#man remember 2012

[lousysharkbutt]

HEYOOO

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

[craacked-splatters]

"I know"

"Do u want to see what I added today?"

"Sure buddy"

(insane rambling below!)

Scrapbooks! Scrapbooks! Hell yeah!!

Hello to the 5 ppl seeing this👋 Ima be real Im running on 7 hours of sleep after 5day grind brain mushy rn and I scribbled everything maniacally by memory at 3am after having one of those revelation moments so I have no idea what I'm missing lmao. This is actually the first time drawing them like this 2. Really proud of it

and B4 u ask anything hear me out.

So like tmnt2012 mutant apocalypse am I right?

Yeah it's flawed and pacings off and stuff BUT! The implications it left behind are haunting and it has been stuck in my brain for years. One of the things that stuck with me was the fact that Raph and Don had stuff like April's tessen, Mikey's stuffed bear head, The Creeps containment jar, and Casey's skull(horrifying btw) with them and that it's like :((

I fully believe it was Donnie who collected and carried them everywhere in their car. Not only for Raph(to help with this memory)but also for himself.

Why? Well maybe I'm reading 2 much into it and it's also partly a HC of mine but also bc canonically Donnie has a bit of a hoarding habit collecting trinkets and pictures and stuff. He likes to keep things around that hold a lot of significant value to him.

We see this in The Creeping Doom during the intro

AND I swear he's got a literal wall of family photos in his lab somewhere I can't for the life of me find it but I know he did! He even took some to the farmhouse with him when they escaped during the invasion.

They're memories yk? Reminders..

Ok im having difficulty expressing this shit rn words r failing so like give me ur brain 4 a sec.

Imagine ur donbot.

You're stuck in a cold metal limbo for the rest of ur last remaining family members life. Everything and everyone you knew and cared about is dead and gone. Over thousands of species and ecosystems that made ur world unique wiped out. No more animals no more wild things no more blue clear skys. Death can't come for you. Not in a way that matters anymore.

And no matter where u go you are haunted by shadows of what once was. There are so many echoes and ghosts and cultures and stories and lives that were buried & left to rot by the gaping maws of fear & the desperate need to survive. No one cares for the past and the only other person around you can't remember it. Time will claim its domain again and there will be nothing left except empty metal husks to show sentience even existed in the first place.

Like holy shit he was just a kid bro and he never got the chance to even reach full adulthood!!! I can't possibly imagine the grief and guilt he must've carried with him all those years. He lost EVERYTHING

His family. His home. His world.

Did Donnie even get the chance to mourn??? Do u think his new body allowed it? Do u think he even ALLOWED himself to mourn? He had a hurt amnesiac brother who still needed to eat, who could still starve and bleed and die if they weren't careful enough.

So between his habits and the ✨Angst✨ and human pollution, him hoarding random ass things Wall-E style and making these shitty little scrapbooks or keepsakes didn't seem so far fetched to me. I also highly doubt there was enough time or resources to build shrines or graves in the middle of apocalypse. But yk honoring/preserving the memories of the things and ppl we love is natural for us so like SORRY if its a bit cringe of me wanting him to have SOMETHING to comfort him during the really bad days.

Even if its more bitter than sweet

Bonus doodads cuz I was indecisive:

The 1st was purple tinted cuz of donbot vision get it hehehe

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

So, remember that time in S5 of 2k12 TMNT where Donnie was channeling his inner John Wick and wanted to get revenge on a mob boss due to a past conflict, possibly acting in this manner due to them recently losing Splinter again and for good in that gruesome fight in S4 and it one of the ways that he is dealing with the grief without fully realizing it?

Cause I do and it stuck with me ever since my initial watch after all these years.

[stupid-2012tmnt-pics]

just as i was sobbing my friend looked over and said “if you get rid of the top two turtles it’ll look like a penis if you squint” and.

and now a deeply moving and sad scene is completely ruined for me

[missowo]

First meet

who the heck are you????

(why is he sounds like shelldon?)

Also:

[luescris]

God man. I'm rewatching 2012 (again) and like. I genuinely forgot just how funny and silly the first two seasons are. Like I'm only on episode 6 of season one and I've found something to laugh at at every single episode so far. And the way they really focus on every single character is just. *chef kiss*

They were literally simply teenagers man. They were so silly. The trauma bus is gonna hit them so hard and I am scared for them

I woke up depressed today and now I'm happy after watching three episodes like this show is my coping mechanism even if it'll make me sad later geeze

[kinun]

I just had a dream about a really neat tmnt version that just hit right.

Why do I forget my dreams so fast?

[butterfilledpockets]

HMMMM

Okay what about this one?

I'm using all my IQ for this

(Didn't find a better picture :c)

sadly no, your iq is very strong but alas tis the wrong firearm once more.

[scuddish]

SEBASTIAN STAN as BEN THE APPARITION 2012 | dir. Todd Lincoln

[clowningaroundmars]

ppl abt hobie brown: oh nooo he's so hard to draw he's sooooo skinny!!!! idk how to draw long lanky thin-limbed teenage boys... it's so hard! :(

me doodling hobie poses, remembering that i'm comin in from the Long Lanky Thin-Limbed Teenage Boys fandom:

[iwasforceedagainstmywill]

So I looked up why "Your mother wears combat boots" was an insult...

Anyway 2012 Donatello called that Krang's Mom a prostitute

Specifically in a way it'd understand "The one who is called your mother wears the boots that are made for combat"

[parachuteinfantry]

26 is still young my dear <3 you have time

i don't know if the person who sent this will ever see it; it's over a year old at this point. i got this message presumably in response to some fear i had over turning 26 last year, and i've kept it in my inbox so i could look at it whenever i was anxious about my life going too fast. you're right, 26 is still very young. i'm 27 now, so i'm letting this message go, but i will still think of it often. and thank you. i needed it. <3

[bootyyy-shaker9000]

12 more days until TMNT 2012's 10th anniversary............

[tmnt-obsessed-ace]

Behold the first girl character I EVER had a crush on

She should've been in the show season at least season two and Im still mad that we saw so little of this absolute QUEEN

SHES EKEKOWNDLQSNAKW

[fubbytime]

hmm done op posting today while i think about how to do the furby intros for the twins and ray-vee + the newbies (on the 16th!!!)