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[rockhousejai]

I don’t know why people say Cuphead and Mugman are not kids when there is proof that they are it has been said several times in its official media.

Imma use one of their latest comic book collections (which is the one I got for my birthday) for most of the example since it’s the latest proof/evidence I got 

I’m just gonna say for starters in the comics, they usually address both boys and sometimes Chalice as “kids” and I know that people would say the word “kid” in general terms when someone is younger than them but in this case I think they are legitimately kids or at least very young teens

Also!! In the first story of the comic, it had Cuphead, Mugman, and Chalice wanting to join the mafia ONLY because they think it would be fun after watching a movie which is something that I would assume a kid would do after watching something interesting, they want to inmate or at least imagine to be the character in the film

Once figure out where the mafia is located, they thought that they were operating a bubblegum operation And didn’t once think about how the mob was (what I assuming) is smuggling rum. Even later in the story, the mob played around with the bubble gum idea.

Also, Cuphead and Mugman are often given chores it seems, not saying that adults don’t do them as well, but typically kids or teens are given chores.

Once they were given the chores, the boys immediately decided to run away because they don’t want to do the chores in the first place.

Adults usually don’t do that, that’s something a child would do that’s their form of rebelling against their parents or guardian. Of course, later in the story they do come back to Elder Kettle to do the chores. Which is something again a kid would do once they realize they don’t want to run away anymore, they come back home.

I wish I could put more examples, but tumblr only has a 10 image limit but you see what I’m trying to say when I think that Cuphead and Mugman are just a pair of young boys, so it’s weird to me whenever I see them being mainly portrayed as adults when there’s a lot of evidence pointing that they are at least somewhat underage.

Well, that’s just my personal opinion, you’re gonna have Cuphead and Mugman be whatever age you want, but that’s just how I see them personally

Anyways, thank you for coming to my TEDTalk

[cartoon-buffoon]

Merry Halloween, here's y'all treat

[preciouslittletoonette]

Toon AU I just came up with: What if because of the strict copyright/trademark enforcement by studios, Toons can no longer see what toons from other studios look like. Like all they see is a censor bar covering up the toon from that different studio. For us humans, they look normal. But for toons themselves, it's like looking at wall with ominous "Property of _" printed on it.

An explanation of it in pictures:

What humans will see:

What toons will see:

(From Mickey's POV)

[memelordotherblog]

Real talk toon fandom, how many times have you guys killed off Ortensia in an au, and how times did that death actually matter beyond Oswald whump and shipping. Answer quickly.

[mintytrifecta]

Helloooo animation community

[hagane-doodles]

Allow me to introduce you to another of my angel ocs.

This is Gabriel, a pretty sassy virtue. She'll slay you with her unique charm~ don't let her face fool you.

[lucidditch]

[preciouslittletoonette]

I have this very uncanny occurrence, where I'll make lore for my toon AUs, that will later gets affirmed by real life events I genuinely had no clue was gonna happen until it happened.

The earliest example of this actually takes place in my Animaniacs fic, The Nanny. Small spoilers ahead but if you're caught up, you should be able to guess this was gonna happen:

So Thaddeus Plotz will get arrested for the crimes he committed against the Warners and would be replaced by female toon ceo whose name doesn't really matter as I've changed the lore concerning her since the reboot came out.

Now when the reboot was actually confirmed to be real , I wasn't too pressed about what they were gonna do with Plotz because you know, it's a fic. The reboot was only really gonna matter in The Nanny's sequel (which I'm probably not gonna do 🥲). I figured I'd just canon diverge it, you know. But I was so adamant on Plotz being gone and having a female ceo in his place.

And then lo and behold, the Animaniacs reboot provided me with the beautiful Nora Rita Norita, with Thaddeus Plotz nowhere in sight.

It lined up so perfectly, it was unbelievable. Like to this day, I'm gobsmacked that the reboot unwittingly played into the plot of my fic mostly seamlessly.

And if you're wondering why I call this an occurrence, its because this would proceed to occur an extra 4 more times. And 3 of these do happen to do with the plot of The Nanny, the last one has to do with an Epic Mickey AU.

Which is the reason for this post actually!

I'm doing a very self-indulgent Epic Mickey Expanded AU, where one of the expansions is the long-term effects paint thinner exposure has on the toons of Wasteland. Initially, when I started this last year, the only real difference between the Canon and expanded Wastelanders were that the latter were paler than Canon. But recently, I added the addition of pale, green sclera (the white parts of the eyes for those who don't know) to the mix.

I didn't think much of the symptoms altogether until @/wasteland-unused's post about paint thinners/turpentine also being dangerous to humans and I went on like the smallest ramble I could muster about what I learned about the dangers of paint thinners.

Like the writer that I am, I went and double-checked my research and found a document from westliberty.edu that very nicely explained what the effects of chronic paint thinner exposure are. And in that list, I see jaundice.

Now, when I did the short research for what were the dangers of paint thinner exposure effects before, jaundice wasn't mentioned to be one of them. This document went into a lot more details than most articles do, particularly with chronic exposure (which is what the Wastelanders are going through)

Now I heard of jaundice and knew little about what it looked like, so when I looked it up, I literally paused.

Because I had, unwittingly, gave the Wasteland toons jaundice, a real life effect of chronic paint thinners exposure, without even realising it was a real life effect that paint thinner could cause and that the physical symptoms I gave the toons resembled jaundice even in a fantastical sense.

It is just jarring how many times this has happened to me where things lore-wise just fell into place without me even realising it until a whole lot later

I hope things will fall just as well into my Bendy fic. I think it would be really funny because this iteration of the fic branches off Dark Revival's Insanity Ending. If the Insanity Ending turns out to be canon, I will genuinely cackle

Also for those writing toon stories/fics that includes paint thinner/DIP who also want to give the toons a worse time than what they're already going through, this is the link to the document. Do with this as you will: