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AU where Leo is trapped in the Prison Dimension for months instead of minutes and the only way he gets by with his sanity intact is through recording himself talking to his wrist comm.
When they finally manage to get Leo back and make him rest up to heal, Donnie can’t help but listen to the recordings left behind.
He’s not sure what exactly he’s expecting, only that his subconscious is screaming at him that it has to be heartbreaking, that it has to be torturous.
Instead, what Donnie is subject to is a full thousand hours’ worth of Jupiter Jim and Lou Jitsu crossover fanfiction. More than one part in the series. Spanning well over a million words.
(The worst part is that it’s actually good.)
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt headcanons#donnie keeps the comms going on in the background as he works#when he gets to the end he’s like what the hell…where’s the rest#donnie: leo where’s part nine#leo barely cognizant after not needing sleep for months: whuh-#donnie: you can’t leave it at a cliffhanger. leo. leo where’s the next part.#listen leo has a great memory for his special interests this is CANON plus he’s a great talker so he would totally be able to do this frfr#whenever he needs to be quiet he’s SILENT but otherwise he’s regaling the exploits of his idols to the captive audience that is The Photo#sometimes Krang sneaks up on him and just listens to him talk like ????#it starts both as leo trying to comfort himself with his favorite things PLUS comfort himself with thoughts of his father#as splinter makes his own crossover fanfiction when sick lol plus he’s Literally Lou Jitsu#and yes krang ALSO gets a bit invested#leo notices the reduction of Ouch but hey more time for rambling fanfic for him 👍#idk leo’s a damn good actor/liar/planner/schemer and I genuinely think that can pivot into storytelling so well#the literal second mikey’s hands heal donnie zooms to his side with hand stabilizers and a request to draw ‘scene 82 from recording 3’#mikey’s like what#so obvs now HE needs to listen as he works#he too gets invested#he comes across raph who mentions having trouble sleeping#mikey: have I got the podcast fanfic for you!#it only somewhat helps raph sleep#somewhat bc sometimes he forces himself to stay awake to hear the rest#yes these recordings go to the whole fam and leo is none the wiser#they don’t even mean to hide it it just never comes up lol#it’s only when donnie FINALLY makes it to the end of the recordings that he confronts leo to continue the story#leo: oH YOU HEARD ALL THAT HUH-
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sometimes I see a cover so perfect it bums me out that the job of making a Perfect cover for that book has already been done but I am also very happy because it exists and is lovely and the book deserves that
I have discovered jeffrey nguyen’s narnia covers, in other words, and I love them.
#mine#the fun thing with classics is you get to let go of including everything and expressing a bunch of nuance#so you can do a lot less and just show a single scene and generally the one pivotal to the book or where the heart of it is#and i adore that#i have done that sometimes with my covers on books that aren't classics but i do have to make it work on multiple levels too#anyway this guy just absolutely nails what makes these books great he represents them all perfectly#and they are gorgeous#i am proud still of the covers i made for harry potter they were sort of the same where i tried to find the heart of the book#or the pivotal thing#but i do think the art needs a lot of work#i made them years ago i'm better now#and i made them as a mock-up so it was more just placeholder art#but the composition wasn't great either#though anyway i do hope i can do covers for books like these that i've read a million times#congrats jeff i am a fan
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Being very normal about the last sneak peak for AVA 11
Close ups
#my things#my doodlez#animation vs animator#animator vs animation#ava fanart#lola tag#theyre at it again#ava victim#ava the dark lord#ava mercenaries#ava rocket team#ava rocket corp#ava ballista#ava agent smith#ava pivot#ava hazard#ava primal#ava paleo#ava the chosen one#ava the second coming#ava green#ava blue#ava red#ava purple
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first time playing ace attorney
#I WAS PANICKING THE WHOLE TIME BEFORE J REALIZED IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A TUTORIAL……..#screaming at my ds like PHOENIX!!!! PHOENIX I HAVE NO IDEA WHATS GOING ON!!!!! PHOENIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#I was so fucking lost like#AND THE CIRCUS THING DIDNT HELP. I WAS SO CONFUSED#the parrot really is pivotal in preparing u for all this#doodles#my art#myart#sona#puppysona#playthru#ace attorney#aa#justice for all#diary
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I remember back when I used to be the chill cool girl who didn’t take offense to anything and wasn’t hurt by anything and was nonchalant about everything and wasn’t bothered and didn’t care and was so chill and cool…….. thank god I healed
#Like that’s what that poll reminded me of#There’s nothing wrong w being upset or taking issue w something it’s literally just about gauging if#It’s justifiable to express it and how to express it#That’s also how u maintain boundaries and also ppl’s respect literally#Once upon a time I thought being cool w everything was the answer and I was so WRONGGG#And while taking offense shows you care it doesn’t show your attention will be on them indefinitely#Like the actual stakes lie in you pivoting your attention elsewhere if someone isn’t being so great to u#But I really did once upon a time think it was in being nonchalant#Plus that stuff always blows up eventually it’s never sustainable to act chronically unbothered#Unless ur actually too busy to care but that still technically means ur not dealing w something#(<- how I deal w most things unforch)#One major perk of being a pre med stem major is that most of the time ur too busy to actually process anything in full#Which is a blessing and a curse ………. But it has saved me many times
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So we saw Tammy Thompson sing the national anthem in the first episode of s4...
Which prompted Robin and Steve to give each other looks because they remembered Robin's coming out moment in the bathroom, where they made fun of Tammy's singing...
Vickie overheard them joking, and Robin took the opportunity to talk to her, saying that she "used to think that Tammy sounded good because I had this massive crush—um, we took a massively hard class together. We were in Mrs. Click's class together," reminding the audience of Robin's explanation that, in the class, she wanted Tammy to look at her, while Tammy only looked at Steve.
So episodes later, in the boat out on Lovers Lake, where Robin looked at Nancy looking at Steve? Yeah. This was a direct callback.
And it's interesting that even though Robin's crush was specifically mentioned when talking to Vickie, it's this scene with Nancy that we see what Robin referenced in action.
But the question is: why do any of this?
Even though Robin said Vickie is the girl of her dreams, we saw Vickie for approximately 3 min of s4, and it's within the last 20 min of the final episode that they had their first actual on-screen conversation. Meanwhile, Robin had been glued to Nancy's side all season. The writers are smart, they could've inserted Vickie into the main group at any point, to give her and Robin a chance to bond, and to develop their relationship. It's been done before with other characters. If anything, it seems like the last thing the writers would want is to give clear preferential treatment to Robin's dynamic with a character who's (supposedly) not meant to be a love interest for her (especially in the season where the actual love interest is first introduced, and the audience has been mentally prepped for Robin to have romantic interactions). I'm not saying Robin can't have platonic female friends, I'm just pointing out interesting writing choices, and the usage of show vs tell.
#the writers wanted us to root for jancy in s1 so they paired up nancy and jon all season.#they didn't pair nancy with another guy and then say “oh she's actually into jonathan!” they built a dynamic people enjoyed watching#also. let the record show that if robin was a guy then everybody would be shipping her with nancy and not just calling them platonic.#this isn't even hate towards robvick i just want answers and for robin to have a quality love story#genuinely i'd be fine with seeing robin and nancy as platonic if they like... acted platonically. but then you have moments like this#that make me question everything#i suppose the show is having robin get with vickie tho so rip ronance#i do feel a little better about vickie's presence in s5. maybe this is misplaced confidence but i feel like her story with robin—#will at least be cute and get more people on the ship train#maybe ronance will do an elmax where s4 is the most interaction they'll have and their dynamic will completely drop off in s5 until#a pivotal moment happens between them that reaffirms their connection#wow i just remembered el brought max back to life. elmaxers ATE#robin buckley#nancy wheeler#steve harrington#stranger things#ronance#stranger things 4
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Sometimes I think about the rare times I would write OCs back in the 2001-2010 fandom days and the whole "Mary Sue callout" thing was so big so you had to make your OC just like... so boring and ordinary and the canon characters must find them unimportant and never ever let them be a love interest, and even then, people would probably still criticize you making an OC at all.
now I'm like YES my reader OC would catch the eye of this important character who would obsess over her and kill for her because he thinks she's the most sublime being in the world and he'll steal her away to keep her forever <3333
#I had a character get called out for being a mary sue when I was like#12#so I pivoted and joined a mary sue critique group#to take the heat off me and redirect my pre-teen shame.#in some ways I miss old fandom (oh I miss old KH fandom fic so much)#but in other ways NOPE. nope nope.#self-indulgent fics not making you an outcast is one thing I do love about modern fandom spheres
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behold. ARM
(continuation of this)
#it still needs a few edits#(note to self make the indents in the bones where the pivots overlap)#but im tired so here you go for now#3d#flickerdoodles#rain world#things i don't want to think about: how the hell these things are going to turn from side to side#(because the segments can overlap in-game...)#oh god am i gonna have to change the wheels?#or maybe i'll have to make the wheels be able to rotate even though they don't in-game#it's a 2D game so I have to give myself some leeway in translation to 3D i guess#anyways that's a problem for later!!!
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i think about this page way too much i have a god damn religion to it atp... i already pointed out how ford sobbed like a baby and stained this page with his tears (the wet spots are so distinct on the stan drawing and literally no other stain in the book looks like that aaaa) before but now im also thinking of how at no point does ford consider that stan would decline going to gravity falls for him or just straight up not show up
l looked through the og journal 3 for comparisons sake and the equivalent of this page are these ones
and still no mention of the very real possibility that stan would just reject going at all. theres no "he could say no", theres no "he might reject me," theres no "he could not answer me but..." at all. infact, in the page with the perpetual motion machine, he says "i must await his ARRIVAL" as if its already done, agreed and guaranteed stan would show up just because he said so.
that drives me crazy. theres just no doubt at all. hes very clearly under the impression that stan is living a good life scamming and conning people amd is doing fine on his own, yet he believes stan would just drop everything for him? is his faith in stans loyalty that strong? does he really believe so strongly in their bond he hasnt nurtured for practically a decade? does he just get off knowing he has power over stan like this or is it the fact he just can't fathom a world where stan would say no? i mean stan did come, so clearly hes right to think that. do you think ford would ever keep him on a leash? stan would let him atp hed let ford put a fucking brand of his name o his ass. thats basically what happened in canon. its canon ford owns stans whole ass and he knows it
#stancest#one thing about me is that im mentally ill about them#is this meta or am i just yapping... same thing atp tbh#one thing you will also know about me is how this was an excuse to talk about that page#theres just sm to unpack in one fucking page in tbob#its literally pivotal to history atp to me
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get mercenaried on
[for clarfication, these are all adults]
#rocketcule#ava mercenaries#ava rocket team#on the it thing for shady#bro doesnt consider it until victim calls him ‘it’ as a joke in a sentence#and its like oh…….. Ok . ok then#ava#suggestive#<-for that last image#my art#ig lol#uhhg should i tag them all#ava agent smith#ava pivot#ava hazard#ava paleo#ava primal#ava ballista#these mfs need consistent names bro 😭
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Leo getting hit with a truth curse but instead of forcing him to admit to super sad or worrying things it’s things like “it was me who broke the remote” “I saw Mikey prank Donnie and helped hide it because it’s way funnier if he didn’t know who it was” “I rip my clothes to look more like Raph’s because he’s really cool” “my stripes aren’t even red they’re pink!”
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt leo#rise leo#plot twist he COULD be admitting angsty stuff but he’s pushing the less oof truths forward instead on purpose#raph: hey leo what do you want for dinner#leo: *about to bare his soul on all his internal torment but pivots* I’m afraid of snakes#(no but fr Leo’s stripes being technically more pink instead of red is cute ngl)#(a very reddish pink to the point that in certain lighting it looks red but at the base they’re p pink)#(i also am very fond of the idea that Leo doesn’t just have questionable taste in fashion he also just loves Raph a lot and looks up to him)#but yeah I think that something like this would be 99% Leo admitting to unimportant things or admitting to how much he values everyone#like they all KNOW Leo loves them and he’s talked them up enough for them to know but it’s different when he’s like#‘I just wanna read my comics with you guys around - it’s my favorite place to be’#or again just random bs that doesn’t REALLY have a lot of weight like#‘I like using my portals to prank random people around the world’#‘I’m worried about being a bad influence on hueso jr’#‘sometimes I kinda wanna see hypno’s plans succeed’#‘it’s been way too long since I found this out and honestly it’s embarrassing but I actually don’t have a di-‘#SORRY COULDNT HELP MYSELF#(<-but did u know that that pink rather than red observation actually ties into this headcanon as well if u know about red eared sliders)
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Game over.
#I deeply dislike how celebrities have such pivotal influence over people's choices#except right now#presidential debate#taylor swift#DO YOUR THING SWIFTIES
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On this day, Victim was born and the Animation vs Animator series began. It’s been such a crazy ride and I can’t wait for the next episode! *dies*
#my things#my doodlez#animation vs animator#most of my human designs of everyone!#i’ll add yellow and the rocket team soon#animator vs animation#animation vs minecraft#ava the dark lord#ava the chosen one#ava victim#alan becker#ava the second coming#ava yellow#ava blue#ava green#ava red#avm king orange#avm king mango#avm mango#avm purple#ava purple#okay here we go#ava pivot#ava agent smith#ava agent#ava pixel#ava ballista#ava hazard#ava sign#ava paleo
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I know I'm still far from done with this project but I think that when I am done that some university should give me an honorary degree in something. Textile or fabric design related. Maybe math like topology. Idk I think it'd be neat
#text#i honestly think that the most likely thing that will happen when i finish this#is that the next generation of pokemon will be announced#and then all the comments on my posts will pivot from congrats and praise to 'rip op you thought you were doneeee'#and then nothing substantial or tangible will really change for me and thats going to beeeee. oof. hrk. bleh#so idk maybe getting an Official Piece of Paper will make me feel better#that could be a diploma or a bajillion dollars or a deal with the pokemon company...#more than likely nothing happens tho
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cullen is 100% unqualified.
cullen is unqualified for the role he ends up playing, but also there is NO ONE in thedas who would be qualified.
he is creating an entirely new military and on a massive scale. he is not taking a place in an already established structure. you can be a general who spent their life in the military, but if that military has been around, then you are not creating a power structure, you are taking your place in one. much of this has been organized for you.
and militaries are not just infantry. you need to set up A LOT.
you need construction. you need to be able to house your people. you need fortifications to project your objectives. you need storage space because you will need a fuck ton of supplies. you might need bridges and you might need walls and you need to be able to be flexible with what you have the ability to build.
you need acquisitions. you need to know appropriate amounts of supplies you need. you need to be able to outfit your soldiers with the gear they need, which can change depending on their assignment. you need to know the supplies you're acquiring come from reputable sources and are not sabotaged in any way. you need to have redundancies within your supply chain.
you need transportation. you need to be able to move people. you need to be able to move food. you need to be able to move weapons and armor. you need these transports to be secure and well guarded. you need to (probably) vary their routes so you don't risk predictable convoys being seized. you need animals to provide transportation. you need stablehands who also need housing and pay and food and supplies. you need to feed the animals. you need to fulfill your animals' needs adequately. you need medical care for your animals.
you need personnel management. you need to feed them. you need to manage morale and you need to manage pay. you need to know how to encourage cohesion within units while making sure those units can work with others. you need to assign differing specialties and duties appropriately and you need to provide guidance for how each role should be filled.
you need to train them. this is not just swinging a sword; this is enemy recognition, this is how to work within a rank structure, this is how to operate within a highly regulated environment. you need your people to be educated enough to handle what tasks they need to carry out. you need exercises and wargaming so your people know what to expect from the field.
you need coherent rank structure. you need uniforms so your people know who they are and who those around them. you need to plan units with different capabilities that also fall within a coherent rank structure. you need to have emblems for ranks that are easy to read. you need guidelines and standards for what is expected of different ranks because different ranks have vastly different responsibilities. you need to have standards for promotion and demotion.
you need regulation. you need to ban criminal activity. you need standards for discipline. you need to write all the guidelines and be able to provide them to your units. you need one set of rules that all your units adhere to. you need to balance the needs of the people serving with the regulations that need to be written. you need appropriate ways to alter regulations and then publicize these changes.
you need doctrine. you need to plan out how you fight and why. how do you strategize. how do your larger tactics filter down to the smallest fighting units. how centralized or how flexible is your command structure. how are you appropriately using the resources you have. how do you work with allies. why are your units set up the way they are.
you need health services. you need pest management. you need disease control. you need battlefield medicine. you need standard guidelines for triage and care that all your healers understand so they're not doing wildly different things. you need care for long term issues like broken bones. you need to consider what to do with people who are in long-term care. you need to consider what happens to those who are injured and no longer able to serve.
you need security. you need to know your communications are encrypted, obfuscated, or otherwise made difficult to intercept. you need counterintelligence. you need to have guards on patrol. you need to secure your food and water sources. you need to secure incoming shipments.
this is not at all a complete list. but cullen has to find people who can organize all of this, or he has to organize it himself. he is starting from scratch. the inquisition has nothing at the beginning. there is not a single person in thedas who knows how to come up with all this on the scale that the inquisition will require of cullen and with haste.
the inquisition's army must respond to multiple unprecedented threats: hole in the sky raining demons, tears in reality all over ferelden and orlais, red templars, a tevinter cult led by a returned darkspawn magister with a quasi-archdemon, and an army of mind-controlled wardens and demons.
respond. not plan for. they have to pivot and face these things, which all present different challenges and require different tools and methods to fix.
so yes. he is unqualified. fucking find me someone who isn't.
#cullen rutherford#dragon age inquisition#dragon age#commander cullen#he is unqualified (impressed)#and he succeeds! while quitting lyrium! this is not a dig!#that was a herculean task!#i will die on the hill that he was unqualified but its because the task they asked of him was BONKERS IMPOSSIBLE#there is not a single person in thedas who had prior experience putting all of this together. to also face the enemies/problems they did.#people VASTLY underestimate the minutiae that goes into a functioning military#especially as it grows! and the inquisition got fucking big!#we go from recruiting farmers to engaging in siege warfare???#and from siege warfare to jungle warfare????#THOSE ARE VERY DIFFERENT THINGS#with different challenges and different environments and different needs and we just??? pivot??? just like that???#and we had no idea we were going to need to do either so whatever structure he created was INCREDIBLY flexible#im just. UGH. unhinged about this game.#vultures and dragons
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the fact that megumi was supposed to be the MC makes me giddy as hell. ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER GUYS
#in the context of jjk it feels like the main character and the protagonist are not exactly the same thing#yuuji is the main character who was stripped away of all the things that made him the protagonist#and all the things that made yuuji the protagonist were later given to megumi#megumi is the “chosen one” the one in a million but all those things that normally would make the main character the protagonist#are out of megumi’s control#the story is still about yuuji#the story could only take place BECAUSE of yuuji and yuuji's CHOICES that’s why he’s the main character#yes kenjaku orchiestrated everything about yuuji's birth and role in life but yuuji is still the one who CHOSE to consume sukuna’s finger#yuuji was still the one who CHOSE to#not include himself in the binding vow sukuna made him enter#those are two pivotal points in the story and yuuji was the one who made them#yuuji may not be ”the choosen one” BUT THATS A GOOD THING#that means that even tho kenjaku orchestrated yuuji’s role in life yuuji was and still is the one in charge of his own life and story#he even decided to postpone his own execution wondering “why the heck I have to be executed”#he gets to chose what he’ll do next and NOT FATE#megumi is the one who’s “blessed” he inherited the most powerful zenin ct he’s father was the catalyst that started it all#he’s the one who was#the one in a million chance to be sukuna’s vessels#and megumi didn’t have ANY say in that#because all this time megumi didn’t get to be in charge of his own life#gege really had the fate toy with him just like reggie said to him back then#megumi gets to be the protagonist (or more like have a role of the protagonist) because he let the “fate” dictate his life for him#(unless noooowww he decides to finally take the reins of his life and save himself from his fate)#itadori yuuji#fushiguro megumi#I’m yapping I don’t even know if this makes sense I was caught in a moment skksskks
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