#putting them in my post jet rn

[kidovna]

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Interesting thing to consider regarding our situation from Magdi Jacobs. She’s been fairly levelheaded so far about all this. The Pandemic really did change us all and how we perceive things.

The constant stressful vigilance we all needed during the pandemic is still in effect from that era, and that’s why there’s such a disconnect between what we see and feel as true:

https://x.com/magi_jay/status/1812531377184653581?s=46&t=9ilK5pqP73XDblTtTbb4Qg

I don't disagree with her, and I know for a fact she also agrees with what I have to say here:

Covid is part of it, maybe it is its own thing, maybe it super charged something that had been happening in slow-mo before

but I think algorithmic social media is breaking all our brains and Covid locked SO many of us inside with it for a year and a half or so where our only "human" contact was through social media and that was NOT helpful

There's lots of studies about social media and anxiety and depression, we know algorithms intentionally put stories/posts that upset you into your feed, we know that social media causes negative polarization.

speaking just of my own experience on twitter over the last two weeks it really challenges your sense of reality, twitter very quickly forms a group think about a current event and it becomes overwhelming, also it destroys any sense of time and prospective, so nothing is allowed to just be bad it has to be THE WORST THING EVER! and from the debate and now Trump's fist pump after getting shot at everything is NOW! the election is not 4 months away with all the events that will take over the news, people are voting just this second and only based on this news story rn! AAHHHH!!! !

by its short form nature twitter makes it feel as if people are having a conversation with you, but your ability to reply and question their statements is limited and I think that makes for extreme anxiety if the group think challenges your understanding of events/reality. So Joe Biden had a bad debate night, sounded bad, looked bad, he was a sick, jet lagged, overworked, old man and looked and sounded like all of that. Oh well, but the group think quickly shifted to "this is the worst thing ever, he clearly has dementia!" and you were bombarded by that over and over, in more and more shrill and condescending tones. And it became very stress inducing because people were seeing something you didn't see and insisting "don't believe your eyes and ears! believe my hot takes!" and you felt like you were losing your mind.

This is one current event but this happens on social media all the time, twitter is bad, TikTok is worse.

I also think for "younger" (under 40?) people raised on reality TV, and more so instagram, Facebook, now TikTok picture and video based social media there's a, life as reality TV show quality, an unspoken performance and need to make our lives seem perfect for an unseen (and not real) audience, and also to be seen as having the right views, but living in quick sand where liking or using anything could become a problem at any point and having to keep up endlessly. I also think this is intensely anxiety producing and also just debilitating, I don't think you can DO anything good in the world with that mindset

final thought: I've said for awhile I think why you see so many people declaring the economy is bad, regularly saying its historically, Great Depression levels bad, when it is in fact really good, as near to full employment as we've ever had lots of great economic indicators is left over Covid trauma.

We all went through a scary, sad, upsetting time in our lives. But because we ALL did if nothing happened to you particularly, you didn't get hospitalized, don't have long Covid, no one you're close with died and you couldn't be there for them, it might feel like "nothing" happened. So people are reaching for a "logical" reason for that edgy, sad, nervous, upset, unhappy feeling they can't get rid of. Normally that comes from economic anxiety, fear of not having enough money, or losing a job etc. So many people are reporting that they think the national economy is terrible while saying they think they themselves are doing well, that their local or state economy (that they see an interact with) is doing good, while the nation is doing bad, somehow. People are spending like they're doing well as well, never had it so good, never felt so bad.

I suspect its because we're all still dealing with Covid feelings, and thanks to social media, the death of common spaces, political radicalization, we never really came together and drew a line under Covid, it just kinda sputtered out and we slowly went back to our lives like nothing happened.

[moosh2727]

CRAP IM LATE TO ISSUE 72

life has been kicking my butt so i'm late to this but lets get started! :3

starting this post with storm oof, but even if its not jet you can't deny thats flipping cool.

MY BOYY! jet just made a diabolik lovers reference #real OMGGG JET IS SO COOL!! wave eyerolling is great.

IM STIMMING SO HARD THIS PAGE IS SO FREAKING COOL!!! THE CAR DESIGNS ARE LIKE ZERO GRAVITY, THE GLOW STICKS ARE LIKE STUFF PEOPLE USE WITH PLANES- ITS AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

jet plugging his clan is so funny to me, i love him!!! 💚💚

ANGRY JET, ANGRY JET!! IM SO CURIOUS ON WHAT HES GONNA DO the fact he dropped the glow sticks just to catch up to sonic is so him.

I FREAKING LOVE THIS SO MUCH OMGGGGGGGGG

i've been so caught up on Jet i genuinely forgot what Sonic's meant to be doing LMAO, BUT THAT ASIDE OMG JET IS SO FREAKING COOL Sonic is cool in that bit putting the refs down in that snarky comment.

i'm screaming and stimming so hard rn, jets gonna be madddddddd when he can't find sonic.

THEIR FACES IM SOBBING, ESPECIALLY THE ROOSTER I THINK

oh my gosh poor things, thats so horrible oh no :<

the cover art is so amazing, i love it so much

overall this issue was rlly good, for ppl wondering "why didn't you include showing the mascots actually being rough and tumble?" i don't care that much for them so i didn't include it

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1, 7, 10 and 13 for atla? don't have to answer them all if you cba and i just always feel vindicated by your posts it's very nice

hii sorry this is late but thank uu i’m glad my posts resonate with someone

1) the character everyone gets wrong

iroh, definitely. i mean ofc the show itself helps on this by never holding him accountable for the whole being a war criminal and his attempt to colonize ba sing se. but it’s been years so it’s annoying he still gets the old man that’s just there to give good advice and funny jokes only treatment for majority of the audience.

also jet. it’s odd how ppl are so ready to jump anyone if you don’t like zuko immediately because he redeemed himself but jet it’s still viewed as a complete villain / lost cause.

and lastly azula. my baby i love her unfortunately shes stuck between people that think she’s the worst evil ever and ppl that don’t like she is ultimately written to be a villain. Yes, she’s a victim of her abusive father as much as zuko and unlike him she didn’t have any support from their uncle but still, i don’t think a redemption arc is what her character conclusion should be lol. i’m happy with her still ending as a villain, it’s tragic but also not unrealistic. i find it more entertaining too.

7) what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

sjjsjsj isn’t it kind of obvious? zuko. i just couldn’t stand the fans for so long. the way they put him in a pedestal. the ship wars. the comparsions to sasuke. IT WAS ALL SO UNBEARABLE.

but i have overcome it actually!!!! lol lately there’s been a pushback in atla fandom and now zuko is being constantly hated and dragged by others stans and while i still don’t care enough for him to be my fave, i felt the call to go against the waves because most of the arguments rn just sound ridiculous like damn. you would think he’s ozai or smth the way ppl talk about him

10) worst part of fanon

huhh i don’t really read atla fics and aus to know mich about atla fanon tbh. maybe how people talk about kyoshi 😭 i swear ppl make her smth she’s not

13) worst blorboficiation

for the same reasons i mentioned before this always goes to iroh!!

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

sebastian bud hit me with some of your FAVOURITE kj hcs i need inspiration

the way I am VIBRATING rn

okay okay okay I have a great variety of kj hcs so imma just shoot a variety at you, of various degrees of seriousness.

Fab Four and Associates:

-Strong believer in disabled Kobra Kid agenda (i talk about this in various degrees in my fics and plan to include more). Personally I think he is selectively mute, but in the way that he is most comfortable when he's not talking. If he is ever talking a lot, it's a bad situation. Also has scoliosis but most people don't realize bc he spends 60% of his time hunched over on his bike anyway and like, yes it's actively making the problem worse. No he will not be doing anything about it he's got Things to Do.

-Jet is like. If wanderlust was a person. He loves wandering around and talking to people and being up in their business but not actively involved and knowing everything that's going on or not knowing what's going on and being surprised. like genuinely everyone knows him because he is always just. Somwhere. He's a guy that's always lonely but not because of lack of friends, it's because he's got so many people he cares about that there's no way for all of them to be in one place at the same time.

-Jet has the driest sense of humor on the planet like he's smiling a lot so it's like 'wait wait are you serious?' and the answer is whatever is funniest. (Ex. from my fics, he wanted to name a baby Jet Star II: Electric Boogaloo, and he was not serious about it until everyone else thought it was a terrible idea and then he was dead serious about it)

-Poison and Kobra are not siblings, so says me. Their whole relationship is "you are useful and I care about you a lot but why are you like this?" and it's true in both directions. they're weird bitches. usually five seconds from hitting each other.

-The Girl is a funny motherfucker because she pays attention. Like a lot of the people around her don't got a ton of exposure to kids, so they assume that small kids don't know what's going on ever, and they are wrong. The Girl always has a pretty good idea of what's going on. She may make wrong assumptions sometimes, but for being 7? she's scarily good at picking up on how people interact with each other and how electrical things work and when a dust storm is about to blow in.

-The Girl will dig holes. And put people's stuff in them. And you will not get it back. She wanted Party and Ghoul to stop smoking so much so she did steal all their nic-sticks and bury them behind the outhouse so that even if they found them there's no way they would smoke them bc of the smell of shit.

-The Girl is absolutely part of a small gang of seven-year olds who like to hang out at the gas station and yell at people.

-While Ghoul and Kobra have a Spiritual Bond (we've discussed this at length, you know my feelings on it, perhaps I'll make a post at some point), Agent Cherri Cola and Kobra are in love, and they're weird about it. Cherri is a girlboyfriend, it rules.

-That said, everyone is pretty chill with Cherri Cola (Jet thinks she's okay if pretentious, and he's right. Cherri be pretentious as fuck) except Party, who is waiting for an excuse to run Cherri over with the car.

General:

-Killjoys got a lot of weird hobbies and games, one of which I did make up and include in an upcomign fic, and it's called Canyon Smash. The way this game works is a whole bunch of 'joys (between 3 and usually 20, but there's no upper limit of participants) gather in a narrow canyon and form a long chain by holding hands. Then the person at the front of the line starts running full speed forward, with the goal being to get as many people behind them to let go as possible. This is achieved by running at walls, jumping over rocks, and generally making it as hard as possible for the people behind you to hold on; if the person in front of you in the chain lets go, then everyone behind them is out of the game as well. There's two ways to win a Canyon Run: 1) you are the last person in line, proving that no one could shake you off or 2) you're the person at the front of the line, and you managed to shake off everyone behind you and run alone.

-I have feelings about Killjoy naming practices and they are as follows. Until a kid is 1-2 (you're pretty sure they're gonna live), everyone calls a kid a Snow Storm, and generally rotates through a bunch of pronouns. By age 2, the kid is given a non-kj nickname that involves something unique to them. Over the next several years as the kid's personality develops, they get to take part in creating their 'kiddie name' which is a trial period to figure out what is meaningful and unique to them in a way that will become their killjoy name. Usually by their early to mid-teens, the kid selects their adult kj name. An example of this would be like for an OC I had, who's name progression went: Snow Storm -> Puff (bc of the way she wore her hair) -> Pet Tornado (as dubbed by her uncle bc she crashes into everything) -> P.T. Crusing (P.T. as an abbreviation for Pet Tornado, and Cruising as a play on the car pt cruiser)

I HAVE TO GO I GOT DISTRACTED AND A FRIEND THOUGHT I WAS DEAD BUT ALWAYS FEEL FREE TO ASK ME FOR MORE KJ HCS I LOVE TALKING

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this chart is by @prochara on twt i very much agree with its rating of pure main weapon power barring sub and special synergy. heres my comprehensive balancing ideas for everything. this list is noted to account for map design, which is why eliter is so high. my ideal is to make everything at about the "slightly weaker tier", so everything above will be generally slightly nerfed as i believe overky powerful weapons turn the gane very stalemated. this first of a series of posts will focus in nerfs. without further ado

fuckin beef cake supremes

squeezer: i would nerf squeezer by reducing the ink efficiency of its tap shots, reducing ever so slightly the max fire rate, and making a small range nerf, where it stlli out ranges everyrhing except jet squelcher but less so. i believe this to be the most undeniabley superior main weapon, where it has every good shooyer quality and then stats that are better than all of them with kill yime and range, i believe the balance is way ivercompensating for the awkward tap fire of its precision shots, and it should be tined back like this

eliter: i would just fix the godawful ekiter heaven maps rn, mire paths more flanks more cover, and give eliter a slap on the wrist, a bit more ink recovery lag (ie heavier weapons tend tot ake longer to begin their ink recovery reloading)

splatana wiper: the main thing is its absurd onject damage multipliers really put this weapons power over the top, and i validate brellas severely. i would reduce these multipliers by a decent amount, and also just slightly reduce its charge slash range because its nutty that it can outrange dualie squelchers when its so mobile it can function as an honest to god melee weapon. also id SLIGHTLY reduce strafe speed, but id make it so strafe speed can be affected by run speed gear. a pure wi get you back to its original run speed, and the falloff wi be harsh. runnung only run speed will make u barely faster so that. this is to introduce a skight bit more of gesr dependency for this extremely consistent weapon. also slight ink efficiency nerf

nutty bitches

splash o matic, .52 gal, splatter shot, n-zap: i actually like the power kevel of all these and dont want to take away the fun of them. this is a little wrist slaopy but will help keeo these mobile powerhouses from being too oppressive, namely give them small ink efficiency nerfs (higher ink cost per bullet) and make their damage fall off a little worse (so that its harder to take advantage of arc shots or high ground or just tryinf to extend your range like they did excessively to my beloved GLOOGA)

trislosher: tbh i think tri slosher is perfect how it is now, id give it a skight fall off damage nerf for slap on the wrist sake, but thats its specialty so the nerf would be even smaller than the one for the shooters

mini splatling: i feel similarly about mini splat to trislosh, maybe just a slight increase in ink recovery lag so it doesnt feel too oppressive against the nerfed shooters

splat charger: its only strong for similar reasons to eliter, bur it can get a slap on the wrist for ink recovery lag why not

tetra dualies: i love tetra dualies :( i think its at the power level i think wiper should be at, but id anything id say actually a fair bit percent worse falloff cos if GLOOGA has to suffer than then this high pressure menace should have to struggle a bit more to kill over ledges

dualie squelchers: honestly i think these were rated a bit too high, i wouldnt change anything, its jump tech is a little unfair but its cool and makes sense

splatana stamper: this bitch scares me but is so cool. id say jsut a bit of an ink efficiency nerf, its crazy longevitous for a heavy weapon. it shoukd run out faster and also have its object damsge multipliers reduced alittle bit. also skightly lower strafe speed but you can now boost it with run speed up, and it takes less run soeed up to surpass the original strafe speed, and is skightly more notable of a boost

additional notes

everything in the slightly weaker class is about what i think is a fun and fair power level, but i have a few fairly neutral changes id make for just a few

ink brush: no nerf, but like the solatanas, i feel its a big missed opportunity for fun to make it boostable in run speed. the max boost should be very slight so that people cant move way too fast too easily, but i think if you run oure run soeed on ink brush there should be some reward :)

splat dualies: it was always weird to me dualie squelchers is the only dualie to get the roll slide thing, it seems like such a strange way if maing its mobility superior. i get its supposed to be like a shooter dualie hybrid, but i think the othe rmire basical dualies should have a bit fia roll sldie too, so splat dualies will be one of the ones receiving this slight betterment to its mobility :)

[siphonophoresupernumerary]

You reblogged the discuss the blue curtains I beg of you post again, this ask is your excuse to go off on any blue curtains you're thinking of rn bc I'm curious

Why thank you! I was going to put this off because A) tis the season and I'm busy and B) I don't remember any blue curtains to discuss, but! I'm between things and I've remembered something I've wanted to discuss for a while, but since no one has seen it I just kinda was quiet about it.

So Swiss Army man is a movie that I saw a couple years ago, and maybe 5+ years after it came out. It might have been during quarantine? I was watching a lot of movies instead of sleeping back then. Anyway. Theres basically only two actors in it: Paul Dano(of batman/riddler fame) and Daniel Radcliffe(Harry Potter and then just a string of weird films)

Swiss Army man opens with a man(Paul Dano/Hank) on a tiny island trying to hang himself, he is alone, we never find out how he got there. His attempt on his own life get interrupted when someone washes up on the beach. A corpse(Daniel Radcliffe).

The corpse is the Swiss Army Man. His farts can propel his body like a jet ski in the water, infinite clean water spills from his mouth when his arm is pumped, his throat can be used as a mortar to launch objects of any kind, his erections always point north.

And he isn't quite dead. The body (Hank names him Manny), can only barely speak, cannot move his body consciously, and knows just about nothing at all. Hank tries to help him remember, but only a little bit ever comes from Manny, maybe even nothing, everything supplied by Hank's own mind

Hank and Manny find their way to the mainland, still far from civilization, but they have to work together, and they spend a lot of time talking. Since Manny doesn't actually know anything, Hank supplies some backstory to Manny, a girl he loved (her image is on Hank's phone), an enjoyment of Jurassic Park.

"Hank leads Manny to believe that Manny is in love with a woman named Sarah, who rides the bus alone every day. Manny falls in love with Sarah, and it is this love that motivates him to try to find civilization with Hank. In reality, Hank is very much in love with Sarah, having seen her riding the bus every day but never talking to her due to his own shyness. He has a photo of her that he took secretly while on the bus set as the wallpaper on his phone..." -wikipedia

They build a set, the bus, people on the bus, recreating the moment, Manny playing Hank, Hank playing the Sarah.

They kiss.

Shortly after there is a fight between them as Manny finds out that Hank never actually talked to her, and he wishes to be fully dead again. They make up after being attacked by a bear, Manny finally gaining bodily movement. Manny carries Hank's unconscious body to Sarah's house, Hank waking as they get close and enter her back yard. Her daughter finds them, and Manny tries to show her some of his powers, Hank stopping him, the police get called, Manny becomes an inanimate corpse again.

Theres more after this, but heres the thing. the movie is about self-restraint, shame, and social norms. Manny doesn't like that Hank hides parts of himself from him, is distressed when things that his body does freak out Hank. He is a corpse, an entity without a life, and Hank is alive, and has wasted his pining for someone and never acting on it.

Manny's powers and animacy only work when Hank believes in him, when Hank isn't hiding himself/things from Manny. Manny is finally able to move his limbs when Hank has told him everything. When Hank is embarrassed for him he stops functioning altogether.

I live a lot of my life inside of boxes, my head, my phone, my computer, and keep as much as I can from leaking out for others to see. Partly because of this movie I have tried to do that a bit less, be my true self more often, not just palatable versions of me

[shadow-lag]

Oh boy,, welp. Time for another long post of rambles. This time I'm watching the '03 tmnt B)

I'm on episode 4 and while I wasn't gonna do another one of these I've already had to put my phone down and walk around my room so here we are.

Fair warning: this will ofc contain spoilers. Everything I say will be random with limited context. (I dont expect anyone to even find this so-) And I'm a massive dork B) let's do this

I remember literally 80 seconds in I couldn't take a damn thing seriously- this is gonna be veryyy fun to watch

I can now see so many references rise (18) made and I'm going insane /pos New iterations make references to its past media! Who knew!

I think April is missing a rib or two /hj girl is absolutely snatched. I love her pants, I want those irl. (Classic big pants little shirt combo (why am I so gay))

Oh look! The boys are bonding over their anger issues! Why are they even fighting rn o(-( rise Casey is so small. Why is this Casey jacked- "for a little green dude, you are totally nuts" WHY IS HE SO SHORT YOURE RIGHT. he tough but smol. Lmfao. "Well isn't this romantic" HELLO??!??? guess I wasn't the only one getting enemies to lovers vibes over here, but you didn't need to point it out- damn. (Am I getting baited? In the ripe time of 2003?) Should Mikey have a personality outside of just being the funny guy? Yes. Do I appreciate all the jokes still? Yes. Yayy validate his cool new kick (I hate how Leo and Raph always beef. I need more happy brotherly bonding)

For brothers who aren't meant to be on the surface, they sure do make quick besties with the "surface dwellers" (as splinter would call them lol). Man any hope we had is gone fellas. The hets are here /lh? Casey within seconds has flustered April. This a lost cause smh. Casey you are on thin ice,, And in today's new. Local alley man parents a robot built in front of his very eyes (for money ofc). Mans is getting real emotional over this robot son rn. Wow this episode is actually pretty telling about parenting if you look at it too long. Yeah! Tell it to him straight April! Misogynistic characters don't belong in our silly little shows /srs

Bro just compacted his bike. Interesting to see them all have different sets of wheels and not just skate boards. Would have been cool to see that return. Or at least the roller blades (yes I'm 100% biased) I'm sorry if I've terribly read that. But did he just call the big blonde dude "hun"? What? (/neu) HE FLIES!! jet pack is much cooler but this is fun. WHY ARE THEY TAKING A BODY SHAPED THING FROM THE WATER? WJAT IS THAT. Is that a krang husk? The krang is in 03 isn't it? (Unfortunately (I hate the krang)) OH NO THATS DEFINITELY THE KRANG NOOO

Why IS Raph and Casey so buddy-buddy. I just feel like raph isn't the type to open up to someone so quickly o(-( Oh boy the foot is advertising turtle skewers all over the city. I don't think they're all too fond of raph little friend lmao. Casey why are you so ignorant- God yeah they reallyyy don't like casey rn lmfao BRO THEY STOLE RAPH AND THE DRAGONS ARE GONNA BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF CASEY? DUDE that's a little fucked up ngl. Ah I see. Smart moves case now go save your boyfriend. "This is some nice steel. How about telling me who gave them to you?" "Your mama" DAMN!! FOR REAL? WOW (I didn't think that clip was real ngl-) ah yes ofc he escaped he had plot armor my bad. Oh they're gonna drop Casey in the infinite water swirl. YOOO let's go Mikey!! Yippee the day is saved once more! Lmfao they really don't like when casey visits. I'm confused. I know this other ninja guy is most probably the shredder but who is his enemy is this? Does he work with the krang or like?? Maybe just a case of them connecting the wrong dots ig. Now who the fuck are the three monotone council members o(-(

Ooh boy fallen angel. Quite the title. Geez what did Casey get into now- hm I feel like fleeing the city would solve several problems but is a completely overlooked solution /hj man they look so goofy is normal clothes. Skivvies? What is that supposed to mean Raphael 🧐 I'm starting to think big guy isn't even human- nahh I think a wee bit of murder here would in fact be justified.

Ah yes vehicular manslaughter for this episode /j omg they've befriended the homeless and they are so sweet what the heck :(((( I'm crying /pos (no bc this is actually how it'd play out realistically. Outcasts stick together and I'm just- it says so much about our society but it's just a silly turtle show:( no wonder it attracted so many queer/trans folk with rise) don't you laugh at that sweet old man>:( help him get his friends back. Just got a very blunt lesson on capitalism. Based. Oh shit and now we are getting into slave labor. Uh- this episode is really touching up on reality huh. Oh god who the hell is this ugly dude gross. Please make him stop talking. What a veil thing. Yes good fall to your doom. NO WHY SAVE HIM? HES A HORRIBLE PERSON

Wait do they actually have tails? Mikey don't lie to me like this o(-( I wish with the design overhauls in rise they would have gotten tails. I know like it's easier to not animate them though so. I guess I can't complain too much. Oh the swords are important you say? Bad choice to say that out loud you're definitely going to lose them now. For plot ofc. And character development. NO YOU IDIOT DONT GO ANYWHERE ALONE. someone wack him with some rolled up newspaper and tell him you're proud of him please. Not funny-haha, funny weird. -Mikey, probably. I need tone tags on this guy /hj. Is he pulling my leg rn? What are you going against? No way he's not the shredder with the foot clan. Dude is definitely lying. Leo needs to leave. No don't accept the sword. No way it's real. Sincerity my ass o(-( dude. Council? Of krang right? God this show- so I'm assuming the krang and the foot doesn't like each other then? At least it's not mutual at least. Oh geez leo throw your brother off the building why don't you- Okay yes he is the shredder then. Ninja rat moment! Gotta throw in the tragic backstory. Bro got straight electrocuted to death /hsrs. Dang. Poor rat man. Wow Leo really did get played. L. Oooo fight scene in the storm! Come on give this big doofus another scar. God these council people are weird. Oop- here comes the shredder.

Oh okay so Hun is that dudes real name- I'm just dumb-

[a break in the rambles. Notes? Idk. This is gonna be extremely long huh- barely even through the first season and it's already an essay. Maybe I should tone it down a bit. I mean surely tumblr has a character limit]

"Whats the one thing I told them not to do? Face the shredder. Surely that's what they're doing then" (paraphrased) ofc. Like most rebellious children lmao. (My siblings for example lmao) welp they just broke into someone's apartment- lmao that poor kid. Raph is going to kill Mikey for that one if the foot doesn't first lmfao. Noo you can't leave the old (rat) man to figure out technology come on donnie. Bro is that the sword light saber thing from the mando? Wait so are they allies with the potentially the krang guys now? Master splinter had the look tm. Hmmmm I feel like the shredder will somehow survive that. Yep. He'll be back. L.

Bro there's super heros in this too- they'd accept super heros but not our favorite turtle bros? Not very cool new york. Don't make fun of his art :( damn poor mikey. Yes! April support!! Oh no who's this guy. THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS? Oh. Super hero. Lmao in their faces.

"Meep"

There is literally so much lore in this series holy cow

I saw something something "kirby" on screen and damn near exploded. They are nothing alike at all. But man does my brain like to play me like a fool. Man this series was written by a bunch of crystal girls (/neu) oh my god donnie took kirby (the tmnt version) to dreamland /j holy shit kirby fucking died (please know my main coping mechanism is humor) (it's actually kinda sweet to think he's in a land of his imagination!)

[Okay this is so much longer than what my rise one was already omg- I should just close tumblr and give it a rest lmao. Honestly if Casey and Raph first interactions didn't seem so enemies to lovers this would have never happen /hj]

"Of the four of us leo is the one turtle you never have to worry about" *cut to leo fighting like 20 dudes by himself in the rain* Whats with Leo and getting thrown off buildings??

No it's not a great loss they're not dead just like walk through the fire and save them or something o(-( m a n

Wow calling the next one tales of Leo makes it sounds like he's actually dead damn- omg we get turtle tots in this one too this is amazing. The sillies<3 Raph. Buddy. Goofball. ITS OKAY TO SHOW EMOTION (that isn't just anger) COME ON

I was gonna say we need more light hearted goofy episodes like monster hunter but was completely cut off from, and I quote, "Someone once said, "The only difference between men and boys is there size of their toys." " and I am literally jaw dropped to the floor bc I did not take that line well- I am fighting demons rn (trying not to laugh in the middle of the night) I am so thrown off by that line-

Bro why did Leo call Baxter Stockmen a fruitcake💀 I'm sorry- did he just cut shredders head clean off??😭 sorry shredder but there's absolutely no coming back from that one lmao. EXCUSE ME?? well damn I guess there IS coming back from that one. So, not human?

If it weren't for like ninja honor and morals and all that Raph would 100% have these goons dead. Raph goes blind (real) Raph making friends with literally every "hothead" he meets in alley ways (part 2)

Oh these guys are absolutely wack job krang. EWWW NO THEY ARE KRANG D: oh man the boys are in trouble now. Just like give them their dad back and we can allll go home. Why is splinter in the orange juice. They really have no reason to fight. Like. Listen, crazy idea now. Just communicate. OMG THEYRE FUCKING GONE. THEY'VE BEEN DISINTEGRATED.

Okay wowza that's only season 1. 6 more seasons to go- this is going to be one wild ride huh. This show really knows how to keep ya on your feet. All this is doing though is making me wish we got more Rise o(-( how come this wack iterations (/pos) got so many episodes, but rottmnt barely got 2 seasons and a movie?

Starting season 2 same day ofc. I have to binge this show as quickly as humanly possible /hj perhaps I'll try to write less, maybe I'll write even more who knows. Eventually I'm sure I'll hit some sort of limit. This singular post is about to be more words than any fanfic I've ever wrote lmao.

Bros just got reconstructed in space. Mmm the star wars tmnt crossover all us nerds wanted. The guys are always getting into so much trouble 😭 I like how Mikey is more worried about how the colors of the dress clash with his bandana more than the fact its a dress. Based and real. Oh god the blue dude is hitting on Mikey o(-( yeah yeah kick his ass! Oh noo don't get caught. :0 It's chewy but blue! Girlboss Mikey!! Girlboss Mikey!! "You go girl!" Bro I'm dead lmfao. Finally they all have,, GUNS

"The big house" oh man they're going to jail. Oh wow yeah they're in jail. And now they are going to bust out of jail. Wonderful. Damn it Raph. Well dang guess spoons are a weapon. Welp off to the games they go then. Oh boy they've taken a hostage of a dictator. THE ROBOT IS GOING TO KILL HIMSELF?? Okay no he doesn't die (yet?. Hopefully not) Wow they all have horrible aim. It is truly bizarre all the shit the turtle bros get themselves into to. (How many times am I gonna have to say that before I can have a silly goofy episode o(-( ) Also can I say those tube things they have in their mouth for oxygen make no sense- like I can understand how that would actually work properly- I can only imagine it was just the easiest solution (to draw) They look so silly in the space suits /pos. Just makes me wish they would have been given tails in the rise redesign hauls </3 Oop the krang is bringing them back it seems. HOW MANY PARTS ARE IN THIS ONE?? ITS LIKE A WHOLE MOVIE AT THIS POINT LOL. Okay well it's to be continued, but this one is a different part 1, 2, ect. Oooo and now the new yorkers are suspicious. SPLINTS!! HES BACK!! YIPPEE. Ooo wait what they're buddies? Utroms. So um. Not krang? But like. Sorta similar? Do the krang and utroms have like a civil war or something I'm so confused o(-( Oh. My. God. Baxter is a fucking spider. I agree with Mikey I would not go in the pod. Okay okay. So this criminal utrom is gonna be the krang then, right? OMG THE SHREDDER IS THE EVIL UTROM DUDE. BRO. NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE. BAXTER YOU MOTHER FUCKER. WHY CANT YOU JUST DIE ALREADY. I genuinely can but believe there's 7 seasons. Like. What on earth (or within the rest of the universe for that matter-) could they possible get into after this?? The shredder is literally a roach, how does he keep coming back o(-( at least stockmen is free from his control? Even know he has like just a head left- YIPPEE!! THE BOYS ARE GOING HOME!!

Splinter I have like 27 IQ what's with all the riddles. It's so odd seeing them without their bandana on lol. Raph you don't have to be a jerk all the time smh smh. Leo just happens to be better than all of you half of the time. No big deal- (kinda feel bad for raph and mikey. Mikey mostly. It feels like they don't have anything special:( I mean hell donnie is extremely smart, he's probably the most special. But leo has that edge in combat) Yep family B) *distant punches and screaming*

Oh boy quite the intro. Leo just dies. Right off the bat. /j what. Why does he seek leo o(-( icecream!! Raph seems to like mint chocolate chip! Win! Oh right this guy. Wonder what his deal is- DITTO!! Huh- this is so dumb >:( agreed very over dramatic. Also didn't shredder kinda like,, defeat himself. It was his bomb thing after all. Omg did this dude just portal away in his cape. Metaknight?? Is that you?? /s literally stole mks moves smh. Haha take the L random ninja dude. Now he's the real greatest warrior in the galaxy. Wow this episode is so random lmao I love it. Can the time be right like now- I'm so confused o(-(

The little intro things are so silly. They're like interviews at the beginning. No Casey it's not a date or anything at all nooooo. (I wish it wasn't a date smh get your romance out of my goofy ninja turtles show) dude I kinda feel bad for this robot kid thing. If only the nanobots ended up in better hands. LMAO "and when will you have her home young man?" AS IF YOU ALL ARENT FRIENDS IM CRACKLING. Thank you donnie finally someone wants to help it. NO NO KISSING>:( GO BACK TO BEING SILLY AND GOOFY

Yes you are absolutely always getting into wack ass situation Mikey great observation. Finally someone said it. Noo Mikey is about to be eaten by a giant gator- bros just trying to live and they're messing with him lmao. HUH? Are those like magic glasses o(-( oh no he just talks normally. Just a normal everyday fellow mutant. Swear to God if he's working on a new body suit for shredder- who *somehow* is still alive. SEE RISE RAPH COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH COOLER WITH A BIG TAIL. YO cool he's a mutant dude too. Wait was he there when the building exploded and all that? Yes. You the one it just scanned fight it first. YEAH GATOR GUY KICK HIS ASS!! Bro,, :( thats so sad what the hell.

This show was absolutely written by a bunch of crystal girls. (/neu (I have a bunch of crystals myself lol)) These guys are insane. Where do they get the funds for all this stuff anyways- damn right you're proud of him. Dude is insane intelligent-

Ooo starting this one with a song huh. The foot? And the wacky tie guy? Oh shit right it's the gang wars episode isn't it- TURF WAR (my brain is impeccably small) [splatoon reference]

Ya know I wonder if these sorts of shows have like idk psychological affects on kids? Like do they leave any sort of impression on them? Are kids who watch these "crime fighting or hero" shows more likely to be "good-do'ers" and have better morals bc they are given an example of the hero and see how the bad guys always lose, have bad endings, and inflict so much pain (and property damage lol). Are these kids more likely to take up jobs like police officers? What even makes a person want to be a cop anyways lol. Idk. Food for thought I guess. All coherent thoughts must go to the mega-post after all.

BAXTER? IS BACK?? AGAIN??? I shouldn't even be surprised anymore.

Honking

Have I mentioned how much I envy their voices sometimes. Bc damn o(-( it's just occasional lines. Here and there. Lmao transmasc things ig.

Bro. Raph. Leo. Stop fighting you dingdongs. Ofc Hun is back. BROS GOING TO BLOW. Karai? Haven't I heard that name before. YOU CANT JUST COME IN HERE AND KILL OFF LEO LIKE THAT LADY. genuinely how do they make this last 7 whole seasons lol

Why are those two dudes like super yellow- I can only imagine this is sorta racist..

I'm sorry is that the shredder?? Broooo. Oh- yeah yeah that makes sense. That's what I was thinking lmao. This is just- dude o(-( would have been cooler if the plan worked. RAPH!! SPLINTER!!!!! God damn it he is actually back. Where is your honor!?

I'm so sorry, Baxter? Uhh that's a bit too far now. Please just kill him off. This is getting ridiculous 💀

Woah the plot twists in this one is crazy fr ZOG NO!! he killed a man in cold blood,, the turtles would have been toast without you Zog. Rip <//3

Uhh I think I skipped one but WOAH TINY ROBOTS ROBBING THE COMIC STORE! They've got the tiny guy. Ofc Don is tracking the old men lmao. Plot twist, the two super heros had,,,, SEX. Win day for Mikey tho let's goooooo.

THE BATTLE NEXUS USED TO BE HONORABLE? Wow splinter is even more of a nut than the boys. BUNNY BOY??? REAL?? I remember absolutely nothing anyone told me about usagi? (I forgor his name) aww splints:( the boys are all grown up. Uh oh. Traximus sounds so close to Draximus which is my dogs name lmao. BUNNY BOY-O IS BACK OMG. omg he's so dumb looking lol. Ooo toffas! The shredder?? Well his helmet anyways. So uh. When do they kiss? (Joke) wait what if splinter and like leo both make it to the very top? Do they just fight each other? Aww donnie:( poor dude he will never live this down lmao. Woah the ninja dude is just as bad as the shredder. L. This guy is so lame. Kill him off! LMAO ofc. Quite the match ups. Mikey sorry you're out lol. Aw splinter you're so cool. Okay that makes more sense tbh- dude is about to get clapped by his son. (Uh killed that is) Oh? Kinda surprised Raph won that. Okay. Ohhh noo. I am so normal about this show (lie) Okay I'm not quite down with this one but I don't see how the ship stands as of now- unless the fandom is literally just clinging on anything we can get lol [boy this is making me what to do a video essay just rambling about this show. Just overall. And some of its themes and topics it discusses. I have my gripes, but I'm overjoyed to watch it still] anywaysss. Uh oh leo! Donnie to the rescue! (Wrong target tho don!) You stupid red haired jerk. Welp big powerful dude is dead. Oop. Wait until raph and mikey finds out what happened. YOU SCUM DONT FRAME THE RAT >:( Usagi the doctor bunny! Mikey! Stop running your mouth! Eep! You red haired mf>:((( stop>:(( ofccc it's the dragon. Uh oh. Uh oh. They don't even get to see what happened to Leo. Lmfao now it's raph and mikey that's hilarious. Oh my God mikey being annoying is a genuine strategy lmfao. This is hilarious. Crackling rn. Raph that's absolutely stupid?! Let's go!!! (Love this trax guy) uh hating this stupid shadow creatures tho. Yippee! Donnie and Usagi saving the day! I can certainly see why everyone loves Usagi. He's such a little critter /pos /aff. Brave Usagi!! Yippee!! NO DONT SKEWER THE RABBIT. Oooo leo! Mikey for the win!! It would absolutely be the most funny outcome. Yeah good! The staff should fight back! Too bad it didn't fight back hard enough. Oh boy a dimensional rift huh? Is kirby coming to eat a car? (Sorry) ((lie)) bye bye red losers! Fall to your own evil plans. WOOOOOOO LETS GO MIKEY!! That's it with Usagi? A bit surprised. The sillies<3 once again mikey is technically the most powerful lol. No- not the dinos coming to invade earth- God that was a long one. See ya in the next!

Hm perhaps it is in fact the end of the world. Donnie D: looks like we're going back to space boys

Raise the stacks? Who is this guy? Wait I thought the justice league knock offs were all old and stuff. This show is so confusing o(-( oh boy they're bringing out the nukes. Oh- do they actually survive nukes? Yes ofc they do. I agree with Mikey. Hand over my happy ending. Damn poor donnie- BRO JUST NINJA-ED HIS WAY OUT OF THAT?? Wow this is going to kill the economy fr. Come on donnie your brothers can totally kick ass (plus they're like not even on earth rn-) oh god they're gonna get shot. Yippee!! Another rebellion dude! Double ship theft. Poor mikey. He just wants credit for all their hard work lol. Did he- did he just come back to earth?- this little bot is a funny guy. Uh oh I think that's the other space nerds isn't is? The,, government? Makes sense. Raphy is such a cute nickname. It's hilarious how he's the one with that kind of nickname since he's the 'hothead' ughhh the American government is here. Leave the space stuff to the mutants please. Oh they're just goons o(-( Uh nvm government? No it is the military? I'm so confused. Why do they have laser guns. Yeah Don that's what I'm saying. Heyyy splints time to go. Yes take them with you and go. Now we fight the US military. WHO IS THIS FREAKY GUY???? ew stop. Bishop. Yeah. More like bitch hop out of here right now. Stop speaking like that. I hate this show. Where is the justice. Well hopefully honeycutt actually like wiped his memory or whatever. This is why you can't trust the government kids. No leatherhead D: stuck in a drawer.. gross. Holy shit I hate this bishop guy. Yall better hurry before they look their DNA and shit (and their lives-) GO SPLINTER JUST LIKE KILL SOMEONE FOR ONCE. (sure it goes against the ninja honor whatever but this guy deserves it!!) HE IS ONE SCUM BAG MAN WHY THE HELL IS HE WINNING??????? Hate this. Someone give raph a gun and permission to kill. Oh boy he IS the system. Rare good side win. Still hate bishop an insane amount. Let's keep in mind these guys are like what 16? The trauma is off the charts o(-( another honorable hero lost o7. This show is so wacky and weird. At least they won? I mean obviously some things are foreshadowed but things are still so unpredictable- I wonder what trouble the boys will get into next. I mean bitch bishop will be back, so will the shredder and the foot. And I guess baxter is to some degree alive??

Oh god who's this guy. A true ultimate power bump? I suppose? Raph this is why we don't cheat in racing. He's a good guy you goons o(-( yay! Old lady to the rescue! Finally a cat that likes Raph. Rise!raph wishes. Um? The train can't really get them right? Plot armor and ninja quickness and all- If anything happens to this old lady I'm coming after everyone myself. Ah yes thinking. A brave new world for mikey. Awww he gave the money to the old lady:D yippee!! Literally the best part of the whole show calling it now. Finding out one of them isn't dead? Cool. Helping this wonderful old lady? Absolutely awesome! I hope raph gets another tea party with her honestly-

And this episode, trauma response, nightmares! Poor LH:( oo the evil turtles are scary. Oh no. Mikey is out- aw:( dudes got landmines fr. I love how they look after each other and joke around <3 the sillies <3 okay back to the saddness- what the fuck why is everyone in this place absolutely wackjobs with no heart and morals??? o(-( YAY!! Can't handle another sacrifice. :) family

Oh boy this one is titled hate. Can only wonder what this is about. They always get into the wackiest situations- lmao never alone april and casey. Bro I thought that was Casey and he got shot- damn- lmfao bro got pants. LMAO I have a solution hate crimers to kick the aliens out of New York we are gonna,,,BLOW UP THE ENTIREY OF NEW YORK. Quite the plan. Uh oh mommy's home casey. Aw Ma likes April. Lmao she found about splinter and the turtles too that's amazing. Ma is another character we must protect at all costs.

BATMAN? nobody?? Huh. Mikey be like mom said it's my turn with the video games >:( lmao. Dudes covered in true black paint lmao. Wow they touch and go guys are back. L. Broooo why are there so many villains in New York. What does the rest of the world do? Do they have villains? Who fights there weird crimes? Villains across the globe be like. Ya know what'd be cool? If we went to new york permanently. Hell yeah he's a someone now. I think Hun is gonna be fired lmao. I think a certain group of everyone's favorite green boys accidently pulled an all nighter lmao.

Uh guys maybe you shouldn't leave casey out at night. MORE TURTLE TOTS!! omg they're so cute. Young casey? Why doesn't anyone remember this? They're so silly. Lmfao they are horrible liars. They're so adorable. They're so goofy omg. This is so silly that's why casey scream goongala or whatever all the time- lmfao theyre all confusing him. It seems like leo and donnie were the first to take any sort of training to heart. They are all still horrible liars tho lmao. Busted~ oh well I guess casey was just sorta a natural in street fighting-

Ooo Christmas episode? Please tell me mikey gets to keep the cat pleaseeee (I'm sure he'll like give em to the kids or something but man it would have been nice) how does clunk say in his coat through all that- oo raph? I didn't think he was the type to be into interfering with people's romantic relationships (trying to make casey and april kiss with mistletoe lmao) I guess it makes sense. Cj and him are the closest. USAGI!!!! what did he say o(-( aww they got swords for each other lmao. I wonder if he will actually use it. Lmao L casey. I too love cookies. Aw:( where's mikey? Just in hot pursuit with the cops no big deal. He's literally causing more harm than good o(-( lmao beautiful. PLEASE LET HIM KEEP THE CAT. Aww. rat santa. Wait does this mean he keeps the cat?????:D

Did she just break his neck- dude stop fighting each other lmao. I wonder who keeps calling donnie? This is the second time now. Dang did they actually train the foot clan this round? Bro:/ stop hitting on the foot lady. B o o m. Karai? Good. That's right. Eventually she'll be on the good side. Confused,, always.

Excuse me. Did master splinter just fucking die as the intro o(-( THE CAT IS HERE!! uh oh. What. Why does Don just know Italian lol. Welp time to fight the dead. Okay so this isn't real. I wonder what this all means? What they fear most? IVE SEEN THIS CLIP WITH RAPH AS SHREDDER BEFORE? HUH? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN. IM SO CONFUSED HELP. Hmm so Leo's is about not like being independent enough? A good enough leader to not need help. A good enough ninja to not get his own father killed for coming to his aid. He fears being a disappointment and a failure. Oh o(-( Uh. Donnies? Maybe afraid of losing those he's meant to protect ig? Having people not listen to his own orders and paying the price.? I'm not really sure on that one. It's a bit confusing and probably could be interpreted more than the others. Mikeys seems tied back to that one deal leo almost made with the shredder. But also a fear with losing his brothers in whole. Raph is clearly afraid of hurting those he loves whether it's directly or indirectly. Probably due to his consistent rash course of action. Those are just my quick theories though! I did drop out of psychology after all lol. What happened to the staff? Ah there it is. What would leo even do with all kinds of power anyways lol. Oh my that must be spooky to watch- oh. Welllll guess it's not dead:/

Oop new guy is finally killing off baxter. Ohh the calls were from her. Damn he doesn't get squashed. Or the calls are from honeycutt. I'm not paying attention enough lmao. Omg they've been shoved into a crate haven't they? Rude. Can't just drop them like that. Let's go professor!! Welp wrong direction oh well at least it's not in the air. Kinda feel bad for karai.

Wow that's a lot of lore. Just out of basically no where lmao. Woah these filler episodes are getting out of hand- bizarre.

Okay. And I thought last episode was crazy. Dude just tried to attack time. Okay,, so that all happened. Wack. How do you think they tell these to splinter? Do..they even tell him? Is it worth trying to explain-

Bro can't bishop just die please. Poor raph is bike is gone. Surely baxter doesn't make it out of this one.

Bro donnie just appeared- oh wow. He's back. They are back? Ohh wait so they do actually tell splinter of all the shenanigans they get into lol. Or some of them at least. Omg so I guess that one time when donnie said during the second nanobots episode that if splinter were evil they would also likely be evil. I guess he was wrong. At least in this universe. The turtles are always the good guys. Omg that's absolutely hilarious mikey really knows how to leave his mark huh?

Good morning all beings and forms huh? I think that one. Wayy better than ladies and gentlemen.

Okay I was gonna comment on raphs more (speaking of the other two, I wonder what these mean? The others so far seemed less harmless than this one, if anything they were enjoyable (sure mikey had to save the world but he loves superheros so) I can only assume donnie will be saving this world, or trying to anyways, or teach someone(s) a valuable lesson (like raph did) I'm just confused as to what part of this could be possibly enjoyable for donnie. I've actually heard a good overview of this episode. Guess I'll actually have to watch the full thing before I come back huh lol. Oop- it's crazy to think in a similar reality they would split up. You would think leo would stay, but it makes senses it's actually mikey. Oh- hes dead. Holy moly they've merged. It kinda makes sense after all that hun and baxter would form a (probably forced) alliance and join the rebellion. Oh. Nvm. They still hate each other lol. Damn donnie better watch his back now- oh my they look worst for wear too. Oop straight to the room it seems. Damn he's huge. Finally! April has a gun! Oh- guess hun is a goner- Mikey? MIKEYYY. AIM FOR THE HEAD DAMN IT. How does leo fight so well blind? Oh damb there goes leo- holy shit this uh doesn't end well does it. Uh? Are they not really dead then? Um. Yay! They did it? Guess he saved this world. Woah. Quite the episode. I wonder why his was so,, bad? He too saved people and taught a lesson. It'll be interesting to see Leo's now.

So leo goes to usagi land it seems (idk where that dudes from sorry-) oh wait so we don't see Leo's part in that one? Just usagi somehow contacting leo and taking him to the battle nexus area. Okay still going with this plot line. Very confused. Oh- what-? Is this for real? o(-( it's so funny to think so one realizes they're ya know green and such when they have clothes on. Uh oh- this isn't good. Why even is Usagi so like loyal to Leo? Maybe it is just some honor thing and this is how a friendship would work. I mean Raph has Casey. Oh dang so he gets all of them at once. Crazy. I guess he would have the most focus. Dang poor donnie- looks like they're a but more powerful than what they thought. Oop- quite the few episodes.

Icky sound I hate it. When can bishop just like idkkk pass away maybe? Please? Hate this guy. Wow he really does get around for an earthling. Uh maybe that's where he got the tech. Evolution? That thing is half robot. Aw he pushed mikey out of the way:( oh god he's ugly. Ew he just disappeared. Let's go honeycutt! Well there is 4 more seasons I'd say they do something right you freaky jerk. Dang conceded much? Can it truly be over with bishop. I really hate this dude. Oh- wish came true? Guess they really hung this guys career to dry then. I'm surely not complaining. Damn. I never win smh.

Oh? Interesting. Ooo he actually got a shot in? Wait isn't donnie and LH in the tunnels?? Oh dang. Brawling moment. How the hell is this bishop dude so good at combat. Huh? He didn't know? I would have thought he knew. Dumb blob. Looks like the end for you. Damn you karai stop being a dumbass. Oh shit donnie. Jump jump jump! Let's not forget this is only the half way point of all this-

Welp to space we go then. Oh god he's got an even uglier body. Does splinter like make it to the finale of all this? WHAT HELLO EXCUSE ME HUH DID THAT REALLY JUST HAPPEN IS LEO OKAY HE MAKES IT RIGHT SURELY THIS IS LIKE TOTALLY FINE RIGHT. Oh man. I am just. I'm gonna need to pace around the room. Wow Karai finally using your brain here. Leo? Man:( honor to the end huh. I just want to know how they actually survive all this. Bc if they do surely the shredder does too. YES UTROM!! THANK YOU. Too bad bishop didn't magically end up on the ship. Wish he would die too lol. Wow this dude has caused so much harm. Finally. Dude is gone. Too bad Karai. You could have stopped this yourself. Woah this is great. Rare turtles win:) really should have just totally killed that evil blob tho. Would have been easier and for the better- lol they're gonna need a new intro now.

Well shit they can just never catch a damn break- oh sweet yeah new intro. I guess shredder is really gone then? Who is this weirdo. Ofc wack job has a gun. Oh my God they've put Raph in the closet. Lmfao. That's perfect. Uh oh mikey. Hard to fight with no legs. Finally some good luck lol. Hell yeah you are all that and a bag of chips mikey B) lmfao. I need to see donnie with more winning one liners. Nightie night dragon boy bam! (I don't mention enough how much I love 03 donnie. Hes just a funky lil guy.) Lmfao the little doodle. I haven't been keeping proper track of my favorite episodes but I'd say this is one of them. S4E1. Let's go ninja April!! Raph you're such a butthead lmao. Aw that's cool. What would they do with a bunch of money anyways?

There's no such thing as boring around here mike. Omg I just noticed. Usagi is in Leo's little intro thing. Perhaps I can see where the fandom is coming from with these two. Damn. Leo:( omg casey you dork. Uh oh- can't even watch the stars around here smh smh. Woah raph stopping leo from hitting something? The universe has shifted lmao. Why so many flowers o(-( (does he stink? Eh probably) Dude just got picked up like bird food. Amazing burnt pancakes. The sub plot love story is really coming together. Dude mikeys legs will never heal at this rate- oop into the bubble you go weird crazy blue lady. What? Interesting gift ig? But a gift nonetheless?

Man leo:( always so hard on yourself. He's definitely got that leader syndrome. Uh fish lady? Oh more of those ancient people. "Where we could spawn" excuse me- how do they stay under water that long. Leo's shell :( I didn't notice the slice until now. Oh god I didn't know those things were called "dikes" it sounded like donnie was calling me a slur 😭 "Um, just a little guy in-" nope cut. Stop right there. You are in fact just a little guy. End of sentence /aff yeah idiot. The turtles are good do-ers! Lil fish people live!

Hm?. Leo going out without the bros. But bringing casey? This is a bit confusing. I agree with case he's definitely be eating out of raphs bowl a little too much. No one thinking for you blue one. What has gotten into him anyways:/ Leo's lost his mind. Was that the sound of bones breaking? I'm sorry has he actually gone nuts? Oh boy whats in the ice crate. Agreed what on (totally not) earth? Oh creepy demon thing. Why does the military have that beast anyways- damn I'd just leave if I were Leo. Looks like they've got their hands full anyway. Ew- oh. He's in two pieces. Leo actually goes insane (real) oh. That thing is a test subject ain't it. Oh god that's nasty. What is this show rated- they don't show much blood violence but uh body gore is in the table- do you think Leo's shell ever heals all the way? Ouch- Bishop you whore. Well damn looks like everyone knows the boys are back in town. Aw:( that's so sad dude. Everytime I see bishop I hate him even more.

Is that the clone thing guy? That the turtles took out? Yeah I'd say so. Mikey is so goofy /pos. That's a lot of rats- oh no mike- this ain't good. It's the damn rat king. How does this guy control the dang rats anyways o(-( the boys are going home with a million and a half diseases tonight- that whole building is going down. Leo stop trying to take things by yourself it's not going to redeem yourself. I agree with raph. Something has definitely gotten into leo. Oh my God that's so many rats. Gone to the rats. The like one million rats. Why didn't the rats eat him. I'm so confused. What does he even have to do with rats??

Oh boy mikeys gotta do a rematch. Huh? Are they training or actually fighting leo?? Oh okay training. Lmfao mikey. Aw even all the shit he talks about mikey he's still the first to jump in and save him. Sore loser much? LMFAO poor mikey. Okay so like really what's with leo. Doesn't he technically still have a match in the battle nexus? Sureee "play". Dude might actually kill mikey. Nope I think he is in fact talking about himself. Mikey o(-( you have to be serious. Damn- very VERY sore losers. Dude is speaking in key board smashes. Holy moly what a jerk. Mikey is going to have rights to gloat after this one. (So will leo honestly) LETS!! GO!! MIKEY!! Lmfaooo yeah they are never hearing the end of this. This is hilarious.

What just happened to splinter? What's with the water o(-( OH NO KLUNK! You are not about to tell me that poor little cat drowns:( no klunk:((( that was so uncalled for:( ew people. BISHOP YOU BASTARD YOU KILLED KLUNK. YOU WILL KNOW PAIN. yeah maybe a bit of a show off- DUDE- what the fuck is wrong with this damn bishop guy. Dude. Casey and April are basically dead without their plot armor. Shredder,,,,,, no way. He can't be real. This must be a trap. They've made mock robots before. Down to damn soup cans. This is not my silly little turtle show. Perhaps this is a vision. Oh wow he is good. The element ninja things? I've seen faint things about an early version of the mystic powers in 03. Is this how they get it? Klunk is okay:D Karai you bitch why are you like this.

Have I mentioned how much I absolutely hate bishop? That creep isn't fully human is he. No wonder bitch boy is so good at combat. Oh no that goop is not going to be good for the sewers.

Lmfao splinter. Read em and weep boys. Aw klunk. Raph is really rubbing off on Leo huh.

Uhhh idk where I left off here or if what I had saved. Uhh anyways! Yippee casey you actually used your thinking skills! Oh shit it sounds like hun broke raphs arm- uh oh. Have I mentioned how funny it is they replace cuss words with "shell" it's hilarious (to me). Lmfao donnie with the missiles! Casey. Remember what raph taught you. Your honor. Or what your dad said ig. Oh boy. Gotta have some wicked on the fly driving skills huh donnie- yes you are amateurs. You're like 16- damn leo is going off- aw he's gonna visit his dad:( wait did they just leave leo? Awww dude:(

Oh it's that nobody guy again? Oop- lmao poor mikey. Always getting slapped upside the head lol. Dude looks wack in the shadows lmao looks like xray might be in trouble- lmfao mikey in the dress again /pos. This isn't good for xray. Yeah everyone needs to packing! (But as transmasc reference) the gang shit in 03 goes insane fr o(-( it's so funny how absurd everyone's aim is. Let's go xray. Uh. Doesnt jencko still have a gun? Who let all these thugs have such high tech weapons- uh oh- he's nobody>:) success! Lmfao he's still in the dress. Ugh hun. Oh wait wasn't she supposed to go to jail?? Wonder what they're hiding in that statue. Karai can't you just like turn to the good side. Where's your honor? (Or morals for that matter-)

Halloween episode!! Shell yeah!! (Lol) I also love Halloween:D but uh for different reasons lmao. Ofc they ruin Halloween too- lmfao raph just stabs his pumpkin. Ofc donnie uses the laser. Uh oh werewolf. And a witch and uh pumpkin king? Uh- what if it wasn't a costume. How could he be so sure before he sliced at his face o(-( couldn't he have just paid for it? Like- agreed. Carmel apples are yummy. Lmfao. Looks like raph and mikey sorta get their way? Leo stop being such a downer smh. Aw:( that's so cute. Ooo-kay. Lol. So silly how they always managed to get involved in all this. Was the door too good for them o(-( ooo fun fact. Good pearl necklaces actually have knots between each bead to protect the pearls while wearing and in the case of a weak string snap very little pearls will fall off. So a good quality pearl necklaces should not snap and go everywhere like that:) little creepers. Aw don. How powerful are their kicks? Oh dudes made of stone. Yeah:) they are nice kids:) little nicer than what you'd like officer-

Wow good quote actually. Looks like we get more usagi! Excited to see what he does this time. Agreed. Leo is losing it. Geez mikey really laying it down hard huh? Saying it as it is- raph should totally train his temper lol. Miyamoto? Haven't I heard that name before? Lmfao. Why does he have shades on? Maybe they just can't handle the light of the city. Why is leo separate from the group:l bounty hunter? Why is everyone after leo- damn. You would think more people would be after mikey. Champ of the battle nexus and all. Damn how does bunny boy read him like an open book- time to trauma dump. Maybe this is why people think he's gay /lhj. Man rabbit got some trauma of his own. HA even got big guy scared. Usagi is not impressed lmao. Casey to save crazy rhino. Raphs gonna slap him for that lmao. Uh oh. Lmao they're just in the window. Oh no. Ooh Leo's got the look in his eyes fr. Leo o(-( oo little spin move there. God Leo stop being such a hard ass o(-( move on. Crazy. Even splinter sees Usagi has a special bond with Leo. Hope I get to see him in more future episodes. Aw damn mikey lost all his comics- guess he'll have to train now lmao.

Answers to what you fool o(-( damn Leo. Maybe you should listen to your family dingdong. And your closest friend. Raph:( Leonardo dude.. guess he's getting shipped off- man the bros looks so concerned for him. Lmfao they called him a poopy face ha- Yeah he is a bit cranky. Think about the proper response. See! Think dumbass! Crazy to think he goes off on his own like this. Wow this little dude is uh? Something else lol. Did this dude really train yoshi? I have a feeling that's the plot twist. Why does this guy fart so much lmao. This is gonna be some journey for leo huh? Oh? Interesting. Finally all that just to comes to terms with something- well now I can only wonder if Leo will be back in time for the next event in new york. By the looks of it he's got a few episodes away first.

Oh. Yikes- Guess they aren't taking too easy to that. TWO MONTHS?? HELLO? That's so long:( what does kumquat mean?- shredder? No no wait karai. Dumb bitch. Oh shit. What are you doing in my house? What are you doing in my house???? /ref. Ugh foot scum. It's Karai bc she's dumb and a jerk. God damn you Karai. How is this honorable? HMMM? Damn all their stuff is totally gone after this:( how could you>:( damn you. Oh damn oh damn oh damn. Man o(-( honestly they probably should have stuck together. How were they preped underwater too- that more kitty:( it's so adorable how much mikey cares for klunk<3 damn- a bit much don't you think?- I love klunk a normal amount (lie) drilling out of here- damn can just never catch a break. Wow. Woooowwww. Great honor KARAI you asshat. >:( why is everyone so mean- um- what- what the fuck- WHAT. you know what I'm honestly surprised that she let april go. Honestly.

KICK HER ASS LEO. Ughhhhh I want to scream and pace around the rooommmm. Poor guys man:( just let them live in peace. I want my happily ever after please- aw leo found them all:) ughh leo leoooo why couldn't you just make this a supply run:/ wow leo a lot more noble than what I could have been- personally she didn't deserve mercy. I can only hope she uses this last chance for good. Though I can only have my doubts. Aw a gift :) how sweet.

I knew it. Bitch shop is part alien tech. Which is why he's even good at fighting in the first place. Oh god- Yeah I honestly for the worst for donnie everytime something gets destroyed. He puts so much time and effort into his work. Poor guy:( ewww what is that. Nasty. Agreed I too hate bugs- vile. Ewww. I might skip this one- ew didn't think I'd be getting nightmare fuel from tmnt but here we are ig- and I thought the krang stuff in rise was bad. Ain't seen nothing yet huh- Bug bite?? That can not be good. Isn't that alien language? I bet bishop has no issue hacking into any computer,, oh? April's uncle huh. Wow these people are fantastic. Is this real- in my 2003 tmnt? Peace? I see. Ofc it was too good to be true. How did she just remember all that- gross the bugs are back.

If baxter wasn't so absolutely insane I'd almost feel bad for him. Something bad happens to his mom doesn't it. Gross- ewww his finger. Dude you're like melting rn and you go to revenge?? Dude is deranged. You can't let your traumas define you stockman. So uh who's maning the helicopter? Man. *almost* feel bad. I love how donnie just steals stuff from the enemy every few mission's lmfao. Love that guy.

Omg donnie is a dinosaur guy. Woah they look so goofy. Okay he's been "under the weather" a couple times now. Holy shit what is this foreshadowing- nothing good I'm sure and probably something to do with that bug bite. Lmao they got scared. Wha- even splinter is fed up with their bull shit lmfao. Saved by a sneeze lmao. Also imagine if mikey actually changed history with the potato chips- think we scared it off? Nope. Think something really horrible is coming now? Yep. DUDE. LMAO. poor bros literally can't catch a break. Wow donnie! You've saved humanity! Again! (Except your brothers didn't die this time) ((man same as it never was goes insane-)) what. They just. They're just gone for 3 whole months. Damn- lmfao. They just be wildin ig.

Oh? Yoshi seeking revenge? Not exactly the honorable thing to do. Mikey lmfao. Raphs in trouble with splinter lmao. Story time story time!! Gender? Doesn't matter. Can you kick ass? -raph, probably. Yoshi is a natural so it seems. I wonder what happens to his friend in this. Aw. They are brothers now. Aw she cared for the rats. Tang<3 oop. Why does love have to get in the way of good relationships. They take the girl don't they. Mortu! Guardians hm? They are so going to take up the position anyways- more jealousy between the boys. Not gonna be good- Wouldn't they kinda be sister and brothers tho? Uh. He doesn't actually kill her over this right- Wooooww. Okay. That's lame dude. Shredder is just everywhere. Dude. All this over a girl. L. I wonder how old the ancient one is. Wow splinter is a reminder of failure- odd name. Interesting. Oh? What's he doing? What is this thing? Things? Huh o(-( oh boy. Sounds like trouble is nothing else.

What. What happened to donnie? Donnie and that massive brain of his. Saving the whole world and shit. Where Don then- Is that donnie? wow casey actually cleans up? Ah he's still sick. Hopefully this isn't some sort of horrible plot point. Surely he'll be totally fine. Damn poor Casey and April. They wanted to go out lmao. Never a break in new york city. They really do relentlessly bully mikey lmao. Ew god no. Tmnt is not immune to some light body horror huh. Oh boy they in area 51 fr. Did they save stockmen? Oh- bad idea dude- go get the guys o(-( why does he look like that? Ooo I wonder if that's where they got the idea for rise raphs plastron. Damn now they gotta fix donnie. I knew this cold was so much more than just a cold. Lmfao guess mikey isn't the biggest fan of case. Leo's just like. For fuck sake. Lmao. Raph deserves an F word pass from nick. Damn:( Leatherhead is so sweet dude. Geez. What do they do now? Wow. Bishop I to am going to ram my foot so far up your ass for this.

Damn bro. I mean plot armor and all ofc they get him back. INVISIBLE FLOOR TILES? (DR/UT reference) I kinda thought this was gonna be a call from the boys. So uh. Who's this bastard? Karai why are you so annoying. It's funny to see area 51 talked about outside of that one 2019? 2020? 'Storming' of area 51 lol. Hell yeah "convince" this bitch. (I hate him with a passion). Wait did the cloaked thing have to do with the basement things from ancient one? At least see what the hell is wants first o(-( how do we know he will actually help donnie? Ughhhh. DONT YOU DARE. God I hate bishop. Man this has got to be rough for leo. And the rest of them ofc. They can't just leave donnie with these monsters:( bishop really is making a deal with the devil. He is so evil. Ofc he lied. What an asshole. They're busting in to foot hq (again) uh oh. The things they're about to do for donnie- I wish people cared about me to even a faction of that degree lmao. Oh? Did the element dudes send the message? God bishop is so fucking annoying. Raphs gonna have fun with this one. "Crud" please just let them say fuck. Lmao. Man can they really handle this alone? And without that one sword. Interesting. This whole thing is one big confusion. BOOM. What does it do? Fucking communicate maybe 💀 are the elite magic? Oh? Interesting. LMAO RAPH. Uh oh. This ain't good. Dude. Talk maybe? Tell him what it is even?? Say how horrible bishop is perhaps??? Ofc they fulfilled their side. Anything for their brother. I hate this guy so much. At least explain what it does. Let's fucking go leatherhead!! Brilliant!! What a fantastic character LH is. Totally not much trouble at all. Certainly. If it were not for LH and donnie getting mutated (again) none of that containing the outbreak would have been possible. Wait? So what did that do then? Set the elements free? Yeah. Welp they're smart I'll give them that. Omg they're gonna bring that blob back?? Oh shitttt.

Magic tree man? Self healing magic tree man? With honor?? Uh? Maybe? "You tried to eat my leg" lmfao mikey is so offended by that. Even with all the angsty chaos I'm glad there's still lots of humor in this show. (Probably the only thing that keeps me coming back lmao. I couldn't handle pure angst. 2003 mikey I'm convinced absolutely enjoys wearing dresses. Or at the least flowy clothing. OOP- raph just tackles him off the building- ooo. It's interesting what they are able to build (and then build again-) down under new york. Oh? Ancient one? Again? What has begun again? Aww. They are brothers your honor. Oop. Doesn't feel too good anymore. Hm. Lmao mikey is just goofing off. It's hilarious how they play back. I can only assume these are those elemental guys? I wonder why they're doing this? Did they just want to beat them up? Oh? Where are they gonna take them? Interesting? Sounds a little odd too pin them against each other though if you need warriors you would think you'd want them all alive. Aw. We love good dad splinter. So confused. Hm. Where are these other four from then? I am beyond confused. OOOO WAIT will the brothers get their mystic powers (or 03s equivalent anyways) through this? Why does splinter need to save them? What do they know that the bros don't? Why is this show so bat shit crazy and confusing o(-(

One more season down. Honestly. I'm not sure what my favorite episodes are. I certainly like some more than others though. And I definitely and not looking forward to this being all over.

Oh I see. So they've gotten like save the entire universe again I see. Honestly I'd say, even as weird as they are, they're like the utroms and possible on the good side. Wait why exactly do they look like the shredder then? Or how would the shredder know of them then? Where's the fifth? Looks like there should be a fifth? And the underside down foot symbol? OMG DONNIE you nerd /affectionate. I can definitely see some reference taken from here for rise. This show wildin. Fr. They really just go head first into any fight huh. Bro joi is gone- Um. Okay. Um. Uh.. alrighty then! Wow this show is a lot!

Starting to look like being a skilled ninja is not all that cool anymore lmao. Donnie is a man of science and does not understand this dude lmao. Damn it mikey o(-( "oops" DUDE this show omg. Anri for raph. Inazuma for Mikey. Byakko for donnie. Banrai for raph actually? Wait what happened to Leo's? Wait what about leo D: mike. I swear. BRO IS A FUCKING BEYBLADE?! Don is a tornado. So Leo can just use others weapons? Orrr not- My oh my does this just like. Wow.

I am blinking rapidly. Alright so saki was a good guy at one point? Is this the like same blob we are talking about here?? Wow. Well. I think this is enough confusion for one night I'll pick this back up in the morning. I viewed the thumbnails for the upcoming seasons. It seems season 7 sees an art style change? And we are left on a cliff hanger. I'm honestly not sure if it's worth continuing. So the odd look humans are now god like fantastic. Wait he just becomes a dragon? How does he recover from this to go to new york?- dragon fight! (I- I guess) so I'm guessing the boys will have to learn to form laser beams out of their hands too.

So are we gonna ever get am explanation as to why Leo never got his weapon? Come on raph I've seen you become a beyblade you've got this. It makes sense how donnie got it so easily but Leo? Not getting it? Aw they really needed that support. Damn. Poor splinter:( aw donnie is just talking about his projects back home. Mikey is just sonic now. I wonder what they all will become. Leo? Also a dragon! I knew it. This still doesn't explain why he doesn't get a weapon lmao. Woah. Just the projector image of Leo's dragon melts them- It seems they wanted them to take all the pieces. In all fairness it does seem kinda dumb to keep them all together.

Dude what happened to being immortal? And like. Shouldn't they have some form of communication to tell the others to stop? Devour of dreams? Sounds like a kirby boss. So the sword was meant for leo? This is so strange. Did he know he was going to die this whole time? What. How did that just happen? Damn. They really can't have shit huh?😭 the five gumbas lmao. So they just totally killed that quiet "immortal" guy. Why did they get the most annoying voices lmao. Bro :'0 dude. What the fuck man o(-( kinda lame how these all powerful ninjas were taken out so quickly. Oh? 03 leo has portal powers too? (Sorta)

I'm gonna be honest. Despite a few small things (and how hard leo is on himself) I absolutely adore the 03 gang. I'm disappointed it's all serious shit all the time though. Sure there's a bit of goofing around and such. But not at the same level I was under the impression I'd get. I suppose this is a different iteration. Some people actually prefer the silliness to stay very limited. I don't know. I guess litte mx. doesn't like violence should stay out of cartoons with lots of action hm?

Lmfao mikey was so ready for this day. God why don't they just say sparring or training or just like roaming around idk- I've read one too many fanfics to take "blowing off steam with _" seriously o(-( man last thing we need is nanobots in stockmens hands. See silly little episodes<3 limited fighting for their lives at least-

Ah. Terrifying. Karai? Right what is she doing here? Feels like a bit of a time skip- right a dream. I've always known Karai had good in her. See this is the kind of shit that happens when chaos wins the splatfest. Smh. Damn it Karai. Welp. Guess you die now. Damn well. Looks like saving donnie is the end of the world but him dying is also the apocalypse. Interesting. Don't. Don't mercy this thing. Don't. No. Ugh. She fell for it. Damn starting to hate this things more than bishop. How are they gonna banish the shredder again tho? After all of this is finished? If the ninja tribunal had to watch over his body forever won't they suffer the same fate? But how? Dude was dead o(-( how does that work?

[katabay]

it’s time to change the rhythm to something slow and catch some 💤

[14-crush]

Hi I don't know where to begin I first just want to say I've been following this blog on insta for a very long time and I just love it's so nice and sweet also I really loved your daily sketch account (I didn't really expect an open inbox so I'm just gonna rattle as many question as I can rn I understand if you don't answer them all) Has Agent 3 Modified one of her shoes to have jet boots like shadow yet? maybe 4 helped her out to make it? Does 8 and Ahato borrow each others clothes/ play dress up with each other? or bought each other some plushes? what was 3 and 4 first reactions upon seeing each other for the first time? How would everyone react to seeing the new agent 3/new idols? Would 3 and 4 get 8 and Ahato into sonic? did Ahato and 8 talk to Marina about their experiences in the deep-sea/octarain army?

Ik these were just for the sake of the bit but can 8 summon other things besides a chicken nugget at will? uhh I can't think of anything else atm hope your wrist is better and thank you again for making the blog!

- If Three knew how to do that, they would.

- Ahato gets cold easily so in the winter, she's in a hoodie almost all the time. (Rumor has it that her blue hoodie used to be Eight's but neither of them will confirm or deny this.) As for plushes... maybe! Eight's definitely the type to fall into that trope of "We're at the carnival and my Friend I Have Feelings For made a passing comment of liking the big stuffed animal prize and now it's my life's goal to win it for them" LOLOL

- When they met, Three wasn't that used to socializing, for multiple reasons. But Four didn't really put on the pressure for Three to talk, so she enjoyed the company. They started hanging out regularly after that, and quickly grew to be like siblings. They just understood each other really well.

- Ahato and Four would probably be big Deep Cut fans. No reason in particular I say that, it just sounds right.

- Eight and Ahato don't really understand video games that well so they kinda just let those two infodump from time to time and listen as best they can LOL

- I'm sure at some point, they did. But I think they also had a pretty mutual understanding of wanting to leave the past behind them, so it's not a regular topic, by any means. It's nice to know people that come from a similar situation, though.

- every time i forget about the chicken nugget post someone reminds me of it and every time i'm reminded of it i do not know how to approach talking about it . why did i make that

[master-of-fluff]

Ok iv been needing to make a new pinned post so here it is :D

Hi! I'm Kari but i also go by Fluff.

I'm a minor running a multi fandom blog that posts mostly Ninjago, Tmnt, Batman, AVM and AVA, Transformers, and basically anything about heroes or ninja. Very rarely I'll reblog voltron, rwby and bnha tho I don't really interact with those fandoms cuz they kind of scare me lol.

I also like astronomy, the colors purple and blue, cats, cooking and lots of other cool stuff.

Other blogs that I'll associate with me are my writeblr that i'm trying to revive and also needs a new intro, my witchblr and my crafts blog.

a list of my aus;

-ripples au

Basically what if Lloyd and Kai unlock their elements early and Kai gets kidnapped in the pilots instead of Nya because of it, you can read the unfinished fanfic on my ao3 @/hikari_hikari though im planning a rewrite rn

-hybrid smith siblings au

Au where Ray is a demon and Maya is an angel who fell in love and went to ninjago in disguise to be together after bwing shunned by their society 

this results in their kids gaining demon/angel traits as they grow older with no knowledge of what's going on

-polyninja fam au

The ninja decide they're done with saving the world and run away, they then adopt Lloyd, turn him back into a kid with yesterday's tea  and go live in the light house for a bit, finding echo and also adopting him.

They all eventually start dating while co-parenting Echo and Lloyd

They all get different jobs that they enjoy and Nya, Pixal and Skylar also end up in a relationship and are motorcycle aunts

Brad and Gene also make up with Lloyd and now the poor ninja have 2 extra kids that aren't theirs constantly over and eating all their food XD

Ronin and Dareth are also there as everyones favorite uncles who teach them to fun games and (whenever ronin can get away with it) how to steal.

-poly ninja high school au (with @/lloyd-garma-gun and @/strangermask)

Basically Zane is pastel goth, Jay is a jock, Kai is a nerd, and Cole is grunge and they're all in highschool

I think this all started with the idea of cottage core Morro and goth Echo but I can't remember if they're in this au

Polyponytail are all apart of a chess club 

And Lloyd Genenand Brad are all cheerleaders.

-nindroid jay au

Jay is Dr.Julian's first nindroid prototype who's power source doesn't work so he's sent to the junkyard, ed and edna find the weird looking robot cute and decide to put him by the junkyard entrance instead of scrapping him, one day he gets struck by lightning -which is actually the element of lightning because this is the same day Libber died- and comes to life

Ed and Edna raise him like their own and also since his parents are inventors he adds a bunch of cool stuff to himself like jets/gliders so he can fly and a welding torch and stuff

Paranormal youtuber's au (with @/wojira, tho I think they deactivated or something idk)

Its not really my au i just agreed to write it (though when I'll get to it idk) Here's the au info though

-evil ed and edna

Ed and Edna are assassins/inventors who turn their son Jay into a living weapon (think cyborg) they trained him to follow orders exactly and replaced how limbs with mechanical ones with different functions.

One day that find the skeleton army's weapon maker (dr.julain) ad get the blueprints for a nindroid they could improve and make better then Jay they decide he's no longer needed.

They leave him in a forest to rot telling him that they'll be back (they won't) 

Eventually Nya and Kai find Jay and Nya fixes him up a bit with her then rudimentary but lastly growing knowledge of mechanics.

 Jay then decides to stick around these kids/adopt himself into the smith family lol

Eventual technoshipping

-bnha crossover

Turns out some people in the cloud kingdom fucked up some peoples life's accidentally.

the cloud council or whatever decide to compensate said people by reincarnating them.

So harumi, morro and garmadon all get reincarnated into bnha with all their former memories

Harumi as hatsume mei's quirkless twin sister

Morro as izuku's adopted older brother

And Garmadon as a martial arts instructor

-manipulative morro au (with @thebluelittlewitch2-thesequal)

Lloyd never gets turned older and since morro isn't about to possess a scrawny useless little kid so instead he manipulates lloyd into stealing the realm crystal for him.

- wings au

Once an elemental master gets to a certain stage they grow wings that have the same traits as their elements.

They're also very bird and catlike

- seven deadly sins au

Idk I haven't really developed this one beyond;

Lloyd is envy

Jay is lust

Kai is wrath

Zane is sloth

Cole is gluttony

Nya is pride

And Morro is greed

Evil mer au

Ninjago but mer-people and also the ninja are all evil with abandonment issues and either Wu is also evil and keets them later or Wu and morro are the good guys I haven't decided yet

Overwhelmed au (made with tex @ninjaslegosmains)

What if being an elemental master came with horrible consequences? Well that's the au every basically. element has horrible drawbacks

Gamer kai au

Kai hears that you can make bank as a streamer and even tho he hates newer technology and he sucks at video games he starts streaming so that the ninja can eat.

occasionally the other ninja make appearances but not often because they kick Kai's ass and the people of ninjago take much joy in Kai learning how to play the games they suggest for the first time

S.H.I.E.L.D's babysitter au

Morro is apart of shield and is tasked with training ultimate spiderman and his team and keep them from running off but ofc Morro was also a rebellious teen once so he low-key enables them.

YJL au's;

800 purrs

Crack Au where aquaman and aqualad have an army of cats because they smell like fish, and conner has already named them all things like 'stray' and 'lil kitty' and given them little leather boots so now they have to keep them.

I'd love asks about any of them!!!

[fishnets-fingers]

Six Months - Part Thirteen

Summary - Layla desperately needs a vacation and her Aunt and Uncle come to her rescue. So, at twenty two, she packs her bag and jets off to America. Harry took a break from education and is now a full fledged content creator on OnlyFans. At twenty, he makes more money than almost all of his friends. What ensues when these two meet and realise the windows in their rooms face each other? How will paper airplanes bring them closer together?

PAIRING - camboy!harry x indian!oc

a/n -  there’s a confession! i’m not very happy with how this turned out but i hope you enjoy. reblog and like as always. happy reading!

Word Count - 10.5k

Warnings - fluff, angst, smut (unprotected sex), drugs (weed)

Masterpost (find previous parts here)

Layla: you up?

Layla sighs as she looks at the numbers on the top corner of her phone. 1:45 am, it says. Why would Harry even be up at this hour, she thinks. She logged out of Zoom a couple of minutes ago. She looks at her laptop and flicks through the syllabus she has been given to distract herself from the  gnawing feeling of heat in her belly. She has four weeks to prepare for her classes - most of these were fairly familiar to her, considering she’s teaching at the same university she studied. Her phone buzzes. She immediately unlocks it to look at the text.

Harry: Yeah baby.

Layla: what are you doing?

Harry: Posted four pictures from our shoot on OnlyFans a couple hours ago. The tats took so long to edit out though. I put a static black square on my face, so it flows with the same aesthetic.

Layla: and the verdict? they like?

Harry: Oh yeah! They are tipping me quite well. Some user tipped $500. Should have come to you sooner lol

Layla: cooool! do I get some type of reward? perhaps a job well done or…

Harry: Baby really wants to see me in that maid outfit huh? 

Layla: ;) ;) what else are you doing right now babe?

Harry: What has gotten into you? You bored? I thought you had a meeting with your professors.

Layla: it got over twenty minutes ago

Harry: How’d it go???

Layla: i don’t wanna talk about that particularly rn

Harry: Oookay. Are you bored, Lails?

Layla: nope! what are you wearing right now Har? 

Harry: Just my briefs

Layla’s cheeks heat up and her thighs clench together involuntarily. The fire in her belly is now raging. 

Harry: OMFG is this you sexting??

Layla: no! shut up! i’ve just been feeling v v horny and just wish you were right here that’s all. (●´ω｀●)

Harry: my baby needs me badly huh?

Layla: yeah just want you here with me rn 🥺

Harry: Layla Sathish! This is a booty call! 

Layla: i’m well aware lmao. so?

Harry: I don’t know… I’d have to get out of my blanket nest, get dressed and slip out of the house

Layla rolls her eyes. She knows he’s playing hard to get and she knows that it’s all a façade. So she unbuttons her white shirt, tosses it on the floor, and wiggles out of her camisole. She wasn’t wearing anything except for her panties on her lower half. It’s not like they could see anything below her midsection on Zoom anyway. She goes to the bathroom, gets her hair out of the pony tail and fluffs it up. She picks up the satin kimono robe that her aunt got her when they went to the mall earlier in the day. It was blue black and had peacocks and magnolia blossoms printed on it. She ties the rope in a loose bow and takes a picture of her in it. It was from a high angle, the robe was pulled to the side on her shoulders, so an ample amount of cleavage was shown. She gave the front camera  big puppy dog eyes and the cutest pout. She sends it to him. Fucker’s gonna break like a twig, she smirks, feeling satisfied.

Harry: Booty call accepted! 🥵 Scrambling for my pants right now. Don’t move! Don’t take anything off! I’ll be over in a few minutes.

Layla: be super quiet. i’ll unlock the front door.

Harry: Who are you and what have you done to miss goody two shoes?

Layla: why don’t you come and find out Har 😈

She feels a thrill of exhilaration coarse its way through her body. She quickly makes her way to shut off her laptop and hang her shirt up in the wardrobe. She smiles as she thinks back to the morning they had.

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Layla’s eyes blink open and Harry’s wallpaper comes into focus as she stretches her limbs. She’s all cosy with the blanket burritoed around her.

“Hi, baby,” his husky voice greets her in response to the sounds of her joints cracking.

“Morning.” Layla’s  voice was hoarse. She turns around to find Harry sat upright, with his back resting against the headrest. One of his legs was stretched out, the tiger tattoo on display with him being just in his briefs; his other leg was bent at the knee, his feet planted on the mattress and a book perched on his knee. Layla can’t figure out what it is but she saw a pen cap held  firmly between his teeth and his right hand held the pen as he scrawled on the paper.

“What are you doing?” Layla asks, after clearing her throat.

“Uh… nothing. Just jotting stuff,” he shrugs as he puts the cap on the pen and leans over to the side to toss them both into his bedside drawer. His cheeks redden with embarrassment. 

Layla decides to let it go. It’s probably a diary or a dream journal, she thinks. She’s not going to press more about it because she understands, from the colour on his cheeks and neck, that it could be super personal.

“How’d you sleep last night?” She asks him as he shuffles back into the sheets and tangles his legs with hers.

“Good. You got me beat,” he admits. Layla brings her feet up and rests it on his calves and he yelps when she does.

She giggles in response and wiggles her toe icicles to further get a reaction from him. 

“Heeey,” he whines, shuffling closer to her to trap her feet between his. “That’s what you get, you little dickhead. Try to move them now.” He kisses the tip of her nose.

“They weren’t even that cold,” she laughs in protest.

“Liar. I ought to staple socks to your feet the minute you fall asleep,” he rasps, making her chuckle.

Layla brings her hands up to cup his face as she uses her thumbs to rub back and forth on his cheek.

“How are you feeling? Was I okay? Are you in any kind of pain?” She enquires, searching his face for any clues.

“I’m feeling good. No pain. You took it real slow, everything felt really good. Although my butt does feel a little weird. You were so fucking hot. Watching you do that to me… Fuck! I can’t describe it but you made me feel safe and cared for and not to mention really really good.”

“Glad I can do that for you.” She smiles up at him. “Watching you touch yourself felt so sinful but you looked hot too.” 

As predicted a cocky smile makes its way to his face. “Sinful, eh?” He whispers as he gets closer to her lips but his attempt is thwarted by Layla’s hand, as it cups his mouth.

“Let me go brush my teeth real quick.”

“Laylaa.” He protests.

“Please. It’ll only take a couple of minutes,” she reasons with him.

He huffs in response.

“Hey! I need to pee too. I can either do it in the loo or on you,” her eyes narrow at him. “Plus, this shouldn’t be something I need to reason for.”

“You’re right. Sorry. I’m just a bit clingy this morning.” He moves his legs to free her, and Layla crawls on top of him to get off the bed.

“Be right back.” She says as she saunters to his bathroom. 

Ten minutes later, she comes back out to find Harry eagerly patting on the bed. He’d switched to the inside, so she could just slot herself in the side he occupied earlier. She looks at the clock on his bedside stand. It flashed 7:48 am in bright red. 

“Please don’t tell me you woke up early to work out?” She says while climbing into the bed so they lay facing each other.

“No. I’m taking a rest for a couple of days, remember? I woke up around six, like I always do.”

“Good. You work out too much.” She pokes his stomach with her finger, it was taut and hard. He didn’t have a six pack yet but it was so well defined most of the time, with the exception of post food consumption.

He waves his hand around dismissively.

“What if I told you I was into that? Like when you told me you would pee on me.” He asks.

Layla’s eyebrows shoot up in response. “Are you?” Her voice whisper quiet, eyes wide.

“No.” He laughs at the sigh of relief that escapes from her lips, her petrified expression relaxing.

“You fucking scared me there, earth boy.” She smacks his chest.

“You should have seen your face,” Harry manages to get out in between sputters of laughter.

“Yeah, if you told me if golden showers was a kink of yours, I’d say bye Felicia and yeet myself out of the window real quick.”

Harry’s laughter gets louder. 

“It’s a good thing that we established that pee kink is a hard limit for the two of us.” He says, after his laughter dies down.

“Hmm.”

 Layla says as her fingers curl around his neck and pulls his face towards hers. It starts with slow pecks, until Harry sucks her bottom lip in between his mouth, causing a long drawl from her. His hand goes to rest on her ass and his fingertips start drumming at the spot where the hem of her panties and flesh meet.

“Harry,” she moans out, hitching her leg on top of his hip, getting even more closer to his warm body.

“That’s right, sweet girl,” he whispers, gently stroking her lower lip that was now a deep rose and swollen. He raises his leg, so her clothed throbbing centre was scorching against his thigh. 

Their eyes stare into each other as his hand starts to rock her against his thigh. Layla’s face contorts her face slightly and a wince escapes from her.

“What’s wrong, baby?”

“Just feel a bit sore. Nothing to worry about.” She grips on his bicep and starts to kiss on his jaw.

“Hey, we don’t have to do this right now if it hurts.”

“But I want to,” she whinges, as he pulls her face back, so he can look at her.

“Did I hurt you last night?” He asks, green eyes alarmed.

“No! It’s just that we went at it a little longer than usual last night. Like twenty minutes or more, I bet. Considering that it was my third time with penetrative sex, my vagina just needs to get used to it,” she admits in a soft voice.

“I’m sorry, baby.” He strokes her cheek with the back of his knuckles.

“Don’t be! I liked it all. It was very soft and slow. Very sensual. I wouldn’t have traded it for the world,” she whispers and Harry could feel her cheek heat up under his touch.

“I really really liked it too. It was very sweet and tender. You know I’ve never done that before,” he admits shyly.

“Really?!?” She gives him that special smile that was just reserved for him.

He nods. “I just had this feeling rush over me. It’s never happened with anyone else.” He kisses her chastely.

“Oh.” Layla was taken aback. “That’s nice,” she whispers in an awkward manner. “You were very gentle,” she reassures him.

“I don’t wanna do anything if you aren’t fully comfortable. How about we cuddle and take a shower together?” He proposes.

“Will you go down on me in the shower?” She quips.

“You feel sore and you want me to still fondle you?” Harry smirks.

“It’s very dull, by the way, and your tongue could not hurt me as much as your giant dick,” she shrugs.

“We both know, you’d want me to finger you.” He kisses her forehead.

“I suppose you have a point. Can’t I tempt you with a hand job, babe?” She says in her low husky voice.

“Nice try, Lails. Will you accept a scalp massage while I wash your hair?”

“Deal. Promise to rub PanOxyl on my back?” 

“Promise.” 

////

Layla punches in the code to disarm the security system and opens the door to find Harry in his Fleetwood Mac t-shirt, grey jogger bottoms, and his sliders. His hair sticking out every which way from being in bed and rushing over to hers. She raises her hands to her lips, reminding him to be faint with his actions. 

Once he’s in, she shuts the door and punches in the code to activate the security system again. He threads his fingers in hers and she leads him up the stairs. They tiptoe in the hallway, being extra careful to not wake Vasanth or Abi up. Layla softly shuts the door behind her, and locks it. She pulls on the door for good measure not wanting to be walked in on.

“This all feels very…” Harry starts moving his hand around trying to find the right word. 

“Clandestine?” Layla offers. 

“I was going to say illicit but clandestine fits,” he agrees. 

Layla turns around to fully face him, drinking him in. Their eyes rake over each other, giving the other the softest of smiles. Harry reaches forward to clasp her hand, and gently tugs her towards him.

“Hi,” Harry whispers.

“Hi yourself.” Layla gets on the tips of her toes and balls up his t-shirt in her hands, using it to tug Harry down to meet her lips. 

After a few kisses that left the two breathless, Harry pulls away. 

“Wait… tell me about your day?”

“What?!? You can’t be serious?!?”

“I’m trying to be a gentleman! Tell me stuff about your day first. Come on,” he says as he sits down at the foot of the bed. 

“Dude! I called you over to get dicked down,” she states, slight pout forming on her lips. 

“Dicked down,” he chuckled. “I will. Come on, sit on me for a bit. Just want to feel your weight on me for a while.”

Layla crosses her arms over her chest. They stare down for a few minutes but his moss eyes melt her. 

“Fine,” she huffs. She sits sideways on his lap. Her arms go around his neck. One of his hands was splayed on the small of her back, feeling the silky smoothness on her robe. The other was rubbing back and forth on her bare thigh, which was exposed as she crossed her legs at the knee. 

“We went shopping today. Got fall clothes. A puffer jacket, a long wool coat, thermal leggings and the works. We went to Goodwill and some other thrift stores to get some basic sweatshirts, a long sleeve t-shirt, and some sweaters. Aunty also found these Doc Martens that were my size. So all in all, good day.” 

Harry smiles down at her. “Will I get a fashion show of sorts?”

“You’re gonna see me wear some of them on the trip, don’t you wanna be surprised? Plus, Uncle threw all the thrift finds in the wash, the minute we got home.”

“I’ll wait. Are you all packed for the trip?”

“Kind of. I’ll just have to throw in the ones we got yesterday and toiletries,” she shrugs. “What about you?”

“What do you think?” He laughs quietly, pressing a kiss to her forehead. 

“I still don’t understand how you can pack up shit the day of. We leave early the day after tomorrow,” she states, one eyebrow arching up. 

“Yeah. Yeah. It’s a skill you see,” Harry quips and it makes Layla roll her eyes. 

“What did you do today?” She asks him. 

“I was on the common app for a bit. Saw the excel spreadsheet with the data you sent over. It looks confusing but we’re running through the stats software tomorrow, so maybe you can explain how it works. My cousins FaceTimed me. They all went over to my granddad’s house. It was nice talking to him. My cousin, Poppy, got engaged. Her and her fiancé are overjoyed,” he adds, rubbing stars on her thigh. 

“That’s nice. Yeah. It’s really easy. The stats work takes like two minutes. Don’t worry,” she reassured him. 

“How was your meeting?” He questions. 

“Oh. Not bad. Everyone knows me, so it wasn’t very meet the new faculty joining us. It’s weird for me to think of my professors as my colleagues. I’ve been given Monday to Wednesday. So, three papers.  Classes start at 8 am IST, so it’s like 10:30 pm here. It’s a two and half hour lecture. I have to handle twelve Masters students and then about forty undergraduate kids, separately of course. I’m so excited!” She exclaims as she tightens her arms around his neck. 

“I bet! You’re gonna kick ass. Can I watch some of these classes?”

“I don’t think I’ll be allowed to add strangers on Zoom. Especially a man, all girls college remember.”

“Right. You’d be a sexy professor. I bet if I was a student I’d sign up for one of your classes immediately. Maybe I’ll sit in the room and watch you, out of the frame obviously.” He gives her his cutest smile, hoping his eye crinkles and dimples would convince her. 

“I’ll have to think about it,” Layla mutters, sponging kisses on his throat. 

“This robe is so sexy. Where did you find it?” He asks, voice trembling as Layla sucks on his sweet spot, right below his ear.

“Babe, you can’t possibly give a shit about where I got the robe. Are you stalling?” She pulls back to look at his face properly. 

“Well, it’s just you told me you were sore this morning. Just trying to control myself,” he admits, the tip of his ears turning a deep pink, when she sees right through his plan. 

Layla smiles. “Why are you here then? You could have stayed in your bed, earth boy. You didn’t have to accept the booty call?” She smirks, she takes hold of his face by cupping both his cheeks. 

“I am trying. Emphasis on the trying. You are impossible to say no to. Especially when you look this hot. Just don’t wanna hurt you,” he mumbles. 

“I feel fine. I’d tell you if I’m uncomfortable, okay. You don’t have to worry. I’ve technically had a whole day to myself. Plus I’ve been pretty riled up from when you rocked me against your thigh,” she whispers, kissing his cupid bow. 

“You sure you’re okay?” He asks, staring at her to double check. 

“Yup.”

His hand comes up untie the knot of her robe. He gently caresses her nipples, feeling them harden under this thumb. He splotches wet kisses from the corner of her mouth and starts nipping at her neck. She moans softly. Her fingers tug the hem of his T-shirt, and he complies. They break apart so Layla could tug the shirt over his head and she throws it on the floor. She could feel him hardening underneath her.

“As much as I love the robe, I love what’s underneath more,” he whispers, leaving a wet kiss on her cheek. 

Her body heats up and Layla feels shy at his admission. 

“Stop,” she says, looking at her sheets, unable to look into his eyes. 

“It’s the truth, dickhead.” He kisses her, tongues melding against each other as they hungrily consume each other. He pushes the robe off her shoulders and his hands run wildly against her warm, brown skin. 

“What do you want, Layla?” He asks her, breaking apart to draw some air into their lungs. 

“You tell me. I was the one who rudely woke you up,” she says, running her hands down his chest. 

“Well, I’ve thought about doing doggy with you.” He admits shyly. 

“Doggy it is. Did you bring condoms?”

“Yup.” 

Layla stands up and kicks off the robe next to his T-shirt. She gets rid of her panties too. Harry pulls out five condoms from his pockets. 

Layla chuckles. 

“Before you say something. No, this is not all for tonight. I thought I’d leave some here. Better be safe than sorry right?” He says, tearing off one and dropping the rest in her bedside drawer. 

“Aye aye captain!” She giggles and gives him a weak salute. 

He gets rid of his sweats along with his briefs, and grabs the lube. 

“How do you wanna do this?” Layla asks. 

“Well, I’ve got to make sure you’re wet first. Get on your fours, baby.” Harry tells her, squeezing some lube onto his fingers, and he starts warming them up. 

Layla crawls to the middle of the bed and gets on her elbows and knees. Harry pulls out one of her pillows and puts it below her knees. He crawls in behind her and runs his fingers through her folds. 

“You are soaking wet, sweet girl,” he states, as this thumb rubs circles around her clit. 

“Do something about it, Har,” she mutters, squirming about, as Harry runs a hand up her spine and grips on her shoulder to hold her steady. 

He slips his index and middle finger inside her, making Layla gasp at the sensation. 

“Is this alright?” He asks, checking in. 

She turns around to look at him, and sees his eyes fixed on where his fingers were going in and out of her. 

“It feels good.  Don’t stop,” she whimpers loudly. 

“Shush, baby. Gotta be quiet hmm.” He curls his fingers to pet at the front of her wall and Layla balls up the sheets under her hands.

“Shit, Harry. Want you inside me.” Layla grabs the condom and passes it to him.

He quickly removes his hands from her, and wipes his fingers against his chest. He tears open the condom, gives himself a couple of pumps and rolls it down his length. He uses his thumb to open her cheeks and he slips inside of her slowly, watching her take in every inch of him. They both groan once he’s fully inside.

“Tell me when to move, Layla,” he whispers.

Layla takes a deep breath getting used to the stretch. She moans as she moves herself on him. “Do it, Har.”

Harry steadies himself, wraps her straight black hair around one of his hands, while the other grips her hips and he slowly moves in and out of her. He watches her ass jiggle every time his pelvis pushes against her. He keeps the rhythm steady, he pulls almost all the way out of her and pushes back in. One of her hands came up to grip his hips.

“Faster,” she demands.

“Hard and fast?”

She nods and he starts increasing his speed, pistoning in and out of her heavy breaths and hushed moans fills the room along with the sound of their skin slapping against each other. Harry tugs on her hair.

“Is this okay baby?”

“Yeah, don’t tug too hard,” she says, looking back at him with her bottom lip trapped between her teeth.

He continues with the same rhythm, tugging on her hair ever so often. She uses her forearms to push herself up and he tugs on her hair, so they are both on their knees and her back is flush against his front. Her hand goes to cup one of his ass cheeks. As one of his hands circles around her shoulder and cups her breast. She turns around and opens her mouth and Harry sloppily kisses her back.

“Fuck you feel so fucking tight around me, sweet girl,” he murmurs in her ear and he gyrates his hips, making her groan.

“Do it again,” she begs.

He draws a circle with his hips, and they both whimper.

“You like that?”

“Yeah,” she breathes out.

Her free hand finds his, that was resting on her stomach. She lifts both their hands to his mouth and he parts his lips. Sucking on both their fingers.

“Fuck Harry,” Layla groans softly into his mouth. She takes both their intertwined lubricated  fingers down to her clit and starts rubbing herself in slow tantalising circles.

“Wanna come at the same time?” He asks, kissing down her throat.

She nods and falls forward on the bed on her fours. Harry resumes his pounding, and his fingers at her clit start rubbing her relentlessly, his balls were slapping against her. It was all too much. She falls forward on the mattress, unable to support herself up with the pleasure consuming her. Her face was buried in the mattress masking the sounds she was making. 

“I’m close,” Harry rasps out.

Layla moans out his name and flutters around his cock, he brings the hand that was at her centre to her breasts that was hanging, taking one in his hand and squeezing as he empties inside the condom, collapsing on top of her. They stay like that for a while and Harry hisses as the cold air hits his softening cock.

He takes off his condom and knots the end of it. He kisses the back of her ear and another wet one at the back of her neck.

“Alright?” He asks her.

“Yeah. Let me just clean up.”

When Layla comes out from the bathroom, she finds Harry’s black Harley Davidson t-shirt and puts it on.

“So, that’s where the t-shirt went,” he chuckles. 

“Yeah. It’s mine now,” she states, with a cocky smile on her face. 

He walks over to her and kisses the top of her head and goes into the bathroom to wash up and trash the condom.

When he comes back, Layla’s under the sheets. He puts on his briefs and his t-shirt and gets into bed with her.

“You can’t stay,” she says, snuggling into him

“I know. I just want a cuddle.” He wraps her limbs around her and pulls her on top of him.

They lay like that for a while, eyelids blinking heavily with sleep, Layla’s hands softly scratching at his scalp, his arms securely holding her in place wrapped around her middle, his heartbeat was slowly lulling her body to relax.

“What papers are you teaching, Lails?” Harry breaks the silence.

“Huh?”

“You said three papers. What are they?”

“Oh that. Brain and Behaviour, it's a neuropsychology paper, for Masters. Then for year two undergrad, I’m taking Introduction to Social Psychology. For year three undergrads I’m doing a new paper, called Solution Focused Brief Therapy. I’m really excited about that because I formulated the syllabus during my Masters.”

“Oh wow! You did such a great job huh?”

“They did tweak and revamp it. We had a self study part for extra credits, where we had to come up with our own syllabus and come up with a testing plan. I did SFBT because it fascinated me. They did make me write an exam on it in the end, which was annoying but it is a fairly easy paper I designed,” she shrugs.

“What a nerd,” he says with a chuckle.

“Takes one to know one,” she kisses his collarbone.

“What do you wanna do, if you call me over next time?” He asks, scratching her scalp with his fingernails.

“I’ll definitely tie you up,  if you are okay with it of course.” Layla replies.

“Oh, I’m definitely looking forward to that,” he tightens his hold around her.

 “Maybe, you can sleep here. Get up early before uncle and aunty and slip out?” Layla proposes, with a yawn escaping her lips.

“Sweet!” 

She giggles and reaches for her phone to set an alarm.

“You have the strangest idea of pillow talk you know,” Layla teases and Harry pinches her butt in response.

“Feel free to text me anytime you feel needy because I had a blast.” He tells her, although Layla’s face was tucked into his neck, she swears she could hear the shit eating grin on his face.

“Likewise, babe.”

////

The alarm startles both of them awake at five in the morning, they were both lying on their fronts. Harry turns it off and groans. Layla blinks at him. They wordlessly trudge down the stairs, it was too early to speak. Harry kisses her cheek and mutters a “see you in a couple of hours,” before he leaves.

She climbs up the stairs to her room and wraps herself back in the blankets. A ping comes from her phone. She squints unlocking her phone to find a text from Harry.

Harry: Nandhini saw me leaving 😕 Will that be a problem?

Layla sighs. Damn Nandhini Aunty and her early morning power walks. 

Layla: no. i don’t think so. go to bed. 😘 thanks for last night.

Harry: No problem 🤤 Really like you btw.

Layla: really like you too!

////

“Wait here, I’ll go get the rental,” Layla instructs Harry. 

They were at a car rental near the Burlington Airport. It was nine in the morning and they were both in need of a bathroom break. They've been on an airplane for a little over three hours with a baby that would not stop crying and a rude toddler who would not stop kicking the back of Harry’s seat. The air was crisp and Harry tugged his green Packers hoodie securely on his mop of curls. He had all their bags around him and he was thoroughly confused. 

Layla comes out and tosses in a set of keys to Harry and they both load up their bags in the Toyota Yaris. She sets up the GPS to Stowe. Harry starts driving to the destination.

“Okay. Here’s the plan.” She pulls up an excel sheet on her phone. “We’d get to Stowe around ten. Then we stop and have breakfast, wash up, head to see the sights. One of which is the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory. The factory visit is after this short hike. Then at night we head over to Waterbury where we’ll be staying in a lodge for the night, then in the morning we visit the Cold Hollow Cider Mill. After that’s done, we head back to Burlington around like twelve, where we’re spending two whole days doing-”

“Wait, you’ve actually got everything planned by the hour?” He interrupts her.

“Yeah. Hiking, eating, taking pictures, foods we have to try, things we need to buy and leaf peeping of course.”

Harry laughs. “Lails, the point of a holiday is to let loose.”

“So? Having things meticulously planned is my way of letting loose,” she shrugs. 

“Alright, what's the surprise?” Harry asks. 

“Not telling you. But it’s only towards the last three days of the trip.” She smiles at him and he takes her hand in his, letting it rest on his lap.

“How’d you get this rental?”

“What do you mean?” She tries to act all bothered but a slight curl at the corner of her lips gives her away.

“This was a solo trip right? How’d you tell your folks you’ll be getting around?” He probes.

“The bus and Ubers and-”

“Layla,” he admonishes.

“Fine!” She huffs. “Ihaveaninternationaldriverslicence.” She mumbles looking at the Doc Martens on her feet.

“I did not understand one word of that,” Harry chuckles.

She clears her throat. “I said that I have an international driver’s license.”

“What?!?” He turns around to fully look at her.

“Eyes on the road please!” She points to the yellow sign that indicated a sharp right turn.

“Why have I been driving you around since the day I met you?” His eye flits to her and back on the road.

“Because I HATE driving. It’s really stressful driving back home, you have no idea. My dad and my granddad are such backseat drivers. I once pulled over on a moderately busy road and got out of the car because they kept confusing me and my Dad had to take over. I do know how to drive, I choose not to. I prefer walking and staring out the window while someone else drives. But I did drive my grandparents to their doctors appointments and I drove myself back and forth from college everyday. I just prefer taking the metro to get around the city.”

“Why did you lie to Vasanth and Abi then?”

“I didn’t lie!” She says defensively.

He shoots her a knowing look.

“Okay okay! Don’t give me that look! Jeez! I withheld information. They were all ‘oh we’ll carpool, so you can take one of our cars and you could go explore. I’ll teach you how to drive here, it’s not that hard,’ and I didn’t know how to say no, okay.” She blows a raspberry at him.

Harry bursts out laughing and she joins along.

////

“No creemee,” Layla huffs, mouth downturned into a deep frown. She settles back into the passenger seat, pulling her seat belt to click it into place. 

They were in Waterbury. They’d visited the Cold Hollow Cider Mill. They had some apple cider, they got some apples to snack on, and had donuts for breakfast. They’d been to two other restaurants and they were all out of maple creemees. Layla was getting annoyed, by her schedule, they should be on their way to Burlington but instead they were still in Waterbury.

“We’ll just have to look for another spot then,” Harry coaxes, starting up the car.

Maple creemees were on top of her list of foods to try in Vermont and so far she had no luck. He pulls up to another spot ten minutes further away and a white board hung outside the patisserie reads ‘CREEMEE FLAVOURS : MAPLE  Sold Out! Thanks for a great Maple season.’

Layla's eyes start watering and Harry chuckles.

“Shh…” He leans over and kisses her temple. “Don’t stick out your lower lip now. Come on. I’ll get you your creemee.” He kisses her trembling lower lip and gets out of the car and heads into the patisserie.

He gets back into the car after a couple of minutes and pulls out.

“Where did you go?”

“I talked to the person who was working there and he gave me directions to a maple mill. Sometimes, traveling is talking to people and taking detours.” He nudges her shoulder, making her swat his hand away.

Twenty minutes later, they pull up outside an old mill. It was white in the middle of nowhere. There were no cars in the parking area. There were no sounds, except for the birds chirping. It was quiet. Almost too quiet. 

“This is it,” he states, unbuckling his seatbelt.

“I’m not going in there. Are you NUTS?!?” Layla looks at him eyes wide in alarm, she clutches on his bicep.

“Why not?”

“Have you not seen Wolf Creek?”

“The movie? Yes.” His eyebrow knits together.

“Have you not learned your lesson?”

“What? Don’t go into mills?” He rebukes.

“Hello, do not trust sweet locals who lead you to an isolated building! Have you learnt nothing?!? It’s always the sweet, unassuming ones who have a sociopathic streak.” She states.

Harry laughs. 

“Don’t laugh! We’re both not from this country and this place is quiet, almost too quiet. No other cars. A prime murder slash torture spot, in any book. Think, monkey, think.” She taps her forefinger on his temple twice.

“Do you want the creemee or not?”

“I do. Tell you what, you stay here. I’ll go in. So, in case something goes wrong you are ready in the car waiting to take off. They won’t be able to sabotage the car, if you stay here.” She says, hatching her plan.

“You really need to stop watching all that horror,” he chuckles.

“You obviously don’t get it because you are a cishet white man. As a woman, I’m always on the lookout for people or situations where I could get kidnapped, tortured, killed, or raped. Trust me.”

She unbuckles her seatbelt. She gets out and goes over to his side. “Hands on the ignition at all times,” she reminds him and kisses on his window and walks to the door.

It’s been fifteen minutes and Harry’s knees were bouncing from where he was sitting. His green eyes were fixed on the door, he’s been chewing on his nail. Layla really got into his head. He doesn’t understand why it would take so long to get a fucking soft serve. His eyes flick to the clock on the dashboard and back to the entrance.

When the mill door bursts open, he sits up straighter- his heart was pounding out of his rib cage, and finds Layla walking out with a giant smile on her face holding two maple creemees in each hand. He lets out a huge breath of relief and sags into the driver's seat. She jogs over to the door, and Harry opens the door.

“Creemees!” She yells, passing him one.

“You scared me to death, dickhead.” He breathes out. Accepting a creemee and licking it.

“They were so nice! They have all these different kinds of maple syrup. They taste delish! You have to come. I’m getting one for everyone. Come on!” She nods towards the mill, tugging on his arm.

////

“Harry, look, no hands!” Layla says, as she raises her hand up from the handle bars.

Harry had the bright idea to rent bikes after their trip to the farmer’s market. They peddle their way along the Burlington Waterfront. The sun glints off the water and the nippy air rushes past the two as they ride down the paved path.

Harry whistles in response, impressed. He has the bouquet of  red chrysanthemums and purple asters, in the basket as he follows behind her. He looks down at the blossoms wrapped in newspaper and can’t stop the smile spreading on his face, he’s never got flowers from anyone before, and when Layla got him those at the farmer’s market he was sure he was going to melt into a puddle.

They park their bikes and walk to the edge of the pier and sit down, taking in the way sunlight melds with the cerulean water.

“I like this city. It’s nice to look around and see mountains surrounding me, it feels like I’m nestled away.” She states, looking at Harry pick up a pebble.

He tosses it in the water and they both watch the ripples spread out in the waterbody.

“Would you rather live in the mountains or by the beach?” He asks, nudging her body with his.

“Beach, definitely.” Layla answers immediately.

“What about you?” She probes. She uses the back of her hand to rub the tip of her nose, which has become a slight shade of pink in response to the weather.

“I don’t know. Never really thought about it,” he answers in a weak tone. He gets his beanie off his head and tugs it down on Layla’s. He tucks some of the hair into the beanie and adjusts her bangs.

“Thanks.”

“Hmm,” he hums, as he nestles into her side, resting his head on her shoulder.

“You’ve never really thought about where you wanna live?” She asks, taking his hands in hers.

“Nope.” He replies, enunciating the p of nope. “I suppose wherever I wind up, I hope to have the people I love and things I care about right by my side.”

“Such a mooshball,” Layla comments, poking his dimple.

“What are you doing during your birthday?”

“It’s two months away and I have no idea. Just chill at home with everyone, I guess.”

“How would you feel about the idea of going away to New York with me?” He sits up straight, to gauge the reaction on her face.

“I don’t know. I’d love to but I have to ask Aunty and Uncle if that’s okay, and try and save up some money. I spent most of my savings on the AirBnb,” she says.

“I’ve already asked Vasanth and Abi, they are okay with it, if you are. You don’t have to save up because I’m taking you to New York. Ten days. I’ve even got us two tickets to go see the reunion concert of My Chemical Romance-”

“Shut the fuck up! It sold out in like ten minutes!” She swats his arm.

Harry laughs. “Yup.”

“Harry, I can’t expect you to foot the bill for ten days and New York is expensi-”

“Just say yes, Lails. It’ll be my birthday present to you. Please.” He pleads, interrupting her.

“Yes.” She says, throwing her arms around him. “For My Chemical Romance,” she whispers in his ear, making him laugh, reeling in his victory. 

/////

Rosyln plays from a speaker far away. Parents, who seem to have camping gear on them, were playing tag with their young kids. A little further away from the laughter and commotion. Layla and Harry are sitting next to each other on the shore of the lake in Woodford State Park, Bennington County. 

It was past golden hour and they were both exhausted from taking a million pictures. The water reflects the beautiful foliage and the scene looks eerily beautiful. The water looks mysterious with mist hovering over it. A blanket of reddish rouge, burnt orange, and yellow foliage surround the scene and it looks serene yet hunting.

“This reminds me of something,” Harry says.

“That scene from Jennifer’s Body where Megan Fox goes for a swim after ripping open and feeding on the insides of that jock?”

“Way to ruin the moment, dickhead! Why does your brain do this?” He groans.

“It’s what I was thinking.” She says, raising her arms defensively.

“I was going to quote some romantic poetry but you had to bring up a man eating succubus.” He rolls his eyes.

“Okay okay forget I said that. Think back to how you practically melted in the morning when I told you I picked this lilac puffer jacket because it matched your trousers you wore during the picnic.” She reasons with him. Harry smiles. She leans over to attack his face with kisses, making him giggle as she kisses all over cheek.

“Now, tell me, please,” she says, forehead against his.

“Nope, still ruined the moment,” he mutters, kissing her lips.

////

“I didn’t peg you as this big of a Tolkein nerd,” Harry says, blowing the steam away from the hot drink he was holding.

They were both sat on top of their little hobbit hole they were staying at for the next three days. The hill had a wooden bench that faced the front of the expansive property. Layla made them both a hot chocolate that they were currently sipping. Her sketchbook was lying next to her, she’d just finished shading a quick sketch of the view in front of them. They both arrived at the AirBnb Layla had booked for them in Middletown Springs.

Layla was over the moon when they got there, it was a tiny hobbit hole replica, with a lush garden filled with wildflowers dotting bright colours in the green grass. A cobbled stone pathway led them to a circular teal door that invited them into a very cozy, rustic hobbit hole replica. It had all the modern amenities with all the old word fantasy charm. There were fairy lights, a massive fireplace, and a giant king sized bed. There was so much open space around them, all they could see were tall trees and mountains, a small pond, a tub in the garden - that Harry was fully intending to use.

“I would sell my soul to live happily in the Shire in Bag End,” she replies, taking a sip of the hot chocolate.

“It seems like much more than a fan experience.” He notes looking at her.

“You know, how people say home is not a place but the people?” She asks and Harry nods.

“Well, it’s very much not the case for me. Home is a place and I’ve never felt fully at peace back home. I didn’t have my own space. So, whenever I needed to go to my happy place, I’d always picture myself in a hobbit hole in the Shire. I do not really understand people becoming your home, because I’ve never let my walls down enough to let that happen and I don’t know if it ever will. So, home for me is very much the place. I know it seems idiotic but I can’t explain it, a hobbit hole feels like that’s where I belong, like it’s my home.” She finishes with a small shrug and she stares at the mountains in the distance.

“It’s not idiotic, Lails.” He softly leans over and kisses her cheek, taking her hand in his and squeezing tight.

////

“What?” Layla asks, she feels his eyes bore into her. 

“Nothing.” Harry murmurs.

“You’re looking at me all weird.”

“Just admiring you that’s all,” he says and a blush creeps up on his face. 

They were both sitting on opposite sides of the tub. Harry had drawn them both a bath and he had put some rose petals in there. Their legs were bent at the knee and they were a little cramped up because the tub at the AirBnB was much smaller than the one in Vasanth and Abi’s room. 

“You’ve been doing that a lot today. Admiring me,” she comments, peeling a petal that was stuck to her collar bone and putting that back in the water. 

“What? A man can’t admire his beautiful girlfriend?” He chuckles at Layla rolling her eyes. 

“Come here,” he whispers, hands coming to grip her knees and pull her forward towards him. She moves straddling his lap. Being very mindful not to slosh the water over the edge. 

She circles her arm around his neck and his hands come to rest on the small of her back. 

“You look so stunning right now,” he whispers against her lips. 

He leans forward and kisses her, her breasts pressed up against his chest, and Layla could feel his hot breath against her cheek. Harry could feel the flutter of her eyelashes against his face. Their hearts race and small whimpers and moans escape Harry's mouth as she sucks on his tongue. 

“Baby,” he moans out as Layla sucks on the side of his throat. 

Her hand slips into the water to grip his hard length, she pumps it a few times before rubbing it against her clit. 

“Need you right now, Har.”

“Condom,” he reminds her. 

She whines, her brain was too fuzzy with pleasure to think straight. “Is it okay if you pull out?”

“Are you sure?” He pushes some hair out of her face and tucks it behind her ear. She nods. 

He grips himself and lines himself against her entrance and she sinks down on him. 

“Oh shit! Fuck you feel so fucking good, sweet girl,” he yells out, eyes scrunched shut not wanting to release at the very moment. 

“Fuck, Harry,” she groans out as she rocks slowly. She could feel all of him in her and it felt indescribable. She squeezes impossibly tight around him and feels him twitch inside her. 

“Layla don’t do that- fuck- Jesus christ- I’ll come,” he groans against her neck. He wasn’t kidding, they hadn’t had sex since they came to Vermont and fully feeling her without a condom was pushing him closer to the brink faster than normal. 

He puts his hands on her hips and helps her rock back and forth on him. Layla rests her head in the crook of his neck and breathes out with every thrust of his. 

“You gonna come, sweet girl? I’m close.”

She nods, she rubs small circles around her clit and that’s all she needs. Her walls pulsate around his cock and her nails sink into his shoulders and she moans out his name. He immediately lifts her off of him and pumps himself as he shoots ropes of come in the water. 

“Fuck, that was amazing.” He breathes out, resting his forehead against hers. Pressing soft kisses to her lips. 

“Hmm… now you’ve got us both dirty again,” she teases him. 

“And whose fault is that?”

She gasps. “I did nothing.”

“Please. You got me all worked up looking all pretty.” He says, before kissing the tip of her nose. 

////

“Do you feel any different?” Harry asks. The fire crackles, catching Layla’s attention. They were both sitting on the floor by the fireplace. 

“It’s only been ten minutes, Harry. I don’t think it’ll hit us for at least an hour,” she chuckles at him. She leans her weight back on her arms, and stretches her legs in front of her. Warming her feet by the fire. They both split half a weed brownie that Layla purchased in one of the dispensaries in Burlington. It was Harry’s idea, he’d never been high before, so he wanted to give that a whirl and see what the fuss was about.

“What did it feel like when you had an edible for the first time?” He hugs his knees and draws it closer to his chest.

“That makes me feel like a junkie. This is my third time having an edible. I slept through one of them, so that was a bust. The first time with my cousins, I don’t know, we just giggled a lot, the tendrils of the plants looked like they were dancing, blinking felt weird, my body felt heavy but I also felt fluid - like water. I just kept staring at my hands because they didn’t feel like they were mine. That’s it really. I don’t know how getting high is glamourized in your head.” She tells him honestly.

“Do you wanna take any other drugs?” 

“Not really.” Layla shrugs. “I’m aware that it could be a slippery slope. I have no interest in hard drugs. My cousins peer pressured me into taking it for the first time. I wouldn’t have had the edible now, if it weren’t for you. Although I’ve always wondered how it would feel to have some kind of psychedelic and paint. Drug use is very common in the art world and it is beguiling in that aspect, otherwise no.”

“Understandable. It is a shame that consuming drugs to make good art  is an idea that is so commercialized.” Harry adds, reaching forward to grab a couple of logs to feed the dimming fire.

“I feel like we should be talking about heavy existential things,” he says, running a hand through his curls as he sits back down. Half of his face was illuminated beautifully by the fire. 

Layla laughs. “Let’s do it.”

“Do you believe in aliens?” 

“I think it would be pretty stupid of me to assume that we’re the only ones in this universe. That being said, I don’t believe in UFOs and area 51.”

“You ask me a question now.” Harry tells her.

“Alright.” She chuckles, pushing a strand of hair that fell on her face. “What do you think happens when we die?”

“That’s a bit heavy, don’t you think?”

“Hey, you were the one who wanted to talk about heavy existential things!”

“I think that our souls live on forever and go be a part of the universe with the people we love. What about you?” He shoots the question back to her.

“Oh, um. Nothing.” Layla grips her water bottle a bit tighter.

“What do you mean?”

“I believe that there is nothing after we die. Just nothing. I don’t believe in the idea of a soul, so the concept of rebirth is out of the equation. I also think that humans were afraid of the idea of ceasing to exist one day. That’s why we created religion, and morality so people can find comfort in the idea of something existing after death. I mean I don’t see the point because our planet is hurtling across a universe that is so infinite, a concept we cannot yet fully comprehend by the way. We make up these constructs to make us seem like our life matters, that we need to clamber our way to peace and solitude and undo all the wrongs we have committed towards the end of life so we could get a ticket to heaven? It seems silly. People don’t realise how insignificant we all are. A mere speck in the universe. Life will continue no matter what you do,” she finishes, unscrewing the lid of her water bottle and taking a huge swig.

“Clearly this isn’t all that it is? Do you think all this is just a way of distracting ourselves from our impending doom?” He asks.

“That’s all it is,” Layla chuckles.

“You’re quite the cynic, huh? I don’t think so. I think we all leave behind a mark in the universe, no matter how insignificant it may all seem.” 

Four hours later, the brownies had kicked in and Layla and Harry were howling in laughter looking at their belly buttons. 

“You’re right, babe, it iss weird.” Layla giggles, wiping the tears from the corner of her eyes.

“You know what we should do? We should go skinny dipping in the pond,” he suggests, a giggle escapes from his lips.

“Nooooooo. It’s cooooold,” Layla whines.

“All the more reason to do itttt. Come onnn,” he gets up and pulls Layla up as well.

“Last one in is a rotten egg,” he shouts, running out of the house towards the pond.

Layla trails behind him in the moonlight. She hears a small splash and squints her eyes to see his clothes thrown haphazardly on a flowering bush nearby.

“Come on!” He shouts impatiently, splashing some water.

“We’re both gonna fall sick. Bad bad idea,” she mutters, lifting her t-shirt over her head. She shimmies off her sleep shorts and walks into the water. Harry pulls her in and she squeals.

////

Harry looks at Layla tying her hair into a bun. It was their last night in Vermont, in their hobbit hole and he’d convince her to use the outdoor bathtub. The moon was shining bright, and the stars dotted the sky - they were much more visible here. White Ferrari was playing from Harry’s phone. 

“I’m still cold,” she pouts at him.

“Sorry.” He mutters sheepishly for yesterday’s antics for jumping butt naked into the pond. “The water is extra hot,” he offers.

She exhales loudly and drops her robe on the wooden chair. “You better hold me extra tight,” she says, stepping into the tub. She sits in front of him, back to his chest. He wraps his arms across her chest, pulling her tight against him, her hands come to hold on to his forearms. She sinks into his embrace, closing her eyes as she rests her head on his shoulder.

He wishes he knew enough to point out a few constellations to impress her but all he could do right now is stare at her. He thanks the stars for whatever made her come here. He thinks back to the first time he saw her crawling into bed through his window. It wasn’t like this with anyone. He bends down to kiss her cheek and she smiles, not opening her eyes. There was that feeling again blossoming in his chest - that fervent wave of adoration- and it dawned on him. 

Love. It was love. He was in love with her.

His heart soars.

“Layla?” He says softly.

“Hmm?”

“I love you.”

Her eyes spring open. “What?” She says, sitting upright, twisting around to face him.

“I love you, Layla Sathish.” He tells her, cupping her cheeks.

“Harry, I-I don’t know what to say.”

He presses his forehead to hers, looking into her eyes.

“You don’t have to say anything. I don’t expect you to say it back to me, unless you feel it too. Take your time. Just know that I love you. Completely.”

Layla blinks back the film of tears in her eyes, she threads her hands in his hair and closes the distance between their lips, in a passionate kiss.

Frank Ocean croons in the background:

I'm sure we're taller in another dimension

You say we're small and not worth the mention

You're tired of movin', your body's achin'

We could vacay, there's places to go

Clearly this isn't all that there is

Can't take what's been given

But we're so okay here, we're doing fine

Primal and naked

You dream of walls that hold us imprisoned

It's just a skull, least that's what they call it

And we're free to roam

////

Layla thanks the Uber driver as Harry gets their luggage from the car. Harry sneezes as the driver pulls away. 

“Bless you.” 

He sneezes again and again. 

“Maybe skinny dipping wasn’t a great idea,” she says, pulling out a tissue and handing one over to him. 

“I’m fine,” he says adamantly, wiping his nose. 

“You’ve been sniffling all day, babe. Come on, let me walk you to the door.” They both grab their bags and they all over to Anne’s front door. 

“Bye. I had a great time with you this week,” she says, rocking back and forth on the balls of her heels. 

“Thanks for taking me with you. Such a fun trip.” Harry tells her, bending down to engulf her in a bear hug. 

“Love you, baby,” he whispers in her ear. 

Layla smiles like a loon and squeezes him tight in response, kissing his cheek. 

She keys herself in the door and hauls her bags into the house. “I’m home!” She shouts. 

“We’re in the kitchen!” Vasanth shouts back. She makes her way to the kitchen. Vasanth was making some dosas. 

“How was your trip?” Abi asks, spooning some red chutney into a serving bowl. 

“Good! I bought Maple syrup for the house. Harry took lots of pictures on his DSLR,” Layla tells her, sitting down on the bar stool. 

“Just in time for dinner. Here, we made your favourite, rava dosas.” Vasanth says, putting a dosa on a plate and pushing it towards her. 

“Let me go wash up and come back,” she says, hopping off the stool. 

“I wasn’t asking,” he says, in a stern voice that dared her to challenge him. 

“Vasanth,” Abi admonishes. 

She sits back on the stool again. Eyes on the marble island, heart pounding a mile a minute. She was in trouble alright. They were so nice, offering to house her for six whole months and now she’s fucking that up. 

“We just want to have a chat, adult to adult.” Abi says in a soothing tone, when she sees Layla’s eyes brimmed with tears. 

“She wants to do that. I am mad,” Vasanth huffs and puts a bowl filled with water and a small lemon wedge in it. She immediately dips her fingers and washes them. 

The two all get plated up and sit at the island. Abi and Vasanth sit across from her. Layla forces some food down her throat, her appetite has seemingly vanished. On a normal day, she would scarf down rava dosas but the sight of them right now makes her stomach turn. 

“Kutti, we treat you like an adult, right?” Abi asks. 

Layla nods, eyes on her plate. 

“Are we being extremely strict and suffocating you?” She continues. 

Layla shakes her head, eyes still not meeting both of theirs. 

“Have we created the space where you feel like you can’t come to us to ask us anything?” She asks Layla. 

“No,” she says, voice shaky. 

“I ran into Nandhini Aunty a couple of days ago,” Vasanth starts. 

Fuck. She swallows harshly. 

“She asked how everyone was doing and told me she saw Harry leaving the house at five in the morning! Care to explain, Layla!” Vasanth’s voice was nothing but coated with sheer disappointment. Layla flinches at the tone. 

“We’re having a discussion. We’re not shouting at her!” Abi says, directed towards Vasanth. She puts a hand on his shoulder. 

“Layla, why was Harry slipping out of the house?” Abi asks, in a much softer but firm tone. 

Layla remains quiet, unsure of what to say. 

“Look, kutti. Do you know how upsetting it is to know that someone came into my house and left without my knowledge, when I have a pregnant wife and a young adult to protect? I know it’s just Harry but that’s not the point,” Vasanth explains. 

“I’m sorry,” Layla’s voice breaks, tears running down her cheeks. 

“Look, we think you’re responsible enough to make your own choices. We don’t need to know why he was here. But-“

“But,” Vasanth cuts Abi off. “It doesn’t make it okay to not tell us. Do you know how embarrassing it was to have a neighbour tell us something like this when I thought we had a healthy communication between us.”

“I won’t do it again. I’m sorry.” Layla says, playing with her food. 

“We’re not asking you to not do it again,” Abi chuckles. 

“We’re not your parents.” Vasanth reminds her. “The next time he comes over, ask him to stay for breakfast and leave at an acceptable time.”

Layla’s eyes widen and fly to her uncle and aunt’s face. She wasn’t expecting that. 

“Yeah. Just tell us if he’s coming to sleep over here beforehand. We could both stick earplugs and sleep, so you two can make noises,” Abi jokes. 

“Ew, gross!” Layla giggles. 

“Yeah, Abi, gross! I’m with kutti on this one.” Vasanth winks at her. He wasn’t kidding, he’d rather jump off the side of a building at the thought of Layla doing the devil’s tango. She was his little girl, after all. 

“If you don’t feel comfortable sleeping over with him when we’re here, then if Anne’s okay with it, you can tell us and head over there, okay?” Vasanth says. 

Layla nods. 

“But don’t make it into a habit, you’re on holiday getting a breather from everything back home. Prioritise being by yourself first.” Her uncle tells her. 

“Okay,” Layla responds. 

“Alright, now that that’s over,” Abi clears her throat. “I’m obligated to ask you if you’re using protection and whatever your doing is consensual.” 

////

The doorbell rings. Layla takes off her blue light glasses and rubs her eyes. She’s been on her laptop making PowerPoints for her classes since she woke up. She puts the glasses on the notebook, where she’d roughly drafted a lesson plan for the first unit. It was half past noon on Friday. 

She stretches and wanders to the front door, wondering who it was. She’d told Harry what happened the day they got back and they both agreed they should cool off for a couple of days. She’d got quite a bit of work done for her classes and spent her free time with her Uncle and Aunt. 

She opens the door to find Anne on the other end, dressed in scrubs, probably heading off to the hospital for her twenty four hour shift. 

“Hi!” Layla greets her. 

“Hello love!” Anne hugs her. “I heard you two had quite the trip. Harry showed me some pictures.”

“You should have come, Anne. Vermont was so stunning. You would have loved it there.”

“I’ll make sure to visit. Layla, I have a favour to ask,” she says hesitantly. 

“Anything.”

“Harry’s come down with quite a bad cold. His wheezing has also not subsided. He’s very adamant that he’s fine. He’s always been stubborn when it came to getting nebulised, he’d refused since he was a kid. It was always a battle. He basically pushed me out of the house to get to work. Can you just check on him?”

“Of course!” She says immediately. “He didn’t even tell me he was sick.” She tells Anne. 

“I’m not surprised.” 

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK SO FAR!

[serpentargo]

for those of y'all who say that sambucky scenes don't look gay, or even if they do, it's all by an accident, or that's all anthony and sebastian i just want to tell you something:

marvel isn't dumb. any hint of gayness, especially the visual one - it's always a big no-no. they're making everything 'no homo' (with some rare exceptions), and we all know it.

stackie are stackie, but they're qualified, educated and experienced professionals, they know what amount of their chemistry to leave on and off screen.

now, directors, writers and producers were choosing the scenes to put into the final version of the series. there were many shots done, just compare the trailers. so why did they choose the ones they chose? (keep the first point i wrote in mind). i'm sure there were different kinds of shots done, some gayer, some not. but we got what we got, and if you actually replace sam or bucky with a woman - it's a love story, romcom, without a question.

i don't know where i'm going with all of this, but it's just sometimes i have this internal debate on whether sambucky will actually become canon or not, and my hopeful self has these arguments, so i decided to write them here. i know i may sound too hopeful, but... who knows? (i will be super disappointed if sam and bucky will stay as friends at the end because my brain just accepted the fact that they have to be canon, but i won't be surprised)

other arguments include (there's a lot):

all the things kari and malcolm (and actors) said about sambucky's relationship

the scenes? i know for sambuckies it's normal to think about the gay content we got, because we think about it everyday. but if we were to actually sum it all up we have so many, that i'm afraid i may forget something:

first we got the staring,

then rolling in the field,

therapy scene (+ their legs intertwined)

2 days of flying (read more detailed analysis by @redwingsupportgroup here) on a private jet (what were they doing all that time??),

then all of the sudden the staring problem dissapears (you can read about it more in this post by @yikesdontlook),

fixing the boat together while having all this intimacy, holding hands for ten (10) seconds straight while looking at each others' lips,

touch (see: amazing gifs by @thatwinterfalconshow pt.1, pt.2, pt.3),

the way bucky looks at sam while he is out there saving the truckload full of people,

having all four love languages included (these beautiful gifs by @pietro-maximoff),

the way they talk about each other to others

i also made this post before the 5th and 6th episode came out, you might want to check it out because we don't talk about 1-4 episodes enough

literally fanfic tropes being out there (more about it here)

no other couple in the entire mcu had all of the intimacy sam and bucky had (not even wanda and vision (to some extent), considering they got like 10 episodes, and sambucky had only 6)

this post (i'm sure we all saw an read it, it's really convincing right?) by wonderful @wenellyb, who's analyzing skills amaze me each time

the last clip without the music, where it isn't quite clear what exactly bucky says, but the point is that he wants to move in with sam

however there's a major counterargument: disney™

though i really think that considering captain america 4/tfatws 2nd season is coming out in at least 2 or 3 years, maybe things will change? maybe people in 2023/2024 will be more accepting? (here)

p.s: i'm sorry if there are grammatical mistakes, english isn't my first language, plus i am really tired rn... so yeah. i also got a bit distracted and ended up writing a whole ass essay hehehe

p.p.s: i hope it's okay i tagged you and your posts, and if it's not, please dm me and i'll remove it!

[silent-neutral]

Rant, vent, w/e you want to call it, it’s gonna be long. But I hate doing this. I never intend to speak my opinion on my pages anymore but it's like dejavu rn. My blood is boiling for days. I made a post 8 years ago about this very conflict after I returned from Ukraine and the ordeal that was endured. (scroll down until you see the first image of a collapsed bridge.. unless you want to read TMI about my life) And...I see nothing changed. The propaganda and fear-porn remained.

But suddenly everyone is a fucking expert on the war that's going on right now. I know this might conflict with a lot of people’s programming, but I do not care because I need to speak the brutal truth. It’s time for a long, hard geopolitical reminder. 8 years ago, no one said fuck all about the outright genocide of Donbass. 10,000+ civilians are dead and my husband and his family were nearly part of that number. He, like everyone else in this region, were labelled as terrorists because they said NO to an illegal U.S/NATO backed takeover of Kiev(maidan colour revolution). Donbass said NO to ethnic cleansing and the removal of the Russian language. But no one said anything about the coup detat criminals that declared war on its own people. (If you don’t know/understand, read the last paragraph of this post for a catch-up summary of this conflict for context) It's actually the SAME story in every war-torn part of the world. And still; NO ONE seems to GET IT. Baaa. Does no one remember JUST LAST MONTH what was happening in Kazakhstan??? That globalists were trying to destabilize it??? They did the exact same thing to Georgia in 2009 and FAILED there too. (That puppet Sakashvili was exiled and is wanted by interpol ffs and this scumbag actually became governor of Odessa where the burning massacres occurred as if Coup Ukraine wasn’t corrupted enough.) People want to end aggression? Then stop supporting NGO funded uprisings or fascist government regimes and their lies. They have been happening for decades.  TOO MANY LIES. I get that during wartime, propaganda is RAMPANT and it’s very hard to tell what’s happening (which makes it a convenient tactic), but ffs... Ukr media used video game footage as ‘evidence’ they shot down Russian jets. Morale boosting bs like that is to get people to foolishly continue a losing battle. And the lies and hatred that comes from these lies outright insults the brutal reality that the Donbass suffered. By way of deception, thou shalt wage WAR.

And this^ is occurring without fail. There is only one thing I am frustrated at Russia for and it's that they took too long to respond to this cesspit Junta. Yes, Russia supported DPR/LPR and were the only ones keeping them afloat for all these years because the facist coup in Kiev never stopped the war, even when Zelenskiy was elected predominantly because he said he was going to end it and even promised to put Poroshithead and co in jail as war criminals... 3 years in; nothing. 0 jailed criminals, 0 intention to stop the war. And lo and behold, Zelenskiy showed his true colours and is indeed playing a role with the rest of these war criminals. In fact it looks like they all condone it; why else would you let your own people kill each other if you actually cared about your country? Look at this small example of the kind of evil things this nazi guard has been doing for 8 years in just *one* city. You think the coup didn’t know about it?? Watch the video describing the situation, it is english-subbed. Tell me; do the ‘anti-nazi’ westerners condone this behaviour?? Because this shit never ended to this day. Where was the outrage then when it was most needed??? As for Putin...Strategically, I can see what he was doing. He has been avoiding a bigger war for 8 years because the fascists *wanted* it, but his hesitation allowed the coup to continue the genocide. It would have made more sense for Putin to act when Poroshenko was ‘president’ because he wasn’t even legitimately elected! For that, I cannot see any good excuse for his inaction. People were dying this whole time because of it. Russia/Ukraine could have avoided this entire mess if Russia cleaned up as fast as they did in Georgia.(8 months is better than 8 years) So why not?? But because Zelenskiy said that he wanted to make Ukraine NUCLEAR again was the tipping point - This bastard must have KNOWN that this is Russia's number 1 trigger (and excuse) to react to, but Zelenskiy did it while relying on NATO/EU to "come to the rescue" and thus from there would justify instigating something far worse which was the goal. NATO (along with some certain family bloodlines) have been provoking Russia for decades...Oh, how they'd absolutely love to go in and cut and carve up Russia like they did to Yugoslavia.. Regardless; if no one is going to do ANYTHING about murderous illegitimate governments killing its own people that tirelessly defend their land and rights, then Russia's intervention is the result of everyone's neglect and carelessness. AFTER ALL. No one in the west cared! No one cared until the media TOLD you to care...! (and believe *their* narrative) The only ones that actually cared were the ones suffering at the hands of this fascist junta. Not only Donetsk and Lugansk states cried for (Russian) support; Mairupol, Odessa, Zaporozhiye, Kharkov etc needed it too, and it’s only now they are being liberated. This also now includes Kiev. This is how *hated* the Russians are: So hated in fact, that all of Kiev speaks Russian. There are videos of Ukrainian militants *willingly* surrendering and *dancing* alongside Russian forces (who most likely were forced conscripted) because finally something was being done about this shit in their country. Oh yes very hated. But no; the biased sell-outs in the West and their media calls this an ‘invasion’, because when the U.S and its allies meddle in foreign lands and their governments, plunder and steal resources, declare civilians and their children goat-herding ‘terrorists’ and destabilize their economies this is completely justified - even when and if their own citizens call them out for it. But as soon as a country far away has their own borders threatened, they’re expected to just sit there, watch and let people DIE.   Hypocrisy of the highest order. And speaking of hypocrisy.. I have seen posts asking for donations to Ukrainian military. Wtaf? How does that stop aggression? You're asking foreigners to fund your war...?? What happened to all the funds EU gave Ukraine(embezzled again?!)???? after all, Ukraine was supposed to be their newest puppetaddition. But I guess war is where they draw the line huh. Well, here's a thought! Why not ask people to donate toward humanitarian aid???? Rn, it's NON EXISTENT because murderous puppet regimes dgaf about human rights, I thought that was pretty well established for the past 8 years!! And oh, my also un-elected fucktard of a PM thinks sending weapons to Zelenskiys fascist coup government somehow helps stop "Russian aggression" when it only adds more fuel to the fire. Zelenskiy is an absolute joke (he's actually a famous comedian believe it or not...insane). He thinks arming civilians with 0 military training and 0 background checks with AKs and teaching them how to make Molotovs is somehow keeping them or Ukraine safe. Yeah, no. It's turning innocent people into human shields, into TARGETS for BOTH sides to attack (military in civilian clothing is a real thing and taken seriously because nazi nationalists like Praviy Sektor pulled these stunts in Donbass, and therefore it’s extremely dirty to get innocents involved like this). And now Zelenskiy orders the army to trap the people in Kiev and threaten to shoot them if they try to escape is just another excuse to keep them as human shields, hostages, insurance to deter Russian forces from going all-out. (hence all the comments about ‘Russian army is weak’. The fact is; civilians are not the target. Nazis like zelenskiy however are) Because (as the video above also mentions) it’s safer for them to create their checkpoints around civilians.. They have been employing this same dirty tactic in Donbass since the very beginning. Blame the coup; they are more than happy to sacrifice these people for their own gain. It’s also a great way to frame your enemy. Also, photo ops make for great propaganda!   This is not so much an invasion as it is an intervention; a massive clean up of corrupt politicians with dual Isr**** citizenships. So I wonder; are they even Ukrainian? Probably. But I'm inclined to think they are descendants of actual Bandera nazis, like Praviy Sektor. Still, appealing to Ukrainian’s sense of patriotism by telling them to die as heroes of Ukraine and ending every goddamn speech with glory to Ukraine is extremely manipulative and dangerous.   "The forest was shrinking but the trees continued to vote for the Ax, for the Ax was clever and had convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them." - Turkish proverb  ^^^ that. Instead of surrendering or taking the evacuation a lot more seriously, let’s just give guns to random people and tell them how to make molotovs. I have never heard of any government doing this in the history of ever. But guess what? Now there are reports of armed robberies by civilians taking place because people are desperate for food (100griv for fucking bread.).. How about that humanitarian aid then...?  So.. to summarise. Someone had to do something about the Illegitimate coup, humanitarian crisis and the genocide it was committing and since no one wanted to fucking do anything, Russia finally snapped after Zelenskiy intended to be nuclear and invite NATO on the border, which violates the Nato-Russia founding act. I’m sure there are other reasons...but regardless, It’s time to remove these lying, cheating murderers controlling Kiev and restore Ukraine’s dignity and bring peace - and the truth - to the people ASAP.  Full disclosure cannot happen any sooner. As long as people continue to believe in lies and anti-russia propaganda without question I will be filled with anger and indignancy for all the injustices that were allowed to occur without any condemnation. Like I said 8 years ago; The Fascist coup in Kiev are the real terrorists. And btw, the photo of the ‘falling white smoke’ in the top link is actually phosphorus bombs. It’s an international war crime to use it and yet the coup allowed their military to use it (unless it was the foreign agents doing it; same thing really). Honestly, I can go on and on about the crimes against humanity that have been committed for all these years, but people are too busy being distracted by anti-Russian sentiment to be paying attention to the truth, let alone the crimes committed in Canada. Better get your money out of the banks asap before they start funnelling it into Ukraine, eh..? “The way to make money is to buy when blood is running on the streets” - John D Rockefeller SO, If you came this far, this last part is for those who want to actually understand the situation rather than just having emotional biases and hysteria over something that was NEVER invested in in the first place. Here's a summary of what's happened in Ukraine/Russia over the years for context on what’s happening now:  2010 - Ukraine elected Viktor Yanukovich as president. The West (US & EU) were not happy with these events as they saw the new president as too aligned to Russia. Before Yanukovich's election, Ukraine had a free trade deal in the pipeline with the EU. But in 2013, Yanukovich did a 180° and refused to sign the deal, favouring closer ties with Russia. (Why buy expensive gas from EU that bought it off Russia anyway...? Inflation much? It’s lunacy) November 2013 - led by  Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland (and her infamous cookies), the US fomented a Colour Revolution (called Euromaidan) which led to a coup in Ukraine. (Foreign snipers deliberately shot into both protesters and police and promptly blamed Yanukovich, ending in the coup detat we know today.) Yanukovich was overthrown and chased out of the country with threats to his life. Leaders in eastern Ukraine declared allegiance to Yanukovich. February 2014 - anti-government protests broke out and a referendum in Crimea where 97% of respondents voted to return Crimea to Russia. March 2014 - Crimea rejoined Russia. Meanwhile, the Coup Detat "government" proposed a Bill to remove Russian as an official language. Russian speakers in East Ukraine were angered about this saying ethnic Russians were in imminent danger.  Early 2014 - Russia started sending support to the eastern regions of Ukraine (Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Odessa) who now demanded independence from Ukraine. April 2014 - Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk broke away from Ukraine and proclaimed themselves as separate Republics (Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic = DPR/LPR). Russia started performing military exercises on the eastern Ukrainian border just as NATO was doing the same in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, who share borders with Russia. September 2014 - Ukraine and DPR/LPR signed ceasefire agreements in Minsk, Belarus, to end hostilities in east Ukraine. Despite the Minsk agreements, from 2014 to date, continuous battles have been waged between Ukrainian forces and DPR/LPR over territory in the Donbass region in violation of the agreements. Along with the armed conflict, the EU and US imposed International sanctions against Russia. The sanctions led to the collapse of the Russian currency and caused economic damage to EU countries. By 2016, Russia had lost an estimated $600 billion. 2017 - UN published a report stating that the EU countries were losing about "3.2 billion dollars a month" due to the Russian sanctions. March 2021 - President Putin ordered the Russian military to mobilise troops near its border with Ukraine and in Crimea. November 2021 - Russia deployed vessels to the Black Sea to "observe" US warships. Putin said the US ships were "a serious challenge". Russian Ministry of Defence said "The real goal behind the US activities in the Black Sea region is exploring the theatre of operations in case Kiev attempts to settle the conflict in the southeast by force". mid-January, 2022 - the US started announcing that Russia would invade Ukraine, stating that an attack could begin before the conclusion of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in February. NATO began providing weapons including anti-armour missiles and other US-made weapons to Ukraine. 22 January - the US delivered 90 000 kg of lethal weapons to Ukraine. The Netherlands and Spain also deployed forces to the region in support of NATO. February - the US sent soldiers to Germany and Poland to boost NATO's presence in Europe, along with F-15 fighter jets to Romania. Britain also deployed soldiers, warships and jets to eastern Europe. 21 February - the leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, requested Putin to officially recognise the republics' independence. Putin agreed and signed Russia's recognition of the republics and ordered troops to be sent there. 22 February - Boris Johnson announced sanctions on Russian banks and individuals. Germany announced suspending the certification process of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. EU foreign ministers blacklisted all Russians who voted in favour of the recognition of the breakaway regions. 24 February 2022 - President Putin announced the beginning of a "special military operation" in the Donbass region.

[post-modern-neo-marxism]

i know this ask is totally ridiculous and nearly all of the civil axis aus wouldn't even consider this as an option but hear me out,, if they were to get married to someone, could you describe what each would wear to their wedding??? im sorry i just, i have wedding brain rn idk why

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ok, just a disclaimer, i've been to maybe two weddings in my life when i was a lot younger, and i don't really think about them very much? so my knowledge of wedding clothes is very limited but i'll give you the best answer i can

Biolen: something a little similar to the tuxedo gown billy porter wore to the oscars, but homemade and not anywhere near as fancy. dress is black, so is the veil. still wearing gloves, but nicer ones. holding a bouquet (if i spelled that correctly) of blue hydrangea. Will Not take off the mask for the post-marriage kiss. all the gay frogs come to the wedding. don't drink the punch.

Ancol: has a lot of trouble finding a used suit his size, so definitely expect an open blazer that doesn't reach his wrists. he may or may not be wearing his usual track suit pants, but he will put on nicer (albeit older) shoes. the flower on his lapel is a chamomile, handpicked. the after party is low budget but legendary

Anfash: joker themed wedding

Authcap: black tuxedo that looks relatively plain and 'simple' but is worth like half a million dollars. even still, the shoes are the most expensive part of the outfit. wearing the beret, but has dusted off a few of his medals as well. wedding is as big and flashy as possible. tons of celebrities and billionaires, news photographers, jets flying overhead. the flower in his coat is a rhododendron

[knifesxedge]

hi love im deep in ur art blog for reasons and im SO in love with the fact that ur ghoul has his OWN nickname tattooed on him in party's writing they are SO 🥺 was wondering if you wanted to talk a bit more abt ghouls tattoos??? theyre just SO gorgeous and intricately laid out

HI i LOVE u i am KISSING u i would love love love to talk about ghoul’s tattoos 🥺❤️

^ yeah ghoul & party have each other’s handwriting tattooed!! for party it’s one of the only tattoos they have & it’s right over their heart (im sure ive mentioned this fact before but idk if ive explicitly noted that it says ‘sunshine’) and ghoul didn’t have the space to put his right over his heart because poison’s kj symbol is there so his is on his upper arm (they ARE soooooooo 🥺 i love them)

ghoul’s tattoos are a healthy mix of sentimental ink and things he just thought were beautiful. when he met the rest of the four he didn’t have THAT many tattoos because 1. he was 14 2. he’d only been in the zones for a little under a year and a half at that point but the ones he DID have (aka his oldest tattoos) were his knuckle tattoos (‘freed’ and ‘fuck’ what can i say he was 13), the big raven on his upper shoulder and neck (he started believing in the witch very early compared to other cityborns but yeah that tattoo was both a way of symbolizing his devotion to the witch and a way of marking himself as a killjoy/shedding his past in the city in the way that he considered clearest), the fangs on his hand, two bats on his leg, the zombie bite on the other side of his neck (i could get a little more into this but BASICALLY ghoul being an ex-crow trainee + a cityborn + being the only surviving member of his first crew had a problem with feeling inhuman and a lot of survivor’s guilt and so he really. idk he connected a lot with zombies & frankenstein’s monster and ghosts & the like when he was a runner for dr. d post-his crew’s deaths. he got better about Seeing Himself as a Person especially once kobra + the other two showed up but the fascination remained) (also not tattoo-related but that’s when he chose his name. before that he’d been called ‘sandpup’ by his old crew & he never had a chance to tell them before they passed but he really loved that they used that as a name for him especially with how much he didn’t want to associate himself with the city) (ghoul had A Lot of issues but the difference there is that he worked thru them a lot earlier than the rest of the four) and “I FORGIVE U” on the back of his neck (in remembrance of said former crew).

umm along with that kind of fascination with the undead/feeling that kind of connection are the frankenstein stitches on his wrists (tho thats more of a common hc) and he has this pretty big tattoo of abstracted bones following his vertebrae down his throat and chest that he’s gotten expanded/fixed/touched up over the years. ik i do a lot of b&w doodles but i feel like i’ve been kind of inconsistent about coloring (most of his tattoos are color). pretty sure ive mostly drawn them in green (???) but in my head they’re like a faded light blue using natural skin tone as highlights.

his more sentimental tattoos…let me see if i can outline them here. this might not be exhaustive but i will do my best to list what ive figured out at least thus far:

the two little bats on his right thigh are for his grandmother and little sister. his sister (juliet adele fujikawa, b. april 2009 d. december 2014) was killed in a car crash shortly before he left the city, and likewise, his grandmother (charlotte fujikawa [藤川 千尋] b. june 1936 d. december 2014) was “moved to retirement housing” at about the same time. that was pretty much the last straw & ghoul left battery city within the week

there’s his crewmates’ symbols on his chest (in order from his right to left: kobra, jet, party) (gotten when their crew had been together for a while. dating this one is based on a couple things: 1. ghoul had been with them for long enough that he felt secure 2. poison and ghoul were friends by this point, or else he wouldn’t have included their symbol and 3. poison’s is over his heart so you can read into that as you will)

text from the graffiti bible on his right calf, as protection for his crew & as a reminder of one of his former friends who was a droid that believed very strongly in destroya’s return

his raygun on his chest (he was pretty proud of the design! this was when he was ~15 or 16) that he had poison’s added to post-sing post-engagement pre-commitment ceremony (so. september 2023) (yes i have my handwritten timeline + my own drawings + my fics out in front of me rn cross-referencing sldkdksksbx!)

one of the girl’s childhood drawings (one she drew of him & her & the stuffed animal he made for her when she was a baby all having a tea party together) from when she’s about 5 or so on his right hip (december 2022 or so)

shooting stars on his upper right shoulder, partially because they’re pretty and blend well with his other tattoos and partially because they’re a reminder of a lot of things, including but not limited to his first night out in the zones seeing the stars for the first time, stories his grandma used to tell him, and right when he’d first joined the fab four and him & kobra sat on the roof during a meteor shower

besides the other one i already mentioned ^ he has more of poison’s handwriting on his left inner forearm — this is also one ive mentioned before but once they’ve been in a relationship for a while they get into the habit of leaving little love notes around for each other! there’s nothing particularly special specifically about the one he got tattooed, besides the fact that it reminded him of poison and they love each other. the text in full (which i don’t think ive ever put anywhere, though im pretty sure ive put fragments of it in fics and art) is as follows:

Good Morning baby <3! I needed new paints, went on a run. Kobra has the Girl @ the Crash Track, Jet’s at the station. call me when you wake up! I love you, be back soon. XO Party <3

he also has the anniversaries of when they started dating and their commitment ceremony (03•03•21 and 10•26•23 respectively) on the inside of his right wrist ^ !

he’s got a snake wrapping around his left leg that kobra picked out and a hand of cards with the ace of spades face up that jet picked out (and these ofc are because they remind him of his crewmates!!)

he has the phoenix witch tattooed on his ribs, left side, styled vaguely after catholic saints (since that imagery can still be found in the inner zones & especially where ‘joys who still practice that religion gather!)

there’s a version of the eye from the mailbox on his right shoulder, and this one is also a sort of symbol of protection/good luck, to show devotion to the witch and to help protect himself and his crew

the constellation libra on his left forearm! this one was done a little while after he started running transmissions and supplies for dr. d! he liked the connection that astrology — whether he believed in the practice or not is up for debate — gave people to the stars, and the feeling that he had a place in the universe, predestined or not

after charlie is born, he gets a portrait of her (~age 4) with her name and birthday underneath done on his left thigh! (~2036)

and on his lower back, he has a fairly simple tattoo of two crows on a wire with their beaks pressed together (aughhhhhh romance) that he gets done as an anniversary surprise for their 10-year (so. 2033)!

his non-sentimental tattoos are largely based off of images from books, either from dr. d’s collection when he was working as a runner for him or from cherri’s after he joined up with the fab four, or else they’re naturally occurring in the zones!! this includes but is not limited to: california golden poppies on the back of his left shoulder, strawberries around his left bicep (he doesn’t ever have a strawberry until he’s like 35, this one is absolutely based off of a particularly pretty illustration), a thundercloud with lightning on his left elbow, a moon on his right inner bicep, a ring of thorns around his right forearm right under the elbow, a dagger on his inner left calf, and a sun, small bat, cross, rose, ribbon (with the word ‘faith’ in script), and wing on his right forearm and hand, all picked from flash sheets

so yeah! that’s about everything i have to say about ghoul’s tattoos atm but ty ty ty sm for letting me ramble abt them i think about his tattoos so much 😔❤️