A separated au series, featuring team A being raised by Splinter, and team B raised by Draxum. It mainly focuses on the relationships between the brothers and their own personal struggles, while (very) loosely following the plot of the show and the movie.
. . .I think you guys can probably guess which panel I had the most fun drawing :P
I do have a couple thoughts on this that I’d like to get out real fast, if that’s cool.
I feel that out of everyone, Raph would be the most understanding of what Leo’s going through right now. I mean, how long did he have to be the responsible one, always looking out for his little brothers? And then lost them, only having himself to blame (OBVIOUSLY it wasn’t his fault, but guilt is a sticky thing)
He knows exactly what it’s like, knows exactly how hard it is to lose someone you’ve loved so deeply, someone—as Leo puts it above—you’ve “basically raised,” and then suddenly get them back. . . But it’s not the same person. Heck, Raph’s got three of those, Leo (almost) has it easy.
I actually had a hard time figuring out Raph’s reaction to Leo’s crash out for a hot second. I kept changing up what he would say, trying to figure out what Leo needed to hear in this moment.
And then I realized, being the action oriented turtle he is, and knowing his little-big brother inside and out, Raph knows that sometimes something as simple as a hug speaks more volumes than a pep talk.
Our favorite turtle and rabbit are just hanging out, it seems! Right side up and upside down, even! Our next artists @teaableu and @analiart have some very atmospheric pieces on the way~
No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-
Small mockup/proof of concept of an experimental video technique, one which I have dubbed "Jumpcalm". I am looking to further develop this idea for use in psychotherapy and mental health practices at scale.
okay so yk that one art trend with the one girl in the cracked anime mask? i thought LOL wouldnt it be funny if grian 🤤🤤🤤 and then i started adding more lines and whaddya know. it was 1 am
Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.
#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain
Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"
I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.
And that they're somehow better than everyone else for being aware of the scam.
sometimes on the tumblr app you click on an image to see it fullscreen and it will give you a completely different image it has sourced from the fucking aether. i hope they never fix this because i got flashbanged with an image of scooby doo calling me a ‘raggot’
i love it and hate it when a character in a story is so obviously created to be cool and awesome and then i do think they're cool and awesome. like fuck, yeah, ok, they're fucking epic. swag as hell. you got me you coolbaited me ok? i'm coolbaited.
"Draxum now holds affection for Mikey and considers him to be his son as much as Mikey considers Draxum to be his father."
Aaaaaaand THATS THE END OF ARC 3!! Phew, I've been working on this arc since January. To prepare for Arc 4, I'm going to be taking a short break from the main plot of the comic. This gives me time to finally work on other tmnt projects and fun side fanart that I haven't been able to get around to with weekly updates (so never fear because PLENTY of art is coming). I love y'all so much, see you soon!