What I will always love about Over the Garden Wall, and what to me really makes it an autumn classic, is how the show presents the season as a transition. People like to say it’s a Halloween show, but it’s really an autumn show, autumn in all its faces.
Early in the show, we have autumn as the late, lingering summer. The fields are full, leaves cling to the branches. The world is painted in a greenish-gold, and it feels warm and rich and good.
And over the course of the show we lose that bit of summer. The colours bleach out. The mists come in. The harvest dances and music are done.
And by the end of the show, we get autumn as the harbinger of the coming season. Summer is long behind us. The long winter is ahead.
And I think it’s so appropriate that the show first premiered in November. When else are we more aware of how much the season has changed than when we are past smiling September and October and find ourselves with grey, patient November, watching the days get shorter and the nights grow longer.
I don’t like how you put these two photos together, as if to imply that the dumplings with the paw print have anything to do with this sweet, innocent angel who has never done anything wrong.
ok lowkey highkey I don’t understand the hate for cockroaches……. they very cute
I found one in the building I was in today and picked it up and he was very kind and sweet and we were straight chilling in fact
AND !!!! SO MANY PEOPLE DONT KNOW HOW MANY KINDS THERE ARE ?????? THEYRE SO UNDERRATED????
underrated and undervalued roaches are to me 😔
like look at this dude
This wasp is one of the most insane parasites in the animal kingdom. They basically perform brain surgery on roaches to make them docile for the process of being eaten alive. Once a jewel wasp has injected her venom into the cockroach nervous system, the unfortunate bug will be led along by its antenna, trotting compliantly like a dog on a leash. It is astonishing how physiologically complex this process is!
