Commissioned by me from ~arabatos a few months ago, this was partly the result of me re-reading ~simpspin's "Simpson: Generations" comic. I luuuurve the lovey-dovey expressions they all have, especially the girls. In that comic, a 13-year old Maggie and her younger brother, Eric (10 iirc), accidentally fall back through time to the present day.
This picture has nothing to do with that directly, but I did borrow ~simpspin's previous design for teen-Maggie (should've asked him in advance, but thanks to Simpspin for not getting angry that I didn't), and the idea of all the Simpsons meeting up in time and messing up their family's past.
Yes, somehow, all this alteration to the past has not caused any problems with the existences of Bart, Lisa, OR Maggie up in the tree. However Bart and young Marge Bouvier have fallen for each other, as have young Homer Simpson and Lisa Simpson. The young versions of the parents don't know that they're in love with their future kids, and quite frankly no-one else in the scene wants to tell them for their own reasons.
I was going to write this into a fanfic (I like time travel), but...well, it could still happen someday.
I simply adore Marge's design and is frankly one of the most imaginative and thought provoking simpsons artwork I've ever had the privilege of seeing. I really wish The Simpsons writers had the guts to do a season or so of exploring such an idea, particularly before the show went downhill. The creative possibilities of such a sceneario is endless i.e. Bart meeting young Sideshow Bob, Marge helping Bart fitting into school and Lisa comforting Homer when his mother leaves him etc.
Thanks, this is a really cute (if somewhat unusual) pic. Young Marge's outfit is pretty adorable, very true, I wish I could take credit...but it's from the flashback scenes in the ep "The Way We Weren't" (as is young Homer).
Yeah, the Simpsons has done some pretty out-there storylines in its time, but their insistence on effectively hitting the cosmic reset button at the end of every episode means that they miss out on doing some other really cool things, like building better believable relationships between characters, and allowing Bart and Lisa and Maggie to mature. If they did, they could have more rom-com eps with Bart and the twin he likes, or a love triangle between Lisa, Nelson and I dunno maybe...Martin.
They could even have just set a spin-off when Homer and Marge were kids, and had a different (but probably a little similar) set of characters - as well as having some established favourite characters when they were younger.
The possibilities are endless. But alas, they want to retain the status quo, so almost all possible story-arc ideas (both obvious ones, like having the family just growing up, or less obvious ones, like the kids going back to Springfield in the 60s) get avoided.
Well, I think we all know now why Marge calls Bart her "special little guy".
Despite the obvious incest, I always thought that Bart/Marge (and Marge/Lisa) could actually work. Could be one of those scenarios where Bart discovers to his horror that the reason why none of his relationships throughout the series ever worked out was because... none of those girls were anything like his milf! Lol.
this is gonna mess up time big time
Yeah, the Simpsons has done some pretty out-there storylines in its time, but their insistence on effectively hitting the cosmic reset button at the end of every episode means that they miss out on doing some other really cool things, like building better believable relationships between characters, and allowing Bart and Lisa and Maggie to mature. If they did, they could have more rom-com eps with Bart and the twin he likes, or a love triangle between Lisa, Nelson and I dunno maybe...Martin.
They could even have just set a spin-off when Homer and Marge were kids, and had a different (but probably a little similar) set of characters - as well as having some established favourite characters when they were younger.
The possibilities are endless. But alas, they want to retain the status quo, so almost all possible story-arc ideas (both obvious ones, like having the family just growing up, or less obvious ones, like the kids going back to Springfield in the 60s) get avoided.
Despite the obvious incest, I always thought that Bart/Marge (and Marge/Lisa) could actually work. Could be one of those scenarios where Bart discovers to his horror that the reason why none of his relationships throughout the series ever worked out was because... none of those girls were anything like his milf! Lol.