#we all know it won’t be the same

[twinkodium]

Lando is malfunctioning in the proximity of Oscar 🫠🫠

#f1 #lando norris #my papaya boys 🥹🧡 #mctwinks #oscar piastri #landoscar #big hands won’t help you much if you don’t put the lid on 😂😂 #I’m impressed with Oscar he came a long way since the first Jack Daniel’s video 🥹 #Lando is just too focused on Oscar to realise his mistake lmao #get it all over himself 😂😂 #or was it the plan all along? to get Oscar to lick it off him? 🤭 #the eye contact while shaking them 🫨🫨🫨 #okay okay guys get a room… same motion yeah we know 😩😩 #tune it down you two

[zeb-z]

etoiles who tries to be patient and tries to be kind and tries to help bad in his state of memory loss and confusion after purgatory, but still can’t help be suspicious of him. who works around how well he knows bad, because he knows bad is a liar, but he doesn’t say as much he just quietly puts in his own tests and precautions to gauge properly what level of fucked bad’s head is. who won’t stop reminding him of purgatory. does he remember the eggs? does he remember his home? does he remember how he slaughtered his friends ruthlessly over and over and over again? does he remember jaiden? charlie? does he remember how defenseless etoiles was when he stabbed him in the back? etoiles who knows how bad feels just by body language, who used to have the upmost respect and trust for his friend, his ally, his brother in arms - now holds him at arms length even at his most vulnerable.

something about etoiles asking what bad is hungry for, offering to fight (wanting to fight, now that the ground is even, now that he’s not defenseless, after bad had killed him when he was), and bad going “fight? why would I fight you, I thought we were friends?” and all etoiles can do is scoff. something about how even the most honorable and most patient have limits. something about how the consequences for bads actions - to himself and to others - are all finally compounding. how etoiles and bad’s relationship is forever changed by what happened in purgatory, and etoiles may still extend his hand to help him, give him strategies to remember things, but he’s doing so with a bitterness and a resentment.

things won’t be the same. things will never be the same. and the way etoiles can’t help bad without being sharp and angry about it proves this. because two weeks ago bad was family - and now, at bads worst, his most afflicted, most vulnerable, sure etoiles still offers help, and is more level headed than most about it, but he is in no means gentle or kind. he doesn’t want to help him. and that says everything.

#idk man. etoiles reaction not being ‘oh poor bad’ but being startled and then ‘oh of fucking course he’d just forget everything’ is telling #like we knew purgatory wasn’t gonna be forgotten. especially between red and bad specifically. but for it to show through etoiles first #to see etoiles genuinely bitter and resentful and taking no stock nor trust in what bad is saying or showing. yeah. Yeah #like. etoiles helping. he still cares a little. he’s not gonna leave bad to fend for himself he’s gonna help because that’s what he does he #helps #but it’s like. etoiles is saving him with a resentment because he knows bad wouldn’t do the same #(as far as he’s concerned at least. from what purgatory has shown him at least) #or not saving so much as helping to correct my phrasing a little bit jfjskfkrk #idk the fact that it’s etoiles out of everyone back so far. the fact that it’s etoiles and bads relationship that’s in shambles #out of all the friendships and mutual trust and respect and love #like. yeah. yeah. purgatory won’t just be forgotten. as much as bad has forgotten no one else will forget #mcyt #qsmp #q!etoiles #q!bbh #z speaks

[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

[whoblewboobear]

I genuinely don’t think bb was the best place to show off Cirie as a player because going in blind with her I’m still pretty meh about her gameplay overall…

Either wrong cast or wrong show bc something’s not working. We’ve seen legendary gameplay on this show and her game is talked about like she’s playing at that same level and it’s just… not true? It doesn’t take much for her to sway people in the house bc they’re not the best players in general.

We’ve seen better bb players so is it that people love her enough to hype her up like she is or is there something I’m missing completely?

#the hype never hit me so I’m at the point where I’m just like ??? #she wanted to stay on the block and leave and that just put a bad taste in my mouth #there hasn’t been a move she’s made so far that felt memorable or iconic #idk same for the rest of the cast I’m just over this season #and people hyping her up for doing nothing and begging production to rig it for her bc why? #we all know she won’t win at this point like idcidcidc #y’all talk about her like she’s playing these people like Tiffany like It’s not there #bb25

[mermaidsirennikita]

Lol I keep seeing the “the show is telling you what really happened and in the book Billy couldn’t tell Julia the full story because he didn’t want to hurt her”, and again, I have to wonder if everyone saying that has read the book because…. Things Billy tells Julia, a grown woman who is fully aware that her father was too fucked up to be there when she was born:

A) that he fucked multiple groupies on the first tour while married to her mom, who was pregnant with her at the time

B) that he, at one point “may have” been MORE in love with Daisy than HER MOTHER

Like… I’m sorry, where is this idea that Billy, a guy who took forever to admit that but did admit that, was sparing Julia’s feelings, coming from? How is telling your child “yeah I did love this other woman more than your mom and it was agonizing and I did kind of wish I could bail on y’all for a minute” THE SOFT HIT LOL.

#daisy jones and the six #look enjoy the show all you want #but takes like that are nonsense #which is why i come back to DID WE READ THE SAME NOVEL #i mean yeah if all you read were daisybilly excerpts i can see why you’d come to some of these conclusions #but the book…. isn’t daisybilly w karengraham sprinkles #also idk what the show is doing but julia is like in her forties in the book #she knows what’s up #she push push puuuuushes billy on shit #she won’t LET him hide from her #the advocating for a full physical affair on the show is so boring to me #and i love cheating in fiction #but the book made a great case for why an emotional affair is so much more devastating than a random fuck #and why daisy and billy barely needed to touch for it to devastate them

[ssreeder]

Hi again! I loved the new chapter!! It made me stare at my ceiling existentially for an hour (every chapter does) and we finally get Ara oh god. Im kinda an Ara hater. I’ve always kinda hated her but she was slightly redeemable? Until in itf where we get her POV and she purposefully made Zuko’s life a living hell. That’s when i became a full fledged Ara hater club member. But it still so hard for me to fully hate her cause yk she’s a victim too.

Anyways, she’s a super compelling character and I change my mind every chapter if i hate her or not. So I got bored again and made this . Have a good day!!!

Haha her POV was very much like *hair flip* “yeah I tried to destroy him but it proved to be a lot more difficult than I thought, but I did try.”

She’s really an interesting gal right there with a moral compass that is just constantly spinning in circles. Hopefully she can find some solid ground to stand on and eventually build herself a new life… we’ll see haha.

Thanks for this I adore it!!

#omg omg omg the vibes of this are amazing #seriously ara for the longest time is just like I didn’t do anything wrong #until she realized she does EVERYTHING WRONG haha #like girl can’t even breath without hurting someone #I love the red background and the figures behind her #she is drawn so well #I love this #ara is one of the characters I enjoy watching people flip flop over #she’s getting better / THAT BITCH / awww she’s a victim / SHE ALMOST KILLED ZUKO / but she’s sad…. / KILL HER #I never know what I’ll get #I mean I will say there are people that have rode the ara hate train from liab all the way to ITF & I respect it haha #same with jet damn it they hate him haha #it’ll be interesting how and where she goes from here #*shrugs* idkkkkkkkk #could be good could be bad #we won’t know next chapter because I’m going to kill Jee or bato off so they won’t stop talking #fucking dilfs #all of them #ok anywayyyy thank you for this #your art and asks mean so much #seriously I’m giddy smiling skipping throwing up all the normal things someone does when getting fanart #I LOVE YOUUUU THANK YOUUUU #liab #ITF #fanfic art #lilywriter

[misscancermoon]

tbh I kinda saw Lucas’ departure coming.

#lucas wong #wong yukhei #huang xuxi #wayv #nct #nct u #nct 127 #nct dream #HEAR ME OUT #we all know ​lucas’ scandal was fabricated and all #but even if he was innocent #the netizens are just gonna think of that scandal whenever lucas comes up as a topic #and if he’s still in wayv #the other members are gonna be negatively affected by it despite having no association to the scandal whatsoever #by associating with lucas - that would be enough for netizens to hate wayv #and it would also affect nct as a whole not just wayv #people are still not over taeyong’s predebut scandal despite constantly telling them he’s innocent #people are still not over hyunjin’s bullying scandal despite being innocent #sm needs to protect their idols and need a better pr team #and since lucas’ scandal was blown out of proportion - he won’t ever get back to the same status he had prior to that #at the end of the day - korea is still a conservative nation and thrive on collectivism #anyone who’s associate with lucas might also face a similar fate as him #wayv’s image will be ruined by the public if lucas was still in the group #idk why im writing this in the tags but i will elaborate later on

[2000snotebook]

Darius Deamonne hate is rooted in antiblackness idc

#Addae.txt #because y’all couldn’t wait to embrace Alador as a ‘redeemed’ father for his kids #(we don’t even know if Edric and Emira think about all this) #which is understandable because they’re side characters but still #and yet people claim Darius adopting hunter doesn’t make sense because he was ‘mean’ to Hunter in ASIAS #Lilith tried to kill Luz in S1 (love her tho) but y’all ain’t have problems calling her Luzs auntie #I’m just saying. y’all are more eager to accept parental/familial roles for the white adults of the show #but won’t even try to give Darius the same grace #because we all know if black characters don’t have the best impression when they officially debut they’re either villianized or written off #as ‘boring’ #first example is Darius second example is Gus but this post isn’t about him rn #‘but what has Darius done for Hunter’ 1) helped him establish connection with people outside of the emperors coven #hunter is intentionally isolated from everyone else to keep him from becoming ‘influenced’ into eventually ‘betraying’ Belos #by giving hunter a phone (??) Hunter slowly gains the social/emotional connections with kids his age he’d been deprived ove his entire live #2) Hunters developed a love of sewing because of Darius which becomes an important outlet for hunter

[harapeveco]

My favorite interaction with an Eve stan has to be with this one guy I met back when I was in tdt who always said that the only canon MVs were the ones that had Hitotsume in them and if he wasn’t there then it didn’t count as canon which annoyed me so I told them that if we followed that logic then Hakugin is canon bc Hitotsume appears in it and that made them so mad they never spoke to me again

#eve utaite #i hate when people divide the MVs like I’m not saying you can’t think ones aren’t canon and other aren’t that’s up to interpretation #but it’s annoying when you impose that view on others like if I want to believe Anoko no Secret is canon then let me be it’s my problem #to me every MV is canon in its own way like they all happen in the same universe but in different times and eras you know what I mean? #every MV is valid and we should stop this war of what’s canon and what isn’t just bc you think one is doesn’t make it the absolute truth #and gives you permission to make fun of others’ interpretations #you don’t have to agree with them but you should respect them at least #also people who say and MV is not canon bc the character won’t appear in the manga Can suck my micro dick #knk is just an extension of the univers it doesn’t dictate what’s canon and what’s not #we are supposed to have fun not to tear each other apart for personal beliefs #anyway sorry for the rant

[daydadahlias]

life is so sobering sometimes

tw // death

#one of my mom’s close work friends Dean died today #and I won’t get into the details of how obviously but he wasn’t very old #and definitely wasn’t ready to be dead #like he just posted a bunch of memes on Facebook 3 days ago lmfao #and a photo of his dog the day before that #and he lived a bunch of states away from us so I only met him once #but he was a really good guy and he got a copy of my first book #and of course my mom is going through his Facebook now and he made a post about reading my book and it’s just like. I don’t know #he was a really good person. and he had this rescue dog that he LOVED #literally all his posts were abt her #her name was ​wonder pooch #and he got her from the shelter a few years ago and just Doted on her and loved her and spoiled her rotten #and he never got married and never got kids so now that he’s died #so now that he’s dead Wonder Pooch just got returned to the shelter #and obviously we don’t live in a state anywhere close so we can’t go get her #I really hope that someone else does. #I’m just so fucking torn up about the whole thing #like I literally only met him once but my mom has known him for 20+ years #and the other day he’s posting about how much he loves his dog and now his dog is in the same rescue he got her from #probably wondering where her person went #and it’s just like wow that’s what life is #yeah I’m really fucking devastated. #tw death #death #I really hope one of his friends goes and gets her.

[dumbthiccbitch666]

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#mentioned goin on a trip sometime this year w my friend n she just won’t open my messages even tho we were actively chatting back n forth #ik im just overthinking #but i swear anytime i try to make any plans w her she just goes silent n ignores me #which ya know probs means she doesn’t wanna be do that kinda shit #but like why keep trying to be my friend ??? #am confused #n also don’t wanna just ask her what’s up bc i’ve asked before #n she’s just like omg i’m crying n i didn’t tell u i started dating this guy bc i didn’t want it to be real #n now this girl just doesn’t even tey to contact me unless i do it first #i just hate all my relationships are one sided #why do i care about ppl so much when they don’t do the same towards me

[somelittleplacebetweenthestars]

hey so what if one of the bosses is zagreus on his way out

#hades #hades 2 #i just think it’d be neat! #i’m daydreaming here but #what if the game read your progress on hades (if you had it on the same system) and changed the dialogue based on progression? #what if they had sibling banter abt which gods were helping them #couldn’t get uncle zeus to help you huh? aunt hecate says zeus is a blowhard know it all. HEY #alternatively (bc i saw someone say what if we get persephone boons) #how does it feel being second favourite. she thought i was dead! and she still won’t help you escape #supergiant #supergiant games #hades ii #zagreus #melinoe

[bellerintwo]

this is going to be the thing that ends me. apologize for what? for getting us higher on the table than we could’ve imagined after recent years? for letting us dream that a league title would be possible for us? all because it hurts? i would rather have the pain than to have never lived through this season with this group of players, to have never seen us win the nld away, the ødegaard black kit masterclasses, granit’s entire season, bukayo and nelli reaching g/a milestones, the summer games in the pink kit, wilo and big gabi at the back, aaron’s incredible saves, gabby jesus and zinny bringing a new kind of passion to the team, eddie’s last minute winner against utd, reiss’s 97th minute goal, jorgi and leo and kiwi coming in at the transfer window and having an impact immediately, leo’s 3 assists in one half, jorginho’s strike that lead to the m*rtinez og, winning games that no one ever expected us to win, mikel’s emotions on the touchline, and all the love the players showed for each other and the fans. we are more a family now than ever and not one person on this squad/staff (excluding the obvious) has a single thing to apologize for.

#again I’m so sorry for being annoying an emotional please block me if you need to but I need to speak into the void or I die 😭 #I can’t stand to see anyone apologize for one of the greatest seasons of football I’ve experienced in such a long time! #I am so sad that the players are so sad but there is so much to be proud of !!!!! this and so much more!!!! #I won’t hear a word of negativity towards anyone at the end of the day they did their best and that’s all we can ask for #I know management was bad but people who are being hateful on twitter etc? this is not the answer #everyone is learning everyone is growing and when they eventually win a title we’ll be glad to be able to say we were here the whole time #the same way we’re glad we never said arteta out bc look at what having faith in people does!!!! we have so much to look forward to! #Mikel Arteta

[titsthedamnseason]

now listen this might be wrong to say as a fan but i need taylor swift to get less popular before the next era. we need to find a way to weed out these trend followers

#to clarify i’ve NEVER been a hater of ‘new swifties’ the way some people are #like as a fan i WANT to see her getting more support and from the fan perspective i love the feeling of finding a new obsession #so in theory it should be a win win for everybody #but these people are all FAKE. like i’m not even really worried about them sticking around because i KNOW they won’t #which is sad on a different note because we know how much taylor cares about numbers measuring her success #and when these people leave her in the dust as they surely will there’s just no way the demand for her is going to stay this high #it’s like how she thought lover was her last chance to remain successful in beating her previous numbers #but like that actually might be true this time #please don’t send me hate. i hope this isn’t true and in the same breath i wish taylor didn’t put so much pressure on herself in this regard #but i do think the majority of this new fans are fair whether friends that are just piggy backing off the hype #so i cant imagine these numbers staying consistent for years and years #but then again she’ll be gaining new fans that are TRUE along the way so hopefully i’m not right #but still hopefully i’m a little right so getting tickets to next tour is nothing and i mean NOTHING like this

[demon-slayerz]

Having did is so funny cus how am I gonna explain to people I have little game people in my head

#v.text #NOT EVEN THE HOST BUT I THOUGHT THIS WAS SOO FUNNY 🤣 #I’m game people #also the solution? we won’t. it’s a covet disorder and oh honey are we coveting #<- idk what that word means actually 😅 #ID assume the same tho #sometimes I wish I could tell people and it’s not just me that feels that way but we all know logically it’s safer to not talk about it