I Hardly See Any Otgw Head Cannons On Here So I Just Wanna Chuck In My Own Two Cents ^-^

I’ve never gotten to do one of these before!! Thank you @xovera-toz !!

LAST SONG: Against the kitchen floor by Will Wood!! It’s been on repeat for the past couple of days it’s so good!!

FAVOURITE COLOUR: Goodness it’s so hard to choose >:/ there’s just so many choices how am I supposed to choose?? (It’s green I love it and it’s taken over my life) Specifically a nice mossy green ^-^

CURRENTLY WATCHING: heheheMoominvalleyhehehehe

LAST MOVIE: tbh it was probably a Dino documentary (my boyfriend loves them) it was pretty good tbh and there was so many cute babies

SWEET/SAVOURY/SPICY: I’m probably leaning towards savoury more but I can get a pretty bad sweet tooth so it’s a toss up there and as for spicy I do love it but my guts? Nope.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: hehehehe taken <4 for almost three years and they’re actually moving in this weekend!! I’m so excited yet nervous

CURRENT OBSESSION: Honestly? I’ve got a couple!! Taxidermy is definitely one, from that we have moths and butterflies (specifically Swallow tails!!), Hazbin Hotel, music and most obviously Moominvalley and Over The Garden Wall!!

LAST THING GOOGLED: On my phone? Moominvalleymerch l’m just saying that my head is definitely full with those lil guys now

And lastly different people to tag: I don’t really have many people on here but!! @coast-line @marceline1910 @aster-bluejay404 and of course anyone else who’d love to participate!!

NINE PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BETTER

OMG TYSM FOR TAGGING ME @liass-21 !!!!! i am so sorry i drafted this tag and i thought i queue'd it and i didnt so 😭😭😭 its only like a month late. its fine everythings fine. aaaaaa 😭

LAST SONG? - "photograph" by the midnight! it is on my writing-for-top-gun playlist bc it has huge maverick vibes lol.

FAVORITE COLOR? - pink!!!! also lighter purples and blues and most pastel shades <3 and black

CURRENTLY WATCHING? - a streamer i have never watched before playing the remaster of of tomb raider i-iii bc i am excited about the remaster!! and those games are my childhood <3 not to be a million years old or anything sakfhfjfhg

LAST MOVIE? - unfortunately it was 'oz the great and powerful' 😭 if any of y'all enjoyed that movie i respect it, but i had to see it on tv at a friend's house and we were having a great time laughing at the very unexpected writing and acting choices being made lol

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY? - aaaaaaaa i guess savory ?????? but sweet has a special place in my heart ajdhfjfhfjg

RELATIONSHIP STATUS? - committed long term relationship to ~my person~ <3<3

CURRENT OBSESSIONS? - well this is gonna be obvious but top gun primarily !!!! additionally, dan and phil !! mission impossible !!! fall out boy!! and even if the current obsession level is not as high as other things, i am always at least partially obsessed with a hundred other things and people that i am probably posting about at the same time lol

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED? - “oz the great and powerful reviews” bc i wanted to make sure that im not crazy and that other ppl also felt that movie was an insane fever dream (apparently due to the 44% on metacritic i guess they did lol)😭

tagging: aaaaaa @brambleberrycottage @daffodilstark @tellhound @torchflies @melancholydandelion @goosefilms @driftershunt @downthegenderriver @callsignstingray

last one for them

caduceus is autistic evidence post :-)

*not an actual theory post, jus headcanons based on canon scenes + some extra thoughts too just kidding im right

Monotone voice, basically never shouts.. like when he said “i dont mean to raise my voice” after speaking at the exact same level consistently..

Kinda talks in a mumbly way and stutters a lot

The way he very often has a very blank, kinda-smiling expression when people are talking to him.. audio processing face

Doesn’t get a lot of jokes, or when he’s being flirted with. also the jokes he does get (and find very funny) are usually very specific (and about death probably, which weirds out tmn a bit lol) or he has to process them for a moment before understanding, which has happened a lot.. he’s like :-3? …. :-0 oh :-D !

Also, a few times he has laughed at odd/inappropriate times. kinda just at nothing or something no one else was laughing at. which is apparenlty quite common for autistic folks to do, bc of like getting a bit lost in ur own thoughts and think of funny things etc…..

Sorta related (to jokes, and things), but he takes so many things literally. like that time when beau jokingly asked if he’d ever met a ghost that didn’t need punching and he thought about it until he had an answer :’). and also when beau said to fjord (about cad) “like, he was living in the middle of the cemetery” and cad was like “Of course i was, thats where the temple is, the middle of the cemetery”. 

He notices EVERYTHING… all these tiny details and noises no one else hears… this happens to me and so i have decided to project this onto cads super high perception. 

In Darktow he had to leave that tavern/bar because it got too loud for him and he got stressed n went and sat outside until fjord came looking for him. (also the “lets keep this.. between the amigos” “which part of the body is the amigos?” thing jksnfkjs)

Also that one time in Rexxentrum that he had a bad perception roll? matt described the city and all the colours and shapes being too overwhelming (to the point of almost vertigo) to think clearly and spot where they needed to go.

He says the same phrases A Lot. (which i have recently found out is called Scripting, and applies to a bunch of things.. mostly used by autistic folks to get through conversations.) “that’s nice”,“thats really nice”, “thats so cool”. “that was a lot” are th most common ones i think. he uses them in some instances that are very high emotion too. like, he’ll almost die and then say “wow… that was. that was a lot.” 

Also repeats back new phrases or words he likes (“worth their salt” and “fracas”) ..the echolalia of it all. 

also a moment in the pirate arc where he uses the word “astute” while talking to beau before admitting that he heard someone else say it and is just copying someone and trying to use it too. luckily he used it correctly (and then him and beau both awkwardly run off to do their own things).

Struggles to express emotions outwardly.. for example: he just repeats “thats nice” etc. about everything he likes and loves. the mushroom cookbook jester gives him for example. also he barely makes eye contact with her in that scene and doesnt rly know what to do or say because mushroom! cookbook! thats so nice :’)

and also! he doesn’t rly express when he’s uncomfortable, even when he is Deeply deeply uncomfortable, like in the arboretum. He just quietly said they needed to get out, put his head down and didn’t look at the trees, even though he was visibly super shaken. just had to get out of there. (this was of course partly some kind of trauma response too, but it also read as very nd to me)

Also him having a panic attack on the boat, when his entire world view got thrown off.. i choose to think its bc autistic folks tend to think rly black-and-white, rly absolute, a lot of the time. so in this case its “following the destined path of the wildmother” vs “completely off-track and all a huge mistake and should never have left home and its all gone wrong”

Also i think he finds sudden changes scary. he was super shaken about the nein just stealing a whole boat unplanned…and other things similarly unplanned. idk it just had the vibes of if someone took away your routine and everything familiar… and you’re just like free-floating. its hard to function like that 

Also related to that… doesnt like when there isn’t a plan n gets stressed about it. also often the first person to ask the nein to clarify exactly what they’re all going to do/make a plan. (first thing he asks jester when she comforts him on the boat is “miss jester, do you have a plan?” and she doesn’t and never has.. he doesnt really get that vry much

He really struggles to explain things that are upsetting to him. tries to speak but can only get th same few words out. yea ik he is super emotionally repressed but i am also looking autistically. 

He doesn’t really understand if people are insulting him. like king dwendal and also eadwulf both said rude things to him and he just replied as polite as he could even tho he was confused.

Cant help himself, gotta correct people about things he knows more about (special interest energy….). like when beau called his graveyard a cemetery and he corrected and explained the difference :’ )

the way he re-explains how his tea grows when its mentioned too. and that he’s a maker of fine graves and the work his family does. its like his wee script every single time . he rly cares abt it

Also just his particular brand of strange just reads very autisticly to me. (even his own family think he’s odd. sidenote: clarabelle is autistic too bc i say so.) the way he says odd little phrases that don’t quite make sense and things to plants. the way he says what he thinks, to the point of being rude and blunt and invasive sometimes. the way he doesnt give a shit and just wears what he likes. idk :’) makes me happy.

Oh, and relating to him being blunt. I think that a few scenes when he’s said questionable things or given questionable advice is emblematic of that… he says a literal solution. or a solution that makes sense (to his worldview.. faith the the wildmother) and is technically an option, but he doesn’t quite understand the emotional side of why someone does something, or doesn’t do it.

He’s good at fitting into EMT or wise-old-sage mode and outside of that he’s just, kind of awkward and spacey (and silly). like, when his script or role is taken away he tends to flounder a bit. or a lot, sometimes. and just says stuff and seems just as baffled abt what he said too.

Said bluntness and inability to see when his advice is appropriate or not also means that sometimes he is just rude.. he does'nt mean to be but he sometimes oversteps or is just vry blunt in a way that offends people, and doesn’t seem to entirely realise either

Just some headcanons but. i think he special interests tea, cooking, and all things surrounding death/burial… he always has things to say about those topics and i think thats neat.

he’s so tired a lot of the time, he says it kind of often . which, disability coded to meee. other things but i think also his brain hurts from everything all the time. adjusting . noise. adjusting.

i just know he loves ritual. in making tea, in cooking, in religion and prayer, in gardening, in communing etc etc etc

And lastly, he pat the moss. because :-) stimmy

I love Greg and snufkin chilling out so much they’re all so stinking cute holy moly I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

I can't be stopped, I made more while streaming OTGW in the background. @tamtamandtim thanks for the suggestion with the tavern keeper! seriously, the OTGW characters are so fun to draw

watching it again reminded me Wirt plays clarinet, oops, drew him with the wrong instrument last time. i'll just have to make another one, oh what a shame 🙃

I imagine Snufkin encourages Wirt to read his poetry to Sara while playing background music, hahahah

Okay so I’m absolutely loving Moominvalley (2019) it’s been amazing especially after playing Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley because I’m learning the lore as I go and it’s been absolute blast!! (I’m on episode 8 btw so preferably not a lot of spoilers) but here’s some of my thoughts and feelings if you wish to read!

You can definitely tell that Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley was made with a lot of love and being able to connect peices from both media’s is such a treat and gives me a better appreciation for the show ^-^

I love how the hatterfattiers travel in odds probably to keep themselves from sparking off!

I loved Snufkin and Little My’s dynamic, it was chaotic but also pretty endearing at times (I want more of them playing music together, and just more screen time with them both. They perfectly represent my remaining brain cells)

At first I wasn’t a huge fan of Snorkmaiden and Moomintroll being together but they’ve really grown on me. Other than the fact that Moomintroll is kinda fumbling with how he treats her, it’s a little bit painful to watch. I kinda hope they work it out but my gut just has ✨the bad feelings✨

Little my is an absolute menace and it’s either for good reason or just to cause problems, I love the inner guessing game I have whenever she pops up on the screen!! She’s probably my favourite character.

I understand that Snufkin leaves Moominvalley during the winter but like where does he go?? Because my immediate thought was ‘oh he just goes into the unknown or something kinda similar probably, he’d fit in pretty great’ like yea probably but babes, that means every winter he lays down and is like “yep this looks like a pretty great spot to just decompress and decompose, anyway good night” and just hangs out there for 3-5 months.

Anyways TL;DR I don’t have anyone else to talk to about this new little brain rot of mine, so I’m gonna word vomit here! and thank you to anyone who took time to read this <3 and please let me know your thoughts and feelings on this show, or any fun facts!!

"don't worry about how other people perceive you" okay but like how they treat me is frequently determined by how they perceive me and I would prefer people be niceys to me

It is now canon that Jester gives Caleb art lessons 🥰

From the Chicago live show!

I’ve been wanting to watch Moomin Valley lately but I just mentally haven’t gotten around to it. BUT I’ve played Snufkin: Melody of Moomin Valley and I’m not emotionally ready for my perception of Snufkin to be changed.

Because from the game all I’ve gotten from him is:

“Gotta see moomin troll.” Is the most common phrase you’ll hear out of this man for the first few days of spring.

“Fuck the police, me and moomin troll hate the police.”

Happily destroying invasive police and their stupid signs.

“Ah little my!, you little shit. Thanks.”

A little bit of a stoner but like in✨The cool way✨

“Man I miss moomin troll….But like not in an homo way just like in a way where if I could I would, totally kiss him but it’s not a big deal lol.” (this is probably just me being delulu)

Would 100% play music as parallel play.

Definitely the type to give the best advice or therapy just out of nowhere like you’d be walking around, then BOOM entire world view changed but he’d just be like “eh but it is what is ya know?”

Could take a shot of pure vodka like a champ, A small glass of wine on the other hand? He’s gone.

Anyway I could be completely wrong but to summarise I think he’s a little bastard man, and if anyone has any preference on which version I should watch/read first please let me know!!

THIS ABSOLUTELY THIS MY GOD. I love that he goes from a stray starved cat to a happy fat old indoor cat

moar fat caleb. he has tried every single kind of soup that the kryn has to offer. by the time jester and fjord have a kid he's very solidly the picture of kindly uncle. he goes shopping in zadash and someone briefly mistakes him for another pumat clone.

i love the fat caleb agenda so much. the idea hes so big that even pumat would see him and make jokes that they're the same size? thats one big ginger wizard especially one who's human and started out starving! i said it in the last fat caleb ask but he would truly thrive as the professor stereotype that involves sweet middle aged men that do Not remotely fit into the tweed jackets they wear to their classes, but somehow it stays on anyway. he gets home and essek rushes to take it off him to admire him with that soft purple gaze.

Okay immediately episode 8 and 11 are probably my favourite episodes of Moominvalley (2019) I’m so glad I started watching it!!

The Groke is HORRIFYING I DONT GET HOW CALM SNUFKIN WAS.

“the only thing to fear here, is fear itself”

like BABES NO SHE WAS ACTUALLY A BIT SCARY, I HATED HER SOUND DESGIN AND HER CONSTANT STARING. That just makes her appearance in the game all the more horrifying, because it told me the prompt to run RIGHT BEOFRE she was introduced.

Snufkin running out of social battery was quite relatable to me, but it’s so sweet how he still immediately went to help Moomin and Sniff out. The ice skating scene was beautiful! I love the music and animation for it!! It was so delightful and filled me with some whimsy!!

My god the ending of 11 kinda got me a little bit until

“was I your best friend?”

“Yes! Well after snufkin“

and the fact he turned green, poor Moomin is gonna has PTSD from the colour.

And I loved the ‘spirits and how to mix them’ joke and how ever so casually Moominpapa was like ‘nope it’s not Those kind of spirits’

Man Ninny also hits me way to close to home too and I appreciate that they gave her multiple non-verbal ways of communication, OH MY GOD IM READY NOW NO WAY IM GONNA SOB I DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS THE CONTEXT FOR IT BUT IRONICALLY I USE THAT SONG TO HELP RECOVER AFTER A MELTDOWN

(If you couldn’t guess this was written in the moment, while i too was having a moment.)

Anyways if you can’t tell I’ve finished season one and it’s safe to say I’m hooked and I need more. But thank you for reading my delightful little brain rot, and I’ll be sure to update more as we go because there’s still so much to see!!