Лу Чжаньши

Mikey skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Box turtles are the kinds of turtles who can fully fit into and close their shells along a single hinge in their plastron, which once closed is extremely hard to break into for any kind of predator especially if they cannot get a proper grip on the dome of the shell. Box turtles are also usually found in plains rather than ponds, and while they need water to survive and keep hydrated and can swim well, they’re not generally considered aquatic. Box turtles do have an interesting adaptation due to their more northern range of being able to survive freezing temperatures for a short period of time by slowing their metabolism outside of seasonal brumation (similar to hibernation, but more of a dormant state) if absolutely needed.

After watching TMNT ‘03 where the turtles meditate to save oxygen and prevent suffocation in a broken airlock, I thought, why not mix their ninja ability to conceal their body heat and breath and mix it with a turtles natural ability to brumate? Perhaps the brothers could enter into a completely dormant state on command with enough training in order to survive extreme situations or astral project in some form. Just a fun thought to tie their strong mystic powers with their physical abilities!

Although I use the term heterothermy to refer to them being able to vary between generating their own body heat while active and relying on environmental temperature while inactive, the intricacies of understanding thermal regulation in animals eludes me. If there’s a term that fits better, go ahead! I’m not a biologist so you probably know better lol

These are all my personal head cannons! You can use em’ as reference or not, whichever you prefer :)

[General][Raph][Donnie][Leo][Splinter]

April loved mythical critters and legends and mysteries. She was not expecting to meet any of them in person, but she’s not complaining! These are ACTUAL dragons! Or, well, two dragons and two little serpents. And they’re funny and nice and just fun to be around, not to mention absolutely adorable! She’s not missing out on that opportunity.

Splinter tries to stay away, but this little girl is very persistent. She finds them almost every time they come out.

… Doesn’t help that the boys usually try to go find her, too, lmao.

Cultivator 7 x Snake Yao 9

I was reading a novel and it mentioned a snake demon going out of control and getting a power up because it found another snake demon to dual cultivate with. Ofc my thought went to "oh qijiu" immediately afterwards.

The idea somehow turned into YQY fell from a cliff fighting some demon and encounters hurt snake yao SJ, who also was in some territory fight with said demon. They end in a stalemate for a bit but soon bond after spending a couple days just carefully investigating the other.

Bonus:

The robes he eventually got (simple underrobe and banbi, works well enough)

Anyway imagining organising a heroic rescue excursion into the dangerous snake pits just to find your shixiong fucking a snake.

Awful time to be a shidi

Donnie skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Alright so softshell turtles right. They funky. It’s a lot more obvious that their shells are part of their ribs, as you can actually see the faint outline of their fused vertebrae and ribs on their shells. The reason their shells are so soft is because the edges and much of the lower half of their shell is actually all just cartilage and skin. Their plastron are weird, because the bone plates are largely separate and pointy, held together by harder cartilage the same way human ribs are attached around the sternum.

Donnie was weird to figure out on account of the cartilage lower half of his softshell, but I tried to compromise with his lower back vertebrae being unfused to still allow for the higher mobility required for his waist. Another fun fact about softshell is that they don’t actually have scutes or scales, but because of the look of his plastron and consistency with his brothers in the show, I’m just going to pretend that Draxum mixed in some DNA to let him grow scales for extra protection even if he has less coverage than his brothers. He can “breathe” water by absorbing oxygen through the skin of his throat, not actually by inhaling it. While most turtles can do this to a point, soft shells can stay quite active while doing so.

Personally I like to think of Donnie’s softshell as both a weakness and a strength depending on the situation! While more vulnerable, his skin can heal faster than scutes, and if he sustains blunt damage to his shell he can more easily disperse the force of it because of the give to his cartilage, rather than have the force crack his shell and cause a much more traumatic injury. Kind of like how seatbelts have some give to them to ease into a stop instead of giving someone whiplash.

Just some personal head canons! Feel free to disagree or expand upon :)

[General][Raph][Leo][Mikey][Splinter]

Что такое прайд | What is Pride

Я прошу прощения, если я неправильно нарисовал флаги или как-то не так проиллюстрировал их. Мне пытались объяснить тонкости, но я всё ещё сильно путаюсь.

I apologise if I drew the flags wrong or illustrated them wrong somehow. They tried to explain the intricacies to me, but I'm still very confused.

Найти легально информацию сложно, когда ЛГБТ объявили экстремистской организацией. Наверное, этот мини-комикс останется только здесь, на этой страничке.

Finding information legally is difficult when LGBT has been declared an extremist organisation. I guess this mini comic will only remain here on this page.

Меня же не посадят за картинку??? Надеюсь нет

I'm not going to jail for this picture, am I? I hope not.

В глубинах канализации | In the depths of the sewers

Эта зарисовка относится к моему фанфику. История в том, что Микки решает сбежать из дома. Но скоро, он теряется глубоко в холодной канализации. Случайно сталкивается с другим мутантом, который очень не доволен появлением ребёнка в «его» канализации. Они повздорили. Но мутанту всё же совестно оставлять замёрзшего ребёнка одного. По этому, он берёт Микки в лапы и уносит к станции метро, возвращая домой.

This sketch refers to my fanfic. The story is that Mickey decides to run away from home. But soon he gets lost deep in the cold sewers. By chance he bumps into another mutant who is very unhappy with the appearance of a child in "his" sewer. A fight breaks out between the two. But the mutant is still too embarrassed to leave the frozen child alone. Then he picks up Mickey in his paws and carries him to the underground station to bring him home.

Иллюстрация относится к первой и неприятной встрече Микки с другим, недовольным, мутантом.

The illustration tells of Mickey's first and unpleasant encounter with another, disgruntled mutant.

Фанфик написан на русском, прочитать можно здесь

The fanfic is written in Russian, you can read it here

Quick doodle dump, thoughts on a potential new stylization?

Draw Casey Jones consistently challenge (impossible)

TMayNT

Day 11: Fav Splinter

I know how to draw humans, I know how to draw turtles, but I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRAW THIS MF RAT!!! I HATE HIM SO MUCH💀💀/j

I love The Last Ronin

i completely forgot about this pics, first two were done long ago, needed to finish the third

tattoo master D

(i have no idea what's going on Raph's shoulder. i had to improvise)