#writing ninja turtles as imaginary coping mechanism

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Kevin Eastman in 2014 comparing Michelangelo to Robin Williams via his high school friend and coworker Steve Lavigne is something that utterly warms my heart.

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Someone: But you can't write fanfiction about the TMNT like THAT!

The Fandom:

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Hang on hang on hey I need to explain why all Mikeys are Airbenders and most Donnies are Earthbenders and how most Leos are waterbenders and most Raphs are firebenders

and 03 or 18 Mikey is the Avatar

but I'm so tired because I've been in too much pain to walk upright for two days and I need help to think more and hey the edibles are kicking in, well then, fuck off insomnia maybe later

Gonna fall sleep now I guess happy lucid dreams that give me full episodes of my blorbo adventures

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Wake up, boys, you're forty!

Happy 40th birthday to the Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Blackout.

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@sacredartist33013 just told me "I really like talking to you. And you've helped me so much in not just being a sound board but also you've helped my writing as well. I wouldn't be where i am without you. I might not even be writing if it wasn't for your help in invigorating my writing spirit again."

And I'm just.... Well, I did need to produce more tears. *flappy hands* I genuinely had hoped for this. I'm physically babbling.

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You know how people still hate on that show, call it "rot" like an insult, whine about Leonardo not being eldest or leader? I'm going to smack them in the mouth with this post and tell them they're not allowed to badmouth the freaking eleventh incarnation of a parody franchise born in 1984 unless they understand how it pays tribute to the previous incarnations.

This is absolutely beautiful art, by the way. The comic is ideal and describes each character perfectly.

I made this comic to celebrate the anniversary of my tmnt/rottmnt hobby 💥

I'm new to Tumblr, but there are already so many of you!! Whoa! I am grateful to you for following me, and for writing such sweet, pleasant words 😭💕 (sorry for not answering everything)

I am very sorry that there is so little of me here 😥

I should post more of my work here….hmm

THANK YOU AGAIN!!!

Hope you have a good day <3💕

p.s. there are probably a LOT of grammatical errors here, I hope you won’t be too strict with this 🙏🥹

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Me, rewatching Captain Marvel 2019, belatedly realizing that when I was writing a massive Ninja Turtles fanfic in 1998 I basically gave Michaelangelo's psionic powers the same origin story: absorbed cosmic dimensional energy from the crashed ship of an alien species. I rewrote it in 2016 a little differently, but I am extremely amused that it took this freaking long to make connections. I'm now laughing at myself.

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I really want an adult TMNT cartoon I also feel like that's something TMNT needs it has to go to more matured audience I'm not saying going all murder I'm just saying that the story's in TMNT are really dark and was always meant for adults and the kid rating is obviously holding the show back from being able to go in more depth with the Characters You can even tell that some of the show runners are annoyed they can't go darker with he series.

You, me, and all the elders in the Fandom. It's a pipe dream to get Adult Swim TMNT. We like to talk about what it would be like, the sheer grit and depth.

Whenever we talk about the franchise, we have to explain that it was never for kids. It was a hand made independent comic with violence and death and fear and hope and queerness and

WEIRDNESS

And it was a toy company that made it kid friendly, and it rolled from there with a cartoon and so on.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles changed the face of independent comics forever and it introduced a collective entity that rivals Cthulhu in popular culture. People get into fights over how characters get treated in fanfiction, isn't that insane? I got death threats for asking "what if Raph hurt Mike and felt bad about it" and my friends got death threats for putting characters in relationships. Can you even believe that?

Could you imagine what those immature people would think of a real adult TMNT cartoon? Like, on the level of other dark gritty adult animation? Hopefully they would stay the fuck away. I'm already imagining the death threats from whiny kids who think Raph doesn't gets enough angst and that Mikey needs his head caved in?

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tmnt writers seem so scared to write darker things about Mikey like there's over 100 of cut content about Mikey that have really dark moments.

Yes, that's a unique niche, isn't it? I admit, I've bookmarked a bunch of them because the angst is delicious. I don't like actual death fics, I need the Angst With A Happy Ending. I need the Comfort part of Hurt Comfort. He can be revived easily, he can stay alive and healing.

Every few years you'll see this in the fandom on Tumblr: fans turning Michelangelo into an emotional mess being crushed under the pressure to mask his darkness.

We will pull out receipts both for and against him making attempts, depending on the iteration. 2012 Mikey is very popular. 2003 Mikey is fun to play with because he is the absolute least likely candidate, and yet we can dig down enough to find ways to break him.

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Okay, fine, since 1989.

Someone: *briefly mentions something slightly related to TMNT*

Me:

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Trans-Dimensional Encounter (a Cold Fire Rising story) - Chapter 4 - BrightLotusMoon, RyochanWolfgirl - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003) [Archive of Our Own]

I know some folks have been waiting for an update on this one.

Klunk and Ice Cream Kitty are friends!

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Not a hot take: All the ninja turtles throughout every iteration are disabled in multiple ways with chronic pain. We know they're all neurodivergent by now. It's time to discuss the physical and neurological trauma.

In this essay I will

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In honor of my state legalizing cannabis, I'm going to post a long scene from the Rise/Bay crossover RP turned fic I've been writing with @remmushound for years. The Bayverse Turtles are nicknamed while the Rise Turtles are fullnamed. They're all a little older and wiser. This includes Baron Draxum, who takes edibles for the first time with the experienced Bay boys while the Rise kids are napping.

Should I put the scene on Tumblr under a cut, or in AO3 as its own scrap?

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That's it that's the face

I don't think I've ever cried so much over a facial expression or had so much concern over a little ":]" face

I KNOW IT LOOKS EVIL BUT I SWEAR EVERYTIME I WRITE :] ITS ME JUST DOING THIS FACE

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Ninja Turtles Chinese Theater: Hand Imprint Ceremony on Sept 7

Then there’s an even cooler, more personal, way to be part of Hollywood history, and that’s to have one’s hands imprinted outside the TCL Chinese Theater. That honor is only reserved for the biggest of the big and now, four turtles from the sewers of New York City are joining those ranks.