Loony Realm

Arts by NICK

Nerissa by NICK

In ｌｏｎｇ: I switch my focus alot. If I attract fans of a particular fandom, but the next thing I show off is less likely to tickle their interest, most will leave again, and it's kinda protecting me from growing an unsettlingly invested fanbase. Praise and attention never motivated me to stick around with one series for long, because I know what's waiting around the corner and don't want to be known as "the <insert this one piece of media here> artist", anyway. Look at my nonsense and go away, I just want to die alone! I'm also not active at any online forums and rarely look up and comment on other people's work. Spares you alot of "who asked you"-styled responses. I might've not when I was younger, but agree with the sentiment now. Unless you come across something criminal, why intrude on someone else's fun. Grumble about it on your account if you must, but don't take it to theirs.. even though it's valid to argue that posting something online is an automatic invitation for others to critique it, especially when you don't apply any form of visibility restrictions. I don't really care to discuss ideas with fellow fans. Weird claim, since my Tumblr exists, but I started this account to post Deviantart stuff. People showed up one day and started asking questions about the fandoms I've been involved in (or haven't), but it's not my hobby to get deep about a fictional property. Without getting instigated, anyway. I think about a question's subject as I read the words, do my best to dissect the whole thing and not throw around one-sentence replies, but seldom have the answer ready in my head. The3Eds was the only forum I enjoyed myself at, and the things I talked about over there barely had anything to do with Ed, Edd n Eddy. In the end, no one will be able to offer you one foolproof strategy on this matter. There've been many artists in the past who minded their business and were slaughtered by strangers. You need to be the kind of person who doesn't take online verbal abuse to bed. That's hard to do if you're looking for validation. You could avoid large fandoms that are known to attract the overly defensive and offensive, but if you have to tiptoe through life for others, what's even the point. Know that the internet is a luxury you don't have to participate in. Log off for a week or so if you're feeling down, or alternatively, delete all comment notifications indiscriminately as you keep on doing your thing.. unless you insist on deleting negative comments, but I don't think you should. Why stop people from embarrassing themselves in public. I don't think I've ever deleted comments, unless it's copy-pasted stuff/spam, because what often happens is that the poster regrets and deletes it themselves. I suppose that has value too. Allow that shit to stay alive, so the poster may one day return to it and potentially realise they're better than that. It's easier to keep your calm when you humanize your critics, if you can. The way a person expresses themselves may be trash, but what is it they're saying, and can the reason be empathized with? Sometimes you're dealing with someone who's obviously a child. I struggle to get angry at people under the age of 20. But really -and more importantly- no one should waste their time on fighting fellow fans when it concerns an issue that's objectively not important, you have better things to do. Try to close your eyes for it, it's seldom personal, even if the attacks try to be. People can pretend, but they don't know you and never will.

sky and mickey mouse are by the same guy. icy has dubbed hello kitty. valtor is a singer. darkar can be george clooney or mojo jojo

Sky’s one made me laugh a lot

Bloom is Naruto.

...now why the fuck were they just standing by and watching when Stella was being attacked by that dragon before gaining her enchantix lol

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Yeah, a lot of stuff isn't explained, but they did have a show bible, before they started to ignore it. Wish it was leaked!

Bloom’s Costumes in Winx Club for PC/PS2 - 2005

Winx music be like. Music use from the" Wilford Clux" channel

Eilonwy, Nala, Kiara, Kida, Raya, maid Marian, and even Meg who's in a relationship with a literal god match most of the criteria, but Disney probably has access to tons of documents with pretty numbers on them that help them determine when a character is "worth it". It may be the case that certain princesses rake in so much cash, Disney is able to take a risk with less popular ones who'll definitely lose them money, but earn them brownie points, which the company lives for in today's age. For example, Belle and Ariel are so loved, their toy sales might be high enough to fund the production costs of two or three lower ranked ladies, like Snow White and Tiana. Snow White is a classic oldie who started off the brand, Disney can't throw her out without everyone who never cared about her going ape shit anyway, and The Princess and the Frog was marketed (perhaps only by spectators, not Disney) to be for African American girls as "finally having a princess to relate to". Because a raging workaholic frog is super relatable to children. Anyway, what I'm saying is that Tiana was put on a political pedestal, and when that happens to a character, creators become afraid to touch them. Kida from Atlantis, on the other hand, wasn't marketed as any kind of trendsetter, and so, Disney is allowed to forget her. I understand Kida doesn't represent a real race, but that never stopped people from projecting their face on a fictional character before. If Amethyst from Steven Universe is "black", why will no one call Kida "the first black princess"? Concerning Pocahontas and Moana, they're Disney's only Native American and Polynesian (?) character. They wouldn't dare to let go of them, regardless if their movie is popular, because the backlash of not letting them join will be greater. And really, it's the same case with Merida, because she strongly represents a culture Disney never bothered with before. With seriousness. Then there's Raya, who I think wasn't welcomed in because of the same reasons Kida wasn't. The movie didn't sell well enough and you can't pinpoint one definable race to her. Why settle with Raya, if we have the infinitely more liked Mulan -who has a clear Chinese origin? Announcing a character to be Asian is not enough; you're not truly exploring a culture if you mix it up with 4 other cultures. Jasmine is the only exception in this category, because she's a classic oldie that helped start off the brand. Assumedly. Some movies come with a message, intentional or not, and this kind of thing causes a born and raised princess from one unpopular movie to get snubbed, and a frog from another unpopular movie to get VIP entrance. Also note that I grade popularity not in terms of box office sales, but how much viewers liked the product. It helped that The Princess and the Frog enjoyed pre-release attention, but it didn't necessarily make people like the story more than that of Atlantis. It's great when you earn back your budget, but how will you sell merchandise if everyone thinks your movie is average? It'd be a waste of money. Many movie studios are that dumb, though. But be happy, at least the abandoned princesses were spared from that unfunny Wreck-It Ralph 2 scene.

I see. Originality is not synonymous with "good" or "clever", otherwise we would've mass-copied every single avant-garde little project that dared to be edgy, not the same superhero plot line and 4 fairy tales over and over. Just like pop music, there are story beats that appeal to the human mind, that's why they keep returning. Can you imagine a colour you've never seen? You can try, and even when you succeed, how can you make other people see. I can't relate, I just wanna do cool shit, bro. Everyone should focus on what appeals to them personally. It's fine if your story is just a reinterpretation of your favourite movie, you can still make it your own and get recognition for it. Whether it's better or worse than that movie is subjective.

TMNT April O’Neil and Raphael. TMNT was one of my absolute favorite cartoons as a kid (I lovelovelove April).

Anyone can be a mermaid, not anyone can be a popular established character who's existed longer than some of the people now deciding their fate. When you as a company or actor ignore the latter, to act surprised when your audience gets disappointed is.. disingenuous. Everything today has to match the world we know and "love" today, no matter if it doesn't make sense within the story, and it's this patronizing toe-sucking that affects the believability and thus quality of the product. 2017's Beauty and the Beast was all too eager to show Belle's neighbours acting sexist -an approved crime against humanity in children's entertainment- but they didn't dare to insert racism. Black actors were comfortably walking around in this 1700s French town with British residents. I'm sad that I won't get to enjoy a studio's/Disney's best efforts of finding real-life human representations of the animated men and women who gave them their success in the first place, but here's the thing, they've never done a good job finding actors that looked the part. Regardless of race. Mowgli from 2016's Jungle Book is probably the only one who looked decently accurate. There are also instances where this seemingly doesn't matter. In the case of comic book superhero movies, I noticed these comics are very keen of rebooting themselves every few years, so I feel like there's little point in criticizing actor changes. If a movie is good, as for its actors, it objectively won't matter. The real issue is that most of these movies just aren't good, then it feels like these changes are made to cater to a brand of people as a back-up that'll ensure them good press and a few extra ticket sales. Like I said, companies are not your friend, you're being played, stupids.

Not sure who this lady is, what business she has at Spagonia U, or what information she's got up on that board, but she certainly has the attention of (most) everyone in the room. --- Just some thing with that char, Miss Ranger or whatever, that surfaced recently.

There've always been people loudly taking offense to the ideas of strangers on the internet, but I agree that many of today's sprouts are too comfortable at trying to push artists into suicide over indisputable non-issues. No piece of fiction is worth that kind of effort or response, but what can anyone do, realistically speaking? It's so often that the fans of cartoon shows that explicitly promote empathy and understanding lack it the most, and the internet makes it easy to anonymously -thus safely- talk down to others. It is rough, but I also think it depends on the platform you choose to promote yourself.