#april

[cosmodynes]

(azem april) introduction + true name

text transcript under the cut

true name: asterios 

gender: shrimp genders azem (he/they)

stats: ebi power 5 / constitution 4 / strength 5 / magic 4 / intelligence 3

[deadtiredghost]

In the 1987 universe somewhere:

Shredder: Don't even try to scream!

April: oh, I wouldn't. I would project my voice to protect my vocal folds

Shredder: um o-okay?

April: you seem pretty unsure of yourself; you should be more confident-

Shredder: I am confident! I wouldn't kidnap someone if I wasn't confident!

April: sometimes, the people we think are the strongest, are actually the weakest.

Shredder: I threw you in a trunk!

April: did that fill the void?

Shredder: what the hell?

April: there has been a lot of speculation into your recent kidnappings of me and only me, the people want to know the reason behind it exactly.

~a few moments later~

Shredder: I wouldn't say my childhood was bad-

Turtles: what exactly is going on?

April: ignore them, now you were saying about your childhood?

[nezz-cringe-crib]

!! absurdnezz intro !!

(for any post loll. i love seeing reblogs, likes can suck it)

about me:

heyooo i'm nezz or wilder!! :D i'm an osdd-1b system and my pronouns are any but i prefer he/him ^^

this is my side (debatable) blog, my main is @wildernezz and you can find more stuff about me there! i'm just here to vibe B)

fandoms:

i'm in a lotta fandoms but here are some main ones you can expect to see a lot loll

Death Note (LOVE OF MY LIFE I WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT IT EXPECT ME TO NOT SHUT UP ABOUT IT)

Homestuck

Musicals (BMC especially)

Sanders sides

Stranger Things

commissions (OPEN):

feel free to ask me for doodles in my asks!! but if you're looking for something more fleshed out, here's info about my commissions!!

WHAT I CAN DRAW:

ship art

OCs

NSFW

icons

SLIGHT gore (i usually don't do anything other than blood)

photoshop

realistic styles + cartoon styles

MY EXAMPLES:

sketches:

flat colors:

fully-rendered:

realistic art (would be digital and can only be done in sketch form):

photoshop (i will not edit anyone else's art. the example of the john -> june egbert pfp was for my own personal use. the rest were all for my own personal use as well) (left is original, right is my edit):

HOW TO COMMISSION ME:

i don't take any actual money, right now i take commissions through discord nitro. so if you want to commission me, dm my discord account: .wildernezz (dont forget the period lolll)

from there, you can tell me what you'd like me to make! i may ask for more questions in order to be clear on what it is you're looking for. i will also try to give updates on my process and ask if there is anything you would like to change.

MY RATES:

BASIC NITRO for a MONTH ($2.99) -- sketches

NITRO for a MONTH ($9.99) -- flat colors, photoshop

BASIC NITRO for a YEAR ($29.99) -- fully rendered, realistic art

MY RULES:

commissions are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.

i will start the commission once you tell me what you're looking for and then when you fully pay me.

i do simple backgrounds.

since my payments are through nitro, i cannot give refunds. if i cannot complete the commission for whatever reason, i will do whatever i can to make up for the cancellation.

i have the right to deny commissions.

i will not draw anything problematic or hateful.

feel free to dm me!! again, my discord is ".wildernezz". i'd love to make some silly art for silly people :33

[pianistbynight]

hi! ~a belated studyblr intro~

just realized i never did a proper intro for this blog!

so, hello, i've been flip flopping between taking lessons and self-studying piano for several years and this blog was (and still is) intended to be a studyblr to track my progress.

i'm currently self-studying as my time is split between this and STEM studies (more on that on my side blog @studentbyday) but i really really hope to finally establish a consistent practice (after struggling to do so for many years 😅) so i know i will be able to handle weekly lessons again 😤

🎓 goals for piano/music studies:

enjoy playing music (including without headphones)

establish sustainable routines so i can practice piano every day or at least every week

get over stage fright and paralyzing perfectionism

improve my sight reading

motivate myself to learn more music theory and use it to analyze my favorite songs

find fellow music enthusiasts on tumblr!

ultimately play piano at an LRCM level 🙈 (as of 2024, i am currently L6-7 in baroque/classical, L8-9 for romantic...yeah, kind of all over the place since I've been treating this very informally over the years and keep taking hiatuses lol)

💗 interests/inspirations:

classical music (my favorite composer is chopin but beethoven is a close second)

jazz

your lie in april (i read the manga online and really really wanna see the anime!)

Tiffany Poon and Animenz's playing

🎹 accumulated study tips: resources, practice strategies, coming back after hiatus, hand independence and method books

[fabuloustrash05]

Looking back on THIS POST of mine, I talked about how the female characters in TMNT 2012 get established as love interests first before establishing their characters, comparing it to how Mona Lisa gets more time to establish her character first before being established as a love interest.

To further prove this little "theory", I looked back on all the girls introduction scenes and timed them, to see how long their introduction lasted before being establishing as a romantic interest.

Keep in mind these are the numbers I personally got when conducting this "study", it may not be fully accurate but a good estimate.

April - 14.95 seconds

Karai - 11.51 seconds

Renet - 25.50 seconds to 1 minute & 26 seconds

There's two because it's up for interpretation. Mikey's first glance at her doesn't fully tell the audience he's crushing on her, more hinting at it, but the second he starts actually flirting with her makes it abundantly clear.

Mona Lisa - 2 minutes & 53 seconds

Shinigami - 1 minute & 22 seconds

It may actually be shorter, but I began her timer when April started to "sense" her presence.

[thegirlinprague]

got inspired by @tarotphil

[hiis-theme]

somewhere out there is an alternate timeline where toby was correct and people actually did hate spamton. could you imagine that. i have to imagine we wouldn't have gotten the spamton sweepstakes in that case which is crazy to think about given how much lore that gave us-

[nieves-de-sugui]

A Gay For You trope conversation

This is a thought that has come to me after reading the manga of Tokyo in April is...

First, I gotta say the show was a very good adaptation of the manga imo. There are some details that are different but overall the spirit of the story is the same, and I praise the makers of the show for it. Great job, folks 😎👍

Secondly, onto the topic of this post. I am definetly not the first to talk about this, @heretherebedork talks about it in this post. And @emotionallychargedtowel also touched upon this on another post. But I want use this post to gather both thoughts and expand on that conversation.

As I was reading the scene with Kazuma and Ryunosuke facing each other, a thought came to me. The manga really does go more into the Gay For You trope than the show does. When Kazuma says that he doesn't care about gender, that he's only interested in Ren, in the show there is still some possibility left for Kazuma to identify as some type of queer, however it goes a little differently in the manga.

read from right to left, from scanbean's scanlations

Both in the manga and the show Kazuma rejects any label and it could be said that he basically describes himself as "Ren-sexual". However, while in the show it's left more ambiguous (since being bi could still be a possibility) in the manga he rejects both the gay and bi labels. He does not confirm being heterosexual either, so it doesn't fall a 100% into the gay for you trope.

The Gay For You trope (for those who might not know it) is basically a straight main character being in a homosexual relationship while maintaining their heterosexuality. While this has been a trope widely used in Japan, it is true that recently it has been more of a "only attracted to you". So while they do not identify with any queer label they do not declare their heterosexuality as sternly as before. Even though this in a gay relationship but still straight most likely stems from homophobia, this recent shift in Japanese BL makes for an interesting conversation.

In the posts I mentioned above Heretherebedork describes this as some kind of demisexuality. And Emotionally Charged Towel ponders upon if this might be related to the early Shonen Ai idea of "pure" love.

I feel like Japan has a tendency to explore situations "out of the norm/societal expectations" without diving into the specifics. Scratching the surface of themes that step away from heteronormativity while not really diving deep into it either. There's a duality of characters that might or might not use western labels to understand themselves or their feelings. We can see this in how Koisenu futari talked about asexuality (very specifically) VS how Me, My Husband And My Husband's Boyfriend talked about polyamory (quite ambiguosly).

Personally, I wonder if there's something there to be said about how we understand romance and sexuality. Can sexuality and romance be separated succesfully without erasing the importance of one another? Are these characters that do not define themselves according to sexuality constructive in some way?

In the case of Tokyo is April is... Kazuma's mom refer to Kazuma and Ren's love as exceptional ("I have never experienced a love like that"). Kazuma's character in the show has never really considered his sexual tendencies. As highschoolers Ren asks Kazuma is he would want to have a girlfriend and have sex with her, to which Kazuma gives what would be "the expected answer" according to society. I personally believe that Kazuma's train of thought might have been something like: "Boys are supposed to like girls, and it is expected that they want to have sex with them, so probably yeah I would want to have sex with my potential girlfriend in the future". To me he does not seem to have made any kind of introspection of his own feelings or desires, as he has never thought of it he gives the probably expected answer. So who knows? He might not be straight, but he does not seem to have really given it any thought.

I like the idea of it being a sort of demisexuality.

It is intersting to consider if sexuality and romantic love can be explored separatedly. Could the use of this kind of ambiguity open the door to an new interpretation of romance? Much in the way of the yaoi concept of "pure love"?

This are the questions that have popped into my brain regarding the possibilities of the tropes. I hope it makes for an introduction or starting point to a more developed conversation of the topic.

I hope some of this stirs up thoughts on those that know a lot more than me about these topics, and are so much better at explaining them. I'd love to read whatever @bengiyo @waitmyturtles @wen-kexing-apologist @emotionallychargedtowel @heretherebedork and anyone else that sees this might have to say about it :) ...if there's anything to say at all

[wildernezz]

woahahaha im finally making an intro blog no wayyy, also dont mind me spreading my reblog > likes agenda

about me:

hey ho im wildernezz and we be ballin af. i'm an osdd-1b system and i might be more open about that later but i also maybe not who knows lol. i do animation, edits, writing, regular art, kinda anything art-related honestly, but i usually just post digital art here. pronouns are whatever tf you want but i prefer he/him. here's some other random stuff i can rattle off: infj, gemini, i like witchcraft, once made an album that currently has 200 pictures of joe keery because i thought it'd be funny, also once restarted the soviet union in 6th grade, currently making a presentation on david aames' mental stability for algebra, overanalyzing film is my only real personality trait, and i think bugs are funny-looking. anyways we vibe.

fandoms:

multifandom as all hell, but here are the ones i'm most consumed by currently and you can expect to see a lot of.

Dead Poets Society

Death Note

Homestuck

Musicals (BMC especially) & Film stuff in general

other fandoms that i'm also a part of but post less frequently about:

Camp Camp

Eddsworld

My Little Pony

Sanders Sides

Stranger Things

Undertale

there's a boat load of other fandoms but i don't engage that much in those so they're not entirely worth mentioning.

feel free to ask me for doodles btw. im always looking for ideas loll.

links:

here's some other places you can find me but they're honestly not that important since i'm only really active here.

abandoned youtube #1

semi-abandoned youtube #2

also abandoned twitter account

surprisingly not completely abandoned ao3 account

my spotify & pinterest if you want those ig idk this is all i got guys

also this other side blog where i analyze people from time to time: @analyzing-people-like-hell along with my cringier side blog @nezz-cringe-crib

friends!!:

here's some of my friends who are very cool and you should check out :3

@awesomejedie (all kinds of cool thingies!!!! i think of it as a silly treasure box filled with random goodies :33)

@b0cc (posts many awesome art stuff :D)

@chick3nbot1000 (reblogs fun stuff and every now and then posts fun random stuff)

@dandebbfan (posts random cool stuff about her interests that are fun to see)

@saucelys (FUNKY ART PERSON WHO DOES FUNKY ART THINGS AND OTHER STUFF AAAGAGAGA)

thats all i can think of rn. i'll probs add more later but for now we ball B)

[iliveinabighouseonahill]

28 april 2024 - 16h14

my first zine for this blog, first one talking about my self, things i do n like. oh how i loooove to play w designs🕯️🦢

I got this super funny idea from @elonomhblog she's super nice sweet and creative, thank you for the adivices! hope yall like this 🩷🎀

I'm planning to use this blog as a digital diary, so i'll certainly use this one more, but my secundary fun silly (and first) blog is @pinkmoongrace 🖤🦇💌🍓🪲

[catchingbigfish]

wip re-intro | conversion

detail from bachus, caravaggio

tag: #wip: conversion status: second draft with beta readers

summary: Rosalyn, a twenty-something fashion-making student, arrives for her MFA with a fresh diagnosis of hypochondria needing a new beginning. When she meets her professor, Marlene, and her group of acolytes -- a group of women artists Marlene lovingly calls her Hysterics, who all have the same exotic illness as Marlene -- she thinks she might have finally found her people. If the cost of admission to their ranks is the illness, Rosalyn reasons, she can give it to herself; when she shows up with the disease, they offer her the care she'd always wanted. But when a figure from Marlene's past enters the picture and threatens the cohesion of their group, the Hysterics -- Rose included -- must figure out how far they're willing to go to protect their secrets.

genres: dark litfic, satire

comps: Bunny by Mona Awad x The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent

themes & tropes: the medicine of both/and; medical misogyny and alternative medicine quackery; feminist theory and its misapplications; women's friendships and betrayals; a cast of mostly unlikeable queer women; problematic rep and realistic portrayals of uneven power dynamics; coercive control and self-brainwashing; charismatic cults and leftist politics

character profiles under the cut

Rosalyn/Rose, definitely post-makeover, a late-20s fashion-making MFA student with a hypochondria diagnosis and a problematic relationship to her body; artsy-dreamer, certified Tumblr Girl in the mid-2010s desperately clinging to her 20 followers and 2 mutuals, wants nothing more than love and has no idea how to get it

Josephine, a former therapist turned memoirist whose home becomes the mothership for the rest of the hysterics; loves visible mending, slow living, and trashy horror movies, but is a scaredy-cat at heart who has to hold onto a stuffed animal or fuzzy jacket to watch them, aspiring cat mom

Anais, a fabric weaver fresh from her undergrad in textile studies; unstable in every way from her identity to her work, and the baby of the group; refined taste and high standards for the fine things in life, but garbage taste in women

Dahlia, a community organizer and performance artist who talks a lot but doesn't know as much as she thinks; main character syndrome; constantly moving, does sun salutations as a nervous tic

Ximena, a painter who has a PhD in math and a taste for psychedelics; loves Pythagoras; terrifying and intense and silly and strange; the second-in-command who was born to lead; spends most of her time reading books in Spanish and trying to ignore Dahlia; refuses to sleep alone and with the lights out, has to pick one or the other

[overtheimaginationwall]

This is the best Tumblr event ever! BOOP!

[timdoritos]

ok idc actually heres a timapril edit i made yesterday

[actually-ao3]

Intro

Hi! I’m just your average gay literary porn website, and I go by Ari and ao3. My main is @shakespeare-official-account (finally, I get a reprieve from having to use incorrect ye olde English).Pronouns are she/her. I’m a serial overuser of parenthesis and emoticons, don’t mind it. Welcome to the shitshow, and don’t forget to leave kudos :)

I add ao3 tags to posts, gimmick stuff will be tagged “no beta we die like [something related to the post] and non-gimmick stuff will be tagged as “beta read”.

My main has been shadowbanned. Its backup is @shakespeareofficialaccount.

[amaranthine-wrath]

˗ˏˋ ❌ INTRO POST ❌ ´ˎ˗

The name's April (she/her). Welcome to my sideblog. I'm an alter in the Apartment System and this is my personal space for whatever I want. Gaming, music, miscellaneous thoughts, pixel art, and more will be shared here. I'm also conceptkin and will probably post about that now and again which is why I've used the tag.

Be warned: This blog may contain sensitive content (like mental health talk and occasional horror themes) but everything will be tagged to the best of my ability. Minors do not interact, you WILL be blocked on sight.

Read on for my basic info and other fun stuff. Kinda long but whatever, feel free to skim or skip around.

(Last updated: 9/2/24)

˗ˏˋ WHO AM I? ´ˎ˗

As stated above, my name is April, I use she/her pronouns, and I'm an alter. Physically 25 and Black-Latino. Since this is a sideblog, I like and follow from the host's main blog (found here).

I identify as conceptkin. Specifically, I am rage personified. The special kind of rage that comes from intense hurt and grief. From wounds that may never heal. This doesn't give me any fancy form, though. I'm just some girl. I've felt this way since I first came to be over a decade ago and since it hasn't changed in all this time I feel comfortable saying this is a solid part of my identity.

I don't mind talking to people so go ahead and send asks but I've gotta warn that sometimes I can be a little flat through text. I'm not mad, I just don't feel like using a million emojis and exclamation points. I won't really answer messages though because holding 1-on-1 conversations with strangers is hard.

˗ˏˋ INTERESTS? ´ˎ˗

Art is a growing interest of mine. I love pixel art and doodling and someday I'll get into Blender/3D modeling and animation. I'm starting to get into code (HTML and CSS). The Sims 4 and Minecraft are my current games but once I've got an actual PC I'll be playing a lot more. I also enjoy poetry, alternative subcultures, and word games like Scrabble and Boggle.

I listen to a decent mix of music (metal, rock, breakcore, techno, etc). Here's my playlist if you wanna get to know a chunk of my music taste. I also update the playlist fairly regularly these days and I love recommendations. Some things are only on YouTube so they didn't get included but it's whatever.

˗ˏˋ DNI? ´ˎ˗

Minors, bigots/TERFs, "endos", ableists, etc. I'm not putting a big ass list. Make me uncomfortable or annoy me and I'll block you. Feel free to block me, too. Curate your own spaces and all that jazz. Involve me in discourse of any kind and I blow you up with my mind for real.

˗ˏˋ EXTRAS! ´ˎ˗

@devotional-devouring - Plague's Blog (Host/the main blog) @doll-disjointed - Mason's Blog (another alter sideblog)

#April's Chatting - Tag for text posts

More to come later. Here's some cool images.

Thanks for reading. Have a good day.

(Icon Credit)

[azar-rosethorn]

Introducing........

A fanmade TMNT Iteration created by yours truly!! Inspired by Rise and TMNT 2012.

ALSO feel free to drop into the ask box ANY questions u have pls I love interacting with yall!

also I would love you forever if u reblogged this so it reaches more people pls pls pls

Origins:

The Hamato Clan had broken into the Foot Clan headquarters in order to steal the Dark Armor before Oroku Saki could inherit it. But, Hamato Yoshi underestimated the armor's power, and got mortally wounded while trying to obtain it. He would've died if it wasn't for the mysterious purple vines that wrapped him up before he blacked out. Three days later, Yoshi woke up in a sewer, all healed up (though, with some strange new physical features), and accompanied by some strange looking turtle eggs, as well as a note taped to the basket they came in. Over the next 3 years, the eggs hatched one by one (well, except Leo and Donnie, those two hatched around the same time), and over the next 16 years, Splinter raised the turtles, and he hopes that one day, he'll finally get to thank the person that saved his life and gave him his children. Meanwhile, the turtles' gain powers from both their mutation and their Hamato ancestry, and end up digging up secrets of the past that should've stayed buried.

Meet the Cast!

Leona is not what you'd think of when the image of a leader comes to your mind. She's slow to adapt to new surroundings, a bit arrogant, looks to the past way too often and, to quote her older brother, "Her anxiety has anxiety!" But, despite all her flaws, Leo has been able to lead her team through unfathomable challenges, way more naturally than her precedent, Raph. She works hard to live up to her family's expectations (which, despite what Leo's anxiety tells her, aren't actually that high. Basically just "don't die.") Leo also loves anime and is in many fandoms; she has actually made her own cosplays and has gone to the surface for conventions on the surface. She is 15, a hawksbill sea turtle and her mystic power is hydrokinesis (water).

Donatello honestly could not care less. They spend most of their time in their lab, creating who knows what. But whenever Splinter or one of his siblings go scrounging around in the sewer, he'll definitely come with. They really don't like interacting with people outside of their family, especially humans, after a traumatic event when they were eight. Needless to say, Donnie made plans to create his battleshell the second that he was all healed up. But, despite that, Donnie is surprisingly close with April. Those two are basically inseparable. Actually, they're pretty close with all their family, even though they act like they hate everyone, but that's just typical sibling stuff. Donnie's 15, an indian flapshell turtle, and their mystic power is aerokinesis (wind).

Raphael would rather die than admit that he's scared. As the oldest, he's always been a role models for his younger siblings, even though, he wasn't very good at leading, well, anything. But, as the strong big brother, he always felt the need to bottle up all his feelings for the good of the team. It took Raph a long time to learn that Leo could handle the weight of leadership, much better than Raph did actually. He is extremely overprotective of his siblings and sometimes that equals holes in the walls. He does have anger issues which he takes out on the objects surrounding him. It's one of the reasons why nothing in his room is completely intact. Recently, though, he's targeting his anger towards enemies instead of household objects, so it's progress. Raph also learns to chill out a bit when he meets (and falls for) a certain runaway foster child who has just as much of an anger problem as he does. He's 15, a common snapping turtle, and his mystic power is geokinesis (earth).

Michelangelo just wants to party with his fam. He's an eccentric little dude that always knows how to turn up the party. She's the heart of the team, always knowing how to resolve issues within the team and how to find the positives in stuff. When she was mutated, she was actually given a little more power than her siblings, making her the most powerful with her mystic abilities. But, that means that controlling their power is a lot more difficult, and being kinda sensitive and emotional has resulted in more than one room of the lair getting burned down. They've tried their best to keep it under control but if their emotions end up getting the best of them, uh...good luck, bud. You'll need it. He's also taken a great interest in art and sometimes goes to the surface to graffiti the city, often joined by either April or Casey. He's 14, an eastern box turtle, and his mystic power is pyrokinesis (fire).

Hamato 'Splinter' Yoshi needs sleep. A lot of it. He grew rebellious of the Hamato Clan due to his father's treatment of him and left for Los Angeles to become the action movie star Lou Jitsu. But, when his father called and said there was a Foot Clan situation up in NYC, Yoshi just had to help. And the rest is history. He was aware that while he was in Hollywood his family captured Oroku Saki, the one to inherit the Dark Armour and become The Shredder, but he never knew what Oroku Saki looked like. This had consequences later on. After an incident on the surface that involved a break-in, a human with a weapon, and a dent in Donnie's shell, Splinter finally went back to the ways of ninjutsu to keep his children safe from the surface. When the turtles met April and Casey, Splinter practically jumped for joy at the thought of talking to actual people again. he also trains them as well as the turtles. Splinter hopes to reconnect with the Hamato Clan after him and his children started fighting the Foot, but little does he know the lies that he's been fed as a child...

Baron Draxum is, well.... we don't exactly know what he is. After he and his mother were taken and experimented on by a human military group called the Terrestrial Cryptic Research Inventory (TCRI) when he was six, not even he does, really. All we know is that he's a powerful guy who HATES humans after his encounters with TCRI. Though, a long time ago, he did save the life of one man and entrusted said man with 4 turtles that he mutated with the powers given to him by TCRI's experimentation. And meeting them again 16 years later was definitely a shock. But, he's tried to be as best of a father as he can to the turtles, and has tried to teach each of them about their own powers as best as he can. He owns a store in the Hidden City that sells all sorts of mystic goos, potions, and enchanted objects.

April O'Neil CANNOT catch a break. Let's just say that, being raised in the foster care system, she knows how to defend herself. April and her cousin Casey Jones ran away from their foster parents when she aged out of the system and they wanted to separate April and Casey. But, when Casey got in trouble with the cops, April got separated from them, now she's trying to find where they are, as well as finding her father, who she discovered is a scientist in NYC. She's very introverted and has a lot of trust issues, which is why it takes her a long time to actually open up to the Turtles once she becomes friends with them. She's also a huge bookworm and a great writer, and wants to have a career in journalism. She's currently living with Splinter and the Turtles until she can find Casey and her father and start a new life for both of them.

Casey Jones is a menace to society. Can't go one month without getting in trouble, and that's only when they get caught. They're not immediately introduced at the beginning of the story, due to the Foot Clan framing them for a crime they didn't commit. Instead, they're going to show up 6 months after April meets the turtles. Casey is instantly a part of the family due to April's stories about them, plus watching them in action during a street fight with some petty criminals (which Raph was absolutely smitten by). They're definitely a wild child who is on a mission to play hockey and overthrow society. They will also fight you for that one specific brand of eyeliner.

And that's it! I can't wait to show you guys more about this AU! I'll probably do another post that's all about the villains in the future. But in the meantime, u can read this post if u would like to see some silly villain banter