“Looks Like The Little Guy Wants To Give Drago A BIG Kiss”

my jay obsession is literally at its peak rn. every post youll see from me recently is jay. if i wasnt worthy of a jay stan back then now im literally bombarding my blog with this silly blue ginger freckled blorbo lego that also became an accountant

Remade an animation from a year ago! :D

Oh babygirl I love you so much

they are traumatized and armed with god-level superpowers

I love them so much YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND

(I WILL be airdropping these at school tomorrow unprompted.)

(also might do the Dragons Rising Crew idk we’ll see where the vibe takes us)

(free to use sillies)

TDI meets Scott Pilgrim Meets Friday Night Funkin

the joke about jay literally being in the stanley parable is so funny because it's so accurate to me

if he could hear a narrator say "and jay went through the door on the left" he would, without a moment's hesitation, go through the door on the right. no questions asked. he is here to cause problems

sore throats might be the stupidest response to illness i've ever experienced. oh you want to eat? drink?? breathe air??? TEN THOUSAND KNIVES ATTACK

Tonight on "Boring Worldbuilding Theories Only I Care About":

So characters are often seen saying things like "gee" and " jeez", which doesnt really make sense at a surface level bc both of those terms have Christian roots, being short for "jesus." Similarly, words like "gosh" and "golly" are a euphemism for "god", and exist as an alternative to "saying the lord's name in vain" - a concept that originated from the Bible and is to my knowledge exclusively Christian/Christian-adjacent.

The problem is, Christianity doesnt exist in Ninjago (outside of that one time Kai went on an acid trip and invented Christmas with the power of hallucination). So that means jeez/gee and gosh/golly had to have entered their lexicon in a different way.

"Gosh" is perhaps the easiest to explain. It probably has a similar linguistic function in Ninjago as it does in our world - after all, it doesnt seem too outlandish to conclude that there are religious rhetorics in-universe that discourage the speaking of godly names. Of course Ninjago does seem to be a predominantly secular society now - relying on religion for tradition and culture, but the actual observance of faith seems largely restricted to monks and select demographics - so it's likely that the practice of godly euphemisms may have over time disseminated from religious praxis into broader cultural colloquialism.

Although that does certainly raise the question about cultural variation in the characters who swear by the FSM's name like Wu and I think Pixal once, whereas characters like Ed and Jay use godly euphemisms - gosh, golly, etc. Were these religious sects more prominent in some regions than others? Ed and Jay, who use the euphemisms, both hail from the Sea of Sand - was this desert once within the territory of one of these euphemistic groups? And did these groups all follow the same faith but as part of different sects, or were they different religions altogether? Much to think about.

But as for gee and jeez...well, what if they're shortened versions of "wojira"? We know she was the prevailing deity back before the FSM showed up and defeated her, and is still worshipped in places like the Island of the Keepers. Perhaps, when her acknowledgement was more ubiquitous, her name was similarly used as a form of exclamation - but over time, due to cultural and linguistic evolution, the exclamation became shortened to things like "jeez" and "gee".

...yeah, i warned you this was gonna be boring. Dont come crying to me if you fell asleep halfway through.

vinny doodles that i drew on my computer

and one lazy drawing of christofern

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