“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”

- If We Were Villains, by M. L. Rio

had a(nother) nightmare

My sword for them.

XII - The Hanged Man, Upright: surrender, sacrifice, faith, perspective

Hello dear 👐🏻

Who is your favorite turtle and please tell me why?

Rise Donnie is my favorite! First off, he's the 'funny one'! (Which is so true!) His sarcastic voice and lines are what make me Laugh Out Loud!

Poor boy is always pushed down by his bros in the tv show. (Thus he has to praise himself for his achievements because his bros don't that often.)

I think it was such A great idea that all the turtles are different species! The fact that Donnie is a soft shell turtle and he had to build himself A protective shell is just genius! But this still means he's more vulnerable than his brothers are in battle.

(To be honest, he'd be dead in this scene without his battle shell!)

The way he couldn't let go of his tech weapon over a mystic weapon just shows how much he cares and trusts his designs. (They are his babys after all!)

And It's hard to get a genuine smile out of him, but there are those rare moments. And when my boy Dee Dee is really happy, I'm really REALLY happy! (That's two reallys.)

Honestly who I have to thank is the creators of the rise tmnt show. The design is fantastic! I mean look at those eyebrows! The decision to make him a soft shell, the voice actor they hired did an amazing job, and of course the animation team did a wonderful job capturing his emotions! So thank you for making such a lovable variant of the tmnt Donnie! ❤

Did Brambleclaw actually disown the Three when the secret is revealed? I don't remember this happening (then again, it's been a while) but it does bug me how all three go "Poor brambleclaw :(( He was such a good dad to us and he has to learn we're not even his biokits :(((( poor guy" while simultaneously shitting on Leafpool and Squirrelflight despite them showing them more care and affection before AND after the reveal. If he does disown them, then.... WOW is the double standard real here.

In-canon? It's something you have to approximate. They don't seem to have a concept of ""disowning"" because blood relation is taken as such an insurmountable, FUNDAMENTAL fact of life. He doesn't write them out of his little kitty will and testament, but his actions ARE disowning.

It's as if the fact he is not their biological father is an automatic disowning. From the reveal onwards, he is immediately cold, distant, and the "betrayal" is mentioned often. The Three also explicitly don't blame him for his behavior, like it's just to be expected that he's Not Their Dad anymore.

Lionblaze in particular stares longingly at him several times, really missing him. And like... that's kinda what gets my goat so much

I do believe Brambleclaw is entitled to his feelings of betrayal. I believe Squilf was ultimately in the right to lie, actually, but he's still allowed to be upset and angry that she didn't trust him enough to tell him something so important. THAT SAID, YOU ARE NEVER ENTITLED TO TREAT OTHERS POORLY.

And that's what GETS me. He isn't upset that it was all revealed in such a painful and embarassing way when this could have been avoided, or that his lover struggled with this lie for so long without him, or that he feels he's lost his children. Squilf points it out in The Last Hope-- He's so ANGRY at Squilf that he will THROW HIS FAMILY AWAY

Lionblaze seems desperate to be his son again. Hollyleaf is gone for months, and Brambleclaw is still huffing about the secret when she comes back from the dead. Squilf is fawning in the hopes it makes him talk to her again. Doesn't matter. Brambleclaw Is Upsetti Spaghetti so the narrative will never examine his role in hurting this family he apparently loved so much.

(Narrative seems to understand full well that when Squilf lies for a good reason, that doesn't invalidate the hurt Brambleclaw felt... but when Brambleclaw is upset for a good reason, it actually DOES validate what he put her and his kids through)

In BB it is explicitly a disowning. He cuts them off as his children, and they reciprocate. BB!Lionblaze does so in a ball of fury, vowing that he has ONLY a mother.

HYUNJIN | 230611• S-CLASS / INKIGAYO

i couldn't stop thinking about this

Warmup doodle, wanted to try drawing @weevmo 's silly little guy Nimrod!!! Not sure I did him the right justice but he was fun to try and figure out shape wise!!

Love the character designs for their upcoming project Corduroy Stew so so much! Silly puppet guys! Nimrod is my favorite of the bunch by far. He's just so!!! *squishing him

heyyyy who wants some lowish-resolution Lights Out angst scribbles before i go sleep!!!

(gonna put this under the cut bc im not sure if it can be considered spoiler-y or not? does this au even Have spoilers if there's no shared cohesive plot yet? who knows! i'm doing this impulsively i don't know what i'm doing ever! ! i like drawing characters in distress and anguish! thank you!)

Bladee and Yung Lean photographed by Ali Foroughi for Paper Magazine

Forgot about this sketch I made a few months back and now I'm sad.

I'm gonna finish it as soon as I have a little time

"not here."

Just gonna add onto all the people saying this lol but I personally don't find you intimidating at all! Quite the contrary, it always makes me smile seeing one of your posts on my feed, you have such a warm and welcoming presence and I feel like that translates so well to your art. The pastel and ethereal feel your drawings have is such a good visual representation of how you come off as a person, soft inviting light that will make you feel at home and comforted. I might also be a little biased on this but your posts and reblogs about the Little Prince and Collector give me a very safe aura of you overall, I love them both dearly and I think that seeing you talk of them in such a caring way is a wonderful representation of what a kind soul you are. Again, maybe a bit biased on that front but I'm also really happy in seeing someone else be so appreciative of those two little guys. I hope this didn't come off as weird or creepy, just wanted to share the positive impressions of you I've had these past months since I've been following you, that being said, I hope you have a wonderful day/night!! <3

You don't come off as creepy or weird at all! Your message is so very sweet I'm kicking my feet and giggling reading it.

I do find it funny that someone gets good vibes from me just being obsessed with my blorbos though, because I often talk about them like this:

I also want to roll them into blanket burritos and swing them around. or buy them some dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. Y'know, older sibling/parent stuff since both of them are lonely little kids from outer space. Finding them so relatable + baby fever will do that to you.