#subconscious influence……..

[lavendorii]

pretend I'm not a day late

[evilmortymortimer]

Is this anything

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 263

Once More, we return to Tiamat prompts. 

It was a wonderful idea, really! If one of them couldn’t break the barrier, then surely their combined might would do it! And it had! It had worked, even if their remaining humanity was sacrificed. They’d done it, they’d made it where everyone could escape, could leave!

… Except for them. Someone had to close the portal. And it all would have been fine, if not for the remnants of the GIW. One last hail mary from the imbeciles, they all supposed. Trapping them here within the Zone. 

Separated from their families, from the pair of children they had agreed to raise. At least their siblings would watch over Ellie and Jordan. Kyle could hide them, make sure they were safe. Jazz… Jazz was gone, the final straw in this plan. 

They screamed, they raged, they destroyed in grief for those that didn’t make it, and for those who had but had nowhere to go. No portals opened, even as they tore at the green around them. They fought, any that thought they were weak, that they were merely a beast, an abomination trapped in chains of science and gold. 

There was nothing that could be done, Frostbite had said, sympathy in his voice. No way to turn back the clock with how entwined they had become, Clockwork had explained. The only thing they could do was wait, Pandora had tried to sooth, despite it doing nothing. 

They wrenched open the coffin in a hazy fury, tearing apart armies like it was blades of grass. Their maws devoured dead who had lost themselves and become mere husks and thralls, lashing tails ripping through armour like it was nothing. 

And then as titans, they clashed with the one who had once stolen the city here. There was no desperation from them this time, no armor besides scales unbreakable as flames and storms and ice and thorns ripped islands apart. There was no desperation besides that of their opponent’s. 

There was a pleasure in their victory, before it was wrenched away. What use was a crown when their family wasn’t there? When their daughter, their son, their children were not there by their side? 

Paulina laughed, hysterical as ectoplasm dripped from her maw as Kwan howled. Their body was covered in it, their rampage that had no use, no reason leaving a trail of destruction behind them. Is this what they wanted? 

No. 

Danny raised his head from the dissolving corpses to look towards the obliterated roof of the Keep, once so terrifying now turning to dust like the crown. The crown reforming above their heads, heavy and almost choking. 

They would carry this weight together. Would restructure things, would do what they had wanted to do for Amity before the Barriers. They’d work together to rebuild the Realms, make it safer, make it safe for those newly dead. 

No matter how long it took, no matter how hard it would be to fix the destruction they had wrought in this meaningless battle. (“Danny, you’re the spokesperson,” Sam spoke up, thorn-like scales ruffling. “You’re most familiar with the realms thanks to the Infinimap.” Fair. “We’ll need allies, we’re only nine people.”)

(“Let me talk to the egyptian afterlife,” Tucker sounded exhausted, hood folding back. “I’m most familiar with them… Star, Paulina, you’re both Princess Dora’s favorites-”)

(“We can do it. Just give us time.” “Maybe a to-do list.” “Clockwork. We need to talk to Clockwork, he’d be most familiar with this.” “Rest first, nerds. We’re all… exhausted.”)

(Valerie laughed tiredly, blades melting to heal a broken horn. “Time isn’t linear here Dash. You know that. I know that. For once we’re the ones with time to spare.” It would take years to get things up to snuff. Make things Safe for when they could bring their families here.)

Their eyes opened as the now flimsy chains shattered, a smile stretching across the shared face of their humanoid form. Soon. They could return to the mortal realm soon. Just a little more, and they could see their little ones.  They'd waited a thousand years, they could wait a few days more.

(also have sketch)

@fairy-lights-and-blobs @radiance1 You both seem to enjoy my Tiamat prompts/Aus lol

[toxi-works-at-culvers]

ARTFIGHT ATTACK >;3

[leadandblood]

Both Stanley and Goodsir going "i choose death and i will take all of you with me too" except each had the opposite feeling in their head ...

It's doing horrible things to my psyche let me tell you

[bigfootsmom]

what’s more romantic than helping your girlfriend buzz her undercut on national butch day? nothing.

for @/PlayerUnknown_4 on twitter! this is a prompt fill with the @911actions for gaza! check out how you can still donate and support the cause!

[korovaoverlook]

fiddleford has very unusual letter openers

[weirdmageddon]

It's not totally clear here why Dave's dream self appears to be already awake while his real self is also awake. I think we must infer that his dream self is in some sort of "waking trance" where he's technically awake but too preoccupied by certain things to be considered fully awake.

thinking about jade being lonely as hell on her island and going to sleep waking up on prospit and seeing john (not knowing his name yet) asleep plagued with the creepy dersite doll dreams with the scary teeth and just aughhhh

and she’d like overhear the white queen talk about the dark kingdom derse and the prince(sse)s of the moon that are there and trying to attract as little attention as possible jade would fly out there through the medium because shes so lonely. and she’d go to the purple moons’ towers. she’d find a girl is sound asleep in her purple robes and bed. but the other kid on the moon she finds is awake! except… not really. more like in a trance state. awake but not conscious. but she likes to hear whatever garbled stuff this triangle-speced boy has to say

the trip is long but jade visits this boy a few times since he’s the only non-asleep person like her she can interact with face to face. he usually seems lost in his own world, usually listening to music or talking to himself about stuff that doesnt make much sense. when she’s deprived of sapient affection she’ll touch him in small gestures like holding his hand while he listens to his music and he’ll squeeze back instinctually, and it helps her experience a microdose of the human connection. maybe he doesnt get much in the way of sapient affection either. when she hears The Horrors of the furthest ring another dream headset pops into existence for her to listen along with him and they listen to whatever music hes making. who is he

[first-class-feral]

i made a brad dourif drake meme generator

has this been done

[selfportrait27]

HD version of a classic Ween photo (probably AI upscaled). 1992-ish.

[tangledinink]

SO, I WAS REREADING THE MAIN COMIC, AND I FOUND THIS-

AND IT REMINDED ME OF THIS

ARE THESE CONNECTED OR AM I LOOKING TOO FAR INTO THIS?

You're not looking too far at all! :3c

[phantriicks]

Who is it that you see reflected in those shades of yours?

[qoldenskies]

Okay, I finally read the "justice isn't mercy" chapter, and I just gotta say in the scene with Mikey killing Kitsune, I was SO satisfied by that scream. I know each of them have already had that scream. But this chapter it really shined.

It was an everything scream. A scream of pain, anger, and despair all in one. Mikey was screaming and crying through every horrible memory he would never forget because of what she did.

Even though I know he killed her himself, after that moment, the first thing that came to mind was the scene from the movie.

Like, I believe there was a parallel going on there. So I can just imagine that in that scene, in a moment of clarity, that both Leo and Raph were there with Mikey, conjoining their ninpo, to kill her together. All of them screaming and giving Donnie Vengeance together.

But, he carries the burden himself. At 13...

Which makes it all the more tragic.

And wow, my invision of that scene was so perfect. That entire witchtown part was so clear it might as well have been animated.

it was a parallel yes, mostly in the way that i was trying to invoke the same kind of righteous anger mikey was feeling in that scene, as well as the thing with the cracks in his arms (and THAT i chose because kintsugi metaphor, especially because its already been invoked before in ch7) im sure at the very least that was felt in the ninpo bond, because while mikey's sixth sense for it is way more intense (feeling donnie's ninpo break, noticing the absence first afterwards, feeling chills when leo gets particularly murderous) all of them still have that intuitively,,,

but also mind you, at the same time mikey mentions a little earlier that theyre united so strongly under one goal at that point that they may as well be one person, and considering things like raph and leo mind melding in the moment,,, it would make a lot of sense! :]

im glad my imagery was clear!! im not suuuper proud of some things in that chapter but there's a lot of moments i do like from it, very good animatic-bait. if i had the balls and patience to make one LMFAO maybe some day. mikey standing in front of the shrine is so clear in my head,,, you can tell he KNEW he was cool as fuck. guy with swag

[quadrantbreaker]

shitty gifset of xander from aotu world . for my own viewing pleasure

[vioshortforviolence]

A group of nine male individuals of various backgrounds going on an adventure to defeat a great evil

[imagionationstation]

YOUR WENDYBIRDS AU

i still think leo needs therapy and hugs but also oh god he's committed criminal actives now

YOU CAN BE A CRIMINAL AND NOT BE EVIL RIGHT??

This sparked an idea in my brain so now we’re exploring it.

AFTERMATH of criminal activity looks like???

“Well, we have to do something!”

“He’s our brother so we’ll deal with him!”

“Oh-ho NO! WAY! You didn’t even notice that he was going psycho!”

“He’s not psycho he just hates you!”

“He’s literally textbook definition of insane! No average person inacts a carefully plotted scheme to take out people he dislikes!”

“Actually, you’ve done that at least four times-“

“Are you insinuating that you thought I was average?!”

“Can we please focus?”

“He tried to kill us. There’s a justice system for that kind of thing, right?”

“I get you’re friendly with humans, but we’re not handing him over to the police.”

“‘Course not. The yokai have a yokai jail so maybe they also have a yokai pr-”

“NO!”

Previously pouting in Mikey’s nunchucks, Leo throws himself to his feet, prevented from acting out by the chains around his arms. “DON’T YOU DARE!”

The conversation haunts, but that doesn’t calm the ticked of Sensei in the slightest, “DON’T YOU DARE- I KNEW IT KNEW YOU’D TRY THIS! I’LL STOP YOU STOP THIS I WON’T LET YOU-”

Mikey stomps up to him, hands on hips. “Leo.”

“NO! NO NO- You promised you PROMISED you said RAPH YOU CAN’T LISTEN TO THEM DONNIE I TOLD YOU I TOLD YOU THEY’D DO THIS I KNEW IT I SAID-”

Mikey roughly cups the sides of his face to steal away his attention, firmly meeting his gaze as he hisses in between heavy breaths, “Dude. You’re acting nuts again.”

“They’re taking you.” He bites. “I won’t let them. I won’t let them, Mikey, I can’t lose youIloveyouIlove WON’T LET THEM-”

“Leo.” His voice drops as his eyes widen. “You’re scaring me.”

“I’m sorry.” He apologizes immediately. Guilt and horror floods his expression as he steps away. Mikey steps with him, and that seems to flip a switch. He hurries forward to wrap his arms around him, bringing him into a tight hug, closing his eyes and nuzzling against him. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to. I’m sorry.”

Mikey nestles against his shaking body, pushing them both to the floor. Leo barely seems to notice, letting Mikey lean against him to keep him down, missing the puppy-eyes that are blinked away so he can give the group a tentative thumbs up.

“Maybe we should do this somewhere else.” Michael says nervously. “Especially while…”

His gaze lingers on the two brothers. Donnie states, “They’re fine. Leo won’t hurt him.”

At the same time, Don adds, “He is not leaving my sight.”

The counterparts exchange looks. Leon, feet propped up, cooly crosses his arms over his chest, and says, “Anyway, so we hand him over to the proper authorities-“

“No.”

Everyone looks at Raph. His glare lacks any apprehension. “We’re not sending him anywhere. He stays with us.”

Don stands up, mortified, “You can’t be serious!”

“Any of you touch him without my say-so.” Raph removes his sai, flips it in his hand, and then stabs it into the table. “And I might start think that Leo has a point.”

Don turns to Donnie. “Do you hear this?!”

He sinks in the chair uncomfortably, “I…It’s not really…”

“I don’t care what your familiar hierarchy is.” Don sneers. “You’re a living, thinking being. What is your opinion?”

“Donnie-”

Don whirls on Michael. “I have been playing the long game for too long. No more therapy. No more practiced phrases.” He whirls again, pointing at the turtle as suspicion crosses his face. “You are a Donatello. Use your brain. What do you think?”

He glances to their brothers. Leo looks back with wide eyes.

“I…” He turns and leans forward in his seat. He sighs, “I think I’m with Raph.”

Their counterparts explode.

“HEY!” Raph shouts over them all. “SHUT UP!”

They do not, but he plows right through anyway, “He’s acting insane BECAUSE he thinks we’re ditching him! You really think getting carted off to some looney bin is going to help that?!”

“YES!” Leon bursts as Rafa adds, “So we’re just going to let him run around and hope he doesn’t do this again?!”

“No one said that.” Donnie offers hurriedly. “Obviously something has to be done. But not somewhere else. He stays with us.”

“You’re crazy!” Don slams a hand on the table. “You’re all insane!”

“He’s calm when he’s with us!” Donnie argues as his expression darkens. “And now we know there’s an issue! We can handle it!”

“You’ve done such a good job of that so far!”

“You didn’t tell us.” His voice darkens. “You tricked us, manipulated us, tried to keep us away from him. None of you told us.”

“We told you he was mad!” Michael argues. “And acting weird!”

“He had good reason to be mad and everything about us is weird.” Donnie shoots back. “We’re turtles who grew up hunted by our deranged uncle and brainwashed sister with a rat Sensei. We’re bound to be weird. YOU should have been more specific!”

Don scoffs, “You wouldn’t have believed us!”

“Do you always approve theories before confirming them?” Something sharp enters his gaze. All of the counterparts bristle, eyes shifting to the chained warrior. “Or do you need data, testing, even a remotely specific hypothesis to work with?”

When they look to him, it’s gone. He leans back in his chair.

“W-well,” Don shakes away the unease. “-now, you have confirmation and you still want to keep him!”

“He’s my brother.”

“He drugged you!”

“Gee, if only that bit of information led me to take precautions,” Donnie taps the table idly, “like, OH I don’t know…” He aggressively throws up a hand as if tossing a ball over his shoulder. “CHAINS!”

Don grits his teeth. “He can’t stay here!”

“Then he won’t!” Raph snarls back. “We’ll take him back to our old lair! Then you won’t HAVE to deal with our crazy!”

“Might as well CLOSE THE PORTAL ON YOUR WAY OUT because I SURE don’t want to wake up TO THAT OVER ME!”

“THAT is my BROTHER!”

“MAKES SENSE CONSIDERING YOUR BOTH BLOODTHIRSTY PSYCHOS!”

“LIKE YOU’RE ANY BETTER YOU UNCARING LYING LITTLE-”

Simmering adrenaline switched on high, Raph charges over the table to tackle him without bothering to finish the thought.

They go rolling as Donnie scrambles to his feet. Rafa stumbles back as Michael leaps from his perch on his shoulder, mystic chains appearing as he touches the ground, shooting out to wrap around their chests and tear them apart.

“QUIT IT! QUIT!” He demands, a tad frantic. “NOW!”

“YOU TELL HIM THAT!” They roar in unison. Don lets out a hiss as Raph growls, and Leon quickly slips in between them. “Woah, woah, woah! Hey! Let’s not do anything we’ll regret, ‘kay?”

“What?” Don sneers. “Like try to murder an entire family? Or try to sell my brother to BIG MAMA? SOMETHING LIKE THAT?!”

“I didn’t try.” Leo mutters. “I made a deal. She’s still waiting.”

Rafa goes tense. Michael releases the chains. Don points away from them and roars, “GET HIM OUT OF HERE!”

Raph doesn’t even bother to let him finish before shouting over him, “WAS ALREADY PLANNING ON IT!”

“GOOD.” He snarls as his bo forms in his hand. “And he better not step back through that portal because I swear I’ll have every system ready and waiting to blast him out of the stratosphere!”

Raph isn’t deterred, stomping up to him, plastrons practically touching, “You ban one of us then you ban all of us.”

“Let’s hold up a minute-” Leon tries to quickly interject as Rafa adds, “There’s no need to-!”

“Brilliant.” Bright purple reflects in watching eyes. “Then get out.”

The room goes dead silent. Raph spits, “Fine.”

Leaning his cheek against his baby brother’s head, Leo smiles.