#i totally love this man a normal amount

[darsynia]

RDJ acting like Tony Stark for 30 seconds

For those who, like me, wanted a quick reference for those moments we love so much ('I must be mellowing with age...'), here's a video to revel in.

[viperra1]

tw: blood, suicidal ideation (? probably ? it's Boone we're talking about so. yeah)

so make it one for my baby and one more for the road.

[saphic-with-t]

Gerard almost instinctively hating toy island has such an interesting and good layer to it for me. Like yes, of course the idea of an island full of 10-14 year olds drinking and being rowdy is a nightmare. But deeper down, it’s a place that gives children everything they ever wanted and then punishes them for being children who wanted to play and have fun with stuff. And they are specifically punished by being turned into animals. Both of those have to be massive triggers for him. Not to mention that we haven’t seen him interact with any large body of water, but I have to imagine that after his life stuck in a cold pond that being surrounded on all sides by a giant, dangerous body of water would bring back some sour memories. I feel so bad for our poor, sweet, frog prince.

[tropicalcontinental]

Human fear is the window to the soul or whatever ://

[snackugaki]

.... i have been so normal about wanting to draw tactical!Venus and tactical!Jennika.

hey. HEY. y’all need to go check out @donathan ‘s artwork, and if you are the proper age, go throw some money into their patreon for some... some real, real good art. 👀👀👀 ...but do not if you are a minor, that shit ain’t for you.

some IDW TMNT comic spoilers... and.... I guess... Next Mutation ssspoilers? I know some of you kids haven’t turtled up and watched my beloved childhood iteration yet.

alright, so, y’know, completely normal expenditure of my energy and skillset, amirite? big big thanks to @/donathan for allowing me to play around in their AU’s aesthetic because I have severe, terminal VenusAndJennikaDeserveEverythingoccocal SoIWillManifestItMyselfitis.

and tbh, all y’all’s fics have been, mwah, chef’s kiss. but SOME of you put LORE. delicious, tasty, appetite-inducing lore.

and i am nothing but the littlest hoebag for lore.

okay so, quick rundown for those who both A) are immune to spoilers B) also do not know Venus or Jennika’s origins-- bulletpoint time~!

So Venus de Milo, the “girl turtle”, the “fifth turtle” (not counting April’s extremely brief stint as a white-bandana’d turtle in the Archie comics run) was introduced in 1997′s Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation

An episode of “The Toys That Made Us” touched upon Venus’ creation so idk it’ll cover what I won’t deign to acknowledge.

her backtory is interesting (just her show was a trashfire /affectionate)

Master Splinter’s frolicking around in the dreamscape where all the cool enlightened old people hang out away from teenagers, right?

but oh no! dragon lord, a bad dude with a widow’s peak to rival Vegeta Dragonball’s widow’s peak; is there too! stomping around, ruining shit!

Splinter’s dreamscape buddy Chung I warns Splinter to stay out of the dreamscape ‘cuz Dragon Lord’s around

And like in true old people fashion, just ignores his friend’s admonition and tries to investigate himself

bad choice, womp womp

Splinter gets trussed up and rendered “stuck” in the dreamscape

cue the catalyst for Venus to make the 10+ flight from China to the U.S

don’t worry about what the boys were doing, just literal surfing in sewer grey water, breaking their little turtle skulls on cinderblocks, and picking fights in warehouses with Foot clan goons

tl;dr Venus still has Sixth Ranger mode on, so naturally she whoops all of their asses in the dark, ties them up (like how some of y’all enjoy writing Leo does huhu nudgenudge winkwink)

venusistheoriginalshibarienthusiastandteadrinkerfightme

and then, y’know, it’s still the 90s and children’s television so blah blah the usual “oH My gOd a GiRL tURTle???/?? AWoooOOogaaa ga ga ga” 

it’s.... I mean, i’m 38 so it no longer strikes me as bad as just really fucking embarrassing... for them. to be written saying. fuck, at least they didn’t make her bandana color pink.

so fast forward to Venus teaching them to dreamwalk so they can go rescue Splinter from Dragon Lord’s clutches in the dreamscape.

unfortunately, Dragon Lord offscreen murders Chung I so Venus is narratively anchorless post-rescue, so she’s invited to stay with them. thus ensues wacky hijinks with their new pal, Venus Boom Boom de Milo.

I glossed over the urge to write a cumulative review of Next Mutation. Just, take my word as the target demographic of the show during the last gasps of 90s Turtlemania that TNM was a trashfire overall but... y’know... if you ever needed a palette cleanser after some grimdark or angsty TMNT content, give TNM a whirl. The slapstick was intentional and The Point in the show. Venus’ circumstances for coming was as serious as it would get.

... Also, yes, they made them not related in TNM, preteen snackugaki didn’t clock why because I watched a lot of wuxia as a kid so brotherhood is a term beyond blood ties to me (and if I’m being honest, martial brotherhood is fkkn metal) and later I heard tell that it was to lure more girls into the franchise with both a girl turtle and romance options. which idk whatevs man. 

I also have to clear that, actually no, Donatello and Venus did not fight EVERY episode. Donatello, despite sprinkling a little too much barely disguised snobbery, did defer to Venus’ expertise in “the supernatural” when the situation called for it, and Venus would commend Donnie on his scientific ingenuity. They even teamed up skillsets to create surveillance drones! She essentially casted Calm Emotions on him while he tried to hack the controls of the Astro Megaship back for the In Space Rangers. They breached the divide between STEM and Humanities! They only had one “real fight" near the end of the season-- because Donnie was playing his containment breach elevator mid trash copyright strike immune proto-EDM too loud while she was trying to meditate. and that’s just being bad roommates tbh.

...christ I know it’s gonna come up too, but also NO, there was not constant advances made toward Venus during the show. At most was Mikey pulling his ol’ “I work out every day~!” schtick for like 2 episodes of the 5 spent to introduce Venus. And then after? A shipper’s desert, you’d have to dig and peer behind like 8 curtains for any viable fodder. 

...OKAY NOW FOR JENNIKA’S ORIGINS: Jennika is an IDW character specifically so, naturally why she isn’t in (or would’ve been, AHEM) a lot of iterations yet (or at all, COUGH) (but to continue in honesty there’s a lot of legal tape to cut through since Jennika is IDW’s while TMNT overall is Nick’s) Introduced as a Foot Assassin, her place in the Foot Clan shifts when Splinter takes over from Shredder (Saki), eventually she forms actual bonds with both the turtles and Splinter to where it’s implied she also saw him as an important figure to her if not an outright surrogate father figure. And because TMNT is mess and drama the other 50% of the time, Karai takes over the Foot from Splinter and shenanigans compounded by Karai’s then-current machinations for the Foot-- results in Jennika getting shanked in the stomach by Karai during a clandestine meeting to resolve clan rivalry. She’s losing blood fast, Donnie works to save her and it’s Leo who volunteers for blood transfusion to keep her stable mid-transit. 

SURPRISE!

Leo’s blood mutates Jennika into a mutant turtle. And then Casey ghosts/dumps her. My poor daughter. She has a real rough time of it before fully integrating with the boys. Raph falls in with Old Hob, gets hoodwinked, and now they live in Mutant Town. Jennika slowly finds herself again, as a mutant turtle, a Splinter clan ninja, a girlfriend, a guitarist in a band she started, a sister in a found family, and a constable to a very little town.

okay! we’re all marginally informed about my two wonderfull daughters, Venus and Jennika~!

so if I can indulge further, I’m going to use my cognizance and make it everyone’s problem because I have beem quietly foaming with ideas for bg lore for tactical!J&V, more bullet points!

ok so, donathan mentioned a bit about their tac! Leo and Donnie being the snipers, Mikey and Raph spotting for them while also being demolitions and heavy ordinance specialists respectively

I would think, then for Vee and Jen, they’d be classified as close quarters combat specialists, complicated extraction? compromised area? call them to clean up and clear out~

give or take “magic” being a thing used in donathan’s AU, or anyone’s AU of this AU, Vee would probably be a close combat specialist along with Jen.

Vee, I feel, would, barring a ...”tactical fan”, (even though in TNM it was just her fists and her little wizard components but her toy came with a fan so.) probably use batons, Jen in lieu of her tekagi-shuko would... most likely use tactical karambit. not that large of a leap really.

for my personal lulz, Vee and Jen are... accurate, height-wise. Raph gets to be the biggest brother since alligator snapping turtles are, in fact, the largest motherfucking freshwater turtles on the north american continent. no getting around it.

my Vee in all Rise AUs is a softshell since the messy hanzi used to write her first given name, Mei Pieh Chi (美鱉气) has the hanzi that’s most commonly translated as softshell turtle (鱉). eh ‘di wow talaga

snacku what do you mean ‘accurate’???? tl;dr female turtles are usually the larger ones in most species.

and listen, I love and I mean LOVE, how some of y’all have written the tac!boys, mwah; but god I’m a professional turtle bully. I need to see them get dunked on. for nutritional value. and if it comes to it, I will provide that food for myself. brb laughing at eventually drawing Venus just offhandedly tossing Donnie into the air to skeet shoot his ass for fun brings me the greatest joy.

they absolutely dote on Mikey, as is the natural order of things. 

and even tho I stated TNM Donnie and Venus got along in the show, and depending on the existence of magic in this AU; I just really love dichotomous rivalries (in as much “science” and “magic” exist as a dichotomy, much less as “diametrically oppose” fields-- just, opposites man. i’m a simple girl with simple trope needs)

Vee’s arms (and legs) are absolutely covered in burns, scars, and missing flesh divots, just as close to swiss cheese limbs as you can be

Jen and Donnie debate tracks that go into their joint “On Our Way To Commit Murder” playlist

if Vee’s tactical look seem very familiar, and you’re wondering if-- yes, you’re correct. and you can “call her ms. de milo if ya nasty”

Vee was actually pretty calm and rational in TNM... but for this AU, she can be a little unhinged, as a well-deserved treat. (and ‘cuz that specific anime unhinged facial expression is fun as fuck to draw, which is my treat)

[cryptiduni]

“white mourning.”

[ericcarrsworshipper]

I'll tell you something...I slept very well with the my Eric Carr scented V-Shaped pillow last night. Best night sleep yet, actually.

(That may just be the fact I stay up until unreasonable hours and sleep in best when I have a class that next day 💀)

[thr4shit]

Random ramble about Marble Hornets cause my brain FINALLY put shit into words about my feelings about it all as a whole.

(I guess...?)

I actually hate what happened to Alex.

I hate what he was reduced to because he tried too hard to stop the Operator. To stop the sickness.

I hate what happened to all of them.

Yes, the watch felt like home. I missed the media a lot.

But I hate what they went through.

I always have.

The fact that they were all FRIENDS

(If my shit memory is actually serving me right.)

And this fucking ENTITY tore them apart.

Broke their minds and bodies bit by bit until they LITERALLY KILLED EACH OTHER.

Even when someone tried to help someone else they couldn't because that fucking thing made them distrustful of everything.

There was no winning.

There was no way out.

There was only moving on.

And not even that, because it's never gone.

Tim might've survived. Jessica might've survived.

But I can guarantee you.

They never truly "lived" again.

Every waking and sleeping moment would've been HELL for them.

Even if they felt better.

[obeymeow]

nightbringer lesson 14 FUCKED ME UP in several ways but primarily I've spent the last 48 hours making myself sad over the solomon backstory we got. specifically I have, for no reason, latched onto that one chapter in the Kids event where baby solomon cried because he felt so guilty over being responsible for that spell. and that just feels a touch more depressing in context

[wiresdraws]

Designed these around April of last year, but here's an AU take on Kazuma Kval post-Boundary in a scenario where he survives and makes it back after about a century or so. (I also roleplay this version on Twitter like a little gremlin ignore me). The outfit has some ties to his BBDW alt uniform but is meant to be its own thing as well. Also made a bonus BBRadio "sprite" to go with the design.

[insanelyadd]

Hi! I'm sure you've posted something like this already but do you have any recommendations for comics/fics that are Papyrus-centric? Trying to find stuff that's more about him that isn't out of character is really hard. He's my favorite character and I'm so tired of Fanon -.-

Well I gotta recommend my all time favorite UT fic. It's not strictly canon Papyrus, and okay, this is going to sound fucking silly, but it's a Fedora Papyrus Angst Fic. Yeah. I am being for real. It's so good. I have sent it to multiple people who were like "That's so dumb I hate this character" who come out of it Changed. A few people have cried.

Irredeemable by @drundertalescum

As for comics, I have an a few AU recs that both are very true to Papyrus' character, the first being @invertedfate and the other being @undertalethingems Unexpected Guests comic, Papyrus being a major secondary character (Frisk obviously being the main character) of Inverted Fate, and while UG isn't Papyrus-centric it features a lot of him and he is treated very well and written incredibly good.

I gotta be real with you I mainly read reader inserts (I am madly in love with this goofy ass skeleton) so I don't actually have much else to recommend. Though if you want to know other good people to ask I'd say ask Sam (Thingem) since they love canon UT Papyrus and aren't a reader-insert reader, they have very good standards for him.

I'd recommend my own Ambassador Papyrus fic but I haven't updated it in forever (pensive emoji). I want to but I've been distracted by other things.

[quinnthebard]

It's WIP Wednesday my dudes

I got struck with inspiration during a really bad alliance raid roullette last night lol. Enjoy some Tav (Zepheria) / Rolan nonsense but they aren't actually together yet. Rolan is just oblivious and Zeph is down bad but doesn't know how to act on it lmaooooo. Anyway let's jump in.

Rolan wasn’t sure why Zepheria insisted on talking to him so much, but she sure did. Who was she? Oh, just the woman who saved his and the rest of the refugee’s arses multiple times over. No big deal. He’d worship the land she walked on if it wasn’t so gods-damned annoying. Who did she think she was? No one asked for help yet there she was giving it.

And giving it well.

Gods.

Cal and Lia loved her visits of course. It was all, “Zeph this” and “Zeph showed us that” or “oh look at this weird mushroom that Zeph found when she was wandering the Underdark!” Who in the hells decides to take a ‘calming weekend’ off in the Underdark? A crazy person. Zepheria. That’s who.

He should be grateful, but instead he’s annoyed.

And he’s annoyed that he’s annoyed.

He huffed at the tome that laid before him, unable to focus on its text because sadi woman was regaling his siblings with tales of her adventures as they listened in with rapt attention.

“And as we approached the petrified drow, a spectator revealed itself!”

“No!” Cal and Lia dragged the single syllable out in awe.

“Yes! Fortunately, Gale had read some dusty book about it and was able to tell us all about its weaknesses while Lae’zel railed on it with her greatsword…”

The story faded as he tried in vain—again—to focus on his studies. There was some sort of extra security system built into the tower that he wanted to learn how to control. After sifting through the basement archives and discovering that Zeph of all people had waltzed in and gained information in various vaults for her Wizard of Waterdeep, he knew he had to ensure that things stayed appropriately locked down.

And that certain people didn’t just waltz in and take what they like.

He scowled. “Can you please keep it down? I’m trying to work here.”

eering over at the trio, he could see that Zeph at least had the decency to look embarrassed but Cal and Lia merely snickered, mischief in their eyes.

“Oh come on, Rolan, don’t be such a grump. You can take a break at least for a moment right? We’ve got an esteemed guest!” Taunting him, Cal beckoned Rolan closer. His scowl merely deepened.

“An esteemed guest that shows up more and more as days go by. I’m sure she has more important things to do than bother us.”

It was Lia’s turn to jump in. Typical behavior for the pair to gang up on him. “Don’t be that way. She’s not bothering us.”

“Not bothering you, perhaps.”

“Well, if you took that quarterstaff out of your arse, perhaps you’d be having more fun.”

He was about to rebuke Lia’s insistence on the placement of his staff when Zepheria finally spoke again. “No, no. He’s right. I should leave you guys be. You probably have more than enough to do trying to reestablish yourselves in your new lives here.”

“We weren’t doing anything before you arrived. You don’t need to go!”

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

Gettin' jiggy with Freddy D in the My Generation Video

[temporarywoundz]

my friends were holding me at gunpoint 2 post this yesterday but it was kinda late so. have at it now

[keithbutgay]

"ive got a new crush, and her name is education!"

her name

*explodes*

luz your bisexuality is showing--- /j

(people like meming that line and replacing "education" with "amity" :PP)

[silmaryel]

Sooo, it’s been a year since I’m simping over Viktor. And if anything, it’s getting stronger <3 Two more years to wait for S2 Arcane? Not a problem, I will feed of S1 screenshots, gifs, edits, absolutely wonderful fanarts, fanfics and headcanons people have about this amazing man and show. 

Don’t mind me while I go on a reblog spree, I can’t get over my lanky, dorky, disabled, genius husband.