#ask welcome

[thr-333]

For your "Triple Divorce" AU:

You mentioned the boys trying to stay together in order to make Actually Worrisome Kidnapping (from an outside party) more apparent—Does your Donnie plant trackers on anybody?

Does Draxum have them patrolling (or something else?) to test their combat skills, or is it mostly in-home sparring instruction?

Which of the boys is most likely to signal their location to one of the co-parents that they're ready to be "kidnapped"/taken home?

Have any of the boys ever individually gone to stay with another parent during an argument? (sibling argument or otherwise!)

What's something about your AU that you're especially proud of?

What aspect of your AU would you say diverges the most from the source material?

You mentioned the boys trying to stay together in order to make Actually Worrisome Kidnapping (from an outside party) more apparent—Does your Donnie plant trackers on anybody?

Donnie has trackers on everyone(of course) but he rarely needs to use them. Their parents don’t confiscate their phones or anything when they kidnap them. So usually a text is enough to let the others know where they’re at. 

Does Draxum have them patrolling (or something else?) to test their combat skills, or is it mostly in-home sparring instruction?

Draxum had to tone down the child soldier thing down hard. He’s got a very insistent social worker(who shall be introduced later) hanging over his shoulder. If he was obviously training the kids as weapons he could lose all rights to custody and have an even harder time getting to the boys.

So he needs to convince the kids to train on their own terms. He would probably be more successful if the crux of his plan wasn't to kill all of humanity. Donnie wouldn’t be entirely opposed but he’s gonna need more concrete evidence than a prophecy to enact his plans. Mikey isn’t down for genocide but he likes training his mystic mojo with his pops. He’s good at it and can always whine and complain if Draxum pushes him too hard. Raph is the closet Draxum has gotten to convincing one of his kids, unfortunately Raph draws a line at genocide.

Leo just doesn't like his Pops, so even if he brought the whole humanity is evil thing he probably wouldn't do anything about it just to spite him.

Which of the boys is most likely to signal their location to one of the co-parents that they're ready to be "kidnapped"/taken home?

Ohhh that's an interesting one I actually haven't thought about it, lets see.

Leo usually doesn't need to, if he needs to see another parent he can sneak out himself. He would usually rather just stay with Splinter but his brothers like to spend time with each parent. So Leo sticks with them and waits out until Splinter comes to pick them up.

Mikey would try to be the mediator and make sure they were spending equal amounts of time with each parent. He keeps a long list and schedule of how long each parent has had them(it’s colour coded in case the brothers get split up). He tries to orchestrate everyone but his plans are often disregarded by his opportunistic and stubborn parents.

Raph is the one who gets homesick and will signal whoever he misses most that he’s ready to be picked up. Usually he tries to gather his brothers and get them ready to go. Subtly as to not hurt the feelings of whichever parent he’s with. That's also the same reason they don’t tend to break out themselves- don’t want to upset whoever they’re with.

Donnie will reach out whenever he’s overwhelmed or needs to be in a particular space. This is usually Big Mama who always keeps his room open and is more than happy to have him. It’s usually more peaceful in the hotel. Draxum is always all over them about training and destiny. Whereas Splinters life as a celebrity can lack privacy. Big mama will let him decompress alone while she uses his mere presence there to her advantage. She also has better security so kidnappings to get them back from here are often more discrete and less eruptive.

Have any of the boys ever individually gone to stay with another parent during an argument? (sibling argument or otherwise!)

Oh absolutely, they all have their favourites, which I discussed in another ask, and will go to them whenever they are upset. Even if they don’t need comfort, it is convenient to have places to go away from what’s annoying you.

What aspect of your AU would you say diverges the most from the source material?

Besides from how they grew up I would say Draxum. This man is feral, unhinged, liable to have rabies. His design was just too supervillain chaotic in this simplified style to give him any dignity. The yokai had to juggle a messy divorce, two bitching coparents, four chaotic children who don’t want to put their energy towards the one thing he needs them to, and a social worker who knows he’s full of shit and is waiting for any excuse. He’s lost his sanity and would bite his canonical self if they ever met.

What's something about your AU that you're especially proud of?

The art style! I was doing a market yesterday and was sitting there bored. I already had the idea for this au since last year before my burn out hit. But I didn’t draw it because I was dreading drawing more of the same when I could spend more time working on comics with bigger plots. At most before yesterday it was going to be one or two stand alone comics just to throw the idea out there and get it out of my head. But I had time between customers at the market and started sketching. I got really excited and thought this au would be the perfect vehicle to keep doodling.

I spent a good three hours trying to decide what I wanted for the colours but once I did? Dude I’ve drawn ten different comics for this already. The ONLY thing slowing me down is that I have to go to work.

I’ve always liked doing expressions with just the eyes. I’m even happy with the colours which is usually the bane of any project for me. I’m having a good time and my only concern is that I’ll run out of ideas before I’m sick of drawing for it(So keep asking stuff, I beg of you I need inspiration)

#triple divorce au #tdau #rotmnt #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #save rise of the tmnt #rise #ask welcome #asks

[molabuddy]

im normal<3

#ask 2 tag #sillytalking #welcome to buddy honesty hour

[thetetra]

#Show me how this is better for both of us and I am willing to talk #Features to control my behavior are not welcome #At the very least give me some of the things I have been asking for as well #reddit boycott #reddit refugee #reddit migration #reddit blackout #reddit #tumblr

[nonomives]

Sorry i woke up and chose to be a simp

#welcome home #welcome home arg #welcome home wally #wally darling #wished he'd make me his darling--HA H A H ABKJBSJVJAVVEJBKAS #/joke jok i kid #i mean unless... #a h a--*gets shot* #ok but fr id sell my soul to this man if he asked #digital art #my art #eeart

[pencilscratchins]

to everyone asking when i’m gonna post art again… hey guys i recently acquired six incredibly large clown paintings so i’m sort of booked at the moment

#no one is asking actually i just want to talk about my recent clown acquisition #6! for $20!!! and they’re really good! #my cat loves them my roommate is bringing in his witch boyfriend to cleanse them #he has told me it’s him or the paintings #and i’m telling him it’s always gonna be the paintings #anyway this account is now my public diary #no art anymore just me posting these things #welcome to my twisted mind #not art #delete later

[flurty]

The Colors of the Moots ask game

Lemon - idk but like you seem really sour and scary Yellow - every time i see you on my dash you're always so happy and it's so lovely! Cyber - when the frick are you offline? like tell me when, i need to know for your sanity!!! do you even have it??? Goldenrod - i really wanna sit next to you and watch a sunset/sunrise. or maybe just look at you. Orange - if you were a fruit you'd be a orange. no explanation. Rust - you seem like you're hanging on by a thread. Mahogany - let's go on a late night drive together and listen to one of your playlists. Red - i am so in love with you. first it was ironic, now it's unironic. so in love. Ruby - you are such a gem, you deserve so much better <3 Pink - biting you biting you biting you biting you licking you biting you biting you Violet - honestly i just wanna kiss you just to shut you up. yeah. Blue - you are the sad mood. the crying moot, even. i am offering a tissue in this trying time. and maybe a hug. only if you want ofc Navy - i have a feeling you hate jeans. Lime - i can't tell if you're serious or what but i am avidly waiting your next post. Green - wanna go touch grass with me? Jade - honestly you have some of the best takes on this hellsite.

#ask game #ask games #rb bait #anons welcome! #spent like 30 mins trying to figure out why the colors weren't working #this is my pride and joy #my own ask game <3

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

world's longest staring contest GO-

#them. he??? wally plural <3 #how are they the same little man.... #looking between them in confusion so fast i get whiplash #one half of my brain: huh what huh what huh- #the other half: HOLY SHIT TWO WALLYS!!!!!! <3<3<3<3<3<3 #wait would it be wallys or wallies #fr what Is wally plural #existential questions we should all ask ourselves #scribble garnish #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #wally darling #i got a little lost in the Sauce making this & finished before realizing i didnt copy it over to a new larger canvas #& do the final layer/colors/bg there #so its a Little Bit Lower Resolution than id like #BUT HEY ITS NOT LIKE THATS EVER STOPPED ME BEFORE!!!! #whatever whatever doesnt matter its done and im satisfied with it #& i fuckin better be bc working on this killed my wrist lmfao #nearly dropped my stylus at one point from the sudden Oofie Ouchie #suffice to say i will be queuing this & then taking a day-long break from my hobbies #which are all hell on the wrist #which means i will probably leave the house out of sheer boredom #maybe ill watch spiderverse. go get a tasty Beverage. take a walk. summon the old gods if im in a silly goofy mood #just now realizing i probably drew wally too small #puppet wally. og wally light of my life. AHAHA OOPSIES TOO LATE TO FIX IT NOW 🥲👍

[st0neymal0neyx0]

#hewwo #welcome to my blog #most used tags are: #me #asks #personal #music

[ohno-wallace]

you can’t look me in the eyes and tell me they didn’t say this.

#welcome home #im completely obsessed with these little dudes #If one person asks I’ll make a part two with Julie because I am simply in love with her #I’ll be back to vat7k stuff soon don’t worry! #welcome home puppet show #wally welcome home #welcome home fanart #partycoffin #wh wally #welcome home frank #welcome home eddie #wally darling #welcome home arg

[thr-333]

hi 👋!!! I LOVE your Tmnt mm x 2012 crossover so far! Please continue it!! Your art is also so good! While I’m asking got any writing tips for fanfics?

Ahhh thank you! Actually posted the second chapter just now so I will be continuing. As for writing tips I’ve never been asked that, so this is gonna come out rambly and very much neurodivergent.

I’ll first establish I have aphantasia, meaning I don’t ‘picture’ things so much as I think in words(and in abstract concepts of movement). So when I write I don’t spend much time describing what things look like, I can’t picture it so why would I spend time explaining what it should look like? This means my writing is very dialogue heavy. It focuses on what character are saying and how they sound and what they do when they say it(because of how I think about movement)

So one of my best writing tips is when I get stuck or am slowing down with a scene I’ll start jotting down the dialogue. No actions in between, no they said this or that, no quotation marks they waste time, usually I won’t even note characters names and trust future me to know. Or trust I've written the charcters with strong enough individual voices that it's obvious at least to me. For example later in the fic is this scene:

We actually don't have a last name

Not until we had to go to school then we had to choose one

We didn’t really know what to pick so we settled on Stockman!

Stockman

Yep that’s our cousins last name and Baxter Stockman technically created us so that makes him our uncle-dad

I see, here Baxter Stockman is an associate of the shredder

… yeah we learnt that yesterday, but our Baxter stockman never did anything really bad!

Unless you count animal extermination as bad

Which we do

It’s still better than going with something like Smith

Writing it like this means the dialogue flows better. It also helps my brain out since I don’t have to constantly switch tracks meaning I can write faster. Also lets me move onto other scenes I have the itch to make. Often I won’t come back and fill in the gaps until I’m editing.

Another thing that helps me is using the fact fanfiction comes with prebuilt stories to work on top of. I like having an episode with premade plot points to build off of. My best example of this is another fic I wrote, The Bat Trap which was based on The Parent Trap(a movie I love). In it I had a bunch of one liners and situations from the movie that I wanted to include, so I would follow(and adapt) the plot to fit and follow. While in other places I could go off script so I wasn’t following it word by word. To this day it’s the only longform fic I’ve completed and that's entirely due to following a movie plot, so I had an endpoint I could work towards. Instead of an overeaching storyline I made myself with no end in sight.

And my best piece of advice! Give yourself a voice in your story. Especially if you’re doing something comedic. It’s all well and good to give your characters hilarious lines but ultimately only a fraction of your writing is going to be dialogue. Most of it is that connective tissue, what characters are thinking, where they are, what they’re doing. So think as the ‘narrator’ of these parts as a character equally capable of jokes. Such as my favourite technique the ‘smash cut’. My art for the first chapter is an example of that. 

“They will be fine”

“Mikey was not fine”

It’s a fun way to open a new perspective and I will use it at nauseum because it entertains me. Ultimately it’s fun! Have fun writing, undercut your serious scenes. You want to add something but it doesn't fit the tone? Screw that, write it anyway. It doesn't matter if people don’t like it, because you’re gonna spend a hell of a lot more time writing than they will reading. Eventually that becomes your writing style and people ask you for tips:P

#asks #ask welcome #tmnt mutant mayhem #someone should ask me how write fight scenes I have an actual technique for that #wink wink nudge nudge #mutant mayhem

[mourninglamby]

someone asked for my fav c!disc scene. Guys why did he say this

#I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THE. INITIAL ASK #IM SIRRYYY #whatever anyways #idk why I made this a comic #also this is a good time to reiterate if ur a dream Stan ur not welcome here fuck off #this is cdream. his character who is also fucking repulsive evil awful #anyways #c!tommy #dsmp #my art #art #doodles #comic #link is the audio for the dialogue

[lizaisdrawing]

The BOYS

Also I post on twitter now! Same name 🙏

#welcome home #clownillustrations #wally darling #welcome home puppet show #my art #fanart #digital art #eddie dear #frank frankly #never drawing Frank again #do NOT ask me #I will hunt you down #Eddie tho #ask me

[nonomives]

Sorry ive been dead for a while. Heres a lil comic (???) to help distract you from my absence

So... ykno how all of the other neighbors use past tense in their bios except Wally and Home?

Well I had this little thought that when there's not much else to do, Wally would often stand outside Home and wait for his friends. Just there, waiting for them to come around dragging him into whatever silly schemes they have for the day. His own little way of reminiscing about the old times. Or maybe even hoping theyre not completely gone. A habit that gives him something to do at the moment. Something that keeps him grounded while his mind unfurls on itself from the loneliness

Also hot take: Home isn't evil, just really overprotective of Wally since they only got each other left now

#also to the one guy that asked me to draw wally with their hair down under the rain #here ya go lol #i kinda rushed a bit at the end but ykno-- #eh-- #welcome home #welcome home arg #welcome home fanart #welcome home wally #wally darling #digital art #eeart #my art

[skneees]

*cracks him like a glowstick* fish glows

#my art #HES A DEEP DEA FISH HE WOULD BE BIOLUMINESCENT #i have so many thoughts about this you are welcome to send asks and ill elaborate #are they top surgery scars? are they a second pair of gills? the world may never know #jrwi gillion tidestrider #jrwi #just roll with it fanart #just roll with it #jrwi gillion #gillion tidestrider #i like the idea that deep sea tritons glow for communication reasons #like they have their own morse code type thing based on how they flash their biolights

[zipora666]

Sorry @cloudy-dreams..but I had to... (I had this in my head for 2 months and I’m surprised you didn’t do it yet-)

...I just..had to...

(plus I never thought I’ll do some funny art but I did! :D silly wally is a puppet they can’t shower ig? So he was confused 🤷‍♂️)

Plus still try to choose what new eye style for wally lol

#my art #welcome home #fanart #art #welcome home au #wally darling #fan art #wally darling x y/n #borrower wally au #ask #Tom and jerry meme

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i have a Scene - a Plot if you will - that backs this as context. y'all are gonna have to trust me on this one <3 or read the tags...

#the song is 'in your eyes' by peter gabriel #boombox serenade lets GO!!! #in my mind immediately after this the others came over to say hi (or in sallys case tell him off) #and at first howdy's like 'oh ofc wallys there that makes sense. sally too? strange but alright' #then eddie appears and ohhhh boy its Jealousy Central Babey and howdy's train just pulled into the station #scribble salad #laughingstock #welcome home #barnaby x howdy #howdy x barnaby #OK CONTEXT I PROMISED CONTEXT #so in my mind howdy is an oblivious dumbass when it comes to his own romantic feelings. #he's so in love with barnaby (its very obvious) but Doesnt Realize It. despite being a god tier flirty fruity motherfucker #so when barnaby - thinking theyre on the same page - confesses #howdy's all like 'ohhh um. gee barn im flattered truly but - i just dont like you like that' #yk breaking barnaby's heart right down the middle #so barnaby shuts himself in his home and wally is hovering. yk Worried #and eddie - who's been helping barnaby come to terms w/ his own feelings & gauge if howdy feels the same - asks sally to check in for him #& sally goes over and Immediately involves herself. she takes personal offense on barnaby's behalf #also she lives for the drama and wants every juice detail Hot Off The Press #so while howdy is having a lil crisis as he slowly realizes Oh My Fucking God I DO Love Barnaby Like That- #barnaby / sally / wally / (eventually) eddie are all having a sleepover where they just play card games and chat #a good ol bitch n' stitch night #and howdy shows up to try and talk to barns (obvs in my head he doesnt have a boombox he just Knocks) #only to get RE-RE-RE-REJECTEDDDDDD!!!! thats how it feels you wormy mf! #bc barnaby is a) having a girls night & b) needs to emotionally prepare for That conversation #aaaaand THATS the context <3