#they just dont make cartoons

[oopsallbangersart]

Ploppin’ a doodle

#adventure time #finn the human #finn mertens #character art #artwork #artists on tumblr #art tag #cartoon #cartoon network #cartoon nostalgia #fionna and cake #character design #costume design #something else #i dont know #I’m just making up tags at this point #that last one was totally used already #some of these have gotta be firsts

[bucket-of-amethyst]

Youtooz: released plushies of all MCC team mascots but makes it a BLIND BOX so u can't even pick ur favorite one

Me:

So I did

Little beast is going to @eluminium one day when we get his passport sorted

#mcc #mcyt #crochet #amigurumi #yellow yaks #bucket of random #bucket of art #the best fuel for my creative has always been inaccessibility #kid me cant buy the notebook with cartoon characters she wants bc too expensive? make my own #actually humane hamster cages dont exist in my country? design my own #cant have access to cute plushies? learn to crochet #we stay silly #im gonna make more mcc plushies u just watch

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

i made a mistake of thinking about animatics and rapidly had like 6 songs/scenarios stuck in my head for these two

naturally instead of actually making any animatic i poured all efforts into making mock covers lol

songs/youtube links (for anyone interested):

Jack

Neoni - Loser

Phineas & Ferb (Carl) - I'm evil for extra credit

Imagine Dragons - Enemy (But also for Jack I kinda prefer Annapantsu cover if only for the 'rap' part xD it fits him better imho)

Wuya

K/DA (Evelynn) - Villain

Wander Over Yonder (Dominator) - I'm the bad guy

Devon Cole - W.I.T.C.H.

#xiaolin showdown #jack spicer #wuya #xs wuya #ngl the ones from cartoon are the easiest to do because the og template is already there so i might end up doing them because #i keep giggling when i imagine scenarios and its just very funny #the others are much harder because i have SUCH imagery in my head... and exactly ZERO skills to make it lol #i dont know how to do video effects TT_TT #ive been drawin these for a month!i wish i could pour even half the effort i gave for mock covers into actually making those animatics #noticing the pattern of having angsty songs for jack and underlining lesbian energy songs for wuya

[inkskinned]

this is sort of pathetic, but when you were younger, you were sort of puzzled by the cartoon representations of fathers: how a kid would be outside with a mitt, waiting to play catch.

it's not that your father never played catch with you, but you also didn't like when he did. something about a hard ball coming quickly towards your face doesn't seem exciting. not that you'd ever say you don't trust him. you trust him, right?

it's not like he never tried to teach you anything. or never tried to parent. on rare days, a strange person would walk in your father's skin. bright, happy, magnificent. this version of your father was so cheerful and charismatic that you would do anything to keep him. and this is the version of your father that would laugh and gently coax you try again. this is the version of your father that would break down the small elements of a problem and point them out so you have an easier time with them.

as a kid, those days happened more often. but somewhere around 11, you started being too much of a person, and he was often cross about it. when he'd try to sit you down to learn something, you spent the whole time with your shoulders around your ears, nervous, uncertain. terrified because you didn't immediately understand how to navigate something. worried you will run out of his goodwill and then you will have the Other Father back, and you will have ruined a good day for your entire family. something about you being visibly afraid - it just made him angry. he would accuse you of not wanting to learn and storm away.

on tv, it's not like there's a lot of versions of men-who-are-mostly-fathers. they can be good dads, but usually their stories are not told in the household. so it's normal that your father is there, but he's never around. you know he was in the house, somewhere, it's just not that you guys ever... "hung out". he just seemed to get kind of bored of you, annoyed you weren't made in his perfect image. frustrated with how much energy it took to raise a kid. over time, you kind of adopt a bittersweet band around your throat - he knows nothing about me. he says at least i never abandoned my family.

and it's technically - technically - true. he was there for you. sometimes he even made an effort and made it to the big moments; the graduations and the dance recitals. he grins and tells everyone that he taught you. it almost erases the days in between, where he complains because you need a ride to school. the weeks that go by where he doesn't actually ever speak to you. the times you say i am struggling and he says figure it out on your own. i can't help you.

and that's fine! that's all fine. you can call him if you are having a problem with your car. or if you need a ride to the hospital. he loves playing hero, he just doesn't like the actual work that comes with being a father. and you've kind of made your peace with that; because you had to, because you don't want to live your life like he does; the whole world at a managed distance, a little rotating and controlled orb he can witness and take credit for but never truly love.

as an adult, you are rewatching some dumb cartoon - and again, the child standing in the rain, with a mitt, waiting for their father to come play catch. as an adult, there's this strange creeping dread - this little thing? this little thing, and their dad can't even show up for that? oh god, holyshit, it's not about the mitt, is it. oh god, holyshit, your father spent most of your life leaving you hanging.

#spilled ink #writeblr #:) lol . anybody notice how i write about dads in second person exclusively #me: haha silly cartoon #also me: ): this child is not getting what they need #also btw this is about a father but it might apply to any parent or caregiver #there's a really weird space of like #''this person was technically around me but either ignored me or was actively harmful to me'' #and like u learn this very strange ritual of like... this person is my parent/caregiver on a technicality #that you almost spend all ur time with them like... tiptoeing and acting as THEIR parent so u don't upset them. #like you're 17 and ur mom is suddenly hit by a wave of wanting to talk to you so she's like :) lets make breakfast together :) and ur like #uhhhhhh okay?? bc you feel like this is absolutely going to go wrong and is why u usually make breakfast alone #and she starts being like: THIS is called a TEASPOON ... & u know all this stuff but you also know to just be very quiet #bc if you say like ''mom ive been making this breakfast every day since i was 13'' she would FREAK OUT and be like #DONT ACT LIKE I NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR YOU DONT ACT LIKE I DONT CARE ABOUT YOU. FUCKING DISRESPECTFUL . #so u have to smile like ur a preschool teacher and be like. OH COOL! i didn't know A CUP existed! tell me MORE! :)

[sluckythewizard]

YOU JUST HƎARD IT FROM [HIS MOUTH] FOR SURƎ!!!

#cw gore #cw blood #jrwi fanart #jrwi suckening spoilers #jrwi suckening #BEEN VEHEMENTLY SCRIBBLING THIS THING ALL DAY #IM SO FUCKING IN LVOE W THE NEW EPISODE #VIV N VEX ARE LITERALLY EVERYTHING I COULDVE EVER WANTED. I LOVE BLOOD AND MEAT AND BLOOD AND MEAT #THE SCRIBBLE IS KINDA ROUGH SO DONT LOOK AT IT TOO HARD BUT EHEHEHEEEE THE FACE THAT I CREATED UNNERVES ME #AND IM VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. I LOVE CREATING SOMETHING AND HAVING IT EVEN SLIGHTLY PHASE ME #I LOVED ALL THE TOOTH RIPPING NOISES IN THIS EPISODE. AHVE U EVER HAD A TOOTH REMOVED? #SHE USED A BLUNT METAL TOOL TO PUNCH IT OUT. IT REMINDED ME OF THE SPLINTERING OF A TREE. THE WAY IT TORE. #SUCH A SPECIFIC SORT OF CRUNCHING AND SPLINTERING AS A MOLAR WAS RRRRIPPPEEDD FROM THE SOCKET. OHH I LOVE IT. #GOING IN FOR A ROOT CANAL NEXT WEEK AND IM VERY EXCITED. ALL THE DENTISTS LOVE ME N ARE SO NICE TO ME #WHAT A GREAT EPISODE. I HOPE THE URGE TO DRAW MORE STRIKES ME LIKE THIS AGAIN. WEEEE!! #I WANNA ANIMATE EMIZEL GETTIN HIS EYE RRIPPED OUT. BUT. IM ALREADY COOKING 3 OTHER VIV N VEX ANIMATIONS #THERES NO WAY THEY WILL ALL BE FINISHED HELP!! HELP MEE!!!! I HAVE TO MANY IDEAS AND NOT ENOUGH HANDS. DO U GUYS REMEMBER HTF? #OR HAPPY TREE FRIENDS. THE CUTE ANIMAL SHOW W ALL THE BLOOD AND GORE AND TERRIBLE TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPENING TO THE CUTE ANIMALS #in elementary school i would show the 'eyes cold lemonade' to other kids and tell em thats how they make pink lemonade. #hope that helps you undertsand. i wish i could make a lil cartoon w just viv n vex doing what they do best #LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT. IM GOING BACK TO MY LAB. DONT EXPECT TO HEAR FROM ME IN A MILLION YEARS

[sweetgaleria]

Help a college student graduate by answering a survey!!

Hey!! Are you over 18 and in the miraculous fandom? Then this is for you!!

Hi everyone, this is my last semester of uni, and one of my final projects to be able to graduate is to write a scientific paper. I'm writing an article about adult fans of children's animation, specifically Miraculous Ladybug. My goal is to understand what makes adults (like us) want to join fandoms centered around shows aimed primarily at children, and to do that I'd love to hear directly from the source! The survey takes around 10 minutes to answer, it's 100% anonymous and it would help me immensely!

>>Click here for the survey<<

I need at least 30 people to answer, but honestly the more the merrier! I've also made a little thank you gif at the end, so if you see it let me know! If you have any questions feel free to send me an ask, as well!

Please reblog so it can reach more people! Thank you so much!

#what do we love (or hate!! I know people are here bc they dont like the show as much too) abt miraculous that #makes us want to spend so much time thinking and creating things for and about it? #miraculous ladybug #i am once again asking for your support #insert bernie sanders meme here #alskdjasd #no but really if you answer this it would help me so so much #and i'll be so thankful #i will reblog this post a bit frequently so please be patient with me 😭😭 #also the point of this is not to shame anyone for watching kid's shows in any shape or form #i just love animation and kids cartoons too #my first intentions with this research were to ask why do we mostly view animation as a kid's genre instead of a technique to tell stories #in the west at least #but it was too broad of a question and I dont have enough time to dedicate myself to it #so i narrowed it down to something i'm familiar with #which is why i went for #so uh anyway #pls reblog #and answer my survey #thank you so much

[crocchompers]

A bunch of doodles and stuff I did yesterday asdkajsk they all make me so happy especially little baby og <3

#idk #i dont have much to say today #other than #HOW FUN THEY ARE #I CAN JUST IMAGINE ALL THE SHINANIGANS #THEY GO THROUGH #THEY MAKE ME THINK OF SOME CARTOON #LIKE- #MICKEY MOUSE #or something #IDK BUT IT'S SO FUN!

[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

[civetside]

im bout to do my physical media rant baybe i keep trying to find some of my favorite cartoons n shit on DVD and SOO many of them only have like the first season and maybe the second physically and IM LIKE WHAT you went ahead and made a DVD for this series but couldn't be bothered to do like??? the rest of it??? and i ALMOST understand it ya know you wanna release the first season and see if it sells well before going and doing the rest, but also that's dumb? i don't wanna own only ONE SEASON if im going to buy a dvd for a series esp one that's already finished, i want to be sure it's THE WHOLE THING i'm not going to buy just a lil bit im going to wait for the full series to buy it so i know when im rewatching i don't have to like stop half way through and go watch the rest of it ONLINE GRRR GRRR do the full series or don't do it AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!! im about to start buying bootlegs

#civetrambling #physical media #sorry i started collecting DVDs like last year and now im a nerd about it #just lIKE WHY #cant believe kipo age of wonderbeasts got a full series release on DVD but bojack fucking horseman didn't #i mean they are for very different people of course but like in the sense that they are both popular animated netflix series #like i was waiting for infinity train to fully release on DVD to watch it since i thought that would be fun but now im just gonna have to #fucking pirate it i GUESS #witch i dont have a problem doing but i like collecting things okay #love cartoon network for actually bothering to make good dvd box sets for their popular series you go kings #i need DVD bonus features or im going to die

[whilomm]

billie joe armstrong: "DO YOU KNOW THE ENEMY? DOYAKNO YOUR ENEMY WELL GOTTA KNOW THE ENEMY RAEH"

11 year old me, nodding: "tigerstar"

#buzzy #green day #listen i didnt know what politics are i just. heard that song and the only Enemies i could think of were like. in cartoons. #do u kno how long it took me to realize green day was politival #it didnt help that i could only hear half the words to their songs but it took until i. okay dont make fun of me for this #....until i hear a mashup of 'holiday' and a dr who song #and i was like. oh hey green day has political stuff. wow. #i was so fucking dumb jesus christ #i did not in fact Know The Enemy im sorry green day

[silver-embersss]

these men are so silly goofy they have stolen my whole heart...

#they just dont make cartoons like this anymore 😔 #ember.txt #the real ghostbusters #egon spengler #peter venkman #ray stantz #winston zeddemore #winston my beloved why do you encourage them

[samipekoe]

did you get put in witness protection for falarcille

LMFAO I actually got mad bc I kept getting annoying messages even tho I post my lacille in the most out of way possible way so I was like WHATEVER!!! and deleted tumblr off my phone. I'm normal now though so I came back

#i decided its just cartoons and we are all gonna die so ill keep deleting the annoying messages i get and posting my stupid ship art #just dont make it my problem okay!!! blow me up in your mind and unfollow me but leave me Alone

[cherrytraveller]

went on another short sketching spree with the so-shaped! gang

Twitter || Ko-fi || Instagram

#tmnt #tmnt 2003 #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt oc #traditional art #sketch #doodle #traditional sketch #cartoon #fanart #travellerdraws #travi's ocs #brown eyed turtles supremacy #leo with dark brown eyes literally has my whole heart #SMUSH EM BOYS!! #also dont mind me making design headcanons for the boys #beauty marks for leo and cool facial scars for raph #bc im predictable #THEY ARE JUST SO COOL OKAY

[dhmis-autism]

ID LOVE TO SEE YOUR HUMAN RED GUY BTW

well gosh if you're gonna be so enthusiastic about it sure. here's a drawing i did of him a while back. if you really want i'll show you the others but ah, im shy.

#I KNOW HE'S BASIC I KNOW HE'S REAL BOILERPLATE OK. YOU DONT GOTTA TELL ME #my dhmis postings #dhmis red guy #me art #he can see just fine btw #he's like a cartoon emo kid alright #he can see fine #ALSO HE'S A NATURAL REDHEAD. HE HAS TO BE OKAY. #IT MAKES WAY MORE FUCKIN SENSE TO ME THAT HE WOULD BE A NATURAL REDHEAD THAN THAT HE WOULD DYE IT #like. bc naturally being a redhead is both something that would draw attention to him and something out of his control and you could tie a #really cool parallel between that and in-universe RGs height and stature bringing attention to him against his will bc he contrasts so hard #against the puppety nature of their world ykwim? #anyways. i know a lot of people make his hair dyed bc they read him as black and thats FAIR however there are. black redheads in the world. #like that exists!!! its REAL on this beautiful bitch of an earth!!! SO WHY NOT UTILIZE #its fine. i don't have strong feelings about this ok #<- (definitely has super strong feelings about RG humanizations)

[princehoneytea]

sorry no art in a hot second... ive been really burnt out for a long time now and its been miserable, ive been looking for a normie job for ages so that i can make art something i do for myself again and i havent had much luck but.

i have good news now.

#YIPPEEEEEE #cant wait to see how this effects my relationship with my art #freelancing is hard. im excited to be creative for myself again #prince talks #ideally id want to work in the cartoon industry but its looking rough right now and im already having a hard enough time #but its never too late to try to achieve your dreams #so im just putting it on the backburner for now #have to take care of myself instead of being so worried about 'wasting my life' or whatever because its just making me miserable #LIFE HAS VALUE NO MATTER WHAT DAMMIT #oh btw i will still be taking comms i just wont be making it like. #my only source of income #bc that SUCKED. #i love doing comms. dont love how unstable it is

[faelapis]

crazy how often you see the exact same people who defend aang not killing the fire lord (usually for the fanon interpretation of it being about preserving air nomad culture), be the exact same people who say how "refreshing" it is that luz lets belos die.

i just think that's interesting. no comment here. just interesting.

#i could go on a long rant about how people try to make these two things both 'fit' with their own preferred politics #or the many ways they try to make it out like aangs decision is about everything Except pacifism which they really dont like and cant vibe #with without the excuse of 'cultural preservation' that they pretend is indisputable canon #but cartoon twitters overall ideology is a mess of contradictions #so trying to make a real analysis of it is in many ways an inherently fake idea #so i just... won't do that :)