#the new york freaks

[ironinkpen]

The interpretation of Rise Raph as a 'perfect responsible soft boy uwu' is so BORING I'm sorry, Raph is a rowdy adrenaline junkie with anxiety and I won't take this slander any longer

Raph secretly kept an enemy soldier in their actual literal house as a sparring partner. Raph glued his brothers together and dragged them out to fight crime. Raph once asked Leo to punch him in the face to prove he 'takes damage like a boss.' Raph tried to lift a school bus, twice. Raph offered to help his favorite wrestler beat his little brother up. When Leo suggests evacuating Bullhop, Raph says no bc the best defense is a good offense babey. Raph's idea of a 'friendly chat' with April's upstairs neighbor is to put on a black ski mask and go stand menacingly at their door. It takes Raph 10 episodes to conclude that they should MAYBE start training. Raph's plan to get a potentially priceless (and potentially FRAGILE) museum artifact is to punch a car in the middle of a busy street and also cut it in half with his brother still inside.

Raph's never met a problem he wouldn't try to punch in the face and does not know the meaning of the words 'excessive force.' He roughhouses with his bros and drags them out to fight villains and thinks any plan that doesn't involve an all-out brawl is boring and lame. He'll do anything to protect his family from harm and be a hero, but also he eats wet salami off the floor and once single-handedly destroyed a library.

I just adore how, at his core, Rise Raph is such a classic Raph—impulsive and stubborn and caring and passionate. He is a very sweet, strong, honorable guy who has a very powerful sense of personal responsibility... and he is also the exact kind of jock who throws you in the pool at a party without checking if you have your phone in your pocket first.

[tea-tuesday]

stopped by niconeco zakkaya in the east village!

[iloverace]

what if they aren’t singing about what THEY want in kony

so this whole song comes from Race wanting to like build morale

so I’m thinking he’s trying to like..entice the other newsies with things that he knows they love/really really want

ex. Race knows Romeo’s shoelaces have been mismatched ever since one of them snapped, so he’s all like “a pair of new shoes with matching laces”

then Romeo obviously knows how much Race would love to go to Sheepshead and not have to sit on the fence, so he’s like “a permanent box at the Sheepshead races”

also if this applies, Les knowing that Davey feels super squished into the bed they share?? like omg he’s so cute

[bluescluesposting]

So in 2001, Nick usually aired two Blue's Clues episodes a day- first at 10 AM and then at 12:30 PM.

On this day (September 11) in 2001, the second episode to air that day was "What's So Funny?", an episode all about laughing and humor.

....okay I know that Nickelodeon scheduled these all weeks in advance but yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaah that must've been awkward.

[brekitten]

The Therapist

There's a new therapist at school.

Normally this wouldn't really bother Peter at all, since he's never gone to see a shrink in his life and doesn't ever plan on it, but there's something... off about this woman.

She seems unassuming enough at first glance. Red hair, green eyes, bright red lipstick. But there is something in her eyes, something that Peter can only describe as a predator looking at its next prey, when she looks around the school at all of the teenagers milling about. Heck, even the way she walks makes her seem as if she is a predator stalking her prey.

It could always be some kind of power move, Peter reasons. He's met people like that before, who try to intimidate everyone around them into thinking that they are superior, that they are the apex predator and anyone who dares to cross them would pay for it dearly.

But his Spidey Sense went crazy around her.

He tries to brush it off as paranoia. He'd pulled an all-nighter last night in the lab with Tony because neither of them had been able to sleep, and he hadn't been sleeping well even before that. (Funny, how it had all started the night after he first bumped into the new therapist in the halls.) So his Spidey Sense is probably out of wack because he's tired. Simple as that.

But it seems like everyone in the school is depressed. Even Ned, who can't even muster up the energy and enthusiasm to talk about Legos or Star Wars or even the weather. It worries Peter.

Because it all started when that therapist came to the school.

He can't ignore it forever, he knows that. There is only so long his Spidey Sense can tell him that she is danger danger danger before he finally listens. He has to do something to help everyone.

So he researches.

And he falls into the rabbit hole of ghosts and ectoplasm and secret government organizations and the little, unassuming town of Amity Park, Illinois.

He doesn't sleep that night.

When he comes to school the next morning, Dr. Penelope Spectra looks him dead in the eyes, and smiles.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Crowd outside the Olympia Circus side show in Coney Island ("The Greatest Variety of Sensational Freaks & Living Wonders From All Parts of the Earth"), ca. 1920s.

Photo: Browning Studio via the NY Historical Society

[jacks-weird-world]

[stawpny]

ok so question- how do i get them out of my head

they haven’t left and it’s all I think of 😿

ok this is basically my first time doing side profiles

I told myself “can’t be that hard” then wanted to kms halfway thru

jinxed it 😔

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Korn - Freak On A Leash

[mistress-light]

Forspoken • (dev. Square Enix)

[adelphenium]

wld u ever draw igor shesterkin 🤓 ILY ART GOATTT💖💕💞

here's shesty!!! tysm and ily for the req i absolutely adore seeing your art on my dash :,D💗

[tea-tuesday]

went to the cutest stationery store in fort greene, brooklyn called yours truly!

[emokylegallner]

[rosalie-starfall]

Elsbeth & Joann

Elsbeth - A Classic New York Character

[nicolethered]

Happy Eric Adams Indictment Day to all who celebrate!

[punch-love]

I've considered writing a "love-punch if they fucked in that chapter" mini-series after finishing the work because (to me) I know exactly how and why they could have fucked in every chapter and sometimes I am tempted to write it lmao