#do so

[fullofpossibilities]

Adopted Au Headcannons for R!Leo

So this is very heavily based off of the Adopted Mikey Au and the Adopted Donnie Au done by @tblsomedoodles so if you don't know the basics that would be a great place to start. (They also gave me permission to write these headcannons to thank you again!!!!).

Basically, I was at work, and absently thinking about their Adopted Aus, and thought, "who would adopt R!Leo (otherwise listed as Blue) if he went missing in another dimension?" And first some reason the first person that popped into my head was 2012 Donatello, so this is that train wreck.

Keep in mind that Blue is, like, 3-4 yr. old in this au, and happened to get sent to the 2012 universe after being attacked in the sewers of his own dimension and doesn't go back to his home dimension until right before the Rise show starts.

Purple is R!Leo's comfort color (since it reminds him of his twin) so I can see Donnie being the first person he would latch onto.

-It helps that the reason Blue is in this universe would be a highly coincidentally timed portal on 2012 Donnie's end that transported both Leo and the mutant attacking him to the sewers nearby

Donnie goes to investigate the energy surge that happened during the fight and finds Blue, saving him from either the mutant that had been attacking him prior to the portal or the krang who might have been the reason for the portal in the first place, haven't decided yet. Donnie takes him home to patch him up, and gets imprinted on by a very lost, confused, and scared Blue who just wants his twin but hey this stranger is wearing Purple's colors so he must nice, right?

Blue obviously gets most of his sense of humor and energy from Uncle Mikey. They love to skateboard together and play pranks, usually involving a lot of messes to clean up. Both get into food competitions, where whoever can throw together the weirdest food combination and eat it without throwing up wins (Donnie always gets upset when they do that though, worried about Blue's health).

Uncle Raph is probably (read definitely) the most protective of the uncles, and even though he isn't the sensei, he still helps teach Blue how to fight. He'll introduce him to Chompy and show him to use the pinball machine, and if anyone accused Raph of going soft he'd slap their head then go get Blue for their scheduled nap (because Blue will only sleep if someone else is there). Blue likes that Raph is so big, because it reminds him of Red (even if Raph is bigger than he remembers Red being), and naps with him are the best (but he'll never tell his dad that). If I do include the fact that Blue gets plushies that remind him of his brothers like @tblsomedoodles did in their au, they were made/knitted by Raph (once again, something he'll never admit, he just claims he found them randomly)

Uncle Leo, of course, is the sensei, but they still interact outside of training. Out of all the uncles, Blue probably looks up to Leo the most, resulting in another "Splinter Junior" situation, but between Leos, and less copy but no less "hero worship." Leo is like the Jupiter Jim or Captain Ryan of Blue's childhood. Leo will introduce Blue to Space Heroes, and the two will spend hours basically fan-boying over the show.

Obviously Blue is closest with his self-assigned dad, Donnie. Donnie is the reason that Blue gets so interested in medical practices and chemistry, and Donnie has a lot of practice (cough Mikey) with grabby hands in the lab, so he knows how to keep an eye on Blue while still working in a way that lets Blue stay in the lab during the day if he wants to. Blue thinks his dad is the coolest guy ever, being able to make whatever he wants (He built such a cool car! and Metalhead was awesome!) and fixing anything that breaks (like his toys). He learns sarcasm by watching his dad talk with Uncle Casey, and boy was that something that Donnie will always regret (second only to the fact that Casey also seemed to be trying to teach Blue how to flirt). (side note: this would be in a universe that did not emphasize a lot of romance. While all of that drama still happened when they were teenagers, the only couple that I MIGHT have as canon in the Au would be Raph/Mona, because it was the only ship that didn't have some kind of problematic background). When Blue decides that his dad hasn't slept enough, he'll go and sit on his lap, and just start to fall asleep. In an effort to make him comfortable, Donnie will try to move him to the bed, and when he tries to go back to work, Blue will latch onto his arm and refuse to let go, forcing him to stay "just until Blue falls asleep." Leo walks in ten minutes later to the father-son duo practically dead to the world on the bed. On the other hand, if Donnie doesn't want to be disturbed by anyone, Blue will make it his personal mission to keep the uncles out of the lab.

It's unclear when exactly Donnie became Blue's "dad," it just happened one day with Blue walking into the room, half-asleep, and asking his dad (by his now new title) if he had seen his blanket/plushies. Donnie, understandably, freaks out internally (and later externally) but can't deny that something in him was both happy and sad: happy because he had grown attached to the little tot; sad because he knew that a time would come when he would have to send him back home (dealing with alternates has left Donnie with the very real realization that this is probably a another little Leo, especially after hearing Blue talk about his brothers). Among the infinite possibilities of universes, though, that would take some time, so maybe it would be ok for the kid to call him that? He'd ask for advice from his brothers and April, and all of them, while equally cautious, would encourage him to let it happen because dangit they're attached too (although Leo would be the most hesitant, with his sense of responsibility).

I'd like to think that Blue learned Spanish by watching tv with April and Casey. Sure, he watches tv with his uncles too, but I can't see them watching anything that might have Spanish in them. I'm imagining that April and Casey were babysiting and both fell asleep with the tv on (thinking Blue was asleep too). Some Spanish drama came on and little Blue fell in love with the accent, so he started trying to copy it. Donnie caught on and set up a system to teach him some of the words instead of just copying the accent (he doesn't know spanish, but there are a lot of learning programs online he can hack into). It becomes a bonding experience between little Blue and the humans, since they take it upon themselves to help him learn whenever they babysit (April being more successful in these lessons than Casey).

Blue was seen as very athletic in Rise!, so I imagine that he fairly enjoys sports. Watching Casey play hockey probably kick started it, which evolved into skateboarding, basketball, baseball, football, etc. He couldn't play all of these a lot, but skateboarding and basketball (or at least shooting hoops) were fairly simple to set up and do constantly. He likes baseball and football simply for the fact that it gives him and excuse to throw a ball and run around a lot, but he doesn't play them often and prefers the other two. His uncles help set up a basketball hoop in the lair for one of his birthdays, and all he did for the next week was shoot hoops.

He thinks April is cool. Leo may be Blue's personal hero, but April is a SUPER hero. She had powers and a cool outfit, and in Blue's mind that's all he needed to label his new favorite aunt as an honest to goodness superhero (followed later by Mikey's alter-ego Turflytle). He's always following her around when she visits the lair and trying to get her to make him "fly."

Instead of the lair being attacked by the mutant/yokai that tried to kidnap and eat Blue, I imagine that the event that triggers Blue's return to his original world involving the Krang. The Krang attacked the lair or there was an attack outside somewhere that Blue snuck out and got stuck in, but a Krang would attempt to drag Blue through the portal to use as bait or leverage, and Blue's ninpo messed with the portal and sent him home (without the Krang for some reason, idk its fanfiction so fanon magic). He returns to the same place where he disappeared in his world, not that he remembers that that is where he left, and instead of Tello or Angie finding him, it would be Raphie (because I'm trying not to be too similar to the original Adopted AU, no more than I already am). The rest of the Rise show continues as normal.

Maybe if I get more inspiration I'll do some headcannons for when R!Leo reconnects with his family in the 12 dimension, but for now this is all I can think of.

#rottmnt #2012 leonardo #2012 donatello #2012 raphael #2012 mikey #2012 tmnt #Adopted Au #12Donnie adopts R!Leo #It's adorable #based on @tblsomedoodles adopted aus #seriously if you haven't read those #do so

[whimsyprinx]

so i laid face down in the rain today (more pictures under the cut)

#whimsy whispers #crystalcore.png #my fae-ce #the response to this irl was ‘aw you look pitiful’ #love how I can go ‘get I’m going outside to lay facedown in the rain’ and it’s not only not questioned but people also join me to watch me #do so #I’ll be reblogging this with more pictures shortly after posting #we went out three times for pcitures of me laying on the ground in the rain btw #the third time wasn’t even my idea

[gay-edwardian]

ABBA songs as BDG quotes

Waterloo (Waterloo): “Haha, war.”

Man in the Middle (ABBA): "Look, I know Bowser is a bad dude, but I don't think that Nintendo would actively create a war criminal and then allow him to sit in the backseat of a go-kart with a baby." 

Money, Money, Money (Arrival): “I earn up to 20k a month working from, making my own hours, and being my own boss… and you can too!”

Fernando (Arrival): "And today I'm honoring those who have put their lives on the line for a megalomaniacal turtle."

Eagle (ABBA: The Album): "He can effortlessly turn himself into a fighter jet, something that only the most skilled air force engineers have mastered."

The Name of the Game (ABBA: The Album): "But how many frames does a gamer game in the gameframe mainframe?" 

Move On (ABBA: The Album): And if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go throw myself into the ocean now.”

I Wonder (Departure) (ABBA: The Album): "We are terrified of things we do not yet understand."

Voulez-Vous (Voulez-Vous): "When you walk into an unknown space, I want the first question on your mind to be: Am I safe to smash?"

Angel Eyes (Voulez-Vous): "But there's ambition in those eyes."

Does Your Mother Know (Voulez-Vous): “I don’t want to know what that mouth do.”

If it Wasn’t For the Nights (Voulez-Vous): "God has cursed me for my hubris, and my work is never finished." 

Kisses of Fire (Voulez-Vous): “SURPRISE! I lulled you into a false sense of security.”

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Voulez-Vous): "I do think we need a sexy skeleton."

Me and I (Super Trouper): "I am my own worst enemy."

Happy New Year (Super Trouper): "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and all...that jazz."

Lay All Your Love On Me (Super Trouper): “If your name is Duke Mirage, my pants are already off.”

When All Is Said And Done (The Visitors): “Folks, it’s been a year since I started this great journey, but I’m happy to say, it’s done.”

One of Us (The Visitors): "Sorry Rain, not all of us can go into Ikea and ask for the Espevär, some of us gotta settle for the Hasvåg."

Bumblebee (Voyage): “We’ve done some shit to bees, y’all”

Ode to Freedom (Voyage): "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things to mean something."

#ok feel free to ask for my reasoning because i do have reasoning for all of these #also if you know any more to add #do so #bdg #abba

[ft-nostalgia]

No because the way those extra 16 minutes in the first few episodes makes every episode afterwards so much RICHER. All the lines that become callbacks, all the foreshadowing of future character beats, I'm actually vibrating in ecstatic rage.

#the librarians #and the crown of king arthur #if you have not watched them on freevee #do so #they are so GOOD #the DYNAMICS #Eve baird #flynn carsen #cassandra cillian #jacob stone #ezekiel jones #i swear officers this isn't my queue tag I've never seen it before

[tachvintlogic]

Dracula Daily has a intimate feeling that I don't think reading the original book would have had.

Because at times it feels like I'm being personally emailed by the characters in the story. I'm that distant friend that, while never spoken to directly, everyone is making sure I'm staying in the loop about what's happening.

This was really apparent when it was just me and Jonathan on his trip to Count Dracula, a very peculiar man if i do say so myself. Then with Mina's letter, it's like she wrote up a letter for Lucy and then thought, "I should CC tach on this email, they would love to get an update on what's been going on."

#dracula daily #if you haven't signed up to it #do so #it's not too late

[7deadlycinderellas]

Normal reaction to watching Enola Holmes 2: writing fanfiction, relating it to other Sherlock media, speculating about movie 3

My reaction to watching Enola Holmes 2: trying to figure out a way in which her and Tewksbury could meet Beatrix Potter

#enola holmes #beatrix potter #seriously if you've never looked up her life #do so

[gekkonidae]

Ive been taking my sweet ass time with totk haven't even touched the main quest yet, gonna get full stamina and all the hearts before I actually play the story

#this is what i live abt open world games #no need to start the story until i actually want to #i think thats something genshin kinda lacks? #i mean the open world is absolutely fantastic in totk and genshin but with genshin some puzzles in the open world you cant do #UNLESS you finish a really long quest #and i mean the quests arent hard but i prefer ignoring story stuff ans being able to actually explore without NEEDING the quest in order to #do so #which totk and botw did really well bc all the mandatory mechanics are things you get in the very beginning #and then ur just free to do whatever without needing the main quests #well #axtually i guess since some quests are aboit fixing environmental issues it kinda counts #but those environmental issues dont fully stop you from exploring the way the exploration in genshin does #i love both games #i mean w somw games i lose interest pretty fast like in a few months #but w genshin its been. 2 years? and im still not bored enough of the game to quit #i dont play the game for very long tho. i do some stuff then i close it which i guess is why i havent experienced full burnout #i think games w more freedom are just straight up better at keeping my attention for long periods of time #games w set paths like pokemon and some other story driven games donr keep my enjoyment for as long #i mean i love pokemon but it does get predictable and boring after a while #im not attached to genshin enough to want to stick with it no matter what tho like trust me the minute i get too bored to play #im leaving it w/o a second thought lol

[tesla-rip]

READ FLICK ENTRIES

#DO SO

[geekmonkeyscience]

Temperatures are rising fast, and so it’s time for my annual advice post.

So: - try to avoid going out in the hotter hours of the day. For me, it’s roughly from 11am to 3pm, but it may vary for you depending on exactly where you live - the planet IS round, after all; - keep your curtains closed during the day, and leave your windows open just a sliver to get som air in. If you can manage it without feeling suffocated, keep the windows closed entirely; at sundown, open everything as wide as you can; - if you can keep your window open during the night, do so - especially if your bedroom won’t get sunlight first thing in the morning - and close your bedroom door even if you don’t normally. That will keep the temperature in your room cooler much longer than it would with the door open; - try to avoid places where the A/C is really high, because the sudden change in temperature (from hot to cold and viceversa) can make you sick fast and, in some cases, can even be deadly. Do not understimate this; - do NOT drink cold stuff even if you feel like your insides are melting. At most, get some cold water and then mix it with room temperature water (50/50 is good). Also, do not drink fast. Take a sip first, keep in your mouth for a bit, then swallow. THEN, drink as you normally would; - try to keep your head covered; there’s a reason if hats are a thing and it’s not just to shield yourself from the rain or the cold; - this one may seem stupid, but I promise you it’s not: take hot (or at least lukewarm) showers. This will raise your core temperature, in most case well above what the temperature is, and will keep you cooler for longer. It took me a while to get used to this one, but once I did I found it incredibly useful; - in general, avoid sunlight as much as you can, seek the shade and use SUNSCREEN. I cannot stress this enough: it doesn’t matter if you’re in the city or the countryside and not on the beach. Sunscreen is your friend and your ally. Yes, this also counts if you’re up in the mountains - even more so if you’re there, actually... don’t make the same mistake a friend of mine did, where he refused to use sunscreen and when he washed his face the entire upper layer of his skin came off when he toweled off. Be smart;

#hot temperatures #hot weather advice #be smart #and if you have to look stupid or not as put together as you normally would #do so #your health is worth much more than your appearance

[palepinkycat]

i don't follow you, but your style and characters are like. instantly recognizable. saw the aedan sketch you posted a couple days ago on my explore page and my brain instantly went "ooooo i know who that is." quite a cool effect :)

!!!!!!! Nonnie, you have no idea how much this means to me :')

#i appreciate everys single compliment i get but aedan veronica aurora etc are the characters that grew up with me there were multiple - #- versions of them and i've had them for the most part of my life and i remember being like 13 seeing other people post share their - #- characters on social media and getting all the love and i've always wanted to do that too but i didn't have the means nor the skills to - #do so #so the idea that a person who doesn't even follow me randomly recognised aedan fills me with so much?? joy?? excitement?? i'm not even - #- sure what to call it but it's so freaking heartwarming so thank you so so much for this message :") #ask #oc:aedan

[morvaris-archive]

social anxiety really likes to fuck up my days huh

#my friend invited me to spend some time with her and her other friends #and i agreed #but now i realise that i know no one here but my friend and they all know each other #there* #and this thought gives me massive anxiety #and this sucks beacause i have only one friend irl and i want to make more but i am the one who constantly messes up every opportunity to #do so #but i just cant do this omg i cant #theres like four more people and i know none of them #and i just cant #its too much #nico.txt

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[its-yashas-strong-arms]

FINALLY some good fucking feature ideas from the tumblr devs. tamagotchi renaissance now

#give us pets! give us pets! #lots of other suggestions too #i was randomly selected to be a tester apparently so i might get to do an interview and user test some shit too whichll be fun

[nothazellevesque]

a man self immolated in front of the israeli embassy in washington dc yesterday. not just any man. an active member of the us air force. he live streamed his death, and said that he refused to be complicit in a genocide any longer. he said that compared to what palestinians were facing every day, setting himself alight was nothing.

let me reiterate. an active duty air force member burned himself alive because he was so disgusted by what the us government was openly supporting. he live-streamed his own suicide, so the whole world could bear witness as a man in his military uniform set himself on fire to protest his government’s complicity in the horrors that we have all been forced to watch happen in real time. he became a new horror. footage of the immolation blurs him out the moment the fire catches, but you can hear him. it is over in seconds, really, but you can hear him screaming. he shouts “free palestine” until his body physically cannot make any sounds other than guttural screams of agony. and then he falls silent. a police officer arrives and points a gun at his still burning body, shouting at him to get down on the ground. and it is over.

his name was Aaron Bushnell. he was twenty five years old. and he isn’t here anymore because the political ruling class has decided that genocide is perfectly fine as long as it preserves imperialism. in the coming days, people will try to discredit him. to say that he was mentally unstable. they will try to bury his actions to save face and defend israel’s propaganda. do not let them. aaron knew what he was doing. he knew what he was doing when he put on his military uniform, set up his twitch stream, and made his final walk up to the embassy. he knew what would happen to him when he flicked that lighter. do not let them forget. aaron’s blood is on the hands of the political ruling class.

#free palestine #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #Aaron bushnell #aaron’s livestream likely made it so much harder to bury this like the media did to the last person who self immolated #the least we can do is not forget him #gaza strip #gaza #palestine

[cafffine]

my prof just explained on the syllabus that he’s included more points in the class than we needed to pass, so we could skip up like?? 20 small assignments/quizzes/participation!! and still get a very high grade!!

the idea was that we could focus on assignments that played to our strengths - only do the participation stuff if we like to talk out loud - only do the quizzes/readings if we want to do the class remotely - only do online discussions if we like to talk and share opinions but struggle with anxiety in class ect.

and that’s cool enough but then he pulled up DnD character sheets with drawings he’d done of these hypothetical student player classes and how our various accessibility needs could be gamified to ‘max out’ different aspects of the class to get high grades and like!!!!!

hell yeah!!!! let’s treat accessibility in higher education not just as a necessity but as the fun, engaging, and creative aspect of learning that it is!!! I love this!!

EDIT: For proper credit or further questions about his system please find my professor on twitter @/kurtishanlon

#his drawings were so cute too and they had titles like ‘silent warrior’ ‘voice of the people’ ect waaaa im so #excited for this class #he also promised to wear a mask and asked us to do the same my mannnn #double shot

[opiumvampire]

fuck w me

#my mommys cookie recipe except she makes them peanut butter cookies and i dont like peanut butter so we’re doing sugar cookies #sure hope nothing weird happens