#theeee scene right there. that’s it!

[lunar-years]

Ted Lasso won the GLAAD award specifically because of the Trent & Colin conversation in Sunflowers, btw.

#source: me #theeee scene right there. that’s it! #colin hughes #trent crimm #ted lasso

[loveyourownsmiilee]

hasn't andrew written every big buddie moment on the show?

HE LITERALLY HAS GIVEN US ALL DOMESTIC AND ROMANTIC BUDDIE! He’s my king and I bow down to him!!! Like if this man wanted to keep them platonic, he could’ve but he’s been doing the complete opposite and like there’s no way it’s all accidental or coincidental when you look at every Buddie moment he’s responsible for.

Like the wholesomeness that was the entire Christmas episode in 3.10?!? What is Eddie’s face while watching Buck interacting with the kids?? Pure love.

The Buckley-Diaz family skateboarding scene?!? How they share a fond look between each other before riding off with their son???

The family feels of 4.03!!!! Eddie acting like the bad cop while Buck is the good cop. Buck and Christopher’s little prank 🥹🥹 how can someone watch this and think it’s just platonic?!?

NEED I SAY MORE ABOUT 4.13?!?! “Make sure you’re following your heart!!” GETS SHOT IN FRONT OF HIS HEART. TRIES TO REACH OUT FOR HIS HEART BUT CANNOT. THEN HIS HEART SAVES HIM!!!! Like like helloooo.

Christopher visiting his dads while they’re at work!!!! Eddie panicking over Ana and immediately looking over to Buck bc that’s his safe space. Eddie smiling like a goon in the truck when he looks at Buck!!! Buck basically telling Eddie to break up with his girlfriend!!! GOLD RIGHT THERE!!

THE DAMN HOSTAGE EPISODE!!! Mitchell clearly thought these two were together and he immediately knew Eddie was Buck’s weakness.

Eddie breaking down, Christopher immediately calling Buck instead of 911 and Buck BREAKING DOWN THE DOOR TO GET TO EDDIE!!!! His fucking fear is losing Eddie. Eddie allowing Buck to see him at his most vulnerable 😭😭😭

THE COUCH OF IT ALLLLL. HELLO. THE ENTIRE COUCH METAPHOR STARTED WITH HIM AND HE IS GOING TO END IT BY HAVING EDDIE BE BUCK’S COUCH!!!

Like I don’t have any words to say other then if I had to choose someone to write Buddie getting together or confessing feelings or even concrete feelings realization, then it would be theeee ANDREW MEYERS.

#juju answers #Pedropascale #buddie #I’ve never been more convinced of anything happening more than I am of this #buddie canon here we go

[autisticlancemcclain]

fic rec friday 38

hello and welcome to fic rec friday! where, on friday, i rec five of my favourite fics.

only the dead have seen the end of war by @kartoffxl [MCD]

Lance must have seen something in Keith’s face, because his expression crumpled in anguish. “You… You love me back.” He put his head in his hands. “Oh my god. You loved me. You love me. This—This is so fucked up.” “Lance, I—” “Tell me I’m wrong.” There were tears in his eyes. “Tell me we didn’t just waste all those years being cowards.” Keith clenched his fists at his sides, still reeling from the whiplash of what he had just heard earlier. This can’t be happening. “Say it!” Lance pressed. “Say you don’t love me.” Please, his eyes begged. Keith and Lance finally figure out that they’re absolutely, undeniably, embarrassingly in love with each other, just not exactly in the best of circumstances.

okay so. this is. technically. one of the meaner fics im reccing. HOWEVER. it is gaspingly unbelievably beautifully and painfully written. even the summary kills me -- say you dont love me. im begging you. im begging you to lie to me right now. as we lay dying im begging you to have mercy on me and let me believe i didnt have a chance for beauty with you. im begging you to let me die with one regret instead of millions. please. please dont let me die being loved by you. LIKE WHAT

2. Toast to Freedom by @icypantherwrites

Keith is used to more than his fair share of dark looks. What he’s not used to is seeing those looks directed at Lance for no reason that he can determine and it’s making something uneasy settle in his stomach and the heavy press of the mantle of leader weigh even heavier as he should be doing something about it but he doesn’t know what. But causing a scene will upset the alliance they need and so Keith chooses to wait it out, to address it after the feast. He should never have waited.

will never ever in my life get over to 'i drank your poison because no suffering would be worse than watching it on you' not ever. it is always so so everything. and NO ONE does it like icy panther

3. Disjointed Soul by @icypantherwrites

Lance falls victim to a Soul Leecher, a dark spirit that is drawn to disjointed souls to steal them for itself. The Paladins must go into Lance's very soul to save him, uncovering truths about themselves and Lance in the process. Time is of the essence before Lance is lost forever. Good thing they have such helpful, adorable soul guides.

"Hi there baby Lance," Hunk greeted. "Ohwah," Lance burbled back. "¡Ohwah!" "Ohwah?" Pidge repeated. "I think he's saying "hola,'" Hunk grinned. "You know, "hello" in Spanish. Hola, baby Lance." "¡Ohwah! ¡Ohwah!"

this is one of THEEEE original insecure lance fics fr like it was the BLUEPRINT. 2018 there wasnt a langst loving soul who hadnt read this at least twice. its not too long for my dears w shoddy attention spans but its long enough to have quite a bit of substance!! team as family with communication and lance at the centre of it. what more do u want

4. Sleep Well, My Son by @icypantherwrites

A tiny accident becomes literal when Lance is turned into a child with no recollection from his older self. Coran has hopes the effects will be relatively short-term, but in the meantime he has a scared child that needs both reassurance and care. And while Coran might not have had the chance to be a father… he feels like one now.

look i love a good de aged lance fic and obviously when i was making these bookmarks i was scrolling my way thru the tag. and this one is especially amazing bc it is coran centred! this is a coran fic! this is a fic about quiet grief in the life you never got to live and acceptance for the life you have now and love for the people life has brought you!! it is about coran finding family through people who so desperately need it!! it is everything!!

5. Amigos by @icypantherwrites

A dangerous mission becomes even moreso when Lance is turned into a child with no recollection of his older self in the middle of it. Keith has never been good with kids and that certainly isn’t going to change now. Somehow though he’s got to convince Lance — who doesn’t speak a word of English and is staring at Keith with too wide, too scared of eyes — to come with him, get them both out of the Galran base now crawling with sentries alive, and then, assuming they get that far, figure out how to change Lance back.

shut up about the repeated author shut up about the same trope shut up about the. okay. i am a simple creature. i am annoying. i like to sit on my little armchair and open my little phone and read the same thing a million times. there is a Way to read fic and that way is to click on and scroll through a tag until you find a fic you like then scroll through that author and then go back to the tag and rinse and repeat. besides this fic is amazing okay i love klance but we rarely get platonic klance and its GOOD okay

that’s it for today!! i’ll see y’all back next friday for the next fic rec post!!!

#im so sorry its late!!! my bad!!! it will happen again!!! #vld #voltron #lance #lance mcclain #keith #keith kogane #klance #keith & lance #black paladin keith #red paladin lance #langst #bamf lance #coran #coran coran the gorgeous man #lance & coran #team as family #insecure lance #hurt/comfort #fic rec #fic rec friday #longpost #kid lance #baby lance #klangst #keith angst

[obsidiancreates]

The Algae Is Always Greener On The Other Side (Part 3)

(I try to do age math in the opening. Don't @ me if it's all wrong all that matters is I think by the end of Season 4 the 2012 crew are freshly 19. On AO3 this is split into 2 chapters so if it's too long for you here you can check over there, same title same username)

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"Wait, weren't the episodes we were watching of you also called 'Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?'" Angelo wonders, tapping his chin as he stares at the screen.

"Maybe ours inspired yours," Raph says, slightly proud of the concept. "We're older, aren't we?"

"... Are we?" Mikey asks.

They all go quiet.

"... So we're in 2022 in our world," Donald says. "Nardo and I are sixteen, Raph is eighteen, and Angelo is fifteen."

"You're all different ages? Whoa, trippy..." Mikey looks at them with wide eyes.

"They're also years into the future!" Donnie checks his T-Phone. "Let me see, we- yeah, we're in 2015! You're about seven years ahead of us!"

"So you are older," Leon says slowly.

"I- well, yes, but- for us, we turned 15 in 2012-"

"Wait, so your Mikey wasn't just saying that? You're all quadruplets?" Raphie looks at Raph. "So then who's the-the big brother?"

"Leo," three of the duller colored clan turtles chime in unison.

"Generally we agree, i-in terms of hierarchy if not actual ages, that Leo is oldest, Raph is second oldest, I'm third, and Mikey is youngest." Donnie points to each brother as he goes down the list. "But we're all 17 now, I think maybe closer to 18. I uh, stopped keeping track of our Mutation Days once we started dealing with aliens and crime bosses on the daily."

"You are all nearly 18," Splinter confirms. "I know we have not celebrated in a few years now, but I am still keeping track."

"So... where does that leave us?" April O'Neil asks, looking around. "You guys'd be 25 in our time, but you haven't even left the 2010's yet! I mean, I was like, 11 in 2015!"

"This is hurting my brains, dudes!" Mikey groans, slumped against the couch. "Let's just start the show alreadyyyyyyyyyy!"

There's a general murmur of agreement, and the show begins.

On screen, it opens with a shot of a manhole cover, a song beginning right away.

Rise of theeee- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

"WHOA!" Mikey scrambles closer to the screen. "DUDES, IS THAT YOUR SHELLRAIZER?!"

"Turtle Tank," Donald corrects, pride practically pouring out of him. "And it has multiple smaller vehicles inside of it."

"I wanna ride in it so bad," Mikey says in a sort of joyful whimper of longing.

"Uh, do those guys have fire on their heads?" Leo points out.

"Oh, yeah. They just do that, don't worry about it," Leon waves off.

Heroes in a half-shell, turtle power!

"Interesting," Donnie says quietly. "I wonder why that lyric is consistent across our shows?"

Rising up against evil, paint the city green! Raph is ready for a fight, Leo's making a scene!

Leo snorts. "Well, if that doesn't lay out our differences perfectly, I don't know what will."

"I don't know, Leo," Raph says. "You sure love making a scene of going solo."

"Yours does it too?" Raphie looks both relieved and horrified.

"Oh yeah. Sometimes Fearless Leader here is more Fearless than Leader."

"Hey!"

Mikey's got mad skills, Donnie rocks machines!

"See? I told y'all I got the squills!" Angelo rocks happily in his spot.

With each other they discover their destiny and rise!

"Destiny?" Leo looks at them. "You guys have a destiny?"

"Had. We kinda handled it already, twice!" Raphie punches his fists together.

"I think we're kinda destined for stuff too, dudes," Mikey says. "Just like, I don't think our destiny is totally sure what it's for, either."

"A wise observation, Michelangelo," Splinter praises. "It could very well be you are destined simply to protect, whatever that may mean."

"Hey, not to cut the philosophy lesson off," Raph says, "But I see a hippo in a suit and a worm with hair in that ball of villains."

"And a... pig in a cook's hat?" April looks over at April O'Neil.

"Oh, you'll see eventually," April O'Neil assures. "I think. If yours started out at your first big life-changing adventure, I think I know where ours is about to kick off."

Cowabunga!

"YOU CAN DO WHAT?!" Raph springs out of his seat! "Holy shell! You- did you just make yourself even bigger?!"

"Can make mystic clones of myself now too." Raphie puffs out his chest. "Just apart of being awesome!"

"Look Leo, other you made a portal with his sword!" Mikey shakes Leo. "Dudes, you're like our M&M games, but real!"

Donnie blinks at the screen and then looks at his counterpart. "Was yours also magic, or just-"

"Incredible tech, and yes, the fire is a custom color created by my custom-made fuel." Donald buffs his nails against his shell. "Appearance, is half the battle. I do use mystic quite a bit nowadays, but I'm never ashamed of using pure tech for so long."

The song ends, and a scene opens on two goons with small dogs strapped to their chests chasing a mystic animal of some kind. Someone knocks over a bunch of small flags on stands, which scatter across the path of the goons. Instead of barreling through them, the goons expertly tiptoe through the flags without knocking over or even brushing against a single one.

"Well, that about sets the tone for your universe, doesn't it?" Donnie sinks into the couch.

"Only about half the time," Donald corrects. "Other times things do get... intense."

"We just don't live in the same constant gloom as you all," Splints says. "We actually get to have some nice times every once and a while."

"I am glad to hear it." Splinter seems genuine in the statement. "The hardships we face are so rarely tempered by fun or rest. I am glad not every version of my sons must endure them so regularly."

On screen, the animal continues fleeing, resulting in a bit of chaos as it runs. It gets cornered by the goons, and suddenly teleports away! The scene shifts to a rooftop at night, with some sort of shady deal going on.

"I don't remember this," Raphie says, scratching his head. "I do remember the goons, though."

The camera pans up, and then closes in on the silhouettes of The Turtles. Bits of their colorful accoutrement are visible in the shadows- well, relative shadows.

"Your world is so bright even at nighttime," Raph grumbles. "How do you ever hide?"

"We don't usually bother," Donald says with a shrug. "I believe I remember this, but it had nothing to do with whatever mob deal was going on down there. I don't think we even knew that was happening."

"What were you doing then?"

"Wait and see, Other Me."

The Screen Turtles all leap down to another ledge on the building. Screen Donald's techbo opens up with a claw, and he fires it at a building across from the group.

Donnie's jaw drops. "You- I- it- how?!"

"SCIENCE!" Donald cackles. Sure, his mystic-charged wooden bo is fine, but he does miss his beautiful techbo more often than not. But like Shelldon, it just feels too soon to make a new one.

The Screen Raphie asks for an All-clear from an unseen (but obviously by voice) April O'Neil. They get it, and they zipline across the cable Donald had shot out just moments before. There's an intense shot of them ziplining at high-speeds, fast and action-ready music playing behind them.

"It looks like Super Robo Mecha Force 5!" Mikey stares at the screen in delight.

"Yeah, our show is totally taking some stylistic inspiration from anime!" Angelo holds up a hand, and his whole family high-three/five with a whoop.

"You mean there's more cartoons like Super Robo Mecha Force 5?" Mikey whispers, awed. "Dudes, I need to visit your universe!"

"We all do!" Leo looks the most excited they've seen him since his own show showed a few clips of Space Heroes. "We've been looking for a good new cartoon!"

Angleo rocks even more, excited! "Oh, baby, do we have choices for you! And if you want some movies too, we've got Lou Jitsu and Jupiter Jim!"

"Jupiter Jim?"

"Um, only one of the best low-budget sci-fi movie franchises ever!" Leon grins at Leo. "We are so going to find a way to send you guys them, that Space Heroes show makes me know you'll love it!"

Raph groans, but Leo literally squeals in excitement. His family all share fond looks around him. He hasn't really been this excited since... well, it's just nice to hear his geek-out squeal again, even if it doesn't sound quite the same as it used to.

On Screen, the mob boss laughs evilly over his money, it shows the turtles again, and... they zipline straight over him.

"Hey, um. Do you ever find out what that guy is up too?" April checks.

"Never seen him before ever." "I'm already forgetting his face." "I don't think so." "Nuh-uh."

"Right. Just wondering."

Instead, they unhook from the line just over a rooftop pool! They drop one by one, each saying a part of the word "Cowabunga" as they do! They cannonball into the pool, and April O'Neil films it on her phone and whoops, even as she's hit with the entire pool's worth of water at incredible volumes of force. All it does is knock her glasses askew.

"What I wouldn't give for our world to have those physics," April groans.

"Ha! You must be this rad to ride that ride!" "Uh, based on our velocity and entry angle, IIIII concur, we rad!"

The duller colored clan burst out into either laughter, soft giggles, or amused smiles at the face Screen Donald makes.

"Okay, maybe your weird expressions aren't that bad," Raph concedes, chuckling a little. "But they're still stupid."

"Ah, just like your overly-large feet, then."

"You little- no, you know what? I'll give you that one." Raph shrugs. "You probably stub your toes way less often."

April O'Neil praises their stunt, and Raphie praises her for being their 'girl with the plan'. Leon praises her for having the keys to the roof while also stealing said keys off of her. Angelo suggests they go bungie-jumping at a public park next, and April O'Neil agrees, putting down a 'Caution: Wet Floor' sign first, as well as a 'Dry pool' sign.

"Well, that's... thoughtful. I think." April gives her counterpart a small and uncertain grin.

"It's not like it costs nothin'," April O'Neil waves off. "They fill those pools up for free!"

"Well, obviously," Donnie says. "Our world isn't that messed up. Ha-ha, could you imagine a world where water isn't free? How horrible would that be?"

They all pause. They feel like someone is looking straight into a camera somewhere with a tired expression (it's the Author).

Back on the Screen, April O'Neil asks Donald if she can hitch a ride. With a statement of "No probles", which makes Mikey laugh and his brothers groan knowing he'll start using that now, Donald turns around. His purple metal shell opens up with a seat and handlebars, and April O'Neil plops onto it as Donald takes off!

Donnie's eyes are giant and watering in what is also a very anime-fashion. "That is so cool, and so, so unfair."

"I'm sure you'll be able to build tech to my standards someday Other Me, he said completely genuinely and not at all to spare the other Donnie's feelings."

Screen Raphie, as he follows his brothers, looks over at a construction site. He spots the animal that was being chased earlier, all alone, shivering and whimpering. He's so distracted by the cuteness and his heartbreak for the little creature that he slams into a wall very hard. Luckily he recovers almost immediately.

"You don't leave the little guy, do you?" Raph leans forward in his seat.

"Of course not!" Raphie is offended by the mere suggestion. "Mayhem is an important part of our family now!"

Raph visibly relaxes at that.

"He's a big softie for animals," Mikey whispers loudly to the colorful clan. "For some reason they love him."

Raphie tears up now. "They do?"

"Yeah, like, almost every animal we meet instantly adores him."

Raphie starts crying, big streams of water pouring down his face while he sniffles. "Good for you, man."

"Whoa, whoa, what's with the waterworks?" Raph looks concerned. "What'd Mikey say?"

"Hey!"

"Animals don't tend to be very nice to Raph," Angelo explains, giving his older brother a hug. "Even Mayhem still isn't."

"What?!" Raph stands up. "But you're like this, giant spiky teddy bear! If I squeezed you I half expect a squeaky toy noise to come out of you!"

"It might," Leon says. "Actually, sometimes all of us do that. Like how you guys sounds like rubber when you move."

"Point is, there's no reason animals should be afraid of him!"

"I think it's my fear stink," Raphie says sadly. "Or my seeing-cute-animals stink. Maybe my worried-about-rejection stink."

"Well, whatever it is, I'll help you figure it out." Raph says it with a growl and a scowl, like he's vowing revenge instead of vowing to help someone get better with animals.

Raphie sniffs. "You-you mean it?"

"I can't have some version of me wandering around his universe with animals hating him! What if you find your world's Spike and can't even take him home because he won't let you? I won't let that happen!"

Raphie sniffs again, the streams of tears disappearing as he wipes his eye. "Thank you, man."

Raph plops back into his seat. "Yeah yeah, thank me when it works."

Screen Raphie jumps down to try and help Mayhem, startling the poor creature as his incredible mass makes a loud 'boom' upon his landing. He starts cooing at Mayhem while his brothers watch, and then laugh at his attempts. He claims that pets love him, and Mayhem viciously attacks his face and shreds his mask. Mayhem then jumps into April O'Neil's arms and begins showering her in affection.

Raphie sighs sadly again, and April O'Neil pats him on the back. "Hey, he'll come around sometime," she assures with a soft smile.

"Yeah, especially since I can already see where that went wrong." Raph flicks Donnie on the head, and when Donnie yelps and turns around to glare at him, he snatches a notebook and pen out of Donnie's shell. He writes down a few notes, and rips the page out to hand to Raphie. "Try these next time you see the little guy."

"You could have just asked," Donnie seethes.

"Yeah, but then I wouldn't get to steal it off of ya."

"Grrrr!"

"Thanks, Tiny Me," Raphie says, pressing the page close to his chest. "You're not as mean as you pretend to be."

"Um, he just stole from his brother through violence," Len points out, sliding up from behind Raphie with a slidewhistle sound.

"But he did it to help someone!" Raphie grins. "So it's a good foundation!"

"Yeah, tell that to yourself," Donnie mumbles, rubbing the back of his head. It doesn't hurt still, but it's the principle of it.

Back on the Screen, All of the characters wonder what Mayhem is when The Goons show up. The Turtles all, somehow, hide themselves entirely behind April O'Neil at the sight of humans as Raphie says to initiate Plan H. They all pop back out, and Leon begins speaking in a strange meant-to-be-a-stereotypical-nerd way, asking for directions to a sci-fi convention.

"Why don't we just do that?" Mikey demands, pointing at the screen. "Hello, like they said, we even sound like rubber! I could say I'm a mascot!"

"Do you really think any humans in our world would believe that?" Leo asks, raising a not-eyebrow.

"... Alright, fine. But we should still try it someday! If we do get caught."

"Which should be never," Splinter reminds sternly.

Screen Angelo also does a fake-nerd voice, and Donald pops in using his own voice and completely flubbing the lie. Leon tells him to make it to rehearsals.

"How could my own son be so poor at acting?" Splints laments. "I suppose it is on me, for failing to pass down the most important lessons of all..."

"I think the 'teaching how to defeat Shredder' lessons were more important, actually," Donald says.

"Hmm. You just say that because you are embarrassed, Purple. But don't be! We will begin acting lessons alongside ninja lessons as soon as we are home, with other Blue joining us!"

This is met with mixed reception.

"Give to me creature. How you say, ah... pretty please. Or I'll destroy you."

"His name wouldn't happen to be Steranko, would it?" Donnie ventures.

"Oh, these guys ain't actually human," Raphie says. "They're yokai."

"Wait, yokai spirits are real in your world? We pretended to be yokai once, but we've never met any real ones."

"Oh yeah, yeah, we're part yokai," Leon says with a grin. "That's what mutants are for us."

"I wouldn't call yokai spirits, though," Angelo adds. "Just sort of, mystic people animals!"

Back on Screen, Raphie threatens to defend April O'Neil, and April O'Neil threatens to defend her friends if the threats continue to threaten them. It's as long-winded as it sounds, in an amusing way. After making Donald insecure about his voice, the goons transform into their true Yokai forms in a big show of purple lights. Their tiny puppies become hellhound-like creatures, and they carry mighty weapons with them! The Turtles are stunned, until-

"Soooo... you guys from Jersey?"

Leo lets out a single sharp laugh. Mikey reaches out to Leon for a fist-bump.

Screen Angelo is disappointed in Leon's joke, which Screen Leon defends as a coping mechanism. Raphie says it just means they can finally use their weapons, using the word 'ahoy', which prompts Screen Donald to lament that they were saving that for a ship-based adventure.

"So, just making sure I understand this right," Donnie says, "You've never used your weapons before, including during training?"

"Well, we didn't so much as train as uh, watch Lou Jitsu movies and copy the moves," Raphie says with an embarrassed chuckle as he rubs his neck. "And a few online video tutorials."

"You did not train your sons at all?" Splinter aims a narrow gaze at Splints.

"Oh, excuse me for wanting them to be children for a few years," Splints says with a roll of his eyes. "I do regret my repeated absence from their lives, deeply, and for failing to prepare them when they were of the right age, but I never regret raising them as children rather than warriors!"

"They need to be warriors to survive! The world is not a kind place for creatures like them, like us!"

"Exactly! I was already dealing with my ex-lover kidnapping me to be a battle slave, and then being turned into a rat! They were dealing with growing up hidden in the sewers and being strange turtle-human hybrids! I did not want to pile onto that! So action movies were their sensei, and I told myself I would train them properly when the time was right! ... And by the time it was right... the forces against us were much farther ahead."

The room goes quiet.

Silently, privately, everyone wonders if maybe neither Splinter did things right, or wrong. If maybe, there's no true good answer to the problem. Raise them as normal kids, and they'll never make it. Raise them as warriors, and what parts of them do make it may not be the parts they need most.

But no-one voices it aloud.

So the show plays on.

The fight begins, and true to the colorful clan's assurances when watching the duller clan's own first battle, it's a disaster. Donnie's techbo doesn't work as intended, though thankfully Mayhem retrieves it through teleporting, which distracts Screen Donald long enough for him to be hit very painfully. Angelo and Raphie tag-team the one that attacked Donald, while Leon makes a quip to the other about ruining cannonball day and goes for an attack. His katanas are broken instantly.

"Ugh, been there too many times to count," Leo groans. "Sensi must replace our weapons at least twice a month each. More for Donnie."

"It's wood! How am I supposed to keep it in good condition if it's wood?!"

"That wasn't a dig, D, I was just saying!"

"Yeah, bro! You're a statistical outlier."

The duller clan all freeze, eyes wide white discs as they stare at Mikey in shock. He has his eyes closed and a pleased smile on his face.

"How do you know what that is?" Donnie marvels.

"How do you think I keep track of which pizza places are worth ordering from, bro? Most of them are Great to Passable, but there's a real bummer place on that one corner, the one as clipped the streetlamp with the Party Wagon that one time? Total. Statistical. Outlier. I didn't know pizza could be that bad!"

The staring continues for a bit, and then they all wordlessly look back at the TV. Donald gives Mikey a thumbs up form the other side of the couch, which makes Mikey smile.

On Screen, Leon throws his little sword stub at the villain and keeps fighting, dodging hits and claiming he doesn't need weapons to beat them because of his rad skills. As he says it he runs up the side of a cement truck, flips off- and lands on his neck quite painfully, collapsing into a heap of limbs.

The dull clan all scream, and Donnie is up and checking Leon's neck in a second. "How did that not break you neck entirely?! Did you get throat damage, any loss of mobility-"

"Whoa, settle down there mi hermano!" Leon pushes him away. "I'm fine, that kind of thing happens to us all the time! Just another difference in our worlds or something!"

"Oh. Okay, okay. Good, I-I think." Donnie hesitates, and then goes back to his seat. Leo rubs his brother's shell, giving him an understanding look. Throat injuries and Leos... not something Donnie can take lightly.

On Screen it cuts to a shot of Raphie being punched, and then telling Angelo to go 'ninja mode'. They both slink into the shadows of the construction site, and it closeups on the villain... who points them out right away because they did not hide well.

"You guys are better at that now, right?" April checks.

"Way better." Raphie is cringing at seeing his past self try to hide behind the skinny metal beam. "Funny, I didn't realize how much progress we really made in such a short time."

"I'm very proud of you boys," Splints says (which makes Donald sparkle and giggle in utter blissful joy). "Not for this, this is very embarrassing. But for how you have grown from this!"

Screen Raph, meanwhile, is shot at by a beam of mystic energy from the villain's sword. He lets out a funny little yelp and announces plan doube-B, making Angelo whoop and pop into his shell. Raph throws him at the villain, who catches Angelo easily. Angelo pulls out his nunchucks with a grin and starts swinging! And hitting! Himself. As the chucks doinks uselessly off of the villain's arm.

"Hoo, this is worse than I remember," Angelo says, covering his eyes a little. "I guess I get it from storytelling, showing how we start off and all, but this is rough!"

Screen Angelo, covered in bruises and bumps from his accidental self-assault, is then further injured by the villain tossing him away with a mystic bubble then crushing his nunchucks. Raphie tells the villain to 'pick on someone my size' and a bell dings like it's a wrestling match. The villain just snaps his fingers and has his dog attack Raph instead. It bites Raph's head, throws him around, and then tosses him clear across the construction site. To add insult to injury, it vaporizes his sai.

"Um, can we turn this off, actually?" Raphie looks for a remote. "Raph's not enjoying this anymore."

"No, no, this is where I come in again!" April O'Neil beams.

Indeed, on screenshe begins throwing bricks and threatening the villains. They don't say a word, just make a mystic bubble around Mayhem to prevent the poor creature from teleporting away. April O'Neil holds into the bubble as tight as she can, but the villain blasts her away with mystic energy.

"I have the agent, and the vial!"

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." April O'Neil rubs her chin and looks down. "I should probably ask Barry what that meant, huh? Because if Mayhem's a secret agent of kind, I need to get him a medal."

But no medal comes for Screen Mayhem. Instead the villains activate some kind of rune and open a portal on a lone out-of-place brick wall, making the turtle all exclaim in awe. A bike riding pizza boy, for some reason, rides through the construction site... and right into the portal. No-one stops him. He falls a long way down the tunnel, and Screen Angelo shouts as Screen Leon makes an "Ooy" sound. The villains run through with Mayhem... and April O'Neil follows them! Raphie tries to jump through after her, but it closes!

"Wow!" April looks at her counterpart. "So you chose to get involved, and I was sort of... thrown into it. How weird."

"But it looks like you dealt with it good!" April O'Neil gestures to the tessen in April's pocket. "You even got a weapon!"

April smiles. "Yeah, well... it helped to have such good friends supporting me through it."

The colorful clan all "Awwww" as the duller clan all blush and Splinter gives her a proud smile.

On screen, Raphie shouts 'April!' as he sits up with a large bump on his head from hitting the wall. Leon says she's probably okay because there's no 'April bits on the ground'-

"Blech!" Mikey shudders at the thought. The colorful clan all see a little thought bubble rise from his head showing a notebook-sketch-like imagining of his own April going through a wall and coming out like paper shreds on the other side, making Mikey whimper at his own imagination. But none of the duller clan react to the disturbing visual, so they either can't see it, or have see such things very often (it's the former).

-and Raphie shouts to ask April O'Neil if her bits are on the other side of the wall. They all wonder where she went, and Angelo looks at the symbol and realizes they know it. The image of the wall fades to show a messy shelf, and Angelo comments about it being 'Splints's do not touch cabinet'.

"Dudes, our Splinter's whole room is a do-not-touch zone!" Mikey wringles his not-nose as the screen shows Splints watching some kind of Japanese game show, but it's not in any sort of negative emotion, just... surprise. "He lets you go in there?"

"This is the living room," Donald corrects. "We'd never go into Splinter's room willingly, but yes, when he's sick we have been in there on occasion."

"Yours gets sick?" Raph's eyes go wide. "I've never even seen our Splinter sneeze!"

Splinter gives a proud chuckle. He's not some fully-infallible being, they all know it, but a lot of human sicknesses don't seem to affect his family at all, and he's mastered the art of silent or imperceptible sneezing- a must for ninjas living in a very dusty New York.

The Screen Turtles start wondering how to get the item from Splints, and Raphie decides to try and get him out of the room. They all slide (literally) in front of the projection of the show, bowing slightly. Raphie asks for the living room in a bright voice, and it cuts to show Splints laying in his chair covered in crumbs and drinking a whole carton of milk with a straw.

"Splints leaps to his feet, standing on the couch. "This show is a outrage! I am not-"

He's stopped by skeptical glares from all of his children, April O'Neil included. He sighs and sinks back down. "Fine. Maybe I do look like that." He looks at his own hands sadly. "... But it is hard to take pride in your body when it is... this."

One the other side of the couch, Donnie watches Splints with sympathy. He knows how that feels.

"We love you, Pops," Raphie assures, bringing his dad into a big group hug. "No matter how many crumbs your robe is full of."

Splints sighs and smiles a little, hugging back the best he can. "Thank you, my sons."

On screen it's... less heartwarming. Splints laughs at them for even asking for the room, claiming he thought 'Purple' is the funny one, which Donald agrees with in a flat tone. Donald then offers to hook it up for Splints to watch in bed, but Splints declines because his butt is asleep in his preferred fashion.

Splints glances over at his other self, expecting a look of intense judgement. But Splinter mostly just looks... curious, possibly trying to figure out how the two ended up so different.

Screen Splints waves the turtles out of the room and laughs at his shows, so Raphie begins forming a new plan. He's interrupted by-

"Leon's got it!"

"You call yourself Leon?" Leo looks at his counterpart. "Why?"

"Why don't you? We can have more than just one nickname, my friend! A little variety, spice up the identity! Better than- what'd your Raph call you? Fearless Leader? Oh, man, that nickname is bad! It just adds pressure!"

"It doesn't add pressure, just annoys."

"Whatever you say, Other Me." Leon leans closer to Donald. "It totally adds pressure, I know it."

"Oh, definitely," Donald whispers back with a nod. "But what's a Leo without an inability to voice lapses in confidence?"

"Don't make me point out your fake confidence, Don."

"It's not fake, I'm astounding."

"So why do you turn into a puddle of happy goo whenever Dad says even the most bare minimum nice thing about your inve-"

"HEY LET'S STOP INTERRUPTING THE SHOW ACTUALLY-"

"I KNEW IT!"

On screen Leon reminds his brothers that their father passes out 'after milk and cake', and it cuts back to the construction site. Raphie holds up the trinket, sticking his tongue out as he tries to figure it out. Donald doesn't help with the comment of "A few hours ago I would've called this foolish and impossible. Now I just call it foolish!"

"Did you think magic didn't exist?" Donnie seems surprised.

'Wait, you did think it exists? But your world doesn't even have mystic powers!"

"No, but we have a spirit realm, and I always figured if that exists-"

"You have a spirit realm? We have spirits too but I don't know if they have a whole world."

"We've been to ours... sort of. We went out into some woods for a few days and fought some spirits once."

"We forged our own new armor and weapons and everything!" Mikey butts in excitedly. "I fought a spirit that looks like Rahzar- do you guy have him? Ugh, he's the worst, dudes! Anyway, we all had to fight different enemies, and I had to learn how to focus, and Donnie had to learn how to uh, trust his strength or something? And Raph had to learn to manage his anger again and Leo had to learn make his leg stop hurting-"

"Whoa whoa whoa!" April O'Neil waves her hands to stop Mikey talking. "Come again? Who told you guys that?"

"I found them from the spirit realm," Splinter says. "I'd been separated from my body, and sought them out to prepare them for their return to New York."

"There's a lot of missing context there, let's all acknowledge that before moving forward," Donald says, "But to me that sounds a little bit like telling Mikey to just stop having ADHD and telling Leo some kind of injury is all in his head instead of letting it heal."

"It's fine, it was all in my head," Leo says firmly. But the way he rubs his knee... begs to differ.

"We'll have words about this later," Angelo says sweetly. But then all of a sudden he is staring at all of them with the most dead-eyed smile as flames rise behind him and he looms over them. "Because remember we'll probably see all of that at some point and any lies or secrets will be exposed."

He smile sweetly again, now once more normal sized and sitting in his seat, and the show continues to play.

On screen, the brothers are discussing the pressure Raphie is under to get this right and clearly making it so much worse as the shots zoom in on Raphie's eyes and a bead of sweat rolls down his face. After demanding they stop talking about his fear stink-

"He retained that from his mutation? Fascinating!"

"Uh, what?"

"You're a snapping turtle, right? Snapping turtles can release a musky odor when they're stressed! We never smelt it from Spike because he just took everything as-is, so I always wondered if it was true or not."

"Oh, it's true." Leon laughs, once again draping himself across his larger brother's shoulders. "He has a lot of stinks, actually, it's like a mood ring but smelly!"

"Stop talkin' about it! You're making Raph self conscious!" Raphie shoves Leon off of him.

Screen Raphie holds the trinket to the wall and tries to make it open, even punching the wall and throwing it at the wall, but it just shoots off, hits Raphie's head, and lands in front of Angelo. Angelo says to let him, the 'artist of the crew' try, and Leon agrees because he can't do any worse. It works for Angelo immedietely, opening up the portal right away!

"Heck yeah!" Angelo pumps his fists in the air. "Magic hands, baby! Oh, if Junior could see this he'd be all over it, that has to be because I'm meant to be a mystic master!"

"Oh-ho, you're so right bro!" Leon fist-bumps Angelo. "Look at that, it was all right in front of us the whole time!"

And with barely a moment of debate, the Screen Turtles cannonball right into the portal, Raphie leading and the other following right behind. They all land horribly painfully except for Leon, who says the words 'Land safely' aloud as he almost loses balance. Clearly he took a lesson from his earlier mishap with the cement truck stunt. It zooms out, showing a huge city with marvelous and strange buildings, creatures, and vehicles!

The duller clan all marvel just as the Screen Turtles do.

"I can smell Raph's amazement stink."

"Smell my amazement stink too, dudes, that's awesome! Please tell me we'll be seeing a lot more of this place!" Mikey looks at them with a wide smile.

The colorful clan all think. Leon tsks. "Um... so..."

"We've only visited there again... once?" Raphie says, rubbing the back of his head.

"Um... twice, if we count when Nardo portalled us out of Tahiti," Donald says. "I think."

"We kind of ended up in jail and broke out, so... I don't know if they love us there." Leon gives a bashful smile and shrugs. "It was all a lot of misunderstandings."

"We've been there," Leo sighs. "I mean, not a mystic city, but someone branding us as criminals or menaces when we aren't."

"On the bright side, more things to relate on!" Angelo smiles too widely, hoping to draw some real ones from the others.

"Kind of an upsetting thing to relate on," Donnie sighs, "But... I guess it's a little comforting knowing we aren't the only one this happens to."

The show pans down for a closer look at the strange city, landing on the still-awestruck Screen Turtles. April whispers to them from behind, and they immedietely surround her in a big group hug.

"Donnie, where are we?"

Donnie groans at the screen. "Yours do that too?!"

"Do... what? Look to me for answers because they're dum-dums?" Donald's statement results in some protesting from his family, not about their dum-dum status, but about how they don't actually seek out his answers most of the time, he just gives them. These protests go ignored.

Donnie throws his hands out to the screen. "Yeah! Wait, it doesn't bother you?"

"Not really. Like I said, they're dum-dums."

"Oh." Donnie suddenly stiffens, and looks at his now glaring family. A 2-D bead of sweat suddenly appears on his forehead with a "bloob" sound, and he rubs the back of his neck. "Um, what I meant by agreeing that' your dums-dums is that, besides April and Sensei-"

"We don't look to you for all the answers," Leo says.

Donnie's 2-D sweat disappears, and he scowls. "Are you kidding me, Leo? You guys expect me to know everything right off the top of my head!"

"That's 'cause you're the smart one, D!" Mikey holds his knees and rocks in place. "You keep acting like we don't know anything, so you gotta!"

"You not knowing to stay out of my lab and Raph not knowing how power conduits work is different!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Yes it-!"

"Boys!" Splinter rubs the space between his eyes. "Donatello, your brothers rely on your intellect and ability to learn quickly during battle, and in day-to-day life. That is an honor, to be looked up to in such a way."

"But they don't look up to me," Donnie grumps, crossing his arms. "They look down on me for being a nerd."

"It's our burden to carry," Donald says, eyes closed as he nods and slides over to pat Donnie's hand. "We got all of the brains out of the mutation process, clearly."

Donnie laughs a little at that. It eases the tension a bit.

On Screen, Donald gives a scientific explanation to Raphie before April O'Neil corrects him with an entirely different, yet correct, explanation of it being a hidden city under New York.

"Um... wouldn't that collapse?" Mikey tilts his head. "Because like... I thought sinkholes were bad."

"... Huh." April O'Neil thinks about it. "... You know, it's maybe better to just be glad it doesn't seem to matter."

Screen Leon asks where the 'dog thing' is-

"That thing is way more cat than dog," Raph mutters.

-and April O'Neil points them all toward a large and very imposing castle. They enter easily in the very next shot, all exclaiming in wonder again as Donald admires the aesthetic with shining eyes. They come to the edge of the upper entrance platform and find Mayhem and the delivery boy both locked in vine-like mystic cages, but before they can save them a tall, terrifying creatures enters his shadow looming before a shot pans up to reveal his intimidating glare.

Splints laughs. "What a dramatic try-hard!"

"Pops! Remember, we're not holding Barry's past against him anymore!"

"This is not holding it against him! This is making fun of him, behind his back! Completely harmless!"

"Wait, this is the guy who's your other dad now?!" Leo gapes at them.

"Yeah! Draxum made us, so after The Shredder sucked out his life force I helped him get back on his feet! He helped us save the world from Shredder!" Angelo beams.

"Dude, you should meet my friend Leatherhead!" Mikey pulls out his T-Phone and shows Angelo a picture. "He also met us by attacking us and then became our friend!"

"Oooooh, Leatherhead is such a cool name for an alligator!"

"Came up with it myself! See, his head, it looks and feels like leather!"

"So clever!"

On the screen the delivery boy somehow believes this is due to the pizza shop's calamari being made of pig butts, and Draxum dismisses the claim. The gargoyles on his shoulders suddenly move, jumping down seemingly just to scare the human in the cage.

"Where did those guys go, by the way?" Leon looks at his family. "Anyone know?"

"Nope. But I don't think we gotta worry," Raphie says. "They're only bad guys by proxy, really. Without Draxum they're just weird little flying things."

"True."

Draxum grabs a vial off of Mayhem and informs the delivery boy that he's about to be experimented on, which the delivery seems excited about. It briefly cuts back to the turtles and April O'Neil, who all seem much more concerned. But they don't act, and watch on as Draxum pours the vial into a large machine.

"You're just going to let him to this? You need to jump in!" Leo is leaning forward in his seat, staring in disbelief at the TV.

"We're gonna! We just needed a second."

"To do what?!"

"We were a little curious where it was going," Leon admits. "But we stop him! ... More or less..."

Draxum's machine powers up, and April O'Neil and Raphie comment about this is probably a bad thing. The liquid from the vial causes some kind of mass to form at the top of the machine, which strange-looking mosquitoes suck into their bodies. Draxum brings one over to the delivery boy, who asks if it will hurt as his cage changes to suspend him in the air. Draxum confirms it will hurt, happily, and the mosquito bites the human. The ooze inside turns him into some kind of fish-mutant in a painful and disturbing process (though still not quite as horrific as what they saw from Snakeweed) as The Turtles and April watch on in horror.

"You just let that guy mutate?!" Donnie stands up and snarls at the colorful clan. "You just watched! It's your fault that he's stuck like that now! You could have prevented it!"

"Excuse us for being a little slow to act on our first ever villain encounter just after losing all our weapons!" Leon crosses his arms. "You wouldn't have jumped in unarmed either!"

"I'd have to!" Donnie looms over the still-sitting other clan, irises and pupils pinpricks as he seethes. "Do you even understand how serious that is?! How life-destroying being mutated IS for humans?!"

"Do not lecture my sons on such a thing!" Splints leaps in front of Donnie, looking up and jabbing a finger at him. "They understand very well now!"

"They don't seem that sorry!" Donnie spits. "Do you even know how to reverse it?! Have you even tried to develop a retromutagen?!"

"Donnie, calm down." April puts her hands on his shoulders. "It's not the same for them."

"They let someone be mutated! April, they didn't even try to-!"

"Hey." She steps between him and Splints. "My dad is home, and safe," she reminds him in a soft voice. "And we'll find a way to thaw out Timothy. He won't be stuck like that forever."

Splints's own fire fizzles out as they all watch Donnie sag, the anger leaving him entirely and replaced by sorrow and guilt.

"I-I just..."

"I know. We all know." April guides him back to his seat.

"You'll figure it out, bro," Mikey says, tone as soft as April's as he pats his brother's knee. Donnie just sighs.

"... Who exactly is Timothy?" Donald keeps his own voice soft as well. At first he'd figured it was just a friend who got frozen, but now...

"... A human teen who tried to help us." Donnie brings his legs up and hugs himself into a little ball. "It was our fault- my fault, he got doused with mutagen. He... he was just wanting to be like us. Be a hero."

"He got turned into this freaky pile of clear goo with guts and stuff," Mikey says, scooting to press close to his brother's side. "He lived in Donnie's lab for a while, but after a while he lost it and tried to kidnap April and kill us."

"It wasn't his fault." Donnie's voice is small. "The mutagen... he was barely even sentient. And-and now he's frozen, from a tainted batch of retromutagen we used to stop him, and I can't... I can't figure out how to unfreeze him to turn him back. ... He was my friend. And... we ruined his life. His family's life. ... He just wanted to help us."

The room is quiet for a very, very long time.

"I'm... not a chemist," Donald says slowly. "I'm more a machine's man. I know I agreed to unfreeze your friend, but... if it's that complicated, it... may take some time."

"Everything does," Donnie mutters. "... New deal, though. I want a sample of your world's mutagen. I'm going to find a cure for it, and you're going to offer it to every mutant you know."

"Okay." Donald nods.

"We didn't mean to seem insensitive," Angelo says. "We haven't had something like that happen to a friend before. All of our mutated friends still have their minds, and none of them turned into-"

"It's fine." Donnie hugs himself tighter. "I-I'm sorry I blew up at you. You didn't know what would happen to that person. Just... I hope he's okay."

The tension doesn't really lift, just... loosens, a bit.

The show begins again, the new mutant screaming and flopping around comically. Different sections of the screen show the various reactions of the Teens, most reacting with disgust and shock while Donald makes a joke about it being confirmed the crab cakes were indeed imitation crab.

Mikey lets out a little laugh. He's the only one. It's... not the most joke-ready mood.

On Screen, Donald's brothers look at him in disapproval of the joke as the new mutant mourns having to deal with being a fish just after getting used to acne. Donnie curls up even tighter in his seat, eyes a little misty. Mikey and April both press against his sides to comfort him.

On screen the mutant runs out of the lab. Draxum pays it no mind and simply enjoys that the mutation worked "like it did all those years ago".

Splints is the one who sighs sadly now, looking at his hands. Donnie glances over at him, and when their eyes meet, there's an unspoken understanding between them despite the previous fight.

They'd both been coming from the same place with their feelings, after all.

Screen Angelo wonders if they could be part imitation crab, making Screen Donald laugh and then disappointedly realize it Was Not A Joke. Draxum threatens Mayhem once more, spurring April O'Neil to call to action. Leon remind her they're unarmed except for Donald, and Donald brags about his staff being high-grade titanium. Raphie tries to encourage them to fight even without weapons, but April O'Neil reveals that she, somehow, found the weapons room.

"You should be leading their team," April says, her voice still soft as the mood in the room continues to feel soured.

April O'Neil laughs a little. "Lead this team of bozos and juggle college? Nah, I'll leave that to Leo and Raph."

Screen Turtles all fall down a chute, along with April O'Neil. The turtles all land in a heap of limbs while their human friend just bounces off and lands perfectly on her feet. They all marvel once again at the weapons room and begin picking out familiar weapons of katanas and nunchucks- until Raphie points out the glowy ones. With zero hesitation they all grab the clearly magic items, except for Donald. Even at April O'Neil's prompting he refuses and promises his techbo he'll never let it go-

"Ooooh, Dontron broke his promise!"

"Her spirit lives on through the mystic tech I wield, Nardo!"

"You still broke it!"

-and takes some kind of crystal instead.

Fully armed, the Screen Turtles set out to save Mayhem. Mayhem is shown to be being prodded and tormented by the gargoyles-

"If we'd seen that I would have snaped their little wings off," Raphie growls. "Who does that to a dog-thing?!"

"If we visit your world I'll help you hunt them down and snap off their wings." Raph cracks his knuckles.

One again The Screen Turtles tumble out of a chute into a heap, APril being the only one with an okay landing. Raphie begins trying to give a hero speech, when Leon adds a note. Then Donald does, and then Angelo, and Raphie can't seem to deny their notes and just finish his sentence. While they ramble, Draxum stares at them in tearful awe. Raphie tries one more time to make the speech, and finally the bored April O'Neil leaps into action!

"Ugh." Donnie leans away from the screen. "Why are your eyes bugging out like that? It's reminding me of Rockwell."

"I'll be honest, I had no idea they did that in that moment." Donald shrugs. "But as we established, our worlds have a vast different in emotive expression."

WHile the Screen Turtles panic over April O'Neil just running right in, she lands on Mayhem's cage and begins trying to chew through it.

"It is a constant," April laughs. "Ugh, that must have tasted awful."

"Didn't taste anything over the adrenaline. Now that you mention it, I'm pretty glad I didn't manage to bite through. Those gargoyles might've saved me from a nasty experience!"

Draxum uses some kind of mystic vines to attack. The Turtles just run down them, save for Leon, who is very vocal about his hatred of it. Drxum then releases a giant monster, which Leon hates the fact that it looks at him. It destroys the vines and Draxum commands it capture The Turtles as specimens. They all leap up as Raphie cries "Cowabunga!", Leon taking longer just so he can do a fancy little move.

"What was that for?" Leo looks over.

"For flair." Leon flips his mask tails like they're hair. "And the floor was a little slippery, but I saved the moment!"

The mood finally starts lifting in the room again.

Screen Leon slashes right through the monsters leg, and it roars in pain! It throws stone blocks at Raphie and Angelo, and while Raphie gets hit a few times ANgelo leaps through them with ease and laugher! Angelo uses his weapon to throw Raphie forward and-

"What's Hot Soup supposed to be?" Raph looks at his counterpart. "That's like, the second time you've said it."

"It's Pops's catchphrase form his old Lou Jitsu movies!" Raphie picks up Splints. "Say it for them, Pops!"

"Put me down! You cannot force a Hot Soup moment!" Splints waves his arms in protest. "It is not just some catchphrase, it is a warriors battle cry! It is not my fault it also happens to look good on t-shirts and merchandise!"

Screen Raphie slams into the monster's face, knocking it to the ground! Donald jumps in, his battle shell opening to Flight Mode (making Donnie drool over the tech once more). He tries again with the two rockets on the end of his techbo, and this time it works extremely effectively! The monster is completely defeated, and Draxum admires their accidental skills as all of them but Donald lay groaning in pain in the wreckage. Leon takes it as a surrender, but alas... it is not.

"Wait wait wait, what training? You don't train at all?" Leo looks at his counterpart. Leon looks back with a defensive remark right at the tip of his tongue-

But Leo doesn't look judgemental.

He looks concerned. It reminds Leon so much of Raphie's looks that the snark dies before he says it.

"I do now." Leon shrugs. "We weren't really expecting to do any big fighting or heroics back then. Trust me, I learned how important it is."

Leo sits back, relaxing a little. "I'm glad. Maybe we should try training together sometime then. It looks like you end up swapping out those other weapons for ones like ours anyway, we can compare techniques. Learn from each other."

"I don't know, your guys' training session looked way more formal than we do them. We tried it that way once and it got us kidnapped for ransom."

"How did- nevermind. A little informal sparring then?"

"Now that I can get behind."

Draxum uses more mystic balls to add some kind of powerful outer layer to his arms. Their attacks do nearly nothing to him, but while he goes to brag April O'Neil finally gets the one-up on the gargoyles. Draxum uses the moment to trap her in some kind of cocoon, making Mikey launch another attack! But this time-

"IT'S A FIRE FACE!" Mikey jumps up and cheers! "DUDES, THAT'S THE COOLEST MAGIC WEAPON EV-AH!"

"I miss old Fire Face," Angelo says with a content nostalgic sigh.

Screen Angelo, of course, does not have good mastery of his weapon right away, but manages to blow up the ooze mass at the top of the machine and land a hit on Draxum nonetheless. Raphie tries next, flailing his arms and excitedly begging for it to work, and red lightning suddenly envelops his arms! He's betrayed by it, alas, and Leon decides that's a good enough signal to find his out by running right at Draxum and swinging. It... does nothing. For a second. Then it opens up two portals above and below each other, sending him on an endless loop through both.

"I think I'm going to be sick just remembering that feeling," Leon says, gagging a little. "Portal loops are not fun."

"Wait, but, what's Raphie's then?" Donnie asks. "You have portals, Angelo has, uh... fire... demons, he has... electricity?"

"It's actually a sort of energy-body thing. I can make a really big version of me, make really big or long arms, make clones, it's pretty awesome! And it's not actually our weapons, totally, it's our ninpo!"

"Your world is both fascinating and terrifying."

"Thanks! ... I think."

Screen Donald slides up next to Draxum and begins his own attack, being shockingly effective all on his own until Angelo, yanked around by his weapon, knocks into him. Draxum gives a classic 'under me you could be true warriors' speech-

"Kinda surprised Shredder hasn't ever tried that on us, actually," Mikey says.

"I think he knows we'd never go for it." Raph smirks. "Besides, we're already true warriors! I'm not saying you guys aren't by the way. Assuming you get better than this."

Angelo laughs. "So much better, I cannot wait for y'all to see how awesome we are later on!"

-and cocoons all the remaining turtles. Donald realizes the machine behind Draxum is about to blow when April O'Neil says they still need to save Mayhem, but Draxum is so preoccupied with his 'Join me' speech that he doesn't notice until Donald points it out. The explosion squishes Draxum under a rock and frees Mayhem, who's the only reason they all survive as he teleports them out! They get back to New York and celebrate their first successful fight!

"Oooooh, I get it." Leon nods as his Screen Self tries to propose a name other than Mad Dogs. "It's the thing where I almost say the show title, but then I don't! It's a running gag, I've been doing a running gag this whole time guys!"

"Wait, does that mean we're actually a TV show? Like, someone wrote us?" April O'Neil wonders.

"Don't think about it too hard," Mikey advises. "Our cartoons always reflect what's gonna happen or did happen to us most days, but like, we don't talk about that. 'Cause then it's too real."

The onscreen celebrations are ended, however, but thousands of the oozequitos flying out of the portal and into New York city! With the sun rising The Turtles have no choice but to flee back home and leave it for another day. A single oozequito flies right into the screen and squishes... ending the episode.

"Huh, it took us like, a year before something like that happened to us, with the mutagen getting all over the city and stuff! You've got some bad luck, dudes."

"But, also a pretty sick first adventure, right?" Leon nods, smiling widely. "I mean come on, we got magic weapons right off the bat!"

"It certainly makes me interested in seeing more," Splinter says, stroking his beard thoughtfully. "Many mysteries were hinted at, and much potential was shown."

"Oh, we live up to that potential, baby!" Angelo winks. "Just you wait and see!"

"Looks like we'll be waiting a while." Donald points at the screen. "We're back to their universe next."

"Awwww, man!" Mikey goes limp with disappointment. "We already know that one! I wanna keep watching you guys!"

"I'm sure we'll get back to us," Angelo assures. "I mean, how long can these shows be, anyway?"

#tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2k12 #tmnt 2018 #rottmnt #tmnt fic #tmnt fanfiction #fanfic #my attempts at fanfic

[sirsnortsalot]

YOUR TAGS ON THEEEE TOM LOOKING AT GREG ACROSS THE AISLE POST I DSDJKSDJSKJDJKS we shake hands that ep is my entire life for so many reasons i hhhhhhhhhhh. tom's suit being called a gregory. the two of them dressed in black and white when greg says "i do" true to marriage tradition. the fact that when tom sits down in front of greg he literally looks like he's getting on one knee. the way their knees are touching. the way they are sitting so close. the way the two waiters in the background are playfully smacking each other on the ass with towels and both greg and tom look at them wistfully before talking like god i wish that were us. the way greg teases tom a little with the well... keeping him hanging on a little bit. the way greg says "of course". the way their conversation [in that connor asks willa if she really wants this, bc she's kind of giving up her soul wrt money and she says yes i am and i do like the security and wealth but she also likes connor for himself, and connor talks about the age gap!!! and discrepancy in their positions and how they met and came to be and how everyone is always making fun of him/their relationship but she takes him serious and confirms she does want it and then they giggle and laugh it off just like a certain other couple] and body position mirrors connor and willa as well as the cinematography/shots who do actually get married in 4x03 [alone. without the siblings there. almost like a secret ish wedding. hmmm]. the way that nb said 'they wish they were getting married' and the way these mfs act you Know that's actually true and real. the way tom drops the "sporus". the way that after they shake hands, greg's arms twitch out as if to hug tom but then he decides against it bc he's not sure if tom would like that and he doesn't want to ruin this, because everybody else shrinks away from his touch or is disgusted by him but tom opens his arms and greg leaps at the chance, taking tom's shoulders and pulling him in slightly and hugging him tightly, tom literally jostled by the force of the hug.

i Think about the "come with me, sporus" scene a lot.

Oh my god y e s just that one scene felt like peak tomgreg in like 1000 ways 

ESPECIALLY because it’s right after shiv calls tom and tells him about her plan and his IMMEDIATE reaction being “okay, this is my chance to finally hit her where it hurts after her ‘death-by-1000-cuts’-ing me for years, but first i need to make sure greg is safe and on my side” like BEFORE anything else (just checked the script books and greg walks over to him RIGHT after he gets off the phone with shiv, no time to think about anything else) AND THEN ”SPORUS” AND THEN THE MOST ROMANTIC SCENE THAT HAPPENS IN THE (WEDDING) EPISODE AND THEN TOM ‘KILLING’ HIS WIFE I JUST. AUGH THE NERO & SPORUS SHIT MAKES ME GO BATSHIT ISTG HFSKJGHDFKJGHJDFKGHDRKJHY (also while I was in the script books I saw that the hug was unscripted??? It was meant to be just the handshake??? Just like the forehead kiss was unscripted too??? Matthew Mcfadyen is an absolute GODSEND (& nb I guess but yknow) for just ADDING those in UNPROMPTED he’s such a tg truther oml) 

Also can you IMAGINE how greg must've felt at the beginning of the tomshivorce, seeing him and tom going out together to hook up w random models or whatever (i think they were playing it up quite a bit and just wanted to spend time with each other but yknow)  and having the realisation somewhere that “do you wanna come with me, sporus” AND THEN THIS could have been referring to tom wanting to be with greg? Like we know greg knows the story, and we know he knows that tom betrayed shiv and he knows that the tomshivorce is resulting in tom getting a lot closer with him very quickly and he’s not stupid, he can put 2 and 2 together and see himself getting remodelled into the romantic partner for tom that shiv isn’t anymore for him, AND HE DOESN’T SHY AWAY FROM IT! LIKE LOOK AT 4X01, IS THAT THE BODY LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOURS OF SOMEONE WHO IS AVOIDING THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL PRESENCE OF TOM WAMBSGANS FBSKJGHDFJGDFKJY

(i will never shut up about the timeskip <3)

👏 HEART 👏 EYES

#also i felt so honoured when i got your ask like holy shit the blog that i send my tg bullshit to sent me THEIR tg bullshit?? #<33 #tomgreg

[taniushka12]

for hypotenuse, 2 and 11, and for alan/zane artistic cannibalism, 15 and 20!

thank you!!! under the cut bc it got long u_u

[unwritten/unfinished fic ask game]

Hypotenuse

2. How did you get the idea to write this?

the question is how did anyone ELSE not had this idea before! i love the trope of a character being so worried abt someone it starts seeping into everything they do, and i just think alice and barry should vent that frustration with each other :) 👍

11. Is there any scene you can't wait for people to react to when reading? Why?

so the fic is an tense argument/fight between the two, right? nitpicking abt stuff then building up around the point (the fact that they're both worried sick abt alan's declining mental health and just dont know how to help him) getting more upset bc the other person doesn't help, until it reaches a crescendo where they both (mostly barry but yknow) accidentally reveal some jealousy and other stuff abt the other in regard to alan, and the scene goes silent in mortification and embarrassment and the awful, awful realization that they're not so different after all u_u i DREAM of having that peak written and -in an ideal world- people going fucking insane over it like...

fucking imagine you tell your bestie's wife that you're practically jealous of her, 📣📣📣 to her face

artistic cannibalism (name pending)

15. Do you have any unwritten scene that you think about a lot?

theeee very beginning where they're yknow drinking and kissing and touching and zane starts spouting some conceptual & poetic nonsense abt the necessity of an artist to consume other artists and how art in itself is an act of cannibalism etc etc etc and how Surely This Time This'll Do The Trick to get em out of the dark place, Trust Me, and the moment the story takes a turn from erotic to horror

i just love rambling about conceptual bullshit in fics, i might not be very good writing smut but i can do a mad rambling for SURE and i cant wait to write it.....

(also spoiler, it does not get them out of the dark place, but it does make a Great movie in zane's mind)

20. Give a vague description of something that will happen without revealing too much

hmmm... well the scene starts with alan and zane, but it doesn't end with those two. acute fans will know what i mean 😏

#helplessness is a bitch of a feeling and i will make alice and barry feel it. TOGETHER. #tani's personal shit #fic tag #shaking zane by the shoulders babygirl you're SO strange and off putting. stop making alan kill you for you to film it its getting weird

[mermaidsirennikita]

I saw your ranking of Kresley Cole's IAD women. Do you have a favorite male character?

Yeah, I have a few. I mean, it's cliche to say this because he's like... an obvious fan favorite... But if I was really being honest, Lothaire is likely my favorite. I mean, I think he's the most developed character in the series (and once Nix gets her book, God willing, maybe she'll junior or exceed him). But he's also just so funny, and so insane, and unfortunately, very hot. How can I not love a dude who, when his pseudo-girlfriend (at the time) gets mad at him for mercilessly beheading a bunch of shifters, says it's "not like I'm going around cockslapping gnomes"? How can you expect me to not love someone who describes skull-fucking randoms as his "mischievous youth"???

And while I do think his romance is INCREDIBLE and part of why I love Lothaire is that he loves Ellie so much and I also love Ellie so much... I mean. He's one of the best parts of Dreams of a Dark Warrior, an UNDERRATED CLASSIC. He gets tortured by Declan Chase and talks about how long it took someone to cut his dick off with whip lashes once, because it's sooooo big (and since regenerated). He kicks Thad off a cliff and then Thad becomes HIS ONLY FRIEND LMAO. He wears a Panama hat??? Like Stede in that episode of Our Flag Means Death??? He blackmails Declan Chase, a man who hates all monsters, into letting him tap his blood on demand and GETS A BONER WHILE DOING IT (bi Lothaire confirmed). Regin screams to Declan about how Lothaire drinking Declan's blood means he now has Declan's memories of Declan and Regin fucking, and he walks up like "Oh nO WORRIES, I have already WATCHED YOU TWO FUCK A MILLION TIMES IN REAL LIFE LIKE A CREEP". The entire WEIRD boy's club scene where Lothaire gives Declan advice about negging Regin into forgiving him and everyone goes "Oh shit, that's great advice actually" and iT WORKS.

(And then later he gives Trehan advice about Bettina... and it works. And he gives Munro advice about Kereny... and it works. The point is that Lothaire can not do his own relationship to save his life which is why he literally lets his lungs explode in order to win Ellie's favor back, he doesn't even know how to get Ellie to forgive him without near-death.)

But I mean. There are so many heroes I love in that series, just like I love so many heroines. Like I said, I haven't given an IAD book less than 4 stars. They really work for me.

Other standout heroes for me would be like... Garreth MacRieve who I think is probably one of the best boyfriends? Of the series? Like, does he hunt Lucia across the world for a year while she's desperately trying to evade him? Sure. Does he sorta try to seduce her into breaking her supernatural vow of chastity? Yes, he does. Does e not care about her god-given mission at all because women shouldn't have to have jobs? Yeah, and maybe HE WAS RIGHT. But he's also soooo sexy, and sooooo wolfy and sooooo loyal and sooooo romantic. The butterfly he named after her! Garreth SMELLING Lucia masturbating and having a freakout because he's in a cage and she's upstairs and SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GET HERSELF OFF NO SHE IS PRINCESS! Him holding his werewolfitude back as long as possible until he's like "fuck it I can't deal" and runs howling through the jungle for her??? The ENTIRE VALKYRIE PLOT OF "OH WE'LL JUST HAVE LUCIA FEEL PAIN ON PURPOSE SO THE WOLF GUY COMES TO SAVE HER"??? "She was born to be found by me"??? "Werewolves are natural investigators" lOL I CAN'T. Child-free by choice, but would have Garreth MacRieve's 7 werewolf children.

Conrad Wroth, who I think is just like.... a ragged open wound of insanity and romantic longing and pent up sexual energy... Like, Conrad has one of theeee hottest biting scenes in the series, imo. And also, just the sad hilarity of him swearing his chastity to a cult of vampire hunters, then getting forcibly turned into a vampire by his brothers and doomed to centuries of virginity??? And then he does meet his Bride and she's a GHOST??? *Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays*

Rydstrom Woede is.... really hot... I love a morally upright man driven to horrible crimes. The minute Rydstrom THE GOOD BROTHER showed up in Cade's book, shirtless, tired, scratches all over his chest, with a woman screaming in the background like "HELP!!!" while he goes "don't. ask." I was gone. Then he turned out to be a legit DADDY who's into spanking and punishing Sabine and he feels gross and weird about it? Please. Theeeeen his first real smile in his own book is when she flips him off? PLEEEEEEEASE.

And of course, Uilleam "Will" MacRieve, "MacRieve", The MacRieve, of the novel titled MacRieve. I mean, listen, he's hot. He has such rough animalistic sex CONSISTENTLY that they call him Bucket List. But he's soooo sad. And don't get me wrong, he does some fucked up shit and I won't deny it. But his backstory. Made me cry lol. His entire journey. Made me cry. Him on his knees crying into Chloe's stomach because he wants to be better and heal for her but he can't??? Made me cry. His journey isn't for everyone, but I found it gorgeous. And also, did I laugh so much when they were like "well MacRieve, your woman needs sex healing, and we can't trust you to do it, so I don't know man maybe she needs to be double-teamed by some incubi" and he literally flinched because his inner werewolf instinct went SCREAMING at him??? Yes I did. He had no thoughts for like a solid five minutes. Just static.

... so those are my top 5... I also very much love all the other Wroth brothers (my 1D), Lachlain MacRieve (crazy werewolf king turned "Mature Dad Friend"), Bowen MacRieve (the original fuckboy/BEAST FAMILIAR), Trehan Daciano ("babe look I got you this bag of... severed heads... oh.... that wasn't...... the request..."), Rune Darklight (cue the TWO STANDING OVATIONS HE GOT FROM BITCHES HE'D FUCKED LMAO), and uh......... Declan Chase (..... I won't be defending this choice). And THAD, even though Thad isn't a hero. YET!

#romance novel blogging #immortals after dark #here have a novel #and even the ones who aren't my favorites like.... i don't think i hate anyone? #my favorite things about the wroth brothers as a quartet is how you can sum them up tho #'5 year boner; winner of the amazing race on cbs; fucked a ghost; icicle dildo'

[djservo]

movie recs w bro auras??

ohhhh you shoulda never asked me this question I think about those things way 2 much.. get your reading glasses on pal it gets real ugly down there

ok firstly want to clarify wit "bro aura" there's "whoa this character is so [bro]" in a singular characterization way n then there's "ohhh this is somethin the bros would do" in a situational way n then there's a more general/subtle yet distinctive vibe like the Pathos n Dynamics of it all... that's how i think of it at least all very convoluted yes but just 4 distinction 🦠 that being said I think these recs are more situational/dynamics rather than than str8 up characterizations bc if i tried listing all the individually sergio or joaquin aura coded movies we'd be here forever and i have a pie in the oven rn i don't have the time!!! ok onward .

Some Like It Hot (1959) — sorry to be corny but it's a classique for a reason!! Tony Curtis is so demure and Jack Lemmon is god's favorite court jester U can't take ur eyes off that man's mannerisms + they both play off each other so well!!! I love dummies stumbling thru silly hijinks!! I'd also recommend Matt Baume's video essay on the making of the film for a TMC #herstory moment

The Odd Couple (1968) — kinda theeee opposites-as-roommates movie, not my fav tbh it's a bit of a slog when Jack's not on screen but worth it if you want like a Cinema Classic Bro (brorigin..) moment that's kinda the foundation for the opposites-as-roomies dynamic

Paul Newman + Robert Redford are the original bros in my heart so Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969) is a must and U might as well (in fact I implore you to) toss in The Sting (1973) to cement the fact that their chemistry is magical even just from the way they look at each other with those freaky beautiful blue eyes man it's like they're telekineticing... telekineticizing... shakspear luv.... I got into cards bc of this card trick Paul's character does ugh truly titillating work...

Rope (1948) inspired by Leopold and Loeb (the original Billy + Stu from Scream if u really think about it) sociopathic buddies with a buttoned-up formality that gives it this smexy polite n repressed edge (don't you love when the killers are true gentlemen!) this film also has a fun gay history so pair with Matt Baume's vid if u end up watching! if you like murder mysteries I think you'll enjoy

all 3 of the movies I did simstober edits based on obviiiii though I feel like generally every other 80s/90s horror movie has bro moments + I'm sure I've even posted a few rando screenshots here if u wanna dig around. I rewatched Re-Animator (1985) last month + almost did that for this year's simstober edit instead 🤭 and An American Werewolf in London (1981)!!!! good ol chummy back n forth right from the start + it also has the best transformation scene Ever (to me).. the Fright Night remake (2011) if u wanna stay in that 'friend comes back wrong' lane (the original is so good too but doesn't have as much buddy interaction if rmbr correctly)... also Lair of the White Worm (1988) which is soooooo fkn fun and worth it for the campiness alone but THAT ENDING !!!! I think about it all the time, it's one of my favs!!

Thelma & Louise (1991) is monumentalllll (lightly referenced in this bro post a couple years ago hehe) if U watch Butch Cassidy u gotta pair these two together, outlaw buddy movie marathon baybee!! & while we're in '91 might as well toss in Point Break ("I know you want me so bad it's like acid in your mouth" bonk) there's just somethin about late 80s/early 90s homoerotic undercover cop/action cheese .. the devastating n overbearing power of friendship(+love) or somethin... something gay was in the water in '91

if u don't mind more of an ensemble film Jason Lee + Jeremy London's characters in Mallrats (1995) are so spot on right down to their stupid conversations + even their outfits and PATHOSSSSS🤌 wise, that general meandering 90s feel ticks the bro aura in my head well BRAIN TURNING TO MUSH god this is getting long but I feel like I'm barely scratching the surface OK buck up (<-me to myself)

situationally Y Tu Mamá También (2001) is prob obvious when it comes to 2 friends getting into a Thing that drastically changes their dynamic (not that that's necessarily the bros .) + Splendor (1991) also fits the 2 guys 1 woman dynamic too but in a sillier way + Araki's style is a treat for the eyes just in general. Hush! (2001) also fits that dynamic but they're actually boyfriends rather than just friends (girl wants one of the guys to get her preggo bc she wants a baby & kinda forces herself into their relationship. me as hell. jk) but it's surprisingly really heartwarming!!! perf for the holidays!! Plan B (2010) is sooo underrated, that's another silly plot where a guy wants to get back with his ex-girlfriend & he hears that her new bf is bi so he tries to seduce the current bf to get him away from her...???? soo fkn silly and fun but Also surprisingly sweet and charming!! I posted about Matthias & Maxime (2019) when I first watched it bc it felt that uncanny... tbqh I'd recommend any early Xavier Dolan to immerse urself in joaquin's early québécois herstory (I totally ripped his backstory from I Killed My Mother not that we would even KNOW that @ djservo's slow ass smh) but this one in particular is soooooo....??!!! just watch it and report back to me . and i'm sorry to say in the year of lord 2023 that The Social Network (2010) is still that bitch to me hand covers bruise I WAS YOUR ONLY FRIEND YOU HAD ONE FRIEND oh my god JAIL TIME mr fincher for making me emotional over BILLIONAIRES !!!

not a movie but I've been sick n wanting something easy on the brain so I've been rewatching Boy Meets World from the start and if you don't already know, I based the bro apartment on Eric + Jack's in s5 and I've finally reached s5 and MAN O MAN!!! goldmine of bro auras through n through honestly cory + shawn have their moments too but literally just watch any eric + jack compilation on youtube (or jump to s5 tbh) to see the vibes it's actually so serious that I've been building an apartment from scratch in my feverish haze to closer resemble their with a working balcony it's soooooo soo gravely serious to me wait what were talking about again

#sry for taking so long to answer j'adore this Q TY!!! #asks

[pinkyjulien]

So- I just had my first Phantom Liberty "ending"... 👁👄👁 I had a lot of thoughts, might be messy and long

⚠ Spoilers ahead, obviously!

Holyshit. HGFHGHFH Where do I even START

I smelled it coming FROM MILES AWAY-- OF COURSE So Mi was somehow- tied to AI, tied to the blackwall, it SMELLED TOO STINKY FROM THE START! Holyshit

Going to share my live reactions that I had in my dev friend's DMS cause those were the raw reactions ghfhgf

I took Reed's side during the Kurt meeting

Of COURSE it would go to shit tho like- man OF COURSEEE she would know...

The Kurt boss battle made me sweat, that man s'quick! AND THE MUSIC... Always felt like it was tied to the voodoo boys somehow? Tho the vibes makes sense, considering it's kind of theeee Blackwall theme-ish

When Reed talks about getting against MaxTac my jaw dropped like-- ARE YOU FOR REAL RIGHT NOW.......

Also special kudo for this lil thing here I was really happy

Then came the battle against MaxTac- AND AGAIN... What a battle, I legit can't say right now which big fight I prefered outta the whole EP cause they were all so good

The game SLOWLY BUT SURELY got more and more spooky, into straight up TERRIFYING, I did NOT expect that at all, holyfuck!

And it worked SO WELL TOO, of COURSE anything tied to the blackwall would be horrifying

I LOVE horror- horror movie, horror games... But I don't like playing them 🤠✋ Because I'm a lil pussy HGFH who jump, who look away, who let go of the mouse when spooky thing happen

So LET ME TELL YOU When I started to grasp where the game was heading, I shat myself full time

Everything was PERFECT... The vibes, the lights, the set up, the sound design- the music, the different scenes/memories triggering over the place as you progress, just- fucking CHEF KISS

When I thought it couldn't get any better, any spookier- the game kept on delivering, somehow

It got really dark, stressful, gory, haunting

I decided to kill So Mi at the end

Seeing moments of So Mi's past, of how she got there- it was hard to not feel for her, even tho I never really trusted her, too many red flags and manipulation, V was just a token in achieving what she wanted, just like Myers was, just like Kurt was. But she didn't deserves to be kept as a pupet, a tool

The ride with Reed made me feel really numb, and so did the talk with Myers. Sittin with Reed and watchin him walk off in the distance....

I feel empty ghfhgf that one ending didn't felt satisfying at all- BUT I don't mean it in a bad way!! I like it, I think this was supposed to feel like this! So Mi is dead, whatever hope you had to deal with the Relic died with her, Reed wanted to save her, Myers NEEDED her alive- it's a miracle V can even walk it off freely even

-bear with me here as I'm gathering my thoughts as I type everything-

Little tidbits now, I didn't played through all of the new gigs either, so I'm going back to do these, as well as try all the other endings!

Sadly as expected, not a lot- if anything- new for us nomads lover 😞 I liked the cameo of Panam and Carol, sending Paco and Babs to the Aldecaldos to get out of DTown felt comfy too, as well as all the dialogue options! It felt nice to get those opportunities to bring our past! And we did get some crumbs of interesting lore

God and like- what I like the most in games are the Characters, and PL is up there with some amazing peeps! I'll try to rank them from most to least liked

Starting with Alex, probably my favorite of the 5 main! There were a lot of good moment with her, she felt the most... genuine? Might be naive, but I love good hearted, honest characters, and she felt the more "human" out of the bunch even if she did and does horrible things

Second place comes Kurt, man knows what he want and how to get it, can respect that. Wished we could learn more on him actually, maybe I missed a lot of content

Reed was interesting, too secretive for my taste- and that's normal duh he's a spy, but as expected I didn't felt too connected ( and just to be CRYSTAL CLEAR, that doesn't mean he's a bad character! Not vibing with a character doesn't mean they're badly writen or built)

SongBird started off STRONG at the top of my list, but the more she sugarcoated and smooth-talked V into helped her, the more a lot of red flags started to pop. Lot of lines reminded me of similar convo I had IRL with people that turned out to be shitty, so it send off alarms in my head 💀 NOPE...

and finally Myers, who I never trusted and rightfully so

All of them are incredible characters, made me parano on who to trust, who to believe

All of the minor NPCs are so memorable too? I absolutly loved Slider, the voodooboy dude? His design was insane! Loved meeting all of the different peeps during Kurt's party too, and LIZZY'S CONCERT??? AYO... Was simply incredible

This getting PRETTY LOOOONG I'll stop right here but yeah, raw thoughts after 3 days/nights of non stop playing 😩✋ UGGH...

Fucking love this game man. You can really see CDPR took their time with it, fucking nailed it too... Letting go of the last console gen was a good choice, Dogtown is gorgeous, all the visual effects are breathtaking--

I gotta STOP TALKING LMAO. ALRIGHT Back to it I go

AND. I will definitely rollback to a pre-PL save and continue the vanilla content, cause I feel like doing PL just before meeting Hanako gives a lot of interesting options :3

#Cyberpunk 2077 #Phantom Liberty #PL Spoilers #Spoilers #Text #Long post #REALLY Long post #CP77 Replay

[resurrection-of-soul]

Flashback | PSYCHOBREAK 7

Writer: Akira (日日日)

Characters: Rei, Koga, Adonis, Kaoru

[ For the best viewing experience, please read directly on my blog! ♪ ]

Time: Later that day, in the dead of night.

After taking the sleeping pills again, Rei and Kaoru find themselves back in the dream world.

Rei: (Hm.) (It seems we hath safely entered the dream once more.)

From offscreen, past Rei is heard cheerfully humming.

Rei: (And lo, there goes my past self, sauntering down the street as though he holds sovereignty of it, exuding the confidence that defined my yesteryears. How spirited thou art.) (Yet, 'tis merely an attempt to cast off thy sorrow by donning a boisterous mask, is it not? What a pitiful creature.) (Let's see, this place is… It appears thou art wandering about overseas, just as I once did in the real course of history.) (Wearied by the tribulations and woes of thy homeland, thou departed in pursuit of joy.) (But no matter how diligent thy search, the bluebird of happiness shall not appear before thee, o' young one.) (In any event, according to the AIIE experiment manual, if one strongly concentrates on preset keywords, one may exert a certain degree of influence over the dream—) (Or more precisely, over oneself within the dream.) (It does now bestow upon thee the level of control which one might exert over a character in a videogame, yet 'tis still a hundredfold better than being forced to stand idle witness as history repeats itself.) (I am no longer a mere reader, passively watching as the story unfolds.) (I am alive.)

Scene change

Koga: ♪~♪~♪ ~......♪

Rei: Heeey! I'm hooome~! Sakuma Rei-chan has returned~

Koga: Sakuma-senpai- W, Wo- Wh-Whuh- Woa-

Rei: Wh-what's wrong? Yer whole body's shakin', ya sick or somethin'…? Haha. What a weird kid y' are, Puppy.

Koga: Sh, shut up… Don't talk to me right now. I'm desperately fightin' down the urge to hug ya and start yellin' "WOOHOO! SAKUMA-SENPAI! WOOOO!" okay?!

Rei: It's totally fine if ya don't fight that down, though. There theeee~re…♪

Koga: ……n!?

Rei: Okay, there there, good boy… You must've been lonely while I was gone. Sorry, Puppy. Haha. When we were younger, I used to give my lil' bro hugs like this all the time whenever he was feelin' lonely.

Koga: ……! ……! ……!

Koga: P-please cut it out… Sakuma-senpai, you're the object a' everyone's admiration, shinin' from afar. Ya shouldn't go outta yer way t' be nice ta someone like me. I'll tarnish ya.

Rei: What're ya saying, stu~upid? Am I¹ not even allowed ta give someone a hug? That'd be pretty damn sad, wouldn't it?

Koga: ……?

Rei: More importantly, some kinda sixth sense started actin' up — or rather, there was this strange sensation urgin' me on from within, so I hurried on home, but… How's the situation right now? Were ya able t' exterminate those "vampires" that were runnin' wild? Well, it doesn't really matter to me either way, though.

Koga: Nah, the situation hasn't really changed much… They quieted down for a bit, but after ya went abroad, they started actin' up again. Now they're buzzin' around all over the damned place. It's so freakin' annoyin'. But don't worry. Hasumi-senpai's supposedly revitalizin' the student council right now, workin' on improvin' the environment and creatin' rules to prevent students from goin' astray n' becomin' delinquents. Or, well, that's what he said, but t' be honest, I don't really understand that kinda complex stuff, n' if you ask me it doesn't reaaaally seem to be havin' any effect.

Rei: That sounds about right. Just declarin' yourself the student council doesn't mean anythin' if ya don't have any authority. It's like a little birdie chirpin' away in the background. People 're just gonna ignore it.

Koga: Basically, it doesn't matter how powerful yer magic cards are if the field prevents ya from activatin' its effects, huh.

Rei: Uh, what're ya goin' on about?

Koga: Um, uh… I… I like card games. That's what I was going on about.²

Rei: Ohh… Are card games fun? Teach me how to play next time you're free ♪ I'm always bored outta my damn mind, 'specially lately.

Koga: This ain't the time fer idle chitchat… Please do somethin', Sakuma-senpai. That four-eyes seriously ain't cut out for this.³

Rei: "Overqualified for the role³," huh? Haha, it'd be great if that were the case. Please grow big, bouzu. To the point where people consider ya overqualified, so ya can be my playmate again.

Koga: ……?

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ore-sama-chan

Koga drops the -sama from his personal pronoun as well as the delinquent speech in this line. The kid is embarrassed beyond belief.

The word used here is 役不足. This word tends to be enormously misused by the general public. Much like the English phrase "could care less" is often used to mean the opposite of what the phrase implies, 役不足 means to be massively overqualified for your job, but is colloquially used to mean you're not up to the task. There really wasn't a clean way to translate this, as Koga uses it to mean the latter, while Rei means the former.

#ensemble stars #enstars translation #rei sakuma #koga oogami #flashback #psychobreak

[formulaonedirection]

hiiii, I am travelling to Singapore for the Grand Prix this year and was wondering if you had any recs of things I should do while I’m there? 🩷

helloooooo omg how fun!! I love the Singapore GP it's really fun and it's such an accessible circuit. Tbh I'm the worst person to ask because a) i love niche boring stuff b) the only things my friends and I do in Singapore is eat and hang out because that IS the national past time but let me see hmmmm

I'll just recommend some stuff that's not like. Gardens by the Bay. Sentosa. Universal Studios. The Zoo. All VERY nice places tbh and highly recommend but these are just some tiny Nadia-based reccs that you might not get from a google-able list I guess?? If you're here for a short time and you're only at the Marina Bay Sands/CBD area that's totally fine but just know that that IS the most expensive area of Singapore.

Well if you're here for a while and you're a history person I'd recommend going to the National Museum and then right down the road from there is Peranakan Museum which is tiny but fun. The National Museum is one of my favourite buildings in Singapore I just think it's so beautiful. And if you REALLY like history and museums I'd super recommend the Asian Civilisations Museum which is criminally underrated imo. If you're staying near the circuit the National Gallery is literally right there you can even pop in in the morning before the race, there's some really good local and southeast asian art in there if that's your thing.

My personal favourite place to have a wander is the Botanic Gardens. If you're a picnic person just grab some bits and bobs from Cluny Court (Plain Vanilla cupcakes are soooo good. And there's another really good bakery on the second floor) and have a nice picnic and stroll in the garden. It's pretty massive so make sure you know what you're getting into. Do NOT go on a weekend. That's crucial.

The whole Kampong Glame/Arab Street/Haji Lane is a vibe 100%. Get some boba from PlayMade, get some teh sarbat from the old man that's been serving tea there forever. There's this really good burger place like right near the mosque it's called Mahmud's Tandoor I'm obsessed with it. DO NOT let the Turkish restaurants hassle you be strong! There's some thrift stores there too but it's mostly like really good food, really nice art. The Malay Cultural Centre is like a really nice space too if you need a break.

If you want local food I'd rather you go to Maxwell's then Lau Pa Sat I actually HATE Lau Pa Sat it's theeee definition of a tourist trap. Newton Food Centre which is where they filmed that scene in Crazy Rich Asians is like fine too if you're looking for local food. If you want LOCAL LOCAL come to Al Azhar at Bukit Timah because I'm literally telling people that the steamboat fish that's there is Michellin star good. That's also a good frog porridge place down the road if you're feeling adventurous.

And my last recc is the Tiong Bahru area which is the area I used to work at. If you want cute little souvenirs or local bits and bobs there's a very cute store called Cat Socrates that I buy everything from. The Plain Vanilla there is also BEAUTIFUL it's my favourite cafe to work at. There's also like beautiful street art all along the whole area so it's just nice to walk around cause it's all just nice shophouses and art. And then there's Tiong Bahru Market which has some of the best local food. Go in the morning for this.

If you want like fancy food recs that aren't local food but are like actually good and not a scam, my personal favs are Miznon on Stanley Street, Ms Maria and Mr Singh, Five Oars Coffee Roasters on Upper East Coast. Oooh if you go to Neptune on East Coast Road you can see the pretty Peranakan buildings.

UHM YEAH! Singapore is really beautiful but VERY warm please bring sunscreen. PLEASEEEE venture outside the circuit area if you have the time because while that area is gorgeous I just think places like Haji Lane, or Tiong Bahru, or Bukit Timah, or East Coast Road are just so much more local. (Any Singaporeans reading this you know what I mean la. Nice Local. I'm not gonna recommend them to go to the coffee shop downstairs your house k)

#and don't eat rice with a fork that's really strange #I hope this is at all helpful??? if you want like more specific things/areas let me know or you can DM or whatever hahaha #ALSO BAUKE IF YOU SEE THIS I NEED TO REPLY YOUR INSTAGRAM MESSAGE BUT THESE ARE GOOD RECCS TOO #love singapore it's very safe feel free to walk the streets at 3am. 24h Fairprice Finest at 3am is the place to be #asks

[bylertruther]

what byler moment do you love the most? And what moment made click and see that Mike has feelings for Will too?

my favorite byler moment is the rain fight hands down. it's THEEEE byler moment to end all byler moments undeniably n irrefutably. the only ones that come close are the shed scene and the dear billy bedroom talk because it reaffirms the shed scene speech. i love the rain fight though bc mike asks him if he really thought they would be together forever without girlfriends and will, even as his heart has been shattered into a million pieces at "it's not my fault you don't like girls," he still says yes. i did. i really did.

and then, after moping and complaining and being totally unsure of how to make up with el, he does EXACTLY what max said mike would do for her, for will. he doesn't need lucas to walk him through it, he does it of his own volition instinctively. not for his girlfriend... but for will. literally bikes across town in the pouring rain!!! the romance film antics of it all...

and then!! we get will crying in castle byers while memories are overlayed that focus on mike's voice and then will tears a photo of them right down the middle. like...... it's just... SO MUCH? will not backing down and saying he DID want forever with mike? and then in s4 he repeats the same thing that mike threw in his face? which could suggest that it's something they've dreamed abt before everything got complicated & suggests will is still always true to himself? and mike chasing after will, breaking his own heart, too, because the fact of the matter is he NEVER wanted to lose will and yet he feels that he's pulling away from him anyway and there's nothing he can do to stop it, even with all of his calls that never even go through. i just. AHHHH!!! THE RAIN FIGHT!!!! cements tht will IS special, even and perhaps ESPECIALLY from el. mike consistently CANNOT give her what he is expected to, because he's too busy giving it to WILL without EVER needing to be coached or told to. byler rain fight solos >>>>>>>>>

i mean, season two in general made me kinda 👀🏳️‍🌈⁉️ bc even though we're shown that mike is the biggest sweetheart, the care that he showed will was just special. and entirely over the top and reckless and dogged (ahem "only love makes you that crazy sweetheart and that damn stupid") just like in s1. and saying he was the best thing he'd ever done? insanity. i thought even with the snowball that they were headed in that direction but then season three came and punched me in the tit so i lost all hope lol.

BUT THEN !!!!!!!!!!!! s4 came and revived me with a defibrillator. the hug threw me off bc i was like oh my godddddddd DON'T TELL ME THIS BOY IS BACK ON HIS MF BULLSHIT BRO PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE but then. dear lord. WHEN HE GOT ALL WEIRD ABT THE PAINTING? i know a gay when i see one, bro. he had no reason to be weird abt the painting if not gay. AND THEN THE RINK-O-MANIA FIGHT? WE'RE FRIENDS! WE'RE. FRIENDS. BROOOOOOOO THE HOMOSEXUALITY WAS THREW THE ROOF IT'S OVER!!!!!! GIVE IT A REST!!!!!!! that was all i needed 2 see. that, on top of everything else we've previously seen? and then the dear billy scene? hi, gay. welcome back, we missed u dearly.

#long post #asks #not rereading this hope u enjoy my 150am rambles my liege

[heartoferebor]

Helloooo! Knocking at your door with some questions from the fanfic writer emoji ask thingie! 🤩🛒❌✨🦅

HELLO HELLO \o/

🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?

Obviously this changes from time to time but right now? Vesemir :). Nothing's better than repressed old men who've gone through unfathomable things in their life, fucked up over and over again, fucked up over and over again and then try to break the cycle, try to grow something from the ashes.

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

Dead children, finding hope where there seems to be none, how to rebuild yourself and others (aformentioned ashes), the incredible attractiveness of fictional men bloody and in pain, gay

❌ What’s a trope you will never write?

Love triangles (aka ships x/y and y/z where y leaves x for z. I also hate fighting over someone's affection. Just make an OT3, jfc. When you both love someone, just love them? Don't turn it into hate. And for the sake of the abyss, stop bashing canon love interests for the sake of your ship.)

I also don't like slow burns and pining (weird, I know, given that it's one of theeee most popular tropes in fandom but I much prefer established relationships)! And unrequited love. And I usually hate writing/reading about teenagers, so I mostly avoid it (with some exceptions).

High school AUs. Coffee shop AUs.

✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

D'awwww <3. I'm enormously proud of how my writing has evolved since I stopped writing in German and started writing in English ten years ago tbh. I feel like it has advanced a lot particularly in the last 4 years. I've gotten really good in particular at fighting scenes and certain types of dialogue.

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?

Both! For shorter fics (like all the Febuwhump and fandom week things) I usually just have a prompt and perhaps a few keywords. For multi-chapter fics I usually roughly plan out each chapter in advance and then try to follow that although I often end up replanning things as I'm writing haha.

#those were fun thank you! :D #reply #ask game

[brolantra]

The unfolding of my life is so strange. But I’ve never trusted God more than I do now. I’ve never been more in tune with my inner being.. my spirit… I can’t see all the parts moving.. I can’t consciously conceive exactly what’s taking place behind the scenes… but I can FEEEEEEL IT. And there are certain things God told me years ago would come to pass, and Im reminded of them all the time. I’ve been through so much in general, but this year was easily the worst year of my life. Easily. HOWEVERRR…. It was also the best because it was theeee most transformative year of my life. I learned so much and I’ve grown so much and I’m thankful for it all. All the pain, all the loss… just making space for everything that’s truly meant for me to come right on in when the time is right. Ready to kiss this year goodbye tho lol

[mermaidsirennikita]

Historical romance book recs with the best dirty talk?

Oooh, great question.

Sarah MacLean is great. You can tell that she has a passion for writing dirty talk, and honestly, shouldn't we all? Being able to appreciate dirty talk for what it is--just weird shit you say in the moment to go with a vibe--rather than overanalyzing it, is what separates the children from the adults, imo.

Standouts include:

One Good Earl Deserves A Lover--Theeee dirty talk historical romance. The most famous sex scene in the book (and maybe the most famous sex scene MacLean has written) is the hero talking the heroine through touching herself on a chair while he just watches. Because he's sworn to celibacy and doesn't want to despoil her. It's a lot.

Heartbreaker--Yeah, this one has really good dirty talk. Adelaide really doesn't talk dirty (and neither does Pippa in the above example, tbh, and I wish there were more romance heroines in general who talked back) but Clayborn has it covered. It's Praise Kink: The Book.

Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas actually has some pretty good dirty talk in the first sex scene especially, which I don't see discussed a lot in relation to this book. Maybe it's just me, but "That's right, obey your husband" makes quite an impression. Lisa loves instructive, daddy dirty talk, which is why Helen and Rhys's first sex scene in Marrying Winterborne is narrated by him explaining what they're doing. Some hate that. I do not.

When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn is another "well actually" one. I generally don't find Quinn's books very sexy, but she went off in this one. I really like the scene where he's taunting her by fingering her and demanding that she marry him if she wants to finish, but that's just meeee.

Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt. I think that for the mainstream... Sarah MacLean writes the best dirty talk, and don't get me wrong, it's exquisite dirty talk. For my wretched, horrible, bleeding heart that sees a psychotic man and goes "yes", this one is the winner. He just weaves such a tale. Truly deranged. TAKE MY COME FOR IT'S ALL I CAN GIVE YOU????

The Earl I Ruined by Scarlett Peckham has a dom earl, who at one point sits back and talks the heroine through masturbating with an apple. More effective than you'd think!

The Bride Goes Rogue by Joanna Shupe has another "talking her through masturbating" scene, but it's in a carriage. I believe they also talk dirty to each other throughout as she calls him her king and she's his reinette and shit like that. They're lightly kinky. I think I remember her novellas My Dirty Duke and Sold to the Duke having good dirty talk.

I'm not done with When A Girl Loves an Earl by Elisa Braden yet, but I'm really enjoying the dirty talk in that one. Say what you will, but there's just something about a Scottish hero deeply leaning into his Scottishness and being like "WHOSE ENGLISH PUSSY IS GONNA TAKE THIS SCOTTISH COCK" (not a quote, but it should be).

Never forget Any Duchess Will Do when he bends her over a table and makes her recite his courtesy titles while he fucks her.

#romance novel blogging #book recs

[lunetual]

WON HYUK ✧ ‘Creature’ MV

#won hyuk #wonhyuk #e'last #elast #elastnet #these scenes drove me immediately feral #blood cw #hijaehyukkies #heelyhoon #wabisarah #marekwan #userthanxx #theeee way this song tickles my brain in just the right way........ #mine: gif #e'last.meg