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How our family breaks

130,465 words, chapter 25/??

Last updated: 7/5/25 | status: temp hiatus

Drabble: Accidents Happen, But to What End?

tags: HOFB

The Price of a Appreciation

25,429 words, chapter 4/??

Last updated: 4/10/25 | status: temp hiatus, will return soon

Tags: TPOA

Ode to Sisyphus

30,244 words, chapter 8/??

Last updated: 1/6/26 | status: temp hiatus

It’s Not Just a Game to Me

25,538 words, chapter 4/4

Last updated: 4/11/26 | status: Completed

#HOFB #TPOA #rottmnt fanfiction #ao3

I'VE DONE IT

i've peaked as an artist

I will never draw another set of hands better than this

#rottmnt #work in progress #hofb #uh oh #something's coming :)

Just have to let you know all your works are gems and I find myself going back and rereading my favorite pages like every other day. At a minimum.

You pace the line between fluff and mounting tension so well, I be kicking my feet and gripping my phone lol. I love your writing!

Thank you so much!! I know I haven’t been writing as much as I used to but I still love to do it and share it with people. I’m still working on your request, I haven’t forgotten I promise. It’s just taking way longer than expected!

Do you listen to music while writing your fics? If so, which ones? Or, if you don't, do you associate any songs with any fics/chapters of those fics?

Also, I love love love your writing so much!! It's so peak!!

Yes, I listen to music!! Honestly, I could go on for probably pages upon pages for this ask. I’ve made whole playlists for at least three of my fics, so instead of going on a whole rant, I’ll just list the top five for each one.

How Our Family Breaks:

Unsweetened Lemonade - Amélie Farren

Angel - NewDad

Carsick - K.Flay

Epoch - Savlonic (The Living Tombstone Remix)

PIN-EYE - Jhariah

Ode To Sisyphus:

Just Take My Wallet - Jack Stauber

Over & Over - Rio Romeo

Abbey - Mitski

Kitchen Fork - Jack Conte (Novembers 5 year later Re-Cover)

Class of 2013 - Mitski

The Price of Appreciation:

I’m Gonna Win - Rob Cantor

27’s - Your Neighbors

Call Me Pretty - Susannah Joffe

Oleander - Mother Mother

Gladiator - Jann

I didn’t make a playlist for Its Not Just a Game to Me, but I think Arms Tonite - Mother Mother would fit pretty well.

#thank you for the ask!#rottmnt #ao3 #everything underlined is a link #to the song or fic it’s referring to #and there’s a lot of them

maybetryingtologin

This week's magmas!! I had so many ideas I wanted to do that I had to narrow them down by only drawing a few. @weeklymagmas

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48998530/chapters/123616126

"How Our Family Breaks" by MantisBNLTS / @mantis-bnlts

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43511461/chapters/109392088

"From Scratch" by bigdamnhero

"One day you will convince yourself you are tired of your life; when that happens have a bowl of this”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63588661?view_full_work=true

Split the Night by T33la

Drew this last minute before exporting time @kaysdenofchaos - Teenage Meddling Mutant Turtles Iteration

#AAAAAAAAAAA #THIS IS SO GOOD #THSNK YOU!!!

Your Choices Were Real

Quick art piece for my fic, It's Not Just a Game to Me

#rottmnt #rise donatello #rottmnt donnie #rise michelangelo #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt fanart #ao3 art #ao3 #subtle imagery more obvious than the elephant in the room

pvtpunsart

Close-ups of my stuff from the Fanworks Fanart magma at @weeklymagmas!

I drew some fanart for two fics that I really enjoy:

Baking Whilst Bonding (link to the fic on Ao3) by @angelmichelangelo

Which is such a great fic and the resolution makes me happy.

And then also How Our Family Breaks (link to the fic on Ao3) by @mantis-bnlts

This one has really great intrigue and drama. I'm having a great time.

See you next week!

mantis-bnlts

ajdhskakfnHSJFJABAAAAAAAAAAA

#THANK YOU #THIS IS AMAZING #rottmnt

Quick update on my fics’ statuses

All of my fics are going to be going on a hiatus for now—none of them are being abandoned, they’re all just being paused. For how long, I’m not sure, but likely a couple of months.

I want to have an opportunity to write a few chapters ahead on them, and to feel like I’m writing for myself again. So I’m just taking a short break.

For HOFB specifically, I want to attempt to complete part one before updating it again, so it may be on hiatus for a long while. But if that is the case, there will be chapters posted every now and then.

I do have a fic I’m writing now that I hope to have finished by Halloween so I can post it as sort of like a Halloween special, so you can look forward to that.

#rottmnt #ao3 #another reason for this is editing #editing/grammar checking usually takes me an hour on so for every chapter #so by writing chapters ahead I won’t have to worry about it until I decide to publish them

Finally got this piece done for TPOA

#rottmnt #rise donatello #rottmnt donnie #ao3 art #ao3 #rottmnt fanart #big mama rottmnt #big mama #this took way too long #i kept getting distracted #and then adding more details #I also changed the background like seven times before settling on this one #tpoa is on a temp hiatus #but I have started the next chapter #TPOA

I completely forgot about the open the floodgates for rottmnt, so here's two WIPs from TPOA

sketch under the cut

#cw scars #open the floodgates #rottmnt #rise donatello #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt fanart #art wip #TPOA

I come bearing another hastily drawn meme, please ignore the horrible resolution

close ups and og below the cut

#he did make an exception #a building just had to fall on him first #I have no excuses for this one #it's bad #but this is how I cope knowing future events #i was too lazy to actually draw Hypno and Warren for this one #i'm desperately trying to get out of writer's block #rottmnt #rise donatello #rottmnt donnie #HOFB

He did not speak to Hypno for the rest of the day.

Anyway, uh... Happy Pride Month! Have this comic that took me way too long to make.

#Pride month sneaks up on me literally every year #Idk how this keeps happening #i am working on the next chapter of HOFB #Just very slowly #rottmnt #rottmnt hypno #Rottmnt warren #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt comic #halfway through making this comic I decided I didn't actually like it #but I worked too hard to let that stop me #HOFB

I wanted to test this new brush I got so here's this picture of Mikey

I'll be honest, the brush isn't my favorite. It has it's charm, it's great for eyes, but eh. It's okay. Idk if I'll use it again.

Keep reading for an emptier background.

#rottmnt fanart #rottmnt mikey #rise michelangelo #I am still incapable of drawing backgrounds #I also #still have writer's block #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles

Shoutout to autocorrect for suddenly deciding Baron Draxum is actually Dracula despite not having an issue with him before. But hey. Who am I to question my phone’s vampire hunting abilities?

#writers block is kicking my butt rn #but I’m writing a one shot to try and help work through it #and it is helping #kind of #I’m also working on a very short animation #so you can look forward to that whenever it’s done

Hello!!! I have been reading your fic (How Our Family Breaks) for forever!!! I have once again binged it!!! I find it very amazing that you have written so much and like the way you have written the characters.

I just wanted you to know how much I love reading your material and wanted to encourage you to keep being creative! You definitely have a gift for it!

Anyway that's all, please have an amazing day full of ideas!

Thank you so much!!

In all honesty, I'm surprised by how much I've written, too. I never expected this fic to be so long, but I love writing it and I'm glad you enjoy it.

Thank you for the encouragement and I hope you have an awesome day!