#sorrywhatnowau

[tangledinink]

clawing my way out of the ground to finally draw something for the first time in nearly a month--

[ i'm sorry, teenage mutant what now? ]

[liketheletter-l]

took a break from working on my oneshot based on @tangledinink ‘s sorrywhatnowau to draw the scene i was stuck on. i’m in so deep i’m insane. anyway take “Leo v. Coffee Filters” (his shirt says menace to society but i realized it just looks like it says “MEN” which is hilarious)

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[writing-biting]

The TMWN fic is the thing keeping me alive at this point, so I doodled up a Leo (his design is just so PRETTY)

(okay fine all of the designs are so so so pretty. My favorite is easily Mikey, but if I draw more of them I'll probably draw donnie cause they're more in my comfort zone)

Sorrywhatnow AU by @tangledinink

[thatlovelydove]

i made some low Quality memes for the amazing au sorryteenagewhatnow? by @tangledinink because the brainrot is so strong they are amazing give them love!!!/p

Mostly spoiler free but still spoilers ahead

and here is the link to the fic:

[lynzylu]

SPOILERS FOR TEENAGE MUTANT WHAT NOW AU! I just wanted to show how far @tangledinink‘s story has come from start to now, with the first perspectives of Splinter of Chapter 1 and Chapter 17. Because I quickly caught first glance of the first couple paragraphs of Chapter 1 while going to read the newest one and WOW. The writing quality hasn’t changed one bit, but we’ve gone from 0 to 60. Wild. Love your story, man. Gets me every time there’s something new

Chapter 1:

“Did you drink all the milk AGAIN!? Dude!—“

“What?! You know I need an exact milk-to-rice-chex ratio in order to enjoy my breakfast, Leo!”

“Have any of you seen my dance bag? It’s not where I left it!”

“Why do you need it, anyway? Isn’t dance on Thursday?”

“Leo, today is Thursday.”

“What? No, it’s not. If it was Thursday, then my American Literature essay would be due, and I haven’t even started it yet, so there’s NO WAY—“

“If my toaster is destroyed, I will be making whichever child is responsible pay for the replacement!” The warning rang out over the general chaos of the morning.

“Oh shoot—“ Yoshi could hear the frantic scrabble of a belated attempt to rescue the burning pop tart, which Yoshi could smell from all the way in the living room. Parked in his reclining chair, the TV playing in front of him, he munched contentedly on his own breakfast which he had acquired earlier before his teenage sons descended upon the kitchen. He was not much of a ‘morning person,’ but it was a necessity if he was to eat in any sort of peace.

This was a typical morning in the Hamato household.

Chapter 17:

He actually had tried to throw himself over the balcony this time.

Not that it worked. Stupid witch ex-girlfriend and her stupid witch spells.

He had to get out of this goddamn Luxury Box.

Those were his children down there. He should be with them.

He tried everything. Every option he possibly had, he tried it. Pleading, threatening, physically attacking the guards-- thus far, none of it had worked. Of course it hadn’t. Part of him had known it wouldn’t, because Big Mama already knew this song-and-dance and she had never lost before. This was an old game to her. She had over a decade of experience in keeping him where he did not want to be.

If it were that simple to wriggle his way out of her trap, his life would be very different today.

He tried anyway.

All it had gotten him so far was this fuzzy spin to his head and a painful tingle in his nerves that was quite nearly nostalgic.

“Let me down,” he snarled, for the millionth time, clinging to the railings of the balcony so hard that his knuckles were white, absolutely bristling. “I should-- I should get to fight with them. Since when have you ever denied Lou Jitsu a performance? Let me--”

“Noodles, dearheart, that would make it too easy!” She scoffed, tsking a bit, having long since lost interest in anything he had to say. “It’s no fun if it’s not a challenge. But don’t fret, huggypoo. You can still watch. Come on-- sit with me.”

[allthecastlesonclouds]

four perfectly okay human guys :) (source: trust me)

drawn for @tangledinink’s DTIYS! congrats on 1K kudos and 3K followers! all absolutely deserved (:

who was gonna tell me poses were so hard D: in other notes, you have no idea how much fun i had with mikey’s pins! click for better quality ;~; tumblr why ;~;

[tangledinink]

EEEE

LOOK AT THIS COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN TEENAGER WHO IS DEFINITELY NOT A SECRET MUTANT TURTLE!!!! <3 <3 <3 I LOVE HIM!?!??!? THA NK YOU

just a drawing of a normal regular human teenager who i cannot stress hard enough is NOT a secret mutant turtle thats so weird that you would even bring that up

Teenage Mutant What Now belongs to @tangledinink and everyone better go read the fic and like all the art or else 🔫

[tangledinink]

new cover art for i'm sorry, teenage mutant what now? btw :3c

[liketheletter-l]

swn chapter 20 fanart since this is apparently becoming a tradition now. @tangledinink kayson u knocked me flat on my ass with this one. family guy death pose

[lynzylu]

Long-awaited now, the 18th chapter of Preserving the Balance is here! I don't usually post these individually but I got a request on this one. Hope y'all like it! Very specially inspired by @tangledinink and their AU! (Repost because I made an error and forgot I could edit it oops)

[tangledinink]

AHHH I LOVE THEM???? <3 THEYRE SO CUTE IM CRYING

r/n we're technically tied at 47.4% for Chompy/TTNM vs 52.6% for TMWN/Gemini so!!!!! DONT!!!! FUCK IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!! WE'VE GOT THIS GANG.

a response to this and this

i thought it was a little goofy that both raphs were like "you can't say fuck in front of the child !!!"

ALSO VOTE CHOMPY N TTNM IN THE @tmntausummit SO WE CAN TIE (poll link)

tmwn - @tangledinink

ttnm - @idiot-mushroom

[tangledinink]

mikey's thirteenth birthday

i'm sorry, teenage mutant what now?

[liketheletter-l]

snippet from the [heavy quotes] """oneshot""" i'm writing for @tangledinink's sorrywhatnow au. im having too much fun writing the disaster twins that this section is at 3k already with no signs of slowing

[tangledinink]

edit: tag! fic!

ive spent a stupid amount of time recently thinking about a rottmnt au where circumstances allow splinter to figure out a way to get cloaking 'brooches' for himself and his children when they are still lil, giving him a chance to raise them as 'normal' kids. (normal kids who are genetically engineered mutant turtles, actually, and they're, like, SO good at sports, dude.)

surely nothing can break this idyllic illusion of a life that splinter has built. definitely nothing that rhymes with daron braxum.

i can only imagine this would work if the threat of both draxum and big mama were neutralized. i think in this universe, draxum's life of crime caught up to him much sooner than it does in canon, and he's imprisoned for his unethical experimentation when the turtles are still little-- raph maybe around six or seven, mikey around four or five. once splinter learns of this, he pulls every string he possibly can to 1) get cloaking crystals for himself and his family 2) cut a deal with big mama to ensure his children's safety.

after spending about a week or two in the sewers fucking drilling the cover story into the children's heads ("remember, mikey, what do you do if people start asking you too many questions?" "CRY!" "good boy!") he very nervously brings them up to the surface, armed with an elaborate story to explain his disappearance and new children and a shitton of forged documents. there was so much fucking paperwork, christ. (also, it turns out the blue one is biologically female? but he does not have the mental space to deal with that so they all just keep calling him leo, and he's totally fine with that. so.)

and he collects ALLLLLLL the royalties, babey.

(the kids are kids, and definitely slip up occasionally or do... weird shit. but, luckily, since they're small children, people pretty much just chalk it up as "oh, these kids have such wild imaginations.")

eventually, enough time passes that the brothers just kinda... forget that they were ever actually turtle mutants who lived in the sewers. coz, like, that's crazy, right? they're pretty sure they just imagined all that stuff. they weren't turtles, they were PRETENDING to be turtles... and people give them weird looks sometimes when they bring it up, so they don't.

overall, they THRIVE on the surface, to no one's surprise. they are, in fact, secretly genetically engineered super soldiers, actually. and they are crazy good at, like. so many things. especially martial arts! they compete at a national level on the regular, in addition to a shit ton of other extracurriculars (ballet, art, basketball, and cooking for mikey, swimming, basketball, gymnastics, and theatre for leo, dance, gymnastics, and swimming for donnie, not even to mention all his academic stuff, basketball, wrestling, and swimming for raph...)

they're still besties with april, obvs.

[tangledinink]

the 'putting my favs in 1920's-era fashion' train continues on <3

[ i'm sorry, teenage mutant what now? ] @tmntaucompetition

[tangledinink]

?!?! THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!? I love your art style and how you depicted this it works SO WELL for the scene AHHH I LOVE IT THANK YOU!?!?!? ; 0 ;

TW- DEPICTIONS OF PANIC ATTACK, OVERSTIMULATION AND DISSOCIATION, BRIGHT COLORS, also I vent a little :)

In honor of my most recent new rock-bottom record, decided to draw this scene from @tangledinink fanfic :)

This scene hit really close to home, I’ve just never seen overstimulation and panic attack described so well, it made me feel like maybe im not that odd and there’s actual people who know what it’s like. I dunno what that means for me yet but I feel seen so maybe it’s a good thing or maybe it’s the opposite and it’s just ANOTHER rock bottom I just hit lol

Screenshots of the scene under cut! That way u can c what I mean when I say THIS WRITING IS SO ANGELIC AND IT FEELS LIKE A GENUINE NEW TMNT GENERATION AND UGHHAHAHWHJZNSZ

DO YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN.