#to be human

[cosmicluvcore]

To be human part 2

Rottmnt Leo x reader, gender neutral, friends to lovers, himbo Leo (?), one sided pining

Part 1 here

Summary: Leo has the biggest crush on you but he's afraid that you'd never date a mutant, so with the help of a clooking broach he plans to become your perfect human boyfriend!

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Idk if you can tell but this is kinda Aladdin inspired

Also I wasn't sure abt posting this since it has no Y/N interactions umm so sorry if you're dissapointed

I promise the next one will have fluffy moments between Y/N and Leo!! Sorry this is short

Tag list!!

@lunaflyer @wings-of-sapphire @ssak-i @nessarolla-in-constant-flux @envyjmoney

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"¿Qué hice para merecer esto?" Is what the disgruntled Señor Hueso muttered under his breath, as he watched Leo come crashing into his restaurant.

Of all the times that mutant decides to show up, it had to be on a good day. A loud sigh left the skeleton's mouth as he watched the turtle bump into one of his waiters, knocking all the dishes out of her hand.

"Señor! Señor!" Leo called out eagerly as he approached, "I have a really, really important request and you have to-"

He was interrupted by Hueso placing his hand up, narrowing his eyes in annoyance.

"Instead of disturbing my guests, Pepino, let's talk in the staff room."

~

Leo was still wiping spilled spaghetti off himself as he spoke. Amazingly, that didn't stop his excited flow.

"Señor, bone head, buddy! Long time no see, right?" Leo asked in an overly friendly manner, offering Hueso a hand.

Hueso glanced at his hand, which had marinara sauce on it, before glancing back at Leo with an unimpressed expression.

"Uf hijo, did you just come here to cause trouble?" He asked rather bluntly.

Leo chuckled to himself, "Of course not! I just came here for a little... help."

"Help?" Hueso repeated, tilting his head as he watched Leo's over excited behavior.

"Yeah, I was wondering if you could help me get my hands on a cloaking brooch." He explained briefly while wiping away the bit of sauce that was on his shoulder.

"A cloaking brooch?" Hueso repeated raising his brow, "Why would you need one of those? I've seen you walk among humans like it's nothing."

"It's not for that."

Leo bit his lip unsure whether he should let the truth spill, no one knew of his little crush and he was afriad if he started talking about them he wouldn't know when to stop. So he took the easier route.

"It's for uh- You know... science." He lied, smiling awkwardly as if that made his reply more believable.

Señor Hueso simply shot him an unconvinced expression.

"Este idiota..." The skeleton muttered under his breath, "Why don't you just say why you really want it? It would save you from the embarrassment of lying to my face."

Yeah, Hueso wasn't buying it. Figures.

"Okay okay, I'll admit that wasn't my best performance," Leo said with a grin, although his trade mark smirk faded into a small frown as Hueso stared back at him with narrowed eyes.

"Truth is I'm trying to impress someone..." He admitted quietly, his gaze darting to the ground, while he fidgeted with his hands sheepishly.

Hueso blinked in surprise at the turtles sudden shyness, "Trying to impress someone?" He repeated curiously, looking back to the blushing turtle for futher confimration.

Leo bit his lip, his heart fluttering at the thought of them, "A human." He confessed softly.

"I've never felt this way about anyone before, they're just perfect in every way!" He explained brightly, though his happy expression faultered, "But, I don't think they'd be interested in, this whole situation." He frowned, gesturing to himself.

Hueso nodded slowly as he listened, "I see," He hummed in reply, looking thoughtful as he considered Leo's situation for a moment, "So you want to pretend to be human and lie to them?"

Leo frowned at the skeletons blutness, "It's not a lie! I'm just... bending... the truth," He said, his brow furrowing as he spoke.

Even he didn't believe himself this time.

"Alright it's kinda a lie, but what other chance do I have?"

"I don't know, tell them the truth?" Hueso retorted, Leo couldn't help but roll his eyes as he was lectured on the obvious answer, "If you really think this person is worth it, then you should be honest with them."

"The last thing I need to be is honest." The turtle insisted stubbornly, his expression souring at the idea of even attemping to tell his crush how he felt.

Leo hated to picture it, he hated that he knew his voice would tremble as he would try his best to convey to them how deeply he felt.

He hated how he knew he would stammer over his words as he scrambled to find the best way to express his feelings.

And then he would have to wait impatiently for their reply, fearing the worst, after this new discovery.

Not like he could blame Y/N.

Who wouldn't turn down a nervous idiot? And why would anyone ever be interested in someone who looks like him?

"I don't want to risk losing them." Leo finally said, sighing before meeting Hueso gaze again with a serious expression.

"Look, all I need is a brooch. I just want a chance to be with them and make them happy. Please, Señor?"

As Hueso watched Leo's sad expression he was still unsure how to reply, he knew this was an awful idea yet Leo seemed so attached to it. The puppy dog eyes that the blue masked turtle was giving him eventually casused a defeated sigh escape Hueso's mouth.

"Fine, I have a spare somewhere around here," Hueso muttered reluctantly, too tired to keep pushing, turning to his desk and opening a drawer, "Just don't blame me when things go terribly wrong."

Leo's expression immediately brightened.

"Really?!" He leaned over Señor Hueso's shoulder, eagerly watching as the skeleton searched.

Eventually, Hueso found it, a gold gemstone-adorned brooch.

As Leo looked at the badazzled brooch, excitement began to bubble in his chest, the glamorous item really did make this whole situation seem a lot cooler. This was his key to being Y/N's perfect romantic partner, something he'd dreamed of for far too long that was now finally a possibility. His heart soared at the thought.

"Here," Hueso said, handing him the brooch, "Try not to get spaghetti on it, Pepino."

Leo was practically vibrating with excitement as the brooch was placed into his hands. He nodded at Hueso's words despite not really hearing them.

"Thanks Señor! I can keep this right?" He asked.

"Just don't damage it." Hueso warned in reply, "If you do, it could stop-"

But before he got the chance to finish his words, Leo had disappeared into another blue portal.

"-working..."

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Cadence Chooses Me" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)

[s00kie]

THIS EARTH IS MINE TO LOVE !

[beatrizjournal]

More notes on spiritualism in the Victorian Era. 👻

[borderlinebelle]

friends 👁️ don’t like none of my bozo posts guys. and god forbid- dont ever meet me in person. I’ll attach to you so GOSHDANG fast. 🙂 call me barnacle bill Bud, because im gonna be up in ur $HloP. 🙂 i’ll think about you until 1 of us is deddedded 🙂 check ya socials like our cribs were next door during diapers. lemme spam your notifications friend 🙂 slap ♥️ on 4444 of your posts in row, at the very least. 🙂 I’ll crawl so far, furrow furiously through your spine stream between a feed so guaranteed to let me see you … freed. i’ll root and cheer and scream for your health/wealth/success and I’ll do it all … silently🙃 … apart👁️… never letting you too close 👍🏽🙂 pls stay away and pls come closer.

this mental illness is parental’s egotistic endowment, a bigheaded birthright

fear of abandonment boulevard 🚯& fear of intimacy street 🚷 meet at the crossroad of borderline personality disorder

mental health matters every human heart beat in an effort to connect one to another to heal.

1/30/2024 borderlinebelle

[27paperlilies]

People live on in words printed and read. Skin and paper, dried and aged, only one will never fade.

[morallydisengaged]

Having trauma from emotional neglect is so embarrassing like 'why do you have ptsd' i was a bit too sad to handle lmfao

[the-moons-undying-light]

I don't care. Three words that someone who cares too much has chanted to themselves, trying to believe.

I hate you. Three words that someone who loves too much has yelled trying to believe.

I love you. Three words that someone filled with resentment has spoken trying to believe.

I'll be fine. Three words that someone who is falling apart tries to believe.

Leave me alone. Three words that someone who’s heart needs attention tries to believe.

Don't touch me. Three words that someone who craves touch tries to believe.

These are words that have been repeated innecessantly over many millenia. Words repeated by people covering their ears, afraid they might hear the beating of their heart which says otherwise.

To be human is to be contradictory and contradictory we will be.

[orthodoxicons]

“Turn away from sin, for to sin may be human, but to persist in sin is not human, but utterly satanic.”

+ St. John Chrysostom, Exhortation to Theodore, 16.73-74

[kibbits]

When you realize only once you’re done that you cracked the wrong side of the face and also forgot about Moon’s goggles fgjkld

Hey if you like fnaf sb and you like tropes like Humans Are Space Orcs, think Reader should get to be a little feral and go apeshit, as a treat, and like mystery far future (possibly post apocalyptic??) settings, you should read @eyndr-stories​ ‘s fic To Be Human! I have been. An avid reader of it jkldgjkl So have some sketches from chapters 6 and 7!

[joohto]

i watched la sociedad de la nieve today and this was all i could think about during the rhymes scene

[cosmicluvcore]

To be human part 1

Rottmnt Leo x reader, gender-neutral, friends to lovers, jealous Leo

Summary: Leo has the biggest crush on you, but he's afraid that you'd never date a mutant, so with the help of a cloaking brooch, he plans to become your perfect human boyfriend!

Part 2 here

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Okay I have to be honest. I saw someone with this idea, but I have no clue where it came from originally. If you know who I should credit, please tell me!!

Anyways, this concept gave me way too many ideas hope you enjoy.

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Leo wasn't great at dealing with his feelings.

He'd been crushing on Y/N for far too long, the terrapin couldn't even remember when the whole thing started.

A few loving glances and a flirty joke or two had suddenly burst into the thought of Y/N keeping him up at night. He wasn't great at hiding it either, blushing like an idiot when they smiled his way.

Leo knew he needed to tell them sooner or later, but he hadn't worked up the courage yet. A part of him hoped they secretly felt the same way and would confess to him, but there'd been no sign of that happening anytime soon. Leo wanted to confess, he really did, but... what if they didn't feel the same way? What if it made their friendship weird? What if he looked like an idiot? What if they never wanted to speak to him again?!

There were just too many 'what ifs' for his liking.

So Leo had decided to take the easy way out, hoping that Y/N would just see how great he was, then he wouldn't have to deal with any uncomfortable conversations. He started going out of his way to impress them, saving them on missions, being overly nice, letting them win in video games, giving them his last pizza slice, (which is very valuable by the way!)

Not that he'd ever admit it, but Leo had spent an embarrassingly long time researching 'how to get your crush to like you back'.

He'd bought a cologne for Pete's sake! But no matter what he did, they never seemed to notice.

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It was a ordinary evening. Leo and the others sat in the projector room watching a movie. Raph, Mikey and Y/N were sitting comfortably on the floor surrounded by blankets and pillows. Meanwhile, Donnie and Leo took the couch, popcorn in their hands. They were watching some random action movie. Leo wasn't really paying attention.

He was more focused on Y/N.

Y/N had started fawning over the male love interest and that began to spark a little- scratch that, a LOT of jealously in Leo's heart. Every scene that guy appeared in they were freaking out, gushing over him like he was the best thing since sliced bread.

The blue-masked turtle scoffed to himself as the character appeared again, narrowing his eyes at the screen.

What was so great about this guy anyway?

Leo was twice as charming as him, he was the one with good looks, great one-liners and clearly the best ninja skills. This guy barely spoke a word and Y/N was blushing like crazy. But as he kept watching the film, something clicked in his mind.

He was human.

That's something Leo could never beat. Sure, 'biologically' he was part human, but he didn't exactly look like it. The turtle shifted a little in his seat, the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity settling in.

"Leo? Are you good?" Donnie asked, snapping him out of his thoughts for a moment.

"Me? Yeah, I'm great," Leo replied quickly, glancing away from his brother's gaze,

"It's just that this movie sucks, never letting Raph choose again!" He lied, that playful smirk returning to his face as he saw his eldest brother's reaction.

"Hey!" Raph called out from afar.

As the movie continued, Leo sighed deeply and took another handful of popcorn, chewing the kernels absentmindedly and leaning back in his seat. Was that really why Y/N wasn't interested in him? Because he wasn't human? There wasn't much he could do about that, it's not like there was just some magic spell that could-

Leo's face lit up as an idea popped into his mind, cloaking brooches. Yokai used them, April's slime friend had one, so they must be easy to find. Leo's mind started spinning with possibilities. If he could get his hands on a cloaking brooch, he could be human and finally get Y/N's attention! But, where would he get one?

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For once, Leo was distracted as Y/N entered his room. Usually he'd be all over them chatting up a storm, but he was sitting on his bed glancing away from them.

"Leo?" They asked softly, watching as the turtle was startled by the interruption.

"Hey, what's with the jump scares?" Leo joked with a playful chuckle,

"I thought we were friends." He said in mock offense, leaning onto his back and over-dramatically draping his hand over himself.

Y/N couldn't help but laugh at his shenanigans, "I just came to check on you drama queen, you're being weirdly quiet today."

Leo blinked at their observation. Jeeze, was he that obvious?

"Ohh well you know, I was just thinking about Raphs' riveting movie choice tonight." He replied casually, quick to make up an excuse.

I mean, technically, it wasn't a lie he had been thinking about the film.

Y/N rolled their eyes at that, "You're just salty it wasn't your choice tonight, besides that movie wasn't so bad." They replied, calmly leaning against the door frame.

"Ooh really? You're just saying that because you were all over the male lead," He retorted, grinning smugly as he watched their cheeks flush, "You, my friend, are biased."

"Well- Can you blame me? That guy was a total stud." Y/N blurted out defensively.

"He was alright, I guess. Just totally not as hot as the real stud in the room." He said with a cocky smirk as he gestured towards himself.

Y/N let out a laugh at that.

Normally, Leo wouldn't take such a tiny thing to heart, but his ego took a hit from the way Y/N laughed at him. He was the type to eagerly take any opporunity to see them smile, but this time it felt like they were laughing at him. Scoffing at just the thought of him being attractive to them, it was this newfound level of insecurity that he didn't know how to handle.

"Alright Leo, seems like you're biased too." They said with a chuckle.

"I simply speak the truth." He shrugged in reply, trying to ignore the painful realization.

Thankfully, Y/N didn't seem to notice, "Well, I'm heading home. I'll see you around."

"I'll see you." Leo smiled, waving as he watched them go.

After the coast was clear, Leo let out a long annoyed sign. He leaned onto his back, letting the soft cushion of his bed comfort him as insecurities began to plague his mind.

He needed a cloaking brooch.

[luthienne]

Naomi Shihab Nye

[nyxrev]

New Chapter: 曲がり角

——- 答えは進んだ先に。

——- the answer lies ahead where you go.

He who walks on alone,

I almost thought it was a photo, new pixel art!

Text heavy chapter, fairly quiet plot wise, but the little development we see seems to lay out a recipe for future conflict.

One of which must come to head is Genos and Saitama's master-disciple relationship.

Saitama realized he should probably encourage Genos somehow but we see now comes a time when he really cannot bullshit his way out of an undercurrent serious matter.

The pretend wisdom face did not work, and for the first time I saw Genos seem to truly feel sad and let down about his expectations of Saitama as his chosen mentor, for the first time it seems like the perfect image (illusion) he had conjured of the person he admired and revered has been broken through. And really all I could read of his expression from the next two panels of his slow and silent realization was just, baffled, ridiculed, sad, followed by broken heart and crestfallen.

I almost felt like he could cry, but he would not, he would just try to become stronger. Although he knows Saitama is on another level he doesn't see his own growth has been exponential too, it is just when compared to Saitama, who cannot be compared to, his tremendous growth seems small only bc Saitama is so ridiculously strong it overshadows perception of his own progress.

Now hold on, see any familiar sight?

An aura of conviction, determined to execute all evil who dares stand to the world.

I got thrown back to his early fight with DSK. He has his heart set.

And yet, word of Neo-heroes is not good news. For Genos to be scouted by them concerns me, for him to be persuaded, and only dissuaded by Saitama who does not want to move, concerns me even more. Neo has good tech, yes, and it is precisely bc they possess such excellent tech it would be very dangerous for Genos to go. Org. with mysteriously powerful Cyborg tech poses much suspicion and risk to a lone, young, goal-oriented, thus easy to trick, cyborg.

[beatrizjournal]

A little study on Victorians obsession with Death 🖊 🖤 💀

[cliowo]

How to keep your heart safe:

Build walls, the tallest and strongest you can imagine. Fortify it with a moat of ravenous sharks, then go round its perimeter once, twice, thrice with rose bushes. The thorns are for the intruders, and the roses for you, because Aphrodite and heartbroken are not synonyms. Persuade colourful deadly snakes to move in, if you can. Fill the halls with the most unwelcoming items you can think of: booby traps, falling chandeliers, haunted bathrooms.

Watch as a single well-timed bomb tears down your fortress into shreds.

That is to say, you will fail.

That is to say, you can't.