#willow appreciation

[sapphic-offical]

MOMENT OF APPRECIATION FOR @a-dam-tris-prior-fan WHO IS NEARLY ALWAYS THE FIRST NOTE ON MY POSTS

[loosescrewslefty]

I am feeling very, VERY emotional about the Willow + Gus + Hunter Friendship right now, in particular in regards to the ways they show and accept comfort.

Because, you see, when we're trying to comfort someone else-- especially if it's someone we don't know very well/at all-- people typically try to give the kind of comfort that best works on them first. Take Luz, for example. Luz is very much a tactile person, all about physical comfort/affection. So when she sees someone is sad, her first instinct is typically to touch or hug them in some way, and when she herself is sad she wants to be hugged, or covered in a blanket/plushies in order to get that sense of touch she craves to make her feel better.

When Willow first sees that Gus is in the room with her, and is upset, her first move is to try to comfort him with humor, to make him laugh. And when that doesn't work, Willow switches tactics, to soothe/relax instead. Which is what gets the job done.

Now on top of being VERY clever and a total sweetheart, Gus is a Social Chameleon. He's adaptable to the needs and wants of others. And when we first see him in Season 1, he's kind of a goofball, who doesn't seem to take anything seriously. And looking back at that after Labyrinth Runners, I suspect that was an intentional persona Gus took up in order to comfort Willow, who had to deal with constant bullying from students and teachers alike, because he was perceptive enough to realize that Willow's preferred form of comfort is to laugh.

This is why his goofier persona mellows and his sweeter side shines through more as the show progresses, especially in Season 2, because Willow is in a better place now and doesn't NEED someone to make her laugh so that she feels better.

And this is when Hunter comes in.

Hunter is someone who probably never received comfort from another person when he was upset at any point in his life before Labyrinth Runners. Which is why he benefitted so much from being paired with Gus for this episode, because Gus cares and is super perceptive to the feelings and needs of others, so he is the one who knows what to do and say to best help Hunter in his time of need.

And when it came time to return the kindness Gus had shown him earlier and pull him out of his own head, even though Hunter felt MASSIVELY unprepared to do so, he still stepped up. He powered past his own problems to help Gus, because Gus was his friend and he needed him just like he had needed Gus earlier. So he finally opened up to him about what he was going through, showing Gus the trust he had asked for earlier and allowing himself to be vulnerable. And then, he tried the breathing technique to help calm Gus down. But it didn't quite work out the way he planned.

Instead of calming Gus down, he helped him by making him laugh.

[someowlhouseaccount]

My Two Main Reasons I need to see Willow in Season 2B

REASON #1 Her friend dynamic with Amity. Understanding Willow set up the re-kindling of their friendship as "a start", then Wing it Like Witches mentioned that Willow felt things were "patched up" between them, then Amity cemented the idea of them as friends in Escaping Expulsion when she said that Luz, Willow and Gus are "[her] friends, [...] they make [her] think about the kind of person she really wants to be" *dramatically swoops arms* ......... But we haven't actually seen Willow and Amity be friendly to each other despite all this??!?! It's implied that they hang out now, based on the ending of WiLW, Amity's speech in EE, her parents trying to get the three of them expelled instead of just Luz, and even the shot of them walking together in the end credits, but when are they gonna hang out ON SCREEN??? D: Amity, if you really are inspired by Willow and Gus to change yourself for the better, then WHEN do you hang out with them????? Willow, you said in Eclipse Lake that seeing Amity around more was "different".... Do you mean that in a bad way? When's Amity gonna make up for her past bullying towards Willow, if at all? Did that happen offscreen? I've seen posts by people here who think that it did, and I kinda believe that too, but the ending of UW really made me think that the repairing of their friendship was going to be a bigger issue than something that just gets solved behind the scenes, so I'm not sure.

REASON #2 Willow's probably a much more powerful witch than Amity. Look at I Was a Teenage Abomination: that episode made it clear to us about Willow's natural talent as a plant witch. She hadn't even been studying in the plant track, yet she could summon from a SINGLE SEED a giant mass of vines that instantly gored Amity's goop soldiers, took over the atrium in the school, and shoved their principal to the CEILING, impressing him enough to transfer her to the plant track rightaway instead of like, expel her for the damage to the school she did, that he mentions in The First Day was enough for him to really want donations from the Emperor's Coven to fix.

[EDIT AS I'M GETTING SCREENSHOTS: She trapped Bump so hard that his red lockdown magic actually DEACTIVATED. tHINK about that! The school was in LOCKDOWN, then she hits Bump hard enough to lose control of that magic and give them the opportunity to escape!!! Maybe Bump just wasn't expecting a student in the Abomination track to suddently use plant magic so he was caught off guard, but... He WAS on guard enough to lock down the entire school, so idrk, she seems pretty powerful here to me 👀 I think Belos needs to watch out for this girl is what I'm saying]

Onto Amity's powers to see how they compare: she's clearly a very strong witch too, most notably seen in Eclipse Lake and Escaping Expulsion. In EE, she put on enough of a show that her parents were convinced to admire how far she's come rather than murder her, for instance! But go back to episode 3 and, in my opinion, ....she kinda sucks there lol? (in personality AND magic!) Luz, a random human who's only been in the Boiling Isles for a few days, a week? punches one of her abominations and it's instantly sludge again. Willow's vines trapped the principal in the ceiling like it's nothing, meanwhile the top student of Abomination 101 couldn't make something that could withstand a single punch from a scared human who'd never even seen an abomination before that day???

We all saw what Amity could do though more than a full season later, in Eclipse Lake. Now IMAGINE what Willow's learned in the same time.

[polishedgnome]

I’m not very good at drawing but I drew some owl house characters and I’m quite proud of them so I thought I would share

[l-thefriendlyghost]

Who wouldn't love her?

[beewitch4-deactivated]

So, I’ve heard some people comparing Hexside to Hogwarts

and it got me thinking... What if Hexside was a boarding school too... and they were roomates?

[downtheaxon]

anyway my favourite thing about having a cat is that she’ll run up to my bed when I’m sitting on it and hop up onto it to come for a cuddle and if that isn’t perfect then I don’t know what is

[beggingforain]