#I’m not great at drawing comics

[meg-girumi]

“Who is short now?”

[elzevenix]

I forget there’s a lot of things I haven’t posted yet - here’s a very silly comic I made about the silly guys

When someone other than you insults your bestie:

[0m3n-0f-d3ath]

Me possessed by a triangle

The joke is that I would act normal possessed

@frayedcircus thanks for wanting to see this! Lamo hope ya like it<3

[echo-starflower]

I FINISHED THE GUY!!!!!!

(Pattern by @ghost-cinnamon)

He’s perfect and I love him

But Echo! some of you might ask, isn’t the body supposed to be red like his bones? To that I say! 1: I’m impressed you saw it under the layers of clothes! /silly and 2!

BAH BAM

Embroidery!!!!! (I’m so proud of this hehe it turned out way better than I expected. Also faceless doll jumpscare>:3)

And of course, credit must be given to my amazing little sibling whose immediate reaction to seeing my doll was “ooo he’s spooky! He needs a top hat!!!!”

(She proceeded to make not one but two top hats hehe)

[otaku553]

A certain first encounter

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

[rt-closetcryptic]

Small continuum

[cokowiii]

I’m still working out a timeline for how long this little dudes been vaping. Idk if u can tell but this comic wasn’t very planned out lol

[biscuit-sheep]

Them <3

I think about them too much. I just finished playing the second case (I was on vacation the past couple of days so progress was slowed there and in art)

I was genuinely startled when Kazuma said that. Best mistake I ever made, all worth it for that one line.

Just throwing some other doodles I made. You can tell one was taken earlier in the day when I still had natural light (don’t ask me why my room lights are so orange)

also thinking about doing requests and stuff of AA characters (TGAAC as well but only of those in the first 3 cases so far due to not wanting spoilers)

My random thought I had today was “If anyone asks where I am tell them the ace attorney got me���

[carpthecarp]

my ass is NOT a writer I was like crying while writing this bc I feel like the whole thing is bad 😭

Fic writers how do u do it /srs

IM SO SORRY FOR THE TYPOS I didn’t know it was that bad, I wrote this after pulling an all nighter

[finderseeker]

Oh and of course I can’t forget to post my magnum opus

(Edit: fixed her body)

[hamburgrr]

Hey sorry for the lack of activity lately!! Let’s just say me and @fowlaroundtown have been working on a pretty big project lately ;)

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Quickish brush test I did today for fun ft. My fave misguided, misunderstood baby boy from Lies of P

“I’m glad you came back, buddy”

[cuteniaarts]

My creative slump is killing me so to try and combat it I decided to doodle for a fandom I’ve never interacted with before, so here is a woman who appears for one singular panel and then never again, but still managed to steal my heart – fem!Yekaterinburg from The Tale of Bygone Years. Anyway, I ended up liking the doodle (for once, shocking, I know) and decided to clean it up a little and colour it

[blueberryspyder]

I need fancams of Josh Hutcherson as Mike Schmitt from the FNAF movie YESTERDAY, WHERE are the vids of this SAD, PATHETIC MAN

[fantomette22]

Do you get that moment when you got a super cool comic / oneshot idea (bloodborne related of course) but you’re not sure you have the skills to do it and do it justice?