#this shit tasted ass

[kalofi]

middle school

[wodimewoahtime]

hey till...... don't you have just a little too much tsundere "i'm not gay" yaoi protag power???? why are you attracting these guys like a hamster to the shredder

[kyle-edith]

Im in a toccata and don't have anything better to do

[legionofpotatoes]

I know the discourse well is poisoned and no one hates bioware games more than bioware fans, but I am just 🫠 having so much fun with veilguard it's unreal. It is selfishly the dragon age game I always wanted. with less emphasis on cRPG, a more focused story, curated mission based design that spotlights the high fantasy stuff, slowburn structure with companions, significantly less sidequest bloat, and a fully real-time action-oriented combat system that isn't riddled with the growing pains of previous titles. when I first played origins I imagined something almost exactly like this as my ideal version of a sequel; and it was one of those dirty, selfish thoughts that I knew was disrespectful to the then-established DNA of the thing, but I can't help but feel giddy about having it here and now. like down to the shift away from the childishly dark tone and to something more inherently flexible with a baseline aspirational quality. I hate aesthetically depressing games so much. am I not alive right here and right now already

When I say "aesthetically" there though I do mean it. I'm fully on the opposite side when it comes to tone and positions expressed in the story itself. I am just not including that in my analysis because I am not done yet - so please no spoilers! I think I am where most people consider to be the second act, and I definitely have my gripes with the narrative framework and some of the optics, but I won't put the cart before the horse and will see how it wraps things up first. Above that level, in terms of how it presents itself, of how it plays, of how it balances its core pillars - it is such a bioware-ass game and I could not be any cozier in it. So grateful it exists

[1eos]

today a coworker asks if i ever go out in a tone of voice that implied she assumes i go home and stare at a wall all day and never have any fun and i couldnt even be mad bc its true! i'm boring and i'm proud!!!!!!!

[frostgnawdraws]

Some doodles of hearthians bc my brother forcibly installed outer wilds on my laptop and now I have brain worms. This is my first time attempting to draw them so I'm still kind of figuring out their facial structure lol

[lastoneout]

this is my entire stance on the "american food is bad" discourse summed up

[themilfking]

FYI Starbucks isn't on the BDS list

Yeah so I've seen this come up a lot. Starbucks hasn't actually even operated in Israel since the early 2000s which is why they don't necessarily meet the criteria to be on the BDS list.

The reason we're all boycotting Starbucks is because of their response to the Union's pro Palestinian stance. Starbucks sued Workers United for making a pro-Palestine tweet stating that the tweet tarnished the brands reputation (which is a wild stance to take when there's a literal genocide happening).

And even though BDS hasn't added them to the list, they are in full support of both the union and the boycott efforts. So please continue to boycott Starbucks and instead support local coffee shops. This is about solidarity with both Palestine AND the Workers Union.

[bucket-puns]

Why haven't you been eating, Queequeg?

[snackugaki]

... my ass actually got like 6+ images deep before realizing i hadn't posted shit-- oops

my tmnt  iteration (where everyone made it past their 20s, splinter’s alive just old, venus is here, and they deserve some goddamn respite and shenanigans)

tmnt  iteration part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 | part 8 | part 9 | part 10

tmnt  iteration omake 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

lny visit 1 | 2

IDW spoilers below, teeechnically Mirage & Next Mutation spoilers too ig?

blah blah blabbering because that's one of the many things you can do on tumblr.com

bloopity bloopin, turtles all being traded on the black market as pets, medicine, or decor to be... "prepared". 'cept Jennika, keeping her IDW origin because it's badass and I like it. eco vigilantes freed them one fateful night, same night someone(s) stole some mutagen for a rival company to TGRI, boom collided in their getaway routes, away floated Venus just like in NM and some others who lalala may or may not be some mutanimals

playing mostly with coloring, Rise introducing markings is such a nice and refreshing change from the all sam green turtle, different bandana color turtles I grew up with. fanon taking that concept and applying it in conjunction with actual turtle colorings also scratches my visdev brain node just so

hm... still fiddling with their plastrons... Venus' and Jennika's are fine though

Leo

funky li'l ringed map turtle

can't see it but, he got them little ridgey-spikies on his shell

christ, I'm finding a way to attach Iris symbolism to him, either through markings or something else

Iris in hanakotoba is... basically all Leo; nobility, bravery, honor, courage, heavy samurai association

5'2"

Raph

McCord's or Amboina box turtle idk idk idk can't choose

stuck on coloring him with a scale mail feeling to match the box turtle photos I found

....I needa draw him beefier, he can stand to be beefier

5'6"

Donnie

literally just googled which turtles exhibit the highest INT, wood turle consistently listed plus some have funky geometrically patterned/shaped shells

tossing on how do the plastron coloring, really liking the dark spots on it

probably keep the lightened belly/inner limb coloring

...probably... lol idk

5'8"

Mikey

my perfect chonky boy, no notes except he (and his brothers) need plastron do-overs

and now i am stuck with the heart-on-his-sleeve marking

canon 2 my iteration it is done

he gets to be the slider this go round, if just 'cuz he's technically the first born (in terms of creating TMNT and its story and world)

let him have the fluttering, finger drumming on everything and everyone because he's bursting with "i love you" energy anyway

5'4"

Venus

"my pretty daughter" iykyk

sea turtle as per last couple iteration posts

cultivator instead of "shinobi"

"i aM ShiNObi"... guh, just, I dunno, the term "cultivator" wasn't really known back in '98 like that, but she had the medicine box, she worked to learn how to throw a fireball at Vam Mi, she was pleased at her progression when she defeated the counterspell from the staff of Bu Ki. that's cultivator shit right there.

she's still a pugilist more than a iron fan user

looks up to April like a big sister, speaks canto and hakka with her

cuz she's still a linguist scholar like in Next Mutation so duh she speak all the languages (to an extant, she has a lot of studying left to go after all)

the greenified hawksbill coloring is growing on me...

still needa futz more with the plum flower motif on her

also figure out her huadian situation or just scrap it idkidkidk

her bandana + 50% green coloring is also growing on me....

5'10"

Jennika

technically also ringed map turtle since it was Leo who gave her the blood transfusion

I like the idea of bringing her Blaschko's lines to the forefront post-mutation but just... it's a lot of stripes. and goddamnit I ain't even gonna go deep into much of anything with the comics I just... can't not world build rip me

6'0"

April

still so tickled at April being closer to the turtles' ages in these new reboots and fascinated how it's played out

...but mine is a clean 44 yo, so. (turtles in late 30s)

Laird originally conceived April as an asian woman in his notes, Eastman drew her as a biracial woman he was dating at the time (April Fisher) and... idk what to tell y'all, people are running around being mixed in this world all the time, Brooklyn got hella Jamaican/Chinese so there you go

can speak canto and hakka

April being a "weirdo" as I've seen mentioned in Rise can stay, I'm picking that, that's a great trait to her character, big fan of Poly Styrene, loved Rachel True in The Craft

where "weirdo" is just she's into alt subculture and being in New York... she got her hands everywhere in those scenes

She and Chu Hsi get to have the most shoujo fuckin' romance because it's cute

and she's still a living drawing which I'm changing around a bit being why she felt like a "weirdo" and leaned towards subcultures and the turtles, she did eventually begin to destabilize but Venus stabilized her by trapping her in a scroll so she could work on a solution. ...where she has a long, happy relationship with Chu Hsi in the painted world scroll because lol time dilation

saw somewhere on the hellsite that the tooth gap is passed around every iteration... so April gets to have it

5'7"

Irma

i'm not ashamed to say I just reupholstered Nadia from Russian Doll

87 Irma went through a lot so she can have some dry wit and humor and be fly as fuck, big hair, big glasses, and a big attitude

still besties with April

likes moths, they're just neat little guys with rabbit ears iykyk

there is a very specifc size of her hair I am battling to keep consistent the problem it never feels big enough

says "fuhgeddaboutit" and has yelled that she is, in fact, "walkin' here,"

... she might also have a little bit of Myrtle from AHS: Coven sprinkled in now that I'm thinking about it to sum her up

she knows somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody for any random thing you could want to try to find

all the delis and bodegas know her

discusses plot lines from soap operas with Splinter on weekends, they get heated

5'5"

... god all this and I was just gonna have them play spades and play a round of pickup street ball in silly little comics

[sulfies]

got any hcs for the boys in modern au?

Hmm 🤔

Desmond: would stay same, if Assassins etc stuff didnt exist, he would be a bartender that escaped an abusive home bc his dad was crazy about the world ending and him being the antichrist or saviour, so he would isolate him etc. Back w his beloved motorbike

Ezio: Chef or funnier idea... Jobless bc of family money. If he is younger he could be a delivery guy lmao. Is one of those "rich? Nah my family just worked hard so we are well off now" kinda mfs that doesnt get he is rich rich. His family would be alive amd very much in his life. Big gift giver, funds Leos entire art career almost. Is horrified by Desmonds motorbike

Altaïr: he could be a Syrian or Arabic litriture prof? Or an author? He probobly did a lot of odd jobs during youth may e got in a lot of trouble, maybe one of it caused indirectly for Malik to loose his arm but Kadar would be alive. He would call his dad like 2-3 times a yr at most. He would try rlly hard to be the most mature out of them and the other two would push his buttons to take out his arrogant n cocky side.

They would all meet at Desmonds bar or a rock climbing place, Ezio would befriend (flirt with) Desmond first then Desmond would befriend Altaïr. I think Altaïr would make the first actual move w Desmond while all 3 are hanging out and Ezio would be like "WTF not fair me too!!"

Claudia would forever make fun of the fact that they share scars

Ngl I dont rlly read Modern Au's so hope these make sense xhsjsj 😭sorry😭 im much more interested in going back in time or canon time etc etc I do sometimes like it when they time travel to modern times tho

[saragrosie]

STILL WORKING ON IT just posting some sketches of character sheets for my Martini and Tim in season 1. I be having thoughts and opinions, you know? I need y'all to know that Tim be singing his heart out along to Madonna while Jon is trying to make statements and he's so real for that. Truly the dancing walking rearranging files.

Just one more thing:

I feel like we as a collective forget that Jon basically lived w Martin for a fat second while Martin was staying in the Archives. Like I think Jon said something along the lines of "it's been 2 months since Martin moved into the archives and I've been leaving less and less" I just can't help but think Martin was like "Jon go the fuck to sleep or get out of my not-house" (hence the little Martin saying such). There was probably a couch Jon mysteriously ended up on with a blanket more than once. idk man. Lgbt people.

Oh and here's close ups cuz idk if my writing is going to be comprehensible:

[dailykugisaki]

Day 276 | id in alt

Birthday girl!!! BIRTHDAYAAAA

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History • James Hall

[magixfairyix]

Anyone else used to eat that weird birdseed that looked like multicoloured couscous?

[novantinuum]

gnawing at the bars of my cage

can we please Stop telling SU blind reactors all the fandom drama and SU crit that came out of every episode so we can allow them to just enjoy the show like a normal person at their own leisure and make their Own opinions thank u