#injuries still suck

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Mikey skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Box turtles are the kinds of turtles who can fully fit into and close their shells along a single hinge in their plastron, which once closed is extremely hard to break into for any kind of predator especially if they cannot get a proper grip on the dome of the shell. Box turtles are also usually found in plains rather than ponds, and while they need water to survive and keep hydrated and can swim well, they’re not generally considered aquatic. Box turtles do have an interesting adaptation due to their more northern range of being able to survive freezing temperatures for a short period of time by slowing their metabolism outside of seasonal brumation (similar to hibernation, but more of a dormant state) if absolutely needed.

After watching TMNT ‘03 where the turtles meditate to save oxygen and prevent suffocation in a broken airlock, I thought, why not mix their ninja ability to conceal their body heat and breath and mix it with a turtles natural ability to brumate? Perhaps the brothers could enter into a completely dormant state on command with enough training in order to survive extreme situations or astral project in some form. Just a fun thought to tie their strong mystic powers with their physical abilities!

Although I use the term heterothermy to refer to them being able to vary between generating their own body heat while active and relying on environmental temperature while inactive, the intricacies of understanding thermal regulation in animals eludes me. If there’s a term that fits better, go ahead! I’m not a biologist so you probably know better lol

These are all my personal head cannons! You can use em’ as reference or not, whichever you prefer :)

[General][Raph][Donnie][Leo][Splinter]

[moonshynecybin]

The Marquez family dynamics is like crack to my brain i think about it way to much. Like you've got marc and Alex the most codependent siblings to ever live who shared a bedroom until they moved out of their family home in their 20s just to move in with eachother. From some stuff I've seen Julia and Roser divorced (I have no clue when) they are always following marc and Alex's careers and are very involved and Marc and Alex both speak really highly of them but sometimes I look at how marc and Alex are and some stuff in old articles and go there childhood was definitely not all sunshine and rainbows and happiness and Marc's talked in the past about how he was raised by his grandfather cause his parents always worked but them the economic crisis in Spain made a teenage marc the main money bringer in the family with is crazy. Like Marc and Alex are closer than a lot of twins even are and Marc is like a father figure/brother role and Alex is one of the only people in the world that probably knows Marc's inner thoughts. Like I'm constantly thinking about his post for marc when he left Honda and the stuff he must have seen marc go through in those injury years. And the stories about Marc's injury in 2011 where marc was apparently the most calm one and was the one calming his parents down is crazy to me like 18 years old possible career ending injury and he's the one with the most level head. This got so much longer than I expected.

no i agree its one of those things where even if your parents arent absent or abusive per seee, it also doesnt mean that they are like perfect parents who leave you baggage free. and i think marc and alex CERTAINLYYYY have parental baggage lol

[corporalmoth]

misbehaviour punishment

[zeb-z]

I just think Tallulah gets to be upset about this. “It’s not Wilbur’s fault” “He’s not a bad dad” “He loves his daughter so much” yes! These are all true! And it’s not his fault! But he’s still not there. And Tallulah has gone through so much and still hasn’t seen him, the one time he was around was the one time she wasn’t, and all she has are letters and “I’m thinking of you always” and things that used to be theirs together, but he’s still not there. She’s waited and she’s been patient and she’s loved him all the same, and he’s still not there. Like yesterday, and the day before, and the day before, from the happy milestones to the traumatic events, he’s still not there.

She knows that it’s not his fault, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s absent. That in and of itself just adds to the sorrow, because she knows why he’s gone, and she’s been told time and time again it doesn’t mean he doesn’t care, she knows this - it doesn’t mean it doesn’t sting, that it doesn’t hurt, that she doesn’t yearn for her father to be there more than anything in the world, and he’s just not there.

So yes, she gets to be upset, and be caustic, and stomp her feet and write bitter messages, and be angry and vitriolic, because she’s a little girl missing her father, who feels things with her whole heart and soul - and that means she gets to feel the ugly parts of it, too.

[thefrogdalorian]

Get well soon Pedro! 🤍

[mydogatemymotivation]

I'm thinking back on the Dot and Bubble episode of doctor who and how everyone who saw it and completely missed the point of the entire episode was accusing it of being a 'old man yells at cloud' episode but the point of the episode was about how everybody lives in their own little bubble, hence the name, but I think that it's unfortunately becoming a reality. Generative AI fucking sucks. People are using it to write porn for themselves??? Human written fanfiction is RIGHT THERE what the fuck is going on. People are using to write grocery lists. People are using it to do math for them, to summarize books for them so that they don't have to actually try their hand at analysis, and so on. First of all, generative AI is feeding on itself and not fact checking anything. Second of all, the point of school is to LEARN and when people are doing everything in their power to ruin American education getting everything you can out of the crumbling education system is so, so, so important. But no, we don't want to for some fucking reason. And I've seen some arguments that are like, 'oh, our grandparents said the same thing about calculators, you sound so old' It's not the same as using a calculator, because in order to use a calculator you have to understand the order of the mathematics. It takes skill and patience to learn the appropriate place to use a calculator. And you should be able to do the entire problem WITHOUT the calculator, anyway. It's a tool to speed the process your already doing. Not a tool designed to REPLACE the process. You don't know what you're doing. And I'm not a mathematician saying this. I'm, in fact, very, very bad at math. But I'd rather scrape together a C than fake an A because then at least I've practiced something, studied something, learned something - even if what I've learned is that I'm really fucking bad at math. But I'm thinking about that scene where Lindy first see's the slug monster eating that guy (wild sentence if you have no idea what I'm talking about) and she's trying to get away from it but she literally can't walk without Dot and Bubble. She keeps walking into the desk because she can't fucking think for herself and I just

uuuuuuuuggggghhhhhhh

People were complaining about how stupid that was because 'that would never happen' but literally I think if generative AI told some of y'all where to walk you'd WILLINGLY give up the ability because 'well, some people need canes, do you yell at them?' Are you fucking kidding me??? That is in no way, shape, or form the same. But you wouldn't know that because you don't know how to think because you rely on fucking AI to do it for you.

I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate generative AI. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I will never fucking touch generative AI.

[tieflinglich]

i do think its fucked up to see actual arguments on here about how AI is good, actually, and if you think calling someone out for using AI and then blaming some sort of disability on it then you are an inherently horrible person. like yeah.

AI generated content is based on theft from tons of artists across the world due to scraping from the internet. it is bad. even ignoring any of the environmental effects, it is a horrible fucking thing to just rip apart the efforts of your peers in order to spare yourself a bit of time because you want to make a product but don't want to put in the effort. and trying to spin it as 'oh poor artist has a disability, they cannot create art, how dare you expect them to hurt themselves for your petty moral argument' ignores the tons of actually disabled artists who actively work with their bodies in order to create content that they are proud of.

it feels like instead of actually listening to anyone you're just willing to throw disabled artists under the bus because you want to make the most amount of money with the least amount of effort.

[comediakaidanovsky]

jesus christ these audiences for roh/aew what the fuck. like i get that it's hard to sort structural things out when the company is in a tailspin but man do they need to do something drastic. however many monitors tk was hit with it was not enough

[violettierre]

I : majored in english, has a masters degree in it, studying philosophy, and have been an English teacher/Junior translator for almost a decade now.

My grandma : there is our future doctor <3

[shitouttabuck]

fucked up one mr diaz and don’t wanna fix itttttt