Amevello Blue

Spoonie, pretty gay, gamer, disabled, artist, writer. My art account is BluePeachStudios.

[amevello-blue]

*UPDATE* 2026 TMNT Fanfic Reader's Choice Awards

HEY everything TMNT RCA related has been moved over to @tmntrca!

You can now message there for help, questions, etc. :D

[flork-of-cows-official]

burn out

[armengoldira]

How do I explain to you people that interracial relationships are okay

Not every white person dating a POC is fetishizing. White people can be respectful and responsible when it comes to culture and relationships and not everyone has bad intentions.

Asian people can date Black people without you saying shit like “your kids will be so pretty” they’re not dating for pretty kids. They’re dating bc they like each other.

Someone can dress their partner in clothing from their culture if they want. Someone can take their partner to cultural events if they want.

People in relationships can share cultures, experiences and love without it being toxic or skin deep.

Their partner isn’t culturally appropriating. Their partner is being shown the ultimate form of love, bc their partner trusts them and loves them enough to share their history and heritage.

Yeah, dating someone from your culture is nice bc you automatically have similar experiences. But you’re not limited to dating people with the same experiences. Loving someone is sharing and growing and being together.

Interracial relationships aren’t always toxic, and some of y’all need to stop projecting onto other people.

[spoonoftar]

👆 THIS 👆 👏👏👏

[the-real-gingakid]

Calling ineterracial relationships toxic or fetishizing just seem like anti race mixing or racism with extra steps

[skyhon]

This reminded me of this

[yesterdaysprint]

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

whoever wrote this paper has the funniest phrasing possible

[the-wave-finally-broke]

happy turtle bit off a cop’s toe in the hudson river day for those who celebrate

[saessenach]

A CENTURY AGO

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

Source

[ms-demeanor]

I have pretty good strength, mobility, and flexibility but I can't do yoga because I have esophageal issues that mean stomach acid doesn't stay in my stomach when I'm bent over and touching the ground - this is the only video I've ever seen that shows modifications that would allow me to perform these movements.

[side-shuffling-hyperfixations]

Since Jim Henson made the 1990 TMNT suits I would love to believe that makes the 90s turtles kinda sorta honorary Muppets. I think they'd like that

[stealthetrees]

Justice for baby Hotrod

I will die on this hill. I hope when Milo gets older he finds the list of potential names and gets upset cause they picked a boring one.

Fuck it. I’m headcannoning Milo to be nonbinary when they get older and changing their name to Hotrod.

From A Different Eldest Brother by @alicat54cwriting

[alicat54cwriting]

CACKLING OH THEYRE PERFECT!!!!! I love this its adorable! Baby hotrot for the win!

[saffron-slash]

[birdplushie]

fiction can be really dangerous there might be a deeply tragic woman in there who starts living in your head forever

[glamrockmike]

realizing that the online sphere and especially tumblr is NOT a good sample for ‘what everyone thinks’ is so, so, so good for your mental health and moral OCD. i swear to god. realizing that you don’t have to live your actual life like you’re being hunted for sport because the average tumblr user will hunt you for sport for wording something slightly weird or engaging in the wrong stuff or whatever is so incredible. like no you’re actually not fucked up and evil for not donating or for watching that one indie cartoon or questioning a post that everybody is agreeing with. that’s just tumblrs georg making you feel that way

[estro-boi]

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[cherrispryte]

Some added 101-level context from someone (me) who’s worked in federal grantmaking for 20 years and is literally certified on this document - this is a document that governs all federal grantmaking. It’s been around for over a decade and is a mega-document that combine multiple previous smaller documents that have been around for ages. It is updated every few years and generally the updates are minor - a notable change in the previous update was raising the small procurement threshold from $10,000 to $15,000 for example. Deeply dry boring minutiae that no one outside of federal grantmakers need concern themselves with. It was also federal GUIDELINES, which means there was flexibility.

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

So yes, please comment. You don’t have to read all 400 pages before doing so, it’s dry and dense as fuck, but I thought this information might be helpful. Also, while there is a public comment period, this isn’t voted on by Congress. The OMB just fucking issues it. Pressuring your elected officials into publicly saying “hey what the fuck are you doing here” is good, though.

[mikkeneko]

Please note the comment period is open through JULY 13th, not JUNE 13th. I saw a lot of relogs yesterday saying "last day!" and I just want to say it is very much not too late.

[grison-in-space]

As of today, 7/8/26, we have five days for public commentary on this to go through. I am begging y'all: if you care about independent science in the country that produces the most global science funding in the world, please leave a comment.

[dangerousgiantlime]

GOOD. GOOGLY. I DREW A LOT IN @pvtpunsart 's magma jam last week. Got fanart for @amevello-blue and @alicat54c 's universes Pawn's Gambit and Empathy is Learned, and Ghost in the Shell ALL OF WHICH YOU SHOULD READ ABSOLUTELY, @pvtpunsart 's most recent AU about futuristic racer guys, AND @boxfullaturtles ' Goreytello cause I will never NOT love them. The rest are SaiNW Raph, Rise!Donnie cosplaying as 2003's Don's cosplay of a sorcerer skin from the Superquest episode, Rise!Raph as 2003's Griddex, Rise!Raph as 2007's Nightwatcher, and my lil' Mr. Man, Miles! <3

[sweeneydino]

Behold Noodle Seal Zio. Bask in his and his siblings glory

@amevello-blue @alicat54c as promised 🫡

[getindumdums]

Donatellos on Their Ability to Lie

Rise Donatello— Absolutely horrible liar. [100% FAILURE]

12 D— Kind of bad. Obvious tells. Maybe talks loud about it alone in his lab to Tim. But can. [87% FAILURE]

03 Don— Sweet, quiet about it. He decides to lie and you cannot tell til it’s too late. You probably never even got a chance to ASK. [100% SUCCESS]

87 Donatello— Really good. Also a dramatic actor. This guy’s holding a small object in his hands and convincing you it’s a bomb and he’s NOT HESITATING. And the worst part. There’s a genuine chance it is.

[GUESS 50/50]???

[sweeneydino]

Behold more Seal bbs uvu

@amevello-blue @alicat54c

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."