Feeling a resurgence of extra love for hippoworm ever since Andy Suriano (the show’s creator) started doing sketches to add to people’s orders from his new website - he made a few sketches of Warren and Hypno and it’s just *explodes*
In the first one, Hypno’s looking forward while Warren looks directly at Hypno. In the second one Warren and Hypno are looking at each other 🥹 It’s so sweet and they’re so in love and they only have eyes for one another and I’m a mess /pos
his brothers literally sent him all over new york city to get him out of their hair so they could "find" hypno and stone and Sandy literally found them in like 2 seconds and kept accidentally crashing their date night out every like. 30 minutes this episode was insane
Welp! Chapter 1 got finished early so you guys get it early
@tmntaucompetition Last bit of propaganda for a bit-
Welcome To Mutinis (3223 words) by transgoku
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Summary:
To the world that looked at Warren, Warren is as forgettable as the creature he was mutated into. The mere sight of him could cause disgust to those who look at this man as a vermin who seemed to make it his mention to be seen by the world. This was the curse that Warren had to live with since his mutation. Money. Fame. Attention. All of that went down the drain, and it's only when he finds himself processing a betrayal of his love that it all hit him.
Okay real talk the way rottmnt’s queercoding works makes me so emotional like we have a gay main character where it’s never said that he’s gay, and there’s never any quote-unquote “proof” because romance and relationships aren’t the focus, he’s just allowed to be confident and fruity and gay and no one ever mentions it. It’s not weird, or noteworthy, this is just a gay teenager who’s allowed to be himself, and the reason he is so visible in his queerness is because he never had to hide it. He’s got the confidence of a queen because, why wouldn’t he? There’s no romantic relationships or even hints of attraction in regards to any of the main cast, but he’s still queer, because queer isn’t just as simple as attraction, it’s a community, it’s subculture, it’s a second language in much the same way he picked up snippets of spanish from Nuyorican neighborhoods. We almost never get to see characters with all the other aspects of being queer without any romantic subplots attached, a queer character that’s allowed to just. Be. And even rarer is a young gay character with all those traits, safe to be comfortable with their own identity, with all the habits and codes of someone confident in who they are and actively immersed in the subcultures.
Imagine Warren and Hypno visiting that one spa in the Hidden City that only lets you in if you have great hair, and for once Warren actually gets noticed/praised instead of ignored thanks to his pompadour... buuut then Hypno gets turned away because his hair isn’t fabulous enough.
And Warren just goes OFF like “Oh you did NOT just reject my roomie! We didn’t want to visit your STUPID SPA anyway! Sure, his hair may not be as beautiful or voluminous as mine, but it’s still BETTER THAN YOURS, loser!”, and he just storms off.
Hypno thanks Warren for standing up for him while also telling him that if he wants to, he can visit the spa on his own without him, not wanting to hold him back. Warren refuses, and the two treat themselves to some relaxing at-home spa treatments and have a nice time bonding together ^v^
Happy anniversary to Only Brooches - oh my gods it’s been a year
This AU would be nothing without the contributions of my friends and my fiancé - I am forever grateful for the lovely humans who helped shaped this from being a loose handful of ideas to being a full-on AU complete with art and lore
This fic is a love letter to two queer idiots, yeah - but it’s also a love letter to all of the people in my life that I care about - that our love of a hippo and worm getting together could unite a group of people who would otherwise never have met
I really gotta update the fic….
Also, if this is your first time hearing about this AU and you wanna know more, you can check out the tag on my blog - or you can start reading here: