#they’re good now tho

[turtleblogatlast]

No but like every time I think about Splinter and what he had to go through just to keep the boys alive, my heart hurts for him so badly. Is he perfect? No not at all, but none of them are and by god does he love his sons.

The fact that all of them are alive, and grew to thrive despite the circumstances surrounding them is a testament of how much Splinter loves his boys. He raised four babies following the most traumatic time of his life, all alone with nothing but the sewers to house them (to hide them.) I feel like he’s not given the credit he deserves for all he’s done.

And I get that it’s easy to hold up his flaws and faults when it comes to parenting, I myself like looking into them because flawed characters are super interesting and said flaws make them more realistic and engaging, but he tries, and again, so many others would have given up on the boys or failed along the way but Splinter didn’t.

He’s their father, for all his faults he did his damndest to make sure they survived.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt splinter #rise splinter #he’s not perfect as I’ve said #and he’s got a whole slew of flaws and faults #but he’s a person - we are all flawed #he loves his sons dearly dearly dearly even if he struggles along the way to show that #parenting is not easy! especially as a traumatized mutant who is forced to do it alone #side note but I think this is one of the reasons why it kiiiiiinda ruffles my feathers to see so many people assign parentification to Raph #and in turn make Splinter out to be way worse and way more distant than he is in canon? #like idk I just don’t see what so many others see ig but maybe that’s just me #i guess my thoughts are like- let parents have flaws without villainizing them? #they’re still parents even if they mess up? #we can discuss the repercussions of a parents actions on a child while not casting that parent as an awful person #parents are peopleeee #I could go on but yeahhh #idk it bothers me seeing splinter’s efforts undermined when he’s been through so much #idk if ppl realized this by now but I love me some flawed characters #tho I do think in this fandom the ones whose faults are discussed the most are like #Splinter mostly then Draxum then Leo #of the main cast #and in Splinters case in particular his faults are made to cover his good qualities which makes me sad #because he is SO INTERESTING #they’re all flawed characters and tbh so interesting because their flaws are ALSO their strengths in many aspects

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

DPxDC Prompt

Thinking back on it, Danny probably should have been more wary of being given the title ‘Ender Of Timelines’.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny phantom #dc x dp #dcxdp #I guess any crossover but it’s the one I was thinking of at the time #probably a summon fic? #they’re like Oh Fuck Who Have These Cultists Brought In?!?! #panic. mayhem. chaos. #meanwhile Danny is like. you put ONE alternate universe version of yourself into your own CLONE and SUDDENLY it’s a PROBLEM #he steadfast ignores the other times he fucked with time and then refucked with it to fix it #arguably it’s a title that should go to Dark Danny who I’m calling Dante because #chefs kiss ITS GREAT #maybe it applies to both so it’s like. a coin toss who shows up #Dante is like. ugh. community service says I CANT. let me give you the most bored speech on the planet about loving the earth and making… #the most of your timeline. #you know. up until he actually NEEDS to go light some fires. which he’s maybe a bit too quick to jump in on as soon as he can #meanwhile Danny is like. I can barely pass geometry and now I gotta help solve THIS problem TOO?! #they’re both good at it. just. different approaches #the timeline is capital f FUCKED if both show up tho #the mythos… you could have so much fun with it lol

[knox-knocks]

actually I think that neil josten is very smart. he’s quick, clever, and a MATH nerd. he’s a polyglot! he keeps decently good grades despite having a VERY unstable schooling. he knows how to manipulate people to get information/people to do what he wants. he’s incredibly observant and is able to predict what the people around him are going to do. he’s so so smart

and he’ll throw all those braincells out the window when he’s with his bestie, matthew donavan boyd

#neil josten #matt boyd #aftg #when neil and matt hang out they hand over their braincells to andrew and dan for safekeeping #they’re so stupid with each other #like they are just goofy best friends who do stupid shit with each other #and maybe hug a lot #also for the record I think matt is also very smart #his parents were rich so you know he got that good education. and I think it also mentioned somewhere that he was well educated #sorry guys I don’t think matt is the himbo representation we need 😫 #jeremy tho! now there’s a himbo #anyway I’m getting off topic

[aardvaark]

i was thinking about how i wished leverage had a birthday episode for some of the characters cause that would be sweet, but then i realised something and basically…. okay here’s my thoughts in quotes form, just for fun

hardison: so when’s your birthday? i could plan something for us and the team to do and-

parker: i dont know

hardison: you don’t know… your own birthday?

parker: no, how would i know? pshh, cmon, you’re telling me you remember EXACTLY when you were born? watch this - hey, eliot, do you know your exact birth date?

eliot, innocently passing by, who was canonically anonymously dropped off at a hospital as an infant: no, how would i know?

parker: that’s what i said!

hardison: excuse me?? what is going on right now

sophie, walking into the apartment: whats wrong?

hardison: parker and eliot- well, okay, when’s your birthday? i just have to prove something.

sophie: …….july 12th

hardison: why did you pause? wait, is that your birthday or sophie devereaux’s birthday?

sophie: ………… (guilty silence)

parker: see, no one knows their real birthday! haha you’re so weird sometimes, hardison

hardison:

hardison: what the fuck guys

#leverageposting #wren speaks #leverage #parker leverage #alec hardison #nate knows his birthday i guess so i didn’t include him. if he was watching the whole time he would probably say ‘idk’ to mess w hardison #they’re having this convo in nate’s apartment but it’s like 3am & he’s asleep & they’ve all broken in to hang out #parker doesn’t know either bc of her ridiculously neglectful foster parents or bc she’s parker & her priorities are simply different to most #people. her birthday is irrelevant to thievery. and sadly probably not related to fun happy memories anyway. #sophie obviously is a good enough grifter to answer confidently but she feels a little bad abt lying to her family by now #meanwhile hardison had a normal foster nana who would have known his bday. most kids aren’t safe-surrendered like eliot so assumably #hardison would have a known bday. and he likes birthdays! #and he wants to throw parker a little party even if it’s a very unconventional parker bday that involves rappelling & jumping off buildings #but he is once again thwarted by the leverage team members having the strangest possible lives #he IS gonna give them each birthday parties tho. even if he has to make up some dates & stuff #sophie’s can be the fake date she gives if that’s what she rlly wants. nate’s real birthday is on file somewhere even if he’s being annoying #rn so hardison just has to do some basic hacking. eliot would have an approximate bday such as the day he was surrendered that his parents #would have celebrated throughout childhood. and parker’s would be april 1st bc that’s alice whites bday (and YOURE ALICE!!!) #as in it’s canonically in the online info abt alice white shown in the juror no.6 job & obvs that’s april fools so it’s funny :) #and hardison has a NORMAL bday unlike SOME ppl and yes he DOES expect presents you heathens!!

[zytes]

odds n’ ends

#it’s like.. the b-sides that didn’t fit with anything else and aren’t strong enough alone to warrant me wasting space on anyone else’s dash #these were taken between Sep 23’ and Feb 24’; they’re not sorted chronologically #they’re sorted by temperature. sorta #I can start putting more time into art again soon - easing into it bc I’ve not adjusted to the changes yet #now that the move is over and I don’t have the shitty helljob that had me doing 70 hrs p/week. I made a bank in OT hours tho. #which is good! bc my job fell through on this end and I’m now trying to find new work so I don’t die :) #so my heftier-than-usual savings are keeping me afloat for the moment #ah well! cest la vie; and I’ll be okay! #my art #aesthetic #art #artwork #webcore #internetcore #abstract #artists on tumblr #photography #flash photography #weirdcore #nature photography #mountains

[pineapple-frenzy]

DK slicing a watermelon in half but I made it a bit more dramatic

#going seventeen #gose #seventeen #svt #dk #dino #seungkwan #scoups #mingyu #the 8 #my art #kpop #i drew the last panel with my left hand ajdkaksljdj #this took too long cause i was stressing out about something so i couldn't really draw <<': #all good now tho so i finally finished this #the boomily outing eps are soooo good #everytime seungkwan hosts eps they're always good tbh #they’re always my favs :'>>

[moonyackertarg]

THIS GENRE OF HOMOSEXUALS

#i love crazy gay people #if they’re covered in blood they’re gay #why the gays always murderous tho? #anyways now onto normal hashtags #hannibal #amc interview with the vampire #killing eve #marlana #hannigram #loustat #iwtv #interview with the vampire #will graham #villanelle #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #what we do in the shadows #good omens

[neopetting]

im a big fan of recent bobburg seasons but what i rly miss about the earlier eps is the super expressive face animation AND…..how often bob flirted with lin :’)

#that man would die for her i need him to hit on her once in a while #i think they’re playing around more with facial expressions now tho. there were some v good ones in jade in the shade #bobs burgers #bob’s burgers

[yeyayeya]

The new changes to the uncensored TGCF revised version are 👀

#yeyarants #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #damn they be getting freaky #good for them tho #I mean it’s actually in canon for them lol #now I need to read the whole novel all over again with the revised version #I ain’t complaining tho #ok but I know for a fact people gonna get mad about feminime Xie Lian #in my heart they’re both switches #but damn Hua Cheng #I mean he waited for so long I ain’t surprised #now I gotta wait and search for more translations of it #the tgcf fandom is thriving right now #we love that #thank you MXTX #mxtx tgcf #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu

[warriormoustache]

Got my first shrimp goby pair last week and this is my impression of them so far.

#Art #Fish #Fishblr #Fish art #My art #The fish is fine btw just a coward #Though I do think he might have gotten a small concussion from his two escape attempts #Jumped out of the tank literally at one in the morning and then an hour later at two in the morning it was a miracle I was awake during this #I have since covered the food holes in the lid with heavy objects #It gave me a heart attack on day two cuz I thought it was dead #I even poked it with a stick and it didn’t react at all #Luckily I left it in there and it was up and going about six hours later and has since been behaving normally #It is eating tho which is a good sign #Tested my paremetres and there’s nothing wrong with the water so ╮(╯_╰)╭ #Shrimp is delightful to watch #She explores the tank a lot and is super cute #Idk what the sex of the fish is but I’m pretty confident that the shrimp is a girl #Has snapped once and I was unprepared for how loud they actually are in person #The fish cuddles the shrimp with its tail and they’re super cute #They gave me a stress for a few days but everything’s stable now so #10/10 aquarium pets #Aquarium stuff

[linkbetweenlinksau]

Ok so the next on the list for official pics was Spirit and Age but I got really inspired to draw four and his Zelda. Only catch was that I forgot that I had to draw four five times 😵‍💫 but he is done! I really wanted separate drawings of each color for meme purposes so glad I’m done with that!

#ok looking at them now they’re not too shabby #thank goodness this was very difficult to do fhkedhks #link between links #legend of zelda au #zelda au #legend of zelda #lbl four #lbl lily #lbl blue #lbl red #lbl vio #lbl green #had fun drawing the different hairstyles #red is so floofy! #I HATED drawing their armor tho frick that

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rise don suave #rottmnt don suave #I lied I’m back to ramble because I’m just #so bad at keeping my mouth shut #or uh #not typing word vomit #anyway- yeah this is my personal interpretation #I believe Leo was legitimately mesmerized by Don Suave’s powers…in the beginning #but even the series’ creator says it was ‘at least PART of what was going on with Leo’ so #idk it’s something that’s been on my mind and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same?? #may delete this later who knowssss #pleaaaase feel free to disagree I just like to talk lol #but yeah sometimes I look around at how much media has LGBTQ+ rep in it now and it honestly makes me emotional?? #(we always always ALWAYS could use more but) #we did not have even a crumb of this as kids #but also like most of that rep is new properties #and I just was thinking about what that could mean #idk man idk #once again please don’t take this as facts it is VERY MUCH NOT #man I was looking around for good images to use and found jack all #anyway tho did you know Donnie often has bi colors around him and Leo is often dressed in the colors of the trans flag- #okay anyway back to the caves I go this comic won’t draw itself #I gotta spray myself with water any time I go to type long winded essays because they’re not great for the mental health fr

[kierancaz]

“It is a gift. A token of our friendship.” No bitch that was a proposal.

#grow a pair Thorin and just admit it for what it was #you want to MARRY HIM #ik he’s going mad rn but every time Thorin smiles a Bilbo even the slightest my heart gives out a little #tbh I really love all the dwarves they’re so ????? #maybe it’s just bc I’ve watched the movie like 3 times a week for the last month but I love them all so much now #for reference I didn’t care that much about them when I watched for the first time #and on a slightly random note I wanna know more about Legolas mom ???? #back to bagginshield I wonder what their wedding would have looked like #IMAGINE THORIN WITH HIS ABSOLUTLY HUGE HANDS TRYING TO BRAID BILBOS HAIR BC THATS DWARVISH TRADITION #AND HES JUST STUGGLING SO HARD BC BILBOS HAIR IS SO SHORT AND HIS HANDS ARE SO BIG HE CANT GET A GOOD GRIP ON THE HAIR #bilbo: Thorin you don’t have to everyone alread knows we’re married #Thorin: NO I have to do this #he’s not a quitter. he’s never been a quitter. he’s not letting a few stands of hair beat him even if it IS bilbos hair #he has to teach bilbo how to braid tho bc he doesn’t know #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #bilbo x thorin #thorin x bilbo #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #thorin and company #lotr dwarves #jrr tolkien #tolkien #fili durin #kili durin #fili and kili #thorin durin

[seraphicalsuccubus]

oh no I smoked too much weed and gave myself zoomies both from the excitement from my new peak pro and the excitement from the new weed itself and def smoked way more than I should have and probs will continue to smoke more than I should because of this double dose of excitement until I finally just pass out after days of hardly sleeping recently lmao

but ANYWAYS before that happens !!! I currently have the strongest urge to go wreck people in fucking battlegrounds to level one of my assorted disc priests and because like …. ever since I got 100k honorable kills achieve, I’ve wanted that goddamn fucking ‘the Bloodthirsty’ title from the 250k honorable kills achieve and I was farming that before I stopped having the drive to game a few months back.

so let’s see how queues go at 2am on a fucking Wednesday morning, I wonder if I’ll give up before I find a bracket with fast pvp queues tonight tbh. it’s more likely I’ll end up pugging a raid on my mistweaver main if it takes too long to get into a battleground just to preoccupy myself for a bit and try to get a chance at trinkets and shit lmao

#this is huge tho I haven’t WANTED to game enough to drag my laptop out and play in MONTHS #I logged in for the first time in ages the other day and I had so much fun in my battlegrounds I didn’t even realize we were winning #I was just having a fucking blast being a healer and a menace because I��m playing a disc priest rn of course lmao #and now I want to game again so bad but like mindlessly and bgs are mindless to me I guess??? #like they’re so easy and all muscle memory and hardly take any thought so I think I could function enough to fuck some people up for a bit #or raiding Amirdrassil on LFR or normal. also pretty mindless even when pugging groups and all that. #everything’s usually one shot one kill or like 2 shots per kill max because people learn from their mistakes !!! #but like as a healer I know my shit so it’s just mindless (except for Larodar ((MY BELOVED)) because I LOVE that fight and get super into it #his dialogue is just too fuckin good and the voice??? truly chefs kiss like perfect voice casting #almost as fantastic as Sire Denathrius tbh and that’s like the big vocally satisfying one for me LMAO #this tag rant went on a wild roller coaster what the fuck I am so sorry for anyone who read these #I’m trying to read them back and I can’t even understand my fucking thought process LMFAO

[royaltea000]

Been wanting to do a redesign of my ruffcup oc children for forever (left: Huffnut Heretic Haddock; right: Puffnut Pariah Haddock)

#when you do a redesign but now they no longer look like they’re from the relevant media or2 #NOOOOOOOOOOO #they look good tho… ;-; #I hated their original outfits #except for the capes #but they covered up too much so I’ve relegated them to winter wear #love their new really thick voluptuous hair #I’m jealous #ruffcup #ruffnut thorston #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #httyd #how to train your dragon #digital art #my art #commissions open #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #procreate #original character #httyd oc #oc children #httyd au #httyd2 #httyd fanart #httyd 3

[beastwhimsy]

HOWDY FROM THE HALLOWOODS its nikignik back at it again with the Horrors. today I will subject you to queer people suffering. again!! (::::::::

@hellofromthehallowoods pspspspsps

#ITS EVERYONES FAVOURITE FORMLESS SHAPESHIFTING UNFATHOMABLE BEAST….. I’m not set on this design but I do like how it came out!!! #nikignik. your gender. now #this podcast is killing me. KILLING me. god it’s so good mx wellman you have caused me such pain and elation. I am so attached to everyone #usually choosing a favourite character is a breeze but with hfth??? I actually cannot. they’re all so well crafted. I cannot choose #hello from the hallowoods #hfth #nikignik #hfth fanart #nikignik fanart #hello from the hallowoods fanart #this podcast is on par with TMA. it’s too unique to be compared to TMA tho.. but. god the writing is spectacular. might even be better #scopophobia #eye horror #multiple eyes