Claire Keane
we're not kids anymore.
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Why don’t the Japanese opening and ending songs for the dub of PPG 1998 have more views, they’re absolute bops in their own right and they’ve got Megumi Hayashibara, the queen of 90’s anime voice acting, doing the singing! The 10 minute remix of Cream Puff Shuffle is my favorite, the bass is so good.
In an alternate timeline, instead of the PPG movie we got, I think there would’ve been a live-action adaptation made without the involvement of any of the original creators that’s in the “kinder camp” genre of the late 90’s/early 2000’s (the James Gunn Scooby Doo, Josie and the Pussycats, Spy Kids, live action Cat in the Hat, etc.)
It would’ve taken a bunch of liberties with the source material which the fans would’ve hated and it wouldn’t have done well at the box office either, but then in the 2020’s you’d have Gen Z ppl who saw it on dvd go “it was actually pretty good you guys are just mean”.
Roger L. Jackson would’ve been the only one to reprise his role, only because he’s Mr. Ghostface voice, but Mojo would’ve been an ugly overly realistic PS2 model. Dakota Fanning would’ve been Bubbles. Alan Cumming would’ve played HIM and everybody who saw the movie would say he’s the best part. Lots of gratuitous fish eye lens shots of people yelling into the camera, maybe even while doing a zoom-out.
The prototype version of HIM (explicitly called the devil) from one of Craig’s unfinished shorts somehow managed to be even more stereotypical than the final version and I do much prefer the finalized design and such overall, subtle though the changes may be, but the original’s earrings????? Iconic. They look REALLY good on HIM, I kinda wish they kept them, though I’m sure it was just to simplify the design a bit. (The prototype looks very weird without the noticeable lipstick put on later tho, that lil detail really added a lot somehow)
Back in 2015 I wrote in the last author’s note of a PPG fic I wrote when I was 14 that I’d get around to rewriting it eventually… and 11 years later I’m finally getting the motivation to do it. Better late than never!
Well, by rewrite, I mean that I’ll only pick a handful of chapters from my old fanfic to rewrite, and the rest is gonna be original. That original fanfic was essentially kid me trying to do mostly standalone stories where each chapter is an “episode” vaguely in the style of the original show, but not doing it well at all. Lately I’ve been noticing a hunger in the fandom for straightforward gen fics and I hope to maybe scratch that itch. I’m glad I waited this long to plan on doing it so my writing could improve a lot in that time.
I’m on vacation right now, so I’m not gonna start writing it for a week, but I’ve been spending my time recently planning out a bunch of chapters in advance. I also have a full time job so I can’t write as fast as I used to but that’s a given.
My title for it as of now is All Killer, No Kisses. As far as plot goes it’s just gonna be the PPGs and the other characters doing their thing. If I do put in an overarching story, it’ll take a while to happen, and most of the “episodes” will still stand alone. If something happens to me that means I have to put this off I’ll let you know but otherwise stay tuned!
Don’t be afraid, he’ll leave the hall light on
Rewatching PPG as an adult and recognizing the parts that haven't aged well:
I know those kinds of jokes are sadly so ingrained that even nominal kids shows can make them repeatedly, but it still IS weird that they repeated the same joke with Mojo specifically not once, not twice, but THREE times (Cootie Gras, Monkey See Doggy Two, and The Powerpuff Girls Rule) to the point where the first example currently provides the trope image on TV Tropes. If the hippies from Save Mojo had brought that up, the show would've been over, although they probably wouldn't have known about that.
The creators at the time certainly would not have cared about the implications on Mojo's psychology or on Townsville's prison system as in their minds they were making a wacky violent cartoon about kindergartner superheroes, and so trying to parse a deeper meaning to it beyond edgy humor for the sake of edgy humor would be fruitless, but regardless it still leaves a bad taste in the mouth. What would a version of PPG look like that could have the maturity to even acknowledge this topic in a graceful manner? It would probably be best to relegate this to non-canon material and psychodrama fanfics.
I've been watching a lot of the PPG Season 5 and 6 episodes for the first time lately and I feel like quite a few of these episodes were just the writer or storyboard artist coming up with a pun as the title, or they had just one joke in mind, and they built the entire episode around it even if they didn't have enough material to fill up the whole 11 or 22 minutes. I don't have proof of this, that's just the vibe I get. Is that just me or does anyone else get the same feeling? It's incredible how depending on the episode, it can either feel like there's so much story and action in a jam-packed, satisfactory package that manages to feel longer than 11 minutes, especially in the first 4 seasons, while others can feel like nothing happened at all.
fly high, tom kane 🕊️
i was incredibly devestated to find out that kane passed away yesterday. he was an incredible VA who was passionate and devoted to his craft, and was a memorable part of my childhood.
what's crazy for me is that i just started to rewatch the powerpuff girls maybe a week or so ago. honestly, i think it stemmed from me wanting to take a break from personal passion projects and the burden of my academics. i thought, what better way to do that than to watch an old childhood show?
the way i stumbled across ppg in the first place is actually kind of amusing. my mom used to get her braids done at this lady's apartment, and her son ABSOLUTELY ADORED the powerpuff girls. i thought it was a bit odd at first because i didn't really know anything about it at the time, so i was wondering why this boy was watching a random girls' show. i was SO SO WRONG. he put me on and i'm incredibly grateful that he did.
anyways, after that, it just kind of stuck with me. i didn't grow up with cable, so i may not have had the authentic experience of sitting in front of the tv with some lucky charms and watching the show, but i like the unconventional way i stumbled across it.
i ended up watching the reboot on a cruise a few years later when i was HORRENDOUSLY seasick
now, i've come back to it! i'm glad that i did, but kane's passing saddened me deeply. i found out that he was not only the soul behind the professor in ppg, but that he also sparked life into so many other characters across various expanses of media. i may not be one, but VA's geniunely inspire me, with their levels of range and passion, to create art for the mere fun of it. kane's 50 years of contribution to the artistic community will always be cherished and remembered 💛
A lovely tribute to Tom Kane by Craig McCracken.
working on it
these aren't too bad and are def closer to what i was aiming for for him
i think i maintained the manic energy he has pretty well
when i was drawing the one on the right my nose kept wrinkling bro 😭its hard to be nonchalant when you're drawing 😔😔😔
Thank you PPG for breaking my art block! I finished this just last night and I heard about Tom Kane’s passing today. I wish I could have put Professor Utonium in here but maybe some other time. Maybe for this we could say this is from his POV.
One of my biggest inspirations for the was the book version of the episode Substitute Creature. I’m out of practice with painting and I struggle with heavier paints, but I let go of my nerves and didn’t bother to change every little mistake. I like how the colors turned out, but my camera can’t fully pick up on the saturation of the fluorescent pink I used for the sky color.
By far, amazing and beautiful masterpieces of this episode and it’s really good imo.
more doodling..
Shut the Pup Up was a mediocre episode but I was so delighted to see the return of Jack Wednesday, truant officer, that it bumped the episode up a few points for me.
I’m going to be so honest. I think in the pursuit of an individualized sexual liberation, the Overton window for misogyny has shifted violently towards normalizing bonkers levels of misogyny. Some of you have got to start being feminist killjoys again. I can’t carry this teamfight myself no matter how good I am at fragging liberal false feminists.
I think that we may have lost the plot when we started arguing that it’s feminist to play gacha games, which are predicated on articulating women as units of exchange, one of the oldest kinds of Ur-Misogyny in history.
We desperately need some political consciousness about feminism in the world. Just like a smidge. Please. I’m begging you.
You’re so real for this I’m so tired I cannot believe marvel rivals is like. Allowed to exist. It makes Overwatch look feminist in comparison which is BONKERS because it’s OVERWATCH.
Nodding in agreement it’s so bad in there girl. We have got to get more militant. This post was partially inspired by Marvel Rivals and Umamusume specifically because they’re so egregious.
