#please...even a crumb.......

[ot3]

guys its still not too late for silksong to come out in 2023 don't lose hope

[raticalshoez]

"Back when you cared about me."

"I still care, Etho."

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DISKAKWKDNWKW SECRET LIFE HAS BEEN FULL OF BOAT BOYS WHAT THE HELL WHAT THE HELLLLLL /pos

[cozylittleartblog]

clown hours

new deltarune newsletter. i dont know how many characters are featured across the 50-ish valentines but i want it on record i only got queen and rouxls among mine. you will look at them

obviously toby fox knows my email personally somehow and knew exactly who to send me (joke. but also what are the odds)

[dirtytransmasc]

the Sully kids' reaction to Jake saying Spider "knew everything" breaks my heart.

they knew him better than anyone else, better than their parents. they knew his love for Eywa, for Pandora, for The People, for the clan, for their family. they knew he would never tell the RDA anything... not willingly at least.

they knew they were leaving because Spider would be tortured for information, he'd be forced to reveal their home, their plans, their numbers, their weaknesses. their brother would be tortured and they were being forced to leave him behind.

they knew they were being forced to find a new home, without their brother, because their dad knew he would be tortured.

[tending-the-hearth]

zeb being confirmed in the mando and grogu movie means the rebels fans are one step closer to live action kal which means we’re one step closer to live action kalluzeb

[charmustdie]

artists on this website r like "here's this doodle of a teenage mutant ninja turtle i did on the back of my psychology exam for fun" and it's a piece of artwork that could rival the artists those fucking turtles were named after

[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.

[danyyytarggg]

hey so since hotd confirmed that daenerys is the prince that was promised and also had daemon see visions of her, could we pretty please get more daenerys in the dance of the dragons era fanfics please 🙏

[mattzerella-sticks]

Marvel, X-Men, whoever - I'm begging you.

Let these two (Wolverine and Bishop) get together.

[adamsrcnan]

I cannot wait to see who Jean is outside of being 'number 3' of the perfect court.

I wanna see his talent and skill appreciated and coveted because he's a goddamn unstoppable force on the court.

I wanna see the Trojan's slack-jawed because Jean never misses a beat, never fumbles on his feet, never misses a mark.

I wanna see him being told he's "too good to be true" instead of "not good enough" and then i wanna see the internal war raging inside him because it feels fucking GOOD to be appreciated but at the same time how much of it is his own??? And how much of it was beaten into him because he had no other choice but to be perfect???

Does Jean even like Exy?? Or is Exy just all he knows and most of what he remembers now? Maybe the Trojans help him discover a new found love for the sport that he didn't know existed because it's always just been a means to an end that he had to participate in.

And on that note, what does Jean love, now that he's free to love whatever he wants?

[melonthesprigatito]

Pokémon Fans in February: Wow I'm so happy that they're not releasing Legends Z-A until 2025! That gives them way more development time! Let them cook :)

Pokémon Fans in August (there has not been a single piece of news about Legends Z-A since February):

[girlishwhimsyy]

oooooh ross duffer you wanna post bts pics today so bad

[unovaslankiite]

Re:Zero fans, pls accept my humbling offerings of our sopping wet kitten Subaru and some crumbs of ReinSuba 🥺

[applestede]

Our Flag really does Mean Death. It means my death. I’m dying. Of starvation.

[phonification]

i miss dadroog guys. i miss them a lot.

[aliceisathome]

Sorry MosBank but all I could think during the pool table scene was:

NOOOO - don't have sex there, you'll ruin the felt!

Sadly the only plot I'm even vaguely interested in is SamYo and it seems we're not even going to get a kiss. Just tell us who's responsible for the industrial espionage and the fraud and we can just put this series out of it's misery. Or my misery anyway. Don't care about the mystical weirdy bollocks.

Ancient painting? Ancient? Done thirty years ago? Get out of here - if that's ancient I'm positively prehistoric. And it's a bad painting - surely someone with that much money could hire a decent artist?

In case you hadn't guessed, I'm struggling with this series...