#Silly little me playing with my silly adult legos

[no-foxgiven]

Lilly returns, claiming a space for herself!

And a new friend for her, meet Private Catherine LeBlanc!

They are fast friends, and armed at that.

And a thank you to the people supporting this endeavor.

Building these 2 has been a blast and I plan to make more posts about their antics. I will at some point give them more personality and stylization but that is a ways off (I am not confident in my ability to do so)

[lilleputtu]

I am trying so hard to behave myself and not start a hermit/empires/trafficsmp medieval sims 2 hood. Emphasis on trying because ooooops, Team ZITS.

I blame @redstonedust‘s hermitsims adventures.

I have other sims things to be doing. And my sims 2 sim making skills are gaaarbage. But sometimes you just gotta be rewatching Zedaph’s season 6 and making some vaguely blockpeople shaped sims I guess.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Well look at you!!! Are you dressed as Wirt from Over the Garden Wall!!??? I really love that show, although I really don’t watch it as often as I should. I first watched it like any old kid does, pirated through YouTube with the actual episode in the corner as a tiny square and the rest of the screen filled with other nonsense! Boy, you really haven’t lived if you haven’t done that at least once in your life. Once watched someone’s upload of the entire Toy Story 4 movie like that — can you believe it? Someone posting the entire Toy Story 4 movie on YouTube! The best part is, it stayed on there for like four weeks! What a fun time.. now, fortunately nowadays with me being on the interwebs more often I know some peeps have posted the whole OtGW series on Google docs which they’ve then shared around, which is pretty nifty indeed! Really appreciate folks doing stuff like that, because otherwise digital media can just vanish into the air with the way streaming is nowadays. Rotten stuff.

Oh, anyway, Over the Garden Wall! Yes, I remember when I first started watching that show. I remember watching the very opening, thinking, ���Scenes of the past? No, scenes of fantasy? No… perhaps passing memories, fleeting dreams and thoughts?” I like to think I was pretty right, personally! I like that we’re shown… well, I won’t say much, but with such a simple opening everything happens in plain sight. Even moreso when you look at the Easter eggs, like the intro of each episode!!! Gosh, I felt amazed when I learned all the things it hides!!! I used to gobble down theory videos one after the other about the show! A good show really has you thinking and looking at things with a keen eye and ear, doesn’t it? Over the Garden Wall is such eye candy too, it’s funny how a show can have a simple style like that and yet so detailed too, I’m sure the art style took a while to brew and develop.

My very favourite character was Wirt, no doubt you can guess, when I watched OtGW I was but an insecure teenager myself and as an oldest sibling who plays clarinet, well, it was like a match made in the Unknown! Now that I’m more grown Wirt comes across more silly to me now, ha. Funny how that is you know? When you grow up, you can see the same story at different points in your life, but relate to different characters. That happened to me once with this book about a primary school age girl in foster care. When I was a younger kid, I related a bunch to the main character and her frustrations and struggles, but when I later read the book again as a… teen maybe? I found myself relating more to the adults in her life. It was a strange kind of thing to experience. It helps me remember that to children, things that may seem small to adults, can be really major and big! Children’s concerns should be taken into account all the same, they shouldn’t be simply brushed off as nonsense. Teenagers’ too!

Actually, hey! Speaking of Over the Garden Wall, this I hope you’ll like, I put a little reference to it in my most recent tumblr fake dashboard post! I haven’t seen anyone point it out at all!?? It is none other than fishblr user burgle-the-turts! Their icon no doubt confirms it: a teapot, similar to the kettle Greg wears — I mean, sorry, his elephant costume. The “burgle the turts” line lives in my brain, what can I say. I dropped many other fun references to media in the post, for example, fishblr user greenXD is a reference to that funny thing Master Wu says in the Lego Ninjago movie. THAT’S RIGHT I WATCHED NINJAGO but I haven’t sadly seen the movie and I kind of fell of the show when Zane was kidnapped..?? I did watch the snake stuff, and the whole season where��..

(I proceed to elaborate at length. You never receive your candy.)

trick :)

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

hey dude, love the writing! your characterizations are so on point for em :0 what do you reckon the merc's hobbies are in their downtime? like knitting, golfing, stuff like that.

TF2 Mercs and Their Hobbies!

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I'm glad people think I'm good because that justifies the fact that this is what I do with my spare time 😭 (kidding) Also again mandatory mutual appreciation, love ya for that 🫶🏻 and ty for loving my writing, I really appreciate it <3

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This one's definitely got me smiling and kicking my legs bc something about the idea of these guys being happy and doing normal human things makes me happy.

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Demo knits! He also sews and crochets. This man is just a little grandma (affectionate). His mom taught him, and he just always liked it. It's calming, has definitely given the other Mercs blankets, and just claimed, "Oh well, I found it somewhere." Like it isn't in their well-known favorite color or subtly customized to them. I think he'd also be into most art. Painting and wood carving are two I think he'd fine interesting.

Engie- This man loves Legos. He has at least ten finished sets and about six unfinished ones lying around. He buys the adult sets for himself but has bought Pyro smaller sets so they can build together. Also isn't opposed to going fishing.

Heavy- Did you know he likes rock climbing? Turns out it's a lot easier to get into that hobby if you're strong. He's also a fan of hiking and swimming. Also very good at chess, he and Madic play a lot.

Medic- He loves music! He's good at it too, (I've seen others hc that he plays violin and please I love that, I love violin.) Along with the violin he kills on piano. It's actually really nice to hear piano coming from the lab and not screaming. Who knew? THIS. MAN. LOVES. TO. DANCE. He knows how to and loves to teach people. He specifically likes ballroom dancing, he can waltz, he can swing, if you can think of a dance he probably learned how to do it at some point.

Scout- Sports are probably the most obvious hobby I could pick for Scout, with video games coming in second. But I am a man who deviates from the obvious. He likes to bake and cook! Like I've seen people say this man can't boil water, and that's an insane take to me. Sure, it's funny, but this man loves his mom. Do you think he didn't bake and cook with her to help her out? He has a box of recipes that have been in the family for years. This man is killer when it comes to food, and I will die on this hill. (When he's baking, though, Pyro comes out of nowhere to "help." If any fellow bakers know how annoying it is to have a partner in the kitchen, you'll know how patient Scout has become, but he aurally doesn't mind Pyro baking with him after a while.) Don't ask him to do paintball with you! He loves it a bit too much.

Sniper- My man loves plants. He loves to garden. He has a little windowsill planter in his van. He grows little fruit plants sometimes and has a few cacti scattered around. He also has a bonsai tree, which he is meticulous with. You'd think this man would take up these hobbies to relax, but no. He is also insanely good at poker.

Spy- Really in to calligraphy, origami, and wine tasting. (Also, not really a hobby, but I hc that he can bartend if need be). He's just really into the "fancier." Hobbies that can also show off his art skills, also he likes wine so yk.

Soldier- Like Sniper, he's a really good poker player. He's definitely more into it than the other guys. He hates losing. He also does the traditional suburban while dad hobbies. He watches football and likes to grill. He's just a silly little American man.

Pyro- For the most part, they don't have a singular hobby they really do by themself. Scout and Engie just tend to include them in theirs, so they've never really had to figure out what to do in their downtime. But that doesn't mean they didn't find one eventually. They get into collecting! Specifically, bugs! They have at least two orchid praying mantis and one normal green one in a shadow box. Plus, they have a small collection on honeybees and even some scorpions and spiders (I know they aren't bugs, but I feel like most bug collectors have them too.) Engie went into Pyros room once because Pyro wanted to show off their collection and nearly fainted when Pyro showed off their favorite spider, it was a camel spider. (Look them up if you want but good God, they're so gross 😭)

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One of my favorites to write, super cute and wholesome idea. I smiled the whole time writing this.

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[starrzies]

★Meet the Artist 2024★

I might have forgotten to post this </3

Hello there!!

I'm Starrzies, but I also go by Rodimus!! Of these two names I prefer my nicknames (Starrz/Roddy) more than the formality of my full username/chosen name!! I'm 19 and a full time college student! (I want to become a Forensic Pathologist!) My pronouns are He/They ONLY and my chosen gender identity is Demiboy! I'm also Aroace, my specific labels being Cupioromantic/sexual!

I'm just a silly little guy trying to do his best. I am a hobbyist artist and writer and I love to share what I come with in the hopes that other people will enjoy it as much as I do! I tend to post art related to my own characters, art I've done for other people and - more rarely - fandom related art! I also stream on Twitch!!! Usually it's art streams (especially for Art Fight!) or me playing my games - either solo or with other people! I do have a Discord server full of my friends, mutuals and people interested in my stuff and community! Feel free to come join :) I'm on basically on every platform (maybe not active, but I'm there!)

My special interest (been into it for as long as I can remember) is Transformers!! It will almost always show up at some point! I'm also super into Lego Monkie Kid, Overwatch and Genshin Impact!! (The last of the 2 I on and off play!) I tend to reblog content form these 4 fandoms! (They're the main 4 but I may branch out!)

I try and be super friendly! Really, I don't bite, but I do have a very limited social battery! So conversations may not last very long when it comes to talking! I also sometimes just don't have the energy to reply. If I don't reply then it's nothing against you, I promise!! That being said I AM TOTALLY OPEN TO BEING FRIENDS/MUTUALS!! Please note, if you are younger than 18 I will NOT be your close friend, close mutuals at most. This is just due to safety! (Pre-established friends before I became an adult are still a nd will remain my friends.)

Pets! I own,,, a few. Just a small little amount. They're all my babies though and I adore them. I do my beast to take proper care of them and give them long, happy and fulfilling lives! Hiraeth and Ravage both came from litters I've raised! (Hiraeth being an accident and Ravage from a foster litter.) Ember was my sibling's cat but became mine because she just,,, likes me more? My other pets were 100% intended! All of these guys are spoiled rotten,,,

Silly little notes/explanations!!

Cupioromantic/sexual; someone who doesn't feel/feels little romantic/sexual attraction but desires a romantic/sexual relationship

Demiboy; someone whose gender identity partially identifies with masculinity, but is not entirely binary

I've been in relationships before! However, I generally only feel platonic love for people around me. I genuinely love (/p) all of my friends and you'll see me make that very clear! I am NOT interested in relationships, especially after this most recent one. Things have gotten complicated AF and I don't even want to bother entertaining anyone.

I have a Decepticon Insignia Tattoo on my left wrist! My first tattoo ever and I LOVE it so much! I will be going back in October for hopefully, my second tattoo!

I own a 2001 Ford Mustang!! It's a convertible too! I ADORE my car so much and there is so much I have planned for it!!

I own 4 dogtags! They are NOT military related at all though! They just have special meaning to me and I've been wearing them since 2018! I did actually let someone borrow one of them for a decent amount of time but it was returned to me! I don't think I'm ever going to let them go again, they mean too much to me.

Ravage is named after the TF character! :D He was my little gaming buddy back when I was fostering a litter of kittens for my senior project. I ended up keeping him, I got too attached. Now he is best friends with Ember!

Hiraeth was a TOTAL accident. I was supposed to just have her mom but she was pregnant much to our surprise! (Someone was getting rid of her, probably because they knew she was pregnant, and gave her to us without telling us that lol) I was allowed to keep Hiraeth but none of the other cats were allowed :( They all went to loving homes though!

Discord is my main, preferred way of communication!! I always have it open on my second monitor so I tend to respond really quickly on there :) You should totally add me on there! I'm under the same username ;)

Feel free to interact with me!! Just be aware of my boundaries and DNI! (Very basic btw!) I'm always happy to chat and meet new people :)

I want to make a comic!! I have so much more planning before I can work on it though :( One day! You may see little teasers to it being posted on my socials!!

This blog is my SFW blog!! I do have,, other accounts but those will remain unnamed! If you are curious and have your age visible feel free to ask me about it in DMs!

WHEW, I think that's enough personal info that I'm putting on the internet LMFAOOO I'll be sure to redo this next year as well ;))

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[doberbutts]

I do appreciate that the Barbie movie appears to be mostly aimed at teenagers + adults though.

Obviously a lot of kids will see it, that's who Barbie as a brand is aimed at, but the PG-13 rating is nice in that it will appeal to the generation that primarily played with barbies. I'm sure plenty still do, but it's not quite the cult following it used to have as most of those people are now late teens/adult age. They could have just made a live action Barbie dream house rated E for everyone movie and chose not to.

As an adult, I'm stoked to see it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I know it's just to make money and sell toys, propaganda, etc but it really is getting me hyped to see a hyper femme silly little movie a la Legally Blonde again.

Barbie has been a popular toy since 1959- the majority of people by definition who grew up playing with Barbies are well out of late teen/early adult age. Appealing to the older demographic while still having available movies for the younger demographic is really nothing new to capitalism- the MCU exists but so does the Avengers cartoon.

My point is not "Barbie movie capitalism bad", it's "those who are saying that are missing the point that most of these recent movie releases yes even the ones you like are doing literally exactly the same thing". There's roughly a million Lego movies, you think those aren't to sell toys????

[pompompuriina]

Thanks for answering my ask... If you don't mind, can I ask (again) for your top 10 (or top 7) favorite media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....

heeeey! it's absolutely okay to ask me these i love answering asks <3

my top ten medias right now are:

1. jujutsu kaisen (obviously, it's my special interest)

2. mashle: magic and muscles, i just started it but i'm already in love

3. sally face (long running special interest mwahahaha)

4. fairy tail, this is purely because of nostalgia and it was my first anime, fairy tail defender till i fuckin DIE (minus the insane amount of unnecessary fanservice)

5. shameless, tv show and one of my favs <3 absolutely love everyone's characters (except for debbie, i freaking hate debbie)

6. this is controversial but i actually really like euphoria..i didn't understand addiction much until i watched euphoria, although i will admit the adult scenes make me a little uncomfy ;-; the character development is really good imo, but the story needs some work

7. any of the resident evil games, series and movies, all of them are worth the play and watches . i really like it too because i absolutely love zombies

8. the walking dead games, the show is pretty great but i wll always always alwayssss love the games way more <3

9. the disastrous life of saiki k, comedy central istg please please pelaseeeee give it a watch

10. kimi ni todoke, when i need a break from all the angst and need to watch a comfort anime I'll always watch kimi ni todoke <3 my favorite romance anime

bonus: ninjago masters of spinjitsu. idc idc it's my favorite childhood show, i watched it ever since it first came out on cartoon network, please watch the show, yes it's a silly little lego show but it's soooo underrated plz watch :(

[lastoneout]

You mention the ableism in the comment about ADHD and object permanence, but I was also taken aback in that article snippet about queer people living their teens in their twenties, as if that is a silly decision they made and not a result of societal homophobia and hurtful experiences? queer people not having the childhoods they wanted is a problem, but the article blames queer people for growing up? What?

Yeah, that was another inclusion that seemed HELLA careless imo

The concept of a "second adolescence" in terms of the queer experience isn't "I just want an excuse to run around and pretend I'm a child" AT ALL. It's based in the fact that people do a lot of maturing and learning how to be their own person and socialize and such when they are in their teens and how queer people are DENIED those CRUCIAL lessons because we are often ostracized from our communities. You can't learn how to date and make friends or get a first job or foster a sense of individuality or how to love who you are if you are constantly afraid that people finding out you're queer is going to get you killed OR if you are out and no one wants anything to do with you because of it.

And that's not even getting into the same subject re: victims of trauma. My teenage years were NOT normal and I was in survival mode like...fucking all the time, and it means I didn't learn a lot of the shit I was supposed to, or I learned it wrong, and so I've had to spend my 20s playing catch up. (And also I kinda like buying myself childish things sometimes bcs I've had to act like an adult my ENTIRE LIFE and sometimes a stuffed animal or lego set or video game makes me feel a little better.)

The second adolescence isn't about being free of responsibility, it's about learning how to be a person now that you have the freedom to do so, and the author clearly doesn't get that at all.

[tybaltsjuliet]

Speaking of Snow White (completely agree with all your posts btw, and I guess that my unpopular opinion is that Rachel's Snow >>>>>>> Lego Snow no matter how botched the execution in the movie might end up being, because Lego Snow is just. A damn JOKE. She's not meant to be badass, she's meant to be laughed at. At least Rachel will play her Snow as an actual character), you've mentioned in the past that she's in your top 3 Disney princesses. If you don't mind, what would your complete ranking be, and the reasons for each placement?

oh, that is a great point. yeah, i thought the lego stuff was cute when i first saw sets of it on here, but it is jokes! it was deeply annoying to see people saying stuff like, “oh, this is doing snow a thousand times better than the live action will!” BE FOR REAL.

i always love an excuse to ramble about my princess opinions! for the sake of a framework, i am ranking using the ~Official Disney Princess~ lineup... with the inclusion of a certain asterisked three who have been booted from the same for what i consider arbitrary and silly reasons.

needless to say, this got long as all hell.

01. belle. always and forever thee princess to me.

i love her gothic heroine sensibilities. i love that within, like, three minutes of meeting her we hear her gush about fairy tales as many times and i love her “daily mean song” because i also grew up in an anti-intellectual small town and it is a mood. i love that she does the noble thing and gets upset about doing it even if it was noble, and i love that she takes off after the west wing, “promise or no promise!” because fuck that situation. i love that she comes back but only after the beast has proven that there is something good in him after all, and because the other option was leaving him to die and she is not gonna do that. i love how emotionally intelligent she is - the way she recognizes when the beast is on his self-improvement tour, for instance, and is happy to meet him where he is, because she knows the effort is being made (the drinking from the bowls together!). i love how fearless she is, and the way she stands her ground with gaston and the beast alike.

i think belle is simply the best-written disney princess there is, (thank you, linda woolverton), and she is one of the best examples of a character who resonates with modern audiences without just being a mouthpiece for “good” 20th century opinions in a fantasy pseudohistorical setting.

02. snow white. even if she does not have much of an *arc*, she has so much personality and i love that about her! the way she fusses with her hair a little before going out to see the prince on the balcony. the orphan solidarity she expresses with the bird who fell from its nest and the “children” in the cottage. the way her first impulse, after the nightmare woods, is to comfort the animals she might have startled. that the artists and writers took care to put all that personality in, when there was so much else to worry about in every frame for this fairly unprecedented work of art, is wonderful to me.

there is such a unique quality to her look and her voice, too. the last, what, 30 years of broadway belting princesses has kind of lost its charm for me, and it is always so refreshing to hear adriana caselotti’s voice. and i can almost make as good a case for her as a gothic heroine princess as i can for belle!

and, look - despite my frequently successful efforts to clamp down my worst disney adult impulses, i am always going to be one of those people who is kind of precious and weird about walt disney. ergo, a good part of my love for snow white is that she is Walt’s Original. obviously, i do not think that makes her or her movie untouchable, but the fact that she was walt’s folly who turned into the cornerstone of this magic kingdom - that does make her special to me.

03. esmeralda*, the first of those who was a disney princess officially for a while, and no longer is, but remains so in my heart.

this, i think, is the most important illustrative fact about esmeralda. she carries a knife under her skirts. she is repeatedly menaced and threatened, and fights back admirably with her brains and her words (and a candlestick), but the only time we see her use that knife is in defense of another person being persecuted by a mob, in an act that is as compassionate as it is just.

i think both factions of The Discourse - the people who girlboss their warrior princesses too close to the sun, and the people who think that suggesting a princess have more agency is a personal attack on them because they like to bake things - could stand to meditate for a while upon that.

04. mulan. i am an army brat who grew up with the uncomfortable feeling that i should have been a son, for what i know now to be both dad reasons *and* queer reasons, so i am not even a little bit capable of being normal about mulan. (sound off, fellow queer children who grew up feeling A Way about “reflection.”)

i think she is one of the smartest disney princesses, too, and that is an underrated quality in her! from the notes on her arm for the matchmaker meeting (obviously, did not work out, but she was still working smarter, not harder!), to winning the pillar, to her strategy at the emperor’s palace. she also has the honor of being the one disney princess whose movie i consider a genuine win for feminism.

05. pocahontas. of course, there are the problematics of her movie’s existence at all, but, in a vacuum, i adore her. i think we actually desperately need more disney princesses who are reckless, weird mystics whose family and friends all think they’re a lunatic. that is representative of Me.

pocahontas and esmeralda were both extremely important childhood role models to me in speaking truth to power, too, which i needed in my catholic conservative household. and i feel about “colors of the wind” the way i feel about “it’s a small world.” a little simplistic? sure. but it is making a point that the world would do well to take in, and you can bet that it is a point i want my future children to understand early and well.

- also. let it be known that i fucking love journey to a new world. i ate UP the drama as a kid. rolfe >>> smith, and ratcliff’s plotting for the hunt ball makes me so angry because it is perfect. of course he would think of bear baiting. of course he knows that pocahontas would be pissed and say something about it! she was right to do so! i still think regularly about how compelling and tragic she looked in the tower, with her fancy english gown ruined and her hair flowing around her. the gothic heroine of it all.

06. cinderella. i feel like the discourse has given her a harder time than even snow white, on all sides, but she still comes out of it smiling and graciously winning at life because she is cinderella and that is what she DOES. i wasn’t able to fight back or run away in the house i grew up in, either, but i took her words to heart: “they can’t order me to stop dreaming.” i also took to heart that not even the wickedest families can stop you from being a smartass when you feel like it :)

but, most of all, i love cinderella for reminding those of us who are suffering that, when the chance comes for something beautiful, you take it. even if you have to go back to real life the next day; even if you think it sounds too good to be true. you never know when a miracle will come, and it is on you to take every opportunity for one to present itself.

(all that said... cinderella is the only instance where i actually kind of like her live-action characterization, and the live-action film overall, better than the original! i know many people think the live-action ella was a lot more of a doormat than the animated cinderella, but i don’t feel that way at all; they just handle their situations differently, and the timelines of their loss were different enough that i can understand why that would be the case.)

07. elsa*. diversity win! this snow queen is disney’s first mentally ill princess! and, oh, boy, did that mean a lot to me while i was in the early throes of what turned out to be some fairly severe undiagnosed ill. really, my favorite thing about elsa is what a wreck she is for so much of the movie. i like it when disney chooses not to pull any punches about showing their princesses at their lowest (see also cinderella bawling in the garden), because it makes their healing that much sweeter.

08. tiana. she is from the 1920s! she is from new orleans! she is an entrepreneur! all things i adore unreservedly about her! but i simply refuse to believe she was fully prepared to give up all that dream and drive and be a damn frog forever in the damn swamp forever because ~love~. not on your flat-bottomed stove, disney.

09. ariel. i began to like ariel a lot more when i stopped seeing her as another example of the rebellious princess trope, which i dislike, and started seeing her as a pocahontas-level weirdo. the way she is willing to run headfirst into the shadiest situation since the hag showed up at snow white’s window, just to get to (basically) another planet and learn about (basically) alien life... she is just like me fr :)

10. jasmine. i feel like she has a little less personality than her other renaissance-era comrades, and, as suggested with ariel, i am a hard sell on the rebellious princess trope, doubly so when it is just about feeling ~so trapped~ in your beautiful palace with every luxury. but! i do love her interactions with aladdin, and she gets extra credit for two things in particular.

the first is that i do have to hand it to her for planting the idea in child me’s head that... sometimes... heroines can KISS the villains. intriguing.

the second is the time my family took a trip to epcot when i was newly in the agony of braces, which - double agony - had not been installed on my teeth correctly. one afternoon, i was picking my way through whatever i could stand to chew at akershus. jasmine came over to our table, and the first thing she said to me was, “oh! you have jewels on your teeth! how beautiful!” the confidence and joy that gave to awkward 12-year-old me is beyond describing. i beamed through the pain in every photo for the rest of the trip, to show off my jewels.

11. aurora. i feel bad that she did not make the top 10, but she really just does not get a lot to do! i do like what we get of her, and there is no arguing with mary costa as one of the best voices in disney history. i will leave this post here as further reasoning for aurora.

12. merida. i like her arc and i love her design. THAT HAIR. i just wish her movie was a little different. i like it, too, but i will always mourn the higher fantasy kind of story we were originally promised with the bear and the bow.

13. rapunzel. i do not have strong opinions for her; i do not have strong opinions against her. i like a good lost princess story and she is cute, but tangled is also where i really started feeling the heart kind of leaving the brand. we all should have foreseen the worst, what with the quips.

14. raya. i do not think about her or her movie that much, and when i do, i am mostly thinking about sisu, but kelly marie tran’s performance was really good and i was just so happy to see a new, original fantasy story come out of this studio. it’s been 84 years, et cetera. also... something, something, disney’s first LGBTQ character, now if only i could get people to start shipping her with her weird dragon girlfriend instead of the girl who spends the whole movie trying to kill her.

15. anna*. i have to say, she has grown on me since i first saw frozen...but that still makes her only my third favorite character in frozen, out of the three total characters i give a damn about it. she gets a little credit for the way she and elsa feed my gothic siblings obsession, but that has less to do with anna as she is and more to do with the anna i made up in my head. i was coming around to her more in the sequel, for a little while, but i hated the ending they gave elsa so much that it made me forget any goodwill i developed.

16. moana. another one that i really do not think about much at all, except i liked her movie WAY less than i liked raya and the last dragon. crazy to me that the heroine with a pandering line for the too-cool 21st-century audience about how she’s NOT a princess, ACTUALLY, is in the lineup, but the only thing disney cares about more than character integrity is making a fortune off as much marketing to little girls as possible.

[themetallicnemesis]

for the ask thing, whichever version of sun wukong you enjoy most

Hmmm to be completly honest im not sure which is the version i enjoy the most, like most wukongs to me are all different brands of a pretty cool guy so it's a bit hard to choose 🤔, so i think i'm just gonna answer for the Lego Wukong and the Jttw Wukong because those are the two i post about and think about the most:

Jttw Sun Wukong:

-How i feel about this character: He's a very complex character, and i like him a lot. Like, i'm bad at putting it exactly into words but even during moments of the story where he's doing wrong, he's still incredibly easy to sympathize with because you can kinda just see where he's coming from you know? He's a guy with a lot of layers that can't really be described as just a "Silly funny monkey" or "impulsive violent fiend" or anything of the sort, because the thing about trying to fit Swk into any kind of labels is that it's pretty much a fruitless task and i love that about him lol. I'm bad with words but yeah all that just makes him feel so real to me, and it's neat to see how different adaptations focus on certain aspects of his personality and each end up feeling a bit different from eachother as a result!

-All the people i ship romantically with this character: I love the Swk/Bull King/Princess Iron Fan dynamic and it's usually the ship i think about the most when it comes to him. And even though i usually see the pilgrims mostly in a platonic light, i also like Zhu Bajie/Swk cause they do have a hell of a fun dynamic. Guess Erlang can also fit in here.

-My non-romantic OTP for this character: Ao Lie. Because they kept calling him Little Dragon when he first appeared on the book i ended up with the image of him in my mind as a very young adult when compared to the other pilgrims. I can see him and Wukong having a very baby sibling and oldest sibling dynamic, and Wukong absolutly plays favorites when it comes to the pilgrims. The favorite is the horse

-My unpopular opnion about this character: Hmmm not really sure if i have one?

-One thing i wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: Kinda wish there were more moments where Tang Sanzang was like, you know more decent to him? Just wish they had more nice moments with eachother, because like if Sanzang was a person that actually bonded with him and had his own nice moments as well maybe it would make me more invested on the moments Wukong has to protect him. You know, making it feel as the story goes on that he's starting to protect him less because it's his duty and more because that's a person he genuily has come to care about.

Okay so now the lego man

Lego Wukong:

-How i feel about this character: I feel like both canon and fanon lately has been way too harsh to him and i just want him to have nice things. I deal with that by mostly ignoring the majority of the fandom and just enjoying it with my friends 👍. He's a funny lego man who's going through way more horrors than he should be going through at every single second of his existence. Im holding him gently in my hands and giving him a break

-All the people i ship romantically with this character: I dont think he's a very romance focused guy but i like Swk/Tang/Chef Zhu, they're cute together and Xiaotian can get as many dads as he wants. I also see him and Princess Iron Fan + DBK as exes

-My non-romantic OTP for this character: Xiaojiao. I like thinking that post season 3, after he makes an genuine effort to connect more with Xiaotian's friends, the two of them can actually be really great friends. Just getting to know and spend some time with his great niece :] i can see her introducing him to all sorts of different sleepover games. I also think that even though she and Ao Lie have their differences she still reminds him a lot of him

-My unpopular opnion about this character: Everyone including canon is being too harsh on him, like just have this man have nice things for once. Everyone complains about how he "never tells anyone anything" but how do you expect him to tell anything when hes constantly whisked away by the plot?? Guy only had a single episode on S4 before being whisked away, guy only had 10 fucking minutes of screentime do you really think 10 minutes is enough to tell everyone about all his enemies and traumas??? My second unpopular opnion is Sh#dowp#ach is the bane of my existence.

-One thing i wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: Let him actually be friends with the rest of the gang, let him have some screentime hanging out with them!! I think the show would have really benefited from going back to the monster of the week format from season 1 to that, like imagine just having some casual fun episodes but this time Wukong is shown on the noodle shop too!! Guy doesn't even need to be a main focus of the episode even just simple stuff like getting shown some baby monkey videos by Xiaojiao, or talking with Tang about how different parts of the journey actually were like, just you know stuff that makes him feel like part of the gang :].

(Another thing that i fucking wish is my self-fufilling au about Ao Lie actually being still alive all this time but had gotten himself stuck in the scroll, and now that he's out and both of them know the other is not fucking dead now, they can just reunite and be friends again. Does my au have a lot of plot holes? Yes it does, but just let the monkey have this one single win. He deserves to have one of his friends still alive fgdkbdnsbd)

[darkstalker1247]

This is an older writing about the Bite of 83

it probably sucks and is like super innacurate but I don't care I was 13 when I made this

enjoy I guess

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The little boy sat at a table in the corner of the room, while the other screaming toddlers laughed and played and threw candy at each other’s faces. He said nothing, and tried to make himself as invisible as possible. He clutched his favorite toy in his hands; the muddy yellow bear with a purple bowtie and hat. He looked around at the children, all having fun and running around, except for the older kids, who leaned against the wall and silently stared, as if they were waiting for the right moment. Evan knew he couldn’t go over there; he couldn’t have the older kids ruin his birthday party. He felt silly sitting in the corner away from his own friends, cake, and his favorite characters at the diner. The kids weren’t gathered around the stage; he could probably sneak over and hear the birthday song while the kids weren’t looking. Or he could sit here and stay quiet. He didn’t want to risk anything.

The diner was brightly lit with different colors, with confetti scattered on the black carpet. The tables each had a stand with a pizza box on them; Evan could smell the different flavors from across the one-room dining area. The walls, usually a striped gray, had colorful paper streamers and balloons covering them. The prize counter, actually close to where Evan was sitting, was giving out 1 free prize to every guest, and 2 for the guest of honor. The shelves were stocked with some of the diner’s most popular toys, including the plushies, action figures, off-brand Lego sets from the diner’s official TV show, and a small brown robotic dog with a collar reading “Fetch.” The man at the counter was turned around towards the hidden kitchen, reading a book. At the south end of the area were some of the newest and most popular arcade games, like Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, and Centipede. At the north end was the showtime stage. 

Oh, how magical was the stage! There were two characters on stage: a bear and a rabbit, singing side by side,  barely heard over the rowdy children. The bear had a purple button down vest that barely fit over his fat belly, a purple hat and tie, and shining brown eyes. The rabbit had a similar purple vest, one that actually fit, with a red bowtie, whiskers, and green eyes. The rabbit was also holding an acoustic guitar. 

Evan stood up from the table he was sitting at and looked around. The older kids were still watching the younger kids, and none of them seemed to be paying attention to him. So Evan decided to take his chances. He crept over tentatively, to the prize counter, and adjusted his golden party hat. “Hello, sir,” he said to the man at the counter, “I’m here to pick my prizes.” The man at the counter turned in his chair to face the boy and smiled. “Hey, Evan,” he whispered, “you don’t have to call me ‘sir,’ you know.” Evan nodded. “Okay, Mr. Emily.” Mr. Emily handed Evan his two free prize tickets. “Call me Henry,” he said. 

“Okay, Henry,” Evan almost whispered. “Can I have the green bunny? The robotic one?” Henry picked a box off the top shelf. It read: “Plushtrap Chaser! Walks in the dark, freezes in the light!” He handed it to the boy. “Here you are,” he chuckled. “Try not to turn it on inside the restaurant, okay? The different colored lights will mess with the sensors.” Evan handed Henry one of his tickets and crept back over to the table where he had been sitting before. He clutched the fresh new toy in his hands. The kids had all gone to play arcade games, even the older ones. Evan thought he could get away with walking over to the stage and watching the animals sing. So he walked over, carefully avoiding the group. He could see Henry calling someone over at the prize counter as he moved. 

The stage was brightly lit, and the characters were dancing and singing some nursery rhymes. To an adult, the songs would seem boring and the robots creepy, but to a child like Evan, it was magical. It was like stepping into another world, one where bears were friendly with no sharp teeth and didn’t pop out from under your bed. Where foxes could be pirates and be heroic enough to have movies made about them. Where birds ate pizza and had talking cupcakes for best friends. Where the robot bunny rabbit your dad made was a better parent than him. Evan zoned out for a while, holding his yellow bear toy, watching the duo on stage. They sang a few songs, then talked for a while, then sang a few more songs. Evan was mesmerized. Until he heard 4 pairs of footsteps from behind.

Someone tapped his shoulder. “Hey, loser,” a voice called, “Turn around! We just want to wish you a happy birthday…” Evan pretended not to hear them. He held his toy tighter and forced back tears. “Turn around,” the voice pleaded sarcastically, “turn around and say hi to your older brother, why don’t you?” Evan still didn’t budge. His brother grabbed his shoulders and whirled him around. 

The four older kids were each wearing character masks; a brown bear, a purple rabbit, a yellow bird, and a red fox with an eyepatch. Evan recognized them; his older brother, Mike, and his brother’s three friends. “Happy birthday, little brother,” his brother cackled. “Come on, we have a gift for you!” Evan could feel a few tears begin to run down his face. “Mike, stop,” he tried to yell, but it ended up coming out squeaky. “Stop it or I’ll tell dad!” Mike and his friends laughed. “Wow, your brother’s such a crybaby, isn’t he?,” the boy in the rabbit mask asked.  Mike laughed. “Yeah, it’s hilarious! Why don’t we help him get over his little fears? Let’s help him get up close and personal!” 

As he said this, the four hoisted Evan over his shoulders, like a king. “All hail the birthday boy, haha!,” one of them said. They started to walk closer to the stage. “Put me down,” Evan pleaded. But they persisted. “You heard the little man,” Mike laughed. “He wants to get even closer!” They all laughed, and Evan dropped the toy he was holding. It started at him from where it sat on the floor. “Boys,” Henry shouted at them, “Put that poor boy down! Micheal, your father will hear about this!” Mike laughed. “Oh, let him come,” he whined, “He’s not gonna do anything. Now, let’s have the little man give Fredbear a big kiss!” They were in front of the stage now. Evan’s forehead was greased in cold sweat and tears ran down his face. The bear, which had once brought him so much joy with its goofy smile, now had the grimace of a hungry monster, intent on eating him alive. The 4 older kids lifted him higher. “On three,” one of them shouted, “One, two, three!”

They fit Evan’s head into the jaws of the animatronic bear. Evan could hear the kids laughing at him. A dull pain was on both sides of his head. Motors whirred and an error message came from the bear’s voice box. Henry ran toward the stage, shouting words Evan couldn’t hear. Evan heard a sickening crunch, and a new searing pain formed all over his head. He could feel blood gush from his forehead and fill his mouth. He heard the laughter from the kids in the diner turn into horrible screams. He felt all of it for a moment, before the cold claws of inescapable death gripped his throat and dragged him away into darkness. 

[tinytinybumblebee]

Hii I got this idea in my head and it wont leave so ill just share it here. Two regressors holding a grudge in adult mindset over somethinh that happend when they were having a little playdate.

No particular characters in mind but this idea is just funny to me like the two sitting at a table in silence

A: ... Are you mad at me..?

B: Am I-Yes!! You bit me!!!

A: I was Little!!!

B: Yeah! So was I!!

A: But it was just a nibble really!

I dunno it's just silly to me because when they're both Big it feels a little petty and I dont know how a caregiver could even handle something like this

Andnjejwkwk oh my gosh xD That is GOLD!!

"To be fair, you did take my lego piece."

"??? You weren't even playing legos!"

All while the carer character is trying so hard not to laugh over how cute this argument is two others, but also glad to see that when they're big they're able to discuss things that may have made them unhappy while tiny!!♡

[mightbelola]

School Sports Day!

It was the 2023 school sport’s day last Sunday. We woke up at 5, started getting ready and everything. Joe was driving us to the stadium slowly. He loved the quiet empty road, how it was still dark outside. Everything was normal to me. I drive every day so I would say Joe needed to drive a little bit faster than that.

I didn’t say that.

We reached the school to pick up someone cool. He needed a ride to the stadium. I would totally tell you who it was, but Taylor Swift taught me to never name names on a paper trail. If you know, you know. He’s in the car, I was pretending to be chill.  Joe was going like he’s a rally driver now. We almost took a wrong turn. We laughed it off trying to play it cool in front of the boy, but really it would cost us half an hour when we only had five minutes to spare, and the day would’ve been ruined.

“Would you be OK coming with us all the way to Kuantan?” I asked him that after realizing we’d almost committed a crime.

“A married couple serves jail time for kidnapping a thirteen-year-old boy,” the headline would say. We joked about it. We would pretend our phones were dead and we needed his phone to call his parents, but instead we toss it out the window. “No,” he nervously said, and I laughed almost too hard at that. Of course, wouldn’t it be nice to be out with two boring adults who always stay home, in a comfortable chair and watch television all day?

We got there on time. People were still filling up the stadium getting ready for some sports. “I felt like a clown,” I told the almost abductee and he asked, “Why?”  Not a good question because I was wearing a silly skirt and a flower shirt, with a big hat that I refused to put on my head, at a sports event. Which would be a nice look at a beach holiday but isn’t it a bit silly to wear it at the stadium where people would only want to watch gruesome sports and not a fashion show?

Although, it was just a costume for the event, so it would be best if I stop being a wimp and get on with it after Joe had told me I didn’t, during the ten times I had asked, if I looked like I had big toes on my feet. Once I started working on the kids’ costume, I no longer felt like having a red nose and a yellow wig on a big head in a circus. Instead, I felt like an athlete trying to win everything where I race, I jump, I fight but they’re all happening at the same time, and I never know where to put my foot because the track is made of legos, so I trip, and I fall. Then, I get back up. Getting busy and busier, and I forgot where I was.

I remember some faces in the morning. The Mighty Green Team. The team was made of 35 tiny brave souls who got it right away after I yelled at them. The mascot was a cute crocodile holding bunch of flowers. The kid underneath never fails to make me laugh. The princess walked elegantly. She’s walking along the team, right left right left all along. The flag-bearer did his job fluidly, he was smooth. The banner-bearers are two tall boys. One is a runner with a great stamina. They’re as tall as the banner, it blocked everyone’s faces at the back, lol, but they kept the banner straight. The rest of them are the bravest tiny souls. That mighty team, being as tiny and so unathletic as they are, gave the best effort in my eyes. They’re mighty hardworking. They gave their mighty best. They’re not lazy but they’re still behind a mighty slow line. We had the best walk after all. We don’t mind medals. We want ice cream, and we’ll go get it. For some reason, it’s never enough for people who win medals for they always feel the need to be mean and gloat about it.

Right after our mighty green team gracefully walked the runway, I ran to the washroom, got out of the costume, and changed back to being myself. Some familiar faces. I remember hugging a few girls I treasure. There’s this boy who told his 12-year-old sister whom I teach now that he missed me. We don’t talk at all on the phone, I don’t think he’s got one. I called him from far, he saw me, we waved and smiled and that’s it. It was really lovely. I wish him all the best.

I saw a group of boys who were the front flag-bearers. They were looking serious more than I’m used to. They should be serious more often so life for me would be a bit easier. The leader is a natural. He alongside his friends carried the assembly exceptionally well and a teacher couldn’t have been more proud.

I saw two girls with glasses, which I bought birthday gifts for. “I stink,” I reminded them before they went in for a hug. “I don’t care,” one of them said. Two other girls were wearing white t-shirts, helping us out that morning, looking grown up. This girl saw Joe but was too shy to say hi. Joe had told me he saw her too, but they were just looking at each other, oh don’t I love the awkwardness.  This other girl told me he looked smart. “Really, even the beard?” I was making sure. Later, I ran into two boys somewhere when I was pathetically running around looking for some lost papers. One of them is the best friend of the almost abducted boy, who got away dissing Joe how Malaysia won 10 – 0 against PNG in football. “If you beat us in rugby, I would’ve been surprised,” was what he would’ve heard from Joe if he wasn’t such a chicken that ran away.

I recognised a lot of runners when I was working. I remember wishing them good luck and cheering them on. One of my green boys, was running 400m in a 4x200m race because for some reason he didn’t pass the baton. He threw up at the finish line looking so deflated, looked up, smiled, and walked away. That was a proud moment. I remember jumping and cheering an athlete from green team who was the front-runner and won the first place, unfazed. A boy from my team ran so fast as Flash and he surprised me. A girl in my team also ran pretty fast ahead of every one else. She was upset when her team didn’t make it in the relay race. I’m pretty sure many others that I know at school ran that morning, but I didn’t see them.

It was so bright at the stadium. It started to rain at one point, but it was short. Joe was working on his laptop at some café. I kept looking for him among the crowds, see if he was there and I got happy when he was. We walked away to sit under a tree and that’s when he told me about everyone he had seen and both of us were revising their names. We’d talk about how different everyone had looked, talked about the race that caught our eyes. Then, I walked back to the place where the athletes set up camp and checked on everyone. I remember hearing the announcements, as I was walking. Best Princess, Blue team. Best Mascot, Blue Team. Best Walk, Blue team. I laughed a little, I wasn’t at all surprised. I knew we won the Best Walk, but it is what it is, I guess. I walked there, everyone was still keeping a happy face after defeat, which made me so proud. So, I said, “See, we did it! We aimed for number 4, didn’t we? That was the goal, remember? If it wasn’t us, then who else?” and everybody laughed. Finally, they announced the Best Team, and as some had guessed it, Blue won the title this year. Red won second, Yellow went down to third and it’s always been the last for us. I congratulated them because they deserved the win, not the Best Walk though, but the Best Team.

I almost regretted my decision to be nice to them because this girl who’s in the Blue Team came to me and asked, “Teacher, are you sad? Are you OK?” I was really confused because I was laughing with the other kids, I wasn’t sad at all, then I realized that she actually was making fun of my team losing to their team. Very cheeky. She’s just like her brother, a cheeky braggart. She ran away too when I was just about to catch her and put her in her place.

Anyways, the day ended there, I helped move some stuffs away, and we drove off to this café in the campus and had a delicious meal for lunch, and it was cheap. The whole drive home was me memorizing what had happened so I can write about it, but I went back home and crashed, instead.  

P/s: there was a part in this story which I called “little milkshake” that I feel I needed to take out because some of you couldn’t stop laughing when I read this to you, purple grimace shake?So no, no shake for you.

[gavinsmg24]

Responding to big post now! My little center of my attention 😈💘💜🧡

Princess I want to spoil you in every way so bad! Cooking your meals. Doing so much for my bday girl. Rubbing your back and feet. I’d cook all your meals today! Anything you’d ask for! I’d figure it out or I’d spoil you with expensive restaurant. Only so many bdays to spoil you on! 😘🥳

I love when you show me good ways to do things! So of course show me how to clean bong well and that’s how I’ll do it!

And yes 😈 bad idea drives are always good ideas! 🙈

Oh my gosh! A meijer run! (Meijers doesn’t exist here can you believe) I shop target n public now. Just side info. But!

When you said buy each other toys :,+) I loved going to meijer shopping for what we want and getting silly stuff. It doesn’t matter if it’s dumb in other peoples eyes. One thing I remember reading that made me not judge anyone / I dont really judge anyway. But the thing where like people with money now buying toys that they couldn’t get when they were kids but get made fun of now cuz they are older. No! We’ll get our legos n mini brands. Take em home. And smile ear to ear! 🙈🥰

DJ H! I’d love that! Hehe I love driving you around you always did it for me bcuz you were so good at the roads n stuff that for longest time I didnt ask. But if you are destined to be with me. We’ll communicate. And make each other happy! Anyways back to your post. Yes! We’ll also get a drink and snacks from meijer for the drive!

Yes! We’d go to the gym! I never considered life with a gym gf.. I’d totally get your weights!! And If you’ll let daddy embarrassingly kiss you in gym in Public 😈 you know I’d kiss you and smack your butt!! Good job babe!

I’d Definitely watch the wire with you someday. I know you like shows you’ve seen and the other hasn’t cuz you don’t have to fully understand the plot bcuz you know and then you can answer, share, and talk about it with me or whoever. Totally would watch better call Saul bcuz I want to! I looked up bird girl images to see what you were talking about. An adult swim show with interesting animation. Hehe. I love you finding new things to enjoy 💘

And yessss Funhaus or AH with you would always be good! I loved the gta 4 videos. Honestly gta4-gta5 (stopping idk after a couple years in) we’re the best. After heists they really only did update plays or missions. I just like free play role play. Anyways. Of course I’d watch those!(this was for first section of post) gonna smoke n come back to respond! I promise

Also since that was the lovey / thinking about things post I’ll come back in another post. But! Hope you enjoyed our day together enjoying your bday! We’d do it all! 😈🥰🧡💜 kisses n hugs for you cutie! Sexy ass babygirl 😘

[clambuoyance]

If you don’t mind answering, can you share a bit about ninjago and why you like it? I see a lot of your posts but I’ve never heard of it before you.

Yeah sure!

Ninjago is a lego show that aired way back in January 2011 (I was 9!) about these lil dudes that get recruited to become ninja. Its writing is obviously a little juvenile as it is aimed for younger audiences, but despite that it has a fairly big following? I grew up watching the show and I ended up rewatching/catching up in january of this year, and i did not expect to become obsessed 😭

I personally think the characters and dynamics are enjoyable, and the show makes me laugh. But also, while not having the most insane complicated plots, it just feels fun, and the stories are reminiscent of what a kid playing with their lego toys would make and enjoy. Plots change, lore gets retcon, there’s a general feeling of “okay but is it cool??” that rules over the story if that makes sense. Like as a kid, I was obsessed with this show and I can see why.

But as an adult, I think a big thing for me is again the character dynamics though. They’re always great in every season and I love watching them do silly little things in the episodes, like Zane trying to catch museum items as Jay carelessly throws things around , or Kai showing off his action figure of himself to Cole and Zane in the background , or the cute banter😭🙏 it just adds something special. i literally cant pick a fave bc they are allll soooo good. they all feel like tangible friendships to me idk. (altho im very biased towards the relationship between kai, nya, and lloyd. im a sucker for sibligism)

And this mostly happened from joining the fandom on social media but i like Rotating them in my mind, putting them in scenarios and taking what the show offers and coming up with something new whether it be a Worldbuilding headcanons or fancomic or just a random blurb of text analyzing a scene, which i think is half the fun in a fandom lol. Honestly the show even does this itself bc it plays around with its own worldbuilding like playdough and adds some new lore esch season but i kinda like it 😭 kind of a neat contrast to other shows where all the lore and worldbuilding has been mostly figured out from the start, where here you’re watching it happen in real time

So yeah i could probably say more but i think that gets the point 🧐 i unironically like this show a lot🤒

[destinysbounty]

zane and nya for character opinion bingo

ZANE

Oh god blorbo supreme. The original blorbo. This nindroid can fit so much trauma in him. I could rant about him for a million years. Im like this close to giving into temptation and making a 20-minute compilation of all my favorite Zane moments (listen, the party pooper scene lives in my head rent-free at all times). Oh god he needs so much therapy, and no, locking your trauma in a digital puzzle box does not count as therapy.

Some people characterize him as some emotionless and boring lawful good. Some people characterize him as an uwu wholesome softboi. But in my opinion, the most correct interpretation is Dorky Suburban Dad.

Think about it. He wore a button-up and khakis to the beach. He dresses up in a full scuba skin-suit whenever they have a party in their own damn hot tub. He once wore a sweater vest with snowflakes on it. On their lil desert road trip he entertained himself by reading about regional trivia, and delighted in sharing this trivia with his friends. He loves playing board games, especially chess. He likes to make ice puns. He loves cooking. He's the closest thing they have to a responsible adult. When he became the team leader in season 5 he kept everyone pumped with all those silly little sayings like "one team one dream!" He apparently loves detective fiction. He thinks that walking like a pirate with a peg-leg will get people to respect him. He loves astronomy and, according to Lloyd, "knows the solar system better than anyone". Whenever someone is upset he's always there providing a comforting smile and a pat on the shoulder. He spent 5 minutes debating the morality of making an ice ramp for a slug. He doesn't understand pop culture. Zane is a dorky suburban dad and you can't change my mind.

He's also a fashion icon. For example, when he died, the ninja all became a total fashion disaster in his absence. We all saw it. None of them matched. Like did you see Kai's horrendous lil fight club costume? Jay's atrocious tv host suit? And Cole just straight up wasn't even wearing a shirt anymore. And even when they came back together, their ninja suits still didn't match! And sure, it was meant to symbolize how disjointed they'd become in the wake of his loss, but STILL. The fact that their CLOTHES of all things were out of wack indicates to me that he's the only one on the team with any fashion sense.

And let's not forget the moment from Seabound where he decided to wear the breathing mask despite not needing oxygen because "I like how it completes my attire". And his Snake Jaguar costume!!! And his titty-out look in The Island! And not to mention how the Detective Zane outfit is a LOOK. He rocks the hell out of that trenchcoat.

This is all to say, Lego needs to release the forbidden bikini Zane content or I'm gonna break in and find it myself.

NYA

Ohoho, the fandom does Nya SOOO dirty. Especially since she's not as outwardly affectionate as Jay, so a lot of people interpret this as her being more callous and unloving towards him. She A) has a metric ton of childhood baggage, and B) expresses her affection in different ways! Jay might say 'I love you' with words more often, but she shows how much she cares through acts of service and quality time and whatnot.

Also. Hot take but Nya has some of the most compelling character arcs and subplots in this entire goddamn show. Teaming up with Dareth to spy on Chen? Overcoming her gifted child syndrome in season 5? The X Cave fight in season 7????? Struggling to keep the resistance alive even when all her friends were dead, doing everything in her power to keep Lloyd from losing hope even though they were the only ones left???????????? The entirety of Seabound??????????

The show definitely blunders often in terms of the whole sexism/performative feminism thing, for sure. Looking at you, Skybound. But she also has a LOT of character arcs where her being the Girl^TM isn't even at all relevant. Season 5. Season 7. Season 9. Season 10. Season 11. Season 15.

Anyway Nya is amazing and she deserves better from the fandom, and I will die on this hill. Nya didn't singlehandedly destroy hell itself just to be reduced to some shallow Designated Love Interest.