#gotta keep it deletable

[stories-by-rie]

last line tag

i think i haven't done one of these in ages so it's about time i dare to show my writing again x) thank you to @dustylovelyrun for the tag! i am currently editing the first half of the new five senses draft so here are the last lines i added under the cut :)

It was the first time she spoke it out loud and she hated herself for how her voice broke. She refused to cry in front of Ms Hoferland, bit her tongue strongly.

The gaze of the Soulguard of Hearing was soft and pitying and for this, Lietje hated her nearly more than she hated herself.

the original:

Es war das erste Mal, dass sie es laut aussprach und sie hasste sich dafür, dass ihre Stimme brach. Sie weigerte sich vor Frau Hoferland zu weinen, biss sich fest auf die Zunge.

Der Blick der Seelenwächterin des Hörens war sanft und mitleidig und dafür hasste Lietje sie fast noch mehr als sich selbst.

i'm tagging @somealienquill @rexxles @gailynovelry and @byjillianmaria only if you want to of course!

[solarpunkani]

Hot 4am take but I feel like if we want to get people more interested in making their yards a more habitable space for wildlife like insects, we have to acknowledge that ‘Don’t want bugs in your house’ is still a 100% fair and valid point of view. ‘Loves nature’ and ‘doesn’t want roaches spiders and mosquitoes in the house’ aren’t opposites.

And with that in mind, when we propose to people that spraying pesticides around houses is Not A Good Idea, Actually, I feel like we need to give an alternative asides from ‘deal with it.’

[bodega-catto]

[lylethewaterguy]

Slides my crack ship across the table for your approval

[yellowyani]

HOGAN AFK JOURNEY IM GONNA THROW UP YOU CANT JUST SAY THAT.

[commonboa]

checking in early with my yearly benny doodles brought to you by doritos & fritos by 100 gecs

[carpathiians]

sketches

ref

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ALRIGHT I MOVED.

if you want to see more of me go to @carnivalcarrion!

[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.

[tempestmothstorm]

Ok since Monika still has her admin powers in the side stories you think she could just discover them accidentally or use them without realizing

Anyways au where Monika and friends discover her admin powers but dont know about the wider context of what it means. So they just go around thinking Monika has magic and try practicing with a bunch of silly fun shenanigans because they figure it’s some chosen one bloodline stuff and not like. A product of their reality being a constricted digital science experiment.

This au will not end well

[moeblob]

Look, I just think it's VERY funny and on brand that I thought of an entire premise of colorful characters for half the cast and immediately drew the only one void of color.

[self-indulgent-paw-patrol]

"Speed. I. Am. Speed."

*cue several race car engine sounds*

Little occasional gift to my dear friend @blues-hub-blog because I felt like it XD

[mantaphase]

OH SHIT I HAVE POLLS

[midnight-mourning]

Things are going to be tough for the next few days in the US, I hope everyone stays safe and no matter how bleak this seems please keep moving forward

If you need to take a break, take one, if you need to escape from it by engaging in content you like, do it, if you need to rant, rage, cry, etc, do it

All of these are completely reasonable, valid responses, and no one should judge you for how you choose to handle things, I certainly won’t

do what you need to in order to not give up and keep moving forward, it feels like the world is ending for a lot of people but it’s not, because you won’t let it, because none of us are going to let that happen

this blog always has and always will be a safe space, please use it if you need it, I’ll be here chugging along as usual, because that’s what helps me to cope and keep moving forward

also if you’re seeing this, stop doom-scrolling (I know you are, so was I before I wrote this), go do what you need to do to help you get through this, we’re in for it but that doesn’t mean we’re out, not yet, not ever

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

who the hell thought that changing the save menu from custom save name + screencap + lil summary blurb to generic save name + generic save image, no extra text was a good idea

yes. thank you dai for giving me Relevant Information with which i can easily discern exactly which save this is 👍

[yuhi-san]

You should definitely upload your old fics to ao3, even if they're older and less polished. <3

I guess i should get on to it haha. It would be good, wouldnt it?

Not gonna lie it also annoys me a little that they will be at the top of my list at first haha