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Keep seeing pronoun positivity posts is about he/they and she/theys. That's cool and all but this one's for the she/hes. If you're a she/he I love you and you can take as much mint as you want from our garden

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bad dogs as a metaphor for something i redacted.

ig: tenderbullet

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Every parent who sends their sick child to preschool is not seeing the pearly gates btw

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since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this

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Story time! a few years ago my grandma found out that my sibling is nonbinary. Sibling was nervous at first bc it was an accident, and even tho our grandma fully accepted me as a trans guy, she presumably had no idea what being nb or genderfluid meant. and to an extent the sib was right—she was totally unaware that those concepts existed when we agreed to meet for lunch that day

but. but. she brought a full on PACKET of printed research and a pen. and asked questions. she took honest to god notes.

so anyway. thank you Grammy for loving your grandkids unconditionally. the feeling is mutual 💕

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Harry fans and Flash fans need to join forces against Insomniac and Marvel I think

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I love how much everyone is loving Spider-Punk and I would 100% recommend reading Hobie's stuff if not for the fact that Cody Ziglar committed the unforgivable crime of making Flash Thompson a police officer. Which is really weird haha because in the main comics Flash's heavily abusive dad was a police officer and he has a fuckton of trauma and distrust of cops from it so that's such a WEIRD thing to do with him that makes me deeply uncomfortable!! Aside from that it's a pretty good read though

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Dreaming about them 🥰

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Spider-Man adaptations: How do we streamline this continously ongoing decades old comic franchise into a cohesive story 🤔 We need some kind of actual narrative throughline

Coffee Bean Gang Saga illustrating the formation of the friend group, the devastating murder of Gwen and the emotional fallout of the tragedy resulting in amazing development for the characters involved and their relationships with each other, coming full circle with Harry's Green Goblin arc and eventual heartbreaking death: Hey-

Spider-Man adaptations: shut the fuck up I need to focus on turning Peter's supporting cast into completely different people

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amazing spider-man annual #23

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Onto Issue two of "Spider-Man/Human Torch" and

THE ABSOLUTE BEEF BETWEEN FLASH AND JOHNNY. It was instantaneous. They saw each other and immediately threw hands. Over Spider-Man.

What a wonderful way to begin :D

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venom + text posts part 6: flash thompson edition bc I love him

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ID: a page spread from issue #8 of Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles showing Mikey playfully splashing Raph to wake him up for training, causing Raph to become irate and vow revenge. Several minutes pass as Mike, Don and Leo wait for Raph on a rooftop building.

Suddenly, Raph calls out from inside the building and asks Mikey to help him with some equipment. Mikey obliges, only to sprayed with a water hose by Raph as revenge, who cackles maniacally as he sprays his irritated brothers with a water hose, calling him a "creep". (End)

I love these goobers so much, they are such menaces

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For the Mirage TMNT comics, I’ve seen this general sentiment sometimes when they’re brought up that’s something like this:

“I don’t like all these new goofy TMNT adaptations, I want adaptations to go back to the OG Mirage comics that were so serious/realistic.”

It’s not even necessarily brought up just to diss whatever new versions for not being serious enough, like I’ve heard The Last Ronin being praised for being ‘just as serious’ as the old Mirage comics. As someone who’s read some of that run (relatively) recently though (as in, I read it within the last year compared to dudes who read it 30+ years ago as kids), I don’t think portraying the Mirage comics as almost completely divorced from silliness is very fair when a lot of it is very clearly absurd. To prove my point, here’s a handful of examples of such silliness.

1. The first issue is just outright comedic in a lot of ways, even when it’s not being an outright Daredevil parody. Really, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is such a random assortment of words. Or there’s the fact that Splinter is a rat who learned ninjitsu just by watching some guy practice. I really want to emphasize as well, he did that entirely prior to being mutated, he was already a ninja master rat before he mutated into a more human-like rat.

2. Donatello so happens to have a bird puppet on hand he uses to trick a camera. Peter Laird (one of the OG TMNT creators) even specifically requested this be adapted for the 2003 show (and they did put it in there).

3. One of the turtles flew through a random window (this is separate from the recurring “Leo flies through a window after getting his shell kicked by the Foot” moment seen in various adaptations).

4. The whole Fugitoid stuff is such an absurd premise. Mutant Ninja Teenage Turtles go out to find their Rat master, mistakenly think the brain-like aliens as evil, accidentally stumble into a teleporter and end up trying to protect a random robot guy from evil space dinosaurs.

5. Don and Raph bickering

6. Could probably put every page from this issue and there’s something nuts about it. Casey loses his shit that someone stole a Brass Cow from a random store he’d visit as a kid. He does so much so that he fucking hunts down the gang who took it and rescues the cow (including a car chase where Casey leaps onto a moving car to grab onto the cow).

7. Raph being a goober

8. There’s a whole issue where for most of the issue, it’s just unexplained why we’re following a lone Mikey through an ancient Japan. The last 2 pages of the issue however indicate that this isn’t really happening to Mikey, rather he just wrote a story including a self-insert who gets a princess to fall in love with him. This page in general also really exemplifies that Mikey isn’t just some Ninja superhero, he is also a nerdy teenager.

This definitely isn’t every example from the Mirage comics, it’s not even all you could pull from those issues alone. Anyways, my point is that this silliness has been in the franchise since the beginning. Seth Rogan didn’t start making them goofy. Rise didn’t make them goofy. Nickelodeon didn’t make them goofy. The 1987 show didn’t make them goofy. They’ve had a lot of goofiness since the beginning.

Also, this isn’t to say this comic somehow lacks seriousness or that it’s wrong to want/prefer more serious versions of TMNT. After all, if silliness was the only thing that mattered, I think the 87 show would be still running for 30+ seasons. Additionally, I don’t think it’s wrong to make a more serious version of TMNT compared to the original. For example, The Last Ronin tackles a lot of serious concepts and situations and I think that story is quite good. I just think it’s silly how some people exaggerate the Mirage comics as some sort of “realistic/serious Holy Grail” of TMNT.

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I’ve been going at it with drawing every other turtle incarnation, so here’s the Mirage turtles (specifically Raph and Mikey)!  This here is a re-draw of a panel from a different angle, here’s the original:

I’ve been reading the comics lately, and wow are they amazing and dynamic and y’all should go read them if you haven’t! I’m enjoying them in a way that I didn’t expect and it’s really cool to see the origins of this amazing franchise!

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someone should make a youtube video explaining this chart but not me

[found on icebergcharts.com just google tmnt iceberg ull find it]