#i am overthinking this

[madbard]

When Heimerdinger sacrificed himself in episode 7, did the alternate version of him also die?

We don’t see the actual moment Ekko’s alternate appears - it’s possible that he just reformed on his own. In that case, Heimerdinger’s alternate may be waking up somewhere in the better timeline as the machine fires. Still, the fact that Ekko’s alternate appeared so close to the machine suggests that he may actually have split off the main timeline Ekko’s body. Otherwise, it suggests that the alternate variants of the cast always reform close to where the main timeline variants leave their universe. Neither of these options make me optimistic for the alternate Heimerdinger’s survival.

In that case, the alternate version of Heimerdinger died quietly, years ago, and no one realized. He died in an era of peace, after a long and often difficult life. I imagine he was happy. I imagine it was quick, instantaneous, even. Too quick to feel pain or fear. Too quick to feel anything.

I hope he was satisfied.

Still, his body is gone. Powder saw him vanish, so she would have an idea of what happened - but from her perspective isn’t there still the slightest chance he is alive? If the alternates do actually reform on their own, he could have survived.

In that case, how long do you think they looked for him? How long did it take them to accept that he was actually gone? How could they ever know if the Heimerdinger who sacrificed himself for Ekko was their own, or some far-flung variant?

Through Ekko, they could figure out when the multiversal travelers arrived. Would they assume Ekko and Heimerdinger arrived at the same time? Would they try and figure out which of their memories were of their own Heimerdinger, and which belonged to the traveler?

How could they ever know? The songs he sang - were they even his? Which of them were their professor’s, and which were his variant’s?

Does it even matter? I think it does.

I think it haunts them, sometimes.

At least a little.

[zipperuser103]

That Andrew and Neil named one of their cats “King”, means so much more now that we can see how often Riko was referred to by it in TSC…

[itzzaira]

TMNT Fandom Family Reunion - Campfire event || short story

Based off of these tags below from this post (tags belong to Allyheart707, their tumblr tagged below)

You thought you could hide these there and I wouldn’t notice? ✨️

Cabin 10 - the besties

Little Subjects - @allyheart707

The Wrong Side of the Portal - me!

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

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Heishi was not someone who took breaks.

He fought, he thought, he planned, he trained, he was on the lookout- the little slider was always doing something.

Anything at all.

Don't stop.

Just so he wouldn’t be seen as weak, or a waste, or-

Just to hopefully make his Master proud. Just to be enough. Just once. That's all he wanted.

Keep going.

But as if that hadn't been hard enough before, these other three stupid turtles made it so hard!

Like seriously?! Sitting around a stupid campfire listening to stupid stories and making those stupid snacks that actually tasted amazing- aaaugh Heishi no!

He shouldn't be liking those snacks. They weren't healthy. They made him weak.

Weak.

Heishi refused to be weak.

...Yet, against his will, he was still roasting a marshmallow above the campfire.

Mikey had pushed one into his hands- heck, he had even invited Heishi to join him and the other two, but the young warrior had simply huffed, shook his head, crossed his arms, and looked away. He shouldn't be here, he had things to do! Like train! Or anything! Just more! He had to do more!

Not enough.

Curse the other big Raph for managing to convince him to stay.

"Say, none of these guys have had any training, right?" The big Raphael had said, watching as his own version of Heishi- who he kept calling 'Leonardo' was handing Mikey a s'more. "And there's a lot of new people here... so wouldn’t they need a tough warrior to keep an eye on them? Just in case they got into trouble?"

...Well.

If he was stuck here anyway. He might as well keep watch.

Keep working.

It wasn't the best thing to do, but... it wasn't the worst thing either. Heishi liked these guys.

Currently, both Mikey and Donnie were asleep, leaning against the log they had been sitting on earlier with a blanket tugged around them. Raph sat on said log, having been dozing off but woke up when the other Raphael tried to tuck a blanket around him too. "Go back to sleep, kid." The big one whispered, patting his shell. Raph, however, slowly shifted his gaze to look at Heishi.

"...Leo." The snapper whispered, holding out am arm sleepily. The slider scoffed.

"Heishi." He corrected.

"Leo."

"Heishi."

Even though he acted annoyed about the name, 'Leo' didn't feel as bad as it should. Which just made poor Heishi feel worse. Why did the name sound right? He didn't want it to! Master Draxum would be so angry at him for disrespecting the name his creator had given him-

"Don't you feel tired, bud?" The big turtle asked- he wasn't the same species as Raph. He didn't even have freckles- he did have a crack in his plastron and wore a red bandana. "It's late."

"No." Heishi shook his head, stubbornly facing the fire, ignoring the other three tots completely. "Warriors don't sleep. Need to keep watch." Even if his eyes were drooping. Even if he felt exhausted. He had to keep awake and finish the job he had been assigned.

Try. Harder.

"...Ah-ha." Raphael looked a bit confused but didn't argue. He wasn't as nice as Raph. "...Aren't you like- four?"

Excuse me? "No! I'm big!"

"Five?"

Heishi huffed, puffing out his cheeks and glaring in an attempt to look angry- but in Raphael's eyes, he just looked stupid. However, there was something else...

This was familiar.

"...Alright, bud." The turtle decided- and for a brief moment, he looked at 'Leonardo', so fast Heishi almost missed it- but he noticed. Why did he look at Leonardo like that? Why did he give that same look to the tiny slider? "But you do know you need to be close to those you guard, right?"

...What? Heishi looked up, confused. Raphael nodded, a serious expression on his face.

"Come on, every warrior knows that." He said, placing both his hands on his hips. "How are you supposed to protect those you guard when you're far away? Evil will get to them before you can!"

Humans.

Heishi had never heard of such thing before- Master Draxum never told him. So. Was Raphael lying? But Raph didn't lie. And Raphael was Raph. Just from another world, but older. So Raphael wouldn’t lie either, right? Did that mean master Draxum hadn't taught him something? But why?

'Well duh.' His mind supplied. 'He probably thought you weren't ready for such a responsibility! You fail all the time!'

This was Heishi's chance to prove he could do something.

With a newfound determination, the young turtle nodded and got up. This caused him to remember he still had been roasting a marshmallow- and cringed when he saw how burned it had gotten. Raphael patted his back- that felt nice. Why did it feel nice-? "I'll get you a new one, kiddo, just sit down."

Heishi nodded, threw the marshmallow on the ground, and held the stick in front of him as some sort of sword as he marched over to where his brothers the other three turtles slept. He could do it! He would do great! Because he was Heishi. The greatest warrior of them all!

He saw down, stick in his lap.

He wouldn’t fail. Not this time.

.......

.........

...........

Okay this was boring.

Heishi yawned, shook his head, then looked at the fire. The fire was pretty. It was bright, warm, and... so cozy. And useful. For keeping warm, for cooking...

...Okay. Those marshmallows were not as bad as the young turtle had claimed them to be. He hoped the other Raph would bring more soon he actually wanted one. Plus! Food is important! To grow big! And strong! It wasn't his fault that that happened to be sweet treats.

...Not like Master Draxum was there to tell him no.

A soft murmur had him looking to his left- Mikey shifted slightly in his sleep but didn't wake, holding a bit more onto Donnie, squishing his cheek onto the other's shoulder. Heishi couldn't help but snicker. But he yawned afterward and leaned his back on the log behind him.

...Actually... now that he wasn't sitting up anymore... he was pretty tired.

But- no! He said he would watch over these guys! That's his job! He couldn't just abandon his job. No way!

Try harder.

But he was so tired.

Not enough.

Tiredness didn't matter! This place was new. He didn't know anyone. Who knows what kind of dangers there were lurking around?

Failure.

But the campfire was cozy. Everyone was laughing and talking. There were blankets and marshmallows shared everywhere. Best of all- barely any humans at all.

So.

This place couldn't be that bad, right?

His eyes drooped, and the little turtle looked up at the ceiling, trying to think.

...The ceiling was pretty.

Colorful, sparkly, glittery- were all caves this pretty? And dreamy. And soothing... and...

He hadn't even been aware that he had been dozing off until an arm wrapped around him.

Heishi blinked his eyes open (when had he closed them?) Surprised to see Raph- his Raph, (just barely) awake, no longer sleeping on the log but now sitting in the floor next to him, trying to pull the young slider close. "You looked cold..." he murmured, pulling the blanket and clumsily trying to cover Heishi with it too.

For whatever strange reason, the younger turtle didn't push him away as he should.

Instead, he let Raph pull him into a hug, just like when he had done in the lab. Curling up in his lap on instinct, his tail doing a little wag when he felt the older one's arms wrap around him. Raph put his head on top of Heishi's, blinking slowly, while lifting his knees- causing Heishi to snuggle closer to the snapper. That was fine. The slider nuzzled into his neck. This was nice.

...Maybe Heishi wasn't watching over them right because he was tired?

He yawned, and snuggled closer to Raph. The snapper shared his blanket with him, making sure he was fully covered before leaning back. The blanket was thin and soft. So soft.

So... if he was messing up because he was tired. That meant he should sleep, right?

"Sorry it took so long, kid, apparently someone tried to take the marsh-...oh."

"Shh." Raph shushed above him, pressing his fingers to his lips. Raphael nodded, unsure what to do with the marshmallows now. Sad. Heishi had wanted some- but he was sleepy. He would take some tomorrow, then, he was already drifting off.

At some point, a second blanket got thrown over them- Heishi opened his eyes a little bit to see his own counterpart, 'Leonardo'- the one in blue smiled gently once they made eye contact. "Go back to sleep, baby blue." He whispered- Heishi didn't understand that nickname. He should ask tomorrow, once he was awake. He instead hummed for now, relaxed, and fell asleep for real this time.

But not before he felt arms tightening around him, and hearing the softest 'Goodnight, Leo.' whispered to him that he ever heard, while another, bigger hand, patted his head.

[ace-race-ace]

I am once again asking for opinions for my Strollonso aka LEGACY AU (which I promise I am making progress on)

I’m essentially debating whether to weave in a plot line I’d be recycling from an old Wip I had. It centers on Max going to Ferrari. Basically, RedBull would have been banned from the 2025-26 season for regulation breaches. Max misses the 2025 season and Charles wins. Come 2026, Max ends up joining Ferrari.

Now, why I would want to add this plot line

Changes the grid dynamic, explains how Aston Martin and others are actually able to be competitive

Ferrari!Max being a cool concept in general

Tight championship fight between Ferrari and Aston

Why I wouldn’t want to add this plot line

Means Lewis would have stayed only a year in Ferrari and retired? Which seems a little unlikely.

If I ever end up writing this as a Lestappen spin off of this AU, the ending would be kinda spoiled. And Ferrari wouldn’t win until at least 2028 but then the whole point of the ‘Legacy’ aspect for Aston kinda falls apart??

Obviously this story is focused on Strollonso, so adding this aspect might over complicate

I think I know which way I’m leaning but at the same time, I’m not sure on many aspects. Please help!!

Apologies for the slightly chaotic post, which most people probably don’t care about.

I promise once this detail is ironed out, I’ll be hitting you all with my Magnum opus of a Strollonso AU.

[30yearsadevilsminion]

Assad Zaman asked for suggestions for his S3 playlist and I am in no way overthinking it.

[im-not-a-l0ser]

Can someone please edit Richie’s trivia section to include the stuff that Jon Matteson has said about him so that I can just go there instead of scrubbing through a vod, which I fear I am about to do?

[its-all-papaya]

☀️🌈if u haven’t already!!

-> weather wip asks

☀️ Sun - What's your favorite part of your WIP?

answered here, but here's another: I kind of unintentionally started doing this thing where i give bits of lando lore at the start of some chapters. i love it partly because it's a lot of actual baby emma (like in her first eight months) that we don't obviously get in the real-time of the fic, but also bc EYE have all this lore stored in my head to help me make choices, and it's like giving y'all little glimpses of the whole backstory so you can understand everybody a little better.

🌈 Rainbow - What do you think makes your story unique / stand out?

AH answering this feels like insulting other ppl's writing for no reason 😭 there's not a ton of kidfic in the landoscar repertoire in general, though? and i think mine's a bit different in form too, because the two long landoscar kid fics i think of are both more ~baby acquisition-y (not derogatory why does it feel derogatory to differentiate my writing......).

anyway, lando is not learning how to parent in my fic. he's learning how to fall in love while parenting. like obviously emma is a big focus, and lando being a dad is essential to the narrative, but it's ultimately lando's love story. i think most existing kid fic uses the introduction of the child as the instigating event (either POV character acquiring baby or POV character realizing love interest has baby), whereas the kid is a preexisting circumstance for my POV character. i'm explaining this kind of poorly i think. lando is always already a dad; the story is focused on how he's learning to be other things at the same time.

that was like pulling teeth. if ur @zolica-ao3 or @nyoomfruits and ur reading this, i love ur kid fics NOBODY PLZ THINK I DON'T LOVE THEIR KID FICS !!!

[financialzero5]

Do all objects in SparkleCare have memories? Kneevil brings up Uni berating him in the beginning of V4 before she brought him to life, so does this apply to all objects? Or is it a fragment of Uni’s memory that caused Kneevil to remember that? If Barry took Bariffic into a room away from Uni, and started drilling into his flaws, would Barrific remember that? Are their memories entirely based on Uni’s memories before they came to life, or do they have their own formed memories?

[creeperman247]

i may be overthinking this, but imo the fear and hunger games deliver an interesting message about the indomitable human spirit, both in gameplay and in story. in gameplay, you struggle and fight through hours upon hours of seemingly impossible gameplay, and yet you pull through, continuing to the end and getting whatever ending you were going for (message works best when going for s-endings.) in the story, the general gist of it is that the old gods, not wanting humans to get to the point where they had basically any freedom from the control of the old gods, set up traps and similar things to stop humans from progressing. despite this, humans continued to progress anyway, and modern day the old gods are basically nothing more than fairytales.

[thecosmicminds-blog]

I realise now that I feel everything too deeply. My emotions, my actions, my thoughts are all deeply entwined that everything little thing done around me, that seems like nothing to others, is deeply influential.

[beretta-92]

So, at the second round of Russian Roulette for Yassen, he had five bullets. One he used to shoot Vladimir Sharkovsky between the eyes. Three he used to shoot Ivan Sharkovsky, once in the head, twice in the heart. The last one......

I am overthinking this. I am OVERTHINKING this. I AM OVERTHINKING THIS.

[jeanetteirismiller]

Should I make a summer to-do list?

Or will I feel bad for not sticking to everything on the list?

Maybe I should just make a goals list?

Focus on the big things.

Yeah, that’s what I’ll do.

[livingthewritelife-things]

Okay but if Balder's in the muc, where has he been for the past 10 years? He was never invited to a family function? He didn't want to help save Asgard? They didn't try and rescue him for Raganarok????

[wellnoe]

with the xpiders thing. i do think scott is kind of the fundamental problem here (to me), bc unlike ororo, scott does not have like. a cast. like ororo has these really interesting deep relationships with people who are not on the x-men, and those relationships are in a lot of ways filtered through the x-men and her heroism but they are still kind of. extractable. like ororo can have interesting solo stuff going on. and i just do not think scott supports solo stories in the same way.

scott does, arguably, have relationships w people outside the x-men. there's maddy (kinda) and his sporadically important grandparents, and lee. but then you add jean into the mix (which i want to do, bc manna's cover does, and also i think you need to give him SOMEONE else to bounce off of) and literally the only cast member who connects any more is maddy. hmmm

[thewatcherofthecitizens]

I see her stare everyday.

It's the third week of school, but every day, I see this girl who is a grade below me. Staring. Not at her friend or her locker, but at me.

Why, though? Do I dress differently? Do I look werid? Or do I wear funky earrings every day? I could be overthinking, but I was once her. Staring at people who I wanted to be, wanted to be with, or just people who looked cool. Does she think I'm cool? Or does she like me? Does she want to be friends? Or do I just overthink everything because I want it to be about me?

[rodentlady]

This post is brought to you by my brother's ramblings. What kind of mook would you be in the evil fantasy dark lord's army? Bonus points if you can elaborate where you would get killed off.