#borrower!casey jones

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I want Casey Jones from TMNT 1987 to have his own Bike too like 1990 and 2003

(So Casey Jones doesn't have to borrow the Shell-Cycle from the Turtles)

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Stockman, I shrunk the Turtles! [1]

A TMNT 2k3 Borrower AU:

In which some tiny turtles make a home in the walls of Stocktronics lab, doing their best to make Stockman's life as aggravating as possible. A wandering night guard by the name of Casey Jones stumbles across them on a supply run, and the rest is history.

(All fluff and hijinks, little to no angst.)

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The noise cutting through the thick silence of the dark laboratory was scratchy and quiet and kind of high pitched, irregular and staccato, like someone's forgotten phone left stuck on a Youtube video. If Casey hadn't stopped to lean against the railing and itch his elbow with his flashlight he wouldn't have heard it at all, booted footfalls easily drowning it out as he marched by.

But he did, and he did.

Hadn't the Head Honcho been complaining about mice or something? Casey thought to himself, readjusting his grip on the flashlight and shutting it off as he turned to investigate. If it was mice, he didn't wanna scare 'em off too early.

Casey wasn't made for sneaking, exactly - catch him in the middle of a hockey match or Purple Dragon bashing sesh and he was graceful as a prima ballerina, he swore - but as he slid through the doorway and into the darkened break room, illuminated faintly by the blinking numbers on the microwave and the light over the sink, he managed to stay quiet enough that the mice kept squeaking away.

The source of the noise was obvious: some idiots had left some cupboard doors open, and in the dim light, Casey could just barely make out the glint off of the corners of various upended boxes and around the curves of an open peanut butter jar. No wonder they had a mouse problem!

Time to shed some light on the subject...

Like a gunslinger in the wild west, he spun the flashlight around in his hand and flicked it on, illuminating the cupboard in stark yellows and deep shadows, expecting to see little mousey eyes glinting back.

What he got instead was this:

Little green men, only a couple inches tall, frozen in terrified poses on top of and around the peanut butter jar, staring up at him. One of them had their hand shoved under the lid and appeared to be in the process of trying to yank it back out again. As the flashlight beam moved across the scene, their eyes flashed.

He'd almost think he was looking at a bunch of tiny action figures or something, if not for the way the stuck one's shoulders were moving up and down just the tiniest bit as it breathed, faster and faster in its rising alarm.

"Uh..." he said, and that shattered the moment rather decisively.

One of the ones on the ground grabbed the other by the wrist and yanked them into shadows behind the jar, and the one perched on top of the jar turned its whole body to face Casey head on, tiny face contorted in a snarl, gritted teeth and narrowed eyes that would be terrifying if its entire body wasn't as big as a fun size twix.

"Back off, big guy," it growled, and okay, that was a dude's voice. High pitched air whistling through tiny lungs, but Casey could tell. "Just forget you ever saw us and walk away and no one gets hurt."

"Raphy, get outta here," hissed arm stuck guy, giving up on the statue lifestyle and bracing his feet against the jar, tugging with all his might. "You're not gonna fight Giant Man as the Wasp, just save yourself!"

"Whoa, whoa," Casey held up both hands in the universal sign for see, no weapons, I don't hurt tiny guys, forgetting about the flashlight in the one until the shadows swallowed the cupboard again.

When he'd fumbled the flashlight back into position, the peanut butter guy was still stuck and tugging away like his life depended on it, but the growly one was gone. Vanished, kind of like a ninja.

Leaving his defenseless buddy to struggle all alone.

Casey couldn't help but feel for the little guy. He seemed genuinely scared and desperate.

"Hey, uh, little... green... man?" He said awkwardly, "Here, lemme help. I gotcha." He reached for the jar, intending on unscrewing the cap so Peanut Butter Guy could pull himself free, but as he moved forward-

Two searing points of pain on the back of his hand had him shouting and jerking it away, blinking away the shock and almost missing the growly guy flipping backwards off of his hand and over to the peanut butter jar lid.

Casey hissed and shook out the injury; was he bleeding? Yeowch.

"Thought I told you to walk away," Growly guy growled, crouching, looking all squeakily menacing. His incredibly tiny fingers were wrapped around the hilt of red thumbtacks, the points of which were glistening just the slightest bit in the beam of the flashlight. "You need another painful reminder or are you gonna follow directions like a good little guard dog?"

"Raph," the other one whined.

"I just wanted to help 'im," Casey defended himself, "Poor little guy's stuck!"

"Want me to tell you where you can shove-"

Growly's posturing was interrupted by a hand on his arm; one of the other tiny dudes, the ones that had ducked behind the jar, must have climbed up the back. "I want to hear him out, Raph," Third Guy said reasonably. "...then, if he makes a wrong move, we can get back to the stabbing."

Gee. Thanks.

They all looked at him, then. Casey even thought he saw the face of the fourth one peeking out from the darkness behind the jar.

"Listen, I-I'm not a bad guy or anything. Promise! I was only gonna unscrew the lid so your buddy here could get free. Cross my heart." He crossed his index finger over his heart to demonstrate his sincerity.

Third Guy leaned over the edge of the lid to meet Peanut Butter Guy's eyes. "Mikey?"

Peanut Butter Guy was shaking a bit, either from fear or exhaustion or both, as he hung from his single hand off the side of the jar. "'kay," he said, so quietly that Casey could barely hear it at all.

Growly stomped, brandishing his tacks like he thought they were a legitimately threatening weapon. "Give me one excuse, you overgrown bonehead, and I'll-"

"Easy, Raph," Third Guy placed a hand on the lip of Growly's shell, tugging him backwards. "Give him a chance. He can't help while we're standing here, at least, so come on."

Third Guy hopped off the peanut butter jar and Growly followed after a moment of hesitation, a leap that seemed almost disproportionate to their size. They landed on a nearby box, where Growly continued to wave his tacks around, spinning them in his teeny hands.

Okay. Guess they were doing this.

Peanut Butter Guy screwed his eyes shut as Casey's hand drew near. "S'okay, little guy, I'll be gentle," Casey assured him before shoving the flashlight between his teeth.

He grabbed the container on the opposite side of its unfortunate passenger and wrapped his palm around the lid. A slow, careful twist later, and the tiny green dude hissed and dropped, landing on the ground with an almost inaudible thump.

Between one blink and the next, Shadow Dude was at Peanut Butter Guy's side, inspecting his itty-bitty splayed fingers. It was really only then, squinting down at the two of them, that Casey realized they had three fingers on their hands. Not to mention those little round things on their backs, which almost looked like turtle shells? He just kind of stared, holding the peanut butter jar with both hands, his flashlight between his clenched teeth, a little fascinated and a lot confused.

[Where it all started.]

[more to come!]

-Jix

[thecomicsnexus]

MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS / TMNT II #1-5

December 2022 - May 2023

By Ryan Parrott , Dan Mora, Raúl Angulo, and Ed Dukeshire.

It's the sequel for the miniseries that was successful enough to have action figures!

The Turtles and the MMPR band together to stop Krang and Rita Repulsa, but a betrayal by their human ally leaves them without powers. And then things get creative...

SCORE: 8

I just want to put in writing that true leaders admit when they are wrong, so the dialogue above is not worthy of Leo.

Alright, let's move on to the actual story...

I was running against two challenges while reading this story.

I am pretty ignorant about Power Ranger lore. I have watched some episodes, a movie and the horrible reunion special, but other than that, I may miss some references.

It has been a long time since I read part one, so apart from certain elements of that story that I remembered, I was kind of constantly catching up.

And you really need to have part one fresh in your mind to read this one... they are basically the same story.

A thought occurred to me while reading this... what is going on with Casey Jones?

He used to be the not-very-bright American hero (think of Jack Burton from "Big Trouble in Little China." And that kind of adaptation used to be the case. But lately, Casey has been a little less temperamental, and sometimes smart enough to avoid getting into conflicts (think of the Rise movie, the IDW version and its spin-offs, like this one).

Classic Casey wouldn't have gotten himself in this situation. But given how much this universe borrows from the IDW continuity, I guess that Casey would behave like this.

Isn't it great when you find four morphin' devices that match the colors of the turtles?

The Turtles and the Power Rangers being able to morph all at the same time was already great, but the book manages to surprise with yet another creative twist... that I'll explore after the break...

Although, if you have already seen the covers, then you know what's coming...

I think the book really came together at this point. With (a very 2012 inspired) Splinter coming in to teach the new mutants how to fight with their new bodies.

And then this happened... man, those toys will sell themselves.

In general, the art in this book is stunning. It may not be high art, but it does what it needs to do, beyond expectations.

Shredder also gets a chance to morph again (it would be a crime if he didn't).

The zords in general look amazing. I guess if you are a MMPR artist, you really need to know how to draw robots... and humans.

So yeah, it seems like part 3 is to be expected... and I am okay with that.

The only thing that felt weird to me, is how the Turtles and the Power Rangers seemed to hang together all the time, despite this story taking place weeks after the first one. But given that this is a different universe, I guess anything is possible?

Reading this story made me think hard on why I decided not to buy the crossover figures... maybe if there is a wave for this sequel, I may consider getting some dimension X power rangers... we'll see...

[anothericarus1920]

Who Now?

2012 Au where pretty much everything is the same except none of the guys actually knows who Casey Jones is.

They're fighting Bebop and Rocksteady and Raph hits one of them into a wall. He gets back up and says something along the lines of "At least you aren't Casey Jones." Raph finds this to be a bizarre comment, but no time to wonder because they're back to fighting. Maybe it's some weird human saying.

Donnie sneaks out to 'borrow' from a computer store and while he's picking the lock on the back door, a voice behind him hollers, "CASEY JOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNEEEEESSS!!!!!" Something hits him right between the eyes, and when he looks around to see who's there, the alley is empty. Another small rock hits him at high speeds every time he tries to pick the lock until he gives up and goes home.

Leo gets into a rooftop fight with Karai, and he's gaining ground. They're exchanging insults/banter and as she gets more and more frustrated, Karai angrily wishes she was fighting 'that stupid jones kid' instead. At least he didn't have any proper training. Or did that make it more humiliating to be beaten by him? Leo asks who Casey Jones is. Karai spits, "Oh, like you don't know." No. No, he doesn't.

Mikey is on a pizza run and he's got his hands full of boxes, turning to make his way up to the rooftops, when he hears a voice from inside the pizzaria shout for Jones to hurry up. He whirls around, nearly losing his grip. He's gotta see this guy if he can- he and his brothers have a bet going on about him- but it's too late. The door is closed.

This keeps going on through the seasons, escalating to ridiculous proportions. Every new person who knows who Casey Jones is is immediately interrogated mid battle. Even the Kraang know him, for shell's sake! Even April says he's real! He's fought every enemy in the book, and apparently he's beaten/sufficiently frustrated all of them! The Shredder curses his name!

And then when they finally need to flee the city and the Farmhouse Arc is about to start, and they have no safe ride to speak of, a van screeches up beside them, smacking the Shredder across the road. A lanky, drowned-rat-lookin teenager hops out waving a hockey stick, shouting at them to get in.

They do, and Donnie asks for his name. He says they've already met. Donnie says no the fuck they haven't. Oh, the kid says, then I'm Casey Jones.

[nataliedanovelist]

ROTTMNT FIC MASTERPOST!

⭐️ The Apocalypse That Was, But Never Is - After a lifetime of rebelling against the Kraang, Casey Jones Jr. has a lot to adjust to. He can handle real food and new clothes just fine, but having his parents alive and well and right in front of him is entirely new - and slightly terrifying - territory.

The start of my Dad Raph AU, and really the fic that started my incredible journey. ❤️

Post-movie

Implied RaphxCass

6 chapters - COMPLETED

The Apocalypse That Was - The Kraang can stop a lot of things, but they cannot stop the Hamato Clan from accomplishing the things they wish to accomplish, from becoming the people they want to be, or from loving and protecting their family.

The prequel to The Apocalypse That Was, But Never Is

Apocalypse-centered fic

Dad Raph AU

No-longer implied RaphxCass 😉

Collaboration with Zippermoth_Mouth

7 chapters - COMPLETED

Adjustment - When April is being harassed by a jerk at college, Casey Jones Jr. steps in, but takes it one step too far.

Tw: implied sexual assault

Post-movie

One-shot - COMPLETED

You’ll Let Her Go - When Raph borrows Sunita’s cloaking broach so he can take Cass out on a “real date,” he starts to question if there’s even a chance they can have a future together, given his whole situation.

RaphxCass hurt and comfort

Post-movie

One-shot - COMPLETED

L.I.L.-E - Donnie accidentally built a grenade more intelligent than he intended, but the new droid fits into the family seamlessly, and not only does S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. gain a little sister, but Donnie gains a new child as well.

A gift for Tulip, featuring her OC

Post-movie

A two-part fic, part one posted, part two still being written…

The Mask He Wore - One day, Casey’s precious Genius Tech built mask is cracked, and Donnie fixes it, uncovering that his future counterpart did, in fact, record everything.

Post-movie

One-shot - COMPLETED

How I Met Your Mothers - Draxum’s relationship with the turtles has definitely improved since their first introduction, and the retired alchemist doesn’t want it tarnished by secrets or things left unsaid, so he introduces the boys to someone very special…

Post-movie

One-shot - COMPLETED

The Ability To Grow Old - One of Donnie’s experiments backfire, and it’s up to Raph to make sure his brother doesn’t grow up too quickly.

Brawn & Brain fic

Mid-season 1

One-shot - COMPLETED

Best of Both Worlds - A short coming-out story for @phykoha’s Happily Ever After AU, focusing on Raph and Cass and their son, Casey.

RaphxCass

Apocalypse-centered fic

Bigender Raph & Pan Cass

One-shot - COMPLETED

Savage Son - After losing his best friend and becoming stranded in an apocalyptic New York City, Raph stumbles across a lonesome baby and is determined to help the little guy live.

Apocalypse-centered fic

Another Dad Raph fic (cuz I’d LOVE to see somebody try to stop me!)

Brand new AU

4 chapters - COMPLETED

Rise to the Challenge - The Kraang are defeated, but there is still a lot ahead for the Mad Dogs, not only overcoming the villains in front of them, but the demons in their own minds. Still struggling with the events from the Kraang invasion, they will be tested to their limits. Do they truly rely on each other? Do they truly trust in their family?

My version of season 3!!!

Multi-chapters - ON GOING

⭐️ Little Warrior - Instead of Casey Jones II going back in time to stop the Kraang alone, he is accompanied by someone special.

Dad Raph

Little Warrior AU

RaphxCass

My pride and joy…

Multi-chapter - ON GOING

[c00l3stb0y3v3r]

Tw/ blood, major character death

A lot of people have hcs that Raph & his mother died before Jr was born, and honestly I see it and I loved it at first, still love it actually.

But just thinking about Casey, being 13, going through hallways, people passing by him holding a bunch of medical supplies, trying to find Raph after he had just went on a mission. He was excited since he wanted to show what he had fixed. He doesn't find him, yet when he does, he freezes.

He freezes as people, the ones with lots of medical stuff in their hands, rush past him. He drops his weapon as stares at Raphael. His whole body is covered in injuries yet Jr doesn't focus on that. No he focuses on his shell. His shell broken to two pieces, almost ripped off of him.

He can't help but stare at it, before his eyes glance over to Raphaels. Raphs eyes, once shining with hope and happiness, once filled with determination, dull. His eyes are dull to the point he doesn't even believe it's Raphael. But it is. It's Raphaels eyes.

Someone is screaming, other people are yelling and racing towards Raph. He feels arms wrap around him, detaining him from getting closer, his vocal cords will most likely be damaged after this but does he care? No. No he doesn't.

Raphs dull eyes stare at him, he reaches his hand over to grab but the body whoever is detaining him pulls him back. They scream to him but all he could hear is that ringing.

The ringing with the ground crushing under the mechanical krangs feet. The lasers hitting the ground making a large sound that shook the earth. He feels the air, he smells the air, the air of rocks, fire and death.

He feels Sensei grabbing him, pulling him towards the green glowing portal as he kicks and screams. He screams for her to come back, for her to come with them, for her to be safe.

He screams for his mother.

Yet, she stands there, with a large mechanical bō, borrowed by Donatello. She looked at him, smiling widely with tears in her eyes. She's happy. Yet, the glint in her eyes, tells him she's sorry, she's sorry for what she's doing.

"I'm sorry, Junior."

"Live on the Jones name for me, okay?"

"I love you"

He screams for her.

He screams for her but all she does it look away.

Those dull eyes of Raphs, the glint in his mothers eyes?

All he does is cry.

Cry, scream and kick like a child he is.

A child he'll forever be.

He'll need to grow out it.

Everyone dies eventually, that's what Michaelangelo says.

Everyone dies eventually.

And he'll need to get over it.

He'll get over it.

[snappedsky]

ROTTMNT: You Are Not Alone

Leonardo awakens in New York with his apprentice, Casey Jones, and a plan.

The origin story of my Rottmnt AU, Retired Leo. It's based off the movie and borrows a few scenes and lines but mostly it's its own story. Updates will be every Saturday.

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Chapter 1

“Sensei! Sensei!”

Leonardo’s eyes snap open then immediately slam shut. It’s so bright. And loud. Why are there so many voices? And what’s that rumbling?

He cracks open his eyes again and the first thing he can make out is the concerned face of his apprentice, Casey Jones, staring down at him.

“Sensei, are you okay? Can you move?” he asks frantically, his voice barely audible over the surrounding din.

“Casey, what-?” Leonardo starts to reach for his aching head and realizes that he’s squeezing something- an orange ninja mask.

And it all comes rushing back to him.

He shoots up and immediately winces from a stabbing pain in his side. He grips the lower left side of his plastron, remembering his injury, and looks around.

They’re in the middle of New York City, on Times Square. Hundreds of people and cars are going by. The bright lights from the surrounding buildings illuminate the darkness of the night.

It’s a sight very familiar to Leonardo, but one he has not seen for many, many years.

“We made it,” he sighs and looks down at the orange mask in his grip. “Mikey did it.”

“Come on-urgh!” He tries to stand up but falls back to his knees as his injury throbs.

“Sensei!” Casey exclaims and grabs the large turtle mutant’s arm, steadying him. “We have to tend to your wound.”

“Not here,” Leonardo hisses, nervously eyeing the passersby. “We gotta move.”

He drapes his arm around Casey’s shoulders, letting the teen support him as they hurry off the streets.

“Luckily, people are used to weird stuff on Times Square.”

[c0wabungaz]

      🏒        *        ↪    @nightwatchr

self  -  awareness   (   &  shame   )   be  damned,  casey  always  found  a  way  to  fumble  down  a  manhole  to  annoy  accompany  his  green  friends  on  whatever  adventure  it  may  be.  these  days  it  was  mostly  just  video  games  and  the  good  ol’  tussle,  but  he  had  his  ways  of  …  conjuring  problems  where  there  should  cease  to  be  none.  

        [  enter,  casey  jones.  ]

“  hey  raphie!  did  you  switch  out  your  bandana  er  somethin’?  fuckin’  badass,  bro.  ”  pause,  practically  anticipating  a  punch  to  his  arm.  “  can  i  borrow  10  bucks  by  the  way?  ”

[enthblaze]

SAY LESS I'M HERE

Okay, so I call it the Universal Misplacement AU (or UMAU for short lol) and it's called that because Casey's "twin", Rose, is originally my Rise of the TMNT OC (Rise is the version that got me into TMNT) and when I started branching into other versions, I originally started with Rose dimension hopping and in the 2012 crossover, she and Casey became accidental twins because they look a lot alike and are Batshit Insane. And eventually this turned into a whole separate idea where Rose got teleported to the 2012 verse when she was pretty young and got adopted into the Jones family and was raised as Casey's twin. She's Fae, which means that a single multiverse can't have more than one of her, and her prematurely discovering her Fae magic (not that she was old enough to know what the fuck it was) is what got her to the 2012 verse.

But onto the actual AU! Rose was raised as Casey's twin sister. Those two are as thick as fucking thieves but anyone who doesn't know them might think they hate each other because bodily threats is their main love language. Their dad has made the joke about the Cain Instinct being the only instinct those two know on more than one occasion. Rose is on the boxing team in addition to Casey being on the hockey team, so the twins are athletic, reckless as hell, and bisexual (Rose is canonical, Casey is headcanon).

When Casey first starts out on being a vigilante, it does not take long for Rose to find out and she demands that she join him. So now they're badass vigilantes, Casey even snuck her a goalie mask she promptly painted pink and black to match. They have a list of plans they've labeled via the alphabet, wherein one plan aliterates with a letter of the alphabet; i.e Plan F is Fuck It, We Ball, Plan K is Keep Away, and my personal favorite, Plan M is Molotov Cocktail.

Rose's main weapon are the brass knuckles she totally didn't smuggle into her room (/sar) but has borrowed her brother's baseball bat lol.

I can't stress this enough, because i'm Emo about it; just because they threaten bodily harm and insult each other on a daily basis does not mean they don't care about and love each other to their very souls. Yk how Rose is Fae? During season 2, the closer they get the Kraang invasion, the more Rose's powers start to act up, because they're responding to her big emotions and the stress that follows. So, during the farmhouse arc, she and Casey put in a bit more effort in trying to understand her magic. And in doing so, a few days before Leo wakes up from his coma (which, idk if you've talked about Van during Leo's coma, but I would love to hear about the angst that comes with it), Rose and Casey have a very emotionally vulnerable and intimate moment in that they well and truly spill their hearts out.

Casey, to me, is a reflection of Raph in that he's a protector. This boy loves his family to point where he's willing to do Violence to keep them safe. And that includes his twin, very much so. When she gets overstimulated to the point of a meltdown, or is understimulated to the point of floating away in the clouds, he is the rock that keeps her tethered and he likes it. Because it means he can make sure she's okay that much easier.

And Rose has always been a lover. She can be as sarcastic and playfully mean and petty as she wants, she loves with everything she's got. So naturally, she reflects Casey's love for her back to him. Just like how he's always in her corner when she needs it, albeit with a remark and a smug grin she immediately wants to smack off, she will always do the same for him. She wasn't born a Jones. She chose to be a Jones. And she makes that choice every single day. Casey will always be her brother, and will always be her twin. She can't think of a thing in the world that would break that.

And. During this moment. When they are baring their souls to each other after three months of worrying about their dad and little sister, being powerless to protect their city the way they wanted and unable to help one of their friends. Rose's magic reaches toward Casey's soul, the very thing that makes him who he is. And tethers it to hers. Bonding their souls for however long they are siblings. And as a physical marker of this, cause this is a Big Fucking Deal, they are given each other's eye color on their off-side. Rose's left eye turns brown, and Casey's right eye turns blue. And now that their souls are bonded, they not only have a better connection emotionally, but magically too. Because Rose inadvertently transferred some of her Fae magic to Casey.

Which of course is used for IMMENSE chaos. Poor Leo is so tired of their shit LMAO

(Also, I have to apologize for how long this ask is LMAO I have so many thoughts and concepts but these are the big ones so far (I've got a couple of concepts in the works 👀) and i love this au sm)

"She wasn't born a Jones. She chose to be a Jones. And she makes that choice every single day."

STOP RN- THIS MADE MY HEART CLENCH /POS

I LOVE THIS AU SM ALREADY !!!

I barely know Rose and yet she's won me over. I need more Rose & Casey content. AND- I wasn't expecting magic or the Fae being brought into a 2012 au but I AM SURE HERE FOR IT- THIS IS AWESOME!!!

Oh, and never apologise btw for long asks, theyre my favourite. i loved all of this sm, and i deffo wanna see what else u got in store :]]

(and yes, ive made a few posts regarding Van during Leo's coma ahah)

Poor Leo waking up, only to be met with these two whirlwinds of chaos lmaooo XD

[readingonpluto]

If you like ___ then read ___ - Studio Ghibli Edition

No, I am not giving any context :)

Howl’s Moving Castle 

Sorcery of Thorns by Margret Rogerson

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

Castle in the Sky

Starflight by Melissa Landers

To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

Truthwitch by Susan Dennard

Grave of the Fireflies

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Cat Returns

The Cat Who Saved Books by Louise Heal Kawai

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Kiki’s Delivery Service

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

The Ex Hex by Rachel Hawkins

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

My Neighbour Totoro

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

The Wind in the Willow by Kenneth Grahame

Fairy Tale: A True Story by Monica Kulling 

Spirited Away

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

Princess Mononoke 

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh

Only Yesterday

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret World of Arrietty 

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Wild Beauty by Anna Marie McLemore 

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

When Marnie Was There

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

When the Butterflies Came by Kimberley Griffiths Little

Ponyo

Between the Lines by Samantha Van Leer & Jodi Picoult

Fathomless by Jackson Pearce

Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguie

The Wind Rises

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

From Up on Poppy Hill

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Better Together by Christine Riccio

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Porco Rosso 

We Hunt the Flames by Hafsah Faizal

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

Biggles the Camels are Coming by W.E. Johns

Whisper of the Heart

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 

The Upside to Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Pom Poko

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adam Douglas 

[pocoslip]

I would like to see Casey Jones fighting Triceratons in TMNT 1987 instead of some Turtle dressing up as Batman

(I thought Playmates Toys' "6"-Inch Triceraton Figure would look Better next to NECA Toys' Casey Jones instead of Super7's But Of Course Not and I Lost CJ's White Hockey Stick so he's Borrowing One from the Mirage CJ Figure)

[theghostpinesmusic]

This was my first livestream in about six months…and, to be honest, it certainly felt like it! It was definitely way less technically proficient than I would have liked, but as usual there were a few neat ideas strewn in there, too. Notable bits included the first "live" performance of "The Melody" with its new pre-song loop jam (borrowed from an album-length thing I'm currently in the process of finishing up), the always-fun combo of "Ghosts" > "Fear," the first time in forever I've played "Millie" without the "Shelter From The Storm" interpolation, and a weird, multi-section version of "Palace" that went unfinished for the first time ever. This clip starts at the beginning of "Palace" and continues through to the end of the set. Full setlist and notes below: The Melody !* Running -> #? Generals -> @ Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver) ~ Passenger Side (Wilco) ^ Southern Pacifica (Josh Ritter) Ghosts Of The Highway > Fear -> Millie -> $& Casey Jones (The Grateful Dead) > Drone > + Palace -> **## Prince Caspian (Phish) > !! A Western Sun (Goose) > Jam > ?? Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) (Bob Dylan) -> @@ Jam Reprise ~~ Notes: ! Stream began with the first loop already running * w/ Intro Jam # w/ Harmonica ? w/ Outro harmonica "solo" over a loop of the chorus chords @ w/ An unplanned but legitimately cool Running/Generals mashup and transition ~ Fast version ^ This was indisputably the worst cover of this song ever performed by anyone $ Slow version & First time played w/o the "Shelter From The Storm" interpolation in…400 years? + Drone was in the key of E for those keeping score at home ** w/ Ride teases and jamming ## Unfinished !! w/ Space and vocal "jam" outro ?? Started with an electric guitar loop, switched to "unplugged" acoustic midway through @@ "Unplugged" acoustic ~~ Brief reprise of the previous jam loop to conclude the set

[snackugaki-jestsjapesjokes]

... someone take heroforge from me, I was just curious, I swear I was! to see how close I could get to my iteration... the answer was respectably close but god at what cost

April wasn't too hard. Didn't quite have what I normally draw her hair like, the clothing options ...were so close but I just couldn't make it work so she's more punky than goth. 6/10

Irma... I've said it in a couple of my iteration lore posts but to me??? Irma was done dirty in 87. They just slapped a Jeanette the Chipette skin over 80s Trope Explicitly Less Desireable Best Friend of MC and she deserved better... which is why I shook Janine Melnitz and Nadia Vulvokov in a Pringles can and reconstituted what was left. I know HeroForge wasn't quiiiiite meant for this but it's pretty malleable tbh, unfortunate that some pieces are tied to others but serviceable, 8/10

At aking precious Keno, tignan mo siya napaka-astig noh???? tl;dr Ernie Reyes Jr. was the ninja of my childhood and one of the few identifiable filipino faces in american tv Don't think I addressed it in other lore dumps but one of the things I borrowed from Rise to season my iteration was the gender flip which the internet dice decided on Keno. Waffled on the outfit until just throwing the approximation of Keno's iconic movie outfit. the new facial feature editing on heroforge has been immensely helpful but god the nose smaller edits options still make my head hurt... probably gonna go back and edit some more because there's a specific pango I was going for and I hadn't figured it out yet. There wasn't a curly hair pixie option either. 5.4/10

This... fucking goober. Casey Arnaldo Goongala-ass Jones. My fault for using Elden Henson (iykyk) and Avan Jogia as face inspo when I was still learning how to use heroforge's new in-depth facial editor. It's.... close. Enough. Ish. 4.1/10

And then I got curious about my non-human cast....

Mikey's tucked in a sleeve don't worry about it because I could only get 3 turtles from the options available, technically I could have gotten in all four but then I'd have to take the staff out which I preferred not to because I'm more of the Teacher and Master Splinter than Father and Daddy Splinter. Couldn't get the two little tails mustache going which is a shame since I specifically gave my Splinter the Nicodemus cut. Saw I could slap a huge scroll on him and took the opportunity hahaaaa that isn't a stolen scroll from the Foot clan stronghold naaaah, Splinter didn't take it in petty vengeance for Yoshi's death on the grounds of this clan. Hhh I'd have preferred a ryuusui or a yagasuri pattern but they had a seigaiha pattern... good enough. 5.8/10

Then I tried to make turtles. Which there is a legitimate option for! Specific turtle head (singular choice), reptilian body... just I fucked up trying to see how close I could get to my actual drawings... and I saw into the abyss...

.......................... this felt illegal somehow. i had to stop. i couldn't do a front shot, it was horrifying. 1.4/10

Pretty happy I was able to give her the Chiaki Kuriyama nose and the snobby ojousan look using the face editor. Extremely tickled I figured out just the right shine for leather. The asymmetrical bob....... is as close as I could get to her actual side swept wispy pixie, tradeoffs I guess. 7/10

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Ghostbusters (2016, Paul Feig)

28/11/2023

Ghostbusters is a 2016 film directed by Paul Feig.

The film marks the reboot of the series of the same name, with a new team of female Ghostbusters, played by Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.

Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert are two theoretical physics scholar who together wrote a book in which they argue that paranormal phenomena, such as ghosts, really exist. Abby, Erin and Jillian witness the first physical manifestation of a ghost they have ever seen, filming it and posting the video on YouTube, which leads to Erin's immediate dismissal and her loss of all credibility as a scientist by the entire community university.

Abby, Erin and Jillian manage to capture the ghost with their proton packs and film the operation, but their footage is once again mocked by the Internet public. Patty decides to join the team, making herself useful as she knows New York city very well and provides the group with a vehicle, a repurposed Cadillac hearse borrowed from her uncle.

When Rowan plants one of the devices in a venue where a heavy metal concert is being held, the Ghostbusters are called in and capture the ghost in front of the audience.

During the credits, Patty listens to a recording of an encounter with a ghost and asks the other three Ghostbusters if they have ever heard of Zuul.

~ Abigail "Abby" Yates, played by Melissa McCarthy, is a scholar of the paranormal world, willing to do anything to prove her theories.

~ Erin Gilbert, played by Kristen Wiig, Abby's best friend, was nominated to become a professor at Columbia University, a job she lost after it was revealed she co-authored a book about ghosts with Yates.

~ Jillian Holtzmann, played by Kate McKinnon, is a nuclear engineer, rebellious and courageous.

~ Patricia "Patty" Tolan, played by Leslie Jones, is a New York subway employee.

~ Kevin Beckman, played by Chris Hemsworth, is the secretary of the Ghostbusters, a muscular and charming but extremely dumb and childish boy, who can't even answer the phone.

~ Rowan North, played by Neil Casey, the film's main antagonist, is a mad scientist who becomes a ghost and attempts to unleash an army of ghosts to destroy the city.

~ Bradley, played by Andy García, is the Mayor of New York.

The protagonists of the first two Ghostbusters films participate in the film in some cameos:

- Bill Murray, Dr. Martin Heiss, a debunker who doesn't belive in the paranormal;

- Dan Aykroyd, a taxi driver;

- Ernie Hudson, Bill Jenkins, Patty Tolan's uncle;

- Sigourney Weaver, Rebecca Gorin, Jillian Holtzmann's professor and mentor;

- Annie Potts, the receptionist at the Mercado Hotel.

Ozzy Osbourne, Al Roker, Pat Kiernan, Cheryl Wills, Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly also participate in the film, playing themselves.

[ducknotinarow]

[Star Tots AU Brook Nina - because we talking about it on Discord xD]

Brooklyn looked up to her sister, in every way possible. Which is why she had gone to her for her next set of issues. She had already asked their dad about how he knew when he loved Peggy, but his answer had left Brook wary. He wasn't angry or anything when she, heavily, implied she had a crush on some guy at school. Actually, Brook couldn't really pin point what was going through his head at the time - but she felt it wasn't good, whatever it was.

So, instead, she went to Nina for help. Which was her second mistake in this entire thing. Maybe she should've asked Uncle Stark instead.

"Sooooo, Nin-Nin," Brook started, clutching the pillow she stole from her sisters bed as she got comfortable on the arm chair in their room, "If you wanted really liked someone, you know, romantically, how would you...ask them out?"

And suddenly, Brook is hearing boss music, and getting that same bad feeling she got when talking to dad. Face red, and hidden against the borrowed pillow, she immediately regretted this entire thing.

Well, as they say, in for a penny, in for a pound.

With a sigh, she looks up, voice partially muffled,

"It's Casey Jones, I want to ask out Casey Jones okay!" Her face couldn't get redder, even more so when she has to be a bit more specific, "The guy on the Hockey team, black hair, missing a few teeth?" Nope nothing, "The guy you beat up like two weeks ago for reasons I don't actually know - yes that Casey Jones!"

There was more regret in her then there was height. Groaning, she throws her head back dramatically, and makes her opinions known,

"I should've asked Uncle Tony for advice."

| Muse Interaction

Nina walked into her bedroom and dropped her bag to floor, her brain felt a little fried after hours of being in school letting her legs give out from under her weight as she dramatically crumbled to the floor. Closing her eyes she swore she would be seeing equations for weeks even in her sleep. Her brain felt like it would explored out from her skull with everything she was cramming into her skull. Letting her head rest back against the door uncaring if she was blocking the entrance to the tower for anyone else to come in. Nina had decided this was where she lived now. She could make it work she had her water bottle still with some water and she had some granola bars in the bottom of her bag that had just been living there for some time now right? She could survive off that alone. The door was budging though all Nina did was groan and flop over to lie on the floor slightly rolling away from it as she rested on her back.

Come on in" Nona groans "Don' talk ta me though my brains going to explored if I have to think anymore than I have" Nina complains only peeking open to see big wide eyes of her younger sister peering in before they walked in and made herself at home in the room. Nina returned to dying on the floor. STEM and AP classes were fun but man were they weighing down on her brain. She could maybe nap here on the floor?

"Sooooo, Nin-Nin,"

So much for that it seemed Nina groaned under her breath a little, Brook's tone made it clear she had something to ask her but that meant thinking. Thinking was off limits Nina just wanted to space out turn her mind off maybe watch some stupid mind numbing videos till she had to be back at school. She tips her head back though blue eyes opening to look at her sister once again. Nina sighs before moving to sit up now sticking to the floor for now but she dose at least remove her backpack.

"If you wanted really liked someone, you know, romantically, how would you...ask them out?"

"I dunno guess it depends on the person." Nina mentions, shes dated a bit here and there herself but it's a bit different when your only interested in girls yourself. "When I asked out Ruby I did it - wait." Nina's brain really must be out of commission if she only now was clocking in to everything she just heard.

Moving to stand up as she eyed her sister now. "Wait wait wait hold on a sec here." Nina starts her words moving faster across her tounge as she looks down at her sister. "Excstly who are you over here talkin 'bout?" Rolling her eyes as her sister simply moved to hide. "Shrimp you brought it up, might as well face music and spill. Or do ya really want me ta find out on my own? You know I will and you know I'll embrassed the fuck outta ya when I do."

Eyeing jer sister as she finds a way to hide into her Captian America sheild pillow she taken off from her bed before she made her self comfortable in the arm chair.

"It's Casey Jones, I want to ask out Casey Jones okay!"

Nina couldn't really make out what her sister had said here however though so she simply stood with a brow lifted. "Dude I can' speak mummble." Reaching over to grab from the pillow and force it away from her sisters hold.

"The guy on the Hockey team, black hair, missing a few teeth?"

She did at least catch the description of the guy. apparently, her sister was crushing on and thinking of asking out even. "That dosen't help there's 'ike almost thirty guys on our team."

"The guy you beat up like two weeks ago for reasons I don't actually know - yes that Casey Jones!"

Nina finally gave a sharp, hard tug and ripped the pillow out from her sisters hold as she smiled, feeling like she won the tug of war here. Before moving to think a bit on the answer. Casey Jones? Hockey team, and she apperntly kicked there ass? One would think any of that would be enough for Nina, especially the last, but we'll Nina wasn't excstly a model student when it came behavior. "That fuckin' punk ass weasel?" It did finally click who Brook was speaking about when Nina thought about it. Looking between her sister and the pillow she idly tosses it at her head before movingnto sit down on her bed.

"Nope not happening your too good from that guy. Anyone is too good for him." Nina doubles down as if she somehow as any right or say on this. "Ain't not way that guy who bearly can out up a fight gonna be datin' my baby sister! Why not litterally anyone else on the team? He'll the school even?" Nina goes to ask. Watch hiw brook tossed back her own head from annoyance over Nina's reaction here.

"I should've asked Uncle Tony for advice."

"Damn, you're desperate if you think the dude who ditched a chick on the roof would be useful here." Nina so nicely points out. Watching her sister a moment she rolls her eyes again. If she really had consider thier uncle though? She guesses that's saying something here. "Look why ya even waste breath on the guys name I ain't ever gonna understand nor do I want to so don' try being all." She pauses to set her cupped hands under her chin and offers her best mock Brooklyn voice she can in the moment making it pretty whiny on purpose when she dose. "But Nina he's a real swell guy once ya know him!"

Dropping both her hands and her expression as she fixes her sister with a look. "But I guess I can help. He plays hockey? There's a game soon why not get tickets and invite with us." She waits for Brook to pick up on the 'us' bit. As she pulls out her cell phone to start looking up tickets. "If you thought I was gonna let you go alone your crazy. I'll be chill enough to let us have space dunno of you can really talk at a game but for your sake might be a good thing." She was teasing when she said it.

"But I mean it if he turns octopus all the sudden he'll be getting up close to the ice when I fuckin' throw him to it." She threatened as she peered over the top of her phone before going back to what she was doing. "Sides, this way? Pops ain't cool with it we lie and say it's just us going."

[bluemangovibes]

Rise movie but Casey Jr is a Borrower au <3

A collaborative au between @smallification, @rainydaygt, and I! All this is my own writing about it, though!

Pre-apocalypse NYC is so different from post already. But he's a borrower. There would be so many people, everything is loud and bright, and dangerous in new ways that he's not trained for.

He's supposed to hide to sus out situations. But there's no rubble, and not enough nooks. He's out in the open, surrounded by constant foot traffic of people many times his size.

(Since he spawns in time square or something) There's not enough places to hook to. Everything is already too far, but even when close enough to buildings, the surfaces are too flat. There's not enough ridges for the hook to get caught on properly. He occasionally uses his hook on peoples' pant legs, but the density of people and the speed at which they walk make it near impossible not to get hit. He eventually gets to a safe spot, but can't rest there for long. The fate of the world is in his (tiny) hands.

Casey trusts Commander O'Neil, and knows that she would respect him, but he still feels so... Helpless. When talking to people from the ground. So, he elects to yell at her from the top of an on-campus streetlight, and move to a more appropriate speaking area after. April being yelled at still triggers her «cat-like reflexes,» but less in the «someone is directly behind me,» way and more the «where the fuck is the threat,» kind of way.

April is very shocked (and suspicious) of this tiny guy that knows her name, and is *apparently* from the future. She's feigning agreenent with him, and texts the gang to «let them know they're coming» (aka tell them whats up bcuz. Little future man???). Casey is decently comfortable with her (seeing as she's the Commander), he doesn't mind being carried, and sits on her shoulder on and off talking to her on the way there (the Commander was always someone to respect, but he's just so happy to see her again. To see anyone he knew), except for when they get close enough for April to decide he can't see where they're going in case he's like. A robot or something. But that's a theory that dwindled more and more the longer they spent time together. He seems so... Real. Person-like. Too soft in multiple ways to be a robot. He could still be a threat, though.

He agrees to going in the pocket, because he trusts the Commander in her decisions. Why wouldn't he?