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Thank you everyone who donated, contributed, and assisted with TMNT4P over the course of it’s journey! And with the support of all those involved we have reached our end goal by surpassing it by over 2 THOUSAND DOLLARS for a whopping total of $7501.66 and are now complete as a project.

However, it’s not over yet for incoming posts as we still have a couple donations to complete, and some TILTIFY goals that have yet to be seen… that being some MINI ZINES!

In the form of a large collaborative fanfic by our writers and various pieces by our artists put together into a big project and when finished they will be posted on our website for everyone to enjoy!

So do stay tuned friends and thank you all for your support 💕

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"teens are prone to tantrums and are emotionally unstable" - okay, yeah, puberty is real, and emotional regulation is a difficult skill to learn. but also. any adult person would be pissed if their opinions were disregarded, they had no say in what happens to them, their emotions and feelings were downplayed and their privacy were intruded on.

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"I was....doing things."

"HE PUSHED ME DOWN THE FREAKING STAIRS!"

"Take that bish."

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Would you fall in love with me again but it's freeze and Nora after she's been revived

Freeze may have lost his feelings and has a heart of ice but it still beats for her.

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Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

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Word Girl: Final Definition (Masterlist)

This is a masterpost for every publicly available chapter of WG: Final Definition. This will be updated periodically when new chapters are uploaded.

Individual links for chapters and information under the cut:

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 |

Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 |

Chapter 8.5 (Pt. 1) 8.5 (Pt. 2) | Chapter 9 |

Chapter 9.5 (Pt. 1) 9.5 (Pt. 2)

For early access to new pages and chapter releases are on my Patreon. All Patreon chapters will eventually be posted publicly. Chapters typically take 1-2 months depending on the length.

For a more streamlined reading experience.. My TikTok playlist has all chapters in order as well.

Note: Chapter numbers with (.5) are considered prequel chapters taking place before the events of Chapter One. There will be multiple prequel chapters in this series to provide context to character relationships and their pasts.

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Bruce: Last week, Clark told me he's looking forward to Kon turning eighteen because he's tired of the defiant stage. I'm still laughing.

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I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

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Am I the only one who feels like everyone forgets duke?

(genuine question. I haven't read any batman comics and am just commenting from the animations some info and fanon things. I'm still confused on where to start)

Is robin really that important? Doesn't batman just want a sidekick? Why does it have to be a ROBIN?

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER BATFAM MEMBER. I have the feeling that now that Damian has left as robin as well as the fact that DC has that weird thing with Bruce’s new love interest that they’re going to make some weird plot where he has another kid that he’ll make robin. PLEASE NO. we DO NOT need another batfam member there is already like twenty of them!! Besides if we really need to make another robin then Maps Mizoguchi is RIGHT THERE! Maps is such a fun character and her whole story is that she really wants to be a detective/looks up to Batman. Instead of making a whole new character DC needs to inform themselves about the characters they already have and use them.

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YOUNG ARTISTS! ANYONE WHO GETS PAID THROUGH PAYPAL! GUYS BEWARE THIS SCAM!!

so I never had a Paypal account before and I got a commission. Wasted time, energy, and got really stressed to finish as soon as possible.

So when it came to paying he sent me the money via PayPal. My account wasn't a business account. So a gamil with (good service PayPal) sent me and told me that I have to expand my account to receive the money, no problem. So the guys said that PayPal had sent him the same email that his money wasn't received by me because I am not a business account. So anyways, he said I'll send you the 200$ (which I didn't ask him to do) and he did it so quickly I didn't have time to react. Then another Gmail was sent that it was turned into a business account. But I need to refund him 200$ from my OWN money to fully finish this. Through buying a gift card or something outside of PayPal and sending them the receipt. And he sent me the gift card right away without me asking. I unfortunately didn't have that much money. So when I told him he told me I was gonna get arrested if I don't pay.

Then I just started adding up things.

No official PayPal Gmail? The guy never told me what the girl's name was and I had to ask for it? even though he told me to write her name in the picture. And I had to ask for it. How eager he was to pay from the beginning even though I told him that he asked for 4 pictures and I was ready to let him pay after he sees the quality of the first one (that took me 4 days to finish) and how when I asked about when the girl's birthday was (which was the reason he got these pictures drawn for her) he never answered, no matter how long I wanted to ask for a deadline. And how QUICKLY he switched to "failure to pay will result in your arrest" which had me close my Paypal account completely.

I confronted him and he repeated nothing except that I'll get arrested and then blocked after some time.

I'm so upset about this. Especially that I thought OH FINALLY someone actually thinks my art is good!

Yeah safe to say I'm disappointed.

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So I may or may not have noticed the dates on the calendar beside him (which I didn't notice the first time and started changing my laptop's dates manually to get every monologue. (Also if you're gonna try this make sure that the year is earlier than 2016 because that's where the dates in the game were last recorded? If it's the right word?)

It is SO MUCH FUN with the details!

Was playing Arkham city and in the Noticed that

CALENDAR MAN'S LINES CHANGE DEPENDING ON THE DATE???

it was valentine's today and he went on a (slightly horrific 😭) monologue about him killing the girl he liked. I changed the date to check if it's because of today or if it's the same dialogue and IT CHANGED TO saint Patrick's day that's coming like OMG that's awesome

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You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference

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My favorite doodles.

(you can tell one of them ripped and I tried to save it XD)

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This is very old and I thought I might post it since I'll probably never finish it. I was making an experiment with my new black paper but apparently, it wasn't made for gouache. The gouache is starting to kinda peel off, I can't figure out Lloyd's face like- at all. And I kinda lost motivation. I might transfer nya or Lloyd or both to my big black canvas if I deem it worthy enough (it's the only black canvas left)

I would love it if you ignored the dragon's eyes on Wu's side of the drawing 😭 I wanted to make it glow now he just looks sleep deprived.

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I've said it before to everyone I know and I'll say it again.

If you want to protect your child DON'T PUT THEM ON THE INTERNET! PLEASE! with everything around in the world and everything spreading through social media, crime documentaries, dark web and all that you'd think people are actually worried about that rather than putting their children out. But no! It's like some people don't want to understand

An Open Letter to Family Influencers

This quote from The New York Times article ‘A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men’ should chill every person posting a photo or video of a child on the internet to the bone.

I want to be upfront from the start that this letter is not meant to shame or criticize. I only hope it will raise questions and concerns for the welfare of the children we’re raising in this chaotic technological era where there are no enforceable rules or regulations, protections or safeguards for anyone involved in sharing their personal lives on social media. The internet is truly the Wild West right now and we all have to do better. 

We are raising children in possibly one of the most dangerous times. Yes, we have more resources at our disposal than ever before to monitor our children’s health and safety but the foundation of many of those resources, the internet, is a vast ocean of uncertainty when it comes to how the information we’re putting into it on a day-to-day basis is being used and by whom.

Several documentaries have come out recently, Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke and Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing to name some, that not only highlight the deeply troubling realities behind family vlogging but also how unprotected and vulnerable the children of today are the minute we post anything about them on social media. There is no way to control who is consuming anything on the internet and this has created a breeding ground for sexual predators and pedophiles to roam freely amongst innocent viewers watching lighthearted videos of childhood. 

Many families turn to family vlogging for monetary reasons and I understand that incentive. In this increasingly unstable and high-cost economic world we’re living in, posting a few videos every day about the ups and downs of family life that generate anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars seems like a magical answer to the very real financial hardships so many people struggle with today. 

But the fact is, you don’t know who’s watching. Doesn’t that scare you?

I used to regularly consume family vlogger content on Instagram and Facebook. Who doesn’t want to watch beautiful families go through the same things you are in a funny, lighthearted, real way that makes your potentially invisible struggles and joys seem somehow seen and heard. You laugh and cry with these content creators and their kids, you purchase things they recommend because maybe they’ll help your child through the same developmental leap or help you stay comfortable or awake for the long days at home or at work. It’s a potentially flawless system for stay-at-home parents to contribute to their household income without the burdensome cost and uncertainty of child care. 

Except it’s not flawless, it opens up your family and your children to so many unspoken safety risks that we all seem to be willing to turn a blind eye to for the sake of enjoyable content that takes a little bit of tension or stress out of our daily lives. 

I think people don’t realize how much of our personal information is out there for people to find if they do a slightly in depth google search or pay as little as $15 a month for access to anyone’s public record information. My profession has nothing to do with investigation or background researching. I have the average number of tech skills someone raised in the age of the internet would have. And still, with someone’s name and general known location or just a phone number, I could find out where you live, any addresses or phone numbers associated with you, any potential relatives or associates and their information, any minor or major criminal charges, social media profiles, automobile type and license plate number, all listed out plainly on one internet page for my perusal.

Note: I do not write the following comments to specific family influencers with any sort of menace or threat, only to point out the incredibly dangerous situations they are putting themselves and their families in.

K.D., it is admirable that you and your family have listened to the wishes of your eldest child and not filmed or posted any content of him or her on your social media. However, you have mentioned his or her first name in posts several times, not a common name, and people know your previously married name. You’ve also posted about the type of activity he or she participates in. It takes one google search of those two names put together with your name attached and immediately a post came up that contains information about the exact location of where that activity is practiced. Doesn’t that worry you that anyone who really wanted to know could so easily find one of your children?

H.N.A, your antics and daily journey with your child are lovely and adorable. But you’ve made it known where you and your family live, that your partner works while you stay at home, and you regularly post timestamp videos about your routine with your child. Does this not invite someone to know exactly when you are home alone with your child? I only have to look up your name, age, and location on one of these inexpensive information websites to have your exact address. Doesn’t this concern you for the safety of yourself and your family? 

It has become commonplace online for family vloggers to post Amazon Wishlists where people—i.e. strangers—can you send you gifts. It is a wonderful thing to help others, that instinct should not be discouraged. But as highlighted in the Bad Influence documentary, how do you know who those gifts are coming from? In the documentary, a pre-teen girl was receiving gifts from ‘Megan’ who turned out to be an adult man, a sexual predator as we find out. Do you really want your toddler playing with a toy or your teen wearing an article of clothing that came from a pedophile?

I think there are two main questions family influencers should ask themselves. 

The first is: How far will you go? You start out filming your babies and toddlers, how far into their childhood are you going to post content of their lives? 5? 10? 13? 16? When they say they don’t want to keep smiling for the camera but you’re relying on that YouTube, Instagram, Amazon, ect. generated income, are you actually going to listen to them or are you going to persuade them into 'just one more video'? Which of their experiences and reactions are you going to post? Crying? Tantrums? Injuries? Their first period? Where does the line get drawn? 

The second question is: Will it be worth it? Will the money be worth your child eventually knowing you potentially put them in harm’s way? That you shared their childhoods, their vulnerable moments with complete strangers without their consent? Do you want to risk their faith and trust in you as a parent, the person they implicitly believed would protect them against the world? 

What will your child think of all this in the future? 

I am not here to blame or fault people who turn to family vlogging. The age of the internet has turned how we engage and interact with each other on its head and we’re all navigating this together, doing the best we can. While I believe social media did mainly start from a place of good intention in regards to helping people connect with one another, it has unfortunately morphed into a sort of money-hungry chimera that no one really knows how to control or regulate. 

The monetization of these platforms that we use daily only benefits the few people controlling them and hurts the rest of us by preying on our stress and shame. They make it seem like they’re here to help you if you can just crack the code on how to make a tiny slice of the monetary pie they’re making. Post content, advertise yourself and your family and you will be rich and successful for essentially just living. But, as much as we want it to be, life is never that simple. Taking the easy route almost always proves to be the wrong path in the long run.

I am a parent of a young child, a parent that does not post any personal information or photos of my child. This was a mutual decision between my partner and I, although it was my partner who insisted on doing this before our child was born. While I was reluctant at the time, I am now so grateful that I agreed. 

We have to collectively do better. I don’t know what the solution is to keep our children safe but I think that until we have one, the solution is to keep children off the internet. At least until they’re prepared to give informed consent regarding the use of their image and information. I don’t know what age that is, I don’t know what fully informed consent would be considered. I just know it is our responsibility as parents and people engaging with social media to keep the children of this world safe when we know of a specific threat. And the internet in its current state is a threat to them. Private profiles can be hacked, fake accounts created. There is no privacy on the internet. And as tools like the Way Back Machine and others have proven, the internet is written in permanent marker.

How are we going to continue writing its future with our children at stake?

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Does anyone ever think that batman wants to be like the joker and the joker like batman?(At least in the Arkham verse)

Batman has gone through his "one bad day" but he couldn't snap he couldn't let his emotions get the better of him. There are certain people who bottle up emotions not because they want to but because they can't let it out no matter how much they try. They want to snap because it feels like this would remove the weight on their shoulders but they simply CAN'T. So when he sees the joker he sees himself in him. This is him if he had given in which is something that deep, deep inside him he wanted. Not because he's evil but because 1-it a natural need to want to let go and let it out after everything you've been through, you want to feel better, but he's selfless and can't simply hurt others for his sake only. And 2-its much much easier to give in rather than to keep fighting. So he sympathizes with the joker. Feels bad for him. wants him to get better no matter how much he does or how much he hates him. Because he would want to get better if he had snapped and gone rogue. He would want someone to save him he wouldn't want to be a bad person. Not understanding that some people just don't care.

The joker on the other hand was selfish enough to hurt others happily, if it gave him some sort of closure. He snapped. But snapping doesn't necessarily mean losing your mind. Rather he's letting out all the pain inside on others until it becomes a twisted addiction. Like Jason Todd said in that one comic, "you're not as crazy as you pretend to be". (No seriously, I am no expert on psychology but someone who is insane wouldn't be that cunning). He let himself go, to enjoy inflicting harm on others. And he envies batman. Because he's much better than him. Because batman was strong enough to not Snap. To keep going and put others first. So he fights batman, not only because it's fun to him but also because he wants him to join him, be like him, make him snap. He torments his closest allies, torments him. Hoping he'd be like him, snapping at him, joining him. It's the sort of evil and envy that made him more than ready to die just to see him fall because "I won't let you be better than me even if I die doing it." Kinda like the crabs in the bucket thing, y'know?

(I think I over analyzed it and will probably take this down if I feel like it got too cringey)