#lunar rambles

[lunaroceanic]

I love how everyone’s guesses for what creature Luz’s palisman might become fits their character and how they relate to Luz

Camila: “What kind of magical creature will it be? A dragon?” —> a dragon is the quintessential fantasy creature and Camila knows just how much Luz loves her fantasy stories.

Hunter: “A bird?” —> Hunter associates Luz with the Owl Lady, and views her as a sister figure, so it would fit if she had a bird like he did. He’s also still processing Flapjack’s death, and probably wants to see someone have a bird, even though his is gone.

Amity: “Oh! An otter!” —> Amity gets to see the sweetest, cute-and-cuddliest side of Luz’s personality as her girlfriend 😌 also a reference to “I’m an otter! With a dark side >:3” from Grom.

Willow: “A spooky bat?” —> Willow knows Luz as a bit of a troublemaker and a free spirit from their times at Hexside. She also seems to dig the Halloween aesthetic based on her costume 😈

Gus: “A… snake?” —> Gus has struggled with being deceived by false impressions of other people, so his guess being the closest is a nod to his growing ability to see through illusions, and also shows how well he knows his friends.

[lunar-star-child]

Tsams fans: can you BELIEVE some ppl are shipping Sun and Moon??? Like that's so weird and gross

Me who is literally Lunar and can remember Sun and Moon absolutely being a couple: *awkward silence*

[owlhousetarot]

Cant draw currently bc I’m suffering the terrible condition of small small kitty head resting on dominant hand. This is of course incurable.

[wolfeyedwitch]

I'm pretty sure that Danny Phantom is like the world's gateway fandom. One minute I'm reading your average vivisection phanfic, and suddenly I'm in the crossover Danny Phantom DC universe, and then I read a fic where ghostking!Danny has the title "He Who Is Ruthless In Mercy" and from there I learn the phrase "ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves" and suddenly I'm belting out showtunes at the top of my lungs from a musical about the Odyssey.

Yeah. I know how I got here but that still doesn't mean I understand it.

😅

[pandorkful]

Replaying Lunar on stream has been kinda wild, like man there are some things I either missed 20 years ago or completely forgot about.

Like how rotten these punk kids are! I feel like a mortified chaperone leading a field trip that's gone completely off the rails, half the time I'm reading out their dialog. Kyle and Nash are definitely the worst offenders, but Jessica's earned herself a slap on the wrist a couple times too.

Nall can be annoyingly childish, but he's not dipped into the abhorrent social behavior nearly as much. Mia and Alex remain on good terms with me, by being blessedly quiet most of the time.

I miss Ramus, he was my good boy! The one braincell that held the party together! He gets a bad rap for some misogynistic comments he makes, but those get completely blown out of the water by Kyle's toxic 90's "it's funny to hate women" masculinity. And to be honest, Ramus' two points of character flaw effectively cancel themselves out:

Whines that Luna shouldn't come on the adventure because "girls just keep guys from having fun." (A very mild and childish form of misogyny. )

Later hires a squad of bunnygirls to work in his store, proving that maybe he's grown and learned that his prior protestations were unfounded. (And his employees adore him, so he's definitely not mistreating them!)

And then there's Luna. Dear sweet, angry and tormented Luna. She also earned a few slaps on the wrist due to some carelessly judemental comments, but was mostly well behaved while she was with us.

Some of her dialog was written to be nagging, but I chose to interpret those moment as raw anger and it really adds to her character I think. She has every right to be angry, growing up in the worst village on Lunar!! Surrounded by weirdos who shipped her with her brother-by-adoption from the moment she showed up!!!

Oof, that's a plot quirk that I didn't pick up on the first time I played the game. WD did a decent job trying to bury it, but there are a few moments of "I miss OUR parents, Alex" that really had me feeling the Folger's holiday awkwardness.

Tbh, the main thing WD did to hide the lede was avoid publishing that Luna and Alex have the same surname (something that later game localizers didn't bother hiding,) and calling Luna a foundling as often as possible. Idk, maybe it's just me, but if you grow up from infanthood together, nursed by the same woman, and call the adults raising you "mom and dad".... you're siblings. It doesn't matter that you're not related by blood, you experienced the sibling relationship dynamic and therefore it is still incestuous to date eachother. Ew.

More worryingly, there's the argument that the Noah's didn't raise Luna as their daughter, but just as a "foundling." What does that entail? A cold, emotionally neglectful distance. An orphan kept close at hand only for her miraculous ability to keep their "real" kid from crying 24/7. (According to one early tie-in manga.) That's worse, I hate that. Though.... that would explain a lot of Luna's anger and frustration.

Does the second scenario make a romantic relationship between Luna and Alex okay? No. If anything, it makes it even worse.

It's too bad there's basically no mental health support on Lunar, because all these kids need intensive counseling of one sort or another.

Last night was the first appearance of Tempest and Fresca, two kids that I always forget, like, exist in the game. They're introduced like they matter, but, well... if you stick with my streams, we'll probably uncover why I'm so lukewarm on those characters either this upcoming Sunday or the Sunday after that (depending on whether Myght's tower is as annoying as I remember it being or not.)

For all my grousing, I still love the cast of Lunar so much. They are an absolute mess, in a way I don't see from other rpgs of that era or any other era if I'm honest. An endearing mess. I could just use a little less of some of the worst stuff that was mostly left behind in the 90's and early 00's.

On the other hand, sometimes it's good to be reminded of the things society has grown past. Because nostalgia can be a very dangerous thing.

(Also, I really need to work on writing out my Queer Lunar Thesis. Because I've got a queer reading for every one of these characters. Maybe even Tempest and Fresca? We'll have to get through their story before I can make up my mind on them. It'll be hilarious if they turn out to be the only hetero cis characters on the moon.)

[lunardoesfandomart]

Past me you may be wondering why I'm not tagging most of my artfight attacks anymore

, I stopped caring

[mothymayhem]

Honestly guys, I'm here for Lunar's meltdown arc. He did that shit. Let him do it again.

[lunar-draws]

So Stella and Bloom are done, Flora’s base is almost done so I’ll be starting her transformations soon, but I’m also trying to figure out colors for the others. Musa’s staying red, Tecna will be getting purple(but I’m not sure what kind until I start her sketch), but I’m lost on Aisha and Roxy.

Aisha will probably get a teal, but I need to make sure it’s not too close to Bloom’s which was my issue in my previous designs. I like green on Roxy and it works for her, but Bloom and Aisha already have blue and I don’t want Flora and Roxy to share a color as well. I’m thinking potentially a yellow since none of the others have yellow as a main color yet and I feel like it would be a nice compliment to her hair since her hair’s pink and yellow/orange.

Idk, it’s going to be a little while before I get to that point, I think, so I have some time to mull it over

[nyxlunarstars]

Artemis’ Backstory…

(As well as a few facts…)

(You guys asked for this 🫶)

Warning: Rant

Artemis is a Hermaphrodite, not male, not female.

Their peaceful childhood life burned away, as, when they were five years old a house fire started. They lost their mother, due to the fire, And their brother, Nyx, who at the time thought he had lost all the family he had.

With no home, and no idea of their brother’s whereabouts, they roomed the streets. Their first night had been their worst night, even over all the fights and starvation they endured.

They later, once they were about 15, had began to thoroughly search for Nyx.

(Nyx’s whereabouts at the time are still a secret 🤫….To you, at least.)

Six months later, ✨Pop✨ Nyx appears, (literally out of thin air…), and the twins are reunited.

(This is barely even the face of this surface, let me know if you want more info..)

[intoxthexlunarverse]

//So I think at least one of you reading this role played with a character many years ago named Ace Faulkner. Kouki is pretty much just me badly attempting to revive him in the YGO Arc V Universe. He's technically in a Yume Ship but as some of you will soon see, he is one of the few characters in my Yume Lineup who doesn't have a "Happily Ever After" with their love interest.

[pinklunarprincess]

The new TØP song is single handily bringing back my middle school Emo phase.

[lunaroceanic]

My favorite part of the watching and dreaming promo is the fact that Luz is living her literal worst nightmare and no doubt spiraling into a depressive episode dressed as her worst enemy but then the whole time stringbean’s on her shoulder like :3

She’s like hey Luz it seems like you’re working through some existential stuff rn but I was born four whole minutes ago and honestly I’m having a pretty great time

[lunar-star-child]

The way anti kins assume they suddenly know everything abt you and act like you don't know yourself akjdwksj

[owlhousetarot]

Happy belated new year!! It’s been nice just vibin’ over the holiday season, but I plan on getting back into the swing of things art-wise soon! Here’s to another year of owl house tarot :D

[wolfeyedwitch]

Writer vs. Plot Bunnies

Me: huh. Taking a break from writing has led to a bunch of plot bunnies showing up....

The plot bunnies:

Me: okay. That's neat. I wish they were for NOW in my stories rather than like, 15 chapters ahead. I'm going to keep not-writing for a little while....

The plot bunnies:

Me: oh no.

The plot bunnies:

Me:

They don't like being ignored....

@suspicious-whumping-egg I blame you for this.

[lovesicktiger]

It'd be so easy to grab a knife and STAB the closest person to you. Do you want to do that? No. Is it a thought that comes by often? Maybe.

then you'd think, ❝ Would my [..] be proud of me? ❜❜ which is a no. They wouldn't be. They'd be scared of you, they'd hate you. You don't want them to hate you, do you?

But.. it keeps coming back, that thought. It's, so loud.. You won't act on it! God no! It's just, so annoying. So very annoying. You want to shut it up. You know how.. but its so dangerous. You might not make it either.

You want to stay there for your [..] too, but the thought keeps scratching at you. It's wailing and begging, like a hungry baby. You want to stab it, so its cries for attention stops. But you can't, you never can't.

You'll never be free from such thoughts, you're tainted black, you aren't pure like your [..]. You'll never be pure. You aren't an angel. No, you aren't even a demon either. You aren't anything. You're just.. a void. A void that sits there, trying not to act on its thoughts.

A lonely void in need of love.

[🔪]