HAHA IT WORKED!!

I’m too tired from homework to make a proper Halloween drawing but I have candy to offer instead XD

(The trick or treat asks going around are the cutest thing omg this needs to become a tradition)

Hi just thinking about Splinter who went from a dashing internationally loved superstar to a hideous mutant who has to raise four rowdy boys alone in hiding while struggling with latent trauma from his mom abandoning him, cutting himself off from his family, and getting betrayed by the love of his life. Thinking about how him “letting himself go” wasn’t just written for jokes but from a place of unspoken depression. Thinking about how he never shared any of this with his boys and never projected his trauma onto them but his distance led to them being starved for affection. Thinking about how much they ADORE him even when he’s blatantly neglectful, insinuating that he does pay attention when it matters. And don’t get me started on his movies dubbing his accent over or how separated he became from his own culture, leading to parallels to the Asian immigrant experience.  He’s a flawed parent. He’s an okay sensei. He’s a loving father. He’s a badass family man. ROTTMNT really looked at the boring one dimensional mentor with culturally insensitive stereotypes in past iterations and went nah we can do better. 

And then they made us all cry. 

Going back through Magnus Archives reminded me of the one time I got scared shitless by my sister the first time I listened to it XD

I had just found it and was binging the episodes while waiting for my sister to finish up in the bathroom (this was during Covid and we share a room at home)

I was on the episode “A Father’s Love” (first episode with the Darkness for context) and I was fully immersed in the story, eyes shut and laying on my bed (with the lights on mind you) I reached the part where the daughter was describing the streetlights being slowly choked out by the thick darkness, and then the last one winked out and there was a knock at the door. RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT, the light in our room turned off

For reference, our room gets hit with the full power of the sun in the evening and we got blackout curtains a while ago to help block it out during the summer, and I had closed them earlier. So when the lights turned off, it was total darkness. And I freaked. the fuck. out.

Turns out, my sister had come in at some point during that point and thought I fell asleep (I had noise canceling earbuds in too, so I couldn’t hear her at all) so she shut the door and turned off the lights. Cue me jolting up about two feet of my bed with a shriek and scared the shit out of her XD

She still teases me about it to this day SKFJSK

ALL I WANTED WAS YOUUUU

MACAQUE DOESN'T LIE.

Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal

OMG THE SPECIAL CAME OUT AAAAAAAAAAAA

I HAVE NO PATIENCE I WATCHED IT IMMEDIATELY

This is the only warning y’all get I’m gonna make so much stuff for this >:] (jk I will add spoiler warnings I’m just super impatient XD)

I got jumpscared by my own fanart on Pinterest SKDHJDJSK

So TAAFI rottmnt panel take aways

1. Renet was originally supposed to be in Rise

2. The original plot of the movie was supposed to be Rat King taking control of splinter.  It was supposed to be a tragic story of Father against sons (I NEED this)

3.  The movie takes place a few months after the series, not two years.  I’m now side-eying all my stories

4. They were very vague on a season 3.  It was very much “Keep hope alive.  We still want to do a Rat King movie.”

5.The original movie opener is brutal in the best way ( also Splinter was missing in it.)

6. The movie was originally going to be a Raph movie and they switched it to Leo.

7. They fought not to retcon Rise!Casey (foot recruit)

All in all, good panel.  Would have loved a definitive answer on season 3 but I also like that it’s vague.  That means it’s not a no.

Opening sequence to the movie (first pass)

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