#source: the marvelous adventures of flapjack

[sundove88]

My Prediction For a 3rd Black Pearl Cookie Update:

Btw- the art above is what I’d think she looks like in her “Purified Form”- it’s by me, btw.

(Oyster hands the remorseful Black Pearl her pearl)

Black Pearl: No… No…! (Sobs) What a fool I’ve been, what a fool I’ve been!!

(A powerful glow starts intensifying)

Everyone: GAH!! (They block out the flash)

(FLASH!!)

(The area is now an ocean with a beautiful sunrise- and Black Pearl is now a purified version of herself- with black, white, and silver in her palette)

White/Black Pearl: Ah, that’s better!

All: *Gasp*

Crimson Coral: White Pearl?!

Captain Caviar: Black Pearl?!

White/Black Pearl: Oh no, not Black or White Pearl- I am now… Pearl Cookie.

(Both parties look at each other)

White/Black Pearl: You see, my friends, since you returned my Pearl to me and helped me see the error of my ways, I’ll travel the oceans of this world and help anyone I cross paths with to atone for what I did. So never stop helping others, and all your dreams will come true!

Peppermint: Even the scary ones?

White/Black Pearl: *Laughs* 👁️👄👁️ YES.

All: 0-0

White/Black Pearl: Farewell, my friends! (Goes back to her normal size and swims off alongside her sisters and Frilled Jellyfish)

Oyster: She’s finally at peace.

White/Black Pearl: (Pops out of the water) Oh, and Caviar- A hat and a jelly corndog are two things. (Swims off again)

Captain Caviar; I told ya we could do it! (Winks)

[adarkrainbow]

Fairytales - the dark season (3)

Today's title: Over the Garden Wall

"Over the Garden Wall" is a 2014 animated mini-series, created by Patrcik McHale (the man behind "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack" or "Adventure Time"). It tells the story of two brothers, Wirt and Greg, finding themselves lost in a strange, magical and sinister forest called "The Unknown". There, they try to find back their way home while encoutering all sorts of strange situations and excentric characters, ranging from the comical to the nightmarish. But as a bluebird called Beatrice, claiming to be a girl transformed by magic, leads them to a good witch supposed to help them, the presence of an ominous "Beast" and the frequent sightings of a mysterious Woodsman lead the children into something far more dangerous than they expected...

Personal categorization: "Fairytales by autumn light"

"Over the Garden Wall" was originally conceived as "Tome of the Unknown", a Halloween-special series centered around two brothers trying to escape a deal they made with a cartoonish devil by collecting the pages of the titular "Tome of the Unknown", a book of forgotten stories. The project was massively modified to create the story we have today, but this origin explains a lot about the show's feel and aesthetic.

"Over the Garden Wall" is not an adaptation of any specific fairytale, and yet all agree that it has the exact feeling of a traditional fairytale - mainly due to how the show builds its world by combining in its plot and visuals various fairytale-adjacent sources. "Over the Garden Wall" is a mixture of Alice in Wonderland, Don Quixote and The Wizard of Oz, designed after vintage Halloween imagery, early 20th century cartoons, New England folklore and Gustave Doré illustrations. With, sprinkled on top, nods to Hans Christian Andersen's stories or Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel opera. It might sound like a mess, and yet it is all presented in a short, concise and flowing way through a self-contained set of ten episodes, no more no less.

You will find there a perfect show for the "dark season" of wonders, as the story goes along from harvest festivals to the depths of winter, and uses many tropes and topoi of traditional fairytales in order to tell the story of these children lost in an uncanny otherworld.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, January 21st

ANGEL: Somebody should stay here and mind the store. LORNE: Me! Me me me. Sargeant Stay-At-Home, volunteering for duty, sir.

~~Habeas Corpses~~

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[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

The Last Time by acekoomboom (Buffy/Spike, PG)

Summers: Endgame by batzulger (Buffy, Avengers crossover, FR13)

The Question by myrabeth (Buffy/Spike, PG)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion, Chapter 371 by madimpossibledreamer (Ensemble, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure crossover, T)

The Last Slayer, Chapter 7 by listentorae (Buffy/Angel, T)

The Sun Also Rises, Chapter 82 by Grundy (Buffy, Dawn, Tolkien crossover, T)

Dawn the Power Ranger 1: The Power of Keys, Chapter 15 by BrennaLynn (Dawn/OC, Buffy/Riley, Power Rangers crossover, T)

Dawn of the Caribbean 3: Dawn of the Pack, Chapter 79 by BrennaLynn (Buffy & Dawn, Women of the Otherworld crossover, T)

Favor, Chapter 14 by EllieRose101 (Buffy/Spike, T)

Wonderland 1: Down the Rabbit Hole, Chapter 57 by BrennaLynn (Buffy/Angel, Dawn/Jacen Solo, Faith/Dawn, Star Wars crossover, T)

Fundamentalism in the Heat of the Moment, Chapter 7 by Banana_ana (Angel/Lindsey, Supernatural crossover, E)

Charming the Slayer, Chapter 40 by BrennaLynn (Buffy/Paige Matthews, Faith/Dawn, Charmed, T)

Universal Exchange Program, Chapter 4 by CreeperSpockSr (sweetbutnutty_RalphSpockSr), sweetbutnutty_RalphSpockSr (Buffy, Willow, Teen Wolf & Stargate crossover, not rated)

From the Hellmouth, Chapter 4 (complete!) by Rutkowski (Willow, Pathfinder & Wynonna Earp crossover, T)

Supporting The Incredible Hulk (And Bruce Banner), Chapter 6 by SomeMeaninglessName (Willow, Buffy, Marvel universe crossover, T)

Dawn the Power Ranger 2: Shift Into Turbo, Chapter 3 by BrennaLynn (Dawn/OC, Power Rangers crossover, T)

Finding The Path, Chapter 18 by acekoomboom (Buffy/Spike, R)

Beer Very Bad, Chapter 8 by acekoomboom (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Favor, Chapter 14 by EllieRose101 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Hold My Hand Even Though I’m a Sinner! Chapter 19 by CheekyKitten (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Piercings, Chapter 7 by MelG_2005 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Sky Opens Up, Things Doth Die, Chapter 7 by ShadowMaster (Ensemble, Utawarerumono/Rurouni Kenshin/Various demi-human sources crossover, FR21)

That Which Makes One Human, Chapter 6 by ShadowMaster (Ensemble, multiple crossovers, FR21)

The Broken That is Lost Amidst Stardust, Chapter 3 by ShadowMaster (Xander, Star Wars crossover, FR21)

Waiting On My Spaceship, Chapter 11 by Chelle (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Gifset: happy birthday, buffy summers (january 19th 1981) by buffy-summrs (worksafe)

Artwork: Buffy and Spike in bath by isevery0nehereverystoned (worksafe)

Artwork: This flapjack's not ready to be flipped by vampywillz (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Artwork: BTVS “Every Outfit” - BONUS “Glory” part 2 by whatshisfaceblogs (worksafe)

Lego video: Cordelia in Halloween by tmcarlee (0)

Video: Lego Buffy - Buffy Want Beer by Trevor Carlee

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike Wouldn't hurt so bad by Calisto Pendragon

Fanvid: AIMED TO KILL [Faith x Buffy AU] by Spiritus Meipsum

Fanvid: Buffy & Spike- Hot N Cold (Humour) by jlisa25

Fanvid: i want the fire back [fan made] *repost* by loveisntbrains (Buffy/Spike)

Fanvid: Buffy and Angel - To You I Belong by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy and Angel - Over And Over Again by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy The Vampire Slayer S1-S2 / Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (Lyrics) by Driad (slideshow vid, Buffy/Angel)

Cosplay video: Buffy the vampire slayer spike by brandon60

Video: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 7x22 voiceover | Buffy "I'm cookies" by A Pixie's Whisper

[Reviews & Recaps]

La chasse sauvage (The wild hunt) by Taake

Video: #663 Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Panel to Panel 2007 by Oreo Brewer

Podcast: Bargaining Part 1 S6 E1 (Buffy and the Art of Story Podcast) by Lisa M. Lilly

[Fandom Discussions]

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Two characters that get A LOT of hate in the fandom are Xander and Riley by Girl4Music

I still don’t understand why the First didn’t show up once as “Kendra” by oveliagirlhaditright

Spike and his security blanket by vampywillz

What if someone else had played Buffy? by Joan the Vapire Slayer

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Did Faith Need A Relationship? continued by multiple posters

Jenny Calendar deserved better? continued by Angelkiss and AlphaFoxtrot

[Lorne] was a great addition to the team by pinksky1134

Where do you fall on the Angel/Angelus debate? by DarkstarX84

It just takes a little time... [Groosalugg] by AndrewHeard

fred and willow by spitemeep

Rewatching Season 2 [of Angel] and…yikes. by Mochahontas-

Groo in season 3 by gpat100

Did Buffy's dad ever know about the supernatural? by Mighty_joosh

Thoughts about Season 6? by buffyandwillowbtvs

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Why does Buffy always wear overalls whenever she’s depressed or having a crisis? by Myrtle1119

Least favorite episode by PsamantheSands

Who else ships Spandrew? by Bluekitty777

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Processing trauma by Ajacentmagic

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[emmikay]

Mistoffelees: Never stop wishing, kittens. And all your dreams will come true!

Pouncival: Even the scary ones?

Mistoffelees: Hahaha!

Mistoffelees: Yes.

[twdg-incorrect-quotes]

Rufus: [to Fern] And I love you~

David: [shows up] WELL I HATE YOU

David: I HATE EVERYBODY! [pushes Fern and Rufus]

[incorrect-frozen-quotes]

I sure showed that guy! Did you see how uncomfortable he got when I started crying?

Olaf the Snowman, Olaf’s Frozen Adventure (2017)

[k00257586]

Pendleton Ward

Pendleton Ward is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor who works for Cartoon Network Studios, Frederator Studios and Netflix Animation. He created the Emmy Award-winning series Adventure Time, the Internet series Bravest Warriors, and the adult animated interview series The Midnight Gospel. Ward is a graduate of the CalArts (California Institue of theArts) Animation Program. Ward became interested in animation at an early age, inspired by his mother, who is an artist and worked with animators. He started drawing flipbooks in first grade. Ward attended CalArts, where he became friends with J. G. Quintel and Alex Hirsch. They later worked on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack together. Eric Homan, vice president of Frederator Studios, offered Ward a job at the studios after watching one of his films at the annual CalArts animation screenings. Ward created two shorts called The Bravest Warriors and the Adventure Time animated short. The Adventure Time short was made in 2006 and went on to become an internet phenomenon in 2007, with over a million views by November of that year. Ward initially pitched Adventure Time to Nickelodeon but was rejected. It also took some time before Cartoon Network decided to pick it up. Sometime during the fifth season of Adventure Time, Ward abruptly stepped down from running the show, explaining it was negatively affecting his "quality of life". In the October 2, 2014 edition of the Rolling Stone magazine, Ward stated "I quit because it was driving me nuts". However, he continued to work as one of the show's writers and storyboard artists until the end of season six, and still served as an executive producer up until the series finale. Now Ward had stopped writing episode outlines at the beginning of season 7 but still looked over them and provided input. Now Ward works on an adult animated Netflix original show called The Midnight Gospel, about a guy called Clancy who is a space-caster who uses a multiverse simulator to interview beings living in other worlds.

For this project, I thought there was no better artist than Pendleton Ward to look at. Especially since he has worked as one of my greatest influences for this project which is Adventure Time. When I began this project Adventure Time was one of the first story items I picked. I think this show teaches a lot of lessons to children or to anyone who watches it. Adventure time is a very uplifting happy cosy show to watch. When looking at what it teaches to its viewers I saw bravery, loyalty, doing the right thing, acceptance and tolerance which you may not see directly but let me explain.

Adventure Time takes place on post-apocalyptic Earth where mutations occurred in humans. Everyone has these mutations, so everyone looks different. The entire population is a mix of different shapes, sizes, and colours. The things are, these mutations are not seen as mutations, really, because the people in Adventure Time don't know of a world where anyone was uniform. In the show, people are generally accepted how they are, no matter what "flaws" they may have.

In our time, this can be related to social judgements or prejudices of any kind. These can be based on race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, and more. The acceptance promoted in Adventure Time teaches kids how to accept others around them, no matter if they have qualities that make them different.

Here are the ceramic works I have made influenced by Wards work:

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Ward

https://time.com/66262/adventure-time-season-six-preview/

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/adventure-time-the-trippiest-show-on-television-84180/

https://twitter.com/catsuka/status/1108123185613078528

https://www.rotoscopers.com/2015/11/10/adventure-time-movie-will-happen-when-pendleton-ward-finds-a-premise/

https://www.sacurrent.com/ArtSlut/archives/2019/12/20/netflix-announces-new-animated-series-from-adventure-time-creator-and-san-antonio-native-pendleton-ward

[goingoverthegardenwall]

Chapter 9: Into the Unknown

A boy named Mark was born on April 26th, 1976, fourteen years and one day before a boy named, uh, me. We’re both Virginians, but he moved to Florida as a kid while I stayed in the Old Dominion through college. Summers in Virginia are hot and humid and full of mosquitoes, which is why I love winter so much, but summers in Florida are so much worse. Despite that, Mark was an outdoorsy kid, and his adventures along the water inspired a literal dream he had around the time I was born about going on adventures across the seas, a dream that saw him start to make up stories about this alternate self. (I had nothing to do with it, we’ve never met and even if we had I wasn’t a particularly inspirational baby, but after so many introductions about animators of the past, it’s neat to think about how recently this last bit of history spans).

Mark moved to Utah in high school, and his swashbuckling appearance and attitude reminded his new classmates of Thorpe, Errol Flynn’s character in The Sea Hawk (as one of my sources helpfully notes, the reference to a 1940 film is likely due to the more conservative leanings of early 90s Salt Lake City making older films movies more popular). It’d be weird enough for “Thorpe” to become a lifelong nickname based on this tenuous connection, but the nickname Mark ended up with is actually a mispronunciation of name that I guess nobody felt the need to correct. High school, am I right?

Thurop Van Orman began his career in animation as an intern at Cartoon Network, and parlayed that into storyboarding gigs for The Powerpuff Girls and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. He learned from the likes of Craig McCracken as he honed his idea into a pitch for a show about a kid like him who loved capers on the high seas, and in 2008, the stories inspired by his childhood dream became a cartoon. For two years and three seasons, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack not only entertained with its hilarious and surreal escapades, but incubated a crew of animators that shaped the 2010s.

J. G. Quintel, creator of Regular Show? Flapjack alum. Peter Browngardt, creator of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome and Uncle Grandpa? Flapjack alum. Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls? Flapjack alum (who brought Thurop in to voice the villainous Gideon). Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time and Bravest Warriors? Flapjack alum, and his continuation of the Flapjack style of storytelling, where writers doubled as storyboarders, would shape Adventure Time alum Rebecca Sugar’s own methodology as she created Steven Universe. This would not be Thurop’s only “grandchild,” as the likes of Bee and Puppycat, Clarence, OK K.O., Summer Camp Island, and Infinity Train were all created from alums of shows created by Flapjack alums, and we’re even starting to see great-“grandchildren” like Craig of the Creek and Victor and Valentino.

But I left out one Flapjack alum who worked with Ward to develop Adventure Time from a viral short with a ton of potential into a sustainable television show, becoming the show’s creative director for the first two seasons. His name was (and still is) Patrick McHale, and in October of 2011, he started working on a pilot of his own.

“The river runs cold, the fight is over; still, the haunted ruins of night call your name.”

A trope that I’ve never been fond of when it comes to twists is when flashbacks are used to remind us of the foreshadowing or give old scenes new context. It can work in the right circumstances, but more often than not it shows a certain lack of trust, either in the audience for not paying attention or in the material for not being memorable, and it sucks the joy out of rewatching the story to catch hints for yourself. I much prefer a twist that maybe gives us a moment to take it all in (which is frankly pretty easy to do, all it takes is a character who’s as stunned as we are to allow us that time to process), and believing in us to understand the ramifications of this twist on our own.

Into the Unknown thrives in its bluntness. There’s no attempt to be clever about the reveal that Wirt and Greg are of our world in the late 20th century, we just begin right away with Wirt wearing semi-modern clothes in a semi-modern bedroom fumbling with a semi-modern cassette, all to the backdrop of a semi-modern-sounding song sung by Pat McHale himself. His actions are confusing at first to match our own initial confusion, creating the outfit we’re familiar with by taking the coat from an old-timey uniform and cutting the fluff off a Santa hat and putting on a fan to let his cloak billow in the wind (it helps that we already know he’s a weird and overdramatic kid). But our questions answer themselves with time: it’s Halloween, Wirt’s planning on giving his crush a mixtape, and Greg's series-spanning kettle hat is just his glorious take on an elephant.

This is Wirt pre-development, so he’s back to the dithering and the abysmally low confidence and the open hostility towards Greg; the last of these makes a comeback when he reaches peak despair, but even while depressed he's moved beyond the crippling indecision of his early adventures (although certainty in one’s looming demise isn’t much better). Still, even this early on we can see that he’s not a lost cause. He might get lightly teased by the first teens we see, but his appearance at the party reveals that he’s liked by plenty of his classmates, and Sara’s mutual crush is immediately obvious: his biggest enemy is his lack of self-esteem. And while he loses his nerve as soon as he sees Sara the Bee, this wouldn’t be possible if he didn’t have nerve in the first place: the beginning of Into the Unknown, and thus the first chronological moments that we see of Wirt, shows him getting out of a funk to take a genuine risk, one that fully merits him dropping the episode’s title on us.

The pursuit of Sara the Bee shifts us wildly from the dark atmosphere of the Unknown to classic teen comedy territory, where one crazy night can change everything. The stakes are fully personal for the bulk of the episode: Wirt needs to get his tape back to avoid embarrassment, and Greg wants to get the tape back so Wirt will hunt frogs with him. I like the detail that Wirt’s been flaking out on his promise and that Greg almost gets that he’s being blown off, but clings to that childish hope as he bulldozes through the barriers Wirt puts up for himself. Greg is first seen as a helper, doing chores for Mrs. Daniels for the candy he’ll use to make a trail in The Old Grist Mill instead of trick or treating, which implies a certain level of neglect: nobody’s around to take him door to door to get candy the proper way, and we don’t see him interact with any kids his age. 

That said, the mood of the episode is definitely more mellow than melancholy, with Wirt’s awkwardness earning laughs and cringes in equal measure. Sara is delightful as she assures Wirt (and parents in the audience) that the teens are gonna drink age-appropriate drinks and do age-appropriate stuff, and she’s got the best costume game of anyone, first as a mascot and then as a skeletal clown. The cops try for humor as well, and while it’s funny for us, their position of authority makes them terrible at telling jokes in a way that will come back to haunt us. This is the last bit of levity before the finale, and unlike Babes in the Wood, hindsight never taints its goofiness. Particularly because the greatest joke of the episode, and perhaps the series, is far more upfront about its larger story implications than Greg’s magical dream.

Jason Funderberker is an oddly central character in Over the Garden Wall, a figure of dread established midway through the series as Wirt’s impossibly perfect romantic rival and the eventual namesake of Jason Funderburker. We confirm that Jason is a big deal when Wirt talks to the girls at the big game; sure, most of the impact comes from his outsized reaction, but Jason is still presented as serious competition for Sara’s heart. After going full crisis mode at the thought of Jason and Sara listening to his tape, we get a red herring of sorts in Jimmy the Jock. He certainly fits the “total package” bill that Wirt promised: a kind hunk who clearly respects women’s boundaries but warns Wirt off spying on Sara rather than trying to display his machismo through force. All signs point to a hopeless situation until finally, with perfect comedic timing, we meet the man in question.

It’s not just that Jason Funderberker is small and scrawny, or that his outfit and hair are pretty dorky (that said, let’s consider the source): it’s that damned voice. He’s given an absolutely perfect grating squeak from Cole Sanchez, yet another Flapjack alum who took over as creative director on Adventure Time after McHale moved to New York. The idea that this dweeb is the object of Wirt’s unending jealousy is an amazing punchline by itself, but as I said, the larger story implications are immediately clear, because there’s one thing that truly separates Jason from Wirt: confidence.

Jason might not be the most conventional ladies’ man out there on paper, but unlike Wirt, he’s capable of making a move. He’s as blind to Sara’s lack of interest as Wirt is to Sara’s active interest, but dammit, he tries. And he doesn’t even try in a gross or intrusive way, handling Sara’s implicit rejection well enough and ending up holding hands with his bespectacled admirer in our final episode. Literally all it takes for Wirt to “compete” with this guy is an ounce of self-assuredness, so it tracks that his journey through the Unknown achieves just that. 

The Unknown might be another realm that these brothers have yet to face, but our understanding of it seeps throughout the episode. There’s the obvious reference to the show’s title as the pair climbs over the wall of the Eternal Gardens cemetery, and the grave of Quincy Endicott in said cemetery, but it’s also felt in the inability for Wirt to see the truth that he’s well-liked and that Sara definitely likes him back. It’s in the recurring bird imagery, with one girl dressed as an egg (who, and I noticed this for the first time in this watch, is voiced by Ashly Burch!) and another as a bluebird. It’s the fact that we’ve got disguises in general because it’s Halloween, considering the sheer amount of characters who aren’t what they appear in the Unknown: Enoch is really a cat, the gorilla is really a circus performer, the ghost is really a tea magnate, the huge singing frog is really our heroes huddled under a big coat, and the devourer is the sweet girl rather than the witch. 

The most straightforward character, of course, is Greg. To be as fair to Wirt as I can be, his little brother does throw a wrench in things when he can’t stop giving the girls hints about Wirt’s crush, which sets off the chain reaction leading to what appears to be a disastrous night, so if you squint hard enough, Wirt isn’t wrong to blame the kid for his troubles. But without Greg, Wirt never would’ve gotten the courage to talk to Sara, and he certainly wouldn’t have entered the party uninvited. Greg’s willingness to engage perhaps needs to be tamped down in the same way Wirt’s needs to be amped up, as he has all the social skills of a little kid, but at least Greg has the excuse of, well, being a little kid. 

More importantly, Wirt’s instinct to blame everyone but himself makes it impossible for him to see that he’s the one holding himself back. Acceptance and a relationship with Sara are right there in front of him, he just needs the courage to acknowledge it. Greg’s best bit of advice is that he join marching band, given he plays the clarinet anyway and it would allow him to spend time with Sara organically, but Wirt angrily dismisses the suggestion as interference while revealing that Greg’s father has given the same advice. It’s the second and final time we’re reminded that these two are half-brothers, but only now do we bring up that there’s distance between Wirt and his stepfather that seems to be one-sided. As per his song in our fourth episode, Greg was born after Wirt’s mom remarried, so his stepdad has been his stepdad for a significant period of time by now, but Wirt still venomously refers to him as “your stupid dad” as if he’s a stranger, even though the guy is ostensibly encouraging Wirt via his interests. Sure, there could be plenty more to this story that we’re not seeing, maybe the guy’s a huge pushy jerk, but Wirt’s refusal to consider good advice cements his inability to allow himself means of being happy, which of course ensures that he’s never going to be happy.

Which is what makes the ending of Into the Unknown so perfect. After finally finding their frog, the old black train whose whistle we hear at the beginning of nearly every episode nearly kills them, and as they tumble down a hill into the cold-running river foreshadowed by the episode’s opening song (and the opening sequence of the series), everything finally clicks into place: these boys are more lost than they realize.

But when Wirt awakens in the present surrounded by Beatrice’s family, he’s finally able to use the word “brother” to describe Greg. Over the Garden Wall began with a version of Wirt who failed to be heroic even when instructed to be, then moved to a version who could stumble his way through heroics on command, which evolved into a version who could perform heroics autonomously, but now we’ve gone above and beyond: this is a version who’s heroic even when others beg him not to be. We’ve wrapped all the way back around to disobedience, but this time it’s for the sake of helping others. And after dismissing and blaming Greg in the Unknown and the land of the living alike, it’s downright beautiful to see Wirt set off into the unknown once again, willing to put his life rather than his reputation on the line to save his brother. 

Rock Factsheet

We come close to learning some valuable rock facts, but Wirt’s too distracted.

Where have we come, and where shall we end?

Beatrice’s mother appears only briefly at the end of the episode, but she’s voiced by musical legend Shirley Jones, and One is a Bird whispers its way out of the final scene. It was pretty much inevitable that Jones was going to sing it.

[randomencounters]

Encounter: Constructs made of fish heads and human hair to be the ultimate barbers. Only capable of giving the most hideous haircuts and also of absorbing biomatter en-masse and merging when sufficiently damaged.

Source: when somebody submitted this I assumed it was from some horror artist on DeviantArt, but no, they’re from an episode of “the Marvelous Adventures of Flapjack”.

[omniversalobservations]

Nickelodeon vs Cartoon Network (2012)

its one of the biggest rivalries of the last and recent decade. me personally i love both stations, but it clear the nickelodeon or cartoon network play a part in our childhood some way lol. i i didnt want them actually fighting each other so instead i made them play football/american football. just like most of my other crossover pics, i try to pair characters that i feel fit well. sorry i cant fit everyone favorites lol

Source: DeviantArt

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[entmtbiz]

'The Angry Birds Movie 2' takes flight as Columbia Pictures and Rovio Entertainment set Creative Team, Release Date

Sequel to animated blockbuster launches September 20, 2019

WASHINGTON, May 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Following the success of The Angry Birds Movie, which slingshot to nearly $350 million in worldwide box office and launched a global movie brand, Columbia Pictures in association with Rovio Entertainment Ltd. are once again joining forces on the next high-velocity adventure as the flightless birds and scheming green piggies take their beef to the next level in The Angry Birds Movie 2; Sony Pictures will distribute the sequel.

The sequel is planned to hit theaters on September 20, 2019, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the original Angry Birds game.

The Angry Birds Movie 2 will be directed by Thurop Van Orman (The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Adventure Time). Van Orman recently worked at Disney and Sony Pictures Animation.  The film will be co-directed by John Rice (King of the Hill, Rick and Morty), who served as lead storyboard artist on The Angry Birds Movie and directed the popular Angry Birds Hatchlings shorts.

The film will be produced by John Cohen (Despicable Me, The Angry Birds Movie). Peter Ackerman (FX's "The Americans," Ice Age) is writing the screenplay.

The talented team at Sony Pictures Imageworks will once again be handling the animation for the film, which will be with the collaboration of Sony Pictures Animation. Also returning from The Angry Birds Movie will be production designer Pete Oswald and character art director Francesca Natale.

"We are thrilled to be teaming up again with Sony Pictures after the fantastic cooperation in the first movie and I can't wait to experience the new journey in the upcoming film," commented Kati Levoranta, CEO of Rovio Entertainment. "Rovio is continuing to focus on creating exciting new stories and experiences around our games and we're eager to take fans back into the vibrant Angry Birds world on the big screen."

"The Angry Birds Movie took the world by storm last year, creating a whole new legion of fans worldwide," said Sanford Panitch, President of Columbia Pictures. "We had an incredible experience working with our friends and creative partners at Rovio, and now we – including our team at Sony Pictures Imageworks – are ready to launch into this next adventure."

For more information, please contact: 

Kaisu Karvala  VP, Communications & PR  kaisu.karvala@rovio.com  +358-40-5715990 

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