#was trying to figure how I wanted to draw that Lego guy

[harryzroze]

Some old macaque sketches and 1 recent one I kinda like

[bugsinshoes]

i freaking love star wars

[kwwallen]

xdinary heroes / your weekend.

gerne: fluff (sfw)

warning: maybe too lazy

words: ~900

from the author: еnglish is not my native language, enjoy reading! (*´︶`*)ฅ♡

Gunil

♡ Gonil, as a leader, will try hard for the benefit of the group, so most likely the dates will take place in the studio while the guy practices his drumming.

♡ You try your best to take care of him, and since there is nothing to do on the weekend except lie down. It would be a good idea to prepare something for Gonil and go to the company.

♡ He’s very cute when he’s busy working, so You just wanted to watch. Yes, perhaps you needed some attention from him, but for now he is reeeeeeeeally busy.

♡ But still, the moment will come when Gunil will clearly get tired and need rest. Then you will need to force him to be distracted, in the worst case, drag him away from the drums yourself. But Gunil still agrees to a break.

♡ You will eat food prepared by you, talk about music, literature, quotes and everything that you have wanted to tell for so long. But most importantly, spend this time together.

♡ I think that some kind of force majeure will happen, after which you will giggle at each other.

Jungsu

✿ Jungsu had been looking for a reason to take you on a date to an amusement park for a long time, and the most suitable moment fell on your weekend.

✿ How much childish joy was in your eyes when you arrived at the park. Various stalls with cotton candy, popcorn and other sweets attracted them to take them, and attractions beckoned them to ride them.

✿ You decided to ride only a few of them since the rest seemed scary.

✿ Taking one large cotton candy for two you walked around the park. We ended our walk on the Ferris wheel, looking at the city from high up in each other's arms.

✿ At the end of the day, Jungsu walked you home and left you a light and embarrassed kiss on your forehead, already looking forward to the next day off.

Gaon

♡ Not knowing how to spend this day, you turn on a random playlist, and while breakfast was being prepared, Jiseok began to move to the beat of the song, and you joined in.

♡ After breakfast, you stood in front of the mirror and started moving again. They were completely different, and it didn't matter if you didn't know how to dance, the focus was on imitating each other, creating joint choreography.

♡ At some point, one of you will get tired and start clapping to support the other so that he moves more confidently.

♡ So unnoticed you will spend seemingly ordinary days, fun and together.

O. de

✿ On this day you didn’t want to do anything at all, so after breakfast you went back to bed.

✿ After a while, I became terribly bored and decided to watch some series on laptop. You had to get up for a while to bring it and some snacks

✿ Here you lie again, watching the first series you come across. He seemed to be interesting, with a high rating among the others, but Seungmin still thought that you were much more interesting.

✿ He'll take just a quick glance at the action on the screen, then turn to you and draw attention to himself, for example, running her hair through his fingers, looking at your enchanted face, holding your hand, stealing a snack right in front of your eyes. Basically, anything that can distract you.

Junhan

♡ There was absolutely nothing to do, time passed slowly and was as boring as possible. You guys couldn't figure out what to do with yourself. We didn’t want to go for a walk, it was raining outside. Games on the phone are, in principle, terribly boring, as is watching TV channels.

♡ At some point, you again started meaningless conversations about everything in the world and reached the interests of each other. Junhan talked about how he likes to build with construction sets, as well as his great passion for comics.

♡ This was a small start. You simply began to assemble Lego pieces into various shapes, while simultaneously maintaining the same conversation about hobbies.

♡ Later, after collecting a joint model of an airplane, Junhan decided to show off his shelf with a lot of bright comics. He began consulting on which ones he really liked and which ones he didn’t really like. You started talking about various genres, especially romantic comedies.

♡ Still, you managed to brighten up this rainy day with such a homely atmosphere.

Jooyeon

✿Jooyeon has arranged a date for you, which should take place at his house. The guy didn’t hold on to the intrigue the moment you gathered with him, so he immediately pointed to a stack of video games and a console.

✿ It was difficult to understand and remember which joystick buttons you need to press in order to perform at least some action. Jooyeon helped a lot with this, always explaining and pointing out mistakes.

✿ After a while, you finally decided to play against each other. Then problems with control began again due to excitement. Your blood began to boil from the understanding that the guy would no longer help, but you really wanted to win.

✿ As expected, Jooyeon won the fight, which made him sad. But he began to persuade for the second round, in which he would of course give in to see the joy on the girlfriend face.

©kwwallen//copying and translation is prohibited.

[lawlietscaramels]

Headcanons ╾ Matt

Because Matt.

they get more fun after the first few

　★━━─・‥…━━━☆

he seems like the kind of guy who grew up with lots of sisters

I'm bouncing forth between "all older than him" and "all younger than him" so let's just say some older some younger

somewhere between three and five

I don't think he would be an orphan actually (I have some headcanons for Wammy's House that I'll expand on some other time), he probably ran away or was kicked out maybe

I feel like his family would be really poor maybe he ran away to take on barely legal contracts and send them money

Matt's favourite Mario character is Rosalina, closely followed by Luigi

he has stuck a nicotine patch on his forehead before - yk like Amy did in Brooklyn 99

he tried to eat Mello's chocolate once when he had the munchies

oooeuggnhheuehh that was a mistake

he has never elaborated ↑

His favourite mythical creature is the wood nymph but if he himself could become a mythical creature he'd be a leprechaun

star wars is a fantasy star wars is a sci fi NO, YOU IMBECILES, STAR WARS IS A SPACE OPERA!! the only thing that can get him riled up is this debate

even though he actually hates Star Wars

Matt has a blonde wig and he doesn't know where he got it

watched Breaking Bad and cried

watched My Little Pony and cried

watched John Wick IV because he got lost when tracking down a target. accidentally shot the screen halfway through

Terrified of any and all old black and white photos of a young girl because he's convinced they're all vengeful ghosts. He would like to meet a ghost actually but NOT a young Victorian girl dying of tuberculosis thank you very much good night

Matt will drive through the city at night because it relaxes him. plays 80s or 00s grunge rock and takes pictures when he's stopped at traffic lights.

can play the cello

His weird-stare-without-blinking rivals L's/affectionate

I headcanon him as Belgian

when he was little he wanted to be a park ranger. his favourite animal is deer.

his favourite word is "undiagnosed" and I think that says a lot about why he likes Mello (that said he likes the word because of how it sounds)

I feel like he has dyscalculia

HE LOVES LEGO. like so much. he has played all the Lego games like Lego Batman and stuff. steals sorry borrows Near's Lego. he actually will return it.

Matt is actually a really sweet big brother figure to a lot of the younger kids.

oh yeah I don't think he knows that much Japanese. he speaks Dutch + English fluently though

he'd play games with them n stuff

does that thing where he glues a coin to the ground and watches as people try to pick it up. has laughed at this for hours. sits in a nearby garden and has a picnic

rolls his ankles a lot

gets sick relatively easily but will just continue on with life cause he doesn't get very badly sick. minor cold.

accidentally got himself abandoned on a desert island once. luckily he saw a helicopter while cloud watching. it found him easily because his hair looked like it was on fire

oh yeah speaking of his goddamn HAIR

it's brown, but bleaches red when he's in the sun. I also draw it with little green bits. because all the colour hcs are cool. and I'm indecisive.

he's really good at card games

has been on several popular TV game shows. always loses.

Matt!!

　★━━─・‥…━━━☆

𝖎𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖙 ˏˋ⋆˖⁺˖⁀➷ 𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖊 𝖗𝖊𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌 + 𝖋𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2023-09-11

Oh shit that was today

Listening: Apocalyptica is a band that continues to perform because we love it when some guys do crazy shit to a cello. They put a performance of one of my favourites, Bittersweet, on YouTube the other day.

Songs that absolutely ROCKET me back to being 15 and listening to Apocalyptica on loop while practicing for the Lego Robotics competitions.

Reading: Trying and failing to track down the full set of papers by O. P. Kimball on "The Prevention of Simple Goiter in Man", he's the guy who was responsible for a serious government push on iodine supplementation, a topic I occasionally go insane about. There's 3-4 papers he wrote on his initial studies on the student population of some high school in the early 1900's but for some reason the first paper is very hard to find. Fascinating stuff though. This paper is the best of the originals I could find, and the next one is a decent retrospective from the 60's:

It was known before this that iodine was needed for thyroid function, before even the mid-1800's, but Kimball experimentally showed that it's actually really easy to provide enough iodine to people as a supplement to completely eliminate a huge source of disability and disease, and the successive work seems to be what drove grand-scale iodine supplementation which is one of the most effective public health operations pretty much ever.

Yeah.

Watching: The Mummy was up for Movie Night, a rare break from terrible movies for an actually good one. Few movies so rich in impeccable comedic timing and physical comedy.

Making: Now that I have a solution for storing my filament, I am slowly returning to printing, currently doing a few test runs to figure out how to make reasonably dimensionally accurate parts.

Once I get everything to size I can print the actual product, which is an adapter to run a coffee grinder on an electric screwdriver. There's such a tiny difference in the dimensions it feels unfair that you can't just drive it directly. I suppose the other option would be to mill down the driven hex on the grinder directly, but. I don't want to try and do that.

Playing: Breath of the Wild, I am dedicated to actually finishing this game. Beat the Naboris beast, you can check the tag for more details. Thunderblight Ganon was easy but tedious.

Tools and Equipment: I finally have a whetstone for sharpening my kitchen and pocket knives, and I have to recommend having some kind of decent knife sharpening situation.

Draw throughs can be good, I frequently hand them out as gifts. The main difficulty is that good draw throughs are hard to find, and not as useful if you also need to maintain other tools like pocket knives in addition to kitchen knives. I like the Worksharp Kitchen Edge, it's what I got for my parents.

There's some cool fancy sharpening systems that attach the stone to a sliding bar for highly reproducible grinds, but I have enough experience to use stones and they are a lot of fun.

[dragonartist56]

Imma be real with you guys I have no idea how to post on tumblr but we learn as we go lol

Hi, I’m Dragon :D

I’m just a nerd who likes to draw and write stuff tbh. I have a TikTok series about my Rise of the TMNT character, first episode of which I’ll link here (the art style gets so much better I promise. Also I am on a heavy hiatus), as well as a fic about him which I will link here.

Fandoms Include…

Rise of the TMNT

Lego Monkey Kid

How to Train Your Dragon

Arcane

The Owl House

Avatar (with the Na’Vi, not The Last Airbender lmao) and Frontiers of Pandora

Wings of Fire

Good Omens

Helluva Boss (again, I’m chill. Please don’t come at me, I just enjoy the series I don’t know much about the controversy so I just try and stay out of it and enjoy the show for what it is)

Hazbin Hotel (see above ⬆️)

Aaaand any Disney/DreamWorks/insert other studio movie that catches my interest, it changes on a monthly scale XD

I’m not going to be posting about every one of these constantly, but if the brain so chooses to be silly goofy about a particular topic, it will be silly goofy about a particular topic, I cannot control it XD

Tags…

#dragons art = any art thing that I have made

#dragon speaks = anything probably not art related that I either talk about or just plain and simple silly shit posting lmao

#jay_stuffs = if anyone wants to make fanart or anything like that for Jay, you can put this tag under it so I can see

Anywho, this is a safe space for anyone who’s a decent human being, I don’t care about identity, race, religion, interests, etc etc etc, just don’t make it weird. I’ll probably update this once I figure out how this platform works lmao, but again, please don’t be weird.

My content is sfw, and if I see anything proship, incest, harassment/abuse, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, any other discrimination, etc, you are getting blocked. Just…basic human decency lol other than that I’m chill

I can’t wait to learn how to navigate and post more here and… yeah! Here’s to hoping :D

[dilfdoctordoom]

Since you have so much knowledge about the comics do you think there was any way vol 3 could have incorporated the ravagers into more of the plot based on something from them?

I wasn't a fan of the ravagers and would have preferred vol 2 be the last time we saw them. Definitely didn't like Gamora being made part of their crew and that being where she ended up. That said if they're all James Gunn wanted I wish he had connected them to the main plot better and Gamora's old and new life felt merged by the end. It's like she's not on the level of the other guys now because he concluded her arc without ever giving her more tangible relationships with everyone. The description of the Strange Tales you mentioned sounds like it would have been the best story to adapt for vol 3, but since ravagers are what we got I'm trying to figure out how it could have been stronger.

Also this is a little off topic but reading your posts about Gamora have made me realize how badly we all need to go back the the drawing board when it comes to ideas about feminism and strong female roles. Not wanting to see every woman in a relationship or only being a love interest should never have become every lady needs to be single and alone. That's not equality or complexity. It's just as limiting as the things people are fighting against. There desperately needs to be much more understanding for the fact that white women are not the default of womanhood. Not every woman has been portrayed the same throughout the history of film. Gamora doesn't have to have a boyfriend but it will never be feminist that she lost her relationship because she was murdered. It's not lost on me that many fans have far less issue with white women being loved by popular male leads. Especially if those male leads are white. That needs to change. It's also not a win for the ladies that Nebula got a good arc because she was gifted Gamora's leading role on the team and Mantis wasn't even considered for a more leading role. That means James Gunn cared so little for all the women that he didn't bother to create enough space in his story for all to be on the team together in more equal prominence and no one losing the spots they previously had. Furthermore it's going backwards to have Gamora missing from Legos, funko's, marvel legends etc. Nobody is winning here when I can find multiple versions of all the men and Gamora is left out.

See, the thing is, there's a very obvious story with Gamora & the Ravagers and it annoys me endlessly that it wasn't taken, as it's a wonderful way to respect 2018 Gamora's legacy.

And that's this: Gamora is the heart of the Guardians. She's their moral center. Vol 1 & 2 established this and Vol 3 could've continued it with the Ravagers.

It's clear that the Ravagers are meant to be an homage to the original Guardians team that debuted before the modern revival. They just.... never get to act very heroic.

Gamora's how you fix it. It'd work her into the plot better too; 2014 Gamora did join the Ravagers... and she's slowly turned them from a band of thieves to a group of freedom fighters.

High Evolutionary is evil, we know this, the galaxy knows this-- so instead of Gamora joining up with the Guardians for money, it's a matter of the Ravagers and the Guardians working the same damn job.

It makes it clear that wherever Gamora goes, a family forms around her, one that's good and heroic because of her influence. It can be done to parallel the original Guardians. It gives the Ravagers their proper due and lets this Gamora establish herself while also respecting 2018 Gamora's legacy.

Of course, that's not what we got.

"Gamora doesn't have to have a boyfriend but it will never be feminist that she lost her relationship because she was murdered" EXACTLY Gamora didn't fall out of love, they didn't drift apart, she didn't grow out of that relationship-- she was violently murdered by her abuser. It was never an act of feminism to take away her love interest for the crime of being fridged.

Gunn's refusal to make space for women is especially glaring considering the run he chose to adapt. GOTG2008 isn't perfect by any means, but it did average 3 women in leading roles at a time, with arcs & forward-facing relationships. Phyla, Mantis, Gamora, and Heather were critical to the team's foundation & their dynamic. It's telling that Gamora was the only one allowed in the first movie, that a dumbed down and stripped-of-competency Mantis was let in for the second, & Phyla was only allowed a glorified cameo as a child.

The removal of women & their importance from this franchise is always gonna be an issue for me. I don't care how well done Nebula was, the women of color & queer women shouldn't have had to lose out for her existence. Ideally, they'd all coexist with the ease that all the men were allowed to.

But that'd mean giving a shit about women & at this point, I doubt that Gunn's all that capable of that.

[ambriel-angstwitch]

This is my oc her name is Theodora Mattea Walker. (She goes by Teddie) Both names meaning gift because she was a gift on their doorstep like Jay. Anyways here’s my thoughts I had on her (btw she’s based on me because technically she’s just part of the drawing myself in different styles challenge I did during the summer)

1. First I had to come up with an element and so I realized we already had two infinity stones as elements so why not more. So I was debating between Reality, Soul and Space (to anyone in the asking things there’s your explanation.) I decided on Space because that’s what most answered but also because Reality is to OP and while Soul was fun to ponder it’s also a bit too confusing in Ninjago lore plus it would also be kind of op in season 5. So space it was which means being able to teleport yourself and teleport things.

2. I really wondered how in the world I would join the ninjas I figured the most simple answer would probably be just in season 4. But I really liked the concept of her being Jay’s sibling mostly for crack reasons. Like imagine Ed and Edna just receiving a child on their doorstep twice, and then imagine learning years later that they both have powers. Also because I also have brown hair (that may occasionally have an orangish tone) imagine before learning their adopted them both thinking they are twins. Like they have literally no blood relationship but they look like they could be twin and thought they were twins. (Also why I included the eyebrow slit/scar. I thought it would be funny if one of them got injured and the other just shaved theirs to match.) I also would probably be excited to see Ed and Edna vs Jay’s annoyed. And I just think I could make a good sibling dynamic with Jay. (Also I’ve made so much ideas for something that was just supposed to be a drawing that I kind of want to make a story)

More on the twin thing for Jay and my character. I imagine them having an interaction in season 8 where they get mad at him for ditching the slit because “just because we’re not actually twins doesn’t mean we have to stop acting like ones”. Then perhaps they decide to get fake freckles just to spite Jay by continuing the twin thing. They will be twins whether Jay likes it or not.

3. I went with Maroon because my lovely spouse suggested it and also I find it very funny if all the guys are basic colors and then the girls are tertiary colors.

4. I went with a fox as the animal on the suit because I like foxes and I couldn’t figure out why they had the animals they each individually had so I just went with one I liked.

5. I went with Skybound gi’s because I liked the gi, it looked fun to draw, I like Skybound and I thought it’d be funny to have my character be in the clothes of the one timeline that doesn’t actually exist

6. One of the more difficult things with trying to do different art styles is my hair because I keep having to figure out how curls work in that art style. So in this case that is an actual Lego curly hair piece that I drew. (I picked that one because for short curly hair it was either that or share a hair piece with Umbridge and the second ones a no go)

[regaliasonata]

Character asks: RJ and Casey and Jarrod (separately??)

RJ

•Favorite thing about them

-Chillness, always has a way to stay calm throughout any situation but it also helps that he's a mentor. Positive reinforcement is the best way to get the point across.

•Least favorite thing about them

-bananas on pizza...WHY

•Favorite line

-"I'm having a moment of weakness"

•BrOTP

-RJ/Camille, I'd be intrigued to see their interactions as friends. Like would Camille get frustrated as he explains modern times in a riddle like way?

•OTP

-oh boy here we go, RJ/Casey and RJ/Merrick. Don't deny it RJ and Casey had a thing going on there and personally I'd love the two wolf guys to vibe together.(I didn't draw an animaria styled wedding outfit for nothing guys, I'll post it later)

•NOTP

-none atm

•Random headcanon

-he's obsessed with how things all circle around each other. It's both a hobby and philosophy of his, like just flowing with life like it's the wind. Let it take you anywhere is what he says to himself.

RJ also has whole room dedicated to building lego structures.

•Unpopular opinion

-would've loved to have seen some exploration on his preference. He's a pansexual himbo and I will die on that hill!

•Song that i associates with them

•Favorite picture(s)

Casey Rhodes

•Favorite thing about them

-curiosity, always felt that he had some odd curious feeling in his heart throughout the season. Mainly steming from why he was chosen to be the red ranger and stuff.

•Least favorite thing about them

-nothing really, maybe the battlizer looked a bit clunky?

•Favorite line

-"I don't want any problems"

•BrOTP

-Casey/Lily, big sister vibes and they are just everything to me as good friends

•OTP

-Casey/RJ and Casey/Jarrod. I just love their dynamics(how did ships make me want to write a whole jungle fury au is beyond me but I'm happy I got to that🤷🏾‍♂️😭)

•NOTP

-Casey/Lily. I'd prefer them as friends and nothing more tbh, plus Theo/Lily is so good.

•Random headcanon

-he's definitely giving me the gay but undecided vibes, like still trying to figure things out. He'd be a pretty attentive boyfriend imo, like always trying to make sure his partner is comfortable.

Oh and Casey definitely got fired from the zoo for sleeping in the tiger dens and to get back at the zoo he released the tigers back into the wild.(petty as fuck 😭) don't worry though the tigers enjoy his company.

•Unpopular opinion

-nothing atm

•Song that i associates with them

•Favorite picture(s)

Why is the second one such meme material😭

Jarrod

•Favorite thing about them

-his character development throughout the whole season was just top notch, he's one of my favorite human antagonist.

•Least favorite thing about them

-nothing tbh

•Favorite line

-"I am him!"

•BrOTP

-Jarrod/Lily, would be perfect friends

•OTP

-Jarrod/Camille and Jarrod/Casey. I love both pairings(au stuff makes me steer to the one with Casey but both ships are great)

•NOTP

-none atm

•Random headcanon

-Jarrod tries to relive his childhood since his was kind of rough but it's never too late to embrace your inner child. In this universe there would be a Dairanger anime and that's definitely a show that got him through some stuff when moving through foster homes.

Dai shi scrambled through Jarrod's memories while possessing him and found the dairanger ones and while meaningless to the being he made an oc of sorts when he found a liking to Shadam(the oc being Long) and he was going to use the form in the final battle but was killed before then.

•Unpopular opinion

-They should've adapted Rio's outfit and had Jarrod wear it, could you imagine how sick that would've looked on him

•Song that i associates with them

•Favorite picture

[openstorygames]

TTRPGs as Literature

So a long time ago, there was a guy named Horace. And he had this idea about literature. (Actually, he had a bunch of ideas, but we'll just focus on this one.) He said that literature should "instruct and delight," and people kinda liked that.

Stuffy literature professors like it, but they lean on the instruct side. Pulp fiction authors think it's great, and they stick to the delight side.

We need both sides. But lasting literature, the stories that stick with us, do both. They teach us something about the world or about ourselves, and they do so while drawing us in as connected and compassionate people.

That doesn't mean good literature always has happy endings!

One of my favorite plays is Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, which has a horrifying ending. But it resonated in ways that have impacted my writing and reading ever since I saw it performed.

Good literature connects us. It draws us in, both mind and soul. It engages our thoughts and tugs on our feelings. Good literature requires our whole selves to encounter other (constructed) selves through narrative.

We typically think of literature as falling into certain genres: poetry, plays, novels, film, etc. And if you're sitting in a college lit class, you might start to believe that those are all the genres you'll ever find.

But literature is so much more.

Heck, only a few hundred years ago, the novel was still in early days. Novels were considered unserious and pejoratively feminine. They were not, in the literary eye, important or lasting.

Yet some of the novels from that early era are considered classics now. They're not always interesting or exciting; Moll Flanders literally contains mundane shopping lists. But they are doing interesting things with story and literature. Jude the Obscure would never have sold in an earlier climate; who wants to read about someone whose epithet is actually "obscure"?

Video games are another revolution in literature. Feature-length commercials, like the Barbie movie or The Lego Movie are another. Think about how many people are talking about Barbie still! And having deep, important conversations that engage their thoughts and feelings because of a movie about a plastic doll.

Similarly, games—particularly TTRPGs—serve as an innovation in literature. It's not even that TTRPGs are new (though in the history of literature, they are).

TTRPGs actually return us to the old way of things.

Oral tradition is the oldest form of literature that humanity has. Before we wrote things down, we told each other stories. From Homer to childhood bedtime stories, the practice of speaking story into other lives has been how we've communicated values, shared beliefs, connected with others, and grown communities.

Stories were told again and again, containing the same root but a million variations. They grew into mythic figures and wild adventures, some of which contradicted each other. But they were the stories that grounded and connected whole peoples.

TTRPGs give us the chance to do that again.

When a GM picks up an adventure book, they have the root of the story. They are the bard, the guide, the soothsayer, who leads the others into the realm of story.

But unlike the ancient bards, who told the story in their own way, over and over again, a GM gives the story over to their audience, who becomes co-authors with the GM.

The root of the story is there, but TTRPGs are an experience of telling the story together. In doing so, we get the most delightful and instructive form of literature. It's interactive!

We make choices that sound like the most fun story to play out. We dig our fingers into the soil of creativity and root around, feeling how the earth inspires our decisions.

We learn how to be more complete people, more connected people, as we try things out and discover how those things make other players (and other characters!) feel.

If you've ever played a TTRPG with a child or teen, you know that they push boundaries adults might not. They tell the story they want. Adults do this too, but kids and teens are still learning. But starting the collaboration young helps attune these kids' hearts and minds to the people around them. They learn that they are not alone in their story.

We are not alone in our story.

And if that isn't the most important lesson that literature can teach, I'm not sure what is.

[alanshee-keeper-of-realms]

My last post on the situation that happened yesterday

I will say outright on my side my viewpoint

When I found Diisdoodles it was via Tik Tok, I followed them for a while and then they started a Discord which I decided to join,we got talking and I shared with them the Borg Siblings

No matter how much they try to claim they did certain things, I had already created these characters and I have the notes to prove that, these guys were my creations that I trusted with them and if they didn't understand that these were already Orignal Characters of my own, I'm sorry you only created the Aus and world around them

I just was lending you my characters that I had created. I already knew their personalities, I just hadn't figured out their physicalities or very fine details of their histories, and we've all seen my old art I didn't feel comfortable drawing them because I didn't feel like I could properly portray them you can see this with Violet I didn't picture her as skinny I pictured her as heavier set and I had to learn how to draw that.

Honestly I really hope they get a knock of reality on the equal comment because I've seen so many Creators who don't see their crew as equal get torn down hard, a team is meant to be equal you aren't above those who are helping you create your worlds when a Creator sees their team as equal thats when magic happens,

I go in with the mindset I may have created these guys but if you want to collaborate I am more than willing to do so just give me the credit I'm earned and treat me like a creative partner,

I've always had a passion for character design, had a passion for creating original characters that really don't have anywhere to go and breathing life into them.

I am actually creating a Raeda kid she's probably not going to be in anything but it's just fun to think of what a child of theirs would look like that's why I love creating these original characters, the possibilities of stories they could tell.

Another thing that they said that bothered me I never revoked my characters from them that is a lie. I don't know if they're trying to cover up their tracks or something but I never and I can even go back and get the conversations I never removed that permission the only time I said something was after the fact they created their group.

They are the ones who decided to remove my characters in the end. Which actually caused a little bit of hurt because I have their original message here, and they said this on Simone,

Guess a happy ending means to them getting erased from existence. A character I worked so hard to make getting erased,

I guess I'm not supposed to be upset about that even though I've been attached to these characters for years and yes if this somehow gets back to them or not I still have the DM up I can go get plenty more,

Because you know what I learn I calmed down and I go back and read instead of throwing it away and you know what

I guess this moment between us three never mattered to you, like it did me.

Because to me agreeing to meet someone offline actually physically flying out to be able to see not only me but another Creator called though.she.be.little to go to a convention, a small town Lego convention that means your friends that you are equals and I don't care if you get angry at me posting that picture

I even still have the ticket from that day

You're the one that wormed your way in. I still remember being on the voice chat when we mentioned we were going to meet up, and you automatically invited yourself. I should have said no, but you know what the prospect of meeting another friend made me blind, so thank you for teaching me that lesson of boundaries,

Again I guess I really didn't know you, Diisdoodles. And that hurts the most especially after all we did but like people keep telling me I guess I don't have a reason to be upset.

But from my viewpoint I definitely do have a reason I have several reasons.

[waitimcomingtoo]

Bad Romance ~ P.P

chapter three: maneater

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In the weeks that followed, Peter hadn’t been able to go to the coffee shop as much. Men in the city were suddenly going missing at an alarming rate and Peter was out every night on patrol trying to figure out who was taking them. He spent his nights out on the streets and his days glued to his computer with his police radio on. The strange thing about the missing men is that they all disappeared without a trace. There was never a body found, nor any blood. There was, however, one thing in common between all the crime scenes. A written report of who the victim was and what crime they had committed was always left in the victim's home or where they were last seen. Some men were in positions of power, but others were just average guys. That made it hard for the police to draw correlation at first until they looked at the crimes committed by these men. The first three men to go missing had worked for major corporations and were all previously reported for sexual harassment. All three cases had been covered up and dismissed until the men went missing and the reports exposed what they had done. Two different men went missing outside of a bar. One of the men's reports said he had spiked a woman’s drink and tried to take her home. The other man’s report said he had gotten drunk and hit his girlfriend. Both men were never seen again.

The reports were always published in the news after the men went missing, therefore exposing their crimes to the world and explaining why they were targeted. The only man who didn’t have a report was Andy Anderson. Peter printed out all of the reports and taped them to his wall in attempt to figure out who the writer was. The reports were always well written with evidence and sources cited, but always anonymous. With five men now missing, six including Andy Anderson, Peter knew he had to work quickly to try and figure out who was taking these men. He looked over his wall of reports before taking out the Lego figure he had swiped from Ned and setting it on his desk.

“Okay. Ned doesn’t remember me anymore, so you’re gonna be his temporary replacement because I really need a best friend right now to talk this all out with. Got it, tiny Ned?” Peter asked the Lego figure. It said nothing, so Peter nodded.

“Great, thanks. Here’s why I’m so confused. Six men have vanished and not once was there a sign of struggle or a drop of blood found. That either means the men are being killed at a secondary location or they’re not being killed at all. But if they’re not being killed, why take them? And if they are being killed, where are their bodies?” Peter asked the Lego figure and again received silence.

“I considered that too, Tiny Ned, but how could they not have found any bodies? This has been happening for a month now and not one body has been found? The police had dogs cover every inch of New York. The person doing this, let’s call them the grabber for now, must be keeping the bodies somewhere. But where? And how did the grabber get them there? The grabber seems to be avenging woman by taking these men so I’m assuming they’re a woman themselves. And not to be sexist, but it’s unlikely that a woman is snatching these men and getting them to a secondary location without anyone seeing. These men are probably super heavy.” Peter said to the figurine.

“Maybe. But there were never any tire marks found. I don’t think the grabber is functioning out of a vehicle. If she was, someone probably would’ve seen it by now.” Peter said. He looked at his wall again and noticed something.

“That’s true, tiny Ned. The grabber is a really good writer. These reports are all cited and have the proper evidence to expose the men. It’s like the grabber wants to explain why they did what they did. But if all the reports are anonymous, why try to justify your actions?” Peter wondered. He glanced at the figurine before realizing something else.

“That’s true too. The first man taken was the CEO of a major newspaper. Do you think that has any relation to the fact that the grabber is a writer?” Peter asked the figurine. He immediately thought of you and your interview with Andy Anderson that you allegedly never made it to. Peter quickly shook his head and waved his hand.

“That’s crazy, tiny Ned. It’s just a weird coincidence that she was supposed to have an interview with Andy Anderson the night he went missing. Are you seriously trying to suggest that Y/n could have something to do with this? Please. I’ve loved her since I was a little boy. She may not remember me, but I know that girl like the back of my hand. She isn’t capable of doing something like this. And even if she was, she never would. She didn’t make it to her interview. That’s all.” Peter shrugged and looked at his wall again. He looked at Andy Andersons picture before looking at the blank space next to it. Andy was the first victim and the only one who didn’t have a report published on what he did. It kept Peter up at night wondering why the most influential victim was the only one without a report explaining why he was taken. It could mean his vanishing was unrelated to the other men, but the crime scenes were too similar for Peter to dismiss it. He began to feel uneasy, so he looked away and put on his jacket.

“I’m gonna go get some coffee. I’ll see you later, tiny Ned.” Peter said before leaving his apartment. He walked down the block, the same thing he didn’t every day, until he reached your coffee shop. His spidey senses didn’t go off when he saw you this time, bringing him some much needed relief. He sighed happily and wanted to run back and tell little Ned that there was nothing to worry about until he remembered that little Ned was a Lego. Peters smile dropped as he was reminded of how lonely he was ever since the spell. You approached the counter and his smile quickly returned.

“There you are. I haven’t seen you in a minute.” You said with a smile.

“I know. I’m sorry. I’ve been busy.” Peter said, and it was the truth. Trying to figure out who was taking these men was consuming him.

“You don’t have to be sorry. I just missed you.” You said over your shoulder as you made him his drink. All thoughts of the grabber immediately left his mind and all he could think of was you. The hope that you were starting to fall in love with him again consumed his mind and he gave you a dreamy smile.

“Would you ever want to hang out? Like, outside of the shop?” He blurted, instantly regretting it. After almost kissing you a few weeks ago, he had been trying to play it cool so he didn’t scare you off.

“Really? You’d want to?” You asked with a surprised smile.

“Yeah. I like talking to you. And it would be nice to talk for more then five minutes a day.” He replied once he was that you weren’t scared.

“Yeah. It would.” You agreed. “Plus, you’ve never seen me out of my uniform.”

“I’ve literally seen you naked.” Peter laughed before he realized what he had said.

“What was that?”

“I said I would love to hang out sometime.” Peter said quickly.

“Okay. Cool.” You smiled and placed his coffee down in front of him.

“Cool.” Peter smiled as well and felt himself relax.

“Have a seat. And let me know if you need anything else.” You said with a wink.

“I will.” Peter blushed and went to take a seat next to Ned. Ned was reading a newspaper and Peter could see a headline about another man who had gone missing.

“Hey dude.” Peter greeted his former best friend as he slid onto the stool beside Ned.

“What’s up, man?” Ned smiled. They’d gotten friendly with each other since they both frequented the shop so much to visit you, just not as friendly as they used to be.

“Nothing much. You?” Peter asked as he tried to read the newspaper over Ned’s shoulder to see what the update was.

“Same old.” Ned shrugged and put the newspaper down. Peter glanced at the article and saw that a college professor had gone missing after a few of his female students reported that he failed them when they turned down his romantic advances.

“Look at Y/n.” Ned laughed, making Peter look up from the newspaper. Peter saw you shaking an ice coffee like like it was a margarita to make a girl at the counter laugh.

“She’s amazing, isn’t she? She can make a simple coffee taste so good.” Peter sighed happily as he watched you.

“She’s the best. She’s honestly the best friend I’ve ever had.” Ned replied, making Peter stiffen. He was glad he had his back to Ned because he didn’t want him to see the tears that came to his eyes. He knew he’d been wiped from Neds memory, but it still stung every time he was reminded of it.

“Yeah. That’s great.” Peter gave Ned a fake smile before looking at you again. You were still helping the girl at the counter, both of you laughing at something you had said.

“Okay. Your total is $4.29 and a kiss on the lips.” You said as you slid the iced coffee towards her.

“Every time.” The girl playfully rolled her eyes before leaning across the counter. You met her halfway and kissed her, making Peters stomach drop. He choked on his coffee and covered his mouth with his hand to keep himself from making anymore noise. Peter quickly looked away but could still hear you and the girl giggling. White hot jealousy shot down his spine and he felt like all of the air had been sucked out of the room. His throat went dry and he struggled to breathe as his heart pounded in his chest.

“Dude. Are you okay?” Ned asked and patted Peters back.

“She…she just…” Peter panted and pointed to you and the girl.

“She what?” Ned wondered.

“She just kissed that girl.” Peter whispered to Ned.

“Oh, her? That’s Kate Bishop. Y/n’s girlfriend.” Ned told him, making Peters stomach drop again.

“She has a girlfriend? Since when?” Peter asked as he felt tears come to his eyes.

“A little over a month. They met here, actually.” Ned told him, making Peter feel sick again.

“Did they? That’s great. Good for her.” Peter smiled weakly and sucked in a sharp breath.

It had been two months since the spell was cast and Peter had spent every waking second of those months loving you from a distance. After your relationship was abruptly cut short and Peter was completely wiped from your memory, he lived in pain every day knowing the love of his life had no idea who he was and he couldn’t tell her. He had planned to become your friend and gain your trust before telling you the truth about everything. The only thing that kept Peter going through his insufferable loneliness was the thought that you’d eventually know the truth and be together again. He had even convinced himself that you were starting to fall for him again. But all that hope was shattered now as he watched you kiss another girl.

“Have you ever kissed a girl?” You asked Peter as you laid side by side on his carpet.

“No. Have you?“ Peter asked you. At fifteen years old, he hadn’t even hugged a girl yet. Little did he know, he’d be dating you within the year.

“No. I think I could though. And I kinda want to.” You answered honestly before sneaking a glance at him to see his reaction. Peter said nothing as he looked up at the star stickers on his ceiling.

“Is that weird?“ You asked quietly.

“Not any weirder then me wanting to kiss one.” Peter shrugged, making you smile. You sat up a little and kissed Peters cheek, feeling his cheeks heat up beneath your lips.

“Thanks.” You said as you laid back down.

“For what?“ Peter asked as he touched his burning cheek.

“For listening.”

Peter snapped out of that memory when he saw you and Kate coming over to him. He quickly wiped his face to get rid of any tears and threw on a smile.

“Peter, I want you to meet someone.” You said as you rubbed Kate’s arm.

“Who’s this?” Peter asked with a fake smile.

“This is my girlfriend, Kate.” You beamed. Peter felt like he wanted to die but kept his smile.

“Hi. Nice to meet you.” Kate smiled politely and held out her hand.

“You too.” Peter nodded and shook her hand.

“This is Peter. He’s one of my regulars.” You told Kate. Peters smile faltered as it occurred to him that you hadn’t even told your girlfriend about him, meaning he didn’t really mean anything to you. You were the love of his life, but he was just a regular to you.

“Well I have to get back to Clint. But I will talk to you later my darling.” Kate said as she slipped an arm around you.

“I’ll talk to you later.” You smiled and kissed her again. As Peter watched you two kiss, he thought of another memory.

“Do you think we’ll get married?” You asked Peter as you looked up at him. You were older now, 17. Instead of laying on his carpet like you did when you were just friends, you were laying on his bed with your head on his chest.

“Yeah. Of course we will.” Peter said simply.

“No, but really. Do you actually see us getting married and spending the rest of our lives together?” You asked as you sat up a little to look at him.

“I do.” Peter answered honestly. “Do you?”

“Of course I do. But I can’t help but wonder how many other high school sweethearts thought the exact same thing.”

“They’re not like us. We’re different.”

“I bet they all thought that too. I guess I just can’t help but worry that it’s unrealistic to think that the first boy I ever dated, the first boy I ever loved, will be the only boy I date. I want that, but I don’t know if that will happen.”

“Why wouldn’t that happen?” Peter asked as you laid back down on his chest.

“I don’t know.” You sighed. “What if we go off to college and you get a little bit mean or I get a little bit depressed and we drift apart? I could never see us having an ugly break up. But I could see us falling apart in the usual way. We’re so young right now. We could grow up and change and realize that our high school selves were in love but our 25 year old selves and completely different people who are no longer compatible. And I’m so scared of that happening that I feel like I’m gonna make it happen.”

You were both quiet for a minute as you sat with the words. Peter sat up a little and you did the same. He looked at you for a minute and cupped your chin.

“I won’t let it happen. Because I have every intention of marrying you.” He said with a soft smile.

“Promise?” You asked and held out your pinky.

“I promise. I never want anybody else.” He said as he linked his pinky with yours.

“Me either.” You grinned and leaned in to kiss him.

When the memory ended, Peter blinked back to reality and saw you were still kissing Kate. You pulled away and she cupped your chin, just like Peter used to do.

“Bye! Call me later!” You called after her as she walked towards the door.

“I always do!” She called back. Kate blew you a kiss through the window and you caught it before smiling like a child.

“She seems nice.” Peter said with a fake smile now that Kate was gone.

“She is. I just adore her.” You sighed dreamily, breaking Peters heart all over again. You used it talk about him like that, but you had no idea.

“Hmmm. You moved on. That’s great.” Peter said softly so that his voice wouldn’t crack. You gave Peter a funny look and laughed a little.

“Moved on from what? I’ve never dated anyone before.” You said. Peters eyes widened when he realized he had slipped up again. For him, he was watching the love of his life date someone else just two months after your relationship ended. For you, you were just having fun and dating someone you liked. You had no idea what history existed between you and Peter, and he died a little inside every time he was reminded of that. It was growing more and more painful to be the one who remembers.

“Right. I must’ve been thinking of someone else.” Peter quickly tried to explain.

“Oh. Okay.” You shrugged and walked away. Peter sighed once walked away and put his head down on the counter. Ned watched him as he did this and frowned a little. He noticed Peters odd behavior more then you did since you were usually busy working when Peter was in the shop. He noticed the way Peter stared at you and the weird things Peter said. There was even one time Peter brought up a story that Ned had no memory of telling him, but the details Peter used made it seem like he had been there. Ned could tell there was something deeper to Peter that he wasn’t letting on, but he didn’t know what it was yet.

“I should get going. I’ll see you later, dude.” Peter said as he held out a fist. Ned I stuck you bumped his fist, then went on to do a whole elaborate hand shake with Peter. Ned’s eyes widened as he watched his hands move with muscle memory to perform a handshake that he had no memory of ever doing before but also felt like he had done it a million times. When they finished, Ned looked to Peter for an explanation but Peter looked just as shocked.

“How did we…” Ned trailed off, not even sure what he was asking.

“I guess we’re just on the same wavelength.” Peter smiled shyly and tapped the side of his head.

“I guess so.” Ned said in amazement. Peter left the ship shortly after and Ned noticed a folded piece of loose leaf on the ground near where Peter had been sitting.

“Wait Peter, you dropped something.” Ned said, but Peter was already gone. Ned picked it up and opened it out of curiosity.

“Dear Y/n, I know you don’t know me and this is gonna sound crazy…” Ned read under his breath. His eyes widened as he continued to skim the letter, reading about how your memories of Peter had been wiped by some man named Dr. Strange. When Ned read that name, an image of a tall man with salt and pepper hair and a red cloak came to him. He didn’t know whether that was a memory or a dream, but it was real enough that it sent a chill down his spine.

“What’s that?” You asked when you saw what Ned was holding.

“Nothing. Just some homework.” Ned replied and quickly put the paper down.

“Right.” You said skeptically and laughed at his odd behavior. You went back to work and Ned went back to reading the letter.

That night, Peter swung to your apartment building and sat in a tree by your window. He found himself following you a little more lately to cope with his feelings. He looked through your window and felt his jealousy return when he saw Kate in your room. You were both sitting on your bed and you were French braiding her hair. Peter leaned in a little closer so that he could hear what you were saying.

“I think that customer is in love with you.” Kate said as she looked over her shoulder.

“Who?”

“The one you introduced me to today. What was his name? Peter?”

“Peter?” You laughed. “No. He’s definitely not.”

“He so is.” Kate insisted. “You didn’t see the way he was looking at you? He looked like he was about to cry when we kissed. He stares at you like you’re the long lost love of his life.”

“Maybe I am.” You playfully gasped, making her laugh. She leaned into you as you continued to braid her hair.

“Honestly, you might be right.” You said after a minute. “I thought he was gonna kiss me the other day.”

“What? Why?” Kate laughed and turned around to look at you. Peter gulped as he listened to this, not realizing you had noticed that.

“I told him about my job interview and we hugged and when we pulled away, I don’t know. It looked like he was about to kiss me.”

“Oh no. Do I have competition I need to worry about?” Kate playfully gasped.

“No. He’s just some dude who comes into the store. You’re my girlfriend.” You smiled sweetly at her and cupped her face. Kate smiled back and leaned in to kiss you, making Peter shut his eyes so he wouldn’t have to watch.

“You know what’s weird?” You asked when you pulled away. “Before I met you, I kinda liked him. I used to wait for him to come into the cafe everyday. I always thought he was gonna ask me out but he never did.”

“Well I’m glad he didn’t. Because then I wouldn’t get to do this.” Kate said before kissing you again. Peters head was spinning as he listened to this. He wanted to gain your trust and become your friend first before making any moves, and now he knew that was his mistake. He had taken too long to tell you the truth and therefore lost you to Kate. If he had just told you the truth right away like he promised you he would, you could’ve been together by now.

“I wish you could sleepover. I wish you didn’t have to leave.” You told Kate, tearing Peter away from his thoughts.

“I know. But my curfew isn’t for another hour. We still have plenty of time.” Kate smiled and kissed you again. Peter saw a look it your eyes that he remembered all too well. He knew a make o it secession was about to break out so he quickly swung away. His body burned with jealousy at the thought of someone else putting their hands where his used to be. When he landed on his own balcony, he crawled through his window and immediately threw himself on his bed. He pulled his mask off and cried into his pillow with loud, gut wrenching sobs.

“It’s not fair. It’s not fair.” He cried into his pillow. His bed shook as sobs violently ripped through his body.

“I hate this. I hate this cold apartment. I hate lying to her. I hate being alone. I miss May. I miss Ned. And I really miss Y/n. I miss my family. Why do I have to be alone? Why is my girlfriend dating someone else? This isn’t fair. It isn’t fair.” Peter continued to cry. He sat up and looked at himself in the mirror before throwing up a peace sign.

“I’m so lonely. I miss Y/n. I miss my lover.” Peter said quietly and wiped his face. He looked up again, this time at his wall where he had the reports taped up. He looked them over and frowned a little when he noticed something. He got off his bed and got closer to the wall, confirming what he thought he thought he saw. Every single report had the same letters randomly capitalized in the middle of words. Peter grabbed a notepad and wrote down every capitalized letter that he saw. He looked at the notepad and realized it formed a sentence. In every report had the same secret message hidden in it,

“WE ARE VENOM”

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Chapter 221 Anaylsis

I'd admit that most of my problems with this chapter are art related, so I'm gonna just skip over like 80% of my critics of that so It doesn't get repetitive. It's mainly just creepy hades faces, and awkward proportions that make him look like a lego figure in stop motion. Like look at this guy... he looks so awkward and... god his ass is really tiny.

Now the big art thing that I am going to talk about is how the simplified one colour and one note backgrounds has caused rs to basically shoot herself in the foot. Cause in the first few chapters the backgrounds where detailed enough that we could really visuals all the important areas. Artemis's house, Hades house and the underworld corp while we aren't given like maps of them but we have a good idea of the layout and space...

with persephone new apartment.. we don't get that. It's all this dark blue, we get one shot of the outside and then a few undetailed shots of the inside. How many rooms does this have, is it big or small? hades says it looks rundown... but why aren't we shown that? They leave the apartment to eat on the roof almost immediately, is that cause persephone doesn't have a dining space in her apartment.. it just reallys annoy me.

Then the next shot in what I thought was the apartment... was actually hades, I think this chapter would really really benefit from a few shot focusing on persephones apartment. If needed remove the whole 'joke' of the billboard and instead show up persephone apartment and have them eat inside to better show Persephones kitchen. Side note with how last chapter went... how is she gonna treat her neighbors...

Now I've said this before that I'll say it again I do like persephone getting her own apartment. It's a good idea not to have hades and persephone immediately be a married couple.. but I really wish rs did more with this. Persephone has missed out on far more then just owning her own apartment.. she only did at most a month of collage it would really help to show more that persephone is trying to be independent.

Now I just want to draw attention to this line.. and just the massive amount of disrespect it levels at hecate, while yes she was not technically queen.. but like come on hades. She's been helping you since you stared at king, she did most of the research and work in the last few chapters. She may not have shared the title but it's clear she was doing a fuck ton of work.

Lets talk about the most annoying line in this whole chapter! Just to make one thing clear persephone you where not coddled, you where a CHILD. Demeter was making sure you had an education and a safe place to grow up first before making you work! that is a completely understandable thing.. and the moment you were over 18 demeter let you go... she was worried for your safety in a world that has repeatedly abuse her and you've proven yourself in the past that you put your trust in the wrong individualizes.

You then had one conversation in ten years where demter outwardly praised out about how great you were doing… You didn't even talk about what you could do in the mortal realm. Before then you didn't have any experience and again were a collage student .. not exactly someone fit to step up to a important job like that… Like from the few flashback to the punishment.. it's clear you were struggling.

Also this line and how much it annoys me in relationship to demeter, because it's constantly brought up terrible demeter is for hiding stuff like the fertility goddess power from persephone as how she is bad and irredeemable... and when I was first read it I thought that is what it was referring to. I read it as people hid stuff from persephone to protect her... but persephone admiting that she understands it's a struggle, and that hades isn't a bad guy for hiding shit from her but you know her own mother doing stuff to protect her is a terrible person.

Now I want to get these analysis out before the next chapter does... so yeah this isn't as detailed or longer but.. eh.

[jimblejamblewritings]

little situation | part 14.

Summary: For years, HYDRA had been trying to use the samples of Steve’s DNA to make another super-soldier. They finally succeed and when S.H.I.E.L.D. breaks her out, Cap is forced to come face to face with his kid and figure out parenting on an Avengers’ lifestyle.

Warnings: maybe potential childhood trauma but nothing really

Pairing: Steve Rogers x blackdaughter!reader, avengers x child!reader, peter parker x black!reader

Word Count: 3.7k

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“Aunt May! I brought over someone else besides Ned, I hope it’s alright,” Peter called into his apartment.

“It’s probably not as big as the compound but it’s home.”

“I lived in a cell for a good chunk of my life, nothing’s too small.”

You didn’t want Peter to feel like just because you came from the Avengers’ lifestyle that you were some stuck up.

“Oh, of course, Peter. That’s fin— Oh, hello, you’re a girl.” Aunt May came from around the corner making Peter groan again.

“Hi, I’m Sarah Rogers. It’s nice to meet you Ms. Parker.”

“Please, just call me May… Sarah Rogers? As in—”

“Yes, May! We’re just going to hang out in my room until her ride gets here,” Peter cut her off.

While Peter pushed you and Ned towards his room, he caught the look of May.

“She’s cute,” May mouthed.

“Friend. I just met her.”

“I’m just saying.”

May and Peter communicated in various facial expressions and mouthing words until he couldn’t see May anymore and you, he, and Ned were down the hall. There was nothing better to do while you waited but homework. Peter let you take the desk chair while he and Ned sat on the bottom bunk of his bed.

“Do you two mind if I put on music? I work better with music,” you looked up from the math textbook.

Ned and Peter shrugged.

“What do you listen to?”

“Honestly our house listens to a lot of jazz. Two out of four of us are from World War II.”

“Well, at least it won’t be distracting.”

You turned up the music on your phone and set it down on the desk while the three of you kept working. Once you finished, you checked your phone and still didn’t see any text from Happy or Tony. You watched Ned and Peter until they finished doing their own work.

“So…”

You didn’t know what to say. You never had friends your age before. Plus, Peter and Ned seemed so close that you weren’t sure if you would impose by saying the wrong thing. The two boys looked over at you and suddenly you felt the rest of Peter’s room was more interesting.

“Is that a Rubik’s Cube?”

You walked over to the drawer that it was laying on top of about to grab it when you stopped.

“Oh, can I?”

“Yeah, go ahead.”

You grabbed it and returned back to the desk chair. Fingers moving at rapid speed, you listened to Ned and Peter talk. You held up a solved Rubik’s Cube in accomplishment.

“You’ve heard us talk all week, what about you?” Ned asked.

“What about me?”

“Who is Sarah Rogers?” Ned asked all serious that made you laugh. You threw him the Rubik’s Cube and spun in the chair before stopping, facing them again.

“Hmmm. Sarah Rogers. Um, I’m a super-soldier baby, deaf, colorblind but only with blue and purple. Engineering is one of my favorite academics. Favorite color is (f/c), I love Disney. Oh, I like to draw… I can teach you how to snap a man’s neck?”

“Awesome,” both boys said at the same time.

“Yeah?” You felt the corners of your mouth lift up. “So what exactly are these lego sets we’re doing this weekend?”

Ned began to go into a tirade about them and how he and Peter save up to buy sets. You were amazed to find out how expensive they could be. Peter pulled out a few of the sets that were kept at his house. Most were kept at Ned’s since he had more space.

“We were gonna get a new set for Sunday, we just finished saving up for another one. You wanna pick?”

“Oh, I don’t know. You guys saved up a lot… I don’t want to pick one you don’t like.”

“That’s the beauty, the goal’s to build them all at some point.”

Peter pulled up the sets in their price range and called you over. They scooted over so you could sit on the bed and flip through. You bit your lip nervously as your eyes landed on the one you wanted.

“Which one?” Peter pulled his phone out of your head. “Steamboat Willie? You really do like Disney.”

“We don’t have to go with that one. I’ll pi—”

“Looks cool enough,” Ned said as he peered over Peter’s shoulder. “I’ll pick it up. Just text us when you want to come over on Sunday and I’ll bring it.”

“Knock, knock,” Aunt May said as she stood in the doorway. “Sarah? A Happy is here for you.”

“Happy! Thank you for letting me come over, May.”

“No problem sweetie, anytime really.”

You turned to your new friends.

“I like hanging out with you two. I’ll see you Sunday. Catch you later, Ned, Peter Parker.”

You greeted Happy at the door. He was holding an apology burger and milkshake courtesy of Tony. You gave a final wave goodbye and left with the big bodyguard for the drive back to the compound.  

~~

You wished Steve was here but he was still on a mission. Bucky and Natasha had come back from their separate mission so they were accompanying you along with Tony and Sharon who was now S.H.I.E.L.D’s plug with the CIA. Everyone wanted to wait till Steve got back but the UN wasn’t having it. S.H.I.E.L.D. had a sneaking suspicion that they were up to something and this was just the start but there wasn’t much they could do.

“Why do I have to straighten my hair?” You asked as you sat in the salon chair while on the phone with Sam and Steve.

“I don’t know, the PR team said it was best you do.” Steve shrugged and looked at Sam.

“It makes you seem more ‘presentable’ is what they want to say.”

“Presentable?”

“They think our hair’s not suitable for the workplace. A lot of those country leaders and diplomats at your UN meeting aren’t black. PR wants you to appeal to the masses, you’ve already got the blonde hair America’s darling thing going. They want to place you as close to whiteness and Steve as they can… yeah, I know. Unfair, sweetheart, I know.”

You frowned but continued to let the salon lady straighten your hair. You appreciated that Sam was always blunt with things you and Steve didn’t understand. He truly was there for the two of you.

“Dheaidí, can you braid my hair when you get home? Like the ones that Howard girl did?”

“Um, I can try, Babydoll.”

Sam chuckled already knowing the gears turning in Steve’s head as he tried to figure out how many tutorials it would take him to figure it out. You could’ve found someone to do it for sure but you really wanted some time with Steve.

“I wish you two were here.”

“We do too but we couldn’t cut the mission shorter than tomorrow. We’ll see you after the meeting though, we promise. But you’ve got Aunt Nat, Uncle Tony and Buck. You’ll be fine sweetheart, it’s just a little meeting think of it like a parent-teacher conference… What are we going to do if they schedule a parent-teacher conference when we’re on missions?”

Steve started to focus on a different problem, overthinking once again.

“Babe,” Sam broke through Steve’s hyperfocus. “Bridge we’ll cross when we get there, okay. You’ll do just great, Sarah. Knock it out of the park, got it?”

“Got it. Dheaidí?”

“Yes?”

When’s the wedding?

Steve choked, leaving Sam a confused mess between your laughing and Steve’s blubbering. You hoped he wouldn’t try to learn sign language. There was something fun about being able to talk with Steve, Clint, and Bucky behind everyone else’s back… only in front of them.

Sarah.

Yes?

Sam and I… this is still new to me.

Steve shook his head. “Why am I talking with you about this?”

“Because I’m not a baby anymore.”

“Always my baby.”

But you two have been together since I was gone right? He’s already a part of the family.

“Let it go.”

I’m gonna be the flower girl, right?

“Don’t you have a hair appointment to finish. Bye, Sarah.”

“Bye, Dheaidí. Bye, Dad.”

You hopped out of the salon chair and looked at yourself in the mirror. The straight hair wasn’t bad. But it was a lot of work and with an Avenger lifestyle, you were almost positive it would be sweated out and it probably wasn’t for you. You exited the salon and into the black van waiting for you outside— the good thing about living in New York was that the UN headquarters was there and that’s where they chose to have your meeting. Tony, Bucky, Nat, and Sharon were already in the car along with the head of the Avengers’ PR team who was giving you last minute tips and prep.

“Don’t scare the poor girl,” Bucky said. “It wasn’t that bad, little doll. I’ll be up there with you anyway.”

Bucky was a stand-in for Steve as legal guardian. If it wasn’t him, it was going to be one of the other Avengers. They were all your pseudo-guardians. Bucky had a hand on your shoulder the whole time as you entered the UN floor. For the most part he was right, it wasn’t too bad. You got mainly sympathetic looks from the dignitaries in front of you.

It was time for a brief recess and you left the stand to stretch your legs while Bucky got you a water. You shook hands with more people you could count and accepted so many apologies and questions about your position on the Avengers— which Tony swooped in to answer most of those, including your unofficial status until you had a suit and a moniker… and your dad actually let you go on missions.

“Miss Rogers, I’m King T’Chaka and this is my son Prince T’Challa,” an older gentleman said as he shook your hand.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

“We are utterly sorry to hear all you’ve been put through at such a young age. If you would like, for both you and Sergeant Barnes, Wakanda would be glad to help.”

“Wakanda?” Your brain scrambled for where you had heard that before. “Oh, vibranium like my dad’s shield.”

“Yes,” T’Challa chuckled. “We’re a little more than meets the eye. Feel free to visit at any time, we find the fresh air of our country can be very beneficial. Work miracles almost.”

T’Challa shared a knowing look with his father. You didn’t have time to ask more questions before they called you back to finish speaking. Bucky intercepted a question about the Avengers taking responsibility for collateral damages when events such as Sokovia happened.

“With all due respect, that’s a question for Captain Rogers not his daughter. And we’re trying to figure out how to save the world with less damage which aside from bigger cases, we’ve managed to do pretty well. Once again we do apologize for damage caused to Sokovia and have been working closely with the city to continue repairing damages. If there are no other questions for Sarah, we would like to wrap this up. She does have homework she has to finish.”

That earned a small laugh from everyone on the floor. Bucky nodded to one reporter who stuck his pen up for the last question. The man stood up and flipped open his notepad to read off his question.

“This is actually in regards to both Sergeant Barnes and Miss Rogers about your time in HYDRA.”

“Yes?”

“How do we know that you are working for the Avengers? That this isn’t some HYDRA scheme?”

“Well, I suppose we—”

“For instance if an agent were to come in, you wouldn’t turn on us?”

“Both Sarah and I have no positive affiliation with HYDR—”

“Not even if they were to say Longing. Rusted.”

You and Bucky both froze like deers in headlights. Bucky recovered first and ripped your hearing aids out to at least try and save you while Nat ran from her spot in the back of the room to stop the reporter. But it didn’t matter because the reporter’s pre-recorded voice came over the loudspeaker and no matter how much you covered your ears you and Bucky could still hear it.

“FRIDAY, locate the source and shut it off!” Tony commanded.

“On it, Mr. Stark.” The A.I’s voice came through.

“Benign. Homecoming.”

You and Bucky tried to run.

“One. Freight Car.”

Both of you stood still in your tracks while the other Avengers yelled for people to run while it was oddly silent. The crackle of the pre-recorded voice came back over the speakers with your instructions. You and Bucky pushed past everyone. Bucky picked up the reporter while you attacked anyone who got in the way. You entered a hallway, Bucky twisting the door so it stayed locked. The reporter asked you questions that whether you wanted to or not, you both were answering. There was pounding at the door, attempts by the Avengers to get you out.

“You’ll get me to safety and where I need to go. Now, Soldat. 001.”

You ripped the door off of the handle and threw it at Tony. Bucky set the reporter down and picked you up, throwing you into Nat and Sharon. The Avengers had never seen you fight before and not as a tag team with Bucky— although, right now, this was not exactly where they’d be wanting to see you two in action.

Someone in a catsuit had also appeared to stop the fighting. Bucky ran with the reporter, fighting off anyone that stopped him, while you tried to distract and hold the others back. He succeeded in getting the reporter to a helicopter and starting it up before he turned back around— even under programming, Bucky always came back for you. He almost twisted the man in the catsuit’s arm behind his back when he saw him corner you.

“We’re gonna have to shoot,” Everett Ross said.

“Are you crazy?” Tony started, much to the agreement of others.

Tony hadn’t packed his whole suit but he did have the glove. It formed around his hand and Tony hesitated for a split second before coming after you and hitting you in the temple with the glove.

“Sorry, G.I.”

You stumbled back and Bucky’s attention was immediately focused on Tony who was now backing up. Your head was spinning as you came to your senses. You blinked a couple times and looked to see Bucky stalking towards Tony. You ran in front of him.

“Uncle Jamie, I’m okay.”

You snaked a hand up to his temple, knowing you could get away with it as he assessed that you weren’t injured. You hit him as hard as Tony had hit you and he stumbled back but also came to his senses. Bucky looked around to see everyone but the two of you almost out of breath.

“What did we do?”

“Honestly, we’re not sure yet. We’re trying to figure out who that reporter was and how the hell he slipped through the cracks.”

“He’s HYDRA,” you said, dryly. “They always find a way to slip through the cracks… who’s he?”

Everyone turned to see King T’Chaka coming up behind the man in the sleek black catsuit. He removed his helmet and you were surprised to see Prince T’Challa. So this was what the two of them meant when they said Wakanda was more than meets the eye. The king approached you and Bucky.

“Miss Rogers, Sergeant Barnes… it is hard to explain but we strongly suggest that you take up our offer. For the safety of everyone and our Avengers, we think we can help with your programming problem.”

Bucky was all for it. He had enough of HYDRA’s control on him but he sensed your hesitation.

What’s wrong, little doll?

“I just started school… I was starting to enjoy my life.”

T’Challa spoke up.

“Maybe for the weekends? It would take longer, maybe two months instead of one. But I don’t think we want to disrupt and upset Miss Rogers’ life any more, Baba. Does that work for you?”

“I think we should talk with Steve,” Bucky took over the guardian role again. “But that seems like it might be best for the two of us.”

T’Challa and his father nodded, leaving contacts with Bucky, and then left before anyone else on the UN floor could spot T’Challa in his suit. You and Bucky went back to the UN floor for a final statement that no one was truly paying attention to. They didn’t need it, everyone had witnessed firsthand the damage HYDRA had inflicted on the two of you. You were quickly ushered into the van to head back home.

“Shit,” Tony muttered as he put his phone down. “The helicopter was ditched as soon as he could. We’ve lost the guy.”

“He’ll show up again eventually, they always do.”

“What did he want from you two? What was he asking you in that hallway?”

You and Bucky couldn’t remember to save your lives.

“Doesn’t matter. He probably wants what all of HYDRA wants,” Nat said. “Why the long face, kiddo?”

“Can we dance when we get home?”

Nat nodded. Your question answering hers. The van stayed quiet for your sake, understanding you felt like crap after everything. HYDRA had that control over you. Being born under them, it was always harder for you to shake off a spell than it was for Bucky. He would go straight to the moping stage but you usually spent a few hours in the stages of guilt and fear. You pulled out your phone and texted Ned and Peter in your newly formed group chat, Two Weirdos and Rogers.

Favorite Avenger: Guys, can we reschedule to Monday? I don’t think I’m feeling the weekend anymore.

Mastermind (Ned): No problem, are you okay?

The Awkward One (Peter): Are you okay? We saw what happened.

Favorite Avenger: It’s already on the news?!

The Awkward One: Yeah… but no one’s saying anything bad.

Favorite Avenger: whatever, can we do Monday after school?

Mastermind: P and I have decathlon after school but if you’re cool waiting till after that.

Favorite Avenger: Yeah, sounds fine.

The Awkward One: are you sure you’ll be okay?

Favorite Avenger: yeah, I’ll be fine. See you guys Monday

Sam and Steve came back from their mission to see you and Bucky laying on the floor of your living room, with face masks, foot masks, hand masks, and two candles between you. Sam snapped a picture on his phone before either one of them stepped further into the room. As if he wasn’t going to use this as blackmail against Barnes later.

“We’re back, Babydoll… and we picked up the braiding hair.”

You held up a hand since you couldn’t speak with the mask on. You signed to Steve that it would take ten more minutes before you could move so the two men left you and Bucky on the living room floor. For Sam, the new scent in the house was a lot. For Steve and Bucky it was downright overwhelming but you had made the whole house smell like (favorite scent) thanks to your candles.

“Is your niece like this, too?” Steve asked Sam, half-joking.

Once the self-care was over, you called Steve out of his room and into the living room. He laid out everything and took a deep breath. He laughed at himself a little. He could jump out of planes without a parachute but had to mentally hype himself for braiding your hair. Steve sighed after starting over on the first braid for the fifth time. Sam entered the area after hearing Steve yell in frustration.

“You good?”

“He’s struggling,” you said, not taking your eyes from your phone where you were texting Ned and Peter.

“She made it look so easy, but I’m sorry. Gripping and making the separate pieces is not easy,” he yelled back at the video on the laptop resting on the couch.  

“Move.”

Sam walked over and Steve gladly moved out of the way. He watched as Sam split the hair and started working. He sulked into the kitchen when it became apparent that Sam could braid it no problem. You set your phone down, it was too hard to concentrate with your head moving about, and turned on the TV.

Bucky came back from a sparring session with Nat and Pietro— they wanted to teach him skills past just being fast. He smirked when he saw the scene, Sam braiding your hair while Steve sprawled out on the couch invested in the movie and very occasionally feeding Sam popcorn.

“How domestic,” Bucky fake swooned. “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes open up a salon. Ever think about quitting your day job, Wilson?”

Sam rolled his eyes.

“Keep laughing but I got a picture of you and Sarah with those mud masks on.”

Sam held up his phone in satisfaction. Bucky stepped closer and Sam threw the phone at him.

“Go ahead and delete it. Already sent it to the whole team… shouldn’t have called me a bird-brain,” Sam smiled proud of himself.

“Steve, get your boyfriend.”

“Give it up, Uncle Jamie,” you sighed, making Sam and Steve laugh. “You done been caught.”

“… Man’s whole family gangs up on him, just not right.”

Bucky muttered as he stalked off. He came back after his shower like you all knew he would and sat down silently. Steve handed over his popcorn bowl which of course Bucky accepted.

~~

“I’ll be late for dinner,” you said as the car pulled up to school. Since they were free, Steve and Sam could actually drop you off for once.

“Why?” Steve asked.

“Ned and Peter have their nerd decathlon practices right after school so we can’t start the Steamboat set till after that.”

“Steamboat set?”

“Yeah, Steamboat Willie. The lego set based on the Disney… we watched Fantasia last month? Never mind, Dheaidí. Dinner, I’ll be late. Happy already agreed to drive me home.”

“You got Happy in on your little plan?”

“… maybe…”

“How late are we talking?”

“Fifteen minutes? No more than twenty-five, promise. Bye!”

You ran out of the car and met up with Peter and Ned who were waiting for you up front. They complimented the new hair and you flipped it obnoxiously for effect.

“And she had the nerve to call them nerds. Has your daughter met herself?” Sam asked.

“At least she has friends?”

“At least she has friends.”

Both men chuckled as they watched you high-five the two boys and walk inside the building, throwing your arms around their shoulders.

(Part 15)...

[fansids]

Sketch Request for @sketching-shark

I have a lot to say about this one. I'm putting it all below the cut:

Let me start by saying this is the last of the three requests I got before I updated my rules, and I am not drawing a background like this for the others. Ya'll already know how I feel about backgrounds.

And sorry this took so long but I'll explain why below

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Sketching-shark...buddy...friend...my dude, why you gotta put me back on my bullshit???

"idk if this is something you'd be interested in imagining/portraying-"

DUDE, DO YOU KNOW THE SELF-RESTRAINT I PLACED ON MYSELF TO MAKE THE SHADOW OF THE KING AU CANON COMPLIANT????

I WAS BARELY HOLDING BACK, I HAVE SO MANY CONCEPTS IN MY FOLDERS I WASN'T LETTING MYSELF USE, BUT THESE MONKIES HAVE WORMED THEIR WAY INTO MY HEART AND MIND, HOW DARE-

FUCK IT, THIS IS EXPANDING INTO THE LEGO MONKIE KID TIMELINE. AND I'M SHOVING THESE TWO INTO IT.

I WANT TO HUG YOU AND SHAKE YOU AT THE SAME TIME.

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Firstly, this drawing was an EXPERIENCE. I knew about the four spiritual primates, but the other two are mentioned once each in the entirety of jttw. I spent quite a bit of time trying to find like ANY other information about like what they're intended to represent/symbolize in jttw, but I came up pretty much empty. Though I did find out that they can also be translated to be called the "The Four World-Wrecking Monkeys."

Anyway, meet Cháng-bì Yuán [left] and Mǎ hóu [right], aka the Long-Armed Ape and Red-bottomed Horse Monkey. I really hope their names translated the way I wanted them to.

I have spent so many hours trying to figure out their species and designs.

I originally intended to design Cháng-bì off of an extinct species of gibbon, but I was unable to find any reconstructions or artistic renditions of any of the three extinct species, so I decided to leave Cháng-bì's specific species vague.

Mǎ hóu on the other hand was far more complicated. Some translations called her a bare-bottomed ape, or horse monkey, and others said baboon. I have no idea what a "horse monkey" is and my searches didn't yield much. It definitely didn't help that baboons are not native to Asia. I decided to make her a gelada, cause they live in grasslands and eat grass which is kinda horse-like I guess? They also have these gorgeous manes and lion-like tails. (Have you seen their teeth? That shit gave me nightmares as a kid)

Cháng-bì's clothing gave me a bit of trouble. I know gibbons have long arms, but drawing them is so weird since my brain tells me she's heavily disproportionate. I covered her arms with sleeves both because I like the look, and it helps me ignore her arm length.

I looked up a lot of different styles of hanfu before settling on this one for Cháng-bì. I actually finished this pic like two days ago, but I went back and completely redesigned her hanfu cause I really didn't like it. I don't think this will be her final look, same for Mǎ hóu. I have a number of issues with both of their clothing. Cháng-bì's collar and embroidery looks off. And do me a favor and pay as little attention to Mǎ hóu's armor as humanely possible. But this gives me a pretty good starting point.

I am not the best at clothing design, as you've probably noticed by now...

I can't find much information on them outside of their one mention in jttw. I'm not expecting that they themselves appear anywhere, but like what do they mean?? What do they represent? What would be proper powers to give them? Cause currently Cháng-bì's possible abilities sound the most terrifying.

Guys, I need answers, I need information. Or ideas or something. I am not knowledgeable enough in the Chinese mythos to plan these two out the way I want to. I have a very vague idea about their pasts and personalities, but nothing I'm comfortable with solidifying.

Any form of help or resource is very welcome.

Overall, this was a pretty fun mini project. I even got to draw a protective SWK.

[satansaidmyturnintheh3llscape]

Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E5: Child’s Play

I have some very strong opinions about some of the events that transpire during this episode… Disclaimers: Show owned by LEGO. This is not a professional review/critique - it’s mainly intended for comedy.

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- Intro ✅

- Last appearance of baby Lloyd’s title card😔❌

- I know I’m starting on my Lloyd stan BS a little early, even for me, but COME ON- not enough people talk about how heartbreaking this opening scene is. He just wants to play like the other kids!!! Just let him play for five minutes please😭 ✅

- Petition to see Lloyd info-dump to his siblings about comic books in modern Ninjago ✅

- “The fate of Ninjago rests on your shoulders. As the Green Ninja you have a giant responsibility to hold. I’m sorry, but you don’t have time for such childish things.” HE’S 8! ❌

- “Come on, pint-sized,” Pint-sized ✅

- *after jumping on the grundle bones* “This is not a solid plan, Cole.” Then why did you follow him? ❌

- Why did the generals even attempt to shove the sarcophagus through the sewer? ❌

- Oh no! They’ve turned the ninja into marketable plushies-

-Okay, fine… I’ll add a win for the compilation of ear-splittingly high pitched screams ✅

- I’d love to sin the excessive amount of voice-swaps in this episode, but unfortunately, due to the kid voices, I can’t even tell half of who’s saying what in the first place, and trying to figure it out is giving me a migraine, and that in itself is a sin ❌

- “Perhaps Garmadon succeeded in turning back the clock…” “Yeah but nindroids don’t turn into kids…” AU where this episode is the same EXCEPT Zane got turned into a pile of lifeless scraps that the ninja had to carry around in a backpack the whole time ❌

- “What do ya got on, apple dumpling gang? Pajamas?” Apparently, the ninja’s suits are so low quality that they can be mistaken for pajamas ❌

- Also, apple dumpling gang ✅

- “Our spinjitzu doesn’t work!” Looked fine to me, at least long enough for the cops to see it and realize something was up ❌

- The cops picked up the ninja at night, and now it’s the next morning. They think these are actual kids, so why are they just now trying to call their parents? And who are they gonna call? Did the ninja give them a phone number? ❌

- Actually, why don’t the ninja just give them Wu’s number so that he can come pick them up? Surely he’s seen weirder things than his pupils turning into kids; I doubt he’d just ignore the call, especially if the ninja’s names were dropped ❌

- Ninja change clothes directly behind this group of young kids ❌

- ^ You may think the phone dangling is just a gag, but it’s actually a clever way to symbolize how the fandom is hanging on by a thread as we wait for the rest of Crystalized to drop ✅

- The TV in Buddy’s Pizza is playing the clips from the pilot that show how each the ninja met Wu. Where could anyone have gotten the footage for that? The fandom in REAL LIFE can barely find those episodes! ❌

- “You’re… SMALL!” Unsupervised 8 year-old walks into a public pizza place with nunchucks, shurikens, a sword and a scythe but him raising his voice is what draws attention? ❌

- “Yeah, but you don’t know the Grundle.” And you do? The only research you did was listen to Garmadon plagiarize a lecture from the History Channel ❌

- “I think I know just the guy…” Please don’t bring them to a dr*g dealer please don’t bring them to a dr*g dealer please don’t-

- “You brought us to a comic book store?!?!” Was that much not clear from the massive “Doomsday Comix” sign out front? ❌

- “If anyone knows how to defeat a monster that doesn’t exist, I know just the person to talk to.” D*mmit, Lloyd! What did I just say about bringing them to a dr*g dealer?!

- The ninja spend this entire episode making fun of Lloyd for reading comic books despite the fact that they are (near) adults who still play video games. Fun fact: there is nothing wrong with either of these things, but it still makes the ninja hypocrites for trying to claim one is fine when the other isn’t ❌

- “Fellas, meet Rufus McAllister, AKA, Mother Doomsday!” Oh, thank god. Not a dr*g dealer… just a Marvel fan. Wait, that might be worse…

- “Well, if it isn’t Lloyd Hemorrhoid Garmadon!” ⬇️

- ^❌

- Also, I thought Lloyd didn’t have friends? Granted, from that nickname, doesn’t sound like were friends, but still ❌

- F*cking illumi-swords??? I’d genuinely rather get sued for saying “lightsabers” than have to actually call something an illumi-sword ❌

- Mystake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ✅

- I get it’s life and death and all, BUT the ninja still steal (and ultimately break) four illumi-swords, and they never actually pay for those autographed suits ❌

- Also, episode expects me to now carry on the season with the knowledge that the 4 ninja are wearing cheap copies of their previous suits, with their OWN autographs on them ❌

- The Grundle takes a ridiculously long time to eat the ninja… no wonder it went extinct ❌

- “You’ll miss out on the rest of your childhood, dude. We can’t do that to you!” The problem is that Lloyd’s already missing out on his childhood, and realistically that probably won’t change, regardless of some magical age-up, but the episode never touches on that at all ❌

- “Fair? Fair isn’t a word from where I come from!” ✅

- “They are the real ninja” Yeah, no sh*t dude! ❌

- I love how weirded out the ninja look about older Lloyd ✅

- I’m gonna say it: his hair still f*cking sucks ❌

- “You can have my copy of Starfarer. You deserve it.” “That’s okay, I already know how it ends.” If people stopped watching a series because they already got spoiled about it then I can guarantee Ninjago would not have a fandom, especially in the U.S.❌

- Okay, look… I hate the age up. I wish it didn’t happen, mostly because it was kinda treated like the same situation as a young adult needing to grow up (“there comes a time we all must grow up”) and Lloyd is a child. He has a responsibility, yes, and his circumstances force him to grow up early, but he should still be allowed to enjoy whatever childhood he has left, because he’s not going to get that back. Even if they kept the age-up in, the better resolution for this episode should’ve been the ninja letting Lloyd have the comic so that he can read it in his off time. ❌

- Further, it’s treated as if the concept of “all work, no play” is a healthy mindset/work ethic, which it’s NOT. Nonstop training all day shouldn’t be Lloyd’s reality because it isn’t healthy, regardless of age. People are known to perform better when given breaks, so let him have some breaks! ❌

- That being said, this entire ending monologue with the comic book-style art of Lloyd vs. Garmadon is so f*cking cool. I want this art as a poster! ✅

- “Yes, the time until the Final Battle has grown shorter… but the Green Ninja has grown stronger.” ✅✅✅✅✅✅

Sentence: Lloyd kinnies’ tears