#my little cousins are exhausting

[flodaya]

omg him matching the sweater to his shoe laces 🫠 fashion king

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Need more "humans as space orcs" in Amphibia content because. Imagine you are, say, General Yunan, scourge of the sand wars defeater of ragnar the wretched etc etc, and you're running through the cold steppe of Northern Amphibia in the early winter. You're injured and you lost your weapons, but there's a town nearby and if you can reach it, you'll be fine.

But something is following you. A juvenile homo sapiens specimen with golden hair can be seen approaching from the horizon at all times. It doesn't matter how much you walk or how fast you run - after a few hours, you are exhausted. The cold seeps through your skin and convulses your organs. Your legs burn from the effort. You can barely breathe, and yet this creature seems completely unaffected by neither temperature nor time. Every time you think you lost her, she catches up to you again, and staying far from her feels more and more impossible with every minute. She seems to have no rush. You haven't seen her run. You remember what the other homo sapiens had said once, the smaller, less aggressive one: that their species originated not as hunter or prey, but as savanna carrion eaters, walking long distances through vast plains in search for half-eaten carcasses, two and a half million years ago. The idea send a chill down your spine. A carnivore animal that doesn't sleep or rest. With horror, you realize what the creature was doing to you - she's trying to kill you from exhaustion. They don't need fangs or claws or poison. This is how they kill. They don't need anything else.

[thevioletcaptain]

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[mymelodyisme]

👉🏽👈🏽

[himbo-robot]

Nothing gives me a headache quite so much as hanging around my mother's family

[amethystsoda]

wheeeeee family dinner tag rant 🙃

[real-life-cloud]

:) 🧡

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: January 24

"On Top Of The World" by Imagine Dragons

[youmearepeaches]

my total admiration for nurses and caretakers. I’ve spent a couple of days taking care of my grandma because my aunt and mom are on holidays and I ended up crying out of frustration

[purplekiwis]

is it just me or christmas kinda sucks once your cousins start to have babies

[filmnamtans]

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[chekovscaramelcurls]

listen. i love 2012!Raph with all my heart and soul. (and surprisingly enough, no, it’s not because of the two Yelchin Dreams (TM) that i had like two years ago.)

(also it has been nearly three years of me typing “Yelchin” and my phone still tries to get me to change it to Yeltsin every single time. no, phone, i do not mean the former leader of russia. i mean the actor. and also sometimes his author uncle.)

he jus a lil guy. but he still did wrong by mikey…er, all of ‘em, tbh.

so why am i so passionate about this? well, i can relate to raphael a lot. i was an autistic kid who went undiagnosed until SIX MONTHS AGO, and i’m eighteen if that puts it into perspective. and everyone around me thought i had “anger issues” and that i was “a crybaby.” no. no, those were meltdowns, go fuckin’ figure. no wonder i couldn’t control ‘em.

(oh, and yes, i do get upset when ppl accuse rise!donatello of being an asshole or a psychopath because he’s autistic or because of the ONE TIME he really messed up. y’know, the whole “gifts” thing. and once he was TOLD why it was bad, he felt like absolute shit afterwards! like, i just—oh, i do shit like that too, and it makes sense to me because it followed the fuckin’ social norms three minutes ago but now it suddenly just doesn’t anymore, OOPS! well, guess i’m a goddamn blue-marble motherfuckin’ psychopath, then!)

but like, raph is proven to be more than capable of controlling himself. several times. (and yeah, sometimes he couldn’t. i ain’t faulting him for those, i’d be a giant hypocrite if i did.)

am i saying raphael was evil or a jerk or anything like that? no! for god’s sakes, even though i love all of them, he’s my favorite of the turtles!

yeah, yeah, laugh it up, chuckles, he’s my favorite because my sleepy-time-RNG-brain decided “fuck it. raphael the ninja turtle has anton yelchin’s voice now.” and then did it again a few months later, after i’d forgotten about the first one…man, this will never not be funny to me. on a side note, there’s this website called mycast.io, and you can vote any actor for any character. and i do mean ANY. and apparently two different ppl think my mans would’ve made a good donatello? like i don’t disagree but i’m too attached to the concept of ay!raph now.

but yeah, anyway. i usually can’t stand villain characters because of the whole black-&-white Autism Morality (TM) or whatever. (/hj) so me saying that raph’s my favorite just goes to show that i don’t think of him as a villain by any means.

what i am saying is that his actions were wrong. his intent wasn’t. unless a giant plot point flew over my head and no one ever bothered to mention anything about it ever again…yeah, no. then again nobody ever talks about the fact that donnie fucking died in the 2012 series at least twice?? probably more?? so idfk. but that doesn’t make it okay. mikey didn’t deserve to be treated the way he was. he didn’t do anything to anybody.

i just. it hurts seeing him get demonized for no real reason. he’s babey. it’s just that he’s…also babey with mental health issues.

so, TL;DR—

stop justifying raph’s actions and bullying as him “jUsT bEiNg A sIbLiNg”—like wtf u guys—WITHOUT DEMONIZING HIM AS A RESULT (i swear ppl can only do one extreme or the other). like, think of it this way. raphael clearly loves his family. but he needs therapy someone to tell him that, while occasional lighthearted teasing is okay as long as it doesn’t cross any boundaries, bullying his brothers 24/7 is not a healthy way to show it!

also this whole thing may or may not exist because i want 2012/rise crossover content that doesn’t bash 2012!raphael at every fuckin’ turn…

[boyfae]

also i got to meet my cousin’s baby on this trip and he was a delightful and funny little man who could crawl at lightspeed and wanted to say hi to everyone

[lokijiro]

I voted Kindergarten.

You are going to be trapped in a classroom or daycare room full of children for one school day and you will have to interact with them (assume there are other adults like a teacher or daycare employee present, so you don’t have to handle lessons/rules/emergencies, but you still have to interact with the kids via play, conversation, care, etc.)

*I’m aware this is an exaggeration of the term newborn, which is being used to simplify the options.

[tsuncda]

if you have never corrected my grammar when i'm texting/calling you, know that there is literally nothing in this world i not do for you

[merlinsear]

I’m really glad my cousins are my friends.