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I HATE Robots in Disguise so I've Gotta Do Something About It!

(You can scroll down if you just wanna do the poll yall are not obligated to listen to me yap lol)

Okay so I've been watching Transformers: Robots in Disguise lately, and it has been agonizing like 'I genuinely don't know how this show got made' levels of bad (I'll discuss my complaints for the first 3 seasons below the poll if you wanna jump to that) and I being me have decided I wanna do a rewrite however I have a problem: I have two different rewrites I wanna do. Now I'm a busy gal BUT I'd like to write both however I am gonna have to take it (mostly) one at a time, SO I wanna know which one yall would like first (also yes they come with redesigns for Sideswipe, Strongarm, Windblade, possibly Grimlock and Fixit but for those two it'd only be minor tweaks here and there)

OPTIMUS WILL NOT BE ALIVE IN EITHER OF THESE TIMELINES BECAUSE THAT MAN DESERVES TO REST AND I THINK BRINGING HIM BACK CHEAPENS HIS DEATH/SACRAFICE!

Possible Timelines (You don't have to read it's just some context):

The Bad Timeline (10-15 years in the future): This timeline is somewhat similar to the show , a council from a large Cybertronian diaspora takes power reinstating functionalism. Most of the remaining Autobots attempt to fight this but most are either blacklisted or outright banished from Cybertron, Bumblebee and Smokescreen being the only two remaining. Bumblebee is the bittered chief of police in New Iacon (since putting him at a super low position would be really suspicious and his power is pretty limited) and as a part of a new program has taken on the very best and worst student from the military academy. Strongarm is an over eager teen raised in a strict diaspora desperate to prove herself while suffering from severe OCD that motivates many of her actions as well as her world view. Sideswipe on the other hand is the epitome of a troubled teen bitter and resentful towards a world that he believes hates him, a foster child bounced from home to home alongside his twin brother Sunstreaker who always seemed to be better than him. The Strongarm and Sideswipe butt heads constantly but after an incident where cooperation wound up getting them in trouble the group of three is sent to Earth to check on a distress signal for the prison ship the Alchemor.

Bumblebee is tired, bitter and slightly angry in this version, quite similar to Ratchet in a sense. He hates the fact that the war he spent his entire life fighting, that his father (fight me on this) died for, resulted in the planet ending up in the same place as it had been before.

This version will explore themes of war, revolution, growth, coping with past trauma, growing up in a broken system and grief and YES it will have a happy ending but it will be far more miserable along the way (seriously it gets bad because ya girl is GOING to give Grimlock some needed depth)

The Good Timeline (3-5 years later): This timeline almost completely veers away from the show, with Bumblebee beginning the series as the defacto head of Cybertron that is slowly but surely trying to develop into a functioning (not functionalist lol (I'm sorry that was terrible)) society. He's struggling to balance the needs of the different bots from different diaspora and dealing with the new generation of bots. His break comes in the form of the crashing of a practically ancient prison ship.

He decides to make it a learning opportunity for two bots he sees much potential in. Strongarm is still an eager cadet but one who grew up in an extremely conservative and old fashioned diaspora that drilled many of those ideas so far into her head she struggles to get them out however that's what her oddball team is for (also yes she still has OCD fight me on this, I have OCD I know what it looks like and holy moly does this girl have it). Sideswipe is still a troubled teen bounced from home to home alongside his "perfect" twin brother, a punk caught for everything from property damage to vandalism to starting fights, he's got a lot of energy and a lot of spunk and Bumblebee knows if he's taught to direct it at something productive he could be something great (also he almost definitely has ADHD possibly AuDHD, so does Sunstreaker but he's SUPER high masking, that'd be a whole "episode" aka chapter where Sunstreaker visits and Sideswipe gets insecure).

However instead of three "seasons" (arcs) of finding prisoners, they'll be the main focus for about one "season", then the other two will each tie up a loose end from prime, one will be Arachnid whos still out there as a hungry vampire wreaking havoc across the galaxy (cause I love the idea that because she wasn't dead when bit she's still conscious but more blood (energon?) thirsty) and then the other will be Shockwave (whos still out there somewhere???) and Soundwave teaming up and becoming a major threat.

In this version Bumblebee is nothing like RID!Bee he's tired, but he's over all happy, he's making the better world Optimus had always wanted and he's glad the younger generations won't have to grow up like he did. He's in touch with all of the Autobots, all of whom have different jobs when it comes to Cybertron's reconstruction also YES Knockout will be included because I will give him more depth even if it kills me.

This version will explore similar themes to the first but with a few additions: War, grief, growth, PTSD/coping with past trauma, growing up in a broken system, the glorification of war, the moral greyness of war, found family, finding of one's own identity, and probably others I'm forgetting. This one is still gonna be plenty angsty (Bee misses his dad a lot :[) but not nearly as bad as The Bad Timeline and of course it gets a happy ending.

Gosh this was a way longer explanation than I planned but OH WELL I really wanted yall to know what your options were ya know? Anyways poll time!

This is just my opinions on RID and you can absolutely skip if you want it's mostly just for me so I can get this all off my chest! And remember all this is my OPINION not a fact and this is all silly and for fun and we all know this is not a personal attack right? Awesome go right on ahead!

So these complaints aren't in any particular order, some are mildly irritating and other are cannon shattering, mind meltingly, utterly awful.

-Sideswipes design is so... bizarre like he's supposed to be punk but literally nothing about the design screams punk, his like... head hair thing doesn't give punk to me yes it's spikey but not in a very punk way. So my idea is to give him bumper stickers that act like patches on a punk jacket, have him have more scuffed/scratched paint and maybe give him some like eyeliner or something (if Strongarm can have blue lipstick Sideswipe can have some smudged eyeliner) and I think it would be silly if he had like some caution tape tied uhhh idk somewhere cause he'd definitely think that's funny (Strongarm would think its very dumb).

-WHY THE FUCK IS JAZZ ALIVE IF HE WAS ALIVE FOR THE ENTIERTY OF PRIME THEN WHERE THE FUCK WAS HE WHEN THEY WERE FIGHTING LITERAL ROBOT SATAN HES LITERALLY THE SECOND IN COMAND/FIRST LIEUTENANT ALSO HIS BEST FRIEND LITERALLY DIED LIKE WHY IS HE SO CHILL

-Wtf is going on with aging in the show? Like Sideswipe and Strongarm are very clearly teenagers but like were they born? Were they raised? This universe is supposed to be one where people are born from the Well of Allsparks, but also Bumblebee reverts mentally to being a child which insinuates he grew up/was raised (good for my head-cannons but bad for the actual cannon) so like what?

-Why is Optimus so mean, like he's so cold towards everyone and doesn't even come close to the vibe he had in Prime, like in Prime he was very serious but he was also still very caring and kind. But in RID he's like a completely different person (minus the scenes with Ratchet??? like he's relatively normal then, idk maybe his husband brings out the best in him)

-Megatronus... THEE MEGATRONUS PRIME was defeated IN TWO GODDAMN EPISODES! No words, can describe how stupid this is, genuinely I don't think any words could possibly express how idiotic this is. Like you're telling me a glorified mob boss is taking longer to take down than Megatronus Prime. Don't talk to me T-T like you can't just bring in Megatronus and then use the power of friendship and laser swords to get rid of him. (Also his powers were lame as FUCK like he was created to fight Unicron and all he has is an ENERGY BLAST literally fuck all the way off) Also his design was so mid, like in my personal opinion I think the OG Primes should be BIG, tall and generally have a very commanding yet almost regal air to them you know?

-Soundwave deserved WAY more screen time/a whole arc. That's it.

-Starscream, that man should A) Either be dead (the logical option) or B) NOT IN THIS SHOW like how was he somehow treated as more of a threat than Megatronus Prime! I think his plotline would have made more sense if it was like Shockwave or something? It still wouldn't have been all that good but it at least would have made a little more sense

-Strongarm. Now, I am ALWAYS going to try and root for female characters in male dominated franchises, I am a woman and I love to see women winning however... I hate Strongarm. I tried so hard to like her, but like her being a cop, her always acting like she's better than everyone, putting people like Grim and Sideswipe down for their intelligence, treating Fixit like a lower lifeform simply for being a minicon (mostly season 1 but it still rears its head and I'm pissed to this day they decided to randomly switch Sideswipes personality to have him randomly start infantilizing the minicons out of nowhere that arc should have gone to Strongarm). Now I personally HC her as having OCD (like I've said I have it and she has a laundry list of symptoms) but it's very clear the show runners weren't trying to do that so I can't give her as much grace as I usually would. The way she treats others is abysmal and she's just straight up cruel but can always get away with it for some reason meanwhile Sideswipe breathes and they jump him (he has some pretty bad asshole moments too but they at least acknowledge that he's an asshole)

-Drift is such a nothing burger in this show, like his concept is I'd argue one of the most interesting bots, but in this show he's about as flavorful as wonder bread also I hate his design like WHY IS HE ORANGE??? His minicons are fine tho, they're usually chill.

-Bumblebee is so MEAN like he really isn't anything like what he was like in Prime, and while interesting in concept since he is literally a war veteran they don't actually acknowledge the shift and it's just bizarre. He never corrects Strongarms insufferable behavior and is way too chill with Functionalism being up and running again. Like he has none of the traits that made him such a good character in Prime, LIKE HE'S EVEN CHILL WITH LEAVING THE OTHER FIXIT BOTS STUCK IN SLAVERY LIKE WHAT???

-Everyone in the show doesn't treat Optimus like a seasoned war general but instead someone's grandpa. Genuinely why EVERYONE seem to forget that he led thousands of soldier into hundreds of battles? He won a whole ass war with a team of less than 10 bots against an army! It's just so weird and makes no sense! Especially for Bumblebee, like why does he all of a sudden hate Optimus? Like yes he wants to lead but why does that also lead to him being obsessed with doing things his way and his way only? The way they write Optimus is so bizarre truly should have just let the poor man rest.

-Bee looks weird. Sorry.

-Okay so this one, I think might have deadass been pure negligence on the writers' part, but Fixit being a fan of the the Pits as in the ones in Kaon. So in the episode with gorilla guy (I do not care enough to back and find his name) they make Fixit a huge fan of his and... okay wow that's really awful. Like the Pits are pretty much a representation of the caste system and the severe gap in wealth and social mobility, where rich bots would go and watch bots of a lower caste literally kill for the chance of even an ounce of social mobility. How in the name of all that is holy did they think making Fixit (a minicon who presumably also faced this harsh caste system just in a different manner) a FAN! AND WHY IS EVERYONE OKAY WITH IT!?!? ESPECIALLY Bumblebee! Like Strongarm and Sideswipe not knowing, makes sense they're young they wouldn't know the Pits in their "prime", Grimlock (who I just kinda assume came from Kaon since he's pretty physically strong and it would make sense if he was a laborer) MIGHT think it's normal, BUT BUMBLEBEE SHOULD KNOW BETTER! He knew Optimus who saw the Pits and I can't imagine never told anyone, cause like he'd want to make sure everyone understood why the caste system was bad you know? Yall this one actually got me SO heated tbh like lord have mercy. In a better world this episode would have A) either addressed Fixit's behavior and maybe been a Grimlock episode where he gets to talk about his past? or B) Have never gone down like that in the first place and maybe instead about helping someone break out of a cycle of pain because the system that put them down is gone that would have been dope but no we live in the BAD timeline where RID is awful.

-Why is Windblade so short? She's a JET like I feel like she deserves to be tall! Like I looked it up and she's supposed to be a VTOL which are not generally small aircrafts so like... what?

-Grimlock deserved more screen time <3

-They toned down Ratchet's sass, like bro let him be his grumpy old man self in his entirety. Honestly most of the characters fail miserably at being sassy and are just flat out mean. Like Knockout, that man is sassy same with TFP Starscream, but everyone in the show is like just so unfunny and mean that nothing comes off as playful or silly it just seems like they all hate each other.

-Why do they never mention the humans from TFP! Raf was Bee's bestie but he doesn't seem to give a single shit about him! Actually where are ANY of the humans like where the fuck is the government??? They absolutely would have noticed the bots being back lets be honest with ourselves they were NOT slick in the slightest, like these robots were NOT in disguise.

I'm sure I missed something but oh well this is long enough as is

Things I liked cause I don't wanna be a complete Debbie Downer (again in no particular order):

-Grimlock! He's an absolute sweetheart and a complete pleasure, genuinely the most tolerable of the main characters, he's also (in my opinion) the funniest, like he's dumb in an endearing kind of way rather than dumb in a tooth grating way like almost everyone else.

-Optimus and Ratchet's reunion, god I am so weak for this ship like Ratchet literally grinning and Optimus smiling at him was so cute and Optimus's little "It's good to have yo by my side once more Ratchet." like ugh they're literally the ship ever! do I think that they deserved an embrace yes but I also think Bee deserved a hug as well but NOOOO goodness forbid they show affection of any kind, whatever point is I love OptiRatch (which I vote we rename Operation!shipping get it cause OP for Optimus and then it's operation cause Ratchet's a medic? I also think MegOp should be Opposition!Shipping, it's not my cup of tea but I think other people deserve a cup with a better name)

-STARSCREAMS SEASON THREE FINALE POWERED UP DESIGN! Okay so I am not a Starscream girly (I don't dislike him btw I'm just not one of his superfans I do actually think he's a fascinating character tho) BUT HIS DESIGN WAS SO FIRE. ANGELIC IMAGERY WHILE TRYING TO WEILD A WEPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION! THE SCENE LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE WHEN OPTIMUS MEETS PRIMUS/FIND THE MATRIX BUT IS PERICED BY THIS EVIL PURPLE TO SHOW HIS CORRUPTION AND THE FACT IT LOOKED A LITTLE BIT LIKE HIS SHATTERED GLASS COLORS UGGGHHHHH! He looked so COOL and the design was wasted on a boring fight and an awful show, I definitely think they should try a design like that for him again cause it ate DOWN! Literally best design in the show, I'll happily die on that hill, a surprising hill to die on but a hill nonetheless. (Honestly if they wanted to do a fallen angle/angelic imagery WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT FOR MEGATRONUS THE GUY WHOS OTHER NAME IS LITERALLY THE FALLEN LIKE COME ONE HIM WITH ANGELIC IMAGERY WOULD HAVE GONE UNBELIEVABLY HARD!)

-The accents for the villains were funny, I'm well aware they weren't supposed to be I literally don't care they had me cackling a few times purely because of how dumb the villains sounded when fighting each other.

-This isn't really a props to the show but Overloads name is really funny, yall know why, the show runners absolutely didn't especially back in like 2015 but it was funny watching in the year of all things terrible 2025 (I would KILL to see Knockout bully this man over his name, he'd have a FEILD DAY)

-Fixit is great... if you ignore him having apparently been involved with the Pits...

-Strongarm having a different frame was fucking dope! I honestly wish they made her a little taller tho cause like her alt is bigger than Sideswipes so why is she shorter? For the most part her design is pretty solid only little nitpicks here and there.

My GOODNESS that was a long one yall! If you somehow made it this far then you're a damn trooper! I can't wait to see what yall pick cause I am SO curious, I honestly love both of the ideas equally so I'm 100% ready to start pumping out either one!

Anyways I hope yall have a great day/night, drink water, be cringe and free! Peace out!

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

Okay I had an idea that's funny to me and only me but I wanted to throw it out onto the internet. So you know how Megatron from TFP canonically likes My Little Pony? I think it'd be really funny if he like wrote like a really popular fanfic (it's 100% like a self insert or like vent fic) or something and all of a sudden one day it just stops updating, people are disappointed and like "wow I wonder whatever happened to the author" then somehow years later it comes out that the reason it was never finished was because it was being written by an evil alien warlord who died and came back to life possessed by robot Satan before running off to god knows where.

Even better if the last chapter gets randomly posted like seven years after with a note that just says "Was busy here's the end" and then its pretty much just Predacons Rising but with MLP. Miko read it and she only wound up putting the pieces together after Optimus Prime Opal Persimmon and Megatron Midnight Dream got to live happily ever after running the town library.

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Originally started as an anatomy study and turned into one of my fav old man couples! They're so silly, I just wanna put them in a jar and shake them! Survival!shipping is my comfort ship in these trying times like the world might be ending but at least I have these two!

Yall I had so many plans for things I was hoping to post for pride month but alas the universe cursed me/my friends with an original visual story idea so good I've literally only been able to draw the characters from it (Its a dystopian comedy about a fairy mob family if yall are curious I'll def post character sheets, its called Not So Secret Identity) and I like Transformers now, TFP OptiRatch my beloved who I WANTED to get done drawing before pride month ended but that didn't happen!

Honestly someone needs to put me down because like every ten seconds my brain is flip flopping between Transformers, Not So Secret Identity and Ninjago, I'm literally melting into the floor yall lol

Shirt translation: Universes chew toy

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DID SOMEONE SAY SAMURAI SHIPPING!? (no one said samurai I'm delusional)

As always spoiler warning for pretty much every season of Ninjago

Yall I enjoy this ship pretty much only in AUs because I feel like Nya and Jay's relationship in cannon is so ingrained in the show that if they broke up in the cannon timeline after they like officially got together so much shit would go down and it would be one hell of a mess I think it could be solved but ngl I've never found something cannon compliant that scratched that itch (If yall have recs I will greet them with open arms like I'm goddamn Polities). But in AU's and complete world overhauls SIGN ME UP! Royal AU, alien AU, pirates, cowboys, world-swaps, crossovers, pretty much anything I am down to at least TRY.

Unfortunately there isn't really much content for them where they're not just background props for things (fics, fanart, ect) of the guys, or just pure smut, but that's why I have hands I suppose. I respect people who enjoy that kind of stuff, but I personally love a good comfy little slow burn ya know, I wanna be ripping my hair out and cursing at my phone 11 chapters in you feel me? I'm working on some ideas, none are finished nor have even a full chapter written but trust they will be put forth at some point I promise you that lol!

Anyways yall imma be 100% honest this was supposed to come out on Valentines day HOWEVER I had school and afterwards my girlfriend took precedence over social media and today I had work so your gals been busy! But I hope yall enjoyed, I hope you have a great day/night PEACE OUT!

They're so At My Back by Madds Buckley coded like TRUST ME

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What up y'all! I return bearing what was originally gonna be survival!shipping fluff (I sketch the face first and drew young Garmadon instead of his full Oni version) but morphed into this because my ass was listening to Ethel Cain and Flower Face while drawing. Honestly I took it and wound up playing rendering/color and quite frankly I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out!

Translations: Vertical word- Destruction, bottom text- "You are no man, men don't have claws they can't cut."

Garmadon is my favorite character to use for these more painterly metaphorical art studies because:

A) He's my babygirl and favorite character, this is very well established lol

B) He's a fundamentally tragic character. He's doomed by the narrative in every sense of the word, he was a child when he was bit and after that he was left to deal with the fact that there was this evil snake in his head and his father as well as his brother (seemingly the only people he interacted with as a child) were now somewhat afraid of him. By his young adulthood his relationship with his family begins to strain due to their belief he's "turning evil" especially when going on the quest for tea leaves in Spinjitzu Brothers which shows he actually feels rather upset/angry that his brother and father believe he's turning evil simply because he experiences negative emotions (you know like a normal person) but then after he see's himself in the mirror in book three he goes on a downward spiral believing he's doomed to turn evil and be alone. We don't really know what happens after book four since the fifth and final book never came out but it's easy to assume that the tea didn't work and Garmadon is left all the worse for it coming out of the trip with his mental health in the gutter. We don't know to much about what happens in-between then and when he goes to Chen's Island but we do know that he doesn't seem to have gotten better since in Shatterspin he's still pretty self sacrificing and other people have begun to notice his less than stellar mental state.

Then we know what happens after the war, his mind is consumed and he is left to be less than himself. Even then when he comes back from the underworld we see that he still cares about his son, he kills the Great Devourer, he still wants to be a person. At the end of season two he gets what he wants, he cured, and for the time that he is fully himself for the first time in years he begins to apologize and try to make up for all that he did (even if it lowkey wasn't 100% his fault seeing he was being controlled by an evil snake), but even that didn't last. He dies, or moreover sacrifices himself to save Ninjago from Chen's Anacondrai army, but he dies a good person, he gets a memorial and family that mourns the truest version of himself. And then he was brought back again, ripped from the afterlife but only as half of himself, only the evil side, the side he spent thousands of years repressing until he couldn't anymore and regretted the second he was himself again. Despite that despite the fact it is supposedly only his evil side left he is still trying to be good, with the Garmadon comics showing his desire for redemption and his care for his son even in what he had thought to be his dying moments.

I think this is what makes one of the beginning lines from the Garmadon comics all the more tragic "Who knows what life he may have lived had he not been corrupted by the Great Devourer and cast into the underworld." He might have gotten to live a different life, he may have gotten to be happy and not fear what he might become, he might not have had to die multiple times over, but we'll never know because that's not what happened instead his fate was twisted by something completely and utterly out of his control.

So yeah he's a little fucked up and that's why he's my favorite! Hope y'all enjoyed my long winded rant, I have so many opinions on this man and don't even get me started on how much I hate crystalized for how it fucked up his development from the comics, but uhhh I think that's it!

If you want to you can check out my fic What Doesn't Kill You it's mostly me putting him in a jar and putting him under a microscope lol, other than that I hope yall have a great day/night and I'll see you when I appear from the mist again! PEACE OUT!

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

Alright strap in I got theories and things to say

Someone had to fucking say it. My theory as to why it never got finished is because TECHNICALLY the books are kids books and the series literally can not have a happy ending, Garmadon and Wu ultimately fail because we know the tea doesn't cure Garmadon because we know he eventually gets taken over by the venom. I think maybe they thought that was to dark for a kids series so they decided to cancel it instead.

Also I'm sorry I am fearing for my life with this movie, like (opinions incoming) because I feel like the only characters that the directors for sure no way in hell can make white are Nya and Kai solely because of their names but for the rest of the cast I fear the rest could be made white. Like I don't view any of the characters outside of Jay (only kinda) as white. Like Lloyd for example I don't think he's white just cause he's blonde I think it's cause he's part dragon not to mention Misako is a Japanese name if I'm remembering correctly so she's probably not white.

Like obviously they don't have races because they're Legos and from a fictional location that is not our world which is why fan-artists can draw characters as pretty much however they want, like if you headcannon Lloyd as white personally that your choice, it's not mine, but that's the point. However depending on how the movie is casted that could unfortunately reflect in how a CERTAIN type of fans react aka the people who view all the characters as white and get made when you draw them as not white which I have unfortunately dealt with other platforms.

I'm not saying a live action can't be done and maybe it might even be cool, but if Hollywood (as it often does) decides it doesn't want to kick up drama even if it's simply over including POC people they might just wind up going with the milk toast option of having as few POC people as possible.

And I'm sorry but my faith in this live adaptation is gonna stay low since the Lego Ninjago Movie wasn't all to great especially with its characterization of most of the cast. Also I kinda doubt they're gonna include Pixal and most of the other fun side characters, like Skylor, Dareth, among others since they forgot about them last time so I don't have much faith now. Garmadon is also probably gonna be the big bad again with none of the nuance he has in the show to make it easily consumable.

But who knows! Maybe some how it will subvert all my expectations and be a great work of fiction we all look at fondly, maybe it'll even past the Bechdel Test! For now though I'm gonna keep my hopes to a minimum.

Wow my first reblog and I go on a long tangent how in character for me lol! Have a great day yall, peace out!

Honestly, I would be much happier if they would have announced that 'Spinjitzu Brothers' is getting finished with the last book 'Tea Time Terror', instead of having a Live-action Ninjago Movie... I'm sorry guys... But it's still something, I guess.

Please don't eat me for that...

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

Survival shipping in THIS economy? Always when it's me!

What up folks I'm back having actually drawn a damn background for once in my life! Yall I've been on more of a survival kick than usual, maybe it's cause I'm writing a fic about them maybe it's cause I got a physical copy of the Garmadon Comics (my gf's little brother literally had to buy it from his ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOOK FAIR like yall I was actually making a deal with a goddamn 10 year old it was so funny) but either way I made this, it's a scene from a chapter that's in the works and yes there's a reason Garmadon only has two arms I'm NOT just a fake fan I promise!

Anyways translations for Garmadon's tattoo: Exesus which means not only devoured and destroyed but also preyed upon and erosion (according to my friends who know Latin I myself was just using google translate)

And let me know if you catch any of the references in this image, first person to guess right gets a doodle of their choice (within reason) cause I like doing stuff like that!

Anyway that's all from me rn, don't forget to take care of yourself and have a great day/night PEACE OUT!

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! I come bearing bizzaro!Kai for the funsies

Technically I did this drawing since I need something for the background of my video about Kai but it was also to have fun with lighting! I don't draw Kai very often because I could figure out how to draw his hair but lowkey I'm loving how it came out!

I hope yall have a very happy and spooky Halloween (if that's what you like) and have a great night! PEACE OUT!

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

Chat the way we were effected by a 59 page version of this story should be studied, like I am not ready for what the full version is gonna do to my brain!

WAIT WHAT

GUYS I DID ME AND @sunflowerandstrawberryspice DID NOT KNOW THE THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY WAS NOT, IN FACT, THE 59 PAGE SHORT STORY THAT WE READ ON INTERNET ARCHIVE AND WAS, IN FACT, A FULL FLEDGED STORY

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I promised Pixal and Pixal you shall get! I like to think since she's the child/invention of one of Ninjago's largest tech businesses AND Samurai-X people are definitely interested in talking to her. This is kind of a fun what if kinda thing!

I know the way I draw Pixal isn't really how I've seen most of the fandom draws her but like Pixal is just a character I love to have fun with ESPECIALLY with her glowing purple markings ugh I just love them! Also expect some samurai shipping posts sometime in the near future because I've recently become a fan of them!

However the next thing on the list is more Carmen Sandiego redesigns + the release of the prologue of the re-write since I'm also excited for that. I'm still doing Ninjago stuff but I'm also doing Carmen Sandiego stuff and maybe just MAYBE one day I'll combine them (I think that Carmen would make a great green ninja and Lloyd could make an interesting VILE agent wink wink).

But anyways that's all for now, feel free to ask questions about my art, or the re-wrote or whatever in my comments! I hope yall have a great day/night PEACE OUT!

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

CARMEN SANDIEGO? In 2024? It's more likely thank you think! Please excuse the shit quality for some reason I wasn't allowed to upload the normal pdf and I had to upload a fucking screenshot???

So my friend convinced me to watch Carmen Sandiego and since he's watching ALL of Ninjago for me I thought it was the least I could do to watch four season of a show with a pretty decent concept but uh... yeesh, don't get me wrong the show is really fun but lord have mercy does it have problems especially the last two seasons which were just so wildly disappointing to me. It went from a show with an interesting look on morals to pure pro-cop and mostly black and white thinking so quick (that not mentioning the breaking up a found family full of people with abandonment issues) it was honestly just so disappointing so me and the friend who introduced it to me decided to rewrite it! (I will not be animating nor do I plan on doing more than MAYBE a comic or art piece here and there because my chronic pain ridden ass can not handle that much lol)

The main goals are to:

1) Flesh out characters that aren't Carmen and actually give them reactions based on their lived experiences and how they might realistically react instead of what the show needed to move the plot along

2) Having characters other than Carmen be actually relevant to the plot the main one being Chase Devineaux who we're gonna kind of have as a parallel to Carmen (trust me yall) as kind of a "What if Carmen didn't have her friends/family to ground her and fall back on" but for all the Chase fans out there (gods I hope there's some other than me) he will be getting a happy ending but bro is getting put through the RINGER first

3) Have both A.C.M.E (now standing for Administration for Containing and Monitoring Evil) and V.I.L.E be the bad guys. Also just as an extra bit of fun we're making VILE a full blown cult, they were very cult like in the show so we're just gonna make it one. Both are going to be very morally questionable and while it'll take a bit longer for ACME to show it's true colors don't you worry they definitely will ;)

4) We're doing canonical lgbtq+ rep, I know the show teased a lot of relationships and really only gave yall background gays not to say thats bad but we can do better than just a brief shot of a damn taco truck. I mean like come on in a story about a young woman going against the government for the greater good why not put some rep into it ya know!

5) We're making it light sci-fi, not like SUPER high tech but definitely beyond what we've got currently, as shown with Carmen's prosthetic, and don't worry I'm doing my research as a disabled person I know how it feels to be misrepresented or ignored so I want to make sure I'm being realistic

6) PLAYER ISN'T GOING TO BE A CHILD! I don't know if this bothered anybody else but to me it was really weird that this 16 year old's only friends were in their 20s!

Alright I think that's what I'm gonna say for now, I'd love it if yall tuned in for updates if your curious since this is a passion project for me and my friend and we're having a blast writing it!

As always I am still working on stuff for Ninjago cause I could never abandon my one true love, currently there's a Pixal drawing in progress (it's giving me hell T-T) something for Cole and Geo, and something of Sora MAYBE even Euphrasia if I'm feeling up to it.

Having said that I hope yall have a great day/night and PEACE OUT!

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

Destiny sinks her claws into all those she sees.

Do you think Ninjago has its own equivalent of biblical imagery, like do you think there's a lot of snake, Dragon and Oni imagery in ancient literature and art? I think that'd be really interesting.

I always wonder what living in the world of Ninjago is like for normal citizens, like imagine if God's son literally lived in the apartment next to yours and his grandson was your window washer at one point? Like Garmadon seemingly just kinda lives in the city and that's gotta be weird as fuck as a normal citizen, like damn the fucking anti-christ is just up and walking around the city! This is a joke obviously though it's really funny to put into perspective lol

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

Cole my favorite human ninja! Finally after fiddling around I decided on my design for Cole, and idk if it's just me but I loved his longer hair style so I'm keeping it! Also I think it'd be interesting if Cole straightened his hair when he was younger. I know someone with textured hair who did ballet/dance for a while and he was either told to keep his hair super short or straighten it and gel it down so I thought it'd be an interesting thing to throw in for younger Cole's design since he was a dancer for a while.

So I will never get over how I wish they explored his backstory more in the show honestly I wish they explored most of the ninjas back stories more cause them kids had some pretty fucked up childhoods even before they became ninja (except for Jay he seemed like he was doing okay (?) he didn't know he was adopted yet and Ed and Edna have only ever been shown as really sweet so). Like Nya and Kai grew up with no parental figures, Lloyd went to Darkly's and then wound up on the streets for a while, Zane watched his father die and then got memory wiped, and Cole's a whole other mess.

Like His mother died when he was what like 5/6 years old (the Ninjago timeline is nonexistent) his father neglected him after her death leaving him to take on all chores and tasks in the house and the only way his father would only pay attention was if he was doing dance. Then he failed a extremely complex dance move as a child and in the episode The Royal Blacksmiths it seems as if his father liked to remind him of this, in that episode Cole also says that he's not a good dancer but we know that he got into the Marty Oppenheimer School for Performing Arts.

Now being a performing arts school that we can assume is a boarding school since Cole's father seems unfazed that he's not coming home, it's probably a pretty nice school. Not to mention boarding schools are private, hard to get into and sometimes even by invite only, this means Cole likely had to at least be talented enough to get INTO the school. Judging from how Cole's father talks to him (and the other ninja during practice) in the episode Royal Blacksmiths it wouldn't be to surprising if Cole only THOUGHT he was bad, I mean he successfully does the triple tiger sashay by the end of the episode after seemingly being out of practice for years, so I don't think it would be to far fetched to say that he was actually pretty good at dance.

As another fun fact apparently Cole may have taught Lloyd a bit of dance for agility/flexibility training which I think is really fun (it's mentioned in a book idk if it's cannon but it's fun to imagine it is!). Also I love the Royal Blacksmiths episode as a queer person cause it's literally a stereotypical coming out episode but like as a ninja and it never fails to make me laugh.

I think Cole's relationship with his father is really interesting because we see him I'd say the least out of all the Ninjago parents, like seriously I'm pretty sure we see more of Maya who was assumed dead for 6 1/2 seasons (that's probably 17-18 years in cannon) than we see of Lou. Now I'm pretty sure a good chunk of people I've seen talk about him are pretty split on whether or not he's a good or bad parent/if him and Cole are on good terms, in my opinion I don't really think he's a very good parent, we know for a fact he was neglectful while also putting a lot of pressure on Cole when he did dance, as for anything else we're really only able to infer and idk I just feel like he's not that great of a parent.

Now this is more my opinion just based off what we see of him, I don't think Cole and his father are all that close since unlike other parents such as Ray, Maya, Ed, Enda and even Misako we rarely if ever see him in the background congratulating the Ninja after a battle or helping them after a loss, in fact he actually just straight up doesn't go to Nya’s eulogy (which is in line with his character since it's been said he's not good with dealing with grief but it's still pretty shitty to do) I don't think Cole hates him or anything but I don't think that they're close or talk all to much even without the whole merge situation. 

Anyways I've spent way to long rambling about this but yeah, again this is just my opinion! I love love love this Lego show and Cole is one of my favorite characters and I'm glad in DR he's getting more attention, in fact a lot of the ninja are (minus Jay) while also allowing the new elemental masters develop which is just so fun to watch!

Hope y'all have a great day/night PEACE OUT!

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

Before we begin as always: This is all for fun and is not meant to be taken to seriously everyone please be nice or at least civil. Okay? Awesome read on!

Alrighty I'm feeling a little irritated after a not so lovely comment on one of my fics (that has literally NOTHING to do with Jay) about how I don't often write about him if at all. Now I just kinda ignored the comment cause this was the same person who said I couldn't ship Zane with human characters cause he's a robot to say the least I took what they said with a grain of salt so yeahhhhhh (like seriously I had to mention that cause it's just such a weird thing to say since Ninjago has said multiple times that Zane is just as human as the others so???)

But anyways I want to start by saying yeah that's true I don't write about Jay very often, in fact I have never written a fic centered around him BUT I will never go out of my way to vilify him outside of the actions he takes IN CANNON because I try to stay in character when writing unless it's an AU that might shift their personalities a bit but not by much. But this brings me to an issue I've come across more than once and it sort of bothers me and its: the erasure of Jay's more negative qualities.

Now I'm not saying that Jay is an irredeemable villain here I'm just saying that he has said/done things that aren't good that a lot of people seem very keen on just ignoring or in some cases outright denying, and I get it it sucks when our favorite characters are flawed trust me my favorite character is GARMADON so I have plenty of experience in liking characters with flaws lol. BUT just because we like them doesn't mean they don't HAVE those flaws.

Like Jay (since he's who we're suppose to be focusing on rn) is kind of an ass multiple times especially early in the series. Now I hate the love triangle because it fucked up literally all people involved and I found it super annoying but I think Jay was painted in a particularly bad light. For example Jay straight up attacking Cole even though Cole had ZERO clue about the whole perfect match thing, like imagine if out of no where your best friend ATTACKED YOU saying you were trying to "steal" (I hate that phrase btw so dumb cause Nya's a person) the person they liked? Probably would feel really crummy.

Now I do understand that Jay probably has some form of anxiety but that doesn't mitigate the fact throughout the series Jay has a tendency to get freaked out and then lose his temper, in more recent seasons it's happened less frequently which I'm going to chose to interpret as him growing up but is likely just because in later season the writing tends to muddy the waters on most characters (we don't even talk about crystalized because it doesn't exist, like seriously Lloyd talks about Harumi in Dragons Rising like Crystalized never happened which I'm a big fan of) but yeah. I've never been a huge Jay fan myself but his cannon character is interesting and I'd understand why people would like him since again he's not an irredeemable monster he's a person.

But yeah, I love Ninjago and I love being a part of the fandom but I don't love how sometimes people overlook the charcters negative traits and that really bothers me since more than one of the characters go through arcs (some more subtle than others) to become better people. Like I also think people underplay Nya's anger issues, Kai's can be as well but to a lesser extent SOMETIMES, which is unfortunate because that's part of their arcs of growing into new more mature people. All of the characters have their problems it's what makes them interesting to follow, I'm a huge fan of Garmadon and he is EXTREMLY flawed but that's what makes him an interesting character especially since he's trying to be better (again lol).

In conclusion I love over analyzing this Lego show cause even if its shit sometimes the characters it created are super fun to play with much like actual Legos! I don't hate any characters (except for Nadakahn and The Mechanic fuck those two they're creepy as shit) I love getting to talk about them and am totally open for conversations about them because as you can tell from this post I am a natural born yapper and I love to hear other peoples thoughts/views so feel free to say something as long as you're willing to keep it civil!

I hope y'all have a great day/night PEACE OUT!

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

I love a good old fashioned predetermined destiny that can not be stopped. Everyone knows that Garmadon is my favorite character by this point and while Lloyd isn't one of my favorite characters (not cause he's a bad character I just like others more) I still really like his story and arc over the course of the story.

I will never not think it's interesting that both Lloyd and Garmadon had fates that they couldn't change or escape. Lloyd was always going to be the green ninja it was destined before he was even a thought, before he was even born, before he could develop a true sense of self a title was thrust upon him and thusly the expectations of everyone around him. Garmadon on the other hand was doomed from the second he was bit by the Great Devourer maybe even before then. He was his father's Oni half and he was very aware of that fact throughout his entire journey in Spinjitzu Brothers we see him slowly begin to think he is destined to ultimately left evil and alone. He tries to be good time and time again only to be possessed, killed and brought back to life without his good half.

Tattoo translations:

Garmadon: Statera Latin for Balance

Lloyd: Iussum Latin for Order

Anyways I like to think Lloyd and Garmadon look kinda similar in facial features and stuff while also looking really different. I think Garmadon probably has a couple of tattoos (it just makes sense for him) and I think Lloyd has maybe one or two but they're smaller but meaningful. Also I think I've FINALLY settled on a Lloyd design, since before now it's been changing every time.

I just think these Legos are interesting :)

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

It took way to long to do this drawing but now it's done and I really do like how it came out! Also yes I have completely overhauled my Cole design and I'll make a new character sheet eventually!

Now I do want to very briefly address something that has been going around the internet and it's the whole discourse about Cole and Geo possibly becoming an item at some point. I'm not going to go out an say everyone has to like it that is not my intention! I personally enjoy the ship (and others) BUT disliking the ship does NOT give people a pass to be disrespectful and flat our hateful in certain circumstances!

The sheer amount of homophobia I have seen since season 2 of DR came out is honestly concerning and I know it's probably not the majority but is a concerningly loud group of people. I think it's ironic that a show that has been about accepting people even if they're different since as far back as season one (Zane and Cole's true potential episodes being the examples) has people so mad that they might being including people of different groups. I honestly just think it's a shame that people can be so hateful.

Anyways that's my rant of the weekend lol, I just hope that people can generally just be more nice!

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

Happy Lesbian Visibility week! I really wanted to get more than one Vaggie and Charlie drawing done but alas the disability is disabling me and I was only able to produce one, but still!

I used my redesigns for them cause I wanted to give yall a little sneak peak before I put my redesigns out all together (Angel, Vaggie, Charlie are done and Husk is started everyone else is planned I just haven't executed the drawings yet) I also yes I will be redoing people other than just the main cast cause ngl Adam, Lilith and the Seraphims bothered me REALLY badly, I don't HATE their designs I just wish they were a bit more interesting/they have some aspects I don't think are really the best choices. Please don't come for me please I do like Hazbin Hotel I think it's a really interesting concept but some of the ways they've executed things I don't think are exactly the best ways to go about it.

Anyways Redesigns and Hazbin HC's to come, I'm also finishing up a geodshipping drawing since I think they're so silly and I'm also working on something for Pixal because one day I randomly got the urge to draw this loc hairstyle a girl at my school has and I ended up with a Pixal drawing cause of course.

PEACE OUT FOR NOW!