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The fact that the show is named ‘The Owl House’ and not after Luz herself is honestly kind of cool in my opinion. Because yes, Luz is the protagonist, but the show is much larger than her. It’s about this cast of characters we’ve grown to love and their relationships to each other— ranging from friendships, to romance, to familial, and so on. And it circles around the Owl House because that’s their safe place. Literally and figuratively. It’s where Eda and King hide out from the law and it’s where Luz feels most like herself. It’s where Eda disclosed her curse status and where Luz first did magic.

And then she coaxes others in.

It’s where Willow and Gus solidified their bond with Luz. It’s where Amity can go now, away from her parents and siblings but no longer lonely, like she was at the library. It’s going to be where Lilith and Eda fix their fractured relationship. It’s where the characters can be most themselves. Outside of the house, they’ve all got fronts to put on.

But not here. Not at the Owl House. Because it’s where they feel at home.

And I think that’s pretty neat.

#the owl house #luz noceda #edalyn clawthorne #king toh #willow park #augustus porter #gus toh #amity blight #lilith clawthorne #lumity #two cents

theotheristhedoctor

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations.

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing.

sindri42

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

ninjaotta

it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

toughtink

one of my favorite details of atla is how the main characters’ fighting styles adapt as they take on new enemies and make new friends with other bending styles. iroh straight up tells zuko about how he developed a technique for redirecting lightning by studying waterbenders, but if you watch closely especially in the last season, there’s a lot of this sort of thing happening unspoken with the gaang, using the bending forms of other elements like katara does above. it really shows the strength in differences and diversity coming up against a fascist regime that wants everyone to conform.

biglawbear

Look at Korra metal bending here

It’s completely different than anything we’ve seen from other metal benders, who bend metal with sharp movements like the derivative of earth bending that it is

But Korra is fluid. She is bending metal like it’s water. Because she is a water bender. And she is the first person in history to be able to bend both metal and water and so she is able to combine these styles into one and move seamlessly between them. This shows so beautifully how the Avatar is the embodiment of all bending

ironbite4

Every time I think this show has shown me all it can….it gives me more.

#atla

soyalexnajera

FUCK DISCOVERY HERE'S THE 4 SEASONS OF INFINITY TRAIN

#infinity train

marahoping

strangesmallbard

my favorite scene in harrow the ninth is when ortus apologizes to harrow for not looking after her as a kid and they hug. like. in this absolute batshit bonkers story, it’s this humbling moment of oh, wait. harrow and gideon are YA protags in an adult science fiction novel. we can talk about the consequences of being YA protags here, including how they carry too much weight and how the adults in their lives fail them. (Actual YA protagonists for teens are important too, but this book isn’t that.)

harrow has experienced such few moments of genuine care in her life that she doesn’t know how to handle it—she rebuffs jod’s tea and cookies (i think he was weirdly genuine, even though he was *checks notes* actively trying to murder her), magnus and abigails’ concern. she starts fighting gideon’s hug when she realizes it’s a HUG and not attempted murder. and the first moment of comfort she truly accepts is ortus, who saw her grow up neglected and apologized for being one of the adults who let that happen. i think about this scene like once a day tbh

bloodyyanya

Casual back pats

ryuuna

cactus beatdowns are definitely the answer to ppl making her sister do unnecessary labor

wolveswolves

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when you see how expansive other ppl’s music taste is & whenever you share your music you feel like “yeah im obsessed with twinkle twinkle little star rn. the abc’s is so underrated. also i recently discovered baa baa black sheep”

#okay but 'ba ba black sheep' goes HARD