#it’s giving over the garden wall

[demoncity]

Over the Garden Wall, 2014 ━ Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee

#otgwedit #cartoonedit #animationedit #tuserdana #usereevee #userlynn #userelissa #usersugar #userbbelcher #dailyanimatedgifs #animationsdaily #chewieblog #over the garden wall #gif* #i hate this but i'm tired and i give up<3

[isthisadrawingiseebeforeme]

originally posted on twitter: here's the piece i created for @feralimbs as part of the @phandomgives raffle for phil's 37th bday! tysm for ur patience as i drew this. 🫣🫶 their inspo was a page from over the garden wall and it was so fun to get into the style and mood of the art!

#dnp #dnp art #phandom gives #daniel howell #amazingphil #phil lester #over the garden wall #comic

[hellishgayliath]

@intotheelliwoods yeah hi hey your goop creature is super freakin cool and I had to draw em out of ink, the 2nd picture is just me messing around with colour filters and settings and it turned into this cool ass sickening/sinister looking green and i just HAD to show it off

#rottmnt #2al au #my art #nowhere king might be the inspo #but they're also giving bendy and the ink machine #no face from spirited away #cill cipher;even the beast from over the garden wall #and epic mickey #the 2nd pic is giving heavy maleficent vibes

[iosagol]

second time watching OTGW and I might be losing my mind

I'm just rewatching this masterpiece most certainly NOT on internet archive and certainly probably not silently dying because the first time I saw this I only saw the way Wirt's selfishness was being pruned out of him by the Fae world, and I only saw the grief on the Woodsman's side, but there's so

There's so much else to see on the second time through

Like the frog? George Washington? Being able to speak English when all the other frogs can't and yet not being able to speak English when it's just him and the humans? He's sort of a look into Greg's point of view? And he's this point of weird messed up communication because he's something Wirt and Greg were supposed to find together, hunting frogs like bros n stuff

But it was kind of half done; Wirt didn't want to be a part of that adventure and he was focused on Sara for all of the duration of it. Greg did most of the work, so that's why Washington reflects him most (he can communicate to everyone, but those of his own species speak a different language than him and seem to miss his points)

I'm sorry I'm thinking too hard into this but BUT IT WARRANTS THIS

AND THE WAY THAT UH

THE BELL GIRL

SHE'S KIND OF A FORESHADOWING TO THE WAY THE LAMP HANDLES PEOPLE

HOLDING ONTO HER ILLNESS AND TRYING TO DROWN IT WITH WORK ONLY MAKES THINGS WORSE, JUST AS HOLDING ONTO GRIEF AND TRYING TO DROWN IT WITH WORK  MAKES IT WORSE

SHE AND THE WOODSMAN ARE HORRIBLY ALIKE BUT WIRT TRUSTS HER MORE BECAUSE SHE RESEMBLES SOMETHING MORE HUMAN

AND THAT NEEDS TO BE SLAPPED OUT OF HIM, THE FAE CANT OPERATE UNDER THAT

Also I didn't realize how much Wirt actually seems to love Greg

Like yeah he's selfish

But that's very much towards the back half of the episodes, and by then he's genuinely had his trust shattered and he's struggling to carry burdens and Greg doesn't get that because he sees the world completely differently, he's got zero preconceived notions burned into him

Wirt has notions, he's old enough for it

And he's kind of hampered by them

Only looking at this twice did I actually see the fog that he steps into in the eighth episode, the genuine fog, and how he kind of shuts down

It's... depression?

And Greg's response is that of a kid who doesn't understand depression in the least because he just isn't old enough to have run up against it yet

I get the sense that Greg asked the lady of dreams to make him take Wirt's place, or something like that, but he has no idea what he's stepping into

Greg is so much smaller and it's really not his role to be the big brother

The beast (who could represent a whole host of stuff like depression? Fear? Self-flagellation?) demands he do impossible things and reach impossible goals and Greg does them at first but then he gets so worn out because it's so hard to sustain a beast like that

So he ends up completely immobilized by these vines of atrocious levels of fear? And he's so tiny? and he's never been through something like that

While Wirt, for all his faults, is hardened by his failures and fears to the degree that he can look his grief in the face and say "I'm not indulging you; your move."

Faerie changes Greg in a sense because it exposes him to realities that he doesn't fit, but he really doesn't seem to retain the effects of these negative realities. That or they simply don't affect him back in the human world. I mean Greg is a champ at seeing eldritch terrors and going "aw hey there, Barnaby! :D" and moving on with the retention span of a happy cucumber so maybe he just did that again. Maybe he still doesn't necessarily get the line between a bad dream and a deep truth. But I kind of get the sense he wasn't as deeply affected because the trip into Faerie wasn't for him.

Wirt, though, went through the classic Faerie-story process of being taken down to his lowest point in order to find himself, and that experience absolutely stayed with him.

I just remembered that Wirt and Greg jump out of a cemetery as the first step to get into the Unknown and the way it goes is Wirt cries "that's it, this is the end" like the drama queen he is and Greg immediately interprets this and jumps off the wall a moment before Wirt does

Greg knew a moment before Wirt moved that Wirt was going to jump, so he jumped first

He never ever hesitates to follow/lead his brother into deep trouble because he

Greg just

He has no concept of fear

Sssssssssaaaaaaaaa

They enter through water, and when they go back, they're returning through water.

It reeks so hard of baptism/rebirth symbolism and I'm scrambling to grasp all of it

Also the fact that Quincy Endecott has a gravestone in that cemetery

So he really is a ghost, humanly speaking ❤️

Mm

Yeah I just really love this show to my bones and I cannot wait to look into more of it and scrape more thoughts together

#Otgw #over the garden wall #OTGW rant #Over the garden wall theories #Wirt #Greg #Cartoon Network #fae theory #this show and its fae theory give life

[softichill]

HAPPY OCTOBER/HALLOWEEN!!! Have a Beast

#Cricket doodles #Sexyman descendants #The beast #Over the Garden Wall #I normally wanna stick to Mattel-style designs but I rlly liked this idea #Maybe I'll give her an alternate doll look in the future who knows #Also sorry the coloring is wonky fjdbfjdbg highlighters are hard to precisely work with and I don't use colored pencils often #Adelaide edelwood

[purplepotatobread]

The feeling of wanting to scream so loud that the whole world could hear you so you can recommend an underrated piece of media.

#the monstrumologist #room of swords #rot and ruin #strange the dreamer #monsters of verity #hooky #not to be confused with the feeling of wanting to give a speach about yourself detailing facts you feel are crucial for people to know in #order to understand you #fandoms #small fandoms #books #shows #over the garden wall

[longhands]

There’s such a specific flavor of cartoon dude I owe my whole life to? Like okay Dipper, Hiccup, and Wirt did all of the heavy lifting for my Trans Realization. I have such an ultra specific way of relating to them that it’s like “wow they’re literally me” and also “i’m mourning the loss of a childhood where I could have been them” and it’s a very bittersweet thing. I watched all of these properties on repeat when I was a kid because I so clearly saw myself in them. That shit was magical and a little confusing for a long time, and now I kind of miss it so bad it hurts. Idk I’m sleep deprived and nostalgic rn.

#don’t get me wrong I love the perspective being trans gives me #i just get sad abt it sometimes #unfortunate side effect of fixating on little dudes is thinking you have a crush on them #i didnt i just wanted to be them #im still kind of unpacking that #now im just realizing all of my crushes have just been like. dudes i had gender envy about. #i was obsessed with mermaids and fairies and shit because it was a safe outlet to Not Be Myself #I think childhood fixations really do inform the rest of your life im still seeing trends lol #httyd #otgw #over the garden wall #gravity falls #if you’re still reading what was your childhood queer projection character i wanna know #longhands rant

[thebusytypewriter]

Sooooo if I were to begin planning for a mid-December event where I allowed you to pick a character or pairing along with a number corresponding to one of my music playlists, which playlist would you be most interested in?

#oh hush salem #tbt polls #...need a better tag for that #cressie if you're seeing this poll this is all your fault your event inspired me #see if i plan for mid/late december then i give myself a deadline for the first one :> #also i feel like we need another smaller one since the 20-follower event turned out to be uhhh a 20-40 follower event #i may come to my own choice too #this is just to see opinions #danganronpa #gravity falls #the dark crystal #authors on tumblr #the amazing digital circus #steven universe #fullmetal alchemist #over the garden wall #the adventure zone #portal #the owl house #<- to name a few fandoms i will write for just in case of spreading this a liiiittle more

[brown-little-robin]

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#robin processes emotions on main #it's me and my music against the DREAD and DESPAIR and MIND NUMBING BEHAVIORS #there's too much to do tonight for me to do it all tonight there's too much to do this week and next week AUGH #I'm STRESSED which leads to DREAD and having the DREAD puts me in danger of DESPAIR which leads to GIVING UP PREEMPIVELY #so what I'm going to do is. I'm going to ONLY do homework until 9:30 and then I'm going to pack my stuff for tomorrow #and then I'm going to watch Over the Garden Wall and go to bed early. so there

[karaboutmyart]

painted this for my partner‼️

#gonna give it to them 2day #my art #painting #acrylic painting #over the garden wall #otgw wirt #otgw

[coramatus]

Their Fourth Encounter in the Unknown - (part 1)

Their Third Encounter in the Unknown - (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) (part 6 - end)

#pokemon #pokemon legends arceus #pokemon black and white #pokemon black 2 and white 2 #over the garden wall #under the city streets au #submas #subway boss ingo #warden ingo #volo #starly #coramatus's artwork #BOOM NO CONTEXT #THIS WAS GIVING ME ART CONSTIPATION

[strawberrybrunette]

I need cottagecore energy OCs in my life.

#cottagecore #Not just the type who are working in the prairie but the ones who give off fairytale storybook energy #Give me whimsy and over the garden wall vibes #Give me mooman valley vibes

[giverofempathy]

Was tagged by the lovely @lynchiangf to search up "my name + core" on pinterest !! It was actually kind of hard because my name is so uncommon and it mostly gave me acrylic nails and 2014 grunge tumblr images 😭 But it worked out pretty well in the end !!

Tagging @inmyskin2002 @schalotte @blueherons @zonnesproetje 🤎🤎

#salisha speaks #love the over the garden wall art + autumn vibe #and i think it gives off kind of a witch vibe which is nice because ive been getting back into withcraft lately

[lanternsong]

was just watching the little making-of from the over the garden wall dvd (which you too can watch here, you're welcome) and noticed something that got my brain whirring. they show a page of script with some draft lines for adelaide's conversation with beatrice and this line stood out to me:

ADELAIDE: I WANT A CHILD SERVANT! MY HORRIBLE SISTER HAS ONE, AND I WANT ONE TOO! (ALT) MY HORRIBLE SISTER HAS ONE AND SHE DOESN'T EVEN NEED ONE!

she's referencing auntie whispers and lorna! in the final version of the script, adelaide never alludes to them, though whispers tells wirt and greg to beware of her sister adelaide (an episode too late). and i just think it's interesting because while it's unnecessary info and that's probably why it was cut, it tells use a lot about adelaide that she sees lorna as auntie whisper's servant and not, as lorna herself puts it, her family.

i mean we never learn in the show how lorna ended up living with auntie whispers, but i've always parsed it as lorna being her ward and patient both; whispers is magically treating the symptoms of her "illness" with the bell, and that's why when the spirit is banished from lorna, whispers mourns that lorna "won't be needing old auntie whispers anymore to look after [her]." and of course lorna very sweetly refuses that idea and affirms they are family, and they hug, so we know that just like appearances were deceiving as to who was the "people-eater," the appearance of lorna wanting to escape her auntie was also deceiving. she just wanted to not be trapped, to have companionship and freedom. but now that she can have it, we realize there's no entrapment in their home at all, only a difficult love for one another!

the fact that adelaide doesn't understand their relationship at all and only sees lorna as a servant, or, interpreting further, as a luxury item that whispers has while she does not... it reveals a lot about her coldness and cruelty! the final script of this scene obviously bursts the "good woman of the woods" bubble pretty quickly as it is, but how telling this glimpse into her mind would have been! it immediately clues us in on her envy, her lack of love, her petulance. also this would have been in ep. 6, before the audience meets lorna or whispers, so it would have been a little foreshadowing of the subject of the next episode!

#over the garden wall #oh what i wouldn't give to see the drafts scripts and all the little things they shuffled and cut and reworked #this also brings to my mind the mention in the otgw art book of a scrapped lorna detail #they'd mused that in a stand-alone version of her story really the floor would be dirt #so that whispers telling her to sweep until the floor was clean was an impossible and endless task #SO interesting and definitely has that true fairy tale energy but obviously for the plot to work that couldn't be the case #god i'm in my VIBES rn #thinking thoughts about my lovely lorna <3 <3 #||x WELL THAT'S ENOUGH [ ooc ]

[peridyke]

2010s fandom in general just had a ton of hits. like ok there were some stinkers but that was a fun time to be into things online. specifically cartoons

#txt #adventure time gravity falls mlp over the garden wall su obviously...and there r more #im also just generally nostalgic for that rush being really into something current gives you :P #and like my teen innocence i guess. lol

[angelicdevil]

Starting to get to the same point with Megaton Girl that I got with Over the Garden Wall, where I replay it so many times I totally forget where I paused and what I haven’t gotten to in a specific go around

#devil script #megaton girl #over the garden wall #If that gives any indication of how good Megaton Girl is