#I KNOW I KNOW! It's Ninjago! They don't DO that.

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

I'm aroacespec (and honestly confused about where I fall on that spectrum, but I do know I'm sex/romance favorable) and tbh my relationship with shipping is weird.

There are some ships I look at and I'm like "how can you see this as anything but romantic" and there are other ships where I'm like "okay but why do we have to ship them, can't they just be friends?" and it's almost always the total opposite of what the fandom majority's view is. For example, my Sonic "how can you see this as anything but romantic" ship is Espilver, and my "okay but why do we have to ship them, can't they just be friends?" ship is Silvaze.

I will say that something I've noticed is there tends to be a double-standard with allo people (specifically cishet people) when it comes to ships. You get a ton of "why can't they just be friends" with slash and femslash ships, but then those same people will ship a het pairing that look at each other in a single frame. I don't know if it's something that's more obvious to me because I'm gay myself (or even if it's more obvious because I'm aroacespec specifically), but it's weird to me. I choose to look at it this way: if this was a het ship with the same character dynamic, would people still say "why can't they just be friends?"

That's not to say aroace people are in the wrong for looking at a pairing and saying "can't they just be friends? Why do we have to ship them?" but with a lot of cishet people specifically, it feels like there's a lot of people perpetuating a borderline homophobic double-standard. I get it when it's something like Scott and Jay from Ninjago, but so many masc characters' dynamics are canonically given homoerotic or even just romantic undertones (a good example of this being, in my opinion, Sonadow; there's not an almost 3 and a half hour long Sonadow iceberg video on YouTube for no reason. As far as I'm aware it's the longest Sonic-related iceberg video on YouTube that covers exclusively official content) which is why people tend to gravitate towards those ships. I could do an entire analysis on why gay ships tend to have bigger followings than het ships but if I did this would get too long lmao. I will once again point to the Sonadow iceberg video though.

I generally use shipping to explore my own relationship with my aroace-ness, and usually I do that using characters I either headcanon as aroace in some way or who are canonically aroace, because I can relate to those experiences. It's kinda weird to me to see other aroace people acting like doing that is bad or wrong, because usually that's what people are doing, and even if that's not what's going on, fanfiction doesn't affect canon.

There is no right or wrong way to participate in fandom (unless you're harassing people and/or actively putting people in danger), no matter what you identify as.

Basically: People should be allowed to do what they want, if something bothers you that bad there's nothing wrong with blocking a person or tag.

(I might've gotten off subject a few times, sorry lol)

Okay, that thing about blocking tags inspired me to look through my blocked tags to see what ships I've blocked and here's my petty aroace thoughts on all of them without naming names lmao

Fanon het ship. They've never given any indication that they know of each other's existence. Her girlfriend is right there.

Canon het ship. Had the chemistry of two wet paper bags. Literally just shoehorned in there because god forbid any story exist without a romance subplot.

Semi-canon het ship. I'm mostly neutral about them. Just unnecessary.

Fanon mlm ship. Literally brothers?? I don't care that one of them is adopted, they grew up together?? As brothers??

Fanon het ship. I don't care what you call their relationship. You can call it professional, platonic, familial, just please don't call it romantic.

Semi-canon het ship. Again, completely unnecessary. God forbid a man convince a woman to become a villain without there being ~attraction~

Fanon het ship. She is 14?? And he is like 30??

Semi-semi-canon het ship. He did have a crush on her when he was, like, 14 but he's a grown adult now and she's the most lesbian-looking woman to ever exist and they're the most found family siblings to ever find a family

Fanon het ship. LET MEN AND WOMEN BE FRIENDS. LET MEN AND WOMEN BE PLATONICALLY MARRIED.

Fanon mlm ship. I personally see them more as brothers. But whatever floats your boat.

Semi-canon het ship. Just really shoehorned. I don't like the woman very much. I liked her more when she was allowed to be a badass without being a ~flirty badass~

Fanon mlm ship. Again. Adopted brothers. Gross.

Canon het ship. I've seen many things from this director. He's a creative man. He couldn't think of a way to move the plot forward without a smooch?? He couldn't create a series that didn't have an unnecessary love triangle??

Semi-canon het ship. The man isn't coming back for S2 and boy folly gee am I glad

Fanon het ship. Not my cup of tea. Just let them be friends

good lord I have a lot more ship tags blocked than I thought

anyway, this is your daily reminder to just block stuff you don't want to see and move on

[nocturnal-nexu]

I finally got around to hanging these up on my wall! They look so good! @joshuad17 , your art is so awesome!

I don't know if he still has posters available for purchase right now, but Ninjago fans, do yourselves a favor and go check out @joshuad17 's work. It's so detailed and gorgeous!

[rosewalkersjayaforever]

So guys, let's all talk about Lloyd, we know who he is if you watch Ninjago or starting with Dragons Rising, master of energy, son of Garmadon, nephew of Wu, grandson of the First Spinjitzu Master and the green ninja, the chosen one, some love Lloyd and some don't, let's find out why? Lloyd is the main character, he's a green ninja, that's understandable, but why is he constantly and every time need to shove him into new seasons?

I know and understand that he is the main character, but this does not mean that they need to add him in every season, then why do they need other ninjas, if they could write the name: "green ninja" Or Lloyd's name, and according to the title, once the name: Masters of Spinjitzu, then it is about the masters, and not one. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Lloyd, on the contrary I love him, but honestly it really got me, like he's already a green ninja, chosen one, a master of energy or life, he had golden power (I wonder if it will appear in the future) He has a golden uniform oni

Some made art that he merges with his element instead of Nya, and also has the shape of a dragon or whatever it is called (correct me if anything, I just inserted them here, since it went, I don't know, maybe it will be in the future) And also one dragon from the Dragons Rising helped him by giving him strength, but maybe that's enough? We already all know that Lloyd is very strong of others, especially he has oni blood in him, but why overestimate him and add him every season and every time it's the turn of other ninjas? Everything is like with Bloom from Winx.

And also with other main characters from other anime / TV series or lego and their what? Do you also have to hate them now? In general, let's at least hope that Lloyd will no longer be added as often in the future as it was from 2013 to 2023, as well as 2024, we know that he is the main character, but this does not mean that he needs to be added every time in new seasons, why then others? Is it just that they are worth it when they are needed or not? Unclear🤔🤷‍♀️

[the-ninjago-historian]

I'm seriously considering putting a couple musical numbers in my fan season. The Disney inspiration and my song writing brain might not be stopped.🤣

[yhwcomeback]

"How did you even get in here" "Is that a rethorical question?" "Right you're a ninja, I forgot"

Headcanon that Brad has a flowershop in Dragon Rising and Lloyd drops by to get tea leaves every so often (no other reason in particular...)

[saline-coelacanth]

Ok time for another one of my random thoughts that popped into my head

So you know how in Ninjago whenever one of the ninja would get a love interest, they would just immediately fall in love at the first sight of said love interest? Well when it comes to Cole and Geo, I like to think that it was the other way around. Instead of Cole immediately falling in love with Geo the second he sees him, I fully believe that it was Geo who was just immediately smitten at the first sight of Cole, and then Cole developed feelings for Geo over time.

[sweet-cuddlebug]

I literally just want Misako to say "I'm so sorry for abandoning you, I tried to protect you and I only caused you more pain, I know I have no right to come back into your life now, and you don't have to accept me, but I just want you to know that I'm sorry and I love you.”

LIKE PLEASE

I WANT TO SEE THEIR RELATIONSHIP BECOME AWKWARD. I WANT LLOYD NOT TO KNOW HOW TO ACT NOW THAT HE HAS HIS MOTHER BACK. I WANT TO SEE MISAKO QUESTIONING IF SHE'S BEING A GOOD MOTHER OR GOING OVER THE LINE BECAUSE SHE DON'T KNOW HOW TO HAVE A CHILD EITHER.

AND

I WANT GARMADON TO BE AFRAID OF HURTING LLOYD MORE THAN HE ALREADY HAS. BUT TRYING TO BE THE FATHER HE NEVER COULD. I WANT TO SEE LLOYD HAVING NIGHTMARES ABOUT HIS FATHER AND BEING TOO SCARED TO TELL HIM. THEY WANT TO BE A HAPPY FAMILY BUT WITH THEIR HISTORY THAT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE

[penofwildfire]

There's a question I see raised fairly often in the discussion of race when it comes to Lego people, and it's actually a huge pet peeve of mine cuz the answer is so obvious.

"If [Star Wars/Marvel/DC/etc] Legos can have actual human skin tones, then why doesn't [Ninjago/Monkie Kid/DreamZzz/etc] have them? Why are those shows all just yellow?"

Some people even claim that it's racist for Ninjago and Monkie Kid to have all yellow minifigure designs, due to those shows being set in Asia/Asia-inspired locations. But here's the thing, the answer is in the question.

Star Wars, Marvel and DC all belong to other companies. They were not created by Lego. And the characters in them have real human skin tones. Thus, it'd be weird to suddenly make everyone yellow. But Ninjago, Monkie Kid and DreamZzz are Lego originals. They were made by Lego and therefore they have the iconic yellow skin tone. Yellow is just the default, and it doesn't necessarily mean that a character is literally yellow.

Anyway, here's some very obviously non-white Lego people

(yes most of these are from DreamZzz which I have not seen yet but seems to be very good at portraying POC in Lego form. I really should check it out.)

[wannabemasterofwindintraining]

I know how manipulation tactics work

(^doesn't know shit)

[get-acronixed-meme]

[ninjautizm]

THIS IS ACTUALLY SO ADORABLE, YOUNG GARMADON WITH THE SILLY SMALL PUPPETS..

[cassettemoon]

pajamamen's Kai possessed by Morro but with a twist appeals to me

[abunnsburrow]

I'M SORRY BUT WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME THIS WAS A THING???

[rainofthetwilight]

chat...should I do a sora dtiys maybe

[kelpshippingceo]

I absolutely LOVE teen beach movie so I thought I'd make a greenflower au of it!

close ups under cut

[localguy2]

Seeing Jaya angst where Jay is being extremely hurtful to Nya and sorta taking advantage of the fact that she can't bring herself to fight him is sad, but also so fucking funny

Like bro, have you seen how this guy acted when he met Bonzel and she literally immediately knew that he didn't like his job or the fact that they're hunting Zane (without knowing that ofc)