googled my user to see what comes up and sadly nothing <//3 even in the context of wk. maybe i should be happy about it but i remember my art showing up in the image search results for the show and it was my old BAD art
Who’s your favorite Wild Kratts Villain and why? Would you write them any differently if you could?
based on how they are in canon, Paisley. Based on their potential conceptually = tied between Paisley and Zach.
As soon as Paisley arrived, she was my favorite because of how she differed from the rest of the villains. She didn’t hate nature, she just thought she was helping by giving “order” to what looked messy and disorganized in her eyes. Her redemption had been set up from the start. All she needed was a lot more episodes of her being a villain for her redemption to really have an impact. However I will give them props for the dynamic her and Zach had- him constantly trying to get in her good graces to be business partners but her not giving a damn is really funny, and also sets up her redemption well. I’m curious to see where Rex is gonna go after this, but I have an idea I’ll get into later-
Zach also really fascinates me. He could be SUCH a bigger threat like he was in some of s1 and the pilot, but they don’t do that anymore. I understand though; you can’t make you’re villain “cool,” because otherwise kids will just look up to him instead. I think the fix for this is writing him like pre-redemption Zuko.
At the start of the series, Zuko is completely no-nonsense, focused on his goals, and extremely bitter about being exiled. Despite the fact he has fire powers and has a whole army at his call, the show prevents him from being idolized in two ways:
His uncle iroh points out the amount of anger he has is unhealthy, and that if he gets his goal of capturing the avatar, it probably won’t change things anyway. It exposes Zuko’s attitude as something akin to a child’s tantrum: “I want what I want and everyone who stops me from getting it is wrong or an idiot.”
He consistently gets thwarted by a group of middle schoolers
Zach’s version of Iroh could be the rest of the villains.
The other villains don’t hate the crew. They find them annoying, sure, but any conflict is just whatever interferes with business (unfortunately for them, business seems to happen wherever they are). Donita even says as much when she meets Paisley.
S5 E5: City Hoppers (the grasshopper episode)
“It’s a pity, the boys could be so stylish if they just let me give them a makeover”
To me that sounds like a genuinely kind thing coming from her, especially after all the times they’ve messed up her designs. However the crew did give her spider silk that one time.
S2 E5: Secrets of the Spider’s Web
The passion for animals also transcends their conflict- they really love teaching people lol
S5 E7: Fire Salamander
Again, the crew’s beef with the villains is entirely business-oriented. They don’t seem to have it out for each other on a level deeper than that.
Zach on the other hand, makes it INCREDIBLY personal. He HATES the crew so much, especially Aviva. He sees her as direct competition, so he’s always trying to prove he’s better than her. He stalks them almost constantly so he can just ruin their day when they’re having a good time. His entire life seems to revolve around them.
The other villains could point out the ridiculousness of his behaviour. “You’re really obsessed with them, you need to focus on other things” etc etc.
Some other people have pointed out that Zach seems to be appearing by himself more and more- his attitude probably annoyed Donita and Gourmand to the point they don’t want to work with him that much anymore. He’s losing connections and spiralling- his robots have been the only ones he trusts and confides in from the start. He clearly wants someone who’s incredibly loyal… which is where I think Rex could fit in.
Maybe Rex himself felt hurt by Paisley switching sides. Zach might bring him on and further twist the knife because of his own personal vendetta against the crew. A lot of people (including myself) have the hc that Zach and Aviva were friends before- Zach could use that narrative to make Rex see from his worldview. “I was betrayed too, they’re selfish and can’t see past their ways,” and stuff like that.
Those are just my thoughts anyhow. This reminds me that I need to make designs for Paisley and Rex, but I currently have some wips for Donita and Dabio in the works :)
The following message will be about a member known from the Wild Kratts Server and Community, Lee. Better known as here on tumblr as leeisfreaky, and on other socials as leeweeds_ and paranixan.
Please be mindful of the topics that will be briefly discussed:
Grooming/Predatory Behaviors, NSFW towards Minors, Sexual Harassment, Gaslighting/Manipulation, Suicidal/Self Harming Tendencies, and Endangering of Others.
Underneath the cut will be a brief summary of the things he has done. Please be mindful of the material that will be discussed, and be mindful of those who were affected. Thank you.
The situation dates back to around 2022-2023 and has gone all the way to the early months of 2026. Lee was a mod within the Wild Kratts server, and was incredibly well known and involved within the community. With his position of power and popularity and influence, Lee was able to contact many members within the server and begin his grooming. More than 15 members, many of which are minors, were to fall victim to his abuse.
To begin, Lee was incredibly manipulative. He was seemingly kind and outgoing, and made himself this pillar that many could rely on for help. However, as many of us had found out, he had bad mouthed everyone behind their backs, feeding lies within friend groups to pit everyone against each other. Lee would take the things that were also said to him in the confidence he’d keep it private, where Lee would soon take the things he’d learned and air it out to those not trusted with said information, and where he’d also use the sensitive information AGAINST the members that had told him in the first place.
Lee was also known to keep making remarks about being similar to a previous abuser within the server, someone he had worked to ban as well. The abuser had been known as BeautyStyle12. The post of her abuse may be found here. He had known of her abuse, and yet would constantly bring up this trauma to those who had been hurt on several occasions, and often equated himself to some of the things she had done. Both victims of that situation had also fallen victim to Lees abuse. One of which is a minor. Lee would continuously bully this minor and play it off as a joke. He would fat shame and guilt trip them for being “annoying”, and would often talk behind their back in how he wishes they had never came here. His remarks about said minor was consistently violent and sexual in nature in some cases, yet he’d be nice to them within DMs where he’d do his grooming behavior of being “a safe place”.
Lee on several occasions has made lewd and nsfw comments towards minors, especially within voice calls, where things could not be recorded down. He would never censor gore on top of this, and had sent this to the minors as well. Lee’s obsession with sex and gore made its way into every single conversation, but he often played it off as a joke and would get upset if anyone was uncomfortable.
Upon blocking Lee initially, we had thought things would be solved and we would have finally be rid of the situation. However, Lee had lied to several of our friends about the situation, saying he was the victim in all of this, and purposefully left out information to make him seem innocent. Lee had told everyone he was “getting help” as well, so all the things he had done wrong would be a thing of the past, but unfortunately, zero progress was made. Luckily we got one of our friends to listen, and he has now helped resolved this issue with Lee.
However, Feather, better known here as FeatherSketch, remained by Lee’s side. The more she learned of the situation, the more she remained on HIS side of things, believing we hadn’t told her anything especially worthy of being as “mean” as we were to him (aka blocking him). She on several occasions tried to info dig on the victims, just to spill the contents to Lee, basically allowing Lee to stay within our lives to continue to hurt us despite having him blocked. We encourage others to stay wary of her and to block her as well, as she has been nothing but incredibly harmful towards this situation. She has already broken no contact on several occasions and continues to play the victim in this situation.
We will be coming forward with a document within the coming weeks with more information about the things Lee and Feather have done, including 100+ screenshots of proof, with over 10+ accounts from members sharing their stories.
Below are the images to their socials:
Please note that this is a very BRIEF summary of everything that has happened.
This is not all, there will be a google document coming out soon, including screenshots and more details in depth.
An internal map of the building prob needs to be made but the building file crashed 3 times so I’m taking it as a sign to stop 💀 I’ll have to look into some interior design programs I can use for internal references
Idk if anyone else has had this specific experience or I’ve just had an unfortunate string of events, but every time someone has brought their dog to an (outdoor) event, me/my family members are always the ones giving the dog water bc the owners don’t notice that they’re thirsty. it’s so bonkers to me. It’ll be acquaintances, friends/relatives of friends, or other people we don’t really know that well, and they won’t pay attention to their dog at all unless the occasional kid asks to pet them/if they’re friendly, but usually not even then. I have literally lost count of the amount of times the owner was completely ignoring how their dog was excessively panting so we had to step in.
What was confusing to me about this instance specifically was that this dog was supposedly training to be their owner’s seizure alert dog, but the dog was tied up away from their owner where they wouldn’t be able to access them. What if something had happened?!? Admittedly I don’t know a lot about service animals beyond “don’t pet them while they’re working” but I feel like this is very strange (granted the dog was not wearing a vest at this event, but I initially met the dog when they were a lap-sized puppy, and they were next to their owner constantly in public spaces then and well behaved)
I’ll be tagging this with specific tags in the hopes that someone more educated about service animals can inform me in case I’m misunderstanding. I’ve heard of service animals being allowed “breaks” but imo having the dog tied up away from you seems like a large risk to take. I’m wondering if I should confront the owner if I see them again. If the tags should be removed please let me know and I’ll edit the post
I don’t post a significant portion of my art bc there’s this weirdly specific problem I keep having where I’m like “I have an amazing idea. This’ll show their connection to wildlife in a cool way” and then I draw it and it just looks like those alpha wolf memes and I can’t take it seriously
A small sample of some I’ve drawn in the past couple years:
Plus this last one I drew like 20 minutes ago
anyway a while back I just ended up parodying this with an OLD old video. I may as well lean into it in some way lmaooooo
germansingergirl
blakekathryn
snowghoul
jacobvanloon
theartofmadeline
gummygunk
dailybridgerton
vaporwave
