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This is canon and you can rip this from my cold dead hands

Raph’s favorite Ghibli movie is Princess Mononoke (He wants to be Mononoke)

Leo’s is Howls Moving Castle (he either wants to be Howl, be with Howl, or both confusingly)

Donnie’s is Castle in the Sky (the ancient technology inspires him and he really likes the golem guys)

Mikey’s is My Neighbors the Yamada’s (A silly family and their shenanigans, he’d definitely watch it when he’s missing his own)

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I finally made a Meet the Artist!

Why don't y'all tell me about yourselves, too? We can just vibe in the comments.

I'm VERY happy with how this turned out. I've drawn myself multiple times over the years, and this time finally feels right :) like I depicted myself properly. So I'm happy!

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This design is all set for Redbubble! The one on the left is a magnet, that’s why it’s different.

There’s the normal design of both of them together, which has more products with it, but THESE one, should (hopefully) line up if you got them both separately as like a matching charm between you and someone else. As such, there aren’t nearly as many products tacked onto the matching designs. Just what I think you could easily press together to complete the picture.

I will add more products to their designs if it’s requested, though :) I just see no reason to go through formatting it right now unless I see interest

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I’m Mikey-

Cookie Cutters:

Raph: So the other day I sent Mikey out to get us some groceries.

Leo: And instead of getting groceries, he got us novelty cookie cutters.

Donnie: Now everything we eat is shaped like a dinosaur.

Raph, Leo, and Donnie: …

Raph, Leo, and Donnie: We love him so much.

Mikey, about to cry: Awwwww you guuuuuys!

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THE WAY I’M SOBBING- THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I WANTED TO WRITE RAPH HAVING SEIZURES. I WANTED THE REPRESENTATION.

I FEEL SO HAPPY

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I FINISHED IT!!!

And it’s still Capril week!! I don’t think this fits any of the daily prompts and themes, but I don’t care. This was the first time I was successfully creative since starting my new job at the pet lodge. I fought the mental exhaustion and fucking DID IT

I want to make this into Redbubble designs. Because screw it, I’m keeping my ROTTMNT designs up. I can’t promise when I’ll have time to format this for Redbubble, but I absolutely have ideas for it. I want to make just this design, but I also want to see if I can arrange like a matching kind of thing? The example I’ve been using to explain this has been phones- so, casey is on one phone, and April is on another. They’re separate designs. And when you push them together, you get the whole drawing!! I think it’s cute, but I’ve playing the Redbubble formatting system game before. It isn’t easy. Making two separate designs that will match up against each other on two different products?? Eugh boi that’s going to be hard 😫

I’m making art slower than usual, but I am still trying!! I’m proud of myself for being creative despite work taking up so much time and energy. After this, I’m going to be working on a Meet the Artist thing! Just gotta figure out how to draw myself in my style lol. Bye! I hope you like the sapphics!

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I just want to share the spoon fries I made.

I’m very proud of them.

Also, I FINISHED the Capril drawing. I have jt scheduled to post tomorrow at 12PM PST. I don’t want to have to rush to do it during my break at work, so it will do so automatically! If I set it up right. Which I think I did! Maybe…

We’ll find out tomorrow, but ENJOY MY SPOONS- I’ve been trying to pull off making these for a couple years now. They give me the happy chemical.

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“Mosquitoes are the Denny’s of the bug world.”

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Okay so I’m not done with the Capril art yet (just finished the flat colors, I just need to render and I’ll be done. I have my fingers crossed that I’ll finish that tomorrow)

But. I want to make this a Redbubble design.

I decided I do want to sell my rottmnt designs, permanently. I put them back up a couple months ago, and I decided to leave them up. I’m aware of why I stopped, I just have decided it’s a risk I’m willing to take.

SO ABOUT THIS DESIGN IDEA- I’m going to slap the full picture on as many products as I can, but there will be a select few products where I will make them all match-y! So take phone cases for example. Casey would be available on a phone case, and April would be available on a phone case. And if you push those phone cases against each other, it will show the full picture. Not all products will work with that format, but I will format as many as I can :D after I finish with the Capril art, the next thing on my to do list is a Meet The Artist. I can’t promise when that will be done, but I promise I truly am trying to engage in my creative interests while also navigating my job. That balance is really hard for me to find, but I’m working on it :)

I hope y’all like the Capril drawing when it’s done!

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I want to apologize for any and all asks I may have sent today between the hours of 9:50-11:30 PST. I had my phone in my pocket while at work and it went on a TRIP. Changed the visual settings on my phone, opened apps, called my sister, and one of the things it was doing when I finally opened it was keyboard smashing into an ask on this app. If you got gibberish in your inbox from me, it’s from my thigh. You can ignore it lol

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It’s tomorrow for me as well, but I work and need to work fast to finish before my off days are up 😭

Road trip all day eurrghhhh

At least Capril week is tomorrow so I have something to look forward to besides 9 hours on the road :/

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WHAT- I NEED TO FINISH MY CAPRIL ART TO STAY RELEVANT 🏃‍♀️💨

Road trip all day eurrghhhh

At least Capril week is tomorrow so I have something to look forward to besides 9 hours on the road :/

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I HAD TO DO THIS

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Fun reminder: turtles can feel every inch of their shells as if it were their skin!! <3

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MAKE. NOISE. TELL THEM EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT

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In Defense of Donnie's Gifts

I'm ngl I sorta think the shock collar was still just an odd writing decision but as far as PREMISE:

It CANNOT be a coincidence that this is the first time (and one of VERY few times) that Donnie's soft shell is referenced. Once, when Raph is hesitating to tell Donnie his gifts suck ass, and he uses the soft shell metaphor, and after that with Meat Sweats and his paprika, describing it as not just soft, but delicate. Weird, but he is a cannibal, so. (Side note, Meat Sweats never removed his battle shell? How does he know? Or did he take it off and replace it after the pound of butter? Is he using it to facilitate steaming and tenderness? Is it broken? I feel like it should have something in there that could break him out of the sausage links)

Then in that last little scene- "Forget it. You guys are great the way you are!" - we get the shot of Donnie from behind pre group hug, with his brothers facing the camera. (Idk if I'm making shit up, but I feel like this is a staple for Donnie episodes? It def happens in the Purple Game, maybe Smart Lair.) The framing draws attention to his battle shell. The battle shell even kinda matches the gifts, compared to the rest of their gear and even Donnie's tech, color coded and way more streamlined than stuff like the tech bo.

Donnie's soft shell is an innate, unchangeable part of him, a feature of his species, that he treats as a handicap. Probably MORE unchangeable than the character traits he sees as holding his brothers back, which they do sorta... not mature out of, but refine, rather, over the course of the show. Donnie's shell can't experience a character arc, but he sees it as holding him back. So he FIXES it.

The Mad Dogs don't really have a motivation for beating stuff up besides "Hero Time!!!" at this point. That's why it's so interesting how EARLY this happens, unlike with Mind Meld, he isn't trying to change his brothers to make them better at a task that he actually CARES about. Donnie in particular never gets a super intense moral compass besides stuff that threatens people he already cares about, and he doesn't have any grudges (no Purple Dragons) at this point in the series. Hero Goals are largely devices for him to hang out with his dum dum brothers. I'm not diagnosed or anything but my vibes are certainly... Spectrum-Adjacent, I definitely have trouble with literal thinking and reading people. One thing that happens sometimes is people will be using "task" as "reason to hang," and I will get a lot more fixated on completing said task than I really should, to the point of annoying people. I confuse "Successful Task Completion" with "Successful Social Interaction." It makes me come across as bossy and controlling without realizing it.

So, we got a Donnie who thinks Arbitrary Goals are essential to Hero Bonding, who has been treating his life like an mmorpg - armor upgrades, skill trees, grinding, sometimes fighting through random dungeons to hang out with his bros. He's probably even slightly better at Fighting Stuff than his brothers atp, he isn't dealing with a mystic learning curve and his special interest has been Weapons of Mild Destruction for years already. His brothers want to level up, take harder missions, he tries to get them there with his access to High Level Loot.

Of course, his brothers are all min-maxing, not trying to multiclass their purple ass out of squishy glass cannon town. So, it doesn't go well. Unfortunately, the lesson Donnie learns (besides brotherly affection) is that his brothers don't NEED fixing like he does. Mind Meld and Donnie vs. Witch Town sorta finish this arc out as best as the series can.

Where I would have liked to see this go:

A S2 Donnie's Gifts or Mind Meld style episode (Donnie tries to improve his brothers, to their dismay) where the motivator isn't goal completion, but protectiveness. We see a bit of the fear in Purple Game, a bit of the contingency planning with the escape pods in the movie. Maybe a more upfront "training montage" type scenario, a high tech robo dojo to develop their mad skills, or just a tense moment after a skin of their teeth Genius Built rescue.

The brothers confront Donnie eventually-- not just the passive conflict resolution of Donnie's Gifts. They get mad. Push Donnie to the point he's at in Turtle-Dega Nights. They get a rant about not wanting them to get hurt, of course, but also that he's already done so much to FIX himself, make sure he's not a LIABILITY, why can't they at least try to stay SAFE? The dangers are real now, and as far as Donnie knows he REALLY can't do anything about threats like the Shredder. His tech did nothing the first time. His brothers are the ones with the mystic mojo, and they don't even realize how SERIOUS things could get.

Anyway. Protective Donatello my Beloved. Let my boy go apeshit.

//I REALLY Like the 2003 episode where Leo is hurt and Donnie is fucking PISSED at Usagi. All Donnies should be allowed to enter a feral protective rage, as a treat.

//If anyone knows of any Purple Game Aftermath fics lmk. Like, going home, getting donnie out of the evil gamer chair, guilt, whatever. or just good Purple Dragons being Assholes content.

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EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS IMMEDIATELY LOOK AT MY BOY

MY BOY IS TINY

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S!! AGAIN!!!!

Last year we saw Leo turned into a little hamburger, now what kinds shenanigans will they go through this time???

I tried different speech bubbles + a different font for this comic, I really really hope you all enjoy it <3333

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