#12 april

[sheep-turtles-and-pizza]

12 April

[000marie198]

Listen

12 Leo isn't an uncaring jerk

12 Raph isn't a bully

12 Mikey isn't a bullied damsel

12 Donnie isn't a simp

12 April isn't a bitch

12 Casey isn't a moron

And 12 Splinter isn't an abuser

Asian parents aren't fucking villains for the way they raise their kids and 12 Hamato family isn't dysfunctional dammit!

[novacomics]

uh hii

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Uniformed firefighters, some of them carrying placards demanding increased pay, march around City Hall Park, April 12, 1954. They were picketing City Hall (the building facing the park) in protest over the proposed budget, which would have denied them a raise. Inside City Hall, the Board of Estimate opened three days of hearings on the proposed expense budget.

Photo: John Lent for the AP

[icecreamkittyrottmnt]

dee from my fanfic! I'm going to make a lot of characters muehehe

(who will be next?👀)

[wiiildflowerrr]

12 April 2013, Where We Are tour

[whatdancingdorkswasalreadytaken]

headcanon dump on leo’s coma and subsequent injury recovery (based on my recent post about leo’s post-coma voice here)

DISCLAIMER: i am not a doctor in any way, this is purely made up of my own ideas and research so there may be some medical inaccuracies

(due to the following post discussing comas, chronic injuries and other potentially triggering things such as vomiting and couching up blood i advise viewer discretion and encourage that you only read if you feel comfortable. thanks)

during the coma

raph stayed by her side for practically all of the three months, and he was the one who cared for her mainly - cleaning her gently everyday, feeding her and changing the water  

mikey was in charge of preparing her food (it was just a mix of blended up nutrient ingredients to keep her as healthy as possible) which was served to her through a brand-new eye dropper which april had brought from the store, because they didn’t have a feeding tube or anything like that

sometimes (when they’d manage to find good money from casey and april doing odd jobs to people that lived in a small town a good few hours away) they would feed her formula as well as the general fluids as it can build muscle and provide extra nutrition

raph stayed with her for most of the time, but he struggled to talk to her as it made him too upset, and donnie also struggled to visit her on his own out of guilt for what had happened in new york, but mikey made sure to hold her hand and talk to her and read to her and sing to her, even when the others told him she couldn’t hear him (he didn’t believe them)

he even made her a ‘get well soon card’ which stayed on the side of the sink in the bathroom

mikey found loads of old books around the farmhouse and read them to her, and years later when they’re back at the lair and watching tv together an adaptation of one of the books comes on and leo frowns in confusion as she swears she’s heard this story before but has no idea where or when, just that it was read to her once but that she can’t remember when or who had read it to her (mikey is sitting quietly next to her and smiling so hard his face hurts)

the others could tell in the van that her leg was very badly damaged but they decided not to try and move it or wrap it up in fear of making it worse as they had no idea what the problem was

donnie and casey built handlebars all around the farmhouse as they knew that her leg was seriously damaged in some way and that she would have serious mobility issues afterwards 

donnie made a cane for her as soon as he can as he knows she’d need it but april encouraged him, raph and mikey to decorate it for leo together as they were very distant around each other during the first month of their stay during the farmhouse 

april found an old box of pens and paints from the attic and told them all to work together to design and decorate leo’s cane

they made lists of everything leo likes on paper and it took them practically the whole night to decorate the cane with colours, symbols and drawings, but it was the first thing that they all did together and it helped break the ice between the three of them

after the coma

she threw up quite a bit during the first few days of coming out of the coma due to how weak her body was and how overwhelming everything was

at first she remembered bits of the invasion in small pieces, and it slowly came back to her, but it took her at least two weeks to realise that splinter wasn’t with them and she got very upset about this as she remembered shredder before splinter

she sustained much damage to her throat during the invasion, which made her voice much deeper and more hoarse (like donnie said)

it caused her to breathe very noisily and heavily, which she found very humiliating and upsetting 

she mainly ate soup/broth for the first few weeks after coming out of the coma due to the pain and difficulty that came with swallowing 

she also frequently coughed up blood due to the throat damage which she also found embarrassing

(no one ever made fun of her for any of it, but she did think less of herself for it before raph talked some sense into her and reminded her of how close she was to death and how she needed to be kinder to herself, to which she replied with by telling him he should take his own advice since he’d been neglecting himself ever since the invasion, and after a few seconds of silence the two actually start laughing, though leo’s didn’t sound much like laughter)

none of them realised how dangerous it is for her to be lie down until one night where she suddenly stopped breathing for about twenty seconds, and raph almost broke his voicebox screaming to wake the others up (afterwards leo had to sit up whilst sleeping for a while, and raph always made sure she went to sleep first)

my personal headcanon is that her leg injury is due to a case of chronic patellar instability, which is in simple terms an unstable kneecap, which moves when you bend and straighten your knee 

it usually causes pain and stiffness (and sometimes swelling) and a feeling of weakness and looseness and a buckling or locking sensation in the knee

it is not always a chronic condition, but i believe that in leo’s case it is due to the severity of the injury and how it was not really given the proper professional attention it needed soon enough, due to a combination of the invasion and everyone’s lack of medical knowledge (as surgery is available in severe cases of patellar instability, which i believe leo has) 

she started wearing a knee brace and using a cane as soon as she could begin to walk around again (which is not straight away) and even then she was slow and unstable due to her injury but even just because the rest of her body was so numb and weak in general 

although later on she won’t always be in constant pain so she doesn’t always wear the brace, she does keep the cane because it helps her (and doubles as a weapon in cases of emergency)

after she began to gain back some of her strength she begins some very slow and gentle physical therapy to help her body get back into shape 

she lost a considerable amount of weight during the coma due to living off of fluids for three months and is actually slightly underweight when she wakes up, so whilst the others take care to slowly reintroduce real food to her, they make sure it’s full of nutrients and good stuff

also the painkillers she took for the pain make her gain weight too 

by the time they leave for new york she is still using her cane and hobbling around, but she is stronger and faster than before, but running still takes a lot longer to get used to without her feeling like she’s going to pass out because of the pain

like i said before, she stops using the brace permanently after regaining her strength and slowly beginning to feel better, but she does have days where the kneecap moves too much and she can’t even touch it because the pain is unbearable so she uses it on and off for the rest of her life 

however she keeps the cane (which her brothers decorated for her) and does keep taking painkillers like the rest of them forever (cause they’ve all got chronic injuries and pain together)

[terrestrialnoob]

Y'all ever think about how 2012 Splinter and April are the same person in different fonts?

Lost all their family but gained the turtles

Stuck in a love triangle

Was human and had to adjust to not being human any more

Imagine how cool it could have been if any of this was on purpose.

[theanidaduck]

I Made for yesterday holyday about Gagarin's flight. Here's: @dalia1784's Seraphim, @JupiterMoonSis's Dawnee and Ilema's Venus.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 12 April:

1654 – The Ordinance of Union comes into effect, uniting Ireland and Scotland with England. 1816 – Sir Charles Gavan Duffy was born in Co Monaghan. He was self-educated as a journalist and founded the Nation, a nationalist weekly journal with Thomas Davis and John Dillon in 1842; ultimately, he emigrated to Australia and while determined to avoid politics, he was induced to enter the Victorian…

[risetmntblog]

hc that the turtles are bilingual in that both Japanese and English are their native languages. when it's just Splinter and the boys in the lair, they'd all speak primarily in Japanese but whenever Casey or April were over they'd speak primarily in English.

[dailybeanieboos]

Spike the Hedgehog - 12 April

My prickly fur stands up so straight My digging skills are also great!

[000marie198]

I couldn't help myself

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Some extras:

Can you tell who's my favorite?

[novacomics]

we deserved short haired 12 april

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Dorothy Bird jumps for the ball as the umpire, known as Prince Leon, calls a sliding Violet West safe, April 12, 1938. The game, in Prospect Park, was played for relaxation and publicity by showgirls in the cast of Hooray for What?, a Broadway musical starring Ed Wynn and featuring songs by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen.

Photo: Ben Sandhaus for the NY Daily News via Getty Images/Fine Art America

[dgknightblue]

Small, can fit in a cup, baby rise Leo: *sees a papercut on 12 April*

Baby rise Leo: *struggles to put a bandage on her finger*

12 April: *tries not to die because that’s adorable*

12 Raph sees: *suspiciously has a papercut now*

12 Donnie: Raph let me-

12 Raph: No. I can wait.

12 Donnie: But you are literally bleeding!

12 Raph: Shut.

Baby rise Leo: *crawls on the table to help him*

All three: *Internal screams*

12 Leo walk in: My knee….where’s my cream?

Baby rise Leo: *lifts up cream for knee* Ba!! Squeak!

12 Leo quickly picks up baby rise Leo in his hand and walks a way with him, a smirk thrown over his shoulder.