Some basic info on Red-Ear Sliders that I find interesting and fully plan on incorporating into my HCs and such about the turtles, lol.
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Some basic info on Red-Ear Sliders that I find interesting and fully plan on incorporating into my HCs and such about the turtles, lol.
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oh u can have this post i don’t want it
Gee, thanks mista! Oi Avent had a post to me own since and mum n pop died of influenza! I'll be certain to cherish it as if it were me little brutha who died from influenza also
Woss-all this then? You cheeky li’uhl buggah, wheh’d you get that post? Didn’t I tell you wha’ ‘appens to li’uhl boys that steal posts, hm? If your dear old mum knew she’d catch influenza with shame.
Oh no, Officer! I know ‘im, and ‘e’s a good lad; ‘e ‘elped me find daddy when I was lost in th market! I’m sure my father would be happy to let me pay for th’ post! Father is just around the corner getting influenza
'Ere offisah, dahn't truss that littuw giwl, orrite? She's the one wot stole foive bob from me larse week she did, when i was recovering in St. Urchin's 'Ome For Those With Influenza. And I sorer shewwin 'er ankles to some poor gent dahn the pub yesserday arfernoon while 'er ol' dad stole the poor bugger's influenza roight aht the man's pokkit. She's a baddun orrite. Fling 'er dahn the nick.
if i knew they were gonna make my post british i never would’ve gave it away
Been thinking about this a lot... here's my take on ADHD, actually:
While the world sleeps, we keep watch.
Society calls it distraction. They see the restless mind, the racing thoughts, the inability to stay still, and label it disorder. But what if it isn’t? What if this so-called “distraction” is really a heightened state of awareness — a different kind of focus that evolved for a different role?
When others drift into dream, we remain awake and alert. The flicker in the dark, the shift in the wind, the subtle change that others might overlook — we catch it instantly. Our attention moves quickly not because it’s broken, but because it’s scanning, assessing, adapting.
ADHD, delayed sleep, the pull of the night — these aren’t flaws to be corrected. They’re the traits of the watchmen, the guardians, the thinkers and creators who thrive when the world is quiet. We are not out of sync with nature; we’re simply tuned to a rhythm society forgot how to honor.
The problem isn’t that we are different. The problem is that the world still believes difference needs to be fixed.
A new religious statue in the town of Davidson, N.C., is unlike anything you might see in church.
The statue depicts Jesus as a vagrant sleeping on a park bench. St. Alban’s Episcopal Church installed the homeless Jesus statue on its property in the middle of an upscale neighborhood filled with well-kept townhomes.
Jesus is huddled under a blanket with his face and hands obscured; only the crucifixion wounds on his uncovered feet give him away.
The reaction was immediate. Some loved it; some didn’t.
“One woman from the neighborhood actually called police the first time she drove by,” says David Boraks, editor of DavidsonNews.net. “She thought it was an actual homeless person.”
That’s right. Somebody called the cops on Jesus.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Since you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.
“Why are you in Hell?” “I called the cops on Jesus.”
@apocrypals
I. Love this.
Love it.
Oh my god
yes.
This is it, I found it, the funniest post on this entire godsforsaken website
I will never not reblog this.
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part two of this thing………….. almost a year later, hey thanks
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8/31
“Hey, Leo, ready to meet your new daughter?”
“…Hoshi…”
(”Hoshi” is “star” in Japanese. :3)
Missed a couple of days but I’m back! I plan on doing the others later; for the time being I’d rather keep on schedule and all.
Turtle Dad! 8D
I intentionally hid the baby so everyone can imagine whatever they want as the kid. Whether you think the turtles would have human offspring or turtle, there ya go. (I gave her five fingers cause I have a theory that regardless of what kind of kid the turtles would have, they’d have five fingers and toes anyway. Genetic preferences and such. Unless the mother is also a turtle…meh, w/e.)
My heart! This is precious and tender, wonderfully done @dragonslover1.
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@thelaundrybitch I love this!! The way he is gently holding the little foot with his left thumb 💙💙💙
I'm so glad someone noticed the thumb! Yeah that was a cute little detail I added. I'm glad you pointed it out, @leosgirl82!
Executive function is like walking a clear path you chose—knowing the destination, how long it’ll take to get there, how difficult it’ll be, and spotting any obstacles well in advance.
Executive dysfunction is like being shoved onto a broken path you didn’t choose, where every few steps you’re halted by tollbooths, potholes, landmines, insect swarms, or divebombing hawks. Each step drains your energy, your will to continue slipping away almost immediately. All the while, you’re watching through a one-way mirror as others stroll along smooth, obstacle-free paths, completely unaware of your struggle. They can’t see the chaos you’re navigating, but they’ll still accuse you of laziness when you stop—because from their side of the mirror, all they see are flower fields and sunshine.
on my knees asking if there is any way you could give the roughest of sketches (maybe on a post it or something lol) of the general apartment layout? For some reason my brain can’t figure out what’s where and it’s driving me nuts
I whipped this up so quick, so take it for what it is. And if anything I’ve written ever contradicts this… just pretend it doesn’t. ^^;
That's super interesting, because I was envisioning this:
(Added colors to distinguish where I mentally divided the spaces.)
So it was close, just kind of angled differently, with the bedroom and bathroom cornered instead of side by side.
(I've done a stupid amount of playing The Sims so organizing spaces kind of just happens at the back of my mind permanently now, lol.)
hey there! i love looove your stories so much, especially incubus and aloners! flea and trash will always have a special place in my heart. you became one of my many inspirations to write! in that regards, if it isn't too much, may i know how you did incubus in renpy? i'm interested on using it as the engine for the one i'm writing, but not for a VN, just an interactive novel. ik there are online resources but im kinda confused where to start. tysm in advance and sorry if this is bothersome ;-;
I'll try and explain as best I can! I'll be assuming you know the basics of Ren'Py, and just focus on how I twisted it to work for IF. (Also, I am sure there are a hundred better, prettier, easier, more efficient ways to do this! This is just how I muddle through.)
Firstly, you want to switch your game to NVL mode. The code you want to put at the top of your script is:
define narrator = Character(None, kind=nvl) define menu = nvl_menu
Then, when you're into the real meat of your script, it should look something like this:
Rinse and repeat as you go. Other things, like conditionals etc. work the same as if you were making a traditional VN.
Hope this helps give you a starting point!
I have to include this! I asked Sonnet the same question and have been fiddling with the code ever since, largely with the help of ChatGPT. I write with a slightly different system that works for me. I figure adding it might give some interesting perspective and maybe help Anon with finding their own system!
There's some additional stuff involving changing the aspect ratio to fit whatever boundaries you like and editing the system images and such, but that's significantly more in-depth lol. And to be frank, I don't understand most of it. XD
I learned how ADHD functions, here's the breakdown of it
The short-short-short version is, people with ADHD are generally unhappy, so we seek out sources of immediate gratification and amusement to compensate. This leads to what can be considered erratic behavior, including trying to finish others' sentences and interrupting stories with random thoughts.
The long version is as follows:
Dopamine and pattern recognition.
Dopamine is the feel-good hormone that your brain gives you, both as a constant stream to make you not-miserable, and as a reward for Doing Things.
A neurotypical brain will keep its human relatively happy and give them lots of Happy Juice whenever the human successfully completes Doing a Thing.
The ADHD brain is not nearly as generous.
Here's an example, using percentiles for the purposes of readability:
You have a task to complete, such as cleaning the living room. It isn't a difficult task overall, and you know that. It'll take you less than two hours to get absolutely everything done, and less if you put some effort into it.
For a neurotypical person, this is the basic sequence:
Your brain keeps your dopamine levels at around 40%. Not really happy, but definitely pretty content. Now you have a task ahead of you, your brain gives you a dopamine bump of around 5% to motivate you to do it. You're now at 45%.
So you get to work. Now, while working on anything, your dopamine levels will drain. So it drains. You spend around an hour and a half cleaning before you're done, and it drained around 25% of your dopamine in that time, putting you at 20%. You're now half as happy as you were when you started.
And now that you're done, your brain gives you a hefty boost of dopamine in proportion to how much effort you put into it, throwing you from 20% to 80%.
You just got a 60% boost and ended up twice as happy as you were before you started cleaning, making you feel amazing. You're glad you cleaned. It was definitely worth the effort. Zero complaints.
Now let's go through that exact same scenario with an ADHD brain.
YOUR brain keeps your dopamine at about 25%, already at a significant deficit compared to a neurotypical brain. And now you have to clean the living room, an act that you KNOW is going to make you miserable if you've done it even twice before.
But you have to do it, so you buckle down. And your brain fights you every step of the way, starting with not giving you a boost of dopamine to motivate you to start. You begin at 25%, whereas the neurotypical brain started theirs at 45%.
And then you get cleaning.
You put the same effort into the task as the other person, and it drains your dopamine at the same rate. You're already unhappy, and you swiftly become miserable doing this. But let's say you push through and make it to the end, which puts you at a staggering 0% dopamine by the time you're done.
You are literally as miserable as you can be, and just from cleaning the living room, a task that any neurotypical person would've found easy.
And now your brain rewards you for completing the task with a boost of... 30% dopamine, literally half of what it gave to your neurotypical buddy.
You started the hour-and-a-half task at 25%, and ended it at 30%, whereas the other started at 45% and ended at 80%.
That 5% boost feels awful. You've barely been given a reward at all, comparatively. You put an hour and a half of effort into gaining a net increase of 5%.
You could've gotten that from playing a mobile game for 10 minutes.
So now you know that cleaning, while beneficial, is going to feel awful to you. You're literally going to feel like you're dying every second you do it (because that's what it translates to in the brain, btw, this isn't an exaggeration; dopamine draining feels like dying).
So what, exactly, is the incentive for doing it in the first place? It's going to make you feel awful the entire time and you know it's not going to feel much better when it's done. You're probably going to give up when you get to 10% just because why continue, when it makes you feel so terrible the entire time? And then you're not going to come back to it, either, because why do THAT when you know it's just going to make you miserable AGAIN?
There's a secondary effect to this, by the way.
Habits.
For a neurotypical person, creating a good habit takes exactly two instances of the same feel-good act performed in a routine, such as brushing your teeth upon waking up. You do that two days in a row, both times feel good, now you're going to do it forever automatically without ever having to think about it.
But for an ADHD person, we literally never get that. Two instances of an action isn't enough to create a good habit. A month isn't enough.
At one point in my life I put in the effort to wash my face and brush my teeth every single morning, and I managed it for a month straight. And it was great, honestly. I saw improvements. I looked and felt better for it. But it required active, conscious thought and self-motivation. I had to tell myself to do it every day.
Then one day, for whatever reason, I didn't do it, and then I never did it again.
Not doing it once broke the streak and that was enough, because in the end, doing this made me no happier than not doing it. There was no tangible, dopamine-related reward.
And that is the daily struggle of living with ADHD. Tasks that feel great and are totally thoughtless for your average neurotypical person are literally miserable for people with ADHD. And why do things that make you miserable? Even if it had amazing health benefits, would you put your palm on a hot burner every single day?
No?
That's what it's like.
It's awful.
since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"
some people think this is a shitpost so i want to clarify that i am dead fucking serious. make mage the official gender neutral honorific NOW. i want it on my passport. i want it on my bank account. i want doctors and judges to use it for me. i don't care if it sounds a little silly. people thought "missus" sounded crass at first. call me mg.
benefits of mg:
easy to pronounce, even for children (though kids 4 & younger may pronounce it more like "mayd" or "maygh")
ONE SYLLABLE!!! ("individual" is too goddamn LONG.) you have to be able to say it quickly and casually
ends in a soft vowel sound, so it'll flow right into the next word ("ind" halts the whole sentence)
fits neatly into the existing structure as a relative of master/mistress that can be abbreviated down to an m and one other letter
distinct enough that it can't be mistaken for either gendered term (if you call me mix I'll kill you. it sounds like miss with extra steps)
wizard.
drawbacks:
there aren't any
yes, i know about milligrams and magnesium. i don't give a shit. ms can also mean microsoft. who cares.
Do you have any interest in posting more of your TMNT stories? Or headcanons of the characters?
My interest is still there, I just don't have any motivation to do anything presently, lol. But given this is a personal Tumblr and not a TMNT-specific one, that should make sense. :P
Right now my brain is simply occupied by other things, y'know?
Will we ever see The Encore?
I would love to say yes, but at this point it's probably a no. Which is disappointing all around, especially considering the progress I made into The Dragon...
My stance has always been that if someone is providing you with a service which you are paying for, they're doing something that you chose NOT to do. You go to a restaurant or fast food place because you don't want to bother cooking and feeding yourself.
So I thank them, every time. The fast food people who hand me my food are thanked. My servers are thanked. The waiters are thanked. Everyone who did something *for* me, simply because I didn't want to do it, is thanked.
Period.
In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.
P.S: Don't like! Reblog! <3
How about a like and a reblog
fucked up hurt/comfort. the person who stabbed you tends to your wound. the person who killed your loved one helps you grieve.
In real life this is called trauma bonding and is a common abuse tactic so if you spot it happening in your real life then that’s a red flag(not specifically stabbing and murder, but like…a parent who yells at you and then comforts you when you cry about it or a boyfriend who breaks your stuff when he’s mad and then wants to cuddle and make up). In writing it can make for fascinating character studies and intensely emotional plots, just keep that separation between what you romanticize in fiction and what you romanticize in real life.
Jesus, this does not need a purity test or PSA. The more you do this policing the more you allow conservatives and fascists to creep in these spaces. We don't need the regular public engaging in counter culture when they just let conservatives take over regular culture.
Um, do you think I’m discouraging people from writing it? I’m all for fucked up dynamics in fiction but I’ve seen too many young people romanticize abuse in their actual lives because it reminds them of novels and fics and movies and they don’t have the language to describe what’s happening to them, so I gave a heads-up. Scroll on if it doesn’t apply to you.
Let me break this down in simpler terms real quick.
OP: I love this trope.
Reply: Okay but PSA to people who might be going through this IRL, there's a term for it, please be aware that it's not okay IRL.
OP: What the FUCK why are you making my post POLITICAL?!?!
Reply: .... Dude I just want people to be healthy and safe.
GUYS this isn't a debate. Write the tropes you want. Just please be aware that they should come with disclaimers that this is entirely fiction and should NEVER be replicated in real life, because it's toxic, damaging and potentially deadly. Staying with someone who hurts you in a trauma bonding environment like outlined above can and often does lead to greater and greater injuries.
To reiterate the replies: Write about it all you like. Just don't encourage people to have this dynamic in real life, because it WILL get them hurt.
Yes, I am aware that stabbing is bad, mom. I pwomise I won't stab anybody. Can I keep reading about horny werewolves or are you going to rant about a disclaimer about bestiality next? Fucking puritanical fiction backseat drivers.
If you think for one second that this is puritanical, you're projecting. No one is preaching, here. We're just trying to be -- if you can wrap your brain around it -- educational and supportive.
If this doesn't offend you or doesn't apply to you, then you should be able to simply walk by without getting defensive. You didn't have to reply. You chose to reply. That implies there's a reason for your defensiveness.
But to answer the question, yes, you're free to read about werewolves doing the nasty with people. Have fun, knock yourself out, etc. I hope you have a lovely day.