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hkthatgffan · 2 years

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Alex Hirsch just posted a video on Instagram that Joe Pitt made on the day that Gravity Falls was greenlit!

All the way back in 2009!!

A perfect way to wrap up the 10 year anniversary of Gravity Falls premiering!

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innactives-blog · 10 months

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Quotes from "Meet Me On The Strange Trails"

Some of my favorite quotes so far from my story "Meet Me On The Strange Trails". Sometimes I impress myself lol.

"So an evil fairy is trying to get you to build a portal to hell?"

"･ﾟ:*You are not pure of heart!･ﾟ:*" Celestinabell– or whatever her name was– shouted, her horn glowing. Stan rolled his eyes.

"Well shit, I could have told you that from the beginning."

"No. Now you listen here, you overgrown bottle of glue; You can either give us some hair, or we'll take it, but we ain't leavin' here empty-handed."

Ok, so Ford was living off of coffee and dust, that actually explained a few things.

"I have eaten! Not in the past twelve hours, but–"

"Woah... his name is Fiddleford? Legally? Eso es gracioso!"

"Aw, don't look so glum, chum! I've got the perfect solution for everyone! Well, maybe not for you, but the rest of us will be happy."

"Don't beat yourself up; you're runnin' off a single sandwich and a prayer. We'll figure this out. Least ya got your friend here to help us." Stan said, jerking a thumb at Fiddleford.

"Did you say a single sandwich? Ah hell, both'a ya siddown and shuddup, I'm gettin' us fed."

"This unicorn barrier spell has more holes in it than a rusted-up bucket!"

"Could we lock 'im in the bunker?" Fiddleford asked, looking at Ford.

"What, the bunker with the portal in it? Cause that seems like a bad idea." Stan said.

"No, no, not that one. The other bunker! The secret one out in the woods!"

Stan looked at his brother quizzically. "The other one? How many damn bunkers do you got?"

"Shoot, well'en; I suppose I ain't got any other ideas. You, Stanley?"

"Lock him in a closet?"

"We'll certainly file that one away."

"And just where am I supposed to put him, the jail cell in my attic?"

Ford blinked. "Well, that would probably work-"

"He was being sarcastic, Ford," Stan spoke up, struggling to hide his grin. Ford blushed.

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sosoribro · 10 months

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call me crazy but alex hirsch voicing bart? yess!

#dc #dc comics #young justice #bart allen #impulse #alex hirsch #please say someone agrees

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dixdixbby · 8 months

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Recently did a rewatch of Mutant Mayhem so I thought I’d put down some things I didn’t notice on my first watch through:

The little band-aid on baby Super Fly ☹️☹️☹️

The “15 years later” kinda resembling the 2007 movie logo (coincidence?)

The tape on Raph’s belt buckle and the stickers on Mikey’s chucks I LOVE those details

“Drake is the GOAT of all time” is such a cleverly stupid line lol

“I love being young and free to go places!”

Triceratops on the side of a U-Haul = Triceratons reference (or foreshadowing??? 👀)

Mr. Beast cameo

“That’s not a cat, it’s actually a rat!”

Mikey vocalizing while doing his flips

“How many people has the red one stabbed? Does he need therapy?” LMAOOOOO

Got a picture of the Mona Lisa on the locker next to April’s. Mona reference probably?

Bad Bernie looks kinda like a mouse

Making Leatherhead Australian was the best decision actually

“Cowabunga! I just made that up :D” love the continuing the trend of Mikey getting some of his catchphrases from Mondo

“Oh my god, I’m gonna win a daytime Emmy”

“Don’t cuz me right now, man 🤨😒”

One of the TCRI guys nodding along to their rendition of “Butter”

They wanted Ice Cube to curse so badddd

The parallel between the scene of Raph throwing the ninja star and him shooting the gun

“The Mercedes no!!!” “That was a Prius, it’s ok.”

Donnie doing the AoT salute as he explained the Titans weakness is such a minor detail but I love it so much

Mikey saying “yes and” right after being told to improvise

“Anxious but highly informed teen reports”

Alex Hirsch voiced Scumbug because of course he did

87, 2012, and Rise Splinter in the credits~

MOUSERS LETSGOOOOO

#mutant mayhem #tmnt mutant mayhem #teenage mutant ninja turtles mutant mayhem #tmnt mm #tmnt 2023 #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #I love tmnt specifically cause of stuff like this #where you can see the amount of care they put in #with their references to the past iterations #they’ve been doing this for decades now and I never get tired of it lol #also the small lines and jokes they put in

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fordtato · 10 months

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So, I’ve been watching some of your Gravity Falls videos—-and by the way, they’re absolutely fantastic, and I love that you included complex and under-discussed topics through the lenses of aspecs and of masculinity—though one of the things that’s been most surprising that you’ve mentioned in passing a few times is the idea that Stan and Ford were specifically Jewish immigrants.

I’m curious if you could tell me more about that, especially because that possibility doesn’t sit well with me as a Jew, as if it’s true it would make Stan’s entire character an antisemitic stereotype (the greedy, deceptive Jew is one of the oldest antisemitic stereotypes out there) and would make the entire show harder to enjoy or even watch.

Sure, no problem (and thank you for watching my videos)! So, the Pines family is canonically Jewish (the series creator, Alex Hirsch, is himself Jewish and based them off his own family and has confirmed this, and we see a mezuzah at Stan and Ford’s childhood home). As far as them being immigrants, I don’t say that Stan and Ford themselves are immigrants, but that they are the children of immigrants, as it is implied in the supplemental material that their father (or at least their father’s family) migrated to the US, with a mention of a name-change on Ellis Island.

As far as the antisemitic stereotypes, that is an area that I feel less comfortable weighing in on (as I myself am not Jewish). It is notable that the characters were written/created by a Jewish man, and I feel it would be inappropriate for me to weigh in too deeply on how a Jewish person writes Jewish characters (and Stan, notably, is also based off of one of Hirsch’s relatives.) In all discussions of good or bad representation (regardless of which marginalized group I’m considering), I think a solid rule of thumb when considering a stereotypical depiction, is that it is important to see if that is the only depiction of that group present, or if there is diversity within the diversity, so to speak. The entire Pines family, including Dipper, Mabel and Ford, are all Jewish, and they have a wide breadth of traits and loveable qualities and flaws. If all of these characters had harmful stereotypes associated with their traits, or if the only depiction of a character from a given group is a stereotype, that is what usually sets off red flags for me. This does NOT mean that stereotypical depictions are immune to criticism, because they absolutely are not, but I do think criticism can be murky on a case-to-case basis, especially when those traits are written by a writer of that background.

That being said, I have seen it said by other Jewish fandom members that Stan Pines can be seen as a deconstruction of the stereotypical tropes you mention and I’ve always found that very interesting. What at first appears to be greed/money-obsession can actually be seen as a manifestation of his means of survival (leftover from when he was homeless as a teen), the trauma of being told as a young person that he would not be accepted without money, and also that he was working to pay off his brother’s mortgage while working to save him from the portal.

I hope this was helpful and that my answer here made sense.

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pinesfamilyguidetotheweird · 7 months

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Gravity Falls Headcanon: From Brown to Blue

I've recently posted a couple of fanart that depicted Ford with two different eye colors: Brown when young and blue post-Portal.

Someone asked why the eye color changed and I replied that it involved a headcanon.

A headcanon that I wanna get more into.

So, how this started was when I was planning on doing fanart of the Gravity Falls characters and I wanted to know their eye colors. Because of their artstyle, the human characters' eyes are simplified, so no eye color. Alex Hirsch did go on to say that Dipper and Mabel have brown eyes. So, by this, I believed that Stan and Ford have brown eyes too.

Then, I remembered the cold open for the Last Mabelcorn.

Ford's eye was shown to be blue.

Going by this, I figured 'Oh! So the Stan twins have blue eyes. Gotcha.' And that's how she wrote.

But then...I read a fanfic where Ford's blue eyes were not naturally occurring. It's stated in the fic that Ford originally had brown eyes prior to entering the portal and at some point during his travels, Ford's eyes changed to this grayish blue.

I love this idea. It just adds a bit of mystique to Ford as an interdimensional traveller. Like, what happened? Did he eat something that changed the color? Was it the atmosphere of a planet/dimension? Was it due to magic? Was he experimented on? Was it during his stay at Dimension 52?

And...of course, there is a bit of angst in this. However it happened, Ford did freak out over the change, half thinking that Bill had something to do with it. He grew frightened of what else changed about him or if there are gonna be more down the road...

Will he still be human?

#gravity falls #stanford pines #grunkle ford #ford pines #gravity falls headcanons

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call-me-cosmic · 6 months

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“Wow all this art is so gorgeous, I just wanna–“ *eats it and gains it’s power*

Ok, well, I didn’t gain ALL of its power, but the art still inspired me nonetheless. Here’s a peek at a short comic I’m working on!

I believe the artworks are done by @hadroncollider on Twitter, but I’m not sure. I’ve been having a hard time tracking the artist down! If I’m incorrect, please let me know!!

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yqqug · 2 years

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thinking about alex hirsch’s description of young fiddleford

“Fiddleford is a sensitive fellow. He’s a kind, sweet, sun of the south, gentleman-like fellow…”

#fiddleford mcgucket #I LOVEHIM

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innactives-blog · 9 months

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I posted the first chapter of a new Gravity Falls story, “I Know How To Live (I Don’t Know How To Die)” where Stan is a ghost and ghost shenanigans ensue.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do so! And let me know what y’all think.

#fanfiction #gravity falls #gravity falls fanfiction #stan pines #mullet stan #a03 fanfic #alex hirsch #disney #writing #archive of our own #young stan pines #ghost Stan pines #ghosts #I know how to live (I don’t know how to die)#lord huron

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mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune · 3 months

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Sari Sumdac's Age Chart & Sumdac/Vakarian/Shepard (2024)

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Credit for Helluva Boss goes to to Vivienne "Vivziepop" Medrano & SpindleHorse

Credit for Transformers goes to Hasbro & TakaraTomy

Credit Transformers Animated Series goes to Sam Register & Matt Youngberg

Credit for Mass Effect goes to Bioware

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[Note: Don't Reblog This Without My Permission, As This Drawing Will Only Be Used For Here & Over At The Place Where I Will Be Using It As a Cover For One Of The Future Chapters Of "The Angel In Disguise"...I do have both the names I go by on this drawing even if "Mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune" was what I changed to because of certain reasons that I wont go into right now...and well once again this drawing will be used as a Cover for a future chapter for that story which if I decide to, I might post some chapters of it on here, you know like a Cross-Post...oh and in case the drawing is too small to see properly, please make sure to click on the drawing to make it bigger so it can be viewed a bit more better.]

I do plan to use this as a Cover for a Future Chapter for Falling For The Angel In Disguise…and yeah, some can guess what will be happening to Sari when she turns 24 years old in the story.

(I might of pointed this out before, but I will say it again...

"Falling For The Angel In Disguise" is for Mature Audience Readers Only, which means there be 18+ moments in certain chapters, even though some parts are still technically not fully detailed, even the whole Semi-Ship going on with Swindle x Adult-Sari...and originally Sari wasn't plan to be the main heroine of the story, but ideas change and the original heroine has a different part to play in that story now.)

also I have a new idea on who could truly be Sari's Human Bio-Parents, and well the whole idea can be added in a future Chapter, where the "Good" Doctor Scalpel will look over Sari's DNA and CNA again, and while it does show that she still Megatron's daughter through her CNA side…on her DNA side, it will show that Marissa Faireborn isn't the Mother after all, and it turns out that Sari's Human Mother is Jane Shepard (which is only in a Crossover-Fanon Timeline.)

and Scalpel also finds out about Isaac Sumdac's Other Brother who is his younger twin brother who's name is Ivaan Sumdac who turns out to be Sari's True Human Bio-Father, as he is a 100% match…

so yeah, I tried to make Ivaan as the "Hot Twin", ya know like Stanford "Ford" Pines from Gravity Falls by Alex Hirsch.

and the reason why Ivaan is going to be Sari's Bio-Dad in that Crossover Story, is because he wasn't wearing gloves.

so in a Fanon Timeline, Isaac isn't a only child and might have more than just two siblings, but only one of his siblings is Isaac's twin brother.

it might make sense that Ratchet was made to be Sari's Godfather by either Isaac Sumdac or Ivaan Sumdac, because both Uncle/"Adoptive Father" & Father would know that Sari has a much longer lifespan than them and will likely have the lifespan as other Cybertronians, even if she is half-human.

so knowing they might not live as long to be in her life forever and it being possible they might go before she becomes a young woman, they could have Ratchet be her Godfather…

even though in "Falling For The Angel In Disguise", Sari is a woman now...well womech when you count her being half-cybertronian.

so if anything were to happen to Isaac or Ivaan when Sari was still very young and before she becomes adult…

Ratchet will get Sari, but if anything were to happen to him, then Sari could end up going to one of her Moms, either Jane Shepard or Megatron. XD

also the reason why Sari at Ages 14 to 15 years old is not smiling in this drawing, it's because of her Autobot Friends.

and yeah in "Falling For The Angel Disguise" Sari is given another chance to be a kid again in a Flashback, where she loses only half of her upgrade, so being back to being 8 years old in the type of Flashback…

Sari's robot form is suppose to be much smaller and femling size in the flashback, so since she loses half of her upgrade some where in the past in the story, that meant she got to grow up a bit more and not skip through most of it.

at the moment Sari is 23 years old, but I will have her become 24 years old later on in the story.

the plan is that Sari will still use a type of Imp-Succubus Hybrid Disguise, from when she is still alive as a Half-Human & Half-Cybertronian, to when she becomes a type of Cybertronian-Angel.

Sari doesn't just have a Cybertronian Spark, the idea is that she has a hybrid spark that is half of Earth and half of Cybertron.

her angel wings are energy based, and yeah I'm still going to have Sari's blood type be O RH D Negative. (same as my blood type…) which would also mean that Sari is a Princess, which her being Megatron's Daughter, that would make her the Princess of The Decepticon Empire.

Scalpel could have Team Chaar (that is Strika, Blackout, Cyclonus, Oil-Slick and Spittor) as Sari's "Royal Bodyguards"…. and I want to say, that since Sari wasn't legally adopted by Isaac Sumdac, that means any human or cybertronian can legally adopt her as their daughter.

Porter C. Powell might be a power hungry jerk who tried to take over Sumdac's Company…who I wouldn't be surprised if his Sinner form ends up being a Anthropomorphic Pig with how Greedy he can be.

but Powell might have a good point, Isaac didn't make sure to give Sari some form of proper papers to show she in fact exist, even if he does a bit better than Greg Universe even if both of them are Gray-Parents…

it doesn't excuse him from not making sure she was taking to a Hospital after she was born in his secret lab, that Megatron was in. even if Isaac Sumdac and Greg Universe are still good dads in their own way, but that doesn't mean they are 100% good dads, like they both can be in between being good and bad dads…

which is why they would fall under the Gray-Parenting rank…and even if Isaac knows Sari is half-Cybertronian, he would still view her as still being human and wouldn't say "Sari, your Cybertronian.

your not like other kids!" even when Steven Universe does return, and I hope it does if some info is true…

I hope Greg doesn't just throw the whole "Steven, Your a Gem, your not like other kids." card….I mean yes Steven is Half-Gem, but he is also Half-Human.

I still love Steven Universe Future, and I think Steven had the right to be upset with Greg in one of the episodes, and yeah Greg's parents might had some problems, but there could be more to it than meets the eye…and both Greg and Steven's Grandparents, could both be in the wrong, like Steven's Grandparents not explaining to Greg why they couldn't give him everything he wanted or how they always made him meatloaf…

which maybe having meatloaf once in a while might be okay, but if ya want to spice things up, put some mustard on it and eat it with some other food, like fries.

plus it could still be possible one of or both of Greg's parents had problems with very loud sounds that would hurt them, and Greg could have had a habit with turning the volume of his music up way too loud.

even if one can like to listen to their favorite music really loud, if you have someone either a friend or family who gets hurt by the very loud sound and is in the same room as you, it is best to turn the volume down for their sake.

if I had to guess, it could be Greg's Mom who would get hurt by Greg turning his music too loud, and it would have to be Greg's Dad to tell him or at least try to, to stop it but Greg ends up ignore him and what he tries to tell him. even if Greg might seem like the perfect Dad, but he isn't, I mean he can be perfect in other ways as a Dad, but at the same time he isn't 100% a perfect Dad, maybe around a 95% but not any higher than that…

Greg along with Sumdac, would be Gray-Parents, even if Isaac did some stuff right when being Sari's Father, he might make some mistakes along the way.

like if your a Mom, and you leave your baby who can still walk, end up being watched by your own Mother who is the baby's Grandmother, and the baby ends up getting hurt under the said Grandmother's watch…

and well, I think I had worse than that time when my Grandmother was watching me, but I ended up hurting my hand...

one of the other times I got hurt when I was a baby, was when me and my big brother were playing alone, and I ended up having to go to the hospital cause I got a bad cut close to some corner of my right eye....not sure if I brought that up on here either, but one of the fanfics I'm reading reminds me of it...I love the story, and even if there are still some differences that reminds me of my life, I think I can relate to one of the characters from it a little bit because they remind me of some parts of my life even if the parts of their life is still very VERY super different from my own....and well, maybe I will go into more detail in another post.

I still think if I was born a twin, chances would be I would be the younger twin who would be more like Stocking Anarchy, and my older twin sister would be like Panty Anarchy...

plus we would both be Defective Earth Angels, who don't exactly work 100% like other Earth Angels and know there is something seriously messed up with the Patriarchy because of that whole Toxic-Masculine thing...

Toxic-Feminine is still a problem too, but it isn't as dangerous or as high as the Toxic-Masculine that has been around for like many centuries...

I think I want to have Sari be a type of Gaea Follower instead of being a full on follower of Primus.

you know, some Female Transformer who is suppose to be in the Earth, plus if Gaea was part of both TFA and Earthspark, she would be Omni-Mom to both Sari, Dinobots, Wreck-Gar, Soundwave (who I'm still going to view as a separate one from the Cybertron-Born Soundwave who will be known as Soundwave Sr. and by his other name Soundblaster.), Constructicons and Sumdac's Robots.

Gaea could be known as Mom-2 to The Terrans: Twitch, Thrash, Jawbreaker, Nightshade and Hashtag.

I mean, when you think about it, Primus is kind of a terrible Omni-Dad in the TFA Timeline...it's not like he tries to stop the Autobots from misusing the living metal in Cybertron, or stop them from taking over still inhabited organic worlds that they end up Cyber-forming for Cybertronian life...and the Autobots have more planets than the Decepticons, if that doesn't tell you something is up...

another reason why Primus wasn't in the Transformers Animated Show, because a certain someone who was working on the show with the others, didn't like him...but no matter if ya like him or not, and no matter if he is kind of a terrible dad, he is still a important character in the Transformers Multiverse.

if Adult-Sari was helping her Autobot Friends Fight Megatron and his Decepticons all while a type of Ethereal Smaller Avatars of Primus, Gaea and Unicron are watching...

Sari who already knows that the Autobots who are much higher rank and run Cybertron and who don't tell the Autobots of lower-rank about them Cyber-forming organic worlds that already have organic life on them (and that is why the whole Optimus, Sentinel and Elita-1 were not allowed on organic worlds, because they would of found out the truth...) and the fact that the Autobots have more planets than the Decepticons because the Autobots make sure to push them back and keep them in The Decepticon's Territory...

Sari could figure out that both sides are in the Gray, and the Decepticons could be better if they tried a different path to try to stop the corruption on Cybetron, which I believe is thanks to Megazarak who disguised himself as Ultra Magnus...

one of the other problems Sari could see, can have to do with Primus.

and Sari could stop fighting whichever Decepticon she was fighting and walk over to where Primus, Unicron and Gaea are.

then Sari could point to Primus while yelling out

"Your a Terrible Dad, Primus!!!"

Primus could be shocked, Unicron could snort from trying to hold back his laugh, and Gaea could be all like "That's My Girl!" as she is so proud of Sari for speaking up like that.

plus if you think about it, in theory Sari could be technically a Demi-Goddess, and the reason why Megatron was possibly able to have Sari in that secret lab was probably The Cybertronian Goddess Gaea's doing...even though Megatron may have been in a stasis coma at the time and there was a 50 Stellar Cycles limit on how long Megatron could be separate from his body...you know like Zim and the rest of the Irkens and their Pak, of course their time limit isn't as long as Cybertronians...

plus in a Crossover Fanon Timeline with Transformers, Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss...

since Isaac Sumdac (and Ivaan Sumdac before he goes missing.) was using Megatron and reverse engineer his technology by taking some of the parts from Megatron's head, all while Megatron was still in his stasis-coma and still technically alive...

that might end up sending Professor Isaac Sumdac to Hell...

like picture his shock when he realizes he is in Pentagram City and not in Heaven, even if he still has some good points from his life...

but the whole taking parts from a still living being, even one like Megatron, still ends up making the bad points higher than the good points....even the points where Isaac Sumdac takes credit for Soundwave's creation, yeah Powell made the Sound-Wave copies, but Professor Sumdac wasn't the one who designed Soundwave.

if Isaac did have a twin brother, it could of been his twin brother who I'm still going to call "Ivaan" who found Megatron, NOT Isaac.

the brothers could of built their robotic empire together, and Ivaan was the one who was against taking parts from Megatron's head and wanted to find a humane way to reverse engineer the technology, by making a scanner that would scan the robot head and tell what is inside it and how it works.

Isaac however, goes against his brother's wishes and takes some parts from the robot head anyway, and that is why Megatron's head looks the way it does while in Sumdac's Secret Lab.

and not everyone has to agree with it, but how could Sari's protoform baby self absorb any of Isaac's DNA when he was wearing gloves...?

the reason why the Maximals and Predacons from Beast Wars were possibly able to get some samples of DNA for their disguises, might have to do with there was nothing preventing the access to the DNA needed for those disguises, the T-Rex Skeleton that Predacon Megatron, was easy for the scanners to pick up and scan, even the other lifeforms that were still very much alive.

Isaac may have got a shock and was out cold because of it, but it could be possible that if he did have a twin brother called Ivaan, he would of found his brother out cold on the floor and saw the protoform, and while not wearing gloves himself, ends up touching the liquid metal body and it ends up absorbing his DNA.

so yeah, it is also a Fan-Headcanon Theory I have...

that Isaac Sumdac has a twin brother who ends up going missing under mysterious reasons, possibly when Sari was 1 or 2 years old.

and Isaac is really Sari's Uncle, while Ivaan (Isaac's twin brother) is her true biological human father.

and in a Crossover with Mass Effect, Ivaan could be Jane Shepard's Ex-Husband, and she was with Ivaan Sumdac when they found Isaac on the floor and unconscious, and Jane wasn't wearing gloves either and both her and Ivaan touched the protoform sparkling at the same time and then Sari came to be...and well like Isaac, the two end up getting a shock as well and go unconscious, but they could wake up much sooner than Isaac did because they both got half of the shock, like the shock that was given to Isaac, was instead split between the two of them, so they were only out for a short while and woke up before Isaac did.

also I have a theory that the Cybertron from the Beast Wars Cartoon, is really a Future version of Earth, which could explain the Organic Core and the Fossils in Beast Machines.

that Cybertron is "Cybertron II" and it was Earth.

not everyone has to agree about that theory, but it could be possible that the Cybertron from that universe and timeline is in fact Earth having been Cyber-formed and some Humans had been lucky to leave and went to another galaxy and called a new Planet home that was similar to their original world...

anyway there is another Crossover drawing that has Adult Future Sari in it, along with some other characters as well...

I will post it up in a little bit, right after I eat some powder doughnuts and check out some fan art on here. :)

#do not reblog without permission #crossover fanart #transformers fanart #transformers animated #tfa fanart #helluva boss fanart #mass effect fanart #sari sumdac #isaac sumdac #twin brothers #ratchet #jane shepard #john shepard #shepard clone #garrus vakarian #fizzarolli helluva boss #asmodeus helluva boss #january 2024

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anthurak · 1 year

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Crazed Ramblings about the WLW couple we could have gotten in Gravity Falls (no, not THAT one).

Alright, here’s the fairly unhinged crackpot fanspiracy theory I got after rewatching some of Gravity Falls:

Were it not for the corporate Disney overlords keeping Alex Hirsch and the rest of the Gravity Falls team on a tight leash, then we very possibly would have seen Wendy and Tambry becoming a couple in the episode ‘The Love God’, via love-potion shenanigans on the part of Mabel.

Exhibit A: It is well-known by this point about Hirsch’s efforts to include an elderly lesbian couple just in a brief background appearance, only to have even that shot down. I’d say it’s no stretch to imagine that without the corporate over(lord)sight, Hirsch and the rest of the team would have likely pushed for even more LGBT rep.

Exhibit B: Alex Hirsch has confirmed that Wendy is bisexual. Pretty easy to draw a connection between that and Exhibit A.

Exhibit C: It just makes sense in the narrative context of both the episode and the show as a whole. After the first season showed Wendy’s crumbling relationship with Robbie, it makes sense to follow that up with showing Wendy starting a much better relationship in the second season. In just the previous episode, ‘Blendin’s Game’, it’s shown that Wendy and Tambry are longtime childhood friends. And considering that we don’t see young Robbie interacting with either Wendy or Tambry in this episode, I think it’s easy to imagine a scenario wherein Wendy and Tambry showing up together in ‘Blendin’s Game’ lays a bit of groundwork for their present selves to get together in the following episode.

Additionally, Wendy and Tambry getting together also provides a nice, logical conclusion to Dipper’s whole character arc dealing with his crush on Wendy through the show, something we didn’t actually get otherwise.

Here’s the thing; Dipper never really moves past his crush on Wendy. While they do get a chance to address his crush in ‘Into the Bunker’ where it becomes clear that Wendy obviously does NOT return those feelings, it’s still left a bit open-ended. Going through the rest of the show, it’s clear that Dipper’s crush on Wendy is still very much present even if he’s no longer trying to act on it.

It really feels like we’re missing an episode B-plot which follows up on the conversation from ‘Into the Bunker’ where this whole thread of Dipper’s unrequited crush on Wendy reaches some kind of resolution. That episode made it clear that Dipper’s crush is not going to be returned, but without any follow-up that shows him finding closure to his unrequited feelings. Which in turn makes this whole thread feel a bit unresolved.

To that end, a logical conclusion to this plot thread would be Dipper fully recognizing and moving past his crush on Wendy. And a great way of doing that would be to show Wendy getting together and being happy with someone else and Dipper being able to recognize, accept and support it. Wendy and Tambry getting together in The Love God could have provided that.

Heck, going back to ‘Blendin’s Game’, I think we can even see what could have been a hint to this with Dipper and Mable meeting past-Wendy and Tambry. Sure it’s a funny joke that Mable cracks about how Dipper ‘now knows how Wendy feels’ about his crush on her, but it’s also pretty clear that realization struck a chord in Dipper. Again, consider a scenario wherein this scene with Wendy and Tambry together as kids provides a bit of setup for them becoming a couple in the present. In this case, providing setup for Dipper to finally move past his crush on Wendy.

(Btw, for actual example of this sort of character arc playing out in another show, just look at Finn in the later seasons of Adventure Time in relation to Bubblegum and Marceline.)

With all that in mind, I think it’s easy to imagine a version of ‘The Love God’ wherein Mabel, either deliberately or inadvertently, gets Wendy and Tambry together with a love-potion, and then starts to regret her actions. And Dipper is at first driven to help Mable undo the love potion because he is still nursing that crush on Wendy. But by the end of the episode, Dipper recognizes that Wendy is actually happy with someone else, a long-time childhood friend at that, and he should respect that. Thereby finally letting go of the crush he’s had on Wendy for the whole show. It could even lead to a situation where it’s Dipper who talks Mable out of undoing the love potion.

Also, you may ask ‘What about Robbie?’ To which I say; ‘What about Robbie?’

Seriously, you’re saying the show needed to develop someone who is at best a tertiary supporting character instead of developing a MAIN character? This totally could have been one of Wendy’s big character episodes (something she barely gets any of) and you’d rather it be about the human equivalent of rat poison? Again, in hindsight it just makes way more sense that this episode would be focused on Wendy instead of Robby.

Look, Robbie is fine as a character. But ask yourself: Would you REALLY take a Robbie-focused episode over a WENDY-focused episode?

Now, do I have any actual proof of any of all this?

None whatsoever.

Was this mostly an excuse for me to talk about an underrated ship?

Absolutely XD

#gravity falls #gravity falls theory #crazed ramblings about gravity falls #wendy corduroy #tambry #wenbry #dipper pines #mable pines #robbie valentino #robbie has more character development than wendy #does that seem fair to you?#rambling about an underrated ship

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deviiancetv · 9 months

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Upcoming Indie Projects To Look Out For 🎥

2023 has been the year of indie animation going FULL SPEED. I’ve been hearing about some very intriguing and honestly amazing concepts for shows.

Here’s a list of some that I really like and I hope you all check them out and support them:

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Boxtown (Series)

Synopsis: Boxtown is an indie animated noir buddy comedy about a con man detective (played by Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls) who teams up with an innocent, true-crime-obsessed orphan with a hidden murderous side (played by Tara Strong, known as the voice of Twilight Sparkle & Timmy Turner).

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Defenders of Alodia (Series)

Synopsis: Defenders of Alodia is an upcoming indie animated web-series that follows the adventures of 15-year-old Rebecca Winstead, who one day gets transported to the magic world of Alodia, where she must journey to return back to the real world.

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Lumi & The Great Big Galaxy (Series)

Synopsis: Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy is an indie animated series about six aliens traveling the galaxy to help a young lost star return home.

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Pritty (Film)

Synopsis: Pritty is an indie animated short film that takes place in Savannah, GA. Jay sticks out for all the wrong reasons. He's dark-skinned, quiet and skinny; and likes to wear flowers in his hair. The opposite of his masculine and charismatic older brother, Jacob. Their differences peak at the community pool until Jay befriends a charming boy named Justin.

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The Lovers (Film)

Synopsis: The Lovers is an animated indie thriller that follows Sara Lim Baylon, a reluctant seafood chef from Binondo, Manila. Sara faces the daunting pressure to live up to her late father's reputation and keep the business afloat. When the governor's inauguration dinner is planned at the restaurant, featuring a Siren as the centerpiece, Sara finds herself drawn into a dangerous affair with the mythical creature.

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Far-Fetched (Series)

Synopsis: Far-Fetched is an indie animated series following a rock band of misfits called Sesamoid, an overly-anxious girl named Rue and her chaotic canine creature, try to survive the town of Veilport. Becoming tangled up in a world where science is at odds with monsters & the supernatural.

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Among The Others (Series)

Synopsis: Among The Others is an epic science fantasy adventure, about a group of misfits that discover the reemergence of an ancient reality bending energy. This thrusts them into a bunch of larger than life threats, one of which is a ‘cool, suave undead hippie’ and his cult.

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Please Stay Tuned (N/A)

Synopsis: Please Stay Tuned is an upcoming psychological horror about a sentient TV man from the toon town of [REDACTED] that wants to be watched.

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The Not-So-Secret Academy (Series)

Synopsis: The Not-So-Secret Academy is an action comedy series in 8-bit/visual novel format. The series follows Bryan, a secret agent sent to an academy to learn how to be a proper secret agent.

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Camp Cryptid (Series)

Synopsis: Camp Cryptid is an upcoming indie animated series created by Celeste McGee about a young Thunderbird attending an all cryptid summer camp run by Cthulhu.

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Playground (N/A)

Synopsis: Playground is a horror project created by Rodrigo Sousa. Its a stunningly well animated trailer that captures the feeling of being lost in a bizarre playground, and your imagination takes over to make things even more scarier. I REALLY recommend supporting this if you like horror and abstract animation.

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Belphegor’s Traveling Circus (Series)

Synopsis: Belphegor’s Traveling Circus is an adult comedy series featuring a demon who must travel out of Hell to the mortal realm to organize a space traversing circus to pay off a monumental debt to his devilish boss.

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ScreenTime (Series)

Synopsis: Screentime is an indie animated show about three artists balancing life with trying to succeed in a social media focused world.

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The Will of Monsters (Film)

Synopsis: The Will of Monsters is a a YA action fantasy film about two scarecrows, Scarecrow Pumpk and Cham, team up with a young witch named Pai, to survive the terrors of their world.

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Everlend (Series)

Synopsis: Everlend is an indie animated series that takes place in the land of Everlend, following Lydia, an optimistic teenage girl, who meets a llamagon named Vel, and a bird-like creature named Ollie. Though Everlend isn't without its dangers, Lydia must face not only the unknown truths of within this world, but herself as well.

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Hey. (Series)

Synopsis: Hey. is an upcoming adult animated sitcom created by YouTuber, ToonrificTariq. It’s a story of two people, Marcus and Shania, that really love each other while trying to learn how to love each other.

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The Carsons! (Series)

Synopsis: The Carsons! is an upcoming animated mockumentary sitcom, about a young black cartoonist named Steve Carson, trying to make it in LA with his new family. Which includes his wife, Katie, their baby, Nicole, and Buddy, a washed-up R&B singer now demoted to family dog

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Bit Wars (Series)

Synopsis: Bit Wars is an animated series inspired by video games about how experience is our greatest weapon!

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Quartz Quest (Series)

Synopsis: Quartz Quest is an independent animated series following two best friends, Lyra and Snobelly, as they travel across the world in search of exciting adventures.

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Stay Tuned & be sure to follow ALL of these amazing upcoming creators for their amazing projects on the way. ⭐️

If you liked this post, don’t forget to follow me & leave a tip to support a small artist/content creator!! 🫶🏽

#cinema starview #indie animation #indie animation day #indie project #animation industry #animation news #animated shows #animated movies

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matt0044 · 2 years

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In advocating for what we stand to lose, we should celebrate what they mean to us and why.

Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart, for one, is a love letter to both Anime and Saturday Morning Cartoons of old. I mean, young Mao Mao shares the same voice actor as Son Gohan and Monkey D. Luffy.

However, it mixes that in with real heart. Mao Mao’s desire for glory and recognition may often clash with him being a hero yet he comes through.

As we go on, it’s apparent that his father contributed to the former complex along with his sisters being more successful in living up to their family’s legacy.

I think Adorabat is the best part because of how she’s one of the best examples of a kid sidekick (there are others but let’s stay focused). I love how her voice actress strikes that sweet spot of being obnoxious yet never veering into unbearable.

Seriously, that crazy girl’s screams actually make me laugh. If there was any awards for voice acting, Lika Leong has my nomination.

I feel like Infinity Train was destined to be too good to last. There’s been accounts of executives desiring shows that eschew emotions for snarky smart-assery. Alex Hirsch rightfully called it a fear in an interview on Gravity Falls.

Yet the show persisted. The train takes people and has them work through their emotions in a variety of experiences in each car. Tulip’s divorce, Jesse leaving his brother high and dry, Simon… jeez louise…

Let us all express what these shows mean to us and why we fight for them. Mourn, yes, but let the world know why.

#cartoon network #hbo max #hbomax #warner bros discovery #mao mao #mao mao mao #badgerclops #adorabat #infinity train #simon infinity train #tulip infinity train #Samantha the cat #the cat infinity train

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