#dinglehopper

[imaginative-joy]

“I wanna be where the Jedi are…”

Jedi Ariel has FINALLY arrived! I kept redesigning and restarting this piece; it took a long time to find the right look for her. I knew for a while I wanted her to have a Rey/scavenger look since she loves collecting things. And I knew her lightsaber had to take cues from the dinglehopper! Flounder and Sebastian though… took even longer than Ariel to design. I struggled to Star Wars-ify them for a LOOOOONG time. Should Flounder be a fish from Naboo? Or a BB-8 unit since Ariel’s design already takes cues from Rey? And Sebastian is so small; how can I effectively make him feel like he’s in Star Wars without subtracting too much from his design?

Thankfully my art pal @/djtoonup on Instagram came to the rescue with some amazing Flounder and Sebastian designs (at the bottom of the post)! He had some fantastic ideas for a Flounder droid that completely unlocked my brain from creative block… and I wound up not turning Flounder into a droid after all that. Whoops. Looking at the shapes and lines of the design choices reminded me of the funky helmets the rebels wear in Episode IV. Then it occurred to me: If Ariel is wearing and keeping a bunch of Jedi/Rebel things she collects, maybe she found something and gave it to Flounder! And I like how the helmet sort of dwarfs him and makes him look more like a kid. I did toy with giving him a youngling helmet… but I ultimately liked the rebel helmet more. And I thought the youngling helmet would be a tad too dark ^^;; Sebastian is sitting inside of a modified Imperial probe droid. Because probe droid is his literal job description. At least it is according to King Triton.

And check out Ariel’s bag! You may find some recognizable Star Wars and Little Mermaid whozits and whatits galore 👀

Here are djtoonitup’s great designs! You can find him on Instagram where he has a BIG project where he illustrates mermaids from different cultures!

Prints available here!

Merida/Prints Mulan/Prints Belle/Prints Moana/Prints Raya/Prints Tiana/Prints Anna and Elsa/Prints

[furiousflamingfeline]

Another stream doodle for @thealmostbirthdaygirl … MerPretty and CrabHim lol

Had to include the dinglehopper as well. My 4-year-old calls every fork a dinglehopper now that she’s deep into the Little Mermaid phase 🍴

[pixel8tedfaygo]

Dingle appreciation post

[charlesdrawsstuff]

My Mystery Sketch pieces from Comic Art Live 2025 Comic Art Live 12 in November of 2025 afforded my first shot at participating in their Mystery Sketch event that provides a unique and fun opportunity for collectors to get convention style sketches from a randomly selected artist who will draw their SINGLE character of choice on a roughly 9x12" art board or on Comic Art Live Mystery Sketch Card stock. Spider-man and Mysterio I've drawn plenty of times, but Machine Man and Charizard were a first.

[astridellejo]

Voices Are Overrated

New pfp fyi thx bye.

[dasturdlydangerousduck]

Ducktober Disney!!!

#9: Fethry Duck (Scuttle)

"It's a dinglehopper!! Ducks use these little babies to straighten their hair out. See? Just a little twirl here and a yank there and violee... Ya got an aesthetically-pleasing configuration of hair that ducks go nuts over!!"

[prohibitionprincesses]

Get A Load of Those Gams!

Coney Island, New York

As ships full of immigrants gaze up at the Statue of Liberty, few notice the smaller woman also greeting them from the waves. Ariel spends all her free time swimming around Ellis Island and Coney Island, watching the humans from all corners of the globe converge to start a new life of endless possibilities. She longs to join them.

What tips the scale for her is rescuing a handsome Danish immigrant named Eric Andersen, after the mob drops him off to sleep with the fishes. Ariel cuts a deal with the Sea Witch, swapping her pipes for a perfect pair of gams.

Ariel stumbles onto the beach initially in nothing but her clam bra. Scuttle scuttles to put together a swimsuit out of a torn sailboat sail, getting Ariel covered just in time for Officer Grimsby to arrive with his tape measure. In this new age of exposed legs and liberated ladies, even the priest conducting a nearby beach marriage struggles to maintain his holy composure.

Ariel finds Eric, who takes a liking to her even without her voice. His maid helps her pick out the dresses and stockings that young flappers are now using to show off their scandalous getaway-sticks, and teaches her how to apply "Knee Rogue"--blush on the kneecaps, for extra-scandalous flirtations. Eric takes her to Coney Island for a day of adventure, where she learns how to horrify conservative pricks like Grimsby with controversial, leg-displaying dances like the Charleston and the Shimmy. Meanwhile, Sebastian runs from Eric's family chef, who moonlights as a hit-man for the French Mafia.

The Sea Witch decides things are going too well for Ariel, so she slips Eric a mickey strong enough to make him think that a giant squid-woman is a petite redhead. The sea creatures stall the wedding long enough for the mickey to wear off, and an epic beach shootout follows. Ursula cackles madly under her fedora, as she fires sharp fish bones from the mouths of Flotsam and Jetsam like a pair of slippery, living Tommy guns. Before the night's end, Ursula grows the size of the Statue of Liberty, but ends up shanked on Lady Liberty's pionty crown. Defeated, the tentacled mob boss falls back into the Atlantic for a permanent sleep with the fishes.

After Ariel's voice is restored with some over-the-counter heroin cough syrup, she and Eric are married on the Coney Island. Interracial marriages are scandalous in the 1920s, and inter-species marriages even more so. Just when it seems that the prudes can't be more horrified, King Triton bestows on the newlyweds a five-foot art-deco painting of Atlantica, and all its shimmering gold towers, for Ariel to remember her home by. It goes on display in a speakeasy called the Dinglehopper, where Ariel smuggles snarfblats full of giggle-water to complete the reception ceremony.

AN: This was a soul-destroying nightmare to draw, but it had to be done. The old version is nice, but Ariel deserves something epic. Her flapper look was inspired by silent film star Clara Bow, and the character Billie Kent from "Boardwalk Empire."

[tofangirlonly]

Normal people: dominant hand

Me when there's a remote in my hand and I can't hold my fork at the same time: ✨dinglehopper hand ✨