Back in 2003, Warner Bros released an anthology called Cartoon Monsoon which allowed young filmmakers to essentially make pilot episodes shown directly to audiences with the most popular ones promised to get their own full fledged show. You can read more about it here. Unfortunately, none of the shows pitched in the anthology got picked up.

One of the pilots pitched was Zatanna and in a weird way it feels like a precursor to Zatanna's later animated appearances. Not only does she have violet hair in this short like her DCSHG counterpart, she is also a teenager fighting Klarion much like her YJ counterpart albeit no Dr Fate involved. The show also gives her a brother named Damon whom AFAIK has never appeared anywhere else. Overall it has a strong 'Sabrina The Teenage Witch' vibe which I think fits really well for Zatanna. And it was written by Paul Dini (imagine that).

Zatanna was voiced by Tara Strong with Steve Blum voicing Zatara. No other DC characters save for the Zataras and Klarion appear in this.

Check it out here:

I’ve made a massive translated compilation of Zatanna’s spells from most media. Namely excluding DCSHG, and one or two video games. So if you’ve ever been curious what she’s been saying, then check it out.

Edgar and the Voyagers

Created by J.G. Orrantia

Warner Bros. Animation, 2004

🔥 W ⛧ T C H I N G 🔥

(Anything this cute and lovely and watchable for grown up kids like us deserves to be linked and promo'ed)

E is for Emerald.

I haven't seen all Steven Universe episodes but I do like it quite a bit. It's a shame we never saw more of Emerald, because I love the design, voice, and the possible dynamics and plots we coulda had. But we never did. I suppose I'll leave that to comics, fan artists and fanfictions.

I'm not mad at anyone for this, just lamenting on what we never got to see. I based the color palette on the sketches I saw by Nicole Rodriguez, who worked on the show, which is a bit different in color palette as the Emerald we saw was on a screen, so her colors are greener than it probably actually was.

Emerald and Steven Universe belong to Rebecca Sugar and Cartoon Network

September 18: Happy 36th Birthday to Actress and Reality Star Jinkx Monsoon, who provided the voice of the antagonist who chased around after both Lars and the Off Colors in an attempt to retrieve the Sun Incinerator in the Season 5 episode “Lars of the Stars” (2018) as the Steven Universe character of Emerald.

I've been wanting to draw my favourite Drag Artists for ages, so when I got a spot at Drag Expo AU Sydney and Melbourne I realised my time has come!⁠ Because she's a guest AND one of my absolute favourites of all time, I had to draw Jinkx Monsoon ...Aaaand the linework ended up sitting in my to do pile for ages because I was terrified of drawing an existing person rather than someone I made up. ⁠ But I decided to start the year facing my fears and finishing it off!

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HER DESIGN IS SO FABULOUS

IM IN LOVE WITH HER COLORS AND DESIGN SHES SO SLAY

Where is that post about all the highprinces being drag queens that’s so real and I need to see it come to fruition in any Stormlight adaptation

Can't get enough of "Cartoons and Vodka" by Jinkx Monsoon.

Great song, Jinkx has a fantastic voice, and the music video expertly parodies numerous different cartoons and styles.

If they sound familiar, you may have heard Jinkx from their voice acting for Steven Universe, Bravest Warriors, and Helluva Boss.

I'm really curious about where exactly Doctor Who & spinoffs fit in to the 'scrambled universe' framework

So it's 2012. After a series of mental health events, Dan Harmon is on the rocks with his sitcom The Big Bang Theory, and is looking for a new project to do. He decides to call up his old friend Justin Roiland, who he met almost a decade earlier running Channel 101, and asks if he has any ideas for a cartoon. Roiland decides to file the serial numbers off of his old shock comedy short Miss Wonka, and the result is Adult Swim's Ms. Frizzle. Dan Harmon brings the systematic approach to story structure he honed working on The Big Bang Theory to elevate the project to something with some actual redeeming value someone could care about. The show premieres the next year, in 2013. It is acclaimed and beloved, and for a brief and golden moment in history it isn't even considered cringe.

It's 2018. Year after year, season after season, Harmon's people have edged out Roiland's people in the Ms. Frizzle writing room. Roiland has grown bored and disruptive; the show's staff only really see him anymore when he comes in to record the voices, or when he decides to play some inscrutable Epic Funny LOL Prank on them and waste their time. Meanwhile, Disney's main streaming platform, Hulu, is looking for exclusives that might draw people to subscribe, in a streaming environment that's quickly and unsustainably growing bloated. They have an easy time convincing Roiland to divert his attention to a second project. Roiland announces Dr. Who in an interview; it's the first Dan Harmon has ever heard of it. Mike McMahan (also getting picked up around this time by CBS All Access to do There And Back Again: Gollum) is the cocreator this time. Roiland has learned various bad habits while stagnating on Ms. Frizzle, so he won't put much effort into Dr. Who either, but he will at least get it going.

It's 2020. Granted a sort of captive audience by the recently-started coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Who premieres on Hulu. At a glance, it's a low-effort off-brand version of Ms. Frizzle; Roiland isn't even bothering to do a girl voice this time. If given a deeper look, there is something worthwhile there. It's a riff on an old subgenre of soft sci-fi TV, the idea of an immortal celestial time guardian figure - you see it in the BBC's long-running Quantum Leap, in Constance M. Burge's A Wrinkle In Time, and there are even elements of it in Ms. Frizzle, though they're much more concentrated in Dr. Who. The show is very episodic, though there are more serialized subplots and hints of a deeper-running plot; like Ms. Frizzle, the show is full of undisguised references to other media.

It's 2023. A legal case in which Roiland is accused of domestic abuse becomes widely publicized, followed by the dissemination of various inappropriate text messages he had apparently sent to fans. It becomes common knowledge that Roiland is a nightmare to work with, and every single project he's involved with drops him nearly simultaneously as a brand liability, even the video game development studio he founded to make Gone Home.

Every unaired project on which Roiland was set to do a voice comes up with a different strategy to replace him. Science Time: Rita & Morticia hires a new up-and-coming voice actor to play assorted versions of King Tommy, without comment. Season 7 of Ms. Frizzle replaces Roiland with Jinkx Monsoon; it's a very noticeable change, but she's still basically playing the same character, she's just doing a better job.

Dr. Who is the lesser-known knockoff living in Ms. Frizzle's shadow, so it has less to lose; it decides to make a meta joke out of the whole thing, and whips up a new sketch to start off season 4, in which the Doctor trips, falls down the stairs, and dies in front of his companion Rose Tyler. We are thereby introduced to the just-invented openly-bullshit process of "regeneration", in which the Doctor can come to the brink of death but dramatically cheat it, with the only consequence being that he'll now look and/or sound like a different guy. So, as of the opening scene of season 4, the Doctor is now voiced by Dan Stevens.

And that's how the Doctor on Dr. Who became British.

I require more Mistral appreciation ;;

Monsoon's defo my favourite Mgr character, and Mistral's a close second. Her character's really interesting, having a relatively normal childhood up until shit really hit the fan. I can't help but wonder what her life would have been like if her and the fam migrated to France before the civil war considering one of her parents was French. What were her hobbies as a kid? What was her favourite cartoon? Did she have a school crush? Any pets? How was she treated when she joined the FFL? Was she given a nickname by her FFL peeps? How often does she think about her dead parents? Does she celebrate Mother's/Father's day? Her story's a sad af one.

Aside from her past, I love her design. How much skill does a mf need to have to be able to, not only walk in those clawed high heels, but to fight in them as well? I also find it funny that she was allowed to dye her hair and style it however she wanted. When I think WoD, a pink haired, big tittied, cat walking dominatrix doesn't come to mind.

I also wanna point out that she has a red right leg and Monsoon has a red left hand - the only members with calico limbs (and heels lol) They're freakin' siblings. Convince me that they're not

Go! Go! Moba Boy!

Created by Matt Danner and Eric Pringle

Warner Bros. Animation, 2003

i'm in that my cartoon and vodka era, jinxx monsoon sure does influence me in my later years.

not fanart thou, but more of an inspiration doodle

Finding out Monsoon is voiced by a stand up comedian who also voiced Deadpool and made cartoon raccoon noises for Pocahontas is one of the most perfect things I have heard all week

September 18: Happy 35th Birthday to Actress and Reality Star Jinkx Monsoon, who provided the voice of the antagonist who chased around after both Lars and the Off Colors in an attempt to retrieve the Sun Incinerator in the Season 5 episode “Lars of the Stars” (2018) as the Steven Universe character of Emerald.