#Nicktoon Confession

[tomfowlery]

when your so-called personal tormentor corners you and you have a single braincell

[whisperintomyheart]

JimmyTimmy Fic Ideas/WIPS

only have a moment before it’s all over (a burning desire that cries again): JimmyTimmy teen pregnancy au where Jimmy and Timmy's daughter tracks Timmy down ten years after his memory of his fairies and Jimmy are wiped.

change has come, it's at the door (everything that was true isn't true anymore): Nicktoons Unite & Once Upon a Time fusion fic.

Untitled JimmyTimmy memory loss fic: Timmy confesses his feelings for Jimmy and is shot down. Later on a mission Jimmy suffers a head injury and loses his memory. He latches onto Timmy and starts showing romantic interest in him. Cue Timmy freaking out because he isn't sure whether he should return Jimmy's affection or if doing so is taking advantage due to Jimmy's earlier rejection of him.

JimmyTimmy Your Name AU fic: Canon AU where the Power Hour specials never happened. Now in their teens, Jimmy and Timmy start switching bodies and fall in love along the way.

[shippingmyworld]

because im crazy and have to know the chronological order of everything what is your headcanon of how the shows and games and your tigerghost fics all fit together

Okay, time for me to confess. I have only played the OG Unite game once like 15 years ago and like half of Battle for Volcano Island 😅. I've seen playthroughs of Attack of the Toybots, but that's it (I've also slowly started watching that 7 hour lore video but I'm only an hour in).

But this is how I personally headcanon the timelines matching up:

1. The four OG boys (Jimmy, Timmy, Danny, and SpongeBob) go through the first 2-3 seasons of their shows.

2. The events of the first Nicktoons Unite game happen. The boys stay in contact but wrap up the canon events of their shows before anything major happens (Seasons 8+ of FOP dont exist). Manny and Jenny have also completed the canon events of their shows at this point but have not been in contact with the four Unite boys yet.

3. The events of the other Nicktoons games start to take place over the span of 10ish years. After hoping into a few other Nicktoon Universes and helping out the local heros (think Kingdom Hearts), the four boys decide to form an unofficial Superhero HQ in Jimmy's Lab to help each other out since it's becoming difficult for each of them to balance their personal lives and superhero duties on their own.

4. Jimmy has unofficially taken on the role of leader (no one really objects to it) and starts putting out feelers to see if anyone they've helped in the past would be open to officially joining the crew. Manny and Jenny are the only two that say they want to join (Jenny doesn't really have much else to do once her show is done and Manny says there are plenty of other heroes in Miracle City so he doesn't have to be around full time).

5. Desde el Principio (and my other fics lol)

[danny-rachevaski]

night sketch: nicktoons nostalgia yep, I don't really know why I want to draw them, but here they are, I just...want to. Ngl, this is part of my childhood :> Danny Phantom is just *chefs kiss* a masterpiece, maybe under ATLA but still, it's a shame really that it ended and hasn't rebooted ever since. Still, I see that the community itself rebooted them so, nice. And yeah, one confession. Before I even found anime, XJ9 from My Life s A Teenage Robot is my dear waifu. Hey, she's a cool, nice and badass robot you know :> Maybe I'll redraw them properly tomorrow, maybe drawing more on them, idk. Just want to play with tumblr rn after what happened with twitter. Anyways, good night :>

[builtintripping]

huehuehue time to ask EVEN MORE QUESTIONS because im crying rn. cant they just make a folder (in a pc) with like timmys memories (well atleast most or some) or will fairy magic wont let that? about the video games (nicktoons unite, breakin da rules, shadow showdown, etc.) did they happen in the past or didnt? (well i mean nu probably does but what about the fop games?) do they do crimes or are they just silly goobers? if timothy meets jimbo nutronio again would he like him or not interestted? (follow up to the cindy thing) idk if ive asked this before but does timmy like trixie after the memory wipe? would crocker remember timmy with fairies? what does timbo think of thy gurl tootie? would he remember THE SONGS!? (like icky vicky, my shiny teeth and me, etc.) how much coffee does each member take? was the last question unexpected? sorry theres way more asks than what i entended to ask about. i got carried away 🥲

Memory backup? They already tried doing that, but an error message would always show up during the process. Timmy theorizes that fairy magic is interfering, but Jimmy's having none of that, insisted there's another way around, and proceeded to wrack his brain for more possible solutions. Timmy, already resolved to follow through to his fate anyway, had to force Jimmy to stop who was spiralling down to madness for every second that passes as he repeat his fruitless attempts.

Did the FOP Games happen before memory wipe? I'm gonna confess: idk jackshit about them. 😅 But do they actually determine Timmy's future though? Let's assume for now that any games released before Poof's era (when the series's quality declined) happend. 👌

Are the blorbos criminals or goobers? They do crimes in the eyes of the Syndicate, but otherwise they're just silly goobers. :)

Will Timmy like Jimmy again? Honey I'm a sucker for characters who lost memory of one another yet learned to love each other again the same way they used to, of course JimmyTimmy's real 😤

Does Timmy still like Trixie? I'm pretty sure he would still admire her whether CosWan's around or not, so yeah he does :,D

Does Crocker remember Timmy's fairies? GOOD QUESTION!! Crocker would still theorize that Timmy had Fairy Godparents, but he isn't as passionate about it as he used to since his memories of the fairies in particular had gotten fuzzier after the memory wipe. Though he still hates him for it 😅

What does Timmy think of Tootie? Let's assume Tootie matured by then and doesn't chase Timmy as much as she used to, giving him more space to see her in a new light, that she's more than just "a girl with cooties" and an actual person who has other interests, hobbies, and friends. Despite this, he still can't help but feel iffy around her and try to avoid any interaction as much as he can.

Does Timmy remember the songs? HMMMM let's say he remembers singing them, but he doesn't remember the lines that CosWan would sing their hearts out. Hence he doesn't memorize the whole music. 🥲

How much coffee do the blorbos take? Do not get me started on Danny. Jimmy's main caffeine intake is Purple Flurp, but would ocassionally drink coffee if he needed less of a boost. Timmy refuses to drink coffee with no sweetness in it, it always has to be latte or he'll spit his drink out. If you don't want him to set something on fire, do not let SpongeBob go near the coffee machine.

Was the last question a surprise? Yes it is, thank you for asking! :)

[er1c-c4rtman]

OK SO I RATED EVERY (maybe) SHIP I USED TO SHIP

disclaimer I don't ship all of these (apart from patbob) anymore so IVE CHANGED and I shipped these when I was a dumb young kid

Allow me to explain my placements starting from the top to the bottom:

Patbob:

I find this ship to be cute plus I like the whole friends to lovers trope thing.

Chica x Foxy and Foxy x mangel:

These were very popular ship in the fnaf community back in 2016 or something. Plus, I share many old memories with these ships.

Also, I used to watch those amvs

Unifrown:

Back when I loved Unikitty, I decided to search up fanart of Unikitty on my computer and I also used to watch animation memes based around Unikitty. Soooo one day I stumbled upon this ship and I liked it.

Plankbob:

On my first days or months of this site, I searched up SpongeBob to see what's in the tags. I saw some good fanart n' some ships. But when I saw some Spongebob fancomic called "When fools Rush in" I just liked the ship and yeah that is my reason basically.

Foxidile:

It was a cannon ship and I was rooting for Hawkodile to confess to Dr Fox

Serena x Ash and Misty x Ash:

Grouping these together for the same reason, they were both females with a male protagonist

Spandy:

Same reason as the last one (female x male protag.)

Sylveon x Umbreon:

Back when I was obsessed with pokemon, I used to watch those flipaclip story videos with the same plot and same ending

Plot if the Umbreon x Sylveon story:

-Sylveon has a crush on Umbreon

-Umbreon doesn't know that

-Eyspeon also has a crush on Umbron

-The physic variant proceeds to gaslight Umbreon into hating Sylveon

-Sylveon is now sad

-She proceeds to fight Eyspeon nearby a river

-The Sylveon wins (of course)

-Eyspeon gets knocked into the water and possibly dies

-Sylveon and Umbreon fall in love and live a happily ever after

Zimbob:

Wandering around on an account that was Nicktoons Unite centric then just found a compilation of SpongeBob and Zim acting like or being a couple

Adoramao:

Do I need to explain what's wrong with this??? I WAS SHIPPING A MINOR WITH AN ADULT and the reason is the same as spandy (female x male protag.)

Also, back when Sony sketch (rip that app it held so much memories) was a thing I used these shipping bases since it was fun for me. I used adorabat and Mao mao to fill them in; over time I developed a love for that ship.

Danbob:

I HATE THIS SHIP WITH A BURNING PASSION but the thing is...

I used to ship this and it was because I was new to the NU fandom and was looking on an account that has Nicktoons Unite art on it. I thought the ship was cute till I came to my senses and stopped Shipping it.

Again, I watched AMVs

Mikey x Raph (2012)

I was pretty young and had no idea what incest was. I was sitting on my Granny's IPad and watching those amvs. I bet she was wondering why her algorithm was full of Mikey making out with Raph (lol) but I'm gonna assume I liked the tough guy x chill guy (I used to like turtle yaoi lmfao XD)

HOLY CRAP, THATS A LOT OF WRITING-

[kristencsummerlin]

if ur still doing the ask prompt thing 👁👁,,,, nicktoons unite + relationship chart. like one of those rhat show each dudes profile and their relation to everyone else in the group

Of course my Anonymous Sugar-Bee I'm still doing those prompt things. And this sounds perfect to do. Now I am going off my versions of the characters. Each I haven't talked enough about or done anything with.

I also like to include XJ-9 as the fifth member because I adore her. And I'm not a huge fan of Tak.

Alias: Danny Phantom, Ghost Boy, Invisi-Bill

Real Name: Danny Fenton

Age: 16 years old

Gender: Cis Male He/Him

Sexuality: Heterosexual? (he prefers the opposite sex though he's willing to date other genders if he loved the person enough.)

Occupation: B Average Student, Science Major at Nickolas High School, Junior Astronaut

The Leader of the group known as Nickolas City's Unite or UN as people call it. He's been working as a superhero for two years. Though he mostly handled ghosts and other supernatural beings before forming a hero team with the other members. He was dubbed the leader for reasons even he's confused about. But has been doing the job well enough. He's like a big brother figure for a lot of the members. Often stepping into their affairs trying to help and or fix situations that might have nothing to do with them.

Timmy Turner: Danny sees Timmy like a little brother at times. He goes out of his way to help Timmy with his emotions and even with homework. He even tried to convince Timmy to live with him once he learned about his living situation. (Aka a street kid) They play video games, read comic books, and eat junk food until their hearts give off.

Jimmy Neutron: Funny enough despite seeing Timmy like family. Jimmy is his actual younger cousin. (Judy, Maddie, and Alicia were separated for years.) Danny sees Jimmy as some of the smartest on the planet. They often talk about theories and space travel. Jimmy's been to other planets, so Danny likes to listen in on the juicy details about space. I guess his only problem is Jimmy's lack of communication. They've argued because Jimmy refused to talk about the issue, ask for help, or apologize ever.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Bob and Danny can hang out for hours. Something about that mermaid like boy that makes Danny giggle. But he also repeats Bob for being able to balance, work, school, hero work, and everyday live without a complaint. Makes Danny think he's more capable seeing someone else manage. If anyone is able to keep Danny sane it's the Sponge-kin.

Jenny Wakeman: Jenny was the first hero Danny was able to work missions with. She figured out his secret identity on accident. So Danny confessed. Which worked perfectly as Jenny isn't that versed on the paranormal and Danny never fought an alien. So they were able to work together happily. They tell dad jokes together. Tuck and Dani are besties. He's only problem is he knows she has a crush on him. He figured it out early on. He was flattered at first but he doesn't want to upset her.

Alias: N/A

Real Name: Jimmy Neutron

Age: 15 years old.

Gender: Cis Male He/Him and or They/Them (easier for non-human species)

Sexuality: Pansexual (He's open to everything. Doesn't have to be human either.)

Occupation: A+ Student, Science Major at Nickolas High School, Minor Galactic Criminal

The Brains of the team. He personally wanted to be the leader but thing didn't go as planned. Still Jimmy is willing to do his part no matter what it might be. Provide a secret base, equipment, be the teams medic (even for the robot), he even bribed Timmy by doing his homework for an entire semester. He's annoyed but does it because someone has to do it. That and he doesn't like admitting it but he likes them.

Timmy Turner: Out of everyone in the group. Timmy is his bestfriend. Which is way they fight so much. Who else call you a punk ass bitch with full confidence more than your best friends. That and Timmy is stubborn. While Timmy is his bestie that will destroy shit with. Timmy is also the second person he's argued with throughout his life. It doesn't help that Timmy is magical which annoys Jimmy. He thinks magic's too easy and unproducible. You can hurt thousand without trying. At least with Science it's slow.

Danny Phantom: Jimmy's cousin and one of the only people 16 years old he repeats. Danny takes everything into note which makes Jimmy feel like he's appreciated. Though it annoys him that Danny has never tried to explore and experiment anything in the Ghost Zone. He has the golden opportunity. He also doesn't understand why Danny wants to keep his identity a secret. He's parents would try to kill him less, school would be more easy on him like it is with Jenny.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Bob remains Jimmy of Carl at times. Except Bob has to sleep in water. That sponge has tried to steal his devises to play around with. Has accidently lost his invisible hamster. And keeps rearranging his lab around despite Jimmy telling him not to every single time. But Jimmy does enjoy the humanoid sea creature.

Jenny Wakeman: Jenny is a saving grace. Jimmy panics without some type of technology on hand. Lucky for him Jenny is there whenever he calls. Though he doesn't like being babied by her. Nor treated like her "little" brother when she's technically 6 years old. Though as much as he hates to admit it. He enjoys having her there from time to time. He's gone out of his way so she can have citizenship and fix her sisters up so they can live her her full time.

Alias: Abra-Catastrophe, Former Clift The Boy Chin Wonder

Real Name: Timmy Turner (He prefers Timmy Cosma but legally he has to go by Turner)

Age: 14 years old

Gender: Cis Male He/Him (Though he personally doesn't care what you call him)

Sexuality: Pansexual (He loved Trixie as both a girl and a boy.)

Occupation: Thanks to Jimmy he's currently a B student, D average Student otherwise, Art Major at Nickolas High School

The Lancer of the team and the only magic user. As Danny's more science when it comes to the supernatural. Timmy often relies on magic to help him which causes more problems being he's still learning how to use it. She's kind of the punk kid doing things for shits and giggles until something serious comes along. Then you get you to see his real self.

Danny Phantom: Timmy is a superhero fanboy through and through. Even if that famous hero is only two years older than him. That and Timmy is use to magical beings more than regular humans. But Danny's even cooler being he's a unique type of magical being. They act like brothers for most of the time. Though Timmy hates it when Danny tries to intervene with his life. Especially his home life. It causes the two to argue for days. Timmy prefers to fix his problems on his own.

Jimmy Neutron: It takes a lot to become one of Timmy's part of his inner friend circle. It took three city-almost-in-ruin events. But now they're besties. Timmy thinks Jimmy's inventions are awesome and loves to test them out with Bob. Jimmy can't say the same for Timmy's magic. But hey it is what it is. Though Jimmy is rather bossy and arrogant at times. Which causes Timmy to argue with him in the hopes it would cause he's ego to deflate. It doesn't but hey, it is what it is.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Timmy is willing to stab others for Bob. That's his buddy. Bob seems like an innocent guy wanting to help for the greater good. Timmy respects that because that generosity is hard to find. Though he thinks Bob is a doormat. He's often tried to get him to toughen up. Teach him how to flip people off. Bob knows full and well how, but doesn't see the point in it. So Timmy flips people off for him.

Jenny Wakeman: Again fanboys. Though unlike Danny he's not comfortable with opening up to her. I lot about his past and the many small crimes he's committed has caused him to fear when she'll rat him out. Otherwise he treats her like a sister, as she insists to be looked at as one.

Alias: Sponge-Boy

Real Name: SpongeBob SquarePants

Age: 17 years old

Gender: Cis Male He/Him

Sexuality: Asexual

Occupation: Manager of on land Krusty Krab, C average student, Business Major at Nickolas Nigh School.

Bob is the heart due to his comedic responses and heartwarming demeanor. He sees the good in everyone and believes in giving one hundred chances. Sadly this sort of view is what gets him in trouble like all the time. He does his best to impress others and has quickly jumped to outlandish assumptions. But he's proven important to the team time and time again. Bob has admitted though "he feels like a fish out of water" when it comes to the hero life.

Timmy Turner: They get along beyond well. Bob has no idea what a fairy is but thinks they're really pretty. They hang out almost all the time. Bob also has tried to follow Timmy advise. The word is try being the thought of losing his job hurts more than death. So he's kept his words and fingers to himself.

Jimmy Neutron: Jimmy like Sandy is the smartest person ever. He allows knows how to have fun. Even though Jimmy doesn't want Bob is mess with any of his things. Or the fact that Jimmy hates Patrick more than vampires hate the sun. Which breaks Bob's spirit a small bit but it is what it is.

Danny Phantom: Danny's great. He believes in Bob. Includes him in everything important. Which makes Bob feel like an actual member to the team. As if he's slowly becoming like his favorite superhero. That and ghosts scare him so Danny helps.

Jenny Wakeman: His past experience with robots didn't go well but he likes Jenny anyway. Even though Jenny can't visit his house or stand too close to him due to her being weak to water. But you can be friends with someone from across the room.

Alias: XJ-9

Real Name: XJ-9 (she prefers Jenny Wakeman.

Age: Mentally and Physically 16. Otherwise she's 6.

Gender: Trans Female She/Her (she was made genderless)

Sexuality: Asexual (willing to date. but no sex.)

The Bronze of the team. Often going in to fight the villain without thinking on how to do so. She's also quick tempered. Though she's still sweet in her own way. Created to the be a superhero and longing for a regular teenage life. In an consent battle with her programming, her mother, and her own wants.

Timmy Turner: She sees Timmy as a pain. She wants to be besties with him like she is with Jimmy but he's distant with her. Though they seem to get along well enough. Jenny has saved Timmy and Danny from bullies so often that people stopped bullying him for a long time. To return the favor though she never asked. Timmy poured red dye on Brit and Tiffs white clothes.

Jimmy Neutron: Her soul brother. Jenny's use to geniuses. Which causes her to know how to talk to them. She watches documentaries with him and joins Jimmy on shit talking the video if it's insanely inaccurate. Though she's not letting his treatment towards Boibot go. Jimmy built him and threw him away. She doesn't care if he built him his own parents. He threw the boy away. She's gone out of her way to force the two to bond.

Danny Phantom: Danny isn't the first teen hero she's met though he's her favorite. She developed a crush on him fast. She tries to ignore her feelings because friendship is more important. But he has Icy blue eyes. Those are her favorite eye color on a guy! Besides that they work well together. She often punishes the boys when they're fighting while Danny comforts them. As if he's the mom and she's the dad.

SpongeBob SquarePants: He's sweet but he seems scared of her. Plus she can't really touch him without having to get repaired by her mom. Though Bob and Danny are pretty much immortal so if she has too she'll train with Bob.

(Hope this is what you were hoping for.)

[jellybeanium124]

#txt#calico jack#divorce au#pnf#LOVE that the ex. of the very common “meaningful confession that's erased the characters' memory" trope u came up w#is phineas and ferb. i mean ur entirely correct but it’s still very funny to me

@ourflagmeansgayrights I was born in that awkward space of time where I was too young for nicktoons but predated the 2010s cartoon revival and the only good cartoon on the kid's networks was phineas and ferb so it has a special place in my heart forever 💖

I've decided to put Jack through purgatory because I think it's funny.

[bubblesbenson]

Embarrassing confession:

I didn’t really grow up with Nickelodeon all because of the SpongeBob episode “Wormy”. I watched the episode in DAYCARE, so that’s why I was pretty much scarred as a kid.

It’s not like Cartoon Network didn’t have disturbing imagery back in the day. Looking at you, Him from The Powerpuff Girls, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (sometimes), and especially you, Courage the Cowardly Dog.

[littletroubledgrrrl]

In honor of the upcoming “Hey Arnold”, “Rocko’s Modern Life” and “Invader ZIM” made-for-TV movies, I want to share a confession...

I love Disney Tsum Tsums (look them up if you haven’t heard of them!), and last year, I drew a picture of various characters from Nicktoons from the past and present as Tsum Tsums; and some of the Nicktoon characters on that picture were Rocko, Arnold, Zim and Gir.

My father works at a middle school and one of the women who works there has these twins who love Disney Tsum Tsums.

I’ve always wanted to show them my Tsum Tsum drawings (that Nicktoons pic included) and tell them about these characters in my pictures, but never got the chance to.

However, they are making made for TV movies of “Rocko’s Modern Life”, “Hey Arnold” and “Invader ZIM”.

And I drew these 3 pictures of characters from “Hey Arnold!”, “Rocko’s Modern Life�� and “Invader ZIM” as Tsum Tsums and I drew those pictures for those twins, and my father gave them to the mother of the twins and she gave them to her twins.

I drew those pictures for them so when they watch those made for TV movies on Nick, they can recognize the characters in my drawings I made for them. 

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

Who's Luke? Also, since when does one of the Westons have powers? What are them? Lol i feel out of the loop but i know how fast this phandom can move XD

okay so yeah this all kicked off literally yesterday and has just gone kinda haywire since then so if you missed anything within the last like, 24 hours or so you'll be super out of the loop

I made this post as well as others (all tagged as 'Nicktoons Freeze Frame Frenzy') about character sprites from a gba game, which people also jumped on and ran with because it had Kyle looking like he was confessing to another boy

the name Cody Collins was suggested by @bigjbonk, but apparently over on the dp discord people started calling him Ben Luke Park so now both names are sort of circulating (I'm sticking with Cody Collins for now because I just really vibe with it but who knows what'll happen, people are just going with what works for them, we've even started leaning into him having multiple names, that post also references this post about an undercover GIW agent which was a spin off from this post)

the idea that he has superpowers originated from @quartergremlin on this post, where they also drew some sweet pics of Cody (they also originally coined the name Luke)

the Westons having powers I'm not sure about

so yeah feel free to jump onboard with any ideas of your own, go with whichever name you like most and have fun!

[polandspringz]

ah, fellow mutual. i see you also have a dark past. I have a few I can share. it's on anon so idm.

CONFESSION TIME:

1) I have an abandoned Hetalia YT channel with almost a million views

2) wrote fairly popular mystic messenger fic(s) in ao3 before(around thousand-ish kudos), disappeared and still get emails about said fic(s)

3)did i mention i had a really cringey Hetalia phase (most of us do but hhhhh im probably the textbook example of a cringe Hetalian). i feel you DEEPLY.

have you also heard of brothers conflict? that anime is also pretty bad, if not worse. and since this is anon, I HATE TO SAY IT'S MY GUILTY PLEASURE(it holds sentimental value, ig). It's so bad, it's good. Fuuto can go f himself.

Mysterious Anon Mutual I'll be honest I don't remember what I said in a post or tags recently to bring on this confession but it was a nice surprise to receive a message to remind me I'm not the only one who has to live with the burden of having been a Hetalia fan in the past.

Because my anime journey began in like 2008/2009 (as in, moving past growing up on Pokemon, and seeing Dragon Ball Z on Nicktoons all the time and being introduced to like 4 parts of a show on Youtube subbed), Hetalia was of course one of the series I found since the anime came out at that time. I don't engage with the fandom at all anymore, and although I consumed every bit of it as a third or fourth grader I wasn't like contributing to the fandom at all. I loved the character songs, I read all the fanfics, but I consider myself not attached to the more majorly problematic parts of the fandom since I only cared about the Nordics, lol. It's really sad for me to think about the series tbh, and I've brought this up before, because cosplayers are doing "glow ups" or showing their first cosplay vs now and I can't do that because 1) I don't have any photos of mine because it was all on flip phones lost to time and 2) I was Iceland from Hetalia so if I do ever decide to just remake my Iceland cosplay to show my own growth as a cosplayer (even if I can't show old photos to compare to) I would have to attach a massive disclaimer to any post I make about it.

In terms of MysMe, I don't actually consider that to be cringey? I was engaged in the fandom at the time and remember when reset theory was first proposed but I didn't really contribute outside of one or two pieces of fan art. I'm more into Dandelion and kind of want Cheritz to release a new game already but they're still riding the MysMe money I guess.

As for Brother's Conflict, UNFORTUNATELY I AM WITH YOU. I watched Brother's Conflict around the time I was diving through a ton of otome game based anime, like Diabolik Lovers and Kamigami no Asobi (so like 2014 when KnA aired). I think the anime of Brother's Conflict is good because it doesn't end on any romantic route, although the opening visuals and the lyrics of both OP and ED are questionable. I just have to laugh at any series that has stepparents getting married without ever having their kids meet, because like WHO WOULD DO THAT, and especially in these shows because the like Ema's dad was close to her??? So why would he like SURPRISE HER and not tell her about the brothers in advance or have her meet the other half of the family??? Contrivances all of it. My favorite was Louis, since he was like the most put together and could speak to Juli, although I will admit I also looked into the game briefly and liked one of his CGs don't look at me if you know what I'm talking about. Also, Fuuto always reminded me of Vernon from 17, so I guess I'll end on that random fact.

[therobotmonster]

“The road to crime ends in a trap that justice sets! Crime does not pay!”

That’s the character’s motto. He says it every episode.

Thanks to my need to stim bringing me back to Fallout New Vegas, I’ve been diving into old-timey radio plays, thanks to the “Old World Radio” mod. One of the radio shows included, is, well, it’s something.

The Avenger is, near as I can tell, a successful attempt by the creator of the Shadow to sell the Shadow twice. The Avenger is a somehow famous biochemist named Jim Brandon, who, in addition to mainly working as a personal CSI department for a single bumbling police detective, invented invisibility and a telepathy machine in his spare time.  

He, of course, uses these gadgets to fight crime as the Avenger. The show is pretty forgetable, unless you’re a weirdo like me, in which case it is quite the opposite. Points of interests include:

The “Black light of Invisibility” Jim uses to turn into the Avenger, despite being called a light, is portrayed more as a mist or gas, complete with the activation sound-effect being very obviously one of the actors trying to make the sound of a pressurized canister opening with their mouth. 

The Avenger’s telepathic gizmo is basically a ham radio they can sit by an monitor for flashes of thoughts from people who are being murdered or who are in states of deep terror. The broadcast provides a few context clues but never solves the crime on its own.

The Avenger’s preferred means of crime fighting is solving a case through careful detective work. Once he’s done that, he tends to make himself invisible, follow the baddie into an incriminating situation, and then scare them as a disembodied voice until the cops show up. Thankfully, people are very prone to confessing their crimes loudly to ghosts just as the detective walks through the door.

If you are wondering if invisibility is a thrilling power for a character on a radio program, it is not.

While he tended to fight murderers and blackmailers, the Avenger once battled a mad scientist who made an army of robots to harvest animal, and if he weren’t stopped, human, brains to create a giant amalgam super-brain for his ultimate robot. 

He also thwarted a pair of scamming spiritualists from trying to claim a sort of prototype James Randi prize.

Despite being a vigilante, Jim gives more care to evidence and innocent until proven guilty than the cops, and rarely engages in combat.; He doesn’t really even break locks, he just follows behind people as they go through doors.

My favorite part of the show, however, is the sidekick. Like any good pulp superhero Jim needs someone to talk to (it is a radio program) and thus, there’s his beautiful assistant Fern Collier. She knows his secret, and they’re both clearly smitten with each other. They might as well be married but it was the 40s. I expect if they were written married she’d be expected to be at home. 

She also has an amazing name for a beautiful sidekick character. She sounds like a supporting character in a mid-90s Nicktoon.

Fern is Jim’s assistant, and one would assume that means she’s learning biochemistry, but nope, he seems to be teaching her to be a detective. The thing he isn’t. At least not officially. 

Fern as two main passions:

The first is celebrities. This is partially a division of narrative labor thing, so she can fill Jim in on all the details about actors and socialites that get offed or kidnapped so the audience can know who they are (Jim does the same with scientists and underworld figures), and partially part of her excited, kinda dingy personality. Being an autograph hound sometimes moves the plot along by getting her face-to-face with suspects.

More relatable to ladies today, I think, is Fern’s love of food. There’s a running gag of Jim dragging her to do undercover work at banquets, fancy restaurants and parties only for the crime to keep her from eating. She always comments on the spread anyplace they go, and most episodes end with Jim taking her out so she can make up for the meal she missed out on due to shenanigans. 

Fern’s other job in the story is to get Jim to explain how he figured everything out at the end of the episode, in her role as apprentice detective. Fern’s own detective skills aren’t as sharp as Jim’s, she jumps to conclusions and usually suspects the red herring suspect, but that’s also exactly what the detective does, and Fern’s track record is better.

TLDR: As D-list superheroes go, The Avenger sure is one of them. 

[millydesignresearch]

ARTIST MODEL RESEARCH: 

- TOM WHALEN (Illustrator):

An accomplished designer and illustrator with a strikingly impressive portfolio, Tom Whalen has a passion for comic books and poster art since a child. His love for the Marvel and DC Universe inspired him to merge words, design, and image into a cohesive unit. The artist believes that studying multiple disciplines from fine art and design to sculpture can boost one’s creativity into different mediums. And yet, his most preferable platform is the vector because of its flexibility in the workflow and easy editing. Tom Whalen also shares that he loves the simple technique of setting gradients to multiply mode as they add more life to the image.

Raised by feral robot wolves in the backwoods of North-Eastern Pennsylvania and nourished on a steady diet of comic books, Arnold Schwarzenegger movies and Swedish fish, Tom Whalen has a high-pitched, metallic voice in his head that compels him to endlessly churn out all sorts of vectorized madness. infatuated with all things giant, Japanese and city-destroying, Tom is a confessed monster junkie who cannot wait for earth to be overrun by either zombies, werewolves or vampires so that he can field test the wooden-stake-firing chain gun that he’s been working on in his basement for the past 38 or so years. He also adores kittens.

Introduced to graphic art by the likes of Ditko, Lee, McFarlane, and Simonson at an early age, Tom formally studied illustration and design at Kutztown University before working as a graphic designer and an editorial illustrator. He has recently completed projects for the Black Keys, Topps, Mondo, IDW Comics, The Hub, Wired, Scientific American, PC World and Nicktoons.

[tomans-darlings-au]

I’m deathly afraid of the cartoon “Ah Real Monsters”

[nickelodeon2confessions]

“We Need More Nicktoons, and Less live-action shows.”