#real time broadcasting

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I love to think about is every iteration of Leo’s relationship with Splinter and how Splinter’s interests always define how a Leo presents himself.

I used to abide by the idea that a Leo will simply emulate his Splinter directly, and to an extent I still believe that to be the case, but moreso I think Leos have a tendency to mold themselves into what they believe is their Splinter’s ideal son - someone who embodies all the traits Splinter has explicitly shown to admire or value in a person.

Most of the time, they try to be a dutiful and honorable boy abiding by the full extent of ninjitsu teachings. Then you have Rise Splinter, who very much still has undeniable prowess in the art of fighting and being a ninja, but when it comes to how he shows his interests to his boys…one thing reigns supreme.

Acting. Shows. One liners. Flamboyance in the name of gaining an audience’s attention.

He showcases Lou Jitsu movies on repeat for the boys, passing down the morals and words from those movies to them with no small amount of pride. All while fully expecting them to respect these teachings.

So, of course, Rise Leo picks up on this. He’s a Leo, after all, as much a daddy’s boy as any other variation of him, only he clocked his father’s interests to be different than most others. He picks up on the art of showmanship, of keeping things to himself so as to be a more exciting twist later, of treating the world as a set to act in.

He’s an actor, not just because Splinter himself was one, but because Splinter likes acting and showed one particular actor (unknowingly to the boys, it was himself) as the pinnacle of all his teachings. As someone to value and admire. And even more than that - Splinter focuses on the character the actor is portraying rather than just the man himself.

And I think this is all even more interesting when taking the turtle tot short into consideration, because very, very briefly, just as with many times else throughout the series, we see how easily Rise Leo aligns with his other selves, seeming to pick up the sword easier than his brothers do their own weapons - after quoting Lou Jitsu of course. After emulating his idol - the person who his father seems to admire so much.

Point being, it’s so interesting to see how Leos tend to mold themselves in one particular way throughout every variation - that being, what their father is shown to value most in people.

[bwunnishit]

[meek-shall-inherit]

you ever think about how jedidiah also has the consumption/eating themes but in a distinctly different way . his themes are focused on choking down things . jedidiah overall has a lot of the same themes as sydney but in noteably different ways

jedidiah's food/consumption as love themes are about either entirely avoiding it or just choking it down to get it over with , and being sick as a result from either . "no, i dont. i can never eat pork again. i feel sick." he cant handle love because of how lucille raised him. he was raised without love or support and had to live like that for so long that he never learned how to handle it, and he went in the opposite direction than sydney went. instead of begging and pleading for any kind of affection he can get, jedidah leans into nothingness. his view of love is just keeping someone alive, even if you never say you care about them. to him, you could go far enough to completely cut yourself off emotionally from somebody just to keep them safe and thats all that would matter. that youre keeping them alive and safe. he was raised to believe that emotions dont matter. it doesnt matter if youre a fly in a tupperware container slowly dying, as long as you can prolong and delay that process, its okay, right? it doesnt matter if youre starving. "i swallowed the acid id coughed up, and relished how it burnt my throat. id never spit this up again. id let it dissolve me before i let another heart stop. // ill dissolve, okay? ill shatter like glass." he views opening up as just a burden for the other person. he doesnt see why communication could ever be a good thing. all its ever done is hurt people. and he cant handle losing anyone else, god forbid sydney, to his own mistakes. he views his only purpose and the only thing hes good for is keeping other people safe behind the scenes, being a silent preventer, having no needs and no wants. jedidiah's hands are as empty as sydney's.

[astralcities]

like i'm sorry headcanon characters however you like but you cannot be saying "astarion is canonically asexual and therefore writing porn about him is bad." we've lost the plot somewhere. "well he said he doesn't want to be thought of in terms of sex" did you know that people can both be sexual and not reduced solely to sex objects

[jammunin]

fleabag sketch i did the other day

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

We took their words and made a cell and forced them to their knees Now every place is super safe and everyone agrees We took their fine unfettered minds and shake them till they died Now there's no Galileos and our thoughts are kept inside And all we say is

Drum Drum Bang-A-Bang Straight up Wam-Wam Yes Ma'am, No Ma'am Drum Drum Bang-A-Bang Drum Drum Bang-A-Bang Now I'm all Flim-Flam Caught me in a Clim-Clam Spinnin' on my Wag-Wam Come and see me Yam-Tam Drum Drum Bang-A-Bang

We took away the shades of gray and made them black and white Now no one even listening and no one knows what right And all we say is

Drum Drum Bang-A-Bang Straight up Wam-Wam Yes Ma'am, No Ma'am Drum Drum Bang-A-Bang Drum Drum Bang-A-Bang Now I'm all Flim-Flam Caught me in a Clim-Clam Spinnin' on my Wag-Wam Come and see me Yam-Tam Drum Drum Bang-A-Bang (x3)

[3416]

also i like the prime broadcasts positivity about the leafs... it's been sorely lacking... but they don't know leafs puck very well, it's kinda funny

[yukimiyum]

how did they flop castlevania nocturne so goddamn hard

[radioiaci]

Alastor’s eternal struggle of being a wordsmith every day of his life except when his feelings get involved and he just has a moment where he just says the worst fucking thing and suffers for it.

The universe rly said that he is not meant to be happy.

[apocalypticdemon]

for the wip title ask game:

'the droning engine'

oh boy, this is my super self-indulgent fic, lmao. I've been super into IndyCar my whole life, as is the rest of my family, so it's my IndyCar AU for the Terror (with a focus on fitzier as the narrative drive behind it).

It's kind of unwieldy and a bigger project than I thought it would be, so it's still very much in the works/in the planning stages while i draft prose as it comes to me, but I've been poking at it in my free time. The basic premise is Crozier is an older driver, signed to team Terror, a smaller team, but one that generally is in good standing. He's got a really odd rivalry with Fitzjames, and this comes to a head at the start of the work, when the Terror management signs James on as a driver. Basically, the plot is going to stretch over the entirety of an IndyCar season, and I'm going to try to hit major plot beats from the show in this story as the characters all vie for the championship for the season. Some stuff gets changed around, just to make things work, but that's the general premise.

I have it planned for the final driver lineup for team Terror to be Crozier, Fitzjames, Silna, and I think Little, but that's still in flux. Hickey was on the team, but gets let go after publicly starting a fight with Silna and suffering the consequences, lol. He continues to scheme in the background as the season continues to unfold, because a different team snaps him up pretty quickly. Is it conventional for how drivers are passed around and contracts are signed? no, probably not, but I do what I want, lol.

I have plans for general plot beats, how I want to draw narrative similarities for things like the no good, very bad wardroom dinner from the first episode, carnivale, and character deaths in the show without...... actually killing anybody, because I can't really have that.

I want the vibes for the fitzier part of the story to be the kind of "they would absolutely fuck several times before actually talking about their feelings" kind of dynamic, so I think that's the route I'm going to take and have their relationship really blossom towards the end of the season, but i'm also still planning out the specifics of that one. I really like the added tension of a secret relationship, given that they're on the same team and that motorsports doesn't necessarily have the most.... open-minded audience (it's very fun being an unpatriotic queer person at these events. i am....... very much in the minority there), so I want to play with that a bit, too. I thought I had a neat and tidy plan, but it rather started crumbling in my hands when i sat down to actually try to write it, so I think I'm going to be wrangling this one for a bit.

but i'm very excited to actually get to it someday! i know this write-up is very rambly and a bit unhinged, but i truly have so many thoughts about it that it's hard to organize into a coherent, short summary, lol. I have a lot of personal history tied up in this, too, so it's hard not to just go on cool tangents about the sport. this project has taken a back seat as my master's work ramps up, since it's just.... so much bigger than i thought it would be. but i really want to work on it over this winter break, creative juices willing.

and as thanks for reading........... all of this rambling, lol, here's a snippet from my draft of the "birdshit island"-cum-team-dinner scene:

Francis is at the end of his patience with the man, at this point in the day, and snaps. “Why don’t you tell us all about that crash in Monterey, James? That one was rather spectacular, if I remember right.” Fitzjames sours immediately, frowning and gritting his teeth. Francis has exactly a half a second of deep satisfaction at the expression before Blanky viciously kicks him in the shins under the table. Francis winces and glares at him, leaning down to rub at the spot. It had hurt, damn it. That prosthetic leg wasn’t soft by any stretch of the imagination.

[piningpercussionist]

Your kind comments about my fics absolutely make my day thank you so much 😭

Np!!! They really are a delight, tysm for making and publishing them ^^

[anaalnathrakhs]

wait, 8 years old kid, you can be alone all day but we'll drive all the mandatory stuff ourselves! wait, 12 years old kid, you're too independant! wait, 14 years old kid, come sit with us instead! wait, 17 years old kid, i'll take the car and pick you up 800 meters away from home! wait, 18 years old kid, don't you know how difficult and hard and painful it was for us when you didn't do activities you don't like with us, back then!

wait, 18 years old kid, i don't understand why you're not more independant if you want it so badly, after all it's normal at your age!

[bagadew]

Well I’m pretty sure I have Covid…

[hostradio]

i  think  al  becomes  a  lot  more  understandable  when  you  realize  he's  a  creative  driven  by  passion  and  artistry  and  refuses  to  compromise  even  an  inch  of  what  he  perceives  as  integrity  in  his  presentation  of  his  craft.

[3416]

ive been watching all the american broadcasts for the playoffs but IF there are cute 1634 moments on sportsnet, i'm gonna need someone to dm me the timestamps so i can gif them.......... someone be my sportsnet eyes i'm begging.

[termagax]

having a comic idea in my brain but i dont wanna get up and sketch it but i cant write it in the way i want to because i am cursed to think in pictures but i cant. draw it rn.