Wannabe Emo

they/she (ela) | adult | brazillian | icon by @ytalosm2

[jullssaa]

Walking through the woods. A mini Over The Garden Wall fanart.

[hester-brynne]

A long way from Pottsfield

[windupthing]

poor self defeating wirt. he clings so desperately to that self perception of being a loser that he cant fathom that hes actually quite fine and has fine hobbies and could socialize with sarah and jason and his poor toddler brother if he tried but hes too scared to!! that sense of self is all he has!!! i always thought he was such an interesting and believable teenage character haha

[tempizza]

Girls in dresses?

[medli20]

[radicallymaxton]

"Somewhere lost between the clouded annels of history,

lies a place that few have seen..." 🍂🍁🎃

(fun redraw of one of my first pieces of OTGW fanart, you can watch the process HERE!)

[ng5132]

How the gentle wind beckons through the leaves as autumn colors fall

[jjgg-art]

Over The Garden Wall sketch I did a while back and realized I never posted :') They mean so much to me bro </3

[hauntingyourself]

Do you think they ever pieced together what happened or were they always like “wow that was a weird shared dream we both had” ?

[arrimorr]

Was participating in over the garden wall zine a few months ago. Can finally post my art. Big cat

[ramona-sourdough]

Ain’t that just the way.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Be sure to keep it lit… by Abigail Larson on Instagram for the Over the Garden Wall show at Gallery Nucleus

[hellspawnmotel]

weird autumn

[xamitras]

For many of years I had this tradition of drawing Wirt and the beast once a year to see how much I have improved, then depression hit in 2023 and couldn't continue, but it left so really amazing art in the process

[the-sage-libriomancer]

one thing i love about OTGW is that despite being a story about The Unknown and all the terrible dangers that lurk in it, the story’s main message is “things are rarely as scary as they seem.” the Woodsman scared the boys repeatedly, but he was really a good man trying to help them and in fact saved their lives multiple times. the inhabitants of Pottsville seemed ominous and ill-intentioned, but stopping to speak to them showed that they were benign folks who just came off a little creepy. the “fearsome gorilla” was just a man in a suit and the “ghost” was just an unexpected roommate. even Auntie Whispers, a terrifying witch-woman who seemed to be abusing her ward, turned out to love Lorna and was only trying to protect her from evil forces—and it was Wirt facing the evil spirit head on that finally exorcised it for good.

even the main characters’ arcs reflect this: Wirt is scared of rejection and humiliation from Sara and Jason Funderberker, but after returning to the real world, Sara is more than receptive toward him and Jason Funderberker isn’t even an issue. Beatrice is too ashamed to face her family after turning them all into bluebirds, but at the end of the story it’s such a non-issue for them that they only use the incident to affectionately tease her and everybody is perfectly happy.

and it all cumulates in the final episode when Wirt and Greg finally face the Beast. for the entire series the Beast has been a looming figure of evil, something dark and strange and unimaginably powerful that you never, ever want to meet. but when Wirt actually dares to face the monster head on, not running or hiding or falling for its tricks, he destroys the Beast in less than a minute! the monster that’s been terrorizing the woods for who knows how long, preying on fearful travelers and eating the souls of its victims, is extinguished by simply blowing out a lantern.

OTGW hammers it home that as much as it scares you, you have to face the Unknown in order to move forward. maybe its scary. maybe it will suck. but when you do confront your problems directly, it’s almost as never as bad as it seems.

[demoncity]

Over the Garden Wall (2014)

[artaudmatic]

🍂 ‘When death’ll close my eyelids

And my race on earth is run,

Will you miss me when I’m gone?’ 🍂