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(Background by Thiago082 from DeviantArt!) Unfortunately, my stupid self accidentally deleted my whole Tumblr. Well, looks like I might have to start over. Julie | 21 | Pisces | She/her | Black

[aquajuliee]

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[lune-redd]

What if they swapped places

[wormsppgblog]

WHOOP WHOOP!

[everrgreenn12]

Frutiger girls 😎🩷🩵💚

Some of the most fun ive had working on a piece like this before

[prokopetz]

Today's aesthetic: bandages as fashion accessories on characters who don't look like they've ever so much as skinned their knee.

[blueprxde]

So, I have an AU...

[brotherly-lov3]

Ducks in disguise

[scarlett-fire-cat]

The "Villain Apologist to Main Character Hater" Pipeline in Winx Club Commentary Needs to be Studied in a Lab 🧪🧬💻🌐

I need everyone to log off, sit down, and look at the absolute state of Winx Club YouTube commentary, because the media illiteracy is officially coming from inside the house. Specifically, we need to talk about @UnicornofWar (Thomas Vaccaro) and the nuclear levels of hypocrisy baked into their reaction and rewrite videos. I am so tired of people using the language of "feminist critique" to hide old-school misogyny, double standards, and textbook villain apologia.

Let's pull out the receipts, because the math is not mathing.

The Bloom & Sky Hyper-Scrutiny

We all know that the writing in the later seasons of Winx Club gets messy. But there is a massive difference between critiquing bad corporate writing and having an irrational, borderline malicious hatred for the main characters. Bloom and Sky are constantly held to a puritanical moral standard. If Bloom takes center stage (as the literal main character of the show), she’s labeled a selfish, annoying brat. If Sky makes a clumsy mistake, he is branded as toxic trash. They are stripped of their humanity, their context, and their status as characters operating in a campy kids' cartoon.

The "Draco in Leather Pants" Villain Apologia

But here is where the hypocrisy becomes hilarious: the exact same grace, nuance, and psychological defense that is stripped away from Bloom and Sky is magically gifted to literal villains.

Diaspro: Thomas will sit in front of a camera and unironically argue that Diaspro "deserved better" and is just a tragic victim of narrative tropes. Besties, she literally allied with a dark sorcerer (Valtor) to drug the Prince of Eraklyon with a mind-control potion. In what universe is drugging and politically enslaving your ex considered "girlboss behavior"? Why does she get a multi-video defense arc while Sky gets completely vilified for being the victim of her literal assault?

The Trix: Darcy, Stormy, and Icy have spent seasons committing magical eco-terrorism, isolating people, and torturing the Winx. But because they serve fashion and sass, their actions are constantly excused, watered down, or justified under the "they’re just iconic" umbrella.

The Rotting Root of the Problem

This isn’t just a bad take; it’s a systemic double standard. It is the classic internet phenomenon where audiences forgive literal war crimes and toxic behavior from villains because they are "aesthetic," but will ruthlessly attack a female protagonist like Bloom for the crime of being imperfectly written. It’s lazy, it’s deeply hypocritical, and it relies on a total lack of critical thinking.

You cannot claim to be doing a "deep, progressive analysis" of a show when your commentary boils down to victim-blaming the heroes and coddling the abusers just because the abusers look cool in fishnets or whatever.

Blow up the notes and tell me I'm wrong. Let’s discuss in the replies. 👇✨

[shubbabang]

[noodleddragon]

[witch-hattery]

Not quite, memes legitimately used to have longer shelf life before people stopped using them.

Part of this is saturation, some of the older ones still get recognition, like nyan cat, so newer ones need to compete harder to wedge their way into collective consiousness.

But more recently people started placing more importance on the "fashionability" of memes and stopped using them if they were too "old."

[aquajuliee]

I have some cool original concepts I really want to share, and I might need to give separate detailed info for each one.

Here are the concepts:

Wingcaster Hills: A coming-of-age adventure teen/adult situational comedy (with a touch of drama) set in the titular city about the lives and adventures of four tween girls. Think Dork Diaries, Bratz, the Proud Family, the Powerpuff Girls, Harvey Girls Forever/Harvey Street Kids, Turning Red, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and any shojo/josei story meets South Park, Duncanville, 6Teen, and any teen and adult animation.

Cardverse (tentative name for now): A superhero/magical girl story about four college freshmen (two girls, two boys) in Quebec, Canada find out they’re royalty in a realm called Solitaire and become playing card-themed heroes and save both Earth and Solitaire. Inspired by Winx Club, Sailor Moon, Shugo Chara, Doki Doki Pretty Cure, and Angel's Friends.

Tideglow Chronicles: An adventure story about four Aqualings (aquatic humanoids) going on adventures. That’s it. This is just an aquatic girly version of Ducktales ngl. I’m gonna make some tweaks to this.

Scales of Dragonia (tentative name for now): Urban fantasy story about four draconic humanoid boys go on adventures and fight some crime. That’s all I got, I just made this.

Unnamed holiday personification story: A fantasy story about a group of personifications of holidays going on adventures.

[mybtrflykindred]

That's So Chōchō

Yup, that's me 😊

Remember this?? Back when I still cared about trying to paint in realism.

This AU holds a special place in my heart bc Raven Baxter was the first Black girl-led sitcom I recall seeing and I was ENAMORED with her style and confidence. And the fact that she wasn't super skinny? Raven was a first in so many arenas and her character is forever on my moodboard.

Years later, in Chocho Akimichi and she feels like Raven reincarnated. Her confidence, her self, her image. She loves romance, she loves food, she loves being fashionable. She is everything I did not have the courage to be. This AU was what motivated me to learn how to draw, paint and deepen my skillset. Chocho and Raven to inspire me to be myself, to embrace my own style and hopefully inspire others to do the same :)

I also love the early Boruto episodes where Chocho is shown to be exceptionally perceptive about others and her surroundings, while also being obsessed with her own fantasies and narratives of grandeur. Not to mention that her use of Cho Modo to transform herself (and mask her true self in some cases) is classic Raven Baxter-disguise mechanism😂 In any case, I love when they are themselves and hope to do some more styles from the show.

References:

[mischaqueen]

More SP x HGF au edits

[mischaqueen]

Revived from the dead just to show my new stupid au

HSK X SCOTT PILGRIM

[mischaqueen]

The rest of the edits i did

[x3-harvey-girls-forever]

Character refs for y'all

[y2kanineee]

Mientras uno este vivo, uno debe amar lo más que pueda <3

[aquajuliee]

Twins at the Carousel animation meme, but it’s Vinny after dropping her sons at Dave’s house during the harsh winter. And I can’t animate so here’s a sketch that I may color digitally or traditionally.

[aquajuliee]

Since Alvin Seville was a Michael Jackson fan, how do you think he reacted to his death?

I personally think it’s a mixture of breaking down crying and falling into a deep depression akin to him grieving over Cookie Chomper III’s death.