My Favourite Animated Work Of All Time.

My favourite animated work of all time. 🍂🤎🎃

"But where have we come And where shall we end? If dreams can't come true Then why not pretend?"

Over the Garden Wall (2014)

Chapter 32: If You Never Try, You'll Never Know

Claire shows a little gratitude to Gabriel and they have an intellectual and personal conversation. Then he offers to help her.

Chapter 33: Session One

Gabriel begins the process of healing Claire.

Chapter 34: Of Tricks & Treats

Thursday has arrived and Claire is brimming with excitement to see teenage Gabriel, while also looking forward to doing something that feels so normal for the first time in years.

There will be a double chapter this weekend. #35 will be posted tomorrow. ☺️🎃

Yes, but also, "Mine" like a dragon. Because as possessive as it comes across, a dragon values its treasure. It covets and admires it and wishes to be beside it at all times (quite literally buried inside it for some), *suggestive eyebrows* to protect it from those which would take it only for its base value and trade, neglect, or mistreat it. A dragon will literally die for what it decides is its, not in some Shakespearean self-sacrificing way of thinking life is not worth living without, though it would be devastated. It's because it would do everything in its power to keep it from the hands of those it deems unworthy (every other living thing unless proven otherwise), because the idea of what it cherishes not being given the respect it deserves is infuriating. It will fight tooth and claw, with every bit of breath in its lungs, to reclaim it if it is lost or stolen.

When a dragon takes a treasure into its collection it is the collection. People often misconstrue this concept as: "Oh, yeah, just become a piece of property that's owned by someone jealous but will ultimately still only see you as a thing."

That is not how a dragon views its treasure. That is how most other things do, especially humans. Its treasure, all of it, every single thing about it, is valued, faults and all. So, in terms of a person, to be "mine" to a dragon does not mean you are but a piece, a small thing of value, that might occasionally be doted on but mostly is ignored for something new. You are the treasure. As in, the entire fucking collection. The whole thing! You are the most valuable, wonderful, fascinating thing in all the world and it wants as much of you as it can get. It wants to explore every facet and find every piece of you no matter how hidden or treacherous to uncover, and will proudly call you its for the rest of its life, long after parts of you start to age, decay, and lose their shine. It will be just as proud to have you then as the first day it found you.

"Mine," like a dragon.

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

If this ain't me... 🤣🤣🤣 Sometimes I do it for stuff I've already written because I've forgotten that I added something a few edits ago.

me, reading my own incomplete writing : *gasp* and then what happened?