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Hi! What are some of your favorite TMNT blogs? Are there any that you like to look at – especially ones that also post Meta/their findings like you?

hi! thank u for ur interest :)

(im a pure-2k3 blog)

2k3 blogs:

tmnt2003

sassatello

20thanniversarytmnt (tbh im hoping they'd come back for 25th too 🤣)

hamsterandturtlesoup

emeraldtortoiseshell

Meta:

angeldormante

isitdonproof

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redstringraven

tmntkiseki

tmntobsessionsrus

generally though i scroll the #meta or #tmnt 2003 tags of tmnt blogs i come across!

i think most blogs write a few meta every now and then (myself included) or are multifandom. 

i haven't really seen a blog writing daily TMNT essays hahah (most of us prolly dun have the time for that 😂)

i started this sideblog over 10 yrs ago and tbh most 2k3 blogs i follow either have gone inactive or turned multifandom, so mostly i just scroll the fandom tags. 

good luck anon and tbh keep me updated too if u have excellent 2k3 blogs to recc 😆 

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It's not easy being a single dad of 4...

The OG meme

Additional pose reference

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I’ve seen a lot more love and appreciation for tmnt2003 since I drew this a month ago and it makes me so happy, because it’s still my favourite ☺️ 🧡💙❤️💜

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The dynamic in Rise between the rest of the team and Leo is. so fucking funny. Because like you've got these three extremely talented individuals who all seem like perfectly reasonable people at first glance, right, but then if you squint hard enough you realize they're actually all batshit insane (affectionate) and the clown boy standing behind them is secretly their common sense.

Clown boy will occasionally put himself and the others in danger to Prove Himself or Prove Someone Wrong (see Minotaur Maze and the movie) but like otherwise... i think people forget Leo's overwhelmingly the voice of reason in most situations?

Raph, Mikey, and Donnie are all incredibly powerful boys with very specific skill sets. They are also, as a direct result of this, the WORST decision-makers on god's green earth lmao. When presented with a problem, Raph will smash, Donnie will blow shit up, and Mikey will razzmatazz. They will all run straight toward death with the same oblivious enthusiasm of a dog about to run straight into a screen door. None of them realize this and all of them think they are Extremely Good At Problem-Solving.

And the guy cursed with the common sense to realize this is literally the LAST person anyone would expect.

When you look closely, the entirety of Rise is actually a chronicle of Leo trying to find new and creative ways to keep this team of superpowered fools alive while simultaneously white-knuckling his Cool Fun Guy persona so the others don't realize he's secretly the Boring Responsible One. Haha, you know what would be Cool and Fun, guys? Not going after the Spine Breaking Bandit lol. Getting home before the sun goes up lol. Evacuating that civilian lol. Not telling the guy dangling me off a roof "you won't, no balls" lol.

The sacred struggle of every iteration of Leonardo is thanklessly wrangling the most trigger-happy siblings in the world, and Rise Leo has not escaped it. He just does an occasional shenanigan to avoid detection and his brothers fall for it every time.

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So are we not gonna acknowledge that there's a deleted scene where the turtles break into Bishop's base seemingly just to steal his vanilla egg creams?

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Different ideas for the Saki Utrom in TMNT 2K3

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2012 Donnie in the Rise style!! i think they'd get along pretty well 🙂‍↕️

(update: i added some shading n stuff (°▽°) )

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Сгори дотла моя вселенная

Из темноты ты ты ты ты ты

Russian tiktok trends eeeee

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I couldn’t take it anymore you guys, so I colored em rq

Original sketch here

(Open for higher quality)

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I love not coloring <3

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hey star shine

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Hokay. Let’s say we saw the Exodus arc through Karai’s eyes.

Keep reading

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Piebald was a cool character

I wish we'd gotten to see more of her in the show

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Headless Shredder, lying facedown on the ground while the turtles wander off into the sunset: "Why the hell did I decide to install an automatic shutdown in the event of significant exosuit damage. 'Oh it'll be more realistic, it'll help me maintain my cover'. Yeah, friggin' brilliant idea, Ch'rell. Really working out for you now."

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The funniest damn thing about the Prodigal Son episode, though? Raph swaggering back in to greet his brothers with a typical tough guy line, brushing off Don's delight to see him alive and well with "yeah, yeah, whatever".

Like he hadn't been freaking out about his missing brothers at all. Like he didn't immediately unload all his worry and fear onto Leo the second they were reunited. Like his reaction to being told the rest of his family was safe wasn't to brace himself against his knees and catch the breath he'd been holding since they were separated.

Who do you actually think you're fooling, Raph.

BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT'S ANYONE WHO KNOWS YOU.

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Nice kids. Yeah. Strange costumes though.

I hope watching this brings you as much joy as editing it did to me

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hayyy brains n brawns moment