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#the them <333

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BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS

- (Don't tag as ship btw)

#INSANE #art

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me nd my pirate girlfriend

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Finally got the time to draw something for the toh finale! I love this show very much

BYEEEEEEE

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* I’m not ready for this to end. I’m not ready for you to leave.

* I’m not ready to say goodbye to someone like you again…

* So, please… STOP doing this…

* AND JUST LET ME WIN!!!

#ohohohohoho

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not that we didn't already Know belos was full of shit, but it's even funnier knowing the titan was still alive the whole time and probably judging him

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you know he had to do it to em (he really didn't)

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the girl i am referring to when i say "girl help" and the man i am referring to when i say "oh man" are The Same

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I still haven’t watched the last two episodes lol

Have a Noceda siblings sketch that I never finished

Luz really cartwheeled into the boiling isle and swiped the brother Belos has spent the last 400 years fine tuning and I have nothing but respect for her. 😌

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Oh they are twinning

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🪦 To Flapjack. Thank you for finding me. -H.

#art #303 #auwh

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[OWL HOUSE FINALE SPOILERS] you have the best toh opinions so im bringing my one complaint about the finale to you for thoughts: my big hope for the collector was that they would go to the human realm. i could not imagine something more boring than infinite power, the nothingness they must feel from it. I just wanted them to learn how to climb a tree, know what it feels like to slip and fall but feel the rush of finally perching on the top branch. yaknow?

Hello, I'm honored!!

I liked that the finale kept things open with them (heading out to do some wandering and self-reflection but clearly still swinging by from time to time) so who knows -- multiple worlds are their oyster, and they've got buddies who live there and plenty of time.

It does also look like the new Boiling Isles-Human Realm portal has a splash of Collector magic to it, so I feel like with a little headcanoning you could definitely make the argument they got a quick peek at the other side, maybe jumped in a leaf pile or two while literally everyone else held their breath and maybe also kept them on a very long version of one of those toddler leashes. Either way, I got the sense they helped at least a little with the rebuilding before heading out, which as someone who grew up around a lot of home improvement projects can actually lend itself to some great nonsense. I hope someone handed them a paintbrush and/or some spackling tools and they embraced it with gusto.

(Not to mention -- I feel like fixing and creating things like that is a real bulwark against the entropy and infinity of the universe. Someone get this kid into more crafts!!)

#toh spoilers #collector

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i also see people going "but they completely dropped the caleb ghost hints!!!" as if luz didn't stand there in silence in her symbolically unifying half-human-half-boiling isles powerup form watching philip grovel with The Caleb 'Pathetic' Expression etched across her face

this is another unpopular opinion but i am actually totally fine with knowing as little about the wittebanes-in-canon as possible. more wittebane content didn't even make my top 5 for season 3. i am so completely happy with just Inferring from background details scattered just around the edges of the on-screen narrative and, in fact, i think it might be better this way

#do you remember when philip started very obviously projecting onto luz in much the same way that he did caleb and hunter. #because i think about that a lot #i'm not elaborating my thoughts well because i'm exhausted but idk i think they did a good job tying that thematic thread up #with the time they had #toh spoilers

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this is another unpopular opinion but i am actually totally fine with knowing as little about the wittebanes-in-canon as possible. more wittebane content didn't even make my top 5 for season 3. i am so completely happy with just Inferring from background details scattered just around the edges of the on-screen narrative and, in fact, i think it might be better this way

#'haunting the narrative' is a tumblr cliche or whatever but i do think it's applicable here #the...distance of time between whatever went down with caleb and what is going on now #you're utilising the medium to emphasise the emotional core of that conflict as it persists into the present #without taking too much attention away from what's going on *now* #i absolutely did not want a wittebane flashback. and i am happy with knowing as much about that as i do #i like it when things are ambiguous and i get to fill in the gaps with my mind!!! #toh spoilers #idk i liked the finale it wasn't perfect but everyone complaining about it has such a bizarre perspective on it lol #maybe i've just had too many cool villain backstories ruined because the author felt the need to overexplain it #sometimes less is more!!! (<- skulduggery pleasant kid who is still Fucking Mad about the sequels if you really need extraneous context)

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goodbye owl house, and thanks for everything <3

#MAN. #toh spoilers

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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

#meta #toh spoilers

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the Titan is the most relatable character in all of The Owl House, because Luz is definitely the Titan's blorbo

#toh spoilers