#i have yet to do so and im tired ok

[frogandbird]

Strawberry Skys - Chapter One - New Town, Who Dis?

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A click of a camera didn’t tell any of the chatting siblings to the oldests camera.

El grinned and leaned back onto the wall. Her light scales glinted in the setting sun, her dark eyes a sea of dark summer rain. El set her camera down, and picked up the last piece of pizza that her younger siblings were arguing over.

El cackled as Mikey spotted the affiance a little too late, and all of her younger siblings converged onto her. Kicking her little brother off of her, El jumped up laughing and ran to evade her little sibling and brothers as they ran to snag the last big of the pizza in her hands.

Jumping over an air conditioner unit and jumping onto a water tower, El giggled and watched her siblings begin to prowl the base of the tower as she shoved the last bit into her mouth. Mikey eventually tried to do the same she had done, only to fall right into their shell. Raph laughed but helped the orange turtle up. Donnie offered El a hand, which she gladly took to jump off the water tower.

Mikey and Raphs dark scale blended into the dark of the night sky, eyes aglow in the still setting sun. El leaned onto her sibling, letting Donnie support her in a way she had so foolishly rejected as a teen.

Walking over to her camera, she picked it up and took a quick photo of the arguing red and orange turtles. Raph was currently under Mikey, but had both of the orange turtles arms pinned under himself. Mikey and. Somehow managed to grab Raphs legs and pin them with their own.

“So, we do something about that?” Donnie laughed next to El, picking up the pizza boxes they had strewn around the roof.

“Nah. It’ll save a clean up back home.” El picked up her crutches and put her camera back in her bag.

“And that’s why you are the older sister.” Donnie laughed and handed El the bag of drinks that she took silently.

El and Donnie let the duo of arguing turtles roll around in the dirty roof for a good long time, letting the sun set fully before getting the dou to end it and go home.

The four descended from the roof, laughing and flipping down the fire escape and depositing the bag of trash next to the dumpster in the alleyway.

“Uh dudes?” Mikey was standing next to the entrance of the alley, looking out at the street. “That restraint always been there?” He pointed at a pizza shop, bustling with people.

“It probably just opened Mike.” Donnie landed from the fire escape.

‘I have never seen this many people in one place.” Mikey looked back at the restraint.

“It bothering you?” El leaned onto one of her crutches, still holding her camera bag.

“A little.” Mikey shuffled closer to Raph.

Raph draped one arm around the orange turtle. “We can check it out on tonight's payroll, k?”

“Alright..” Mikey gave a quiet grin and followed the rest of the siblings into the sewers.

———

All four of the turtles were a few roofs above the strange restaurant. Mikey stood on the leg of the roof, watching the block with the building with narrowed eyes. Donnie stood next to them, watching one of their gadgets. Both Raph and El stood behind them, watching.

“So?” Raph leaned to onside, arms crossed.

“Mikey thinks it’s strange, and I’m trying to get readings with my tech. Mikey is being Mikey and getting data his way.” Donnie waved one hand, still locked on his device. Mikey hummed and counted to watch the building.

“Alright. How long do you two need?” El leaned on her brother, who straightened to support her fully.

‘Ah.. My tech should be working soon, or at least get- AHA!” Donnie yelled in triumph as something light up on their thing. Mikey mumbled, barely sparring anyone a second glance.

“So!” Donnie spun to face the red and blue turtles. “My cameras have picked up on energy sources located in a variety of buildings across the city! This happens to be one of them. Now, the strange part is. That I have had no record of any of these buildings ever being here before! And! To make this even better, The city looks to be-“

“Someone is leaving.” Mikey lumped to the next roof, effectively cutting Donnie off. Raph snorted and El sighed.

Donnie rolled his eyes, but put their tech away and followed after the youngest sibling. Raph and El took after them, landing behind Mikey as the orange turtle watched a human leave the building.

The human looked around, clearly a bit lost, before checking their phone and walking away. Mikey squinted at them, but apron not getting anything that they wanted, she shrugged and spun to watch the building once again.

El sighed and sat down next to her brother, Donnie sitting next to her. Raph counted to stand behind them, watching from above.

The four of them counted to watch the building, neither Mikey or Donnie explaining what info they needed from it. Donnie never elaborated on what they were saying before, either.

After several hours, Donnie put his stuff away and began to read as his data was collected automatically. Mikey counted to watch with narrow eyes, so all three of the others opted to hang out until the youngest turtle threw in the towel.

It took several hours, and the sun getting close to rising for said turtle to give it up for the night. Well, they made him give it up for the night.

“Mikey, I love you, and you know I would never make you stop doing something that helped you, but this is not helping any of us right now.” Raph leaned on Mikey, making them jump. Donnie looked up from his book.

“But I can’t figure this place out!” Mikey wined, pointing at the now very much closed. “It smells funny.”

“Mike. My tech can pick up on a lot of data, and with your senses, it's even better at its job. But! All that, we need you to sleep and we can come back later. Beside, it doesn’t smell of Kraang, so unless you can hear it, I think we are all good.” Donnie leaned onto the water tower, putting their book down and stretching out.

“I can’t hear any Kraang. Or smell any. But it still smells funny!” Mikey looked back at it, then back at all his siblings.

“I hear you Mikey, but if it doesn't smell or hear of Kraang, can you leave it alone for a bit? Donnie can contuse to monitor it for you or we can check on it regularly.” El tapped Mikey on their shell, looking at the other two turtles.

“I'll be monarating it already! It has some interesting implications of what’s happening.” Donnie start to ramble again, getting cut off when Mikey giggled.

“Alright, Alright. Tell me after I take a nap?” Mikey leaned into El.

“Got it little man.” El laughed, letting Mikey lean into her. “Let's get everyone home, and Mikey and Donnie can look into this after they sleep.”

“Fine.” Donnie pouted, making Mikey laugh. Raph snorted, and picked Mikey up. Making his way to the edge of the building, letting El and Donnie follow slower.

[cutie-lumi]

Every femstars artist I've seen draws Mugi with big boobs and I'M NOT COMPLAININGJFKSNGK I just love how she has the biggest boobs and then nat is like.... Flat.. I feel kinda rude saying thatdbsknf😭 I love them so much ❤️❤️

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE DRAW THEM LIKE THIS!!!!!!! it's my ultimate hc for their bodies ever since I?? started shipping them ig?? Fem!Tsumugi not caring about her looks yet being well endowed while Fem!Natsume is like. always looking super pretty, but being flat as hell (and a little bit jealous of mugi's overall body proportions)? SIGN ME UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP IT'S MY FAVE SHIP DYNAMIC. I EAT IT ALL UP ALL THE TIME. I love seeing other artists having this as their hc as well!! Imo it suits them so much OUGHHHHHHH i need to thank all the artists who also draw them like this bc you're the reason why im so well fed. thank u for your service.

[pseudophan]

gonna be so sad when tonight is the first preshow space with good audio and i'm asleep because i have a psych appointment tomorrow

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[vse-kar-vem]

i'm gonna print some for london 2 so

[wizardsix]

so I'm wondering what the general consensus is on the companion relationships bc from what ive seen so far they're so lackluster compared to the previous games.

(putting the rest under the cut bc this got unintentionally long...)

and you know what? yeah, I will compare it to bg3, bc I vividly remember so many developers, including bioware ones, being against bg3 being the standard. maybe they meant graphically or scale wise, but it's obvious that we meant the diversity of choices and quality/depth of the companions. larian made it a point that they wanted the relationships to be complex, it wasn't about pressing all the right dialogue for approval, and that sometime you have to challenge your friend's beliefs, sometimes you have to argue w loved ones. and when it came to romance, it was especially stressed that sex wasn't the end goal like so many other games have treated romance.

so yeah, the veilguard companions are disappointing, because it is a massive step backwards from their previous complex companions. you can't be friends, you can't be rivals, and you certainly can't have any kind of deep or complex romance. you don't even have a say in recruiting these people. there's no options for any kind of player, because bioware clearly only had a very specific player in mind. no matter what you do, it forces the illusion of friendship with characters you might not even like, it forces you to be nice and supportive no matter what, stripping the player of the agency and roleplay we were promised.

and there's the part I'm the most sore about. if bioware wanted a more linear game with a more fixed protagonist, fine, but 1) da2 exists and there was still more choice there, and 2) don't fucking lie about it. bioware lied up and down about this game for ten years straight and everyone just accepted it right up to release day. we shouldn't have to accept the bare minimum, especially from a $90cad game. that's money most people don't have to spare anymore, the least you could do is be honest about what people are paying for, especially when those who will buy it are faithful dragon age fans who thought this game was going to be faithful back and finally give them answers about the world they cared so much about.

(and don't get me wrong, larian isn't perfect either and I've made a lot of posts criticising them too, but bg3s success shows that people Do appreciate depth of choice and complex companions (see astarion's success))

to me, it feels like they only included romance bc the previous games had it and they knew people wanted it, but they didn't really care for it or just ultimately had no idea Why these romances worked. I don't get any feeling of care or effort went into these relationships (minus emmrich, but especially with lucanis') and it continues to puzzle me as to why writers even bother writing stuff they don't like or care for. and I don't want to assume it's just for money, bc I want to hope people actually do care about the work they do, so im not saying that, but it definitely doesn't feel good. I've said this before and I'll say it again, I would rather have a few characters with depth in friendship/rivalry with no romance, rather than ones that clearly have depth but is never explored. it's so frustrating to see wasted potential and it's even more frustrating to have my time and money wasted.

[bentacled]

it's been one day and im still pissed when will this end. season 4 had some neat assassination scenes but none of them shined as bright as the writers assassinating the characters like go off monarchs

[krynutsreal]

thinking about ishimondo can you guys give me hcs about them like literally anything even like . mundane hcs for them idk I'm thinking about them please ...pl

[spider-man-2o99]

ok i’m still On Break do not take this post as a sign that i’m like. Actively Tumblring again yet because i’m still not, 4 the most part, but i have had my ear to the ground for special interest things, of fuckign course, of course, bcuz i’m me, and i. just. i am .i’m so fucking sorry to all the new SM2099 comic fans who are only just now realizing just now how dire the straits are, here, LMAO. it has been this way for Years. earnestly and from the bottom of my heart i love spider-man 2099 so much and also nobody on the goddamn planet Cares About Him At All or can even fucking write him half-decently unless every single celestial bodie in the fucking milky way galaxy comes into perfect fucking syzygy, i think, i think, i think. why did u think we (me) had a psychotic episode after that fuckin movie dropped. fucksake. lord above. because it’s all always “ohhh being yourSELF and telling your OWN story your OWN way” until you Look A Certain Way and ARE A Certain Way and Have Symptoms That Look Frightening and Don’t Move Around Like ‘Normal’ People Should Move, fuckin’ freaky-ass creature beast-thing, and so on and so on and so on, Christ all-fuckin’-mighty. gets tiring. but. anywaygs.

it is far easier to be destructive, than constructive. so. ahem. sorry. refocusing. it seems quite simply that just yet another goddamn story missed the point that 90s future spider-man is a story about very plainly and simply loving each other as people. it’s a story about a severely depressed, miserable, cynical little man who finds new reasons to live in every kind person he meets, and there is an open earnesty to that, if nothing else, that no movie can take away 30 years later. anybody can decide to try and be a better person than the one they were yesterday, and that is goddamn important. to portray anything otherwise was an unfathomably cruel decision, on sony’s part, and as soon as we got trailer evidence that they were leaning into his more “intimidating” features back in ~dec. 2021, i.. pretty much Knew it was what they were gonna be doing with him. why wouldn’t they? i mean. who actually even cares about this obscure nobody, right? c-listers are the tried-and-true adaptational chameleons, anyways; they sure suckered in dumbasses like me, who still took blind hope in hook line and sinker, thinking he’d be important to the film, or at the very least portrayed sympathetically to his 30 years of established comic history as a character who is consciously aware that he is an adult survivor of fucking child abuse. but. c’est la fucking vie, i guess.

[triglycercule]

i love doodling swapinverse like hello drawing characters aside from the normal mtt is lowkey therapeutic 🧡🧡🧡 anyways i FINALLY FINALLY finished crash's lore!!!! and vice.SER is connected to him,,,, theyre interconnected!!! i forgot how much i liked crash's design (not the design but all the little gimmicks in the design. figuring out all the hanging ribbon bits is annoying but hey it looks good)

[nightmare8-420]

i feel like a part of my soul has been ripped from my chest and i dont know why.

[medicasino]

"Maybe i'll post the wip here idk" i have no restraint and honestly do like how it looks so far SO Mikan drawing wip before i pass out :3 rbs off solely bc its a wip and . Idk actually i just dont want my wip getting rb'd atm lol but feel free to comment if you'd like :3

(also pls dont make weird comments about Mikan here i hc her as a minor)

[sisterpaxton]

i hope all scarecrow x riddler fans get blown up forever and ever amen

[bluesidedown]

hnnnggggg

[phagodyke]

kind of annoys me sometimes how I can happily listen to my roommate explain the entire plot of whatever she's currently into but when it comes to my interests she can only listen for a few mins before wordlessly walking out of the room

[bookishfeylin]

Hmm. I didn't want to do this, but after receiving a lot of harassment here and on Ao3 I'm debating abandoning ACOHAS. It is just... not fun to go there and expect negativity all the time about THAT ONE THING so my internet experience would be much better by simply stopping with that one fic BUT it also is the fic of my heart and I have so many arcs I want to complete, so I have really mixed feelings on it :(