The Girl Who Went On A Date With Godzilla Made Another Drawing And Honestly It's So Cute Lol👇👇❤❤💗💯💯😍🥰🥰😍

Hey kids. I finally broke down and made an instagram.

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With a zero instead of an oh

When I read monster smut

maybe your fanfic doesn’t have to change someone’s life maybe it can just brighten someone’s day for a bit

For me, one of the most adorable things in Apritello is Donnie's thoughtfulness. Oh my Shell, He becomes so contactable when he calms or consoles April🥺💖💖💘💕 (As far as I can see, April doesn't mind this at all)

And in these moments, she hugged Donnie herself💓💓💞💞❤❤❤ She trusts him so so much!💝💕💖

And when she hugs Donnie with joy, it's becomes the cutest thing I've ever seen😍😍😍💗❣️💕💗

💖🌟BONUS🌟💖

Protective Donnie😏😏💕

«Get away from her!»

I COULDN'T AGREE MOREEEE!!! 💜💛💜💛💜🐢🔥🔥🔥💕💕💕💕🥰🥰🥰🥰

When you love someone you become the happiest you’ve ever been.

On Drakón [Он – дракон] (2015) dir. Indar Dzhendubaev

Let’s talk about Donatello fricking Hamato for a second.

I can’t imagine how much flipping stress he’s gotta be under.

To his family, he’s their engineer, their plumber, their mathematician, their electrician, their inventor, their all-around-repairman, their fucking DOCTOR-

When does he sleep?!? I mean, we all joke and write about him not sleeping; but seriously, he’s not even eighteen yet, and he probably gets that many hours of sleep per week trying to deal with everything he has to. Let the guy rest! for! once!

If Donnie doesn’t have high-key anxiety, trying to fix or head off all these potentially deadly problems before they hurt his family, I will literally eat my fucking socks.

Most of the time, its only because of an invention he’s created, or a solution he’s made up on the fly, that he and his brothers survive to the next day. But then, half of those times, he doesn’t even get a thank you! Frequently, he’s ignored, pushed to the side, and has his rightful glory stolen by one of his brothers.

And yet, despite all that, he’s brilliant and creative and so damn hopeful. Donnie finds extra time around all his other responsibilities to create exciting and playful things, for himself and his brothers.

But because of the shit circumstances his family has, (and they do, they’re living in the sewers, and fighting a war with literal garbage as their weapons resource), he’s been forced to give up much of his light hearted inventing and sciencing, in favor of becoming a soldier and military geared engineer. All for his family, he creates incredible inventions from garbage; to defend them, heal them, and attack their enemies with.

Even before they started the war, Donnie probably didn’t get to really enjoy a carefree life.

He’s probably always been the guy who fixed everything, and everyone. The fridge broke? He’s got it. Water turning toxic? He can reroute a new source. Their stolen cable not working? Time to go monkey with the highly dangerous wires again. Someone got hurt during training? Someone is sick with an unidentified illness? He’s got his books, his computer, and what medicine he’s scrounged. He’s got you.

Best/worst part of all that? Its all self taught. He sure as hell didn’t learn how to build a fully operational vehicle-turned literal tank from his father, or learn how to treat their family’s unique physiology safely, and successfully, when they got sick or injured. That’s all him, purely and simply him.

Donnie is a genius, yes, but that is some other level shit right there. Learning and self-teaching himself years and years worth of college education, probably all from water-damaged text books that came from a garbage heap.

When the fuck did this kid get to be a kid, once his family figured out he could be the answer to everything?

Give Donnie credit, and a damn day off.

a reminder to all writers out there, you’re a human, not a machine

it’s okay to be frustrated with your works

it’s okay to be exhausted

it’s okay to have a writer’s block

it’s okay to just want to take a break for a while

it’s okay if some days you can only write one paragraph

it’s okay if some days you can only write a sentence or two

it’s okay if some days you can’t write at all

every single writer has gone through all of these challenges, but the thing is that it passes. none of these struggles last forever. so be kind to yourself. you’re doing fine, I promise.

Your hand fits on mine

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

Me, doing my silly little crafts, trying not to fall into a hopeless abyss: