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Gazpar (they/it) | In its 20s | Chronically ill and disabled Goth | Genderfluid AroAce | Art, Stories, Theories and Collectibles from the movie Planet 51 | I work up every published piece of literature or merchandise so you can practically say I studied Planet 51 by now

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I finally updated my cover T^T

Super proud also because there are loads of symbols and metaphors in it like usual, it wouldnt be me if there isn’t any single hidden message behind it😭✋🏻

you can find it on Ao3 with said title, alternatively with my name below :3

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Fanart drop!

I had lots of fun drawing this picture for @luna-tmnt as a thank you gift for drawing Grawl and my Luca together it was so sweet, i really enjoyed drawing this one😼 It’s their OC Luna and even though I really never draw toddlers, I think I did a fair job.

I really wanted to catch the clueless but careful (dare I say territorial) nature of Grawl in the universe in which he is a father (figure) of a human child with his prestigious 43 years of age. Since hes running on military software and rather solves human needs with logistics, he holds her impractically like his species naturally hold their children and simply refuses to put her down somewhere else (the protective stubborn old man he is) and instead carries her all around and doing his job, leans over the map with her in his arm and doesnt register that she just took military flaggers off the table, a soldier points it out and immediately gets shut down by Grawl (the protective man he is). Probably because he also felt offended by the “it’s”, the indirect treatment of innocent humans. And fair enough, his reaction is valid.

I have so much joy in drawing other people’s OCs, perhaps I’ll do another drawing with her or with another OC (whether Ill come across one) so stay tuned hehe

By the way I made his suit historically more accurate

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His receding hairline is the shape of a heart🥹♥️

Blessed by infinite love… Makes me wonder, does he style it that way or is it naturally acting like that? /rh

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This is your sign to draw yourself or your persona as Chuck, in the same goofy way, holding whatever biggest achievement you had in recent time instead of his self-made posters

In my case its my diploma in pedagogy and psychology that gives me access to psychology universities nationwide I nearly failed but still made it Sigmund Freud sugg my balz🔥

The fact that I pulled up to my prom in that outfit as a guy fries me and it adds to the stupidity of this drawing😭😭😭

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Your average gasmask has posted again😸🚬

Now that I have time again, my psychology-pedagogy diploma in my bag, I get the well deserved break I really need and I can focus on Planet 51 entirely again😼

And meanwhile that, I thought about Grawls parents, and I used his old design for his father because it’s a gag, holding a sparkling walking and pointing stick like it was intended for Grawl. Sparkling because it’s a symbol of authority. On the right is his mother, her sapphire brooch is sparkling because it’s the wisdom in her as a physician. Grawls eyes are the only one sparkling because hes the one to go through redemption and start liking humans.

Strong believer of the theory that Grawl is from an elite/aristocrat family.

Grawls father must’ve been a general himself and owned a majority of land, the mother must be equally successful and fitting to the time Grawl was born and raised, thats where science in endocrinology, biochemistry and birth control was booming, lead by female pioneers. (Grawls father highly likely worked with Kipple too cuz that guy is 60, was 17 when Grawl was born and probably studied on the base thats why he knows Grawl so well I guess) Military culture and family values in the Edwardian period were extremely hierarchical and the higher the rank or the wealthier, the more they wanted an equally wealthy/successful family to merge with. Means a general would likely marry another military family or someone else so successful, perhaps scientists. And to the time Planet 51 happens, it’s the 50s and counting back, his parents must be born in the Victorian era, built their wealth on owning field and cattle, investing into the military industry as well to “defend” it. Timewise would that make sense, and place wise too, Planet 51 is inspired by the southern US, exactly where the cattle and field industry was booming, and where Native Americans were shunned away and killed by private military forces.

Grawl himself is just behaving and speaking way too snobby and mannered for an average man, he also holds himself and bis body too elegantly. Bro is only 43 years old and clasps his hands behind his back like hes 60… I mean if he were a rugged working class man who was able to rise in the military hierarchy so high at such a young age, he would not scrunch his face at bodily odor or speak so nicely and with sharply pronounced words either… Also the way he takes whatever he wants tells me he got everything in life on demand, and how excelent the merit is he offers for an institution like the military. Tells me he was born in a system like that, and likely had a very militarized general father who set focus on education and success and tactical leadership. It’s stated that hes the general of the armed forces, thats a very high rank and mostly the people owning that rank are over 50 or so, unless they were serving in critical times and had familial support and relationships that helped him out. Yeah you can argue that it was the 50s and respect was somewhat more important so therefore thats why the way he is. Like the creators said their planet is almost like us so I take that for granted and take the theories from our life and world🫡

Aside from that, heavily taking from his old and first concept designs, this walking cane, probably made of malacca and silver, another sign of higher social class. Like Grawl was intended to be that snobby general. And that snob has to come from somewhere.

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Historians would claim they were best friends

It’s not inherently woohoo yippee ha yeah ofc I cut it it’s just men making out while piss drunk what do you even think, but still digital footprint is set with this one🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

So uh here you go

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Wiki pages update and community call

Ive been quietly updating every character I could get access to on the wiki, both Hero/Villain and the Planet 51 specific pages. But it is taking very long as I have to translate most of it. Mind you, my native language is German, my English is school-acquired and I just have bits and scraps of French. So, translating Spanish, French and Italian at the same time is pretty much work, I might become Mr. Worldwide through that haha

But I love to do it. Planet 51 is my heart project for like 2-3 years now. Of course, I balance this with my final college exams. What do you think, neglect my school and work? /sarc /hj

But because there is so much more out there, I’m making a call to everyone with free time, other sources and the same amount of energy for this project to come together and edit it together. Especially since I’m not quite into code and writing Fanpage layouts and I really do not want to mess up the pages code or delete anything on accident. I have the informations but I genuinely do not have the tools to apply said information. And it seems that Neeras and Skiffs pages are locked, I cannot access it or change the code of the page, so this is a plea to anyone who created their pages to open it, it would be so nice and I’ll thank you so so much in advance.

Ive been in the same pit as a newbie, various sorts of information isnt just right or fanpages are completely lacking any information, such as Professor Kipple and Eckle.

So, I made it into a mission, collect every digital and physical information, watch the included extras on the blue-ray and make notes, also making even notes form merch or games. My whole room is full of P51 by that point and I have a massive folder of handwritten notes.

Because newbies deserve to research without any false informations or unclear facts. Ive been at the same place, I did not know how tall or old Grawl is and things like that are quite crucial when writing P51 based stories. Nobody knew to be honest.

And P51 as its own franchise is so much more and deeper, the creators have put insane amount of details and thoughts into it.

The camera quality is quite ass but here you can see me at my second home editing parts of the pages. I sent that to my friend so why not sending in here too. Especially Chuck, since hes been the biggest pain in my butt, his age has gotten inconsistent over all various documents the more and more I dug into it. Bros age so controversial it had gotten a separate content header…

So far for now it’s still very surface-level ish work, like I update here and there, sometimes minor changes, sometimes whole layout changes.

I still have enough motivation to keep it up and keep digging. It’s my favorite thing to do as it’s my special interest, and I’d be open for collabs too.

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The typography of P51 makes (semi) sense

I was in graphic design school for over a year and I can tell their blocky lettering style with round serifs comes from their anchestors carving with round chisel and drills into stone, these serifs exist to have starting/stopping points when chiseling stone and curves are impossible to chisel into stone, the stone splitters and cracks. (If they would live in tropical regions then their typography would be very smooth and round as straight lines would rip the leaves or any other paper made from soft plant fibers, see the Thai typography)

It’s revealed by the creators themselves that they do not have seasons and are in desert conditions all year round, that means their anchestors also have had only rocks and stone… 

Based on their placement of serifs, they were carving from right-to-left, bottom-to-top. Makes sense because the left hand would hold the chisel, the right hand the hammer, the chisel moves backward and that keeps the vision of the remaining stone clear, while it gets dragged through the stone and pre-drawn lines. They would start with drilling a hole, then place their chisel in it and start hammering. In the example of the A and T next to each other, their serifs are opposite, that means they avoided drilling twice on the same side to avoid brittle stones or breaking it altogether. 

Look up the development of ancient Roman typography, that gives a better insight. 

A very professional demonstration of what I mean.

Their writing style from right-left has changed into left-right with the introduction of ink and paper.

Some set serifs and letters dont make any sense, as if the serifs are now set randomly for aesthetic purposes. On paper it can be explained by the bigger ballpoint and runnier ink.

Here two fonts but both have serifs, one round and one flat, the way Roman typography looks.

Also funfact their paper has the texture of the moon I just figured.

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I needed to draw them together

This took me almost a whole month😭

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I have a vision

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silly doodle

Made that on paper maybe only a hand big with alcohol markers

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Well you can access the distribution site (at least the French one) it’s on the archive and it has every single detail of their planet and the early promo pictures too (in case you were wondering whether it’s legit)

ignore my dirty ahh screen like gen, but through the press kit I own I found out that they don’t have seasons, their planet is summer all year around.

please keep in mind that I have gotten it through the web archive as the domain was already physically down later after the release of the movie so yes the only way is the web archive. The stuff is all public information and easy accessible.

The archived websites go as early as November 2008, for France the release date was Feb 3rd 2010. This web entry doesnt hold as much info.

The early poster design is dated 2007, yes the press kit notes that they have been planning Planet 51 probably since 2006/2007… And yes Shrek is indirectly related to Planet 51

Although, once we come to 2011 (2009 and 2010 do not have any entries) we see it’s totally different now.

(not the comic sans tho my poor inner former graphic designer and artist🫩)

The website describes in detail what their goal was, how the P51 inhabitants are socially, culturally and their environment too. Even how long it takes to get there... unlike the physical press kit, you can let your browser translate the text. It’s not like a photo or a rigid box inserted into the code. It’s all text, able to be copied and translated.

Of course it’s also all written down in the press kit. I’ll make a separate post about that one too.

Good luck looking through it :]

Please let me know if the link is unreadable, I’ll put it into the comments TwT

Redirection site

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I got my hands on canon stuff

On the hunt I came across a tutorial book, there is a character sheet of literally everyone in it, unfortunately it’s in Italian dawg I am German and I did not take Italian courses whatsoever so wish me luck translating and updating allat because this community deserves clearance😭✌🏻

I am also waiting for the press folder i found online to add more into the Wiki pages because some of them are dry dawg

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Tricolor part I

Another Chuck drawing but it belongs to the Tricolor project I had spontaneously planned, uh he represents the Sun and gives a lot of red ish vibes (no not because he’s a redhead) so uh yeah not quite happy with the background but I’ll leave it like that for now

Edit: I know what was lacking in the Background I added it haha

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In this universe, no one keeps only one single shape. Heroes shatter, Villains soften, and even the gentlest hands learn to destroy. Luca, a cosmonaut born in a harsh soviet family and the backup for another cosmonaut that fell sick, crashlands with his crew on Planet 51. He fails to rescue Chuck from nearly drifting far into space, exactly the person he isn’t very fond with. Trying to get some help and an explanation for the sheer absurdity of this planet, he finds himself in Glipforg, and the citizens are NOT happy to see him. Except for the handsome General Grawl and Professor Kipple, of course. They both have more interest in the new human than they should. Even after the military had set the focus on just shielding their citizens from humans, Kipple is still pressuring them to allow more research, which goes against General Grawl's newly found morale and rising instinct to protect and care for the one he loves.

New gay chapter up, pre wrote that a quite some time ago so it was a pretty quickie hehe :]

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After the accident many years ago, your eyes partially recovered, but it still left you visually impaired. All you can see is blur, colors, and light. No clue to the depth and details of the world. The forest you used to visit as a child, you remember the path, its thick trees, and the falling leaves once it turned autumn. The same tree and its old wart you pretended to be the wall light in the imaginary world with your cousin. But now, as you visit the past you still see, something has changed. The forest doesn't feel like magic anymore; it's no longer your home. Stepping onto the dried leaves feels like intruding ones sacred place, like someone else now holds this place as theirs. Someone who made your memories their territory, hiding away from their hunter. [This fanfic is based off one of my already existing fanfictions, but a way shorter and a metaphor to (my) trauma]

New fanfic who dis?

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In this universe, no one keeps only one single shape. Heroes shatter, Villains soften, and even the gentlest hands learn to destroy. Luca, a cosmonaut born in a harsh soviet family and the backup for another cosmonaut that fell sick, crashlands with his crew on Planet 51. He fails to rescue Chuck from nearly drifting far into space, exactly the person he isn’t very fond with. Trying to get some help and an explanation for the sheer absurdity of this planet, he finds himself in Glipforg, and the citizens are NOT happy to see him. Except for the handsome General Grawl and Professor Kipple, of course. They both have more interest in the new human than they should. Even after the military had set the focus on just shielding their citizens from humans, Kipple is still pressuring them to allow more research, which goes against General Grawl's newly found morale and rising instinct to protect and care for the one he loves.

Chapter 12 is up :>