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Hey I thought I would let you know that Gigi Murin sang Loathing from Wicked in her most recent unarchived karaoke stream!

Link: https://youtu.be/TDr3ZiocJzA?si=hQOSMkvoa9J1Nnus

Timestamp: 37:50

Still waiting on if Cecilia will sing the song or not in a future unarchived karaoke. Don’t think neither of the girls have seen the animatic either so it was a coincidence that Gigi decided to sing the song without knowing about the Autofister animatic.

Ooh, I wasn't expecting that! And yeah, if Cecilia sings the song too and someone better at audio editing than me stitches together a good cut of it, I'll do my best to get to work making a full version of that animatic!

I just hope that if/when it does, it's not too close to when I'm working on other large projects, haha. I have a LOT of stuff lined up for 2025.

EDIT: I just listened to the karaoke and oof, the usual karaoke thing of a few lines being missed happened. We'll see how things go!

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The final TF2 comic is out and I am losing it- go read it, it's SO good!!

Crazy how Flo's design was originally partly inspired by Scout's (The light red shirt, her 2013 gloves used to be fingerless like his arm wrappings, etc) and they just revealed that she and Miss Pauling have the same first name!

I feel like a major part of my teenage years just got closure after such a long time, and I'm thinking about maybe posting my thoughts on the whole story sometime, too!

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Creature Commandos Mid Season thoughts!

Last week's episode was the shortest but it felt like we got a lot out of it. This week's episode was the longest besides the finale, but honestly it just flew by given that we had the main plot, Weasel's backstory, and bringing Eric into the fold.

I liked the many, many cameos we got in the future vision and prison scenes, but honestly the thing that was most hyped in interviews, Weasel's backstory, felt a bit rushed to me. All the earlier flashbacks felt like bullet points that had to be sped through to get to the truly emotional final scene. I think the one thing that could have made the flashbacks even better is to show Weasel hanging out with the kids over the course of several weeks, rather than just a one-off meeting, to show him bonding more with them. This is one of those cases where I agree that this show needed either longer episodes or more episodes. I'm not even sure how the subplot with him and his attorney could get resolved on top of everything else.

I do want to talk about the things I did enjoy though! The whole plotline with Circe and Waller was really compelling and exciting, the animation was great as usual, it was fantastic to see Bride and Nina get closer, and despite how scummy he is, it was hilarious to see how socially maladjusted Eric is.

Especially with the surprise that next week's episode will cover Eric Frankenstein's backstory - honestly wasn't expecting one for him! That means Nina and Phosphorus' backstories will go all the way to the finale, which, I dunno, I would rather the finale be flashback-free once all the characters have had their individual episodes.

Also- I wanted to add that it seems like the fan theories about Ilana being Clayface were false, and that the Themiscyra professor lady might be the one who's secretly Clayface instead- probably planted by Circe to make her seem innocent.

Either way, I am pretty excited about the complication between Circe and the Princess, and which one, if not both, may be the evil one here! Personal theory- Ilana has scars in the future vision, which she’ll probably get later in the season to make the vision feel more possible.

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One of my favourite voice actresses has a new VTubing gig, so I wanted to try my hand at making an alternate version of her model that better fits her voice and theme!

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I needed closure after the latest episode

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I caved and made an AutoFister animatic

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What a premiere! The writing, animation, voice acting, all fantastic! The first project of the DCU, Creature Commandos, is now streaming on Max!

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Creature Commandos premieres tomorrow! I can't wait to see Weasel's story be nothing but wacky lighthearted hijinks- just like that raccoon from that one trilogy!

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2 More Days! With a 95% currently on Rotten Tomatoes, you really have no excuse not to check this series out! Unless you are, as G.I. Robot would say... NAZI SCUM?!

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3 More Days to Creature Commandos! Super-excited to see the Batman villain who's a glowing green skeleton (Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?)

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4 more days! Here's Nina Mazursky!

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I'm hosting my first ever competition for this channel in honor of my original animated short Wishful Thinking releasing next year!

Sharp-eyed viewers may have noticed this lamp pop up in many (but not all) of my Youtube videos. The first person who can tell me how many lamps there are in total (Lamps in the credits of videos count, but the lamp in the most recent teaser does not) will win an permanent shoutout and a drawing of your choice!

You can give your answer on this post, in my asks, on my insta, you can even email me! Answers that specify exactly where the lamps are will get priority over answers that are just a number.

Happy hunting!

EDIT: Congrats to SF UberMan for finding them all! Impressive considering how well some of them were hidden!!

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5 more days to the Creature Commandos premiere! Here's Eric Frankenstein!

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Super-excited for the start of the new DCU with Creature Commandos next week! Starting off our countdown, we have Frank Grillo's Rick Flag Sr! Can't wait to see him not just in this show, but also in Superman, Peacemaker S2, and beyond!

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What happens when you buy a completely inconspicuous lamp and nothing remarkable happens to you whatsoever...?

It's finally here! After years of work and film festival tours, my biggest animated short film ever, Wishful Thinking, is finally coming to YouTube!

Set your calendars for March 2025! If you've ever enjoyed the comics I've made here or the animations I've made for Youtube, I really think you'll like this!

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The Guardians take Quill to NYC.

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A little story about how I became me:

In the most supportive way I can say it, my thoughts on what people need to hear to become better, and why it's not always obvious.

Like pretty much everyone, I was a dumb teenager many years ago. I grew up in a very conservative environment, without many chances to really hang out with people who weren't also teenage guys either. I was surrounded by a lot of homophobia, sexism, and a lot of people telling jokes that weren't just horribly offensive, but even worse- they were honestly really generic and unfunny. And that's a small part of why I'm here to talk about.

For anyone who followed my blog in its earliest years, you might know I was a huge fan of the Yogscast YouTube group as a teenager. I loved Simon, and Lewis, and Duncan, and Kim, and so many of its members. But there was one member who was quite different from the others- a woman named Zoey.

Zoey Proasheck was one of the first big openly gay YouTubers I think ever. But what made me gravitate to her so much was that while she never downplayed that part of her identity, she promoted the positive stereotype-breaking parts of her personality even more. She's honestly not just one of the nicest content creators I've ever seen, but maybe even the nicest person I've ever seen. (And I know she doesn't like being put on a pedastal because celebrity worship is bad and all people have flaws, but I think her positive actions and impacts should at least speak for themselves) As a dumb teenage guy who at the time had never even met an LGBT person, it was eye-opening experience watching Zoey RP as characters who liked guys, and play kiddie games like Scribblenauts, Pokémon, and Puyo Puyo.

Dumb teenage me would have been under the impression that lesbian YouTubers would only promote queer content. Disclaimer that I'm not promoting the "model minority" argument, minorities are not obligated to act a certain way in order to earn respect or not be bullied. This is just a story about what it took to change me as an individual in a way that may not apply to everyone.

But yeah, just as her straight coworkers played games and expressed their interests that didn't telegraph their sexuality, most of Zoey's content wasn't either. It was nice seeing such an eternally kind, funny, and creative person just enjoy sharing her happiness and creativity with others, and her liking girls was just an added detail. Some highlights include her just joking about wanting to meet pretty girls in Scribblenauts, expressing her love of rainbows, and just saying 'boobs' because it's a funny-sounding word. And those bits while funny, were only a fraction of the overall funny and creative content she made that was for all audiences! Zoey was never a person who was there to lecture others on her identity, or to create content only for people like her. Just because she was queer, it didn't mean she marketed her content only or even mainly for queers- she made it for everyone- I'm happy so many LGBT youth found solace with her, too. But if she did try and make content solely or mainly for queer audiences, myself and others like me would probably have been dissuaded from watching her channel and having our worldview expanded.

But yeah, after watching Zoey for so long, slightly-jerky teenage me had a small space in his heart open up for accepting queer people. Because no matter what harmful stereotypes I saw on TV, no matter how many actual people fit those stereotypes in online spaces or irl, I would always know that if a real queer person as eternally kind and funny as Zoey could exist, being LGBT couldn't possibly be the factor that makes people "bad" as all the fearmongers say.

This next part will probably be tough to hear for a lot of people, but I don't think representation in media matters the way many people think it does- at least, not in the realm of animation and acting.

What I mean by that is, I was raised on well-written and amazing female protagonists as a kid- Kim Possible, Lilo and Stitch, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The Proud Family, Totally Spies, ATLA, and especially the girls of the Teen Titans. But because I was raised in an environment that was very oppressive towards girls and one that deliberately isolated guys from them, I had no good female presences in my day-to-day life. No amount of strong female characters in media could change the fact that my irl view of girls was shaped by the very conservative and honestly disappointing ideals of the girls around me. It took moving to a vastly different environment where I could interact with less conservative girls for me to start unlearning the misogyny instilled in me during my early teens.

And in the same vein, no amount of fictional LGBT characters would have undone any homophobic beliefs I used to have back then. Because I know such characters aren't real and don't reflect the values of real people around me. What actually contributed a lot to me becoming less homophobic was Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother. If I only grew up on gay actors being allowed to play gay characters, my mind would never have been allowed to separate them from the shallow stereotypes I was taught as a teen. Neil Patrick doing such a great job of playing a caricature of a hilariously cartoonish straight guy allowed me to see that gay people aren't bound to always acting "gay". Their sexuality doesn't control their day-to-day behaviour. While such things are obviously clear to people who are also LGBT, I think we easily forget how straight people with literally zero experience talking to LGBT folks don't know these things by heart. Barney Stinson being straight was better LGBT representation to me than all other queer characters thanks to Neil Patrick Harris.

I think a lot of today's dumb teenagers are immediately put off listening to minority voices because they oftentimes come across as a "lecturer" or an "enemy". Someone who isn't necessarily evil, but still a person who views them as a "thing to change" or "person to yell at". And it's hard to give a mean person yelling at you the satisfaction of being right, even if they are right. If someone came up to teen me and started exasperatedly telling me how being homophobic made me a bad person (even though that's obviously true), not even yelling at me, teen me would have been off-put by being antagonised and would probably not listen to them. Heck, teen me may have even become more homophobic since this hypothetical irl LGBT supporter was so antagonistic to me, and the idea of being like them would seem off-putting.

EDIT: And I know certain celebrities have recently come under fire for not openly stating their political leanings. And sure, it's probably because they don't wanna get cancelled, or because they have the privilege to be impartial in situations that impact a lot of innocent people, but there's another detail I want to note. At this stage in the game, I wonder if a celebrity coming out as liberal would instantly turn their entire conservative fanbase against them before listening to what they had to say. Sure, it's probably just the celeb covering their ass, but I can't help but think about the silver lining of a conservative viewer hearing their favourite celebrity saying "hey, most people on the other side are chill to talk to, don't be mean to them even if you think they're really annoying" maybe being more impactful if the celeb claimed to be apolitical rather than openly liberal. You can absolutely chew me out for being wrong on this one if you think I am, I'm just speculating.

I don't at all mean to victim-blame anyone here for not being nice enough to bigoted people. Sometimes people are so hateful that no amount of kindness can change them, and you are well within your right to distance yourself from them or fact check them when they spread hate. What I am saying is that nobody likes being lectured. Not on big things like human rights, not on medium things like airplane safety instructions, not even on small things like promotional giveaways sometimes. I think a majority of people who don't support minorities aren't hateful bigots who constantly rant and rave about getting rid of other people. Maybe 10% of them are like that. But the rest of them are just poor isolated folks like teen me was, who just need that one cool person to show, not tell them that kinds of people they've never met can be cool too.

So what does that mean for me? Well, despite the massive amount of rambling I just went on here, I also don't want to be a "lecturer" in the content I make and how I conduct myself in daily life. I know it's difficult, and I've faltered before, and maybe will in the future. But if by some miracle you're a person who dislikes "wokeness" or "things being shoehorned into media" and you've read this far, thanks! I'm not here to tell you you're a bad person, I'm not here to tell you to change, and I'm not going to say any of my content is "not for you". I'm here to make art and comics and animation for everyone to enjoy. If you're feeling down or even just bored, I hope the things I make can make your day even a little better. I'm not a lecturer, and I hope I'm not an enemy - I'm just here to be a friend. I also have some of my biggest animation and comic projects EVER coming soon, and I really hope you like them!

And to people of all demographics, I want to add that if someone ever makes an offensive joke, there's no point yelling at them that it's "offensive" or "bigoted" or "whatever-ist". What's more important is letting that person know that, honestly? That joke ain't it, chief. It's worse than being offensive- it's honestly kind of boring and predictable, dude. Teenage me probably made that joke 10 times over a decade ago, and my classmates probably made that same joke 1000 times. Don't worry though - I've told lame jokes before too, but thankfully I took the L and my jokes now are honestly getting way better!

Stay safe out there, okay? I hope your tomorrow is happier than your today!