Please Back My Cartoon On Kickstarter: A Plea From A Man Who Has Run Out Of Steam

Please Back My Cartoon on Kickstarter: A Plea From a Man Who Has Run Out of Steam

Copied from my twitter account:

Please back my cartoon on Kickstarter. We’re halfway through the campaign and have less than 3% of our goal. I’ve been trying to run this campaign professionally and am just not good at it. So in my own voice, here is why you should support my project:

My name is Max Dweck. I call myself the World’s Greatest Writer. I may even believe it a little. If you know any of my stuff, it’s these vids I wrote for Marvel, “Marvel TL;DR”. If you’ve ever enjoyed it, we’ve already proven that I CAN entertain you.

My idea’s called “Big Cat Bandits”. It’s about a group of globe-traveling thieves who resist an evil dog empire by stealing from them. A lot of folks have compared it to Sly Cooper, which IS an inspiration. It is also very solidly its own thing.

My partner’s Noah Sterling, the voice and producer of Marvel TL;DR. I’ve been running this campaign, and I am not good at marketing. But WE are VERY good at making entertainment. Here’s our original pilot animatic from 2018 for proof. I think it holds up.

Don’t wanna watch all those videos? I don’t blame you. So here’s the TL;DW: We’re making a fun, imaginative, action-packed show with a dynamic and lovable cast of animal characters who are drawn and voiced by some extremely talented people. Here’s our main character, Prince.

Prince is the son of history’s greatest criminal, the King of Thieves. He’s trying to continue his father’s work of stealing from the evil empire for the people they’ve conquered to keep hope alive and inspire rebellion. He’s cool, except when he’s a teenage dork. The other bandits are:

Reggie: Buff lion. Full of himself. Confidence is 67% deserved.

Mel: Snow leopard disguise artist. Goes undercover as the guy in charge.

Emmy: Clouded leopard kid genius. Young with a lot to prove.

Roman: Russian tiger who blows himself up a lot. Wild card.

They steal from lots of bad hombres, but mostly the two top dogs of the Rover Empire:

Emperor Sparky IV: Stupid bratty little chihuahua with skewed priorities. Hey, he’s a royal, whaddya expect?

Eberhardt Van Hund: Genius German Shepherd inventor and tactician. The real danger.

These guys can go on lots of rad adventures, but only with funding. We need $100K to show you a heist involving ballet dancing and deadly traps.

If reality breaks and we get $250K, we can show you a longer story involving lasers, aeroplanes, and in lieu of racecars, a giraffe.

This is something I’ve been trying to make for years, and I need your money for that. But I’m not asking you to do this for ME. You don’t know me, you don’t owe me that. I’m asking you to do this for you. ‘Cuz if you like how ANY of this looks, you’re gonna love the full thing.

If you fund this, we’ll have a full pilot. And then we can maybe even sell that pilot and make this thing into a whole TV show. Which would mean a lot more of these cats on their outrageous adventures. And we got a lot of different ideas for all the crime they get up to.

And even if it’s just the pilot, if you give us your money and we make it, there’s crowdfunding rewards for you. Stuff like pins…

An in-universe book of character files I’m way too proud of…

The chance to get your OC in that book…

Or your dog in the pilot…

Wanna see this? Great! Please give us your money. We NEED the money. Without the money, there is no cool cartoon. And then we’re all at the mercy of Netflix for animated content and if you’ve seen the trade headlines you know “mercy” ain’t the right word.

Animation fans! Give us your money! Crime aficionados! Give us your money! Cat lovers! Give us your money! Furries! Please, PLEASE give us your money! I won’t lie, even before we launched the campaign we were really hoping you folks in particular would come in clutch for us.

Please, so we can make this very cool and fun thing you will like, give us some money, and then go and tell other people to give us some money. Pick your ten most disposable friends and annoy the hell out of them until they each fork over five dollars to our Kickstarter.

I am just a storyteller who could not do this marketing thing right, and now I’ve written the Twitter thread Tumblr post that may either save or sink this project. Look into my eyes, and then the eyes of the character from this cartoon on this blanket I got for Chanukah 2020, and PONY UP.

Again, if you don’t wanna scroll up, that Kickstarter link is right here. Get to it and give us your money. We’re all or nothing, so if we fail you don’t actually lose anything anyway, I’m not interested in playing you like that.

Reblog if you are a fic writer who welcomes moodboards, playlists, remixes, art and any other type of gift based on your stories.

I would sob ngl

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theultimatewaffle

3 years ago

A Skittering Crab Has A Small Gift For You! 🦀

A skittering crab has a small gift for you! 🦀

Chibird store | Positive pin club | Webtoon

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theultimatewaffle

3 years ago

Christmas Special!

Merry Child!

Tanjiro x child!reader

Tw: none

Genre: fluff,PLATONIC

(A/N:sorry if this is short,I just started writing for demon slayer so sorry if the characters act ooc,I made this in mobile so sorry if something looks out of place)

In a the demon slayer corps, Kagaya decided to host a celebration so all of his children could be toghether. It was your first time to celebrate chrismas ever since Tanjiro saved you.

You were dressed in a green kimono and had kanzashi of a wisteria. You then saw Tanjiro. “Mr. Tanjiro!” You exclaim waving your arm. “Ah, (y/n) I brought the dango” He said as he went towards you,he then asked “Are you enjoying the celebration?”. You reply with a nod,he had promised you to take you to town.You often remeber how you two met.

It felt cold all you could see was snow. Its peaceful,the thought of your family,they were killed by a demon,you were just coming home after going to a friends house. It was going to attack you but a boy with a blue and black chekered haori saved you.

You then felt a tap on your cheek and came out of daydreaming. “(Y/n),are you okay?” Tanjiro asked looking at you with worried eyes. You look at him and smile “Im alright,Mr.Tanjiro” you answer.You felt happy and safe with Tanjiro,you smile. This was the best christmas present…

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theultimatewaffle

3 years ago

"men don't need to be afraid walking around at night"

Unless they're black

"men make more than women in jobs"

Black men make less than white women on average

"men don't get followed around by people who mean them harm"

Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street

"no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body"

Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don't have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one's first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.

"no one judges a man's worth based on his clothes"/"a man isn't ever in danger no matter what he wears"

Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk 'fitting the profile' or 'matching the description' and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.

"no man fears rape"

The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how "tranny" and "lesbian" is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.

Just say you don't care as much about black people's suffering and go, jesus.

I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn't always so different.

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theultimatewaffle

2 years ago