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Concept art for Gus, because he's my favourite.

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i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

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Just a fanart of Gus Porter because he is me in a way i find it difficult to explain with words

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this is me launching that I'm currently working on an original novel!! i'm about 11K words, and 4 chapters in and i'm very excited

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I hope this finds the Somewhere in Between fandom

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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

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good things come in threes

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No, that's actually to make the Finnish train look more positive.

It's simple colour theory smh.

Language is universal

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So, I was just looking through my old pictures from, like, two years ago (back in my SU phase) and I rediscovered this old piece!

My brother's prompt was 'Crystal Gems, but they're cars', so for about a week (and never again) I was interested in vintage cars, trying to find ones that would best fit each gem's personality!

(These were all designed in the early days of watching SU, so they don't take any spoilers or big reveals into account, or any of the newer Crystal Gems).

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Fanart of the main characters of the Somewhere In Between comic It's pretty cute, definitely recommend checking it out!

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has anyone else read the webcomic 'Somewhere In Between' because it's a) a delight and b) consuming my brain rn and I NEED someone to talk to about it.

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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

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What sort of future canon TOH content you'll like to see?

https://www.reddit.com/r/amphibia/s/BbYm9GTseN

Hmmmm...I'm not sure I would want more, or at least not in the same way that there's extended content for other shows.

If there was a fully-plotted, full-length S3 (which Dana Terrace has confirmed there was not, and she has also said she's happy with how the show ended), of course, that would be interesting to see, because it would be interesting to see what the writers originally had planned at the time.

By this point, however, I think a few things are clear--one, Dana Terrace isn't really interested in working with Disney any more, and she has stated before that she doesn't want to only be known for doing TOH, and she's working on other projects. Fan demand shouldn't have to equate to artistic output. Secondly, because time has passed, and the fandom is so big, a lot of fan headcanons and personal visions have arisen and been solidified, and considering the diversity in the fandom, releasing any new canon content risks people being disappointed. Look at the response to the 'Harvey isn't Willow's bio dad reveal', and that was over something that ultimately makes only a tiny amount of difference to the world, and focuses on very minor characters.

I'm not totally opposed to any new content--Dana Terrace's TOH sketches are awesome, and I'd love to see more, and I think things such as scrapped episode ideas could be cool. I am just not crying out for any more canon content. My one caveat is that if she has a really good vision for the Wittebane backstory, I would love to hear her vision and what she considers canon, but otherwise, I personally am happy for the characters to be in the hands of the fandom.

Re: Amphibia getting new content, I feel like that's a bit of a different story, purely because the fandom is smaller and the show wasn't shortened, meaning there's a much less significant base of fans who are rabid for any new content, which reduces the chances that Matt Braly is only doing it because of fan demand and not out of passion. Additionally, I think because the fandom is smaller and nigh-exclusively focused on something they know isn't canon and is never going to be canon, something exploring the world and the characters is less likely to send headcanons toppling on the same scale

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shoutout to the utter madlad who heard me mention Stonemover x Farsight on their message board and then wrote an entire oneshot for it

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s1 jacob hill from abbott elementary 🤝 hooty from the owl house

"that guy? oh him. yeah, he's a fixture of this place. he just kind of goes around trying to talk to people and desperately attempt to befriend them. everyone loves him deep down, but no-one actually wants to be the one to, you know, get stuck in the conversation with him or sign up to be his new BFF."

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The Wings of Fire fandom is wrong in general about Clay being 'oblivious' towards Peril's feelings, because he's really not that oblivious. People like to portray him like Phineas Flynn--like he wouldn't know if somebody liked him if they said it to his face, but that's really not Clay.

I think there are two major reasons that this interpretation arises--aside from the fact fandoms love to flanderize 'oblivious' characters--and those are 1) Clay being confused when Tsunami jokingly describes Peril as his 'girlfriend' in TDP, and 2) by the time EP rolls around, Peril's feelings for Clay have gone unacknowledged by Clay. However, I don't necessarily think either of these factors point towards the complete romantic oblivion that most people like to portray him with, and I'll break it down.

1: Clay being confused when Tsunami jokingly describes Peril as his girlfriend

The DoD are, for the most part, very much written like teenagers, and I think that's pretty clear in TDP, where Clay is somewhat consistently portrayed as finding the whole 'relating to girls' thing quite confusing. When Glory and Tsunami are frustrated with him over stating that Peril could be their 'wings of sky', his response is to ask if it's a 'girl thing he doesn't understand'. He's genuinely surprised whenever any dragon expresses that he's attractive. He is the only one of the Dragonets Of Destiny--Sunny aside--to not even slightly pick up on Starflight's feelings for Sunny (interestingly, I never see anybody integrating 'utter obliviousness' into Sunny's fan perception despite how blindsided she was by Starflight expressing his feelings). I think at this point it's pretty safe to say that Clay isn't so much oblivious as he is just new to the concept entirely and that relating to the opposite gender within the framework of potential romance rather than just 'his sisters and Kestrel' is pretty new ground. Also, when Tsunami makes the 'evil girlfriend' quip, Clay has only known Peril for a few days, and he hasn't necessarily considered her in that light, so he's a bit confused when Tsunami goes there.

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2: Clay has not acknowledged Peril's feelings, at least to her by the time Escaping Peril happens

By the time Escaping Peril rolls around, it seems like everyone but Clay can tell that Peril likes him, but Clay apparently hasn't made any moves one way or the other towards her, making them the only Arc One implied couple to not have had some form of resolution by this point in Arc Two (Fatespeaker and Starflight are nigh-inseparable throughout A2, we've seen Glory and Deathbringer interact in Winter Turning and being quite affectionate towards one another; and Riptide and Tsunami are not together because neither can get the guts up to actually reach out first, but they both think about each other a lot), which leads a lot of people to assume that Clay is simply unaware of Peril's feelings. However, that's not reflected in the text. Clay is explicitly confronted about Peril's feelings towards him in chapter four, and his response isn't to be 'who? me? no she doesn't!'

That's not the response of someone who is being confronted with the Entirely New Concept of someone liking them. This reads more like Clay is aware of Peril's feelings and is concerned that Ruby will assume that the reason he's willing to pardon Peril is either a) because they're dating and he's willing to look more kindly on her or b) he's flattered by the attention. He also seems to want to shut down Starflight's implication that Peril's redemptive feature is her loving him. Additionally the epilogue of Darkness of Dragons features Clay asking Peril to fly with him in what is generally implied to be a romantic gesture, but only after we see that she has integrated into the school--she has friends, she has interests, she's shown a degree of moral development.

This all reads to me like Clay is aware that Peril is interested in him--and perhaps he's interested in her too--but he also knows that in her emotionally disastrous current state, where she is using him as a template for her sense of morality and has invested her entire sense of stability and self-worth in his affection for her, it would be a terrible idea for him to act on those feelings. Clay steadfastly believes that Peril can be a better dragon and he doesn't want that linked simply to himself. This is reflected in the beginning of Escaping Peril when Peril asks 'what do you want me to do?' and his response is that he's not going to become a new Scarlet for her--Clay's not going to engage with her beyond his usual brand of friendly affection until he's sure he's not the centre of her whole world, and that she's able to find a sense of self-worth outside of him. Which is the smart and healthy thing to do--if he did decide to act on her feelings, the obsession would likely become worse and if the relationship ended poorly, she'd only become more volatile, distrustful and murderous. Shout-out to Clay for handling the Peril situation really well, actually.

TL;DR: Clay's actually cleverer than we give him credit for, especially in matters of emotions, even if it took him a while to get there.