Was brainstorming season 3 fit ideas for Lance like months ago, but lowkey, I just wanted to give him fancy clothes, here's the results feat. elusive digital 'art' for initial ideas hahahahah
OK JUST SO WERE CLEAR I’m SO FUCKING SORRY for clogging everyone’s dashes with this for the last few days ESPECIALLY TO MY NON TTS FOLLOWERS LMFAO I’ve mostly just been joking abt it so i’m done posting after this unless some new shit happens, but i have One singular more serious note on it before i do
I feel like everyone’s been really focused on this being an issue of cass herself or cass vs eugene/new dream vs cassunzel etc etc and I absolutely understand. But i feel like it’s just been tearing us apart and creating a whole war that’s completely unnecessary Because the issue is not cass atp. And luckily i’ve seen it calm down i’m rlly happy to see everyone sticking up for cass!! but i feel like we’re not really acknowledging the main issue either, bc at the end of the day, this is an issue of media preservation, and this guy is making a mockery of it.
And i’ve seen ppl saying something similar but i feel like even then it always still ends up coming back down to cass vs eugene. That doesn’t matter. This is the main issue.
This book is essentially lost media in the worst possible way. We don’t even need to “find” the media. We know where the media is. it’s right there. it’s purposefully being made inaccessible to us because some greedy asshole wants to brag about it and keep it to themselves.
We should not “be grateful that this guy is sharing anything at all” because they’re posting some low quality photos, being a smug piece of shit and making a mockery of an entire fanbase in the process. @birb-tangleblog put it best I think— they’re not sharing atp, they’re bragging. If they cared about sharing, they would’ve shared all of it. If they cared about preserving it, they would’ve preserved it. Anyone who even remotely cared about this show, this community, this art form, media as a whole— they would’ve at the very least taken some decent photos. But they don’t care about that.
And atp, i would’ve rather them not share anything at all. Because I had already accepted that we’d never see that thing again. That it’d just go to some greedy, rich disney collector who would keep it to themselves. This is worse. They’re purposefully making a mockery of all of us. Because even if you got what you wanted out of this, you didn’t win. This guy doesn’t care about our community, and they don’t care about you, either. They don’t deserve the slightest amount of defense or praise.
And on top of all of this they bumped up the price to almost 4 times what it was worth, now possibly cheating us out of ANOTHER book purely bc they set the market price to an absurd level.
“Well, we’re not supposed to have the book at all.” That’s true! And legally, no, of course we aren’t! It’s not legal! And it can be argued morally too. I know not everyone will agree with my stance, and I don’t care. Welcome to media preservation. Preserving this kind of obscure exclusive media MATTERS because it will otherwise be lost to time. I’m studying to be a historian, this stuff matters to me. But some people think the fact that it’s fandom or that it’s from a little girls show makes it inherently less worthy of archival. It doesn’t.
It’s art. It has value. It matters. No, we shouldn’t have it. That’s why we shouldn’t go around bothering the crew about it, because they could get in trouble for it and likely wouldn’t want to. Thats okay. But if we have the opportunity to, we should be preserving this shit. And we got that taken from us because some guy wants to farm clout out of fans and troll us because they have $3600 dollars to drop and nothing better to do with their life. It’s people like this who gatekeep media further and help these things become forgotten.
Cass fans deserve better. And overall our COMMUNITY deserves better.
i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive
Okay. I’m gonna say smthn so corny and honestly Rlly embarrassing to say about a fucking disney princess show fandom, and my brain keeps telling me its not that deep but. i don’t care. I need to be sappy. Consider this a message to the fandom— it’s a long one, and i know at first it seems really depressing, but i promise it’s not. I’d really appreciate if you guys take the time to give it a read.
I think @pennumbra/@birb-tangleblog’s secret santa Genuinely healed something in me today.
cuz… Look. I’m not gonna lie, this year more than ever, especially as i fell back into steven universe, i got REALLY burnt out from making tts content. and that’s never happened to me before. I’ve loved the damn movie since it came out when i was 4 years old and, despite being a little late, i’ve been in the tts fandom for three years now. But this year something seemed to Change. And for a long time I wasn’t sure what. I realized i didn’t want to go on the tags anymore. I couldn’t really find anything to reblog. In fact looking through the tags usually made me more miserable than anything else.
I realized that i kinda…knew what to expect. it was usually always the same. I knew everyone who was posting, and i knew the posts that were gonna come up. a few pieces of fanart, mostly varian or VAT7K related, some moon cass…but they’re few and far between. more than anything, it was just a lot of critique/analysis posts expressing their dissatisfaction with the show. And I know I’ve kinda mentioned this a few times, so I cannot overstate that i have NOTHING against those kinda of posts. im not attempting to refer to anyone in particular, or “call out” anyone, because i understand those posts just as much as anyone else. But it all started to feel the same to me. there wasn’t much fanart or fanfic anymore. And the less content i saw, the less inspired i felt. it pushed me away from making anything related to the show for a while. and that made me really sad.
Ive found myself looking back at the fandom in the early days, when the show was still airing. one that i unfortunately wasnt a part of (was too steven universe/splatoon pilled in my early teen years alas). And sure, it was messy, and full of drama, and had plenty of issues in its own right, and i’m absolutely certain i would NOT want to have been there— but to it’s credit, it was absolutely bursting with joy, and excitement, and creativity. Because people still had high hopes, they were still eager to speculate, and create, and theorize. there was still that potential lingering in the air, yknow?
I feel like once the show ended, and we had time to look back on it— that all changed. The disappointment started to set in. I don’t think it was what anyone expected, or wanted. I think everyone felt disappointed, or even betrayed, at least in some way. I feel like there used to be this spark in the fandom that just…flickered out. VAT7K came along, people moved on. and it’s been really depressing for me to watch it happen. I feel like all that’s left has been people just mourning what could’ve been.
And i know its just a given that when new people come in, they’re obviously gonna have critiques about the show that have been said before. There really arent any new critiques to make. but thats the thing. I stopped looking, because i realized that once id heard all the critiques and done all my personal analyses that i hated feeling miserable about something i was supposed to enjoy. something i do enjoy.
And I don’t fault them for it. I understand. know nobody does it out of malice. They all care about the show just as much as i do. And it’s not like we SHOULDNT analyze or critique the show either…we ABSOLUTELY should. because the show is flawed. it wasn’t great. but it wasn’t horrible, either. It gave us things we do like. That’s exactly WHY we make those posts. because we love it. because the show made us care about these characters enough to feel hurt when they’ve clearly been pushed aside or treated poorly by the narrative.
So its not like i don’t have critiques or opinions about the show. I’ll still voice my personal critiques if prompted. I get worked up about things too. There are objectively serious issues in the show and its narratives as well, and those things need to be discussed. theres a lot of racism and conservative beliefs baked into the show that we need to talk about. But at the same time, i don’t feel like i’ve seen anything in general recently thats caught my attention, or that made me rlly feel anything other than just…Sad. I realized id much rather take the show for what it is and do something new with it instead. thats why i started drawing fanart, because i wanted to encourage people to do the same. but instead, i feel like the flame just died out faster. I don’t know, sometimes i cant help but feel like other people felt the same way i did….that that’s why the fandom died out so quickly, why everyone left and the ones who remained just gravitated to VAT7K instead.
And i do know thats definitely not the case for everyone. its not just a case of a dying fandom, i know its also a case of an aging fandom. its been almost six years since the show ended, and eight since it came out. people who started watching and creating stuff in their teen years are adults now. we don’t all have the same time we did back then….that’s just a fact of life. It’s normal that a lot of people would gravitate towards other things and grow out of old ones….and that’s why I’ve kinda assumed for a while that theres just not much i can do about it. that as much as it pains me, this is just how it is. this is what the fandom is now.
but this damn event, man— coming into the tags this evening was like a fucking christmas miracle for me. i mean, onviously birb doesn’t post much for the fandom anymore either, so when i saw them post the signups for the event, i was surprised— but i thought to myself that surely, there wouldn’t be many people joining. there aren’t that many people here, after all. and boy was i wrong.
I’m gushing over gifts that arent even mine right now, dude. I dont even know where to start. im seeing faces both new and old, posting what feels like the most fanart and fanfics i’ve seen in over a year. This series means so damn much to me, flawed as it may be…and to see this explosion of pieces made with love, and not just of one particular character, but the whole damn cast— it fills me with more joy than i can even begin to explain. there are rarepairs and characters i haven’t seen in forever. schnitzfam, casscaine, the brotherhood, oc x canon, new dream, freckle siblings… I feel like i’m seeing that spark reignited again. And I don’t want that to die. I want to keep that.
So please, and i cannot stress this enough— keep creating. Don’t spend all your time lingering on what could’ve been. there’s no way for us to change what already happened. But keep thinking about what CAN be, and make it happen. because that’s what fandom is about.
I truly don’t like to call fandoms “dead”. I think as long as there are still people who are passionate about something, and keep creating because of it, the fandom will never truly die…which is exactly why I don’t want that to happen to tts.
I want more events like this. If this is what it takes to regain that inspiration, hell, let’s have a million community events. I want this spark back. I want to bring this community back together. Because I truly do love it. i love all of you, with all my heart.
Finally posting that art dump I promised but it's literally just my 70's music star au. This entire au is my excuse to put Opal aka Aster Darling into awesome outfits yay
Rodolphus is there too as Rudy Edwards🤭 plus a small Varian cameo (he's the one with the chainsaw)
Hi ^^, how are you ? Can i ask what inspired you to add Faith to your AU ? I'm curious about it. Also would be sundrop Rapunzel and moonstone Eugene would canon in your story like in the serie ?
A few factors went into the decision to add Faith. First being, I wanted to give Rapunzel another female friend who was softer and less adventurous, to help balance out the group dynamic and give them a quiet softness they were missing. Additionally, I was inspired by the bits I'd seen of @kaijucobra's characterization of Faith in their comics.
As for Rapunzel and Eugene, I'm not entirely sure what you mean 😅 Cause Eugene never got the moonstone in canon. If you mean Dark Prince Eugene, no, not really. I am still tying him to the Dark Kingdom through his parents being part of the Brotherhood, but I've never really been a fan of him being a secret prince. Felt like it undermined parts of his background and character, personally
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