#LA Turtle

[myrottingbrain]

the biggest crime by far is having weak moves

[tasenwrobots]

WAITWAIT WAIT WHATWAIT WHAT WHAT

MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A LIEWHAT

[whitechocolateanti]

natural habitat

[pinetreevillain]

Art summary for this year!!

[yodaprod]

1989

[alligatorcarapace]

I wanna talk about the tmnt 2003 timeline, can we talk about the 03 timeline?

Because I was refamiliarizing myself with Fast Forward and for some reason the turtles claimed they were 15. And I know that's not right. Since we see in season 3 Christmas pass and then in season 4 Halloween pass so clearly their at least 16 by this point and then I started really thinking about the timeline. I mean really thinking about it.

And then I realized, wait wait wait, there might be even more time passing.

So come with me on this rabbit hole I went into!

See when Leo get's knocked into a coma and they go to the farm house the first time there's snow everywhere. But when they get back to NYC there's no snow.

And you might be like "What if in this world NYC just doesn't have a lotta snow or the farm house is just very snowy" to which I point out we've seen NYC get a lot of snow multiple times through out the snow. The big one being that Christmas episode, and we've seen the farm house in sunny weather; that's what season 4's time appeared to be in.

So clearly a lot of time has past.

Between all those facts and the fact that Leo & Raph were reforging swords in the barn(Why did Casey's grandma need a forge in her barn???? Cause it had to have been her since her hubby was out train robbing apparently. The Jones family was doomed to tangle with crime from the start, even alternative dimensions where Casey hate's fighting he's still entangled with The Law Tm) They must've had their first Christmas at the farm house. Now if that happened while Leo was knocked out, depressed, or sword making I'll leave up to the whump writers, but still make note of that.

Then the we get the finally of season 1 which appears to be the longest day ever followed by, at most, a week of Splinter Searching becuase the Utrom Council are Obtuse assholes who could've saved a lot of headaches by speaking to the family of the medical patience. I like to headcanon that a lot of bureaucracy held down Mortu from talking. Like I just know that the level of secrecy they operate under is just The Worst about getting things done fast.

The whole Tricerion arc either happened within one day or there's some weird time dilation going on where it was multiple days for the turtles but one earth day for the the human side of things. Frankly this part is too scary for me to touch, I'll let astrophysics-heads tackle that.

Now next time we have a notable change in time, is as I keep talking about, out beloved Klunk Debut. Christmas is here and so that's two years since the gang met April.

Assuming their birth/mutation day already happened before they met April and they were 15 during season 1, this would make them a guaranteed 16 years old.

We love to see it, they're about to go through The Horrors.

Now I can't think of any big weather/time moments in season 3 cause the pacing is quick and decisive here, so I am cutting past the death of Shredder to Halloween. Ya boys are trick or treating, hell is being casually opened by some nobody, and this is the most whimsy I've seen from Raph and Don who are purposely fucking with Leo a little bit more than Mikey this episode, I love them so much.

But all good things make a weird fucking conclusion.

Scion of the Shredder canonically is two months after Leo leaves. Halloween was right before Samurai Tourist, and yet there's no winter here.

So there's a big time gap, but I am not sure when.

Most likely I would assume they had the most mentally unwell Christmas and Samurai Tourist was in the later parts of Spring when the snow has melted.

Either way happy New Years, the boys are going to be to turning 17 in the upcoming year.

Btw I was wondering if there is any mention of the passing between Scion and Prodigal Son, there is none. Whomp whomp. Feel free to share how little or how lot time passed based on Donny's injuries and Mikey's cat food supply.

Here where things get fuzzy.

Cause clearly time passes during the Good Genes arc, however I am not sure if they ever drop exactly how much time. But there's at least 6 episodes, and we know that Donny's little adventure with April to find her uncle is like two to three days so over a week, I'll prolly say between that and the other nonsense we got around a month at most of time.

Basically nothing note worthy other than it tells us that all of season 5 takes place during the summer.

Once again season 5 have vague showing of time passing without exact numbers being thrown around but still. We can tell time passes and that's important to keep in mind when we get back here.

Either way, that means the 15 years old thing is hilarious wrong by these calculations. I mean even if you go by the canon stated and not implied stuff they're still 16. Which why would they lie about that lmao??? My personal belief in my pet theory on brain scrambling has only been strengthened. Either that or for some reason the turtle's are engaging in Lies Your Older Cousin Tells You and Master Splinter just let's them.

Tbh based on slider and other common turtle mating and hatching seasons, there's a good chance their birthday has passed and they're 17 but idk if you want to factor that in and instead do guessing on where their mutation day is instead. Frankly after going down this rabbit hole figuring out their mutation day seems scary if there's not some sort of date to staple it to. Like the death of Hamato Yoshi or something.

But wait!!!

This is not where the timeline shenanigans stop.

So here's where things get wild. Because time did not just stop becuase they got zapped to the future and we meet Cody Jones. Meaning while our mutated crew are aging, their dear human friends are not.

So let's talk height. (I promise this is relevant)

See unless you have some sort of growth hormone, you're getting at most like an inch or two every couple months. Even with irregular growth you're getting, let's say 7 inches, within one year is quiet taxing on the biggest of growing teenage boys.

As I said this is all very relevant to the 03 timeline, you need to just hang with me for a second.

Now the 03 series, even after the redesign, still was very good about heights. Maybe not weight, but their heights always looked like their heights.

Like you see Cody next to Don and you're like yeah that's what 5'1 one looks next to 5'6. Or you see Cody and Mikey and you're like yeah that's what 5'1 and 5'3 look like:

So everything checks out right?

Well, you see, here's thing; Back To The Sewer did another redesign forever involved and thought they were being funny with what they did for the heights.

Now the main cast for the most part stayed the same with their heights as being 5'5(Leo), 5'6(Don), 5'7(Raph), with only Mikey gaining one inch and becoming 5'4.

So Don right next to Cody should be around the same height in BTTS... Right?

WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

These images exists:

WHY IS THE BABY BOY SO TALL??? HE STARTED OUT TURNING 14 AT THE BEGINING OF THIS SEASON????????

So a bit of a growth spurt has happened and now that preamble about height on this segment makes more sense.

He's shot up from 5'1 to a height never officially given, however eyeballing it I'd say he's like 5'9ish, maybe a bit more than that, but hey ho he's now taller than Raph.

As I said even if something medically crazy happened, to get this height you'd need around a year, maybe 7 months if we're lowballing and assuming he's just sore all the time in FF. So for the sake of rounding, happy birthday Cody you're 15 now.

Which means that puts the turtles based on the timeline I've been building at 18(Even with the lowball estimate 'cause they left in summer), however it's only been a couple months for their humans so there's now a weird time difference so the once 5 year difference between the humans and turtles becomes a 4 year, which is just mean to people who already have issues with math.

But yeah other than that, I am not sure if there's any more big moments of timeline.

Like I guess we could talk about Mrs. Jones's sliver streaks in her now grey hair in contrast with the last time we saw her in season season 4 having pure dark hair meaning a good bit of time has past between the beginning of season 4 and the end of the final season, so my season 5 was all summer (around 4 months) theory might be true because BTTS isn't that long with it being only about a couple months at most, unless there's some time skip that happens that I am forgetting.

So that means it's at best ending the year with a fall wedding with boys being around 18 and April&Casey at 22ish(We don't have their birthdays beside their shared year of 1980 if the wiki's right and I am scared to look for any source).

Turtles Forever looks to be happing next year as we're skipping winter again, becuase snow's the worst to animate and makes the timeline less ambiguous.

Assuming their birthdays have already past, post canon that would put them around 19 and 26.

Tune in next time when I calculate rat years to figure out how old Splinter is, assuming that he's an adult because he was mutated as one therefore we're gonna figure out his "human age" from that.

[mgu-h]

las vegas gp 2024 • media day

[shadowpuppetteer]

So we kinda know how the Manhattan Clan and Turtles met one another through Angela and Mikey, I’m now wondering how the two groups met the WWDITS colony. Ngl I’d imagine it be one of those chance encounters things. (Mental image of one of the Gargoyles and one of the vamps crashing into each other mid flight, turtle be on scene like 😬. Guillermo, Elisa, and April show immediately for damage control and give eachother the “you get it” solidarity look)

Spoilers for What We Do In The Shadows coming up: I actually like the ending of the series where Guillermo and Nandor go off to fight crime, cause it blends perfectly into the two of them clashing into the other two crime fighting monsters in the city.

Also complete solidarity for the humans, Eliza, April, and Guillermo. Nandor: "So did you also get your humans at a Panera?" Goliath: "No, Eliza came up to inspect the castle when we were under attack as we woke up from our thousand year slumber."

Leo: "April found us as kids on a basketball court."

Nandor: "Oh. So I'm guessing neither of those places had a Panera then."

[chrismho]

thinking bout the ferris bueller scene in mutant mayhem

thinkin about the boys having their own museum scene

[cokoweee]

Omg I haven’t doodled since last yearAHSHAHAHHAHAVHFBHAHVAHhaAHAHAHSHAH

[cinematicjourney]

The Red Turtle (2016) | dir. Michaël Dudok de Wit

[side-shuffling-hyperfixations]

March for Raph Day 16: High Score

The highly anticipated third installment of Leo and Don’s nerdy fantasy series was still months away but at least the second movie had offered an idea meanwhile to make their next encounter with the Dragons more interesting.

“Annnd that’s my sweet sixteen!” Raph barked triumphantly as another thug crumpled. “You’re fallin’ behind, Mikey!”

“Maybe I’m just biding my time! Quality over quantity!”

“Quantity’s the whole point’a this game!”

“You ever hear the one about the tortoise and the hare? Or should I say the hair-trigger?”

Just for that, Raph lunged to sweep Mikey’s current opponent away to be his seventeenth.

[hankdali]

[dryad-druid]

Brain... go... something... Cool ......Brain must... combine it with Rottmnt.... To cope.

Ok, I saw kill la kill. Excluding a few details that didn't age so well, I think it's great. Sure, at first I thought it was one of those anime whose premise is just an excuse to oversexualize its female protagonist, and it's the main reason I avoided it for so long despite being a trigger fan. But I'm so happy that it ended up being so so much more than that, I really loved these characters, and their female leads might be the best written in action anime.

Also.... this is the second time I've drawn something that makes me wonder who has the bigger boobies between the two. I know they're plates! But they're still boob shape!

@thedawningofthehour Fai, if I knew how the laws work in america, I would sue you for psychological damages, I can't look at anything with complicated relationships with siblings that to top it off says something about facism without thinking about your fic! never mind that I did this to myself, someone has to help me!

[davetada]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Lincoln Heights, CA

[justalittlesolarpunk]

Would you happen to have or know anyone who has solarpunk resources for in deserts? I live in Vegas so I'm not sure if some things I see will be able to help me here :)

Hi! Thanks for getting in touch. Just wanted to preface this by saying I don’t live in a desert, I never have lived in a desert, and I don’t know a lot about deserts (I come from one of the rainiest places in Europe lol). So I may not be the best person to ask.

That said, I have seen some cool stuff floating about. The whole liquid trees debate that circulated recently was a good example - obviously these are redundant in a temperate climate where trees can grow, but in a desert a machine that captures carbon and generates electricity using algae would be pretty useful! I have also heard of various anecdotal stories of people greening or farming deserts, though I’m a bit more iffy about that - should we be changing the ecosystem?

Large swathes of uninhabited desert, with their constant hot sun, could be really good places for big solar parks, though, and the panels in turn could provide shade for plants and animals.

I’d recommend reading up on the lifestyles of indigenous and traditional desert societies across Africa, Asia and the Americas, looking at what technologies they use to keep cool, supply drinking water, etc. Lots of desert plants can have edible or medicinal functions that people don’t know about, so looking into them would be pretty neat - I know people have talked about vegan cactus leather and stuff though I worry that could become mass-commercialised and damage the desert.

Ultimately yeah, I think solarpunk desert narratives and movements are really cool and very under-appreciated. These places have a unique relationship to sunlight and solar power, and more of the planet is going to be desertified due to climate change, so I think they should be at the forefront of the movement. I don’t know much about them at all but I’d love to learn! If you find anything out about how we can apply solarpunk in the desert please do get back in touch and let me know, and who knows, perhaps you can start a solarpunk movement in Las Vegas!