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Disember 2024 Day 16 - Gargoyles 🐍🪽

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This resulted from some speculative talks with a friend. I just love the different ways gargoyles show affection! They are so sweet! But the silliness got the best of me and now head canon is braiding is NSFW for them. JALAPENIA! 🤣

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Frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken & we live again! We are defenders of the night, we are Gargoyles! ✨🌙

Gargoyles premiered on this day, 30 Years Ago on October 24, 1994. It was Disney TVA's first venture in to dark serialization, praised for its complex characters and plot becoming most influential cartoons of the 90's it set the path for action cartoons for the 2000s, Amphibia creator Matt Braly cites the show as one of the main inspirations for his series.

Currently the series has a series of comics by Dynamite Comics and a live action reboot in development at Atomic Monster & Blumhouse Television for Disney+.

Disney Comics, Disney Books and Disney Direct To Consumer Products are celebrating the 30th Anniversary with:

-Gargoyles Winter Special by Dynamite Comics slated for December 4

-A Little Golden Book slated for May 2025

-A collection of figures by Mondo/Funko slated for 2025

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But you've got to trust somebody in this world.

I know I'm late but I couldn't help but do something for the 30th anniversary of Gargoyles✨️

Congratulations !!!

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It's been almost 30 years since Gargoyles first premiered on Disney. I still love this show so much. Do you have a favorite gargoyle? Mine is Hudson! Stickers are on the shop now! :) Tones by @lockwayarts!

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I found myself thinking about Gargoyles (the Disney cartoon) and how much I loved it and Keith David's performance as Goliath. And I realized that I think Goliath was my first real encounter with non-toxic masculinity as a young kid.

I had seen other positive male role models on TV before such Mr. Rogers, the many men on Sesame Street and LaVar Burton in both Reading Rainbow and Star Trek (I was much too young for Star Trek but loved it all the same). But Goliath left an impression on me like few other male characters have.

Goliath embodied so many traits that I was taught as part of "being a man." He was strong. He was strong. He was a leader among men (gargoyles?). He even had a chiseled jaw and impressive physique. But what I remember most is from the very first episode is he never hid or suppressed his emotions.

His mournful wail after believing that Demona, the love of his life, was dead is burned into my memory. This was a man who felt things and showed it. He was never shamed for showing his emotions either. No one told him to stuff it down. Instead, it was part of him that was warmly accepted and treated as normal.

And Goliath didn't just show emotion when he was upset either (the only socially acceptable time for a man to show any emotion (as long as it was anger). He was tender and loving with Demona. He was kind to his peers. He would laugh with his allies but be fierce to his enemies. He was openly fearful of humans after being trapped and feared anything happening to his people. Yet he was never admonished nor shamed for any of it. In fact, others wanted to emulate Goliath and be like him.

I truly have to credit the writing of the character as well as the amazing acting behind it. We need more characters who are strong and mighty and feel their emotions. We need more examples of strength coming from feeling and showing your emotions, rather than them being showed either at odds or mutually exclusive.

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Stone by day, warriors by night, we were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a 1000 years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken & we live again! We are defenders of the night, we are #Gargoyles!

Happy 30th Anniversary🌙

✨️ 10/24/97 - 10/24/24 ✨️

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The episode "The Mirror" is one of the most fun episodes of Gargoyles. Elisa is transformed into a Gargoyle and the entire clan come to the simultaneous realization that she has been Super Fucking Hot this entire time.

I love that Elisa and Goliath are both monsterfuckers respective to their own species.

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🎉Happy birthday to the talented Greg Weisman!!!🎂

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Various members of the NYPD in Gargoyles' "Her Brother's Keeper" in the locker room.

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Transfusions Book 2 chapter 11 ended which means chapter break extras! Here's one for this week!

http://transfusionscomic.com/comic/book-2-chapter-11-extra-1

Wanna read B2 chapter 11 from the start? Click here!

Wanna read the whole webcomic from the start? Click here!

Here's the Transfusions chapter directory!

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This sunglasses company called Gargoyles used to have a motto that said “let a gargoyle sit on your face” which, without context, would have certainly made monsterfuckers disappointed when they found out it was for an eyewear company

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Like, okay but really, LOOK at Goliath.

He’s honourable. He’s protective without being overbearing. He’s respectful. He’s intelligent, well-spoken and well-read. He’s a family man. He’s patient but said patience is not endless. He’s open-minded and quick to adapt. He’s charming and forthright. He’s noble. He’s voiced by Keith David.

They basically made the PERFECT MAN and put him in the body of a purple winged creature that can crush bricks with his bare claws did they ever expect anyone to grow up WITHOUT a complex after that?!

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KISS KISS JOIN ME IN DEATH

(Mark is from my webcomic Transfusions)

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S Q U A D

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From my observations.