#spaghetti everywhere

[yorshie]

*chin hands at you* You. Me. Warm candlelight. A plate full of spaghetti between us. What's that? The spaghetti is actually an infodump about Raph's Philly Shell Stance? Ohohoho. Yes please. I will have seconds. We will share a string of spaghetti, by which I mean you will infodump at me and I will stare adoringly at you while your little raccoon hands throw spaghetti all over my house. The spaghetti is still Raph's Philly Shell Stance.

-justalotoffanfic

[inhales sharply] I wrote half of it as a reblog to the ask I sent last night then I got distracted reading hold on I’ll go get it. @justalotoffanfiction tagging you so you’ll know I answered

*the sounds of a raccoon pile driving through a trash bin, utter chaos*

Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok.

Raph’s got all that protective gear on his left arm in the second movie. Makes sense he’s probably right handed and when he’s fighting the left is likely the arm that he leads with.

Now we obviously can’t draw any conclusions in the first movie, because the turtle is running around with no pants on and his fighting style consists of “throwing himself shell first” though! They do lay the groundwork for him fighting defensively (shell first) and we see that alongside Donnie he can clearly come up with plans because it was his idea to take out Karai or “little miss sunshine”. Now. In the second movie. The only fight scene we see is him getting bodily picked up (btw Leo walks directly into a close line but that’s anger for another day) though he is punching Rocksteady With His Right Hand. I don’t. Um. Count Kraang fight. Let’s just say I haven’t seen past the plane scene in A While.

Now. Thinking about his weapon, the Sai. Sais? Fandom has me confused on plural on that one but it’s all ok, but anyway the Sai are a defensive weapon, and there’s that post thats been going around explaining how Splinter gave the turtles weapons that balance out their personalities, ie giving Raph the defensive weapon to teach him to control his snap judgements of stab first ask questions later (was it worded like that? No. Can I remember however? Also no.) and it’s kinda poetic that he has a weapon specifically designed to take out swords 👀. Anyway

The Philly Shell Stance. Obviously it has Shell in the name which is just. Hilarious. But! It’s a defensive stance. I’ll link a video explaining the different famous boxing stances, but the only other truly “defensive” stance is the Peekaboo, and it’s only really helpful if you’re tiny going up against someone Raph Sized.

Now the reason I think Raph uses the Philly Shell Stance, is because he has all that “armor” on his lead arm. I think he just lets the hits roll off his shoulder and bobs out of the way, keeping his hand across his stomach also gives him a pretty large range of vision to respond to threats, and if someone’s going to run at him he’s got that arm low to create some space. It’s a stance you gotta be in the moment for, and you gotta be able to think quickly, which I think Raphie boy can do despite being the “hot head” of the group. I’ll link another fight, Probably a Floyd Mayweather video, that shows a Philly Shell in action. I really wish the fight scenes in the second movie had been less cartoony, cuz theirs so much cool stuff that could happen.

^ just a Philly shell stance only video in case you don’t wanna watch ten whole minutes lol

^ really good video on Manny Pacquiao (who I always root for) and Floyd Mayweather Jr. you can see Mayweather is using Philly Shell, that’s his style, but you can see the vicious return jabs he’s able to give whenever his opponent goes for a swing and he’s just able to roll the hit off his shoulder and immediately respond. Now.

Imagine that’s Raph. And Imagine 6’5” (film height) just returning that kind of jab when he’s fighting.

Thank you for coming to my Turtle Talk!

[practicalsolutions]

Me, showing off of front of the engineers: Yeah, I got my 3D printer set up so I can monitor the prints at home and send commands from anywhere. Check this out!

The print at home:

[adiffusekindofdumb]

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

while we wait.

may i offer you all a pubby?? lil bby barns?

[unexpectedbrickattack]

small

[sallymew4]

ok

teru ? honey ?

do you see how EVERYONE is looking at the camera ?

BUT YOU ?

you are ruining this family photo. what are you even looking at ?

oh right . A BOY !!!!!!!!!

unbelievable. unbelievable behavior right now

look even Dimple notices .and hes judging

cannot believe this !

[kariblookas]

Idk lol

[akantorrr]

I absolutely love reading tags when people reblog my art so when I saw this under my Greetings From Limbo thingy-

Y E S

As italian and a carbonara hoover myself, I couldn't resist

Bonus:

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Trixie Lulamoon poses upon an abomination of a dinner - a frankfurter run through with spaghetti. On a bed of sofrito and grated cheese on top.

Here's the frankfurter after being speared with spaghetti:

It had to be cooked in a large-ish frying pan, for reasons of Needing Some Space:

Lifted out of the pan:

In a bowl:

And back to the start, with added cheese and added Trixie Lulamoon:

[canisalbus]

If you're still taking Machete asks, what if your favorite relationship (of any kind) to explore with him?

Do you mean, like, theme? CW mental health talk:

Honestly, I think he's sort of a manifestation and a surrogate sufferer of a bunch of mental health troubles I'm very familiar with. Stuff like depression, anxiety, isolation, anhedonia, repressed anger, hopelessness, inferiority complex and so on. Not to sound too bleak or anything but you know. Back in the old deviantart days all of us edgy kids had "vent ocs", I think he still counts as one despite having an extensive backstory and a life outside of getting mangled in various ways.

I'd like to think many of my characters represent different parts of my personality and interests and Machete definitely falls to the "vessel for negativity" end of the spectrum. Then again, during the past few years I think I might've pigeonholed him into that role a little too heavily, you only ever see him looking 1. vaguely unhappy or 2. thoroughly miserable , and I know he has a little more range and depth than that, I've just kind of failed to communicate it.

[notsquid]

Shh he is resting :]

Bonus (later)

[theswedishpajas]

Free-hand animation test

[cody-the-cat]

Antonball and Pizza Tower perlers cause why not.

I now have my own personal pocket Peppino and Anton.

[deva-arts]

You gonna stream now that finals are over or am I gonna have to start crying again?

I'm setting up my studio right as I type this, actually! yay! no more streaming in my room! I finally have a desk! and sanity! Needless to say I'll be streaming soon enough, so save your tears lol

Please wish me luck because i'm setting up strip lights and I don't want to ruin my wall

[spaghetticat3899]

When you absolutely despise something a lot of people like, and no matter what way you look at it you cannot see the appeal, but you know you can’t talk about it in public or else you’ll get dogpiled to hell and back, so you just kinda sit there frothing at the mouth like this

[i-ran-into-a-lampost]

Everybody decided that this guy needs to go through hell like canon wasn't enough for y'all PLEASE