#its like routine now

[yayyy-insecurities]

you know what they say, too many pieces of gum a day keeps the doctor away

[mentallyillmindmeld]

I have an unfortunate habit of doing that physical bit where you look behind each of your shoulders and then point at yourself all confused in real life

[superbat-lmao]

Do you think the Robins have to train themselves out of responding to the name “Robin” in public?

Like how in a grocery store a million little kids can say “Mom” and like four women will turn without thinking. Because there are definitely civilians named Robin. Places where people’s names will be called out: coffee orders, doctor’s offices, school attendance, across a busy street.

(There may even be an increase in how many children in Gotham are named Robin, like how the name Sabrina increased after the show Sabrina the Teenage Witch.)

So how much do you think they have to tap down on that reflex? To make sure their eyes don’t twitch, no startled inhale, no visible sign that it’s a name they would respond to.

[hyakunana]

Pocky Valen when?

[obsob]

ive gotten rlly into ice hockey recently! i like goalies best. they are. friend shaped

ref images and process vid under cut! <3

[mamawasatesttube]

Between Tim and Kon who makes the first move?

honestly for me it varies! i slightly tend towards it being tim, but not always. but in a very specific way, i.e. it's a very gradual melt right on into a relationship, and tim is the one who goes hey. wait a minute. this feels like A Relationship.

at first, saying it'd be tim is probably surprising, since tim has a history of NOT making the first move across his comics - we don't actually see how he and ari get together, but steph chases after him and repeatedly states her interest in him before they ever get together; tim is the one who asks zoanne out, but only after she kisses him and then runs away. then tam once again is the one to ask him if he's interested in her (and, i mean, if you count lynx ii, she's always the one initiating things getting physical and making out with him, but they also literally never talk about it, so i don't entirely really count her as a serious tim love interest).

on the other hand, while kon of course has been a flirt since he was decanted from his tube, a lot of it was very performative and he's only actually ever been in three relationships, two of which were instances of abuse and grooming. given how introspective he gets after his resurrection, and how much less sure of himself he is in general, i tend to believe this is where he starts actually unpacking all his relationship trauma and internalized homophobia. i think actually accepting that he is gay and not actually interested in women is a very jarring thing for him, and accepting that he was groomed and abused is also very difficult, and it takes him a while.

because of that, i think he ends up a) confused about what romance actually feels like, and b) very tentative about dating for a while. he wants deep connection - he was genuinely in love with knockout, and he thought she loved him too; he thought tana would be part of his life forever, and his devotion to cassie was notable even before they actually dated. but deep connections are hard to make with people you don't know well, and by the time he's around 19-20 i think he's kind of struggling with the idea that he's not gonna get what he's looking for in casual relationships, but also the idea of being in Gay Love with one of his best friends is terrifying, because he's not good at identifying what being in love feels like, so he kinda talks himself out of it. "this is comfortable and easy so it must not be romance, this is just really good friendship, because romance feels like walking a tightrope. right? haha. right??" and all that.

and then moreover, i think tim really sits on the fact that he's bisexual for a long time. not because he's trying to hide it, but because he's just so intensely private about things that bother him, and he's got some jack drake shaped Internalized Issues in his head to work through about what it means to be transmasc and to like men (i.e. a voice that sounds suspiciously like a conservative dad putting in one single ounce of effort re: understanding queer relationships is in the back of his head going "but you'd be the girl in the relationship if you dated a man, right?" and tim has to take several deep breaths and figure out how to unpack that before he's ready to even think about admitting out loud that he's interested in guys too, even to himself, let alone to anyone else).

so for a hot second kon's just out there going "i like men but it doesn't matter because i'm never going to fall in love with someone that really truly wants me and loves me as deeply as i'd love them, and i'd be miserable about that except that i'm just pretty satisfied being bffs with tim :) i feel at ease when he's around and he makes me laugh and i just like being near him and watching him work on gadgets or listening to him ramble about cars or letting him sleep on my shoulder. i know it's not romantic because i feel so safe and comfortable, but i'm happy with it, whatever it is. and if i think he's hot, well, that's just because he is hot. everyone knows that!" guy who pretty much is already tim's boyfriend but he hasn't noticed that yet because they're both kind of stupid and also insanely devoted to each other in the same way, so they both go "yeah this seems normal for us" and kon really doesn't question it that hard.

meanwhile tim is the guy to whom labels and boxes matter a lot more, so he's the one who sits back one day and goes, wait. oh my god. i'm in love with kon. and then he has to steeple his index fingers and interlace the others and press his hands to his face in deep, deep thought. he's in love with kon, and realizing that makes a lot about his life suddenly make a lot of sense, because seriously - a hundred clone attempts, changing robin to be red and black, making out with cassie because he missed kon so much - okay, okay, yeah, he sees it now, okay, so maybe he's been in love with kon for years at this point and never actually realized it, that's fine, this is fine, he's FINE, he's NOT freaking out or overthinking--

anyways. after freaking out and overthinking and brooding on a rooftop for four to seven business days (not all at once, of course, but he gets his hours in), he finally goes to kon and jabs his finger into his chest and goes "Hey. Are we dating?"

and kon stares at him for a second with a loading circle spinning over his head. claps his hand over his mouth. inhales sharply like a dying fish. claps his other hand over the first hand. starts floating a few inches off the ground in pure agitation.

"Oh my god, Tim," he says, his eyes as wide as dinner plates and his voice an octave higher than usual. "Are we dating?!"

"I think so," Tim says, and narrows his eyes. "I mean, if we're not, maybe we should be. Pizza and a movie tonight?"

and kon clearly goes through A Whole Process in his head (working through the "wait, dating is comfy and chill and happy and easy?!" crisis in real time), but ultimately goes "okay!!! yeah!! okay!!! let's do that!!! wow!!!!" because, hey. he would love to hold hands with tim while watching the sunset and eating hipster san francisco pizza.

and that's how they end up sitting on the floor by the coffee table in the titans tower common room, eating pizza, and poring over a calendar + their text message history to try and figure out when, exactly, their anniversary is. ("okay, so when we went on that picnic in april, was that a date?" "i think so. alright, so it has to be before april, but after valentine's, because you made a joke about being single here, see? so we're looking at somewhere in march. "okay, but we did do 'palentine's' together, so does that really count??" "fuck, you're right, that totally was a date too. uh...")

[starscelly]

i have kind of an aimless rant abt the treatment of non-white and/or non-north american by hockey fans.... specifically in the context of the stars ....... saw a thread today commenting on the play of wyjo this playoffs (which. for ranting sake we're gonna handwave away my biases and beliefs on play this playoffs by. anyone really) and it was immediately met with someone pivoting, saying roope's play hasn't been the greatest (okay) and that he's probably not the 1C the stars need to win the c*p (hey what) hey what. hey. what.

and its just....... how quickly hockey fans (general) are able to overlook the potential ehh play of a promising young canadian but the second a european player is not scoring a goal a game its ehh :// maybe we don't need him :/// maybe he's dragging the team down, even ://// as if he is not being expected to do the same things that are probably making wyjo struggle as well, having to play back defensively so often .... but its Different and Worse because he's european :// didnt you know that ://

same phenomenon with jrob too, obvs not um. currently. but the second hes not hitting 100pts a season people are like hmmm maybe he's not even very good.... at all..... and its like hey so he's actually improving Every Other Area of His Game did you notice that. and they go nooo. no goal ): he's bad ): . and i go hey so another left winger that hasn't been the hottest the past few years, jamie, what are your feelings there? and they go oh greatest captain in the league! wouldn't get rid of him for the world! btw we should trade that weird filipino first liner ASAPPPP.

and it's the fact that it's not even just present among The Straight The White The American The Cis Men of hockey but subconsciously present in Gay Woke Hockey Fandom too that's EXHAUSTINGGGG

[armedwooper]

@ageekywriter

okay so no pressure at all. but I just spent the past two days binge-reading the entire summer fic with Jeanne, Ritsuka, and the rest of them. I have no idea what your creative process is like, yet I must ask purely because if I don't, I WILL chew my way through a wooden table set. When is the next chapter. You CANNOT leave me hanging like that you fucking bastard.

but yeah, do let me know the rough time the next chapter is gonna be released per your best estimate.

[barghest-land]

hate it when i wanna draw something really cool but then forget that for that i'll need to like. Actually sit down and do it myself

[coolnonsenseworld]

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[dreamyblanket]

Allright everyone, I'm going to close my askbox tomorrow so send in whatever asks you want sooner than later!

My break has been over for a while now and I have lots of things I need to do irl unfortunately, so please be patient with me while I get through everything! ^^u

As allways, don't forget to drink water! ♡

[jamesgreycaster]

For those of you who saw Heckler's Welcome live, were there any routines/jokes that you got that didn't make the edit for the special?

From the one I went to, he mentioned that Charlotte Richie gave him a ride for Roald Dahl day and while she had the best day ever, he was too busy sulking and she called him out for getting angry at children by reminding him that kids watching you quietly meant they were just paying attention. He also told the story of being asked to do his Prince Charles impression on a talk show, and he got out of it by telling the producers he's just going to say, in a straight voice, "I'm Prince Charles, my brother is a pedophile, I cheated on my wife, and I banished my son for marrying outside of his race." (He also added at one point, "I banished my son to some god forsaken country" because my show was in Canada, which we did all cheer at).

[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.....

[thatneoncrisis]

your thing about harrow belting out the mamma mia soundtrack is hilarious I also want to bring up that Muir said Gideon has a beautiful soprano voice and they made her a choir boy until she made too many faces. we can do this

I KNOW. I KNOW I THINK ABOUT IT EVERY DAY. i know she lowers her voice on purpose for Masc Realness i can feel it in my heart. she wishes she was a fucking alto. t could fix her

[3416]

1634 + shared dreams

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[shimblesham]

so what are the thoughts on misto and mind control(? or whatever the fuck 'i wave my paw in front of your face and you feel compelled to follow' means in the cats universe) because some productions DO include that in his choreo