#flapjacks 6

[bugchuckles]

matching outfit design for hunter!

#toh #watching and dreaming #the owl house #hunter #flapjack #hunter wittebane #hunter deamonne #was going for like a slavic prince from firebird ballet look and ended up w shadow the hedgehog and power rangers. th #my art #6 days until i dissolve into madness

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Flapjack Octopus (Opisthoteuthis californiana)

(Photo from Monterey Bay Aquarium)

Conservation Status- Data deficient (Data inadequate to determine a threat category)

Habitat- Pacific Ocean

Size (Weight/Length)- 20 cm

Diet- Worms; Small fish; Plankton; Small fish

Cool Facts- The flapjack octopus might be a contender for the cutest marine animal. Being a species of umbrella octopus, their parachute shape helps them to swim relatively quickly despite their small size. By funneling water through their arms, the flapjack octopus jet propels itself across the ocean floor up to 1,500 meters deep. Despite the fins on the top of their head looking like ears, the flapjack octopus lacks ears and instead detects sound waves in the water. Female flapjack octopuses lay one clutch of eggs every few years where she lets them fend for themselves with the hope that their numbers will allow a few to survive.

Rating- 13/10 (You made me ink.)

#animal of the day #animals #octopus #cephalopod #sunday #august 6 #flapjack octopus #biology #science #conservation #the more you know

[cherrymoonvol6]

truly one of the best aspects of the lunter/witteclaw parallels is that the switcheroo of human luz luring "witch" hunter away is just SO on point with the themes of the story and philip's entire motivation as a villain. it's not a matter of humans VS witches, or religion VS paganism, but at the core of it lays the idea that anything that deviates from the norm needs to be extracted and destroyed. and in philip's time, that meant that witches needed to be eliminated.

but! that has changed, overtime. philip's world no longer holds that as the rule. not because the people who think like him no longer exist, but because the people who have been the target of discrimination and hatred have come together as a community and fought for their rights to live their lives to their fullest. and because of these, uh, "modern" ideas, luz fills the role of "evelyn" despite not being a witch herself, because she hits all the important bits: she's also the kind of pest philip would've considered a cancer for society all those years ago. and therefore, she manages to hit all the important story beats for her caleb, aka hunter: she's the one who triggers his first act of defiance against belos; she's the one who introduces flapjack to him; she's the one that takes hunter by the hand and leads him away from belos.

even then, her status as a human is impactful in the way belos treats her: he considers her an "equal", as much as that can mean. he uses this fact to manipulate and guilt-trip her. but that also means that he underestimates her, and that finally allows luz to put this putrid cycle to an end, therefore making luz and hunter effectively the last evelyn and caleb to graze the earth.

#lunter #sorry ok i listened to 'the unbearable lightness' today and broke down crying lol #they are THE soulmate reincarnated-love pairing ever #jsjsjsjjs i'll keep saying it. lunter being canon would've made this show 200% more impactful #1) gives meaning to the witteclaw tale 2) integrates it to the plot 3) ties in neatly with the show's themes #4) it makes belos a better villain 5) it gives luz a more active LI 6) it rightfully centers luz and hunter's dynamic #7) it honors flapjack's sacrifice and also 8) it leads luz to find like-minded people in the human realm #like idk this ship fucking slaps BECAUSE it has a monumental positive impact in the development of the show's ending #ok tag rant over. and i'll put the other tag i guess #toh critical #k i'm going to bed :]

[misccy27]

Why Any Sport in a Storm is so satisfying to me

Hunter's storyline in this episode builds off of his previous episodes in a way that just works so well in the context of his narrative. Hear me out:

Hunting Palismen establishes that Belos is abusive and controlling towards Hunter. Hunter loves Belos and acts to help him. Hunter has good intentions and can be persuaded to do the right thing, but there are consequences for it.

Eclipse Lake deals with these consequences. Hunter thinks he's being pulled off of the mission as a punishment for “failing” his last one. This feeds his desperation to gain Belos’ approval by proving that he is still useful. Hunter is so desperate for love and approval here that he makes the wrong choice in the end, rejecting Amity’s help and attacking her. 

But that isn't where the episode ends for him. It ends on Hunter bonding with Flapjack. Flapjack defended Hunter and stuck by him even during the fight, leading to Hunter accepting that Flapjack isn't going to abandon him now, no matter what.

Hunter's story ends on a positive note despite Hunter doing the wrong thing. This is still satisfying because we understand the source of Hunter’s problems: what he needed more than anything else at this point in his life was just to be loved. Flapjack came along and loved him. 

However. Hunter did still do the wrong thing. Flapjack's actions establish that he is willing to enable Hunter to make the wrong decision if that is what Hunter chooses to do.

This is where ASIAS picks up.

The episode starts with Belos ordering Hunter to run the coven head meeting as a “test”. Hunter fails to do this from the get-go. Darius is then introduced as a stand-in authority figure for the episode.

The stakes are lowered immediately. Darius is established as a foil for Belos from the beginning: where Belos threatens physical violence at Hunter speaking out of turn, Darius is “just” mean and condescending. Where Belos only cares about how Hunter can be useful to him, Darius doesn’t care about Hunter at all. Where Belos demands total subservience, Darius derides Hunter for blindly following orders. 

It’s still a bad situation, of course. But it’s also such a promising setup. Since Darius doesn’t care about Hunter completing his mission, there is space here for Hunter to make his own decisions without severe consequences. The only thing at stake now is Darius' approval.

And again, Eclipse Lake shows us the terrifying lengths that Hunter is willing to go to for an authority figure’s approval:

That is the main issue that's addressed in ASIAS. And that's what makes this setup so good: in Eclipse Lake, Hunter is driven by a need for both Belos' love and his approval. With Belos, these concepts are too deeply intertwined to ever really be explored. But Eclipse Lake managed to address the love aspect with Flapjack. ASIAS tackles the approval aspect as its own standalone problem by introducing an adult that Hunter has no established relationship with yet.

Now, the solution here has to be handled differently than it was in Eclipse Lake. Hunter needed Flapjack's unconditional love; Hunter does not need unconditional approval. Particularly with Belos as his parent, it is vital that Hunter learns to stop relying on the approval of authority figures to drive his actions. If he doesn't, he's going to keep sabotaging potential friendships like what happened with Amity and Luz.

And that is why it is so important that things play out the way that they do in ASIAS. When Hunter "successfully" completes his mission, he naturally seeks the approval of his designated authority figure:

And Darius doesn’t tell Hunter that he’s wrong.

Darius doesn't give Hunter anything to work with at all here.

This is necessary. Eclipse Lake starts with Hunter disobeying Belos' order to stay in the castle in order to instead try acquiring something that Belos wants. As Hunter explains in ASIAS, "even chances have to be earned." So it is necessary for this to work that Hunter has no idea what, if anything, Darius actually wants from him. He can't even hazard a guess. Hunter's decision to do the right thing has to be fully disconnected from his initial motivation of trying to earn his authority figure's approval.

That's why it falls on Steve. Steve is the one to hit on the one thing that ends up getting through to Hunter. This works because Steve is not an authority figure. He's framed more as Hunter's equal:

This is good. Hunter can now do the right thing without an authority figure influencing his decision making at all. Hunter's motivation and priorities have changed, so he goes to rescue his friends and sabotage his own mission.

This is the point in the episode where it becomes so incredibly important again that Darius is Belos’ foil. Because Darius was mean to Hunter. But there are enough differences in the way that Belos and Darius treat Hunter, and in the way that Hunter views each of them in turn, that Hunter is able to behave in a way with Darius that he simply wouldn't be able to with Belos:

Darius appears here as an enraged authority figure giving Hunter a direct order. We can see the contrast in how Hunter handles confrontations with Belos later. This scene is the only time that we get to see Hunter confront an authority figure in this way: consciously and freely choosing to act in accordance with what he believes is the right thing to do. It is so satisfying.

This is also where it gets fun. Because in order for Darius to fulfill his role in the narrative here, the only thing he really has to do now is to just be a relatively safe authority figure for Hunter to stand up to. All he has to do is to not punish Hunter for standing up to him. That is what is consistent with the foil set up between Darius and Belos at the beginning: Darius is a relatively neutral authority figure.

But the episode goes and pushes it so much farther than that.

Darius praises Hunter for doing the right thing. Darius becomes the first adult that we see actually reinforce Hunter’s decision to do the right thing.

And then it goes and escalates even beyond that. Like. The narrative is over. Nothing that happens after this is at all necessary. The episode is already ending on at least as much of an optimistic note as HP and EL.

But instead of just ending, this all happens:

Darius changes opinion of Hunter and admits that he was wrong, suggesting that his treatment toward Hunter will improve from here. It also foils Hunter viewing Belos as infallible.

Darius undermines Belos' abusive efforts to control and isolate Hunter by giving Hunter a scroll and encouraging him to make connections outside of the castle.

Flapjack and this mission will be kept secret, establishing Darius as Hunter’s ally. He's willing to prioritize Hunter's well-being over both Belos' rules and his own personal motives.

Darius confirms that he does approve of Hunter now. It is important that this is addressed last; this happens despite the narrative.  

So like. Darius got a little growth arc here. He is no longer just a neutral foil to Belos. Every single one the things that Darius does at the end here is now in direct opposition to how Belos views and treats Hunter. Darius has become a definitive positive authority figure in Hunter's life who can and will challenge Belos' negative influence.

The scene ends with a Darius telling Hunter that he could still use a sewing lesson, opening up an opportunity for their relationship to grow.

It is so satisfying to watch.

And that's when I get back to the broader narrative, like. Up until now, Hunter has always been in a lose-lose situation. His situation has been improving thanks to Flapjack, but it's still impossible: even when Hunter knows what the right thing to do is, he can't really afford to do it. Belos will punish him for it. And because of his isolation and abuse, Hunter often doesn't know what the right thing is. His perspective is too skewed.

But now Hunter is not only loved; he also has an authority figure who will encourage him and guide him and reinforce his decision to do the right thing. Hunter is finally put in a position where he can start to become the good person that he wants to be.

And Hunter also now has a viable way out of his abusive situation. Hunter still doesn't realize that he needs help yet, but the support is there for him when he's ready. There is now an adult in his corner who is finally paying attention to his situation and is willing to intervene to help him. Between Flapjack and Darius, we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel for Hunter.

It makes ASIAS the first (and only) unambiguously happy ending that Hunter gets. It is such a good episode.

#toh hunter #darius deamonne #toh flapjack #the owl house season 2 #and then HM happened #and darius could've been dropped from hunter's narrative so easily there #instead he’s been brought up in 4/6 hunter episodes since asias #and i am totally normal about it i swear #this is my emotional support episode #finale can't hurt me here

[evevoli]

i'll be honest im gonna be thinking about this every day for the rest of my life

#(has been listening to welly boots for two hours straight) #toh #the owl house #flapjack toh #toh spoilers #watching and dreaming #ev.post #I JUST. GOD. 'THANK YOU FOR FINDING ME' WHAT IF I SHATTERED INTO 6 TRILLION PIECES. GET ME OUT OF HERE

[probablyhuntersmom]

Extraordinary luck :O

#my Flapjack plush will get to visit 6 countries this year #my Hunter with his cute lil' apron would've visited 4 by end of the year (counting the local sightseeing here where we live) #we're visiting Vietnam after Christmas since my brother's decided he's never moving back here #after the heap of traumatic stuff from this year? extraordinary luck #the only good thing about contracting a life-threatening physical illness (C word) is ironically it's opened more doors in this way #as long as that fucker doesn't metastasize in my body again lol #and the dual citizenship hiccup means I gotta pass through Thailand to get to my aunt's for Halloween. can't fly directly #which means! more fun sightseeing with my plushies #(I am definitely n-o-t a person who can just hop on a plane regularly so..) #loz says stuff

[sergeantsporks]

Aroace Hunter Week 2023 Day 6: Squish

“What’s a good username? Should I make one that Uncle won’t think to look for? Wait, that’s bad, right? Right, I should just put my name, or the golden guard. It’s not like I’m hiding the Penstagram. Darius said it would be good, and he’s a coven head, so he wouldn’t… tell me to do something treasonous… right? But he did say he wouldn’t tell Belos about you, and he knows I’m not supposed to have—but other coven heads have Penstagrams and it’s fine. It’s fine, you know what, it’s fine. I’ll just… do something I’m interested in. Would putting ‘flyer derby’ be too desperate to them? Oh, I’ve got it.”

Rulersreachfan.

The Penstagram scroll flashed an error message at Hunter.

This username is already taken.

“Ah, okay… uh…

Rulerzreachfan.

“Because z is close to an s. It’ll work this time.”

This username is already taken.

“Seriously?”

“Maybe different?” Flapjack suggested.

“One more try.”

Rulerzreachf4n.

“Because four looks like an a! Clever, right?”

Please create profile picture.

“How much set up does this need? I just want to…”

Hunter held the phone out at arm’s length, pressing the photo button.

“Okay, okay, here we go. What was the username again? H. E. L. L. O. Underscore, where’s the u—oh, there it is. W. I. L. L. O. W.” Willow’s profile showed up, complete with a photo of the team as her first post. “Okay! Here we go!”

Hunter hit the follow button.

Request sent.

“Mmmm, what if she doesn’t want me to follow her? I mean. I did. Kidnap the entire team. Hngh, let’s try someone else, let’s dooooo…” He clicked on the post, looking at the ‘tagged’ usernames. “Uh… ThorneyVines, that’s gotta be Viney, right? Follow. Maybe I should leave a comment? I should leave a comme—”

The scroll buzzed in his hands, and he threw it across the room. “Ah!”

Flapjack fluttered over, pecking at the scroll. “Is dead. Won’t hurt.”

Hunter wandered over and picked the scroll back up.

1 new message from Hello_Willow.

Hunter’s fingers hovered over the little notification without actually hitting it. “What if it’s her telling me to leave them alone? I mean, I thought that she kind of implied that maybe it would be okay if we saw each other again, but what if I read that wrong? What if she hates me? What if all of them hate me? I wouldn’t blame them.”

Hunter groaned, burying his head in his arms. “I’m going to fail at friendship. I’ve taken too long to respond, I should have paid attention immediately. It’s over.”

Flapjack hopped over and slammed his foot onto the message box. “There.”

“AUGH!” Hunter scooped the scroll up so fast he nearly dropped it. “What’s it say?”

Hi.

Hunter jumped up, pacing around. “Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh she doesn’t hate me. Good. Excellent. Wonderful. Do I ask if anyone else hates me?”

“No.”

“That was very decisive.”

“Don’t.”

“Alright, alright. What do I…” Hunter set the scroll down with a sigh. “There’s no point.”

“What?!”

Hunter picked his mask up off of his desk, turning it over and over in his hands. “There’s no point,” he replied, “To answering, to talking to her or any of them. I don’t know why I even bothered making the Penstagram. It’s like Willow said; my next day off isn’t for another fifty-two weeks. And I certainly can’t bail on missions to—to play flyer derby!”

“Want friends?”

Hunter set the mask back down. “It doesn’t matter. I can’t have them.”

“Want friends?”

“I’m head of a coven, I’m the golden guard. Having friends puts them in danger, and it puts me in danger, and it puts the emperor in danger!”

“Hunter. Want friends?”

Hunter tugged his hood over his head, face burning. “I do.”

We’re number one!

“I can’t.”

But I do.

He wanted to go back so badly it almost hurt. There hadn’t been any backstabbing or judgement for being half a witch. Just open skies and flyer derby and the team.

I want to go back

I want to be friends

I want to start over, and this time I’ll do everything right, and they’ll want to be around me.

Just like they did before I ruined it.

I want to be their friend.

“Respond. Start.”

“What’s the point?!”

“Want to be friends. Nothing else.”

“I can’t.”

“Try.”

“What if I fail?”

“Try.”

“I already messed up with them, if I fail again, it’s over.”

“Try.”

Hunter took a deep breath, picking up the scroll.

H. E. L. L. O.

Hello, Willow.

#toh #the owl house #aroace hunter week 2023 #day 6: squish #toh hunter #hunter wittebane #toh flapjack #my writing #toh fanfiction #aroace hunter

[sophfandoms53]

Hunter and Flapjack risking it all for each other I am unwell

#they mean everything to each other and I still cannot believe how things ended #FLAPJACK NUZZLING HIM MAKES ME BREAK EVERY TIME #I JUST UGHHH #MY HEART MAN #I’m going to bed now lol #it’s almost 6 and my brain is still consumed #there’s a lot more to talk about trust me #I’ll gush about all the fun stuff when I wake up #and probably still talk about the ending and all this bc my heart is still in denial about it #the owl house #toh #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

luz and king probably would have fit better but i dont know how to draw king so hunter it is.

#toh #the owl house #luz noceda #hunter toh #flapjack toh #over the garden wall #otgw #i still dont like how luz's mouth looks #and hunter looks more sickly than he already is #also i dont know how shading works btw #and i am taking 6 classes in uni so i probably shouldnt have spent all afternoon drawing this #i just have massive toh brain rn #oh well back to studying #pandora draws

[bassiter2]

flapjack is actually a genius show. name one other kids' media that has a christmas special where the lesson isn't "try to be a good person" but instead "misbehavior can't be punished if you just band together with all the other bad people until you outnumber the authorities"

#the marvelous misadventures of flapjack #ntm the 'authorities' are a group of 6-8 mermen who put you in a sack and beat you up #and poseidon who takes the santa role is played by jk simmons

[angelfishcake]

@sergeantsporks 's Dadrius Week Day 6: Comfort

Darius goes to check on Hunter.

#the owl house #owl house #fic #dadrius #dadrius week #day 6: comfort #darius deamonne #hunter deamonne #hunter the golden guard #toh flapjack #toh hunter #toh darius #decided to go easy on y'all lol

[you-are-constance]

Hunter and Willow from toh, requested by @a-model-of-propriety and @aro-rose-red

see my pinned post for info to request more characters!

#i really like these but tumblr's gonna kill the quality i just know it #eh itll be fine i'll post a full version when I'm done with all 6 #Constance's art #think i am really starting to figure out my style of toh characters #ears are still a little weird but i really like how i do eyes for them? #toh #the owl house #willow park #hunter toh #toh hunter #flapjack toh #toh flapjack #also this isnt necessarily the finished thing itll be finished when i post the full 6 #six characters #six characters challenge #i knew id get toh characters and i like drawing them i just hope not ALL the requests i get are toh haha

[teartra]

Can they like… Baymax-ed Flapjack?

#the owl house #flapjack #toh #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #baymax #big hero 6

[kraviolis]

try kipo and the age of wonderbeasts! i think that's what its called, I saw it when it first came out and ive thought about it ever since.

i have tried watching it but it does not seem to be a style of animated story telling that clicks with me the same way gravity falls, steven universe, infinity train, and the owl house have.

#qna #i think i may attempt to watch dragon prince next? but that might be something more similar to rwby/spiderverse to me #i need specifically. an animated cartoon that is initially marketed to ages 6-12 but begins to broaden its target audience later on #where it goes from very childish to something more complex and deeper #bonus points if the showrunner is a part of the flapjack family tree #you know the one. if they’ve worked on or worked closely woth someone who ever worked on the show flapjack from the mid 2000s #thats how u KNOW the cartoon is about to be GOLD #you could prob expand that to adventure time producers too at the point #anonymous

[funfactory-moved]

i haven’t even done any research on where i could possibly go for getting a different undergrad degree but i’m alr excited abt it <333

#bella.txt #like yesterday i was googling flapjack octopi bc they’re fucking adorable #nd i was getting mad bc i was like ????? where r all the fun facts abt these little dudes!!!! #n realized it’s bc people still don’t know much abt them so i’m like omg.. a fresh research field.. #like ok bye i’m gonna go to fishy science school and study these little tiny octopi for the rest of my life #but PLSSSS i feel like a little kid w/ how excited i get over. sea creatures #like 😐 where was this excitement 6 years ago before i staked my life on game design school HFJFKDJSF #but pls.. keep ur fingers crossed for me

[butterbabyflapjack]

omg! now that your elden ring commission is complete, does this mean we can hope for the new killing stalking chapter soon😅

Absolutely! I'm working on other commissions simultaneously, but the first part of 'Game Night' is nearly complete! I hope to post it this week 😙✨

#i split chapter 6 into three parts to preserve my sanity 😅 it was too looonnngggg #twisted #ask flapjack #killing stalking sangwoo