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Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-

• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 

• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.

• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.

• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.

Me: oh gee I'm really excited for when I get to talk about my tmnt 2012 au publicly but I need to finish these references before I do that

Also me: deletes the refs bc I wasn't satisfied with them

i never thought i needed raph cosplaying alice until i got raph cosplaying alice

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Flaky he/him beam attack

I haven't even watched season 4 yet but I swear to god the moment I finish this series I'm bringing this into reality

2012 Donnie doodle bcs I’ve been getting back into everyone's favorite mutant turtles, this is the second time I post a doodle of Donnie listening to music, wich is a bit curious to me.

✨trauma dumping at each other✨

I headcanons that Donatello, despite being the smallest of his brothers, was the child prodigy when it comes to Ninjitsu during his formative years— although he may not particularly enjoy it, he's just so happen to excel at it.

This is because he can imitate the best; copying a form shown by Splinter to a 'T'. It doesn't take long for him to study and follow a pattern when presented to him, causing him to be able to master certain techniques flawlessly and without much problem. Leo might be having trouble perfecting it, or Raph might have some issues with his temper, or Mikey when it comes to actually paying attention, but these sorts of things came to Donnie rather naturally.

However, as years passed, and Donnie is slowly growing ragged caring for his family, so does his skills.

His intellect was quickly put to use in all forms of way; having to salvage every piece of technology that comes his way and make them into some useful appliances. He's the only one that eats with the knowledge of how long their food rations will last, the only one who sleeps thinking if their heaters would stay functioning throughout winter, working high and low to keep them alive to see the next sunrise.

Evidently, this affects other aspects of his life as well.

He couldn't keep up with his brothers' unrelenting pace during the day due to how much he's working throughout the night. He's so exhausted that he could barely keep his head up during training/practice, so much that he's falling behind.

ANON,,,,, ANON WHEN I GET YOU ANON—

Like. He's had to work hard to keep his family alive from such a young age

He barely needed to try in training but the older he got and the more he worked he could barely keep up. If that isn't gifted kid burnout I don't know what is

rise is always fun to rewatch for me because of its attention to design details. these screenshots are from the bug busters episode. look at his battle shell: we see in these shots that it's designed to be flexible and not constraining for his movement

if you ever held a mango cut like this, you'll get the idea of how donnie's battle shell works