#saltyrambles

So. Little me. They were a weird kiddo. Parent's never discouraged or encouraged their outfit choices or names or pronouns (until I came out officially) but their school did. (hee hoo culty private school run by a religious group) Poor kid always got told "why can't you be more polite for a girl your age?" "why can't you be more girly?" "that's not appropriate for a girl" etc... by their peers and teachers and such. And while parents didn't discourage or encourage certain outfits, the occasional "you have all these cute dresses, don't you want to wear one?" didn't exactly help. Little me never really got along well with the girls their age, had maybe one or two close friends who were girls, the rest were boys. Little me thought at the time it was because "girls were boring" and (insert other horrendously misogynistic ways of thinking about girls) when really, little me just related better to the guys for some reason. (Huh, wonder why.) Anywho, little me's trans realization, or at least the closest they could get to one at the time, was NOT Mulan. I've heard others say it was theirs and while yeah I can see it, little me just went "ah, yeah that makes sense, girls can do that too, she's cool" and didn't really process it beyound that other than "I'm doing that too." Nah Little Me's trans realization was Treasure Island. All iterations of it. Particularly Treasure Planet. Little Me read the book, watched the early live action films, adored the Muppets version of the story. Little Me saw Jim Hawkins and immediately latched onto that character, whenever playing pretend or some iteration of "pirates", I was ALWAYS the cabin boy. Running around, doing chores around the ship, helping the cook, transporting gunpowder, listening in on plots of mutiny deciding when or if I should report it to the captain, engaging in sword fights against my pirate mentor and being torn between who to trust. The works. But Treasure Planet. Ya boi saw that iteration of Jim Hawkins and something clicked. That feeling of being different and not understanding why the world didn't like you, wanting some aspect of freedom but not fully knowing why or even what that freedom was you were reaching for, feeling abandoned by the adults in your life who on one hand loved and cared for you but on the other just did not understand you, all while not even understanding yourself, wanting to escape from it all in some grand attempt at proving you were...something...someone...not fully able to grasp what that was but wanting it all the same, finding that sudden rush of joy at being able to express yourself and feel free to make your own path in life, ya know, Jim.

So yeah, Disney's Mulan did not "push some woke, trans agenda" onto my young little brain. But Treasure Planet and all iterations of Treasure Island sure did lol.

The title’s a bit misleading, you don’t have to and it’s perfectly fine if you don’t however I do want to give some reasons why I believe it’s a good ship.

For starters it’s a complex and even messy at time at first. Chie wants Yukiko to depend on her and Yukiko depends too much on Chie. It’s an unhealthy dynamic that they both work to fix. They do so because they genuinely care about each other and want to be good for the other. This amount of dedication and self awareness is healthy and shows deep emotional connection. And it isn’t perfect at first, because what relationship is? It’s the sort of realistic but true kind of bond, and I think shipping it shows that LGBT+ relationships are just as complex but also meaningful as straight ones. Because as the core they’re just relationships. I myself like to believe they start a relationship sometime after facing their shadows, they’re able to recognize what’s unhealthy, work through their feelings, and strengthen their bond, and realize how they truly feel about each other. Another reason is it’s just cute, they care about each other and feel good with each other! Chie was the first person Yukiko felt comftorable to be her goofy self with and Chie’s feelings of protectiveness stems from a genuine care for Yukiko. Also they literally own a dog together, that’s freaking adorable. They’ve been friends since childhood, Chie legit just saw Yukiko and went “we’re friends now” It’s so cute I’m dyinhgh.

And for my final reason, it’s just, painfully obvious. Like don’t get me wrong, I love my friends. But I’m not calling any of them unironically “my prince”. There’s so many little and big parts that I could go into but that would make this post WAAAYYY too long. Even Chie’s voice actor said that Chie has a crush on Yukiko and LITERALLY voiced all lines towards Yukiko with romantic intent in mind. There’s just, so much. I don’t really see how anyone can see all of this and go “gal pals”.

Hi! I’m doing Inktober this year and I’ll be posting each drawings of the week every Saturday!

It’s going to be on my Art blog, @saltygaydraws

I’m doing the Splatoon prompt, aka this:

This is my first year of doing this, If i skip a day, please be considerate with me! I still have school and a personal life. Good luck to anyone who’s doing it!

So when they first meet the future feral turtles they grap Mc and run away because they see a stronger and bigger being near you weak human you would pick them up and run 

Wall future ferals get sad because the soft nice and warm human being is taken away

Idk I just found this funny and I hope you find it funny to

This is essentially what happens if you have met/befriended the present ferals first

The turtles, both present and future don't really have as good as a grasp on humans as their canon counterparts do. They think of you as small, weak, and unable to protect yourself. They think if you sneeze too hard it'll kill you-

Victoria too-

I have two hands, please metal family fandom I need them sjdnm

When I first made the au, I didn't have all that much of a specific direction on how each brother's space would be like other than what I thought would fit them the best (ex. Donnie's maintenance tunnels or Leo's poolrooms)- but I think I can explain it a bit better now, and have spaces within their domains that isn't exactly just the main theme of the space. I got hella inspired by the liminal game Dreamcore that came out recently for that