#i shouldnt have to say it but tcest dni for the love of god

[primetimes-primetime]

alright. so, i know ive already made a post about this on my main, but im stupid and went to the original tweet and just made myself angry again.

TW// T-CEST UNDER THE CUT

alright, so a couple days ago i rbed a screenshot of a certain story board artist's tweet about being the one to put tcest in the show.

i dont know why or how, but i found my way onto twitter and to the original tweet that this guy made.

for context, sheldon here was a storyboard artist for Rise and the scene they are talking about here is this one from the Lair Games episode-

i partially explain again why this is horrible and disgusting and partially why i dont believe or accept sheldon's... i dont even know what to call it. his response (the top post in the first screenshot)

part one

since i literally just rbed something about this, im just going to copy/paste my rb and add onto it a little.

" no but when i found out that some of the artists who originally worked on Rise were t-cesters and proshippers i was actually so fucking pissed off.

there are part of this community that are actually god damn disgusting, and im not afriad to say that tcest is fucking rancid and if you support it i dont want you near the content that i create.

first of all, it is literally incest. it says so right in the name. which, i really hope i dont have to explain why incest is bas in the ripe year of 2022. I don't care that they arent "blood-related". They were fucking raised as brothers, treated like brothers, and think of each other as brothers. No matter how hard you try to spin it, no matter how hard you argue that they arent technically related, you have to understand that they see and think of each other as brothers, which should be enough to make this incest.

this show was amazing when it came to family dynamics and brotherly love/trust/bonds. i can say with confidence that the brothers in Rise are much more brotherly/closer than any other previous versions. it's obvious to see that they love and care and want to protect one another. to turn platonic and love for one's family into something so gross and vile is taking all of the healthy emotional bonds between these characters and throwing it out the window.

i cant fuckung believe i have to say this every time i come back into the tmnt fandom, but-

THEY ARE MINORS.

sure, with the recent Rise movie we saw an adult leo, but heres the thing- that version of leo is fucking dead. he literally got fucking beamed out of existence.

the fact that every one of these brothers are under the age of 18 and i still see so much nsfw art is absolutely horrid.

finally, it's a kid's show. sure, many of us in the community are teens, later teens, and grown adults, but that does not change that this show was originally created to bring the tmnt franchise into yet another generation of kids. again, i sincerely hope that i dont need to explain why implying incest in kids shows (or really any TVs shows, for that matter) is morally wrong and vile.

literally yesterday me and some of my mutuals had to go through a lot of our content to re-tag a whole bunch of our posts tagged with "tcest dni" because tumblr's tagging system is actual shit. there shouldnt even be a tcest community, outside of it impeding on the rest of us Rise fans.

sorry this is such a long post but im so tired of seeing / hearing about tcest. its gross, disgusting, icky, etc etc. it is 6:30 am and i woke up and saw this and decided to fucking say something, because tcest has actively made my experience coming back into the tmnt community and fandom worse. "

and i still stand by that. seeing so much tcest- and from the artists on the rise crew, no less- is making my journy back into the tmnt fandom so, so much worse. it is actively hurting a lot of people- which brings me to one specific tweet from this thread.

so, to start- i do not, i repeat- DO NOT condone or promote sending death threats to people or telling them to kill themselves.

second- it isnt. harmless. reminder, again, that this is a

CHILDREN'S. SHOW.

you are talking about MINORS IN INCESTUAL RELATIONSHIPS. "harmless fiction" my ass.

part two

ok. so as you can see in the original screenshot, you can see that sheldon is passing this off as a joke. but i honestly cannot believe him when he says this.

why, i hear you asking. well,

look at the time stamp. 2020, nearly three years ago now, when the Lair Games episode had just come out.

why didn't he say it was a joke three years ago, when he first posted the storyboard clip? because he isnt fucking joking. either that or he is just really so fucking dense that he doesn't realize that what he's doing is not funny in any way, shape or form.

which brings me to my next point.

even if it is all just a joke,

why the fuck are you joking about minors participating in fucking incest?

its fucking nasty even if it is a joke. i genuinely shouldnt need to say anymore on why this is fucking horrid.

well. ive taken up enough of your time- i appreciate you reading to the end and i apologize for making this so long. a quick, final word in case you got this far and are a tcester or support tcest-

kindly fuck off, do not interact with me, unfollow me, and block me :] i dont want your nasty ass incest anywhere fucking near me or this blog.

thanks ! :D

[nanzyn]

i’ve scrolled through (most of, I keep specific filters on and refuse to take them off) the rottmnt tag on ao3 and I'm really sad that I havent come across the exact post-s2/movie disaster twin body-swap fic that lives in my head :/

like i want it to happen either cause of a mutant or cause mikey was practicing with his new mystic abilities and then just Chaos ensues

i want leo-as-donnie not knowing how to use the battle shells and accidentally wrecking a thing or two while donnie-as-leo panics

i want donnie having to tie together the long tails of leo’s bandana into a comically large bow cause they irritated him so much and leo threatened to lose his shit if donnie cut them short

i want leo refusing to draw on donnie’s signature eyebrows until they really start to fade and donnie essentially ties him to a chair and draws them on himself (or leo begrudgingly sits down one night and does them (they turn out bad but donnie appreciates it))

i want them feeling each other’s chronic pains. leo not realizing how much it hurts to have the battle shell on for as long as donnie usually has it on. and (specifically post movie) donnie feeling the chronic after effects of the krang’s onslaught when leo’s body has a chronic pain flare up (and since neither really complain about it both are like taken aback by how much pain their brother is in at any given point in time)

but most importantly i want a scene with both of them trying to teach each other their weapons because (for plot reasons) their specific nimpo powers didn’t follow them into their new bodies

so leo trying to teach donnie how to make portals and it going Not Well. like, raph having to make the rule “no one goes through the portal unless we can see the other one” bad. (they end up having to walk back from new jersey)

and donnie trying to teach leo how to summon tech using his bo and leo thinking it’s gonna be easy, just think of a cool rocket or something, and then donnie slaps down the schematics for something and tells him he essentially needs to know the ins and outs of anything he wants to make

and thats just the powers part of it. both of them having to learn the basics of using each weapon. leo doesn’t take it seriously at first but when he finally does donnie is surprised with how good he actually is at teaching (even if he doesn’t use the quote-unquote right terminology (“you gotta do a lil fancy footwork thing when you move like that” “feel the vibes, does it feel right?” etc)) donnie gets frustrated easily when he tries to teach leo (“no you do not swing a bo like a baseball bat!”) but leo eventually calms down and takes it serious(ly enough) for some of donnie’s lessons to get through

(at some point the boys try to play basketball and raph and mikey make them play on their own team and they get their asses hilariously handed to them.

until they play again after the scene(s) where they learn each other’s weapons and then they’re Simpatico (they still lose but not by as much))

and then the thing gets reversed somehow and they grow closer as brothers the end