#a message to my followers

[mryaksalot]

Guys! It's been 1 year since the Animaniacs reboot had ended with it's third season. While I am still sort of bummed that the show had ended so early in it's lifetime, the countless memories I have made in this fandom will be something that I will remember for the rest of my life.

It's amazing to me how, even after the show has ended, I still see a number of new fanart and fanfics on a weekly basis. There is so many of us out there, from different parts of the world, that all come here to cherish, create, and discuss our favorite show all in one place. We have shown that, when we all come together, we can all create a community so creative and diverse. We may be small, but our passion and love for this franchise is so much more.

Long live the Animaniacs fandom.

[heritageposts]

I'm writing again to bring attention to the GFM campaign of @salahahmed90 (Salah) and @salahmanarfamily (Manar), the parents of two young children in Gaza.

Here's an updated Salah posted last night, after he and his family were displaced for the sixth time:

Please help us, we are being subjected to genocide in Gaza. Hours ago, a house was bombed next to the place where we are and escaped death miraculously. Help us get out of Gaza in order to preserve our children.

Though Salah and Manar started out with the hopes of rebuilding, they've now made the difficult choice to begin saving up for an evacuation. Their campaign, however, is still very low on funds, and its been stagnating completely for the last few days, leaving them with barely enough for their immediate survival.

-> GFM link

The campaign has been verified by @/90-ghost.

If you can, please consider donating. Even a small contribution can make a big difference for the family.

Currently: €3,650 / €70,000

[swampybogg]

[rocketbirdie]

deranged picnic

[absolutely-zero-regrets]

shrimp upturned you will always be famous to me

[marisuhhhhdudee]

I’m off today what should I do?

[mryaksalot]

Well, Folks, another year has come and went. 2023 has been a turbulent year for me, but it has also brought a lot of growth to my platform. I thank you guys tremendously for your continuous support. This is a wonderful community, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

Happy new year all! Now, while we wait for midnight, please enjoy this musical number the Warner's put together for the big night.

[mrkida-art]

PSA: I got shadowbanned

Idk how many will see this, a few of you might. My account has been shadowbanned, I don't know how long it'll last since support can be slow about these things. Anyways, hi to anyone that sees this!

Edit: WE BACK YEEEEE

[outoftoucherlocksholmes]

every time i play a ps2 game i inevitably reach a point where i go "if i don't redraw a screenshot of this moment in a copic marker style i'm going to explode" but this is the first time i've actually followed through on it

[ryderwritings]

“nobody will ever be interested in what i write!” false. i am interested. please tell me about what you write

[littletroggo]

Congratulations on 100 followers!! Your art is always such a delight to see on my dash and I have so many of your pics saved in a folder for when I'm sad!! Keep up the amazing work!!

Request: Draw something that you've been second-guessing yourself about so we can all shower you with love about it OR draw the first thing that attracted you to Star Wars :D

Congratulations again and happy holidays!! 🩷🩷🩷

first off, sorry for the long wait. i had less time than i expected over the holidays. and i hope you had happy holiday!

kinda went for a double whammy on this one since it qualifies for both request ideas. i did consider drawing gonk droid since the super gonk droid red brick power was my absolute favorite as a kid, but technically, hunter's who dragged me down this rabbit hole since i wouldn't have considered myself a star wars fan as a kid (i mean i still don't know if i'd consider myself one?)

yeah i'm gonna admit it: what i second guess the most/most insecure about is anatomy. the cute sketches, armor, and bulky clothes are just excuses to avoid drawing proper anatomy. i only have myself to blame since i never practiced it :l i had to crack out the dusty anatomy books for this one

and i have nowhere else to put this but you're far too kind >///< seriously, YOU SAVE MY ART??? ALFHEOGIUOWPFOHUGEJ i literally don't know how to string together a coherent thought, and i've had this sitting in my inbox for so long. it warms my heart that it can cheer you up. i don't know what else to say but thank you. your words mean more than you can imagine <3

[wistfulwatcher]

in an era where every show without record-breaking ratings gets axed immediately, i would just like to say how deeply grateful i am that crazy ex-girlfriend managed to air for four whole seasons and tell one of the most beautiful and moving stories of self-acceptance and love i've ever seen.

i just finished rewatching it (yet again) and every time i do i just think what an absolute shame it would have been if it had been cancelled after one or two (or even three) seasons. because, while it was clever and fun from the beginning, rebecca's mental state required the show to be so boy-crazy that it was a little tough to believe that the show would end up seeing the story through to where we eventually end up. the audience certainly got hints as to its final message early on ("love doesn't need to be a person, it can be a passion"). but because rebecca was rejecting those messages, the audience sort of had to, too. and if the show had been cancelled while rebecca was obsessed with josh? certain that her only path to happiness was romantic love and validation from a man? if we had never seen her truly understand and acknowledge ghost!akopian's words? i'm sure there would have been articles speculating on where the series could have ended up, acknowledging with resigned tones that the show had potential, with the seeds that had been planted.

but god, discussion of "the potential" of the show would have paled in comparison to what we got. because hot damn, did cxg end up doing character growth better than the vast majority of other series. (and not just for rebecca! almost every character in the large ensemble got to grow in a very organic, subversive, and meaningful way!) for a show that was consistently in danger because of their extremely low ratings, it was pretty ballsy of cxg not to rush through rebecca's story to prove its intention. for them to let rebecca be as frustrating and unlikable and unhealthy as she was for so many episodes, simply because they knew how necessary it was to show us the depth of rebecca's mistakes and struggles before she finally sought help and began to heal and grow. and the story was so, so much better and poignant for it. rebecca's season four growth feels very earned, and her end of series resolution to pursue her passion (her true love!) is so satisfying because it feels realistic. the audience has spent four years seeing her love for theater (and how it got tangled up in josh/the idea of romantic love) and when rebecca eventually realizes the same it's such a satisfying sense of finally.

it's an experience that has become painfully rare lately; too many series feel as though they're trying to cram as much into the first season as they can for fear of cancellation, and allowing no room for characters or relationships or story to grow naturally. they don't allow for anything other than the bare minimum plot. their characters can't breathe.

cxg didn't do that. they continued to tell the story they were telling, at the pace at which it needed to be told. and the series was truly phenomenal because of that choice. because of that trust in its own story and characters. cxg is a perfect example of what television can be, how powerful it can be, when it's allowed to be treated like the long-form storytelling medium it is. and i am so grateful for that.

[mryaksalot]

Important changes to my Backstory AU(OUTDATED)

TW: This post is going to be sorta long, so buckle up.

As you may know, there have been a lack of many new chapters to my story The Road To Success on AO3 these past several months. I've been trying my damn hardest to keep up with updates, but I don't always have the free time in order to write. I have to attend school, work a job, deal with family matters; those things take priority too. I don't have as much free time as I used to back in 2021.

That being said, I still hold a lot of passion for this story. I first got the idea for this story all the way back at the beginning of 2021. It started as just an insightful thought, a drabble I created inside my head. Overtime, I kept expanding on the idea, fleshing out the world, making this story the best it could possibly be. Now we're at the point where the story is over 120,000 words, and it's not even half of the way done yet! I never anticipated for this story to be this long, but here we are.

Now if you are thinking that this post is about me throwing The Road To Success in the can, I just want to clarify that this story IS NOT being cancelled. But the way the story is written and formatted is going to change from what you have seen up to this point.

Just so I am transperent with you guys, here is a list of all of the changes to The Road To Success, as well as the Backstory AU as a whole.

1. The main story, The Road To Success, will be significantly shorter than the original version. The OG version, the version that I have stuck to while initially writing this story, was planned to have 40-50 chapters. That is just not possible anymore, with how busy my life has become. This new version of the story will now have roughly 30-35 chapters. As of writing this, the exact number of chapters has not been decided yet; that will be determined by the end of the year (at the latest).

2. The new version of TRTS (Acronym for The Road To Success) will be more Yakko-centric. I originally wanted to insert a bunch of extra sideplots into the main story, specifically after the Warners become actors. Wakko and Dot were supposed to have their own friend groups, and we would get the chance to see their perspectives as well as Yakko's. However, these sideplots take away from the main story, which is overall more important in the longterm. That dosen't mean Wakko and Dot won't be given any time in the spotlight (they are gonna play some significant roles later on), but I don't want their misadventures to take too much time away from the main storyline.

3. Some of the lore (the details on how the world works in this universe, how certain characters act, family trees etc.) have been and are subject to being changed and altered. I'm very much a perfectionist when it comes to the little details; they're very important imo. Sometimes, I will change my mind about a certain detail and decide to change it on a whim. I will try to restrain these changes to the lore based on what I have already written/talked about publicly, in order to not create too much confusion going foward.

4. The Backstory AU will be expanded beyond The Road To Success. That's right, folks! TRTS is getting a companion story, in order to fill in those lore gaps to answer questions that have yet to be answered. This story will focus on the parents of the Warners, covering their childhood, as well as their inevitable downfall as members of society. More details regarding this companion Peice will be elaborated on in a later post. I'm also cooking up a Christmas story, which will serve as somewhat of a flashback to previous events in TRTS. This story will come out on (you guessed it) Christmas of this year.

5. So you may be wondering to yourself: What's gonna happen to the scrapped segments of TRTS? Well that's where my drabble collection comes in. A month ago, I created a drabble collection titled Splats Of Ink, a collection of oneshots featuring headcanons, future story ideas, and now scrapped segments of already established stories. I'm thinking about fleshing out these Alternate scenes of TRTS, to show you what could have been. Expect the first of these scrapped-segment-reimagined drabbles to come out this April.

So, that's a decent laundry list of all the updates that I have made to the Backstory AU as of late. Chapter 15 is in the works as we speak, and will most likely come out sometime in March. Then it will be smooth sailing into Chapter 16 and so on! There's lots of exciting things in the works, and I can't wait to share it all with you.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to read through the whole thing. Feel free to ask questions if you need me to elaborate further on these changes. Your patience and support is most appreciated.

[babykittenteach]

hi frankie hello frankie (the way i accidentally unfollowed you by trying to hit the ask button shdjkls TUMBLR UI MY BELOATHED AND ALSO PLS FORGIVE). ANYWAY LMAO, G + Ed and Stede kissing in the rain? 👉👈💜💜💜

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[cynthiaakat]

hello hi how are you 👋🏻 links