#i gotta draw him more often...

[paperbaldi]

Principlehh

[skyblueartt]

Henry before and after everything happened to him :((( my guy really got it rough huh

[venomgaia]

you were AEDD heathcliff in the stream chat?? :0 <- guy who had been pasting the entirety of wuthering heights during stream 5

Eheeh yep! That was me! I was in i think all of the streams, but on my first visits i showed up like a normal person and then pretty quickly joined the heathcliff horde.

LMAO I WAS WONDERIN ABT THAT. Glad to see that theres some of us from stream that hang out on tumblr! Hope you're havin a great day!

[koumori-1999]

menacingly points at you

[canisalbus]

Hi hello, I was struggling with my Spooktober challenge, but wanted to draw something today, so I ended up with this:

He is Very Shape, so I had to lmao (I don't draw animals much, so it was a bit tricky, but hope it came out okay!)

Also, terkkuja toiselta suomalaiselta, meikäläisiin törmää niin harvoin :D

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[showrunnerihardlyknowher]

boohoo sob sob whimper

[tonbane]

Joth (jock goth) OOT Ganondorf my beloved jerk. He'd love to be an edgy vampire.

Reblog to give him fake fangs 🦷🔄

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

[infernothechaosgod]

"Care for a kiss?"

[yalibat]

kevin

[deep-spacediver577]

[r-aindr0p]

your rollo is so pretty!! he so gender and i love him

Why thank you ! But gotta give credit where it’s due

Yana Toboso created a miracle

I literally lost it day 1 of his release on the JP server announcements. (Part of it was because I designed a halloween overblot Frollo costume for my yuu this year and didnt know they would ever design such a man, impeccable timing.)

Anyway I’m glad the way I draw him is appreciated and I cant’t wait to make more drawings of the guy !

[chibishortdeath]

Haven’t drawn him in his CV1 era design in a while. I think his neck is a little long lol, but otherwise I’m pretty happy with this doodle :3.

[vebbex]

super kingio bros

[imtrashraccoon]

Introducing... Aithon!

Also known as Firebrand, Pyre, and The King of Winter's personal blacksmith.

I may have made him too sexy... Oh well!

He's a fae that used to live in the feywilds and is a flame elemental. This means his body is more magic or energy based than solid mass. He wears a specially enchanted armour in order to keep up a physical body, as without it, he would look more akin to a large ball of flames. Not that he can take it off if he wanted to though.

He doesn't have wings and doesn't need them as he tends to float a foot or so off the ground, but he can fly if he wants to. He runs hot, thanks to his biology, but has incredible control over his own temperature. So much so, that he can be as cool as a hot water bottle, or as hot as a blast furnace. He can and does use his own flames when smithing, but more for small corrections than for the whole project.

He is very old, possibly close to the Seasonal Kings in age and thanks to this, is very wise. He's seen his fair share of conflicts and used to be a very powerful warrior in the feywilds. While he often keeps to himself, he likes to watch out for the younger fae and will occasionally offer some advice if he thinks they'll listen.

He is loyal to the King of Winter and has been for a very long time. While he doesn't talk about his past much, he seems to have a sort of mutual respect with Nightmare, like a bond forged through comradery. He is very powerful, but the call of battle isn't as strong as it was when he was younger. As such, he's content to live a peaceful life as a blacksmith, making weapons and armour for others.

Maybe don't ask him how he got his armour though. The topic doesn't exactly bring up pleasant memories... Also, maybe don't ask him who the Talon King is. You shouldn't even know that name to begin with and he'll get very concerned about your wellbeing.

Faeu belongs to @valrayne-faeu @owl-bones @antlered-prince

I based Aithon on a flame atronach from The Elder Scrolls series. Originally, I was going to base him off a firefly, but then the story I want to tell shifted to focus more on characters from the feywilds. He has wilder magic as a result and while that would normally make it unstable, his armour helps with that. He's also had centuries to learn how to control his magic.

[kowtownart]

I missed drawing this little guy, he's such a sweetie-pie