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i got back into madness combat and thought it’d be fun to draw the turtles as some mc characters. starting with donnie as deimos bc he is my favorite.

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Hearing her voice for "the first time".

Sketchy workin in progress flashback panel from my upcoming Zelink comic: The Message.

"The message" is a 18 pages long fan comic, fully colored based on my headcanon. I've been working on this on/off for a year now. I guess it going to be available soon-ish.?...

Cheers!

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me, logging into ao3 5 minutes before bedtime: WAITER! bring me your finest enemies to lovers!

ao3 tag search function: excellent choice, sir! how would you like it cooked?

me: explicit. with a side of hurt/comfort

ao3: lovely! and may i suggest a drizzle of mutual pining?

me: of course, and can you add a spritz of angst? make it a 100k slowburn for good measure

ao3: coming right up, sir

me: thank you. oh, and waiter?

ao3: yes, sir?

me: make it gay

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Imagine you're opening AO3 and search for a fic. Imagine you're finding one that fits all your criterias. Imagine it has the perfect length. Imagine getting lost in the story and feeling almost high when it's over. Imagine looking up the author and they have written. so. many. more. fics. exactly. like. that. Imagine.

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This is so, so important you guys.

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I want it to feel like autumn already...

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the entire point of life is to be silly, kind, and really weird btw.

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look, look here, can't you see (link to ao3 here) 4.2k

When he'd think look at me look at me look at me, this isn't exactly what he had in mind.

f!reader, rated e. friends to lovers, mutual pining, smut, body worship.

affectionately known as the tittytello fic, based off of this art that gb drew. i wrote this MONTHS ago and completely forgot about it, oops. plz enjoy ✨

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one more (link to ao3 here) 2.1k

Man, she's so tiny, he thinks.

f!reader, rated t. meet-cute, pre-relationship. basically the "what if the tiny/raph meetcute from amaranthine, but this time it's a raph fic." for my friend @justalotoffanfiction HAPPY BIRTHDAY im sorry it's so late

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I LOVE YA SUGAR!!!! 💫🛸

☆ insta!

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whateva. tmnt

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don't need to draw who he's looking at

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The Power of Silence in A Story

Harold Pinter believed that what isn't said in a play can be more important than what is said. He thought that when characters face intense emotions or experiences, they often struggle to express them, or choose to stay silent. This creates mystery, tension, and deeper meaning. Pinter’s famous use of pauses and silences lets the audience read between the lines, making the unspoken just as powerful as the dialogue itself.

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ok. so, when i watch 2012 and see splinter, my knee-jerk reaction to his parenting style is no. very strict, seeming overprotective and doesn't want to teach the boys anything? just let them be ignorant and alone?

but then i think about it for a minute. we know that mutants aren't accepted on the surface, and splinter's life was completely upended for the second time. he lost his wife, daughter (👀👀) and he was trying to live normally. he was coming back from getting some pets so he wouldn't be as lonely, for goodness sake. then he's mutated, (painfully from the sound of it) and he's a furry freak in a dirty alleyway with four mutated little turtles he now has to take care of.

from another episode getting into his life, if i remember correctly he does try to teach the little turtle babies about life in the city, carefully hiding from the people who wouldn't accept him. he tried to incorporate the boys into the city in any way he can. until he finally finds the lair, and they can be safe from the evil kraang dudes in suits.

so now when i think about it, i can understand him. he's hurt. he's been through multiple traumatic events that have shaped the rat he now is, and he doesn't want the same to happen to the boys. and whether or not this is acceptable, even if in the long run it's better to allow the boys to learn earlier and grow up knowing, i can understand where he's coming from.

fun kids show with giant funny turtles with ninja weapons? yeah, but also very dark and emotionally charged at times. splinter can't be perfect or right, because none of them are. and neither is the show, maybe the creators would've had a better show if they had made different decisions with the beginning plot. but we can't really ever know, because the show is the way it is, and i rather like it. even being flawed in some ways.

(i apologize for the lack of capitals/correct grammar, i have no idea where this came from)

So I just rewatched the first episode of tmnt 2k12 and wow is it different from watching it as a kid!

Below the cut is me ranting/questioning/commenting on all the choices made 💀 (mainly splinter’s) cause I need to get this out and if anyone else wants to add on or chat with me about it, PLS DO ❤️

Okay so what bugged me the most, throughout the entire first episode was realizing that Splinter, who was a human and turned into a mutant rat, doesn’t educate the turtles about ANYTHING human???

The setup they have is that basically for fifteen years the turtles haven’t left the sewers due to Splinter’s disapproval/orders/parental control! They’ve only eaten algae and worms??? And the only thing Splinter ever taught them was independent defense, (cause boi did they look rough tryna save April from the kraang)!

Like I don’t understand why Splinter doesn’t go with them when it’s their first time going up on the surface! Or why they have no knowledge of pizza or any other foods! It’s like Splinter decided his human life was over and he’d just adjust to a sewer life and not even think about the surface?!

Only now the boys are begging to go and so he’s like quickly telling them to avoid strangers, and bathrooms, and how to cross the street 💀 LIKE SIR if you are sooooo worried about them, why ain’t you up there too???????

I get that he lost everything, his wife, his daughter…👀… his home, his humanity! So who knows what they will do to a person, but if he’s apparently happy/satisfied with how his life is now, that he gained four sons, why not actually teach them about the world they are living under????

Idk maybe it’s because of how logical Mutant Mayhem Splinter was, he was a rat turned mutant, so he didn’t actually have any experience other than being a rat yet as a mutant he took a chance and went to the surface with all the tots! But that ended so badly that he lives in fear of going back up to the surface! The boys all are eating regular human food/getting groceries and are very knowledgeable about humans and society above! I don’t know if that’s due to splinter or due to technology but STILL, it’s wayyyyy more believable!

These were things that just took me off guard while rewatching! And that was just episode one… did anyone else have similar thoughts about 2k12 Splinter??? Like what?!?!