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I'm bringing back this conversation because I will forever defend Y'gthba ("Mona Lisa") within the context of the episode, "Evil of Dregg"-

I know it was kind of annoying to have Y'gthba and G'Throkka ("Sal Commander") written to be so gullible with both the Kraang and Lord Dregg / Armaggon, but I still think the dilemma Y'gthba was faced with in this episode was valid. I think this was an extremely difficult and debilitating decision she had to make, a choice she honestly shouldn't have had to make in the first place. But it didn't surprise me or shock me to see her choose her home planet over Raph.

Like, let's be real, everyone and their Mom acknowledges that 2012 RaMona was super rushed by the writers. So I think it makes sense for their relationship to have been super new as well, meaning that it would be illogical for Y'gthba to choose a guy (And his team-) that just barely knows / just met over her ENTIRE PLANET AND SPECIES OF PEOPLE. This is something Donnie even acknowledges by the end of the episode when she ultimately chooses to rectify her mistake of betraying Raph by helping them escape.

I'm not saying that Raph wasn't entitled to be in his feelings about her betrayal, since that doesn't necessarily not make sense to me, but I feel like how the show sort of weaponizes Raph's emotional distraught over the situation towards Y'gthba is really annoying. I feel like if the context was reversed, everybody would be gaslighting Raph about how unreasonable it was to choose Y'gthba the over saving Earth?? Even if that wasn't the case, I'm sure the writers would come up with some way to make it seem like the main characters did nothing wrong because they "didn't actually give up their friends" / "it was all an act, regardless of the fact that their allies thought it was real" or something- My point is, I feel like if Raph was the one betraying Y'gthba, the show would definitely portray this entire thing differently and make it seem like Y'gthba was being overly reactive. 💀

That's also why I added the last image with Raph, because I wanted to show him really pondering and questioning what he would do if he was in her position- I'm sure his go-to answer would be, "To save you, obviously!", but I feel like it wouldn't take him long to realize how complicated this dilemma actually would be. I also hate that the show didn't draw this parallel, because this is the entire point of the Space Arc?? I wish their rekindling at the end of the episode was handled differently, with Raph genuinely acknowledging why she did what she did and forgiving her from that standpoint rather than Y'gthba saying, "I love you" for the first time resulting in Raph completely disregarding everything.

I just feel like this is another example of the 2012 writing loving to villainize the female characters for things that they would not villainize the male characters for doing / going through (i.e. If Karai and Leo's situations were swapped, I highly doubt they would have villainized Leo as much as they did Karai, especially during his redemption-). I don't know. 🙃 Lmao

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are your version of the turtles different species like in Rise? if so, what species are each of the brothers?

hello! Thank you for the ask!

All of the turtles are different species!

Raph is an Indian Roofed Turtle, Leo is a Cumberland Slider, Mikey is a Yellow-Headed Box Turtle, and Donnie just stays a Spiny Softshell Turtle!

I was going to make Raph and Donnie different species of snapping/softshell turtles but ended up not doing it unfortunately :(

Thanks for the ask!

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Opening asks for my tmnt iteration!

you guys can ask anything you want as long as it's not nsfw or anything weird 😭

if you want to look back at previous things i've yapped about or previous art to get somewhat of an idea, go to #nyx's tmnt iteration !

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i cry and i die

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My old art from 2023:3

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I love The Golden Girls.

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Guys, Raphsuki…

Look it’s Raphsuki.

RAPHSUKI GUYS RAPHSUKI

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AW YEAHHH THE APRILS ABOUT TO FUCK SOME SHIT UUUP

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I now have freetime and this is what I do with it... shocking I know

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Raph's turn to be rise-ified! (●’∇’)♪

he is ✨️starstruck✨️

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dilution

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I SO MUCH LOVE @rufusahhahh 's RODGER AND GLISTEN (AND TOODLES) DYNAMIC I'M A HUGE FAN CHECK THEM OUT!!!

"glisten panic": part II

when I do fanart I feel like AI collecting fanart and designs that I love and just mashing it all together and producing something akin to what I like seeing in my feed

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Some human tmnt sketches

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You cannot convince me that THE Donatello Othello Von Ryan Bootyshaker 9000 Hamato doesn't like Owl City. This is NOT me projecting my love for Owl City onto him because everyone always makes fun of me for liking them, nope, not even a little bit.

Donnie's music taste is so similar to mine, I was like listen, if I like his music taste then he might like mine and this was born. Leo represents the haters in my life.

Lmao I did this so quickly so there are probably 101 errors but eh. Sorry if it's hard to read my handwriting is chicken scrawl rip

Also, I will continue to draw them in whichever 'outfits' I like at the time bc I can never decide they're both so good!

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Remember when I drew Usagi and Leo all cutesy? This is the designs I did for all the brothers teehee

I drew these a while ago, so I'm posting now ^^

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Mutant Reign turtles and their preferred martial arts