Jayvie

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[karis-the-fangirl]

Consider the Fork isn’t about food itself exactly but all about cooking technology and how it changed how and what we eat

[alwayscraftynight-deactivated20]

Happy 6th anniversary to The Owl House.

[ilynpilled]

a character being a perpetrator does not negate their victimhood and neither does their victimhood negate being a perpetrator. u can accept and reckon w both dimensions in ur analysis

[alwayscraftynight-deactivated20]

hopkinsposting. wittebane fans come look at my man

[alwayscraftynight-deactivated20]

Thinking about Eda and Jacob. Jacob's onesided obsession with the woman he claims to have ruined his life. Meanwhile Eda probably doesn't even remember he exists. I want Eda to bluntly tell him he made the choices to do the things that he did and that she's not going to blame herself for it. And him crashing out because of it. Her existence is the entire reason why he went off the deep end and I want them to interact!!!!!!!

Kinda spoilery but they do interact at a point in Witch Hunters of Gravesfield and i have had. Such brainworms over it. Hhhhhhh

[oneguyjay]

I don't have the creativity to conceptualize it and I certainly do not have the artistic ability to realize it but a mental world for Jacob like what was done with Willow and Philip would be amazing. His narcissistic hero complex and conspiracy theories would be front and center with a big shiny gold statue of him front and center, literal webs connecting all his conspiracy theories, and sporadic appearances of his daydreams of slaying martians and being praised by the masses.

But as you go deeper cutting past all the delusions of grandeur you'd see the effects of being traumatized by the owl beast, the deep seeded fear of the unknown, and the loneliness of being socially ostracized.

[alwayscraftynight-deactivated20]

THIS IS SOMETHING I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT TOO A LOT

Your ideas are a lot more developed than mine, I had a vague idea of it kinda being like an infinite backroom of the museum type of deal, with the memories being shown in photographs as a nod to the picture of the owl beast, with red thread connecting them as a reference to classic conspiracy boards,, There'd be papers and weird junk everywhere to show how he's been neglecting his health and hoarding things,, and the memories of his biggest regrets and fears would be blocked off to signify his inability to confront or properly process the things that happened to him. This parts AU specific but there'd also be memories that have been spread with Philip's slime mold, showcasing how he's been influencing jacob and having him question his memories n shit.

I imagine a manifestation of jacobs fears takes the form of the owl beast probably and roams around,, idk if that makes sense with worldbuilding tho. THE STATUE IDEA IS REALLY GOOD, I can see it being an idealized version of him in his armor and shit. it'd be so cool. I kinda wanna make concept art of it but im not too good with backgrounds lol. I made concept art of jacobs bed room and It was really fun, I gotta redo it tho. Anyway your brain is so fucking smart when it comes to jacob you always pick up on things I miss :]

[oneguyjay]

I didn't have much of an idea for where the mindscape would be, but the museum would definitely fit because A) what else would you use, and B) Jacob uses the office at the museum as a sort of HQ. Maybe the mindscape would involve the museum and the town of Gravesfield to represent Jacob's perspective of humanity, with a dark forest surrounding the town representing his fear of owl beast, martians, and whatever else may be out there.

There'd be Jacob's mental self which would be his idealized fully armored look, and there'd also be faceless masses of people cheering him on, giving him words of encouragement representing Jacob's thought process of "it doesn't matter if they all hate me, they'll love me when I stop the martians and save the world". And his museum would be centered as a base of operations with an armory that looks much more extravagant than his own. I only realized this partway but there'd probably be some representation of his online presence, don't know how to visualize that but it'd probably involve his computer desk.

Then there'd be the outside woods where his mental formation of the owl beast/eda, vee, talking rats, and whatever other otherwordly creatures he had encountered / conjured up in his mind. At first I had thought of these woods to be below the town as it was for Philip having the woods below his castle, but I realized it makes more sense for the town to be surrounded by woods. This is because Jacob doesn't bury his fear of teeth stealing time traveling martians like how Philip buries his past with the golden guards and whatnot beneath his facade as Belos, but rather hypes himself as a hero to confront his fears. He sees himself as humanities protector, and this is reflected by his mental self serving as a bastion against the encroaching malevolent forces of mars.

[alwayscraftynight-deactivated20]

Do you ever think about how fucking scary encountering the owl beast probably was. A giant feathered animal with a human face and crooked bird feet. And the deafening sound of cicadas swarming when it rears its head. Do u think abt that. Do u think its worse than surviving that encounter and the social ostracization that comes with being gaslit about it even existed. To be cast aside as an insane person because nobody believes u. To succumb to the loving and welcome open arms of an internet echo chamber. To finally feel that you belong in a community and that your purpose is to eradicate evil. while its actively ruining your life and slowly making you go fucking bonkers. To starting to recklessly endanger people and yourself. And to not realize that youre actively ruining your own life.

Jacob's backstory could make for excellent psychological horror content and that is what I strive to achieve lol

[oneguyjay]

I think about it a frankly unhealthy amount

[oneguyjay]

I don't have the creativity to conceptualize it and I certainly do not have the artistic ability to realize it but a mental world for Jacob like what was done with Willow and Philip would be amazing. His narcissistic hero complex and conspiracy theories would be front and center with a big shiny gold statue of him front and center, literal webs connecting all his conspiracy theories, and sporadic appearances of his daydreams of slaying martians and being praised by the masses.

But as you go deeper cutting past all the delusions of grandeur you'd see the effects of being traumatized by the owl beast, the deep seeded fear of the unknown, and the loneliness of being socially ostracized.

[alwayscraftynight-deactivated20]

Just want to see something.

Which direction do you see Jacob Hopkins' character going in the canon timeskip of The Owl House?

getting better as a person

getting worse as a person

staying the same (boring but you do you)

other (comment please)

Voting ended onAug 11, 2025

[oneguyjay]

You've heard my spiel on this before I think but I figured I'd give it again more in depth. Jacob being redeemed means so much to me, and it's one of the primary ways I interact with him a character. I often times feel that I'm always trying and failing to get "better", too entrenched in bad habits and thought patterns to be able to build the foundations of a happy and successful life once I go out into the real world. And so thinking about Jacob who has many more problems than I do working through them, talking to his family and fixing relationships he thought he had ruined forever, taking better care of his mental and physical health, and of course apologizing to Vee and company after realizing all the wrong he's done. It helps me to talk to the people in my life, to make food for myself, to try to be a better person. There are times where I long desperately for people to see this nebulous vision of a redeemed Jacob in my head, of getting comments from people on ao3 on the Jacob redemption fic I've been "writing" (mostly daydreaming and occasionally staring at a google doc) for about 2 1/2 years now. But I've kind of resigned myself to that not happening, I'm not a writer just someone who wants to tell a story very badly. But even if this redeemed AU of Jacob never leaves my head, and the sequence of events as to how exactly he goes about getting redeemed is never conceptualized, I'll still have him to help me through life.

A song I've associated with my relationship with Jacob is "Beautiful Illusion". I don't selfship with Jacob myself, he's more of a mental sponge I use to insert my own issues and feelings and so the version of him in my head is more of an extension of myself than the actual character, so the romantic lyrics are about self love(?) but he's also a separate entity from myself, and I dunno how to hell to describe it. The chorus talking about being in love (again self loving/platonic/i dunno love) with an illusion describes how Jacob despite being a fictional character has helped me go throw high school and develop into adult hood.

I'm just rambling at this point, I just have feelings regarding this man.

Me preferring Jacob getting better doesn't mean I'm against him getting worse, it's just when it's done by most everyone they don't care about/actively dislike him to the point where the depiction makes me genuinely upset. I'm very excited by your WHOG au and the Search Party ao3 fic, and I myself have dabbled in some Jacob getting worse with that poltergeist au I told you about.

[alwayscraftynight-deactivated20]

there is no jacob hopkins playlist on Spotify. maybe I shall be the first.

It will be Touch Tone Telephone 50 times (joking)

[alwayscraftynight-deactivated20]

I made it, its not very long so far bc im trying not to make it hyperspecific to my AU's version of jacob or too sappy lol. And trying to only use 1 song per artist. But more will be added hopefully. Hope you guys like it :]

[oneguyjay]

I know you already have two Will Wood songs but may I recommend "Hand me my Shovel I'm going in". Many animatics have been made in my head of his downward spiral into conspiracy theories with the help of that song.

[rainstormpics]

[en--tropy]

[beardedmrbean]

[bringbackmaes14]

@need-him-pregnant-poll

[alwayscraftynight-deactivated20]

Art style practice for the Witch Hunters Of Gravesfield/Hopkins-Wittebane Project (name undecided) AU + A relationship chart.

(Note: The "its complicated" tag does not necessarily imply romantic/sexual feelings unless shown otherwise.)

If you have any questions regarding this AU, I will be opening a blog dedicated to it in the next few days. In the meantime, you can send asks to my inbox and I will reblog them on the blog when the time comes. :]

[clacy2812]

Hi!! I absolutely adore your design of Manager for KDH!

It just gets me picturing Rumi, Mira and Zoey all huddled up around Bobby and secretly giving glares at Manager while Zoey distracts him.

GIRLS PROTECT THE BOBBY PLEASE!!!

Yeah they would LMAO. Manager is trying his best right now. Even he knows he can't do anything either or else there would consequences

[wlfb0ygrl]

saying “i want him” about the character but not in a romantic or sexual way . i just Require him i need to Obtain him

[whispy-witch]

i want this man in my inventory

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

The purpose of life is to get really into stories that drive you so crazy you sometimes feel the need to throw up from how much you love them

[chellaxbr000]

It hurts so good when you get so attached to all the art, fanfics, story ideas, aus, and such a part of that media <3