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This!

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"if you're going to write dark fiction you should explicitly state that it's not okay to do in real life so that a child doesn't see it and think it's okay"

actually i don't cater my art to children, my art is not intended for children, and it's not my responsibility to parent them. hope this helps

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"i want more media with zero drama, no tension, and zero problematic characters and i am not joking"

Great! Here are my recommendations:

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i made a thread on bsky because some rando on here got upset that I didn't censor my transgender OC'S deadname in a drawing depicting a flashback with his mom and like, i really do forget most people want their queer stories to be weirdly sanitized and unproblematic especially if it's made by an independent queer artist. it really does reek of entitlement and scrubbing off the lived experiences of people.

sorry y'all are raised on corporate mandated slop that only confirms queer characters through twitter or is riddle with queer/transmisogynistic tropes and stereotypes.

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The Unsung Hero of Ben 10: Greg Johnson

Put this under Rare Facts, but this deserves its own post.

Ben 10 was pitched by Man of Action in 2002, and spent the next three years in development. Heavily inspired by Dial H for Hero, the concept started out as Ben using the watch to dial in superheroes, as seen in some of Steven E. Gordon's concept art.

As revealed in I-10, another version was where he'd use the watch, known then as the Megawatt, to swap places between 10 versions of himself from different universes.

However, according to Dave "Devilpig" Johnson, art director and character designer of the first two seasons, a writer named Greg Johnson came up with the final push that would make Ben 10 what it is: Aliens.

However, his contribution was uncredited outside of being mentioned by Dave on Twitter years later. While I can't 100% confirm this, I believe the Greg Johnson we're looking for is the same one who wrote for X-Men Evolution, another show Steven E. Gordon worked on.

His other credits include scattered episodes of many Marvel cartoons, even up to present day, having written (at the time of writing) 7 episodes of Spidey and His Amazing Friends.

So thank you, Greg Johnson, your idea to introduce aliens made the show into a phenomenon that it probably wouldn't have been without that additional touch.

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Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall - Ben 10 Nanos (Unused, Classic, Academy)

Source: FusionFall Cache

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Okay, so clearly I over-estimated how much work would've gone into parsing the entire 9+ hour recording of the popup episodes. This is my official endorsement to go to Ben 10 Planet, where they've already uploaded screenshots of all the missing popups.

They can be found here: https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Pop-Up_Trivia

Shoutout to the wiki crew for all their hard work, especially the likes of UltiVerse and Amanda, who I have regular contact with, and a huge shoutout to VegetaSasuke0 for being the first to come forward with an actual recording of the event.

Reminder, the recordings can be found on archive.org and feature all 18 popup episodes presented on April 13th, 2008, as well as an airing of I-10, both movies, the first three episodes of Ben 10: Alien Force, and a bunch of commercial breaks.

However, our search isn't over...

Negative 10 Part 1 and The Galactic Enforcers have some popups associated with them via the deleted scenes on the Season 4 DVD, as well as a couple that were on DVDs released with figure packs by Bandai, so just because we have the original 18, doesn't mean our search is entirely complete.

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https://archive.org/details/ben-10-week-enhanced-pop-up-trivia-marathon THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE POPUP MARATHON HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN RECOVERED IN FULL. I WILL REPORT MY FINDINGS AT A LATER DATE.

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Greetings, Lost and Found followers! Rahk-Zi here to announce that I'm now on this new "Blue Sky" website!

(Which is odd to me considering we Galvans live under a green sky, but okay...)

I'm still learning how to use it, so it is a little barren at the moment, I might start by re-sharing some much older Lost and Found content.

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PSA: Do NOT buy The Ben 10 Complete Collection.

Rahk-Zi here with an important message, do not buy this collection. It's entirely a waste of money! Here's the scoop, some have been getting theirs from GRUV early, and it's very apparent that it's just been copied over from the original releases of the series, and Omniverse isn't even complete, despite the advertising.

And it's not even in HD, in 2025! Reports say that OS and early AF are in 4:3.

Don't support this mediocrity, please and thank you. Save your money.

Here's a thread from someone who got it early with further details.

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Ben 10 (Original Series) - The Original 10 Shirt Designs by Daylight Curfew - Andrew Robinson paintings in higher res than ever before!

Available soon from Daylight Curfew! (Not Sponsored!)

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im gonna cry 🥺🥺🥺

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you cannot talk about the homophobic murder of jonathan joss without including in the conversation that he is indigenous.

american indian men are at the 2nd highest risk of death by murder compared to all other ethnic groups. in their lifetimes, 82% of native men report having experienced domestic violence. yet the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are non-natives (88% of native men and 92% of native women who reported violence said their attacker was non-native). what’s more, tribal governments are often stymied in their attempts to bring justice against non-natives, meaning that many of these cases go unresolved.

this was an intersectional attack. the fact that he is indigenous matters, even if the motivation was homophobic, because it made him even more vulnerable and disposable in the eyes of his killer.

as always, look into MMIWP to learn more, and speak up for us. miigwetch, take care

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Concept art of a Toad painting based on the distinctive style of Pablo Picasso, for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.

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Actor Jonathan Joss was just murdered for being gay and married to a trans man. On the first day of pride 2025. He was best known for playing John Redcorn on King of the Hill.

I had no idea he was gay but he was married to a man named Tristan Kern de Gonzales (on valentines day 2025!)

They lived in San Antonio Texas where his family is from and he grew up. He was 59.

In Janurary 2025 his home was burned down which made news. It killed some of his beloved dogs. He didnt elaborate beyond he believed it was arson (gofundme is still up and i suggest donating to help his funeral costs and his husband

Update: de Gonzales says hes fine he just wants justice but i still think its nice)

Now we know he and his husband had been threatened by several neighbors for being queer. They told pigs, pigs being pigs did nothing before or after it happened.

Yesterday Joss and his husband went to check their mailbox wherein they found one of their dogs skulls (statement from his husband

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As they weeped and mourned in shock, a neighbor, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, came out and aimed at de Gonzales…but Joss jumped in front of the bullet and was instantly killed.

Ceja, homophobia murdering coward, tried to take off but de Gonzales had called pigs who vaguely tried to do something. He was arrested and his bail set for $200k. Or as my sister said who the fuck sets bail for a murderer?

San Antonio.

De Gonzales is clearly mourning, posting pics on Hoss’ fb page. This one really struck me

This is why we need pride people, and not rainbow capitalism. Please donate to the gofundme and let san antonio cops knows what you think. De Gonzales said multiple neighbors had threatened them…id like to see those people investigated for arson.

Go into pride with rage and knowing. Have joy, kiss puppies, dont bow to homophobes. And maybe enjoy a little king of the hill.

UPDATE

Jonathan Joss’ husband Tristan kern de Gonzales identifies as trans on his facebook page.

Which explains the ramp up of hate and why the murderer shot at de Gonzales (Joss pushed him out of the way). So this is also a transphobia related murder

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