#College adventures

[rosabie]

ִ📚 ֹ ָ֢ Brillant avenir 🗝️ ⊹ ♡ ☕ 🌱 ⌇

[casualfruit]

“Wtf is bro yapping about” I say as I reread my own essay that I’m turning in for a huge chunk of my grade

[basil-doing-things]

i love college i have access to jstor

[buuuuggggggggggg]

Living in a dorm but going back every weekend rlly reminds me of the Divorce Childhood before i went to live w my mom because well, travelling between homes w a bigass suitcase will do that to you

Except that now instead of going from one parent to another im going from one parent to By Myself and honestly?

Much better situation than last time.

Instead of Divorced Dad meals its College Kid meals nd instead of Bad Parenting its Having Compassion For Myself.

This is great, merry divorced parents to all who celebrate

[nerdmutant]

my professor just referred to himself as an 'alpha male' seconds before complaining about people leaving his class early because 'that's rude'

someone please murder me right now, i can't take it anymore

[finalproblem-mlm]

reading syllabi and rereading degree requirements rapidly switching between "im so excited for the upcoming semester now that i know what to expect and i know what aspects of my lifestyle are making me unhappy :)" and "Holy Mother Of Fuck I'm So Dead"

[emveelunae]

19|8|2024 • its officially capstone season so Im using this blog to document it! • man I really miss posting here • I started this blog as a freshman and now Im making my capstone project ;-; • my furniture is about to start floating with all the nonsense I keep making up XD

🎧 Hartebeest - Yaelokre 🎧

[kitkat-pattywhack]

Firelit femme 🥰

inspo: @hornyhappyandstone 🐯💖

[smorp-a-dorp]

Me trying to write an email to a professor: Hi—

Gmail autocomplete: FIRST NAME??? FIRST NAME??? YOU WANT TO CALL THEM BY THEIR FIRST NAME??? YOU WANT TO GET CRUCIFIED BY THIS PERSON YOU RESPECT AFTER CALLING THEM BY THEIR FIRST NAME???

[casualfruit]

Nooooo the super emotionally fragile girl is trying to be my friend

[basil-doing-things]

need my professor to explain why that recital was 3 and a half hours long.

[quartings]

College Adventures Special Episode VIII: Interview with Lauren Faust!

I promised I'd get to meet a big name in animation, and here she is! This semester I managed to get into a class taught by THE Lauren Faust, creator of MLP: FiM and DC Superhero Girls!

Sadly, I'm not a die-hard fan of any of her series, but I tried my best to get and compile information that fans would be interested in!

Back when she was working on MLP, Lauren was grateful that her fellow TV coworkers gave her freedom to tell the story she wanted to tell instead of letting to toy marketers bully her. (According to my friend, the show sold out a lot more once Lauren left, though)

A change from executives she wound up listening to: Originally Pinkie was a pegasus and Rainbowdash wan't, because Lauren thought wings would make Pinkie's hyperactivity stand out even more. Their species eventually got swapped in the final cut of course.

Lauren really wanted DC Superhero Girls and Wander over Yonder to be 22min shows, but executives forced her to make them 11min. Shame, because I do think being 22min would have been better for both.

A big reason of why Lauren always wants to make "Girl shows starring girl characters made by girl staff" is because executives often tell her that animation is for boys only and to make her shows more "boy-oriented" (Seriously, with people still like that in this day and age, it's really a lose-lose scenario)

I also got to see the pilot animatic for her rejected Netflix series Toil and Trouble! I don't think I'm allowed to say too much about it, so I'll provide a non-spoiler review!

The pilot was really fun and the animation+writing much more mature than Lauren's previous shows. It did a good job at making the characters really likeable, too! Toil is a great protag and her voice actress did an amazing job! My only issues are- the first 5 minutes are VERY exposition-heavy about the rules of magic, ghosts, and familiars. The third act goes by a bit too fast, too- Toil literally says the moral of the story in way too much detail, then solves the problem pretty easily soon after. I wish the pilot was split into two episodes, so both these issues could be automatically solved- it would also give the show's many side characters room to breathe, too!

Despite Toil and Trouble being cancelled, Lauren is pushing on ahead and continuing to work on more unannounced projects!

Her favorite series that she's worked on is Foster's Home, because she feels that she and her husband Craig both contributed equally to it! She also really liked the relative freedom she had in directing action on DC Superhero Girls.

I was surprised to hear she didn't have that great a time working on MLP because of the creative restrictions from higher-ups. But she's still really happy and grateful the show got such a dedicated fanbase!

While she's fine with fandoms, she dislikes the idea of pandering to them with fanservice or validating headcanons. She said if there was any of that in her shows, someone else on the creative team did it, not her.

Her storyboarders on MLP originally didn't take their job seriously because they were making a "little kids show", so Lauren had to whip them into shape and make them try harder.

Re. Foster's Home: The "Frankie is an imaginary friend" theory is false. None of that was ever the intention from the writers.

For DC Hero Girls: Originally, Cheetah's dad was supposed to have hunting trophies in his room. But because British censorship laws mean you can't show trophy hunting in cartoons (even as a bad thing the bad guys do), they had to negotiate it down to make sure none of the trophies were of endangered animals in the final product.

But yeah, those are the highlights from my time with Lauren Faust! Hope you all liked it- and if you do want to hear more about Toil and Trouble, let me know! I'll see what I can do! But that's not all- I've actually been scheduled to meet up with another very famous animation showrunner in the coming weeks, so expect another big interview post very soon!

[giyuulatte]

suitemate and i started watching fruits basket together and it was a wonderful decision!!

she’s seen it 3 times already and this is my first😭

[strawberry-jackalope]

do i have any mutuals or followers who have done the grad school thing and can offer advice for my application

[lycanthroid]

im gonna be fursuiting this weekend and im soooo excited its gonna be so fun. but also i will literally be on my school's campus. cause there's a convention here.