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Call me Sea! They/Them | Pinoy | Early 30s Tired library worker & hobbyist storyteller 🌈Queer AF🌈 PROSHIPPERS DNFI (that includes tcesters so shoo, get out) Currently: Working on SAINW Roadtrip AU and other such wips (so so many)

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Apr 18

New📌!

Edited selfie of a medium skinned person with short dark hair with a diamond pattern shaved into the side of their head. They smile with glasses and hold out a hand with their sona edited into it. Their sona is a tiny sunflower person with a blue sea-inspired cloak. There are white sparkles doodled all over the selfie with a ^w^ cat face talk bubble coming from the person. In the top left is joyfuladorable's watermark that looks like a tapestry combining a wave and a vine with a sunflower.

Infographic about joyfuladorable. It features their sona, C the Sunflower saying "Hiya! Call me Sea! (they/them) -NB AroAce- Find me on most socials @joyfuladorable. I'm a library worker and hobbyist storyteller!" The next panels feature collages of different art joyfuladorable has done as they say "I like creating things with... Strong Familial Bonds! Queer Themes (Especially Sapphic)! And Hurt/Comfort!"

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · 8d

Scrolling tumblr instead of writing my whumptober fics ✨

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · 10d

The Flowers (chosen based on Vibes):
Mikey - Sunflower
Donnie - Chrysanthemum
Raph - Dragon's Breath (Celosia)
Leo - Lotus
Splinter - Asters (Shion)
April - Succulents
Casey - Dandelions

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · 10d

[2/2] Plus the rest of the fam!

Colored illustration of TMNT 2003 Splinter kneeling in front of a flower pot wearing a red robe that's slightly patched up. He has one eye open with his mouth partially open as he notices a small white butterfly perched on the tip of his right ear. He's holding a green watering can aloft in one hand as a pot with a dirt and trowel rest on his right side with his tail curling lazily around it. His other hand rests on the dark rectangular pot in front of him with its visible side decorated with paint of a blue handprint, a purple handprint, and orange smiley face, and a smeared red handprint clearly done by his young turtle sons. The pot is filled with purple blooming asters. The background is a soft green.

Colored Illustration of TMNT 2003 April as a child wearing a shortsleeved purple hoodie under light denim overalls and her red hair done up in a bun with a braid wrapped around it and tied with a pink ribbon. She is sitting with her legs bent and feet touching as she cradles a golden pot filled with different kinds of succulents in her hands. She smiles with a smattering of freckles along her nose and cheeks as she looks up and to the right at something unseen. The background is a light pinkish red.

Colored illustration of TMNT 2003 Casey as a child wearing a red shirt over a white shirt with the sleeves pushed up, cuffed jeans, gold wristbands, and brown sneakers. He sits with his legs pretzeled in front of him while smiling goofily at the small pot of dandelions that he's holding up in his palms. The background is a soft yellow.

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · 10d

[1/2] Doodled some kids with green thumbs 🌻

#tmnt #tmnt2003

Colored illustration of TMNT 2003 Mikey as a turtle tot with his mask wrapped around his neck smiling and looking playfully off to the top right. He is clutching a big flower pot in both hands with a huge sunflower taller than his head sprouting from it. The background color is a light blue.

Colored illustration of TMNT 2003 Donnie as a turtle tot with his mask pushed up on his forehead. He sits with his shell facing the screen, chin turned up as he smiles, looking off at whoever off-screen is getting his attention. His legs are crossed as he holds a big book with the visible page titled 'Chrysanthemums' as a purple pot of colorful chrysanthemums rests beside him. The background is a light red.

Colored illustration of TMNT 2003 Leo as a turtle tot kneeling in front of a rectangular blue pot filled with water and lotus leaves and blossums. Leo wears his mask around his neck with the tails sticking out from one side as he smiles down at his plant while poking a single finger slightly into the water. The background is a light orange.

Colored illustration of TMNT 2003 Raph as a turtle tot as he sits with a big pot full of dragon's breath flowers cradled between his limbs and his mask tied around the top of his head like a bandana. He smiles down at the flowers, admiring them and with one of his teeth missing. He has a purple bandaid on one knee and a taped up green watering can resting near his leg. The background is a soft purple.

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · 22d

Textless first page cuz I really like how it came out!

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · 22d

He says, like a lying liar would say.

Ch. 5 of the SAINW Roadtrip AU out now! That feel when you try to bond with your older brother from an alternate universe and he tries to shut it down like an idiot.
archiveofourown.org/works/639897...

#sainwroadtripau #tmnt #tmnt2003

Page 1 illustration of Chapter 5 of the SAINW Roadtrip AU Book 1 Reunion depicting Don and Leo sitting on either side of a campfire with the silhouettes of trees behind them and a vast night sky above them. Lit by the fire, Don sits with Usagi's sword with the turtle shell charm sheathed and resting on his lap as he looks up at the sky with his mask pushed above his brow. He asks "Do you remember stargazing on the rooftops as kids?" Across from him, Leo stares passively, sitting with one hand resting on his knee while the other hand cradles his two swords against his shoulder, a wooden rabbit foot charm hanging from one hilt.

Page 2 comic illustration of Chapter 5 of Roadtrip Reunion. The upper left panel depicted older Leo's stoic face lit by the campfire. The main illustration is Don and Leo as turtle tots sharing a blanket on a rooftop of a completely dark city and marveling up at the stars. Their faces are agape in childlike wonder as kid Don points up at something while kid Leo follows the gesture with his eyes and keeps hold of the shared blanket with one hand. The bottom right panel shows older Leo turning his face away and saying "Not really, no."

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Sep 9

About to eat spaghetti with chopsticks because I forgot to bring a fork from home and I couldn’t find a disposable fork in the break room

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Aug 22

Just in case the Medal for Unparalleled Honor isn't enough for folks to recognize the Champ (y'all, I'm so damn EXCITED for the Battle Nexus comic!!)
#tmnt #tmnt2003 #tmntmikey

Illustration page of TMNT 2003 Mikey posing with a custom orange letterman jacket with white and gray sleeves, the front decorated with gold stripes and a white circled symbol on the left side and the back decorated with a circular red and black turle symbol overlayed with bold gold text saying Battle Nexus Champion. The first pose is Mikey smiling with a wink wearing the jacket and an orange bucket hat with a gold leaf laurel embroidered along the sides as he gestures towards the purple gem of the Medal for Unparalleled Honor he's wearing around his neck. The second pose, Mikey shows off the back of the jacket, smiling proudly with a raised thumb pointing to the text. The last pose is a full body shot of Mikey in action, his posture low as he raises one of his nunchaku up while twirling the other in front of him. He smiles with his tongue sticking out, and his medal shines as it jostles against his plastron.

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Aug 16

The 03 screenshots I referenced:

Screenshot from the TMNT 2003 episode Cousin Sid. A close up of April scowling while wearing a cream colored turtleneck while standing inside Casey's family farmhouse.

Screenshot from the TMNT 2003 episode Meet Casey Jones. A close up shot of Casey sitting in a blue armchair and glaring while cast mostly in shadow and doing bicep curls with a huge weight in his left hand.

Screenshot from the TMNT 2003 episode The Search for Splinter Part 2. Casey and April riding on an Utrom hover cart to escape from the TCRI building.

Screenshot from the TMNT 2003 episode Reflections. Casey and April sitting on a picnic blanket by the trees near the farmhouse. They just sat down after April calmed Casey down and are just now realizing they're still holding hands.

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Aug 16

Capril screenshot redraws for funsies and cuteness!
#tmnt #rottmnt #capril #apriloneil #caseyjones #dontcallhercass #yuri

Screenshot redraw of Rise of the TMNT April. It's a close up of her face and shoulders as she glares and scowls at the camera wearing a cream colored turtleneck and her hair part up in a single poof with poofy bangs in the front and two braided strands framing her face and ending in gold rings.

Screenshot redraw of Rise of the TMNT Casey. Wearing 03 Casey's fit, Rise Casey leans back in a blue chair as she does bicep curls with a big weight in her left hand. She glares forward framed by the light of an unseen tv which casts her mostly in shadow.

Screenshot redraw of Rise of the TMNT Casey and April. Casey wear's 03 Casey's fit plus a long dark collared coat and April wears a dark green suit jacket and skirt combo over a yellow collared shirt and dark tights. They are both holding onto the metal bar of a mostly unseen vehicle as they shoot forward quickly, their expressions wide eyed and gaping. One of Casey's hands is around April's waist to hold her steady.

Screenshot redraw of Rise of the TMNT Casey and April. Sat on a blue checkered picnic blanket by the edge of a tree and foliage on a sunny day, Casey and April look at each other in almost awed surprise as they hold each others hands seeming in mid handshake. Casey wears a red tank and green pants, her muscular arms covered in bruises and pale scars. A scar splits her brow and she has two friendship bracelets and a purple muscle bandaid on her right arm. Her dark hair is short and shaggy as she looks at April with a lidded eye softness. April wears a crop top pink tank with a tiny yellow kitty head symbol across the left breast, a yellow choker, and denim shorts with a green belt. Part of her hair is up with a pink scrunchie, and she has her Mad Dogz communicator around her left wrist and a green friendship bracelet around her right. Her expression is wide eyed, mouth partially agape as she looks at Casey.

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Shellsweet @shellsweet.bsky.social · Aug 6

Battle nexus champion coming through! #TMNT

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Aug 3

WOAAAHHH… there’s so much emotional intensity in this!! The way she’s Literally Cracking :(

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yesterday’s haircut ✌🏼🌻

Selfie of a person with medium tone skin wearing glasses and earrings showing off a buzz cut with a pattern shaved into the side of flower petals

Pic of the side and back of the haircut, showing off the geometric flower petals along the hairline and a heart shaped leaf

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 31

Imagine writing 6k words in one day for a fic snippet that won’t get posted until next year lmao #sainwroadtripau

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 23

Bonus moth/text-less page and isolated moth! This was so fun to draw!!

Same as first post's image except without the moth and text so the backgrounds/landsccapes are more visible

Transparent drawn image of a luna moth with extra long tails for style

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 23

Visiting moths usually go hand-in-hand with tranquil nights. Gods know they’d need as many of those as possible during this trip.
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Ch. 4 of the SAINW Roadtrip AU out now! When the symbolism hits before the tragedy...
archiveofourown.org/works/63989758…#sainwroadtripaua#tmntn#tmnt200303

A three panel illustration of TMNT 2003 middle-aged Usagi and a young Donatello for Chapter 4 of SAINW Roadtrip AU Book 1: Reunion. The two small parallel panels at the top depict Splinter's grave carved grave marker in Central Park with his walking stick resting against it while the other depicts a full moon lit landscape in Usagi's world with a lone cherry blossom tree visible on the side with a rock and staff with a gourd tied to it resting against it. The main panel at the bottom depicts a scarred older Usagi and a young bandaged and hoodie-wearing Don sitting seiza side-by-side in a delapidated room at night with an older Leo hiding in a partially visible doorway. Usagi's hands are calmly resting on his lap with his wedding ring visible. Don's hands are clasped concerned and hopeful as they both look up at a luna moth, a green moth with a trailing tail, that flies in the foreground above them and over the center of the top two panels. Don asks "Who...Who do you think is visiting?"

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ch. 17-19! UwU bsky.app/profile/joyf...

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 18

Extra special colored fic fanart for those last 3 chapters of Weathered Strings, Tethered Wings by @deadpool1763492.bsky.social!
archiveofourown.org/works/522261...

#tmnt #tmnt2003 #sainw

Spoiler warning for Chapters 17 to 19 of the fic Weathered Strings, Tethered Wings

Colored illustration depicting a moment from chapter 17 of TMNT SAINW Mikey and Weathered Strings Lita. Lita hugs Mikey tightly around his middle, looking up at him in concern. Mikey, roughed up after an intense fight, smiles gently down at Lita, returning the hug with his intact hand cradling the back of Lita's head. Lita hesitantly says "D- Daijobu?" in a small voice, and Mikey replies with "Hai, Lita. Daijobu." The background is the warm yellows and oranges of a sunset through the branches and trunks of trees.

Colored illustration depicting a moment from Chapter 18 of TMNT SAINW Raph and Weathered Strings Lita. Lita smiles in relief as she clings onto Raph. Raph, sans jacket to reveal his heavily scarred shell and arms, smiles down at her, returning the hug and patting her head as he says "I missed you, too, kid, don't worry." The background are the soft purples, pinks, and reds of twilight coming peeking through the trees.

Colored illustration depicting a moment from Chapter 19 of TMNT SAINW Mikey and Leo and Weathered Strings Lita. Sitting in a smiling Mikey's lap, Lita, wearing Raph's overly large jacket, looks down shyly at Leo, who is laying on his shell, cushioned by his own coat against a rock. Lita calls Leo "Chichi?" which makes Leo smile softly up at her despite all of his injuries. The background are the peaceful blues and greens of dusk against the leaf-strewn grasses of a forest clearing.

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 18

Extra special colored fic fanart for those last 3 chapters of Weathered Strings, Tethered Wings by @deadpool1763492.bsky.social!
archiveofourown.org/works/522261...

#tmnt #tmnt2003 #sainw

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 11

IDW Cover redraw! April O'Neil, the character that you are... Something something, a story where Casey is incapacitated & the turtles are nowhere to be seen so April has to go on a warpath to get shit done & looks really cool while doing it, the end!

#tmnt #rottmnt #apriloneil

Cover Redraw Illustration of Rise of the TMNT April. Wearing Casey Jones Sr's goaltender mask with her hair loose and sporting a green leather jacket over a fitted yellow shirt, a red belt, and dark pants and accessorizinng with metal knuckled fingerless gloves, dog tags, and a lanyard clipped to the left side of her waist, April stands menacingly front facing holding a wrapped red hockey stick in front of her and glowering with glowing green eyes through the goaltender mask. There is an unseen breeze pushing her hair and clothing to the left. The background is a watercolor red with big yellow text above and behind her saying APRIL O'NEIL

Image of the TMNT IDW Cover C Variant drawn by Juan Ferreyra for Issue #011 of the 2025 mainline comic series. It features April O'Neil wearing Casey's mask and holding his hockey stick.

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 7

Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant (Nghi Vo's Singing Hills Cycle novellas have me Enraptured)

Colored doodle of a shaved headed person in indigo robes walking along an unseen dirt path as they write with a graphite pencil in a bound journal as a hoopoe bird flies and talks near their head

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hannah 🦋🦌🌲 @redstringraven.bsky.social · Jul 3

finished a fanfic dono request for @tmntcharity.bsky.social!
this is for @joyfuladorable.bsky.social, who wanted "an 03 Mikey-centric fic with him having a crossover adventure with a comic book hero".

snippet & link below! thanks, dude! 🌷
archiveofourown.org/works/66980413

#tmnt2003 | #tmntfic

[ID: screenshot snippet of the linked tmnt fanfiction. it reads as follows:

The warehouse had half-collapsed, but it wasn’t his fault.

… Technically.

The night began in such a mundane way, Mikey should have been suspicious. He’d torn up the living room, but the movie he’d been dead-set on watching refused to surface. Leo wandered in (NOT because he’d been lamenting his non-success as loudly and pathetically as possible!) and told him Casey borrowed the movie last week. Which... was kind of weird. Didn’t expect the lughead to be into something like Mean Girls. But after Mikey mumbled this frustration, Leo clarified Angel wanted to watch it. Casey had picked it up on her behalf. Okay; making a bit more sense now. Should have led with that, Bronardo.

Things were still pretty whackadoo since the Triceraton invasion. Yeeeah, Mikey knew it was a bad idea to go out into the city—especially alone. But a quick dip to Angel’s place and back was nothing! He could do it blindfolded, in his sleep—maybe even both if Raph were watching.

Looking back on it, he’s super relieved he hadn’t said that to Leo before he’d left.
/END ID]

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 2

a woman screams in front of a sign that says titans are terrific

ALT: a woman screams in front of a sign that says titans are terrific

media.tenor.com

🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jul 1

Some delightful yuri (and genderfluid Mikey) doodles from the closing of the month

Colored sketch of Sheena and Jennika from TMNT IDW. Sheena smiles and looks at Jenny as Jen embraces her lovingly from behind and moves to nuzzle her cheek.

Colored sketches of genderfluid TMNT 2003 Mikey. One sketch is a masculine Mikey with his arms crossed wearing the baggy clothes from Fallen Angel. The other sketch is a feminine Mikey posing as she wears a blue floral patterned long sleeved dress tied at the waist with a black ribbon. Her mask is over her brow like a bandana with circular sunglasses perched over them. In the top left is a teeny doodle of the Turtle Titan with a genderfluid flag cape.

Colored sketch of TMNT 2003 Renet and Donnie. Renet wears a casual blue outfit as she sits on her haunches so that Donnie can rest his head in her lap. Renet smiles gently down at Don as her long blonde hair blows in the breeze and she trails his mask tails through her fingers. Donnie's eyes are closed as he lays on his shell with his hands resting over the open face down book on his plastron.

Silly colored one panel comic of Rise of the TMNT April and Casey. They both wear summer clothes as April teasingly smiles at Casey with her hands cupped over a bug. Casey sweats nervously as she glares and leans away from April with her arms crossed. "Case, it's just A Bug." April says to which Casey responds. "Well, keep it Away."

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jun 25

"I'm tired..."
"Then, let us sleep."
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Chapter 3 of SAINW Roadtrip AU: Bk. 1 Reunion out now! Happy Pride to middle-aged Leosagi!!
archiveofourown.org/works/639897...

#sainwroadtripau #tmnt #tmnt2003 #sainw #katanashipping #leosagi #tmntleo #miyamotousagi

A three panel illustration of TMNT 2003 middle-aged Usagi and Leo inspired by the design of the episode Same as it Never Was. Both are scarred and world weary but their expressions are soft and loving as Usagi places a kiss on Leo's forehead, then the bridge of his nose, and finally on the lips. The background is a gradient blue with sparkles outside of the panel borders indicating night.

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🌻Joyfully Sea🌊 @joyfuladorable.bsky.social · Jun 24

The song: noelshiri.bandcamp.com/track/news