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thefantasticfrank21 · 12 days

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#trolls #trolls band together #trolls 3 #velvet and veneer #trolls veneer #trolls velvet #dreamworks #dreamworks trolls #dreamworks memes #cartoons #trolls movie #trolls fandom #andrew rannells #brianna mazzola

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thefantasticfrank21 · 15 days

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This machine kills AI

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thefantasticfrank21 · 21 days

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Imagine these three singing Bohemian Rhapsody together

#trolls #while i'm on it imagine EVERY character singing to this #just like that Muppets video #dreamworks trolls #queen barb #trolls barb #trolls poppy #queen poppy #trolls veneer #veneer #dreamworks #trolls movie #trolls world tour #trolls band together #velvet and veneer #trolls viva

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thefantasticfrank21 · 23 days

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Walt, do your job.

(I'm Harley on this)

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thefantasticfrank21 · 1 month

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These are the same scenes and you can't convince otherwise

(Only one of them has a good ending tho)

#puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #trolls #trolls band together #dreamworks #dreamworks trolls #trolls veneer #puss in boots perrito #puss in boots goldilocks #trolls floyd #trolls branch #trolls john dory #tiny diamond

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thefantasticfrank21 · 1 month

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Writing this because I'm scanning through fics right now like a sad cat in a wet cardboard box. Like, I'm so desperate for a story that shows the complexity of Velvet and Veneer's relationship, but also, I've been in such a depressive funk the past few weeks that I can't write it. I feel like I can dedicate another post to them here, though.

Velvet wasn't an angel, nor was Veneer heartless, but there is something to note how they both had a mix of qualities. This may be a controversial statement, but Veneer seems to have this issue where he leans on his more domineering sister due to low self-esteem, which results in him enabling Velvet. He loved his sister and was partially convinced to go through with harmful actions, but to what extent does loving someone also explain hyping up that person while they hurt people? Also, I don't particularly enjoy the difference in how he phrased the reasoning for his actions to Floyd versus the public. Veneer mentions the attachment to his sister when talking to Floyd, but his own personal gains in the situation are emphasized. When Veneer apologizes to the public for being a fraud, he mentions his want for fame but also retracts this statement by saying that only Velvet wanted fame, and he followed her due to not standing up for himself. It was an admission of guilt, but the shift to his sister being malicious instead of them both wasn't fully taking accountability either. It's a point of emphasis for me due to the softening of Veneer's personality by the fandom. He's a person with a reserved personality and more likely to feel remorse, but also is materialistic and a bit two-faced.

Since I don't want this to be a rant about Veneer because I very much love both characters, I want to get to Velvet. She's a person with a history of emotional regulation issues: explosive, self-serving, and self-centered. Velvet is a person who is desperate for attention and approval by any means necessary. She puts on a show (with talent she stole), gives it her all, gets very close to seriously injuring herself multiple times in the process, and offers to entertain them more when the audience cheers her on. Similar to her brother, I like to think that she's a person with horrendously low self-esteem but tends to deal with it by putting people down so that she can feel better. However, I want to give the benefit of the doubt that she may not be aware of the extent to which she uses people. When Veneer directly states his issues with their relationship in his confession of their crimes, Velvet responds by saying that she thought that he was on the same page with her ideas. Velvet implies multiple times in the story that she believes that they both wanted fame. Did that make Velvet's lack of concern over Veneer voicing his worries okay? No! I want to bring some attention to Velvet not seeming to fully understand how people feel when they are hurt or when they may have different needs. (Writer's note: Mind you, I have a disability and other mental illnesses that impair my ability to understand other people, so I'm more willing to humanize traits like that.) I also want to mention that Veneer did reap the benefits of exploiting the trolls and said that he enjoyed his luxurious lifestyle more than his remorse about hurting people. So it also may be a mix of Velvet struggling to understand people on an emotional level and a genuine misunderstanding.

Despite the two being a bundle of issues, it's very sweet how well they mesh and how they like to be in-sync. Veneer catches Velvet before she falls, Velvet pats Veneer on the head when he's nervous, Veneer instinctively goes behind Velvet to feel safe, they go shopping together and wear matching clothes, and they naturally lean into and are generally physically close to each other. They both aren't great as people, but care for each other.

On a semi-related topic and not wanting to make another post dedicated to it, I wish the movie expanded on the drug metaphor? It's a children's film, but I do feel that talking to young children at home who may be experiencing family members struggling with addiction has a place in media. It makes you do things you wouldn't normally do, it can make you hurt people in a variety of ways, it's an unfortunate lifestyle choice in a number of young people who were chewed up and spat out by the entertainment industry, it frequently starts with the idea that it's casual use/emotionally or psychologically beneficial and quickly snowballs horribly, and it alienates you from your loved ones. This could have been a unique opportunity to not only be about how drug use is harmful but also what it's like to be unequipped to help a person who doesn't want help. We tell children that drugs are bad but also don't prepare them for when the person doesn't want to stop despite all evidence showing that it's harmful. It can be very confusing because it's not emphasized how hard of a process it is to get sober or even want to get sober.

But yeah, those were some of my thoughts! Thanks for reading, if you got this far. 😅

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thefantasticfrank21 · 1 month

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I knew they looked familiar

#velvet and veneer #trolls 3 #trolls band together #the rocky horror picture show #trolls #cartoons #dreamworks #dreamworks trolls #trolls velvet #trolls veneer #brozone

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thefantasticfrank21 · 1 month

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Velvet and Veneer if they were from the Shrek/Puss In Boots universe. I was so into that that i might be thinking about writing their story. I really picture them as alchemists who took over the city of Rosas (from Wish) who was destroyed by its own people to fullfill their dreams of being Gods. They'd kidnap Perrito to get his sense of goodness, and eventually, Veneer will bond with Perrito.

They would also have to steal every powerful artefact to gain their powers from them.

(Human Kid Ritz is latino bc i said so)

#drawing this was a living hell #velvet and veneer #trolls velvet #velvet and veneer au #trolls veneer #kid ritz #ritzneer #veneer fanart #velvet fanart #shrek #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #trolls band together

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thefantasticfrank21 · 2 months

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I know they are silly but what if Velvet became a boss of the Bergen underground after prison because she's so charming, smart and controlling. She finds new ways to use trolls and has Bergen bodyguards. Veneer leaves to warn the trolls and good Bergens. Vel and Ven are on different sides but still miss each other and try to get the other to join them. He tries to convince her to come with him by appealing to the good he thinks is in her and she is not beyond using force to get him back.

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thefantasticfrank21 · 2 months

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I was so shocked when I learned that most artists do not believe in talent, saying that it is not real. Because it very much is, and that's evident in all the unique ways people have expressed themselves over time. However, it should be reminded what exactly talent is and is not.

Most people (artist or not) get talent confused with skill, ambition, and passion.

Talent - the essence of you and how your view of the world is expressed with other people. Your heart, your soul. THIS is what makes art moving whether you like how it looks or not. This cannot be taught or obtained as we all have talent of some kind.

Skill - How good you are at something or the lack thereof. Art is SKILL, not a talent. It is merely a tool of expression that our species uses to communicate with each other, any person can make art. Skill comes from time and practice. You do not have to be talented to be skilled and vice versa. Art that lacks skill can still be captivating.

Ambition - The inert drive to complete something, to try and fail again. Ambition is generally active and not a passive action.

Passion - The love, admiration, respect, and care you have for something. You can be passionate about something but not be skilled or ambitious, at it. For example, I am passionate about animation but I do not exactly want to be an animator. *These definitions are based on real world experience, both mine and others.

You can be all 4 of these but it's no requirement to make art and express yourself.

You do NOT have to be talented at art to be a skilled artist. You may want to focus your soul energy into something else and that's ok! There are talented artists who are not skilled, and skilled artists who do not focus their talent in this area.

However you came to make art is valid and right for you, there are no rules on how to create! as long as you made it with your own hands, or got permission to use the artwork of others.

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thefantasticfrank21 · 2 months

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