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my pronouns are he/him. this is a toh sideblog made specifically so that i can be a menace to society without making my dear mutuals on main suffer.

im not interested in ship discourse or fandom purity culture. what i find most important in any piece of art is what makes it compelling: regularly (at least for me), that ends up being things people can deem "problematic."

the biggest example when it comes to TOH specifically is that i view belos' treatment of hunter through the lens of incestuous abuse (and the way children as a class are treated within society). because of this, i will be talking about and reblogging content about empgold (and wittecest as an extension of that). i'm not a survivor, so please let me know if i say something insensitive

my favorite characters to talk about are luz, hunter, and belos. i ship lunter & amillow, but i think lumity and willuz are cute. i dont like huntlow as it is in the show canon, but obviously i think it's totally fine to ship them.

i wont maintag (specifically, i wont use full names for character tags and won't use the toh/the owl house tags)

original post tag: h.post original art tag: h.art original character tag: h.oc salt: toh crit

#empgold #wittecest #lunter #amillow #<- FINDING MY PEOPLE.#h.post #the userboxes are made by me (including transparent assets) feel free to use them for whatever you'd like!

kumaicecream

University course

maknaasfalti

I guarantee that KoG is gonna fuck up it's anti-capitalist political messaging because the story will be subservient to petty bourgeoisie entitlement to commercial success of a project about your OCs from when you were 13 years old.

Her feud with Disney wasn't crunch or exploitation of merch manufacturers, it was "no Dana, we can't add another season for beach episode romcom filler, wrap it up" and she acted like she was hays coded.

Animation heavily suffers from graphomania.

#dont know if graphomania is the word here but yup. yup!#ive! been! saying!#thank you op #also lest we forget kog is being funded by a merch company that is not at all transparent about where their merch is coming from and #who is making it. it's extremely likely (honestly i think it has to simply be true atp) that glitch productions is as exploitative as any #other company that exists to make profit. the lack of transparency invites all forms of suspicion.

maknaasfalti

Not everything needs to be an animated show.

Knights of Guinevere could've been a book or a comic, which is fitting considering glitch makes most their money with merch anyway, might as well cut out the middleman between content and profit.

Gameoverse could've been a series of horny animation memes, it frankly could've just been porn sold on patreon.

People who make animation only watch animation and because of that they lack the skills that's transferred from other mediums into animation that's actually good.

Abd the reason they are attracted to animation specifically is because it is the most labour consuming and authoritarian medium that these Napoleonan graphomaniacs want to be the petit bourgeois slavers of. That is entirely a power fantasy.

Art cannot be a "passion project" or "a form of expression" if your role is exclusively the executive producer. That is a deeply alienated form of artistic division of labour.

#WHAT IM SAYIN!!

noka-mocha

Holy Matrimony

#oh my god this is fucking AMAZING #THE BLOOD???? THE SYMBOLISM??? AUGAHUAGHAGUGHH

elou-whipp

It's been a while

Comm for @1verre2trop-official ! Adult titan Luz!

Also, happy pride month!

the way lunter is so hated by the toh fandom needs to be studied and im so so serious about that

#like. am i the only one that finds this REALLY WEIRD. am i crazy. what.

mad-not-disappointed

bro. he had MAIN CHARACTER energy. not saying he had to be the main character but it's absurd how the writers made such an insanely skilled character with a powerset that is so insanely versatile and expansive (you're saying he can make ANY kind of illusions, look into a person's worst memories and also torture them by forcing them to relive their worst memories??) and then were like "nah he's the black best friend, he's just there for emotional support ?? like ???

#toh crit

cheekybirb

In all honesty i would LOVE to get Wittebane content in the book but im terrified on how Dana is gonna handle it knowing how inaccurate the Wittebanes are. Not only that but you cant write Caleb in ANY way stable since he was raised only by the public and was put on high stakes for his time. I dont know if Dana really cares that much for the Wittebanes enough to actually take the time to research Child Development or Colonial History and I know it'll make me mad

#given how much dana HATES belos and refuses to make him in any way sympathetic i think if we even did get canon wittebro content #(IF ANY) it would turn into a ''this child is inherently fucked up and evil and irredeemable'' ableist narrative. because there's no way #around that if she wants belos to not have any sympathetic moments. so he needs to be innately Bad.#toh crit

groverman6-2

What was the point of establishing that Eda runs a potions business if nothing is ever done with it?

It doesn't really come into to play after the 2nd episode. When the first episode for the second season happens, Luz talks about how The Owl Fam is financially struggling because they lost the portal door, so they can't sell human junk anymore. But wasn't that just a side gig done on weekends? Making and selling potions was supposedly Eda's main way of making money, and we know she and Lilith can still make potions because they both do it in the first episode, but running the business never comes up.

#well you see. this is because the owl house is badly written #toh crit

hvntlos

still very funny to me that dana terrace, famously not a big fan of disney, who also has a show criticizing them, is still working with them to make a graphic novel for her series that already ended. lol

hvntlos

look. as an artist myself it fucking sucks when youre not able to make the art you want to make, when youre not able to tell the story you really want to tell. but to go against your own morals in order to tell that story is, frankly, kind of appalling? working with an exploitative company that you have been criticizing is pure hypocrisy. you care about your morals? dont work with them. dont write for them. dont draw for them. even if they keep going with the story, dont help them with it. dont bark without any bite if you actually give a damn about what you claim to stand for.

#AND kog's getting funded by merch from a company that is Not Transparent about the working conditions of their employees or where #their products are even made. your story is not worth the exploitation of the working class and especially those in the global south.#following your passions is important. how many people /cant/ do that precisely because theyre underpaid and exploited by corporations?

#no idc if this was in production before kog. idec if you started it b4 you ever said even one bad word about disney. you shouldnt be #working with a company that goes against your morals. and if you do then you have the moral backbone of a chocolate éclair #toh critical #h.post

lunter-spite

toh fandom be like:

us weirdos have to stick together 🥹 ✨ 💖 🌈 but you should genuinely die if you ship a non-canon ship I don't like. No it's not problematic in the slightest it just goes against my headcanon so I hate you and hope you keel over and rot

#also. even if it was problematic. see the first statement.

convulpes

sirghostheart

I'll forever mourn the way TOH set up the Boiling Isles's social darwinist, might-makes-right, fuck-you-got-mine ideology and then just seemingly abandoned it when the Belos/Philip reveal came around.

I mean, the concept of strenght/magical prowess is present hanging over so many characters' heads, like:

Luz being having to work hard at spell casting due to not having a magical bile sack;

Eda's curse sapping away her magic, which gets her to lose every ounce of respect her peers had towards her after she she loses her magic for good after s1;

Lilith cursing Eda out of fear she'd lose to her in the EC tournament and still struggling to catch up even as Eda's curse worsens through the years;

Willow's later-bloomer status causing her be (seemingly) abandoned by Amity as a kid and then bullied by her peers at Hexside, only to become popular after proving herself to be talented at Plant magic;

Amity struggling with the pression put on her to be the perfect witch, even acting mean despite regretting it due to believing she can't show any weakness (on top of blaming herself for being "too weak" as a child to stand up to her parents for Willow);

Gus being insecure about Illusionist magic due to it been seen as weaker than other types of magic;

Hunter telling Luz that if he wasn't taken on by Belos, he'd have no future due to being born with no magic;

Boscha being able to get away with murder (both literally and figurativelly) due to being the Grudgby captain.

Considering that disability is a huge theme on this show, you'd think that social-darwinism would be the thematic enemy to beat, especially when colonialism/imperialism/fascism are all rooted in the idea of hierarchy betwen those who are deemed "superior" and those who are deemed "inferior".

I honestly don't get why set up this underlying thematic issue for over 1 and a half seasons only to turn around and go "Actually, the main issue of this fantasy world is not that raw power is viewed as more important than solidarity and basic decency, but that some bigoted (human!) puritan guy is scamming everyone into participating into his death cult".

And because it requires to be said, NO, I DO NOT THINK that the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles deserved to be genocided for their social-darwinism, even if it somehow wasn't part of Belos's plans. I personally think that this thematic swerve is a way to the story not have to deal with the duality of Boiling Isles being somewhere Luz can belong and achieve her dreams AND ALSO a fascist hellhole that looks down on her for simple being human.

fernfrek

happy 5th owliversary!🌤

hieee i like ur blog a lot<3 all ur analysis is spot on !!

thank you so much!!! this actually really means a lot to hear :']

i want to be more active in the future so hopefully i'll make some new stuff soon!!!

#h.ask #h.post #blightcedas

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