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May I have permission to write a fanfic about your tmnt fanfic Little Scraps of Wisdom?

Sure! The base premise of it isn't my own anyway, and people can feel free to write using my actual story and characters if they like! I'd appreciate credit with a link of course, but more stories is always better.

Most of the time I write fic with a premise I'm desperate to read, or course I would enjoy more of it.

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Out of curiosity, do you think you will ever go back and continue the Scraps of Wisdom ROTTMNT stories? Also, I really enjoy your works, they are super well-made and interesting!

I think I definitely will! Maybe not this year necessarily, but I never LEAVE a fandom. I still have Psychonauts fanfiction in my WIP folder, His Dark Materials, Assassins Creed, Homestuck- I've returned to plenty of fics, even if I never get anything necessarily publishable done. I absolutely have some half finished fics in the LSoW series that if I sat down and hammered out maybe 5k words, they'd be all done and ready to go, and I've been circling them like a dog with a bone for about a month now.

My Raph-centric fic is definitely the first I'll probably have done (if any), IE "The Part Where 8 Year OId Raph Sees his Dad Straight Up Almost Kill a Dude". I DEFINITELY have been flirting with the idea of writing more fic for friends AU's that I still keep up with and read, because I am obsessed and it's a fun way to do short form fic.

None of this is a guarantee though! I can have 4.9k out of 5k written, and if I never get that last bit done then it won't be posted. I have PLENTY of ideas for fic, but the question is time and effort. I have probably thirty different fic ideas turning over in my head at a time, and having the energy or time to write it is VERY difficult.

Fic Ideas/WIP's I have at the moment (All Fandom Inclusive): -MCYT Borrowers Fic -ROTTMNT Avengers crossover (Portal Panic) -DND campaign Short Story 1 -DND campaign Short Story 2 -Game of Thrones/Hannibal Crossover -House of the Dragon/MCYT crossover -MCYT Superhero AU1 -MCYT Superhero AU2 -MCC Fic -ROTTMNT Raph Centric Fic -ROTTMNT Donnie Centric fic (Hospital Stay) -Court Case LSoW fic -Friend AU fic 1 -Friend AU fic 2 -Psychonauts longform Post Game adventure fic -Dragon Age/Witcher Crossover -OH I just remembered my Witcher/Game of Thrones Crossover -Rewrite of my most popular fic, from like a decade ago. An Assassins Creed/Avengers fic, that I cringe to reread but some people really enjoy, so if I want to continue I'm gonna have to overhaul the whole thing.

As you can see, that's a lot. And that's stuff I have actually actively written for, anywhere from 500 words, to like, 3k or 20k. I have PLENTY of stuff like that in my folders. I am unmedicated with what I would call is pretty severe focus problems, and it results in (for example) this past month where I wrote 30k of a fic over the course of half a year, realized I didn't like it, and started completely over.

When I wrote LSoW originally, it was actually on PURPOSE to try and get better at managing my focus problems, and I am immensely proud I did as much as I did. If a year or two break is what I need to get back in it, I'm fine with that and won't beat myself up too hard, because this is already such a huge W for me.

Thanks for this ask though! I really do enjoy rereading my own fics and seeing how much I've improved, and seeing all the comments I still get and people reread it an enjoy it makes me so happy. It feels bad to post an incomplete work, but I've come to terms with the fact if I don't post them incompletely, I'll never post at all, and having them out there to come back to actually ensures I'll come back.

And also, hey! Anyone is more than welcome to write based on/in this AU. :P I absolutely don't have a monopoly on celebrity!Lou Jitsu family fic- LSoW was originally based on a tweet I saw! In fact I would LOVE if someone wrote for this AU, because then I don't have to write it to get read it.

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Ask game: "spoil" or "find" ?

The first year he was at the Nexus, Yoshi had felt… Relief. He was upset at Ariadne, of course, because he thought… He thought perhaps that she loved him enough to be married. That although they were both bad people, perhaps they could be bad people together and not hurt anyone else. Yoshi was not good at anything his family wanted from him, and when he had come to the states he had only been good at fighting and acting and making a mess of himself in ways that would have had his ancestors rolling in their graves. He thought, maybe this was something he could find a way to keep.

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Don't know if you're still accepting asks about LSoW, but you mentioned once that all of the turtles in your au are intersex, except Mikey. Can I ask why you made them so and why Mikey is the exception?

I'm always accepting asks about LSoW! :D I'm not the best about answering them because I have crippling anxiety, but I love getting asks. ;-;

Disclaimer first: Genuinely no disrespect to any intersex people, because chromosomal differences and IRL intersex conditions have near next nothing to do with (I cannot exaggerate this enough) TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, the depiction of the Turtles in LSoW, or honestly, half the AU's with the same sort of headcanon. So keep that in mind. I strongly encourage people to do some research into actual intersex people and characteristics, because it isn't my intention at all to represent very normal people with (STILL CANNOT EXAGGERATE THIS ENOUGH) TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. (Although if there IS an intersex person who reads LSoW and is like, hell yeah ninja turtles are just like me, more power to you brother. I wrote it for you and you only, I am kissing you gently on the head like a benevolent patron.)

That being said, 'intersex' was the best term I could come up with for this head canon, and fits so.

Reason 1: It's funny.

I am making Leonardo ninja turtle deal with turtle equivalent of periods, that is the funniest shit I will ever do. The idea that A: Raph dealt with it first, B: Leo was a smug shithead about it and then dealt with it a year after, and then C: Donnie was SMUGGER THAN HIM, and also dealt with it the NEXT WEEK? Hilarious. I am a comedy god.

Also I think I headcanoned Raph as having CJ with Casey a long time ago because Casey and Raph are soulmates in every universe. But problem is I headcanon Casey as TRANS, so how did they have Casey? Adoption is also great, but you know what would be FUNNIER-

(egg babey)

Reason 2: Mikey's personality. (Also, it's funny again.)

When Draxum was making the turtles in LSoW, he gave them all the bits and pieces he needed in order to make them effective yokai super soldiers. Man literally said 'I'm making a turtle that can hold a sword and do backflips, I'm gonna give it all this other stuff too, OBVIOUSLY.' But box turtles are already pretty territorial and aggressive? I think the reason I gave at the time was Draxum literally said, 'Michelangelo is already so territorial if I gave him estrogen he'd have killed the others.' (Which is a gross oversimplification of how turtles split gender in the egg, herpetologists pls don't @ me they're ninja turtles I am sorry.)

Also it's funny again because Mikey is also smug down the chain of brothers from oldest to youngest with not having to deal with this embarrassing problem, but then DOESN'T get whacked with the egg whammy stick like the others?? Smug youngest sibling?? Mikey asking Leo with fake sympathy, 'Oh, is it your troubles again?' and Leo is forced to try and kill him with a rock.

Reason 3: Draxum (Also STILL YET ANOTHER reason to be funny.)

Draxum figures in the far off distant future if his supersoldiers DO make nests and eggs, a very territorial and family oriented guard that DOESN'T nest would be super effective.

Imagine the post apocalypse future where Raph and Casey have CJ, and you are a simple resistance soldier. You are minding your business surveying Krang tunnels after a delicious breakfast of beetle protein bar shaped into dino-nuggie form courtesy of Donatello Hamato, and Mystic Master Michelangelo appears out of the shadows in a side tunnel and tries to skin you with a fork because you got within a half mile of his expecting brother and his ninja girl friend.

(The only Y/N fic I will ever write.)

I hope that answers the question!! Also reminder to everyone that even though I am taking a little break from TMNT, my fics are far from abandoned and I have them cooking along in the background. Most of the writing I get done is in spite of horrible unmedicated ADHD, anxiety, and being 30 years old with a very tiring job and increasingly troubling disability. That's not me complaining, but I think a little reminder that a lot of fic writers do this as a hobby. The second I feel the slightest bit of pressure I crumble away from fics like I've been cursed by a mummy, because feeling pressure from something so silly is wild to me.

This ask actually I think is a perfect way to show how to support your fave fic authors, and encourage them to continue writing! I actually had to sit down and think about my own notes, and talk over my reasoning with The Council in dm's (@/tangledinink and @/heck lol). So thanks!

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🌹!

The Judge plucked up the Jury who had misspoken as if they were a tick they were prying loose, and while they screamed and struggled, dropped them directly into the glistening tooth filled cavern that was their mouth.

It snapped shut and the screaming abruptly cut off- and although Yoshi could see circles of sweat the size of dinner plates under Sal’s armpits, he had not moved.

It took a moment for the Jury to compose themselves, but after the Bailiff had barked and herded them back into their seats, they sat in shivering anticipation for Sal to finish.

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Yaaayy you got this!!!

The Judge growled, causing Tsiori to turn a pale bleached pink in a rippling wave of desaturation, like the lizards Yoshi had seen in the forests of southern Japan. Sal waved a hand carelessly, as if he had to deal with Judges the size of pool houses all the time.  “As much as I am genuinely interested to hear about your profession, I’m afraid it will have to wait until we find a verdict. Yes or no, you interact with contestants on the regular?”

“...Yes.” Tsiori squeaked.

“That’s all.” Sal said, looking down at his papers. There was a stutter in proceedings, as if even Euryale hadn’t expected the brisk dismissal, and Yoshi had forgotten that Sal did that- pivot unexpectedly.

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redraw of a piece I did in december for @spectralsleuth's phenomenal Little Scraps of Wisdom (baby raph is so so precious I love him!!)

here's the original art

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

NEW CHAPTER RIGHT UNDER THE WIRE FOR THE ANNIVERSARY! I did it...

Guys, I can't think you enough for what a great year this has been and I can't wait to start showing you guys what I've been working on in this upcoming new year. All the comments and community and fun crossovers with friends have really made my year, and I'm so happy I started writing a stupid little turtle fanfic that people actually enjoyed. I expected maybe 100 kudos if I was lucky, and a couple little comments;

But my expectations were absolutely blown out of the water by you guys commenting, and drawing fanart, and just- playing with me in this silly little turtle space.

So thanks for a great year!