#robin hood was my second favorite movie when I was little

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

*Wingfeather Saga show spoilers*

So this picture of Anklejelly burning evoked SOMETHING in me beyond just the callback to Anniera burning it’s obviously meant to be (this entire scene is both parallel and foreshadowing and I’ll talk about that in another post but anyway).

And then I remembered the old disney animated Robin Hood (with the fox) where at the end, Prince John’s castle is set aflame and Robin runs through it, before finally getting trapped on top of a tower by the flames and being forced to jump into the moat. And there’s this moment after that where you don’t know if Robin survived or if the arrows they shot after him hit their mark. And it’s very serious and solemn for what has been, up to this point, a very silly and fun children’s movie.

And you know? The Wingfeather show did the same thing. It started off silly and fun and then all of a sudden it turns a corner and you don’t know if the protagonists are going to make it or not. Nia is sitting in the cellar of a burning house, singing to her dying father and you do not know if Podo’s going to survive. Just before this, Peet and Nugget were faced with an entire army of Fangs, prepared to die defending the Iggyfings.

And those. Those are the stories that stuck with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why (to quote Samwise’s famous speech). The danger is real and you don’t know if the characters you love are going to survive and that makes the story meaningful. It takes it beyond funny and lighthearted and dives into something real. And that’s important to show kids when they’re little, so that it comes back to them when they need it.

Because honestly, who hasn’t wondered if we’re going to make it through the flames in the night?

[theodoresgirl]

I see you like dabi... Can you write something with dad dabi??

Dad!Dabi Headcanons

a/n: dabi as a dad, Personally a favorite. Never actually attempt to write it so here we go. lmk if you want more<33

warning: Some 'canon' parts and fan-canon. my personal opinion, delulu.

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★ — Dabi’s the kind of guy to first react negatively towards you saying you’re pregnant. He’s never imagined being a dad, His own pushed him down when he gained a “better” son. It would take some reassurance, Like telling him you believed he would be a great dad, and that he was nothing like his father. He would slowly be open to the idea of being part of the kids life.

★ — Dabi’s by your side whenever he can, between the LOV and planing his pay back to his own dad.

★ — Dabi’s holding your hair when you get sick, He’s bringing you food late at night on his recruitment patrols.

★ — He’ll even bust out his old hair braiding skills (he might be a little rusty at first) to keep it out of your face during hot flashes. he learned braiding with fuyumi’s hair when they were younger.

★ — Dabi keeps you and the baby a complete secret, To make sure he knew that if something happened to him. You and the baby wouldn’t be targeted

★ — Dabi would be terrified to touch your stomach, he isn’t normally a feel bad kind of guy but he didn't wanna accidentally hurt you or the baby. It takes some time before he can rest his hand on your belly or lay his head on it.

★ — He tries to attend at least a few doctor appointments, but he misses the birth because of his identity. He'd get really upset ith

★ — Some time after you have the baby, you and him would be sitting on the couch, The baby was sleeping and he lets slip he wants another one. “to give it a friend” lame excuse but hey, It works. He wouldn’t ask for another one but if you asked he wouldn’t say no.

★ — He first sees his daughter when you come home. He’s right there, He heard you talking outside the door and getting your keys.

★ — He was sitting in a chair at the island counter. Safe to say he’s been there for 3 hours waiting.

★ — For awhile he just sits on the couch while you hold her. He’d be scared, again. He didn’t wanna harm her.

★ — She looked exactly like him at her age. Red hair, teal eyes, a big smile.

★ — Sometimes you’d wake to go the bathroom and see a empty place next to to, and noise in the nursery. Dabi would be sitting in a rocking chair mumbling about who knows what while his little girl just slept on his chest. He’d never admit it though, if you brought it up he’d say you were really tired and hallucinated it. (you didn’t)

★ — His phone lock screen was of course his motorcycle, but his home-screen was a picture of you passed out with baby girl.

★ — Second pregnancy around he would probably be outed as toya, Depending on the outcome (we are gonna go the happy delulu root) he'd have contact with his sister, maybe even natsuo. You drag him out to lunch with his sister.

★ — He'd always have his arms around you, around your waist, on your hips and stomach.

★ — He'd definitely rubs the fact his family loves him to his dad, no doubt. He'd brag about how his daughter is always following him around, and his future partner is perfect and loves him for him.

★ — Dabi also definitely got your daughter to say dada first, Even though it took 2 years she finally said her first word. it would be when you went out with his siblings. He sends you a video of her sitting on the couch in one of those Ariel princess dresses. She clear as day she says 'dada'. He teases you about it a lot.

★ — At first you'll have to force him, but after awhile the only movies that are on the tv at all times was Disney & barbie. (His favorites are Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus & Robin hood)

★ — Dabi would lay down on the floor while his daughter played with his hair and feels his scars.

★ — Dabi also by now stopped using his quirk, which over time slowly his scars began to heal.

★ — He was present for your 2nd child, your sons birth. To say he teared up is a understatement. He stood by your side the whole time, he wasn't willing to miss it this time.

★ — Your son looked again, was a mini dabi, but white hair.

★ — When your daughters quirk forms its just like dabis, She ran into you and his room one morning giggling excitedly about having a cool quirk like her daddy. His face was pure fear, could her skin handle the heat? or was it like his?

★ — Dabi would watch when she'd use her quirk, to make sure she didn't get hurt, and she never did. That made dabi relieved.

[blakeswritingimagines]

Cute moments together

Batman: One of his favorite moments with you was when you were watching a movie together. You were both cuddling and he had his arm around him. He leaned in to kiss you on the cheek and you happened to turn your head towards him and you ended up kissing on the lips. It was a sweet, tender moment that he will never forget.

Superman: A cute moment he enjoys remembering with you was during a camping trip you took when you first started dating. You had set up your tent in the middle of nowhere and stargazed together. It was a really special moment, just enjoying each other's company and soaking in the beauty of nature.

Aquaman: It was a rainy Sunday afternoon. You had just finished a lovely lunch and decided to head back to the cottage for a little afternoon nap. You walked hand-in-hand through a forest path and stopped at a clearing overlooking the sea. You both laid down beneath a tree and kissed in the rain, your hearts racing as you savored the moment together.

Wonder Woman: One time you and her were sitting together and she was playing with your hair. She was twirling it around her fingers and gently brushing it over your face. You looked really relaxed and comfortable and you had closed your eyes and were just so peaceful. There was this moment where you both looked at each other and just smiled and everything just felt perfect.

Shazam: One of his fondest and cutest moments with you is when you both were sitting outside under the stars, enjoying each other's company as you stared into each other's eyes. The stars were sparkling and the breeze was gentle, creating a truly magical atmosphere. In his heart, he was so happy to be spending time with the love of his life and to have someone with whom he felt deeply connected. That moment remains so special to him, and he never wants to forget the way your eyes glistened in the moonlight.

Flash: One of the cutest moments he remembers is your first date. It was a beautiful sunny day and you went out for lunch at a cute little café. You talked for hours and hours and got to know each other on a deeper level. As you were walking back to your cars, you both stopped to admire the scenery. He put his arm around you and kissed you on the forehead.

Nightwing: The cutest moment he remembers of you and him is when you both were lying in bed late at night, just talking. He looked over at you and said, "I just want to tell you that this is the best moment of my life." He loved the way you beamed with pure happiness and gave him a big kiss on the lips.

Red Hood: One of the sweetest moments he remembers with you is when you went on an overnight trip together. He was driving in the car, and you were both tired and cranky. But then you turned to him and said, "I love you." And in that moment, everything just felt so right. And from that moment on, everything just felt so much better. It made him realize that no matter what happens, he'll always have you by his side.

Red Robin: He remembers when you had just started dating and he stayed over at your apartment for the first time. You both had a really long day and got back at around midnight, and you were both so tired neither of you could barely keep your eyes open, but he still wanted to stay up another 5 minutes to make out before falling asleep. You were both so tired that you literally ended up just nuzzling each other's necks and falling asleep like that.

Robin: One of his favorite memories with you is dancing in the pouring rain together. You got caught in a surprise downpour while out for dinner and when you both realized that the rain wasn't going to stop any time soon. So, without waiting for a second thought, he took your hand and started dancing through the raindrops. It was so refreshing and romantic, and even though your clothes got soaked, it was an unforgettable moment.

Batgirl: One of her favorites is when you were on a date and she made you a little origami heart that said "I love you." It was so thoughtful and sweet. Another time, she surprised you with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and chocolate on your birthday.

Superboy: One that always makes him blush is from last Valentine's Day. He had made a romantic dinner reservation at this French restaurant for you both, but there was an awful snowstorm outside and everything was shut down. So you made the dinner yourselves and had the most romantic night in with just the two of you. It didn't get any more romantic than that.

[toweroftickles]

Who are your favorite underrated ticklees? like characters you think should have more tickling art/fics about them?

Oh, now you’ve done it. You’ve unleashed a tangent. 😂 Buckle up, kids; this word-and-picture vomit is gonna take a while. All 30 slots gettin' used up on this one.

UNDERRATED LEES

Let’s start with Avatar. When the second movie came out I went through a bit of a phase…half the characters in it could go here. The whole Sully clan. The Na’vi are perfectly sculpted ‘lee material - their long bellies, the ribs, the feet - and NOBODY TAKES ADVANTAGE OF IT.

(Literally just think of all the tickle torture they get up to)

Moving on to anime, Studio Ghibli is packed with characters who deserve more tickle attention. My favorites have gotta be Ursula from Kiki’s Delivery Service (I really wanna see content with her, Kiki & Tombo together), Lisa from Ponyo, Fio Piccolo from Porco Rosso, and Young Kiriko from The Boy and the Heron.

(I could watch that gif of Ursula wiggling her toes for the rest of my life)

I'm also a fan of this girl Pipirika from Magi: Adventures of Sinbad. Not sure why. I don't even watch the show.

Then there’s Suki from the other Avatar. Less-popular character in a popular fandom. Crowded out by the rest of the Gaang.

Victoria and Mr. Mistoffelees from Cats 2019. SHUT UP I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK 😖

VICTORIA IS SO PRETTY AND SWEET AND PURE AND THE WAY THEY NUZZLE EACH OTHER AND THIS WHOLE MOVIE IS TICKLE-CODED

I'M NOT A FURRY

Vi and Caitlyn from Arcane/League of Legends. That show (and this pairing) is massively popular online, they are insanely hot together, so WHY is no one making tk content except me? HMMM? These bitches are ticklish as hell and they deserve this.

It’s. Not. FAIR. I am so thirsty for CaitVi content in the leadup to Season 2 the inside of my mouth looks like the Atreides family is going to set up a base camp and harvest exotic spice from the back of my uvula.

Art3mis from Ready Player One. Book Twitter has seemingly made it their life’s mission to demonize Ernest Cline and anyone who loves the novel/movie, so fan content is already a little thin on the ground as it is. But she needs to be put in a tickle machine, stat.

Ben & Gwen Tennyson. OG series; none of that reboot horsehockey. They fight and antagonize each other so much I’m genuinely surprised there was never a tickle torture moment in the show.

From the Nintendo side of things, Imma go with two underappreciated gothic sorceress baddies (Veran from Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Medusa from Kid Icarus Uprising). I'm also very fond of the various "hot ninja lady" iterations of Impa, particularly her orange-and-black ensemble from Skyward Sword.

And both Wii Fit Trainers.

Red Savarin from the obscure Tail Concerto DS game Solatorobo: Red the Hunter. Never played it; he just looks insanely ticklish to me. You know, some characters you can just tell.

Still not a furry.

Let's see now, Disney/western animation...Kida, obviously. Robin Hood & Maid Marian, especially the latter. (I love her giggle so much.) Mowgli is more childhood wish-fulfillment on my part: that insane Jungle Book tickle scene messed me up, and each time my prepubescent self rewound the VHS tape, I played a game with my mind. I kept desperately believing/wishing that this time, it would be different: Baloo would get Mowgli back, or their tickle war would resume later. No such luck. It's about him & Baloo specifically.

The 2004 iteration of Batgirl is my favorite one. Plus she's got a great laugh. XD

The Spider-Verse movies continue to be a Tumblr phenomenon, and yet I have not found a SINGLE solitary tickle post about Rio Morales. Can you imagine how adorable she would be as a lee? ❤️ ((Ticklish moms + older women in general warrant more appreciation.))

I also made this here list a while back. This community can tend to neglect characters who are canonically ticklish, perhaps because the question has been answered already.

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WHEW. Got all that outta my system. XD If any of you are still alive and still reading this, anybody on this list that you agree deserves more tickling fanart/fics? Any thoughts on underrated lees of your own?

[breezeoddity]

I decided to make an introduction post, so here we are.

Hi! I'm Yana.

I'm 18 y.o. and I just started my med university. I LOVE photography, reading and posting silly little things about my favorite characters.

I'm a sapphic woman and that's all you should know 💗

English isn't even my second language, so forgive me for that.

Some photos by me (I use Canon EOS 60D). Most of the time I photograph my friends, nature, libraries and exhibition.

My favorite artists:

Taylor Swift (I'm a swiftie first, human being second). #FolkmoreStanTillIDie #champagneproblems&cowboylikemeEnjoyerforlife

Chappell Roan

The Beatles

David Bowie

Hozier

Boygenius

The Amazing Devil

The crane wives

my Spotify

My favorite movies:

Before sunrise

Dead poets society

Into the wilds

Roman Holiday

Robin Hood (1973)

Pitch Perfect

my letterbox

My favorite series:

Stranger Things

Looking for Alaska

Gilmore Girls

Supernatural

The Vampire Diaries

Good Omens

The Office

The L word

My favorite books:

Harry Potter (I know a marauders fan when I see one)

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Grishavers by Leigh Bardugo

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

Lockwood & Co by Jonathan Stroud

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also I'm a huge fantasy reader and I adore books by George Martin, Robin Hobb, Andrzej Sapkowski and Robert Jordan

my Pinterest

I don't know what to say at the end, let's be friends I guess??

[professorambrius]

Scooby-Doo Halloween Monster/Ghost/Ghoul Countdown #6

It's a 3 for 1 on my next on Halloween countdown of my favorite Scooby-Doo Moster/Ghost/Ghoul. It's the Joker, Penguin and the Hooded Man.

The Joker and Penguin appeared in ''The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair'' and ''The Caped Crusader Caper'', the second and fifteenth episodes of ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies''.

Both Joker and Penguin were based of their Filmation designs but with different coloring. As a result of when the episodes were produced, both villains are rather comical and not dangerous and lethal as they would later appear in the Batman comics. While Penguin did have his customary umbrella, he did have any weapons concealed in it as is costume.

In ''The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair, Scooby and the gang help Batman and Robin uncover a counterfeiting operation that leads them to the Joker and Penguin and the Haunted House attraction that they're using as their hideout. After using the tricks of the haunted house to frighten the heroes, Penguin and Joker dress as skeletons to scare them. However, once they're caught, they reveal that they're not the masterminds. The clues lead them to a mysterious Hooded Man who is the true leader of the counterfeiting ring.

Next in ''The Caped Crusader Caper'', while camping in the woods with the gang, Shaggy and Scooby come across Joker and Penguin who have kidnapped Professor Flakey in order to steal his revolutionary flying suite. The gang help Batman and Robin track the pair to their hideout in a nearby cave and then to the Professor Lab in order to stop them from stealing the suite.

In the woods, Scooby and the gang come across a troll and dryad who procced to confuse the gang with a trick covered bridge and scare Shaggy and Scooby. It's soon revealed that it the Joker and Penguin in disguise.

This incarnation of the pair would later appear in a segment from the twenty-fifth episode of ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold's second season, ''Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!''

The Hooded Man in ''The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair'', did have a mysterious feel to him. He never spoke and silently stalked the gang and the Dynamic Dou without being seen for the longest time. He was dangerous and threating as shown when he tried to crush Shaggy and Scooby in the car crusher.

While the least threating incarnations of Penguin and Joker, this was, for me at least, the first time I ever saw them in animation. Later they would appear in Scooby-Doo comics and other works where the gang meets Batman and they've been made a little more dangerous and more of a threat to Scooby and the gang.

[therosepetalrps]

inspiration  :  what  media  inspired  your  interpretation  of  your  muse  ?  can  be  anything  ;  books  ,  movies  ,  songs  ,  whatever  !

best  friend  :  who  is  their  best  friend  ?  how  do  they  feel  about  them  ?

flower  :  what  would  be  their  favorite  flower  ,  and  why  ?  because  of  what  it  means  in  the  language  of  flowers  ,  or  because  they  just  like  how  it  looks  /  smells  ?

muppet  :  who  would  be  your  muse’s  favorite  muppet(s)  ,  and  why  ?

( all for Maeve! )

»»—— 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 ——««

𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 : what media inspired your interpretation of your muse? can be anything; books, movies, songs, whatever!

The bedrock of Maeve is, without a doubt, classic-era Disney princess films. Predominantly Snow White, but with healthy helpings of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty as well. In my mind's eye, Maeve is eternally cast in soft-focus; a songbird perched on her finger, a daisy chain in her hair, the whole nine yards.

I also find classical waltzes and ballets (especially those with a fairy tale atmosphere) to be very inspiring. 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 playlist and 𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 are two of my favorites to pop on while writing. She is the physical embodiment of The Garland Waltz.

And this doesn't really fall under media, but Maeve has a very Tudor look in design and outfitting. Puffed sleeves, French hoods, and so on. I've always imagined Stormlands fashion as being Tudor-inspired. I have no pithy lore reasoning for that — my heart just tells me so.

Other bits and bobs of inspiration; Wendy Darling (a mothering storyteller who clings to childhood fancies), The Princess Bride book & film (highly exaggerated storytelling that is playful, dramatic, and wildly romantic), and The Sound of Music soundtrack (which modern!Maeve would know front to back and back to front).

𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃 : who is their best friend? how do they feel about them?

Her younger sister, Aoife.

Maeve is extraordinarily lucky to be in the centre of a very rare Venn diagram; a very large family that is also a lovingly functional one. She has a good relationship with all six of her sisters — particularly the younger ones, as she's always fulfilled a second mother role for them, even when she herself was barely knee-high.

But her and Aoife have always had a special relationship. Only one year apart in age, they were steadfast playmates and confidants nearly from birth.

Aoife is the first person Maeve will share a secret with or the first she teaches a new game she's invented. At feasts, they can be found gossiping and eating food off each other's plates. At balls, they always claim one another's first dance.

Aoife is studious and staunchly disinterested in intimate pursuits, where Maeve is fanciful and a starry-eyed romantic. Their bond isn't born from matching personalities, but from sharing the same temperament — the same heart.

𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑 : what would be their favorite flower, and why? because of what it means in the language of flowers, or because they just like how it looks / smells?

Lavender.

If you asked her purely what the most beautiful flower is, she'd likely say blue sweet peas or pink peonies. But lavender will forever have her heart because of it's smell.

Her perfumes and soaps all have a lavender base. She crumbles the dried buds and tucks them into her pillow case. And, goodness, do not loan her any piece of clothing if you don't want the scent to set into the fabric.

𝐌𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐓 : who  would  be  your  muse’s  favorite  muppet(s) ,  and  why?

Rowlf — because puppy !!

Robin — because baby !!

And, most of all, Sweetums. I mean, come on. Huge, scary monster who really just wants a hug and a lullaby? Little baby modern!Maeve would adore him.

[disneyvillainbracket]

Disney Villain Bracket

basically how this works is we have brackets a, b, and c. c is a tricky one, hopefully ill explain right

it’s basically a bracket and a half, and the villains in the half bracket will go across and meet in the middle, and the winner of that goes against the two villains on the bracket above

once we get to the middle two in a and b and have that vote, and once the double elimination in bracket c happens, the three villains will all go head to head… to head. it’ll be the three winners of each bracket in one final poll

am i explaining correctly? oh well, y’all will see what i mean when we get there

im sure a lot of y’all have opinions on how this was put together but keep in mind ive never done this before and i did my best. so

also! voting criteria is you picking your favorite of the villains in each poll. not the movies or shows or whatever they’re from, im talking about the characters themselves

i will be posting the polls on the left side of bracket A first, on Monday, April 17 at 12 PM CST! after that, i will post the left side of bracket B the following day at the same time. then the left side of bracket C the next day. the day after that, i will post the right side of bracket A, then B, then C. you get it

hope y’all have fun with this poll!!!

here’s a breakdown of the brackets below the cut, with the names and fandoms of each villain:

Bracket A:

LOVEMUFFIN (Phineas and Ferb) VS Randall Boggs (Monsters Inc)

Derek (Milo Murphy’s Law) VS The Core/Darcy (Amphibia)

Dr. Drakken (Kim Possible) VS Lady Tremaine (Cinderella)

Magica de Spell (Ducktales) VS Malleus Draconia (Twisted Wonderland)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) VS Prince John (Robin Hood)

Professor Z (Cars 2) VS Oogie Boogie (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Prince Hans (Frozen) VS Governor Ratcliffe (Pocahontas)

Professor Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective) VS Shan Yu (Mulan)

The Sanderson Sisters (Hocus Pocus) VS The White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)

Emperor Belos (The Owl House) VS Zira (The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride)

Mother Gothel (Tangled) VS Assistant Mayor Bellwether (Zootopia)

Charles Muntz (Up) VS Constance Hatchaway (The Haunted Mansion - Disney Parks)

Due (PKNA) VS Kalabar (Halloweentown)

The Walt Disney Company VS The Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Tusk (Club Penguin) VS Edgar Balthazar (The Aristocats)

Ursula (The Little Mermaid) VS Morgana (The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea)

Bracket B:

Cruella deVil (101 Dalmatians) VS Man/The Hunter (Bambi)

Turbo “King Candy” (Wreck it Ralph) VS Hopper (A Bug’s Life)

Queen Narissa (Enchanted) VS Clayton (Tarzan)

The Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland) VS Lotso Bear (Toy Story 3)

Madame Medusa (The Rescuers) VS Lord Hater (Wander over Yonder)

Maestro Forte (Beauty and the Beast: An Enchanted Christmas) VS The Horned King (The Black Cauldron)

Tamatoa (Moana) VS Second Dimension Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension)

Captain Hook (Peter Pan) VS Captain Hook (Hook)

Scar (The Lion King) VS Chick Hicks (Cars)

The Underminer (Incredibles 2) VS Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)

Hades (Hercules) VS Captain Gantu (Lilo and Stitch)

Madam Mim (Sword in the Stone) VS Dr. Facilier (Princess and the Frog)

Villain Recruiters (Disney Parks) VS Tina Harwood (Ice Princess)

Harrison Hightower III (Tower of Terror - Disney Parks) VS Professor Parenthesis (The OWCA Files)

The Sea Witches (Festival of Mystique - Disney Parks) VS Marina Del Ray (The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning)

Janet Smythe (Best Friends Whenever) VS Meredith Blake (The Parent Trap)

Bracket C:

The Evil Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) VS Scroop (Treasure Planet)

Chernabog (Fantasia) VS Jafar (Aladdin)

Toffee (Star VS the Forces of Evil) VS The Blot (Epic Mickey)

Syndrome (The Incredibles) VS Stinky Pete (Toy Story 2)

Phantom Blot (Disney Comics) VS Sa’luk (Aladdin and the King of Thieves)

Trauma (PKNA) VS The Beagle Boys (Disney Comics)

Royal Pain (Sky High) VS Demona (Gargoyles)

Yzma (Emperor’s New Groove) VS Judge Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) VS Ernesto de la Cruz (Coco)

Commander Rourke (Atlantis: The Lost Empire) VS The Headless Horseman (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)

Emperor Zurg (Toy Story) VS Miles McDermott (The Even Stevens Movie)

Professor JT Wu (The Nightmare Experiment - Disney Parks) VS Henry Ravenswood (Big Thunder Mountain Railroad - Disney Parks)

[shirefantasies]

I’ll message you in one second 😂 but I saw you mention Hogans Heroes and immediately I knew I had to say this “I know Na-othing. I see nothing. I was not here. I did not even get up this morning!”

Ah Schultz my favorite German toy maker 😂 it’s even funnier (not haha but ironically) when you realize he and Klink‘a actor were Jew’s playing a Nazi. One of them I think Werner Klemperer said playing such a bumbling fool of a nazi was cathartic and his only condition was that the character wouldn’t have a hero arc or redemption arc of any kind and therefore would take responsibility for the atrocities committed. Not giving the Nazi’s involved leeway.

actually I’ll leave this here off anonymous) I’m female thanks for being respectful I forgot to specify lol *facepalm*😂) I’m still reading your response but like I said I saw hogans heroes mentioned 🤣 and thank you! Do you know how AMAZING YOU ARE too?!

“Oh as far as comfort songs (Star trek lower decks tribute: Lower Decks - You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate) and Family guy (Mr. Booze) or the original Robin and the Five hoods version of Mr.Booze. 😂 also *cough* my little pony smile song and rarity’s sewing songs when I sew 🧵 with my sewing machine. I made my Guinea pig a tent, beds, and a pillow. An angsty song that when I need to go through those emotions would be Blackswan’s Rubix’s cube. Dragon Song by Built By Titan (I went through some things after Httyd ended it was like my childhood flew away with toothless it was oof 😅 😂 or OneRepublic - Good Life because emotions. Or Whitesnakes here I go again…dude I love music 🤣 this is the short list version. Last thing 😂 whenever you get to it it’s no problem. But I just looked up surfing bird family guy and I’m like “Ooh it’s that song!” I always knew it as “The bird is the word” song I didn’t know it was called Surfing bird. I friggin love that song. 🤣 alright have a goodnight and week! Talk to ya later”

OMG Yasss! A lot of the HH cast were actually affected by the Holocaust. That was a stipulation of the whole show, only dumb nazis or even the cunning and smart seeming ones always lose. Plenty of digs at what they’re doing and the people following those orders! John Banner was the only survivor in his family too, very tragic 😔 Robert Clary (LeBeau) actually had numbers tattooed on him from a camp 😲 I love that Schultz is a successful toymaker though, it’s so perfect for him 🥹 and it seems that his character is more distant from the nazis and more just a drafted soldier who doesn’t want to be there. As a Bofur/ur clan girlie I enjoy my toymaker characters 🫶🏻

Ooh music recommendations! I could give some too though you may not like them since I mostly listen to heavy stuff these days 😂 I used to watch mlp when I was younger how funny! Is Dragon Song from the movies or just something that reminds you of them? Same with Surfin’ Bird, my old boss just called it “The Bird Song” 😆 her husband played it for their daughters and it was bugging her that they loved it and kept dancing to it!

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give me something that’ll haunt me when you’re not around

chapter nine: don’t know where we’re going but i’d like to be by your side

rise of the tmnt pairing: leoichi (leonardo / usagi yuichi) word count: 4k title borrowed from are you bored yet? by wallows post-movie

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The next time Yuichi is invited to the lair, five very significant things happen.

1. Leonardo meets Yuichi’s friends

The first thing Leonardo announces to his family when he tumbles through the portal between Usagi Farm and his own living room is “Kitsune and I are gonna STEAL!”

His siblings take a moment to absorb that and then look behind him at Yuichi, who had all but shoved Leonardo in and then hustled through himself.

Yuichi, feeling harassed, says, “They are not going to steal.”

The last forty-five minutes have felt like a four-day marathon.

Yuichi is spending the day at the lair, on Leonardo’s invitation, with the added assurance that his family would love to have him. When the striped turtle initially offered to portal him there and back, Yuichi leapt on the offer embarrassingly quickly.

He would never admit it on pain of death, but here’s Yuichi’s reasoning: if he doesn’t have to spend nearly an hour driving each way, that’s an additional two hours he gets to spend with his favorite person, so yes. As much as he loves his bike, he’s team portal.

They made these plans a week ago, and Yuichi’s first mistake was mentioning it to Gen. So he wasn’t expecting his friends’ ambush the second Leonardo stepped through the portal into the yard, but he probably should have been.

“Let’s go for a walk,” Chizu said, in a way that made it clear she was not asking. “We’ll get parfaits.”

Leonardo, who had been on the farm for all of three minutes at that point, which was more than enough time for him to have collected two small children and one small dinosaur, said, “Uh, yeah. Okay. Can lizards have dairy?”

Yuichi didn’t even have time to worry about his friends and Leonardo not getting along, because at the very first sign of being left behind by the teenagers, Sonoko and Momiji pitched a fit loud enough that it attracted Jomei and Botan, who were quick to join in.

This is usually when he strong-armed them back into the house, but Leonardo said, ostensibly to Gen but with his voice pitched loud and performative so the children take notice, “What do you think? Should we bring all the well-behaved bunnies back a treat?”

It worked like a charm, because of course it did, because that was the cousins’ angle in the first place. Once they were mollified, Yuichi’s group could escape, and Chizu said, “You shouldn’t let them play you like that, Leo. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.”

“I was gonna get them ice cream anyway,” he replied. “Let them think they won, it’s good for their devious little brains.”

“Are you speaking from experience?” Gen rumbled, his tone warm with good humor. “Is this a lesson from the school of ninja?”

“Oh, sure.” Leonardo guided Champion up onto his shoulder, where she curled around his neck like a scaly scarf, so his hands were free to fold in the pose of a wise old master. “Lesson one—strike hard, fade away into the night, and always let the babies in the room think they’re smarter than you. That way they’re never actually smarter than you.”

“And have the funds to buy their loyalty,” Kitsune pointed out.

“That’s the easy part. Donnie’s been seeding funds from untraceable backdoors into Fortune 500 companies for years,” Leonardo said. He turned to walk backwards, leveling them all with a narrow stare. “And I don’t wanna hear any judgment from the Samurai Squad about it, either. My twinnie’s single-handedly kept the lights on by stealing from people so rich they don’t even notice.”

Chizu and Yuichi sighed at the same time. Gen laughed. Because Kitsune bounced up to her full height, shoulders squared, and announced, “I steal, too! I’m basically Robin Hood, without all the murder! Last month I did a casino sweep, baby!”

Leonardo’s eyes brightened. “Tell me everything about that right now.”

So, within minutes, Yuichi went from being really excited that his favorite people were getting along, to being absolutely certain in the knowledge that Kitsune and Leonardo could never be left unsupervised, ever, because they were the exact same level of chaos gremlin.

Gen was easy. He’s a straightforward person, and there are certain qualities he admires that Leonardo has in spades. His battle-scars and the weapons strapped to his shell cut him a dangerous figure. His obnoxious laughter when Yuichi tried to hop over a puddle and landed in mud instead softened him again. So Gen challenged him to an arm-wrestling match, and then best two of three, and then best seven of ten, and then Champion bit Gen’s thumb with her tiny baby teeth for hogging her person. But by then Leonardo had cemented himself as a Cool Guy in Gen’s eyes.

Chizu was more exacting than that, and sometimes her protective nature could turn sharp against people, and Yuichi was worried she might be unkind. But she studied Leonardo’s interactions with Gen, how unfazed he was by Gen’s size and how he didn’t treat the rhino’s simplicity as stupidity.

And she observed the way he and Kitsune matched each other’s energy, both of them a clever trickster learning the ins and outs of the other’s wits. When Kitsune withdrew her cute qiankun bag to show him some of her favorite purloined gems and trinkets, Leonardo responded in kind, pulling his phone out and swiping through a photo album of some of the best things his brother had invented with his stolen means.

And she watched him dither over the ice cream menu, dragging Yuichi over by the sleeve to help him pick out treats for the kids back home, charming the yokai employee behind the stand into making the world’s tiniest strawberry soft serve for Champion. And it seemed to be enough.

On the walk back to the farm, Gen lifted the bags out of Leonardo’s hands so he didn’t have to juggle everything and a lizard, and Leonardo didn’t even notice because Kitsune was distracting him by outlining, in great detail, her dream of successfully pulling off the world’s biggest art heist one day—not even because she likes art, just because—and Chizu looked past the three of them to meet Yuichi’s eyes.

She tipped her head towards Leonardo, raised a brow, and smiled. It very clearly said Okay, he’ll do.

But she wouldn’t be Chizu if she didn’t like to make people sweat, so when they were back at Yuichi’s house and handing off ice cream to greedy little kids, and Leonardo was beginning tense negotiations with Champion, who had decided the inside of his jacket was the perfect place to hide from the injustice of being left behind again, Chizu barked, “Leo!”

He jumped a foot. Dangling from his elbow, Momiji giggled. 

“Jesus—what??”

“Next Thursday, we meet in battle,” she said. “Go match. Bring your wits.”

“Good thing I bring those with me everywhere. You’re on,” Leonardo said, all bold, unflinching confidence. Then he opened Google on his phone, frantically typing “how to play Go beginner cheat sheet” into the search bar. Yuichi loved this idiot with his whole chest.

“And don’t forget!” Kitsune shouted. “Art heist! This summer! The Louvre!!”

“Art heist!” Leonardo shouted back, and that was when Yuichi decided it was time to go for real.

And now Leonardo is telling Michelangelo, “We’re so gonna steal.”

“I still have custody of your dinosaur,” Yuichi mentions in a loud voice, which is enough to make Leonardo heave an exaggerated sigh and roll his eyes and move onto something else.

“You’re not gonna be able to hold Champy against him forever,” April points out, sounding amused.

“I know,” Yuichi says woefully. “I’ll figure something else out.”

2. Yuichi meets the Hamato patriarch

Yuichi doesn’t even realize there’s an additional presence in the room until the very last second.

Something goes flying at the back of his head, and he whirls around and deflects it with the flat of his hand, spiking it into the ground like a volleyball.

Only it’s not a volleyball, it’s something delicate and made of what sounds like porcelain? Given the tinkling little noise it makes as it breaks into about a billion pieces?

Yuichi only has about three seconds to be completely mortified before the turtles and April erupt into hysterical laughter. Even Casey is smothering giggles behind his hand.

“Dad, was that your favorite teacup?” Donatello asks, lowering his goggles over his eyes and twisting one of the lenses, as if he’s zooming in with a camera to capture his father’s gobsmacked expression in full detail. “Was it? Dad, was it?”

“Oh my god it’s so broken,” Michelangelo wheezes, hugging his stomach. “I’m gonna throw up.”

“I thought he would catch it!” the rat says, waving his hands above his head. “Why would you just—why would—”

“That’s what you get, pops,” Raphael butts in. “It was rude of you to throw stuff at our friend.”

He pats Yuichi on the back warmly, and it’s an unmistakably friendly gesture, but there’s enough force behind it to send any normal person toppling forward. Yuichi grew up with an affectionate rhinoceros for a best friend and knows when to lock his knees. He doesn’t even sway under the touch and offers Raphael a smile.

“Yeah, you missed the boat, Splints,” April says, wiping the tears from her eyes with the heel of her hand, glasses all askew. “Besides, my boy Usagi here is a keeper.”

“Hmph,” Splinter says, shrugging his hands into the sleeves of his robe. “Just because he’s swayed the rest of you to the dark side, I won’t be deceived. Besides, Baby Blue is much too young for—”

“PAPA,” Leonardo all but shrieks. He looks mortified. All of his siblings are glaring daggers at the rat now. Yuichi thinks he missed something, because he has no idea where Splinter was going with that statement. Too young for—? The dark side? Is this a Star Wars thing? Botan loves those movies.

Disgruntled, but unwilling to fight all six of his kids all at once, Splinter says, “He can keep up with Blue, at least. Who was your teacher, little rabbit?”

Yuichi straightens, lifting his chin. He can feel himself brighten, his smile growing into a grin. He’s so proud to be her student, he always loves when he can boast, “Karasu-Tengu-sensei! She’s the best!”

Splinter’s expression changes immediately. The grumpy, displeased look falls away and he somehow manages to look pale through his fur.

“Karasu-Tengu? That terrifying creature is your sensei?”

Yuichi nods cheerfully. She is terrifying. She can quell even the biggest meanest yokai with a single look. He’s seen her do it. It’s amazing. He wants to be just like her when he grows up.  

“Oh—well, then,” Splinter says, and reaches up to pat Yuichi on the head clumsily. “Ah, that’s. Wonderful. How lucky we are to have you in our home. If you need anything, don’t hesitate to speak up. And if your—sensei—asks, tell her I said you’re a delightful boy and my son is better off for knowing you.”

Leonardo and his siblings all have a look of slow-dawning delight on their faces. Yuichi wasn’t expecting such a glowing endorsement just minutes after getting a teacup lobbed at his head, but he certainly isn’t going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

“Usagi, listen,” Donatello says suddenly. “This is so important. We have to have your teacher over for dinner.”

“No, like, we have to,” Michelangelo adds, super intense.

“She’s traveling now, but when she gets back, I’ll let her know!” Yuichi says, pleased.

For whatever reason, Splinter looks like he’s going through the five stages of grief.

3. Donatello finishes the electro-yoyo

He comes out of the lab singed and covered in soot, yo-yo in hand. He doesn’t seem to mind that the toy quite literally blew up in his face, and none of his siblings treat this as anything entirely out of the ordinary either.

The armored turtle holds it out to him. Slowly, gingerly, Yuichi stretches his hands out to take it. It doesn’t explode.

“So it looks like your yo-yo has a ghost,” Donatello says unremarkably.

“I’m sorry?” Yuichi says, still holding the toy at arms’ length.

“It’s okay, our ghost is scarier,” he adds, and holds up a hand without looking to fist-bump April, for some reason.

It still needs some testing before Donatello is satisfied enough to call it finished, so they go to the dojo for that, where a very sad-looking training dummy is pushed into the middle of the room.

Although the yo-yo is heavier now, reinforced with metal plating and whatever tiny gizmos Donatello has packed inside, it’s still a familiar shape in Yuichi’s hand. But he’s never used it as a weapon before, and he finds himself at a bit of a loss until Michelangelo helpfully compares it to a kusari-fundo.

“I used to have one,” the smallest turtle says brightly. “It got broken, but I saved the fire spirit that lived inside it. It lives in a camping lantern in my room now.”

“Wait, what?” all three of his brothers say at the same time.

“Anyway,” Michelangelo goes on, “has your sensei ever let you train with rope or chain before? Maybe if you think of it like that you’ll have a better idea how to use it!”

It helps a lot, actually. Within twenty minutes, Yuichi has a pretty good handle on how to use the toy as a flail, and also how to loop it around the dummy’s neck or arm, the weighted disc hooking over the reinforced string and creating a collar that only tightens the more you pull.

And the electroshock function definitely works. After the second small fire they have to put out, the dummy’s materials decidedly not conducive to this area of testing, Donatello marks the yo-yo down as a unilateral success.

4. The hooks come out of Leonardo’s shell

Sometime after lunch, Splinter comes back into the room. He’s holding a cup of tea in hand, steaming and faintly fragrant.

Leonardo makes a face at it, but when April bumps their shoulders together, he takes it without argument.

“Mandrake tea,” he says when he notices Yuichi’s curious look. Ah, that explains both the smell and Leonardo’s distaste. It’s very medicinal, and tastes like how Yuichi imagines drinking perfume out of the bottle might. But its restorative properties are second-to-none. “Barry was basically funneling it down our throats after the invasion. These losers got to stop drinking it weeks ago.”

“I think that would make us winners,” Donatello says mildly.

“Barry?” Yuichi asks.

“Our weird stepdad kind of?” Leonardo explains, his tone raising at the end like he’s not sure. “He threw me off a roof once. Now he works at April’s old high school.”

There’s really not a lot Yuichi can think of to say to that, so he settles for, “Okay then.”

Splinter taps Leonardo’s chin gently. “I’ll still make you drink it, even if you let it get cold,” the rat says, not unkindly. “It certainly won’t taste better out of the microwave.”

Leonardo wrinkles his beak—cute, the unhelpful part of Yuichi’s brain supplies—but keeps sipping. Apparently, it’s his last dose, because as soon as he hands the empty cup off, he’s shrugging out of the jacket of the day—pink, this time, and so big on him that Yuichi knows who it must belong to even before Leonardo bundles it up and shoves it toward his eldest brother.

And then his shell is on full display, for the first time since the invasion. Yuichi has seen his plastron, and he can see that the dramatic cracks there have faded into faint pencil-mark lines, but he’s never so much as glimpsed the damage done to Leonardo’s carapace.

It’s a lot. It’s a roadmap of cruelty. The pretty patterns on the shell are interrupted by jagged dashes, like scarring where the pieces have fused back together after it was crushed. At a glance, Yuichi has no idea how his friend could have survived it in the first place. The mandrake tea and that healing coma—mystic in nature, he’s beginning to suspect—might have saved his life.

Turtle shells are so fundamentally important to their overall health, and infection is a very real fear. So it’s very likely that, in part, Leonardo was keeping it covered up to protect the hooks and bandages that were keeping the broken edges of the keratin together.

But from the way his shoulders hunch up to his jawline the second his back is exposed, Yuichi also gets the sense that he’s ashamed.

Splinter sounds a little choked up when he says, “Oh, Blue. Your shell has healed perfectly. We can take these hooks out now, and sand you down, and you’ll be as good as new.”

“Ooh, sanding, that’ll feel nice,” Michelangelo says enthusiastically. “It’ll be like a spa day!”

He hopped up onto the infirmary bed next to Leonardo the second the jacket came off, and he’s been scooting closer by the second, and now he’s tucking himself under Leonardo’s arm. Yuichi is standing behind Leonardo, so he can’t see what his face is doing, but it’s clearly causing Michelangelo some real distress. The rest of his siblings look grim and miserable, too.

Yuichi remembers the first time he sat in Leonardo’s bedroom, looking at those cracks in his plastron and thinking they were perfect, because those cracks meant his shell did its job and held up to a horrifying enemy and protected the precious life in its care.

He stands by that.

So he puts a hand on Leonardo’s carapace, and smiles a little when Leonardo jolts in surprise and then goes perfectly still. Rabbit behavior.

The pad of his thumb brushes over one of those healed lines, where it cuts through the pale blue pattern, and Yuichi says, “Have you ever heard of kintsukuroi?”

Almost immediately, Donatello’s phone is in his hand. April and Casey lean over his shoulders from each side to watch as he looks it up. Raphael leans over his head.

Leonardo’s breath shudders when he goes to answer, so he clears his throat and tries again.

“Can’t say I have. Fill me in, Cottontail.”

Rolling his eyes, feeling nothing but fondness, Yuichi says, “It means ‘golden repair.’ It’s the art of repairing broken pottery with gold.” Making something more beautiful for having broken in the first place, he thinks, but doesn’t have the courage to say out loud.

Donatello wordlessly turns his phone around so his little brothers can see the Google Image results. Michelangelo says, “Oh, oh wow, Leo! Leo I’m getting so many amazing ideas right now! You have to be my canvas later, okay? Promise?”

Leonardo laughs. It’s a breathless, punched-out sound, and it’s not the bright thing it’s supposed to be, the bright thing it was learning how to be again, but it’s still there. That’s the whole point. That’s the whole miracle.

“More good news,” Donatello says, his eyes trained without blinking on his twin’s down-turned face. “Your cast can come off, too.”

It does the job. Leonardo’s head jerks up, and he says, “Really?”

“Really really,” Donatello replies, smiling slightly. If Yuichi didn’t know him as well as he did now, he might have missed it. “That’s two reallys. To the lab, dum-dum.”

The four youngest Hamatos ramble off together like a very noisy, many-legged creature, hooting and pinballing off the walls and attached at the shoulders. The eldest two stay behind. Their father makes noises about calling someone named Draxum with an update on Leonardo’s progress “so he gets off my tail!” and hobbles from the room.

“You’re a sweetheart,” April says, resting an arm on Yuichi’s shoulder. “Golden repair, huh?”

“I meant it,” he says, lifting his chin.

“Me, too,” she counters evenly.

They watch as Leonardo jumps onto Donatello’s back, nearly causing his purple-banded brother to fall on his face to said brother’s very vocal displeasure, and they disappear from view inside the lab. Casey and Michelangelo are laughing as they pile in after them.

“Yeah, so it’s going to be heckin’ impossible to keep him still after this,” Raphael says off-handedly. He glances down at Yuichi and says, “Wanna stay for a spar?”

Which leads to the fifth, and most significant event of the day:

5. Yuichi and Leonardo spar

Leonardo springs to the center of the mats and turns to face the rest of them with a dramatic twirl. Leonardo is looking right at Yuichi, a devilish grin on his face, bright eyes pinning him in place like a butterfly to corkboard.

“The rematch of the century,” he crows, arms spread out to his sides, as he’s rallying an audience of hundreds, “the tortoise and the hare, a one-night special engagement, here to set the record straight once and for all!”

“We’re not racing, idiot,” Yuichi says, unable to help smiling at him as he slides his jacket off and unbelts Edgewing from his hip. He hands them off to Raphael and steps onto the mats readily. “But I guess I have time to teach you a thing or two.”

“Alexa, play ‘Smooth’ by Santana!” Michelangelo calls out, as eagerly as if he’s just been waiting for this opportunity, and across the room, the speaker system blinks to life.

“Thank you, Michael,” Leonardo says pointedly, like he would use much stronger words if their father wasn’t in the room. And then he dives forward and Yuichi meets him halfway.

Leonardo is clearly holding back, because the dojo is small and because Yuichi isn’t one of the super-powered brothers he’s used to tumbling around with, and maybe also because he’s been out of commission for a little over two months now.

But even with all of that, he’s fast. Fast enough that Yuichi can feel his blood begin to race a shis body prepares itself for the upcoming workout.

It isn’t really kata. It’s definitely not the type of sparring Yuichi would practice under sensei’s disciplined eye.

It’s more of a game, an effortless back-and-forth. And it’s fun. And Yuichi is fast, too.

They trade blows and blocks and dance around each other like they’ve been doing exactly this for years and years. Leonardo moves like a construct of wind and mischief, never pulling the same move twice, zigging when it would make more sense for him to zag, and it costs all of Yuichi’s attention and intuition to keep up with him.

Yuichi is aware of the others filing out of the dojo. Michelangelo and April are all but shoving Splinter out the door ahead of them. But it’s second-hand awareness at best.

All of his focus belongs to the boy in front of him. They’re alone in the room with  alternative rock crooning out of the huge speaker system in the corner and the walls are so tall and so close that it creates a reverb, an echo chamber. It’s music and motion and Leonardo’s gold eyes, his flashbang grin, and the blood in Yuichi’s veins is singing. His heart is straining at the seams.

This is a conversation. This is hey, I know you, you’re just like me.

When Leonardo aims a kick at Yuichi’s left shoulder, Yuichi catches his leg and holds it there, and kicks his other leg out from under him in the next second. The turtle goes down with an oof and before he can twist up to his feet again, Yuichi pins him.

He’s straddling Leonardo’s middle, knees planted against the mat on either side of him, forearm pressed to his neck. If it were a real battle, against an actual enemy, he would have a blade pressed there instead. The match is decidedly his.

His chest is heaving with exertion and that giddy runner’s-high feeling and he knows he’s probably grinning wildly.

Leonardo is staring up at him like Yuichi is the first point of light after days in the dark. He looks so cute, all wide-eyed and winded. Yuichi leans in, so that they’re nose-to-nose and all that gold belongs to him, just for this one moment. What a prize.

“I win,” Yuichi says smugly.

“Uh-huh,” Leonardo replies, sort of faint. “You got me.”

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When I drew this it was after I just watched bambi, for the second time ever.

Long review/ramble below.

I saw it once as a child and never again, got slightly curious when I saw a bit of it on a TV a few years ago and I knew I had to rewatch at some point when, I found a DVD copy at my 'local" goodwill.

Backgrounds were pretty the Deer animation was impressive, and there is reason why the ending parts (The fight betwwen the deers, the hunters/hunting dogs and the fire) Stood out to me as a child (and there still my favorite parts of the film and now that I think of it, it's the only part of the movie I can say for certain I remember seeing and not just remember seeing promotional material for the disney brand.)

which I think it's ironic that the textbook example of sad moments in children's movies didn't get a reaction out of me. (still breath taking in execution tough)

Admittedly this isn't shocking since until recently I didn't feel sadness when experiencing media, frighten and angered sure when I was little and even cringe but never actual sadness.

Unless you're Benji.

Other than it it's kind of on the extreme end of of lofi/episodic story telling which picked up at the end I liked it enough, but I could see why people would get bored and I personally prefer things like Lady and the tramp or Robin hood if were talking about episodic feature films.

Also I'm not a big fan of how some of the animals look(?) technically there fine but I just don't care for the Disney art style(s) and I for some reason hate when this happens

I've always been bothers by this and 95% of my character design troubles would've gone away if I like this.

And I hate Thumper's child design it's like the weird mishmash of a real bunny and a cartoon bunny but it's weird and ill fitting feeling to me and how the deer look pretty much the same bothers me too.

Like I get there meant to be realistic and with background characters it's fine but like I feel like the love interest should not look like the MC dead mom.

Final thoughts

It's a movie I think everyone should see at least once as a child not just because of the of artsy but also because I like the idea of certain movies being a collected fuzzy memories

10/10

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5, 18, 29?

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

So I don’t like saying never, since things could always change. Some ideas never take off and some ideas seem dead before rising up out of the ground like zombies to torment the living.

I do have a Lot of Sk8 multichapters that there just simply is not enough of me to write. Maybe I’ll pick one of these up if/when we get an S2, or if I manage to publish an original book between now and then and feel better about writing longfic. They include:

1) a three part Fodlan AU epic where the Sk8 crew starts as a group of Robin Hood-esque outlaws before being arrested by the notorious Hubert von Vestra and conscripted as agents of Adrestia. Starts as adventure but turns into a war epic where they all struggle to recognize not only each other but also themselves.

2) Sk8 pirate AU

3) Sk8 thriller/murder mystery where someone dies via overdose of a mysterious new drug at S. Adam is caught between the yakuza, who think he’s branching out into dealing on their turf, and the police. The crew has to solve the crime before either party catches up to them.

4) Not a longfic, just not high on my list per se because it’s a little too bleak even for me.

Eden. Zombie apocalypse fic where skilled skateboarders, cyclists, rollerbladers etc are the best way to get messages or resources around the island. It starts out as the 8 of them but the crew dies one at a time as the years go on, until Adam and Langa are the only ones skilled enough to still be alive. They find comfort with each other in their shared history and shared solitude, and by the end it’s the only thing keeping them going.

18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic?

Oh man this is a good question. There’s a lot I’m genuinely proud of, but probably this bit from From the Garden. (Sorry, including the whole paragraph because my fave lines doesn’t make sense without it)

Then there was Tadashi.

They’d been close, then far apart, then close again. The stubborn silence and hurt of the last seven years lived in Ainosuke’s bones right along with them coming back together, wanting to build a future after wasting all that time in an emotional standoff. No matter which way he looked at his life, it was a palindrome, with him and Tadashi growing distant and then close again.

Finally, he settled on memories of being a child with Tadashi, of that spectacular summer where Tadashi taught him to skate and they’d spent every day together. No matter what else had happened, Ainosuke had just needed to see Tadashi and their decks and he’d feel like he could fly. It was the happiest he’d ever been.

If he was fading, those were the memories he wanted to fade into.

29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic. (If you don’t have either, just share a random fic idea you have that you don’t plan on getting to.)

HMM there was an original draft of the Grell peril scene in Passing the World By that was a little hornier (inspired by a scene in the second Elvira movie), to the point where I decided to cut it and possibly expand it into its own fic at some point. This text won’t stay the same, but I want to repurpose the scenario.

To his surprise, he arrived in a chamber that was dimly lit by oil lamps. A desk littered with papers sat at one end of the room with a messy bookshelf behind it. All around the room, old torture devices lay in all sorts of configurations, rusted, dusted, and covered by cobwebs.

Sebastian fought the urge to stop and organize things. Just because someone was an occultist was no excuse for mess. In fact, he’d seen plenty of examples for why one should keep a tidy workstation when communing with the nether reaches of reality.

However, a steady, loud, clicking sound coming from the next room drew his focus instead.

When he opened the door to a spacious antechamber with a stone dais at the center, the person inside made eye contact and grinned wildly, tinged with a panic he’d rarely seen in a Reaper’s green eyes.

“Bassie! Oh my, how long has it been? Thirty years?!” She shifted uncomfortably, her back against stone. “I know I always say this, but I am glad to see you. Your timing is impeccable, you know that?”

Sebastian stepped through the entryway and took stock of the situation.

Grell Sutcliff was bound to a stone dais in the center of the room, her arms held over her head in a pair of strong metal stocks, while her ankles were locked in a second pair at the end of the dais. A matching metal collar was wrapped around her throat, her hair bunched up underneath it at the hinges as it kept her from lifting her head too high. Her captor had left her glasses, which didn’t seem like a mercy, considering the circumstances.

Overhead, a bladed pendulum hung in the air, swinging ominously back and forth directly over Grell’s stomach—it would have been nearly imperceptible to a human, but Sebastian could see that it was dropping further down. The sharpened blade glinted in the light, and it was easily identifiable as a reaper’s scythe.

He caught himself smiling. What an interesting predicament she’d found herself in.

“If I didn’t know better, I’d think you arranged this.” Sebastian leaned over, then glanced up at the blade overhead as it swung and ticked a notch closer. “Did you really miss me that much?”

[creetchure]

OH I WATCHED UNDER THE RED HOOD AND WOW I FORGET HOW HORRIBLE IT US WATCHING JASON GETTING BEAT UP W A CROWBAR

all of his actions! are justified i still do not think he was at all in the wrong w becoming like a sort of crime lord. red hood more like slay hood

i will say! that (and maybe the comics go into more depth w the backstory to why he even went after the joker) i kinda like the way they built up his death in the titans.

i will now explain bc it’s actually my favorite arc ever.

jason todd was tossed around in the system, yeah. obviously this causes mistrust w authority, duh. finally, fucking bruce wayne takes him in and suddenly he’s actually helping his community. the community he suffered in and saw others suffering around him and continues to see suffering!! so obviously that’s like so amazing and great.

except. then he starts feeling like batman is holding him on a leash. there isnt total trust both ways — he feels like he’s worth more than anyone is giving him credit for (teen struggles but ur a vigilante!! uh oh).

so when he gets sent to the titans he is really fuckin pissed. it’s just further proof that bruce/batman doesn’t actually believe in him as a proficient fighter (even though, while some of that might be true, im sure bruce wanted him to also gain new perspectives. not the point though).

and then of course he gets fucking traumatized to all hell from almost dying after running off on his own without thinking things through bc yet again he feels chained down. so he’s dealing w that when he gets back go gotham.

and bruce notices! and is like “hey you should go to therapy” but jason already lost some amount of trust so is like “hm no im *fine* let me *fight*” he sees therapy as an admission to weakness etc etc.

he eventually is kinda forced to go (no fight until therapy) and it helps for about a second until he just fuckin. convinces himself that it’s rigged against his favor. so batman totally grounds him and he then he goes to fight the joker alone and. yeah.

but it’s just so?? like?? idk it’s so. it makes so much sense. everyone’s side makes sense and i think that’s why i love it so much. idk how much of this correlates w the comics but the red hood movie did Not go into very mucb detail and i know that wasn’t the point of the movie but it was still a little disappointing somehow. i still super duper enjoyed it though. for sure very much super good movie/gen

and the fight sequences!!! ugh i love love love animated fights. how do they do that??? so much talent.

gotta say, i wasnt expecting so much from titans, fromwhat little ive heard about it. BUT. counterpoint. your honor, you should also watch Batman: Death in the Family. Goes into a lot of why jason went to ethiopia in the first plac e that ties in with him not knowing who he is outside batman, etc.

my main rec for post revival jason is teen titans #29 from either the 2003 or 2007 run i cant rmbr

OK spoilers for death in the family below, thoughPLEASE please pleaseread or watch it its SO worth it. its what shapes Batman into what he is now, changes a Lot of his motivations.

ok ? ok!

in comic canon, jason is a crime alley kid, that hasnt changed, but the difference i think is rhat its batman whi takes him in. he tries to steal the batmobiles tires, and bruce drops on him in full costume to buy him a hamburger and iffer him to stay.

one thing youll see people say is that jason was the angry/violent robin, and while i disagree on that whole thing, it is where most of his and bruces issues stem from pre-death.

he gets benched. he finds out catherine todd isnt his biological mother and in a fit of teenage angst and rebelion, decides flying to ethiopia is the way to deal with that, to try to find his bio mom.

and he does!! him and vruce find her!! only issue is: she sells jason out to the joker, who was blackmailing her.

so jason is there. he wat hed his mother sell him out. hes getting tortured nearly to death, and then you see what happens at the begining of under the red hood, except whatq not shown there is that jason died taking the burnt of thz blast for his mom.

tbe nextcomic is i thunk the ling halloween which introduces tim and a whole lot of iddues, superman has to stop him from killong etc.

what id rec for other post revival jason content is from the 2003 (i think, might be 07?? unsure) teen titans run, issue #29, which has a confrontation with tim that is so. so heartbreaking man. i love it but also holy fucking shitballs.

[libertyreads]

Book Review #39 of 2024--

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. Rating: 2 stars.

Read from June 15th to 21st.

I have to stop buying Classics just because they're beautiful. I have a horrible track record with them. The only one I remember ever truly enjoying is The Count of Monte Cristo which is a revenge story so...of course. This was originally published in 1883 but is set in the late 12th, early 13th century so that was a little odd. It isn't really noticeable until the end. I assume this is because songs/ballads about Robin Hood were popular in this time?

This book comes with the usual 1800s bullshit of being way longer than it needs to be for no real reason. (Okay, the reason was money, but no GOOD reason.) There was a lot of the usual repetition of one character says one thing and the second one repeats it back to them. There was a lot of repetition in the narration and extended flowery writing. It got to be too much sometimes. I was also surprised that Maid Marion was mentioned once in passing and never again. I thought she was supposed to be important to Robin. I think the last 75 pages or so are really what did this book in for me. It ends in a way that feels unlike the character I've known throughout the book and then when it got to talking about the end of Robin's life it felt very sad and boring. Especially compared to who he was in his younger years.

There were some fun moments of Robin Hood robbing the rich to pay the poor and all the usual stuff we associate with him. He was less enjoyable than other versions of him I'm seen in movies. I liked seeing the characters I knew from the movies of Robin Hood. I think Little John is probably my favorite character.

[goggles-mcgee]

Wish Me Away Random Headcanons

• For Marietta's 10th birthday Harley bought her a Hyena since she seemed to love Lou and Bud so much. Mari loved her new pet which she lovingly named Ha-Ha-Harley.

Bruce was so not amused. Quite the opposite in fact. Damian of course was thrilled to add another pet to the family. Alfred suggested Bruce make another Manor for the pets of the family. Dick immediately asked if he could get an elephant if they did end up doing that.

• Harley and Mari hang out sometimes when Mari goes to stop Harley's crimes as her fox hero self, Maid Marian (Dick and her watched Robin Hood once and she loved it). When she shows up her and Harley just stop what they're doing and have a "Pigtail Pals" Day.

This has resulted in many heart attacks for Bruce in the beginning who would immediately track them down. One such instance:

"Marian! Quinn! You've got to stop doing this."

"But Daddy! It's Pigtail Pals Day! You can't be here, you don't got pigtails!"

"Yeaaaaaah Daddy, you ain't got no pigtails! Unless you count the spikes on the cowl!"

"....."

"...."

"I..."

"Don't. I heard it as soon as I said it Bats. I may have daddy issues but they aren't near that bad to be a kink. How about I take mini pigtails to the movies and we forget this every happened? Deal?"

"Deal."

"Yay! Movies! Bye Daddy!"

"....Bye Princess...."

• Everyone asked her why she didn't want to go by Robin Hood when in her fox hero form and she said it was because they already had a Robin, and pointed at Damian, and a Hood, and pointed at Jason.

• She and Cass have weekly Barbie Movie marathons. Sometimes they let Dick join them. Cass really likes the ballet centered ones and her and Marietta dance along when the dance scenes come on.

• During a heist where Riddler and Penguin needing Catwomans help they almost got caught because they were caught off guard by the sight of Catwoman walking in holding a CHILD'S hand. A child dressed like a cat.

All she said was. "It was my night to babysit so let's make this fast. I promised Kitten I'd make grilled cheese for dinner."

The other shock was when the child look at Riddler for a very long time then looked back at Catwoman and said. "Kitty? Why are working with Hook Man?"

Friendships were almost broken that night.

• Tim forgot to tell the Titans he had a new baby sister but they found out during a team meeting when she literally popped out of NOWHERE crying and making grabby hands for Red Robin. Who immediately dropped the leader voice and started cooing to this small child!?

Team meeting was forgotten. A new meeting was held. A meeting all about Tim's new little sister.

• Duke was so proud because he taught Marietta how to fist bump, but she calls it knuckles. He went around showing everyone and taking so many videos. He literally cried when she fist bumped him back the first time and giggled.

• Babs loves Mari. She does. She does not love when Mari wants to mess with all her computers. She bought her a toy computer and thought that would make sure she wouldn't want to mess with babies but noooooo. Somehow it made it worse.

Marietta was more determined to touch her computers. She would climb chairs. Push over things she knew she could climb on. Or be deceiving and have Babs hold her while "innocently" playing with her toy computer.

• Someone once asked Gordon who his favorite Wayne was and he said Titus but that Marietta was a close second because she sometimes listened to him.

Everytime he sees her he gives her a GCPD badge sticker. He cried when she busted into his office and yelled. "GCPD Hands up! Up!" That day many officers were "arrested" for outrageous crimes. The best thing though was when someone brought in the Joker and she went over with her pipe cleaner handcuffs and went, "I arrest you."

"How about no?"

"I kick you then."

"I'd like to see you try squir-"

And then everyone in the precinct watched as little Marietta Wayne soccer kicked Joker in the shin and ran away giggling.

The guy who worked the security cameras gave everyone a copy of that moment for Christmas.

• Scarecrow once ran into little Marietta and he's not quite sure how he feels about her. He had heard a lot about the youngest Wayne so instead of just spraying her with his fear gas right away he asked her. "What do you fear most?"

"Fashion disasters. I don't need spray to see them, I'm already looking at one."

He had been so offended that he had to take a moment for himself but it was a moment too long apparently because next thing he knew he was being shot with rubber bullets by Red Hood.

• She guilt trips the hell out of reporters. Gotham's favorite lines are:

"Why do you stalk my daddy?"

"I'm not allowed to talk to strangers. Bye."

Literal just screaming and bursting into tears (she did it on purpose)

"Before you imply that I am a charity case, can I direct you to the fact that this is in fact a Charity Gala...for actual charity." (This is one for when she's older)

"Are you sure you're not a rogue?"

[maarriiii]

Bathroom

A/N: I HAVE RETURN WITH ANOTHER JASON FIC!!! This is about teenage Jason and Batgirl! Reader (because I always love it when the reader is also a vigilante) trying to have a somewhat normal teenager life. I’ve had this in my draft for awhile but I’ve been putting off uploading it so that I don’t upload all my good stuff lol. I really enjoy this one and I’m so so sorry if Jason is a little ooc and if there’s any grammatical error . Hope you guys enjoy this 💕💕

Pairings: Jason Todd/Red Hood x female!reader

Warnings: Some guy grabs your bum. What a jerk.

My masterlist :)))

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y/n sighed in relief when she finally found an empty bathroom to tend to her wound. Her right knuckle was bloodied and throbbing, though y/n was sure it wasn’t broken. She rummaged through cabinets and shelves for some sort of first aid kit when suddenly her phone rang.

“What?” She spat, continuing her search.

“Where are you?” The caller’s voice was barely audible due to the loud music.

“I’m hiding from this infernal torture you call a party.”

“I’m serious, y/n. Where are you?”

y/n sighed. “Upstairs bathroom. Right hallway, second door on your left.”

The call ended and y/n cursed when she found no first aid kit. She slid down to the floor, leaning against the tub while closing her eyes annoyed at the way the night turned out. When Jason asked her to crash a party with him, she didn’t thought that it would resulted in her punching some guy face. She didn’t expect a night like one of those coming of age movie, but she wanted at least a normal night as a teenager instead of running around in tight costumes fighting Gotham’s villains.

A knock on the door made y/n opened her eyes. The door swung and there stood Jason, in all his leather jacket glory, with a sorry look on his face. He closed the door behind him and made himself comfortable by sitting next to his partner.

“So, I take it you’re not having fun?” Jason asked, sarcasm dripping in his words.

“Some guy grabs my ass. I don’t know about you but that’s not my way of fun.”

“Yeah, I heard. I think they just stopped his bleeding. I don’t think anyone will be messing with you again at school.” He smiled.

y/n scoffed. “If anyone even tries then some poor bastard is gonna get a visit from batgirl and robin.”

Suddenly, both of them bursts into laughter, tears forming in their eyes. This is how y/n wanted her night to be. Just the two of them, not partying with some random people from school who doesn’t necessarily like them. Maybe they could do a horror movie marathon or grab some food from that diner that Jason likes. The night was still young after all. y/n leaned her head on Jason’s shoulder and loop her arm around his, meanwhile Jason had his head on top of hers and the two enjoyed the comfortable silence.

“How about we just ditch this place and watch a movie at the manor?” He suggested.

“That sounds nice. Maybe we could grab some food on the way there?”

“Jerry’s?”

“Jerry’s,” She confirmed, talking about his favorite diner.

“Okay, up you go. Let’s get your hand clean up first.” Jason stood up and pulled y/n from the floor. “I got some stuff from one of the bathrooms downstairs.”

He walked her towards the sink, where he pulled a roll of bandage and a small bottle of antiseptic from his jacket pocket. He began to apply the antiseptic to her bruised hand and covered it with bandage once he’s done.

“There all done.” Jason smiled in victory, and held out his hand. “Shall we, Batgirl?”

y/n returned the smile and took his hand. “Yes, we shall, Robin.”