#this fandom needs to be bigger

[meteor-moon]

did some wanda moorington/ruina stoneheart doodles :)

[grapesrsogood]

Okay, i know the whole series is supposed to be gender neutral and stuff BUT I desperately need a period comfort with Xanthus and Dontis. Like, Xanthus being out doing vampire shit and listener being grumpy, waddling into the kitchen to refill her hot water bottle and get more pain meds, then Dontis comes in like 👀 r u okay? and listener is just angry then cries about lashing out at Dontis then running off. When Xanthus gets back hes just like ‘okay where is she i can feel shes had an awful day and i gotta check up on my love’ 😔.

Or maybe a fanfic of it?????? PLEASE 🙏

[rckfackt]

Of course I’m coming bck 2 posting on tumblr b/c of thm

[patrice-bergerons]

This is a shout out to small fandoms.

Yes, there is five of us. No, no one is getting hundreds of kudos or comments.

But we all have immaculate taste and we are vibing. We are sitting in a cosy living room, taking turns reading stories. There is a fireplace and tea and rocking chairs. This is our house and these are our stories, inspired by and created for one another, with utmost love and care. And that's more than enough.

[parched-chaos]

Redraw of my last evervale drawing bc i didn't like one bit how it turned out lol, hope this one looks much better ;D/

[circle-around-again]

wwoww i wonder why he's so messed up

[karolinxx]

HEY!?!? ARE YOU A TOUCHSTARVED FAN?? IF YES THEN LISTEN

i would like to introduce to you...

THIS AMAZING GAME! its a dark fantasy ANDDD romance game, so thats why im reaching out to you. (touchstarved game freaks../j)

It has four protagonists, if i would describe them in a couple of words we would have:

1.Oleander(no i did not make this up ts fans this is literally his name): ooeeh rich rich man 😜

2.Cirrus: ah yes im just a humble priest with nothing suspicious about me yeah no absolutely not

3.Keir: sorry for lowkey kidnapping you, anyway ure kinda cool u wanna work for me 😊

4.Francesco(i thought his name was espresso when i started playing): the indomitable human spirit always wins! *gets stabbed*

the game currently has one chapter out and four routes with the protagonists, i would say the average play time is about 1 hour and 30 minutes? it depends on the person playing... ANYWAY uhm, i would really apreciate if you guys showed this game some love, i love love love love LOVEEE it and more people should know about it.

you can get it on here on itch.io or on steam!

[moodlesmain]

Hi. Look at this.

I just spent two days straight making a digital conspiracy board trying to piece together my favourite genre that isn't really a genre and more just a very particular niche which doesn't really have a name.

If you want to look I reccomend downloading and zooming in on the image to read everything LMAO, I want to try and convert it to a page on my neocities at some point so its easier to view but for now you guys just get a big ol' jpeg. You're welcome :)

[take-it-on-the-run]

Not mine!! From Pinterest

[moonymelly]

MY SKETCHBOOK PAGE FROM LAST NIGHT THAT ILL DO CLOSEUPS OF <333

[franki-lew-yo]

James and the Giant Peach is still (mostly) for young children

Despite a single pre-metoo joke and it's uncanny-ish artstyle that's a serious make-or-break-you factor on if you like it, James and the Giant Peach is aggressively a movie for young children. I personally like it as I never find it a patronizing sit for little kids, like Don Bluth's movies from the 90s so often were, but that really is what I think alienates people; the intended audience may be a bit too scared of the visuals (NOT like how they are with TNBC, which kids go in expecting to be scary) where the adult audience who is here for the 'creepy stop-motion' feel like the movie is lacking for not being Nightmare or Coraline, which is unfair. It absolutely scared me as a little little kid but upon finally facing it at, like ten or whenever it was on Cartoon Network's movie show, I realized there was nothing to fear. And that, in turn, was exhilarating. It's such good symmetry that the film is about facing your fears and standing up for yourself because that's exactly what my relationship with it was. It's such a comfort film for me. My og Bluey. JatGP, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Ernest and Celestine = perfect comfort after I watch something serious and/or disturbing.

Half my reason for trying to pied-piper everyone else towards it as it's own merit is I think James and the Giant Peach would hit hard for lovers of weirdcore and dreamcore ala Jack Stauber or @samsketchbook's 'Welcome to Our Dimensional Party'.

That "looks unsettling/potentially disturbing but actually cute or gentle" vibe pairs perfectly with dreamcore aesthetic. We're coming up on it's 30 year anniversary I hope to see a genuine resurgence. If I had it my way and I was Dan Olson I'd make an hour-long look at the movie, the original book and Henry Selick's filmography as a surrealist the way Dan made an hour-lookback at Bakshi's Lord of the Rings. But I'm not. Cause I'm not Dan Olson and I can't build up the nerve to either show my face or figure out how to make videos in two years.

But anyway, about the title of this post (content warning: downer nsfl stuff; mentioning of real life child ab*se cases):

James' life with his aunts hits VERY different when you're an adult and you've watched too much true crime.

It's not intentional on the part of Dahl or Henry Selick. Selick had Mariam and Joanna ham up the screen and they clearly loved every minute of it and Dahl I think was just trying to tell an 'authentic' type fairytale story where the main character has to escape their evil family. Point being- Spiker and Sponge are supposed to be 'evil for the sake of evil' villains who could only exist as hammy caricatures in an already weird story. They aren't supposed to be like the parents in Matilda or the Twits who I'd argue are a little more 'realistic' depiction of awful people...except for the fact that legal guardians like Spiker and Sponge DO actually exist.

There's a heavy implication in the film that no one else in their county even knows James lives with Spiker and Sponge (literally the only people around to recognize James' existence are the bugs when they first meet him!). His aunts seem to make James work out of frustration for having to take him in, like he's a burden and they're making him pay for being one by being their slave. They actively don't feed him except for rotting fish and then shame him for not eating it. The Lane Smith picture book implies that James' parents weren't killed by a rhino but rather it's Spiker and Sponge who put that idea in James' head and use it to control him. And all that BEFORE the beatings which you know are happening off screen.

After the horrifying cases of Ruby Franke, Sylvia Likens and the Turpins, the "every child deserves a parent but not every parent deserves children" reality of it all makes you realize that James probably would have died if he lived with his aunts. Considering how they flip out on him in New York- that boy REALLY needed to escape, giant peach or no.

This is absolutely another reason for why JatGP is a comfort movie for grownups. You have this horrific childhood rescued by loving in-human parents who will kill everyone in the room and then themselves if you touch their human boy. It's like Opal but if Claire found a happier family. Of bugs. None of that was intentional, ftr, but it's what sticks out to me.

[niki-the-cat]

Hewwo

I'm just here to say that the silly chess piece is my favorite character from tadc

He's literally me 👁️👁️

[masterandapprentice]

lnfour

HOLD ON GUYS!!!!!! We have Lando & Pato content! I repeat, we have Lando & Pato content!!! 🥹

I'm crying in happiness ❤️

[oncelerswifesblog]

I am not normal anyway

[eyeballs-in-my-head]

Any time I draw Sonic characters I curse the person who came up with their designs along with their entire lineage. This is probably why I draw Sonic fanart only every blue moon </3

I want to explain the joke to English speakers SO bad, but it'd probably take at least 5 business days if not more☹️ (exaggerating a bit, but still....sigh)

And that'd take away the fun from the funny. It'd just be...ny.

Like the noise you make when you're uncomfortable or tired or unpleased with something. "Nyuh...😒"

[lollipopmixclo9]

was fighting my artblock but got inspired by how much ppl made quotes about the Look Back movie 🥹

I couldn't pick one character, so I bundled them up! Honestly, the guilty favorite is just an excuse for me to draw Jane and Ben 🙈

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