The curious case of Rose Dawson, my OC

 This is my OC, Rosalind "Rose" Ursel DeWitt Bukater-Dawson:

(click the image to go to the original picrew!)

Oh wait, you say, that name sounds familiar.
Well yeah, that's basically the name of this character:

So, you continue, why do you consider this already existing character your own??

Let me explain.

First of all, I do acknowledge my own Rose is not entirely original. In fact, she takes heavy inspiration from her source material. I basically just took the original character, put her in our current world (so it's effectively a modern AU - or "Alternate Universe"), and gave her a whole new backstory and personality that better fits the new world she's in.

I don't know how or even why I got personally invested in the original character in the first place, maybe it could just be chalked up to finding a "comfort character". 
But whatever the case, little Maddy saw the 1997 film "Titanic" for the first time in theaters back in 2012 (I remember that because 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, they re-released the original movie in like, 3D or something idk).
At that moment, I was hooked.

perhaps because it also kick-started my crush on leonardo dicaprio who's hotter than the sun itself

I had a friend at the time (who I'm still friends with to this day) and I introduced them to this film and its

✨ beautiful one true pairing that are totally star-crossed couple goals~ ✨

And because we were really into the cutesy romantic couples in Disney and My Little Pony, what better thing to do than live-action role-play as Rose and her partner, Jack, themselves?
What started as imagined scenarios where Jack didn't die like he did in the movie (oop, spoiler) turned into fully-fledged character and even story revamps, many of which contradicted the original time period when the film took place (the Edwardian Era? I mean, the exact year - 1912 - is certain). Both Jack and Rose were turned into a prince and princess, were given their own magical powers, and dressed/behaved in ways they couldn't theoretically get away with given the time period (unless they were, like, time travelers from the future, or something).

As my friend and I grew up, we gradually realized that our versions of Jack and Rose were utterly overpowered and made no sense at all. We even "deep-dived" into the original film occasionally, and while we continue to hold it in pretty high regard, there were some parts of the plot that we kind of-sort of didn't really like (I won't go too in depth into what the exact gripes were in this post out of personal preference).
Today, our AU Jack and Rose are still together, happily married and the parents of two children. We find it a lot easier now to tweak their personalities and storylines now that they live in our current age.
Again, leave it to the two being comfort characters as the reason why we're somehow so attached to these characters. I don't know if there's a strong Titanic "fandom" out there, but this film, to this this day, is probably the only piece of media we have been so emotionally invested in. By this point, we have revamped Jack and Rose so much that they could potentially just stand on their own as actual original characters different from their source material.

If anything in this post still makes little sense to you, then, I don't know, just chalk this up as a "AU where Titanic characters live in the modern age with a little bit of magic involved", I guess. Honestly, this post is just here as some kind of explanation that I'll be able to link to people out there who are wondering whether my own characters are related to those of the same name from the original movie.
If, even after all of this, you still have an issue with this AU, then just block me by this point, I don't know. Or I'll block you. Cringe culture is toxic. I'm not planning to monetize or do anything serious with this AU, anyway - it's all just for fun and it isn't hurting anyone. 💕

My Animal Jam masterpieces!

 As a follow-up to my previous post describing my experience having a membership on Animal Jam (a game I used to play religiously when I was younger) for the first time, I have decided to make a kind of "master list" of all the masterpieces I created on the game!

If you're not familiar with what masterpieces are on AJ, they're basically just little decorations you can create through their built-in art program (equivalent to MS Paint).
Confession, I never really used said art program before my membership trial, mostly because you could only really make masterpieces if you were a member (nonmembers were only able to make them if they had "Masterpiece Tokens", which are kind of hard to come by if I'm not mistaken). 

By the way, I should mention that you're going to notice these masterpieces seem to have been created by two different users: "xxTheLivelyOnexx" and "princesskittykins"; these are both me! The former is my main account and the latter is my side one. I redeemed the membership trial a week or so later on my side account just for the sole purpose of creating more art to display in my main account's den. ^^;

I only made one actual masterpiece back in the day (probably around 2017-2019????? I don't know, as far as I know, there's no actual way to see when you created a masterpiece on AJ unless you actually wrote it down in the art program lol) and it's this one:

It's my OC, Lily! (she's not a princess anymore, and plus, her whole look is outdated)

Here she is again, this time made during my membership trial:

Yup, a clear improvement! ✨

The rest of the masterpieces below were created during my membership trial.

This one was created as a sort of "greeting" for people who visited my den.

A creative (?) subvert on the "not like the other girls" trope featuring Stacy Willow and her sisters.

Stacy's sister Becky (on the right) and Lily's rival/frenemy Mariangela (on the left) share these common traits: they both like to wear their hair in ponytails and revel in the limelight of popularity!

My Beauty and the Beast OC/main Disneysona, Arietta Cadenza. The violin kind of sucks, but whatever...

Both of these feature my OC, Elisabeth "Lissie"!

It's cut off in the bottom left on the first image, but the outfit she's wearing is inspired by artwork by VIVINOS, a Korean animator I like.

The second image features Lissie as she appears normally (left) and as a Dungeons and Dragons character (right).

Lissie's mother, Rose! (also the inspiration for some of the animals that I created)

Mother and daughter doing their looks for their day in a mirror!
I know the "mirror" obviously sucks, but I'd argue Lissie's hands are also quite awful...

I like to call this one a "subtle contribution for pride month".

You see, not only does AJ impose a strict chat filter that prevents you from saying any pride-related words ("gay", "lesbian", bisexual, etc. - while I am aware that at the end of the day, this is a kids' game and anything remotely "sexual"-related is going to be banned. This extends to masterpieces as well, though some players have kind of gotten around this, mostly by drawing pronouns and pride flags in the background. After all, if you can't say you're gay, why not show it instead in the form of a flag?

With all this in mind, I chose to draw my OC, Caelus, who was originally modeled after the rainbow goddess, Iris! Yes, she indeed does have rainbow hair, and she loves everyone who lives below her sky kingdom. ♥︎

Speaking of rainbows, here's my take on the wannabe scene queen my younger self really wanted to be!!!

Little Maddy thought jet black hair and green eyes was like, the perfect combo (you can see how this translated into my awful self insert, Charlotte Li), and she was obsessed with all things cutesy and rainbow. She also really wanted to wear arm warmers, for some reason.
Maybe because a lot of the avatars on the games I played back in the day dressed like scene kids/emos...

I mentioned Charlotte, so here she is! Of course, she gets rainbows as well because uWu sO kAwAii!!!!11!!!

Oh boy, have I got a story behind this one.

First of all, these are my characters (l-r:), Crystal, Emiko, and Vesta. They're actually princesses and revamps of some old Super Mario characters that were basically just recolors of already existing characters, haha. 
Originally, I created a masterpiece featuring Emiko and her older adoptive sister, Maiko. It was basically just a cute shot of the two hugging with their names added next to them. For whatever reason, AJ denied it! 
Unfortunately, the game does have a habit of flagging quite a bit of harmless masterpieces as containing "inappropriate content"; I don't know if that's the fault of an automatic moderator or an actual human moderator who decided to be a piece of trash.
I was determined to make a piece featuring my Mario characters, however, so I just put Emiko alongside two different characters, all in fairly neutral poses, and just had her say something. Sadly, her older sister had to go, but it was worth the approval of the AJ moderators! ^^;

Last but not least, here are my Ancient Egyptian characters, Princesses Berenice Hotep and Ra-nefer-u!

You can view all these masterpieces at my den - they're all displayed with my main account, xxTheLivelyOnexx (NOT MY SIDE ACCOUNT!) You'll also find a few masterpieces that were bought from other people because I thought they looked cool! 
My den should be open for everyone to visit (not just friends), so you can just look up my name and come visit!