Happy nineteenth anniversary of Lilo & Stitch! 🎉🌺

Ih, it’s that time of the year again as we kick off another (Lilo &) Stitch Week by celebrating the anniversary of the theatrical release of the film that started it all.

This year, in light of Disney's recent push to quietly rebrand the franchise to focus solely on a certain popular blue alien and virtually leave behind everybody else, today should be a day of celebrating the little eccentric Hawaiian girl that showed him and everyone else what 'ohana truly means. So here’s some artwork of the one and only Lilo Pelekai herself!

Lilo by Luigi Lucarelli / @luigil (Tumblr, DeviantArt)

Lilo surfing by Tom Bancroft / @tombancroft1 (DeviantArt)

Lilo by Ribera (DeviantArt) – Wait, no, don’t remind me of autumn! Summer’s just started; I’m not ready for fall!

Lilo Sketches by Eddie Holly / @eddieholly (DeviantArt)

Lilo by Mario Oscar Gabriele / @mariooscargabriele (DeviantArt)

Pilialoha Ohana Lilo by KilaKila, colored by shiyakuri (DeviantArt: original drawing, colored version) – KilaKila’s description: “Even though she's only ever done hula, I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to imagine she would get into Tahitian eventually.”

LILO by DeannasArts (DeviantArt)

Lilo by @countandra (Tumblr, DeviantArt)

Out of this World! by Lullaby of the Lost / @syntheticsorrow​ (Tumblr, DeviantArt) – Deviating from the Lilo-exclusive focus now by showing an alternate universe Lilo with an AU Stitch and an AU Chopsuey. (The Stitch: Experiment 626 prequel game also celebrated its nineteenth anniversary two days ago!) See the artist’s fan fic with these AU versions Error #626 on FanFiction.Net or Archive of Our Own.