Some doots for @weirdozjunkary Ruby Gilman Au! (Also my first time drawing Bernie niiiiice)

Not gonna lie, being enjoying this storyboard/deleted scenes from Teenage Kraken and everything about them feels... Just Better by a wide margin! the scenes feel grounded, well-paced, entertaining, fun, and serious when it needs to be. This one even confirms that Chelsea was meant to be the Mermaid Queen’s daughter! Her motivation was revenge and not just power for the sake of it. 

Not sure why I’m getting so invested in this, guess the fact of this movie having wasted their opportunity to actually be good, even remarkably is... infuriating.

Looks at my first draft for a rewrite of this movie and other reasons...

I really like Ruby's Prom dress, it makes her look like a princess 💙

Ruby Gillman and what its reception showcases what's wrong with children's media today

Here is the link to the specific reblog that contains both a production fantheory about Chelsea and my initial review for anyone interested in that: https://www.tumblr.com/tetsunabouquet/722833498719879168/alright-considering-the-massive-heat-of-the-past?source=share Alright, as an aspiring children's author and as someone studying writing classes with children's literature as the particular focus, I have made a couple of posts about my issues with children's media already, or rather, the problems with the people making and critqueing it. Ruby Gillman's reception, like the reviews from critics and people who dislike the movie alike, actually showcases multiple examples of what makes so many movies/shows aimed at children or the family, poor nowadays: Ruby has been critiqued for being 'too cute', and that they should just 'embrace the monster'. Only this doesn't work when young children are also part of the target demographic. There's a reason to why bad guys are written to be ugly, and why good guys are written to be good looking: It's that the brain of the average child isn't developped enough to understand nuance. The younger the child, the more you have to REMOVE nuance. That's also why, when Queen Nerissa/Chelsea becomes all-powerful, she becomes ugly. It's because she's the bad guy in that moment. It's why she lacks a sympathetic backstory, as we see with a lot of villains nowadays. It's because, again, the more nuance there is to the character, the less a child will actually understand the character. It's why the Gillmans claim they're from Canada: because I've seen enough of American media to know Canadians are practically treated like another species. To a child, this explanation would actually somewhat work, especially to a 6 year old or younger The adults screaming about that and how anyone can see Ruby isn't human are thinking too much like adults. They don't try to see it from a child's perspective, and that's the main core to all the problems behind children's media nowadays: They don't 'dumb' themselves down enough to the perspective of a young child. When watching the movie, I definitely felt like the Gillman family was also close to its ideal target demographic: families with daughters ranged between 10-13 and younger siblings of about 5+ years old. And it did well for a movie aimed at such a group. It lacked enough nuance for young kids to understand, and the theme of womanhood would speak to pre-adolescent girls. Also, the way the media keeps comparing this to Turning Red because they were both magical metaphors for womanhood and female puberty and speaks of the generations of womanhood is annoying. Are you telling me that with the shitload of movies that America produce per year alone, they never produced 2 animated movies dealing with coming of age and manhood in the span of 16 months? This speaks once again, of how men have difficulty relating to female struggles and will hate on a movie centering girls growing up, opposed to how women have little to no difficulty symphatizing and relating to movies of boys growing up. Boys only want male protagonists, whilst we women can care less. The moment we get even more then one animated movie dealing with the idea of female puberty in the span of two years, the press immediately descends to pit one movie against another. Oh my god, imagine being that pathetic. That wouldn't be me.

My little floppy

With people shipping Ruby Gillam and Chelsea ever since the first trail came out and with it being Pride Month, it felt like the right time to make this collage. I did a poll on what their ship title should be, Meraken, Rubsea, ChelRuby or Krakmaid, and Meraken got the most votes.

From what I can tell from resent trailers and clips, Chelsea will be pretending to be Ruby's friend in order to steal the Kraken Queen's Trident, and there have been people who are hoping that these two will be friends for real. With Krakens and Mermaids as enemies and if someone were to rewrite the film (before it comes out), it would make a pretty good forbitten friendship story. As the creators of How to Train Your Dragon are some of the talented people who are making Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.

Well, last fanart 2023 and soon will be a happy new year 2024.

So this year was better than 2022 and stuff, the good things I’m now in a illustration class in a real art school in the city, I know someone in the family left us on the beginning of December and I get to know new people and art I did see from them their talents and all their care for the world.

My fanart is more a multiverse kinda style since I wanted to combine Across the Spiderverse/Once Upon a Studio with a few references the star making with their magic.

Hope you like it and Happy New Year.

Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken © DreamWorks Animation

Mario © Nintendo

Elemental © Disney and Pixar

Nimona © Annapurra Pictures

Total Drama © Fresh TV

Wish © Disney

Leo © Happy Madison

Migration© Illustration Entertainment 

they 🧜‍♀️🐙

burning

Help i cant decide :(

Both look very good

I'm definitely missing a lot of characters but for now, this should suffice (What a coincide so many have gone through some form or trauma, the majority of the identity kind!)

Rose (Black and red furry): Homunculus shapeshifting mute doppelganger with an identity crisis [latchkey kingdom]

Noriel (Curly hair with feathers and scar): Homeless half-angel-demon, acts like a cat, also existential crisis [Wings: By Noa Start]

Tamberlane (Human girl at the bottom): Only human in the continent with a little bit of existential crisis [Tamberlane]

Ruby (Black and White person in the middle): A Squid person living among humans, clumsy but with a good heart, has a bit of an identity crisis [Ruby Gilman] Kinda a shame I only like the storyboards and fan content.

Luz Noceda (Crying girl with black hair): Creative, passionate, socially clumsy, and bullied high school girl who just wanted to belong somewhere [The Owl House]

Hilda (light blue hair and skin) a young adventurous kid who gets into maybe a little too many problems, saw herself die once, and also turned into an abominable troll once. [Hilda Netflix]

Vee the basilisk (Girl with white spots and blue sweater): Artifically born shapeshifting demon who just wanted a safe place to live [The Owl House]

Belle the Tinkered (Yes, the Sonic character): android whose creator/father died and went through a phase of existential crisis and isolation [Sonic IDW Comics]

Hunter the Grimwalker (Blonde boy with red eyes): Artificially born half-witch-human indoctrinated to be a child soldier, a lot of identity and existential crisis [The Owl House]

Belfy (Bat on the top): Clumpy single mother doing her best, prone to a lot of self-blame;-; [Tamberlane]

I have like a dozen more characters to share but for now, these are my favorites, nobody is above anyone... except you Vee, you are my favorite

>have an interesting spin on the Little Mermaid 2 where the villain is complex and MC's mother regrets killing the villain's kin

>turn it into a shittier the Little Mermaid 2 ripoff where you validate the racist grandma