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Have You Noticed We’re Kinda Getting a Repeat of the Early 2010s? Where Hollywood is so obsessed with adapting the Internet? Well, Here’s Something They Should Adapt [751 words]

(created by Grabbergirl678 on 2024 Jan 12 Fri 21:27:43 GMT)

As you know, over last few years, we already got 3 web series and viral videos adapted into full-fledged series: Baby Shark, Ryan’s World, and Lucas the Spider. But what struck me as odd is that Lucas the Spider is not as popular as the former. My point is, it’s just the early 2010s again and we got more adaptions than we did in 3 years, yep, remember when Cartoon Network adapted Annoying Orange and Nickelodeon adapted Fred with disastrous results? They were made between 2010-2013 alone (iirc). While BS and RW turned out to be trash, Lucas the Spider seems to be doing moderately well. However, given Lucas the Spider was chosen as an opposed to Cocomelon and Blippi tells me there’s something that should be as a full-fledged series but nobody has thought about it…. Tankmen https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/newgrounds/images/3/30/TankmenPort.png/revision/latest?cb=20210820200448&path-prefix=es Yep, this web series might be just as popular as Lucas the Spider, if not, maybe less but it has gotten some recognition due to the characters appearing in Friday Night Funkin. I think someone should adapt Tankmen into a full-fledged animated series but regaining the original charm and humor the original web series had to offer. (I think they will because those web adaptions don’t butcher the original source material like Fred and Annoying Orange did) Here’s why I think it will work: It’s a fun concept, just little white marshmallow aliens in the military, which looks funner than real life at war with another military base that is just like them but have arrow helmets. The whole point is they’re at war for no reason, that’s just how it is. Regardless what the og creator, Johnny Utah says, IT CLEARLY TAKES PLACE ON MARS: Here’s a picture of the Tankmen setting: https://fridaynightfunkin.wiki.gg/images/b/b5/Week_7_Deadly_Background_showcase.jpg and here’s a real life photo of Mars: https://api.hub.jhu.edu/factory/sites/default/files/styles/landscape/public/mars_landscape.jpg They look identical!! So, Mr. Utah unintentionally made a series about life on Mars. It will give us more facets to the characters and will flesh them out more, we love those marshmallows already but it would be nice to see more of what they’re like as people: John is a mommy so it’d be wonderful to see his maternal side (https://art.ngfiles.com/images/347000/347868_johnnyutah_tankmen-picoday-art.png?f1426463264), Steve is interesting too just an airhead who loves pink and girly things, Skittles should be a big brother, etc. It will give us a bigger look at life on Mars, what is the Tankmen culture like? What are the houses like? Well, if this is canon…. https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp10061148.jpg Looks like the Martian house is just those houses on the Maldives but they’re not in the water. Looking at the interior and they’re beautiful! https://latteluxurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CNRD-Maldives-Rangali-Island-2BR-Grand-Water-Villa-Lounge_LR.jpg Looks like Martian homes are beautiful! It show us more of the military, it’d be awesome to see more female soldiers!! Minor and background characters will be fleshed out more, I wonder what her baby will look: https://64.media.tumblr.com/6611c43143832a80e556b307839eba40/a3ecdb914d11d1c2-62/s1280x1920/91f1498ecda07ab8044cb29e5560ef4df00b3fc7.jpg Yep, she only appeared in Tankmen Infinity for one second, you have to pause to see it. And clearly, the animators didn’t care because it’s a second long shot. But this teaches us a lot about the Tankmen already, Mars is having their own women’s rights movement and pregnant soldiers are treated with extra tlc, look, she just gets to sit around and watch TV and drink orange soda to protect her unborn baby. So, if we got a full Tankmen series, her giving birth would be a point in the series. I want to see tankbabies and given both Tankmen and tankwomen are in the military, I bet some are baby clad. What does the city look like? I imagine it looks Dubai away from the military bases and malls do exist but they’re larger and more extravagant. I just see a very enjoyable series about marshmallows in the military fighting a war and just living life. I can see it doing well on streaming like Netflix. Comments Loading comments...

Characters I Like Seperate From The Media [968 words]

(created by Grabbergirl678 on 2023 Oct 20 Fri 5:06:37 GMT)

Are there any characters you like alone but you’re not a fan of the media they are from? Well, I have some! Here Are Mine: Toots Baunstein (Drawn Together): Drawn Together is just too out there for me, I have absolutely no desire to watch it. But I do like Toots, mainly, her design. Like, she’s a character I can just draw alone or with characters from media I am a fan of or just enjoy! Tankman/Captain John (Tankmen Series and Friday Night Funkin): Friday Night Funkin is just not my cup of tea but I do like Tankman. He’s very cool and a very funny character! I watched his segment on the game and I just laughed at his cutscenes, he’s just hilarious! Also, there’s a popular fan theory that he’s Pico’s adoptive father in the game and it spawned the cutest fanart, like you just have artwork of him cooing at and feeding Baby Pico. However, I am surprised the fans didn’t draw him changing diapers like other fandoms do it, why? It’s part of life but I guess the FNF fans are probably very classy people since they don’t bother to draw that. And I also noticed he’s not the only one in his terrain that looks like him, he has many other tankmen too, fighting each other. So, what is he? I know he’s a Tankman but what is his species? I assume he’s an alien because his area has yellow sky unlike Earth where the sky is blue (except when the sun is setting or rising). Maybe Boyfriend and Girlfriend just go to his home planet, a planet where everyone is constantly at war. And I would not be surprised if the Tankmen are in fact aliens. And I have another question, are there any tankwomen? Women can be soldiers too. And if there’s females, how are they treated? Are they expected to fight in the war, or just stay back and nurse wounded soldiers and cook them meals? (Like it’s a war, I bet they have infirmaries for the soldiers go to, they get wounded from war, someone is patching them up) Also, do the Tankmen reproduce? If they do, the female Tankmen likely stay back to raise the tank babies and probably teach the children how to fight. Like, there’s millions on what seems to be a whole planet, they have to reproduce somehow. (And are they like us? Or since they’re likely aliens, is it different? Like, maybe they’re seahorses (which I doubt it) where the males carry the babies. Or are they like bats where just like us and almost every species on earth carries the baby but the males can lactate and nurse the baby (also weird), and it’s true, male bats lactate. Either way, I just want to know how this species works) I just want to learn more about his species because they seem interesting. Plus, I kinda plan to draw Tankman finding a baby from his kind that was just abandoned because their parents were killed (I bet it happens to his species’ young at times) so he just takes the baby because obviously they can’t be left alone, he also feels the need to take them home because he remembers his adoptive son, Pico. He has his friend, Steve go get baby necessities while he consoles the baby. When Steve gets back, he feeds the baby because obviously, it’s been a long time since the baby had any milk. But he does this after changing the baby’s diaper (an abandoned baby would likely be in the same diaper for hours), only to learn the baby is a girl, he’s weirded out because he only raised a human boy so a female tankbaby (tankling? tanklet? Whatever the babies are called) is a whole new world to him. And I will draw him caring for this baby (just sketches) because I like that fanart of him as an adorable father (a…. mother? Is the best mom mug canon?) and I want to draw some of my own. Plus, I wonder is the helmet and visors just something everyone wears or is it part of their anatomy? I may also borrow aspects from people’s fanart of the Tankmen, like this one. Like, a Tankbaby shouldn’t be that hard, a baby of this species would likely just look like a shrunken, chubbier Tankman with either a pacifier or just have the top of the suit and the bottom is just a diaper and booties. I also imagine the babies of the species are just adorable! I also want to do this for fun! Stinkfly (Ben 10 2016 Reboot): The Ben 10 reboot is awful! I will only watch the original, which I want to watch it! But I like Stinkfly’s design in the reboot, he’s beautiful! And I would like to draw a female Stinkfly, I imagine this alien has beautiful females! Do you have characters you feel that way towards? Where you don’t like the media or it doesn’t appeal to you but you like the character as their own separate entity? Comments <comments />

Tropes That I Hate [973 words]

(created by Grabbergirl678 on 2023 Aug 7 Mon 22:09:56 GMT)

These are tropes I just can’t stand! Gross Close-Up- It should’ve stayed and died in the 90s! In Ren and Stimpy, John K mastered it but when everyone else tried to imitate him, they make us want vomit and bleach our eyes then set them on fire. Photoshop Animation- One Word: Lazy. Seriously, it was funny in SpongeBob and some of the Adult Swim shows, AND SHOULD’VE STAYED THERE. But when everyone else does it? Seriously, does it kill you to draw what your stock image is of?! I will only forgive you if you are making webtoons. (heck, every artist has their weaknesses, I can’t draw cars well. So, if your YouTube or Tik Tok animation has a stock image, I will praise you for trying! I am an animation student myself, and you’re a one-man band, nobody expects you to do be Disney. At least you tried!) But if you’re big corporation like Nickelodeon or Disney, then, I call you lazy because if you can’t draw X, go to the next guy or HIRE ANOTHER GUY IF NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO DRAW THE THING! Status Quo Is God- This trope, to me, does more harm than good. I just want it dead! Not a slow, painful death, a grueling, fast death! It’s when a change happens in an episode then the reset button is pushed at the end. It’s forced and a petty excuse not to have character development or story progression. Toilet Humor/References On TV-Y Shows- It is a trope at this point because it’s in various preschool shows such as Blue’s Clues, Rolie Polie Ollie, PB & J Otters, Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends, HigglyTown Heroes, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Little Bill, Peg + Cat, Caillou, Martha Speaks, Bluey (though it can be excused), and Sesame Street (it can be excused too). It’s when preschool shows show characters explicitly using the bathroom (sitting on the toilet and in Bluey’s case, anywhere but, yep, it’s a running gag where Bingo pees in bushes for an unrealistic amount of time on the show. Seriously, does she have a bladder the size of a distillery silo? (Those canisters beer brews in at beer breweries) Characters peeing for a quarter of an episode IS NOT FUNNY), saying that they have to go to the bathroom, and baby characters getting their diapers changed onscreen. Yep, to me, it’s equivalent to a character swearing/saying “not nice” words (no censors, and characters uttering the words “sucks”, “crap”, and “what the hell?”), and showing uncensored bodily fluids on a TV-Y7 show. It’s not appropriate for toddlers and preschoolers to see and I blame those shows for the increase in toilet humor in our animation today. When talked about this on Reddit, I caused a riot. (But then Reddit is full of prissy entitled brats who get offended AT EVERYTHING. It’s like it’s populated by oversensitive babies! So, I left one month after making an account) When I asked my parents what they think, they said that they think it’s okay. Really?! Seriously, I think nothing about the bathroom should be in preschool shows. Wait ‘til they’re older! If you want something “taboo” in a TV-Y show, SHOW NURSING!! It’s not in any western animation and it should be shown more! It’s beautiful, healthy, and normal (I think motherhood is beautiful) but doesn’t get much love! And I think everyone should see it! (Why Seth McFarlene?) But regardless, this trope should die! Save toilet references for TV-Y7 and up, I don’t care what you say! It’s not appropriate and I think it’s to blame for the increase of toilet humor in our animation. “The X” For Every Title- The Amazing World of Gumball started this trope and I hate it! It’s so uncreative!, Wander Over Yonder also uses this trope. Naming Your Character After Their Species- Like, a baby named Baby, a dog named Dog, a cat named Cat, etc. You get the point. It’s very lazy and uncreative! Give your character a name or leave them in the writers’ room until you can think of one! Butt-Monkey- It’s not funny seeing a character who did nothing wrong get tormented every time just because. Getting away with horrific stuff- That’s a trope because Family Guy and Teen Titans Go! do it! Are they the FCC’s favorite or something? Broken Voice Boxes Getting Demon Voices- This trope scares me, whenever a toy or anything that plays sound on media gets broken, it sounds like Satan entered the thing. Why does this trope have to exist? Why can’t it just sound like broken toys in real life? They just sound quiet or garbled? Not like Satan possessed it. It has always scared me! Rebooting Everything Instead of Coming Up with Something New- Adding it because Hollywood has this problem! Stop making soulless reboots are trash! I totally get remaking a terrible show or movie to make it better or rebooting an obscure property nobody has heard of or putting a new twist on an old trope but rebooting properties! Stop! Make something new or remake a property that’s very obscure! I am just tired of them!! Looking at you, Disney. Comments <comments />

Messiah Wars [2600 words]

(created by Grabbergirl678 on 2023 Apr 22 Sat 20:21:37 GMT)

'Messiah Wars' This storyline could’ve been good! But, nope, the author MESSED IT UP BADLY!!! Book Type: Comic book Genre: Superhero Author(s): Duane Swierczynski Publisher: Marvel's Comics I am a huge Marvel fan and it’s no secret that I believe Messiah Wars IS THE WORST STORY LINE IN THE MARVEL COMICS. Here is why! Why Messiah Wars Sucks Nathan Summers/Cable suffers from character derailment in this storyline. With Baby Hope Summers, Cable is reduced to a moody, post-partum father who acts more like a mother who just gave birth. He threw a hissy fit when he had to go to the hospital to get his bullet wounds treated and he was asked, politely to give up Hope so he can recieve treatment. He won’t let anyone touch Hope and doesn’t trust her with a babysitter. He married a stranger and suffered a deep depression that caused him to neglect himself, HE LOOKS DISGUSTING BY THE TIME HOPE WAS A SMALL CHILD. He seems happy when his wife finally died and began to care for himself. Lots of plot holes and storylines that make no sense: Cable is poor for no explained reason. This contradicts his character in previous comics because he’s shown to be quite wealthy, he lived in a mansion, has a superhero base that with tech that would even make Tony Stark blush, he had his own assistant, and he even bought a small portion of Russia and declared it his own country. All that wealth is gone as he is now shown to be living like a homeless person in this comic storyline, he is eating out of trash cans, is forced to feed Hope cow’s milk, and is even using old scraps of clothing as diapers. It’s like the writers forgot Cable’s immense wealth, HE SHOULD NOT BE STRUGGLING LIKE THIS. To make matters worse, the people in the dystopian future he traveled to NEVER BOTHERED TO HELP HIM. It’s sickening, you’d think if someone saw Cable doing what he’s doing. They’d help him like allowing him to come into their house to eat and bathe, giving him gift cards to department stores and grocery stores so he can buy food, clothes, hygiene products, and baby care products for Hope. These people make Sam Alexander look like a saint and Thanos look like Butch Hartman by comparison. Bishop’s IQ dropped massively to the point where he has the intelligence of Patrick Star from SpongeBob. He had suffered from character assassination, possibly worse than Cable since fans despised him after the comics. He thinks Hope will grow up to ruin his life so he chases Cable to try to kill Hope, and he’s very overt about it and he even made it so baby wipes have never been invented, by killing the guy who invented them in the first place. Why hasn’t the TVA arrested him and fixing the timeline? Cable is no better as on top of his character derailment, HE DOES NOT WIPE BABY HOPE’S BOTTOM WHILE CHANGING HER MESSY DIAPER. This proves either Cable is a slightly negligent father or he lacks common sense. This also indicates Hope likely has several months worth of poop caked on her bottom due her adoptive father’s negligence. I don’t even want to imagine how bad this diaper rash would be. Why hasn’t the CPS gotten his butt yet? Cable took 7 years to name his daughter or even adopt her despite CLEARLY HAVING A MATERNAL BOND WITH HER. This comic also AGED POORLY. It came out in 2007 and one of the years Cable timetravels to is 2012, and it’s pictured as a dystopian future after an apocalypse. Today, it’s laughable because we know the year of 2012 did not look like this, unless you’re in Syria, but that’s a whole ‘nother bag of worms. Cable never bothered to put clothes on Hope throughly infancy, it’s a wonder she has not died of hypothermia. But it lines up with Cable being poor. Either there’s a lack of police officers or they’re lazy because there’s a page where Cable is in a car and Baby Hope is not in a car seat. It’s a wonder a police officer did not pull over the driver (a waitress Cable befriended) for having an infant without a car seat in her car. Not to mention, the waitress who befriended Cable is a bit unlikable, while she was the only person who helped Cable with Hope in the future, she only helps him after RUDELY CALLING HIM OUT FOR FEEDING HOPE COW’S MILK. It’s not Cable’s fault, lady! Also, I am surprised Cable didn’t get unfathomably angry for how she talked to him, it’s beyond disrespectful! Doesn’t she know that you’re not supposed to tell people how to raise their children and pets?! She deserves to be punched in the face for this. Hey, Sam, instead of beating up Teen Cyclops and peeing in his shoes, why don’t you punch that waitress? No, Cyclops is a disgusting rat who violated lots of women so that’s why he deserves this treatment and this lady just insulting Cable’s parenting? Okay, Sam, suit yourself. And that’s fair, Sam, Cyclops did the most unforgivable thing to his wife and family and his kids are bitter towards him because of it. So, you’re right. Speaking of Cyclops, he does let Cable and Baby Hope stay at his house for a bit, but he’s such a disgusting scumbag, he knocks up Emma Frost for the septillionth time and drove him away! Had to add that Cyclops bit because that’s Cyclops’ thing, he’s a Quagmire. That’s what he does! He has been doing it ever since he and Jean Grey got married, his kids are bitter with him because of this, it seems he cares more about “having fun” than being with his family. He tries to redeem himself by spending time with his grown up children, trying to have another baby with Jean Grey, and being a Mall Santa. But his plans fail as he can never be forgiven, it’s a miracle he and Jean Grey haven’t divorced yet. The damage has already been done and he can’t repair it, no matter how hard he tries. And that’s why Cyclops is my least favorite Marvel hero, he’s just a disgusting scumbag who is not committed. Sam knows this and that’s why he punched Teen Cyclops, heck, I bet Sam peed on his grave multiple times before he got revived. Sorry, I added this but Cyclops deserves a section. Also, given what Cyclops does, I bet Tony Stark held all of Cyclops’ babies because they more than likely all ended up in the orphanage. Yep, Tony Stark holds orphanage babies when he’s sad, stressed, or can’t sleep, he loves it and I am ugly crying. That’s the only good thing from it, Tony has more babies to hold. Bishop never gets his comeuppance for what he did to Cable. Redeeming Qualities It gets better after Hope Sr. dies. Bishop becomes underused after this. Cable is proven to be a good father and Hope is a teenager now. In comics released after this storyline, Cable’s wealth also gets remembered too. Rewrite/How I Could’ve Done It (Because It’s Fun) Leave Bishop out of the story completely, he’s just there because the writers couldn’t think of a big bad so they had to flanderize him. Or at least change his role, he used to be friends with Cable, maybe have him help him with Hope. Make Cable ADOPT HOPE AND NAME HER IMMEDIATELY. The story only fell apart after Cable saved her, if he’s going to act like a mother who just gave birth, NAME HER!!! It’s ridiculous he dragged his feet for seven years!! Change the conflict, the conflict makes no sense! How is Hope the Messiah? What is so special about her? All I see is Cable’s daughter, not a being in the body of cosmic entity that can rewrite reality as we know it. If anything, her powers are just Kirby’s without the eating, yep, she can replicate other superheroes’ powers, THAT IS NOT SPECIAL!! Instead, I would change the conflict to Cable’s own inner struggle, not all superheroes stories have to involve a big bad, look at Spider-Man and the Punisher, sure, they had to fight supervillains but the main conflict was themselves, Peter Parker (who is Spider-Man) was trying to find his place in the world and Frank Castle (who is the Punisher) wanted vengeance for the guy who killed his family, but he soon learns that he doesn’t have to have revenge and just has to save the world. Messiah Wars can be the same, maybe Cable’s wife died before Hope was born, maybe they were struggling to have a child so they turned to adoption but his wife got gravely ill and passed away before she could meet Hope. So, Cable, keeping his promise to his dead wife, goes to get Hope once she’s born, he names her Hope because that was the name his late wife and he raises her as a single father because he promised his wife he would care for their first and only daughter. And we see Cable grieving, he’s very depressed, he cries a lot but he has to fight big bads. Yes, time travel is still apart of it, but he travels to cleaner futures like 2099 to cope because he can’t bare to be in the same timeline as his wife. There, he meets the Avengers 2099 and Spider-Man 2099 and they help him cope and raise Hope and he also helps them fight off threats. There are no plot holes and Cable is as wealthy as ever. He’s no longer digging out of trash cans just to eat and using old clothes as diapers but is actually buying baby care items because he can afford it. But he’s just weird about bringing Hope in stores with him so he has one of the 2099 Avengers babysit so he can go to the store. He also lives with them because he’s so emotionally messed up, he can’t think about getting a home. He even has the new Dr. Strange, Jeannie who is Stephen’s great-grandniece babysit because like her great uncle, she loves babies too! I know she’s too new as she got introduced in a new Marvel timeline, but there’s a female Black Nova from the future now, AND I LOVE HER!! In fact, since I am rewriting the story to fit with today, I am including her in the Messiah Wars story. Much like Sam Alexander in the present, she becomes a member of the Avengers 2099 and she’s a new mother herself. She has a baby boy with blonde hair because she’s married to the son of the Human Torch. She helps Cable because she emphasizes with him because she’s going through the same things with her son. However, unlike Cable, she’s a woman so she’s dealing with hormonal changes and she’s also nursing (probably one of the few mothers who are nursing in the future) (she even often nurses suited up, yep, the nova suit is oddly convient, it is able to have the bottom half be pulled down so the nova can relieve themself. And given that mechanism, I am aware the top half can be pulled up too, so, this nova uses this to nurse her baby while on the job or just saving the world) And unlike the present, Nova Corps is more flexible with nova parents and allows paid leaves, so, this nova was allowed for maternity leave. However, Cable couldn’t look at her for months because she reminded him of his late wife (his wife was a Nova in the rewrite). Every time he saw her with her helmet on or suited up, he will begin crying because he just sees his dead wife, not another nova. Seeing how troubled he is, although her husband is still alive, he just hides, shrunken in her pocket (he’s Firefly and is a 2099 Avenger too), she does try to empathize with him by imagining life without her husband. She even lets him and Baby Hope stay in her penthouse. (Which is really huge, novas make LOTS OF MONEY) Cyclop’s part of the story is completely cut out because it seems to only be there for padding and to remind us that Cyclops is a disgusting scumbag. (I hope you’re happy, Tony! In 9 months, you’ll have more babies to hold) (And Sam, pee on Cyclops’ shoes please? He deserves it, actually, Tony Stark is marrying Emma Frost this fall so that’s a good punishment for Cyclops, I bet he’ll cry like a big baby at this wedding and we’ll just smile because YOU DESERVE IT, YOU SCUMBAG!!! You have caused Emma to suffer enough, the last thing she needs is for you to pound on Tony’s door and have him spray you like the disgusting man you are. So, yes, Tony saved her!) Cable’s toxic marriage is replaced with him getting over his wife’s death and returning to the present. There, he lives with his little brother, Nate Grey in Milwaukee, WI and teams up the Great Lake Avengers and begins dating Domino because her father, Doorman and brother, Lazarus live there and she often visits them because as an orphan, knowing she has a family is important to her. She helps him with Hope. Finally recovering, Cable buys a huge house in Milwaukee next to Flatman and lives there until Hope is 15. He moves back to New York City and that’s how the story ends. Comments <comments />