Love the fact that (including fanon) the tmnt universal constant isn't the group's personality traits, colors, backstory, or even the fact that they are teenage mutant ninja turtles. No, the absolute universal constant is that, if introduced to pizza at some point in their lives, they will like it.
I’ve been thinking about what would happen if Mayday somehow survived, tracked down Crosshair, and showed up on Pabu. I think that after being distant and weird due to the shock of having him back for a few days, Crosshair would gravitate towards Mayday again and the two would fall into bed together and barely leave it for like, three days. They’d have a million rounds of “I thought I lost you” sex and no one would be able to reach them.
ALRIGHT so i had a bigger post i was gonna make about this but i’m lazy and wanna say it anyway:
Personally, I will not be going anywhere when TBB ends. As much as I love the enthusiasm that comes with it being relevant right now, I’ve simply had no time to sit down and enjoy this season yet and I’m not worried about interest lessening somewhat in the community. I wanna write and create for it still, and I’m gonna!
My love for these characters is not tied to a pressure to produce content while they’re relevant and I would hope others feel the same way :)
I saw the ask you answered from another anon about cloneshipping, and I balled my eyes out. I'm a closet cloneshipper too. I came into the fandom about a year ago and ended up with the antis before I even knew what that meant.
I've started to secretly follow cloneship blogs, but I'm a decently popular fanfic writer in the anti group, and I really don't want to lose my readers by coming out 😭
I've never written a cloneship fic, and I mostly write x reader, which I know is a whole different topic for another day, but I love the content you all put out!
I put a short, non-aggresive blurb on my blog that I don't cloneship to appease the masses, and several cloneship blogs blocked me. It's sad, but I don't blame them. I've seen the hate spewed out by antis, and it's just disgusting.
Well, thanks for that list of friendly cloneship blogs, and thanks for being so nice to us in the shadows ❤️
👤 Incognito Anon
i'm really glad that post was able to help you in some way, friend. i'm gonna be honest, i had no idea it was so common for people to feel trapped in anti circles, and it makes me so sad. we should all be having fun - that's what it boils down to.
being a writer myself, i understand the fear of losing your reader base. i only have one non-shipping work, but i have at times wished it could be separated from my cloneship writing because i'm really proud of it and i know that shrinks the amount of people who will interact with it. however, i'm proud of ALL of my work. all of it brings me joy - and not just that, but it brings other people joy. it's meaningful to them.
all that to say.. i think sharing my work with a small group of people who cherish it feels better than having a larger audience. but i know that's just me personally.
if i may, i'd like to encourage you to make a side blog where you can interact with fandom in a way that brings you joy, and an alternate ao3 if you ever want to dabble in cloneshipping fic. maybe you’ll always stay in both places separately, maybe you’ll find that one feels better than the other and make the leap eventually. regardless, the option is there, and we'd love to have you.
worst thing is being held hostage by a group of antis and being anxious over what they'd do if you as much as insinuated some clones just suck eachother dry sometimes while also being afraid of talking to new people T-T
i am so sorry you're in this situation. fandom is supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be a community not a threat.
forging new connections can be so scary/difficult, but i just got into the clone wars fandom like? last summer? and i have so many AMAZING mutuals and they enrich not only my fandom experience but also my life. i'm positive i'm gonna miss some, but shout out to my cloneshipping (and cloneship-friendly) mutuals, many of whom create cloneshipping works and all of whom would be happy to have you.
So you know that moment where Vegeta talks to the Earth and asks them to lend their energy for the Spirit Bomb against Boo? And the only ones who do it are the Dragon Team (and that one dude who did it out of curiosity) until Goku speaks up and we see people from Goku's childhood contribute?
What I find funny is that Karin, Yajirobe, #17, Chaozu & fucking Tenshinhan didn't raise their hands when Vegeta asked them to. #17 I can give a pass because it was intended to be Lunch and she never met Vegeta. But the others?
Were all four of them collectively thinking "you know what fuck that guy"? Were they willing to die and have the Earth obliterated again because they don't like Vegeta? It seems petty on the side of Karin & Yajirobe, regardless of how understandable it is to not like Vegeta.
Chaozu isn't even so much a real character as he is a prop.
But Tenshinhan? Dude never really let go of his grudge against him for what happened during the Saiyan invasion, giving him shit even during the Cell arc.
Tenshinhan didn't raise a pinky when Vegeta was begging. But when Goku spoke up he was all "TAKE ALL OF MY POWER AND DEFEAT BOO GOKU"
When Tenshinhan holds a grudge, he fucking holds a grudge. The universe be damned. And it is hilarious to me.