The Little World in my Head is a Nice Nice Place

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[ironinkpen]

The dynamic in Rise between the rest of the team and Leo is. so fucking funny. Because like you've got these three extremely talented individuals who all seem like perfectly reasonable people at first glance, right, but then if you squint hard enough you realize they're actually all batshit insane (affectionate) and the clown boy standing behind them is secretly their common sense.

Clown boy will occasionally put himself and the others in danger to Prove Himself or Prove Someone Wrong (see Minotaur Maze and the movie) but like otherwise... i think people forget Leo's overwhelmingly the voice of reason in most situations?

Raph, Mikey, and Donnie are all incredibly powerful boys with very specific skill sets. They are also, as a direct result of this, the WORST decision-makers on god's green earth lmao. When presented with a problem, Raph will smash, Donnie will blow shit up, and Mikey will razzmatazz. They will all run straight toward death with the same oblivious enthusiasm of a dog about to run straight into a screen door. None of them realize this and all of them think they are Extremely Good At Problem-Solving.

And the guy cursed with the common sense to realize this is literally the LAST person anyone would expect.

When you look closely, the entirety of Rise is actually a chronicle of Leo trying to find new and creative ways to keep this team of superpowered fools alive while simultaneously white-knuckling his Cool Fun Guy persona so the others don't realize he's secretly the Boring Responsible One. Haha, you know what would be Cool and Fun, guys? Not going after the Spine Breaking Bandit lol. Getting home before the sun goes up lol. Evacuating that civilian lol. Not telling the guy dangling me off a roof "you won't, no balls" lol.

The sacred struggle of every iteration of Leonardo is thanklessly wrangling the most trigger-happy siblings in the world, and Rise Leo has not escaped it. He just does an occasional shenanigan to avoid detection and his brothers fall for it every time.

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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

trying to decide if i’d rather be a tortoise or a turtle. on the one hand I prefer dry land, on the other hand turtles can breathe out of their cloacae so. it’s tricky

[quietfangirltranscription]

hmm have you considered something like a snapping turtle? can live on dry land if it wants to and just go to the water for a nice splash splash

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

that’ll work

[willowbane]

so we have these in North Carolina and they are Menaces (note the capital M) but not in the way that you would think. no. you don’t step into a pond and go “ouchie my foot, a snapping turtle bit me.” (they’re actually very friendly in water so long as you don’t bother them). no no, these fuckers LOVE scorching hot concrete. and they’re BIG.

Most commonly you’ll see one chilling in the middle of the road like a little goomba waiting to wreck your car tire. So you gotta stop and move them which involves awkwardly lugging this flailing, hissing turtle well off the road and into the forest where you pray it will stay.

Now, I know they’re called snapping turtles, and they do snap, WHICH IN ALL DUE FAIRNESS is BAD for the person moving the turtle out of the road.

BUT.

THEY HAVE CLAWS.

Remember when I said “flailing”?

Yeah, it’s easy to avoid the beak but it is NOT easy to avoid those feet. they will fuck you up with their sword-feet.

So, my advice, as a North Carolinian, on moving snapping turtles off roads: Let someone else do it :)

And hey! If i wanted to be a turtle, i’d pick this one! no one’s messing with me!

no one.

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

Beautiful.

@willowbane are these things of a size where a snow shovel might be a useful implement of hazard-removal? I assume it’d have to be a real heavy-duty one, not one of the flimsy little collapsible popsicle sticks that are what most people have stashed in the back seat footwell somewhere…

[willowbane]

*ahem*

To answer your question, here is the following:

i did some research and the research says… maybe???

while this would probably work better from a safety standpoint…

…no one in North Carolina keeps a snow shovel in their vehicle (we’re southern, please forgive us). also, snapping turtles are still kinda squishy, at least their legs are, so i would be concerned about cutting the turtle while scooping it since decent snow shovels are usually made of metal and are pretty sharp.

Instead, here is a helpful guide on how to pick up a snapping turtle:

So. You have encountered a turtle…

…and it is filled with the burning rage of a thousand suns because, dear god, you, mortal flesh pod, have decided to move it from its Sunny Spot™️

Question is, how does one go about doing this?

Well, friend, first you approach the turtle from BEHIND (to avoid the beak, chase after it, etc, etc)

You’ve made it this far so now you’re going to want to pick this bad boy up.

In order to avoid walking away from this looking like you just fought with a rotating sphere of knives, pick up the turtle towards the back of its shell but in front of the hind legs:

Then, you’re going to pick the turtle up and lug it across the road in the direction it was facing/walking. They know where they’re going, they have turtle instincts. Trust the turtle instincts.

Now, it is important that you’re only picking this turtle up a few inches off the ground because 1) they are very heavy and if you drop it, you only want it falling a few inches and 2) there’s just less flailing if they can see the ground.

after awkwardly shuffle-walking to the curb, set the turtle down (gently) and watch it waddle into the undergrowth!

You did it!

[artemistakenidentity]

Thank you for the helpful guide! This is almost completely right except for one very important thing: if you absolutely have to pick up the turtle, please make sure you do so by gripping the underside of the shell and support the body as well. As you note, snapping turtles are squishy and heavy and just gripping the top shell can put undue stress on the joints where the bottom shell joins and it can separate causing damage and pain.

Also pro tip: keep heavy leather work gloves in your car and use them. It won’t stop them from biting (they can bite your finger clean off) but it will help protect against the claws and give you more confidence in your grip.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i’m STILL not over

[darkwingduck]

This is great advice, but honestly, after many encounters, I have given up on the concept of picking up snapping turtles. Especially when they start getting big. It does not matter where you grab them. Their necks are like an accordion and their claws can reach where their necks can’t. There isn’t a safe place to grab them, it just won’t work. The last one I tried to rescue, clawed and thrashed until I lost my grip, then it turned around, squared up, and LUNGED at me while hissing. Other humans witnessed this. In the middle of a busy intersection.

Getting a piece of something like cardboard or a plastic bin lid to gently shoo/nudge them along, and then just escort mission-ing them to safety is my new strategy.

Though I am seriously considering keeping a shovel in my trunk despite the lack of snow. I have no snow but an abundance of snapping turtles.

[walkstheday]

tbh in the past i have gotten a yard tool or baseball bat, let them bite down onto it, and then pulled them out of the road while they’re latched onto whatever i put in their mouth. this doesn’t work with the largest adults, but with those guys your best bet is to call fish and game anyways, bc they’ll wreck your arm or leg if they get ahold of it :’D

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[bumblequinn]

for the last time i DON'T have ADHD!!!!!!! i'm just always daydreaming because of my whimsical nature, i make impulse decisions because i love spontaneity, i forget things from before because i live in the now, i get everywhere late because i'm a free spirit, my place is a mess because i'm a creative type, and i'm tapping my foot because i'm feeling the rhythm of life babey! what do you MEAN you found my wallet in the oven

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[bniebee]

I almost forgot about this highschool au thingy nyeheherr

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[kaysdenofchaos]

Big man cradles his tiny chihuahua but it’s brains and brawn duo 💕💗

I imagine whenever Raph needs to put Don in time-out he just grabs him and sits. Dee tries to zoom away, but escape is futile. Typically ends with both of them falling asleep. With doodles on their face, ft. Leo and Mikey. (B&B always gets their revenge)

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jadeandroses asked:

I dunno if I asked this already, but if you’re still taking requests, can I have more “Sonic and Tails with realistic sibling dynamics” please? Those absolutely make my day

smallpwbbles answered:

I love doing these! (also please don’t send in requests rn, I’ve got a lot in the inbox I wanna try get to)

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[iftye]

me talking in the tags on tumblr dot com

[thickness-protection-program]

Me reading your tags on tumblr dot com

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[ikiri]

those concept boards for the boys' ninpō marks live in my mind rent free

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[wizardnamensalex]

This season of puppet history did have lore actually. Dorthy Ruth got engaged to Elmer Walter Williams, ran away from the altar and is looking for her dead husband Stanley Melvin

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[blackkatmagic]

What a CONCEITED ASSHOLE. Like honestly, he's told to his FACE that the Council won't give him a rank he didn't earn, so he murders all of them and then just. TAKES the rank, takes the position as some honored dissenter, and at the same time pretends he left because of IDEALOGICAL DIFFERENCES WHAT THE FUCK ANAKIN.

What is the line from like. fucking Chicago. "I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive, and I saw him dead."

This is that but with just. more genocide and also less cause.