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OH MY GOD, I JUST REALIZED. EPISODE 7 HAS SO MANY ADDITIONAL SYMBOLIC TAROT REFERENCES. I WAS HALF ASLEEP AND I JUST. SHOT UP IN A COLD SWEAT. SO LISTEN TO MY SLEEP DEPRIVED RAMBLE ABOUT ONE OF MY HOBBIES AND MY HYPERFIXATION. I WON'T ADD SCREENSHOTS OF THE SCENES, BUT I'LL PROVIDE TAROT CARDS WHEN NECESSARY!

1. "The Star": This one is the most obvious because of the stakes miniseries. We already know the pattern of all the vampires being named after tarot cards, yadda yadda. The star in tarot comes right after the tower, symbolizing rebirth and hope in the wake of destruction. Clearly, this is meant to be two metaphors in a trenchcoat because if you consider her backstory in this universe, her becoming the daughter of the vampire queen is somewhat of a more hopeful end. If you ignore the fact that almost everyone died in that universe, at least. Also baby Finn??? What's going to happen to him??? Please??? Am I the only one terrified about that baby??? BUT ANYWAYS OFF TOPIC. TAROT TIME.

2. "The Tower": Although not explicitly referenced, though maybe they did call it the tower idk, is what comes before the star, a sudden upheavel. You can see it pictured as below.

The tower, although generally thought to be a negative card like death, is actually more of a positive one. Yes, sudden change is scary, but if a house is built on shaky foundations, no matter what, it will fall. This card is only negative if you refuse to accept life for what it is, which seems to be pretty in line with the theme of Fiona and Cake so far.

You'll immediately see the parallel to the final scene if you look at this picture. With the birds (or vampires) falling with them, the smoke and the tower, with a dark sky... The only difference is Bonnie and Marcy were holding one another, which I find to be interesting. There's many different decks, but considering the AT crew is probably going off of the Rider-Waite deck, (yes I spelled it wrong, sue me), I hardly believe that was unintentional. I think it's to go to show that even if they may not be happily in love in every universe, you can't deny that there is some kind of soulmate au fuckery going on. Their two options in any given universe is: ride together, and / or die together.

I'm pretty sure there was also The Devil symbology with The King, and there was something going on with Simon's bones, but I'll leave that for tomorrow.

I think I just had the most beautiful interaction of my life.

I had a little bit of a breakdown outside of a pizza place earlier today. I cried harder than I have in years, tears pelting the concrete like rain and cloudy glasses. In the moment, I felt as small and powerless as an infant, one that had been dumped into a vat of quicksand. All I could do was sink farther and farther into that fear and sob. I can't remember a time that I've ever felt so defeated. So useless. So broken.

But then...

One small act. That's all it really took to remind me of the good in the world.

Two parents, around my mom's age had passed by just a little earlier. They had seen me sitting on the ground, calling my mom, and trying everything I could to slow my breathing through choked out breaths. I apologized for being in their way just moments earlier.

But... They didn't look at me with hatred or disgust or even pity. All of the emotions I felt towards myself in that moment, and I was SO sure anyone else would feel towards me if they saw me... Just wasn't there.

They asked if I was okay and gave me a pat on the shoulder. A stranger. A sobbing, absolutely pathetic looking, sniffling stranger. A soft act of kindness. Connection.

"You'll get through this, I promise. I know it's really hard right now, but I swear it won't last forever."

The two of them just kept going on. Telling me that I was loved and cared about and that I was going to get through this. These two absolute strangers. I thanked them so much, still sobbing, telling them that they made my day. And again.

"Do you know who else's days you make? Your parents. We have two kids of our own, and I know... I know every single day they make ours better. And I know for sure you do that too. College is rough, but you're going to get through this."

"And if anyone treats you bad, fuck them!"

"Yeah! You got this. It's all going to be okay, I promise. You're so strong."

I don't know who those two people were, but I swear they made me believe in the goodness of the world when I needed it the most. I wish them nothing but the best in their lives. I hope that if the time ever comes that either one of them, or their children, are alone and as terrified as I was... That they're given the same treatment. To look at that broken, petrified teenager and simply treat them with kindness. Reminding them that they deserve kindness.

The world is a dark, scary place, but it's never as bad as your mind makes it out to be... Because we're all on this little blue ball together. So please, the next time that you see someone a little down... Do me a favor. Give them a smile.

It makes all the difference.

I desperately wanna be serious about this and write up a whole analysis on the nature of toxic relationships and love since, yknow, this is such a beautiful work of art. Everything from the angle of the shots to the color of the text and the poems chosen - it's brilliant. Not to mention the whole amazing digital exhibit online of poetic code. I'd say give it a shot, snoop around the site if you have the time. biennale.py is another interesting piece!

But... Okay, I'm ngl, my first thought was: "oh god, they gave the robots std's". Like can you imagine trying to explain this to an AI? Just. Oh yeah, we used to make art of you guys destroying each other. All I can think about now is that! I feel like if there's ever a robot/AI takeover, whoever gave an old brick computer STDS (Sneha Solanki) is going to be the first to go. Beautiful art, but oh my god. 💀

Sneha Solanki  ‘The Lovers’

Two networked machines, one infected with a virus, slowly infects the other through the interface of classic romantic poetry.

A breakdown in the relationship was inevitable once the virus had seeped into the memory of one machine and then into the other through a singular network cable affecting the poetic text files. Communication between the two deteriorated, leading to irrational & at times odd behaviour. Each machine reacted with equal confusion and conflict. The interface text became an illegible poetic mutation of itself.

The votes are in!

The main story of the fangame rpg will be focused on rebuilding the Isles, but little tidbits of the second storyline will be interspersed! @jumpyrope brought up the fact that it'd probably be a massive undertaking to try and combine all of the storylines, so I'll focus more on the other two ideas as side-quests/side plots.

Demo release date TBD. Considering I'm a college student and will be working as a camp counselor this summer, the time I have to work is limited. In the best case scenario, the demo will drop by the end of August 2023. (But I'm not that hopeful.)

This will be a sort of development blog? I'll periodically post updates here, just to have someone to share my accomplishments with.

I'm currently working on Sprite sheets for the hexsquad. So far, I only have Luz and Hunter's animations finished up and King's expression sheet- but i see that as monumental progress so far! I'm still very new to RPG Maker and game development in general, so if anyone has any advice, let me know!

I'll post some progress shots tomorrow, once I have the basic walking animations set up! I fear for the day I will have to work on custom tilesets...

Would anyone be interested in an Owl House Fangame RPG? (Spoilers for finale insuing)

I'm considering turning my old fanfic plots into a playable fangame, but I wanna make sure that's something that people would actually, yknow, play. So, here's my ideas!

1. Season 4 "The Game"

This would primarily be a game focused on wrapping up some unfinished storylines/rebuilding the Isles. I believe one of the main bosses would likely be the Titan Trappers since they were puppetted in WAD.

I think this would be the closest to a traditional rpg game, but I'm leaning more towards an unconventional combat style considering the way magic works in TOH. Regardless, combat wouldn't be a primary focus of the game. It'd be more exploration based and decision based, fleshing out the other areas of The Boiling Isles and all that jazz.

Possibly, the final boss may be the other archivists? I think in this one, by the end, you'll have the Collector in your party.

2. Side Stories

This would be more so a collection of routes trying to tell the stories that, sadly, The Owl House team never got the time to tell. These likely wouldn't actually be RPG games, but they're RPG maker, but I'm not sure how many of them there'd be, but I do have a few ideas for various routes, like:

-Wittebros Backstory (You play as Caleb, and it covers bits and pieces over the years up until... Well, you know the rest.)

-Hunter, Dale, and The Bat Queen (Focuses on two different interconnected plots. One is a story about The Golden Guard being tasked to find the last known Palistrom forest, only for those plans to get detailed by one sweet old man. Yadda yadda, learning ensues. And, the other is a story focused on Hunter going into the Palistrom forest with a few friends to start on some conservation efforts, facing his past, and him getting a new job.)

-Divorce Simulator (I think you know what this one's about :) )

-Vee (Have no idea what this one would be about, other than a game adaption of that MorningMark concept of Cabin ???- or one focusing on just her adapting to the human realm.)

3. TOH/GF/Amphibia Crossover

Okay, so I know probably nobody will vote for this one, but it's one that I have too many ideas for!

Basically, it's just going off the idea that after The Collector got that gross green stuff on him, from Belos, he was affected by Titian magic; screwing up his magic a little and making him semi-immortal rather than fully immortal. The Collector says they're going off to "grow up," but really, their main goal is to just find their siblings and find out what's going on with them.

This leads the little guy to the last known whereabouts of one of his siblings, Gravity Falls. Again, the dude's magic is kind of iffy, and he ends up crashlanding near the Mystery Shack and gets taken in by the new Mr. And Mrs. Mystery... Who... Somehow, are way more connected to Luz than he thought.

This is the closest thing to an RPG out of all of them because the main focus of the game is basically trying to stop the multiverse from splitting entirely. It'd be the casts from both TOH and GF; with a healthy addition of amphibia references.

In this universe, all of the archivists are just God's from other Disney Channel cartoons. And yeah. Told ya I had a lot of ideas!

Btw if anyone would be down to help either with writing, art, or music- please dm me! I can totally do it on my own, but I thought it might be nice to put it out there.

"Way too reliable narrator" where the narrator provides documentation and proof for how they know every detail in the narrative and an estimate of how confident they are in it.

hey did you guys know its the pines twins’ 23rd birthday today? I had no idea.

anyway, here’s a thing I’ve been working on for a while. This was originally supposed to be for the show’s 10th anniversary back in June, but I definitely didn’t anticipate how long it’d take and had to push it back to the end of August. It feels like an appropriate way to send off the summer :]

ps: as per gf tradition, there’s a hidden message along the first 10 pages

stay weird etc etc

Okay hear me out ...

I'm sure this has been said before, but I don't care. While I was working on a little bit of planning and world building for my future TOH/Gravity Falls- Post Timeskip Fic; I noticed something hilarious.

Seems... Uh... a little familiar. Doesn't it?

Okay, maybe I'm just overthinking. Surely, it's impossible that there's a direct connection. I mean, that's like saying all magical amulets that glow and look a little like a bolo tie are the same! They have different powers, clearly. And-

Oh...

If I had a penny for every time a Disney capitalist antagonist clutched their magic glowing gem necklace angrily at the protagonists; I'd have two pennies. Which definitely isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. (Or more pennies, who knows at this point.)

I hope Odalia received a worse fate than Gideon, though lmao.

Obscure Danganronpa facts, part 1:

I've recently realized just how much bs I know about this series, so I've decided to try and shed light on the more unknown aspects that I've never seen people talk about. Might as well put this knowledge to good use, eh?

So, traveler, if you'd like to accompany me on this journey, buckle in, and let's have some fun! First off on our trek is....

THIS FREAKING CG IN CHAPTER 6 OF SDR2

Looks normal, right? RIGHT?

ZOOM IN ON THE WORDS.

At first, I thought it was just some kind of stock text. Think, lorem lipsum. But nah, I'm almost completely sure that they had used a real-life newspaper, likely from Sydney, Australia.

If you piece the text together, you can basically gather its about economic tensions between North Korea, South Korea and the United States, or something along those lines. With all the missing letters and difficult font, it's hard to fully grasp what it came from; which was obviously intentional. Maybe it's a few different articles, but I doubt that partially due to how often it repeats.

I tried my best to see if I could find the real article, but from my ten minute search, I came up empty-handed. I don't have time or the motivation to continue that investigation, but either way, it's an interesting detail. I just can't help but wonder why they chose THAT out of all the things they could've, instead of like... something medical related.