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2012' Baron Draxum and Big Mama and their amazing parenting skills 😌

Taught by Master Splinter Himself

2012 turtles + Rise Personalities Part 2 :)

2k12 Turtles + Rise Personalities

Baron Draxum and 2k12 Turtle Tots :)

It’s honestly been a while, though I had the urge to draw everything down before my busy schedule takes a toll on me again hah

If you were to do a 2k12 version of Big Mama, what would she be like?

This is what I had in mind if Big Mama was set in the 2k12 universe.. I would like to think she and Draxum would have been childhood friends :)

Redesigns? Healthy relationships? Everyone’s alive? Yep, indeed it is 👍

Here’s a couple of sketches I’ve done in the last week of Baron Draxum 2012 au!

You're 2012 version of Draxum with the turtle tots is so, freaking, CUTE!

THANK YOU!! I’m honestly really grateful that you and other people are loving it!! I’ll continue on making more of this content for you!!

I really love your art style 💚💚💚

Thank you so much luv!!! I’m so glad that you love it! Also congrats, you’re the first person to inbox me!! lol

It’s Christmas and you can’t tell me otherwise.. also precious Leo getting his Space Hero action figure.

Here’s an au of Baron Draxum getting along with the 2k12 kids lol

“The one that is known as experiment #8254 also which is known as Baron Draxum will be receiving the twice the doses more than usual made by Krang.”

“Krang believes this one will be the best to endure the torement to help Krang for the inavasion”

“Yes, I believe so too Krang.”

“Draxum.”

“Draxum.”

“EXPERIMENT #8254 HAS ESCAPED! REPEAT! EXPERIMENT #8254 HAS GONE FERAL!”

“DRAXUM! WAKE UP!”

“You’re safe here now, don’t you worry.”

Thank you @pizzacraz for this idea of Draxum being an escaped Krang experiment!! And Ive tried to do more images but I forgot the limit was 10 lol

AUGH THIS IS SO CANNON IN MY MIND also ur art style is so silly 2 me

Consider this an apology for my last post and don't say I never did anything nice for u guys 🙄🙄 I based the comic off the poem in pic 4! I thought it was cute

Edit: APPARENTLY SOMEONE ALREADY MADE A FIC ABT THE EXACT SAME CHARACTERS WITH THE EXACT SAME POEM??? I swear it was a coincidence lmao, someone was nice enough to send me the fic so here it is for u guys!! It's a nice read I def recommend

AAAHHHGG

Leo, I love and adore you, but genuinely, wtf are you even talking about sometimes

The goobers ever

some things never change

#my precious babies <3

hostile Donnie is my favorite I think. Also as the big sister, I’ve had this look on my face every family trip since my sister learned how to talk

Maybe they were originally doomed by the narrative but it's my doll house and now they are happy and kissing all the time.

🌼 Apritello TMNT Fantasy AU 💜💛

Sooo...I thought it would be great to take my part honoring April month starts with apritello 😀 featuring 2012 Tribunal Acolytes Donatello x Knightess April from my TMNT Fantasy AU 💛💜💎⚔🛡🐢👑🐲

If love is the most intense adventure

The endpoint is the warm pocket of holding hands🥰😍💕

(👆The english translated lyrics version from a chinese song Love Exists by Wei Qi Qi, Meteor Garden💝💖💖💕❤❤)

(Attempted to draw them quick after I saw some cute apritello arts from @christeli4 🥺🥺💖💘💝💕 aaaaww mannn, wish i had more time to draw them moree ofteen...I've been busy irl lately🥺🥺🥺)

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Have you ever thought about posting that post about Apritello not being toxic/abusive at all? I know the reason you said you wouldn’t was because you didn’t want to cause problems, but imo your analysis/interpretations are hardly ever wrong, and you pretty much know what your talking about with this topic.

Well thank you very much, but the post I made was less about Apritello specifically and more about people mislabeling things as abusive overall. It was more of a rant on my part. It was one part sharing my own abuse story and one part condemning people who see some thing they don’t like and then label it abusive and because of that, actual abuse isn’t taken as seriously as it should be. 

If you would still like to read it, let me know and I can probably rework it a little bit to include a deeper analysis about Apritello specifically.

Hey DG! Been following ur blog for a year now, and i love your positive support to this fandom :)

Do you think Apritello in 2012 was in any way abusive/toxic looking back not that the show is over?

I don’t think this myself at all, i just wanted to know your opinion on this claim because i trust your judgement.

Oh wow, thank you so much! Sorry I’m not really active on this blog anymore (though I’m still around and still compulsively check it lol). But I’m glad you’ve enjoyed my past posts! (My apologies for my lack of gifs in this post; my Apritello gifs aren't on this computer.) As for Apriltello being toxic or abusive, I wouldn’t label it as such. They certainly had their moments where each of them said or did the wrong thing, but they’re teenagers who have no idea what they’re doing, romantically or in life in general. But they learn and grow as individuals over the course of the show, and in doing so, they grow closer together.

Let’s start with Donnie. One of the major complaints I’d hear about him was that he once kinda wound up stalking April back in Season 2, which we all agree wasn’t healthy for either of them.

Now, disclaimer/PSA: Ladies, if a guy is following you around without your consent, do not try to rationalize it. You don’t know what’s going on in someone else’s head in real life. If someone is doing something that makes you uncomfortable, don’t gaslight yourself, or try to justify his behavior, or try to see it from his perspective (which you can’t be sure of anyway). Just get away and stay safe.

With Donnie, he’s a fictional character, so we, the audience, did get to see things from his perspective, and he wasn’t following her with creepy intentions. He wanted to talk to her and patch things up, but he wasn’t totally sure how to approach her, and used that time hopping from rooftop to rooftop trying to figure that out. What he should’ve done is figure that out from home while giving her space. But he’s a teenager who grew up in isolation from the world, not even watching as much TV as his brothers, and he's learning how to socialize for the first time. It doesn’t make his behavior correct, but it makes it easy to forgive so long as he learns and grows from it, which he did. Besides, there was an alien race after April. Keeping an eye on her wasn’t a completely terrible idea. He should’ve just gone about it differently.

Another complaint I’d hear about Donnie was that he still wanted to protect her, even after she’d learned to fight and control her powers, like in her fight with Shinigami, for example. To which I offered the counter-argument: what kind of jerk would Donnie be if he just stood there and didn’t care that the woman he supposedly loves was getting her butt handed to her? The writers needed to show Donnie distressed over April being hurt, but they also needed to have Raph hold him back, because it really was April’s fight. His desire to protect her wasn’t because he thought she was weak or incapable. It was simply because he loves her and hates to see her hurt. A third complaint I’d hear against Donnie was that his feelings persisted a long time. One blogger even referred to Mikey’s crushes on multiple girls as the most “realistic,” out of the turtles’ romances. It may be more relatable to that particular blogger, but it’s not unrealistic to have feelings for one person that persist a long time. I had a huge crush on a guy friend from 5th grade through 10th grade, and that crush resurfaced briefly during my senior year. Some feelings can’t be switched off at will, so what matters is how you handle those feelings while you have them. And while Donnie didn’t always know the best way to handle them, he was a teenager, perfectly entitled to his mistakes, and not toxic or abusive towards April.

Now it’s April’s turn. This teenage girl lost her mom under mysterious circumstances at a young age, then lost her dad (multiple times throughout the series) to an alien race that was ultimately after her so they could terraform the planet. She lived alone a lot of the time, and still had high school, extracurricular activities, and massive secrets to keep. That’s a lot for a minor to deal with. Now add having a big mutant turtle friend awkwardly crushing on you. Would any of us have known how to handle that at that age? Most of us didn’t even know how to handle crushes on fellow humans at that age. For much of the show’s earlier seasons, Donnie’s flirtations and near-confessions came at times when April was up to her eyeballs in chaos she didn’t know how to handle.

She got a lot of crud from fans in particular for kissing Donnie right after he’d told her he understood he was making her uncomfortable and he’d back off, especially because Donnie said after the kiss he understood nothing and he was even more confused than before.

As a fan, I love the kiss. As a grown-up, I gotta say it wasn’t the best decision she could’ve made in that moment. Actions may speak louder than words, but for someone like Donnie, words would’ve been a lot easier to understand. I think what went on in this scene was that April finally realized she did have feelings for Donnie. She wasn’t ready for a relationship with everything going on, but she didn’t want Donnie to give up on her just yet. At the start of the next episode, a still-confuzzled Donnie tried showing off in front of her again (“Check me out, April!”) and she ignored him and walked right on past, further confusing Donnie and irritating the fans. But I think April was trying to overcorrect. Maybe even she thought the kiss was going a little too far, and she was trying to make sure Donnie knew she didn’t want a relationship yet. April’s biggest crime as far as Apritello goes was just not verbally communicating with Donnie. She was young and it was a weird situation and she didn’t know how to handle it.

But after that moment, things did change between them. They really started getting closer as friends, which became a wonderful foundation for them. Donnie started to relax around her a little more, which helped her relax around him, and her feelings were allowed to develop without pressure. They care about each other, protect each other, fight for each other, and respect each other. Things were awkward between them at first, and they did inadvertently hurt each other here and there, but they just needed to grow up a little. I mean personally I don’t think anyone should even date before their prefrontal cortex reaches maturity at age 25, but I don’t think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles could ever go on that long. lol