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he's my favorite subject, alas

#ut #sans

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#tmnt #tmnt 03 #karai

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happy late birthday to meee

#tmnt #tmnt 03 #leo #donnie #raph #mikey

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Seriously though, the general canon of TMNT 2k3 must be such a wild ride for Robin O'Neill.

Like. Here is your big sister, brainiac maniac science superstar, the smart one, the one who has it all figured out and who probably has three PhDs by the time she's 23 and the story begins. April just landed her Dream Job with an actual Celebrity Scientist and she is going to create Big Science that will Help Lots of People and--

--and she's quit her job one month in and announces she is going to reopen your late parents' antiquities shop now. Take some time to Find Herself, whatever that means. OK, right, we can work with that, what bout--

--her shop burns to the ground, and April prompty goes completely AWOL for three months. Great! Amazing! You're not panicking at all! This is April you're talking about, after all - the smart one, the good one, who has it all together, and she is dating Casey Jones, neighborhood vigilante now.

HOW DID THEY EVEN MEET.

So you're like. OK. I should probably go to New York and look into that. Meanwhile April rebuilds the antique shop brick by brick and moves back in, things get serious with Casey Jones, she keeps offhandedly mentioning a bunch of Italian men that like, fix her boiler and stuff, she's fine. She's fine. You don't think she's fine.

Before you can do anything about it, she goes AWOL for a few months again.

You eventually find out she has been hanging out with her boyfriend's country mum at a derelict farm. Cleaning. Cooking, sort of thing. Maybe you're a bit concerned now. Just a bit. You decide you will definitely visit her soon. She excitedly mentions that she has started practising kendo using a real sword, and her teacher is this old guy who gives her lessons one on one. You move your visit forward.

So you go to New York. You enter her apartment, which is the one you grew up in, rebuilt eerily similarly to how you remember it. Your sister is happy to see you. She's just going to nip out for a minute to grab some milk. That's fine. You go through the list of things to talk to her about in your head one more time: how are you? how are you Really? let's do some girly things, without the boyfriend and the teacher and the Italian men. Just us girls. Won't that be nice?

April comes back upstairs. You'll never guess who she ran into on her way to the shops!

Behind her stands your beloved uncle Augie, who went missing fifteen years ago without a trace.

Like. Holy. Shit.

That same evening, as you're trying to work out the new sleeping arrangements now there's three of you in the flat for the night, you pull uncle Augie aside for a moment. You're worried about April, you say. Something has been going on with her, and it's weird.

Uncle Augie looks at you for a long moment. His clothing is ripped, his beard is a growth on his face. There are deep lines on his face that you don't remember, marked not by smiles and laughter, but by sadness and fear. His arms are tree trunks. He smells like he hasn't showered in a month.

Nah, he says. I think April's doing just fine.

#tmnt #tmnt 03 #april #robin

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It might seem like I’m joking when I say that Batman VS the TMNT is my favorite movie of all time but you need to understand that to me. to me? This movie has it all. The Gotham City Rogues all get fursonas. Two poorly voiced lesbians tearfully break up in a pizzeria right before Batman throws Michealangelo through the window. Donatello sees Damian Wayne and yells “What are you, five?!” Leonardo calls him “Little guy” and Damian fucking breaks his knees with a bo staff. Harley’s in her jester outfit telling Joker that eight years of college and three years of residency make her overqualified to be the sexy nurse. Raphael of all turtles lectures Batman about not being direct and trusting with his family. Leonardo kicks Ra’s al Ghul in the balls. Shredders asks Batman to say his last words and he goes, “Cowabunga”

#dc #tmnt

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two of us

#dc #kon #tim

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You got this, Usagi! (He does not got this)

Silly bonus illustration for my buddy @forestwhisper3's fic Dragon of the Sun and also a Belated B-day gift for her! Go read her fic it's So Freaking Good!!!

Also, this is a redraw of the manga cover for Go For It, Nakamura!

#tmnt #tmnt 03 #usagi #leo

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Don and Cody

Their dynamic is adorable in the show, you can really tell that Cody looks up to his uncle 🥺

#tmnt #tmnt 03 #donnie #cody

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you’re amazing

#tmnt #tmnt 03 #leo #usagi

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i doodled him smiling :]

#tmnt #comics #leo

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Eternally pissed they didn’t let Raph say this line

#tmnt #mm #raph

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Wdym 03Leo and Usagi never made up after Leo was rude to him? Leo apologized to Usagi in space during the 8th season 🤨??

(I’m in denial)

I created my own version of how they’d reconnect; perhaps there’s an extra space arc after April and Casey’s wedding and these two meet up.

Usagi is on some kind of mission for the Daimyo, which places him in space, and the tmnt are sent on a similar mission, hence Leo and Usagi meeting. Throughout the mission Leo opens up to Usagi about what had happened (during his emo arc ajaja) and they become close once again.

That’s all I got for now ✌️

For Usagi’s design, I followed the design he has in one of the newer comics. For Leo’s design, I tried creating a similar space suit to Usagi’s,, just adding a bit of Fast Forward gear with it. (I’m sure Don was able to recreate that gear somehow)

#tmnt #tmnt 03 #usagi #leo

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shoutout to February 2003 and Michael Sinterniklaas for giving us these traumatized teens and changing my brain chemistry forever

#tmnt #tmnt 03 #venture bros #leo

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They’re going on vacation!

Casey finds himself falling in love with April over and over again

I wanted to post this on Valentines Day, but I was busy that day.

#tmnt #tmnt 03 #april #casey #leo #donnie #raph #mikey #angel

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#tmnt #tmnt 2012 #rottmnt #donnie

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Keeping company for the bedridden.

I imagine in the first couple weeks or so when Leo is too tired to do anything more than sleep, he welcomes the safety and comfort. Once he becomes more coherent, the moping and self-isolation start >_>

#tmnt #tmnt 03 #leo #donnie #mikey #raph

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bwing da spwing pls

#tmnt #leo #rottmnt