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#donatello is autistic obviously but so is michelangelo
the real question is which of the sides is which ninja turtle 🤔
i cant tell if youre teasing me but honestly? the answer absolutely changes depending on which incarnation youre talking about (only gonna speak on the ones im most familiar with) obviously these are just my opinions alkjdajl
90s movies - Logan is Leonardo (stubbornly self-sufficient, thinks he needs to do everything himself), Virgil is raphael (partial outsider, Grump), Patton is Donatello (punny punny boy) and Roman is Michelangelo (a sweetheart but more sassy than other mikey incarnations), Janus is April (”it was a joke!”) and Remus is Casey (”Class is Pain 101, your instructor is Casey Jones” i mean, come on)
2003 cartoon - Logan is Donatello (intelligent but soft-spokenly comforting when necessary), Virgil is Leonardo (So Much Fucking Angst), Remus is Raphael (Dramatic Bastard) Patton is Michelangelo (a little goofy, fun-loving, but often underestimated), Janus is April again (investigative reporter vibes) and Roman is Casey (himbo)
2007 movie - i have. less than positive feelings about this movie but in the spirit of completionism Logan is Leonardo again for the same reasons as the nineties movie, Remus is Raphael (for the slight bloodlust), Patton is April (big sibling energy, worried about family cohesion), Janus is Donatello (done with everyones shit), Roman is Michelangelo (Dreamer Energy) and Virgil is Casey because fighty but also a lil anxious tbh
2012 cartoon - Patton is Leonardo (wide-eyed idealist leader), Roman is Michelangelo (incredibly creative), Logan is Raphael (Crunchy Outside Squishy Insides also 2012 Raph is autistic and so is logan and i WILL die on that hill), and Virgil is Donatello (2012 donnie is is 6′2 of PURE SASS okay), Janus is Casey (anarchist) and hear me out, Remus is April (listen. LISTEN. 2012 april is feral as FUCK)
2014 movie series - Patton is April (would totally name and rescue a bunch of animal experiments), Logan is Donatello (brain on 150% all the time), Virgil is Casey (2016 casey’s a cop but he gets better going rogue because the cops are morons), Remus is Michelangelo (pure chaos), Janus is Leonardo (calm and collected but a dork underneath it) and Roman is Raphael SPECIFICALLY for that impassioned speech in the first movie
this was DEFINITELY way more information that you asked for or wanted but i did warn you these were two special interests so like, You Did Kinda Ask For This
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brightlotusmoon · 11 months
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Watch "Donnie vs witch town deleted storyboards" on YouTube
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Everyone in the comments: 🤩👍🤘🤟👏🤲💜
It would seem that the bizarre hatred over Rise is gone, giving way to regret that it's still "on hiatus" or whatever Nick did when they killed it without letting it finish a whole season.
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brightlotusmoon · 1 year
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They're Mutants So Human Rules Don't Really Apply | Archive of Our Own
Am I really the only one with tags like that in the TMNT AO3 fandom?
Good thing I'm also under 'Autistic Michelangelo' and 'Michelangelo Has ADHD'. I don't think that was even a thing until a few years ago.
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brightlotusmoon · 2 years
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Anyway I just remembered a dream I had last night. I was playing through a fantasy episode of TMNT 2003 for my AU fic so I could get my scenes right. I started chatting with Mikey and Donnie about philosophy.
We turned a corner, and there sitting on a fire escape were Jung and Kierkegaard, sharing joints, chocolate shroom bars, and a blotter of acid. They were arguing over the subjective morality of projecting one's neuroses on fanfiction characters. We stopped and stared at them.
Kierkegaard blew a cloud of orange smoke our way. "You don't exist," he told us. "Be glad for that."
Jung rolled his eyes. "If you try to pathologize that, I will punch you."
"You can't punch a shadow," Kierkegaard sneered.
"I like these guys," said Michelangelo.
"You would," said Donatello, "you're the creative in the family."
"You should also be the team therapist," I reminded Mikey.
"I can help with that," said Jung, passing the joint to Donatello.
"And now I'm happy," I said. My brain decided that was enough.
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brightlotusmoon · 3 years
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Dear TMNT Fandom,
Remind me, please, who here is autistic and writes Imagines and requests? I have a request for anyone who wants to try in their style.
"What if: Mikey has a nervous breakdown in front of Donnie, who figures out Mikey has had depression for a while. Not to mention ADHD RSD and autistic burnout. Autistic ADHD Reader can be involved in whatever capacity."
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brightlotusmoon · 3 years
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Re: TMNT Michelangelo having ADHD in canon and being autistic in fanfics.
I found this comment in an ADHD support group, and it describes Mikey perfectly.
"I can often tell by looking at a person that they have ADHD - that they are empathic, that they have high intuiton and are very "imaginative". Sometimes, a photo will catch it, too!"
More and more people in the fandom headcanon Mikey with ADHD, but they don't have to, it's already canon.
I've been nudging Mikey's Autistic traits for years, because Donnie was stereotyped as an autistic nerd since the late 2000s. In 2012, 2003, and 2016, I like to think Leo is also autistic. Rise Raph, too.
There are many ways to be autistic, not just Donatello.
See. As a spectrum we're a Mobius Strip, an Ouroboros, a color wheel, never a line. No mild or severe, no high or low, just varying traits and presentation.
(The autistic advocate community as a whole prefers " is autistic" to "has autism" since we see it as defining and identifying, how our brains are wired. It falls on the individual to say if they prefer Identity First Language or Person First Language.)
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brightlotusmoon · 3 years
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Ohhhh. I just realized something important about Rise Leo using Spanish. 1987 Mikey did too. Which means that not only is Rise Leo a tribute to 2003 Mikey, he's paying homage to 1987 Mikey.
I mean... Old Fan headcanon theory, of course. But I feel like it has some teeth.
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Well done, Andy and Ant. Talk about knowing the lore and, you know, paying attention to your character growth instead of dropping developments and ignoring hints. (looking at you Ciro Nieli)
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brightlotusmoon · 3 years
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Dear Fandom:
Can we confirm Rise Donnie being nonbinary? I got some anon threats about how queer my AU fics are (Leo is gray ace, Don and Raph are demi and Don is hyper romantic, Mikey is pan nonbinary). And I've gotten plenty of grief for sharing my memories of knowing that the Mirage and 2003 turtles were asexual. It's almost as nonsensical as complaints about the turtles being written in sexual relationships.
Then again, I still don't understand antis or the mindset that the sexuality and gender expression of fantasy mutants impacts the lives of real people beyond a recognition of representation. They're not human, the point is that they'll never be human and they're searching for ways to fit in anyway. They can be ace and nonbinary without it being somehow threatening.
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brightlotusmoon · 4 years
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Watch "RISE OF TMNT SEASON 2 (FINAL IN FULL)" on YouTube
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OH MY GODS WHICH ONE OF YOU DID THIS?
(I was on the PS4 trying to find episodes for husband, and there was this. Now he's watching the end with me. He has noted lots of references a lot, it's awesome.)
I did not expect this so soon and I love you.
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brightlotusmoon · 3 years
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Ayeee, I really like your fanfiction. Keep doing what you're doing, because it's absolutely stellar. *friendly finger guns*
*perks up* Ee! Thank you, thaaank. Somehow this being anonymous makes the compliment even more precious to me. I'm actually blushing.
Also, thank you for encouraging me. That's a thing I really need. The ideas are crowding my writerbrain and refuse to be made into coherent paragraphs.
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brightlotusmoon · 3 years
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Sometimes it takes me watching TMNT 2016 Out Of The Shadows for the eighth time, very slowly, to finally pinpoint Mikey's Peak ADHD-C moments:
"Yeah! I still don't know what you're saying!"
"Yeah! Ooh, are we going somewhere?"
As his eyes glint faraway into his own mind already hyperfixating on something else. Yeah, baby boy, I get like that when eating pizza. All the carbs and cheese containing that wealth of L-Tyrosine that boosts dopamine, little salt and pepper for a kick. Wait, why are there blueprints on the dinner table?
Things I absolutely need to reference and build on in my main 2016 fic and all the Tumblr Imagines.
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brightlotusmoon · 3 years
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I didn’t know that I was autistic until I was almost 30 BUT before then I still had many labels (rebel, trouble, lazy, brat, twitchy, dork). I, personally, like autistic better.
What were your labels before you knew you were autistic???
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Me, Autism/ADHD and friends
Some of these are true, some are not, and some I've worked on a lot:
Stubborn, lazy, obsessive, controlling, judgmental, psychotic, idealistic, naive, too sensitive, gifted, impulsive, picky, neurotic, sickly, "Spock," tempestuous, too blunt, unreliable, stuck up, annoying, selfish/self-centered, hard worker/underachiever, forgetful, distractable, know it all, weird, crazy, rude, eccentric, bossy, moody, "no common sense," "too smart to be this stupid," "you're not living up to your potential," mean, nerd, geek, antisocial, old soul, loner, daydreamer, imaginative, difficult.
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brightlotusmoon · 4 years
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Headcanon across all iterations because it relates to my own Neurodivergences because I said so:
Donatello drinks all the coffee but Michelangelo actually medicates with it. ADHD is just Like That sometimes.
(Which reminds me to take my tyrosine and mucuna supplements along with the Adderall in the morning.)
Mike and Don each slide around the autism mobius strip the way I and husband do and occasionally bump into each other.
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Don waved his arms. “Caffeine has similar effects to the chemicals in drugs commonly used to treat Attention Defecit Hyperactivity Disorder, Inattentive Type, which Mikey has. It’s not like we can order a prescription for him. He needs to start drinking more caffeine, it might help balance out the neurotransmitters.”
“Donnie,” Raph said very slowly, “Are. You. Insane? Wouldn’t coffee and energy drinks make him even more hyper?”
“No!” Don said triumphantly. “No, that’s just it, with ADHD it has the exact opposite effect. Stimulants would keep the flow of the proper neurotransmitters in check. See, in ADHD, the neurotransmitter is prematurely reabsorbed back into the neuron. So, that portion of the neural network cannot relay messages in an adequate and timely way, thus contributing to the disordered working and wiring.”
His hands flew even faster, and he keenly noticed that the only brother keeping up was Mikey.
Donnie took a breath.
“So, okay, this means that the drug, say, caffeine, would hold the neurotransmitters, like dopamine and norepinephrine, longer in the synapse so it can affectively bind to the receptor, so messages in the brain are better received, which is how typical, regular brains work. Mikey’s brain can’t do that by itself. Joining the neurotransmitter to the receptor is fitting a key into a lock. Caffeine would just help facilitate the fitting of the key.”
Leo and Raph had blank, glazed looks. But Mikey’s face had lit up, his eyes sparkling. He had propped his cheeks in his hands, and the grin on his face was like a light bulb.
“I didn’t understand a word you said, Dee. But I totally get what you’re talkin’ about.”
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Yeah, I wrote that during strong bout of hyperfocus...
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brightlotusmoon · 5 years
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Fucking hell, it's Michelangelo from Ninja Turtles. Good thing his ADHD is canon.
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brightlotusmoon · 3 years
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I would to read some of those Donnie and Mikey fics you mentioned. They are my fav turtles! Do you have any links to them?
You can find all of my fics here:
Mikey The Lifegiver is an entire series that began as a tribute to the relationship between 2012 Mikey and Donnie. Laugh Til It Hurts and Superheroes focuses on the 2003 relationship from each brother's perspective. Basically any fanfic I write features Mikey as a vulnerable badass with Donnie being respectful of his, uh, quirky curiosity.
And I recommend anything by the other Empath Mikey Elder Fan, @ulisabarbic-blog aka Thicker Than Love, and they're all focused on the emotional bond between the turtles, especially Don and Mike:
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I actually really need motivation to finish all the unfinished projects. I have way too many ideas bouncing between them that don't stay fixed to one story. This is why I made Quantum Entanglement, to stick the bits and pieces somewhere.
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brightlotusmoon · 4 years
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This is my husband, although he'll find ways to repurpose everything, because he's literally Donatello with Michelangelo's artistry and craftiness.
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