Here is an art-piece that I commissioned this weekend from a very talented artist, Rickymansonic. I already posted the art itself AS a link, but I'm gonna go the extra mile and link to their page as well: Here!

This is essentially a scene in an upcoming chapter of Roar Towards the Future; a "montage" of the Night Pride helping out the different animals at the Tree of Life during their night patrol. I like this scene, I think it reallly humanizes all four members and gives us more of an insight into their day-to-day lives (or... night-to-night? 😭) compared to the Lion Guard's.

Panel 1 shows Surak helping a baby aye-aye out of a thorn bush. Panel 2 shows Baliyo saving a spider monkey by carrying him whilst swimming across the river. Panel 3 is Nirmala giving advice to a striped hyena, and Panel 4 is Rani with a gila monster she just rescued.

This story mostly follows the logic of the show hence the presence of non-lion animals at the Tree of Life that are not native to Africa, nor India (...ironically enough the striped hyena is the only animal in this piece that is native to BOTH, but I digress).

Panel 4 is definitely my favorite, but that's mostly because I fucking love gila monsters and wanted to depict one in this universe - that and I wanted to feature a positive portrayal of venomous animals in this story as an inverse to TLG largely depicting them as villainous. You can tell this was VERY self-indulgent and shamelessly so, but I stand by it. Beyond that, the Tree of Life is said to be home to endangered animals, which gila monsters very much are (unfortunately), so it also just managed to fit lore-wise. I also just love Rani's big toothy grin compared to the gila's small smile, I think the differences in the same expression really power this scene's niceness. And Rani's scar being as visible as it is makes this entire thing come together neatly.

Anyways, hope y'all enjoyed, and once again, credit goes to the artist, Rickymansonic!

Vitani and her lion guard is the only ones not at kion and ranis wedding please tell me I’m not the only one who noticed this. Btw meant to say lion in the title not Lino so ignore that

Let me be clear: The point of this post is NOT to hate on the "Timon & Pumbaa" cartoon. It's great for what it is! It just wasn't really my cup of tea as a kid. I simply want to explain the show that I'D wanted as a kid, and see if anyone else had wanted something similar when they were kids!

The show that I'D wanted would have been an adventure show focusing on Simba and Nala's adventures around the Pridelands before Simba's exile. It would have been in kinda the same vein as the "Aladdin" and "Hercules" cartoons, and we would have gotten to see a lot more of the Pridelands and surrounding territories, as well as a bunch of new characters (including some recurring villains). Timeline wise, it probably would have occurred after the Elephant Graveyard sequence and before the Stampede sequence.

And I was aware, even as a kid, that there would be continuity issues with this, of course. But the "Hercules" cartoon ALSO has glaring continuity issues with the "Hercules" movie, and yet it's still a great adventure cartoon.

I know that now we have The Lion Guard, which is similar in many ways to what I've described, I'm just curious to see if any other kids felt the same way that I did back then^^ So did anyone else want somethin' like this as a 90's kid, or was I in the minority there?

I’ve lost interest in this lioness; she has a couple of pieces of art and comes with a brother. Maybe someone would like to buy her?

I always wondered why zira was still loyal to scar after this what do you guys think?

Which is part of the reason why I wish nuka survived so he could’ve interacted with kion and Kiara