#it's.... v dramatic sorry

[wildrbst]

Orv doodle comic time

[holographings]

happy valentines day may all your love be monstrous and uncontainable

[scatterbrainedbot]

Hello :D

You're so cool

Anyway have you thought that in your rat sons au Splinter might outlive the boys?

You're very cool :D love your stuff dude

(tw for some blood, light gore, implied overdose (kinda??))

hi copper!!! this is a fantastic question!

so obviously typical irl rats have far shorter lifespans than the average irl tortoise. according to google (yes, be awed by my spectacularly in-depth wealth of research) the average pet rat lives between 2-4 years ish, and the oldest on record lived to be about 7. meanwhile, an African spurred tortoise (Splinter's species) averages more around a 50ish year lifespan in captivity, tho is suspected to possibly exceed 75 or more in the wild.

Now, the mutation does give us a lot of wiggle room for playing with these numbers. For the rat sons boys, id say their natural lifespan probably clocks in at about 45-55 years old? definitely not old by human standards, but not young young either. (though, its also important to note that the boys were exposed to the mutagen just days after being born.)

For Splinter, meanwhile, aging is slightly more complicated. He lived the vast majority of his life as a regular normal African spurred tortoise (well, non-mutated at least. there were perhaps some shenanigans of a more mystical variety going on before he was mutated, but thats a separate matter) He was about 70ish i think? when the boys were born and they were all exposed to the mutagen. so he is already distinctly an old man turtle papa. id guess he'd probably still have another eh lets say 25-30 years after his mutation. he could probably push it a little farther even with some mystic nonsense, but when push comes to shove id say his 'natural' post-mutation lifespan would put his death like a solid decade or two before his sons.

of course, the tricky part of the matter is that theres no way for Splinter to know any of this. theres no way for him to know how the mutation affected them all, or if it even affected them all in the same way. especially since the boys dont show many physical signs of mutation for the first few years, and just kinda look like normal rats, (albeit with a more human sort of intelligence) — what sort of health standard do you hold them to? what if they simply dont show external signs of sickness or old age anymore? how do you actually know if something is wrong?

for a while there Splinter is very worried that one of his babies will just essentially reach the end of their normal rat lifespan, fall and not get up again.

so mostly, he just tries to live in the moment, enjoying whatever time he does have with his little ones, taking each day as a gift <3

still,

that fear

never

really

goes

away.....

[andy-clutterbuck]

4x02 | Infected

[marymekpop]

⟢ highlight of the hour: the good bad mother [6/6] ⟣

empathy

[dceasesd]

i’ve been on a dick&jason kick lately their dynamic is truly unmatched like no one else compares

[whimsicalcotton]

Also I started getting into the namesake song of polluted marrow (Spiracle by Flower Face) and it's so good... I wanna give you the green light to ramble about how you think this song relates to the fic/the characters/etc bc I'm very curious to hear how it inspired you 😊

[cracks knuckles] Okay so,

for starters this AU is kinda old. i think i started toying w the general idea in 2016ish, and the want to write it got hardcore resurrected when i decided to watch an lis1 playthrough for the first time in fucking ages last year. i happened to find Spiracle recently after finishing up so there was already like a 60% chance i'd start associating it w lis through just that, but then i was smacked in the face specifically by this last line

so hard that i was immediately like Oh God I Need To Write That Timelooper Max AU Right The Fuck Now. (like seriously. "i want you butterfly, i want you sailor." what am i supposed to Do after hearing that if not wail over pricefield)

as a whole for me the song is about The Devotion (tm) and how Max loves every last little part of Chloe, good or bad, for better or worse, so goddamn much that she's willing to put herself through all this fucking bullshit several times over. Yearning On A Cosmic Scale kind of vibes.

but then after a few listens i Realized. that some of these lines are really good for Rachel + the admittedly unhinged amberfield dynamic i have brewing. imo Max is definitely not immune to the whole putting the idea of Rachel on a pedestal problem, but she does it Different than everyone else bc her image of Rachel is informed mostly by how important she was to Chloe. which is to say i read some of these lines in an "and i want you, too. i want every part of her and you're a part of her," sort of way.

also this one line is very Max @ both of them

and to bring it back to that last bit again, i feel like the butterfly/sailor line is pretty self-explanatory but "i am your lover, and i am your jailor," to me is the crux of all those conflicting gnarly gay timelooper feelings. no one loves you like me, no one hurts you like me. i'm saving us, i'm keeping us trapped here. i'm the one who pulls you from your grave, i'm the one who throws the first shovel of dirt onto your coffin. i'm your lover, i'm your jailor.

also! even the title easily lends itself to lis imagery bc A) english is stupid and there are too many words that look the damn same so i think of spirals every time i see it. and more concretely, B) spiracles are little holes in an insect's body that they use to get oxygen and ofc,, both butterflies And the chrysalis itself have them. i'm mentally unwell about this actually. truly i wasn't aware i could be emotionally damaged by looking up caterpillar facts but that's what writing does to you i guess.

and lastly i picked out 'polluted marrow' as a title for the whole AU because

could be Any Of Them.

for Max it's "i'll still want you if you're nothing; i'll still want you if your insides are rotting." for Chloe it's "i want to know what's hurting you; i want to take it away." for Rachel it's "i want to see the depth of your sickness; i want you to hold it to my throat like the weapon you've made it into."

[belleandsaintsebastian]

i love having the shittest week ever and feeling so so tired and so gross and just basically like i'm constantly behind in Everything even though i'm studying all the time and then calling up my dad basically just looking for someone to tell me that i'm. doing well. only for him to do Concerned Disappointed Father voice like i'm worried about you...i don't think youre doing enough.....why haven't you joined any societies yet....you don't socialise enough.....etc etc AND SO ON :(

[dragon-spaghetti]

The O'Neil Siblings

RAMBLE POST TIME WITH ART!! Okok so; in this au, Donnie is found by April and her family just after a storm. Splinter was out looking for supplies and was on his way back when the storm suddenly hit, but unfortunately his three remaining children are swept away when the alley kinda floods. A 2/3 year old April spots the squirming little turtle, and she gained a brother from there ✨

They grow up very close!! Their parents absolutely adore both of them, and they both attend school together (though in different year groups). To prevent as many questions about Donnie, he is just said to have some genetic conditions and wears many layers to hide as much of his skin as possible; hoodies, trousers, gloves, socks, scarves, the iconic purple mask, etc etc:

He's just a lil guy!! A fun fact that's a tangent for another day is that they were both actually friends w the purple dragons as kids :) but anyways

They've always been close. However, as they learn of the Hidden City etc at ages 14 and 16, things start to become tense as secrets are kept

Again, a tangent for another day, but they meet Mayhem, Draxum, Mikey, and most importantly here Raph all on the same day. Donnie and Raph then keep in contact and, despite knowing April would probs be fine with it, he.. finds himself keeping it a secret. This leads to many a misunderstanding as he starts sneaking around, meeting up with Raph to investigate wtf is happening

April is irritated by the secrecy, especially because she is not stupid. She can guess who he's hanging out with and what they're doing, and doesn't get why her brother is tryna keep it hush hush. So, tension. She actually meets Splinter after an argument with Donnie 🥲

It's around the time of Shadow Of Evil that everything kinda comes out, and they reveal everything to each other; Raph, Splinter, how Draxum is the turtles' creator, it's all out in the open finally and they both feel like a weight has been taken off their shoulders; no more secrets. It is from this moment that Splinter also promises to train them, as unbeknownst to the teenagers shit is really about to hit the fan as the Dark Armour is being rebuilt. However in the meantime they're back to being silly lmao

They aren't keeping things anymore, however there are still problems and fears; most notably, April is worried that Donnie has now found his 'true' family, that he'll leave her and their parents behind. Meanwhile, Donnie's fear of never being quite good enough is hitting harder after Many Unhappy Returns, scared he won't be accepted by Splinter and his brother(s) and also afraid that the family he grew up with will encourage him to leave now that he's found his 'own kind'. It's all paranoia obviously on both their fronts, none of that is an option for even a second, but it is haunting them

[icewindandboringhorror]

Hrmm... Revising my game and I feel like there's still sooo much writing left to do, for something that probably won't even amount to much, so.. I do want to narrow my focus more (especially given my health problems seeming to get worse/less energy the past few years), but I'm not sure how would be best to...

I currently have 5 characters as the Main ones with full planned questlines and such, with each character having 6 quests you can do for them. But I haven't really started the writing for the 5th main character. So then I was thinking, if I were going to write 6 full quests worth of content anyway... is it better to allocate that time on just doing a Complete 6 Quests for ONE single character, OR would it be better to do something like.. choose THREE side characters and do 2 quests for each of them? So that people have a wider variety to interact with and sort of sample around (of course with the idea that, once the first version of the game is released, IF people actually care about it enough to make it worth the effort, I would then add additional content to complete those 3 characters stories as well)

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SO... If you were playing an interactive fiction sort of game centered around talking to & doing quests for a cast of characters (like there's no larger plot, more it's just about interacting with people, every character kind of has a self contained story, the focus is just learning about them and the world and exploring the area) --- Which would you rather have?

(and of course it would be stated up front which characters have only partial questlines, so people don't expect them to have full quests like the others and then get disappointed, or etc. etc.)

Basically, is it better to just focus in specifically on having one fully complete questline? Or for there to be a few stories that are not complete yet, but have more initial options available?

[coollyinterferes]

"Back by unpopular demand:"

"Us!"

[odd-critter]

Do you plan on continuing the pepperman ask blog?

i was wondering when someone was gonna ask this bshbahbk;--

short answer: no, sorry :-(

long answer that im trying very hard not to make dramatic for no reason: basically, having an askblog when ive never done one before made me realize im not an askblog person ;v; ...... i like being alot less involved in posting online than id originally thought, and i dont even like the way i draw pepperman in the first place (sorry yall) n it did kind of make me feel like i wasnt the person to go about doing it in the first place BUT!!! it was alot of fun while it lasted so thank you to everyone for that :-D

also i am apologizing to anyone who mightve liked the blog alot despite my lackluster feelings on it im looking at one specific person you know who you are and im SORR /lh

one last reason is that im not good at spending so much time dedicated to one thing, not even with my personal projects which- alot have spawned since

TL:DR MY HYPERACTIVE ASS COULD NEVER!!! sorry!!!

[trlblzd]

@dastodia sent : [ WATCH ] sender sits on the counter while receiver cooks. - (he's curious as to how well she can handle herself in a kitchen)

THEY DO NOT CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE a chef of any sorts. they are not the one who is usually in charge of cooking within the express therefore a bit of their knowledge in the kitchen is LIMITED. but, they are not the one to back down from a challenge. especially when there is an esteemed guest watching their very performance here. they like to believe that despite how strange they can be, they can make something edible that will not cause any stomach to churn. they have seen the conductor around in the kitchen alongside everyone else who frequents the area whenever they are preparing their meals enough to KNOW the basics. but, they're not striving for anything overly ambitious as to not humiliate themselves in front of dan heng.

" you're open to eating eggs, right ? i'm not too comfortable with meat yet & i don't want you turning green and having march running in here all panicked. " making some good old omelette should be fine since, hey, even if they screw it up --- chances are, they'd just have a scrambled egg which is still edible. there is butter, at least four eggs on the counter, some salt & pepper, as well as their TRUSTY cooking chopsticks. they have other paraphernalias prepared but they do not get TOO CONCERNED about it.

a few minutes pass & they come to wonder why they seem to break LITTLE to no sweat when it comes to this. granted, this is an easy recipe but working around this area feels easier than expected. it is only really when all four are plated do they REALIZE how near-seamless everything appears to be. they even had everything decorated with a bottle of ketchup and plated just right. it nothing like the work of a five star michelin chef but IT IS rather impressive for someone who rarely cooks and mostly relies on pom-pom and the omni-synthesizer. is there something that they cannot do ?

" bon appetit, dan heng. tell me if i can serve this or if i should jump off the express now. "

[pastryfriend]

i'm gonna be real. i don't know how much longer i can do this

[lith-myathar]

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[frankenfrights]

Victor is sure that the place he's in now must be hell, or at least something close to it. And while deep down, he knows he deserves punishment for his sins... that doesn't stop him from wanting to rage out, desperate and angry and pleading that surely it isn't really his fault?

Perhaps it would make him feel better if his creation was here too. Victor may be a guilty man, and the blood on his hands is something that can never be forgiven, but that monster is just as guilty as he - no, even moreso. If a miserable wretch like Victor should be punished, then the beast's crimes should condemn him to an even worse despair - at least then Victor would have the comfort of knowing that some sort of justice had been dealt.

But those thoughts of vengeance can only bring him a distant comfort now. It's not nearly enough to combat his terror, and the memory of the pain of death. It was so much worse than he had ever imagined... and yet, scarier still... it did not bring him the release he'd always dreamed of.

"If you have come to punish me... please, make it quick." he finds himself begging the woman who appears before him, though he has no way to know what she's really here for. "Have I not suffered misery enough!? I... have nothing left to fight for."

@sw4rd ( starter! )