#Bamboozle donnie

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Bamboozle Donnie be like

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Chapter 2: Alternate Routes

Hey y’all!

Doing another post where I detail the potential alternate routes this story could have taken for Chapter Two! As I stated in the post for Chapter One, reading this post is NOT REQUIRED for the enjoyment of the story. This is just a fun selection of what-ifs you can entertain yourself on. These what-ifs are also “half-baked” in the sense that I didn’t have any concrete plans for them. Just rough ideas of where I could take the story if a certain option won.

End of Chapter 1: If you recall the end of Chapter 1, you were deciding what the cave looked like and what goodies April would find! Unfortunately, I cannot detail the second option with the mysterious chest (the option that tied with Option Three), as there is an element in that option that will now show up in Chapter Three. HOWEVER, I can detail that Option One would have established the cave as one of the entrances to the official Foot Clans base! So Donnie and April would have been forced to really hit the ground running to escape their enemy! So it’s a good thing the other two options ended up tied lol.

Part One: This one also ended in a tie and had to be decided by a tie-breaker, but the option that lost was the option to avoid the path and trek through the forest. And you, my dear readers, thwarted my first attempt to injure Donnie this chapter! If you had decided to go off the beaten path, Donnie and April would be navigating down a particularly rough patch of the mountain with a lot of sharp boulders. At some point, Donnie and April would have been attacked (by either a stray Foot Clan soldier or a wild animal, I hadn’t decided at the time), and Donnie would have taken a tumble and injured the back of his shell. This would have affected the conversation the two had later that evening—Donnie would not give April his backstory, but you would still learn about April’s less-than-stellar life back home. The story would just be a lot more self-deprecating and tearful. 

Part Two: This was another attempt to maim Donnie that y’all thwarted. If April had thrown the rock, it would have temporarily distracted the Foot goons, but they would have eventually noticed the two attempting to sneak away. If the second option won, April would have ignored Donnie’s attempts to escalate the situation and charged at the Foot soldiers. Both of these options would have resulted in an injured Donnie, but they would have been able to escape in the end. A similar convo would have taken place as detailed in Part One.

Part Three: I feel like these three options were kind of obvious. If Donnie had asked, "Why were you cold to Prince Raph?” you would not have gotten Donnie’s backstory and I would have jumped to April explaining why she acted the way she did during her visit. If our knight had asked, "Why do you not care what your father thinks?," the result would have been similar to the previous question, but instead the focus would have started on April’s treatment back home. 

Part Four: This was just an option for a perspective switch. The story would have proceeded the same regardless. 

Part Five: For this poll, the first two options were pretty similar. If Donnie didn’t ask April what was wrong, then April would have kept sobbing until she stopped, and then the uncomfortable silence would have prompted her to explain herself. If our knight suggested that April should get some sleep, April’s backstory would have been completely bypassed for the chapter at this point. 

Part Six: Since this part involves the setup of Chapter 3, I will leave this poll alone for now.

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(new post cuz the original one didn't show up in the dashboard for some reason ughhh)

Okay so I just hit TEN THOUSAND FOLLOWERS!? HUH!?!? Where the FUCK did you guys come from?? Who are you people!? This is actually insane I love you guys so much I'm asbhfajkjfda 💕💕✨✨😭😭 Anyway, obviously we need to do something to celebrate this special occasion, so here's another DTIYS! (and also a ctiys if you prefer that)

Context for this - remember when I talked about how, after Leo and Donnie start properly hanging out in the Tiz Sep AU, Leo gets into human fashion? Except his taste in human fashion is absolutely atrocious?? Yeeaahh so here we have Donnie and April taking Leo out to get some human clothes and they are both absolutely bamboozled over the clothes that Leo picks out for himself (he's trying okay </3)

Extra info + rules:

No deadline, do this whenever you want to!

Feel free to take artistic liberties, redraw this however you want, and especially-

FEEL FREE TO CHANGE LEO'S OUTFIT!! The only rules here is that it's gotta be ridiculous, ugly, cringefail, or otherwise be a crime against fashion. But I'd love for you guys to come up with your own outfits for Leo :D

Use whatever art-medium you want!

But absolutely NO AI software! If you do I will banish you to the prison dimension for all eternity don't even fucking try bitch I stg 🔪

I don't have a specific tag for this, just @ me so I can see your art!

You don't have to follow me to participate (it's not like I'm gonna check anyway)

CTIYS version (just the lineart) as well as the original drawing but without the text is availible under the cut:

[ezgurple]

Never thought to ask them but how big are your turtles? Sorry if you already posted about it lol, it's just that in most fandom depictions they show them as tall or big when that was almost never the case. The only turtle who could ever be considered big is Rise Raph but he doesn't really count since he's an alligator snapping turtle. I was bamboozled when I discovered that all the 2003 turtles are 5'2", or that 2012 Donnie who I always imagined as super tall is obly 5'6".

lol yes iii think its funny watching 2003 turtls cuz they looked so strong & then seeing them stand next to april or casey thry VERY small. i have posted about this im pretty suree but lol my blog is a mess so whoops! but my turtles aren’t that tall imo, i guess only when compared to the other tmnt iterations cuz the rest r usually shorter heh the only tall one ig is my donnie

these r the only pics i have. but i am also just now remembering that this don is actually 6’2 i think, but bro is getting shorter from slouching all the time 🦐 hes our shrimp turtle boy

[somerandomdudelmao]

I had assumed this arc would be called "The Little Things" because of cute little moments in the future that they had despite all the bad, like the rain in part 1. Turns out it's called "The Little Things" because the little things Donnie was hiding have been adding up and are killing him. I was bamboozled 🥲🥲🥲

[cokoweee]

The whole angel Kendra thing is making me feel things. Not ever bastard things. Scenario things.

Like Donnie finding a fallen angel just- THERE. and his ass would be so bamboozled. He'd go into study mode then flustered mode then idk wtf your talking about I'm a serious scientist not some perv blushing like an idiot mode-

-sbf🐍

I CANT STOP BRAIN

[justmaiidraws]

When your man crush pretty much leaves you for your weeb anime brother…

(He’s not even upset at that point, he’s just bamboozled that it was donnie...)

[wav48k]

would anyone be interested in my gay fucking spreadsheet... it has a very large amount of sourced mcr pics arranged by date (work in progress, not very professional. but its fun) and also a section with like a hundred old interviews. did you know one time frank got interviewed by some random fucking tumblr user and they talked about donnie darko? now you will. theres finally enough stuff in there that i think its worth handing out for people who want to see :)

[poppysinpebbles]

Rise! Leo: I have an idea! Other Dee, hand me a gun.

Bayverse Donnie: When have I EVER had a gun?!?

Rise! Leo: *Flabbergasted, bamboozled*...*realization* well that's one difference between you and my Dee.

Other Bayverse turtles: Wtf?!

[the-lavender-clown]

I can’t even describe how happy it makes me that some of yall love my Donnie as much as I do 😭😭 just bamboozles me honestly but I’m so happy about it

[whattraintracks]

Thoughts from "Reality Check" and "Across the Universe"

Ah yes, the fun filler episodes before "Same As It—PSYCH! You've been bamboozled!! Because Mikey and Raph seemed like they were having a good time, but, also, they almost died? Multiple times??

I know Mikey calls them the teenage mutant super turtles, but they seemed older? I don't know, they had adult vibes. Maybe that was just because they seemed so cold to Mikey. Gosh, how devastating it must have been for Mike to be face to face with these distortions of his brothers, his oldest and only playmates, except these versions don't know him and aren't even willing to engage with him.

Pfft, he looked so disappointed when alternate Casey said, "violence is rarely the answer." Not even bummed, more offended like, 'Dude, I can't believe you just said that. I thought we were friends.'

On a happier note, he'd be thrilled to know there's a universe with a statue of him. Wait, actually, since he's a battle nexus champ, he has a statue at the nexus, doesn't he? Good for him.

My working theory is that the Time Scepter sent the turtles somewhere related to their recent environment/what was on their mind. The turtles get hit with that beam, and it goes, hmm, what are you thinking about? Superheroes? Fast bikes? Yeah, I can work with that. Intrigued to know what Donny was working on that led to SAINW. Leo goes to Usagi's universe, right? Haha, bet he was thinking about his crush while practicing with his katana. Bonus points if he was using the sword Usagi got him for Christmas.

I don't know if the phase shift was painful (a la Across the Spiderverse). It didn't seem to be, but it must have been terrifying, especially when it happened while Raph was trying to operate a massive vehicle.

Holy heck, Raph was straight-up blackmailed by a couple adults into competing in a death race. And then had to be the adult a few times to get him and Falcon out of mortal peril and say, 'Hey, maybe let's not leave our fellow competitors to die.' Yeesh.

Now I'm just. Imagining Raph retelling everything that went down with the Planet Racers. He's focusing on how wicked the race was and raving about the specs on the bike, and then someone—probably Splinter or April—says softly but also very concerned, 'Sweetie, that wasn't a good situation. You could've gotten really hurt. Those adults shouldn't have treated you like that.' And he's all, 'Yeah, uhuh, sure, and did I tell you about the GIANT WORM!' Because, initially, he thinks they're overreacting, but as he sits with it and cracks open his emotions about the whole situation, he realises, um yeah, that was kind of terrifying, and they wouldn't take no for an answer, and all I wanted to do was get home but they wouldn't let me and. . . yeah, I probably,,, should've expected this reaction to a Raph-centric episode

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Mikey Entry #1!!

It was kinda hard trying to figure out what to do or call this au, but it has been decided!!!

Welcome to the start of the Bamboozle AU :)

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I just wanted to see a Goat man sucked dry and a 13 year old have his world view destroyed! Is that too much to ask?

How many parts are there going to be? I can't wait that long! I'm gonna die!

Oh don't worry, you'll get to see that..... all in due time..... :)

There's going to be a total of 6 parts of the Gearing Up comic (so 2 more parts), but the comic ends right as Team Good Guys finally manages to head off to the surface to confront Draxum and Mikey. Just so ya'll know, while I'm not 100% sure of how I'm gonna tackle the rest of the season 1 finale (plus the first episode of season 2 considering it's all one continous storyline) it's probably not gonna be a proper comic like Cell Talk or Gearing Up. Comics are fun, but also time consuming and a lot of work and I'm a bit impatient when it comes to getting the AU story out so uh.

I'm probably gonna go back to how I did things previously, mostly explaining the story in text with accompanying illustrations cuz I still definitely wanna draw it! (Basically the same format as in this post)

It feels a bit anti-climactic considering all the build-up to the Season Finale Battle has been proper comics but MAN I just don't have the motivation to keep doing this. And I STILL HAVEN'T SHOWED HOW THE BEGINNING OF SEASON ONE PLAYED OUT IN THE AU UGH! Donnie's first encounter with his brother's and all that!! I've been planning to do that for MONTHS and I'm gonna do it as soon as possible I promise!!

Uh wait sorry for rambling haha, point is Drax and Mikey are gonna get real bamboozled don't worry about it! It might just take a little while longer hehe. Just wait 'til Mikey enters his Angsty Teen Arc though he's gonna be a lot to deal with XD

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Feel free to not answer this if you don’t want to or are uncomfortable but what would be a way for Tony to become sympathetic in your eyes? If you wrote Gunnerkrigg court what would you do with Tony?

I'm gonna try and put this into words as best I can, but it's difficult. I hope this makes sense.

Honestly, nobody crucify me for this, but... I think Tony is inherently sympathetic the way he is now? Like, all the basic ingredients to Tony's story make up someone I could very easily feel sorry for. I would not have an inherent problem with being asked to see him in shades of grey. I freely admit that he's been through a lot of pain in his life. It's just the execution that leaves me unhappy.

What I have a problem with is chapters like "Annie and the Fire," and especially "The Mind Cage." They're about as subtle as a brick in asking Annie, and especially the reader, to forgive Tony because he's been through a lot. No matter how many times we're told Tony's actions aren't excused by his pain, it doesn't disguise the transparent fact that the comic is asking us to excuse his actions and feel really, really bad for him. It reads like the author getting mad at us for interpreting his story "incorrectly," which really raises the reader's hackles, and for good reason.

I find it difficult to think of how I'd fix this - I'm sure people smarter than me have articulated it way better in the past. Let's begin with "Annie and the Fire." I don't have a problem with the reader being shown why Tony did everything that he did - and that he deeply regrets it - but I would probably remove the framing device where Donnie is purposefully showing Annie the conversation. I would rather have Annie somehow slipping her blinker stone into her dad's clothes or something and eavesdropping on him that way. Having Donnie specifically choose to show Annie "the other side" of Tony feels too much like apologism, no matter how much Donnie (and the author) try to convince us otherwise. And the idea of Donnie specifically trying to show this abused child that her dad isn't so bad after all leaves a really bad taste in my mouth, too, especially since Donnie was previously like, one of the sole reasonable adults in the entire comic, lol.

I would just erase "The Mind Cage." Like, entirely. No more "Mind Cage" period. That chapter is such a cringeworthy blunder in the comic's history. It is so obviously calculated to address reader backlash against Tony and the comic simply doesn't need it. On top of that, I would remove like, almost every reference to Tony's mind cage situation, I think. The concept that he can't talk to more than one person at once is so goddamn silly and poorly thought-out, and I say this as an autistic person with severe social anxiety myself. I will say that I do understand where Tom was coming from and what he was trying to do, I just think it was very poorly executed and comes across as so weird and borderline offensive to neurodivergent experiences. It's a no from me. Take it out.

At most, imply Tony's social difficulties through his actions. Rewrite the arc where Kat forgives him - don't just have it happening instantly and offscreen, which is so jarring and almost sickening after years of her being Annie's staunchest defender. And for god's sake don't have Annie expressing that she doesn't care what her dad does and will love him no matter what, frame this as an unambiguously good and cool thing, and have Jones, the impartial observer character, judge that this situation is fine actually.

Related note: "Get Lost" needs rewrites, too. Tony is simply not charming enough in that chapter to make us believe that Surma, and Kat, and everyone else, would be bamboozled by how cool and funny he is. He's just some dude. He's so bland, and so is his and Surma's romance. It's simply not believable. That chapter needs to be a slam dunk - it's pulling a lot of weight to convince the readers of a lot of things at once, and it's simply not working.

I think there is a fundamental problem that needs to be addressed before we deal with any of this: the comic is being written by an author that dislikes its main character and sees her as a spoiled child who deserves harsh punishment for her actions. This is in direct conflict with his readers, who have interpreted the story thus far as being about an abused and neglected kid who doesn't deserve any of the stuff that's happened to her, even if she's been cheating on her schoolwork and acting out a little. I believe Tom sees Tony's actions as at least a little justified because of this. If this wasn't the case, I think he would be more capable of writing the story in a way that readers would be more able to connect with and understand, rather than reacting with revulsion and confusion because, to us, he's depicting an abused child getting constantly knocked back down by her cruel father. Tom's biases are showing very clearly through his work, and he is not treating his story with the nuance it deserves, not anymore. I don't think there's any way to "fix" this, other than Tom having a come-to-Jesus moment, which is just not likely at this point, sad to say.

This obviously doesn't cover it all, not even close. It's just some rambling thoughts from me, and I hope they made at least a little sense. Thanks for this ask.

[dandylovesturtles]

anyway chapter 14 of IMBI will probably be Heavily Delayed while I work on my big bang fic + I'm about to go on vacation, and so you guys don't forget about me (don't don't don't don't) here's the WIP opening of chapter 14 (could change, may not, depends on how I feel later)

also I'm sorry to everyone who thought Leo is already back in his body I DIDN'T MEAN TO BAMBOOZLE YOU

spoilers of course. don't click the read more if you'd rather wait for the entire chapter to be out

He got bits and pieces.

…

“...eo? Can… hear me?”

“...not fading, just… really out of it.”

“Okay, Donnie, can you-”

…

“...got him.”

“Good thing he doesn’t weigh anything like this, huh?”

“Michael, are you insinuating I couldn’t normally-”

…

“...really gonna walk down this mountain in the dark?”

“Would you rather stay in the cave?”

“At least we have the moon. Once a Krang hound chased me into the old subway tunnels and I was lost for…”

…

“...until by death the soul is torn.”

“I’m genuinely surprised Raph of all people managed to remember all that.”

“Donnie, consider this an IOU on a shove late-”

…

“OW! Dang it.”

“April!?”

“I’m okay, just… my dang ankle.”

“Alright, come here.”

“No, Raph, you don’t- …Thanks, big guy.”

…

“...the ranger station.”

“So what’s the plan? We can’t exactly walk-”

…

“-believe you guys talked me into stealing a truck!”

“It’s not stealing if you bring it back.”

“Oh yeah? Which of your uncles taught you that?”

“Actually it was you, Comman-”

…

“Dee?”

“Yeah?”

“I think he’s crying.”

“I know… I can… him shaking…”

…

“Cellphone reception, oh how I missed thee!”

“Oh, that is a lot of missed calls…”

…

“...only motels open this late rent by the hour.”

“Who would only need a motel for an hour?”

“Oh no, I am not explaining-”

…

“-ditch the truck here.”

“You good to walk, April?”

“Yeah, my ankle’s-”

…

“...with me, Casey. Just act natural.”

“I’ll try…?”

…

“I’ve never stayed in a hotel before.”

“Us neither! Unless you count that time we were in Big Mama’s place to-”

…

“-taking Case to hit up the twenty four hour minimart.”

“Bring back… chips and…”

…

“You’re okay, Leo. You’re safe. We gotcha.”

“Did he say something?”

“No, he just chirps someti-”

…

“-gotta call Pops back.”

“Sounds like a job for the oldest brother.”

“Oh no, I’m putting your baby face between me and-”

…

“WHERE ARE YOU!?”

“Um… somewhere just outside Tucson?”

“Oh! You boys are grounded! No TV, no movies, no video games, no-”

…

“...just tell me if Blue is safe.”

“Yeah, he’s… well he’s not doing great but we’ve-”

…

“We’re back!”

“You just missed us getting chewed out by Dad.”

“I’m sure I’ll get to see round two later. What’s the-”

…

“Donnie? Do you wanna get up and stretch or-”

“I’m not putting him down. He hasn’t stopped shaking since-”

…

The feel of hands resting on his shell, the soft click of a phone keyboard, Raph’s snoring echoing through the room…

…

“-say they’re gonna be here soon, and to tell them if-”

…

“I’M AWAKE!”

Leo flailed his arms, rolled over, slid off Donnie’s plastron, and promptly fell through the bed they had apparently been lying on.

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some donnie sketches that i forgot i had + draxum (he has been bamboozled into a parental role)