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[ruija]

Underdark 2: The Undarkening! Aka @plothooksinc blessed us all with a sequel to Underdark; Chiaroscuro which focuses on Raph and Donnie's side of the story and the rescue operation. Obviously, I enjoyed it greatly. I sketched the first doodle immediately after KJ showed me the first wip of the story. The 2nd is for celebrating her finishing the fic <3 And as an extra, here's a couple Mikey&Leos from the regular story. One of them I published with my first Underdark fanart, but I feel it might been too hidden under Read More. The other one is new ✨

[plothooksinc]

/starts releasing her AMVs into the wild one at a time (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

This one's rough b/c it's a test of my new software as well and also, uh, the first I'd made in... over 10 years. But what better test subject than Leo being a complete beloved dumbass, amirite--

[curiosity-killed]

🐭

...but I'm shy in general, so...

🐭 slightly intimidating

aw I never would've thought of you as shy! you're very much in the "warm and welcoming" category to me

How Intimidating Am I?

[shadowbends]

11, 14, 23 for the weird questions <3

11. favorite extracurricular activity?

If you mean the type of extracurricular activity where you got to do stuff after school, I wasn't actually allowed to join any of those as a kid, both in elementary or high school. 8|a

But if you include elective classes, I had a few I quite liked! I think if I had to choose one over the other, it'd probably be photography. I still take a lot of pictures today! I wish I had a nice camera; I'd take so many better ones.

Oh, I also really enjoyed working as a library aid. The school librarians hated me, but the work itself was actually really interesting and relaxing. I'd still love to work for a library someday.

14. do you love the smell of earth after it rains?

I don't know what that smell iiiiiiis, asdfghjkl. If you had asked me this question twenty years ago, I would have been like WHAT DO YOU MEAN WET EARTH HAS A SMELL??? What do you mean RAIN has a smell???

Anosmia problems. /buries face in hands

23. how do you feel about chilly weather?

How chilly are we talking? Michigan winters have taught me I'm not as big a fan of winter as I once thought I was. >_>;

I adore cool autumn weather, though! It's my favorite weather, rain or shine. In general, I also much, much prefer being chilly to being too warm. I start getting uncomfortable if the house hits over 73F.

Thanks for the ask! The meme can be found here, if others want to play!

[callmehere-iwillappear]

8 and 14 for the writer's meme!

8. Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

uh. well. you see. there was one (1) chapter of the canon chat fic that was april/sunita. and then i mentioned hypno/warren a couple times in npwd. um. do those count - I JSUT DONT REALLY HAVE. ANY BIG RISE SHIPS LMAO there's a couple i think are cute (i.e. the two mentioned and also april/cass) but like. shipping is very much not my focus a;ljfdlksjfkld

14. What’s your shortest work of the year?

this little fic i wrote for a 2al update that absolutely destroyed me

[audioeidolon]

🔪🦋🌸!

🦋 ⇢ share something that has been on your heart and mind lately 

Hm! A fandom specific one then; I've really been enjoying the collaborative projects I've been doing lately more than all the competitions I've seen going around on tumblr for TMNT/ROTTMNT. (I've done a couple zines, some writing events, etc.) The competitions are fun, but the TMNT fandom has sort of become an echo chamber I think. (Partially a result of no new material, of course.) The collaborations that come from it are great to see and fun obviously, but the lack of anything else in the fandom (like zines, or comics, or event exchanges like Big Bangs, or holiday events) has really come into stark contrast lately. Idk! I realize there ARE zines and collaborations, but they get a severe lack of attention vs the competition polls and brackets I've been seeing, and it seems like there's one every month or so. Everyone's mileage may vary obviously, and every fandom is different and goes through different things so I'm not too worried about it or taking it too seriously. I just think the competition format may throttle more opportunities than it provides, especially if it's THIS prevalent in the fandom.

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

UUUUH MCYT related, but I dropped some characters into another series, and had to decide what they would have had in their video game inventory hot bar when they were transferred into a fantasy series. Combing through old videos and trying to decide what they would have been keeping easy access to was both a study in those characters/ real life creators, as well as a deep dark look into video game inventory management. Deeply upsetting. What are you hanging onto those three pieces of string and rotten flesh for king? For later???

🌸 ⇢ do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

I have two cats! Pandora (Dora for short) who is about nine, and Barrie who's about three or four.

Pandora hobbies include opening every drawer and cupboard in my house while I'm gone, playing with hair ties she gets out of the drawers, and laying like road kill in the middle of the floor with all her paws in the air.

Barrie's hobbies include eating the hair ties Pandora digs out of the drawers (I have taken measure against this but he is a freakish heat seeking missile for dangerous trash to eat), being used as a teddy bear, and licking my legs while I try to sleep.

[consultingjedi]

18, 38, and 39 for the fic meme!

<3 !

18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?

i have used outlines for [counts] 5% of my fics. everything else is words from brain to hands to digital page. do not pass go, do not collect a semblance of plot.

38. Talk about a review that made your day.

ahhh someone recently said they waited to read one of my fics because they knew they'd love it and then wrote 3 paragraphs about their favorite bits. i am holding that comment close to my chest, it is so sweet. comments from @deadtrilobitesociety also bring great joy.

39. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?

back in 2008, someone flamed one of my fics 8D i found that review again recently and it's so, so funny. (especially because it's obviously fake; it mentions nothing about the contents of the fic, the fandom, etc.) what the fuck does "juxtapose logarithms" mean, mx flame rising.

no one has ever been genuinely rude or mean on anything i've written. as far as i remember, at least; it's possible other weird stuff happened on ff.net but i, like gandalf, have no memory of that place.

[jukori]

I leave kudos when I like a story :)

I personally always leave kudos after reading the entire fic. But I noticed a lot of people already leaving kudos a few chapters into a story or even in a 1st chapter of a new fic.

So yeah, that made me curious.

Please reblog for a bigger reach. 🙂

[heckitall]

Commission for @plothooksinc !!

a sneak peek for their fic, Infinite Ricochet, the long anticipated sequel (of sorts) to their wonderfully written, No Rest For The Weary :)

it honestly just goes to show that i cant not turn scenes from this series into comics uwu

[hamsterandturtlesoup]

"I keep the fingers of my left hand trailing over the wall beside me so that we keep going straight.  From the faint scraping sound I can hear every now and again, Leo’s doing the same on the right.  Seems like this corridor is just wide enough for a couple of turtles to have a nice evening stroll." - Underdark by Nekotsuki ( @plothooksinc )

Underdark got a sequel in May and I've been rotating it in my mind again <3

[remedyturtles]

2024 Writing Roundup

tagged by @plothooksinc

Words Posted:

Additional Words Written:

adding together as many unposted docs dated this year as i could find, 49,122 words

Fandoms:

mostly rottmnt

Highest kudos + Highest Hit One-Shot:

specifically one-shot? how are we defining one-shot? bc technically the highest kudos and hits for a one chapter fic is stare directly at the sun ... which is, you know, 32k lmao

New Things I Tried:

collabing has been really fun!!!

Fic I Spent The Most Time On:

unsurprising to all, firefight

Fic I Spent The Least Time On:

get out of the road i wrote for @cass-phoenix as they beat me in a sprint. i literally have the timestamps for how long it took me to write lmao

Favourite Thing I Wrote:

firefight is the obvious answer. i wrote this nearly every single day until it's completion in september. i wrote this in DM's and voice memos with L. i wrote this any moment i wasn't at work or asleep. i wrote this as i walked 700km while in hostel bunks on my phone. it was everything to me. it was a huge labour of love and i appreciate all the love i received back for it.

i also wanna give a quiet shout out to take one for the team. this one gripped me so, so hard.

Favourite Thing(s) I Read:

going solely off what i bookmarked with the tag 'favourite' for this year:

life is short and i've shortened mine

anatomy of a bug

coming undone (one step at a time)

let the monsters loose

but i can't live in a storm

thicker than ice

a brain so big that you get lost in it

i'll get up and lay back down

bombastic side eye

keep the nightlight on

Writing Goals for 2025:

fuck if i know

New Works:

i've got a bunch of things i'm playing with but we'll see if any of them pan out. i never post unless it's finished or i'm 100% sure i can finish it. so it might take a while to find the next 'thing'. until then, i'm slowly working on a bunch of ask game prompts

Tagging:

@liketheletter-l @callmehere-iwillappear @cass-phoenix

[ruija]

Mikey glanced up, biting his lip as the Pilot strung his brother up along the railing like… like some kind of creepy Christmas decoration

Leo tipped his head back, peering down at him with a wry smile.

Once more @plothooksinc has graciously thrown money at me to illustrate her Rottmnt post-movie fic No Rest For The Weary <3 (which you should read, it's fully complete too!)

[plothooksinc]

In which KJ put up precisely two of her videos before forgetting all about it, so here, have some 03 crack ✨

[curiosity-killed]

7 and 20 for the questions you think it'd be fun to be asked!

7. what scares you the most and why?

Answered this one here! But also: cockroaches. It is also entirely irrational but much less funny for me personally because it is a whole body/brain reaction of abject and insurmountable terror

20. favourite things about the night?

STARS!! I MISS! THE CONSTELLATIONS!!!! WHERE IS MY NIGHT SKY!!!!! also i love the way house lights become little golden windows into people's lives, just these tiny glimpses of a hundred worlds you may never actually interact with. I also just love the like...exhalation of the world around you with it? Like I'm biased rn because it's a cool, breezy, post-rain night here but I love the way the night can feel like the world spreading out and relaxing—the quiet and the sounds that weave through that quiet and disappear and the way the darkness becomes so lovely and deep, embracing all the lines and colors of the day in the same shadows

fun questions (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[shadowbends]

It was fine, it was fine.  It could be a hug and a rescue. Just this once, he’d let it slide.

A very special thank you to @happyfoxx-art for creating this piece. I commissioned her to draw this scene from @plothooksinc's fantastic No Rest For The Weary, an action/adventure fic set post-movie that really lives up its name!

Check it out if you want a good read. The final chapter just recently went live, too!

[crows-murder]

last line meme

rules: post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

thanks for the tag @goldenraeofsun (and also sorry for the month-long reply lol)

Ed’s skin prickles at the sudden shift in the atmosphere, at the sudden, jarring stop of whatever lingering buzz of conversation audible over the crackling drone of the radio.

that is simply too many words i don't think i could tag this many people asjdksklfsdl

no pressure tags <3 @aeligsido @sassydefendorflower @a-canceled-stamp @fleur-de-violette @acxa-kogane @witchofthemoss @radishhqueen @plothooksinc @pickledcarrotsandradish @batbirdies