asexual axolotl

She/Her || fanart for fics/AUs (mainly TMNT atm) || _asexualotl_ on insta

[sabertoothwalrus]

for those who don’t remember, “mole interest” was an experiment I did 2 years ago because I wanted to test what causes tags to go trending on tumblr. My hypothesis was that all it takes is one (1) post blowing up in an established tag to make the entire tag trend.

I had randomly generated 2 words, which is where “mole interest” came from. I failed to consider that by generating a new tag, it wouldn’t have had enough posts already in it to prove what I now call “the mole interest effect”.

But now it does.

In 2023, we said “fuck it” a la mythbusters and ended up doing whatever it took to get #mole interest to trend. And it did. And it happened to be September 11th that day, and we managed to get #mole interest to trend ABOVE #9/11.

So, in the name of science, I ask you to reblog just this post. Let’s put the mole interest effect to the test.

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Cute little meme-y art for The Eldest Brother by @debb987 that I’ve started months ago, finished last week and straight up forgot to post. This is just literally what half the fic felt like. The Brother Wrangler™️.

Anyways this was my first time drawing the 2012 gang (other than one screenshot redraw of Mikey’s face ages ago) and like goddamn why they gotta have so many different colors on them. Their limbs are very fun-to-draw shaped tho.

(Go check out the fic, it’s really good! Especially if you’re a fan of crossovers this is a must read!)

[rosemoonweaver]

GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3

[rosemoonweaver]

Other things you can do:

Linked footnotes

Customized page dividers

Sticky notes

Lined paper

Paper that looks stacked on top of each other

Old looking paper

Newspaper articles

Tumblr posts

iOS text messages

Emails

Fake ao3 authors notes and kudos button

Freaking discord chats

Its fucking amazing. Ao3 is fucking amazing. Can I legally marry a website?

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[starkerfilth]

WHAT

[the-stars-our-destination]

One of those times I'm reblogging something so I can find it again later

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Ao3 is fucking peak y’all

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And as promised, the Jasonnie comic.

(Basically what happened at the end of chapter 4 of The Knight and the Dragon)

This genuinely turned out way better than I imagined. Even though I almost forgot the most important detail (yes I mean the nail polish). Also sorry there’s no actual Jase in it. Weirdly enough, I’ve never drawn any human characters from the show so I’ve got no practice lol

(The fic this was inspired by was written by @sibillascribbles08! Go check them out!)

[sibillascribbles08]

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HARD I'M LAUGHING RN BECAUSE LITERALLY

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Lmaoooo I was hoping you’d thought about that clip at some point as well

I legit forgot that clip was from gravity falls until i looked it up. Like I could hear it so clearly but could not for the life of me remember who said it lol

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And as promised, the Jasonnie comic.

(Basically what happened at the end of chapter 4 of The Knight and the Dragon)

This genuinely turned out way better than I imagined. Even though I almost forgot the most important detail (yes I mean the nail polish). Also sorry there’s no actual Jase in it. Weirdly enough, I’ve never drawn any human characters from the show so I’ve got no practice lol

(The fic this was inspired by was written by @sibillascribbles08! Go check them out!)

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It’s honestly a crime I haven’t drawn her sooner.

Hope y’all have read Violet Hues and Holly Blue by @sibillascribbles08 yet! If not, what are you still doing here? Go read the whole series while you’re at it!

Bit hypocritical of me to say tbh; I’ve been behaving like a literal toddler with how much I’ve been dragging my feet about reading the sequel fics until recently. Like, you like their writing, you’ve had it before but no, my brain can’t commit time to those now even tho most of them are on the shorter side compared to the main fic. But then The Knight and the Dragon updated and I was like okay but Jasonnie tho… (which shoutout to the author once again for introducing me to this ship in the first place lol. Love the Not Part of the Plan series as well) and Comet was the thing that finally punched me in the face and went “read the rest of the damn fics already” and here we are

(Why must I always ramble endlessly)

Anyways I made part of her dress translucent because after drawing the legs I was upset that they weren’t gonna be visible with the clothes on top. This happens way too often.

I’m also working on a very short and meme-y Jasonnie comic that’s almost finished save for the colors and I’m itching to go back to, so I’ll drop that as soon as it’s done.

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First post of the year let’s goooooo

I once again offer fanart for the iconic Heroes that are Half-scaled by @nicoleisaboat-blog. Re-read it recently and thought y’know what’s been collecting digital dust for literal months now? Well now it’s at least outlined (might add color later, who knows)

I’ve wanted to draw a dragon turtle pile since the first chapter and sketched it out before it actually happened, so this is not completely accurate to the fic

I wanna draw either the nexus dragon fight or Raph with tusks next but who really knows when that’ll happen yk how it is

[poppedbubblgum]

It’s Raph postin time methinks

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If anyone can tell which fic this is for, I’ll finish this in (at least flat) color lol

(I should really start casually watching streams for background noise more often; they really do wonders for getting work done. I drew most of this as well as another piece during a charity stream yesterday. What is this sorcery.)

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Okay so it’s been months since I’ve posted anything here (sorry about that), so here’s something small I’ve thought about during the early chapters of A Tale of Spirits

The rest of the brothers only a few chapters in:

Meanwhile Donnie and Azula, mutually:

The latest chapter was phenomenal, and I am so incredibly excited for the next update! Everyone go read the fic right now!

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I’m sorry, but…

People actually notice… and MISS me while I’m gone??? I am Going to Cry.

I had art block for a while and now I’m on vacation taking a break from life lol

That’s why I wasn’t posting for like two months and haven’t been on tumblr at all for the past week (trying to save data so far but just had to check on Cass’ apocalyptic series or I was gonna explode, yk how it is)

I’ll post fanart again when it’s ready (meaning when the gods of motivation and executive function decide to start blessing me again)!

Love you all!!! 💕

[kovalitics]

How’s everyone doing? Still grieving? Yea me too.

Anyways, couldn’t get this image out my head all day, so here you go!

(Inspired by @somerandomdudelmao comic that has the entirety of tumblr sobbing atm)

:)

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Have y’all heard of Tommyinnit: Into the Turtle-verse yet? Because…

The character dynamics in this series are everything to me fr fr

I have ideas for more fanart of this but I am SLOW and also working on art for other fics as well so everything might take a while for me

Drawing Tommy in the rise style made me realize I actually haven’t drawn any humans from the series??? Like literally all I’ve drawn so far are the turtles, I need to change that sgdfghgf

I drew these for Adversary (which is the 5th part in the series, so I’d recommend starting here instead) but they posted a new part yesterday that kindly reminded me to add the white streak in his hair bc I straight up forget it exists most of the time

Anyways if you’re a fan of both DSMP and RotTMNT this is definitely the series for you. Go check it out!

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I return to deliver more fanart for Heroes that are half-scaled by @nicoleisaboat-blog ! Turns out combining my Rise hyperfixation with my life-long love for dragons is a sure fire way to get me to obsess over a fic. Well played.

So here we’ve got some full body sketches of my interpretations on how they look like as well as two more quick doodles from work.

(I feel like Raph is starting to compete with Donnie over being my favorite turtle. I mean

look at this guy. Look at him and tell me you wouldn’t die for him. You can’t.)

I wanna go over some design choices real quick (I’ll try to keep it short lmao)

Mikey is very Round™️ except for his horns which resemble the stickers on his plastron (as stated in the fic). Unfortunately I think they’d prevent him from fully retracting his head (I also think none of the others can retreat fully into their shells since their limbs, necks and shells are kinda massive compared to before. I do feel like Mikey would get the furthest tho).

Donnie is obviously the smoothest both scale wise and in regards to lack of horns and spines/spikes. Like I said before, shortish legs, long-ass neck and tail (bc softshell turtles’ necks extend). Kept all his tech and, most importantly, his eyebrows. Speaking of tech, his draconic battle shell was one of my favorite aspects to design even tho I normally hate drawing machinery. Figured I’d give it a dragon scale pattern to fit the aesthetic and I think it works well. Also, snoot.

I absolutely love how Leo turned out. Braincell 1 was like ‘what if we gave him this kinda snout’ and braincell 2 went ‘absolutely based, let’s do it’. His red “ears” extending all the way to the tip of his tail is an awesome idea and I wanted to make them a bit jagged bc parallel lines are Boring. I broke up his “mask” so it’d be a bit more expressive and to have some extra variation between all of them (it does extend almost all the way to his shell on the back of his neck). Possibly my favorite design element is that the base of his antlers look like the base of his ōdachi!

Raph still is the most armored among all of them but like, dialed up to 11. Extra hard massive shell, scales extra spikey, alladat. I also gave him multiple rows of spines kind of like an alligator. He has the shortest neck relative to body size among all of them, mainly because I feel like bulkier, heavier dragons tend to be more stocky or “compressed” I guess (plus variation value. I wanted them to be 100% distinguishable even without looking at their shells).

As you can see I am obviously Very Normal about this AU.

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What do you mean this isn’t how it happened

After only five short months of art block, I finally finished it! Literally had this idea since chapter 8 dropped.

I love the dynamic between Toph and Leo so much (tho I will say that about every dynamic in the fic, they’re just so dang well written!), like…

Raph: hi this is our new sister, Toph. She’s a menace to society and I love her :3

Leo: to annoy? For to annoy???

And Toph just doesn’t understand he’s irritating on purpose and doesn’t actually dislike her because she doesn’t have siblings

Anyways, go read A Tale of Spirits by @unorthodoxx-page !

[wraenata]

Where there's Hamato, there is hope.

Chapter 9 of Odd Man Out by @threestripeslider

I think this is the best thing I've ever done. I didn't even use any anatomy references, and it came out really close to how I saw it in my head. I'm not going to lie I am so proud of myself right now.

Also watercolors are life.

Leonardo stop that smoking young man

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Sooo… I couldn’t stop my dragon-obsessed self from immediately sketching the turtles as dragons as soon as I read this fic:

I literally sketched these at work bc I read the first chapter during my break. Couldn’t stop myself. As soon as I had a free minute I was like “gotta draw Donnie. Here and now. Before I lose it”. Touched them up a bit at home and now here we are

So since Donnie and Leo are the same height but I felt like a long neck would work best for dragon Donnie, I thought long neck+short legs for him and medium neck and legs for Leo. Balance.

Also I didn’t intend for Raph to look so much like a cat. In fact, I didn’t even notice how cat-shaped his head was until I wrote Mew Mew Mew. I was just trying to vary the face shapes as much as possible and this is what happened.

Anyway the fic is called Heroes that are half-scaled! It’s a very fun read, can only recommend!