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untitled-tmnt-blog · 2 months ago

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Did I get all the references?????

Swanatello, Adagio, Aftermath, MNMC, True Colors, Firefight, Wanderer, Marble Sky, Replica, Sep Leo AU, Villain PB&J, Tiz Sep AU, Spitfire, EW, Neon Void, + the other graffiti acronyms (dunno what many of them are) and the books I think are fics

Close -- you got a lot of them!

It's been a few months since that animatic, so you're testing my memory a bit... but I think these are all of the references:

Swanatello is on the cover of the book Splinter is reading Leo & Donnie

"Little Jacob's Ladder" is an actual Lou Jitsu movie mentioned in the show, but Tapa's bunny sona is added as a reference to the Jacob's Ladder comic

Adagio in Green Tea is obviously referencing Adagio in Green

The "Return of Goo Jitsu" poster includes the goop guy from 2 Arms Left

"Lou Jitsu and the Mystery of Picacho Peak" is a reference to I May Be Invisible, But I Still Look Good

"The Aftermath" is a reference to both Happyfoxx's comic, and starrcrossrose's fic

"Mortal Ninja Midlife Crisis" is referencing Mutant Ninja Midlife Crisis

"True Colors" references v-albion's AU of the same name

There is a drawing of baby Dee, from the Snapper Lou AU

The water bottles labeled "emotional support" are a reference to the Emotional Support Water Bottles series

The "Firefight" poster is referencing the fic of the same name

The "Wanderer" poster is referencing the comic of the same name

There are a couple drawings of characters from the Marble Sky comic (non-tmnt)

Schematics of Omega and the probe are a reference to Replica

A book on Donnie's desk is titled "Idiot's Guide to Blindfolded Chess," after the fic of the same name

The schematic of Lloyd the Android is a reference to The Future and a Robot (non-tmnt)

The Leo with eyebrows is a reference to Our Other Halves

The drawing of Donnie's goggles is the version from the Phantom Pains comic

A book on Mikey's nightstand is titled "Times Five," after the fic of the same name

A drawing of One from the Sep Leo AU comic is on the wall

Jester Leo belongs to liketheletter-l

A drawing of the Villain PB&J Duo is on the wall

Books on the bookshelf are titled after some fics that I have bookmarked on AO3: Tapping Out, The Care of a Carapace, Who're You Hiding, Panic Buttons, The Shadows May Go, Trinkets, and Every Night the Longest Day

"Two Shades of Lou" is a reference to the comic Two Shades of Blue

"The Sun is Still Red" is a reference to The Sky Is Still Red

Magazines on the ground include the phrases "Grown Apart" and "Here There Be Turtles," referring to those comics

"Tiz September Auction" is a reference to Tiz Sep AU

The turtle named Cissy is a reference to Siblingquest 202X

KTech refers to the comic of the same name

Spitfire refers to the AU of the same name

EW refers to Empyrean Weeping

SAINWB refers to Same As It Never Will Be

WMBID refers to Wake Me Before I Dream

AMW refers to At My Worst

Lost Star refers to the AU of the same name

TNV refers to The Neon Void

... And obviously, the animatic itself is for the fic Hide and Seek!

#ask #rottmnt #my post #I don't thiiiink I forgot anything but it has been a little while!#apologies if I did

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hitwiththetmnt · 5 months ago

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BACK | P5-2 | NEXT

(Book 1)

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hitwiththetmnt · 8 months ago

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AHAHSHA DRAGON BABY AHAHSHAH!!!

I love this so much and I’m so happy you love the AU! I have plans to make some basic turn around art for the dragons

They may be my own designs, but I feel ya on the drawing difficulty - a good reference will hopefully help (´꒳`)

AH I forgot I drew this little doodle for @hitwiththetmnt's spitfire au! i love the spitfire au so much its so good i love the little dragons even though they are so hard to draw

#(´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`) Alis is so soft in your style! just a lil purple gummy gal #this is where Alis has been - running around different AUs #the hits #tmnt spitfire

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blueikeproductions · 6 months ago

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Ok.

I’m just gonna say it, I don’t care who it offends:

Earthspark is by far THE weakest show Transformers produced. It’s certainly not the WORST though for the most part it’s still not very good, Cyberverse has that honor at the top worst kids TF show… The adult themed shows are still utterly terrible though and I don’t know if I blame Hasbro or the writers specifically. RiD15 and Beast Machines are far superior shows by comparison, their main faults are being (loose) sequels to (mostly in Prime’s case) stronger entries.

I DESPISE tonally uneven shows made in the modern era due to how subversive modern writers feel the need to make everything. This is why Hollywood is struggling so bad, heck the trending kids TV shows on Paramount wasn’t EarthSpark, the first two things were 2012 Turtles & SpongeBob followed by mostly preschool shows. People just don’t want to watch EarthSpark and if they are I guarantee it’s pirating or taking advantage of a free trial… But mostly pirating, let’s not kid ourselves.

I skipped ahead to the end because I was more interested in Terratronus than really anything else. And I’m told the other episodes aren’t much better.

The final episode of the batch sums up what I think the show was trying to be, because it’s so much course correction. So so sooooo much course correction.

The show has rebranded itself into a more traditional Autobots vs Decepticons plot, but realistically it’s more strictly the Terrans vs the Decepticons. The Autobots don’t really get to do much of anything here. As much as I do like Tudyk in the role of Optimus, and I get he’s a busy guy, but he’s wasted here. They would’ve been better off having the more readily available Peter Cullen be Optimus still.

The positives: The Decepticons back to being proper villains again. Starscream is allowed to be Starscream as we know him and he’s amazing, this is basically the five part pilot Prime Starscream without the universe molding him into the pathetic twerp his Aligned self became (despite a rebound in RiD). The Decepticons rally behind Starscream who seeks to turn Earth into a replacement Cybertron, ala similar plots back in G1 and one instance in Prime. They thankfully soft retcon the domestic abuse thing with Starscream too, which sees him correct Hashtag in his advice from before, to only look out for yourself. As such Starscream is free to be the maniacal gear shaft we all know he can be and what Skybound reminded us he could be! In a way it’s similar to Heathers, where when confronted by Veronica, Heather Duke accepts and admits she is a Mega Bitch because she can be.

The Chaos Terrans are more interesting than the Autobot Terrans. Fully aligned with the Decepticons and powered by the chaotic energy of the Emberstone shards, they’re ready to rumble and tear Witwicky apart. Spitfire is functionally the Foot Recruit in Rise of the TMNT mixed with TFA Wasp.

Nightshade is allowed to be a character and not a soapbox for stock Tumblr-Twitter brand Non-Binary rhetoric. (Turns out the NB people I know don’t like how TV portrays them as only being NB and not getting to be actual people with desires & interests, who knew!) They get to be a cool and quirky scientist and they elbow punch Thrash when he’s being dumb, just what I want to see.

The newest Terran introduced is functionally the matriarch, the grandmother of the Terrans: Terratronus. She is a Titan created on Earth during its early days, and was meant to protect the stone from the Quintessons, who wanted to take it from Quintus and use it for their own ends. She went into stasis lock after tricking the Quints, and eons go by, she was buried underneath the town, and is the source of the tech, ruins and Quintus blessed water. She doesn’t seem capable of Transforming atm, but she’s the final boss of the batch, as Starscream uses the Emberstone to make his own sleeve to control her to destroy all humans to pave the way for New Cybertron.

The negatives: -neck cracks- Oh boy.

If you aren’t already on board with the Maltos, this isn’t gonna endear you to them. Robbie takes over as the leader of the group, a role he was intended to have to begin with, but he’s still overshadowed by his sister. He seems throughly done having the Emberstone gizmos after seeing Starscream is stomping the town with Terratronus, but he gets over it pretty quickly when circumstances happen later.

Mo continues to have this uncanny valley look, and now has this sassy teenage girl boss vibe despite still not being a teenager. She doesn’t crap on anyone she seems to care about, in contrast to most girl bosses, but the energy is still there and it’s off putting. I do at least like she was willing to punch Starscream in the face. I don’t like this incessant need to make all girls action girls. I hated it with Webby, and I don’t like it here. Let Mo be a little girl who likes girly things, and please for the love of Primus, let the next little girl character be this. Can we please go back to Carly, Sari and Mikayla? They’re a much better balance of what these shows are trying to do with the human cast. The funny thing is Dot seems to have the opposite problem, she was initially more stern but loving but she’s lost a lot of her grit now. Dot is where a lot of the sass and grit should be but no.

I hope you didn’t grow attached to the Terracons, because due to things I’ll get into later, they’re deader’n dead. A means to an end to the Decepticons, Starscream yanks out their shards to complete the Emberstone, that part makes sense. It’s what happens later that screams “Slag you.”

The shard plot is dealt with surprisingly fast, I guess an artifact of not being guaranteed a full run in the modern era, and the so called lack of attention spans from kids. If kids can keep up with modern anime plots, they have the attention spans, I hate it when kids are always treated like they’re morons. They just largely have no interest in Twitter-Tumblr writing. On that note, when the Maltobots realize they’ve collected all the shards (including the ones the Decepticons currently have), they have a very forced and cringy dance party that comes out of nowhere. And it becomes a reoccurring b-plot until they’re dragged back into reality by Mo & Hashtag revealing Terratronus. It feels like an attempt to do a similar gag in Fosters, when Herriman starts a party when the cruel Dutchess is adopted, but it lacks the build up and punch, it just happens and it’s embarrassing.

Also while I do like Robbie in the leadership role better than Twitch, the lack of being able to say Transform & Roll Out due to copyright issues is aggravating. Especially when the present Terrans don’t Transform into ground vehicles. Rev Up & Roll Out and Roll to the Rescue were fitting for the Bee Team and Rescue Bots, why can’t the Terrans have their own battle cry?

Starscream piloting Terratronus is more or less a retread of Mandroid and his Howl’s Moving Castle rip off. On one hand, it’s a more impressive version, I wanted a proper MetroTitan fight and this scratches that itch. The problem is that due to the Decepticons petrifying the all the Autobots Dr. Stone style with the Emberstone, it just leaves the children, Thrash and Hashtag to largely run away. The only thing they are able to do is Bubble Terratronus Steven Universe style and leave her in Stasis Lock in the destroyed half of the town. So not a great showing for the grandmother of the Terrans, and it makes Hashtag and Thrash look useless. Thrash even more so.

The Decepticons abandon Starscream really for no reason. Starscream borrows Steeljaw’s plan to make a Decepticon homeworld out of Earth and has the capacity to do so with Terratronus, but outside of killing the Terracons, Starscream has no real interest in killing the other Decepticons. Caught up in his glee, he (accidentally?) knocks the other Decepticons from the cliff they were cheering him on from. Shockwave, fed up with Starscream, makes the others follow him but they also unknown to the kids, get trapped in the same Bubble, unable to outrun it.

While not a negative exactly, it feeds into the awkward restructuring of the show, where it’s trying really hard to borrow stuff from Transformers Animated, a far more popular show still liked today. Starscream piloting Terratronus is very similar to when he took over Omega Supreme, and that’s when he was reduced to a head. It’s also similar to the Lugnut Supremes, though Starscream didn’t pilot them strictly. Him going power mad also harkens to many past instances with the Underbase, the Omega Lock, and the Allspark itself. Curiously the only difference is Starscream wasn’t actually driven insane this time, he was just having fun piloting a giant robot and getting revenge on the Maltos.

Shockwave doesn’t see the point in Starscream’s plan, instead wanting to go back to Cybertron. Starscream rightfully tells off the purple people eater he hasn’t been able to prove if Cybertron even still exists. This is somewhat at odds with Shockwave’s earlier portrayal when he seemed mostly fine at taking over Earth back then. I guess the idea was to give Starscream his own disagreeable follower, but I don’t know if it works with Shockwave here. Maybe Swindle or Nova Storm, though neither are a good fit either…

Also the Emberstone itself is destroyed. The kids try to heal it but it just disintegrates. All that trouble and the life giving relic just goes kaput. Which also means Aftermath and Spitfire are super dead baring some last minute thing in the final episodes that revives them. So the only Decepticon aligned Terrans we get and the best characters get killed off.. Terrific. Mo is mortified but Robbie is surprisingly chill about it, saying they already got what they needed out of it anyway. I hope Quintus wasn’t expecting more grandchildren because he ain’t getting them. The only fix to this is if Terratronus is capable of making new Transformers like the IDW MetroTitans were able to, and that’s assuming she doesn’t die too in a half skid plate way.

Finally the animation. A flash back by Terratronus details how the Emberstone and the Quintessons came to Earth in the first place. It’s rendered a 2D comic book style that far better shows off the stylization the show is tricking for and it looks amazing. The CGI is still good but nothing beats old fashioned 2D animation with polish. Let’s get Mook back to 2D animate Transformers if we can’t get Trigger, but we really need Trigger to do a new TF show in our life time. Because this string of debatable quality CGI for older kids since Prime needs to stop. When the Beast Machines Vehicons, especially the Diagnostic Drone which doesn’t even HAVE a face, are able to express better expressions 20+ some years ago, there’s no excuse!

The next thing needs to either be Bravern or 4S Gridman visually bare minimum or at least have writing on par with Beast Wars and Animated. This is nonnegotiable. We need better writers, and writers who at least are capable of making fun stuff that isn’t tethered by IDW’s bad ideas.

Earthspark is one step forward, two steps back so far. I can at least tell tell they’re trying, and that’s an improvement, but it’s not enough to win anyone back and the changes are gonna cheese off people like Skywalker did to Last Jedi fans… On to the next and presumably final batch I suppose.

#blueike productions #blueike #transformers #autobots #earthspark terrans #transformers earthspark

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roquog · 1 year ago

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It's a mess but I'm sharing my tagging system

#my art

#my post

#quick doodle

#rottmnt

#rottmnt art

#rottmnt art reference

#rottmnt reference

#rottmnt screenshot

#rottmnt clip

#rottmnt comic

#rottmnt animatic

#rottmnt gif

#tmnt gif

#gif

rottmnt fan art uses character tags. duo tag for 2 characters from the main cast. group used for 3 or more characters (with 2 or more being of the main cast) RULE HAS CHANGED view duo tag tag post for the trio rule

#duo tag

^^^to find duo tags - started being used somewhere in October

#fan animation

#fan comic

^^the two above for further breaking down rottmnt fanart. sometimes for other iterations

other official iteration's fan art tag is just the same with the word 'art' added

au and series untagged at September 10th

#tmnt

#tmnt art

why does the size keep changing

#tmnt iteration

#tmnt au

^^ pretty much not in use but saved for any discussion posts on fan aus or iterations. mostly the following two tags are used for for au / fan iteration artwork

#tmnt iteration art

#tmnt au art

aus of an official iteration like rottmnt's 'swanatello' are just the au name. sometimes they have 'au' added to the end (I'm forgetful). some aus with comics attached to them will have a tag dedicated to just the main series. then it is the au name with the word 'comic' ie 'rottmnt residuum comic' or '2 arms left comic' 'villain pb&j duo comic'. 3 examples because names can be confusing lol

posts related to written fanfiction is tagged in unabbreviated form except lfls which is tagged as #lfls

#cas

^^^ for cass apocalyptic series fanart (an outlier)

#tmnt idw

#favorites

#high favorites

#crossover

#tmnt 2k3

#tmnt 2k12

#mutant mayhem

#tmnt 90

#tmnt 87

#tmnt mirage

#tmnt batman

#tmnt bayverse

#tmnt art reference

#art reference

#references

#reference

#art

#read later

#work in progress

#the last ronin

#tmnt reference

#pspsps

#pspspsps

#risetober

#october art challenge

cw _____

^^ content warning format. no abbreviation may be used if a content warning overlaps with an interest of mine sach as:

#animal, #aquatic life, #ocean life, #bug, #bird

non tmnt fandoms are just the fandom name or abbreviation. distinction between fan work and discussion is not made

yeah I'll post this at it's current state

#tagging system

^other tag related posts

#winter clothing

#cursed merch collection

#tiz sep au

#gooseyleo

#light house au

#zombie au

#dragon au

#rottmnt spitfire au

#2 arms left

#teenage mutant neglected turtles

#seperated leo au

#empyrean weeping au

#gemini twins au

#turtle tots

#turtle tank

#heart of stone

#no rest for the weary

#bad end ninja turtles

#aftermath

#same as it nver will be

pretty sure I always tag is as that -> but that's what it stands for #sainwb

#little brother au

#hob

#arkkosun

#a pirates life for me

#guardian au

#rottmnt the last ronin

#kid leo au

#rufwoof

#quartergremlin

#the itch

#fusion mayhem au

#tmnebt

#rottmnt headcanons

#episode screenshot

#stain comic

#triple divorce au

#3 months au

#softshell au

#rise album

for screenshots i like in particular ^^

#here there be tmnt

#finding home au

#unmutated

#winter clothing

#halloween season

#turtle tots

#kendratello au

#leo in a room

#rottmnt fic

#mikey hair comic

#au rambling

#iteration rambling

#roquog spreading misinformation

#undescribed

#id in alt

#donation

#tags #tag #tagging #tagging system #my post

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