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happy trans day of visibility! here’s my favorite trans character 🏳️‍⚧️🫶

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Happy Easter!

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Raeda Bunnies for Easter 🐰

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felt silly, made a uquiz: are you gus or matt from toh

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I hc that it’s one of those “placeholder” photos that comes with the frame when you buy it and he didn’t know that so he left it in and has been like imagining who those people were and what kind of lives they had. Truly THE anthropologist ever.

Was rewatching Labyrinth runners and I don’t think we talk enough about the possibility of Gus playing the guitar

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This is GORGEOUS! The amount of detail is insane

Thanks For Watching! 🦉💖

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It’s 4:30 am and I just realized Amity and Luz LITERALLY fell in love. Hooty dropped them into a pile of heart shaped pillows and other love-related things.

I can’t-

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Imma be honest, I was a little skeptical when I saw people type Stringbean as INFP immediately after For the Future, but this is the most INFP thing I’ve ever seen. Too many emotions? I’m noping right out of that, thankyou.

ITS SO FUNNY CAN SOMEONE GIF RIGHT AFTER LUZ DISOLVES INTO LIGHT AND STRINGBEAN JUST GOES STAFF MODE AND DIPS OUT OF FRAME I CAKJDSJBD

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I’m like 99% sure we never see their ears but if I’m wrong pls let me know and disregard this poll lmao

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goodbye owl house, and thanks for everything <3

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That scene gave me The Little Prince vibes 100000% - i might make a post about it later but i have to recover first lmao

TOH SPOILERS AHEAD

I want to share something regarding my feelings about the Collector that I shared on one of the Discord servers I'm apart of. It's about his ending:

So I was spoiled beforehand about the Collector leaving and I was so so mad about it at first.

I wanted him to stay so badly. To have a family and not be alone again.

But... learning the context of why he's leaving, I'm really proud of him.

I was so worried about him being alone again but I realised something as I watched the ending: This is different from all the other times he's been left alone and abandoned.

This time, He's got people to go back to now. People who really care about him now who love him. Real friends and a real family.

He is not being exiled. He is leaving on his own accord. To learn and grow and to paraphrase his own words "got some growing up/maturing to do". He's no longer restricted and trapped in a mirror with his only company being that manipulative bastard Belos. He's free! And best part:

He's got people in his corner now. Luz, Eda, King. He's got people to go back to. People who really care about them, people who love him and understand him. They're his family now.

He's going out there to learn and understand, and that's so freaking admirable. And I'm so proud of him for it <33.

He won't stay away forever. He's gonna come back and visit once in a while, said so himself. And King (and this is a big thing that had me squealing) wants him to come back eventually and THAT is a guarantee Collector will make sure to visit.

What's happening right now is exactly the opposite of what happened before. He's free to explore and learn about the worlds, he's got people who genuinely care about him.

He's never going back to his siblings, I can't imagine him WILLINGLY going back. It makes no sense for him to go back after he literally expressed his hatred for what they did to his Titan friends. I think he's just going to travel and see what the universe has to offer. See what else there is to learn. And I bet he's going to have a blast.

This may not have been the ending we Collector fans have imagined for him. But I do believe this is a good one. He's free and despite the fact he is indeed heading out into the galaxy on his own, can we really say he's alone? When he's got people like Luz, Eda and King he'll go back for?

In the end, Collector got exactly what he and what we wished for him. Freedom and a real family. Its just not in a form we expected. And I, for one, am extremely happy for him.

Thank you Dana and the rest of the TOH crew for this awesome finale and a spectacular show in general.

And Collector, enjoy your journey lil' bean <3

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Out of context Watching and Dreaming spoilers

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Sure tomorrow Jesus rose from the dead to save all mankind or whatever it is he did for the christians but TONIGHT Luz rose from the dead to quote her cringe book series and beat the shit out of a puritan once and for all with the help of found family

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Is Belos a Wendigo? - TOH Essay

Last night I came across a drawing of a wendigo and was struck by how similar it looked to Belos’s goop form. With a little more research, I found out that wendigos are usually depicted as extremely skinny and tall humanoid monsters with glowing eyes. Many also have deer-like antlers and skulls. These are all traits that Belos has in his goop form. 

Left: RyanStanleyArtwork; Right: JamJamTheArtMan

I decided to look deeper into the lore of the wendigo. These beasts are mainly known for their insatiable cannibalistic hunger, but I found the story of their creation especially interesting. Legend says a human becomes a wendigo either as a cumulation of extreme greed and selfishness or when a person becomes a cannibal. 

Belos has historically been a greed-driven character, a trait which only intensified when he started drawing glyphs on himself in an attempt to gain power. He doesn’t eat other humans, but I think he could still be classified as a cannibal in another way. After he made a habit of putting glyphs on himself, he started visibly becoming something inhuman. Now some strange mesh of human and magic, the only way he could fight off the side effects of his mistake was to consume palismen. And since he’s partly made of magic, eating palismen is, in a way, cannibalism. 

He did appear more or less human up until the finale of season 2, but the monstrous appearance beneath the surface would show itself whenever he went too long without a palisman meal. Consuming palismen didn’t fight the monster within him, it just helped him hide it. 

In King’s Tide, the Collector “killed” Belos by sending him flying into a wall, leaving behind a green splat. Ever since then, Belos has been unable to keep a human appearance. My theory is that while he didn’t die, his human body did. Eating palismen was enough to keep his flesh together, but with it gone he can’t hide his true appearance. He’s been a wendigo for a long time. 

And then in Thanks to Them, Belos possessed Hunter. There are lots of reasons he might have picked Hunter over anyone else. One I’d like to point out is that grimwalkers contain palistrom wood. At this point in the show, Belos is quite literally starving to death. Palistrom wood doesn’t exist in the realm he’s trapped in. And if it’s true that palismen are the only thing with the ability to subside his hunger, Hunter must have looked especially enticing. And that’s not even considering the power dynamics of finally inhabiting a human body again, especially one with so much significance to his enemies. Now, according to wendigo lore, there isn’t really a way to separate a wendigo from the human it’s possessing while keeping the host alive. I believe the current speculation among other fans is that Hunter only temporarily died because he drowned. Either way, Flapjack was able to sacrifice himself to resuscitate Hunter. 

Side note: The new scars Hunter had after being possessed are (per my theory) Belos eating away at the palistrom wood in his skin. For this reason, I don’t think Raine will have scars after being possessed by Belos. 

After making all these connections, there was one last question I had. How does one kill a wendigo? I found two different answers from a variety of sources. One is that you need to remove the heart of the wendigo, where the source of their evil lies. The other method (which came up slightly more often) was to burn it with fire. 

In the recent promo for Watching and Dreaming, the light glyph was referenced a lot. If Belos is a wendigo-inspired villain, maybe he will be affected by light glyphs the same way wendigos are affected by fire. My standing prediction based on all of this is that the light glyph itself will be what destroys Belos for good. 

Whether or not my predictions come true, I am enamored by Belos’s character design. The comparison I’ve detailed in this post is just another fascinating parallel I wanted to share with you all. I have no idea if his design was really inspired by the wendigo, but the theorizing is most of the fun anyway! 

Also if I incorrectly credited either of the artworks or if you are the owner and want me to remove it, please let me know!

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EMMILINE BAILEY MARCOSTIMO !!!!!

*picks her up and shakes her violently*

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