#cg!Julia

[fandom-nursery]

Hii!! Can I pls request little Mk and CG Julia??

Yep!

Mk is a very mischievous little so Julia has her hands full 

Mk will not eat veggies when regressed unless she is tricked into it. Julia makes a lot of pasta sauce and smoothies to hide the fact she's making Mk eat healthy foods 

Julia likes to do Mk's hair when she's small but Mk rarely has the patience for it or any real interest in it. She will however let julia put her hair into a single ponytail or braid sometimes when she wants it out of her face 

Mk loves to make different messes with different art supplies and will draw/paint/use glue on anything. Her goal usually isn't to make something that looks good and more to make the largest messiest structure she can 

Julia has displayed some of her more successful art creations and markets them to visitors and people who follow her on social media as priceless abstract art. She’s even sold a few of them (with Mk’s enthusiastic permission) and it's become an incredibly lucrative side hustle of theirs 

Mk pulls her bennie down over her eyes when she's overwhelmed, scared, or generally upset. 

Mk really likes to dance when little. She feels less self conscious about looking silly when regressed and Julia has a lot of videos of her dancing saved to her phone 

Mk will call Julia a poopy head and it drives Julia insane that she is actually bothered by the insult  

Mk is a bit of a home body while little. The exception is being taken to aquariums to look at all the fish 

Julia will absolutely put on a movie or youtube to keep Mk occupied if she’s tired 

Mk does have a blanket that she carries everywhere with her. Julia is constantly trying to distract her long enough to wash it without Mk throwing a fit

[pastelearthling65]

Can you pretty pls do CG!julia(from tdr) and agre Y/N?!?:3 🧛‍♂️

yeah ofc

[tinylilacbun]

How would cg!Mike deal with a little reader who's overtired and on the verge of a tantrum?

Definitely would be frustrated at first. You kept whining because he just couldn't understand you!

He sighs rubbing a hand over his face. He had gotten home around an hour ago and already brought Abby to bed, but now he was dealing with little you who was getting more worked up each time he tried to figure out what was bothering you.

"Listen, I'm really trying but you do need to tell me what's wrong for me to help you, alright?" he says standing before the TV and you crossed your arms pouting up at him from your position on the ground before the couch.

"Are you hungry?"

"No."

"You want to draw something?"

"Noooo."

He could see the tears well up in your eyes and he knows you're very close to a tantrum, which is the last thing he wants to happen after the day he had.

The moment you rubbed your eyes and let out a little yawn he sighed in relief at finally figuring out what got you so moody and whiny.

Without saying anything he turned off the TV, ignoring your grunt of disapproval and held his hand out for you, glad you comply and intertwined your fingers with his.

In his room you let out a surprised yelp when he suddenly picked you up and let himself fall back first on the bed with you on top of him, smiling a little when you started to giggle.

"So, I can either read to you or we listen to something, you choose baby." he offers and you sit up thinking for a moment.

"Read to me...pwease?"

5 minutes later you were in your jammies, cuddled up into Mike's side and watching him flip through the pages, the rumbling from his chest as he reads lulling you slowly to sleep.

[redclovercasefiles]

IT'S ✨TRAILER DAY✨

Check out the full trailer for The Red Clover Case Files: Seance Soireé and consider backing us on Kickstarter! http://kck.st/3BP88iv

Freshly minted occult auditor John Tsukimori receives a strange invitation to where his like isn’t wanted: the Seance Soirée, an event hosting some of the biggest stars in spiritualism. Surely it's some kind of mistake, but John's free, and his sister, Julia, is out of school for the summer. Who knows? Might be fun... ...Until a real murder disrupts the morbid circus! John must now push past the smoke and mirrors of professional psychics to prove the killer is among them, and not the great beyond. Time to get to work, Detective.

The Red Clover Casefiles is a 2D visual novel where you will be tasked with navigating a murder-mystery, investigating crime scenes and locales, interrogating a collection of bizarre but intriguing characters, and evaluate all you learn to name the real killer....Or killers.

We are so so so proud of our team and all the work they've put into this game, and we're even MORE excited to be able to share it with you! Mazzie Zumbiel (director, executive producer, line producer, financial planner, head writer, creative lead) @ShannonSketches  (assistant director, concept artist, CG artist, revisionist, storyboard artist) Jonas Tintenseher (co-writer, editor) Denaseey (sprite character artist) Tess Richards (background artist) Mark Knapp Jr (composer) Jennifer Bertaggia (assets developer, accessibility consultant)

[trafficblrpositivityproject]

Massive shout out to my fellow hgcz mods @kunehokki, @corvidaearts, and @cocoabats -- working with you guys has been nothing short of an incredible experience all around and i am so proud and honored to call yall friends. You guys mean the world to me!!! All of your hard work is seen and appreciated not just by me but by all of our contributors and all the readers of the zinethology itself❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Eirian, for your first ever zine modding experience you fucking knocked it out of the park. You were so on top of everything and kept such careful track of what our contributors needed-- you've definitely earned your title as the nicest mod :]]] You have a real skill for moderating social media and you've continued to do so with extreme grace and poise-- im grateful we have you on our team!! You fit into that role so smoothly it was like you were always meant to be there. I hope you are incredibly proud of your hard work, because you put in so much effort to keep that side of our project running smoothly its actually insane❤️❤️❤️ And as the dedication i wrote in the zine puts it, it was you who came up with this project's idea in the first place, and i hope everyone acknowledges your wonderful creativity that led to this once-in-a-lifetime fandom project 🫂🫂🫂🫂

Crow, ive known you for many many years, and you have always been one of the most insanely strong and organized people ive ever met ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ You took on so much behind the scenes, all the logistics and technical duties that we werent equipped to handle by ourselves, and you made them easily digestible for us to keep track of like it was nothing. You are such an important member in our group!! You kept us grounded and greased the wheels when we needed help, picking up extra task after extra task wherever it was needed. All the documents you put together and the notes you helped take during our mod meetings were so crucial to how smoothly the zinethology operated-- we couldnt have done it without you. Also dude your spreadsheets are so fire how the fuck do you do that its like magic

Julia, you worked yourself to the bone organizing our layout, making logos and branding and custom emojis for the social media sections-- you're a goddamn wizard. All this while also acting as a pinch hit contributor, too!!! You were so essential to this project coming together as professionally as it did, and i had a blast working together with you on editing the zine as a whole. Those late nights while you streamed and we chatted about where things should go and how things should look will always be treasured by me, it was lovely to see you work and to just plain hang out with you 🥰🥰🥰🥰 the sheer amount of dedication you put towards our zinethology cannot be overstated and i think that truly shines through every page down to and including the absolutely adorable little hg/cg wings you put around the page numbers :]c

All of you are absolutely incredible and i wanted to pour my heart out a little to make sure you know just how AMAZING of a team you are to work with, and how grateful i am that youre all in my life!! Your passion and creativity truly shines ❤️❤️❤️ heres to next year's barrage of planned zines!! I cant wait to continue working alongside you as your head mod❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@kunehokki + @corvidaearts + @cocoabats !!!

[stupid-raccoon]

Mkulia headcannons

• MK has forced Julia to play every single FNaF game known to man, official and fanmade, and watch the movie

• They sit in the parking lot at Walmart and people watch

• MK is an age regressor(2-4) and Julia is her CG 100000%

• While regressed, MK usually either wanders off, or stays in the same room as her at all times, no in between but she isnt too hyper usually, just walking off while Julia isnt looking

• For Julias birthday, MK thinks its the funniest thing in the world to take her to a restraunt and get all the waiters to sing happy birthday to her and make a scene

• Parents have yelled at them for laughing their asses off whenever a kid faceplants or runs into something and falls

• They ironically read bakudeku omegaverse and have never once taken it seriously, whenever theyre in an argument MK will quote one of them while laughing and Julia will drop the whole argument and leave the room

• MK has a concerning amount of yippee creatures in their room

• Just like how MK would quote the omegaverse, Julia would say Mary Kate in every sentence to piss her off

• Mk has binge watched Bluey and made Julia watch it with her while regressed, Julia tolerates it to an extent

• Mk thrives off of redbull, Julia has made a set time of when Mk gets cut off and how many shes allowed to drink per day since Mk has gotten up at 3AM to get her 9th redbull of the night

• They were both gacha kids and have shown each other their gacha yt channel they had when they were like 8 that somehow got over 300k subs

•Also I feel like Mk is asexual, I could NOT imagine her ever having sex

•Julia convinced Mk to get fake nails one time, after she tried using the bathroom, never again. She could not function with them

•Julia would get MK a carseat. I have almost the same body size as MK shes just like 4-5 inches shorter than me and if I can fit into one she can too

•On the topic of Mk being an age regressor. She would use pacifiers sometimes while shes not regressed just for stimming. She seems like the type of person to not give a fuck, the only reason she cared abt the unicorn was bc it was announced on international TV

•Bowie would help Julia make the carseat MKproof, it would be bite proof, and tight enouh to not strangle her but she cant wiggle free

•Why would MK have a carseat you might ask? Stealing, wreckless driving, they would have a huge ass car, maybe even a bus for the whole cast to go on road trips and MK would try to jump out the window off a dare Ripper or Chase said.

[aidensteddybear]

Can I request CG Julia and Little MK(2)?? Basically where Julia is trying to get things done around the house but MK is caffinated and keeps going behind Julia’s back and messing it up, being “subtle”(obviously not) about it but just trying to annoy her for shits and giggles. She gets put in timeout and ends up finding a crayon on the floor and doodling on the wall of the timeout corner. Eventually she does calm down but since Julia’s upset at her she wont let MK get what she wants(attention) so MK starts doing random stuff(biting, poking, light hair pulling) to get her attention and they both eventually fall asleep cuddling with Bluey on the TV

Regressor! MK w/ Caregiver! Julia

Mischievous little giggles left MK as she wandered around the house, looking for something to mess with.

Julia had been cleaning up around the house, pretty much all day. She would’ve been done by now, if it wasn’t for MK constantly messing with things.

Right now, Julia had just finished up folding laundry and was in the process of putting everything back where it belonged. Since she couldn’t carry all of the laundry, some of it was still folded and sitting in the laundry room.

When Julia left the room, MK quickly made her way in and began to unfold and toss some of the clothes around.

She was quick with doing this, so she wouldn’t be caught. MK immediately dashed out of the room once she was done.

Julia eventually came back to the laundry room, where she stood in the doorway with an expression of shock and frustration.

“MK!” Julia exclaimed, before going to go find where MK had run off to.

She was sitting on the couch, acting as if nothing happened. Though, Julia could see that she was attempting to hide her smirk.

“Do you want to explain to me why there’s clothes all over the laundry room?” Julia questioned. MK simply shrugged in response.

“You don’t know?” This time, MK shook her head, making Julia scoff. “You know I’m not dumb, MK. I know you were the one who made the mess.” Julia told her.

“If you admit it, then maybe you won’t be in trouble.” She said. MK stayed quiet, staring up at Julia with the most innocent expression she could have.

“Alright, well since you don’t want to own up to it, you can go sit in timeout until I’m done with the clothes.” Julia grabbed hold of MK’s wrist and led her to the corner of the living room, with MK whining the whole time.

“Don’t leave this spot until I say so, okay?” MK sat on the floor and looked up at Julia with a glare.

“You can pout all you want. You’re staying in timeout.” Julia spoke, to which MK whined at and turned her head away.

“I’ll tell you when your time’s up.” Julia said, before leaving the living room.

MK sat in the corner, a pout on her face and her arms crossed. She really enjoyed causing some sort of trouble, however she hated the fact that her actions did in fact have consequences.

She’d only been in timeout for a minute, when MK started to get really bored. She started whining dramatically as an attempt to get Julia’s attention, but that didn’t work, since Julia probably couldn’t hear her.

MK kept whining for a few more seconds, before she saw a crayon on the ground. She grabbed it and with a sneaky little smirk, began scribbling on the walls.

After a few more minutes, Julia came back to the living room, where she saw MK coloring all over the walls.

“MK! Seriously?!” Julia rushed over to MK, and snatched the crayon out of her hand. MK responded to her with an angry huff.

“Go sit on the couch while I scrub the walls.” Julia told her. MK went back to whining at her, but she did get up and go over to the couch.

MK watched while Julia cleaned up the walls. She was clearly frustrated about having to clean even more.

When she finally finished, Julia sat on the couch and got on her phone. MK moved closer to her and began poking her cheek a little.

“Stop it, MK.” Julia said. MK whined a little and kept poking her cheek, though Julia just ignored her. She figured MK was only trying to mess with her more.

Since Julia wasn’t paying any attention to the poking, MK lightly tugged on her hair.

“MK, quit it.” Julia spoke with a bit of frustration. MK quietly fussed, still pulling on Julia’s hair.

Though, since that wasn’t working, MK did lean over and bite Julia’s arm, due to being upset and frustrated over not getting her attention.

“Ow!” Julia exclaimed. “Why did you do that?” She asked. MK didn’t answer, however she did climb into Julia’s lap and make herself comfortable.

Julia sighed a bit, but smiled as she wrapped her arms around MK.

“Is it finally nap time, baby?” MK gave a small nod, cuddling closely to Julia. “We watch tv?” The smaller girl questioned. “Sure, honey.” Julia responded. She grabbed the remote and put on Bluey for her.

It wasn’t long, before MK had fallen asleep in Julia’s arms. And due to being so tired from doing house chores, Julia quickly fell asleep a little after MK did. Letting both girls get a much needed nap.

[blake447]

I realized I hadn't shared this here yet! Here's my 3D printed Quaternion Julia Set! See I first learned of these things reading about it from a pretty well known graphics programmer Inigo Quilez. Theirs are a lot prettier! But yeah, if you're familiar with Julia Sets and the Mandelbrot set already, this is basically that but we use 4D complex numbers called quaternions instead of the regular old complex numbers.

The original shaders I used to render them were unity CG/HLSL implementations, but this particular one is from a GLSL implementation over on my shadertoy you can find here: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tdt3W8 It isn't exactly the same one that I've printed here (I've long lost the exact seed) but it is reasonably close. The way I printed it was I stole some marching cube code for blender and just plugged in the SDF function derived by Inigo Quilez, tweaked the values and eventually got a mesh I can print!

This uh, isn't the one I used lol. It did take a few tries to get one that was both visually interesting and also printable. In fact i wasn't even using the marching cube algorithm at first. I was using Poisson Surface Reconstruction with a python script that casted points to form a point cloud. Basically I was attempting to create a mesh like you would with photogrammetry, just with an abstract object rather than an actual thing or place.

The results were, well not good lol.

*Continues digging through box* I know its around here some where, I should have the one that works. Okay this still isnt it but this one is using the same method, I just wanted to use this for a vrchat world instead of using it for 3D printing. It gets the point across lol

But yeah. 3D printing is really cool if you're into a bit of math

[league-of-skins]

Riot Layoffs

Below is a list of Rioters (especially creatives) affected by the recent layoffs. Some seem to point to the generous severance package as reason for why Riot is a “good company” but I think it’s the least they could do considering that many received no warning of their termination and had to find out at the same time as the players while others were left to wonder if they still have a job.

Small edit based on some of the responses I’ve been seeing on Twitter: League of Legends is as successful as it is because of the passionate people behind it. Your favorite skin concepts and music groups and even Arcane only exist because of their creativity and determination, not because Riot, the company itself, created them.

I will try to keep updating this list.

George Ahlmeyer - Concept Artist

Stephen Auker - Design Manager (I also want to highlight that he was the lead gameplay designer for Shyvana’s VGU and this may lead to a delay)

Audrey Axt - Concept Artist

Ellie Beutler - 3D Environment Artist

Matt Burdette - Senior Environment Artist

Luana Bueno - 3D Character Artist

Sonny Burge - Animator

Crystal Chang - Illustration Lead

Zoë Chang - CG Animator

Angelina Che - Illustrator

Jason Cura - Sound Designer

Caytie Davenport - Marketing Writer

Sabrina Futch - Narrative Editor (Comics and Cinematics)

Christopher Hsing - Senior Animator

Emmanuel Lagumbay - Sound Designer

Graham McNeill - Principal Narrative Writer

Jon Moormann - Senior Designer

Natacha Nielsen - Senior Character Artist

Nick Oei - Concept Artist

samiiybl - Riot Games Music Creative Producer

Julia Shi - Senior Story/Visual Development Artist

Beckett Snedecker-Short - Riot Games Music Creative Director

Tyler Soo - 3D Character Artist

Riot Llama - Champion Designer

Tart - Concept Artist

Sean Tay - Art Lead

Tomukus - Principal Visual Designer

Nicholas Werner - Narrative Editor

Maisie Yang - Principal Concept Artist

[agerefandom]

The Magnus Archives

Song of the Hive: regressor!Jane Prentiss horror story  general magnus archives regression headcanons regressor!sasha headcanons regressor!michael shelley headcanons w caregiver!distortion caregiver!annabelle headcanonsBONUS: Entities and Age Regression brief cg!elias headcanons from ask game

regressor!jon art (and again!) regressor!nikola moodboard regressor!julia montauk being feral art regressors!jon and martin art regressor!martin art regressor!jon moodboard: first moodboard ever made for this blog! caregiver!elias moodboard

[greyghoulette]

moments I consider iconic in the vtm new york games (spoilers ofc)

•No one giving a shit about Callihan’s death

•Thomas Arturo having a blackberry phone

•Julia asserting dominance over the Camarilla

•Julia beating the shit out of Kaiser

•Qadir’s car monologues

•Valerie killing Sana at the train station

•Agathon’s grandmother

•Jackie

•D’Angelo’s outfit

•That one cg where it’s just Qadir’s ass taking up most of it

•Carter’s facial expression changing at the end of the good ending of shadows of New York

•Benoit being Christian for the aesthetics

•Vince in the NY by Night book being 19 but in game looks 40 years old

•Katherine Weiss just being there

•Raoul

•Hope being a LOONA stan

•Thomas’s ugly laugh

•Prince Panhard’s met gala outfit

•Qadir pretending he’s playing baseball when he’s about to chop your head off

•Qadir doubting Sophie has read any of the books in her haven

•Adelaide Davis

•Sophie having an entourage

•Larson just getting his shit fucked up

•Julia telling Katherine her gf single white femaled her

•Torque’s hat

[fandom-nursery]

Hii! I am not sure if you have seen the total drama reboot but if you have do you think you could maybe do cg MK and little Julia? Sfw ofc!! Pls and thank you:))

I have seen it! I absolutely loved Mk and Julia's dynamic on the show so here are some of my headcanons about them

Julia usually regresses to around 6 years old

Mk doesn’t really like the label caregiver and prefers to think of herself as more of a temporary babysitter  

Mk found out by accident while snooping through Julia’s stuff. She was surprisingly chill about it and aside from their usual friendly banter and playful insults didn't have anything bad to say about Julia being small sometimes  

Mk takes embarrassing pictures of Julia when she is small and saves them in a private folder on her phone (she secretly thinks they’re really cute) 

In retaliation Julia will often makes Mk do embarrassing things while watching her like dressing up or playing humiliating roles in her pretend games 

Mk is not the best at discouraging bad behavior. If Julia steals something or gets into a fight Mk is more likely to scold her on her poor technique and the fact she got caught 

Julia has a bunch of her old barbies from when she was a kid and loves to create very intricate interpersonal drama between them while playing. Mk has a very good memory and is great at keeping up with Julia’s pretend games 

Little Julia is a super picky eater. Mk keeps a few of her favorite snacks stocked at all times just in case and has the number for her favorite take out place on speed dial 

One of Mk’s many talents as a caregiver is that she is very good at keeping anyone else from finding out that Julia regresses. She is the CEO of gaslighting anyone who even suspects something might be off about Julia. She erases any paparazzi pictures or social media posts that might be incriminating and she gets all of Julia’s little gear herself through various semi legal means so that it won't get tied back to her 

Mk is immune to the puppy dog eyes but that doesn't stop julia rom trying 

Mk is very complimentary of Julia's art when she’s little. She isn’t even lying when she says she likes them either. Mk genuinely thinks Julia’s crayon drawings look very cool 

Mk has made it a habit to steal fancy jewelry for Julia whenever she has the opportunity and she 100% uses it as a bribe when she needs a regressed julia to listen to her about something 

Little julia requires constant attention and will throw a fit if she thinks mk isn't giving her enough

[transparentgames]

Hi, everyone!

Welcome to the Saintess of the Golden Bow August 2024 development update.

This our first update, and we're excited to share our progress on the game,  info on our studio, and more!

Currently, our team is working on the Polished Short Demo and the Extended Demo for the game.

What is the Polished Short Demo (Build 1.01)?

At the end of June 2024 we released the Saintess of the Golden Bow Short Demo (build 1.0). The demo was missing a few art pieces and some voice acting. We're excited to share that we're on track to finish the polished version of the short demo for an early September release.

The Polished Short Demo (September release, Build 1.01) will have the exact same text as the previously released Build 1.0 but will also feature:

The Empress Sprite

Duke George's Sprite

Duke George's first CG where he helps Celeste use the proper salad fork at the ball

Voice acting for Duke George, Celeste and Penelope for that CG

Currently we’ve finished the Empress Sprite and Duke Geroge's Sprite and would like to share art of both characters. The Duke George CG and voice acting will be completed this month.

Why is Duke George getting a CG and what are the plans for Saintess going forward?

The Polished Short Demo (Build 1.01) is the last free build until January 2025 when the Extended Demo will be released.

The Extended Demo will feature:

4-5 hours of gameplay depending on reading speed (that's 3-4 more hours than what we currently have) - the whole Common Route

4 more voice-acted CGs

Sprites for the whole main cast

The Extended Demo will be split into parts and released between October to December on Patreon. Then there will be a public release of an Extended Demo Build in January 2025. We're currently planning a Kickstarter for Spring 2025. In the meantime, we will continue developing the game using funds from our director Anna so that we can be almost done with the first route by the beginning of the kickstarter. The routes will also be released in builds on Patreon after the Extended Demo release, starting with Noah's Route. Once the full game is complete, we will pack it into one build and release it on Steam.

These Development Updates will continue to be free, with additional previews available on Patreon.

Additionally there will be short stories with beautiful extra illustrations released on Patreon starting September 2024.

As for Duke George, we're planning a DLC route for him, funded via a stretch goal on Kickstarter. So if Duke George has won your heart, rest assured that you will be able to romance him as well. His route will be developed and released after the full game’s other routes (Common, Noah, Elijah, Levi) have been completed.

What is the team working on next?

Since we're only missing one CG and some voice acting for next month's release, the team is already working on finalizing the Extended Demo. 

We have three sprites in progress that are needed to complete all expected artwork for the demo. The CGs are finished. Voice Acting for the CGs is in progress. The Extended Demo is fully written, edited and programmed (Anna will only have to go back to add the missing assets).

Here are some snippets from the Extended Demo - more art updates will come over the following months:

Since the Extended Demo script is complete, Anna is currently working on finalizing the outlines for the love interest routes. The plan is to start by writing the Noah route, which already has a completed outline, this month.

Team Updates

In July 2024 the team took a week-long break from development, which helped us refresh after completing the Short Demo. You've seen us posting less on socials - we've been focusing more on development and rest, but we will be returning to active engagement with the game and our audience very soon.

We hope to get the graphics for the Kickstarter page and the Steam page up as quickly as possible.

We're excited that in September and October two new permanent members will be joining the art team - Julia in September and Ola in October. Their presence should speed up development as well.

Thank you for tuning in for this update.

Be sure to check out the next month's development update and the Polished Short Demo as well.

You can download Saintess of the Golden Bow here:

Best,

Transparent Games Team

[tinylilacbun]

cg!Mike Schmidt...any thoughts? cuz im totally up for it 👀

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

Thoughts on Season 3

Yeah, I know, I'm late to the party. I watched this season weekly (except for episode 8, which I watched the same week as episode 1-I wasn't about to wait 8 weeks to see the CG episode) because screw binge culture I feel that’s just how Animaniacs should be watched (although daily works too). This won't be a review of each episode, just a list of random thoughts I had about the season:

—I already thought Titmouse's animation for the show was phenomenal, but it somehow managed to look even better in “Season 3 and WB”! And it’s always great to see more Nora. If Animaniacs does make another comeback I hope they don’t only stick with characters from the original series (plus some inevitable new ones) because nOsTaLGiA. It would suck if we never saw Nora or Julia or anyone from the reboot again.

—It’s nice to see certain catchphrases be brought back, like Wakko’s “Faboo!” and Dot’s “Boys.” Although it’s almost like a monkey’s paw situation, because Yakko doesn’t say “Goodnight Everybody!” at all this season. Not even once. Has that happened thoughout an entire season of Animaniacs...ever? This isn’t a complaint (it doesn’t really matter), but it’s surprising.

--OK, Cindy's officially my third favourite recurring character the reboot introduced. I'm glad her and Starbox got more segments this season, I like them a little more now!

—I like how “Soda-pressed” and “The Island of Dr Warneau” give insight as to what would happen if the Warners were the perfectly behaved, compliant, innocent children the studio always wanted them to be-they'd be miserable, like GiGi and the clones. The Warners may be chaotic and mess about a lot but at least they have a backbone.

--After "Planet Warner" I wonder how many toons in-universe are rejected pitches...it's gotta be ALOT. I liked the reference to "Opportunity Knox" in Talladega Mice (even the usually narcissistic Brain had to admit that plan was poorly thought out), especially since it's usually the Warners who reference their adventures in the original show, whilst Pinky and the Brain almost never reference their past adventures in the original show or their spin off in the reboot. Also, "D.I.Why?" is gonna be stuck in my head for ages, particularly Wakko's verse.

--I REALLY wish "Fantasy" and "Teeniacs" were longer instead of being cold opens. A Warners/Pinky and the Brain crossover and the Warners in high school? I would've watched an entire half hour each of both of those! As they are, they're both still good though.

—There are six Warner siblings now. Sorry I don’t make the rules.

(Seriously though, the clones were so cute! And I commend the segment for having a great moral about cutting out toxic family members.)

--Fun fact, "Global Warnering" was supposed to be in season 2! It's nice to see the Warners go up against another toon/talking animal again, it felt like pretty much all of the "special friends" in the reboot before season 3 were humans. They were mostly humans in the original show too, but some were talking animals. Also my goodness was "Here Comes The Sea!" catchy. Pretty brutal that the Warners basically kill the guy at the end...but let's be honest he deserved it.

--It's nice to know that canonically Brain did feel guilty over what he did to Julia. Ironic that in trying to deal with his feelings of guilt be ends up repeating the same mistake as before-trying to have complete control of Julia, just In a less overt way. I've seen people say that this was an awful thing to do and his way of dealing with it doesn't make sense because it doesn't actually fix anything but...I'm pretty sure that was the point you guys. Brain's an emotionally unintelligent narcissistic control freak, and always has been. In the spin off he once referred to himself crying as his eyes leaking. What Brain does get is math and science-so he did the only thing he knew. He's not in touch with his emotions and is content with sticking with what he knows doing the same things over and over again, which of course leads to him making the same mistakes. Meanwhile, Julia is in touch with her emotions and is willing to change. Julia's his foil, this whole storyline is basically deconstructing Brain as a character. The only thing I don't get is why is he in love with her? I'm glad the feelings clearly aren't reciprocated, but last time he met a mouse that seemingly became as smart as him (Billie) that was a turn off for him. Or maybe he IS at least a little threatened by Julia's intelligence and that's why he programmed her to be a housewife?

--Basically, I do have some issues with the Julia storyline (as funny as she is they could've done something more interesting and nuanced than turning her into a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain, I could do without Brain actually having feelings for her, and I think her trying to take Pinky away from Brain because she genuinely thinks he'd be better off without him would have been more interesting than her basically ignoring Pinky most of the time) but showcasing Brain's flaws isn't one of them. I'm glad the real Julia showed up in episode 7, would've sucked if what's unfortunately probably gonna be her last appearance in anything ever technically didn't even have her appear. I'll admit I don't really see the point of having two Julias now but I'm guessing they would've done something cool with that plotline. Maybe one day they will! Hopefully the idea for season 4 was that Brain would finally attempt to make things right for real.

--I liked episode 8 overall, but yeah that first scene sucked. I'm not gonna debate this with anyone in the comments-I don't like it. Not just the comments about Wakko, the "boomer" joke and the "lol girls don't play video games!" joke in 2023 were pretty lame. But I'm not gonna rant about it, plenty of people have already. That being said, the Warners looked great in CG, and the rest of the episode was actually funny. They even referenced the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and Game Boy Animaniacs game and got a studio (Flystudio) who actually worked on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to do the 3D animation!

--Also, did not expect Starbox and Cindy of all things to get some sense of closure, with it seeming like Starbox will eventually warm up to living with Cindy. Yeah there's that cliff-hanger...but the clone will probably end up like the last one lol.

--One of the scientists who conducted the "Learned Helplessness" experiment on Brain appears near the beginning of episode 9. I swear he even has more white hairs now, neat detail. Also, I guess Yakko being lactose-intolerant is now officially a constant thing in canon and not just a random gag, that's cool. "How The Brain Thieved Christmas" was fine, but Brain is basically learning the same thing he learned in the original PatB Christmas special. That dub-step remix of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" was unexpected but awesome, and "We Could Try to Do It, Santa" was great too!

--If "Some of Humanity's Wins" ends up being the last full Animaniacs song we ever get (with the Warners' og voices at least), then that's not a bad song to go out on, I like the optimistic message! And I'm so glad to hear Sherri Stoner as Slappy again, she literally sounds the same as she did decades ago, that's amazing. Slappy being retired makes way too much sense.

--So...about that ending. Apparently the meteor was more of a metaphor wasn't meant to be taken too literally. Even if you ignore what Gabe Swarr said on Twitter about how the Warners survived (plus Everyday Safety likely being an in-universe filmed sketch anyway), Yakko has outright said he's impervious to physical harm in "Yakko Amakko" and Wakko said they're immortal in "WARnerGAMES". So I'm just gonna assume the Warners are fine. And although it does technically count as a downer ending, the comedic timing of the meteor's impact was too good for me to hate it. And hey, unlike the original series there was no implication they'd be locked up in the water tower this time so...yay...?

--Here's my ranking of the episodes (from best to worst):

3, 7, 6, 10, 9, 5, 1, 8, 4, 2

I'll keep this last paragraph brief, this post is getting pretty long. The best moments in season 3 are some of the best of the reboot, period. I'm gonna miss this show, I wouldn't even be into Animaniacs without it, and it deserves to have more episodes.

I like to think maybe some day it will!

[belleandkurtbastian]

“The Muck of Merkmere” (Play It By Ear 1x02)

“Tonight, we present a Victorian tale. We’ll be capturing the flair of classics like Sweeney Todd and Phantom of the Opera. We invite you to explore the Muck of Merkmere.”

Host: Mano Agapion [he/they]

Players (in order of introduction):

Jess McKenna [she/her]

Zach Reino [he/him]

Jiavani [she/him]

Chris Grace [he/him]

Band:

Marnina Schon [she/her] - violin

Gary Grantham [he/him] - drums

Scott Passarella [he/him] - keys

Location: Merkmere

Characters (in order of appearance):

Townsperson 1 - ZR

Townsperson 2 - JM

Diarrhoea Witch/Julia Indisguise - Ji

Fish-and-shitmonger - CG

Donkey/Henrietta Henry - CG

Geribold Henry - JM

David - ZR

Butler - CG

Manor staff - ZR, JM, Ji

Cursed painting - ZR

Valet - Ji

Tea kettle - Ji

Spider Boy - Ji

Hammer Man - Ji

Numbers:

“The Best Worst City in the World” - Townspeople, Julia Indisguise, and Fish-and-shitmonger

“Back for Vengeance” - Geribold Henry and ensemble

“Dressed to Oppress” - David, Valet, and ensemble

“Tighten It” - Geribold Henry and David

“How Dare You” - Geribold Henry and David

“A Box of His Own” - Henrietta Henry and Geribold Henry

“Expand My Magic” - Julia Indisguise, Townsperson 1, and Geribold Henry

“We Have the Numbers” - David, Geribold Henry, Henrietta Henry, and Julia Indisguise

“Should We Just Be Sad?” - Geribold Henry, Henrietta Henry, David, and Julia Indisguise

Prompts:

The phrase “The Best Worst City in the World” (“The Best Worst City in the World”)

“That unmistakeable thing they do”

A song where the band occasionally cuts out (“Back for Vengeance”)

A dark duet where at some point the phrase “Dressed to Oppress” is used. (“Dressed to Oppress”)

A scene of subtle threatening wordplay

A duet that starts slow and gradually gets faster and faster (“How Dare You”)

A song featuring the phrase “We Have the Numbers” (“We Have the Numbers”)

Random romance subplots:

None