we don’t acknowledge enough how dee used to be a pageant winner when she was a kid and how much damage it did to her. she worked her ass off and got recognition for being pretty and talented at a young age and it was the only source of self esteem she could garner in a family that constantly berated and talked down to her. she sought after that external approval because it was the only way she could prove everyone around her wrong. her dream of being a performer didn’t come from a self-aggrandizing delusion— she genuinely showed a lot of potential when she was younger. but she went through an unflattering puberty and her spinal condition got worse and that natural talent she had as a kid plateaued way too early. the “former gifted kid” dilemma. she slowly lost the thing that promised her that she was good, but she was so desperate to keep holding onto it that she tried anyway. again and again and again no matter how much people made fun of her because it was always about proving them wrong. but after a while she couldn’t jump anymore without anticipating the way it feels when she hits the ground face first. self-sabotage became her way out, choosing to rather live in the fantasy of her own unrealized potential and blaming those around her for her lack of success, than having tried and crashed again. she’d rather buy lottery tickets over and over and never scratch off the numbers than to see that she lost. that self-sabotaging behavior bled into other aspects of her life too, from friendships to relationships to therapy. her own short lived success is what made her grow into embodying the cycle of failure.
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Headcanon that Leo really loved to give his family massages growing up. We know that he’s good at them from the episode “You Got Served” and we know he likes spas and relaxation and getting massages himself from when he tried to get these in “Bad Hair Day” and from when Donnie made a tennis ball massage machine in “Smart Lair.”
So I think it’d be cute to think that maybe one day Leo overheard Splinter complaining about a bad back and immediately Leo thinks back to a comic or movie or something he saw where a massage helped so he offers to give one and it actually ends up helping Splinter.
Then April swings by the Lair at a later time and mentions her back hurting because of her backpack from school and Leo’s all like “I gotcha!”
From there, he occasionally manages to convince Donnie to sit for one because Donnie’s shrimp posture does not help him any (Leo pokes fun at how sandpaper-y Donnie’s shell is despite knowing it’s always like that and Donnie smacks him for it.) Donnie usually prefers hand massages instead however as all his typing and inventing adds up over time, and shoulder massages too once he starts wearing his battle shells more. Leo also figures out how to give massages to Raph and Mikey’s shells as well, though it’s a struggle at first to not scratch his hands on Raph’s spikes.
I think since Leo has such bad luck with spas and the like, he tries giving himself massages (though it’s not as helpful.) Like, with how his abilities work his legs are probably always aching from his portal jumping and one foot landings, so maybe he branches past back massages out of a need to help his own aches too. (Though he really wants a shell massage himself, the same way he’d give them…the one time with Donnie’s tennis ball massage machine was but a short moment of what Leo’s been missing out on and what he’ll continue missing out on…)
I don’t know, I just think it’d be cute to think Leo could have honed his massaging skill this way in order to help out his family (and also partially because he wants a massage himself.)
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I love that Percy not turning against the gods and joining Luke all came down to Poseidon. Because so far Percy hasn’t had great experiences with the gods, like at all. Mr. D is a liar, Athena was ready to let him and annabeth die, ares is now his sworn enemy, and the experience with Hephaestus was pretty traumatizing. Hades was self-serving, and didn’t give back Sally even when it was apparent Percy wasn’t at fault. And Zeus…Zeus was ready to smite Percy where he stood.
But he didn’t, because of Poseidon.
Percy should have died at the arch, he shouldn’t have made it out of the underworld, and I have a feeling once Zeus gets that bolt humming in your direction not a lot can stop him. But Poseidon did. Poseidon surrendered to his brother, gave up his pride and glory, to save his son. The son he hardly knows, the son he’s always protected and watched from afar, the son of the woman he loves.
“Do you ever dream about Mom?” Was such a good line. I think it was a genuine question from Percy, but it was also absolutely a test. Do you love my mom? Was it real? Do you love me? And Poseidon’s eyes, the way he gripped Percy’s neck then finally sent him away said it all.
Percy’s fatal flaw is loyalty, and once Poseidon earned Percy’s loyalty, Luke and Kronos didn’t stand a chance.
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And THERE IT IS.
If you wanna no the BIGGEST problem with Zionism, religious appropriation, and the whole genocide thing going on over there?
You know...besides the loss of life.
But also...unfortunately...maybe not?
Watching an episode of Moon Girl. And a character is celebrating her Bat Mitzvah!
And you know what they used as symbols?
THE STAR OF DAVID!
Yes! A delightful, iconic emblem of the Jewish religion. Immediately recognizable. Associated with a proud culture!
Oh, but wait...how's it being used nowadays? I saw two Stars of David in the past five minutes thanks to this episode...guess how I was seeing the symbol the other twenty times today?
So, yeah. This is why when someone puts a religious symbol on a flag, you tell them not to do that.
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