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And to thine own self be true

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happy 413 i started playing pocket frogs again and thought wow... this is just like homestuck

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#i like that he was filming on a beautiful late-afternoon in august

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Toshiro! My wonderful son who is in a tough spot at the moment. The first one is based somewhat off Toshiro Mifune’s profile

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LOL what do u think of monk! I just started watching it too because my mom really loves it ,im at s3 now.. curious what u think about it :D also yes theres a case in s3 where the main suspect is a chimpanzee lmao

i'm enjoying it so far! the first episode didn't hook me but it's good fun. plus it's nice diving back into actual tv after only watching prestige shows for a while. (oh my god, 13 whole episodes in a season? mr. monk, you're spoiling me!)

monk reminds me of psych in how it's about a quirky detective operating in california. except i guess monk's quirk is that he has ocd, and it is odd seeing that played as a quirk sometimes (with quirky music to boot). but the show is never mean to monk about having ocd, so i think their hearts were in the right place. and it's not like i have ocd (unless the six months in high school when i was washing my hands raw every day counts) so i don't know why i'm focusing on this so much.

long story short: i am enjoying it, and i'll continue to listen to it while i draw/study for finals!

#questioning #monk the tv show with the killer ape i guess?

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the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

#only reblogging cause i just started watching monk last night cause its on netflix now #theres a killer chimp??

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peter's costume

#spider-man #peter parker #fanart #comic

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true life adventures of deacon blues!

#myart #comic #self portrait

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"And there never was, or ever will be, such a strange kiss again—the farewell kiss between Superman and a mermaid!"

#superman #clark kent #lori lemaris #fanart #comic

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thank you ozomatli i like your raps

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the pitiful life of mr tims

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dont worry seasoning city, mob psycho and his friends always put you back together in the end

what if i was very literally doomed by the narrative itself and you used your bloody hands to bend the foundation of reality and change my fate. and we were both girls.

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From the long-ago age of 2008- the nockFORCE pitchbook written by Jim Gisriel and Ian Jones-Quartey

In my last post, I explained that nockFORCE was a cartoon and music project by Jim Gisriel and yours truly, but what has never been known publicly is that we were also pitching nockFORCE to networks as a TV series. (WHAT!!!!!! ITS TRUE!!!!)

I can finally reveal— That was the secret meaning behind this cartoon:

I was working at [the now defunct] World Leaders Entertainment in NYC as an animation director for Venture Bros at the time, and we signed a deal with them to develop nockFORCE as a TV series. If it was picked up, WLE would have produced new TV-quality full episodes. We shaped the existing material into a show format and pounded the pavement to several networks to see what they thought! The pitchbook was the end result of the development process and we were pretty proud of it. I still am actually. We even included a peel-off vinyl sticker on the inside cover!

How did it go? Not that well, I think… apparently adult swim enjoyed our video content, but then said something like “what the hell is this even supposed to be? we have no idea who these guys are. stay out of georgia!!!”. Comedy Central, FOX and others pretty much went the same way. 

Looking back, we were maybe a little naive about getting it made, and we worked so hard on it that we never considered that we would need additional talent, practice & exposure to become the kind of people who networks would want to buy a show from. BUUUUT we learned a whole lot from it, and I remember that the day we got our final rejection and terminated the contract, we just kept on making cartoons and music like it didn’t matter. 

And maybe it didn’t! I know if we were doing this today, we probably would have just had our audience support it using tools like patreon or kickstarter. And we never would have had to suck up to any networks! 

Thanks to everyone involved from back then- our producer Ben Stein; our moral support from Natasha Kaser; our champions at WLE Miguel Martinez-Joffre, Nick DeMayo, Rachel Simon & many more; and also Rebecca Sugar who conceptualized the pitchbook layout & contributed animation and designs to several shorts.

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#watching kingsman with tears in my eyes #the last great hurrah of swag

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