#love this bridge

[rainy-sweater-weather]

[ourtalechara]

Can I talk for a moment about the bridge to TNPCTO?

It's my favorite part of the song for various reasons. Due to it being slower, I find it easier and more fun to sing. It also helps change up the pacing relative to the rest of the song. These things might be why it reminds me of the bridge to The Production Line, as that's also a fast paced song that is given some more time to breathe during the bridge.

It's also the section that begins to really tell a story, or a story deeper than simply the takeover itself.

We've sent whimsy down your chimneys for the last two thousand years

The North Pole has, since Christmas first started, been the gifters of presents, whishes, joy. And they've liked it. (The next line may say they don't but shhhh yes they do it's referring to something else trust me)

And forgive me being grinchy but we've had it up to here

Oh look it's the next line. So. Uh. They're sick of this. Of what? Of having their frickin. Christmas stuff stolen.

Took our vision by committee and you've got commercial-eyes

Turned the mystique into mincemeat as you fought over the pie

You parsed our thing through marketing, commodified the cheer

A bunch of companies saw Christmas and were like "ooh. I could make money out of that."

So now you've got a lot of corporations that are trying to use the Christmas spirit as a marketing tactic. They're trying to take genuine joy and whimsy and crush it down into the fine mulch of progress, make a profit by manipulating something generally associated with joy into something that can benefit them.

And what does the North Pole say?

You'll hardly see us arguing; you've got the right idea

They say, "hey, that doesn't sound too bad"

"Why don't we do that?"

But you've dined free on our IP, so make it understood

That licensees, though fine to eat, don't bake the fudging pud

I kind of wish I had a better grasp on the exact meaning of these lines so I could examine them better. But, while I can't really explain them, I think I have a good general understanding of them: this is Christmas. This is our thing. We're going to do what we want with it, especially if it's something that's being done to it anyway.

The rest of the lyrics up until the chorus are still some of my favorites, but they also don't have too much to do with the theme I'm talking about, so I'm going to skip ahead to what is absolutely one of my favorite couplets from the whole song.

You guys chose to monetize it

So why can't those who devised it?

This is an extension of the same things that were said in the bridge, and perhaps what really brings it all together.

We own this. We made this. What right don't we have to do whatever you do to it?

If you want to complain that Christmas has ended up this way, what right did you have to get this ball rolling in the first place?

Isn't it hypocritical? Isn't this what you wanted?

No?

Then why did you start doing it?

[chichihuahua1413]

REMEMBER WHEN YOU HIT THE BRAKES TOO SOON?

TWENTY STITCHES IN A HOSPITAL ROOM

[swedenis-h]

Wife lovers till they die

[hornyverymuch]

happy pride to these two for saying the gayest shit almost 60 years ago on television and singlehandedly inventing slash fiction

[thatsbelievable]

[deep-space-lines]

IT'S FINALLY FUCKING DONE. I'M FINALLY FREE

UNTIL FRAUD COMES OUT

Tumblr shrinks it down pretty bad so please. please. I am begging you. look at the full sized image and zoom in. This art piece made my friends worried for my mental health I need someone to witness the amount of detail and effort I put into this

also the original sketch under the cut bc I think comparing them is really funny

[popuplee]

the thing that drives me sooo crazy about the jinx/isha/cait/vi confrontation is that for vi, it was a lose-lose situation. either caitlyn misses & accidentally hits isha (child witnesses enforcer violence), or caitlyn kills jinx in front of a child who cares for her (child STILL witnesses enforcer violence). Either situation parallels vi’s own past trauma. In that moment, it wasnt about jinx (at least not entirely). It was about vi’s catalyst for violent change about to be recreated and forced upon this child. Caitlyn said she understood how vi felt seeing her parents die, but demonstrated in this moment that she doesnt and literally CANT. caitlyn has never been on the other side or enforcer violence. the child didnt even compute to her—isha was just an obstacle to be avoided, not a person that will carry this experience forever. But vi’s been on the wrong end of a gun. She understood that no matter what, no matter who got hit, if she allowed caitlyn to shoot, vi would be recreating her own trauma. And THATS why she stopped cait

[star-trekster]

ST@CEC 4: Deep Space Nine; In Charles’s Shadow

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Trapped in a vicious cycle of pining? Try gay sex! (More things to learn over at Tiger Tiger!)

[blackhillverse]

rio vidal, you ARE the father.

[spirk-trek]

captain kirk was allowed out of his enclosure today for some much needed enrichment!!! look at him go!

[lezkissgifs]

Under the Bridge, S01E03 (2024)

[bixels]

Hot to the Touch

(Sunset x Thea)

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Finding Draxum

A little comic of Mikey finding Draxum in the street after he got drained by the Shredder suit. The original idea for this storyline was that Draxum would align himself with the Hamatos for a time while The Shredder took over the city, until his ego and obsession with prophesy led him to betray them once more. This time he would get no third chance, and Mikey would be the one to draw the line and tell him so before making him leave the city for good.

I love TMNT for its found family! But having had to cut off irl blood relatives before despite how many chances they were given, I kind of like Draxum as a villain despite him being the creator of the turtles. But that’s just me!

This doesn’t lead to his nice canonical show self in my mind , though it can totally still be read that way :)

[commsroom]

the u.s.s. horrible unending nightmare 💥 (once again from the incredible @hehearse)