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they hype percy up so much in the later series that i always forget people did not fuck with him at all in the first five books like they hated his ass at camp 😭 everyone booing when he stood up fried me so fucking bad dude 😭😭😭

the-sage-libriomancer

one thing i love about OTGW is that despite being a story about The Unknown and all the terrible dangers that lurk in it, the story’s main message is “things are rarely as scary as they seem.” the Woodsman scared the boys repeatedly, but he was really a good man trying to help them and in fact saved their lives multiple times. the inhabitants of Pottsville seemed ominous and ill-intentioned, but stopping to speak to them showed that they were benign folks who just came off a little creepy. the “fearsome gorilla” was just a man in a suit and the “ghost” was just an unexpected roommate. even Auntie Whispers, a terrifying witch-woman who seemed to be abusing her ward, turned out to love Lorna and was only trying to protect her from evil forces—and it was Wirt facing the evil spirit head on that finally exorcised it for good.

even the main characters’ arcs reflect this: Wirt is scared of rejection and humiliation from Sara and Jason Funderberker, but after returning to the real world, Sara is more than receptive toward him and Jason Funderberker isn’t even an issue. Beatrice is too ashamed to face her family after turning them all into bluebirds, but at the end of the story it’s such a non-issue for them that they only use the incident to affectionately tease her and everybody is perfectly happy.

and it all cumulates in the final episode when Wirt and Greg finally face the Beast. for the entire series the Beast has been a looming figure of evil, something dark and strange and unimaginably powerful that you never, ever want to meet. but when Wirt actually dares to face the monster head on, not running or hiding or falling for its tricks, he destroys the Beast in less than a minute! the monster that’s been terrorizing the woods for who knows how long, preying on fearful travelers and eating the souls of its victims, is extinguished by simply blowing out a lantern.

OTGW hammers it home that as much as it scares you, you have to face the Unknown in order to move forward. maybe its scary. maybe it will suck. but when you do confront your problems directly, it’s almost as never as bad as it seems.

windupthing

poor self defeating wirt. he clings so desperately to that self perception of being a loser that he cant fathom that hes actually quite fine and has fine hobbies and could socialize with sarah and jason and his poor toddler brother if he tried but hes too scared to!! that sense of self is all he has!!! i always thought he was such an interesting and believable teenage character haha

voidartisan

yearly rewatch of over the garden wall and I love this show so much. wirt has a crush on a girl who's the school mascot and dresses as a clown for Halloween. the implied love quadrangle(?) going on in his nerdy little friend group. leaving the turtles and adelaide's relationship with the beast unexplained. quincy endicott's gravestone in the cemetery. the faint train sounds at the end of every intro, echoing through the series. wirt's coming of age arc where he learns to accept and step into an adult role through his identification with the pilgrim archetype and taking responsibility for himself and greg's well-being and journey. the way the woodsman lays out what they need to do to get home in the first episode (wirt needs to take charge, look after Greg, and stop blaming him for everything, Greg has to take care of and name his frog) and they finally go home once they do. how when wirt's apathy forces Greg to take charge is when they really find themselves backed into a corner, but when Greg is allowed to maintain his sense of wonder and some of his illusions and just be a kid and wirt appreciates this, things go right. Greg's unwavering trust and confidence in wirt, even when he's being terrible! the way this happens to them on Halloween, during a time of year when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead grows thin in many cultural traditions. all wirt has to do to get them home is finally decide that's where they're going. it's everything to me

nitw

wirt from otgw really is one of the best written teenage characters ever i think. like. he's 15-16-ish and wants people to take him seriously SO badly, but he also struggles to take responsibility for most things. he's dripping with anxiety. he overcomplicates everything in his mind but sometimes he has lapses of impulse. he can be surprisingly blunt when he's angry. he can't help but hate his little half-brother (and stepdad) out of spite and it takes both of them nearly dying for him to start working through those feelings. he's really creative but he keeps his interests in poetry and the clarinet a secret because he thinks it's fucking embarrassing. he reads real estate magazines and knows a lot about architecture and interior design, which is such a random little detail but i love it. he's self-conscious and lowkey suicidial and always assumes the worst in other people's view of him, but BASICALLY EVERYONE BACK HOME LIKES HIM, including the girl he has a massive crush on, and he just can't see it because he never makes an effort to reach out. every minor stepback feels like the end of the world to him. he has no idea who he is or what he wants.

the-sage-libriomancer

one thing i love about OTGW is that despite being a story about The Unknown and all the terrible dangers that lurk in it, the story’s main message is “things are rarely as scary as they seem.” the Woodsman scared the boys repeatedly, but he was really a good man trying to help them and in fact saved their lives multiple times. the inhabitants of Pottsville seemed ominous and ill-intentioned, but stopping to speak to them showed that they were benign folks who just came off a little creepy. the “fearsome gorilla” was just a man in a suit and the “ghost” was just an unexpected roommate. even Auntie Whispers, a terrifying witch-woman who seemed to be abusing her ward, turned out to love Lorna and was only trying to protect her from evil forces—and it was Wirt facing the evil spirit head on that finally exorcised it for good.

even the main characters’ arcs reflect this: Wirt is scared of rejection and humiliation from Sara and Jason Funderberker, but after returning to the real world, Sara is more than receptive toward him and Jason Funderberker isn’t even an issue. Beatrice is too ashamed to face her family after turning them all into bluebirds, but at the end of the story it’s such a non-issue for them that they only use the incident to affectionately tease her and everybody is perfectly happy.

and it all cumulates in the final episode when Wirt and Greg finally face the Beast. for the entire series the Beast has been a looming figure of evil, something dark and strange and unimaginably powerful that you never, ever want to meet. but when Wirt actually dares to face the monster head on, not running or hiding or falling for its tricks, he destroys the Beast in less than a minute! the monster that’s been terrorizing the woods for who knows how long, preying on fearful travelers and eating the souls of its victims, is extinguished by simply blowing out a lantern.

OTGW hammers it home that as much as it scares you, you have to face the Unknown in order to move forward. maybe its scary. maybe it will suck. but when you do confront your problems directly, it’s almost as never as bad as it seems.

the-mythology-of-me

Love this

strawberrymilkwithastraw

not to get all sad for no reason but something nobody tells you about growing up is that a part of you is just a little girl who is yelling ‘please like me please love me please tell me i am good’ at everyone you meet and most of your day is just trying to ignore her

adiormoi

seeing pics of me from when i was like 7-8 yo will never not make me cry, like wdym this pretty innocent sweet looking girl felt like the loneliest girl ever and had intrusive thought she didn't tell anyone about that made her incredibly sad

awkwardtuatara

Thinking about Sazed and how his choice to have faith in Hero of Ages is a belief in spirituality but also a belief in his friends that leads to him finally taking the metaphorical leap himself... Elend hearing Vin's voice and instinctually believing it... Vin protecting Elend as he fights, even as she is distant, and seeing nothing but the beauty in perseverance and hope... how Ruin cannot understand the loyalty and emotion and belief that lets people fight against him, the urge to strive for growth... how the way every culture Sazed ever studied tried to understand the world in their own way, and his own dedication to remembering those cultures, lets him remake the world... it's a story about hope and devotion and how faith is a choice but more open than you think.

vins-paranoia

cikebabbler

vin really went from being "I am not like the other girls" to "maybe I am like the other girls" to "I can't be like the other girls" to "all girls are unique, all girls are powerful in their own ways, like me. I am a thief, a mistborn, and a noblewoman. I do not have to choose what would define me. I can simply be me" AND THAT'S SO SO SO IMPORTANT TO ME

hoids-lost-flute

RIP Kelsier you would have loved the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer craze

punkmineral-deactivated20130829

omfg im laughing so hard i fell asleep on my keyboard last night and i just found this

gamecubist

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pau1y

One entire row of ‘f’s takes 10 seconds to type. There are 45 lines per page, so you take 450 seconds per page. You claim to have typed 184 pages, which would take a total of 82800 seconds, or exactly 23 hours. You are a liar

mahnkee

victoriaringsinyourears

You forgot that she was holding down the key. This accelerates the rate at which the f’s appear; once the ‘f’s appear at a rapid rate, it’s about 3.4 seconds per line. Also, 45 lines per page is generous - I counted and given that the page is Times New Roman, 12pt font, it’s about 41 lines.

This means that it’s 139.4 seconds per page, times 184 is 25649.6 seconds, and that rounds out to about 7.1 hours, or 7 hours 7 minutes.

It’s perfectly reasonable for her to have slept!