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snackugaki Ā· 2 years ago
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.... i have been so normal about wanting to draw tactical!Venus and tactical!Jennika.
hey. HEY. yā€™all need to go check out @donathanĀ ā€˜s artwork, and if you are the proper age, go throw some money into their patreon for some... some real, real good art.Ā šŸ‘€šŸ‘€šŸ‘€ ...but do not if you are a minor, that shit ainā€™t for you.
some IDW TMNT comic spoilers... and.... I guess... Next Mutation ssspoilers? I know some of you kids havenā€™t turtled up and watched my beloved childhood iteration yet.
alright, so, yā€™know, completely normal expenditure of my energy and skillset, amirite? big big thanks to @/donathan for allowing me to play around in their AUā€™s aesthetic because I have severe, terminal VenusAndJennikaDeserveEverythingoccocal SoIWillManifestItMyselfitis.
and tbh, all yā€™allā€™s fics have been, mwah, chefā€™s kiss. but SOME of you put LORE. delicious, tasty, appetite-inducing lore.
and i am nothing but the littlest hoebag for lore.
okay so, quick rundown for those who both A) are immune to spoilers B) also do not know Venus or Jennikaā€™s origins-- bulletpoint time~!
So Venus de Milo, theĀ ā€œgirl turtleā€, theĀ ā€œfifth turtleā€ (not counting Aprilā€™s extremely brief stint as a white-bandanaā€™d turtle in the Archie comics run) was introduced in 1997ā€²s Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
An episode ofĀ ā€œThe Toys That Made Usā€ touched upon Venusā€™ creation so idk itā€™ll cover what I wonā€™t deign to acknowledge.
her backtory is interesting (just her show was a trashfire /affectionate)
Master Splinterā€™s frolicking around in the dreamscape where all the cool enlightened old people hang out away from teenagers, right?
but oh no! dragon lord, a bad dude with a widowā€™s peak to rival Vegeta Dragonballā€™s widowā€™s peak; is there too! stomping around, ruining shit!
Splinterā€™s dreamscape buddy Chung I warns Splinter to stay out of the dreamscapeĀ ā€˜cuz Dragon Lordā€™s around
And like in true old people fashion, just ignores his friendā€™s admonition and tries to investigate himself
bad choice, womp womp
Splinter gets trussed up and renderedĀ ā€œstuckā€ in the dreamscape
cue the catalyst for Venus to make the 10+ flight from China to the U.S
donā€™t worry about what the boys were doing, just literal surfing in sewer grey water, breaking their little turtle skulls on cinderblocks, and picking fights in warehouses with Foot clan goons
tl;dr Venus still has Sixth Ranger mode on, so naturally she whoops all of their asses in the dark, ties them up (like how some of yā€™all enjoy writing Leo does huhu nudgenudge winkwink)
venusistheoriginalshibarienthusiastandteadrinkerfightme
and then, yā€™know, itā€™s still the 90s and childrenā€™s television so blah blah the usualĀ ā€œoH My gOd a GiRL tURTle???/?? AWoooOOogaaa ga ga gaā€Ā 
itā€™s.... I mean, iā€™m 38 so it no longer strikes me as bad as just really fucking embarrassing... for them. to be written saying. fuck, at least they didnā€™t make her bandana color pink.
so fast forward to Venus teaching them to dreamwalk so they can go rescue Splinter from Dragon Lordā€™s clutches in the dreamscape.
unfortunately, Dragon Lord offscreen murders Chung I so Venus is narratively anchorless post-rescue, so sheā€™s invited to stay with them. thus ensues wacky hijinks with their new pal, Venus Boom Boom de Milo.
I glossed over the urge to write a cumulative review of Next Mutation. Just, take my word as the target demographic of the show during the last gasps of 90s Turtlemania that TNM was a trashfire overall but... yā€™know... if you ever needed a palette cleanser after some grimdark or angsty TMNT content, give TNM a whirl. The slapstick was intentional and The Point in the show. Venusā€™ circumstances for coming was as serious as it would get.
... Also, yes, they made them not related in TNM, preteen snackugaki didnā€™t clock why because I watched a lot of wuxia as a kid so brotherhood is a term beyond blood ties to me (and if Iā€™m being honest, martial brotherhood is fkkn metal) and later I heard tell that it was to lure more girls into the franchise with both a girl turtle and romance options. which idk whatevs man.Ā 
I also have to clear that, actually no, Donatello and Venus did not fight EVERY episode. Donatello, despite sprinkling a little too much barely disguised snobbery, did defer to Venusā€™ expertise inĀ ā€œthe supernaturalā€ when the situation called for it, and Venus would commend Donnie on his scientific ingenuity. They even teamed up skillsets to create surveillance drones! She essentially casted Calm Emotions on him while he tried to hack the controls of the Astro Megaship back for the In Space Rangers. They breached the divide between STEM and Humanities! They only had one ā€œreal fight" near the end of the season-- because Donnie was playing his containment breach elevator mid trash copyright strike immune proto-EDM too loud while she was trying to meditate. and thatā€™s just being bad roommates tbh.
...christ I know itā€™s gonna come up too, but also NO, there was not constant advances made toward Venus during the show. At most was Mikey pulling his olā€™Ā ā€œI work out every day~!ā€ schtick for like 2 episodes of the 5 spent to introduce Venus. And then after? A shipperā€™s desert, youā€™d have to dig and peer behind like 8 curtains for any viable fodder.Ā 
...OKAY NOW FOR JENNIKAā€™S ORIGINS: Jennika is an IDW character specifically so, naturally why she isnā€™t in (or wouldā€™ve been, AHEM) a lot of iterations yet (or at all, COUGH) (but to continue in honesty thereā€™s a lot of legal tape to cut through since Jennika is IDWā€™s while TMNT overall is Nickā€™s) Introduced as a Foot Assassin, her place in the Foot Clan shifts when Splinter takes over from Shredder (Saki), eventually she forms actual bonds with both the turtles and Splinter to where itā€™s implied she also saw him as an important figure to her if not an outright surrogate father figure. And because TMNT is mess and drama the other 50% of the time, Karai takes over the Foot from Splinter and shenanigans compounded by Karaiā€™s then-current machinations for the Foot-- results in Jennika getting shanked in the stomach by Karai during a clandestine meeting to resolve clan rivalry. Sheā€™s losing blood fast, Donnie works to save her and itā€™s Leo who volunteers for blood transfusion to keep her stable mid-transit.Ā 
SURPRISE!
Leoā€™s blood mutates Jennika into a mutant turtle. And then Casey ghosts/dumps her. My poor daughter. She has a real rough time of it before fully integrating with the boys. Raph falls in with Old Hob, gets hoodwinked, and now they live in Mutant Town. Jennika slowly finds herself again, as a mutant turtle, a Splinter clan ninja, a girlfriend, a guitarist in a band she started, a sister in a found family, and a constable to a very little town.
okay! weā€™re all marginally informed about my two wonderfull daughters, Venus and Jennika~!
so if I can indulge further, Iā€™m going to use my cognizance and make it everyoneā€™s problem because I have beem quietly foaming with ideas for bg lore for tactical!J&V, more bullet points!
ok so, donathan mentioned a bit about their tac! Leo and Donnie being the snipers, Mikey and Raph spotting for them while also being demolitions and heavy ordinance specialists respectively
I would think, then for Vee and Jen, theyā€™d be classified as close quarters combat specialists, complicated extraction? compromised area? call them to clean up and clear out~
give or takeĀ ā€œmagicā€ being a thing used in donathanā€™s AU, or anyoneā€™s AU of this AU, Vee would probably be a close combat specialist along with Jen.
Vee, I feel, would, barring a ...ā€tactical fanā€, (even though in TNM it was just her fists and her little wizard components but her toy came with a fan so.) probably use batons, Jen in lieu of her tekagi-shuko would... most likely use tactical karambit. not that large of a leap really.
for my personal lulz, Vee and Jen are... accurate, height-wise. Raph gets to be the biggest brother since alligator snapping turtles are, in fact, the largest motherfucking freshwater turtles on the north american continent. no getting around it.
my Vee in all Rise AUs is a softshell since the messy hanzi used to write her first given name, Mei Pieh Chi (ē¾Žé±‰ę°”) has the hanzi thatā€™s most commonly translated as softshell turtle (鱉). ehĀ ā€˜di wow talaga
snacku what do you meanĀ ā€˜accurateā€™???? tl;dr female turtles are usually the larger ones in most species.
and listen, I love and I mean LOVE, how some of yā€™all have written the tac!boys, mwah; but god Iā€™m a professional turtle bully. I need to see them get dunked on. for nutritional value. and if it comes to it, I will provide that food for myself. brb laughing at eventually drawing Venus just offhandedly tossing Donnie into the air to skeet shoot his ass for fun brings me the greatest joy.
they absolutely dote on Mikey, as is the natural order of things.Ā 
and even tho I stated TNM Donnie and Venus got along in the show, and depending on the existence of magic in this AU; I just really love dichotomous rivalries (in as muchĀ ā€œscienceā€ andĀ ā€œmagicā€ exist as a dichotomy, much less asĀ ā€œdiametrically opposeā€ fields-- just, opposites man. iā€™m a simple girl with simple trope needs)
Veeā€™s arms (and legs) are absolutely covered in burns, scars, and missing flesh divots, just as close to swiss cheese limbs as you can be
Jen and Donnie debate tracks that go into their jointĀ ā€œOn Our Way To Commit Murderā€ playlist
if Veeā€™s tactical look seem very familiar, and youā€™re wondering if-- yes, youā€™re correct. and you can ā€œcall her ms. de milo if ya nastyā€
Vee was actually pretty calm and rational in TNM... but for this AU, she can be a little unhinged, as a well-deserved treat. (andĀ ā€˜cuz that specific anime unhinged facial expression is fun as fuck to draw, which is my treat)
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hamletthedane Ā· 6 months ago
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Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynterā€™s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldierā€™s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)
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coquexari Ā· 2 months ago
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what do you mean this isn't what happened
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tiger-grace Ā· 2 months ago
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Flash: what the hell happened with no metas in gotham?
Batman: Signal is a special case, I trust him solely as one of gothamā€™s vigilantes-
Flash: What? No. Iā€™m talking about the blue one. I saw him lift like, 1000 pounds the other day.
Batman: ā€¦ it was that or therapy
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inkskinned Ā· 2 months ago
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the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.
when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."
but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.
now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.
the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.
but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."
the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.
but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?
because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!
and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.
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problemnyatic Ā· 28 days ago
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when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,
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elliottscabin Ā· 8 months ago
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spyres Ā· 1 month ago
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visenyaism Ā· 9 months ago
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gortash wants you to kill orin and take her netherstones so that the two of you can control the brain and take over the world together but orin wants you to kill gortash and then rob him because she finds him annoying and does not like him. she is the real one here
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reasonsforhope Ā· 21 days ago
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Literally begging anyone who can vote in US elections to vote, and to vote against Trump. Which means voting for Harris, not abstaining or voting third party.
My family actually did move here from an authoritarian country, where voting literally didn't matter, they literally did throw out your vote, and they literally did assassinate citizens who spoke out against them.
We would all very much like to keep living in a country where those things are not the case!
You know, the same things that Trump and his stooges have openly said they want to do. And two of the main propaganda lines for why people in the US shouldn't vote, which is a lie.
Voting matters. The parties are not the same.
And make sure to vote in down-ballot races!!!
And like. The fact that voting matters in the US is a very real reason for hope. It is something you should genuinely appreciate. We can make a difference.
And a lot of people risked their lives or even died to earn that right, and it's a right not everyone has.
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ditzybat Ā· 3 months ago
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Dick, sighing: itā€™s hard being the only emotionally adjusted one in this family
Tim: LOUDDDD incorrect buzzer
Jason: youā€™re the most like Bruce out of all of us, and that man isnt exactly the poster child for emotional stability
Damian: I concur, while Timothy and Jason see their feelings as afterthoughts, and fear mine underminded - you, Richard, brood and suppress until the miscommunication blows up in your face, just like father.
Tim: exactly, the most expressive and normal one of our colony are the Batgirlsā€¦ and thatā€™s saying something
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i-like-books-and-women Ā· 3 months ago
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Do you guys think Tumblr goes into panic mode every time ao3 goes down because we're still traumatized by The Great Ao3 DDOS Attack of 2023?
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buffyspeak Ā· 4 months ago
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i lied the funniest thing about merlin is his unexplained years long beef with the head cook n the castle for no particular reason
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hansoeii Ā· 11 months ago
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they have no sense of personal space
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xmascritter Ā· 1 month ago
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Probably one of the best things for me in that episode was the final card pull. Cause anyone who knows anything about tarot probably knows the death card does not actually represent death literally. It represents something coming to the end, yes, but it also represents new beginnings and moving forward. It is overall a positive card to draw upright, representing growth, transformation, and change, rather than stagnation.
And so, they don't show us Lilia's death.
Instead, we see how Lilia changes, realizing how much she cares about the coven and how much she loves being a witch, realising that these powers are a gift no matter how unruly. We see her finally accepting her fate. And they show us the new beginning, back in that garden it all started in, as she sits down with her teacher at that table, and she says
"Let's begin again."
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randombook4idk Ā· 1 year ago
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some fandoms need to see this
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