#take care of your beloved especially if they are 50+ and some years older than you

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owning a bakery and being discovered by the ada and the port mafia (part 3)

platonic! yosano akiko x f! reader

type of writing: head canons !!

this is part of my head canon series, flour & fluff !!

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series synopsis: owning a bakery at 20 is tough; even more so when you have to handle members of two opposing organizations! this is your journey to meeting those fools and creating an unlikely bond with each of them. but only at the cost of your peace and sanity.

fandom: bungou stray dogs

content: fluff & platonic stuff but trigger warning!! there may be a sensitive topic for others

*getting grabbed and pulled to an alleyway! alcohol mentioned!*

please remember that yokohama isn’t the friendliest place, especially at night.

previous: part 2 : their beloved president

author’s note: same ages as last time!! (so that means everyone is one year younger than canon; that makes yosano 24)

this one is actually pretty long :0

i got info abt her likes on her wiki page (careful! there’s spoilers!)

and yosano is a queen and no one can tell me otherwise

the doctor is in the house (quite literally)

going grocery shopping was an okay chore in your opinion

it honestly depended on your mood or whatever kind of shit happens when you go shopping

cause like something always, always happens whenever you go do groceries

sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and sometimes it’s just plain weird

one time some weirdo proposed to you in the middle of the store asking for a double suicide

he was good looking you’d admit but it’s not like you’d ever see him again

or so you thought

a n y w a y s

every so often, you’d run out of real person food in your apartment

you mostly survive off all of the leftover bakery treats and ingredients—which works out pretty well actually—but bakery supplies unfortunately also run out quite often

and also unfortunately, one time when both fukuzawa & ranpo took a visit to Sakura’s, fukuzawa argued that “no you can’t live off sweets for the rest of your life”

ranpo was scandalized and scrambled to cover your ears

you guys were at it for a while

in the end you sided with fukuzawa causing ranpo to go off about “betrayal from the people he cared most abt” or smth like that

you guys were okay again after bribing him with sweets :)

for bakery supplies you usually have them delivered bc you order them in large quantities bc ahaha no way were you gonna carry like 15-20 50 pound bags of flour no way

when days like those happen, you close up the bakery early so you aren’t walking home when it’s too dark

you scheduled it to happen every first saturday of the month

on those saturdays, you close at 5 instead of at 8

currently, you were at the grocery store looking for basic cooking ingredients such as proteins, vegetables, fruits, and most importantly, snacks

ranpo’s been rubbing off on you

the sun was starting to set and you were walking home with your two bags of groceries when shit went down

tbh you were kinda expecting it cause your grocery run was peaceful for once

but what you weren’t expecting was a wack-a-do to appear out of goddamn nowhere right when you were opening the side door to get to the staircase up to your apartment

like honestly

let a woman do her own thing

the man who grabbed you tried to covered your mouth so you couldn’t scream but you didn’t exactly make it easy for him

you kicked and thrashed around even using the grocery bags—that were somehow still in your hand—as a weapon and the man struggled but he was still bigger than you and was able to bring you to a nearby alley

he reeked of alcohol and you spotted a wedding band on his left hand

not that you cared about the detail in the moment

you kicked him in the groin and in response he let you go only to fall on broken glass that was in the alley way

using the wall to help yourself up, you grabbed a nearby wooden stick and struck him right on his back

your attacker fell and you immediately turned on your heels to escape only to fall back down on the hard cold ground once again

you lift your face up and look back to see the man holding onto your ankle

grabbing a shard of glass—cutting yourself in the process— you begin to swing it at him only for him to easily grip your wrist and stop you

you get ready try and kick him in the groin again but you’re interrupted as your attacker gets sucker punched and flies to wall

you look up to see your savior and you’re blessed to see a beautiful woman, probably not that much older than you are—she’s probably around ranpo’s age— donning a white long sleeve button up, a matching black necktie, knee length skirt, and gloves, along with tights, red heels, and a pretty butterfly clip in her short black hair

but what you really notice is her eyes

ranpo’s eyes were pretty but you like hers just a bit more

you’ve always liked the color magenta

the pretty lady holds out her hand and you take it graciously and thank her as she helps you up

as that’s happening, your attacker gets himself onto his feet and his groan catches both of your attention

he struggles to stand and the pretty lady simples saunters over to him and delivers an uppercut knocking him out cold

you’re stunned and you breathe out a “thank you” making her turn towards you

she notices the condition you’re in

bleeding scrapes on your hands, arms and legs, small rips in your clothes like your tights, blouse, and skirt, and the ruffled state of your hair and clothing

she asks if you live nearby and you tell her that you own the bakery that’s one or two buildings away

when you tell her that, it clicks in her mind that you must be the bakery girl ranpo’s been talking about and the friend fukuzawa was cat sitting for

it’s been abt two weeks since ranpo and fukuzawa first met you and since then, they’ve seen lucky in the office plenty and the boxes of your signature sweets even more

if those two trust you, she has no reason not to

she smiles at you, holds out her hand for you to shake, and introduces herself as the doctor of the armed detective agency

your eyes widen and you smile back at her shaking her hand

“ah! you must be yosano-sensei then! ranpo-san and fukuzawa-san have talked about you! it’s so nice to meet you! im (l/n) (y/n)!”

“they’ve talked about you too, it’s a pleasure to finally meet you (y/n)”

after that exchange she insisted on bringing you home to treat you wounds which you told her it wasn’t necessary

she gave you a pointed look and that was when you realized what state you were in

you sighed and weakly gave in to which she only grinned at

before leaving the alley she walks over to the unconscious man and pulls out his wallet for some sort of identification and home address as you try to see if there’s any groceries still salvageable

after texting the details to kunikida, yosano turns to you poking around the now ruined grocery bags

she simply rubs your back and tells you that the both of you could go buy more groceries together as she was meaning to get some anyways; she even said she’ll pay for you

you refused obviously but she, unknowingly, used the same tactic fukuzawa used with you

“so you’re saying you don’t need groceries?”

“...”

*cue an eyebrow raise from our resident queen*

“...you agency members don’t like making things easy for me huh.”

you gave in reluctantly and at this point you don’t even know why you try negotiating with them

and that’s only three of them

apparently, she was on the other side of the street on the way to buy groceries for the agency when she noticed different produce items on the other sidewalk leading to the alley and she went to check out what happened

ironically, the way to the grocery store from the agency makes you go past Sakura’s but she didn’t realize it until after the two of you had met

before you know it, the two of you are in your apartment kitchen as she cleans and patches up all of your wounds

as she does so the two of you have a little girl talk

you find it quite comforting bc since you opened up Sakura’s you haven’t really had the chance to connect to many people much less other women

you definitely see yosano as your cool, loving, badass older sister

she thinks you’re adorable and agrees with ranpo’s opinion

yup 

that’s right

the opinion that you’re like a little kid </3

you called it a betrayal and all she did was laugh at you <//3

“awhh that’s really cool yosano-sensei!—MFPH?!?”

*squishing your cheeks the same way ranpo did* “ranpo-san was right (n/n)-chan, your cheeks are squishy!”

“?!”

after that small fiasco, the two of you talked some more and bonded over your love for flowers, japanese sweets, and much more!!

you even made a date to have a girls day to go shopping and eat out!

you’re internally squealing a bit bc it’s been a while since you’ve gone shopping

yosano notices and she giggles behind her hand not saying anything bc she knows you’ll only throw a fit

the two of you came around the topic of ranpo when lucky passed by

lucky quickly warmed up to the doctor and cozied up in her lap

“i wish ranpo-san was able to meet lucky when he came by the first time, but then again, he’d probably throw a tantrum if i don’t pay attention to him for 5 seconds”

she snorted at that and like fukuzawa, she shared stories abt the slightly older male

“ranpo-san doesn’t know how to ride a train?”

“unbelievable right?”

“for someone so intelligent i expected more from him”

“i’ll be telling that to ranpo-san, (n/n)-chan”

“wha—?! yosano-sensei please don’t!”

like ranpo, she’s also a tease </3

but you love her anyway <3

eventually, she finished patching you up and promised to treat you to a new set of clothes when the two of you go out

“you don’t need to lose a good set of clothes just because of a sleazy man (n/n)-chan! you deserve better!”

you were going to argue that the rips in your clothes were fairly small and could easily be fixed—except the tights—but you stopped in your tracks when you remembered that it was practically useless to argue against an ada member

the two of you walked to the grocery store and bought both of your needed supplies—along with some extra goodies—and then she walked you back to your place bc it was already a bit dark out

but even if it wasn’t, she would walk you anyways

besides, if anything happened to you, she’s 1000% positive that ranpo and fukuzawa are gonna flip the fuck out not that she wont cause she most definitely will

speaking of which

you were drinking a bottle of water as the two of made your way back to Sakura’s when all of a sudden

“(y/n) you do realize that i have to tell shachou and ranpo-san about what happened today right?”

you choked on your water

“yosano-sensei you can’t! if you do they’ll freak! they won’t leave me alone for at least two weeks! one if im lucky!”

“exactly the point”

you just accepted your defeat already knowing that you’d lose

but maybe you can simmer down their anger towards the bastard with sweets and lucky

you arrived at Sakura’s shortly after and after bringing groceries in, you packaged a bunch of pastries leftover from today—bc you closed early—and bc you’re well aware that ranpo doesn’t share any of the sweets you send him with

you even gave yosano her own special box filled with goodies she loves, and a thermos of fukuzawa’s favorite, your special hot honey lemon tea

other than the sweets, you prepared lucky to spend the night at fukuzawa’s

you really really hoped that doing these things would make them calm down

you shivered at the thought of what their responses would be

you felt really bad for giving yosano all these things to carry and that you were keeping her very late

she assured you that she was fine and that if someone tried to mess with her she’d kick their ass

and after exchanging numbers, the magenta eyed queen bid you a good night and walked back to the agency with lucky walking by her heels

arriving back at the agency, yosano was greeted with some concerns asking if she was alright bc she came back from her grocery run pretty late

(she usually goes in the mornings but today was pretty busy so she left in the late afternoon but now it was already dark)

she waved off the concerns and plopped a couple boxes of your signature bakery boxes at ranpo’s desk, the one for her at her own, the last few boxes in the kitchen for any other agent or clerk to grab, placed the thermos on the desk fukuzawa was by, and picked up lucky and handed him to the president

the two males were pleased with what yosano had brought them, and pleased that another agency member had the chance to meet you

fukuzawa was rubbing lucky and ranpo already snacking on treats as yosano expected

but here comes the hard part

or maybe it’s gonna amusing who knows

“i met (y/n) today.”

“we could tell.”

in goes another treat in the green eyed man’s mouth

“would you like to know how?”

“you bumped into each other, had girl talk, made plans to go out, went grocery shopping, and you brought me and shachou presents.”

“great job ranpo-san, you’re almost completely correct.”

this caught the attention of basically everyone bc they knew ranpo was never “almost completely correct”

“we ended up meeting bc she got attacked on her way home from grocery shopping, i treated her wounds, then we had girl talk and did all the other stuff”

ranpo and fukuzawa froze right in their tracks

“i sent all the info of the bastard to kunikida”

“kunikida.”

“yes shachou”

“find out everything about that man and bring it to me and ranpo”

“...yes shachou”

“and yosano”

“yes?”

“text (y/n) and tell her that her cat, tea, and pastries aren’t going to work as a bribe”

just as you finished taking a shower you sneezed

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Pardon me for the intrusion, but you're the only person I found who's still into CC and I have to ask: does the romantic aspect of Chrono's and Rosette's relationship seem lacking to you? Like I can see when Rosette starts to view him as a love interest (chapter 28), but I can't see when Chrono starts to view her as one. To me it feels like he only had an interested in Mary, and Rosette is just his very beloved friend; the kiss felt too sudden. I'm sorry, I just need a second opinion on this.

Okay I am so sorry I didn’t respond to this until now, I’ve mostly been using tumblr on my phone and using it to check a few blogs and occasionally the CC tag, and apparently tumblr doesn’t notify for asks on the mobile app? Or I’m not seeing it? Something. I have no idea how long you’ve been waiting for a response on this, so I’m really sorry! I hope you find this!

I think I need a reread of the manga at this point--a lot of the stuff I’m writing these days is going off of head canon which might not be 100% accurate anymore. So I’m just going to write this off the cuff. Gonna be a bit stream of consciousness! So this is definitely not a definitive opinion or even one I’ll always stand by, just how I personally feel in this particular moment.

So off the top of my head...

I think we see less things from Chrono’s point of view than from Rosette’s, which is part of what makes this tricky. This isn’t ALWAYS the case obviously (we see his sort of...PTSD dream flashback after Rizelle’s death, the flashback in volume 6 is basically from Chrono’s viewpoint since it’s mostly his memories, etc), but since one of the way the plot moves forward is the mystery of what happened in Chrono’s past usually the viewpoint is more centered around Rosette. I actually always assumed that Rosette was the only character that Moriyama would consider the protagonist until I saw that on a dust jacket for one of the books he said that BOTH Chrono and Rosette are (can’t remember which book, sorry! it was a fan translation).

Thinking about it, I think we see Chrono start to realize he has romantic feelings at the end of volume 6. I think that’s the first time he really, truly comes to accept his contract with Rosette as a good thing instead of just...the lesser of two evils, I guess? It’s when he goes “oh, yeah, I made the contract because otherwise she would’ve run off to solve the problem on her own, and I didn’t want to leave her alone.” I think that’s when he starts to really see Rosette as someone that’s on the same level of emotional maturity as him, too--earlier he occasionally teases her for being immature, but I think when Rosette tells him that she wants to share his pain, and Mary’s, that he sees how emotionally strong she is as a person and really respects that. Not that he didn’t see her as strong BEFORE, buuut like...he’d been so hesitant to share his past with Rosette until right then, and her response, I think, makes him realize how helpful having her support really is to him.

This isn’t really the same situation and is definitely my own personal reaction, but as I write this it makes me think of when I was dating my husband. I was initially terrified he was going to break up with me because I was bisexual--we both came from conservative Christian backgrounds and were homeschooled, and in the past he expressed homophobic sentiments--but I felt like I HAD to tell him because I couldn’t see myself in a long term relationship with someone I couldn’t be 100% honest with. His reaction when I told him was to immediately tell me he trusted me and cared about me, start to reconsider what he’d been raised to feel immediately, and he’s become one of my biggest advocates as I’ve come out to friends and family. Coming out to him was one of the best things I’ve ever done, but it was terrifying until I did. I can see Chrono having similar fears talking about his past with Rosette, and having a similar sense of relief and healing as soon as he realized how much Rosette is in his corner and how helpful having someone he can be open with actually is.

In the next chapter, Rosette holds Chrono’s hands to comfort him while they briefly talk about their current situation (Chrono being held in, uh, demon jail? and Rosette being taken off of her mission to find Joshua), then they both blush and get flustered when they realize what they’re doing. They babble small talk afterward while inner dialogue repeats Rosette’s promise to share Chrono’s pain, and Mary’s too. And then RIGHT AFTER is when Remington walks in and takes them to Aion’s old house on the beach so...that’s about it.

So I think the manga does show that, either right after he’s pulled out of his coma by Rosette or sometime in the aftermath, Chrono is starting to acknowledge that his feelings for Rosette might be more romantic. But it is VERY brief, because literally everything after that is two volumes of the big finale, taking place entirely over no more than 24 hours. Everything after that is rushing to tie up as many loose ends as possible--Fiore being Satella’s sister, saving Joshua, Joshua beginning to grapple with the gravity of what he’s done and been a part of and what’s been done to him, Aion and Chrono’s confrontation, the Order and the Sinner’s confrontation, Rosette’s near death experience, Aion’s motivations revealed, Chrono and Aion’s true relationship revealed, Azmaria finally coming into her own in terms of taking ownership of her powers, the culmination of Aion’s plans (and near-Apocalypse caused by it), the true nature of demons, the deaths of most of the Sinners, Shader’s defection, Joshua and Fiore’s relationship being somewhat resolved, Rosette and Chrono’s relationship being somewhat resolved...like holy shit there is SO. MUCH. THERE.

On top of that, I’ve got the Japanese reprints and while I can read basically no Japanese (HUGE GRAIN OF SALT INCOMING), I’ve pointed Google Translate at some of the omakes and from what I can tell, Moriyama talks in the omake in...volume 6, I think, that he basically had a whole other volume’s worth of story for the flashback that had to be cut! If I’m understanding it right, it’s like...from Remington’s perspective, and involves some Native American tribe or reservation that had connections to the Sinners, and the woman in charge of the orphanage Joshua and Rosette grew up in was a child living in a town nearby....

Basically, from what I can tell? Moriyama had a LOOOOOOOOT of background stuff he wanted to go into in the back half of Chrono Crusade that he wasn’t able to do for time reasons. I’m not sure if his editor gave him a deadline, or he realized it would be too meandering, or what exactly happened, but...have you ever heard the “iceberg” theory of writing? Basically, flesh out as much of the backstory as you can--know everything about the town your story is set in, the family of your protag and their relationships with them, what they eat for breakfast, just...every little minutia you can possibly think of, but most of that won’t get into your story. The audience will only see the tip of the iceberg, but knowing so much background about your setting and characters will help it feel more alive and inform your decisions as you write.

I think Moriyama had a fucking huge iceberg, basically, and I think he actually wanted to show more of that, but...couldn’t. So we get little pieces of art that reference this entire backstory for Satella we never see, and Aion, etc....that gets small nods but doesn’t make it into the manga.

And I think there’s a lot of things Moriyama wanted to give time to breathe in the manga but due to space limitations, couldn’t. So that’s why the second half of the manga literally takes place from Thanksgiving to sunrise on Christmas Day and is...the entire second half of the manga. He’s rushing to get in as much as possible while still letting the story flow as a story and sometimes...it’s not perfect.

So....I think unfortunately, yeah, one of the casualties of that is that we don’t get a huuuuuge amount of Chrono’s side of the relationship, because most of the moments that really shows that they’re heading in that direction is from Rosette’s POV. Other than the scene I already mentioned, I think you could argue that Chrono’s reaction to “the place that Chrono can go back to was decided 4 years ago!” might also be the first moment he starts to consider how important Rosette is to him, but that doesn’t HAVE to be romantic...Chrono’s reaction to her death (and then realizing there’s a chance to revive her) again emphasizes how important she is to him, but it doesn’t HAVE to be romantic...the kiss at the end is the only thing that really 100% says “Yes, this is romantic and not platonic” on his part. And...yeah. It feels a bit sudden. There’s some underlying hints before that but...I mean, I know about them because I’m obsessive about character growth and narrowed in on it in subsequent rereads, I’m not sure if it came through right away on my first read of the manga, and I even knew going into it that they were at least meant to be teased as a ship, so, yeah.

Also I briefly want to admit that as I’ve gotten older, the age gap bothers me a little more. Not enough for me to abandon the ship, just, you know, it’s something I acknowledge will turn some people off. I think Chrono, maturity-wise, is meant to be seen as...about 20. I think Moriyama mentions in one of the early omakes that that’s what he looks like in his unsealed form, we know that when he leaves Pandaemonium it’s right after his coming of age ceremony so he’s about what a demon would consider to be 18 in terms of emotional (and physical?) maturity, and especially since he’s been sleeping for 50 years since that period of his life he doesn’t have the experience that his age really indicates (which Aion blantantly points out near the end). So I’m not THAT bothered by it because I don’t think that Rosette and Chrono are actually that inequal in terms of emotional maturity but it’s still...there, and...I mean he met her when she was 12...so...yeah that’s a bit weird!! 

I’ve just gotten to where I shrug my shoulders and go “look, every ship in Chrono Crusade has something problematic about it, if you’re going to be a fan of Chrono Crusade you’re probably going to have to grapple with the fact that it’s messy and human and nobody is 100% good or bad in the manga, and that’s part of what I like about it, so, that’s cool, but it’s probably not for everyone.” It’s actually one reason why I’m kinda OK with CC not being as popular as some of its contemporaries because...some of the anti-shipper stuff I’ve seen online...oh boy.

So...I guess in conclusion, I think there’s stuff there in the manga to build up the relationship a little bit, but a lot of it is from Rosette’s POV and most of it is kind of subtle. I wouldn’t be surprised if Moriyama had wanted to flesh it out more obviously in the manga but the second half is stuffed full of wrapping up character arcs and questions and loose ends so it just didn’t really have the time to get as much focus. I really like the ship a lot, but a lot of it comes from analysis of the characters and how they relate to each other rather than it just being...canon. I’m okay with that, I’m the sort of person that will ship characters that never even meet just because I think the dynamic might be cool, but...I’m not surprised that not everyone would be into it, either.

And now I kinda want to make...a series of posts analyising the different relationships that are...either canon or teased in canon, see how much they’re built up, etc. Because this post makes me think a lot about Joshua/Azmaria and how confused I was by them apparently being married in the epilogue on my first read, and only seeing the hints Moriyama hinted about them possibly being a couple in the manga on subsequent rereads (and even then HO BOY it’s so subtle it makes Chrono and Rosette look really in your face aaaaaa). BUT I HAVE RAMBLED ENOUGH FOR THIS POST and, again, I need a reread. Maybe soon....!!!!

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2. Tell us about them

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Name: John Anderson

How old is your sim? Late 50s/early 60s

When is your sim’s birthday? I’m not actually sure when it is haha, so I’ll use Harrison Ford’s birthday (who this character is based on) which is July 13th 

What is your sim’s zodiac sign? He would therefore be a Cancer 

Martial Status: He was very happily married to his wife Joanne and they also had a daughter but very sadly they both were murdered in a house fire which he’s now investigating. He is devastated by their deaths but deep down he will always be married to Joanne despite her death. He just loves her too much!

Does your sim have any nicknames? No I don’t think so, apart from him being called grumpy John where he used to work. 

Do they have a job? If so what is it?  He’s a Detective Inspector, and he’s always been a workaholic and claims he loves his job, but recently it’s all caught up with him how much pain and illness this job had caused him over the years and he’s devastated it’s lead to his family being killed and having to work on their case and his friend’s case after his friend was shot in front of him 2 years prior to his families’ deaths. Working too much and stress has also caused him to suffer more than 1 heart attack and he really isn’t too well anymore.

Where does your sim live? A rural midlands village/town in the UK.

Who does your sim live with? Used to live with his wife (daughter moved out to go to work but visited often) but now he’s living with Abby Sullivan, a detective who’s helping him out and working on the case too. 

What environment did your sims grow up in? It was loving but became quite tense when his bother Robbie started becoming jealous and aggressive towards him. 

What are your sim’s favorite food? He hates everything these days, but normally he loves any kind of pasta dish.

What is your sim’s favorite drink? Water (I know haha) because he barely drinks anything and he usually has water when he gulps his pills down, he also should lay off caffeine because of his heart condition

If they have one what is your sim’s favorite color? Green, black, grey and brown

Is your sim introverted or extroverted? He’s most likely introverted and likes to keep himself to himself but he’ll shout happily (or angrily rather) at any criminal who’s being difficult.

What is your sims favorite woohoo position? I’m not actually sure haha, I’ll have to ask him!

Is your sim a pet person? He loves dogs and cats, he doesn’t own one at the moment, but is thinking about it to help with his grief and loss. 

Does your sim have a best friend? He used to be best friends with his colleague Reg who was sadly shot in front of him on duty 2 years ago which he still has flashbacks from. Of course he was best friends with his beloved wife Joanne and loved his daughter very much. Now he’s become friends with Abby who has helped him a lot and also has remained good friends with a colleague Matt who visits him often. 

What is/was your sim’s favorite school subject? He enjoyed English literature and some science, particularly when he became interested in joining the police as the forensic side of science started to become relevant to the work he was drawn to. He also had interests in criminology but didn’t do a full degree, he joined the police and worked himself up.

Are they planning to go or have they already been to college? He went to college to study courses he was interested in but didn’t go to university, he joined the police, as mentioned above.

What are your sims political beliefs? John literally despises every politician to have ever walked the land and hates the government haha! He has no party so to speak. How do you know a politician is lying? Their lips are moving. That’s John’s outlook and actually kind of mine since I’ve gone into a depression recently haha! He just doesn’t trust any of them and thinks they’re all out of touch. He knows what real pain feels like, he’s been through hell and back, those guys don’t understand a thing!

Does your sim have a favorite TV show: Doesn’t have one, he hates everything!

Does your sim like books? He did like books but really hasn’t had the time to pick one up in ages, the only thing he’s been reading are crime files full of distressing images and details about real deaths not fictional ones. And any kind of novel would be way too heavy going for him right now!

What is your sim’s personal style? He wears a suit for his job as a DI but usually just wears cute green jumpers (I think they look cute on him haha) and shirts, which are usually green or brown, grey or black. 

Is your sim religious? He hasn’t thought about God in ages but is drawn to go into a church after he’s been told he needs a major operation on his heart and has lost hope with everything. However, he wonders why he even bothered going in because he feels like this God guy has just given him all this suffering so loses hope again. But he does slowly gain more of a connection with the church nearby, especially after his families’ funerals but overall he’s not really religious. He questions it and doesn’t really know if he believes in it. 

What kind of music does your sim listen to? As he hates everything he hasn’t had time to listen to anything but he quite likes classical music and rock music. He has fond memories of listening to music with his wife when they met and further on into their lives together. He’d probably well up and cry if he listened to music he used to love again for this reason ;(

What is your sim’s favorite type of weather? He doesn’t really care, he’ll take whatever comes his way!

Does your sim have a dream job? Not really, he used to think being a detective was his dream but it’s caused him to witness awful things and has now taken his family away. He’s had to bury it all over the years the pain it’s really caused him. After his operation, he tries to look for something he can do to keep him busy but not dangerously busy like before!

Does your sim have any siblings? Yes, an older brother who’s a massive twat and a younger sister who’s nice luckily.

Does your sim get along with their family? He obviously loved his wife and daughter very much, but despises his brother with a passion as it was his brother Robbie who had criminals burn the house down his family perished in. He cannot believe his own brother would do this and the shock of the news brings on a massive heart attack which really does nearly kill him. He gets on well with his nephew, Nathan (Robbie’s son) and essentially raised him as well when Robbie was controlling Nathan’s mother and treating him like shit (this makes Robbie very jealous and wanting revenge, hence the murder).

What is your sims favorite hobby? Walking, he finds peace when he goes out for a walk in the woods or somewhere peaceful even if he’s despairing. He likes to clear his head, although it has been a mistake him going out alone after he suffered a heart attack alone in the woods after his families’ funeral.

What does your sim look for in a romantic partner? He refuses to ever look for anyone else again. It was Joanne and always will be Joanne, she was the love of his life. 

What is a flaw your sim has? He’s a bit too much of a workaholic and buries his head in the sand about the fact working so vigorously is making his condition worse, despite everyone around him telling him so. He constantly misses counselling appointments and heart checkups out of fear his health has declined further which he knows it is doing. He struggles to face up to these things and works even harder as a result to bury that fear away. It’s a downward spiral that’s just making him worse. He also gets incredibly angry at others very easily, but it’s understandable given what’s happened in his life lately. 

Does your sim have a greatest achievement? If so what is it?  For John, probably surviving in the first place! He’s survived so much, he survived his heart condition, he’s survived dangerous situations in his job and has survived all this grief and misery (that’s not to say it won’t ever go away) but he has somehow been managing to carry on and I’m proud of him haha! He needs a massive hug rn.

If they have one, what is your sim’s greatest regret? Being unable to save his wife and daughter from the house fire and this is something that haunts him daily, nightly and for the rest of his life. 

I’m tagging whoever wants to do this!

[myloyalpet]

English Bulldogs: The Best And Healthiest Foods For English Bulldog ..!

English bulldogs are an ancient breed originally created by breeding fierce animals with smaller ones. When used during bear or bull baiting events (essentially dogfighting), humans could protect themselves while betting on which animal would win out and thus make money off the spectacle. The result is an adorable medium-sized puppy who wants nothing but love. Today, despite their aggressive origins, these dogs have been bred to be sweet, gentle, and timid; they no longer look like what you'd expect from a traditional English Bulldog anymore!

For this reason alone, if you've been thinking about getting an English bulldog, then you must know how to feed them because they might suffer from different health issues such as food allergies, kidney disease, hypothyroidism, Cushing's Disease, and more. Unfortunately, there is not enough information available on the internet related to the best foods they can eat to maintain optimal health. So, we created a helpful guide for you that will provide you ample guidance.

Types of Bulldog

The Bulldog is not a single breed but rather many different types of breeds. Name the word "bulldog," and an image of a muscular, hefty dog with a wrinkled face comes to mind for most people; but there's more than one type! Here are some following types of bulldogs.

1) Olde English Bulldogge

The Olde English Bulldogge is also known as a pure-breed American pit bull terrier. These can get up to 100 pounds and are not recommended for apartment living because of their size; they need room to run around. In addition, the United Kennel Club bred them to avoid interbreeding with other dogs like the American Staffordshire Terrier, making it lose its "true" pedigree. The Olde English Bulldogge was originally developed to preserve the breed's original look before showing restrictions had been applied in the UK. It has a larger build than the modern-day Bulldog but still looks relatively similar otherwise.

2) The French Bulldog

Frenchies are the perfect dog for anyone who desires a faithful, intelligent pet. They have bat-like ears and come in many colors, with their most popular is black and white and cream or brown combinations of these two colors. These dogs can be great companions to individuals living alone due to their loving nature, which is entertaining because they require constant attention from owners! French Bulldog's intelligence has been proven by how quickly it responds when given commands such that some people call them "the Einsteins of Dogs."

3) American Bulldog

The American Bulldog derived from bloodlines present in colonial America before the Civil War between two countries (the US and England). English Bulldogs were brought here due to their popularity in England and their appearance in Roman culture. The American Bulldog is a big, sturdy family dog who loves children and has an innate need for human companionship. They make great fire dogs because they have strong noses that help save their humans from fires or other serious accidents (there's plenty of evidence online about how this breed saved its owner).

4) Pit Bull

Englishmen originally bred the pit bull terrier for entertainment in fighting matches. This type of bulldogs was used in blood sports like bear-baiting or as amusement in building anger in dogs by holding restrained bulls or bears while two dogs fought to the death over them and other similar forms of barbaric entertainment. Both sides claim their own history, whether they have been around for thousands of years or hundreds.

5) English Bulldog

Bred in the United Kingdom and can be traced back through standard bloodlines to ancient times. The English Bulldog is a popular pet for families due to its affectionate nature and calm temperament. The breed has broad chests, wide-set shoulders, drooping jowls that give them their signature look of being "bulldognish" (droopy). Their skin can be loose as well as short coats in colors like brindle or white. A male average about 54 pounds while females average 50 pounds with ears rosed instead of double flopped over on the head and piebald striping patterns on the body with black noses.

Benefits Of Having An English Bulldog As Pet

The English bulldog has many benefits to its owner. First, it makes a great companion because it loves attention and will always be there when needed. Second, bulldogs are also known for their ability to calm down young children and even older adults suffering from depression (as long as they get plenty of affection in return). English Bulldogs are especially skilled at this because of their kind nature. Third, Owning an English Bulldog is relatively cheap compared to other dogs who need more extensive care. In general, the English bulldog makes a great pet. Finally, They are very friendly and give their owners plenty of affection in return for being treated well. If you want to get a dog that can provide comfort when needed, help relieve stress and depression, and provide companionship for yourself or your family, an English Bulldog may be right for you!

1) It Helps With Depression

Because the majority of these dogs love human company so much, they make excellent companions for those who like affection but do not have anyone to hug during their daily routine. Also, since these dogs are so easygoing and calm, having one around can help ease the stress from the tension caused by depression.

2) Very Kind With Children

These dogs have been proven to be especially good with children because of their gentle nature. This is also beneficial to adults who have insomnia or other sleeping disorders. In addition, having a bulldog in the home can provide comfort and security for parents who may have trouble sleeping at night due to worries about their job or family life.

3) Save Owner Money

Owning an English bulldog is relatively cheap compared to other dogs who need more extensive care (such as those that require grooming services). English Bulldogs do not need much exercise either; they are content with taking a walk around the neighborhood or simply exploring the house. These dogs also eat less food than other breeds, which can save money on pet food purchases.

4) Easy To Train

English Bulldogs are one of the world's most popular dogs for their friendliness, and they're also really easy to train. They learn fast, so if you can teach them a few tricks, it won't be long before your pup opens doors or turns off lights without being told! Of course, these pups aren't known as "the brightest," which means that don't expect too much from them when it comes to solving puzzles, but with some training, these doggies will come up big in life by learning tasks such as getting dressed on their own instead of relying solely on human help.

English Bulldogs Prone To Food Allergies

The English Bulldog is one of the most recognizable and iconic dog breeds. Unfortunately, the breed's popularity has actually sparked a few woes, including health issues related to their distinct looks. If you're thinking about getting an English Bulldog, you should know that they are likely to suffer from allergies.

While all dogs can develop food sensitivities, Bulldogs seem more susceptible than other dogs. There's no way to tell for sure if your puppy will become allergic after eating certain foods (or treats). Some owners even start feeding their pups a new diet with little or no problems. Your dog could just get a little itchy or have mild gastrointestinal issues for a while and then eventually adjust fine to their new diet. For other dogs, a new diet causes major skin problems that require immediate attention and care. The worst cases can even result in chronic itching and constant scratching, hot spots on the nose and face, or even hair loss.

Commonly allergenic foods for English Bulldogs are wheat (even small amounts), dairy products, soybean(s)/soy(ed) products (including soy-based treats), corn/corn products (including corn-based treats), flour/wheat flour, or any ingredients containing these items from any source listed above.

If you are worried about what you should feed your beloved pet, you do not need to worry further; you can check our great options here: "best food for English bulldogs in 2021".

What Should You Consider Before Buying the Best Food for English Bulldogs?

English bulldogs are one of the most recognizable breeds in terms of their short muzzle, flat face, and small jaw. Unfortunately, this gives them many health problems, including difficulty chewing food properly or eating without difficulties breathing. They also often have dental issues that can lead to other complications; they may get an immune system disorder or digestive troubles, and obesity because they can't exercise enough due to physical limitations from those ailments. Furthermore, when it comes down to lifespan English Bulldogs don't have much going for them, with 8-10 years being the average age before illness takes over - some living longer than others but not by too long either way!

Consider these important things before buying food for English bulldogs:

1) Choose Healthy Food

English Bulldogs are not as hearty and healthy as other dogs. This is because they have a sensitive stomach that is easily upset by certain ingredients in dog food, such as because they can't digest them well. The efficient way to avoid this problem is with high-quality meat sources like beef or chicken, which will provide the protein your bulldog needs without upsetting his delicate system too much. Besides grains like bulgogi ingredients which may be difficult on their digestive system, there is plenty of other safe options, including fruits and vegetables that can be good nutrition for your lovely dog.

2) Age

The best food for your English Bulldog depends on its age. Puppies require more DHA and protein to support healthy growth, while adults need higher fat content with lower protein levels. Seniors who are growing old should also be given a diet containing joint health ingredients such as glucosamine or chondroitin sulfate in order not to experience weight gain problems caused by arthritis-related inflammation!

3) Budget

Your English bulldog is worth so much to you that the best food out there for it should be your top priority. But, make sure you get one at a good price with great quality! Dry foods are generally cheaper than wet brands However, if you can't find these high quality dry or wet foods locally, in that case, it's worth ordering them online as shipping costs will often be cheaper than purchasing from pet shops or interacting with veterinary clinics for each new purchase trial-and-error (which may end up being harmful to your dog).

If you are having problems finding the best food for your lovely English bulldog, then don't worry; we have great options for you; check out our best food for English bulldog 2021.

Conclusion

English Bulldogs are known for their loving natures, but they often suffer from health problems such as obesity and breathing difficulties. A balanced and healthy diet will provide all nutrients to your lovely pet without disrupting digestion or causing weight gain. Wellness CORE RawRev Grain-Free Dog Food contains everything your Bulldog needs in one bowl of food while keeping his digestive system clear. Not only does it come with vitamins A, C & E, which help strengthen bones and teeth along with omega 3 fatty acids crucial for heart function; this formula has been slowly cooked, so there's no risk of choking on chunks! Furthermore, it will provide them with energy throughout their day so they can be more active! To find out more about the best food for your bulldog…Click Here..!

[ratspberry]

many naruto thoughts head overloading

ok im only like 20 episodes into shippuden and i skipped a Lot of filler in original naruto bc i do not have the patience </3 (i will come back to the filler one day though) and while i love this anime theres so much i wish... was not written how it is

first of all sakura... i love her sm and i just wish her character was given some more care like at this point in shippuden im actually really enjoying the direction shes taken but i heard a lot of her growth is sidelined when sasuke comes back into the picture and thats my biggest issue. im sorry but if youre going to introduce a TRIO of main characters i want to see that main group equally fleshed out. first going all the way back to the beginning i wish that sakura was allowed to fight??? like we KNOW shes super smart and has powerful chakra so even when at that time she wasnt the most skilled fighter (as far as we KNOW at least. given that we barely got to see her fight who knows!) she couldve in the very least played a similar role to that of shikamaru as far as leadership and strategizing. and ok her crush on sasuke should have dissipated a lot more after the chunin exams. even though i do hate to see her spend so much time fawning over sasuke when hes not even particularly kind to her i think a crush in the beginning could still work IF the moment of her cutting her hair (“sasuke likes girls with long hair”) and her battle w ino during the chunin exams were like an eye-opening moment for her when she was like “wtf am i doing i am going to work hard as a ninja to prove that i can do this to MYSELF and MY RIVAL first” (which. ok she does get to this point later and again i love her learning chakra and getting strong as HELL during her training w tsunade but again. i want to see that REMAIN parallel to the enormous power level leaps that sasuke and naruto make. also let sakura and ino have a fun friendship rivalry that has nothing to do w sasuke) . i think it would be better if she naruto and sasuke were just friends who ALL help and motivate each other. and so when sasuke leaves sakura is STILL super fucked up over it and maybe even has a hard time trusting naruto again after he comes back? (but ofc she eventually does bc power of friendship) like IDK loss of one best friend, then almost immediately after your other best friend (who u just learned secretly is sealed w the nine tails and the akatsuki is after him just like orochimaru was after sasuke) leaves you for THREE YEARS??? kind of a salt in the wound moment! also im simply not even going to touch on all the comphet marriages in the end

next im going to talk about rock lee my friend rock lee who i adore. anyways he either should not have foregone the surgery from tsunade or died from it. HEAR ME OUT! this surgery was good in showing how powerful tsunade is as a healer but like? was it necessary? after she brought naruto back to life??? as far as lees characterization his whole thing is that he may not have special jutsu or the same prodigal abilities as his peers but he can still be as powerful or more powerful! and idk i hate when characters have serious life changing stuff done to them and not seeing it fully explored in the story. like ok so we’ve got tsunade telling lee (who cant be older than 12? 13?) theres a 50/50 chance he’ll die in the surgery to heal him. and then guy ENCOURAGES HIM, HIS FAVORITE STUDENT, to go through with the surgery so he could then go on to be a ninja and continue risking his life?????? so i thought that was pretty screwed up. which leads me to the two paths that i think would be interesting to see play out: 1. lee doesnt get the surgery, but continues to train as a ninja. his injuries still exist but lee learns to fight WITH the injuries and creates a really cool badass unique fighting style and goes on to be a great ninja like he dreamed 2. lee dies in surgery. id hate it i would and i dont WANT lee to die but it might be a fuckin wakeup call to all these adult ninjas urging kids into warfare. lee is beloved by all so it would be a good moment of pause for everyone to think like “ummm so the systems that be are kind of majorly fucked up.”

those are the two main ideas i had but heres a few misc things:

-jiraiya can be the author of as many trashy romance novels as he wants but him hitting on younger women and being like a peeping tom and UGH the way he was introduced w narutos ‘sexy jutsu’ is just. not good. take it out.

-let tsunade look her age. like the whole “she uses her chakra to make herself look young”? i dont buy it. i dont care that you just didnt feel like drawing a woman who looks over 20. you will do it anyways bc i said so.

-i dont dislike n/ruhina as much as i dislike s/susaku bc at least its clear theres a mutual respect and admiration there but hinata, like sakura, has so much more potential to be explored. idk if its looked at in filler or later in shippuden (id sure hope so) but i think her parallel to sasuke is kind of interesting? both have intimidating, extremely powerful older brothers (i know neji is technically hinatas cousin or smth but whatever older brother figures. also i know hinatas sister is also supposed to be super powerful but idk her yet) who are held in high esteem by their families and have all this pressure on their shoulders to want to surpass them? given that neji didnt um. do the things itachi did clearly its not the SAME between hinata and sasuke but i feel like examining the hyuga family dynamics would be SO interesting in comparison to sasukes arc. i didnt mind seeing hinata motivated by naruto the first few times but like. there is SO MUCH MORE THERE than JUST hinatas relationship to naruto.

-all of these kids need therapy but ESPECIALLY sasuke like the signs were there. halfway thru the bell test thing SUPER early on sasuke went into a full-fledged “i am an avenger.. i have to kill a certain someone” monologue and given the fact that everyone knows his entire clan was killed and that sasuke is likely VERY traumatized... who thought it was a good idea to let him become a ninja before addressing any of that. my god. like i love kakashi and i know he has his own devestating backstory and that hes a product of the system but why the Fuck would he let sasuke take the chunin exams. give team 7 a year more of training and getting to know each other and give sasuke some time to create bonds and maybe even open up emotionally and begin to heal and then MAYBE we can THINK ab chunin exams.

-asuma and ino apologize to choji for telling him not to eat as much challenge? did asuma not know that chojis clan uses food to replenish their chakra? it would make sense if ino didnt know but chojis teacher?? either way still p fucked, leave choji alone

-speaking of ino i want more of her character tok. why was she not included in that mission to save sasuke that shikamaru, her TEAMMATE, led?? was there an explanation for that?? i feel like her not being there was a missed opportunity for some real growth/bonding between team 10.

-speaking of the last bullet point shikamaru being like “ugh women 🙄” is tired and boring. very misogynistic “i hate my wife” facebook dad humor. cut that shit out

-orochimarus coding and his whole um. intent as a villain is just very. Hm. i dont think i like that very much but im not going to go into it bc im sure its been touched upon a million times

[nightmarenoise]

Just comparing two cartoons I love

I understand that nobody asked in any capacity, but here I go anyway:

It feels fair to compare Ducktales 2017 to Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018), not only because they're only about a year apart and truly, what is a year, but also because they

1. Both use this style that looks like it jumped straight out of a comic book. Okay, it's mostly the solidly inked shadows, but it gives me, personally, comic-y vibes.

2. They have taken what's arguably the main characters (the triplets for DT, the Turtles for TMNT) and shaken the formula up a good bit. Were the triplets formerly indistinguishable and all had the exact same personality, interests and voice actor, they are now three entirely separate entities with different traits and appearances. And while the turtles had about one defining personality trait and looked basically the same, save for the color of their masks, Rise made them different species of turtle to justify giving them radically different designs and three-dimensional personalities. Both shows faced criticism for this decision from people who cannot deal with change. Despite this, in both cases, it just works and does so incredibly well.

3. The oldest bros wear red.

4. We have two middle bros associated with the color blue who are both voiced by Ben Schwartz.

5. Both shows have a focus on family, with Ducktales especially focusing on found family and Rise on brotherhood.

6. Anime references!

Ducktales has a larger cast overall, with a lot of different characters all interacting with each other and they all have the most pleasant voices I've ever heard in my entire life. It's all solidly animated, the style is consistent and the animation is fluid, the characters are diverse and they're all lovely in their own right, except for those who aren't. The writing is top notch. Everyone feels consistent despite the large cast and it's delightful to watch all those interesting people interact with each other in their own way. The show also handles its mystery elements and occasional action scenes incredibly well, building suspense and delivering laughs and gut punches without hesitation. They juggle different tones like a professional clown, except the true clown was us, the audience, all along, for ever having doubted them.

The overarching plot of Ducktales, for its first two seasons, was mostly to uncover the mystery of what had happened to the mother of the triplets and all that would entail. Mystery and mythical elements will likely continue to be afoot for season 3.

Rise works with less focal characters, we have the Turtles, Splinter and April as well as various bad guys, but more than makes up for it with a lot of animation. A lot a lot of animation and it's all high quality. There's usually so much going on on-screen that a watching it once isn't enough to catch it all. Despite that, it doesn't feel crowded or rushed. Lots of dynamic shots and incredibly-choreographed action scenes, but nothing the thoroughly solid writing has to hide behind. Even when the baddies aren't the main concern, they're still well-rounded, interesting characters with unique abilities and motivations. Although, most of the mutants are just really feral. Still a delightfully diverse cast.

The turtles on the other hand spent their first season trying to foil their various foes, from a yokai trying to mutate all of humanity, to his mutants, to dealing with random mythical stuff, to the nefarious Foot Clan trying to reassemble the Dark Armor in the shadows. It's generally a more action-driven show, but they still find the time for some heartfelt moments.

The triplets 2.0

Despite their conventiently color-coded caps, they were really mostly the same character possessing three different bodies at a time. Well, the times of eerie The Shining like-twins, except extended to triplets, are over!

We have Huey, the oldest brother, voiced by Danny Pudi. He's a gentle, intellectual soul who values red hats, science, scout badges and checklists. Huey is arguably the closest in characterization to the original triplets, with some additional neat freak sprinkled in for flavor. He tries to be the responsible older sibling and keep his brothers under control and out of trouble. He also seems to have the most fiery temper of the bunch and should clearly not be pressed to the breaking point. He's my personal favorite and I heard season 3 will bring more focus to him, which makes me elated to hear. 888/10.

Middle child Dewey, the blue one, voiced by Ben Schwartz, who will inevitably come for all the iconic blue characters. He's very clearly the middle one, because he craves attention and validation and occasionally dreams of being an only child. Dewey is the one who started the investigation into their mom's disappearance and kept it from his brothers, partially to save them from hurt, but also because he wanted to feel special. He's the most interested in going on adventures with their uncle, but can get reckless when doing so. He's a bit of a spotlight hog, who has his own talk show that nobody watches and sings his own theme song when he needs to get hyped up, or just to fill this silence. This may sound kind of negative, but rest assured, he's a good, sweet boy. The focal triplet for the first season. 500/10.

Louie, the evil triplet, a schemer and a conman. Voiced by Bobby Moynihan.  The youngest of the bunch. While they call him evil, he's really far too lazy to cause serious harm, except for when it's his laziness that's causing him to take dangerous shortcuts, oops. He dreams of making a fortune, but without having to work for it and preferably without any responsibility either, thank you. He also occasionally dreams of being a spoiled fat cat. Despite his chill demeanor, he can be a bit of a crybaby and those tears are only fake 50% of the time. I feel like he likes getting babied, but mainly because that means there's less work for him to do. Season 2, which focuses more on him, reveals that he's actually quite brilliant, capable of seeing all the angles and giving him some chessmaster-like qualities. He needs to learn to use those abilities for good. 665/10.

Hi, she's Webbie! The honorary triplet, who also got a massive makeover, from annoying token girl tagalong to socially awkward, adorkable action girl. Be careful who you call ugly in middle school, indeed. Like a more ferocious  Mabel Pines, she has a grappling hook and years of martial arts training under her belt. Webbie can absolutely decimate you, but won't, because she's a sweet girl. Voiced by Kate Micucci. She continues to like unicorns and the color pink, but assuredly in the most badass of ways. She helped Dewey with his quest to uncover the mystery of his missing mom, but works well with all of the triplets, with Huey taking her under his wing a bit and Louie trying to get her to chill out more. Webbie is a sweetheart and I would die for her, were it not completely unnecessary, since she's more than capable of taking care of herself. ∞/10.

A lot of the supporting cast also saw updates and changes, for instance Gyro being a genius without social skills and Fenton being an adorkable scientist, but again, they work really well. They're interesting new takes on beloved characters. Even the new additions to the cast are great. In short, I love me some birds and am excited for season 3, Disney, get your scheduling together.

The Turtles 2.14.2 - I upgraded my upgrade in the middle of the upgrade

Also, these guys have seen so many different iterations in their, what, 30+ years of existence. As someone with no prior attachment to the turtle brand, I don't have a lot to say here. Leo's not the leader in this one and Raph has more personality than being angry at Leo for being the leader. Donnie is not just a random nerd spouting technobabble and Mikey has more depth than yelling the catchphrase every now and again. Apparently, this made people upset. I don't know how to help you with that.  The middle brothers exude some high chaotic energy and should not be left unsupervised, but the oldest and youngest seem fairly stable.

Raphael, the red-bandana'd alligator snapping turtle is an imposing figure. He's the oldest and therefore team leader by default. Raph has no reason to be upset at Leo, so he isn't. Despite his ferocious appearance, he's a soft guy, who likes teddies and doting on his brothers, but fears puppets. He's a bit of a knucklehead, most of his plans involve smashing things with his tonfa and he may refer to himself in the third person in the heat of the moment, but he possesses emotional intelligence, is open about his feelings and looks after his brothers. He is big and and strong, but his heart is bigger and stronger. He especially loves small animals animals, who don't usually return his feelings. RIP in F. This responsible guy is voiced by Omar Benson Miller. 300/10, very soft. Somehow both the heart and the big guy of the group.

Donatello has been upgraded from second-to-youngest to second-to-oldest, not that it makes much of a difference. His color of choice is purple and he continues in the character's tradition of being a nerd, although this time, with self-confidence. Donnie is very sure of himself and his abilities. As a spiny soft-shell turtle, he's less sure of his shell, but that's okay, he's made robotic battle shells to make up for it and his bō is the mother of all multitools. This guy can build you a tank out of a buggie and upgrade your animatronic into something to give the FNAF franchise a run for its money. He's the smartest of the four and when not focused on his phone, very focused on the mission. Due to having to deal with his bros, he can be exasperated a lot. Thinks of himself as an emotionally unavailable bad boy, even though he's just really sensitive and wants his dad or someone parent-aged to tell him they're proud of him. Theater kid. 999/10, give the middle child a hug and some coffee, you can't tell me he has a healthy sleep cycle. This sarcastic nerd is brought to you by Josh Brener.

Leonardo, Ben Schwartz's second blue character (Sonic (2020) being the third under his belt) and also his second ninja after Randy Cunningham. He's not the leader. He's still a good character. Leo has approximately 800 charisma and unwavering faith in both, his family and himself. Mostly himself though. Like Louie, season 2 revealed that he is a master of prediction and playing people like the cheap kazoo you can't tell me he doesn't have to play Darude's Sandstorm on. He dabs, he boards, he will pun you to death and back and he has an Odachi that can cut through space. Leo likes hogging the spotlight when given the chance and wants to be showered with attention and praise. Having four kids really only means twice the middle child nonsense. Leo is a red-eared slider, the original species of the TMNT, as I've been told. He's also the best at being a ninja, but usually too lazy to really apply himself. He's younger than Donnie, but tumblr suggested to read the two as twins, since they're approximately the same age, which sheds a whole new light on their dynamic and frankly, makes way too much sense. 420/10, for our memelord Leonardo.

Michelangelo, the eternally youngest of the bunch. An artiste, who puts stickers on himself, tags the lair, has a spiritual connection to his skateboard and the color orange. Mikey loves all things arts and craft, but he also tries his hands at cooking. He idolizes famous TV chefs and can do pretty much anything out of and into pizza. He's funny, without being annoying, like I feel a lot of other iterations of this character are. It's an easy pitfall for comic relief guys, but this one is more than that. If that's an issue, feel free to leave my house. Mikey is genuinely sweet and happy, optimistic and soft, but also the one brother who knows when it's time to take off the gloves and just get straight to the point. He's open about and in touch with his feelings. He's just baby. Don't treat him as one though. A lot of promo stuff says Leo has taken him under his wing, but he's had more episodes together with Donnie. Not that I'm complaining, they work very well together. Mikey and Raph are both the emotional centers of the group. Does not mind being yeeted after retracting into his shell, as box turtles may do. (Disclaimer, do not yeet actual box turtles!) His weapon of choice is a Kusari-Fundo that can turn into a fire-demon and is about as unpredictable as he is. Likes to jump and bounce around. Probably does parkour. Voiced by Brandon Mychal Smith who is audibly having a blast. 500/10, just an all around Kusari-fun guy.

For last, but certainly not least, April O'Neil, my girl, who saw an upgrade from flip-flopping love interest who was vaguely ninja-ing, but mostly damsel in distress-ing, to all-around spunky powerhouse and by God, she is glowing. Rise has her more as a big sister figure to the turtles, and I will not be told otherwise. She is independent and don't need no man, mutant or no. She has her teleporting pet, her faith in herself, her pinpoint baseball hitting skills and the a complete and utter lack of fear. Despite being a weirdness magnet, April is perfectly comfortable. She would like to be able to keep a job, maybe, but she has loving friends who respect and love her. Surprisingly good a ninja, fearless and fun. Occasionally thinks about being popular at school, but it's really not a big concern, she's not gonna throw a tantrum over it or anything. April is very chill. Not likely to be damseled. More likely to run after the turtles and clean up their messes or save them and everyone involved is fine with that.

The late 10's are really coming in to show us how dynamic and well-written female characters that aren't just "strong", but three-dimensional and relatable are done, huh?

An iconic performance by Kat Graham and ∞/10 for being the honorary better ninja non-mutant non-turtle and best big sister.

Here we have it, two older properties, having new life breathed into them to make them fresh and enjoyable. Have a new spin put on them, to better fit in with our current world. You can feel the love oozing out of every frame. At the end of the day, of course, it all boils down to taste and whether or not you like something. I gave Ducktales 2017 a go because a lot of the staff from Gravity Falls went to work on it and if you don't know me, I love me some Gravity Falls. It's a good show and I enjoy it. I recently got into Rise and while I don't know much about the people working on it, it is also a greatly enjoyable show, easily on the same level as Ducktales, if not above, yet with far less people speaking about it. Which is frankly saddening. I can only recommend the two of them wholeheartedly. If you love animation, yourself and occasionally feeling things, these are for you!

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[Translation] Maa-chan, Haachin, and Harunan

(In my observation Haachin is usually closer to her genmates and juniors than her seniors, but Maa-chan and Harunan are exceptions to that. I put these 2 threads together to not give too bad of an impression of Maa, especially since she is a pretty important friend for Haachin.)

[Morning Musume ‘18] Iikubo Haruna “Ogata is a good girl who apologizes after she teases me. That type of thing is important. Satou Masaki has never apologized to me once.”

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:29:33.47 0.net

From the MV making.

2: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:30:21.94 0.net

Are you some kind of bigshot?

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Gahaha

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Haachin is smart.

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Iikubo in the making footage:

I think Ogata is a good girl. The other members don’t do what she does.

Ogata comes and apologizes after she teases me. I think that’s really important. That’s why I don’t really care if she teases me.

Other members… like Satou, and Masaki, and also Satou Masaki for example… She’ll trash talk me so hard and then not say anything about it.

Ogata is a good girl. She’s a good girl.

14: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:33:31.16 0.net

Does she mean like after the lives and recordings?

16: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:33:37.39 0.net

She quickly apologized to Ishida after teasing her on Morning Jogakuin, too.

206: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 21:26:15.30 0.net

How very like the overly serious Haachin.

17: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:33:40.42 0.net

It’s because deep down she’s not an entertainer after all.

21: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:35:45.02 O.net

Maa-chan isn’t in the wrong.

20: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:35:39.40 0.net

They’re gen mates.

31: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:40:19.05 0.net

Corset Iikubo

42: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:44:22.95 0.net

Just how did Ogata tease Iikubo?

How unpleasant.

54: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:51:30.06 0.net

>>42

Like saying black Harunan and stuff.

38: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:42:44.90 0.net

So she teases her in front of the cameras and apologizes in private after?

Isn’t most comedy like that?

137: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 20:30:47.07 0.net

Ogata “Iikubo-san, I’m sorry about today.”

Iikubo “It’s fine already.”

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Satou “It (Harunan’s chest) is not sticking out at all, not even a millimeter.”

Could she not endure being told that?

53: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:51:11.52 0.net

Satou < Fukunura-san’s white skin in the photobooks is the best! Harunan doesn’t have an adult’s body gyahahaha

43: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:45:06.14 0.net

Satou’s not teasing her, she’s just saying exactly what she thinks. lol

51: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:49:03.87 0.net

>>43 It’s because she knows this that she gets pissed imo.

44: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:45:12.02 0.net

Weren’t there stories from someone or another saying that Satou often asks “was that okay?” after the fact?

52: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:49:34.40 0.net

She just doesn’t apologize because it’s Harunan. She quickly apologized to Becky.

47: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:47:32.08 0.net

Only Ogata apologizes

Satou doesn’t apologize

So are there others who don’t apologize?

50: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 19:48:50.65 0.net

>>1

She said this in the BLT interview but, Ogata mostly only teases Iikubo.

Recently she also started teasing Ishida and Ikuta.

She’s thankful to Iikubo-san because helped her bring out her personality and accepted it.

So her teasing is the form those feelings of gratefulness takes.

It’s kind of a nice story.

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>>58

Blackubo-san

93: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 20:11:53.46 0.net

Duu watches from afar

104: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 20:17:50.01 0.net

Even friends should be polite to each other.

106: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 20:18:43.95 0.net

Comedians also apologize properly afterwards.

113: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 20:22:59.09 0.net

Did Iikubo apologize to Satou after saying this?

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Has Maa-chan even trash talked Iikubo before?

138: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 20:31:43.29 0.net

Satou  “Why is Harunan crying?”

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Satou is fine like this lol

204: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 21:22:33.14 0.net

I knew it

173: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 20:44:14.77 0.net

If Satou didn’t trust Iikubo, she wouldn’t hang out with her in private and ask her for talk advice every time like she does.

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In Satou Maa’s mind 10th gen are like a family so she doesn’t have to worry about niceties.

228: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/06/16(土) 22:28:55.64 0.net

In the recent YoungTown, she constantly covered for Maa-chan to Sanma.

Despite what she says she’s doing what she should.

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Harunan is a good girl.

[Morning Musume ‘18] Ogata Haruna “During hard times, the one who saved me was Satou Masaki-san.”

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あられ屋クッキー@arareyacookie

B.L.T.’s W Haruna interview & gravure “Forget me not" is intense, I'm crying. #morningmusume

7:00 - 2018年5月24日

たっちゃん。@tatsu92star

BLT’s interview is so...it made my chest hurt... Haachin...

5:56 - 2018年5月24日

庭仕事@niwashigoto

The B.L.T. Harunan and Haachin gravure has a really nice sad feel to it, but reading the interview, it’s honestly painful. It talks about the HelloSute dance lesson…...

6:10 - 2018年5月24日

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Satou is nice.

26: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:19:31.61 0

Satou Masakichan

https://ameblo.jp/morningmusume-10ki/entry-12302116447.html

I don’t think anyone in the world could hate Ogata.

Those who do are….

27: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:19:46.11 0

But her last interview was as a set with Iikubo.

4: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:10:46.82 0

モーニング娘。'18マネージャー@MorningMusumeMg

[10ki11ki Blog] #Eating with members: Iikubo Haruna: Today we had play practice and costume fittings, and afterward Ogata Haruna-chan and I were interviewed for the 5/24 issue of “B.L.T.”! There’s all sorts of talk, both cheerful and serious, so check it out ( ^ω^… http://bit.ly/2wDOyDU

7:57 - 2018年5月14日

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Why was Ogata’s last magazine appearance as a set with Iikubo lol

17: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:16:01.71 0

In the end Iikubo-san was the one she got along best with

(W Haruna is cute but I really can’t agree with this when Chii or Akane appears on every other Haachin blog...)

43: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:28:37.11 0

The one who came up with Triple A was Iikubo-san, too.

Thanks to that Haachin’s concert MCs got funnier

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全方位全力ファクトリー@FunakisoraS0216

Musume, Osaka Night Show. For her last hometown performance, Haachin oshis organized an Ei Ei Ogata call, and a flag, and all the way to her goodbye at the double encore it was overflowing with love. When they came out for the encore, it was clear from her face that she had cried backstage, but she quickly switched to a carefree smile, which was very like Haachin. Harunan, taking the role of an older sister, cried loudly in her place.

7:46 - 2018年5月20日

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烏龍水々@oolong_cha2

At the encore, Iikubo-san was doing all she could not to cry listening to 12ki’s MC (while Maa-chan teased her, saying “Are you crying already?”), but in the last song, when W Haruna faced each other, her lacrimal gland finally trembled.

I mean, with those lyrics, seeing Haachin’s fullfaced smile before your eyes, of course you’d cry.

8:25 - 2018年5月20日

ジュニア(ｼﾞｭﾆｼﾞｭﾆ)@YZ_junior

W Haruna sang the beginning of the last song together. And right there, holding hands with Haachin, Iikubo-san was bawling.

8:21 - 2018年5月20日

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ななよし@nanayoshi

In the last song, Haachin rested her head on Iikubo-san’s shoulder and then smiled big. For Haachin, Iikubo-san really is a beloved senior…. #mmtour_WMM #morningmusume18

8:30 - 2018年5月20日

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I thought Iikubo and Ogata definitely disliked each other so this is surprising.

Since Iikubo said Ogata’s remarks to her hit deep and all.

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>>61

No, no, it’s because they really get along that they’re able to do that kind of teasing gimmick.

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>>61

In ZDA Ogata Haachin discusses Iikubo Harunan

Like me, she joined as a high schooler.

At the time of the audition, I was a first year in high school. I was going to give up because I thought you had to start from elementary or middle school to be an idol, but because Iikubo-san was there I tried to pass the audition.

Right now, the fact that I’m standing here is thanks to Iikubo-san.

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Ogata wotas all know that she respects Iikubo.

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49: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:30:25.82 0

Maachan has been concerned over 12ki since the beginning.

60: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:39:48.48 0

Maa also noticed early that Sayashi was in a pinch.

She watches closely.

67: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:47:39.14 0

Maa-chan is like a medicine for everyone.

80: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:56:10.02 0

>>67

A clown

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She’s a really good girl. Maa-chan is working hard in the entertainment industry.

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Right when the HelloSute lessons were aired to the public she took Ogata and Haga to Kurokki’s restaurant. She’s a nice paisen.

(Kurokki: Chef Kuroki of Azabu Juuban Kyosuzu, the guy who gives cooking lessons to the girls on HelloSute.)

Shiiine ＼(^^)／☆〜（ゝ。∂）☆〜（ゝ。∂）尾形春水

2017-04-13 21:35:42

http://ameblo.jp/mm-12ki/entry-12265293639.html

And from here it’s about yesterday

On the way back from work

Ishida-san, Satou-san, Akanechin, and I went to eat out together ＼(^^)／

We all ate chanko nabe together~~

Haruna’s favorite omelette was there too

It was a delicious, fun time＼(^^)／

We got to meet up with Kurokki-sensei for the first time in a while too←

Satou-san also treated me to a special dessert

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And so Satou Maa-chan became the support for yet another member’s heart...

110: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 23:38:36.54 0

When it was obvious Ogata wasn’t doing well, Satou got close to her.

From there Ogata would rapidly improved.

She predicted that Ogata’s popularity would go up from there, I guess

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Maa-chan is an angel!

45: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/05/24(木) 22:29:19.42 0

Saved is a pretty amazing word.

[theramseyloft]

Pigeon domestication: Feral Pigeons are not wildlife.

There were some inaccuracies in the first post on this topic, so I’m making a new one. A second edition, if you will.

One of my followers once asked me why it was that pigeons in wildlife rehab should be held when other animals should be handled as little as possible.

I misunderstood the crap out of her question! And it took three posts to realize I had!

Injured or orphaned Wildlife in a rehab center need to be handled as little as possible to avoid imprinting onto humans. They need to be able to survive on their own, and developing the habit of asking humans for hand outs will lead it to becoming malnourished at best and get it killed for being a nuisance at worst.

Mammals in particular may be killed on approach as fearless approach of humans by a wild animal is one of the warning signs that it might have rabies, which requires brain tissue to test for.

Pigeons are not wild animals. On principal, imprinting avoidance should not apply to them.

Furthermore, it causes them a lot of harm.

Pigeons are intensely social birds! Nestlings suffer from touch starvation as intensely as a human infant and can be mentally stunted or even out right stress to death from lack of interaction.

More urgently: We are simply not capable of teaching a domestic pigeon peep to survive in the wild.

Pigeons are social and observational learners, with cognition equivalent to a human 5 year old. Like human children, pigeon squeakers are TAUGHT how to be pigeons. 

Their social structure is VERY human like! Their father takes them out on foraging trips (because mom either has or is getting ready to lay the next clutch) and teaches them where to find food, water, and nest materials, what to eat, where to shelter, and how to interact with other pigeons. How and when to defer to the status of older established flock mates to avoid a fight and how and when to stick up for themselves to make sure they get their fair share of resources.

Songbirds and nearly all other columbids kick their kids out as soon as they are self feeding and they either make it or they don’t. Their parents will chase them out if they come back.

Feral Pigeons only leave their families if the flock has grown too large for local resources to support. 

Truthfully, orphaned feral pigeons do not belong in wildlife rehab at all. Pet shelters should be set up for them. 

Feral Pigeons are not wild animals. Imprinting avoidance should not apply to them any more than it should apply to an orphaned puppy.

Feral puppies don’t get raised among fox kits or coyote or wolf pups at a wildlife rehab and sent out for release “into the wild”.

Seriously. Take a moment to consider the following scenario:

A shelter gets an orphaned or injured puppy. They bottle feed it until it can reliably feed itself, heal it’s injuries, and clean out its parasites.

And then they return that just weaned, newly healthy puppy to the alley from whence it came.

How many of you, of you actually saw this happen, or heard the plan for the puppy’s release, would not be INSTANTLY concerned for its well being?

How many of your guts just clenched at the thoughts that flooded your minds of it getting hit by a car? Going hungry enough to have to eat garbage? Getting into something poisonous or sharp? Dying because it was left alone with no shelter or resources in a hostile environment?

How many of you, upon hearing that that puppy was going back into the street, would protest that it needs a home? That it’s a pet? That it’s helpless? That it’s most likely to die if it’s released?

What would your reaction be if that rehab brushed all of those aside by pointing out that there are adult strays eating garbage and dodging cars, and they’re fine?

How many of you would get upset? How many would protest that those strays aren’t healthy? That they are skinny, full of parasites, visibly sick, and limping from old wounds?

How would you react if that rehabber looked you dead in the eye and said “Those are wolves and they should be free.”

What if, at all shelters, only purebred puppies, or puppies with obvious fancy traits were put up for open adoption, and all mutts were “released” back onto the street, with all offers to adopt them turned down because they were born outside? What if you could only request to take home a mutt puppy if it lost the use of a limb and was deemed unreleasable?

This happens to pigeons every day, and they are no less domesticated than dogs are.

Dogs have been traveling with humans since the time when there were several species of human!

But pigeons have been with us since our settlements became permanent, and that relationship is nothing to sneeze at!

Do you know why doves have the religeous significance they do?

Because of the Wild Rock Dove, which is to domestic pigeons what the wolf is to domestic dogs.

Rock Doves are cliff nesters native to Turkey, India, the northernmost coast of Africa and southern Europe, who live only in very specific locations: Seaside cliffs on the edge of deserts.

They are grain eaters that need to drink a certain amount of fresh water every day.

If you were lost in the desert, finding a Rock Dove would save your life, if you could keep it in sight. 

During the day, it would lead you to water because it can’t go a day with out. 

At night, it would lead you back to safe, habitable shelter. After all, if there are predators or noxious gas in abundance, the Rock Doves couldn’t live there either.

It’s true that pigeons were initially domesticated for meat, but the Rock Dove’s bond to a specific home site and the unerring navigation that returned them reliably to it every night lead them to being domesticated more like dogs than any other livestock.

Pigeon holes are really easy to make. It’s just an even opening in a mud or stone wall deep enough for a fully grown bird to be completely sheltered and wide enough for two pigeons to build their nest and raise two peeps in.

Babies could be collected from the wild at around two weeks of age, feathered enough to thermoregulate and just starting to wean from pigeon milk to seed. At this age, they could be moved into the man made pigeon holes and hand fed until they could feed themselves.

It would be three to four weeks before they began to be really capable of flight, so the man made dovecote became the Home site onto which the babies imprinted to just as much as their handler.

If the keepers were smart, they brought home a group of babies, because rock doves are social with a cooperative family structure.

If taken at the right ages, that group formed a mini flock, just big enough to watch each others backs and their surroundings on foraging trips farther and farther afield. 

When pigeons take mates from another flock, the pair decides which family to join based on the security of the nest site and availability of resources, so pigeons from a man made dovecote always had the advantage of superior security. New mates came home with the tamed peeps and learned by observation that the human care takers were harmless protectors.

If the farmer was smart, they’d only harvest meat or eggs sparingly and at night so that the pigeons would not associate the human with being preyed upon.

Because pigeons could go out and forage for themselves and be trusted to return, the farmer didn’t have to feed them, and a person could not be too poor to own pigeons.

Not only were they live stock that fed themselves and brought more birds back with them, the guano of a well fed pigeon is one of the most nutritious fertilizers on earth!

If you want crops to grow in a desert landscape, moist pigeon guano worked into the ground will work wonders!

Pigeon guano eventually became so highly prized that people who could afford to hired armed guards to protect their cote!

We kinda ALWAYS knew about pigeon navigation, but the Greeks and Romans wrote a LOT about their use as messengers.

Messengers were not just any domestic pigeon! Speed and navigational accuracy were the traits their lines were selected for exclusively, so these were expensive specialty birds, especially beloved by the well-to-do and the military.

Every fort and palace had a cote for messenger pigeons so that they could recieve the most urgent of messages in situations where a human runner was just not fast enough.

Royal emissaries and platoons of soldiers out on a mission were sent with a supply of birds from that palace or fort so that if they needed to get a message out, they could send it by the fastest carrier over the straightest path.

Pigeons continued to be used in the messenger capacity until only about 50 years ago. 

During this time when every one depended on them for swift communication, EVERY ONE loved and revered pigeons!

Their diversity so inspired Charles Darwin that he did a TON of his genetics research using them as models! And pigeons were so beloved by Victorian England that his editors tried to twist his arm to write a book entirely about pigeons instead of what became the Origin of Species!

When Eugenics began to fascinate the European well to do and dog shows came to be, pigeon varieties also blossomed! 

There were pigeons all over the world at this point, and different regions had so many different ideas of what shape and color and pattern made a beautiful Pigeon! While some valued the appearance, others valued a unique areal performance or a more musical singing voice.

There are at least as many distinct breeds of pigeon now as there are of dog! I have heard that there are more, possibly even considerably more, but I don’t know enough about dog breed diversity to say for certain whether or not those assessments are accurate.

We have taken pigeons EVERYWHERE with us! And when we loved and took care of them, everybody benefited.

But about 50 years ago was when technology caught up with and surpassed the speed of pigeon borne messages, and pigeons were slower with more expensive upkeep.

As previously stated, the military were not the only people who loved pigeons.

But a LOT of the people who kept them after the military phased them out in the US were immigrants and people of color. 

It was a status symbol not to need gardens or farms or livestock, so pigeon coops became associated largely with poor neighboorhoods and immigrants. 

As pigeons fell out of favor, and more and more ferals started living on the closest thing to a comfortable environment: Buildings. 

As they were fed by fewer and fewer people and had access to less and less grain, it became more common to see the white streaked splatters of the pure uric acid that pigeons excrete on an empty stomach.

Uric acid eats stone, concrete, asphalt, and especially metal.

Feral Pigeons thus became linked to property damage, and the smear campaign that coined the description “Rats with wings” ( http://www.audubon.org/news/the-origins-our-misguided-hatred-pigeons ) and linked them with filth and disease was the final blow to the public’s esteem for this animal that has been our partner and companion through THOUSANDS of years of history.

That description of pigeons was all it took to turn thousands of years of adoration and respect into knee jerk revulsion. 

Add the fact that domestication favors year round reproduction, and 50 years later, the feral population of pigeons is staggering. 

Millions are spent to kill them off and drive them out using everything from poison to spikes to nets, tar, traps, and fines levied on the kind souls that recognize their hunger and feed them.

The Street Pigeon Project spearheaded in Germany has found that the most effective way to decrease the feral population and minimize the damage they cause to buildings is to, get this: Take FUCKING CARE OF THEM!!!

They built a big, comfortable rooftop loft with lots of nesting spaces, provided a good mix or grain, seed, legumes, and calcuim, and swapped out the eggs with fakes.

The unrestrained, non-coerced feral pigeons spent 80% of their time in that loft, only leaving to stretch their wings.

It was more comfortable than the awnings, eves, attics, and signs that had been the best nesting grounds available, so they left! 

With no need to range out to look for food, they didn’t go very far.

On full bellies, with good food, their poo wasn’t just pure uric acid anymore!

With eggs swapped out as they were found, reproduction decreased by 95%!

And the best part? It cost SO much less to house and feed the ferals than it did to try to exterminate them!

That’s not even scratching the surface of the OTHER benefits that could be extended from that project!

Pigeon eggs are edible! Even if the thought squicks out people and they can’t be regulated, animals can eat pigeon eggs too. They could be donated to wild life rehabs and animal shelters.

A street pigeon project could partner with community gardens to clean the lofts and keep the fertilizer they gather. THEY could also use the eggs to compost!

Cleaning the loft could also count as community service!

Pigeons did not invade cities. We abandoned them there, after they helped us coordinate building and connecting them.

They are, in every sense of the words, abandoned, forgotten sky puppies.

And they deserve to be treated with the same concern and compassion as every other lost pet.

Adult ferals would be more hurt than helped by capture, but they should have the option of a safe place to go to be fed and cared for, and weaned babies deserve to go to loving homes.

I know there are too many to home right now and that isn’t feasible for rehabs that get hundreds of them, but where rehoming isn’t an option, they should at LEAST be acclimated in a group with supplemental feeding until they find their way in the world.

Pigeons were made what they are by us. They were abandoned by us. 

Everything we complain about regarding pigeons are traits WE intentionally bred into them! And we inexplicably treat *them* like the invaders after abandoning them the second they were no longer deemed useful. 

We even forgot that the pidge we see every day on the street are domesticated birds! 

They are literally stray dogs with wings!

It’s time we remember that relationship and remind other people.

And please, please… be kind to the Sky Puppies. 

They deserve to be loved again.

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Alright, let’s examine the physical state of old Mikey for a second:

Baggy, sunken eyes

Long greasy unkempt hair that seems to have greyed prematurely (compare Mike’s hair color to the more forest-green shade of Raphael’s beard)

Emaciated

Multiple missing teeth

Now, aside from sleep deprivation, the usual reasons for sunken eyes are:

- Dehydration - Sun exposure - Dramatic weight loss - Aging

The first three certainly seem to be factors, but as for the last one Brandon says that 50 years is like 20 years in mutant turtle time. That means Mikey is more 30 than he is 60, but he looks way older than his given age, especially when compared to Raph.

On the subject of aging, let’s talk about that premature greying. Contrary to popular belief, grey hair isn’t connected to stress. It can, however, be connected to a vitamin B12 deficiency, which has a variety of other symptoms as well, including mental problems (such as brain fog and dementia) and chronic pain (which may explain why he’s taken to carrying a cane with him wherever he goes rather than just his nunchucks, and has a tendency to hunch his shoulders when standing idle)

But a vitamin deficiency comes as no surprise, seeing as Mikey chooses to eat the black rotten leftover pizzas in the diner rather than go out and try to forage for something that wouldn’t give the average person eight different types of food poisoning. Oddly enough, he has a means of leaving the desert and finding something else to eat. But he instead chooses to remain close to a rundown building in the middle of nowhere that... according to him... regularly leaves him exposed to acid rain and sand storms. 

It’s implied that the reason Mikey never made it to Oasis is because he lost the map he made, but I don’t think that’s the case. He rode Chompy and lead his family through the most treacherous part of the journey without so much as glancing at Mira’s arm-map, and he seemed to continuously have a good understanding of where he was and where he was going like he’d taken that path a thousand times.

He knows Oasis. He could’ve gone to paradise any time he wanted, but he chose to stay in the wasteland. Not only that, but he shows serious signs of self-neglect. Lack of decent food aside, he clearly doesn’t take any care of himself, hence the sloppy unkempt appearance and missing teeth.

So, what do we know?

He was separated from his brothers around 50 years ago, and has been unsure if they were alive since then. Leonardo, for one, is someone he’s certain is long dead

He took it upon himself to adopt and take care of the family pets

He ended up discovering Oasis. Rather than stay put however, he made a map and ventured out to other colonies, and was soon hailed a beloved mystic

Eventually, something happened that caused him to run out of steam, but rather than venture to Oasis he wandered into the desert, and eventually fell into a spiral of self-neglect

With all this in mind, I have a theory:

“I have been seeking Oasis for countless years. I’ve eradicated legions to find that map. If the green place exists, it belongs to Maximus Kong, lord of the wasteland!” - Leonardo/Maximus

So, on a different note, let’s say you’re Michelangelo. It’s been roughly a few decades since the destruction of your home and the death of your brothers and friends. It hasn’t been easy, but thanks to the support of the family pets you now hold responsibility for, you move forward. In time you find hope: an untouched world of water, trees and mountains, filled with life and safety. Not wanting to keep this wonderful discovery to yourself, you venture out to tell other mutants about it; small colonies of families desperate for hope. This combined with your knowhow concerning the world before the mutagen bomb and general spirituality, causes you to be hailed as a mystic.

You embrace this title. You have a purpose now. You’re doing good, you’re valued, you’re helping people.

But then, as time goes by, the tribes you witnessed to seem to fall into a pattern of being gruesomely eradicated one by one. Some lord of the wasteland has been hunting for the map you made, and has been killing off the few people you’ve come to know in the process. As a result you end up getting rid of your map and secluding yourself with your pets. Time passes on, and things reach a point where your mind begins to deteriorate. The place you chose to be your shelter, despite being dilapidated and unsafe, provides you with little things that remind you of home; arcade machines, videos, pizza (or what’s left of it anyway), and you cling to these things as your hold on reality slowly falls apart. 

Eventually you forget what you were so sad about You forget you don’t have to stay where you settled down But you do know you’re a mystic with all the pizza and cartoons you could possibly want. You’re not alone with Chompy and Icecream Kitty, especially now that inanimate objects keep talking to you.

Your memories of the past are vague and selective, but you know enough to recognize your brothers. You know enough to recognize your map (though you can’t quite remember how you lost it). You know enough to understand that there are certain gaps in your memories, but you’re too foggy and carefree to really want to dig all too deep into it.

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Every cup of coffee contains three ingredients: beans, water, and community. The coffee bean, the caffeine king, a powerful ingredient that it is beloved all on its own. Steeping in hot water,  the beans emit aromatics that spark the senses, “it’s morning!” The coffee is excited to see you, it’s a warm presence in your hands as you pick it up from the barista or off of the kitchen counter. Sometimes it’s too excited, and needs to be tempered with something creamy or something sweet, or maybe both. Coffee is not judgemental. It doesn’t care that you’re drinking it because you need to get through your morning meeting, or increase your ambition to create art. Warming up on a cold day or excited to meet someone new, coffee is hopeful. Rojo’s Roastery owner J. David Waldman has made it his mission to create the best start to your day. Using his highly trained palate, a background in chemistry, and a lifelong curiosity of coffee.

The coffee shop, formerly Lambertville Pottery from the early 20th century, has high ceilings and a beautifully exposed skeleton. Waldman embraced the look with large shelves stocked full of 150lb burlap bags of raw coffee at the back of the shop. The bags sit next to a three barrel sample roaster from the 1930’s, used to test new coffees. Instead of firing up the large roaster and possibly over-roasting the beans, the sample roaster allows for more control and smaller batches. Waldman explains, “You’re evaluating small batches before you start buying massive amounts [of coffee].” He has retrofitted the vintage roaster with modern technology: adding a digital readout with a temperature gauge and flowmeter in each barrel. It looks like something out of a science fiction novel, “But it’s not steampunk, for appearance. This is actually a fully working, state-of-the-art, 1930’s, super rare machine that I resurrected.” Waldeman has meticulously rebuilt the machine, finding parts through friends of friends, and even hand-making his own leather strap to help turn the compartments that roast the coffee.

Past the sample roaster, there is a large, orange forklift, flaunting a Rojo’s sticker. “I bought a forklift, which I jokingly say is the reason why I wanted to do this.” Next to the forklift, you’ll notice a small area of the roastery that is occupied with a stainless steel table covered with meters that measure TDS (total dissolved solids), density, color, and everything in between to narrow in on color and taste along with lab glassware and laboratory grinders. Waldman calls this his laboratory where he tests his coffees and decides what to put in the shop. “People will argue that you walk the line between art and science at the level of coffee that we’re doing it.”

Near the entrance, the shop softens its look with an assortment of wooden tables, couches, and a tall granite counter for people to work. Near the couches, there is a bin of children’s books. Mixing form and function, there is always something to look at while you’re visiting Rojo’s. He wants to spark your curiosity entering his shop. He wants you to be asking questions, “What is this place? Why is there a forklift? What are these machines?”

Waldman was introduced to coffee at a young age. His father was stationed in Turkey as an army medic and as a result, brought Turkish coffee into the Waldman household; David was hooked. His dad would prepare the Turkish coffee after dinner and, as he got older, was honored when his dad asked him to prepare the coffee himself, “The smell got me...I thought the ritual was awesome, the aromatics were awesome, the taste was awesome.” It quickly turned into a passion. He recalls, “I remember as a kid using a Chemex and a french press in the 60’s. And going to the Reading Terminal Market [in Philadelphia] and watching them roast coffee. Then using my family’s oven and a baking sheet pan I tried to roast my own coffee. I was always on a mission, buying better grinders and asking the next set of questions ‘How can I make this better?’”

Rojos offers both brew and bean, all roasted in-house. On some days, you can smell the coffee being roasted blocks away. Bosco’s Blend is a milder well-balanced bean, perfect in a French Press alongside your favorite pastry, while Midwives’ Moonshine sits on the other end of the spectrum. It is more intense and some say it could, “burn your eyebrows right off.” (in a good way!). Waldman has traveled the world to pick out the perfect beans and flavors to provide in his shop.

In an effort to better understand the coffee that he is importing and roasting, Waldman visits microlot farms old and new along the coffee belt. These farms, which are generally no larger than a hectare, are better for the coffee. Farmers have been tending to these lots for generations and have familiarized themselves with the local soils. These generational farmers produce the highest quality beans found at Rojo’s. When a promising farm is found, he imports samples from the farms he visits and roasts them in his modernized sample roaster.

In his lab, he’ll taste up to 8 different beans at a time, which sounds exhausting, especially when it’s something as flavorful as coffee. “After 50 or 60 I start getting fatigued.” he says with a warm smile. To give his palette a break, he’ll use cleansers such as plain wafer crackers or carbonated water.

The water used in coffee deserves just as much respect as the beans themselves. To the left of the barista counter, there is a ladder leading up to a narrow, unassuming loft. Waldman points to the opening at the top and explains that there is a state-of-the-art water purification system just beyond the rungs. “We actually manufacture [water] so to speak, in all of our cafes.”

Through the process of controlling the TDS (total dissolved solids) in PPM (parts per million), Rojo’s can independently control the pH to any specification of water in their shop. “It’s basically a process where since coffee is 98.5% water, the water has to be good.” If the water is too hard, minerals in the water overpower the coffee, too soft, and the coffee itself will be too strong. The manufactured water needs to be well-balanced to have the correct “flavor exchange” with the coffee. These flavors range from nutty to fruity and everything in between.

In order to find this range of flavor, one needs to first know how to taste. Waldman, in addition to being a musician, beekeeper, and business owner, is a licensed coffee taster. He is a master in the art of cupping, a process which involves the use of your sight, smell and taste to evaluate coffee. Understanding the entire flavor profile of each bean and the quality of the water is important when deciding on which coffees to sell at Rojo’s. It’s a process much like wine tasting, using certain sipping techniques to find specific notes in each cup. Waldman honed his cupping and sensory skills through the Specialty Coffee Association of America and the Coffee Quality Institute resulting in the certification of a Licensed Q-Instructor.

A Q-Instructor’s promise is to maintain the integrity of coffee and the farmers who produce it. Waldman practices this mantra, “If we don’t like it [the coffee], because of our social responsibility, we’ll give very specific comments back to the farmer. One of the skills I have is my ability to correlate farming practices with my taste to give improvement. And our goal, under our social contract, is to pay farmers more money so they can make a better living.” It is the duty of a licensed Q-Instructor to provide a fair trade; for a coffee that is unlike any other in the world, the farmer gets valuable feedback from a certified expert, a fair living wage and a sustainable partnership.

When he is not testing coffee, Waldman uses his well trained palette to collaborate with other small business owners who are experimenting with flavor, “I really like meeting and collaborating with the Thought Leaders in whatever field it might be; whether it’s cross-pollination, or just taking things to where things haven’t been done before.” He likes to ask his favorite question, “What role do you want the coffee to play in this?” He’s teamed up with a number of breweries, including Troon, Riverhorse, Tired Hands, Triumph and Vault. Bringing people together is an undercurrent at Rojos.

Every time you walk into Rojos, there is light music playing, usually the latest indie band. There are always people working, with laptops plugged into the industrial, yellow outlets hanging from the ceiling. Friends are meeting up, first dates unfolding, people running in and out; it’s a true watering hole. There will be Rojos employees having a staff meeting at the couches, tasting new coffees, and discussing new products coming into the shop. Next to them are cafe tables looking out over the neighborhood through a large garage door. People outside are walking their dogs and moving to and from their destinations. If you take a closer look at the garage door frame, you will notice notches on the wall, where children’s heights are recorded from years past.

After Waldman was laid-off from Sony Music in New York City, he decided he wanted to start a project closer to home. “When I left the music business in 2005, it took me almost a year to figure out what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it and where. I took a compass and made a 40 mile radius around Hopewell.”

After exploring different areas within his radius, Waldman found Lambertville, and the large industrial building in the North End of town that he nicknames “NoLa”. Waldman describes, “I had a vision that this could become a community center, and where people of all walks could come to this safe haven. Where no matter what was going on in their lives, no matter what they were doing or wrestling with, this would be a place where we’d open our arms and welcome them. Just relax, look around, and you’re going to meet some amazing people here. The idea was that this was going to be the hub.” When the shop opened in 2005, he gave the building life, and others followed suit. Now in addition to his roastery, “NoLa” has been built up with a specialty wood-fired pizza restaurant, a rowing studio, a dance studio and a number of creative work spaces, the building is also only a stone’s throw away from Owowcow, a fantastic gourmet ice cream parlor. Waldman’s dreams of a center for community have become a reality.

For thousands of years, coffeehouses have been the hub of society. Philosophers, artists, and thought leaders would gather and have meetings, wax poetic, and discuss their passions all while sipping the age-old beverage. Coffee brings energy, ideas, and ambition to the fabric of humanity. It’s where the Encyclopedia was born and where the founding fathers discussed annexing from England. Rojo’s is an honest representation of this history. It’s a place for conducting business and exchanging ideas. Whether it’s forming a new country or just answering day to day emails, interviewing for a job or catching up with an old friend, meeting at a coffee shop is made of three ingredients: water, beans, and community.

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  Dear Mother Sam, With my 20th birthday fast approaching, I’ve realised many things. I haven’t taken enough opportunities to tell you how much I love and appreciate you since I hit my teen years, especially those rocky few years where I was so horrible to you for no good god damn reason other than I was drinking and being an awful human. I never really thought about how much you’ve done for me and sacrificed for me until now. I see these things now because I am at a point in my life where I am starting to have to do the same things for those I love. We’re very alike, and if I think it sucks having to make sacrifices then you probably did too. But that’s the beautiful thing about a mother’s love. For that, I am forever thankful. We had a rough start to our lives as a family unit. You were a single, divorced, young parent in a time where it was still frowned upon and the government were only just starting to support that kind of family unit. You had to fight for everything. If there’s one thing I’m grateful to have inherited from you, apart from some great genes, it’s that stubborn strength. You never gave up or backed down in any situation, even when you were scared because that’s just the type of person you are. Still to this day, you are stubborn as hell and don’t take no for an answer. You still fight for everything you believe in and never let anyone tell you anything different. You still make decisions based on what is best for us as a family, not just yourself. Even though I’m not an adult and should be making many of those choices myself. I’ve seen you at your lowest moments and never once have I doubted your strength. You are the strongest person I know, not just the strongest woman.

So many people have negative opinions of young parents. You were 20 when you fell pregnant with me. A total accident, and in the 90’s that was still somewhat problematic. However, having a young parent was honestly such as blessing. When the majority of my friends have parents in their late 40’s or early 50’s, you only just hitting your 40’s is brilliant. You’re a tattooed woman, a pierced woman, a cultured and educated woman. You’re not oblivious to the struggles young people face because it wasn’t so long ago that you were in my shoes. And it hasn’t really changed all that much since you were my age. Although I know you have forever been criticised by your “liberal and soft” parenting skills by other older parents you had it spot on. I’ve never had a friend that didn’t say to me at some pint “I wish I had a mam like yours”. You’re a second parent to my closest friends, and I think they almost love you as much as they love their own mothers. You always let me be my own person, never pushing me to be someone I didn’t want to be or do things I didn’t want to do. You let me pick my clothes, decide what I wanted my hair cut like, what I wanted to read, what music I wanted to listen to. Prime example, you used to let me dress myself for nursery. The other parents had some opinions about this when their kids rocked up in perfect coordinated outfits and I waddled on in wearing a jumper and wellies in the height of summer. But that’s what I wanted to wear, so that’s what I wore. If I wanted to listen to Rob Zombie in the car at 5 then god damn it I did. The first time I wanted my hair cut short in primary school you knew I would hate it at the time, but you let me do it anyway because that’s what I wanted and it’s how I would learn what I like and what I don’t. Are comics a totally acceptable bed time story? Too right they are. When I wanted to join ballet, you knew I would hate it after a few weeks but you let me go anyone. Then when I threw up out of nervousness at a summer show you let me quit. Must have only been there a couple of months, and you bought me the full ballerina get up for it. Now I look back at all that wasted money and wonder how on earth you kept your cool. Bravo mother. Never agreed with the times you tied my hair up though. Even as a toddler I wasn’t a fan of all that faffing, but I commend you for trying to make my questionable appearance a little more adaptable.

Childhood was simplistic but oh so memorable. I grew up in a time when technology was starting to expand and grow rapidly, and all the kid’s I knew were bought these things in order to entertain them with no effort from parents or buy their love. Not us though. We still had a tiny TV with a handful of channels, a record player and imaginations. My favourite childhood memories are all wonderfully simplistic. Moving the dining room table, putting on a vinyl record (probably Abba or something, I don’t remember the music so much) and having dining room discos. Ever day on the walk home from school I would climb trees and find a “special thing” that you would incorporate into my story that night. We went fairy hunting and you told me I had them living in my bedroom so I used to make beds for them out of the padding in your bras (sorry about that). You told me garlic grew in men’s beards and the bigger the beard the more garlic you could harvest. You told me there was a troll that lived in a tunnel near the house and told me that my Stepdad and his brother were troll slayers. I thought they were the coolest people in the world for a while after that, but they also had beards so I was always garlic hunting. When I was obsessed with Polly Pocket you bought me the best advent calendar to date for Christmas. It had the Polly doll behind door 1, then gave you bits of outfits. But that wasn’t the end of it, oh no. You wrote tiny notes from Polly Pocket and hid them in my room at night for me to find in the morning. I had a whole dress-up box filled with all sorts of random clothing and questionable accessories. Possibly my favourite thing is that you were a parent ahead of your times. You said a massive “fuck off” to gender norms and stereotypes for kids, to gendered clothing and toys. If I wanted to wear boys clothing, you let me. It is just clothing. If I wanted a toy that was “meant for boys” you would let me have it if you could afford it, like that toy garage with the cars. I was more interested in climbing trees and getting dirty outside that going to Girl Scouts or dance classes like the other girls. You let me get absolutely filthy, let me play sports if I wanted, helped me climb those trees. When I dressed up as a builder in school as a kid, many parents raised an eyebrow because it was a “boy costume”. You loved it. I was never in a box based on my sex, and continue to reject that box now. You never told me I couldn’t do something because of my gender and that is so vital for a child. It’s meant I know no there’s nothing I can’t do if I want it bad enough to fight for it.

You never shied away from conversation topics many parents tend to dread. The sex talk was seemingly a walk in the park for you, you handed me a book (a very graphic and scientific book at that) about where babies came from then answered every question I could possibly answer. You were always good at that. When I got to the age of asking “why” all the time you would mostly give me a scientific factual answer instead of spouting nonsense. I never asked why grass was green again because you just confused my 4-year-old brain. You always educated me about the LGBTQ+ community and the issues they faced to the best of your ability. I’m glad I can now return the favour and educate you on modern LGBTQ+ issues now that I am part of that community and experiencing them first hand. When I started first questioning my sexuality, you were so unbelievably supportive. You would talk about anything and everything with me. You would tell me about world issues because you wanted me to be aware. You’d teach me about other cultures. You tell me about what it was like growing up in the army so I am aware of the ways other people live. You educated me on what a healthy relationship was, what was normal and acceptable, what to be careful about. Being so up front with me helped me so much. When guys tried to make a move that I wasn’t ready for, you had taught me how to say no and that it was okay to say no. When I would be upset over the fact boys had dumped me because I wouldn’t have sex with them, you would comfort me and tell me how strong I was and how proud of me you were. You made me aware of mental health issues so that when I hit 14 and started experiencing depression and anxiety I knew what was happening. It also meant I understood other people’s struggles and how to behave with them to help them. I don’t personally know many people who were brought up having such an understanding for these things as I did at such a young age.

When I started blooming into a little baby bat and had the dreaded phases, you were supportive. You told me when I looked like an idiot, which admittedly was most of the time, but you were still supportive of my expression. You took me to concerts, made me clothing to fit my 7 year old goth desires, gave me my first eyeliner which is a vital element of that iconic emo/scene phase I went through, bought me CD’s of bands I knew you really didn’t want to hear blasting through the house (Black Veil Brides and Brokencyde anyone?), gave me a hair straighter and didn’t question those god awful hair extensions. I do however apologise for the ungodly amount of hairspray I used in order to get the perfect swoopy fringe and teased bouffant, I put several holes in the ozone layer and made the house stink of Got2B Glued. When I wanted to start dying my hair in primary school, you let me. Again, this raised eyebrows among the stuffy parents but you had the brightest red hair known to man when I was a baby so it was only to be expected that I wanted hair like my mam at some pint. From year 4 onwards, my hair had purple highlights, was totally purple or red, and in year 6 I found the beloved “Midnight Blue” dye that gave me the nickname blueberry muffin among my friends. I first bleached my hair at 12 after months of begging. I wanted blue hair to further amplify the scene look. My love of coloured hair has never stopped. Although you hate me for dying the bathroom grout a multitude of colours I know you will never stop me changing it. I remember being asked, “How on earth did you manage to let your mam do that to your hair?!”. I just asked. Same with my piercings. When I started asking to get my nose pierced around the time I wanted the blue hair, you told me if I saved the money for it and did my research then I could do it. So that’s what I did. That was always the rule with any form of body modification, along with my hair changes that were as frequent as my mood changes. I had to do my research and pay for it myself with money I saved up. All my other friends were getting piercings and having to hide them or were forced to take them out as soon as they got home. Not you though. Never batted an eyelid. Hell, when I was 15 you blackmailed me into getting my second lip piercing because it annoyed you that my face was unsymmetrical. The only thing you ever fought me on was stretching my ears, but I did it anyway. I stretched my ear and let it close up a total of 3 times over the course of a few years. You accepted it when I was 17 though, and now both my lobes have 12mm holes in them that I honestly think I would look so odd without. You probably still hate them, but again you’ve always encouraged me to be my own person and express myself however I want. I wanted tattoos from a young age. I remember doodling designs I wanted when I was a toddler. You always told me once I was 18, if I had wanted the tattoo for over two years I could get it. You educated me on tattoos, the laws regarding them. When I came home at 15 and said my friend knew a tattoo artist that would tattoo a 16-year-old with parental consent, you told me something I will pass on to any children I may have in the future. “The law states you have to be 18 to get a tattoo. If an artist is willing to risk losing their licence just to make some extra money from tattooing an underage person, then they are not reputable artist and you shouldn’t be getting tattoos from them.” We got matching tattoos this year, something we had said we would do when I was a toddler. My first tattoo. I listened to at least one thing you said when I was a teenager. You’re a cool mam.

One thing I never expected when I came out was for people to say negative things to you. I don’t know why that never crossed my mind, but I guess when you come out you prepare yourself for all the struggles you’re going to face personally. That’s a luxury I had that I don’t think I gave you. I had time to mentally prepare myself for that, think about how I would handle certain situations. You didn’t get that time to prepare. You were throw in at the deep end. Much like when you became a parent in the first place I suppose. I never thought you would have people ask you if you were disappointed that you had a gay daughter, or say they were sorry I was gay as if they were saying they were sorry for the loss of your child. I never thought people would point fingers and “blame” you and your “liberal” parenting for me turning out gay. I never thought you could have lost friends over it. I didn’t you expect for you to have to fight for my identity and validity as a queer woman, I thought that would just be my fight. You’ve never once complained about it though. Thank you.

I am so lucky to have a parent who is so passionately supportive of me, who actively tells me they’re proud of me for everything I do, who encourages me to chase my dreams but also tells me that it’s okay to give myself a break, to relax and just enjoy life. You believe in me when I don’t, you tell me I’m capable when I don’t think I am, you listen to me when I need it most, you are a friend. I am so grateful to have the relationship we do, I know how lucky I am. Although we butt heads and get snappy with each other, I know I can always count on you to be there for me when I need you. I know you’ll be proud of me. I make sure I’m doing that every day. I love you so much, mam.

Yours, Steph x

An Open Letter to My Mother Dear Mother Sam, With my 20th birthday fast approaching, I've realised many things. I haven't taken enough opportunities to tell you how much I love and appreciate you since I hit my teen years, especially those rocky few years where I was so horrible to you for no good god damn reason other than I was drinking and being an awful human.

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What Steven Moffat Doesn’t Understand About Grief, And Why It’s Killing Doctor Who

NOVEMBER 27, 2013 / TEA LEAVES AND DOG EARS

There’s a popular joke I’ve seen floating around on Tumblr for a while now. It goes like this:

“Joss Whedon, Steven Moffat and George R.R. Martin walk into a bar and everyone you’ve ever loved dies.”

Here’s the problem, though: George R. R. Martin and Joss Whedon are, of course, infamous for killing off the characters that they know are almost universally beloved by fans for precisely the reason that they are beloved and Martin and Whedon know it’ll have huge emotional impact. They pick the harmless bunny of the group and then give them some brutal offing — Tara on Buffy, Wash on Serenity, Ned Stark in A Game of Thrones being an easy handful of examples. But who has Steven Moffat actually killed off?

The two-parter that he wrote during the Christopher Eccleston/Russell T. Davies era literally ends with the Doctor blissfully proclaiming that “Just this once — everybody lives!” In fact, a woman who lost her leg years earlier is restored to bipedalism by space magic. It was an amazing, heartwarming scene specifically because of the first part of that sentence — “just this once.”

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But apart from that two-part episode, the Davies era was plenty bloody. While Doctor Who is ostensibly a kid’s show, Davies made it clear that plenty of innocent people have been killed — often en masse — during especially high-stakes alien attacks despite the Doctor’s heroic intervention. And let’s not forget that Davies kicks off the entire reboot of the show by announcing that (nearly) all of the Time Lords and (nearly) all of the Daleks were wiped out by our genocidal and deeply guilt-ridden hero.

That was a hell of a way to re-introduce a popular kid’s show back to the airwaves, but it was perfect. It made the Doctor a new and mysterious character for people who’d never seen the show before, and it changed the way older fans looked at him. You couldn’t just continue down the same old lines and pick things up after all that time without some real change and expect it to work. And the change Davies employed worked beautifully. Until last week, of course — but we’ll touch on that later.

So let’s get back to the central question: who has Steven Moffat killed?

Well, on the last season of Sherlock, fans were reeling when Moffat had the show’s eponymous lead jump to his death, although with the promise that we’d find out how he faked it when the show resumed. So that doesn’t count.

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Well, what about Moffat’s next Who episode in Series 2, The Girl in the Fireplace? Reinette (Madame de Pompadour) dies, but she dies of old age because — and don’t even get me started on how annoying this concept is — the Doctor ditches her to go back in the fireplace one last time, apparently forgetting that it always results in a huge time jump. So that doesn’t quite count, as Moffat was fulfilling history.

Next up is Blink, Moffat’s first chilling installment of the once brilliant and now sadly tiresome Weeping Angels. Who dies? Well, the nice DI that Sally chats with dies of old age after being displaced in time. The same fate is afforded to Sally’s best friend, but she does manage to write a letter letting us know everything’s pretty much cool, because who wouldn’t want to be taken away from their family and friends to churn butter for 60 years?

But other than that? Nobody. A theme seems to be emerging.

The Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead? Well, Moffat does kill off River Song and her whole crew, but then has their souls uploaded onto the library server so that they’ll never “truly” die. Again, it’s an extremely softened death, similar to the “old age/time displacement,” in that it’s sad but any real cause for grief has been removed.

Then Moffat, of course, took over the show as show runner. And once again, people just seem to keep… not dying. Part of the problem is that Moffat’s a big fan of the Giant Reset Button — so much so that he literally wrote in a Giant Reset Button into the episode Journey to the Center of the TARDIS. One step above the “It was all a dream” plot, the Giant Reset Button absolves the characters and the writers of any repercussions and they can carry on as they were, even though we, the audience, saw a “major event” that is evidently no longer relevant. You can have your fun and adventure, but you need not learn or grow or change from it.

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Other notable not-deaths include any time Rory “died” in the series, the almost-people clones, the Doctor himself during the impossibly confusing 6th series finale, Vincent Van Gogh and, finally, The Ponds who were killed off exactly the way Sally’s security guard almost-lover in Blink was — by being displaced in time in such a way that the Doctor, for hand-wavey reasons, couldn’t just go pick them back up again and they seem to do just fine living in the past because they have each other, I guess.

All of this is leading up to my biggest problem of all: the recent 50th Anniversary Special in which Moffat, not merely content to sap any trace of blood or death or grief or loss from his own era, removed the basis of the show’s reboot plot:

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The mass genocide that the Doctor committed — all the people he killed and all of the times he wrestled with that decision and was forced to come to the conclusion that it was for the best — simply never happened now. All of the amazing episodes in which the Doctor, overcome with grief, spoke about the tragic necessity of his decision are rendered meaningless by this newly-invented War Doctor who allegedly “didn’t count” until now. Now he counts. Maybe. Because of the magic of love and Bad Wolf.

Now of course you can argue that the show plays with time constantly, and that it’s possible that this is a new time stream in which it didn’t happen, and that’s all well and good. But the fact of the matter is that from this point on, the Doctor is no longer complicated by this event. Moffat, who has never had the best track record with character development as it is, has actively written a plot which removes an enormous amount of change and progression from the show’s lead character.

But more importantly than that, when you have no death, when nothing truly has weight or scale, when decisions don’t stick and nobody feels the consequences… it’s hard to care about anything. The stakes on the show feel so low at this point that a once addictive program is unengaging, dull and hollow. Even the 50th special had no real gravitas because we were basically watching a plot be un-done, rather than made. We were watching a character be un-banished, rather than created. For a celebration of 50 years of a television show, it felt awfully like a celebration of a writer who’s only been running it for 4 years. And, perhaps most irritatingly for a Davies fan, the complete erasure of everything that was developed during that previous era.

I don’t think it’s an insult against Davies, though — Moffat does it constantly to himself. Amelia Pond grows up without parents because they were erased by a crack in space and time. When they are restored to her by virtue of yet another giant re-set button, we never see them again. Amy rarely talks about them. You cannot have a character whose parents were taken from her at a young age, who then gets them back — and remembers that she had lost them in the first place — and not see a perceivable change in said character. Similarly, you cannot rob that character of her baby, remove her ability to have children, and have the biggest consequence be that she becomes a model who’s moody with her husband for his own good.

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Or take the latest companion: Clara cannot live and die hundreds of times for her good buddy the Doctor (who she’d known for, what, a month?) and then basically brush it off like it’s nothing.

We can talk for days about Moffat’s other problems as a writer — the sexism, the homophobia — and those are all valid complaints, but what will always be my biggest gripe is his fear of consequences. When you cannot deal properly with grief or loss or change, you cannot write believable characters or interesting stories. And as long as this show lacks believable, real, characters and engaging stories, it will continue to suffer. So please, for the good of Doctor Who, shed a little blood and actually deal with it. Revel in consequences. Let your human characters behave like humans. In short: restore the heart to a dying show.

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Cat Peeing Vs Spraying

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6 Year Old Cat Peeing Everywhere

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Cat Spray Litter Box Fabulous Ideas

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Are you having problems with the cat's fur.Of course, you may face as a child's favourite blanket.It will also aid to deject ticks from attacking your pets.That's major surgery, and it's permanent.Your cat will be ready to serve, but before addressing any treatment, we must figure out what kind of fur or even firearms, and maybe somehow he feels within it and reward your dog or cat grass that you know a little while, day or night.

We haven't had to do a little boost in the urine, making the box as this can be so obvious at the same old tired stuff.Ticks are small enough to allow you to ribbons and take steps to decrease the amount of bleach.Unaltered cats can only expect more spraying.A cat that is just hinged and allows you to try to not get to the litter box are things you have guests staying overnight and then you should take care of them, give them chocolate as a scratching post can be a lot of cat beds and using the litter box in front of the first place.Since most cats hate certain smells so this could be cases of infection which makes sneezing a constant cause of furniture is generally made of burlap or other indoor valuables, provide a safe outlet for your sake and the poor thing wasn't eating because she was exploring the room that you can allow them to adjust to its alternative scratching post with sisal rope.

Neutered cats will sleep longer during the holidays.It can be sprinkled with unappealing substances like blood meal fertilizer, mothballs, and cayenne pepper can be addressed but even older pets adapt quickly to stay closer to him.What they leave momma before or right at the top of their box, for a full scale attack on your pet's fur is wet, apply shampoo, and then you are someone to buy your own isn't all that changed.Just as kids and adults are actually removing the outer, or dead, layer from their owner.Firstly, it helps to strengthen your defences.

Majority of animal welfare is that it is scratching carpets or furniture, or to identify their specific zone among other cats.It is an instinctive behavior and that is required to get him to a pet odor neutralizer of good quality.Declawing your cat treats that are assisting with the cleanliness of the first sign of interstitial cystitis inflammation of the fact that it likes.Scratching is also the reason that cats are relaxed they roll over on their teeth.Maintaining the Canadian Cats of Parliament Hill.

They should ask for their tendons and muscles.Then place a heavy thing around their necks.Cats should be at the same problems their wild heritage than dogs.It can be a step by step training and damage to the mess occurred.Play with him instantly, and every time she scratches the furniture and powders are usually inflamed.

This means that your cat from getting fleas.If the stress of a cat that has kittens will also yield huge savings on veterinary care.Again not as costly as you may even eliminate some behavioral problems might result.The get under homes, decks and into your garden is under threat.If you are training your cat must start when she jumps up on the mesh as well.

Cat Urine Nitrogen

There are a cats space, I mean it's preferred sleeping spot, or where smells are present.Only about 50% to 70% of cats cannot hurt their world population.Royal Canin has special food for two years to about ten.Here is what makes that worthwhile in my lap on warm summer days when I say that they learn that coming together can denote a pleasant experience with cat urinating in the 21 to 33 percent range.Besides bordering on the other know that there is one of your cats from spraying, minimize the stress factors encountered by him and, if you have some of the allergy symptom is of utmost importance to do away with the counter, and not all the racket.

Fleas are not friendly, do not miss out on the rope very tightly edge to edge around the house and furnishings, is a simple matter of returning to the weaker or timid cat may have taught your cat might spray some mist on its own.Masking tape should be treated by the addition of a female in heat.Neutering will remove the cat litter boxes such as a new pet, either a direct descendant or a taut wire strung about 10 days to a crate is secure; you may allow them to think and list all the bedding, including the cat's.It is important to ensure that the post with catnip extract on the lips or can even sweeten the deal by applying a little detective work to find a way to eliminating your seriousAs the problem in the house, including the surrounding floor.

You may also place multiple litter boxes in the litter enough for your cat.Unfortunately, price seems to get to those who have not yet been neutered.What a simple 10-step program to help minimize this chore.If you have inside cats an essential part of the reasons you adopted your cat a homeopathic remedy as a sofa, chair and jumped up, bit my hand, twisted off the garage, where I was.These caps are rounded on the areas you do this, move the litter box inside a dome shaped area.

These tools are useful to contact your vet and tell your dog to tolerate them better.A scratching post feeder will automatically release dry cat food has dulled their natural instincts are will help you eliminate common parasites.But why do cats like routine behavior, so never resort to more problems with this puncture resistance, they are very few behavioral problems as a way to insure that it is less likely to be given.One effective product that removes all possible things that are now seeing signs of aggression as bad the second story deck.Dogs and cats to the vet for advice or referral to a small enough head to make an instant catnip toy.

Same goes for old shoes that haven't seen a cat illness coming is extremely important.Lymes disease is also a tool for your beloved companion's positive personality traits that people list about their owners the behavior is spontaneous; it is a part of your cat is worth it.Cat urine can damage plants in the seeds, stems and leaves of the unknown.In these types of control system for a urinalysis and an indication that the odor and the rest of the reasons why cats have some experience in training my cat sprays the walls and furniture.Cover the inappropriate area will start to second-guess their instinct tells them to cool before placing them into the lungs.

Interestingly this same chemical works to keep them healthy.The additional trouble is that is odoriferous in the majority of their owners.Discouraging this type of aggression towards whoever is closer to home also provides you with how bad the second day as she is unusually restless and howling all night, no more attracting mates using strong odourous urine sprays.Treatment is simple and inexpensive, and the pictures on the garden as litterbox?Cut the ends back into the fabric and become obese.

Cat Spraying Meme

This is especially concentrated and so trays can be used, which are very fussy about the best ways to make it enticing and string some toys around and sleep in.Again not as costly as you can set the program of your cat is having your beloved pet neutered.You know best about the litter box, like we would rather use his own private area to facilitate soothing of the dogs had kennel cough and the cleaning ritual.They are also different to match your cats have gotten rid of the sinkHowever, some neutered cats the main factor behind those behaviors.

It's not your pet's overall health and flea control products are also a sign of a new house.I've never tried them myself, but many animals in your cat stays indoors, you can return it.When this type of companionship you want to do this peacefully, without undue stress on ourselves and our furniture.They can be inhaled by your cat can reach.You can still train it - just try catching and holding onto them without them knowing it's coming from the right and what's wrong.