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(This sideblog has been archived! Please follow my main blog @thunderberryz instead!)

Hello, I am Star (she/her), and welcome to my sideblog for my TMNT shenanigans! You'll mostly see stuff from the 2003 series here, but I do dabble in the other iterations from time to time as well! Feel free to take a look around!

Other Accounts: AO3 | Bluesky

My Stuff: Art Tag | Gifs

Character Specific: Leonardo | Raphael | Donatello | Michelangelo | OC Stuff

Masterposts: TMNT 2003 Model Sheets and Concept Art

Other Links: Ramblings | Video Tag | Ask Tag

(P.S: Tcest/incest and adult/minor shippers, bigots, and suspected bots WILL be blocked.)

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And with that, this blog has officially been archived. If you want to see more turtles stuff from me, you'll need to follow my main blog @thunderberryz.

Again, thank you so much for all the support you've given me over the past year. It hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows, but I'm still very grateful to be a part of TMNTumblr community and I hope to keep participating in the coming year, no matter how rough it ends up getting.

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COUGHS.

Popping in four months later to remind the class that this blog is no longer active and that I'm posting exclusively from my main blog now. Thank you!

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And with that, this blog has officially been archived. If you want to see more turtles stuff from me, you'll need to follow my main blog @thunderberryz.

Again, thank you so much for all the support you've given me over the past year. It hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows, but I'm still very grateful to be a part of TMNTumblr community and I hope to keep participating in the coming year, no matter how rough it ends up getting.

#star's turtle talk
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A late Happy New Year to everyone (and a much needed update.)

Hello, everyone, it's Star. How have you been? It's been almost a month since my last post where I announced my hiatus from this blog and I figured it was about time I popped in to let you know how I've been doing and what the future potentially holds.

#star's turtle talk
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As sad as it sounds, it looks like I am going to need to take a significant break from TMNT for the time being.

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redstringraven asked:

depending on your music tastes, this oc question might be hard (or incredibly easy lmao).

is there a score or instrumental piece of music you associate with your oc(s)? if so, why? what about the music makes you think of them or feels like them? if you don't know enough scores/instrumentals to feel confident answering, then maybe a song where the lyrics may not match your oc/their story, but the energy, sound or vibes of the song does.

and if you earnestly don't have answers for the previous requests, throw any oc-relevant song at me. slap me with it like a mackerel.

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Oooooh, this one is a fun one

For Iseult, she's got a few songs I associate with her, but this battle theme from Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song instantly brings to mind a tense action sequence where she's facing down one of her foes and, ya know, kicks their butt. She's a character who has been through a lot of pain but still chooses to hope, and I feel like this song fits her very well.

For Cecilia, "Rin's Melody" from the 2015 Unlimited Blade Works anime is a perfect reflection of her; a very quiet, extremely lonely young girl who hasn't grown up under the best conditions and walks an incredibly uncertain path as someone who doesn't even view herself as a person.

#asks#redstringraven#tmnt oc#iseult lanigera#cecilia ascari
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Anonymous asked:

Coming off your Leo is the tallest depending on mood ask. Would Raphael be the second shortest?

If we're going by the "Raphael and Donatello are twins" headcanon, then potentially they're both the second shortest. Although generally speaking, I do prefer Raph slightly taller than Don.

#asks#anon#tmnt raphael#tmnt donatello
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This is just me thinking aloud, but I was thinking about some of the fandom interpretations I've seen of Leo's personality and that, at this point, I can't say I've seen one that genuinely disagree with other than the ones that water him down to "the boring Leader." Pretty much every single one I've seen has anywhere from an 85% to 100% approval rating from me, which is good! Rather would have that than some blatant mischaracterizations of my favs that I've seen in other fandoms.

That said, there are some interpretations that do bug me in the sense that I feel like they make him too... insecure? Like I don't know how to explain it in detail, but some of the secret sauce that makes his character for me is the fact that, while he does become a lot more humbled as the series goes on, he is very confident in himself--he wouldn't be able to make those split-second, life-or-death decisions in the middle of a battle otherwise. And some of those characterizations just... don't have that for some reason? Like his dorky moments are so cute and funny because he is so sure of himself, so it makes it that much more amusing to see him when he's just goofing around and/or accidentally embarrasses himself in front of his brothers. (Never mind that his sense of confidence does, in fact, occasionally manifest more negatively as arrogance; the events of The Shredder Strikes duology, as well as his conflict with Raphael in the City at War arc, are both a result of this.)

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This is an interesting observation, and I think I've seen it around too: in pushing back against (more common in the early fandom) "boring leader" stereotypes, sometimes people do over-correct Leo into anxious woobie territory. Heck, I'm probably a bit guilty of this here and there. I love the tasty drama when his confidence takes a gut punch as much as anyone, but it really works best in contrast to his self-assured baseline. There's a lot of stress involved with being the the one calling the shots, but I think Leo generally thrives on this (or at least feels like he does - they are teenagers continually getting dragged into various flavors of gang war, which is... not ideal).

He shouldn't be an arrogant jerk overall either (which is the other extreme from "boring" that Leo-dislikers have traditionally run with), but will have some Moments as his level of confidence conflicts with his level of capability, or as he projects his perfectionist standards onto his brothers.

Not the same iteration of Leo but very similar so I'll include it as an example of what I mean by Leo projecting: the reason I hate his "I'm better than you" line in TMNT (2007) is not because it's unrealistically mean or arrogant in this tense moment, but it misses Leo's mindset. Sure, frustration is boiling over, but remember this guy just slunk home with his tail between his legs after failing to achieve his training sabbatical goals - confidence is not riding high enough for that kind of declaration. Leo perceives that his brothers have been slacking as a team in his absence, Raph being particularly disengaged. The front half of this same line of dialog is an attack on Raph's flaws, which is a good fit for his headspace and the flow of the argument. Instead of the swerve to "I'm better than you" though, I'd have him finish somewhere along the lines of "at least I'm trying," which is about as damning an accusation as Leo knows to give. It's also guaranteed to sting Raph, who is putting a lot of effort into solving the problems he feels Leo left behind, actually.

(Now that I think about it, this "why am I the only one putting in effort" complaint is basically the root grievance 2k3 Leo keeps lashing out with in his season 4 spiral, though obviously the two situations are pretty different)

(aaand a little side tangent about non-leader Leo I've been chewing on for a while, that I'll just tuck under a cut here~)

#This THIS THIS#You nailed it on the head!#I was looking for the term/phrase and you described it perfectly!#tmnt leonardo
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This is just me thinking aloud, but I was thinking about some of the fandom interpretations I've seen of Leo's personality and that, at this point, I can't say I've seen one that genuinely disagree with other than the ones that water him down to "the boring Leader." Pretty much every single one I've seen has anywhere from an 85% to 100% approval rating from me, which is good! Rather would have that than some blatant mischaracterizations of my favs that I've seen in other fandoms.

That said, there are some interpretations that do bug me in the sense that I feel like they make him too... insecure? Like I don't know how to explain it in detail, but some of the secret sauce that makes his character for me is the fact that, while he does become a lot more humbled as the series goes on, he is very confident in himself--he wouldn't be able to make those split-second, life-or-death decisions in the middle of a battle otherwise. And some of those characterizations just... don't have that for some reason? Like his dorky moments are so cute and funny because he is so sure of himself, so it makes it that much more amusing to see him when he's just goofing around and/or accidentally embarrasses himself in front of his brothers. (Never mind that his sense of confidence does, in fact, occasionally manifest more negatively as arrogance; the events of The Shredder Strikes duology, as well as his conflict with Raphael in the City at War arc, are both a result of this.)

#star's turtle talk#teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt#tmnt 2003#tmnt 2k3#tmnt leonardo
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Non-TMNT related: This is a fairly general reminder, but if you're a new Tumblr user please be sure to do at least one of the following

  • Change your profile icon, banner, and/or title from the default
  • Include a blog description
  • Make an original post of some sort

Besides accounts that post my squicks, I also block any blogs that I suspect to be bots; such accounts are generally easy to spot, as they use the default layout and don't have any original posts. Unfortunately, if the blog in question is, in fact, merely a new user, it can result in me accidentally blocking someone because I thought them to be a machine rather than a person.

So, simply put; please make it apparent that you are, in fact, a human and not a robot. As important as it is for me to keep the bots away, I hate the idea of accidentally blocking someone whose only crime is that they just joined Tumblr and haven't attempted to customize the look of their blog just yet.

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Anonymous asked:

do you agree that leo is second shortest

Depends on my mood. Sometimes I'm okay with him being the second shortest as seen in Fast Forward, but other times I think he deserves to be tall.

#asks#anon#tmnt leonardo
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TMNT 2003 Things that amuse me: Same As It Never Was is easily one of the most beloved episodes in the entire series and the most remembered from the Ultimate Drako arc; yet, rather uniquely, it was the only episode from that arc to take place in a universe original to 2003. The rest of the arc was all effectively crossover episodes. (Specifically with Planet Racers, another with Usagi Yojimbo, and the Super Turtles universe that debuted in a Tales of the TMNT issue.)

#teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt#tmnt 2003#tmnt 2k3
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