#Kirby tortoise

[thewhimsyturtle]

Tomorrow is Election Day! Friends in the U.S.A., have you voted yet? 🗳🇺🇸

🔙 Remember, CHOMP snacks, not your ballot!

[anne-fine]

We received the cutest Christmas card from our friends Kirby and your human (@thewhimsyturtle ) on Christmas Morning.

Joa loves this adorable hedgehog’s card and She was excited she couldn't stop trying to eat a fluffy snowflake❄️💕🦔

This wonderful Christmas card getting just makes our Christmas complete!🎄✨

Thank you for making us smile! We look forward to many more fantastic Kirby’s adventures in 2023🥰🐢❤️

[stimwyrms]

Every Single Kirby Character Stimboard: Big Red Tortuilding from Kirby and The Forgotten Land

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[girlactionfigure]

⚪  Wed morning - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

📌 WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO BE HUMAN SHIELDS.. IDF: “We need you to evacuate. You don’t have much time left.”   GAZAN: ’Strike us, do whatever you want. Our children must also die so we can expose your brutality.  Do whatever you want, everyone wants to die from our side.  We love death the way you love life.’  https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1787530064801759279

♦️IDF ATTACKS LAUNCHERS.. IDF forces attacked in the Rafah region the launcher from which the shooting was carried out, Hamas continues firing into Kerem Shalom, damaging aid delivery capability. (IDF Spox)

🔘WHITE HOUSE DEMANDS:  (( throw your dead soldiers bodies out of the way, instantly repair the damage, and )) “open the crossings and deliver fuel into the Strip (today).”  "Closing the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings by Israel is unacceptable."  The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced that the Kerem Shalom Crossing is reopening today (( the bodies were shoveled out of the way )) for bringing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

♦️OTEF AZA FARMERS TOLD TO NOT ENTER FIELDS.. An unusual instruction this morning for farmers in Otef: not to go to work in the agricultural areas adjacent to the border fence in the Gaza Strip.  In the background: widespread IDF activity also in the north of Gaza and explosions heard in the area.

♦️ACTIVE FIGHTING.. in eastern Rafah. (Per Arab reports)

⭕ HEZBOLLAH ROCKET BARRAGE at Kiryat Shmona and surrounds overnight.

❗️ANOTHER HOSTAGE DETERMINED MURDERED.. Lior Rudaif was murdered on 7/10 and that his body was kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas terrorists.  That’s 39 known murdered among the 132 remaining hostages.

❗️ANALYSIS - HEZBOLLAH SOON.. (The Arab Desk) The expansion of the operation in Rafah will force Hezbollah to respond.  If Hezbollah enters the campaign fully, Syria will not sit idly by.

🔸DEAL ACTIVITY.. US: Kirby,  "Optimistic about the ability of both sides to bridge the gaps between Hamas and Israel during the current round of talks in Egypt." (( Is he joking? ))

.. Hezbollah completely rejected all the proposals.  The message that Hezbollah sent was clear, there is no resolution 1701, there are no discussions before the definitive cessation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip.

.. The head of the CIA, William Burns, is expected to arrive in Israel today, and meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other officials.

▪️REMEMBER THE AID PIER?  The Pentagon: American forces will move the temporary port and sea bridge to Gaza when weather conditions improve. (I don’t know about the sea, but weather in Israel is perfect today, cool spring weather, winds at 2 mph due east off of Gaza.)

▪️NEWS OF THE WEIRD - EXCESSIVE TURTLES.. About 57 LARGE turtles (or maybe tortoises?) were found to be kept illegally in a private house in Rishon Lezion. The turtles were taken for examination and treatment at the Ramat Gan Safari Wildlife Hospital.

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[hopeaterart]

Aaaaand I'm done for busts of other characters in TMNT: From the Hidden City because I didn't feel like drawing fullbody refs! In order from left to right (and under the cut because this is long), we have:

Slash, the leader of the Animal 5, an amateur garage band/vigilante group in the Hidden City. He's a tortoise yokai, and somewhat hostile to the Turtles at first since they seemingly came out of nowhere during the Tournament. Nonetheless, his heart is in the good place.

Mona Lisa, a member of the Animal 5. She's a salamander/axolotl-like alien, and her temper (which matches Raph's easily) doesn't undermine her intelligence. She and Raph quickly bond over how much they have in common once the initial hostilities are gone.

Leatherhead, a member of the Animal 5. Unlike the others, he's a mutant, mutated from a baby alligator that was splashed in Mutagen the night the Turtles were made. Unlike the Turtles, he didn't get the luck of a caring parent when he somehow escaped back in New York, and was forced into horrible things by his captor. Nonetheless, he was eventually able to find his way back to the Hidden City. Despite his scary appearance, he's a sweetheart.

Mondo Gecko, a member of the Animal 5. He's a lizard yokai and an otherwise regular civilian in the Hidden City, content with living a simple life. He got in the Battle Nexus on a bet and for a chance at the prize money, but found a talent for fighting along the way. He's the more relaxed member of the Animal 5, and was the one who came up with being a band to cover their vigilante activities.

Miyamoto Usagi, an apprentice member of the Hidden City's old guard. He's very dedicated to his training, and his peers describe him as incredibly mature and talented for his age. The only person who's been able to get underneath his mask is Leo, who's earnestness and kind heart are able to drag out Usagi's own inner child. He has a strange power that allows him to peer in other universes, and often uses it to ask advice from a certain older, more experienced version of himself.

Shinigami, a sorceress who was born in the Foot. She's Karai's most trusted associate and long-time girlfriend. Compared to said girlfriend, she's much more laidback and casual, and more willing to have fun on missions. She's still very much loyal to her. Some could argue she's more loyal to Karai than she is to the Clan... her magic allows her to hypnotize people and transform into a cat.

Jennika, a member of the Animal 5 and a frog yokai. She's actually a spy for the Foot, having been recruited during the Battle Nexus by Karai. She keeps them updated of what's happening in the Hidden City, but slowly comes to questions herself as the story progresses. She fights like a boxer, and can secrete poison.

Koya, a bird Yokai and a recent addition to the Foot. She was recruited during the Battle Nexus by Karai, and is part of her squad as a scout, archer, and air fighter. She's quick to attack and dislikes hesitation, conflating it with cowardice. Once Karai leaves the Foot, she very quickly realizes how insane everyone in it truly is without a buffer (Karai), but she believes that leaving now wouldn't do any good.

Bepop and Rocksteady, two thugs who were mutated by Draxum during his test runs of the second iteration of mutagen. They were hired by the Foot as muscle before Donnie could administer the retromutagen, and they often serve as comedic relief to Karai. The both of them are also complete idiots.

Goro and Blaze, Karai's mentors and technically her adoptive fathers. When Shredder isn't around, they run the Foot Clan to the best of their abilities. Goro knows bits of magic, and Blaze possesses enough brute strength to level a building.

Kirby O'Neil, April's father. He's a comic writer and illustrator, and created a relatively obscure comic that's just popular enough to pay the bills. Even so, he has an additional dayjob as an editor for a journal so he can make sure his daughter doesn't miss of anything. He's a hardworking man who often worries for his daughter, but can clearly see that she's at her happiest being friends with four green weirdos. His necklace is a gift from his late wife...

Lou Jitsu, Splinter's former identity. Martial Arts master. Even better at improvising with things such as ladders and fish. Movie star and celebrity. Bisexual icon. Once yelled out 'Hot Soup' instead of 'Hatsu' during the heat of a fight and it became his catchphrase. Has had it enough with the casual racism and homophobia of the early 2000 that he ran off to another dimension to marry his girlfriend. Certified monsterfucker.

Dr. Honeycutt, a technical war criminal from another galaxy. Regretful of his past as a weapon maker, he escaped to Earth where he was found by the Hamato clan. He is a friendly being, who's regret over making weapons have made him take a vow of pacifism he swore not to break.

And the Crying Titan, also known as Venus. She crashed onto Earth a few millenias ago, and is responsible for a bunch of things. From creating Yokai-kind (accident) to giving the founders of the Hamato clan their powers (willing). Baron Draxum was her student, and his mourning of her death at the hands of a nascent Foot Clan quite literally resulted in him creating the Hidden City.

If you have questions about any of them, or the plot of TMNT: From the Hidden City, don't hesitate to send me an ask!

[majachee]

JENNIKA AND VENUS??? 👁️👁️

do you have established personalities? Roles? Special skills? Weirdly specific headcanons?

YESSSSSS KIRBY, JENNIKA, AND VENUS LORE!!!

Jennika and Venus are both older mutants in the story (think mid twenties to early thirties) and act as Kirby's right and left hand men. Women. You know.

They were mutated decades before the turtles and were seen as successful prototypes before escaping the labratory. The scientists that mutated all 7 of the turtles were trying to replicate mutagen from Dimension X, with the older three's mutagens being less stable than the Turtles'.

Venus is the youngest of the trio, and is a sea turtle hybrid. She doesn't really have defined fingers like the rest of the turtles, but she's still just as deadly.

Her personality is outwardly a lot more bubbly, but she's surprisingly the most pessimistic of the trio. She uses a fan, and taught herself out to maneuver it even with her limitations (coming from someone who was taught how to fight with a fan lol)

Her fighting style is a mix of more traditional martial arts, and modern styles.

Jennika's species is still up in the air, but I imagine her being a tortoise. To oppose Venus' aquatic species and all that.

Still deciding her weapon. 😔 She definitely sticks to more traditional fighting styles, but mixes them around to suit her needs.

While she is more blunt and cold than Venus, she's the optimist of the trio. She's the one who's most often looking at the bright side of things, and who wants to trust people.

The Turtles meet this trio by accident, stumbling upon an underground society of mutants and outcasts. One that exposes the truly dark and extensive history of the scientists that experimented and mutated all of them.

Jennika very quickly adopts a big sister persona around the boys, while Venus ends up casting herself as "an awkward babysitter" for a good while. They're both meant to act as opposing mindsets to eachother, Kirby, and the turtles. Hehe

My wrist hurts so sorry if the writing is stiff lol

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: The Josh Kirby cover of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. It depicts Brutha, a naked monk with a tonsure haircut and a loincloth, strapped to the back of a large metal turtle with a concerned expression. Smoke is billowing from around the turtle, which is being heated by a brazier underneath. This is being looked over by Vorbis, a tall, bald man in a brown robe with a hooked nose, clawed fingernails and pitch-blank eyes. Several other monks in hooked brown robes are gathered around, including a member of the Quisition in a face-concealing, pointed red hood. Above them, an eagle is swooping down with a tortoise held in its claws. A large hand is reaching across the sky in the background and appears to be producing bolts of lightning. It's a Josh Kidby cover, so it's extremely chaotic and there are probably details I'm missing. End ID.]

Holiday reads! I decided to re-read Small Gods because I haven't read it in years and it's one of the first Discworld books I can remember feeling rewiring my brain as I read it. It involves the Great God Om, regularly referenced in other Discworld books, finding himself trapped in the form of a small one-eyed tortoise because, in all the great and vast and strict nation of Omnia, there's only one person who actually believes in Om rather than just believing in (or rather, being terrified of) the institution of Omnism. That last actual believer, Brutha, has just become a tool of the powerful and devout bishop Vorbis in a plot regarding their neighbouring nation of Ephebe, and has to navigate the edges of a war while figuring out how to get people to actually believe in Om again.

And it all meant this: that there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

Like when I first read this, I was in my early-teens, annoying-militant-athiest, Richard-Dawkins-quoting, taking-out-personal-Christian-based-trauma-and-frustration-by-calling-religious-people-sheep stage, and this definitely redirected me. A lot of the book spends time going: religion can be part of a community and a culture, it can inspire and motivate and support people, but your major and dangerous problems start when a) folk are more devoted to the institution than the religion itself and b) folk figure out how to use religion, and the institutions around them, as tools of self-gain and self-deification. Also, gods need believers arguably more than believers need their gods, and a god that does nothing for their believers is worthless. And there's good eating on a tortoise.

He thought: the worst thing about Vorbis isn't that he's evil, but that he makes good people do evil. He turns people into things like himself.

Every time I reread a Discworld book, I notice something new, whether it's a pun I missed before or an entire new concept. For one, I straight-up never realized that Brutha being strapped to the metal turtle to be roasted to death is meant to evoke Big J on the Cross; it only really clicked for me this time when the local Dibbler mentioned that he'd been planning to sell necklaces with a little turtle pendent on them, but he'd probably have to take the little dying dude off of them first. Definitely lends a whole new meaning to Simony arguing that they should leave Brutha to die so that he can be a martyr, a symbol of Omnian tyranny, and Urn's response being essentially "what the actual fuck is wrong with you". The other thing that clicked in my brain is that Brutha is very autistic and that's how he revives his god, heals his nation, and averts a hundred years of war, thank you and goodnight.

Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

[anueutsuho]

I wouldn't be suprised if it was cut for fear of copyright infringement like how Toss Tortoise was erased from Kirby canon due to resembling that one mascot too much.

Development files for Super Mario World contain an unused "Flower Toad" character (left), which based on the location of its data, appears to have been planned as a friendly NPC that Mario could have talked to.

The character has an extremely close resemblance to Hanazukin-chan, the mascot of Expo '90, an international gardening expo taking place in Osaka in 1990. As the expo would have been going on at the time of the game's development, it is nearly certain that the character was intended to be a reference to it.

Interestingly, 33 years later, Super Mario Bros. Wonder introduced the Poplin species, which are a different take on the same "Flower Toad" concept, also being a Toad-like species with flower heads.

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[thewhimsyturtle]

I have a new portrait! 🖼 Jake (@basic.style.petportraits_ on Instagram) reached out to us and offered to create a digital portrait of me in exchange for a shout out if we like my portrait. We love my portrait! Jake captured my cuteness and my GRUMP, and he even placed me on a red background—my favorite color! ❤️😤🐢

🎨 If you would like a critter portrait in a style like mine, Jake and his company Paint My Furkids are having a flash promo of 1 pet figure artwork for $25 (50% OFF!) on their website at this link!

[anne-fine]

We got a Birthday card from our friends @thewhimsyturtle Kirby and Whimsy!

The cutest Belated birthday card ever!

Thank you for the kind messages and so many adorable stickers on our birthday💝

She was so excited about sparkly smile sticker that she couldn’t stop kissing it💕

Our birthday card came with a surprise bonus of sticker!! This sticker shows a gopher tortoise, which is native to the US✨

I put a gopher tortoise sticker on Tito and Nico’s room so we can look at it any time🥰

Thank you again so much @thewhimsyturtle for such a wonderful birthday card! We are so happy to be your friends!❤️🐢🐢🐢🦜

[thewhimsyturtle]

Mom is going on a trip!  I tried to stow away in her suitcase, but Mom says I would never make it past airport security!?  How could anyone deny entry to my cute face?!

[tmnt-paranoia]

I know this is an ask game but I also know I don’t have enough of a following to get any asks so- (a lot of it hasn’t been decided yet, so some of them won’t have anything)

🏙 New York mostly

🏠 the lair is pretty small, they weren’t able to find any abandoned subway tunnels or anything so they are tucked away in a rather vacant area, but they still have to keep it on the down low since people still do walk through there sometimes

🧪 the kraang make the mutagen

🧫 they were mutated intentionally

💉 yep! Splinter gets mutated way after the turtles. In the main storyline

💵 since splinter was still human at the beginning he had a job. They do however scavenge for stuff because splinter doesn’t have a high paying job and he needs to pay for an apartment and four kids (the latter of which nobody can know about). The boys especially scavenge for recreational things for themselves so splinter doesn’t have to worry about buying it

🦹 not yet decided. Probably shredder

😡 also undecided

☠️ so far no one in the main cast

😍 once again, none that have been decided yet

🐢 these are getting kinda boring answers but nope. They’re all eastern box turtles

🐱 april has a pet cat who, despite being allergic, mikey loves

👹 so far none

👤 not yet

💛 no but I might add her

[my phone isn’t updated so I can’t see what emoji this is] yes there’s a Venus! She’s friends with Mona Lisa

🖤 not at the moment but I think I’ll add him

💚 he’s a tortoise not a turtle and he’ll fight you if you call him one but there’s kirby

🐇 there definitely will be but he’s not there yet

⚔️ yes there is a karai

🥷 for the foreseeable future no

🐯not yet maybe not ever

🪰 yes there is. At the moment his role is sort of undecided but I really wanted to add him

[also can’t see this emoji] Donnie for sure. Some reasons I’m not yet revealing for spoiler purposes

🩹 splinter is usually the one who patches them up but after the started facing the foot (which the boys don’t tell him about) they start learning to do it themselves as not to raise suspicion about their giant ass wound

🧑‍🍳 the boys all suck at cooking, although mikey does it the most and can make a nearly edible pizza

🍍 all of them do except mikey and casey

🧓the oldest is Leo but they’re all the same age

👶 mikey is the youngest but they’re all the same age

🥊 yes he does, not as severely as he has in the past but they’re still there. He deals with it very poorly, he’ll bottle all (well most) of his anger up and then he’ll have violent outbursts when it’s eventually too much

🧶 no

🗣 yep. He hasn’t always been since they hadn’t always needed a leader, but shortly after they sneak out whether it’s because of the foot or just some street thugs they realize they need a leader. They decided who the leader was in combat similar to how in season one of ninjago they were figuring out who the green ninja was

🔥 Uhm I don’t think so

🔬 only? No. He also likes chemistry and biology and physics etc but he mainly likes tech

🤖 yes! Metalhead is his robo son

🎨 yes he is but he often feels he isn’t good enough to be

😈 yes absolutely

🐀 he was human

🧑‍🍼uh I don’t really understand this question

💏 not one who has been created yet but I feel like he probably had a significant other back in japan

🎤 no she’s not

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Not a sibling, not yet at least. But a very close friend

🏒 yeah

🦸 yes he is. To a degree

And I can’t really do the next questions so that’s all

TMNT AU/Iteration ask game!

Send an ask with an emoji to ask about someone's iteration!

General:

🏙️ What is the main setting of your au? 🏠 What is the Lair like? 🧪 Where does the mutagen come from? 🧫 Were your turtles mutated intentionally or on accident? 💉 Do any characters get mutated during the main story? 💵 How do your turtles make money? Or do they only scavenge? 🦹 Who is the main villain? 😡 What is your villain’s motivation? ☠️ Does anyone die in your au? 😍 Are there any romances in your au? 🐢 Are your turtles different species? 🐱 Do any of your characters have pets? 👹 Are there yokai/supernaturals in this universe?

👤 Are there any oc’s in your au? 💛 Is there a Jennika in your au? 🩵 Is there a Venus in your au? 🖤 Is there a Slash in your au? 💚 Are there other turtles in your au? 🐇 Is there a Usagi in your au? ⚔️ Is there a Karai in your au? 🥷 Is there a Timothy in your au? 🐯 Is there a Tigerclaw in your au? 🪰 Is there a Baxter stockman in your au?

Who …

🫵 Who do you project onto the most? 🩹 Who is the Medic? 🧑‍🍳 Who is the best cook? 🍍 Who likes Pineapple on pizza? 🧓 Who is the eldest sibling? 👶 Who is the youngest sibling?

Character specific

🥊 Does Raph have anger issues? If so, how does Raph deal with his anger? 🧶 Does Raph knit?

🗣️ Is your Leo the leader? Has he always been? 🔥 Is Leo accident prone? Especially in the kitchen?

🔬 Is Donnie only interested in Tech? 🤖 Does your Donnie have a robot child?

🎨 Is Mikey the artist of the family? 😈 Is Mikey a little shit?

🐀 Was Splinter a human or an animal before he was mutated? 🧑‍🍼 How does Splinter raise the boys? 💏 Does/Did Splinter have a significant other?

🎤 Is April a reporter? 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Is April considered a sibling?

🏒 Does Casey play hockey? 🦸 Is Casey a vigilante?

Specify a character

🍕 What is [x]’s favorite pizza toppings? 👻 Does [x] have any fears? 🏳️‍🌈 What is [x]’s sexuality? 🏳️‍⚧️ What is [x]’s gender? ♾️ Is [x] neurodivergent in any way? 🧑‍🦽 is [x] disabled in any way?

❓Write your own question!

[thewhimsyturtle]

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃

Introducing . . . Dragon Kirby! 🐲🐢

With this year being the Year of the Dragon and the dragon mania surrounding House of the Dragon and Fourth Wing (three months until book three!), what better time for a GRUMP dragon to take flight! ✨ Bring me treats or suffer my draconic GRUMPs! 😤🐉

[thewhimsyturtle]

Finally, weather warm enough for me to STOMP outside!! Mom said I couldn't stay outside for long because it's not that warm yet, so my patio STOMPs were brief—but mighty!

[thewhimsyturtle]

Why do new objects keep showing up on my patio?!

[mossygrovel]

1.What is their go-to Mario Kart character? Fire Mario

2. How about Super Smash Bros? Kirby

3. Do they give tortoise or hare vibes? Tortoise

4. On a scale of 1 to 10, how well can they cook? Uhhh 7.4

5. Are they a dog person? Cat person? Lizard person maybe? Cat. Specifically a-

6. Would your oc successfully be able to put out a fire? He's from the fucking nether I would hope so??

7. Are they more of a theater, band, chorus or orchestra kid? Choir.

8. Are they scared of death? (That got deep real fast) Oh absofuckingloutly

9. Do they understand the concept of patience? Yes!

10. Do they like shiny things? Somewhat

11. Favorite Number? 8

12. Halloween costume they did once (if any) Probably a witch

13. Who's their favorite being? Their husband

14. How many lighters do they have in their living space? Probably 2 or 3

15. Most used website (If any) Probably a flower website-

16. Do they use the left or right arm rest in a theater setting? Left.

17. How many of them would it take to screw in a lightbulb? 1

18. How well do they speak on the phone? They can hold a conversation for the most part

19. Worst crime they ever committed? :] 20. If they saw a red button that said "DO NOT PRESS" would they press it? No.

21. Favorite musical? Ride The Cyclone.

22. Favorite Undertale ending? Neutral:]

Teehee:3

Reblog as your Oc(s) answering these questions

(answer as many or few as you want, doesn't matter what fandom your oc is from, if any at all, there are 21 total)

What is their go-to Mario Kart character?

2. How about Super Smash Bros?

3. Do they give tortoise or hare vibes?

4. On a scale of 1 to 10, how well can they cook?

5. Are they a dog person? Cat person? Lizard person maybe?

6. Would your oc successfully be able to put out a fire?

7. Are they more of a theater, band, chorus or orchestra kid?

8. Are they scared of death? (That got deep real fast)

9. Do they understand the concept of patience

10. Do they like shiny things?

11. Favorite Number?

12. Halloween costume they did once (if any)

13. Who's their favorite being?

14. How many lighters do they have in their living space?

15. Most used website (If any)

16. Do they use the left or right arm rest in a theater setting?

17. How many of them would it take to screw in a lightbulb?

18. How well do they speak on the phone?

19. Worst crime they ever committed?

20. If they saw a red button that said "DO NOT PRESS" would they press it?

21. Favorite musical?

22. Favorite Undertale ending?

Feel free to add more questions if you want!

Note: Sorry for tagging this to so many random fandoms (Ooh rhyming), I feel like it would be cool to have a lot of different kinds of people doing this if any :)

Tagging: @monsieur-fisch @styrbear @nightsinwonderlandva @ziogetsjiggywithit @eldritchplutoartedition @melopie-artz @jellyviscious @heartfullofleeches @jasbell @coffeecakecafe @h0use-fly @officialrinyx