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* I knew you in another life

(kris as the undertale prologue's human swordsman)

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Here comes the boy 💙 Now in thread!

Close up under cut

Reference:

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I'd like to think Leo's getting at least half of Raph's future chasms @paramountpictures @nickelodeon

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lil comic for a secret santa (this is the direction i went with)

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Re-listened to Never Love An Anchor today because of that previous ask and the lines…

“Do you ever think of me and my two hands?

And wonder why they never soothed your fevers?

And wonder why they never tied your shoes?

And wonder why they never held you gently?”

Just scream Leo’s relationship with Mikey especially. Leo did so much for his brothers. He would kill for them, but even still, the small, easiest things are hard for him to wrap his head around.

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Was having a bad day and this screenshot made me laugh. Never thought cartoon turtles would consume my life and brighten my day like this, but i'm def not complaining

Uh oh, Draxum made Mikey cry 😢

What did Draxum say? Wrong answers only ☺️

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If you know, you know :) HEY! Don't forget to reblog and remind people about this cool show, yo? It be open the flood gates day! @nickelodeon

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The Greatest Thing We've Lost (was that one scene I deleted)

Hey, did you like reading The Greatest Thing We've Lost? Did you subscribe to the fic on ao3 even though it was marked complete? Well, that decision just paid off, because I just rumaged through my files for Open the Floodgates and lookie what I found! Bonus content!

We got two linked options here:

Deleted Scene - This was going to be the first chapter about the turtle tot's first trip to the farmhouse. Didn't happen, obvi, but you know, still fun.

Spotify Playlist for The Greatest Thing We've Lost - Sharing the playlist of what I listened to while writing this fic. Hope you like nostalgic folksy vibes, cause that's why the turtle boys were put in the countryside in the first place.

Enjoy!

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Prompt today for a creativity challenge on discord was "Invisible"... what can I say, I'm predictable.

Quote from I May Be Invisible, But I Still Look Good by @dandylovesturtles, obviously.

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I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not bad to each other, but that's really not the point. The point is that in almost every instance of our lives, our social lives, we are, if we pay attention, in the midst of an almost constant, if subtle, caretaking. Holding open doors. Offering elbows at crosswalks. Letting someone else go first. Helping with the heavy bags. Reaching what's too high, or what's been dropped. Pulling someone back to their feet. Stopping at the car wreck, at the struck dog. The alternating merge, also known as the zipper. This caretaking is default mode and it's always a lie that convinces us to act or believe otherwise. Always.

Ross Gay, The Book of Delights

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The 2003 turtles can’t retract

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Sooo... I started watching Tales of the TMNT. Impressions from ep 1:

Love the art style; it's so... "sketchy" and artsy, like a comic book made directly into animation. My eyes are very pleased to look at it

The boys are so... dorky?? I'm saying this in the most affectionate way possible. They're babies!!

When one has become so used to seeing the Rise turtles use mystic powers, an acclimation is needed when watching the iteration where they don't. I kept expecting Leo to bust out a portal lmao

Same goes for April. I kept expecting her to whip out a baseball bat and jump into the fight screaming "APRIL O'NEEEEIIIILLLL!!!" (She whipped out a fire axe in this one, which is close enough)

So far it's fun! And funny! And it's got a hook right at the start with the immediate appearance of Bishop

The highlight of the ep, though, is THIS

WORD. FOR. WORD

I screamed. SIR, I did not expect you to whip this out as early as EPISODE ONE. HOW AM I GOING TO RECOVER

I'm glad that here in TotTMNT, April knocked sense into him immediately. I feel that Rise!Leo never got that needed talk, just like a lot of Rise boys' issues never got to be addressed or resolved (no thanks to Nick cancelling the show...)

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Puppies on parade!!!

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anxiety will have you thinking things like "will everyone hate me if i order coffee at the coffee shop" and "will people think i'm crazy if i work out at the gym"

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Collecting books is great until you have to move all of them at once and realize that every one of the little bastards weighs about as much as a brick and collectively have the mass of a neutron star

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he just has that affect on people

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The trials