#baby's first animatic haha

[the-woild-is-y-erster]

whoops! whats this! surely not the first draft of my eel gilded lily animatic! whaaaat!!!

tagging the homies because yall seemed excited when i posted abt this before @toffyrats @newsiesfixation @crutchie69 @sluttylittlenewsboy @ftm-megamind

[thatlovelydove]

My first animatic !

Also I drew the chaos trio ( @5cythz @raphdonmikeyleo )

[pink-pone]

🎉 HAPPY 6 YEARS OF HAVING MY PONYSONA GINGER BREAD, WAAAAHHHHH 🎉

I’ve had this girl since 2018, about 6 years now? While she’s stayed largely the same, her mane has definitely gone through adjustments, but yeah, my baby girl 🥺💕 she represents all the childlike wonder, joy, love, nervousness and hope that I have, and she (like I) wants nothing more than to enjoy the world and support her loved ones ;w; she means so much to me <3

Here’s my first ever ref of her (woah, old art XD) and here’s her currently!

Also for anyone curious, this is her theme song!! uwu I would love more than anything to make a gingerverse animatic with this song, it’s literally something I daydream about haha. One day…

[fragolinaa]

We'll Be Fine (EPIC: The Musical Animatic)!

Hey, gang! Babies First Animatic! At least the first I've finished haha

Big shout out @gigizetz for being a huge inspiration, I've loved her animatics since Six! The Musical ajhskjdghkdjgfhkjgh I strive to be half as good as her at making these lmao

[just-my-life365]

So I’ve been obsessing over Epic the musical. It makes me wish so much that I had any skill in the animation department because while I love seeing all of the animatics come out, I have such specific images in my head that I want to share.

So since I have no time to learn digital art/animation rn (I say like it’s easy🙄) I’ll just share some stuff here and hope I can describe it properly. So now, please excuse my rambling:

The main thing I’ve been thinking about is the Gods creating little illusion of humans when they’re trying to make a point.

Like in God Games when Athena goes “please reconsider this” I know she’s brought Aphrodite into her quick thought, but I always see her creating a little illusion of Penelope and Telemachus waiting for their family to be whole again. Penelope keeping her strength while dying inside and Telemachus fumbling through keeping her safe from the suitors and taking on tasks that he’s too young and inexperienced to handle. She makes the little illusion of them and drifts them towards Aphrodite, trying to appeal to her sense of love and family. Showing her another mother/wife who is suffering and the child who needs and longs for the guidance of his father. Aphrodites expression softens the slightest bit, wavering at the sight, and that’s when Ares comes in, destroying Athena’s illusion and pulling her into his quick thought.

Another one I have now is in Get in the Water.

“I’ll raise the tides so high, all of Ithaca will die”

I want Poseidon to manipulate the water into a version of Ithaca and force Odysseus to watch is be destroyed. Put him in it, his people drowning around him screaming for him to help just like his crew did.

“I’ll make tidal waves so profound, both your son and your wife will drown”

And it’s Penelope holding baby Telemachus before they’re washed away in a violent wave

“I’ll take your son and gouge his eyes”

It’s Poseidon holding a water construct of Telemachus by the throat and ripping his eyes out. Odysseus’s expression flashes from amazement/longing at the first look of what his son looks like after all these years to horror as Poseidon shows him exactly what he’ll do to his child.

There’s just so much potential to expand on the visual torture Odysseus endures in this. Make him scared to live through all of the horror he’s seeing twice. Make him live in fear that any illusion he experiences is prophesy from the gods just like the one he experienced in The Horse and the Infant when Zeus showed what would happen if he let Astynax live.

I also imagine in Love in Paradise, before Odyssey goes “I don’t belong here, there’s something wrong here. I won’t be drawn to love in paradise,” things get hazy for him. The island and landscape shifts into the most beautiful, ideal paradise (haha) he could ever imaging. His eyes go a little cloudy, he becomes a little drowsy, more complacent as her spell tries to sink in. He has to shake out of it fight to keep his head. I imagine Calypso uses spells like this throughout their time together.

On a lighter note (maybe), Legendary/Little wolf ends/starts with Antinous seated and smug. His smirk falls when Telemachus turns away from him, hoping for a sign. Other suitors shove Telemachus to get his attention again and he stumble, turning back to them, nervous that they’ll all attack him at once. They shove a weapon in his hands. The fight starts with swords and Telemachus once again gets his ass beat. His sword is knocked from his hands. Antinous pulls back to deliver a final (possibly deadly) blow, and that’s when Athena steps in. He pushes back some of the suitors, repositions Telemachus’s stance, enhances his vision and reflexes, and pushes him forward. He uppercuts, Antinous drops his weapon. Telemachus does much better in a fist fight with Athena’s help than with the sword, which he’s never been all that confident with. I see a lot of quick evasion and intention jabs on his part, causing more damage than anyone thought he would. But yes, it does end with the Antinous KO punch and Telemachus retreating, but I like the transition for weapons to fist fight. The fight choreo goes so hard in my head lol

Anyway, these are just a few thoughts. I’ll probably come back with more later, but thanks for letting me share🫶

[phantomskeep]

Okay, but real fast Scourge / Bloodclan AU.

Tiny still gets the absolute shit beat out of him by Tigerpaw, ends up running into the city. No change there. BUT what if while he's in the city the first cat he meets is Barley's and Violet's mom, who just had her kittens. Tiny, being the nice cat he is (and don't you even start, mans legit became angry BECAUSE of the city and BECAUSE he was treated like shit when he first got there) gives the weak mama cat his food.

Mama cat thanks him and takes him under her wing because she can see that Tiny's just a hurt lil barely-not-baby kittypet. Tiny helps her out by bringing her food, she helps him out by teaching him the ways of the city and being a second mom to him.

Then, one day, when Mom(tm) is just chilling with her now eye-open kittens a jack russell attacks her and her babies. Tiny had just gotten back from scavenging for food, sees the dog attacking her, and has an epic main character moment when he just takes all his Tigerpaw PTSD and throws it at the dog. Mans kills the dog in his rage-mode and gets pulled out of it by Mama Cat(tm).

Because of this the rumors that go around about a dog-killing cat are true, and the now-named Scourge becomes the leader of Bloodclan not through killing cats, but figuring out the best way to kill the packs of dogs roaming the city.

I have more about this and I want to make animatics about it, but have no idea on how to even start that. I have like 4 scripts written and all the songs picked out. So far it's going to be at least 54 minutes worth of animatic content, I just need to actually do it haha.

[eryanlainfa]

Classic sibling banter where one of them turns into their demon form haha no worries

I am rambling under the cut cuz I want to

Thats a wip cuz I have more ideas but no energy to act upon them yet but I'll get there eventually. I wanted to make it a small animatic and add one shot where we see her changing form but its slightly off camera

At first I wanted Eleanor to have an argument with Florian but I feel like it doesnt necessarily make sense- but also it does- idk- but alsooo I still dont know whether to put the kids in separate timelines or to throw them all together because I like both scenarios a lot

Anyway- I actually struggled a bit into trying to make her demon form look cute yet very similar to zhan tiri's. But I thought it was funny to make her horns grow downward since she wears her pigtails low (in contrast of ZT who has her hairbuns on the top of her head and her horns are more upward-) but it kinda implies she is stuck with her pigtails for forever and I hate that so I uh... her older design will be a headache for future me maybe

Anyway I like her she is baby.

She becomes obsessed about not becoming like ZT but accidentally ends up doing the opposite

Is she related to ZT? An offspring? Some sort of reincarnation? Or something else entirely? I don't know. No one does. Either way she is Var's adopted kid now and no one questions it because of course that explains everything

[actualbird]

Hi Zak, hope you're doing all right! :DD If you could pick a song to play (like for a hypothetical credits haha) after Luke's third birthday card, what would it be? Although no worries if there's nothing that comes to mind of course!!

/ luke bday card spoilers, spoilers for SSR Burning Reminiscence

hi hi galena!! this is SUCH a wonderful question which made my brain rifle through its entire songlist of Favorite Songs. my spotify wrapped for my entire life, if you would HAHA. and my answer is this:

Your Universe by Rico Blanco

and i have a Lot of reasoning and an entire imagined animatic for it that im gonna take you through LLSJFSDKJF

so context, this song is my most favorite love song of all time. it's the one that i think encapsulates Love the most, and not just romantic love, but All Of The Loves. love between friends, family, the love you feel when you just see something beautiful on a nice day, to love you feel when you wake up and you realize you enjoy living and youre happy to exist another day. it's The love song to me, because it's about gratefulness. it's a song that says, over and over again without actually saying it, thank you

now stanza by stanza i imagined the hypothetical credits playing along with certain scenes.

warning: im about to get horrendously sappy from here on out

Tell me something When the rain falls on my face How do you quickly replace it With a golden summer smile?

[SCENE: The Past. luke's birth. rena and percival are so happy theyre crying tears of joy, and one of it drops onto luke, who is also crying, as babies do. rena gently wipes the tears off of luke's face, and at his mother's touch, he quiets down and smiles, his very first of many to come]

Tell me something When I'm feelin' tired and afraid How do you know just what to say To make everything alright?

[SCENE: The Past. luke is a toddler now, beginning the arduous process of learning how to walk and as he tries, he falls down and sniffles, about to cry at his failure. rena and percival, who were video taping luke, immediately go to comfort him. the video shows percival taking luke by his small hands and guiding him back up, encouraging him with his words "come on, don't give up! you're almost there, lukey!"]

I don't think that you even realize The joy you make me feel when I'm inside your universe You hold me like I'm the one who's precious I hate to break it to you, but it's just the other way around You can thank your stars all you want But I'll always be the lucky one

[SCENE: The Past. luke's second birthday. hes small and his parents are so happy and while he doesnt understand why theyre happy, even a child's mind can understand that them being happy makes him happy. even though he cant say it yet with the exact words, luke knows he loves his parents, and he knows he'll love them for forever.]

Tell me something When I'm 'bout to lose control How do you patiently hold my hand And gently calm me down?

[SCENE: The Present. we see SSR Burning Reminiscence's scene where luke is still trying to avoid the matter of his parents. it's a tough topic, and after all these years, it still brings up negative emotions of regret, grieving, and longing in his heart. but with mc's insistence and support, he grounds himself and finds the courage in himself to connect with his parents]

Tell me something When you sing and when you laugh Why do I always photograph My heart flying way above the clouds?

[SCENE: The Present. luke's birthday as it happens in the card, and his heart is full of joy seeing mc happy, feeling happy himself, and feeling so grateful for being able to connect with his parents' memory and their wishes for him]

and for the last chorus, it comes together

You can thank your stars all you want But I'll always be the lucky one I'll always be the lucky one I'll always be the lucky one

[SCENE: The Past and The Present intertwined in a montage. we see luke's smiling face eating cake with mc, then we see luke as a baby laughing with his parents as they open his gifts for him. as these images come, one after the other, we get the impression that rena and percival arent just happy and proud for their baby, but also for the wonderful man he'll grow up to be]

.......so yeah, thats my SSR Burning Reminiscence end credits song ;w;

[oneshortlove]

I'm rambling again :)

This time it's about CAS and Taps work haha

Ooh boy haha

Sometimes I re read and re watch many of their gorgeous works because sometimes I'm worried I'll forget the intense emotions that I feel when I see them.

L.O.V.E and CAS are so beautifully crafted it makes me cry haha

And not just their comics, Taps animatics will always have a place in my heart right next to their comics.

I've re watched Agnes again and sometimes it just...makes me feel so much haha Cass and Tap are amazing at conveying such raw emotions, both heartbreak and love are at the top.

Sometimes I think about how they portray Casey. Especially in CAS, he's just this little kid that lost his family, he's only ever known the apocalypse, he's only ever had the turtles and a few others to love. And then they die, and then he's in the past with the younger versions of the turtles he loves the most. And maybe his emotions were pushed to the very back of his mind because he doesn't cry or shout or hug them despite the loss. He goes about it like the little soldier boy he is and deals with the kraang first. And when that seems to almost fail he breaks down, and sometimes when people break down they tend to take it out on others. He was mad that his sensei wasn't being smart and capable like he always has been, but it wasn't his sensei, it was baby Leo who wants his older brother back after having messed up.

His emotions are fully focused on rage, and then when Leo apologizes he feels relief maybe. But he still hasn't realized yet his loss, not fully anyways.

Then he finally does, when baby Leo is gone, having been the sacrificial leader he's always been. But this time the kraangs gona, Casey did it. With the Big Threat gone, his emotions slowly seep into him.

He lost everything technically. His uncle died to a kraang disease, which weakened the usually strong and dangerous uncle of his. His uncle who always answered every question. Who hugged him and spoke to him with love. His uncle whose love language was giving, and he made only the best for Casey. His uncle who was still dangerous while sickly. His uncle who did everything to keep everyone alive. The kraangs worst nightmare. And for his grave to be soiled so is even worse. The smartest alive deserves respect, for he did everything didn't he? Even at the end.

His Master was slowly aging in way that was painful to watch. He was quickly approaching death in my head. His own mystic magic was being so overworked that it was fighting back in every sense. Only for him to die for a cause they didn't know would work or not. All just so Casey could make it. His master who made him smile and laugh. His master who told him stories of the green world. The Strongest mystic warrior was his master, and was someone who loved him and smiled at him. For him to die with a smile was fitting, but not something Casey wanted to ever see.

He didn't even remember his Papa Dinosaur when he found him. Didn't remember the love that he was given and the care that was in every hug. Even so, Casey still cared. He still felt heartbroken when his second body was used to keep everyone alive. Maybe he finally understood all those stories about him. About him being the protecter, this big scary turtle having the biggest heart, always worried about others well being over his own. Maybe Casey understood why sometimes his sensei, uncle, and master always said it with a tiny bit of anger.

His sensei cared for him, taught him, read to him, did everything just to make Casey's life just a bit easier in the apocalypse. This turtle was his dad when his Papa Dinosaur disappeared, when his mother died. He's seen his sensei at his lowest. This was the leader, the greatest ninja ever. It wasn't even possible in Casey's head for him to even remotely get close to death. But then he did, he just.. died. So quickly as well. There was bravery in what he did but was there any honor in his death? This was a turtle that deserved to be respected and just like that he was gone.

What does someone do about that? Well usually they cry. They scream. But little Casey just goes on about his new life without complaint. Though who would he complain to? About what? In his head he has the opportunity of the life time!! His family sacrificed everything for him to be here!! He can't complain!!

AH!! This was posted accidently, and its not finished haha Sorry about that</3

[normystical]

hrhrgrgrggr i wanna make an animatic of becky apples with certain hazbin hotel characters but i can't. and like even if i had the motivation this very second i do not have TIME FOR THAT so uhh might just spill my ideas all over here w/ altered lyric captions

husk . lucifer . ugh !! husk

i bet lucifer's got perfect hair [vox imitating sweeping hair back cuz he's a jealous and bald mfer lmfao]

husk. husk's got stupid STUPID [ears? claws? idk tbh but he doesn't have hooves so we're changing that lyric,,]

i'm never gonna eat another appLE EVER AGAIN!! [god have mercy on my mediocre art skills bc i will have to illustrate vox not only crushing an apple but with his clawed ass hands]

OO it reallt bunches my f luff to thrink how badly he hurtyou. bbg. tell me your story

[idk what to do with the lines "i left my rider so that i could raise an army (so that you could raise an army) then c-doug popped up and he said something alarming (oo, what'd he say?) he told me that my best friend's ridden (no!) another horse so pretty (no way!)" but i do want to have the latter two lines have charlie just talking about alastor and lucifer fighting all the time like haha those guys. those silly little rascals]

and his name is lucifer [morningstar/the king of hell/HIMSELF] because UGH of course it is !! !

lucifer lucifer whag a gorgeous famcy SCHMUCK luci how you like em apples cuz i think ur apples SUCK [naybe at that part i animate an apple pelted at luci just for shits and giggles itll be fun trust me] lucifer lucifer ggeues what i knew alastor first and while technically i dont know lucifer i know hes the WORST

ugh he is soo the worst vocks . right?? its unbelievable !! stupid luci. but can i tell you about someone whos,, kind of a total lucifer in my life? okay i��i mean im kinda not done being mad about lucifer bu—

WELL I WAS flirtin glirtin with a slick promstoar (this is not the same situation.) he was the finest spider femboy that i ever pursued (rhere was more than one??) he played me like a ukulele (he did.) i dont want no drama baby (too late?) but i FLIPPED when i found out his boyfriend was a wwinged cat guy idk how to change this lyric tbh sorry guys

oh that husk[er] that husk[er]s got stupid pretty legs and i bet that angel dust would let HIM adopt his eggs [cut to vox being horrifically confused and weirded out for half a second] hUsK [angel talking about him happily] HuSk [angel talking to him on the phone] hUsK [angel greeting husk at the door] HuSk [angel moaning his mame while getting fucked lmao get fucked val wait wut] UGH !! even his wings are perkier !!

maybe husk's flirty boyfriend is the one whos the ACTUAL jerk here... UGH!! husk!! making me feel bad for projecting my own insecurities and displacing blame on HIM, when HE really did nothing wrong? UGH. hes the WORST.

[vox clear he throat]

OH RIGht! ur sad :3

i feel ur pain girl, im ur vindicator, and we dont know husk, lucifer, we just know we hate him . this isnt okay and this isnt fiiiine

...let it out bbg

[vox drops his face into val's fluff as he sighs]

its just i thoughgt al,, would always be miine

ok spilling out my ideas FINALLY done jesus fuck this sucks when it's explained rather than imagined or animated lmao

[teeto-peteto]

Out of curiosity, what're the animatics in your head? No pressure to share.

oh bestie dont say that cause we can be here stuck forever you and i and my musical taste and my terrible obession with the bloodharbor ripper.

however, if you insist... longpost warning :) no particular order just as im doing a mental and a playlist check.

first animatic of my hellpit: Soul Fighter Gwen and Pyke doing the Lunchbox Friends handshake. Just because its iconic and they are best friends. Seems horrid to animate or to conceptualize in an understandable way to do an animatic, but they are iconic and they are besties and they do this. Convince me otherwise.

second animatic of the hellpit of my mind: Empire ants by Gorillaz. Originally was about my fave lol champions and my friend main champions (initially Pyke, Lulu, Thresh, Ahri and Varus) but yeah, i dont know. Im thinking about just Bilgewater champions, lyrics are very fitting to the feeling of living there, and also because i think Pyke would listen to gorillaz specially this album haha. Animatic like the videoclip with conceptual illustrations of the characters just doing stuff, dunno, would be cool.

I recently thought about an animatic with Sarah x Illaoi breakup with Woke Up from adventure time Obsidian, not polished idea but could be interesting if explored.

'I'll die anyway' by girl on red animatic for Ruined King AU Pyke. Whoopsie. Animatic with slow descend to horrible ending, isolation feelings, mm it reeks trauma baby. And i would add a small animatic or illustration with 'Sayo-Nara' from DDLC. Just to stab myself right on the heart.

Oooooohhh i always dreamed with doing an animatic with the Sailor Moon opening with the first 5 star guardians, keeping it that 90's anime style. Its so polished in my mind. I also love to imagine star guardian Lux in the place of Usagi in 'otome no policy'.

I also imagine an animatic with the Ahri (recent) team (Fortune, Syndra, Soraka, Ezreal) but with My Sweet Heart from Tokyo Mew Mew. Just to give them another opening. Its what a foxgirl leader makes me think about.

'Awoken' By wooden toaster was such a banger, it's been a while i imagine a whole animatic with Empyrean Pyke on it, seeing how he was before becoming an empyrean, his empyrean self, and how he haunts the other versions of himself, but always having some root to his old self, if that makes sense?

Any song by cascada. Not an animatic but it would be funny to make an mv circa 2012 of our beloved boogie man. Cause everytime we touch i get this feeling and everytime we kiss i swear i can fly. Rainbow effects and images rotating with rad 2010 video effects. My fever dream. Or with 'Monster'. I would throw up of happiness.

Althought i always wanted a 'Suki Suki Daisuki' by Jun Togawa animatic about Pyke. Expression of love through violence? Damn. I rotate him in my mind like a rotisserie chiken everytime i listen to it. Kinda like the videoclip where he would be stubborn but also a sucker for affection.

this fucking song hits too hard i dont know where to start. I thought about EVERYTHING. Ocs. Self Insert. Default Pyke. Ruined King in general. Other Star Guardians. It never fails. Most recent one is animatic of Soul Fighter Gwen and Pyke where she refuses to accept his death and to let him go but she reasures her that things are just the way they are, but you know Gwen wont accept it nonetheless and will always do everything to keep him alive.

Funnily enough i always thought about an animatic with Chip and Dale rescue rangers theme but with the Omega Squad. Its edgy and its cool in essence but what if they were actually goofy and corny? Episodic? No one dies dramatically and they are just silly? Tristmo undertone? Heck yeah.

[cheesy-cryptid]

Awwww! Now I wish your Triplet Ocs were canon to Encanto!!

AWW ANON now ur making cry at the same time flustered 😳😭

Ngl i am guilty of reimagining scenes in the movie if my triplet ocs were a part of it --and sometimes im tempted to make animatics for it 💀

Speaking of animatics, tumblr had this weird glitch when i posted a video for the first time (that Key from Shinee voice reel for Javi) and it kept getting kicked off the tags i placed 😭💀😭 maybe making videos would be the closest thing we have to see those baby triplets come to life haha

I wonder if anyone else is interested seeing short video content for Evalina or the triplets with Bruno 🤔i have alot of ideas already too 😊

[anna-scribbles]

OMG IM SO EXCITED I CANT BELIEVE I ACTUALLY GOT AN INVITATION TO TALK ABOUT THIS!!

Ok your art trademark/the things that say “this was drawn by anna-scribbles”:

1. The Babie™️ factor. This is extremely important. when u are drawing kids/teens you make them look like actual kids/teens in the most adorable way possible. It’s the first thing that stuck out to me about ur art when I started seeing your stuff and it’s what made you become a favorite shortly after. They are so precious I want to squeeze their cheeks!!!! And that is the correct way to draw all the ML kids please and thank you.

2. I’ve told you this before but I love love love the way you draw mouths/smiles. It feels so pure and genuine and Anna™️. Also just expressions in general you are crazy good at and I often find myself looking thru your art tag for examples when I’m struggling with that haha.

3. The big ole adorable eyes!! Especially with the eye shines 🥺

4. The floofiness of chat’s hair is immaculate I’m obsessed. And for ML artists I think that is somewhat of a signature for you haha

5. Good line economy 👌 like it just has the likes that need to be there idk lol even your sketchier stuff just looks clean and simple and wonderful. I think simplicity is an underrated/overlooked skill in art tbh!! i just feel like you have the right amount of detail to convey your message and vibes and the richness of the piece comes through the characters’ emotions rather than a lot of detail in the actual art of that makes sense.

as for the thing that I find most remarkable about your art, it’s the heart!! Every piece feels so full of love and care and thoughtfulness, whether it’s a silly piece or an angsty one. You can master technical skills to an impressive level and yet still lack substance in your art, if you know what I mean, but every one of your pieces, even the little doodles, feels so full. Idk I just think you have a lovely spark in the way you see the world and that comes through really clearly in your art. You’re just a really special creator 💜💜

the following screenshots from your animatic “obvious” may serve as depictions of my feelings about your art and also as examples of the points above. thank you for your time.

MARYSSA WHAT IS THIS. WHY ARE YOU SO NICE TO ME. OUR BEEF IS CANCELED BC I AM CRADLING YOUR FACE IN MY HANDS AND GIVING U A KISS ON THE FOREHEAD 😭🤍

1. listen i draw them babie simply because they are. they are young and silly and full of love. but seriously it means the world to me that this aspect stands out to you bc i rly try to make them look their age sjfndknf <3

2. STOP ILY. MY SMILES COME FROM U BC U ALWAYS MAKE ME SMILE

3. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

4. again i simply try to communicate the truth. which is that chat’s hair is very extremely fluffy. i would never want to mislead the population

5. this is so sweet i’m gonna CRY 😭😭 this is something that i really just go off of Vibes with so the fact that it stands out/is meaningful to you is !!!!!??

maryssa i am 😭😭🤧🤧😭😭😭😭‼️‼️ this is such a huge compliment bc u have the most heart of pretty much anyone i know. you are such a talented artist and storyteller yourself and you have such an eye for detail that hearing you say things like this just makes me heart go !!!!!!!

ily 😭😭 everyone go follow @carpisuns and shower her with love immediately

[artsybi]

rapid fire WTIT thoughts & theories

*cracks knuckles* y'all know what time it is:

first off: janus, of course, the biblical imagery, a snake sitting in a tree, with an apple. "am i the snake come to trick you into sinning?" "recently a snake offered me a morsel from the tree of knowledge." god it's so on point

second: note that during the endcard all the sides but janus and virgil are standing, but virgil is sitting in the shade on the tree's roots, and janus is sitting in the tree, of course, i might be pushing too much, but the way that janus is closest to virgil, and they're connected through the same "set piece". (is this just my love of anxceit? i can't tell, but it's interesting anyway) [actually what's also notable is that the camera transitions from logan to janus, which is not only a sick camera moment, but also drawing a connection between them as well, not to mention that janus has disguised himself as logan twice]

third: holy SHIT orange eyes? i'm- logan baby NO PLEASE NO I DON'T WANT THOSE ANGSTY ANIMATICS TO BE CANON PLEASE I'M GOING TO CRY-

fourth: god the thing about the food and not being able to eat it because of intrusive thoughts? babe fuckin' same (also i love remus's rube goldberg machines, they're so great) [honestly i related to a lot of the intrusive thought bits in this episode haha,,,, wish my therapist wasn't on vacation :)]

fifth: I DIDN'T GET ANSWERS TO ANY OF MY QUESTIONS, DOES EVERYONE KNOW JANUS'S NAME???? DOES LOGAN???? DOES THIS COUNT AS A TECHNICAL "NEXT APPEARANCE" FOR VIRGIL???? DOES THAT MEAN ALL OUR THEORIES ABOUT CLOTHES WERE WRONG???? CAN I TECHNICALLY NOT COUNT THIS BECAUSE IT'S AN ASIDES VID OR IS MY SWEATER THEORY DEAD???? (i'm not actually mad, the vid was great, it just didn't answer any of the questions i have D:)

sixth: the thing with patton giving thomas permission for stuff, of all the call backs to pof this is not the one i wanted :(

seventh: but hey at least patton and roman don't seem to be mad at each other anymore! right? we have that at least, right? :')

eighth: janus is definitely aware of orange, like, really aware of orange, so aware that he can even call it out "everything is notjust fine", which means he's almost definitely aware of of the moment with logan, which,,,, bodes well for my theories, but not for the future :(

okay okay that's all for now, i'll definitely have more later but i need a hot sec to actually sort through my thoughts, because HOLY S H I T

anyway yeah

[doctorsiren]

Ok. This has been bugging me since I watched it so I have a question. In baby hotline, what exactly happened in the first part? (Up until they meet up with Cleo) like I get the general gyst of it but I want to know Details (if you have them and if you’re willing to share ofc <3)

Okay I’m gonna die because I had like… half of this typed out and then Tumblr crashed on me and I lost everything I had written ;v;

But yeah I had to go back and watch the actual animatic again cuz it’s been a while haha

So basically, in the beginning, NPC is pretending to be Grian, and he’s hanging out with his best best buddy, Mumbo. Mumbo isn’t aware that he’s actually NPC, and he thinks that Grian’s just being really friendly.

But then, (NP)Grian starts acting strange. He starts alluding to his robotic-ness, and Mumbo starts to become uneasy. Something is wrong, and he can feel it.

Then, NPC reveals himself. He asks Mumbo if he wants to join him, become an NPC, become (in his mind) perfect. See, for NPC, he believed that Mumbo would say yes! Mumbo was his friend, and so he would definitely agree…

NPC’s never really had friends before. The only one who ever really cared about him was Taurtis. NPC was never taught how to love or even what love is since Grian never loved him.

Mumbo outright refuses. Now he knows that something is up. NPC has Grian’s gauntlet. And where’s Grian? How long has this copy been impersonating G? Mumbo wanted to be NPC’s friend, but now...he’s done something very wrong and Mumbo isn’t sure what to do.

NPC was not expecting Mumbo to say no. It catches him off-guard. No worry though. NPC has the gauntlet, and won’t take no for an answer. He *snapshoots* (hehe) Mumbo and turns him into NPC Mumbo Jumbo (AKA Mumbot). It was a split-second decision.

Now Mumbot is an NPC. He doesn’t feel quite right. He doesn’t feel like himself anymore.

NPC isn’t having the best time either. During the “Hotline!” Bits, he’s realizing what he did. He made a hasty decision, and he can’t just…go back from it. If he were to turn Mumbo back into a human, he would definitely throw him back in a closet. NPC was scared of being forgotten, so this was the way, he believed, it had to be. Also, he’s glitching. It’s not just an art choice, but an actual story thing. NPC was shut in a closet for around 4 years, and so he’s not up to date with the latest version of minecraft. His systems are outdated. That’s why in Part 2 (Touch-Tone Telephone), he’s confused and then afraid of the bees. He doesn’t know what they are since he was in the closet for that update.

In the next bit, NPC shakes away his bad feelings to look at his newly perfected friend. He’s a robot man like him! Mumbot isn’t fighting back anymore. He seems perfectly happy being this way! NPC tells him that, “hey look, everything went okay! What were you scared about?”

But then...Mumbot discovers his new powers.

If you’ll recall, NPC can teleport (he can fly too but smh that was too OP and I forgot that he could until like...Part 5).

Well, Mumbot can go zappy zap. He starts to show a sign of...what is that...evilness? Not quite, but it’s enough to scare NPC. Mumbo’s more powerful than NPC meant, and he’s not sure what to do.

NPC sees Mumbot and Robocleo and starts to think about his decisions. At one point, RoboCleo is holding Xisuma’s helmet (the one that Joe wore in Part 3).

We once again cut to NPC glitching and thinking about what he’s done

And then we get to Mumbot.

This is a really important thing actually. So, when Mumbot was near NPC, he acted strange. He acted the way that NPC wanted him to act, even if NPC didn’t know that’s what he wanted. This is because NPC is subconsciously controlling the NPCGang when they’re near him.

RoboCleo becomes his right hand man, Mumbot becomes his beeeest friend >:))) (smh NPC IS A SIMP FOR MUMBO AND SO MUMBOT IS A SIMP BACK BC OF THE CONTROLLING THING)

But now Mumbot was by himself. He starts to be able to think his own thoughts clearly. He starts to become depressed and anxious. He thinks that the real Grian must be dead. And that means Joe and Xisuma too. His friends...gone. Reduced to atoms.

And he starts to hate himself because he let this happen. He didn’t catch on early enough to stop NPC from doing this. He didn’t check in to see where NPC was.

And so he starts to cry.

But Jrumbot doesn’t like to see his papa sad. He runs in and tells his father that he still loves him. Mumbot looks at his baby boy and realizes that there’s nothing he can do, so he might as well make the best of the situation. So he takes his son to meet up with his other father, his brother, and his aunt.

So then, I know you said you meant to beginning bit, but whatever I’m doin’ the full thing.

So now NPC, Mumbot, Jrumbot, and Robocleo are sitting atop Grumbot’s head, vibing.

Smh look at them >:( stop being so cute /j

Since they’re near NPC, Mumbot and RoboCleo’s thoughts have been overridden by him and now they like him. He starts to talk about his anxieties and fears, but his two robot buddies reassure him that everything will be okay. They do this because NPC, deep down, wants them to. They obey.

NPC is telling them how he’s scared that they will forget about him or that they hate him.

Mumbot tells him that he would never hate him. That he would stay by his side.

(Also it’s really funny because someone told me that at this frame, they thought Mumbot and NPC were gonna kiss- AND LIKE THAT’S EXACTLY WHY I HAD TO HAVE THIRDWHEEL ROBOCLEO POP IN ON THE NEXT FRAME HAHAH)

NPC then gets his confidence back. He’s laughing and is fine.

But then the phone starts to ring.

Not a literal phone, but more of like...his consequences calling. He can’t run from them forever. He has to pick up the phone sometime.

And yeah! I hope that was helpful? I didn’t realize how confusing Baby Hotline was for people when I made it since I have the story in my head. Man, it’s nice to just...have somewhere to put this. But yeah. There’s a ton of lore and angst and stuff that goes on outside of the animatics that I don’t have the screen time to show sadly

BUT! Once I finish the animatic series, I will be writing it out as a full length fanfic, with TONS of extra stuff and like...full angst and character development. I hope that it all goes well haha

If you read all this, then I award you a choccy milk

[vs-redemption]

Just found out that you pushed Julius off a cliff😔💔💔💔 sighhh it’s fine I’ll be there to catch him👹👹👹

Btw, I saw your soft sundays saturdays post so I wanted to share my idea of a lil one shot I am working on for BC if that’s okay with you👀👉👈

So it’s been a while since young William Vangeance met a the Captain of the Grey Deers and he was gifted a mask by the older man as a way to overcome his insecurities and focus more on his magic. But, he broke the mask Julius made for him...So he was really upset about it and was scared Julius would be mad at him.

And the speak of the devil and Julius decided to make a visit and William’s shaking and crying despite himself. When Julius gets really concerned, he tries to comfort lil William and finds the broken mask he was hiding behind him.

Julius quickly assures him that it’s okay with a bunch of hugs and head pats but William couldn’t believe it. He tells William that he has an extra just in case of a situation like this and one more mask for when he’s older and William just looks at him in awe before he bursts into tears and buries himself in the older man’s robes😭😭😭 he just can’t believe that he’s just easily forgiven for breaking such a precious gift and the fact that there’s more and even one for when he’s older meaning that Julius will truly stay around him and he’s just an emotional mush poor baby😭💕💕

I’m also planning on drawing a lil scene in this one-shot and more for an animatic I’m planning on working over summer where teary-eyed William looks up to Julius in awe and the scene flashes to young patri looking up to Licht in awe and I’m just ALSJSBSBDJKWWJJSHSDH anyways sorry for the long ask 🙈🙈🙈

haha It took me a moment to know what you were referring to at first! My brain was like... I did what to Julius? But yes, I remember and both you and Julius have my sincerest apologies!

I really love your oneshot idea. Knowing how much Julius AND that mask mean to William, I'm sure he'd be devastated if something happened to it. And of course, Julius would never get angry. It was an accident, and even if it wasn't, I'm sure he'd still understand. The fact that he thought ahead and prepared a mask for when William got older is also so sweet and thoughtful. I can see how that would mean so much to William too. This is a very nice idea! I'd love to read it once it's done (tag me?)

Don't worry about sending me long asks! I love hearing people's ideas, especially black clover!!! I'm so glad there are people making content for it. I should write more for Black Clover to be honest!

Send me some soft headcanons