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.
Though the Hamato clan in Rise is often more openly affectionate than past iterations I’ve noticed that the amount that each family member actually says the words ‘I love you’ actually differs for each family member.
Mikey: I’ll say it again, I love you guys
Leo: We did it!
Mikey: Love you dad!
Splinter: My sons, you know I love you, but you only remember lessons when you learn them the hard way
Splinter: We are not giving them the evil teapot, we are going to save my beloved sons!
Throughout the series Mikey & Splinter are the ones who tell their family that they love them the most, often either staying it in their everyday life or having it come up in conversation. They’re the ones that most easily say ‘I love you’ because it’s a simple fact to them, they do love their family why shouldn’t they say it?
Raph: Tests are easy, it’s answers that are hard
Donnie: I love you so much! Let’s do it!
Leo: We learned a valuable something about never something-ing you alone again
Raph: Aww I love you guys!
In contrast to Mikey & Splinter, Raph & Donnie are the ones who use the words ‘I love you’ the least out of the family because they have other ways of showing their family that they love them, Donnie shows his love for his family through his inventions & Raph shows his love for his family by protecting them & keeping them safe.
Donnie & Raph save the words ‘I love you’ for moments where they’re particularly excited or touched such as when Raph gives Donnie the go-ahead to use an untested invention because he believes in Donnie’s inventions enough to think, even untested it will help or when Leo promises Raph they won’t leave him alone again, even taking care to not say the word ‘leave’ because he knows the word is upsetting to Raph.
Leo: I love you guys!
Leo on the other hand is firmly in the middle, he says the words ‘I love you’ more than Donnie & Raph, but he’s not as able to simply say it in everyday conversation the way Mikey & Splinter are.
In fact Leo seems to save the words ‘I love you’ for situations where he feels as though something is wrong & he feels as though he’s let down or upset his family in someway.
Leo: Raphael, I love you my brother but you do tend to fail in big moments.
Leo: Raph, you know I love you but people don’t focus on punctuation when they’re stuck in concrete
Leo: Donnie, you gotta stop this! I love you and your gaming is hurting me!
Leo: Okay Señor Hueso, my beloved brother Donatello and I had a bit of a spat
Raph is the person Leo typically says ‘I love you’ to the most & he usually says it when he’s pointing out a flaw in his older brother’s plans, it’s Leo’s way of saying even when he’s telling Raph something isn’t going to work he still loves him.
The second person Leo says ‘I love you’ to the most is Donnie & it’s usually reserved for when they are fighting such as in episode The Purple Game when Leo thought that Donnie was still controlling the robot that was attacking them & during the episode The Hidden City Job where after Leo has an argument with Donnie he primarily refers to Donnie as his ‘beloved brother’.
Leo: I love you
Splinter: No!
It seems as though Leo reserves the words ‘I love you’ for when he feels as though he’s upset a family member, either by disagreeing with them or getting into a fight with them & combining this with the fact that in the episode ‘Flushed But Never Forgotten’ when Leo thinks he might loose his family forever, the last thing he wants to say to them is how much he loves them, ‘I love you’ might be the words that Leo says when he thinks he’s done something that would make him loose his family.
When Leo says ‘I love you’ what he’s really saying is ‘I love you, please don’t be mad at me, please don’t be upset with me,’ ect
"Little flowers, fleeting ancient wishes..."
You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended
Credit to @just-prompt-things & @peach-flavored-cyanide for the…. meme idea?. What do you call these things…? Anyway, have some hay sillies cus my brain is rotten :)
Doodle request of hologram Shelldon and CJ hanging out
They're hiding punny post-it notes around the Vault for Donnie to find later lol : )
What's funny is i drew a doodle of these two a while ago (before the last chapter of Donnie's jacket was posted) but never shared it b/c i didn't like how it turned out. (still don't.) And then just...didn't redraw it even though Shelldon's hologram design was very cute and i liked it. So basically, thank you for giving me an excuse to draw the Hologram child lol : )
Thank you!
I was reading the yakusoku no neverland manga, and I just imagine this scene while Emma and Ray tried to learn everything from Yuugo as they headed to Goldy Pond.
(Yes is a spiderverse meme)
NO WAY
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