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I love old union songs because it's like this fucking asshole was a scab so we fucking threw him in the river and he broke his spine and when he went to heaven he was scabbing on the angels so they fired him down to heaven and the devil was like you have to work in hell for being a dirty scab
I'm not joking, this is an actual song
Arnold Bernid “Casey” Jones grew up on the streets of New York and would never cross a picket line what is this slander.
Scrounging around ao3 lately I’ve seen so much of the “no beta we die like ________” tag and I know shouldn’t because I don’t have the time but I wanna just go into comments and be like “LET ME DO IT!” Especially when it’s a fic that’s super good at everything save for spelling, grammar, or word choice.
NO BETA WE DIE LIKE __________ NO PLEASE DONT DIE LIKE ANYONE
Fuck it. If you have tmnt 2k3 fic, especially if it’s focused on Leosagi or Leathertello and you don’t have a beta/editor, you do now. Hand it to me please. I will go at it with red pen. I have two plane rides with two layovers this weekend and I need something to do anyway.
I’ve been so tired lately that last night I had a dream of sleepily posting on this blog and ending up with an incomprehensible mess of posts. Four posts to be exact.
Two were the Exact Same screenshot of UY that were literally just Usagi’s closed eyes. Literally back to back.
The third was Leonardo’s eyes from the 2k3 shorts they did after the show finished.
And the fourth was a text post that was complete nonsense. I don’t remember the exact wording but it was something like “gonna it Usagi never” Just those four words. Nothing else.
I clearly need to get more sleep before I start posting goddamn runes on here
Oh quick addition to this dream I didn’t have time to post while getting ready for work this morning. After that absolute wild set of posts, I went to sleep, yes in the dream, and woke up after my nap with several anon asks that were just. Question marks. Like.
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Those with the little “from anonymous” thing above them. No actual questions just. Vague, questioning concern for whatever was happening to me that caused me to post several Leosagi themed riddles or whatever the fuck they were.
I’ve been so tired lately that last night I had a dream of sleepily posting on this blog and ending up with an incomprehensible mess of posts. Four posts to be exact.
Two were the Exact Same screenshot of UY that were literally just Usagi’s closed eyes. Literally back to back.
The third was Leonardo’s eyes from the 2k3 shorts they did after the show finished.
And the fourth was a text post that was complete nonsense. I don’t remember the exact wording but it was something like “gonna it Usagi never” Just those four words. Nothing else.
I clearly need to get more sleep before I start posting goddamn runes on here
Leosagi 89? Of course 💕🐇🐢
Gay (boy)friends x) 💕
It’s basically a marriage proposal.
I’m over here nearly crying at work about turtle family dynamics. Love these four lil funky ninja guys and the outsider queers they surround themselves with.
I watched Touch and Go again last night and it continues to be a banger of episode as always, for so many reasons. But during this watch I noticed something.
Mikey and Splinter are out being almost assassinated
Raphael is being chased by an angry mob
Leo… okay Leo doesn’t have that bad of a time, but he still spends time away from home, running the rooftops.
Meanwhile. While all this crazy action is happening all over NYC. Donnie is just. Chillin with his crocodile boyfriend doing funny tv repair c: you only see them like twice in the whole episode but I never thought about the time we don’t see until last night.
There’s a whole gap of time where they could be doing anything. Which okay sounds salacious when I say it like that. But honestly I think it’s funnier if we cut from Mikey and Splinter getting thrown in front of a train, to Leatherhead and Donnie, taking a break from their repairs to have a relaxing cup of tea while listening to like… classical or smooth jazz.
(I could get used to this...)
Just felt like drawing Leo relaxing in a hot spring
I get engaged and suddenly almost every WIP I’m working on I’m having Leonardo call Usagi his fiancé all over the place. Seriously, there’s one fic where he just thinks it over and over again like a lovestruck dork.
I love a character raised to be a weapon as much as the next guy. But what really gets me is a character raised to be a shield. Who can’t fathom being needed—or even being wanted— beyond keeping others safe. Who believe they are alive only to insure someone doesn’t die. no matter the cost. Characters who self-sacrifice not because they think they deserve it, but because no one else does deserve it, and it’s their job to protect.
Characters who’ve been told that’s why your important. Your worth something because this other person/ thing is important, and you are here solely to keep them safe.
Bonus points if it’s not a legitimate job they’ve been given. Maybe at one point it was, but now that they are free from it, they haven’t given up that mentality. No one is forcing or asking them to do this, but they need to. They need to in order to be deserving.
Okay this is a middle of the night odd TMNT logic thought:
Where would the Turtles even go if they decided to ever 'Move Out'?
This kinda hit me as an adjacent to if Leo and Usagi got married where would they live, but then really I couldn't help but wonder what the Turtles would do if they wanted to essentially find their own place.
Like would they just move to another part of the sewers in New York? Would they decide to live out in the woods at the Farm House or close to there? For Rise would they move to the Hidden City?
Would they go to a different world like go to Usagis world?
Or is their seperation anxiety on a level where they have a hard time with this and they literally just make a little get away place a couple blocks over, for when they feel things are just a bit much in the moment.
I've read a few different fanfiction that briefly bring this kind of thing up, but it's mostly they all move, or one of them part time lives with a significant other.
If you want to add your own ideas, go right ahead.
Because at least part of my mental work is like 'Rise Boys might move their train car somewhere else, but then come back because they miss everyone' or they kinda fixed part of the old lair, and visit every now and then.
I do have thoughts on this but I think they all do fall under the 'living part time with a significant other' type beat. Honestly though I think that as the turtles grow older they never exactly... split the family to go off to make a new family? People/mutants/etc just keep getting added to it. And in like. An immediate family way too. Raph, Mikey, and Donnie all begin to consider Usagi to be another brother eventually as one example. April is either older sister or aunt. Casey is similarly the big brother/weird uncle. BUT if the turtles ever did move. In my mind (and turtle boyfriend au) it would be: Leonardo lives part time in Usagi's world. They have a modest home there with decor, a garden, etc. Donatello and Leatherhead do just live in a different part of the underground of NYC. Though in my mind it's usually not a sewer but an abandoned NYC subway tunnel. I even like to imagine their home is just a very renovated/technologically advanced string of old subway cars. They're close enough to the old sewer lair that they visit all the time though. Most commonly for dinner! Raphael lives the farthest away (unless you wanna count the whole alternate dimension thing as farther though in my head it's always been so easy for Leo and Usagi to return to NYC via magic that Raph is the farthest in practice) since he lives on the Triceraton homeworld with Traximus. After the whole Ceraton revolution Traxi becomes a respected high-level politician and honestly Raph spends his time in the lap of alien luxury just kind of vibin. I think there might be arguments here and there about him not visiting home enough. Either from Splinter or Leo or even Mikey but he does still come home pretty frequently. I think there could be some magic involved in that process (Traximus does participate in the Battle Nexus after all, but I think Triceratons aren't as well versed in the mystic arts as say, the people from Usagi's world. So it's more of a Thing to dimension hop for them) And Mikey. Well okay. Part of my headcanons just say that Mikey never really moves out and instead Slash ends up moving into the lair and they just live there with Splinter. But I've also tossed around the idea of Mikey and Slash living much closer to the docks of NYC so they can regularly go free swimming in the Long Island Sound or Lower Bay. Near a nexus of drainage pipes or something. Which would make their situation very similar to Don and LH's. They have their own underground home that's built with help from the rest of the family (especially help from the dynamic science duo that is Leathertello)
