#apologies.... im sick rn...

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

ooo artfight teams are out which are you thinking youll be on

I traditionally let the site choose at random for me so I guess check back on the first. Regardless, I highly encourage friendly fire! Same team or no, everyone becomes my opponent during the month of July and I will show no mercy!!!

[merakiorder]

i just had the most buckwild fucking thought. this is how petey nation can still win

okay so in season one when Cobel recovers Petey's chip, she says "that's Petey". we don't really know how the chip works, but the idea that it might hold an aspect of a severed person's memories or personality isn't the most far out concept.

Now let's consider Gemma/Ms. Casey. There are a TON of theories about her, with some theorizing they essentially reconstructed her. An innie without an outie. Do you see where I'm going with this?

All I'm saying is that maybe there's a chance, if shit REALLY hit the fan, that Lumon could "rehire" petey by some means as a last ditch effort to chill mark out- or at the VERY least keep him from leaving.

[scatterbrainedbot]

Hello :D

You're so cool

Anyway have you thought that in your rat sons au Splinter might outlive the boys?

You're very cool :D love your stuff dude

(tw for some blood, light gore, implied overdose (kinda??))

hi copper!!! this is a fantastic question!

so obviously typical irl rats have far shorter lifespans than the average irl tortoise. according to google (yes, be awed by my spectacularly in-depth wealth of research) the average pet rat lives between 2-4 years ish, and the oldest on record lived to be about 7. meanwhile, an African spurred tortoise (Splinter's species) averages more around a 50ish year lifespan in captivity, tho is suspected to possibly exceed 75 or more in the wild.

Now, the mutation does give us a lot of wiggle room for playing with these numbers. For the rat sons boys, id say their natural lifespan probably clocks in at about 45-55 years old? definitely not old by human standards, but not young young either. (though, its also important to note that the boys were exposed to the mutagen just days after being born.)

For Splinter, meanwhile, aging is slightly more complicated. He lived the vast majority of his life as a regular normal African spurred tortoise (well, non-mutated at least. there were perhaps some shenanigans of a more mystical variety going on before he was mutated, but thats a separate matter) He was about 70ish i think? when the boys were born and they were all exposed to the mutagen. so he is already distinctly an old man turtle papa. id guess he'd probably still have another eh lets say 25-30 years after his mutation. he could probably push it a little farther even with some mystic nonsense, but when push comes to shove id say his 'natural' post-mutation lifespan would put his death like a solid decade or two before his sons.

of course, the tricky part of the matter is that theres no way for Splinter to know any of this. theres no way for him to know how the mutation affected them all, or if it even affected them all in the same way. especially since the boys dont show many physical signs of mutation for the first few years, and just kinda look like normal rats, (albeit with a more human sort of intelligence) — what sort of health standard do you hold them to? what if they simply dont show external signs of sickness or old age anymore? how do you actually know if something is wrong?

for a while there Splinter is very worried that one of his babies will just essentially reach the end of their normal rat lifespan, fall and not get up again.

so mostly, he just tries to live in the moment, enjoying whatever time he does have with his little ones, taking each day as a gift <3

still,

that fear

never

really

goes

away.....

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

what is armchair diagnosis?? isn’t that kinda like self-diagnosis? do you support self diagnosis?

heyo! i completely support self-dx, i've been self-dx with multiple things myself (either currently or before i got confirmation, only really my depression and bpd were things brought up by a therapist first). armchair diagnosing is more like when someone who actually knows very little accurate info about a disorder and/or a person and tries to "diagnose" said person with said disorder. we bring this up specifically for npd because it's very common for people to armchair diagnose people who are abusive, self-centered, toxic, ect with npd simply because they view npd as "bad person disorder."

[warpfactor9]

xo

[mxwhore]

im sorry

[bukuoshin]

Mfw I get sick once for the first time in seven years and it ruins my mental health for potentially three months straight ahahah

[ghoul--doodle]

I would like to try to sleep

Without feeling like I am being stabbed violently in the ribs please and thank you

Can we cooperate please

[bkgbstard]

[calamitoustide]

hi !!! for your sleepover, what snacks are you bringing? and what is your sleepover movie?

oooh that's such a good question i've really been craving some good popcorn recently so you gotta have that and i'd probably just waste all my money in the candy aisle at target I'm talking all the kinds of m&ms, sour patch kids, reeses, sweet tarts, nerds, i don't know fucking milk duds, twizzlers, the works you know, my goal is for us all to end up with stomach aches at the end of it and maybe i'd throw some like strawberries in there or something we need our fruits you know

and for the movie... you know i gotta say little women I'll spend the entire time telling you about how the scenes are different from the book you'll hate me! and maybe we'll finish it and then idk watch all five hunger games movies and I'll fall asleep during the first one but everyone else better stay up and watch the rest because I will be waking up every like three hours to commentate on it for three minutes and then I'll fall back to sleep

[has-chip-beaten-the-allegaytions]

11/13/23! latest riptide episode: 112

nope ^_^

[bell-swamp-fitzjames]

i just easily cry at how cool things are. sorry but dave k saying that thing about how he'd be happy if ppl are listening to the songs for the first time YES MUSIC IS SO BEAUTIFUL and there's so much out there too, like 2022 or 2023 or something I decided to try to put more non english artists into my rotation and its still an on going thing but i love discovering new music and rediscovering music I used to love but forgot. I love seeing what ppl are listening to ugh ugh it's beautiful just. anyways im going to post that damn playlist post soon. and maybe try to find my posts for CDV i haven't reblogged that one yet

[shouyuus]

harambe because you are as iconic as it was TO ME... love the way you write HAHAH -- @anonymilk

LMFAOOOO im not mad about that tbh harambe was a SENIMAL part of my teen years so ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)~✩‧₊

though it does seem that most ppl think im moo deng??? ALSO not mad LOL i personally picked honeybadger bc that was ALSO an important part of my upbringing. oh the early meme days

[lesbianuhaulindustrialcomplex]

google how do you politely and kindly say "bestie if you just keep refusing to talk to us and work this out we will have no choice but to end this living situation and move on"

[kyathedino]

Me, opening my diffuser mostly on accident and seeing a cascade of Eucalyptus Steam Cloud come pouring out: Hey girl hey!!

[studbunniez]

and it's the fact that when she is she looks incredibly unhappy the ENTIRE FUCKING TIME 😭 i don't know if anyone else caught that but vi looked so undoubtedly unhappy

the way vi becomes an enforcer in act 1 is honestly really fucked, they walked up to her drunk and went "thanks for being 'one of the good ones', you're enlisted!" like girl wtf