#rainbow srl

[lumbledob]

Being a Winx Club fan must be some form of torture 

First, Nickelodeon starts coproducing the show starting with season 5 and ends up making it aimed at younger audiences when the earlier season were aimed more at teens (to the point where season 7 aired on Nick Jr), which led to the show losing depth as characters became flanderized and stuck being students at the same magic school they graduated from after season 3 (as well as noticeably cheaper animation)

Then some mature, live-action Wattpad fanfic-esque adaptation comes to Netflix that’s basically Winx in name only

Next thing you know, the show gets a reboot people started to somewhat look forward to, with high quality test footage being shown and things looked great

…Only for it to be revealed that the show was being made using AI (as well as the labor of possibly mistreated and underpaid interns), the characters designs looked ugly, the show was being produced more for an American audience instead of the Italian one the show was known for, among other things

The animation looks cheap and unfinished, which is especially noticeable in the action scenes. Miraculous Ladybug, a show that some have given flack for its animation, had no more than a year to change the shows animation, which meant using a new software and remaking models, props and backgrounds from scratch. The studio behind Winx Club had five years.

The reboot tries to present itself as this new thing despite the first few episodes rehashing stuff from season 1 without the pacing, not to mention having the tagline “The Magic is Back”, which sounds like something you would name a continuation or sequel series rather than something with an entirely new and separate continuity

Anyways, here’s the reboot character designs compared to ones from the original 

[winx-trash]

Unfortunately, it's real. Disappointed, but not surprised.

"We don't use AI" my ass, Straffi.

[magicalgio]

I regret so much not archiving the entire Lucia miccinilli YouTube account because now all of her songs are GONE and I only had properly archived Ali Di luce omg there are no words to describe the hatred I harbor in my heart for Rainbow srl

[staticstartup]

Immerse yourself with the magic of Mertropia~ ❤️

Hello there!~ ❤️ Here's some Mermaid Magic renders, all of them are ripped straight from the official website. Thank you to Winx Club Newsflash for ripping them. Got the divider myself from the website as well. All of these can be found on the website and saved there yourself as well for the original source.

[fidenciojesusfan92]

Nicktoons Extended Universe

The Crossover of the Extended Universe from Nickelodeon

[lumapagno]

Iginio Straffi be like:

Make a stupid pop pixie show:🥰😍🥰😍🥰😍

Make a decent spin off show with the background storyline for the Company of Light and how the war against the Ancestral Witches and Valtor started to fill up the plot holes and give us the canon background we deserve:🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢

[solariaswitch]

Why is Rainbow so convinced that you can’t get older kids to watch cartoons anymore and that’s why they have to make this show suitable for kids who can hardly even speak yet?? Like damn maybe your cartoons just suck. Maybe you’re the problem, Rainbow.

[lost-on-t-umblr]

I got slightly carried away with this, not to mention that it's the first proper piece of fanfic I write in five years... Apparently I just needed the right involvement with the right characters.

Edit: I posted this on AO3 as well, so feel free to save it and maybe give it some kudos :)

Six months later

[Huntik: Secrets and Seekers | Zhalia Moon x Dante Vale | fluff | one shot]

Dante's House, Venice

It was 8am. Sun was shining through the curtains, filling the room with light, welcoming the new day. Dante unconsciously pulled Zhalia closer from under the white bedsheets; both were still half asleep, comfortable in feeling each other's warmth. Things had been way easier for them since the Spiral was fought and defeated. Lok had now enough experience to work on his own and had recently put up his own team. Sophie continued her studies and would sometimes share her work with Lok, as well as her life and home. Dante and Zhalia were taking some short, yet well deserved time off.

Zhalia woke up first. They had been together for a while now. Despite the undeniable attraction, it wasn't easy at first. He was the lone wolf, the charismatic hero always lost in his thoughts, and she was a former spy, used to be alone, not yet accustomed to love and being loved, after all. Going to some explorative missions together, just the two of them, had allowed them to get used to each other's presence. They had, of course, lived together before, along with Lok and Sophie and Cherit as well, but it was different. They were on important missions, then. They were always on the run. They didn't have the time to properly talk about their feelings, let alone live together, though both were fully aware of their strong feelings towards each other. But then everything finally fell into the right place. And they fell into each other's arms.

Zhalia gasped under her breath as a longing caress from Dante interrupted her train of thoughts. She slowly turned her head towards him, smiling innocently as she leaned closer, her back against his chest; she looked him in the eyes, and basked in that feeling of safety that was still so new to her.

"Everything okay?" he smiled, caressing her cheek once again. A tip of malice was in his words, though so loving and tender. "Yeah..." She gazed at his eyes, at his strong figure, dreamily, then back at his eyes again. She couldn't help but smile in return. "I still can't believe you care about me. I am so grateful." A bit of embarrassment could be seen in her eyes for the sudden confession that made her feel vulnerable. Dante took a deep breath, though not interrupting their eye contact. His stare was gentle, yet somehow turned more serious by concern. He wished she could love herself more, and he was surely doing everything he could to make it happen, loving and protecting and respecting and caring for her always - not that it wasn't completely instinctive for him. But the thought of not being humanly capable of completely filling the void that decades of solitude had created in her, made him hurt from an unappeasable desire of being enough. But he'd never told her about it, he never would: it wasn't her fault, after all.

"Zhalia - he said - You deserve it. All of it, all of this." He held her a little closer. "I'm the one who's infinitely grateful that fate allowed me to meet such a wonderful, strong, lovable woman... And that she loves me back!" The love declaration was interrupted by his laugh of pure happiness, and he bent over to kiss her.