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Me to my brain when I joined the TF fandom: No oc's, got it?
Brain: Yep, got it. No oc's. Just canon characters.
Me: That's right because oc's are cringe and we don't need any!
Brain: *less than six months later holding two oc's like the most precious gems in the world*
Me: What. Are. Those.
Brain: *proudly showing them off* These are our oc's! I made them to be super cute too! See look! This one is named Error and he records data and is a minicon and is super nice and had all his kin slaughtered by the Quintessons-
Me: Wait hold on-
Brain: And this one is Delirium and she's a medic who is also a minicon because minicons are cute, and she wears a medical mask all the time because she lived during the rust plague and watched everyone she ever loved die so now she's scared of germs-
Me: Two minicons?
Brain: Yeah! Cuz minicons don't get enough love. Anyway they are also going to eventually fall in love because they are the perfect foils for each other-
Me: *suddenly really invested* Really?
Brain: *nodding enthusiastically* Yep! It's real bittersweet too because Error constantly needs to get his memories wiped in order to not lose his mind and so its super cute as he falls in love with Delirium over and over again every single time!
Me: Dude...
Brain: I love them. We are keeping them... right?
Me: *already coming up with drawings, reference sheets, and a whole fic outline* Absolutely.
#lets try some writing mumbles#this is literally how my oc creation process happened#it was super random in the grand scheme of things#I came up with both of them on the fly and now I adore them#I said I wasn't going to do it over and over again-#but here I am with my two precious minicon rays of sunshine willing to fight tooth and claw for them because they are PRECIOUS#perhaps this is just me#but well... this is how my oc's were born
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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.
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt headcanons#rottmnt leo#rise leo#rise don suave#rottmnt don suave#I lied I’m back to ramble because I’m just#so bad at keeping my mouth shut#or uh#not typing word vomit#anyway- yeah this is my personal interpretation#I believe Leo was legitimately mesmerized by Don Suave’s powers…in the beginning#but even the series’ creator says it was ‘at least PART of what was going on with Leo’ so#idk it’s something that’s been on my mind and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same??#may delete this later who knowssss#pleaaaase feel free to disagree I just like to talk lol#but yeah sometimes I look around at how much media has LGBTQ+ rep in it now and it honestly makes me emotional??#(we always always ALWAYS could use more but)#we did not have even a crumb of this as kids#but also like most of that rep is new properties#and I just was thinking about what that could mean#idk man idk#once again please don’t take this as facts it is VERY MUCH NOT#man I was looking around for good images to use and found jack all#anyway tho did you know Donnie often has bi colors around him and Leo is often dressed in the colors of the trans flag-#okay anyway back to the caves I go this comic won’t draw itself#I gotta spray myself with water any time I go to type long winded essays because they’re not great for the mental health fr
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When are we gonna acknowledge the fact that the whole "Sonic is super cheerful around Shadow who finds him annoying" thing only started in Shadow the Hedgehog and that this isn't, like. their default
You wanna know what their original dynamic was? Sonic getting ticked off by Shadow's very presence, who would stop in the middle of anything no matter how urgent and time-sensitive it was just to mess with Sonic.
(He got sidetracked from his own mission to save Rouge from THE EXPLOSIVES THAT HE SET because the urge to make fun of Sonic was too strong. what is wrong with him)
And it's Sonic who starts their first fight, by the way. He was clearly taking Shadow much more seriously than the other way around; he genuinely wanted to fight, while I'm pretty sure Shadow just wanted to have some fun and show off. (AS THE BOMB IS STILL TICKING)
But at the same time, most likely because he was having fun, he seemed to be hoping that Sonic would prove himself to be something more than just... Some Guy. Why else would he seem disappointed that Sonic could be killed? And so impressed (dare I say proud) when it turned out that he survived by using Chaos Control with a fake Emerald?
All of the animosity was on Sonic's end - Shadow was the one who wanted someone to rival him. He never disliked Sonic, or found him annoying to be around. If he did, he wouldn't have spent so much time around him to begin with.
And they were somehow like this in Heroes, too. Despite his amnesia, Shadow once again listens to Sonic talk for a few seconds and immediately decides that he needs to taunt him. Searching for the answers to his identity can wait, he just thought of a great comeback and needs to style on this random hedgehog for a bit
Then you've got the absolute whiplash of Shadow's game, where all of a sudden Sonic is Super Friendly towards Shadow, who's having none of it. Even if you try to make the argument that Sonic is trying to be friendlier on purpose because he wants to bond with Shadow more, the game portrays it as if this is just How Sonic Is.
Sure, I'd expect him to be picking fewer fights with Shadow when they're working together to save the world, but he's like. borderline giddy all the time. it's kinda funny but so, so confusing in the grand scheme of things.
Sonic 06 gave a much more sensible portrayal of how the two would talk to each other after they're done being enemies, I think. There's a little bit of rivalry in there, but it's not born out of them conflicting with each other. There's no hesitation to work together, no grumbling from Shadow, and Sonic isn't being uncharacteristically excitable about it.
(Plus they retained the silent communication thing they had going at the end of SA2, which is nice)
Unfortunately, 06 was the first and only time that we would see the two of them written this way, as friends who maybe don't "hang out" but aren't the type to bicker or turn everything into a competition at the expense of practicality.
There was no hesitation to the respect they had for each other, either, which is easily the most baffling part of their current portrayals. Not even their Boom counterparts had any hangups about that, and they were legitimately antagonistic towards each other most of the time.
Case in point, I think it's very easy to look at their designs and put them into stereotypical little boxes where Sonic is the ray of sunshine while Shadow is too edgy to find him anything but annoying, but that's just. not how they are at all, and the actual ways their personalities used to bounce off of each other was both funnier and more interesting in my opinion
#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#analysis#meta#Honestly once you realize that Shadow never used to think Sonic was annoying#a LOT of both official and fanmade content feels off and there's no unseeing it#because so much of it is built around that misinterpretation#Also if you track the timeline it actually seems to me like Shadow became fond of Sonic first? Which isn't something most people consider
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It might seem strange, especially for those who only know Marshawn Lynch for his football career, to see the Super Bowl champ in a comedy about queer high school girls launching a fight club.
Bottoms (in theaters now) features the 37-year-old former NFL star in a scene-stealing role as Mr. G, a clueless teacher overseeing the feminist after-school club launched by Rachel Sennott’s PJ and Ayo Edebiri’s Josie. Even the film’s director and co-writer, Emma Seligman, admits she initially thought landing Lynch was a long shot.
“It was such a random movie for him to be in that I was so shocked that he even was considering it,” the Shiva Baby filmmaker (who goes by she/they pronouns) tells PEOPLE.
But the real reason for this unlikely casting is altogether more personal: Marshawn Lynch’s queer sister, Marreesha Sapp-Lynch, says he asked her whether to add Bottoms to a growing acting résumé that includes Westworld and Murderville.
“From the beginning when he read the script, he said that I came to mind,” recalls Sapp-Lynch, 34. “I was like, ‘Most definitely you should do it.’ I just told him, ‘It'll get you to understand, get more knowledge about the lesbian community.”
Like the characters of PJ and Josie, Sapp-Lynch has identified as a lesbian since high school. It felt easy coming out to her mother Delisa, she remembers — “She'll tell me to this day, 'I always knew you liked girls!'” — but brothers David, Marshawn and Davonte had a less straightforward reaction.
“They were understanding, but they didn't understand,” Sapp-Lynch tells PEOPLE. “Marshawn had a lot of questions and was thinking it was his fault: ‘What did I do?’ Because growing up he would always say I couldn't have a boyfriend, ‘You can't talk to boys.’ We’d go to a party and he'd be asking everybody, ‘Did you dance with my sister?’ But I wasn't attracted to boys, so I didn't dance with them!”
Her brother has accepted and celebrated her sexual orientation since those teenage years, Sapp-Lynch says. Case in point: Marshawn helped plan her 2021 wedding and walked her down the aisle.
“I asked him to walk me down the aisle because our dad passed away,” says Sapp-Lynch with a smile. “He cried the whole time,” she adds.
“He doesn’t cry — or I don't see him cry. The fact that he did cry and shed some tears, it meant a lot to me.” (Marshawn was so invested in his sister’s wedding, in fact, he urged the pair to reschedule it from 2023 to 2021. “He was very much involved in the whole planning... He called us at 5:00 a.m. talking about the cake designs and party favors.”)
But with Bottoms, a comedy produced by Amazon’s Orion Pictures and Elizabeth Banks’ Brownstone Productions, Marshawn had a bigger opportunity to honor his sister. Discussing the role of Mr. G with the footballer, Seligman, 28, remembers thinking there must have been “more of a connection here beyond him wanting to be in a funny movie or something.”
“In his words, he said he wasn't amazing about it when Marreesha came out in high school and that he felt like this was the universe giving him a chance to right his wrongs,” she adds. “He made it seem like that was really what was interesting him the most about it.”
Throughout the film’s shoot in New Orleans, Seligman says, “he kept on bringing up Marreesha.” Especially when Sapp-Lynch and her wife visited the set, she recalls, “He kept on being like, ‘That's my sister.’ In a way where it was like a proud parent [of queer kids] — a proud brother.”
And when Orion Pictures president Alana Mayo suggested Marshawn for Mr. G, Seligman says, she realized it might expand the moviegoing audience of Bottoms. “Him believing in these girls and getting to know them and getting to understand them means a lot in the grand scheme of things within the crazy conservative town that they're in.”
Plus, the story’s homophobic characters are obsessed with the high school football team, Seligman points out. “To have a legendary football player like him playing this character that's getting to know this subsection of this town, and see them as real people with valid desires and hormones and feelings — that's pretty cool that Marshawn is representing that kind of straight, male character.”
Sapp-Lynch agrees, and says seeing a movie full of gay characters like Bottoms while coming out in high school “would've helped me make me feel easier, make me feel better about me being who I am.”
“I didn't understand my sexuality in high school, so I actually think it might've freaked me out,” admits Seligman. “It would've excited me. Maybe it would've jumpstarted some things!”
Of co-writing the film with Sennott, she says, “I really just wanted to see my high school self in a stupid comedy.” She recalls a quote from Edebiri: “Being stupid is a political act.”
“Just having queer characters in something so silly and that's not serious feels subversive,” Seligman continues. “I don't think we're trying to prove anything political or have some sort of deeper message or meaning out of the movie. Other than ‘Gay people can be funny, sexy and horny, and that's normal.’ Sometimes just normalizing something is enough.”
“Marshawn in the movie,” she adds, “beyond him being a wonderful actor and improviser and a lovely human being, it is wild that it might be seen by so many more people who wouldn't have otherwise seen it.”
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Random OUAW Thoughts: Gid Edition
//So, I'm feeling sick (again) which usually leads me to ponder in some form or another. This time, I've been pondering Gideon.
//I'd really like, at some point in the campaign, for Gideon to meet one of probably many, MANY illegitimate children his lustful escapades have produced. For multiple reasons, of course.
//The first being that we've seen through his interactions with Twig and Hootsie that he's much fatherlier than an outward look might at first lead you to believe. When it comes to children, especially children he knows personally, he'll lose his shit at the prospect of them being hurt (see the whole 'Hootsie with a cabinet' bit for a fantastic demonstration of that)
//The second being that I think deep down, despite his impressions of being super confident, he believes that if he were to die, it wouldn't really affect much in the grand scheme of things. Sure, people would be sad - I'm sure he's aware that it'd be devastating at least on some level for Kremy. But I think he'd imagine the world moving right along after he died, his friends being sad for a while but eventually just finding another loyal strongman and proceeding with their lives unaltered. After all, his father was slaughtered and he was kidnapped, all without the general population giving the smallest fuck, at least as far as he knows. Him discovering one of his kids would give him a situation where he would 100% affect the outcome by being alive.
//Speaking of that kidnapping, onto the third point, and perhaps the most important of all. The most likely way for him to meet one of his children, since they're in the Feywild and the Feywild produces quite a lot of creatures that like abducting/eating children, is for said child to have been captured by one of said creatures - it could be the hags, but really any creature would work. The child would either have been captured under their mother's nose or, even worse, their mother could've been slaughtered after trying to protect them. Then, the child would be left in this hopeless position, not knowing how to escape, and knowing that even if they did escape, there'd be no one out there to give a shit; just like Gideon before them. Except in -this- scenario, there IS somebody that gives a shit and can do something to save them.
//So yeah, just a lot of reasons in general it'd be awesome. And if I recall correctly, they said they were nowhere near done with the campaign, like I think they said like 6% of what they wanted to do had been done so far lol. So it'd be cool. Though honestly just about anything they do I'm sure will be good, or at least they'll find something cool to do with a weird choice later, they'd awesome at both.
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Just to round things out... Fia!
YES the gang's all here now!!
favorite thing about them: Her scheming and careful manipulation!! So subtle apparently a decent chunk of fandom thinks youre crazy for seeing it lol Just she's so precise in how she goes about her plans. She tests the waters to find who she can trust, but even then makes sure she holds all the cards. The way she withholds info, and even outright lies to us("these grand affairs are hardly my forte..." sweetheart you are PLANNING A CORPSE UPRISING dont play with me!). I also really love thinking of how her and Rogier may share this similarity where they see themselves as objects to please others first and foremost, and that they're both entering their 'actually my needs matter too' era at the very last minute lol it's so tragic.
least favorite thing about them: that she had to kill darian TT_TT but it's fromsoft, and, to quote the lizard king himself, "No one here gets out alive".
favorite line: "I wished to be a mother to those Who Live in Death. So it is that any loathing, any hatred that overshadows them, I must bear with my own flesh, as a matter of duty." It says a lot about her own dedication to her cause, and her willingness to sacrifice for it. But it also makes me a bit sad in a way? The whole 'as a matter of duty' taken with her being born a Deathbed Companion speaks to this deep conditioning that she's been instilled with this idea that her own purpose is to always put others before herself. She gets to claw at her own wants a little here in reaching her goal of choosing her own noble to lay with, but she still operates within the framework of being born into and brought up to perform this duty that she never had a choice in accepting to begin with, from the sound of things.
brOTP: Fia/Rogier. And this is one of the few brOTPs where I mean brOTPs with benefits lmao I guess it's more like a secondary OTP?? I don't think either one loves the other, and I think their relationship is super fucking complicated, bordering on toxic and unhealthy. But it's endlessly fascinating and as I said up above, I think they share enough emotional issues that they might bond over that. Once they get past the whole 'holding everyone at arms' length' thing.
OTP: Fia/Godwyn. She got to make her own choice, and chose him. There's a kind of bittersweet nature to the pairing since, well, he's an undead freak of nature. But she still is so devoted to helping him and giving him 'a new life', and is willing to die for that.
nOTP: Her with the twins is a hard sell for me. Her with Rogier in a 'it's genuine true love' way usually falls pretty flat for me too.
random headcanon: Given how secretive Darian is about Devin's existence, and that Lionel may have been the one to take the dagger from Devin, and in doing so, sustaining mortal wounds, Fia might think Darian is the one who killed Lionel.
unpopular opinion: She's not a sweet, defenseless, helpless victim who is utterly incapable without our aid. She is manipulative and deceitful, driven and determined, and acknowledging her moral complexity is not a sign that someone must hate her. In fact, I think it's worse to DIMINISH that complexity in favor of a damsel/surrogate mommy stereotype.
song i associate with them: Devil's Resting Place by Laura Marling Fall Into Me by Alev Lenz Streets on Fire by Lupe Fiasco Deep Green by Marika Hackman (fia and rogier)
favorite picture of them:
Another zlofsky pic lol I like the framing and while I know it's just the mechanics of the game's idle animation, she looks so poised and composed even while casting a spell.
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just a random thought about my hunger games au but what are your opinions on gender-shifting jordan? it feels icky to me to completely remove it for the sake of male/female tributes because it’s important to me to not hide jordan’s bigender identity.
one thought i have… i wonder what it’s like for jordan to discover they’re bigender/non-binary as an amab individual? revealing their gender identity to marie in a heartbreaking scene because it feels like something so minuscule in the grand scheme of their lives. it’s a realistic approach to a non-super story.
or do i just say fuck it and gender shift jordan whenever i damn feel like it and it’s just something they can do. my only issue with this is that i get so anal about story telling and i need to know how this affects things… would it affect the reaping?
what are your thoughts? how would you like to see jordan represented in this au?
please help 😭
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I finished reading noragami, so some thoughts and ramblings, mostly abt stuff near the ending!
The manga was waaay better than I remember it being! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and may have actually binged the whole thing in like, four days oops. Yato is such a great character, Yukine is precious, and I feel like I'm liking Hiyori way more than I used to. Girl is basically a step away from becoming an ayakashi or straight up dead the entire series, but she's not letting that stop her AT ALL, while also keeping up with school well enough to become a doctor. I wish I could have attitude like that with my migraines asjdkflfk
I am surprised they were able to revive Hiyori. I had seen spoilers that Yato would make her his shinki, but I had managed to dodge the spoilers that she would just... go back to normal afterwards? A part of me kinda wishes she had remained a shinki, but that being said, I also cried my eyes out seeing the panels of everyone realizing they wouldn't be able to call her Hiyori anymore.
It's so painful T_T
Tho it's probably for the best that she was revived, because there's nooo way at least Yato or Kofuku wouldn't have called her Hiyori within 24 hours. I feel like she may have been able to survive learning her real name similar to Kazuma, since she was super loved both by her family and by the gods and shinki who knew her.
I feel like they could've explained why Yato survived a bit more nicely than just "oh he and his demon pals went viral on social media". I feel like they could've at least explained him surviving with him bringing Hiyori to the hospital and people seeing him save her or something. Or have Amaterasu do something instead of her just basically chilling in the background the whole time. In general I guess the ending felt a bit lackluster in terms of Yato's development, since he didn't seem to gain much status as a god at all despite everything he did, but eh. It was a nice ending in the grand scheme of things. And definitely emotional T_T
Kazuma and Yato fighting together was soooo cool! I'm glad Kazuma survived, tho a part of me would've also kinda loved if he didn't lol. It would've been so tragic, but I guess Bisha wouldn't have made it then either. I did cry a bunch when it was kinda implied that Kazuma was dying.
I ALSO cried when they revealed that Yato and ayakashi!Yukine first fought at the exact place where Yato had buried Yukine's real body asdkfjghfdgkld. It was so painful. I love how they did it, because it was so clear during the fight that the place was somehow significant, but at least I would've never guessed WHY it actually was so important to Yato. AND then that followed up with the fact that spirit!Yukine was hanging out near the mail box at the start of the series because he wanted to send that last letter to his sister?????
My poor heart asdkgjhdlkfgjd. The way Yukine's/Haruki's backstory was portrayed through the last parts of the manga was so great and SO painful.
I'mma end this with a couple random panels that really struck me with so much emotion while I was reading through the manga.
#now do i risk this good feeling i have by rewatching the anime hmmmm#i can't remember how bad the changes they made to the story are#but at the same time i kinda wanna see the characters animated again#noragami#posting#if you saw me accidentally post my draft of this post last night#no you didn't lmao#em devours media
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"Operation 'Get Riley to Sleep' = Complete Failure 😤"
Beckett: Okay, seriously, we’ve tried EVERYTHING. Gentle reminders, bedtime routines, relaxation exercises... nothing works! Riley just won’t go to sleep on time, and I am spiraling over this.
Lev: Honestly, we’re all worried. Sleep is super important, and you deserve rest, Riley! But somehow every night turns into, “Just one more episode” or “Let me finish this level.” 😩
Flint: This level of sleep deprivation is not sustainable. Sleep hygiene is essential, yet here we are—past midnight AGAIN, with you scrolling on your phone. We’ve discussed strategies. We’ve created schedules. None of it sticks.
Reese: And like, I totally get it—who wants to sleep when there are stories to write, shows to watch, and random ideas popping up at 2 AM? But still... even I think we need to chill at some point, dude. Your brain can’t art if it’s sleep-deprived.
Beckett: Exactly! And I mean—what if something bad happens because we’re too exhausted to deal with it? Like, what if we miss an appointment or forget something important? Like today, when Riley forgot to take Laddie out this morning to relieve himself and the dog sprinted to the door so fast he almost crashed? Yeah- not good.
Pride: Pfft. Honestly? At this point, it feels like Riley is deliberately testing how long they can function without proper rest. “Will it be catastrophic today? Let’s find out.” 🙄 We can’t function at our best if you keep burning out like this, Riley. You’ve got things to achieve, goals to crush, dreams to chase. But that all requires energy—and that means SLEEP. Rest isn’t weakness. It’s strategy.
Beckett: Exactly! I mean, what’s the point of trying to stay ahead of every possible danger if we’re all exhausted while doing it? 😵
Lev: We care about you, Riley. We want you to feel good, and that starts with rest. So PLEASE—tonight, let’s try getting to bed on time? For us? For Laddie? 🥺
Reese: Ooh, I’ve got it! If you go to bed by 11, I’ll draw you a custom doodle of whatever dream you have. Deal? Deal.
Flint: We’ve optimized every other part of the schedule. This is the last hurdle. Please cooperate.
Pride: Or not. At this point, what’s one more late night in the grand scheme of bad decisions?
Beckett: Why not send us some asks to keep us busy? We’ll still be here at 3 AM... if that’s how this goes. Just saying. …OH MY GOD, PLEASE JUST GO TO SLEEP!
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Gender is weird because everyone experienced it differently like I can definitely simplify my gender experience to “sometimes I’m more masculine but sometimes my gender is null” or, even further simplified is “I’m a guy” but really I experience gender on. A very weird scale. My gender fluctuates depending on random vibes I feel throughout the day. Sometimes when I’m super neutral I can really only fully describe it as how you experience the world stargazing in the fall, laying on dead leaves and just. Looking at the sky and knowing that it’s all so expansive and knowing that in the grand scheme of things, your identity doesn’t really affect the universe. It just is. But sometimes it’s like the feeling when you’re a kid and at your best friends house late at night and playing Minecraft with them and it just feels like everything is how it should be. But then when I’m feeling more masculine I can describe my full gender as the vibes that objects give off, like cool knives or soft blankets. Idk though that might just be me
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I want to talk about that one line that Godot says in Bridge to the Turnabout. Everyone knows which line I'm talking about, the "proof" that Godot is a sexist and a mysogenist and a terrible person.
Yes, what he said wasn't great. It's been debated that it was a translation error, or it was just him hating Franziska specifically, and not all women, I've seen these points made so many times, but I feel like we're missing the most obvious point. Even if Godot was fully in the wrong and he said something bad, context is important. We should for once see it from his perspective.
Godot has been trapped on that side of the bridge for at least a day, in near fatally cold conditions, trying to look after a child who isn't his. Just a few hours earlier he went through the trauma that was not only taking a life, but the life of his dead girlfriend's mother. And you can argue that that was his decision and a bad decision (and it was) but it's not a decision he ever wanted to make or wanted to have to make. He did what he could in that moment with that adrenaline to protect someone he cared about, and now he's feeling all of that without the ability to even talk to anyone about it. Couple that with the fact that he's injured, he got cut in the face, while probably still really hurts at the time he's talking to Phoenix and Franziska, and not to mention he doesn't know where Maya is. He risked all of this to save someone and he doesn't even know if it worked or was for the best.
Shortly after his lash out at Franziska, he starts ranting at Phoenix about Mia. Possibly because he's trying to project or distract himself from his guilt (which isn't great, but a normal thing for a human to do), but it could also be because his emotions are in such overdrive that he's thinking about everything bad that happened to him at once. Not only does he feel terrible about Misty and Maya, but it reminds him of how much he's still hurting from losing Mia.
Now put yourself in Godot's shoes. You've had a traumatic event happen to you not one day ago and are going through emotional and physical turmoil, and some random loud child (because she's the same age as Maya, he definitely sees Franziska as a child) starts yelling at you for something that in the grand scheme of everything doesn't matter. How would you react? Would you be super kind and understanding? No. You'd probably snap. And that's what Godot does.
This doesn't necessarily forgive him for the comment, and Franziska's initial feelings upon hearing it would be valid. But we can't treat this as a random isolated incident. Even Phoenix says that Godot seems really different. I quote: "There's something different about Godot today... I'm getting such a strong sense of... something from behind that mask of his. Is it anger? Or... Is it... sorrow?". Godot is upset and has no way of letting off steam without hurting anyone.
This was just a speculation that hit me, because I feel like we do it in real life a lot. It's easy to judge someone based on a comment or an action without looking into why they did it, but we have to try to work past that if we're to ever understand and connect with people.
#ace attorney#ace attorney godot#prosecutor godot#aa3 spoilers#aa3#trials and tribulations spoilers#Ace attorney essay#Ace attorney rant#Idk how to tag this lol#tw murder mention
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He's not going to stay single just because a bunch of strangers can't stand the idea that he's not there sleeping with them. 🥰//
I think if more people adopted the 'don't hate, congratulate' mindset, they'd be better off in the long run.
Look, I get it. People are jealous of AW. Sebastian Stan is an astonishingly beautiful man and by all accounts a really sweet, exceedingly talented person, and being jealous of the woman lucky enough to take him home is natural.
But here's the thing...there's no way he could ever be with everyone who wants him, even if he wanted to. The chances of any random fan ending up with him were always infinitesimal. Him being with AW, possibly for good, didn't change that. In the grand scheme of things, none of our lives have actually been affected. The odds are exactly the same as they were before. Let that sink in.
So sure... you may feel a little jealous or lonely, but accepting that he was never going to be with you, as harsh as it sounds, is the healthiest way to let go of all this. Annabelle didn't take your man. He was never yours to begin with. Slandering her isn't going to make it better, and it changes nothing. She's hugged up somewhere with Seb right now.
The only result of fans trashing this man's girlfriends has been his departure from social media. Yeah, there may have been other factors, but if you think he didn't see the insanity toward Ale and decided he wasn't going to allow that bullshit with Annabelle, y'all better wake up.
Being this emotionally invested in any celebrity's love life is super unhealthy. No amount of pretending your issue is you 'just want him to be with the right person' is going to help. Stop fooling yourselves.
Nobody knows the future. They may last, they may not. The important thing to remember is that neither outcome impacts our lives. Not in the slightest. If they do stand the test of time...don't hate, congratulate, and move on with your life. The sun will still come up tomorrow.
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hello, I've decided to do a thing that no one asked for, solely for myself. and that is heavily over-analyzing random bullshit about myself. starting with
over-analyzing the fuck out of my gender
get ready for so much useless information about the inner-workings of how I identify... longish post.
I think a lot (if not most) nonbinary/genderqueer people have a simplified gender that they publicly identify as and a different, more complex gender that they identify as internally or in queer-specific spaces.
I'm pretty open in general about being genderqueer. I don't really identify as nonbinary, it isn't my preferred term for what I am, but since I understand that it's a more common term that most people outside of queer spaces know at least at a surface level I'll use it sometimes. I don't usually get any deeper than that. I'll tolerate she/her pronouns (I'm afab and generally feminine, and I'm incredibly aware of that), if asked for my pronouns (rare, I'm very feminine presenting) then I'll say "I'm cool with anything, slight preference on they/them" because that's a lie, but it's simple and I don't care quite enough to fight anyone on it. I was out as he/him transmasc for a little while before it got to be not worth it to explain presentation =/= gender or trying to look uncomfortably masc in order to be taken seriously, so there are still people that use he/him pronouns for me irl which is nice, but I don't get *enough* dysphoria from being misgendered to try to get others to use them.
But I do have some specific shit for my gender, also. I've been studying the hell out of this shit for maybe 10 years. I'm autistic as fuck, I like researching and labeling and categorizing things, so I put a lot of thought and reflection into my gender and I really have no place to share it because no one really cares to have me deep-dive into the details for them.
First and foremost, I'm cassgender. In case you don't know what that is, it's when someone feels indifferent to their gender or generally feels it's unimportant. Different from something like agender because cassgender people still can *have* other gender identities, it isn't lack of gender identity, it's just that there isn't a super strong connection to it.
To me, I don't care if I'm misgendered really at all. I do have a preference on how I'm referred to, I do have a gender, but I also don't really think it matters in the grand scheme of things. If it's more convenient to me, I have zero issues pretending to be a cis woman. Am I? No. But I don't think much would really be different if I was, so I don't see why it really matters. I personally use almost all "gendered" words in a gender-neutral way (unless someone tells me they're uncomfy with it, where I still see the words themselves as gn but respect people enough not to use it for them), I understand gendered connotations but genuinely fail to see how they matter. Again, full respect that they matter to most people, but I personally don't see it so I won't act like I do.
Even when I did care more about my gender identity and being out publicly, it wasn't because of strong attachment to my gender. It was more of a sense of "I researched for so many hours finding the right labels, I'm going to use them openly dammit!!"
I'm also a transmasc femboy. I use he/him pronouns for myself and generally prefer those (though, again, I'm cool with any), but I'll use almost any gendered terms for myself interchangeably/by situation. For example, I tend to prefer feminine familial terms (I'm my cats' momma, I'd be an aunt if my brother had kids in the future, etc.) while I usually opt for more masculine basic terms (man rather than woman, masc pronouns, boyfriend if I'm in a relationship, etc.) and alternating on terms of endearment or authority (god/goddess, sir/ma'am, daddy/mommy, prince/princess, king/queen, etc.). If it's in lighthearted/meme terms, anything flies (girlie, "I'm just a girl," feminine urge, "girls don't want men, they want--" etc. isn't misgendering because it's silly and fun).
I'm afab, feminine as hell, and not really looking to transition medically at all, so I don't at all mind feminine shit because, uh, obviously. I wear dresses and eyeliner sometimes and have long hair and a petite, slight hourglass body and all that shit. My regular outfit is leggings and a crop top, it's a very titties out look tbh. I don't bind (use to, might start experimenting with it again when it gets colder but I can't with the tops I like for warm weather and I don't like using tape) or anything. If I could magically look more physically androgynous in the ways that I want, that'd be sick as hell, but I can't so I don't mind my body that much. I was on t for maybe 3-4 months and I got some minimal bottom growth and slight voice changing, but I was getting too many changes that I didn't really fuck with for my preferred brand of androgyny and a lot of things I wanted t didn't help, so I stopped. Like, if I could get free and easy top surgery or a reduction and somehow grow 4-6 inches in height that would be splendid, but one of those is too expensive to justify how mild my discomfort is and the other is literally impossible so I can live with what I have.
I also really think drag would be cool as hell for gender reasons, but unfortunately I'm something of a broke bitch and even being thrifty with it is out of my budget at the moment. Which is fine, I keep it on a back burner in case I have money to invest into a new thing that I might get burnt out on before it's even worth what I spent. I'm just not touching that when I'm struggling to do anything beyond pay rent and feed my cats. But it's certainly a gender thing that I put a lot of thought into.
I don't know. Again, I'm cassgender so I don't really care heavily about any of this, I'm just an overthinker so I know it because of that. It was just information sitting in my brain that I didn't know what to do with, so I'm dumping it here. I mostly want to deep-dive into my sexuality and romantic orientation, I just had to post this first because it is really connected to gender things. I have an essay-worth to say on my sexuality because I actually care a lot about that shit and I'm just at the end (I believe?) of still figuring it out, while I was pretty sure on my gender for a while and just had to settle on accurate labels for it mostly.
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Thoughts on Halloween
Yeah I know its a little late but I was busy. Anyway enjoy the bots reactions to Halloween.
Decepticons
Halloween on the nemesis is an interesting affair. No bot can pinpoint who first introduced the concept to the crew (except Soundwave of course) but it has since been put into practice every year due to the morale boost it brings.
Megatron refuses to have anything to do with the ridiculous human holiday and stays locked up in his berthroom throughout Halloween. He would have preferred the holiday had never taken root among his crew but there is little he can do about it since it has become so strongly integrated into the lives of his crew during his absence. As such the few Vehicons brave enough to attempt to trick or treat at his quarters are met with a murderous glare before being handed a random miscellaneous item.
The quality of item differs wildly between recipients. One Vehicon can get a pile of old scrap metal and another can find himself with some priceless item from pre-war Cybertron. Hence the incentive to attempt trick or treating at Megatron's quarters.
As for Soundwave and Shockwave, neither leave their respective posts and often work straight through the holiday. However as both recondnise the benefit of the holiday they leave out bowls of treats or random trinkets for trick or treating Vehicons. Occasionally though, Soundwave will dress up his cats in little costumes and give them treats. It is the closest he gets to celebrating to human holiday.
On the other hand Knockout and Breakdown are always super into Halloween. They go all out, decorating the entirety of the lower decks, preparing goodies, dressing up, and having a grand time giving out treats. Knockout tends to dress up as the most flamboyant thing imaginable, often leading him to only change his color scheme or add a hat or something (after all what could possibly be more marvelous than himself?).
As for Breakdown, he is very consistent in continually dressing up as a cowboy every. single. year. It drives Knockout up the wall since he has prepared numerous other costumes for his friend. But Breakdown always has the best time swinging around his rope and tipping his hat at others on the nemesis so Knockout lets it slide.
Starscream also dresses up and participates with a bit of prodding from Knockout, however due to his wings he usually dresses up as a ghost since its easily modified to suit his frame type. He will die before admitting it but he really really likes trick or treating. He always has a ton of fun darting from door to door collecting goodies, and he especially loves emptying Soundwave and Shockwave's bowls into his bag.
And of course the Vehicons take every opportunity to party, get completely sloshed, and consume copious amounts of energon goodies. They also all go to great lengths to dress up, even betting on costumes to see whose is the best.
Autobots
The kids introduced the holiday and it was accepted over night. The bots have no particular attachment to Halloween but the kids love it and the younger bots (Bumblebee and Smokescreen) don't get many chances to act their age. As such all the Autobots have taken to celebrating alongside the human children in stride.
Optimus is a little stiff when it comes to anything not relating to his primely duties, but as a mech who attended to and dealt with every conceivable ceremony on Cybertron, he knows how to get into the spirit of things. He has a singular costume and sticks to what he learned about Halloween like it is gospel.
He has memorized every form of dialogue commonly used on Halloween, and through thorough research has come up with the 'ideal' way to approach the holiday. On Halloween night once the children arrive at base to do a little trick or treating, Optimus will go to his berthroom and apply some basic paint to look like a Cybertronian zombie. Then he will wait patiently until the children come to his door and offer them little trinkets that he makes in advance.
Ratchet is not fond of celebrating human holidays and would much prefer to celebrate Cybertronian ones, but he goes along with Halloween anyway. Despite his reservations he is very devoted to making his costume when Halloween rolls round. He spends days preparing intricate costumes to wear and will carefully go out of his way to produce human confections. When the children come to trick or treat at his door, he always has thematic lights a smoke machine running in the background somewhere. And always makes a dramatic appearance before shoving a wrench and a treat into the children's buckets.
Ratchet will never admit it, but he finds it fun to attempt to scare the children with his hyper realistic costumes.
Bulkhead and Arcee are rather neutral on the topic of Halloween and don't really bother dressing up much. Bulkhead might put on something simple like a hat, or perhaps throw a sheet over his head and call himself a ghost. Arcee also might try to put on some basic face paint or maybe a witch hat, but she refuses to do anything more. Both spend most of Halloween following the children around to keep them from getting into trouble. However they do enjoy watching a Halloween themed film with the children after all the trick or treating is done.
Wheeljack LOVES Halloween. He thinks its the best. Free goodies and the chance to scare and or inconvenience people? That is right up his alley. He goes all out on Halloween, dressing up as a pirate or a mad scientist more often than not. He does not give out candy, instead he loves to give the children his unique gadgets, often a concealed weapon or explosive. His favorite little give away items thus far have been his confetti grenades. It brought him no end of amusement to watch poor Jack set his off by accident and end up covered in streamers and glitter.
Jack has avoided trick or treating at his station since.
Then there is Ultra Magnus. He doesn't participate beyond operating the games and setting up the decorations for Halloween. He doesn't give out and treats and instead gives the children toothbrushes, toothpaste, and some vegetables. He wants them to be healthy and strongly believes that the kiddos do not need any more candy than they are already receiving. Thankfully the children accept his offerings kindly and only throw them out after they go home for the evening.
Lastly there are Bumblebee and Smokescreen who are as enthusiastic about Halloween as the children and love to both give out goodies and then collect some of their own from the bots around base. Smokescreen is particularly fond of the after party where he tries to and generally fails to dance with any degree of grace. He has fun all the same though, often getting Bumblebee involved in his shenanigans. As for Bumblebee, he is mainly concerned with getting a bigger pile of goodies than Smokescreen, and as such goes to great lengths to get a little something extra to boost his goodie count.
#happy halloween#yeah i know im a bit late to the party#but whatever take this offering#tfp#transformers prime#decepticons#autobots#transformers shenanigans
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Probably unpopular opinion about the PJO show
But I didn’t really like it, and I don’t plan on watching the second season when it comes out
If you like the show, fine. Great even! Like what you like, but to me it was okay at best. Maybe I’m just being a “book purist” but I didn’t really like a ton of the changes in the show to the books.
Like, minor detail that I feel like everyone forgets: Mrs. Dodds wasn’t a substitute teacher, she was an actual teacher at the school (Percy says he remembers that there was a math teacher before Mrs. Dodds, but not for very long) doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, but that’s one that I wanted to point out even if I don’t have any real problem with it
Crucify me if you want but I had no idea what was going on with Medusa and I’ve grown to dislike her characterization (it’s actually a pretty recent thing that Athena blessed her, but even then Medusa hated Athena?? Also the version where she was r*ped was written by a man who has had a track record of portraying the (especially) female gods in a bad light. Please Rick, just go back to the original version, it’s so much less confusing)
It felt like Annabeth lost her love of architecture, yes I know she had that scene where she was rambling about the Arc, but to me it felt more like she was praising her mom which is why she liked it so much, I don’t think Grover even said anything like, “sorry about her, she’s super into architecture”. I feel like such a big part of her was slipped under the rug. And the thing at Hephaestus’s water park where Percy was trapped in the door felt less like she liked the architecture and more like she liked the machinery. Not to say she couldn’t like both, but I just don’t like it
And don’t even get me started on episode 7
I could very easily go on, but I don’t feel like it
Not to say I don’t like the actors or their performances! I just don’t like the directions and scripts given to the actors
I wanted an adaptation to my favorite book series, not a rewrite
Example: I love the musical adaptation of PJO, but it has changes and cut scenes, but I don’t mind because again, it’s an actual adaptation of the series!
And again, if you like the show, feel free to! I’m just a random person on the internet who feels like sharing their opinion.
(Also, side note, I recommend The Mythology Guy’s videos on the PJO series for a more critical view on the show. I don’t agree with everything he says and have some of my own opinions on things, but I agree with a lot of his views on things! I recommend them a lot)
So yeah, with the fact that we’re going to be getting a new character in the second season, I’m most likely not going to watch it (at least, by myself. Me and my mom watched the first season together, so if she wants to watch it together again then I will probably watch it. Probably won’t like it very much though 🤷♀️)
Anyway, like what you like and remember to boycott Disney
#all of this can kinda just be summed up as:#I wanted an adaptation and not a rewrite and I don’t like a lot of the changes#but yeah#pjo series#pjo show#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo season 2#pjo show critical
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Are you an asshole or just a jerk to Straitfox? He barely knows you.
buddy.
these words, this sentence, that which i am typing to you, right now, is the first and only time i have ever said words to you. so it's really REALLY weird to me just how personally you're taking all of this.
first off, you ain't slick. at least change how your sentence ends if you're going to pretend to be somebody else.
you know, i had you blocked on social media, but it was such a long while ago that the reason initially escaped me. but when you made the above comment on an FA upload, i thought that was just a super weird thing to do, so i went looking into the matter, and as it turns out, you in particular seem to follow, like, retweet, and interact with a lot of people and content that runs counter to my own morals and ideals. quite aggressively so, even! clearly, your posts and/or content came across my feed at some point, and i simply did not care to see it, so i took action for my own sake and got ahead of things by placing a block.
quite a normal thing to do on social media, by the way, you should try it sometime.
except, you did, apparently, which makes this whole thing even weirder considering you're going out of your way to try to mess with me for some reason??
my personal rule is to curate my experience for my own needs, and that includes blocking people that i don't wanna see or interact with, especially if i already know it wouldn't go anywhere. that's called setting healthy boundaries, pardner.
but lo and behold - you pop up on my FA page, complimenting my art, while drawing attention to the fact that i'd blocked you before. so, after i did my research into the issue, i felt it necessary to take even further action to cement my boundaries in all of my respective spaces (because, somehow, i had a feeling you would try to get around it again. funny!) your pride seemingly couldn't handle that, so now you're reaching out to me via an Anonymous message on my barely-used decrepit art tumblr because you can't get to me any other way. all because of the fact that I, some random dude on the internet, who does not matter in the SLIGHTEST in the grand scheme of things, never said a solitary word to you before blocking you ONCE.
listen. this thing you're doing? weird and creepy. not just once, but twice, even??? frankly, ignoring my boundaries and doing whatever all of this is, is actual asshole behavior, brother. it ain't the guy curating his spaces and trying to just move on with his life, that's for sure.
just be an adult and stay in your corner, man. this ain't worth it. -I- ain't worth it. you're supposed to know better, anyway, you're OLDER than I am. you've had more time to learn these kinds of lessons than I have, so like. use 'em. please.
just leave the issue alone. what's it to you, anyway? you barely know me.
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