Fuck yea terrible Lion King fandom

Fuck yea terrible Lion King fandom

Gonna have to agree on the friendSHIP thing in TLG. Like, I don't give two shits about the adults-- you go nuts. But shipping little kids in a show already meant for preschoolers just feels really iffy-- even if bare minimum the youngest of the Guard can equate to like... idk an eight year old or something (seems about right for Bunga. Kion's more like nine to eleven to me, and then you have a small climb from there with the remaining three starting with Fuli).

Yes. It’s okay if it’s like, an innocent friend crush but I don’t think that just because they’re friends they’re going to go lesbian when they grow up. Or full on crushy wushy gushy shit just because they’re the same team. It’s already canon that Zuri crushes on Kion even if it’s an alternate ending to a comic. And I accept it.

Not to throw out 'labels' but, professionally diagnosed Aspie here. I could do without representation being crammed down my throat, thanks. It's honestly a little unnerving and I don't remember ever crying as a teen for not having a stimming, arm flailing, social cue lacking character. And, to be honest, i don't know how you CAN pull a blatantly autistic character off without making it look awkward. That's just my two cents, though.

I know this isn’t fanart related, but it details my own history with this kind of bullshit. I’m sorry for submitting, but i think it’s best if everyone heard.
Back in 2006, my middle school was a part of a county- wide art competition for young...

I know this isn’t fanart related, but it details my own history with this kind of bullshit. I’m sorry for submitting, but i think it’s best if everyone heard.

Back in 2006, my middle school was a part of a county- wide art competition for young artists ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade. My art teacher and I were very close and (as shitty as my art was back in middle school) she thought it would be a good idea for me to enter. She gave me an application sheet and sent me on my way.

While looking for ideas to submit to the contest, i was skimming through a large dog breed book i had with me for the past year, and i found a photograph of a blue merle Australian shepherd in one of the breed entries. I liked the picture a lot.

So what did 9th grader me decide to do?

I traced the picture, colored it with colored pencils and submitted it to the art contest.

The following month (May) my teacher calls me up to the front office and i get a manilla envelope with some documents basically saying that I had won the county wide art contest and that my work would be displayed at a mall up in Los Angeles that June. I was so excited. I’d never won an art contest before in my life and my own self worth and ego clouded by judgement.

So the art show comes along and I can immediately see my piece from the top of the escalator I was coming down from (up on the food court). People gave me compliments, said nice things about the drawing, the entire gravy train.

My parents framed the work after the show ended…

It’s still in my possession in my room. still in that show frame.

I want to rip it out and burn it.

tl:dr- Younger me traces a photograph someone else took and wins an art contest while putting absolutely no thought or effort into the contest at all and stupid bystanders eat it up.

So what’s the moral of this story, kids? DON’T FUCKING TRACE SOMEONE ELSE’S WORK.

Even if someone traces artwork, there’ll always be ignorant people applauding it and supporting it. And it depends on the person whether or not they will be disgusted with the truth.