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I'm finally done! This took way longer than I wanted it to for such a simple color palette, but I'm happy with the turnout, although I couldn't decide which version to go with, so you all get both! d( > _・ )

Reference was loosely used but only really for the shapes of the bg and not for the character poses or anything.

progress pics below: fun fact, most of my drawings start as doodles on sticky notes

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Bishop: Your girlfriend is a bitch.

Raph: What did you just say?!

Bishop: I said your girlfriend is a bitch!

Raph: MONA LISA IS GOD!!

Raph: *punches Bishop*

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unusued leo pic on tphone ;_;

idea by director Sebastian Montes, drawn by me

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reblog this if your icon could kill a man

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I draw too

He's so cute

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Picturing all these Leos at their Defenestration Nation support group is made infinitely funnier to me when we also address the lone 1990 Raph in attendance 🧍‍♂️

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I'm bringing back this conversation because I will forever defend Y'gthba ("Mona Lisa") within the context of the episode, "Evil of Dregg"-

I know it was kind of annoying to have Y'gthba and G'Throkka ("Sal Commander") written to be so gullible with both the Kraang and Lord Dregg / Armaggon, but I still think the dilemma Y'gthba was faced with in this episode was valid. I think this was an extremely difficult and debilitating decision she had to make, a choice she honestly shouldn't have had to make in the first place. But it didn't surprise me or shock me to see her choose her home planet over Raph.

Like, let's be real, everyone and their Mom acknowledges that 2012 RaMona was super rushed by the writers. So I think it makes sense for their relationship to have been super new as well, meaning that it would be illogical for Y'gthba to choose a guy (And his team-) that just barely knows / just met over her ENTIRE PLANET AND SPECIES OF PEOPLE. This is something Donnie even acknowledges by the end of the episode when she ultimately chooses to rectify her mistake of betraying Raph by helping them escape.

I'm not saying that Raph wasn't entitled to be in his feelings about her betrayal, since that doesn't necessarily not make sense to me, but I feel like how the show sort of weaponizes Raph's emotional distraught over the situation towards Y'gthba is really annoying. I feel like if the context was reversed, everybody would be gaslighting Raph about how unreasonable it was to choose Y'gthba the over saving Earth?? Even if that wasn't the case, I'm sure the writers would come up with some way to make it seem like the main characters did nothing wrong because they "didn't actually give up their friends" / "it was all an act, regardless of the fact that their allies thought it was real" or something- My point is, I feel like if Raph was the one betraying Y'gthba, the show would definitely portray this entire thing differently and make it seem like Y'gthba was being overly reactive. 💀

That's also why I added the last image with Raph, because I wanted to show him really pondering and questioning what he would do if he was in her position- I'm sure his go-to answer would be, "To save you, obviously!", but I feel like it wouldn't take him long to realize how complicated this dilemma actually would be. I also hate that the show didn't draw this parallel, because this is the entire point of the Space Arc?? I wish their rekindling at the end of the episode was handled differently, with Raph genuinely acknowledging why she did what she did and forgiving her from that standpoint rather than Y'gthba saying, "I love you" for the first time resulting in Raph completely disregarding everything.

I just feel like this is another example of the 2012 writing loving to villainize the female characters for things that they would not villainize the male characters for doing / going through (i.e. If Karai and Leo's situations were swapped, I highly doubt they would have villainized Leo as much as they did Karai, especially during his redemption-). I don't know. 🙃 Lmao

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Hey um, who the tf is running the TMNT’s official page on Instagram/Tiktok and why are they so obsessed with making leor@i post lately???

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Wtf did i just watch

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Probably a hot take in the fandom nowadays, but Leo and Karai overall in the TMNT franchise have such a good and interesting dynamic as enemies turned respected rivals, but it keeps on getting ruined by shipping them! It needs to stop.

They’re either related, he’s a minor & she’s an adult, or both 💀

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everything is about the ninja turtles if you’re dedicated enough

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Sleepy Brothers 

I finally finished Season 4 of  TMNT and I loved how sweet the re-union was. Fatherly Splinter is my fav! Have some fluff!  This is another print that will be available at Fanime :> 

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the phantom of the opera and the hunchback of notre dame? opposite ends of same spectrum 

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"doesn't this charater under insane stress going through extremely traumatic events realize how inconvenient their irrational emotional reactions are to the people around them?" well, see, you're not gonna believe this, but the thing is,

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T-pods.