Took Me A Day But I Finished It Yayayay

Raphael skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Turtle shells are really funky, and in real life turtles, their shoulders and hips are actually fused to the shell and form immobile shoulder and pelvic girdles. Their scapula (shoulder blades) therefore are pushed almost fully downwards to give turtle arms that elbow up look. Most of their muscles are attached via ligaments to their plastron and limbs, with their large neck muscles reaching back along their spine with very minimal muscles on their sides or back.

Because of how funky their bones are, I tried to find a good middle ground between the brothers’ humanoid shape and mobility vs. their original species limitations. Their shoulders are very human, with their collarbone instead connecting to the top of their plastron rather than a sternum (flat bone in the middle of the ribs) with the addition of their shoulder blades resting much lower than a humans and protecting the open space in the armpit of their shell (rather than being set on their back under their carapace). Their necks can stretch slightly longer than a humans and have some extra mobility, on account of how they usually sit curved and tucked into their shoulders. Their pelvises and lumbar vertebrae (hips and lower back) are not fused to their shell to enable them to twist their torsos some.

As for how flexible the show depicts their shells to be… suspension of disbelief! I like to keep the idea of their shells being turtle like, so even though they’re all bone, I’ll allow cartoon physics to bend them some.

Additional info on Raph: The spikes on his shell are mostly bone. Also (something I didn’t draw because it was only after I finished this that I was able to find a picture of an alligator snapper shell bone without its scutes) there are small gaps between his pleural bone plates (middle of shell) and his peripheral bone plates (edges of shell). The scar on his shell is probably from a bone deep injury, as broken scutes shed away, but because scars don’t grow with a person, the injury is small enough that it probably happened so long ago that Raph can’t even remember it.

This is all just my speculation, so feel free to disagree or expand upon these ideas!

[General][Donnie][Leo][Mikey][Splinter]

Я забыл показать это. Забегался на работе.

I forgot to show this. I got caught up at work.

У меня возникли сложности, когда настал черёд Рафаэля. Я не хотел менять масштаба локации. Так что пришлось выкручиваться по другому. Но у меня получилось необычное взаимодействие

I had a problem when it was Raphael's turn. I didn't want to change the scale of the location. So I had to do it differently. But I was able to make an unusual interaction

I did it

Btw English is not my native language, so maybe I translated this song incorrectly and it may actually have some strange meaning. But I hope it's ok.

Как пахнет Кренг | What Kreng smells like

Осторожно, упоминание крови и смерти | Watch out for references to blood and death

Я слышал от врача скорой помощи, что, если на месте вызова в воздухе запах ванили, то это смерть. Без вариантов.

I heard an EMT say that if there's the smell of vanilla in the air at the scene of a call, it's death. There's no way.

Мозг, поскольку потребляет много глюкозы, закономерно и логично имеет сладковатый запах. Запах ванили довольно близок.

The brain, because it consumes a lot of glucose, naturally and logically has a sweetish odour. The smell of vanilla is pretty close.

Но в тоже время, я читал некоторые посты хирургов и практикантов с довольно жестокими историями.

But at the same time, I've read some posts by surgeons and trainees with some pretty brutal stories.

Среди историй мне попалась рассказ об пострадавшем в транспортной аварии мужчине. Переломы, внутреннее кровотечение в брюшной полости и травма головы. Все травмы закрытые, казалось бы, всё не так плохо. Спасают бедолагу два хирурга: один вскрывает брюха, второй череп, что бы избавится от внутреннего кровотечения.

Among the stories I came across was that of a man injured in a transport accident. Fractures, internal bleeding in the abdomen and head trauma. All the injuries are closed, so it doesn't seem so bad. Two surgeons save the poor man: one opens the abdomen, the other the skull to get rid of the internal bleeding.

Нейрохирург вскрывает череп и не успевает он что-то сделать, в сделанное им аккуратное отверстии черепа вылезают и взрываются мозги. Наверное, из-за кровяного давления в черепе от травмы головы, скопившаяся кровь просто вытолкнула мозг.

The neurosurgeon opens the skull and before he can do anything, the brains come out and explode in the neat hole he made in the skull. Probably because of the blood pressure in the skull from the head injury, the accumulated blood just pushed the brain out.

Практикантка писала о том, что никогда не забудет как попавшие на неё и хирурга мозги пахли сыром.

A trainee wrote about how she would never forget how the brains that fell on her and the surgeon smelled like cheese.

Почему конкретно в этой ситуации мозги пахли сыром, я не уверен. Возможно, это было связано с каким-то заболеванием, или из-за того что они буквально взорвались.

Why exactly in this situation the brains smelled like cheese, I'm not sure. Perhaps it was due to some kind of illness, or because they literally exploded.

В итоге этого увлекательного погружения в нейрохирургию с летальным исходом пациентов я пришёл к мысли, что Кренг как существо, имеет сладковатый запах ванили.

As a result of this fascinating dive into neurosurgery with fatal patient outcomes, I've come to believe that Kreng, as a creature, has a sweet-smelling vanilla odour.

Кефер без своего головного убора. /вздыхает/ 

(я не могу смериться что он лысый, так что вот волосы да…) 

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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

prompt #21 ana and leo angst 💔💔💔

Two more left -

Staffage cоmmissiоn for TornadoTurbulence

The bigger one gets to be the boss!

My OC couple Rimerock (the silver drake, he/him) and Larksharius (the black coatl, they/them)