#Lmk if I should tag more

[hajihiko]

Family Business

[seven-saffodils]

just watched L.A. Confidential (1997) for the first time and this movie! def the most ACAB cop movie, truly amazed they went for it. [spoilers/discussion under the cut]

i keep seeing reviews that are like, but why did the russell crowe character, whose whole thing is that he beats up abusers and protects women, punch his girlfriend kim basinger? but this is a noir (a genre about corruption and decay) about police. he doesn't just punch her out of the blue, he's in the middle of beating up a shady journalist for the police captain when he learns that there are pictures of her hooking up with his goody-two-shoes colleague. where once the captain had him intimidating gang bosses into leaving, now he's just the captain's all-purpose muscle, going from a kind of gray morality right into "just following orders" territory.

he's hopped up on violence that he's having some cognitive dissonance about, he feels betrayed by the one reminder of the ideals he hopes to live up to, and most importantly it makes thematic sense that he betrays her and himself by hitting her. the police force, which he had seen as the instrument of his vengeance on abusers everywhere, has perverted him into a tool of abuse even before he hits his girlfriend. as Audre Lorde says (in a completely different context but hear me out), the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

now. could this have been accomplished by him raising his fist at her with real intent and catching himself and crying about it? absolutely. but this is a 90s man movie for men, and also imo noirs are at their best when the audience finds themselves rooting for someone irredeemable. the tension that comes from that, the disquiet—we need more of that feeling about our big action stars.

or maybe i'm reading too much into it.

[teaableu]

Cyborg boy

[yellowvixen]

puppet and master (which is which?)

[valkyriellis]

[u3pxx]

INLAND EMPIRE [Easy: Success] - Abort! You clearly have not thought this through. You won't like what you will see there -- and you will never *un-become* it.

watching an lp where they didn't continue to look in the mirror, so just brain-empty playing around with that idea

[artilite]

PARTY ROCK IS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT 🔥

Loop x Porty MK, idea courtesy of isatcord!

[alexlovesfanfics]

Vaggie, former employee of the first man: Men suck

Alastor a misandrist: That's strange.

Vaggie: What?

Alastor: Hell has not frozen over despite the fact that we are in agreement for once

[vero-niche]

nightow when i catch you nightow.............

[astralarias]

Okay quick poll because I’ve seen split opinions. Please chime in, fellow monsterfuckers.

Deimos: the og, many hands for…hugging, obsessed with an old man (relatable for many of you I’m sure), cute little lanterns on his horns, able to get Super Big in his last fight phase, definitely into bondage.

Cerus: the lil bro, fancy horns, rippling pecs, wing arms to hold you still whilst he….hugs you with his main arms, obsessed with the commander, might want to eat you in more ways than one.

[quinns-art-box]

oh and here's the small piece of spot art i made for my wonderful friend @toxicpineapple 's gonta week fic!! PLEASE GO READ IT it's absolutely fantastic and i am so normal about postgame gonta and miu

[seven-saffodils]

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[factual-fantasy]

Where there any side effects after Mario got revived by the 1-up

Like any markings or anything?

Mario has no physical mark or scar from the injury that killed him. Thanks to the power of the 1-Up mushroom, Mario’s body has 100% healed itself. Every last cell was put right back where it should be..

But the 1-Up mushroom couldn’t heal Mario’s mind. And sometimes during times of stress or exhaustion.. he feels a sort of.. phantom pain. Due to the trauma of the whole event.

Its usually a hot pain that forms right where the gashes happened. And Mario has a relatively high pain tolerance. So its really frustrating for him- and actually embarrassing for him when he immediately crumples under the pain. He doesn’t like being seen as weak. He doesn’t want Luigi to see him as weak. He needs to always be seen as strong. For Luigi.

But of course Luigi doesn’t see him like that. He never sees Mario as weak during these times. All it does is it just.. its makes Luigi really sad. To see his brother hurting like this. Knowing there isn’t really much else he can do other than get him a cold rag and wait it out..

[zaacoy]

That one dumb tweet has put this outfit that HE ONLY EVER APPEARS IN ONCE IN THE ENTIRE SHOW into the forefocus of my brain for like 3 days now so have this

[sad-leon]

Welcome to the Shadow Leo au :D

It's a lotta text, but I don't know if I'll make a fic for this au. It'll probably be a lotta fics and doodles. Asks are encouraged :D

When Splinter explodes Draxum's lab, a crystal Draxum wanted to experiment that held a bunch of shadow power, dropped on Leo, fusing him into shadows. He can only appear where there is shadow, so he can't go outside alone or in really bright rooms.

He can choose whether to be visible or not in a shadow he occupies, so if he's around strangers, he stays hidden.

Because of all the light from the explosions, he hides in Donnie's shadow as Splinter leaves. He doesn't show himself to anyone outside of Donnie for a long time. It's only when they're toddlers that they speak. Leo's speaks first and scares the hell outta Donnie. His voice has a bit of an echo-reverb tone, but otherwise normal.

Donnie tries to show everyone, but eventually let's Leo explain that he's scared of meeting everyone. He grew up with Donnie, they know all about each other and their triggers and such. Leo doesn't have that familiarity with the others and he's scared of breaking down in front of them.

When Donnie brings April to the lair, Leo is excited at the prospect of meeting someone who is also an outsider. When she and Donnie hang out in the lab, Leo shows himself to her. She tries to punch him, she just bruises her knuckled on the wall. Over the years, April, Donnie, and Leo become an indestructible trio.

The fam still doesnt know about Leo when they break into Draxum's lab. Draxum immediatly notices Leo in the shadows and gathers all his mystic crystals to try and break his shadow powers. On of the crystals he hits Leo with grants him the ability to emerge from the walls, though his still looks all shadowy.

Leo still chooses to hide in Donnie's shadow, though he ventures out on his own a bit more now that he can hold swords and stuff. Leo still steals the odachi from Draxum, but his use of it is limited to only slicing, though if Donnie swings it, Leo can influence the portals if he's connected to Donnie's shadow.

[Sidenote: when the brother unlock their Ninpo, Leo unlocks his as well, granting him ability to use his portals himself. He can also do the funky teleportation thing.]

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Leo's out on his own one night when he see's Usagi hanging around the turtle fam's lair. He appears to the rabbit and surprisingly, the rabbit doesnt freak out. Usagi and Leo are quick friends. Leo tells Donnie about Usagi and convinces Donnie to meat the rabbit and eventually, Usagi becomes an honorary turtle, just like April.

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(Leo is still Casey's future sensei, but by then they had found something, a charm or a potion, that made him physical. When Casey asks about him, Donnie avoids eye contact, but everyone else is confused.)

(The key is snatched by the foot clan because Raph couldn't get to it fast enough. Leo tries to blame himself because if he wasn't so scared he could have used his portals to get it. Donnie won't let him blame himself, and neither will anyone else when they finally meet him.)

During the movie events, Leo connects to Raph's shadow when Mikey and Donnie get flung off. He makes himself physical and pushes Raph toward his brothers. He also snatches Raph's wrist comm. Raph is too panicked to consider what just happened and jumps off to catch his brothers.

He shouts for CJ to close the portal. Casey immediatly follows the command shouted by his sensei's voice before he can process it. Leo stays physical long enough to keep Kraang distracted, then ducks into the shadows.

With the whole Prison Dimension being basically one big shadow, Leo is able to stay hidden after the portal closes. He doesnt heal in the shadows, but his inuries don't worsen. It takes about a year until Leo finds his sword and portals himself home.

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Donnie, April, and Usagi are all a fucking wreck in a way no one understands, no matter how much they explain Leo and his predicament. Raph explains that he was pushed by a shadow and Donnie breaks down on the spot. Because even though Leo would never meet the fam, he'd still sacrifice himself for them.

For months, Donnie begs Casey Jr to tell him how Future Mikey opened a portal, but CJ won't say anything past explaining how it killed Future Mikey.

Donnie doesn't stop looking for any sign of Leo, but after months he has no choice but to move on. Leo's sword was put in a glass, guarded case after Donnie tried to use it to portal to Leo.

Sometimes Donnie sits in a dark corner and talks to himself.

Then one day, the alarm attached to Leo's sword goes off. Everyone thinks it's Donnie trying to portal again, but they all rush in to see a shadowy Leo injured, on the ground. Donnie breaks down on the spot, but tries to pull himself together enough to help with bandaging what they can see of Leo's wounds.

Leo wakes up to his family around him and finally lets himself meet the rest of his brothers.

[krakrac]

let the rat man live through shit!