Skully, Foxy and Sunny

Run by three people! Artists/writers, ao3 is Skully_Foxy_Sunny | Proship! We ship, write and draw tcest! Don't like don't interact! 18+

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

Advice to any new tcestor figuring out the tmnt fandom

1. Go to the main tag of the fandom, where I’ll sure you see lot of “no turtlecest” tags popped up by antis who are very willing to talk about “brotherly love” and all the horrible things they’d like to do to strangers

2. Go to the “Exclude” section of the page.

3. Look for the Rise of the TMNT tag with an X next to it. Click on the x, then sort and filter (yes, even if you’re a rottmnt-only fan. There’s nothing wrong with that, you can go back soon).

4. Look at the new tags. Notice right aware that Turtlecest is the most popular tag by far.

The thing antis won’t admit is that the anti-tcest movement is very recent, blooming only with the rottmnt era. Tcest is the bedrock of this fandom, back when we were all comfortable being freaks and weirdos without having to judge each other. 

Sure, it was far from perfect, and there were plenty of assholes–don’t let nostalgia blind you–but the vast majority of people were okay with tcest. And today, a shit ton of people still are. 

Most of the creators who’ve been here for a while, the ones who will be here long after most antis have ruined the experience for themselves and their friends, are okay with shipping. Please make sure to remember that.

You are far, far more welcome in this fandom than anyone who is willing to use violent threats over fictional characters. You have a place here, you have a legacy, you are loved, and you are awesome. I hope you remember that, wherever you go.

[skullyfoxysunny]

Leo in a toxic relationship anyone? Eventual Leotello

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

[skullyfoxysunny]

Leo as a raptor! Rottmnt dino au :D By Skully

[skullyfoxysunny]

New Post

New NSFW post on twitter @ SkullyFoxySunny for the lastest ao3 fic, People Pleaser. Bottom trans Leo, dead dove warning.

[iloveyou-writers]

Dear Writer Friends:

First: It's perfectly natural to feel disheartened when your efforts seem to go unnoticed. It can be difficult when you put so much effort into something and yet it seems to make no traction, while you look over at someone seeming to put minimal effort in getting so much more attention than you. And it's okay. You're not less than them. You don't matter less. Your words still matter and your efforts do as well. This is why comparison is an enemy to our craft.

Second: You are not any less important than other writers. They may get more notes but your words still have the potential to help someone else, inspire them, motivate them, uplift them, help them heal... your words have so much power to them, even if you don't see what they're doing for others. Even if it feels and appears that all of your effort is in vain.

Third: Writing is hard. It takes a lot of work, a lot of patience and creativity and it does not make you any less to be exhausted by it. Take breaks when you need to. You are human, you need breaks, you need time for yourself to get your mental energy back. It is perfectly normal to get drained from using your creativity so much and you should feel no shame for needing to rest. Creativity is draining.

Fourth: What you do is amazing. Just think about it... we take thoughts in our heads and we can create entire worlds, galaxies, universes from a single thought. You can have the simplest thought that a non-creator would just let go by. But you're creating this massive project out of that single thought. That's amazing.

Fifth: To writers that have tons of WIPs, you're awesome. It's not something to be upset over or feel bad about. If you're jumping WIP to WIP and never able to finish your WIP, that's nothing to be ashamed of. You don't need to change yourself. Your creativity is just that massive and expansive and maybe you just haven't quite gotten the million dollar idea yet. It's okay, keep trying, keep trekking and keep writing.

Sixth: To writers that only write one WIP at a time, you amaze me. Your dedication to a single WIP is inspiring. It really is. It may not always feel that way, but you are dedicated and passionate about your WIP and that's amazing. You have the ability to create something so vivid because of how much time you put into this one project, that it could feel like you're in the world. You are doing amazing things. Keep it up!

Writing is a challenge. It's not something that should be taken lightly. We shouldn't be putting ourselves down because we don't write like our more successful friends. We shouldn't be comparing ourselves to other writers because there are just so many ways to be a writer, so many ways to write. There are fluff writers, angst writers, horror writers, writers who work on 100 WIPs at a time, writers that work on one at a time, writers who are highly into description and those more into dialogue. No matter what kind of writer you are, you should be proud and love your work and the energy you put into your craft because it's something that is admirable. Even if you're not where you want to be as far as how good of a writer you are, you have the potential to be as good as you want.

Keep writing. Keep pushing forward and putting in the effort. Keep trying. Your efforts are seen and they're not done in vain. You're doing incredible things. Don't let the self-doubt monster scream at you. Scream back and let it know you won't be bullied into silence.

🤍 H

[happymoonangel]

Comparison is the thief of joy. I’ve lost a lot of my joy in writing in the last month. Because I hyper focused on a story that has ended up being similar to mine. I don’t feel as creative or unique now. So, I completely gave up on writing a story I’ve been working on since December.

I also have been working on part 7 of the collaboration story TMNT: Rise of the New Clan with @red-phoenixxx. I have been working on a part that is out of my comfort zone and I realized that it’s going to be a lot of work before I’m happy with it.

Another WIP I’m researching and going to start soon (this weekend, maybe) is a one shot with an ending that could be continued as a double part, or a mini series story (I don’t know what else to call it), if people ask for it.

I just want my joy back. I love my story idea, I have so many scenes written or outlined, but I just feel weird writing it now. I had the ending planned and now I’m afraid to write it. I had a scene that was extremely triggering and maybe a little out there, written, and I received feedback (that I asked for and appreciate) that it may be too much for the fandom. I don’t have another idea that is as strong as that idea, that would be a catalyst for the ending. So, I’m at a loss for ideas and creativity.

I needed this post. I needed to read this and remember that my ideas are valid, my writing is valid, and I need to stop comparing my writing to everyone else’s works. Like the OP said “… you have the potential to be as good as you want.”

I have a lot of ideas still waiting to surface. I still have the potential to be a great writer. I could potentially work myself up to writing short stories, or a novel. Who knows? But I have to keep writing. I have to keep trying.

Tagging some friends and mutuals that have been really supporting me as of late, or that have inspired me:

@tinkabelle19 @red-phoenixxx @miss-andromeda @androidships007 @whimsofchaos @melancholysway @post-apocalyptic-daydream @sketch-and-write-lover

[laureliewilds727]

Writing to me has always been an outlet for the incredibly active imagination of mine, I get a keyboard and a docs or a pencil and paper and I let the ideas just flow and it’s as I can see the pictures of the scene playing out before my very eyes. It’s like an instant access to the backgrounds thoughts constantly whirring in the back of my head and it opens the floodgates for my creativity, whether it be art, music, or writing. 

As of recent, I’ve finally decided to start posting and documenting the things I write and honestly, it kinda sucks not really getting any recognition. But I always think back to how things like this take time, the world will find you eventually so, I’m just gonna keep working on my current dimensional sized plane of reality and putting the images into words.

I’ll be honest, Angel, this means so much to me, and I’ll be even more honest, you are one of the main reasons my fics are still going! I love your support and especially when you always tell me to “never stop writing,” it makes me feel something I can’t quite explain but nonetheless gives me motivation to keep going.

You, my dear friend and writing buddy, are a wonderful author and I love the way you write, I think now would be a good time to send that phrase back.

Never stop writing. Not for anyone.

[skullyfoxysunny]

It is currently five in the morning and I have just got done this for my rottmnt gang au

Genderfluid afab Mikey we stan <3333

Au contains tcest, antis DNI, Leotello and Raphangelo

The turtles grow up together as humans with Splinter neglecting and hardly paying attention to them. This causes them to take a darker path in life, becoming members of (and eventually leading) a brutal gang known as the Foot.

No more spoilers beyond that!

-Skully

[skullyfoxysunny]

Upcoming rottmnt fanfic

Curious if anyone is actually interested. I'll post it regardless but I just wanna see the reception while I'm working on outlining.

Rottmnt human au where both Leo and Donnie separately develop DID from different abusers, then learn about each other. It'll be Leotello with background Raphangelo, coming from an author with DID.

Like, comment or reblog if you're interested. It's going to be called By Blood and it's coming soon. Plenty of art will go with it too.

-Skully

[skullyfoxysunny]

Some friends and I have an entire interconnected web of universes where we've all given each character DID and have several different systems for each with different lore and it's so cool so we wanna share it with the world.

I (Skully) have a Leo system, a Donnie system, a Mikey system and a Raph system. The others all have super cool lore for theirs as well so we've taken to working out fics we can post to show them off. We also have a ton of ships between alters, cool dynamics, and more!

By Blood is all my lore, but more fics will be coming with the others!

[skullyfoxysunny]

Upcoming rottmnt fanfic

Curious if anyone is actually interested. I'll post it regardless but I just wanna see the reception while I'm working on outlining.

Rottmnt human au where both Leo and Donnie separately develop DID from different abusers, then learn about each other. It'll be Leotello with background Raphangelo, coming from an author with DID.

Like, comment or reblog if you're interested. It's going to be called By Blood and it's coming soon. Plenty of art will go with it too.

-Skully

[futureevilscientist]

How to recover fic deleted from AO3 that’s NOT on the Wayback machine

Sharing this because I just found out about this and it blew my mind.

The short version of it is: The Wayback Machine is not the only backup/archive of AO3 content out there. It’s just the most user-friendly and immediately browsable.

THIS database on Archive.org contains most AO3 fics as text files, including plenty that are not Waybacked: https://archive.org/details/AO3_final_location

What you’ll need: A browser for .sqlite3 files such as DB Browser for SQLite, an archive manager (e.g. WinRar or 7zip), good internet download speeds, and potentially a LOT of free GBs in storage space.

Not needed but heavily recommended: A download manager such as HTTP Downloader (so you don’t lose the entire download the second your internet stutters).

1. Click here to get to the archive’s files. It’s going to look something like this:

ao3_current.sqlite3 and ao3_old_files.sqlite3 are metadata files. The .zip files contain fic, most of them in simple .txt format. The metadata files tell you which fic is in which zip.

The “current” metadata file is recent backups. The “old” metadata file seems to be fics archived until 2020ish.

2. First, download either ao3_current.sqlite3 or ao3_old_files.sqlite3. Now launch DB Browser for SQlite, then File > Open Database Read-Only > open the sqlite3 file. Now click on the Browse Data tab.

3. It’s going to look like this.

4. The “Filter in any column” field can be used for keyword searches in, well, any column of this table. Be warned, it takes a while to update, give it time, it’s indexing.

5. Here I searched for all fic which gets a hit for the “Avengers” keyword (usually fandom). You can also search for a specific title, author, description, etc.

Let’s try to locate the first fic on the list. Click on the field on the left - row 1, column 1.

On the right you’ll see the full content of that cell. The most important thing here is the start - ao3_01. This means that the fic is located in ao3_old_files_part01.zip.

6. Download ao3_old_files_part01.zip and open it with your archive manager. It’s 5.5 GB. This will take some time.

7. There are multiple ways to find the fic within the zip file. Probably the easiest way is to use your archive manager’s search/find function to locate the fic by keyword - author is a good bet here, or title if it’s unique enough - and extract that. This way you don’t have to extract the entire archive. Be sure to add a wildcard operator (*) on either side of the keyword.

8. Extract the file and you’re done. Note: It will probably be in .txt format, and might be in one giant block of text. Just select-all and paste it to a proper word processor to restore the paragraph formatting.

+ I suppose if you’ve got like a free TB of space you could just skip the metadata step and download all the zip files and unzip them and use a command line search tool for keywords, too. This will work with keywords like title, author and fandom that are part of the file title. The metadata file just contains additional info, like character fields, description, etc.

This isn’t a perfect remedy, there are still fics that got deleted before they could get archived here. But it seems more complete than the stuff on the Wayback Machine on average.

[stoneyboboney]

Do we not care about consent? If someone deleted a fic for personal reasons? AO3 is a gift community and I do not feel entitled to anything produced and shared on the platform. It’s always a bummer of course, but I wonder if the thought has occurred that one isn’t entitled to a piece of fanfic that the creator later removes.

Genuine question for consideration.

[futureevilscientist]

I agree with you, authors should be able to delete things whenever they like and thankfully, on AO3 they have the option to do so.

I also don’t see what this has to do with archiving or using archives.

[skullyfoxysunny]

Human design of Leo (done by Skully) for our future fics

[catgirl-catboy]

MUTUALS AND DISTINGUISHED GUESTS!

I have found the coolest fucking thing ever.

tumblr user longlivefeedback has created an INTERACTIVE SOCIAL SCRIPT for commenting on ao3. You can find it at:

doc!google!com/spreadsheets/d/1lOqWGDNquHxr23l84ASKn-vdSLFrHop4giVOYDkKnWI/edit#gid=986224789

(replaced .s with !s because tumblr doesn't like links.)

Look at all the different categories it has!!! and if you click any of the boxes...

It tells you loads of things you can say!!!!

As an autistic person, I struggle with communication. This puppy can take my ao3 commenting up to the NEXT LEVEL! I'll be too powerful. Authors will love me!