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sometimes I think about how the owl house has the type of world that begs for six-something seasons to explore all of the so very fleshed out characters and worldbuilding even more

#de anguigeno #the owl house

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Willow matters. She matters! I love her so much, because she’s the glue that holds all of the hexsquad together. She is the one shared connection! She is everyone's first friend! She’s so hard on herself but in the end she will always matter to them!

Willow is Luz’s first friend. They hit it off as soon as they met in that clearing, and Willow was Luz’s contact with all the other witches her age—especially Gus and Amity! Not only that, Willow turned the little seed in Luz’s pocket into a huge, beautiful plant. She showed Luz how magic was inside of nature in the Boiling Isles, setting her on the path to discover glyphs!

Willow was Amity’s first friend. They were best friends. Breaking up hurts Amity, and it hurts Willow. Amity changes her ways because she never wanted to be a bully in the first place. She always just wanted to be Willow’s friend. And, years after their friendship ends, Willow is Amity’s link to Luz. Luz, who helps Amity change and befriend Willow again.

Willow was Gus’ first friend. When they first met, Gus thought people only liked him for his skill in illusions. But Willow was there when he had the least control of his magic, and she kept being there. She showed Gus he mattered to someone. She gave him his confidence.

Willow was Hunter’s first friend. Before her, he had Belos abusing him, Eda and King making fun of him, none of the coven heads respecting him, Amity fighting against him. Even his team-up with Luz was reluctant. But Willow wanted him from the start. She saw a star flyer, she trusted him, she depended on him. She showed Hunter that he could find a place outside the Emperor’s coven!

Willow feels like she has to be strong to mean something. But she means so much and it’s never because she’s strong. She riles up the crowd at Eda’s petrification with just her words. She brings together the entire Hexsquad because she’s a good, kind person. Every one of them cares deeply about her. If she lost her magic tomorrow, lost all her muscle, became not-even-half-a-witch Willow, she would be just as important to every single one of them!

It’s the beauty and tragedy of her character: Willow doesn’t see how she matters.

She thinks she has to do something to have worth to her friends. Has to be strong and wise, not show weakness, be the perfect team captain. But that’s not what made her friends love her. They love her because she was the first person to love THEM for who THEY are!

One of the central themes of this show is that “us weirdos have to stick together.” And Willow? She’s the original weirdo. She brings all the kids together. 

No, Willow may not see it herself yet, but oh… Willow matters.

#willow park #the owl house #hunter toh #luz noceda #amity blight #gus porter #toh meta #willow my absolute beloved #Happy Willow Wednesday everybody :D #de anguigeno

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holy shit

garth is a palisman design by @assigned-k9 by the way!!

#mattholomule #jbo #john bailey owen #the owl house #garth athena tholomule #this feels unreal #de anguigeno

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I was looking through the owl house wiki for ttlgr and found these color designs by Eusong Lee and holy shit these are terrifying

#the owl house #bria toh #gus porter #not explicitly but Gus Porter fans will want to see the full horrific glory of his illusions #de anguigeno #thesaurus anguigeni

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oooohh thinking about Labyrinth Runners again. I was rewatching and in this scene Gus is actually in the detention track room!

Makes me think about my ADHD headcanons for him. A kid that's really smart and moves up grades, but the teachers are a lot harder on him for it. He's expected to be just as mature as the other kids—or more! he moved up a grade after all!

And yet it's so hard for him to sit still and do structured classwork. Heck, even now he sends a double to class instead of actually attending!

I wonder if he was ever sent to detention for doing illusion magic "wrong". Maybe that's why he's so quick to jump to thinking he's in trouble when he does something wrong!

That's classic neurodivergent gifted kid. You know your stuff, but you can't sit still, or you can't pay attention, or you do things a different way from the teacher. And every time, you get in trouble.

Also, there's so so much eye symbolism in this sequence. (To clarify, he breaks down after Adrian digs through his memories. Hunter comes in and sees a series of mindscapes while Gus berates himself).

I mean first of all there's Gus' own glowing eyes. But then we have:

An abominations classroom, probably the one where he met Willow. There are papers stuck up on the wall with eyes on all of them.

A forest. There are Boiling Isles trees in the background, and their knotholes look like eyes.

The classroom mentioned above. There's a big carved eye centered under the board, fixed right on Gus.

Another scene in the forest. This time Bria and her friends are there circling Gus. However, they don't have faces.

Gus in the illusions classroom. He's in front of a table with several mirrors, and the mirrors are full of eyes looking back at him.

Finally, Gus' room. He's curled up in front of his dresser. Guess what? The knobs on the dresser are eyes. And on top of the dresser is a big old machine—specifically, it's called a Phoropter. It goes in front of your eyes, and has hundreds of lens combinations you can flip on to let the optometrists decide what kind of glasses lenses someone needs.

This eye symbolism plays right into Gus' anxieties. He's constantly being watched in his mindscape. They're not other people's eyes though. Bria and her friends didn't even have eyes! No, the eyes are all part of the mindscape. They're eyes in a mirror looking back at him.

The eyes are part of him.

If you get in trouble enough, have someone pick at you for little things so many times, you start policing yourself. You notice you're doing something wrong and a siren starts going off in your mind, going "YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET IN TROUBLE!"

That's Gus' anxiety. He's worried about being good enough in school. Worried about his relationships with other people. But it's not focused on them, it's focused on him. He's constantly watching for himself to mess up.

And guess what? If you're looking for something, you're going to start seeing it everywhere.

When something goes wrong he jumps to it being his fault. Not doing well on an assignment is a personal failure. Things other people would brush off are the end of the world.

He's so hard on himself because he thinks that other people will. It's preemptive action. If he makes himself perfect he can't make people mad. If he punishes himself first then other people won't punish him.

I just, man. This kid. When he's written well he's written well.

#gus porter #toh meta #toh analysis #the owl house #de anguigeno

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GUSTHOLOMULE FANS WE’RE FUCKING WINNING. BY THE WAY.

(link to tweet)

My favorite gustholomule headcanon is that they don’t know what their relationship is and definitely none of their friends can tell if its romantic either. so this is a huge win and canon to MEEEEEE

#gus porter #mattholomule #gustholomule #the owl house #JBO #john bailey owen #de anguigeno #fav

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Hello everyone I'm back to gustholomule! I've been working on this one for a couple of weeks now. This was based on an art by @strawbbz !!! I'm a huge huge fan of his incredible art so this was very fun to do I'm so so glad he gave me the go-ahead :D

If you aren't already following him,

1. how

2. follow him 🔫

Here's the art I based it off of go check it out and read the fic ok byeeeeee!

#gus porter #luz noceda #mattholomule #willow park #hunter toh #gustholomule #the owl house #de anguigeno #my writing #bibliotheca anguigeni #golden guard #tee hee had some fun with this one

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...don't think about how this is the same kid from the start of the summer, and that the only reason he looks older is that he had a massive growth spurt.

Or how he's so excited in the first picture about getting a human nickname, but when he actually reaches the human world he just breaks down crying.

#help #gus porter #the owl house #toh spoilers #king's tide #de anguigeno

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Oh yeah, I've seen people talking about whether Flapjack living in Hunter's head means he's going to be able to cast magic or not. My thoughts on this, as someone who thinks way too much time thinking about how TOH magic works:

Belos doesn't actually get his "magic" from Palisman souls. Belos can cast his magic because of the glyphs that he's carved into his body.

[Image: a screenshot of Philip's arm from Elsewhere and Elsewhen. There are glowing red glyphs visible on it, and the arm is bubbling and losing its shape.]

The glyphs are what are actually causing the magic effects. However, one thing we know about glyphs is that they consume the material they're drawn on. For example, Luz's glyph papers being absorbed into the spell.

This means by drawing glyphs on himself, Philip is being slowly consumed whenever he uses them. Again, as we see in the earlier screenshot.

That's where the palisman souls come in. They provide raw magic for the glyphs to feed on instead of consuming Philip's body. And as we see throughout the show, this isn't a permanent solution. He has to keep consuming palisman souls to have enough magic.

[Image: Philip crouching down in front of a pile of broken palismen. The glowing glyphs are still visible on his arm, and he's holding a mostly-intact palisman.]

So this brings us back to Hunter.

Hunter, as he is, will not be able to cast magic.

Hunter does not have any glyphs carved into him that let him harness that magic, first of all. Secondly, Flapjack's magic wouldn't something that stays with him. It would be a one-off benefit.

And actually, I think Flapjack's magic would've been already consumed by healing Hunter. So unless there's some kind of exception that comes up with Hunter being a grimwalker, I really don't think there's good reason for him to be able to cast magic.

I myself am leaning more towards the idea he's going to carve his own palisman. After all, that would tie into the idea that he's his own person, not just another Wittebane.

Besides, he's gotta get back to flyer derby with the Emerald Entrails somehow, am I right?

#hunter toh #the owl house #toh spoilers #toh season 3 #toh theory #golden guard #de anguigeno #toh meta #also also I am absolutely 100% fucking convinced that Willow is going to use the palisman seed to bring back palisman wood #and since the show seems to be leaning in a huntlow direction that would make a good bonding activity #parallel Evelyn the palisman carver and all that jazz

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Wait hold up go back to Steve murdering someone.

That guy has definitely committed atrocities in the Emperor’s Coven and it haunts him to this day.

#steve tholomule #steve toh #the owl house #de anguigeno #thanks for the ask!

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Himb

Look at himb!!!!!

[made by lulu @/sobblespoink on twitter!]

#i love him so much #de anguigeno #mattholomule #fav

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HOOOOOLY SHIT WE HAVE HOLLOW MIND PAINTINGS NOW!!! THIS IS PERFECT TIMING TOO I WAS LITERALLY JUST MAKING A POST THAT NEEDED THEM!

Gonna copy-paste these under the cut for my personal reference :3

I kept them in the order they were they were; it looks like they're in roughly chronological order which is SO nice because I've spent a long while mulling over grainy screenshots trying to figure out the timeline XD

#de anguigeno #hollow mind #the owl house #toh meta

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Hey, don’t cry. Crew storyboard artist Mikecatsu just liked a strawbbz fanart of Gus and Matt kissing, okay?

#This is so fucking funny #a crew artist acknowledges gm and it’s a clone high redraw of gm making out #funniest possible thing to happen #like this definitely doesn’t mean they’re canon but #it’s so satisfying knowing we’re not insane #between this and JBO’s ‘if I knew I would 100% tell you’ #de anguigeno #gus porter #mattholomule

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I really love how Luz’s character ties into the plot.

Like, in the Boiling Isles there’s this huge drama unfolding with Belos making the Emperor’s Coven and trying to eliminate the Isles, and there’s Hunter, who was made by Belos by parts of the Isles. Then there’s the Clawthornes, and they’re tied into this as well: Lilith as the former head of the Emperor’s Coven, and Eda as the greatest wild witch still standing. They’re all really well tied together, especially considering Dell as the one keeping the palisman supply alive as a carver and the theory that the Clawthornes are connected to Philip’s brother.

And into this drama of sisters and brothers and magic comes a human girl with no stake in anything. She’s not related to the Clawthornes, she’s not a part of the Emperor’s Coven. But she still is so significant!

There aren’t going to be any reveals that Luz was secretly connected to events this whole time. She’s not connected. She’s not secretly a chosen one or beloved by the Titan. And yet she’s still so important, because she’s done so much!

Luz is the one who made Eda care about her magic! She was the catalyst that lead to Eda and Lilith getting back together! She cared enough about the Isles that she found a light glyph and taught it to Philip! She’s the one that lead to Hunter discovering the truth!

I love Luz, because the more we find out about the Boiling Isles and the characters’ stories, the more we find out how connected they are. And Luz will never be secretly a witch or secretly a Wittebane or secretly a Clawthorne or whatever else, because the reason she’s connected is because of who she is and what she does, not her backstory. She’s tied into the story of the Isles because she cares about it and the people there, not because she’s a part of them. And I think that’s amazing, because it makes it more meaningful, not something out of her control. She chose to be in the isles, and she’s made herself a part of its story.

Tangentially, this is also why I don’t like the “collector possesses Luz” theory. While I can see it working well, I also feel like she isn’t a part of whatever the collector’s plan is. The collector isn’t going to plan to possess her or anything; they’ve got the grimwalker if they need someone to possess. No, I think it would be more likely for The Collector to take on Luz’s appearance instead! He’s already taking on a physical form, why not have some fun and make it look like that meddling human! Maybe it’s a taunting thing, maybe it’s some mocking flattery. But how much more interesting would it be for Luz to face herself, rather than being taken out of action by being possessed?

Wouldn’t it fit much better for Luz to make an impact on this being big enough that he takes on her appearance to acknowledge it, than for her to be a vital part of their plan?

Luz isn’t a chosen one. She isn’t set aside for possession, or key to any century-old plans. But what Luz does do is make changes.

#luz noceda #the collector #toh meta #toh spoilers #toh s2 ep16 #hollow mind #emperor belos #toh theory #de anguigeno

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New promo for the finale just came out!!

#the owl house #luz noceda #amity blight #gus porter #willow park #hunter toh #king clawthorne #I’m so excited for this episode #WERE GONNA SEE THE HEXSQUAD THIS FINALE #thesaurus anguigeni #de anguigeno #king’s tide

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GUYS Gus' new colorscheme symbolizes how he's focused on the human realm now! It was always his big passion and something that he completely 100% enjoyed!!

His old color-scheme was all blues because he was all-in to illusions. He was a prodigy, it was his entire self-worth! But it was also a double edged sword, like we saw in TTLGR. But now? He's doing what he loves!!

(And guess what, those new colors? They're the same color-scheme as his HAS crown)

Man, Gus' timeskip design makes me so happy :)

#gus porter #toh meta #toh analysis #toh spoilers #watching and dreaming #de anguigeno