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@bismuthstation

the grid’s biggest State Of Mind stan. Cori, she/her, 25, main account is @zayphora.
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@wetchenstachoo is my girlfriend, a trans woman and sole caretaker of her disabled mother.

She was laid off due to increasing health issues stemming from long covid, and is struggling to make rent for her and her mother while she seeks steady work or disability.

Lately, she's found limited income from online work, but now her ancient laptop has broken as well. Please help her avoid eviction and replace her laptop. We're looking to raise $650 for this goal.

If you are able, donations at paypal or kofi are appreciated! Otherwise, I always have commissions open, through my artblog @awhekate or through vGen!

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Tron: The Animated Series (1986-1989)

What do you mean you haven't seen Tron: The Animated Series? It was my favorite cartoon when I was a kid!

  • So this all started as an exercise in how to explain why Sam inexplicably had merch for a 2010 movie in his 1989 house. In-universe there would have probably been toys using the 1982 aesthetic since that was what the video game used (and Sam DOES have an 82 Tron figure in his house!) but why the Grid stuff?
  • Enter THE CARTOON.
  • It was the 1980s everybody who was everybody made cartoons to sell toys. Encom made home gaming consoles by this point, and they would have had peripherals like Nintendo did. They had licensed characters like Nintendo did. You see where I am going.
  • Encom wants to sell Encom Gaming Power Gauntlets. Kevin wants to introduce kids to the ideas about the Digital Frontier since he's a futurist and knows kids will be mentally flexible enough to digest the new zeitgeist if it's fun and animated!
  • Production of the cartoon ran from Kevin's official retirement as CEO until his disappearance. Three official seasons with a fourth in production. Season three's airing was cut short due to the furor surrounding Kevin's going missing, but the "lost" final episodes of S3 were restored when the DVDs were eventually released for an anniversary collection.
  • The cartoon was also successful in syndication through the 1990s and early 2000s since it successfully anticipated the Educational/Informative movement-- Tron: The Animated Series actually does teach kids some of the basics of computer science around the silly adventure stuff. Think Captain Planet meets Captain N the Game Master for the overall tone of the series. It's not realistic, but you get the general concepts and issues.
  • The cartoon's popularity among millennials keeps Tron alive in pop culture to the present day. The IP remains a perennial revenue stream for Encom, and every so often they'll throw the fanbase something to keep the money going. (This is an ordeal to the program himself, since he has to deal with hackers sent by groups named after him on the reg.)
  • What's it about?
#oh this is funnnn I love this#meta#legacy#2.0#tron#jet
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