#got the bit by the bug in 2012

[pocketofmemoirs]

Came across this clip and it had me cracking up thinking of bechloe dynamic in the movies and fanfics 😂😂😂

[causticsunshine]

guys i cannot lie.... i have turtle brainrot

[imagionationstation]

Something I was thinking about today:

The claim that Splinter “never feeds his sons human food” and they have to discover it upon reaching the surface is a curious one.

It makes sense given common information.

Let’s use our big brains. Reason out some more info.

Info like… Splinter must have looked up information about turtles before buying four baby turtles.

However, after getting turned into a rat and ending up a father to infants on the run from aliens, he probably never got the chance to go to the library or use the Internet to look up information on how to feed a half-human half-turtle hybrid baby.

(Not that the Internet had forums for that yet. Was the internet prevalent in 2012…?)

So he just. Fed them turtle food and hoped for the best.

(The Japanese are know for eating insects. And algae is commonly used in all kinds of their recipes. For Americans, it sounds crazy. For Splinter, it was just an adaption of his own diet in the hopes of providing his mutant children with safe, normal turtle food.)

By the time they were kids, they’d probably just gotten used to a routine. We really have no proof that algae and worms is bad for the turtles. Tastes yucky? Maybe. But humans eat plants and bugs too.

Splinter was likely just working with what he knew.

But I don’t think they only ever ate algea. Don’t get me wrong-

The theory is totally understandable. I was onboard for this claim for a while myself. Then, I rewatched Lone Rat and Cubs. (Bebés 🥰🥰)

And he definitely introduces them to foods.

I’m seeing noodles, gyoza, (bamboo stick?), and he also throws down something yellow that I can’t recognize. We also see him collecting bread for them and dangling food over the little piranha children.

He continues to collect products for them. Maybe not the healthiest because he’s literally raiding trashcans but… He’s trying.

And then we have some popcorn proof that he’s still introducing them to human foods when they’re kiddos, with Mikey happily snacking on some while they’re in the dojo.

During the series, we see very little new introductions to foods. They eat romen, icecream, popcorn, and drink milk, tea, and other human things without so much as batting an eye.

Ergo, they’ve had human foods. They’ve just never had pizza.

Why do they act like such goobers when introduced to pizza?

BECAUSE THEY’RE GOOBERS, YOUR HONOR!!!

Though- they actually act similarly when introduced to pizza gyoza.

They hesitate. And then something explodes with how tasty it is.

But because this list is far to short to be a proper analysis, there’s also the point to be made for the first episode where they have an entire kitchen set-up going around them.

And I’m no New York Subway expert, but do they normally have kitchens set up within them? Probably not.

Which means that Splinter (and/or his sons) must have set this up. Why set up pantries, a fridge, and a stove if you did not intend to house foods or make foods to cook on them?

After all, the food on the plates appear fresh and raw.

They have an algae pool for harvesting in the lab. Why would they need to create an entire kitchen set-up simply to prepare them?

Also, they know how to use chopsticks for big and small foods. If they’d spent their entire lives eating small foods, it would be a teenie bit difficult to change the method of picking up a fatter breading than a tiny greenery or worm. Especially with mutant hands.

But they don’t hesitate. As if they have picked up larger foods before.

Also, also, they know what a cake is. What it’s supposed to be made out of. Hence why Leo knows what “icing” is.

I’m not normally that excited to taste something that I’ve never tried before (unless someone is hyping me up). It feel implied that they have and that’s why they’re disappointed that Mikey made one of not-cake substances and why Mikey looks like he has regrets.

Also, also, also- considering Splinter eats the algae and worms too, I don’t believe that he has the turtles on a purely algae based diet because he’d have to stick himself on one too. Man’s not a fan.

And he knows that other foods exist. So. Why would he?

In other words, my favorite analogy:

I hate Spinach salad. My mother used to make us eat Spinach salad.

Were there better things to eat than Spinach? Yeah.

Did mom even listen to that point? Nope.

But was it still technically good for me so I was forced to stomach Spinach salad until I was old enough to design my own diet?

You betcha. And I hated every minute of it 👍

So, to end this, I have to say that while algea and worms could have been (at maximum) a common meal for the turtles, I don’t think it was their only meal option. I’m not necessarily saying it was the best idea or the tastiest meal for a birthday-type celebration, but the turtles definitely had outside food exposure.

Do with this knowledge what you will.

[pawnshopbleus]

Callback Chapter Two - 2012

Ellie Williams x Fem!Reader x Abby Anderson

Summary: Ellie Williams, former actress turned maid is tired of wasting her talents scrubbing floors of mansions in the Hollywood Hills. She knows she destined for greatness, but she just needs to be given another chance.

Abby Anderson, Hollywoods most in demand actress with several accolades under her belt has a duty to fulfill. She must remain at the top.

Two former best friends cross paths to fight for a role both of them need, but as their rivalry becomes even more cut throat, there is something that remains constant: their love for you.

Basically, Challengers but Ellabs Hollywood AU

Previous Chapter.

LOS Angeles was not kind to those who were different. You learned that the first night alone in the city of angels. Your big puffer jacket did shield you from the cold back home, but in Southern California, it just made you look stupid. The coldest it got at night was a breezy 59 degrees. Women wore small cardigans and running shorts while men sported thin t-shirts that showed off their impossibly chiseled physiques. People on the sidewalk glanced at you, enveloped in the big blue puff, their expression anything but warm.

You gave the jacket to a homeless woman who was only clad in a small tank top. She needed it more than you did after all, but as you were browsing the H&M on 7th and Fig, you felt a pang in the bottom of your stomach. That puffer jacket might have been one of the last things tethering you back to Manhattan. Sure, you still owned the clothes you wore in the crowded streets and dirty subways, but that puffer represented New York. The eyesore of a color that was turquoise paralleled the bright lights of Times Square. The uniqueness of it in a city that strives to have everyone blend in was the principle of New York. Nobody gave a fuck if you wore a thong and sat your bare ass on the subway seats because there would always be someone crazier, but in LA, you were the crazy person.

Your parents weren’t impossibly rich, but you grew up comfortable. A brownstone in the Upper West Side, summer vacations in the Hamptons, and the occasional lunch with a Hollywood producer. During a five-year period that she likes to recount fondly, your mother was a model, the picture of beauty and grace. She had many lovers, but none that stuck, until your father. He was poorer than the rest, but was still wealthy compared to the general population. A year later, they were married, and two months after that, they had you.

During that period, your mother connected with some of the most influential people in the entertainment industry. It was inevitable; she was a beautiful young woman addicted to glitz and glamour. She saw a little bit behind the curtain, but not enough to alarm her. She was coked out of her mind half of the time, blinded by the disco balls and lasers bouncing off the walls of dingy New York nightclubs. Even after she had retired, she still held onto the phone numbers of those she deemed important. She brought you around them, exposing you to the industry at a very early age. Film producers and casting agents pinching your chubby little cheeks as your past self had absolutely zero clue just how powerful those fingers were.

Acting never really interested you. The thought of regurgitating someone else’s words while pretending to be someone you’re not made you feel sick. Not flu levels of sickness, but maybe a minor stomach bug. You wanted to be an astronaut, soaring above the Earth in a ship built on the backs of some of the world's smartest men and women. The stars would be within your reach, the sun just a few light years away. Golden hour would be taken to the next level.

Then, math got involved. The subject with useless letters and numbers was the vain of your existence. Hours spent crying over your homework because finding the sum of 3 plus 7 was too much for your five-year-old brain. Finding out that you would have to become a master in the art of math was like a stab to the heart. Everything you had ever dreamed of was turned into dust within seconds.

Your mother always said that you were too pretty for math. She always did see a little bit of herself in you. Having inherited everything from her: face, body, and a need for attention, she liked to live vicariously through you. Her days as a model were long over, having traded the runway in for a vacuum and countless PTA meetings.

You were too gangly and ungraceful for the runway. They would eat you alive, and your mother knew that. If not a model, then an actress would surely do.

You didn’t want to admit it to her at first, but the more you attended acting lessons, the more you fell in love with it. Movies used to be something your mother put on when she wanted to go outside and smoke a cigarette instead of eating lunch, but they soon turned into something useful. They gave you insight into what you should and shouldn’t do. Every single DVD in your house was scratched from how often you were watching them. The Pirate, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, was among your favorites. There was something so inherently sexual in both of their performances that made your thirteen-year-old self sizzle with both intrigue and desire. Some might call it a bisexual awakening, but for you, it just felt natural. To be attracted to both men and women felt as if that was the way the world was supposed to work. You could choose either a phony pirate or a sassy dame, but why stop there? Why not have both?

Soon after The Pirate incident, you found yourself doing better and better with each acting lesson. Your joints loosened, and your speech was clearer. You were reciting each line and monologue with your own unique twist. It was as if you were born for this. To be among the stars in a completely different way than you once intended. Instead of soaring high above crowds, you’d be right below their feet, the pavement cementing your legacy for generations to come.

Fast forward to now, you’re 20 years old and in a completely different city and state than the one you grew up in. There are no bodega cats roaming around the little liquor store on the corner of the street. The people in the apartment next to you fight every night over who’s going to do the dishes, and the one thing connecting you back to your hometown is now in the possession of someone else. The metro ride back to Hollywood from Downtown is long, and the music flowing from your iPod touch to your earbuds does little to calm your nerves. Your bottom lip has already been through enough, having almost chewed it raw with anxiety. You have your first-ever audition tomorrow at noon. You should be asleep right now, letting your mind rest so that in the morning, you’ll wake up rested and ready to ace the audition, but self-sabotage is your best friend.

You walk up the stairs of the subway station and into the darkness of the night. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is lit by the lights from the shops still open even this late into the night. Club goers and others still roam the streets, bumping alongside you as Lana Del Rey croons into your ears. You saw her perform live on SNL earlier in the year; her infamous performance was authentic in your opinion. Not everyone was able to be a great vocalist like Beyoncé, but Del Rey possessed the ability to artfully create songs that were perfect for any situation.

Two solid bodies bump into you, and you stumble backwards. You fall flat on your ass, a sharp pain traveling from your bottom to the top of your shoulders. You sit there awkwardly, letting the embarrassment settle into your system. You look up at the two figures standing regretfully above you. One of them, a bulky blonde, and the other, a skinny brunette, extend their hands and help you up off of the floor.

You barely have time to ask them their names before they bolt once more, leaving you standing there dazed and confused. Seconds later, paparazzi pass you, cameras in hand ready to get the perfect shot. You’ve never seen them in action before and you’re glad you haven’t. The determined glint in their eyes is anything but positive. It’s predatory and disgusting.

You dust yourself off and continue the walk back to your overpriced apartment. It’s right on this famous strip, giving you the perfect view of the traffic down below. For $2,000 a month you’d hoped for something a little bit more artsy, but at least you had a roof over your head. Not everyone had that same luxury.

Once back in the solace of your apartment, you cleanse yourself of the dirt from outside and collapse onto your bed, falling into a restless sleep. The image of the two women standing in front of you haunts your dreams. The memory of their calloused hands makes you clench your own, trying to replicate the same roughness.

THANKFULLY, you wake up the next morning two hours before you have to leave. Thanks to your mother, it doesn’t take long to get ready. She drilled you early on how to do your makeup in a way that accentuates your natural beauty. Your hair is a different story. It’s one of the only things you inherited from your father. Every morning, you have to wrestle with it and pray to whatever higher power is up there that you’ll have a good hair day.

You settle on an outfit your mother would approve of. Even at 20 years of age, you can’t get rid of the nagging voice in the back of your head. It has the same cadence as your mother, and you’re sure that if it were somehow able to magically take form in front of you, it would have your mother's long legs and her signature '50s pinup curls.

On the metro to your audition, you sit next to this lanky fellow with what seems like a penchant for creeping women out. Any other day, you would pay no mind to him, but today, your anxiety is through the roof. Your heart is racing, your knees are bouncing restlessly, and you really need to pee. Thankfully, your stop is the next one, and once the train does come to a stop, you bolt out of your seat and exit the musty train car.

There’s a big yellow barrier in front of all the escalators that makes you halt. Big black letters form the worst three words you’ve ever read in your life. “Out of Service,” glares back at your trembling exterior. Of course, this would happen to you. Out of all the days for the escalators to be out of order, they just had to stop working on one of the most important days of your life.

You take a deep breath in, count to ten, and take a deep breath out. If your therapist were here, he’d tell you that everything is going to be fine. That it’ll always work out in the end, but he’s never been a girl stuck in her own mind thinking of scenarios in which everything could go terribly wrong. Just like the one you were currently in.

You brace yourself to walk up the stairs. You’ve walked everywhere in New York, so a few stairs shouldn’t hurt, right? Wrong. You counted 467 steps until the subway station spat you out onto the street. Thankfully, the Universal lot was right across the street. The sweat already caked onto your skin couldn’t possibly get worse with simply crossing a street.

So, you crossed the street and talked to the lovely security guard posted at the gates. He must have been the nicest person you have met since you arrived in this city. He led you to the building you needed to go to, wishing you good luck.

The Universal lot was everything you’ve ever imagined. Golf carts whizzed past you, massive sound stages towered over you, and you’re pretty sure you saw Kristen Stewart come out of a trailer. In the distance, you could hear the pleasant and awed conversations as a studio tour tram drove by. On Broadway, the theater world felt accessible to its fans. Despite its grandeur, New York was a small city. You could wait outside the stage door and greet your favorite stage actor or run into them getting lunch after a matinee performance. Los Angeles, on the other hand, felt like an entire continent and each movie studio was its own little state. The gates kept the common people away from the stars.

The audition room was cold, making the dropplets dripping down your skin freeze in its tracks. Your skin was sticky with sweat and you’re sure your mascara is already starting to smudge. You look around the room, eyes meeting a dozen other hopeful actresses that all look the same. They’re beautiful. You have to be in this industry or else you get passed up for someone else the producer wants to fuck. The thought of being leered at by men who are in positions of higher power makes you shudder. There are so many problems with this industry, but thankfully as time goes on, it gets better.

A PA calls your name and on shaky legs, you get up and follow her into the tiny casting room. You look like a newborn fawn just learning how to walk. Four people sit at a table on the opposite side of the room, their eyes laced with intrigue the moment you walk in. You keep yours trained to the floor until the very last moment. You summon all the courage you know that’s inside of you and pretend. Today, you are going to pretend your ass off.

And you pretend like you aren’t completely dumbfounded by the two people sitting at the end of the table in front of you. The blonde and brunette are the same ones from last night. The image of their solid bodies running from the paparazzi suddenly flashes through your mind. You were so frazzled when you fell flat on your ass that you didn’t realize who knocked you down.

Abby Anderson and Ellie Williams, Hollywood’s hottest duo, stare back at you. They both wear the same expression you are now, realization. It’s at that moment do you realize just what this audition is for.

Everyone across the country loves the show Eternal Summer, led by the two actresses in front of you. Their characters, Summer and Callie, warm the hearts of millions with their representation of what it’s like to juggle college while also exploring the complex realities of finding everlasting friendships and relationships. The queer representation is handled with care and consideration by the writers and the actresses themselves.

In the show, Summer, played by Ellie, has a girlfriend. The actress who played her girlfriend had recently been arrested due to tax fraud. Instead of writing the girlfriend off, the producers decided to just recast her.

This role was highly sought after, and it would be yours.

You slate, and begin acting out the scene you’ve studied for months. Everything flows out of you perfectly and authentically. You’re emotional and witty, mixed into a single body. As you go into a small monologue about needing to feel wanted in a relationship, all your prior nerves and anxiety slip out of you. It’s as if you were cool as a cucumber all this time.

Once you’re done, they clap. They clap like they haven’t seen anyone perform this well since Audrey Hepburn passed away. You bask in the praise, bowing like you’re a prima ballerina taking her final bow.

A week later, your agent calls you with the best news of your entire life.

You got the part.

Divider by @graphicsbymouse

Tag List: @reneesub, @elliespotion

Author's Note: Can you tell that everything I know about New York is from TikTok and my two-day trip back in 2022?

Next Chapter - Coming Soon.

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

Hey, I don't know if this is already on that ever growing list of cat shorts, or if you feel up to adding to it, but mabye a version of the chapter 54 multi- ford, but with Bill wins Stan and Ford instead?

I was interested in this one for a while because i was interested in how the fords would react to each other, but thought it would probably be similar to the original so didn't ask. But for some reason it kept bugging me.

The reason hit me suddenly earlier today. Sure, how the other ford's reacting to bill wins Ford compared to cat Ford might be interesting, that's not the most interesting part.

It's how Bill wins Ford would react to the situation that's much more interesting and probably different.

I mean, for one, I'm not sure Bill would even try to contact this world in 2012. Ford stabbed him, so many times. If I were Bill I'd pass on that one unless it's revenge related. But he might.

Either way, this is a Ford that probably still walks with a Lazer gun, has unicorn hair sewn into both his and Stan's and probably the kid's clothes now too.

No matter that he has no translator, and that it's probably obvious with just a bit of observation he hasent been through the portal. Even though there are feral and battle scarred fords in the same room.

You can't tell me he wouldn't see something even remotely related to Bill, much less a Bill warlock, and that he wouldn't be the only Ford there to immediately lose all cool and go for the throat.

I can add it on! He'd definitely an interesting Ford.

Although I think the best version of multi Ford with Bill wins ford would not have Stan there at all. If Stan's there he can keep Ford mostly level and stable, as he's his designated emotional support cat. Ford might get snappy and hovery, but mostly just very twitchy and suspicious with everyone. Any Ford who's first reaction to Bill is violence can be explained away as normal if more severe Ford Bill truama.

Bill wins ford who gets shoved into the multiverse with no Stan there to either keep him calm or at least explain the situation would immediate go off the deep end again. He's full on tackling people here, desperately screaming for Stan and looking for awnsers how he got into the multiverse and how to get back to his home dimension. The moment he's left to his own devices he's stripping the walls for parts and restarting his weapons manufacturing, as he keeps emergency unicorn hair on him at all times.

The bill cultists opens the door to give him a translator and Ford is already going for the jugular. Doesn't care about freeing the other Fords he's on a one man quest to kill everything Bill related and find his Stan. Because obviously his Stan must be around here somewhere! Otherwise he's back at home alone and away from ford where Ford can't protect him!

Which is exactly where Stan is.

Cue maniacal laughter as Ford loses it. Again. Only comes back for the other Fords because theyre him and they must know how to get back right? Right? And if they don't then what even is the point of them?

So look forward to Ford loses it part 2: the multiverse.

[dykeknightrises]

FALLING

A/N: Sooo, I never actually wrote anything like this, but this one pretty much wrote itself randomly in my brain and I kinda liked it! So I appreciate any feedback I can get and I really hope you guys enjoy it :)

(Also english is not my first language. I did check it but something may not be quite right )

Next parts: Part 2 - PROMISES Part 3 - US

She smelled like the sun. Whether this is a real thing or not, Y/N didn’t care. Right now, buried under and completely surrounded by her, Y/N would vow on whatever entity really existed that Alexia smelled like the sun.

It wasn’t always the case. Before, Alexia smelled like comfort, maybe even a little bit like being under the covers, a mug of hot chocolate between her hands while the rain poured outside. Now everything changed. Now she smelled like summer, like the water wetting your feet right on the edge on the sand on a hot day spent on the beach.

The in-between of then and now, and even the before that, if Y/N was being honest, was a rollercoaster of joy, happiness, heartbreak, and sadness. Falling for Alexia was far too easy and almost a habit for her, she had been doing that for years now.

Y/N first fell in awe of Alexia when she watched her play her first u-17 Euros, back in 2010, when she was just fifteen. Even when the Young Lionesses didn’t go very far, Y/N managed to convince her parents that they absolutely had to stay for the whole tournament. 

Alexia was still a wide-eyed teenager, shy to give interviews and speak up, but so confident and skilled in the pitch that Y/N could not helped but to feel in absolute awe. It wasn’t even a question that the midfielder would be a great player and it wasn’t even a question that Y/N would start to keep up with her career the best she could, she would even use the poor excuse that the shared their position when her friends bugged her too much about it.

Y/N first feel in admiration with Alexia when she played against her during the 2012 u-19 Euros. Despite being only fifteen, Y/N was called up when someone got injured and even made the line-up for the game against Spain.

Ninety brutal minutes later that resulted in England being eliminated, Alexia made sure to speak and praise every single one of her opponents. That was the first time they ever spoke. Y/N wasn’t even sure if Alexia remembered that, but the praise the older girl gave her and the sheer amount of respect she was given made her admire Alexia as a player on a whole new level.

The “See you in a Champions League game.” that the older girl said goodbye with echoed in her head for years, until the moment she signed with Arsenal as her first professional contract a couple of years later. Y/N really hoped to play against Alexia again.

Y/N first fell in respect with Alexia in Budapest, during the Champions League final in 2019. Despite the overwhelming loss from the start, she watched as Alexia gave her blood on the pitch. One of the most agonizing games Y/N had ever watched, being able to even taste the desperation while surrounded by thousands of culés ins the stands.

She watched the absolute heartbreak the team faced, the broken stares as they watched Lyon lift the Champions League cup again. She watched as the twenty-five years old fourth captain picked her teammates up, reassured them and listened to them. She watched the midfield swallow her own despair and angst to take care of her teammates, as a captain and leader would. Y/N could help but to respect the Catalonian as player, as person. Not everybody can do that.

Y/N first fell in fondness with Alexia when she was the first to make her feel at home in Barcelona. Leaving Arsenal and home behind was terrifying, even if Lucy and Keira were in Barcelona too. It’s a new city, a new culture, a new language, new teammates, and a new sense of self.

Arriving and settling in Barcelona was easy, but fitting in and becoming a part of the team was much harder. Spending so many countless evenings and night trying to learn the language that Y/N began to neglect herself a little bit seemed like a small price to pay to be in the team. It wasn’t until Alexia herself asked to speak to you, realizing that you were unconsciously closing yourself off until you were “ready” that you realized what you were doing. Upon seeing the realization in your eyes and knowing that her mission was complete, the older woman slipped a bar of your favourite chocolate over and left with a squeeze on your shoulder.

After that, it wasn’t long until you were a part of the very chaotic Barcelona family. By the time that the Winter Break arrived, the team had settled in a very nice post-practice routine. On Mondays, the guiris got together, helping each other fit with the country. Tuesdays and Wednesdays the whole team holed up at someone’s house, usually Irene’s, and just bonded, going from watching trashy movies to destroying each other on board games. When there were no games on the weekend, the Fridays were for going out on a very non-wild night, just to eat out and spend more time with each other.

Thursdays were sacred. You and Alexia got together, spending the whole time watching old matches, nitpicking plays and dissecting games from opponents or your favourite players. The night usually ending with you cooking, her cleaning and crashing at the bed after taking Nala for her night walk.

Y/N first fell in love with Alexia after the Winter Break, when Alexia was opening the gift, she brought from England. It was a grand thing, but the older woman’s eyes shone so brightly when the Christmas tree’s light sparked that Y/N was sure her heart skipped a beat.

Being in love with Alexia was easy. Between the team’s bonding and their own, all their weekdays were spent together, and Alexia usually dragged Y/N over for lunch with the rest of the Putellas family, where she fit right in. Her days were filled with Alexia’s presence and her nights were filled with dreams of her.

Y/N never entertained the thought of Alexia loving her back. Not she was an asshole or anything, but Alexia was different. Keeping her feelings to herself, not even telling her best friends came naturally, as she knew they would encourage her to try something, but that is just because they didn’t see Alexia like she did.

Friendships with Spaniards were very confusing at first. They were very touchy and very feely and, at first, it made Y/N a bit uneasy to be able the differ when they were hitting on each other and when they were just being friends. She finally settled in taking everything as a friendship moment if she wasn’t told otherwise and left at that.

On a Thursday, instead of watching a game like their usual, Alexia wanted to go dancing. They got ready at arrived at the Sala Apollo when it was already packed, heading to the bar, and having a couple of drinks before the older woman dragged them both to the dance floor. The closeness and intimacy of dancing with each other came easily for them. Letting the heavy bass of reggaeton guide their moves and being pressed together was almost as natural as cuddling on the couch after a movie.

It wasn’t until Alexia’s hands began to wonder that Y/N though better about the whole night. When the older woman’s lips found a spot on her neck and her hands found their place on her hips after squeezing her ass, Y/N was gone. Turning around and kissing Alexia, they were locked in a much wilder dance at that point. Not staying too long after that was natural, as it was sharing a bed of a whole different manner.

Y/N first fell in heartbreak with Alexia when she called their night a mistake. Waking up the next day, surrounded of filled with the midfielder, Y/N smiled and lost herself on the skin of Alexia’s back being hit by sun. Having coffee turned sour on her mouth after Alexia’s words and feeling has heart break on her chest was hard enough, but she could let the older woman know the damage her words had done, she loved her too much for that.

Leaving Alexia’s house that day was one of the easiest and hardest things Y/N had ever done. It was easy because she desperately needed to leave, she needed to let the tears stream down her cheeks away from the other woman’s praying gaze. It was hard because it closed the door on any possibility of the words being a mistake themselves. After promising Alexia, and lying through her teeth, that everything was okay, Y/N left.

People say grieve has five stages. Y/N was no expert, but she was pretty sure that whoever was supposed to go through them was the person grieving, so she didn’t quite understand Alexia’s sudden avoidance. The captain found new teammates to do all the training exercises together, spoke to her only when necessary and cancelled all Their Thursdays for the past few weeks.

A part of her told herself that maybe Alexia felt guilty, maybe she wanted to take the word Mistake back. That part was very strong, it was pulsating, it gave her hope. That part told her to not give up and just give her part.

Y/N arrived just in time on the locker room to overhear Alexia answering a question about a date. Her latest one. On a Thursday. She couldn’t pay a lot of attention to the midfielder answer without had eyes tearing up, so she tried to block the conversation as much as she could, and it was going pretty damn well until she lied to her teeth once again when someone asked if she didn’t mind that the dates where always on a Thursday.

The called up to represent the Lionesses came as a blessing, giving her a break from the club. It was much easier to be her usual self, joke around with her teammates and going on a full-blown prank war against Georgia when she could pretend Alexia didn’t exist. It was also much easing swallowing down her hopes and downloading Tinder when she was sure Alexia would not pop-up on her screen.

Swiping left on all the women that the app showed her was unconscious. Y/N didn’t even realize she was doing that until Leah caught her with the app opened and started to swipe with her. When the captain asked for the billionth time what was wrong with the last woman, the only answer she had to give was that none of them were her. That prompted her to tell her best friend everything. After convincing Leah to not do something stupid, the captain just told you not to worry and that she would find you the perfect date.

 With the time with the national team up, Y/N flew back to Barcelona, smiling as the she sees the city lighting up against the night sky. She barely has time to settle back before Leah texts her that she found her a great date and saying that they will both fly out for the Champions League match in a couple of weeks.

Between trying to find out more information on Leah’s mysterious friend and the sting that came whenever Alexia promptly ignored her, Y/N days passed slowly. It’s easy to distract herself on the days that are occupied by the team, but Thursdays were the worst. The hurt that came the being subbed out of Alexia’s life was just more prominent on these days and Y/N didn’t quite know what to do about it.

The Champions League finally came and with it, Leah and her friend being in town. The date was going to happen the day before the match and Y/N wasn’t sure whether the anxious feeling she had were for the match or for the date.

Getting ready was almost automatic. A nice short black dress paired up with a light makeup as they would go to dinner at a nice restaurant that Y/N absolutely loved. Waiting for the time to go out, she turned the TV on started watching and old match, absently minded remembering that it was a Thursday. Not that any of that mattered anymore.

The doorbell rang just as Ronaldinho scored a goal, making her tear her eyes away from the game. Y/N walk to the door in confusion, not expecting anyone today. The team was doing their own Thursday thing and Leah was out with Lucy and Keira, leaving literally no one to be at her doorstep at almost eight.

Hazel eyes greeted her upon opening the door. Alexia stood in front of her, in her comfiest hoodie and sweatpants, the beanie tucked in her head, cheeks rosy from the wind. Her gaze, holding hope and a thousand secrets, wandered through you figure, before settling back in your own eyes.

“I was hoping we could have our usual Thursday? I have a lot that I need to say to you.”

[hair4brainzz]

Omg they're soo cute!!! I love ur art!! But why did i low key imagine the cake falling on the grass lmao🙏i have another ask what roles do each character play?

✨First design sketches as an offering✨

Thank you for the ask, anon! You’re a sweetheart, and I’m really glad you like my art🫀 And PLS Bridgette would rather fight the Mime with no Miraculous than drop that cake on their first date 😭

If you’re asking specifically about Félix and Bridgette, their role is a little mixed…. Because they’re my main characters, so I obviously want them to switch between self growth and becoming each other’s support. I can’t reveal more than what I already had without spoiling teehee.

Now…. If you want the juice on OTHER characters, buckle up, cause I’m fighting my life to hold back 😂

SOME character Roles I think you guys should be aware of (to not cause confusion):

Alya: While Nino is mostly Félix’s emotional support and the one that drives him to be a teenager, Alya has a more active role in my AU.

For those who don’t know, or aren’t aware, my AU is 100% using the concepts of Ladybug PV from 2012, and if you aren’t obsessed with its wiki like me…. We don’t have a hawkmoth. We do, however, have a villain organization where Null works alongside the CEO by letting him give Miraculous to some of his most trusted employees. THAT, is where Mime and a villain I am yet to reveal, come from.

Alya’s job is to start a small investigation to find out more about Perg’s operations, in hopes to help Ladybug.

Sabrina and Chloé: That is right. I am giving Chloé the redemption arc she lost in the show. I am also giving Sabrina a more active and positive role. They are still bullies, but they’re friends that slightly influence each other. Sabrina is NOT a servant, and she can say no without Chloé threatening her.

They are both in business major and Chloé full heartedly believes Sabrina is destined to co-own Chloé’s dad’s hotel when it passes down to the blonde. They enjoy matching while keeping their individuality, and Chloé always makes up to Sabrina by taking her out. As they join the investigation, Chloé apologizes formally to Bridgette and finally follows Sabrina’s better influences.

Gabriel/Richard: I have made him a little colder. He is no insane man like the show, but he is abusive. A controlling relationship where Félix is constantly put down while trying to make up by giving him things other kids could only wish they had. Do they appeal to Félix’s taste? Not really. But he shows gratitude by wearing them anyways. Gabriel doesn’t understand his son needs a more emotional relationship with him and genuinely believes giving him things is enough, while teaching him how he wants Félix to act.

There will be less important characters making appearances, like Luka, Juleka and Rose. They’re still in a band but the dynamics change a bit, and I kept Luka’s ‘ex-boyfriend’ status, but pulled it back to review the healthiest way to make this, so we’ll see!

I’d love to tell more, so don’t be afraid to ask! I am planning on revealing more either way, pinky promise! Soon, you’ll even have more close-up access to everything.

Got any questions? I’m an almost open book!

✨🐞Bug out🐞✨

[sprite-writes-fanfic]

Hello, I was wondering if you could do either 2003-2012 or bayverse headcanons or scenario with a crush reader that is emotionally a bit like Raphael? They are a bit more friendly than him and equally funny, kinda over independent on the “being taken care of” department, gets guilty and either lashes off or exclude themselves out of situations when they are anxious or feel overwhelmed by being “a problem”, doesn’t know how to lower their guard , neither believe they are worthy of someone’s heart, but deep inside they are affectionate and very loving (literally Raphael lol)

Hopefully this makes sense, if not (or if you don’t like the request) you can just ignore it

Thank you and have a good day / night

I will try my best anon! 🫡 Gonna do Bayverse because I feel like it would fit more for this scenario! (Also I fucking love the Bayverse turtles and I feel like I should start including them along with other turtle interpretations <3)

⚠️ Requests are closed, I am just putting out requests that I got before I closed them! Have 2 more to post out, posting another one today. Working on the other one currently as well. I will not do other requests until I’m off break, asks are still open though!

Lean On Me

🐢💙❤️Bayverse TMNT x Reader💜🧡🐢

Word Count: 692

CW: Gender neutral reader, referred mainly as ‘you’, probably not on-point with what anon wants but I tried my best TvT, sorry if this isn’t exactly what you asked for anon 🙏, fluff!

🐢💙Leonardo💙🐢

💙 You and Leo will probably bump heads quite a bit with this stubborn nature of ‘not needing help’. My dude will not stand for it, he will help and protect you, no if’s and’s or but’s. Anytime you try to exclude yourself, he’s joining you, doesn’t want you to feel alone ever.

💙 Anytime you lash out he just takes it. He literally fights with Raph all the time. Will let you cool down, give you much needed space, then ask you to meditate with him to help clear your mind of these negative emotions.

💙 Will sit down with you multiple times and have talks with you, each time finally getting closer and closer to how you feel. Has the patience of a god and will wait as long as he can, don’t test him he’ll wait as long as he can. When you finally open up about how you feel, he’s good at reassuring you that he’s doing this because he wants to and because he cares for you. Is sure to give you words of affirmation every day until you finally feel comfortable to bring your walls down with him. And trust me when I say he definitely mentally celebrates, many kisses were given the day you did.

🐢❤️Raphael❤️🐢

❤️ Raph gets it, he really does, you’re a little more friendlier than him, but when you lash out he sees himself in you. He goes to you a lot to help you talk, and sometimes in return he’ll talk to you too. Therapy for each other.

❤️ Probably the quickest of the brothers to work you through these issues. Again, he gets it because when he looks at you and how you act based on your emotions, he can only see himself, and he doesn’t want you to go through a lot of emotional pain he went through.

❤️ Big old cuddle bug with you, once both of your shells are broken through. Doesn’t really leave you alone often either so you don’t dwell on these negative thoughts and try to close yourself off again. Anxious thoughts can lead to overthinking and he knows that pretty well.

🐢💜Donatello💜🐢

💜 Donnie is a little awkward in the emotional department, (and I honestly say that for every Donnie, not always the best in the emotional-department), so he’s kinda having a hard time here. Doesn’t mean he isn’t trying though. He’s trying to give you the right words in order to help.

💜 But he does what he doesn’t usually do, listen. He’ll hear you out if you ever finally break down your walls, and he won’t interrupt because it’s important to him to know how you feel. He’ll work on solutions when you’re done.

💜 He really does care about you, but when it comes to being lashed out at or you trying to exclude yourself, it kinda catches him off guard. But he stays on it, he lives with Raph after all. Has pretty good patience with you and will keep that patience going for as long as he can push it. Overall, he does pretty well and has a lot of patience, and will put his gadgets to the side for you.

🐢🧡Michelangelo🧡🐢

🧡 Mikey’s happy that you’re more on the friendlier side at the very least, but he kinda flinches back at the times you lash out. But no worries, he’s persistent. Surprisingly goes for advice from his brothers and his father and actually listens.

🧡 Will approach you with this newfound information and tries to be as reassuring as possible with you, though please do forgive him when he messes up, he’s trying so hard for you. :(

🧡 Always by your side a lot of the time and is always reassuring, he’s getting you to do stuff with him to keep your mind off the ‘what if-’ not here honey, not gonna happen. He’s a lot of fun and with him it kinda makes your negative emotions and thoughts melt away before you're smiling and laughing with him. The day you finally cuddle and kiss him, I think he actually kinda starts to tear up. He’s proud of you, truly, and he’s happy that his Angelcakes is comfortable enough with him.

[catbowserauthor]

TMNT 2012: Final Thoughts

Started my rewatch a few weeks ago and finished it up this weekend!

I have a lot of thoughts. Some good, some surprising, some bad.

Overall—solid show. It’d rank 2nd for me (87 and 03 are still tied in first place) and I can absolutely see how it pulled in a new group of fans and became their staple. It’s a great combo of old and new ideas and most of them are executed pretty darn well.

Thoughts on the cast worth mentioning:

Sean Astin as Raphael is a match made in heaven. Once the writing really got the hang of his character, he delivers those emotional beats pitch perfect.

Rob Paulsen as Donatello has its own charm to it. It took me a while to not hear 87 Raph but I do like the characterization he brings. It has a bit more bite than other versions which is nice to see.

Mae Whitman as April works really well. For all my grips with the character herself, the voice work I can’t find any flaw with. She delivers anger really well.

Greg Cipes as Mikey is fine. Like, I don’t have any issues with the voice work. I wish they’d let him have a few more serious moments because Greg SELLS those. My issue is a lot of the writing for Mikey, it has nothing to do with Greg’s performance.

Seth Green as Leonardo is really well done. He’s probably my favorite of the VAs for Leo in this show. Especially in the later seasons, he sells the big brother/leader role just as much as he sells the teenager geek. Him being comforting to any of his brothers is great and I eat it up!

Thoughts on the characters:

I don’t like April. I just straight up don’t. I dislike they made her a psychic(because I think it would have made a lot more sense to give it to Mikey), I dislike the love triangle, I dislike her attitude (some episodes worse than others) and I just…don’t think she adds anything to the team dynamic. I’d have preferred her to be a reoccurring character who popped in every so often but they made her a series regular and I…don’t like it.

(I actually liked her friendship with Irma and was so mad they made her a Kraang)

Casey is fine. He’s kind of annoying but once things get going, he doesn’t bug me too much. Anything to do with his interest and April and thus with Donnie is 👎 but overall, I don’t mind him.

Splinter I remain divided on though I do appreciate him more on this rewatch. I still think he could be overly stern, played some blatant favoritism, and was not as wise as he gets credit for but he’s okay. I do like the humor they use with him and when he has genuinely heart felt moments with the turtles, it is so sweet to see. I just wanted more of it.

Karai…okay, so I’ve never really been a huge Karai fan but I like this one. I wish they’d stuck with her just being Karai and not Miwa though. (Yes, I know that was the plan from the beginning but I digress).

Mikey…oh, my Mikey. They could have done so much with this Mikey and sometimes they do! When the writing is on fire for Mikey, I’m in love. But they make him the punching bag/idiot WAY. TOO. MUCH. God! I do love we still get references to his spiritual energy (his instinctual fighting, heart, and references to ‘bad feeling about this’ is why I say they should have made him the psychic, not April) his out of the box thinking and empathy but they, much like 03, decide all/most comic relief must be on him and it hurts my heart…

Donnie is a lot better than I remember and truthfully my biggest issues with him are the love triangle. That causes most of the issues with his character. Eliminate that and you eliminate most of my problems with him. But…he does tend to hound on Mikey way too much (sometimes deservingly so) but “he never really matured past 6 years old” REALLY? Really? Little comments like that give him this superiority feel that I _don’t_ like at all.

Leonardo really gets his bearings in season 2 and I loved seeing his journey onward. By the final season, I adored Leonardo and it was really cool seeing him go from student to ninja then to leader/Sensei himself. It’s a dynamite end for the character.

I love this Raphael! Which really, really surprised me. The first couple of episodes you can tell they were figuring him out (hence the more bullying than brother behavior which I don’t like) but once those pass, we get a beautifully in depth character who truly loves his family and takes on the protector role so well.

THE LOVE TRIANGLE

Burn this thing with fire. My God! I hate this aspect of the series! And you know, I wouldn’t even be against it if they decided to make April a couple with one of the turtles…just like I wouldn’t mind if she ended up with Casey.

Heck, she could outright reject them both!

….

BUT COMMIT PEOPLE!

Decide an angle and stick with it! But they don’t! And when Donnie finally decides to lay off of April…she leads him on! She also shows interest in Casey.

They go back and forth so much and they still never commit! Even to the very end! Don’t. Do. That.

DECIDE, DAMN IT!

THOUGHTS IN GENERAL:

So, let’s get this out of the way:

—don’t like the ‘Mad Max’ episodes. Hate ‘em. Some of my least favorite of the series. In my mind, Owari is the end and Season 5 is a series of one shot adventures, the Mad Max world is an AU. I hate the idea that such a world is where they end up.

—Splinter’s death should have been reserved for the end. I get the whole reverse time to stop it only for it to be inevitable angle they were going for but it kind of cheapens his final death. I would have had him captured by the Triceratons and earth destroyed so the turtles still have to go in their time travel trip but it reserves that true gut punch for the end.

—This series probably has the absolute best finale in Owari. It’s intense, it’s heartfelt, it wraps things up beautifully. I still wish all the turtles had been part of the final blow to Shredder, not just Leo, but still really solid ending! And ending it with Splinter’s death and Leonardo taking over as head of the family is the perfect bookend to Leo’s arc.

—I mentioned it before but I think the psychic powers should have been given to Mikey. They hint at him having more spiritual awareness than his brothers (the fight without thinking, the hunches, his adaption in Dimension X, his empathy and creators confirmed the light around him on the roof in Owari was spiritual power) so giving him that would have made total sense. Then we would have: “Leo the master ninja leader, Donnie the brains, Raph the strength and protector and Mikey the heart and psychic.” Would have allowed more time for Mikey to have development and an interesting dynamic with his brothers. And Splinter! This Mikey gets almost no time with Splinter!

—April can still train to be a kunoichi, I’m cool with that but don’t let it pull away from the brothers. Their arcs should be the focus.

—On that same angle, like I mentioned before, I don’t like Karai being Miwa. I saw it coming, I think most fans did but I think it would have been a far more powerful arc if Miwa truly had died with Tang Shen and Karai chose to go with the turtles because her own moral code demanded it. Splinter gets the Shredder’s daughter but not by force. But because she CHOSE it.

Now, as for the seasons themselves, worst to best:

Season 1:

They were still figuring the characters and plot out and it shows. This one isn’t bad but you can tell they were still seeing what worked and what didn’t. Season 1 has some great “moments” but the episodes as a whole felt much choppier and I don’t see myself revisiting many of these. I especially like a lot of the characters much more later on.

Season 4:

I’m one of those people who don’t really like the Space Arc. There’s nothing wrong with these episodes. I enjoy Professor Honeycutt and the new environments but overall, the feel and plot of the episodes simply don’t hold my interest. It has some great moments, much like season 1, but no real episodes I find myself rewatching a ton.

Season 5:

With the exception of the “Mad Max” episodes these adventures are a super fun dynamic. It’s neat to see the turtles as a well oiled machine but now Leo has to figure out how to truly be the leader of his clan. There’s some great sweet moments, they’re entertaining and it makes for a fun “epilogue” of adventures.

Season 3:

So, according to the fandom, you either love the farm house episodes or you hate them. I fall into the love category. I’m a fan of horror which probably helps but I really like this setting. There’s a lot of time for bonding with each other which is my favorite part of the franchise. There’s definitely some things in here that fall flat but a pretty solid series of episodes.

Season 2:

Here we go! This is where I really think the show found its footing. The characters are consistent, the plots interesting and we get some really emotional beats. Ending it with them having to flee is a dynamite cliffhanger and having Leo taken out and mutated Karai still missing really gives us that sense of dread. To quote Raph: “For the first time in my life, I have no idea, little brother.”

I really enjoyed this rewatch. Definitely know some episodes I’ll be revisiting. And maybe…might play with some fanfic in this universe? We’ll see.

[blackbloodteeth]

It does kinda bug me how tumblr's tag system doesn't really go past 2013... 2012, so any posts before then are kinda lost to the reblogs. That and it's difficult to really sort and look through posts in the Soul Eater tag to begin with (case in point, can't jump to past pages, and if someone posts to the tag it sends you back to latest anyway)...

That's what gave me the train of thought earlier about creating a blog specifically to reblog fandom art that could potentially end up lost, both because reblogs will remain even if a post is deleted, and for the sake of having an archive you can easily search through (especially with tags). It'd be a huge project, though, and given the aforementioned lack of easy searching, a lot of it would depend on scouring through blogs for really old fanart or something to that effect...

Though the thought also occurred to me of potentially letting people send in links to the older stuff to help with the archiving effort, haha. I think this is definitely something that would benefit from being a team effort, even if it's something I'd be really passionate about on just my own (how many times am I going to have to relearn the lesson that I'm just one guy, haha).

There's still quite a bit to think through with a project like this; Stuff like would it include archiving newer stuff and not just the stuff lost to the tag system (reblogging with different years in the tags would work either way), would it include anything and everything in regards to original characters and things that simply reference the style (also would benefit with tag organization...), would there be the potential for archiving fanfiction... well that one's a bit of a slippier slope and much harder to go through, haha. Definitely wouldn't want to reblog anything from my art, at least, since there's too much of it and I've already got it filed away over here, haha.

...Haha, I always go just a little bit mad thinking about things like this. Already have so much I want to do, but the idea of there being art out there lost to time gives me that certain sense of nostalgia where I want to do something about it. There's so much art from just this site alone, it's staggering... and honestly so wonderful to think about. Maybe something like this is a bit of a pipe dream, but doesn't mean it's not worth thinking about, haha.

...Yeah, I get kinda sappy thinking about all the creativity of everyone out there, even just for this fandom, haha. Guess I've always just been in an odd spot for having spent most my life loving Soul Eater yet somehow missing everything.

[moonshynecybin]

#thinkin about teen dad marc…. like diplopia year…. <- say more callie

eye got. SIX asks about this lmao. but anything for you elle ofc. required reading on this is @yekoc’s vale knocks marc up in like 2013/14 post found here go read it (AND THE REPLIES !!! ). foundational text.

but in this one. vale is jerry springer voice NOT THE FATHERRRR. which i think would make his specific commitment issues significantly weirder and more complex. and marc MUCH more neurotic lmao. he has a baby to look after !!! AND he’s doing death defying stunts !!!

so marc either gets a girl pregnant and keeps the baby or gets knocked up and keeps the baby. choose your own adventure. he’s a teen. diplopia year cwaziness. fully like. i am injured and may never race again which i can’t fix instantly and easily so i’m going to HAVE THIS BABY. tries to #win at teen pregnancy. and marc is part of a VERY tight knit little family so once he gets better he absolutely carts that baby all around the world and inside the garage. (which. he comes back because he both wants to and HAS TO. marquez family finances already depended on him, now you add a tiny sweet infant into the mix that he is responsible for. marc is already psychotic about winning because of natural competitiveness and the aforementioned family pressures this would literally make him worse. crazier.) babychamp t-shirts new meaning. bouncing her on his knee in the box in 2012 BIG ASS baby ear protectors. santi very seriously explaining shit about tire pressure to the side. kissing her little cheek in parc ferme.

and vale. meets this baby/toddler. LOVES this baby/toddler. and as his relationship with marc takes shape it’s a little different! marc’s i’m old for my age complex is 9000x more pronounced but VALE’S i’m young for my age complex is toooooo… so it’s weirder. yes they start fucking but it’s also like. less often. less free time more baby time they don’t hang out at bars as much but every time vale sees marc he gets to hang out with a hot person he likes and sometimes he gets to be goofy for a leedle baby that he is RAPIDLY gaining affection for. marc leaves her with vale (HUGE TRUST. THE BABYSITTING LIST OUTSIDE OF FAMILY IS LIKE TWO PEOPLE.) when he goes to the bathroom and vale reaches over to grab her favorite toy (bugs bunny plush iykyk) without thinking and it’s like oh. oh no. like he spends enough time with her that he KNOWS HERRRR… doesn’t have the rigidity of the fuckbuddies dichotomy because they hang out so often WITH the baby so he can’t write the whole thing off as much. truly what do you do if you love and want to coparent a child. but are also exceedingly scared of commitment and growing older. well.

anyways vale is a freak so he turns that over in his head for a bit. scared 2 death. chews on that for a while. but when it really gets too deep for him is hmmmm ranch visit. when marc rocks up with his toddler (hot pink tiny bike for her that goes 1mph. baby pecco and luca and franky braiding her hair.) lethally adorable in a too big yellow vr46 hat that makes vale’s chest feel like RIBBONS.) and then marc races vale like he’s going to DIE. for NO reason. in a fun vibey recreational session. and vale’s fucking in it now!! every time marc takes a corner too fast his heart seizes up and marc’s daughter flashes in his brain (the baby curl of her hair and the way she reached for marc laughing from the crowd last race…) ans cold sweat breaks out across the back of his neck because if something happens to marc then—

so he pulls back. still waves to her in parc ferme. still makes stupid faces to make her laugh (feels like he’s FLYING. feels like WINNING.) and does grabby hands with marc on cooldown laps (eye ALSO think he doesn’t realize that his marc feelings are a separate entity for the baby feelings lmao. like that he would be worried about marc regardless. the baby is a good excuse here…) but. it’s interfering with his focus. he has to win his tenth. he can’t be coparenting this kid (she’s turning FOUR he’s been giving her bday presents for THREE YEARS NOW.) and worried about marc like that because marc is a competitor. and marc doesn’t feel that way anyways. marc is a bastard to him on track. marc is crashing all the time (WITHOUT VALE THERE. he hears about marc’s summertime hand injury and is like haha. and the baby was WERE. who is HOLDING HER??). and suddenly uccio is at his door and marc is a saboteur. and he’s getting older and he’s slower and jorge is GOOD and that’s— that gives something for vale to grab on to. to self destruct this before it can implode by itself. to make sense of all of this.

and afterwards— after sepang and their text thread drying up and everything. she still runs up to vale allll the time… finds him in the paddock tugs on marc’s hand until he lets her go… and vale always picks her up spins her around sends her back to her dad… still gets her a bday gift… marc watching with a sad smile on his faceeeee… vale DOES get over things faster in this universe because he wants to be more involved for babychild but. it’s rough there for a while when vale is still lying to himself and marc is creating RIGID structures for who he lets in to his daughter’s life because she STILL asks him to call vale so he can read the bedtime story because marc does NOT do the voices right… and he CANT CALL HIMMMM

[thunderberryz]

So, some more random yelling about Splintered Fate: Holy hell, do I love this game. Yes, it is basically a Hades clone and can be a bit buggy at times, but I have become so ridiculously invested in this version of the turtles that it's not even funny.

Outside the fun gameplay that, nonetheless, makes my poor right thumb and wrist sore (I use an off-brand controller for my Switch that ain't exactly the most ergonomic), I've been aggressively invested in the lore of the universe. Naturally, as a one-off video game, this particular universe isn't as developed as, say, literally any comic book or cartoon iteration, but there is still a BOATLOAD of lore to dig into and with some things left open-ended, it leaves a lot of room for fanon interpretation.

Now, at first glance, the universe takes the most inspiration from the IDW comics; this is made apparent through details such as Stockman being the mayor of New York City, as well as Angel being the superhero Nobody. That said, you can very clearly see a lot of inspiration taken from other iterations as well; the turtles' characterizations strongly remind me of their 1990s movie counterparts, and there are a lot of fun nods to the 2003 series. (The Foot clan's crest is the same as the one in that particular iteration, and both the Sword of Tengu and Heart of Tengu appear as equippable Artifacts.) There are probably other fun easter eggs/references as well, but I mean... I'm a fake TMNT fan lmao <- Still hasn't watched 1987, 2012, or Rise.

Some fun details that I've noticed:

In their selection descriptions, Leonardo is referred to as the "soul" of the family, Raphael as the "strength," Donatello as the "brains," and Michelangelo as the "heart."

As typical of Leonardos, Splintered Fate Leo was ambushed on the rooftops by the Foot at the beginning of the game. He was not, however, tossed through a window. He got sucked into a portal instead.

Michelangelo references the Ninja Rap in a potential dialogue when selecting him, which is really cute.

A lot of Donatello's battle dialogue makes it clear he's fond of classical literature and poetry.

Mentioned in a previous post, but this version of Raphael has acrophobia rather than a hated/fear of bugs like 2003 and 2012.

The turtles confirmed to be AC/DC fans thanks to posters hanging in the lair. (Or as it's referred to in-universe for copyright reasons, AB/CD)

They also own a SNES from the looks of it

Despite the universe being heavily based on IDW, Metalhead does not have the same origin as his comic counterpart; he is stated to have been created by Donatello from scrap. (In the comics, he was a creation of Harold Lilja, Donatello's online frenemy.)

Casey's design in the game leans pretty heavily towards his depiction in the 1990s movies where he was played by Elias Koteas.

The Turtle Power elements in this game are weird. Flame and Water? Pretty standard. Astral Light and Astral Dark? Okay. Ninja, Utrom, and Ooze... interesting.

One of the Dreamer Coin upgrades is a nice nod to the Pantheon.

The Sword of Tengu's description made me lose it; it's basically one big nod to the fact that the Shredder was an Utrom in the 2003 series. (Now, I don't think SF!Shredder is an Utrom, but if he were, it'd be hilarious.)

Some details that are left ambiguous

It's unclear whether this version of Splinter is Hamato Yoshi's pet rat or Hamato Yoshi himself. (There's no mention of the reincarnation plotline from IDW, so I doubt he's "Hamato Yoshi reincarnated as a rat.") Edit: Just got a dialogue that confirms this version of Splinter is indeed Hamato Yoshi. It's just a question of whether he follows IDW's plot of him being Hamato Yoshi reincarnated as a rat that was later mutated, or if he's simply Hamato Yoshi who was mutated into a rat.

It's also unknown whether the turtles directly mutated into teenagers as seen in some iterations or actually grew up from babies/toddlers into teenagers.

While Utrom appears as an "element of technology," the actual Utroms are not mentioned; as such, it is unknown whether they are a benevolent, peaceful species or a more warlike one.

Ooze is depicted in two forms; a purple-pink variant that manifests as a Turtle Power and is also used by Rocksteady as well as the Punk Frogs, and a green version that's depicted in the Broken Ooze Canister artifact. I'm inclined to believe that the green ooze is the one that actually mutated the turtles and Splinter, although it begs the question of what the purple ooze is.

Due to the absence of Harold Lilja, it's not indicated where Angel got the suit she uses when in her "Nobody" persona. (Dialogue would imply that Donatello did not build it.)

[tmntheadcanons]

tmnt 2012 Raphael headcanons

He makes Mikey get rid of all the bugs in the house. If there is bug in the room he will refuse to be in that room until it is eliminated. Mikey insists on saving the bugs so Raph makes him deal with them otherwise Raphie smash

Raph is a little bit of a romantic. The fbi wouldn't be able to get this information out of him but sometimes he likes to watch classic romance movies just cause he thinks the story is sweet. He would absolutely never do this around anyone else though except for maybe Mona Lisa. Otherwise, he's taking that to his grave

I feel like his fear of bugs originated when he was a kid. He was in bed and this monstrously huge cockroach was crawling on him in the dark. He felt it crawling up his arm so he turned on the light and saw it and just about went into cardiac arrest

He refuses to watch any movie where the dog dies

He likes super freaky, gory horror movies but if there's a dog in the movie he won't watch it because if anything happened to the dog he would scream

He sucks to watch horror movies with though because he spends the whole time talking about how he would actually be able to survive. Like no offence to those teens who just got murdered but Raph is simply built different. They're watching a scary scene with the serial killer and Raph is just like "Yeah I could take him."

Raph is the go to brother when you can't beat a video game level

Him and Casey have this ongoing bit where they jokingly flirt with each other (casey started it)

Raph will save him and Casey will be like "Damn bro you're actually kinda dreamy ngl"

No one (except mikey) likes sharing a pizza with Raph because he makes it way too spicy

[dodgeballstuckonthegymceiling]

Hello!

So I started watching ROTTMNT a few weeks ago despite my only exposure to the Ninja Turtles being a single scene of a 90's live-action movie when I was maybe 5 because the turtles started repeatedly appearing in my dreams, and my brother informed me this was the universe telling me I need to watch the turtles.

In any case, I have now become hyperfixated. Could I request platonic ROTTMNT turtle boys with a reader who is a biting insect magnet? It doesn't matter if the bug usually feeds on humans or not, the reader's blood is, for whatever reason, sweet, sweet nectar to all manner of biting insects, to the point that even max strength bug repellant doesn't always work to keep the bugs away; so reader is always getting bitten up by all nearby biting insects. To make matters worse, reader is mildly allergic to the itch juice bugs inject when they bite, and gets huge, swollen, itchy rashes from bug bites that itch for several weeks. (Reader is also an avid herper—someone who enjoys catching and releasing wild reptiles and amphibians, a passtime that involves being out and about where bugs are going to be at the times they are most active.)

My first experience with tmnt was the 2012 series when it first came out, I was like 7ish. Didn't Really get into the fandom though untill recently!

Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello and Michaelangelo x reader who's catches lizards and is allergic to bug bites

Raph

★ Whoo boy. He is so scared that you are going to get bitten by a oozesquitoe. It's not even funny. Anytime you're remotely near one he's pulling out Donnie's emergency hazmat suit (More on that later)

★ He urges you to where long sleeves and pants when you go out. Actually really likes the lizards that you catch. His favorite lizard native to New York is the coal skink because it looks a little red in the right lighting.

★ Raph's worried about your health, but that's just how he is. He will always be a bit worried about your health. Its actually pretty sweet. But please put a bandaid over the bigger bites so that he doesn't fret.

Leo

★ Leo, being the ever so intelligent person he is, decides that you're the perfect bait to catch oozesquitoes. Fortunately he is quickly shut down by his brothers the moment he voices his clearly perfect idea.

★ He keeps more than a few bottles of benadryl around the lair. Allergic reactions to bug bites wasn't something he knew about before meeting you. He's well stocked for whenever you get attacked by bugs.

★ Yes, he tried to cut a mosquito in half with his ōdachi. No, it didn't work. His weapon got stuck in a log because he put to much force into the swing.

★ He might get a little jealous over the lizards. Especially if you start talking to them. "look at you, handsome little guy!" And "oh, you have beautiful coloration" all prompt his jealousy. "Why don't you talk to me like that :'("

Donnie

★ Your blood seems to be irresistible to blood-eating insects, bug spray or not. His quite perplexed by the whole situation. Are you sure you used bug spray and not sunscreen?

★ His fear over you getting bitten by an oozesquitoe mixed with his tendency to plan things out in advanced led him to make a emergency hazmat suit for you in the turtle tank.

★ The amount of times he's had to put calamine lotion on you because you had gotten bit by bugs is way too high. To be blunt, he thinks you should stop trying to catch random lizards. Or at the very least cut down on it.

★ But then again, the look on your face when you catch a lizard and show him it is really cute. Especially when you explain to him what species it is and where it likes to hide during the day.

Mikey

★ Knows next to nothing about lizards, which is surprising because he's a reptile. If you have any books on wildlife he would like to borrow them to read up on New York's reptile population.

★ When you get bad allergic reactions he brings you to Leo. He would carry you but he probably can't because he is smol. Mikey loves animals but he doesn't love mosquitoes because of the effect they have on you.

★ He joins you whenever you try to catch lizards. Mikey loves to give the lizards you catch different names. Whenever you go out he brings a jar of dehydrated mealworms for whatever creature you catch.

[eldritcmor]

cmooon you know you wanna tell em about zombie squaaaaad

Alright alright you caught me. Yeah i wanna talk about the zombie squad, so let's dig into these guys! so core little idea the "Zombie" squad is mainly made of characters I felt would be funny if they survived their horrible ends, so less original characters more actual fanfic, but with a fun little twist. They still definitely died. so who all we got in this little group, anyways? Well, dear partner, we got! From Call of Duty Black-Ops! Charlie "Bell" Johnson formerly Andrei Dobrynin. Now you might be wondering why I don't just call him Bell like Adler does? Simple, i wanted to expand on him. The events of the game has passed. He died with a bullet to the skull and drowning in the ocean. I gave him two names cause i felt like the brainwashing was so damn thorough and Adler reinforcing that anti red sentiment that Andrei didn't even recognize his own name when Adler finally woke him up, so Adler gave him the most generic name he could think of and thus was born "Charlie Johnson". He is the oldest of the "Zombies", being resurrected somewhere between 1985 and 1990.

Next up Call of Duty Modern warfare (2007-2011)! It everyone's favorite un-killable bug! Gary "Roach" Sanderson. So we have the usual plot points of how Gary died, stabbed and burned by General Shepherd right next to his Ghost. Yes, I'm dividing the two "Ghosts". Callsigns don't only apply to one person. Do you know how many Moose's there are? Anyways I'm playing with the timeline a little bit here. Taking into account that Stitched universe that the stitched universe takes place with Call of Duty Modern warfare (2019 to 2023) I'm moving Roach's death to 2012. He is in the same boat as our next person, Being resurrected somewhere in 2013. I'm also still keeping that General shepherd is directly responsible for his death, but I will work out those details later.

Our next piece of the puzzle is Assassin's Creed! in particular AC 1-3! It's our favorite roasty toasty, manipulated for generations of one ai bitch! Desmond miles! Now I felt by the end of Assassin's creed 3, Desmond is a sad lonely person who sees a bit like clay by the time that solar flare in 2012 rolls around, which is to say his death is not a heroic moment. It's a man begging for the pain to stop. So i gave him a family, all be it a bit oddly. Desmond still has vendetta against abstergo and the lingering effects of bleeding from the animus but he is not involved in the modern brotherhood. I'm still kind of experimenting with how i write him but i think he keeps that easy going mentality that a lot of people write him with but i like to think there's a sharpness to it.

And finally we have the final piece of the "Zombie" Squad. Born from your lovely menagerie of maniacs! A blast from Daniel "Moose" Wilson's Past and a certified Dilf! Native of the stitched universe! Henry Wilson. Why i have him here you may ask? Squads come in fours and well I felt like the others need a something a little more mellow to balance them out. I don't know much of Henry as he is very much a work in progress but i do know his death date. 1993 to assumed lung cancer. Amazing how a build up toxins in the lungs can be mistaken as cancer and an autopsy can be waved. He's the second oldest of the squad being resurrected only a few years after Andrei. None of these guys are active like players on the battle field either, not like SH6, Dante, nor even 141. These guys get to chill as technically undead dudes running a bar.

[crowsandturtlesandbatsohmy]

Tales of the TMNT:

So I finally got to watch Tales of the TMNT and I’m half way through.

OH MY GOSH I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH!! AAAAAAHHH!!! They did all the boys so well!

First of all I freaked out when they showed Leo writing his own comic because that’s what *my* Leo does. But also I love how Leo is continuing to deal with some anxiety and awkwardness and I love how he was so worried about his brothers! (Although the fact that after they got separated he proceeded to call for both Donnie and Mikey and not Raph was funny to me. It was made better when he accused a not-present Raph of messing with him) I will say it bugged me for a little bit that he used one sword and then when it got knocked out of his hand went “Oh no! I’m all out of swords! Guess it’s time to punch this thing” like dude. You have two swords. Is the other one fake or something?? JUST USE YOUR OTHER SWORD

Mikey was a vibe. And it’s difficult for a show to get me attached to a Mikey because my personality doesn’t mesh with his at all. But I loved all his little jokes and impromptu comedy sketches! Also I really appreciated how he stepped up and took responsibility for his not-hostage and accidental mutant.

Raph. Okay let me just start off by saying this is literally my favorite canonical version of Raph that I have ever seen. He’s got the anger issues, there’s no denying that, but his violent tendencies are never ever directed at his brothers. He is nothing but gentle with them. And I LOVE that. Like when Mikey was saying “we should just talk to them”. 2012 Raph would’ve slapped him upside the head. This Raph just noogies him. I also love that he doesn’t shy away from being affectionate. Like when he and Leo hug immediately after they find each other again, or when all the boys a reunited and all three of his brothers are hugging and he runs over saying “let me in on that!” Last thing I want to appreciate— When Leo went to save Bishop, Raph was the first one to follow. “You’re an idiot, but you’re our idiot” I am so in love with this characterization of Raph and I hope it stays.

Donnie. First I appreciate that he didn’t want to relegated to “IT Guy” because I feel like that happens a lot and it’s not fair. Second, I love me a Donnie with self esteem issues. The angst potential is delightful. Third, I also love that Donnie got to have an actual conversation with Bishop just by nature of being Donnie. ALSO HE WAS SO POLITE??? Like calling the old guy “Sir”. It’s a small detail, but it’s something that really stood out to me.

Other things I enjoyed:

• The Leo-Raph team up before Mikey and Donnie got there. • Leo drawing from Donnie, Mikey drawing from Leo, Raph drawing from Mikey, and Donnie drawing from Raph. I appreciated the way it made a loop :) • METALHEAD!!!! • Pete being plot-relevant • The boys were all dorks (/pos) and allowed to act like actual kids

It’s slightly too soon to know for sure who my favorite is, but I’m thinking it’s Raph. Donnie’s a very close second though.

ON TO THE LAST HALF OF TALES OF THE TMNT!!