#Saga (2012)

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

not to be the only bitch here talking about saga (2012) in this day and age (i legit dont think ive seen a single saga post on here, y'all are missing out on the meme potential) but its such a great comic, mostly because its like "yeah yeah my parents had a hard time boo hoo now lets go spend an issue watching the most unhinged robot you've ever seen as he jacks off"

anyway, iv is the funniest character ive ever had the pleasure to read. he's a TV with racism and ptsd. help.

#took me a while to warm up fully to saga #i came here from paper girls and it was. a bit of a transition #very different vibes in some ways #but then again kinda the same in others? #anyway #saga 2012 #saga #liveblogging saga 2012

[disastertwins9000]

day 2 of drawing leo cuz he makes me happy

#he’s thinkin the deep thoughts #prolly ab space hero’s or smth #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #2012 tmnt #2012 leo #hamato leonardo #2012 leonardo #tmnt 2012 leo #my artwork #disastertwins9000art #teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 #teenage mutant ninja turtles #leo tmnt #2012 tmnt leo #leo saga

[yumeyumeappleo]

PART ONE OF DRAWING OUT THE STUPID DISCORD ROLEPLAY(??) IM HAVING (im donnie

leo uses she/her for this btw 👍

#tmnt 2012 #yyal art #tmnt #tmnt 2012 donnie #2012 donnie #2012 leo #tmnt 2012 leo #don disc rp saga #i’ll drsw the rest tomorrow because ny hand hurts cause indrew this shit on my phone #denji’s doodles

[nostalgiaruinedme]

Would you like a bat with nails?

@tmntaucompetition

#tmnt #rottmnt #dagger from the mirror #asks #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2012 #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 #tmnt crossover #stranger in the mirror #tmnt au competition #basketball saga

[cellarspider]

10/?? The team puts their foot in it

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We return to Prometheus, the movie that makes me want to use the “Leave it” command I’ve taught the family dog.

Apologies if the screenshots are hard to visually parse on this one, this part of the movie is not meant for viewing on a bright, sunny day. May I recommend the alt-text? I've got image descriptions in there, as well as rambles that almost double the word count of these posts.

Also, your daily reminder: Go into your blog settings, scroll down to "visibility", and turn off 3rd party data harvesting! Do it! Happiness is stored in the not-getting-comodified!

My antipathy toward the archaeologists was reaching unprecedented proportions. The only character I didn’t fault for putting his hands on everything like a two-year-old: the literal two-year-old android, David.

Is there a long and dumb history of infantilizing dudes’ behavior? Yes. Was it very funny to see the archaeologists suddenly freak out because someone else was getting too handsy with the alien archaeological finds? Also yes! 

David opens the door, having to climb up a collapsible ladder to comfortably reach the controls, which is a nice touch. The next room contains the head of the decapitated Engineer, and also

I don’t know whether the set designers put this together prior to the decision that this would be where they put the decapitated body, but in hindsight, it seems a little on the nose. What the set wants to communicate is a religious feel–an idol of some kind, delicate reliefs on the walls that some consider to be plot holes because they look xenomorph-y, and a bunch of black urns.

The visual intent, delivered beautifully but with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, is that this is the room where shit will begin to go down. It’s a refined miniature of the egg room in Alien. Something is going to get inappropriately intimate with a man’s face here.

I suppose we are meant to find it a plot twist when that happens later, and not now, but I was still experiencing Archaeological Rage at this point.

Despite telling David not to open the door, they wander in like utter lemons, breathe all over everything, and are surprised when this has consequences. The art starts melting off the walls.

Admittedly, when the moist breath and germs of gormless tourists has caused irreparable damage to ancient egyptian tombs and 17,000 year old cave paintings, it took much longer than this. One of the characters exclaims that they must have disturbed the atmosphere in the room by opening it, which is possible. However, we literally see accumulated dirt in this room. Alien worms writhing in it. This is a plot point for a few scenes from now, because the black urns have started sweating a Mysterious Goop that the audience may remember as “that DNA melty stuff from the opening scene”.

Back when I was talking about setting mood, expectation, and feeling pretty good. I miss that.

There’s apparently a cut scene where Millburn the biologists finds those alien worms somewhere, and has a near-religious experience. It’s the first macroscopic alien life ever witnessed by modern humans. Something that evolved entirely separately from us. He’s in awe. 

The scene no longer has any logical home in the flow of the movie–the worms are only seen by the audience, in the urn room. Millburn left with Fifield the geologist, following Fifield’s panic attack. Still, it would’ve gone a long way to humanizing his character if it was still included, showing that the cast isn’t all treating this like kindergarteners at a toy store, and partially explaining a dumbass thing he does later.

It would also stand in stark contrast to further desecrating an ancient body, which is next on the agenda for our cast.

With the room literally melting and the Prometheus calling in the approach of a sandstorm, they heave the head in a duffel bag and sprint away.

I hate this. There’s the feeble justification that they already fucked up the room anyway, but they have been viewing the body as a thing they want to have, an emblem of their own efforts, and not an ethically distinct class of object that has to be treated with extreme care.

Nope! Into the duffel bag it goes. David, for his part, duffels an urn. I hate this less, for the aforementioned reason of “two-year-old who everyone’s been robot-racist at”. Also because frankly, he’s an android in an Alien movie, one that is very self-conscious about the tropes. He is either going to be an absolute saint like Bishop, or he’s going to be an extension of a callous corporate power like Ash. David is a unique spin on it, but he’s absolutely the Ash.

He manages to be all that and the only one who knows what he’s doing. David saves Shaw and the poor goddamn head from getting swept away in the sandstorm, with calm efficiency and an air of either “I have done a good thing, please praise”, or “yes, I am better at this than you”. Honestly can’t tell which. He’s certainly begun to develop antipathy toward his creators, which is one of the few character arcs that manages to occur in this movie.

So, great. Our cast has blundered into, breathed all over, and botched their exploration of humanity’s first alien structure, on the urging of an allegedly-archaeologist who literally treated it as a christmas present. They return with stolen artifacts and somebody’s head. They do not return with their biologist and geologist, who have apparently gotten lost in the alien structure, despite the geologist also being the one who was making the team a map of the place.

Things do not get better.

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Alt-text rambling citations:

1. https://www.cap-that.com/prometheus/index.php?page=1 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing#Cultural_variations  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture#Negative_denotations

#Prometheus 2012 #Prometheus (2012) #And so begins the brief but baffling saga of this poor Engineer's head #and we transition from Adventures in Terrible Field Work #to Astounding Frontiers of Cartoonishly Bad Bench Work

[holomars-turtles]

Mars’ guide to Rabbit Ears!!

This one’s for the Miyamoto Usagi enjoyers!! Rabbits are not very vocal creatures, so they tend to use their ears and body language to indicate how they’re feeling. The position of their ears tells a lot about how a rabbit feels!

The default position of a rabbits ears is upright. Their ears will usually sway when they move around, and this is a sign of confidence in a rabbit.

When the rabbits ears are upright and rigid, the rabbit is scared and/or on alert. They will usually turn their ears (rabbit ears have 460 degree rotation) to the direction of the threat.

If the ears are angled forward, the rabbit it curious and/or cautious. They also tend to smell much faster as they gather information.

If the ears are pulled back rigidly, the rabbit is displaying anger and aggression. They might also growl to warn away potential threats.

When the rabbits ears are flat along their back, they are relaxed and very content. Additionally, if one ear is laid back and the other is sticking up, the rabbit is relaxed and lazily listening to the sounds around them.

If a rabbits ears are flat and spread out along their back as they flatten themselves against the floor, they are taking a submissive posture.

Rabbits shake their ears for a couple of reasons. They could be itchy, want you to leave them alone, or if they’re preforming a mini binky (happy!!)

Rabbits are very expressive with their ears. Their ears are also quite sensitive to noise and touch (fun fact, many rabbits love getting the base of their ears rubbed).

I hope you enjoy your bun bun facts!!

#this has become a saga #it’s fun tho I love it #tmnt #tmnt 2003 #usagi yojimbo #miyamoto usagi #tmnt fanfiction #tmnt fanart #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 1987 #shoutout to Ame for enabling me #mars guide

[judasisgayriot]

cut the confessions, forget the excuses

#jesus christ superstar #jcs #jcs 2012 #judas iscariot #annas #anni edits #i love my dead gay son #remake of gifs made like a decade ago. to um. to celebrate being a bottom judas truther?? anyway i stand by what i said. excellent work #real ones know the sin gif saga lol.

[fabuloustrash05]

Vegeta: There’s more than two androids?! Why didn’t you tell me?!

Trunks: Well, because I wanted to doom the future.

Trunks: OBVIOUSLY I DIDN’T KNOW!!

#incorrect dragon ball quotes #incorrect dbz quotes #source: tmnt 2012 #source: teenage mutant ninja turtles #dragon ball #dbz #dragon ball z #dragon ball z kai #dbs #dragon ball super #vegeta #dbz vegeta #prince vegeta #trunks briefs #future trunks #dbz trunks #android saga #cell saga

[mrs-hickok]

Prometheus (2012) Michael Fassbender as David 8

#prometheus #2012 #michael fassbender #david #david 8 #palette #color palette #cinema palette #cinema color palette #movie palette #sci fi movie #alien movie #alien saga #alien prequel #2010s #2010s movie #2010s scifi movie

[disastertwins9000]

smiley boy :D

#doodles #i love him #my blue boy #he is my favorite and my best #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #2012 tmnt #my artwork #disastertwins9000art #2012 leo #leonardo 2012 #2012 tmnt leo #tmnt leonardo #hamato leonardo #tmnt leo 2012 #leo saga

[yumeyumeappleo]

i wasnt gonna finish this but i havent uploaded art in like, two days or so. so i rushed the shit out of the second one. anyways im in a shitty mood so i'll just schedule this and go to sleep

#tmnt #tmnt 2012 #2012 leo #transfem leo #yyal art #good fucking night hope i wake up and go back to my“i love life its beautiful i love everyone in it” self #yui is fucking eepy saga

[punster-2319]

#polls #2012 in film #the avengers #skyfall #the dark knigth rises #the hobbit: an unexpected journey #ice age: continental drift #the twilight saga: breaking dawn part 2 #the amazing spider man #madagascar 3: europe’s most wanted #the hunger games #men in black 3

[ahappydnp]

the fact that dan not only replied within 2 minutes but that he replied with a phil reference from fucking 10 years ago...

#the ASs tweet saga started in 2012!!!! why do they remember this shit!!! let it go!!!!!!

[blackfire-fanfiction]

Did someone say propaganda? Anyway here’s a little thing for the @tmnt-crossover-polls. It’s actually the first thing I’ve written for the same raph au (masterpost here), so it might be a little rough

Basic summary of the same raph au: 12 Raph and Rise Raph are the same person. He switches bodies (and dimensions) randomly whenever he sleeps/is unconscious. Raph eventually learns how to balance both lives. Important context: if both bodies are somehow in the same dimension, only one of them is concious.

2012 turtles: Leo, Donnie, Mikey Rise turtles: Leon, Dee, Angelo Corvus (Previously known as the Handler) is a crow/raven yokai OC that appears in the kidnapped arc of the SRAUC Also Slash is here too, don’t worry about it :)

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Shouts of surprise as a group of 10 fell from a flash of light.

Everyone stood up from the haphazard positions they ended up on the floor, and Leo was the first to scan the group for anything out of place.

“Everyone good?” He asked, taking in everything.

“Besides the fact that we weren’t supposed to be meeting up for a while? Yep, just peachy.” Leon grumbled.

“Come on, Leon, don’t be like that,” Angelo said. “It’s always great to see our brothers from another dimension!”

“Yeah, just ignore your brother that’s trapped underneath himself. That’s just fine.” Raph said in monotone from where he was stuck under the body of his larger body.

“I got you bro,” Slash gently dragged the unconscious body off of the turtle.

“Thanks, Slash.” Raph went to push himself up when a feathered hand was offered to him. “And Corvus! What are you doing here?”

“Oh god, Slash is here?” Donnie looked horrified as Raph talked to the mute bird yokai.

“Ooo, Slash is here,” Dee grinned. “This should be fun.”

“Where is here, anyway?”

“GUYS! The stickers on our plastrons respawn when you take them off!” Mikey bounced into view, a pile of stickers discarded on the floor.

“Huh, same raph au? Wait, where are we actually?” Leon looked around.

The space was filled with other versions of them, and with some people that they couldn’t recognize at all.

“Woah,” Angelo gasped.

“Tmnt poll competition?” Donnie read from a banner. “Maybe we’re-”

“It appears as if we’re in a sub-dimensional space where alternate versions of us are gathered to compete in some way.” Dee interrupted. “As Mikey and Leon have discovered, we have tags to show which dimension we belong to.”

“Was it necessary to interrupt?” Donnie frowned.

Dee just smirked.

“Donnies, can you play nice for once?” Raph said in a warning tone at the same time Leo said “Chill out, guys. It’s not the end of the world.”

“Wait, where’d Mikey and Slash go?” Angelo looked around, confused. “And Corvus, I can’t see them either.”

Raph shrugged. “They’ll find us eventually. Now, does anyone want to help me move my big body to somewhere out of the way? I don’t want anyone tripping.”

Meanwhile

“Yo, other me, is that your brother dragging that big spiky turtle across the floor?” A Mikey with the tag Sunset Linings asked.

“Hm? Oh yeah. Raph probably thought he’d be in the way being in the middle of the room like that.”

“What?”

“Anyway, I’m excited to see who will win in the first round! Your group seems really cool, especially that big gloomy guy. I should probably meet up with my bros, but good luck in the competition!”

#tmnt crossover polls #same raph au #same raph au crossover #the slash saga #rottmnt #tmnt 2012

[gaygollum]

tmnt 2012 // farscape // supernatural

holy trinity of men talking about being in a girls body in such a profoundly sexist way that it flips back around to being a little lgbt 🏳️‍⚧️

#i am going to create something that is so niche to me personally…… #i kinda remember a kim possible body switch ep does ron say anything. can i add him to the list #sorry for the clearly stolen gifset. when i googled it looking for screenshots thats all there was #and i was NOT gonna watch an episode of spn to screenshot it myself sorry #mine #spn saga #tmnt 2012 #farscape #tmnt #cj

[vextried]

The Korax

#darren shan #cirque du freak #saga of darren shan #kurda smahlt #The other princes are the onceler #meme #lorax 2012