“Comfort Character” is not a declaration of ownership. Just because you relate to a character deeply, and see yourself in them, does not mean you get to go around policing the stories that get told regarding them, or the how they’re depicted in said stories.

I wanna be clear. Im not saying you can’t pose genuine questions and have perfectly reasonable discussions about the intricacies of hard topics. In fact, fiction can even help make those discussions easier to digest by lowering the stakes, because there are not any actual stakes when none of it is real.

Unfortunately, I’ve been seeing the entire opposite. People taking stories that may make them “uncomfy”, and declaring that they’ve now decided they are taking it personally, to near obsessive levels. You are not the only one allowed to play with these characters. It is a huge sandbox, and these toys are mass produced enough for everyone to have their own doll to do with whatever they’d like.

I get you might see yourself in a character, but that doesn’t give you the right to go around sending death threats just because someone wrote, or drew your current blorbo in an unfavorable light. Prioritizing some cluster of lines and colors over the mental health and safety of actual real human beings, is worse than whatever fictional, moral “atrocity” that you think you’re championing against. You only end up sounding just like the people calling for book banning in schools.

You are not the character. You are not being hurt. The character is not even being hurt, because they do not in fact, exist to actually experience any of the pain creators are putting them through. And most importantly, you have no claim on how other people entertain themselves with said character. Because that is what these characters are. Entertainment. They can be used in good or bad stories. If you don’t like how a creator is using them. Move on. Don’t send death threats or attacks.

Block and filter your tags.

I have triggers, but that is my issue to control and maintain. It is appreciated when steps are taken by creators to help me avoid the things that trigger me, but I don’t wish death and pain on anyone who doesn’t view the world through the same lens as myself, and might not have considered my own personal feelings on the matter. My feelings of unease or anxiety from coming into contact with my own triggers, might be valid, but initiating an attack on a creator, because I took a personal offense to their story, is not. I do not outright assume that something was created with me and my tastes in mind.

Also, this is not aimed at any one person. This is a rampant issue that I have seen first hand, going back all the way to more than a year ago. I’ve seen it happen in multiple fandoms, but as I spend most of my time in the Rise fandom, that’s where I see the worst of it. I’ve received attacks, I know other creators have received attacks, and if this keeps up, creators will just stop wanting to share anything at all.

I also need to emphasize, I’m not mad. This is not a lashing out. This is just a frustrating and hurtful trend to constantly witness, when creators are putting their own heart, time, and energy into creating intriguing and complex works of all kinds in order to broaden the beauty of this fandom, and they’re getting anonymous messages to kill themselves.

Basically, it was a confession about something that bothered them a lot: angst fanfics that focus on Donnie, especially those that give him the Kraang trauma that, in theory, should have affected Raph more. The discussion wasn’t only about this, but I want to focus on this point and offer a new perspective on why, in my opinion, it happens. Because yes, for me there’s a very clear explanation, and it comes from a flaw in the rottmnt movie (yes, you heard that right, even if it hurts).

Donnie, the best most purple boy!!!!

Picture used for it down bellow!

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DGBIYS! Leo belongs to @devildewdrop

LFST! Leo belongs to @alsfunkyalbum

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Sweet boy Mikey is up first!

Been working on this off and on for a little while, and am pretty happy with the results. I tried some new rendering and coloring techniques and I definitely like how it looks. I have all the turtles planned for this line up (including Mazie), so I'll be working on one of those next. Probably Donnie.

Heck, let's sit down and talk about just one episode, okay, just one episode in the entire series that basically has it all.

"Aliens came to New York, kidnapped people (including one or more of turtles), and basically took over with the home base being a giant fleshy mass? Oh, and that fleshy mass has the means to trap the brothers so they can't escape while on board? The leader just has endless minion to do his bidding? One brother almost died but ended up okay? The leader has just a MASSIVE feud with the turtles for basically no reason other than he finds them to be meddling kids?"

And if we wanna talk about the other things, the series has it, I promise you, every element is accounted for somewhere:

"What about the brainwashing" it's literally every other episode that someone is being brainwashed, I think they have already become numb to that being an avoidable option. It's just life at this point.

"Leon has horrific injures but they're not portrayed bad enough for the audience to appreciate how bad they are" WINDOOOWWWW