#skipper tpom

[nebula-award]

I'm still writing for tpom ship week and I've been having a lot of thought as I write a character piece for Skipper.

I love writing Skipper because he's so flawed, but he's still a heroic and kind character. Like, he's always treated as a great leader and hero by the narrative and everyone around him.

However, he's still based around 90s-2000s manly action heroes who are very sexist and prejudice. He's overt in his prejudice/racist towards mammals, he thinks birds are the superior animals. He calls Marlene "one of the guys" and ignores her rejections of that claim, he can be a bit of a womanizer and makes his misogyny very clear.

The piece I'm working on is interesting to me because it's based in Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole where he loses his memories. Imagine Skipper has done a lot of growing before the Mind Jacker. He has overcome a lot of his faults and ideologies previously mentioned that were very inherent to his character.

But, what happens when the memory wipe reverts him to the way he was before? How do you remember that you changed your way of thinking despite it feeling rooted in who you are? There's something deep down in your gut telling you that this isn't who you are anymore and what you believe feels deeply wrong, yet you can't remember that person.

[jtheplante]

Flightless, patriotic, closeted homosexual. Destroyed Denmark.

[mystical-dorito]

hi i drew penguins. and me hugging a penguin.

[penguinerkiyoko]

I wanted to include this into late Madaparty art under AU theme but decided to leave it and just post it as separate crossover art. Here we are in 2025 and I'm stuck in two hyperfixations. The Penguins of Madagascar and Lacey Games. And now I committed crossover art. I guess now Lacey has four new friends hehe

[panareczek]

Madaparty theme 4 - Angst

And even when I'm all alone, I won't change, this is not my world....

Ok so I'm not very good with angsting, because I'm quite picky with the media I choose to angst (and mada franchise isn't one of them unfortunately) BUT I'LL TRY

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Hans always felt a lonesome regret while thinking about what happened in Denmark, and never quite knew why. That was the plan right? Make Skipper the traitor to the state, get his meed and never think about that again. But what if it all went differently? He lived through so much with his penguin companion, was it all for nothing?

The little puffin stood at the old train platform, staring at the faces of bypassers rushing on about their days. Some time ago, he used to come here with Skipper to eat the most delicious ice cream he's ever had - were they that good because the penguin always knew the best snack spots, or the lovely companion made them delicious? With every passing minute, the passerbys started to blur, their figures shifting into the one he betrayed - the little hatchling who hasn't even molted yet, was looking at him with eyes full of hope - hans, as a danish citizen, would give him a tour around the city - that was their first shared memory. How could he do this to this little fluffball?

Everything started to blur even more - all the shared conversations, little gestures, celebrated birthdays, Christmas evenings and Easter mornings - laughs and cries they had together. Hans was struggling to see through his dark glasses - he had to wear them due to the light flash he saw at the embassy - but this wasn't due to his eye damage. He felt a small tear pooling up in his eyecorner, while all the voices and images flashed before his eyes. He thought about what can he do to fix it, tell him that it was a mistake? Get him a huge bouquet of flowers, bake him his extra special danish pastries, write him a poem, kill all the Danes-

Then he saw it.

The look on the face of that little penguin, the moment he learned his best friend just sold him out. Eyes full of shock and thorough sadness, were looking at him, asking just one question.

"How could you?"

Everything stopped. Hans thought he knew the answer, but after further thinking, he didn't. How could he?

But after looking at these eyes, at these sad, lonely eyes, he knew something else.

He will never fix this, even if he tries. He'll always be a traitor.

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For the song - I feel like it's a go-to sad song for the young Polish people. It's called "Długość dźwięku samotności" - "A length of the sound of loneliness" by Myslovitz and it's about never changing and hiding one's true self, because that's what we chosen and we have to always fit into society's standards.

Spotify link today, because it doesn't have a music video >w<

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[hudo-jnik]

And finally... Skipper!!❤️❤️ He looks so happy❤️🤧 My favorite character in childhood ❤️

@crazytom666

[the-bus-called-graveyard-8]

TURNING 10 TODAY: “Operation: Swap-panzee”, which first aired on December 24th, 2013. It is the first episode to premiere on Nicktoons rather than Nickelodeon; over a year had passed between this episode and the previous episode being aired.

“Men, for too long, chimps have been the go-to species for space exploration. No more! This time, a penguin is going to the moon!”

[skoople]

madagascar soft plush toys by QIERK