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The Zine is published

and available to purchase! For just $5, you'll get 110 pages of Raph and Mikey from Rise of the TMNT, and the best part? All of your money goes toward Sea Turtle Conservancy!

Buy it on ko-fi!

#fanzine #tmnt zine #rottmnt #sunset duo #tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt raphael #rottmnt michelangelo #art #fanfic

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3 days until the zine releases!

#fanzine #tmnt zine #rottmnt #sunset duo #tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #rottmnt mikey #teenage mutant ninja turtles #art

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What upppp long time no see!!! Recently participated in the Sunset Duo zine by @punnybee-zines !!!!!!

Please check it out and look at all the amazing artists and writers!!! 🫶💖💖

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt raph #art #tmnt #fanzine #rise of the tmnt #sunset duo #tmnt zine

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#bears

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this is my favourite bit of otgw trivia (text from Art of Over the Garden Wall)

#otgw #video #over the garden wall

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i wanna talk about this shot

#i laughed way too long #art #spiderman #spider man into the spider verse

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We will also have merch done by @skelenova and @lollyholly99 :]

#fanzine #tmnt zine #sunset duo #rottmnt #tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #contributor cards #art

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TO ALL EMPTY BLOGS!!

I've said this before, and I'll say it again.

Put something that isn't an actual person in the profile picture! If you don't you'll be blocked!

In the settings of your blog you can change the colours of your blog. Do that!

In the same menu, you see those two places you can type stuff? You know, like the one that says "Untitled"? Type stuff in them that isn't just the default text!

Make a FUCKING POST! I don't care what it is as long as it's not NSFW!

YOU HAVE THREE FUCKING DAYS TO DO ALL OF THESE BEFORE I BLOCK YOU ALL!

Anyways, all of this is in caps to show how important it is.

#please for the love of lit matchsticks #CHANGE YOUR PAGE UP #the block button is ready and I will not hesitate

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You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

#food for thought #asks #tumblr asks

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Things to say about your writing instead of “this is so bad”

My writing doesn’t have to be perfect all the time

The dialogue in this scene feels stale (or another adjective), but I can revise that later

The descriptions lack specificity (or another issue), but I can revise that later

The [another specific craft element] isn’t working the way I’d hoped, but I can revise that later

I don’t feel like I can objectively judge my work at this current moment

I’m not happy with my writing right now, but that doesn’t mean I’ll feel this way forever

I’ll reread this writing at a later time and move on for now

This scene isn’t turning out how I’d pictured in my head, but I can accept that for now and tweak it later

I trust myself to edit this in the future

I’m afraid people are going to judge my work, but I’ll accept that I can’t control the reactions of other people—my reaction matters most

This scene/subplot/character/etc is overwhelming me.

I’ll take my time through this scene/chapter/subplot as more time may allow me to immerse more in the draft.

I’ll write this scene/chapter/subplot as quickly as I can—I would like to get through this part ASAP.

It’s okay to make mistakes in my writing.

I’m not feeling very confident in my craft right now, but I know this will pass

This scene might be bad, and that’s okay. Sometimes I write gems, and sometimes my writing needs a bit more work (that’s normal)

This scene relies on [certain skill] that I’m still honing. I understand to get better at something, I have to practice and practicing requires mistakes.

I’m not excited about this scene right now

I had high expectations for this scene, and unfortunately, I don’t feel like I’m hitting them. However, it’s okay for expectations to change.

I’m disappointed with how my writing is turning out. That’s normal, even though it sucks.

I’m going to remind myself what I DO like about my writing because this feels bad, though I know this feeling won’t last forever.

Sometimes writers need to say “my writing is so bad,” and that’s fine too! Sometimes though, it’s good to note what is specifically wrong in case you need an extra boost forward! <3

#writing #writing tips #encouragement!!! #now get out there and write!

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Lastly, our writing mod is @skwetches! We'll be opening contributor applications at the beginning of June, so stay tuned!

#oop doing another zine #sunset duo #tmnt #rottmnt #mod card #fanzine #zine #tmnt zine #rottmnt raph #rottmnt mikey

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don't forget during the WGA strike that animation is not covered under the WGA deals and as a result animation has gotten the shortest possible end of the stick in under-staffing, under-paying, and generally turning the field into gig employment.

please sign the petition here for Disney to recognize animation production workers as a union and reblog this post!

#disney #animation guild #wga strike #wga #support artists

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#writers guild of america #wga strike #residuals #unions #pay the workers #workers rights #youtube #art #write #video

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poll time!

personally I loved pixie hollow and poptropica. I fully expect club penguin to win this, but maybe I'll be surprised. please reblog for sample size, I'm really curious to see the results of this one!

#I played SO MANY of these #club penguin #pixie hollow #wizard101 #poptropica #one not mentioned was webkinz #webkinz was life #donno if webkinz counts cause it still exists..? #although it’s garbage now

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#support artists #be a hero #art #drawing #doodle #sketch #artwork

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#where is the ‘all of the above’ option?? #not even a fair question #I went through phases of each of these #but I also created an entire town and enacted a sitcom world with each character played by a rake or broom #polls #childhood

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(Please god I had to block like 15 of them today)

#seriously stop #spam bots #bots #pxrn bots #meme