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i'm reaching the end of season 4 in tmnt 2003. i originally planned on only watching the first 5 seasons. any particular episodes from seasons 6 and 7 worth watching though? i'm assuming there's good stuff in there even if those two seasons seem different than the rest of the show

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Depends on what exactly you want. Like, as much of a step down as these episodes are, I feel most of them are at least a 6/10, so if you have time and low expectations, both series are at least watchable. That said, if what you're looking for is closer to an 8/10, and you don't care about jumping into stories in the middle, these are the eps to watch.

Season 6:

"Invasion of the Body Jacker"

"The Journal"

"Graduation Day"

"Timing is Everything"

"Milk Run"

"The Fall of Darius Dun"

"Turtle X-tinction"

"Head of State"

"DNA is Thicker than Water"

"The Day of Awakening"

Season 7:

"The Engagement Ring"

"Wedding Bells and Bytes"

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thanks!!

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i'm reaching the end of season 4 in tmnt 2003. i originally planned on only watching the first 5 seasons. any particular episodes from seasons 6 and 7 worth watching though? i'm assuming there's good stuff in there even if those two seasons seem different than the rest of the show

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rottmnt fans generally push for another season but personally i highly doubt a subsequent season of rottmnt will be as good or better than the work that fans have made. as far as i have experienced the fanworks have elevated the characters and setting so much that i fear that anything official would not even come close

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i love aai2 a lot but the final showdown having like fifty people in a tent while simon is interrogated is forever funny to me. why is lotta there

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i love fairy stuff and have been crafting a fairy world idea in my brain for a while. i mention this because i started thinking about what disability aids would exist for various disabilities that a fairy could have.

in this context fairies are the type that are small with mostly insect-like wings. they can fly but it wouldn't be something they tend to do for a long time (just like how we don't tend to run marathons all the time). there is magic in hypothetical fairy world but of course it is more interesting to think of concrete scenarios beyond just Magic Does It

here are some notes i had under the cut... i will mostly rambling my thoughts out loud. i wanted to post this in case people had more ideas! i do not have a disability myself (beyond having poor eyesight that can be corrected by glasses) so i would really appreciate any input

fairies with limited or lack of eyesight: variety of seeing-eye animals, including insects or birds, or even mini-dragons (like if a gecko was a dragon). i mean a seeing-eye spider could definitely see a lot. and birds got that. magnet navigation

on the note of trained animal help, could also be good for riding when a fairy has limited or lack of leg mobility. my concern there is what if a fairy also has trouble sitting upright. a harness of some kind? i tried to look up what disability aids exist for horseback riding but idk how well that would transfer to bird or bug.

wheelchairs for fairies has the issue that if they decide to fly somewhere the wheelchair will be left behind. either wheelchair needs to somehow be light enough to be liftable during flight or it needs to be capable of flight itself. possibly it is a Magic Wheelchair scenario. there's also the issue that a fairy would experience a lot more rough and uneven terrain out in nature, which is also not very wheelchair friendly.

fairies with wing issues: i think there was a pixie hollow book with this. flying service animal tiiime. i also saw once a video where someone attached a feather to a butterfly with a torn wing and that seemed to work?? not sure if it actually helped but with artistic license we can say it does. that but with fairies with wing injuries/deformities. various fashionable and cool looking wing patches/partial prosthetics. could be feathers, wing parts from insects that passed, maybe synthetic stuff from human trash (wrappers? fabric scrap?)

all my ideas just end up with animal companions. i think a fairy who is liable to have seizures would also benefit from a service animal that can fly in case of mid-flight issues.

back to wheelchair. wheelchair -> walking mushroom chair. would be able to handle rough terrain. flying though... i'll get back to that

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a while ago i started writing a little steven universe and kirby crossover oneshot. and i finally finished it!

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

Summary:

Steven expected to discover many things on his road trip away from Beach City, mostly about himself. But when he encounters a strange pink-haired individual on the side of the road, Steven realizes that the strangeness in his life is not limited to Gems from outer space. ─ ✩ ─ It wasn't every day that Kirby got spit out into another dimension. It was more like a once, twice a year occasion. This time, however, Kirby's found himself in a form that even he hasn't experienced. Good thing he's already found a new friend!

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being into tmnt has me searching up whether or not soft-shelled turtles can retract into their shells and becoming frustrated that there does not seem to be a clear cut answer. all these lists of facts and none of them will tell me if donnie should have been able to get into his shell

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you are my friend. sometimes i am scared of you. i wont ever tell you that. because i know im in the wrong. its shortsighted of me. naive, and ignorant, and melodramatic.

but its hard for me to see the sides of you clearly. it feels contradictory. i should keep my mouth shut. i dont know anything.

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the more i see of 2003 and 2012 tmnt the more bewildered i am by folks that say that they are interchangeable. as in the tags ive seen that say "can be either 2003 or 2012". the boys are quite different!

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im trying to plan out a tmnt crossover w 2003, 2012, and 2018. i have reached a dilemma when it comes to figuring out characters to include. the overarching plot is not directly affected, just some of the direction and pace.

should i include april & casey(s) in the main plot outside of cameos?

you should include all aprils and caseys as they are part of the group

if you include any april or casey you must include all of them

2012 april and casey and 2018 april and (caseys) are a must

2018 april is a must

you have enough characters w tmnts and splinters. no aprils & caseys needed

nuance.

Voting ended onApr 5

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read through a bunch of "batfam" fics and my one-track mind came up with a crossover idea with tmnt where cassandra ends up living w the tmnt instead of batman.

unfortunately my knowledge of cass is very fanon-based, so i dont actually know how she met batman originally. but im thinking for this crossover she was on track to meet him but for whatever reason had to flee to new york.

(im thinking 2003 vibes for this even though there is an official batman tmnt, because i love the 2003 boys. but not exactly 2003 because some of the stuff that happens there would not jibe with the existence of the justice league)

anyway cass would definitely pick up on these dudes ninja-ing their way around new york. im imagining that she follows them when she sees them out and about (leo keeps feeling like theyre being watched but cant find her) and finds them fascinating and fun. she gets into a fight w some purple dragons that provoke her and hence gets the vague attention of the shredder as a potential recruit. but she ends up following the turtles for real and meets splinter who adopts her fairly quickly.

2003-esque splinter could relate to cass' issue with speech. after all he probably had to figure out speech for himself after being a rat that understood most but not all that was said to him but never spoke human tongues before. tmnt with cass as a sister yay. and also there is multiversal precedence for a cassandra in tmnt lol

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i've been working through tmnt 2003 and got to the part where they went back in time to when dinosaurs were a thing.

i get why at the time the dinos were animated without feathers and etc, since they could only depict what people knew and what was vastly accepted for how dinosaurs looked and acted.

but can you imagine if they went back in time and don got to see what dinosaurs were really like? he'd be even more excited! who cares about savanti and his plans, don's got to document as much as he can while he's here! look at all the colors! the feathers! what baby dinosaurs look like!

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Last chapter of my fic!

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

A short epilogue to wrap it all up. Thanks for reading!

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Almost there! Here's Chapter 7.

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

A glimpse of some goings-on before the epilogue.

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raph rottmnt with a fuecoco. i'd be shocked if no one has done this already. they could look at you with the exact same expression

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Chapter 6 is out!

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

A fight happens in this one, and I get to tag a few more characters.

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Chapter 5 has been released:

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

We take a look at what Legend and the others are up to...