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Playing Poker Night at the Inventory 2 is kinda weird when Ash Williams happens to be my final opponent.

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:20:14 -0400

Vital Testing Apparatus Destroyed: artemisio87: fuchsiamae: artemisio87 replied to your post: shapeform...

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:40:00 -0400

Vital Testing Apparatus Destroyed: artemisio87: fuchsiamae: artemisio87 replied to your post: shapeform...:

fuchsiamae:

artemisio87 replied to your post: shapeform replied to your post: if any major…

can you imagine tho? from silent, infuiriated, possibly brain-damaged, Chell becomes talkative, snarky, scared but strong in face of the events. Oh and also they would…

Are you kidding me? In the Hollywood Version it would be Doug Rattmann in the end who defeats GLaDOS (who is of course a snarky but also TOTALLY HOT SKANKY BITCH. And Chell who is actually not whitewashed because OH MY GOD LOOKIT HOLLYWOOD BEING ALL PROGRESSIVE - and who must choose between Good Guy Rattmann and Evil Snarky English Bastard (Who is now also human and possibly played by um…Hugh Grant or something) Wheatley who SEEMS perfect at first but causes her to go into fits of hopeless crying and unable to function until wonderful wonderful Doug Rattmann comes along to save her with the power of LOVE and cliched relationships.

Oh.. And ALL of GLaDOS insults would be nothing but trashy sex jokes.

Alternatively - we could have Nice-Guy Hero Doug Rattmann who really just wants to paint with his best friend Manic Pixie Dream Girl Chell (who is DEFINITELY white-washed) whom he has been in TRUE LOVE with for ages, His arch nemesis Super Popular Rich British Stereotype Wheatley and his best (Total Idiot) friends Rick and Cragi and girlfriend (Mega Rich Popular All-American Girl GLaDOS)…something something something Doug eventually gets noticed for his art and convinces Magic Pixie Dream Girl Chell to fall in love with him and become serious about her life, leaving her go-nowhere job at Aperture.

We may also have Workaholic Boss Caroline and Sexist Pig Big Boss Cave.

Fortunately, I couldn’t see Valve giving up a lot of creative control. They take a long time to make their games but the games are worth the wait…I would like to think they would try to maintain such a stance on any films made of their work, particularly one that holds such a high status amongst gamers.

You are now a timelord

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:30:42 -0400

the-lost-doctor:

the amount of followers you have is how old you are

the person you reblog this from is your companion

your icon is what your current regeneration looks like

your job (or one of your parent’s jobs) is your timelord name

My job? Because that would make me…The Doctor. Snap.

The Unsigned's list of Songs People Should Listen To

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:36:59 -0400

I’m by no means done. But I am enjoying this immensely. This is the first bit and well…1-2 days later I’ll have another crop of stuff. I haven’t even TOUCHED on my metal collection yet.

I wanted to start with Cab Calloway. I am exceptionally fond of Cab Calloway. A lot of his songs were the background to Betty Boop cartoons which ARE cool but half of the fun of Cab Calloway is his dancing. (I don’t know if Matt Smith can sing but considering his performance as 11, I can easily picture him being that one white dude who could pull off some of Cab Calloway’s moves. Minnie the Moocher is the song I chose (though I would gladly say St. James Infirmary Blues.) and how better to get this started than Cab Calloway his amazing dorky dancing to a song he all too obviously loves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq4UT4VnbE

I’m a huge fan of metal so I assume that you’ll see this a lot. Also since most of my FL are Portal fans…I absolutely have to tell you that the women in this video are my interpretations of a female Cave Johnson and GLaDOS. But it’s a metal cover of a Lady Gaga song – Bad Romance which I enjoy and again I find a lot of the enjoyment one gets out of a song is the visual aspect and this is one visual aspect I enjoy quite a lot. So a cover of Bad Romance by The Demonstration. (To that end I also am fond of Gaga’s version.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZT0TonelnY

I know this a bit of a down note – I wanted to have an X Japan song in here somewhere and I was thinking maybe Tears or Crucify My Love or X or Rusty Nail see: music video enjoyment but I thought alright let’s be serious and I decided on Forever Love. I decided on it partly because I am totally going to do a metal group that is more modern and it makes my decisions on Sonata Arctica easier but heck – it is heartbreaking and WONDERFUL to watch the live version of Forever Love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SNeBitRz8

To bring up the note I love Bye Bye Bye by N’Sync. I kind of defy anyone to not enjoy pop songs that are bouncy and upbeat.I think most of us poked our share of fun at pop music growing up but it’s one of those things that is legitimately the best kind of song to work out to. Plus the music videos are fun as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-KmOd3i7s

NickCave and the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand. I love the beat of this song and I love NickCave. He’s another artist who gets so into his music that it’s a joy to watch as much as the song is great. He has an utterly FANTASTIC voice too. He also has a few songs I’d like to have picked – his duet with Kylie Minogue (Where the Wild Roses Grow) was almost for this. Hell who says it couldn’t be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k

I now come to two bands that it was torment to pick songs for because there are so many I love,\

Bad Religion – I Love My Computer. I figured – again with the Portal fandom so many of my Friendslist people are as big of technophiles as I am. I love the song for so many reasons. It’s in the subversive text of Bad Religion about so many other things and also easily relatable as a song about loving technology and even if you’d like to read it that way – loving it a little too hard. I love a song that can be easily taken literally. Also it is totally able to be danced to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkwcehPhOXw

I actually can’t pick. I wanted Shamandalie for my Sonata Arctica choice but considering I chose something so depressing for X-Japan I am going to go with The End of this Chapter. I admittedly am biased because it’s a song I chose to perform once but one of the reasons I like it so much is the guitar part and also I LOVE the keyboard work. Also Tony Kakko is completely freaking hot and has the most glorious voice on the planet. I defy anyone not to get weak in the knees a little listening to him. I actually wanted to pick a song I know I could find him singing live but um…this is one of the most gorgeous showcases of his voice. And he’s one of those rare artists whose live performances are as miraculously clean as the album versions. Oh and in case you don’t believe me, look up Tony Kakko doing acoustic covers of his songs live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBjfHkNvA0

The Girl and the Robot feat. Robyn. Maybe it’s that technophile thing coming up but I wanted to change gears a bit Royksopp as a band is more noted for their instrumentals not vocals so I think it’s pretty cool that they did a song with a noted singer that was vocal heavy. Also again part of the pull is the music video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfckrfOYAy4

Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues. Their whole album is fantastic and both my flatmate and I seem to have the same memories of being kids and having the Moody Blues as driving music. And It is good singing into your hairbrush music plus there’s so much wonderful orchestral bits going on in the songs. This simply happens to be my favourite song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l59IPomH7Q

TRI-angle feat. BOA and the Trax – I like this because it combines so many styles of music. The violins mixed with electric guitar and drums – This was a song when Rose from the Trax was the drummer and he is a FANTASTIC drummer . Also the vocalists are all basically pop stars. I chose to go with the music video because I like the way that BOA is presented in the music video rather than the ‘sexy’ version. No two ways about it she’s a beautiful woman but her part in this song looks so much better when she’s in an angelic white dress than a sexy black leather midriff baring thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM8wZRaHXTg

Could you send me your address again? I think I lost it and your post reminded me that oh my god I...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:12:00 -0400

Could you send me your address again? I think I lost it and your post reminded me that oh my god I still have your food that I need to send you. Soon!

Maybe it’s after a whole 24 hours of going through hell but now that I’m allowed to eat...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:11:38 -0400

Maybe it’s after a whole 24 hours of going through hell but now that I’m allowed to eat sodium again I am craving things (Hey my pain helped the medical scientific community I’m okay with that.) But all I can think about right now is cheezits. They don’t sell them in Canada and the last time I had any was Christmas when I visited my Flatmate;s family and then before that when Valentia gave me a box.

God help me if I don’t want some though. I like the regular and the tabasco and the swiss ones best I don’t know why I am even writing this I just wanty.

I am going to write a long involved post about music I like.

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:45:00 -0400

The best part about this is the fact that a long involved post about music I like involves me listening to music I like.

Also essentially there is no way that this can go wrong. I get to listen to music I love and anyone who reads the post might find something new to enjoy. And yes I am going to find youtube links.

I'm not trying to say your fics aren't great because they are. You are one of the few people who writes OC's I don't mind. I'm just curious as to why you do.

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:58:11 -0400

Thanks for saying my fics are great. It’s always nice to have a fan. I wrote some posts on writing original characters (Unfortunately I am feeling a tad lazy so you’ll have to look through my tags)

For the quick and dirty, OC’s are important factors. First and foremost they flesh out a universe. There are other people in the world beside the OC’s. For example - Harry Potter would simply not have been believable if we didn’t know there were Pavarti Patils and Ernie MacMillans and Blaise Zabinis about. No they were not part of Harry’s story. Nor was Dudley’s school friends. They were there though to remind readers that Harry’s universe was real.

I’m not going to lie - I went through my Mary sue phase like I imagine most of us did.

The other reason I like having original characters is because I like to write one with a specific point to him or her. All characters have a point to them - for example the story I’m drumming out right now - I wished to include a character who would show that the Turtles valued their ninjitsu training when they saw someone basically showboating.

Plus it is fun to really make a character - I like writing M. She’s fat and egomanical.

Hell egomania is probably the best defense for ‘enjoyment of writing characters’

Reblog if you are a Time Lord and then check your ask.

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:07:20 -0400

susanforemanbackstrom:

YES

So what is your favorite food this month?

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:28:24 -0400

Good question.

At the beginning of the month I was actually really put off by meat and all animal products. But in the past few days I’ve been seriously enjoying it if not craving it.

What my ‘favourite food’ is right now is um…I’m just going to go with what I’ve wanted recently,

Breakfast foods, Um, scrambled eggs, potato scones and pan fried mushrooms and tomatoes. I also had square slices, black pudding and baked beans. Apart from the scrambled eggs that’s pretty close to a full Scottish breakfast.

I once treated my flatmate to a full Scottish breakfast at the pub where I normally write…We had beers. At about noon. With breakfast. It was fantastic I highly reccomend doing it even if you don’t care for beer. (My point being - you drank alcohol with breakfast. Who wouldn’t feel a bit of being a badass for doing it? AND I drank Guinness, which I don’t even really like - but still badass, drinking the most manly drink on the planet with effin’ breakkie.)

But that seems to be my monthly favourite at least we had Brinner and the next morning I made breakfast. I’m all over the map this month. I wanted nothing more than Mexican food last night and tonight tuna spaghetti. A few nights ago I ordered pizza which I basically did various forms on double cheese and pepperoni and black olives and green peppers and mushrooms.

Also right now I am in the final hours of work for the hospital where I am not eating salt so a doctor-to-be can see what sodium deficiency does…

My hands are shaking so bad I look like I have DT, I actually probably do come to think of it.

But I have salted crisps and tortilla chips and all this stuff at home which I can eat in an hour when I get home from the hospital and MY GOD I want to. Maybe that’s the answer..

What is your biggest fear?

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:07:58 -0400

Hell I guess every person on the planet has a giant fear that is more than a tad silly.

Mine is - or more accurately are Impostor Syndrome and people seeing me without my contacts.

The former is easy enough to explain and probably a good lot of my fellow academics will feel this way one day or another. Even someone I saw as being incredibly well grounded got this. I guess just think of it as walking into a room full of people who are just as good as you and starting to believe that the only reason you are allowed to be there is that no one has figured out yet that you are a fraud and you’re just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

It is a very scary place to be.

I also hate my eyes for - well I know every psychological reason for both my fears but it doesn’t stop me from having them.

I hate the idea of people seeing my eyes and I wear contacts. Even with my glasses on and even to bed. The only time I take them out is when I’m locked into the bathroom having a shower. I have grey ones that look very normal. Grey covers blue better than blue covers grey and it is very hard to find blue lenses that look like natural eye colours.

I’m perfectly aware that my godparents and grandparents have seen me since I was a baby and didn’t wear corrective lenses and Im aware that my close friends and my flatmate they are around all the time. However I can’t really get over that stigma and thus I have my coloured contact lenses because it helps.

More turtles

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:27:16 -0400

I am nearly done with this - as said I want this thing to be one big episode like thing and I think I’m getting there.

“Aw heck yes! Major fun!” Mikey agreed

“That’s how we are going to teach the Pulverizer.”

All four turtles and April stared but the woman gave a confident smile.

“A drop of Donatello’s Anti-Mutagen will keep Timothy coherent for about a minute. We just saw that it does.”

Donatello himself nodded. “Yes I believe if we find a dose that will last for a longer time and ensure that he can take it for…”

Amber was aware of the fact that Donatello was staring at her. “Heck…I’m going to have to do it aren’t I?”

“Well yes. Someone will have to. That’s going to be you. Plus you’re the one with the ideas right now.”

“Well yes. I um…could I borrow a staff?”

“Donnie goes through the things like water.”

Donatello himself scowled. He’d never quite gotten beyond the fact that bo staves did not share the same longevity as swords and nunchucks. It was Master Splinter that handed over a bo staff.

“This is a proper ninja weapon. Treat it with respect, young lady.”

Amber winced. “Well…I also would…like some music please. I don’t have a preference but I work out to things that are heavy on the percussion.”

Michelangelo unsurprisingly volunteered his Tpod. The idea of combining dance with some form of Ninjitsu had captured his interest since the moment it had been brought up.

Donatello shook his head.

April noted his sour expression. “Donnie?”

Looking weak in front of April was something Donatello couldn’t abide. The single utterance had him back in the proverbial saddle in no time. “Actually, this could work. Uh. Guys just be careful. We know that Timothy’s body can cause damage to metal and wood. We wouldn’t want Amber to get herself hurt. If her idea turns out to be worth something we can incorporate it ourselves.”

The Mutagen man was turned loose against Amber in the space that the Turtles used for sparring.

“Okay. Um…all I want him to do is get the bo staff.” She looked at the turtles, hoping they would come through for her.

As it turned out, the woman had a decent sense of rhythm, spinning the staff around herself. To the ninjas it became very clear that very little of what she was doing was offensive or even actual martial arts, though it certainly looked very cool.

At first the mutation of Timothy flailed and threw himself randomly around the floor, not noticing his opponent at all.

“He’s a total idiot this way!” Raphael turned away. “Big waste of time.”

“Wait!” Michelangeo was riveted. Sure enough, the blob of organs had fixated on Amber, manipulating his tentacles to snap at the constantly moving staff.

She was struggling almost immediately. Her movements changed from in time to the music to basic and desperate defense.

Eventually Timothy managed to knock the staff out of her hands. It went spinning across the floor, the wood blackened from where it had been touched by his tentacles. Michelangeo dropped his Tpod and rescued the girl while Donatello recaptured Timothy in his jar.

Once the group had stopped breathing hard, Splinter spoke up. “I believe the young lady is on to something.”

“I think that…he can learn and…um…”

“Well that was incredibly stupid.” Donatello was evidently either unimpressed and perhaps mildly offended by the ‘bo staff tricks to music’. “But, I agree with Sensei. I think at least a point was made. Timothy never did listen to us when we told him mutation would be a pain. Amber here says he’s never listened. So maybe we should listen to him. Maybe this is the way to get through.”

Splinter nodded. “I am glad you are taking this position my son and I am very proud of you for maintaining your responsibility to this young man.”

“So we aren’t using him?”

“Oh you most definitely are using him. It’s simply that you are doing so responsibly right now. Tell me, did anyone benefit from asking him to spy on the Foot?”

“No.” It was not Donatello but Leonardo who spoke up.

“Precicely.”

* I unsurprisingly have come up with music. I’ve been on this huge Korean pop kick for awhile…and I actually have pop music in general for working out. I defy anyone to not groove a little to some old N’Sync songs. And right now it’s Nillili Mambo by Block B and TRIangle featuring BOA. It’s not the best writing music IMO – I had to stop and dance in my chair for a bit. Definitely all for the jogging Pop music is. I am not sure – I think that in the spirit of being more Japanese Mikey would enjoy J-Rock. So he’d dig something like X Japan (obviously not the ballads) But something like Rusty Nail.

more turtles

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:06 -0400

As I said I want to make this oneshot episodic and I’m slowly but surely getting into the heart of this

“He went missing because he is a blob.”

“Yes.”

The turtles as a unit refused to unchain Amber. Amber herself walked over to the glass tube that contained Timothy. Her right hand trailed behind her on a chain.

“This is serious.”

“Heck yes it is.” Leonardo told her.

“Okay. I still think I can help you. However I think you need to decide. Listen. Timothy doesn’t listen. Trust me…the fact that he got himself into this mess is typical. I’m more than thirty years old and he tells people I am his girlfriend.”

“No offense but you’re OLD.” Michelangeo interjected. Amber took it in stride.

Amber giggled and then sobered. “I think you should try the fix.”

Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo agreed. “Try it.”

“But what if…?”

“Do it.” The last came from Master Splinter.

Donatello was unable to resist a direct order from his sensei and he poured a drop with a shaking hand into Timothy’s tube.

The effect was instantaneous. Timothy; his real human self was sat on the floor blinking up at the ninja turtles.

“Timothy?” Donatello ventured.

“I—“ and that was as far as he got before he reverted back to his mutated self.

The Mutagen man sat there, unironically quietly. Like Dogpound and Fishface before him, his mutated state had been initially frantic. Apparently he had come to some kind of rational terms with his state.

“It works! I can’t believe it…but um yeah. Doesn’t last.”

“I have an idea,” Amber spoke up. “You don’t have to untie me. Just listen.”

“I’ve long given up on getting Timothy to listen to me as a person. I kind of assume you have the same issue.”

Donatello nodded and Leonardo and Raphael looked guilty. Michelangelo seemed rather oblivious. April had sat down next to Amber

“Well…you are all brothers, right?”

There was a collective four person affirmative nod.

“It is my inexpert opinion that you have played the game of keep away.”

The turtles chuckled amougst themselves.

“Well…does Timothy do anything well in his mutated state?”

“He can disintegrate weapons.” Michelangeo put forth

Amber nodded. “Well…given that he’ll listen to me and that he does have some power maybe we can use that to our advantage.”

Raphael glared at the girl “Really? You expect us to believe that?”

“Yes as a matter of fact.”

The girl was set free. This didn’t stop Raphael from drilling her into the floor.

“She still could be faking.’” Donatello said

“Her ego wouldn’t let her.” Evidently beating the sole woman and female ninja in the group had started to hold a bit of weight. April had some of Amber Madigan’s number.

“I believe we should allow the woman to speak.”

“Im sorry again for being a false Ninja. Or however I ought to have said that. My idea was this. We all understand that Timothy won’t listen to us and I assume he’s hopeless at being a ninja.”

All four Turtles nodded in unison. April simply shrugged.

“Okay. Stay with me. You lot are brothers correct?”

“Yeah. I don’t see what that has to do with anything.”

Well, The best Defense is a good Offense. Hey y’know who said that? The cook on Alice!” The joke was lost on the turtles. “Never mind. Look. Timothy or ‘The Pulverizer’ as you know him could be of use to you if you trained him to be so.”

Donatello’s eyes went wide. “Yeah….yean.”

“What can he do in his slime form?”

“Melt weapons?” Michelangeo supplied

Amber grinned. “Say. You are all brothers. How old are you?

“Sixteen….give or take.” Leonaro said.

“You lot are familiar with the game of ‘keep away’”

“Aw hell yes! Major fun!” Mikey agreed

“That’s how we are going to teach the Pulverizer.”

All four

I have a newfound respect for pringles.

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:09:15 -0400

Right now I am going through my own personal hell. One of the students in the teaching hospital I work at asked me if he could use me as a test subject for his paper about sodium deficiency.

I actually don’t mind and am HAPPY to do it but I have goten to the point where I’m coming to regret it

We discussed ,my health problems and he said I should eat small amounts of salt until I feel beter (He himself has sodium deficiency but he can’t very well work on himself.)

I am sure this is going to sound weird - I buy peanuts so that I can lick the salt off them. and then I take my salt shaker and put more salt on them

But in this situation - pringles and ready salted crisps. I can just simply eat a small handful and it prevents me from getting what may only be described as DT’s.

‘

More of the Turtles Story (I'm getting into the heart of it now.)

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:50 -0400

April and Donatello had worked together before. April had the patience for research and Donatello’s ability for science took a hands-on type of approach. It was this that the duo appeared to be taking a rare amount of dissent over.

“Donnie, I understand.” April had grabbed his arm.

“No, you don’t April. I need to try this. This could be it.” The tall, lanky turtle easily shook April off. Leonardo and Raphael left their ‘prisoner’ to the tender mercies of Michelangelo to observe the argument. All things considered, watching Donatello argue with April was a rare event, either for entertainment value or serious business.

April was adamant. “I don’t think we have enough evidence.”

“April we…um…” Donatello had never really been able to resist his crush on the girl and watching his scientific side war with his rational side was entertaining for his brothers, for all of five minutes.

Leonardo slapped him. Raphael looked over at him with a touch of concern. Leo had not been incorporating ‘Space Heroes’ into his leadership role for quite some time.

“Thanks.” Donatello shook his head. “Sorry April.”

“Would you just tell us the problem already?” Raphael spoke up.

“I think I found a way to help Timothy.”

April shoved Donatello in the stomach. “We can’t test it on living creatures!”

“What do you want me to do April? Really what? Pour some on my brothers? On Master Splinter? On a slice of pizza? What? We have to test it on a mutated being.”

April shoved him again. “Of course we do!”

Leonardo and Raphael caught one another’s gaze. Whatever Donatello and April were doing, it sounded a lot like agreeing with one another at high decibel levels.

Raphael was the first to get fed up. “So what exactly DID you do? Ethics aside.”

“Donnie thinks he found a way to help Timothy.” April started.

Leonardo stepped in. Raphael making major decisions rankled with him. “What is the problem?”

“Donatello wants to test it—“

“Yes I want to test it.” Donatello himself cut in.

\ “And I think he is being rash because he’s blaming himself for the Pulverizer.”

“Where exactly am I going to test it otherwise.”

Leonardo stepped literally between them. “Donnie, explain. April, be quiet.”

Donatello took a moment to stick his tongue out at April and then apologize profusely. “Well I couldn’t have done it without April actually. Sorry April. I was looking at the construction on a molecular level of various items we’ve retrieved from the Kraang. It’s rather fascinating…um…you don’t care.”

Raphael was glib in his response. “Duh.”

“Fine. I’ll dumb it down for you. We tried to come up with a neutralizer for the mutagen. By my calculations it will not be a permanent fix but it should last if you keep taking it.”

“Like a shot of insulin for diabetes. It’s a human disease.” April added, somewhat enthusiastically.

Donatello’s response to that was a positive smile but he frowned a moment later. “I don’t have any way to test it.”

“Yes, and if you do and it fails we might murder someone!” April exclaimed.

“I want to help Timothy!” Donatello shot back.

Raphael looked over at Leonardo.

Leonardo looked at Raphael.

The four were aware of being watched by Michelangelo and Amber. When they had decided to tune into the conversation was unknown.

“I think…you should try it.” Leonardo spoke up at last. “I mean…I think Timothy would have wanted that, don’t you?”

April was forced into a position of ignorance as the turtles made their decision. She knew very little about the Mutagen Man apart from what Donatello had told her but she had seen the results that Donatello had in his lab and had been blaming himself about to the point of obsession.

“I hate this.” Donatello lamented. “It’s not even about can I do this. I know I’m right. It’s more that he never listens. He’s completely delusional. April doesn’t get it. She’s never met him!”

April shrugged.

“It is true…” Leonardo was evidently thinking. Hard. His gaze darted between Donnie and April as he tried to determine what was the best recourse.

“I…I think we should try Donnie’s solution. On Timothy.”

April glared at Leonardo, Donatello grinned but before his crush on April could come into play they were interrupted by their prisoner.

“I might be able to help you but I need to know what happened to Timothy first.”

All eyes locked onto Donatello. The Pulverizer’s fate really was his personal business and after a few moments of standing around, he went and brought out the container they had trapped the mutated human in.

Obviously Amber had not been expecting that, but she didn’t recoil either.

“Good stomach!” Michelangelo noted enthusiastically.

“I write horror stories. I want to be published some day..” The statement came out a bit rehearsed and mechanical but she was looking at living proof of sentient internal organs in jelly. “This is Timothy?”

“Yes.”

“He went missing because he is a blob.”

“Yes.”

more of my turtles fic

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:08:25 -0400

continued from here

In the main part of the lair, Splinter had wrapped the blonde’s torso in bandages and helped to secure her limbs with thick chains to various parts of the couch. It did not sit well with any of them, tying down an apparently defenceless woman. A small spat regarding what Leonardo would have done had Karai been the individual in question nearly came to light but with their sensei there the argument did not escalate and the deed was soon done.

Evidently satisfied with the results, the Ninja Master retreated to his sanctum. Leonardo eventually found himself watching Space Heroes and Michelangelo was slowly working his way through the notebook while Raphael was alternatively pacing, doing katas and he once tried a rather pitiful round of pinball. The same question was on everyone’s mind, regardless of the fact that the individual in question was her own person.

“I can’t stand it anymore!” Michelangeo screeched.

“I know! I know!”

“Is Raquel going to get bitten by her own boyfriend?”

“Wait, what?”

“Vampires of the Bronx, man. This stuff is GOLD!”

Raphael rolled his eyes and nodded at Leonardo. “Yeah I get it. Is she going to be another April or another Karai?”

“Karai was proud to be part of the Foot.”

“Who is to say she didn’t have the same ideas we did? Send in a spy.” Leonardo didn’t particularly enjoy being reminded of the fact that his choice had blown everyone’s chances of having the girl as an ally.

“It seems a little coincidental.” Raphael was mindful of the fact that he was actually opposing the position he imagined he’d be taking. “You heard what Master Splinter said. This girl’s weapon isn’t a Ninja weapon. It’s a fake. It sounds just like what we did. Exactly.”

“You mean, sending in a moron to spy.” He glanced at his brother but it appeared Raphael had run out of introspective ideas. Nonetheless he was looking at the girl in a different light. “You think she wanted to be a hero?”

“No. I didn’t.”

Three heads snapped around towards the sound of the voice. A clank of chains heralded the fact that their new acquisition was struggling to sit up. She did eventually manage to raise herself up on her elbows but the weight of the chains dragged her, wrists-first back down to the couch.

As humans went, she seemed more attractive awake than asleep, but few people did look ‘attractive’ after being laid out.

“Ouch!”

Leonardo stepped over the extension of chain. “Do you remember what happened?”

The woman startled at the sight of a 5 foot 9 bipedal turtle speaking to her but much to to the suspicions of the Turtles themselves she did not back away. “Yes. I…I got hit, I assume.”

When her stuttering failed to loosen her chains or garner sympathy, she elaborated.

“Look, I’m a writer and…that’s my notebook!” She made a movement towards Michelangelo and fell face first into the couch again with her wrists trapped under her.

“And it is AWESOME.”

“Hey, do you really think so?”

“YEAH!”

Leonardo and Raphael did not share Michelangeo’s enthusiasm, folding their arms and watching. Eventually she looked back towards them. She noticed the aggressive stance and turned back.

“Okay, I wasn’t prying. I lived at an apartment above an auto shop a short distance away. I had some writers’ block and I saw the fight and I wanted to get closer to see what was going on and if I could use it. The next thing I know I was waking up here.”

“How do you feel?” Leonardo interjected.

“Sore.”

“You are going to be fine. Master Splinter isn’t a doctor but he understands wounds from battle.”

Raphael’s eyes hardened beneath his mask. “About that. What was up with that?” He kicked at the snapped ‘bo-staff’ that Splinter had dismissed as fake.

This time, the woman’s face coloured. “I didn’t expect to find myself in the company of real ninjas. I expect this is going to sound offensive.”

When she didn’t continue, Raphael pounded his fist into his hand. The gesture had the desired effect.

“My friend is into this stuff. I mean he went to one of those Chris Bradford Martial Arts academies and everything. Well one day, he shows me these videos online of people doing bo staff tricks and things to music. I thought it was cool so I decided to try it out. I was a baton twirler in high school so I just assumed I could do it. I’ve been doing it for kind of exercise. I’m not bad. I just am a good mimic.” She paused while Raphael gave a snort of contempt. “Wait I’m not done. I was coming home one night from the gym late and I got stopped by a mugger. The guy wanted my purse and mobile phone I guess. I told him I knew Martial Arts and did a few tricks with the staff there and he ran, probably just because I looked like I knew what I was doing. I’ve been carrying the thing around because I assumed that I could pull off the same trick again. I don’t know any ninja tricks and the last Japanese thing I even saw was translated Anime on the local tv channel or maybe grocery store sushi.”

Leonardo and Raphael looked at one another.

“She could be lying.” Raphael suggested. The silence hung in the air for all of a moment. “I don’t think she is.”

Out of all his brothers, Raphael may not have been the most intelligent but he was certainly the most suspicious. If he could see his way clear to trusting their ‘prisoner’, that was more than enough for Leonardo.

“We’re sorry about the chains. I’m not going to let you free yet but I’ll let you have a free hand.”

“Hey, are you hungry? We have pizza.” Michelangelo offered her a box of green pepper and mushroom as she adjusted herself to lean on the right half of the couch where one manacle and a thick chain secured her to her seat. “We used these for a giant gator before. Leatherhead.”

“Oh.” She had gone a bit green. “Um, my name’s Amber. Amber Madigan. Thanks for the pizza. I was hungry.”

There was a long pause while pizza was being eaten. The woman seemed voracious, taking the extra slice without otherwise asking but apart from a slight whimper from Michelangeo, it went ignored. She had after all been unconscious for over 24 hours. Leonardo saw fit to break the silence when Amber seemed less starved and more sensible.

“What are you not telling us?” Raphael demanded.

“Raph!” Leonardo exclaimed but the accusation had the desired effect.

Amber looked up, twirling the manacle around her right wrist over and over. “Well…the friend I said gave me all of those online videos disappeared about ….14 days ago. He was in the flat next to mine. He kinda…well…he was this guy who drove an icecream truck over the summer…he was about eighteen. He kinda…told everyone he was my boyfriend. Thomas I think. I’ve never had a boyfriend in my life to be perfectly honest. But we were both online…he kept saying he knew ‘Ninja Turtles’. I thought it was…well geeky guys can be really oblivious, not that you’d know but he…wasn’t lying. Was he?”

Leonardo and Raphael looked at one another.

“No.” Leonardo said. “No he wasn’t…um…”

Raphael remained silent.

Never before had either wished for Donnie to interject with accuracy. April stood behind him, hugging herself around her torso.

I’m all over the random questions. Hey…in an hour it’ll be TMI Tuesday so get a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:02:31 -0400

I’m all over the random questions. Hey…in an hour it’ll be TMI Tuesday so get a head start.

Do you like the fact that the Pulverizer turned out to be Mutagen Man in the new TMNT?

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:51:00 -0400

First of all…spoilers but yes, I am. Happy that is.

I’ve made my opinions clear about how I feel with regards to 2012’s TMNT. I love the casual body horror and I love how finally the Turtles are distinctive personalities who grow and improve in their Martial arts ability rather than them being ‘teenagers who spout random Martial Arts and surfer talk’.

I love that the Pulverizer turned out to be the new Mutagen Man.

There is so much lore with the Turtles and comic books have been forever revamping - this is one case I think it worked. I was never a HUGE TMNT fan but I definitely remember the 1987 cartoon and the 2003 reboot of it. While I’m quite willing to admit there are some fun things - say I was 3/4 years old then but I’ve friends who are 2-3 years older and that can make a whack of difference. Things I vaguely remember they remember perfectly by dint of that extra few years.

To be direct about the answer, I know what the comics and the original series did with the character but personally, I’m excited that the series has Master Splinter take a more active role. I’m excited that April and Karai are part of the ‘teenager’ equation. I love the ‘new’ take on the series as a whole. I think having the Pulverizer as a part of that is goddamn brilliant.

I know there’s going to be long time fans who probably feel the decision should reflect the original TMNT comic…but I find it interesting that Donatello was originally the one who helped the Mutagen Man…and its reflected in the new series.

Obviously they are referencing their source material…and also…dude Pulverizer’s mutated form is a fucking horror movie. Im all over that shit.

emberwhite: Someone said they needed pictures of Wheatley...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:20:42 -0400

"Tiny little Wheatley did this!"

emberwhite:

Someone said they needed pictures of Wheatley opening up in the chassis?

being the person who asked for this I feel the need to reblog this

I've been watching Penn and Teller's Bullshit

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:57:24 -0400

I mean I may be a Christian and such like but it’s really a fine line I was actually rather offended by their takedown of AA - but I come from a country then again where Alcoholics Anon. isn’t an institution and I was a sponsor for an AA member.

Perhaps it might be the fact that AA is not about ‘god’ it’s ‘a higher power as you understand it’ which to me means - hell - the most persuasive argument for me against smoking was science - looking at my paternal grandfather’s lungs was enough for me to junk the things. but that’s a ‘higher power’ just as much as God is to me as a Christian.

anywho…some stuff is fun - like UFO’s and the science behind hypnotics

And then you get some things that you just wish you don’t care and wish you could not apply to logic.

Loch Ness for example. I don’t want to ruin that. I want to go swimming in the Loch even if biology and physics could proove Nessie doesn’t exist.