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King of Hearts AU Page 20 Previous

Apocamila lore is that her universe doesn't have Manny and Luz, she understands that they're her family from an alternate universe.

The Collector and Hunter's mindscape works by their concept of the universe, so if Hunter believes a boo-boo kiss will work, it will.

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I was exactly the right age at exactly the right transitional period in history to have been an unsupervised preteen on dial-up BBSes, Usenet, IRC, and first-generation web forums, more or less in that order, so all things considered I think I'm doing pretty well.

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My beautiful daughter Toni from the Owl House is on artfight.

Toni is Lilith's assistant librarian. She's also that grimwalker from For the Future. The Collector brought her back, and now she's trying to do something all her own and learn to become her own person separate from Belos, Caleb, and Hunter. Luz, Collector, and King are her best friends, she admires Lilith, Darius, Raine, and Eda, and thinks Hunter is cool. Toni loves researching and getting the kids to hang out with her. She's technically an adult but also was born in 2022 so, she's also in her childhood. Don't let her drive a car.

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I would be a terrible grimwalker. Also, he would totally would've called a grimwalker "Wayward" based on. "(Witch)Hunter" lmao.

One of my traits is explaining how Belos's plans could've actually worked after they failed and making him mad. I also would've constantly been talking to the Scouts, often for hours at a time to the point where they would be trying to escape me. I think my grimwalker probably died fighting with Belos but they gave it a really good shot/ got some hits in. Wayward bonds with Caleb over birds in the grimwalker pit breakroom. /j

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Sometimes you can just say you like a villain and that's okay and you don't need to spend all of your energy coming up with reasons why that villain is actually OK. Like you can just say. i think his vibe is rancid and he's cool. and not destroy his character by constantly trying to stretch the truth/lean on his whiteness and abuse/murder apologism. The reverse of this where you don't like a character and you don't need to have a moral reason not to like them is true too. You can just dislike them.

I am a villain enjoyer stop trying to juSTIFY THEM especially in the case where the villain is a white colonizer like ya'll . you can just think he's cool and not be down with colonialism and respect the tolerance paradox. Fun fact.

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Ok so it is known I am a huge fan of Belos because I am talking about him often. Baffled by fandom conversations about Belos not getting enough sympathy/forgiveness when the Collector went up to him, forgave him, and then turned around and Belos shot a giant death beam at their back. On the meta side, like, I don't think they made Belos pure evil in the end, I think Belos's feelings (which are . shown and addressed, we get scenes of him talking to Caleb the episode before, and TTT does a lot for his backstory), ultimately do not matter because his negative impact on the world negates any reason to care about them. Belos can have childhood trauma and also him committing genocide kinda stops making us care about that in the long run. That's why I think Papa tells Luz it doesn't matter. It's not that Belos's past doesn't effect his actions, it literally means that no matter what Caleb did or didn't do 300+ years ago, Belos is committing genocide NOW. It's really not insane to say his opinion/motive doesn't matter anymore, like you cannot repeatedly harm people and still expect anyone to care about why you're doing it.

I also think it's pretty telling that a pretty loud group of people have been on about this for years now. Belos has a more traditional protagonist story and he's a skinny white man with blue eyes. Belos is a subversion of traditional tropes/pro-colonial narratives/hero stories which makes him very cool but also I think the way people act like he's helpless or he shouldn't be held accountable, is a result of systemic sexism and popular white supremacy narratives. Belos didn't get a "hear me out" at the end because he already had one, he's had it for hundreds of years, and the Owl House attempts to topple colonial narratives rather than support them.

Also, you can just watch or read anything from the thousands of years backlog of stories that have people like Belos as the protagonist. The Owl House centers a neurodivergent girl of color and other characters who have traditionally villain roles (ei. Eda as the evil witch in the woods, King as a power-hungry demon). Yeah they're fighting the traditional "im gonna save my family and stop the evil demons" white man. that's the point.

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King of Hearts AU Page 19 Previous Anyone Luz summons already knows what she's asking them to do/why they're there. Luz could be summoning them from her mind/ they might be extensions of her.. or they might actually be from alternate universes... or her own universe.. who knows... I predicted that Luz would die in Watching and Dreaming before the episode (that was definitely foreshadowed) but I thought she would see Manny. I really love the choice they made in the end and it's great for the show, I also wanted to tell a story where she does see him! (whether or not it's really him. Luz's perception of him and her love is the most important things).

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(lights a cigarette) nobody even wants to play toys anymore. (puts the cigarette out on a play-dough ashtray) because of work.

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In my opinion it's a lot more healthy to be able to own that you dislike someone for petty reasons than to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to make everyone you don't really vibe with out to be a bad person actually

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obligatory post today

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Hetbait kind of goes harder than queerbait sometimes. Queerbait you understand that the creators very rarely could do it even if they wanted to so implication and suggestion was better and safer than being explicit. Hetbait though there's no such justifiable reason they just want to fuck with you.

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I am disheartened by the way westerners talk about Iran. Even some of the pro Palestinian ones. Many talk about Iran as a force of resistance against the west being “under attack” by Israel. Which is true but more importantly, hundreds of innocent civilians were slaughtered by Israel (and the US by proxy). My grief is as it’s always been indescribable.

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Not trying to dismiss americans fears over the Iran/USA situation I get it. But once the panic settles, I hope folks realize this likely won’t hurt you directly. It’s Iranian kids, women, men, and neighboring countries who would face the bombs and invasions. That’s what the U.S. empire has done for 50+ years: fake wars, fake threats and destruction to further their imperialist agenda

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