#ninja turtles next mutation

[hauntedshells]

the bayverse tmnt movies might not be cinematic masterpieces but at least leo doesn’t flirt with his sister in them

[deadwardianpoltergeist]

if any chinese tmnt fans or just chinese people in general can help me I’d majorly appreciate it

doing research for my tmnt au(shredded scutes) and I’m realizing that some minor culture things don’t make sense for my venus and hun

basically rolling with the fact that in next mutation venus is chinese/grew up in china and hun is chinese in 2012. I love found family and vee deserves a good father figure considering the horrors the narrative exposes her to, and hun deserves a chance to do better at being a father because he hasn’t really been there for his bio daughter. His daughter, angel(she changed her name to angel herself), wouldn’t really care much about his culture with their rocky relationship and hun himself probably wouldn’t be super in touch with his past(being a leader of one of the largest gangs in nyc and working with the shredder doesn’t exactly leave a lot of room for appreciating your culture). blah blah venus helps him do better and they kinda learn about it together bonding stuff.

but.

few problems.

their names are a little… well, not great

Hun, to what my research is telling me, is a surname, and calling people by their surnames is not a thing people do in china(seems impolite from what I’m reading). I don’t think he’s ever even actually given a first name in tmnt, too. Also, Hun is the Hainanese pronunciation of that specific surname, the Mandarin one being Yun and the Cantonese one being Wan.

Venus’s real name in next mutation is Mei Pieh Chi. Mei seems like in china it’s mostly Mandarin? Cantonese even, though it seems like the Cantonese version is transliterated as mui or moy. Also middle names aren’t a thing in china so idk what “pieh” is all about. the “chi” part I can disregard with the assumption it’s meant to be her surname, since it’s a super rare given name and is a boy name anyway, and she can just have hun’s surname(it’s also got a comedy to her using chi “magic” and also having the name chi that doesn’t even work in my au)

and there’s so much here that I just. have no clue what to do about

is there a hainanese name that’s similar enough to mei to give her instead?(maybe something that could make mei a nickname?)

I could make it that hun has a different name and the shredder just started calling that and he was too scared to correct him, leading to everyone thinking that’s his name when it’s not

idk something about trying to work with something not at all in tune with the culture it’s trying to represent and make it more sensical is really difficult when you also have no fucking clue while also trying to tie these two characters together is so

but they’re BRAID BUDDIES.

I JUST. UGH

[bodybybane]

Remembering Venus de Milo, TV's Only Female Ninja Turtle, 25 Years Later

[amascomet]

Massive sketch dump! The mm Donnie is me practicing the show style by redrawing one of the movie screencaps hehe

Last one is just another concept for another iteration idea haha

[theblorboscalledtheturtles]

joining the fandom 30 years late

[nyxchipz]

The next mutation is not good. In fact it is bad. But I can still hallucinate and pretend Venus and Donnie had an active sibling rivalry based off like 2 jokes in the show because I love Venus and I kind of liked Donnie too.

Venus I will save you.

Also the catchphrases are so terrible in this show but I haven't been able to stop saying "certified-turtlefied" all week and it's ruining my life I hate this show but I can't bring myself to hate this show

[introverted-ghost]

Doing this again since tottmnt is out n stuff

Previous one if you wanna see how the stats change

[mutant-art]

Prompt list!!!

We're starting this small project with our Christmas art challenge ☃️❄️🎄🌟

Traditional art, digital art, fan fiction, gifs, edits... All is welcome!!!

There is no order, you can start and continue with any prompt you like

Remember to use the tags so we can track and reblog your work!!!

[awzominator]

Dayum another turtle victimized by boobs and unnecessary cartoon woman features 😔

Why does she have big chest and lips…and eyelashes… we were rooting for you rise

[tmntpineapple]

I’m draw the turtle RAHHHHHHHHH

I love ninja turttyrutjiej

I made each in different days so that’s why some styles look a bit silly or different ugfhuduhduu

NO I DOTN WANT TO DRAW NEXT MUTATION !!!,,!,,

[nyxyn0x]

Can we have the mayhem of them all trying to get back home to their respective universes and just mildly hating each other?

Because I imagine them seeing their counterparts and the stupidity that they do and thinking, “Ah crap! I do that”

The ultimate crossover

[advent-chao]

MYSTIC POWERS GO!

[deadwardianpoltergeist]

it’s gonna be

[bulbabutt]

i wish we got to meet an april in the next mutation so she could take venus under her wing or something

aka i tried to make a late 90s looking april

[purplebell6]

I love making these