Month: January 2021

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Episode 14a and 14b

So before I started watching this (the other actually, all of today’s posts are a bit behind) I went to look up what the majority of the fic for the fandom was on Ao3 because I was curious and I will break it down for you:

30% Reader fic

30% ‘People who ship the turtles do not interact with this/TCEST DNI’ mixed with actual physical threats*

30% Leonardo/Donatello

10% ‘Oh hey this is about April, neat!’

Okay, onto the episodes:

14a Late Fee:

They seem to be moving from Shredder being the worst parent except for the fact that just him offering a hug made those turtles move heaven and earth to accomplish their goal. A lot of the humour comes from also knowing how dvd rental actually works, re: their final goal. The wizard was weird.

14b Bullhop:

CANADA CANADA CANADA CANADA.

The rest was fine. Mikey is a gem.

“Good news, guys! I totally punted!” – Leo

 

 

*Please stop being weird, fandom. It’s just fic. Don’t threaten people.

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates – Fingers

This started out a little unexpectedly with a chopped off finger being sent to someone’s parents. On the other hand, the one preceding this involved an hour long torture of some poor hard of hearing dude so. You know.

I did have a moment of ‘oh great, Italy and a mafia plot’ but there was a TWEEST and an entire scene with that europop stuff pumping in the background and enjoyable graffiti bits and well, overall it was a good episode.

I could have done without Robert comforting a stressed out person with ‘well, keep your pecker up!’

The hair on the victim’s sister was gorgeous:

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates screencap of the character Gianetta showing off her hair
I mean look at Gianetta’s hair. Damn. DAMN.

Music! Bastille, P!nk, Paramore, plus more Flight Rising

I don’t listen to a lot of music deliberately because I like to focus on it and that means that I can’t be doing a lot of other tasks, but I was doing some grinding in Flight Rising for Strange Chests, I thought ‘hey! I could do it to albums!’ so musical time came. Also, I had 30 chests to sell in the end.

All right.

Bastille – Bad Blood

I like Bastille. They sound pleasant and there’s a bit of pretentiousness in the lyrics that appeal to me in a ‘oh that’s clever!’ way. I particularly like Pompeii, Icarus, and Things We Lost In The Fire.

Paramore – After Laughter

It was pleasant enough to listen to, but I couldn’t tell you a single lyric from this album except the fake happy one and that one song kept ending its lyrics before the last word of the sentence which drove me nuts. But overall a good album for grinding in a videogame!

P!nk – The Truth About Love

This was FULL of bops. God, she’s got a pair of pipes on her. Tons of good songs on here. I have no particular favourite but I would happily listen to this whole album again.

P!nk – Hurts 2b Human

Again taken away by how powerful a singer she is, but at this album I started developing bystander anxiety over the constant relationship issues. She seemed to be in a permanent breakup/fretting about the relationships in the songs and I have no idea if that comes from real life but after a while all that started to kind of bleed into my own brain. I would probably not listen to this one again.