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Yeeesss
Thank you! He’s so beautiful !
I'm sorry but..
Idk but for some reason your Fem!Crowley really reminds me of Eda (from: The Owl House)
Btw your art is really cute and expressive! I love your comicsss !!
I have have funnily enough gotten this comment before haha I still haven’t watched it but I can differently see it 😂 I drew Crowley in her main outfit for fun
fun detail from elsewhere and elsewhen: there are hot peppers everywhere in eda’s kitchen
hmm… i wonder why…
fuck
My three characters in varied romantic situations with @miss-goggles's one character. (over the span of different timelines/universes). Secret Santa 2023 (New Year Ver.)
The owl house feels like home again ❤️
I JUST finished Radio Silence.
Oh. My. God.
That was beautiful, I literally can’t come up with a better word for how perfect it was than: Beautiful.
The way Alice Oseman writes first person is stunning, I’m not even a die-hard-study-needs-to-get-into-good-college girl, but I am a senior in high school who doesn’t really see a point in going to college but doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life and—characters like Frances, Aled, Raine, Carys, even Daniel, spoke to me. On a whole ‘nother level, I connected to so many characters in this book and TRULY felt like I wasn’t alone. The plot was amazing—‘simple’ I suppose, but oh my god. I could see it all clearly, and I was very invested in how everything turned out.
And SPOILERS RIGHT HERE, that end scene, when the announcer is announcing Aled and he and Frances are backstage, my heart was stuttering with nervous excitement right along with them. I was listening to “It’s All So Incredibly Loud” by The Glass Animals as I read it, and oh my god. This book felt like a dream come true. Like a longing for more, a creative supernova exploding, a painful ache when a friend moves away, the crushing rush of LIFE when something goes right—this is my new comfort book. That can be very much concluded.
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman is a freaking masterpiece in my opinion.
Tara can be fashionable. Well when she wants to.
Ancient History
yes.
So I was scrolling through Tumblr(specifically Raeda-) and saw this post:
And the post RIGHT under it was this:
YALLL!!!!! ITS FINALLY HERE! AM SO JEALOUS OF THE VIPS!!!!! BLADES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW 3 IS HERE!!!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! SPREAD THE WORD!!!
I am on book 2 now and this will forever be my top funniest scenes 🤣😭
The Owl House - Clouds on the Horizon Thoughts
There was a lot to take in about this episode. Not as much as Hollow Mind but that’s a high benchmark. The Owl House season 2 has been firing on all cylinders just about the entire season but since Hollow Mind it has been an almost non-stop barrage. I am so sad that there is only one more episode left in season 2 and then 3 specials because this show is really something special.
I want to start by talking about the Blight family. Since the first sighting of the Blight parents’ shadows in “Understanding Willow” there was an obvious complex and toxic family dynamic that I was interested in exploring and I like the way it paid off with this episode.
One of the most important things about this dynamic to me is the dichotomy between Alador and Odalia. Neither were good parents in the past but, where Alador wants to be better and get to know his kids, Odalia is stuck in her ways and only ever doubles down. And Amity is allowed to say that she will never talk to her mother again. She has a chance at reconciliation with her father but it’s made clear that the bridge between her and her mother is burned for good.
Amity and the twins don’t want to give up on their parents. Amity wants that connection with her parents. She wants them to love and be proud of her. This has been shown time and time again throughout the series. Even long before her parents were mentioned this was shown in her first appearance. The desperation for good grades, to be top of the class, to uphold her image. All of these were bids to gain the affection she was never given. But ultimately her mother won’t change and upon seeing this Amity makes the decision to cut things off permanently.
“Escaping Expulsion” was where we saw how controlling Odalia was and how “career focused” (This is definitely how she views herself but it’s my nice way of saying greedy and self centered) she is. She tried to back out on her word the second it didn’t benefit her then and in this episode she insists that Blights don’t go back on their word because she thinks she will benefit exponentially from this. It’s all for herself and always has been even if she tries to play it off as being for the family to other people.
The second she realizes that her family will not work with her no matter what lies she spins or promises of greatness she gives, she abandons them. She doesn’t care for any of them. Not truly.
On the other hand Alador has been faced with his shortcomings and lack of understanding of his own children and wants to try and be better. In “Reaching Out” we see that Amity wants to connect with him but he’s stuck in the idea of what he thinks Amity wants rather than what she really wants. He’s so enraptured in his own work that he doesn’t get to know his kids, their lives, or their individual wants. He is faced with the fact that he doesn’t really know his kids and he doesn’t like that reality. He wants it to be different.
It doesn’t change that he wasn’t a great parent in the past but it gives them a shot at a new beginning and a chance at a real relationship. And he commits to that.
The second that he learns about the truth when it comes to the day of unity and what his abomatons will be used for he tries to shut it all down. He stands up to Odalia and her greed and is willing to help them fight the emperor. He destroys his life’s work and the factory. He does this for his kids.
I appreciate this duality in the Blight family. I was on the fence about how to feel about Alador’s arc in “Reaching Out” but I should have learned by then to never doubt the Owl House because as you can tell by the plethora of thought I have I appreciated how it played out moving forward.
Now to move onto Eda. Eda’s arc in this season really hurts. She’s opened herself up to genuine connection and stopped denying the reality of her found family. She’s allowing herself to care once again. In the first season Eda acted very nonchalant and okay with her loner status but as we see much more in depth this season that it’s all a front. Eda has been lonely even before getting the curse. She longs for connection and love but it became a case of Eda having faced so much rejection that she no longer reached out to others herself. She came to tell herself that she was fine with the isolation.
And now that Eda has opened up to connection again and gained so much from it. But while she loves all those around her she still doesn’t love herself.
She keeps putting herself in danger for those she loves. In this episode she commits to getting a sigil and cutting herself off from practicing all types of magic forever to protect everyone and stop the emperor. She even insists on it. She always hides her insecurity behind a facade of confidence which Raine seems to see right through in this episode if the worried glances and pained faces they made while watching Eda get the sigil are any indication.
They wanted so badly to avoid this. To avoid using Eda because they knew Eda would take the chance to sacrifice herself if it meant protecting her kids. But also because Raine knows how little Eda values herself. She was with Eda that day in the forest as they played Eda’s requiem to take out Darius and Ebberwolf. She saw Eda’s willingness to die and how replaceable Eda thinks she is. They are afraid for her because they know Eda has a lack of self preservation and doesn’t love herself.
I’m actually really scared for Eda. This plan was already dangerous for Eda based purely on the fact that she has to personally corrupt the spell which could consume her as well like it did in Eda’s requiem and there’s a whole slew of other reasons that this could go wrong. Now that we know that the emperor knows Eda is there I can’t see her being lucky once again. She barely escaped the emperor in the season 1 finale and she’s in a much more perilous situation now. And this season looks like it’s going to end on the darkest hour for the heroes. I could be wrong. In fact I hope I’m wrong and everyone gets out okay but it doesn’t look likely.
There’s the line that King, Eda, and Luz all day they’ll see each other after the day of unity which makes me almost positive that they won’t this season. (Again I Hope I’m wrong)
That cold open sets up so much stuff moving forward and it makes me sure that King is going to be the most important piece moving forward. He’s a titan and connected to the collector. The collector is getting impatient with Belos. They want out and they’re starting to lose faith that Belos will hold up his end of the bargain they made.
King has titan’s blood which is one of the most rare and powerful resources in all of the boiling isles. If the fact that King is a titan comes out to the wrong person, King's life will be in danger. There are so many factors that have been set up about King being a titan that can come back around in the finale. The titan trappers were going to sacrifice King to free the collector which means he is likely needed to complete Belos’ end of the bargain (not quite sure yet), his blood is the only thing that can open a door to the human realm which Belos and Luz both need, and to the people on the isles he is pretty much a god. All of this can come around in interesting and possibly emotionally devastating ways.
Last but not least I want to talk about Hunter, Willow, and Gus. Until Labyrinth Runners came out I expected Hunter to be a part of the Eda, King, and Luz trio as another kid that Eda adopts. I still want that but I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I like Hunter’s dynamic with Willow and Gus.
Willow and Gus have been pushed to the side for a lot of this season for understandable reasons. They had a lot of ground to cover after being unexpectedly cancelled that centered around our main characters and Hunter. But it’s nice to see how they’re doing now that they are in on what’s going on with Belos. And they get to interact with Luz again after a long interim where they were all off doing their own things.
I can’t wait for next week. This show has really entered its endgame (I’ve used this word way too many times in my last few posts but it’s true) and there is so much going on and so many possibilities for how this can play out that I am on the edge of my seat. Whatever happens I have complete faith in the Owl House crew to put everything they have into it.
Extra thoughts
I just realized that Darius and Alador might have to work together now and I can’t wait to see it.
Luz and Amity kissed. I knew this would happen in season 2b but I wasn’t sure when. I’m glad it happened now and it was as hilariously endearing and awkward as I was expecting.
Odalia keeps Alador in line by threatening to make the kids be more involved in Blight industries and that’s just evil. She threatens Alador with their own kids’ futures. She is just a horrible person.
I love how King is the one who talks to Alador and lets him know about the day of Unity.
It’s really powerful that King saying that he never knew his father is what gets to Alador the most because while Alador isn’t absent in the physical sense he has been in the emotional sense.
Luz making her Palisman an egg so that it can choose its own form is really fitting.
It’s weird that they would send Hunter out to help Luz when he is most likely one of the most wanted people on the boiling isles. Willow and Gus I understand. They are probably still under the emperor’s radar but Hunter is actively in danger if he’s noticed. I liked the way it played out. I just thought it was a bit strange considering that fact.
I love the animation hints that Luz and Hunter switched places before the reveal.
We didn’t see Eda get the sigil. It cuts away before it could happen and considering there would be no point to cutting away right before she gets it if she did in fact get it. I’m hoping that there’s a chance she didn’t.
the found family of it all
The people have chosen.
Some Raine for the soul
Fox Raine!
