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[grayashliii]

ENJIN

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Artist: @idealwing001

[bugak]

More of adult Atreus doodle🏹

Actually I was going to finish this in full color, but I completely lost my motivation halfway through 😓

[mintaii]

oh miss ivy 🥀

[cordia1ly]

«hell if I care.»

[local-cryptid-has-anger-issues]

post doll festival

everyone’s back home safe

(coloring sketches is my passion)

[nunl33]

[kyri45]

Fand-Home Prints series by Kyri45

or- what home feels like for every fandom. :)

[monstersovka]

✶ ✷ ✶

[nabellaprince]

from lily pov btw 🥹

[altades]

You ever see a girl so pretty you need to kys

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.

So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.

[muffinlance]

If your answer to any of those was "no", I cannot emphasize enough that this isn't just "bummer, guess it's gone forever". You can get that mobility back, it is actually very achievable with the right modifications for your level!

This is the very simple "starting from zero muscles" program I followed, highly recommend it or something similar:

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[phnxteam]

mama bear

[findmeinthefallair]

Masterpost of My Hunter Metas

Here's the list, up and running right before the year ends!

All drawing upon lived experience combined with past experience and knowledge from training and working as a therapist.

These should be in my "reblogging for World Mental Health Day" tag too.

Hunter Takes A Big Risk in "Labyrinth Runners" (and It Pays Off)

The significance of Hunter expressing a clear, resounding "No"

A Look at Hunter’s Complex PTSD (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

Big "T" and Small "t" Trauma

Colour Theory Ramblings #1

Colour Theory Ramblings #2

Therapist Analysis of Hunter’s Mental Health in "For the Future"

Who the Kids Are at Their Core, Beyond Their Good Deeds

Memories and Traumatic Grief

Palismen, Connection and Integrating Grief into A New Life

The Onscreen "I Wish You Were Here" vs. The Offscreen "I Hurt You"

Hunter’s Possession Scenes and the Theme of Enmeshment

Retraumatization vs. Self-Soothing (Part 1) (Part 2)

Hunter's Body Language

An Uncommonly Discussed Trauma Symptom

Outfit and Hairstyle Changes in Hunter's Character Design

Bonus Rambling About His Hairstyles

Hunter's Experiences After Belos's Death

(Addition re: Grimwalker Graveyard)

(Addition re: A Fear of Touching Palismen and Interacting with Palismen After Flapjack's Death)

(Addition re: Early Days of Palisman-Carving)

Separate Meta About Luz's Behaviour in "Reaching Out": A Parallel to the Start of Hunter's Recovery After Belos's Death

Luz and Hunter's Shared Trauma After Placing Trust in Belos

Watching and Dreaming: Luz, King and Hunter Experiencing the Loss of Their Father Figures

The Confusion of Looking Back on the 'Love' Shown by Belos

The Hand Motif in Hunter's Character Arc

Hunter's Character Arc: A Hopeful Narrative a.k.a. my infodump about cinematography

Hunter Emotionally Shutting Down in "Labyrinth Runners" and "For the Future"

Left Alone (with Palismen)

(Added on 4/22/24) Parallels with Trauma Recovery in Legend of Korra

(Added on 10/31/24) Add-On about the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems (While I Ramble About My Personal Favourite Hunter Outfit)

(Added on 1/2/25) Comparing the Bat Queen and Hunter

Any further edits or updates shall be added to this original post instead of via reblogs. I'll make sure to show which dates the edits were made on. It's likely I'll put a few up over time as I read more mental health books/publications which could lead to more light bulb moments!

Oh, this son of mine...

What a beautiful story his life tells us.

After the upcoming new year celebration, I'll put them on Ao3 as well as per a mutual's suggestion (thanks for suggesting! <3).

Stay weird! I wish y'all a good 2024 and beyond! 🦉🏠🐦🧙🏻‍♀️🔮🧹

[poppitron360]

This moment is so SO impactful for a number of reasons.

In any other show, wearing a mask would be shown as something toxic that Hunter needed to move away from, and rejecting the mask would be a sign of him healing. Him using it would be considered a crutch, something he should look past and learn to be confident without. And while that’s good symbolism for his journey of healing, growth, and separation from his trauma… I like this a lot better for the messages it teaches.

Hunter doesn’t feel safe in this moment, and so Luz looks around and tries to find a solution that would make him more comfortable. And it helps! Tactically speaking it won’t actually do anything to hide their identity or protect their faces, but it makes Hunter less afraid. Needing to wear a kids halloween mask might seem silly and childish, but it isn’t played for laughs in the show and Hunter isn’t judged for it. Luz even wears a mask as well so he won’t be alone or feel self-conscious.

As much as being the Golden Guard hurt him, it’s what he’s used to and an identity he could feel confident in.

The message I took away most from the Owl House is that sometimes people need to do things differently in order to get the same results in a comfortable and safe way. This is shown everywhere. Luz uses glyphs and paper to do magic, Gus flies his staff in a different way, Eda takes her Elixir, Principal Bump uses his palisman to help see- and Hunter needs to wear a mask to help him feel confident enough to fight Belos.

Hunter finds things difficult, and so Luz offers a creative solution to accommodate his PTSD and make him feel safe.

This is a great metaphor for disabled and specifically neurodivergent people, and can be applied to things in the real world like mobility aids, medicine, and access arrangements. A kid shouldn’t be judged for needing extra time in an exam, or needing headphones or earplugs in loud spaces, or needing to wear certain clothes and do certain things to make them feel safe and confident.

It’s just such a great moment that didn’t necessarily need to be included to make the story work, but felt realistic for the characters. This scene felt so comforting for me as someone who has in the past worried about being judged and seeming childish and silly for needing accommodations, and has struggled with letting myself do things that make the world more accessible- and make me feel more safe.

[angstandhappiness]

Neat

[waywardsunlight]

I’ve seen critique of the Owl House that Luz uses the Boiling Isles as an escape to live out her fantasy and that she never changes from that / used as a critique of the show, or that she abandons ship the second she realizes that it isn’t what she wanted. Counterpoint-

In season 1, Luz gets to the Isles by accident because she threw out the book her dad gave her before he died, her comfort media that makes her feel close to him but isolated from the rest of the world, she wants to go home + the Isles isnt at all what her fantasy was, but then decides to stay to become a witch. In the first season, Luz is grossed out and scared of elements of the Isles- she wants to be a chosen one and have a fairytale adventure but Eda convinced her to listen to the island, connect with people, and form meaningful relationships. Luz’s kindness to King, her mistakes in believing in tropes which do hurt her friends, and then her apologies and amends MATTER. Luz realizes she’s wrong for reading Amity’s diary and challenging Boscha- things don’t go how she wants- and then she GETS BETTER and improves as a person!!

Luz wants to go home. When she does become the hero, it’s not because she wants to be one, it’s because she wants to get home to Camila, and she wants to help her friends. She falls for Philip’s hero fantasy and has that shattered for her when she meets him and he sucks. When she pushes Hunter to turn on Belos believing that he’s inherently good (ei. Bad but sad boy, tragic villain, Zuko vibe), TOGETHER they have their illusions of reality broken- Hunter could no longer justify his own abuse and Belos’s behavior, and Luz doesn’t think it’s a game anymore (she hasn’t for a while but this cements it), she’s scared, her friends are in danger. Eda wants to protect her, but Luz fights back not because she wants to be a hero, but because she feels responsible.

When Luz gives up and doesn’t want to return to the Isles, it’s not because she thinks it’s too hard or she doesn’t care about the Isles, it’s because she’s deeply depressed and she thinks she’s the person doing the most harm which Belos validates to her (it’s your fault I hurt Hunter, it’s ur fault the isles are in danger and I’m doing this to save you). Luz returns because she IS a hero, not because she wants to be one. Luz doesn’t take Collector at face value, she sees them and connects to them, and she’s able to convince them to connect back. She cares about Collector and she sees herself in them- that’s why she spends time with them, that’s why she tries her best.

Her death is an accident because she had a knee-jerk reaction to protect Collector. She flew in front of them because she cared about them, not because she wanted to be a hero. Contrasted to Philip- his hero fantasy allows him to let other people die for his protagonist arc- Luz puts herself between Belos and Collector selflessly and without the intention to die (she tried to block it), she wasn’t being a martyr. And her last words are her trying to comfort her friends and Collector. When she dies she’s mourning because she couldn’t think of what to say to them- she doesn’t see herself as a hero anymore.

Luz also rejects the idea that she’s a hero or a good person when Papa tells her she is. He explains that Luz cares about people and that’s why she’s a hero- she has their favor because Luz was kind and good. Luz asks them what they’d like to tell King. She accepts his magic because she CARES, because she loves the Isles- as she’s doing her big hero finale it’s absolutely the fantasy moment which is fun and awesome bc goddamn let a girl have something. But the final scene with Belos, she’s upset (?) and looking away- she doesn’t find it fun, it’s probably miserable for her and she’s uncaring / unresponsive to him because he’s still trying to compare them and find sympathy until the very end, after repeatedly traumatizing her AND KILLING HER. It’s Eda and Raine who kill him officially, Eda- who doesn’t believe in chosen ones, and Raine- a rebel who chose to be a hero. Kings there too lmao. But the argument that Luz IS a bad person, that she’s just living out her fantasy, holds absolutely no water with the actual text. From the beginning she understands that the Isles arent what she wanted- and she accepts them anyway, she loves the people- she dies for them because she wasn’t going to let a kid who she had limited reason to care about die because they were a kid and misunderstood forgiveness. Luz is the hero because she does a heroic act without a second thought that results in her death- she’s the hero because she’s kind- and the person who gives her the power is flawed and tells her so. Yall just MISS THE POINT *blows up*.

[royal-they]

I feel like a lot of people misread Willow as being the mentally stable friend. 

She’s not, she just puts up a good front. Her goals aren’t about her. She doesn’t consider her own emotions. Everything’s about others. 

Willow is someone who tries her best to appear put together and stable on the outside. She won’t let you see her crack. Because to her her friends are 1000x more important. Many witches state a goal that involves their career or deepest wish for themselves when they chose a palisman or make one. Willow doesn’t, and she’s one of the few we’ve seen who makes this choice. She doesn’t want to be strong to help herself gain power, she wants power to protect those close to her. 

Willow isn’t one to let her emotions get the better of her. But when they do she breaks. She can’t put up with all the pressure, she has a breaking point. And this breaking point usually stems from this insecurity of her not being good enough. She needs to be good enough for others. And she is. But she’s not good enough for herself. 

Willows an amazing friend but she’s in no way less mentally ill then anyone else. She is unsure of herself and always needs to prove herself to others. It’s not quite as obvious as it is with Hunter; he’s always running around trying to prove his worth and having panic attacks because of it. But it’s still there, she just does a good job of keeping it all inside. 

With Hunter we see this aspect of him a lot. It’s a huge plot point in Eclipse Lake. He’s scared of rejection from Belos. He’s scared of being replaced. He’s scared of not having a place in the world. He puts the needs of others over his own constantly. But Hunter can’t put up a front like Willow can. The only time we get to really explore Willows insecurity’s properly is when we literally are seeing inside her head. The episodes literally called Understanding Willow for crying out loud:

As someone who was bullied mercilessly for years when I was the age Willow is in this memory I really understand this whole episode on a very personal level. The things people said to Willow got to her. Her inner self says she’s just “finishing what (Amity) started.” Even when she heals her relationship with Amity she still has moments of insecurity. She calls herself, “half-a-witch.” She gets mad when Amity trys to protect her. She gets upset when she is captured by someone she trusted. All these things resurface old familiar emotions for her. 

Willow has been trying her whole life to help people and for so long it didn’t work out. Amity calls her a “weakling.” She vows to be a powerful witch. Amity tells her she causes problems. Willow says she is going to protect everyone she loves. Amity rejects Willows friendship and picks on her. 

Willow is scared of rejection. 

Scared of disappointing people. 

She is upset when Amity replaces her with new friends and lets them pick on her. 

She can’t deal with any of these emotions - similarly to Hunter - so she combats it by constantly comforting and prioritizing others.  

Willows incredibly powerful and strong. And amazing friend and a force not to be taken lightly. 

But in no way is she over these deep rooted anxiety’s of losing her friends, not being able to protect people, or being a nuisance and a problem. 

I really want this to be an aspect of her that is focused on sometime in the future, because its a problem she has that is never really solved. 

She’s not completely indestructible. 

[angstandhappiness]

Neat

[loosescrewslefty]

Okay, but I love love LOVE the contrast between Amity and Hunter as kids from messed up homes dealing with their first crushes?

When we first met her, Amity was cold, distant, and aloof.

But after she starts developing strong feelings for Luz, she starts to Word Vomit to her crush;

But in comparison, Hunter is a TALKER. He infodumps. He whistles to himself when he's flying alone on an airship. He rambles about his plans to Flapjack CONSTANTLY. He follows Belos around with questions and suggestions. He snarks, sasses, and snipes at all the Main Characters. He literally cannot stop himself from talking to others, even when it's in his best interests to shut up. To the point where he managed to get himself exposed by his voice alone in Eclipse Lake.

But then, after he starts to develop his crush on Willow, Hunter gets shy. And he gets noticeably quieter when she's around. And when he does talk, he's obviously choosing his words much more carefully than he did previously.

and honestly??? Both are such adorable depictions of kids with crushes??????

[angstandhappiness]

Adorable