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I’ve actually got a super wonderful masterpost for you to check out:

Home

what the hell is a mortgage?

first apartment essentials checklist

how to care for cacti and succulents

the care and keeping of plants

Getting an apartment

Money

earn rewards by taking polls

how to coupon

what to do when you can’t pay your bills

see if you’re paying too much for your cell phone bill

how to save money

How to Balance a Check Book

How to do Your Own Taxes

Health

how to take care of yourself when you’re sick

things to bring to a doctor’s appointment

how to get free therapy

what to expect from your first gynecologist appointment

how to make a doctor’s appointment

how to pick a health insurance plan

how to avoid a hangover

a list of stress relievers

how to remove a splinter

Emergency

what to do if you get pulled over by a cop

a list of hotlines in a crisis

things to keep in your car in case of an emergency

how to do the heimlich maneuver

Job

time management

create a resume

find the right career

how to pick a major

how to avoid a hangover

how to interview for a job

how to stop procrastinating

How to write cover letters

Travel

ULTIMATE PACKING LIST

Traveling for Cheap

Travel Accessories

The Best Way to Pack a Suitcase

How To Read A Map

How to Apply For A Passport

How to Make A Travel Budget

Better You

read the news

leave your childhood traumas behind

how to quit smoking

how to knit

how to stop biting your nails

how to stop procrastinating

how to stop skipping breakfast

how to stop micromanaging

how to stop avoiding asking for help

how to stop swearing constantly

how to stop being a pushover

learn another language

how to improve your self-esteem

how to sew

learn how to embroider

how to love yourself

100 tips for life

Apartments/Houses/Moving

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 1: Are You Sure? (The Responsible One)

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 2: Finding the Damn Apartment (The Responsible One)

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 3: Questions to Ask about the Damn Apartment (The Responsible One)

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 4: Packing and Moving All of Your Shit (The Responsible One)

How to Protect Your Home Against Break-Ins (The Responsible One)

Education

How to Find a Fucking College (The Sudden Adult)

How to Find Some Fucking Money for College (The Sudden Adult)

What to Do When You Can’t Afford Your #1 Post-Secondary School (The Sudden Adult)

Stop Shitting on Community College Kids (Why Community College is Fucking Awesome) (The Responsible One)

How to Ask for a Recommendation Letter (The Responsible One)

How to Choose a College Major (The Sudden Adult)

Finances

How to Write a Goddamn Check (The Responsible One)

How to Convince Credit Companies You’re Not a Worthless Bag of Shit (The Responsible One)

Debit vs Credit (The Responsible One)

What to Do if Your Wallet is Stolen/Lost (The Sudden Adult)

Budgeting 101 (The Responsible One)

Important Tax Links to Know (The Responsible One)

How to Choose a Bank Without Screwing Yourself (The Responsible One)

Job Hunting

How to Write a Resume Like a Boss (The Responsible One)

How to Write a Cover Letter Someone Will Actually Read (The Responsible One)

How to Handle a Phone Interview without Fucking Up (The Responsible One)

10 Sites to Start Your Job Search (The Responsible One)

Life Skills

Staying in Touch with Friends/Family (The Sudden Adult)

Bar Etiquette (The Sudden Adult)

What to Do After a Car Accident (The Sudden Adult)

Grow Up and Buy Your Own Groceries (The Responsible One)

How to Survive Plane Trips (The Sudden Adult)

How to Make a List of Goals (The Responsible One)

How to Stop Whining and Make a Damn Appointment (The Responsible One)

Miscellaneous

What to Expect from the Hell that is Jury Duty (The Responsible One)

Relationships

Marriage: What the Fuck Does It Mean and How the Hell Do I Know When I’m Ready? (Guest post - The Northwest Adult)

How Fucked Are You for Moving In with Your Significant Other: An Interview with an Actual Real-Life Couple Living Together™ (mintypineapple  and catastrofries)

Travel & Vehicles

How to Winterize Your Piece of Shit Vehicle (The Responsible One)

How to Make Public Transportation Your Bitch (The Responsible One)

Other Blog Features

Apps for Asshats

Harsh Truths & Bitter Reminders

Asks I’ll Probably Need to Refer People to Later

Apartments (or Life Skills) - How Not to Live in Filth (The Sudden Adult)

Finances - Tax Basics (The Responsible One)

Important Documents - How to Get a Copy of Your Birth Certificate (The Responsible One)

Important Documents - How to Get a Replacement ID (The Responsible One)

Health - How to Deal with a Chemical Burn (The Responsible One)

Job Hunting - List of Jobs Based on Social Interaction Levels (The Sudden Adult)

Job Hunting - How to Avoid Falling into a Pit of Despair While Job Hunting (The Responsible One)

Job Hunting - Questions to Ask in an Interview (The Responsible One)

Life Skills - First-Time Flying Tips (The Sudden Adult)

Life Skills - How to Ask a Good Question (The Responsible One)

Life Skills - Reasons to Take a Foreign Language (The Responsible One)

Life Skills - Opening a Bar Tab (The Sudden Adult)

Relationships - Long Distance Relationships: How to Stay in Contact (The Responsible One)

Adult Cheat Sheet:

what to do if your pet gets lost

removing stains from your carpet

how to know if you’re eligible for food stamps

throwing a dinner party

i’m pregnant, now what?

first aid tools to keep in your house

how to keep a clean kitchen

learning how to become independent from your parents

job interview tips

opening your first bank account

what to do if you lose your wallet

tips for cheap furniture

easy ways to cut your spending

selecting the right tires for your car

taking out your first loan

picking out the right credit card

how to get out of parking tickets

how to fix a leaky faucet

get all of your news in one place

getting rid of mice & rats in your house

when to go to the e.r.

buying your first home

how to buy your first stocks

guide to brewing coffee

first apartment essentials checklist

coping with a job you hate

30 books to read before you’re 30

what’s the deal with retirement?

difference between insurances

Once you’ve looked over all those cool links, I have some general advice for you on how you can have some sort of support system going for you:

Reasons to move out of home

You may decide to leave home for many different reasons, including:

wishing to live independently

location difficulties – for example, the need to move closer to university

conflict with your parents

being asked to leave by your parents.

Issues to consider when moving out of home

It’s common to be a little unsure when you make a decision like leaving home. You may choose to move, but find that you face problems you didn’t anticipate, such as:

Unreadiness – you may find you are not quite ready to handle all the responsibilities.

Money worries – bills including rent, utilities like gas and electricity and the cost of groceries may catch you by surprise, especially if you are used to your parents providing for everything. Debt may become an issue.

Flatmate problems – issues such as paying bills on time, sharing housework equally, friends who never pay board, but stay anyway, and lifestyle incompatibilities (such as a non-drug-user flatting with a drug user) may result in hostilities and arguments.

Your parents may be worried

Think about how your parents may be feeling and talk with them if they are worried about you. Most parents want their children to be happy and independent, but they might be concerned about a lot of different things. For example:

They may worry that you are not ready.

They may be sad because they will miss you.

They may think you shouldn’t leave home until you are married or have bought a house.

They may be concerned about the people you have chosen to live with.

Reassure your parents that you will keep in touch and visit regularly. Try to leave on a positive note. Hopefully, they are happy about your plans and support your decision.

Tips for a successful move

Tips include:

Don’t make a rash decision – consider the situation carefully. Are you ready to live independently? Do you make enough money to support yourself? Are you moving out for the right reasons?

Draw up a realistic budget – don’t forget to include ‘hidden’ expenses such as the property’s security deposit or bond (usually four weeks’ rent), connection fees for utilities, and home and contents insurance.

Communicate – avoid misunderstandings, hostilities and arguments by talking openly and respectfully about your concerns with flatmates and parents. Make sure you’re open to their point of view too – getting along is a two-way street.

Keep in touch – talk to your parents about regular home visits: for example, having Sunday night dinner together every week.

Work out acceptable behaviour – if your parents don’t like your flatmate(s), find out why. It is usually the behaviour rather than the person that causes offence (for example, swearing or smoking). Out of respect for your parents, ask your flatmate(s) to be on their best behaviour when your parents visit and do the same for them.

Ask for help – if things are becoming difficult, don’t be too proud to ask your parents for help. They have a lot of life experience.

If your family home does not provide support

Not everyone who leaves home can return home or ask their parents for help in times of trouble. If you have been thrown out of home or left home to escape abuse or conflict, you may be too young or unprepared to cope.

If you are a fostered child, you will have to leave the state-care system when you turn 18, but you may not be ready to make the sudden transition to independence.

If you need support, help is available from a range of community and government organisations. Assistance includes emergency accommodation and food vouchers. If you can’t call your parents or foster parents, call one of the associations below for information, advice and assistance.

Where to get help

Your doctor

Kids Helpline Tel. 1800 55 1800

Lifeline Tel. 13 11 44

Home Ground Services Tel. 1800 048 325

Relationships Australia Tel. 1300 364 277

Centrelink Crisis or Special Help Tel. 13 28 50

Tenants Union of Victoria Tel. (03) 9416 2577

Things to remember

Try to solve any problems before you leave home. Don’t leave because of a fight or other family difficulty if you can possibly avoid it.

Draw up a realistic budget that includes ‘hidden’ expenses, such as bond, connection fees for utilities, and home and contents insurance.

Remember that you can get help from a range of community and government organizations. 

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This time I've been rewatching episodes with Lilith and Eda.

Something I've noticed is that Lilith when referring to Eda, doesn't use Eda's nickname: ”Eda”, she uses Edalyn or sister. I don't know about you but I noticed a slight difference in the tone of her voice.

First episode Eda says:

”I'm Eda the Owl Lady, the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles”

But Lilith even though she knows this, keeps referring to her as sister or Edalyn. Almost as if refusing to acknowledge that her sister made a path of her own and chose a name for herself, one she preferred to be addressed.

Episode 8 ”Once Upon a Swap” Lilith says:

”Sister time and again I've offered you my help, yet you foolishly run back to your worthless life”

Episode 11 ”Sense and Insensitivity” Lilith says:

”Of course you would be here just to be a nuisance”

The same happens on Wing it like Witches and while they play grudgby.

”The curse isn't just affecting your hair but your memory as well”

Lilith looks down on Eda, because she had better trophies, a better status as captain inside the team, she's the bigger sister she would have to be better than her little sister, wouldn't she?

Wow how we've never noticed this before.

Lilith did look down on Eda's choices all this time.

And it goes deeper than a sisterly competitiveness or a fight with your siblings that happens in all families (believe me I have a sister).

It's almost like Lilith was jealous for not only the magic or power Eda had, but could it be she was also jealous of having a sister?

We know nothing about Eda and Lilith's parents, so I could think their parents made Eda and Lilith compete against each other all the time, for praise, to accomplish and reach for higher things (like the emperor's coven). They compared their childs. And that could affect physically and emotionally every kid.

But it wasn't until Eda broke and forgot those expectations, became more rebellious by not following rules or objectives that other people put on her, that she could finally make a path of her own, she could live happily with her own choices and not caring of what her parents and others said which could have raised Lilith's jealousy... to the point of cursing her own sister.

So this episode was interesting. Lilith pretty much killed her sister. Why the fuck would she do that?

Even more interesting: why is Belos like that? How did Hooty put his head through one of those guards? Who the fuck is the Titan, and why does everyone like him? And how are these all tied together?

This episode was a metaphor for capitalism

…and another delicious step towards radicalizing the youth into dismantling this fucked-up neo-feudal system.

We’ll start with Belos. 

Emperor Belos is a weird name, don’t you think? We all thought it was spelled “Bellows,” but it wasn’t. In fact, it’s five letters, starts with Be, ends with os, and describes a megalomaniac emperor that restricts people’s freedom in order to accumulate wealth for himself.

Sound familiar?

Emperor Bezos Belos created capitalism. He saw the beauty of magic and decided to make himself the most powerful.

Belos created a system that destroys the masses and boosts his power.

 I’m dipping into fan theory a little, because the fan theory fits. We know that people get branded with coven magic that makes it so they can only specialize in one area. We know that Belos is the most powerful witch in the Boiling Isles. We know that the excess magic, magic created by restrictions, has to go somewhere.

It’s the same system that many viewers see all the time. A job takes up all your day and tires you for the night, so you can only do one skill for the rest of your life. Jeff Bezos is the most powerful man in the United States. Excess money, money taken by restrictions, has to go somewhere.

The magic goes to Belos, like how the money goes to Bezos. Belos created capitalism, and he won it.

The guards aren’t real. 

Look, we’ve never seen their faces. They’re all the same. Why would you work so hard to get to the top, just to become a nameless, faceless killing machine?

Oh, also Hooty stuck his face through one. There is nothing under the armor.

Why? Well, it’s the same reason you see all those celebrities going around flaunting their wealth and bragging about how hard they worked. Like all those songs about how they grind every day and work harder than everyone else while you’re out clubbing, and that makes them dope. And then you take a closer look at them and see that they had a small loan of a million dollars fueling them, or an entire talent agency behind them, or their dad was a famous country star in the 80′s. 

They’re fake. They’re hollow. They’re a ploy created by the capitalist emperor to try to delude you into working harder. 

Let me put this into perspective. I guarantee that every single one of you has heard stuff like this: “Hard work makes you successful.” “I put in the work, and that’s why I’m successful.” “If you work hard enough, then you can be as successful as Mark Zuckerberg.” 

And unless you’re a robot or really lucky, I’m sure all of you have failed at this. Maybe they told you that hard work would make you good at math, so you spent 22 hours a week working on calculus, only to pass it by 3 percentage points and have it destroy your perfect 4.0 GPA. Maybe they told you that if you talked to people enough, then you would make friends, so you spent a lot of time talking to people, only to end up lonely and friendless. Maybe they told you that if you did well in school, you would get a good job, so you spent all your time working hard to be a good student, and then ended up in a soulless, dead-end job.

The guards are there to delude you. Look, who really gains from you being productive? The answer is the ruling class, the CEOs, the government, the bourgeoisie. It has always been that. All you get from working is a paycheck that lets you survive. They get a paycheck that lets them get rich. Just like Belos gets the magic and productivity of the specialized coven witches.

The guards are there to trick you. The truth is that nobody can join the Emperor’s Coven. It’s just there to make you think that hard work will make you successful. Then you spend your entire life working hard, trying to prove to the person in charge that you’re worthwhile. You give your whole life to the Coven, and they give you nothing. 

Magic is supposed to be something you pursue for fun. Being skilled at things, being good at something beautiful…that’s supposed to be something you do because you want to. But they took that and made it into a source of productivity. It doesn’t matter if you make good content. All people fucking care about is if you upload the day of premiere, if you make a lot of content quickly, if you maintain a million different conversations with strangers who expect you to be the most interesting person in the room. They don’t care how it hurts you. They don’t care how you crack from the stress. How you cry when you think no one can see you, and then you check your phone and someone can see you, someone did see you, and you have to put on your face and be the charming, magnetic person they want you to be. (oh by the way that’s why I wasn’t online much last week)

And it ruins it. Suddenly you can’t watch The Owl House without being stressed. You can’t make any content. You can’t make spells as powerfully as you want to. Your passion is replaced by perfectionism and insecurity, a voice telling you to keep being the best at what you do, or else they’ll forget you and let you die.

There’s also the Titan. 

So nobody has mentioned him before, because in addition to the Boiling Isles being a hellscape full of witchcraft and queerness, it’s also full of atheists. 

But suddenly we have people saying all this shit about him? Shit like, he gave witches the gift of magic, and then they learned to use it in a civilized manner, since being uncivilized was disrespectful?

I mean, first off, that’s fucking wrong. The island gives people magic. The island, which just so happened to be shaped like a titan-sized human. But the island/titan gives everyone all types of magic. Hell, even Luz gets to use magic, and she’s human. 

It sounds really fucking familiar. (tw for discussion of homophobia and colonialism and misogyny). It sounds like when the news is on and they show some Tr*mp supporter talking about how fetuses have more rights than people and it is their holy duty to take away a woman’s control over her body and force her through unbearable pain and into an 18-year commitment she didn’t want to make. It sounds like all the times people tried to say homosexuality should be illegal, citing a single line in a book written two thousand years ago and heavily edited by a European king. It sounds like all the times people said God wanted them to conquer, to own the entire earth, to force the other races into pain to support them.

This is that bullshit thing people do where they commit awful sins and justify it by citing the will of God. 

Or, it’s the Coven using religion as an excuse for evil.

Look, the Emperor’s Coven is clearly colonizer-coded. Saying that people’s original form of magic was wild (and showing a picture with the same joyous, rowdy energy of an 18th or 19th -century Black or indigenous party), and that it was God’s will for them to be “civilized?” Sounds like that thing that powerful white people did where they went and murdered people and forced them into their twisted capitalist system. God, gold, and glory, is what they said, because history books just love to omit the gore.

Lilith is passing the abuse cycle along. 

You know, like a good little colonizer. God I fucking hate her. She’s a MILF, in the sense that she’s a Mother I’d Like to Fling off a cliff. 

Ah, enough screaming about how much I want to drown Lilith in a tub of Hooty’s mucus. Let’s go into why I want to do that, and how she took the evils of capitalism and just…adopted those.

So, Lilith is sick and twisted for what she did to her sister. But, uhh, that’s the point. You see, there are so many other people out there like Lilith who would do the exact same thing, if given the chance. These are the people who do mean things when the teacher isn’t looking, and then act nice and try to frame you. These are the people who will hate you if you’re better than them. These are people who would do anything to bring you down, if you dare outperform them.

It’s greed, my friends. The mental illness that capitalism blesses us all with.

Lilith herself said it: she dedicated her entire life to the Coven. What she wanted was to be the best. And she almost was…except for her own sister. Someone who lived with her, annoyed her at home, bested her at school. Someone she could never beat, no matter how hard she worked. And her sister was younger than her, too! How insulting was that? Lilith wanted to be the best, and someone in her exact situation did better than her.

Lilith was insecure. And it consumed her.

But why? Why does insecurity consume her? I mean, no one can be motivated by insecurity forever. Well, not unless someone conditions it into you.

The lovely thing about the capitalist system is the morals it teaches you. Things like: “You’re only useful if you’re the best.” “Being school smart makes you smart, while being social smart or sports smart or creative smart or fandom smart is worthless.” “Your worth can be quantified by numbers and is based off arbitrary measures like your income or your grades.” Things that can and will drive us crazy if we let ourselves believe them.

And it did drive Lilith crazy. She got so twisted by a society that said being good at magic is her only worth. Look, Lilith used to be good at things, probably. She was good at sports. At times, she slips up and does an okay job of being Eda’s sister. She has a powerful presence when she’s in a room. And she’s wicked good at manipulating people. 

But that didn’t matter. Lilith bought into the lies. She let herself believe that magical skill was the only way to measure her worth. And since she needed to be the best, she hurt Eda for it.

The beautiful thing is, Eda didn’t buy that. "It’s my power, kid. And before you showed up, I spent my whole life wasting it.” Is what Eda said, as she used up the last of her power, the last of her life, to save Luz. In her final moments, she proved that she’s not like them. She’s stronger than them.

None of this matters. Not magical prowess. Not the hierarchy. Not the promise of joining the Coven and having more power than anyone else.

The only thing that matters to Eda is her family. Her real family. Her Luz, King, and Hooty. And by extension, Willow, Gus, and Amity. Those are Eda’s real reason for fighting, for dying: to protect them. Look, there’s no way she would’ve come out of that fight alive. She has a family, and her love for them is stronger than greed or jealousy or capitalism. 

Lilith never understood that. She thought the water of the womb was thicker than the blood of the covenant. Or, that the water of the womb and the blood of the covenant are stronger than the bonds of found family. She thought it didn’t matter if Eda loved, her, only if the Emperor loved her. Fucking bitch.

And now, a little something to worry about, before we go. Amity Blight. The girl who wanted to join the Emperor’s Coven more than anything, who dedicated her whole life to doing well in school, to being the best, to being perfect.

And then she met Luz. She fell for Luz. Now she’s in a tricky place, where habit and conditioning want her to join the Emperor’s Coven, but her heart wants her to do the impossible and destroy capitalism.

She wasn’t in this episode. Funny that being injured and unable to work ended up saving her from watching her future mother-in-law die. So she bought some time.

But Luz’s true mom is dead. This is the second mom she has lost, and she’s only fourteen. As powerful as King and Hooty are, Luz needs Amity. Luz needs Amity to support her and help her get back her mom.

So Amity has to make a choice. Fear and insecurity, or love and a high chance of death? 

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Ok so it’s 1AM and I’m really just putting my conversation with @wanderings-and-wondering​ into a post for you all. Loosely inspired by @kelltheowlenby ‘s chosen one post.

So on Twitter somewhere (I don’t remember where), the voice actor for Emperor Belos described his character as a “megolomaniac” and “omnipotent.” That got me thinking about Emperor Belos, and the weirdly perfect events of The Owl House. If there’s a godlike figure ruling over the Boiling Isles, then are any of the things that happened to Luz an accident?

Anyways, so here’s what I’m predicting: Emperor Belos has been using prophecy to shape Luz’s entire experience, in order to use her for his benefit. 

How did I reach this conclusion? Simple. Alex Hirsch and Dana Terrace both wrote for Gravity Falls. That’s a show where they’ll introduce unimportant things as plot devices in season 1, and then they end up being part of a massive conspiracy in season 2. 

Let’s begin the breakdown, shall we?

First off, prophecy. In true Gravity Falls fashion, we were introduced to the really fascinating and downplayed existence of the Oracle Track. I mean, people have the ability to predict the future! To see various paths that could happen, and manipulate people based off those tracks! Can you imagine the potential in that?

Emperor Belos can. He has prophets at his disposal. The Emperor’s Coven does every type of magic, and they’re comprised of gifted kids with intense work ethic, like Amity. With enough people, he could see anything. Every way in which Luz would enter the Isles, every way she would accumulate power, every way to break her and bend her to his wishes.

And Luz is so easy to manipulate. All you need to do is threaten someone she loves. I mean, she challenged Boscha to a near-death match to restore Willow’s honor. Imagine what she would do if Amity, King, or Eda were in trouble.

Before we can figure out what he does next, first we need to know what Belos’s motives are. Fortunately, he’s pretty easy to figure out. I mean, he presides over a broken system. People are confined to covens, where their power is restricted by magical branding. The Emperor’s Coven holds all the excess power, since they can use any type of magic, including the excess created by magic restrictions. His system even tears people apart, going so far as to make Lilith willing to submit her own sister to the coven.

Ya boi Belos wants power. He likes seeing people do whatever he wants. He likes being secure and worshipped. The only problem is, now there’s this Luz. She takes magic directly from the island. She’s a human and somehow manages to make extremely powerful spells. And when she works with other people (mainly Amity), she makes their spells a whole lot stronger. Her power is immense and contagious…something Belos doesn’t want in the hands of someone like Eda.

So if Belos doesn’t want Eda to have access to Luz’s magic, then why did he let Eda raise Luz to be so powerful? 

That’s all explained by the prophets. Look, he knows stuff we didn’t know when the series started. Things like: Eda is the only person who would teach Luz how to draw glyphs and cast island-fueled spells. Owlbert would lead Luz into the demon realm. Lilith would pressure Eda to join the coven while being unable to bring her in–reminding Eda of the coven’s power without using it prematurely. Luz would grow attached to Eda and Amity, two people who can be easily taken and used by the Emperor’s Coven.

Emperor Belos planned this. He wanted Luz to learn how to use the island’s magic before he took her magic. He wanted Luz to get this false sense of security, where she could focus solely on learning. That’s the best way for Luz to become the most powerful spellcaster on the Isles–to let her feel safe enough to learn however she wants to.

And now, Emperor Belos has a plan to control Luz. Here’s some fast facts about Eda. She’s currently the most powerful witch in the Boiling Isles. She is wanted by the law and has been chased for ages, though people have largely let her off easy for her crimes. 

Look, Eda could’ve been arrested ages ago. She’s up against the man with access to all the power in the Isles. The only reason she’s free is because Belos knows she’s useful if she teaches Luz and connects with Luz.

Why? Because Eda is now a bargaining chip.

Look, everyone in The Owl House has a trigger, a way of being manipulated. With Amity, just dangle a sense of acceptance in front of her and she’ll bite. With Eda, offer her something shiny or put Luz in danger. And for Luz, all you have to do is take the people she cares about and put them in trouble.

The people Luz cares about most are Eda, King, and Amity. While King and Amity are great, Eda is the key. Luz left her home because her mom didn’t let her follow her dreams. Eda is the mom who lets her follow her dreams, the family she has been craving, where everything is perfect and she doesn’t have to try so hard to patch things over. You take Eda away, and you take away the number-one thing behind Luz being here.

So now we have the perfect storm. Episodes 15-17 developed Luz and Amity, giving Luz an ally, and lulling us into a false sense of security. Lilith popped up in episode 17, reminding us that the Emperor is pushing harder for her to take Eda in. Luz knows a lot of spells, and at this point she’s learning entirely from the island. She’s at an excellent power level. She doesn’t need Eda to teach her spells anymore.

At this point I’m pretty sure the majority of the fandom knows about my love languages post (and if you don’t, then you’ve heard of bloodraven55′s update). For those of you who don’t feel like reading that entire essay, here’s the gist of it: Luz shows love through acts of service while Amity shows love through touch. They are therefore oblivious to each other’s feelings because they don’t realize that that’s how the other person shows love. 

So the only way for Luz to overcome her oblivion, and for both to realize the other reciprocates, is for each one to understand the other’s love language. 

Fortunately for us, they did! This episode of The Owl House had Luz and Amity taking massive strides in understanding each other and showing affection in ways that the other will understand.

We’ll start with Luz, because she did quite a bit. In the past, she has used touch as a way of showing friendly affection towards everyone she meets. For example, she hugs Willow, like, every time she sees her. (It got to the point where many of you made like Amity and assumed there was some romance building up between the two). And she’s always clinging onto Eda or letting King climb all over her. 

But in this episode, something changed. Luz was a little more purposeful with her affections. Sure, she hugged Willow. But she didn’t really touch anyone else in this episode, even Eda or King. When she touched Amity, however, it was purposeful. Giving her the confidence symbol/hair clip and touching her hands gently while doing so. Carrying her when she was hurt, even though she has weak nerd arms, because after Amity’s fear-filled life, Luz is determined to be her fearless champion.

Speaking of the weak nerd arms…did you notice that Luz’s arms were weak until after Understanding Willow? I mean, when you think about it, her shows of arm strength are always around Amity. Dancing with her at Grom, carrying her to the infirmary…. And this all happened after she spent time in Willow’s brain, learning about how touchy Amity is. The moment she realized Amity likes being held, she suddenly became stronger. This means that either she collapses in exhaustion when she gets home after spending time with Amity, or she exercises every day so she’ll be strong enough to carry Amity.

And the thing is…this stuff worked. In previous episodes, Amity was a gay disaster. But this episode took it to entirely new heights. She’s at the stage that I would’ve labelled as a “bad crush” and then undertaken some serious gaslighting, conditioning, and avoidance strategies to stop from hurting that person (oh look internalized homophobia). She’s panicking at everything Luz says. She’s blushing so much that Luz probably thinks she has a skin condition. Her gay thoughts are so strong that she’s saying them, rather than keeping them to herself. Luz is doing the things that make Amity fall faster, and Amity is falling faster. (Literally).

And now: Amity. Amity’s journey is even cooler because in this episode, there is concrete proof that she actually realized Luz’s love language.

But before that? Amity was still doing what makes Luz happy. Luz likes grand gestures/acts of service, and Amity sure delivered. 

The episode literally started with her roasting Boscha. Which is huge. Ever since she was a child, Amity has been forced to keep Boscha as a friend, even though she hates her. So now, for to just stand up to her, asking when she will grow up, and effectively ending their friendship? That’s amazing. It takes courage, and it’s exactly the thing that will make Luz fall.

But then, she and Luz had that conversation on the bleachers. The one where Luz literally said, “Winning this game is the only way I know how to help.” Luz genuinely doesn’t understand that people can be comforted in ways that don’t include elaborate schemes. And now that Luz has spelled it out for her, Amity finally gets that.

So that’s when we see a change in the way Amity shows affection. Immediately after hearing Luz say that, and then watching Luz agree to…well, to pretty much die for Willow, Amity immediately gets Willow and Gus for help. She throws away her social life and risks catching even more feelings for Luz, by agreeing to play the game with her. 

At this point, you can tell she doesn’t expect reciprocation. She’s not losing her status, risking incurring her parents’ wrath, and risking Luz rejecting her and hating her forever, just so Luz will like her. She’s doing it because she knows Luz will be happy if she does that. That’s what makes it such a grand gesture: she’s willing to throw away everything that makes her happy, just so that Luz can be happy.

And then, she doesn’t lose all that. What she does lose: the integrity of her leg. Guys, Amity literally got her leg broken for Luz. At a tiny after-school fight. She’s in a cast. She had to suffer through Hooty picking her up and moving her. Even though things didn’t go as badly as they could go, she still sacrificed a lot so Luz could be happy.