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fellow hilda-obsessed lesbian hello!! have a lovely day :)

hello!! aw hope you have a lovely day too ✨

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tiny tiny fren

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I am once again trying to update my website and softly weeping that I don’t have enough original art to look like a normal person

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btw my thoughts on Freyja’s dynamic w Mattie is basically. Freyja is (despite being a full-time gremlin) a VERY devoted familiar and cares abt Kaisa deeply and would follow her to the ends of the earth. they’re both the odd-ones-out in their lives so they have a warrior’s bond forged on the battlefield kind of a deal. so when Mattie comes along and, from Freyja’s POV, all Kaisa’s love and attention suddenly goes to this random baby she gets a little jealous AND utterly confused bc “you’re giving all my snuggles to this?? thing?? why. it can’t even echolocate. what the fuck”. but also bc Kaisa loves this thing she begrudgingly tolerates it bc that’s what a Good Familiar would do

anyway unfortunately for Freyja she is a little furry baby with no powers of speech so their day-to-day is Mattie scoops her up for a cuddle and Freyja internally is like “put me down at once you cretin. you fiend. I was Kaisa’s baby FIRST I OUTRANK YOU” and Mattie’s like “hehe. kitty :)”

they have a complicated friendship

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they have a complicated friendship

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since this one came 2nd in the poll i figured i’d do it too.. we only just got snow here a few days ago so its still seasonally appropriate :>

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belated art review thing for 2024!! I always look forward to making these so being 2 weeks late isn't gonna stop me :>

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it may not be 2024 anymore but that won't stop me

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ok what happened overnight WHO voted my stupid pokemon au into the lead 😭

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little prince of my heart

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I love it when ppl re-circulate my old weird art. keeps me humble 😌

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sooo I think this ended up being my tribute art to hilda the series? almost a whole year after the show ended but oh well 🤷‍♀️

if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to ramble about how much the show means to me for a bit -

Soooo I really really love this show. It is so delightful in every way, from the heartwarming and funny writing to the insanely beautiful visuals. You can tell that every aspect of this show was made with so much love and care and it truly has a type of charm to it that I’ve never seen in anything else. I’m really glad it exists and got the run that it did.

While I was drawing this I kept thinking back to a recent quote from Luke Pearson about how iconic to the series that little red cabin in the wilderness is, even though it was only there for a couple of episodes/comics - pretty much everything that happened in the show is because the story moved on from there and Hilda found new settings and characters and her world got so much bigger, but at the end of the day, that place is where it all started.

When I was re-watching season 1 clips to get art references it took me right back to 2018 when the show first aired. I remember often putting on the season 1 soundtrack while I was scanning animations under the rostrum when I was at uni late and re-watching the episodes when I was feeling down and needed a bit of cosyness. I was Going Through It in late 2018 for a number of reasons and this quickly became my comfort show, and that’s probably a part of why I still love it years later - things are way better but it’s just lodged there in my heart now.

And uh…not to get all cliché but…this show really did help point me towards where I am now. While I was at uni I’d study clips of it from time to time to see how the animators achieved what they did and I learned some useful stuff here and there. like..someone’s animation breakdown video on Hilda is what introduced me to the concept of arcs (I was on an animation course so I should’ve known abt arcs already but oh well. better late than never 🫠) and a ton of animation stuff made more sense to me after that. I can look at some of my very old animations and pin-point a principle or a little cheat that I learned from studying Hilda. On top of that, at my uni we focused on hand-drawn animation (on paper first and then. photoshop of all things 😑) so that was the whole scope of my animation knowledge, and I was really fascinated by how 2D rig shows like Hilda even worked.

In the end I got so curious that I took a toonboom course after I graduated and started figuring it out for myself. I didn’t really know what to do with myself in the immediate post-graduation job search hell, but I wanted to learn more skills and Hilda looked like the type of show I wanted to be on more than anything, so I made a point of learning the stuff that might get me there. And learning rig anim was extra fun bc it helped me understand how this show was made and appreciate it even more :) It truly lit up an enthusiasm in me for all the technical behind-the-scenes stuff in cartoons that still keeps me motivated to this day. anddd long story short I’m a 2D rig animator now so I guess it worked out! ngl I think it’s very funny that I stanned Hilda so hard it got me a job on a disney show. how does that even happen. (and I’ve even had the honour of working with some of the people who made Hilda so in a way it feels like it’s all come full-circle now :) )

And obviously, it’s been really fun being in the fandom with everyone and being insane together. It’s wild that it’s been 6 years of that. I’m glad for the cool people I met and all those fun times. I’m really glad I got to be a part of that.

Soo yeah!! lovely show. thank you

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oh god

the pure joy at hearing luke pearson is gonna do a signing in the uk again (it’s been 84 years..) so I finally have a chance to ask him to sign one of my fanarts!!! vs the pain of realising the only Hilda fanart I’ve drawn in the last 2 yrs has been my goddamn ocs

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frantically scrolling thru my blog looking for art that’s sign-able and I just realised I have the ability to do the funniest thing ever

the pure joy at hearing luke pearson is gonna do a signing in the uk again (it’s been 84 years..) so I finally have a chance to ask him to sign one of my fanarts!!! vs the pain of realising the only Hilda fanart I’ve drawn in the last 2 yrs has been my goddamn ocs

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the pure joy at hearing luke pearson is gonna do a signing in the uk again (it’s been 84 years..) so I finally have a chance to ask him to sign one of my fanarts!!! vs the pain of realising the only Hilda fanart I’ve drawn in the last 2 yrs has been my goddamn ocs

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btw I am gonna finish my pieces for the 3 days of skbkwk that I missed if it kills me