BURSTS OUT FROM GRAVE

Bruh I return here to see mr.simprobots gall lol,really want to put a screw on this car I guess!(pun)

-🐢 anon

THIS WAS NOT HOW I EXPECTED UR RETURN TO GO- AHHAHAHAHHA

i love how thats how u know my friend as, bcs ur so right. She fr wants to ride that car (affectionate)

in this new year I want you to be alright. I hope you move out. I hope you have enough money to feel safe. I hope you abandon shame and forgive yourself. I hope you get enough sleep and some good news. I hope you laugh a lot and the heaviness of the world eases a bit. I wish you to be alright.

Requests closed!!

I got more requests than I expected! I'm closing the request box for now, so I can catch up on some longer/harder to write requests.

Thank you for all those who requested, by the way! I hope you guys liked how it turned out! For those still waiting, I'll get to yours soon enough!

Hope yall have a nice day/night!! Love u guys!!

okay gang since a grand total of one ☝ of you is curious about the show (that person is em/peachy hello em/peachy if you are reading this!!) I will reveal what the show is!!

I watched this show when I was young, and I was NOT KIDDING when I meant DisneyXD kids show,,, My brain choses to be interested in goofiest of things...

Show is under the cut!! Btw if ur any of my irls seeing this LOOK AWAY DO NOT INTERACT LEAVE NOW!!! /J

ok are my irls gone. swag. u guys can look now

IDK IF ANYONE ELSE REMEMBERS THIS SHOW.... BUT THIS WAS MY JAM AS A KID!! A majority of the first season is uploaded on yt in a public playlist, and the easy access to it made the brainrot go CRAZY,,

My current favorite rn is Happy. Starting to see a pattern w my favorite blorbos... (silly guys)

I hope know u guys know what i meant when i said it sucks having the urge to write self insert stuff for every media i get into bcs i dont think there is a target audience for 'spin off show of the dwarves from snow white x reader' content 😭😭

It's pretty late where I am and I think that's why Im making the impulsive decision to make this post, but honestly.... I think I wouldve made this post either way.... I know myself too well I definitely wouldve taken any opportunity to yap abt this show even if its a tiny bit BAHSAH

It’s nice to see you online again! You’re making me very curious about that show you’re interested in 😔

Also, happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

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EM!!! PEACHY!!!!! JUMPS UP AND DOWN IN JOY HELLO!!!!!

I've missed u man,, Happy pride month to you, too!!

And um... Well u see it's embarrassing to admit bcs when I say kids show I mean KIDS show. Like DISNEYXD kids show. I used to watch it when I was younger and recently got back into it, and the brainrot is crazy!!! I've debated making some kind of post about it, but... It's so niche I really doubt anyone would want it 😭😭

me impulsively changing my theme in the middle of the night despite the fact that i have things to do tomorrow? more likely than you think

yeehoo just woke up a few hours ago and I'm gonna start working on some requests!

Hello duck! Sorry for the late response. Life is a bit crazy. I’m glad my presence and my rambles are welcomed with open arms here!

For your question, I’m not sure which trivia you know... Especially if it’s about Sun Wukong… however, I suppose one of the most interesting facts I’ve learned is that the original Six-eared Macaque actually never was said to have six ears. The six-eared actually refers to the six senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mind.

Also, did you see about the new Black Myth: Wukong game? I heard about it weeks ago, but it finally has a release date now! I’m so excited for it.

Lastly, I have been absolutely binge watching anything from Cy yu, aka Alejandro Saab, the new voice actor for Macaque. (RIP Billy Kametz, a dear friend of Alejandro Saab) It absolutely broke my heart to hear that when he took on Billy’s roles, he had Billy’s voice playing over and over just trying to do his best to replicate his voice… I can’t even imagine how hard that must’ve been to do… but he did so well! I hope he gets all the praises he deserves.

Anyways, I hope things are going well for you. Christmas is just around the corner, and I’m hoping you’re spending much of your time with loved ones!

-🍑 anon

Life do be crazy like that. I'm sorry my response is so late as well- hopefully both of our lives get a bit easier soon!!

ooohhh fr? thats super cool ngl!! wonder where the six ear thing being just hearing came from,,, kinda obvious why, bcs u know. EARS. but a cool fact nonetheless!!

YOOO I HAVENT!!! I think i remember watching a demo gameplay of it when I was still in my JTTW/LMK phase. So hyped to see it release soon, cuz it looked great!! Hope you get one once it releases!!!!!

Yeah,, haven't watched s4 yet cuz I lost interest in the fandom at that point, but hearing about Bill's death was so shocking. It's super sweet that his friend got the role. I'm sure he did great!!

What things have u watched that features Alejandro Saab btw? Voice acting be crazy because sometimes I'd search up a voice actor and find out that they also voiced a character from a different show that I liked? And also sometimes get extreme whiplash from the differences in characters?

Case in point: Did you know Daran Norris, voice actor of Cosmo from the Fairly Odd Parents, also voiced Knockout the super sexy transformer from Transformers Prime? LOOK UP KNOCKOUT AND LISTEN TO HIS VOICE. THE FUCKING RANGE. I WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER KNOWING THIS.

Ty 🍑 anon!!! I hope christmas treats u well too!!! I actually did celebrate something with my family + cousins today, it was nice seeing them again!!

oughh idk how to end this but RAHHH ADVANCED CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

explaining the train of thought that got me to this would take way too much backstory but basically I had an idea and then I wrote it. I rewatched Scream recently so maybe that helps lol

cw: death (not of a canon character), mentions of blood and vomit

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The call comes in at a little after 2 AM, and he almost doesn’t answer because he’s busy.

But Leo almost never calls him, and it’s a singular enough occurrence that he picks up the phone and hits the button.

“Hello, you are conversing with Donatello,” he greets. “Make it quick, Nardo, I’m elbow deep in the tank’s engine.”

On the other end of the line, Leo is silent. Or, mostly silent; Donnie can hear him breathing, a little too loud, a little too fast.

Suddenly, he’s on high alert. He sits back from the tank, speaking more urgently into the phone, “Leo?”

There’s another second of breathing, and then, finally, in a voice that is too high and panicked to be his normal joking tone, he says, “Hey, remember when I sent you that meme about siblings who will beat the crap out of each other one minute and hide a body for each other the next, and I said, “us,” and you gave it a heart?”

Donnie blinks. Processes that string of words.

“I think I recall it,” he says.

“Well,” says Leo. “I need to know if that’s really us.”

Donnie stands up and keys in the command to swap battleshells to the jetpack.

“Stay where you are,” he says. “I’m on my way.”

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The body is male. Early twenties. About six two or six three. Caucasian. Wearing some ghoulish mask like the serial killer in a bad teen slasher.

Actually, now that Donnie thinks about it, there’s been stuff on the news lately. About a guy who likes to knife up co-eds. And Leo’s wearing his biggest, baggiest hoodie, and jeans, and in a dark alley like this it would be easy to mistake him for a normal, non-mutated human teen.

The puzzle pieces are all laid out for Donnie, but the picture it paints is pretty unbelievable.

Then again, he’s a mutant turtle who grew up in a sewer and recently fended off an alien invasion. His bar for believable is pretty low.

He takes in the body, slashed across the chest, ridiculous getup soaked in blood. Then he turns to look at Leo, curled around his knees against the wall. There’s blood all over him, too, but Donnie feels pretty confident that most of it is not his own. There’s a puddle of vomit nearby, and a dagger, and a katana, cast aside.

Leo raises his eyes to meet Donnie’s. “I didn’t know he was human.”

Donnie looks back at the body, and at the mask. Connects it to the dagger, which definitely isn’t Leo’s.

“Seems like he was a great guy,” Donnie says. 

“He stabbed my arm.”

“I meant it sarcastically.”

Leo laughs, high and reedy. Then he leans over and vomits again.

Donnie can’t help but curl his snout at that one. He looks away and waits for Leo to finish.

There’s a spit, then a sniff, then Leo says, “He stabbed my arm and I turned around and saw the mask.”

Ah yes, that. It’s pink and has a serrated smile. Little rubbery bits of slime and ooze. These things got popular after the invasion - they aren’t anywhere near the real thing, but in a dark alley, under attack, alone, when Leo had…

The puzzle pieces are there. Donnie doesn’t really need an explanation to put it together.

Actually, scratch that: he does need an explanation for one thing.

“Why are you so upset about this?” He looks back at Leo. “You took out a serial killer. Or a wannabe serial killer. At the very least a stabber.”

“I didn’t mean to kill him,” says Leo immediately. A little pleading. “I didn’t think that would… I didn’t know he was human.”

“He attacked you.”

“I could have disarmed him. I could have trapped him and let the police deal with him.”

“He came up behind you in this creepy mask and stabbed your arm.”

“He didn’t stand a chance against me,” says Leo, and it’s not swaggering and not boastful, but horrified. “It was like tearing paper, Dee. It was so easy.”

Donnie leaves the body to kneel in front of his brother. He puts his hands on his shoulders, looking him straight in the eye to make sure he listens.

“He attacked you, Nardo. He wanted to kill you. He made the wrong choice. Not you.”

Leo looks down, at the blood on his hoodie, and Donnie squeezes his shoulders until they lock eyes again. 

“He made the wrong choice,” Donnie repeats emphatically. 

Leo sighs, like he’s giving in, and a rueful smile grows on his face. “Thanks, hermano. But I don’t think the EPF is gonna see it that way.”

Ah yes, the good old United States government, and their hilariously poorly titled Earth Protection Force. Since the invasion, their existence had become known to the EPF, and they’ve been in an unspoken truce ever since. A “live and let live” holding pattern.

Unfortunately, Donnie has to admit Leo is right on this one: that this man is likely and most probably a serial killer won’t matter to the EPF. Killing any human crosses a line they won’t tolerate.

And so, there is only one solution here. The one Leo proposed when he first called.

Donnie is going to help him hide a body.

…Which means he is going to have to touch it.

Leo frowns at him. “Uh, Dee, what’s the yarf-face for?”

“I just realized how gross this is going to be.”

Leo laughs again, more than a little hysterical, and lets his head fall against Donnie’s plastron, the giggles shaking his shoulders under Donnie’s hands.

“That wasn’t a joke,” Donnie insists. Leo just laughs even harder.

Donnie scowls, even as he pulls Leo closer. “That meme really is us. I want to beat the crap out of you right now.”

Leo howls with laughter. Except it sounds a little more like sobbing now. Donnie gathers him up and holds him until he’s better again.

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Across the Hudson, the sky is turning pink. Donnie stands with Leo, watching the water that the body disappeared under.

They’ve already scrubbed the alley clean of any blood traces - his and Leo’s. He also had his drones bring gloves with the cleaning supplies, so they didn’t leave any fingerprints. At least Leo had the sense not to touch anything. And it’s not like the government has their prints on file, anyway. Donnie’s checked.

There wasn’t anything they could really do to hide the massive laceration that led to the body’s death. Short of melting it in acid, but both of them had dismissed that idea as soon as Donnie raised it. Despite what Donnie thinks of himself, he isn’t actually a stone cold disposer of bodies. The idea of melting it was too gross to think about.

Besides, it doesn’t matter if the body gets found, as long as it doesn’t get traced back to them. And Donnie doesn’t see any reason it should.

He’s already hacked any security cameras near the scene and made sure Leo doesn’t show up on any of them. Leo’s a good enough ninja to avoid that sort of thing, anyway, not that Donnie will admit it out loud. The crabs and fish will take care of the flesh and the katana’s mark. Leo destroyed the weapon itself in a bright blue explosion of ninpo.

“It’s kind of a bummer,” says Leo after a minute, “that the murders will go unsolved.”

“No, they won’t.” Donnie pulls out a phone, holding it carefully with his gloves. “He helpfully took trophy photos.”

Leo’s eyes go wide. “Dude, did you fish around in his pockets?”

Donnie can’t help but curl his lips. “Ugh, don’t remind me. It was a very unpleasant experience and I don’t want to repeat it.”

“What are you going to do with it?”

“Find where he lived and leave it there.” Donnie shrugs. “His body will turn up, or he’ll get reported missing. The cops will find it and everything will be wrapped up in a neat little bow.”

“Huh. Guess that takes care of that.” A pause. Leo shuffles a bit next to him. “You’re… really calm about this.”

Is he? Since the moment he got that phone call, he entered Fix It mode. He hasn’t really thought of anything else since.

“I don’t know if I will be later,” he admits.

“I’ll be there, if you’re not.”

Donnie hums an acknowledgement. There’s a weight against his arm, Leo leaning into him.

“Thanks, Dee,” he says.

“You’d do the same for me,” Donnie replies.

“Yeah,” Leo agrees. Simple as that.

I just logged on to tumblr and saw 99+ notifications what happened 

I’ve been thinking a lot about Shadow’s characterizations in the Project: Shadow fan film, SA2, Archie, Heroes, ‘06, Prime, and Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog and why they’re all considered among the best. And I’ve been thinking about his characterizations in IDW and Boom, how they’re considered among the worst, and how much they clash with the other portrayals. I think I’ve hit upon the number one quality that Shadow needs to have to be written well.

Loyalty.

I’ll explain below the cut.

The best Shadow is one who is loyal to someone or something. Maybe he’s not always loyal to the right someone or something, but he is loyal nonetheless. It’s a core part of his character. He is ride or die to the very end for whatever friend or cause he cares about. Shadow is always ready to kill or be killed for whatever or whoever matters to him most; it’s what sets him apart from the others. The others have limits on their loyalty. Sonic will help you out, but he’s not gonna kill a man for you. Shadow will. He doesn’t have that limit. If you are Shadow’s friend and you need him to kill for you, he will do it. Period.

Here’s a recap of Shadow’s loyalty:

In SA2 and the fan film, it’s to Maria, and to a lesser extent, Gerald.

In Heroes and ‘06, it’s to Team Dark.

In Archie, it’s to Team Dark, Hope Kintobor, and Commander Tower. Sometimes it’s even to his own values like when he goes against Rouge to help Blaze in Treasure Team Tango.

In Sonic X, it’s to Maria and later Molly. Maybe even to the universe, given that he’s ready to kill Cosmo to save it.

In Prime, it’s to Green Hill. And later on, Shadow is also loyal to Sonic despite the latter driving him crazy.

In Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, it’s to Amy.

And in his own game, Shadow can be loyal to Maria, Sonic and friends, Eggman (up to a point), Black Doom, or even Earth itself. Not all of those folks are worth his loyalty, but the fact is that Shadow still cares about fighting by their side. That key element of his personality remains.

And that’s what’s missing in Boom and IDW. Because in those, he isn’t loyal to anything. He isn’t ride or die for anyone. At least, not that we can tell. When you remove Shadow’s faithfulness to those he loves, you remove a lot of what makes him who he is and all that’s left is an edgy aesthetic that soon wears out its welcome because there isn’t anything to supplement it. And this is made worse by the fact that they’re never allowed to bring up or expand his backstory, so they can’t ever talk about why he’s like this.

I guess you could make the argument that Shadow is loyal to the world in IDW since he helps save it a few times, but he’s so mean and heartless to everyone in the world that it feels less like he’s fighting to protect other people and more like he’s just trying to save his own house so he still has a place to live. I mean, if he won’t help Rouge when she’s been kidnapped by Starline and he won’t help Omega when the latter has been smashed to bits and he won’t help the Chao get out of their cage and he actually has to be talked into saving a village from an avalanche and he seems to really dislike/be annoyed by everyone he comes into contact with…what exactly is he saving the Earth for?? It can’t be for the people living in it. He hates them. He doesn’t care if they need his help. So the only conclusion I can draw is that he’s just doing it to save his own skin. The only person Shadow shows even the slightest bit of loyalty to is himself.

And that makes him unrecognizable from the Shadow we know and love.

His loyalty is his greatest virtue, even when it’s misguided. Let him keep it.