#it has mixed messages

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: sacrifice / self sacrifice / slight suicidal themes / death mention / ]

I personally think that Leo took the wrong lessons from the movie. I definitely think he grew to understand the importance of teamwork and making sure he takes others into account so as to not harm them by proxy of whatever scheme he has cooked up, however based on the ending events I’m not quite certain he fully grasped two things.

The first thing is communication. Oh, he can communicate, and he does, when he deems it necessary. When he’s setting up a plan prior to the action. But this is where the second thing comes in.

The second thing I don’t think Leo truly grasped is “it’s not about you.” It’s so unbearably easy to take that the wrong way, especially when taking the rest of the series into account.

What I believe Leo took from this message is not “it’s not just you, everyone matters and can contribute, can help and be helped” but “put the whole of everyone above yourself” which can both be a good lesson…and a fatal one.

And it is fatal, we see as much in the movie.

Even after the big hope speech, when Leo is “fighting” Krang!Raph, he takes a huge risk. Sure, it worked, and Leo managed to get through to Raph through a well deserved apology, but it could have so easily ended in his death and yet he barely even hesitates to go for it.

And then again, to the big scene at the end, where Leo sacrifices himself not only for the sake of his family, but for the whole world.

To him, that’s the message to take from this. That the lives of everyone, of the greater good, matters…more than him. That the risk to himself is worth it if others can be saved.

Leo learned that gambling with his life as the betting chip is always the best move to make in the end.

And to make matters worse…this thinking is what works.

These risks are ultimately what is needed to save the day, so why would Leo look away from it now? Clearly it’s the right move and everything worked out!

Thing is, Leo did grow from the events of the movie. He learned to take things more seriously and be more mature, he learned to value his team’s input and capabilities enough to rely on them more, and he learned to be less self-centered and realize the turmoil others were going through (especially if that turmoil is a result of his actions.)

But still, he’s grown to accept the gamble of his life as a viable answer to their problems.

Personally, with how Leo has been shown to toy around with the idea of “it’s better me than them” I think this goes beyond sacrifice in the name of love or even sacrifice in the name of responsibility, and pushes over into sacrifice in the name of worth.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt headcanons #rise leo #death mention / #sacrifice / #self sacrifice / #suicidal tendencies implication / #I honestly could go on for hours but this is all a kinda messy ramble rn #but yeah like…I genuinely can’t see how Leo doesn’t take the wrong message from this all #sure he gets a lot of good growth but #he’s a gambler at heart #it’s just now he’s only willing to bet *himself* #ONCE AGAIN- #‘I’m nothing without them’ and ‘it’s not about you’ can and do mix into quite the dangerous cocktail huh #thing that gets me here too is that a lot of what Leo has to learn in the movie is things he already showed moments of knowing in the show #like Leo KNOWS what his family is capable of and can rely on them if necessary #the problem is when it’s necessary #and he grew to understand that it’s actually ALWAYS necessary…except at the very end #leo is also often the voice of reason throughout the series…but he also often folds and just goes with the flow #he’s goofy like that lol #and tbh he likes to RELAX #that’s a pretty subtle but pretty substantial part of his character #imo at the beginning of the movie Leo KNOWS he’s being immature and THATS THE POINT #they’re still kids man #they’re all just kids #but yeah #I keep rambling and rambling but Leo really is such a tragic character in the grand scheme of things #he’s so utterly fascinating to look at because of how many layers and complexities he has but I just want to give him a hug and let him rest

[foresttt-png]

The biggest red flags in town

#tom cardy #galoogamelady #red flags #mixed messages #tom cardy red flags #this song has been living rent free in my mind #human centipede #theyre both so messed up its hilarious #tom cardy fanart #red flags fanart

[maggiecheungs]

moonlight chicken as text posts (pt. 1)

#moonlight chicken #asianlgbtqdramas #thaidrama #asiandramasource #earth pirapat #mix sahaphap #jimwen #earthmix #midnight series #moonlightchickenedit #ellisedits #moonlight chicken text posts #finallyyyy earthmix chicken era 2.0 is upon us #life has been too much lately i only just managed to watch the eps today #i have brainrot now but i also desperately need sleep :( #will try to come back properly and reply to messages etc soon #🤞🤞🤞

[diadoescomics]

A parody of Tom Cardy's "Mixed Messages" ( specifically the music video) that will make absolutely no sense to anyone outside my friend group but i've been bet sick for yet another 2 weeks so here we are!

I married a menace

#ffxiv #ff14 #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #tom cardy #parody #mixed messages #sketches #sorry to anyone who has no idea what this is about #just know that if you're on EU serves and ever get into an alliance roulette with us my catsband will shoot at you first chance he gets #he's not even sorry and neither am i tbh

[foulfiendfern]

s1 jonmartin is one of the funniest things to me

#is this the kinda thing you post on tumblr? #still havent figured this site out #the magnus archives #tma #jonmartin #mixed messages #i love that song btw #just tom cardy in general <3 #hc that martin has acne from that second puberty tboy swag™ #and yet again my jon w/ anisocoria hc #i love adding too many tags #im always afraid the caption will be too clustered but with the tags fuck it we ball #my art btw #tma fanart #ok. croissant emoji. fuck you.

[fox-guardian]

[ID: A digital drawing of Redd, a fat, white trans man, in fishing gear. He has shaggy blonde hair, a patchy beard, body hair, freckles and acne, and is wearing a gray t-shirt that reads "women want me fish fear me" in all caps red text, a red flannel shirt, a brown fishing vest, gray jeans with a brown belt, brown boots, and a red and gray hat. He is carrying a red tackle box in one hand and a net and fishing pole in the other arm. He is walking with his arms lifted, smiling in excitement. end ID]

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drew my beloved boy redd going fishing because he does, actually, sometimes (thank you @beesabuzzin for the prompt)

#fg's art #fg's ocs #oc redd #lila and redd #feels odd not having the block of ID text there. i hope that's a good move #i've gotten mixed messages in the past on where to put them but ye #also as a bit of a side note if anyone has issues with the Way i write ids please let me know!! #edit: PUT THE ID IN THE BODY OF THE POST AGAIN because mixed messages are mixed BUT i think?? this is better?? #i went to revisit the post i'd seen before about IDs #and it had people commenting about some screen readers not working with alt text etc and i figured this would be better #i hope. i hope this is better. please let me know if it's not

[teamsasukes]

listen i get where people are coming from when they say that nobody should have expected a radical overhaul of the shinobi system considering the series very squarely set up its main theme as not abandoning friends. that certainly was the setup. but i also think it would be inaccurate to say that the story as it evolved affirmed that refusing to abandon one's friends was the be-all and end-all fix for everything. i cannot emphasize this enough: it's not as though the prior generations we saw lacked devotion to their teammates. the problem was that the larger sociopolitical circumstances obstructed their ability to connect in one way or another. even naruto acknowledges at the land of iron that his and sasuke's positions made it impossible for them to reconcile. so for the series to do a 180 and assert that actually friendship was the solution all along (even though there have been no meaningful systemic changes, even though the source of these intergenerational conflicts has not been addressed) rings hollow. it's especially glaring that being violently beaten in a fight makes sasuke desert his quest for justice without any reservation -- therefore no ideological or political separation was bridged, sasuke was just made to forget what motivated him for the entire series' run. naruto and team 7 succeeding where their predecessors failed was not a function of anything they did differently, but mere narrative convenience.

#like. nearly every prominent relationship in this series is definitive proof that love is not enough! #itachi without a doubt loved sasuke and itachi hurt sasuke more immensely than anyone and itachi did it because of loyalty to the state #if that is how you love... your love is worth nothing #so yeah it just feels really disingenuous to say that the series was about the power of friendship all along #and people expecting anything else were watching the wrong series #when textually the power of friendship has ALWAYS proven insufficient #naruto #naruto meta #team 7 #and listen u could certainly argue that the friendship in previous gens was deficient because there was no attempt made #at understanding or compromise. and to really live by obito's nindo you had to prioritize each other over country ALWAYS #but the series didn't do that either. sasuke for all intents and purposes 'lost' #and he was integrated back into konoha by accepting the hitai-ate #nrt had a bunch of weird mixed messaging on that front in general. like hiruzen letting orochimaru go which proved disastrous for konoha #or hiruzen and danzo's whole thing lmao #but whether the uchiha massacre was right/necessary was also left ambiguous so i'm not sure how that's supposed to paint hiruzen

[thephooka]

Send me songs

So I wanna do this OC meme for as many of the WN cast as I can get around to:

But I'm having trouble with the song part for almost all my characters for some reason! So if you can think of any songs that describe any of the main White Noise cast, toss 'em in my inbox?

So far I have Small Million - Lightswitch for Yoshi and tentatively The Oh Hellos - I Have Made Mistakes for Numair but gimme your suggestions!

#this is my clever way of getting new music recs lol #I can pick 45 songs for a Hawk/Numair mix but narrowing down something for them individually is way harder #Yes I'm overthinking it! sue me! #oc meme #oc asks #Numair has made mad mistakes but I'm trying to find something about like precarity and stuff yk #also I'm going out for a bit so I will check messages when I get back!

[izzyspussy]

this might sound mean but. get better at reading. i know literacy education sucks. i understand. it's time to take it upon yourself. get better at reading. if you can't read well you're easy to manipulate first of all, but also on a more interpersonal level if you can't read well and you're doing a significant portion of your socializing through text you're making yourself miserable. it's a skill. seek out resources to help you improve. get better at reading.

#jack facts #reading process #just saw yet another post where someone picked a fight with op for something they did not say & the majority of reblogs falling in w that #so responder's upset and op's upset and everyone the now mixed message has reached is upset and i'm upset #it's no way to go about life folks #like genuinely improving your reading comprehension skills is self care #the same as like learning how to cook or whatever #i'm begging

[obsob]

im like tamftgebka (thinking about maia from ‘the goblin emperor’ by katherine addison)

#mine #original #the goblin emperor #maia i would die for u i would kill for u #u would not BELIEVE this problems this drawing gave me. outstanding #i actually did a whole other drawing. maia and th little people are taken from that drawing i had to frankenstein them #the like. idea is the same kinda but the other comp was bad. like if i draw and i dont have a colour palette in mind i just draw for that #comp to work in black and white. and then if i try to put colour on top it like always looks awful. why do i do that. #anyway. here he is. im pretty happy w it th colours arent exactly what i wanted but thats fine svbkdbgvd #my mum is away this week im playing house and having a good time #i got!!!! more isopods!!! ik i said i would post pics n of my magic potions and didnt but thats bc theyre very small and shy rn skjlf bless #i got more armadillium vulgare but a gem mix theyre so pretty!!! n one of them is like absolutely huge. enormous. #however th seller was very stupid th packaging for their postage was rlly bad n th ventilation holes were too big n they didnt pack th #tupperware tight enough so loads of babies fell out n died :(((((((((( i sent her a message like. maybe dont do this n she was like oh sorry #n was like this has never happened before but im like. ur stupid. why did u use such a big box all u had 2 do was put more moss in. #they were rlly dry as well theyve spent all day hanging out in th damp moss. poor babies. theyre absolutely destroying some cuttlefish rn #so i think theyre fine <3

[chirpsythismorning]

When Blue Meets Yellow In the West: A Series Long Theory - Part 2

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

#stranger things #byler #gategate #??? #THE GATE IS CLOSED!! #or is it... #will asks a girl to dance... #mike encourages him... #time after time is playing #'sometimes you picture me i'm walking too far ahead-- you're calling to me I can't hear what you've said' #this song matches pretty well with mike and wills relationship at this point #the miscommunication of it all #is causing them to feel like the other has no feelings #mike thinks will is going to dance with this girl and be with her forever.. and so will's now the one walking too far ahead #but he's giving will mixed signals #and so will doesn't understand/can't comprehend the message mike is trying to send #'then you say go slow-- i fall behind' #'the second hand unwinds' #time after time #now mike is going to pursue el and in turn kind of force will to slow down any progress they've had #he's back in the closet... #or is he? #because... you're being watched my guy... #i don't think these feelings are going anywhere... #i don't think the gate is closed...

[nicollekidman]

so true s&b social media manager! now put his resurrected corpse back on my screen!!!! 

#rotting dilf ben barnes let's get to it #cringe KING #shadow and bone #who else is gonna chew the scenery like him huh #mixed messages from everyone re: the darkling is so funny #like no one has any idea how they want to approach it #im just rubbing my little raccoon hands together i dont care

[bangcakes]

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#down so incredibly bad. he has eye crinkles when he smiles.... nah its the end #trying not to think about it but JDJJDJDJD the way he was waiting for me in his car and like so smiley when he came out. o im gonna !!!!!!! #GOD. im so obsessed. like hes just some guy yes. but also ???? idc NDNDNXNXNNXMXM #its gonna take years tho i can feel it NDJDNXNXNDNND #hhhhh but maybe less time than i think...? idk im so...... i got so shy. couldnt even look at him at points like JDJNXNDNXNZN #im probably sending like... the Most mixed messages but WHAT CAN I DO XJXJJZZMZZ #i get mixed messages from him too. god. it took us forever to be friends bc of this JDJDJXJDKZMZM #getting to More.... lmao good lord #personal #also god why did i have to see that post about consideration being like. a way u know someoje cares. like JDJJDNDN #him being like o i was gonna honk at you but i thought itd scare you. so he waved a bunch instead Ndndnnd #then when ppl kept hounding me about why inwasnt taking my jacket off (felt embarassed bc i looked cute JDJDJDJJDNDN plus it was COLD) n #saying like oh isnt it hot. and inwas like huh really. and he was like... well i wouldnt say its hot. you can feel like the air coming down. #um.... ya maybe these are small but HDJDJDJDNDNNDNDND hes so cute....... like he could have honked at me n scared me or joined in on #everyone sayin stuff to me but BDBNDNDNDND cute....

[bogkeep]

You mean you gotta call and tell them to WATCH out for an email?

more like i call them, and it will be something that requires some thinking time, so they ask if i can send them an email with more info that they can reply to later. like it makes sense that for many things it helps to have face-to-face contact and barring that, a phone call, to have Established Human Contact. like i get it but it's a hassle EDIT: OH. IT WAS A PUN. A JOKE. THAT FLEW COMPLETELY OVER MY HEAD. HUMILIATING

#my school requires us to find workshops to have practice periods at for a couple weeks at a time #and my experience trying to find something last year mostly through emails was a little harrowing and fruitless #so this year im being BRAVE and going phone first which has been significantly more effective #(barring that incident where i mixed up two workshops with very similar names; one of which said they preferred text messages. oops)

[yellowloid]

I'm so confused. What the hell is currently going on in the fandom with Matt, Louise and everyone else? I just don't get it

basically louise posted a screenshot of her ig comment section full of comments hating on her, bringing up her controversies as well as taylor and alexa's relationship with alex, saying she stole him from taylor and he was better off with alexa. she defended herself telling those people to get a life, that they don't know her or alex or any of the people involved, and that she's a human being who has all the right to be in love with him (dare i say, that part was kinda slay). then amanda and matt also jumped on the whole thing and stood up for her. louise said all the hate is exactly why no one in their group wants to post anything, while matt threatened to log off again. you know. usual stuff

the thing is. people really need to stop going to her comment section lmao like of course you're allowed to dislike her and you can speculate all you want about their relationship but. for the love of god. keep it to fandom spaces where the people involved will not see it??? not on her actual comment section??? come on. it's not that hard to understand

#speculation on relationships is and always has been a part of being a celebrity. it comes with the territory #but you really need to keep it to spaces that are created by fans for fans. if the people involved then come and actively read that stuff > #then it's on them. but for people to go and openly constantly bully her on her own account is just downright nasty. get a grip #and again everyone is free to either support or not support her/her relationship with him but like. the public harassment is insane #i do feel bad for her #having said that i have mixed feelings about the way matt/amanda always word their support messages but im not gonna expand on that now lma #i mean i could if someone's interested but. you know. that's a whole 'nother story and not for this ask #answered

[crimeronan]

came onto tumblr to find artists celebrating the news by posting full frontal nudity that fully shows up on iOS with absolutely no filter options and presumably will continue to until every iOS user manually updates their app, if the filters work on iOS at all, bc tumblr must always roll out every update in the least functional and most actively counterintuitive way possible. this is not a complaint. ride on you funky little hellsite i love you so much

#and theres now a bunch of confusion over the update and tumblrs policies which has been muddied by extremely mixed messaging frm site staff #TRUNDLE ON U FUNKY MISMANAGED HELLSITE I LOVE U good luck to people trying not to lose their accounts #tumblr