#this was from like april or something

[starmocha]

I appreciate that his go-to move is Netflix & Chill.

[shadowsketches]

We’ll see

[crabsnpersimmons]

(slowly cleaning out all the art i drafted but never posted)

sometimes the only way to recharge after a long day

is drawing your current blue trauma boi* in the outfit of your previous blue trauma boi**

*Moon, from my hairdresser AU "New 'Do, Same You" AU

**Red Clad Dewey from Another Eden

[077891st]

trying to remember how to draw again 🐠

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about how Leo says he uses his jokes to cope and y’know, thinking harder on it I think it may very well be because of what else uses one-liners and puns and that type of humor.

Specifically, 80’s action movies and campy sci-fi. Even more specifically, the protagonists of these.

So I can imagine why, exactly, Leo leans toward this brand of humor. It’s directly linked to things he loves! But even more than that is why I think it’s used as a coping mechanism.

In these genres, these quips tend to be said by the winner - or, if not a winner, then someone who will stay alive. So there’s a confidence behind them, an assurance, almost, that even if things go wrong, things aren’t ever too serious. There’s no bad endings here! It’s all good fun, even if the stakes seem high.

Leo canonically has been known to steer his brothers away from the more brutal villains and toward more fun, lighthearted activities and not-so-dangerous criminals. So for Leo, these jokes definitely make things less heavy, make the situations they find themselves in less intense.

It’s kinda not just coping, but also can be seen as a form of escapism. A safety blanket. A way for Leo to defuse the tension of knowing just how dangerous their lives are and replace that with a levity which implies that things will be okay.

Unfortunately, levity alone does not alter reality.

[holopossums]

i need to push my "Casey Jr. is farsighted and needs reading glasses" agenda a little harder so here ya go

[snackugaki]

surprise my other hobbies are window shopping and fashion

[fatedroses]

I draw a sketch to simply offer my own personal little headcanon and theory that Zenos was the only other descendant Emet got close to (knowing him probably unintentionally) besides Lucius.

Obviously we never see them interact directly, but several little worldbuilding tidbits do make me ponder about certain things, like the possibility lorewise that it could've been Emet that named Zenos, and the fact that they share certain habits and potentially interests.

[lavenderrvalleyy]

Yo guys... it's friday... y'know what that means...?

FAKE PEPPINO FRIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAY-*explostion*

Finally I participate in this silly thing, and how do I do it? By sharing some useless headcanons. Let's-a go!

Useless HC 1: B E A N S

Why beans you ask? In my headcanon Fake Peppino has (very limited) shapeshifting abilities. At will he can make himself become a bit more animal-like (or monster-like, as seen in his "chase" form). He uses the "beans" transformation to stick to walls like a frog or a gecko. The paw pads are very grippy and allows them to stick to any wall with ease (including the ceiling).

Useless HC 2: Peppino has freaked his clone out as much as his clone has freaked him out.

Fake Peppino had very limited knowledge of the real world (and humans) after the events of the tower. As much as he's been learning and discovering, it's still all very strange and confusing. As a result, Fake Peppino quickly learned how Peppino felt when they first met, and how what was mundane and normal to one individual seemed freakish and hostile to the other. A prime example of this is when Fake Peppino learned about sneezing. Now Fake Pep, due to his physiology being like a frog's, is physically unable to sneeze. They were completely unaware that this was a thing among humans and such until a short while after the tower, when Peppino had an allergic reaction to a cat. Having no clue what the sudden, mildly terrifying outburst was about, Fake Pep assumed that this was a thing that humans did to assert dominance and got upset and confused as to why Peppino would do that to such an innocent creature. After a bit of explaining Fake Peppino became a bit relieved that what Peppino did wasn't out of malice, though still didn't quite understand WHY that reaction had to be so... violent? And sudden? Even after learning what it was, they still haven't been able to hear a sneeze without freaking out a little bit.

Useless HC 3: the weather affects Fake Peppino's physical state

In cooler environments, Fake Pep becomes more "solid". His body becomes a lot less watery and becomes a sort of thick pizza dough consistency- it's tough enough to hold together but you can phase through it if you use enough strength. In hotter environments, he will become quite runny in consistency, making it harder for him to hold himself together.

The visual above is an exaggeration, snow and winter weather will cause him to go into hibernation (frog DNA thing). He does melt a lot to a certain degree but he will not transform into a fried egg (unless he wants to).

Temperature swings can become an issue for him in certain situations, as in if they happened to be in a tight place at the time and it gets cold... as a result, Fake Pep has gotten stuck in pipes. Here is a badly drawn example of that happening:

Don't worry though, all you need is a blow drier, portable heater, or other source heat to melt and unstick him.

That's all for now! Thanks for tuning in on my ted talk. Expect more bullshit in the future :3

[fate-defiant]

malenmalenmalenmalenmalenmalenmalenmalen

[cannibal-nightmares]

"I have to find a way in the dark I have to walk, but I want to stay I have to hope this spell's gonna break I have to destroy to create I have to be rude to your face"

[ x ]

[amazingdeadfish]

Greetings. I propose an... idea...?

The prompt list is free to everyone and it's open to interpretation! I'll be doing it from the 12-19th of September, but there's no actual set date for this or anything.

[feroluce]

Thinking tonight about Caelus, and the nature of his loss and his grief after the Everything that went down in Penacony during 2.0.

Because Acheron, Black Swan, and Misha kind of knew of Firefly, they at least met her, but they didn't like really know her, and Caelus never even got the chance to introduce her to the rest of the Astral Express Crew. The only person who would have talked to her much was Sparkle, who is. Probably not really someone Caelus is interested in grieving with skznmsks

Anyway, all this to say, I like thinking about how alone poor Caelus is in his grief, because he was the only one who knew Firefly. He's the only one really mourning her. There's no one to talk about her with. There's no stories to trade or memories to reminisce with anyone over. It's not as though he knew her for long, but still. No one else knew her at all.

And I love the thought of all of this coming bubbling up, hot and acidic and bitter, during a conversation with Sampo, who Caelus just so happens to run into in the Golden Hour. Poor Sampo is kinda blindsided, he knew shit was going down in Penacony, but yeesh. And he just. Isn't quite sure what to say about it all, because he's never really encountered this before. His feelings about the Masked Fools are...a mixed bag, but he's been a part of them for a very long time, and when you're with a close organization like that, it's hard to feel alone, in grief or otherwise.

So Sampo sits there on their little bench that the two of them have occupied, and he thinks of his old friend April, how she'd died in his arms cackling and spitting her own blood after a heist gone wrong, and how after he'd dragged himself back to the World's End Tavern they'd all held a Fool's Funeral- which is basically just a big party where everyone gets really really drunk and reminisces and toasts the dead and celebrates their life.

He still thinks about her a lot, and he remembers how the time he'd most keenly felt her absence was on Jarilo-VI, the one place where he couldn't talk about her because he couldn't say anything to give himself away as an alien. The Fools still tell stories about her every time he goes back to the Tavern. His first toast of the night is always in her name. Even now, all these years after she'd died, Sampo is still learning new things about her. He's never had to grieve her alone.

Caelus doesn't have any of that.

He might never have that. As they speak, Caelus has no proof that Firefly was even her real name, or if she dreamt with her true appearance. He might not ever find out who she even was.

And just imagining that kind of loneliness hollows out a strange little pit, right behind his sternum, deep between his ribs.

So Sampo claps Caelus' shoulder and offers him a deal. Come find him outside of the dream. He knows a guy who can get them a lot of beer for really cheap-

("Is that guy you and your five finger discounts?" "Whatever do you mean, dear friend, I don't even know the meaning of the phrase, hehee.")

-and they can hole up in a bar or a hotel room or something, and get completely shitcanned. Tell him all about Firefly, tell him everything, and he'll tell Caelus about April and everyone else he's ever lost. Sampo will carry Caelus' memories of Firefly with him, and at least this way, Caelus will be a little less alone in remembering her. And the next time they cross paths, Sampo will be the one to bring her up, and to tell her stories, and Caelus can get to be the one listening. He won't have to be the only person to talk about her anymore.

Caelus rolls his eyes when Sampo avoids another remark about sticky fingers, but...ok, yeah. That sounds good. Nice, even. Thank you. Caelus bumps his shoulder against Sampo's. Sampo bumps back.

(They find each other again the next day, and true to their word, get themselves completely and utterly shitcanned. Caelus talks more than Sampo has ever heard him; every minute detail, every word choice, Firefly's every odd little mannerism and habit. Because Caelus wants to make sure this will outlive him, that even if the Stellaron dwelling within him finally burns him to a crisp and he really does up and kick the bucket, or even, godforbid, if he forgets, he wants to make sure someone remembers her. She deserved that.)

((And it takes quite a while, after that. Caelus doesn't see Sampo again until after everything has settled down. On his last day in Penacony, he finds the guy slinking out of a seedy back alley and all but runs right into him. Sampo happily leads him to some dive bar in an even seedier back alley that Caelus has never even heard of, and Sampo raises his glass. "To Firefly! Who sounds like she probably would have hated me at first, but I would have liked to have met her anyway."

And Caelus stares at him, almost looking startled, long enough that Sampo worries that he's read him wrong and brought this up too soon. He's halfway into planning how to talk himself out of this situation when Caelus finally throws back his head back and laughs, tells him that yeah, Firefly would have politely called him out on every lie he told, and all their conversations would take twice as long with the way Sampo is so full of shit.

And he can see it, the same way he watches and sees through everyone, that Caelus' eyes have a tightness to them, his knuckles are nearly white around the handle of his mug. But he smiles. He hits his glass against Sampo's far too hard and throws it back and gets foam everywhere like he does every time they drink because the guy's about as elegant as a raging bull, but those things don't lessen the genuineness of his smile.

The grief is there, but so is the elation, and those emotions aren't a sliding scale between one or the other. It is all of both and both at once, and that's what contents Sampo enough to throw his own mug back when Caelus makes a toast of his own, "to April!!".))

[satorisoup]

people will think im ordinary until they say one (1) thing about tmnt and all of a sudden im explaining the entire lore starting from the 1990’s movie & why donatello is the best turtle i fear… T^T

tag limit fights me… i must yap… please listen… SOB </3

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: death mention / family death mention / ]

Mhmm I sure love thinking of the reality where we did get more time to really know Karai and her dynamics with the bros. Losing her hit hard in the finale, but it would’ve hit much, much harder had we known Karai longer and really saw her relationships develop with everyone.

I especially would have been interested in her dynamic with Leo, as past iterations often have the two of them clash in ideals and the like while still sharing many characteristics. Two sides of the same coin, and all that. Her specifically being the bros’ Gram-Gram also adds a whole new dynamic as well.

Imagine how interesting it would be, to have Karai start off on Leo’s side for once, showing wholly just how alike the two are at their cores and bonding as family without the worry of betrayal or animosity that other iterations suffer through, only to have Karai die anyway. Their parting hug and the desperate look of horror Leo wears later on would have hit that much harder, I feel.

[angelmichelangelo]

ik the 2012 cgi was pretty good for its time but i find it so strange how they did teeth in the show.

like for example, all the turtles have ‘Barbie’ teeth, just a big block of white in their mouths, even for donnie who has a gap in his

same with april and karai

but then some characters like casey and renet get like, individual teeth? and it could be said because they have gaps in theirs but they did the same for donnie so why make it look so strangely different?

it just looks so odd to me lol