While the turtles are staying with April in season one, she has a somewhat hard time keeping food in the fridge. Four mutant turtle teens are no joke as far as appetite is concerned, and the novelty of having 100% new and fresh foods in the fridge at all times is not lost on them. They have to be encouraged a couple times to help themselves, and when they finally do it's like an apocalypse on her fridge.
She also enjoys introducing them to new things during this time. She brings home one of those TUBS of pillsbury cookie dough to make them fresh chocolate chip cookies. Before they're in the oven, Mikey finds her and she lets him have some of the dough.
And then Donnie comes into the kitchen and freezes when he sees them. He looks at the dough. He looks at Mikey. He looks at April.
"Did you let Mikey have chocolate?"
April looks at him. Looks at Mikey. "...Yes?"
Don FREAKS out and smacks the spoon out of Mikey's hand. "We can't have chocolate, we're severely allergic!"
April PANICS. "What?? I didn't know, I'm so sorry!"
"What do you mean you didn't know?" Don asks, clutching his baby brother to his chest like he's about to perish. Mikey looks confused. "You wouldn't give chocolate to a dog, would you?"
April's freaking out escalates. Dogs aren't supposed to have chocolate! She knows that much. "What do I do? Should we—uh—go to the ER?"
"Are you insane?" Don has Mikey practically in a headlock and Mikey is—crying? Choking? "We need a VET, April!"
Splinter, whose dad-sense is tingling so hard that his fur is standing on end, enters the kitchen ominously. "Boys. I hope you're behaving and being kind to our host."
April is like, five seconds away from just dying of sheer embarrassment and worry. She looks at Splinter with huge eyes, about to admit she's POISONED his son, and then Don dissolves into giggles.
She stares at him, open mouthed in shock. He releases Mikey, who as it turns out, is also giggling. The chokehold was doing little to suppress it. Splinter puts his head in his hand.
"I'm just kidding April. We eat chocolate just fine."
She has to take another long moment to process the shock and calm her heart down. Don's laughing so hard he's tearing up.
April has never had little siblings before. She used to wonder what it would be like, and there was a time in her life where she had even wanted a little brother or sister to tease and love.
She did not know the true nature of little siblings. Which is evil, naturally.
She chases Don out of the kitchen with the biggest wooden spoon she has, and Splinter HOPES she catches him.
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Really exciting announcement!! I recently wrote a short fic for the @turtlestogetherzine called The Igloo!!!
There were so many wonderful artists and writers on the team, it was really great to be able to see all the art and read all the lovely fics!! The zine is currently available to preorder here:
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Insane theory, but hear me out: Mutant Mayhem! Shredder being insanely strong during the sequel, perhaps even a bit overpowered, none of the turtles know how to beat him and least of all have no idea how this human is so much more powerful than them! It made sense with Superfly, but that's because he was a mutant.
So how was he so much stronger than them? Plot twist in the middle of the film! It gets revealed that Shredder is a mutant like them! It explains everything. The inhuman strength. it probably should've been obvious from the start. Maybe a different kind of mutant (it's been stated that none of the mutants were humans from the start, but what if Shredder was the only one that was part human part mutant? Concept from my friend @nosleep83)
I don't know. I got the idea when I remembered how Cynthia wanted to create stronger, warrior mutants from the turtles' blood, and thought HOLY SHIT. I just think this would make Shredder a really interesting character. Otherwise The Shredder, a whole ass guy with a clan to manage for, got called up by Cynthia to beat up some kids and said k lol i'll be there soon.
They call me The Shredder because I was experimented on and made into a murder weapon to shred children. Or whatever. Watch me be wrong about everything.
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Some fanart of your tmnt 2003 fic 'Not Alone'. Words are not my strong point, so hopefully fanart is cool! I'm a huge fan of your writing; the tone, feeling, and characterizations have inspired me to create many times. So thanks, and Happy Birthday!
(I wasn't sure which blog to send it to or if I got the day right, either way, I hope you have a good one!)
Oh I am HOLLERIN AND STOMPING MY LITTLE FEET OMG!!!!! They're so precious!! Thank you SO much, I love your art and your comics so much, this is so special and it's 100% going into the digital photo frame rotation!!! 😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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leonardo is my favorite turtle in 2012 too!!! i got some angst out, but couldnt leave it on a bad note. get ready for more turtleposting!
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