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turtleblogatlast · 6 months

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No but like every time I think about Splinter and what he had to go through just to keep the boys alive, my heart hurts for him so badly. Is he perfect? No not at all, but none of them are and by god does he love his sons.

The fact that all of them are alive, and grew to thrive despite the circumstances surrounding them is a testament of how much Splinter loves his boys. He raised four babies following the most traumatic time of his life, all alone with nothing but the sewers to house them (to hide them.) I feel like he’s not given the credit he deserves for all he’s done.

And I get that it’s easy to hold up his flaws and faults when it comes to parenting, I myself like looking into them because flawed characters are super interesting and said flaws make them more realistic and engaging, but he tries, and again, so many others would have given up on the boys or failed along the way but Splinter didn’t.

He’s their father, for all his faults he did his damndest to make sure they survived.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt splinter #rise splinter #he’s not perfect as I’ve said #and he’s got a whole slew of flaws and faults #but he’s a person - we are all flawed #he loves his sons dearly dearly dearly even if he struggles along the way to show that #parenting is not easy! especially as a traumatized mutant who is forced to do it alone #side note but I think this is one of the reasons why it kiiiiiinda ruffles my feathers to see so many people assign parentification to Raph #and in turn make Splinter out to be way worse and way more distant than he is in canon?#like idk I just don’t see what so many others see ig but maybe that’s just me #i guess my thoughts are like- let parents have flaws without villainizing them?#they’re still parents even if they mess up?#we can discuss the repercussions of a parents actions on a child while not casting that parent as an awful person #parents are peopleeee #I could go on but yeahhh #idk it bothers me seeing splinter’s efforts undermined when he’s been through so much #idk if ppl realized this by now but I love me some flawed characters #tho I do think in this fandom the ones whose faults are discussed the most are like #Splinter mostly then Draxum then Leo #of the main cast #and in Splinters case in particular his faults are made to cover his good qualities which makes me sad #because he is SO INTERESTING #they’re all flawed characters and tbh so interesting because their flaws are ALSO their strengths in many aspects

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imaybe5tupid · 4 months

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Why bother? (Why bother?) It's gonna hurt me. (It's gonna hurt me.) It's gonna kill when- (Why bother!) -You desert me! (Gonna hurt me!)

Set after Nightmare. Laios is reminiscing and contemplating.

#laishuro #laios touden #i make a lot of jokes on here since part of the fun of this blog for me is limiting myself to only expressing ideas via drawings #as much as I can to try to see what I can try to convey in the limited time I have to draw each day which is sometimes like 15minutes #but laios idea of who shuro was to him and who he continues to be and how it ties into his own feelings of self worth and self hatred #not to mention being so thoroughly defined by having never been indulged before by the men in his life #are so compelling to me #and then of course you mix in toshiros own mind prisons #and their established dynamic of him begrudgingly putting up with him because he feels he has to and bc hes cursed with obedience #whilst laios genuinely thinks shuro does it because he likes it and likes laios because why else would anyone act like that #when everyone else in his life has not hesitated to Let Him Know #this is what is so fun about relationships like this…forever passing by each other’s true feelings like ships in the night #sometimes i get embarassed how deep i get for some of the characters in this series it really is that deep sometimes but not always #but WHATEVER #i never even engaged in or was interested in shipping the several years i read dunmeshi EXCEPT laishuro lol #which i sadistically wanted to stay one sided and miserable forever. I rarely get fed such genuinely fraught dynamics as their one in manga #so i became obsessed #and walked through the desert alone for 40 years and then checked in as anime started airing that other people ship this and gaf #and decided to unleash the jokes and ideas that my like 2 friend who like anime previously suffered alone as though they were jesus christ #now tho as much as I still enjoy tragedy and pain and emotional suffering I’ve let love and peace and requited fulfilled yaoi into my life #with laishuro. and its great!#my comics

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cinnamontoads · 26 days

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can the hulu era futurama writers please for the love of god understand that not every episode needs to be an ensemble piece

#something that's bugged me about a lot of these episodes is the fact that they seem to shoehorn in as many characters as possible into #any given plot #yknow back in MY day most episodes would be about fry/leela/bender #with like an occasional hermes or amy or zoidberg thrown in #but most of the time everyone else was back at the office MINDING THEIR OWN DAMN BUSINESS while the other three delivered #im just saying it doesnt. leave room for very interesting b and c plots when everyone is doing everything together #let alone any room for actual character development on an individual level #main characters are main characters for a reason! side characters are side characters for a reason! both have merit and can be utilized in #different ways!!!!

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gameofthronedd · 2 years

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In love with the way the Green actors talk about their characters and give so much depth to them. Honestly get them in the writer's room fr the canon they have in their heads deserves to be heard.

#game of thrones #house of the dragon #hotd #hotd thoughts #team green #alicent hightower #aemond targaryen #aegon ii targaryen #tom glynn carney #olivia cooke #ewan mitchell #emily carey #coming up with silly lil headcanons whilst also battling the hate & defending their characters like slay the house down fr #let them SPEAK istg #also leave the actors alone weird antis <3 #no shade at emma or matt or team black actors i just haven't seen as many interviews w them so idk lmao #i mean some things the actors for hotd have said have been weird here and there (from both 'sides') but overall i can vibe w their ideas #i just love the insight into their characters esp for the complicated characters

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bigskydreaming · 2 months

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The thing that kills me about the Star Wars prequel trilogy and why I will die on my hill that my problem is not that Star Wars is a tragedy, its that its a badly written tragedy, is that Anakin Skywalker was at his closest to being a good Jedi when he was ten years old.

#im not an anakin apologist by any means because I get the point of his character and Im not pro or anti jedi #my only real opinion on all of it is similar to what I was saying about Peter and Tony and the MCU yesterday #its badly written. its EVERYONE being contorted into shapes that dont make a ton of sense in service to #getting characters to where they need to end up for certain things to occur #my opinion is not that Anakin is inherently bad or good or that the Jedi are inherently bad or good #its that their entire conflict was set in motion by forcing the Jedi to act in ways that felt massively OOC when they were #first interviewing him as a kid and like.....I ACCEPT that the Jedi are supposed to be for the most part kindhearted and empathetic and all #of that which is why its so noteworthy in my opinion that this does not match with how they were FORCIBLY portrayed in those early movies #in order to ENGINEER the idea that this kid in desperate need of support but already with a lot of good instincts and positive traits #came to the order of kindly supportive literal empaths and everything went downhill from there #like kindly supportive literal empaths would not in my opinion look at a kid trying his best to be brave & stoic in completely intimidating #circumstances and surroundings and be judgmental and fairly dismissive about it as though theyve never met a kid before let alone a #traumatized one and the fact that thats kinda what happened is in contrast to how a lot of pro anakin people frame that NOT proof #that the Jedi order are inherently bad its that in that key scene and multiple others #the Jedi order were BADLY WRITTEN in pursuit of one pre-determined outcome that mattered more to the script/Lucas than #being true to their core conceit and characterizations. and thats just one example out of dozens I could list and the same holds true for #anakin's side of things so thats why I always steer far away from SW discourse #because Im like the problem with the characters in terms of the most iconic arc is not really any of the characters so much #as the plots refusal to let them actually consistently BE characters rather than just fixed and contrived stepping stones on the way to #the desired endpoint

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scatterpatter · 4 months

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What if I presented a whole complicated Megaman Classic AU except I didn't give a SHRED of context

Haha, just kidding!

... Unless?

No these aren't being presented in the order they were drawn in but they ARE presented in AU-timeline chronological order so like im at least a LITTLE kind with throwing these all at youse

#my art #doodles #god do i tag this as anything fandom related...#ill tag the fandom but not the characters thats IT #megaman classic #decopunk au #okay ill give a SHRED of context. its an au Shrike and I came up with and are obsessed with.#Like. Imagine FF7 and MTG's Streets of New Capenna were thrown into a blender. with a side of Guy Who Didnt Like Musicals.#And then make robot masters the main protags. thats this au in a nutshell.#lets seeee the metal+cut angst was drawn last night- the metal/wood/cut family stuff was drawn this afternoon...#... and everything else was doodled tonight XD #listen im obsessed with QPR WoodCut and even though Im in QuickCut hell I still love me some MetalCut #BUT for this AU alone im shipping Wood and Metal and they're Cutman's terrorist gay dads uwu #oh yeah and the last 2 images go together! id put them next to each other but then the previews crop weird #And 2 and 3 go together as well #also another thing about this AU is its PEAK 'Everyone Sucks Here' vibes #fire tw

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mockingmolly · 2 years

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I think it’s really funny that not only was Matt actually looking forward to BH meeting VM, but that one of his biggest hesitances regarding the timing of which they finally did meet keyleth, was in wanting to make sure they couldn’t find a way to make her their personal taxi like they did essek

like, just knowing how cordoned off PC crossovers were in c2 (to the extent that would couldn’t even get council names out of anyone they met) and as someone who was convinced that vm was gonna be off-limits in regards to their current situation, I think it’s SO funny that Matt basically went “ok you guys can have keyleth for the attempted rez of laudna but dear god you CANNOT make her your new essek”

#Critical role #bells hells #cr spoilers #4 sided dive #4sd #keyleth of the air ashari #I feel like I’ve been super quiet on here that last few weeks bc personal stuff but im making it known that I am DELIGHTED by these #turn of events sdfhj #I was so fucking convinced that vm wouldn’t be an option and that they’d need to be really clever with their wording to get keyleths #attention. let alone help!#I’ve been dying to see VM again. dying to know laudna even has a path forward. and now she does! and I was wrong!#very happy that I was wrong!#also everything abt Marisha not committing to a new character until she knows for sure abt laudna’s fate. AND her considering the trauma of #waking up in whitestone. AND wanting to give a bit of a Came Back Wrong twist if the Rez *does* work #god I am SO intrigued abt it 👀👀#gonna be juicy stuff

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rahabs · 9 months

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The Tudors ran so Wulf Hall could shuffle awkwardly around reiterating the same tired old Tudor stereotypes while claiming to be something new.

#It's so funny but as a historian I will genuinely defend 'The Tudors' to the death even with all its problems #Because it did was so few other Tudor shows/movies/media have ever done #And that is: it focused on things BEYOND just Henry and his wives.#Yes Henry was the focal point which makes SENSE but that's just it:#HENRY was the focal point. Most other Tudor media pieces have one of the wives (usually Catherine/Anne) as the focus and doesn't delve muc #Into the history or what was happening in England beyond the King's Great Matter.#The Tudors went ALL out. Yes they didn't get everything right but the fact that they tried and spotlighted so many other #Historical characters and events? The Pilgrimage of Grace? Actually LOOKING at the religious issues even if they weren't always accurate?#(Like with Aske for example. BUT AT LEAST THEY INCLUDED ROBERT ASKE like good lord it's like other Tudor media forgets everything else)#Focusing on Cromwell but also the Seymour brothers? The politics behind Henry? Even Brandon as annoying as his storylines could get.#Even smaller characters like Tallis and Gardiner and other Reformation and Counter-Reformation figures.#The fact that they featured the Reformation and Counter-Reformation AT ALL let alone tried to dive into the complexities of England's #religious crises. The burning of Anne Askew even? People having to navigate England's increasingly unstable religious situations?#The series hit its peak after the CoA/Anne stuff was over imho. Yes Cranmer and Norfolk annoyingly vanished despite being major figures in #the R/CR and they combined Mary and Margaret but god the Tudors did SO MUCH that NO OTHER PIECE OF TUDORS MEDIA has EVER DONE.#It looked BEYOND Henry BEYOND his wives and tried to paint a comprehensive pictur of a deeply troubling and divisive time in English histor #And it did so without demonising one side and it was just so good for so many reasons that I forgive its errors because damn did they TRY.#Tried in a way no one else ever has (no Wulf Hall did not I'm sorry)#(Wulf Hall was just the same old stereotypes rehashed and branded as something 'original' because it was from Cromwell's POV but again.#Same old stereotypes. Nothing actually original about anything else.)#The Tudors is so underrated for what it tried to do and what it achieved and I am reaching the tag limit but UGH god. Amazing.#Not even getting into how wonderful they were with Mary Tudor/Mary I herself and showing figures around her #Because that would be another tag essay considering the subject of my thesis.#Flawed but wonderful.#text #chey.txt

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iguessitsjustme · 29 days

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Hey I liked a lot your I hear the sunspot Maya post! I don't understand why there's so many people who have an issue with her as Kouhei's friend. She's doing what she thinks is best and you explained it so well 💖

Hi! <3

I am very glad you liked the post. Personally, I don't understand why Maya is such a divisive character and I just wanted give my perspective for why I, personally, do not think she is the devil incarnate. I always try to explain my point of view, especially if I know there is a large portion of the fandom that disagrees.

I know that there are people that vehemently hate Maya. I also know that there are people that vehemently defend her (I am one of them), but the way the fandom has been treating each other over this character has made me hesitant to post anything. So I am very happy to see that there are other people that don't hate Maya that have seen my post. There are also other people that have explained why Maya is such a good character just as well, if not better than I have.

#thanks for the ask!#i hear the sunspot #to be clear when i say the way the fandom has been treating each other i mean on both sides #i have seen rude people on both sides and i am not okay with that #i like this character a lot. i have asked people who don't like her to examine why #just like people who don't like her have asked people who do to examine why #this is as much as i will say on this subject #i have very specific reasons for defending maya and one of them is because i know there are people like me out there #who felt so sad at all of the hate this character was getting #i just wanted to let everyone know that they are not alone and that there is a community here #anyway i'm getting off topic #thank you so much it brings me such joy that you and others like you have found my post

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jrueships · 10 months

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sometimes i'll think abt a Fandom and wish it were bigger, and sometimes i'll read something from a fandom.. and wish it were smaller

#ppl seeing a confident black man : FINALLY! A PERFECT ANTAGONIST FOR OUR STORY!#THE CORRUPTOR!! THE ASSHOLE! MR KNOWS ALL!#i want to be bigger into football. i rlly do #but . omg. sometimes seeing just So Much . side eye shit is . like imagine my exhaustion #and this isnt me trying to be the behavior police like let ppl write but sometimes seeing such. Fun. patterns can be like #idk man it's sad like damn thats rlly how the world is and obvs i KNOW how it can be but it's real wack #real wack being reminded even in ur supposed happy place ur supposed lighthearted little break from the world #it's still not . idk. it's just not #oh the poor pale blond qb just a little anxious baby oh and his evil zany teammates trying to corrupt him oh theyre so terrible for my angel #:/#.. that is. a Grown. Man .#it's like replaying my 2nd grade teacher ******** me bcs i was a troublesome kid and it made her feel young and alive and bad again #like wtf am i corrupting you with maam? skibbity toliet ? leave me alone !!#listen. if it were smthing like 'x rlly likes tomatoes' when he actually likes idk carrots? i would not give a fuck. infact i prefer carrots #but bad patterns have smthing more to say bcs patterns in general have a story #it's more than 'he would not fucking say that' it's 'WHY tf are YOU making HIM say THAT of ALL people & THINGS???'#like i love having asshole characters in my stories too. and they can be poc ! NO ONE is a saint!#but having one just to fuel the only one u actually care abt? having their problems solely be for plot?? & making that one #a SPECIFIC kind of person ?? is kinda giving me 'u dont view x as a human which could mean you dont view x race as humans'#WHICH IS !! IT SUCKS ! THAT SUCKS!#i know i need to just suck it up and ignore it but thats like the life quote of being poc isnt it #ugh #it sucks

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just-a-gender-fluid-puddle · 5 months

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Happy Terry Pratchett day everyone!!

#i would have put one of the favourite character ones on there as well #but it was hard enough to choose a favourite book #let alone a character #most of my favs are side characters anyway so they didn't have the ones that i would put at the top of my list #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett day

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quotidian-oblivion · 3 months

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Sometimes I get this sense of misdirection where I suddenly realize that-

Hey. I'm- I've been writing white characters. I've been drawing white characters. Characters who I have never once lived in their shoes and only heard about their lives. Characters who I share minimal physical features. Characters who I have no connection except for the fact they're humans like me. They're my main characters.

And then I get just a bit lonely at the lack of good and accurate poc characters in popular media. Characters like me. Characters who I feel deeply and can truly and fully connect with and smile and laugh with, knowing that I smile and laugh exactly like them at the exact same things they would smile and laugh at. Characters who are just like me. Characters who are me.

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ovrgrwn · 1 year

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I’ve read this book at least six times and I will never get over this line

#i just lose my mind everytime #this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #sapphic #sapphic books #gimme a time loop romance or give me death #the sheer emotions the PLOT makes me feel #let alone the character development #i can’t even #one of the best lgbtq+ books out there #we all have a dark side #shine some light #op #ovrgrwn

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lab-gr0wn-lambs · 10 months

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Oh jesus wait! Only now that something might finally be starting with Carol and Daryl did I suddenly think.. what if Daryl was aroace tho. and now I'm just-

#I'm sorry but why did this massive big-brain thought come to me NOW.#after I've been holding out for Caryl #and now that it seems to be actually becoming a thing finally #BECAUSE LISTEN #It was always just one-sided joke flirting from Carol #and he'd always respond with a 'lol. stop.' They're clearly best friends I mean they used that exact phrasing themselves.#but I was taking that as 'for now..'#and look Daryl is the only adult main character who don't be fuckin. At any point ever.#but yknow what! either way this turns out I'm happy #Besties? hell yeah. Dating? hell yeah.#*I'm* aroace. the hell is the matter with me what was I thinking-#twd liveblog #the walking dead #the walking dead spoilers #their friendship bracelet scene got to me ok.#look I know this'll never be anything but a headcanon because. c'mon. like this show would even acknowlege aroace people.#let alone for the leading man #but if he and Carol don't end up together that's my hc and I'm sticking to it

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spiked-mall-goth · 2 years

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guys i am watching season two for the first time

#spikes rambles #i uhhhhhhhhhh #i love her #ngl her appearance made me cry #like actually #i honestly didnt think i could still be truly moved by anything anymore #let alone a dumb side character in a quite honesty not very good show #anyways i hope you enjoyed sappy hours bc i will not be this open ever again :3 #twin peaks

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malaierba · 1 year

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"clones don't have to be referential to the historical figures they originated from because they're different people" is a good argument to make in universe and to keep in mind when characterising them, but from a screenwriting POV it doesn't make much sense?

I mean, what's the point of the show's premise being historical clones, if the characters aren't going to be referencing their clone parents in some way?

They can try to follow their steps, or they can subvert them, or they can fall somewhere in between, but if most their traits can't be traced back in some way to the historical figure then why bother? At that point you might as well create a fully original character

#clone high #thinking about Harriet and Frida... well Frida at least has her artistic side and iconic eyebrows even if her personality is meh #but I really don't get what they were going for with Harriet...#rambles #she doesn't subvert the historical Harriet Tubman in an obvious (let alone smart) ways and she's definitely not trying to follow her legacy #so she's just..... a fully original character who happens to be named Harriet Tubman #clone rambles

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