I Sit Upon A Blog Of Lies

Call me Caff or Cas 28-she/her/they I’m in a variety of fandoms, but am currently fixating on putting turtles through situations.

[caffinatedcastiel]

What's this? A Masterpost?

Hello everyone! I opened Tumblr on desktop for the first time in years just to put this masterpost together. Welcome to my blog! Despite my SPN roots, I post anything that interests me. I'm currently focused on ROTTMNT.

My AO3

Specific ROTTMNT AUs :

Leader!Donnie Bad Future AU

TW: Major Character Death, Death of a Family Member

Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch 3

During the first go-around with the Krang Invasion, Donatello rises to the occasion and takes his helm as leader of the Resistance. This AU is based on this tweet:

I loved the concept and had to run with the idea that Donnie actually took the helm first.

Playlist:

Portal AU

Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch 3 Ch 4 Ch 5

Post-Movie: Don and Leo get ambushed by the EPF and are abducted from New York. Trapped in a facility and separated from his brother, Leonardo is forced to complete a series of portal-related tests while looking for a way to escape.

Based on the Portal and Half-Life video game series.

Art:

The accident

My Little Dark Age

You Monster

Playlists:

Soundtrack

Score

Turtles through Time AU

Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch 3

Six months after the Krang invasion, Mikey's powers go haywire and the brothers are sent to Japan 500 years in the past. Separated, they must face various challenges to find each other and get back to the present.

Playlist

[kathaynesart]

Arc 7 begins! Wow a Replica update that did not take me months to do?? Unheard of!

BEGINNING || PREVIOUS || NEXT (SOON) MASTER POST

I've had this headcanon for Leo being a better chess player than Donnie for YEARS. It's actually an idea that I've planted and has done its rounds in the fandom in the years leading up to this. I'm glad I finally get to dive into it properly. This is going to be a much shorter story like my early Arcs for Replica but I just love little character studies such as these so please indulge me!

PATREON for more Replica Stories.

[revanagade]

I love that we all know that Leo slaps at chess

[caffinatedcastiel]

Sometimes this fanon makes me wonder what Battle Nexus New York would have been like if Donnie was with one of the Sando Bros needing to make Lady Liberty laugh and Leo was with Hypno playing chess. 🤔

It is also why I now ask my roommate questions about chesss since he actually plays people on chess.com (which is how this section got incorporated into tPiaL):

Another display of how the EPF was keeping a tight degree of manipulation over the board and how its players moved. In retrospect, Bishop was an appropriate name for someone who knew how to control the center through color complexes.

A glance upward confirmed Leo’s next hunch- none of these chambers were designed to leave someone trapped. Just… inconvenienced. Wear the subject down, make their every move difficult or counter-productive. Classic Zugzwang… or Zwischenzug? Donnie would know the correct term… Leo wasn’t someone who memorized moves, choosing to lean in the direction of pattern intuition.

[the-shrimp-alchemist]

love this guy. sometimes i wonder what he was thinking during those years.

[phantomrose96]

You know the. You know the Femme Fatale "I grew up with 10 brothers so I know how to fight" character?

That's

That's Roy Mustang

Just the opposite.

Roy "I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to disguise covert information reconnaissance as flirting" Mustang.

"I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to weaponize my sexual charm to disarm others and win favor."

Roy led every higher-up to believe he was just a fuckboy and a manwhore in this for his own ego and that they shouldn't view him as any kind of violent revolutionary like "no sir I'm just a slut."

Roy Mustang.

[phantomrose96]

I'm surprised I didn't say this in the original post but to specify: Roy Mustang grew up in a brothel, specifically he grew up adopted by a woman running a brothel where, specifically, all the women there are in the business of covert information reconnaissance by playing escort to important politicians.

Which. is an absolutely batshit primary character backstory to mention once, late in the series, and then immediately move on from.

And actually Hiromu Arakawa did it so well that every single fan interpretation of Roy Mustang for the FMA03 anime treated him as an honest to god man-slut. Bought his whole act hook line and sinker.

And you do, in fact, need to get further into the manga/Brotherhood to realize he is just acting like a slut because surely a true and honest hand-to-god slut like this guy wouldn't be overthrowing the government.

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[saptorred]

🐢💜

[wirehaze]

The Nightmare Animatic

Rottmnt Artbook storyboard redraw

Cw: Flickering Lights, Suggested character death, Graphic depictions of violence (Due to me making this have more gore than the og storyboard)

Original storyboard below

I'm going to turn this into a comic for open the floodgates as well, I'm just so excited to share this with you all, this is about 2 months worth of work, and I am so happy with it.

Thank you to @revanagade @bobbypeach @octolingkiera @jade-of-mourning @defero2k6 @popiollie @pepfnaartupstart @owliedoesnothing everyone in the ROTTMNT creators hub, and everyone on tumblr who has followed along, I don't think I would've ever finished this if it wasn't for you all 💜

[revanagade]

EVERYONE STOP WHAT UR DOING AND WATCH THIS

[caffinatedcastiel]

[caffinatedcastiel]

BASTARD! STINKY! RAT MAN!

[caffinatedcastiel]

Me: I wanna be a ninja turtle 🐢 🥹

Monkey paw finger: curls

[caffinatedcastiel]

Heater is on in June.

12 industrial fans running.

This is stimulation hellllllll 🫪

[shaotie]

Reblog to let new writers or artists know it's okay to make mistakes and you don't need to let that hold you back from doing what you enjoy, by sharing some mistakes you've made along the way and what you've learned from them 💚

Here I go!

1. I misspelled 'depictions' as 'depections' twice. Autocorrect automatically changed it to 'depections' every time I spelled it correctly afterwards. I didn't catch it right away and later had months worth of work to backtrack and fix. I learned a lot of mistakes slip past when I'm proof-reading, so now I use a spell check program before posting my fanfics online. And I learned autocorrect isn't for me.

2. I used to take my time writing out my first draft, trying to make it look like the final draft by adding details, stopping to look up synonyms, and making sure conversations flowed nicely. But taking my time on the first draft sometimes meant the story I'm trying to write flies out of my head like a little birdie that never returns 🐦 I learned it's ok for the first draft to be sloppy, messy, and lack details, as long as the main idea is put out on paper, I can clean it up and add more details later, during the editing.

This is my first time starting a tag game, so hopefully I'm doing this right 🙂 Tag some artists and/or writers you know! (no pressure oc, and anyone can feel free to join, you don't need to be tagged! 😃):

@magisav @abbielauren2024 @reclusive-raven @bowandbrush @barnowlbookworm

[barnowlbookworm]

Ohhh I love this!! Thanks for the tag, Shaotie!!

I’ve been a perfectionist since I was a kid, especially when it came to art, but in recent years I’ve really had to learn that being messy and making mistakes is okay. I tried so hard for my art to be perfect, that it began stunting my creative juices and made the process of making art not enjoyable. I had to learn the term “Practice makes Progress”.

Also, I had to learn that instead of relying solely on myself to learn how to draw, I should take inspiration and advice from others! I had such blocky and stiff characters for so long— definitely still try to improve! Just try to have grace for yourself! If you’re getting stressed out, don’t give up, just step away and come back later with fresh eyes. (Instead of staring at the paper/screen for hours like I did)

Also, never let your mom publish your books and written works if you’re still in your teens. Unless you put it through professional editors. No, I’m not explaining. Just don’t do it, you will regret it.

@cimmerian1275 @katiemaycreate @mkthedingus @eggbem @razzmatazzmike

[eggbem]

Oh, I am SO getting in on this one!

Thank you for the tag @barnowlbookworm! I can relate to being so much of a perfectionist that it ends up inhibiting you. And I love that phrase, "Practice makes Progress." I need to start saying that one.

Also, @shaotie I still kinda do that second one to my drafts haha. It's probably why I don't post as much writing, because I'm too busy backtracking before I even finish. So I guess that's one of the mistakes I could say I'm still working on is trying to be less detail-oriented with my first drafts. At the very least, I have gotten better than I used to be, over-describing absolutely everything lol

In terms of art, a mistake I used to make was I used to cringe at my old art and be embarrassed by it. Now I've come to appreciate each artwork from my past for the joy it brought at the time I drew it and that I am where I am today because I drew it. Because I learned from it. I see each piece as a stepping stone in my journey.

I also used to look at other more skilled artist's work and think mine was ugly by comparison. I used to get depressed that I wasn't improving fast enough or despair that there were people much younger than I making highly-skilled pieces of art. What I learned I should be doing is letting someone else's art INSPIRE and MOTIVATE me to get better on my own timeframe. Art isn't a race and progress isn't linear. And I learned to study WHY I liked an artist's art style so much and how I could replicate it instead of being depressed that I wasn't already at that level.

Just keep on drawing and have fun!

Also I used to hoard all of my old markers and pens long after they had dried up and stopped working. Don't make the same mistake I did, just toss 'em XD

NO PRESSURE TAGS:

@duckcrumbs, @bowandbrush, @magisav, @truths33k3r4, @animalsplanetgalaxy, @razzmatazzmike, @katiemaycreate, @caffinatedcastiel

[caffinatedcastiel]

Ty for the tag Egg! <3

I think one good example of a “mistake” of mine is my timeliness of responding to people on my works and other communication channels. Example…. This post. I was tagged like weeks ago.

I’m a very scatterbrained writer, so trying to be organized is difficult. I’ll spend about as much time trying to find where I’ve put something as I do actually writing. Organization is not a trait friends. It’s a skill. And skills need to be practiced. It’s okay for this skill to take time, but still practice.

Another “mistake” is being too attached to something that may not work anymore in the scope of a project. It took me ages to realize this on my last chapter- and when I did cut like 5000 words, the rest flowed so much easier. We writers love our darlings. But finishing is the best darling of all!

My largest issue is confidence based, which can lead to a spiral into unrelated topics and then nothing gets put on paper. Example: I get really worried about my writing speed- what if people lose interest? What if people think things have changed too much over time? What if I’m not as good as my peers? Do I write better when I’m on or off my meds? Rabbit hole, rabbit hole, rabbit hole.

Comparison is the theft of joy! No process is the same. While writing is a discipline, it is up to you to figure out what that means to you. Following advice is a good way to figure this out, but there is no way to “save the cat” everything. And in fanfic? This is for you! Community is the bonus, not the goal. We all want to have some kind of validation, but that is also something that you can’t hold onto too hard. Otherwise it will seep into the rest of your process and it will kill your joy.

DONT WRITE DIRECTLY INTO AO3 DONT WRITE DIRECTLY INTO AO3 DONT WRITE DIRECTLY INTO AO3 DONT WRITE DIRECTLY INTO AO3 DONT WRITE DIRECTLY INTO AO3 DONT WRITE DIRECTLY INTO AO3 DONT WRITE DIRECTLY INTO AO3

I’m begging you learn from me. I lost a whumptober work this way and I’ve never had the heart to try and replicate it (though I might at some point)

Uhhhh… not sure what else I’d wanna say here. But thank you for the tag!

[side-shuffling-hyperfixations]

Out of Context—Tag Game

Rules: Share a line from your story with zero context.

Thanks for the tag, @jacky-rubou, this is a fun idea! :D I have a few current projects going on!

My next fic for the TMNT Pure Fluff Bingo:

Funny how when someone told him not to think of something, that made it ten times harder not to think about it.

"A Looking Glass Darkly" Chapter 8:

It stung his eyes just as much as it soothed his heart; for the length of a few more strides, he wasn’t sure why, until he rounded the corner and spotted them.

My WIP for the AU Roulette 2026:

He should have thrown himself down the stairs.

No pressure tags: @emeraldhonour @catbowserauthor @punctuated-equilibrium-t33la

[punctuated-equilibrium-t33la]

Thanks for the tag! 🙌 I will keep my eyes open for those lines in upcoming fics. 👀

Here's one from an upcoming story of mine:

“You’re taller,” Mikey rasped accusingly. “You’re taller.”

No pressure tags: @yellowhollyhock, @joyfuladorable, @rheadanai

[rheadanai]

Oooh wayyy too many WIPs to choose from. Here’s one from a 2012 fic in the works:

Mikey told him that eating Ice Cream Kitty was not an option and that cannibalism was considered against the law in like most countries probably, dude. 

One that may never see the light of day:

“And then,” Donnie added in a sing-songy voice, “they’ll give us a call and say, Our condolences on the death of your dear brother Michelangelo—oh? What’s that? Your brother is still alive? Then who, praytell, is in our morgue?”

And one from an upcoming chapter of Burdens, specifically for @punctuated-equilibrium-t33la who is very worried about Rise Dee’s physical health right now:

He propped Donnie up against his shoulder. “This is me asking for consent to remove your battle shell. Oh? Nothing to say? Okay, I’ll take that as a yes.”

@rim-shot-archetypes @shyalia care to share? No pressure ❤️

[readerallthings]

Well, one for my upcoming chapter of TMNT CHRISTMAS EXPO CONCERTO I guess:

“Guys, I swear, my fingers are too FAT for this. I think I’m gonna be dragging us down so…I never thought I would say this, but I believe everyone here will carry us to victory! Like leaders do.” Bay Leo’s statement made MM Leo and Rise Leo spit out their drinks.

@randopineapple @turtlevariabilis, it's fine if y'all don't want/don't have any lines! This just a silly tag game after all

[turtlevariabilis]

Ty @readerallthings !

When Time Looks Back:

He turned back to the notebook. Not as someone revisiting the past, but as someone writing an inevitable future.

Rise of the Apocalypse:

“Look around. The city’s in pieces. Aliens are up there playing statues. I’m nineteen years old, missing an arm, and I have zero reasons to behave. I think I’m doing great.”

The Hamato [reset] Protocol:

That’s not Mikey. Mikey is dead.

Tags: @snowbriar @wafflekidgirlboy @abbielauren2024 @hi-im-pluton @blackstar5078 @roseisgoat @revanagade @brain-rot-tmnt @fromhilltovale @snazzy-here @cherrycryola @mirai-dreaming-tmnt @empty-cryptid @ninjadragon742 (no pressure, and if anyone doesn’t want to be tagged, just let me know. No problem at all ;))

[revanagade]

Awww Vic! Thanks for the tag!

This seems like fun! Ok, only one fic on right now! It’s a Rise TMNT fic and it’s got an on-going original story that focuses on B-Team!

Come check it out! I’m having fun writing it :3

A line from PROTOCOL: B out of context: I wanted to pick two for Mikey and Donnie :3 hope that’s chill

“You think science,” Donnie muttered, counting on his digits, “and National Geographic are both wrong?”

Mikey facepalmed and murmured, “What am I doing? I am practically a glowstick.” He said, a little embarrassed. He’d forgotten he could just flip a switch, and he’d turn on like a flashlight.

This was fun! I don’t do these tag games often but hey! I enjoyed this one :3

My turn to tag! Have fun guys! Share ur beautiful works :3

Tags: @wirehaze @wowee-bread @wowee-art @octolingkiera @caffinatedcastiel @boxfullaturtles @willy-shakesqueer @bobbypeach

[caffinatedcastiel]

Thank you for the tag Reva! <3

I’m a WIP fiend, so it was fun rummaging through some of my idea generation docs (which are a messss lmao):

NLDTOMT-

“For a long time I wanted you guys to need me. But I think I can be happy with you just wanting me. Because if you needed me and I wasn’t there- that’s worse. So being wanted- that’s better. So I don’t need you. But I want you here. Always. Understood?”

That’s the Last Song You’ll Ever Sing-

“I guess I have you to thank for... this entire situation.” Karai’s head turned away from April, focusing on the space behind her. It was easier to see the purple pixels sharpening in greater detail. The veil between this world and the next must be thin. She didn’t have much time left.

Donnie’s Cursed Tenure as Leader of the Resistance:

“That’s a pretty big ask Gram Gram.” Donnie laughed, running his hand over his face, rubbing up and down quickly to try and shake the well of emotions the news had disrupted without spilling a drop. “How can you act like this is fine? You were the leader that started this clan! I don’t want to be the leader that ends it.”

All Systems Locking Down:

Fifteen minutes after waking, Leonardo cried out for his father.

“Dad? Donnie? I need some help in here!” He yelled, alternating between shaking the ever living hell out of Raph and Mikey.

The Pizza is a Lie

His contingency plan, it could still work for Leo. That’s all that Donnie could hope for.

Many people I would think to tag have been mentioned already, and others don’t do many tag games. But anyone is free to reblog with their works. <3

[caffinatedcastiel]

Me: I wanna be a ninja turtle 🐢 🥹

Monkey paw finger: curls

[teaboot]

I feel like pirating media that isn’t sold or offered anywhere legally anymore shouldn’t be called piracy. Girl thats archaeology

[top-cheese]

ok so its a pretty good story but you know what would make it better? a liar. a character who lies. maybe two.

[despazito]

His little pony...

[apocalypticnewt]

an excuse to rant about my mutation theories. also gay people bc yes

[insecuregodcomplex]