#also meditate i think

[kan-be]

and there’s a special kind of sadness that seems to come with spring

it’s blorbo’s birthday yay 🥳 🥳🥳

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I like about Leo is that he’s honestly really chill? It’s easy to remember the moments where he’s being obnoxious or excitable but I feel like most of the time he’s incredibly “go with the flow” and has an overall affable demeanor.

[assiraphales]

yet another case of zoro why are you looking at him like that. zoro. zoro. i'm waving my hand in your face. zoro look me in the eyes WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT HIM LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[possamble]

I absolutely really need to be writing anything but random ideas while I procrastinate and this is so awful rough bc I literally wrote it on my phone in one sitting while avoiding work but

Do you see my vision. Her Nosy Bitch Syndrome would actually be good for him when they've both chilled out a little in the postcanon.

[bolithesenate]

ik she's not an oc but she should belong to you! 🖊 for komari??

you know what? you are so right 😌✊🏻

*yoinks all the character rights away from canon*

anyways, you know what I want for Komari? That she isn't technically a *good* Jedi, but that she is a terrifyingly *efficient* one.

Yoda's words were 'do or not do, there is no try', so I like to imagine Komari as a true force of nature because she does not doubt herself at any point. At least not truly.

She just does.

Does she do it because it makes her feel cool and admired? sure. but people around her (and she herself) have learned to direct that energy into a direction that more or less serves the greater good. The way I see Komari is that she truly likes being a Jedi and that she has found her niche amongst the Order to live her dream. She might not exactly do it for selfless reasons like many of her peers do, but that doesn't diminish the good she does.

it's also what makes her the ultimative hype-man.

she lives unapologetically and is her happiest self, so she encourages everyone around her to also do that. social anxiety and fomo? she's never known them.

Also, out of her entire lineage, Komari is the one most firmly rooted in the Cosmic Force. Dooku himself leans heavily towards it too, but he's also got a strong Unifying influence in his life through Sifo-Dyas, so it's a bit muddled.

Komari tho is, in fact, *such* a Cosmic Force baby that she often doesnt realize it is working through her. She just does Her Thing TM because It Feels Good TM not really questioning *why* it does that.

It's a very simple mindset, technically, but also very effective

[castleofthade]

I thought it would be fun if one of the things you use to mortally wound eliv thade used to belong to his mom in a very sentimental way

[dedeuteros]

head librarian isnt looking post gay creatures

[themostdearofspaghettis]

Legitimately grinning like a fool at Midnight Burger end credits it’s my favorite bit of all time they need more patrons

[akkivee]

base meme would have suited fine but i think this was a bit more accurate LOL

[stormofdefiance]

🤔 this boy ain’t right………

[shaykai]

I would love to hear more about Vat'il's past, I was desperately intrigued by the one comic-- I assume the shock collar aversion is the matron slapped it on him so she could have a way to control his Urge, but how'd he end up with her family? How long did he stay with the drow? When did sceleritas show up— [is dragged offstage]

The shock collar is just something all of the servants in her house wear- she doesn’t know that he’s a Bhaalspawn/know about his Urge- to her understanding, he’s just a bit murder happy (which isn’t entirely out of the norm as far as drow culture goes)

Sceleritas showed up a little while before he killed his adoptive family, kind of bonding with him while also trying to encourage him to not neglect his Urges (he doesn’t listen and ends up killing his family via the Urge taking over 😔)

As far as getting to Menzoberranzan goes, he was captured while aimlessly wandering through the Underdark. Backstories are liable to change, but so far I’m going with Gwnn- a guard captain- gifted him to Valora- The Matron- as a courting gift. Initially speaking, he’s almost borderline decorational and mostly just serves to fetch and deliver things- until she finds out he has a penchant for killing things, and then he’s essentially her personal assassin

I’m not entirely sure on how long he’s there for, but so far it’s roughly about 10ish years- currently speaking, he escapes as a teenager :> (fun fact! He escapes after Sceleritas says that his Father wants him to come home and gives him the same little invisibility cloak you get in game from him)

[xysidhequeen]

Current count since I last slept: 41 hours.

I think I've capped out at 46 before, I'm not sure because my worst fit of insomnia had me in no position to check times. But I'll say 46. So if we hit 48 we're setting personal records!

[turtleblogatlast]

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.)

[mueritos]

I find it funny you post things about the wrong people becoming therapists yet you want to be a social worker and actively defend rapists and abusers 💀

CW: mentions of SA/cycles of abuse.

you must think you're really clever. the therapy industry has a huge amount of problems (like any other industry built on service to other humans, like the medical industry), and i think even the people who want to work within the therapy field (whether as a psychiatrist, a counselor, a therapist, a social worker, a sex therapist, etc) can still critique the many issues within it, mainly the racism, eurocentrinism, and the individualistic values that much of talk therapy promotes. I don't know where you got the second part of your statement, because not only is it widely inaccurate of what I was thinking of doing in social work, it also is just not a great idea to hold about people who work with people who do harm.

there are therapists/social workers who work exclusively with cops/law enforcement, and ethically those people CANNOT work with people who are victims of law enforcement or people who "break the law" (incarcerated folks). It just doesn't work, because if you work with both, it can create a conflict of interest. this is the same with people who work with victims of assault (SA or not). these therapists/etc who work with victims of assault/abuse CANNOT work with abusers. The same is vice versa, as in people who work with those who do serious harm cannot work with their victims.

I think your self righteousness is misplaced. You clearly have a lot of work to do in regards to removing your own feelings and judgement from the work that many therapists and social workers do. I don't know if you know this, but everyone (yes, even people who do serious harm) are deserving of basic human necessities, like oh i don't know. Housing, healthcare, or therapy. It is not my job as a future social worker to judge people, that is wickedly different from holding someone accountable. Judging is like sending someone to prison for 25 years, further removing them from the communities and resources that could generate accountability. Further, no one can hold anyone accountable unless said person consents to being held accountable. There are different procedures for whether they do or not. My job, as a future social worker, is to help people, because I believe all people deserve to ask for help and receive the help that they need.

Not sure if you know, but I'm against incarceration/punishment. I believe we hold punishment as the way to "teach people a lesson", but if you do not work with people and actively step in and disrupt cycles of trauma (housing crisis, hunger, substance abuse, interpersonal abuse, racism, ableism, etc), you will only find that people re-offend unless they are given the resources they need to be better. Yes, there are people who genuinely want to do harm, but harm does not exist in a vacuum, and if you are unwilling to acknowledge that, then I genuinely wish compassion to anyone who slips up around you and shows you that anyone is capable of any level of harm.

People who do serious harm are victims of the same cycle abuse as everyone else. You white knuckling your self righteous black and white morality is the reason why you cannot understand that even the worst kinds of people deserve the same access to care as victims of harm. You think that people who work with individuals who do harm as them defending them, when the reality is many of us with the brains built to do this kind of work want to stop this harm and correct abusive behavior. Unfortunately for you, people are capable of change. No one is asking you to like anyone or their actions (because I don't have to like the people I work with either, freak), but what people like me are asking you is to accept the fact that all people do harm, and when people are given the community and resources to, they can change for the better and recognize the serious harm they have caused.

Not everyone who goes into this work wants to aim their energy into the "socially acceptable" work. I think social justice morality and the sanitization of revolutionary politics has rotted our brains into believing that we must do and be the most "woke" person ever, channeling our energy into victims of harm. But what we fail to recognize through that is that some people would rather divest their energy into de-radicalization of fascists, or others want to put their energy into theory, others want to learn how to connect with the land and be sustainable, and others want to learn how to help others. And just like them, there are people who are willing enough to use their skills and compassion for conflict/resolution, accountability practices, and to help those who have harmed. Because, unfortunate for you, activists should NOT be juggling being the theorist, farmer, therapist, spiritualist, leader, mediator, protestor, rioter, etc and etc. Some people are simply built to put their energy into what they are good at. This doesn't mean that the farmer does not encourage the theorist to continue thinking and writing their theory. And I am sure the theorist, one who cannot farm and till, is grateful for the skills the farmer brings once dinner comes around.

it's funny really because I still am not sure about what I want my focus to be in social work, and for you to assume that I am "defending" abusers/rapists by thinking about working in extremely hostile, tense, and exhausting environments in the attempt to disrupt cycles of violence is me "defending" these individuals...it just reveals more about you than myself, anon. Many people already work with abusers/rapists (many of those therapists being victims of abuse/SA as well), so you may as well call the ones who are actually doing the work rn "defenders" of abuse. see how that bodes for you.

that's all I have to say.

[why-the-heck-not]

no those aren’t weird sex noises coming from ur neighbour’s apartment; it’s ur local insomniac slap & folding bread dough in the wee hours of the morning

[muirmarie]

Some ideas about Substances and Vulcans [suggestive]:

(yes this is just tos mcspirk not-fic i yam who i yam)

If two Vulcans partake of alcohol (or another mind-altering substance) and then mind meld, they will both become intoxicated. It's an intimate exercise.

If a human is intoxicated and their Vulcan mind melds with them, the Vulcan will feel the affects (Amanda and Sarek discovered this one, and Spock gets SO pissy about it lmao)

If, say, two humans are bonded to a Vulcan and each other, and the Vulcan mind melds with one of them, and the one the Vulcan mind melds with is intoxicated, it turns out both the Vulcan AND the other human BOTH become intoxicated.

Ask Jim Kirk how he found that out. It's a funny story about his two boyfriends getting freaky in their quarters while he had an important video meeting with an admiral. It's a very funny story, don't let Kirk tell you it's not, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Okay yes, Kirk will lie and say the time they discovered that aphrodisiacs ALSO transfer quite nicely through the bond in the same way is funnier, but that's just because he's a sadist who still thinks it's funny that Kirk and Spock accidentally had McCoy hiding a boner while trying to give a presentation at a medical conference.

"He was light years away, Bones!!! How were they supposed to know what would happen!!!"

Bite me.

Also Spock found out, to his chagrin, that if he gets a little too high on Vulcan weed (oh, sorry Spock, sure, "special herbs that Vulcans inhale in order to find inner calm in mediation during high stress times", right) – if Vulcans get a little too into their CALMING HERBS (wink wink) and meditate a little TOO hard about how much they miss their boyfriends (oh sure, sure that's definitely not what you were doing Spock, our bad), they can in fact somehow transmit a contact high through the bond to BOTH of their boyfriends, even though neither of them are in a mind meld, if both boyfriends just so happen to be human. Isn't that neat. Isn't that a neat thing. Isn't that a neat thing to find out while we're on a practice landing party training new recruits.

Jim, should we kill him?

Actually Spock, Jim makes a great point. We're both gonna get drunk and then focus really really hard on the bond while we fuck and see if we can't manage to tip the scales towards the humans ruining their Vulcan boyfriend's life for once!

Okay, I mean, Spock, the point was to see if we could affect you through the bond, if you come in here and watch, that's not –

I mean if you're touching us it's obviously –

Ugh fine, FINE, just get naked and get in the goddamn bed, we'll experiment a different time.

THAT'S NOT THE TYPE OF EXPERIMENTATION WE –

You're SOOO smug thinking that you always get your way. Laugh it up, pal, your day is coming.

I said your day is coming, not –

[sigh]

Yeah, yeah, I love you both, too.

Unfortunately.