Sorry For Being Back On My Bullshit

MAKE. NOISE. TELL THEM EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT

dude I feel the same way ;-; I'm scared to rewatch all ninjago just because of how much cringe I felt at JUST THE FIRST EPISODE

I'm trying to watch season 8, but every time harumi and lloyd are on screen together I cringe in second-hand embarrassment. Like knowing what's gonna happen somehow makes it worse.

So I'm pausing every 11 seconds to recover and I can tell it's gonna take a week to get ep 3.

Oh my god he's finished.....

To anyone who sees this..

update: I'm new here so ig I have to wait for the poll to end for it to end.......but it's at 69% so I am gonna start on that photoshoot ;D

oh yeah *attempts to keep eyes up* yeah it really helps for sure. *comically tries to keep eyes from-*

I also drew Kai from my AU… if that helps

bro yes yes YES, I can't stress how much I miss my boy ;-; This is such a perfect explanation of him™. He has always been my favourite and after all this time, after all the episodes I watched, even if I thought I might've liked others more now. It's still him, it always will be ;-;

Thinking about Jay’s role in the team, and I know I’ve mentioned before that Jay’s main themes are family, and that if given the choice between his close circle of loved ones and the greater good he’ll choose the former, but also another thing that sets him apart from everyone else is the reason why he’s a ninja. With characters like Zane and Cole it’s mentioned multiple times that their purpose is to take care of others, those who can’t protect themselves. Nya and Kai also have this duty/responsibility theme that makes a lot of sense considering the circumstances they both grew up in, and that they both have in common that they want to prove themselves at first and then focus on the role that “they’re supposed to” play (aka; Kai accepting that his role isn’t to be the green ninja and that his duty is to protect Lloyd, and Nya accepting to stop being the samurai X which was her way of proving herself even without being a ninja and in the end becoming the water ninja). Lloyd has a mix of all of this because he's constantly the chosen one in every situation since he was 10, and it's all he knows as a way of life, but back to the topic:

Jay has nothing to do with this.

And I'm not saying that Jay doesn't care about helping people, or anything like that. It's just that it's very interesting that he's the furthest away from having this motivation to be a ninja. Even Wu, in one of the books, confirms that Jay in the pilots saw the opportunity to be a ninja as an excuse to have exciting adventures after a rather humble life in which Jay was going from one hobby to another.

And while the other roles in the team always come back to the theme of protecting others and all that, the reason why Jay is chosen instead is because he's a dreamer. In the flashback and the Ninja of Lightning book Wu explains that the reason he chose Jay was precisely because he had this ability to think outside the box and motivate others with his sense of humor. In almost every first season there is an instance where Jay quickly adapts to a situation just by seeing the other side of things that others don't see, and having this amount of skills: He's the one who discovers how to do spinjitzu, who finds the temple of light, who adapts first to space/digiverse, who does best in the Ninja Roll episode, etc. It's not that Jay is the smartest or strongest, but give him anything and the guy, in some unconventional way, will try to take advantage of it and build a spaceship out of literal scrap metal.

There aren't really many examples of this in the later seasons, BUT, it's worth noting that Wu also chose him because Jay knows how to motivate others with his sense of humor. And what does he do in S12 when he's separated from the others and trapped in a video game? He makes a resistence to oppose Unagami and inspire people who were also trapped in that game.

With all that being said, I just wanted to point out how distinct Jay's role on the team is and his motivation for being a ninja in the first place. It's not like he has this heroic duty, or necessarily wants to do justice, he's just a guy with a normal life who wanted to have exciting adventures and tap into this creativity of his and do some good in the process if it ended up working out. Which is sad with how things are right now but whatever…

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man - Friedrich Nietzsche

Thank you @/thegunnsara and @/3lectricinsomnia for helping my with his head I appreciate it 😭 also @/meggahamicide and @/kinky-asexual for letting me bug you all the time with this drawing XD

wooaaaah, this is so cool

Want some comic pages that I'll never finish?

this is actually the post that made me go read it, so now everyone else has to see it

!!TW: Implied s*icidal ideation (not explicitly stated)!!

Art for chapter 13 of my fic Weightless on the Rooftop (Will I Fly?) I started this as a doodle on my iPad, but then I spent an hour and a half on it lol

As a writer, I spend 90% of my time googling synonyms or searching for words I know but have incidentally forgotten right in the moment that I need it for once.

I think I'm actually gonna throw up. Ya'll don't know how fast I got up just now..

Kai I love you an unhealthy amount so it is completely out of love when I say that I am SO READY to see all the trauma they are about to put you through