#turtle cave

[explodingstarlight]

doodling teetles

And here are some close-ups (might put them on their own backgrounds one day, but it's 5 AM and I'm tired so):

#i am the modern lazarus #crawling out of my cave and im feeling just fine- #behold: teetles #you know that emotion when a skittish cat decides to get in your lap? that's the emotion Raph is feeling rn #they're all so precious to me #i'll never be over that deleted mikey-centric episode where he gets a pet robot #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #tmnt #explodingstar art #rottmnt donnie #rise nova #rise donnie #rise raph #rise leo #rise mikey #save rise of the tmnt #rottmnt michelangelo #rottmnt rapheal #rottmnt leonardo #donatello tmnt #cw eyestrain #<- playing it safe

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

best BEAST!!

#fanart #Xuanwu #in case it does not show credits: Thank you to Minilisko #And a huge thank you for letting me post this to The Blog <3 #The best is real! The details and edits are so on point! What a marvelous creature!!! #There is an innocence to the beast...A porcupine dilemma of being unable to be close without hurting others. #The knife is protection and the knife is isolation. Safety over companionship... #It was just sleeping in cave when the cultivator's showed up. It woke up to arrows and swords! #Did it mean to harm anyone or did it just react to the world around it? #(speaking of the actual beast in mdzs now:) There was a tunnel to leave the cave and it stayed. #Do you ever wonder if the beast found it's way inside but grew to big to leave? If it entered to be safe but ended up trapped? #This is all to say: Hey Madam Lan I think I have a new friend for you. She understands your plight. #Forfeit your worries to the turtle. Let the turtle bring you joy

[turtleblogatlast]

Every time I see trans Leo I smile. Like yes that turtle is trans thank you…

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #trans leonardo #rise leo #so close to caving and just writing a full on fic or making a full on comic for trans leo ngl #sometimes I get so many feelings for trans leo and I go searching for stuff but that well is sadly quite shallow and I run out of things 😔 #the more time that goes on the more things I learn that just make me believe this headcanon even more #sorry it is one am and I’m having trans Leo thoughts again #my apologies ❤️

[sinnbaddie]

Kakagai

Gai: Good morning Kakashi.

Kakashi: mh tired… don’t feel good

Gai: Aw poor pup pup <3

#gaikaka #Kakagai #maito gai #kakashi hatake #I think it’s so cute that ppl hc Sakumo calling Kakashi ‘pup’ #and I like the hc that he calls Gai turtle #so I wanted him to have his own little nickname #which is something I call my dogs lol #so ‘pup pup’ it is #I also like to think that Kakashi when feeling safest kind of nests #like he needs all these blankets and pillows on top of him like he’s in a really comfy weighted cave #he’s autistic (they both are) #guts art #@Gutsphobic on twitter and TikTok

[2aceofspades]

(:

#meet the artist #acey doodles #took me long enough to get around to one of these.. #got bored today so here's a lil something #not turtles but hey it's me! hehe not just my gremlin persona #i may or may not have made this just to prove to myself that i could commit and make it sooo...yup #anywhizzle! #back to the cave~ #:)

[purplepixel]

Spur of the moment out of context sketches from Spider's Web with Strings Attached. Might not seem like it, but I've been going through a mini burn out spell due to overworking myself the past week and allowing myself to create messy sketches of this fic has been a small comfort. So once again, thank you @psychologicalwarclaire for writing this fic. Will always be incredibly thankful I found this gem in the depths of my ao3 searching.

#i flew too close to the sun a couple days ago and am now paying the price #aka I animated too long and crashed real hard #this is normal behavior for me #im at the tail end of this dont worry #but all i wanted to do was draw stuff from this fic #prob bc i told myself i needed to finish my other projects #and to stop creating more wip #but i needed this so i caved #and allowed myself to make unpolished art #anywho this fic is amazing go read it #rottmnt fanfic fanart #pixels tortle art #rottmnt doodles #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt leo #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #save rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt fanfiction #tw blood #its a pencil shading but just in case

[vshushmshu]

pickup lines

usually the red eared slider’s flirts and compliments were flowery, over the top with heaps of silly, and you would roll your eyes at each and every one. grand sweeping gestures, an arm slung around your neck, or running his thumb over your knuckles with a wiggle of brows that didn’t actually exist. it was entertaining, something you would never actually admit outloud, so you never really shut down his teasing. you only let it happen for the hell of it. yeah.

a wink that looked as if his eye momentarily had an uncontrollable spasm, “i would never play hide and seek with you, because someone like you is impossible to find.”

you grimaced as he walked over to sit beside you on the rooftop, “i honestly wish i could hide from this.”

finger guns, “are you from tennessee?? because you’re the only ten-i-see!”

a huff, looking over the city once more before you stopped patrolling for the night, “new york, buddy.”

“you never humor me…”

“you have no idea.”

an irritatingly wide smile, leo splayed out on your bed, “this might sound cheesy, but i think you’re really grate.”

you turn from your homework to cock a brow at him, “…puns? really? you’re stooping to puns now?”

“hey, a turtle’s gouda do what he’s gouda do.”

“i hate you.”

“awww, i love you too!!!”

you were drawing with mikey when your self-proclaimed bestie barreled in, “i seem to have!! lost my phone number!!!! can i have yours?”

the orange clad turtle seemed to be holding in the fattest cackle, so you ignored him to look at leo with a fairly neutral expression, “i thought you already had my number?”

“yeah, but i kinda… deleted it just to make this work..”

“…you’re stupid. i’m friends with an idiot.”

he pouted, until his phone lit up at an unknown number’s message, “and i’m friends with a meanie pants… oh! thanks!”

you shoved your phone back in your pocket while mikey eyed the two of you, his red striped brother already tapping the number into your contact once more, “sure, mhm.”

nabbing a piece of popcorn from your bowl, eyes scrunched from his simper as he glances at you, then lets his eyes land back on raph and april’s mario kart game once more, “it’s a good thing i have a library card, because i am totally checking you out.”

“…aren’t you illiterate or something? do you even know what a library is?”

“shut the fuck up….”

he looked up from his comic as you flopped onto his bed, just having listened attentively to another one of donnie’s infodumps, “did you just come out an oven?”

you huffed, draping an arm over your eyes, “no, leo.”

said turtle leaned over to poke your cheek with a snicker, “‘cause you’re hot.”

“goddammit, leo.”

“is this hogwarts express, because it feels like you and i are going somewhere magical.“

you stared at him as he gestured to a newly opened portal, “man, i swear, are you getting these from buzzfeed articles?? ain’t no way you pulled a harry potter line out your ass like that.”

“…is your name google? ‘cause you got the answers for everything i’m searching for.”

you swore you saw the face of a slider caught, and your eyes twinkled in amusement, “so, you are.”

“LEAVE ME ALONE.”

“your hand looks lonely. want me to hold it for you?”

you readjust your grip on your weapon, eyeing him in a sort of flabbergasted way, “lee, we are literally in the middle of a FIGHT.”

“right, whatever.”

you both were on your phones, the turtle laying on you scrolling through god-knows what, while you watched a video essay on something you were to inevitably forget about. you snickered at an elaborate joke about something or other, and the slider grinned a little, “roses are red, violets are blue. with a smile like that, looks like i’m doomed.”

“…”

you were tempted to kick him off, something inside you churning, but you just refocused on your video once more. his face seemed a little surprised in your peripheral vision, but at what, you couldn’t be sure.

leo sat beside you in blankets, barely conscious in his goofy pajamas during the latter end of a movie night, everyone else already asleep (except for donnie, who could care less about anyone else as his eyes stayed glued to the screen projected on the wall, hyperfixated on a jupiter jim movie he’s no doubt seen a thousand times over), “are you- did you fell from heaven- cause- fuck. i forgot how that one goes.”

you hid a grin behind a facepalm, equally fatigued as his head dipped to rest lightly on your shoulder, neck giving up on keeping it upright, “of course you did.”

sometimes though, those bits of flattery are uttered so quiet, barely above a whisper, the turtle holding such reverence in his tone. like now, just before he drifts off to sleep to no doubt drool all over you, the slider makes himself comfortable buried in your side. you still when his cheek rubs against your shoulder, a content sigh escaping leo while he wraps his arms around you in your shared blanket nest, “hm mwarm… i wish this would last f’rever..”

you can’t doubt that it’s sincere when it’s said like that. you look away from the movie to stare at him with tired eyes, face warm while you fiddled slightly with your fingers, buried under the blankets wrapped around your own body. leo started snoring in record time, light chirps coming from him every time he shifted in his sleep, and you rest your head on his. maybe you wished that too, maybe your mouth twisted into the smallest of frowns, but you decided not to dwell on it.

letting your eyes drift close, and pulling the red eared slider closer, you knew you were going to wake up to dumb pickup lines that held a bit too much sincerity in them. maybe you were glad.

#guys i had to get this out of my head. #my chest and everything inside it is caving in from how much i love this dumb turt #rottmnt leo x reader #..still in the confines of ryana #the fic i will always talk and think abt #but never write #rottmnt #rottmnt x reader #rottmnt x you #help #rottmnt x y/n #head in hands sobbinf #save rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles

[khattikeri]

finally started mdzs vol 3 (i kept putting it off bc i know angst spoilers and find solace in fic) and. my fucking god wei wuxians homophobia (both casual and internalized) is so painful. does lan wangji like mianmian, indeed...

lwj is clearly going through so much shit when the xuanwu happens but a reader has hindsight and BL radar. surprisingly I don't 100% fault wwx for misunderstanding lwj's feelings.

lap pillow and wangxian.mp3 were all when wwx was delirious as fuck from a fever. wwx doesn't realize lwj stole the perfume pouch from mianmian out of petty gay jealousy until after he's already home (and he actually only realizes the pouch is gone, not that lwj took it-- afaik that happens after his death and resurrection over a decade and a half later). the jokes write themselves

#mdzs #wei wuxian #wei ying #wangxian #keri chats #what if we were in a cave with a killer turtle demon thing and we were both boys #mdzs spoilers

[cass-phoenix]

for the ask game, two birds on a live wire sounds interesting!

Thank you!!

Well, Two Birds on a Live Wire is another disaster twin fic!

In it, Leo and Donnie go on a mission together and end up trapped as the building falls around them. (I seem to have an obsession with cave-ins. Hmm.)

Below the cut is more details because it's a bit graphic and people may not want that angst so obviously on their dash.

Leo protects Donnie to the best of his ability, curling over his brother and trying to protect him from the falling rubble. Donnie tries to protect him right back with mystic shields, but it's not exactly...

Working out.

Rocks keep on breaking through them, or Donnie forms a shield around a rock and that shatters it immediately.

So it's really just Leo's carapace protecting them both from the onslaught.

By the time it stops, Donnie is practically pancaked into the ground, and Leo is pressed on top of him, shell cracked into a billion smitheries. The only thing keeping him conscious is pure worry that something happened to Donnie.

It's not an unfounded fear, either, since Donnie lost consciousness himself and was also battered by the rocks, though more indirectly. It was more like a growing pressure around them, more and more weight pressed into him. And losing consciousness did away with his battle shell, so it's just his softshell being ground into the concrete flooring.

Leo stays awake until Raph and Mikey arrive to dig them out, the Hidden City paramedics on their way. He tells them that Donnie's hurt, and so they devote their attention to digging Donnie out of the rubble while Leo looks on an falls unconscious.

He wakes up in the Hidden City hospital, who knows how much longer, wondering where Donnie is-- And more importantly, if Donnie made it after such a harrowing experience. Even though Leo, himself, is the more hurt one.

Despite all of that, it's mostly a recovery fic, with a LOT of emotional hurt/comfort/whump. But that's the setup! And will probably be my favourite part to write, lol.

#ask game #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt donnie #disaster twins #cw cave-in #shell injury #cracked shell #fanfiction #fanfic #rottmnt fanfiction

[eateth-thy-words]

casey ‘lived through the apocalypse’ jr 

#mans ate RATS #lived in CAVES #DESPARATE TIMES PEOPLE #im on my 'casey jr is traumatized' agenda #love him <3 #Casey Jones Jr #casey jones #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt mikey

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 9: So that's where the turtle came from!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #bonus comic #tulu xuanwu #lan sizhui #Thank you Stackedbirds for the inspiration behind this comic! #The original plan was that they would kill the turtle - only for it to be revealed there was little baby turtles she was protecting #and those turtles left the cave to then be chilling in a river by yi-city 20 years later. #This version has less turtle death and is way more straightforward. #But yes; A-Qing's turtle was always supposed to be linked to the tulu xuanwu. I enjoy call-backs and set-ups immensely. #What other creatures does LSZ have in his sleeve pockets? What other endangered beasts have been accidently translocated? #Will the turtle ever make an appearance again? So many questions. Which I will now answer: #1) At least one rabbit and a few songbirds have made a permanent home in there. #2) I like to think all the cultivators leaving baoshan sanren's mountain are accidently translocated endangered creatures. #3) Yes. The tulu xuanwu will be pivotal presence in the climax of the story. Dare I say - the hero of the darkest hour.

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rise don suave #rottmnt don suave #I lied I’m back to ramble because I’m just #so bad at keeping my mouth shut #or uh #not typing word vomit #anyway- yeah this is my personal interpretation #I believe Leo was legitimately mesmerized by Don Suave’s powers…in the beginning #but even the series’ creator says it was ‘at least PART of what was going on with Leo’ so #idk it’s something that’s been on my mind and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same?? #may delete this later who knowssss #pleaaaase feel free to disagree I just like to talk lol #but yeah sometimes I look around at how much media has LGBTQ+ rep in it now and it honestly makes me emotional?? #(we always always ALWAYS could use more but) #we did not have even a crumb of this as kids #but also like most of that rep is new properties #and I just was thinking about what that could mean #idk man idk #once again please don’t take this as facts it is VERY MUCH NOT #man I was looking around for good images to use and found jack all #anyway tho did you know Donnie often has bi colors around him and Leo is often dressed in the colors of the trans flag- #okay anyway back to the caves I go this comic won’t draw itself #I gotta spray myself with water any time I go to type long winded essays because they’re not great for the mental health fr

[beetlebian]

been missing leoya

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt idw leo #tmnt idw #tmnt koya #leoya #i hate coloring #they would never do this tm #(i caved and i coloured it…) #arts

[apritellointeractive]

Sworn to Devotion: Chapter 1 - Part 5

>> April decides to bite the arm of the kidnapper.

(Art by @lovelyladylavie)

While her kidnapper’s gaze is steadfast in keeping eye contact with April’s guard, his hand wielding the knife lacks the same unwavering commitment. The white-knuckled fist clenching the dagger shakes mid-air, and the jitters are enough for the blade’s tip to leave her neck. 

It’s a split-second decision. So fast in fact that April’s tasting blood in her mouth before she realizes she’s sunk her teeth into the flesh of her captor.

However, this isn't the first person she's bitten, and he won't be the last.

The man screeches as he tries to pull his hand out of her mouth. The muscles in his hand twitch and seize as April’s teeth sink deeper. The blade clatters to the floor, forgotten as the man tries to free himself.

“What are you? An animal?!” The kidnapper finally rips his hand from her mouth and shoves her away from him. 

April throws her arms out in front of her, wincing as her arms collide with the rough surface of the cavern’s floor. Twinges of pain shoot up her arms, and she wouldn’t be surprised if the sharp gravel cut through the thin fabric of her sleeves. 

“You’re gonna pay for tha-ack!”

April whips her head around to see the yokai guard thrusting the previously abandoned dagger into the man’s chest. The guard twists it, a sickening squelching noise originating from the open wound being shredded. The man wetly gasps, desperately trying to get air into his lungs—though it will certainly not save him.

The yokai guard pushes the kidnapper to the floor, leaving him to take his last gasps of life. He then looks at the dagger and scowls. 

“Condescending hum, the weapon of thieves and criminals.” He holds the blade’s hilt between his thumb and index finger—like it’s covered in filth—before tossing the bloody blade aside, far away from April and her kidnappers.

April watches her guard as he looks over the bodies once more—presumably to make sure they’re dead—before his eyes fall on her. He jolts, his eyebrows—comically drawn onto his purple mask— shooting upward as if he’s surprised that she’s looking at him.

He rushes to her side, offering his weird three-fingered hands to her. “Ahem! Princess, ah… April. Are you alright?”

April narrows her eyes. Did he momentarily forget her name? And his question lacked any warmth and concern. April isn’t going to get anything but the bare minimum from him, is she?

But she doesn’t have time to wallow in self-pity.

She takes his hands, letting him pull her to her feet before wiping the blood from her mouth with her sleeve. “Y-yeah. I’m… I’m fine. The blade didn’t hurt me or anything like that.” Her gaze drops to her arms and she frowns at the blood blotching the shredded fabric. “Scraped my arms up a bit though.”

“Ah! Let me assist you, I have a small aid kit in my possession.”

He guides her over to one of the large rocks in the cave and sits her down. The torn sleeves of her dress are pushed past her shoulder, revealing the collection of small abrasions scattered across her forearms. April hisses as the open air touches the wounds, though she tries to swallow down her discomfort.

The yokai guard does not comment, only pulling a small sack out from underneath his armor and rummaging through the contents. He pulls out an amber bottle and gauze, popping the cork off and pouring the clear fluid onto the fabric strip.

He then places the bottle on the floor and takes one of April’s arms in his hands. “This will sting.”

That’s about all the warning April gets before the fluid-soaked gauze is wiped across her arms. She bites her tongue, trying not to cry in pain as the guard makes quick work of disinfecting her arms. 

He’s certainly not being very gentle, but considering how he was glaring at her earlier this week, April’s just happy he’s taking the time to clean her wounds. He’s at least doing the bare minimum. 

Once the guard is satisfied, he tosses the used gauze on the floor and delves back into his bag. April watches as he takes a large roll of gauze and wraps up her arms, covering all of her scraps and cuts completely.

He finishes securing the bindings before nodding his head. “There. Are you injured anywhere else?”

April runs her hands along the gauze, pleased with his work. “No. I think that’s good. Though... where are we?”

>> April looks around the cave.

OPTION 1: The walls of the cave are made of grey-and-white speckled granite, smoothed over time. However, a thick layer of gravel coats the floor, and the cave continues to tunnel deeper into the earth, the path downward shrouded in darkness. Distant sounds of dropping water echo through the cave.

OPTION 2: The walls of the cave are plain gray with white quartz crystals. Some are small and barely the size of a thumbnail, while others reach right up to her hip. It’s almost magical the way the crystals catch the light filtering in from the outside. Nestled behind one of the crystal clusters is a chest, the green paint peeling away from the weathered wood.

OPTION 3: The walls of the cave are dark grey, with unlit torches lining the stone surfaces. There are a few wooden boxes littered along the sides, all bearing a red footmark. The cave continues to tunnel deeper into the earth, the path downward shrouded in darkness. The air coming up from the deep tastes almost stale.

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt #interactive apritello story #apritello interactive story #rottmnt apritello #rise apritello #apritello #rottmnt april #rottmnt april o'neil #rottmnt donatello #rottmnt donnie #Sworn to Devotion #my poll #poll #interactive story poll #a bit different this time! #my dear readers #what does the cave look like?

[kakusu-shipping]

The Ideal polycule in Work, Around the House, and Date outfits

#Emile's Arts #Teruteru #Koro-Sensei #Fatgum #I really wanted to do MORE art for this takeover #I was gonna draw the reaction images and have Koro 'Leak' little snippets of the house and day to day life throughout the month #but my god y'all #I do not have spoons I keep thinking I do and then I draw for an hour and feel like Death #Which is REALLY stupid in my opinion #This took me about 5 hours over all most of it was spent figuring out modern guy fashion #If it was up to me all three date outfits would be dresses I promise #Koro-Sensei'l little moon space dress is so freaken cute with the cardigan and belt #I love him he was the easiest took the least time #I fought with myself for half an hour about putting Teru in a sweater and eventually caved and sweatered him up #I wanted him to dress different but I cannot stop the allure that is Turtle Neck and Blazer #On point like a lazer in him turtle neck and blazer #and scarf to add layering and color #Taishiro took the longest though at 2 hours #The only thought I had going into his outfits was I wanted to keep the hoodie aspect #Becuase he just seems like the guy to always have a coat #He's not like cold he's just comforted by hoodie #Koro-Sensei again was easy 30 minutes I took the longest on the cat ears of his gamer time hoodie #because just his Gamer Girl hoodie wasn't enough #He has many many gamer hoodies and never wears pants #And I love that for him #Anyway midway through this week I'm gonna try to up the amount of art I do #So this week might be a little slow starting as I charge up for it #I have a big ask game for tommorrow and Tuesday though and I'll try to be more on top of asks! #Thankyou everyone again for participating in this Takeover #I just wanted to spend a little more time focusing on these three and their tags were just... always empty?

[mumblelard]

finn joined me for my walk on monday morning and i showed her the empty turtle shell just on the edge of the wetlands and the weeping conk no longer weeping. we looked at the new art in the park, and without us ever discussing it, she noticed the same thing i had when i first encountered it and she made the same joke

when i woke up in the middle of last night, it was cool enough to open the windows for a breeze before i went back to bed

my kids are in the mountains the rest of the week, staying in cabin we stayed at together so many times, swimming in a river we swam in together for so many years, but this isn't my trip to take with them anymore

sometime over the weekend andy had another heart attack. they thought he might never leave the hospital, but early monday morning he got a car home and he got in his bed and died there alone

i'm keeping my hands busy until they get back. cleaning a lot. sweeping up the piles of shed hair and fur, shed claws, and shed skin that pile up on the edges of everything

#caves #caverns #cousins both fallen and not fallen yet #puppet shows #snowglobes #dust balls #abandoned wells in abandoned fields on abandoned farms #thick patches of weed on the side of a ditch #lapses #teleonomic matter #i was there for some of the beginning most of the middle and all of the end #i want to be a turtle when i grow up #and that would fix everything