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Toddler Mutant Ninja Turtles AU

[Created: 9/4/25 - Last Updated 10/18/25]

Based on the scrapped rottmnt episode:

Mikey's gets to be the oldest when his brothers turn into turtle toddlers after getting zapped by an immortal mutant jellyfish bank robber. Does he have what it takes to get his brother's back to normal while also dealing with the strange challenges of eldest brotherhood?

nestedneons

By novanoxone

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#shadowrun

Ah Yes. Me. My Boyfriend. And His “Definitely Not A Serial Killer” Roommate

Bonus: David's eyes are open and he is staring. Thank you for asking.

#two of us au #two of us!david #two of us!red #dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared #first post in years

deadcantdraw

A weird thing I find incredibly helpful for art/writing.

Eplans.com is a website that sells blueprints for houses.

This might not seem that helpful but if you want a characters house you can make selections based on what sort of house you want them to live in.

Then browse through the results and find the house you want. Then you can view the blueprints and have a room layout for that house, which can help with visualising the space they live in.

It makes describing generic homes so much easier.

jauntylittlefrillyboy

#ref #rp

Just watched the new episode and while I am super hyped about mystery girl what I love the most about this episode is how Pearl wanted to impress Steven (and Amethyst?) “... and you would say ‘waoh Pearl is really cool!’“ She is more upset about this than not catching up to the girl.

She just wants her kid(s) to think she is cool. Pearl really is a everyday (space rock) mom

#Steven Universe #last one out of beach city #Pearl #Steven #Amathyst

lejeanx3

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#ref

selenocysteine

Tips to learn a new language

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)

‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.

Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?

Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.

Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.

Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.

NOUNS (about 120 words)

Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.

People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.

Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.

Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.

Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.

Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)

General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.

Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.

Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.

Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)

Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.

Demonstrative: this, that.

Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.

Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.

Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)

Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.

Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.

General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.

Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.

VERBS (about 100 words)

arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.

Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.

Demonstrative: this, that.

Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.

Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.

Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.

Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.

Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.

Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.

Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.

Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.

thepolyglotblog

Oh i love this concept!

amateurlanguager

I love it too! I love it mostly because it makes me feel less overwhelmed. When you break it down like this, everything seems so much more manageable. Like, hey, I could memorize 20 words at a time (even if ‘at a time’ varies wildly for me), and just do that like ten times. That’s a HUGE chunk of a language.

(And since I have the habit of doing languages that are similar to ones I’m already familiar with, the grammar part usually comes pretty easy, too.)

holdmymocktail

Reblogged never to be used again

#But it is pretty cool

marrymejasonsegel

So if we wanted to watch some French animation, what films would you suggest?

the Triplets of Belleville is about an elderly woman searching for her son who was kidnapped in the middle of a Tour de France race. It’s largely free of dialogue, but the sound effects and such are wonderful. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature—it lost to Finding Nemo.

A Cat in Paris is about a young girl and her cat who discover mysteries in the course of one night. It was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to Rango.

Persepolis is based on an autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi about her early life in Iran. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to Ratatouille.

the Illusionist is about an aging magician and an imaginative young girl who form a father/daughter relationship. It was also nominated for a Best Animation Oscar, but lost to Toy Story 3.

The Rabbi’s Cat is a story about a cat who swallows a parrot and gains the ability to speak like a human. It is set in 1920’s Algeria.

Ernest & Celestine is the adorable story about a big bear and a little mouse who forge an unlikely friendship. It was also nominated for an Oscar in Best Animated Picture, but lost to Frozen.

Kirikou and the Sorceress is a story inspired by West African folklore that tells the story of Kirikou, a boy who was born with the ability to walk and talk, who saves his people from an evil witch. The film was popular enough to spawn sequels and a stage adaptation.

A Monster in Paris is a 3D animated musical film that is reaaaaalllly loosely based on the Phantom of the Opera. It’s set in 1910 and is about, surprisingly, a monster that lives in Paris, and his love for a young singer.

The King and the Mockingbird is an 80’s film about a cruel king titled Charles V + III = VIII + VIII = XVI, who is obsessed with a young shepherdess, and whose attempts to capture the young girl are thwarted by a mockingbird whose wife the King had previously killed.

Those are probably the most famous of the feature length animated films.

But the animated short films are just as glorious. Here’s a compilation of a bunch of short films and I can link you to others as well.

Sorry for the long answer but I just really love French animation.

disneyforprincesses

Reblogging over here. French animation tends to do better with diversity than Disney does, hahaha.

young-angry-and-fabulous

I should add “Le Tableau” which is really beautiful, especially if you love art. This movie is highly poetic !

“A château, flowering gardens, a threatening forest, here is what, for mysterious reasons, a Painter has left incomplete. Three kinds of characters live in this painting: the Toupins, who are entirely painted, the Pafinis, who lack a few colors, and the Reufs, who are only sketches. Considering themselves superior, the Toupins take over power, chase the Pafinis from the château, and enslave the Reufs. Convinced that only the Painter can restore harmony by finishing the painting, Ramo, Lola, and Plume decided to go looking for him. Throughout the adventure, questions will follow one after the other: What has become of the Painter? Why did he abandon them? Why did he begin destroying some of his paintings? Will they one day know the Painter’s secret?”

I would highly recommend Ernest & Celestine as the animation is beautiful, the characters are really moving and the story conveys a great message about love, friendship and oppression.

Another thing : have you seen how these amazing movies lost to american big productions ?

pardonmyfrench-bitch

Don’t forget about Kirikou et la Sorcière.

helshades

They didn’t forget! Kirikou and the Sorceress, up there.

May I suggest Dragon Hunters for myself? This 2008 feature-length film is based on the 2004-2005 cartoon Chasseurs de dragons, by the same makers (available fully online, by the way). The music, by Klaus Badelt, is hypnotic. The world is beautiful and strange, the characters lovable… and the dragons, really good.

Just saying.

monkeysiu

hey, wthat about Le jour des corneilles? Its one of my favorites french films

#movies

croxovergoddess

Do me a favor and draw the squad

#Draw The Squad #DTS

ionianyi

((Yi and his lonely Wuju Club, Wukong sleeping, I mean meditating.))

holdmymocktail

The triple glasses, the sleeping Wukong, Yi questioning what he is doing with his life. This is just perfect :D

#Yi #Master Yi #Wukong #LOL

cherryberryann

best ones from Thomas Sanders’ Narrating People’s Lives.

#Vine #Video

ileniagennari

I just want to make you know how happy am I. I watch Steven Universe, I think it’s a cute show, and it’s something different. I’m really happy about it. Gems have no gender, but alas I know this show is full of scenes that can be censored. Because, you know, you can’t say: “They have no gender”, children would see it anyway and they understand these characters seem and act like females. Somebody think this is wrong in many levels, for kids. And I admit, I had some prejudices that the italian version would be censored or resized. I was SURE. And I was wrong. Italian version is even more clear than the english one. And that makes me so happy, you can’t understand. This is the lyrics:

Now Garnet is back. My strength is doubled. You know, because we are a duo, with us you are a goner. I know you should be only annihilate. You can’t think you can decide. With the two of us every rule no longer applies. Now we are us, let’s see what you want. Don’t hope you can separate us, there’s nothing that could move us away (from each other) It’s a long-lasting and powerful bond, I’m sorry, you can’t do nothing about it. All alone you must pay more attention, we will defend this union. But even if you could separate our duo, I would try to run away, if I was you. Know that there’s only love in us, only love in us, only love in us, only love in us, only love in us, only love in us…We are two halves of a unit If you hope to stop us, that’s not gonna happen I am a feeling that will never end I will protect my planet From all you will do to it Don’t hope you can separate us, there’s nothing that could move us away (from each other) If you can’t calm down the fear, it’s because being alone is harder. We are in balance and harmony, fighting together is better. We are the strength and the patience, we are the resistance. Know that there’s only love in us, only love in us, only love in us, can’t you see it too?There’s love in us, only love in us, only love in us, can’t you see it too?There’s love in us, only love in us, only love in us, can’t you see it too?There’s love in us, only love in us, only love in us, can’t you see it too?

In the original version, Garnet says: “I am made of love, and it’s stronger than you”. In the italian, it’s: “There’s just love in us, why don’t you see it?” It’s not like: “I’m stronger than you” it’s like: “You are weak, because you can’t understand what means to love someone like we do”

And Garnet’s voice is so beautiful.

holdmymocktail

I will need to hear this a few times in order to better combine picture and lyrics as I don’t speek the language. But yes, the voice is good but the lyrics, however the lyrics are amazing! And to point out that Garnet isn’t stronger but it is Jasper how is weaker is better in my book. I honestly think I like this version better judging by the lyrics

#Steven Universe #Garnet #Jasper #Jain Break