VERY queer worm who loves cartoons! creator of the galactimals! devoting life to my queer little critters show she/her. INFP. screw minimalism!
#galactimals
worst thing about liking a character of color is when their design gets updated in a sequel or reboot or adaptation and they somehow lose one or more of their ethnic features
I was there.
Under the thin layer of genuinely cool animated projects and conventions there was the most RANCID, racist, ableist, sexist fan culture Ive ever seen.
Like it was a genuinely belief back then that girls couldn’t TRULY like my little pony.
My little f*cking pony😭
1. All that was changed about Velma’s design was her skin colour.
2. Mandy was designed to be the complete visual opposite of starfire and has a completely different design by the end of the one shot.
3. That’s not the character designer. That’s a cosplayer.
@coquitose_ro
The only two here that’d make good films is little misfortune and little nightmares. And even then I think little nightmares would be better suited for that claymation series that was announced but went radio silent🥲
@habitovin
I remember people accusing jaiden of “queer baiting” with her coming out video. When aroace IS a queer identity. So sadly even other queer people don’t see our identity as valid. It’s so genuinely frustrating.
This is what I mean when I say companies will actively sabotage brands they no longer want to make. The kids who watch this will be in SCHOOL at 2pm.
Why are they doing this? So they can use the drop in views as an excuse to cancel the show. Most classic trick in the book🥲
@jeseroba
They turned it down because it had actual care and passion put into it.
They wanted a cheap, easy to churn out nothing to pad their bottom line.
It’s what makes me so mad. They didn’t even care enough to whitewash her out of evil or malice.
Just cold gray corporate bullshit.
@pomssum
The only thing I remember dork diaries for is that time people complained about it having a black character you can’t tell is black save for like one line saying she is… only for it to be revealed the AUTHOR is a black woman😭
@bluecornman
Remember the creator of Scott pilgrim has actively voiced his regret in not including more darker skinned people of color in the story. And he REALLY likes the idea of black reinterpretations of his characters ESPECIALLY Ramona! He even drew one himself! Know your brands🤭
@torihorizon
@Mattel
Some nonbinary people have breasts! Their identity is not any less valid because they’re not flat chested! Nonbinary people are BEYOND the binary of girl and boy. They can have any body. They’re not boys with extra steps. If you can only see breasts as feminine? That’s on you.
@CureD3stiny
Interestingly this actually was once the case! The general population HATED the g4 redesigns when they were unveiled! Calling them “oversimplified” and “corporate!” The character they complained about the most was rarity! Who they felt had lost her visual flair!
My Roman Empire is that novi stars was discontinued JUST before they could’ve released what would’ve been franchise saving dolls. Like tell me these wouldn’t have been EVERYTHING 😭
The fact that one of the most successful characters in the new monster high generation is the autistic girl?
Genuinely makes me so unbelievably happy🥹💗
Btw she's a perfect example of what happens when a character is introduced to a line and does well for herself. She did really well in her introductory toy season that the following two seasons yielded more product with her
@TheBestExBF
@OleSalling
@pk_kenzie
@D456345A
The iconic white Jesus was based of painting by da Vinci! A painting that wasn’t actually supposed to be Jesus. It was modelled after one of da vinci’s male lovers! So modern Jesus is based off a gay man!
@bara_moe_bltch
Nah because you actually care. Puppychan admitted they stopped caring about their art after awhile because they felt like as long as it had big boobs it would be successful. You still care. And that inherently makes your art worth something!
@flatwoodx_
I remember someone once say
“I was never actually a brony. I was just a 12 year old girl”
And my GOD do I feel that.
Little me shouldn’t have felt like she had to adopt lingo made by adult men to feel like I was “allowed” to like the show LITERALLY MADE FOR ME.
@Zhane_Star
Me: Ah so gays are too much for the kiddies but assault, suicide attempts, genocide and miscarriages aren’t?
Homophobes: T-THATS DIFFERENT!
@Jaq_artz
Except in all places my little pony.
Where he is simultaneously BOTH “just weird al” AND a fully fleshed out in universe character who gets with and has a KID with one of the main characters.
@GumiCareid
I know right?! Even strawberrys other concept design is better then what we got. It’s the worst case of corporate censorship watering down a vision I’ve ever seen🥲😭
Morticia and Gomez Addams. they’re so T4T that I imagine they don’t know that others AREN’T.
Some kid: that guys fat!
Gomez: now now! In this economy not everyone can afford top surgery!
Random cis guy: uuuuhhh…
Gomez: in fact I shall pay for it for you! I know a doctor! :D
@cupTWOst
I just thought. What if the re8 bosses are all blank flanks that had magic made cutiemarks “gifted” to them by mother Miranda that correspond to their in game powers caused by their mutations? It’s all completely up to you of course I just thought it was a neat idea!🤩
@JadedArtistGal
We used to make our own merch for things! But the issue is… it was always infamously terrible. Just look at the American sailor moon dolls😭
@RespectfulMemes
@peachdoesart1
God the amount of terfs in the comments of this having an absolute meltdown over… *reads notes* a trans woman and her wife being happy? God you guys are all miserable pathetic sad sacks😆
@RatRatGirl
@scarymaaze
False scarcity. It’s for false scarcity. They COULD add the moobloom into the game but it would render all future polls pointless. They actually were expecting it to win tho. It was the most “complete” at the time of the polls. They did NOT want the glow squid to win😆
I’m sorry but I don’t think I make it clear often enough how amazing frankie being nonbinary is. A nonbinary character who is in a popular giant toy brand, who has a girlfriend who loves them and they just.. exist. And they get A LOT of merch! Because kids love them!
Reminder that the designer for ojamajo doremi also made heartcatch precure. They ABSOLUTELY have talent capable of creating great darker skinned designs. Precures cast lacking diversity is a call from the higher ups. Not the designers inexperience with diversity.
@bi4birymin
Yeah mlp was absolutely DESTROYED by it’s adult fanbase. It got so bad it leaked into the show itself, which lead it to get weirdly serious which clashed constantly with the “believe in friendship” morals as war was teased with multiple times. Wish we got MWGG instead 🥲
@Sunsh1nee39
@fandomtingz_
Reboot resentment. It’s a phenomenon not unique to monster high. Basically no matter how good a reboot is people will resent in instinct since it signifies the formal death of the original. They’re grieving basically 😅
Of course there were good elements to the early bronies fandom.
But ignoring the VERY REAL n
@zi
problem it had back then isn’t the solution.
The early brony fandom WAS violently misogynistic, gore obsessed and just… an extremely not kid safe place to be.
Mlp is a kids show.
@Pepsi_Era
@motivatefenty
We murdered lots of people, forced them to give up their lifestyles, forced them to change their names, forced them to give up their children, forced them to work for us. They have every right to be mad at us for all that.
The most we can do is try to help fix what we broke.
John k’s work has SUCH a gross pervy ego it bleeds into everything he makes.
I remember the time a tween girls site called zodiac girlz made the mistake of hiring him for a potential tie in show.
His submitted designs were not only extremely sexualised but also VERY racist 😭
@simedraw_yt
That’s the point. Glitch is a home for indie projects. Giving these things a base audience to work off. Also digital circus isn’t the brain child of Kevin. he’s just lead animator. It’s gooseworx project. They’re the one who came up with it!
@raedperiri
@Art444Star
But if your concept art provide a more exciting and interesting story then what you finished with then you miiight want to revisit them to see WHY. The saying goes
“is what we currently have the most interesting version of the story, if not why aren’t we telling that?”
Bloomix deserved a FAR better story tied to it. Imagine if they all had to discover their inner dragon? Instead of… backflips.
Like splitting the dragon flame created new dragons.
The dragon song, the dragon blossom, the dragon future, the dragon star and the dragon sea?
“And fluttershy being an earth pony! It makes no sense! Her name it’s FLUTTERshy!”
Do you guys not know the history of your own brand? Prior to g4 fluttershy WAS an earthpony! And her talent was photography! Her name is a pun on shuttershy! Which is photographer slang!
@holthyde_
They should’ve continued to hire Anna cattish instead of ditching her and tracing her art. This art IS g3 monster high to me. It’s pretty but chill and down to earth! It’s got almost a very mild pop punk vibe to it?
This is gaining traction so hi! I’m sunny and character designs my biggest special interest!
What I believe happened with g5 is a case of the designs being cycled around too much. Everytime that happens they get NOTES. Things the people at the top want tweaked.
One of literally the first anime characters… ever, is canonically spiritually genderfluid. Like that’s just the objective text. They have both the soul of a girl AND the soul of a boy. And anyone who wants to fix it is treated as wrong to do so!
@Sammy_Gems
@Yeenie_Mcbeenie
You seem to not understand subtext and just throw it out to justify characters being part of your cult. Ascribing secret inclusion of your extremist dogwhistles in works of foreign authors who likely don't have a clue about them.
@Oni_Grimpachi
@ComicLoverMari
Nope! In fact the person who invented half the English language William Shakespeare was notorious queer. They used pretty much any pronouns and was aggressively bisexual in his sonnets!
@pipeshotgun
Surprisingly no! She’s not a magic character but instead an activist, pet mum and a bit of a hippie! She actually has a kind of “surfer dude” affect to her voice in her bio! And Lauren used to use her character to promote animal centric charities and healthy food small businesses
@xen06057
@nescartridges
@S79498Super
That’s because they literally have no arguments. They can’t explain why they ACTUALLY dislike this media because a small part of their smaller brain knows better. So they deflect using our own language in an attempt to make us feel stupid.
It’s never worked tho😆
It WOULD be peak to me.. if they’d kept the tans that cure summer and flamingo had in the concept art. Like cmon it’s the TROPICAL season! Of all the seasons to even slightly mess around with skin tones it was this one!
@NoFacedOrange
@spiderchunkyE
@aoirann
@Teal_Sharky
Yeah but if the punchline is just either
1. There’s a million gender nowadays
2. Why’s every hot girl a lesbian?
3. *insert literally anything* is pretty gay ngl
Those eint good jokes either.
Here’s my fave gay joke😆
@Yellowflower42
@spgatomagic
Exactly. He had no character because they simply didn’t care enough to give him one. Even his big episode is mostly a hunter episode. He’s a side character even when it’s HIS story being told. Which is weird cause he’s actually one of the strongest characters!
@slimengrimen
Apparently it was supposed to be silent! With only one episode being voiced (as it was a musical episode.) here’s some beat boards from the pitch episode!
@Dtox37774982
@Pepsi_Era
@motivatefenty
I exist in the country built on the pain they inflicted. I benefit from the years of abuse they did in MY name. So I could live comfortably. My cities were built by slaves. My happiness was planned in advance by the colonisers. I owe the people hurt in my name support.
@slendergender1
@RatRatGirl
@scarymaaze
Dream DID. It’s why the glow squid won. He used his tween army to screw with the outcome! (He even admitted afterwards he doesn’t even LIKE the glow squid 🙄)
@ayalvrr
@WingsofThe
No they knew people would NOTICE. They just hoping we’d kinda let it slide. Cause at the end there? She was just bloom 2.0 in the artwork. And it WAS this artists doing. The second this artist came in everything went to shit. This is intentional. This is malicious.
@PainKosmic
@FRANK1ESTE1N
@MaxLovesChaufa
Nah. Early brony fandom would digitally murder ANYONE who drew any of the main six as anything darker then Snow White. Expect rainbow dash weirdly, they liked a tanned rainbow. It’s actually the reason equestria girls have fantasy tones! Cause they were afraid of pissing em off😆
Not all of these stories are good. Two are quite terrible. But their bad elements are completely unrelated to the queer and poc rep.
In fact I’d say the subplot about Mandy’s crush is the ONLY tolerable part of the whole fucking comic! Because it ditches the edgy teen talk!
And this process happens MULTIPLE TIMES. And all those notes add up. It sands down the design. No one in the process is evil. They’re just doing their jobs.
So you go from this, to this, to that. It’s corrosion. But it’s how the system is built sadly.
@indigohatetrain
Cause alicorn twilight was a very rushed decision. Faust made it very clear it was not in her original plans. She had plans for twi to SUCCEED celestia but never to become a princess. I think this outfit from the original pitch bible was successor twilight. Honestly prefer it.😅
@moonmistblue
Which is why it particularly bothers me they went back to portraying plum pudding as a guy😭 the new show has queer characters up every corner including trans characters but the ONE character we all head cannoned as trans? Nope! THATS apparently to far😭
If there’s one thing I’m grateful for out of this whole
#GenshinNatlan
issue?
It’s that it reminded me of how genuinely JAWDROPPING Dislytes black character designs are.
When people say they want black characters in genshin? THIS is the variety we’re hoping for! THIS is perfect
Notes are often like the following
“Can you make the eyes a bit bigger?”
“Can you remove this one tuft of hair?”
“Can you add a segment or two to the braid to make it longer?”
“Can you make the fur more saturated?”
“Can we see what this character look like without the glasses?”
@ToXieRat
It’s even sadder when you realise for the voice actors it was actually the reverse.
The little girl who voiced Anne-Marie passed away during production.
But because she’d already voiced all her lines they didn’t recast.
It was burt Reynolds saying goodbye to Judith barsey.
@Dtox37774982
@Pepsi_Era
@motivatefenty
By turning away and saying “not my fault” I would be forsaking my basic human empathy. I cannot reject the privilege forced onto me, so I should at-least use it to help. I can’t win the race for them, but I can untie the knot my ancestors turned the finishing line into.
@buttonslives
They’re collectors plushies! They designed through community polls by experts. They’re meant to be comforting to people in dark places. A friend with the same issue so you’re not alone. It’s a surprisingly wholesome message!