agotta be kidding me

they/she | 26 black and mixed creole | NO AI 🤢 | MINORS DNI 🔞| (fan)artist sometimes

[crypticsting]

easthies fails to understand he was already upholding a flawed system that was going to collapse anyway. coco may be the catalyst, but the scales were gonna tip regardless of her existence in witch society. as long as there is a single person that begins to question the way things are, something will eventually change for better or worse.

[coldinternetllama]

Agott's talent

Vague spoilers up until Silver Eve (around chapter 62)

I've been thinking about how Agott was kicked out of her family for supposedly being too mediocre when it comes to magic, at least in comparison to her mother, and how a common interpretation is that she is indeed not talented, but a hard worker. While I do agree that this is a valid take, especially considering how Shirahama loves to flip common tropes around, I don't think this is entirely true. Agott appears to have talent when it comes to purely decorative magic, as we can see during the Silver Eve arc, and it's even implied when Coco is defending her while they are at the Great Hall (making plushies dance is apparently quite complicated). It just so happens that this is the kind of magic that is considered useless, because it is rather impractical. I can't help but wonder if this is meant to parallel how artists in real life are often told that what they do isn't a "real job". And what is a child supposed to do when she is told her talents are worthless? Of course, she would start hiding her favorite magic and try and learn all of the "useful" spells. Yet she will never quite reach the expected brilliance, instead she will only follow the path of other people's expectations. Not because she wants to, but because this is how it is supposed to be. I believe this is one of the reasons why she struggles to be as creative and daring as Coco in stressful situations. After all, Agott's own ideas were never considered good enough for the Arklaum family, so why even bother experimenting? No wonder she sometimes gets envious of Coco's seemingly easygoing nature and unconventional, but successful ideas when it comes to magic.

Speaking of Coco, I think it's poetic how it was also one such decorative and impractical spell (Olruggio's glowing stones) that made her love magic, and it was later Agott's light magic that reignited that same love. And it took Coco feeling down for Agott to actually want to use her own spells for the sake of someone else. Considering how that interaction seemed to make both of them more confident, I believe we'll be seeing more of Agott's actual talent in the future, just like Coco has been getting better and better at the technical aspect of casting.

[crypticsting]

i think utowin is in love with easthies, but i don’t think easthies is in love with utowin.

[wolfmeadows2]

Is he contractually obligated to say this once a volume or

[crypticsting]

qifrey uses his full name in the main series so we know this is the serious one

[nikoco11]

something i have harbored

[crypticsting]

i think for this pride month every person who says “why can’t men be friends?” in response to a mlm ship should have their fingers turn black and shrivel and their teeth fall out

[arystocrat]

kinda bummed that the wha dub is trapped in crunch wrap supreme hell bc agott's va's tweets are funny. she Understands that 12 year old.

[poketfriend-blog]

Qifrey wiping Nolnoa's memories leading to Tartah joining Brimmed Caps is like finding out that this one kinda evil choice you make at the start of the game has a far-reaching consequences 100h later in the playthrough

[spring-spite]

i love olruggio witchhat so much. he’s a sun-coded black cat. he’s a lethally chronic procrastinator. he’s a girl dad. he lies to the police. his magic is warm. his kids bully him and they’re right. he’s in a decade-long magically induced situationship, but he doesn’t know it’s cursed and he’s in it for love of the game. he’s lowkey a celebrity but chooses to live in a cottage on the countryside with said situationship and their four children. he sleeps on the couch. he was a crazy child. he’s a bit of a picky eater. he has chronic anemia and is two minutes away from passing out at all times. he hates hurting things so much that he struggles to kill a disgusting giant leech. he’s a burnt out gifted kid. he is begrudgingly excellent at one of his jobs and on-purposely atrocious at the other one. he has a baby face and is nearly unrecognizable without his beard. he carries an enormous, inexplicable guilt. he’s the sky’s kindest, most radiant star. he’s the perfect man

[crypticsting]

is it confirmed that olruggio grows a beard to look older and hide his baby face, or is that just my headcanon?

[yfel-axel]

[crypticsting]

i’m gonna follow so many talented artists! ya’ll aren’t ready!!! if there isn’t one person appreciating your art i’m dead

[crypticsting]

is there something in the water in ghodrey because what’s with these men and their insane devotion to their messy twinks?

[zmeess]

sword and shield

tip jar!

[bardace]

custas and dagda are like if daedalus fell to ensure that icarus stayed aloft

[crypticsting]

all these greek myth comparisons to the tragedies in witch hat atelier are killing me in the best way (still painfully though).

[justjill72]

Love how everyone but Qifrey and Olruggio treat Beldaruit with high respect and praise as one of the three wises. Then you just have Qifrey and Olruggio being so done with his bs

[crypticsting]

the next big arc will animate my most hated character in witch hat: