#ill write it for you dreamworks

[octobre-ackedia]

I'm gonna rewrite Megamind VS The Doom Syndicate but make it actually good and I have an entire doc with ideas already and idk, does anyone even want to read that?

[missescalientee]

Human Explorer Jade, she’s asking JD if he’d still love her if she was a worm

The answer is yes ofc

A different hue I also liked

[vixendoesstuff]

Wow, writing fanfiction is harder than it looks when you have nothing to start with.

Like, I already have a broad plan in mind of how I want things to go, like how long pre-canon stuff is before going to the main story, but actually starting from point one is... hard.

Right now I have three options on how I want the prologue to be;

One is a dream sequence of baby Techno!Branch being comforted by one of his bro's (Floyd, possibly) about him being different than others and being reassured that he'll always have his brothers to rely on, then snaps back to reality of Branch (all grown up and grey) waking up from the memory.

Option two is basically no dream sequence, but instead brief flashbacks of his life leading up to his grandma's death, and then waking up in a cold sweat.

(Yeah, they're similiar in premise, but it's different enough for the tone of the fic to be set, y'know?)

And the third is not in Branch's POV, but JD and Grandma Rosiepuff's. Basically it's been about a month after the last Trollstice, with it taking BroZone's parents away (I'm subscribing on this headcanon for the sake of fic progression), and JD is sitting on a branch high up reminiscing. And suddenly a bird drops a "dookie" (Branch's egg) through the bars and onto the ground, so JD went to investigate and found the egg. Without thinking much of it (big bro protectiveness activated) he brought the egg back to the fam, and Rosiepuff just knew that this isn't a normal Troll egg. When it hatched and baby Techno!Branch came along, she decided, "actually, I like this one, I'll call him Branch" and the rest goes the way you'd think.

[warning-heckboop]

While I'm out here rewatching the Trolls episodic series again, here's another proposed episode plot for a series that would take place after the third movie (previous text post on this topic found here):

The premise for this episode would be based on the Trolls: The Beat Goes On season 2, episode 1, Prank Day. And since it's coming from me, surprise surprise, it's Clay-centric.

So Prank Day rolls around, and it's the first time the other four brothers have been present for this particular holiday in years. Floyd chooses to opt-out of participating in this holiday, citing his lingering exhaustion from still recovering as his reasoning. Branch, who's still a bit scarred from Poppy's previous endeavors to prove she was the prank master, also decides to sit out of this one, choosing to stay in his bunker and make sure Floyd is comfortable instead. (This would probably be the sub-plot of the episode, where Floyd and Branch end up trying to get each other with simple, harmless pranks within the bunker that maybe end up snowballing a bit out of control.)

Poppy and Viva go off for their own shenanigans, so this leaves the three oldest bros to participate together--except for one little thing. Clay doesn't really want to join in on the pranking, and admits he'd rather just relax and read for the day instead. This gets John Dory's attention, who insists that Clay has to participate! At least with one prank! He doesn't have to be the overall fun-boy anymore, but that doesn't mean he can just be a stick in the mud all the time. And, to Clay's dismay, Bruce actually agrees with JD, and tries to encourage Clay to let loose a little. Prank Day used to be Clay's favorite holiday when they were kids, after all! (Insert cute, wholesome flashbacks here of toddler Clay pranking his older brothers and all three of them laughing and having a good time.)

Clay isn't swayed by his brothers, and tries to find a nice, quiet place in the village to read. JD and Bruce, of course, refuse to let this go, and end up following their middle brother around and pulling tiny, mostly harmless pranks on him to try to encourage him to prank them back. Clay continues to get increasingly annoyed, especially when these pranks start to seriously interfere with his reading by getting his book soaked or covered in glitter. At some point, he snaps, throws his book down, and storms off.

JD and Bruce, unfortunately, are not discouraged by their brother's "bad attitude", and so they leave the book where it is and go to seek Clay out again.

They track their brother outside of the village, into a heavily shaded part of the forest, and only then to they start to feel uneasy. They hear movement in the brush around them, and the faint, haunting sound of laughter on the wind. They eventually reach a dead end, and, confused, turn to head back to the village.

That's when Clay pounces out from the nearby shadows, hair frazzled and eyes glowing red. With a wide grin and maniacal laughter, he's after his brothers, who scream in panic and start running back towards the village. Along the way, they're slowed by a multitude of prank-traps that have seemingly been set up by Clay for them specifically. JD and Bruce try to talk to Clay, telling him this is too much and they want him to stop, but to no avail.

Eventually, one of the pranks ends up trapping the duo of older brothers. As their now-seemingly-feral younger brother stalks closer, JD and Bruce start apologizing profusely, admitting that they shouldn't have pushed Clay so much, and they get it now, pranking isn't fun when you ask someone to stop and they just ignore you. They were being jerks, they're sorry!!

While the two brothers cower in fear of what's to come, they start to notice the laughter in the air changing pitch. Soon enough, it doesn't sound like Clay's laughter, anymore. Instead, it sounds like another, equally familiar laugh they both know quite well: Viva's.

Finally stepping fully out of the shadows, it's revealed that the "Clay" who's been chasing them isn't their brother at all, but instead Viva, who's disguised herself with a change of clothes, makeup, and one of Clay's rompers to make herself look like him. Even the glowing red eyes, it turns out, are only a result of Viva's naturally deep-pink eyes. Obviously, JD and Bruce are baffled at first, until Viva explains the situation in it's entirety. After their last prank, Clay really was upset, so much so that he told Viva what happened and that he was going back to the golf course for the remainder of the day to get some peace. Viva was, of course, saddened that Clay was made to be so upset by his own brothers, and so she took matters into her own hands to teach the two of them a lesson.

At the end of it all, Viva offers the two brother's Clay's discarded book from earlier, telling them that it might be a good start to an apology to their brother to clean it up and bring it back to him. JD agrees with a smile, saying they've both definitely learned their lesson and definitely want to go apologize as soon as possible, and opens the book to take a look at the damage they've caused--

--only for both he and Bruce to be struck by spring-loaded pies from inside the false pages, while a recording of the real Clay's laughter plays from inside. JD and Bruce yell out in frustration while Viva giggles away.

Cut to Clay at his home in the golf course, contentedly reading to himself. He smiles and winks at the camera, then the episode ends.

[whumpacabra]

Chapter 7. Anchored

Betrayal, on the run, lost, illness, disorientation, weakness, regret, anticipated violence, implied past parental death, whump of a minor [11]

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Finn fidgeted with his bandaged hands. (Only one was actually injured. The other…) He bit the black claws back to stubs, chewing his nails to nothing in his anxiety. The captain didn’t know. And it felt wrong.

(Not as wrong as what he was about to do.)

The ship was docked, the port sunny and warm and full of vibrant sights and sounds and smells. The crew were happy to disembark, if only to stretch their legs on land before off-loading the cargo. So Finn took advantage of the abandoned cargo hold to sift through the crates.

It was an almost magnetic pull, something that made his face twitch like looking at the sun before a sneeze. He quickly narrowed down the crate, by some miracle left on top of the others where he could easily reach it.

His hands shook, one from pain and the other from fear as he began to pry off the lid.

There, unassuming and packed with straw among a pile of others so much like it. But this was his. (His mother’s. It smelled like her.)

Finn sniffled, tears welling in his eyes as he held the seal pelt to his face. (As soft as he remembered but twice as cold.) The brief but bitter reunion was soured by the creaking of boards above. Someone was on the ship.

He held the pelt to his chest, heart in his throat as he crept toward the ladder. Finn didn’t want to steal from these people, they were so, so nice to him. But he couldn’t let them take his only memory of his mother to market.

The footsteps retreated, and the boy clambered up the rope ladder to the deck, scanning for any of the crew on the pier below. The coast was clear - save for Isla, who kept watch while bartering docking fees with the dock master.

A perfect chance.

“Hey - Finn! Get back here!”

Her voice faded as Finn rushed down the pier, sea legs unsteady but quickly carrying him into the crowd.

“Somebody stop him!”

Fear sharpened his senses and spurred his pace. Finn burst into the street, ducking away from the crowd to sprint through the narrow side streets. He kept running until his lungs burned, the city around him alien.

(But he had his mother’s pelt. That’s all he ever wanted, even if she would never wear it again.)

—

Morning bled to midday, and they hadn’t found him. Finn hoped they didn’t; he had given them enough trouble, and he knew a whipping would be the least of his punishment for stealing from pirates. But he was growing ever more unsure of his decision to leave the ship.

Every step further from the pier, with solid earth and cobbles underfoot, seemed to sap the boy’s strength. Finn felt faint and nauseous, but considering the waning fear of the pirates, he assumed it would pass as he calmed down.

His pace slowed to stumbling, the pelt still grasped to his chest. He was suddenly aware of the way people glanced at him, some suspicious, some confused, and worse yet, some worried. Finn needed to get off the street. Rest. Hide. He didn’t feel well out here in the sun.

The boy stumbled into a alleyway, the stench of refuse hardly phasing him. He felt so miserably weak and sick. (He always had been weak. Sickly. But this was different; this was so sudden and stark, unlike any illness he ever weathered.)

Finn shivered, his mother’s pelt still so cold. But he was holding it. It was in his hands. And they would have to pry it out of his cold, dead hands.

(Which seemed more and more likely by the minute; he wasn’t feeling any better here in the shade, and he doubted he had the strength to stand again. Why was he sick? Where had his strength gone?)

Finn was starting to get scared again, the day passing him by between fevered blinks. He was starting to regret running, if only because he didn’t want to die here, alone, in a strange place. He wanted to be by the sea -

He never should have left the ship.

Would he be punished for his disobedience and thieving or would they kill him? Would they even let him return? He already missed them all. Sweet Marie’s husky lullabies, Friar’s rambling prattle, Kell’s card tricks, the Captain’s hugs -

Tears trailed down his face for the second time that day. His sobs were weak, gasping shallowly for air. He wanted to go back, but even if he could get back to his feet, he was hopelessly lost. His frantic sprint from the ship had been disorienting enough, but now the shadows were starting to lengthen.

Finn felt a familiar terror of death hanging over him, like a blade to his throat. But this time he couldn’t see the hand holding it, or beg for mercy. His own body betrayed him. And he couldn’t save him himself.

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Taglist: @bloodredfountainpen @43orca

[kkpaaw]

And if I told yall that this is a fic in the making-

Fuckin, Pre Trolls 1 au where Branch and Creek have a one night stand, don't know HOW it happens, but it does and It ends with Branch being with egg and the au is just him struggling with the realization that he's going to have Creeks kid, struggle to care for the egg and tryna figure out how to handle his and Creeks still sour, but now kinda awkward relationship whiel also battling his own issues in the process. angst with some heartwarming moments and BREEK (my beloved)

[s-lorelei]

🌿 Sheileigh (Shylee) 🌿 She/Her || 21

Gender: female ♀️

Sexuality: aroace/bisexual 🏳️‍🌈

Fun fact: I made this divider! ♥︎

Fandoms: AoT, Sk8, WoF, Warrior Cats, Harry Potter, HTTYD, ATLA, Hazbin Hotel

Personality: sweet as a lemon 🍋 {I can be super sweet though, I swear 🍰}

💚 Likes: coffee w/ extra creamer, dill pickle chips, spicy food, thunderstorms, fluffy clothes, succulents, hyacinths, betta fish, cats, honeybees, tigers, reading, cottagecore anything..

⚠️ Dislikes: rain (the getting wet part), cold weather, math, cigarette smoke, men who are jackasses to me or any of my girlies, dogs, wasps (why do they have to exist?), fanfiction, people who act like jerks and then turn around and play the victim when they’re finally accused of their awful behavior..

🚫 Things I absolutely despise: ATYD, trans rights activists who don't do their research, anti-feminists (asshole men & idiot women who think they can't live without a man), people who hate J.K. Rowling, proshippers, Severus Snape haters (Snaters), Tiktok, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, Pete Hegeseth, J.D. Vance (hillbilly, my ass. You're from Ohio, my guy.), Marjorie Taylor Greene, RFK Jr, literally anyone in the Trump Administration right now.

💖 Things that I adore: Santa Fe salad, my grandma's cooking (seriously, she makes some awesome chicken and carrot stew.), Justin Trudeau, Volodomyr Zylenskyy, my cat Apollo.

‼️ Current obsessions: The 9/11 Bush Administration theory (9/11 was 100% an inside job), man vs bear experiment, getting into a self-care routine.

🚫 DNI LIST ‼️:

Misogynists

TRAs

Trump supporters

"Pro-life" supporters

Anti-Ukrainian/Pro-Putinists

Radqueers

"Plural" people with "systems." This is called having a mental illness, and you should probably be looked at by a medical professional.

Proshippers (as in the people who write incest or pedophilia fics on their blogs because I have seen some)

Marauders stans (If you're a normal Marauders era person, you're fine. I just don’t need any delulu tiktok fans in here.)

Snaters

Any form of paraphilia (pedophilia, agraphilia, necrophilia, etc.)

Islamophobics/antisemitics

People who identify as 100+ different things because that's just weird and unnecessary

Yes, I will know because I look at profiles when people follow or reblog.

EXTRA (things I am):

A gender critical, radical feminist, and no I don't care if you hate me for it

A person who loves canon works. No, I'm not reading a 500k word fanfic that's an AU while everyone on Tiktok is passing it off as the law. I'll read it to criticize it and that's it.

A democrat in a deeply red state

A multishipper (I learned this from my high school years of watching anime.)

A heart surgery patient. I had surgery when I was ten to repair seven holes in my ventricle septum. (Shoutout to the Vanderbilt doctors of Nashville, TN!)

(I also made this one!)

FANDOM INFO (interests and just stuff to do with fandoms/books and television):

Favourite genres: mystery, thriller, fantasy

Favourite books: The Giver, The Hobbit, Red, White & Royal Blue, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince

Favourite animes: Attack on Titan, Sk∞ the Infinity, Banana Fish, No.6, Yuri!!! on Ice, Bungou Stray Dogs, Terror in Resonance, Seraph of the End, My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer, Angels of Death, Your Name

Favourite mangas: Assassination Classroom, Attack on Titan, Apocalypse no Toride (seriously, this is such a good manga and deserves an anime, the issue is that the author stopped updating/the manga got axed 😭)

Favourite characters: Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Bill Weasley, Bilbo Baggins, Ravi Singh, Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Jean Kirstein, Tamaki Amajiki, Cloudykit, Whiteout, Turtle, Queen Snowfall (a lot of Wings of Fire characters)

Favourite Disney movies: Raya and The Last Dragon, Brave, Moana (the first one, not whatever wretched thing the second one was), Tuck Everlasting, The Lone Ranger, Encanto

Favourite Dreamworks movies: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, every HTTYD movie, El dorado, every Shrek movie (except this newest one, probably), Shark Tale, Kung Fu Panda, Over The Hedge, The Croods, there's so many Dreamworks movies that I love.

Overall favourite movie: Coraline (I could literally watch it on repeat forever), I also love Racing Stripes.

Favourite ships: Eruri, Drarry, Snily, Harry × Luna, Draco × Pansy (ik I also ship drarry but dransy is so cute ngl), AshEiji, Yurio × Otabek, Nezushi, Jeankasa, Kiribaku, Izuocha, and many more.

[r0sy-maple-m0th]

im just now realizing that I've had this account for over a year now and I haven't ONCE properly introduced myself! lemme fix that;

hiii! so im r0sy.maple.moth, maple for short. I used to go by beetlebug until I found out that was a singer, and my irl nickname is v/vee.

im pretty flexible with pronouns, gender doesn't mean all that much to me, but I do use she/her for the most part. also im panromantic demisexual so hehhh, ladies? laaadies?? just kidding im newly single and still a minor don't hit me up lmao 😭🙏

ok rapid fire random facts; my favorite color is yellow, i have two male cats (mischa and noodle!!), my favorite sanrio character is hangyodon, and I LOVE moths and butterflies.

i post drawings, random anecdotes about whatever topic has begun living in my frontal lobe, and writing updates. my ao3 is dry as hell rn cuz I deleted the one fic I had up (it was old and about dreamworks trolls don't come at me.....). im always working on new projects tho so ill lyk whenever I do post on there!

ive been in lots fandoms over the years but rn the most prominent ones are the nevermore webtoon, genshin impact, and cookie run kingdom.

that's all ig, nice to officially meet you!;D

[unicorn-maggots]

about me !!!

this is just a little about me section (this will be updated ever so often)

Hiiiii !!! my name is maggits (or lynnn if ur close) and im a digital artist!! i usually make art that's oc related and make the occasional fanart of my favorite character stuff like that. i dont draw very often so i wont post too too much but yk life goes on, i make whispers and write about oc lore or go on rants about my favorite media.

heres some important info !!!

my pronouns are she/they and i am a minor so be wary of that when speaking to me

DNI if you're: racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, ableist, wojoshu, lolicon, a pedo and so on. i am in full support of Palestine and general human rights this is not hateful space i want people to come here for for a safe space to be themselves not to hate or bully others !!!

some of the things i draw or write about may be triggering to some. i speak out about topics of any and all abuse and SA and there may be sexual themes in some of my art (most of it is nonsexual nudity though let me be clear) and i always try to put some trigger warning before hand <:)

here are some of the fandoms im in !!! (theres a lot...)

Mouthwashing

Gravity Falls

arcane

beastars

blue eye samurai

undertale/deltarune

ddlc

HSR

Genshin impact

adventure time

steven universe

Fallout (the amazon prime series)

hazbin hotel/helluva boss (sorta theyve become frustrating but ill include them cuz i like talking abt em :3 )

Little Nightmares

Minecraft

Roblox

Poppy Playtime

fnaf

TADC

Murder drones

southpark

the owl house

danganronpa

anything vocaloid

spooky month

mlp (friendship is magic specifcally)

monster high

TBHK

MHA ???

MCU

anything batman related

TAWOG

tmnt 2012 and rotmnt

Trolls (the dreamworks movies...)

dhmis

morel orel

good omens (old man yaoi..)

if u wanna talk to be abt any of these fandoms i am so up for it !! i love talking about my interests even if there isnt anything listed here u wanna talk abt im an open ear willing to listen !! i love learning abt others interests and such so itd be really nice <:)))

about the stuff i post !!!

i post generally oc art and such (theyre my babies) i aim to either make a show (or even possibly a game) about my world that i share with my friend @grayalreadyis !!! its slowly yet surely growing and changing and its going fairly smooth <:)))

we both write mainly fantasy, romance, action and such!!! but gray is working on a webcomic themself so keep watch for that...(i will promote the fuck out of it watch me)

when writing my fantasy stories unless specified theres generally no limits with whats in that world, i want to add as many fantasy species as i possibly can lmaooo

i take heavy inspo from the media i watch and read and whenever im writing i do try my best to make it semi realistic lol

that's all !!!

im still slowly posting stuff on here so i hope you enjoyed reading!! again dont feel too scared to approach and talk to me i very much enjoy interacting with people!

find me on other sites !!!

i hope you have a lovely rest of your day/night stay safe !!!

[fangomango]

Btw you should read this because I'm cool and all of you like the sleep paralysis Floyd post...

I wrote that just because of this fic so you are obligated to read it :3

its a WIP and not that good and i haventg written fanfiction since 8th grade so...be nice :3

To say Floyd had seen better days was an understatement, he was beaten, bloodied, and bruised. He had hugged death for a second, but with the love of his brothers, he released his grip and came back. But that didn't make him all okay, enduring actual death and over two months of torture, though the exact duration of his separation from the world was unknown to him, which was a revelation reserved for a later date. Right now everyone’s priority was making sure Floyd was ok and safe.

And to be sure of that they put a deeply traumatized and injured man in a van for (blah) days.(this line is temporary, i just needed to put something there) Everyone was worried about Floyd, despite not dying he was still unconscious for a while. Only waking up when his dreams got too vivid for him. it was a sensation that transcended the physical realm and delved into the very core of his existence. It was as if his skin had been peeled away, exposing raw nerves to the relentless squeeze of an unseen force, a malevolent hand he was all too familiar with wringing out every ounce of vitality. Floyd remembered it all too well and it pained his brothers to see it.After nearly two decades of separation, they finally reunited with him, only to find him as a mere semblance of his former self.

[competentcormorant]

We need to talk about Secrets of the Songwing and LGBTQ representation.

Dreamworks. Hey. Sup.

Remember when you made Secrets of the Songwing?

That one Rescue Riders special where they tried to do the representation thing but ended up making something that honestly borders on genuinely insulting, despite being surprisingly beautiful on the surface?

Because I remember. Secrets of the Songwing lives rent free in my head. Do I love it? Just a little, to be honest. I find ending sequence is genuinely beautiful. Here’s why it’s shit representation. If you also have feelings I’m open to discourse in the comments :)

The story follows the Rescue Riders (as well as a bunch of side characters whose appearance in the story makes ZERO sense without the show to prop them up) as they attempt to thwart Melodia, a rogue Songwing dragon who hypnotizes other dragons by singing to them. Melodia is heavily implied to be gay, but this is only revealed at the very end of the movie.

Right off the bat, this story has some extremely dark undertones, including the implication that hypnotized dragons will forgo food and sleep, and will simply sing until they die. That’s not why we’re here. I promised bad representation.

As the story progresses, Melodia hypnotizes some of the Rescue Riders dragons, and the rest of the team begins to concoct increasingly ill-conceived plots to get them back. (Side note: This movie has an excessive reliance on earplugs and being unable to hear hypnosis song. Unfortunately, these are magical plot earplugs, and they block Melodia’s singing but literally nothing else, because writing cause and effect is difficult. Additionally, I suspect they paid the writers in Swiss cheese instead of money.)

Things escalate, and Layla (a Rescue Rider) identifies Melodia as a Songwing dragon. (“I didn’t realize at first, because songwings usually travel in pairs”) OH REALLY? YOU DIDN’T RECOGNIZE THE MASSIVE SPARKLY SINGING RAINBOW DRAGON BECAUSE THERE WEREN’T TWO OF THEM? Suuuure Layla. Remember this line. It will be important later.

Eventually, the riders manage to get the still-hypnotized dragons to return to Berk. (Sorry, knockoff Berk) There are a few pointless plot threads involving show characters, and then Melodia shows up at Not-Berk to hypnotize the Vikings as well as the dragons she already controls. At this point, her motive has not been established beyond “I want everyone to sing with me.” While it is implied that she’s lonely (and, going off of the single offhand comment Layla made earlier, missing her “songmate,” as Songwings travel in pairs) this implication of loneliness only really occurred to me in hindsight, and is inexplicably and poorly explained to the audience by Dax, another rider, at the very end. This movie’s 4 year old target audience probably have NO CLUE why this massive rainbow dragon is flying around trying to hypnotize everyone to “sing with me forever.”

Melodia is not a sympathetic character, because her supposed loneliness is never on display for the audience. All we see is a happy go-lucky dragon stealing free will with some mediocre songs.

Continuing with the plot, Melodia hypnotizes the entire population of Not-Berk. Only a few Riders are left unhypnotized. Exessive screen time is dedicated to making Melodia appear selfish, having the entire village pass her fish while no one else eats. Why? Why not make her sympathetic? This choice to make her completely villainous until her defeat is an extremely strange choice for a character the writers intend to redeem suddenly at the very end.

In the background, Layla is having a subplot about being able to sing in front of people, because only a better song can break a Songwing’s spell. Does it make sense? Not really, but this plot is set up and loosely held throughout the movie, so I really can’t complain about it.

Anyhow, Layla and Melodia have a song battle, and Layla wins, unhypnotizing the knockoff Vikings of Not-Berk. Right until the end of this song battle, Melodia remains unchanged, attempting to keep control. When Layla wins, Melodia’s personality shifts entirely.

Melodia sinks in on herself, and says “help? you’d help me?”. She is immediately FORGIVEN by Layla, saying “you said you lost your songmate, right?” (No, actually. She never said that. The only previous mention of a pair of dragons in any capacity is when Layla brings it up as a trait of the Songwing species. The conversation this line references never happened.) While I can forgive some plot holes in low-budget kids movies, this inconsistency is so blatant and problematic that it makes the ENTIRE PLOT OF THE MOVIE (That loneliness can make people to terrible things, and that those people can still be redeemed. This plot is utterly mishandled, to the point that they literally have Dax TELL MELODIA that “You lost the other half of your pair, and you’ve been trying to replace it with dragons and people.” YEA DAX, I think Melodia would know. Why not have her say it herself? OR SHOW HER BEING LONELY? Oh sorry, I forgot, you think kids are morons, and your writers are actually trapped in a basement signaling desperately for help).

Anyhow, this inconsistency- referencing a conversation about Melodia’s songmate that didn’t happen, makes the ENTIRE PLOT POINTLESS, because the writers FORGOT TO ESTABLISH THE LONELINESS, which was LITERALLY THE WHOLE POINT. (I genuinely could not believe that there wasn’t context for Layla’s line, so I rewatched the movie. Several times. Layla is referring to an event that didn’t happen)

After this series of increasingly odd writing choices, the movie moves on to a genuinely beautiful ending sequence.

No joke there, I just love it. Melodia is presented with a sound amplifying devise Layla used for a bit during her singing confidence sub-plot, and she uses it to call for her songmate. In a vacuum, this sequence is incredible. Cantana, her songmate, hears her, and they have a brief reunion duet.

With the rest of the movie as context, it has the single glaring issue of releasing a horrific, unsympathetic villain with zero repercussions.

Hell, if that scene had been framed as “what you did was bad, but you aren’t, so we’ll help you as long as you never do it again,” I would have no issues (again, kid’s movie. I can accept a simple, forgiveness-heavy narrative).

But while I understand a movie trying to teach young children forgiveness, this is TERRIBLE. Melodia doesn’t appear repentant, she appears manipulative. She suddenly changes tune after being defeated and outnumbered, and then gets to walk away Scot-free.

While I don’t object to having gay villains in movies, any more than I could object to straight villains, I do object to heavily relying on established gay villain tropes. (May I remind you this is a magical, singing, selfish rainbow dragon)

But ultimately, by biggest problem with this movie is that “being gay” is a substitute for a redemption ark. Seriously. That’s such a dumb sentence. I SOULD NOT have to write that.

You can make Melodia an unapologetic villain (who also happens to be gay).

You can give Melodia (who also happens to be gay) a redemption arc.

But you CANNOT do this.

Dreamworks, this is a dumpster fire. Please think before you release movies.

What the fuck.

Stop paying your writers in Swiss cheese.

It’s still better than How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Change my mind, you cowards.

[aotgdevblog]

Day 113 of production studio guidebook

4_22_24

Hello everyone!

Made a second page for 'hosting meetings with production manager(for producers)' although I think that I might just make one 'hosting meetings slide' instead since the producer meets with other studio members, for the purpose of updating/adding/removing organizers, you know what, I can have that, and then meeting with managers/directors for handing out assignments. Ok, I like this plan, debating whether to go to bed or not i've been up since 6:30 this morning...ok ill write down what I need to get done tomorrow, i've gotten a good chunk done of my costume, I can dedicate time to just studio stuff. (owo

(weather update: still waiting for summer, gas bill is expensive)

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AOTG is a fan series that takes place after the 2012 movie Rise of the Guardians.

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[missescalientee]

Late to post but this is my first art of 2025!! I made this starting at about 1 am ending at about 4 am, didn't have the energy for the bg but the rendering is p accurate for the scene XD

I need to continue this story and practicing backgrounds, but yeah this is a way future scene from my fic

It's still on Movie 1 but we're getting there lol

Anyway here's to an amazing 2025!!

[heyitschartic]

Tagged by @vikugnavikugna

coke or pepsi? You know I love coke, but in terms of soda I'll have a diet pepsi.

disney or dreamworks? Dreamworks

coffee or tea? I drink like seven coffees a day

books or movies? BOOKS. I love movies, but books are so fun.

windows or mac? Windows, fuck Mac!!!!!!!

dc or marvel? I don't really like comics in general, but my gf loves the BatFam so I'll go DC

x-box or playstation? Playstation easy

dragon age or mass effect? I don't like either

night owl or early riser? I wake up at 6am every single day

cards or chess? Chess, but I always lose at it

chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate for taste, vanilla for smell

vans or converse? Vans

Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar? Who?????

fluff or angst? You KNOW I love angst

beach or forest? Ooooo I think I have to go forest

dogs or cats? Cats all day (sorry Illidan)

clear skies or rain? I lvoe days with just that slight drizzle of rain

cooking or eating out? Eating out tf??? Who is picking cooking

spicy food or mild food? SPICY

halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas? HALLOWEEN MY FAV HOLIDAY

would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot? I live in Minnesota, I already made that decision

if you could have a superpower, what would it be? I think I'd have to go with Boensaw's power from the hit Canadian web serial Worm

animation or live action? Animation

paragon or renegade? Evil 😈

baths or showers? Baaaaaath, I love a nice bath

team cap or team ironman? Hate Iron man, at least cap is likeable I have never found Tony Stark interesting or entertaining and Captain America just has thay sort of scruffy charm

fantasy or sci-fi? Fantasy

do you have three or four favourite quotes, if so what are they? This would get too long so Ill post one: 'What are we going to do, Dogger?'It seemed a reasonable question. After all he had been through, surely Dogger knew something of hopeless situations. 'We shall wait upon tomorrow,' he said. 'But--what if tomorrow is worse than today?' 'Then we shall wait upon the day after tomorrow.' 'And so forth?' I asked. 'And so forth,' Dogger said.

youtube or netflix? Youtube

[REDACTED] you couldn't get that out of me under torture

when do you feel accomplished? When I accomplish something that I've been working at for a long time, especially something that means a lot to me

star wars or star trek? Star Trek, easily. Star wars is like two good movies and a game, at best

paperback books or hardcover books? Hardcover, nothing feels as good in your hands

to live in a world without literature or without music? Without literature, sorry. I just couldnt live without something to listen and dance to.

who was the last person to make you laugh? Hard to remember, it was either my gf, bug, or Peri

city or countryside? City, I want to have things to do

favorite chips? Salt and vinegar

pants or dresses? Dresses, you can't force me to wear pants anymore

libraries or museums? Museums just because they're so much more of a trip

character driven stories or plot driven stories? Character driven, almost always. That's always the stuff that digs into me more

bookmarks or folding pages? Bookmarks Jesus christ what kind of freak folds pages

Dream job? Honestly, I'm kind of in my dream job already. Doing scientific research on fun and interesting problems every day. If it wasn't that, I think it would be writing. I love writing, but I don't have enough time for it sadly.

What gives you comfort? A good book, a lover's touch, warm blankets and soft animals, the quiet sound of the city waking up, good food and fine alcohol.

what are some of your favorite song lyrics? One for the money, two for the better green 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine

favorite ice cream flavor ever? PEANUT BUTTER that or cookie dough.

first fandom? No surprise but it was the Ranma 1/2 fandom, for obvious reasons a young Chart was ENTHRALLED by that concept

Your desert island band? Otoboke Beaver cause I'd be pissed

As for who I'm tagging.... @cpericardium @bug4932 @skitter-queen @rainfrazier get to work

[jajanvm-imbi]

You know what, I put al my thoughts in the tags but I have so much more to say about this so EDIT, i'm putting my thoughts here instead of studying for my math final that I have in 2 days.

Klance was 10000% queerbait but I only blame the producers for it. The creative team was put through HELL because the producers couldn't decide on a course of action to take after Dreamworks forced them to keep Shiro alive instead of killing him off permanently like they originally planned. (There is a fantastic video essay about some of the behind the scenes drama that was uncovered. I'll link to it here. The creator of the essay was a Shieth shipper so you know I mean it when I say its a good video essay)

(NO HATE TO SHIETH SHIPPERS PLEASE DONT INTERPRET THAT AS ME DUNKING ON THEM. YES I DON'T LIKE SHIETH BUT I WISH NO ILL WILL ON ANY SHIETH SHIPPERS)

Anyway, Dreamworks made the VLD creative team keep Shiro alive because he was so popular, and since that pretty much fucked up the entire rest of the story in order to have Shiro be in it, the producers were stuck with the mess Dreamworks put them in. But instead of making the logical decision of asking for an extension on production for whatever reason, because it be too expensive to rewrite and reboard all of the following seasons that were already in production after season 2 was released, or something, the producers continued with production as scheduled but completely blind. (All this is covered in the video essay I linked, seriously i recommend watching it, it actually puts a lot of the issues with VLD into perspective) Literally anything beyond season 2 had no clear plan. If it feels like the story was being made up as it went along, its because it literally was. Thats why so many things made no sense in later seasons, there was absolutely no plan.

So what does this have to do with Klance? Well its simple. If the rumors are true and Klance was originally planned from the very beginning (which I wholeheartedly believe), then this change of plans completely fucked everything over. The reason why Keith was barely in seasons 4-6 was because the producers had to make the choice of either keeping Keith or Shiro more present in the series. The whole "Shiro was a clone" thing was made to cover this. Keith was barely in those seasons because Shiro was taking his place, and Shiro was never supposed to be there. (Again, all covered in the video essay) Because of all the last minute changes being made to the story, Keith was almost completely written out of season 4-6. How are you supposed to write a love story between two characters if one of the characters isn't even there??? You can't.

But here's where it gets messy. If Klance was originally supposed to happen, but the last minute changes made it almost impossible for a natural romantic progression to happen between Keith and Lance, why the fuck did they keep hinting at it? You know what I'm talking about: the thumbnails, the tagging, the fucking HotTopic merch. If Klance was no longer logically possible because the story had to be taken in a completely different direction, why was Klance being hinted at like it was?

I'll tell you why.

Its because Klance was the driving force behind VLD's popularity. Without Klance, VLD wouldn't have been nearly as popular as it was. Check Fandometrics from 2017-2019. In 2018, VLD and Klance were listed as two separate fandoms in the Top 10 Most Popular Fandoms list. Klance held first place rank for most popular ship from 2017-2018, and was in second place in 2019 being beaten by Good Omen's Ineffable Husbands. And thats just on TUMBLR, thats not even considering Twitter and Instagram. Klance was obnoxiously popular from 2017-2019 because literally everyone saw its potential. Without the numbers and the ratings the Klance fandom was raking in, the show would have probably been canceled because the story was a MESS, it was either super confusing or super boring. The Klance fandom was what kept VLD alive, and the producers knew this.

(Does this justify any of the Klance fandoms actions toward the VLD cast and crew? Absolutely not. There's a reason why the VLD/Klance fandom is one of the most notoriously toxic fandoms on the internet.)

So instead of just dropping Klance and leaving the early season Klance interactions up for speculation, the producers made the worst possible decision and kept hinting at Klance even though they knew it probably could never happen due to the decisions they had to make because of the Dreamworks exects. And since literally no one on the creative team knew what was happening because they were all making it up as they went along, they too thought Klance was still a possible endgame. So the storyboard artists drawing this stuff and the cast (Jeremy Shada specifically) continuing to talk about Klance as if it was endgame wasn't them baiting us, it was them being baited as well. The producers could have easily been like "Hey, we don't think Klance can be possible anymore because of XYZ, lets stop talking about it to please the fandom" and instead decided to exploit the Klance fanbase in order to keep the show running.

The whole Shiro and Adam thing is the more famous and obvious example of queerbaiting the VLD producers did, but Klance was the more sinister example. They kept feeding the already violent Klance fandom with hope because they needed their devotion to keep the show alive. They were using Klance as bait since SEASON 3, for practically the ENTIRE SHOW'S EXISTENCE.

Yes the Klance fandom was rabid and insanely toxic, but the blame can't be 100% put on the fandom when the producers were knowingly enabling the Klance fandom. Again, Klance was no longer a logical possibility because of the direction the show had to take in order to meet Dreamworks' demands, but they still depended on Klance's popularity to keep the show running. The actual fucking lives of the VLD cast and crew were being T H R E A T E N E D by the rabid Klance fans, and the producers really thought to themselves, "Yeah, the safety of our cast and crew are being threatened by obsessive fans, but lets keep baiting them with the thing they want so we can get the numbers and ratings we need to continue to run."

The producers were put in an incredibly tough spot when their story was forcibly being changed because of the exects, I'll give them that. But it doesn't justify any of the queerbaiting bullshit they pulled in order to keep an already declining show running, and it certainly doesn't justify allowing the Klance fandom to threaten the LIVES AND SAFTEY OF THEIR CAST AND CREW for ratings.

Remembering how this is all art by official VLD crew members.

"Klance wasn't queerbaiting" my ass

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Quick recap.

David Zaslav should not be running a movie studio. Yet another film has been locked away, one that was near-completed that you'll likely never see, because "tax write-off". First BATGIRL, then SCOOB! HOLIDAY HAUNT, now COYOTE VS. ACME... And even crazier, that production - which tested extremely well - involved James Gunn, one of the architects of Warner's new DC movie universe... Zaslav likely pissed Gunn off, big time... What kind of ineptitude is that?

He could've offloaded it to another distributor, like how the Looney Tunes movie THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP and the series BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER were. But no, a $30m tax write-off. Because fuck everybody who worked hard making these movie, and fuck everybody who will be its audience - me included. Yachts do weird things to your brain. This is why there were strikes, and whatever happens with the Animation Guild next year, I hope that end of things gets to go HAM next year, because this is all kinds of bullshit. No movie should be locked in a vault because some dingus who doesn't like movies can't be bothered to actually do his job.

Lighter note...

The INSIDE OUT 2 teaser. At last. Funny how it came about right after the actor's strike ended. And even more egregious that while Disgust and Fear are still in the movie, their actors Mindy Kaling and Bill Hader didn't come back because the pay was below that of Amy Poehler's. Tony Hale - previously TOY STORY's jumpy Forky - takes over for Fear, Liza Lapira of many TV roles is now Disgust. New characters! I hate my anxiety, but I like this movie's Anxiety. The design, just. WOW! A scrunkly bunko chewed up Fraggle Rock reject, I dig. Funny how three of the four teased new emotions begin with "E", and the fourth with an "A". All vowels.

Voice work resumes on SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE. Please, no crunch this time. Lock the picture before frames are animated, no last minute changes up until the week before release.

The Netflix-exclusive DreamWorks feature ORION AND THE DARK, from director Sean Charmatz, has a release date, February 2nd... And a trailer... It has a very fun, subtly sketchy look, with characters looking like they were cast from notebook scribbles. Looks to be a fun kid-centric spooky time, like something the ill-fated Disney/Guillermo del Toro animation partnership "Disney Double Dare You" could've made.

The other big Netflix animated movie of 2024 doesn't have a concrete date, but its new trailer is quite striking. Shannon Tindle's ULTRAMAN RISING looks to work off of a SPIDER-VERSE-esque playbook with its textures and modeling (worth noting that Tindle was supposed to direct a superhero movie for Sony Animation up until the plug got pulled in July 2018, just a few months before SPIDER-VERSE 1 came out), but totally doing its own thing, with - as expected - all the anime influences. Another worthy experiment in CG animation pushing the medium in different directions once more.

Now that the strike is over, more delays are likely to come... Disney delayed a *ton* today on the Marvel and CG tech demo end... Their LION KING remake prequel leaves July 5, 2024 (where it was to open opposite of DESPICABLE ME 4) for December 20, 2024 (where it will go head to head with SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3)...

Marvel saw the biggest shakeup.

DEADPOOL 3 is now the sole MCU movie of next year, set for July 26, 2024.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD now opens 2/14/2025, followed by FANTASTIC FOUR on 5/2/2025, then former 2024 movie THUNDERBOLTS hits 7/25/2025, and the year ends with BLADE, 11/7/2025.

I get that two of these movies are former 2024 titles, but goddamn 2025 still has *four* MCU movies. They should really just do 1-2 solid movies that they took their time on every calendar year. For me, if the bar is GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 and BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, the MCU would be in good standing every year...

They also still plan to release four movies, including AVENGERS: THE KANG DYNASTY, in 2026... Nah, this train I feel has to slow down a bit. You also have all those Disney+ shows as well, it's a bit overwhelming a feel.

So now Disney's 2024 slate, following the delaying of ELIO and all these Marvel movies, is down to... KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (the first of their new movies, opening in late May), INSIDE OUT 2 (June), DEADPOOL 3 (July), a new ALIEN film (August), an untitled Disney live-action film (September), 20th Century title THE AMATEUR (November), an untitled WDAS film (November), and MUFASA: THE LION KING (December).

Two recently delayed Searchlight movies, THE BIKERIDERS and MAGAZINE DREAMS, can feasibly take some early 2024 slots. They may miss the Oscars, but I'd rather see them sooner than later. I don't know if they can reclaim their December slots with the actors now available to promote them (MAGAZINE DREAMS is tricky because its lead is Jonathan Majors), or if Disney/Searchlight would rather just focus primarily on POOR THINGS.

Untitled Disney September 2024 could just be a placeholder for another 20th Century or Searchlight film, and I doubt they move SNOW WHITE forward from March 2025 to that date. Otherwise, I can't think of any other movie in the tank that could make that date. At least one I've heard of or know that was in production before the strike.

I'm just hoping, since WISH is right around the corner, that we hear what WDAS 2024 is going to be. Who's directing, what it's about, the title, etc. From the trenches, I hear it's a fantasy film set in the Middle East, possibly directed by Suzi Yoonessi, who is of Iranian descent. Maybe, maybe not. I'd love to know soon, though. But whenever they're ready, they're ready. No rushing, now.

I expect a lot more scheduling developments to take place over the next month or so, now that the dust has settled...