#i don't wanna reread this

[skelebab]

My rottmnt oc, Antonio!

He's a black-knobbed map turtle :)

Lil back story (bear in mind that I'm still actually watching the show and like 90 percent of the info I know is from fandom content so yeah)(and also spoilers for the story I plan to write for them):

So after splinter took the og 4 turtles Draxum somehow had enough materials to make one more turtle, which he does, but then a scientist from New York gets into his lab (like April does in the first episode) and steals a bunch of stuff, including the new turtle (poor Barry can't catch a break)

So the scientist takes the turtle back to the lab they work at, where they and their coworkers proceed to experiment on him as he grows up(from the ages of like 2-13) and at some point they give him a dictionary as enrichment. This ended up being a big mistake, because Antonio (they don't have a name yet, but imma call them by their name anyways) ends up using the dictionary to break open the case holding a fire axe (don't think to hard about how they managed to get close enough to do that, just roll with it lol), kills all the scientist, and escapes the lab.

When he gets out on the street it's golden hour, so he associates yellow with freedom and develops an affinity for the colour and they even finds a yellow pair of pants in an alley somewhere, but as he wanders he gets super dehydrated because ofc turtles need water (and also it's summer), and luckily when he starts to get ill it begins to pour. He then sees that the water is flowing into the sewers, so he goes down there and floats along the water and falls asleep (he's been wandering the streets for days without rest at this point).

Cut to the bois swimming and having fun (the bois are a little older here, Raph is 17, Leo n Don are 16, and Mikey is 15) and Raph is floating or something when a turtle bumps into him. He thinks it's his brother for a second, but then he sees their shell has spikes, and he does a head count, and there's suddenly 5 of them. So they kinda freak out about what to do with this random mutant passed out in the water wearing raggedy pants (with a fire axe tucked in them, but they don't know that). Eventually they take them home to make sure they're not dead and figure out who they are.

Antonio wakes up in a place he's never been, but he's surrounded by people who look vaguely like him and not like the scientists that basically tortured him all his life. So he doesn't immediately attack them and instead asks them questions. They eventually figure out that he's technically their brother, and eventually he really becomes a part of their family (and gets a fresh pair of pants, amongst other clothing items), but he has a butt load of trauma to work through first.

I'll make more content about their relationships with each member of the family and how they settle in later :)

(they also have a bit of a morality thing going on, since they see no problem in killing people that pose a threat to them)

[phantom-shell]

Okay, Ford. Okay.

[shrews-art]

I really love how separately Lila, Kell and Holland are literally the most powerful people between all worlds and also smart and resourceful and skilled but. You leave them together in a room for TEN MINUTES and disaster follows

[shakerofthebutt9000]

I haven’t drawn either of them before

[dootznbootz]

If Rick changed Medusa for the Roman Myth in the TV show to be more 'sensitive', then he better do the same with calling out Calypso and what SHE did to Odysseus as well.

I still like PJO even though some of the changes Riordan did aren't great and make me sad but I feel like I can still enjoy it to a degree. But I am genuinely stumped and a bit disturbed by how he decided to make Calypso a sweet, sad, lonely "good person". Sure, she's sad and lonely but she is NOT sweet. To me, she reads off as cruel to Leo but even then, why tf does he write her as a good person or someone we should be rooting for?

Her only big myth is basically in the Odyssey where she imprisons and rapes Odysseus for 7 years. In mythology, others do that too but these immortals ALSO have other myths that define them. This one myth is practically her ONLY ONE!

At night he slept beside her in the hollow cave, as he was forced to do—not of his own free will, though she was keen enough. But in the daylight hours he’d sit down on the rocks along the beach, his heart straining with tears and groans and sorrow, as he gazed, through his tears, over the restless sea

(Ian Johnston, Book 5)

Another translation of the same passage by E.V. Rieu

At nights, it is true, he had to sleep with her under the roof of the cavern, cold lover with an ardent dame. But the days found him sitting on the rocks or sands, torturing himself with tears and groans and heartache, and looking out with streaming eyes across the watery wilderness.

Rick, dude, how did you read the Odyssey and see her as someone to sympathize with? Plenty of lonely people are out there and they don't do what Calypso fucking did!

It kind of freaks me out that Percy was near this woman as she's over a thousand years old and he's 14 at this point. Even if it WAS for a short amount of time. And pairing her with Leo? These kids should not be anywhere NEAR her!

idk, I doubt he'll fix this in the show but I can hope :')

[thematicparallel]

📚 2025 READING LIST 📚

@helbrides & @libraryleopard tagged me to post some books i want to read next year. thank you!! taking notes from your lists 💌

tagging @archmotif @diasdelasombra @metamatar @ossifer @gh0s1y @captainamsel @perditious @swannkings + anyone else who wants to do it!! i wanna see 👀 everyone's TBR 💖

[frippschamber]

She leaned against Alex, who was sitting next to Anne, and wrinkled up her nose. “You really smell,” Lisa said. “I hate to say it, but you don’t exactly smell like roses yourself,” Alex responded with a wry smile. [Soul Riders: Darkness Falling, Helena Dahlgren, pp. 101]

like, yeah lisa, you smell like manipulation and self-centredness

[the-way-astray]

I saw strieefe mentioned again and I just want to say that if the people demand it I shall write more never change, but sorry I stopped existing for a while, I was busy.

-NC anon

aka, Lisa. 🩵

that one anon totally clocked you . . . okay now i need to know. was that food post you made really for the sake of writing strieefe fic . . . the commitment to the bit is insane. anyway. i personally did not clock you . . . sadness

funniest part i think is that you made your entire personality being obsessed with applesauce in chapter three . . . seems a very shallow interpretation of your character lol. like someone who just took a quick look at your url and maybe your bio and went "yep, this is gonna be lisa's only personality trait because i don't know anything else about her and don't want to risk mischaracterizing her". nice job on that one. threw me off for sure

girl who wants to be kissed by keefe writing keefe-kisses-other-girl fanfic is absolutely the funniest plot twist ever . . . and yes you should totally keep writing if you can. the plot seems intriguing and i need to know what stupid thing keefe did this time and what other keepblr members will be involved next (please be quil, please be quil, please be quil, please be quil-) (quil has a cat. this can be incorporated into the lore. trust.)

[gwandas]

the worst part about trying to update a fic you're dragging your feet on is reacquainting yourself with the plot and what's already happened like wtf is going on... wish i knew!

[mentauxx]

Since everyone's talking about parallel final covers,

All I'll say is look carefully at the cards in Yakumo's hand.

[sugarlesswriting]

Seeing that Jason dead on page doesn't bother me. Listen, at this point if any of the batfam from the mainline die it doesn't matter because they'll be brought back. I've seen Redhood on the front page of the Absolute Power event.

Call me when something actually life changing happens for the batfam like the Jokers permadeath until then I don't care

[mytdpblog]

Just binged watched the first 3 seasons of The Dragon Prince this weekend and I feel ALIVE

[softichill]

Sort of going off my last Seam post, if they really were carried everywhere before finally be left in the unused classroom.... would that play into their nihilism? I need to reread their dialogue again, but from what I remember they seem very uncaring towards the relationship between lightners and darkners (something we see other characters put a lot of emphasis on). If they were carried everywhere by someone who was attached to them, and in the end left in a classroom never to be used again, would that affect the way they feel about lightners?

Like I said I'll need to look at their dialogue again-- I certainly don't think they outright HATE lightners (otherwise their outlook would be much more like Spades King) but I feel like being around for so long and eventually having their use worn out has made them see things in a different light over the years

[striveattemptfail]

flavours of pathetic: Roy Harper Edition

kinda stupid

red hood and arsenal (2015) #2, #3, #12

shaped

arsenal (1999) #2, #3, #4

Extra™ pathetic

batman plus arsenal (1997)

[weirdsociology]

[dreamyintersexouppy]

sending love to all head mates with complex relationships to the body, language isn’t build to adequately describe our senses of identity and that’s fucking rough sometimes! However y’all choose or opt out of labels, I respect your choices!

thank you! but i think that's the thing about it, tma/tme (from how i understand it novas a good explainer but idk if im a good rememberer) isn't opt in or out, it just describes something that exists already, and while my identity as a boy is real queer how i get treated while fronting is still more affected by how people see the body. it feels like a tma if you don't know me/don't know im fronting and tme if you do but even that seems strange (nova says: that sounds like just tme to me cuz of the opportunity to opt out but it could be more complicated). i think the language is good but i also think it matters more to me to be an ally to nova and all my transfem friends than to think forever about where i sit in a framework that wasn't made to benefit me. in the end that stuff is for trans women and as funny as the joke of boy headmate in tma body is i think my position as boy headmate makes me not the authority on actual meaningful discussion