my contribution to the 🏳️⚧️ Transcartoonology 🏳️⚧️ by @ghostsharkpress
when I was a kid Wildcat was (and still is) one of my favorite cartoon characters but their gender confused me. the other characters used male pronouns but with the long hair, soft temper and high voice little me had a lot of question marks in their head. Wildcat wasn’t like the other male characters but also not like the female ones. Then I learned about the gender nonbinary! which fit perfectly to my image of Wildcat (and also myself). I’ve been wanting to work on this comic for years and this has been the perfect platform for it!
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Talespin Headcanons: Favorite music genres
(note, the series takes place 1939, and this post will reflect that)
Baloo: Jazz
Louie: Scat, Jazz, Swing, and Calypso. He loves to party!
Kit: Is open to just about anything, but mostly listens to swing since it's a popular genre
Don Karnage: Mostly Rhumba, though he also enjoys a little Calypso
Rebecca Cunningham: Big band and sometimes a little bit of Country
Molly: She hasn't really developed her own taste, yet, but she learned Square dancing once and loved it, so she'll probably get into country
Shere Khan: Tango and Classical
Colonel Spigot: Mostly Thembrian military tunes. He makes everyone around him listen to them, too. Most other genres are banned.
Wildcat: He likes everything, really.
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Rebecca and Molly redesign!
Obviously some major changes here. I think the whole thing of anthropomorphized female animals being given petite, human figures is extremely outdated and annoying, so in as far as it makes sense with the more human-shaped bodies I'm going for overall, I've given her more of a bear shape. I changed the outfit from the original #girlboss look to the turtleneck with a ribbon skirt because I decided to make her (and Molly) Lakota. Because in these old cartoons, no matter where animals are native to in our world, they were always all white-coded, with Native characters only appearing in offensive storylines about cannibals and savages. And I think Disney is still very behind today when it comes to Indigenous representation in animation.
I kept Molly's overall design because I really couldn't think of a meaningful way to change it, she's just a toddler; I only added a bracelet with beads in the medicine wheel colors that I think she made herself.
I'm also thinking of changing their last name. Most jungle book characters are named after the Hindi word for the animal they are, so I thought perhaps in keeping with that tradition I might rename them Matȟó, the Lakota word for Bear.
some relevant links below the cut
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DuckTales Character Songs! (Part 4)
And now, here’s the last of 4 parts of my DuckTales character playlist. This time, I’ll be highlighting songs for recurring characters from Season 3 (with one exception, mind you). Sorry it’s a bit late, but regardless, it’s here.
Links to my previous songs:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 2, continued
Part 3
Part 3, continued
And once again, a shoutout to @glowyjellyfish on brainstorming these some with me.
Black Heron
Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
First off, I’m kicking myself a little, because how did I forget doing a song for Heron to this point? That said, I guess it kinda makes sense having her song here, considering she was such a big part of F.O.W.L., the main villains of Season 3, so…yeah.
Anyway, this song is very serious, blunt, and kinda dark, like her. It’s also kind of a nod to the fact that the Darkwing Duck iteration of F.O.W.L. was largely a shadowy organization without a real concrete face of it.
Steelbeak
POWER by Kanye West
I was going back and forth as to whether I should use this song. But ultimately, I did. At times during the song, the title is a reference to a power trip, which Steelbeak ultimately did go on when he used the Intelli-Ray in The Last Adventure! Kanye is very bombastic and polarizing, a lot like Steelbeak himself. A lot of the time, he chooses to use his brute strength to forge ahead, and tries to prove all his doubters wrong, even those he works with. So really, regardless of what you might think of Kanye, his music works well for Steelbeak’s narrative.
Daisy Duck
Grown Woman by Beyoncé
No original version of the song? Come on, Spotify!
Anyway, as easy as it could be to choose a song about Daisy, it’s also just as easy to mess it up. She’s way more that just a pretty face. She’s an absolute go-getter that knows what she wants out of life, has worked super hard in the fashion industry, and given both her age and her status, she can do what she wants, but doesn’t let it go to her head.
Phantom Blot
Man in Black by Johnny Cash
Besides his attire, this song kinda plays off of Blot’s backstory, being against magic after Magica laid waste to his town. His attire presumably took on a more somber tone after this, and he started hunting magic users down. Until things can be seen as brighter for him, the Blot will wear all black.
Gosalyn Mallard
Whatever It Takes by Imagine Dragons
Gosalyn has had a rough life. Her parents die, she loses her grandfather, she’s been on the run from her life circumstances. However, she thrives off of the uncertainty, pushing through barriers, just doing whatever she can to get through life. Also, I just feel like ID’s music in general really suits her edgy, sometimes jaded personality.
The Fearsome Five (well, Four)
Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood and the Destroyers
We didn’t get much of the Fearsome Five (especially Negaduck) in DuckTales, but I think this song sums them up pretty well as villains.
Kit Cloudkicker and Molly Cunningham
Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters
The Greatest Show by Panic! at the Disco from The Greatest Showman
Honestly, I gotta mention this TaleSpin duo in the same breath here. I’d say these songs are mostly self-explanatory. Kit’s a pilot trying to hone his talent (don’t really remember TaleSpin, but from what I’ve gathered, DuckTales did his character all wrong); Molly started her own sky circus, and what better song to embrace the role of ringleader with than this banger? (It has grown on me over the years, I won’t lie.)
May and June (Duck)
Who Are the Mystery Girls? by New York Dolls
Okay, like with a couple of the other songs I’ve used, the lyrics aren’t the most appropriate to describe the situation, but the title…yeah, it’s just the general sentiment for most of The Last Adventure!: “Who are the mystery girls?” Some of the characters, Webby especially, are just trying to figure out May and June.
And that’s it! My complete list of character songs for DuckTales! I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did making the list. As for my next musical foray into DuckTales, I will say this: it’s arguably a bit more complicated than just character songs. So stay tuned!
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