#get this to warner bros

[caffeinated-coffee-bean]

My friend told me I would be perfect for making a stop motion Scooby-Doo film and now I’m like itching to make it.

[audi-art]

Moving rn!!

[hoes-n-foes]

Aaron Warner Anderson besides being hot is also a glaring example of a homeschooled kid.

[skiplo-wave]

Begging somebody ANYBODY to save the movie on hard drive and just leak it in the internet and archiving takes care of itself. It’s not fair for people hard work to just get deleted without anybody see it. It’s not fair you scrapped a movie because you thought it wouldn’t make back is money WHILE rejecting others trying bid for the release.

How are you fumbling a company this bad? HOW ARE YOU NOT BEING CHARGED FOR THIS

[agentjazzy]

walking into a Target and seeing a previously cancelled but then fully leaked movie out on store shelves is something that can be so so funny

like, what's that, Warner Brothers? the movie you attempted to shelve even though it was completely finished got leaked and everyone got mad bc it was fun and good?? and then all your writers and actors go on strike?? so you decide to quickly release it less than 6 months later despite the fact that it was in your achives for a few years at this point???

[illiana-mystery]

And now I'm deceased...

[nicodrawings]

Idk if I ever said this out loud, but I’m from Maryland (well the DMV) and a chunk of my childhood was spent in the suburbs of Maryland. I remember seeing the cicadas episode of COTC for the first time and it felt like I was going back in time to when I was a kid.

Although my childhood was very different from a lot of kids in the show, I think it’s one of the few shows where I feel like I truly see myself in it. Especially as a black girl and I know that if I was still a kid I would still love it as much as I do now.

So yea…seeing this Warner Bros. situation really fuckin hurts to see.

Like idk how else to put it. It’s just heartbreaking. I hate seeing people lose their jobs, their shows, their fuckin work, for some dudes at the top to make a quick buck. It absolutely enrages me and it’s something I’ve ranted and cried about to my sister. And I’ve seen many people around my age and younger say that they might step away from the animation industry for something more stable. And sometimes I wonder myself if I’m going the right path, and if pursuing the animation industry is worth the risk. And y’know what…I do think it’s worth the risk. Art and more specifically animation is quite frankly the love of my life. It’s helped me get through life in so many ways and I just don’t know where the hell I’d be if I didn’t have it. There’s so much love put into these shows and shorts and movies. From writing to concepts and characters, to sound design and effects, like I love it all, and it’s my dream to be a part of it all, no matter how small the role is. My sister told me that moments like this (where corporations try to fuck over craftsmen and they care more about a product than people) never end well for those mfs, especially in art, because artist won’t take that shit sitting down. And I’d like to think she’s right. That we won’t take this shit sitting down, that whether your a causal viewer or someone who wants to make a career in animation, we’re gonna be like “man fuck this shit you gonna respect me” and actually square up with these companies that think they can just throw ppl away and fuck people over. Animation isn’t nothing, creators aren’t nothing. I know it’s a hard fight to go up against but I don’t think it’s impossible to fight, and it’s something I wanna help fight in. I think the animation industry and the workers involved are worth fighting for and I know I’m definitely not alone in this thought.

I don’t know of any of this makin any sense but honestly I just wanted to speak from the heart.

If you’re reading this and you worked on Craig of the Creek or were a part of the creative teams under Warner Bros. or Netflix or whichever big animation studio (miraculously lol but you never know whos reading i guess) and you were laid off, from the bottom of my fuckin heart, thank you and I’m sorry. Y’all put so much hard work and creativity and love and dedication into the shows you worked on and I have so much respect for y’all for doin what you do. Y’all aren’t nothing, y’all aren’t garbage to be tossed away and you shouldn’t be treated as such. And I know y’all have a big and bright future ahead.

Keep supporting animation

Keep watching and loving animation

Keep fighting for animation

[rickybaby]

Daniel during FP2 | British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit | Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images

[faelapis]

at least rebecca sugar is keeping busy i guess 😭

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Is anyone claiming that it is? Rings of Power is currently the number one show on Amazon. No one’s saying it was bigger than Fallout, which was the number one show in Amazon when it was released. Also need to add some context to those numbers. That 65 million was based on 16 days and 8 episodes as Fallout dropped its entire season in one go. Rings of Power's 40 million is based on 11 days and only 4 episodes as it releasing weekly. Fallout's 11 day total would've been something like 44 million, still ahead of Rings of Power, but not massively and again that's because it had more episode available to watch. Of course, the only source we have on this is Amazon itself. As with all streamers we need to take what they say with a pinch of salt. You can never really be sure what is and isn't a success with them. Even cancellation isn't a sure sign of failure because they will axe a hit show just to save money and avoid wage increases for cast and crew.

[fullyclothedlunch]

setting up a support group for when WB inevitably cancels scavengers reign

[soullessjack]

i haven’t sorted my s16 predictions yet but I think it would be rather comedic in nature if they were to canonize jack being non-binary and using they/them pronouns in the show (as per alcals headcanon) and suddenly people who don’t even watch the show or fell off way back in the early seasons when jack didn’t even exist start pouring in like “OH SO THIS IS THE WOKECHESTER BROTHERS SHOW NOW THIS IS WHY IT WAS CANCELLED THE WOKER BROTHERS STUDIO WENT WOKE I MISS WHEN THIS WAS A MANS SHOW” and then of course destiel takes them all out with a sniper

[un-pearable]

legitimately anyone who is a self described fan of children’s cartoons over the age of 12 needs to watch Infinity Train. it explicitly bridges the gap between the tone, tropes, and storytelling limitations of Y7 and the level of complexity than we want from it. every single person writing pages long screeds about character development and nuance in shows that are primarily marketed at a younger audience but have significant meaning to older age groups would get so fuckin much out of the themes and story of Infinity Train, which is explicitly a story about those more complex themes.

it gamifies character development as part of it’s core conceit. each season gets more mature as it deals with more complex issues of morality and ethics and it’s still a silly epsiodic show with fun gags. it grows up as the story progresses with each anthologic installment giving you more complex interpersonal relationships and issues. there’s on screen cop murder. cults. incredibly gay coded music duo from the 80s that are the most divorced twenty year olds you’ve ever seen. a story that grows with you.

and you can’t fuckin watch it anywhere bc the animation industry is a puppet at the whims of investors in love with the impossible horizon

Infinity Train is the result of a decade of shows like Adventure Time and Gravity Falls and Steven Universe, of animators and artists’s growing desire to tell stories that grow with kids beyond their designated demographic in the American cultural conscience. and you can’t watch it.

they were going to talk about alzheimers. the thesis of infinity train is that animation is a medium, not a genre. a vehicle for exploring complex topics in a way that live action can’t. it’s a therapy train that traumatizes it’s riders more often than not. they covered everything from divorce’s impact on children to trans-coded identity crisis to the realities of a Lost Boys experience. what it means to be human. they were going to talk about alzheimers

it’s literally a vehicle for character development . it’s the midpoint on the spectrum between children’s media and mature writing. it is everything you seek out of fan fiction being explicit in the text. and you cant watch it bc it being animated means it’s worthless

[katethevampire]

Wait the Minecraft movie teaser is real I thought that was fake. It looks AI generated or something, why is it animated like those Minecraft in real life videos.

[michaelitheocelot]

Seeing Jack black in the Minecraft movie trailer actually pissed me off so bad. They didn’t DO anything to him he just looks like he always does but with the ugliest shirt that somehow has two different necks. They didn’t even try to make him look like Steve. Whiteness aside, they couldn’t have trimmed his beard or anything??? Is any audience member supposed to suspend their disbelief that this is just a celebrity? It feels insulting, like “we don’t even have to try, those idiots will just see Jack black and we’ll make a stack of emeralds at the box office” fuck offfffff

[dooffirmations]

Cooooooooolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool I want to squeeze his stupid ugly head between my fingers until it bursts.

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