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The artistry it took to make these puppets... Amazing.

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false and ren twaddling :D (love how her eyes bulge wide lmao she’s so skittish)

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What is this, a crossover episode?

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Things never change

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Mrs. Mystery and The owl man

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I like to think they kept in touch after the divorce

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What is this? A crossover episode???

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oof... this one stings

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It's been 2 years since it ended, but it's still the best

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It's still sinking in that The Owl House was about a girl running away to a fantasy world, all because of the ripple effects of losing her father at an unfairly young age — only to eventually learn that the fantasy world itself was made of the bones, and the flesh, of a loving father who'd protected his child with one of his final actions, before dying and giving life to that fantasy world. And eventually, in his truly final action, even giving life to Luz herself. Luz ran away to the Boiling Isles, all because of a single book that her dad gave her — and unknowingly, she spent every day walking over ground that embodied parental loss. A world that was born from a parent's death, a parent who had to leave their child far too soon — and not just any child, but Luz's own new best friend, in all of this new magical world. And King and Luz were only ever brought together because of their fathers' deaths — before they even realized they had anything in common to grieve. Before they realized a reminder of that grief had been beneath their feet this whole time.

But, at the end of the day... their fathers both gave them parting gifts. Their fathers both gave them the key to come of age in a world full of people who'd care about them — maybe not the only world where they could've been happy, but a world they wouldn't want to imagine missing. Their fathers gave them the chance to meet each other. To understand each other. And, ultimately, to heal and grow up together. Until the ground beneath their feet stops feeling so heavy, like grief — and starts feeling lighter again, like a gift, and a happy memory.

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Okay. I can’t do this.

Originally, I was going to post this anonymously- and in a considerably shorter way- on some confessions ask blog, but… this whole “Cinderella’s Castle has fascist undertones” drama is pissing me off so much that I’m just gonna rant about it here. No holding back, no anonymity, nothing but just hoping that the positive reception outweighs the negative.

And… well, there’s no way to put anything of what I’m about to say kindly and lightly. So I’m just not going to try. Which means I’m gonna get… well, really mean in my rant under the cut. You’ve been warned.

*sigh*

Now, I don’t really know what the situation is with Ella becoming queen (although, to fight fire with fire, it is really sus that people are calling the first Starkid show with a black protagonist fascist because she becomes queen in the end, almost as if they think black people can’t be trusted with leadership of a country…) and why people are making a big deal out of it, but I do know the situation with the trolls. People are calling the trolls’ depiction as purely evil creatures either antisemitism or transmysogynistic or both.

And to that I say… guys… I didn’t even know what a hooked nose was and why that was a problem until I looked it up 30 minutes ago. That’s how tiny of a deal it is. Just because a character has a prominent hooked nose does not mean that they’re supposed to be Jewish. What that means is that they have a character design that revolves around them being ugly. Because prominent hooked noses are traditionally seen as unnatural and creepy, and in modern media they are usually depicted as part of the design of things like cartoon witches. Who are meant to look ugly.

It’s just character design. Stop looking so deep into it.

And on the other hand… you’re saying it’s transmysogynistic because creatures who “aren’t really women” are skinning “real” women and wearing their skin? Who the hell is saying that the trolls aren’t women?! They are! They’re woman trolls! Their womanhood is pretty deeply rooted into the core of their characters! Have you even heard of “get gross girls”?!

Look, one of my first main points about this is… well… maybe it’s best to show and hold off telling:

The Lords in Black are treated like otherworldly beings covered in bright colours who break the laws of reality simply by existing, use their immense power to do harm to people, and their ultimate goal is to take over the galaxy and reshape it to their liking. This means that the Lords are clearly supposed to represent depictions of Gen Z, queer, neurodivergent, woke left people from the perspectives of the far right, therefore all of Hatchetfield is right-wing propaganda and needs to be shut down immediately.

You see the point I’m making with this?

The point I’m making is that… the people making these claims are doing it because of problems that only exist because of how they chose to interpret certain things. That’s how death of the author works. You could make literally anything into fascist propaganda if you choose to interpret it that way. It is so easy to say things like this. For example:

Twisted? Has a politician as its protagonist, and when he’s blamed for genuine problems in the kingdom that people are getting hurt by it’s treated like a bad thing, therefore it’s political propaganda.

Firebringer? Openly makes fun of religion several times, therefore it’s atheist propaganda.

Starship? Depicts an ugly humanoid bug stealing the brain-dead body of a man to pilot it as his own, therefore it’s transandrophobic propaganda.

Before we close things off here, I’d like to say, no I do not genuinely believe that these people think that any of this was intentional. But if anything, that pisses me off more because they’re treating their interpretation of the text like a bigger deal than the author’s interpretation of it, despite knowing that said interpretation is completely different from theirs. That’s my problem here. The death of the author is the birth of the reader, yes, but surely the original, intended interpretation still has to hold some meaning, right?

Which brings us to my final point. The trolls are meant to represent domestic abusers. That’s clearly it. That’s why they wear human skin in the day and can only show their true form under the cover of darkness. They’re abusers hiding in plain sight. It’s also why they’re such good psychological manipulators, because that’s a very common trait of abusers, and it’s also why they’re treated as inherently evil creatures. Because how many people have ever heard of domestic abusers who became better people eventually? Like, I’m not saying that can’t happen… but it just doesn’t.

I don’t need to continue on about this, but… like… I feel like the people saying this are only doing it because they just didn’t like the show? Like, they didn’t like it and this whole thing is just them coming up with bullshit to justify their hatred of it?

Okay, that last part’s definitely gonna get me a few anonymous death threats in my asks, but… I mean, I did warn you that I wasn’t gonna be nice during any of this.

TLDR: Art is subjective. And art may have political undertones if you choose to look at it that way, but that doesn’t mean you should let the undertones define the art itself. A world that’s obsessed with being morally correct all of the time would also be one that’s really boring. Now shut up and start enjoying art instead of looking for reasons to hate it. And if you don’t agree with me, just block me instead of refuting, because that makes things a lot easier for all of us.

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random cinderella's castle thought: the stepmother and ella are weirdly alike in terms of their motives. hear me out.

the stepmother explains that she only took human form because the rest of her kind were killed by the humans. she hates humans and wants to take over the kingdom not only for personal gain, but as revenge for all that humanity took from her. to reach that goal, she has to disguise herself as the very thing she despises-- a human-- to get close to the monarchy, and manipulate her way into relationships with people she loathes, like ella's father.

ella only took on the garments of starlight because her family and friends were killed by the stepmother. she hates the stepmother and wants to take over the kingdom not only to escape her horrible situation, but as revenge for all that the stepmother took from her. to reach that goal, she has to disguise herself as the very thing she despises-- an out-of-touch, selfish aristocrat-- to get close to the monarchy, and manipulate her way into relationships with people she loathes, like the prince.

the core difference is that ella's vengeance is directed at those who are responsible for her pain. she doesn't take it out on innocents like the stepmother does-- she remains laser-focused on the people who are actually culpable for the harms done to her. she doesn't lash out at the townsfolk who fell for the stepmother's lies, she doesn't punish the people who were manipulated, and she doesn't blame the kingdom as a whole. in fact, she views the crown as a burden that she must bear, because making the world a more just and right place is not easy. the stepmother views the crown as something she deserves after what humans did. not only that, she views everyone around her, including her own daughters, as pawns to move to get what she wants-- ella, on the other hand, views her friends as friends. the stepmother would burn down the kingdom to get her revenge on humanity. ella would build up the kingdom to get revenge on the three people who caused her suffering.

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idk if yall noticed but. "sweet justine and vivacious lucy" are named in reference to justine moritz and lucy westenra. justine moritz, a character in frankenstein, is an innocent young girl hanged for a crime she did not commit, and some adaptations have victor use her body to make the creature a bride. lucy westenra, a character in dracula, is an innocent young girl turned and possessed by dracula whose vampirized body is used to terrorize her former friends. i 100% believe that starkid chose those names for the "young girl who gets killed and turned into a meat puppet" characters on purpose

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Thinking about the riverbank scene. How the Stepmother talks about Ella and her 'sickness', explicitly stating her abuse of Ella while presenting it as 'delusions', the line 'she is my curse, and I am hers.' The manipulation of it all. To me, that's the Stepmother at her scariest, more than her true troll form ever could be.

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One of my favorite parts of Cinderella’s Castle is how Ella summoned a cosmic horror who basically just said “I hear you I see you and you are valid. I will allow you to seize the means of killing these guys” before going back to sleep