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An observation.

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‪The incorrect and negative beliefs we can get from years of negative feedback not knowing we have ADHD or how it affects our lives. While not everything is solely caused by ADHD, it can affect us and our comorbidities in many, many ways. Good news is, treating ADHD can do wonders for Anxiety and Depression!

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Over the Garden Wall art by the incredible NYC tattooer Glossyland

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over the garden wall makes me so weepy. also did you know that in the moment after wirt approaches the beast, just before he realises striking a deal with the beast is futile, you can hear the sound of a bike bell, aka a sign from the outside world that his friends are looking for him?

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Listen, normally I am not about 2edgy theories about cartoons meant for children, but the facts of OTGW are this:

It’s explicitly stated in the text that the whole thing takes place after the protagonists fall down a very steep hill, onto train tracks, almost get struck by a train, and end up drowning in deep water.

All the scenes that take place in the Unknown, which, again, is a place explicitly stated to be outside of life and at least on the border with death and dreaming, have a soft-focus blur all around the edges of the frame.

This blur is not present during the single flashback episode where we get the story of how Wirt and Greg found themselves in the Unknown in the first place. That episode takes place entirely in the ‘real’, living world.

This blur, however, is present in the final episode, after Wirt and Greg supposedly 'wake up’ back in 'the real world’. It doesn’t go away.

The show also ends with a scene of the woodsman’s daughter alive and well, though she is explicitly stated earlier in the text to be dead and lost forever.

The show is bookended with the lyrics “the loveliest lies of all” and “if dreams can’t come true, then why not pretend?”. The implication being that at least some of what we’ve seen on the screen is a fabrication, which is most likely just a meta callout meant to disquiet the viewer. 

But if that’s the case, it’s interesting that it refers specifically to “the loveliest lies”, when so much of what happens in the show is Extremely Upsetting -

Except the ending.

Like, I don’t want to be the one to say it, but…whether Wirt and Greg actually survived that Halloween is at the very least not certain, in my mind.

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me after finishing over the garden wall: that was cool :) and I rlly like the nice happy ending :) bit weird but, you know

my brother: oh u know that Greg drowned when they fell in the river and the entire show is Wirt trying to cope with the guilt of causing his younger brother's death, right? and the reason he's in the hospital at the end is because Wirt is still in denial :)

me:

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people have already made accurate and in depth theories for media I like, so I’m just gonna make dumb fun theories for my own entertainment. otgw was all just a dream? they’re actually in purgatory and the ending isn’t real? nah, actually it’s all just a DND campaign that was supposed to just be about Halloween night fun, but the players fell into a river and the dm’s improv went a little too far

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Why the HECK did it take me this long to realize that the entire reason the Beast is a shadow is because he follows the lantern and his body is the shadow cast by the light of his soul?

I was just caught up in the fact that he looked epic as hell

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SPOILERS FOR OVER THE GARDEN WALL

So I just watched over the garden wall for the first time and I have a theory that I’m sure has already been said but

In the ninth episode that shows how wirt and Greg got into the unknown, in the graveyard they hide behind two headstones one of which that says the name Quincy Indicott on it. So I think that yes the unknown is the limbo between life and death, purgatory even maybe, for people that haven’t been able to move on. I think that everything wirt and Greg did with the other characters in the unknown freed them and allowed them to move on and out of the limbo. For example, Quincy indicott. Now I of course think the events were real as well because of the bell being in Greg’s frog’s stomach still, but I don’t think the people showed in the montage in the end are still in the unknown because they got to move on and be with their loved ones who were also stuck. Other examples being the woodsman’s daughter, because the woodsman finally let go of the lamp and stopped holding on so he actually was reunited with his daughter. Beatrice also maybe was dealing with the deaths of her and her entire family by believing they were turned into bluebirds and once she faced it and went home, instead of refusing to admit her internal guilt and refusing to see her family, was able to move on and let them move on as well since they were shown in the show too waiting for Beatrice to come back. I’m thinking whatever big illness was of the time period of Beatrice based on her human self’s appearance and dress, maybe Beatrice got it first and spread it to her family and so she blamed herself.

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Might as well fuck around and post my theory/personal interpretation of otgw that I've had since watching it for the first time. (I don't know if this has been disproven btw)

So this is basically built around a small part of the intro song. "The loveliest lies of all"

This earned my attention when I first heard it because it's kind of signaled out in the song specially at the end. I couldn't stop thinking... So which lies are we talking about?

My answer: all the resolutions of the stories. The unknown is an afterlife but a special one. One people go when they have something they regret.

Let me use an example to explain this.

Mr Endicott was a rich lonely man. He met a woman as rich and lonely as him and fell in love with her right? Well... No. He died alone lamenting this fact. We know he is dead, his tombstone appears in the flashback.

The unknown is some kind of afterlife where people that died with something they resent find their peace but their lives are already over and all of that is just a lie. A beautiful lie where they can be happy but a lie nonetheless. Mr Endicott and the woman I can't remember the name of died both alone and in death found happiness together

Mrs Langree? (Idk her name? The weird singing lady from episode 3) his boyfriend disappeared and she never saw him again... Until they both died.

Btw. This would also explain why the happy endings of this stories are so rushed and kinda nonsensical. It's just a happy fantasy for every character.

If you watch closely every character we focus on has something they need to fulfill.

Other example? The woodsman and his daughter. She probably died. Finding her there, completely alright is just a happy fantasy both of them fulfilled.

Beatrice probably regretted hitting that bird with a stone and she redeemed herself in a epic adventure. (I don't know if this was cooked up by her guilt but there are probably some magical afterlife rules that made the transformation happened and could also have determined why Lorna had that spirit in her)

The beast still fulfills the same role of consuming dead souls filled with despair and all of that but then...

What did Greg and Wirt leave unfulfilled?

If they were there that means that there just have been something right?

Maybe Wirt needed more courage. To learn how to assert himself. The journey helped him get that.

But Greg???

Well, there shouldn't be anything right? Except one detail. Greg stole a rock.

It was weird how much he focused on that wasn't it? His soul was going to be consumed and in that moment what he thought about was the rock he had stolen.

So in conclusion. The characters had regrets. They were sad but in the unknown they were able to find happy endings to all their stories.

The loveliest lies of all~

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💀 i’m sorry, my turtles 💀

I might color this someday, but I’ve been meaning to do an otgw piece with Lorna for YEARS

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secret circus

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I just think he's neat

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well it’s officially the 7th year in a row i’ve watched OTGW

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🎶 Come Wayward Souls 🎶 (Happy October!!)

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