#meanwhile Leo gets…this

[turtleblogatlast]

Many unhappy returns specifically is kinda sad to me because it feels like it's supposed to be the splinter leo bonding episode of the show that he has with his kids. But for most of the episode other than the end of it, he's just kinda expressing his distrust and disaffection with Leo to him while Leo's going through the motions of his plans. And he praises leo at the end of the episode but it doesn't feel like anything gets resolved or addressed or even worked on like it does in other episodes that focus on splinter and his relationship with his kids like the ballad of rat man for donnie or hidden city's most wanted for mikey (kinda?)

Yeah imo “Many Unhappy Returns” is a fantastic episode for demonstrating Leo’s greatest strengths (his tactician brain and his ability to manipulate the playing field) as well as Leo’s greatest weaknesses (not discussing his plans with his team ahead of time and throwing them all into the swing of things without prior discussion, as well as his insecurity issues).

The episode also does well to show Splinter’s own flaws, that being he doesn’t really notice when his sons are suffering unless they make it blatant.

But…yeah the episode doesn’t really show us much resolve for that, not with Leo.

#non au ask #and yeah Donnie has a moment with Splinter in the Ballad of the Rat Man #Mikey has a moment in The Hidden City’s Most Wanted #and even Raph has a small moment of understanding with Splinter by being the only one to witness his dad’s childhood trauma #(but imo Raph needs his own REAL duo moment with Splinter) #meanwhile Leo gets…this #which is kinda less than nothing in terms of coming to understanding moments between Splinter and his boys #sure bonding occurred but… #again Splinter is understandably upset in the episode #but man I’d be hurt if I was Leo

[daedelweiss]

i made my own peepaw so ig he’s part of the multiverse now 🤣 he learned his lesson the hard way- special mention OMO!Leo by @threestripeslider​ • ( 🌿 please do NOT repost, edit, trace, use, and/or sell 🌿 )

#rottmnt #rise of the TMNT #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #tmnt 2018 #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt movie #rottmnt leo #rottmnt donnie #disaster twins #my ert #rottmnt quiet your mind #quiet your mind #F to QYM!Leo for getting there 5 years too early and finding out everyone's dead #meanwhile he's just vibing with his twin........ for now- #peepaw multiverse

[bluesgras]

I'm betting on leo winning ngl

@tmntaucompetition

Never Better by @less-depresso-more-espresso

Teenage Mutant Neglected Turtles by @nerves-nebula

#tmnt #tmnt au polls #tmnt au #teenage mutant neglected turtles #never better au #rottmnt snapdragon #honesty though #i have no idea who'd win that fight #on one hand tm(n)t leo probably is better with a sword than sd mikey is with just his fists #though mikey can go for the ankles #raph is just trying to keep it together #meanwhile sd donnie and tm(n)t donnie are out getting smoothies #they just needed somebody to pay #and supervise them too. i do not trust those two as a duo doing anything in public alone ngl

[theblorboscalledtheturtles]

2012 Leo would watch anime with MM Donnie

2012 Donnie & MM Leo, 2012 Raph & mm Mikey

#2012 Leo doesn't really get it but he likes spending time with his new little bro #he can appreciate attack on titan though #meanwhile MM Donnie sees leo as a real live action hero #tmnt #tmnt crossover #teenage mutant ninja turtles #2012 Leo #MM donnie #mutant mayhem #tmnt donatello #turtlepost drawing

[sugarpasteltmnt]

Greetings from the Speakeasy! :D

[Leo, trying to remember how math works after having been trapped in the Prison Dimension for 5 years and losing most of his sanity to check if he's old enough to drink now]:

(he ends up ordering three drinks that remind him of his brothers and just stares at them with a stupid, pleased grin on his face)

#adsjahsd you are so CUTE!!! 🩵💙🩵‼️ #(๑≧♡≦) AAAH!! #your turtle-sona is so stinkin cute #omg i love speakeasies #clink-clink let's get a DRINK 🍸 #teehee tysm for the cute ask!!! #meanwhile Raph Mikey and Donnie are each taking a shot to deal with the Situation ('Void' aka Leo) #(<- they don't know the villain of their au is their brother yet lmao losers) #tmnt au competition 2024 #tmnt au competition #tnv asks #pastel prattling #the neon void tmnt #the neon void

[intotheelliwoods]

I love you 2al so much. Seeing the Leos being so comfortable and affectionate with each other hits so good.

But I can't stop imagining all the peepaws in a group therapy session. They're going over how they deal with their trauma, meanwhile 2al F!Leo with his little Leo sprawled out and napping on him is just like, have you tried hugging and healing your child self? Cause it's doing him wonders.

HI THIS IS THE MOST ADORABLE ASK I HAVE GOTTEN ALL WEEK. As a matter of fact im going to be thinking about this all week this is the best idea ever...

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

2AL will give a speech about how helping his younger self in turn helps himself, because they are the same person and all that. Self love and having to be open to yourself to heal... his methods to cope are something to behold indeed!

Anyways I thank the discord for helping me come up with this even sweeter idea: You know how usually in therapy sessions you would all pass around something to indicate whos turn it is to speak or whatever? That, but they pass around 2AL little leo and he takes turns sitting on all their laps.

Everyone has a moment of ".... damn 🥺" as they look at the missing right arm just like them, perhaps they even give him a head pat or shell scratch and then they leave the session a better person. Maybe... they even go straight to asking if their younger selves are alright

#asks #2 arms left #peepaw multiverse #meanwhile no one knows how the little leo managed to get in #2al big leo refuses to let his little self out of his sight #especially after the slap incident #and the cheese #and the big ninpo puppy

[shadowinthetreesbutcooler]

red team are FULLY going feral im so here for it, cellbit vouching for cannibalism and getting excited, baghera wanting to build a dirt shack and everyone wanting to crawl into a cave and chase people through the woods

#qsmp #qsmp liveblogging #end of the event the other two teams are gonna have interpersonal conflicts to worry about #meanwhile red are having trouble being reintroduced to their own society because they went completely rabid #if they do get all the eggs back chayanne and tallulah watching their dad burrow even further into the wall and snarl and hiss at people as #they approach #missa's avoiding own home at first not just for fear of being a burden on his husband and family now but bc he hasnt had his rabies shot #cellbit gets EVEN WORSE somehow and roier dives down the rabbit hole with him not because purgatory made him feral but bc it made him #bloodthirsty and he loves his husband ESPECIALLY at his worst #leo gets back and doesnt notice a change at first bc her dad always barks at ppl and wants to hunt bbh for sport but the eating ppl is new. #if pomme finds out her mother nearly gave up on saving her shes distraught until she sees the state of baghera #living in a dirt shack and eating human flesh #charlie gets back to eggxile with a new craving for human flesh and a new distrust for codeflippa bc hes said it out loud now and knows in #his heart its not her but how can he let go when he has nothing but her and the other cannibal freaks he trauma bonded with in purgatory #jaiden would be more upset about cellbit killing fed workers but by the end of the 2 weeks she gets him a little now. shed never turn on th #federation ofc but she gets it a little bit. #and differences aside green and red have all bonded now over a shared murderous rage towards bbh lmao #pac is afraid not only of cellbit but all of red now. too afraid to leave the lab. #you get the jist its 2am im going to bed lmao #(lying) #qsmp spoilers

[callmehere-iwillappear]

"Ahoy there fellas! Here's a little stress relief, also good luck! Don't worry she doesn't bite."

thank you! unfortunately they have trauma but it's the thought that counts

@tmntaucompetition

#ask #sheltered-uno #my art #jsFKLDSJFKFJSDJFLK fr though thank you!! even if im out of the running its super nice to get stuff like this #april is holding her bat. in case its not clear #i spent like half an hour trying to get the perspective right an d this was the best attempt i had lmaOJFKSLDJ #anyway *I* will pat her head even if they wont #everyone abt to commit violence meanwhile leo dissociating in the bg #poll shenanigans

[drnurssie]

goodness gracious i love my version of Karai so much she might as well be the main character bc shes more fleshed out than like everyone else (oopsie)

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt au #tmnt/ancu #karai tmnt #oroku karai #the shredder #despite everything it's still you #augzombie nurssie cinematic universe #leonardo #tmnt leo #art #tmnt iteration #but fr? #every other character has a basic and flat personality as of right now #except her #i have her whole arc planned out #meanwhile i dont even know how the turtles are going to get leo back from the foot clan

[beliscary]

hunting gore crows

#old kingdom #prince sameth #mogget #i love the volume of the cloth in leo and diane dillon cover designs hhhh #doodle tag #ugh sam is just. he's a good kid ok #i'm obsessed with him and ellimere but ellimere gets dust in the books #imagine going to school and seeing your namesake on a plaque commemorating a disaster every day of your childhood #no wonder she's so serious & so intolerant of what she sees as slacking in her brother. she was close to the Wall too she saw the goings on #meanwhile sam went to school further south of the Wall and there were times he could barely feel magic #and per the book he was sometimes treated like an oddity/unwanted ward #i think he became a bit of a golden boy and worked at excelling at everything ancelstierran bc of it #two different kinds of isolation #anyway i love my kids #GET BULLIED BY A CAT IDIOT #no wait im not done he's lit the same kind of self punishing & devoted as his father #but with the added bonus of being as quietly out of his gourd intense as his mom. #sabriel comes across so staid bc of her narration and competence but she was 18 and set out with a pair of skis and a dream like #'yeah i am completely prepared for spooky death land. im bringing my dad back im built different' #sam: do i wear the gilt heeled boots to rescue nick or the black leather #the whole family is insane thank you for your attention

[turtleblogatlast]

We were robbed of a Hueso Jr. episode because good god I need he and Leo to interact.

I can just imagine an episode where a very busy Hueso has no choice but to ask Leo to babysit, and Leo’s like heck yeah I’d rock at that.

And of course Hueso is constantly like oh god what if something goes wrong that’s PEPINO he left with his CHILD.

So continuously throughout the episode he imagines the worst case scenarios for what could possibly be happening.

Every time Hueso imagines another catastrophic scenario the scene cuts back to Leo and Hueso Jr just calmly watching a movie or playing a game or something else equally as innocuous.

Eventually the worry gets to Hueso so much that he cuts his business short and races back home to see -

A peacefully sleeping Hueso Jr smiling as he lays snuggled up next to a shockingly quiet Leonardo.

He’s pleasantly surprised, and agrees to ask for Leo again next time he needs a babysitter.

Or, as it seems he may need to, when Hueso Jr. wants Leo to visit.

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rottmnt hueso #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #you can also imagine this story as a two parter where the first is Hueso��s perspective where all he thinks will go wrong actually don’t #meanwhile the second part is Leo’s perspective where an accidental portal mishap (not Leo’s fault this time!) #(Jr may or may not have snuck into his father’s office and grabbed a portal stone) #thus begins a chase where Leo pulls out all stops to make sure this shockingly slippery child is safe #at the end they’re both exhausted but on the top of a skyscraper and Hueso Jr is just like wow #so Leo is like you know what…I can do you one better #so he shows off the view from the Empire State Building that Jr never got the opportunity to experience #obviously the kid passes out when they get back but it’s the most fun he’s ever had #anyway I’m in my all Leo’s are good with kids agenda

[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

i am going to stand on my Raph Is The Sun soapbox forever ftr. not that anyone has said not to.

i don’t mean that in an “everything and everyone revolves around raph all the time, bc he’s the most important one of them all” way. bc i’ll reiterate forever that there is no one member of this family who is the Most Important or most special, there is no member of this family who would be the most or least devastating to lose. like. if the hamatos lose anyone they’re never fully recovering.

i do mean what i say in the general sense of raph being a source of warmth and support, and in the sense that he does a lot of holding everyone together.

but more than anything when i say raph is the sun and his family is his solar system i mean like

raph isn’t the sun bc he’s the most important one that everyone revolves around, he’s the sun bc without a planetary system, a sun isn’t a sun. and i think so much of raph’s sense of personal identity and purpose is wrapped up in the roles he serves for his family so like. it just all checks out

#rottmnt raph #rise raph #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt #i wanted to talk about raph and how he picks things up that he sees as needing picked up but no one else is willing to take #substitute parenting; leadership; teambuilding; being a protector #that moment in the movie when casey says then it's too late and everyone is looking crestfallen #and raph looks around at them; and he finds the strength to be the one who says no it's not. it's not too late we can still do it. #like. it is so important #and the contrast to leo who is the other turtle with the motivational speech history #coleaders tbh but like. raph CHOOSING it over and over again choosing to step up choosing to carry hammering raw tenacity into hope #he is not a natural with words he is not eloquent but he puts so much into everything #they need hope they need motivation no one else is doing it so raph will do it for them #meanwhile leo the 'face man' who can whip up on the fly motivation with flair and charisma leo who is better at long game strategy #like for raph it's a choice for leo it's an epiphany #and the important thing is that they both get the job done that they're trying to do; they rally their family they push on #no one: me: makes a second post in the tags of a post for some reason #anyway anyone who says there's a better leader one or the other between leo and raph is a fool and a coward #theyre equally good and likewise equally both flawed and they both care a lot about their family

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

No actually the band assuming chive and glam are fucking and never outright stating it (beyond the drummer's fucking bizarre convo with glam about condoms) is hilarious because it implies the band lives on with this misconception. To this day the rest of the band believes they lost their lead guitarist because he refused to move on after they fired his boyfriend & lead singer

#random thoughts #metal family #radio host interviewing who are those freaks on stage: keeping in mind mercury's status as a queer icon #have you ever performed with any lgbtq artists? #lordy: oh have i got a story for you #glam in the midst of cooking another wonderful family dinner suddenly feels a chill running up his back #and this leads to this controversy where some people are like 'he outed chive and glam without their permission' #and some are like 'lordy's gay it's fine' (he's not) #and there's a divide between watfos hardcore fans who prefer the classic music with chive on vocals and glam on guitar #and new-age fans who like leo on vocals #some are like 'can't believe my favorite band is based in faggotry can nothing be politically free nowadays' #and some are like 'were chive and glam fired because they were gay???' and some are like 'obviously not look at leo' (also not gay) #meanwhile glam is blissfully oblivious for awhile until chive busts into their house like '???? DID YOU KNOW WE WERE FUCKING???' #and glam's like ' . . . excuse me? 😃' #and then when fans become aware of victoria opinion is split between 'glam and chive broke up' and 'victoria is glam's beard' #which like glam didn't really care about any of this until they started implying he was using victoria as a cover for his gayness #which like. gets him REAL pissed #he ends up having an interview with a radio host about it and they ask such fucking infuriating questions he leaves a glitter bomb #idk i just think people assuming two dudes are gay is funny but only if they're unaware of the assumption #and chive and glam have matured as people. they can probably handle the idea of people thinking they fucked with grace #they would NOT handle this well when they were first starting out. probably divorce over it just a little #glam's unconscious bias against being seen as gay stemming from his desire to conform instilled by his father (he is very autistic btw) #chive calls people faggot and says things are gay i know it in my heart #they make this vacuum of assumed homophobia #i also think glam just does not like being touched like at all. it freaks him out #he does it casually unless pointed out and then he just goes STIFF.

[dandylovesturtles]

I actually like several AUs that take the exact opposite philosophy of what I’m about to say here but I really truly feel like in a world where Draxum kept some/all of the turtles he would consider Donnie his biggest success.

First of all I think it’s kind of weird when people act like Draxum would be surprised/disappointed by Donnie’s softshell. Like yeah I guess it’s funny to think he grabbed 4 random eggs without knowing what would hatch, but actually if your goal is to make a bunch of super soldier turtle tots it makes sense to get a softshell. They’re predators, they’re aggressive, they’re fast (for a turtle) on both land and in water, their soft shell affords them more agility and flexibility than other turtles, they can stay under water basically indefinitely, and they have strong chompers for chompin’.

Donnie himself is hyper intelligent, morally gray, indifferent to the plights of people he doesn’t personally care about, unafraid of physical confrontation (he gets right in Draxum’s face in episode 1 and he swings that bo like it’s a battle hammer half the time), and his love for his family is the only thing keeping him from his villain arc anyway. Add all that to his need for Parental Approval at All Costs and you have the perfect recipe for a little murder turtle tot all your own.

Sure, he’s not so good at mystic stuff, but lbr Draxum probably wasn’t expecting any of them to be and that would just come as a bonus.

tldr Donnie is Draxum’s truest son and everyone should be glad Splinter got him in the divorce

#rottmnt #just talking #rise donatello #baron draxum #I stand by this though #i think the full ranking would be #donnie raph leo mikey #at first #but then mikey would unlock mystic powers #moving him up #and raph's big heart would inevitably get in the way #moving him down #meanwhile leo is fighting for his life out here #he craves that sweet sweet parental approval just as much #none of them are doing well honestly #assuming that draxum doesn't become dadxum #which is equally likely honestly #ok but all that aside #what is the au where splinter gets ONLY donnie #i can't go into this in the tags now there are already too many #but now i'm thinking about it

[leovaldezdefender]

will has to be the co-protagonist of the sun and the star because so far he's literally just been Some Guy riding the coattails of nico's popularity without putting in any effort into being an actually interesting character. watch him turn out to be better written and more well developed than any of the characters from heroes of olympus. and weep.

#the sun and the star #will solace #nico di angelo #anti will solace #i guess...? #got nothing against the guy. i'm just bitter. #idk it just makes me sad that leo got completely fucked over #meanwhile will's getting flowers for doing absolutely fuck all #riordanverse #solangelo book

[svtskneecaps]

what i'm gathering from egg day 1 vods is that chayanne craves violence, leo yearns for the mines, and flippa wants her parents to stop yelling for thirty seconds

#qsmp #ngl juanaflippa looks so lost in these vods #like obv it's hard to tell bc the eggs don't use signs to start out so idk what she's actually thinking #but she seems so disconnected from what her parents are talking about constantly #like she's being friendly with tilin off to one side or she's fighting rabbits for food or yknow? just chilling #miss that egg fr never caught her live 😔 #and then leo keeps digging holes and going into caves meanwhile leo's parents like NONONONO #and ofc chayanne getting close to the edge of the wall and trying to fight people lol #cuties all of them #block game brainrot #shut up vic