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A New Lease on Life, chapter 62:

Redemption Is a Process

…in which Kimber is a self-destructive and halfway feral little shit, Amber needs a drink, Mercy needs a nap, and unbeknownst to everyone, trouble is brewing and change is coming.

Read A New Lease on Life today on Archive of Our Own, Fanfiction.net, and Adult-fanfiction.org.

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~ Socrates

Mercy

i hope you heal from the things no one ever apologized for

All i need is this! Why is it so Hard to find..?!

Mercy.

The most content grass puppy on earth 

(via)

Teenagers

Ginny O'Brien: ❇sitting on the living room sofa with Amber and Bart❇ "How're you handlin' the twins? They're, what now, fifteen?"

Amber: ❇exhausted❇ "Thirteen, Mum. I'm...it's...a work in progress. Honestly, teenagers scare the livin' shite out'a me."

Isaac: ❇skips past into the bathroom, singing❇ 🎵"They could care less as long as someone'll bleed! So darken your clothes or strike a vi-o-lent pose, maybe they'll--"🎵

Emily: ❇in the bathroom picking gum out of her hair❇ "ZAC, YA MANKY KNOB, LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Ginny: 😕

Amber: 😣

Amber: "Was it this bad when I discovered the Beatles?"

Bart: "Worse...yar lad can at least cahrry a tune."

Donnie: ❇rushes into the room carrying an empty pair of toddler pants❇ "Has anyone seen Marie? She's streaking again."

Bran’ spankin’ new chapter!

Yes, you read that right - A New Lease on Life FINALLY has a new chapter! Part ¾ of the Reclaimed Honor arc went live last night (…or fuck-thirty this morning, if you wanna be technical about it) on all three sites. Chapter 61 has:

Leonardo being an aggressive asshat

Raphael pretending he doesn’t care even though he’s worried sick

Mikey being a little shit (as always)

Donnie gettin’ some good lovin’ - or, at least, trying to get some good lovin’ 

Hun paying for his crimes and choking on it

Kimber learning another valuable lesson while being her usual frustrating self

Leon lying to himself and fooling no one

Amber getting fed-the-heck-up with lag and trying to keep the peace

Splinter getting fed-the-heck-up with his sons’ bad manners and issuing braindusters

and last but not least, 

Daron reminding Hun that brains can beat brawn by kicking his ass at chess, all while slurping down white bitch coffee.

Aside from that, you also get the usual fare - sappy dream-smut, cavity-inducing-feels, hard lessons delivered with a soft hand, purple prose, occasional hilarity, and a few tender moments along the way. Not to mention you finally - FINALLY! - get to meet Søren Beauman’s sassy self, if only briefly so.

Read Forgiveness Goes Both Ways at the following links because Tumblr has issues with nipples and this story has nipples in it. 

Adult-FanfictionDOTorg

Archive of Our Own

FanfictionDOTnet

Can’t wait to hear from y’all, and hope y’all enjoy the latest addition to my never-ending dumpster-fire of a story!

Fair warning: I'm getting a sudden influx of PM spam lately so I'm instituting a new policy.

If someone I wouldn't know from Paul messages me and they start out with a generic greeting like "hi" without identifying themselves, I check their account. If their account shows no posts, likes, followers, etc, (ESPECIALLY if the only blog they follow is @staff or @support) I'll reply with a bizarre WTF test question to verify whether or not they're a bot. These responses and others like them are considered a pass:

"Uh...what are you smoking?"

Nvm guess I mssgd wrong prsn

"What are you talking about?"

"Dude, chill out, I'm not a bot!"

Basically anything except something like the response in the following screenshot

Passing responses will be rewarded with an explanation, an apology for being weird, and an awkward joke to break the ice. Failed responses will be rewarded with reports, blocks, and if I'm feeling particularly sassy, blasting them on my main blog.

I feel snarky. This one's getting blasted. And for the record, these questions are meant to have no logical answer. Thank the Beatles for the Elementary Penguin and his fascination for Hare Krishna mantras.

I'm not an asshole. I'm basically just trolling the telemarketer who called me at crack-thirty in the morning on a weekend.

...and yes, I realize autocorrect apparently doesn't believe in the existence of more than one penguin. It also thinks I intentionally text Cold that I'm "ducking sore" and just can't spell it properly.

🐧💙🐧💙🐧💙🐧💙🐧💙🐧💙🐧

I don’t have long but I wanted to pop on here for a moment...to share THIS!

YEP. I’ve FINALLY got the entirety of the currently posted chapters of ANLoL uploaded to AFF and in the correct order this time! (...don’t ask. My blonde leaked out.) From here on out, AFF will be updated at the same time as FFnet and AO3 with some minor (or NOT minor) improvements and formatting changes. NOW it’s time to start transferring the changes to AO3 and FFnet! ...this is gonna take a while.

If you’re a TMNT fan and enjoy fluffy-angsty-steamy romances between awkward mutants and hopelessly dorky human OCs, please, by all means, read my word-vomit. The further you read, the more the story changes and the more cavities you’ll get from the main couple. (That’s Donatello and Amber O’Brien) 

Work-in-Progress, currently ongoing (despite the recent lull in updates) 

Past 60 chapters of ever-increasing length and quality. 

Four main M/F couples with a few non-het side-couples

A wide variety of carefully crafted (and well-tortured OCs.) 

Rated M/MA for language, PTSD, adult topics, occasional controversial or sensitive content, and of course, smut. Because I’m a pervy writer and I have no shame.

Includes several standalone one-shots, listed under “The Gallery of Memories” on FFnet and AO3, some posted on their own on AFF.

Improved dialogue and writing style, polished syntax, corrected errors and expanded scenes, patched plot-holes, and in the case of smutty scenes, more details. My writing skills have grown since I started this story a few years back (no, I’m not bragging, I’m just stating a fact) and it was time the story showed those improvements.

Go. Read, review, or share with someone who might enjoy the story. This writer is starving and needs to be fed!

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Once you fall in love, your body, mind and soul does not belong to you anymore, you become a slave to the other person. This is a reciprocal thing, so you become one single being, thinking the same way, feeling the same way, behaving the same way. This is how true love is, it is one soul within two bodies.

Aristotle

Most recent digital art - character bases for Leon Jackson during "A New Lease on Life." The second two pics are avatar type images constructed with my usual resource. (Address in upper corner) As you can see, the results are rough, the lines shaky and the shading can be gritty, and there's a reasonable limit to what you can design. (NO PUPILS! HE'S A DEMON!) the program is, however, FREE, and I can't draw freehand worth crap. (Process and explanation to follow)

Though he started out as just a foil for Kimber, meant to appear a few times then fade away, Leon became one of my favorite OCs to write, accent not withstanding. The first picture is how he first appeared - full punk and going by the name "Lefty" to counter his twin's nickname "Northpaw." The second picture is the older, wiser, and more mature Leon we'll see in the future...and in the one-off I've been building for recently. Remember I recently asked for kids' names for an upcoming story? That's this one. Really stepping out of my box on this particular story (so even more research than usual, which is saying a lot!) but the plot and characters are very close to my heart. Whether or not I can properly tell it, this story MUST be told. (I'd be open to joint writing on this one since the pairing involved isn't my forte and I don't want to butcher the story by portraying it poorly or coming across flippant or ignorant. PM for deets.)

As promised, PROCESS: The FIRST set of pics are the final product, each the result of hours of editing and alteration in both Autodesk SketchBook and PicsArt. This means smoothing of lines and shading, blending, corrections, details, HEAVY alterations to the hair, and more in ADS. (Also, piercings, because he has a few. PicsArt alterations included texture, more smoothing, wrinkling and stretching of clothing, some moderate adjustments to his ears and facial structure, and masks and filters to name a few, along with his Purple Dragon tattoo and some added details on the clothing and his spacer. (I'm disappointed with how that gauge turned out but swelling the earlobe kept altering his jawline - too small a target! The lip ring, too, feels a tad off, though I can't figure out why.) Every single square pixel in both original constructions has been gone over and altered at least once, even if those alterations were simply smoothing and adding texture.

A couple personal notes: the "shaved" texture on his scalp turned out better than I expected. The "buzzed" sides on the second photo, while they look nice, don't really look buzzed. His eyes and eyebrows were a NIGHTMARE, but the texture of his irises came out nicely...even though the pupils are a bit freaky. The rings on his eyebrow and lip actually taught me how to use a function of SketchBook that I didn't even know existed before, so even if the shading and sizes are a tad wonky, I'm happy. The dragon tattoo coiled around his arm is neither drawn nor clipart - it's LETTERS in a free-to-use font I found online and downloaded to PicsArt JUST for tattoos. This baby is no less than THREE different letters overlapping - one character for the body, and two others for the long-ass tail. I have no idea how I'll recreate it when it comes to finishing up Northpaw. (I may just skip him. He's an ass.) Lastly, Leon is roughly the same age as Mercy's "body host," Donna Mays; this means that while he acted like a much older brother to Kimber, they really only had a year or so between them. He, too, was still a teenager during the flashback to Raph and Kimber's history, and he's been stuck between child and adult for a while now. 

Regarding "A New Lease on Life" on Adult-Fanfiction.org

Anyone who's been reading the updated chapters on AFF: Uh...apparently I...missed a posting couple chapters the first time around. (Coincided with emergency extraction of an abscessed wisdom tooth resulting in LOTS of pain meds, so yeah. I was posting groggy.) The two missing chapters are posted at the end and have "OOPS!" in the title until I can get answers on how to reorder the chapters. If I can't get answers, I'll have to delete back to the first missing chap then reupload everything afterward...that's about TWENTY CHAPTERS, for the record. Still waiting for answers on the forum. (Honestly liable to cry like a toddler if that ends up being my only choice but whatever. I'll get over it.)

For anyone who hasn't heard yet: I've been going over the already posted chapters and updating and improving them as I post them on AFF. Scenes I wasn't too happy with before are improved. (especially the smutty scene in Burn With Me which I spent several months wanting to kill with fire) Some of the more adult scenes have been expanded and given more detail, and I've fixed little inconsistencies that have been annoying me. I've learned a lot more about writing just since beginning ANLoL and wanted the previous chapters to reflect those changes. These updated chapters will eventually be posted to the other sites (Fanfiction.net and ArchiveOfOurOwn.org for now) once I've completed editing and posting all previous chapters. In the meantime, folks on AFF are really reluctant to review, and reviews are the only way I know the story is actually being READ on there. If you read there, please rate and/or review, even if it's anonymous or critical.

Thanks for your patience, and hope everyone is having a great end-of-summer!

Reminds me of a scene in "Missed Steps."

The Coos Bay Times, Marshfield, Oregon, August 5, 1929

HAPPY ANLoLVERSARY!

YEP! Three years ago today, I posted the first chapter of A New Lease on Life on FFN and whaddaya know? It’s still going strong (coughSLOWcouch) at 60+ chapters! I really wanted to have a new chapter for ya’ll to celebrate but...yeah, I got nothin yet. Hopefully I’ll have time and ability later on in the week. In the meantime, THREE MAMA-FARKIN’ YEARS, BABY! And it’s STILL GROWING! And...Donnie...still...hasn’t...gotten laid. Ahem. Working on that.

So, aside from that, our internet signal has been crapping out several times an hour (maybe why the queue’s been acting up?) so there may be a post or two after this one. Just consider them a bonus.

Now, if y’all will excuse me, the writer has a semi-soft surface to faceplant on and needs to spend the next several hours snoring the intro to “Crazy Train.” Happy Summer, Folks, and as always, thanks for reading and I hope to hear from y’all soon!

Countdown to ANLoLversary

Couple Dynamics: Mikey and Bree

Tagline: The heart and his home. Mikey's the heart of his family, but home isn't always a place…in his case, it's a person. It doesn't hurt that Bree is "built like a brick house."

Carrying style: Name a position, Mikey's tried it. Sometimes it works – like Bree sitting on one shoulder and brain-dusting him – and sometimes it doesn't – like that one time he tried to carry her tucked to his side like a quarterback carrying a football and nearly cracked one of her ribs AND face-planted when she shrieked. Most often, Bree ends up sitting on his shoulders or hunched on his carapace complaining about feeling like a preschooler getting a piggyback ride. (Don't listen, she loves it.)

Favorite positions: His: on his knees with Bree in his lap, both sitting upright. This position leaves all his favorite skin open for worship, and it makes Bree particularly vocal and needy…especially when he encourages her to arch her back. Hello, Heaven! Hers: She's got two favorites. First, pinned to a wall, especially in the shower; it puts Mikey's incredible strength on display which melts her into goo. Her second favorite, though she'd never admit it, is the good old classic missionary. More often than not, she's content to just be with him without attempting acrobatics.

PDA: These two are…actually surprisingly innocent with their PDA. Sure, there's a lot of impromptu smooches, loads of hugs, and a LOT of touchy-feely stuff, but nothing overly sexual unless they're supposedly alone. Lots of foot-rubs and cuddling (sometimes piled-cuddling and falling asleep on each other) but that's the worst…unless Mikey succumbs to the call of the booty. These two are sort of a balance between Mercy/Raph and Amber/Donnie in PDA, and actually come across more like best friends at times.

Countdown to ANLoLversary

Couple Dynamics: Leo and Beverly

Tagline: The blind spots. Leo grew so accustomed to accommodating for Beverly's left-field blindness that he never realized when they became each other's emotional blind spots.

Carrying style: Beverly is Leo's princess; nothing less worshipful than bridal-style works for him. Being carried around tends to annoy Bev to an extent, but when she's feeling rough, it also comforts her. She's the most valuable woman in the world to him, and he treats her with every ounce of care and caution possible. (She mostly puts up with it then chews him out if he goes too far.)

Favorite positions: His: just about anything that puts Bev on top. As much time as he spends in charge, it's nice to kick back and just leave everything in someone else's control once in a while, and when it comes to her, he's more than happy to relinquish control...at least temporarily. Her: Bev gets tired of topping pretty easily (well, tired in general TBH, she's never going to be quite as strong as she used to be) so she much prefers being able to 'take it lying down.' Her favorite so far has both lying on their sides front-to-back, legs tangled, and Leo torturing her neck, but tantric-missionary is growing on her.

PDA: You actually wouldn't recognize most of this couple's PDA unless you looked hard; they get more out of it by letting their feelings simmer under the surface. Lots of silent communication with their eyes, secret smiles, and non-contact gestures – like Beverly sweeping her hair off her neck and Leo slowly raking his eyes from head-to-toe and back again. If she's had a particularly rough day, he quickly breaks the no-contact trend for a foot, shoulder, neck, or backrub, or a steadying hand on her shoulder or knee. If they're alone but liable to be interrupted, you'll finally see some physical contact. For Leo that generally means nuzzles and mouthing at her neck and shoulder, sniffing and playing with her hair along the way. Bev's a little more trusting of herself (and less concerned with possibly pushing Leo too far.) Gentle touches to his face, plastron, shoulders, arms, and just about anything else she can reach are common, particularly places where he's visibly inhuman. She's particularly fond of     running her fingertips over the calluses on his hands and putting on as though it doesn't put her halfway to dripping.