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[talk-danmei-to-me]

That poll about Lan Wangji being the horninest mxtx character got me thinking...

Who is the horniest man in danmei?

Is it Mo Ran?

(I hope it's Mo Ran)

[dandylovesturtles]

Top Ten Posts of 2023

I decided, why not? ^^

I'm limiting this to fics/analysis/headcanon/etc posts I made during the year and skipping over anything that isn't my actual creative work. That said, if you're curious, my actual top post was this funky screenshot from episode 2.

10. Everyone's just fine with Donnie modding the moon buggy? (362 notes)

It occurred to me that despite being MASSIVE nerds for the Jupiter Jim franchise, the bros seemed awfully chill with Donnie taking an actual on-set moon buggy and modding the hell out of it.

A few people argued with me in the notes that the Turtle Tank is so cool no one could possibly be mad about it and I do think that's fair. The Turtle Tank is easily my favorite thing Donnie made in the show.

9. Splinter and Leo talk post movie (443 notes)

And then his dad walks in and says, “I would like to talk to Blue, please. Alone.” And suddenly Leo doesn’t feel so good anymore.

This is the most recent tumblr fic I've done (I think lol), so seeing it make it this high felt pretty good. I love Splinter and his boys... they make me emotional.

8. A headcanon about the Disaster Twins (445 notes)

I have a headcanon that the twins are lowkey always trying to get each other to laugh.

This is still true.

7. A showcase of Donnie's injuries in End Game (462 notes)

So everyone talks about Donnie getting his shell shredded by the Shredder in Many Unhappy Returns but I feel like it’s underappreciated that that happened to him coming off of getting his ass beat in End Game like

One of the first posts I made when I made this blog haha. Poor Donnie |'D

6. Donnie records everything (617 notes)

broke: Donnie listening to what happened in the prison dimension woke: Donnie showing Raph Leo’s big damn hero speech since he wasn’t there the first time

The main reason why this has so many notes is because @roseverdict wrote a great fic down in the notes that you should all go read.

5. Leo asks Donnie a favor (829 notes)

“You might as well tell me what you need,” he says, turning to his computer and pulling up his list. “I’ll assess it and prioritize.” “No, no, that’s okay. It’s nothing,” Leo insists. “Nardo.” Donnie levels his best stare at him. “What is it?”

I love writing the Disaster Twins being soft and you guys love it when I write it too.

4. Present Donnie and Future Donnie have a little disagreement (CAS AU fic) (1,242 notes)

“What was I supposed to do, tie him to a chair?” “Yes!?” says Mini-him like he’s stupid, which warrants a scoff.

Shoutout to @skcirthinq who doodled a comic version of their conversation.

3. Casey Jr. and Uncle Tello troll Present Donnie (CAS AU fic) (1,701 notes)

Casey Jr, says Uncle Tello’s voice. Uncle Tello? Do you want to see something really funny?

This is my actual fic with the most notes! I'm glad you all enjoyed this silly little take on what was actually an incredibly intense moment in Cass's original comic.

2. Mikey contacts the Hamato ancestors (2,054 notes)

future Mikey: *trying to contact the spirits of the Hamato for advice and guidance in the apocalypse* Donnie’s spirit: Hello, you are now communing with Donatello.

I can't believe you guys gave over 2K notes to the stupidest joke I've ever made. Shoutout to @nonymous06 for this artist's rendition.

and finally, drum roll please.....

My top post of 2023:

1. A very silly idea for a separated AU (4,283 notes)

non-angsty ROTTMNT separated AU where the boys meet online and bond over their shared love of Jupiter Jim and skateboarding and Lou Jitsu. Then one day they agree to meet irl for the first time at a con and decide to dress as turtle aliens.

This post spawned an adorable fanart by @thatsmutbean , this hilarious fanart by @onionninjasstuff , and an entire fanfic called new phone who dis by @rbtlvr

This has been an incredible year! My love for ROTTMNT has not diminished in the slightest and I still have lots of ideas, so I hope you guys stick with me for 2024. Thanks again! Happy New Year!!

[17panicattacksinatrenchcoat]

sometimes i write out a post and then i scrap it cause i'm like nah that's weird and stupid and probably nobody wants to hear about that bullshit and then a week later i check my home page to find that someone else posted something very similar and it went viral

[mapofyourstars]

today, my partner told me that an older woman, around 80 years old, asked him to grab a cart for her because she "just got back shots". good for her.

[gi-nathlam-hi]

silvergifting sketch i guess 

[brandwhorestarscream]

I saw an idea for Tfa sparklings that I thought had potential

What if the tfa autobots (due to ignorance about sparklings and reproduction) had a certain fear of sparklings due to the "organic" way they are made

(literally the most relaxed about this are the prime team and (after returning to starscream) the twins)

This is so fucking funny oh my god-

I don't know what kinda story we could make about this but I love the concept. Just imagine! Imagine post war, they've made peace with the decepticons somehow, and the scariest thing in the world is seeing a young couple walking down the street with their sparkling in a stroller cooing and babbling at everyone they pass XD

Autobots: I fear no mech, but that thing?

Baby playing in a puddle, having the time of their little life: (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ (◠‿◠✿) ✧･ﾟ: *

Autobots: It scares me 😟

The first time the autobots get sex ed and find out what babies are there's mass pandemonium. Like what do you MEAN we can connect our bodies the way organics do and then a smaller bot will start GROWING inside us?! Ew! Gross! Disgusting! How do we get it out- I'm sorry it has to come out of WHERE?! No way!!

They're having crisis after crisis 😂😂

[erikaii]

please play Skald: Against the Black Priory by High North Studios, if you like retro, eldritch horror, party and turn-based crpgs with either story companions or customised ones. It’s so so good and fun and a relatively short game I think but the quest designs are so well connected and satisfying, It’s already become one of my favourite games ever <3 (and it has a bunch of old tv filters like CRT which is how i’m playing)

[championoftheoppressed]

I said I was gonna write up a rant about how modern TV shows are so terrified of filler that it's hurting them, and here it is!

Nowadays the thing for most TV is heavily serialized, 15-episode-or-less seasons, which is inherently seen as the superior format. And that works very well for some stories. But the more traditional 20-25 episode season with more one-off episodes has a lot of advantages that would really benefit some stories! Even if an episode isn't moving the overall plot forward, it's often contributing to characters, relationships, worldbuilding, or just overall pacing -- a true "filler" episode is rare in a well-written show. On the flipside, shows that don't take full advantage of these types of episode can feel lacking.

Here are just some benefits of longer, more episodic seasons:

It's easier to explore a wider variety of stories and tones. When each episode is more separated from the rest, you have more space to try different things. You can have a very dark episode, followed by a lighthearted romp, followed by a simple character study, followed by a full-blown musical, and it can all still feel cohesive. Meanwhile, if you have continuous storyline following one massive epic plot, having a fun episode right in the middle feels jarring. If a show would benefit from having lots of variety available, locking it into a single storyline per season may not be the best move.

It's easier to focus on and properly develop a larger group of characters. When you have a short season that's laser focused on plot, making sure that each member of your ensemble cast gets enough focus can be tough. But if you have more episodes that each tell their own story, you can tailor certain ones to focus on particular characters. That way everyone gets plenty of opportunity to see some good development, as they've each had a handful of stories to spotlight them specifically. I firmly believe that if the goal is to develop an ensemble cast, episodic structures are almost always better suited.

It makes it feel like you've known the characters for longer. Episodic series often have a sense of joining your favorites on a new adventure week after week. You see them in a wider variety of stories and settings, and over a longer period of time, creating a greater sense of familiarity. It creates a particular tone, sort of cozy, that can be incredibly beneficial to some stories.

It helps overall pacing. If shows are very short and very serialized, it often means all the major developments are close together. This can feel exhausting as a viewer, like everything's happening too quickly and the big moments haven't been earned. Spacing these larger episodes out with smaller, slower episodes in between gives the audience and characters time to process and breathe. It also helps the huge moments stand out more, because they're truly events compared to the often smaller stakes of the rest of the show.

It protects the show from dumb episodes. If an episodic series has a truly awful episode, it's often easy to dismiss. It's fairly segregated from the rest of the series, so you can ignore it and carry on. Meanwhile, if an episode of a heavily serialized show has a truly awful episode, it probably has ripple effects to the rest of the storyline and is much harder to recover from.

[un-father]

Rubbing your pussy while we watch a movie. Stopping every tike you ask what I'm doing or question me until you learn to stop and just let me play with your pussy(my property)

[sleepvines]

do they know?

do they know that I killed their daughter,

that I pantomime their son,

that I take what I can and scrape what use,

I can manage to cut off and run.

do they know?

that the color's leeched out from the pictures,

the family photo album is done.

my memories are as faded and pockmarked,

as a picture book left in the sun.

do they know?

that I have to echo to converse,

"I love you"s will never be right.

I'm a mirror's faulty dream of a living being,

but they'll never know by the sight.

do they know?

I've already checked out of the motel,

with it's cigarette taste and black mould,

and though I speak, I am already long and far gone,

and the sheets of that bed are stone cold.

...It makes me think, you know?

that to them, I'm a ghost.

every call is a seance, every text is a graveside letter,

a pull into the dark aether, a hope and a prayer,

a request to turn time back and stare

into the void in which I was once there,

a summoning, an illusion, a hallucination of their own making,

to rouse a dour smear that they've forsaken,

Do

They

Know?

that once they "raised" a child,

and now they've raised a wraith.

[goldenspirits]

"It's 'cause you're always on that damn amulet!"

Character by @lvitoula

[alatariel-gildaen]

It's that time of year where I decide how we're decorating our Christmas cake this year. We have a long standing tradition of making our cake as un-Christmassy as possible.

In the past, we've done Rorschach's death scene in Watchmen, we've done the woodchipper scene from Fargo, we've done Jack Torrance frozen in the snow, and various others. Here's a couple of example pics.

But this year I've been stumped for ideas.

Then yesterday, my young son came home from school with a card showing his Christmas card design we can order.

I have been reliably informed it's Rudolph, but my first thought when I saw it was something else entirely

Christmas cake sorted, thanks son!

[krokaxe]

Wake up?

[curiouselleth]

you can’t put baby in a corner, but what if baby puts herself in the corner?

[golden-explosions-main]

{doing this for the sake of curiosity}

Flowey is terrified, but grins nonetheless.

Flowey: ".....Howdy... Paps...? You're looking extremely... lobotomized, while it's fascinating to know that my nightmares exist in other universes, I desperately need you to...go back to where ever the hell you came from...,"

"Bye."

With the potbot, Flowey then shoves It back to It's (his?) universe.

___

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