#monologuing to the void

[genericnam]

Why, out of GF, Amphibia, and TOH, only Luz didn't have to leave her new world behind:

I've seen people complain about Amphibia and to a lesser extent, Gravity Falls, for having their series end with a goodbye; the main characters having to leave their found families and this world they've grown to love and return to regular life. But the thing is, the three shows all have MASSIVELY different morals, that each fit in with how the goodbyes (or lack thereof) work into the finales.

Gravity Falls has a large theme of temporary goodbyes and reconciling. Stan and Ford being the primary example. But there are others: Soos and Melony, Wendy and Robbie, even Dipper and Mabel to an extent. The show builds upon this with Gravity Falls being a VACATION, they aren't trapped there, they could theoretically go home at any time. Episodes such as Summerween and Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future also build on the tone, telling that it's okay to both grow up and move on, but you don't have to leave behind what you once loved in doing so.

The final conflicts (Wierdmaggedon) are caused because of characters not being able to let go. Stan couldn't let go of Ford, Mabel couldn't let go of Gravity Falls, Gideon couldn't let go of Mabel.

Gravity Falls teaches the viewer that even if you love something, you have to let it go, and eventually it will return. In the words of Bill Cipher: "We'l meet again. Don't know where, don't know when. I just knew we'll meet again, some sunny day."

Amphibia has a similar theme of Gravity Falls, but it takes it further. Amphibia tells you that if you don't let go, sometimes things will only get worse. The primary example for this is the show's catalyst event: Marcy getting Anne to steal the Music Box. Marcy chose to go to Amphibia, rather than move away, and she dragged her friends into it with her. Instead of having a long distance friendship with Sasha and Anne, she took them to an alternate dimension in order to spend eternity on a massive adventure, and it got her killed. Marcy and Anne died and Sasha tried to kill herself.

And that's only Marcy. Sasha was a control freak that bordered on yandere at the height of her villain arc. Sasha couldn't accept that Anne was beginning to move on from the toxic friendship that the Calamity Trio had locked themselves into.

The trio were horrible to eachother, pre-character arcs, and they needed to focus on self improvement before they could even hope to be good friends. In the time between 'All In' and the epilog, the Calamity Trio would not have actually been able to be good for eachtoher. They say they forgive eachother, but that was forgiveness given during a WAR. Post show, the real feelings would start to bubble up. Anne's resentment for the betrayals, Marcy’s abandonment issues, Sasha's definite self hatred. The trio HAD to split up to have any semblance of a friendship.

Amphibia tells its audience that not all good things can last, and if you obsess and force it to stay, it can destroy you.

The Owl House has a completely opposite moral. It tells you to find your people, and fight for them.

Luz lived in the Human Realm, but it was never her home. Her home was with Camila and Manny, but when Manny died, Camila and Luz's relationship began to falter. That world wasn't her home. When Luz found the Boiling Isles, she was always supposed to be able to leave. This wasn't a summer trip she didn't want at first, or a one way portal. The Boiling Isles was HER choice.

Luz picked Bonesburrow. Luz picked Hexside. Luz picked The Owl House. Her home was always meant to be The Boiling Isles. She only started trying to find a way back to Earth because the choice was taken from her. Luz no longer had the choice to go back to the Human Realm. In fact, the only time Luz chose Humans over Isles was when she was PUNISHING herself for helping Belos.

Luz got to stay in the Boiling Isles because TOH tells its audience that where you start isn't where you should always stay. Find your place and find your people. And when you do, hold it dear and never let go. "Us weirdos have to stick together."

[belovedroach]

Do you have a design and headcanons for the orange side? What are your theories? Or are you just gonna wait until they get confirmed before assuming anything?/lh/silly

Being honest, I don't have much thoughts about Orange. I prefer seeing other people's interpretation on him !!

I like the idea that he represents Rage/Hate, and that he doesn't have a body of his own. I litsened to that one audio with AM's Hate Monologue™ and went "yeah, that's him"

i like amorphus creatures

Also in the bugs au he'd be a mosquito. Because I hate them (and could also work as a metaphor for feeding off of the other sides negative emotions too, I guess)

[thekamikazepigeon]

One day I'm going to watch the How To Train Your Dragon movies and give live commentary on all the ways the movie butchered the original books

[infinitelymint]

Okay, so that involuntary depression riorgail arranged marriage fic I’ve been working on, right? Yeah, the first chapter is pretty much done. It needs heavy editing and I likely need to delete the hundred of times I say the same thing in a slightly different way, but writing wise, it’s pretty done. And it’s rather long (like 16k ish). Now, the question is… do I edit it and post it? Or do I wait until all of it is finished… how much do I trust myself?

I think it’s going to be three chapters in total but the next two are all vibes and weird sentences I’ve jotted down for now - and I’m very busy for the next couple of weeks, so the next installment is likely quite a few weeks away. But chapter one does end on a note that could have made it a complete work in and of itself, I think, and, like if anyone would actually want to read it, the encouragement for writing the last two chapters would be nice...

Decisions, decisions.

[failingatlifespectacularly]

Any1 got any more quotes 4 me 2 translate? This is fun!

[univemma]

thunderbolts* means a lot to me not just bc its a good mcu movie, but because the message is ultimately the same one i discovered several years ago and what has ultimately got me here today: mental illness WILL fuck you in the ass, but your friends will provide the aftercare <3

[kacievvbbbb]

*Puts hand on your lower back and gently leads you down the path* walk with me for a moment. Think about it;

Young Mihawk, Young Shanks, Laurie confessing to Jo speech from Little Women (2017). Right before Shanks pulls off the robbery and heads to the East blue. the last time Shanks asks Mihawk to join his crew the only time he really means it.

*Grabs your arm as you start to walk away* wait wait- just listen.

Shanks saying all this? Right before he knows he’s about to steal something very important from a navy ship and would probably need to lie low for years. His way of begging Mihawk to come with him? Insane fucking cut my heart out.

Shanks: Sail with me?

Mihawk: …..What?

Shanks: Sail with me.

Mihawk:….(sigh) Shanks can we not-

Shanks: no no its no use Mihawk , we gotta have it out I have loved you ever since I’ve known you Mihawk I couldn’t help it, and and I tried to show you and you wouldn’t let me and I must make you hear me now and give me an answer because I cannot go on like this any longer, I gave up rum I gave up everything you didn’t like I’m happy I did it’s fine and I waited and I never complained because I, you know I figured you’d love me Mihawk and I realised im not half good enough and im not this great man and I-

Mihawk: Shanks! No.

And Shanks would keep pushing because to a young shanks whose only ever had crew as family and who never really got over his abandonment issues; Joining the crew is saying you’ll stay and staying means you love him enough to not leave him. And Shanks can’t deal with anyone else leaving him.

But of course all this does is push Mihawk away. They leave Shanks to rob a marine ship and Mihawk to leave a trail of bodies in his wake. And the next time they see each other Shanks has lost an arm and Mihawk’s entire world came crashing down.

[ell-if-i-know]

ME WHEN "Oh, look at these two. How they wish to destroy one another. How they wish to control one another.

How they both wish to be free.

Can you see? Can you see how much they need one another? No, perhaps not. Sometimes these things cannot be seen."

AND

"When every path you can walk has been created for you long in advance, death becomes meaningless, making life the same. Do you see now? Do you see that Stanley was already dead from the moment he hit start?"

AND ALSO

"Because maybe, Stanley, maybe - if you can hear me, then maybe it means I'm real. Maybe I'm not just a fiction. Was I scared of that all along? Perhaps, yes. Perhaps I've been scared this whole time that if I stop speaking, I'll slip backwards into the silence and be consumed by it. I can't be taken by it, Stanley. I can't lose myself in the stretch of emptiness between you and me.

When you press that button, you're still right there, but I know you're so tremendously far away. And in those moments, the emptiness folds itself outward in between the two of us, and I am suspended in its unyielding quietness. I can feel the edges of my reality curdling inward and decaying. I can tell that I am becoming less and less real.

Yet to speak to you now, I am alive! I am truly and completely here! I am a being, I am someone, I am something! I am being listened to, I am being recognized! The emptiness between us has collapsed, and I feel, right now, like I am not a work of fiction! I feel as though I occupy space in this world again, and I have cast a shadow onto the wall."

[laufire]

"Batman is an emojock leather-queen fuckmuppet."

— The Refrigerator Monologues: "The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Pauline Ketch", Catherynne M. Valente.

[psychicthepsychic-daily]

welcome to psychic daily, where half the posts mention void’s name but not psychic’s /lhj

[dangerousdan-dan]

My battle against ai continues. I'm about to be kicked out from an independent project where I wrote the script and built 90% of the concept because I refuse to let them use ai for the visual stuff :D

AI is ruining every aspect of my creative work and putting my income at risk at every turn and I don't know what to do anymore. I really don't.

[rragnaroks]

hello. it is i, your friendly neighbourhood goblin that pops up every now and then to scream about something new.

i love damien haas.

this has been a psa.

[thekamikazepigeon]

Today I referred to kissing as "mashing your face holes together to make a saliva goop baby" and I don't know whether to be ashamed for proud

[minlicious]

i just finished iphigenia in aulis and i am not okay. do not talk to me for the next 10-1000 business days because i need to recover.

[unfortunate17]

i never realized how much using tumblr has affected my thought process until i also started using twt. and i don't mean slang or references or anything like that - i mean my literal thought process. the existence of tags had led to me basically having 2 categories of thoughts: main thoughts that go in the actual post and secondary, side thoughts that go in the tags. kind of like inside vs outside thoughts. big vs small thoughts if you will

[wizerdbattle]

I got Silverborn a couple days ago and I won't get to properly get through it until tomorrow, but I think I'll save most of my thoughts for tumblr until after I'm finished... and believe me I WILL have THOUGHTS 😁