. So here we are.

Above: REMAKE 2023 Below: ORIGINAL 2022

[honestlyobsessed]

(reposting for newer fans + edit)

Could the Collector have dual personalities?

A lot of people have been noticing the differences between the bright and innocent version of the collector and the almost psychotic version that presented themself in Hollow mind and Coulds to the horizon. So what if they really are separate?

There were also moments when the collector seemed to be talking to someone else while in the in-between realm:

He's my friend, right? He wouldn't lie...

HE WOULDN'T ?!

He wouldn't!

We spent hundreds of years playing his game...

I WANT TO PLAY A NEW GAME!

Extra note: I also like the characterization being a childish version of him and a Sinnical version of him. They are both 'the collector' with a similar sense of right and wrong, but also their own personalities.

Too often we see in media: "Heres the happy one." "Heres the Sad/Angry one." or "Heres the normal one." "Heres the crazy psychopath one."

just sayn'

[animerunner]

Man rewatching Edge and I just realized that the puppet symbols we see in For the Future is what the Titan Trappers painted on Kings skull

[theydoesart]

Day seven of making art for every TOH season 2b episode

[juliettedunn]

Hollow Mind, Edge of the World, and O Titan Where Art Thou are a trilogy about the owl family facing the fact that all the love and support in the world can’t save each other, and they are forced to watch helplessly as everything is upended for them.

Eda scrambling to make some kind of comfort for her kids, some illusion of safety, but she’s just as lost as Luz and King. She can’t guide them. Luz and King both face horrible trauma but in very different ways, hyper-specific ways that you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone to connect to over it. They all love each other so much, they’d do anything for each other, but that love isn’t enough and sometimes it’s all powerless.

Sometimes all they can do is make breakfast, hug, get King’s plushie, give the kids one last nice day. The small gestures of comfort futile in an objective standpoint while they are all faced with stuff there truly is no getting comfort for. I love these episodes.

[icy-watch]

That's... surprisingly not a terrible amount of stairs.

[adult-trash-lord]

Theory Time

You know, I've seen a lot of people say this is the Titan, and at first I was in the same boat.

But...

You know who else this kinda looks like?

Tarak.

I can't see the Titan Trappers never coming up again after Edge of the World. I feel like we're gonna see them in the finale, if only briefly.

They worshiped the Collector and had a disk, albeit broken, but I feel that means they know about the in between.

And since it was a sort of spector, maybe it was someone trying to communicate.

People have also heard "Luz" coming from the muffled voice. Tarak would know her name.

That is all.

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

if toh s3 had a full 20 episodes i wonder what the acrostic would have been. definitely something about luz. s1 focused on eda’s baggage and backstory, so the acrostic was about her. as was the code in the background of each episode, being about the parallel between the clawthorne sisters and the wittebane brothers. s2 focused on the same with king, so the acrostic and code were about him and the history of the titans and collectors. and now s3 is obviously heavily focused on luz’s baggage and what her homelife was like with camila. im sure they would have gone into it even more if they had more episodes. i wonder if they would have explored more of the human world and that would have been what the code was about. or maybe it would have been about luz’s found family.

[wishingeel]

Rewatching more TOH episodes at random and found this detail I missed: Flora was the author of the book Bill was reading.

Kinda makes me wonder if Flora meant to imply that “The Last Titan” was a live one like the trappers believed, but the book being subtitled “A Study of the Boiling Isles” probably means she was referring to Papa Titan. However, what would make her believe the BI was the last titan? We know that he was the last titan at one point (the Collector confirmed that), but why would she know that? (Perhaps she has traveled around the world and dated the titan corpses??)

The whole thing is just making me wonder how much Belos actually knew about the titans, and how much the Collector told him about them. Since, y’know, he did seem completely caught off guard when he found out that King was a titan the whole time.