#I need to redo some of the colors in the future but I like this

[10piecechickenmcnugget]

fuck it we ball *completely redoes my personal starborne design/lore*

[sergle]

I think my favorite thing about doing ginger red hair instead of cherry red hair is: lying to people about it

[nectardaddy]

wild youth

one | trash can

masterlist

track one . . . crystal

cw/notes : ignore timestamps, hurt/comfort (my bread and butter yum), anxiety attack, feelings of panic, feelings of nausea (no throwing up), someone get me a suga asap fuck I love him so bad, ignore any typos I tried my best

The swirling sensation in her stomach never stopped even after she had sent everyone on their way. In fact, it got worse as her eyes tracked over the calendar she had on her desk. Little boxes filled to the brim with colorful ink, each color holding a significance that was important to only her.

Red was urgent, meetings she couldn't miss, or she would never hear the end of it. Blue was content, what subject matter she should be on week by week - which she was behind on. Green was tasks listed out in bullet points for science and math - to make a study guide, to redo a failed worksheet, to get supplies together for an upcoming lab, to make calls regarding a field trip in the near future. 

Orange was personal. 

Orange ink littered every Friday - ‘after school w/ K.S.’ (Abbreviated in case anyone came up to her desk with prying eyes. Already learning the hard way - last month - when question upon question was asked of “oh my god what do you and Mr. Sugawara do after school?!?” And “is Mr. Suga your boyfriend?! Is that why you have that on your calendar?!”)

Orange ink that scrawled underneath every box labeled Friday made her heart squeeze but wrench all in the same breath. Holding onto the feeling so hard she felt it crush and shatter in between her fingers. She had the tendency to hold onto things too hard, and never did find it within herself to let go - fractured or not. Always finding herself picking up stray pieces that fell here and there, leaving a trail behind her wherever she went. 

The amount of colorful ink, some smeared and some barely legible, threw her into a spiral if she looked at it too long. Too many things to do, too many calls to make and meetings to attend, and simply not enough time in one school day to complete everything. The swirling feeling that started in her stomach began to move, forcing its way to her throat and she took a deep breath. She swallowed hard and closed her eyes, fighting the nausea and overwhelming need to spill her guts right then and there. 

In through the nose, out through the mouth. 

She remained like that a moment, focusing on her breathing and taking deep inhales of air only to let it back out again. But she gripped the orange pen she had in her hand tightly when she heard someone step through the threshold of her door; the sickly feeling returned to her throat immediately. She kept her eyes closed and took a shaky breath, determined to focus herself onto one thing rather than the person who came in.

She knew it was Sugawara. 

Knew the moment she heard long, relaxed strides and the soft squeak of chucks onto the horribly waxed floor. Knew as soon as she heard him walk through the door without a word - silent and all too ready to listen, to help. She knew he looked at her in worry, brown eyes swimming with an emotion she had yet to pinpoint. She knew he wouldn't dare leave until he knew she was alright.

Sugawara knew that she was losing her grip on remaining calm.

“Do you need the trash can?” 

A simple question, asked in a soft voice near her. She only screwed her eyes shut tighter and shook her head. “I'm ok.” Lying through gritted teeth, hoping he would turn to leave, but to no avail. 

“No you're not.” Another whisper of a reply. 

“I'm fine.” 

She heard him hum before the screech of a chair hit her ears, making her flinch and a ‘sorry’ followed quickly after. 

And that's when she felt him. 

His presence radiated next to her that she couldn't ignore - warm, caring, and selfless. Not a single off hand comment to say as he pulled a chair next to her and sat down without a word. She could feel his arm brush against her own, a simple accident as he got comfortable in the plastic chair. But a tingling feeling that made her heart stop; a proximity she couldn't tell was intentional or not. 

“Then I'll be here to make sure you stay fine.” 

She hated that answer. 

Loathed it even, for the sole fact it caused the sickly feeling to arrange itself into a lump in her throat. A lump that made her swallow hard, as to try and fight it, but only made it worsen as it became bigger. Growing until the feeling hit her chest painfully, overwhelming her with a sense of panic. One hand still held onto the orange pen for dear life, and the other death gripped her pants leg. 

“Suga,” the name spoken in a whisper, but voice cracking all the same. It dawned on her she had no control over how the situation went anymore, realizing she would ultimately drop her façade in front of the man only made the burning pain in her chest worse. The mask would reluctantly be long gone if she started to cry; and it hit her hard as she became acutely aware of the fact she couldn't stop herself if she did.

Her face felt hot and her heart pumped violently in her chest, hearing every thump within her ear drums so loudly it drowned out the rest of the world. She took one last deep breath - but that was the start of the complete collapse of her mind.

The inhale was labored, fighting back every instinct to let tears flow freely - she couldn't, she wouldn't, not in front of him, anyone but the man beside her. 

But she did.

The exhale was a choked back sob, one of which made her drop the orange pen completely and cover her mouth to muffle the sound. A cry for help that sounded too desperate to let anyone else hear, too pained to allow the man next to her bear witness too, too raw for even herself. Even with her eyes screwed shut, squeezing them so tight the corners of her eyes began to hurt, the tears fell anyway. It wasn't gradual, it wasn't a wave that pulled her down slowly but surely - it was the sudden, violent collapse of an, otherwise fine, structure. The chaos of watching a building fall, watching as brick by brick it all came tumbling down on itself. 

She couldn't register what happened, as the time from his statement and her crying was nothing but a brief pause. She only knew she was crying, her fingers sore from grabbing at the fabric of her pants, that her throat felt hoarse, and the hand that covered her mouth was now wet with tears. But a new sensation was thrown into the mix that made her jump in her skin and hold tight to the last thread of sanity she still had. A warmth on the back of her hand completely sent her to the deep end and lurched her off.

His hand atop her own. 

She couldn't explain why she flipped her palm over in that moment, couldn't place why exactly she interlocked her fingers with his without a second thought, and she surely didn't know why she removed her hand from her mouth only to open it. “What the fuck is wrong with me, Suga?” A wrenching question asked through broken cries and hot tears, “why can't I think, for just one goddamn second, that I'm not drowning? Why can't I think I'm good enough? Why can't I think I'm not a complete failure with everything I do?”

There was a long pause, one that only made her tears flow a bit harder. Because his silence felt cold to her, his silence felt like an answer all in itself. But he squeezed her hand in his own and looked over to her; if she had glanced, even briefly, to him she would've realized she took his heart right out of his chest. Held it in her hands unknowingly and dug her fingers into it, leaving marks that would linger for the rest of his days. 

“You’re the farthest thing from a failure,” he whispered. "And I’ll tell you every day that you’re good enough, because you are. You’re more than enough - you’re perfect.”

She wished she had said yes to the trash can.

“I am failing miserably,” she choked. “They won’t fucking listen, they won’t stop talking, they keep asking me the dumbest things imaginable after I tell them what they’re doing, and they look at me like I’m stupid constantly. And I have to pretend that everything is okay, and smile and laugh. Even when I just want to slam my fucking head into the wall and cry. I-” 

“Hey.” She felt him squeeze her hand once more as he cut her words short. “Breathe.” Another squeeze, this one tighter than that last, and he kept the tension. He held her hand like her life depended on it, interlocking fingers between his own and remained firm. He refused to watch her drown - or at least, they'd drown together. 

She took an uneasy breath in, and hopelessly failed at holding it as another sob wracked her chest again. To this, he didn't say a word; only watched as she tried to inhale and hold it. Brown eyes swirled with a concern she wouldn't even bear witness to, holding her hand as it was the only thing he could do. Failed attempt after failed attempt until she was finally able to the fifth time around - holding it and releasing a shaky exhale. 

“It's ok to not be ok,” he assured, to which he squeezed her hand once again. 

She finally found it in herself to open her eyes, and she looked over to him in sorrow. Blurry, tear stained eyes locked with his own and he felt his heart sink even farther in his stomach. How long has she felt like this? Thinking himself an idiot for letting it get to a peak such as this one; ridiculing himself within the chasms of his mind for not noticing sooner. On the contrary, she felt her stomach surge upward. A squeamish feeling that made her swallow harshly, and a bitter taste at the back of her throat that made her look away from him completely. 

She most definitely should have said yes to the trash can.

Her eyes had only met his own for a fraction of a second, but that was enough for her to feel embarrassment wash over her. So she kept her eyes glued to the orange ink that littered the calendar on her desk. Orange was consistent, never changing, caring - adoring. And she watched as, now slowed, tears dripped onto the paper. Drops created small, circular splotches that bled through to the pages underneath. Watched as the ink started to scatter and feather out from hot, salty tears; and for once, she didn’t care. Didn’t care that her handwriting began to be illegible, didn’t care that red ink started to blend with green. As long as the orange ink was still there, if it still remained intact - it was fine. As long as the orange ink would always remain there, it was ok.

“But I have to be ok,” she whispered, negating his statement as she closed her eyes again. “If I’m not ok then everything will go to shit.”

“Says who?” 

“Says my brain.”

“Well,” he began, and she heard the faintest of a chuckle sound from beside her. “Don’t listen to your brain. You don’t have to be ok at all.” And in that moment, she became overly aware of the fact he was holding her hand, because he squeezed it again. Pale fingers locked with her own, holding tightly, and she felt a heat rise to her cheeks. Muddled with the already warm feeling of being overwhelmed, she felt herself thrown to the deep end all over again. “Honestly, we can not be ok together.”

Together. 

One singular word felt crushing, but relieving all in the same breath. While it took her by the ankles and yanked her downward, it also grabbed her by the wrists and surged her up. A head spinning feeling that didn’t help her nausea; it only made it worse as now she felt torn asunder. Friday after Friday of being together but so, god damn, far apart. Together felt like a curse. A god awful, caring, loveable curse she couldn't get enough of.

She kept her eyes closed and lips sealed shut at his words, humming them over in her mind as seconds passed. Burnt out, foolish, embarrassed, and hot, she still noticed the yearning feeling that pulled at the back of her mind. An ache that never went away, only nagged and pined as it only continued to grow as moments became minutes. And minutes became a crushing weight to finally say something - anything. 

Together. 

“Do you want to get hammered tonight?” An off kilter, frankly off color, question she blurted out to him as she reopened her eyes. Looking over to him in anticipation, but a deep rooted fear swimming in her eyes, and she finally squeezed his hand back in response. 

She saw the smile form on his lips the second the question was asked, watched as the smile turned to a chuckle, and the chuckle became a silly, joy bringing laugh. “What kind of question is that?” A rhetorical question asked between chuckles, “obviously I want to get hammered.” 

“I still don't want to go to the bar though,” tagging on the statement quieter than the last and she saw him shrug in response.

“My offer still stands. Do you like shitty, cranberry vodka?” 

“Yes?”

“My place it is then.”

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[thenntrewrite]

I'm not exactly sure how to approach this, so how about we start with some redesigns I've made and explaining the thought process behind the designs? We'll start off with the man, the myth, the legend himself:

Meliodas

I'll be honest. I do not like the shota/childlike appearance that is Meliodas. I get that it's suppose to be part of a running shtick of, "oh my God, he's a child—wait no he's a grown ass man?!" or a personal preference for the author (who makes a lot of his adult characters look like children/quite young for their age), but it's playing into one of the tropes I hate (looks young but is actually an ancient being). If it's your cup of tea, more power to you, but it's not my kind of flavor, so we're redoing him design-wise while also trying to keep some things (colors mainly).

So for his design, the thought process was like this:

Since he's a demon, I was like, "okay, bet" and told myself to pick one (1) from the three (3) options I gave myself, which was dragon, goat and crow— dragon in reference to his sin (Wrath) which is usually associated with dragons, goat because of goats being associated with hell and Baphomet and the Devil always have goat features, and crow because Morgan le Fay (which is his future wife in my rewrite, surprise! This bit is moreso fanservice to my middle school self. I'm sorry Melizabeth lovers, don't eat me alive)'s animal is usually the crow and crows are seen associated with death and that ties in with his curse of immortality.

Now, the goat jumped at me the most because it's the one most heavily associated with Hell, and he is the son of the Demon Lord whom I named Felec (based on Arthurian Legend, the little information we have on him), and I saw these amazing goats for someone's DnD character, and it just fueled my need to draw him as a goat more. The original idea was to give him goat-like features which was the ears, horns, the pupils, but then I got to thinking, "man, the seven deadly sins are all suppose to be from different races, yet it's hard to tell with how all of them looked practically human" and I know I can easily say, "ah no, this is just his human form, his true form is a lot more demonic and he needs the human form to blend in", but then I thought, "that's so boring", so lo and behold, I start with his eyes and worked my way from there.

I changed his hair to curls because his old spiky hair was not working, and his outfit had got to go because I thought, "he'd look more sick with goat legs", and made him two different outfits to accommodate that and to fit the medieval fantasy setting better. I was thinking of blending some attributes of a dragon and a crow to make him more demonic like, but I don't know, I just really like what I made and thought other features would throw everything off balance. Maybe he comes off more like a cursed goat and rolls with that idea so people don't suspect him of anything, but hey, I can always tweak it to make him more demonic if it doesn't come off that way. And I did not want to give him dark colors for his fur—that's going to go to his youngest brother, Zeldris.

(Here's my first official post! Hope you enjoy @gh0stofyesterday )

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

the thing i really do like about lena from ducktales is

she's a teen character who's been through a Lot. and still is a Lot

and her friends? they like her like that

she's still someone who'll hide how she's having terrifying nightmares of her evil aunt taking control of her, up to the point she accidentally drags her friends into a dreamverse and almost succumbs to said evil aunt because she's just so TIRED of trying to NOT be like her

she's a big sister now, adopted by violet and the two best dads, and she's super supportive- but her way of helping violet is by teaching her to insult and put down her competition- their Friend- which gets violet into some troubles later on

she's the kind of friend who stops an attack at huey by stopping TIME, pulling them both in his mind- and then opening the door in his mind he told her Not To, unleashing a feral furious side of him- encouraging him to do that in REAL life, cause a mess! Be a bit of a monster! Go wreck someone for once!!!

she's the bestie who sees webby's newly discovered clone sisters cutting a string between her picture and webby's, and blasts said clone twin with a magic attack

Reformed isn't the word for lena, is what im saying.

She's got the same traits as ever- they're just barely starting to be redirected

now she's also someone who dragged webby's granny out of danger (while alone with no witnesses) even though said granny didn't approve of her, basically said she thought lena had no future, and had been getting in the way of lena's plans for freedom and escape from her own evil aunt

lena was never evil. she doesn't need redemption

chances to BE HERSELF is what she needed, and it's what she GETS

she's jumping down a giant shark monster to save webby- her worst nightmare is webby dying- she kinda dies herself trying to save webby

she's the cool teen making color coordinated friendship bracelets for all her new buddies-

she's the big sis waving flags and cheering violet on, dissing on their friends for her, tackle hugging her (getting such a smile out of violet when she does), and always reaching out to her when things get dangerous

she's the friend who's been through it looking at huey's worst side, the part of him he's scared and ashamed of, telling him dude that is COOL- and she's also spending time and magic letting him run through as many redos as he wants, the one who put out a hand in the nick of time to save him the first place

she's coming to get webby after their first real fight, physically straining to keep a spell up long enough to reach her, and she's got friendship bracelets for webby's formally evil clone sisters too, catching them in her magic and safely carrying them along with her own little sister

like, she does learn to trust in friendship. she learns she wants to try being a better friend too

but she doesn't have to turn into someone ELSE to do it!

and her friends wouldn't want her to, anyway

[20dollarlolita]

Okay, I know I said that it's your burando and you can modify it however you want and it's no one's business, but

Well, I bought this modified burando and now I need to fix it, so it is my business. This dress has a questionable alteration done to it, but other than that feels completely unworn. I'm feeling like someone did the alteration, didn't like it, and never wore it again.

When you're looking at an altered garment, you can tell the difference between someone who didn't know what they were doing, and someone who didn't care what they were doing.

So here's some tips that I think will help even an inexperienced person have a better outcome:

If you don't know how to sew well enough to be confident threading your machine with matching colors, you should not start your clothing modification journey with a ¥34,344.00 dress. Start a little smaller.

Keep the fabric intact when you can. If you can easily seam rip something, seam rip it. You don't need to cut everything. Especially don't make me cry by cutting apart seams that AP kindly left you 1/2" of seam allowance on. Just cut the thread, not the fabric.

If you think you're going to undo or redo (or have someone else redo) your alteration, set your stitch length at somewhere around 3 instead of the normal 2.5. Whoever has to rip your seams later will thank you.

You really don't need to backstitch eight times for 21 stitches each time. You can fix most seams by sewing backward for four stitches, once.

If you think your alterations might need to be changed at some point in the future, pick a color of thread that coordinates with the garment, but isn't the color that the factory thread in the garment is. Whoever is re-altering it will be able to tell what's new and what isn't.

Seam finishes and hem finishes matter a lot. If it's visible from the outside, it shouldn't have a raw edge. If it's really likely to fray on the inside, run a three step zigzag on the edge so that it doesn't fray. It's just little things that matter.

All of these are really basic practices that you can get into the habit of doing, and that take very little time or effort, and most of which also don't take sewing skill. When your alterations look good on the outside and halfway okay on the inside, you're going to have more fun wearing your dress.

[bonsai-maze]

stuff

hello [tumblr] :)

dis my new intro post since i kinda hate my old one

note: if you wanna communicate with me, and you're someone i haven't talked to very much/know much about, i'd very much prefer you send me an ask, @ me in something, or comment on a post ive made. dms can get kinda awkward for my socially anxious ass and it'll be all weird and awkward and uncomfy and aH

< ! > want to claim a infinite supply of something of your choice? go here for further instructions

about me

< 1 > full name - bonsai 'maze' wanders

< 2 > online nicknames - bonsai, maze, or wander. preferably the first two

< 3 > age - 16

< 4 > birthday - november 20th 🎉

< 5 > residence - the usa

< 6 > gender identity - afab transgender demiboyflux (fluctuate between gendervoid and demiboy)

🖤💜🩵🤍🩵💜🖤

< 7 > pronouns (x)- he/him, it/its, and they/them (in order of preference). assume he/him though.

< 8 > attraction identity - demigrey aromantic and demigrey aroace ❣️

< 9 > status - future qpr marriage to @attackweeb

< 10 > agere status - ☁️ age dreamer ☁️

< 11 > fandoms - the boys (youtube) and bts (kpop). i know a lot about other stuff thought

< 12 > fandoms i could join but im too tired/don't want to or can't join right now (might join in the future):

+ httyd (tv) + trollhunters (tv) + 3 below (tv) + lego ninjago (tv) + hunger games (book) + harry potter (book) + emily windsnap (book) + the lunar chronicles (book) + nsb (yt and music group)

(more probably to come)

< 13 > hobbies of mine:

+ writing literally anything (fanfics, og stories, stories/articles for my school's yearbook, oc descs) + reading (books, fanfics [AO3]) + creating ocs (picrew/randomly) + redoing my damn nails because i can never get them right + scrolling through tumblr + talking to ai bots (c.ai and s.ai [spicychat.ai]) + hanging out with my friends listening to podcasts

(more soon to come)

< 14 > music artists i love/consistently listen to

+ bts + txt + skz + enhypen + exo + blackpink + ateez + tnx + lesserafim + shinhwa + alec benjamin + ajr + nf + nico collins + boywithuke (my man is 🔥) + jamie miller + matt maeson + boyinspace + mad tsai + benson boone + poor man's poison

(more soon to come)

< 15 > the tags i've coined:

+ bonsai's tea - a tag imma put on everything but quick reblogs + bonsai's annoying ass reblogs - shit i reblog (if i have something to say) + bonsai's picrew - picrew shit + bonsai's ocs - my ocs + bonsai'smildlyfuglyface - my mildly fugly face + bonsai's family => - posts involving my tumblr family + cocothedoggo - pictures of my puppy coco + claudethesausage - pictures of my half-sausage dog claude + kiarosethedoggo - pictures of my husky/aussie mix kia rose + okiethecorgi - pictures of my friend's corgi okie + abluemaincoon - pictures of my friend's maincoon mix blue + forApollo - old stuff for my queerio @attackweeb's old account

(more soon to come)

< 16 > the blogs i own:

+ @park-bonsai - my mostly reblogs account for bts shit + @literally-the-color-yellow - for yellow shit (my attempt at a gimmick blog) + @bonsai-fucking-writes - for writing shit (fanfiction/og works) + @bonsais-corner for picrew oc shit

(more soon to come)

< 17 > my tumblr family ❣️

< 18 > my mildly fugly face (might as well own it now)

< 19 > a gift for sitting through this bullshit long enough to get here :)

< 20 > im not leaving this damn post at 19, so here's 20

go follow @attackweeb (my future queerio). they're new to to the whole tumblr scene and can't respond or be on that often, but i honestly love them sm. we know each other irl btw, which is why i love them /qpr ❣️

anyway, thx for visiting my page => only follow if you wanna

x

[kradeelav]

so one of the technical bits i challenged myself with this gunter/corrin doujin was to:

(a) figure out an efficient process for professional multi-page artistic works in linux/true OSS programs - from ideation all the way to printer hand-off.

and

(b) a process that fit well with my brain and kept me from spinning my wheels endlessly redoing pages. it's a common problem with longer projects (aka why you see reboots of webcomics all the time, and also why i haven't been able to get "what greater sin" out for three years cuz i sucked at this lol).

why the focus on process though?

after mastering a certian degree of technical proficiency. it's what separates the hobbyist artists from the pros. not to toot my horn, but i'm quite good at project management process at work, and about two years ago it dawned on me to take some of that learned knowledge and actually apply it here if only to save eyestrain/wrist-strain time.

work lazier smarter, not harder etc.

before i get into the process outline, there's two programs that are doing the heavy lifting since i gave them a trial run with the last anthology and they worked great in tandem. (both cost no money and are available on all major OS's btw)

krita, my main drawing program. sketching/inking/speech bubbles/coloring/vector stuff can all be done here.

libreoffice writer - basically microsoft word for linux. i use it for arranging multiple pages, reordering, and exporting as .pdf to give to the printer (while amazing at rendering, krita can't export as pdf or show multi-pages)

so!

process wise, it occurred to me not too long ago that i needed to consolidate my multi-page creative projects into 3 major gates.

thumbnail sketches

proof of concept layout

"last 10" final

thumbnail sketches

thumbnails are a common concept in comics, but they're great for print front/back matter too. thumbnails ain't here to look pretty, their sole purpose to get the idea from your noggin to on the page.

here's a completely unaltered spread from my journal with a ton of thumbs and notes for this doujin.

so what's the kind of stuff i think about with thumbs?

how panels in a comic fit together with the major emotional beats + line of action. does the eye follow the pages naturally? do you "feel" the emotional impact?

does the compositions work with each other? negative/positive space, weight on top or bottom or diagonally, etc. do the pages feel claustrophobic or too empty? do they breathe?

decorative framing elements that reflect the tone you want + how they generally lead the eye across the page

random notes about overall tone or potential future pages

etcetc

at this point i import that digitally, and start drawing a proper sketch off of it.

fast forward from that sketch to:

"proof of concept" layout

i'm calling this proof of concept instead of a draft as they serve different purposes. a draft is a half-finished work you can just screenshot and show to anyone for feedback (like comms). proof of concept here is showing a certian level of completeness across draft pages to measure consistency.

lack of consistency is the mind killer killer of comics.

proof of concept is specifically meant to nip the 'fizzled out halfway' issues in the bud. it's to show you how cool it looks altogether already, but also shed a light on problem areas that are potentially popping up on the earlier side, so there's less time wasted.

this is a little premature in the process for a proof of concept screenshot, but you get the idea here in a later strip, shown here as screenshots imported into libreoffice writer:

another reason that made libreoffice writer essential is the accurate 2-page spread view. between that, being able to resize the page to whatever you need, and the very easy pdf exporter (with customizable compression), i don't know if i could do this kind of project here.

now, backing up - what kinds of consistency are we checking for here?

does the inking/coloring style change noticeably in a jarring way?

is there one comic strip that the pacing/paneling sucks in comparison to the others? or feels awkwardly added in tone and perhaps better saved for a different project?

is there one panel within a sequential series that's torturing you? what's the best way to throw it out and redo it even faster?

do the front/back matter support the meat of the inside in a clever, on-tone way?

did you accidentally change the font halfway through after you liked your new shiny toy? which one works better?

etc

keep in mind we're not just checking the consistency in one strip, it's for the book as a whole.

and then lastly,

"the last ten" final

"the last ten" is a mental concept i've used for the last ten years for single comic pages. it's especially tempting to noodle over endlessly making one comic page perfect, when you could have done ten reasonably good ones in the same time, and so i made this my last step making IC pages.

once when you approach a level of reasonably done, but kinda hate the page and are procrastinating on getting it out, stop, rest your eyes overnight, and list the last ten minor things you'd change.

once when you've changed those? out the door it goes.

i'm gonna switch to a different project but here's a good example of a "last ten" stage applied to illustrations when i did fallen!gunter's FEH mockups.

looks pretty complete, right? WRONG :D

i can't remember the exact last ten i used, but it was something like:

too much of one specific glowy purple on both, i wanted more contrast with the red glow + "water" texture

needed more effects on the first image to better match FEH's aesthetic

change Leigh's credits after they got a chance to see it and give the thumbs up

knee/shin on left looks unfinished painting wise, clean up

missing chest plate silver decorations on left, clean up

etc

this is the last hail mary check to hack your brain into being satisfied with the page. you've had your say, onwards to the next one.

now, you can also have an additional 'last ten' for the project as a whole. but it's especially critical for comic pages to help keep the momentum/tempo/pace going.

anyway!

we'll see how all of this actually works in practice depending on how fast i can get this doujin out. :)

[wyrmoftheweb]

ok hi, doing this thing. i need money so i can make drs appointments and get treatment for my epilepsy, which has gotten significantly worse lately. my seizures have progressed enough that i need to get some kind of treatment for them again. they're starting to affect my life more than just not being able to drive. i'm experiencing near-constant brain fog, and seizures that are more severe and actually have me on the ground when they occur. i'm worried about walking down stairs and stuff. i really need to be medicated or get some kind of treatment.

i need to get referred to an adult neurologist (last time I went to the doc for this, I was 14 or 15 I think), go there, ostensibly redo testing stuff, and figure out a medication that works. luckily, i have insurance (i'm still on my parents), but i need money for copays for all that stuff until I can get a job. i'm currently looking for jobs, and it's hard for me to find one because i can't drive and my city is shit for public transportation. the copay for my initial drs appt to get the referral will be $20, and after i have that, i can make my first appt, but i plan on keeping this post up so i can also get money for tests and future meds.

my cashapp and venmo are both CHW02, and my paypal @ is warn3r. here's my paypalme link, please ignore my deadname. i have furry and mlp commissions open as well (prices and art examples are under the cut). i would really appreciate any help I can get here, including rbs.

you can get a colored fullbody or 2-frame pixel for $10 or a monochrome full with screentones like the top middle for $5.

[briskalishous]

Bruh I'm really late for this DTIYS but I was initially going to do it for fun and instead got so wrapped up in it, like changing styles and designs becuz I haven't done a redesign for Vox but I think this one will push me to a great direction in what I think Vox would look like. Still need to work on the past Vox design, too, but meh, I'm really happy with the results and didn't want to let it sit in my files, so here you go!

This is for @sallufix's disconnecteddtiys. Go check them out, and their content :>

The number of times I had to brighten my screen becuz I'm so used to my phone being dimmed, but I really wanted the colors to pop. So here's ya'lls meal! I really enjoyed myself doing this one, the lineart, the coloring and just messing around with the layering was really fun for me. In the middle of adjusting and doing lineart, I had to start over becuz I wanted to play with different lineart and found this cool pen that was really satisfying and gave the drawing some volume in some areas.

Then came the problem of trying to figure out what time period of my redesigned Alastor I should use for the DTIYS and was stuck on like 3 of them before I just settled for this one. I still have the other versions colored and others deleted becuz I realised how weird the designs looked so it got scrapped. Then there's the past Vox I also got stuck on becuz I feel like he was too plain and also not really thought of much but I think in a future redesign, I'll do him better. At least I really loved how his current form looks so I'm not entirely upset.

The shading part was both frustrating and also a fun experiment to do as I swatched what colors to use and what else to pair with the characters. I had to redo some shadings and overlays becuz it was either not visible or looked horrendous but I settled on this that fills me with so much joy :D

Overall, this was really fun and challenging for me as I continue to change some aspects of my redesigns and doing a first unofficial redesign of Vox! I did some headcanoning on his eyes as usually people would always headcanon an injury on his left eye but I like to headcanon that on his right eye is injured during the fight with Alastor, so rendering that eye powerless and weakening his hypnotism. I haven't made a full story with this one other than style it so hopefully by the time I do a redesign on Vox, I can do more storytelling there.

Here is the process and the two other designs of Alastor that didn't make it in:

And some of the images flipped to better see the other side of the DTIYS:

[saccharinebanquettime]

Hey guys! Haven’t posted in a while but I HAVE been working on some personal Monster High g3 rewrite stuff (mainly the design but..)! Designing them was fun and easy but coloring is a separate type of hell. I have designs that have okay coloring but I feel I could do better on (Howleen and Twyla), designs that I don’t really like the color scheme anymore (Lagoona), and designs I straight up want to redo (Kuma) but here are what I have! I’ll also add some stuff that I changed about them personality wise underneath their respective pictureee

(From left to right)

Draculaura, Howleen, Twyla

Draculaura (sophomore) is still a workaholic obsessed with being study-filled in school and work life. For the most part, she didn’t change much, but she’s more prone to being passive aggressive because of the stress that school and work can bring to her. She’s working on the anger stuff but not so much with taking a break,, (the boo crew is trying to help her don’t worry)

Howleen is also mainly the same as g3. She has a really cute sibling relationship with Romulus and Barkimedes acting as their younger sister who believes she’s the older one (she’s a freshman in my version). She also has a sibling relationship with Clawdeen and helps Clawdeen get around the wolf pack easier. She has a fat crush on Twyla too urrm lesbian??!?? In my universe of g3, there’s also a specific way that the school does the wolf pack hierarchy whatever thing. I’m not going to get too into it, but Romulus is the leader (he’s a junior and lately there have been a gap between leader and second in command with senior and sophomores) and Howleen is under his command, taking notes from him and learning from him as well!

Twyla (freshman) doesn’t have much to her yet, but she’s really fun currently! I have thought of some little gags with her and she constantly having bugs in her hair and her eyelashes always have some dust on them. She usually hides away in the library and she has a fun dynamic with the moth teacher.

Romulus, Barkimedes

I have so much with them I’m not even going to get into it all guys (I am biased and they are my absolute favorite). But they’re fun trust (I’ll make a separate post about what I’ve planned for them in the future maybe). Also they’re dating 😁 (both are juniors)

Lagoona, Gil, Frankie

Lagoona (sophomore) had one of the most dramatic personality changes,,, She’s a lot more airheaded and bubbly now! She can make bubbles from her mouth, she runs a bit weird (it’s always a mindless side to side I love her sm), she speaks slow but not slow enough to where it’s hard to keep up, I honestly love her. She still can get a little crazy and is constantly meat hungry! She is also NOT stupid, she’s very smart and very athletic so don’t take her for granted! She’s apart of the swim team and does tennis as well! She also has a crush on Gil ^^

Gil (sophomore) didn’t get as drastic of a personality change, but his design is a curious one! He’s from a simple but respectably small pond and is based on bottom feeder fish (hence the long mouth and always looking like he’s frowning). Compared to Lagoona, he doesn’t have sharp teeth or claw-like fingers, he’s practically harmless honestly. He’s not that athletic but he obviously does and can swim. He’s a bit of a dork but also charismatic in some ways! I still need to think more about him but that’s what I have

Oh my lord Frankie (sophomore)! They also have a noticeable change, not too dramatic though. The main difference is their Mad Scientist alter ego “Plasma K” that spawn out of them whenever they work on a project or brainstorm. A wild and lightning energetic persona pops out believing that whatever they are making is their new Magnus Opus, the new technology that people will beckon and call after, the new GOD OF THE WORLD! This persona only lasts around 30 minutes to an hour, but my god do they make an impact on everyone!

Toralei, Kuma, Spectra

Toralei (sophomore) hasn’t changed much at all. Something new I’ve added however is a simple rivalry with Romulus and her as well as friendship between her and Heath.

I gave Kuma (senior) a human design because I’ll be so for real it’s lame as hell that he’s straight up just some bear,,, like at least give him clothes. So for Kuma I plan on changing his design and clothing a bit when I redesign this redesign,, he’s based on Teddy bear-like clothes and cabin wear,, Also he likes rocks so much!! He wants to be those scientists that study rocks (I forgot what they were called).

Spectra is a character I’m having horrible trouble with tbh. She’s going to be apart of the morning news crew (when MHG3 adds Honey Swamp it’s OVER for all of you guys I love her I love her) as well as the newspaper club. She died around 1970s ish and has been apart of Monster High for a looong time, basically a permanent member. She is a teen (junior), she will always mentally be a teen. I’m wondering if I can make her lore and involvement in MH less convoluted, but this is what I currently have for her.

Purrsephone and Meowlody!

I don’t have much for them yet,, sorry,, But they do have relationship stuff! At first, Romulus and Meowlody started on the wrong foot but after a while they become great friends! Purrsephone and Barkimedes were friends from the start despite never knowing each other lol. Purrsephone and Howleen become friends because while Purrsephone likes drums to become a professional later in life, Howleen likes them as a hobby! Another thing, their designs are kind of like “popstar��� and “rockstar” which I find cute^^

Yeah that’s basically it I am SICK of writing but I really do hope you enjoy my additions!! If there are some criticisms you want to give, just comment and I’ll take them into consideration! Hopefully I’ll make another post with some of the other characters I didn’t show! Ok bye bye

[star-crochets]

so i decided im going to use this color work piece i did to make a tote bag (mainly bc i thought it would be cute but also i wanted this to be like a prototype for future bags i might make)

i learned a very valuable lesson which is to always fucking make a gauge swatch lmao. i knew from the alpha chart i used that the front panel was 56 rows of 46 sc each row, so i figured if i used the same yarn and hook and did a big 46x56 square of sc it would come out to be the same size. luckily, about halfway through i thought it might actually be a good idea to hold the two panels up to each other and make sure it was actually the same size…

it wasn’t! but luckily somehow my tensioning was fucked up in just the right way so it happened to be just the right height to use. so i didn’t waste 4 hours of my life crocheting all of this because im just going to put the back panel on sideways. might look a little wonky but i’m new at crocheting so who cares if it looks perfect. i would much rather it look a little wonky than have to redo this entire back panel.

BUT! — lesson learned. do a gauge swatch. ideally before you get 4 hours into crocheting.

i finished the back panel up and then decided to take a break from actual crocheting and try to figure out how to weave in the ends of the front panel. the two bits of black yarn at the corners were pretty straightforward and i just weaved them in like normal at the corners

the ends left from the purple and pink yarn were a bit trickier. as you can see , the backside of this piece is a bit of a fucking mess:

i’m honestly not sure if this is actually how you’re supposed to do intarsia crochet. (i found a tutorial on a blog i don’t remember, read like the first few sentences, and then my adhd kicked in and i got bored so i decided to just try to figure it out on my own). but there are all these loose pieces of thread from when i dropped a color and had to carry the yarn i wasnt using across the back of the piece. plus i didn’t want the colors i was weaving in to show through the front side. so i decided to basically weave the pink and purple ends into the loose bits of yarn on the back, and then tied them off to secure at the ends

it looks messy, but this is the inside of the bag so who cares. but there were still some more long loose threads of yarn on the back, and i liked how weaving these ends in had sort of secured the extra yarn down against the bag. so i took my tapestry needle and a big piece of black yarn and decided to try weaving across the whole back of the bag

again, messy, but it did what i wanted it to do. i was originally thinking i would line the inside of the bag with fabric, but i think if i weaved over this one or two more times it might not need a lining. but idk, i have read that it’s good to line crochet bags with fabric to like reinforce them and make them stronger. still thinking about it for now.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Real pleased with the progress in the yard so far, and fine-tuning the next steps as I go

Projects I noticed while working on the reseeding today:

Need to build and hang some bee boxes and then scrub down the deck with a citronella seal to hopefully convince the carpenter bees to relocate - also need to redo the deck frankly but that's a long-term thing and I'd really like to have access to a woodlot first and plane our own boards rather than buying them. Even in bulk from a lumbermill that's more money than I'd like to spend for proper hardwoods like oak and cherry

Need to buy a sythe/machete for the tall invasives by the creek - once the ground is cleared, going to turn our old olive oil tins into lizard houses, and reseed with strawberry corn, sunflowers, cardoons, witch hazel, and ground cherries

Need to call the city and find out who is legally allowed to bring down the willow across the creek that got uprooted during Helene and has been threatening to fall onto our fence ever since. Happy to do it myself if I'm allowed, but would rather the other land owner handle it, unfortunately it's not a person, it's a company so I have no idea how to talk to them about this except through the city.

Need to smash a pumpkin and throw some budding sweet potatoes into the compost and really hill up the hay on top so I can have a pumpkin and sweet potato patch for my leetle ladies tasty treat times

I need to sprout the red plum seeds and prep the temporary pots for when they're ready to transplant outdoors, might consider planting them directly in their own loosened hale bales, esp if I can let the chickens have at the bales over winter first.

Speaking of which, we need more hay. I need to call my hay guy and ask how much another 50 bales of clover hay will cost me

Need to bury the logs under hay and compost to start byilding raised beds and improving the topsoil quality, ideally I'll seed the swales with wetland/riparian plants so that as the swales smother the lingering invasives, the plants can sprout up on top with all that yummy organic matter

Need to buy/make root veggie sacks to bury in the compost and new topsoil so I can grow even while I'm still making new topsoil

I need to make sure to include wildflowerd in the spring compost and reseed, because we're starting to get some volunteering which means the soil is recovered enough to play good host and I want to speed that up

Gotta make some starter plots around the chicken run and the dog run to regularly re-establish groundcover in them given how much the chickens and dogs tear up the grass

Need to build a chicken tractor to use in future years to control overgrowth and compost growing beds after harvest

Need to build a water table for lettuces and greens, ideally linked up to the rainbarrel water storage system

Need to keep expanding the chicken run now they're all enjoying it so Elvira is less of an asshole, and reinforce under the coop so no one gets stuck under the foundation

Reinforcing the creek bank (witch hazel and red plum tree and creeping thyme) behind the dog run so we don't lose integrity of the fence.

Paint the house some goddamn colors holy FUCK

Keep making braids for cat and chicken toys

Maybe enclose the upper deck for a four season cat porch

Set up some 7-10 gallon pots on the deck for growing ginger and lemongrass and other culinary/medicinal plants we need to keep out of the topsoil

Make a plant ID booklet for use during harvesting

Make a recipe book to guide cut and come again use

Set out a shaded table at the top of the drive with places to set out eggs, produce, preserves, etc that we're not going to be able to use up for give away - should make sure to put a sign up to officially let folks know they can take what they like.

Start passionflower vines by the creek and back fence

Fill the front yard with flax

Plant a broomsedge, scouring rush, water cress, plaintain, American Trout Lily, alumroot, phlox, chickweed, creeping blueberries,culinary sumac, and primrose propogation bed by the creek to crowd out the last invasive ground covers (apparently the native ground covers have done a GREAT job smothering most of the invasives in the yard, and there are only a few invasive vines and crabgrass left actually. Everything else is native wetland grasses and galax. Just....so much galax lmao

I might look into canebrrak bamboo as well, that would be extremely useful for fiber production holy shit

I definitely want a stand of Indigo for dyes and inks

I still want my pawpaws and wild olive and wild black rum cherry trees so they'll probably go in the front where the crabapples are now. I could probably make a lil lumber out of the bigger crabapple and a nice cat toy out of the smaller one.

It would be great to get a Broom Hickory or a chinquapin, too, but I'm prioritizing the pecans

A sugar berry would be lovely, they're kind of nothing on their own, but if you use them in preserves of other fruits, they come out AMAZING

Coreopsis my beloved <3

I need to flesh out my medicinal garden too, and I'm thinking about waterleaf. It would be AMAZING for my skin condition, particularly for my feet, but I'm not sure I can harvest and use it fast enough given its growth habit the leaves and shoots are ostensibly edible, so maybe if we a consistent about cutting them back for the greens that will keep the rhizomes focused on growing rather than spreading.

Bayberry would be extremely useful for making plant waxes and butters, but I'm in the same position as the waterleaf, esp since they're even less readily edible lol

I think that's everything so far, which is good because it's already a year's worth of work lmao

[mha-grievances]

Ok, so I know that I constantly criticize MHA. I constantly bitch and moan about how much missed potential there are in the series, how the pacing is ass, how Hori’s comedy is atrocious, how there are many plot holes, how Katsuki is an utterly shit character, yada yada yada. The way you see me talk about MHA probably makes you think that I feel it’s the worst anime of all time.

Trust me, it’s far from the worst thing that’s out there. Like any sort of media, anime is littered with some bizarre, atrocious stuff.

Future Diaries is an anime that has cemented itself as a hugely influential aspect of pop culture, Yuno being THE character that defines the idea of a Yandere. However the series goes into batshit crazy territory that makes absolutely no sense, the MC is all kinds of shitty, and, well, shit happens just to happen.

Redo of Healer is revenge r*pe fantasy that has no well defined characters. They’re either comically fucked up or just there to contribute to the MC’s harem. Also magic sperm.

Pupa is an incest anime (yes, anime, not hentai) about a sister who needs to eat flesh to survive and a boy who can regenerate. For the sake of your sanity, I’m not going to talk about this further.

School Days goes off the rails and has perhaps some of the most unlikable characters to ever exist, including the MC himself. Meant to subvert the typical romance visual novel, things get into wtf territory fast. Honestly I constantly debate whether School Days is a masterpiece in what it does or if it falls under the same pit traps that other series that aim to “subvert expectations” does.

These series (except for perhaps School Days, still tryna figure out where I stand on it) are far worse than MHA, which is incompetent at worst.

So why do I criticize MHA rather than these series?

Well, MHA is an interesting beast. Future Diaries, Redo of Healer, and Pupa know what they are. They know that their storytelling isn’t the best. They know that they’re fantasies for perverts, people who just wanna watch something fucked up, those who like the shock factor/harem aspects, all that stuff. They don’t try to be anything more than what they are, and there’s nothing wrong with that (and by that I mean there’s nothing wrong with them not being deep. Whether the content shown might be is a different topic all together). MHA is a series that tries to offer commentary on the real world and wants us to take it seriously, but there are barriers that stop this from happening. Whether it’s Hori failing to allow his MC to breathe which makes things feel angsty for the sake of it, his failure to tackle the themes in a meaningful and non-hypocritical manner, his “comedy”, missed potential that he doesn’t capitalize on or cares to, the creation of characters meant to embody certain themes but fail at doing so (Katsuki, Shota, etc.), fake tension that goes nowhere, or Hori springing shit at the last minute to up the stakes but only makes people scratch their heads. MHA is a series that, despite it being a colorful world of superheroes and having a charming set of characters, is meant to serve as a criticism of society and a dive into what it means to be a hero. Sadly it fails to do this accurately. I can meme and shit on Pupa, Future Diaries, and Redo of Healer, but besides edgy 12 year olds on YouTube who think they’re philosophers, everyone will pretty much agree that these anime aren’t good. Even the fans will agree. Wildly entertaining as fuck, yes, but not good, and they weren’t designed to be good or thought provoking. They were designed to appeal to a certain demographic and keep them entertained as they turn their brains off. MHA however demands that we use our brains, to analyze the material that’s being shown and to question ourselves, but it sabotages its themes at numerous points and that’s what makes MHA the subject of my analysis. It’s a series that ultimately fails at what it’s trying to do, and what it’s trying to do is pretty big. Take Katsuki for example. MHA is constantly shoving down my throat that Katsuki is a good person and that he’s worthy of being a hero, but it does it in an obnoxious way and constantly contradicts itself with Katsuki’s actions. Meanwhile the other anime I mentioned don’t bother propping their characters like the second coming of Christ, some even embracing the fact that a character is shitty, and if they do try shoving down my throat a character is good, it’s done in such a laughably bad way that it’s far more funny than it is annoying.

To me it’s interesting HOW MHA manages to fail at what it’s trying to do and it serves as an example of what works and doesn’t work when writing a similar series. In MHA what works really works and shows that there is immense potential in MHA to be something amazing, further proven by the fact that some of the characters and some of the arcs are well written. However what doesn’t work really reduces the quality of the series and makes you wonder how one writer can understand the assignment in some instances and completely bomb it in others (especially in key moments where the writer is meant to give it their all and showcase WHY their series is so popular and WHY they chose to write this series and about certain topics rather than do something else).

So yeah, if you wonder why this blog was made, and why MHA over everything else, now you know 😂.

[friendlyloner]

I missed the last couple wipwednesday's because well, The Horrors I suppose. I think enough is being said about the American election results by people much smarter and less Canadian than I, so I will leave it at this: I'm so so very sorry to everyone who voted Democrat hoping for a better future than the one they've been given. My heart goes out to every person who will suffer due the casual dismissal of their humanity by the people who should have been their peers. Please do everything you can to survive and thrive in spite of, and to spite them fuckers. I love you and good luck to us all.

I definitely was self soothing by starting even more new WIPs in the last couple weeks. I also may have done some Etsy pattern retail therapy including browsing through my saved patterns and finding this floral X-box remote, which I am now making for my husband for Christmas. I can only work on it when he's not around but it's still coming along quickly.

I don't have any particular reason for making this cats as phases of the moon project other than I thought it would look cool on the space fabric. I started out just using 2 strands since that worked fine on the Space Cat and Space Girl stitches respectively but the coverage just looked patchy and untidy with just the black and white floss. It's not super evident in this picture but on the second of the two incomplete sets I switched over to 3 strands and realized I liked it better enough that I would want to unpick and redo the rest of it that way. The cats are now in a time out till the holiday hiatus at the soonest.

I still managed to get some progress in on the Lisa Frank Fuck though it's slowed way down as I'm prioritizing intended gifts. Still love how bright and colorful it is and am looking forward to getting it back underway.

Speaking of intended gifts. This motherfucker right here! All the cross stitches are done and now it's just down to the back stitching. I don't think I've ever disliked a project as much as this one and still maintained my commitment to actually finishing it so in a twisted way I'm also a little proud of the damn thing. Ugh. Terrible. Cannot wait to get it out of my life.

And lastly a new start and finish, because I paid for lifetime site access to Daily Cross Stitch a decade ago and every now and then it comes in clutch. They posted two patterns recently that were the exact kind of soft sweet coziness vibes that I needed so badly it practically yanked the stitches out of my body. This fox has a companion squirrel that I don't have a picture of yet because it's barely more than 4 rows of grey but I expect it will be done soon.

I'm honestly so tired and want to make this post and go to bed asap so I'm bailing on linking all the pattern sources. If you stumbled on this post and managed to actually read this far and are interested, let me know and I'll happily update with links etc. Except for the Autobot.

Fuckin Autobot

Be good to one another

[mythica0]

Here’s a power/ability list for the Supernatural bois! (I’m addition to their normal Ninpo.)

I might’ve posted something similar before but it’s not on the tag so I’m redoing it lol.

Siren!Leo:

-Can breathe underwater

-really fast swimmer

-Hypnotic voice/Siren song

-> has multiple versions/types that he can change between it turn off at will

-> lure: classic Siren song, lures people who hear it towards him. Takes no effort

-> mind control: can control the actions of one person or a group of people. Takes quite a bit of effort, especially for more people. Can only make people do things they are capable of. (I.E;couldn’t make a normal person fly or something.) Frowned upon by his fam except for Donnie

-> influence: can influence the personality of people who hear it. Can make it more specific to a certain person or a few people, but that takes more focus. At default, influences anyone who hears it and takes a small level of effort. (Example: making a group of people angry at eachother.)

-Weakness: dislikes fire and other dryness.

Vampire!Donnie:

-can fly with his bat-like wings

-can turn into a bat

-has sharp fangs (he can drink blood, but dosent need to in order to live. It does serve as food and he often craves blood, however it’s frowned upon by fam except for Leo.)

-has regenerative properties, hard to injure or kill.

-weaknesses: Has pale scales and sun burns very easily. Is repulsed by garlic. Previously mentioned cravings for blood.

Phoenix!Mikey:

-Can fly (like Future Mikey, only way earlier)

- can create and manipulate fire.(is often scolded by Raph for commiting arson in public while fighting.)

-regeneration properties, same as Donnie.

-Can heal others with a special type of flame. (Feels warm, but not hot. Purple in color.)

-Weakness: fire powers don’t work if he is wet. Naturally dislikes water.

Dragon!Raph:

-can fly using his dragon-like wings

-has tougher scales, extremely hard to damage.

-can see farther than average

-can grow to 4x his size, Up to 24 feet tall. (He doesn’t have to go all the way up or down, he can go in multiples. So it’s 6, 12, 18 or 24 ft tall.)

-Weaknesses: Needs a lot of food to support his large size and abilities. If he dosent get enough he can’t grow larger. Has a weaker spot on his tail near the tip.

General/other:

-Leo and Mikey are sort of opposites, and often have teasing squabbles. They still figure out ways to use teamwork, however.

-Leo and Donnie both have wack moral compasses, Raph is always worried if they ever go out alone together.

-Leo is very flirtatious, being a Siren, and also very very gay.

-while we’re on the subject of sexuality, Donnie is AroAce, Mikey is Pan, and Raph is Bi. They’re all cis men.

-Raph has additional spikes on his arms than in canon.

-Mikey has fire-like marking under his eyes and has some feathers that grow out of his arms and legs.

-sometimes during fights or on missions Raph will grow to his full size, or just one of his other larger sizes, and carry his brothers around in his hand for fast travel, or to rescue them.

-Leo and Donnie work together to cause a lot of mischief. Leo has helped Donnie get blood from a hospital and several occasions. (These disaster twins got even more disaster-y)

-Due to being a night owl and how easy he burns, Donnie hates going outside during the day.

Any questions or thoughts about the AU? Please share! My ask box is always open!

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