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    In the Shire, hobbits say, "What lovely weather we've having." They also stir their teacups for four and a half clockwise rotations, place their left elbow seven-eighths down the way of the arm rest, and sniffled pointedly, which roughly translates to: "This tea is over-steeped and bland, your furniture is both uncomfortable and horrifically tasteless, and you're a twit of a host."
    And I think that's beautiful.
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    Hobbitish is a language of manners and etiquette, the dwarves don't even know that Hobbitish is a thing, and Bilbo is trying to keep a straight face and his peace of mind while the Company unintentionally keeps sexually propositioning him and challenging him to pie-eating contests to the death.
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    Actions speak so much louder than words.

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    31 Jul 2025

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    Good friends are hard to come by when you’re a teenage mutant, so Leonardo considers himself pretty lucky to have found one in Usagi.

    *Just* friends. He means it.

    Or: sometimes your ace rep can be a socially capable mutant turtle

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    08 Jul 2025

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    Inspired by anon: 'AU where the airport fight ends in a minor debate over who has to take Peter home b/c he's literally too young to fly unaccompanied without fuckloads of paperwork.'

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    24 Jun 2025

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    “Who are you?” Leo asks stupidly.

    “Gio,” the probably imaginary turtle replies.

    Leo’s mouth runs off before he can stop it. “Just Gio? Like Cher?”

    God, he thinks. That was stupid, Leo. Not the time or place, Leo. You’re in the prison dimension. You’re dying here and you can’t even cut the jokes now? Raph was so right about you.

    But the imaginary turtle surprises him by smiling slightly, the corners of his mouth pulling just barely upwards in a way that somehow completely transforms him. Not the time or place for jokes or smiling at them but here they are. Like company.


    Or: a long-lost brother takes the long way home.

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    05 May 2025

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    Leo blinks, and the wetness in his eyes spills out, and Raph just wants to pick him up. Carry him somewhere safe. Leo has always been larger than life, but right now he looks impossibly small.

    “Hey, hey,” Raphael soothes, the same way he has a thousand times before, after bad dreams and skinned knees, “you’re okay. Raph’s here, you’re okay.”

    Those gold eyes slide to the side, looking at a point behind Raph. Leo’s arm moves, and something cold and solid presses against Raph’s chest. It’s the key, and Leo’s hand is trembling so hard that Raph’s closes around it instinctively, taking the weight of it from him.

    Because he’s Leo, the corners of his mouth quirk into a smile.

    “I told you,” he says hoarsely. It somehow manages to sound wry, like they’re in on a joke together. “I got it.”


    Raph is seconds too late getting to Leo in the warehouse, and Leo is taken by the Krang instead.

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    05 May 2025