Incorrect RL TMNT Conversation
Mikey: *nums pizza slice quickly* Leo’s built for speed. I’m built for feed! *nabs a new one*
Donnie: Not necessarily. I’d say me and you were built for speed and Leo and Raph were of a more muscular build.
Leo: *sitting down to nab a pizza before they eat it all* Everyone’s built to be fed.
Raph: Everyone’s built to starve. That’s why we eat so much.
Leo: ….
Donnie: ….
Mikey: ….
Raph: *stares them down and chews*
Leo: Wow… That’s… Weirdly deep
Donnie: I guess it is biologically accurate
Mikey: What?
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I remember when I was reading DOTC when I was around 10, and ever since Misty died I had been waiting for the moment where Birch and Alder learned about her murder, how everyone in their lives has kept it a secret. And then it just didn't happen.
I also remember obsessively re-reading the part where Quiet Rain blows up at Clear Sky.
Birch and Alder are two characters that are just so...
I WANT to say they were forgotten about, but that word doesn't feel right for how they're constantly showing up on the screen. Clear Sky occasionally feels guilty about how he murdered their mother, but for the vast majority of the time, that's described in passive voice. So you're not reminded of just HOW cruel he was, and still very much is.
It's like they're not allowed to be characters.
Like, how does Alder feel about Clear Sky, who seemed to be acting as an adoptive father until he beat her as a child? How did Birch respond later, when Clear Sky was so busy thrashing his sister that he was threatened by a dog? How do they feel about the man who took their mother away from them?
They keep getting cited as "Good Examples Of Non-Campborn Cats," dodging around the fact they were stolen and raised by Petal. Like a lot of the other "adoptions" in the series, she quietly stops mattering to them. But even this fact... like, they're being OTHERED when they were functionally raised SkyClan.
How do they feel about THAT? That their earliest memory is SkyClan, and yet, they'll never be considered truly, fully "clanborn."
Their whole life taken from them, by Clear Sky's cruelty, their formative years spent in his violent shadow, and the narrative is just not interested in that.
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okay so that was fun but heres something completely unrelated to consider:
fic where stan happens upon ford exploding his face with fire and, seeing as it was clearly intentional on ford's part, decides to try to do something about it
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Random hcs I have because I may be cringe but I'm free part 21 (Rottmnt)
(Surprise, its Leo again)
Another hc that I absolutely ADORE but never see used very much is that Leo hangs out in the Hidden City really often and has consequently gathered the craziest connections, and most random assortments of acquaintances and friends. Just imagine, the team will be on a mission in the Hidden City and they need information or some kind of mystic artifact and Leo just "calls in a favor" and then they're meeting some random guy in a shady part of town and now they have everything they need. Or better yet they need to meet with somebody important in a highly secured building and Leo just whispers something into a guard's ear and now they're free to enter. Just the idea of Leo practically having another life in the Hidden City is so hilarious but also awesome at the same time, 'cause you know the Battle Nexus Champion that also frequently goes toe-to-toe with Big Mama is gonna need to have a reasonable amount of street-cred, but he also knows an illegal weapons dealer, and has been trying to convince some middle-aged wasp mom to dump her newest boyfriend and quit spending all her money on different flavors of pudding.
(Its just so much fun because the possibilities are ENDLESS lol🤩)
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@beatingheart-bride
"It's a double-feature," Randall smiled as they walked together, hands in his pockets as he felt the early evening breeze brushing against his cheeks. "First, Dracula A.D. 1972, then its sequel, The Satanic Rites of Dracula!"
He'd seen them both, of course; he'd seen movies (be them double bills or not) multiple times down at the little second run theater, partly because it was a good way of staying cool on a hot New Orleans day, partly because he didn't mind seeing these movies more than once. He quite enjoyed the British horrors-he had to say, in the long run, Universal was probably his favorite home of horror, but Hammer was by no means bad in the least.
(Admittedly, he did wish the theater was running Horror of Dracula and Brides of Dracula back to back, just because the latter film was more romantic, but oh well...)
Sensing her discomfort, however, Randall asked gently, "Is that alright?" He hoped she wasn't uncomfortable at the double-feature; she said she liked horror, and so he hoped she'd like these films too, they were an awful lot of fun...even if he did wish he had just one iota of Christopher Lee's charisma and presence...
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I keep being told that my grandma's neighbor's son is "weird" and "super autistic" and that I can't possibly be autistic because I never acted like he does. But here's the thing all I see when I watch him is a kid playing in the dirt. Like yeah OK most kids don't do that *nowadays* but like kids do weird shit. I'm told it's hard to talk to him. I assume that they simply aren't approaching him right. He may be shy! I don't care that he's somewhere between 7 and 11 years old he might just not like strangers. That's normal, kid shit. How different from me can he possibly be? He's human. I'm human. He's a child. I was a child. I bet if I talked to him and found out his interests, I could have an easier time talking to him than the people telling me he's "strange" ever could. You just have to know how to interact with kids. It's amazing that I know you talk to them about their interest while actual parents don't when I will freely say I don't want kids. How am I better equipped to treat them like humans? Also, the little boy seems like he's going to grow up and be a perfectly okay person who'll do just fine in whatever field he chooses. I don't know his interests, so I can't say what that'll be, but I'm sure he'll do great.
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