#of course they aren't

[whattraintracks]

40th anniversary!

okay, 1, 6 and 31 :D

1.) What was your first exposure to TMNT?

2012!

6.) Do you own any TMNT merchandise?

I do!! Show and tell time:

My stepdad bought me this shirt once he and my family realised I was in this TMNT fixation to stay XD

My brother got me these two Mutant Mayhem posters that I forgot about until last month. They now live on my bulletin board

This is the same brother who once tricked me into buying this pin from him

31.) What is one piece of TMNT canon that you dislike/ignore?

Um, *looks at The Next Mutation* okay, I love TNM, but there are some things in that iteration I prefer to forget exist. Chief among them is when Leo claims they aren't brothers because they're not blood-related only so the show can set Venus up as a love interest. Unoriginal but it's been on my mind after reading the follow-up letters, because Donnie's first letter is particularly loud and uncomfortably icky feeling about this point.

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[yuri-luver69]

NO breakup hits as hard as it does in a queer tv show about two middle aged men who go through a horrifically tragic divorce when they were never dating in the first place

[lazylittledragon]

ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This wine tastes like pigs blood!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[psychotrenny]

Listening to Tumblr Users has taught me a lot of things about Trans Women. For example:

Every Trans Woman I disagree with about video games is a pedophile

Every Trans Woman I disagree with about politics is a Russian psyop and

Every Trans Woman I disagree with about transmisogyny is an androphobe

I can't wait to find out more ^^

[hrokkall]

Regicide

[lizbethborden]

There really is no female Jeremy Allen White. He is an objectively weird looking man who is now considered a heartthrob and is playing Springsteen in a new biopic--that's a romantic hero role if ever there was one. I'm not saying that's bad or wrong but I am saying no woman who naturally looks as wonky as he does would have success like him. Like he is actually UGLIER than young Bruce was.

They UGLIFIED Bruce Springsteen by casting him.

Meanwhile, women in human reality like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gilda Radner, who HAD strong, distinct features like his, are being played by these people in fictionalized versions of their lives:

The fact that this is how history is choosing to remember these women is insane and bizarre. Truly, you cannot exist as a woman in public eye or public memory unless you are ornamental. Worse than ornamental, you must be generically ornamental, made on an assembly line, as female beauty often is now via plastic surgery.

I feel that this kind of commentary is not being made because it's politically suspect to talk about women's looks--and don't get me wrong, I understand what's at stake in terms of not just human emotion, but falling into misogynist traps. But we MUST recognize that this is a problem. It's one thing for fictional women with no basis in reality to be cookie cutter--not a good thing, but certainly a different thing. But for real women who actually existed to have their simple, natural, human characteristics erased and replaced with flavor of the month plastic surgeried generic Hollywood Female nonsense is disrespectful in the extreme. (Especially because Gilda Radner and RBG were Jewish and their Jewish features would have deeply impacted their lives.)

[krazieka2]

Here's a big old Fire Emblem Search & Find I did for the FE3H Masquerade Zine! Find the Golden Deer, but see if you can't find the rest of the students as well! For the ultimate challenge, see if you can't name every character! (Disclaimer two characters are NPCs with no names)

[sortanonymous]

[chaotic-carnifex]

No hold on I'm gonna make an extra post about this:

I wouldn't choose to be alloromantic

If I were given the choice to either remain aro or become alloro again, I would choose aromanticism.

And I think a lot of people need to hear that.

[blazeball]

it is genuinely the most stupid thing that kids are taught from a young age to be scared of and devalue the lives of bugs like. i am 100% sure that if kids were taught instead that insects + other crawly little things are just smaller animals that are deserving of respect and admiration as much as, like, deer or birds or squirrels, the world would be so much better. none of them are out to get you. none of them will seek you out to hurt you. that's a precious waste of resources for such a tiny creature. they're concerned with finding food and a place to rest. BUG IS ANIMAL. JUST CHILLLLLLLLLLLL

[akanemnon]

They're a lost cause.

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[rolex-kaard]

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Throughout my schooling up through undergrad every time we talked about a Red Scare or the Cold War's anticommunism it was invariably framed as a time when the United States lost its collective head and went about unjustly persecuting people for completely made up crimes and loyalties. Like when The Feminine Mystique came up they'd be like "and they even accused Betty Friedan of being a communist! Imagine!"

Thing is though, as I learned later, Friedan had been a member of the communist party. As is often the case. The two people named as members of the Hollywood Ten in this textbook--Ring Lardner Jr. and Dalton Trumbo--were members of the communist party, or at least had been at one time.

And listen, if the argument is that you shouldn't persecute communists, then you should say it. But to frame it like it was insane to think these people were communists in the first place is dishonest.

[sergle]

my breast reduction scars have become such a neutral part of my tits, to the point that I entered a state of mind where I forgot that they are not naturally occurring markings