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Being The "Smart One" by Puregold
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
10 Dec 2019
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Donnie had always known he was a little off, even for someone who was a mutant turtle living in the sewers with his 3 turtle brothers and rat dad.
Donnie got along with his brothers just fine, for the most part, but sometimes they'd say something and he just wouldn't quite understand what they were talking about, or Leo would make a joke that left everyone in stitches while it flew right over Donnie's head.
He didn't understand why his brothers didn't love and appreciate technology as much as he did. Sure, they thought his tech was awesome and would praise him for his accomplishments, but whenever he wanted to rant and ramble about the latest thing he was working on and all the technical components within it he'd get awkward smiles and strange looks. It made Donnie feel like he wasn't quite right.
Then, of course, there were those awful times when some awful thing would happen, or when everything was too loud and bright and Donnie would just scream and rant and rave because it sucked, and he was hurting. Why was he in so much pain, why did he experience this when his brothers never seemed to have this problem?
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12 Feb 2026
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The Chirp is Good by KayGryffin
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
02 Nov 2022
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He’d known about it well before Splinter kicked him out of his lab. How far back it went, he has no clear idea. Burnout is tricky. Sometimes he can tell the moment it starts to rear its head, and then he can go and decompress by skateboarding or playing video games, or by falling into the hole of a different hyper fixation until the feeling stops burning at his brain. Sometimes, though, it sneaks up on him and takes him by the throat, and the best he can do is just ride it out and hope he’ll crash before he melts.
“So a while, then?”
“…Maybe.”
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Donnie may or may not be going through burnout. His family may or may not be worried. Who's to say, really?
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10 Feb 2026
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After Me Comes the Flood by Genius_Built (itsnotasecrettoeverybody)
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
15 Dec 2023
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Donnie hadn’t misinterpreted it, no, Raph had actually told him to stay away from Mikey. His own brother. For no reason.
Well, perhaps not for no reason…
Donnie turned quickly to his computer, typing in the query that had been bothering him since Raph had first mentioned it.
Alligator snapping turtle biology.
Within minutes, his suspicions — and fears — were confirmed.
The water wasn’t just getting to them, it was drawing out all their base turtle instincts.
It explained everything. His brothers' enjoyment of the water, Raph’s aggression, Leo being extra annoying, even Mikey becoming more possessive. His own longing to submerge himself, the building irritation that itched beneath his skin the longer he denied his instincts—---
During an intense rainy season, the lair begins to flood, and Donnie is the only one who can keep their home from sinking beneath the waters. It would be a lot easier to manage if the rain hadn't triggered their hindbrains to run wild.
2023 AFFA AWARD WINNER!
2nd Place: Best Comedy
3rd Place: Best Donatello, Best Mikey, Best Multi-ChapterBookmarked by Step_by_Step8
09 Feb 2026
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twin, definition two and three by Nicoforlife
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
15 Jan 2023
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Donnie was the first one to call them twins actually, because it was true.
doesn't make nearly losing that twin hurt any less
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- Part 2 of Of rooks and bishops
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07 Feb 2026
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Every Night the Longest Day by ashtreelane
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
25 Nov 2022
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Honestly? None of them take mystic as seriously as they should. Sure they respect it and are fascinated by it (excluding Donnie), but none of them really considered the dangers that it may hold for the four of them.
A fight with a mystic user is going to change that forever.
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Leo is struck with a curse that makes him unable to sleep. As his mind deteriorates and his family struggles for an answer, he slowly loses himself to his delirium, unable to tell reality from his mind.- Language:
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30 Jan 2026
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creation, haunted and holy by greenglowsgold
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
09 Jan 2023
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When Donnie bonds with the Technodrome, it falls a little bit in love.
—and they don’t let go.
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- Part 1 of creation, haunted and holy
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29 Jan 2026
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switch 404 (dead man's error) by VeryCoolKid69420
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
12 Sep 2022
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“You alright?”
Mikey’s looking at him. His eyes are searching, scanning him up and down, like a watchdog. Donnie’s in the middle of getting to his feet to work, and he can’t possibly open up to him. It’s stupid. Irrational. Deplorable.
Donnie offers back a pathetic grin. “I’m fine.” The words are quick, seamless. Mikey smiles something bright at him, the answer giving no one anything to think about, nothing to consider. Mikey is busy, busy like Donnie is, and he can’t bring himself to throw another thing onto the youngest brother.
He feels his shell pounding. Flesh ticking like clockwork. There’s no pain, not yet, just brass bright growing stains in his flawless techwear. No one notices.
Good. He’s got a lot of work to do.
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Or, in which Donnie is a worker first and a person second.
(Or, in which Donnie convinces himself he is nothing more than a robot. He’ll work through the pain, work through the slashes on his shell, work through the migraines. His brothers, however, won’t stand for that…
…If they catch onto it, that is.)
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18 Jan 2026
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The Cons of Bottling Things Up by Neutral03
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
14 Dec 2021
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April has noticed that Leo has been bottling thigns up lately. She's not a big fan, and is determined to do something about it.
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- Part 2 of TMNT Universe
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17 Jan 2026
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Perfect Machine by Petra4President
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
24 Feb 2023
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There was nothing that Donatello wouldn't do for his family. They meant everything to him, they were his entire world, they were all he needed. It didn't matter what he had to do to keep them happy. To make sure they were safe.
Unfortunately, that also meant changing parts of himself his brothers didn't necessarily understand. Its what they wanted, so its what Donatello would do.
Or, five things Donatello changed about himself and the one time his family found out. Inspired by the song Perfect Machine by Starset
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17 Jan 2026
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our lives are made in these small hours by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
12 Nov 2023
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“No one talked to me, so I didn’t talk back. Maybe I should’ve, I don’t know. But I didn’t, and now when I freak out, I can’t. I didn’t talk in the cage, so I can’t talk when I go back there.”
“You don’t go anywhere,” Raph snapped. His voice had that bite to it that made Mikey wonder how his throat didn’t bleed. “You’re right here, alright? You’re not going back.”
“They took me out when you guys showed up,” Leo continued, as if Raph hadn’t spoken at all. “Dragged the cage out of the closet and unlocked it, put restraints on me before I knew what was happening. Then they shoved me around a bit, and I didn’t do shit. It was so much after so long with so little. I thought I was dying.”
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Leo after solitary confinement from getting kidnapped for six weeks. Being alone is tough. Being with brothers makes it a bit easier.
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- Part 3 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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13 Jan 2026
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Translate the Problem by Professor_Anxietree
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
02 Apr 2021
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Mikey told them he was in Dimension X for a few months at most. He said everything was fine. He lied. In the days leading up to the invasion, the rest of the team become more and more convinced their brother is hiding something from them. When they find out just how much Mikey has been through and how he's changed, they must fight through years of doubt and pain to help him.
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- Part 1 of Coded Solutions
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13 Jan 2026
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Mikey has always seen Leo as a mom, but he’d never admit it…until he slips up
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- Part 2 of TMNT/ROTTMNT Oneshots
- Part 1 of Mama Leo
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07 Jan 2026
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Into Dimension X by HolyKingWasteLand
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
26 Nov 2019
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What if Mikey was really in Dimension X for a lot longer than "a few hours"?
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07 Jan 2026
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With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds by ellembee
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
06 Apr 2015
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“While she loves Tucker more than anything (and anyone) in the world, it sucks that her most personal secret is on display whenever they’re in public. People don’t know what she needs him for, but they see his vest, the words ‘Service Dog, Please Do Not Pet’ printed across his chest, and they know she is a little bit broken.” Modern AU.
Written for Prompts in Panem, Round 7, Day 6.
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01 Jan 2026
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" Pomni fought through that stature of his, and he let her, foolishly. He had allowed himself the pleasure of friendship, of companionship in the past and all it did was cause more torment for his mind, scrubbing his fragile soul raw, open to the air. Stinging, familiar to the feeling of when an abstracted individual lowered their blackened limbs onto his shoulder, a collection of eyes focused onto his own shrunken pupils. Eyes that used to be kind, humor dancing in them much like his own, a friendship covered by an inky black substance, forgotten in the cellar. "
Post Episode 7 Funnybunny for the soul that I desperately craved. That's all.
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22 Dec 2025
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over and over (lost again) by TeaBrigadier
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
29 Aug 2023
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I died in the Hunger Games.
It isn’t even the first time it’s happened.
I’ve died in the Hunger Games five times now.When Katniss Everdeen dies in the Hunger Games and wakes up back in District Twelve, she chalks it up to a realistic nightmare. But she soon realizes that it was real and she's going to have to repeat the Hunger Games until she makes it out alive.
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15 Dec 2025
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Kim Seungmin fell in love with him at first sight, but it was always destined for heartbreak. He died, his heart shattered, as he watched his beloved marry someone else. In the next life, he was reborn in a different timeline, only to meet him again and face the same tragic fate. This cycle repeated, with history always dooming Seungmin to the same cruel end. But in his 7th life, Seungmin made a vow...
He would treat him as his mortal enemy. He would never let himself fall in love with Lee Minho again. Never again.
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- Part 11 of SKZ Seungmin centric
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12 Dec 2025
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All the World Drops Dead by ellembee
Fandoms: The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
12 Dec 2016
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Peeta’s voice has been inside her head since she turned 14. She doesn’t know why they share a connection, and she doesn’t care. She likes having him with her. They comfort each other. Protect each other. Until he goes where she cannot follow. Until he enters the arena. (Based loosely on the film “In Your Eyes.”)
Written for the Movies in the Month of May Everlark Challenge.
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10 Dec 2025
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Between Nino's rejection of Chat Noir, Gabriel's use of Lila to monitor him and Ladybug's new role as Guardian of the Miraculous, Adrien's already unstable life is changing faster than he can handle. But Kuro Neko? Kuro Neko hurt.
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09 Nov 2025
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Pomni gets sick of Jax switching up on her all the time. When he attempts to make her jealous, she gets revenge with Evil Jax, leading her to find out some very new things and feelings from Jax in his fit of jealous rage, not previously shared between the two before.
Long story short: Pomni finds out Jax likes to be scratched behind the ears as well.
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08 Oct 2025