sunflorally:

repeat after me: my body is not wrong, or ugly, or too thin, or too big, or too pale, or too dark. it is the vessel of a precious life and that is always more than enough.

winnyverse:

my-sai-and-i:

 I find it super interesting that Leo doesn’t recognize Raph during their fight on the roof till the helmet comes off. At first it just seems like a plot hole, but to be honest…

If you consider Leo’s been gone for a year and a half if not more and totally absorbed in himself, and the fact he really isn’t himself when he gets back because he’s so desperate to prove that he’s improved and strong.. 

He’s really that out of it. Even while fighting the ‘Nightwatcher’ he’s going through the motions while his head is a mess. If he was actually still in his mind there’s no way he would have missed it being Raph at one glance. Even Casey figured it out. Really Leo should have been putting two and two together long before that fight but here again he is so unstable that he misses 

-fifteen news reports
-raphs aggressive defense of Nightwatcher
-a chase through the city where he’s watching ‘Nightwatcher’ run, jump and Leo even TACKLES HIM
-A hand to hand combat fight with someone hes trained with for almost 20 years at that point

and it takes Raph losing his helmet to figure it out.

And that ‘I’m Better Than You” line that seems out of character- it really isn’t because it has nothing to do with Raph at all. It has everything to do with Leo trying to maintain his own sense of self after realizing that he missed all of the things I just listed above.

He is supposed to be their leader and yet he doesn’t know them anymore. 

The phrase also hits Raph hard, and it’s something that he probably won’t have haunting his nightmares, and as horrible as the outcome is for him after he beats Leo. I think the entire situation, the entire plot of the movie is a real tragic one for Leo and something that is going to take a LONG time to recover from. 

He says to Splinter when he gets home from South America

“I got so caught up in my own world, I forgot everyone else.”

But the reality is that he is still that way until Raph has him on his back at the end of the roof fight. Something that he realizes then and immediately tries talking to Raph about, but Raph runs.

On Raph-It’s a hard situation for Raph for sure. While they needed a good fight to reconnect what really made Raph cave wasn’t that he beat Leo, granted that scared him. It was more because he LEFT LEO, tired, battered and without defense and because of it Leo was taken. 

At that point they both break. Because Leo realizes that he hasn’t been the leader he was supposed to be, and Raph realizes that he is isn’t qualified to be leader if he can willingly leave his injured brother to fend for himself. Until that point (in that timeline), it’s clear Raph was still resenting Leo for his leadership position and suddenly, the fact that he so easily lost his brother due to his own ignorance and selfish desires slaps him with the true reason why he wasn’t cut out for it. 

These things are clearly confessed to Splinter off screen, as evidenced by the point after the “student and son line” when splinter says that Raph has the qualities of a great leader as well 

“but only when tempered with compassion and humility”
-referencing the lack of compassion he showed for Leo who, to everyone else was CLEARLY going through a hard time.
-and humility to admit he had made a mistake (with the way he handled nightwatcher, and not being honest and admitting to Leo how he really felt about everything/lashing out

something that Raph realizes probably running back home after leo gets taken-

So really, they were both stuck in their own heads and not really SEEING each other.

Whats also interesting is wondering where Raph and Leo go from here? What is ACTUALLY going to change once the ‘Leo-didn’t-die’ honeymoon is over?

They both have two new gaping emotional scars that are going to haunt them for a long time, and those two can’t be expected to communicate well especially right off the bat.   

Thoughts? Opinions?

I love this stuff so feel free to talk turtle to me always

Loved this analysis a lot, and agree 100%!

jewishmilesedgeworth:

jewishmilesedgeworth:

jewishmilesedgeworth:

so excited about the prospect of finally having an apartment of my own that i got the shakes in the home goods section of a TJ Max

concerned bystander: ma’am? are you all right?
me, on the verge of tears: apardmint…….

i panicked and bought a set of tasteful novelty dish towels 

spyderqueen:

thebibliosphere:

So my therapist has been helping me get to grips with my ADHD, and also the concept that I’m not shit at being an adult, I just can’t do things the way everyone has always told me to do them. Like every single “organize your life” books have always left me wanting to cry with frustration, and after I got hold of a copy of
Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD

by Susan Pinsky I realized that was because they primarily focus on “aesthetic” over “function”. And the function of most standard “organize your life books” is to “make things look Show Home Perfect”.

So the standard “hide all your unsightly things by doing xyz” may look nice for the first week or so, but by the end of the week it’ll look like a tornado made of pure inhuman frustration ripped through the house as I try to find the fucking advil.

To give you an example of the kind of hell I’ve been fumbling my way through the last 20 odd years: dishes will be washed and left in the drying wrack but never put away. Which means I can’t wash more dishes, which means dishes pile up, which means I can’t make food, which means I don’t eat, which means my CFS gets worse, which means I don’t have the energy to put the dishes away, and so on so forth until I have a meltdown, cry to ETD (who also likely has ADHD but has never had it confirmed) about how I can’t cope with life, and then we fix it for a while, but inevitably end up back at square one within about a week.

Pinsky’s solution to this was “remove an obstacle between you and your goal, if that means taking all the doors off your kitchen cabinets to make things easier, so be it.”

And lemme tell you, fucking revolutionary.

Laundry never ends up in the hamper??? why???? is it a closed hamper??? Remove the lid. Throw it out the window. Clothes are now miraculously finding their way into the hamper??? Rejoice????

Mail ends up spread out over every available flat surface? Put a sorting station right where your mail arrives. Put a shredder or “junk” basket under it. Shred or dump the junk immediately. Realize you only actually have two real letters that need attention, feel less overwhelmed, pay your bills on time.

Like I’m not saying this book is miraculous, but it did help me realize that I was effectively torturing myself by trying to conform to certain ideals of “perfect house keeping”, and presenting a certain image rather than just allowing myself to live in my space as effectively as possible. And why? Why was I doing that? Cause people with different lives and capabilities are perceived as the norm? Fuck that. If this was a physical problem I wouldn’t be forcing myself to conform to an ableist standard, so why am I doing it with this?

My lived space will never look a certain way, and that’s okay. It will never look show home perfect, and that’s okay. It will likely always be cluttered and eclectic where nothing matches, and that’s okay. Sometimes I will have odd socks on because sorting them out required too much mental energy, and that’s okay. Actually fuck sorting socks, just buy all your socks in the same color. Problem solved. Boring sure, but also one less thing to do, which means more time to hyper fixate on fun things. Which really, what else is my life for if not to write screeds and screeds of vampire shit posts, I ask you.

I did something like this to address my laundry issues. Instead of leaving clean clothes in the laundry basket (because putting clothes in drawers was beyond me) and dirty clothes in a vague pile (and only doing laundry when the basket was empty of clean clothes), I bought a laundry cart to replace the function of a dresser. Do laundry, sort by chucking clothes into the appropriate bin – t-shirts in one, pants/leggings in another, sleep clothes in a third. Underpants and socks go in a Kallax cabinet unsorted. Now there’s a free basket for dirty clothes and I have FLOOR SPACE again. Fucking life changing.

modusoperandani:

vivialopod:

hullaballoons:

little-king-john:

artwhork:

ur gonna die anyway so get that fucking tattoo ur parents and friends hate and eat whatever u want

“You’re gonna die anyway, so just set your house on fire and drink snake venom.” This is like the worst life philosophy and you can use it to justify anything.

ok like not to rain on ur parade but getting a tattoo and eating some fries are very different than setting ur house on fire and drinking venom like I see where ur coming from but we were only going like 25 mph u didn’t need to accelerate it to 120 in a second lmao

“Life ends too quickly so don’t waste it denying yourself the stuff you like just because you’re worried about what other people will think about how you look”

“You want me to just fucking kill myself, op? Is that it?”

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