#man i wish i could see some of these

[eggbem]

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes I wish we could have gotten (in no particular order):

The turtles get cloaking charms to look human, like Sunita or Big Mama have (I just wanna know what they'd look like as humans, canonically)

A flashback of the first time the turtles met April

More Donnie and Raph content (More Brains and Brawn, please and thank you)

More Donnie and Leo content

So much more more Mikey content in general

Casey Jr. adapting to living in not-the-apocalypse

Casey Jr. flashing back to all his future's turts and his April, and comparing them to their younger counterparts

Raph bonding with Cassandra (because raph and casey brotp ftw)

Cassandra bonding with Casey Jr.

We meet April's parents and April's parents meet the Hamatos

MORE TIME WITH GRAM-GRAM KARAI maybe before she got got (a flashback kinda ep) or Mikey talks to her as a Hamato ghost idk

An episode about Big Mama's masked lackey (I know we got a reveal for her in the anniversary comic, but I want to know mooore)

Another girls night episode, but with April, Sunita AND Cassandra

Cassandra trying to un-Krangify the foot leaders

Actually, maybe also an entire episode (or series of episodes) dedicated to addressing the fallout and trauma from the Krang invasion

The Crying Titan. 'Nuff said.

Draxum winning over the rest of the brothers (My theory on how it would go down: Donnie's the next most receptive besides Mikey. Raph's trust is harder to earn, but is won over when Raph sees how Draxum wants to protect the family as much as he does. Leo's...gonna take some work)

Leveling up ninja training, working on each turtle's weakest area. This would probably work better as multiple episodes, where in each one, Splinter focuses on one turtle's training and they root out some deeper-seated personal issues. And maybe working around post-krang injuries (Mikey's arms, Leo's leg, Donnie's shell, Raph's eye)

More Todd and the weird dentist poachers, there was definitely supposed to be more there

More Hueso, maybe with another turtle besides Leo

Agent Bishop and Sister Krang

More Mud Dogs, with Sean Astin voicing Heinous Green

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Voice from the wasteland

[menelaus-blue]

as promised tumblr, the drawing has been done

[wishchip106]

going absolutely insane about this

he has so much adoration in his eyes THAT MAN IS IN LOVE

the writers completely failed when it came to writing his ACTUAL love interest

bro wants to get married and have babies and grandbabies with Erik Lehnsherr

he’s already planned ahead 😨🤯

thank you James Mcavoy for giving us head over heels in love Charles Xavier😌🙏

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

perhaps my most #cancelable videogame take i can post on this website is i think that the kind of people who say that anyone who picks the "morally wrong" or "mean" options in video game dialogue should, as a player, feel bad about their own choices/morals in real life. is that those people are just another flavor of the kind of dudes who play Disco Elysium and get mad for not being rewarded for picking the facist options. both of these groups are reducing games to "a thing I want to agree with me and everyone else who doesn't either suffers or does not have the option to play a character who behaves otherwise" rather than "a medium where you get to (or even Have to) explore different kinds of characters in order to experience the full depth of the story and characters in it."

When I want to pick options in a game that are mean, negative, arrogant, or ignorant, it's because I want to explore what would push a character into becoming that kind of person. Sometimes I want to see how the NPC characters who I-The-Player like/agree with react to someone who is fundamentally different from them. I think it's GOOD actually when the narrative allows you to push limits and especially when it has the option to then punish you for it in some way, such as losing options/routes later on, or companions straight up abandoning you for your choices. It DOES often make me deeply, viscerally uncomfortable to make choices in a game that are so counter to my own, but it means I get to experience that discomfort in an isolated environment and also think about what it means, what would push the character or even yes a real person into actually feeling those things. And I get to play with what ways the narrative could challenge them/make them grow over the course of the game--or on the other side, it can let me make a character who does start off more open/accepting but let the events of the narrative push them into being more reactively closed-minded instead.

I like that we have invented a medium where you can play a game multiple times and experience it differently depending on the character you play as. Books and TV and movies are all static--the greatest draw of games to me is the ones that are responsive, that can tell a slightly different story every time--when other characters in the game respond differently to you because of it, or some paths open up and others don't. And so yes it did disappointment me when a franchise that previously had these elements, Dragon Age, did not include them in the most recent installment. I don't think games should have options where you get to just hit a button to say something racist with no consequences or exploration into why a character would do that. but like, if i can only ever play a game as an upstanding person who is morally right all the time in basically the same flavor for every dialogue. I only get to truly play that game Once, you know? And I only get to see the way the companions react to someone they like and trust. And never really go deeper than that.

So like... I just sit and think about the scenes you can get in Inquisition. with Cassandra breaking down, because she fears she placed a would-be tyrant at the head of a powerful organization--that she searched and searched and chose wrong. Of Varric who is desperate to convince you not to become a monster, like the last person he feels betrayed him. Vivienne intentionally pissing you off because she wants to see how far you'll go when angered, how much she has to worry about your reactions. They say so much about the companions, what they fear most, and where they will draw the line. And especially in Inquisition, at these crisis points--you don't have to double down. Your character can have a come-to-Andraste moment where they go "woah... is that really how people see me? is this what i want?" and I think that kind of option can do way more for encouraging actual players to examine the choices they make in stories, more than locking the player into supportive, non-aggressive options does.

now. do i think all games execute these flavors well? no. writers and devs will have their own biases and blind spots, even if they are otherwise well-intentioned. and I don't think the ends of the scale need to extend from "absolute angel" to "horrible bigot", because the real complexity of course lies in the middle. I am not asking for games to let me be bigoted at every turn, what I want is games that let me make the protagonist deeply flawed in one or more ways--fearfully closed-minded to things outside their upbringing, or afraid of change to the status quo, or who want to advance their own aims regardless of consequences to others. I actually agree that the game was correct not to include any options for disrespecting Taash and their personal journey for example, but I do wish... idk maybe that we could have had a scene where if for instance the player character avoided outside-world missions relating to clearing away blight, they could confront us on how this might devastate the natural world and its creatures like dragons, and push us into trying to resolve it. Or in the other direction, if you spend the (currently meaningless) time giving money to background NPCs begging in the cities, Neve could could have a special cutscene thanking you for your attention to people otherwise beneath notice. You know?

And of course not every game can do this, I can write those sentences up there that represent hundreds of hours of dev time, of course they can't do it all. But the prior games usually did have at least a little of this, and that was enough to make me really fall in love. I KNOW the tumultuous development cycle, restarts from scratch, interference from higher-ups all contributed to why Veilguard was unable to hit those same marks this time. And we probably won't ever know how much of the loss of options/reactivity was intention vs a side effect of these things. But I wish people wouldn't frame players who miss these aspects as insane/morally corrupt. When for most of us it's because we genuinely enjoy challenging and exploring these aspects of reality in fiction in a way entirely unlike what we actually support in real life. i fully acknowledge not everyone desires to play this way. and that's fine!!! i am glad people can enjoy doing a "good" run each time that brings them joy. but for me it really limits the potential bounds of my enjoyment i guess. I like media that is complicated and messy and makes me think, and extra so when I get to see how playing that way impacts the greater story around it.

[acevity]

theyre in my head. forever. take some scraps

[theswedishpajas]

Based on my favorite gif lately

[nicnevans]

thinking about the culture shift on tumblr away from reblogging and how sad it is. not just for my own artwork and how small it makes my circle feel, but also for all the artwork out there that i just won't see, because the decline in reblogs means its interactions and reblogs might quiet down and "die" before i even know it exists. like. using some of my own artworks' notes as an example, with their reblog maps shown. Here's a side-by-side of two reblog maps, one on a piece i created (and was proud of!) in about 2018, the other with a much more recent piece of a similar quality.

like, looking at these two reblog maps side by side is miserable, isn't it? Look how far the first one spread, how each of those reblogs had a chance to start a new chain reaction, compared to the tiny cluster on a modern-day post. Posts used to travel around this site and connect us, fanart and fics and gifsets and all the rest. Now they're so localised.

How many wonderful fanworks have i never even had the chance to interact with, because they stayed in their little bubble and never reached mine?

i don't really have an endpoint to this post. the culture has shifted, and this is how things are now, but it's sad.

[mamawasatesttube]

man it would really be so cool if there were fics in the timkon tag that were about timkon, instead of 5000 fics about ~the batfam~ that include like maybe one line about tim wearing a superboy t shirt

[p1nkc4lyps0]

i aint one for drinking but im missing dsmp like a motherfucker

[mickdalena]

greatest tragedy of our times is that this is the most we have visually left from harry nilsson's the point starring davy jones and micky dolenz

[canisalbus]

IM GONNA GO TO FLORENCE DUDE I will send you photos of arts and statues so you can draw the boys

Aa that's so cool, I hope you have wonderful time!

(Maybe think of my dogs if you see a Saint Sebastian anywhere 🏹 )

[itwoodbeprefect]

inspired by @garymerlow's list (and others i've come across since), here's my version of an orderless pile of 100 favorite movies!

[wishchip106]

if season 2 of xmen 97 doesn’t show more of them WHATS THE POINT

i need every piece of content where they’re in haifa i’m going to read all the comics

just gonna have to ignore the fact charles was dating gabrielle at that point

[iamthemaestro]

gender rant in tags

[xxplastic-cubexx]

thinkin bout magneto's lil list of aliases from that One Shot of his government file or w/e in 97 and how it lists the three main men who've played him (David Hemblen, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender) and kinda cackling at the idea 1.) if they included All his names 2.) having 'michael' on that list twice