I Second This Motion

I had a dream last night that we got 2 kai spin offs and the second one had his classic design.

I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that “20 is still basically a minor” need to understand is that the feeling of “I’m just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adult” is DEEPLY universal (and won’t stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.

Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when you’re trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize you’re 22 and you still feel like you’re 15, but it happens to all of us. You’re an adult. You have to deal with it.

THIS!!! This so much this.

I HOPE that there’s a plan to spin it around into him crashing out from the blatant dehumanizing and downright objectification, partially bc it is show that he is at least mildly uncomfortable with it, but I doubt the writers will actually go that route 😔

I gotta say it gang, I despise Zane's new mech design and I'll tell you why: it's just making the them of dehumanizing him more glaringly obvious. I think Zane's writing started going downhill in season seven. Maybe it was the initial redesigns that broke my brain, but I feel like that was where he began to seem more shallow, lose his sense, lose his humor even. It was even worse in the following era of seasons (secrets of spinjitzu, yata yata, which I think are mostly terrible) when he completely lost his identity and was completely unphased??? That's so lame. I mean, in earlier seasons he has obviously had struggles with finding and accepting his identity, so to just brush over that was such a loss. And in Dragons Rising I felt the same way. However, in addition to the over-simplifying of his character, they leaned WAAAY harder into the fact that he's a robot. Now that, and his love for Pixal, are his only indentity traits. They've basically taken away all of the things that made him feel human, that made him Zane. And then suddenly, his human form is taken away and he becomes a mech. I'm sorry, I cannot find this cool. I don't think it's cute. I can only see it as the distancing of Zane from the plot and from his personality, from everything that made him HIM.

Anyway... that's my little rant. I actually plan on writing a ton about this, but that is for a later time.

Ain’t got the energy to do jack else 🫶

Reblog if you’re bored and you want anons.

Ninjago hc’s sleepy edition 😴

Cole sleeps with a massive weighted blanket, feels like being under a mountain /pos

Nya sleeps with a heated blanket bc it reminds her of snuggling up to Kai when they were little

Lloyd tends to make “nests” out of his bedding, often subconsciously (he is part dragon after all)

Jay doesnt necessarily have a “night light” but he does have a couple low level lamps on (totally not inspired by the jellyfish lamp I got recently)

Kai gets very warm when he sleeps and often doesn’t use a blanket as a result

Zane has the opposite issue. he’s very cold, which most of the time doesn’t bother him, but sometimes he just needs to bundle up under a massive mountain of blankets till it’s hard to tell if he’s still in there

Pixel doesn’t NEED to sleep (neither does Zane but he developed the habit before learning he was a ninjaroid and never dropped it) but she likes engaging in human activities and often plans sleep overs

Cuddle piles are a very common occurrence :}

I mean they did sorta do that in season 3 with borg and wu, not fully nindroid tho

You know I’m actually kinda surprised the concept of turning a human character into a nindroid hasn’t been done in ninjago yet.

And yeah sure it could be a bit too dark of a concept but they’re very capable of doing off screen and the character is suddenly miraculously alive as a surprise twist

All the ninja have a caffeine addiction

Can’t sleep bc nightmares so they substitute sleep for energy drinks or coffee or what have you (they all get onto each other for it.)

Hey did you know you can just. Buy edible glitter by the bottle?

In other news, my punch has an ungodly amount of glitter in it.

I love when I check the ninjago wiki to double check that I’m correct about something before Info dumping to my friend about it and discovering new information that I cannot for the love of me find where it came from.

Like what do you mean ronin is the one who sold Zane to Chen? I mean it checks out but when was this said?? Am I just forgetting a line of dialogue or something?? What??

if next season is more focused on the after life and the spectral lands and def gonna be more Jay focused….what if Jay comes across Ed and Edna in the spectral lands - GETS SHOT