#faiakishi

[onejellyfishplease]

Hey, I'm the author of Dawning of the Hour. :) Do I have your blessing to reference Mosquitello in the fic? I've referenced other fandom stuff but the joke wouldn't work if I didn't explicitly call him Mosquitello and I feel like you have that properly trademarked.

djshajhdjddh of course!!! that would be awesome! go ahead :D

[tangledinink]

Does swannie have access to his ninpo

Swannie does not currently have access to his ninpo.

@sleepyheadhayden they are very soft and fluffy yes u w u but if you try to hug him he will bite you im sorry 😩

:3c :3c :3c

he does lose/shed feathers as a stress response :< it definitely freaked his family out the first time they saw it, but they're used to it by now. they always grow back pretty quickly.

that's absolutely why! maybe if they felt that the situation was dire and donnie was in active danger, they may reconsider, but what they could potentially gain from having access to the lake during the day (and they have no idea if they would actually gain anything at all) isn't worth risking mikey's safety.

@faiakishi 👀 i can neither confirm nor deny this... but i do agree that he DESERVES a bone collection <3

@whattraintracks ahhh thank you ; w ; i really appreciate it!!! <3

hehehe :3c but also of course he'll still like dancing! <3

i think you're onto something.

thank you!!!!! ; w ;

kind of? physical things (photographs, childhood toys, trinkets from his lab or room, etc.) always help, and so does just having a family member around point blank. the problem is that if it's truly a bad day then none of them are going to get the chance to do any of that stuff. if he isn't aggressive but doesn't know who they are, they will sometimes try to gently prompt memories, but they usually tread carefully as this tends to be somewhat hit-or-miss. sometimes it helps, but sometimes it doesn't achieve much beyond upsetting and confusing donnie, and it's hard to predict the outcome. if donnie is having a 'nothing is wrong and i'm the lake guardian and i'm totally comfortable with that! yay my family is visiting! nothing is wrong!' day then they usually won't try to prompt memories, because nine times out of ten it'll lead to donnie either becoming upset and aggressive or confused and distressed. either way, less than ideal.

@fan-fucking-tasty absolutely he has-- he's attacked all of them before and splinter is no exception. it was pretty heartbreaking for him the first time it happened and he definitely spent a good deal of time locked away in his room just... being sad and not knowing what to do. but he remembered how excited donnie was the first time he went to go visit. so after letting himself be devastated for a while, he picked himself back up and kept trying. his son still needs him.

@whyamiheretumbled the imagery is just so good...... we deserve ballerina femboy ninja mutant turtles

[beannary]

bean I need a middle name for you so I can call you like a disappointed mother.

Yeah sure! Here’s my birth certificate

[reesespiecesofart]

IM LATE, I KNOW

gang. this chapter. KILLED ME. faiakishi, you have my heart for making this masterpiece!

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

I GENUINELY CANNOT EXPRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS CHAPTER AND HATE IT AT THE SAME TIME

(i am pro hamato as of right now, just because of what draxum said and did to leo last time and because draxum is an idiot if he thinks it's a good idea to bring gale out after what happened, but i digress)

(as much as i love leo, though, that love will only extend so far. i am almost 50/50 with hamato/draxum because of the way they treated gale YES I KNOW THEY HAD TO BUT STILL, COME ON)

(also, is it just me or does anyone feel like gale is reaching potentials that he hasn't when he was with the hamatos? like, would DONNIE have been able to get out like that?? i'm not so sure..)

(basically, if draxum is nice to gale more, i'll be completely back on team draxum)

basically, i have SUCH MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW because gale is freaked out so much that he's literally sobbing and that's because of the hamatos. i think when draxum went sicko mode on leo, he kinda broke the last bit of leo's morals and ethics. i think they should figure out how gale lost his memories first, find out how to fix that, THEN kidnap if they absolutely have to.

i wonder, though, if once gale DOES get his memories back, will he struggle between what's real and fake? what's him and what's gale? this fic actually makes me giggle and kick my legs fr

[avephelis]

finally caught up on the last 7 or so DOTH chapters BROOO I'M GONNA BE FUCKING SICK

[reesespiecesofart]

so obviously you're writing is absolutely amazing if this was ALMOST EXACTLY HOW I IMAGINED THE HOUSE TO LOOK-

didn't you say you were making Draxum's house in the sims? Did you ever finish? :(

So I whined about this on my main blog, but I'm having issues with my computer. The power port, and I've noticed this for a while, gets extremely hot whenever I try to run anything more intensive than Powerwash Simulator, and the past few months it's become harder and harder to get it to charge. (I'm not overclocking or anything-I bought this computer for gaming and made sure it had the specs to run shit like my heavily modded Skyrim and Fallout, it should be able to run Sims) I contacted Acer about a repair and they quoted me over eight hundred dollars. The actual computer was about 1200-1300, for comparison. There's other issues with it as well-there's a chip on the screen that's really obvious on a white background, and they advertised that it would support a second hard drive, but it's never recognized the one I bought. The power port is the most grievous though, and power ports on laptops are notoriously hard to repair.

And this computer isn't old. I bought it last spring. Less than a year and a half-and I've barely been gaming on it because I've been writing this, so I spent over a thousand dollars on a turtles fanfiction machine essentially. (there's been other reasons, depression funk caused a complete disinterest in gaming and after so many mass shootings I've started feeling guilty whenever playing games with guns, but writing is mostly what I've been using this expensive gaming PC for) I only had the one-year warranty that came with the computer, but honestly I can't find it in myself to regret that too much because I have never once had a company actually honor a warranty. It's like safety deposits on apartments or insurance claims-they'll do everything they can to weasel out of doing what they're supposed to.

So back to your question-I currently don't trust my computer to run the Sims. Or anything else. And I can afford to buy another gaming PC right now, but it would be financially pretty irresponsible. I returned the tablet I bought to draw with, and I think I'm going to get one of those two-in-one laptop/tablets so I can use it for drawing and writing. Maybe I'll be able to run the Sims 4 on that-it doesn't have to run great, I use it mostly as a building simulator. Kind of sucks though, Crusader Kings 3 came out with another expansion pack and the new Cities Skylines is coming out this fall, plus I've been getting a hankering to play Skyrim again.

But enough about my computer woes, I do think I have some screenshots I could show...

First floor, I apparently took these during the first round of building because I made a lot of changes. The lab is way bigger now, and I have the rest of the house shell done. The blank space in the back right is where I was going to put in the multi-story room where the turtles find the weapons-which is probably the least completed part of the entire house because holy hell the building controls do not want to work with me.

But in the back left you can see Cass and Gale's rooms! :)

I do like how the main hallway turned out. I know it was mostly destroyed on Creation Day, but let's just say Draxum redid it in the same style. The middle picture, that's the little storage room that hides the door to the part of the house where Gale's room is. If you know the Sims you can tell where the secret door is.

And yes, I know the half-walls under the stairs look ridiculous, I've fixed it since then. I couldn't just extend the half-wall all the way back because it would delete the upper staircase, for some reason.

I'm pretty proud of how the living room is turning out. Could be a little bigger, but the symmetry of the bookshelves are just too perfect. (also the curved walls get fussy, FUCK CURVED WALLS) Needs some clutter on the mantle though.

The kitchen no longer looks like this, I moved around a lot of the pictures and added another layer of cabinets, because Draxum probably has like six sets of fine china he's received as gifts throughout the years and refuses to part with. I added more retro-looking décor, because the last time he remodeled this room was in the sixties and I wanted it to look a little old-fashioned. I also imagine he refuses to get an electric stove, saying his mystic wood-burning stove works just fine. I tried to work a pantry in, but it didn't really pan out. (lol) And the more I think about it, he probably has a legit larder somewhere in the basement, since Draxum is from a time before refrigeration and would have grown up storing food in underground cellars. (and he deffo has like several years worth of food stored away, he's pretty much a doomsday prepper)

This is also incidentally the layout of the kitchen at my old house, hence the weird octagon dining area. Except we had windows. With no curtains. In the woods. It was unsettling to cook at night.

Draxum's study is bigger now, and I think I added a fireplace? He absolutely has eight bazillion degrees and awards and he puts them ALL on his wall. He earned that shit, dammit.

His bedroom's nothing to write home about. It's comfortable, not luxurious. There's no electric lights because he prefers candlelight.

Just imagine that white bathroom counter stained with pink splotches from Draxum's hair dye.

I had BARELY done anything with the pool, but as you can see it is indeed a tank. Draxum was planning to keep a mutant or something in there.

I was actually in the process of redoing the entire greenery lol, but I think I did an okay job on 1.0. Not the mason jar lamps though, I'm not sure what I was thinking there.

Some pictures of Lab 1.0. The ooze-vine-thing looks terrible; I straight up haven't even started to recreate it in 2.0. I pushed back Draxum's alchemy area and gave him an actual medical bay in the back, which is where The Table would have been located.

That's mostly Gale's area on the left, I think it still broadly looks this way? I didn't put in stuff like the robotics table because it just looked silly-and besides, we're not actually playing this build. We know Galois only needs two hands and a welder to make a robot.

I will leave you off with a slightly more clutterfied Gale's room! Oh, but also, I GOT PURPLE CC CURTAINS FOR HIM. :D After I took this picture, but just know he has them now. He has no reason to have them because he does not have a window, but I'm happy for him.

[cupcakeslushie]

three reacts to galios from third from the son (if you've read it)?

OF FLIPPING COURSE I’VE READ IT!!!!

As if it could be that easy to convince Gale those stalkers that keep popping up are telling the truth. I know @faiakishi wouldn’t end our pain so soon (which I can certainly appreciate 💕).

[some-spinner-in-june]

dawning of the hour - death of donatello (birth of galois)

web weave for @thedawningofthehour's "the dawning of the hour," one of the most intricate and heartbreaking stories i've ever had the honor of reading <3

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credits:

the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || war of the foxes, richard siken || happiness, shuzo oshimi || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || asofterworld, #67 || someday i'll love ocean vuong, ocean vuong || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || the gates of the forest, elie weisel || @/hddudjcnsnejfcnend || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || cool memories, jean baudrillard || unknown || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || the oresteia, aeschylus || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || the asylum for wayward victorian girls, emilie autumn || @/brightandfullofglory || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || undertale || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || the magician king, lev grossman || wake up, eden || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi || unknown || @/brightandfullofglory || the dawning of the hour, faiakishi

[dryad-druid]

Splinter Apretiation Week - Day 1 - Tea/Nexus

just keep drinking your tea, CuddleCakes~

because of course, Big mama would spice his tea, @faiakishi i think that would be obvious.

[the-time-are-ending]

a drawing of Doth, the masterpiece

@thedawningofthehour

So, I was reading Third From the Son, DOTH, by Faiakishi, and I got to that infamous moment where Galois yells at Leo about his brother being dead and being consumed by crabs at the bottom of the ocean. If in itself the scene of him on the verge of a mental breakdown due to the sadness, confusion and guilt (among other emotions) that thinking about Donatello causes him and his ending brought me strong images, this definitely cements them. As is my custom, I had to use my older sibling's cell phone to draw.

I did my best, don't strangle me too hard. I tried!

I really like this work and its construction, not only of characters, but of worlds. I had made other drawings before, but I didn't dare to upload them. hope you like.

[lallelol]

The Dawning of the Hour - Chapter 19

Read chapter 1 here

@thedawningofthehour @faiakishi WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA

“You’re welcome any time in my dreams”

[devotedtosadpoetry]

live footage of the dread heads

for some reason i keep blacking out and waking up to memes of us @turtleinsoup @faiakishi

[boxfullaturtles]

you’re all monsters and i adore you

i have written it down JUST IN CASE but that DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOU WON

accidentally comes up with a third arc for Adagio in Green

[beannary]

Bean Marie Nary, isn't it like 2 AM your time? Is that late for you when you don't have to work? SHOULDN'T YOU GO TO BED?!

Ummmm actually it’s only 1 am so it’s still legal for me to be up rn so I can wake up bright and early in the morning to not go to work

[reesespiecesofart]

AHHHH SCREAMING OVER THIS CHAPTER (and every chapter) PLEASE GO READ IT

kudos to my friend @thedawningofthehour

[catparent94]

@thedawningofthehour 

I made FanArt for the Profile in Quicksilver, or book three of Dawning of the Hour, specifically Chapter 5. Specifically the poison plants scene. I kind of made this section into a mini comic. Hope you like it.

“Is the table back here for all your purple plants?”

“They are not all purple, but segue,” Galois gestures to the table. “The mushroom patch and this table especially, not safe. This is where all our poisonous plants are grown.” He waves his hand. “I mean, roughly. We have tomatoes and potatoes too which are part of the nightshade family and their stems and leaves are poisonous, but we don’t use them as poison. And most of the fungi is perfectly safe, but it can be very difficult to tell sometimes. I would rather you didn’t risk it.”

“These are all poison?” Raphael moves closer to the poison table. “Man, this flower is so pretty.”

“That is the adenium obesum, otherwise known as the desert rose. It’s native to Sahelian Africa and hunters would use them to poison their arrowheads.”

Raphael snatches his hand back.

“It’s actually quite lucky that we have that, most Yokai who hail from the African continent come from the miombo woodlands and the Barotse floodplain, which…I believe are both in Zambia now, so it’s thrilling to have specimens from farther north. Anyway, oleander is another one of my favorites, incredibly beautiful and will cause you to shit blood. Oh, those berries that look absolutely delicious? Belladonna. Don’t even touch any of these without myself or my father present, some of these plants are toxic even to touch.”

“...Why does Draxum have so many poisons?”

“My father is a botanist. And many of these plants have positive effects as well, if you know how to use them.”

“It’s poison.”

“You know what my father does, Raphael. Poisons are a necessity.”

Raphael is entirely silent for far too long. Galois clears his throat.

“Now!” He turns on his heel and marches forward. “On the other side here are all the other non-tree fruits and vegetables. Which is all incredibly exciting, I know, but if you bear with me we will get to the experimentals!”

I tried drawing the tension in this scene. Also, I put the split in Galois/Donnie's sentences to show that they are the same person. Hopefully that showed through well. Also, this was my first time drawing Raph and wow. He is really hard to draw. 

Drawing of the Poison section for the Poison Table and Mushroom Patch in the Faniction:

I tried to draw the different plants. Through looking for references, I learned that adenium obesum as plants to put in the house. Also, I made fanart of a scene.

Thank you.