#🫱turtle

[applecherry108]

Autism do be stored in the turtle 💙

[jamiegeode]

What would people say if I said I saw three of the rise turtles species irl. Just by walking around the marsh greenway near me.

[hufflepuffhabs]

Also, if you needed more reason to like Girona:

Your pet can become soci there too! ❤️

[juniperharvest]

but… Apalachicola is Creek and Hushpuckena is Choctaw. Gweebarra is Irish. like god the synergy.

Irish 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 Turtle Islanders (ESPECIALLY Choctaw)

[still-gathering-roses]

7, 17, 26 ? for ask game :3

omg hiiii :3 💛

7. what animal do you look forward to seeing when you visit an aquarium? turtles!! and penguins. and rays! something about rays just feels especially Aquarium to me

17. an anxious compulsion you do everyday? do you want that alphabetically or chronologically LOL. hmm most of my habits are rooted in an anxious compulsion some way or other, but one that sticks out the most i think is i tend to flex my fingers and hands a lot after a particularly sideways social interaction. i'll smile at someone the wrong way and then be walkin down the hall just 🤜🫳🤘🤜🤙🤟🫱🫳

26. how's your spice tolerance? very wimpy i am bad at being latina. then again cuban food isn't especially spicy so maybe i'm not a totally hopeless gringa traitor after all (in other words i can handle a bit of spice but it just detracts from the flavor to me and i prefer my food without it!)

"weirdly specific" ask game

[siren--squid]

heres a random turtle

🫱🐢

I love him, thank you so much

[shantechni]

Hard agree with that second paragraph🫱🏾‍🫲🏼I have to tip my hat off to the Rise series for changing the formula because it made for some good content and interesting interactions between each of the brothers. Even more amazing is how it makes for a fascinating take on the the different ways each turtle would grow up with the alternate setup for their birth order, all while somehow managing to stay true to the brothers' roots and personality traits from previous iterarions (something I'm certain has been analyzed down to its atoms by the fandom).

But yeah, starting with Leo and ending with Mikey just seems to be the natural order of things at the end of the day lol.

in tmnt 2012, the turtles treat their mutation day as a birthday of sorts, so it would make sense if their age order was the order they were mutated in

in the backstory in rise of the turtles part 1, we see the order is leo, donnie, mikey, raph (but raph calls mikey ‘little brother’ a lot so the order could actually be leo, donnie, raph, mikey)

As much as I love that backstory, it's pretty unreliable since it's a shortened rendition of how things really went down. That, and the details changed quite a bit once Lone Rat and Cubs came along a whole four seasons later. We never get a definitive answer for their birth order, which is likely due to the logistics of turtles being born collectively in a clutch. And, again, though we saw a comic-esque recreation of their mutations, we're never actually shown the order of events. For all we know, they could've turned into mutants all at once.

Before the Rise series, it was generally agreed upon that the order was Leo, Donnie, Raph, and Mikey (or sometimes Raph then Donnie), and that still applies for the '12 series. We have very little to go off of other than the implications the writers chose to give us, so yeah, one can reasonably assume Mikey is the youngest because he is treated as and called such by his own family. Leo is often labeled the oldest simply because of his ability to bare the most responsibilities out of his brothers, as well as his sometimes more mature perspectives on whatever situations they may find themselves in.

Whether Donnie is older than Raph or vice versa, I think we can all agree they're middle children through and through lol.