My gf and I have been rewatching Billy and Mandy and leave it pretty much on loop whenever we work, and just have to say, I can’t even begin to tell you how much this show has impacted my childhood and inspired me as an artist. I looked forward to it every time it aired as a kid. It made me feel less isolated for liking the weird, creepy, horror stuff. You are one of the best things my generation of cartoons had and we were very lucky to get to experience that level of passion and creativity going into the toons we watched and I just wanted to say thank you for that. On another note, I’ve been curious to know, Do you know how the whole Bob Dylan parody came about in the secret snake club episode? we crack up every time it comes on at how obscure it was to put that into a kids show and wonder what kid, besides maybe ourselves, would have possibly caught the reference. I also wondered if anyone opposed the idea during production of the episode. Regardless, it was super funny! I was also wanted to know, when billy says he’ll go “klaatu barada nikto” on the aliens, if it was referencing to Army of Darkness or just The Day the Earth Stood Still?
Thanks! I'd like to think that we're referencing Army of Darkness referencing The Day the Earth Stood Still.
This was another C.H. Greenblatt board, and while it was a great pitch, he didn't sing the song when he pitched the board so I was a bit surprised when he asked for it to sound like a Dylan song. These days I think he would've sung it. We've all gotten a little bit bolder.
FUN FACT: Until very recently, you could still log onto www.shnissugah.com and see the webite that the Secret Snake Club created. This was a sort of miracle in that the episode was created early enough in the internet craze that CN agreed to buy the domain so we could use it in the episode. In modern times, a network would never let you give an actual web address.
After years of supporting the Shnissugah webite, CN eventually had the address redirect to CartoonNetwork.com, and then finally that link vaporized. Today? Well...
https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?domainToCheck=shnissugah.com
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We continue to heap tributes upon the snake 🐍 ⚖️
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Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (04/08/2024)
Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms. Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.
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Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard
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I’m just saying maybe Uk’otoa deserves some nice stained glass and a nice temple and maybe we should free him.
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Lithuanian and broadly Baltic symbols for the sacred žaltys snake, compared to the "cool S" or "stussy" that was somehow ubiquitously drawn by bored middle schoolers. We are just drawn to honor the snake :3~
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The effect of music upon the sick has been scarcely if at all noticed. In fact, its expensiveness, as it is now, makes any general application of it quite out of the question. I will only remark here, that wind instruments, including the human voice, and stringed instruments, capable of continuous sound, have generally a beneficent effect--while the piano-forte, with such instruments as have no continuity of sound, has just the reverse. The finest piano-forte playing will damage the sick, while an air, like “Home, sweet home,” or “Assisa a pi`e d’un salice,” on the most ordinary grinding organ, will sensibly soothe them--and this quite independent of association.
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Get Cucumbered
today ideas were flowing but the art was just not arting
(digitally that is)
so heres a silly quick doodle
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