So I just created an account on this mess of a website just to say this: it is not a phase. No sexuality is ever a phase. And that's because it can't be a phase if you were never that sexuality to begin with. If you ever came out as/ identified with a specific term and then decided you actually weren't said term, it was simply a phase of exploration. Seeing what feels right. And that's okay! There's nothing bad about getting something wrong every once in a while. So next time someone says 'it's just a phase', don't let it get to you, because you know theyre wrong.
Something I’ve been thinking about are the positions that the Hamato Clan were in when Casey Junior first wakes up at the Lair
Mikey, Donnie & April are all gathered around Splinter, while Raph is standing guard between them & Casey Junior and Leo is standing right in front of Casey Junior.
April: And then I saw that picture and I brought him here.
At that point in the movie the Hamato Clan don’t know anything about Casey Junior other than he has a picture of them & possibly knows about their existence meaning he could possibly be a threat.
April & Splinter have often been a duo throughout Rise so it would make sense that April would go to Splinter when she thinks that there could be a possible threat to the Hamato’s & it would make sense for Mikey & Donnie to stick close as Donnie would want to gather data while Mikey tends to want to stick close to family during times of danger.
Raph: I’m the oldest here. I’m responsible for keeping us safe
Meanwhile Raph stands guard between his family & Casey Junior because of his role as the protector of the family, what Raph is doing is putting himself between his family & any possible danger
In contrast to Raph who puts himself between his family & any possible danger, Leo puts himself right next to any possible danger which allows him to be the first to react to the possible threat.
Leo is the first one that notices when Casey Junior wakes up because he’s standing right in front of him & then Leo makes a big display of being shocked over Casey Junior waking up in order to alert the rest of his family that Casey Junior is awake.
The positions the Hamato Clan were in when Casey Junior first woke up in the Lair shows how they automatically respond to possible threats
Splinter, April, Donnie & Mikey respond to possible threats by closing ranks & sticking together. Raph responds to possible threats by putting himself in between his family & the possible danger and Leo responds to possible threats by putting himself as close to the danger as possible
Watching this scene from "Portal Jacked" again and, the one where Leo's sword gets Portal Jacked, and it didn't resonate with me last time, but Leo in that scene, his expression, his voice? I just...
Cuz look at him when he finally gets frustrated by it all:
and when he says "Because I have no sword" his face immediately falls before ge lets out a frustrated grunt.
It told me here that he probably carries a lot of value in himself because he has his Ōdachi, turning the "Because I have no sword" to "I'm useless now".
Now look at his eyes, you know what they reminds me of?
It's in details like these that I can tell more about his character, the moments where he's shocked, scared, in realization, or simply a long coming frustrated break down, even if it's just for a little bit.
Then the part that follows right after, where he basically states that he couldn't do this on his own (a team can't just be a face man: "there's no team with just a face man!"), I need my brainy guy, and my smashy guy, and my eats peanut butter with his fingers guy!, he needs his brothers, and then what follows next actually made my heart ache:
Look at that face, you can't tell me he wasn't trying to cry, and then the way his voice cracks when he states, bold and clear:
"I'm nothing without them."
Because his voice actually cracks when he says "without", but it begins when he says "nothing".
Look at the way he looks at his hands, at himself. This is not the first time he's thought this, that he's nothing without his brothers, but I think this might be the first time he's ever said it out loud and it's heartbreaking.
‘’Your walls are high because you learned the hard way that you shouldn’t trust anyone who tells you what you want to hear. You shouldn’t believe their sweet little lies until they prove that they mean it. You shouldn’t be vulnerable until you know they care.’’
- The Sad Truth About Why People Build Emotional Walls
/rp
Walls are often used as metaphors for emotional barriers or emotional walls. Emotional walls are a psychological state that limits you in some way and reduces potential experiences/opportunities. Emotional walls make you feel like a victim of something in your strive for control and freedom. I'd like to prose that Wilbur’s emotional walls match the state of the walls around the nation he attached his identity to, the walls that Wilbur explicitly states were made to keep people around him and himself safe. L’manberg’s walls are a mirror of Wilbur’s mental state.
Before L’manberg was created Wilbur certainly hid things but he didn’t put up this ‘’hero’’ or ‘’George Washington’’ persona he does after the walls are built. When L’manberg’s walls stood tall Wilbur hid and buried his emotions to be the leader he felt L'manberg needed. Wilbur used to spend more time joking and flirting with Dream, but when the walls come up he starts to become more serious. He’s not this way all the time, but he does do things like asking Tommy to stop calling the potions drugs and start nervously trying to get confirmation that people are really on his side. He tells Tommy to go against his reckless nature, like when Tommy and Tubbo go to attack Alyssa because they think she set fire to their forest and Wilbur protests excessively. During the disc war, Wilbur agrees with Dream instead of Tommy because he’s trying to keep things in line. Wilbur pretends to be this leader but according to Ghostbur when he wasn’t on the podium he was crying into his pillow over the stress of being president. L’manbur was a facade. He’s still Wilbur and he has his very ‘’Wilbur’’ moments but he also has this hero facade. He goes from the man who asked Fundy to go scream ‘’Fuck 12’’ at an armoured police offer to the man who pulls Tommy back into L’manberg’s borders when he tries to threaten Dream 54:13.
But when Schlatt orders the walls to be taken down, Wilbur’s facade drops. Even after being throw out and killed by his own nation Wilbur still acts like he’s in that ‘’leader’’ role. Wilbur even focuses more on telling Tommy to run rather than his own cannon death. He says things like, ‘’Tommy...don’t kill. What does that make you, no better than them?‘’. Wilbur is one that takes the responsibility of finding him and Tommy a place to live, Wilbur is the one that tries to ignore his emotions, Wilbur is the one that tries to keep Tommy on the right track morally. But when L’manberg’s walls start getting torn down this changes. When Tommy sees the fall of L’manberg remarks ‘’There are holes in the walls.’’. Just like there are holes in L’manberg’s walls there are holes in Wilbur’s facade and real emotion is seeping through. His son is destroying the very thing he built to keep him safe and Wilbur is devastated. Wilbur’s voice breaks when he talks and he allows himself a rare moment of vulnerability. Wilbur drops the act and becomes on the verge of tears, something we don't ever get to see again.
When the walls are finally down you think Wilbur would be left open and vulnerable without his emotional barriers but to be fair that’s just another facade. L’manberg without walls is Wilbur's villain persona where he acts like he’s on a stage. When the walls fall Wilbur almost instantly switches from being the shattered leader to abandoning his morals. Wilbur becomes pessimistic 1:14:38 and despite telling Tommy constantly not to fight anyone and claiming he doesn’t want to go against Schlatt because he was democracy elected just minutes earlier these morals are forgotten as soon as the walls are taken down 1:16:58. Wilbur was the one listing who people they could trust but after the destruction of the walls he's telling Tommy, ‘’We can’t trust anyone’’ and replying ‘’What people?’’ when Tommy insists they need to go back to L’manberg for the people/their friends. Wilbur even declares he won’t set foot in L’manberg until he rules it 1:44:50. It’s almost as if that when L'manberg walls are standing Wilbur’s in his leader facade and when the walls fall Wilbur’s in his villain facade. Not necessarily him being evil but being what he feels others expect or predict him to be. Wilbur tries to force himself into a mould to be what he thinks others think of him. For example, during Pogtopiea Wilbur’s intense paranoia and delusions cause him to believe everyone was a traitor and working against him (For a while Wilbur even thought everyone was secretly working with Schlatt and Schlatt wanted him dead). Wilbur thought everyone hated him (I mean L’manberg quite literally hunted down and killed him) so from his pov that must make him the villain in their history. So Wilbur acts like the villain. Even when the walls are down Wilbur isn’t vulnerable like he is when the walls have a crack in them, he’s just showing a different facade. Wilbur wants to be human (‘’Someone who looks at him, not as "insane" not as "evil" or a "freak" but rather just unpredictable. Human. This is exciting for Revivedbur. He feels human again.’’) but everyone has all these expectations of him and he feels he needs to meet them to conform to not be abandoned (Ex. Lying to Phil that everything is perfect and fine in order to not disappoint him, he tells his dad what he expects, what’s predicable of him as if he’s a character in a story). Unless something happens to put holes in his walls, he’s always putting on some kind of facade. If that’s trying to make himself seem safer (‘’Now he's back alive and everyone is trying to get on his good side out of fear.’’) or to try a push others away because he believes he’s the villain. The Wilbur you know isn’t real.
HE WON
Todoroki: babe come over
Midoriya: I can’t I’m hiding a body
Todoroki: my dad isn’t home
Midoriya: I know
I GOT A GIRLFRIEND AND SHES LITERALLY THE BEST PERSON IVE EVER TALKED TO (SHES ONLINE BUT STILL)
LOOK HOW SWEET SHE IS IM QUITE SIMPLY D I S I N T I G R A T I N G
the if you watch food network youre gay post is stupid gays don't own everything you know
Reblog if you’re gay, own everything, or just really love food network
Deku, running into the room: HEY-
Kirishima: ˢʰʰʰ ᵇᵃᵏᵘᵍᵒᵘ ⁱˢ ˢˡᵉᵉᵖⁱⁿᵍ
Deku: ᵒʰ ᵒᵏᵃʸ ˢᵒʳʳʸ
Kirishima: ʷʰᵃᵗ’ˢ ᵘᵖ
Deku: ᵗʰᵉ ᵈᵒʳᵐ ⁱˢ ᵒⁿ ᶠⁱʳᵉ-
Okay ik this is random but I can’t be the only one who thinks Percy Jackson and Number Five would get on really well