#bridie bluhs

[psychopyro813]

I do believe this is what the cool kids call...

F O R E S H A D O W I N G

#bridie bluhs #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #owl house spoilers #watching and dreaming #thanks to them #toh season 3 #luz noceda #hunter wittebane #titan luz #toh #the owl house #owl house

[psychopyro813]

So I'm rewatching the movie compilation, as you do, and something hits me at about 1:54 as Belos is possessing the Titan

We all know Tiny Nose is Dana's self insert, right? Did y'all notice that she got forced out of her spot by...a *mouse*?

Well played, Dana. Well. Played.

#bridie bluhs #toh spoilers #watching and dreaming #owl house spoilers #the owl house spoilers #toh season 3 #toh #owl house #the owl house #tinella nosa #tiny nose #dana terrace #like I'm not SAYING they did it on purpose lol jk that is EXACTLY what I'm saying if that wasn't a Take That at Disney's meddling #idk I'll eat paper clips or something #tag ramblings #meta #toh meta

[psychopyro813]

Hey Huntlow Nation/Golden Garden Squad, do me a solid, make that kiss we didn't get on screen happen they deserve a lil smooch as a treat

#watching and dreaming #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #huntlow #golden garden #hunter wittebane #willow park #bridie bluhs #toh #the owl house #owl house spoilers #owl house #I JUST WANT MY BICONIC GIRLBOSS MALEWIFE DUO TO HAVE A SMOOCHIEKISS #tag ramblings

[psychopyro813]

I'm not sure how y'all manage to acquire clear screenshots so apologies for the lack of visual evidence but. I'm thinking about Hunter/Belos parallels again.

So after Thanks to Them, when Flapjack sacrifices himself to save Hunter, we sort of see Hunter become "a real boy" Pinocchio-style. I don't remember the Grimwalker recipe off-hand, but it might have been missing a final key ingredient: magic freely given from a palisman.

Hear me out for a second: For the Future, on some level, proves that one of the uses Belos has for the Grimwalkers is as back-up bodies; I imagine some of the ones he considered to be greater "failures" than others got usurped into body preservation duty (in other words, Belos Goo is actually leftover Cream of Grimwalker). We know he's able to absorb palismen and that's what allows him to do magic (at least, enough to maintain a semi-human form).

Hunter does not seem to need to find more palismen after Flapjack infuses his life force. And I really think that's the key distinction: all of the palismen that Belos absorbs, he does so violently and against their will, often breaking and destroying them entirely in the process (we actually see this DURING the episode, as it is what puts Flapjack on the ropes I'm the first place). But Hunter did *not* try to usurp Flapjack's power at all; Flapjack made a very deliberate choice to share his power (a sequence we will see play out again with a different set of characters during Watching and Dreaming; yet another parallel for two adopted siblings).

And I think because that magic was freely given, that is why it lasts. Hunter got to do magic on his own, got to shed the sight of himself as "half-a-witch", got to really and truly fulfill what Caleb may well have wanted all along (becoming an actual witch), all because Flapjack freely gave him that chance.

Anyway, what a helluva redemption arc. This boy is something special.

#bridie bluhs #toh season 3 #toh spoilers #owl house spoilers #the owl house spoilers #thanks to them #for the future #watching and dreaming #hunter wittebane #phillip wittebane #emperor belos #Flapjack #palismen #toh analysis #caleb wittebane #(i tag hunter that way for indexing purposes I recognize he has plenty other names to choose from) #tag ramblings #shout out to those of you who are always nabbing screenshots I salute you idk how you do it #toh finale #toh #the owl house #owl house

[psychopyro813]

It took me 20-odd years to come to this conclusion, and I very well may be late to the party, but.

I was today years old when I realized that Plankton's favorite is holographic meatloaf because *plankton eat light*.

Like this is just photosynthesis hidden behind a dumb joke but ohmygod that's actually genius.

#Bridie bluhs #Spongebob Squarepants #Plankton #fridge genius #I am 30 years old and literally only just thought about this today despite hacing grown up with this show #tag ramblings

[psychopyro813]

Nothing like finding out that a piece of interp you competed with over ten years ago is making the rounds again to make you feel old

#I did it as a DI but apparently it is a Prose now #(definitely technically fits better as a DI based on the source material just saying) #I am so morbidly curious to see how it is being done #maybe a little bit because part of me is convinced I must have dobe it better #it did 5th place at the state tournament that year #in a round with more than 5 people so. #not last. #tag ramblings #forensics #bridie bluhs #speech and debate

[psychopyro813]

I did not see much of C2E2, but I absolutely made sure I got to see my son. Meeting @rufiozuko (Dante Basco) in my Ursa cosplay for the second time (complete with a 2023 upgrade!) was just as magical and memorable as the first. He immediately said "Mom!! Where have you been?!" followed by "haha jk I read the comics I know!" and that he rarely sees Ursa cosplayers (I mean one of the ones he saw was literally also me 6 years ago lol) and he hopes her story gets animated. BIG same! Maybe with all this Avatar Studios hype there's hope...

#bridie bluhs #avatar: the last airbender #Zuko #atla cosplay #AtLA #Zuko's mom #Ursa #Ursa cosplay #my cosplay #my face #dante basco #voice actor #c2e2 #c2e2 2023

[psychopyro813]

I will never recover from that episode

Time to rewatch it a bajillion times after I get some sleep

#bridie bluhs #toh spoilers #the owl house #toh #the owl house spoilers #owl house #owl house spoilers #watching and dreaming

[psychopyro813]

Do you ever think about the Blight Twins' initial focus being Illusions, and Odalia's emphasis on upholding the image of a perfect family?

Do you ever think about how underneath their cloaking stones, Edric and Emira are just normal teenagers with normal teenage flaws?

Do you ever think about the ugly truth of how broken the Blight home is underneath the facade, all thanks to Odalia's abuse?

Did you also make the connection that the Twins' arc reflects the Blight family on the whole?

#bridie bluhs #the owl house #blight twins #edric blight #emira blight #odalia blight #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #toh speculation #meta #toh analysis #fandom #cw abuse mention #toh #blight family

[psychopyro813]

Just saw someone call Golden Garden predatory because of the age gap since "well half of 16 is 8 and 8+7 is 15 so he can't date anyone younger" and also say a 16 and 12 year old is the same level of squicky as a 16 and 14 year old (and also somehow reducing Willow's age even further) and all I can think is

Good God I'm having Zutara flashbacks, specifically in regards to how antis get weirdly hung up on a two year age gap between a woman of color and an older teen who has had to undergo a lot of redemption

Am I crazy for thinking that it comes across as deliberate infantilization? Is it just me? They're in the sane cohort, people in high school date all the time? Why does this make them so mad all the time??

#bridie bluhs #fandom meta #golden garden #zutara #fandom salt #toh #the owl house #atla #avatar: the last airbender #zuko #katara #hunter #willow #hunter wittebane #willow park #it's not just me right #someone please confirm it's not just me #tag ramblings

[psychopyro813]

In my heart of hearts, I am truly a Katara stan first and a person second. Perennial reminder that my girl deserved better.

#bridie bluhs #katara #katara deserved better #atla #avatar: the last airbender #avatar

[psychopyro813]

Thinking about the line "what else have you been making up?" And how it is such a Mood and a reflection of what it is like to grow up religious, peel back the curtain, and realize rhe wotld is much more complicated than you were led to believe. Dana really is exploring all kinds of trauma from many different angles, and a lot if it is religious trauma.

I mean what really kills me about the Titan Trappers is hoe prepares they were to acce9t King when they thought he was one if them, what a sense of community he was immediately surrounded by.

And then the nature of his true identity is revealed. And as he is kicking and screaming "stop fighting!! I'm just like you guys!!" the masks come off and he is met with "You were never one of us." Even after going through the initiation rituals, even after all the effort was spent to find him.

Something about that whole experience feels very implicitly Queer to me: having a community stripped away suddenly because your identity is antithetical to their ideals. Perhaps this is just wild speculation, but the parallels appear very clear to me.

#bridie bluhs #king clawthorne #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #toh #the owl house #edge of the world #titan trappers #religious trauma #lgbt #queer

[psychopyro813]

*kicks down the door*

MOM HOLY FUCK

Okay. So. *Something* about The Collector seemed *strikingly familiar* but I couldn't place what until I started thinking about their rhymes. The sing-song nature is *not* the first time we've seen such a rhyming scheme show up in this show. Where else do rhymes feature prominently?

In Otabin the Bookbinder, of course. As I thought more about the rhymes we heard in Hollow Mind, and the ones we hear from Otabin's corrupted form in Lost in Language, I realized they both have strikingly similar and dark themes: the twisted nature of literally *making* friends, the celestial motifs (Otabin is brought to life by the Wailing Star; when we are first introduced to The Collector as a concept in Elsewhere and Elsewhen, they are surrounded by stars and have a half moon half sun face going on), the actual lilt in the voice acting (Amity has a lilt too but it *sounds* different. Corrupted!Otabin and The Collector have a *strinkingly* similar cadence).

These might be completed unrelated and I might just be going off on a Pepe Silvia Charlie-level tangent, but then again, this show is CONSTANTLY bringing back seemingly innocuous moments and motifs and making them pay off in a BIG way.

#bridie bluhs #toh #the owl house #hollow mind #lost in language #elsewhere and elsewhen #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #otabin #otabin the bookbinder #the collector #meta

[psychopyro813]

Reminder that Ozai is the one responsible for the abuse and neglect of both of his children and that Ursa didn't "create a monster" by attempting to undo a narcissistic abusers conditioning and failing.

Don't blame Ursa for Ozai's abuse kthxbye.

#bridie bluhs #Ursa #anti ozai #fire nation royal family #atla #avatar: the last airbender #tw abuse #fire lord ozai #fire lady ursa

[psychopyro813]

Holy shit I love this show I love this show so much not since OG AtLA was airing have I been this invested in a show what a fantastic work of fiction

#bridie bluhs #the owl house #toh #atla

[psychopyro813]

Dana Terrace more like Pain-a Terrace I'llseemyselfout

#Dana Terrace #bridie bluhs #the owl house #toh #I said this on fb in response to a discussion about the recent eps and it got a good response so onto the tungle it goes #sometimes I'm funny #(this may or may not be one of those times) #tag ramblings