#but not the way Casey did

[kathaynesart]

You know one could say that Ted is a dead beat dad

(I'll show myself out)

Ha that's perfect! For the record. He didn't even die in a cool way against the Krang. A wall fell on him. What a loser.

#wasn't even a big wall #sorry to anyone else named Ted I'm sure you're lovely #f ted #but not the way Casey did #rottmnt replica #replica #rottmnt #kathaynesart #q&a #replica holiday special

[seagull-scribbles]

“Ain’t turtles supposed to be endangered?”

“Only the ones who can’t do this!”

#TMNT 2012 #raphael hamato #casey jones 2012 #is your bestie really your bestie if the first time you laid eyes on them it wasn’t immediately on sight #rasey #it’s not ship art but also I want it in my rasey tag so #I am having so much fun drawing in the canon style I am but god did I need to do something in my own style again #it’s like when you get made to wear a fitted dress and everyone tells you you look nice and it’s perfect #but you feel self conscious and constricted and it’s not something you’d ever wear #I love learning from studying the different styles but I also miss just editing the designs and going off model #altering the brushes and colours to suit a vibe #this is messy gritty wrong and imperfect but that’s what made it fun and easy and I’m so happy with this you can all bite me #also this is the return of flat ass Casey #Lou jitsu’s moral enemy and opposite lmao #I am so normal about Raph and Casey honest #I don’t constantly think about the way he slams Jones on the car bonnet #just a normal short chunky dude with his lanky toll bestie that happens to have the worlds flattest ass

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

#this quote always moves me almost to tears when i remember it #i'm not a trans woman and i don't share the author's specific experiences with transition #but it really moves me that she frame transition as joyfully giving yourself permission to approach your body #not as something that has to be disciplined and deprived and made small in all these various ways #but as a means for experiencing pleasure and joy and delight and for insisting that our feelings and desires are worth #valuing and exploring and treasuring #i always used to think of prioritizing those things for myself as selfish and irresponsible #but who does it harm to want to experience pleasure in your own body? #it's such a beautifully simple and powerful switch to have flip in your head #and equally why are we forced to deny our own pleasure in transition and anything else related to our bodies in the name of moral rectitude #this is why i get so confused and pissed off when other trans people are fatphobic for example #like why are you so invested in politics of shame and disgust that never had any purpose other than #violently disciplining people as if they've violated moral codes by existing in a body #to say nothing of white people being racist in gay and trans communities #like again this system of violence is foundational to homophobia and transphobia #so why are you acting like it has nothing to do with you #even if you are unmoved by the urgency of other people's suffering which btw you should be moved by #what do you hope to gain by acting a collaborator and handmaiden to those systems #Casey Plett #she really is one of my favorite authors i wish more non-canadians read her #this quote is from a series of columns she did ont transition and every single one is a banger #i love when she talks about the people-pleasing elements of dysphoria and transition denial #she's so sharp about noting how many of us deny our own dysphoria on the grounds that others like and validate our bodies #that's how i always felt during my cis conventionally feminine era #it pleased other people so much and also that reception felt so hollow and joyless to me because i hated it #i get less of that positive feedback but that feels so unimportant next to the joy and pleasure i get to experience #said with the understanding that i'm very privileged in being able to prioritize those things without fear. but it was a switch flip #personal nonsense

[batsplat]

hello i saw in your tags that you don't think people on here get casey stoner and as someone relatively new into the sport i would love to hear your thoughts <3

(context here) okay first of all, this post will be framed as ‘things I wish people talked about more with regards to casey stoner’, rather than arguing against what I think people think

I've tried to come up with a concise response to this ask but kept heading into thesis-length territory. so I decided to write a bullet point list and it’s still… yeah… but well it could be worse. if you, dear anon, wish to read thousands of words of casey stoner lore then please let me know. otherwise, here are just a few things I find interesting about this bloke:

casey has a very complex relationship with the concept of confidence, both in other riders and himself, in the sense that he KNOWS how important it is but also believes/wishes that he specifically is kinda above all that

this feeds into how he wishes that racing were Just Racing and not all this other stuff… not his brain not his body not other racers being assholes on/off track not talking to journalists or doing photoshoots not having to deal with politics etc etc - central underlying tension of his career

he has openly spoken about not ever really enjoying race day, saying the only thing he's missed after retiring is qualifying. very perfectionist, the anxiety, the over-thinking, craving control… all key casey traits

(which also ties in with the valentino rivalry, because valentino obviously adores racing (in particular wheel-to-wheel battle) but he’s also great at all that other off-track stuff)

some very rigid ideas of How The Sport Should Look, which you can see in everything from how he talks about racing standards to the introduction of CRT riders (he had it OUT for them, head hot every time aleix espargaro shows up in parc fermé) to valentino’s influence on ducati and the importance of the colour red

let him have his mean streak! the grim satisfaction in discussing jorge’s 2008 injuries after his early-season arrogance towards casey, the dismissiveness towards dani, some of the wilder valentino remarks (this isn’t a criticism to be clear, alien-on-alien violence is part of the natural order of things)

casey is a classic case of ‘just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t after you’. definitely a suspicious guy and perpetual underdog 'me against the world' mindset. not to get too psychoanalytic-y, but I reckon this was partly born out of how he had to leave australia as a teenager (with his family completely dependent on him succeeding) because of how the racing establishment down under fucked him over

they definitely were out to get him a lot of the time, cf yamaha and then ducati drama plus the slander from some of the greats of the sport, fellow riders, the media etc etc (particularly egregious in 2009 when he was dealing with his mystery illness and a lot of people said some pretty unpleasant stuff in his absence - here is just one example)

his struggles were constantly downplayed. the chronic fatigue misdiagnosed as lactose intolerance led to people calling him weak-minded, broken, running away from the sport (part of why he was so allergic to the idea his results might in any way be connected to what was going on in his head). add in the undiagnosed anxiety and you have all this invisible strife people wouldn't even take seriously

that being said, he definitely did have a propensity for jumping to the worst possible conclusions

two specific examples: firstly from his autobiography, where he makes the claim that valentino may have been sabotaged in the 2006 title decider and was deliberately given a rubbish tyre to make him lose the championship - to which casey’s response was: “welcome to my world, mate”. he does have a tendency to believe he’s being sabotaged, and is constantly on the look out for conspiracies even when they are… unlikely

the other example is mat oxley talking about his issues with casey in his stint working for ducati, partly based on a misunderstanding:

something allegedly written about him in 2001!

let’s just say he can definitely hold a grudge

the moaner stoner stuff was definitely nasty, calling him mopey and whiny and all of that, but he also has never shied away from some good old-fashioned complaining (some of this was a bit of a spiral - complaining for good reason worsening public perception of him leading to more reasons to complain)

see also the lingering marc grudge, who probably did play a significant part in getting casey kicked out of honda (as casey has accused him of). whether marquez prevented stoner from racing in 2015 is more of an open question. casey still speaks about how honda made a mistake by only listening to marc (which, again, does have some truth to it)

casey was always very quick to shut down the idea that momentum, motivation, confidence etc could affect his results (unlike that of his competitors) because he argues he was always very rational & clear-sighted about when things were his fault & when things could be blamed on the bike + extraneous factors. he really goes into detail about this when discussing 2008 laguna seca in his autobiography, which he argues had no effect on him psychologically (but was followed by him crashing out of the lead of the next two races)

has definitely spoken more about his rivalry with valentino than valentino has, which probably has also helped shape perception of it over time

on ‘ambition outweighed talent’ - I feel like people almost understate just what a (hilariously) out of pocket remark it was in context. it was rossi’s second ever race at ducati (and the start of his season was impacted by his shoulder issues) - and the rain meant he had a ~win it or bin it~ approach because he knew it was as good a chance as he might get for some time (despite starting from 12th). the move on stoner for second place was at best optimistic, most definitely impatient and at worst foolish - but sort of understandable in that situation, rossi was definitely rapid, and this stuff can happen in the wet. in that sense, it was obviously more a reaction to the manner of the apology (and his frustration with the stewards) than to what casey himself described as a racing incident

stoner made a remark in his autobiography about how rossi had stolen 25 points in a title battle he was never going to be a part of (oof). whether you're obligated to race title contenders differently is already a bit sketch but certainly should not be a consideration for anybody in round TWO

he was forced to publicly retract the remarks, though he doubled down on them to a deeply funny extent in his autobiography by suggesting they were true of valentino’s entire career and that he’d just benefited from a weak era. rossi mostly took it on the chin especially when interviewed about it for documentaries, probably because with something like that you do just need to take the L

it's understandable how it’s become such a defining image of their rivalry (along with laguna seca), not least because of how evocative the whole thing is - rossi showing up still wearing his helmet, trying to make a PR apology stick while he’s been eating nauseating amounts of humble pie at ducati; stoner casual as you like, pissed off about the points loss while still indulging in schadenfreude about how the Great Big Ducati Adventure is working out for rossi

but again, I think it’s funnier because of just HOW over the top an insult it was in that situation (and more broadly how it does have a different vibe to their interactions when they were meaningfully competing, aka 2007-2008)

in conclusion: casey has his doubts and his insecurities and his obsessions and his foibles… a complicated guy in his own right

and a big thing I’d like to stress here is that the rivalry with valentino does benefit from treating them both as somewhat unreliable narrators

I just think he's neat

#ty for giving me an excuse to be annoying at length about one of my number one guys!! #casey stoner #valentino rossi #motogp #// #cs27 #vr46 #lotsss of other stuff you can go into here. he gets a bit sanitised sometimes I feel which is kinda a shame #u can be justifiably resentful and still be very resentful. spite is still spiteful when it's deserved. same with the misanthropic streak #being called weak-minded really got to him imo - and the thing is he's clearly not (& good lord did some big names say some nasty things) #the autobiography feels almost an overcorrection and then you've got him recently talking more openly about his mental health #(even if not specifically about how it affected him competitively - which is obviously a related but not identical conversation) #it's an uplifting development in a way and it's nice seeing how much more comfortable in his skin he seems these days #but he is also a little bitch :)

[ghostlypanda]

reasons to watch rise: "you took out my entire brownie clan. impressive."

please support rise of the tmnt by watching the show and movie over on netflix!! 🙏💛

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise ep always be brownies #rise april o'neil #rise splinter #rise lou jitsu #rise cassandra jones #rise casey jones #rise foot recruit #i love splints trying to give advice and he can just never get it out hahah #'you're such a great listener.' 'uhh i feel like i did most of the talking.' lmao the way splints says that i love him #april hesitating on just getting splints back gives me mr. krabs trading spongebob to the flying dutchman for 62 cents #its been years and i still have that episode memorized man what a time back then #but this ep is def my fave non-turtle ep

[applecherry108]

Will there be a bad guy or any threats to the turtles in genera, like I don't know... Bishop or the krang

Oroku saki with an evil look on his face 👀👀

Love your work ❤️❤️❤️

N….not really? 😅😅😅 The closest my au gets is the Foot Clan and even then, once they realize their Beloved Son is a Hamato, they go about dismantling the dark armor real fast. And without the Evil™️ in their organization, they have no need to free the krang…

And since Draxum has a New Found Appreciation for humans since, you know, his son is genetically human, he sorta….abandons the whole mutagen thing, so none of the mutant villains are present…

Even the Battle Nexus is transformed into a more Ninja Warrior-esque competition…

Honestly, it’s all just interpersonal drama. It’s a lot of custody battles and divorcees getting back together lmao

The biggest villain of this au is Loneliness and Guilt.

Anyways, check out these designs.

#I mean…maaaaaybe bishop? but I’m like. suuuuper rusty on my bishop lore. and plenty of people are doing bishop way better anyway #look. I said I was going to make a Soft™️ version of a separated au and I meant it. #also. again. it’s ‘parent trap’. it’s about the parents getting remarried. XDD #apple talks #parent trap au #my art #tmnt art #does this mean Casey jr isn’t here? yes. it does. :( does it mean that gram gram is still trapped in whatsitcalled to contain shredder? #also yes. :(( #anyways some sillies about the designs: #me: purposely gives Raph an 80s style R for his R.A.P.H. schtick #also me: realizes at this very moment the Genius Built™️ logo serves the same purpose >.>;; #yes Mikey’s knee pads are his dads and his chest symbol is Cass. XD #did I give Donnie chobit ears? yes. yes I did. 😂 #I was trying to invoke a jacobs sheep 4-horn look between his goggles and baby horns #his mask slide bad like a welders mask #yes Raph is modeled after Assistant. no Assisstant doesn’t exist in this world. no there are no missing sisters in this au. :( #look if you want girl turtles I got girls turtles. I have a 2 different Venus concepts. they’re just….not in parent trap. 😅

[bisexualmultifandommess]

Found this on twitter the other day when looking for Life With Derek updates and I’m crying lmao

#no lie as a kid I did ship them #like how could you not to be fair the way they played them lmao #michael seater #life with derek #derek venturi #casey mcdonald #dasey

[oozeandgoo-art]

alex casey has a normal conversation with my normal oc

#red rambles #rex's concept of 'fictional' largely means 'not a time traveler' so its really got him hung up that casey seems so horrified and alarmed an #confused and worldview-fucked to be being told he's fictional in a way that he cant quuite argue his way out of. #like hes just confused he's like. well obviously we're 'fictional' thats why life is so annoying. is yours not #alex casey #rex #oc #alan wake 2 #alan wake 2 spoilers #i guess????? #sketch #monochrome #lineart #why did i draw casey like this. i know i spent most of this doodle trying really hard to find any excuse to not draw his face #but still #he looks so off #remind me to add alt text again i know this is utterly indecipherable without a transcript #daytime edit: added alt text

[muxas-world]

Yamaha 2009-2010 saga (thn vale decide to dicht the team cause im not a 2°rider bitcht and went to flop in ducati)

Inapo @seblrina

#like? the way he trier to stop jorge signin like he did whit casey #but yamaha was like nop you are to old #we need a god 2n rider #and the rest is history #valentino rossi #jorge lorenzo #motogp

[earl-grey-crow]

did she. did del just throw her phone into the fridge.

#PEAK behavior of her #there's something unhinged about susanna like I get why she's suspicious especially with a war going on but I feel like there's something #fundamentally unhinged about her #and WOW elliot quite a switch of behavior #y'all are right he is getting kinda annoying #though I still think it's fair he's annoyed at all the time traveling stuff and people demanding things of him and getting no thanks #I love casey why did alice have to be unfriendly toward them >:( #still surprised at hallmark being that diverse I hope they handle them well and just. do a good job with their character #because as aforementioned I think they're great #the way home hallmark #earl crow ramblings

[mulderscully]

#rwrb #i don't mind waiting i really don't #in the second interview they mention alex running for governor and i'm like damn that's a BIG timejump though? #they as in the magazine not matthew or casey #i mean casey did say that but that's way down the road after they're married and shit lol #we cannot skip THAT far

[caseyscraftycorner]

I swear every year or so I'm like "ugh why has my brain been so hard to wrangle for the last few months" and then I realize I haven't journaled in like. 6 months. and then I start journaling again and suddenly my brain starts frickin behaving itself again, and I'm like "Woah! I really need to keep this habit up! It helps so much!"

And then I forget to journal a few months later, go "ehh it's probably fine anyways, it's not like I *need* to journal" and then the cycle starts anew

#casey rambles #adhd posting #i think part of it is that i was always told journaling helps and it never did #because i was journaling the way NT people journal #and then i read a book that talked about journaling and adhd #and it broke down all the ways that traditional journaling harms adhd-ers #and how to impliment a journaling habit that actually works #and it changed my life. #legitimately

[seagull-scribbles]

If I don’t survive the night,

If I make it to the morning-

#tmnt 2003 #casey jones #raphael splinterson #does this count as 03 when it is technically the reboot #TMNT turtles forever #rasey #don’t get me wrong this can be platonic but I’m mentally Ill so I’m tagging the ship regardless #me and my friend watched this like 7 months ago but urgh the bit where raph goes back shouting for Casey and Leo has to grab his shoulder #to lead him out of harms way……urgh #couldn’t stop thinking about it and really wanted to draw them hugging #have done a rasey gift for my friend and almost did 03 hugging but I didn’t something else so #had to get this out my system regardless #shoutout to ray Leo and Rena for letting me pester you while I did this #one one month left of 2023….unreal…. #i just think when raph gets casey back audience be damned hell give him the biggest tightest hug he can #theyre just peas in a pod in this version just so completely in sync and inseperable #i cant cope im ugly crying over this #i wish i was good with words

[kravchikfreak]

i bet you know how these two pairs are the same one ship

and i FUCKING HATE them both for that

shit's gross, i'm actually anwell

i'll rant on my stupid tags but this is important

#i'm bi and i hate all of this shit #cazzie #madlyn #well okay to be fair i don't hate the first one #but ONLY cause i shipped them long before they turned out the way they did #but i HATE IT when they take “straight” girl in “straight” (and in both instances in actually decent) relationship #and make them “bi” just so they can legally push them into lesbian relationship #FFS #and once again it's kinda okay with cazzie cause they were like legit friends with legit development and all #and writers only made casey an asshole in order for wlw ship to happen instead o ongoing wlm one #but with ash and maddox they made two inocent boys to be fucking assholes just so “bi” girl could be legal lesbian? #i'm sick of this gross fucking trope it's so shit and everyone who use them is shit too #also making one bi character an actual cheater and another bi character almost a cheater???? out of the only two confirmed bisexuals #WOW just wow #and they both cheating and almost cheating with the sex opposite to their actual significan other's sex? REALLY????? #p.s. i don't hate madlyn per say it's okay as a ship and all go queen all that #but the way they were inserted in canon is outraging that's it #same goes for cazzie #i was shipping them from like their start and ypu know the feeling when you actually see your ship having canon feelings? #well for me it wasn't all that fun cause i knew THE PRICE #and i will never forgive writers for how shitty they made me feel about my beloved ship becoming an actual canon

[stormy-nights-are-best]

I have a question! EXTREMELY URGENT!

So, we know that the photo Future Leonardo hands Casey Junior hasn't been taken yet in the present.

Raph: "Who are you? Why do you have a picture of us?" Leo: "Yeah, who took this? 'Cause I look great!"

In the picture, April's holding a binder with "Eastlaird University" written on it.

We know that she's already a freshman student in the movie, because she posts her university daily news and knows her way around the building.

That means it can't be her "getting into college" celebration picture, and it also can't be her graduation picture because the Kraang invasion happens in August (and there's no way Eastlaird University remained open for even a semester in the future).

When did they take that picture?

#i'm serious #so confused #by the way throughout my research i found that Eastlaird University is actually New York University #because Casey Junior's mask located the university in “80 Washington Square” #and in 80 Washington Square there IS a university and it's NY University #also #at least 90% of the people (humans) in the movie are wearing short sleeves at night #which means it's a summer night #or really early fall #which yeah- just means the movie happens in august or the first half of september #i personally like to believe it's August 5 - the day Rise of the TMNT Movie came out #WHEN DID THEY TAKE THAT PICTURE? #OUTRAGEOUS #PLEASE IF ANYBODY HAS ANY INFO?? IT'S FOR FANFICTION #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #april o'neil #rottmnt #text post

[ruler-of-the-would-be]

Look, as much as I love Casey Jr., he's not Casey Jones. He's just not feral enough. He's fun and he's Jr. Cassandra, on the other hand, unhinged

#tmnt 2018 #rise of the tmnt #tmnt #casey junior #casey jones #cassandra jones #I'd argue jr was never meant to be the parallel #like obviously the movie was meant to placate older fans #and it did that #maybe not in the best way #a crossover would have been better I think #rise lost some of its identity through the movie #and that sucks #this coming from a 2012 fan #but he's got the aesthetic #and none of the batshit #this man would not become a hokey stick vigilante just cause #and that means he's no casey jones #rotmnt #rottmnt