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More flower bondage! This time featuring Starscream. Begonias for ‘beware’. Rhododendrons for 'danger, beware, I am dangerous.’ And Starscream bent forward, trying to hide yellow carnations in his underbelly for disappointment and rejection.

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Something I was thinking about today:

The claim that Splinter “never feeds his sons human food” and they have to discover it upon reaching the surface is a curious one.

It makes sense given common information.

Let’s use our big brains. Reason out some more info.

Info like… Splinter must have looked up information about turtles before buying four baby turtles.

However, after getting turned into a rat and ending up a father to infants on the run from aliens, he probably never got the chance to go to the library or use the Internet to look up information on how to feed a half-human half-turtle hybrid baby.

(Not that the Internet had forums for that yet. Was the internet prevalent in 2012…?)

So he just. Fed them turtle food and hoped for the best.

(The Japanese are know for eating insects. And algae is commonly used in all kinds of their recipes. For Americans, it sounds crazy. For Splinter, it was just an adaption of his own diet in the hopes of providing his mutant children with safe, normal turtle food.)

By the time they were kids, they’d probably just gotten used to a routine. We really have no proof that algae and worms is bad for the turtles. Tastes yucky? Maybe. But humans eat plants and bugs too.

Splinter was likely just working with what he knew.

But I don’t think they only ever ate algea. Don’t get me wrong-

The theory is totally understandable. I was onboard for this claim for a while myself. Then, I rewatched Lone Rat and Cubs. (Bebés 🥰🥰)

And he definitely introduces them to foods.

I’m seeing noodles, gyoza, (bamboo stick?), and he also throws down something yellow that I can’t recognize. We also see him collecting bread for them and dangling food over the little piranha children.

He continues to collect products for them. Maybe not the healthiest because he’s literally raiding trashcans but… He’s trying.

And then we have some popcorn proof that he’s still introducing them to human foods when they’re kiddos, with Mikey happily snacking on some while they’re in the dojo.

During the series, we see very little new introductions to foods. They eat romen, icecream, popcorn, and drink milk, tea, and other human things without so much as batting an eye.

Ergo, they’ve had human foods. They’ve just never had pizza.

Why do they act like such goobers when introduced to pizza?

BECAUSE THEY’RE GOOBERS, YOUR HONOR!!!

Though- they actually act similarly when introduced to pizza gyoza.

They hesitate. And then something explodes with how tasty it is.

But because this list is far to short to be a proper analysis, there’s also the point to be made for the first episode where they have an entire kitchen set-up going around them.

And I’m no New York Subway expert, but do they normally have kitchens set up within them? Probably not.

Which means that Splinter (and/or his sons) must have set this up. Why set up pantries, a fridge, and a stove if you did not intend to house foods or make foods to cook on them?

After all, the food on the plates appear fresh and raw.

They have an algae pool for harvesting in the lab. Why would they need to create an entire kitchen set-up simply to prepare them?

Also, they know how to use chopsticks for big and small foods. If they’d spent their entire lives eating small foods, it would be a teenie bit difficult to change the method of picking up a fatter breading than a tiny greenery or worm. Especially with mutant hands.

But they don’t hesitate. As if they have picked up larger foods before.

Also, also, they know what a cake is. What it’s supposed to be made out of. Hence why Leo knows what “icing” is.

I’m not normally that excited to taste something that I’ve never tried before (unless someone is hyping me up). It feel implied that they have and that’s why they’re disappointed that Mikey made one of not-cake substances and why Mikey looks like he has regrets.

Also, also, also- considering Splinter eats the algae and worms too, I don’t believe that he has the turtles on a purely algae based diet because he’d have to stick himself on one too. Man’s not a fan.

And he knows that other foods exist. So. Why would he?

In other words, my favorite analogy:

I hate Spinach salad. My mother used to make us eat Spinach salad.

Were there better things to eat than Spinach? Yeah.

Did mom even listen to that point? Nope.

But was it still technically good for me so I was forced to stomach Spinach salad until I was old enough to design my own diet?

You betcha. And I hated every minute of it 👍

So, to end this, I have to say that while algea and worms could have been (at maximum) a common meal for the turtles, I don’t think it was their only meal option. I’m not necessarily saying it was the best idea or the tastiest meal for a birthday-type celebration, but the turtles definitely had outside food exposure.

Do with this knowledge what you will.

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an angle i enjoy in cosmic/eldritch horror is when, instead resorting to the old classic "the horrors being so incomprehensible that they break your brain and drive you mad" cliché, the premise is that in comprehending the horrors you are so changed by the experience that your new state is indistinguishable to an outside observer from madness. you comprehend the unknowable just fine, but actually communicating that to anyone else is impossible because they just don't have the mental framework required to understand it. the eldritch horrors don't drive you mad. what does is the ordinary everyday horror of finding yourself isolated, ridiculed and doubted at every turn, no matter how hard you try to make yourself heard and understood.

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Long time no see.

More moomin tmnt.

Im sure theres a story here.

OG pic ^^^

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I’m obsessed with your drarry metas! Do you write fics/have an ao3 account? You’re literally my favorite tumblr blogger ever xx

Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for saying so!!! What an absolutely delightful message to find in my inbox. I've never published any drarry fic (unless you count this little thing) but am I actually working on several different fics, though I haven't posted them yet. I posted an excerpt from one of the fics here and from a different fic here.

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"Dont talk to me or my emo sons ever again" (Work in progress)

In honor of getting to see a dc and sonic crossover, I am being greedy and begging for Sega to do another one with tmnt, PLEASE

It´s just a wip but I thought I might just post it anyway^^

As always, critique and advice are very much appreciated, don’t be shy!

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I’m going to reread all of idw tf eventually but while I don’t I want to talk abt how I realized that, like. Rodimus is very much the type of guy who thrives in a group but also kind of never indulges in said group. Megatron goes (at least he went once?) to movie nights. I’ve never seen Rodimus mention that he goes. He has the rod team but its also like. He never really interacts with them or is implied to interact with them outside things we can see. He’s only ever around when Drift’s around and even then he wasnt all that present.

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some fanart based on scenes and designs from this amazing fic 'The echo garden' by @altraviolet 🙏 🙏

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Lost & found by StupidoomDoodles - part 7

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3  | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Bonus

This is one of my favorites 🥰

That last pic' gets me every time 🥺

Again, and for all the next pages, thank you @chibichibivale

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on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

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The Michelangelo would absolutely get into a competition on who is the most flexible/gymnastic. But you can't tell me that Rise Mikey wouldn't try to cheat a little just to beat the extremely flexible 2012 Mikey.

2012 Mikey “I’m-a-literal-elastic-rubber-ball- pretending-to-be-a-turtle” Hamato

Vs.

Rise Mikey “I-will-eat-poisoned-pizza-puffs-just-to-win-against-you” Hamato

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Sometimes a family is a boy who turned into a dragon and his rat father figure

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See a lot of Luffy’s behavior and personality makes sense when you consider that he grew up as a feral child and was raised, in large part, by a slightly older feral child.

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why are we always talking about luffy changing ace but never about how ace changed luffy?

luffy's unconditional love for ace and ace's love for luffy dulled ace's cruel edges, very very precious YES but what about luffy having so so so much love for ace to be that younger brother instead of the angry, lonely boy shanks met at foosha

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This vexes Megatron

Average transformers g1 episode:

Megatron is attempting to black out the entire sky across a hundred mile radius and funnel all the sunlight into one, concentrated solar death ray to target a heavy duty solar panel he's having soundwave and the cassetticons build in order to convert it to energon. Then he plans to hit the autobot base with the death ray just for funsies. Starscream plans to push Megatron directly into the death ray, also just for funsies.

Optimus sends Wheeljack and Spike to deal with it, along with two bots you're pretty sure have not been in this show before this point, but you're kind of past asking how many of these fuckers were on the ark offscreen when it crashed. One of them has the worst fake Canadian accent you have ever heard, and the other's name sounds inexplicably dirty.

Starscream tries to get Megatron to stand in the spot he told Skywarp and Ramjet to direct the death ray, but is interrupted when Rumble asks why Starscream stuck him with extra work (a task Megatron assigned specifically to Starscream). This vexes Megatron. The autobots show up and try to figure out what the point of the blacked out sky is while Starscream attempts to talk his way out of it. Then the death ray goes off two feet away from Megatron, which only pisses him off further.

The Canadian bot yells "AH BINARY-BEAVERS!!" because the death ray caught him off guard and completely gives away the bots' position. Soundwave immediately fires on them. Gratuitous robot violence ensues. Spike is generally useless and tries chucking rocks at Rumble. Megatron is too busy trying to almost-murder Starscream to bother with the autobots and just lets Soundwave handle it.

Probably-an-innuendo-name-bot is luckily a flier and takes the chance to see what's blocking the sun now that their cover's blown anyway. He gets up there and the seekers are sticking tinfoil on the clouds to make the tops reflective. The writers are really just hoping you don't think too hard about it.

Skywarp starts firing on dirty-name and calls him a nerd. Dirty-name takes evasive action. Skywarp runs out of ammo and starts just chucking tin foil at him. Dirty-name calls him dumb and says his processor is made of spare toaster parts. Then he crash lands and canada-bot asks if dirty-name's wings are spare toaster parts as well. Wheeljack yells that they'll all be spare toaster parts if they don't focus on the decepticons. The death ray goes off again and barely misses the autobots. Wheeljack corrects himself to Melted spare toaster parts.

Dirty-name gives Wheeljack the rundown on the tinfoil clouds so he can figure out a way to get rid of them while Canada-bot fights Soundwave and the cassettes in the background. Spike is kind of helping too sort of almost. Those rocks hes chucking sure are damaging. Ravage gets straight up drop kicked. It cuts back to Wheeljack whipping up a good old fashioned Device™️.

Starscream flies up past the tinfoil barrier while Megatron shoots at him. All the holes he's shooting in the blackout barrier are just making more, slightly shittier death rays and the main one is losing concentration. One of them hits Megatron right in the optic and he keels over with an over the top screech. Starscream descends, breaking another hole in the tinfoil to see a golden opportunity.

"MEGATRON HAS BEEN BLINDED!!! I, STARSCREAM AM NOW YOUR LEADER!!!"

Wheeljack finishes his Device™️: A grenade that makes tinfoil entirely invisible, thus rendering the whole weapon unusable. The writers are hungover, please do not think about it too hard. Pretty please. Dirty-name doesn't know if he can throw it into one of the holes in the barrier on his own since he can't fly in robot mode and he cant throw in altmode. Spike offers to get on his back and throw it in for him if he can get close enough. And he's just SO good at throwing things. The other two agree he's their best shot, they're so happy spike is around, couldn't do it without him.

Starscream is hovering in the air as he gives his Decepticon Leader Acceptance Speech he's prepared for this very occasion, golden light streaming in from the him-shaped hole in the barrier. Dirty-name and spike zip past him and spike makes the best goddamn throw of his life. Before starscream can properly question the Fucking Audacity of these autobots interrupting him while he's trying to have a moment, the invisible explosion goes off that the animators are just happy they don't have to put that much effort into drawing. Starscream gets knocked out of the air and crashes directly onto Megatron. This vexes Megatron.

Sky's normal again. Don't worry that there's still tinfoil there, don't even fuckin worry about it dude. Spike and Dirty-name touch back down. Round of applause for spike for throwing super good. Wheeljack comments that he's just happy it blew up the way it was supposed to. Cue uncomfortably long laughing. Megatron manages to roll starscream off him and calls for a retreat.

Back at the decepticon base, Megatron has an eyepatch and is skulking. Starscream yaps about how it makes him look like a proper tyrant, brooding and battle scarred, and, dare he say, darkly handsome? This vexes Megatron.

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Even as my hands are stained in blood I will hold you with all my love.

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I was absolutely frustrated when I found out Snufkin's song for the Lonely Mountain didn't have any correct Japanese lyrics or English translation so I did it myself. Get ready for a Japanese .

I made it a neat title too,

寂しい山へのスナフキンの歌 - Sabishī Yama e no Sunafukin no Uta (Snufkin's song for the Lonely Mountain)

雨にむれ立つ - ame ni muretatsu (rain + particle for place + "standing there")

を寂しい山よ - (w)o Sabishī Yama yo (particle for connecting verb & noun + Lonely + Mountain + particle for requesting/emphasis/calling out)

我に語れ - ware ni katare ("talk to me/tell me")

君の涙のその訳 - kimi no namida no sono wake ("your" + tears + particle for possession + prenominal used for "that thing we just mentioned" + reason/meaning/cause)

OoOh-Oooh-oOOOh!

雪降り積む - yuki furi tsumu (snow + "falling" but used for snow and rain specially + to stack/pile up/pack)

を寂しい山よ - (w)o Sabishī Yama yo

我に語れ - ware ni katare

君の強さのその訳 - kimi no tsuyosa no sono wake ("your" + strength + particle for possession + prenominal used for "that thing we just mentioned" + reason/meaning/cause)

OOoh-oOoh-oOOOh!

入日にうかぶ - yūhi ni ukabu (the evening sun/sunset + particle for place + to rise/float/come to mind/have inspiration)

を寂しい山よ - (w)o Sabishī Yama yo

我に語れ - ware ni katare

君の笑顔のその訳 - kimi no egao no sono wake ("your" + smile + particle for possession + prenominal used for "that thing we just mentioned" + reason/meaning/cause)

So, ALL OF IT, sums up to,

"Oh Lonely Mountain

Standing in the rain,

Oh tell me, will you not?

The reason that you got

Behind your weeping

OOo-OoO-OoOOOOH!

Lonely Mountain, oh

Holding up the falling snow

Oh tell me, will you not?

How was it that you got

All of your strength

OoO-oOO-OoOOOOH!

Mountain so lonely

In the sunset so shiny

Oh tell me, will you not?

The reason why you got

Such a bright smile"

It really is a beautiful song. When it rains, Snufkin wonders why the Lonely Mountain is crying, because it must be quite a melancholic and gray view for the one mumrik who spends his mornings staring at it. When it snows, Snufkin admires the way the Lonely Mountain is able to hold all that heavy snow, half thinking of why and half thinking of how. When the sun shines bright over Moominvalley, Snufkin ponders on the way the Lonely Mountain seems so cheerful all of the sudden. He's so damn dramatic.