i’m gay but i’m always gonna choose the well developed straight ship over the 2 bland and incompatible white dudes that have 500,000 fanfics written about them. you guys just hate women.

this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny

been on a dragon ball kind of mode this past month with toriyama passing in march and his birthday today. so ive been thinking of possible dragon ball references in bakugan (p sure there's a kamehameha reference in later seasons) then i remembered super saiyan runo lmao (also just. alice having blonde super saiyan hair when she turns into masquerade)

Ngl, I'm truly interested in your thoughts about how Imperialism/Imperialist was handled in Bakugan series (i think not so good)

i think you're going to have to be specific on which aspects you'd like a deep dive focus on because there is... a lot lol. and i do think generally it's done in a very shallow way.

i've talked a bit here on the way bakugan's capitalist inceptions impacts the way viewers are intended to see the bakugan (an oppressed class) and how their oppression and subsequent liberation is written. because of the background of the show, bakugan are never able to just exist by themselves, there always has to be a humanoid partner that the audience can self-insert into and imagine that they're the ones with fantastic monsters in order to sell toys. season 1 is only a bit more forgivable in this sense because the finale ends not with the brawlers dictating the attacks of the bakugan but with the major bakugan characters making attacks on their own, and with the bakugan being free of needing human control. it's not perfect, but it's the best in that regard especially compared to new vestroia.

in general i think new vestroia is the worst when dealing with the topic of imperialism in a way that liberates the oppressed class. it puts too much focus on the resistance vestals and the vexos to focus on the bakugan. the bakugan are relegated as mere background characters to the story of their own liberation. it fails to put the focus on the bakugan in a story where their freedom is what's being highlighted. the most you get is some parts with drago, maybe a few with elfin, and that one scene with ingram which was misogynistic towards skyress anyway. percival and nemus are never talked about outside of ace and baron's own personal struggles, and wilda (in the japanese dub especially) hardly has any personality and only exists to enable mira.

while i do like the s2 villains and how they can easily be interpreted as manifestations of the rot inside the imperialist vestal monarchy (incestuous subtext between spectra and mira included. i am fermincest truther and yes its execution was ridiculous but i like a critical gothic reading of it), the fact that this takes up so much of s2 while the bakugan get next to nothing on their own is frustrating.

s3 also falls into this trap with the neathians and the gundalians which i've touched a bit on here. it makes it so people usually fall into the trap of "umm neathians shouldve helped them maybe they wouldnt have gotten invaded if they did" which is also equally frustrating lol

Maybe one day things will change and we'll meet again

Screenshot redraw!

Ss from 1st season ep. 52

This scene really gets me every time bc it is when everyone is saying goodbye to their bakugans before they leave Earth. And this particular frame when Alice's shadow sorta kinda looks like Masquerade just for a moment like he came to say goodbye too? Peak cinema

Shadow👥

hiiii, i love your art!! if you feel like it, can i request volt, mylene, shadow, or any combo of the three? their dynamic is my absolute favorite :3

They r blowing him up with their minds

the way theres a whole episode centered around runo stopping bakugan because she doesnt want to lose anymore of her bakugan and in the same episode masquerade is going around disposing of his former lackeys like theyre nothing. but noooo everything has to be about dan

smth smth runo gives her bakugan names and treasures each one of them while masquerade easily disposes of his bakugan when they're no longer of use to him. . .

A quick-ish Runo doodle dump

2 of these doodles are for the catverse AU, the other is just regular Runo

Separates

you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

Runo!

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Asked for a drawing suggestion and was given Volt drawn as the Lucifer statue. Had a lot of fun drawing this.

things that werent on my 2024 bingo: inesidora coming back

bakugan battle brawlers anyone??? idk if this is obscure but it was my FAV childhood show (battle brawlers only bc it is the best one)

i wanna redraw this one day bc its so old but i still love the way the colours turned out

Commissions are open

I've been hearing some "HEY- do you do commissions?", well, yes I do-

In fact, my commissions have been open, but I had to just do something about the way I present them cause I didn't had any new image or site to showcase those outside of my Ko-Fi, so I just went ahead and made a Carrd page for it.

Here's the link