#yall im so dramatic ;-;

[ninja-boo]

not enough people are talking about these shitty fan castings on Pinterest from like 2016

[scatterbrainedbot]

Hello :D

You're so cool

Anyway have you thought that in your rat sons au Splinter might outlive the boys?

You're very cool :D love your stuff dude

(tw for some blood, light gore, implied overdose (kinda??))

hi copper!!! this is a fantastic question!

so obviously typical irl rats have far shorter lifespans than the average irl tortoise. according to google (yes, be awed by my spectacularly in-depth wealth of research) the average pet rat lives between 2-4 years ish, and the oldest on record lived to be about 7. meanwhile, an African spurred tortoise (Splinter's species) averages more around a 50ish year lifespan in captivity, tho is suspected to possibly exceed 75 or more in the wild.

Now, the mutation does give us a lot of wiggle room for playing with these numbers. For the rat sons boys, id say their natural lifespan probably clocks in at about 45-55 years old? definitely not old by human standards, but not young young either. (though, its also important to note that the boys were exposed to the mutagen just days after being born.)

For Splinter, meanwhile, aging is slightly more complicated. He lived the vast majority of his life as a regular normal African spurred tortoise (well, non-mutated at least. there were perhaps some shenanigans of a more mystical variety going on before he was mutated, but thats a separate matter) He was about 70ish i think? when the boys were born and they were all exposed to the mutagen. so he is already distinctly an old man turtle papa. id guess he'd probably still have another eh lets say 25-30 years after his mutation. he could probably push it a little farther even with some mystic nonsense, but when push comes to shove id say his 'natural' post-mutation lifespan would put his death like a solid decade or two before his sons.

of course, the tricky part of the matter is that theres no way for Splinter to know any of this. theres no way for him to know how the mutation affected them all, or if it even affected them all in the same way. especially since the boys dont show many physical signs of mutation for the first few years, and just kinda look like normal rats, (albeit with a more human sort of intelligence) — what sort of health standard do you hold them to? what if they simply dont show external signs of sickness or old age anymore? how do you actually know if something is wrong?

for a while there Splinter is very worried that one of his babies will just essentially reach the end of their normal rat lifespan, fall and not get up again.

so mostly, he just tries to live in the moment, enjoying whatever time he does have with his little ones, taking each day as a gift <3

still,

that fear

never

really

goes

away.....

[radioactive-dazey]

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT VIRGIL'S (thomas's) EYES?

THEYRE SO PRETTY

I have thought about his eyes once a day every day for the last 12 days. I can't get it out of my head. Fuck man

Yall see it too right??

[motherismotheringggg]

my boys 🥹💘

[stealingyourbones]

recently watched a handful of episodes of Supernatural and im kinda impressed with Dean's steadfast belief that all monsters are monsters and can't be redeemed.

With that in mind... there could be some VERY angsty Danny Phantom crossovers with that as the main premise

[marymekpop]

⟢ highlight of the hour: the good bad mother [6/6] ⟣

empathy

[theosphobia]

WDYM IM THE CABOOSE GUY

SURELY

SURELY

there is a bigger caboose fan who is way more well known guys please i havent been here that long i cant be the caboose guy

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ok so scribbling w/ a wrist brace is kinda hard! but i'm glad i finally found it again. my bones are so secure and my tendons are so compressed

[staghunters]

There was a promise in our stride

But we changed courses, headfirst into the unknown

[lollyyon]

PHANNIES PLEASE HEAR MY CONFESSION

guys please pretend to care for one minute oke. I fucking love dnp tumblr. i love it here. But I have been hiding like a vampire in the nude cowering from the morning sun since, FEBRUARY 26TH.

Do yall remember what day that is? The day the lovely Dan Howell globally broadcasted his final performance of WE'RE ALL DOOMED! Yeah i fucking MISSED IT. i missed it. this beautiful collective phannie experience and i missed it. ALL BC OF MY STUPID GAY BS. Blew Dan off for my girl who aint even my girl.

AND THEN i missed every opportunity afterwards to watch it. There are at least 3 (three) 15+ min long videos on my phone of me sobbing and crying over this. I couldn't even bring myself to watch dnp for TWO. WEEKS. TWO WEEKS.

I got through it eventually. I guess. what can you ever do but make peace with the countless tragedies in this life.

In my shame I couldn't bare to return to phannie tumblr. ive been meaning to make this post for so long, even before!! I was saved!

I was saved O, I was saved! When our gracious Sister Daniel posted the performance on youtube [heart emoji <3]

So. its fine now! Hope at least one person got a notif that i posted for the first time in awhile. anyways nobody even cares but i had to let this out bc i miss it here thx guys!!! xx

[chiarrara]

on one hand I'm kinda like....duh what are y'all so upset about, we been knew. but on the other hand...thinking about what it would take to pick yuri on ice back up again now that it's been officially put down, kinda makes my heart hurt. I don't know if there's ever going to be a path forward for this series that had so much potential left.

Mostly, I'm annoyed with the announcement. Really vague language about unspecified circumstances. I wish they would be straight with it because there are numerous reasons that could've contributed to the decision not to move forward. The prevalence of Russian skaters, the issues with and reorganization of the studio, the amount of time that's passed and the acquisition of more relevant projects. But I guess there's less to talk about and less blowback the less you say? Or maybe just not enough people care anymore.

I don't feel like we're missing anything with what we have exactly, so I've never been that cut up about the show not continuing. but no other piece of media has ever meant as much to me as yoi does. probably a lot of that is how much space is left in the story for more. I don't know, I don't feel like I should be upset but I'm feeling upset man. Just a little bit of silly grief for my favorite media of all time being unceremoniously cancelled....

after 5 years of radio silence tho so like, what did we expect. it's been over.

[10-dutchies-12-bicycles]

welp. starting off my birthday by holding a funeral for my oldest houseplant(s)

[tojisun]

i love your blog, feels so chill like every time i visit here it feels like hanging out and listening to you talk about whatever, reading your post and i'm like ''noooo fucking wayy'' ''oh tea'', ''that bitch did what???'' ''that's cool''. never stop being yourself . PEACE

this means so so much to me esp w how fluctuating my writing has been. that u continue to tune in even if im just screaming and often losing my mind at work? thank you so much for hearing me out and for hanging out w me 🥹🫶🏼

ik you said you love my blog n not me per se but i love you!!! MWAH thank you thank you

[hybbat]

"You saved me so I can kill you", "my wretch of a wife", and "30 seconds" all happened in this series, yet y'all cry divorce on the ranchers.

[palmettoshenanigans]

💖💖

MY BELOVED HAS SENT ME MAIL VIA CARRIER PIGEON ONCE MORE!!! MOTHER!!! MOTHER, FETCH ME MY QUILL LEST THE SUN SET AND DENY ME LIGHT I MUST WRITE BACK!!! MOTHER YOU MUST MAKE HASTE!!!! MOTHER-

[smackins]

Not to be THAT guy, but I really need to bare my soul here.

I don't know if I want to do Artfight anymore.

While I'm extremely grateful for the attacks I did receive this year (I still owe 2 revenge pieces, don't worry, I'm working on them ❤️) it's become less fun and more of a reminder of how isolated I feel as an artist. I got a total of five attacks this year. I have friends who were attacked right out of the gate, on the very first day, by a barrage folks who were chomping at the bit to draw their ocs.

It's not Artfight's fault, and not really other people's fault, either. I'm not like, "How dare you not attack me!!111!!" It's just it amplifies so many insecurities I've had for years and makes it hard to ignore them.

I get an overwhelming feeling like there's something wrong with me as an artist, not even that I'm medicocre skill wise (though I feel that, too), but that I'm just fundamentally uninteresting and forgettable. My characters and my stories aren't worth asking about. They aren't worth anyone's enthusiasm or curiosity, they're not worth the encouragement. I can share a piece that I spent 6 hours on and just get "cute" as a response, while others could share a non-serious doodle of their ocs that took 5 minutes tops and get responses like "AHHH I LOVE THEM THEYRE SO AMAZING YOURE SO FUNNY."

And I know it's not good to compare yourself to others, but sometimes it's hard not to when everywhere I go, it feels so blatantly obvious how I'm barely worth anyone's time.

At first I thought it was the fact I draw non-human characters, because those are hard for people, so I made a little note on Artfight that I'll accept humanized versions. But plenty of people draw nonhuman characters, all the time, and recieve lots of encouragement and feedback from other people. Then I thought, "maybe it's my original comic characters that intimidate people" you know, my weird scorpion aliens. But that's not it either, because they're admittedly a lot less "alien" than they could be, and I know people with some absolutely WILD speculative-biology-type character designs who, again, get loads of enthusiasm and feedback. Plus, that doesn't explain why my fan ocs go ignored- plenty of people like Digimon, Mass Effect, and DBZ.

I feel like I'm just weird and tainted and cursed somehow, which I KNOW is absurd, but that's the best way I can describe this frustration. And yeah, I know if I posted more art and more about my characters, I MIGHT get a little more traction, but when I get so little encouragement from so few people, it's so hard to feel motivated to share. And it's not like I'm looking for huge, detailed responses or specifics about why people like my technique or whatever, because God knows I struggle to form specific words as to why EXACTLY I like something, but I just want to feel like people give a damn and ACTUALLY want to know more. Very few people ask questions or get curious. I have a lore blog for my original comic that has been up for 7 whole years, yet the only questions or comments I get are from the same 2 or 3 (very lovely and appreciated) people. Most of those posts have zero notes, a ton of them have been reblogged to my personal blog over, and over, and over again and still get ignored.

This isn't about popularity, or notes, or anything like that. I just want to feel like what I put into the world matters. Yes, I do get satisfaction from drawing for myself, but that can only go so far when I feel like I'm the little kid in the corner playing alone because the other kids don't notice me.