#but I've been collecting these as I watch the anime and figured since I'm only using one per week I may as well post them all

[rivster101]

Marcille profile pictures from episode 7

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #profile pictures #be nice to me I've never done this before #but I've been collecting these as I watch the anime and figured since I'm only using one per week I may as well post them all

[puppetmaster13u]

@f4nd0m-fun here (I hope they allow us to ask with secondary blogs soon)

Just how wild do you like your Batfam cryptids? I've got ideas for days.

One is a wing fic where all the bats essentially end up half demon. Thomas and Martha make a deal with Alfred to help fix the city and clean up the curses and everything, and. Alfred asks for 'the souls of your descendants' at the point, not caring much for humanity but hoping to get ahead of those pesky demons in his soul collection (so and so said he has Constantine's soul but that's only a piece! What about a bunch of souls that have been tainted by the spirit of a city that has never had reason to hope? Now those are some rare and dark souls).

The Waynes were hoping he'd take their souls instead but he refuses (maybe they're too full of hope or something) but, over time, he grows attached and ends up giving Bruce a shard of his power, allowing him to transform into a demonic winged form based on an animal for his protection after his parents die. When he's young the form is a snowy owl, but once he come back and became Batman his wings have changed. Each of the babies is the same way. As Robin, they gain their baby wings, but, once they move to a new name, their wings evolve.

'The Demon's Head' isn't just a fancy title, the Al'ghul's are demon descended, so Damien is at least a quarter demon even at the beginning, but Alfred's power can't be passed genetically like they thought, so he was born grounded. In this, he shows up sooner, Talkia asking Jason to take Damien with him to his father since she knows her father will kill him for being wingless.

Tim, poor baby. He couldn't fly as Robin because his wings were a shattered mimicry of Jason's Robin wings. He felt like he was in the shadow of the previous Robin, making the 'replacement' nickname sting even more, but, eventually, he grows into the wings of a cardinal and learns to fly.

I'm not sure if Alfred marks Barbara as his person, but if not, maybe he regrets not doing so, thinking that she might not have ended up paralyzed if he'd given her power. But also she's not really considered a 'Wayne descendant' life the kids Bruce adopted, so he'd have to directly make the deal with her. Maybe he does this with Stephanie when she comes along, still thinking about how Barbara might've been better off with a deal. Also, he keeps trying to hold off on gathering their souls because he's grown attached. I figure he'd probably end up wanting to turn them into proper demons too tho when they eventually die but, for now, until the city has been restored (if it ever will be), the Batfam is essentially immortal, and Alfred might be pulling some strings so no one realizes the Waynes are as well. As a side note, I debated Alfred x Lady Gotham for this story.

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Then I had a dpxdc version of this where the wings were still demonic in origin but basically Scarecrow and Bruce are many many family lines removed cousins from an ancestor who was siblings with Jack Nightingale. On top of that, Danny had wings but they got charred when he was electrocuted. This one also has Clock x Pariah and they have wings due to something to do with ghosts, Danny gets a cloak made out of their feathers while his ghost side slowly grows its own wings (but he'll never have wings as a living again).

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Sorry for the long send, I got a bit carried away, but if you want I can dig up my AU again and share what I have for the wings at least, not sure what else I've got written down.

#colony of bats AU

Honestly I love both of these ideas, but what if they were say, combined.

Alfred gifts Bruce a shard of his power- everyone knows the Waynes have wings, even if in most cases too small to fly. But the wings are feathered, usually bright and flashy for the men who inherit the trait.

Which means they're very identifiable. But like you said, Alfred gets (ugh) attached to this little mortal. He's practically raised him and honestly thinks it's adorable watching him manipulate the other richfolk at galas into thinking he's such a "polite young man." Bruce is practically his baby!

So he gifts him a bit of his blood (which we know via Constantine can extend ones lifespan including giving them a bit of healing) and an itty bitty piece of his own power. Just enough for Bruce to be able to willingly call upon it. Just enough for him to disappear into shadows. Just enough for his eyes to gain a hint of an unholy glow. Just enough for a hint of claws. Just enough for feathered wings to shift into jagged mimicries of his own.

You know what could be an interesting thing? The wings are Realms in origin. We know the FentonNightingales separated into the Fentons and Nightingales some time after Jack, so whose to say that the Nightingales didn't get into magic. Perhaps they were given a gift to thank them after a bit of protection or assistance. And the infinite realms are well, infinite. It attaches to all worlds, including say the more demonic ones. But whose to say none of the Fentons made a deal or three in the generations following. They were witch hunters after all, perhaps they need something to keep up with the "traitors" of their bloodline.

Perhaps a deal which resulted in those matching wings.

Now, how could they find out their relation with the Fentons? While there could be the adoption route, what if instead it was right after Danny's accident.

He died screaming, visibly got electrocuted, his wings are torched, there's no way they're not taking him to the hospital. Which means things like blood tests, maybe even a donated organ or two because someone doesn't get blasted with that much electricity without consequences.

Which, it's the batfamily, they definitely have alarms set up for any sort of family pings for both themselves and their rogues. Just in case.

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Also had no idea where to put it but if this includes demons and ghosts feeding on fear, or emotions in general, then Scarecrow could be instinctively attempting to feed and grow his wings. Also he deserves raven or rook wings. Maybe a jay's if you wanna go for color.

Oh my gosh, even if Alfred and Gotham don't get together, they definitely have tea together and spar. They're definitely co-parenting either platonically or romantically, it doesn't matter this is their specialist lil boy. Who then brings even more of the specialist lil ones ever!

God I love the implications of Clockwork and Pariah creating a cloak of wings for a ghostling for them to use as their feathers slowly grow back. Love what that implies for the culture of the ghost zone. Love the idea of it maybe having an influence on Danny's wings in ghost form since a ghost's appearance is influenced by their image about themself.

#ask answered #batman au #batman #dc #dcu #dcxdp #dpxdc #cryptid batman #cryptid batfam #normally I don't really like demon aus #but this is honestly really interesting in implications #I am honestly here for this and am very interested #Would the batfam also get wings (that is feathered ones) #What is Constantine's reaction to Batman #Does it ping similar to a half-demon or something else #Does he just think it's a Gotham thing since like 3+ portals to hell have been opened there #I honestly don't think Alfred would let Jason die #Like demon blood is actually kinda OP in the DC world #We've seen Constantine stabbed through the center (like practically split in half hotdog style) and heal pretty freakin easy #Okay but wings #like wing ideas #Jack has condor wings (very big & also death implications) #Danny deserves lil dove wings as bby before they're scorched #They deserve to be similar to galaxy when grown back #White flecks from Clockwork & the darker bits from Pariah with hints of his own colors swirling together #Jazz has either a finch's wings or cockatoos #OH #Bruce has nicobar pigeon wings #Closest living relative of the dodo #And it is Gorgeous

[grison-in-space]

Hi! I've just stumbled onto the dogblr side of Tumblr and it seems fascinating. Could you recommend any fundamental reading/watching material for people who want to start learning about dog training/behaviour/cognition? It would also be cool to hear about how you, personally, got into it if you're okay sharing- it seems like a niche field and I'm curious about what the journey might look like for different people. Thanks! ^.^

Oh, sure! Bear in mind that my particular path is, um, actually much weirder than most folks': the dog training with clients is a very new (and very part time) development in my professional life. In my full time job, I'm a postdoctoral associate in neuroscience working on motivation and decision-making in the context of animal behavior. And even for that, my career path has been bizarre: I started out in population genetics, did the PhD in behavioral ecology with a side of metabolic neuroendocrinology, and have now wound up in a NIH-oriented lab focusing on topics related to sex differences, neurodivergence and addiction.

It just occured to me that the dog training thing puts me squarely on the grounds of applied animal behavior research, which means that I've done it! I've poked into all the disciplines that can be described as Animal Behaviour and collected all the achievements! I really gotta reinvest in the Animal Behavior meeting, huh. Oh, wait, no: I'm forgetting behavior genetics, which is an area of strong interest I've poked around the edges of but never myself published in.

See, animal behavior as a formal study contains at least four different disciplines of study that really only loosely interact with one another. Behavioral ecology often appears in concert within ecology and evolution, and it focuses on the study of animals within their own natural context according to their own concerns and experiences. Neuroscience is typically thinking in terms of understanding the mechanism of the human brain, and behaviorism is similarly trained on the universal mechanisms of learning and behavior. Applied animal behavior involves studying how to most effectively, safely, and ethically manage animals in human care, including both domestic animals and captive wild ones; it also covers finding out how to teach animals to do complex but useful behaviors, like training working animals. Neuroendocrinology involves studying how hormones effect changes in the brain and body: metabolic hormones, stress hormones, sex hormones, the works. Behavior genetics (and epigenetics) include studying the effects of genetic variation on behavior itself.

It's certainly not uncommon for people to jump fields once or twice, or to straddle an intersection of approaches over their careers. It's.... less usual to bounce around one's career to quite this extent, which I attribute to the fact that a) I have quite a bit of fairly obvious ADHD, b) I've never worked for anyone who hasn't had their own case bedeviling our focus, and c) I graduated directly into COVID, which meant that I had to figure out a solution on the fly when all the positions I had intended to cultivate dried up overnight.

Not that I'm bitter.

As for how I got into the dog training gig, essentially I like dog training, I really like this outfit, and I have some credit card debt I would really like to pay down. I wanted to meet and talk to more dog folks in the area and I also really missed teaching—I taught every spring and fall through my 8yr PhD, I'm good at it, and I really enjoy it. Since I've respected (almost) every instructor I've had through this outfit, and the one exception involved being listened to immediately about my concerns and increased supervision in response, and I knew that one of my instructors worked part time with them, I figured it might be a neat side gig. So far, that's been bourne out.

I also do have some longer term plans to do some behavioral genetics and neuroscience work on dogs, and I would like to incorporate some noninvasive experiments that use dogs from the general public. My facility also has a robust doggy daycare program and it'd be rad to work with them to build opportunities for everyone in a few years. I'm hoping to leverage a permanent tenure track job at my institution over it, but I might go in several directions from here. Predicting the direction of my career has been a losing proposition so far, so let's see what seems good at the time and stick around as long as I'm having fun.

As for how I got into dogs and dog behavior specifically? In addition to the ADHD, I'm autistic enough to have been diagnosed as a tween girl in the 00s, and my special interests never quite leave —they just flare up and simmer down in long periods over my life. Dogs are the first and earliest of these; my parents told me that they'd seen me gravitating towards the family Lhasa from pretty much the moment I could roll over on my belly. That seems about right. Dogs have been my gateway to huge corridors of my intellectual world, and dog training specifically have been a hobby for some time. In addition to my training gig, I'm experimenting with functional service tasks to support me as burnout and neurodivergence have limited my capacity.

Books and reading recs I'll try to get to later, mm falling asleep right now.

#dog training #career #day job #dogblr

[tblsomedoodles]

Finally get to post my Clara doodles! : )

oh and here's some more b/c my internet was down and i really like drawing her (i got attached very quickly lol)

Ok, i should probably explain a little more about Clara before i go any farther. (i'll put it under a break b/c, most likely, it will be long)

Clara is, essentially, Donnie's adopted daughter. She's not biologically related to the boys in any way. Donnie found her, unhatched, and brought her back to an incubator he had set up in his lab specifically for her.

(i couldn't see Donnie, who hates his powers, going out of his way to create the next Seer. He would rather risk breaking the cycle or whatever than create a child specifically for such a purpose. But, if he found the child who was going to be their replacement, he would not leave them to die. or worse, risk them surviving and growing up without the safety of the vault or someone to explain their powers.)

Donnie found her at a zoo, where a very dedicated zookeeper had been doing their best to take care of what animals they could. One of which was a pair of Indian Peacock Softshell turtles who had laid eggs, one of which got mutated by a leftover oozqueito before ever hatching. That would soon be Clara. Donnie showed up the day the zookeeper died, collected her, and brought her back to the lab so she would continue to grow.

Donnie did consider her to be his child, even though he knew he would never properly meet her. He spent a lot of time searching through visions, watching her grow up in the only way he could. He insured she would want for nothing. Knowledge, gear, whatever he could foresee her needing, he made sure it was ready for her. just as he did for the rest of his family. (he might hate his Seer powers, but he couldn't deny they were useful when it came to preparing for his death)

So Clara grew up in the care of her Uncles (mostly Leo but Mikey and Raph definitely helped) as well Cass and April. (She actually calls Cass, Mama Casey b/c that's what CJ calls her. Also b/c, early on, her visions would upset her to the point where only being around CJ would calm her down. So Cass said that if she was going to watch them at night this often, she was claiming Clara as her kid too. Thus she did.)

Clara and CJ's powers strengthened pretty early (apocalypse does that). It upset her at first, but as time went on, she got tired of crying over it and decided to be angry at them. Her standard way of dealing with bad visions as a teen, was to beat up a training dummy until she either felt marginally better and then sought out CJ, or until CJ found her there.

personality wise, Clara is loud and brash. she is also snarky as hell and has little to no verbal filter. (she's essentially an 03 or 12 Raph lol) She absolutely hates feminine clothing with a passion and whenever Mikey or Raph tried to dress her up as a child, she and CJ would switch clothes as soon as the two looked away.

i think that's it for now? i can't think of anything else really. Other than maybe that i've figured out a way i could add her character (minus the seer powers) to the cannon apocalypse without upsetting the plot much. But i'm not sure i'm going to do it since it's very tragic and i'm not sure i want to put Donnie through that.

#tmnt #rottmnt #seer twins au #apocalypse timeline #non canon #my doodles #oc clara #this is my friday update #b/c i had no internet friday #i need to draw more of her lol

[dxwnfxll]

Heyy!! How are you?<3

I just found your blog and I'm so happy I did! So I decided to leave a request for some hc's of the main 4 eddsworld boys finding out the reader is a stoner? Like they'll just get into the house and see the reader faded af and just being extra chill abt everything??

If you don't do multiple character hc's, then the same premise but only for Tord. Thank you lovely :))

Hiya !! I'm doing swell ! Hope ya are to :) !!

And awesome HC idea totally gonna write it out

Hope ya enjoy it ! (And sorry for the wait i've been busy busy !!)

The eddsworld boys with a stoner reader

(gender neutral reader)

Tord

- So Tord is DEF a stoner, you can't tell me other wise. So when he casually arrives home one day a lil earlier than the others and finds reader faded as hell he just fucking laughs.

- He def gets high with reader, he has a collection of funny lil bongs including a anime girl one he spent a shit ton of money on.

- Reader got munchies? He's got ya, he's got his own lil munchie stash in his room.

- Readers first time getting high? He'll call you stupid but help you through it, make sure you don't freak tf out

- You and him probably sit on the couch looking like idiots laughing at the dumbest shit (probably a dumb commercial Tord keeps rewinding back over and over)

Edd

- I don't see Edd as a stoner but he's okay with the 'lifestyle', though when he came back after a cola run and found Reader staring at the ceiling snickering here and there he's very concerned

- " Did Tord give you something from his stash? TORD !! "

- When he figures out YOU are ALSO a stoner he's like " oh "

- He's kinda curious about what it's like sometimes, especially since he's been casually watching you/Tord getting high randomly and looking like y'all are having the time of your lives.

- Careful if you actually let him get high with you, He's gonna freak tf out and get some bad munchies

- If he never gets high with you though he just kinda keeps an eye on you to make sure you're okay

Matt

- He's not a stoner, doesn't even know what a stoner is. So when he comes home and smells something 'bad' in the air he thinks it's a damn fire

- Idk why he thought it was a fire he just did, he sees smoke coming under your door and grabs a bucket and before you even know it he's thrown water in your room...on you.

- He killed your vibe

- He does apologize though at least

Tom

- He used to be a stoner, he kinda stopped after he got into Smirnoff and didn't wanna be juggling both y'know?

- When he comes home and sees you on the couch he just holds in a lil laugh and goes " i know that face, someones tripping balls"

- He MAKES you give him a hit on the blunt/bong/whatever (or an edible if you prefer edibles)

- He's a pro at this shit so he's chilling, and hopefully you are too. But a few mins in he'll get up and grab some snacks for you two.

- He isn't a very giggly high when y'all two are high but he's more 'idiotic', he'll find random photos and think they're the funniest shit known to man kind. He's also very hungry and thirsty when he gets high

- Tord is NOT allowed during y'alls high time

- He takes big breaks when getting high, so if you're a stoner that does it daily or day after day he's not gonna smoke with ya every day. He smokes like maybe once or twice a week? It really depends

Bonus:

Eduardo

- He judges you, but when he sees how chill you are when high he decides to take a hit. He gets mad when he doesn't get high from one hit

- Excuse him he's a lil dumb, you tell him it takes more than one hit and he just grumbles before taking another hit

- Once he's high with you he just sits there, you probably gotta check on him to make sure he's okay

- After that time he gets high with you whenever he can, dude probably needs it tbh

Jon

- He doesn't really understand but he's cool with it ! :D

Mark

- Mark prefers to not be around whenever you get high, it's not that he hates you being a stoner he just isn't into smoking and all that. He does warn you about the bad stuff with smoking though womp womp

Paul

- Dude doesn't care, he probably finds you high in the barracks at the red army base. He probably sits with you and smokes his own cigarettes just chilling with you

- " everybody needs a break every now and then, just don't be high while your work yeah ? "

- If you ask for anything to help get you down from your high so you can work he'll usually help (if he's in a good mood)

Patryck

- Judging

- He doesn't like that you're high during work, doesn't like the smell and doesn't like how you act while high

- gets a lil annoyed if he has to help you walk around or anything

- def never getting high with you, but he's def had a contact buzz before

Yippe ! Hope you enjoyed sorry if it seemed rushed at all

#eddswolrd #eddsworld #eddsworld x reader #tord x reader #ew tom x reader #ew tord #ew tord x reader #ew matt #ew matt x reader #matt x reader #ew edd #ew edd x reader #eddsworld matt #eddsworld tord #eddsworld tom #eddsworld edd #eddsworld eduardo #eddsworld paul #eddsworld patryck #eddsworld jon #eddsworld mark

[canmom]

Since you're anisports posting, can you share your thoughts about Yuasa's Ping pong ?

the very short answer is man I really gotta watch more of Ping-Pong! so far I've only seen the first episode, but it was pretty interesting in terms of character dynamics. I hear the animation is really creative later on - I mean go figure, it's a Yuasa project - so I really gotta watch more. (I am actually really bad at getting round to watching stuff outside the context of the movie night... hell I'm like 7 episodes behind dunmeshi right now.)

so, from memory then... what I did find striking in the first episode is this theme of like, elitism and international rivalry. the story begins with a Chinese player coming to Japan and finding himself contemptuous of how shitty the Japanese players are in this pathetic backwater where nobody is good at ping-pong. and being good or bad at ping-pong is a big deal for these characters.

'China is much better at ping-pong' is not a concept I'd really been exposed to before that! (I absolutely could not tell you what countries are supposed to be good at ping-pong.) but it does resonate with a certain broader recurring theme you occasionally see of like... whether Japanese (xyz) can hope to stack up against the mighty (xyz)-doers of whatever other country. whether that's playing ping-pong or building fighter planes (a sentiment you see motivating the characters in The Wind Rises).

and that makes me think about odd places I've seen that sorta nationalist underdog sentiment crop up, not just in Japan. whether Chinese social media critics writing scathingly about guómàn out of a perceived need to rise to the level of Japanese and American animation, or Japanese game developers taking to heart the cruel sentiments expressed about Japanese games by other developers during the 2010s and talking about wanting to make Japanese RPGs (for example) compare with Western ones. maybe even the South Korean government going all in on supporting a fraudulent geneticist out of a feeling that the country had to prove itself scientifically.

these examples are all from Asian countries but I definitely don't think this is something that only happens in Asia lol. that said, it's kind of a contrast to the general attitude in my country, where nationalist sentiment more often looks like empire-nostalgia or blithely presuming superiority. people don't so often seem to feel like we collectively have something to prove. maybe there's a sense of embarassment when the UK loses the football [soccer] again, since that one's supposed to be our thing. it was kinda darkly funny when the womens' team actually did win the football, and suddenly people cared about womens' football.

I don't really have much of a thesis on that though, I'm just running along a tangent here. I'll have more interesting things to say about the sports, and the boys that play the sports, when I give Ping-Pong a proper watch through.

#also still need to watch kemonozume and the tatami galaxy on the yuasa front #anime

[yandere-fics]

Ok because I'm bored today: Pixie Darling thoughts

Abigail is incredibly protective of you. You're so small and delicate, she simply must take care of you. She gives you very sweet and tender kisses. All the time, but never lets you venture out of the house.

Theanna has a tiny throne for you on her throne's armrest. There's a bit of unrest in the kingdom over the strange marriage, she might even get you to do some spying if she trusts you enough to let you put yourself in a little danger.

Pauline is kinda mean. She makes fun of you for being so small, you must be dumb since your brain is so tiny. But she's also lovely once she lets her more tender side out, giving your wings tiny kisses before flicking your ass to make you yelp. One time you accidentally fell asleep in her palm and you looked so small and peaceful, she insists you can only nap in her hand from now on.

Ainsley adores you. She has you working as her little assistant, bringing her things and being her experiment when she needs to test things in tiny doses. She may even figure out how to temporarily grow you in size so the two of you can fuck hold eachother.

Bibi is a menace. She thinks you're sooooo funny, she simply must keep you around her at all times. She ties a string around your tiny little body and attaches it to her wrist so you can never fly away from her. Sometimes she yanks on the string when she wants a kiss. She lets you sleep in the hollow parts of her leg.

Elisha takes you on her adventures, that's probably where she met you. She lets you sit on her shoulder and chat to her, but you have to stay back when she's fighting.

Veronia is... something. You're so small and tiny she loves it, when she's in her dragon form she can't even see you. She keeps you wrapped up all nice and warm in her cave, pampering you and treating you like a little pixie princess. She has you bathe in golden goblets, wear earrings as necklaces, and in return she gets to run her tongue along your entire body from time to time, covering you in gross dragon spit and licking you until you cum.

Miriel is incredibly sweet. She loves you so much, even though there's a giant size difference she'd still have you be the dominant one in the relationship. She'd buy the two of you matching jewellery and sneaks you into work with her because she hates being away from you, one of the drawers in her desk has been reformed into a little bedroom for you to sleep in.

Eliza is a menace to society. She loves you because you're so cute and adorable. She puts you in her mouth sometimes. It's terrifying but she finds it so amusing when she spits you out and you're grasping for air covered in saliva.

Kassien sees your wings as a privelege you need to earn. If you won't behave, she'll stick you to a board with thumb tacks. If you continue to try and escape her, she'll cut your wings off, forcing her to carry you whenever you want to go somewhere. She also likes when you sit on her head and use her horns as handles. She's also still equally mean, forcing you to sit on a bullet vibrator as she turns the settings up all the way, the vibrations spreading all throughout your little body. If you cum before she gives you permission, she's gonna tape you to the bullet and leave you there for a few more hours.

Nikki is ecstatic. Her mate is so small you can be a part of her collection! Your fingernails and hair may be too small to collect, but she makes you a sealed dollhouse to live in so she can always watch and observe you, like a captured animal in an enclosure. She sits for hours and watches you, and when you get tired she scoops you up to nap with her, lying down on her chest.

I've already written how Runa acts but I want to add that she makes you roleplay with her anime figurines since you're the same size. "IT'S NOT WEIRD NOW TELL RIN-SAN THAT SHE'S YOUR BEST FRIEND"

-girlfailure

I love pixie darling so much

#girlfailure anon

[spacevixenmusic]

Man, this anime. People have been really hard on it since day one (and yeah, I understand WHY), but I've been really enjoying it honestly.

As a refresher, My Home Hero is about a dad who sees his college-aged daughter in an abusive relationship with a dickhead yakuza fuckboy, and through circumstance, ends up alone in her apartment with him, and decides to just fucking murder him. After beating yakuza boy's head in, Dad realizes how utterly fucked he and his family will be when The Organization inevitably finds out, and has to quickly come up with a way to not only hide the body, but fabricate an extensive web of lies to try and outwit The Organization. It helps that Dad is a salesman who used to collect and write crime novels, and knows how to - rather gruesomely - dispose of human remains in ways that will be nearly impossible to trace. While he is figuring shit out, Mom also stops by and is now inevitably tangled into this as well. She surprisingly is on board with it, and helps him get right to work.

But The Organization is no slouch, and they're onto these two. The whole anime so far (6 episodes) has been about the slow burn paranoia of every single lie being fabricated while the organization hunts for the missing fuckboy. The story itself is absolutely fascinating and honestly kind of thrilling in a very adult way that you just don't ever get to see in an anime. You would expect this from something like CSI or any daytime crime drama that your stay-at-home grandma watches while the kids are at school. Very unusual to see it in an anime (albeit a low-budget and very limited animation production).

What makes it truly interesting though is the lens this story puts on Dad. He is portrayed as very mild-mannered, nervous, a good conversationalist but still a bit of a geek, and yet, there is clearly a very dark undertone to his demeanor, given how quickly he is able to come up with convincing lies, act on his knowledge of crime and body disposal, predict The Organization's moves, keep calm under pressure, and quickly jump toward committing even more murder. One of the yakuza involved in their ongoing interrogation even commented on him being far more of a monster than he lets on. And Mom is hardly better, as she effortlessly follows his cues and assists with the body disposal and as of episode 6, even improvises her own solutions without even a speck of fear staring down the yakuza.

I haven't seen an anime this tailored for capital-A Adults since about the mid-00s, in the vein of stuff like Paranoia Agent and Ergo Proxy. And while I wouldn't put My Home Hero in the same boat as either of those, it's still super refreshing, in a similar way.

You bet your ass I'm gonna see this one to the end. I'll let you know how it goes!

#my home hero #tetsuo tosu

[selfproclaimedunicorn]

MORE QUESTIONS

what other fandoms do you enjoy outside of ASOIAF?

Lmao, the big list of Things Misa Enjoys

I very much enjoy anime & manga. I got infected with those brain worms back in high school, & they simply will not leave. Particularly into Sailor Moon, which I haven't stopped thinking about since 1999, (I have OCs for that & a fic I'm gonna one day sit down & plot out beyond This Is The Vibe. I have a few things floating around in my brain, but I just haven't made the time to do anything with it. Maybe since I'm at reception for 6 hours I'll do that 🤷🏻‍♀️) & JoJo's (I also have OCs for this one, but no fic. I do have a homebrewed ttrpg system to run a JoJo's campaign with, though. But I need to finish statting enemy Stand Users & some character design. Also it's not a priority because I have an asoiaf campaign trilogy to finish running). I don't read or watch anything with the quickness, so I haven't watched a ton of newer anime or made that much of a dent in my reading of Berserk, but I do enjoy both newer stuff and Berserk. I even have a couple figures from Demon Slayer, which is probably my favorite newer series? It feels very nostalgic to the series I grew up watching.

I was into the Netflix Witcher series, but I haven't been able to bring myself to finish season 3. No amount of Joey Batey tits or confirmed pansexual Jaskier can really build my hype back up when I've heard the last bit of s3 sucked & I know I probably won't watch season 4. I have collected all but the last book of short stories though, so once I've worked through more of my books I need to give a fair shake before donating I plan to start those & get into The Witcher proper.

The Elder Scrolls is very good & fun, & I know the plots of all the mainline games even though I've only ever actually played Skyrim to completion. I have...I have so many OCs for that. And a fic I'm slowly working on that tells the story of the Dawnguard DLC by way of Lapsed Viglant Of Stendarr & Werewolf Vampire Hunter Are Forcibly Adopted As Serana's New Parents (and also I am confirming Serana as, like, eternally 19 because she feels very teenagery/early 20s-y to me). Fun fact: two of my current very close friends (my Platonic Wife included) were made by way of TES (and then another friend was introduced to me by a TES friend). So, thanks for your service, Todd Howard. Y'know, I guess.

It feels very "What are your hobbies? / Magnets." to say, but, like, dolls in general. I've collected porcelain dolls since I was little (but that collection got pared down massively when I moved from Texas), & I'm currently working through a clean/restore/dress/display of my old Bratz dolls. I've also dropped real adult money on dolls to (out of box, bc it sparks joy) display in my apartment. Specifically the Sasha (my best girl) Rock Angelz repro I waited almost a full year to see drop, Heather Greyson from Shadow High, & The Pride Bratz (I had a giftcard). I need to finish cleaning my old Bratz before I drop money on more though. So I know my shelving situation, lmao.

I am not not into Dragon Age, but I also complain about it all the time. I refuse to engage with it in a multimedia way. What I cannot learn by playing the games/have told to me in those games is simply not for me to know. Just...the way the franchise is handled & how it feels very obvious that Bioware wants to tell an incredibly specific story (while still allowing for character creation?), all the lore decisions they're making that feel like retcons/throw away everything I got invested in early (hello the dwarves & the dalish & Alistair's everything), & the increasing non-optional nature of the comics & books...it brings my blood to boil. The games are fun though! I have fun playing the games! And my personal Warden/Hawke/Inquisitor trios can be pried from my cold, dead hands!

I'm gonna be real, I know much more about Th Old World Of Darkness than Vampie v5, but I am into Vampire The Masquerade. This is, again, a "I have learned everything in bursts of hyperfixation that last a varying length of time," but I would very much like to take one of my two special vampire boys out for a spin one day. Because they're there! They exist & they are appropriately melodramatic, & I love them. Evil, fucked up, Hecata thug & flouncy, Catholic For The Aesthetic Toreador music producer my beloveds 💕

#ask #im also casually into batman & the flash #and star trek #but not enough to really make NOTE y'know

[londonfoginacup]

Hi!! I absolutely love all your art!!

If I may, can I ask how you found your art style?

🥰🥰

Aaaaah gosh, what a question! And thank you for the compliment! 🥰

It's especially a compliment because I've always felt like my art doesn't really have a style. It's always been very inconsistent from one day to the next; my handwriting is the same way!

But I've been thinking this over all day, and in terms of practical advice I think I have three things--

First, collect art like you're a dragon with a hoard. I have a blog that I've kept since 2013 where I reblog everything that inspires me -- @toffeescones -- and I will often just go through and gaze at the pieces. Figure out why I like the pieces I like, figure out what color combinations I enjoy and what line density brushes I love seeing other people use (I have issues with line density I'm still working on lol). What I really like to do is look at that blog in archive mode and scroll until I find three or four pieces I'm especially vibing with, and then try to create my own piece that draws from them. This is especially helpful, I find, when trying to figure out backgrounds, textures, and styles of shading.

Second, and I dunno I might be the only one who does this, but I will find hours of speedpaints to watch. I did this more a few years ago compared to now, but another way to figure out what bits of people's styles you would like for yourself is to watch how they do what they do. It's not as easy now that livestream isn't, like, a site artists use anymore? But here's a few people I love to watch -- Christyzhouk Vulcanmoon Zesketches (that one isn't speedpaints but they do the most BEAUTIFUL animations and are the reason I started learning how to gif) ixcato

Third, and obviously this is what everyone says all the time, is just to practice.

But like, to be specific, it's practicing the same thing over and over again. Honest to fucking god, the things that have improved my art more than anything else are Inktober, and tour art.

Just. The same thing over and over and over again. Choosing a medium and practicing it every. day. is how you build that muscle and figure out what works for you.

Compare the beginning of when I started tour art, to one of the more recent ones (obvs I havent done any this year because life has been insane but still) --

The one on the right is how I draw now! I figured out how to bring things to life, how to have dynamic poses, how to flesh out my Harries, just by drawing him in the same style over and over and over and over and--

Same with inktober -- on the left is my first successfully finished inktober from 2019, and on the right is 2022

You can see my stile in both of them, to some extent, but you can see how it's fleshed out and become (hopefully) more consistent, more me.

So yeah. This is probably way more than you were bargaining for. But that's all it is! Figure out what art you love, hoard it, draw from it, and practice until you you think you can't possibly have anything original left to draw. And you'll still think that maybe you don't have a consistent style, but hey someone will tell you that you do, and that's maybe worth it.

#I had to copy and paste half this reply into a new tab because tumblr froze so sdkjfhdskjhfdkjfd hope it still reads alright #AND I HOPE THIS HELPS #AND ISNT JUST NONSENSE #GOOD LUCK ON YOUR ART JOURNEY #YOU'RE GOING TO DO AMAZING

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

Howdy hey, call me Skipp!

I'm relatively new to tumblr despite having an account for years. I was always a little scared of this platform, but now that I know more about how it works I've come to adore it!

I figured I should just clarify what my blog is like. This blog is far from currated! It is simply the dumping ground of my mind. This ranges from ocs, to fandoms, to random inner monologues put to text. The only truly cohesive thing about this blog would be the art. I love to do the art things and will post and repost it constantly! So the best way to navigate my blog for anything specific would be through the tags :)

With all that said, you weary travellers who are interested in my wears (fandoms), below the cut you will find a list of things that intrigue me.

Tales of Arcadia

my obsession with this series will come and go in intense waves but will never truly fade.

Percy Jackson/Rick Riordanverse

show reignited my adoration to intensities they definitely weren't before XD

Mystery Kids

I love this and all of the different possible iterations with other media as well. So much angst and fluff material too!

Secret Trio

I constantly remember and forget how much I love this au. Same as with Mystery Kids, I'm a sucker for all the different interpretations and inclusions of other media in this au.

Indie Horror Games (Sally Face, Slay the Princess, Fran Bow, etc)

This isn't, like, exclusive to horror exactly, but games of a similar vibe and nature to those are what I find myself liking the most!

Undertale/Deltarune

been a fan since it first came out and I don't think I'll ever really stop

TMNT

got into the fandom through Rise and, ever since, I have been making my way through the other shows slowly, one by one. Currently on 2003, which I've heard is collectively believed to be the best, and am very excited.

Also looking for any good Rise!Raph angst fics, so if you've got any suggestions lmk!

Flying Bark Productions (ROTTMNT, LMK, MOON GIRL)

I am an animation nerd and my current nerd obsession is everything this studio has made in the last, like, ten years! Everything they make is just so...ashsreuvbevui!

Detentionaire

I don't care if everyone else has moved on, because I haven't!

Unus Annus

Momento Mori. I'm always down to reminisce and grieve with those who were there. This channel had such a profound impact on me so I'm not sure I'll ever be able to truly forget it, but that's fine with me.

Grojband

I'm totally normal about this show that no one around me seems to even recall and have totally not made a hella angsty au about it to cope.

Fashion

Like a crow, I like pretty things. Fashion is one of those pretty things. I repost a lot of couture.

Sims

I repost a lot of cc on here not just for me, but for anyone who might find interest in it as well (it's definitely just for me).

PowerPuff Girls

While I oddly enough don't remember much of the show, I have always been pretty deep into the fandom. Been reading fics and fancomics since, like, the early 2010s and just never really left lol

Miraculous Ladybug

I can't escape this show! I love the fandom, it's great. Love all of the artists and aus and fanart, but I've fallen out of love with the show itself. I will watch every single episode, I just won't talk about it because that's not where my interest lies.

These are definitely not all of the fandoms I am or will be a part of but these are probably gonna be the ones you see the most of!

[hello-im-not-a-possum]

A Secret Leak: Bringing the Dark to the Light

Audrey poured the contents of her bag across the dining room table and looked over them with a sigh: Artist found dead at his desk, Bendy's going bankrupt, Angel gone AWOL, Workers caught in devastating ink flood, twelve injured, six dead, Maestro gone missing, GENT Lawsuit against retired animation veteran ends in strange stalemate... She went to her bedroom and took the collected death certificates off of her shelf and brought them to the dining room, planning in figuring out how they fit in with the newspaper stories, like trying to fit puzzle pieces together.

'Shortly after acclaimed, award winning voice actress Susie Campbell had done an interview with press over her upcoming meet up with animation producer Joey Drew, she completely disappeared off the face of the earth without a trace. According to Ms. Campbell herself, the two were going to discuss the possibility of her going back to reprise the role that had the public catch her eye in the biggest and most ambitious project Joey Drew Studios had ever dared to achieve. But before fans of the original Alice Angel could even anticipate the return of her voice, it was stolen away once more.'

'"Joey and I didn't really leave on good terms... One minute I was doing my daily routine as usual and the next I was scrambling for a new role while looking for new jobs. And I'm not going to lie and say that I *didn't* resent him for that." Ms. Campbell commented in the interview. "While there was still a lot of good folks at the studio, I can't say I missed the place itself or the grinning devil at the top. I think he's only come crawling back after he saw that I've made a name for myself while he's shot himself in the foot." When asked if she was considering turning down Mr. Drew's offer of a reprise, she responded "I guess it will all come down to him. Does he really feel guilty about the whole thing? Is he treating his remaining workers better? Is he actively trying to be a better boss and person? If I so much as sense a single 'no' as an answer for any of my questions, I'm not setting foot back in that studio! Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...".'

'As there's currently no other leads, the public suspects one of two outcomes: that the voice actress was kidnapped by a scorned and or lovesick fanatic who saw their chance when she was waiting for Joey to arrive, or that the man behind the grinning devil struck down the original Alice Angel in a blind rage-

"...You know, just because Ink creatures don't *need* sleep doesn't mean they don't get tired." Bendy bit his lip as he watched Audrey read through the article.

"Yeah, but it's not like I have the luxury of hiring a private eye to help on this... I mean, imagine if the truth got out, either there would be mass hysteria, or you'd be sent to some lab and I'd be sent to some asylum-"

"Hey! Let's not bring labs or asylums into this!" he shuddered while taking a seat at the table. "...Anyway, while we're going to be pulling an all nighter, there's something that's been on my mind since I've moved in... ...Two somethings in fact."

"What is it, Bendy?"

"One; why do you have these death certificates? Joey I could kinda understand. I don't know how the death business works, but I guess it makes sense for people to give the still-living family members copies of it along with the inheritance, but Henry? Susie? Everybody else who was close in contact with Joey while working at the studio? Where did you get these and how?"

"They were all in file cabinets at Archgate Studios. I also found a lot of the newspapers in a file cabinet in Nathan's office." Audrey put Susie Campbell's death certificate on top of the 'Angel gone AWOL' article. "Sometimes I get mistaken for a secretary and I play along with it to get into areas I'm normally not allowed in."

"Huh..." Bendy nodded in thought as he looked over the ink flood case. "...I thought that the guy who turned part of his studio into a museum celebrating "Joey's legacy" would want to hide away the parts that the public found disgusting. Sweep it under the rug by destroying them..."

"Well, the thing about Nathan is that he loves everything about Joey." Audrey shrugged. "All the good, all the bad, all the truths and lies... Everything. He'd keep things hidden away so that only he could see them, but I don't think he could ever bring himself to destroy anything related to him or his legacy."

"...I guess that makes sense..." The imp sighed as he skimmed over the closest article to him 'Artist found dead at desk'. "As for the second thing: How come you're nothing like Joey?"

"Care to elaborate..?" she smiled nervously, not knowing if the imp meant that in a good or bad way.

"You two have different hair colors, different physical forms, different ink forms, and wildly different personalities. I mean, he's stupid, impulsive, has questionable morals, loud, and most importantly: He's always trying to make himself the main star of the show, being loud and in control."

"I see..."

"While you? You might be kinda clueless, but you're also curious and you're doing your research, you seem to only be taking risks because you're backed into a corner here, and you're pretty quiet, meek even. Sure, you can banish souls into the inky puddles and break skulls open when push comes to shove but you sure as hell don't act like it... In fact, you remind me more of Henry than Joey."

"And how do you feel about Henry?"

"Good question... When I first met him, I hated him. I thought he was the reason I was in this mess in the first place. I believed that if he stayed back and... I don't know, done *something,* anything to change my fate. Maybe if he was there he could've convinced Joey not to hurt me, maybe if he was there he could've fixed me in a way where I didn't need to be tortured into a perfect form, maybe... maybe if he was there he could've taken me with him so I wouldn't have to be along with him..." He rubbed the tears out of his watering eyes to keep himself from bawling like a baby. "...But now? Now I know that I was blaming the wrong person. Henry is just a retired animator, he never would've suspected that he was capable of anything like this. For all he knew, Joey was just a good friend but a shitty boss and that's that. When he found out the truth, he was already trapped in a cage just like everyone else..."

Audrey moved to hug the imp but held back, not knowing if she'd make it worse but not willing to risk it...

"Can I come to work with you tomorrow?"

"Well Bendy, we both know some of the problems with that..."

"Please! I could wear a disguise and I'll be quiet! I also know how to get through vent systems without making noise and my hearing's good enough to sense where people are coming and going! They'll *never* know I was there!"

"Okay, fine... but you also have to be very careful, Wilson's ghost has been hanging around the studio."

"Weird... I thought it would stay in the machine since he died in there- Wait, he doesn't enter or leave properly, so it probably spat him out to prevent more irritation."

"...What?"

"Okay, when you first got in the cartoon studio, did you see ink coming out of its nozzle when you entered the ink? Or see a doorway open to what distinctly looked like a sepia-toned and cartoonish world?"

"No..? It was more of a pool of ink leaking out of the bottom of the machine itself and Wilson pulling me into it."

"Well that explains it... Think of the ink machine like a person and normal people as food. It eats the food and makes ink people. But Wilson doesn't get 'eaten' because he doesn't properly enter it, he more so... makes it bleed, enters the blood stream, and gets to the ink world that way. Like some kind of parasite that the ink world notices and tries to fight off."

"...Huh..." Audrey blinked slowly, processing the metaphor and internally wondering if they alluded to something else or if she was just overthinking it. "...Well I guess that explains why he's here..."

"Anyway, if he's here no matter what form he takes he wont scare me." The demon smirked confidently. "He's powerless without his keepers!"

"If you say so... See you in the morning, Ben."

Audrey went back to looking over the articles, just wanting to match up one more to a certificate before calling it a night...

-----

It was easier sneaking Bendy out of Archgate than it was to sneak him in, some reasons more obvious than others.

The crowds of other coworkers were difficult enough to navigate through, but she also had to deal with the lingering fear that 'playing dead' wasn't enough for the little devil in her bag to avoid suspicion. Sure, any random passerby would easily mistake the limp demon for a very well-made toy, but Audrey was so used to his liveliness that just going limp wasn't enough to convince her, and therefore she didn't think she and the imp were convincing anyone else.

She was thankful that her office had a lockable door and an airvent cover that could easily be unscrewed with a pencil.

"Okay, to keep you from getting lost; No unscrewing other vent covers while you're in there and just in case, I'll mark this one with a sticky note."

"Don't worry, I know exactly what I'm doing." He brushed her off and climbed in the open vent.

"But do you know the layout of Archgate?"

"I don't need to, the thing I'm looking for has a *very* distinct smell."

She nodded hesitantly, reminding herself that while Bendy did need help from time to time. the imp climbing through the vent wasn't always a small and helpless creature that jumped at loud noises and cried when he burned his tongue on soup. Just because he hasn't turned into the Ink Demon yet didn't mean that he was permanently like this, ...did it?

"I'll be back in say... two hours, maybe three if I get held up by vent-traffic or something." He reassured her. "Don't worry until at least past the three hour mark, okay?"

"Okay, and if you see Wilson in there..." She handed him what looked like a bottle of bleach spray. "It doesn't *kill* ink creatures or ghosts mind you, but it's basically pepper spray for him."

"Got it, thanks Audrey!"

With that, he disappeared into the vents while Audrey tried to refocus her mind on her work.

...

"It's so much dirtier than I anticipated..." Bendy murmured while crawling through the webby, dusty vents. "Spiders in the not-ink world must be really flexible..."

He shuttered at the thought of entities *like* the regal widows, but with the traits Audrey described them with: more legs, eight beady eyes, and large, sharp pincers...

"Okay, focus Bendy, Nathan's office has to be around here somewhere..."

To his left, the sound of a set of keys being dropped echoed throughout the vents (or at least, it did to him) and as the opportunistic demon saw his chance, he made it to the set, peeking at the vent cover to make sure that there was no one looking and carefully removing the cover from his side to pick up the forgotten set...

...Only to be grabbed by the wrist by a four-fingered hand and hoisted up like a freshly caught fish. And the 'fisherman' in question was grinning ear-to-ear.

"Looking for these?" Wilson let out a raspy chuckle as he jingled the keys in front of the annoyed imp's face. "I knew you were going to come back here eventually, but I didn't expect you would be so easy to cat- AAAURRGHHH!"

Spraying the ghost in the face with the bleach, Bendy braced himself for impact as Wilson dropped him to wipe the stuff out of his eyes, grabbing the keys and slipping back into the vents.

"Not so fast!" the false janitor called after him while trying to climb into the small vent himself. "This is far from over, devil!"

Just as he saw the demon's tail disappear into the darkness in the vents, Wilson started to chuckle before breaking down into full on laughter, laughter that made the demon stop in his tracks...

"Of course you ran! It's all you can do you... you pathetic, insignificant, little ink stain! And to think that you're the product of the legacy my father gave so much up to protect! The legacy of a thief that left a wife husbandless and a child fatherless by infecting a good man with obsessions over a dying empire that deserved to die! The legacy of a weak, cowardly, little man..."

Bendy turned back, glaring at the man half-stuck in the vent.

"...Do you think I'm running from you because I'm afraid of you?"

"Well, it's not like you stayed and fought me, is it?" He smirked. "Go ahead, run along little mouse, the cat will catch you once and for all before you know it..."

"It takes one to know one, what is even one thing worth fearing about you? You have no powers given to you, taken from others or otherwise, The ink machine created your Keepers, not you, and your creation "Duddy Shitchips" or whatever his name is has nothing behind it, no heart, no soul, it never would've worked to be my successor because it was just made in a spiteful attempt to steal an audience you don't even want, just taking it for the sake of making them talk about a creation you made instead of a creation made by someone who you hold the stupidest grudge against."

Wilson's smirk quickly fell to a frown.

"You know, it's kinda funny." He sat down with a chuckle. "Even if it's for wildly different reasons, we have the exact same enemies and same tragedies... Both of us were cast aside by our fathers because they wanted to chase illusions of greater things, both of us were hated by people for our appearances when we have no control over how we look, and both of us really, really want Joey to get beaten to a pulp. Who knows, maybe if things went differently, we could've been the best of friends."

Wilson's eye narrowed at the grinning imp. "I am nothing like you..." he spat through gritted teeth.

"Exactly. I'm a being of darkness that wanted to embrace the light but was rejected from it all my life until now, and you? You're a spoiled rotten being of light that threw away so many things that even now you still take for granted... All to try to control darkness out of the false belief that the light rejected you."

Bendy turned away from him and made his way back through the vents while Wilson tsked.

"I lost nothing, do you hear me demon?! Nothing!"

"Then you can make it back to being passably human on your own, right?"

The only 'answer' given was the soft echos of the various sounds of the demon disappearing back into the vents.

#bendy and the dark revival #a secret leak au #audrey drew #bendy the dancing demon #wilson arch #fanfic

[yunoteru4ever]

@thesafaribaggirl-returns Hey, thanks for following/reading!

(I hope you don't mind me transplanting this Ask over to the aforementioned Future Diary blog, but since I'm about to get heavy on my Sakae Esuno geekery, I figured it was most appropriate here.)

SO: I haven't read the manga / watched the anime for Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun yet for... pretty dumb reasons, honestly, although I should at least mention that Dusk Maiden — both its anime AND the entire run of its manga — predate the existence of even the first chapter of Hanako-Kun's manga. So if anything, that description should be reversed and Hanako-kun is the one that's Dusk Maiden for a different audience. (I infer from your Ask that it's probably mostly aimed at girls? Although I don't know enough about it to be sure of that.) Regardless of which one came first, though, I think it's safe to say that Hanako-kun is much better known and more popular by now. It's been in my "try-this-some-time" list for years now.

But I've not yet touched Hanako-kun largely because I'm just SO emotionally invested in Sakae Esuno's Hanako and the Terror of Allegory manga that I'm lowkey bitter that this other manga starring the same bathroom-dwelling ghost of legend (and featuring their name right in the title) is way more popular and occupies far more space within pop culture's collective unconscious. ........ Even though, yeah, that's inherently dumb and epically silly of me.

Y'all likely know where these mangas stand among Western weebs. If Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun rates (in the West) around "fairly popular/well-known among seasonal anime/manga devotees" then Hanako and the Terror of Allegory lands at something like "obscure to all Western anime/manga fans to a degree that is hard to quantify." Which I obviously consider to be a goddamn shame.

Ultimately, it's not like I've ever prevented myself from consuming MANY wildly varied interpretations of Sherlock Holmes or Wonder Woman or whoever, y'know? The only difference is really that, as a Westerner, the legend of Hanako doesn't show up on my radar as much as.... idk,King Arthur or whatever common legends we have here.

Besides, the gender identities of these two Hanakos are exact opposites! That ALONE is gonna make them EXTREMELY distinct from one another.

So I hereby vow to give Hanako-kun its fair shake pretty soon.

#sakae esuno #esuno sakae #hanako and the terrory of allegory #dusk maiden of amnesia #toilet-bound hanako-kun #asks #Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun #Hanako to Gūwa no Terā #Tasogare Otome × Amunejia

[xoxardnekoxo]

Movie Review: TMNT Mutant Mayhem

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!

Ah, Ninja Turtles. My childhood superheroes... oh who am I kidding, my eternal superheroes. :D This fabsome foursome debuted in 1987, the same year I was born, so I literally grew up watching the franchise. The series has gotten several reboots over the last three decades, and it's still going strong. The hype now is around the latest installment, Mutant Mayhem, created by Seth Rogen.

So, confession - when I first heard details about this movie and saw promo images, I was NOT on board. The art style is amateur at best, and yet another one of my beloved childhood redheaded characters has been black washed. First Ariel, now April? If we could stop doing that, that would be great... I'm totally okay with her being heavyset and more realistic in terms of body. We could all use THAT type of PC upgrade for beloved classic characters. But at least keep them the same race we've always known them to be.

But enough about that. It wasn't just the art style that made me stick my nose up in disgust at yet another remake of my ultimate childhood series. I'm literally a mega fan - my TMNT collection dates back 30+ years and is still growing, and it features some sort of item from every series thus far (with the exception of Rise... because even I can't get on board with that one). I'm talking figures, plushes, clothes, jewelry, hats, backpacks, bookmarks, magnets, buttons, piggy banks, etc. You name it, I've got it in TMNT form. So I'm very passionate about the show and can be quite critical of changes to it.

Which is why when I was starting to get past the art style, I was appalled to learn that not only would Shredder not be the main antagonist this time around, he wouldn't even be referenced at all.

Uh... yeah, we all know - we've known since 1984, when the comics came out - that Shredder is THE villain of the turtles. That's the one thing that's been consistent with every franchise (except The Next Mutation, but he at least made an appearance in that, albeit for a brief time). Instead, the bad guy is a hideous creature called Superfly. Kind of a double play on words considering he's literally a giant mutant fly with fancy/classy/fast cars and an entire mutant army and crime baddies at his disposal.

And Splinter? OMG, what did they DO to him? His face looks like someone splattered vegetables on the sidewalk. I see a squashed tomato/potato where his nose should be, and his "beard" is like the top of broccoli or a garlic clove. (shudder) And let's not get into the fact that, when the turtles were kids, he had a freaking Afro and a mustache. The turtles are meant to be 15 in this time, which would make the year roughly 2008 when they were kids, so the 70s look was way dated at that time.

Then we get more great news... not only are we now race-swapping characters; we're also gender-swapping them. Leatherhead and Wingnut, while minor characters throughout every iteration, are now girls instead of guys.

Leatherhead has always been an ally to the turtles, except in the original series, and considering the direction this movie took, I have to wonder if the writers thought it would be inappropriate to make them enemies because it would show teen guys beating up a girl. I mean, "beating up" may be a stretch, but you get what I mean. And Wingnut has always been super annoying to me, so I would have been okay had she not been in the movie at all. But I digress.

Okay, so, plot. Since Shredder isn't the main villain, the plot isn't the usual "stop Shredder from conquering Earth" thing. The movie starts with Baxter Stockman raising a giant mutant baby fly - in a crib and all - in a lab surrounded by test tubes of animals. Yeah, I didn't make that up. Animals of all different species and sizes are somehow shrunken down to conveniently fit inside a test tube.

Some heavy-duty suit guys break in and grab Stockman to take all his research at the behest of a mysterious woman named Cynthia Utrom. We know from prior series and lore that the Utroms are the alien race that created the ooze that caused the mutations of, well, all mutants. Utrom looks like a woman here, but she could be wearing a human suit like in the 2003 series. We don't know, and we don't find out.

Anyway, the baby fly escapes and takes out all the suits because, well, he's super strong and inhuman. And he has wings. He manages to grab all Stockman's test tubes and book it out of there, and then we fast forward to 15 years later where we meet our protagonists. Their current mission? To acquire necessities for the lair from a list given to them by Splinter. So they do this and they're like, "Hey, we've only been gone for a little bit. Let's go check out the outdoor movie playing in the park." So then we get to see them watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Yep, a live action movie in a CGI movie with art that's literally meant to resemble sketches like kids would draw.

So then they get back to the lair but Leo guiltily confesses that they all went to watch a movie in close proximity to humans. We're then introduced to the origin story of the turtles and Splinter, and while we're all familiar with it, it's slightly different this time. Splinter was a normal rat before, but he wasn't anyone's pet. He was a typical NYC rat, hated by humans (and raccoons... and dogs...) and one day he finds himself in the sewers and comes upon four baby turtles crawling around in green ooze. This ooze had come from a canister kicked into a sewer grate from Stockman's lab earlier. Splinter was shocked that the turtles took right to him, and they were the first and only things to not instantly hate him or want to kill him. So of course he touches the ooze and mutates, as do the turtles. He raises them as his sons, and honestly, I don't recall ever hearing him being called Splinter. All the turtles called him Dad. I don't think we ever knew his name... so if you didn't know of any other TMNT series before this, you'd have no idea what his name was.

Anyway, the turtles, as kids, wanted to go above ground one day, and Splinter thought he'd give it a try. Bad idea, because, of course, everyone freaked out and chased them away. So Splinter vowed to keep his sons safe and refused to let them leave the lair except to get supplies. We're also treated to a montage of cheesy old footage of actual martial arts movies/shows depicting how Splinter trained the turtles in ninjitsu as a means of self defense. He now loathes humans and wants nothing to do with them, and wants the same for his sons.

So after the confession of watching a movie, the turtles get grounded and are all talking in their room about what they'd do if they could be normal. Meanwhile, a crime spree has broken out with mega villain Superfly (yep, that's his name) stealing all kinds of high-tech scientific items... and if anyone sees his face, he kills them.

We're soon introduced to April, who, this time, is not an adult reporter. She's an aspiring reporter in high school, and she's collecting information on the Superfly case because, due to the crime spree, the school's prom has been cancelled and she thinks she can get it back if she solves the mystery of Superfly.

Well, the guys are throwing ninja starts at watermelons (because why not) on the rooftop one night, and one lands in April's helmet. As she's chewing out the shadows on the roof that she can't see, someone steals her scooter. And Leo decides this would be a great time to play hero and get the scooter back for the "beautiful human girl." Yeah, in the 2012 version, Donnie had a crush on April. This time around, apparently it's Leo.

The guys then partake in their first actual fight with bad guys - I'd love to say that I went YES in the theater when a car radio turns on and "Ninja Rap" from the original second movie is playing - and shortly thereafter, April sees them. But she doesn't freak out even when she realizes they're not wearing costumes. She's more interested in getting a story about them for the school newspaper. But of course, considering they aren't supposed to be seen or known about, that won't do. April then tells the guys that, had they not helped her beforehand by getting her scooter back, she probably would have had a much different and more negative reaction to seeing them. This gives the turtles an idea: Become heroes by finding Superfly and bringing him to justice, allow April to get it all on film to showcase them as heroes, and then she can write and submit her story.

April accepts the terms, and the turtles go to her high school with her and are all "ooohh, ahh, we want to go here." They find April's locker, which has been graffitied with things like "puke girl." We're then treated to the ever delightful scene of our female protagonist spewing what looks like green ooze all over a desk because of nerves while giving the morning announcements. Look, I know this is CGI and not real, but that was completely unnecessary. More on that later.

So to get to Superfly, the guys have to interrupt a transfer of goods, i.e. the final piece of some machine Superfly is building for his nefarious plot (which we don't know what it is yet). The guys are waiting in the truck and he shows up... with Bebop and Rocksteady. You remember them. The mutant warthog and rhino, respectively, from 1987 and 2012? Shredder's mutant allies? The ones Shredder created? Yeah, those two. Well, this time, since there is no Shredder, they were created in Stockman's lab. Remember all the animals in test tubes? Yeah, they're all grown now as well, raised by Superfly since he was the oldest. Stockman's plan was to create a family of mutants because he was never liked or understood by people. Superfly's plan is to pick up where his "father" left off... by turning all animals into mutants and killing all humans.

So of course, eventually the turtles manage to turn the tables and attempt to escape with the last piece of the machine Superfly needs to spread the mutagen. But of course, that falls apart and a bunch of Utrom's suits find and capture them. April races back to the lair to tell Splinter that his sons are in trouble... yeah, that's an awkward first meeting. Splinter shows up and takes out all the suits (Utrom has been taken away to safety), saves his sons, and they all start to head back home to come up with a plan to stop Superfly. It results in them basically appealing to all the other mutants, telling them that they don't have to listen to Superfly and that they have a choice. Surprise, surprise, they all turn against the big bad. Even Rocksteady and Bebop, and they're supposed to be villains... I realize their origin is different here, but come on.

Well, everyone takes out the giant mutagen machine... sort of. It lands in the river below, where there are dozens of species of sea life. Yep, you guessed it. Superfly merges with all the animals in the river. He gets a whale body, crab pinchers, some sort of tail, etc. And, for some reason, random horses on his legs. Wha... Oh, and he's now taller than the Empire State Building. Awesome.

Yeah, as if he wasn't ugly enough before LOL. Well, the suits in Utrom's lab had been working on an anti-mutagen, and April managed to swipe one of these canisters... somehow. It didn't really show how, she just did it. Times Square has a huge news report going on about mutants attacking, so April manages to get inside the Channel 6 (yep, the right station!) building to take over the report and explain that she knows the truth - that the only bad mutant is the giant fly/whale hybrid thing. And then she pukes again. Seriously, STOP THAT.

Splinter is trying to get to his sons, but Superfly manages to knock him back hard enough to break his leg. Humans approach, and he's terrified... but they're reaching for him to help him. So then we have humans and mutants working together to get the anti-mutagen to the turtles, who manage to throw it into Superfly's weak spot - the whale blow hole. Yep, that takes care of it. So then the turtles are revered as heroes, and the other mutants are all now living in the sewers with them... and the turtles wind up going to high school. They're got human clothes on, ditch their masks, etc. And all the kids welcome them and think they're super cool. April's locker has been re-graffitied with things like "cool girl" instead of "puke girl," and then the movie just... ends.

Then we get a post-credits scene, showing how the turtles are getting along in high school. Each one seems to have found his niche, and they're even all at the prom together. However, Utrom is watching them, and she says that capturing them will be difficult. So she asks her assistant to bring her... The Shredder! Then we see an outline of Shredder before the scene cuts away. So yeah, totally open for a sequel, as is the norm with movies these days. In fact, a sequel (and TV series) has actually already been confirmed! I mean, honestly, how could Seth Rogen, a self-admitted TMNT addict, create a TMNT movie without at least planning for Shredder to be in it?

So, all in all, it wasn't a bad movie. I appreciate the throwbacks to the original series, and I'm glad to see my favorite heroes getting so much recognition again.

However, there are definitely some things in this movie that weren't necessary. The top of that list is April's barfing scene. She was nervous doing the morning announcements at school and wound up throwing up as a result. Then later, during her news broadcast telling everyone that the only bad mutant is Superfly, she does it again... honestly, I get that we may need a reason for her to rather be behind the camera instead of in front of it, and she needs an obstacle to jump over to tell the people who tease her to suck it, but did it have to be that??? We're showing puke in kids' movies now? Please, just, don't... I don't care that it's a cartoon and looked like the ooze that mutated our beloved heroes. That doesn't mean I want to see it spewing out of someone's mouth. What is it with Seth Rogen and vomit movies? Is it like some unwritten rule that someone has to upchuck in everything he's in? UGH.

Also, this movie is rated PG, but... were all the nipple references necessary? Splinter is legit concerned that, if his sons are found by humans, they'll be put in a lab and milked...and they're like, "But we don't even have nipples!" Then the turtles say the same thing to April when she talks about writing a story about them, and she asks how that could be done for the same reason. Then later, in Utrom's lab, they are getting milked... but, I mean, how... way too much emphasis on that.

And did Splinter seriously need a love interest? With an unintelligible giant bug? Just... why? That's wrong on so many levels.

It was said from the start that this movie would focus mostly on the "teenager" aspect, and it absolutely did that. The guys weren't all serious about ninja training and mastering new techniques; they were more interested in what it would be like to be a normal kid, go to school, go to the prom, etc. And since it's 2023, and because it's Seth Rogen, we have to have some swearing and such, even in a cartoon. Mostly it's by Superfly (aka Ice Cube), so not surprising. But even the original 1990 live action movie had cursing LOL.

You know, I'm almost positive that the turtles never officially introduced themselves to April upon meeting her. She introduced herself, but I don't think they ever identified themselves. The closest we came was in they were in the school and Michelangelo was signing himself up for a talent show. We all know who they are, but a human meeting them for the first time more than likely wouldn't. Hmmm... I think some details got overlooked. Just like how I swear Splinter's name wasn't mentioned once in the entire hour and 49 minutes of the movie's runtime.

Anyway, as a hard-core TMNT fan, I did enjoy the movie. Definitely some things that I would have changed, and others that should have stayed true to the original, but all in all it wasn't bad. I think I can give it 8/10 and be satisfied. :)

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[specter-writes]

hi! i was wondering if i could get event matchup for the owl house?

my pronouns are she/her

i'm demisexual panromantic

i'm enfp 7w8, leo

i'm 6'0 and have amber eyes, long gold blond curly hair and hourglass figure

i'm positive and upbeat person, i try to see the bright side in most situations

i'm friendly, energetic, confident, sarcastic, responsible, maybe a bit chaotic, cheerful and bubbly

i care about my friends and family a lot, and go out of my way to show it

i enjoy having fun and living life to the fullest

i'm very competitive and passionate person

i really like puzzles, riddles and crosswords

i love making people smile

i have morbid, dark sense of humor

sometimes i randomly say a weird obscure fact in the middle of conversation

i can play on violin, cello, piano, guitar, saxophone, harp and drums, i'm currently learning how to play on trumpet

i like poetry and sometimes i write a poem or two, also i'm writing my book

i'm ballet dancer since i was a kid and i love performing

i'm working on my own cartoon

i never quite grew out of the fantasy phase, and i'm still enamored with tales of changelings and witches

i work as illustrator for fantasy books and books for kids

i'm kinda struggling with taking rest, doing nothing, because there is always something to do, something new to learn, etc.

i'm afraid of stagnation

i overuse this kind of emojis→(⁠ㆁ⁠ω⁠ㆁ⁠)

my style is something between whimsigothic and cryptidcore

i love: collecting things, astronomy, tea, making and watching movies, forests, making jewelry, cooking, baking, d&d, horrors, animals, plants, gardening, traveling, art, history, world mythologies, learning new things, psychology, handicraft

sorry if it's too chaotic

i hope you have a fantastic day (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

hi anon! first of all, you sound very cool and like a great friend. secondly, I learnt a new word today (stagnation). but the bit you came here for: matchups. I kind of had a hard time because I think you'd fit with any member of the crew really, BUT I had to pick someone so I'll give you both a platonic and a romantic match, just because you're the first request and you get fun perks like that.

ROMANTIC MATCH:

AMITY

First off, reading this you remind me a lot of Luz (/pos), which influenced this decision a lot. I think she'd like the competitive side of you best. At first, if you showed affection she'd go bright red and tense up, she's not really used to it. But as you got closer, she'd start to ease into it. Overall, you'd be that couple people point to and go "goals." She'd show affection by bringing you things to do with your interests. She would also try to learn things about them to try and impress you. She does not have a green thumb, however, so make sure to keep her away from your plants!

PLATONIC MATCH:

RAINE

I say this for two reasons, the first being very obvious: music. Raine is enamored with music and musical people, and I think they'd take you under their wing to not only teach but to learn as well. The second one is the interest in astronomy. I can't really explain why but I've always headcanoned Raine as an avid enjoyer of astronomy. These two aspects brought the two of you together (perhaps through the bard coven?). You clicked, and they've been like a mentor or even a second parent to you. They oftetimes have to tell you to slow down, with your playing and your life. Also, tea parties??? Yes.

Well, that's all I got for you, anon, hope you enjoyed! This is my first time doing something like this so hope it was good ☺

#the owl house #specter speaks #toh #toh x reader #matchups #anon

[muninnhuginn]

Top 5 series on your backlog you're looking forward to trying

ohno I'm gonna get outed for just how many series I've been putting off despite genuinely wanting to read/watch/play. I'll try and limit it to five though

Umineko. I will finally be able to unblock the tag and understand the meta I've been seeing in my periphery for years. Technically speaking I did watch the anime years ago and got a couple of hours into the VN back then too, but it's been so long I've managed to forget most of it (minus the soundtrack which I will admit has been in my rotation since back then). I honestly want to see how much I can figure out for myself as I go through but am a bit wary I'll have collected enough disparate spoilers that I'll start overthinking stuff based on those spoilers and hare off down entirely the wrong track.

Outer Wilds. Mainly because what I've heard of it is enough to intrigue me (there's a mutual here and a couple of Discord acquaintances who all vouch for it) but also I'm almost entirely spoiler-free. And I'm really appreciating stuff where I can go in mostly blind lately because chronically overthinking based on outside sources rather than the material itself isn't something I find 'fun'.

Next! Calling myself out on this one preemptively but... I asked for Pokemon games as presents for a few years there and then ended up not getting around to playing them because life happened and/or procrastination? And recently I'm seeing loads of stuff around about the latest game and ended up watching some of the recent anime eps because Ash is leaving the series and, well, I've not been entirely disconnected from the series but for a long while my main connection was through PokeGo and other people. Long story short: gonna finally play Pokemon Sword/Shield four years late. (Once I've finished Great Ace Attorney so should only be another six months or s-

And if I like that one then Pokemon Scarlet/Violet is also on my list, especially now it sounds like the worst of the glitches have been worked out.

Some of the Doctor Who Big Finish stuff. Technically I have listened to some already but I got distracted one time during a boring one because I insisted I wanted to go through Eight's stuff 'in order' (as much as that's possible :V) and then never returned for months. But! I will definitely get around to listening to more so I can finally understand why everyone who listens to Scherzo becomes a Scherzo blog for the next week. All I know so far is stuff about a sound monster and some messed up dynamics involving love and suicide...? Which sounds intriguing. So I guess rather than Big Finish stuff in general it's more I want to get far enough along in my listening to listen to Scherzo with all the context behind it.

#onewholivesinloops #ask meme #thanks for asking. sorry this got rather long-winded!