#rottmnt rant

[siennabanana]

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IDW REFRENCE????!!!!!???!!!?!?!1!!

YALL IM FEELING WE GONNA GET SOME DONNIE ANGST IN THIS ONE IM CALLIN IT NOW

[that-gay-gal]

I need to rant about a problem I have with Rise! Raph

… ok, that’s a bit misleading. I have no problems with him, but I absolutely do with how this fandom can treat him.

Namely, the flanderization of his character. Specifically the part about him being the nicest iteration of Raph, because I see SO MANY people make him out to be the nicest softest most UwU-est boy when ITS ONLY PARTIALLY TRUE GODAMMIT AND IM TIRED OF IT.

HES ROWDY. HE LIKES FIGHTING. HE TRIED TO LIFT UP A BUS AND HE STILL. HAS. ANGER ISSUES!! HES JUST BETTER AT MANAGING THEM FOR FUCKS SAKE.

Please. I’m so tired of people acting like he never gets upset or angry and is the nicest person to ever exist in this godamn franchise.

Because yes, he is nice! And I love that about him, but some people are so extreme about his softness I’m going to blow a fuse if I see more of it.

Stop contributing to the flanderization of characters, guys. I love his kindness as much as anyone else but it’s NOT HIS ONLY TRAIT.

This won’t be getting a lick of attention but I just had to say it.

Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.

I’m not trying to be mean by the way this is just all my opinion and it sorta just boiled over after I saw this happen again on some random post!

I don’t claim to know Raph better than anyone else, of course. But some people for sure don’t know him! And I won’t apologize for saying that because I’ve noticed mischaracterization is a huge problem for this fan base, and I think everyone should take a moment and reflect on how they portray these characters.

Ok bye guys have a good day/night/whenever!! Again, just my opinions :) I was bored idk (I could go on for hours about him tbh)

[ju1cyfru1t]

rottmnt / tmnt and sexualization. 😬

a rant

tw: mentions of pedophilia and CP

It is absolutely crazy and unethical how easy it is to find NSFW art or writing without trying for any variety of TMMT, especially ROTTMNT.

TEENAGE mutant ninja turtles. TEENAGE. CHILDREN. MINORS.

Very unfriendly reminder that drawn or written CP is still CP and it is still illegal.

And don’t EVEN with the ‘teenagers are sexually active anyways 🤓.’ I DON’T GIVE A FUCK. That is true, HOWEVER, if said teenagers were to have photos, videos, or detailed writings of their sexual activity distributed (EVEN IF ITS SOLO) it is still ILLEGAL because they are minors. They as teenagers and any adults/people who KNOWINGLY consumed this media could get in very serious legal trouble.

I understand also being a teenager. Your hormones are all over the place and you’re still discovering and exploring what you’re into. It’s ok and normal to fantasize and think about fictional characters who are around your age.

KEEP. IT. TO. YOURSELF.

^ This point above does NOT include grown ass adults who partake in the making or consumption of NSFW media of the brothers or April as teenagers. There is absolutely NO excuse or ANYTHING to make it valid or ok in any form. It is still PORN centered around a MINOR. It is still pedophilia. Get mental help. *COUGH* NICO HAMATO *COUGH*

Don’t EVEN get me started on the nasty ass fucking TCEST shit because that’s a whole other post to be made.

Obviously, this does not include or pertain to the Future! Turtles or April. If you really must, it is SO easy to age up characters (as long as you are VIEWING THEM AS/MAKING THEM LOOK OLDER and NOT just making them 18+ so you don’t get called out.)

If you don’t agree with this post, my blog is NOT for you. Don’t argue with me in the replies or dms, just block me.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[baskeigh-ball]

Since the bros keep everything attached to their bodies like their vocal cords, do they swap neurodivergencies too or to those follow their brains to the respective host?

I like the idea of them keeping their respective neurodivergencies, even though the other way around has potential. So Donnie is still autistic, Raph still has anxiety/anger issues, Mikey and Leo still have their own brands of ADHD, etc, but now they have to learn to adapt their habits to completely different bodies.

Like imagine Raph getting angry (or even going savage) in Donnie's body; any other day, Donnie getting angry would be intimidating, but they all know Raph has zero clue how to do any kind of strong-arming in his body and it's hilarious

Or Mikey being a bull in a china shop with his off-the-wall energy and impulsivity combined with Raph's size/strength. He would quickly realize being the biggest ain't all it's cracked up to be, especially when he can't hold anything without snapping it into pieces the second he tightens his grip by accident

Leo would be in the same boat by taking full advantage of Mikey's mystic powers and officially becoming A Menace, but would find out just how physically/mentally taxing it can be. He would also be trying so many different battle moves now that he's in a smaller, more flexible, infinitely energetic body

Donnie would have the hardest time, having to deal with what I imagine would be a sensory nightmare. Everything he comes into contact with feels wrong because he's in the wrong body, but luckily the adjustment period wouldn't take too long before he could function somewhat normally (out of everyone he got the closest approximation to his old body, so that really helped).

[tamtaco]

I DONT CARE IF ANYONE HAS SAID IT BUT BARON DRAXUM WOULD NOT BE ABUSIVE AT ALL. IM SO SICK OF SEEING IT IN FICS AND IT MAKES ME GO KAHSGWTWHBWEB

I get like him being manipulative but like, I want you to see how he treats muninn and Huginn in the past and tell me he would treat a CHILD worse than that. Sure he sends them out on a mission that dangerous but like, he bought them for that purpose???? And honestly if you look at the way he treats Mikey in season 2 after they see him again you can definitely tell that he doesn’t want him to get hurt, in like any way. So like he would definitely be like that with literally any other turtle if he knew them from birth 

[legendsoffandoms]

Im doing a part 2 anyways lmao, here’s part two of my Tmnt hcs!

(And the photos!)

I hope you like them! Feel free to tell me yours :)

[spookbooo]

Time to put this here cause I already put it on Twitter !!

Anyways, spoilers for the “Farwell” rise comic, so if you haven’t read it yet I advise you don’t read this yet !!!

Leo’s deal with Greif

After reading the comic, I came to a full realization just how much of a family oriented person Rise Leo truly is compared to the rest of the cast.

In the comic, we start out with Leo explaining his greif for splinter and how much he regrets not being able to say goodbye to him.

So he’s presented with an idea of going back in time to fix it and he takes up the offer!

He goes back to stop an event before it happens so that past him has the opportunity to say goodbye before it’s too late.

But since this is the good future where they stopped the krang, it brings the question of how much he was affected during the bad future when it was too late to stop the krang, leading to the apocalypse.

He lost both Donnie and Raph, along with Casey, April and Splinter in the process. It begs the questions on if he was able to say goodbye to most of them, or if he just had to sit by and grieve.

Did they die spontaneously? Could he even have talked to them? Could he have known they were about to die? And if they did die spontaneously, there’s no resources or time for him to be able to go back in time to save them or just say any final words; there’s no possible way for him to receive any closure.

These aren’t the only instances either, a couple of examples in the show actually show throw trait of him really well.

When big mama hosted an entire Battle Nexus in New York, she had announced raph had “died” and in this little bit, Leo was affected the most by it, just staring up at the screen and frozen until he’s snapped back into reality again.

Then during the Shredder finals in S2, when Karai died, he had such a compelling need to go to her and either try to help or just give her some sort of final “I love you”

+ to add to that, the detail of him hugging her foreshadowed what he was gonna feel. Cause he was about to leave before realizing that it was probably gonna be his final goodbye to her. That was probably more of a subconscious thought though.

He’s expressed many different times, either out loud or just by body language that he cannot do anything without his family. He needs his family to be able to function and he struggles with greif, knowing that once they’re gone, they’re gone for good.

[dontronvomitello-0]

More concept sketches of my AU thing

New au name : I see you, I can't scream (ISYICS)

[peoplepersonoaktree]

been thinking abt the ninpo in rise.

specifically Leo’s.

hear me out—

warning! Spoilers for rottmnt movie and season 2

Does anyone know how Leo’s Ninpo really works? Like, during the finale of season 2, they all unlock their ninpo, and none of them really need their weapons anymore to activate it. Except for Leo. Raph can make himself bigger or clone himself whenever he wants, Donnie can make anything with his mind easily in the blink of an eye, and at the end of the rise movie, it doesn’t seem like Mikey needs his nunchucks anymore either, and probably hasn’t since the end of season 2.

but LEO is unable to teleport without his katanas, as seen when he gets trapped in the prison dimension. He can teleport with one if he needs to, but it seems like if he only has one, he can only teleport to the place where the second katana is. I’m like, maybe 79% sure that in the deleted version of the first part of the movie, future Leo is only seen creating portals with his sword. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)

and I’m currently sitting in bed, procrastinating sleep because I have to wake up early tomorrow and I’m stupid trying to figure out what’s up with that.

Are Leo’s katanas like Thor’s hammer that I can never remember the name of? Or like a wizard’s wand? Are they only used to channel his power so he can actually control it? What would happen if he tried to create a portal without his katanas? Would he lose control? Would there be some sort of consequence? In the movie, his swords have markings on them. If he were to carve those same markings on a different sword, would it work the same?

Or, is Leo’s Ninpo almost entirely (or completely) dependent on his katanas?

this might be really stupid, it’s midnight and I wrote this in like 15 mins. This might be answered somewhere. But idk. If it’s not, what are your thoughts and opinions? I’m curious if it’s a question other people have thought abt or if I’m just a dumdum

[au-not-alternate]

ROTTMNT HEADCANON RANT

y'all the amount of discourse over rise headcanons is insane. 'oh well uh Leo can't be gay bc it isn't canon, you're making every character gay' 'well he is gay bc (opinion)' BRO IT DOESN'T MATTER. IT DOES NOT MATTER. do what you want! if someone has a different headcanon from you IT DOESN'T MATTER! IT DOESN'T AFFECT YOU! if you don't like it you don't have to interact with it! you can block them! I love blocking people who have hcs I don't like!

legit though. I don't care what your headcanons are. I might not like them but it doesn't affect me. if I don't like it, I don't have to interact. It's a pretty simple concept.

rant over, have fun y'all

[sunny-clover]

Casey Junior Rant {long post}

I love every Casey to the brim almost equally, but the one that wins the tie is definitely Rise Casey Junior. He is my boy and I love him very much, I wish he could live so much happier but I also feel super stressed or upset when people who make fics abt the aftermath of the movie and have him just move on and hardly do anything.

This boy has hardly talked to kids his age before and watched so many of his family members die. He doesn’t get to move on that easy!!!!!

On another note, it’s not that I’m mad about Jr having to go to school in these fics, it’s just that they write it out where he’s excited for school. He’s never been in a stable building that wasn’t built by Uncle Tello! My boy needs to be in there because there was no one else to teach him things he doesn’t already know!!

(In my canon) Everyone except April was homeschooled, even Cass and Jr, there needs to be more representation on his fear and anxiety when he’s around people that aren’t part of his family—or even better!! He needs to be anxious when he’s actually with them too!

On another note, please give this baby comfort and the resources to heal.

Then shove the pain back into his face.

He’s my favorite character, but he’s also my favorite character. (And a teenage boy) He can’t just be ignored! He needs his angsty times too!

Momentarily, I’m gonna praise myself with my idea of having the bean literally ask 0 questions when he sees the teenage version of his dead father who he hasn’t seen in 2-3 years and his immediate reaction is asking for a hug. And then he gets it!!!! He gets his hug, and then falls asleep, and while he’s sleeping his dads go through a sweet banter-y scene that would have happened when he was a child too.

IN CONCLUSION

He lives in constant deja-vu now that he entered a new timeline, don’t play it down for him.

He’s a teenager who watched the world die once, then went back in time to watch it almost happen again. Everything is painful to him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for reading my rant <3

[donn-draws]

Why I Think Not Giving Donnie A Mystic Weapon Was A Good Choice

There are many practices in the ROTMNT fandom, and one of the many arguments is over the mystic weapon offered to Donatello in the very first episode. Of course, he doesn’t take it and its never brought up again, seeming to just be a little gag. But I believe this moment tells us a lot about Donnie’s ninpo.

Unlike his brothers, Donnie doesn’t have a clear ability throughout most of the show. He mainly does things through his tech, afraid of what would happen if it was forgotten about and replaced with magic. He eventually integrates mystics into his work. Eventually his ability is revealed to be just this: being able to effortlessly combine magic and tech.

My theory is that he’s always been able to do this. That his powers appeared years before his brothers. And that he didn’t take the conduit for his powers because he already built one himself.

Haven’t you noticed how Donnie’s tech always appeared advanced and even supernatural? Yes, this could be explained by a natural genius and a special interest in machines that bred hard work and creativity, spawning these amazing contraptions. But its so specifically made to fit the magic of his brothers and enemies that I believe this was caused by an early hatching of his ninpo. And haven’t you noticed the purple glow coming from many of these creations? Maybe the reason that he never needed the weapon offered to him to conduit his power because his bō was working fine.

The reason I am going out and saying this is because people are claiming that Donnie has the least amount or weakest magic from all of his brothers. The fact is that, according to my theory, he has magic even equatable to Mikey’s, the actual mystical lord of the family.

Anyway, thank you for reading my essay, and I do hope you have a great day.

[my-name-is-bunnyfoxy]

The way Rise Donnie's actions are easily excused and just forgotten in the show and fandom concerns me so much. Especially how easily he is forgiven. Not to mention how he gets little to no consequences at all. He is always left off the hook easily.

Someone also mentioned how Raph tends to baby Donnie a lot, along with Mikey. Which is also probably the reason why he hardly gets ANY consequences to begin with.

Like, I don't think Donnie is a terrible brother or a bad person at all, however, the things Donnie has done are at best just really bad. And this also upsets me a lot. Especially because Donnie, as we all know, is cannonly autistic.

And it genuinely upsets me how he is portrayed as someone who is aggressive and someone to be scared of. Don't get me even STARTED on the fanon version of Donnie. Oh god do I hate fannon rise Donnie. People portray him as an asshole and or a jerk or someone with almost NO FEELINGS at all. Which is yet again another harmful stereotype of autistic people. Yeah sure, there are some autistic people who do behave this way, but this comes off as a blatant stereotype to some who are autistic.

Like I'm not autistic, but this still concerns me. The portrayal of Rise Donnie is incredibly disgusting and ableist as hell.

I'm sorry if I sound aggressive but, I'm just really angry at the people who being blatantly ableist towards Donnie.

Not to mention how people act as if Donnie doesn't care about his family or he is an emotionless asshole. Listen, Donnie might not have the best intentions at heart but he still does care about his family. While yeah many will point out he has low empathy but still though. He is trying his best. However though, I feel like we should still call out on some of the things Donnie has done. I really hope that if the show picks up again, if Donnie does something bad, he won't be babied, he won't be treated like a god or whatever, instead he will be properly called out and receive the consequences he deserves.

If you want please add onto this or feel free to correct or contradict some of the stuff I said. I really wanna hear your thoughts on this.

Plus I highly ask those who are on the autism spectrum to please tell me if I got somrthing wrong or if there is something I should correct.

[baskeigh-ball]

Loving your seperated raph au so far! So if Raph wasn't around, Leo must be the leader up til now? How did that affect his personality?

Thanks so much! And I actually have several ideas for their dynamic without Raph that I've been exploring, so prepare for a long-winded rant because I have Too Many Thoughts

I've brainstormed a lot about how the leadership role would work with Raph out of the picture, and my consensus is that Leo isn't a full-fledged leader. Instead, he and Donnie accidentally end up as co-leaders!

And by "accidentally", I mean "Leo elects himself as leader but Donnie hates the idea of being ordered around by his slightly-older annoying twin so much that he turns it into a competition for the leadership role". Actually in this context, I'd call it more of a president/vice-president dynamic, with Leo taking charge more often and Donnie occasionally stepping up if he doesn't agree with a decision. Poor Mikey kinda ends up stuck in the middle of all this, lol.

Outside of leadership, Leo is definitely more responsible as the self-appointed oldest brother, but that responsibility is more spread out between him and his brothers than it is with canon Raph. My reasoning behind this is how he's just barely the eldest. The difference in age between him and Donnie is so small that his younger brothers feel more inclined to help him out. Overall, the trio is more mature than in canon, but not by much (this isn't one of those super serious AUs where it's all about survival and familial issues, trust me. they're still a bunch of gremlins that love each other and do as they please, they just. know how to do their chores now.)

Also side note, without Raph around to be the tank/shield that takes the big hits, the trio's missions default to stealth if they're unfamiliar with whoever they're facing. At least until they get a handle on their mystic weapons; after that they can go into fights guns-blazing in all of their unhinged glory >:] (and i'd say Donnie with his tech takes up the mantle as the "tank" of the group, i mean did u see the first episode's fight with draxum? he was the only one getting effective hits in)

Exploring their dynamic is gonna be fun, especially how Leo and Raph might clash about leadership once things start winding down and Raph is finding his place in the family. He'd definitely feel like he should be the protector, what with his size, strength, battle skills, street smarts, etc etc, but I imagine the trio would be hesitant about the idea. After all, they've survived just fine up until now. Sure, they've got a few extra scars they could've done without, but they're still kicking!

To sum it up, Leo and Donnie somewhat share leading the team while also competing to become the True Leader, then Raph comes along and unwittingly joins in on the competition while Mikey has to just Deal in the background. Wonder how long it'll take for Dr Delicate Touch to step in?

Anyways, rant over. I hope this answered your question! (and sorry if it's kinda rambly, my thoughts usually come out as word vomit and this is the first time i'm posting them publicly ('._.))

[i-just-needed-a-place-to-ramble]

Okay I have to say that it bothers me immensely how this fandom treats the Donnie’s Gifts episode.

Specifically the shock collar.

I know, I know, it’s an incredibly old topic that’s like poking a sleeping bear to bring up again, but if you may feel the same I do, then hear me out.

On one side, we have people who see it as Donnie being deliberately cruel and actively wishing to control his brother through force if need be.

On the other side, we have people who see it as something good, and poor Donnie didn’t mean to hurt Leo! He didn’t mean for his gift to cause harm! He just wanted to create something to make Leo focus more, he just doesn’t understand that what he did was bad! But it’s okay because he doesn’t get it!

Both these readings suck, in my opinion, though one I see more often than the other.

Now, I love Donnie, I do, he’s so, so fun and interesting and a fantastic character…but the shock collar was an incredibly messed up thing to make. Obviously, he loves his brothers, and he just wanted the best for them, but it was still an objectively awful thing to do to your brother. (Don’t get me wrong, Mikey and Raph’s gifts were also not great, but let’s focus on the collar.)

See, making a collar like that, and having your brother wear it, knowing what it does…that’s not a good thing. It doesn’t matter that he didn’t get to explain it first. It doesn’t matter if it was meant to help Leo in the long run. That ‘help’ is forcing Leo to endure painful shocks until he’s conditioned to, what, pay attention? (And that’s a funny thought, considering it was the shocks that distracted him in the first place.)

Good intentions don’t automatically make things okay.

There’s also an admittedly ableist tone to the reading of Donnie simply being let off the hook because he “doesn’t understand why it’s bad.” That’s- that’s so infantilizing. Donnie is more than capable of knowing when he messes up! And he did mess up here! I hate when people use his autism as an excuse, it feels so ableist to me. Just let him own up to it and apologize! He’s not a bad guy, and it’s okay for characters to mess up! So long as they own up to it! Donnie’s a person too, and he has flaws, let him own them, please.

However, this is not to say that Donnie is evil or abusive for doing this, not at all. While he should not be absolved of guilt, he clearly isn’t intending for his gifts to come off the way they had, and he clearly made them out of concern for his brothers. It’s understandable that he would go about it the wrong way - it’s just not okay that he did. And what he did warrants an apology to the others, especially Leo, even if they themselves shook it off.

So, yeah. The shock collar is incredibly messed up. It was painful enough to affect Meat Sweats- and Leo had it around his neck. It’s a comedy, so I know we gotta take these things with a grain of salt, but whenever I see this episode tackled in a more serious way, it almost always either 1) makes Donnie out to be the Worst, as though we aren’t constantly shown him caring immensely for his brothers, or 2), admittedly more prevalently and annoyingly, it chooses to focus on how sad and misunderstood Donnie is, rather than the very real harm he caused. Like. LEO IS THE ONE WHO HAD A SHOCK COLLAR ON HIM. Put there by HIS OWN BROTHER. And no one cares about that??? Leo’s pain is dismissed??? Donnie’s feelings matter more??? What????

I think that’s what gets me most here, honestly. Not that Donnie is presented as evil, or innocent, but that Leo’s experience doesn’t matter in comparison to Donnie’s reactions to it. It leaves a horrible taste in my mouth to see time and time again.

Again. It doesn’t matter what the intentions were. It also doesn’t automatically make Donnie abusive or evil.

But it was a shock collar, made to hurt, made to correct, and if you look at it outside of the comedic lens it was established in…it’s not okay.

Donnie’s not a bad person, and he’s actually a pretty great brother, a hero in his own right…but he really messed up here.

And that’s okay to admit.

[legendsoffandoms]

Hello again lovelies!

I’m here with some TMNT hcs!

So here’s my hcs on a few people!(no sound sorry :<)

(Photos too!)

Also anyone want a part two?

I got some more!