#idw venus de milo

[snackugaki]

part 1 

did I have to cut it there? yes. why? because I’m p-e-t-t-y, I’m petty all the time  ♪ ♫ 

but also, the image cap boo

the tags cannot contain my full power some of my really good tags got eaten by the tag limit and they’re grudges I keep in a little pile in my heart

did this silly little fan comic get away from me? ...YES

was I gonna originally stop it there? also yes but you know... I love being snide and petty but after catching covid like a week ago I’m not gonna bring any bad juju with me into next year if I can help it

I forgot how fucking neon the coloring got for awhile in the archie comics

im cryin g this was supposed to be a short’n sentimental’n sweet comic and now look at me, i played myself

look, Venus has waited a quarter of a century, she earned this

i think... what tickles me most about Venus after coming back to TMNT fandom via Rise, is that from what I can see (on tumblr), the kids love her. they love her and make versions of her in the series that came after the 90s. i look at their bios, some weren’t even born when Next Mutation was airing. (and as far as I can tell, Next Mutation didn’t really get much syndicated airtime if any) ...and they still love her. hurt me in my old little heartguts. it’s mostly my generation of tmnt fans who express distaste for her... but the new fans, they love her, they include her in their aus, they make a place for her in their childhood series. hoo h oo giv give me a moment..

if I could pop back into 1998 and tell little 13 year old snackugaki that Venus would be back, I would. all I had were Trini Kwan and Venus de Milo (not ONLY them, just for the purpose of this post) as a fighty, angry little girl. 

all my childhood idols who could fight were calm, level-headed characters who could just happen to throw a villain through a wall if they really needed to. if it wasn’t for them who knows where baby snacku fite meh! gaki would be today. going up against Rhonda Rousey for the championship belt idk, who can accurately estimate the magnitude of childhood influences, not this bitch

if you’re also in PST and wondering why I typed up this post at goddamn 3am then we’re both insomniacs, you didn’t see me, stop snitching

EDIT: I KNEW IT, SOME OF THE TAGS GOT EATEN! HATEFUL! HATEFUL TUMBLR LIMITATIONS! ahhhhh it’s whatevs

[apparentlyautistick]

I feel like somebody on the idw team just really hated her or something 😭

[cutepastelstarsalior]

Idw Venus edit :]

[portableleo]

piece i drew as a gift for sophie campbell, also to celebrate to 150 release! she had a great run and I’m going to miss her writing for the mainline!

[shellsweet]

We strike hard & fade away into the night.🌙

[our-happygirl500-fan]

Name Meanings of various IDW Turtles.

[novacomics]

im gonna get them in every tmnt universe

[beetlebian]

they are cool

proshit dni

[wild-saber1337]

VENUS THROUGH OUT THE YEARS!!! (Artist: athenoot)

[candied-opal]

my dtiys that I did for twitter :]

[ilovebeingaturtle]

Working on a Rise!Venus design rn but oh wait I can’t believe I forgot to post the sketches of my daughters all together-

[snackugaki]

original postings: bleep bloop

yee finished 7:52pm pst ayy

gotta be quick, body decided to ring in the new year by shedding endometrium and the 1st day cramps are vicious talk about starting the new year with a clean slate AH HAAAA ba dum tss

i know the tags are hateful and I would never have fit this next bit in them so:

the painful Wade-Giles translation (pinyin gang sends its regards) aside, the “měi” (with a caron) character was written with the hanzi for beautiful but (despite the different tones and most regular people don’t include accent marks when transcribing) “mei” could also be with an acute,”méi” 梅 plum.

Plum as in part of the 3 Friends of Winter (plum, pine, bamboo); plum as in a symbol of perseverance in the face of adversity, a common lunar new year motif also.

tl;dr she may not have many iterations but it’s starting and my baby deserves after a 25 year winter.

okay thassit basically, i’mma go curl into a fetal position, c u nxt yr make good life choices byeeeeeeeeee

[juvmarchiori]

What if TMNT took place in São Paulo, Brazil instead of New York?

Welcome to my Brazilian au, I made this character sheet of Venus as a Hawksbill Sea Turtle.

I specifically choose this species cuz Venus de Milo is a greek statue that represents the goddess Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty and she basically rised from the ocean, so a sea turtle sounded right.

In this AU Venus was found by Tang Shen (Big Mama) and was raised alongside Miwa (Karai)

She's a extremely high ranked member of the foot because of Shen.

She have a very bubbly and girly personality, Venus was born without her arms and front flippers and she wears prosthetic arms.

She's Karai's little sister

[untilsfe]

If Jennika is in here. Is Venus here too?

Well, I don't know a lot about Venus other than she is the turtle with the pretty braid, so... I don't know how she will fit in Rise post apocalyptic future. But I like her, so maybe she could be a Krang spy designated to make the resistance trust her and leak information. Maybe it was her fault Donnie dies(?)

Perhaps perhaps perhaps...

[portableleo]

i AM beautiful

[shellsweet]

Thank you, IDW team, for giving us so many awesome ladies this past decade!! ❤️