#jack is just something else

[mandalores]

So I tried to get prepared. For about 25 episodes, I tried very hard to prepare myself to the event and guess what? I wasn’t ready. When the first flames appeared in the kitchen I burst into tears. What is this show doing to me 😭 I’m a wreck and I haven’t even seen everything yet?? Also, what the FUDGE is wrong with the creators WHY IN HELL WOULD YOU CHOOSE THAT SPECIFIC SONG??? TO BUILD A HOME??? EXCUSE ME??? WTF I CANNOT COPE 😭😭😭 I’m in so much pain, this show really is overwhelming to me 😢 What an absolute masterpiece. How did you all get back to your lives when it stopped airing because I just don’t know what I’m gonna do with myself without the Pearsons. Please, no spoilers, I’m only halfway through season 2. I am not searching anything or anyone online or through Tumblr 'cause I don’t want to get spoiled but GOD do I wanna look for stuff to reblog.

[clockworkreapers]

Damn Jack... I think you might have hurt his feelings

[crispyliza]

I just realized that early fanfiction sites provided me my first sex education.

[lacystar]

it wouldn't even matter if he did "shit on you behind your back" when you "never say anything back." the thing it absolutely boils down to is that you knew him when he was a minor and he has come forward saying that because of your influence and power, he felt uncomfortable around you. any POSSIBLE comeback other than an apology ends there. slur or no slur, any other response to that is bad. or, is it just that someone underage you've hurt in the past telling the truth about you only scares you when you know they have the public influence to protect themself?

[juli3ette]

Random Thought #3

if one were to have sex with Jack or Elias, would it be considered necrophilia?

(IM SORRY THIS THOUGHT JUST CAME ACROSS MY MIND WHEN I WAS WALKING IN THE HALLWAYS AT SCHOOL A WEEK AGO)

[rosewvlf]

Living dead wreck with an oil spill brain. Can't keep time from slipping away

[cobra-creampuff]

the fact that they made it illegal to make ads louder than programs on tv in 2010 but haven't updated it to apply the same regulation to streaming. who do i have to call.

[insidethejeffersonian]

[neytui]

I always appreciate Jack's simple modern guy outfit instead of whatever the fuck Hiccup is wearing after the first movie

[clockworkreapers]

That's weird, there must be a leak in here or something...

[sickkandstonedd]

there’s so much recycled and tired discourse going on in the fandom right now with people trying to box the characters into being either “good” or “evil” and i think people have no concept of multidimensional characters, like jack for example, people have dumbed down his complex character into just being “bad”, and yes the things he did and the way he pushed will was a little selfish and at times he was more focused on will’s abilities rather than his well-being, but that does not make him simply bad. he still cared for will, he just had a job to do, one that most likely couldn’t be done without will. he may have done unfavorable things but that does not make him purely bad, the same goes for every character in the show. and isn’t one of the main points of the show defying what defines good and evil?

think of this quote for example. morals are a key element of the show and it’s shown plenty of times how skewed each character’s morals are. i dunno, i just think hannibal isn’t the show for people that like to limit a character’s complexity by putting them into boxes where they don’t belong and refuse to acknowledge the painfully human aspects of a character.

[arcadeplayer-nickonz]

Quick Farewell Mermay post w/ Phantom

or better said me really wanting to draw something for mermay but having no spark for it until the very last day where Manta Ray Danny popped into my brain, but yeah this was drawn in a day and i did try doing more painterly(?) strokes too. And yes, glowy freckles are random but so fun.

[onesnoopyaday]

snoopy blue-eyed person stare

Snoopy #87

27/12/2024

[disenchanted2006]

THE BOYS - Season Four Finale

[twst-mer]

more fairy gala couture jack

[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.