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kindergarten but the protagonist is 55 instead of 5

(labeled version under cut incase you don't recognise some of tinyefied folks)

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hetslop (and also the other guys)

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Agnes ref, along with her cats

Also, here's her shirt and back of her coat in their normal colors, I like to think that she got her shirt battling a random at the garbage can of a monstermon event

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THIS IS MY THRERD TIME TRYING TO POST THIS ON TUMBLR 😭

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I present to you... Bob and his two psicopathic gfs getting married

Don't judge him guys, he can't control it

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Girl Nugget

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Penny x Emmy?

That one line from Emmy hasn't leaved my mind so I drew this, I don't like the colours but whatever

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Monty's disability in Kindergarten and how it reflects the real world.

TW: Ableism and use of derogatory language towards disabled people. if that makes you uncomfortable I suggest not reading this post.

I find the Kindergarten series commentary on disabled people, specifically Monty, to be incredibly interesting and honestly kind of refreshing.

I feel that most media out there tends to land on opposite ends of the extreme when it comes to how it portrays disabled people. You either have them treating disabled people as somehow "worse" than abled people, or you'll see them treating disabled people as if they are somehow gifted because of their disabilities.

As someone who is both physically (needs glasses) and mentally (ADHD) disabled I can tell you that it is neither glamorous to deal with these things, nor does it make me any better or worse than anybody else. Which is also true for Monty.

Even after being crippled by the original janitor, Monty is still portrayed as incredibly competent and capable of pulling his own weight in spite of his disability, but we can also see how being in a wheelchair does present its own challenges such as no longer being able to use the stairs and, most egregiously, how others treat him.

Monty is constantly picked on by both kids and grown ups alike, whether it be having his wheelchair taken apart at the command of Carla, or being regularly called derogatory terms like "Invalid" and "Cripple" for literally no reason other than people simply not liking him.

This all leads to Kindergarten 3 where Monty finally gets the chance to fight back and prove his own worth.

One of the big reasons why I like Helicopter Parenting so much is because it highlights that ableism extends beyond simply being disabled.

Throughout the entire mission Felix makes his ableist worldviews abundantly clear, calling Monty terms such as "Incompetent", "Invalid" and "Cripple" and refuses to let him see his father not because of anything he actually did, but simply because he personally doesn't like the idea of his dad working with someone who he sees as lesser.

Keep in mind that Felix has literally no reason to dislike Monty throughout most of his mission. At the very beginning of the day we "fix" Monty by giving him the goo battery, restoring mobility in his arms. He's basically as "abled" as a physically disabled person can be at this point. So really Felix shouldn't have a problem with him, and yet he does. Because being disabled is never really the problem for these people, it's the fact that they're different. They're not seen as "normal" and so they hate them for it. Nothing you can do will ever satisfy them because they already see you as broken beyond repair. Which makes our ability to turn the tables on Felix at the end all the more satisfying.

After spending the whole mission being unfairly discriminated against, Felix finally gets a taste of his own medicine when Monty has his chopper shot down.

"Let's see how Felix likes being crippled for a change."

Some might read this as the game treating disabilities as a punishment for bad actions which is obviously a stupid mentality, but what we're really seeing here in my opinion is a classic case of laser-guided karma. Felix spent the whole mission bullying a disabled person purely out of pettiness, so naturally his punishment is being turned into the very thing he despises. Being disabled may not be in itself a punishment, but for someone like Felix, it absolutely is. As sad as it may be, sometimes the only way to get it over someone's head that what they're doing is wrong is by forcing them to live out the exact same circumstances you did.

Now, do I think the Kindergarten games have perfect disability representation? No. There is definitely something to be said about the use of outdated terminology like "differently abled" that's present in these games, or how the series treats Monty no longer having to use a wheelchair or Nugget no longer speaking in the third person as "fixing" them, implying that being disabled somehow makes you broken.

At its core however, I believe the Kindergarten games offer some genuinely good insight on how disabled people are treated by the wider world and how they're often seen as lesser beings purely because they don't fit society's definition of "normal".

Kindergarten as a series is so chock full of social commentary that isn't immediately obvious to the average player that I honestly think I could write an entire essay dissecting each element of these games and what they have to say about the wider world, but I'll save that for another time. For now, I hope you enjoyed what I had to say in this post and I hope you have a good day/night.

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Tried drawing Monty, weirdly, when I was a kid I remembered him having a Bob, even though his sprite doesn't look at all like that, now I can't see him with any other hairstyle

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Ummmmm... Idk, Nugget but he has a birdbrain, too lazy to paint this srryy

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Two crazy women,

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Draw until Kg3 comes out! 🎉

6 days left!

I love this meme But I don't know how to make animation🥹

(I changed the brush too!)

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hi

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Been wanting to make this joke ever since the game was announced

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8 days left!!

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Ougggghh Buggs and Jerome >.<

14 days left!!

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Thinking about an AU... Where we basically met the descendants of the OG kids

Idk about the others but there would be definitely a JeromeXBuggs fankid and a cindix duo