Family Outings Are Fun, Especially With Little Kids

Norman be like

Donnieverse part 2 (i guess?)

Prequel (star-ish) - Part 1 - Next

Look. this is already a super self-indulgent au. I might as well go all in at this point. (thanks to @ahyesanerd for having the idea that there should be some apocalypse timeline shenanigans. I will be getting to their idea for the next stop. I wanted to do Webs first b/c it's going to be a little more light-hearted and silly than that. (plus, i just needed these two to meet. i can't verbalize why. I just very, very much did.))

I'm not going to be doing all the apocalypse timelines. basically just Webs and Dee before i go on with the little left i had planned. Basically, i wanted to make sure that all four Donatellos had their time and it didn't just turn out overly Seer focused (which it kinda was.)

(Poor Dee. He doesn't have any of the weirder protocols so every time one of them is brought up, he has no idea what's going on lol.)

ps. yes the first two pages i've posted before. but they went with this very well so i cleaned them up and added them here too.

op on the version of this I saw has turned off reblogs while posting lots of frustrated messages about how they don't care about people's actual responses. I'm adding some things they didn't think of.

I care about y'all's actual responses.

I wanna hear all about your writing in the tags. do tell.

Ooh my sweet baby Blue

I was worried I’d never see you again

not currently relevant rant but i wanna clear out my drafts

the Lamba Squad hate is UNJUSTIFIED and quite frankly fills me with a rage I am unable to express very eloquently.

Emma needs opposition to her ideals for the story to continue and I have seen many essays from people smarter than me on how this could’ve been accomplished despite the rushed ending, but I still love this story and wouldn’t change anything that we got.

Some people dislike that Barbra and Cislo specifically were almost “dumbed down” to make Norman feel smarter but I don’t think that’s the case at all

in fact i love how childish and immature they are because it shows the difference in how Norman and the others handled trauma.

Norman saw his inner child as weak, not able to do what needed to be done, and an obstacle to overcome to become Minerva, the person he needed to become to change the world.

however Barbra and Cislo are unapologetically child-like compared to other characters and they are entirely justified in BEING CHILDREN.

It’s almost like they are so childishly happy and silly and bashful in spite of everything that’s been done to them because they still see being a child that survived as something to be proud of. Norman wants to seem like an adult because all his life adults have had power over him (see isabella, peter, ect.) even Minerva who had the power to help them was an adult. No matter how you look at it Norman saw being the child he was as a bad thing which is exactly why I love that Emma and Ray use that acceptance to get through to him.

i love that the theme is it’s okay to be a kid which is why Barbra and Cislo are almost static characters but they still fulfill their role so well in the story.

They deserve a proper goodbye I think

Daughter of fantasy villains decides to rebel against her parents by actually going through with her arranged marriage to a local golden retriever of a prince instead of running off with some local villain-to-be or conquering said golden retriever’s kingdom and ruling it solo like her parents expect her to. Plus, sue her, she’s into the clean-cut earnest look.

At the same time, local prince charming discovers that he’s actually very into the gothic fiance his parents have landed him with in order to try and establish peace with the local evil lair down the lane, he would never have guessed a spiderweb pattern could look so fetching on a ball gown…?

Meanwhile, two pairs of parents in a tizzy because they both expected their offspring to whole-heartedly reject this union and give them an excuse to conquer their goody-two-shoes/evil neighbours, they’re not supposed to actually like each other-!

https://www.change.org/p/department-of-land-and-natural-resources-protect-pololu-valley

I saw this on Tiktok and thought it needed to be passed on. Pololū Valley is sacred land currently at risk of being developed into yet another "scenic tourist attraction" for profit. Activists like @/melemaikalanimakalapua on Tiktok are fighting to have this petition seen by as many people as possible in order to prevent the senseless destruction of this land.

Note that the petition says not to donate to change.org--donations to change.org do NOT protect Pololū Valley.

I hope that by spreading this to tumblr, I can help it reach more people. Please sign this and reblog it if you can!

https://www.change.org/p/department-of-land-and-natural-resources-protect-pololu-valley

Part 7!

of the "guys, I promise it wouldn't be angst"

I'm here to unbad your bad timeline. At least a little bit :)

Part 1

Casey jr trailing after Leo with his own smaller medkit

you've heard of medic leo, now get ready for medic casey because i refuse to believe future leo didn't teach that kid everything he knew with the hellscape they were living in. he'd teach him from the few medical books he salvaged and sometimes taught him stuff as he was treating people at the base. he also taught him how to take care of shell cracks and such because yes, april and mikey already knew, no, that wasn't gonna stop him from teaching casey too.