Welcome to the Animaniacs Art Museum!
This is a place that aims to archive and neatly organize the Animaniacs art of years past. Everything you see here is, to the best of my knowledge, reblogged directly from the original post on the original artist's page, so you should have no qualms about showing your appreciation through likes and reblogs of your own.
The goal of this blog is to preserve and highlight art from past years, as Tumblr's search feature makes it hard to find art much older than a few months. Everything is meticulously tagged so that it will be relatively easy to find the type of art you're looking for. Every post is also tagged with the year it was posted in, so you can easily see what the Animaniacs fandom looked like at any particular time. As the point of this blog is to highlight art from the past, no art that is less than a year old will be displayed here. Currently, this means that all art shown here was posted in 2020 or earlier. I will move on to later years once I have most/all of the pre-2020 art reblogged.
The Animaniacs Art Museum is curated by @cf56.
See below for important information on how to effectively use this blog:
Searching for Art
There are two ways to find art here. First, you can search for it. This is the best way to find art with combinations of terms, such as searching "wakko 2018" to find art of Wakko that was posted in 2018. However, the search engine is inclusive, so searching for something like "siblings" for art of sibling-focused art would also net you every post tagged "the warner siblings", defeating the purpose of the search.
The more effective and focused way to search is by using the tags directly. You can do this by clicking on them underneath the posts here or clicking the links in the descriptive list of tags I have at the bottom of this post. This will guarantee that you find exactly what you're looking for, but the downside is you can't easily combine multiple tags to search. You can also use the archive to browse tags at a glance.
If you want to see posts from a certain artist, you can include their name in the search (you can also go directly to their page and search by tags there, which I encourage you to do if you want to see more of their work. The only downside to this is that they may not have tagged their posts as specifically as I have.)
LOOK AT THIS!
Two of the most important tags here are #under the radar and #LOOK AT THIS! The "under the radar" tag has art that had under 100 notes at the time I reblogged it. If you use this blog for nothing else, I highly encourage you to look through there (or search for it in combination with other tags) and like/share the art that was unfairly overlooked in the past. All of it is really good!
As time went on, I found that the under the radar tag was becoming a bit unruly. There are a lot of posts in there and it can be hard to sift through. So, I added another tag called #LOOK AT THIS!, which highlights the art of extremely high quality that I think has been criminally underrated over the years. There's no certain notes cut off, but most of them have under 300. Some characters and types of art may seem underrepresented in there, which is simply because they don't tend to become underrated.
Important Notes
I have tried to be fairly liberal with the art I reblog here. If it's art of good quality relating to Animaniacs, I will probably post it, even if it's not necessarily something I would like or reblog on my personal account. However, there are some types of Animaniacs art that I have made the conscious choice to exclude entirely. This does not at all mean that those types of art are bad, but just that they don't really fit with what I'm trying to do here.
Art you won't see here:
-OC art. This includes everything from OC-focused art to art with just cameos of OCs, unless they're very small and unobtrusive. If a post has multiple images, and some of them don't contain OCs, it can still be posted here. The OC art just won't be tagged, the same as for posts that have some images without Animaniacs characters at all.
-NSFW. Most NSFW art has been removed from Tumblr by now, but you certainly won't see any of what remains on this blog. (There are a few posts that feature the Warners without clothes, but none of them are sexual. I don't consider them NSFW- they are cartoon characters, and one doesn't wear pants anyway.)
-Art that was linked here from other platforms. For example, a Tumblr post that only links to an Instagram post of Animaniacs art. This blog is only meant to highlight art that was posted directly to Tumblr- you can go to the other platforms and search them directly if you want to see the art from there. YouTube videos that can play embedded on Tumblr are an edge case.
-Art from posts that have since been deleted or made unavailable. There are some cases where art can still be seen in reblogs, but the original post has been deleted. I assume that means that the original author doesn't want that art to be seen any more, so I leave it off. The same applies to art from deleted accounts. Only the original post from the original account will be reblogged here, no exceptions.*
Note on problematic accounts: I can't thoroughly check every account I reblog to see if they're problematic. I also don't have an encyclopedia in my mind of every controversy and questionable remark made by every artist ever. Unless I happen to see an obviously problematic post on someone's blog or something obvious in their bio, I won't devote the time to excluding certain artists by trying to police every post they've ever made. Anything featured here should not necessarily be considered an endorsement of the artist, but simply an endorsement of that specific piece of art itself. You can decide whether or not to support any of the artists you see here. If you see that I've reblogged art from someone you know to be particularly problematic, you can tell me and I'll handle it on a case-by-case basis. I try to be as inclusionary as reasonably possible.
*If you see a post that doesn't follow these rules, it probably means it has changed since I originally reblogged it. For example, someone deleted their original post after I already reblogged it here.
Tags
Note: Tumblr only searches by the top 20 tags on each post. In some cases I had to omit less important tags in favor of others.
Year Tags
I have tried to keep the tags here simple and intuitive. Firstly, everything is tagged with the year it was posted in, so you can click on a year tag and see the art as you would have if you had been on Tumblr in that year. These tags are in the simple format of "#2020" or "#2015", etc.
Character and Segment Tags
Secondly, art is tagged with the characters it features. For example, art featuring Yakko will be tagged with "#yakko warner".
If a character is mentioned/implied to be present, either in the art or in the text of the post, but isn't shown in the art itself, it will be tagged with "#character name (mentioned)". For example, if the Warners are shown to be talking to Dr. Scratchansniff, but he doesn't appear physically on screen, the art will be tagged "#dr. scratchansniff (mentioned)".
Art is also tagged with the specific segment it represents. "#pinky and the brain", "#rita and runt", etc. It will be tagged as such if it features any character from those segments. So, a post tagged "#pinky and the brain" is not guaranteed to have both Pinky AND The Brain in it. It might even have neither of them.
Note Tags
Some posts are tagged based on their popularity, or lack thereof. One of my main goals with this blog is to show off old art that may have been overlooked and forgotten as the years pass by, trying to give them somewhat of a new life. Posts with less than 100 notes are tagged "#under the radar". This is a tag I highly encourage you to browse, and I also highly encourage you to give likes and reblogs to the art in that tag if you like it. On the other end of the spectrum, posts with over 10,000 notes are tagged "#legendary". These are the posts that have defined the Animaniacs fandom on Tumblr over the years. If you really want to see the top of the top, get an overview of the fandom's most popular creations over the years, you can browse this tag.
Warner Siblings Tags
I will admit, I have a bit of favoritism towards the Warners, and they have a more detailed tagging system than the other Animaniacs segments/characters. The tag "#the warner siblings" is applied exclusively to images that contain multiple siblings. If a post has multiple images that separately contain all three Warners, but they're not in the same single image together, this tag does not apply. The tag "#yakko wakko and dot" applies to images with all three siblings in them. "#the warner brothers" and "#yakko and wakko" are for images with just Yakko and Wakko in them. "#yakko and dot" is for images with only Yakko and Dot, and "#wakko and dot" is for images with only Wakko and Dot.
Posts featuring only one sibling are tagged with either "#yakko solo", "#wakko solo", or "#dot solo", obviously depending on which sibling is featured. The tags "#yakko centric", "#wakko centric", or "#dot centric" are meant to organize posts that focus mostly on one sibling, even if the other siblings are present. This can either be posts that have a lot of art relating to one sibling and only a little bit for the others, or comics and such where the story mostly revolves around one sibling, even if the other two get equal screen time.
LGBTQ Tags
Art featuring LGBTQ+ themes will be tagged with "#LGBTQ". It will also usually be tagged with character-specific tags, such as "#nonbinary wakko". The most common LGBTQ+ character-specific tags are "#bi yakko", "#pansexual yakko", "#nonbinary wakko", "#agender wakko", "#trans dot", and "#lesbian dot". These character-specific tags are only applied to posts where the LGBTQ+ themes are the focus or explicitly shown. For example, a piece of art where Yakko is shown kissing a boy would not be tagged "#bi yakko", but a post where he's shown holding a bi flag or wearing a bi pin would. All related posts are still tagged "#LGBTQ", though, even the aforementioned example of Yakko just kissing a boy with no LGBTQ+ symbols shown. The original intent of the artist is also factored in- so, if they didn't include any obvious LGBTQ+ symbols in the art, but they tagged it something like "#nonbinary wakko", I might still include that tag.
Descriptive List of Tags
Year Tags
Segment Tags
Character Tags
General Tags, a-h
General Tags, i-z
