For @pawzofchaos :)

Love me some good Garmasako angst.

I wish we had seen Sensei Garmadon and Misako after his cured of the venom. I mean, I understand it's a kid's show about Lego ninjas but still.

There would have to be a lot of work between the two, mistakes have been made on both sides, and a lot of late-night crying but they are willing to put in the work to forgive and restore trust within one another. (therapy helps too)

hiii forgot to post this anyway what if they were trans,,,,,

awww look at them

childhood friends

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.

God he is everything to me

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

sometimes, i wonder, what if mr e was harumi's only friend?

Sure, she had UV and Killow and the rest of the S.O.G gang, but sometimes, I just want to hc that Mr. E was the only one Harumi really, actually, opened up to.

So this hc is just that they were besties bc she rescued him from the lighthouse and he didnt judge her at all so she found him easy to talk to.

and the rest of the s.o.g werent rlly her friends, they just wanted garmadon back

To no one’s surprise, Vincent Tong continues to hold an iron grip on lego media.

So theres this theory circulating that Cole is red-green colorblind, right? Due to that one joke in MotM where he mistook the Skull of Hazadur as glowing red instead of green. And ive also seen a lot of people speculate that it came as a result of the green scar over his eye that was left behind when he passed through the Rift of Return. So basically the theory goes that from season 7 onward, Cole cant distinguish reds and greens. Which is funny, when you consider that he has a red teammate and a green teammate.

And Crystalized suggests that the ninja color-code themselves in part bc they cant tell each other apart otherwise, so Cole perceiving Kai and Lloyd's gis as the same color presents four different possibilities:

Cole is the only person on the team capable of telling who's who without relying on the color of their gi, and is disappointed by everyone else's incompetence

Cole straight up hasnt noticed. He just thinks Lloyd decided to copy Kai and dress like him as younger brothers are prone to do. A bit inconvenient in combat but hey, he can learn to work with this

Once the team discovered his colorblindness, Kai and Lloyd did their best to make their gis noticeably distinct so Cole wouldn't get confused. Then everyone else caught on and liked the idea of personalized gi styles and decided to follow suit, which is why everyone's gis begin to look less uniform and identical later in the series as opposed to, like, their team look in seasons 4-6

Cole can't actually tell Kai and Lloyd apart but is just really, really good at guessing.

garmadon and william afton are like the same guy. to me. (my beautiful he/him lesbian zombie old man girlfriends) belos is on thin fucking ice though