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FIANLLY!!! IT TOOK A FREAKIN YEAR BUT CHAPTER 5 IS DONE! Just gotta edit and it should be up within the next week 🤞

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This is me right now with this FREAKIN CHAPTER istg if I can’t get past this freakin Battle Nexus scene I’m gonna lose it.

Tho Sleep Token is definitely helping. It’s keeping my mind off of the memories attached to this fic. Not bad memories, more melancholy I guess.

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Welp mid May did not happen 😔 I’m not dead (yet) and and slowly working on chapter 5!

When I say it’s kicking my ass, I fully mean it 😭

Raph and Batsy will get theirs I promise! I wanna just skip this chapter ✨but it’s needed for context✨ so I can’t. I have many amazing plans for chapter 6 and onward l… just gotta get through 5 first 🙃

Please stand by 💜💜💜

I know I’ve been away for a while… life got crazy (and not the fun kind)

Just wanted to let yall know I’m still here and still working on Brooch and Tackle!!!

Currently working on chapter 5 and very stuck 😂🙃

Hope to have it out by mid May

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Kind of depresso mood right now so I’ve finished my beloved tortuga with my beloved birbs 🐢🦜

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I know I’ve been away for a while… life got crazy (and not the fun kind)

Just wanted to let yall know I’m still here and still working on Brooch and Tackle!!!

Currently working on chapter 5 and very stuck 😂🙃

Hope to have it out by mid May

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I’m laughing at how this turned out 😂

Guess I’m doin a coin toss lmao

I was hoping to get it out by the end of the month, but my plans for Chapter 5 are proving… difficult.

I have this really cool idea for a flashback chapter but the way I want to go about it isn’t forming properly.

I’ve been thinking of nixing the idea and just giving shorter “just the past” chapters for the next three chapters to break up the long-ness…

Don’t get me wrong, I love Brooch and Tackle and Batsy and the direction I’m taking it, but I would like to know if y’all would like to see shorter chapters for a bit.

What do y’all think? Would you prefer to read shorter chapters? 🤔

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Have a sneak peak of another B&T Project I’m working on?

I am- I am not sorry 😬

Also can we just take a second to appreciate how well the blue looks? I’m very happy with it 🥰

You can read Brooch and Tackle here and if you do, comment what you think the boys’ beige flags would be!

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I was hoping to get it out by the end of the month, but my plans for Chapter 5 are proving… difficult.

I have this really cool idea for a flashback chapter but the way I want to go about it isn’t forming properly.

I’ve been thinking of nixing the idea and just giving shorter “just the past” chapters for the next three chapters to break up the long-ness…

Don’t get me wrong, I love Brooch and Tackle and Batsy and the direction I’m taking it, but I would like to know if y’all would like to see shorter chapters for a bit.

What do y’all think? Would you prefer to read shorter chapters? 🤔

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I finally saw the live action little mermaid and it got me Thinkin

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LOOK AT THEM!!!!

I have been on the road the past two days, so naturally I had to draw @brooch-and-tackle 's Batsy with Raph

Of course, this is in the far flung future where Raph has reached his true Kaiju size and Batsy has remained a humble and cute barely 5 foot 😂

And this totally isn't a plug for people to go read "Brooch and Tackle" here on tumblr or over on AO3 👀

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The bellhop is just tryin to do their job 🤣

This is for an upcoming project related to the next chapter of Brooch and Tackle (which you can read on AO3 and also on here)

I showed this to one of my irl friends and they said that this yokai looked like they were screaming "WHERE IS MY WALLET!?" And I can’t unsee it 😂😂😂

The color palette for this upsetti spaghetti bellhop is based off of @acro111 ‘s online persona (who also happens to be a moth lol)

They also write ROTTMNT fics! Y’all should check them out!! Honey and the Bea is the first one and their other fic is called Doomed (they’re both REALLY good)!! You can find them both linked on their blog!

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The poor yokai maintenance worker 🥲 he was just tryin to fix a lightbulb, man

This is for an upcoming project related to the next chapter of Brooch and Tackle (which you can read on AO3 and also on here)

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Look at this cake!! Just- look at her 😍

This is absolutely brooch and tackle related and the finished product will be on TikTok but I’ll also be posting it here too!!

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At the bare minimum: 24 chapters away from my favorite character being introduced 😭

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Hey guys!! So quick update: AO3 has been back up for a few days, which is great! Which I’ll be posting chapter 4 tonight! 🤩🥳

In other news, chapter 5 is gonna be a ✨flashback chapter✨ so be prepared the Baby Batsy lore drops 🦇💜

As always,

Unclench your jaw, drink some water, and I love you guys 💜🦇💜

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Just sos you knows, AO3 is down under a DDOS attack right now. They’ve been coming back in little blips and then disappearing again. It’s been several hours. (For reference, it’s currently 3 p.m. eastern, July 10, 2023.)

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678468065070030856

The culprit (as with a few other DDOS attacks recently) is Anonymous Sudan, a group that is likely Russian, not Sudanese. The ‘reason’ they gave–that AO3 is “full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” is thin and probably not completely legit, though still legitimately concerning.

The AS claim: https://twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/1678397195039526912

Reporting on AS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/anonymous-sudan-does-group-behind-microsoft-cyberattack-have-ties-to-russia (you can use archive.ph to get this one, 12ft doesn’t seem to work)

As noted here, https://twitter.com/honeyskeleton/status/1678449598703050769:

DDOS protection is expensive especially for a high traffic site like ao3. And it’s uniquely vulnerable as an independent site without ads or other corporate support. SPECIFICALLY targeted bc of its queer works and yet ppl will still complain every time they ask for donations lmao 

So, again, when AO3 comes back online, please don’t go hard with refreshing all your tabs. Please do remember to download fics you love early and often as  you continue in your whole ~reading journey~. And please do support AO3 through a dono or becoming a donating member, if it is possible for you to do so.

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Hi guys!! I don’t usually post on this account lol but I figured anyway who sees this would wanna know that AO3 is currently experiencing a DDoS attack.

Because of this, I won’t be posting the 4th chapter of Brooch and Tackle on AO3 until this gets resolved. That being said, once I get done editing chapter 4, I WILL be posting it here!

Love you guys 🦇💜

-Pixel