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I’m not saying I didn’t want to meet you… I just didn’t care

ive literally said nothing on here while i watch season 2 of hilda but these two women were just characters we passed over in one episode and just look at them they look like they just got engaged and are in love and so happy and i idk who they are but i love them so much

We are saddened to report the death of legendary Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll spinney who died today at the age of 85, just 18 days shy of his 86th birthday.

December 26, 1933 - December 8, 2019

Since SU Future is airing in two days, here’s a site streaming Cartoon Network live that you can use in case you don’t have cable or you’re not in the U.S.

“He who carries the Dark Lantern must be the Beast” is a line that always gets me because it’s true. What’s so different from the Woodsman and the Beast when the Woodsman is the one chopping up and grinding the edelwood for the Lantern? He isn’t the one turning lost souls into edelwood but he’s devoted his entire life to using the trees to keep the Lantern lit, with full knowledge that the edelwood is made from lost souls. He’s the one keeping the Beast alive and continuing the cycle.

“He who carries the Dark Lantern must be the Beast.”

In ep 10 (“The Unknown”) the Woodsman does say, “I didn’t know! I didn’t know this is where the edelwood trees came from!” However, he isn’t saying that as a realization. He is saying it because he’s trying to convince himself that he isn’t a monster like the Beast.

When he first see’s Greg in the edelwood and says “What have you done?!” it isn’t in shock. It’s outrage. He’s been demanding that the Beast leave Wirt and Greg alone since the beginning. Every time he’s encountered the boys he’s tried to warn them, tried to tell them how to remain safe from the Beast.

The Woodsman knows full well how the Beast grows the edelwood trees. (Think back to ep 07 [”The Ringing of the Bell”]. The Beast says “We’re lucky the boy had the pluck to best you. Your play could have cost us both.” The Woodsman responds “One cannot trade the souls of children as if they were tokens!”) He knows the cost of keeping the Lantern lit. But he’s usually able to ignore it. Deny it. Leave it in the dark. When he shines the Lantern’s light on the Beast’s newest victim, it’s probably the first time he’s actually witnessed the edelwood devouring someone. The Beast usually calls him only when there is a full-grown tree, when its only remaining humanity is the anguished expression etched into its trunk. That way when the man who took on the task of Lantern Bearer arrives, he can tell himself he really is just “The Woodsman.” They’re just trees, right? He’s just chopping down trees and keeping his lantern lit, nothing more.

But the Woodsman can’t pretend Greg is just a tree. Besides being more human than tree at this point, Greg’s current state represents the true nature of his arrangement with the Beast. (The Beast has been happy to go along with whatever lies the Woodsman tells himself to justify his actions. However, the oil is nearly gone and they don’t have that luxury anymore. Greg’s transformation isn’t complete, but calling the Woodsman is a risk the Beast has to take.)

So here they are, both desperate to keep the Lantern lit with a fuel source right there for the taking, business as usual… and the Woodsman falters. He tries to draw the line, says he won’t do it, but the Beast is not here for that shit. He challenges the Woodsman as they stand over this child who will burn just like every other drop of ground up edelwood, demanding to know how he’s any different from all who have come before.

And the Woodsman doesn’t have an answer because there isn’t one. There isn’t one and he can’t stand it. So he clings to the last of his defenses, which is that he didn’t know what he was signing up for when he first took on the task of Lantern Bearer.

“I didn’t know! I didn’t know this is where the edelwood trees came from!”

To which the Beast replies…

“And would it have mattered?”

Would it have? Once more the Woodsman doesn’t answer, but then again his silence is the answer. Because even if he didn’t know where the trees came from at first he has known, and it hasn’t stopped him. In the end Beast and Lantern Bearer aren’t so different. It’s just that one of them can’t deny it anymore.

He who carries the Dark Lantern must be the Beast.

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An Important Question

hmm?

Let’s do both shall we

That’s what Hilda would do

me every fall

I TRIED TO DRAW THE WOODMAN BUT I SPILT WATER OVER IT AND WHEN I TRIED TO PICK IT UP UT RIPPED

OH LORD WHAT HAVE I DONE

I ADDED A FILTER AND NOW LOOK AT THIS MONSTROSITY

I FCKING KILLED IT HELP

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Reblog this post if you watch Over The Garden Wall every Halloween, I wanna check how many people does that too! 👻🍂🎃

It's 2019 and I still want Wander Over Yonder to get back