#my cartoon ramblings

[therobotmonster]

My Retro-Cartoon Ramblings, Part 3

"Okay Bob, I've tried two new things this weekend, one is the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, the other is coke."

If the 80s was about anything, it was excess. If it was about anything else, it was hubris. Meet the 80s in cartoon/toy form... the Inhumanoids!

Okay, so get this. At the center of the earth are immortal, life-destroying demons, who can do anything from regrow from a single cell to turn you into a rotting skeletal nightmare with a touch. Their leader looks like Satan. The dumb one looks like Cthulhu.

They took the bold move of naming the show and the toyline after the villains, each of which was a massive prestige figure worth an entire birthday's toy haul, and I'm not even really talking about that toys but it started there so we kinda had to touch on it.

Anyway, some scientists who seem to just absolutely hate each other are the only thing stand standing between the Inhumanoids and literal hell on Earth. Also, there's other "nice" monsters, but they hate the humans too. It's a bit bleak, is what I'm saying.

Its really not surprising that Inhumanoids only got one 13 episode season, broken up into smaller chunks. I do recall that it was mostly one ongoing narrative, but I also recall a mad scientist getting melted by toxic waste and not dying.

I remember the sound the gagoyle made.

Mind, totally this stuff wasn't that far off from what was happening in the Real Ghostbusters. Body horror transformations were old-hat in cartoons, the Superfriends used them like they were going out of style.

But the serialized story and grim heroic cast made the show have a VERY odd feel, and probably didn't help its chances, even if the toy situation had basically doomed it. It is a neat ride just on the "what were they thinking?" value alone, tho.

#inhumanoids #hp lovecraft #horror #you know? For kids! #my cartoon ramblings #80s cartoons #nostalgia #saturday morning cartoons #toyetic #Youtube

[hotdogmchiggin]

I guess DARE wasn’t a thing in Goron City

#saw someone call zelda the gorons drug dealer and I couldnt get the image of her in a trenchcoat peddling marbled rock roast to children #like one of those shady guys selling wristwatches in cartoons out of my head #anyway that’s where this came from #trying to figure out comics and shit. not my strong suit so sorry if its rough. #figuring out an optimal level of detail is hard :( first I’m like oh i’ll just leave it black and white and then i’m like maybe ill add #color and then i’m like well now it needs shading and THEN it needs lighting and THEN IT NEEDS A BACKGROUND AND THEN IT NEE #anyway i should. probably stop rambling bye #loz #tears of the kingdom #totk #totk spoilers #i mean sorta. not huge spoilers. slight spoilers for goron arc I guess #zelda #myart

[mblue-art]

BAD SANSUARY // [14] tears for owl-bones's event !

"...Killer, it just looks like I have running mascara."

"it's such a look though."

messy kisses and post-nuzzles

#badsansuary #killer!sans #self insert #mblue art #m rambles #yes he is rubbing his tears on my face #he is a menace but he is also my skrunkly my little meow meow so i still love him #i was also attacked (/lh) with goofy dorky romantic guy SOFT killer and #and with lots of giggling and playful rumble tumbling #and smooching him up until he's melted on the floor and cartoon hearts float out of him #i also think about very similar thoughts w lust my bbg beloved but this post is about killer LOL<3 #bc showering this dork w smoochies n genuine love n interest and seeing his reactions to all that is very cute methinks #adding to this bc again i was given thoughts #(girls) boys night w lust and killer but we're actually messing around with makeup and thats how i get the real running mascara look #and other whatever experimental creative makeup looks theyre gonna try on me because apparently im their canvas for the night #woohoo? yippee.

[chickenoptyrx]

....I just wanted to draw gators :T at this point these 2 are more 'a representation of my last 2 brain cells' then they are actual characters 😅

#im living vicariously through the cartoon guys #because i want to A. pick up gator (strong man style) #and B. ..pick up gator (hug) #ok but so i recently found out an area where i take stupid little walks for my stupid little mental health #has! GATORS!! (potentially. theres signs.) #and this is great cause seeing gators would def heal me as a person #but ok so when i look for hiking places i always look north cause the terrains more hilly #but now im lookin south more cause turns out i AM in fact far enough south to see gators!! #and yeah looks like theres a handful of nature reserves w hiking trails the same distance away as the little mountain trails i go to #its flatter and the trails are less extensive so ill hafta see if i think its worth it #but then too theres a really big black water swamp that.. further away then i wanna drive.. #but also i drove 5 hrs once just to go to mammoth cave as a day trip so.. we'll see.. #my friend says he wont go w me tho :T he'll just report me missing #this has been a tag ramble about my sudden outset intrest in seeing a gator #my bullshit #lol barely but still #also- i told myself not to over do it drawin the scales or coloring it #and as you can see i dont listen to myself ever #lol they look outta place but idc i got to draw 2 of my favorite characters and also ALLIGATORS :U #living the dream rn

[suitsofarmour]

I was looking in mtmte for drawing refs of a specific hand angle and i’m going insane because

has Swerve always had 4 fingered hands???

HUH

HAS HE HAD 4 FINGERS THIS WHOLE TIME??

#I HAD NO IDEA I READ MTMTE TWICE AND NEVER NOTICED MY HEAD IS IN MY HANDS #THATS SO SILLY HE HAS LIKE CARTOON HANDS GOOD FOR HIM #tf swerve #transformers #idw transformers #transformers mtmte #mtmte #ramble

[only-lonely-www]

So basically ATLA brain rot has hit me like a truck

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #toph beifong #what happened was I was forced to watch the live action #which is actually pretty good if you get past the first few episodes #and if you don’t have someone in your ear telling you it’s awful the whole time #first episode is definitely the weakest and that’s 50% gran gran’s fault #aang and katara are also pretty flat but whatever #sokka’s good and zuko’s fantastic actually #they did goof on a few things but overall I think it’s a fun time #just don’t expect it to be as good as the cartoon and you’ll be okay #ANYWAY it got me missing toph #so i rewatched the blind bandit episode #and then wound up watching the entirety of books 2 & 3 in a few days #and now I’m brain rotted #which is especially weird considering when I first watched it I was like #yeah that was good! and then never thought about it again #i dunno what changed but i need help it’s taking over my life #wanted to draw Sokka too but he looks hard to draw #and i had enough trouble with these two #maybe someday #sorry for rambling in the tags goodbye

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi suckening #jrwi suckening spoilers #jrwi the suckening #arthur bennett #HEY SO THE REALLY FUNNY THING THAT THE CHARACTER DID THAT SEEMED RLY SILLY N GOOFY IN THE MOMENT? #LIKE THE WHIPLASH BETWEEN SERIOUS N SILLY ALMOST PISSED YOU OFF? WHAT IF I FOUND A WAY TO MAKE YOU SAD ABOUT IT #this was meant to be a scribble that would be a bigger part of a bigger page.might leave it on that page. #but still. bc o that i nearly posted it onto my wacky side blog.BUT NAYY I SPENT TOO MUCH TIME N ENERGY N YOU GOTTA SEE IT #ARTHUR BENNETT DRIVES ME CRAZY. I FEEL LIKE ITS ODD FOR HIM TO BE SO TECHNOLOGICALLY OUT OF TOUCH #WHERE HAS HE BEEN. HAS HE BEEN IN WAR? IS THAT WHERE MAGNUS CAME FROM? WHERE WAS HE WHEN HE WAS WITH EDWARDS CREW? #ARTHURRR I HAVE QUESTIONS ARTTHUUURR!! HEY CAN I ALSO ASK; WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU BECOME #DO YOU THINK HE HAD ANY IDEA HE WOULD VEER CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE MONSTER HE DESPISES. ALL BC HE DESERVES IT. OR WATEVER #HE FASCINATES ME SO MUCH. TO LOOK AT THE STONE COLD STOIC FOOL FROM THE START OF THE SHOW #AND TO FIND OUT THAT HE USED TO BE A BAD BOY.. A DELINQUENT... A LIL PRANKSTER.... MY GODDD THATS ADORABLE #I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW MORE.... BUT I DOUBT THE LAST EPISODE IS GONNA ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS..i love arthur bennett so much.... #AS FOR THE ART!! i mostly used the fire alpaca watercolor brush. tbh im not a brush guy. anti aliased default pen tends to be my main game #but LATELY IM SQQQUIRMIN OUT OF AN ARTBLOCK so expirimenting like this is helping #DONT LOOK TOO HARD AT IT!! im still proud tho. colors are fun :3 im also very proud of the backgrounds #I LOVE THE CARTOON THING where the background looks all fancy n painted but the characters are solid colors #what else can i ramble abt. OH YEAH. i looked up the bikes to make sure they were time accurate tehehehe. 1913 to 2012. #almost a century apart!! isnt that neat? ALSO FUUUCK CAN I JUST MAKE A QUICK CONFESSION. DOWN HERE IN MY TAGS. #only the strongest can read my tags anwyay. SO I REALIZED WHY I LOVE ARTHUR SO MUCH. TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE #while arthur is a Stoic and Cool vampire w a knack for being playful/silly; who alsos been alive fora century thus witnessing HORRORs #THERE HAPPENS TO BE A ROBOT FROM A BAND W A TITANIUM ALLOY SPINAL COLLUMN #WHOS A Stoic and Cool ROBOT w a knack for being playful/silly; who alsos been alive fora century thus witnessing HORRORS #the fuckkkiiinnngggnn The Spine from steam powered giraffe. WHATEVER. i cant escape from my heart. i guess. #i think The Spine and Arthur could be friends. Arthur saw the band perform back when they were the Steam Man Band #EDIT: WOOPS I DIDNT REALIZE THIS WOULD END UP IN THE SPG TAG. HI GUYS DIDNT KNOW U WERE STILL ALIVE SORREE 4 THE CROSS CONTAMINATION

[birdietrait]

my baby <3

#birdie rambles #ignore the dirty floor lol #my little scout <3 she snuggled with me while i took a nap earlier 🥺 #she looks like a cartoon character and i love her

[styxnstars]

BRB CRYING.

#the adventures of tintin #tintin #bande dessinée #hergé #belgian comics #Flight 741 #90s cartoons #screenshots #tintin gushing 🩷 #eclipse rambles #watched this episode and stimmed so hard i nearly cried 😭😭😭 #gonna frame these in my room tomorrow along w/ other Tintin sketches ive done bc well... uh yeah

[mangora]

Taps mic. Gidgette should’ve broken up. Their relationship in the Aftermaths was clearly not healthy and not in a way that was enjoyable to watch. It clearly made everyone including them uncomfortable. I think it would’ve been good for Geoff and Bridgette to separately gain self awareness and grow as people. They both need to date around. They reek of high school sweethearts destined to go through a nasty divorce in a few years after enduring a miserable joint living situation where neither of them communicate effectively because both are afraid of change but also not afraid enough of confrontation to avoid passive aggressive conflict. I am so serious I think being bisexual in college would fix so many of their problems.

#alex’s td rambles #Cartoon Network was right about high school relationships not lasting forever #because gidgette would either break up or start the worst polycule this side of San Francisco #and then break up after that #DIVORCE THEM. watching the Geoff fame arc and Bridgette cheating arc was painful #Do you SEE. my VISION.

[eliounora]

craving wlw fiction and media. like a really good tv series or a film. one that gets really popular. with some fun setting and premise. nothing too dramatic, no violence against women or homophobia. nothing too real, just an interesting story. it's understandable mlm ships and couples are more popular if you think of history (gay men have been more visible) and also when you consider that mlm romance can be comforting to women since it doesn't include the aspect of womanhood and what often comes with it (the violence, the imbalance in power and dynamic, worrying that the guy will develop feelings for you ugghhh) but I wish there was more sapphic stuff. more wlw fiction that gets the same kind of love that mlm fiction does

#especially more mainstream media and television/film. like ofmd or good omens or something like that #''good omens isn't mlm'' yeah but i'm willing to put my head on the line that if it had women in the main roles it wouldn't be as popular #OR WELL. really depends on who they'd have casted i guess #i was thinking of this bc i've been trying to think of lesbians to draw and I'M OFTEN BLANKING #nor's rambles #i know there's lots of cartoons with wlw but i'm a fully grown adult i struggle to sit through a show whose primary audience is kids

[therobotmonster]

My Retro-Cartoon Ramblings, Part 5

I am not going to insult anyone by telling them they need to watch Gargoyles. This fact is self-evident.

Taken series-by-series rather than by franchise, it is the king of the Battle Animal Genre, even if they're not technically anthros.

Great characters, great story, great animation, a fan-frikkin' tastic voice cast, as deep of lore as you could hope for. The fact that it has yet to be rebooted or resurrected or turned into a movie is baffling.

In my book, the way you reboot a kid's franchise to work for a sophisticated audience is you "Gargoyles-it-up". Rich characters, a sorrowful undertone, scenery-chewing villains and a satisfying lore.

But Will Riker in a robot Gargoyle suit is also here. (He represents capitalism.)

Now taken by franchise, the TMNT of course rule the battle animal roost.

They made the genre, even if there were others who were scrapping for that place at the time. I can't tell you the kind of switch that went off in kids heads when we first saw this:

You can not understand what the initial TMNT wave was like unless you were there to get caught by it. Context doesn't help. A nation of children botched our save VS ridiculous but extremely fun bullshit, and my kidvid/toy aspirations crystalized just a bit more.

What gets lost is just how bonkers the show actually was. While remembered more like an AdverTtoon in the Has/Ken model, with wisecracking action figures going on sci-fi capers, the reality was way more Looney Tunes. An old lady pulls an assault rifle on the boys in episode 1!

The whole thing is exceptionally cartoony, though not in the way a lot of latter-day crossovers would have you believe. The world is less wacky-for-wackiness's sake, and is more the exact kind of world where "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" make sense.

It's the one thing that makes OG Fred Wolf TMNT unique among all its other variations, reboots and predecessors. Everywhere else, the boys are the barometer for weird. They're the out-of-place thing in a (more) sane world.

In 87, they might live underground, but the turtles are cool-kid everyman characters. They're normal New Yorkers compared to the tourists from Dimension X and the horde of mutants, robots, robot-mutants, and a grown man calling himself the Shredder that show up each week.

Coming out of the first major wave of turtlemania was like awakening from a fugue state.

#gargoyles #disney's gargoyles #battle animal #ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles #turtlemania #my cartoon ramblings #80s cartoons #nostalgia #saturday morning cartoons #toyetic #Youtube

[chimpukampu]

A few people approached me back in January con if I could sell a pin or a sticker version of my Dragang tote print, so here we go!

This is not the only TDP sticker that I'll be selling this weekend 😁

#Fun fact - most people knows Rayla but not Callum 😂 #there was this guy at my first bazaar that went 'Is this Rayla from that Netflix cartoon? My sis loves that show!' #and when I showed him my other TDP character bookmarks he was like 'Idk about them' 😂 #I didn't expect for Rayla to be that iconic character #and I love that lol #ramblings #tdp #the dragon prince #my merch

[neko-loogi]

Day 1 of me being a hater:

I found this image on Instagram and I wanted to add the characters I despise the most!

And if you want, add yours too! I wanna see who you hate (it can be from any media idc)

I'll go first..

There's more but Tumblr won't let me post them all..

#by neko loogi #do not repost #neko loogi rambles 😬 #neko loogi rants😔 #/// #anti helluva boss #trends #reblog game #reblog #tumblr games #trending #anime #cartoons #media criticism #characters I hate #my hero academia #steven universe #my little pony #helluva boss #one piece #eddswolrd

[brodudemanbroski]

i blacked out and he was there idk guys its really weird.

i just doodled random stupid stuff i found. it started with the bottom right doodle, then ended with a small practice doodle thats the top right.

full page under the cut

why is he like this

#rambles #my art #dies #explodes #and this is my best art so far too #other than the other WIP… #how is this man real #doodles #paul mccartney #the beatles #fanart #beatles fanart #beatles cartoon #still figuring him out #leave me be if he looks weird #or different every doodle #art is hard guys.. #hi sawdee #are you happy i posted this

[thecartoonrambler]

Why Wander is such an important character

Very long post below!

Ill be rambling about Wander over Yonder, specifically, WANDER!!

The show in itself is already amazing, the episodes are short and fun, each character is oozing with personality and fun interactions and there are always ways in which it is all connected. Further on the animation of the show and overall look is absolutely adorable!

For me personally, Wander is simply such an important character and not for few reasons.

I love that Wander's silly happy go lucky personality is so addictive. He's a happy person, who gets happy by helping others in need, even to points where he gets himself in trouble (every episode LOL) But regardless i think they are such an important character traits to have (Happiness, altruism, Optimism).

In today's depressing and violent world, where everyone just fights with each other, a character like Wander can be a sense of hope or inspiration!

Of course, many main characters have these traits as well, but i think a key difference between Wander and many other optimist protagonists lies in their EXPERIENCE IN LIFE!

These other protags are innocent, naive optimists, because they haven't experienced "the real world" yet. And while it makes sense to have characters like these (as an allegory to growing up), they get really tiring and repetitive really quickly. They also commonly showcase optimism and naivety to go hand in hand. And its why a lot if people commonly believe that "realsim" is inherently "pessimistic" (it isn't btw. Theres good and bad in life, denying theres good, is denying reality)

Its extremely refreshing to have a main character like Wander, actually be hinted at being millennias old, repeatedly converting villains to good throughout the eons, out of a sense of duty (and perhaps also Pacifist revenge for his childhood, where its hinted that his entire planet was destroyed and he was the only survivor.)

not only is this also something that one learns, the more one watches (keeping the viewer intrigued) but the fact that so much about Wander's life and past is a mystery is what makes him a fascinating character. At first glance hes just some helpful guy, and the more you learn about him, the more you more you think "who is this guy?" Not in a negative way, but in a complete curiosity. Is it possible he's as old as the universe himself? If so does he know it? Who is he? What actually happened in his past? How did he live before his hat? Was there a time he wasn't as helpful? What caused him to change? Who is he? But at the same time, the viewer doesn't NEED to know. Theres no stress to, no hurry to uncover a mystery. Its like "mystery but it's actually completely low-key". I like that. (Im the kind to get into conspiracy theories or get crazy over plot holes, so the show managing this is insane)

Traits like these, especially in contrast to their personality being so so happy, child-like, goofy, charitable, it makes for an extremely interesting and fascinating character, that one doesn't commonly see in media! Which is really awesome! Someone that's seen so much horrors, lived through civil wars, yet tries to help a skeleton get together with a butch lesbian??

Its awesome!

Other that just that alone, he's helped me out personally! He in many ways reminds me of myself as a kid, i too was altruistic, always trying to help, struggled to say no, was positive and happy go-lucky and adventurous (well, as all kids i suppose), recently rediscovering the show made me realise how much i missed those personality traits in myself. That i had hidden them away, due to people making fun of me of being "too naive" and "too childish". Eventually Making me not talk to people really, and develop really bad self esteem. Rediscovering this show, and specifically how these "childish" traits can be seen in a very positive charming light, helped me realise that being scared of "coming off wierd", "coming off as toxic positivity" will always be worse than not being positive.... At all.

Ive heard from other people too that this show has helped them through tough times, and allowed them to reconnect with more positive thought patterns. Which is why i think characters like Wander are insanely important for media!!

Too much is too depressing all the time! We can create media (ESPECIALLY ADULT MEDIA) that isnt depressed. Positivity and happiness are not a crime! And im so glad a character like Wander exists to exhibit that!

#wander over yonder #woy wander #wander woy #woy #Woy txt #Wander is literally one of the best characters ever #If ur struggling with ur mental health being too negative and like cartoons give it a try!! #I might make reviews of some of my favourite episode #Or ones i find worthy to ramble about for hours! #Id love to talk about silvia as a masculine female myself too!