Oh My Fucking God, Mutant Mayhem.

Oh my fucking god, mutant mayhem.

It was so fucking amazing.

Reasons, here we go

-Donnie gets to do a lot of shit in this movie, unlike almost every other one there is. (Rise gets to be an exception, rise is awesome.)

-the amount of pop culture references

-the teens actually being teens

- ✨found family✨

-splinter trying his hardest to be a good dad and supporting his kids despite his hatred for humans

-Leo and April aren’t cringe and uncomfortable like with 2012 apriltello

-Raph isn’t a massive dick and just wants to fight things.

-Mikey being adorable

-they all love eachother despite being the only people they really knew for years.

-the boys trying their best to comfort Donnie during the TCRI scene, despite not knowing the words to the song.

-the humans being bros in the final act of the movie :)

It’s mutant mayhem day, which means I can’t be on tumblr for the next few days until I see the movie because I know I will get spoilers. I want to go into this as blind as possible.

The slow slide of his face lmfao

KOSA 101

Let’s talk about this. This is something I haven’t seen a lot of in my end, and this new bill may be troubling to not just us as a whole, but content creators. So, this isn’t just exclusive to AO3 anymore. This can go as far as places like Wattpad, Quotev, DeviantArt, and here.

So, to put it bluntly, if you give a fuck, listen.

What is KOSA?

KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act,) is a bill within the United States that was initially created last year with the aim of protecting youth (considerably age 16 and under,) from viewing harmful content online. It has since been updated and reintroduced by Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN.) Now, on surface level, it may seem like this has a good outlook, right? Not in the slightest. This bill, while it may not be passed yet rather introduced, may take an extreme to protect youth and monitor all. Yes, I said monitor.

Not only is NSFW content bound to be flagged, which may totally censor a lot of creators not just on this platform but others, a wider band that is under this new bill is LGBT+ content. According to Senator Blackburn of Tennessee, who is KOSA’s co-author, even education on race discrimination was viewed as “dangerous to kids,” and this soon branches out to race, gender, and sexuality discrimination. This also extends out to anxiety, depression, eating disorders, etc. The bill puts itself in the hands of State Attorney Generals in order for them to use tools of censorship against our rights and safety— not just for the youth, but for adults too, as we may face (giving an example,) hurdles trying to obtain things like legal documents.

How does KOSA work?

KOSA works by acting as a censor and self filter for the internet. By the hands of Attorney State Generals, they ultimately decide what is harmful to kids online. Though, this is a dual edged sword. This would also present the loss of access to information that a large sum of people may not deem dangerous. This again extends outward towards things like depression, substance abuse, etc— complex topics without a clear agreement on causes or solutions. This means that it could also filter, and possibly censor medical information, extending outward to trans medical care as well, which may lead on to silence the transgender community further. This is a very bad thing.

There would still be features like Age Verification, but it also filters legal speech. What I mean by “there will still be features,” to give an example, Tumblr has a tab in settings where you can add your birthday, which in turn verifies how old you are. Tiktok has this feature as well. About filtering legal speech, any kind of media or information that has to do with societal ills that is held on a platform, for example, Tumblr, will enable that platform to be held liable for holding that information. But… it may seem like I’m getting off topic, aren’t I?

So let’s swing back around…

KOSA has the ability to hurt creators on several different platforms. This gives the United States Government unlimited range of control over the internet.

This linktree has at least four different petitions open for you to take action against the bill, and to contact your congressmen and women. There’s also a discord server that’s dedicated to stopping KOSA from passing.

By doing this, you are spreading your voice. You are helping millions of people nationally— creators, artists, writers, everyone.

And finally, don’t just like this post. Reblog it— it helps it spread and gain exposure.

Let’s put an end to KOSA.

2018 rise viewers watching Donnie eject his shell in mascot melee for the first time:

Some like warm up thing I just did lmao

The following post is a massive feelings dump because I need to get it out. Just a heads up.

Yknow, for how much people say tumblr is like the 7th circle of hell this is one of the calmest places I’ve ever been in on social media.

I tried twitter, left after 5 days because of assholes and how horribly people treated eachother.

Facebook is full of boomers who would probably say my autism isn’t real and that I’m just attention seeking.

Instagram will make me feel like shit about my art skills because their algorithm sucks

Snapchat just sounds like no fun

Reddit is full of freaks who will promptly ask me inappropriate questions the minute I share that I’m female.

TikTok is full of dumbasses who dance in front of someone dying.

(These are just stereotypes, but they do make up an uncomfortably large amount of the community.)

Tumblr, while having the occasional freak of nature, they’re very easy to avoid and people don’t attack each other here. People are so polite and nice and it just makes me feel good inside to know that all the adults and teens on this website have the general common sense to not attack people.

Take my Dislyte post about that- questionable post. I wasn’t trying to get them “cancelled” or dox them, or anything irrational. I just posted my feelings and tried to keep them anonymous. (Which didn’t work, people recognized them easily with how infamous that person was) and no one else seemed to have the intention of wanting to with them harm. They just said their piece of mind, explained some things, or just had a short circuit with me.

As a person who’s struggled with healthy interactions in real life (outside from my family, I am not neglected or abused don’t worry, I’m talking like school and shit) the internet has been one of the safest places for me. (Shocking, given how easy doxing apparently is) people here are actually nice and are willing to talk with me about things I like a lot. I can dump facts about turtles and ramble to someone about how a fictional skeleton man deserves the world to someone, and they LISTEN!

It makes me so, so happy to be able to talk about things I like and share them with the people I love. I kept dumping turtle facts on my family during dinner at a Mexican restaurant and they were fully okay with it. And I can get that same ability from total strangers here. I can have serious or lighthearted conversations with anyone and we can still have a good time because no one’s being hurt.

I fucking love tumblr god dammit.

TL;DR

Tumblr is my safe space and I love everyone here who isn’t gross