#when has canon ever stopped me

[the-travelling-witch]

Mc: *sneezes*

Mammon, leaning towards Levi, whispering: What does it mean when humans do that?

Levi, whispering back: I think they just took a screenshot

[thelilylav]

Applebeauty (the bad ending)

[hoomanbeaning]

"... 'make you one of us?' the accent thickened, giving a fine lilt to the words. 'why would i do that?' eyes narrowing. 'i would not do that to those whom i find to be despicable, whom i would see burning in hell as a matter of course. so why should i do it to an innocent fool-like you?' ..."

anne rice's the story of daniel / the devil's minion / or the boy from the interview with the vampire

[xxplastic-cubexx]

it doesnt need to be said but its genuinely so funny how at-the-hip charles and erik are in krakoa like they really had the green light- the OBLIGATION- to be as obnoxiously close to each other as possible and abused that right to the fullest extent

[instantpansies]

life is hard for us oz fans who are only meh about wicked. have half a meme.

[cable-salamdr]

Okay but if Arin *does* go to the evil side I need it to be for multiple (in universe) years. At the very least one season. I need him to grow older while he’s in that dark place and every time the ninja, including his old best friend, see him again he looks a little bit different. Grown a little bit taller. After that he can go back to goodness idc but I just need for a substantial passage of time between when we first get to know the kid Arin that bakes pies for dogs in ep1 and when a much older Arin with years of fighting and trauma on his back gets to maybe return to those he once called family.

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

Sophie Oliveira-Shepard Alenko-Oliveira and Kaidan Alenko-Oliveira - ME3 (3/?) "What would I do without you?" "You'll never have to find out." Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

[deus-ex-mona]

ok yk what. now that i’ve had some time to process nghy canon, considering the current pacing of gen retcon, i think their next step is as ✨clear as day✨

i really like seeing them happy together, but i truly do think that they should divorce and either live the rest of their lives as single besties; partners in hero/heroine-isms, but better off as just friends, or go their separate ways for a bit and get back together when they’re a little older and wiser, staying together for good this time around, as each other’s first and last boyfriend/girlfriend

[throughpatchesofviolet]

This is far more severe than I imagined it would be.

[cakesandfail]

Me the other day: yeah yeah let's revisit that one bit at the end of Night Watch and have them STILL never quite properly address the bit where it sounds like Vetinari is trying to ask Vimes out

Me today when I have shit to do: but what if I write about them addressing it in a very thorough and physical manner though 👀

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: TUCHANKA (PART 2)

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Lt. James Vega, EDI, Urdnot Wrex, and Dr. Mordin Solus With: Urdnot Bakara And a Special Guest Appearance by: Kalros, Mother of All Thresher Maws I MADE A MISTAKE! I made a mistake... big picture made of little pictures- too many variables. Can't hide behind statistics... can't ignore new data- my responsibility. Need to go- running out of time. Not your work, not your cure- not your decision. Had to be me- someone else might have gotten it wrong... Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

[hoomanbeaning]

three thousand years of longing (2022) / simone de beauvoir's inseraparable

[ghostlychaosfoil]

WHAT THE HELL WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE HGEAA WHAT WHATTTT AGHHHGGHHHH

So I’ve been digging around the Turtlepedia wiki, going through old tweets from the team who worked on Rise & watched videos covering the scrapped Rise episodes so this is basically a post going through some of the scrapped season 2 stuff for Rise that I have found:

Rise was first written under the basis of there being three seasons

JJ Conway’s twitter posted an episode guide which showed some of the episodes that were expected to be in season two:

As you can see ‘The Clothes Don’t Make the Turtle’ was one of the last episode that was released that fit the original plan for Season 2 before most of the episodes got scrapped or changed & the Rise team had to rush to finish the series.

Some of the episodes we know the synopsis of while others still remain a mystery the scrapped episodes were listed in order as:

Wedding Smashers:

This episode involves Mikey & Raph going undercover as pretend villains ‘Shady Bug & Dr Rude’ to sneak into Ghost Bear’s Wedding after they accidentally gifted Ghost Bear one of Donnie inventions (a black hole generating toaster) as a wedding gift that they then need to retrieve.

The episode was supposed to introduce the character Ghostpepper, Ghostbear’s fiancé 

The episode also brings up some continuity in having the characters be aware that Meatsweats has been missing since the episode Pizza Puffs where he got kidnapped by ‘Shadow fiend’ at the end, I wish this episode hadn’t gotten scrapped because it shows that the Turtles are aware that their enemies are going missing when Big Mama starts kidnapping them for her Battle Nexus New York.

This episode most likely would have shown Ghostbear be kidnapped at the end like how Meatsweats was kidnapped at the end of Pizza Puffs & Hypno was kidnapped at the end of The Clothes Don’t Make the Turtle.   

Warren Stone 2: 

Donnie: Stand back total stranger we are fighting our greatest foe

April kept the arm that she cut off Warren in ‘Warren & Hypno Sitting in a Tree’ & the arm ended up growing into a second Warren Stone, despite April raising this second worm in secret Warren Stone Two ends up becoming the ‘turtles greatest foe’ after Warren Stone Two captures the Turtles, April & the original Warren Stone team up to save the Turtles & defeat Warren Stone 2

Parts of the episodes storyboards can be found on youtube, a running gag appears to be Mikey referring to Warren as ‘that other worm guy whose not Warren two’  

T-Hex

The episode T-Hex covers Mikey desperately wanting a robotic toy but Splinter saying no & Mikey having to sneak the electronic pet into the lair. Though the robot is adorable Mikey learns that it’s not as innocent as it seems & is actually a trap set by Baxter, the episode would have introduced Baxter in an Albearto mech

Psyched Out

Shred Dead Redemption

After the events of Manny Unhappy Returns the Foot Shack has shut down, Foot Lieutenant & Foot Brute open up a cupcake shop selling flaming cupcakes called  Fire and Icing which Raph wants to investigate 

The episode would have involved the Turtles doing a stakeout, a chase scene & the Foot clan putting themselves at odds with Big Mama as they investigate if her new champion ‘Shadow fiend’ has a connection to the missing Shredder.

The Island of Dr. Noe

Dr. Noe, the evil dentist from Todd Scouts ends up kidnapping Raph & Leo ends up having to lead the team in order to rescue Raph & stop the evil dentist.

Something interesting about this episode is when the Rise team were discussing this scrapped episode it was revealed that Leo wasn’t supposed to become the Leader at the end of Season 2, that’s right the iconic ‘Blue You Are The Leader Now’ wasn’t originally supposed to happen, instead Leo was supposed to be pushed into roles where he had to take charge throughout season 2 & the season would end with Raph & Leo as co-leaders.

Battle Nexus NYC (a full 20 minute episode) which was used in the series as Battle Nexus New York, the main difference between the original plan & the episode we got is that originally instead of Cassandra taking the Shredder from Big Mamma, the Grand Nexus Hotel was supposed to have fallen into the Hidden City with both Big Mamma & Shredder leaving The Foot to have to venture into the hidden city to try & retrieve the Shredder.

Toddler Mutant Ninja Turtles

A Mikey focused episode where a ‘bank robbing immortal jellyfish’ zaps Raph, Leo & Donnie, turning them into Turtle Tots & making Mikey the oldest brother for the episode. The episode is said to be inspired by the 1987 series episode ‘Adventures in Turtle Sitting’

Dog Dale Afternoon

April’s friend Dale who we first see in ‘Hypno! Part Deux’ gets turned into a werewolf by a witch & Donnie & April team up to try & turn him back to normal

Bee Story

Goyles Just Want To Have Fun

Huginn & Muninn reunite with Draxum, only to be confused when they find him working as a lunch server. Not wanting Huggin & Muninn to know how soft he’s gotten since his redemption Draxum begs the Turtles to help him look good in front of his former minions.

Rampagin’ Raph

Mikey & Leo have become more skilled in using their mystic powers making Raph feel left behind so Raph tries to practice in secret only to end up stuck in his giant form, Raph goes to to Draxum for help who ends up separating Raph & his mystic projection however the mystic projection ends up rampaging through the city becoming bigger & more powerful with the more things it destroys leaving Raph to have come clean to his brothers about what happened so they can save city. 

Hot Thrash  

Gourd Almighty 

Donnie grows a giant pumpkin for competition & has to have his brothers help him find a way to get the giant pumpkin out of the lair

Two pages of the episodes script were posted on Ron Corcillo’s twitter

A Spiders Web Widens 

Hidden City Heroes 

Gone Goat 

Draxum walks out after having a fight with the family but then gets kidnapped by the Foot. While attempting to rescue Draxum, the family has no choice but to resolve their issues relating to him.

The Key (a full 20 minute episode)

Karai was supposed to be introduced in this episode, she was supposed to have a larger role training the Turtles & with the family spanning around 10 episodes but due to the Rise team rushing to finish the series most of Karai’s episodes were scrapped.

The rest of the episode titles were not finalised however Ron Carney’s twitter posted a schedule board where possible episode titles can be seen.

Though Ron Carney also admitted that some of these titles are fake, the episode April Showers Mayhem Flowers might be real as the team admitted to wanting to do an episode about Mayhem & their status as an agent of the Council of Heads 

The Return of Monty Moose is also probably real as we can see Monty Moose appear in the Rise Movie’s scrapped intro so the team probably had plans for the character in season 2

Monty Moose is a toy line only character from the 1987 series so Rise introducing him as an actual character is kind of cool

[musical-chick-13]

Thoughts on River x Cersei?

Oh, this would be a MESS.

I'm trying to think about how this would work, and...I'm not even sure Toxic Yuri™ would work as a descriptor?

Because while I like both of these women for similar reasons (i.e., significant psychological issues, perfectionist/absolutism-based behavior I find distressingly believable, doing unhinged things in the name of love, unapologetically owning up to the fact that they are flawed people, being generally accepting of themselves even if the world isn't, not fitting neatly into a box, Solving Problems With Murder, etc. etc.), I feel like they would...never actually get to a point where ANY kind of relationship would be possible? I feel like they would HATE each other, and not in a Compelling Toxic Romance kind of way.

Neither of these women like to listen to other people, which would...be a roadblock, to say the least. River at least is willing to make an exception for the Doctor and extend patience toward her parents, and she plays along with Father Octavian (to a...certain degree), but I doubt she would give Cersei a single micrometer.

And the reason for this is...they're morally objectionable in different ways. Yes, they both Do Murder and Commit Crimes, but River doesn't really have to be prodded all that much to help save the universe or various innocent people around her. It's even her belief in the particular brand of goodness she's learned from the Doctor that keeps Twelve on track in series 10, and that helps him impart lessons in morality to Missy. Cersei, on the other hand, would not really care what happens to the universe, as long as she and the few people she loves are relatively okay (and...maybe not even then, tbh). After all, the universe hurt her. It's responsible for her suffering. Obviously it doesn't care about her, so why should she care what happens to it. And she very much doesn't care about the common people, something she explicitly says.

River also loves stealing things, which isn't a particular crime we see Cersei indulge in. Cersei, meanwhile, is in a complicated, codependent relationship with her brother, and, while River has a lot of bend-able morals, I...really can't see that being something she would be okay with. (I honestly think that it's one of the few things that might actually have a chance at genuinely disturbing her.) And River is...not completely free, exactly (she does at least have to play at being in prison sometimes, and there are a lot of emotional and psychological hang-ups she has regarding interpersonal relationships and her perception of herself as Not-A-Good-Person, courtesy of...a succession of awful things that happened to her as a child), but she can openly be with the man she loves. She can be secure in her sexuality without being threatened for it. She can fairly easily walk out of jail, to the point where it barely qualifies as "jail" anymore. She isn't bound by the same social mores and societal "rules" that Cersei is ("rules" which influence...almost every aspect of Cersei's anger, belligerence, and paranoia). River is feared and distrusted and sometimes hated for a lot of things, but being a woman isn't one of them. And because of that, in many respects, she has the kind of life that Cersei wishes she could have. And Cersei does NOT do well with women who have what she wants.

Cersei has a hell of a lot of internalized misogyny, which is not something that River suffers from. And when it all comes down to it, I think this is the crux of my belief that they wouldn't get along. Cersei's extreme jealousy over someone being able to live freely as herself would prevent her from appreciating any of River's better qualities (she'd be much more likely to read her as an immediate threat than anything else), and I think that jealousy and the internalized misogyny informing it would lead River to just. Not want to bother with her at all.

I think if they were to interact it would be fascinating, in the sense that you have two women who are NOT perfect, straightforwardly-good people; who are more violent than the world around them would like them to be; who had horrendous things to contend with in their childhood and/or young-adulthood. But ultimately they both went in significantly different directions. River tells herself she's Awful™ more as a coping mechanism, to prevent herself from erroneously thinking she deserves more than she (assumes she) does. Whereas Cersei is completely and unapologetically aware that she's not a good person--nor does she want to be. I think the moral clash would be incredibly compelling, as well as create a nuanced dialogue of how people can take away vastly different things from the trauma they experience. And I think that they would make amazing narrative foils. But, ultimately, I think that clash of world-outlooks and self-perception would be too great to lend itself to even a Toxic Yuri™ situation. I think they would just. Be enemies, straight-up: no nuance, no begrudging mutual respect, no other feelings.

Actually, I kind of want to write this now a;lsfjals;fjadksals;dfjsas;lk

[exopelagic]

outgrowing characters is the weirdest thing