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jabber-wockin · 3 months

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Jabber's TMNT AU/iteration ask game!

Send an ask with a number corresponding to a question you want to ask about someone's AU or iteration

SETTING:

Where is your au/iteration set?

Do the turtles live in the sewers?

What is the lair like?

Do the turtles have money? If so, how do they get it?

What is the origin of the mutagen?

Is there a battle nexus? Is it a respected facility or operated by criminals?

Are there aliens?

Are there yokai/magical beings?

Are there other dimensions?

Are there utrom/kraang? PLOT:

Who is the main villain?

What is the main villain’s motivation?

Who are some villains that are less of a threat?

What is going on with the foot clan?

Is the Hamato clan history relevant? How did the clan originate?

Were the turtles and Splinter mutated intentionally?

Do any characters get mutated during the story?

Do any characters die during the story?

Do any characters get disabled during the story?

Do the turtles go to space?

Do the turtles time travel?

If there is a battle nexus, who fights in it? CHARACTERS:

Are there any OCs?

Is there a Bebop and Rocksteady?

Is there a Baxter Stockman?

Is there a Bishop?

Is there a Rat King? If yes, can he control Splinter?

Is there a Mona lisa?

Is there a Renet?

Is there a Venus?

Is there a Jennika?

Is there a Slash?

Is there a Metalhead?

Is there a Mondo Gecko?

Is there an Angel?

Is there an Alopex?

Is there a Leatherhead?

Is there a Tang Shen?

Is there a Karai/Miwa?

Is Saki the shredder?

Is Karai/Miwa Saki’s daughter?

Is Karai/Miwa loyal to Saki?

How old is April?

Is April a scientist?

Is April a journalist or reporter?

How old is Casey?

Is Casey a vigilante?

Does Casey play hockey? If so, what position?

Are the turtles the same species?

Are the turtles the same age?

Was Splinter born a rat or a human?

Is Donnie only knowledgeable with technology? If not, what else are they interested in?

Who is the leader of the group? How did they become the leader?

Who is the team medic?

Who is the best cook?

Who is the best fighter?

Are any characters disabled?

Are any characters neurodivergent?

Are any characters queer? CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS:

Do Raph and Leo fight often?

What is Bebop and Rocksteady’s relationship?

What is Casey and Raph’s relationship?

Is Splinter the turtles’ dad, sensei or both?

How did Splinter meet the turtles?

Is April considered a sibling?

Does April consider Splinter a parent?

How did the turtles meet April?

How did the turtles meet Casey?

Is there a romance? If so, between which characters? SPECIFY A CHARACTER:

What hobbies does — have?

Who is —‘s favourite sibling?

What is —’s favourite kind of pizza

What interests does — have?

What weapon does — specialise in?

Tell us a fun fact about —’s species! EXTRA:

Who is your favourite character?

What character do you relate to the most?

Tell us something you want to share about your au/iteration!

I had help making this, so shoutout to @genderfluid-envy, I had a lot of fun deciding on questions with you! And thanks to everyone else in our discord server who helped out :D

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eg-tmnt · 4 days

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5. What is the origin of the mutagen?

Might change my mind about some things later, but kind of what I have so far:

The EPF and a company called BIO-Spawn used to work together. They created the mutagen, and used and researched variations of it.

Their research had some major setbacks, and their cooperation ended around thirteen years before the "start of the story". Their primary lab was more or less destroyed, several test subjects escaped and data was damaged and deleted. To top it off, their supplier o the mysterious ooze, that was a primary ingredient of the mutagen, no longer supplied them.

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losersimonriley · 5 months

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if im allowed to be a greedy little git, sudowning and simon blushing riley for the tag game? if only ones allowed then just sundowning :D

I love greedy little gits! (I am also a greedy little git)

So, first up. Sundowning! This has been my absolute baby since November and I’m really rooting for it to be the first long fic I’m able to complete. Here’s a snippet from a flashback scene:

It’s all very clinical and professional save for when his jumper gets tangled around his head and Johnny practically shakes him free of it. Suddenly there they are, laughing and naked under the shower spray together.

He tries to keep his eyes forward, never wandering as his own body feels like it’s being thoroughly inspected by how meticulously he’s being scrubbed. It’s…nice. It’s not as embarrassing as he expected—maybe because Johnny talks most of the time, and when he’s not jabbering, he’s singing under his breath. Maybe because they’re so comfortable around each other that it was never going to be awkward in the first place. The only thing even mildly uncomfortable about any of it is his own arms stretched awkwardly out in front of him, trying to keep the injuries away from the water.

It almost feels like a grand cosmic joke. Like the universe is going to pull the rug out from under him at any moment with a cackling “gotcha!” Because what did he do to deserve this? To deserve, not only a teammate, but a friend as caring and bloody reverent as Soap. Ghost hasn’t been this relaxed around anyone since—well. Ever. He can’t be cashing in on good karma because he’s not a good fucking person. Johnny’s not either.

So what’s the catch?

And next! Simon blushing Riley lol. Here’s a bit of Ghost being an Icon:

Ghost never feels quite as inadequate as he does amidst these sorts of conversations. It’s fucking ridiculous. It shouldn’t matter how many cocks have(n’t) been inside him—he’s one of the best operators in the force, he’s overcome multiple iterations of Hell on Earth and he still has a beating heart despite it all.

But he is a bloody thirty-four year old virgin. And by societal standards, that is embarrassing. It’s not something that should be but, fucking hell, he can’t imagine ever admiting something like that to people like these. It would be the equivalent of tossing himself to the wolves. The final nail in his coffin of social suicide.

“What about you then, Ghost?” a newer recruit has the nerve to ask. The place goes dead silent. Ridiculous.

“Your mum liked it alright.”

#ghostsoap #thank you for asking! <3 #ask games #my writing #.txt

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biden-is-a-bloody-war-criminal · 4 years

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In times like these it becomes all the more important to remember that tools like Zoom, Slack, and Facebook Messenger are not benign public services, and while the sentiment they've expressed to the global community in responding to the crisis may be sincere, it hasn't addressed the fundamental ethical issues with any piece of proprietary software.

After taking the LibrePlanet 2020 conference online, we received a number of requests asking us to document our streaming setup. As the pandemic grew worse, this gave way to more curiosity about how the Free Software Foundation (FSF) uses free tools and free communication platforms to conduct our everyday business. And while the stereotype of hackers hunched over a white on black terminal session applies to us in some ways, many of the tools we use are available in any environment, even for people who do not have a lot of technical experience. We've started documenting ethical solutions on the LibrePlanet wiki, in addition to starting a remote communication mailing list to help each other advocate for their use.

In the suggestions that follow, a few of the tools we will recommend depend upon some "self-reliance," that is, steering clear of proprietary network services by hosting free software solutions yourself, or asking a technical friend to do it for you. It's a difficult step, and the benefits may not be immediately obvious, but it's a key part of preserving your autonomy in an age of ubiquitous digital control.

To those who have the technical expertise and available infrastructure, we urge you to consider hosting instances of free communication platforms for your friends, family, and your community at large. For example, with a modest server and some GNU/Linux knowledge, you could help local students learn in freedom by volunteering to administer an instance of one of the programs we'll be recommending below.

The need to self-host can be an uncomfortable reminder of our dependence on the "cloud" -- the network of someone else's computers -- but acknowledging our current reliance on these providers is the first step in making new, dependable systems for ourselves. During dangerous and stressful times, it's tempting to sideline our ethical commitments for easier or more convenient ways to get things done, and software freedom is no exception. We hope these suggestions will inspire you to inform others about the importance of their freedom, privacy, and security.

Chat

When we can no longer communicate face-to-face, tools for voice and video calling often come to mind as the next best thing. But as evidenced by the size and success of the proprietary software companies that sponsor these tools, their development isn't easy. Promoting real-time voice and video chat clients remains a High Priority Project of ours. Though we may still be waiting for a truly perfect solution, there are some projects that are far enough along in their development that we can recommend them to others.

Audio calls

Mumble: Mumble is a real-time, low latency program for hosting and joining audio conversations. Clients are available for every major operating system, and even large rooms tend not to put too much stress on the network. When it was time for us to go fully remote, the FSF staff turned to Mumble as a way to have that "in-office" feel, staying in touch in rooms dedicated to each of our teams and a general purpose "water cooler" room.

Asterisk/SIP: When we give tours of the FSF office, people often think we're joking when we mention that even the FSF's conference phones run free software. But through Asterisk and our use of the SIP protocol, it's entirely true. Although it can be difficult to set up, it's worth mentioning that free software can manage your traditional phone lines. At the FSF, we transfer calls to digital extensions seamlessly with tools like Jami and Linphone.

Video calls and presentations

Jitsi: Jitsi was a key part of LibrePlanet 2020's success. Providing video and voice calls through the browser via WebRTC, it also allows for presenters to share their screen in a similar way to Zoom. And unlike Zoom, it doesn't come with serious privacy violations or threats to user freedom. The connection between callers is direct and intuitive, but a central server is still required to coordinate callers and rooms. Some of these, like the Jitsi project's own "Jitsi Meet" server, recommend proprietary browser extensions and document sharing tools. If you're able, hosting your own instance is the most free and reliable method.

Jami: While it's used at the FSF primarily for its SIP support, Jami (previously GNU Ring) is a solid communication client in its own right, allowing for distributed video calls, text chat, and screen sharing.

OBS: Another much-used software program this LibrePlanet was OBS Studio. Illness, different timezones, or unforeseen travel were no match for the solutions that OBS Studio offered. It's a flexible tool for streaming video from multiple inputs to a Web source, whether that's combining your webcam with conference slides, or even your favorite free software game. At LibrePlanet, OBS allowed our remote speakers to record their presentations while speaking in one screen, and sharing audiovisual materials in a second window.

Text chat

XMPP: If you've ever used "Jabber," older iterations of Google Talk or Facebook Messenger, then you've used XMPP. XMPP is a flexible and extensible instant messaging protocol that's lately seen a resurgence from clients like Conversations.im and encryption schema like OMEMO. XMPP is the instant messaging method we prefer at the FSF when we need to discuss something privately, or in a secure group chat, as everything is sent through servers we control and encrypted against individual staff members' private key. Also, access to the FSF XMPP server is one of the many benefits of our associate membership program.

IRC: Messaging services have become all the rage in office atmospheres, but nothing about Messenger or Slack is new. In fact, Slack (and its counterpart for video games, Discord) takes more than a few cues from the venerable Internet Relay Chat (IRC). IRC remains an enduring way to have a text-based chat in real-time, and as evidenced by Web clients like The Lounge, or desktop clients like Pidgin, it can be as stripped down or feature-rich as you like. For a true hacker experience, you can also log into IRC using Emacs.

Long-form discussion

Encrypted email: While it's asynchronous and maybe the most "old school" item on our list, GPG-encrypted email is a core part of the FSF workflow, and helps guard against prying eyes, whether they're one room over or in an NSA compound across the country. The initial setup can sometimes be a challenge, which is why we provide the Email Self-Defense Guide to get you up and running.

Discourse: Discourse is the message board software that powers the FSF associate member forum, and we couldn't be happier to recommend it. While the concept may seem a little antiquated, message boards remain a good way to coordinate discussions on a particular topic. Discourse's moderation tools are intuitive and easy to use, and it even includes achievements for users to earn!

Document Sharing

If you're unused to working remotely, finding ways to collaborate with others on a document or presentation can be a challenge. At the FSF, Etherpad is the main tool that we use to keep live meeting notes and work together on other documents. It provides all the features you need for quick collaboration, including comments, revision tracking, and exports to a variety of formats. You can host your own instance, or you can select an instance made available by others and start sharing.

File Sharing

At the FSF office, we have a common server to store our files. Not everyone has the luxury of a setup like that, and especially not due to the fast changeover from office to home. To avoid using proprietary "solutions" and disservices like Dropbox, you can turn to the widely popular Nextcloud to synchronize your text and email messages, share calendars with coworkers, and exchange files privately with your friends.

If you need something temporary, there's always Up1. Up1 is a temporary, encrypted text and image sharing program you can host locally, making sure those files you need to exchange are only there for just as long as it takes for your friend to download them. And while we don't use it ourselves, we've heard good things about the Riseup network's instance of Up1, and will occasionally suggest it to those wanting a quick and easy way to share files while retaining their freedom.

Conclusion

This is just a small selection of the huge amount of free software out there, all ready to be used, shared, and improved by the community. For more suggestions on both local and Web-based programs, visit the FSF's Free Software Directory, our volunteer-run wiki which aims to be a comprehensive list of the thousands of free programs available for everyday use.

As always, free software is a moving target. We reap as much as the community puts into it, and as more and more attention shifts to the crisis caused by the novel coronavirus, the tools themselves are likely to see an increased amount of development. Please collaborate with us on the LibrePlanet wiki's entry on remote communication to help people find ways of communicating that put user freedom as a priority.

#open source #alternatives

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newssplashy · 6 years

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Opinion: The author who won't be booked: Conan O'Brien's unrequited fanboy love for Robert Caro

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Conan O’Brien, the longest tenured late-night TV host, has had them all in his 25 years on the air. Oscar winners. Hall of Famers. Bowie, Springsteen, McCartney.

But there’s one person who keeps saying no — someone whose work has been a near-obsession for the host for some time.

“At a certain point, I have the power to book a lot of people,” O’Brien said over dinner at Lucques, a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant here. “I’ve been around long enough. There’s a point where you feel like you’ve met everyone. Everyone. And then there’s Robert Caro.”

For years, O’Brien has tried to book the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Power Broker” and the multivolume epic “The Years of Lyndon Johnson.” And for years, Caro has said no.

O’Brien, 55, started to realize his love for the biographer-historian was perhaps unrequited some eight years ago.

At the time, he had recently made the move to TBS after 17 years as a late-night host at NBC — a run that had come to an end with his brief stint behind the desk of “The Tonight Show.” Newly ensconced at “Conan” in the lower-stakes environs of basic cable, he had the freedom to give serious airtime to guests who would have gotten five-minute segments during his network days.

“We’re talking about authors and I’m thinking, ‘Let’s get Robert Caro on — I’ll do two segments with him,'” O’Brien said. “The request went out. It was the equivalent of putting a penny in a well and never hearing the splash.”

Later invitations also resulted in polite refusals.

“The Path to Power,” the first installment of Caro’s biography of Johnson, was published in 1982 when O’Brien was a student at Harvard. He received the book as a Christmas present from his father and soon fell under its spell, as did his roommate, Eric Reiff. They shared their new enthusiasm during a trip away from campus.

“Think of two guys in college going on a road trip,” O’Brien said. “You think about how we get a bunch of beer, we go to Fort Lauderdale, we get hammered. No. We go to a quiet beach in Rhode Island and we’re lying there and yelling at each other back and forth about Lyndon Johnson. ‘It was his father! His father had been disappointed!’ ‘But what about Pappy O’Daniel?'”

The later works in the epic series, which have been published at a rate of roughly once a decade, have more than lived up to the promise of the first in O’Brien’s view. Caro, 82, has said he is closing in on completing the fifth and final volume and the pompadoured comic is among those eagerly awaiting its publication.

“The Lyndon Johnson books by Caro, it’s our Harry Potter,” O’Brien said. “If there were over-large ears and fake gallbladder scars that we could wear instead of wizard hats while waiting in line to get the book, we would do it.”

After having been rejected numerous times, O’Brien came up with a plan to land his prey: a relatively sober streaming interview program called “Serious Jibber Jabber.” Guests have included best-selling nonfiction author Michael Lewis, historian Evan Thomas and data journalist Nate Silver.

“I pretty much made this thing as a bear trap to catch Robert Caro,” O’Brien said. “I keep getting other people who are great. But no Robert Caro.”

The host sent word that he would be willing to interview the author in his hometown, New York City. No dice, Caro replied through an intermediary. O’Brien then asked him to dinner, without cameras. Maybe next time.

A onetime writer for “The Simpsons” and “Saturday Night Live,” O’Brien is one of the brainiest people in late night, even if he favors a loose, absurdist brand of comedy that has little in common with the topical style of Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers and Samantha Bee.

O’Brien arrived at the restaurant for our interview carrying a sheaf of notes filled with dates and facts tracing his obsession. It included the time he attended a Caro reading at the Barnes & Noble in New York City around the release of “Master of the Senate,” Volume 3 in the LBJ series.

“I’m just checking,” O’Brien said, flipping through his notes, when asked what year he saw Caro. “I want to make sure I have as many answers as I can for you.”

It was 2002. O’Brien did not introduce himself.

“I don’t want to bother Caro and go up to him and say, ‘Of course, you must know me from the Masturbating Bear and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who will poop on you,'” he said, referring to comedy bits that were staples of “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” the NBC show he hosted from 1993 to 2009.

Caro’s penchant for leaving nothing out — the still-growing LBJ series runs to more than 3,000 pages — is a quality that has wearied his detractors while inspiring special devotion among fans like O’Brien.

“One of the things that makes him one of the greatest biographers of all time is he’ll write about Lyndon Johnson, but when he encounters another character who’s interesting — Coke Stevenson — he will drop everything and go down deep, incredibly deep, into, ‘Who is this man really?'” he said. “He’ll find all this deep rich ore, which, once you know it, it’ll make the whole story that much more powerful. Whereas other people would dispense with those characters in a paragraph or two.”

O’Brien was insistent that Caro’s team has been nothing but polite in sending its regrets. In fact, a few years ago, O’Brien received a signed copy of “The Path to Power” with the inscription: “To Conan O’Brien. From A Fan — Robert A. Caro.”

The gift only confused matters.

“It just cracks me up,” O’Brien said. “It’s like the White Whale writing Ahab a note, saying, ‘Hey, man. We’ve got to get together. I’m a fan!'”

Caro has appeared on other programs over the years, including “The Colbert Report,” “CBS This Morning” and “The Daily Show” in its Jon Stewart iteration. When asked for this article why he had yet to appear on “Conan,” the author said in a statement: “'Conan’ — You mean it was O’Brien? I thought it was The Barbarian.”

Paul Bogaards, a spokesman at Knopf, Caro’s publisher, said of O’Brien’s many entreaties, “Suffice to say, his people have been in touch a few times (email, phone, Conan standing outside the building), and we remain cautiously optimistic about Caro making an appearance on the show before the decade is out.”

The refusals have done nothing to lessen the host’s affection for the author. “The biggest thing I want to stress is that my inability to get him to sit with me only makes me respect him more,” O’Brien said.

In his morbid fantasies, he imagines Caro appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” where the guests often play games with the host.

“I know that someday I’m going to turn on Fallon and see Caro playing Pictionary,” he said. “And I’m just going to be enraged. He’s going to get everyone cheering, and Cardi B’s there, high-fiving him. And I’m just going to be enraged.”

As he continues his quest, O’Brien said he will draw on what he has learned from Caro’s epic series. “Like Johnson, I have an incredible drive and a complicated relationship with my father,” he said. “I’ll stop at nothing.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

source http://www.newssplashy.com/2018/08/opinion-author-who-wont-be-booked-conan.html

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jabber-wockin · 2 months

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4 and 23? For your iteration

4- Yes the turtles have money! As for how they get it, Splinter does some remote work where he doesn’t have to reveal that he’s a giant rat. Mikey does art commissions online. Donnie makes money by doing various jobs of questionable legality. They make a lot of cash diving in the river for e-scooters, fixing them up and jailbreaking them so they can be resold. For some reason people love tossing those public e-scooters in the river

23- I don’t have any ocs for my iteration. I prefer to take random named background guys from various tmnt shows and give them an actual character. Which I suppose kinda counts cause I’m just making stuff up lol

#jabber's iteration ask game #my tmnt iteration #tmnt

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jabber-wockin · 3 months

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9, 10, 19, 37 (explain chicken yuri), 62 and 78 for ask game!!

9- I'm actually not sure about this one. There probably are but they won't be particularly plot relevant so I haven't really thought about it

10- The utrom are around! Not on earth though, they left thousands of years ago. In their rush they left some of their things behind and a company called TCRI owns all those ancient artifacts now

19- Some folks will end up with a bad knee or something similar but it would be pretty manageable and only flare up occasionally. Nobody looses any limbs or anything

37- THE CHICKEN YURI. Leatherhead, just like the turtles, was mutated in the first mutation event. She was an american alligator stunted from neglect and poor husbandry. Because of this, she didn't make it out of the mutation site before TCRI showed up. Leatherhead was captured and brought to a lab where she was studied as the only surviving mutant. She was alone until Cluckingsworth was put in the cage beside her.

Cluckingsworth was a normal rhode island red chicken until she was mutated by TCRI four days after the initial mutation event. She was, for a very long time, the only survivor of the experiments with mutagen. She spent that long time helping around the lab, getting examined and tested, and spending time with Leatherhead, who she named.

The two were very close. After years in the laboratory they tried to escape. They nearly managed it but their absence was noticed too early. Leatherhead held the TCRI agents off while Cluckingsworth ran for it. Cluckingsworth made it out and kept running until she ended up on the farm of an old lady who goes by CJ. She thinks Leatherhead is dead.

Leatherhead didn't get out. Every day she prays that Cluckingsworth is safe and free.

62- Casey and Raph became best friends right after they stopped wailing on eachother. Possibly while doing it honestly. It didn't take that long for them to start dating either. They each think the other is the coolest person in the whole world

78- Leo plays the accordion and is VERY good at it

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jabber-wockin · 3 months

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Don't know if you've ever talked about it before so how about 11 and 12, and then 75 for Mikey!!

11- Shredder and his foot clan are the main villains! Though the EPF does show up later on. Everyone hates these poor turtles so much :(

12- The Shredder's goal is to conquer and rule the world though his motivation for it has changed over the centuries. In the modern day it's control. Saki has lost people before and been hurt. He wants to make sure nobody can leave him, that nobody can hurt him. He wants to be untouchable

75- Mikey is a yellow-bellied slider! They're a subspecies of pond slider just like red-eared sliders. It's actually illegal to sell wildtype red ears in Florida because they could breed with the native yellow-bellied slider population and drive them to extinction!

#jabber's iteration ask game #my iteration #tmnt

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jabber-wockin · 3 months

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I lowkey just wanna put every number into your askbox, but y'know. 6, 28, 30, 31, 60, 63 and 67 for the super epic and awesome ask game?

I love answering questions but 78 is a lot so thank you for sparing me

6- The battle nexus is an incredibly shady organization that popped up during the second mutation event, when new yorkers were getting mutated. It's a mutant fighting ring that preys on how truly desperate most mutants are. Money in exchange for fighting is a good a deal as many mutants can get

28- There is a Mona Lisa! She's an alien who lands on earth and decides to have fun with this "woman" thing the native population has going on. She is eight and a half feet tall and can breathe fire. Raph loves her

30 and 31- I'm not completely certain yet but I don't think I'm adding the girlies. Cowabummer ik

60- Raph and Leo have a pretty good relationship. They do butt heads and annoy eachother sometimes but they hang out way more often and work together really well

63- Splinter is the turtle's parent and sensei but he's definitely more the former. He taught them how to fight so that they could protect themselves. They're the ones who decided to practice vigilantism

67- When April was eight she decided to go look for critters in the sewer and she found Donnie who had gotten separated from his family. The two bonded over science and when Splinter found them all the other turtles got attached too so April just kept coming down to play with them and quickly became a part of the family

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newssplashy · 6 years

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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Conan O’Brien, the longest tenured late-night TV host, has had them all in his 25 years on the air. Oscar winners. Hall of Famers. Bowie, Springsteen, McCartney.

But there’s one person who keeps saying no — someone whose work has been a near-obsession for the host for some time.

For years, O’Brien has tried to book the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Power Broker” and the multivolume epic “The Years of Lyndon Johnson.” And for years, Caro has said no.

O’Brien, 55, started to realize his love for the biographer-historian was perhaps unrequited some eight years ago.

Later invitations also resulted in polite refusals.

“I pretty much made this thing as a bear trap to catch Robert Caro,” O’Brien said. “I keep getting other people who are great. But no Robert Caro.”

“I’m just checking,” O’Brien said, flipping through his notes, when asked what year he saw Caro. “I want to make sure I have as many answers as I can for you.”

It was 2002. O’Brien did not introduce himself.

The gift only confused matters.

“It just cracks me up,” O’Brien said. “It’s like the White Whale writing Ahab a note, saying, ‘Hey, man. We’ve got to get together. I’m a fan!'”

In his morbid fantasies, he imagines Caro appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” where the guests often play games with the host.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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