#but i might start to drag out this thing

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[notsodailycake]

Adding my own two cents bc HOLY SHIT YES!! Wish this was talked about more

My story is the same as saltynsassy31 (we're twins lol) so I'll cut to the case and say how i also had like, misconceptions about 2012 due to my fuzzy memory of the show. Tho i definitely watched and remembered more of it then salty did, so i didn't bite to far into the bait

I remembered the good parts, i didn't remember April being bad, or Raph being horrible, so when i saw posts about it i felt...kinda sad? Idk, but i didn't like it

And fuck, i was right, it wasn't as bad as they said. When i rewatched it, i loved their dynamics! I thought it worked out well. So to me those folks come across as either single children who never had to fight with a sibling, or had a real bad sibling relationship and idk, has a weird perception of it,,

I got so upset seeing so many do crossovers and it's just "rise being better then 2012" in the sibling relationship. And i cant express it enough, i hate it. Bc 2012 portrayed such a fun and relatable dynamic for me, with my own sister, and so did rise. But that praise to rise kinda..threw me off from wanting more of rise, i love the show and do wanna watch more, but im just so discouraged by the fandom taking shit on older versions sometimes

Not saying the other side doesn't throw shit either, but i haven't seen it as often as rise fandom :(

Raph was such a big softie, and he's exactly my type of character honestly. I kinda have anger issues myself so i can relate to him, and so it hurts to see others potray him as such a heartless being, when he just has trouble controlling his temper, but he does care A LOT for his brothers, I'd say he is more of a mother hen then Leo at times!

It just hurts bc i can just imagine someone berating me and my sister's relationship and how we treat each other, when how we treat each other is mutual. She annoys the shit out of me and i bite back! Sure we "bully" each other, but it's all fun and games, we can get a little toxic, but it's only human, we aren't perfect beings who do no wrong

We talk it out and apologise when we go to far, and the Raphs do the same, in their own way. Like we dont actually apologise either, we just fight, have a cool down, and then go back to watching Tmnt together and silently apologise

Nothing more needed

I wouldn't change what i have with my sister one bit, bc whag we have is special in its own way. And i see the same with Raph and his brothers, and as much as i would hate to have someone say shit about how i treat my sister or vise versa, bc there is a "better" version of us, i hate so as well when they do it to Raph

Tho i do remember one post of someone asking an artist who had their doodle requests open, to draw Rise Raph teaching 2k3 and 2k12 Raph a lesson for mistreating their Mikeys, and thag just..just got me sooo pissed!! But i had a breath of fresh air when i saw that the artist just made Rise raph be nice and understanding!! Saying how he wouldn't hurt the other raphs like that! Which yes!

And it brings me to another point to my rage, how they end up butchering Rise raph as well! Like he's gonna get mad, or "teach them a lesson" for mistreating their Mikeys/brothers, like, no??? He wouldn't?? He'd probably be understanding and try to help them manage their temper dammit!!

Now I'm just going on a rant here, and possibly just dragging this on, but i just had to let it out. Cuz it's nice to know me and my sister aren't the only ones who feel the same way

I am filled with such an intense rage oh my god I'm so fucking sick and tired

Just saw an art on Instagram where 2012 Raph, for no reason at all, insulted Rise Mikey's drawing.

What the fuck. What the actual FUCK.

Can we stop doing this please? Like oh my god I'm seeing it so much still and it's actually getting to me and it's just as hurtful/harmful as it was when I was in the Rise fandom. Like why are Rise fans like this????

I recognize the people that love 2012 and getting into it. But the hate is still rancid as all hell and it actively hurts me. I don't know if it should but it does.

Raph would never do something like that. It's so out of character for him like you guys he's not fucking evil I swear.

Stop demonizing 2012 just to make your characters look good. Just stop it.

Furthermore: If you do not like watching 2012

THEN STOP WATCHING IT JUST SO YOU CAN RAG ON IT

Like seriously what other reason would you have to watch something you don't like??!! I understand that some of you want to willingly give 2012 a chance, and while it is appreciated, if you only get a few episodes in and notice that it's not for you, then stop. Watching it.

End of story.

I'm not kidding it is HARMFUL. It is MEAN. So please, STOP.

I've had enough of this I swear to god-

[concrete-3ater]

if I had a nickel for every time I was in a fandom and a child character had a breakdown and did something that accidentally hurt another character, and then the fandom all turned on the character and vilified them because they [the fandom] can’t understand that sometimes 14 year olds make mistakes when they’re going through something traumatic, I would have 2 nickels

not a lot but it really is weird it happened twice

[muri-ne]

been playing webfishing a lot and then i got enabled by a friend to draw a bunch of my lil guy who is def Not up to any mischief. the dog chara is friend's :D

[seventhdoctor]

Graduation photos, episodes 161 and 167

[crystalkitty1220]

Man I wonder where the leader of the fear realm could've gone, it's alMOST LIKE NEVIN HAS AN

[sesamenom]

alright you’ve been extremely extremely kind and indulgent to me about my oc and i cannot possibly thank you enough <333333 so MY turn now to ask YOU about YOURS. please tell me about maglor’s distant granddaughter who is also your bbeg?? .w. or about the chatty hobbits i would very VERY much love to hear about both!!!

~ @nelyoslegalteam, reporting from main <3

(long post, sorry for the random people stumbling upon this lol)

so I'm the dm for the chatty hobbits campaign and essentially it's set in a beleriand-adjacent continent, but with a few extra races and stuff. of the founders of the original settlements, the king of elende (the elf kingdom) is Gil-galad's (invented for the campaign) twin brother Finellach/Finwain. originally he was inspired by the fact that gil galad has a ton of names but only uses ereinion/gil, so I just invented a new character and gave him half the names. I headcanon gil galad as maglor's son, so finwain is in universe maglor's son (left at the havens with gil bc his wife divorced him for kinslaying and his kingdom, being next door neighbors with morgoth, is far too dangerous for small children).

Anyways, his descendant Elinyel (also known as aramire or elinnor) is the current queen of Elende! she's an evil fire-themed bard who is extremely feanorian in all the worst ways - her actual kingdom prospered under her reign, but she just does not care about everyone else as long as she's protecting her people. There were some tensions with one of the major kingdoms to the north (conflict over unclaimed territory between the kingdoms and some tariff stuff), so instead of risking the other kingdom starting a war and hurting her people, she just preemptively invaded it and started burned all the border territories to the ground.

her actual coronation was pretty weird- so she's the second child, but her older sister was born in wartime and there's a general belief in elende that children of peacetime make better rulers, so Elinyel was chosen as her family's heir. her grandfather (the crown prince of his generation) died defending Elende in one of the major wars, but his younger brother and two young kids survived. there's a whole feud between their houses because the brother chose to retain the kingship even after the kids were old enough to take the throne. anyways, two generations later Elinyel killed her cousin Arendil (the previous king of Elende) over a dispute about the legitimacy of his house (and what she believed to be a dishonoring of her grandparents' sacrifice) and took the throne.

obviously she has many Issues. arendil also has two surviving kids who are now essentially trying to stop her from murdering all their neighbors in proactive defense of her people.

however, when she first ascended she recruited her friend group as her elite guard/vassals of the kingdom. (aka the other bosses in the storyline). so it escalated to a war between her forces and the children of arendil, which ultimately culminated in her beloved sister being killed by one of arendil's children. this in turn led to her having basically a massive mental breakdown and feeling like she failed to protect her loved ones (exacerbated by some of her other friends being killed in battles she led). a normal person might decide this is was kind of her fault for starting a war and putting her friends in charge of the army. instead she decided she needed to destroy everyone who could ever potentially pose a threat. which is, in her eyes, literally everyone on the continent (except for her kingdom, of course).

so now she is at war with absolutely everyone of all factions! She is also somehow winning by virtue of Song almost on the level of maglor himself, and ten (now six) also incredibly powerful friends. Anyways, she has decided that the best way to wipe out the continent (except her kingdom) and start fresh is to literally find an ancient lost stone that can break the Doors of Night, summon Morgoth himself, and start the Dagorath. obviously this will Not go well for anyone at all if she succeeds, but she is on a full-on rampage and genuinely believes she (plus friends) can protect her kingdom from Morgoth's army while he wipes out everyone else.

Here's some old art of her btw!

And some slightly more recent unfinished art of her and the Evil Friend Group from when they were younger:

and here's (L-R) her cousin who is the 3rd boss, Elinyel, and her sister from before the war!

[goldiipond]

[points up to a graph with a line drawn in crayon] and if we take a look at the average amount of years between each paper mario title's release date, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect a new paper mario game sometime this year[i am immediately chased out of the room by a security guard with a spray bottle

[c0rpsedemon]

oh yeah. the reason why i decided to reread tbhk (and thus it was able to hit me like a truck this time around) was actually not bc of mitsukou going canon but actually bc i maybe accidentally started a tbhk book club w my kids at work and wanted to check the contents of it justttt in case before i put the books in their hands

[simplyghosting]

Depression is always like “no one loves you” “you’re just a nuisance”“lie awake in torment” and “attempt to sleep for 100 years” blah blah blah as if I don’t KNOW that people love me and I’ve got stuff I’ve gotta do. get the heck out of my way.

[cowboyhorsegirl]

Steve is most likely to end up in a lavender marriage and Tony's most likely to end up in a “married for tax/immigration/inheritance fraud” reasons.

They meet as married men and pine for each other hardcore and are also trying not to read too much into how their interest seems reciprocated and oh nooooo both Immigration/the IRS and the the Church/in-laws/DADT era army dudes or whatever are snooping around at the same time at each of their marriages and they have to be so good at being married at the people they are married to oh noooooo and they other guy doesn’t know why they are suddenly being iced out and maybe they were just imagining things? maybe it’s for the best with all these eyes around on them…

[helielune]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[dirt-str1der]

just wanna say im obsessed with your mind and i read your posts about kiryu like the morning paper. thank you for your service

(Sweats) e-even the ones about him laying eggs ?

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[crimmson]

between my computer deciding to rebel, and work, and life, and I feel like I have a perpetual minor cold with that kinda slightly stuffy feel and that taste in the back of my throat,

I am kindly requesting someone to just Old Yeller me at this point

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Ya know, every animatronic in Meteors (turned or not) would absolutely have a collection of random things from the outside world. I'm not sure what everyone would end up favouring specifically, but I know that every single one of them has at least a temporary fascination with plants.

Look at this little flower! It's so tiny! How can something so small grow like that? What do you mean the trees were once like little sticks in the ground?! Grass just... Grows?? On its own??? How's it do that...??? How does it survive the winter??? THIS is where food comes from???? Wait, you can just... grow stuff on your window sill???? How do they grow if they don't eat...? HOW'D THIS PLANT GET UNDER THE CONCRETE?!