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CW: antisemitism, pale of settlement, pogroms, genocide, cultural erasure

I don't think goyim can really conceive of how much Jews actually hold back in our criticism of antisemitism in media, and when you hear us it is often because we see a dangerous message that you don't... Yet.

I have a complicated relationship with Tim Burton's rendition of The Corpse Bride. I love it as a beautiful piece of stop motion art, but it isn't what it should have been, he took a Jewish story from the Pale and with intention stripped it of its Jewish origins. This alone is incredibly antisemitic. The criticism you will hear has probably been "this is a Jewish story, it should have retained its Jewish elements" but have you heard why we feel strongly about this story?

The story of the corpse bride is incredibly important to me and was born from Jewish trauma and Christian violence. Mobs would routinely attack Jewish weddings, they would murder brides and they would bury them in unmarked graves by the roadside still in their wedding clothes, they reasoned that without Jewish wives there are no Jewish mother's. Jews are intrinsic to the story.

It is antisemitism to take our story, about our pain, at the hands of non-jews and strip it for "useful" parts, in fact it is heartbreaking every time.

We are often forced to pick our battles and fighting a battle over a movie that has already been released by a director with a cult following is not worth it, you only hear us speak up in numbers when the antisemitism may lead to another century of violence, because raising our voice means picking a fight, because so many of you already see our pain as inconvenient and it is exhausting to never be heard.

-anyone can reblog

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Someone: “I brought Hogwarts: Legacy. It’s a lot of fun.”

Me: “That’s rough buddy.”

Someone: “Has anyone else in this room brought it?”

Me: “Not me, I don’t want to give any money to Rowling.”

Someone: “Why not?”

Me: “She’s a transphobe who has been trying really fucking hard to kill trans people, no I am not buying a game to help her do that.”

#harry potter #hogwarts: legacy

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Hey, let’s talk about a different wizard franchise. I’ll always have complaints about The Owl House, but it’s better than Harry Potter. If you want to be an ally for trans people,

Don’t buy the shitty Harry Potter game.

Just don’t. If you do, trans people ain’t gonna be happy with you. Maybe some will, but there’s a chance it’s because we just don’t wanna show frustration.

#transgender #nonbinary #harry potter #hogwarts: legacy #lgbt+

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Oh shit, I just remembered the new Owl House episode came out today, and now I have to pretend like I just watched it for the first time now. Okay, I’ll just act natural. Here, I’ve got thoughts for you.

#i'll level with you though i was already checked out of the show before the leaks even happened #i know my recent posts haven't been very interesting #but that's because not a lot happens in the for the future before the very end #i just don't have much to say at this point #this blog was created for when i want to talk about this show with a critical without involving my main blog #a blog that will not be listed here #the palisman scene was cool

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actually hey. let's talk about gus in ttlgr for a second

illusions are very much an allusion (ha) for the arts imho. they're seen as nothing but "high def party tricks" and everyone sees that type of magic as pretty much useless. and, as an artist, that pretty much sums up what ive been told time and time again. that i'm wasting my time pursuing art as a career. and like, gus throughout the entire episode was essentially experiencing burnout. he genuinely loves doing illusions and he's really passionate about it! but after too many things going wrong, he got burnt out and started to doubt his path and had a sudden loss in interest. by the end of the episode he obviously gains his love back for what he does as an illusionist, but i just think it's really neat how at the end he was praised for his skills and for his creativity, which were the very things he was beating himself up for earlier. idk! i just really like how gus is a young artist and that he has people around him that uplift both him and his art

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Can’t believe some people are saying it’s disrespectful to Danato watch the new leak like Disney ain’t already shot her and her show dead. Like she already got paid what’s not watching it gonna do for her? She don’t even watch it legally

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YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE! ES LA VIDA PIRATA PARA HOOTY!

Pirate whatever you want kids.

#like actually who the fuck am i hurting your dad who works at disney? he doesn't care.

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Gotta say, the scene with Luz and Camila at the end was incredible.

#the owl house spoilers #for the future spoilers #the owl house season 3 spoilers

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Funny image (spoiler i guess):

Pictured: Someone who is worried and confused about his boyfriend.

#the owl house spoilers #for the future spoilers #the owl house season 3 spoilers #gus porter #gustholemule #mattholemule #shitpost

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If you don’t want any spoilers for For the Future, first of all just watch it on The Owl Club already, who cares, and second of all, block the following tags:

#for the future spoilers #the owl house spoilers #the owl house season 3 spoilers

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“She’s so determined to make herself sad and... I don’t know how to help.”

Camila is literally the best character in season 3, I love her so much, her arc has been amazing so far.

#the owl house spoilers #the owl house #for the future spoilers

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Just started For the Future.

Willow, please don’t get overshadowed by Hunter this time, it’s all I ask!

I’m going to edit this post in approximately 40 minutes, and I think we all know what image I’ll use if I’m disappointed.

Edit:

I don’t like doing this.

#the owl house #the owl house discourse

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I posted 20 times in 2022

That's 20 more posts than 2021!

17 posts created (85%)

3 posts reblogged (15%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@lily-orchard

I tagged 16 of my posts in 2022

Only 20% of my posts had no tags

#the owl house - 16 posts

#the owl house discourse - 9 posts

#gus porter - 6 posts

#shitpost - 4 posts

#willow park - 4 posts

#hunter - 2 posts

#are you proud of me? i waited until the tags to type his name! - 1 post

#amity blight - 1 post

#reposting because i accidentally deleted the original - 1 post

#toh hunter - 1 post

Longest Tag: 62 characters

#are you proud of me? i waited until the tags to type his name!

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I feel like, instead of 44 minute episodes, each episode should be a lifetime long.

21 notes - Posted May 30, 2022

#4

Hey, so, quick reminder. In the first season, episodes featuring Willow or Gus getting things to do throughout the episode counted to 9 while Amity got 7.

In season 2? 4 episodes featuring Willow and Gus getting things to do. Amity on the other hand? 11. Oh, but don’t worry. There’s one more member of the main cast that isn’t the main three. 

His addition was very sudden, but he got 8. Looking at episodes that feature either him or Amity doing things, you get 13.

He and Amity got triple what Willow and Gus got in season 2. Do not tell me Willow and Gus were not sidelined. This problem is a product of white favoritism. 

It’s the only way to explain the fact that the writers couldn’t stop shoving Amity and blondie into the plot of every episode Willow and Gus got. 

Like, I enjoy Amity, but there is a clear difference in what you’ll get if she’s your favorite character vs if Willow is your main character. 

If Amity is your favorite character, don’t worry! You’ll get plenty of content for her! Willow on the other hand? You want an actual episode where she’s the focus? Don’t worry! You’ll just have to wait until about 13 years after Kingdom Hearts 4 comes out.

That was a joke, calm down. Obviously, I meant to say Kingdom Hearts 69.420

The point is Willow and Gus deserve better.

21 notes - Posted July 25, 2022

#3

There are a lot of claims that Willow and Gus got a lot more this season and... No. No, they didn’t. They got a little more development. But they didn’t get a lot. Let’s analyze the episodes they were in this season. 

They are in Escaping Expulsion. However, this episode isn’t actually about them. We don’t see their character arcs progress in any way though. More progression is given to Luz, Amity, Eda, and Lilith.

Willow is only in the background of Through the Looking Glass Ruins. Gus actually does get shit to do in this episode, and his part in the episode is actually really good. We learn that Gus feels inadequate about his choice in the illusion track, and then see just how good an illusionist he can be. It just had to be in the same episode where the big moment would be the kiss though. Unfortunately, his part was overshadowed. Don’t get me wrong, the Lumity parts were great, but I feel like this really should have been two episodes. 

We get to see a little progression in Hunting Palismen when Willow and Gus get their palismen and we learn why their palismen chose them. That was fun. It also would have been really cool if they showed the reasons for their palismen by having the two join Luz in her little adventure as they stop the Golden Guard from capturing the palismen. Willow sticks up for her friends while Gus is good at getting help from others. But no. It has to be about Hunter for some reason.

They are in Eclipse Lake. Unfortunately, they are only there for jokes. It would have been cool if at least one of them could join the little adventure.

They are in Follies at the Coven Day Parade. As supporting characters. The most we learn about them is that they’re good at giving Amity advice, think Belos is ugly (because he is), and that Willow is building up some muscles. Only a little real progression there, and most of it is centered around Amity.

Then Any Sport in a Storm happens. It was an attempt, I’ll give it that. We learn that Willow is a jock and that they’re both good at a sport. Could have been an episode about Willow getting to rock the game, but then it all ends up centering around Hunter, and OH. MY. GOD. But wait. CUZ WE’RE STILL NOT DONE.

Then Labyrinth Runners happens. Once again, it was an attempt, I’ll give it that. We learn that Gus is a better illusionist than the current coven head and that Willow is annoyed at Amity for thinking she’s weak. Okay. However, the latter bit never gets a scene where it actually gets a scene where it’s resolved, they’re just shown working together later and we’re left to assume the resolution happened off screen, but that’s not good enough. Showing the resolution would have been much better. There is a resolution shown for the first bit. However, the first bit was less about Gus’s strength and more about Hunter gaining his trust.

I do hope that, with them in the human realm, we get to see more development in their character arcs for at least one of the specials, but even then, it’ll likely be too little too late. It’s possible for them to get a fuck ton. Hell, when the Justice League Snyder Cut happened, no one expected Victor to be the selling point of the movie. However, my expectations are low.

It does seem like they might do something with Willow and Hunter as a couple. However, considering that Hunter is involved, it’ll likely be all about him and not Willow.

Quite honestly, I feel like even if we got a third season and not three specials, we’d still have this problem.

21 notes - Posted June 4, 2022

#2

Imagine being a mom, seeing that your daughter has rather destructive behavior, even if she is adorable, sending your kid to summer camp as a way to help the kid out (actual summer camp, not some kind of evil camp), finding out that your kid missed the bus, being nice enough to drive the kid, finding out sometime after she gets back from camp that, before missing the bus, your og kid went into THE FUCKING DEMON REALM, a shapeshifter kid looking for a home disguised herself as your kid, hearing that your kid sorta chose to stay in THE FUCKING DEMON REALM (without anymore context), and then, the next thing you know, a little while later, your og kid suddenly returns home with four other friends (who are recently homeless), and a long ass fucking story to tell.

What might your reaction to all of this be?

Oh, and yes, I am aware that was a long ass run-on sentence making up a big fucking paragraph. It sure was a lot to be shoved in your face all at once, huh?

56 notes - Posted May 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

You know, if Hunting Palismen had more focus on Luz deciding what kind of person she wants to be while, with help from Willow and Gus, beating up the golden guard for a fair awhile, it would have been a good episode.

If Eclipse Lake showcased more of Luz and Amity and how they acted as a couple early in their relationship, while also beating up the golden guard for awhile, it would have been better.

If Any Sport in a Storm were about Willow getting to lead her team into greatness as she becomes a jock while the other team has the golden guard in it meaning Willow, Gus, Viney, Skara, and whoever their fifth member is (I wouldn’t mind Mattholemule) getting to beat up the golden guard, that would have been so much more fun.

If Hollow Mind were about Luz finding out Belos’s identity and how he rose to power while getting help navigating the place from Willow who’s protecting Luz (because that would be cool), that episode would be less boring.

If Labyrinth Runners were about the friendship between Luz and Gus growing after she and King started hiding in Hexide to avoid the emperor’s coven due to Eda and Lilith being missing, helping both characters process some trauma and then beating up the emperor’s coven and golden guard, we’d have a better episode before the finale.

If the writers weren’t so focused on cramming the edgy blonde boy into every episode, season 2 would have been so much better. In fact, really, the golden guard becomes even more useless when you realize that Lilith should have just stayed a villain.

If Elsewhere and Elsewhen were about Luz and Gus (so that we give him another episode) going into the past to discover Philip to be full of shit, it would have been a better episode as well.

Having Lilith attempt some sort of plot only for the gang to mess everything up in Separate Tides, Hunting Palismen, Eclipse Lake, Any Sport in a Storm, and Labyrinth Runners, it would have had a better impact because LILITH CURSED EDA.

(The rest of this post is a thought experiment, btw.)

In fact, honestly? In this hypothetical alternate version of how things played out, if season 2′s day of unity ended with Philip being defeated before Lilith takes over while a full season 3 had the gang dealing with Lilith, that would be so much more interesting.

There’s the whole issue of what to do in order to make sure that, once Lilith is dealt with, she isn’t just replaced with another fascist. There’s the whole issue of taking down Lilith in the first place because her being Eda’s sister will make that a lot more emotional. Perhaps have Luz end up taking her down instead because she knows Eda would let her guard down. 

Before the final showdown, there’s also the question of how their fights would change owing to Eda needing to get used to two new fighting styles (using glyphs or harpy form). Would Eda end up having to combine both fighting styles to have a better shot? Would it turn out that Agony of a Witch was the last time she’d ever be able to beat her sister in battle since that was her last fight with powers?

But Eda isn’t the only character to consider in regard to the ability to fight Lilith. I’m sure that Luz would have mastered every possible glyph combo, even ones she found in Philip’s diary, before getting to her final confrontation with Lilith. A battle between not cursed Lilith and originally powerless Luz? Fucking cool!

I’m also sure that Willow, Gus, and Amity would all be able to hold their own as well. However, I feel like, for a proper final showdown, it would make sense to be Luz, Willow, Gus, and Amity working together to tie in with the theme of friendship the show has.

Keeping it to Luz, Eda, King, Willow, Gus, and Amity, along with adding Raine and Skara because they’re cool, would have been so much more interesting.

How do certain characters interact with each other? Maybe have episodes focusing on two characters you wouldn’t expect like Willow and Raine or Gus and Skara (though pairing up Willow and Skara would also be very neat, just saying, and also speaking of lgbta+ stuff, more Luz and Amity being cute).

Perhaps Raine is actually very good at giving life advice (makes sense they’re a coven head). How do all these characters interact with Camila when Luz finally reunites with her?

So many potential ideas that would have been so good, yet what we got was less interesting than it could have been, and it’s not just because Disney screwed up.

159 notes - Posted May 10, 2022

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I feel like this post has the exact opposite energy as that one post made by a person expressing happiness as they would be fine with deleting their blog and then you see that their blog has been deleted and then you see a happy Jimmy Neutron image in the most popular version of the post.

Except the fact that this blog remains means there is one problem: I am dead inside.

If Hunter dies and gets sidelined for Willow and Gus to get a lot more focus, this blog is being deleted and I will be content.

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I was actually really hoping I wouldn’t need to do this.

But I’m bringing the image back.

#the owl house #the owl house discourse #willow park #gus porter #they deserved better

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If Hunter dies and gets sidelined for Willow and Gus to get a lot more focus, this blog is being deleted and I will be content.

#the owl house

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I’m just saying, it’s kind of annoying that we got to see what Hunter was mentally struggling with, but not Gus and Willow.

Seriously though, these two are more than just bit characters, let’s not forget.

There’s Willow’s struggles to protect her friends and keep them from self destruction. It doesn’t help that it’s the motherfucking collector they’re going up againts, and she’s living in the house of someone who’s daughter nearly sacrificed herself. I feel like Willow is not gonna want to bring Luz with the group to stop the Collector FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. Willow’s gonna want to tell Camila, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Willow ends up yelling at Luz for what happened in the previous episode.

Gus is also uncertain about what career he wants to take part in, and being trapped in the human world is only going to make that harder. It seems like there’s a significant amount of time between season 2 and 3 this time, meaning Gus had to have been having a moment where he wondered, “If we’re stuck here, what am I gonna do?”

But no. We gotta have Hunter being scared about people finding out that he’s a clone. Which is.... Boring.

I get that we haven’t seen much, but they repeated the same mistakes of only having Willow and Gus be important because Hunter is talking to them.

#the owl house #the owl house discourse #willow park #gus porter