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Personal blog: fandom stuff, reblogs, occasionally my own stuff. Fandoms include Drawtectives, the Owl House, Atla and more. I occasionally write fan fics which can be found under White_Dragontail on AO3.

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[sokkastyles]

I guess there should be a distinction between enemies to lovers ships and hero / villain ships, but there is nothing wrong with the latter, and I don't think it's at all common for the woman to be the defensive partner. I mean, Batman/Catwoman and Geralt/Yennifer come to mind.

Although, honestly, Katara enjoyed the hell out of beating Zuko's ass.

And then there's also the tiny little fact of him eventually having to switch to her side. That's kind of a major deal, especially when we talk about the appeal of these types of ships for women. The fantasy is not in being unwillingly pursued (and you don't have to be the bad guy to do that to a woman, male heroes can still get away with that crap), it's in being acknowledged and understood.

[drachenfalter]

Sure, but even with Katara in the defensive role, calling her the "unwilling one forced into the dynamic" is just so at odds with canon.

From the very beginning, Zuko makes it clear that he's chasing after Aang, not Katara or anyone else, and he reaffirms that in The Waterbending Scroll to her face.

Also from the very beginning, Katara makes the active choice to protect Aang and put herself between him and Zuko. Aang was already gone, her village was safe and realistically they had no hope of catching up to them. And still, Katara went looking for a boat. No one forced or asked her to do that. But that is the choice she made and continues to make.

The one exception to that rule is when Zuko hires June, and even then he is really after Aang; That Katara would have left behind Aang just then is something no one would have predicted (and a decision she and Sokka had already gone back on). At this point, Zuko also knows he can't get to Aang without first dealing with her in some way and talking/negotiating clearly isn't a viable option.

And yes. Katara very clearly enjoyed that fight in the North Pole.

But also the hetero qualifier to this critique feels a bit useless once you think it through: In a WLW ETL, the hero/defensive role can only ever be filled by a woman and in a MLM ETL, there is no woman.

And you already pointed out that there are prominent and popular examples that flip those roles, but also, putting the woman in the "defensive role" is generally a result of making the woman the hero (and protagonist) of the story in the first place.

Which is what most Zutara fans do with Katara, at least in my experience.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[ducksdontdraw]

will you love him?? 🥺 will you buy. hats.

[idksomethingclever99]

Belos is a lich who keeps making simulacrums of his dead brother, yet somehow there wasn't a Necromancy track in The Owl House?

[drachenfalter]

Obviously Belos just wanted to keep that sort of magic to himself, and telling people not to do certain kind of magic is kinda the purpose of the Coven System.

But joking aside, while grimwalkers and undead wizards fit the pop culture perception of necromancy, I'm not convinced that the people of the Boiling Isles would call those things "necromancy".

The one time the show confirms that necromancy is a known thing* is when Gus considers resorting to "forbidden sources" to do his interview of someone "interesting, accomplished and noteworthy". And in this context, the older definition simply fits better:

Necromancy is a form of divination that involves communing with the dead and/or summoning their spirits.

Which is perfect for what Gus wants to do with it. And under that definition, necromancy would be part of the Oracle track. If it isn't straight up illegal, that is.

(* They don't use the word "necromancy", which might be because of Disney, but "raising the dead" is a pretty clear stand in.)

[on-begged-and-borrowed-time]

tgwdlm west end neighbors to hadestown???

[a-petal-on-a-stream]

one of my favorite occasions of wordplay in hadestown that i don’t see talked about a lot is the line in hey little songbird where hades tells eurydice “you’d shine like a diamond down in the mine”

because what eurydice thinks he means is “you’ll be like a diamond is in a mine, surrounded by filth or poverty but you yourself valuable/pure”

and what hades actually means is “you’ll shine like a diamond while you’re working in the mine”

[drachenfalter]

Going the other direction, there's also Hades saying "I could use a canary."

He's talking about a pet. A caged songbird that will sing and entertain and stay in its cage. A canary is the stereotypical pet bird for that.

But again. He's taking her into a mine. The context changes the meaning.

The purpose of the canary in the mine isn't to entertain the foreman. It's to protect the workers, to help them recognize a threat they can't see.

That is not what Hades wants. But it's what Hadestown needs.

[veggiesforpresident]

i think one if the reasons i struggle to really conceptualize zutara in a way that doesnt feel out of character is because katara hates zukos ass. like what makes their dynamic interesting to me is the "i hate you but... i also dont." of kataras feelings. like its always more complex than just "i used to hate you but whoops actually i love you now instead". like both feelings have to co-exist to me.

[drachenfalter]

See, the thing is that Katara's hate towards Zuko is often overblown in the fandom.

In canon, all it took for Katara to go from "Zuko is the enemy" to "I want Zuko to join us" was one conversation, one heart to heart. (Crossroads of Destiny).

And even before that, Katara was willing to give Zuko the benefit of the doubt the moment he stopped working against them (The Chase).

Katara coming around to Zuko quickly once they team up in a canon divergence is fully in character.

Now, if we go to Book 3, she seems to hate him more than she did before. But it isn't simply hate. She's angry, so, so angry at Zuko because she wanted him to be good, because she gave him her trust, and that ended in Zuko taking Azula's side and Aang's (temporary) death. So of course she's wary of letting him get close.

And yet Katara doesn't say a word when Zuko wants to take Aang away to look for the sun warrior ruins. Doesn't look concerned when Zuko and her brother disappear on a "fishing trip" in the middle of the night.

Despite everything, Katara really does believe Zuko when he tells them that he changed, even if she won't admit that out loud.

And when she does forgive him, she does not do it reluctantly, but enthusiastically, immediately going for a tight hug and treating him as a close and trusted friend from that point on.

This is all canon, this is in character.

It's not "I hated you and now I like you." It's "I liked you, but you hurt me, so I did my best to hate you, until you put in the work to make up for it and I felt safe to trust you again."

[spencerwan]

An alternate version of my animatic for The Owl House main titles. It was rejected because they thought the POV change was confusing.

[drachenfalter]

Can't believe I only now recognized the thematical resonance between the "Would you still love me if I was a worm" meme and Franz Kafka's Transformation (aka Gregor Samsa turns into a bug)

It's the same question, just with wildly different answers.

[drachenfalter]

TOH Au in which Lilith becomes Luz' (reluctant) mentor, loosely inspired by Witch Hat Atelier.

Most everything else is the same, Belos is still evil etc, but without Eda Luz doesn't figure that out until much later.

In Episode 1, Luz escapes Eda with her book and instead is found by the Coven Guards, who are stumped on what to do with this random human talking about portals and asking for help to get back.

(Feels like a great place for a wizard of Oz reference.)

Lilith agrees to take in Luz reluctantly because Belos tells her that Luz will be useful later on.

The show teased Lilith being a mentor to Amity and then promptly forgot about it; In this AU, Lilith is Amity's mentor and Amity initially thinks Luz doesn't deserve to be here.

With Luz having closer ties to the Coven System, "The Golden Guard" is introduced early on; Despite his arrogance, he and Luz build up some sort of cameradery, with him being one of very few people that don't look at Luz with pity or derision for not having magic.

Maybe some fun "secret identity" stuff where Luz meets Hunter out of uniform and doesn't realize he's the Golden Guard (and Hunter decides not to inform her).

The "teaching Luz magic" thing I'm not sure about; -> Belos still needs Luz to learn the Light Glyph so she can teach him in the past; Giving her a fake magic staff would be counterproductive. -> Lilith could probably teach Luz about Potions at least. -> Maybe Hunter rebels a little early, giving Luz access to some of those forbidden magic books?

Hexside; Either Lilith just drops off Luz there because she's busy/doesn't want to deal with teaching Luz for a bit, or there's some other ploy involving getting entry to Hexside.

That's all I got so far.

[drachenfalter]

Started watching the new Witch Hat Atelier anime, and yes, I see why people compare it to the The Owl House. (MC that always wanted to be a witch, magic system based on drawing symbols surrounded by a circle, etc.)

But for now, I find the contrast in how they talk about "forbidden magic" much more interesting than any similarities.

Both have lore in which magic was used much more freely, before the current administration enforced restrictions on what you can and can't do with magic.

In the Owl House, we are told early on that those laws restricting "wild magic" are unjust, that they are oppressive and a net negative for society. This is in big part because Luz' mentor Eda is a wild witch who would rather abolish those laws, while the Emperor's coven who enforce those laws are the antagonists.

WHA so far does the opposite. The restrictions on magic and who can use it are presented as a net positive, as a necessity for a peaceful world. The practitioners of forbidden magic are cast as villains that need to be stopped, while the people upholding the order (like Coco's mentor) are the heroes.

Of course, I haven't read the OG manga and only watched the first few episodes, so it's possible that this will be subverted at some point. But if they do, it's still a very different approach.

[drachenfalter]

Tragedy!

Trying to recreate the crease pattern for one of my origami models in Oriedita, and it turns out that this model is impossible to fold - at least using the mathematical idea of paper. Because I've folded it often enough with real paper already.

[mittermak]

[mittermak]

Reanimated Clip from Drawfee's Personalized Tarot episode

[hayleynwong]

"I'll never forget what you did for me..."

@favlie No time to draw, but this is for you! I do like Katara's clothes in the new movie screencaps I've seen. I have not seen the movie because I'd never watch a leak, but a screencap or two o.o But yeah, Lightning scar emotions have consumed me.

[zkbigbang]

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