#AND I LOVE HIM FOR THAT

[kokokoula]

here's a thought:

tsukishima kei is mean. he complains that you talk too much, laughs when you flunk your tests, and insists that you're clingy. others wonder why you're even with him.

but they don't know that when he tsks at your rambling, he shifts one side of his headphones away to hear your voice. they don't know that even though he teases you for your low test scores, he would stay up late at night just to tutor you till you'd get it right. they don't know that after rolling his eyes at your affection, he places a chaste kiss on your forehead and hides his red face in your hair.

so when they say you deserve better, you laugh at their cluelessness and state with a smile, "he's more than everything i could ever want." and he falls in love with you all over again.

[risestarkiss]

Being Big Red

Rise Ramblings #312

In “What Was Meant To Be” and “What They Became,” I discuss how the turtles were created by Draxum to be weapons and then how the boys were embraced by Splinter to be a part of the Hamato clan.

I also discussed how Splinter viewed television as a window into his former life. He used television as a means to drown himself in a never-ending cycle of reminiscing the past and mourning his former self.

Splinter’s crushing depression, though never voiced, impacted the turtles’ emotional growth and development. As a result, all four brothers had to cope with their father’s lack of attention and his expectations for their lives in their own way…

However, I believe that no one had more pressure placed on them than Raphael Hamato.

Raphael is naturally easy-going, sweet, fun-loving, and supportive. But, as the oldest/biggest turtle, he became the impromptu leader of their little team by default. Consequently, he takes on several different roles for the sake and well-being of his family.

Their day-to-day training regimen is directed completely by him.

He is the boys' moral compass and who they go to for guidance.

He's the team’s backbone, support, and backup, which often cumulates in him acting as a physical shield when things get rough.

And, most significantly, Raph is the leader even when he himself wants nothing more than to crumble to pieces.

Raph is so physically imposing, strong-willed, and devastatingly kind-hearted that it’s easy to expect these roles from him.

But, Raph is also just a child.

In reality, these roles should never have been Raph’s to bear…

Parentification is a process in which a child or adolescent is forced to act as a parent to their siblings (or to their actual parent) through providing emotional support (Emotional Parentification) or physical support (Instrumental Parentification) in order to maintain the household.

I believe that Raphael was subjected to both, but was especially subjected to the former.

All of the roles described above are the roles of a supportive parent to their children (or Sensei to their students.) To verify this claim, you needn’t look further than the roles that Splinter encompassed in any other iteration.

With Raph, none of this responsibility comes naturally. He has to work hard to live up to the pressures and expectations placed onto him, resulting in a dissonance between his responsibilities and his true nature.

I believe that you can see the evidence of this dissonance in his chosen form of dress.

Have you noticed that when Raph casually dresses himself, he mostly wears white?

Even Donnie picked up on this trend when he chose outfits for his brother in "The Clothes Don't Make The Turtle." (See "The Fashionista" for a full breakdown on Donnie's impeccable fashion sense.✨)

Yet, when Raphael is filling a role, or dressing to impress others, Red is his automatic go-to.

It’s almost as if the title of “The Red One” was not one that he chose, but one that was merely placed onto him.

But I digress...

Raph is able to be a pseudo-parent to his brothers and serves to fill in the gaps that their actual father could not fill. However, with no outlet for his own insecurities, all of that pressure had no relief.

And, if you understand chemistry, pressure, with no release, creates an explosion.

“Acting out” is an unhealthy defense mechanism in which one expresses their unacceptable feelings through physical actions.

In this case, the "unacceptable feeling" is disappointment, not at his brothers, or with his father, or with any external force, but with himself. And with no outlet and with no one to turn to for support, that disappointment turns into red hot anger.

He’s so disappointed with himself, in fact, that he reaches his breaking point.

Then finally, finally, he opens up.

And at long last, he gets the support he so desperately needed.

Thus, he is able to ultimately let it all go...

It's so lovely to see that his family does not disappoint.

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Next | Being Baby Blue • Being Purple ○ Part One • Being Purple ○ Part Two • Orange, Baby!

Finale | Being Hamato Yoshi

[wispedvellichor]

the arc of fourteen reacting to spice up your life like NPH personally kicked his dog to fifteen telling the Baby Eating Goblins to *Hit it Janice* so he could be a part of the DW Camp Evil Musical (TM) is particularly so endearing to me

[goodoldfashionednerd]

If Claudia has a thousand fans, I'm one of them. If Claudia has a hundred fans, I'm one of them. If Claudia has ten fans, I'm one of them. If Claudia has one fan, it's Daniel Molloy.

[spirkbitch]

can’t stop thinking about Leonard Nimoy saving us from the “Saavik pregnant with Spock’s baby” storyline they wanted to go with for star trek iv

[fl00mie]

honestamente, no sé

to prevent confusions i'm giving credits of every fankid in order (starting with the tall one)

layden (fresh x ink fankid) by @/sugary-alienn dot (cross x ink fankid) by @/yo-honne abstract (reaper x ink fankid) by CATA-824 on wattpad gradient (error x ink fankid) by @/askcomboclub paper jam (error x ink fankid) by @/7goodangel palette (dream x ink fankid) by @/angeutblogo blueprint (swap x ink fankid) by @/pepper-mint aiden (zack x ink fankid) by ariscastleart

[avernusreject]

y'all im just tired at this point

[meep-meep-richie]

Just a quick summary of how important Mobius is for Loki

[softerhaze]

anyway, happy birthday goober

i have so many pool pics but i'm not making ANOTHER post lmao, enjoy!

[rubitheracoon]

I have gathered a vast collection of alastor doing the hand over the month and a bit hazbin has been out

I'm gonna continuously edit this post whenever I find more

Now sit back and enjoy these screenshots of the silliest guy in hazbin hotel :] (aside from lucifer)

I CANT ADD ANYMORE NOOOOOO

I reposted this with more images here :>

[landomeowrris]

okay but can we talk about how lando is breaking all his curses in a single season??

he started out this season with no wins and one pole, after five seasons in f1, zero expectations to run for the title this year.

he got his first win this year, officially ending the nowins joke.

he started getting poles, but always losing it in the first lap to whoever was in 2nd / 3rd. he just won without losing the lead, not even once. that ended the throwwins joke.

he's literally a title contender. he's having his best season ever. he's at least vice champion.

lando norris, the man that you are.

[bbygirl-aemond]

one thing that jumped out at me right away in episode 2 was jace's physicality. look at jace's movements here in season 2 episode 2:

and compare this to daemon's movements in season 1 episode 10:

in this scene with daemon, he's just drawn his sword and pointed it at otto hightower. he's angry and grieving because he just lost a child, and in that anger and grief he seeks to take action against those who he blames for this happening. but rhaenyra does not want this, and she quells him with a single look, and he obeys her, but he does not hide his reluctance. the grip he adopts on the pommel of his sword is a clear signal he has switched out of fighting mode, but he still remains at the ready, still physically grips the sword, still holds on to everything the sword symbolizes. he's backing down, but he still wants rhaenyra--and everyone else--to see what he truly wants to do.

in the scene with jace, we see something extremely similar play out. jace is mourning his brother, not his child, but he is similarly angry and wishing to take action. rhaenyra denies him just as she denied daemon (albeit for a different reason). and it's just so fascinating to me that the way jace reacts here is such a perfect match for how daemon reacted back in season 1; so much so that my first reaction to seeing him move that way was to immediately say "that's 100% daemon right there." jace, too, reaches for his sword, and he too adopts the same grip.

jace and daemon are obviously very different characters but i do think the ways in which they're similar is fascinating, particularly in the way they respond to rhaenyra denying them, in the way that they both obey immediately yet still display their disapproval of her command. i actually think this makes their loyalty to rhaenyra seem more powerful, in how readily they obey her even and especially when they really don't want to.

tldr: i'm like 99% sure harry collett saw all the jokes about him and daemon having the same awful posture and said "bet i can work with this"

(gifs are from @jace-targaryen and @thequeenwechoose respectively, but i did crop the jace gif to zoom in on him further and i removed the first few frames of the daemon gif so it lined up more with jace's movement)

[freshlypizza]

I find it so funny that all the Lords in Black are wearing boots (some even with platforms AND heels!), and Wiggly is just in converse

[wispedvellichor]

Other queercoded media shippers: They're gay!!

Author: No. (They're cishet and platonic and bros and I queerbaited for profit. They're gonna get wives now)

Ineffable fandom: They're gay!!

Our Lord and Savior Neil Gaiman: No. (They're so gay that the gay cancels itself out. They're lgbtqia in more ways than you puny mortals can ever imagine. Get trans'd)

[sharkaiju]

Vox: What are you, high?!

Valentino: Am I what?

Vox: High!

Valentino: ...Hello.

[steviesbicrisis]

I’ve been thinking about Steve and Eddie’s canon interactions, so let’s forget Steddie for a second.

I’ve been wondering, why would Steve tell Eddie not to be a hero? of course, he worries about Dustin. But Dustin has done this before, I think Steve trusts him to not do anything that would get him killed.

Steve worries about Eddie.

And he never says "Eddie is not so bad" or stuff like that, but he worries the second he meets him. He's the one concerned about Eddie wandering around while being a fugitive. When Eddie opens his heart to him about changing his mind about him, Steve doesn't show any interest but he's concerned when Eddie refers to himself as a coward.

Steve listens carefully but so silently I don’t think anybody notices. And he does this with everyone, he listens and he pretends not to care but I might argue that he’s the most attentive one of the group. He listens to Dustin when he tells him about his love life, to the kids when they have the plan to go to the tunnels in season 2, to Robin in any possible occasion and to Eddie when he confesses to feeling like a coward.

It’s been what? Two days? since Eddie got involved with the upside down and Steve as been attentive enough to have a part of him know that Eddie could do something stupid about being a coward.

They’re not close enough for Steve to be certain or to say more, but he worried nonetheless.