My tumblr is pretty dead but since I was tagged, I feel obligated to reply to this!
God, seeing Muppets Mayhem take off like this (which I have been obsessing over on Twitter recently) has bore a newfound appreciation for my favourite Merry Band of Muppets who are otherwise usually stuck in the background with the odd line or two. Zoot and Lips especially.
But now, with the show expanding their characters and reaching to a wider audience, there is a lot more appreciation of this ship since over a decade ago and I could not be happier! Hell, it shows with the new comments and likes I get from Getaway which I co-wrote with @animatedc9000 back in 2016!
So yeah, thank you so much guys! I can’t wait to see more PJS!
man, seeing all the love and appreciation private jam session is getting and how much it’s thriving in the fandom is really awesome and heartwarming. back in the day (2009), it was mostly just @animatedc9000 and me and our fics, not much else in terms of content. sadly, the site we were on wasn’t exactly the most progressive place at the time (and that’s putting it lightly). there was a lot of ‘you can’t make zoot and lips kiss! that’s inappropriate! edit that scene or the whole fic is being deleted.’ and ‘they’re just friends. you guys are reading too much into it.’
they wouldn’t even let me write lips kiss zoot on the cheek at the end of ‘roads’, it had to be a hug. ya know, just two buddies being pals.
ehhh…
eventually, we found a friend and fellow mayhead in @iamallybee who wrote the classic that is ‘getaway’ with ani and that’s when private jam session really began to take off. i honestly never imagined how much amazing art/writing/content for them would exist now, it’s incredible and shows how much things have evolved more than a decade later. what else can i say? rock on, folks. ;-;
!!!!!! So @feltycartoons, a wonderful artist and wonderful friend, drew this based on my Zoot/Lips fic of the same name - and this is even more beautiful than what I was picturing inside my head as I wrote it. 🥹🥹 I'm FLOORED by this!!
It still amazes me that people still read the stuff I wrote nearly a decade ago AND like it!
Seriously though, thank you random anon whoever you are! It means a lot to take time out of your day to tell us that! 😭💖
i have sm respect for u bc u were one of the lips/zoot ogs
getaway makes me so happy thank u 🙏
Aww, Anon, you're too sweet! Thank you very much!
I will say that I'm not the only Lips/Zoot OG on this site. If I may direct your attention over to @swing-shift-cinderella, who is my good friend and co-creator of the ship (all the way back in 2009)! We honestly cannot believe that the ship has been going strong for this long!
Also to my good friend and co-writer on "Getaway" @iamallybee! The fic was actually their idea, and they brought me on to bounce ideas off of and to get the ball rolling, which led to the final fic you've been reading!
From the bottom of my heart, thank you and stay groovy!