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risestarkiss · 3 months

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Orange, Baby!

Rise Ramblings #316

When I think about Mikey, this scene always comes to mind.

As soon as they step foot in the library to save Mayhem, Angelo instantly disqualifies himself…hilariously.

On first watch, I found it interesting that he made this decision with no hesitation, especially given the stakes.

At the time I just resigned to him being a silly silly boy, but now I know better.

Yet, before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s explore who Mikey is.

Michelangelo Hamato is the youngest turtle in the family, and it shows.

Consequently, he seems to possess a certain “youngest brother privilege" that his other brothers just can’t help but reinforce. This is the role that Mikey was born into. Therefore, he doesn’t have to push himself to be the smartest, or cleverest, or strongest turtle.

Instead, he decides to be the artist of the family. He’s a creative! He expresses himself everywhere, from stickers on his own shell, to tagging the lair, as well as on paper. The world is his canvas!

Michelangelo also expresses himself in virtually everything he does, so it’s easy to understand why he’s the most open, honest, caring, and emotionally expressive turtle of the bunch. To some it could be seen as a weakness, yet Mikey uses his emotional intelligence as a pillar of strength, of which he utilizes to uphold his brothers when they need support the most.

In the show, Michelangelo often takes on certain personas; Doctor Feelings and Doctor Delicate Touch. (For some reason, they are all doctors, but that’s beside the point.)

At first glance, the personas could be seen as silly bouts of make-believe. But I think that placing these roles upon himself for his brothers' sake is Michelangelo’s way of helping them cope with the world by offering them what they each individually lack.

For instance, Raph, Leo, and Donnie have trouble voicing their discomforts when someone does something they don’t like.

In other words, they have trouble putting their foot down.

But here is Mikey to the rescue!

Dr. Delicate Touch has no such hang-ups.

Similarly, when Donatello runs into trouble, as he is unable to recognize his own emotions, it’s up to Doctor Feelings to help his desperate client in need.

Through taking on these roles, Mikey is able to support his brothers and fill the emotional gaps in his teammates, which, inevitably makes them all stronger.

How is Mikey able to do this and how does he have the strength to take on these roles?

You could think that it’s just in his character, meaning, it’s just how he is. I don’t think so, though. He’s a free thinker, and a creative, but there’s something about these roles that is specifically catered to the needs of his family.

Then I realized, the only reason that Mikey is able to help his brothers in this way is because they first helped him.

Let me explain.

All four of the boys grew up in the same household. Although Splinter tried his very best (there is no Splinter hate here), a single depressed parent doth not a stable child make. Raphael struggled with the burden of his responsibilities as an ad hoc leader (see Being Big Red), Leo struggled with expressing his natural talents as a middle child (see Being Baby Blue), all while Donnie struggled with carving out his place on the team and his feelings of uselessness (see Being Purple Part One and Part Two).

Well, what does Mikey struggle with?

In my humble opinion, nothing.

The struggles of his brothers all related to each turtle coming to terms with themselves and coming to terms with their place on the team.

Yet, due to the love and support of his brothers and father, Michelangelo never had to ask himself if he belonged, struggle with his role on the team, or make huge life-changing decisions that could affect everyone.

Michelangelo is free to just be Michelangelo.

And as a free spirit who is completely in tune with his own emotions, he is able to do things like this:

and this,

and this.

Let’s get back to the scene in the library.

Angelo sees the high stakes of his friend’s pet disappearing forever if they fail but makes the decision to disqualify himself anyway. Why? Because he knows that no matter what he does, it will all be ok.

He has complete faith in his brothers and their ability to solve the problem at hand, so he might as well have some fun.

This not the first time he’s come to this conclusion.

Through out this entire scene, Michelangelo plays in the background.

It’s scenes like this that makes me believe that Mikey’s faith in his family knows no bounds.

Altogether, his brothers and his father were everything he needed to become who he is. Reciprocally, he is free to be everything that they need him to be and more. Over…

and over,

and over again

he trusts them completely.

And through this unwavering trust in his family, he is able to trust himself and his instincts. He knows that with everything they’ve poured into him, he can save them from, well, everything. Over…

and over…

and over again.

Hence, due to all of this evidence, I believe that through the collective love of his family, Michelangelo became the best version of the Hamato spirit, and thus, the best Mystic Warrior of all time.

All because, he’s Orange, baby!

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Previous | Being Big Red • Being Baby Blue • Being Purple ○ Part One • Being Purple ○ Part Two

Finale | Being Hamato Yoshi

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nerdalmighty · 2 months

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Who watched all these episodes and used up all the 🪫?

Requested by @deerbot36

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artiststarme · 11 months

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We made it to 1,000 followers! Wow, I can’t believe that so many people are interested in reading my short snippets and rambling stories. This started as a way for me to keep track of my writing progress and has developed into so much more!

Thank you all for sticking around and sending me your nice comments and asks. I always love seeing what you guys have to say. If you have any angsty steddie fic ideas that you want to see written out on this momentous occasion, send them my way!

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sailormoonsub · 6 months

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YOU'RE ALIVE OMG I'VE BEEN READING YOU SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND NOW I'M GRADUATING UNI SOON

This made me feel unbelievably ancient, thank you. To imagine I could be considered a part of someone's formative years is mind-boggling

#im happy im back too! it's the prescription drugs!#thanks for sticking around!#from the ask box

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greenerteacups · 1 month

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hi gtc! i wanted to ask if you could tell us more about your favorite books, films, shows, and media/pop culture in general! would love to hear you gush about and spill the tea on all your favorite things

also, i feel like i've known you forever because i discovered lionheart in its early stages. literally when only the first book was out. it's been an honor and pleasure to see you grow and to see your work getting all the love, recognition, and praise it deserves. ilysm greenteacup 🩷

Man, I don't know where to start. Favorite books: Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina, Little Women, Atonement, Mrs. Dalloway, Love in the Time of Cholera. Also, equally loved, but loved in a different part of my brain: Dracula, Anne of Green Gables, Howl's Moving Castle, The Locked Tomb series, Normal People, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, The Bloody Chamber, the Six of Crows duology, The Left Hand of Darkness, Ender's Game, Station Eleven, and a million other books that I'm going to remember and kick myself for forgetting, because any book I love is always my favorite when I'm reading it, but I don't have just one. There are a lot of poets I love and learn from, too: Louise Glück, Margaret Atwood (hot take: I like her poetry more than her novels), Anne Carson, and Richard Siken. In terms of movies, I watch what my friends tell me to, but my favorites tend to be spectacle sci-fi productions like Nolan or Villenueve's ouevre, movies that really take advantage of the scale of the thing. Or Wes Anderson's middle period. Or Audrey Hepburn movies. I watch those whenever I need a pick-me-up.

#thanks for sticking around!

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maygrcnt · 17 days

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new here, followed bc i am a fellow may grant stan 🫡 someday she will return to our screens. hopefully

may stans we have to hold strong!!! we will survive this drought!!!

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consolecadet · 1 year

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I felt dismal all day physically, but multiple people have said nice things to me in the tags and that has sustained me

#much love especially to people I've been following and/or followed by for 5+ years #thanks for sticking around!#boring text posts

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kookablarn · 2 years

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Well, this is fun. I’m having issues with uploading to SFS right now, so I’m going to hold off on making the official release post. I don’t want to make any promises, but I should be able to get it out this week.

However, the file is done so if you don’t want to wait, here it is (on Google Drive)! Things are really starting to get hard to keep track of now, and as I said before this will be the last time I keep the extended family trees since culling is starting to take a lot of sims away.

As always, let me know if you run into anything strange! And again, I’ll make a actual release post some time this week!

#text #I feel bad making you guys wait!#Thanks for sticking around!

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moonknightproductions · 1 year

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HOLY MOLY I JUST SAW THAT I HAVE OVER 130 FOLLOWERS!? WHERE’D YOU GUYS COME FROM

#thanks for sticking around!#I feel like I should do a celebration thing #if you’ve got any suggestions feel free to tell me because I don’t know what to do

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abbra-cadaver · 1 year

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thanks for 100 followers!<3

#means alot yall like my stuff ^^#thanks for sticking around!

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abdocado · 1 year

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Hiiii, I love your art! I also follow your twitter and was wondering if you could upload that gory fish pic with luffy and sanji? if not, that’s cool too!!

thank you so much for enjoying my art!! ❣❣❣

sure! Let me do that in another post

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wyvunn · 1 year

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I posted 124 times in 2022

That's 61 more posts than 2021!

102 posts created (82%)

22 posts reblogged (18%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@faustandfurious

@wyvunn

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I tagged 122 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#wyvunn art - 90 posts

#ghibli - 30 posts

#tarot - 30 posts

#visiteur du futur - 26 posts

#tolkien - 26 posts

#vdf - 25 posts

#silmarillion - 20 posts

#renard - 13 posts

#burribros - 10 posts

#raph x renard - 8 posts

Longest Tag: 119 characters

#why the hell did my brain decide to suddenly get obsessed with them when i already have so many other things to draw???

My Top Posts in 2022:

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@tolkienofcolourweek Day 1 - Connection to waters

Uinen, Lady of the Sea

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For @navyinks DTIYS

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@feanorianweek Day 1 - Maedhros, theme: adjusting/coping

He’s learning to write with his left hand

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@feanorianweek Day 5 - Curufin, theme: manipulation

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My #1 post of 2022

@feanorianweek Day 2 - Maglor, theme: music & songs of power

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withbeastsarc · 2 years

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besides the meme i just reblogged i think im going to clear out most of my inbox - just to make me feel less overwhelmed. please continue to send things in ! i just let it get away from me as i do sometimes.

i also am going to drop a couple older threads but ones that are like months and months old, nothing new. just doing a little cleanup so i can catch up and everything.

#ooc #thanks for sticking around!

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incorrectinfinity · 2 years

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i have not once played cookie run and i know nothing about any lore or characters but ive been following this blog for at least two months now and im not going anywhere

Is it because of my wonderful and captivating way with words?

#/j #thanks for sticking around!

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starscweam · 2 years

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*fnaf cheering sfx*

made it to another year ^_^

#thanks for sticking around!#now im off to go buy some expensive plastic robots 🏃

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like-wuatafauq · 9 months

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Idk, maybe I'm just too shy. I have to give this a thought.

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Im not really sure, but I like u as a person and I like reading your little comments in almost every post. Once I asked if you liked horror movies and U said u had nothing agaist and I kinda gotted attached to this place I guess.

Yeah try day dreaming about chatting with girls maybe that can help see you actually like women or help with talking to them

And Lmaoooo yeah you got attached to my shitty lil blog🤣 that's funny af especially liking me as a person lol but Yeah I'll watch about anything I love watching things. However I'm a hopeless romantic and I escape reality through romantic movies or romcoms so that's what I watch more of haha

#anon #sweet anon #asks #whats a name or nickname i can call you?#thanks for sticking around!

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