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glisten mentioned

my glisten shrine as of now

up close without the lights on

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not entirely sure what compelled me to draw this but i liked the idea

"finish the stuff you already started" the evil dyle of despair and procrastination:

trying to draw any of these guys is like licking concrete it sucks even more that they're my favorites

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EVIL power outage forces poor innocent twisted glisten to walk in place forever

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everyone meet glisten. the kitten who started shaking his back legs quite a lot seemingly involuntarily only to quit the moment we get to the vet and be perfectly fine gotta love him

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this goes with my previous voice claim post !

i forgot i had a different glisten voice claim months ago, and i remembered it after i made the other video. i like this one much more so i redid his 😓 oopsies

also my totally amazing, one of a kind editing skills are on full display here

also also the damn audio unsynced with the text on the screen after i exported it 😬

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tumblr keeps saying i have something in my asks inbox when i dont could just be a visual glitch idk but if u sent me something recently and i havent responded you might wanna resend it

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this took me entirely too long. an embarrassing amount of time even anyways here are my voice claims for some of the dw characters do people even watch these who knows

if i made a typo anywhere in this video i will spontaneously combust

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oh my goodness golly god ...wagy u wagyu he's real everyone scatter

Holy fuck this thing is huge

Sample arrived at my house today

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sleeping in the same bed as glisten is a terrible experience

even worse he swears up and down he doesn't move in his sleep

his bones are definitely aching

my inspiration...

my kitten named glisten. Who let him sleep like that

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the fucking devil reincarnate

my glisten fan design.

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i love this astro design i wanna eat it so i drew it

DESIGN BELONGS TO chesterfern

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House md fan wowowowow :D

YES!! IT'S SUCH A GOOD SHOW my favorite character is definitely wilson

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you should draw wagyu. i wonder who sent this one.

yeah i wonder One of the biggest mysteries of life... really, truly...

if you expected anything other than this then idk what to tell you.. ill pay for your therapy bills or something

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new toon!! she's cute i like her

also this too help there's too many

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NOO ITS OK LOL it happens!! you're all good 👍

I like to reread your angst posts about glisten. Do you have any more glisten angst brewing in that brain of yours? 👀

ask and u shall receive This is kinda long all i know how to do is yap

boom! go my attention grabber

anyways,

Since the Toons were created from the characters from the animated TV show, there are going to be some significant differences between the two. When something is recreated in the image of something already existing, it tends to stray from the initial idea. Creating new life and throwing it into a world that's nothing like what they know is cruel.

The Toons in the cartoon (the side characters specifically) were created/written as more simple, borderline one-dimensional characters. Characterized enough to make nice lessons for the children and to build the world surrounding the Main Characters. Just like many cartoons aimed towards children

The introduction cards are really all there is to their characters in the show. Nothing more, nothing less. Something the target demographic of young kids could understand.

a lot more below the cut !!!

In the animated show Glisten was a sometimes socially unaware egotist (and possible perfectionist, but nowhere to the extreme of the living Toon counterpart) who loves the spotlight! Sometimes acting as an "antagonist" on an episode by episode basis. Not in a villain way, but since his "ego brings up new issues", he was definitely in the wrong in multiple episodes. A teaching opportunity on how being proud can be a good thing, but if taken too far it could unintentionally hurt others. The end of an episode like this would consist of everyone making up, and relationships are stronger than they were before. Everything wrapped up perfectly because Glisten's love and loyalty to his friends is what matters most to him.

A living breathing "person" created to be like that isn't exactly plausible. Life doesn't work that way. It could mentally break anyone. For Glisten specifically (the real life Toon) his need to be perfect originally comes from a mix of his ego and the need of familiarity where everything works out how it's "supposed to".

He quickly learns in the real world that it doesn't work out perfectly at the end of the day. Arguments with friends don't simply resolve themselves just because he cares about them. Though, he can't properly process this fact since it's something he wasn't given the ability to do, and he was never taught to either.

Everything he was created to know fits into the real world like a puzzle piece with too many sides. So, he comes to the conclusion that if HE is perfect then everything will end perfectly. It's the only solution he can think of. It's all he has to hopefully feel a sense of "normality".

His once and only sometimes mildly irritating ego becomes a lot more noticeable for the other Toons. If he is more outwardly confident about how he's perfect, if he does everything he can to be perfect, if he makes sure to not mess up, then maybe everything will be alright just like in the cartoon.

His initially created, but genuine confidence is slowly but surely replaced by feigned confidence. He fully focuses on how he presents himself, often forgetting to care for his friends, and more importantly, himself. It causes more genuine issues which just causes him to push himself more.

This doesn't become a consistent problem until after the shutdown of Gardenview. Yes it was pretty hard for him during Gardenview's time open, but preforming for kids was easier than making sure both you and your loved ones don't die. Preforming was also something he quite enjoyed. It was a nice distraction from stuff, and he can't rely on it anymore. Everything is much more bleak, and anyone would give anything for the whole situation after the shutdown to resolve itself.

Just as Glisten was getting semi-used to (which was not at all) the system he set up for himself, it all fell apart right in front of him.

At this point he pretty much lost all sense of why he needed to be perfect in the first place. It's just expected of him, and day by day it just becomes more mentally and sometimes even physically taxing, i.e., him trying to perfect his teleportation trick. As his whole world shifts, this is all he really has left. Yeah he has his friends, but what are they if he isn't perfect. 🤷‍♂️

What was once a way to try and achieve the only thing that was known to him became an unhealthy obsession that takes a tole on him nearly every day. A consequence of creating life where it shouldn't be created.

Side** Not just Glisten, but several of the Toons definitely struggle with various disabilities (both mental and physical) due to the nature of what they are. I've seen a few people on twt talk about the physical disabilities some of the Toons have, and I think it's a very interesting discussion that not enough people really seem to get into.

And in general the thought that completely new life was created and was thought to be a good idea is as cool as it is, quite frankly, tragic.

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smaller stuff related to this

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Glisten was always jealous of his animated show self. Not like that version of him was real, but his emotions surrounding it were.

He would watch the episodes with himself in them a lot after Gardenview closed. They always ended happy. Why couldn't things in the Gardenview Center end happily? The Toons were created from the show. It feels unfair to Glisten that he can't have what he was created to be does. He watched the select few episodes several times. It gets to the point he's using some of the exact same mannerisms as his animated self when around others. His jealousy from years prior only shows itself more clearly in his mind now.

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Many of the Toons have similar feelings as Glisten about their animated counterparts. Though the difference is they talk about said feelings. Whether it be with other Toons or the Toon Handlers.

Glisten didn't do this. He created his own way of fixing things. Talking to someone never even crossed his mind initially. Now he can't simply talk to someone, even though he needs to. He'd never admit it. He's too far in his mentality of having to be perfect.

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Arther and Delilah weren't able to give the Toons all of their memories, only bits and pieces. So basically they made them watch the episodes and told them "those are your memories".

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Glisten was created as a woman when brining the Toons to life, despite him being a guy in the show. This was done as a way to not cause a stir of anger within the parents. He already wasn't the most popular between some of them. Having a living breathing version of that character didn't seem like the best idea.

When he was created there was some confusion between the fact that he was supposed to be a guy, but he wasn't. Needless to say he wasn't having any of it and the change didn't last.

It does cause him to struggle with his body image since he wasn't created physically as a male Toon. There's not a major gender difference between the Toons. Most wouldn't even say there IS a difference, but Glisten definitely found something to pick apart.

He doesn't tell any of the other Toons that he's technically trans. None of them know aside from Rodger. He found out because he tends to snoop through all the concealed records, and he found the report on it. Obviously Rodger doesn't tell any of the others, that would be horrible.

This would definitely fuel his jealousy for his animated counterpart. The fact he wasn't initially a woman in the show honestly pisses him off if he really thinks about it.

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unrelated silly (mostly) hcs

-In a timeline where Twisteds are recovered, Glisten would have trouble with his voice. It would constantly be more raspy and strained. It would probably go out completely at times if he talks too much. The constant crying and calling out definitely damaged his vocal cords.

-Glisten's favorite candy is the Almond Joy. He somehow always manages to get his hands on them. No one is sure how.

-Probably more of a canon thing based on his room, but Glisten has a major sweet tooth. He is constantly eating candy.

-He really loves cheeseburgers with mayo, egg, bacon, onions, and pickles. I will not elaborate.

-Glisten has a perfume that smells like the Perfect in Pink scent by Bath and Bodyworks. It's his favorite.

-He likes to draw occasionally. As shown on the signed photos of himself, he's actually pretty good.

-He keeps those signed photos on hand incase someone asks for one.

-He is about 2 years older than Rodger. He looks like he is the younger one, though.

-His teleportation trick causes him memory issues.

-Too much caffeine gives him heart palpitations (totally not projecting)

this is a lot oopsies also if something doesn't make sense sorry ive done written so much on my notes app it's overwhelming to look at LOL

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ooh no you didnt come off as rude dw!! i was just worried i worded something way off from what i was intending ive got the communication skills of a cave dweller 😔

I like to reread your angst posts about glisten. Do you have any more glisten angst brewing in that brain of yours? 👀

ask and u shall receive This is kinda long all i know how to do is yap

boom! go my attention grabber

anyways,

Since the Toons were created from the characters from the animated TV show, there are going to be some significant differences between the two. When something is recreated in the image of something already existing, it tends to stray from the initial idea. Creating new life and throwing it into a world that's nothing like what they know is cruel.

The Toons in the cartoon (the side characters specifically) were created/written as more simple, borderline one-dimensional characters. Characterized enough to make nice lessons for the children and to build the world surrounding the Main Characters. Just like many cartoons aimed towards children

The introduction cards are really all there is to their characters in the show. Nothing more, nothing less. Something the target demographic of young kids could understand.

a lot more below the cut !!!

In the animated show Glisten was a sometimes socially unaware egotist (and possible perfectionist, but nowhere to the extreme of the living Toon counterpart) who loves the spotlight! Sometimes acting as an "antagonist" on an episode by episode basis. Not in a villain way, but since his "ego brings up new issues", he was definitely in the wrong in multiple episodes. A teaching opportunity on how being proud can be a good thing, but if taken too far it could unintentionally hurt others. The end of an episode like this would consist of everyone making up, and relationships are stronger than they were before. Everything wrapped up perfectly because Glisten's love and loyalty to his friends is what matters most to him.

A living breathing "person" created to be like that isn't exactly plausible. Life doesn't work that way. It could mentally break anyone. For Glisten specifically (the real life Toon) his need to be perfect originally comes from a mix of his ego and the need of familiarity where everything works out how it's "supposed to".

He quickly learns in the real world that it doesn't work out perfectly at the end of the day. Arguments with friends don't simply resolve themselves just because he cares about them. Though, he can't properly process this fact since it's something he wasn't given the ability to do, and he was never taught to either.

Everything he was created to know fits into the real world like a puzzle piece with too many sides. So, he comes to the conclusion that if HE is perfect then everything will end perfectly. It's the only solution he can think of. It's all he has to hopefully feel a sense of "normality".

His once and only sometimes mildly irritating ego becomes a lot more noticeable for the other Toons. If he is more outwardly confident about how he's perfect, if he does everything he can to be perfect, if he makes sure to not mess up, then maybe everything will be alright just like in the cartoon.

His initially created, but genuine confidence is slowly but surely replaced by feigned confidence. He fully focuses on how he presents himself, often forgetting to care for his friends, and more importantly, himself. It causes more genuine issues which just causes him to push himself more.

This doesn't become a consistent problem until after the shutdown of Gardenview. Yes it was pretty hard for him during Gardenview's time open, but preforming for kids was easier than making sure both you and your loved ones don't die. Preforming was also something he quite enjoyed. It was a nice distraction from stuff, and he can't rely on it anymore. Everything is much more bleak, and anyone would give anything for the whole situation after the shutdown to resolve itself.

Just as Glisten was getting semi-used to (which was not at all) the system he set up for himself, it all fell apart right in front of him.

At this point he pretty much lost all sense of why he needed to be perfect in the first place. It's just expected of him, and day by day it just becomes more mentally and sometimes even physically taxing, i.e., him trying to perfect his teleportation trick. As his whole world shifts, this is all he really has left. Yeah he has his friends, but what are they if he isn't perfect. 🤷‍♂️

What was once a way to try and achieve the only thing that was known to him became an unhealthy obsession that takes a tole on him nearly every day. A consequence of creating life where it shouldn't be created.

Side** Not just Glisten, but several of the Toons definitely struggle with various disabilities (both mental and physical) due to the nature of what they are. I've seen a few people on twt talk about the physical disabilities some of the Toons have, and I think it's a very interesting discussion that not enough people really seem to get into.

And in general the thought that completely new life was created and was thought to be a good idea is as cool as it is, quite frankly, tragic.

_______

smaller stuff related to this

----

Glisten was always jealous of his animated show self. Not like that version of him was real, but his emotions surrounding it were.

He would watch the episodes with himself in them a lot after Gardenview closed. They always ended happy. Why couldn't things in the Gardenview Center end happily? The Toons were created from the show. It feels unfair to Glisten that he can't have what he was created to be does. He watched the select few episodes several times. It gets to the point he's using some of the exact same mannerisms as his animated self when around others. His jealousy from years prior only shows itself more clearly in his mind now.

----

Many of the Toons have similar feelings as Glisten about their animated counterparts. Though the difference is they talk about said feelings. Whether it be with other Toons or the Toon Handlers.

Glisten didn't do this. He created his own way of fixing things. Talking to someone never even crossed his mind initially. Now he can't simply talk to someone, even though he needs to. He'd never admit it. He's too far in his mentality of having to be perfect.

----

Arther and Delilah weren't able to give the Toons all of their memories, only bits and pieces. So basically they made them watch the episodes and told them "those are your memories".

----

Glisten was created as a woman when brining the Toons to life, despite him being a guy in the show. This was done as a way to not cause a stir of anger within the parents. He already wasn't the most popular between some of them. Having a living breathing version of that character didn't seem like the best idea.

When he was created there was some confusion between the fact that he was supposed to be a guy, but he wasn't. Needless to say he wasn't having any of it and the change didn't last.

It does cause him to struggle with his body image since he wasn't created physically as a male Toon. There's not a major gender difference between the Toons. Most wouldn't even say there IS a difference, but Glisten definitely found something to pick apart.

He doesn't tell any of the other Toons that he's technically trans. None of them know aside from Rodger. He found out because he tends to snoop through all the concealed records, and he found the report on it. Obviously Rodger doesn't tell any of the others, that would be horrible.

This would definitely fuel his jealousy for his animated counterpart. The fact he wasn't initially a woman in the show honestly pisses him off if he really thinks about it.

_______

unrelated silly (mostly) hcs

-In a timeline where Twisteds are recovered, Glisten would have trouble with his voice. It would constantly be more raspy and strained. It would probably go out completely at times if he talks too much. The constant crying and calling out definitely damaged his vocal cords.

-Glisten's favorite candy is the Almond Joy. He somehow always manages to get his hands on them. No one is sure how.

-Probably more of a canon thing based on his room, but Glisten has a major sweet tooth. He is constantly eating candy.

-He really loves cheeseburgers with mayo, egg, bacon, onions, and pickles. I will not elaborate.

-Glisten has a perfume that smells like the Perfect in Pink scent by Bath and Bodyworks. It's his favorite.

-He likes to draw occasionally. As shown on the signed photos of himself, he's actually pretty good.

-He keeps those signed photos on hand incase someone asks for one.

-He is about 2 years older than Rodger. He looks like he is the younger one, though.

-His teleportation trick causes him memory issues.

-Too much caffeine gives him heart palpitations (totally not projecting)

this is a lot oopsies also if something doesn't make sense sorry ive done written so much on my notes app it's overwhelming to look at LOL