Holding the Blood In by black-katana13, literature
Literature
Holding the Blood In
"Is Leo-?" Donnie barely managed to get two words out before his immediate older brother cut him off.
"Leo's fine! Just finishing off the last of them. Now stop movin'!" Raph pressed down on the bullet wound, mouth twisted into a frown at the blood that still managed to ooze from between his fingers. His brother winced beneath him but otherwise remained still.
Donnie suddenly shuddered, making a noise not unlike coughing.
"Shit! Donnie are you-?!"
The purple-masked turtle looked up at him, his face a mix of agony an amusement. Raph was suddenly aware that his younger brother was laughing.
"Stop laughing you idiot. You're bleeding out and
Holding the Blood In by black-katana13, literature
Literature
Holding the Blood In
"Is Leo-?" Donnie barely managed to get two words out before his immediate older brother cut him off.
"Leo's fine! Just finishing off the last of them. Now stop movin'!" Raph pressed down on the bullet wound, mouth twisted into a frown at the blood that still managed to ooze from between his fingers. His brother winced beneath him but otherwise remained still.
Donnie suddenly shuddered, making a noise not unlike coughing.
"Shit! Donnie are you-?!"
The purple-masked turtle looked up at him, his face a mix of agony an amusement. Raph was suddenly aware that his younger brother was laughing.
"Stop laughing you idiot. You're bleeding out and
Educate Before You Hate by KreepingSpawn, literature
Literature
Educate Before You Hate
There is a disturbing uptick in the frequency, breadth, and intensity of hateful and ignorant language.
This came to a point the other day when someone I count as a friend posted a particularly venomous graphic declaring that Muslims hate: "dogs, beer, bacon, bikinis, Jesus, and freedom of speech," and asking "Why the F**K do they come to the USA?"
The profound ignorance this is rooted in is staggering.
I am not Muslim, but I have done a bit of study of Islam. Through this admittedly minimal research I have still learned a few key points:
Muslims do not hate beer. Their religion cautions them against imbibing any intoxicants,
I was thinking about the Turtles' original mutation, and I had a thought...
They supposedly transformed into anthropomorphic beings because they were in contact with a human (Splinter) and the mutagen recombined their DNA. So wouldn't their "human half" be comprised of Splinter's DNA? Because that would make him kind of genetically their father, beyond the fact that he raised them.
And that might make them genetically brothers, if only from their "human side", though they could already begenetically siblings from their "turtle half".
I don't even know if they technically have "halves" from either species. Dang it mutagen! You make their gen