Ghita The Panda (I do art commissions)

If the Rise TMNT gets a crossover with turtles from a previous series, I think 1987 would probably be considered overdone, unless folks are hoping for a "third times the charm" sort of situation because Turtles Forever made the 87 turtles OOC and while the 2012 crossover fixed that, I also heard that there was this whole thing where the 87 turtles were somehow treated as incompetent fighters that people complained about that even Turtles Forever at least didn't do for some reason.

I only watched Turtles Forever, and while I lack nostalgia for the original cartoon, that lack of nostalgia does allow me to appreciate the moments where the 80s turtles and stuff were put in a more positive spotlight (80s Raph's jokes, 80s Don's attitude with his tech saving their asses and also Bepop and Rocksteady accidentally killing Utrom Shredder with their comic relief shenanigans). It's not as mean spirited to the 80s version as people's probable nostalgia goggles would led em to believe, even if there is still some merit to it.

Anyways, back to the original topic of ROTMNT, if I were to decide which other series should get the "previous team" representative for a crossover, I'd put the 2003 version in there. There's still likely going to be that "this one is more serious vs the other" but this time the "sillier side" are going to be more in the MC spotlight this time around and I think the version that's close to comic accurate contrasting the ones very much different from the source is still a nice dynamic to explore. Sure, Turtles Forever's dynamic is technically like that too but the Rise bois are just so much more different than any other version. Also because the 2003 Turtles are close to the comics, I also think it'll be nice for some of the stuff from Volume 4 of the Mirage Comics to be adapted here in a form of a timeskip. Age up the 03 Turtles to be adults and finally bring Shadow Jones into an animated adaptation already dangit because turtles being cute uncles to Shadow Jones is the best thing from the comics that unfortunately has yet really be brought outside the original comics officially.

I hope we see a crossover with the mirage turtles not being stuck in that first issue

I want to see the mirage turtles at their current form older with the scars from their past

The Mirage comics have jumped all over the place in the timeline at this point so I suppose the closest we get to the "current" form that they could use is right before they've gone their separate ways in volume 4? or maybe just a bit before then?

NO WAY HOME REFERENCE!!!!!

I'm guessing Miguel is responsible for watching over all the spider people and the spiderverse itself, making sure it's stable.

Lol I can only imagine Peter and Stephen fucking up the multiverse in NWH almost gave Miguel an aneurysm 🤣

Remember when we had folks thinking Doctor Strange was gonna be the "tired dad" dealing with multiverse shenanigans but then it turns out he's JUST as guilty in causing trouble?

So now we have Miguel going "wtf!?"

it sucks that masks weren't already common in most of the world bc now ppl associate them so heavily with covid 19 and assume if ur wearing one then you must be super paranoid about that specific disease. like yeah i don't want to catch covid but i don't want most things that float around on public transport. also i like having a warm face. also it makes me look cool. maybe i just want the kakashi appeal. what's so wrong abt that.

Recently I've been wearing them with at least a sheet of tissue as an extra layer, not only because sneezing makes me feel paranoid about my mask but also, I drool in bed when napping at times and I rather keep my pillow clean

What he says: im fine

What he means: in Toy Story 2 Woody is treated as the rarest of the toys from Woody’s Roundup when he’s the main character of the show. That would mean he would have had a higher production number than any of his costars, and in fact probably would have been made for the longest and earliest of the toy line. Stinky Pete, by being the fan unfavorite, must have had a smaller run, and less of his toys would have survived in the 50s as kids would have needlessly damaged or destroyed him making him the rarest of the group and Woody the most common. If anything, the plot of Toy Story 2 should have revolved around Al stealing Woody’s hat as it would have been the item most sought after by collectors as it’s easily lost and not attached to an otherwise common doll. Fundamentally, Al’s apartment should have been littered with Woody dolls in various states of damage, all missing hats and maybe a handful of decent condition Woody dolls needing a hat while Stinky Pete is the rarest and most expensive as a collectors item.

@everyone saying Woody was a limited run or some shit like….. y’all telling me the character that got onto the cover of time magazine and had all this fucking merch didn’t saturate the market with Woody dolls? In the 50s at the height of capitalism and the baby boom???

real life be like:

Your error is in assuming that Woody is rare because few Woody dolls were made. Not the case: Many Woody dolls were made- and because of their popularity they were sold and played-with until they were wrecked and - this being the 50s - thrown out. That plastic Woody you’ve got there will outlast most civilizations: but our Woody? With his cloth body and its aging 1950s fabric? By the 80s most of those would be a wreck: cloth-body stuffed toys have a very short shelf-life once they’re out in the world. Store a Woody in the attic for ten years and the mice get him, or the mold, or the simple weight of time loosens the bindings and makes his limbs unravel. And the voice box? With an in-tact, still functional draw strings? Do oyou know how often those things jam? Woody is unique because he seems to have belonged to a family that takes unusually good care of their toys, going so far as to fix them. Toy from the 50s are not in any way shape or form equivalent to modern full-plastic toys or even BEanie Babies, which were sold primarily with a view to the long-term collectors market. There is absolutely nothing weird or strange in a Woody doll surviving in such good quality to 1999 being notable: his popularity and high production rate has zero impact on the toy’s long-term survivability. (Indeed, that high production rate could have even introduced a lot more manufacturing defects into shipped Woody dolls, creating an overall decline in quality.) Just because it saturated the market is no indication of longevity. Yes, Al sure has a lot of Woody stuff - and most of that is very rare. For a good comparison point hop over to ebay and start looking for vintage, no-package Howdy Doody dolls from the 1950s - not the 70s re-releases with 70s materials but the 50s ones. Start judging the quality: the faded fabrics, the dirt, the smudges, the dinginess, and you’ll begin to see why Al freaked out so much: he didn’t just just find a Woody with a hat, he found a Woody who was clean - with no chipping on the hand-painted face, whose hand-stitched hat hadn’t lost its stitching, whose arm break could be repaired by a master who knew what they were doing. A hundred thousand Woodys might have been made in the 50s - but the number that survived to the present day, out-of-box, out of the hands of collectors, in good enough shape to be polished-up into museum-quality condition?I Al found the treasure of a lifetime.

[Fun fact: according to the wiki, Woody’s full name is Woody Pride.]

^ me dropping everything to learn more about the intricacies of the Toy Story universe

Inspired by one of my own previous posts, I decided to make this comic which is just me pretending that Peter 2 (Tobey) has a daughter back home (because Mayday needs to exist somewhere outside the comics) and also an excuse for me to REALLY make this cute thing because thank goodness the “Peter numbering system” is just how they did it in No Way Home.

Bonus: (Bully edition complete with symbiote coloured shirt) 

Wow this comic is one year old

does anyone have that unsettling oil painting of a dark window with a sheet leading out into the darkness? it did the rounds on tumblr a while ago and i need itttt

YES THANK YOU

Dragan Bibin, Dead of Night

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i don’t… see a dog???  👀

Litmus test for “is the brightness on your phone too low for art appreciation”

So other than Garland and Sephiroth, are there any other FF villain, at least ones that has shown up in dissidia, that canonically uses at least mobile phones?

Has anyone come up with a headcanon where Sephiroth was just checking things out with his flip phone (because even in the Remake timeline where smartphones exist, Crisis Core with the flip phones still happened and I doubt Sephiroth upgraded) and sort of wows most other folks on the Chaos side except pre-Cycle 13 Cloud and Garland, the latter instead wows everyone with his Limp Bizkit-playing SMARTPHONE?

This was an interesting thing to contemplate! I listed some possibilities below, although this might go beyond the scope of your question. (’might’ lol) (not listing 7 and SoP below since you already mentioned them)

Certain/almost certain mobile phone tech present in the world FF8 - I find the idea of Adel using a mobile phone ridiculous...but it’s entirely possible that the FF8 world has mobile phone presence. At least in Esthar if nowhere else, communication tech would have been severely stunted elsewhere for the past couple decades. I mean, come on, Esthar has tech to go to the moon. Of course they have mobile phones. Once the signal interference elsewhere was lifted, the rest of the world can’t be too far behind in getting mobile phone tech. That said, Ultimecia is from the far future that we never see, there’s no telling what kind of tech she had available to her. FF13 - oh this game definitely has mobile phones, if not smartphones or some kind of wearable communication tech. What’s a different matter is if the villains use them? I mean, the soldier head honchos definitely would have used them as well as all the main cast, but did Galenth Dysley ever bother using them? He’s a fal’Cie, he wouldn’t need them except maybe to communicate with human underlings who think he’s human...but he has said human underlings to do all the mundane stuff for him. I’d vote he never touched one. FF15 - smartphones are confirmed for Eos. It’s unknown if Ardyn ever touched one though, he lived as a human really long ago...and who’d he call in the present day? Is he really the type to play around on a smartphone? .......he could well be, although we don’t see it. FF Type-0 - they had at least personal communications systems suitable for the battlefield if nothing else. In this kind of war-ridden world they probably(?) didn’t have smartphones, too much of a leisure thing, but personal communication devices are present and accounted for and essential in the battlefield. And if Byakko did have something like smartphones...well, Cid most certainly had access. FF Dimensions II - the future world would definitely have smartphone-capable tech. What remains under question is if they bothered making them, they’re very...docile, the people of the future. No drive to do anything. And in any case, stuff seems to be controlled by their wristlet devices, they might have moved on. Technically there’s no villains capable of using such tech even if it exists, though, since they tend to be more forces of nature kind in this game! FF Spirits Within & Unlimited - SW world most definitely had mobile phones at least, no doubt about it. Smartphones are missing only if nobody bothered continuing to make them after the phantoms arrived. As for Unlimited, the starting world might have had mobile phones, although I doubt they were quite up to smartphones yet.

More tentative presence of communicative tech in the world FF4 - it’s entirely possible that the lunarian civilization has (or at least once upon a time had) something comparable, albeit crystal-based. Ever looked at all the tech in the Lunar Whale? It’s entirely possible they had something like mobile phones, which could mean that Zemus used them once upon a time, or that Golbez might have gained access post-OG. Although, who’d he call, what with all the lunarians asleep.... FF9 - Gaia likely doesn’t have any, but Terra? Considering the advanced level the Terran civilization must have, Garland most likely has access to such tech. Although who’d he call if he did bother making himself a phone? It’s probably stored away in information databases somewhere, ready for the re-establishment of Terran civilization. Now, other types of personal communicative devices though...it’s possible some of the more advanced genomes had them to be on call for Garland’s experiments. I doubt Garland would have given anything too advanced to Kuja though, for many reasons. FF10 - the current civilization doesn’t have access to such things I’m pretty sure, but Zanarkand? Who’s to say. And since dream Zanarkand was based on the real one, Jecht (and Tidus) might have had them. FF12 - there’s something resembling radios at least, and since this is a civilization with flying taxi cabs... I wouldn’t consider it out of the question for them to develop the tech soon. I wouldn’t even consider it out of the question if the higher echelons of Archadia have (at least experimental) versions already. Therefore, Vayne most likely has access to whatever their closest equivalent is. FFTA/TA2 - to be more exact, the origin world in these two games. I think they might have some primitive brick-type ‘mobile’ phones, considering that they have video games. It doesn’t seem like they’re quite up to smartphones yet though, I get the feeling that they’re a decade or two out. That said, all the villains are from the worlds beyond the Grimoires, not from the origin world/time, so they wouldn’t have had access. FFCC Crystal Bearers - I was unable to confirm with my weak memories of the game, but the tech level seems about right to have something resembling mobile phones. It’s another game with advanced magitek, and they have magitek-powered lasers and full-color screens and such. I figure mobile phones wouldn’t be too far out, so Jegran likely had access to such if they did have them. Someone’s gonna have to help out here, my Wii is borked and I don’t have other means of accessing the game.

Magic-based communicative devices present in the world FF11 - no tech as such in the present world, but there’s at least linkpearls? It’s nothing as fancy since it’s single-purpose for communication only, but personal communicative devices definitely exist! As for the Zilart civilization, there’s no telling what they had or didn’t have. Eald’narche and Kam’lanaut might or might not have had something like mobile phones. FF14 - there’s linkpearls again. And, well...uhh....I may or may not be severely behind on the story so I can’t comment further on the possible presence of smartphones in certain more advanced civilizations. It’s...entirely possible?

I think that about covers the series!