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gigamuffin · 4 months

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ive been talking a lot about how jack aubrey should be and is a fat man these past 24 hours (and by that i mean i made like 2 posts) but the image that promoted all this was the statue in 'the garden of heroes and villains' which is the worst case ive seen of shrinking jack aubrey

that's not jack aubrey, that's jeff abbey an impostor a fraud!!

#look a talking muffin #who is guilty of this? the garden? the POB estate? the sculptor? oh the deepest pits of hell awaits you

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chrisbangs · 2 years

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look how cute... 🥺🤲💗

#i'm still updating bc we're still waiting on some of the shops but :] 💗💗#hehe..#bang chan you are insane #i'm so serious this might be the first era where every pob fucks ...#usually his pcs are......... um well .........#i love you best boy but you 😭🤲 have 2 angles and you work them to death #it's ok i love u anyway but .#DJDJDIDNISNSS SOMETIMES COLLECTING HIS POBS IS SJSJSOSJSJSJSOD #anyway this era has been nothing but GREATEST HITS.!!!!!#he's putting out bangers this era #i'm not even kidding like . IVE NEVER . been so excited abt comeback pcs #even the album pcs i've heard at perfect (famously i have not looked yet 😭👎)#i'm waiting on my fawking mail 😭💔#gimmie my albumsssss 😕#anyway... ANYWAY...#i'm so excited 🥹💗#li.txt

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heoneyology · 2 years

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I will spontaneously combust

#i’ve wanted the left withmuu pob since the era had started!!!! and look!!!#also the kihno on the right i remember when buying kihno pcs meant you got a whole member set and now :((#m.txt

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nenasspot · 10 months

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if you see me change my blog title, mind your own business

(also; does anyone have any recommendations about what eu group order to join for youth in the shade? there are so many and i have no clue if there's any difference. if it helps with recs, i'm based in belgium and if need be, i'd like to take a gunwook spot)

#i've seen some that require people to fill in spots #but i've seen others that just ask you if you want to unseal and who you'd like in that case #i'm looking to get a ktown4u one since those are the cheapest -- i'll get other pob's if i ever get the chance to lmao #also the fact that i'd want a gunwook spot has EVERYTHING to do with my new blog title but that's not important #nena talking into the void #kpop #group order #eu go #youth in the shade #zb1 #zerobaseone #PLEASE HELP ME OUT

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eternallys · 2 years

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#honest to god. never let me buy a weverse version of an album ever again #like . ive never been so let down #like . idk what i expected. i knew it didnt come w/ a cd/photobook or anything #it still cost £16 tho and i got the weverse pob pc too which cost extra #but idk never getting one of those again #anyways didnt get any of my svt biases either which doesnt help i suppose #thats what i get for not actually looking into what the album type entails #also no miss jihyos in my 2nd twice album. 😔😔😔#but its okay bc you always get so much variety in twice albums #like out of my two twice albums i got like 13 pcs and a preorder set #on top of the billion other things. 🥺🥺#i love twice albums so much bc theres always so much in them #also got my first robin figure from op 😤😤#personal #a win for the girls as per usual 😩😩😩

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tervaneula · 8 months

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POB Bitty would like to offer you some nice eggs in this trying time

(Don’t worry, the hens at base are laying more than enough to share and Uncle Raph is holding 90% of the weight for him, Bitty just wants to feel strong)

(This is just for funsies, no pressure to reply <3)

“Ohmigosh,” Michelangelo breathes out and crouches in front of the tiny red-eared slider, eyes practically sparkling with adoration.

“You’re so strong! All of these eggs, just for us? That’s so kind of you!”

Bitty chirps at him, trying to push the basket higher and toward the orange-scarved turtle, the snapper behind him obligingly moving half a step forward. Michelangelo giggles and takes the gift, pressing it against his chest.

“Thank you so much! Oh, you know what?” he asks the kid, winking and offering him a chirp of his own. “We just bought fresh produce and a few dozen eggs the other day. Now I can make the biggest omelette New York has ever seen! It’ll be amazingly delicious!”

He then looks up at Uncle Raph, eyes softening as he takes in the hulking form of his not-older-brother older brother. His smile is equally soft when he shifts to look down again, reaching to gently hold Bitty’s hand in between his thumb and index finger.

“Your family is obviously invited, too. Please, join us for lunch? It’s the least I can do in return for such a lovely gift.”

(WAAAAA @beeceit you're so lovely, Bitty is so lovely, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡)

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middlechildkin · 2 months

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Peepaw Week Part 2

Coming soon… (reblog to share so I add more peepaws)

For those who may not remember or weren’t here to witness peepaw week 1, this is basically a full week of 1-day polls aka 7 days with 1 poll each day!

Day 1: You stuck your foot out and tripped this loser (/aff), which peepaw did you trip?

Contenders: DisMir, Yoshi AU, Egg saga, 3SC,

Day 2: Which peepaw scared you the most? (Threatening, spooky strong/protective, etc)

Contenders: LCD, TSISR, LSTMA,

Day 3: Which peepaw would you win in a fight? (You cheated and idk made him look the other way and smacked him with a frying pan)

Contenders: DMD, 2AL,

Day 4: This peepaw keeps throwing rock in a rock, paper, scissors tournament, who is it?

Contenders: DisMir, ITBOTB, LSTMA, 3SC,

Day 5: Which peepaw needs a damn bath? …rankass/aff

Contenders: DMD, POB, 3SC, 2AL,

Day 6: Which peepaw coughed and his fragile, old man body disintegrated? /j

Contenders: WDS, Egg saga,

Day 7 [closed for those who were in the original first impressions poll and perfect for new peepaws to introduce]: Which F!Leo first impression would you rather experience as Lil Leo?

Contenders: LSTMA, (A)PAF, MIM|MIM, 2AL,

Automatic contenders: fawn’s (beeceit) and nonny’s (loneAnonon) peepaws, please pick which peepaws you want in which polls :D

I’m going to keep this strictly as a f!leo poll because I can, but

Want to add your peepaw Leo to peepaw week 2? Tell me which day(s) and which peepaw(s) (if you have more than one) through this post (comments/reblogs/asks)

I’ll keep updating this post with incoming contenders/competitors until I feel we have enough peepaws for each day!

Remember: This is solely meant for FUN, for ol’ times’ sake, and NOT a popularity contest! Don’t just pick whichever peepaw you’re familiar with, actually take the time to pick which one would fit! It kind of kills my vibe when I see people vote a peepaw just because they don’t know the others… I get why people do it but, I mean, people leave their reasons in the comments and tags… let’s make it fun and take the time to vote! Look for propaganda in the tags, they’re so funny sometimes lol

Peepaw Week 1 Results

#peepaw polls #peepaw multiverse #peepaw week 2 #peepaw leo #rottmnt future leonardo #rottmnt future leo #future leo #future leonardo

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quatregats · 5 months

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There’s been a lot of (very excellent!) discussion recently about Brigid and Stephen and how much she’s loved, and I feel like that’s a very good segue into a topic which I’ve been musing over for a while: namely, Patrick O’Brian’s treatment of love in general. Because honestly I feel like one of the things that’s most captivated me about the Aubreyad in general is the sheer amount of love it contains, the vast majority of which is (canonically, at least) non-romantic, and I think that the further I get into the series, the more that strikes me.

Like honestly I cannot even begin to explain how incredibly good POB is at portraying loving relationships, whether they’re friendships, marriages, or parents and children (/surrogate parent and child, as the case may be). I’m actually genuinely not sure if I’ve ever read something like it. I think that a lot of media really struggles with platonic relationships, which is a question that probably deserves a 400-page thesis about it and that I’m not really qualified to answer, but the Aubreyad somehow manages to create relationships that are all so imbued with love that it genuinely does not matter whether or not the people in them are in love or not. While I’m certainly here for reading Stephen and Jack as a romantic relationship, there’s a certain point where I actually don’t care whether or not they’re friends or lovers, because the complexities of what they feel for each other and what they mean in each other’s lives is just as deep either way. And all the relationships in the book are like that: Bonden and the Surprises looking after Stephen, Jack with Mowett and Pullings, Stephen and Sophie, and on and on into infinity.

I think the thing that makes me the most insane about this is that these relationships all feel so unbelievably, viscerally real. The love that’s stored there is the same sort of love that I feel for the people in my own life, with all the inevitable disagreements and exasperation and imperfection that it comes with. I think it’s incredibly difficult to capture that exact feeling in writing, and yet somehow he’s managed to do it. There’s been so much talk about the way in which people in our day and age and media in general struggle to talk about friendship and platonic relationships as meaningful, and I’m not saying that just any writer could go out and weave a tapestry so complex as the Aubreyad does, but reading these books is like a balm for that. There’s something so reassuring in knowing that a romantic relationship is not the be-all-end-all for any of the characters in these books, no matter how you look at it. Each of them is surrounded by a web of people who are deeply implicated in their existence and who truly care what happens to them.

I think fiction, by its nature of needing to bring characters in to serve a role in a linear plot, doesn’t often leave room for love of this kind, and I don't want to be critical of that, because not all narratives can be like the one Patrick O'Brian's written (which is 100% okay—it should be that way, that's how narratives work!). But there’s something so healing about reading a story in which all of the characters are so deeply loved. It’s like a mirror; looking into it, you can see your own relationships, and by extension, just how loved you are, even if most of the time you don’t realize it. Humans are not lonely creatures, and no one captures that better than Patrick O’Brian.

#it's just. god #love is stored in the aubreyad that's all good night #i don't think i've ever read anything that compares to it and i don't know if i ever will #but yeah. sometimes realism means relationships that mean something actually. get loved idiot #struggled a bit to frame this in a way that did not say 'just friendship' because as much as i hate that mentality #the world that i live in has very much ingrained it and i do have to work to undo that #hope it came across successfully that all these friendships and all friendships are on the same level as romantic relationships actually #aubreyad #perce rambles

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walder-138 · 16 days

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MY BELL OC FROM COD BLACK OPS COLD WAR!

I saw another artist make their version of Bell, so I decided to dig up my version (having just finished my 4th play-through of the game last night) and post her here! This is my first post here, and if people like it, then I might make more OC posts.

Side note that my Bell is based off of my reactions/choices in the game, so it might not be 100% realistic or canon. I’m going with the bad ending, but I shot Adler in the end.

INFORMATION:

Name: Diana Jones/Annika Nikolaevna Voronova

Languages: Russian and English

Nicknames: Nika, Di

Callsigns: Bell, as Diana.

Age: As Diane, about 35, her actual age is 23

Sexuality: Lesbian (though during the time, she couldn’t express it)

DOB: January 21st, 1958 (Another plot hole in the Vietnam false memories; she would’ve only been 10 at the time.)

POB: Volgograd, Russian SSR, Soviet Union.

Eyes: Blue-green (got an eye injury while in Perseus, making her right pupil constantly dilated)

Height: 5’7

WEAPONS

M16A1, 1911, M60, Tranquilizer Gun, MP5, Type 63, Gallo SA12, RPD, LW3 - Tundra, Pelington 703, Hauer 77, Recurve Bow, M79, War Machine, XM4, AK-47

EQUIPMENT

Knife, M67 Grenade, Tomahawk, Stun Grenade, Throwing Knife, Smoke Grenade, C4

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Career information

Occupation: Perseus Operative, MI6 Agent, MACV-SOG, the latter two formerly (implanted memories)

Rank: Lieutenant in Perseus

Affiliations:

Perseus

CIA, MACV-SOG, MI6 (indoctrinated)

Annika joined Perseus relatively young, when she was 17, and quickly rose up in rank as the years gone by. She quickly earned ‘Perseus’s trust, as she was willing to do whatever it took to earn her place. They’d often have Annika undercover, performing assassinations and ‘cleaning house’ whenever necessary.

She was smart, crafty, resourceful, but she carried a lot of unbridled rage within her. Annika genuinely believed everything Perseus did was for the greater good of the USSR, which left her with no hesitation while killing whoever they told her to. Sure, you could argue that she was manipulated, but Annika didn’t really care.

Her methods were brutal yet efficient. Annika didn’t care about whatever mess she made, only getting away with it mattered (unless she was specifically ordered to make it look like an accident).

When she was 22, Kadivar shot her and left her for dead at the Trabzon airfield in Turkey. While Annika was bleeding out, Russel Adler found her half dead in the back of the car. While she was conscience, she bit, scratched, and kicked at him, until the blood loss got to her.

Annika didn’t even say a word while being interrogated and tortured. Before they brainwashed her, she even tried to bite off her own tongue. Was extremely aggressive the entire time.

(I’ll elaborate more on her story later, but this is all I have so far.)

Random thing: I don’t really understand when people ship Bell with Alder. I’ve seen them as having a bastardized father-child like connection. I could be biased, as I’m a lesbian and my Bell is 17-ish years younger than him, assuming Adler’s 40.

Personality traits:

‘Bell’ had a strong sense of loyalty before and after she got indoctrinated. She’d do anything for the people she’s close to without hesitation.

Extremely petty; would go to great lengths to give the people who wronged her hell. (Definitely isn’t a projection to how I played)

Stubborn + Contrary: Whenever someone, who isn’t a superior, tells her what to do, she would do anything in her power not to do it. However, ‘Bell’s stubbornness makes it difficult to break her.

Sarcastic:

Aggressive: Self explanatory

Immature: ‘Bell’s younger than people would expect, so she’s often labeled as immature by her teammates.

That’s pretty much all I could think now, if anyone has any questions or ideas to improve, LMK!

#call of duty oc #call of duty cold war #call of duty #oc #oc art #helen park #russell adler #lawrence sims #yippee #i need to pee #original character

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katy-133 · 11 months

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Sniper's Past - Team Fortress 2 Theory

(TF2 comic spoilers relating to Sniper's backstory.)

Kinda related to my previous reblog about Medic's canon full name, and whether it is canon and which version is canon, but TF2's universe definitely has named other mercs in reference to irl history things.

We know from documentation (and the comics) what Sniper's first and last name is. Sniper's name is Mick Mundy (previously Mun-Dee), likely in reference to Crocodile Dundee (aka Mick Dundee), who popularised the "rugged bushman" image of Australia.

The film Crocodile Dundee was inspired by a Parkinson (BBC) interview with real life Australian cattle farmer and hunter Rod Ansell.

And you can say "but New Zealand--" but keep in mind that your place of birth (POB) and the place you grew up in and took in the culture of are two different things. For the sake of this discussion, Sniper's nationality is canonically Australian. His POB is New Zealand (which, side-note, in the TF2 universe is treated like the lost city of Atlantis), which he left as a baby Superman-origin-style via escape pod.

Anyways...

Sniper's bark line "Now THAT'S a knife!" is a paraphrased quote from the film Crocodile Dundee.

Additionally, Sniper's Razorback item looks like it is inspired by a Northern Queensland, Australia rainforest shield. This implies that Sniper (like Rod Ansell and Crocodile Dundee) was initiated by the Aboriginal Australian community at some point growing up.

(Second image is just one example of a Queensland pattern. There are many variations of colour and pattern used in Queensland rainforest shield art.)

I like how this idea expands on not just his past but also his character. Does he speak/understand Dyirbal or Urapunga? (Former is a language spoken in northeast Queensland, latter is the Aboriginal language Rod Ansell and Crocodile Dundee were fluent in.) Did Sniper take part in corroboree meetings? Was he trained (and in what) through the Aboriginal community? Does it affect how he views the land grab situation between RED and BLU? So many questions.

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #crocodile dundee #storytelling #character development #history #films

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beeceit · 7 months

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Leonardo, come down here, and put that back

You ever get too into the short character study you meant to leave in the tags of someone else's post and accidentally write a 1033 word one shot told in the second person about someone else's character meeting yours?

Haha me neither, anyways... here's my take on what I think it would be like for LDC Leo and POB Uncle Nardo to meet <3 Bonus points if you catch all the other peepaws referenced

@nani-nonny teehee

Out of all of the bizarre situations you’ve found yourself in over the course of your life, this ‘peepaw multiverse convention’ was certainly far up there.

Dozens of alternates of yourself and your former brothers, even some Aprils (though not many) stand around chatting, recounting stories, showing off their little selves.

Most of them seem to get on fairly well, splitting into little groups like a highschool cafeteria.

Well, what you imagine a highschool cafeteria looks like, you’ve never been.

There’s the smart ones, the cool ones, the tired ones. And, inevitably, the class clowns.

Some booty shorts wearing jackass covered in stickers keeps chucking empty waterbottles and paper airplanes at your head. You can't tell if he genuinely doesn’t realize that you could kill him easily if you wanted or if he just doesn't care.

He's wrapped around his own Mikey now, the weight that constantly dragged on his shoulders, on every Leonardo’s shoulders, almost vanished from that single touch. Lucky bastard.

You had your own Mikey once. You fucked that up, too. Pushed him away. Twisted yourself until you could scarcely be called brothers anymore. And still, after it all, in his desperate final act of life he tried to save you. Not only you, the stupid selfish blueprint that became you.

That useless arrogant child you once had been.

Everything you've been through, everything you've lost, it was all your own fault. It was his fault. You can see the cracks in the armor. The foundational flaws that will lead him down the path to becoming you. Distantly, you think maybe you could still save this world's version of your family if you just get rid of the common denominator.

You can't mistake this as justice, though. As a good deed. You don't want him dead as a precaution, you want him dead for revenge. You're selfish, self-righteous, focused. In him you can see the son you used to be. The part of you that was a brother, a friend, the part that has long since faded in your chest glows so brightly in him. But you must extinguish it. He deserves this. You both deserve this.

The new guy gives you a look that you don't understand.

Oh, right.

You shake yourself out of the memory. Out of the corner you find your own counterpart engaged in a very one sided conversation with another young Leo, a feral looking one legged creature with the conversational skills of a busted up talking tom. Some part of you is glad he seems to be making friends.

God, you felt old. And this place didn’t have nearly enough alcohol to even begin to process… that whole situation. You turn back to the new guy. It’s been a while since any of them got this close to you. Most of the other Leonardos herded their littler ones away from what had been deemed ‘naughty gay peepaw jail’, which is the stupidest name they could give your self-imposed little angsting corner, but maybe not inaccurate.

You finally identify the look the new one’s giving you. It’s pity.

Disgusting.

He's young. Too young to be here, you think, as if you could really be the judge of that. He's not even 30 yet, hasn't even reached 6 foot. Still has 2 arms. Ah well, for now, at least.

He's too happy.

Something in his scarf makes a chirping sound.

The new guy, Nardo you’ve heard him called (And god, you used to be Nardo once upon a time), reaches in and pulls out a small creature, hardly bigger than an oreo. You’d almost have thought it was a strange rock if you hadn’t seen the little tail emerging from under his shell thumping against Nardo’s hand. Nardo chuckles and kisses his head with such tenderness.

“Bitty, buddy, you weren’t supposed to wake up from your nap just yet.” The tiny thing babbles indignantly but is quickly quieted when Nardo rubs a finger against his cheek and under his chin.

It’s disgustingly cute.

And disgustingly familiar.

You’ve seen the family photo album, seen the pictures of your own father (former father) snuggling up against an incomprehensibly small version of yourself the exact same way. You’ve seen a handful of Leonardos with children of their own, amalgamations of turtles and rabbits (why so many rabbits?) and humans and different sorts of turtles.

That’s not just a Leonardo’s baby, that’s a baby Leonardo.

He was so helpless and small. Precious, fragile, innocent.

But he was still a Leonardo.

You had been like him once, before, you knew you had. How had such a sweet little creature become the murderer that ended the world? Nardo held Bitty out to you, cupping his hand to keep him securely held. You made eye contact with the child for less than an entire second before he chirped, frightened, and nuzzled back into Nardo’s palm, shaking.

Nardo frowned and pulled him back to his chest, stroking his shell with his thumb.

“I’m sorry, he’s never reacted to anyone like that before. I’m sure he’ll warm up to you eventually, he’s just still tired.” He was afraid of you. Terrified. You hadn’t so much as said a word to him and the child saw right through you. Even an infant was able to see the blood on your hands.

His wet afraid eyes matched your own counterpart’s scarily well. The chirps of fear and your own Leo’s screams overlapped. Would you have done the same thing if your counterpart were so small? You don’t think you would, but then again, at Nardo’s age you wouldn’t have thought you’d do a lot of the things you’ve done.

“Hey, uh, you okay? I gotta get the little guy somewhere a little quieter for a minute, but I can come back. I’m sure I won’t have any trouble finding someone to watch Bitty for me, I’ve already had to fend off at least eight kidnapping attempts this morning.” Nardo looked at you with concern, genuine concern, even after you scared his baby. He really was too young to be here. “Don’t worry about me, just go.”

“Oh, uh, alright. I’ll see you later?”

“Pray that you don’t.”

#peepaw multiverse #leonardo come down #lcd #put one back #pob #they're Miguel and Peter B your honor

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bread4innie · 28 days

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hello everyone! i am looking to trade some more stray kids stuff! dm or comment if you're interested!! (reddit took down my post again 😔😒) (I'm on insta too @/catsaremybias_)

please share if you can!! 🥰🫶

❗ TRADES❗ - leeknow, seungmin, & i.n prio - (but fine with anyone else as long as i don't have it already or i like it)

(pcs - 1:1 exclusive for exclusive/pob, standard for standard or exclusive for standard based on value and 1:2 exclusive for 2 standard).

(LOOKING FOR MOSTLY: I AM NOT/WHO/YOU, ODDINARY/ CHRISTMAS EVEL/NOEASY/LEVANTER/GO LIVE CTC)

⏳✅❌ ⏳✅✅✅ ◼️⏳❌◼️

HAVE: go ver maxident felix pc WANT: any leeknow, seungmin, or jeongin pc from any album

HAVE: lee know rockstar target exclusive pc WANT: another exclusive or 2 standard pc (any album)

HAVE: jeongin postcard ver pc WANT: any postcard pc or other pc you have to offer

HAVE: han 5star digipack pob pc WANT: pob pc or 2 standard pcs (depending on value)

HAVE: rockstar (ver A) jeongin pc WANT: any leeknow, seungmin, or jeongin pc from any album

HAVE: 2 unit pcs WANT: single pc for each or both depending on pc

HAVE: maxident case ver pob felix pc WANT: maxident case ver pob/maxident pob jeongjn, seungmin, or lee know (PRIO) (or any other album pob)

HAVE: maxident case ver seungmin pc WANT: any lee know, seungmin, or jeongin from any album

HAVE: 3 maknae line polaroid sets WANT: set of 4 for any 1 pc!! or 1 for $1 or all 4 for $3!!

❗NON PC TRADES❗

HAVE: maxident lee know and hyunjin folded poster WANT: han/ i.n or bangchan/seungmin equivalent or standard pc

HAVE: seungmin 5 star ootd + rockstar mini poster WANT: lee know, i.n, or han equivalent for each

❗FOR SALE❗PRICES ON PICS! (if you have any questions please dm)

• rock and roll PHOTOBOOKS ONLY! (limited star + rock ver) if you look at the othe pic i circled where there are a couple of finger prints and some distress to the covers of the limited star versions and some pen on the front of one of the roll versions but all of the pictures inside are fine (other than some wrinkles on the top of 2-3 pages of one of the limited star vers but if you're interested dm me and i can show you the couple of pages. everything else is fine condition! (I will also be willing to trade for another photobook! any album)

posters: (not my pics but those are the posters i have. i didn't feel like taking pics put i can send pics if interested): top $3- bottom $4

stickers, postcards, mini posters, folded mini poster, b-cut film mini photobook, etc- prices on pictures! 2X rockstar (roll ver) cds are unused!

❗MORE INFO❗

• if you have any questions please dm me!!

• I will provide video/picture proof packing + shipping (i have 1 proof so far on insta but if you have proofs then i don't mind sending first ☺️)

• I am open to trading offers on pcs bc my collection is lacking 💀

• if you think the pricing is too high then maybe we can negotiate

• I will cover shipping on orders over $5

• i can only take paypal or zelle (sorry for any inconveniences)

• if you know someone who might want to trade/buy any of these please tag them

(I am not responsible for any lost/damaged/stolen packages)

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mobiused · 6 days

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i've seen someone say this on twitter but i don't know how to verify it except maybe ask other vivi stans (you have been selected!) but they were saying vivi was getting very popular now? pobs selling at higher prices, more fan sites? if its true i'm so happy, this era she looks like a main character even in the stages (and i bias gowon and hyeju...!)

yes shes getting way more fans everyone cheers so loudly for her its really awesome to see!!

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thiefbird · 17 days

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❤️🧡💛 -for any age of sail fandom you feel like answering for✌🏻 ☺️

Greetings from @aye-aye-captain

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

I mean, if you ask the Aubreyad fandom at large(I am in a facebook group about it because I like looking at photos and paintings of ships), probably my near-complete conviction that POB wrote them with homoerotic subtext on purpose. But we're on tumblr, the homoerotic subtext website, so I really don't know! I guess not unpopular as in people dislike it, but just that there's very little discussion or fic about it, but. Diana Villiers is having an affair with Clarissa Oakes. I am fully convinced of this - it might be an entirely non-sexual affair, Guinevere and Lancelot style(which would be a fascinating thing to write, actually [makes notes]).

🧡: What is a popular (serious) theory you disagree with?

I totally and completely honestly cannot think of one. These fandoms so far has been very good at being Correct According To Birb™.

💛: What is a popular ship you just can't get behind, and why?

Gonna go with Hornblower here. I came into the fandom fully planning on shipping Archie and 'Ratio whole-heartedly, but I just can't quite get into a lot of it. I do fully read Archie as being in a conflicted sort of half-love with Hornblower, but I do not think Hornblower reciprocates - or if he does, he does not have any clue about it until well after Archie's death. I will go down with Hotspur Husbands and Pelhorn however. I guess also Granby/Little. I just don't know enough about Little in canon to care about him much lmao he's just Some Guy. To me. I do fully believe Granby has at least once said either "Will" or "Laurence" while they're having sex tho. Sorry, Little.

#i have. so many clarissa/diana thoughts.#clarissa is a lesbian. she may be a sex neutral ace lesbian.#she may just not have ever enjoyed sex bc it was all with men.#im not tied to any particular reading of that. but she IS a lesbian.

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nani-nonny · 7 months

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*screams into the abyss* I need to interact with people and get out of my little bubble!

Anyways, a possible “LCD’s first impression of POB” that’s one of many i thought of :)

Leonardo often is met with silence when he enters the room with the others like him. At first there were a handful, intimidating in their own way and so, so very different from himself that it made him sick to his core to even dare attempt to speak to them. But as more and more came through those same doors, it just became a nuisance.

So he didn’t bother speaking to any of them. He couldn’t. They all could somewhat comfortably share their stories—share how it felt to meet their own respective counterparts. And to make it worse, a majority of these Leonardos were the polar opposites to himself. They showed care and compassion to their younger counterparts—became role models to these kids. Some even brought their counterparts into the room, flaunting their past selves like their own family.

But one in particular, noticed, was drastically different from the others. He wore a baby carrier—as if that wasn’t strange enough as is—a toddler strapped to his chest and one of the largest smiles he had ever seen on a Leonardo.

This Leonardo walked with a confidence he could only rival in his youth. And much to his surprise, the toddler shared the same red crescents as every other mutant in this room. Is that his counterpart?

This Leonardo tickles the small toddler’s plastron, cooing at the tiny hand that grabs at his finger. The child chirps, making just about every other elder slider perk up at the sound.

And suddenly, this Leonardo is surrounded. Other Leos coo and awe at the small child, smiling the largest smiles that didn’t seem possible for these elder sliders. And it didn’t even bother that all these Leonardos were bombarding the small turtle with affections—in fact, it looked welcomed.

The baby-carrier-wearing Leonardo pulls out his phone and starts showing off thousands and millions of photos. Laughing and smiling as he points out the little things his counterpart had been doing at the time of the photos.

It didn’t take a genius to know that this Leonardo absolutely adored and loved his past counterpart.

And this did nothing but sink deep into Leonardo’s gut, swirling and upsetting his stomach as his guilt begins to climb up his insides—reaching desperately with blackened tendrils for freedom through his mouth. This Leonardo saw his counterpart and saw a child—a child who needed love, but Leonardo saw his and…

He swallows his guilt and turns away.

But to this new Leonardo, no one can escape the baby pictures. No one is allowed to escape the small turtle in his baby harness.

Harness-wearing Leonardo takes a step toward the elder slider who’s back is turned but his shoulder is held back. He meets eyes with Blue, who shakes his head and says, “Don’t bother, Nardo. Come on, I’ll introduce you to the others.”

Despite this, Nardo shakes his head and continues to smile, “I’ll be quick. And look, Bitty wants to say hi, too.”

On cue, the small turtle’s eyes flicker back and forth between Blue and Leonardo, eyes filled with burning excitement and tiny hands reaching for the elder slider.

Nardo cockily motions to the tiny hands and says, “I can’t deny what the little hands want, ‘thems the rules’.”

Without a moment to hesitate, Nardo rushes over to Leonardo, phone in hand and albums of photos ready to share. “Hey! Old guy! I’m new here—I’m Nardo and this is Bitty!”

Leonardo looks over his shoulder and immediately shakes his head, “No, it’s fine.”

In just a few seconds, Nardo has his arm thrown over Leonardo’s shoulder and phone practically shoved in the elder’s face. But before Nardo can attempt to share about the first photo, Leonardo slips out of the younger’s slung-over arm.

In a desperate attempt to distance himself, Leonardo glares at the younger, his disgust forming a bitter lump in his throat, “Don’t touch me.”

Nardo raises a brow, “Okay, touchy.”

The small turtle releases a chirp that makes Leonardo sick to his core—not because he, himself, is disgusted by this child. No, no, he is far from that. He is simply repulsed by his former actions.

As if haunted—his mind playing games in an attempt to suffocate him, he didn’t see the toddler chirp in the younger’s harness. He saw Leo, his own counterpart, standing before him with the scars he had inflicted upon their first meeting. His counterpart’s attempt to cry out for brothers that weren’t there, echoed in his mind instead of the child’s concerned chirp.

Leonardo swallows heavily, He has to leave. He has to get out of here. He can’t stay here any longer.

So, with jaw clenched tight and stomach churning, he holds tightly to his sword’s braided hilt and turns away.

POB: that’s too many Leos, put one back by @beeceit

(I didn’t forget to tag, you did /j)

#pob #put one back #Leonardo Come Down #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt fanfiction #rottmnt future leo #had to get into the lcd world to get its gloomy style which heavily contrasts wds ack #too tired to write more hehe but i hope I got some inkling of how pob Nardo is #tested my writing by including someone else’s peepaw ack

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imeanwhynotbruv · 1 year

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Quaritch asks Mansk for advice on parenting

(Mansk has been looking after his lil brother Ja since the last members of there family died when Ja was 14 (from my fanfic brother mine))

I don’t know if I want to add this to my Fic later on or not, but I had this idea of Mansk and Quaritch just fondly watching Spider and Ja be total dumbasses and acting like kids.

Then Quaritch has a moment where he realises he didn’t really have anything of his own until he had spider, who he Keeps trying to claim isn’t really his.

So he realises he doesn’t want to mess spider up any more than the kid already is, and he can’t use the example his father set bc that would be awful and he doesn’t really know any good father figures to follow the examples of when it comes to his boy.

But Quaritch know that Mansk has been practically raising Ja since a few years before they went to Pandora, and even though mansk isn’t Ja’s father Quaritch knows how good of a bond the two share. He decides he wants that bond with Spider so he asks Mansk for parenting advice.

Mansk is genuinely shocked by this a takes a moment to really think about what Quaritch is asking before he explains something like this:

“I don’t know what I’m doing. Every day I wake up and I’m scared I’m gonna mess him up more than he already is. That I’m going to do something horribly wrong and he’ll never forgive me.”

“I spent years thinking what Ja needed was for me to be his father…but I was so wrong. We had a father, a really good one…but he’s gone. Ja knows that. Ja didn’t need me to be his father..he needed me to be his big brother. He needed me to stay with him they way I always had. He need that stability”

“So honestly, I don’t think I can give you the answer you want because I’m not a father, because we’re not the same people, Spider and Ja are not the same people. But I can tell you this, your gonna mess up, that’s just a fact. But your gonna learn, just like how you learned to deal with the Ja. Just like how I learned to be what Ja really needed me to be..not what I thought he needed..hell not even what I wanted to be.. I had to do what he needed me to so that we could make it to where we are.”

“You want my advice? Take it at his pace. Be what he needs you to be and forget about anything else. Don’t try to be someone else because that won’t work out. You want to be his father? Look after him, make sure he’s safe and fed. If your lucky, one day he might see you as what you want to be, one day you might realise what you were supposed to be…but until then you just gotta keep trying”

So again, I’m not sure if I would add this scene because the Fic is mainly focused on Ja and Mansk, but will pobs have lots of spider.

I just had to put this here bc I liked the idea, let me know what you thought or if you want more!

As always I hope you enjoyed❤️

#avatar 2 #recom ja #recom mansk #spider socorro #recombrothermine #miles quaritch #avatar wow #recombinant #Mask and Ja are brothers #Quaritch ask for parenting advice because he’s trying #don’t know where it came from #i dont know

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