This was supposed to just be a rough sketch, but then I started getting really invested in it.
I hadn't initially intended to include so many picture book characters, but the nostalgia was overwhelming. Does anyone remember the animated short films produced by Weston Woods? My local library used to have a bunch of them on the Scholastic VHS tapes from the late 90s. (I know some shorts were released on the Children's Circle VHS tapes back in the 80s (🎶 Come on along! Come on along! Join the caravan!), and some were packaged in Sammy's Story Shop in 2008.)
Characters:
Max, from Where the Wild Things Are, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Peter, from The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
Brother Bear and Sister Bear, from The Berenstain Bears series, written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Pooh and Piglet, from the Winnie-the-Pooh books, by A. A. Milne, illustrated by E. H. Shepard
Owen, from Owen, written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes.
Mouse, from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
Louis, from The Trumpet of the Swan, by E. B. White
Mr. Toad, from The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, based on the illustrations by E. H. Shepard
Mr. Tumnus, from The Chronicles of Narnia series, by C. S. Lewis
Pippi and Mr. Nilsson, from the Pippi Longstocking books, by Astrid Lindgren
Willy Wonka, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake
Matilda, from Matilda, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake (with an homage to the Mara Wilson movie)
Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, from Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie
Merlin and Archimedes, from The Sword in the Stone, by T. H. White, based on the illustrations by Dennis Nolan
Pinocchio, from Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, based on the illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti
Alice, White Rabbit, and Cheshire Cat, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel
Rupert Bear, from the Rupert stories, created by Mary Tourtel and continued by Alfred Bestall, John Harrold, Stuart Trotter, and others.
Arthur Read, from the Arthur series, written and illustrated by Marc Brown
Tin Woodman and Scarecrow, from the Land of Oz series, by L. Frank Baum, based on the illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill
The Cat in the Hat, from The Cat in the Hat, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss
a frog on a flying lily pad, from Tuesday, written and illustrated by David Wiesner
Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
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For all those “Berenstein” Bears conspiracy theorists, I did reports on two of those books in the 80s when I was in second grade. I present them here.
I was copying those titles, not remembering how they were spelled. It’s always been Berenstain.
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i pity those that weren’t there exact right age and mindset to watch kids television in the early 2010s. We got the strawberry shortcake reboot, my little pony (fim), Care Bears, Winnie the Pooh got a series, the weird ass phenomenon that was Lazy Town, Sabrina the teenage witch AND sabrina the cartoon, Phineas and Ferb, TOTALLY SPIES, the 1998 power puff girls was still playing even though its run was over, I got dragon tales despite not being alive when they stopped it, same with the berenstein beats series (I own.. so many of those books), i guess we got Mickey Mouse clubhouse, curious George, PBS had a ton of good shows that are obscure now, godiegogo which was infinitely better than Dora…and this is only when i was a little kid they popped off when i was older too but i won’t get into that.. grew up on so many reboots from when my mom was younger but they were ACTUALLY GOOD
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The Mandela Effect is no Match for Science!
We all know that memory problems and trans-temporal negligence can cause all sorts of hallucinations to become real and highly resistant to updating.
We've all heard it before: "Is it Berenstain or Bearenstain?", "Kazam with Shaq or Shazam with Sinbad?", "Didn't blood used to taste like lemon?" and so forth.
Fortunately, thanks to advancements in temporal lensing (and digging through Humbert's mom's attic), we can cut through to what you, personally had when you were a kid.
The Good News: We know the Berenstain/Bearinstain answer.
The bad news: Ain't nobody gonna be happy.
Our condolences once again go out to those affected.
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Me watching Scott Pilgrim: The anime: Wow, Michael Cera really has an anime voice just naturally. He should really get into voice acting.
The internet: He does. His early career had a decent amount of voice work, and he still does occasionally.
Me: Oh cool, I wonder who hes played-
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Round 1 Match 16: They Should Have Been At The Club Tournament
Propaganda below the cut.
Propaganda for Dovewing:
Dovewing, since she was a young teenager, has been pressured by two adults - Lionblaze, a strong fighter who’s her mentor, and Jayfeather, who’s a healer - to play a part of a giant prophecy that’s connects them together, making her use her strong afterlife given powers of sight and hearing in order to know certain things.
And when she became a adult, been pressured by her clan to marry Bumblestripe, that she’s not even into who’s isn’t that great with her as well, who she indeed, did marry for a while before breaking up with him. She also has been pressured and/or manipulated by an adult, Tigerheart - who as a young adult met Dovewing as a young teen - continue to romantically pursue and meet up with him the border of their territories. And her relationship with her sister, Ivypool, became quite strained as well, due to Ivypool not treating Dovewing very well at times, due to her being jealous of the amount of attention that the clan gives Dovewing (not knowing how negative it is for Dovewing to go through that)
So much weight and $h!t has been put upon Dovewing’s shoulders by other within her life, so to me, she deserves to be whimsy and have fun at the club.
Propaganda for Mama Bear:
The OG!!!! she's only 27 what the hell!!!!!!
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idk why but my tiny brain has to share this book i had as a kid with you. please enjoy how almost correct they have the stegosaurus, but also how wonderfully wrong he is. i remember vividly the bit about how tiny it's brain is and how it has so many brain-lumps to control it's body.
I HAD ALL OF THOSE BOOKS WHEN I WAS SUPER LITTLE
I FORGOT THE STEGOSAURUS HAD THE BAD SECOND BRAIN SHIT
turns out the answer for all dinos is probably just "denser neurons than mammals, you anthropocentrists" but like `
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