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Parts of a Whole

Kurapika works in a job most would not. Being an executioner is rarely worth the payout. But, he’s been here, and he’s managing it. A new doctor, by the name of Leorio, comes to the Organization, and Kurapika can’t help being annoyed by his presence. His instinct is, of course, to tell him to get lost.

Nothing ever goes the one expects it to.

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Thank you so much for doing this with me @el-theartist! I feel like I upgraded my writing game! Hopefully it shows in this fic :)

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My little drawing for hxhbb22!! I had the honor of collaborating with @sugarless--girl so go check out their super cool fic “Parts of a Whole”

This was a super cool and fun process to do! I truly hope I am able to do another one :)

Link to the fic right here!!

https://sugarless--girl.tumblr.com/post/688586721143734272/parts-of-a-whole

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In case anyone is having a bad night:

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3

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i will reblog this everytime it shows up because any of my followers could have a bad night right now

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All these links, besides the first, are broken. So here’s some more.

Here’s an emergency compliment

Here you can play 2048

Here’s a playlist of Bob ross

Here’s a website to watch movie’s and shows for free

Here’s a website to watch documentaries for free

Here you can to nothing for two minutes

Here you can break something. It’s good for anger

Here’s a button to press to make everything okay

Here’s a site to cut something up (TRIGGER WARNING)

Here’s a site that makes you a website depending on a song you choose

Here’s a gay comic. It’s adorable

Here you can spend Bill Gate’s money

Here you can draw your own island

Here you can learn about patterns website’s use

Here you can get your life stats

Here you can listen to the Tucker Zone (Headphones needed)

Here you can see how fast you’re moving

Here you can see the progress of time

Here you can see the future of the universe

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Want some more?

Here’s the butterfly project

Here’s a snickerdoodle mug cake

Here’s a link to some free audiobooks

Here’s something to read when you feel like a burden

Here’s a secret

Here’s my playlist of some sea shanties

Here’s another secret

Here’s a link to some cool websites

Here’s a blog that gives you recipes for when you’re low on spoons

Here’s some Brony Headcanon’s

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Some more? I’ve got plenty

Here’s 100,000 stars

Here you can control the weather (TW FLASHING IMAGES)

Here you can weave silk

Here you can make a castle of your own

Here you can make a kaleidoscope drawing

Here you can explore recursion

Here you can play a jelly block game

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I’m back with some more!

Here you can draw with pasta

Here you can draw logo’s from memory

Here you can play this is sand, here you draw cool sand designs

Here you can play The Organ Trail

Here’s a customizable white noise website

Here you can simulate gravity

Here you can create your own guardian of the galaxy

Here you can make your own galaxy

Here’s a website you can get some support at.

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to find later

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2021 remake!

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Happy Late Halloween! They dressed up as Batman and Robin.

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i think what i really love about over the garden wall is that a large theme throughout the series is that “nothing is what it seems”. wirt thinks that the pumpkin people are out to get them, but they just want to celebrate. the old man at the school seems stingy, but he’s just worried about money. and of course, Jason Funderberker. i don’t know, it was kind of refreshing to see it break all the typical tropes you’d expect to see in a show

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They Will Never be Another Cartoon Like... Over The Garden Wall

LOver The Garden Wall is a cartoon masterpiece and I don’t say that often. Despite being only 10 11 minute episodes long series, it sucessfully tell it story from beginning to the end. The show breaks the cartoon trope that I don’t believe that they’ll never be another cartoon that mimics the masterpiece.

Autumn

Usually, cartoons are bright, colorful, and have a hyperactive environment,

Like the The Amazing World of Gumball

The Ghost and Molly McGree

But for The Over Garden Wall, it’s quiet, not a trace of neon color, and the main colors you see are brown, red, orange, and other autumn colors.

Sometimes making you feel eerie of the world. Although there’s no sign of danger, but it doesn’t feel quite right.

It isn’t just the environment that is quiet, it’s also the music. Instead of being poppy, energetic, and being catchy, the soundtrack is folkier.

Such as Potatus Et Molassus, Prelude, Foward, Oneiro, and Come Wayard Souls

Then look at cartoon openings

Star vs The Forces of Evil,

Steven Universe,

Gravity Falls

and every other cartoon show openings, have the protagonist doing wacky things with hyperactive music playing

But for Over the Garden Wall, it’s slow and calm and doesn’t show you even you the main characters but shows what will the characters encounter in their journey with very calming music.

Unlike any cartoon that’s hyperactive, it’s more calming than the rest which is such refreshing to see especially it’s a kid cartoon.

Into the Unkown

The selling point of the show is the unknown. The protagonist of the place is set in the mysterious land without a clue of how and why they got in the first place, but their one goal is to find their way by pressing forward to the unknown. The world of the OTGW is built-in fantasy but doesn’t have witches, amphibians, and humanoid gems, but more on folktale tales such as

Pottsfield Harvest Festival.

Adelaide the “Good” Witch

The Ringing of the Bell

Making each adventure feel like it’s came right out of brothers grimm fairy tale. Each having it’s own unique story, own setting, and be unfamiliar to one another. So much wonder and mystery is what makes the show so interesting.

The Pilgrims

To make it the journey more enuring are the characters. The protagonists, Wirt and Greg, seem to be one note with Wirt being the more mature but timid and obedient, and Greg being the happy go lucky and naive kid.

However, they grow as the progress through the woods. Having them have chemistry, bond, falling out, and reconcile. Making them have a perfect dynamtic.

What I also enjoy is that theirs more depth into their character, making them more believable. In chapter 9: “Into the Unknown”, Wirt want to take a girl out to a date, but a womanizer will ask her out. Instead of going the hated dork asking the popular girl in school, it’s actually all in Wirt’s head, being paranoid.

People actually likes him, especially Sarah

and Jason Funderburker is more of a dweeb than Wirt.

It just Wirt overthinking about it, making him more a believable protagonist.

Their story of two brothers wandering into the unknown to find their way home, perfecly encapsulate to a fairy tale.

Influences and References

What makes this cartoon so different from other cartoons is its references and influence. Most cartoons will reference movies and animes

Such as Amphibia reference Jojo

The Owl House reference Dragon Ball Z

But with the Over The Garden Wall, their references are much older that not many have heard

Such as the school children are based on characters of Beatrix Potter

People were actually afraid of the nightly air for it may contain poison before the plague was explained in the 1700s.

Characters from “Babes from the Woods” are references to 1930s to 1940s cartoon characters.

While it’s a minor praise to the show, but you don’t see that a lot of cartoons making references to older cartoons.

Beware the Beast

The antagonist of the series, The Beast feels different than your standard cartoon villain. Instead of him taking over the world or bringing chaos, he plays more in deceiving to get what he wants by manipulating.

He isn’t even that powerful, but use words instead of action such as he manipulated the Woodsmen by telling him that his daughter soul is in the lantern and the only way to have her stay alive by chopping edlewood tree and grinding them to oil, which is made out of children that turns into trees.

His design is simple but very terrifying for blending in the shadows.

Reminds me a lot of the wendigo or Herne the Hunter

Then when the light shines on him, his true appearance is horrific for his body is made out of edlewood with twisted faces and holes covering his entire body.

What I truly love about it is how he was defeated. Instead of a big epic battle, good vs evil like every cartoon has done, they instead have Wirt didn’t fall for the Beast words and his threats, he even revealed his soul was actually in the lantern.

Wirt gave the lantern back to the Woodsman for he has his own business to deal with. Making the Woodsman realize that his daughter wasn’t in the lantern and blows out the lantern, ending his terror forever.

It’s clever how they’ve defeated the antagonist.

Conclusion

Over The Garden Wall is the greatest achievement in western animation history. Being only 10 episodes, but it was able to tells a very satisfying story. It didn’t need multiple seasons to tell its story, no sequels, no spinoff shows or a movie, but just a simple and short story. It is filled with childlike wonder with horrific moments, mature themes, and feel melancholy. Truly a masterpiece that can never be mimic.