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one fun thing abt going from a cartoons fan to an animator is that i looove being on the other side of things and finding out if the ppl who made the shows i loved & obsessed over shared any of that fondness or if it was like Just A Job to them. bc obviously no one has to love what they do for a living but it would be nice if the ppl who made the cool things i like had fun doing it y'know

anyway from talking to my coworkers it turns out that crews' feelings abt the shows they made exist on a sliding scale from

a) this show was so special to us that we all have hand-made merch and we made sure everyone in the company got a chance to work on it 😊✨

and b) we hated this show so much that at the wrap party we had a piñata of the main character and took it in turns beating it to death

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it's mermay yippeeeeee

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anyway everyone say hi to Hilda and Tilda

my family, evidently unimpressed with my choices: ok. we get why you called one of them Hilda but. why Tilda

me: *glances nervously at this blog* oh y’know I just. like the way. they sound together

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my family, evidently unimpressed with my choices: ok. we get why you called one of them Hilda but. why Tilda

me: *glances nervously at this blog* oh y’know I just. like the way. they sound together

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if anyone’s wondering the last time I reblogged this here was bc I was applying for the show I just shared so. I guess watching hilda and being a lesbian does get you places

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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In this super sneak peek, join Tim Rex in this out-of-this-world musical adventure as the dinosaur family catches a shooting star!

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back when i played pkmn more i had a competitive eevee team and they were mostly named after lesbians.. anyway here's Sunset and Twilight :>

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Don’t make me put your ass in the sealbarrow

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soo throwing out my pmd au designs for the trio, and also their levels and movesets bc I put way too much thought into this already and I’m gonna yap about all of it under the cut :>

so for why I chose the pokemon I did…David and Hilda’s pokemon were really quick to figure out for me - teddiursa is already orange and literally the son boy pokemon so it was a perfect match imo, and shinx picks up 3/4 of Hilda’s colour palette without even trying. plus the electric type has a reputation for being a bit feisty and impulsive so that fits Hilda p well I think

Frida gave me way more trouble finding a suitable match but I think I’m finally happy w making her an espeon. I think her being a psychic type is a good analogue for magic so it ticks that box, and espeon picks up the purple in frida’s s3 design (her white patches are also meant to relate to her s3 look :> ). alsoo it’s not super obvious here but her inner ears and gem are blue so she can still match both hilda and david’s colour palettes like god intended 😌 OH and also a bit of Frida’s clothing/decor in the show is cat-themed, so I figured if she likes cats so much she can be one. as a treat 😌

so in this AU Hilda takes the place of the player character, so she’s the one randomly waking up in the pokemon world with amnesia and the vague recollection of being human before whereas David and Frida are just regular pokemon (something something parallel to Hilda moving to the city and having no idea how anything works vs David and Frida already having it figured out etc)

at the start, Frida is already evolved and a bit higher level than the others. I was thinking of that drive to overachieve & live up to expectations that she has at the start of the show, and how in a pokemon au evolving a little early would probably be a point of pride for her (and her parents). david and hilda on the other hand don’t have much expertise battling yet (Hilda is literally fresh into being a pokemon so doesn’t have battles figured out and David is actively scared of them) so they’re low-level and their movesets are basic, though I tried to tailor them to their personalities a little bit. I wanted to make Frida’s moveset more tactical and thought-out since she’s the one planning and strategising to keep the team on track. (a moment of silence for her hanging on to Baton Pass when she’s in a team with two pokemon who are too scared/inexperienced in battle to be any help at all…) plus she has the odd TM bc I figure if her parents had such high hopes for her, they’d try to make sure she had a good start and got the best moves money could buy. at the point where Hilda comes in, Frida and David both want to become explorers but for their own reasons can’t quite work up the nerve to make it happen yet..we’ll get to that in the next post :>

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HII SORRY FOR THE LIKES SPAM YOUR HILDA ART IS DELICIOUS TYSM

aw thanks!! glad you’re enjoying it!!

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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 :>