I’m Starting To Think That Andy Suriano Wants Rise Back As Much As We Do…

ROTTMNT Restored update!!!!!

Our long awaited ROTTMNT Restored project has a YouTube link: Set to premiere on May 10th, 12pm at this link!

Please share it with your friends, family, etc.

@PowerAuerArt and I hope to see you there!

HOT SOUP!

RotTMNT headcanons: gender and sexuality

Raph: asexual, demiromantic, panromantic, genderqueer, agender. He/Him or no pronouns

Leo: gay, trans (ftm). He/Him pronouns

Donnie: asexual, biromantic, nonbinary. He/They pronouns

Mikey: aroace and pansexual, genderfluid. He/They/She pronouns

April: lesbian, cisgender. She/Her pronouns

Splinter: bisexual, cisgender. He/Him pronouns

Draxum: gay, cisgender. He/Him pronouns

all characters belong to @somerandomdudelmao

old Cass apocalyptic series doodles below the cut

TW: trans violence and suicides

AoVATP

AoVATP

An archive for instances of violence against transmasculine people

This has been shared a few times but have you ever sorted by violence type? Have you scrolled to the suicide section? Have you seen how many children there are? How many children over all? Have you read any of their stories?

Don't push yourself into reading if you don't have the emotional capacity, it's rough. I don't understand how people can claim we aren't abused

This is just so I remember:

Magnetic Duo = Raph and Leo

Brains and Brawn = Raph and Donnie

Sunset Duo = Raph and Mikey

Disaster Twins = Leo and Donnie

Baja Blast Duo/Portal Pals= Leo and Mikey

Smarts and Crafts/PB&J Duo = Mikey and Donnie

rottmnt drive links (mostly 1080p, downloadable)

season 1

season 2

reblogs appreciated!

edit: please support the show if you can!

edit 2: a mega.nz link for s2 is now up! I’m gonna see if the Google drive for s1 gets taken down again before putting the mega.nz link for it too

edit 3: both are mega.nz links now! i thought i had done this already but i guess not lol

Canon trans Leo? More likely than you think

I'm going to preface this by saying this is all for fun. I don't really care one way or another :P

A little turtle biology

The thing is, traits that are unique to telling apart sexes of red eared sliders just aren't in his design. The longer claws in males, something that only red eared sliders have differentiated in sex, isn't there. Other things, like bigger size in females and longer tails in males, just aren’t there. So that leaves us with plastron shape.

Male red eared sliders have a concave plastron. There is a slight indent around their lower abdomen. Females lack this and have a flat or convex plastron.

Leo’s design

There are scenes where it tends to be obvious what his plastron shape is. Following the lines, it’s concave to his body, matching the plastron shape of a female red eared slider. And boom, there you have it transmasc Leo is canon, everyone can go home now. This is very consistent throughout the show and there is nothing that ever could affect this argument.

Or is there?

There are also scenes where his plastron is shown parallel, which doesn’t disprove the previous statement. So, why mention this at all if my point still stands. Because it brings up the question, ‘How consistent is his plaster shape throughout the show?’

Stand up straight king, your crown is falling

It’s hard to tell whether the midline is indicative of his actual plastron shape, follows the line of action, or if it follows the taper line. While there is some consistency, due to his shell and dynamic posing, leo never really is standing straight up. And there is a lot of change in the plaster’s placement due to movement and how the show is animated. While this makes the show very fluid, it makes it difficult to accurately determine the plastron shape.

There are also plenty of scenes where his plastron appears convex, but this also means nothing because his shell doesn't tuck back in. With male turtles, their plastron is concave because of the dent, but, for increased movement, leo’s plastron isn't shown to tuck back in, therefore not causing a dent.

And that leaves one answer: You just cant tell. 

Getting rid of almost all sex determining factors of red eared sliders, in addition to having inconsistent plastron shape because animation is cool like that, you can’t determine Leo’s sex based off of his characteristics. That’s it. Everything has failed. My hours of research come to no avail.

Future!Leo

Why even mention him at all, theres nothing left to even prove. There are no mare sex based traits to apply. AND NEVER MIND BECAUSE THOSE ARE ONLY THE DIFFERENCES IN NON-ADULT TURTLES. This point relies on Future!Leo's design, sooo movie ref time :]

In his future design, he is significantly older and you can properly decern his sex by his basic design concepts. As male red eared sliders get older, their colours will start to fade and will grow darker in colour (melanin distribution). Females don't go through that colour change. In Future!Leo's design, while his colour is less saturated, he doesn't grow darker in colour and stays his original lighter green. Now could it be from a recognition standpoint? As long as his stripes are there, his design could grow darker and he would still be recognisable. While male red eared sliders can lose their stripes, it doesn't always happen. The markings could stay, and he would still be a male turtle. So recognition isn’t a viable factor. Trans Leo is back, baby.

Where does this actually get us?

Future!Leo isn't the same as Rise!Leo because he's from a different timeline. Well, Future!Leo is trans. Honestly, the rest you can take with a grain of salt lol. In all seriousness, in Future!Leo's timeline, they were very similar as teens. In addition to what I've said already about Rise!Leo, there is a chance that he could grow up the same as Future!Leo. Other than that, this is just a fun little essay about a hc that could be real.

TL,DR: Future!Leo is trans and Rise!Leo might be too

RAHHHHH ITS DONE ITS HERE

I THOUGHT ID GIVE YOU GUYS THE FINAL AUDIO INSTEAD OF MAKING YOU WAIT FOR THE YOUTUBE UPLOAD BC EDITING IS A BITCH AND KNOWING MYSELF IT WILL TAKE A WHILE LMAO

but anywho i hope you like it bc i love it ahhhh im so proud!!

big thanks to @somerandomdudelmao for making such a cool series that managed to pull me out of my writers block LMAO

i'll post again when i make the video and it goes up spotify, but for now... i sleep :>

EDIT: TOTALLY FORGOT TO ASK BUT WHAT SHOULD I CALL IT? PLS GIVE ME IDEAS IM SO STUCK

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