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Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

— Madeleine L'Engle

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“I see your true colors...”

Inspired by @gumnut-logic prompt “Sensory Sunday - See”. 

After I read the prompt, this idea wouldn’t let me alone. And, since apparently I tend to discover fandoms after everyone else did, here is a doodle of Leonardo from TMNT 2012.

Thank you for the inspiration, @gumnut-logic! :) 

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#tmnt2012

Colortest “passionatered” “vibrantorange” “deliberatepurple”

I need to make a new Leo .____. I don’t like his Bandanatails anymore…

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I am forever grateful that he exists, even though he will never be mine.

Lina A. (via quotemadness)

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#soft angel of the lord

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The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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on depression and hurt/comfort

here’s the thing about being depressed in real life: it’s lonely and isolating and scary and numbing and there are times when you so badly want someone, anyone to notice, but you can’t bring yourself to tell them what the problem is because then they’ll know, and sometimes there’s other terrible shit you’re dealing with in tandem and sometimes it’s just the depression, but either way, it can easily reach a point where you start wishing something visibly awful would happen to you just so you’d have a reasonable excuse to be feeling as though it already had, like it would somehow be easier to wake up wanting to die if you could blame it on something other than just your brain, if there was a cause, even though you rationally know it doesn’t work like that, that it would only make things worse; and it’s messy and hard and it goes on forever and there’s no simple catharsis, you’re often surrounded by people who don’t understand or whose issues don’t play nicely with yours even though you’re both trying, and you can’t see a reasonable end in sight and you just want to believe that it’s going to get better - 

and here’s the thing about hurt/comfort in fanfiction: it takes all that fear and pain and loneliness you’re feeling IRL and channels it into characters you care about, characters who always pull through against all odds, characters whose stories you can control, characters whose lovers or friends or parents can tell them the things you wish that someone had said to you, and you know from the outset that even when they’re bloody and crying, it’s going to get better for them, that they’re going to be good to each other and fix each other and listen and understand, because that’s what those stories are for, it’s what they do, and whether you’re the one writing them or reading them, they speak to that place in you that hurts, they show you it can get better, they tell you it’s not your fault, they let you feel all the grief in your life in a way that’s safe, cathartic, hopeful, because the story brings you through the darkness and out the other side - 

because ultimately, hurt/comfort isn’t just about the characters. it’s about us being hurt and needing comfort, too.   

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Because Splinter and Mikey need more feels :I

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Baxter’s Laboratory

I was just in the mood of drawing Donnie being a sassy nerd. :P

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Turtle Tots Dump

by SpringSunshower 

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We have Eachother by SpringSunshower

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Christmas Lights by Snufflin [deleted]

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こがめ と おはな

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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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you are holy; don’t let them forget it

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I changed the font and spacing to reread my first draft and it’s a totally legit trick but also it’s so funny how much of writing is just playing mind games with yourself. Stuck on the blank page? Write a grocery list! Words won’t come? Switch to writing on a yellow legal pad! Having trouble working consistently? Create a daily writing ritual! Is everything just Bad? Write in Comic Sans! Set a timer! Set a weird deadline! Write 1000 words EXACTLY, no more and no less! Mess with the font colors! Get up early! Stay up late! Dress up to do your writing! Or write naked!

the writer’s brain is just a puzzle toy that we have to turn over and over in every direction to get the Creativity to fall out

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