#I say mesmerizing

[gumm1defloor]

There's always something vaguely mesmerizing about Radiosilence x Voxval fics where hay-day vox is essentially trying to court both these people miles out of his league for their own separate reasons. And you have Alastor who comes out of the whole experience like: " He is the most obnoxious, repulsive man I have ever had the displeasure of meeting my entire existence, mother warned me this would happen to boys like me in the big city. I shall never recover from this."

Smash cut to Valentino, currently giggling frantically in his bar stool, twirling his antenna like "Holy shit he's SO fucking sweet & nice to me. You've hit the jackpot now honey there ain't ever gonna be someone better."

[xxplastic-cubexx]

i would like to draw him more i think..

[hayaku14]

kaito buying every ticket to every soccer game available just to see that excited look on shinichi's face

[fishareglorious]

mesmer jr hates this fucking suitcase

[gardensnakie]

Mesmerizer AU

Omori kept his enemies close, manipulating Stranger- or Basil, as he insists- is a chore. But they are useful when it comes to solidifying the reality in Sunny's head, where the fatal mistake was breaking a piece of wood and everything after that was caused by the one who tied the knot. There was no push or shove whatsoever. Occasionally, Basil needs help to be reminded of that fact.

I dunno, I thought this was silly

This keeps the one who dreams out of way. It may look violent but without the survival response of something real, it's completely harmless.

@kallie-draws-omori i have a tag called 'mesmerizer au' for all of the things i posted about it :>

[casualavocados]

...Nothing.

Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[haremfucker87]

誰か、助けてね(^^♪

Inspired by this post

[hooked-on-elvis]

Elvis Presley in Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) — Dir. Norman Taurog

[rangertowerdefensesimulator]

and all I ever want is breaking me apart I said to the thing that I once was.

[sufbino]

your eyes were

bluer than robin’s eggs

[anonymocha]

tfw maid lucy

[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.

[defectau]

Soo I have been brain rotted by reverse 1999 and I swear I'm sane like I save all my sharpadonty, dust and materials to level up Marcus to i3lv60 (the highest before was i2lv50). There's nothing wrong with that. Anyways I'm pretty sure I've found all the posters for the web even and I haven't seen anyone put it up so here I am. Please correct me if there are still some more missing.

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

[friberchi]

Uriolinne 👁‍

[lucyghoul]

when you came in the air went out