#donnie is tired

[brightlotusmoon]

@sacredartist33013 thank you for reblogging this because I forgot about it!

Another random snippet from that random 2003 fic

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It was profoundly disturbing, seeing his little brother break down and cry like this. Raphael held his breath, counted to five, and exhaled in a long rumble before dropping to the rooftop edge and staring out into the night. 

At his side, Michelangelo was shaking so hard that Raph wondered if he might fall over. When he wrapped his arm around Mike's shoulders, the smaller turtle gasped and spasmed, and Raph found himself staring into deep blue eyes full of sheer panic. 

"Mikey," he frowned, "you okay?"

Mikey just shivered, lower lip trembling, and lowered his head. Raphael could just make out the silver gleam of the scar across Mikey's right temple, diagonal slash to the brow ridge, a permanent leftover from that horrific falling accident, when he'd cracked his arm and his head and everything inside him had been shifting for months after, and sometimes he forgot things, and there would be outbursts, and-

Oh. 

"Is… is it, you know, uh, sensory overload?" Raph knew he should damn well understand that, but some stubborn part of him kept insisting his emotions weren't all over the place like that. Pfft. Liar. 

He watched Mikey swallow and nod his head, and he instinctively rubbed his hand up and down his arm, tucking Mike into his side. 

"Don't gotta talk, you know. Just… let it out. Feel it all, let it pass by ya. Like a stone in a river."

Mikey's voice was shaky but smiling. "I can't be a stone, I'd fidget too much."

That made Raph snort. 

"Knew you couldn't change too much."

"Haven't," Mikey murmured against his shoulder, "jus' lost some brain stuff n gained some brain stuff."

"Fair."

A beat, and then Mike stared up at him. "You look like you're gonna cry."

Raph blinked, feeling heat and moisture in his eyes, tingles in his beak. "... nah. Just, y'know, it's windy up here. I'm cool."

"Liar, liar."

"You felt that with your new brain stuff, huh?"

"... maybe. It's… loud. Everything's loud now. Hurts."

He pulled back just enough and looked at his brother's face. Those classic puppy eyes were shining in the moonlight, and Raph startled himself by sniffling and letting out a couple of his own tears. "I'm sorry it hurts, Mike. I wish I knew how to help you. I don't know much about brain damage an' psychic stuff, but I do know I ain't leaving you, I'm here for ya."

More tears streamed down Michelangelo's face but they looked clear and soft, not so hard or full of pain. 

"Then you're helping," he smiled, a classic Mikey smile. Raph smiled back. 

As long as Mikey smiled, the universe felt right. 

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Aaahhh, I still dunno where I'm going with this. But it's like my outline for "Shattered Light" mixed with an AU of the Lead Pipe Incident from Season 1 Ep 4 that I kept meaning to write for the last decade?

[kathaynesart]

REPLICA PLAYLIST

MUSIC UNDER CUT

I have been receiving requests for any songs that inspired Replica, so here, have my personal playlist. Sorry it’s not Spotify/Soundcloud but they don’t have some of these songs available so uh… guess you’re stuck with YouTube vids. For fun I'll include my personal titles for them (which might give a few hints of what to expect in the future/end).

Replica Main Theme - “Die for You” by Grabbitz Like Father Like Son Like Brother (Omega and Shelldon) - "As Above So Below" by Alistair Lindsay Mikey's Theme / The 1st Vision - "Suzume no Tojimari" by Nanoka Hara Military (Mad) Dogs / Central Park Colony - "Imperium" by Madeon Shanghai - "Icarus" by Madeon Boom Goes the Donnie-mite (Mikey/Donnie vs the Sweeper) - "The Red Zone" by Mitsuoto Suzuki The Day the Sky Bled Red - "7 Seconds Till the End" by Nobuo Uematsu Going Out Like a Boss (Raph and Leo) - "Agape" by Nicholas Britell Remembering the Right Way (Mikey and Leo) - "The Souls of Many" - by Alistair Lindsay Mystic Hands / The 2nd Vision - "Am I Dreaming" by Metro Boomin x A$AP Book 2 Trailer - "Sea Dragon" by Covet 7 Years Later - "Iron" by Woodkid Leo's Theme / Attack on the Labor Camp - "Ego Death" by Polyphia Omega's Theme - "Touch" by Daft Punk Flat Lines (Omega Alone) - "Die Toteninsel Emptiness" by 1000 Eyes Spear - "Monsters" by Tommee Profitt Final Protocol - "The Kraken" by Katie Dey Rise / Epilogue - "Close in the Distance" by Masayoshi Soken & Tom Mills

I will admit, it's a little embarrassing since you can easily see the patterns of what I've been listening to for the past year or two. I swear I listen to more than just videogame OSTs, these songs just jive well with the story and I often find lyrics distracting when brainstorming scenes. Regardless, the music I listen to is such an important part of my creative process and some of these songs really defined the scenes I now have locked in my head. So I figured it was only fair to give them the credit they're due.

I will continue to add to this playlist, and will note in comic updates when one of these songs is applicable!

[tizeline]

Oh? What's that? Ya'll want the next part of TSAU's story? Well fuck you you're getting this fucking thing instead.

[brightlotusmoon]

@remmushound

I know I say this a lot about Donnie, but... demon possession!

Based on this post

[nickkkdoesstuff]

Screenshot redraw :D

[grey-viridian]

Twins Angst My Beloved

[themidnightsunset]

FUTURE DONNIE OVERALLS PLS

[koolaidashley]

No way he’s not super into weird al right.

[brightlotusmoon]

Runs into the middle of the 2003 Whump fandom, slams this down, runs out screaming "it's shorter than I wanted but fuck it have a damn update"

[kathaynesart]

Out of the frying pan and into the fryer we go.

BEGINNING || PREVIOUS || NEXT MASTER POST

Whew, finally done! Sorry it took so long, this is the largest update I've done yet clocking in at about 15 pages (compared to my usual 7-10). Also, congrats to those who guessed Todd for the distraction! Poor guy went through the last of his mystically preserved lemons just for this moment. What a bro.

[brightlotusmoon]

And I got shivers. Nice!

A regular day in donnie's lab

[crayonnthief]

Donnie building his first robot! :D

(That may or may not look very similar to fugitoid 👀)

[abbeyofcyn]

We're in 😎

@tmntaucompetition

[orobty]

On his 5th cup of coffee and goin for 6th! (If he can avoid leo)

[brightlotusmoon]

I remember when the promos were first released. This assessment is very accurate.

2003 tmnt promo and merch art always makes laugh so hard, cause it’s all like ‘ AAARGH, ANGRY MUTANTS MADE OF PURE MUSCLE, READY TO FIGHT!’

And then you watch the show itself and it’s just 4 small round dudes, being silly and looking like they’re made out of squishy foam.

(I like to imagine that’s what the boys imagine they look like vs what they actually look like 🙃)

[thejadecount]

I had a vision