I DO obsessively read peoples tags when they rb my art

And, yes, I DO kick my little feets and giggle when I get compliments

Don’t tell Donnie I’m saying this or making this poll, but. Like. Who stole who’s colour palette? And more importantly.

I'm sick of internet negativity, so let's combat it: reblog this and saying something nice/pay a compliment to the prev in the tags.

You seem like a chill person with awesome vibes and pretty art

I love your Donnie & Raph art and am right with you on the Brains & Brawn best duo 🤝✨

2AL - intheeliwoods

Sep!Leo - dianagj-art

Wanderer - vangh17a

The Neon Void - sugarpastelTMNT (ao3)

Good luck have fun! NO TIES ALLOWED ON THIS POLL.

"READ MY DNI" no. use your block button like an adult. i'm not scrolling through the many-paragraphs-long pinned posts of every blog i reblog something from. if you insist certain types of people aren't welcome in the notes of your posts then it's your responsibility to curate that. or choose a closed social media platform like facebook or instagram. or go and live in a barn away from humanity if you really don't like sharing the world with people who are different from you

I saw our future.

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For Rachel. A SUPER-BELATED Happy Birthday to you, sweetie. ;3 Also for my Breaking Benjamin buddy whom I now adore because you realized where my blog title came from <3

some stuff

Wait I don’t think I ever posted this here

fast food worker Don

Just imagine. Him.

🌻 I asked people on twitter for rottmnt headcanons so I'll be posting those here too!

For this one, someone hc that the brothers have kept every single one of mikey's old drawings from when they were tots, which I thought was adorable 😭

I also added my own spin and thought that Leo would be embarrassed if Mikey ever caught him keeping all of his drawings <3

What if like, they really snapped🤔

Other Leo’s being made leader: *believes it’s the perfect role for them & will base a majority of their sense of self on their role as the leader*

Rise Leo being made leader: *Does NOT want to be leader, wants Raph to take the role back, panicked when his dad told him he was leader & it took a literal alien invasion for him to accept the role*

Whenever a writer laments the lack of feedback (be it kudos/likes or comments) there’s always that person saying- “You should write for yourself, not for others!”

Which is to say, they don’t understand how a writer’s brain works. If I was to write for myself and only myself- it would be the 10+ disjointed scenes I want to write most. All that stuff in-between? All those scenes I’m dragging my feet about writing? All those times the characters hijack my plot and create 2k+ word deviations? Would not exist. You’d get a few disjointed scenes with me going 🤷🏻‍♀️ about how they connect.

Because when I have a fic idea it’s really 10 big scenes in a trenchcoat. If you want the full cast version, you need to show me it’s worth the effort to write out.

Also like… the fic already lives in my head. I can already enjoy it whenever I want up there. Writing it out is in large part so others can enjoy it as well.

Leo's relationship with death

Leo really doesn't like to think about death.

I mean, we all saw how much impact Karai's death had on all of Mad Dogs but Leo was the only one that had to be dragged from her, yelling after her, he really, really didn't want to lose her.

And I think when he lost her it left a deep scar.

I saw posts talking how Leo wants for things to get back to normal and pretend nothing happened, which I completely agree with. I think it's in big part because of his fear of repeating losing a close one.

He REALLY doesn't want to even acknowledge death.

Here Raph seemed to be getting through to Leo-

-but the moment he mentions possibility of his family dying?

Nope, time to deflect, joke and feign ignorance.

Leo's aware that death is a big part of being a responsible hero and that's why he'd rather goof off with his brothers and not train.

Because obviously when you ignore something it just dissapears, right? So if they ignore severity of certain situations and possibility of dying it won't happen, right?

If they don't treat it seriously they'll be fine! Totally!

Then Raph shields Leo from the Krang and sends him away.

And it's as if Karai's death stared right in his eyes.

So Leo picks up the slack of leadership in order to save Raph. He behaves carelessly during this time but can you really blame him, he desperately wants to save his brother, to stop yet another family member from death that he is so scared of.

He still tries to be positive and nonchalant, that "pfff obvioulsy everything will turn out alright!" but at the end of the day, it's not that simple.

Casey's speech had hard time to really hit Leo, he's still avoiding confronting resposibility, literally and metaphorically turning away from it. But the moment Casey says Leo's whole family died?

Now that made an impact.

And every time his family is in terrible danger he looks absolutely terrified and basically every time Leo has to be dragged away to not just return and try to save them again.

And when there's nobody to drag him away?

First thing he does is sacrifice himself. Because I don't think Leo is scared of his own death, or at least he is not as scared of him dying as his family. He'd rather give away his life than live through another grief.

Obviously I'm not sayin that the rest of the fam isn't terrified of close ones dying. But while they seem less aware (Mikey) and/or more ready for the possibility (Raph)...

Leo's wholly aware but he'd rather not be and ignore his fears until he can't anymore.

It’s hard to escape self doubt