#man i wish i could see some of these

[eggbem]

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes I wish we could have gotten (in no particular order):

The turtles get cloaking charms to look human, like Sunita or Big Mama have (I just wanna know what they'd look like as humans, canonically)

A flashback of the first time the turtles met April

More Donnie and Raph content (More Brains and Brawn, please and thank you)

More Donnie and Leo content

So much more more Mikey content in general

Casey Jr. adapting to living in not-the-apocalypse

Casey Jr. flashing back to all his future's turts and his April, and comparing them to their younger counterparts

Raph bonding with Cassandra (because raph and casey brotp ftw)

Cassandra bonding with Casey Jr.

We meet April's parents and April's parents meet the Hamatos

MORE TIME WITH GRAM-GRAM KARAI maybe before she got got (a flashback kinda ep) or Mikey talks to her as a Hamato ghost idk

An episode about Big Mama's masked lackey (I know we got a reveal for her in the anniversary comic, but I want to know mooore)

Another girls night episode, but with April, Sunita AND Cassandra

Cassandra trying to un-Krangify the foot leaders

Actually, maybe also an entire episode (or series of episodes) dedicated to addressing the fallout and trauma from the Krang invasion

The Crying Titan. 'Nuff said.

Draxum winning over the rest of the brothers (My theory on how it would go down: Donnie's the next most receptive besides Mikey. Raph's trust is harder to earn, but is won over when Raph sees how Draxum wants to protect the family as much as he does. Leo's...gonna take some work)

Leveling up ninja training, working on each turtle's weakest area. This would probably work better as multiple episodes, where in each one, Splinter focuses on one turtle's training and they root out some deeper-seated personal issues. And maybe working around post-krang injuries (Mikey's arms, Leo's leg, Donnie's shell, Raph's eye)

More Todd and the weird dentist poachers, there was definitely supposed to be more there

More Hueso, maybe with another turtle besides Leo

Agent Bishop and Sister Krang

More Mud Dogs, with Sean Astin voicing Heinous Green

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Voice from the wasteland

[menelaus-blue]

as promised tumblr, the drawing has been done

[wishchip106]

going absolutely insane about this

he has so much adoration in his eyes THAT MAN IS IN LOVE

the writers completely failed when it came to writing his ACTUAL love interest

bro wants to get married and have babies and grandbabies with Erik Lehnsherr

he’s already planned ahead 😨🤯

thank you James Mcavoy for giving us head over heels in love Charles Xavier😌🙏

[acevity]

theyre in my head. forever. take some scraps

[theswedishpajas]

Based on my favorite gif lately

[nicnevans]

thinking about the culture shift on tumblr away from reblogging and how sad it is. not just for my own artwork and how small it makes my circle feel, but also for all the artwork out there that i just won't see, because the decline in reblogs means its interactions and reblogs might quiet down and "die" before i even know it exists. like. using some of my own artworks' notes as an example, with their reblog maps shown. Here's a side-by-side of two reblog maps, one on a piece i created (and was proud of!) in about 2018, the other with a much more recent piece of a similar quality.

like, looking at these two reblog maps side by side is miserable, isn't it? Look how far the first one spread, how each of those reblogs had a chance to start a new chain reaction, compared to the tiny cluster on a modern-day post. Posts used to travel around this site and connect us, fanart and fics and gifsets and all the rest. Now they're so localised.

How many wonderful fanworks have i never even had the chance to interact with, because they stayed in their little bubble and never reached mine?

i don't really have an endpoint to this post. the culture has shifted, and this is how things are now, but it's sad.

[mamawasatesttube]

man it would really be so cool if there were fics in the timkon tag that were about timkon, instead of 5000 fics about ~the batfam~ that include like maybe one line about tim wearing a superboy t shirt

[mickdalena]

greatest tragedy of our times is that this is the most we have visually left from harry nilsson's the point starring davy jones and micky dolenz

[canisalbus]

IM GONNA GO TO FLORENCE DUDE I will send you photos of arts and statues so you can draw the boys

Aa that's so cool, I hope you have wonderful time!

(Maybe think of my dogs if you see a Saint Sebastian anywhere 🏹 )

[iamthemaestro]

gender rant in tags

[xxplastic-cubexx]

thinkin bout magneto's lil list of aliases from that One Shot of his government file or w/e in 97 and how it lists the three main men who've played him (David Hemblen, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender) and kinda cackling at the idea 1.) if they included All his names 2.) having 'michael' on that list twice

[chestersbraincell]

Aside from the EMBARASSING lack of anya angst in the fandom, could be please have atleast a SLITHER of swansea angst I mean come ONNN

[kiwi-the-servamp-addict]

Was really bummed there wasn't a reunion between Freya and Tsurugi so I doodled some stuff for it bc I adore them dearly

Also featuring Ky's oc Lee who's their son trust... (I'm delusional and insane)

[wishchip106]

if season 2 of xmen 97 doesn’t show more of them WHATS THE POINT

i need every piece of content where they’re in haifa i’m going to read all the comics

just gonna have to ignore the fact charles was dating gabrielle at that point

[fadetouchedsilk]

like I get the feeling the need to defend veilguard as an initial response. There’s a decent crowd of ‘critics’ who are up in arms because of Gay People In Their Videogame (which kills any other valid complaints they might have had imo)

But also I think a lot of us are just. Really disappointed that the thing we Waited 10 years for isn’t even coming close to living up to what we were told to expect? Even I knew that this game probably wouldn’t be great—tbh I didn’t go in with any expectations really—but I didn’t expect to feel so deflated by what we got either. The fact that there’s so much untouched potential mixed with what we know to be irl production problems makes it a harder pill to swallow. I think I was hoping this would be another DA2 situation, where you could see there were obvious cut corners but the story that we got was compelling enough to have lasting power & we were still able to dig our fingers into the lore. Hell, people are still talking about that game to this day in some circles. What does that tell you?

We knew this game would be flawed and have some misses (they always do) but I don’t think any of us could have anticipated how gutted the actual end product would have been. People are upset because we’re not dumb. We know budget cuts & layoffs happened. Just say the resources weren’t there and you had to prioritize. Just say certain things were left behind to meet a deadline. As frustrating as that is, it’s an infinitely more preferable explanation than acting like we’re all too stupid to pick up on any of this happening.

You’re not a bad person if you had fun or enjoyed elements of the game. I did & so did a lot of other people who are being vocally critical. I probably Will end up finding aspects I feel like giving watsonian explanations for in my own canon like I have in the past. But I also cant just ignore the problems & im not alone. It’s not ‘fake da fans’ who are mad from what I’ve seen. It’s the opposite! It sucks to see something you love decline. There’s a recurring theme of grief I keep picking up on in so many of these critical posts. Of course no one actually assumed our personal headcanons would become canon, but there was a certain standard of continuity that I think was silently expected to be present & it wasn’t there.

I’m not even sure what the point of this post is tbh. So many of us wanted to like this game so, so badly. We wanted the next part of a franchise that’s been important to us to be able to stand up with its predecessors. And for a lot of us it didn’t manage to hit that mark, no matter how much we genuinely wanted it to.

Idk. As much as I can come off as pretty flippant and irate about this whole thing, in truth it’s just something that leaves me feeling sad in a really quiet, deep sort of way.