Once In A Dream I Shattered And Scattered Away Into The Wind.

The dynamic in Rise between the rest of the team and Leo is. so fucking funny. Because like you've got these three extremely talented individuals who all seem like perfectly reasonable people at first glance, right, but then if you squint hard enough you realize they're actually all batshit insane (affectionate) and the clown boy standing behind them is secretly their common sense.

Clown boy will occasionally put himself and the others in danger to Prove Himself or Prove Someone Wrong (see Minotaur Maze and the movie) but like otherwise... i think people forget Leo's overwhelmingly the voice of reason in most situations?

Raph, Mikey, and Donnie are all incredibly powerful boys with very specific skill sets. They are also, as a direct result of this, the WORST decision-makers on god's green earth lmao. When presented with a problem, Raph will smash, Donnie will blow shit up, and Mikey will razzmatazz. They will all run straight toward death with the same oblivious enthusiasm of a dog about to run straight into a screen door. None of them realize this and all of them think they are Extremely Good At Problem-Solving.

And the guy cursed with the common sense to realize this is literally the LAST person anyone would expect.

When you look closely, the entirety of Rise is actually a chronicle of Leo trying to find new and creative ways to keep this team of superpowered fools alive while simultaneously white-knuckling his Cool Fun Guy persona so the others don't realize he's secretly the Boring Responsible One. Haha, you know what would be Cool and Fun, guys? Not going after the Spine Breaking Bandit lol. Getting home before the sun goes up lol. Evacuating that civilian lol. Not telling the guy dangling me off a roof "you won't, no balls" lol.

The sacred struggle of every iteration of Leonardo is thanklessly wrangling the most trigger-happy siblings in the world, and Rise Leo has not escaped it. He just does an occasional shenanigan to avoid detection and his brothers fall for it every time.

It's always morally correct to creatureify your blorbos. Give them teeth n tails n wings n stuff. Make them purr. It's good for the environment.

”you can just make an oc” you dont understand anything. the character needs to mutate naturally until unrecognizable. like all evolutionary processes it takes time. you can’t force it or it doesn’t take. you must endure weird ooc thematically discordant versions of a guy until they bud off into beautiful new life. have patience

I like sharing small fun things I’ve seen or made like a penguin with cool lil rocks XD

here’s some funky lil planters I set up at the nursery today!

developing your ocs is 50% waiting for bursts of divine inspiration like an oracle sleeping next the vapours seeping from fissures in the temple floor and 50% stalking them in your mind relentlessly like a persistence predator until they tire out enough for you to get close and scamper away with the bloody scraps of "eye colour: brown" and "dislikes: people who think they're funny" clutched in your mouth like a hunting trophy

Trick or treat!!

OMG YOU GET SO MANY TREATS!!!!

It’s been a day T^T

On a good note tho I finally got my tablet shipped out so hopefully my art-deprived hell will end soon

I DROPPED MY TABLET AND IT FRICKIN CRACKED EVERYWHERE NOOOO

It still works but it looks so fucked up now T^T

No no no no no no no not my boi please

Remember in Adventure Time when it was foreshadowed for years that Finn was gonna lose his arm?

Remember in Steven Universe when it was foreshadowed that Steven was gonna have something happen to his eye?

Messy oc sketch cause burnout be hitting hard T^T

girlie that's not a random headache u are dehydrated malnourished over caffeinated over stressed and sleep deprived