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I have removed the restriction on my fan fictions. But if I catch even a hint of scraping or some other shit, they're being locked again.

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Bad Things Happen Bingo [ROTTMNT] series link / #sage's bthb prompts [graphic descriptions of injuries and violence, medical themes, horror] A collection of stories where everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And everyone is going to have a very bad time in the process.

Adagio in Green [ROTTMNT] series link / Part 1 link / Part 2 link / #adagio in green fic / #fan art [mild body horror, hospitalization, brain damage, medical inaccuracies] After they stopped the apocalypse, the turtles are in really bad shape and they’re going to need all the help they can get. It’s a good thing they’re not alone. Part 1 is complete! Part 2 is ongoing [chapters 8/?]

Maybe Mikey felt something similar because he sighed, plucking up a puzzle piece to inspect it more closely. His voice was laced with a bitter ache when he spoke, “I’m trying. I’m really, really trying,” He let the piece rest in his palm, staring at it with maybe just a touch of anger in the frown he wore, “I know you want your brother back—I want him back too. Being like this is...I’m trying to get him back. I really am.”

“Hey, my brother’s right here,” Raph picked up a puzzle piece from the table and leaned over to drop it next to the one in Mikey’s palm, “He’s just missin’ a few pieces is all.”

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Bright, hungry red bloomed in the dark, washing over everything, painting the world in sharp edges and deeper shadows. It drew closer and even as dread and horror welled up in his chest, Leo could not will himself to move.

There was nowhere to go. Nowhere to hide. It was him and that vicious, angry monster with jagged teeth and a cruel sneer.

But that did not stop the fear from surging through him as the Krang drew its fist back, dark metal glinting in the fading light. He couldn’t brace for what he knew was coming, his body was empty, a wet and boneless sack of useless meat and organs that had done no one any good until—

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"Cracker Island" - Gorillaz Adagio in Green: Panacea - Chapter 11: The Exit

“Don’t look!” Splinter tried to grab Donnie’s face to keep him from turning but Donnie wrenched himself free, shoving his father away with a strength that Leo didn’t think his brother had still had, “Purple, do not look at it! Don’t look, please!”

Donnie looked.

And he screamed.

It was a gut-wrenching, visceral scream of pure terror and despair and Leo cried out in response, trying to reach for his brother. Raph held him back, pulled Leo across the hospital bed to press him against Raph’s plastron. It made Leo’s shell ache but it was nothing compared to how much his heart hurt to see what had happened to his brother.

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"Somewhere Only We Know" - Keane Adagio in Green: Panacea - Chapter 8: Awful and Fragile Things

i'm right here i'm right here i'm right here i'm right here

i am lost

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No memory, just a blurry shape outlined in the dark, clinging to a golden thread that trails into the abyss.

The rest of him is down there. He cannot reach himself.

Michelangelo wants to come home. But he can't remember where that is. He can't even remember what it means.