#finally done

[chocolatebriosh]

i finished in time for pride month. yay!

[xxacidnekoxx]

✨✨me and my friends watch that singing alien!👽✨✨

[kathaynesart]

And here we go. For the full experience I would recommend reading while listening to THIS SONG. It inspired a vast majority of the scene as well as the timing, though I fear you'd have to read pretty fast to get to the ending at the same time as the song ends, so uh... good luck! Trigger warnings below:

The Day the Sky Bled Red

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Whew. I'm so glad to finally be done with these big updates. After over a year I will finally be able to return to my smaller update format.

Some keen viewers might notice the reuse of certain shots from the series. There is very much intentional, though the reason for this will not be made clear until the ending of the arc.

As of the final shot we are FINALLY back to present-day in the Replica timeline (if it wasn't obvious). I'd drop in a timeline for reference but uh... I maxed out on the Tumblr images. Oh well. Hopefully the context clues were enough to help though!

I do want to take a moment to TED Talk about Raph's ninpo, if that's alright. Unlike his brothers, Raph didn't really spend much time trying to come up with unique ways of using his abilities. Why improve what already worked for him? However, I do think one interesting ability could have come naturally to him over time. I always found his way of mentally connecting with his brothers as "Mind Raph" to be a fascinating joke in the series. They way he could help and communicate with his brothers is something that was always really important to him and I see that ability bleeding into his ninpo. Because of this I feel that his Raph clones were always able to find and reach his brothers no matter the distance. His ability to interact with them at the same time was something he was still learning in the series, like when Mind Raph apologized to Leo for taking a moment too long to respond because he was busy helping someone else. Because of this I see his clones being able to react and communicate independently (kind of like Naruto clones), but are in constant connection to the original source, Raph himself. This made it really easy for Raph to relay information to the brothers, though it was seldom needed since Donnie's ninpo tech normally had that covered. On another note, I also wanted to make a point that whenever one of the brothers died in the bad future timeline, it was when they were separated from their brothers. I always liked in the movie how it wasn't until the brothers worked together that they were able to regain their abilities, confront the Krang, and even open portals to different dimensions. I wanted that lesson to resonate in Replica as well, even if subtly. Anyways, thanks for coming to my TED Talk!

The rest of the arc will be a lot less action, but still plenty more emotions. I can't promise that we won't be doing more flashbacks in the future but nothing to the extent of the "Holiday Special." We got a story to get through after all!

Thank you so much everyone for your patience with me as I slowly inch my way through this big story. It means a lot to me! I promise the next update will not be so emotionally draining.

[sryfoekillingtheyeast]

[themisterhip]

You took everything from me...

[mvthr]

*@pscentral event 37: color challenge

⤷ the hex girls

credit.

[appldino]

Doing research!:]]]

[creatorping]

Formal Villains!（；゜０゜）

[nulelirie]

Fingon the Valiant.

Auta i lómë. The night is passing.

He is the hope itself that beckons people of the Eldar and Fathers of Men to still march forward during the darkest time.

[oddfamiliar]

Bury that guitar

[circustroubles]

[…vulnerability]

[riverphoenixsgothwife]

river phoenix and keanu reeves talking about each other

"I've always loved you, River. River is my best friend and I don't have many of them." - Keanu "That's really sweet, Keany." - River

"Every evening that we don't spend together we're on the phone." - Keanu

"He's beautiful, inventive, funny and creative, too." - Keanu

"I really would like to do Shakespeare with River. I think we’d have a hoot. We could do A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Romeo and Juliet." - Keanu "I’ll be Juliet." - River

"Meeting River was a revelation." - Keanu

"There was a lot of deep love." - River (about "Private Idaho")

"We brought good out in each other." - Keanu

"River's the best, he's a god, he's the king. I pray to the church of River Phoenix!" - Keanu

"(After a long silence) River was an exceptional person, incredible. Where is my Juliet? Bullshit. Fuck! (After another long silence) He was a really good guy." - Keanu

"I don't have any friends in the business. Just River. Oh where, oh where has my Juliet gone?" - Keanu

"I don't know what I'm going to do when I get older, do you, Keany?" - River "I'd like to maybe get a boat someday and sail around. Maybe I'll settle down and I'll raise a family. I've always wanted kids." - Keanu "I didn't know that --" - River "You never asked, dude." - Keanu "I really want kids too." - River

"It’s weird speaking about him in the past. I hate speaking about him in the past. So I almost always gotta keep it present." - Keanu

"I liked the guy and wanted to work with him." - River

"Keany, he's a sweetheart. People don't understand him." - River

BONUS: "Keanu and River were kind of soulmates, they had known each other for a few years… but they were." - Gus Van Sant

BONUS: "Suddenly he and Reeves are off, excitedly exploring the possibility of doing Shakespeare together. They stand nose to nose- Phoenix newly bleached blond as part of his bid to play the young Andy Warhol in a future Van Sant biopic, Reeves dark-haired and tanned- like positive and negative images of each other. They sustain their banter throughout the meal, as one interrupts the other, but only to complete his thought." - Interview Magazine

BONUS: "I watched how Keanu grieved. And oh, did he grieve for his friend. He’s very private, but he couldn’t hide that. And just to see that a man like that was able to grieve. And I remember thinking, God, if that’s the tip of the iceberg of his depth, and his level of love and care for a friend—that just draws you in." - Sandra Bullock

BONUS: "Talking about Phoenix, Reeves has one of what he calls his “excellent panic attacks”, and his china-doll complexion becomes whiter than white; his brown eyes turn black. Time to change the subject." - SKY Magazine

[anthrophobixx]

" I see now that the circumstances of one's birth is irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. "

Original under cut !

[tagintagout-au]

🔨: ...Why. Did you. FOLLOW ME!?

🔨: I WAS S'POSED TO DO THIS ALONE!!! I WAS GONNA TRAIN!!!!

🔨: AND NOW, YOU'RE JUST- YOU JUST GOT HURT AGAIN, AND IT'S MY FAULT, AND I CAN'T HELP YOU!!!

🎀: .....

(O-oh...)

🎀: ...Nille, I'm sorry-

🔨: AND THEN YOU'RE NOT EVEN MAD!!! EVEN THOUGH YOU SHOULD BE!! AND-

🔨: A-AND EVEN IF I'M STRONG, I'M STILL USELESS TO YOU!! YOU'RE HURT!

🎀: .......Nille...

(You messed it up, you messed it up...)

(How can you fix this!? Quick, quick-)

(...Wait...!!!)

🎀: Nille.

🔨: H-huh??

🎀: Do you... would you like to learn how to heal?

🔨: ...Heal? You mean like what Fifi does?

🎀: Yeah!! Before, uh... everything, I- I attended a lot of classes, and...

(You can't believe you almost forgot about it!)

🎀: ...I'm not a master, but I do know a thing or two! So... if you feel like you're-

🔨: YES!!! I WANNA LEARN! I WANNA BE HELPFUL!!!

(Phew....)

🎀: ..A-alright!!

(You're not a good teacher, but... Nille is definitely a fast learner!)

(You do your best to explain the basics to her as well as you can.)

(After around thirty minutes, your newfound scrape is completely gone!)

🔨: ...

(...She seems proud of herself!)

🔨: ...Belle?

🎀: ..Yes?

🔨: Thanks!!!!

🔨: I can finally help everyone! I'm POWERFUL now!!

🎀: Hehe, yeah, you are!

🎀: Just be careful, okay?

🔨: I WILL! TRY MY BEST!!!

{Nille has learned the skill SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP BLAST. She now has a chance to heal the party to full HP.}

[anjelia3]

"You still my girl?"