I'm So Embarrassed But It's Fine

I just found this and now I'm going into my microwave

I guess I’m calling this the Lightningbot AU now???

Basics:

- Ed and Edna wanted a child, and having access to all the scrap in the junkyard, made one of their own! They never told him what he was, because they didn’t want him to feel different.

- Jay booted up for the first time without a power source being added at all. His element powers him on its own. This baffled his parents at first, but they just went with it.

- Contact with vengestone causes Jay to shut down if he touches it, which the ninja chalk up to him passing out. The second vengestone is no longer in contact with his body, he reboots. Before he knows he’s a robot, he refers to this as a “freak vengestone allergy”.

- Jay finds out that he’s an android during Hunted, where a rough landing from the portal severely damages his body. The group struggles to repair him with their limited resources. A scrap of foil isn’t gonna fix your face, sorry Jay.

- Over the course of Hunted, he acts largely the same as he does in the original, and treats his robot body’s reveal as something funny and insists everyone just “go with the flow” and not worry about it. Meanwhile the others are OBVIOUSLY concerned, and wonder if the crash is making him malfunction. At some point he snaps out of it and it hits him all at once and he freaks out for real.

- Pixal knew the whole time, literally since S3, and never mentioned it because she assumed they all knew already. Queue Jay having flashbacks to all the little hints she dropped in previous seasons (ie: implying he may need “repairs” or a “tune-up” after a fight, which Jay would shrug off as her simply wording her concern awkwardly).

- When they make it back home, they cannot figure out how to recreate the artificial flesh on his body, and he goes home to the junkyard for repairs and confronts Ed and Edna.

- The “junkyard boy” insult hits him much harder after he finds out, and is extremely self-conscious about the fact he was literally built out of trash.

- He returns to the lighthouse out of guilt and brings Echo back home with him. They bond over being made out of actual garbage.

- His head is a plasma globe filled with a mess of electrical impulses that make up his brain. When people touch it, it acts like a plasma globe, and makes Jay feel odd things (tickling sensations, lavender smell, the taste of kale).

- Once he’s aware he’s an android, he can learn to “possess” other electronics with his element/soul. His mastery over electricity gives him an instinctual understanding of electronics and how they function, which has unknowingly contributed to his love of inventing.

- Much to everyone’s dismay, being a robot opens up a whole new world of puns and terrible jokes for Jay to abuse.

omg I read something that said you should write whatever you feel like writing in the moment to avoid burnout :0

I think I saw it on a tumblr post....

so I say write what you desire! uh...not cheat though, that's probably not a good idea XD

What do you meannnn I have to write everything else that comes before it? Booooo

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How I feel researching instead of writing already

update: just finished it. i cried three times, no cap

“You were built to protect those who cannot protect themselves”

Dr Julien has always been right about that, and with the recent election in America we need to realize that anyone who doesn’t fit the conservative American agenda will have their lives changed

I don’t want to fear monger but it’s a sad reality now. Project 2025 could become very real, and even if it doesn’t we still need to prepare-

Please

Help others who don’t have the money or time to help themselves: buy your friends some Plan B, buy something to defend yourself and learn how to use it, learn who’s safe to come to and who isn’t wether it’s your workplace or your friend group

Times will get scary, America will get scary, but if we help and protect one another we can survive

Ninja never quit

dude, no literally. Ima be honest. I skimmed through the new season JUST to find my boy. and then I realized he is still my favourite after all these years......I miss hims sillies ;-;

Guys very random but do you think that they're keeping Jay in evil purgatory because he's the most devicive old gen ninja and this is the optimum way of keeping the old gens attached to DR as it gains popularity? (I barely go here)

But I've seen people who dislike him for being the chatty/yelly one or whatever he does 🫠 And there's the people who like him for being whatever he does

So you're here for ninjago as a whole, but Jay is either keeping you coming back because either you have to see his 9 minutes to total screen time per season and or jaya angst. Or you're here because lmao Jay's not here AND IS EVIL let's enjoy rightfully disliking his actions for the time being.

Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

reblog if you're alive but gay

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Imagine if Jay ended up terrified of water after he nearly drowned?

The beginning of Crystallized would been so much different if Jay was scared of water lol

Jay and Nya's interactions would definitely be so different afterwards cuz everytime he sees Nya using her powers hes just reminded of the time he almost drowned-

And it would make him so angry cuz he doesn't want to be afraid! He loves Nya, every single aspect of her!

So why, can't he handle being around her without flinching or shaking? Without imagining the cold, wet water as if attempted to sap his life away? Without remembering those long agonizing hours he lay there struggling to breath as pain coursed through his body. His lungs hurting and burning so badly he thought they would explode

Of all the things the ninjas have been through and come out of fine, him drowing is what's causing this mental collapse?! This-this irrational fear?!

There's no reason not be afraid of Nya! She would never hurt him and he knows this! She wasn't even the cause of him drowning so why...?

He wants nothing more than to hold her, to hug her, to tell her he's sorry everytime he sees flashes of hurt go across her face when he flinches from her attempted touches.

But he can't

And that hurts more than his near death could ever.