#W.i.t.c.h. Arthur

[tiagobarros1699]

WITCH Reboot - Vol. 02 (Drive)

Link to volume 02 of the reboot already translated into English. I'm really surprised at how few people have been talking about the new volume here. I don't know if people got tired or didn't realize that they already had been released.

But well, here is the link for anyone who wants to read it and enjoy reading.

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have you done your daily click

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W.i.t.c.h. 2023 reboot v2

Just some thoughts I had on this I want to get out real quick after reading it

So I didn't know till last night that this reboot was out

So I read the new reboot volume 2

Before I get started I want to make it clear I have nothing against the people who worked on and made this reboot I can tell they put a lot of passion into it

But

I read it and I have a few things to say

First will she doesn't seem that much different than how she was in the original comic I kind of like that she's somewhat the same , there are some things I wish that they had kept the same like how the girls even though they had certain elements were into different activities and I'm going to get into that more when I get to Irma but when it comes to will it just doesn't really feel like she has much to do outside of worrying about the other girls and making her Mom worry and now it seems they have her falling for this new character who's heart is the heart of kandracar

She not with Matt and will be with this Arthur dude 🫤

This feels like one of my au fix where I'm shipping a character from another fictional media with an OC I've made like this is what this is giving with this Arthur character I know I can't talk cuz like I said I'm making an au where I'm shipping a character from a mango with an OC but this just feels like someone saw a hot K-pop idol and thought yeah we'll be good with them I don't know if this will actually be a thing but it feel like it's kind of hinted at and that will probably see more when we get volume three if he's in it

In the heartbeat he's

this feels like some deeper lore related BS and I really pray that doesn't mean we're getting more books from this series

I know we have one more that's coming out possibly next year I heard a rumor maybe one more after that but we do not need any more of these books if you like these that's fine if someone you know like these that's fine but I'm begging this fandom please don't buy these books again I want to make it clear I don't have anything against anyone who worked on these books but this reboot is just so hard to get through and I know people are probably going well don't

read it but I've been waiting for something related to this show and comic to come back for forever as has everyone else and I feel like this reboot just isn't the thing we needed I would have preferred if they made a new coloring book or something at this point that would be interested me more and I don't even lke coloring honestly wish they had just made like some special edition comics that sent her around holidays or something like they used to where we got to see the girls and their families and friends again doing holiday stuff that would have been more interesting like I said I get people worked on this and put passion into it but I just don't feel like this is something anyone really wanted especially after the reactions I remember seeing last year I have not really even seen anyone talk about this new reboot volume two I literally didn't know that this had been out for a month or more so yesterday cuz I saw a few people on Reddit talking about they didn't know it was out

Why this Arthur do kind of reminds me of Cedric and season 1 where he was getting close to Elyon and it seems he's getting close to Will and it's going to lead to some bigger reveal or something but I don't know

and like what the first one is just I can't get past a lot of the things that are so different and I get that this is made for a newer generation I get the feeling that I'm feeling with a lot of the teen Titans comic fans felt when teen Titans 2003 cartoon came out and then we got teen Titans Go and everybody hated it

I feel like with the fandom for w.i.t.c.h it's about 50/50 maybe or it's just a lot of mixed feelings one thing I will not get over though is how they drastically trained tarrane personality saying what Cornelius of all people

And the whitewashing of darker skin characters from the original comic I get this as a reboot but we did not need to change everybody so many things about the characters it could have still had better similarities even the she r reboot which has a lot of things people do and don't like felt like it had closer similarities with the original She ra show then I'm feeling with this reboot

I'm getting that usual feeling I get when I see reboots of certain things where it's like someone wants to make something original but there are people who have IPS that aren't in use and they just throw them OIP and tell them to work on this show and have them just add the wrong touches to it from the original story they wanted to pitch and that's really what this feels like this was like this could have been another magical girl series like an original magical girl series but instead someone at Disney instead of giving someone a chance to make something original that stood out as an original magical show kind of like owl House or amphibia

They gave us a reboot that feels more like an original idea that's just using and changing characters we knew to fit the story they want to make again I know I keep saying this but I really don't have anything against these people maybe they really did want to work on w.i.t.c.h.

I don't know this is just what it gives to me when it comes to that when I see reboots especially when it's linked to Disney

Sorry for going off on like a side attention about all this I'm going to try to talk more about the other

They're trying to have it where they're trying to relate to kids or whoever who's reading this with Haley and she feels out a place since she's wants to be a part of her original culture but loves being in Heatherfield but I truly miss how we got to see you quirky fun and bubbly girl who liked sewing designing and painting and drawing

When it comes to Irma I don't like anything they've done with her she's not as funny and quirky and sassy as she used to be they have her on the swim team it seems like for a minute since her power is water

but I really did like that the girls in the original comic and a show had different interests unrelated to their powers will was the one doing swimming and wanted to go to the Olympics, hey lin, like aliens had different unique styles she did fashion or drawing painting designing in so many creative things, tarane wasn't a dancing studying and had confidence in herself which I do not see in this version they completely took her personality away she only wears black and gray in this comic I don't even remember of her brother was mentioned that all in this series but Cornelia has two sisters for no reason okay 🙄

And speaking of Cornelia her running to write reminds me of how in volume 50 of the original comic they had will become a writer and write a story about their magical adventures is the same energy I swear

But them having her not being sure of herself or knowing what she wants to do, Cornelia was always such a confident character sure she came off as a bit mean but you grew to love her over time reading the original comic

her parents being divorced I guess they're trying to relate to kids who have divorced parents or parents who aren't together but honestly don't think we actually needed this in the story at all like kids who have some kids even myself whose parents aren't together I never mind it seeing families and media that were together it never made me feel sad or any other people I knew they actually like seeing whole families together that's why a lot of us really likes growing up watching certain shows where the

family was all together and stuff because it gave us hope for the future when we had families going yeah I can make a family that's together again I get there trying to relate to kids who are going through this and probably have siblings on top of it and going back and forth between two parents I had to go through that myself where it was mandated that I had to go to my dad on the weekends and all

summer and it was real hard for me back then I get there trying to relate to kids with that but this kind of just feels like that's the only thing we're getting with Cornelia is that she's unsure of herself and she just has issues because her parents are divorced and she stuck with siblings it doesn't feel like they're really giving her a personality or anything to focus on

At least with tarrane and Irma in this reboot you can see the things they're struggling with kind of I guess tarrane afraid of losing control of the fire magic or whatever it seems and Irma's interested in a boy is better than nothing and at least even from haylin you see that she misses her grandma and it feels stuck between two cultures again I get that they're trying to relate to people but I do wish they had kept more things from the original comic when it came to these characters personalities or at least try to give them better things linked to it I get maybe Disney told them to steer clear of referencing too many things related to the original so they wouldn't have issues or whatever I don't know maybe the original creators are still trying to fight to get the original comic back from Disney for all I know and maybe that's why they did this reboot to show that they could do their own version but it feels like also if I think about it it feels like Disney saw that winx was getting like a Jillian reboots left and right and then they remembered how back in the day kids would compete or compare the shows and talk about what show was their favorite and which one they stand with cuz I remember those days in school where me and my friends will argue back and forth over the shows and maybe that's what they thought would happen with this newer reboot that it would be a comparison between them and maybe they would win this time I don't know that's just me guessing I don't think that's the case I don't think Disney that petty or maybe they are 🤣

There are just so many changes oh and let's not forget the biggest change

Kandracar is gone in this it seems that the girls have these emotional portal worlds or whatever these are that they go to now to communicate with their powers I don't know if things are real or fake or if we'll see him again I don't know it just feels like I know we're only getting three volumes as of right now but this feels like there's a lot more lower that needs to be built and we would need maybe 4 more books for that

And that's kind of also my fear is that I really don't want any more comics after the third one that we were told we were getting like for years I've hoped for a reboot that will continue where the comic left off like I said with maybe some holiday specials or something or showing the girls a few years older in high school cuz they were in their final few years of high school I think they were getting to I don't really remember that's what it felt like to me I swear we saw the school year beginning in several times in the original comic even after the writing started to get really poor towards the final stretches of the comic where it felt like it was lessons of the week instead of having full arcs we were following with different villains and different characters and different worlds we saw them start school and in school again I believe or maybe they were going back and forth on breaks cuz I'm like where I live when I was in school we didn't get like fall break and stuff I remember my friend told me he wanted she transferred to a different School outside the city they have fall break and I had never heard of that before and they had other types of breaks as well where I lived you went to school hail rain fire or snow if you got a break it was Thanksgiving Christmas and spring break and that was it

So maybe in the original comic I'm confusing all the different breaks they had with them going back and forth with school

Sorry I know at this point it just sounds like I'm yapping but I'm just sitting here thinking back on the comic and wishing we could have gotten a bit more from that or maybe them just giving us a season 3 for the show like if they were promoting these comics to maybe give us a season 3 for the show then yeah I would be all in support of buying these even if I'm not really much of a fan of how these reboot comics go I guess if you want to collect these to just have them with the rest of the series or whatever the other that's cool but a lot of the choices in these are just so different it just feels too different and again I know I said earlier in my post this kind of feels like what happened with teen Titans versus the teen Titans comics that originally came out and then we ended up getting teen Titans Go and everybody hated that

And like also said the fandom when it comes to this comic seems about 50/50 some like it some just start like myself aren't really sure and just don't like it and I'm just really wish we could have got something related to the original

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Please note that a character currently needs at least 3 submissions to make it into the Insufferable Love Interest poll

That said:

Has 3 Submissions or more:

Beck Oliver - Victorious

Bella Swan - Twilight

Brambleclaw - Warrior Cats

Claudio - Much Ado About Nothing

Cullen Rutherford - Dragon Age Inquisition

Four - Divergent

Jace Herondale - Shadowhunters

James Hurley - Twin Peaks

Madarame - Slow Damage

Mako - Avatar

Panini - Chowder

Riley Finn - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Riri - Romantic Killer

Solas - Dragon Age

Taichi Mashima - Chihayafuru

Tsutomu Yamaguchi - Gokinjo Monogatari

Has 2 Submissions:

Amy Rose - Sonic the Hedgehog

Curtis - Voltron Legendary Defender

Daoming Si - Meteor Garden

Dimitri Alexandre Blaidydd - Fire Emblem Three Houses

Edmund Bertram - Mansfield Park

Jake McKenzie - Choices: Endless Summer

Kyosuke Kamijou - Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Logan Echolls - Veronica Mars

Luka Couffaine - Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir

Martin - W.I.T.C.H.

Peter Griffin - Family Guy

Pucca - Pucca

Rise Kujikawa - Persona 4

Sheldon Cooper - Big Bang Theory

Takumi Ichinose - Nana

Has 1 Submission:

Adrien Agreste - Miraculous Ladybug

Ann Shiraishi - Project SEKAI

Arthur Dimmesdale - The Scarlet Letter

Aubrin "Brin" Crownsilver - Brimstone Angels

Augustus Waters - The Fault In Our Stars

Azura - Fire Emblem Fates

Belle French - Once Upon A Time

Blane McDonagh - Pretty in Pink

Cersei Lannister - Game Of Thrones

Claire Dunlap - The Bear

Dahl Peredur - Brimstone Angels

Daisy Buchanan - The Great Gatsby

David - Uglies

Deathbringer - Wings of Fire

Edgar Linton - Wuthering Heights

Felicity Smoak - Arrow

Felix Fathom - Miraculous Ladybug

Finleap - Warrior Cats

Fitz - Keepers of the Lost City

Fiyero - Wicked Musical

Iris West - Flash

Jade - Victorious

Keiji Oda - Oishii Kankei

Kennedy - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Kirishima Touka - Tokyo Ghoul

Max Jägerman - Nerdy Prudes Must Die

Mink - Dramatical Murder

Nightheart - Warrior Cats

Ochaco Uraraka - My Hero Academia

Peeta Mellark - The Hunger Games

Raggedstar - Warrior Cats

Raoul de Chaligny - The Phantom of the Opera

Relena Peacecraft - Gundam Wing

Ren Tsuruga - Skip Beat

Robert Chase - House MD

Robin Hood - Once Upon A Time

Romeo Montague - Romeo and Juliet

Shuichi Tsukamoto - Hibike Euphonium

Taeju Yeo - Low Tide in Twilight

Tamlin - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Taylor Kelly - 9-1-1

The Canker Sisters - Ed, Edd, and Eddy

Tom Paris - Star Trek: Voyager

Available for Resubmission:

Catra - She-ra and the Princesses of Power

Edward Cullen - Twilight

Haida - Aggretsuko

Jacob Black - Twilight

Mamoru Chiba - Sailor Moon

Riven - Winx Club

Sumia - Fire Emblem Awakening

Not available for Resubmission:

Christian Grey - Shades of Grey

Crowfeather - Warrior Cats

Ezra Fitz - Pretty Little Liars Show

Hinata Hyuga - Naruto

Kylo Ren - Star Wars

Meliodas - The Seven Deadly Sins

Sasuke - Naruto

Sky of Eraklyon - Winx Club

Ted Mosby - How I Met Your Mother

[badninken]

Are there any non anime artists who influence your style? Or is it mostly developed from the shows/manga themselves? Just curious. Your art is really beautiful ❤️

Countless! I was only influenced by manga for a brief time in my life before I went in other directions. I just recently found my way back.

I have too many influences to list, like, I get inspired and influenced daily by art I see everywhere and that's been going on all my life. There are a few big famous ones I can list easily though.

Jamie Hewlett, famous for Tank Girl and Gorillaz.

Ashley Wood has also done Tank Girl. PopBot and the Metal Gear Solid graphic novel for PSP were where I found him. Love his style so so much.

João Ruas / Feral Kid has a style I can't get enough of. I've often had his art as phone background and prints on my wall.

Alessandro Barbucci was a very early influence and W.i.t.c.h taught me how to draw. SkyDoll too later on. I think his style left traces on my own that I just can't get rid of now but that's fine.

Just gonna namedrop now or this will take all day.

I've been massively inspired by the great cluster of fairy tale artists consisting of John Bauer, Arthur Rackham, Alan Lee and Brian Froud and more.

Phil Hale and John Foster are both fantastic painters. Claire Wendling's drawings are amazing and among the classics I love Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

There are so many artists I've found throughout the years, on elfwood, deviantart, twitter and instagram, that have inspired and influenced me. I spend so much time looking at and collecting inspiration in various not very organized folders like a treasure hoard. Then I eat the inspiration material and make it a part of myself so I can make more art, fueled by interesting and beautiful things I like. I often see things I want to emulate and I experiment a lot with stealing little mannerisms into my own works with my own twist. I think we all do that. I can still remember where I got certain things from, or catch something in my own art that I realize I must have picked up from a specific artist. Like, I pick up and learn so much now, by manically inhaling the works I'm currently obsessed with. Kishimoto, Samura and Oda are all teaching me things when I draw their characters and try to use various style quirks from them, and the things I learn will inevitably become a part of my own art style repertoire from now on.

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It took me long to choose characters but I've ended with Elyon, Orube and Yazoo (from FFVII). First, Elyon.

I like her shaggy hairstyle in cartoon a lot! It is a reason for Kane/Phobos to has his hair so wild! But in a comic book her silhouette is much closer to Weira and they're said to be very look alike, so I've came with a compromise between comic and cartoon versions. Her iconic sweater is a noticeable detail too, plus it's purple and purple always gives a magical and mystique vibe.

I'm not gonna lie: as a kid, I've never been fond of her. As far as I know, most fans say the same as I do: she's too sugary sweet, naive, gullible and never had a chance to kick Phobos's ass. But as she's one of the characters in my fancomic In Breach, I followed my commom approach "You can't have a character in your script and feel a subjective grudge towards them". So I started asking myself why Elyon is acting the way she does. And I've discovered а very interesting fact.

Why she WOULDN'T act the way she does?

She is an ordinary teen girl, not the smartest, not the brightest (when it's not about amazing drawing skills that she share with Hay Lin. I mean, come on!). She isn't the most socially successful, as she mentioned in a cartoon "I'm a teenager without friends" (in rus dub). The ordinary "normal" type. Her only stable relationship is with Cornelia and Alchemy. She's so unnoticed that only Alchemy notified the police that Elyon is missing. And Alchemy is not a teacher, just a classmate. A family has disappeared and literally no one (including neighbors) told to police that lights were off for a long time.

Yes, we see Elyon in a background from time to time and she even says a phrase or two. She's not an outcast type, she hangs with the others BUT every time we see her involved it also involves Cornelia who was most likely the one who invited her. And she's always slightly away from the rest making me think she only does this to mix with her surroundings. We never see her hanging with her own company or even a single friend instead of the main heroes or Alchemy (who's also a Cornelia friend). Or Bryan... but it was a sad and short story. We never see her having a long dialogue unless we know who she really is. It's an arguable point tho as the story is about W.I.T.C.H girls and script writers probably were trying to keep a secret of her true nature.

But when Cedric appears! Unlike her furtive parents that always withhold something and Cornelia who's all about herself (with all the respect to Cornelia), Cedric just... listens to her. He shows compassion, non-judgmental approach and sound sincere. With him Elyon feel being special. Not to mention that Cornelia has betrayed her for Will (we know the reason behind it but Ely doesn't).

And then! Bang! Suddenly Elyon becomes THE special. The only one! She's like Harry Potter who got a letter from Hogwarts, like issekai character, the fucking King Arthur, THE CHOSEN ONE! Common people of Meridian are praying on her, servants are ready to perform any caprice, Miranda is being nice and ready to play with her, her older brother is such a sweet and cheerful person who would do just anything for her. She's like Coraline who found the other mother. And this case is actually so good that it should be in a video "How and why people fall for abusive relationship or being lured into a sect".

The only thing she can be accused is being too gullible but she acts as a person who grasps any straw. Who would you choose? Parents who lied to you for your whole life? Fake friends who replaced you with a new girl.

We can go deeper here. Remember the first scene with Elyon in a comic book? She got a low grade and instead of supporting her, her "friends" invent a humiliating punishment to hit on a stranger. Although they know she's quite shy! What a nice company we have here, don't we?

Don't get me wrong, teenagers may show low empathy due to their age. Cornelia isn't a bad person too. She's the most loyal friend one might only dream of! Both in a comic book and cartoon she stays at Elyon's side and refuse the idea of her friend being evil. Although Elyon did a lot in a comic book to be judged. Cornelia risks her own life to get to her. BUT she's still quite an narcissist type. Such people attract very specific friends: those who always stay in their shadow, never a threat or a competitor. You can see others confronting her in either passive-aggressive form or trying to show her a place like Irma does. But Elyon was with Cornelia since they were small kids. I have a theory that Elyon actually wins from it too: she seem very "normal" by hanging with a popular friend who would invite her to every party. And literally no one can say no to Cornelia, right? And Elyon seem present in the society. And at the same time she actually isn't.

So here's the whole picture: Elyon isn't a scapegoat outcast like Martin, she isn't labeled as "odd" like Hay Lin. BUT she's not a successful either. She's a blank one, that average conformal person that does their best to suit "normal" standarts. She's short on social contacts, she's breadcrumbed by Cornelia and has no friends outside her pack. As we remember, Alchemy is also Cornelia's friend. Both Browns are hideous, insanely quiet people who made a very, very isolated, incapsulated family to the point that no one even notices their absence. They do their best to lay low and they teach Elyon to act the same way (we know why, but it's quite unhealthy thing you know). I bet Eleanor is quite unhappy with Ely's marks, but I'm not sure if she's strict about it. She's been shown as a good parent in both comic and cartoon. Although the way Elyon agreed to throw them in prison in a comic so easily is something that keep my brain buzzing.

Sooo my idea is that her reliance problems has started long before the cartoon events. Her social contacts never worked properly to begin with and that's why Cedric got her so easily. Not to mention his speech skills. Elyon was a quiet, shady kid with a certain tendency for escapism. Drawing on her level is quite a specific trait that requires a lot of time spend alone and some wild imagination. I think while she never shows this in a cartoon and probably suppressed it, she was really envy of Cornelia, Irma, Hay Lin and even Taranee having huge and nice families, lots of friends and being very bright people. While she's... on the sidelines. There's a thick wall of white lies between her and her parents. She's... no one. Only Cedric shown her what being heard and important is.

Although all the above is cool, it makes her a bit bland to my personal taste. So in my AU called In Breach I given her a bit salt and spice by returning her some of her comic characteristics. I see her as a stalker type, very jealous and vengeful, but too afraid of showing aggression and staring a feud. She would write some really nasty fanfiction about her foes and spread rumors, make ugly caricature on Grumper sisters. Might even play a nasty prank on someone if she can get away unnoticed. But nothing violent, just humiliating.

So, imagine this lost envious girl stumbling across another narcissist. Different from Cornelia, quite a violent type. The one who seem to be afraid of no one. Like, literally not a single person can tell him what to do - even the police (on a first glance. In reality, he's afraid of jail as fuck). The one who questions the moral, the normality, the good and evil. AND telling her this is what she can and should be. WELL WELL WELL WHO COULD THAT BE)

Also, a song that must be a soundtrack for her kicking Phobos's butt in a cartoon.

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Spoilers for W.I.T.C.H Reboot Vol.2

I just read the second volume of the W.I.T.C.H Reboot and WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO WILL AND MATT??? WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN "He wasn't the right one" (especially since it's clear they're setting up will and gary stu- I mean Arthur) also this is just a larger issue for the reboot but Jesus Christ it's so fucking rushed, like it's the book equilvalent of newer streaming series only having 8-10 episodes per season. I do not believe any of these girls are friends because they haven't show them just having fun (if they decide to make a series for the love of god gives us filler, I want to see these new interpretations of the girls just chilling for fucks sake...except taranee and hay lin give us their nerdy & artsy personalities back please, ditch the stupid stereotypical shit) (well Hay Lin isn't too bad since she does have a pretty good storyline in volume 2 separated from the asian nerd stereotype, I just wish she was still arty...Taranee tho...yeah just because they're barely subverting the tough black girl stereotype doesn't fix it, LET HER BE A NERD GOD DAMMIT).

TLDR: Fuck them for splitting up matt & will, the new ideas and interpretations are actually interesting as fuck they're just executed extremely poorly and extremely rushed (and also reinforce negative stereotypes in some instances [Taranee])

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Round 2 Results

Can we get an F in the chat for all the fallen soldiers this round 😔

Round 3 will be posted on Wednesday

Group A

The Addams Family vs. Goosebumps

Wizards of Waverly Place vs. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

The Backyardigans vs. The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Dexter's Laboratory vs. Parks and Recreation

Danny Phantom vs. My Life as a Teenage Robot

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine vs. Little Einsteins

Teletubbies vs. VeggieTales

The Proud Family vs. Steven Universe

Group B

Doctor Who vs. Bob's Burgers

Community vs. Adventure Time

Seinfeld vs. Batman

Monty Python's Flying Circus vs. Friends

Sesame Street vs. Total Drama

Winx Club vs. Looney Tunes

M*A*S*H vs. Pinky and the Brain

One Day at a Time vs. Pokémon

Group C

Gravity Falls vs. Horrible Histories

Neon Genesis Evangelion vs. The Simpsons

The Golden Girls vs. El Chavo del Ocho

Victorious vs. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Good Omens vs. House, M.D.

LazyTown vs. Bob the Builder

Infinity Train vs. Arthur

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh vs. The X-Files

Group D

The Fairly OddParents vs. Monster High

Spider-Man vs. Hunter x Hunter

The Office vs. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

BoJack Horseman vs. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Taskmaster vs. Yellowjackets

Ouran High School Host Club vs. Yuri on Ice

DuckTales vs. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

How It's Made vs. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Group E

Kim Possible vs. The Legend of Vox Machina

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power vs. Animaniacs

Zoboomafoo vs. The Muppet Show

WandaVision vs. Reading Rainbow

Hannah Montana vs. Dragon Ball Z

Inspector Gadget vs. Big Time Rush

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers vs. Futurama

Succession vs. iCarly

Group F

The Magic School Bus vs. Digimon Adventure

Star Trek: The Next Generation vs. Xena: Warrior Princess

Dora the Explorer vs. Carmen Sandiego

Star Trek: Enterprise vs. Sailor Moon

Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. Death Note

El Chapulín Colorado vs. The Flintstones

Game of Thrones vs. The Nanny

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends vs. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Group G

Bill Nye the Science Guy vs. George of the Jungle

H2O: Just Add Water vs. Star Trek: The Original Series

Drake & Josh vs. Cowboy Bebop

Lilo & Stitch: The Series vs. The Twilight Zone

Rugrats vs. The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius

Psych vs. Twin Peaks

Dragon Tales vs. Stranger Things

W.I.T.C.H. vs. What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Group H

SpongeBob SquarePants vs. Fraggle Rock

Firefly vs. Inuyasha

Bear in the Big Blue House vs. American Dragon: Jake Long

Black Sails vs. The Powerpuff Girls

That's So Raven vs. Ben 10

Cyberchase vs. Malcolm in the Middle

Teen Titans vs. The Owl House

Assassination Classroom vs. Phineas and Ferb

[beauty-and-passion]

Have you seen W.I.TC.H. the tv show (it’s available in full on youtube)? I think you’d really enjoy it!! The premise is a little basic, elemental magical girls, but the character development and the plot (especially in season 2, start there if you’d like) are so clever and driven, and the writing is superb! There are the familiar devices that might appeal to children, like with parallel story telling to reach a common “moral of the story” (think Arthur the pbs show) but considering the foreshadowing and little details and setup, the writing is something an adult would really enjoy! This is perhaps my third time watching it, but each episode is still so good, I notice new elements in the story every time

- :D

(btw this is BlueLakeRockySo from ao3)

Hi dear, nice seeing you here ;) and oh gosh, you brought back so many memories!

When I was a kid, every afternoon I sat in front of the TV for a couple hours to watch kids' cartoons. And since there was no Internet, I had to choose which channel to watch and, therefore, which shows to watch.

And when W.I.T.C.H. was airing, at the same time Winx was airing on another channel. Since I was lucky enough to watch Winx from episode 1, I didn't want to drop it and move to another series, that was already started and going on.

However, I've always been curious about W.I.T.C.H. and your opinion makes it sound very, very intriguing. Maybe I'll finally give it a try. I know it's basically 20 years more or less but hey, better late than never ;)

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Welcome to the Old Woman Tourney!

In this tourney, 62 old women will face off for the title of Ultimate Old Woman! Our competitors are...

Avagon (Pirates of Dark Water)

Irene (The Mist)

Mama Coco (Coco)

Arcee (IDW's Transformers)

Eileen the Crow (Bloodborne)

Opal (Pokemon)

General Leia Organa (Star Wars)

May Parker (Spider-Man)

Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Legend of Korra)

Blanche Devereaux (Golden Girls)

Irene Frederic (Warehouse 13)

Link's Grandma (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)

Fortuneteller Baba (Dragon Ball)

Lucrecia Mux (Psychonauts)

The Fates (Hercules)

Fairy Godmother (Cinderella)

Grumples (Yo-Kai Watch)

Lady Butterfly (Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice)

Granny Rags (Dishonored)

Gwendolyn Clawthorne (The Owl House)

Outcast (Arknights)

The Urn Witch (Death's Door)

Matoya (Final Fantasy XIV)

The Faceless Old Woman who Secretly Lives in your Home (Welcome to Night Vale)

Ambessa Medara (Arcane)

Sadie Croaker (Amphibia)

Maria Calavera (RWBY)

Tala (Moana)

Esme Weatherwax (Discworld)

Baba Yaga

Xate Yawa (Baru Cormorant)

Crooked Rook (Pale)

Erin O'Niell (Dungeons and Daddies)

Granny (Looney Tunes)

Mama Odie (Princess and the Frog)

Kammy (Paper Mario)

Wrinkly Kong (Donkey Kong Country)

Suga Mama (The Proud Family)

Yan Lin (W.I.T.C.H)

Grandma Flexington (Borderlands)

Karin Chakwas (Mass Effect)

Rita Repulsa (Power Rangers)

Ubaba (Spirited Away)

Alice Green (Big City Greens)

Lucretia (The Adventure Zone)

Ginger (OK KO: Let's Be Heroes!)

Granny Goodness (DC Comics)

Alma Madrigal (Encanto)

Gertie Shortman (Hey Arnold!)

Faragonda (Winx Club)

Grandmother Fa (Mulan)

Jasmine Lee (The Life and Times of Juniper Lee)

Madame Foster (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)

Nanefua Pizza (Steven Universe)

Nana (Nanalan)

Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)

Wendy Oldbag (Ace Attorney)

Thora Read (Arthur)

Grandma Spankenheimer (Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer)

Erina Pendleton (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Helen/The Administrator (Team Fortress 2)

Mom (Futurama)

Next week, the battles begin! Each round will last only a day, and the 31 winners will move on. The losers will go to a redemption round where one of them will be able to return.

Thank you for your patience. It's been a wild couple of days, and things are only gonna get crazier. But regardless, I can't wait to...have you vote on the elderly...

...eh. It's not the weirdest poll on Tumblr probably.

(Masterpost will also be coming soon, to help keep track of certain rounds. You'll also be able to track them through tags)

[tiagobarros1699]

SPOILERS WITCH REBOOT - VOL. 02

With volume 2 of the reboot we had the brief introduction of a new concept for the Guardians. Which are the five Elemental Dimensions that are linked to your powers. Personally, it's one of the things I I liked this second volume more and I hope it becomes something recurring.

A curious fact is that these dimensions REMIND ME A LOT of the Realities Marbles used in the FATE game and anime franchise (especially "Unlimited Blades Works") I don't know if it's just because I like the franchise and thought it fits or if there really was some inspiration in the concept.

The Five Dimensions:

Earth Dimension:

Water Dimension:

*Sad Brothers starts playing*

I thought this scene was beautiful, but as a fan of "Saint Seiya" I can't help but see Swan's hyoga remembering his mother.

Air Dimension:

*PEGASUS FANTASY starts playing*

This one is the most beautiful shot, but it is also a little different from what you imagine due to the power of air (SHE IS IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE)

But on the other hand, this makes a lot of sense: I think that Hay Lin's power is not just "air" but the very concept of "sky", "firmament" This would make a lot of sense if you think about the five layers of the atmosphere (Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Ionosphere and Exosphere) it's something complex to explain, but it makes a lot of sense in my head.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that we can see 3 constellations here: Scorpio, Equuleus or Cavalo Minor (I think) and Canis Minor!? (Making clear reference to Wuyi)

Fire Dimension:

"take off your sandals Taranee, for this ground is sacred"

My anime fan side is screaming here, this is the most similar to "Unlimited Blades Works" from FATE/Stay night.

Dimension of Emotion:

Kandrakar!?!?!?!??!

Small warning for those who haven't seen volume 2: Will's power is no longer "energy" but "emotion" (Now how you use emotions to fight I don't know)

[thenightling]

I never had any children but here are some of my favorite baby names I've come across and considered for if I ever had a child.

Traditionally masculine:

Roderick - Can be shortened to Roddy, Rick, or Ricky. Roderick means Glory or Ruler. Roddy McDowall's full first name. Also the name of one of the main characters from Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the House of Usher. Roderick is also the name of the man who summoned and trapped Morpheus in the first issue / chapter / episode of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. And a more obscure reference, Roderick is the name of Dr. Craven's father in the 1963 film, The Raven, starring Vincent Price. I would use this as a "King" name. ;-)

Jareth - A combination of Jerold and Gareth. David Bowie's character's name in Labyrinth.

Pipkin - An unrecorded Middle English name, possibly derived from Phillip. It is also the surname of one of the main characters in Ray Bradbury's The Halloween tree. Ray Bradbury used it as a cross between Pip, the hero from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, and Pumpkin. Kin also means family. So you are saying "Pip is family." which is very sweet if you know the plot of The Halloween Tree. Kin can also mean "To be like" or "connected to." So the name (in reference to Great Expectations) also means "Like Pip."

Percy or Percival - One of King Arthur's knights, Percival, and the famous poet, Percy Shelley, husband of Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein.)

Kit - Very old nickname for Christopher. Once was the nickname of the writer, Christopher Marlowe. Now heavily associated with the actor Kit Harington from Game of Thrones.

Jaskier - Polish. Actually means "Buttercup" but actually is considered a boy's name. Pronounced as Yas-key-er. The original Polish name of the bard from The Witcher novels. HIs name is sometimes translated to Dandelion in some of the English adaptations.

Vladislaus - I'd probably never really use this name except in absolutely very specific circumstances. This name comes from an early renaissance war hero and Prince of Eastern Europe. Vladislaus the Third of Wallachia.

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Gender-free names that I like.

Loki - Means Mischief Maker. From the Norse God of Mischief, Fire, and invention. (and sometimes also ice). Marvel depicts him now as God of Stories which fits his mythological roots as God of Invention. In the Poetic and Prose Eddas Loki invented fishing nets. Loki is also the patron of orphans and outcasts, a sympathizer of the outsider. In mythology Loki can be any gender and in Marvel Loki has been portrayed by a man and a woman.

Rowan - The Rowan plant is supposed to be good luck and a pentacle made of Rowman and tied at the points with red string or ribbon protects against black magick.

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Traditionally feminine:

Gretchen - Old Germain Nickname for Marguerite and similar names. Marguerite was my mother's name, Rita being her nickname.

Gretchen was also the love interest in Goethe's Faust and ultimately saved his soul in Faust Part 2.

Jessamy - can be shortened to Jess or Jesse or even sometimes May. It's similar to Jessica but derives out of Jasmine.

Evie - Eve was (according to the Abrahamic mythos) the first woman. Evie is also short for "evening." Evie was the name of the hero in the 2022 film The invitation. It can also be short for Evelyn but I prefer Evie to Evelyn.

Shelley - Traditional girl's name and the married name of author Mary Shelley, writer of Frankenstein. Also the surname of the poet Percy Shelley.

Wilhelmina - The old version of Wima. Can have the nickname Mina or Will. And I think Will is a cute nickname for a girl ever since I heard the song "The Will to love" from W.I.T.C.H. ________________________________ Twin names: Masculine Twins: Jareth and Geralt. Geralt is the first hero of The Witcher novels. _________________________ Feminine Twin names: Gretchen and Jessamy _______________________ Masculine / feminine twin names: Percy and Shelley for the pun in creating the name Percy Shelley (the nineteenth century poet and husband of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein). ___________________________ Gender-free: Loki and Rowan

[book--brackets]

BCW Preliminary Round Results

Poll 1: Camp Half-Blood from Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Eliminations: Alternate Chicago from Divergent

Poll 2: The Secret Garden from The Secret Garden

Eliminations: none

Poll 3: The World of The Princess Bride

Eliminations: none

Poll 4: Wonderland from Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland

Eliminations: none

Poll 5: Kyrria from Ella Enchanted (and other works)

Eliminations: none

Poll 6: The Moving Castle from Howl's Moving Castle

Eliminations: none

Poll 7: The Hundred Acre Wood from Winnie-the-Pooh

Eliminations: Digitopolis from The Phantom Tollbooth

Poll 8: The Old Kingdom from Abhorsen

Eliminations: none

Poll 9: Fablehaven from Fablehaven

Eliminations: none

Poll 10: Tortall from Song of the Lioness (and other works)

Eliminations: none

Poll 11: Discworld from Tiffany Aching

Eliminations: none

Poll 12: Wayside School from Wayside School

Eliminations: none

Poll 13: The World of Dragon Rider

Eliminations: Linderwall from The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

Poll 14: The Lost Cities from Keeper of the Lost Cities

Eliminations: none

Poll 15: 35 Portland Row from Lockwood & Co.

Eliminations: none

Poll 16: The Barbaric Archipelago from How to Train Your Dragon

Eliminations: none

Poll 17: The Tree House from Magic Tree House

Eliminations: none

Poll 18: The House from The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix

Eliminations: none

Poll 19: The Great Ga'Hoole Tree from Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Eliminations: none

Poll 20: Stain'd by the Sea from All the Wrong Questions

Eliminations: none

Poll 21: Namorn from The Circle Reforged

Eliminations: none

Poll 22: Deltora from Deltora Quest

Eliminations: none

Poll 23: Carpet from The Carpet People

Eliminations: none

Poll 24: Biddle from The Princess Tales

Eliminations: none

Poll 25: Mars from Red Planet

Eliminations: none

Poll 26: The World of Igraine the Brave

Eliminations: none

Poll 27: Everworld from Everworld

Eliminations: none

Poll 28: Nim's Island from Nim

Eliminations: The Tree from Toby Alone

Poll 29: The World of The Power of Three

Eliminations: none

Poll 30: Meridian from W.I.T.C.H.

Eliminations: none

Poll 31: Camelot from Arthur, High King of Britain

Eliminations: none

Poll 32: Eldritch City from The Order of Odd-Fish

Eliminations: none

[gellavonhamster]

monthly media recap: february 2024

(better late than never)

read:

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - very sweet and moving, I cried a little in the end, also very different from what I usually read, so that was a nice change of scenery. Once again thanks to the friend who gave it to me, wouldn't have picked it up otherwise.

The Master of Ballantrae + short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson - good ol' family tragedy. I was a bit underwhelmed by the ending, but overall enjoyed the story. Didn't enjoy the short stories in this collection as much, but I liked how the three of them (The Pavilion on the Links, Thrawn Janet, and Markheim) were so different - a good way to represent the author's range.

King Artus - a 13th century Hebrew version of Arthuriana (Arthur's conception + beginning of the Lancelot episode involving Astolat). Very interesting for the way it swaps the Christian context for the Jewish one (e.g., the Grail becomes a charity bowl for distributing food).

The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo by "Uriah Derick D'Arcy" - considered, among other things, the first Black vampire story and the first vampire story by an American author. I kind of struggled through it due to style but the context and references (long live footnotes) made it worth the trouble. Can't say I enjoyed it much as a story, but it broadened my horizon.

+ currently reading The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Volume 2 of W.I.T.C.H. comics (what? I never learned how it ended as a kid)

watched:

Poor Things (2023) - weird (compliment), beautiful, disgusting, absurd, and funny. Honestly don't know if I liked it, but it was though-provoking, that's for sure.

Šķelšanās (The Split, 2023) - a four-episode Latvian documentary, mostly on the divide between ethnically Latvian and Russian people in Latvia (and among ethnically Russian people in Latvia) in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but also about other things. I. Don't know if it makes sense to describe it broadly here, I barely have any followers familiar with the context. But I'd say that, despite a lot of moments that made me physically cringe (god, that last episode about social media campaigns against adopting the Istanbul Convention and spreading misinformation about sex education at schools made my skin crawl. Btw, the Convention was adopted, these assholes can choke), it made me weirdly hopeful. Dialogue is possible, united society is possible. This has been my opinion too, and the older I get, the more I realize that people on all sides who try to tell you it's not are just after their own profit and success.

[valerie2590]

Coming New Year 2025 Part 4

Sons of an Illustrious Father - Don't Cha

Lucas Estrada, Pawl, Neimy - Radio Love

BELLA X - Boom Boom You Lose

Lizzo - Special

Anitta - Mil Veces

Tate McRae - greedy

Valerie Broussard - Trouble

Beth Crowley - Sacred Oath

Sons of an Illustrious Father - Extraordinary Rendition

ONICKS, Marqui Jordan - No Problems

ALLY AHERN - STIRCRAZY SLAPHAPPY

Cami Petyn - Psycho Bitch 

Luna Vexa - like you love me

AJR - BANG!

Sub Urban - PARAMOUR (feat. AURORA)

Sound Of Legend - Some Kind Of Kiss

KEY - Good & Great

Eminem - Houdini

Loren Gray - Queen

RudyWade - Trapped in a Dream

Devon Cole - W.I.T.C.H.

Brad Arthur - Darkest Angel

Letdown. - Love Is A Weapon

Empire Of The Sun - Cherry Blossom

NBSPLV - The Lost Soul Down

КDDK - Heartbreaker

KiNG MALA - cult leader

Lenii - White Lie

Kelsy Karter – Devil On My Shoulder

Rosse - Coincidence

[wearelondonhq]

(Ny) welcome to london, RORY WILLIAMS! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like ARTHUR DAVILL? well, no matter, we hear that you are 35 and working as a DOCTOR. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from DOCTOR WHO and have a tendency to be PATIENT as well as RESENTFUL. 

(Ny) welcome to london, IRMA LAIR! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like DANIELLE ROSE RUSELL ? well, no matter, we hear that you are 23 and working as a RADIO HOST. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from W.I.T.C.H. and have a tendency to be OPTIMISTIC as well as TEMPERAMENTAL. 

— WELCOME TO LONDON, rory williams & irma lair ! you look very familiar, do we know you from somewhere? anyways, take your time settling in because whether you want to or not, it looks like you’re going to be living here for awhile! // welcome ny, please be sure to follow our checklist here. welcome to the group!