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Vanweek 2025!

Hello everyone! I have some great news to share. I would like to announce...

Vanessa/Vanny Week 2025 (aka Vanweek25), a week long celebration of all things Vanessa/Vanny! It will run from September 7th to the 13th.

The rules for this week are practically identical to Vanweek for the most part. There are several different prompts everyday, but you DO NOT have to do them all.

Also you are allowed to create stuff in advance if you do not think you will be able to create something for a prompt on the day of that prompt. This does mean you can create something a month in advance for, say day 5, and just post it on day 5. This has been done to prevent people from stressing themselves out making something on the day that thing has to be released.

In fact, you DO NOT have to try and do a prompt everyday if you do not want to. If you want to make something for just 1 day, that is perfectly fine. Feel free to do whatever you would like with the prompts. The only thing each creation needs to have is Vanessa/Vanny!

Be sure to tag your work (if possible) with "vanweek25" and tag this account @vanessaverse-official if you decided to make anything.

This event, always, is meant to be a fun experience for all involved, which means that works should try not to include anything considered taboo. If your work includes any phobias or extreme gore, PLEASE be sure to tag appropriately.

You are also not restricted to doing just art or writing, other mediums are allowed.

When you do make something, be sure to include the day it is for as well as whether it's for the WORD or THEME in the tags or description. This will make archival and future viewing of these works easier.

Again, be sure to tag your work (if possible) with "vanweek25" and tag this account @vanessaverse-official

Also try not to release whatever you've made until the respective "day" (i.e. release a story made for day 2 on day 2, no later, no earlier)

Any work released on AO3 will be archived on this collection as well.

However, the most important thing of all is to...

HAVE FUN!!! Like before, the main goal of this event is to have a good time!

Part 2:

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I’m also testing a new layout for the next page as well as a different style to make it easier and quicker to draw. Sorry I haven’t updated for a few months, art block got the best of me and I struggled to motivate myself to draw but I finished it up and I’m proud! I think I’m also going to try and use more colors in panels or pages without words to further convey things; show don’t tell, yknow? Anyways, expect the next page sooner than this one but it’s still gonna take a while. Anyways, good day!

meanwhile, real anne

Just thought I should throw this out there (:

@theinsanefoxwriter

Man I really do wish we had an episode about Hunter and King bonding over being the last of their kind and realizing their belief over being a special guy was a lie, as was their entire life; It’s fitting for King of all people to remind Luz that people will continue to believe lies because they don’t want to believe their whole life is a lie, in the same episode as Hunter having this revelation.

Plus there’s the dynamic in King being an actual Titan and Hunter being told the Titan had plans for him, and King deciding he’s just some guy and Hunter breaking away from this worship mentality of the Titan. Bonus points if we get Lilith therapy as the B-plot. Like, King shouldn’t have to have an episode showing how he’s like Hunter for fans to appreciate the same traits in another character who’s more important, but still.

That gets me to how Hunter’s storylines in S2 are about his similarities with other characters, interestingly enough; The exceptions are Hollow Mind except maybe you could say something about the Grimwalker revelation haha, more on that in a bit… And some other appearances. But in terms of personal storylines and not just tagging along? Hunter’s got parallels with everyone, I always found him most interesting in these episodes because it also shed further light and appreciation on the characters Hunter bounces off of.

And it’s ironic? He’s made to be a clone, to be like someone else, and his storylines in S2 are about how he’s like other people. But the difference is Hunter choosing to notice and acknowledge these similarities in strangers not connected to him and/or vice-versa, to relate to the out-group rather than be a witch hunter as was the intention.

(I also think it’s worth noting that because of the shortening, the show had to be really efficient with its time, and prioritize wrapping up what it already had; Intertwining Hunter’s storylines with a pre-established character is a clever way to develop both in a single A-plot, and also leads to this meta of course. And if Eda’s Requiem was the cut-off point, then I’ve noticed there’s a difference in how Hunter’s plot with Luz takes up the whole episode, but his storylines with characters past that threshold also have to co-exist with a B-plot, interesting!)

Plus in S3, we do see Hunter acknowledge the clone baggage with a storyline about being himself no matter what similarities there are, and his final storyline seems anti-Belos? In that he’s not going to let the death of a loved one (perceived in Belos’ case) be an excuse to be bitter to others offering help, hell he’ll even make it about those friends too; He truly shows he is very much NOT his uncle no matter what circumstances they may share, even the most unpleasant ones that could be an ‘excuse’.

So S2 for Hunter is about how he’s like others (while still having agency on his end), and S3 is how he isn’t, how he’s his own person. And between these it’s no wonder his takeaway from Caleb is being ambivalent about what similarities they have or not because he’s no longer insecure about his own identity or status as a clone, he is who he is and that’s all that matters.

The parallels are familial and not in a clone sense, and ultimately just symbolic and on a meta level, not in-universe. I think Hunter wouldn’t mind having good things in common with someone else, because it means he has them; It’s what led Hunter to his friends after all. He didn’t even seem to care about the revelation that Caleb was actually open to witches, he’d already resolved that.

And the irony is that for all his cloning, Belos was really trying to make Hunter unlike Caleb, because he didn’t really want Caleb either he wanted an idea of his brother. So Hunter being like Caleb but still his own person with his own palisman is great, as is the resemblances being largely unconscious; Because Hunter was never expected to know Caleb beyond the bare minimum, he doesn’t know he was also a woodcarver and so that fact can never bother Hunter as a Palisman carver, especially with his normalness about the subject. The clone status is treated like any other blood relation. Maybe that’s the narrative reason why Hunter never learns much.

(Reminds me of that Steven Universe episode where Steven worries about liberated gems still playing into their designated roles when they should be free of that, only to understand that it doesn’t matter if they’re like those things or not, the point is that they have the agency and free will to be otherwise if they choose to, plus some need space and time to acclimate to experimenting.)

Y’all remember that time when The Owl House referenced the Rockafire Explosion?

I decided to draw for an AP English Project and this was the result! I was really proud and wanted to share it here (:

Book: ‘The Red Badge of Courage’ by Stephen Crane

Character: Henry Fleming

Time: 6h 25min

I've made a few small changes to my robots over the past few weeks.

Chlorine

- Added a set of guards for the weapon motor(which does make it look like Chlorine got stung by a wasp)

- Made the wires going to the motor neater

- Added more C O L O R, and other decorations

Fluorine

- Changed the colors on the frame to be a bit brighter.

Not much else to report, just waiting for the next competition at this point. Keep being awesome yall!

Six Characters Doodle

NEW FTF STORYBOARDS DROPPED.

Willow was originally gonna say "I'm really glad you're still here"

and I'm totally normal about it.

IM VEEEEERY NORMAL. VERY.

Speaker Deck

Owl House- "For the Future" act3_ roughs

Sequence by Luz Batista This is my "roughs" pass. Cleans coming soon.

Speaker Deck

Owl House- "For the Future" act3_ Cleans