#or a biker mice from mars villain maybe

[theflyingfeeling]

i just noticed that for some reason i don't remember joonas' middle name and i was trying to recall it by going through the all of blind channel's full names in my head

i don't know what happened when i got to olli because my brain just autofilled it so i said in my head: "olli elias kau- wait he's surname isn't kaunisvesi- i mean olli elias mattson"

i'm way too deep in this ollixallu shit

actually im just sleep deprived and my brain isn't working properly but i'm making it abou ollixallu shit again

no but the way Olli Elias Mattson sounds so cute?? 😭😭😂😂😭😂😭😂😂

I hope they'll take Matsson as their shared surname when they get married 🥰

[monstermaster13]

Personal Character TF Moods: Tim Burton, Horror characters, Dan Aykroyd characters, half-human-half-non-human characters.

Favorite TF Mood: Tim Burton characters and horror characters but Aykroyd characters too.

Most Cursed TF Mood: Donald Trump, okay it's not actually THE Donald Trump but a fictional version of him as a monster who is one of my character's evil sides, but besides Trump…Smithy from Gavin and Stacey because well…James Corden, although I am working on a Peter Rabbit tf and that character is also a James Corden character and I did Biggie from Trolls. I did Tom Everett from Caddyshack II and Vic Frohmyer from Christmas With The Kranks when I did some of my Aykroyd-verse ones, both movies they're from are awful but Everett isn't the worst part of Caddyshack II (yes I HATE the character's stupid voice) but I have forgiven him as opposed to Vic Frohmeyer. I did a Mr Bean tf once but that was mainly based on a weird dream and also it wasn't actual Mr Bean himself that was the villain of the story but a twisted version of him.

Most Beloved TF Moods: Celebrity tf moods, and the Aykroyd-verse. The Aykroyd-verse very much takes characters that Dan Aykroyd has played and gives a new spin on them

TF Mood I Wish I Could Write About: Biker Mice From Mars..i've done Vinnie and did a couple of plutarkian transformations and have been wanting to do Lawrence Limburger but he's a tricky character, he's a plutarkian disguised as a human so unless I make it so his human disguise form the show is an actual humanoid form for him I don't think i'd be able to do him justice. I really wish I could do Pete sometimes since I did work on an idea for a Pete transformation, I wish I could do Buzz Lightyear but the problem is well I don't know if it would be inanimate if it was the in-universe toy version from the Toy Story movies, if it was the tv show version maybe I could do it, and maybe if it was the version from Lightyear I could see it. Weyoun…I don't know why, but I just seem to have fallen in love with the character Weyoun, maybe it's because he's a charismatic character, maybe it's because of his eyes, or maybe it's because he's Jeffrey Combs but I love Weyoun and I could do a tf into him, since I saw a picture of Jeffrey Combs in the Weyoun costume and makeup looking at himself in the mirror and thought 'what if that was someone who transformed into Weyoun or became a new Weyoun clone?'), and also lots of Tim Burton characters (I did several a long time ago but they have since been deleted, and I never followed up on ones I promised that i'd do like for example the Mars Attacks aliens or Danny Devito's Penguin, and I haven't done Tarrant yet even though I did Chessur previously, and constantly have Otho on that list of ones to do, maybe I am bit bias on that because I love Beetlejuice in general and I happen to love Otho a lot as a character because of how he's written and also…well the late Glenn Shadix, one of my favorite character actors ever was fantastic in the role. Otho's a character who if written today would have been made an insulting stereotype but the fact the character isn't written like that, he's a gay character who isn't a walking stereotype or a 'Sissy Villain', I know some say Otho is a villain in the movie but I don't think so, yeah he does steal the handbook for the deceased but he doesn't come across as malicious or evil given he's polite and friendly, even towards Lydia but he isn't evil. Yes he did nearly get the Maitlands killed…again, but he didn't know the spell was an exorcism spell. Nonetheless I hope to do him sometime).

Most Obscure TF Mood: I did a Doodles (the dog from the CBBC children's show Tweenies) once and also Bumble from the NZ kids show of the same name, but definitely the Christopher Walken Brainiac from the cancelled Superman project that Tim Burton was oging to do, or as I call him…'alien-robot-spider-Walken'.

TF I Was Hestitant To Do Initially: John Candy. In the past I had very much been made fun of for liking John Candy, why? I don't understand, I love John's movies. I was hesistant to do fiction about a deceased celebrity because of how I got treated for doing fiction about John Candy, and yes…I have done pairings where I ship Akasha from Queen of the Damned with a vampire version of Michael Jackson, and I did the whole idea of Elvis Presley's family as a supernatural family but John Candy was one celebrity I was hesitant to write about despite me being a huge fan of his movies.

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

Long continuity and short continuity

As I am Internet Old and most of my formative years consisted of watching cartoons of the 90s and early 00s, I've noticed a stark difference between the way a lot of modern cartoons are done versus how they used to be.

Note that I'm focusing mostly on the narrative cartoons and not the ones consisting of disparate episodes. Also, not an American so my reference pool is what was on TV in Finland.

In Ye Olden Days, cartoons tended to be fairly long-lived. There was this setup and then the story went from there for easily hundreds of episodes. What made them different from modern cartoons, was how the storylines were treated. While most of even the narrative ones tended to have a status quo if that ever actually broke the series just continued. Tabaluga defeated Arctos and got his kingdom back, the Biker Mice rescued Mars and then returned to Earth, Ash lost the league and the series continued.

Older cartoons had continuity the same way comic books have continuity, there was always going to be another season, another story to tell, another villain to defeat and another conflict to solve. This is why it was very common to see old villains hang around as comic reliefs, they were just waiting for their chance to be used once more.

Essentially, older cartoons would change their lore as new things were revealed.

Newer cartoons don't do this. Maybe it is because studios are more stingy, or most of the series I'm using as examples have an LTGBAQ+ presence. But if you look at Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, the Owl House and Infinity Train, they all operate by different rules. What all these cartoons do, is tell a -a- story. Everything is built up to make a single story as coherent as it can be.

While in old cartoons foreshadowing was often clumsy or non-existent, in newer ones it is a key part of the story. Steven Universe did such a good job that years before their introductory episodes, characters were known to exist. Pink and White Diamond were known as soon as we knew the Diamonds existed at all. Stan in Gravity Falls had plenty of hints he was not who he was supposed to be, with Ford making cameos here and there. Infinity Train's various seasons are crawling with hints of the seasons ending.

There is a fully realised plot already completed with everything built to support it.

If older cartoons were like comic books, newer ones are more like graphic novels. A single or an anthology of completed stories with clear beginnings and final endings.

I like this method. With a finished story, the focus is on foreshadowing and setting things up so it all makes sense. There are no new characters introduced that weren't always planned to be there. There is no power creep, as the endpoint is already clear.

It does not, of course, make for a good long-runner. Unless like in Infinity Train, you make it an anthology. You cannot stretch the story too thin, lest it loses its pace. Thus, this method is best for cartoons that are more narrative focused and less the type you can tune in whenever.

Personally, both methods have merit.

[kermakatti]

I got tagged by @honestlyvan to name 10 of my favourite characters from 10 different things. I’ll be putting this under a Read More so that it doesn’t clutter my followers’ feeds, here we go:

1. Miles Tails Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog)

I have loved this two-tailed fox dude ever since I first played the Sonic & Knuckles Collection on PC as a kid. He baby. And also super intelligent, skillful and cute.

I also wish he got portrayed as more independent and capable sometime in the future since in a lot of later Sonic games he’s been reduced to being either a dude in distress or a reconnaissance staff member in cutscenes... Please give me a full playable Tails campaign again Sonic Team please I’m starving

2. K.K. Slider (Animal Crossing)

Dude’s mad talented, prolific and also very cute. Also basically a fursona for Kazumi Totaka who has done a ton of great and memorable music for Nintendo games and services like the Wii Shop Channel. 

I was always eagerly waiting for the next Saturday evening to hear him perform again back when I played Wild World on the Nintendo DS as a teen and that feeling has now returned to me through his appearance in New Horizons 💜

3. Kass (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

Another furry Nintendo musician character? I might have a type. I’ve loved Kass ever since I first saw him in some pre-release video clip that showcased Breath of the Wild’s NPCs (and changing weather types too I think?) and once I got the game myself I always became overjoyed when I heard him playing his accordion in the distance 🎵

But yeah, he is very talented, very handsome, very top-heavy and also a loving father of five little bird children

4. Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess)

I haven’t seen any episodes of Xena in ages but the show and the character both left a long-lasting impression on me as a child. She kicks ass, looks gorgeous and is gay. A role model or sorts I guess

5. Donald Duck (Disney comics and cartoons)

This man has issues but he is very relatable. Also mad cute at times. I read a ton of Finnish Donald Duck comics as a kid and I still enjoy them from time to time :3

Also The Three Caballeros OT3 5ever

6. Throttle (Biker Mice from Mars)

I sure wonder if watching this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-esque 90s cartoon show with topless muscular anthropomorphic alien mice wearing studded leather and shit as a kid had some kind of effect on me. Maybe it’s just pure coincidence that I’m a huge gay furry now. Who knows!

But yeah, I like Vinnie and Modo too but there was something about Throttle that really resonated with me. Maybe because he seemed like he was the wisest and the most reliable/dependable of the bunch?

7. Bowser (Super Mario)

Ah yes, the big bad turtle dad 💜 I like his portrayal in the main series but I REALLY like him in the RPGs where he appears as more of a goofball and joins Mario and the crew in order to defeat someone even more villainous than him. 

A good father. Handsome. Muscular. Chunky. Monstrous. Powerful.

8. Skeletor (He-Man)

Nyeehehehe! Here’s another beefy goofball villain that I really like! I’m super into his portrayal in the first animated series and how he gets more and more ridiculous until he’s a complete wuss in the infamous He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special

Though I do like some of the more sinister takes on him too, like the one in the early 2000s animated series!

9. Wolfrun (Smile PreCure!)

I think I just have a thing for villains who are useless goofballs but also charismatic and lovable as all hell. And who also make for good furbait

10. Scar (The Lion King)

Scar is a fascist asshole but I’ve had a crush on this gay goth lion uncle probably like since I first saw the movie as a kid in 1995 or whenever it came out on VHS

Also Jukka-Pekka Palo’s (who voices him in the Finnish dub of the movie) take on Elton John’s and Tim Rice’s Be Prepared still gives me the chills whenever I hear it

And that’s all! 

Honourable mentions go to Robin Hood from the 1973 Disney film and Wolf O’Donnell from Star Fox

And uhhhh does tagging people still work if the at symbols are all hidden under a Read More link version of the post?? Let’s try anyway. I tag @korppuhiiri and @rrosyan​