#tls willow

[aliturean]

nothing says sibling bond more than getting tangled up in mind boggling supernatural shit and escaping death but maybe that's just them

willow and my mc, dev agrawal from @thelonelyshore-if !!

[thelonelyshore-if]

When my mc reunites with willow he’s gonna be so conflicted because he’s happy to see willow here but also willow what the hell are you doing here

I'm gonna be real I have some dialogue that's been written for like................a year and a half now (basically right when I started writing the game) that is basically MC asking Willow what the hell they're doing here. And Willow trying to be smug about it. And MC being like 'i love you but what the fuck were you thinking'.

[agrebel18]

i always laugh whenever i see someone like "i see this character as aspec but they're canonically/implied to be gay/bi/pan/straight" like first of all, good for you for respecting that, but second of all, as someone who is in a lot of fandom spaces and is aspec, i suggest for you to not give up on a headcanon that means a lot to you, like if your blorbo DOES have a canon/implied label, make them alloace or alloaro, or even demi or grey or any other microlabel, and same thing applies if they don't have a canon/implied label!!! we gotta have fun SOMEHOW, am i right?!

[mused-like-roses]

 💖 Between Qrow and Willow? Would they make eachother better or worse?

A Less Spicy Shipping Meme

How likely they are to enter a relationship with them:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

Would they…

Make the first move? Yes | No Say “I love you” first? Yes | No Cheat on them? Yes | No Be the jealous type? Yes | No Plan the dates? Yes | No Initiate the first kiss? Yes | No Remember anniversaries? Yes | No

BOLD WHAT APPLIES:

Their Relationship Is:

friends to lovers | rivals to lovers | enemies to lovers | still just enemies | mutual pining | star crossed lovers | old married couple | perpetual honeymoon phase | stable and boring | stable but not boring | secret lovers | best friends hiding their feelings | and they were roommates | friends with benefits | coworkers avoiding HR | one-sided affection | weird sexual tension | it’s complicated | toxic relationship | a secret affair | an actual dumpster fire | other

PUBLIC Displays of Affection:

hand holding | kiss on the hand | kiss on the cheek | kiss on the forehead | kiss on the lips |  cuddling | hugging | affectionate messages or comments | pet names | pictures together | no displays of affection

PRIVATE Displays of Affection:

hand holding | kiss on the hand | kiss on the cheek | kiss on the forehead | kiss on the lips |  cuddling | hugging | affectionate messages or comments | pet names | pictures together | no displays of affection

Do they stay together?

yes, this is endgame | yes but someone is gonna die tragically | something is keeping them apart | they part ways as friends | they part ways as enemies | they’re on-again-off-again | they have a super messy breakup | it was just a fling | other

BONUS

What terrible pet names would they give each other?

[willowstea]

I love pre-orders so much <3333 I used the b-day month discount from Indigo to pre-order books from my insta-buy authors list and now I'm going to have what will most likely be the best books I read all year showing up at random points during the year. Also snagged some books I read through the library and loved so much I needed it for myself.

[slightecho]

Goldenrod and Aster

commission by the lovely and amazing @turquoisespace35 of a very familiar scene from my Owl House fic, Ashes!!

Then, the clearing in the trees came into full view, and Willow let out a soft gasp. The sun shone through in bright rays, lighting up everything in a warm golden yellow. No leaves touched the ground here. Instead, the clearing was filled in a blanket of yellow, purples and green! The brushing she’d felt along her legs had been lush spikes of yellow flowers, strong and healthy as she passed by them. And where there were gaps amongst the fluffy-looking tufts of yellow, bunches of small, purple flowers like starbursts grew in between. “Goldenrod,” she giggled, reaching out to lightly touch a dusty branch. As she eased forward into the clearing, she was careful not to step on any big stems. Her fingertips drifted easily to the purple next, and she crouched down with a smile on her face. “And Aster…” These were often mistaken for daisies in her dad’s shop. It was getting more common to see these two plants growing together in the wild—their colors contrasted, and that meant they would attract different pollinators. Because of this, growing together would give them each benefit from the pollinators from the other. A whole new set of ones they would have never attracted on their own. They were able to grow more flowers together, than apart, that way. A wonderfully symbiotic relationship. Willow smiled up at Hunter, and snickered. “I’m guessing you probably also found all the major beehives on this side of Gravesfield, but don’t look for them now,” she remarked. The bees were likely starting to go dormant with the days growing colder. It was best not to disturb them. Hunter blanched, his eyes going wide and his proud grin falling from his face. “Wait, what?”

Working with @turquoisespace35 on this commission was an absolute pleasure! I’ve been such a fan of her work for a long time and I knew if I ever commissioned a Huntlow piece from Ashes, it would have to be from her! Thank you again, Turquoise!!

I can’t believe how perfectly she captured the vibe and the ambience of the scene without ever having read a single word of Ashes, just my own TL;DR description of the scene. 🥰

If anyone’s looking to commission Huntlow artwork, please check @turquoisespace35 out!

If you’re interested in checking out Ashes, you can do so here:

[ratkingdraws]

Somebody's watchin' me. It's my anxiety

Congrats to @thelonelyshore-if for the Chapter 3 release! I was listening to Anxiety by Doechii when my tls brain rot gave me the idea to make art for it. Towards the end of making it, the idea to turn it into a poster hit me in the head like a brick so here we are!

Extra yapping under the cut! It does contain spoilers for chapter 3 so please don't open that if you are avoiding spoilers.

I pulled a handful of references from the story for this piece.

The Fog and The Lake being the most obvious parts

The mushroom and eyes from Willow's journal. The eye designs are specifically from Croft's tattoos shown here. The eyes really rep mc always being watched by the fog

The tendril from the lake that dragged mc under during the storm and the X's over their eyes to represent them dying in said lake

"Wrong" coming from mc's thoughts about the way the mall feels

Croft telling Yasmin that mc's arrival is "breaking the pattern"

Ravi's quote " Nobody leaves Easthaven. Ever." during the reveal scene with him, Jay, and Dr. Jones.

Blood dripping down the forehead as a nod to the car crash

Distortion on "Easthaven" in the quote and on the jacket patch since it's kinda like a pocket dimension

Doe as a patch! One of the biggest "yeah this shit is supernatural" reveals we've gotten so far

[a-starlit-canvas-of-worlds]

Spring cleaning and fixing. Start. Previous. Next.

[ @ii-thelightseekers ]

Bros freaking place be looking so plain, who allowed this monster to get away with making such a horrible break room, 1000 years in jail /silly

ANOTHER PAGE LETS GO! ! ! This one is just before the super great pages, which are the ones where you get to see the new design I made for the break room! I hope you're all excited for those because I sure am!

Now I need something to tell you all about here. . . UHHHHHHHHH- OH!

As some of you are aware, BT Taco sleeps with TLS OJ in his bed cuddling him. Well, BT Taco finds it hard to sleep so she tends to sleep in whenever she actually gets any sleep. This kind of traps TLS OJ in his bed until she wakes up, and OJ doesn't have the heart to wake her up so he sometimes is late for work due to this.

TLS OJ will sometimes keep his cork on that way BT Taco can ride on him or even take a nap!

BT Taco has made tunnels through the walls of Meeple which can reach all over the building, all the openings are hidden with the only objects knowing about them being BT Taco herself, BT Bow, and Caelus {@h-------heh-ggg}. Cobs doesn't know.

I think at some point much later on in the story BT Taco will take a whole willow tree and add it in the middle of the break room where there isn't much. Yes the roots will be seen coming out through the ceiling of whatever room is under where the break room is. No the tree won't die, how? Uhhh m a g i c.

[s4pphicyearning]

guys i miss seeing blue-willow-tree on my tl

[blueberry-ink-93]

BACK ON MY BS (biscuit soliloquy)

woof. everyone say hi to willow lol, this is the project ill be focusing on the most whoo!! special thanks to @maruyaaya and @cassentia who enabled and encouraged the murderous fun times back in march lol

will be making a kindreds kitchen post today hopefully of the characters and rough time line ig as i try to remember everything i had planned (but didnt write bc god forbid i do anything sensible) and then a few indiviual deep dives into charcterisations etc :>

tl;dr darkfic spinoff (of sub rosa) neo dies and andi goes to town on his corpse lmao. ft medically accurate murder & gore :3

[thelonelyshore-if]

I understand if you can't/won't disclose it, because it may be a big spoiler. But I was wondering: Would/Could Willow date one of the RO's of the MC is not romancing them? So, for example, say my MC is romancing Jay, would Willow consider beginning a romance with one of the other ROs?

I ask because since Willow has their opinions about the ROs, I thought it made sense to see if those opinions extrapolate into romance or not.

I also understand if Willow is like, completely in a different mindset, and would not even think about romance during the story.

It may be funny, and awkward, however, if different MC's and Willow's of different alternate realities/timelines find each other and are shocked one MC is dating in one universe the same person a Willow of another universe is dating.

Hey Nonnie!! Thanks for the question c:

Willow will not date any of the ROs. I do think it has the potential to be an interesting idea, but it's not something I really want to explore with this story. Sorry about that!!

I am playing with the idea that Willow will have two 'potential ROs' of their own. The MC's actions/choices in regards to Willow would posdibly push them towards one or the other. That being said, that wouldn't be until book two/three, since there's going to be a lot going on when Willow comes back into the story this book!!

Thanks again!

[cambriancrew]

Hi!! Ty for your response on my post it actually helped a lot i think :) just wondering and not to pry into personal stuff maybe but is switching a different experience as an endogenic system / do you not relate to traumagenic systems in their experiences w it? If amnesia and dissociative barriers are less common does switching involve less of the dissociative stage? Usually I dont like to interrogate people into educating me and do it myself but Its hard to find a lot of sources on this if im being honest.

I think it really depends on how you're defining dissociation, and also varies a lot from endogenic system to system. Generally, probably most often less dissociation involved, as switching is usually most often a controlled, consensual process rather than something triggered.

There's also several different types of switching, ranging from partial switching which is like co-fronting with trading off which of you is controlling the body, to a kind of blending sorta where it feels like you become your headmate, to swapping where your headmate is in control of the body and you're either imposed/projected outside of the body or temporarily dormant/sleeping/unaware, to what we in my system refer to as full switching, where your headmate takes full control and you go to your innerworld.

And you can have multiple of those kinds of switching in the same system - we have all of those except for the kinda blending one.

In some endogenics, particularly commonly among tulpa/parogen systems, switching only happens with immense effort and full consent of all parties involved. That's how it is with our parogens, though it's become much faster and much much easier with lots of time and practice. (10+ years of it!) But with other systems, it can be more fluid and effortless, like within us-Willows in our median system, where we can switch in between all four of us in the space of one slow breath in and out. And there's a lot of variation in between.

There's also some systems where it's most common for only one or two people to be in front at a time, so switching is more a substantial switch. In other systems, there's a team of many front-runners all the time, and so it's less significant a change when the switch out one or two of their team at a time.

TL, DR: It's very varied.

[pjsk-story-summaries]

April Fools Year 1.1: Shuffle Units

TL;DR: For April Fools, Miku brought us to explore an alternate timeline for a day. All the characters are the same ones we know and love; however, if their stories had shifted just slightly....

Aoharu/friends consists of Ichika, Saki, Ena, and Airi. They are a band who want to enjoy youth together. Ichika plays guitar, Saki synthesizer, Ena drums, and Airi bass.

YUME YUME JUMP! consists of Kanade, An, Shizuku, and Shiho. They are a recently-formed trial idol unit with the goal of spreading hope through music.

Fantasista SQUAD consists of Akito, Toya, Tsukasa, and Rui. They pair up as street performers with the goal of putting on incredible performances in back alleys.

Happiness Sentai SunnySunny☆Wonder! consists of Emu, Haruka, Mafuyu, and Kohane. They work together to put on a play at the Wonder Stage for a class project.

Fellow Hobbyists on Days Off. consists of Mizuki, Honami, Nene, and Minori. They are a Nightcord circle who bond over having passionate interests.

Fan translation (Project SEKAI in English) Main Cast conversations

Aoharu/friends Cover: Aoku Kakero! (feat. Hatsune Miku)

Saki wants to enjoy her adolescence by starting a band. She invited Ichika, who wants to cover Miku songs, and Airi, the idol who inspired her in the hospital, to join. Airi also invited Ena, an old friend and Kamiyama night school student.

The band all visit Phoenix Wonderland together. Saki wants to get their photo taken, but Ena's hesitant. Airi convinces her to join, since neither of them can deny Ichika and Saki's eagerness.

The group discuss Airi's strictness during band rehearsal. They decide to come up with incentives for completing all their practice goals. Ichika wants to go to a Miku concert, Saki wants to go hiking, and Ena wants to crash one of Akito's performances.

YUME YUME JUMP! Cover: Happy Synthesizer

The members all greet each other for the first time. Shizuku formed the group with Kanade, who was pushed into it to save others with her music in new ways, Shiho, a temporary member who wants experience as a professional musician, and An, who's excited for a challenge.

Kanade quickly becomes exhausted during practices. An jokingly suggests she tries a power suit the strange guy at her school built. Shiho points out shortcuts like that defeat the point of spreading hope. They decide to improve Kanade's stamina by running with her every morning, much to her dismay.

YUME YUME JUMP prepare for their debut event. Shizuku explains the name of their group as symbolizing the overlapping dreams of their group before they head out on stage.

Fantasista SQUAD Cover: Ifuudoudou (feat. KAITO)

The four discuss stage names based on their last names (much to Akito's annoyance): "Pegasus" Tenma, "God Generation" Kamishiro, "Blue Willow" Aoyagi, and "Daybreak" Shinonome. Toya had convinced Akito to join since Tsukasa and Rui could teach them about performance. Akito agrees if they can call their group something other than "Pegasus Dogs".

They decided on "Fantasista SQUAD" after the soccer and acting term for a skilled player. Tsukasa declares their group ready to be known in backstreets all around the world. Akito does not know what that means.

Akito and Toya watch Rui direct Tsukasa through a dance. They admire his attention to detail and knack for performance. Rui finally notices them and begins directing them, too. Toya takes the vague directions earnestly. Akito is still confused.

Happiness Sentai SunnySunny☆Wonder! Cover: Positive Dance Time (feat. Kagamine Rin)

The four members of the class project introduce themselves. Mafuyu was assigned leader due to being the oldest. Haruka joined since she liked the theme of "making people smile", and Kohane is a big fan of Phoenix Wonderland. Emu is scared of Mafuyu. They begin planning their show.

Emu plays a character named "Sunny Sunny Happy Emu", Mafuyu "Goodness Smile Mafuyu", Haruka "Stoic Challenger Haruka" and Kohane "Makeover Beast Kohane", the four members of "Happiness Sentai SunnySunny☆Wonder!". Mafuyu asks why Emu gave her the trait of "unshakable", but Emu's too scared to admit it's because she can't make Mafuyu smile for real. Kohane guesses it's because she's a reliable leader.

Haruka asks who the villain of the play will be. Mafuyu suggests playing that role, "demonstrating" a cold, unfeeling character, "Darkness Smile Mafuyu". Emu hesitates since she wants everyone, including Mafuyu, to smile, so Haruka suggests having it be a secret agent type character they eventually befriend.

Fellow Hobbyists on Days Off. Cover: Venom

The group have their first offline meeting. Mizuki introduces themself as the founder and lover of cute things and anime. Nene explains her fondness for musicals and competitive games. Minori is a fan of former idol Haruka. Finally, Honami loves walking her dog, gardening, and apple pies.

At their second offline meeting, the four discuss how nice it is to have people who listen to them ramble about their hobbies. Mizuki and Nene find it especially nice since they don't go to school often and have social anxiety, respectively. Honami and Minori are now dog walking buddies, too.

The group discuss Happiness Sentai SunnySunny☆Wonder!'s performance. Mizuki liked the story and Nene the music. Minori was so starstruck seeing Haruka in person that she stopped paying attention to her surroundings. After snapping her back to reality, they all decide to go eat a snack and discuss more.

[john-laurens]

The Wealth of the Kinloch Family

Because the Kinlochs are not as widely known as the Laurenses, Rutledges, and other southern elite families of the 18th century, the extent of their wealth may not be readily apparent. In this post, I'll provide context for the level of wealth possessed by the Kinlochs, focusing primarily on Francis Kinloch Sr. (1720-1767) and his two sons Francis Jr. (1755-1826) and Cleland. tl;dr: The Kinlochs were obscenely wealthy due to the use of slave labor, and Francis Jr. was bad at managing his finances.

To begin, it is helpful to understand a bit of the Kinloch family history. I have a post here that discusses the hereditary titles held by members of the extended Kinloch family. While Francis Sr. was not in possession of such a title, he was closely related to a family of high social status in their ancestral home of Scotland. Francis Sr. would marry Anne Isabella Cleland, the only daughter of another prominent South Carolinian family with Scottish ancestry. Their union - including the merging of their extensive properties - is described in Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World by Randy J. Sparks (p. 24):

John Cleland, a native of Scotland and a relative of William Cleveland, moved to South Carolina in 1735 with his wife, Mary Perry, who had inherited considerable property in the colony, including the site of Georgetown. Cleland quickly rose to prominence and became a member of the Royal Council in 1740 and served until his death in 1760. The couple's only daughter, Anne Isabella, married the only surviving son of James Kinloch, another prominent South Carolinian, a native of Scotland, and member of the Royal Council from 1720 to 1757. That union made the couple almost unimaginably rich; both Anne and Francis inherited vast properties, and they owned a number of the Lowcountry's finest rice plantations including the Rice Hope, Kensington, Rosemont, Willow Bank, Winyah, Weehaw, and Boone Hall plantations and property in Charleston.

Francis Sr. went on to become one of the foremost indigo planters in the colonies. In The Papers of Henry Laurens collection (TPHL), there are several references to Henry Laurens working with Francis Sr. on planting indigo and deferring to Francis's expertise:

"The Barrel of Indigo Seed is directed to Francis Kinloch, Esquire. (Footnote: Francis Kinloch died at Rice Hope plantation on the Santee on June 2, 1767. He was so successful as an indigo planter that the London Daily Advertiser, Aug. 18, 1767, noted his death by quoting from the Gazette, June 15, that he was 'one of the most considerable and successful Indico planters in this province.'" - Henry Laurens to Peter Horlbeck, April 18, 1765 (TPHL vol. 4) "I send you by Sam two Hoes contrived by Mr. John Cuthberth & therefore called Cuthberth's Hoes which I find are getting much into Vogue for Clay & hard new Land. Mr. Kinloch assures me that they are abundantly better than narrow Hoes and almost equal to a plough. Try these & if they answer the character given of them I shall get some more of the sort." - Henry Laurens to John Smith, February 27, 1766 (TPHL vol. 5) "I want Iron work for an Indigo Pump Machine which one Mr. Dicky is going to build for me at Mepkin, & am told by him that nobody can serve me so well as Mr. Kinloch's Smith near George Town who is used to such work." - Henry Laurens to Joseph Brown, May 10, 1766 (TPHL vol. 5) "I do think that Money may be made on that [St. Johns] River by Lumber & Shingles of Cypress & my expectations of Rice are very sanguine but the success of Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Gray, & your self will confirm or blast them." - Henry Laurens to William Bartram, September 17, 1766 (TPHL vol. 5) "I return Your Excellency many thanks for the offer of £2,000 Sterling in Bills of Exchange upon loan. If we were flush in the African Trade such a proposition would be extremely agreeable & I could dispose of the Money to advantage at present I have no occasion to borrow. But I shall look about & if I can find such hands as Mr. Kinloch would not have refused I shall recommend them to Your Excellency." - Henry Laurens to James Grant, January 28, 1768 (TPHL vol. 5)

A summary of Francis Sr.'s wealth at the time of his death is given in The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina by George C. Rogers, Jr. (5th printing, pp. 100-101):

At the time of his death in 1767 his personal estate was valued at £133,131.5.6 currency, which included 338 slaves and a mansion house in Charleston. His home in Charleston was filled with marble tables, glass lanthorns, and mahogany furniture. There were twenty-one table cloths, twelve pair pillow cases, five "pavillions" (mosquito nets), two flower china vases worth £40, prints worth £70, and in his stables a £600 chariot, a £150 phaeton, and £60 chair, besides plate on his sideboard valued at £1,148.14. ... He died at Rice Hope on June 2, 1767, "one of the most considerable and successful Indico planters in this province."

Based on this currency converter from The National Archives of the United Kingdom, £133,131.5.6 in the 1760s would be worth approximately £13,640,936.64 in 2017. I am not sure if this accurately reflects the inflation/exchange rates for pounds in the American colonies, but it gives a general idea of the wealth possessed by the Kinloch family. It should be noted that the Kinlochs' ability to attain such an obscene level of wealth was due to their use of slave labor across their many plantations. While Francis Sr. is credited as being perhaps the most successful indigo planter in the colonies, the true credit should be attributed to the enslaved people who actively planted, tended, and harvested this crop.

For the remainder of this post, much of the information will be taken from documents I accessed from the "Kinloch family history and genealogy research files" in the South Carolina Historical Society archives. Any quoted sections attributed to Anne Kinloch or a Kinloch descendant are from this collection. Letters between Francis Jr. and Johannes von Müller are transcribed from the microfilm held by the American Philosophical Society. I will note additional sources when used.

The will of Francis Sr. stipulated that the Kensington and Weehaw plantations would go to his sons Francis Jr. and Cleland. His daughter Mary Esther would "receive 1,000 English guineas if she would sign away her share in the plantations … She would also receive an annuity of £150 S.C. currency plus the rent from two tenements in Charleston" (footnote #2 for the letter from Henry Laurens to John Hopton dated February 23, 1771, TPHL vol. 7). The estate of Francis Sr. would not be fully divided among the sons until 1784 when Francis Jr. and Cleland were both of age and were both back in South Carolina after receiving their educations in Europe. Francis Jr. received Kensington while Cleland received Weehaw.

While abroad in Europe, Francis Jr. and his family would make several references to their finances. In a March 10, 1776 letter to her son Francis Jr., Anne Cleland Kinloch noted that her son Cleland "was so obliging as to send you [Francis Jr.] a £1000 pounds Ster, from Philadelphia, & a thousand in indigo from hence, you must be frugall my dear, as I dont know when you'll get any more, unless it can be sent by way of France or Holland to you, which is at present both uncertain, & unsafe." In a letter to Johannes von Müller dated August 3, 1777, Francis Jr. wrote that he was "Born to a fortune as ample as was necessary to render me independent, for upon moderate Computation My Brother & I would have been worth a thousand a year each, I find myself reduced to thank a Merchant for allowing me what I can just live upon for one year." In a later letter to Müller (February 21, 1778), Francis Jr. wrote, "My merchant who like Mr Boone sticks to me in these times of universal distress, has promised me two hundred Pounds more, but adds, nor do I wonder at it, that it will be out of his power to supply me with any more, so that I must make my two hundred pounds last as long as possible, & return to Carolina at the end of it should Nothing happen in the Mean time." While the ongoing American Revolutionary War impacted the security of their income and their ability to safely send money across the Atlantic Ocean, the Kinloch family was certainly not wanting for money, as evidenced by the fact that Francis Jr. was able to receive £1,000 and additional saleable indigo from his family and several hundred pounds from his merchant. Based on the currency converter linked above, £1,000 in the 1770s would be worth approximately £87,255.30 in 2017.

Like his father before him, Francis Jr. (and the rest of his family) relied on slave labor to make their fortune. Müller noted in a 1775 letter to his sister that "One of these Kinlochs [Francis Jr.] now commands 1200 negroes." This number is in contrast to the 338 slaves noted to be owned by Francis Sr. at the time of his death (see above). It is possible that Müller had an incorrect number for the number of slaves owned by Francis Jr. and his family, or it is possible that the 338 number referred to the number of slaves present at only one plantation. Francis Jr. also discussed with Müller, both while they lived together in Geneva and in their written correspondence, his plans for managing his slaves and plantations: "You used to laugh at me in our Walks at Genthod, when I amused myself with sketching [out] plans for the [regulation] of my Negroes in Carolina, but alas, my Muller, my ambition has now no other resource, for as to the Law, I execrate, & detest it, & as to the more pleasant walks of ambition, my ill fortune, or if you please, my pride & indolence have cut me off from them, happy alone in not having been deluded for any considerable time._" (November 13, 1777).

The Kinlochs were flush with blood money, and Francis Jr. lived lavishly and with little financial discretion. A Kinloch descendant who gathered biographical information on Francis Jr. noted that "He being the eldest Son was brought up to expensive habits and ran through all his property." Throughout his letters to Müller, Francis Jr. made several references to his spending habits, which often focused on sex workers and other pleasures:

"Though not œconomical, I am far from extravagant, & yet my money does not hold out._" - Francis Kinloch Jr. to Johannes von Müller, July 10, 1777 "I hate London from my soul in summer time, & then ones chastity is in danger at every step._ I am acquainted with a sweet, pretty girl, with black eyes, & a sensible look; but it Cost Me as much to pass one night with her, as it would to purchase all the Maidenheads that remain Within 30 miles of Berne_" - Francis Kinloch Jr. to Johannes von Müller, September 5, 1777 "You ask, I see it by your countenance, what I have done with 830* Pounds, spent since I have been in England, Why faith! I should be puzzled to give You a good account of it, All I can say is that my expectations, & my ignorance made Me less œconomical at first, that I have been obliged to have Clothes made, that Magninac [Francis’s valet] & Wit [Francis’s dog] have run away with near fifty Pounds between them, that Coming fresh from Italy it was some time before I could reconcile Myself to the Changes in my manner of life, & to crown all, that this town abounds With the Prettyest women in the World, Who are to be had for money; nor am I, You Know, insensible. Whilst I lived With You, & my Mind Was perpetually taken up, I was satisfied With the fortuitous enjoyment of a Savoyard girl, or a not-ugly beggar Woman_ But far different has been the case here_" - Francis Kinloch Jr. to Johannes von Müller, February 2, 1778 *This number could potentially be 330, but either way, this is a very large sum of money. ��330 in the 1770s would be worth approximately £28,794.25 in 2017, and £830 in the 1770s would be worth approximately £76,784.66 in 2017. "There is no living Cheap in this Place of temptations" - Francis Kinloch Jr. to Johannes von Müller, February 21, 1778 "Who Knows, but What, if I had enjoyed my estate from my coming of age, I might have contracted a habitude of debauchery & expense, which would have made me more Miserable than it is in the Power of fortune to do." - Francis Kinloch Jr. to Johannes von Müller, February 21, 1778

It is interesting that Francis Jr. believed his lifestyle to be "not extravagant" and that he had avoided living a life "of debauchery & expense" despite the hundreds to thousands of pounds he was spending each year.

Finances and the security of his estate played a large part in Francis Jr. deciding to return to America and take up arms against England. In a letter to Müller dated November 13, 1777, Francis Jr. acknowledged that accepting a position in the English civil service would likely have resulted in his estate being confiscated: "Suppose L[ord] N[orth] had had it in his power to gratify my ambition with some residency abroad; the most it could have been worth to Me would have been 8 or 9 hundred a Year, now see What the Consequences would have been_ The Americans have too many spies in England for this matter to have remained a Secret in Carolina, where it would have been Known in two or three months, & I have not the least doubt but what my estate would have immediately confiscated, an irreparable loss, as My Negroes who form the most valuable part would soon be scattered over the whole province." Francis Jr.'s lack of participation in the war could also have been taken as a loyalist stance and thus could have resulted in his property being confiscated. Francis Jr.'s property was also subject to additional taxation if he did not return to America, as "a South Carolina act passed March 28, 1778 ... included a provision to double tax all absentees who had reached the age of twenty-one" (footnote #5 for the letter from Henry Laurens to John Laurens dated September 17, 1778, TPHL vol. 14). Francis Jr. had turned 21 in 1776 and would have been subject to this tax. However, Francis Jr. sailed for America in April 1778, so it is unclear if he knew about the implementation of this act. He would arrive in America in September 1778 and would serve as an aide to various officers in the American military.

Francis Jr.'s fears of property confiscation and/or taxation were not unfounded. Cleland remained abroad during the war and did not return until 1783. Cleland's property was amerced, as described in The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina by George C. Rogers, Jr. (5th printing, pp. 160-161):

"The Kinlochs did suffer for their failure to embrace the patriot cause with sufficient fervor. But even they only suffered in that Cleland Kinloch was amerced 12 percent of his estate; he did not lose his plantations. Francis and Cleland Kinloch had been in school in England and Switzerland* when the Revolution broke out. Their estates were administered for them by Thomas Boone, former Royal Governor of South Carolina. Francis returned home in the summer of 1778, was elected to the Continental Congress, and took up arms on the patriot side; Cleland did not. After Cleland's estate had been amerced, Francis petitioned the Senate of South Carolina in his brother's behalf, explaining that his brother had been sent by the executor of his father's will to England at an early age for his education." *While Francis was educated in England and Switzerland, Cleland was educated in England, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

Despite this setback, Cleland appears to have been a better businessman than his brother. According to a descendant, Cleland pursued an education in the Low Countries of Europe with a desire for "mercantile life & learning business and languages." In a letter to Francis Jr. dated March 10, 1776, Anne Cleland Kinloch wrote that Cleland "intends to be a merchant. Your Sister is highly pleased with the notion and says he shall bring up all her sons, Cleland you know was ever the most saving of the two & seems not to have lost the industrious spirit he ever had." A descendant described Cleland's success in cultivating his plantation:

Cleland was an able and efficient man, of fine judgment & charming disposition and manners, and his life in Scotland & the Low Countries had made him business like and œconomical besides. Having received Wehaw plantation, and his portion of his fathers estate and negroes, he proceeded to improve and enlarge the plantation (long cultivated and partly watered under the system of large reservoirs) over the river swamp, and islands, and extend the cultivation under the new tidal system. And he erected there, on Mr. Lucas' plans, one of the first improved rice mills in Carolina, and operated by tidal water power, like the tide mills of Bourdeaux & Holland. His education & residence in the Low Countries facilitated this and he became an extensive and successful planter and made Wehaw on[e] of the finest & best managed plantations in the Country. Note: "Some of these machines (Rice Mills) have been lately improved by Mr. Lucas, his Son, & Mr Cleland Kinloch, of Georgetown, to such an extent that from the beating out of the grain to the packing it in barrels for market the whole & every part is particularly the same impelling power" (Ramsey Hist: S. Carolina 11. p. 257? 207). He also extended the employment of animal power, using many oxen, and draugh[t] animals and in 1784 and afterwards added to Wehaw large tracts of pine forest lands, which increased the place to about 5000 acres. Also when opportunity allowed he improved the grounds by planting trees and establishing gardens under the supervision of the new Scotch gardiner sent from Gilmerton.

In contrast, Francis Jr. struggled with his finances and the management of his property throughout his life. Francis Jr.'s granddaughter Sarah Lewis Simons Lesesne wrote that "Grandpapa from Carelessness about Receipts and expenditures[,] Security debts and dishonest agents, found himself when over 70 compelled to give up his old Family home adorned with beautiful trees of his own planting and resign himself to comparative poverty." "Kinloch of South Carolina" by H. D. Bull (The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, vol. 46, no. 2, p. 67) describes that, after Francis Jr. and his family returned from a multi-year trip to Europe in the early 1800s, "he found himself much reduced in fortune and was obliged to part with all of his property except Kensington. There he made his home until 1824 when the place was sold to Henry August Middleton for the sum of $40,000 which finally enabled him to discharge his debts." Henry August Middleton was married to Harriett Kinloch, the daughter of Cleland and therefore Francis Jr.'s niece. After this, Francis Jr. seems to have lived with his daughter Anne Cleland Kinloch Simons and her family in Charleston. Anne's daughter Sarah recalled her grandfather "with no taste for luxury in any form, with the simplest tastes and habits, a small bed in the corner of the Library his peculiar choice, a bowl of gruel often his breakfast." This description provides a stark contrast to the extravagance of Francis Jr.'s youth. Francis Jr. died in 1826, and his funeral was held at his daughter Anne's house.

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I’m going to be completely honest for this post. I’m currently neutral and not interested in shipping Huntlow at all.

The main reason being that the post series finale and the fandom kind of ruined it for me. Which is why I’m also now on the Anti Huntlow Shippers’ side.

The next is that to sum up Huntlow, is that as of Any Sport in Any Storm, Hunter gained a crush on Willow, Hunter but later down the road in For the Future she later became attracted to him after Flapjack’s death when he gained his palisman’s speed. Then in Watching and Dreaming and that one Disney chibi series episode (that I don’t even plan to watch) confirmed they were together, and their haters did not like that at all.

Mostly because when they’re on screen they’re shown not to have a lot of chemistry, interactions and shared interests with each other than being offended with the slander of “half a witch” which isn’t really seen with Hunter since he didn’t make a lot of appearances in the first half of Season 2 and his attraction to Willow wasn’t really reciprocated from her. And this assumption’s coming from a person who shipped Hunter with Edric before Any sport and any storm came out, and us the audience were supposed to expect they would become a couple, feels like instantly lowering expectations without permission or something.

Plus Hunter and Willow were confirmed to be Bisexual and Pansexual after the show ended and we’ve never seen them attracted to other people in their sexuality that made it true.

What I would’ve done was introduce Hunter as a new student at Hexside in the beginning of Season 2 and his time at Hexside could build up a friendship with Willow and Gus, the three would become classmates, and maybe he and Willow would’ve gotten closer through their new bond. As of right now we’re shown that Willow and Hunter are somehow together in the series finale.

Tl;dr to conclude despite having confirmed sexualities in a livestream after the series ended, Huntlow was basically straight baiting and is an example of Disney’s propaganda of constantly enforcing heteronormativity.

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TL;DR: Willow had one bad day and decided to make it his entire personality /j

That's kinda the presumption that everyday of his life sucks.

Reality is, he's twisting these interactions so that people think his life is all bad. Because it gets him positive interaction.

But also Willow is just a dick in general so theres that XD