Raphael (When the Dust Settles)
The amnesia stripped him of so many of his memories.
But he did remember some things. Donnie often retold some of their adventures to him if there were ever parts he was foggy on.
Don was there to fill in the gaps.
And so, he remembers.
He remembers Donnie. The Donnie from his memories is not like the Donnie he knows now. At least, not physically. He's still... him, he knows, but he always felt like there was something missing.
He can hear Donnie's smile when he talks but can't see it. Finds that he misses it. He misses the gap in his teeth and the way his reddish-brown eyes would go a little wild whenever he had a crazy idea. He missed the lively, excited expression on his face when an experiment proved his hypothesis true (or rather, did not prove his hypothesis to be untrue, as he used to say) or when he successfully engineered a new invention.
They were so uniquely... Donnie. Inspiration struck his younger brother often and the Donnie of his memories used to exude pride in his own genius shamelessly. He found it obnoxious back then but finds himself longing for it now.
Don's returned from scavenging, hauling supplies over his titanium shell. It's vaguely reminiscent of the way he used to position his bo staff on his shoulders and relax his forearms over it. "This should be enough firewood for a couple hours," he says.
Donnie retained the lisp from the gap in his teeth, despite no longer having any.
Raph smiles because of it, and decides to be grateful for it; another one of Donnie's uniquely Donnie attributes that he vows to never again tease his brother for.
His younger brother seats himself next to him, huddles by the fire he doesn't need to keep warm and the smoke he can't smell. He reminds himself to be grateful that he still has Don, who is, most certainly, still the Donatello. Even if his flesh and bones have been replaced with titanium and steel.
He's old and grey now, and one day, Donnie'll outlive him and he'll never stop outliving him because he won't age. He won't feel the weathering of his shell or the looseness of his skin. He will never know elderliness. He will just... be.
But he thinks Don will be okay.
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the halo show is baffling because it would be so much better if they just didnt make the master chief the main character. like you can still have him on the posters or whatever, & have action scenes with him, but trying to follow the narrative of events leading up to Halo: CE while also having As Little Covenant Presence in the series as possible is so silly.
Just make an original spartan & team. silver team is fun but theyre desperately weighed down by the master chief in this show. I dont even mind the 'ahh heres an evil human covenant lady !!!' plot but the shows writing is very scattershot & its got more misses than hits
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this is why i love taiwanese BL especially when their OST really hits. i caught some snippets of the new OST they played at the beginning of episode 7 when Qian is just going through the motions of life without Yuan:
我沒有很想你 只是一早醒來第一個想到你
I don't miss you that much, I just think of you as soon as I wake up
我沒有很想你 只是偶爾會翻閱你的短訊
I don't miss you that much, I just read through your messages sometimes
我沒有很想你 只是把自己關在角落裡
I don't miss you that much, I just shut myself in the corner
逃避 逃避 逃避 隨便你
Avoid, evade, escape, just do what you want
我沒有很想你 只是在夜裡睡不著翻來覆去
I don't miss you that much, I just can't fall asleep some nights
我沒有很想你 只是偶爾會打聽你的消息
I don't miss you that much, I just try to find news about you sometimes
我沒有很想你 只是偶爾會播放你愛看的電影
I don't miss you that much, I just play the movie you like sometimes
我真的沒有想你
I really don't miss you
我沒有很想你 我沒有很想你
I don't miss you that much, I really don't miss you that much
我只是愛你勝過愛自己
I just love you more than I love myself
我沒有很想你
I don't miss you that much
只是偶爾想抱緊你
I just want to hold you tight sometimes
我真的沒有想你
I really don't miss you
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I finally watched Nimona the other night (really good btw, highly recommend!) and something I kept on thinking throughout the movie is that Nimona's hair style is literally what TMNT 2012 tried to do with Karai's hair but Nimona did it better because she's got an actual visible hairline!
Like a friend of mine pointed out to me how Karai’s hair just kinda flops down across her head. None of the pieces of her hair are broken up in sections, no hairline, so they all look like they are one solid piece that’s on her head. The back of her hair and her bangs are connected like a Lego’s hair.
Nimona’s hair has layers and an obvious hairline. It broken up so you can see where certain parts of the hair start and end so they aren’t one piece of hair all together, if that makes sense.
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2012 and Rise TMNT Crossover Masterpost
This is more just humor than rather what I feel like would actually happen, but—
Rise Donnie, rolling up to 12 Casey and 12 Donnie with a PowerPoint: Why You Should Just Date Each Other and Get Over April, A Presentation
12 Donnie and Casey would obviously get flustered, but Rise Donnie does not give a shit.
He’s like
“Consider the Following:
1) You’re both too good for her and you know that.
2) You two have more chemistry with each other than either of you have with April. It’s your classic Rivals-to-Lovers trope, must I say more?
3) She clearly has no romantic interest in either of you and is just leading both of you on at this point.
4) It would be really funny.
5) I fully believe you two would be a power couple strong enough to kill God and he is terrified of that so he made up this hetero love triangle bullshit to keep himself alive. And if there’s one thing I know, all of us Donnies would love to finally kill him. Probably Casey too.
6) Your couple name would be like Con or something and I think that’s very telling.
7) Your color scheme is Black and Purple, which we all know is a superior color scheme.
8) I can just keep listing reasons if you really want me too, I can do this all day—“
Eventually Rise Raph manages to pull Rise Donnie away leaving the two very flustered and questioning their sexualities.
Just another day of Rise Donnie causing chaos.
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