Well the last journal got a surprising response, I was really happy to see so many people respond. It also really helped me narrow down what I should focus on as my biggest flaws in my art, and motivated me to definitely take some time to work on them (and make time to do so).
For this one I want to have a little more of a fun discussion, and a bit more open ended. Let's talk about what cartoons you like the most, and what impact they had on your life. Some other parts of the topic can include what your favorite cartoons were as a kid, what cartoons had ABDL and/or furry influences on you, cartoons you've seen recently that had diaper-related scenes, stuff like that. Also yes, I do consider anime to be cartoons, because they are.
For me, my favorite cartoons as a young kid were The Real Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Scooby Doo, The Simpsons, and of course every Disney movie (yes, including the princess ones). When I was around 9 or 10 Pokemon became the big thing, and that show, as well as the games and cards, had a huge impact on me. Later on, when I was a young teen and had cable, I watched more cartoons than I even did as a kid, stuff like Rugrats and Spongebob, Angry Beavers, Powerpuff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog... pretty much the channel never left Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. I also got more into anime, thanks to my highschool's anime club and Cartoon Network's Toonami, so I was watching DBZ, Inuyasha, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop among other things.
I think my biggest influences were definitely as follows: Pokemon, which really just captured my imagination and amazed me with it's mix of cute style and unique little monsters. Digimon and Monster Rancher had a similar impact for similar reasons, but Pokemon was the big one. Rugrats, which definitely struck a cord with my at-the-time unknown AB side, making me imagine what it would be like to be babies like they depicted in the cartoon; young and naive yet more aware and mature than babies would actually be at that age. Disney's Robin Hood, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Animaniacs, Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, and tons of other shows that portrayed anthropomorphic characters absolutely played a huge role in me realizing I was a furry, possibly even shaping me to be one. Trigun and Inuyasha were a major influence on my early drawing styles, although Pokemon was the first by a few years I didn't really start drawing until around the time I watched other anime. Hell, I didn't realize Pokemon WAS anime until around that time, as a younger kid it was just another cartoon.
Once I started realizing I had an interest in diapers (though not why) I was always pulled in by any cartoon that had characters in diapers, but especially ones that showed the diaper being used. I think the fact it was almost always in a comedic setting is really what set me down the path of loving that trifecta of comedy, cartoons, and diaper-usage. To this day I still hunt down scenes from cartoons like that, out of a literal fetish in the sense it's more an obsession than for any particular reason. Though obviously ABDL is a sexual fetish for me now, it's been a weird obsession for me long before that, and cartoons absolutely helped me realize it and irreversibly linked the two things in my mind forever.
Whew... this turned into WAY more of an essay than I intended, but I guess long story short cartoons had a huge impact on my life. When life sucked, I still always had cartoons to fall back on for a laugh, when I was confused about my interest in diapers cartoons were there to satisfy my obsession, and when I started drawing of course it had to be cartoons. Once I found other people like me online, which happened at probably too young of an age by today's standards, I finally started to understand and come to grips with being ABDL, but I don't know if any of that would have happened without searching for "cartoons in diapers" in that Yahoo search bar all those years ago.
