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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Volume 6: Reptiles. Written by Bernard Grzimek. 1984. Illustration by Helmut Diller.
1.) European swamp turtle (Emys orbicularis)
2.) Painted turtle (Chrysemys picta)
3.) Caspian turtle (Mauremys caspica)
4.) Ringed sawback (Graptemys oculifera)
5.) Spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata)
6.) Spiny turtle (Heosemys spinosa)
7.) Common box turtle (Terrapene carolina)
8.) Red-eared turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans)
#reptiles#turtles#european swamp turtles#painted turtles#caspian turtles#ringed sawback turtles#spotted turtles#spiny turtles#common box turtles#red-eared sliders#Helmut Diller
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Kept forgetting the lil dude's name and wasn't satisfied with the concept anyway so ended up reworking Riker, the lil gecko boy!
He's now called Cas for the Caspian sea and he's a sea turtle! Still a pirate fan, though (I absolutely adore the idea of Espio's kid preferring pirates over ninjas. Also him being a turtle is definitely not a turtles joke)
(Can already imagine Espio going "Don't you think that 'ninja turtle' has a nice ring to it?" lol)
Also Imma leave his background ambiguous, they just kinda find him doing small robberies or something around town and end up adopting him. Might also drop the blind eye thing, idk yet.
The couple's adult designs are most likely gonna change later but at least the idea's out there. Kiddo happens around 10 years into the future. Also kinda wanna think what a chameleon-arctic fox hybrid would look like. Fluffy or scaley? Both? I am intrigued
#espio the chameleon#sonic oc#slushie the arctic fox#sonic oc x canon#oc x canon#sonic oc/canon#cas the sea turtle#caspian the sea turtle#another one joining this mess of a family#also big bro charmy!#he'd be 16 so a big boyo#SDB art#SDB rambles#sluspio
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I got bored on a road trip and figured I don’t make enough object head characters. So everyone, meet my newest OC, Caspian! His turtle’s name is Ocean haha!
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Gold Turtle Necklace from Ancient Colchis (modern-day Georgia/South Caucasus) c. 450 BCE: this necklace was crafted from 31 turtle-shaped pendants, each one made of g0ld
The necklace was discovered during excavations at a site known as Vani, in Georgia (the country, not the state). Ancient Vani once served as the religious and administrative center for the Kingdom of Colchis; as I've previously discussed, Colchis was also known as the homeland of the fabled Golden Fleece, and to much of the ancient world, the Colchians themselves were renowned for their skills in goldsmithing.
The turtle pendants on this necklace are all decorated with ornate filigree and granulation patterns. The eyes of the 30 smaller turtles were originally made with glass inlay, while the eyes of the largest turtle (seen in the center) were made from drops of gold.
As this article also notes (translated from Georgian):
[This necklace] is unique because of the zoomorphic depiction that it presents. Among the known examples of goldsmithing from antiquity, the depiction of a turtle is not attested anywhere other than the Vani necklace.
The local origin of the necklace is primarily indicated by the stylistic unity of the pendants with other examples of Colchian goldsmithing. It should be noted that the land turtle depicted on the pendants was widespread in Colchis.
The excavations at Vani have uncovered lots of other artifacts made by Colchian goldsmiths. These artifacts include temple ornaments, zoomorphic figures, pieces of jewelry, diadems, headdresses, hairpins, drinking vessels, and appliqués, among other things, and they've provided some really valuable insights into the unique goldsmithing traditions that existed among the peoples of Colchis -- and the myths that evolved as a result.
A few of the other golden artifacts from Vani:
Top: headdress ornament featuring an openwork design, c. 350-300 BCE; the central panel of this piece depicts a stag and three other deer, while the frame is topped by two lions and several rows of birds; Bottom: a diadem with a set of temple ornaments, c. 400-350 BCE; all of the panels along the front of the diadem depict scenes of prey animals being hunted by lions
Top: necklace with a series of ram-shaped pendants, c. 400-350 BCE; each pendant was forged from two separate castings that were sealed together to form a complete shape, and the ears/horns were then soldered onto each piece; Bottom: set of bracelets with boar finials, c. 460-440 BCE
Golden appliqués depicting various animals, c. 400-300 BCE
Set of temple ornaments that depict two pairs of riders on horseback, c. 400-350 BCE
And a map showing the location of modern-day Georgia (just for reference):
As this map illustrates, Georgia is nestled right at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, with the Black Sea located on one side and the Caspian not far from the other; it is bordered by Russia to the North and by Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan to the South
Sources & More Info:
National Geographic (Georgian): Golden Kolkheti
Atinati: The Golden Kingdom of Colchis
Smithsonian: Summary of "Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice: the Golden Graves of Ancient Vani" Exhibition
Burusi (Georgian): The Archaeological Discoveries at Vani
Quaternary International: A Modern Field Investigation of the Mythical “Gold Sands” of Ancient Colchis and the “Golden Fleece” Phenomena
#archaeology#history#artifact#ancient history#georgia#sakartvelo#colchis#kolkheti#vani#gold#turtle#jewelry#golden fleece#goldsmithing#south caucasus#mythology#art#applique
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decided to finally post about my rottmnt OC, Artemis! She's still a work in progress, so I'll just list about what I have about her so far
She's a Caspian Pond Turtle
She was raised by Baron Draxum under his teachings and ways
She was mutated in the same ooze that was used to mutate Splinter and the turtles, but after Draxum's lab was destroyed she was technically abandoned for a while. But after Draxum revisited his lab to attempt to recover what he'd lost he discovered her
gets separated from Draxum at some point and meets and befriends the turtles
like I said, she's still a WIP, so yea stay tuned for more Artemis! :D
additional drawings + a full body of her
#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#baron draxum#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt oc#tmnt oc#tmnt#teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt fandom#tmnt fanart
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26...+29? 👀
for you? sure.
twenty-six: you're so warm
twenty-nine: you're everything to me
They pick places at random: a few weeks in Florence, some time in Stockholm. They go to the Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea. Ava finds gelato everywhere they go and always orders their most and least popular flavor, giving the shop owners her honest opinions. She finds the most kitschy shop she can and buys postcards and terrible mugs and t-shirts. I'm building a collection, she tells Beatrice after every purchase. Ava loves it and Beatrice loves Ava, even if she feels like their luggage is made up of lime green t-shirts with the Eiffel Tower on it and misshapen mugs with when life gives you lemons make avgolemono written on them.
Ava loves it. Beatrice loves her. That's all there is to it.
They stay in hostels - for the experience, Bea - and take the cheapest sleeper cars on the trains. It's cramped on a good night and practically uninhabitable on the bad ones. But somehow, Beatrice doesn't mind this either. It gives her every excuse she doesn't need to pull Ava close, tangle their legs together, and curl her hands into the back of Ava's sleep shirt.
Because she doesn't need an excuse. They're not hiding anymore - not from anything, including each other.
Ava picked Valencia a few days ago off their worn map. She found it in a secondhand store in Brussels. The woman warned that it was outdated, but Ava called it exciting and happily handed over too many euros before bustling Beatrice off to see the Atomium, something she read about in the back of a magazine left behind on their last train ride.
The map takes up more than half of their bed-for-the-night, hanging over the sides of it. Ava screws her eyes shut and swirls her finger in a circle before jabbing it down at the map. They're closer to Cat's Cradle than they have been in months and Beatrice wonders if she picked Valencia on purpose, if she knows Beatrice is missing Camila and Yasmine. But she's Ava, so of course she knows. And Beatrice knows Ava feels the same.
They had spent the morning walking through Valencia and then all afternoon at L'Oceanogràfic. They went for the turtles - and then we'll do a fancy dinner, promise. A sit down kind - but Beatrice knew it would be more than just the turtles. It would be the jellyfish and the penguins and dolphins.
And it was. They spent an hour outside the penguins habitat while Ava talked to the aquarium worker in perfect Spanish, asking about migration patterns and what penguins liked to eat more, krill or cotton candy. Beatrice watched in amusement. No matter where they went, someone fell in love with Ava, charmed by her easy smile; and someone was always left brokenhearted when they packed their things and headed off to their next destination. But today, Ava had even managed to get them back behind the Employee Only door to see the penguins closer.
Ava insisted they take a selfie with a penguin named Yago so they could send it to Mother Superion. From one nun to another, Ava declared. Beatrice neatly stole the phone out of her hand before she could hit the send message button. They agreed on Camila.
She sits on the edge of the twin bed they're sharing and stretches her arms above her head, listening to the soft pop and rolling it back into place. Ava is carefully packing away her latest find, a L'Oceanogràfic mug with a penguin on it, but looks up at the noise.
"Shoulder bothering you?" She doesn't wait for Beatrice's answer, immediately reaching out to rub at the muscle between her shoulder and the blade. "You should have said."
Beatrice lets her head drop to her chest, eyes closing in relief. "It didn't hurt before now."
She hears Ava tut behind her. Her fingers dig a little deeper. "Do you want to pick the next place?"
Beatrice opens one eye, looking back a little. "We're leaving already?"
"Well, no. I still want to see Bioparc Zoo. They have giraffes."
Beatrice hides a small smile. "I'm sure they have an excellent collection of coffee mugs."
"They do, I saw-" Ava stops herself, hands pausing. "You're making fun of me."
Beatrice rolls her neck back, looking up at Ava upside down. "I am."
Ava scowls playfully and leans down, pressing a kiss to the space between Beatrice's eyes. She opens her mouth to say something but yawns instead, her dark eyes suddenly looking tired. She lets her hands drop from Bea's back and pushes her way back towards the head of the bed.
Beatrice watches her. So many things are different now, light years away from their apartment in the Alps, but this is still the same: Ava lifts her legs and pulls the top of the blanket out from under her, she slides both legs under, she shimmies down until her head is resting on her arms, and she looks expectantly at the other side of the bed.
What has changes is this: Beatrice doesn't hesitate.
Ava sighs as she settles into bed next to her, immediately rolling to the side so they're pressed together, knee to knee, nose to nose. Ava grins, the ends of her growing hair tickling Beatrice's chin.
"Have I told you how much I love this?" she whispers.
Beatrice smiles back. "Only twice every city."
"I've always wanted to do this. Travel the world. Get out of that room and experience life. And when the Halo found me, I thought I had a second chance to do all of that." Ava runs a fingertip down over the bridge of Beatrice's nose. "I'm finally getting to do it. And with you."
She shudders at Ava's touch and her cheeks flush. "Well, you could have done this with anyone," she says, ducking away from Ava's piercing attention.
"But I want to do it with you." Ava meets her eyes, holds them for a moment before she says, just loud enough that Beatrice can hear it over the sound of her heart pounding in her chest, "You're everything to me. If we went back right now, never went on another adventure, I'd still be satisfied, because I was with you."
She inhales sharply. Ava says these things so casually, as if she doesn't know how a simple sentence can dismantle all the hard work her parents did closing her off. But then, Ava probably does know. Ava probably works harder than her parents did to bring them back down.
Ava pulls Beatrice's arms around her, wiggles her way until Beatrice's chin and hums happily. "And also, you're warm."
Beatrice laughs unexpectedly and feels Ava grin against her collarbone. "Am I?"
"Better than those hot water bottles Sister Frances begrudgingly put into my bed on the nights where the heat went out." She feels Ava's scowl now and smooths it away with a hand through Ava's hair. "A better shape, too. An Ava-shape."
"An Ava-shape," she repeats. She feels Ava's cold toes press against her shin. "What is that?"
Ava scoffs. "The perfect shape for me to fit in, obviously."
"Yes, of course," she says lightly. She tips her head down slightly, touches her lips to the crown of Ava's head. "Goodnight, Ava."
Ava smiles again, pressing a kiss to her hollow of her throat. "Goodnight, Bea."
In the morning, they'll go to Bioparc and Ava will charm someone else into letting them touch a giraffe and they'll leave with a too-large t-shirt that Ava will wear to bed and Beatrice will pretend to protest when Ava makes her take a selfie with an elephant.
But Ava loves it. And Beatrice loves Ava. That's all there is to it.
#warrior nun#avatrice#ava silva#sister beatrice#i am literally delirious does this make sense? i read it three times#but what the pocket friends want the pocket friends get#so i was glad to write this#and honestly ava charming someone into meeting penguins is not outside of the 'what would ava silva do' realm#byeeee
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Tagging Games!
Rules: After answering the questions, tag followers/friends who you want to get to know better.
Tagged by no one. I saw this on my dash and wanted to spread some happiness and fun.
Nickname: CeCe ☀️
Gender: Female
Zodiac: Taurus ♉️
Meyers Briggs: INFJ
Enneagram Type: 4w3 (The Aristocrat)
Moral Alignment: Neutral Good
Hogwarts House: Slytherpuff (too torn to choose my halves, sorry not sorry. But I usually wear Slytherin merch and have a Puff soul.)
Favourite Color: I’m an artist so if you ask me what favourite colour I have, the answer will probably always be different. But some form of blue that matches the ocean is a regular.
Time now: 4:28 pm
Last Thing I Googled: I was so worried this would be weird; but it was the lyrics to ‘This Love’ by Taylor Swift
What is your bed like? A weighted blanket (‘cause your girl is autistic) and a velvet comforter (because I’m a queen) and a throw blanket with mushrooms on it (because I belong in the Spring Court) and a plushie that looks like a Plague Doctor
Favourite Band: VOILÀ
Favourite Solo Artist: Taylor Swift, Maisie Peters
What is your current favorite song? Either Something Blue by Voila or Grace by Rachel Platten
Current celebrity crush? Luke Eisner
Dream trip: Somewhere with wide open spaces and a lot of history. Travelling by myself, but meeting other people. Paris, Rome
What is the best compliment you’ve ever received?
“You are the most self-motivated person to grow and heal that I have ever met.”
“If my child grew up to be like you, I would be very proud.”
The best book you read this year: The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
The best book you read last year: Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
How many projects are you working on? One original novel, one fanfiction novella, and five more one-shots for Tamlin Week.
What hobbies are you most skilled in?
Writing, photography, sketching
How long have you been doing them?
Fifteen years, five years, three years
What TV shows or films made a positive impact on your life?
Law and Order: SVU, Bones, Arrow, Supergirl, Sofia the First, Ever After High,
What is a movie that you’ve seen more than I’ve times?
Penelope, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Prince Caspian, Barbie and the Island Princess
What do you like to post? Right now, mostly writing, and the Tamlin loving side of ACOTAR.
What is the hardest part of your life right now?
Either my job or living at least two hours away from all of my immediate family.
What is the best?
My roommate, my writing, and finally finding a community excited about reading my stories.
Tagged:
@lorcandidlucienwill @siriuslytamlin @sonics-atelier @ladymidnight-goesforth @praetorqueenreyna @cecexwrites
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Hi! Congratulations!!
I have actually just found your account and I couldn't find a character list but I checked someone of your asks and I think you write for all of these fandoms but if you don't I'm sorry.
⚓ - Send this with a description of yourself with the fandom(s) you want a ship for! Could I get this with Harry Potter (lighting era please), Narnia, Stanger Things, and Shadow and Bone, please?
I'm a straight female.
Physical: I'm 5'3 and a bit on the chubby side. I have blue eyes and light brown hair with blonde highlights. I have pale skin and freckles under my eyes and across my nose and I wear glasses.
Hobbies: reading, learning, archery, being outside, and spending time with my family.
Personality: I'm kind but I can be blunt and kind of rude without meaning to. I'm very sarcastic and sassy. I can get on people's nerves easily because I don't really get upset when someone says something about me and I'm a peacemaker. I'm an introvert and my harry potter house is Ravenclaw. I'm quiet but I'm not shy. I'm a major homebody. I hate drama, it always gives me anxiety.
Likes: Learning (especially history), music, candles, animals, my stuffed animals, this one scrunchie that I have used for the last four years, Disney, reading, cuddling with my cat, sleeping, going on walks/hikes
random facts:
snakes are my biggest fear. whenever I see them I laugh and cry at the same time.
I laugh when I'm freaked out
I'm homeschooled and I'm Christian
I treat my cat like he is my child
I use jokes (my sarcasm) as a coping thing and a few people thought that I was super rude for it
Yes! I write for the first three! Here they are dear!
First I ship you with Ron Weasley! 🧡
He is a bit alarmed about you laughing when you are freaked out from the spider you find in the forest during detention in your 2nd year to when you saw thestrals for the first time but he gets used to it
He loves seeing you with animals especially your cat seeing how attached and how much you truly care for him always taking pictures when he sees you holding or petting an animal most of the pictures are you asleep with your cat on you or just the two of you with your cat on your lap playing with him
He likes how despite being quiet a lot of the time you talk quite a bit when you're with him and his friends always talking, laughing, and smiling with the three
He always makes sure if there is a snake somewhere even in the greenhouse garden he always carefully takes it outside mostly near the fountains despite him being scared so you wouldn't find it due to your fear of snakes
He likes to share his snacks with you even getting a little extra from lunch and dinner feasts so before you go to bed you meet up and go to your hideout near and the Gryffindor common room and eat together for a couple of minutes
He always meets you next to the gardens or the great hall to study helping each other especially with the subjects you have trouble with
Next I ship you with Prince Caspian! 🩵
He likes to watch you accept people as they are being true friends to them and being such a wonderful human
He always brings flowers to you even small ones around Narnia he is always making a big bouquet of them and giving them to you
He likes to take you to the beach known as the spot always enjoying how you watch the ocean and swim freely getting shells and helping turtles get in the water
He always feels his heart soar when he stops to see your eyes light up in the sun especially when you're on the beach standing in front of the ocean
He likes to see you wear his shirts always smiling when he walks in your shared bedroom after being away to see you asleep under the covers in his shirt
He likes to bathe with you always just holding you to him enjoying and cherishing the skin to skin contact every time never wanting to let you go until the water runs cold
Finally I ship you with Eddie Munson! 🖤
He never judges or is offended by your sarcasm and jokes actually laughing and following with a joke after leaving you both a laughing mess
He is at first apprehensive when he finds out he has feelings for you due to your christian background after being together for a bit and meeting your family he realizes not only people who are religious are crazy or scary
He brings you candles he finds at a store, his uncle's house, or from one of his friends giving them to you leading to a long collection of many scents of candles in your bedroom and his
He likes to put your glasses on himself if you're sad or having a bad day just to look over and see him making some face with your glasses making you laugh everytime
He likes watching movies with you from the horror movies that he likes that scare you sometimes and the disney movies you love and he soon grows to love with you
He likes to watch you play his guitars whether you know how to play or not he will teach you and just lay next to you listening to you strum a song on his guitar
#700 followers celebration#eddie munson x reader#prince caspian#ron weasley x reader#follower celebration#eddie munson#ron weasley#prince caspian x reader#judgementdaysunshine's 700 followers celebration#judgementdaysunshine
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A crossover no one asked for:
What Miraculous i would assign Fable SMP characters + Headcannons
(This is set so they have the ability more than the costumes)
• Rae: Ladybug - Creation
• Sherbert: Cat - Destruction
• Wil: Ox - Determination
• Momboo: Peacock - Emotion
• Centross: Goat - Passion
• Athena: Pig - Jubilation
• Ven: Bee - Subjection
• Seven: Snake - Intuition
• Easton: Mouse - Multiplication
• Ocie: Tiger - Elation
• Caspian: Horse - Teleportation
• Chaos: Monkey - Derision
• Hayley: Rabbit - Evolution (temporarily)
• Ulysses (From Telkins): Butterfly - Transmission
• Arisanna: Turtle - Protection
• Aax: Dragon - Perfection
• Wolf: Dog - Adoration
• Jamie: Rooster - Pretension
Headcannons:
• Rae would risk wielding multiple miraculous at a time, even if they couldn't handle it or one was broken
• Caspian got his miraculous later. When they found it, Rae wanted to give it to Cas so if he was ever in a situation like the prison again, he'd have a safe way out back home. Also he could stop getting lost.
• After his work with Enderian, Centross didn't use his miraculous often and after he accidentally killed Chaos, he renounced ownership of it. He wore it again once he learned the truth and for the Warden fight but went back to not using it much after the reset.
• Sherbert would be the one to figure out how to make the "power-ups"
• Momboo made sentimonsters to watch over her kids and friends
• Will was given his miraculous by his dad to help protect him
• Athena and Jamie are making all the best food for the kwamis
• Sherbert renounced their miraculous after Corruption. It took them a while to wear it again, but they didnt use it. After they got their memories back in S2 they didn't want to use their miraculous again for a while.
• The Rabbit miraculous fell with the Aether and Hayley found it in Purgatory. She didn't come back with it though
• During Season one, (corrupted) Sherbert tried to "task" Seven with using Second Chance during the tower fight. He made the decision not to.
• Parts of the Grimoire are scattered in libraries
• Athena's miraculous broke, thus making them get sick. They were able to repair the miraculous and heal them in time, but Athena still needs a cane to walk.
• Perix had the Fox miraculous and would offer its power to those that helped her. After they defeated her, everyone agreed to keep it safe, only wearing for times of complete necessary. It remains inactive.
• To make sure Sherbert couldn't Cataclysm their way out of prison (season 1) Seven temporarily held the Dog miraculous and used its power to take Sherberts ring.
• Even though he wouldn't have used it, Sherbert took Centross' miraculous off him during his Prison 2.0 time.
• Caspian uses his miraculous to take Rae and Aax to cute fate places.
• Caspian still isn't good with directions and using the horse miraculous actually makes it worse, since he's going straight from A to B rather than knowing where to go to get there
• Rae attempted to fix the End Islands with the Ladybug miraculous, but had to learn that it doesn't work like that
• Will's miraculous was one of the main reasons he was able to survive attacks in the Ominous Bane fight.
• Sherbert is a secondary/ temporary holder of the Rooster miraculous and used the Monkey to try Quixes research
• Momboo confiscated Jamie's miraculous when going into the bunker
• They had only heard of the Butterfly miraculous but when they met Ulysses they finally got to see it
• Arisanna uses her miraculous a little aggressively (trapped Rae in it when they first met)
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Okay guys, I almost finished Donatello but I drew two style of his pattern
#1- in the first one, he usually has a spots as like the other turtles
#2- in the second one he has liners like Rise!Leo from his character design but actually he’s a caspian turtle (inspired by Rise of teenage mutant ninja turtles lol)
So which one is best? put #1 or #2 in comment and describe why, I’ll like to read it. Maybe I should change their species? It seems very boring
@kawaiibunga @narwals14 @janna-the-breaker @sivy-chan-blog @turtlesmakemehappy and others
#my art#comics art#tmnt donnie#character design tmnt#tmntwos#teenage mutant ninja turtles warriors of shadows
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Ik I haven’t really talked about this anywhere except on discord but my personal tmnt iteration
Gen:T
Leo is a black knobbed map turtle
Raph an African helmeted turtle
Donnie a caspian pond turtle
And Mikey a false map turtle
They are the true reason I never get anything done and now that I finally finalized their designs they’ll be all I talk about, thank you
#tmnt#Gen:T tmnt#Gen:T#tk’s midnight art#I will end up flooding my profile with art of them#cause I have so much qued up that I never shared
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Hesitating between a northern diamond terrapin turtle and caspian pond turtle for casey
screw it !
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Olivia Rodrigo's generational influence
Jay Caspian Kang writes an article for The New Yorker titled ‘Why Gen X Dads Can Appreciate Olivia Rodrigo’. He initially introduces the connection he has with his daughter, as they both are able to enjoy the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) movie in a way that is relevant to both of their individual childhoods, despite their childhoods having taken place decades apart, due to what he would describe as ‘era-hopping’. By ‘era-hopping’ he’s referring to when media bounces between time periods, the TMNT franchise has continuously produced media since the release of the original 1987 series, therefore, remaining relevant to the younger generations of the past and present. Olivia Rodrigo achieves this same ‘era-hopping’, however, in a little bit of a different way, which I will outline throughout this text.
Kang makes this same link to Olivia Rodrigo’s music as her Sophomore Album ‘Guts’ has just released this past Friday (8th September 2023). He describes listening to the album as “the feeling of being sprayed with a nostalgia hose”, for those born between 1972 and 1985. Due to the album’s likeness to artists such as Wheezer, Bikini Kill, No Doubt, Green Day, and Blondie. Kang also addresses that fact that while other modern artists also draw inspiration from the past of music, Rodrigo does it in a way that makes you wonder if it was her intention or not. He also suggests, many artists are compared to a single other musician or band such a Greta Van Fleet who are constantly compared to Led Zeppelin. Whereas Rodrigo seems to draw inspiration from a plethora of artists, both across the entire album and within individual songs.
While Rodrigo has a talent for creating music that draws upon artists and music of the past, this is a double-edged sword for her career and credibility. Following the release of Rodrigo’s debut album Sour she later added additional writing credits onto the songs ‘Déjà vu’, ‘1 step forward, 3 steps back’, and ‘Good 4 u’. Taylor Swift and her co-writers (Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent) claimed that ‘Déjà vu’ shared similarities to Swift’s ‘Cruel Summer’ and the same for ‘1 step forward, 3 steps back’ and Swift’s ‘New Year’s Day’, which they were awarded writing credit for. Hayley William’s Paramore did the same for the song ‘Good 4 u’ claiming its similarity to ‘Misery Business’, which she too was awarded credits for (and Paramore ex-guitarist Josh Farro).
Contrastingly, upon accusations that Rodrigo included a guitar riff in her song ‘Brutal’ from Elvis Costello’s ‘Pump It Up’, Costello chose not to pursue claims. He stated on Twitter “This is fine by me” and “It’s how rock & roll works. You take the broken pieces of another thrill and make a brand-new toy”. Which is an opinion that many agreed with, particularly as people found the accusations made about Rodrigo’s music to be unfairly preying on the success of a young and upcoming artist. While credit should be given where it is due, I think there is a lot to debate about where the line should be drawn.
While Rodrigo’s music does not remind me of the music that was popularly on the radio throughout my childhood, it does remind me of the music my parents played as I was growing up. So, while I was not alive during the time periods that Rodrigo’s music references (nor was she), I am able to recognise the nostalgia that Kang references in his article. The article itself also pulls on my heart strings a little, as Kang discusses his experience listening as a father to a young girl, something that is bittersweet for me as I lost my father at a young age. Kang has allowed me to imagine that my dad and I would have been able to listen to the album Guts together, through the commonality we could find in her music’s sound and lyricism.
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𝚃𝙰𝚂𝙺 𝟸𝟻; 𝙽𝙴𝚇𝚃 𝙶𝙴𝙽.
CASPIAN MCQUEEN.
when they say like father like son they were talking about caspian mcqueen. caspian, like his dad in his younger years, is an absolute menace. he’s a troubled kid to his core. not because of his parents’ divorce or middle kid syndrome, but because of his powers. for year he spent time running away from his problems, only to cause problems in the long run. he’s now learning that facing them head on the bravest ( and smartest ) thing he can do. when he’s not playing with the band you’ll find him out at sea with the love of his life, hallie.
INSPIRED BY : danny fenton / phantom ( danny phantom ) , percy jackson ( percy jackson ) , leonardo ( rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles ) , shawn hunter ( boy meets world ) , stiles stilinski ( teen wolf ) , steve harrington ( stranger things ) , klaus hargreeves ( the umbrella academy ) , denki kamanari ( my hero academia )
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BIRTH NAME. caspian sawyer mcqueen
NICKNAMES. cas
DATE OF BIRTH. may 27.
AGE. twenty-six.
GENDER. cis male.
PRONOUNS. he/him
SPECIES. human.
POWERS. ability to speak to and see ghosts. full powers here.
SEXUALITY. bisexual
PLACE OF BIRTH. elias, california.
CURRENT RESIDENCE. elias, california.
OCCUPATION. bass player for paradise on the horizon
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HEIGHT. 5'9"
BUILD. toned.
HAIR COLOUR/STYLE. brunette and curly when it grows out.
EYE COLOUR. blue.
PIERCINGS. right ear. he wears a little sword earring.
TATTOOS. x.
NOTABLE MARKINGS. white streak in his hair he gained from dying and coming back to life.
GLASSES/CONTACTS ? neither.
FACECLAIM. brandon flynn.
VOICECLAIM. brandon flynn with like a slight british dialect. ( X )
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PHYSICAL AILMENTS. none.
ALLERGIES. none.
SLEEPING HABITS. his sleeping habits are terrible.
EXERCISE HABITS. he surfs, boxes, swims and skateboards.
EMOTIONAL STABILITY. 6/10.
BODY TEMPERATURE. he’s ice cold.
DOMINANT HAND. right.
DRUGS / SMOKE / ALCOHOL ? no / weed / yes
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POSITIVE TRAITS. witty, funny, compassionate, laid-back, passionate
NEGATIVE TRAITS. refuses to take things seriously, immature, sarcastic, easily checks out.
USUAL MOOD. energized.
LIKES. sharks, skateboarding, gummy snacks, giving dante gray hair, being out at sea, his mother’s adventure stories, pirates, surfing with his dad, making pasta with mama and then eating it, nail polish, pirates, traveling with hallie, jam sessions with the band, swords
DISLIKES. feeling uncomfortable in any sense, disappointing the people he loves, when dante humbles him, when nina reads his mind, being lectured, having to be a big brother ( that’s what dante’s for ), living in his father’s and brother’s shadow, sunburns, when ghosts bother him at inconvenient times, ectoplasm episodes
BAD HABITS. going awol without telling anyone, being inconsiderate of others feelings, not dealing with problems, doesn’t apply himself
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MOTHER. elizabeth swann, step mom fran bernoulli
FATHER. montgomery mcqueen
SIBLINGS. dante, elise, nina, athena, stefan, enzo & serafina mcqueen
CHILDREN. none.
BIRTH ORDER. third of too many kids // first child of monty & lizzie.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER. hallie santucci, partner in holy matrimony
CLOSEST FRIENDS. percy hawkins, flynn fitzherbert, katrina skellington, sofia paguro-scrofano, this could be you !
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ZODIAC SIGN. gemini.
MBTI. entp
TEMPERAMENT. sagninue-melanholic.
HOGWARTS HOUSE. gryffindor.
MORAL ALIGNMENT. chaotic good.
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LANGUAGES SPOKEN. english, italian & spanish.
DRIVE ? yes, speed he is speed.
JUMP START A CAR ? yes.
CHANGE A FLAT TIRE ? yes.
RIDE A BICYCLE ? yes .... but motorcycles are cooler don’t tell his dad.
SWIM ? yes, are you joking me he lives in the ocean basically.
PLAY AN INSTRUMENT ? yes, it’s like his profession.
PLAY CHESS ? no.
BRAID HAIR ? yes, his sisters forced him to.
TIE A TIE ? yes.
PICK A LOCK ? yes.
SEW ? no.
COMPASSION. 8/10.
EMPATHY. 7/10.
CREATIVITY. 7/10.
MENTAL FLEXIBILITY. 6/10.
PASSION. 10/10.
LUCK. 5/10.
MOTIVATION. 5/10.
EDUCATION. 10/10.
INTELLIGENCE. 7/10.
CHARISMA. 9/10.
REFLEXES. 7/10.
WILLPOWER. 5/10.
STAMINA. 8/10.
PHYSICAL STRENGTH. 7/10.
BATTLE SKILL. 5/10.
INITIATIVE. 5/10.
RESTRAINT. 5/10.
STRATEGY. 4/10.
TEAM WORK. 5/10.
( PINTEREST, HIS TAG, PLAYLIST. )
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@seasaltsurvivor sent: [ stare ] while receiver gazes out a window, sender comes up from behind and embraces them
the summer solstice has barely gone as the beginning of july entraps panem. tomorrow is the day that is circled on everyone's calendar. capitolites begin their countdown until twenty-four fight to the death ; people from districts simply observe as a state of mourning is unavoidable and dashing at them. at twenty-five, it still rattles annie cresta. not even the summer sun bleeding into the soft pink and blue horizon that eventually meets the sea can steer her attention from the impending dread. there's a small comfort though in seeing a group of young friends frolicking in the corner of her eye. they're safe this year. maybe these joyful strangers will be aged out by the seventy-sixth. annie only hopes.
parents don't need to hold their children extra tight tonight. mind saunters like a sea breeze to a house only a few doors down to the one exception. if she knows of rose's intention of volunteering, natalia definitely does. ( does finn know ? ) being one of two people who can draw her thoughts away in a moment, it's unsurprising that odair wanders into the room just as effortlessly as he does into annie's mind. his arms wrap around her frame, and she welcomes it. " hey, " she greets softly. the sun might still be flickering above the water, but it's close to nine. their son is fast asleep. and even if walls are thick made from fine materials provided by the government, she'll always be mindful of their little cas.
finnick is warm as his skin had been kissed by the sun's rays today. father, mother, and son enjoyed the beach together today. caspian looked for shells and attempted to help baby turtles. ( babbles of encouragement and grabby toddler hands are best means of getting the animals to the loch ! ) giggles and grins galore trailed out of him, blissfully unaware of what tomorrow brings. annie prays he keeps those rose colored glasses to match his cheeks for as long as possible.
breathing finn in, it's like the ocean clung to him knowing that he leaves for the city tomorrow. the waters are a cruel mistress, incredibly jealous unlike her. ( though annie is guilty of wanting to keep him near to her and far from the capitol. ) specifically, it's the freshness of the salt that sprays over land from the tide that nips at the shore. it smells of home in the same way her better half and their sweet son felt like home. she leans into his embrace. " do you think he'll do okay ? cas hasn't had us both gone for this long before, " she openly ponders. the hands that will cradle the little guppy are safe and trusted ones. but if the young parents blink, what will they miss in that time away from caspian ? ( if only either knew what was to come. )
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Thoughts about Paladin Characters.
Androxus - Meh, just meh.
Ash - She's alright.
Atlas - Annoying to go against his rewinding time crap.
Azaan - Love his design and his ultimate ability.
Barik - He's just a Scottish Torbjorn, so- He gets an "okay" from me.
Betty La Bomba - No comment...
Bomb King - I don't know much about him, but I like his design.
Buck - I like him.
Caspian - I like him, too.
Cassie - I wanna pet her birb bird.
Corvus - I like his design. I didn't know he was a support character until now. XD
Dredge - Cervantes with the mind flayer gun? Right- Uh, he's alright.
Drogoz - Drake Pharah? I like draconic creatures, so he's pretty cool to me.
Evie - No.
Fernando - Ehh.
Furia - I like her design.
Grohk - He's pretty cool.
Grover - Oh, you mean "Groot" right? He's alright.
Imani - I love playing as her! I really need to practice getting her ultimate ability right.
Inara - Oh, the stone lady with 1,000,000 HP? Her design looks cool, but she's annoying to fight against.
Io - Never played as her, but she's alright.
Jenos - Yeeeah, buddy. He's great. I love him. He's my main anyway.
Khan - Reinhardt with a gun. Alright, cool. Next-
Kinessa - She's cool. I guess.
Koga - I don't even know. He's a ninja guy with Vega's claw and Sombra's gun... He's okay???
Lex - Never played as him, but he's alright.
Lian - Her design is cool, but her gun design looks weird to me. I don't know why.
Lillith - I love her and her design. I might try to play as her next.
Maeve - Small, but dangerous.
Makoa - Turtle Winston and Roadhog hybrid. That's all I have to say for this guy.
Mal'Damba - Secondary main. Love him, too.
Moji - Cute, but no. Super annoying to go against.
Octavia - Nice design.
Pip - Never played as him, but he's alright.
Raum - YES. He's my favorite front-line champion.
Rei - I like her design.
Ruckus - Ah yes, the goblin D.Va. He gets a "meh" from me.
Saati - She's pretty cool.
Seris - She's cute. I like her design. I see a lot of people playing as her.
Sha Lin - Nobody plays as this dude. Let's be real here.
Skye - She's pretty cool.
Strix - Male, non-support Ana? Cool. Next.
Talus - I like the little Ska'drin boyo. I haven't played as him for a while...
Terminus - He looks like he's from that part of Undermountain.
Tiberius - I mean, he's alright.
Torvald - Save the old man with his prototype infinity gauntlet!!
Tyra - Meh.
VII - Oh yes. He's difficult to play as, but he's definitely one of my favorites. The Pandemonium skin is amazing.
Vatu - Mayhem Vatu is the best Vatu!!
Viktor - I almost put "Soldier 76" on here. Whoops. He's okay.
Vivian - That outfit she's wearing does not look uncomfortable, especially her top. Her boobs are like pushed all the way up to her chin!
Vora - Cool. Next-
Willo - Cute, but annoying.
Yagorath - Let me pet him. I see a lot of people playing as him, too.
Ying - No.
Zhin - ASDFGHJKLKJH. (That means "no" as well.)
#video games#thoughts#paladins#going back to this game again!#zhin and moji are just HJGHGHJGSJGSGJ#good morning#i'm okay#hi there
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