#please don't flop help

[caseylicious]

I've decided to turn this account into a blog where I post me and my friend's AU / storyline surrounded with the tmnt12 cast that includes the main 4, rewritten dynamics, OC x Characters, and more that I've came up with my dear friend @whoreadsnowadays and/or @shade-romeo .

Hello! My name is Casey, if you still follow my page I used to go by Mori. Please, I ask you refer to me as Casey for Mori is an "ehh.." name . I used to write Character x Reader types of oneshots on this blog. Mainly focused on the rottmnt cast. I haven't lost my touch with the fandom and am still a big fan. I won't delete my masterlist in case there are a few who wish to read and look over my pieces, but truly this is all I really wish to say. I'm excited to finally talk about what we've been up to for the past year. Feel free to unfollow if this isn't your type of content, however for those who feel like this is your type of content, feel free to stay! Please do note that I am a student so content may be somewhat lacking...

[mileymint]

I HAVE CREATED A NUZI FANKID AND HER NAME IS NORA AVDKABFKANNFKWBFKDNFJ

I put a ton of thought into her design but I'm bad with clothes, but I did add the detail that she always wants bigs sleeves. It makes her feel better about her little worker drone arms </3

CHILD‼️

( @electrozeistyking you said to @ you when I post so here it is!!! <333 )

[fadelbison]

Ray's mother, music and the barriers to his heart that Sand must overcome

TW: discussion of suicide This is building upon the shorter meta I wrote here about the Micro song that plays during Ray's suicide scene. The parallels between Ray's arc in falling for Sand and Mew are so overt that I was completely overlooking the person that Sand is really up against in Ray's wounded heart and who, I believe Mew is ultimately a proxy for - his dead mother. I go into a little bit about how Sand's affection for Ray can sometimes read as familial here and I think it's quite readily noticeable how Ray acts very childlike around Sand with his puppy dog eyes and constant wheedling. One thing I do want to note is that Ray doesn't particularly come off as childlike in any of his other interactions either with his friends or in his conversation with P'Yo except for perhaps that first night when he got drunk and told his friends how much he loved them and during the suicide scene when he cries wrapped up in Mew's arms, distraught by how his mother never loved him. I think Ray is the epitome of someone with a deeply wounded inner child and the only way he can ask for love is as a child, somewhat helplessly and appealing to people's caretaker/protective nature. The parent child relationship between Sand and Ray comes up a few times through the episodes. The earliest explicit acknowledgement as far as I can tell is here at the end of episode 2:

There's another explicit nod as to how their dynamic is set up within Sand performing acts of service for Ray in Ep 3:

Sand says he has been Ray's driver, drinking buddy, shrink and chef. Three of those things - driving him around, cooking for him and providing him emotional support are not just familial activities but activities you would normally do for a young child. Sand pointedly leaves out that they've had sex from this list of services. And yes, that's because Sand doesn't view sex as a service and if it was just this then it would be hard to make the point that I'm trying to make which is that Sand needs to fulfill that parental attachment need that Ray craves; give him that type of no strings, unselfish kind of love before he will ever be able to gain Ray's trust enough to be able to build a romantic relationship with him. So how is the show making this point? That Sand is replacing not just Mew but Ray's dead mother in his heart? Well, let's start with the two things that Ray's mother has left him with: 1) music and 2) her alcoholism. Ray's friends were all very surprised when Ray volunteers to arrange the music for the party. While that was more about Ray's lack of interest in taking responsibility (His now in restrospect gut wrenching 'I'm only good for spending money' line from Ep1 like ouch) but it also indicates that none of them really know or connect with Ray over his music. How can they?

Music is such a deeply personal part of him, that's where he keeps the love he holds for his mother; the love that is entirely grief - painful in its vastness, beautiful in its consistency. And the first thing Sand tells him to do is be grateful for it - her good taste in music. The second thing? Is to show him how to enjoy it:

The fact that he's taking his hand and Ray is half resisting it, the silliness of the gesture more than the touch itself but he's undeniably enjoying himself - It reads to me like the awkward, stilted movements of a childperson who doesn't know how to move their limbs when they're first being taught how to do something. And when you realize that the song that Ray plays for Sand in ep2 is the same one that is playing when he's taken the pills - the positive associations that Sand is making with Micro in Ray's life suddenly becomes monumental. This happens twice more in the show. Once, in the car when Sand ditches his date to drive them to Ray's house where they engage in a delightful flirtation around it, Ray singing badly while Sand eats it up complains about it

And again, at the night of the party when Ray tells Sand to play Micro for him and Sand like the simp that he is serenades him with it:

But their connection over music doesn't stop at teaching Ray to cherish and honor his past - and unknowingly the pains that are attached to it. No, Sand goes further to expand it, help Ray find a space for himself in music, carve a corner of it that isn't only pain, isn't only that moment of seeing his mother laid flat on that floor with a whiskey glass inches from her fingers.

When music is such an integral part of Ray's personality how else does one interpret this scene other than Sand telling Ray to move on, when Sand plays Selina and Sirinya for him because finding new music he likes is Sand's happiness how else do I interpret it as anything other than Sand teaching Ray how to be happy? What am I supposed to do but pull out my own hair when they're connecting over music, looking at each other like this:

And Sand will do it AGAIN - as the ep5 preview suggests - take Ray's hand and teach him how to enjoy contemporary music while Ray makes his awkward, adorable face where he's having fun in spite of himself. And the sheer amount of joy that Sand gets in seeing Ray like this is just - they're so insufferable:

But perhaps the most surprising (and delightful!) of all is this:

Ray taking his headphone off, interrupting this magical moment of being with Sand and the music, telling him he wants to be close to nature and drink beer - for the very first time Ray desires alcohol not as a means to destroy himself but as a vehicle of peace and of connection and I haven't been well since seeing it and understanding what it means. In many ways, Ray's mother is such a tragic character. I know nothing of this woman other than the three seconds I have seen of her dead and the frightful way she has driven her son to follow in her footsteps, to feel so unloved and unwanted. And yet she named him Ray Pakorn (pakorn meaning sun) - a ray of sunshine. Perhaps even, her ray of sunshine.

How can I truly believe that she never loved him?

I know Ray tells Mew that she never held him but he loves her so dearly, wants to be with her so desperately, she permeates every moment of his life so thoroughly that the loneliness she left behind isn't a gaping emptiness but the festering carcass of a love so profound and full to bursting that Ray keeps trying to give it away, keeps trying to love his friends, keeps trying to save them and aches in the way that he finds no recipient for it.

People wonder what Sand sees in Ray, why he would fall for him. But Ray is a creature made entirely of love, soft still in the way he lets it rule his life, innocent in the way that he asks for it, precious in the way that he gives it away - How can Sand be anything but desperately in love with him?

[gayvecchio]

[r7inyz]

Kids from fnaf who are definitely alive and well (movie ver)

[ddenji]

okay i think this is about to be an unpopular opinion but…. these two are like 2 sides of the same coin to me. beyond the shared public safety allegiance, they both violate denji's autonomy (yoshida stripping him to his underwear, tying him up, and threating his family in chapter 132 vs fumiko assaulting him in the movie theater in chapter 136) and work against his own best interest for the sake of the government. however, while they both take action in trying to force denji to do what they want, fumiko takes a more directly active role in the space of the fanatic who can't see/ doesnt care about the human behind her idol, whereas yoshida takes the more passive role of the government drone who wont act to protect the human if it means going against orders. in previous chapters, fumiko actively runs away from denji, leaving him to fight for himself, while yoshida passively tells denji that he isnt allowed to protect himself, putting him in harms way in his own right (and there is still the underlying threat of violence there if he tries to protect himself). even in the panels from this chapter, we see fumiko being active about her disregard for denji's well being by asking for little pieces of him, where yoshida is more passive in his disregard of the plan to dismember denji with a simple "yeah" answer. i know that they also have their differences, but i just think that they share intentional similarities (that other characters, particularly in the chainsaw man church, also share!!) that overall lead to denji getting hurt.

[skitskatdacat63]

"Non paeniteo potitus."

+ details & process

And, process !!

The jump btwn the second to last and last always surprise me whenever I make one of these because I always forget to take snapshots after I start painting. It's always like: oh yeah heres the lineart with some colors- BOOM fully finished✨️

What he's holding are the Austrian imperial scepter and orb, seen below:

I was going to draw the crown too but decided I don't hate myself that much(maybe some other day), and gave him a golden laurel crown, bcs I'm obsessed with that as a motif, and also its very remincient of the boy king statue that started this whole thing!

There's some symbolism of this, both intentionally but also just historically. I love that the orb represents that the monarch is holding the world in their hand, basically every old monarchy has one of those, and I think it's very cool for symbolism. But also bcs of that, I was forced to basically draw catholic fanart so, you win some you lose some. The star halo above him head is both to reference those religious statues with star crowns(I saw them a lot in Europe and they imprinted onto my brain), as well as: his four championships of course!

[immabitqueer]

HEY, for Pride do you want to personally help a young trans man begin his transition? GOOD! HELP ME!

I have no idea where to start on any medical or legal transition AT ALL. I've been out as trans for five years and all my friends were pretty great immediately with my social transition but now I'm about to be entering college and would like to begin an actual transition starting with testosterone. I live in a very rural and conservative place so I don't really know the places I should be looking for or how I go about this kind of stuff (don't worry tho, I'm almost certain I'm safe where I'm at to transition), so please link resources, explain these processes to me like I'm 5 years old, and give any advice you have.

[babymagi]

SHE'S DONE

TOOK LIKE THREE DAYS BUT SHE'S DONE

THE EMPRESS HERSELF

THE LOVE OF MY LIFE AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN ANIME

REN KOUGYOKU

[hollowflight-propaganda]

WoF Fandom, please tell me your Asha headcanons!!!

[ruvviks]

BODYTALK OUT NOW ‼️‼️ buy your tickets for our next show here or listen for free somewhere on the internet if u search hard enough 💋👅💖

[hopskip-andajump]

𝔽𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕀𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℝ𝕒𝕓𝕓𝕚𝕥 ℍ𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝔸𝕘𝕒𝕚𝕟

Reblogs greatly appreciated !!!!

Im super proud of how this one turned out :3 originally was gonna be a promo art for an animation that I might end up doing idk

Feel free to use this as a phone wallpaper or pfp WITH CREDIT !!!!!

Alt versions under cut

Thanks for scrolling through all these , have a Sabitsuki :333

[elliemarchetti]

If only James and Lily got to cuddle and calm Harry when he snuggles in their bed in the middle of the night because of a nightmare. If only they got to wipe Harry's tears away and heal his scraped knee to make the pain go away.

I'm warning you anon, this is going to be turned into a prompt.

[foxtincan]

The Promening but my MoE oc's, cuz I felt like it

[lunarflwrs]

i just finished rereading the lightening thief and enjoyed it immensely. however there are 14 other books after it

quality adult literature would be priory of the orange tree, babel, the locked tomb, broken earth, etc

[your-greatest-queen]

What kinks do you have? (If multiple, please select your favourite)