#but yeah idk something else I’m thinking about

[quibbs126]

Also I have to wonder, what’s the extent of what choices the Terrans have in their alt modes? Specifically when it comes to their sizes, because their bodies themselves don’t have much inclination to any particular alt mode

Like I know they aren’t all accurate to their alt mode’s counterpart, specifically with the animal alts, particularly Nightshade’s. But like, if Twitch were to have scanned a car, would she have just become a mini sized car? Or would she not be able to scan it at all? If any of them (outside of maybe Jawbreaker and Hashtag) were to scan a semi-truck, would they be able to become one? Would they change sizes to become one?

I guess it doesn’t matter, I’m just curious if there are limits due to their sizes

[alivebaguette]

I survived getting into storytelling podcasts and all I got was a fucking gender crisis

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

[quietwingsinthesky]

i must say. mr simm obviously makes every scene he’s in very fun and delightful. but. idk. this does not feel quite like my cat from end of time. there’s a weird sorta disconnect here. i guess to emphasize how different missy is from him?

[cuteniaarts]

2 hour rough drawing of Ehuang, my precious Green Opal child who I don’t draw nearly enough <3

[loderlied]

i will go to sleep NOW 🫵 (pointing at myself)

[quibbs126]

Oh yeah so I had this idea earlier when I was thinking about Beast Wars, only reason I didn’t post it earlier was because I got dragged out to dinner

Anyways, so basically I had this thought of a Transformers series where basically the Autobots and Decepticons crash land on Earth, and due to them having no clue where they are and no current way of getting back home, they decide to work together, at least for the time being

So like, the main group of protagonists would consist of both Autobots and Decepticons

But also it wouldn’t be the entirety of both groups working together, as members on both sides refuse to work with the other for one reason or another and instead decide to do their own thing, being their own separate parties that probably cause trouble from time to time. But every member here has their own reasons why they are or aren’t fine with teaming up, and why they’re on one side or the other

I kind of don’t want Optimus and Megatron there, probably because I was thinking of Beast Wars which doesn’t have them, and also because I want to see this alliance come from characters other than them. But at the same time I feel like they kind of have to be there. My current solution is that the two were on a different part of the ship that came off during the crash landing, and in current day (assuming they all were unconscious for a bit like g1 or Animated) the two are missing, which might be a reason for the two groups to team up. Their goals are to: find fuel, find everyone that might have gone missing, find a way to contact/get back to Cybertron, and find their leaders

I’m not entirely sure what’s going on with Optimus and Megatron here yet, just that they’d probably be absent until like, maybe the end of the season or something

But one concept that did come to mind is that whoever found them basically decided to stitch the two of them together using each’s body parts into one powerful robot (probably not knowing what they really are), and so the two are pretty much fused together into one, with them having to deal with this, assuming they still have a mind anymore. And also with this concept, this Frankenstein of them is specifically not one or the other with the other’s body parts, it’s both of them in there, through whatever magic means. Or neither if we just want the body horror and the new team having to put them down. Or I suppose you could have instead their minds/sparks being fused into an entirely new being. Didn’t really think about that concept until right now. But yeah, might not be the concept I stick with, but it is the one in my head right now

Edit: all I know is that I don’t think I want it to just be “they decide to work together”, because while I’m down for a solo Optimus and Megatron team-up side plot, the rest of the group is already doing the team-up, so it’d be treading the same ground. I want to do something different with them, and fusing them together into one being certainly is that. Throws a wrench into the whole war thing too

And yeah, I just wanted to share this concept because I thought it was neat. I would try to develop it more, but I have literally no clue who would be on either side, because the only characters I think about are Optimus and Megatron, and I also don’t really want Starscream and probably Bumblebee here either

[splorpo]

.

[shot-by-cupid]

I was in the middle of making an actual f/o list when I decided actually I don’t want to do that

[silentsockfeet]

ugh it’s just. i really do love arcane so so much. which is why s2 is stinging so bad. i’m disappointed in a lot of it and i think i’m always gonna mourn the potential it had. but all i’ve been doing since act 3 dropped is stewing over it and talking with my friends about it and airing out our grievances and i’m tired. i’m tired of being grumpy over it. i just want to love it for everything it did right and accept it for everything it fell short in. but it’s gonna hurt for a while

[deus-ex-mona]

we are united in a common cause on this ✨#blessed✨ day

[the-irrelevant-trumpeter]

tumblr is the ideal social media for me because i’m truly just yelling into a void, which means i don’t have to be as worried about what people think. i’m not a part of actual conversations, i’m not (most of the time) creating content to be shared. it’s just me living in my own little world, which is exactly what i need.

[m-ercutios]

every few months i seriously look into the process of converting to judaism before remembering that i do not, in fact, believe in god

[marsixm]

feeling decently hopeful & positive about life rn, feeling optimistic about my current time management processes and doing more fulfilling things i want to

[mangoisms]

OH i forgot to add this re this reblog. My Thoughts so i won’t clog op’s tags or needlessly add onto it since this is just. Again. Me. but yeah. as a brief aside. fun thing is at one point u stop being afraid of asking stuff off anon. and if it’s for the sake of comics i don’t mind at all. but it is interesting that it isn’t a thing. the whole ‘no metas in gotham’ thing. i suppose a better way to look at bruce’s stance on outside superheroes/vigilantes is that gotham is very much his city. or that’s what it seems like to me. because you have jason. and helena. and i mean it’s also fine to be like. Hey maybe don’t kill people. But like. i think the issue between helena and bruce has always kind of been. she won’t do what he says. we saw that A Lot in no man’s land and then she did do things his way as batgirl before he was, of course, ultimately deeply unreasonable and held her to absolutely insane and impossible standards that she failed to achieve and used that as an excuse for why she won’t cut it and then she went back to being huntress.. BUT i digress

the impression that it’s his city really does come through anyway. so what he says goes. which isn’t hard to extrapolate to allowing/not allowing metas in the city. it’s not TRUE as we saw but nonetheless. he gets a say. and i do feel like with how he is portrayed more and more these days (or at least i think in the late 2000s/early 2010s? they’re trying to push the happy nuclear batfam thing/bruce is a good dad/they see him as a dad (they don’t and shouldn’t) these days i think) as this deeply authoritarian figure with an uber amount of resources and access to very private info. but it does come back to. this is my city. i say who can be here and who can’t. which is an… interesting and not at all weird thought process

i do think. NOT to excuse myself. as far as fanon goes. this isn’t the worst of it. if anything it’s maybe the Least worst thing because you could actually believe it and i think he does have the capacity for it. but what we do have is a firm stance on what he says goes so. yeah