#just like my LJ days

[setsuntamew]

real talk I'm responsible for most of the graphics for this fic but the thing about writing something based on nostalgia is that sometimes the nostalgia is actually something that's still within your grasp

aka, most of the LJ icons were made fresh for the first chapter but since Knives has a fucking paid account he has a large-ish collection of icons. and I have a graphics journal on LJ that I have run on and off since 2004. so.

the name icons are ones I made in 2005-2006 and I recolored/edited for this but other than that yeah they're fresh from the sparkle graphics archives (before I had really refined my style into sparkle all the time) aaaaaand some of the others from the time I made "anti-love" icons for fucking valentines day because I was an edgy teenager XD

#someone stop me from rambling I have so much homework lmao #but here I am on tumblr #procrastinating XD #just like my LJ days #except I didn't have a 4.0 in high school #gunsmoke high

[xxsweetoothxx]

Workin on Redesigning Jackies Colorful version and Im stuck as hell on clorors to pic for their Hair. Tried a billion different ones but These 5 seemed to work best I think

Also also Redesigning Isaac as well as his Sister. The old story I had for them was okay but then I got a better idea that makes Isaac the irredeemable shit I wanted him to be originally!

Also this idea allows me to tie in the whole thing from the cannon creeps comic of everyone seeming to hate LJ. Only in PM I plan on it to be a bit different with Ragz. Mainly that they didn't really do anything but SOMEONE did.

A Hint on why Ragz may be heavily disliked.

#im very unsure on a hair color so by all means give opinions! #either way its gonna be black in the version of them with less color #on another note #if it wasnt obvious Isaac is just being straight up malicious by dressing like that in the underworld #mf is intentionally pretending to be this clown to cause problems because hes pissedbabout being very justifiably killed #I'll get into that backstory one day #i gotta admit tho. Clown Isaac is very fun to draw #i got the idea because when reading the original LJ origin story #the thought of 'hey what if LJ is actually just Isaac?' #like yeah LJ killed him blah blah #bit what if LJ really was just an imaginary friend and the death was more a metaphorical one #im sure someoen else has had the idea before #but it came to mind a long time ago and it inspired me to be like #“what if after getting killed by this clown Isaac said he ruined my life so ima ruin his now” #and just dressed up to cause problems on purpose for them #anyway actual tags now #creepypasta #proxymorons #crp #creepy pasta #creepypasta art #doodleteeth #creepypasta redesign #laughing jack #isaac grossman #Izzy Lockwood #Isaac Lockwood #Ragz #Jackie Ragzdale

[dandylovesturtles]

@theplacewhereidumpmyinterests I can't talk about most of them because they're part of an AU verse I want to keep secret until I have the first fic that's part of it written, and idk when that will be (by summer?? HOPEFULLY??), but I guess I can talk about the other one because idk if/when I will write a fic for him (I'd like to but like I am only human)

"more AUs Dandy?" LISTEN all I do is sit around and think about "what if"s, okay?

ok so this started as me being like, hm, we see Lou Jitsu with a rotating door of women, so many he doesn't seem to remember all their names, so it's not totally out there to think he might have gotten one of them pregnant, right?

and thus Marcus (middle name Kyle) was born! literally!

so the story for this is, Lou Jitsu had a fling with a woman in the early 90s, pre-Big Mama. they were both in agreement that the whole thing was casual and it didn't last very long, but oopsie-daisy about six weeks after their last night together she finds out she's pregnant.

she debates what to do for a bit, because, as established, Lou Jitsu is kinda a fuckboi and she doesn't really want a relationship with him. But once she decides she's definitely keeping the baby she feels like she can't just not tell him, right? so she tries!

...unfortunately he's dating Big Mama by that point and she interferes to make sure that Lou Jitsu never meets with the woman and never finds out, because she knows this would get in the way of her plans.

she takes never hearing back from LJ as a sign he just isn't interested in the kid and resolves to single-motherhood. which she is the best at, btw.

she's still considering trying to introduce Marcus to his dad at some point, but unfortunately her kid isn't even 5 before Lou Jitsu suddenly goes missing, with his teary fiancée telling a sob story to the cops. assuming, same as everyone else, that he's dead, she lets the whole thing go, though she does tell Marcus who his dad is once he's old enough to understand everything.

Marcus goes through periods of being obsessed with Lou Jitsu, watching all his movies and consuming every piece of media about him that he can find, and periods where he can't stand to even hear the name. it's up and down. from his perspective, LJ abandoned him and his mom, but he's also dead, so it's not like he can have closure on this ever, right? so it's just a thing he has to deal with on his own.

but he's fine! he's alright. he gets through high school, then college, then accepted into vet school just fine.

then... his mom gets sick and dies.

yeah, that's a hard blow.

but he's alright! he has a few buddies from college he still sees now and then, and he's started his zoo vet residency at the Bronx Zoo (with a particularly special interest in reptiles), so lots of new people to meet that way! he's doing great! he's not lonely at all!

(a few months ago, he was suddenly woken up by a surge of something, like dozens of voices were crying out to him for help, tugging him toward something, saying his family needs him...

yeah, no idea what that was about. he doesn't have any family anymore.)

then the sky opens up and aliens come out.

Marcus is at work, because of course aliens would attack at the beginning of his shift. he spends the day ushering survivors into safe zones within the zoo, using his medical knowledge to handle first aid, and just trying to stay sane as the whole world turns upside down.

and then just as suddenly as it all started... it stops.

in the aftermath, everyone around him is just trying to get home, desperately calling their loved ones and praying for the best. Marcus starts trying to figure out how he's going to get home, because the trains definitely aren't running, and as he looks as his phone for a spark of inspiration, he realizes... no one has tried to call him. his coworkers' phones have been going off all day, whenever they can get signal, as loved ones try to reach them, but... he doesn't have anyone trying to reach him. and as he sits there he realizes he doesn't know who he should be calling, either.

so. that's pretty depressing.

and as he's sitting there, thinking about his life and what led him here, in a now empty vet clinic outside the bronx zoo... he hears a noise. and then, voices.

ah great. looters.

at first, Marcus tries to call 911 - but obviously the call center is swamped. so he decides to take care of the problem himself, going to see who's there and get rid of them...

wait, who is he kidding? he's definitely not paid enough to confront potentially armed looters! he's going to get out of here.

but just as he starts to leave, he hears the voices again - coming from one of the surgery rooms this time. and they're talking about IVs... scalpels... anesthesia...

suddenly he realizes that these aren't looters - they're here to try and treat somebody.

and like hell is he going to let some idiot kill someone trying to do DIY surgery.

so he turns back around and bursts into the room... on two humans, a rat that counts as giant even for New York, and four very big, very injured turtles.

one of whom immediately points a gun in his face. to be fair, that's what he thought would happen.

"Donnie!" yells the biggest one, and, oh, they can talk. huh.

"Relax, it's just a tranquilizer!"

"Donatello!" that's the rat. there's a sound like a whip cracking and the one with the gun makes a startled noise and drops it.

now the rat is in front of him. he's looking up at Marcus imploringly. "Do you work here?" he asks.

"Y-yeah. I'm a vet."

the rat bows very politely. "my sons are seriously hurt, and I don't have the supplies to help them at home. I understand it is a lot to ask, but... we must use your supplies. please, if you could just look the other way."

Marcus looks around at the turtles, especially the one on the table, the one worst off. he looks mangled. he won't live long if he isn't properly treated.

a rat, two humans who look like teenagers, and the turtles. who the rat called "sons". now that he's noticing, they're all pretty short, other than the big one. are they also teenagers?

"...Are any of you doctors?" he asks. the littlest one starts to raise a hand, but the girl grabs it and forces it back down.

everyone else has left by now. he's the only doctor here.

alright. guess he's doing this.

"...okay, everyone make some room. let me get sterilized, and I'll see what we're working with here."

and that's how the son Lou Jitsu didn't know he had becomes primary care doctor to his teenage mutant ninja half-brothers. ^^

(and then a bunch of other stuff happens)

#rottmnt #rottmnt oc #I hc that all the boys have their dad's eyes btw #so I had this joke planned where leo is like #hey this guy has our eyes too haha #donnie is like shut up leo you're delirious #he gets close to leo first just because he has to spend a lot of time with him #but he gets close to all of them over time #mikey talking about lou jitsu one day and marcus is like oh wow didn't know kids your age knew LJ #mikey like OF COURSE HE'S THE BEST #Marcus is like well you know I don't tell just everyone this but he's actually my bio dad #Mikey like haha that's so funny because #......................................................................wait #OHMIGOSH!!!!!!!!! #leo: we have to be better prepared for the next one of dad's love children #splinter: there are no more love children?? #leo: how do you know you didn't even know about THIS one

[ramavoite]

#ccs #cardcaptor sakura #yue #my gifs #he's too damn pretty not to gif #just playing with filters like it's lj icon days all over again

[kyotosummer]

I have one question for the Rise!Fandom that’s been burning me alive for a while:

Why does Casey Jr. look so much like Lou Jitsu?!

#watching yt and a vid icon w/ CJ was right next to one with LJ #and I promptly choked on my drink #and that pointy chin is not a common look on this show #I don’t think LJ is CJ’s dad though #if I remember correctly I believe Splint has one human kid in typical tmnt canon #so maybe that applies #my other thought is that the turtles like… became human for a day or something #which would explain why Mikey has hair #though odd thing to experiment with during the apocalypse #and just weird in general to even consider #anyway I do not ship Cassandra with any of the boys #but if one MUST secretly be his dad #I vote Donatello #I refuse to even consider Mikey #and I just don’t want to give Leo the satisfaction #Raph is like…. 10% chance #rottmnt

[emilykaldwen]

Is the new trend that I should make a fic sideblog?? I don't think Maiden has that kind of following and I'm not someone who separate my hobbies out into sideblogs. Like you're here for all that I comment on (wait until the new dishonored trailer drops and we're gonna be a Dishonored blog as I scream)

But also like, not everything I write is going to be tied to Maiden, but it would be tied to Abby x Aegon majority of the time (sorry this is the world I live in and you just have to get used to it, such is the curse of an OC creator).

curious what other writers do?

#like back when I was on LiveJournal #I had my fic blog #but LJ just worked so differently from here #and I just don't know how the kids use tumblr these days #but I don't want to make my stuff difficult for people to track #I have all the organization on the desktop version of my blog #but do people even use desktop anymore?

[lionofstone]

at the end of the day, i’m a fan of silly little action movies. that’s just how it is

#ljs life #don’t get me wrong I love appreciating art that makes me think too; i love finding the deeper meaning in things and analysing characters #and i do that to the silly little action movies as well even if they aren’t ’high art’ #but at the end of the day if you asked me if i want to watch transformers or mission impossible or like…a bond film or whatever #i will say yes and it will consume my every waking thought for like two weeks #my all time favourite movie could watch it a thousand times and not get bored is Venom (2018) #i just finished rewatching all of the mission impossible movies with like three other tom cruise films thrown in for flavour #yes i probably read too much into them and get a little obsessive over them but #at the end of the day. i love them i really do they entertain me so much and i like watching people run around and hit things and cause #explosions and save the world. i am a simple person

[puzzlepop]

i feel like such a snob about how i’m never all that excited about or interested in new games nowadays…… i think the last new game i was excited about was lost judgment in 2021 i was like counting down the days until that one came out. but otherwise im just like oh yeah infinite wealth is a game that exists now. i’ll get to it eventually. like you know. i dont care that much

#🌀.txt #even if the game is widely popular and something i know i’ll enjoy im just like ok 👍🏻 #this isn’t important or anything im just thinking #i went insane over lj though. it was a while before i could actually get thru the whole game cuz of college #but then i got an extended fall break because i went into diabetic ketoacidosis 👍🏻 and ended up have 2 extra days to play the whole game #and it fucked my playstation’s hardrive i had to replace it after that

[madhushala]

hi do y'all remember lj

#this is not about lj #its his roommate #he's the only person in boys that bcg don't actively talks to and im sure they don't like each other #and he is my friend because he is my practical batch so more than anyone he is around me all day #and i really like being his friend he's witty he enjoy doing laboratories and would make you enjoy them too #but idk why he's so bummed about me choosing bcg instead of lj dude it's been 6 months what the fuck #and he shouldn't have a say in it #lj is literally moved on is really good friends with bcg and talks to me just fine #but i don't seem to understand why this guy literally has a problem he'll make indirect jokes about me choosing bcg #so much too the point lj shouted on him said kya faaltu baat karta rehta hai bhenchod #and he kept asking me why did you chose him what did you like specially the question why did you go in so quick #no?? you think i was quick because you didn't see what was happening all the time #and idk after batches changed and roll number shuffled and we came in second year he's only really the person that's remained from my #previous batch so im comfortable with him #but why the passive aggressive attacks on bcg #and whenever i stopped it he was like chill can you take a joke #but im at my limit rn #literally

[sisterdivinium]

It's interesting to stroll around Fanlore reading discussions that took place in 2007 talking about the fractured nature of fandom on LJ and people interacting without having enough context (as in commenting on a post they did not read by a user they do not know) when you're living in 2023 and people distribute likes without reading anything or commenting; when there's supposedly "drama" of unknown origins happening in more than one website at the same time because there's no real "home base" for fandom activity anymore; and we're all carrying on with our lives reblogging things without even looking at previous notes and reactions to that same post even if out of simple curiosity...

#what gets me is the lack of discussion. i don't expect anyone to approach things in a more ~intellectual manner no #but i guess i expect a little more than what i see. i'd *like* to see a little more. more than just personal unfounded opinion #idk i have the distinct feeling that we're all screaming into the void only louder and louder and louder #(you will never convince me that twitter is a good place for discussion because it just isn't. it wasn't made for that #it doesn't support it. its very quick structure is part of why so many people have long recognised it as toxic social media) #(it's talking over one another in fragments. if you agree on there all is peachy but if you don't then lol good luck) #anyway. again. i do know tumblr isn't exactly proper for any of this either; the dashboard isn't designed for it #but it's not like i can convince anyone to switch to a slower and more text/reflection-based platform either now can i #i think about migrating every day but then i'd REALLY be screaming into the void #silly blabbering #i'm allowing myself to post this on this blog because it isn't strictly WN related but also it is. i hate twitter fandom lol #(also if you're wondering yes i did read that one for the bakhtin. in this house we love and support bakhtinian studies) #(just in case my last little essay on wn didn't clue you in regarding that lol) #ALSO i love the fact that the post (the actual post. if you click the link and follow through to the original post. which you should) #links to another post that goes to another post (i love these link black holes) where the author voices things i feel too lol #about crafting extensive essays and the expectation regarding their response #i sometimes think that LJ fandom is what made me choose my degree #why am i seeing myself through someone else's words written in 2006 ksjdfhksdjjhksdgjsd #and yeah yeah we should respond to other people too -- but how when no one is writing the sort of thing you want to/can reply to? #i'm not interested in the colour of beatrice's knickers (not that anyone has talked of that... afaik... but you get what i mean)

[champagne121212]

folk punk (pat the bunny, ramshackle glory, wingnut dishwasher's union, johnny hobo and the freight trains) + hyperpop (devi mccallion, black dresses, girls rituals, mom, anarchy 99, cats millionaire) = having several influential bands turn out to be the various projects of just one central person and the other musicians they partner with at different time, surprising me every single time i find out another band is actually just half of a band i already know because i am essentially faceblind but for voices.

#these parallels brought to you by the fact that wdu was one of the first folk punk bands i listened to and i didn't find out it was #a pat the bunny project until three weeks ago! #also brought to you by me furiously googling escape from the zoo because 'is that voice familiar or is that just Folk Punk Guy Voice' #it's fucking days n daze's frontman. #this is what i get for never looking further into the bands i like than reading spotify bios. which folk punk bands never seem to have lol #i would say besides mcr but really all i know about them is what tumblr tells me. i have been an mcr fan since i was 14 i did not find out #about bert and gerard's whole deal until like early 2021 i think #massive fall out boy fan as well have been since middle school. still don't really understand the whole petekey thing #i read the little lj post ppl were circulating around here last month and wow that seems really vague is that really like. it. #i dunno i'll look into it at some point my problem is i hate longform youtube videos so i never watch that like band iceberg explained shit

[hauntedpearl]

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#okay deleted that reblog bc honestly do not want drama on my blog but it is messed up that the ao3 authors are going through it rn #also this is kind of fandom drama you heard about from like the LJ days and stuff and like just watch 2hr videos on #like half a decade after stuff happens and you don't to really care yk? but watching it unfold live is. idk. very sad. #i am v sorry tho like this is so fucked

[miralparis]

you ever have that fic that just sticks with you for years and have the urge to reread it randomly even when you haven’t watched the show it’s written about in a hot minute?

#yeah just stayed up way too late last night rereading one lmao #‘snapshots left on the negative’ by lj user cypanache #like….it’s been 11 years or something and it still HITS #legit gonna be reading it AGAIN all day probably bc I can never just read it once in a go #remember sitting in my giant Econ lecture fall 2012 reading it too before class #just???? hope that author is doing well and thriving

[spockblanket]

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#not me going on about this but seeing all this love in the ofmd fandom got me feeling very emosh #like first of all i fucking love to see it!! the community! the belonging to something! #second of all im ofc sad bc i don't know how to connect with ppl anymore and i'm getting fomo lmaooo i want to belong too!!!1 /issues #idk man. gone are those days of adding someone on ol' msn messenger and ACTUALLY INITIATING CONVERSATION how the hell did i ever do that #and it was the same thing back then only the love was shared over the same band #so why is this so difficult now kljdkljjlfg i mean sure i was 20 years younger back then and maybe more fearless #aaanyway #idk i feel extremely silly putting all this out there but i also feel like i need to get it out of my system. this is ridiculous #like maybe this is why. maybe i'm just the answer in all that i am #yes i'm a fucking grown up supposedly AND YET #anyway wish i still had access to my old lj that was my trusted vent space

[the-acid-pear]

Like I swear to god idk how monkey rizzed up LJ. I don't know how else to say it I didn't know he had it in him. He's literally 80 years old. And he was fucking him standing too no less idk how his peg leg didn't give up on him like god. It's so fucking funny. How did we get to this 💥

#luly talks #LIKE LJ DIDN'T SHOW INTEREST IN ANYBODY well he tried to fuck sad Luly but so did monkey's grandkid #like suddenly everyone noticed them all autistic as they are and were like fuck that's hot #like i swear to god sad luly has spoken like once #they are the tbh creature #for the record sad luly is the mii interpretation of me by my ex but she's very different #sad luly is a softie and is in misery but now days she copes #fucked sans Undertale in tomodachi life and is besties w komaeda (yes. it's that perfect.) #here they're just a fucking Tank and a pyromaniac #i love sad luly anyway LJ. #LJ MY MAN WHY DID YOU FUCK THAT OLD MAN!!!!! #LIKE IT. i dont get it.

[idnull]

i promise i’m working on those established friendship starters and replies, my brain has just been really fuzzy recently!

#( lj. ) #one of my meds ran out and i'm dealing with that #AND i'm going to new york the day after tomorrow so! i'm all kinds of anxious about the plane #and upset that i have to leave my cat behind but it's just for like a week and a half so it's fine!