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Mirage!TMNT is a lot more fun than I expected. I don't think Turtles Forever really did these guys justice either. They do kill bad guys very casually but aside from that they're not really mean or anything.

I'm only a few issues in but it's much more action-packed than grimdark and at the moment a lot like reading a speeded up version of 03.

Don's pigeon puppet for covering security cameras is Mirage canon.

#I wasn't expecting to like it really #but it's cute #yeah these are edgy turtles but they're cute edgy turtles

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Sunset Duo ‘87 Version 🧡❤️

Colored that traditional sketch from earlier with a new rendering style vv happy with it! :]

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Natural rainbow Iris agate.

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I like the idea that they're about the same strength as Rise, we do see them do similar things - with a similar level of "is this cartoon logic or are these turtles really that strong?"

03 and 12 definitely aren't as strong/tough largely because their genre leans more towards making even human enemies a more serious threat to them.

Yeah, outside pure strength Rise definitely have some advantages even without ninpo. Their shape gives them more reach and makes them less throwable, they are faster, and they are (aside sometimes from Leo) better at keeping their feet under them.

I really like Rise going with Krang turning the sky red! It's such a fun way to make "the sky going red means things are more serious now" diagetic.

I wonder who is strongest, the 87 turtles or Rise?

Once ninpo is in the mix it's definitely Rise, but without ninpo I've never seen them casually tear through sheet metal. Or lift a van over their heads with one turtle at each corner.

Raph definitely could throw the couch for a joke if he wanted to, though.

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Yeah, that looks like they might reasonably have what real turtles have, which is loose enough skin to tuck their heads down into little pockets.

@iztarshi @snoftshell-snurtle This animation is better

#no sharp edged perfectly round holes here

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Oh no. It may well be.

My complaint about 12 can be summed up as "their shells have the consistency of a wellington boot". If you have turtles doing ninja moves you're going to have to fake it and make the shells flexible sometimes, but 12's are modelled as flexible all the time. They'll be running along with their shell visibly twisting over the hips and it's not even an action scene.

Huh. So they can go into their shells completely. I thought it was just partly/their head. Still kind of cursed though.

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"don't mass reblog/like :/" coward. fool. somebody just went through and liked and reblogged 64 things from my blog in the span of half an hour at most. and i've never felt more alive in my life

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I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

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#this is one of my favorite donatello moments. recorded in my notes simply as ATTABOY#it IS cursed. they don't HAVE full shells their flanks are just squishy turtle skin and yet.#i do love the little mask tail bow sticking out#1987#donatello

This is also just incredibly not how it works even for turtles that DO have full shells.

Turtles don't have an individual hole for each limb and one for their head. They have a shell that goes around the sides, with a hole at the top for the head and front legs and a hole at the bottom for the legs and tail.

Rise and 12 get it right. Batman vs tmnt fakes it really well for turtles without a full shell by having the side kind of close up.

When 87 duck their heads in they do get it right, by having them able to duck their heads in a really long way but not having a hole open up between their shoulder blades.

Realistically for 87 they'd just pull their limbs in really close to their sides so they're protected by the carapace and plastron despite the missing/vestigial bridge. But treating them as squishy and letting them pull their legs into themselves without visible little round holes opening up would still be better than this!

ETA: On further thought, maybe treating them as squishy would be more realistic than just pulling their limbs in close? Their bridges might be vestigial, but they'd still have to be there since that's, y'know, their rib cage. So basically you have to think of them as able to put their arms inside their rib cage.

Huh. So they can go into their shells completely. I thought it was just partly/their head. Still kind of cursed though.

#I have a completely different set of complaints about 12's shells #but they don't do this #this is the worst possible solution to turtles that don't have full shells going into them #bat-turtles do it best

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Yeah, that sounds right!

87 tend to take it on the shell, they don't get their heads bashed in and walk it off.

I wonder who is strongest, the 87 turtles or Rise?

Once ninpo is in the mix it's definitely Rise, but without ninpo I've never seen them casually tear through sheet metal. Or lift a van over their heads with one turtle at each corner.

Raph definitely could throw the couch for a joke if he wanted to, though.

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Coral Reef Textile Art // Evas Doodlings

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Huh. So they can go into their shells completely. I thought it was just partly/their head. Still kind of cursed though.

#oh huh #i knew michelangelo did it once did not remembet donatello doing it too #animated the exact same way both times #so did they actually have a reference sheet?? #i assumed it looked so bad bc the artist had to figure it out on the spot #anyway it looks much better when it's just their heads

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I wonder who is strongest, the 87 turtles or Rise?

Once ninpo is in the mix it's definitely Rise, but without ninpo I've never seen them casually tear through sheet metal. Or lift a van over their heads with one turtle at each corner.

Raph definitely could throw the couch for a joke if he wanted to, though.

#rise are a lot rowdier #they kick down more doors #but are they stronger?

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They foresaw that if they tried to have an epic battle she WOULD stop them.

Oh gosh, the de-dread-ifying of the Dreen continues apace. Agatha has somehow cowed them into NOT having an epic battle, but only SAYING they did. In one panel.

#girl genius #it saves time trying to get people to take you seriously #when they can see the future

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[ cw: death mention / family death mention / ]

Mhmm I sure love thinking of the reality where we did get more time to really know Karai and her dynamics with the bros. Losing her hit hard in the finale, but it would’ve hit much, much harder had we known Karai longer and really saw her relationships develop with everyone.

I especially would have been interested in her dynamic with Leo, as past iterations often have the two of them clash in ideals and the like while still sharing many characteristics. Two sides of the same coin, and all that. Her specifically being the bros’ Gram-Gram also adds a whole new dynamic as well.

Imagine how interesting it would be, to have Karai start off on Leo’s side for once, showing wholly just how alike the two are at their cores and bonding as family without the worry of betrayal or animosity that other iterations suffer through, only to have Karai die anyway. Their parting hug and the desperate look of horror Leo wears later on would have hit that much harder, I feel.

#rise turtles

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Congratulations to Marcille DungeonMeshi for achieving Pathetic Little Man status on tumblr, a hard glass ceiling for many female characters to break. I look forward to calling you my sopping wet beast and poor little meow meow for fandom days to come. Keep trucking babygirl, you'll bag Falin one day