#atom's marigold au

[sugarpasteltmnt]

wow first of all THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who voted for my silly little story in the AU comp!! seriously you all are so wonderful and sweet and i'm just so happy to be in the comp period 😭🩵

as a big thanks i wanted to tell ya'll i'm working on the next chapter of 'Purgatory Paradise' ( • ̀ω•́ )✧ i'll try my best to have it out within the next week!! (`･ω･´)ゞ here's a sneak peak:

in the meantime, please enjoy this list of some of the references and easter eggs i had put in 'The Neon Void' while writing it! (hehe how many did YOU spot while reading?)

[warning; spoilers ahoy! avoid reading if you haven't finish TNV yet!]

here's a rough list of some of the references I snuck in or jokes i was quite proud of when writing 'The Neon Void' haha!

Houdini 

● silly reference to ‘ooze’ hehe (not so much of an easter egg but more of a bad joke lol)  ● “…What in sweet Marie Curie’s name was that about?” – Marie Curie was a physicist who studied radioactivity, and her research ultimately was used in the creation of the atomic bomb, which uses nuclear fission (aka, atoms splitting apart) (lol get foreshadowed, nerds.) 

The Shrine 

● The Jupiter Jim issue number 84 is a reference to 1984, the year the TMNT comics first came out. 

Mosaic 

● Leo’s hideout is inspired by an episode in the 2003 TMNT, where the fam hides in a water tower when the lair is discovered by the Foot Clan. (And I believe a water tower comes into play in other TMNT iterations, but I wasn’t 1000% sure) 

Marigolds 

● The area where Mikey fights Leo and cuts off his arm is heavily inspired by some of the 2003 sewer layout scenes, with the giant atriums and criss-crossing skywalks over giant areas of water. I loved those designs and wanted to incorporate that. 

Ground Control 

● Another silly joke reference of ‘shellphones’ used in the 2012 series   ● “I doubt it was unimportant considering you made enough to feed the entire New York Dave’s team,” Donnie pressed. He picked up a butterfly, inspecting it, but Mikey knew that he was trying to get to the root of the cause, “What did he say?” – Homage to early concept art of Donnie, where he has a butterfly on his knuckle (look at this cutie)

(BTW i for the life of me CANNOT find the original tweet where this photo was so if you have it let me know!) 

Mad Dog: Haunted 

● Call-back to the Krang carcass you see for 0.2 seconds in the season finale inside of the Crying Titan, which I thought was a really neat detail. 

Strings

● The book excerpt Donnie reads is written by Professor Honeycutt, a referencing the 2003 Professor Honeycut who studied teleportation and invented the teleportal  ● ‘October 28, 20:20’ written on the sticky note Donnie looks at is a reference to the release date of ‘The Last Ronin’ (10/28/2020) ● ‘By Carl Sagan–! It worked! We’ve established contact–!’ – Carl Sagan lead the effort in the creation of the Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft, whos purpose was to send a message to extraterrestrials who might find the spacecraft as it traveled through vast spans of space. Since Donnie was trying to reach Karai and the ancestors from what felt like an impossible distance, it felt fitting. 

Bed and Breakfast 

● ‘He groaned. His brain was pulsing painfully behind his eyes. His whole body was achy. Great Pythagoras, what happened?’ – Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher referred to as the ‘lover of wisdom’ and made numerous mathematical and scientific discoveries, and I felt like Donnie would just generally be a fanboy of him lol.  ● ‘Sweet Friedrich Sertürner was that blood–?!’ – while working on this chapter, i asked my best friend and beta reader for some inventors/scientist names to make into funny Donnie Swears. She suggested Friedrich Sertürner because he invented morphine which is used to treat pain… and she said 'would be funny...considering how much of it they were gonna need by the time things were said and done with the Key/Leo's infection.' (SHE WAS SO REAL FOR THAT LOL)   ● The ‘Void ducking in and out of doorways just to come out of a totally different door’ chase was 100000% a Scooby-doo reference, lol. It was one of my fav cartoons growing up and that gag felt very on-brand for Leo’s silly ‘Void’ persona and i’m a little proud of it hahaha 

The Deal 

“Neon Void was literally blasted into the air. All the while laughing merrily as he soared. He went crashing into a poor, unkept, unsuspecting billboard for the Super Slam Hockey Game that already happened over ten years ago.” – This is SO obscure but this is a reference to one of my favorite 2003 TMNT episodes, ‘The Golden Puck’. The episode is so peak 2000’s cartoon to me with its silly premise and I just loved it LOL. (Southern millionaire who hires sci-fi-technology cowboy bounty hunters to steal a sports trophy in the middle of New York city? Peak old cartoon synopsis.) 

Rap Battle 

● The first few lines of Leo’s freestyle rap are the 2012 TMNT opening theme lyrics 

Boop!

● Leo runs past a ‘Space Heroes' game cabinet– Space Heroes is a reference to the 2012 TMNT, which was the show that Leonardo was obsessed with 

Tag Part I: Sonic 

● Leo bounces off the back of the Sonic the Hedgehog balloon in the parade in reference to the fact that they share the same voice actor LOL Extra fun fact this entire fic was set in autumn/fall JUST to write this NICHE SCENE

I’m sure I missed a few I couldn't remember off the top of my head, but I had a lot of fun putting these little references and easter eggs in the story 🩵 TMNT itself always makes call-backs and references to it's other iterations, and i love love love that and wanted to try myself!

[catboy-jaebeom]

y'all are gonna hate me for being stupidly neat in titling and organizing my fics, but I'm also hating y'all a little because I have so many wips I did not wish to be reminded of ajfsdlkgjdflgd

[ KPop ] Leader Swap Omegaverse Fic

[ KPop ] So We Will Be Royalty

[ KPop ] Time Loop Fic 1 — 7 Carnations & 7 Lilies — When Time & My Heart Stood Still

[ KPop ] Time Loop Fic 2 — Orchids & Daisies

Any Other Way 2 — These Trees Bear Fruit In Spring

Those Days In Toronto — Or The Inevitability Of Moving On

ZODIAC & How We Learned To Function

[ KPop ] Poly!Hyeong Line — All End's Beginning

[ KPop ] Rainbow7 — Zero Times Two Is Still Zero

[ KPop ] Like A Zoo — Marriage Proposals (?)

[ KPop ] GOT7 Avengers

[ KPop ] Youngjae/Mingi Prom Date

[ KPop ] Marigolds & Forget-Me-Nots

[ KPop ] Neck-Lace

trustfund baby CEO AU

boulder wall

sick(ly) are the ones who love the most

[ MoM ] Cracked

Foxes In March

[ Spooktober ] Always Watches

[ Spooktober ] Foul Feast

[ Spooktober ] Rural Ritual

Daw, Yakuza Favourite

[ Atomic Blonde & RE ] Under The Neon Lights, All Cats Are Gray

[ KPop ] Fangs & Stakes & So Much Blood — The Year You Taught Me How To Grieve

[ Atomic Blonde ] Poppies, Lilacs & Forget-Me-Nots

[ Shadowhunters ] In The Wake Of Decisions Chapter 5

[ Shadowhunters ] A Piece In Three Parts

Ice Cream Bar

[ KPop ] Body Snatcher Fic

Otherworldy Normal

[ KPop ] In The Drift & Under The Stage Lights

you asked for this, etc aklfjsdklgsg

I am v politely tagging @syster19 @wordycerty and @snowflyjoeee ( but only if you want to, obvsly!! ) and also @twigsnbones @klutenpetter in case you have some wips lying around. also anyone else who sees this!! love you all!! ♥

WIP Game

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips.

Thank you for the tag, @ato-the-bean!  I’m off to the airport soon so maybe this will give me inspiration if any asks come in before I loose internet.

The Call of Destruction

The Immortal Academic

Twin Tales Book 3 part 1

Twin Tales Book 3 part 2

Menw

Chapter 20 - rewrite

I don’t actually have a lot of different WIPs, but here we are. I’m happy to talk about all of them and give a snippet.

Tagging: @castillon02 @mistbornhero @the-astro-ace @arel-o-imladris @ares-uprising @stinastar

[sshadelyne]

Seroroki Week, Day 2

Hanta liked to consider himself a collected sort of person. He lived few kilometers or so from Tokyo, tailored for a living, and accompanied his bolder friends whenever they wanted to do something dangerous and inadvisable. Like that one time when Bakugou decided that he wanted to slay a dragon. Or when that dragon turned out to be the the half-human royalty of a long-lost draconian race, and they all had to go find the temple of his dead ancestors. Or when Ashido accidentally made an enemy of a warmongering tribe from the east and they had to challenge the leader to a fight to the death so that the entire forest wouldn't be burned to the ground.

Fun times.

Well, maybe that wasn't a point towards his collected nature, but he was still arguably the most sensible one out of his friends.

But naturally, the world liked to test Hanta in increasingly ridiculous ways, which was why the most beautiful person in the world decided to knock on his door a few hours after the sun had risen. Sero Hanta opened the door, got a glance at the boy standing outside, and fought the urge to close the door and possibly pass out.

“A really pink girl told me you’re great at tailoring?” was the greeting the newcomer offered.

Years into the future, when Hanta told this story to his grandchildren, he'd say, “And that was the moment I disowned my closest friend.” But as it was, Hanta just got the very distinct feeling that Ashido was laughing maniacally at his suffering. ‘What Sero needs is love!’ she had said. He had been warned.

Betrayal. Absolute betrayal. See if he ever helped Ashido overthrow another high-ranking official ever again-

“... Are you okay?”

Shit. The boy was still there.

Desperately hoping that this was some sort of incredibly realistic hallucination that Kinoko had induced (had she planted mushrooms in his food last night?) and was not, in fact, the reality in which he had just embarrassed himself in front of a boy who seemed to be very wealthy, if his clothes were any indication, and who was also the most attractive person Hanta had ever met.

“Uh,” was all that Hanta managed. It was in that moment that he realized that he was very much not collected and that he would also have to do something drastic to get Ashido back. “... Yes?”

Distantly, he noted a few things. One: the red and white hair should have been ridiculous, not attractive, but this boy managed to pull it off. Two: the scar spanning the left half of his face looked painful. Three: Hanta had been rather blatantly staring at the other boy for a few seconds.

“Yes! That's me!” Hanta said hastily, nearly tripping over himself trying to clear the doorway. “Please, come in, uh…”

There was no response. When Hanta turned around, the boy was halfway into the house and watching him expectantly. It appeared that the social cue had gone over his head.

Hanta tried again. “So, uh, what's your name?”

The boy blinked (his eyes were different colors), then said, “Todoroki Shouto.”

Right. Introductions. Hanta could do that. Definitely. So he grinned, gestured to the inside of the house, and replied,

“Sero Hanta, at your service.”

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Marigold au - @theatomicpumpkin (their art is 👌👌👌 im cry)