You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?
I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.
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[ cw: death mention / family death mention / ]
Mhmm I sure love thinking of the reality where we did get more time to really know Karai and her dynamics with the bros. Losing her hit hard in the finale, but it would’ve hit much, much harder had we known Karai longer and really saw her relationships develop with everyone.
I especially would have been interested in her dynamic with Leo, as past iterations often have the two of them clash in ideals and the like while still sharing many characteristics. Two sides of the same coin, and all that. Her specifically being the bros’ Gram-Gram also adds a whole new dynamic as well.
Imagine how interesting it would be, to have Karai start off on Leo’s side for once, showing wholly just how alike the two are at their cores and bonding as family without the worry of betrayal or animosity that other iterations suffer through, only to have Karai die anyway. Their parting hug and the desperate look of horror Leo wears later on would have hit that much harder, I feel.
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Monthly Luigi Sketches Pt. 1 (FEB-JUL)
It's time to post all of the Luigi sketches I drew for each month of this past year. Although I already have redraws of the first three, I'm posting the original ones so you can see how much my way of drawing Weegee changed through the year 💚
Part two will be posted after I've drawn the one from January (which will be the last.)
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Mob au
▪︎Splinter is dead, and the brothers splits up.
▪︎April is the Donna of the Hamato clan (in her early 30s) and bring the family back together.
▪︎HAMATO Raphael (early 30s)
▪︎Used to be the Don after his father death, but suddenly disappeared 3 years after.
▪︎Found by April a year after, in the Nexus coliseum.
▪︎Memory loss (didn't remember his name until April gave it to him, doesn't remember his family either) PTSD
▪︎HAMATO Michaelangelo (late 20s)
▪︎Used to wander and travel around (Hardest to find). Made Draxum works for the family.
▪︎ Mystic Master, Draxum taught him.
▪︎Pickpocket, Shapeshifter.
▪︎Mikey never stays long, as April always send him on mission.
▪︎HAMATO Donatello (late 20s)
▪︎Used to work with the purple dragon, mostly building weapons to sell them to other organizations.
▪︎April promised him a real decent lab and more mystic resources for his experiments (yes she had to bribed him)
▪︎Usually monitoring the territory, and works with Draxum.
▪︎HAMATO Leonardo (late 20s)
▪︎Used to work in the military. Was the hardest to convince to come back.
▪︎Assist April to most of the clans gathering (they call him "Consigliere of Donna O'Neil", which he doesn't deny it).
▪︎Though he's really a troublemaker.
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What do you mean? What do you mean by I'm seeing Sleep Token this month? What do you— what do you mean? 😭😭What do you mean?
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This has been sitting in the back of my mind since I first watched Rise, but it seems that the show hints at an underlying sadness to Donnie's character that appears very subtly over the course of both seasons.
(Long post after the cut)
I feel like Donnie longs for a normal, human life to some degree. It isn't a major part of his character but it's there. Maybe he doesn't exactly want to be human, but there are a few signs that Donnie wants, at the very least, a human experience.
We see a few nods to this throughout the show:
He has a knowledge and love of fashion and appearance, something he, as a mutant turtle, wouldn't need to know or care about. Sure, his brothers wear clothes several times in the show as well, but they don't seem to have as much of an interest or passion as Donnie.
In 'The Purple Jacket' Donnie initially wanted to fit in with the Purple Dragons, a human group of teens at a human school (although it was mostly for the jacket).
I mean, this is a boy who wants to actually go to school and even graduate college but we know that, realistically, he can't do either.
Seriously, just look at how happy he is to be at April's school!
Hell, he draws eyebrows on his mask for goodness sake. Yes, from a meta standpoint this is mostly for the sake of his character design since he would look really fucking stupid without them, but the key to any good character design is to have an in-universe reason for it as well. While some people headcanon that Donnie does this to better convey his emotions (which is totally valid and I kind of agree), I also think this could also be a way for him to seem just a bit more human.
I'm not saying this is a defining element of Donnie's character - IT ISN'T. Our boy Donnie is confident in his intelligence, his skills as a scientist and an inventor, and who he is as a person overall - he doesn't want to change those things about himself. However, it is possible that maybe some small, quiet part of Donnie still longs for the things he could experience if he was a human, as opposed to a mutant turtle.
Hopefully, I'm not the only one who sees this because I think there are interesting things you could do with this part of his character - especially when you consider his closer friendship with April and the potential isolation he feels with his brothers.
I don't know, maybe this is just me overthinking things or looking for angst where there is none, however, this little thread of Donnie's character appeared often enough in the show to at least acknowledge it.
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Leap Year Day update, because I thought that would be a neat date to have on this fic.
Very extremely recommend reading the chapter before looking at the art.
Tmw you finally fulfill your years' old desire to paint some fucking fantasy deer.
I sketched the original idea for this scene and posted it a whiiiiiiiile back, and now that idea is part of the story.
Now that the chapter is out, I can get back to finalizing the final pop-up shop stuff and, uh, stopping neglecting the hella expensive figure invention for character animation I'm taking for the spring semester.
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