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[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

[isekaiprotagonist]

Izuna (AD MELIORA edition)

[harvingtonrecoverylog]

I suppose I should make some sort of introduction.. I'm not quite sure what to write, or how much people already know

My name is Harvey. For the last few years, my life has been the worst it's ever been. I can't keep living like this

So, I'm hoping that setting something like this up could help. Putting myself out there, interacting with people outside of my family, so on. Maybe learn how to trust people again

I'll answer just about anything I'm sent to the best of my ability, even if the subject is an uncomfortable one. All I ask for is some patience

[hvntlos]

the funny thing is, i don't dislike seeing familial & platonic interpretations of luz & hunter's dynamic at all. in fact, i actually quite enjoy them! i'll frequently read fics where they're close friends (and sometimes treat each other as siblings, but that's less common)

my problem is that a huge majority of this fandom seems to think that the familial interpretation is the only possible interpretation. and i take issue with that! not only does it lead to dogpiling and lack of basic human decency, but it's also plain wrong.

i don't think you can fully understand hunter and luz's dynamic if you convince yourself there is only one way to see them. you don't have to ship them to see the parallels to caleb and evelyn. in fact, i'd argue that those parallels, when the relationship is non-romantic, serve to subvert expectations of the genre viewers may have.

but instead of acknowledging the text, people plug their ears and yell "LALALA LUZ CALLED HUNTER FAMILY SO THAT MEANS THEYRE SIBLINGS AND YOU'RE GROSS & EVIL FOR SHIPPING THEM"

[hvntlos]

i fully believe that there was one or more diehard lunter shippers working on TTT because oh my god it is the most beautiful lunter episode ever right along with hollow mind. and also is pretty anti-lumity & especially anti-huntlow* at times if you squint

*notice how luz was the only one who didnt immediately go in for the kill when it was revealed that hunter was possessed. but willow just fucking goes for it! oh my god!

AND they're sat right next to each other on the haunted hay ride thing while masha is explaining that caleb was led away from philip by a wild witch. why isnt hunter sitting next to willow if she's the one meant to parallel evelyn? oh, right, she's not. luz is.

plus, luz is in a witch costume and hunter's in the star-trek rip-off costume, except he thinks humans actually dressed like that iirc. so they're dressed up as a witch and a human. it's wonderful.

[hvntlos]

perhaps im splitting hairs here, but for some reason im mostly fine with familial interpretations of lunter right up until they use "hunter noceda". im not entirely sure why that is (other than my general dislike for forced family dynamics) but i imagine it has to do with the fact that like... okay so we're reaaaaally hammering in this weird sense that family has to be legally bound, huh?

there's such a strange gravitation in fandom spaces to make character dynamics adhere to a typical nuclear family model when that's 1) missed opportunities to make relationships more complex and interesting, and 2) just feeding into the systems in power and how they influence our perception of what's "right" or "wrong"

that's why i dont really like "hunter deamonne" content either. why do we keep insisting on giving hunter typical parental figures? why cant we accept that relationships can be more than just "mom and dad" or "siblings" or "lovers"? what happened to mentors and friends and altogether different dynamics?

[hvntlos]

i'm still mad at the owl house's writers' room for curing hunter's disability, AND by killing off his support/service animal no less.

there was, frankly, no reason to kill off flapjack if hunter was still gonna be able to do magic anyway. (other than making hunter suffer, which we know the writers love to do). all it does it take away the disability of one of the main characters. and i hope i dont need to explain why that sucks.

moreover, willow only starts showing interest in hunter after he gets an innate source of magic. which is. fucking insane. surely someone must have caught on to what kind of message it's sending. (hunter not being romantically lovable until he got "fixed")

beyond parody tbh.

[hvntlos]

i will never ever get over how awkward luz looks when amity kisses her post-timeskip. it's so funny

theyre soooo in love guys. just look at that face!

ok salt aside i really dont understand why they did this. surely it would have better to have luz react more...uh. well. just more? it seems like a strange decision to have luz act so bewildered/weirdly uncaring. maybe im misremembering, and i hope so, but i dont think i am since i remember feeling the exact same way when the ep first aired. and i dont want to feel this way! i would love for more amazing lumity moments! and yet...

(side note, why does anyone that's not hunter and luz have a flapjack tattoo. those two are the only ones that actually have a genuine connection to flapjack. why does amity have a flapjack tattoo. make it make sense.)