#cartoons arent just for kids
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Why did nobody tell me Fionna and Cake had cursing in it?
Like that makes it so much cooler
#adventure time#fionna and cake#simon petrikov#i thought you said it was a kids show?#yeah a cool kids show#cartoons arent just for kids
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i love crazy contrasting 1p2p in every way(not every way). so i always subconsciously have 2P rusame be friends. unlikely friends etc. in whatever weird school au theyre friends. meri was probably bullied until he started hissing at other kids or something while rus2 was just like huhh okay yeah okay what fine. rus2 found him in a broom closet and it was as awkward as it sounds. in the weird stuckin1Pcoldwar au i have theyre friends also in the torturous existence. 1P rusame is too weird life is too short lets tomodachi✌️
#in comparison 1p rusame would be school insane psychological games social competition nerds MID OFF#2ptalia#i like the jp fanart where 2p ame is pitiful and gloomy. its cute#a little wannabe edgy but spare him he was left in the rain in a cardboard box when he was 2 years old.#i keep imagining a gay school au sorry. im gonna say shit now#rus2 is blunt and kind of. bad at reading signals. accidentally drags him and meri into karaoke with ame(enigmatic popular kid)#meri is like fuck my life... but he has a killer bitch face so people are like uwaa scary... hes brooding...#rus2 is like ah sorry i forgot you never had a normal teen friendship and clung onto (nada) all the time#meri is always coping like these people... dont get it... hes half right#they go to karaoke and ame sings really off key#actually i have a common daydream where ame's elusiveness is really funny to meri#he's like hahahaha what the hell that kids crazy ahahaha. like laughing at a cartoon#and then somehow he keeps being approached by ame (slow trying to step away) hes like noo... i dont actually wanna get close to u at all...#meri and rus2 probably play observers theyre quiet kids who go hmm im nooticing!#observing 1p rusames weirdship that everybody can see but they don't think anyone notices their crazyship#and rus2 is like oh two people talking and interacting alot. theyre friends. its just like a rivalry thing yeah?#while meri is like fuckkk the fucking golden boy is talking to us when ame talks to them rus2 is like#why dont you invite (rusia) to the karaoke arent you two friends#(ame mania face turns around)#okay thats all i got bye
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Having a lazy eye is strange bc its so normal to me that i completely forget that its something ive lived with my entire life that makes me different from others
But then i see a video or a clip of someone with lazy eyes, and either the clip is making fun of them or people in the comments are making fun of them. I’m fucking sick of the only media rep for this condition being fucking Mad Eye Moody (harry potter) and Derpy (mlp). Their fucking NAMES imply that theyre crazy/insane/stupid. What the FUCK dude. If every wheelchair user in media was conveyed as lazy or stupid, people would have a lot of fucking issues with it but lazy eyes are always the butt of a joke and nothing more. I’m sick of being a joke. I’m sick of no one realizing that its not just “oh haha that person is dizzy or stupid” NO. Its a REAL THING.
#and god forbid its too strong to fix in childhood#<- was too strong to fix in childhood#I’m sick of being a joke#I’m sick if people saying my cosplays are more canon because of it#I’m sick of people asking if they spin me my eyes with spin around like in a cartoon#I’m sick of people cracking jokes#I’m sick of people laughing at a kid with it when their mom tells rhem to use both eyes#I’m sick of people assuming things#I’m sick of people staring#I’m sick of people asking whats wrong with me#I’m sick of people comparing me to those characters#I’m sick of there being so little research and normalization around disabilities that arent just amputees wheelchairs and neurodivergencies#I’m SICK OF IT#tigers rambles aimlessly#disabled#actually disabled#lazy eye in adults#amblyopia#disability#ableism#society fucking sucks#media representation
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ironically it does kinda piss me off when people are like "ohh gravity falls has like the only actual loving sibling relationship in media" (at the time. I think it's better these days) bcuz like NOOO BOBS BURGERS IS RIGHT THERE IT EVEN HAS KRISTEN SCHAAL AS ONE OF THE SIBLINGS. DON'T DO THEM LIKE THAT louise gene and tina paved the way and they dont deserve disrespect
#dipper and mabel are good too I think it's a different type of relationship#bcuz obvs they're twins and the belcher kids arent so there's different dynamics at play#both good but neither deserves to be like. ignored. im also just petty#im like HEY bob's burgers is good dont forget about my special cartoon!! :(#meanwhile it's a completely different conversation#but still#txt#bob's burgers
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guys. GUYS. watch carmen sandiego. like Right Now.
#THIS SHOW IS LIKE SO MUCH BETTER THAN I EXPECTED???#i mean sure i'm an animation enthusiast but even i can draw the line between an animated series and a cartoon that was made for kids#and believe me that usually does give me the ick#BUT THIS ONE IS LIKE. SO GOOD??? and not in a 'this show isnt just for kids its actually like super deep' way. no#because it is. it is for kids#it's like literally supposed to be informative for little children#and i would fucking love to have this when i was growing up#BUT EVEN IN THAT CONTEXT THIS SHOW IS LIKE REALLY GOOD. ITS STILL ENJOYABLE AND THE CHARACTERS ARENT TWO DIMENSIONAL#if yall got little siblings pls make them watch this..it can be boring for yall idk but i had a blast binging it so maybe give it a watch??#make it like a bonding avtivity with ur siblings?? idk man#this show just deserve so much more#Carmen Sandiego#where in the world is carmen sandiego#netflix#i talk
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Keep seeing Zelda movie news reactions and like feel like my only contribution right now is I'd much prefer live action to an illumination style animated movie...
#i feel like just the littlest bit its showing their target audience isnt *little* little kids which is somethingg#and idk guess like 4 years or so is still a relatively new loz fan for me but#feel like no matter what they do theres no way to please everyone#not even the games bave been able to do that#theres so many different tones they could aim for with it and w so many different mainline games who know which theyll pull the most from#just like#ofc id rather see animation#the art brain in me goes feral about the possibilities there#but idk... its always written off by vast majority of adults as kiddy stuff and like you dont have to tell me it shouldnt be#gosh do I know#but if theyre wanting to make money and be taken seriously#even find a new audience who arent prev loz fans#im not surprised really that this would be the direction theyre working towards#at the end of the day like we already have cartoon and cdi link and even they get love sometimes on this site#its just another link#and maybe one w wasted potential but that doesnt take away from all the amazing ones we already have so ajdkfkf#forgive the million typos my gosh#too lazy to try to fix them tonight but i promise i know how to spell TT
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i love that there's just no generational gap with kids. i showed a couple kids i was babysitting my room n they looked at my crt tv and were like 'ooh you have a tiny tv!!' and they were so impressed lol. they didnt call it old they werent like 'why do you have such a small screen' they just saw something new to them and were like COOL!
#i mean not to say that kids never ask questions like that bc they do all the time but it's not in a way where it's like.. this is outdated#it's just from the perspective of someone being curious abt something they arent familiar with#from a rly objective/neutral stance on it. which is cool#and in a similar way like kids dont see a game or movie or show as 'bad' just bc it's old.. kids will watch something 30 40 years old#and be just as impressed as i or my parents or my parents' parents were when we were all kids#nothing changes abt kids. they are always kids no matter the year no matter the fads#i watched land of the lost with my dad and liked it more than some contemporary cartoons of my time#and every time i show a kid one of my old ps2 games they get addicted to it the same way they would w a new switch release#it's only the adults dictating what kids consume that are truly biased to the era.. the kids themselves don't actually see trends like tht
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i think the whole "miles is ALSO spider man" debate becomes worthless when you realize miles is in fact referred to as spider man in every single rendition of him..... except for the ones aimed at 4-8 year olds. which at that point makes your argument mean nothing
#.text#we know hes spider man. getting mad because of a cartoon show for 5 year olds gives the spideys different names#so it doesnt confuse its audience. of 5 year olds. is like. dumb. dont you have better things to do.#it again just circles back around to the timeless debate or whether or not good cartoons should really be labelled as kids shows#like that one post talking. about how at is still a kids cartoon. even if its good. its a good kids cartoon.#like that.#ultimate spiderman is good! but its still made for 10 year olds.#them giving the different spideys different names so the kids dont get confused isnt like#damning. idk why people act like it is. he is spider man everywhere else. its fine.#like he is one of the few other spideys that DOESNT have a real alternate name even#am i even making sense. who cares. this argument is dumb as hell.#i think people should watch or read things meant for adults every now and then. maybe itll open their eyes#and distract them from problems that arent real
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a pet peeve of mine in cartoons is when they have turtles leave their shells
this is not physically possible. their shells are part of their bodies and cannot be removed
#i have a lot of pet peeves and they all boil down to scientific inaccuracies#'oh but mushroom its just for fun these cartoons arent meant to be educational' kindly shut up#kids are always learning everything is educational#the only things they know about the world around them are what they see and what theyre told#if they are constantly told that turtles can leave their shells theyre going to believe it#im not saying kids are stupid im saying theyre trusting
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Kinda sucks that the live action Avatar is gonna suck (again) because I really wanted to show the story to my mom. Remaking cartoons as live action shows may be idiotic, but it still gives a way for people like my mom who refuse to watch animation for whatever dumb reason the opportunity to still experience good storytelling.
But if the things that made the show good are gone then what's the point? Why should I watch this? Why waste my time? The live action version is going to automatically LOOK worse, so now it has to BE worse too? That just makes it worthless to me at least.
#idc if you like this thing#maybe its good#if it is let me know#but I have seen nothing encouraging about this show#and the lines and scenes I have seen arent anything Id show somebody to endear them to it#maybe once the season is over and I can see how the arc plays out I can decide if its worth it#wish I could just show my mother cartoons but she actually makes gagging noises at the thought#imagining how much stuff she refuses to enjoy because she thinks animation is for kids infuriates me#especially since she cant keep it to herself and thinks theres something wrong with ME for liking it
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best thing about our specific Memory Issues is that mac can buy stuff while someone else is fronting and they won't remember it by the time it gets here so it's like a little surprise gift every time
#its so. hard to put whats going on in our brain into words#its like. im gill. i know im gill. but also mac is here but only sometimes but not really because im still Me#and i know cam and zac arent really Present rn but every once in a while one of them will say something or ill get like#an impulse to Do Something anf its like. that wasnt me .#and we can likeeee. talk to each other? kind of? sometimes?#i got mad earlier bc someone (i think cam) called me stupid and its like.#yeah. i know im the new naive kid who doesnt know anything but like. im not fucking stupid . >:{#anyway . shrug emoji#i have danny phantom on the tv bc mac is here sometimes and i know they like it but i dont really? care aboit it#so im only half paying attention but THEYRE paying attention. but that makes it hard for Me to focus on anything else im doing.#yknow? who knows. not me. this is soooo. weird .#augh#🐙#anyway the point of this post is we just spent nearly 50 dollsrs on an impluse purchase of pins that wont be shipped until november#but mac got SO fucking happy when they saw them so like. idk. worth it?#i dont. get. money.#like i get it i understand it but also. if the thing will make you happy and make things worth living why not get it.#apparently this is “Not How The World Works”#and we are “Below The Poverty Line” but . man idk. its too much i have to watch this cartoon and try to do something else.
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I hate how if you say something like "I wish so many adult cartoons didn't have ugly/bland art styles or were more varied" someone comes out of the woodwork saying "urm actually those art styles are just more reflective of how ugly and harsh and gross reality is" like no they're usually just copying the same homework from 20 years ago and you can make a show reflective of how harsh reality is that has an interesting and appealing art direction
#idk it just feels like a cop out#“oh but reality is ugly so the cartoon is also ugly” shut up#like most shows arent even using the style for that reason its probably just to save money or because its recognizable at least#same thing applies to trying to redraw kids media through a gritty “adult” lense its usually just making it ugly or gross#like the doozer knock offs from high on life i despise those fucking things
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look at her. shes a silly little cartoon fox whos a witch who wears a little fluffy skirt and does fire magic. theres nothing inherently sexual about her design shes just a dog with a pointy snout and freakishly long ear fur. she keeps her emotional support stick with her on her fluffy tail. autistic icon
it makes me so sad that some pokemon have a bad reputation for like Being Anthropomorphic because i love braixen so so much
#i do think braixen is genuinely very cute#and i have attachment to the braixen line as well as to lucario because i have found memories of watching the X&Y pokemon anime#when i was a kid#and serena has a fennekin as her starter#i liked serena lots and her fennekin/braixen/delphox#justice for cute anthro pokemon who arent inherently weird theyre just cartoon animals
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Me when Timmy Turner is a perfect allegory of abuse and neglect from a child's perspective, how while def not intended, the fact the show is mainly from his perspective can explain how cartoonish his parents seem to be as well as the people around him, when in reality his parents, babysitter, and teacher aren't actually as humorous as Timmy perceives them but he's actually in a lot more danger/harm then the audience can see. I know it’s not the intent but if it was it would be almost perfect, his escapism getting more and more intense and his fairies seeming more more close due to the fact they can see how horrible Timmy’s life in general actually is. Like whenever people say “Why does Timmy have fairies and not Chester”, it’s cause Chester isn't miserable.
Chester is happy where he is, and he loves his dad and his mobile house, which is why he doesn't need a fairy’s. Compared to Timmy, where he dosent have much to be happy for, he doesn't have that dad who will say he’s proud of him and watch Sunday Cartoons. He dosent have the freedom of doing what he wants cause of the fact Vicky is his baby sitter (I know Vicky is also Chester’s, but it’s assumed that it’s def not as much as Vicky babysits Timmy almost every single day, leaving little room for other kids.)
Anyway back to my main point- when you actually properly look at what Timmy has to deal with, the whole cartoonish sitcomey/none of it is in the next episode, makes sense, cause he's a kid! He thinks that people are just idiots, not that this is out of genuine uncaringness, or true neglect. Its why Cosmo and Wanda never seem actually concerned, cause this is how TIMMY sees the world, and in his eyes his parents are loving but just busy, rather then uncaring people who don't actually take time for his son, and the only people who actually love him for who he is are creatures from a whole other world! How the people in his life arent failing him personally, their just "cranky adults" when in reality now that we've seen Hazel + other kids parents, it really is just Timmys life. Hell if Dev was the main character of Fairly Odd Parents a new wish, there would be a good chance his dad would seem a bit better, cause when your a kid 9/10 you don't think your life is actually shit. He probably thinks that his life is normal and its just him, when in reality, he deserves so much better :(
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so sorry if you arent giving art tips; but how did you learn to draw poc hair?? i need advice and yours is so cool
Thank you! And I would really mainly recommend studying how other (POC) artists stylize hair, and simultaneously referring to photos of people of color for inspiration + understanding texture.
I think, it's all about the context of your style really. I learned a very looong time ago when I was a kid on how to draw curly hair specifically because I had big ol' curls myself + I was subconsciously studying hair styles of the like in cartoons or media I enjoyed!
The thing is, just don't overthink the shapes. At least for cartoony styles like anime, or one like mine where the texture mainly comes from the coloring + rendering, the structure can be super simple to follow if you don't overthink it.
^ Taking this newer WIP of my OC's really quick for reference! If you look closely, the shapes are mostly just little bumpy cloud-like chunky strokes! And while this isn't rendered hair yet, you can still read it as the texture it's intended as.
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^ An older doodle of my other OCs to show other hairstyles.. While I draw braids + locs a smidge differently now, this was still composed of wobbly lines that I defined a bit with other squiggles! Not so hard I promise! And obviously, I can always do better + I will continue to study/improve.
Some artists I have been particularly inspired by when drawing textured & POC's hairstyles are here if you wanna check them out: southpauz / kidciitrix / p0nyplanet / xavier illustrates / likelihoodart / toorurii .. ETC.! (I love how they draw hair in general LOL it's all so good..) Hopefully this helps a bit!
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if mr krabs is a true crab (assuming for the sake of debate a red deep-sea crab, it's never elaborated on afaik) and pearl's mother is a sperm whale, they belong to completely different phyla. they are so far apart evolutionarily that the idea that they could successfully reproduce is like some shit out of a science horror movie. if it's true that pearl is mr. krabs' biological daughter my first thoughts are either
1. that they (and potentially all bikini bottomites) are somehow the same species or at least closely related enough (like same genus?) to produce healthy offspring, which would work within canon but is kind of unsettling
2. that pearl could be the result of some kind of genetic splicing experiment. so still trying to operate on cartoon logic here, assuming spongebob is literally a yellow tube sponge, patrick is whatever species of sea star he is, etc. and they arent terrible mutant sea monsters, like i said a crab and a whale shouldnt be interfertile. but there is one character who is shown both to have the technology and the ability to fuse two genetically distinct creatures and that is plankton. krabs and plankton have a kind of friendly rivalry going on but they were definitely friends at one point & plankton has known krabs for longer than hes been married or had kids. are you following what im saying. i even could see krabs despite everything being willing to pay for the kind of skeevy expensive procedure to make it possible for him to have a child with his wife who is a mammal. thats just my spogwbob crack theory
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