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freyatarotreadings8 · 7 months

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Pick a Picture Reading | PAC

Pick a picture 1 - 2 - 3 Hello, sweethearts. It's an unusual reading. I picked quotes for each pile that will give you insights or enlighten you.

Pile 1

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out!”

— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Sufferings of the World

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

— F. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

”The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Who are you then?”

“I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”

— Goethe, Faust

Pile 2

"In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness."

— C.G. Jung “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Don’t worry about people. People think what you want them to think.”

— Theodore Dreiser, The Financier

Pile 3

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

— George Orwell, 1984

“To define is to limit.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Hardships make or break people.”

— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.“

— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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u2fangirlie-blog · 18 days

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Good Omens Aziraphale's Sad Bastard Breakup Playlist

After the breakup, Aziraphale has a new job in heaven, having taken Gabriel’s vacant position. Aziraphale is haunted by sad music reminding him of his time with Crowley. The songs are dramatic, tragic, melancholic, angry, wistful, romantic, and sentimental. How does he listen to music at his new job in the head office? Are material objects allowed? Does he keep a secret stash of tea, cake, and records and a phonograph player in his office? Does he have a celestial radio that can tune in Earth radio stations? Does he sneak off to Earth to hang out in record shops and bookstores? Or more dramatically and emotionally torturously, does he remember every note, every nuance, every feeling, of every song and replay them in his mind? He's stuffing his face with angel food cake and tea while crying and listening to sad bastard songs and hiding from Michael and the Metatron.

See note after list on song selection process.

Songs include:

“Lacrimosa” – Mozart, Requiem in D Minor, Vienna Mozart Orchestra

“Commendatore” – Mozart, Don Giovanni, Amadeus film soundtrack

“Ja, tot katoramu vnimala” – Rubenstein, The Demon, Nicolai Ghiaurov

“D’amour l’ardente flemme” – Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust, Maria Callas

“Liebestod” – Wagner, Tristan and Isolde, Waltraud Meier

“Ach ich fuhls” – Mozart, The Magic Flute, Gundula Janowitz

“Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth” – Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Janet Baker

“E lucevan la stelle” – Puccini, Tosca, Placido Domingo

“Celeste Aidia” – Verdi, Aida, Mario Lanza

“Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” Mahler, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“Der Wanderer” – Schubert, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“Love is a Plaintive Song” – Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

“I am a Courtier Grave and Serious” – Gilbert and Sullivan, The Gondoliers, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

“The Gentleman is a Dope” – Rodgers and Hammerstein, Allegro, Blossom Dearie

“A Hymn to Him” – Lerner and Lowe, My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison

“Could I Leave You?” – Sondheim, Follies, Alexis Smith

“We Do Not Belong Together” – Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin

“On My Own” – Schonberg, Les Misérables, Frances Ruffelle

“As Long as He Needs Me” – Bert, Oliver, Judy Garland

“Stranger in Paradise” – Wright and Forest, Kismet, Richard Kiley and Doretta Morrow

“A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” – Sherwin and Maschwitz, Vera Lynn

“Night and Day” – Porter, The Gay Divorcee, Ella Fitzgerald

“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” – Porter, Born to Dance, Shirley Bassey

“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” – Rodgers and Heart, Pal Joey, Sarah Vaughan

“They Can’t Take That Away From Me” – Gershwin, Shall We Dance, Fred Astaire

“Mon Deu” – Dumont and Vaucaire, Edith Piaf

“Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” – Dumont and Vaucaire, Edith Piaf

P.S.: Aziraphale likes Les Mis because it reminds him of that time Crowley rescued him from the Bastille. Don't tell anyone. It's a big secret.

P.P.S.: “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” reminds him of the time he and Crowley got drunk in the backroom at the bookshop the day the anti-Christ was delivered to Earth. Basically, this song reminds him of every time they went out for drinks or stayed in and drank.

P.P.P.S.: “I am a Courtier Grave and Serious” was the song Aziraphale planned to play when trying to tempt Crowley into learning the gavotte. It reminds him of the ball in the bookstore when he finally danced with Crowley.

P.P.P.P.S.: “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” is as close as Aziraphale can get to telling the world and Crowley to eff off. He has no more effs to give. Or at least he’s trying to convince himself he no longer gives a f***. He’s going off to his new job at the head office and Do Good.

Note on song selection:

I selected songs that thematically fit with the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley. I think the songs tell a story of Aziraphale’s struggle to reconcile his conflicted motivations. They reflect Aziraphale’s fears and desires. He fears being hauled off to hell for disobedience. He fears Crowley’s death and being alone in the world. He desires to be emotionally intimate with Crowley. (Dare he risk physical intimacy with Crowley?) He feels self-righteously indignant, but he’s soft and squishy and weepy and misses his best friend.

I don’t have much knowledge of opera or musical theater, but I have some experience with choir and solo performance. I did a lot of research into opera, art songs, musicals, showtunes, and standards to create a playlist on YouTube. Selections were based on availability, popularity, and sound quality. My big question was whether or not Aziraphale is a strict originalist or if he likes different versions of songs. In some places, I chose newer versions over original versions due to the sound quality of the recordings. I tried to keep selections accessible to a wide audience with varying degrees of musical knowledge. You may not like my choices, so your mileage may vary. You can make your own playlist.

#good omens 2 #neil gaiman #aziraphale #crowley #breakup #sad bastard music #angry love songs #breakup playlist #playlist

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high-school-lit-tournament · 8 months

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High School Lit Tournament Round 2C

The Master and Margarita: An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech. One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him.

I Am a Cat: Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the most significant writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

#high school lit tournament #classic literature #the master and margarita #i am a cat

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boldlycrookedsalad · 3 months

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Literary Canon (from kissgrammar)

The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version [At a minimum, the books of Genesis, Exodus, Job, Psalms, from the Old Testament; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Apocalypse from the New.] Whether or not you are Christian is irrelevant. The civilization in which we live is based on and permeated by the ideas and values expressed in this book. Understanding our civilization, the world in which we live, is probably impossible without having read -- and thought about -- at least the most famous books in the Bible. Historically, the King James Version is considered the most artistic, and thus has probably had the most literary influence.

Homer, The Iliad

Homer, The Odyssey

Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)

Sophocles, Antigone

Plato, The Republic, especially "The Myth of the Cave"

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Saint Augustine, The Confessions

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Giambattista Vico, Principles of a New Science

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Romeo and Juliet

King Lear

Hamlet

Othello

Macbeth

John Donne, "Holy Sonnet XIV"

John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"

Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

A Modest Proposal

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Michel de Montaigne, Essays, especially "Of Experience"

Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

Moliere, The Misanthrope

Blaise Pascal, Pensees

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

Voltaire, Candide

Erasmus, In Praise of Folly

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Parts One & Two

Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot (also translated as Pere Goriot)

Stendhal, The Red and the Black

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Emile Zola, Germinal

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Lord Byron, Don Juan

John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

A Tale Of Two Cities

Hard Times

A Christmas Carol

Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven"

Samuel Butler, Erewhon

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

George Eliot- Silas Marner

Middlemarch

Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

The Will To Power

The Birth of Tragedy

On the Genealogy of Morals

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin

The Bronze Horseman

Nikolai Gogol -The Overcoat

Dead Souls

Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Fyodor Dostoevsky -Notes From the Underground

Crime and Punishment

Leo Tolstoy -The Death of Ivan Ilych

War and Peace

Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

Emily Dickinson - "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"

"The Tint I Cannot Take"

"There's a Certain Slant of Light"

Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"

"The Sleepers"

"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

"As I Ebbed With The Ocean of Life"

"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd"

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown

The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"

The Cask of Amontillado

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Kate Chopin -The Story of An Hour

The Awakening

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

Henry James

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Luigi Pirandello

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lampmanliveblogs · 1 year

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”Feisty witches make the best leaders,” Terra says. She follows this up by giving Raine a boop on the nose and saying how she especially likes Raine. That’s funny considering events involving the leader of the Bard Coven and Terra in some thirty years or so.

So my prediction before was kinda half-right. Raine did lose the game, lost their scholarship, and did transfer to Hexside as I thought. But Eda didn’t win the game, she lost. In fact everyone lost. But Terra spoke to Principal Faust and sorted things out. I imagine that conversation involved very little talking, and more of her sending him bouquets of poisonous & carnivorous flowers alongside a card informing him of the situation.

Oh, and the Raine’s Rhapsody/Eda’s Requiem leitmotif returns once again.

Also, I guess Saint Epiderm is up on The Knee. And since Saint Epiderm was supposed to be a bit fancier, a bit more elite, it kinda makes sense for the school t be in a location with lots of magical power.

This screenshot is here because I thought it was cute.

This is also really cute. Slightly less cute was Luz somewhat uncanny drawing of Eda & Raine, but still, this is still a really nice, wholesome moment to end the episode on.

…is what I would say if there wasn’t a minute left.

We cut to the castle, where Terra is feeding Raine their daily dose of brain detergent.

Raine, as per usual, blows on on their tea to cool it down, which produces a whistling sound, just like we saw earlier when they used it to modify Eda’s juice and alter its taste.

…

Hol up-

Oh look, Raine found one of Darius' little mini abominations wandering around! It must’ve gotten lost inside that wall, the poor thing. I hope it wasn’t carrying around sensitive information in that letter! It could be very bad if that got into the hands of some traitors planning on overthrowing the Emperor.

Alright, so first things first THIS IS WHAT MY SISTER HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT ALL THIS TIME! FINALLY! The identity of the traitors revealed!

There’s suddenly a lot of things to talk about, so let’s break it down.

(for context, I watched to the end of the scene, but I chose this screenshot because of the information)

Raine has been using their whistle magic to counter Terra’s tea. How long have they been doing that? Ever since the beginning? If so, then what happened at the Coven Day Parade was all an act, which I could believe. Raine does say they don’t want to put Eda in danger again (because they love her and Eda also has kids to take care of), so the act would’ve been both to keep Eda safe and to make sure Terra & Belos didn’t catch on to that Raine wasn’t under their control like they thought.

Then we have Darius. Raine and Darius obviously didn’t know about each other before the events of Eda’ s Requiem. If they did, Raine wouldn’t have tried to have Darius (and I guess Eberwolf was there too), ah… permanently incapacitated via the use of Eda’s curse.

Speaking of Eberwolf, is he(?) in on this? I’m thinking maybe not? Because he and Darius went to capture the traitor (Raine). But if they were both also traitors, then they wouldn’t have captured Raine, they would've teamed up with them. Unless… Kikimora did appear unexpectedly, which might’ve been what messed up their plans.

(I think I might go back to Eda’s Requiem and Follies at the Coven Day Parade and rewatch those scenes to look for clues. I don’t have the time right now)

Regardless, Darius and Raine are now working together to try and stop Belos’ evil plans. Darius has managed to figure out at least part of the plan. I was right that it involves draining magic through the coven sigils and that it’s channeled through the coven head witches (although it doesn’t specify that it has to be the head witches, just nine strong witches).

The magic power will be directed or channeled to the spell center, which is where the door is being moved to. This will do… something.

The eclipse is also important. Maybe.

When Raine asks if there is any way to counter the draining spell, Darius suggests Eda. Eda’s curse messes with magic, true, something Darius would know from experience… though I’m not 100% exactly what it is he thinks they could do. Raine & Eda together could use bard magic to spread the curse, but there have got to be several thousand witches, if not more coming to this thing. Maybe if they got close to the spell center and could disrupt the flow of magic somehow…

I suppose it doesn’t matter because Raine refuses to involve Eda. They might still have to resort to that plan once the Day of Unity does roll around. We’ll see.

The episode ends with Raine looking out over the head of the Titan, which reminds me of the image from the outro with Luz looking at the head.

I need to be up pretty early tomorrow for work, so I don’t have time to do my usual rewatch right now. Although to be honest, I think I caught most of the important stuff the first time through. And if there was something I missed, you guys will let me know.

Anyway, I’ll do a little follow-up post tomorrow talking about my thoughts on the episode overall. See you then!

#the owl house #liveblog #the owl house liveblog #toh s2e15 #them's the breaks kid

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evengirlierballs · 2 years

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When you get this you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (you don't have to if you don't want to though)❤️❤️❤️

No. 1: I like to think I'm quite good at art No. 2: I am Nonbinary and trans, and that makes me the coolest being just by default, so that's neat. No. 3: My connection the great old ones, is vast and powerful, they supply me with unending youth and vigor, and grant me powers beyond the imaginations and machinations of mere mortals, allowing me to ascend beyond any normal human being, merely at the cost of my immortal soul. An easy and worthwhile trade for a being with a wellspring of dark power such as I. And those who seek to oppose me will fall and whimper in their foolishness and inadequacy as I take what's rightfully mine and claim this world for myself, enacting a new world order to worship the Primordial gods who granted me these bountiful and unending powers. No. 4: Some would say that selling ones soul in a dark contract is foolish and naïve, why give up an afterlife of happiness for temporary powers and pleasures of the flesh in this flimsy, meaty, fleshy life we are blessed with? I simply say, nay, to those who believe my dark pact to be folly, i counter, if you gave up your soul for the power to make infinite souls, souls that would allow you to raise countless nations from seven eras, forcing them to rise once again from the ashes, would it not be profitable, even wise, to discard one measly soul for the prospect of infinity? Would it not be wise to give up one's ability to grovel at the feet of gods, in order to become a god themselves? Answer true, and I believe you too will see things in a new light. As a mortal one's existence is predicated on the whims of the almighty. But as divinity itself, one can experience true freedom, and finally break the wrought iron chains that bind oneself to this dark earth. The pleasures of the flesh are temporary for most i grant thee that... but once you transcend and become as god yourself, the flesh's impermanence's are no longer. The power you have now, is all the power you will ever have, unless you take it upon yourself to act, to barter, to bargain your way through hell and faust himself, and overcome the boundaries between heaven above and hell below. Become a being beyond comprehension, become god, overcome all, and embrace the great beyond. No. 5: My relationship with my partner is going really well, we are in love and we raise caterpillars together! :D

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longlistshort · 11 months

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Currently at Arsenal Contemporary are Dorian FitzGerald’s paintings for his exhibition Fitzcarraldo. The images above are a few of the larger paintings from the show. The works initially look like photographs, but on closer inspection you can see more of the process involved in their creation.

Below is a section from the press release discussing FitzGerald’s work and the paintings pictured above. For more on the other works shown, including some of the smaller paintings, head to the gallery's website.

FitzGerald has spent the last two decades meticulously crafting a compelling, often monumental body of works, several of which have taken years to finish. His various lines of inquiry revolve around a central tenet: that the excesses, the follies, the deceptions and indulgences, the grand edifices, the opulence, the waste and plunder, the vanities, the subterfuges and the chummy pacts of the wealthy and the powerful, are all fodder for scrutiny. His subjects have ranged from the outdoor stage at the secretive Bohemian Grove during a production of Faust, a fake crown of costume jewelry made by the British to impress the King of Adra and help them facilitate their slave trade, to the staggering array of sunglasses collected by Elton John, to a vast aquarium stocked with black market fish. In this regard, FitzGerald has been compared to a contemporary court painter, albeit one who fully understands the paradox of using ostensibly beautiful works of art to deliver barbed comment on the very subjects he has so painstakingly rendered. FitzGerald’s large paintings are constructed with acrylic paint (and occasionally caulking) in a slow, precise method that the artist has refined in his studio over several years. The pre-process involves researching imagery, preparing it with custom software, making a large-scale acetate transfer onto canvas and then building up the paint slowly in a manner that resembles a kind of pointillism filtered through vector graphics. Both colour theory and the physical properties of paint, such as drying times and viscosity, are brought to bear in the setting of the final image. The infinite patience and granular attention to detail suggest a kinship with Tibetan sand painting. While the latter, once finished, is soon wiped away to drive home the impermanence of all things, FitzGerald’s works tend to hold a mirror up to that innately human wish to be exalted and remembered in the minds of others before the scythe comes down, as it inevitably does for queen, shepherd (and artist) alike.

Anchoring the exhibition is a pair of monumental paintings, both depicting a room in a Parisian apartment. Salon, Apartment of Valerian Rybar and Jean-François Daigre, Rue du Bac, Paris (2015) is the furnished version. Daigre and Rybar’s New York- and Paris-based firm Valerian Rybar & Daigre Design Corporation was renowned for providing the most lavish interior design and decorating for society doyennes from Miami Beach to Marakkesh in the 1970s and 1980s. It was closed following Rybar’s death in 1992. Their clients included Guy and Marie-Helene de Rothschild, Nicholas and Genevieve DuPont, Antenor and Beatriz Patino, Samuel and Mitzi Newhouse, Pierre and Sao Schlumberger, Sir James Goldsmith, Christina Onassis and Stavros Niarchos. They employed a host of artisans all over the world who did anything from paint Medieval tapestries on blank walls to create mother-of-pearl panels for a bathroom. They designed much of the furniture and rugs and were meticulous about the choice of fabrics, using opulent materials like satins trimmed with gold thread. The related painting, four years in the making, acts as a kind of coda. Salon, Rue de Bac, Paris (2022), depicts the same room after Rybar’s death, now an empty hall of mirrors en route to being dismantled. The searing band of red in the centre of the painting, glowing behind a door already off its hinges, is a peek into the molten bedroom that they had once kitted out like a Roman general’s tent.

Aquarium (Taboo) (2018), at 128” long and 40” high, was two years in the making. The painting shows a vibrant aquatic scene, with dazzling exotic fish and a mesmerizing array of coral. But the fish are black market, the coral has been pilfered, the 240-gallon tank is overcrowded with 53 specimens and the entire enterprise is kept alive by a complex system that is wholly unnatural and requires constant vigilance to prevent collapse. Of course, wild fish bound for the aquarium market must be caught alive and thus there exists an unsavoury network of divers who prowl the world’s reefs to find the most exotic and rare, often using cyanide spray to stun them (or inadvertently kill them if too much is used). The cyanide, when it settles on coral, soon kills that too.

This exhibition closes on 5/20/23.

#Dorian FitzGerald #arsenal contemporary nyc #arsenal contemporary #nyc art shows #art #painting #art show #lifestyles of the rich and famous #opulence #wealth #valerian rybar #daigre design #rybar and daigre design

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mooncaps · 1 year

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Owl House thoughts and theories

I'm sure the fandom at large has probably already been over a bunch of this stuff, but I'm new here, the show keeps turning the wheels in my brain, and I've gotta do something to pass the time until the next episode. So I'm gonna dig into a few of the things that are stirring around in my mind.

1) Belos Meddling with Time | He has to have at least tried. They lampshade the fact that present-day Belos remembers having met Luz. So sometime between that meeting in the past and ‘Follies at the Coven Day Parade,’ Belos pieces together that the Luzura he met in the past was a time traveler. Maybe he recognized Lilith once she joined the Coven, or maybe he didn’t realize until he actually met Luz at the end of Season 1. Honestly, the fact that King’s crown was locked behind a barrier that only a human could pass through, in a realm where Belos was the only human and he was hiding that fact, feels very odd and very deliberately designed to lure Luz into helping King and Eda. Either way though, if Belos knew before or if he didn’t find out until after he met present-day Luz, he eventually realized.

And Belos, upon learning that time travel is possible, would not be the kind of person who could just leave that alone. Further to that, he has the supplies. Flora visits Lilith, saying the Emperor wanted to check on her, and leaves the box that has what Lilith needs to locate the time pools. Belos had the locating equipment, and presumably returned it to Lilith for the specific purpose of making sure that she and Luz would go back and help him. This means Belos both has the supplies and knows what they are.

If he recognized young Lilith, he may have employed the compliments and confidence, showed an interest, and eventually encouraged her to bring in the time pool locating equipment. Even if he didn’t realize until Eda’s petrification day, he definitely would have had access between then and 2x12. Surely he would’ve at least attempted to look for the time pools and meddle in whatever part of history he could reach. Depending on when it was and how much Titan’s Blood was available to him at the time, he may not have been able to find them, but he definitely would have tried.

This may or may not tie in to...

2) Luz’s Memories | We’re shown at least three instances where Luz remembers something differently than how it was shown to have happened. When Camila asked her to promise to stay in the Human Realm. When she saw Belos and The Collector talking about cursing the land in nine bright hues. And when she told King he was a Titan.

As I’m typing it, I’m realizing that all three of these memories have at least a slight link to The Collector. King had just connected with The Grand Huntsman before Luz told him about being a Titan. Obviously the conversation with Belos includes The Collector. And Luz was in the space between realms, where The Collector was imprisoned, when she made that promise to Camila.

I’m not sure what it could mean, but maybe The Collector’s new game will reveal some kind of ability to mess with Time or Memory. There’s also the fact that a bunch of Luz’s memories were just extracted into photographs so she could recall the teleportation glyphs, and we all know what kind of shenanigans can happen if anyone messes with those photographs. Maybe that will connect to Luz misremembering things.

Or maybe Luz misremembering things is just a character trait, her mind blowing things up to be more dramatic or dire than they actually are. Maybe there’s even a more mundane production-related reason for the differences that I’m just reading too much into.

3) Why Can’t You Remember Me? | Speaking of possible memory issues, there’s a character I’m curious about.

An unnamed thief steals Lilith’s lunch money, Eda raises an army of abominations in response, but then forms an unlikely alliance with The Thief when the abominations gain sentience and revolt. Principal Faust even seems like he might have referenced this event, looking at one of Eda’s case files and remarking that she’s close with Lilith. At any rate, who’s this Thief character? We know Alador, Odalia, and Darius were at school around the same time. Alador or Darius would probably make a good ally in a fight against an abomination, but there are a couple of things that make me more suspicious that it could be someone else.

First, the song. Obviously it’s a play on “Don’t You Forget About Me,” but the phrasing “Why Can’t You Remember Me” feels like it could be more meaningful. I’d be curious to know if TJ Hill came up with the lyrics, or if the concept came from Dana or another writer.

Second, there’s a “Look Hooo’s Talking” short that covers this episode and focuses on the mention of Edalyn, Lilith, and The Thief.

I’m wondering about this character and if they’ll be significant or not. If there are more time travel shenanigans to come, or some kind of memory issues at play, then could this weird detail that’s been left hanging become relevant? Combined with the line “Why Can’t You Remember Me,” it leaves me to wonder if it’s somehow possible that everyone has a whole in their memories in the shape of this unnamed Thief.

4) The Clawthorne Connection | I’d say it’s pretty obvious at this point that Caleb’s girlfriend Evelyn is connected to the Clawthorne family. I didn’t even spot Evelyn when I first looked at the ‘Hollow Mind’ paintings, but I saw a reaction video that pointed out she was there and that the she looked pregnant. I can’t believe I looked at so many paintings and somehow missed one of the most important ones.

The name alone rings familiar: Evelyn, Gwendolyn, Edalyn. This makes me think she’s probably an ancestor of Gwendolyn, but the connection may instead be through Dell’s side. Dell’s Palisman seems to pretty much be a yellow Flapjack and some people say he has a resemblance to Philip.

Then we can factor in the gateways between realms. Eda found the portal door in land behind her childhood home. And when Belos activates the graveyard gateway, it seems to come out in that same area. The house that the portal door seems to always lead to is presumably Caleb’s. Flapjack knew the house and knew to look for the rebus under the floorboards.

I guess Caleb and Evelyn were trying to keep things secret from Philip, but I’m not exactly clear on why they needed the rebus. Couldn’t they just remember where they hid their stash of Titan’s Blood? The graveyard gateway was presumably how Caleb and Evelyn first visited each other and moved back and forth between realms. I’d hazard a guess that the portal door came later, a more perfected version, with the convenience of the blood in the key. I can only assume they kept the stash of Titan’s Blood in case of emergencies, but switched to using the door primarily.

At any rate, there’s definitely a connection between Evelyn, Caleb, and the Clawthorne family. The mere fact that Gwendolyn knew about a human in the Demon Realm, when even most people in Philip’s time didn’t seem to have heard of him, seems significant. And of course, Gwen never mentions Philip by name. This makes me wonder if she might’ve been talking about Caleb and maybe he also left something in the library.

5) Has someone been subtly maneuvering Camila and/or Luz toward the Demon Realm? | Did someone recommend the fancy hospital and convince Camila that moving to Gravesfield was a good idea? And of course we know that the summer camp was recommended. Are these coincidences or has someone been pulling strings and nudging these events into place? And if someone is manipulating events, why? Whose side are they on? Are they trying to help Belos, The Collector, Luz, or someone else?

This may or may not be related to Masha and their friends in 3x01. The friends invite Luz to Old Gravesfield, where Masha tells the tale, with assistance from those same friends. They’re curiously well-informed about the Wittebane tale. And they were at Luz’s summer camp. Maybe Masha’s just that kind of nerd and that’s why they were sent to camp, but I have to wonder if there’s more to it.

6) The Bat Queen | Whose Palisman was she? She seems too big to be Palisman to an average witch. My best guess would be that she was Palisman to a Titan, but I think she’s probably too small to have been Palisman to a full grown Titan. Not sure if Eda would have the whistle on her person anymore or if it was seized when the Emperor’s Coven raided The Owl House.

I was thinking Kikimora’s dragon with the hand face might be a Palisman too, although I can’t spot an interlock on it. It shows up in a big Palisman episode though and answers to a whistle, while earlier in the episode Eda specifically brings up Bat Queen’s whistle and Bat Queen tells her to keep it. My current theory is that Bat Queen and the hand dragon were Palismen to Titans, specifically the one our characters live on and the one the Titan Trappers live on. This brings me to my next thought...

6) Will the Titan Trappers come back? | We’ve got a society of people specifically connected to a Collector (the one we know, or another?) so it would feel odd if this Collector-centric final story arc doesn’t at least mention them at some point. Also was their glass disc formerly a prison to a different Collector, or were there actually two discs that connected to the same Collector we know. And Bill supposedly encountered a Titan that blew out his ear drums. I’d say this is likely referencing the same roar that King understood to mean “son.” This feels like something that needs to be addressed, but I know they’ve only got a limited amount of screentime left.

7) When Was King’s Egg Laid? | Eda met him eight years ago, but the egg was probably there a lot longer than that. If he’s really the son of the decomposing Titan that all our main characters are living on, then that egg must have been there for thousands of years. If instead he’s the son of a different Titan, like the mysterious one Luz glimpsed in the space between realms, or any given one slain by the Titan Trappers, then the timetables could conceivably be different. Bill tells us he’s old enough to have battle scars that are more than 50 years old, but we don’t know his exact age or when exactly he (presumably) encountered one of King’s parents.

Also, another reaction video I was watching pointed out a difference in face shape between the Bonesborough Titan and the Trapper Isle Titan.

At a guess, I’d say that’s a distinguishing characteristic between male and female Titans, but I’m sure there could be any number of possible reasons.

9) Philip and Caleb Were Orphans | This leaves room for some questions about who their parents were and where they originally came from. Was it pure coincidence that they ended up in Gravesfield? Or, like Luz, did some external force or higher being maneuver their lives toward the Demon Realm?

10) The Convoluted Magic System | At first I was thinking there might be some kind of rock-paper-scissors thing, but it seems like it gets more tangled than that.

Palisman Magic can block Titan Magic (or at least young Titans)

...but it and other forms of magic bounce off of Titan veins.

Titan Magic can contain Collectors

Collector Magic can contain The Owl Beast (and presumably other things, given their name)

The Owl Beast can corrupt a Witch’s Bile Sac Magic and interfere with Sigil Magic like the Draining Spell (and the Sigil Magic was presumably taught to Belos by The Collector)

A Basilisk can drain a Witch’s Magic, but not Glyph Magic (which is powered by the Titan)

...and Hunter says Glyph magic seems similar to the Elemental Magic practiced in the “Savage Ages.”

Sigil Magic can contain or drain a Witch’s Magic

And then Collectors can overcome Sigil Magic (presumably because they invented it)

I feel like there’s probably another link or two in this chain of how the different types of magic interact with each other. And somewhere in all the tangles is the answer to how our group of Witches, Humans, Palismen, Owl Beasts, and a Titan will stand against a Collector and also against Belos.

11) This Better Not All Be A Dream or Somehow in Luz’s Head | There are an uncomfortable number of things that could be taken as signs of it. The way the Azura books and movies seem to parallel Luz’s life at times, the Conformatorium being like a mythical version of the dreaded summer camp that Luz can actually fight against, the meta-jokes like being playthings for higher being or “is our world but fiction,” and a few visual things in Luz’s home.

Like, if these writers had more time and wanted to do an episode like Buffy’s “Normal Again” the story would pretty much write itself.

And I’d be down for it as an episodic concept. Something like a villain trying to deceive Luz into thinking it has all been a dream could be an interesting and engaging idea, but I would be furious if that’s where the show ends off for real. I don’t get the impression that Dana and Co would do that, but there are just a few too many things that seem like they could be pointing that way for me to feel 100% safe in that assumption. Although maybe it’s all just meta jokes and/or narrative devices and/or support for the “someone’s manipulating Luz’s life” theory.

Anyway, those are some of my thoughts and theories. Feel free to tell me why I’m wrong or point out details I haven’t noticed. With such a limited amount of time left, who knows if the show will go further into any of these things, but...

#The Owl House

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faustsroad · 2 years

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I have committed folly. I consider myself wise but I am nothing more than a fool. I should not have allowed myself to drink Sunday night. It has resulted in drinking Monday and now today as well. I should've known better. Hell, I should've known better Monday. Monday wasn't even a poor day, just one I exhibited poor judgement on. As the mantra goes "One is too many, one thousand is not enough." I challenged myself just to have one drink on Monday. Although I only ended up consuming two drinks, they were rather tall beverages. In total, it was more like three of my usual drinks. I am self-sabotaging and in the spiral I've lost a clear sense of why. This cannot be reasoned with. I simply must unfathomably find some way to get my fill for the day and sleep at a decent time so maybe I can grab control of the reigns. Ha. Sleep. If I had any sense I'd just take melatonin and lay down right now. Even 8 hours of sleep while drunk is just passing the time, not resting.

I just feel so depressed today. I don't know why or what triggered it, other than my indulgence in alcohol. Even looking in the mirror and feeling peculiarly not disgusted by the reflection was not enough to pull me out of my lull. Before I knew it my melancholy beget anxiety, and with my head racing and nothing to put my mind at ease I just cannot take anymore. Why can my body just leave me be? It so tiring to be at war with oneself, when there is no reason to fight. Everything is looking up, why can I not shake this feeling of some unseen horror ready to ruin everything I've been working towards? Like something I missed, or ignored, ready to be sprung like a trap? Or some possibility of something out of my control? The possibility of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Have I truly become so used to trauma that I expect it where there is no reason to believe there is even a chance of it occurring? Why do I hurt myself over something that may happen, but has no degree of supporting evidence that it will? Perhaps I am really not as bothered by my past as my mind would like me to believe. Perhaps it is just a tangible thing I can use to personify my own anxiety? Maybe. -Faust

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retrocgads · 3 years

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UK 1983

#UK1983 #ABBEX ELECTRONICS LTD #ACTION #SPECTRUM #COSMOS #SPOOKYMAN #FAUST'S FOLLY #GALAXIAN 5 #ETX

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infinitelytheheartexpands · 3 years

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okay whoever was in charge of putting this compilation together you are WRONG because:

a. you failed to include the entire prologue or even the last six minutes of the prologue,

b. you included most of Act I (which I think is the weakest act personally) but didn't include "Ecco il mondo" from Act II,

c. in fact, exactly NONE of the Walpurgisnacht scene is included, and

d. also NONE of Act IV is included, not even the ending duet.

so yeah, WRONG.

#opera #opera tag #yes this is my opinion but also I feel like on some points I am objectively correct here #Mefistofele #Faust #Boito #Arrigo Boito #the inherent folly of making highlights discs #Spotify

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melpomeneese · 3 years

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yeah I’ve seen Faust, there’s Marguerite, Siebel, Faust, and uh... [looks at smudged handwriting] Meth-Fists-’o-Bees

#faust #opera #opera memes #royal opera house #the follies of mel

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blehblarghblah · 2 years

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Reverse Unpopular Opinion: Them's The Breaks, Kids? What did you like about the episode???

Clever, a way for me to gush about the most recent episode of TOH?

This episode might just be my favourite in the entire season so far. Yes, season 2a AND b. This is one of those, "Ahh, this could be considered filler because it's just fluff and backstory" debates that I could EASILY disagree on. Purely because, as always, there's nothing wrong with backstory development and character growth. But also, there's at least two major plot points introduced at the beginning and end. Luz is learning new glyphs from Philip, some of which are incomplete, and Raine isn't actually under the influence of a spell and Darius is aiding them in some way.

Quickfire things I liked as well:

Darius and Alador were, at the very least, amicable classmates back in Hexside.

Eda covering for Lilith.

Eda's Illusion pranks. Emira and Edric joining the Bad Girl Coven means they've got a lot more to learn.

Raine being a complete badass and showing why Bard Magic is awesome (it's one of my favourite of the Covens).

Raeda combos, Raine appreciating and liking Eda's humour while Eda just adoring Raine's nerdy side and appreciating Bard Magic.

Raine's whistle. My sister noted it was weird they blew on the drink back in Follies of the Coven's Day Parade.

Implication that whatever is planned, Raine doesn't want Eda involved because they know she has kids now. Eda's Requiem showed Raine was willing to sacrifice their life for the cause, but they're not willing to put Eda's life on the line knowing she has family.

Raine's influence of Bard Magic possibly being a factor in Eda wanting to learn all kinds of Magic, given she didn't think much of Bard Magic at first.

Bump and Eda as a sort mentor-mentee duo. I bet he was lowkey proud of her returning to help during the Palisman Adoption Day. It's like a star student coming back.

Dorky Lilith. Poor girl is trying so hard and for how little she speaks, Abigail Zoe Lewis does a good job a conveying her awkwardness.

All the VAs of the younger characters wonderfully capture the cadence of their older counterparts. It's great!

That aside, HUGE ramble of appreciation coming in so read more if ya'd like. It's about Bump. ( ^‿^)

Set that aside, this episodes reaffirms so many things about the characters we already know and just adds so much more love to why the way they are. I love Lilith, I really do, but there's something so rewarding with seeing Eda be so casual with her academics and still possess greater knowledge than her older sister. It just reminds us that "The Most Powerful Witch on the Boiling Isles" wasn't just something that was made up.

But another thing? Principal Bump was easily one of my favourite aspects of this episode. And I'm willing to go on a ramble as to why because I feel like Raeda is going to be the highlight of mostly everyone's points (justifiably so, I'd say). It shows so much of how he has changed but also tried to do better than his predecessor. Think back to The First Day: I know I'm probably alone in this, but I always fell Bump's turnaround at the end was so jarringly abrupt but was like, "Eh, not a big deal. Just weird." But if you add the context of Them's the Breaks, Kid you suddenly just understand he's trying.

He says he's smart enough to admit when he's made a mistake. It's as if he just recognizes that, "Man, the stuff I'm saying is something Faust would be so hard about" and steps back and agrees. It's the fact that he had an amicable relationship with Eda, setting aside all the reports he made for her rap sheet, he still looks back on those moments fondly. Because after the chaos of The First Day, he knowingly pulls out and reveals the photo of a student he knew wanted to study all the tracks. And then you think of Escaping Expulsion, where he seems to also think fondly of Luz, Gus, and Willow, a trio of misfits who are barely on Eda's level of chaos, but still just enough. And yet he still adores them.

He just represents aspects of an educator trying to change system bit by bit, in my opinion. He tells Terra that endangering children is against the law, but later in his life he's technically guilty of doing so with his detention system. Faust kept Eda in school for the most part because he recognized her talent, Bump supposedly is willing to let Boscha get away with murder. It's just facets of how as much as you want to change the system, adapting its techniques within your own is how life grows. But above all else, he's willing to change his perspective in favour of his students. Bump is by all means, a pretty good guy. Yeah he's a principal, but he's not a stooge.

Until next ask,

- Bleh

#ask bleh #anon asks #asks #toh #the owl house #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #them's the breaks kid #raeda #edalyn clawthorne #raine whispers #lilith clawthorne #principal bump #god what a good episode

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My thoughts on Them’s The breaks, Kid

Obligatory spoiler warning

- That tornado glyph on a larger scale could be a super powerful weapon.

- The water glyph is both foreshadowing to the events in the labyrinth because it has the same magic glow to it, but that also implies that it’s actually a great spell for knocking people off their feet.

- I could SEE the PTSD flashback Eda got at the petrification glyph.

- Raine as a teen is ridiculously adorable.

- I always guessed that there was something up with the whistling over the tea, and I knew that it was weird how Raine was willing to drink it at all and what was done to make them willing in the first place, but I never guessed the two things were connected.

- THE HANDSHAKE.

- Eda: I’ve only known Raine for a day, but if anything happened to them, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.

- The drink changing spell gives me the impression that Raine is actually good at cooking and cooking related magic and I am here for it.

- I don’t curse often here, but TERRA NEEDS TO FUCK OFF.

- On the topic of Terra, how old is that woman?! She looked like she was in her late twenties early thirties in the flashback.

- The nickname “Sprout” makes me physically nauseous and I would not be opposed to never hearing it again.

- Bards don’t need spell circles, an instrument, or even their hands to cast magic. They just need to be able to make noise.

- Raine weaponizing their ability to whistle is incredible.

- Wait does this mean Raine recognized Luz in Follies? What would they have done if they’d caught her?!

- It’s so obvious that Raine loathes Terra. Like, the last time I saw anyone give a look like that to anyone, it ended in a fist fight.

- The implication that even if Terra had somehow wiped Raine’s memory of the last month, they still have the childhood traumas memories of her.

- They didn’t have the earring at that time! I wonder if it was a gift from Eda.

- Raine starting Eda’s apple blood addiction.

- Principal Faust needs to no.

- Eda and Lilith were growing apart even before the duel noooo

- Eda popping the stress toy will never not be funny to me. She is chaotic 24/7.

- Eda and Raine are so sweet together.

- DARIUS HELPING RAINE REBEL.

- Raine feels so bad about putting Eda in danger.

- They’ve known her this long and yet they don’t understand that she won’t stop trying to help them.

- Raine faking side effects of the “tea” implies that they know what’s in the drink and figured out the side effects specifically to keep up the act.

- I don’t like the sound of that draining spell. “Requires nine powerful witches.” “Eclipse.” “Center of spell circle.” Thanks, I hate it.

- Raine and Amity, two members of the “trying to keep my girlfriend out of prison” club. Who else shall be added?

- What situation was Raine in as a child where they thought “this tastes so bad… let me change it on a molecular level”???

- Might add more to this post as I lose sleep thinking about this episode. Good day.

#sorry this got kinda long #the owl house #toh #eda clawthorne #raine whispers #lilith clawthorne #luz noceda #them's the breaks kid #spoilers #eda toh #raine toh #lilith toh

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Them's the Breaks, Kid Reaction

Damnmit, I procrastinated on writing a reaction post AGAIN. Alright, here are my thoughts on Reaching Out in short: I liked it a lot, lumity levels were off the chart, Edric was great, and it is interesting that they explicitly said that Luz's father died. However, this was the second time Luz was hiding something from Amity, and this time it hurt Amity. My inner angsty teenager is worried that this is going to be following the rule of three. Follies was set up, Reaching Out was the reminder… the only thing missing is the payoff. Let's hope that Luz makes good choices.

But that's old news, here's my third Owl House reaction post!

Pre-episode thoughts

So this is going to be a flashback episode showing how Eda met Raine. I wonder if there is going to be a framing device, or would they just go directly to the past? Maybe it will go back and forth between the past and the present. Oh! Maybe Luz will ask Eda about the jacket, triggering the flashback. Tho if there is a framing device then Eda (or Lilith!) will be telling the story for a reason. Self-reflection, or imparting a lesson to Luz?

Episode thoughts

Luz's learning some new glyph combos, and they look like less complex versions of the one made by Philps.

Ah, she is basing these ones on the Philps' margin doodles in the hope of finding one that can fix her portal. She only got so much titan's blood left after all.

Aww, she misses her mom, poor baby. But Eda's here to distract her with some backstory!

They skip the theme song again, we're getting another long one.

Young Eda and Lilith are practicing with flashcards, all excited about joining the emperor's coven. Eda got her jacket! Interesting that they show Eda being just as much a nerd as Lilith, or Luz will be.

Darius and Alador were friends?!

There was a principal before Bump? But I thought Bump helped conquer this school. I guess he was just a lieutenant.

"Can't hear them, can't trust them" words to live by.

Lilith manages to escape getting caught, but Eda is not so lucky.

This principal guy is intense, "understand evil", they are just kids bro.

Lily is a cute nickname, but Eda's in trouble.

Bump comes out of a hole in the wall like some kind of house elf.

So Principal Faust gives Eda and Bump a special mission to clear their perceived weaknesses.

The idea that Bump was the one writing those reports in "Something Ventured, Something Framed" makes a lot more sense now.

Bump tries to downplay Eda's troublemaking but fails.

Man, IFWOT does not live up to Bump's hyping.

Terra Snapdragon is here! And damn, she was a head witch for this long?

IFWOT's now HECK I guess.

Ha, mulch into my garden… wait you're not joking?

The first task is trust falls. They are not exactly setting a high bar here.

Oh damn, Eda actually fails it by being too cool.

Young Raine is here! And Raine Raphasdy is here in the background too.

Eda plays the skull trick again.

Oh, this is too cute. This is the meet-cute that all meet-cutes will be compared to.

They go thru a few trials together (which I guess means that it's ok to work together?) and they seem to be doing great.

Eda's blushing at Raine's athletic ability!

Eda has no friends at Hexside except Lilith, that's a bummer. Clearly, what Eda needs to do is first go to the human realm for the summer…

Raine says they are almost home-free, famous last words.

Oh no, Snapdragon thinks the challenges are too easy and wants to add a little more difficulty. Look, this is clearly just a fun way to boost the egos of kids/schools, don't ruin this Snapdragon.

A game of coven vs wild, and Eda & Raine are on opposite sides. Both in the game, but also where they will end up later in life!

"We are in heck people" oh god not the lame puns.

Snapdragon thinks she would have been a good mum, no you wouldn't! Also, does this means that she's Britsh? Somehow?

Eda gets pressganged by two teammates who wish to target Raine in particular. Gets all the best juice, huh?

Bump tries to end the madness by citing child labor law but fails.

Wow, those coven mates wanted to knock out Raine first, and now Raine's the last wild witch left, Eda's team suck.

It's a showdown between Eda and Raine, and wow those promo previews are not nearly as angsty as we thought.

Oh, they did a little dance number, bravo!

Terra likes their spirit but doesn't want to reward disobediences, so no ribbons for anyone. No ribbons? Boo! Think of all those kids who are going to get punished because of this. Snapdragon better not be overseeing the next IFWOT.

Ah, a letter of recommendation! Eda and Bump are saved!

edda and lilth

Raine is back! And they are going to Hexside now.

St. Epiderm is located at the knee, fascinating.

Wait everyone fell asleep to Eda's story, how rude!

How did Luz draw that?

Oh god, I just realized that Terra was calling Raine sprout all along.

Oh, oh, oh! It's that flavor-changing song!

Yes, Raine is back in action again!

A tiny abomination! It kind of looks like Darius's ones a little. Secret coup in progress?

Oh, so that's why Raine isn't contacting Eda. They are doing the old "protecting you from my enemies by breaking up" routine.

Reaction to other reactions

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Everybody is just assuming that Darius is on Raine's side now, and I can't say I disagree.

Oh damn, Raine did that whistle thing during Follies too! She has been playing Terra the whole time!

That principal dude got little pictures for his horns, adorable.

HAHA YES! Luz is keeping the jacket in the later episodes! Considering she wasn't wearing it this episode, I am going to assume that it's going to be her new adventuring outfit.

Seen some chatter that this is kind of a "filler episode". After giving it a little thought, I can see where they are coming from. The flashback doesn't really have anything to do with the present day, no new revelations or hard-won wisdom, just young Eda going on an adventure. Of course, I think people are too obsessed with avoiding "filler". When I was a kid*, all episodes were "filler" ones and I liked it!

Prediction for future episodes

I think the going theory is that Luz and Hunter are going to be in Belos/Philps' mindscape, tho the talk about "twisted nightmare" makes me think that another possibility is that they will go into the Titan's one instead.

On a lighter note, that leaked screenshot makes me think that Luz is going to wear the jacket because her cloak was damaged.

#the owl house #owl house #toh #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #owl house spoilers #toh reactions #*me saying this as if i didn't just graduate high school a few year ago

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