when inspiration strikes

finally got around to appealing this blog lol. main blog is melonpalooza! 🍈 https://artfight.net/~melonpalooza

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melon turtles.... the gang's all here

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hussie artfight attack

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artfight for @kittynomore!! i adore her creechur so i had to draw them

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artfight for @awzominator! imagine if yuri was real, guys

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another artfight for @raphaelesbian!! this time a drastically different tone that the others

i said, and i quote "leo seems depressed enough where he would check into a random motel and just submerge himself in the bath fully clothed after a shit-show of a day" and claira confirms that it is indeed something he would do so go me

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here i am with my ninja clan//ninja clan, here we stand!!!!

another artfight for @raphaelesbian because SOMEONE (not naming names) keeps attacking me

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back at it again with another brothers sun au meme... artfight edition

brothers belong to @raphaelesbian

i say "back at it again" as if i ever upload any of my brothers sun memes... anyway

rip brothers sun raph, you are probably the only raph that don't know how to skate

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artfight of @darkrngr oc blueberry lemonade!

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meet pearl, my snail alien... snalien OC. Added them for Artfight

They're a mix of snails and tardigrades because I love the little guys so much. Still don't know what to call these guys, but they're monogendered so really any pronouns work for them. Culturally, uses different pronouns whether they're older or younger than you.

Basic species stuff: Good swimmers. Sees many colors... It's not scientifically possible, but they can see your Blaschko's lines.

Personality: Bubbly, excitable, curious, but very professional. Takes age order of others very seriously to use the correct pronouns.

Likes: Water, swimming

Age: Like... 70 or something (equivalent of ~30 for humans)

Height: At rest, ~7ft (minus the eye stalks), 9 if you count the shell. (don't ask what their whole length is from tip to tail i do not know. long, ig)

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@raphaelesbian's BrothersSun/TMNT AU April

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@awzominator's oc Yarri for Artfight

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low effort eridian oc. strawberry

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

So it took me TWO days to remember i actually drew art for this fic? okay not exactly FOR the fic but it fits. lmao. so ANYWAY. this is a character i made for @raphaelesbian's AU! She is.... not very nice to Leo. alksdjasd below the cut are like. silly little doodles.

leo daydreaming about their wedding vs. what rose thinks of raph

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chat am i cooking

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EDIT 6/8/2025: Now has a companion fic :)

I really do draw like. the same kind of thing over and over fasdglkshdklg. but i love them 👉👈 Baby Raph almost dying, contrasted with his adult self. I imagine this as the exact moment Leo turned around and saw that Raph had been hurt c: burned into his retina for the rest of his life, probably.

inspiration for this one was "return to sender" by lulyam fshdlkagsdg. he has MOMMY ISSUES.

Details under the cut

i love a good look of terror <3 that stunned moment before he can even comprehend what happened. he's 14 here, so I had some fun trying to balance "he's a full-blown gangster who already has a reputation as being dangerous" and "literally a baby."

and then in his freak era. I've been drawing him being all cute and domestic lately so I had to draw him being feral again. what a guy. clearly no long-term psychological impacts from his upbringing.

also this ORIGINALLY wasn't on purpose, but @awzominator pointed it out on the first draft and I decided to lean into it. baby raph's shirt is koi fish—peaceful, symbolize good fortune and perseverance—and lotus blossoms—purity, life, resilience. And then his adult shirt is dragons—strength, power, protection. And of course the blue vs the red. Idk I just love a good contrast 🥰

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This AU has me in a vice. Read the prologue and get hyped with me, everyone.

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i love how we all collectively went feral for the falin figurine

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hehe melon turtles....

they live on the west coast and they're vietnamese. character sheets coming soon!