Y’know I don’t talk about stupid discourse shit because it tends to make me feel bad and because I do not want to surround myself with people who spend the time that they could be comforting themselves with just rambling about how they’re better than other people online and making themselves feel even more angry. I do, however, feel that I like. REALLY need to get this thought out. I’m open to constructive criticism if something is really that bad here, but I do not want anyone calling me or anyone else anything for how they feel. Ok, let’s go.

Calling people “Puriteens” is, no offense, incredibly stupid, and on a more serious note, very insensitive. To everyone in the situation.

I think it lays mostly in the word itself. One of the key parts of the word is “Teen”. Teen. You are referring to a child here. Yes, I know “Teen” is a technically broad term, but if you’re using the term, you’re probably an adult who is considerably older than the people you are talking about. In this perspective, they are children, no matter how close they are to being legally considered an adult. If you are complaining about teenagers, you are complaining about people who are significantly younger than you.

The very fact that grown adults spend their time talking about how kids are “Ruining our sacred, precious fandom spaces” is kind of like. I don’t want to sound MEAN here. I don’t want this to seem like I have any ill intent but like. Come on dude. Like, I’ll get to other stuff later but like you literally pay taxes. You have bills and rent and a job and you have to go to the doctor and get shots without someone holding your hand. While there are people who take things extremely far, I can assure you that it is not people who still have a bedtime who are truly ruining your fun. You consider yourself an “Internet veteran”, right? Block them! Report them! Chances are, because you are a fully developed and mature individual, you aren’t stuck on the thought of “Oh gosh, but what if I seem rude?!” You have the ability to adapt to new ideas and communities coming into the spaces that you once enjoyed, and you have the ability to transition into something that you’d feel more comfortable in. I could leave Amino, you can leave Twitter.

Now onto the more important aspect here, I am most certain that there are going to be people who see this and go “Dawwwwww the little minor is ‘opinionated’ how cute! The adults are talking, though, go sit at the play table with your little cousins” and I would like to say that this is part of the problem. The problem is that kids and teenagers opinions, feelings, and sometimes traumas are consistently overlooked because they are “Too young to understand what they’re talking about.” Going back to the “Internet/fandom veteran” thing, a very important thing to note is that you were once a hurt child who sought out fandom for comfort. I’m not saying everyone finds community as an escape but I have yet to encounter a single person who’s deep into fandom who also didn’t have some baggage. You were a kid once. You were a kid, and you were on your favorite websites, talking to your online friends about your favorite shows and ships, and that was the only place you truly felt safe. And because you’ve grown up now, the natural belief that all your feelings from when you were young were over exaggerated makes you think, “Anyone who does that is over exaggerating, because I was over exaggerating.”

You were not. You were a hurt child seeking comfort.

These accursed “Puriteens” are doing the exact same thing.

They’re also hurt, they’re also seeking comfort and community. They’re also trying to process how they feel.

And they don’t need to “Toughen up and accept that they’re not gonna like things” because we both know that you did not do that either. Because when you were a hurt child you were not over exaggerating and you were not holier than thou, accepting everything and everyone.

You were a hurt child. You had strong opinions. You did not want some people to be anywhere near you. That’s a normal thing.

Maybe you didn’t make callouts and maybe you didn’t cancel artists and maybe you didn’t doxx people but to be completely fair maybe not everyone is or wants to associate with criminals.

But you were discomforted by something at some point. Extremely discomforted. Discomforted because it reminded you of the exact reason why you are in this community; Because you have been hurt by something and because you want to be with people who will understand and help you.

You cannot expect children to be comfortable with everything you post or comfortable with blocking and blacklisting things as soon as they join a fandom because they are children. Maybe you don’t remember, but a developing brain is inconceivably bad at making sure everything is ok. There are so many things whirling around in the brain and they don’t want to focus on any of it, no matter how much they should take precautions. It’s possible, but it’s difficult. When you’re trying to feel comfortable, you do not want things to be difficult.

I’m not here to say that I have the answer to every single ounce of fandom discourse. I’m not here to say that all of one group is horrible or that all of one group is innocent.

But you’re talking about kids that you once were like. You need to consider how you felt when you were younger and you need to consider that this is literally the exact same thing.

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

Wally but in Lesley’s costume?…

yeah, i think that can work:

this took HOURS to draw 💀

✏️ 🎵 🍎 🗝️ 🏡 🌀:) 💖 ⏰💡☁️ 🌈

hope you like it ^^

the teddy bear of a man. chomp chomp chomp

he looks so vampy in these photos;; i’m so in love

‘Twas inspired by @whosectype’s meet the artist

Om nom nom

I think I vaguely remember that achilles screamed and cried so loud that thetis was able to hear him from the depths of the sea. I feel like gotham villains would feel a collective jolt out of nowhere 😔 (and tim amd Alfred might feel a bit of an ache in their hearts💔)

… Pls I still need to actually write that part how am I supposed to do that when I’m a sobbing little pile on the floor omg 😭😭😭😭

*grasping my fellow like-minded Kuro fans by the shoulders* Listen to me, comrades…we are NOT going to tolerate attempts to make The Cursed Ship popular and widely-accepted on this platform again, or misgendering of our lady Grelle Sutcliff, or sliding backwards into the mire of fandom toxicity, in the wake of this new anime announcement. We 🔥 are 🔥 not. 🔥

That’s him, officer, that’s the inhuman neurodivergent-coded character with a deep emotional connection to their found family that they don’t express in conventional ways that’s making me cry, jail him, do it now-

I’m gonna try and keep this as non spoiler-ey as I can, but one thing about Mutant Mayhem that I appreciated was that the sewers felt lonely. Every iteration of tmnt makes the lair feel lonely and isolated at times because the turtles are literally forced into hiding (except for Rise, their lair always felt like a home).

But in MM they took extra steps to make the space feel cramped and dark, no major lighting source aside from lamps, candles, and phone lights. Warm colors are scarce in the sewer and the pipes and valves take away any space they could’ve have had, not just in their home but everywhere in the sewers. It actually makes you not want to be in the sewers, because it’s all cold. Even the bars of the sewer grate look like prison bars! Every time they close the manhole cover it sounds like a door being slammed, like they are sealing themselves away.

Obviously this changes, and MM isn’t the first to do this, but it’s the first time watching anything TMNT related that I actually felt uncomfortable in the space that was supposed to be their home.

the second that first training scene with luke and percy come on i knew the edits of this episode were gonna be lethal

it’s all the rest of what i want with you

connor dewar/brandon duhaime :: 8k

Summary:

“Brandon,” Connor says with a sigh. “There’s no baby in there.”

“Not yet,” Brandon says. Connor feels his stomach twist, almost like what he would imagine a baby kicking to feel like.

in these trying times of dewvorce, may i offer you 8k of pwp inspired by @stillfertile’s wonderful art which i had. several breakdowns about 🫶 anyway please enjoy!!!

Got myself some new pen nibs! And drew some miwi. It’s kinda funny that I started drawing winter themed stuff because A. It’s October and B. I’m pretty sure I did the same thing last year. The power of miwi; making me want to draw winter stuff in October.

steve is all ‘ok but haven’t you ever watched jaws?’ when billy takes him surfing for the first time and ends up getting a full blown lecture from billy about how misunderstood sharks are

A little Star 🌟