#they won’t be deleted tho

[calswildflcwer]

Okay! Hi all, Bee here obvs, idek if I still have any mutuals active here anymore lmao buuuut… I have decided that, since I no longer have a master list and no longer write fics for this acc since the Encanto/Carlos fanbase has kinda died out, I am gonna create a “Encanto One Shots/Series” book on Wattpad instead and basically put all of my old Encanto one shots and series in that book so that they’re all in one place as the links no longer work on most of my stories now since changing my username here so it’s difficult when people come across one of my fics and can’t get to the next part of the story bc the link doesn’t work 😭

Anyways, yaaah… If any of y’all are still interested in my Carlos stories or my Encanto stories (i may be writing more at some point but idk yet) then they will all soon be moved over to my wattpad account, which is linked here and also in my intro post on my account! If anyone is interested, I will do another post once I’ve got the one shot book up on wattpad and have moved all of my fics over there! <33

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

[itsladieslike]

“Heyy” girl stfu. I wanna spread you open and give you friction burn on your coochie with my tongue.

[lesmeltingpot]

Soooo since twitters tweaking rn Im gonna do an art dump here and start posting on tumblr more often !!

[uchanuku]

how are they even going to do preschool show in Post-Apocalyptic Cartoon. how is BMO who canonically murdered his sibling gonna host. how. this is the Trippy Weirdly Dark Cartoon. Hall of Egress. is this anything

[arolesbianism]

Realized it’s been over a year since I last drew him and couldn’t stand by that

[teabookgremlin]

having a silly little crush is crazy why am i mentally lingering on the fact that she told me that my tote bag (covered in drawings of animals/vet med stuff) was very on brand for me

[husshow]

The season is wrapping up, here's a compilation of my favorite on and (mostly) off ice clips from this season

[yeyayeya]

I’ll most likely be inactive the next 2 weeks due to spending the holidays and winter break with my family that I’m visiting in Mexico

Idk guess I just wanted to update the few people that care

[shiominato]

ok so because my twitter has been glitched for 3 years and does not let me input my age I can’t see the arsene figure BUT i can get ads for sex toys and see uncensored porn in replies. okay!

[lvstharmony]

— it has become a forgotten covet

[lesmeltingpot]

Soooo since twitters tweaking rn Im gonna do an art dump here and start posting on tumblr more often !!

[knightsofeclipse]

There are two wolves inside of me. They are both Moon-Moon. And they are arguing.

There’s the imposter syndrome telling me I’m not that special.

And then theirs the one saying but there’s been so many coincidences, maybe a gaze has been cast upon me…

[aromanticmara]

hi i’m going to be going on hiatus. i don’t really feel like blogging for the time being so i won’t be on here. you can still message me and send asks tho!! i promise i won’t deactivate and if i decide to leave permanently i’ll message all of my moots first :)

sb for my other moots to see pls!

[villainology]

omg yeah here’s a picture of my new hair bc I haven’t shown anyone my hair the last two times 👉🏻👈🏻

[midwestcannibal]

is anyone out there. will graham pussy. who said that