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when a character is written inconsistently because nobody thought about it that hard and you're like it's time for me to get in there.. and think about it that hard

#GUS #THIS IS SO ME AND GUS

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I'm Opening Commissions!

Feel free to dm me or check the linked google doc for more information

Examples with prices below the cut

TMNT Drawing (Top)

Flat color full body ($30)

4 extra characters ( x 1.254 = + $43)

complex background (+ $10)

Total: $83

Cat Drawing (bottom left)

Rendered full body character/cat ($40)

Extremely complex background (+ $65)

Total: $105

Zuko Hug (bottom right)

Line art full body character: ($20)

1 extra character ( x 1.25 = + $5)

Minimal/no background (+$0)

Total: $25

#YESSSSSSSSSSSS #DO IT GET A COMMISSION

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Trouble Maker

Hello my motivation has been up a bit recently so I used that to my advantage LOL

Alt + inspo v

You guys have GOT to hear me out on this LMFAO

#people died #gus porter #mattholomule #thesaurus anguigeni

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AU where Hunter rolls the worst blunt ever and gets replaced early

#luz rolls a shitty blunt and is about to bring it to Eda and then Hunter goes NOOOOOOO and snatches it out of her hands and #rerolls it perfectly like ok phew there you go that was a close one #Luz looking at him like. what was That #golden guard #emperor belos #thesaurus anguigeni

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What's ur favourite owl house character and what fruit would they be? I want to draw some owl house content

#Hsjdbsks this is beautiful #luz noceda #amity blight #gus porter #eda clawthorne #vee noceda #viney #emperor belos #thesaurus anguigeni

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New Dana art on Insta!!! I remember seeing the drafts for the first and last pieces on her Patreon… I’m especially soft about the Lumity one because not only are they playing sports together and sweating but also. This is Luz getting to play Grudgby at Hexside with her girlfriend all over again AFTER the finale, after the pain and trauma, in the years leading up to the epilogue. After everything she can still be happy and have fun in the Boiling Isles!!!

#luz noceda #amity blight #king clawthorne #the collector #thesaurus anguigeni #dana art

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willowwwwww

#willow park #thesaurus anguigeni

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have you ever seen one of your tumblr posts on another social media?

yes / no

#one of my toh theory posts got reposted to insta and got a bunch of notes #it was fun looking through the replies #it was the ‘is hunter incomplete’ one

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An old comic i made when thanks to them trailer came out

Anyway Vee and Gus are autistic best friends who like to infodump about their special interest (human realm) I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!!

#GUS LEARNING ABOUT THE HUMAN WORLD YESSSSSS #gus porter #thesaurus anguigeni

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#absolutely fascinating question on this one #I will be taking suggestions in the askbox

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I miss you so much, child of the stars ✨ (reupload)

#the collector #thesaurus anguigeni

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Your art is super cute 🌈💕

THANKS YOURS IS TOO!!! 😤

#luz noceda #thesaurus anguigeni

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Posting this cos ik I’ll never finish it

#HEHEHE ghost gus costume #costume? illusion? same thing close enough #gus porter #willow park #amity blight #luz noceda #golden guard #thesaurus anguigeni

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new game

not ‘have they died before’ but ‘are they currently alive’. if they came back to life and something seems weird then vote whatever you think is best

#no but it can be if I’m not a coward

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actually no, we're not "dating". we're bound together for infinity. like the stars. so, fuck you, actually.

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DOODLE DUMP!!! Some of these are a few months old but idc anymore

#WOOHOO #gus porter #mattholomule #other people I’m too lazy to tag #thesaurus anguigeni #jart

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Now that the show's over, this has to be one of my favorite theory posts I've made. I still completely agree with it!

Sure, the prediction he would branch out didn't happen, but I still think it should've! And besides, the analysis on mixing magic and the coven system are still completely accurate. I was definitely onto something with this one.

Gus, His Magic, And the Coven System: Analysis on Through the Looking Glass Ruins

The latest episode's Gus plot focused on the relationship between Gus and his magic, and I have a lot of thoughts on it. So, I'm going to try and lay them out here.

First, the overall "lesson" of the episode.

I think I'm safe in saying that, on the surface, the main takeaway from this episode was "Illusion magic is actually powerful and Gus is justified in focusing on it."

[obligatory picture of the statues leaking blood illusion that Gus conjured up]

But really, that's not what I got from it, and that's because of the statue scene. In it, Gus created an incredibly impressive illusion to scare Bria away, and it worked! But not on its own. See, she was expecting an illusion, so she suspected the whole scene wasn't real. But then a statue grabbed her leg. That was what convinced her.

Let me say that a different way: Gus' illusions on their own were not enough to convince her to leave.

And that is what this post is about. If the point of this scene was to prove that Gus was perfectly fine with illusions on their own, it failed, since he couldn’t succeed with just his illusions. However, I think the actual point of the scene was more nuanced.

I believe this scene is foreshadowing Gus multi-tracking in magic to grow stronger.

Before I explain why, let me clarify something. I think illusion magic is incredibly powerful. We all saw that scene, after all. It lets the caster manipulate at least two of a person’s main senses: hearing and sight! That's a huge advantage, so it's no wonder that — as this episode demonstrated — it has such huge drawbacks. Namely, the illusions are very fragile.

Luckily for Gus, this episode also showed how to get around those drawbacks. If you get creative and supplement the illusions with something else — say, a solid hand — you can make them infinitely more potent.

And that's where the multi-tracking comes in. Gus isn't always going to be able to make himself part of his illusions. However, if he has magic that can help, his capabilities skyrocket.

There isn't even one specific type of magic that would help! Construction magic seems obvious since you could create physical components to the illusions, but plant magic would have much the same effect.

Add to that the fact that illusion magic appears to have the ability to power up other spells, and now any track would give him a power boost.

(This effect can be seen in this scene from The First Day where he gives Willow's plant muscly arms:)

(And in TtLGR where he creates a huge fireball using an illusion spell and a fire glyph:)

So why doesn't he just pick up a few spells besides illusions and give himself a boost? Why does he worry so much about "choosing the right track" when his problem could be so easily solved?

The answer is the coven system. As we hear from Bump, the motto of the coven system is to "Hocus Focus." He doesn't pick up a few handy spells because the entire system, the entire culture, has ingrained in him that studying more than one track is unacceptable. It’s likely that if the idea of multitracking had occurred to him, he dismissed it out of hand!

And this is where Gus really helps to showcase the shortcomings of the coven system. He's seemingly a perfect fit for it: he's a prodigy in his track and can use the magic to its fullest potential.

Yet still he’s getting hurt by it. And why? Because confining someone to a single track means that track becomes part of their identity. Therefore if someone insults or criticizes your coven, it's a criticism against you. If your coven has a weakness, you have a weakness.

And that's why it's such a genius system for Belos; it's simple divide and conquer. Everyone is split up into different factions, each with their own simple roles. And since all the pressure is on which one to choose, no one realizes that it doesn’t actually matter. Whichever track they pick, they’re still being trapped in a system designed to separate and weaken them; a system designed to keep Belos in power.

That is why wild magic and mixing magic are so powerful! They allow someone to tailor their magic to themselves; to make the tool fit the identity instead of the other way around! It lets them cover their weaknesses with what they learn, instead of inheriting weaknesses!

So by disallowing that, Belos makes people conform their identity to his system, weakening them and cementing his power over them in one fell swoop.

[Shoutout to @preciseprose for helping to edit this!]

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