#story telling mama

[bryonyashaw]

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[fallstaticexit]

Chapter Seven Adie (Change) - Previous // Next // Beginning // Werewolf Lore

[seabiscuits-us]

the most frustrating symptom of rising media illiteracy to me is the tendency for people to read any kind of conflict or misunderstanding in a story as inherently toxic…

[turtleblogatlast]

Do you ship any of the turtles with anyone? or do you ship anything in rise at all?

(This ended up being a lot longer an answer than I intended hoo boy sorry about that)

Hmmm, I’m not too big a shipper tbh! Especially since I really enjoy canon interactions backing my ships, so it’s hard for me to actively like any that don’t really have that going for them. There’s plenty that I see around that I think are cute, but that’s usually the extent of my thought process for them.

For ships I more actively have, I guess I like AprilxSunita! They’re very very cute and I think they have some huge meet cute energy in their first episode together, and their chemistry is genuinely adorable (plus them being featured means more April screentime which is ALWAYS a good thing.)

I also think AprilxCasey (and when I say Casey I mean our OG girl) is really good, as I’m a sucker for enemies to lovers, and I think they have a lot in common and just bounce off each other very well (not to mention this ship in other iterations of TMNT has a loooooot going for it.)

Keeping the chain going, I think RaphxCasey (again, OG Casey) is also one with a tonnnnn of potential. They have a lot of common characteristics, and considering Raph’s whole thing with Franken-Foot, I really think there’s a lot of room there for a relationship to develop. Plus, like AprilxCasey, Raph and Casey tend to have a close relationship throughout the iterations of TMNT and it would be great to see that more with these two, even if not romantically.

Actually going back to enemies to lovers, I unironically think there’s a ton going for DonniexKendra. I know a lot of people hate this ship, but I don’t and I actually think it could very easily work whether in a love-hate way or a slow burn way. There’s a lot to like here and honestly they’re good together! Kendra is legit Donnie’s type too haha (cute, but mean.)

Lastly, SplinterxDraxum is good…when done right. I really like when people take it and don’t undermine the very real trauma that Splinter has gone through. As I’ve stated a lot, I love me some enemies to lovers, so I can see the potential here. Plus lbr Draxum was down BAD for Lou Jitsu when he first saw him haha.

I think that’s the extent to what I actively like? Everything else usually falls into “aw cute” or “ehhh not for me thanks”. And before you ask YES leosagi is cute and I’ll read fics with it if the premise is appealing, but I’m afraid I need some canon interactions to establish base character dynamics before I actively ship it alas.😔 Super cute though, no hate to it or any of the other CanonxCharacter-they’ve-never-met ships, I genuinely think people should just have fun! And for what it’s worth I really do wish we got a Usagi and Leo interaction in Rise like we have in other iterations.:(

So yeah. Overall, I have a few ships I enjoy, but I fall much more in the “prefer to keep everyone to themselves and make the focus family and friendship” category.

[homicidalbrunette]

Pretty girl femme with her power top gf

[fruityscience]

check it (my yuri)

[nguyenfinity]

Every time I draw Mamagi it does AoE damage (I am also in the area of effect)

Lighthearted bonus:

[blueironywrites]

Fandom engagement really is not like it was before.

I'm (re)reading a fic from 2008 and there are 5K+ comments on ff.net. And for all the sh-t it gets, at one time, ff.net was the sh-t.

People were in frenzies. Everyone had a livejournal. Fics were being posted exclusively to archives that were password protected. Forums would crash if a very popular author posted the next chapter of their fic. People spent hours debating face claims for their characters. Fics had banners. Artists would make icons and signatures for forum profiles. You would spend hours and days crawling through anything and everything to find a place to talk about your fandom.

If your fandom was very active during the 2000s, it was honestly an amazing time to be a fan.

I miss it.

[florbelles]

finished hera & started lady macbeth and we have got to start blaming women for shit again for real

[brynn-lear]

I never got too deep into enstars but there are days where I miss Mama 😔

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[kharonion]

So. I promised to myself I'd share more Blorbo Blabberings. And here we are. 😈

I'm working on editing the next chapter of Fear the Reaper finally, and it begins to dip into Vikt's limbo between corporation and mercenary. A time in which he's lost absolutely everything, and he's feeling every ounce of it.

He was on top, holding so much power in his hands, and in what seemed like a split second, it's yanked away. Not just by anyone. By the man--no, by the corporation--he served without any question... because that's all he's known to do. A plot fueled by jealousy, a plot that seemingly involved everyone Vikt had any sort of trust in for his work.

So, now, he can't trust anyone.

Not even himself.

Squatting out in the alleys of Kabuki with nothing but the ratty clothes on his back and the fires of a hatred he can't extinguish, Vikt is both at his most vulnerable and most dangerous. A circuit ready to blow. The pits of despair are an abyss he is more than ready to jump in. No amount of drugs or fighting can dull his pain. He's not in a good place, it goes without saying. Every day is a struggle to find a reason to see the next.

People think he had it easy afterward, simply taking up merc work immediately, finding shelter with the "connections" he supposedly had. People don't think Vikt was in a fight for survival, both against the streets themselves and the shadows he's cloaked in himself--a fight he very nearly lost were it not for Jackie's interference months down the line.

The city swallowed him up, spit him out. Changed him. Broke him.

[everymeloneveryday]

chapter 150 page 18

[care666bear]

enjoying old photos of my beautiful mama. I adore your beautiful face so much. Miss u more

[thesadboy]

One of my personal asoiaf headcanons is that Daeron and Myriah were the sweet kind of grandparents, the ones who would absolutely dote on their grandkids. Everytime they got to see their grandchildren, Daeron would say "You've gotten fatter/stronger/smarter/more handsome/beautiful" while pinching their cheek (and the fat part is meant positively, he would be happy they're healthy 🥺) while Myriah wouldn't hesitate to kiss their cheeks, even sometimes lifting them up in a hug (and make no mistake she didn't stop doing it even as she grew rather old).

[errantce]

at the train station, the group is promptly seated. as they wait for their food, liyah questions why diego didn't attend her welcome party. diego claims he had urgent matters, but actually, it was his mother that told him not to go. she didn't think diego should "lower himself" & attend an unknown star's party. though she promptly regretted that decision when it was revealed that even judith ward attended.