#tdtwb

[saladmix]

sobbing into my pizza right now LOOK AT THEM!!!! They look so precious and so unaware at the misery that's about to befall them my SONS. our collective tiny turtle children. Look at them go.

I love this so so much! I LOVE that you were able to take some of the details I mentioned and then kind of do your own spin on it and it turned out so perfect <3 I love Mikey's little jean patches they are TOTALLY something he'd use the lad loves some personalization. catch him out here with jeans full of patches and a shell full of stickers.

I really love the style you've developed too it's so unique and so perfect for this story!!!

MORE AND MORE ART OF THE DAY THE WORLD BROKE BY @saladmix BECAUSE IT'S NEVER ENOUGH WHEN IT COMES TO THIS MASTERPIECE 🗣‼

This time I bring you some designs of the boys in the first chapters (with some doodles included), I really like designing, I enjoyed doing this

Now I'm going to digress a bit so you can go straight to the art :]

Since I started reading I more or less imagined their outfits, I love how you don't describe exactly what they're wearing, but you leave it in dialogues subtly

With Leo I imagined him exactly like in that concept art, with a type of sweater/jacket, and with Raph it was the same (same concept art), in fact I imagined him exactly as he looks at the end of the movie, we love their outfits, unfortunately they didn't last more than 3 chapters, justice for Leo's sweater 🙏

With Donnie I did a copy paste of his outfit at the end of the movie, it's his JoJo sweatshirt, with his iconic crocs (the true survivors of this whole Apocalypse)

And with Mikey I put on his colorful orange shirt with colored spots, I don't know if you can tell but they're blue, red and purple. For his jeans I put these patches (? I don't know exactly their name but they stick to clothes, he used them a lot before and I don't know why I feel like Mikey would fill his jeans with those

And well!! I keep trying to carry out the style I wanted, plus I would like to design their different outfits throughout the story, I love how they don't wear "appropriate" clothes for the Apocalypse because the poor kids just wanted to go eat burgers and fries

I hope you like it!!!

(English is not my first language so please forgive any mistakes)

[doturtlesdream]

@saladmix (the person who wrote the day the world broke (please read)) posted a new fic called rerouting (PLEASE READ) and personally i don’t think it has enough hype

[saladmix]

Another AMAZING piece by Gabs of The Day the World Broke. You can check out her linktree here to all her different places <3 Gabs is an incredible artist and does really special work so please go and check her out!

[reesespiecesofart]

tottmnt/mm boys facial study (working out how even to draw them bruh omllll)

[pumpkinpenguin]

i'll post these while i wait for my mc launcher to update

also to that one person with a sideswipe pfp who got rlly excited the first time i did my tmnt x transformers doodles that first one is for u specifically

also had to sneak in a sketch for tdtwb by @saladmix bc i never miss an opportunity to promote that fic

[some-spinner-in-june]

the world is ending, and we are here to help you.

web weave for the day the world broke, an absolutely fantastic tmnt crossover fic by @saladmix <3 perhaps my favorite crossover fic of all time

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credits:

the day the world broke, saladmix || @/roach-works || @/shyalia || the day the world broke, saladmix || @/boymiffy || everything everywhere all at once (2022) || the day the world broke, saladmix || light, sleeping at last || crush, richard siken || the day the world broke, saladmix || james baldwin || @/headspace-hotel || @/boxfullaturtles || dogfish, mary oliver || during the impossible age of everyone, ada limón || when great trees fall, maya angelou || watching my friend pretend her heart isn't breaking, rosemary wahtola trommer || @/visual-scape || the day the world broke, saladmix || @/lambsprout, minecraft

[dylniz]

I’ve been reading the day the world broke by @saladmix and it’s genuinely changed my life and shifted my brain chemistry and everything. I’m genuinely obsessed so obvi I had to do some sketches

[cloverstellar]

this is what reading a really good fic does to a mfer

anyways go here to the fic by @saladmix it’s a banger I’m deeply obsessed with the worldbuilding and the characterization and pacing is incredibly well written

[whitechocolateanti]

they will NOT find slushies at this gas station

[shyalia]

It's been a month since I've posted art (although I do have several big WIPs on the go), so here, have a quick sketch of TDTWB Donnie.

[niniiiitiiin]

"Funny" video i made of the masterpiece The Day The Word Broke by @saladmix bc there's no budget for ilustrations (composition and perspective are killing me help) i have more but I'll upload them later

this is from chapter 31 (what a chapter!) I don't know why i find it funny that Shredder gets so mad because Mikey STICKED OUT HIS TONGUE 😭😭 Dude, are you really mad bc a 15 year old boy his tongue out at you? It's so funny Mikey 1 Shredder 0

[up-the-anti]

tdtwb nation how are we feeling

[doturtlesdream]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ @saladmix’s fic The Day the World Broke it’s genuinely like my favorite fic of all time

ITS SO SO SO GOOD I TREASURE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE 321,927 WORDS (nudge nudge read it nudge nudge)

[saladmix]

I went ahead and recorded the first chapter of The Day the World Broke. It is not good! My voice, it's certainly a voice, and you can hear my bird chirping in the background and I probably mispronounce a billion words but you know what? I had fun and wanted to share.

If anyone else is interested in podficing this fic, this is your green light to do it! I love hearing other people's interpretations. And if people like this, maybe I'll do more myself <3

The cover art is by the lovely @shyalia go check out all their art please it's so amazing!!

[lesbianardoo]

okay. the day the world broke theory time

so guess who just finished chapter 31

me. i finished chapter 31

so we all read about those four containment cells with the dimension z's IDENTICAL counterparts (the mutant mayhem turtles, most likely) i've seen a few comments on the chapter theorizing that our turtles, dimension z, are the clones. but i don't really think they're clones (this post will be so embarrassing if thay turns put to be the truth)

the 'phases' are what bring the other turtles (07, rise, 2012, etc) into dimension z, and i remember from an earlier chapter somebody mentioned how the 'phases' are TCRI attempting to fix their mistake. they'd tried to create a pocket dimension, or (i might be reaching) at least enter a very similar, almost identical reality.

now im going to be reaching here but, theory 1, it could be possible that right as the z turtles had left for the fast food place, the first phase had happened and that was when the mutant mayhem turtles entered dimension z. TCRI had expected to take the dimenzion z turtles (do i have any evidence to back this up? kinda.

in the steven's video logs about project blueberry, he says that it will initiated at 9:30, the EXACT time that the turtles had left for burger buster. because tcri already had sights set on the turtles, if they had their locations (as mentioned by steven), if they had arrived to detain the turtles, and the mutant mayhem counterparts are identical, well there it is

now, for a second i wanted to lead into the idea that the dimension z turtles were the secondaries. however, steven mentions 'the cue', which happened exactly a year before project blueberry was initiated. this leads me into my second theory, which is that the mutant mayhem turtles had somehow phased in exactly a year before. this would explain the containment cells- where would tcri have the resources to build these during the apocalypse?

if tcri already had the mutant mayhem turtles in their building, why would they need the 'primaries' locations?

if the mutant mayhem turtles had phased in a year before, it would have definitely given them the time to locate 4 identical turtles in their own dimension, and because the dimension z turtles are from tcri's own dimenaion, they would have been labeled the primaries.

tcri initiating project blueberry obviously went wrong. i don't have much to say on what dimension must have merged or been let into dimension z.

so, i don't think the mutant mayhem or dimension z turtles are clones of one or the other. however, i do thing it's possible that they are two very close, almost identical realities- one where there was a much larger mutagen event much longer before that caused the larger mutant population of dimension z, and one where that didnt happen at all and the only mutants are the turtles, the mutanimals, and the various mutants in mutant mayhem series tales of the tmnt and the game mutants unleashed.

the phasing bringing in the other turtles is likely tcri trying to bring the dimension z turtles closer to the mutant mayhem turtles, which is why the phases would stem out from the tcri building. obviously something must have gone wrong setting it up, or it's just because the mutant mayhem turtles don't belong to their dimension, but the phases bring in other turtles to our z turtles. it's likely that tcri thinks that bringing the two groups of turtles together could fix something.

do these theories have a MILLION plot holes? yes. how did the z turtles go missing for 4 months in what was only like 10 minutes for them? zero idea! how are the mutant mayhem turtles also not phasing in and out? no idea!

do i know what im talking about? 100% no. but this fic has me in a chokehold and i need to talk about it so..

okay hope you liked my ramble it's 6 am and ive been up since 5 this whole post will be so embarrassing if im super wrong

@saladmix you're actually insane and this fic is crazy

[doodle-buggie]

Was thinking about making a full animatic for TDTWB to "Turn the Lights Off" by Tally Hall, but it didn't get very far before I realized I don't have the time right now to make it in full. Still fun though! Fic is by @saladmix !

See all the planning below: