#rise apritello server

[jojo-rolo]

This be the season!

Here is my gift to @demmcounterfeitbandits for this year's Apritello server's Secret Santa Exchange!

When places are hard to reach, always remember you can use your boyfriend for the task... but maybe not in the way he's expecting XD

[blymathin-cove]

I participated in a DTIYS on the apritello server!! The original made by my lovely comod @cyborg-hands!

Of course, I went super saturated and colorful for the background, and I ended up using my design for an older April and random pants for Donnie LOL

[chubs-deuce]

I am lost in the otp sauce your honor

[blye-flower]

💜 when you’re swinging around the city trying to have a moment and your superhero brothers decide to ruin it 💜

The last couple of days, we had a gala event in the server to celebrate our one year anniversary! The mods created and shared a lot of awards, but I couldn’t not post this one for @shiveagit’s Spiderverse AU!! We voted it as fanfav AU in the server and it’s so well-deserved. Watta’s made some really good designs for it and has done a really great job incorporating as many rise characters as possible! Honestly, I definitely recommend checking it out, Watta also has such a really good art style ajshsjs.

Under the cut is the piece without the words:

[apritello-newspaper]

Extra, extra, read all about it! This page is now a go!

Hello one and all, this blog will be used to spread as much Apritello goodness as possible, as well as give news about things in regard to open events (like Apritello week) that the Lair of Apritello plans!

The Lair is Rise focused, so a majority of the stuff reblogged here will be focused on that iteration of apritello, however, that doesn't mean it'll be the only iteration shared here!

[ladysqueakinpip]

the funniest thing to me about being a rise!aprite//o shipper is, once you join the server, you realize just how many people actually do ship it but aren't public or vocal about it bc of the hate

then u see these fans who act all superior and say "yeah i would NEVER interact with or follow someone who ships april/turtle ships! disgusting!!" and im like buddy. pal. i guarantee you already are, you just don't know it

[shiveagit]

Repo Mantis - Catch A Ride! I participated in a Rottmnt-Pinup-Calendar-Collab on discord. And immediately nabbed Repo Mantis for the month of April. Happy with how the bike and the april-flowers came out and the details in his eyes are my pride and joy. Full colored ver. exclusive to the discord server. Sry B&W ver. below

[turtsmcgurts]

Want to chat apritello or maybe Rise Ocs with me and a bunch of other cool peeps? The Apritello server that I help mod is now open again! Please feel free to come say hi and have fun. (We are mostly Rise based Apritello but we are very open minded about other pairings, save for tcest, and just love to have a good time in a place where people can feel safe to talk apritello and ships in the crazy cool rise universe. Or others! We do have sections for the other iterations too, the majority just love rise. :) )

https://discord.gg/mueUtpFk

(Please note that this link will /perish/ in 30 days time. Rest in pieces link. I'll be updating it at the end of the month. SolongasIremember. <3 )

[secreterces5]

“Who… is that?”

Soooooo guess who got too involved in Rise Apritello ahahah— someone in a server I’m in had the thought of a circus au, and I took that one-sentence concept and ran with it. For miles. So there is a fic in works now and everything!

But the first step was obviously THE scene from The Greatest Showman. I mean, every fandom and ship’s got it, right?

Bonus initial sketches because I found the transformation funny (also I have never drawn April before and it turned out to be extremely painful lmao <3)

[aversiteespabilas]

Cute Apritello art! Love the posing and coloring, it all goes so well together.

I was wondering if there was a way to join the apritello sever? I’m an artist too and my favorite rise ship is apritello, so it’d be nice to find other shippers. If not then I understand, it’s probably non of my business lol

Hey there! Apologies for not getting to you sooner n.n' Thank you so much, glad you enjoy my art!! <3 If you'd like to join the Apritello server you can contact mods @turtsmcgurts or @blye-flower for an invite!

[jojo-rolo]

A Sunrise's High-Rise Serenade! (Try saying that more than once! XD)

My gift to @venelona-turtle-den for this year's Apritello server's Secret Valentine Exchange!! It was a pleasure to be your cupid once again! <3

[hersheyotaku]

Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rating: T Characters: Donatello, April O'Neil Pairings: Donatello/April O'Neil Tags: Mistletoe, Fluff, Cuddling & Snuggling, Kissing Summary: There’s more than one way to keep warm on a cold winter’s day, and Donnie discovers a new method that goes by the name of viscum album. A gift for the lovely @chubs-deuce for the Apritello Server's Secret Santa Gift Exchange! 😘 Read on Ao3 here https://archiveofourown.org/works/42633939

Donatello Hamato hated the cold.

He hated the way it made him feel lethargic and slowed his productivity, he hated the way it numbed his fingers to the point that it felt like he was handling tools with uncoordinated frozen sausages, he hated the way the nip in the air made his nose run with disgusting bodily fluids, and he hated the way it made the metal in his lab ice-cold to the touch.

Even his tech seemed to hate the cold, the metal components contracting and the lubricants thickening with the chill, causing his more temperature-sensitive machines to lag or fail. He’d had to outfit Shelldon with thermal insulation just to keep the little drone from shutting down into his own tech version of brumation.

All that being said, Donnie didn’t, however, hate the methods one could use to combat the frigid winter temperatures that permeated the subterranean lair. Soft clothes, thick blankets, steaming beverages, thermal battle shell enhancements, Genius Built™️ heat lamps, and best of all?

The shared body heat of his incredibly warm-blooded best friend and romantic partner, who was currently sharing three layers of thick sherpa blankets with him as they sat cuddled together in an oversized beanbag chair. The projector screen flickered with images of Jupiter Jim’s Pluto Vacation IV, the merry chiming of the current musical number only adding to the cozy winter ambience that permeated the festively decorated room.

Despite the entire family spending the day indoors partaking in traditional holiday activities such as cookie baking (Mikey’s favorite) and metaphorically ‘decking the halls’ with lights and greenery and the assortment of chintzy decor Splinter had acquired over the years, his brothers were now notably absent, having decided to ride out the night’s chill within their shells in a state of temporary brumation. 

And while in years past Donnie would have opted to join them, this year he had a very compelling reason to stay awake.

His reason for wakefulness reached across him for one of the mugs of hot cocoa Shelldon had delivered moments prior. April had opted to spend the night thanks to the blizzard raging across the city above, and while Donnie had installed treads on the turtle tank that could have delivered her safely to her doorstep, they’d decided spending a cozy night together watching holiday classics was much preferable to driving through blinding sleet and snow.

And if Donnie was being honest, he rather enjoyed having this uninterrupted time alone with April—a rare luxury unless they resorted to retreating to his lab in lockdown mode to avoid nosy family members.

And he planned to take full advantage of their cozy solitude.

Surreptitiously, Donnie shifted himself to make just enough room for a single metal arm to extend from his battle shell, the metal appendage snaking out from the cozy nest of blankets to hover over their heads. Within its claw dangled a small sprig of greenery adorned with tiny white berries that he’d acquired for just such an occasion as this.

With the scene properly set, Donnie made a show of clearing his throat.

“A-hem.”

April glanced up from sipping her chocolatey beverage with a soft ‘hm?’ before her eyes caught on the greenery hanging above them.

“Whatcha got there, Donnie?” she asked, raising her mug for another sip to conceal her smile at her dorky boyfriend’s antics.

“Oh, this?” Donnie waggled his sharpied eyebrows at her, pleased that she’d asked. “Why, it appears to be an evergreen obligate hemiparasite of the Santalales order, specifically the European variant viscum album, as can be identified by the small oval leaves and white berries. Which, fun fact, are each traditionally supposed to elicit lip contact when held aloft and removed like so.”

Reaching up, he proceeded to free a pale berry from the cluster before puckering his lips in expectation.

April snickered against the rim her mug. “Right, yeah, okay Mr. Subtle,” she teased, setting her drink aside before snagging the front of his purple sweater. “Bring it in, Dee.”

The touch of her soft, cocoa-sweetened lips warmed Donnie like no sweater or hot beverage ever could, and the turtle melted like a marshmallow on a bunsen burner, his insides feeling just as ooey and gooey as the toasted confection, a soft churr rumbling in his chest.

Their lip lock continued for one warm, blissful moment before April pulled back with a soft ‘smek,’ eyes half-lidded as her holly-red lips curled into a coy grin. 

“So how ‘bout we get busy using up the rest of these berries?” she purred, reaching up and plucking another small berry from the sprig, rolling it between her fingers and arching a brow at him in a challenge that Donnie was all too happy to accept, leaning in to meet April halfway as she claimed her mistletoe-sanctioned kiss.

Ah, the merits of seasonally-appropriate botany—who knew a parasitic evergreen plant could serve as such an effective method of keeping warm?

[chubs-deuce]

is it okay to join the apriltello server even if i dont actively ship apriltello? like i think its a cute ship and i do like fanart of them here and there, i just dont actively think about them as a ship much... its just that the "apriltello is literally incest" debate pisses me off so incredibly much every single time i encounter it that im vary about joining rottmnt servers, cause i dont wanna end up befriending someone only for them to turn out to be some vicious rabid apriltello hater who will get me cancelled for simply just not hating a ship... and the apriltello server seems like the only place to properly avoid this, but like i said i dont actively ship it, so i guess what im asking is, is apriltello like the wast majority of what yall talk about there or are there like a decent amount of other rottmnt conversations too?

Honestly you're so damn valid for that :'D

And don't worry, I actually think you'd fit right in with us! We have several people around who don't actively ship apritello but got as tired as the rest of us of the ridiculous fandom discourse around it, and we have a good amount of off-topic channels that get used fairly frequently as well.

We do talk about Apritello a lot - because duh, that's what the server is primarily for - but it is also far from the only topic we have going lmao. We have a bunch of folks who primarily ship Leosagi or OC x CC ships (we often joke about Leo having a harem because we have like 6 people who ship their OCs with him for example) and again others who are just tired of discourse and merely wanted a place to vibe in peace.

We're very enthusiastic about Rise and tmnt in general so really, the only requirement you'd need to join is to be into tmnt to some degree, not actively dislike Apritello and be 16+ years old lmfao.

And just in case you don't feel like digging up the join link again, have another one here~.

[blye-flower]

Hello rottmnt fandom, may I interest you in rise apritello ship week?? Set up through and by the mods of the Lair of Apritello discord server!

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Prompts: 

Day 1 - April 16 - Best Friends to Lovers

Day 2 - April 17 - Confessions

Day 3 - April 18 - Video Games

Day 4 - April 19 - Dance Party/Music

Day 5 - April 20 - Protecting/Taking Care of Each Other

Day 6 - April 21 - Favorite AU

Day 7 - April 22 - "For You, Anything"

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Rules and Reminders:

💚 The event will span from April 16th to April 22nd. When posting, use the tag #apritelloweek or #apritelloweek2023 (no spaces between words) so everyone can see your creations! and if you would like to tag any of the mods to help show your work, you're free to! For those who wish to post works on AO3, a collection will be made soon, or you can create your own collection and share it ^^

💛 When coming up with the prompts, we were focused on rise Apritello, so that's the version this ship week will be focusing on. If you choose to take the prompts and use them for other iterations, that's perfectly okay, but it will be less likely for the Mods to reblog them.

💜 Any type of media is accepted, we look forward to see where your imaginations takes you!

💚 The Mods decided not to make a ship week blog, so the Mods will be reblogging to their blogs if you tag us in your posts. That being said, each Mod will be reblogging things based on their comfort level.

💛 Additionally, this is a public event, so I will not say who can or cannot participate, however, seeing as tcest make me and the other Mods uncomfortable, we won't be reblogging anything from anyone who ships tcest if it is brought to any of our attention. However, we will not be looking through people's accounts. We simply do not have the time.

💜 If you have any questions, concerns, queries, or anything of the sorts, feel free to message me!

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Mods to tag: @blye-flower, @chubs-deuce, and @booshoofasa

[beesandturtles]

how is apritello considered problematic?? baffling (@ the servers not u)

It's always been considered a problematic ship.

In 2003 and Bay, April is older than the turtles and considered a member of the family like a sibling would be.

In 2012, Donnie's affections are seen as always unwanted even as they get closer. Or April is seen as cold or a bitch even as she clearly warms to him.

In Rise, they're consider "family only" so people complain that "they're siblings you can't ship that."

Because people don't know what Clan or Found Family actually means.

There's also the fact that one is decidedly not human even though monster-fucker fiction is making BANK right now.

In short, its because people are fucking stupid and no fanfiction should really be seen as problematic. Just tag what you write, filter what you don't like, and read what you want.

We're not luring anyone in to the dark side. We just wanna discuss our cute ships.

I hope this helps and thanks for the ask.

[ladysqueakinpip]

anyways I genuinely feel so grateful for the rise apritello server I almost started crying on the way home bc I was filled with such joy. legit the best thing that happened to me in 2023 second only to maybe going to key west.