PEONY: What’s your favorite hot beverage?
MYRTLE: Do you like going on airplanes?
LOCUST: What was your favorite book as a child?
PEONY: Coffee all the way!!!!! Not just because i need it for survival at this point but i actually like the taste of coffee SOO much
MYRTLE: planes are so fun!!! I haven't had a bad airport experience till date and people-watching there is just very interesting. And like my brother did areodynamic engineering and he always tells me interesting things and all and he told me about the plane wings slightly moving during flight and turbulence being a common and chill thing and i just enjoy those experiences now :D
LOCUST: OKAY SO my brother got me this one book for raksha bandhan (which is like a traditional festival where the sister ties a band on the brothers hand as like a symbol of protection (there's a whole story behind this it's very sweet) and the brother gives the sister a gift and money and it's like a silent vow to protect her etc) and it was titled '365 days 365 stories' or sth similar and the art was SOOO cute and there were stories and poems and some of them were silly and some were nice and it was overall very warm-feeling
Send me some flower asks!!
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66. in love
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Makoto - My sister cockblocking you two is making me miss college time. [ dreamy sigh ] Do you remember college, Sunny?
Kiara - Do I remember the countless times I walked in on you? Yes, yes I do. Sock on the door? We don’t know her.
Makoto - Hey, could’ve been worse!
Kiara - ...How? Actually, nevermind, I don’t wanna know-
Makoto - [ laughs ] If I remember correctly, I caught you once or twice-
Kiara - Because you didn’t see the sock-
Makoto - Do you have a foot fetish or something? Stop talking about socks!
Kiara - You’re a nightmare!
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Morgyn - Well well well, look who’s calling me!
Jace - [ chuckles ] Hi Morgyn, are you busy right now or can we chat for a bit?
Morgyn - I’m at Tess’s house with the Vatores, Eva and your aunt, but I can chat!
Jace - Oh, is everything alright?
Morgyn - We hope so! Lilith is in a lot of pain right now, so I suggested we come here to make sure the baby’s doing okay and hopefully get some medicine. [ whispering ] She’s being quite feral lately…
Lilith - DO YOU WANNA DIE MORGYN EMBER???
Morgyn - Do you see what I mean?
Jace - You just called a pregnant woman feral, it’s amazing you’re still alive if you ask me-
Morgyn - ANYWAYS... I came outside. Spill!!
Jace - I took your advice...
Morgyn - ......!!
Jace - I kissed Kiara after the party-
Morgyn - I KNEW YOU WOULD DO IT!! I’m so excited for you, Jacey! You gotta tell me everything, how was it?
Kiara - Incredible... Something out of a true dream. I’ve never had a first kiss like this before! It was [ pauses ] strangely familiar-
Jace - -like we were two pieces of a puzzle that [ smiles ] fit perfectly…
Morgyn - [ shrieks in excitement ]
Jace - [ chuckles ] Alright, calm down!
Morgyn - Jace!! You’re in love! I’m so happy for you!
Jace - … in love-
Morgyn - What’s wrong?
Kiara - I’m scared, Ace. I’m scared to love again…
Makoto - Listen, you know better than I do that love is a scary feeling, it can be quite ugly... but! It doesn’t have to be like that, if you are with the right person, you know? And I’m gonna take a leap of faith here and tell you that Jace isn’t Dustin-
Jace - No, I know she isn’t Emilia! No... She’s, she’s... special. I guess... I don’t know. [ sighs ] I’m scared, Morgyn.
Morgyn - Jace, don’t sabotage yourself. Sometimes you just gotta take that chance! We don’t know the future, but the present is what matters- I too was terrified, of love. But I understood that running from it wasn’t the answer, so I embraced it and I’ve never been happier! Caleb’s the love of my life. The Vatores are my family... Even that feral pregnant woman. So...
Makoto - Don’t run from this, Sunflower.
Kiara - I don’t wanna run anymore, Ace... I’m scared but I... I do wanna be with him! Oh my god... I’m in-
Jace - - [ smiles ] love with Kiara.
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okay so moths like light, yeah?
Imagine Foul Legacy Childe being incredibly fascinated by the fire from a candle (or perhaps your vision?), head turning to follow it as you move the little flame in various patterns. You'll have to kiss it better when he inevitably burns himself attempting to grab the enticing shiny thing, but you can't be too angry with him when he looks so betrayed by the now-snuffed-out wax candle.
OH THIS IS SO CUTE MY MOON AND STARS
in winter since it gets dark earlier you often light candles for extra visibility around the house, and Childe is absolutely FASCINATED by them. yes, he had them back in Snezhnaya, but his memories of the frost-covered nations are muddled and hazy- he remembers the endless darkness of the Abyss more, which just makes the flickering flames you set out even more lovely in his eyes. they represent you, in a way- warm, gentle, his new home- and you always smile when he tilts his head to keep his eye on the candle. you also have to bite your tongue to keep from laughing when he straight up attempts to bat at the flame, letting out a yelp when it burns his claws. and he DEFINITELY pouts when you're tending to the wound- he knows fire hurts!! but it was just so pretty and shiny that he couldn't resist!! now his hand hurts, kiss it better please? and you always do, which makes Childe secretly contemplate if it's worth it to keep playing with your candles
if the light comes from your Vision, however... Childe does his absolute best to NOT touch it, since Visions are part of one's soul and being, and he doesn't want to startle you by grabbing it. he still watches it whenever you pass, the steady glow making him purr happily, as it means you're healthy and thriving. one day you actually catch him staring at the Vision and playfully ask if he's about to bat it (to which he squeaks and hides his face, embarrassed) to Childe's surprise, you simply hold his hand and drop your Vision into his claws, telling him to be careful. and careful he is, admiring its shine in awe before pressing it gently to his chest, tugging you closer so you're nestled right beside it. he gives it back to you, opting to snuggle you instead as your Vision gleams in tandem with his- happy, healthy, safe
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(mutant mayhem spoilers)
OHMIGOSH so i saw mutant mayhem two days ago, on its official opening here in the US
it was really really good and i loved it so much and ugh i could rant about it for ages. so here's a nearly 2000 word rant about it. sorry for any spelling and grammar errors
(more under the cut)
so first of all, lemme talk about the characters real quick. my favorite character continues to be donnie but all of them were really likeable in this one, and the dynamic the turtles had is amazing.
mm!leo was a very very good version of leo, staying relatively close to older versions of leo but having some of the more fun traits that leo has had recently in tmnt media (for example, he was willing to do some things with his brothers, even if they went against splinter. even if he felt bad about it.) he was funny and cool, really bringing it all together. nicolas cantu (that how you spell his name? idk) did a great job as his voice as well, he pretty much perfectly illustrated all the emotions he needed to for leo throughout the whole movie. the only thing i didn't like about leo was the fact that he had a crush on april, but that's mostly a me thing because i've never been a fan of the turtle x april ships, they're just uncomfortable for me. they played it off pretty well though.
mm!mikey was really enjoyable for a character who is generally a little bit hit-or-miss for his moments. it was really a hit for all of the times he was on screen or talked which i'm very glad about. i a little wish that the movie focused even more on mikey, but maybe the series/sequel will. he was funny and not nearly as gross as some previous iterations were (ahem 2012) and it was just a really fun time with him. he was pretty much the best parts of all of my favorite versions of mikey all put in one. shamon brown jr also did an amazing job with him!!!!! he's a really good voice actor and he was pretty much perfect for mikey. and yeah, one thing i think they could've done better is just giving him more screen time and focus i think?
mm!raph was really great. you could tell that he was definitely raph but he wasn't super aggressive or hard to talk to. he was funny and there were plenty of moments that made me laugh with him. even though the movie didn't go terribly far into all the characters, you could tell that he definitely has a soft spot for his brothers and for splinter as well. seeing him as a turtle tot was amazing as well by the way, he looked like a cinderblock. and yeah, you bet i gotta bring up brady noon, who was amazing for raph. (really, casting all teenagers for the teenage mutant ninja turtles was a great casting choice on all levels.) even though he was this kinda aggressive guy, you can tell that he has dreams and he has people he cares about. it was really great to see for raph.
and of course i gotta talk about my favorite little guy. mm!donnie was SOO GOOd and like my favorite from the whole movie, he was really fussing great. his design is so good just because they really incorporated the tech stuff into his design, and the stickers on his bō were a nice touch. one thing i wish they would've shown more of is stuff that donnie made himself, y'know? donnie's original tech is usually kinda pushed to the front in tmnt which is great, i love seeing donnie tech. but the main thing donnie did in this movie is fight with his regular bō and use his phone and drive a car or something? i hope we get to see his tech in the future. also, micah abbey did such an amazing job at him@!!1 i mean i really enjoyed how he had a higher voice which is NORMAL for teenage boys, like people's voices change at different rates. he sounded great!! i am sad we didn't get to see more scooter action with him though
april i sure have thoughts about. i mean the thoughts are all positive. she was such a good april and an amazing addition to the cast. first of all, i am strong supporter in her design. sure am a big fan of the non-white aprils. a lot of fans didn't like her design for whatever reason?? some of them didn't like that she's not white and others had issues with her body shape, which is stupid. she's a teenage human, there's no reason to give her the "perfect" adult woman's body (in their eyes anyway) when she's meant to just kinda be this a little average but nonetheless badass ally to the turtles. her personality was great, she felt like a real teenager. her arc of getting (mostly) over her camera sensitivity was really nice, and i appreciate that she wasn't totally over it by the end. ayo edebiri was a really great cast for her as well. (also, i'm glad that even though she agreed to go to prom with leo, it seems like she still sees him purely platonically. i will NOT stand for another 2012 donnie and april situation.)
anyway, splinter, amiright? it's interesting how they went with the route that he was originally a rat. he was a really good character and one of my favorite versions of splinter now. he really was just trying to be a good father to these turtles in this weird little family situation, and i can't blame him for being so overprotective of them when he was made to be a monster in times square by mrbeast. jackie chan was a great choice to play him. (i don't support what jackie chan did to his daughter though btw.) the fact that he learned martial arts through old tapes, new movies and fussing youtube (a video of a channel i watch was in it by the way????) is amazing.
okay now all the other characters were really cool too. all the mutants that baxter stockman created were really interesting and it's great how they brought back so many existing characters while adding new ones. bebop and rocksteady were actually funny which i don't really expect from bebop and rocksteady most of the time to be honest. superfly was actually really scary for being this kids movie villain, which i guess isn't very surprising for tmnt. he got away with kinda a surprising amount of swearing for it though, a whole lot of instances of "damn" and stuff. mondo gecko was very fun and i was actually a bit scared when mikey found his tail. cynthia utrom didn't play as big a part in this movie as i expected her to but she will definitely be a bigger part in the future, especially considering that she's obviously meant to be an utrom. (and oh my god that end scene??? but i'll get into that later) i sure was a big fan of superfly's family turning on him for the benefit of humanity (and the chance of living with the turtles and splinter.) the voice cast was great for all the side characters. i think it's really cool that the main cast (as in the turtles and april) were all voiced by younger, less well-known actors while the side cast and villains were all played by the much better-known actors.
anyway onto the art, IT WAS AMAZING AAAAHHH as an artist this was on fussing spider-verse levels of art and animation. it looked like teenagers helped design it, which is what they were going for. the movement looked great and SOO natural, aahh!! the fight choreo was amazing too, there was that one scene where they were trying to find info about superfly was so well put together. there really were a few stand-out moments but all of it was so good. i love it when the ninja turtles actually use their weapons as they should be, which has happened in the past but it was so clear that they did their research here. also i'm glad that jeff rowe and seth rogen said that they ensured that the animators weren't being mistreated or overworked.
anywho, the music amiright? the soundtrack being based on NYC-based rap and hip hop was a really great choice. that one song that goes "can i kick it, yes you can" was a great choice for the main title-y thing of that movie. it hit all the places it needed to.
some other notes i wanna bring up:
the stakes were real my guys. at multiple points, i felt such genuine fear for these fictional mutant turtles in my heart i thought i would have a stroke or something. for example, when cynthia just kept shocking them??? are they not aware of the damage that like father like son did to ninja turtles fans???? also when superfly just had them in his hands and you could HEAR their shells crunching a little bit. UGH that hurt me fr. it felt so so real and it was so so good.
the fact that the cardboard cutouts that splinter acquired were chris hemsworth, chris pine and chris pratt lmao
are any of the characters autistic? i was thinking about this and to be honest i think yes, some of them probably are autistic. but it's not as clear as it is in rise, especially with donnie, y'know?
about the pop culture references and memes that they used didn't actually feel dated or cringe to me. i've heard others complaining about that but it didn't bother me much, it felt how teenagers actually talk. (i'm a teenager btw, i'm pretty used to how we talk.)
making leo have a crush on a girl after rise!leo lmao
but speaking of leo having a crush on april, there is more i wanna say. so i do not ship them, i've never shipped any of the turtles with april. it just don't sit right with me. but i think they still have the opportunity to play it off with elegance and grace, by having april straight up refuse him when he's honest with her about how he feels. hoping that will happen at some point. i've been asked to dances and stuff by friends, i hope that's why april said yes to him asking her to prom at the end. i will find seth rogen if they put leo and april together in the end. (for legal reasons this is a joke.) but yeah.
and the end scene???? oh god what do you guys gonna think shredder's gonna be like in mm???? because as much as i like the pretty goofy side of shredder that we've seen in the past (like '87 shredder was so silly compared to 2012 or god forbid rise shredder), i would love to see a really just horrifying version of shredder that they would actually maybe kill off in the end? and then there's another sequel where leo has to grapple with his own conflicted feelings about killing shredder or something. that would be so real lmao
i'm really looking forward to the future of mutant mayhem, even though i still want more rise!! and also we must keep showing support for the wga/sag-aftra strike, even though it's gonna delay production on the next parts of the series.
it was a great movie though and a great use of one hour and thirty nine minutes.
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Tell the class a scene you really like from DBH 👀
Oh this is probably going to be such an unoriginal opinion, especially for a Connor fan. But my fave would have to be the Bridge chapter scene. It's literally nothing but a tense conversation, yet it carries more weight for me than many of the other action packed scenes.
Hank having his "oh shit" moment where he finally comes to the realisation that androids may just be alive. And it's shaken him. I mean sure, he's worked with Connor for a day or so, and sure, he's seen some snippets throughout the investigation. Mostly androids running away or lashing out due to their mistreatment -- but robots showing love for one another? The arguably most human thing you could do? Hank didn't need the assistance in rationalising the want for another drink, but the Tracis sure helped anyway. At this point, I don't want to say that Hank's viewpoint is entirely changed, since if you're playing as machine Connor it can end quite badly, but it's what I would consider the most prominent turning point.
But what about Connor? I'm usually playing along the deviant route, so my Connor is usually snarky, but not an entire asshole like he is when you play full machine. And in those playthroughs, there's several small moments that Hank has seen Connor act sympathetic. But is it real? I like the fact that when Hank asks Connor why he didn't shoot the Tracis, the option for "Truth" is what leads to higher software instability. It may or may not be intended, but I'm definitely one of those that believe that Connor was designed to be a deviant. A deviant in the biggest amount of denial the world has ever seen. However, this chapter is what I would consider to be Connor's turning point.
I mentioned that I usually play the deviant route, but I would also note that when I do play machine Connor, I play him as manipulative. He will do and say whatever he can to achieve his goals -- this usually means being nice to Hank where possible -- but not at the risk of the mission. In this chapter however, if you've been acting as a machine this entire time, many dialogue options are locked out. And from memory there is no way to increase the relationship with Hank in this scene. There is no lying to him. No manipulation. It's either cool neutrality, or aggression. And for reasons I can't quite put into words, I really enjoy that fact.
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😭 omg Touya-nii throwing a tantrum over the hickies is so endearing even though it’s really childish and toxic
yes!!! it definitely is!!! but that’s the thing, right???
that’s the thing!!! these hickeys, in his twisted mind, mean so much more than just careless love bites and bruises. they’re all the things he doesn’t yet have the capacity to say. to him, these are some serious proclamations of love!!! because he’s never seriously marked her neck before—he’s given a few superficial nips and has bitten her collarbone, but never purposefully left large bruises in such a visible, hard-to-hide place—and he cannot BELIEVE his baby isn’t taking them as seriously as he is. he finds that so unbelievably offensive. that’s why he’s having this overblown and overdramatic meltdown over them, which seems very overreactive to everyone else (at least at the beginning!) but totally makes sense in his head.
because he’s still in this very vulnerable spot, right? this is all very new to him and he’s still figuring out how to deal with and accept these very scary, very foreign feelings, still figuring out how to express himself vocally and with his words, and he hates being perceived as (what he would consider) ‘weak’—and to love is to open yourself up to many potential vulnerabilities. so he’s trying to reconcile those two things: how he can continue to love her and be what he wants to be for her (a true lover) *and* not feel like he’s being weak in some sort of way. on top of all of those complexities, the tomura wound is still extremely fresh, so when you add it aaaaall together and he sees her covering up these marks of ‘love’, it’s kind of the last straw and he breaks a little bit. i think that’s what makes it feel endearing you know???
i really enjoyed writing this piece because it was super fun to examine their fragile relationship directly after what happened with tomura, and peek into touya’s mind for a moment to see how he’s handling all of this new and unknown territory!!! <3
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