#legitimately tho

[scripted-downfall]

Anthony from Sweeney Todd, Marius from Les Miserables, and Albert from The Count of Monte Cristo are different characters in the same font, and that font is Brush Script (derogatory).

[minaturefics]

[slinks into room with baked goods]

“….would…would you by chance…have any plans to make more Eomer stories?”

[Offers you food] 🫣

"Perhaps... If one has... prompts to suggest....."

[Swipes a cookie and scuttles back into my hovel]

[ghostofchaos-past]

i love that when ao3 is down and the first thing i do is flock to the ao3 tag, all i see are a shit ton of posts from 42 seconds ago being like "what???? no????"

[anotherpapercut]

the abolitionism leaving my body when I think about trump dying in federal prison

[cringefailroboguy]

It sickens me how you people silence us abuse victims with the whole "Ohhhh using narcissistic abuse is an ableist term", you don't realize that you're silencing us. You will never even BEGIN to understand the abuse and pain we all went through, all you care about is your political correctness and "ableism". You will never understand the pain of me being abused by my narcissistic mom, narcissistic dad, narcissistic sister, narcissistic brother, narcissistic grandma, narcissistic dog, narcissistic cats, narcissistic postman, narcissistic Silent Billy who lives in an apartment two blocks from me, narcissistic pigeons, narcissistic mosquitoes, narcissistic wasps, narcissistic houseplants, narcissistic construction site, narcissistic pavement, narcissistic clouds, narcissti

[novaricewrites]

What if: Rhysand isn't as powerful as he believes or made others believe.

The other High Lords just have enough sense and diplomatic restraint to not break rules and use their powers against each other in meetings. So he takes it as a sign of submission while actually just being politically inept.

(A headcanon if this series' characters were written with an ounce of logic & integrity)

[pwurrz]

“why is childe always associated with liyue” because that’s where his husband lives <3

[venti-death-watch]

my current favorite thing to think about is lyney thinking he knows freminet better than vice versa but freminet knowing that he knows lyney better than lyney knows him

[turtleblogatlast]

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.

[ferretwhomst]

shakes them around in my hand and THROWS them

[betasuppe]

Feels like coming home!!!♡

[crush-hour]

real hot guy shit

[ineed-to-sleep]

he's just a silly little guy

[milogoestogreendale]

i love them sm crying rn

[citree]

Could you draw five having a siamese (I just see him with a Siamese cat-)

Totally :D

Here’s five and the cat he Didn’t Want (but the cat he ended up with anyway🤭)

[floridagirlboy]

cali has incredible bisexual swagger to me