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NINJAAAAAAAA, GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reblog if you love these stupid little ninjas

Art for Daughter of Darkness: Rise of the Snakes.

From top to bottom is Rose's Zen eXtreme gi before the reveal, her True Potential, her ZX gi after the reveal, her civilian outfit from the Royal Blacksmiths, her performance outfit from the Royal Blacksmiths, and her kimono from All of Nothing.

Chapter summary:

The Ninja find the Temple of Light, and Rose's choices come back to haunt her.

consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about

Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

Proving a point to my boyfriend.

PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry

I said I would post the boys' casual clothing later, and, well, it's later! Sometimes they keep little elements of their gis on them (makes it easier to change anyways), like all four typically wear their tabi instead of like, sneakers, or whatever. Or they may use their elbow and knee pads when skateboarding instead of getting other ones from the store, because they still serve the same purpose and it saves money. (Raph in particular will often wear his bandanna outside of the gi, though all four have done so for separate reasons) Aside from that though, they usually just look like average teens XD

It occurred to me that aside from Miwa herself I haven't posted what any of the main characters from the Miwa AU look like. SO here are our human boys in their gis. They do not wear these 24/7 since they're actually human and can go out and do stuff but if they were walking around like this everyone would either think they're constantly cosplaying some obscure thing for some reason, or they'd just keep ending up in jail, because Leo carries around Very Sharp Swords.

I will post their casual clothing later but in the meantime, you guys get this! :D

Next Miwa update is out!

Donnie finally gets a chance to look at those files he got from the Kraang...

Chapter summary:

An ancient race of indestructible warriors threatens Ninjago, the twins are working through Emotions, and Aurnia finally takes charge for once.

*quietly whoops like a bird*

all i want to do is write that one fic that takes people’s breath away and kinda lingers in the back of their minds. i want to write something that makes people want to make art and play with my versions of characters or in the universe i created. i want to be able to create worlds that feel real enough to walk into and write lines that stick with people until they forget where exactly they heard it because it lives in their bones now.

Aurnia: Pilot episodes-first half of season 1

Reading amazing fanfiction, then forgetting to bookmark it

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

Miwa AU update

Panic in the Sewers is out! And I gotta say, that one was pretty fun to write XD

(For those of you who don't know, the Miwa AU is my rewrite of the 2012 series as a human AU, and with Miwa and Karai as two separate characters.)

reblog if you believe fanfics are as valid as books that were published and sold by authors who write as their main careers. I'm trying to prove a point

Reblog this if you would not only accept, but welcome fan art, moodboards, etc. of your fics

All of these used to be so common for people to show their appreciation of different fics and authors, and I think it’s a shame people don’t do it anymore. I love seeing fan work for my fics!!

This might very well be the most useful/helpful thing I’ve seen in my life-

ASL Alphabet with three-fingers!

For @eternalglitch

I learning sigh languages from class. Well, I’m hard of hearing and muted.

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I have no idea about “M” and “W”. It’s hard to think. @tmnt

Ninjago Button Badge Art

Daughter of Darkness: Pilot Episodes art

Quality is...varying XD

These are all of Rose's first outfits/gis in the series, as well as the Pilot Episodes cover. Her outfits, in order, are her original civilian/casual outfit, her pajamas (jinbei), her first ninja gi (when she meets the boys), the Trainee gi, and the DX (Dragon eXtreme) gi.

I want to talk about THIS scene from the episode "The Forgotten Element" in Season 4

This was the scene that spawned many Evil Kai AU fanfictions.

(And like... I get it)

As a kid, I was always jaw dropped by this scene, but I didn't understand this scene too much.

Like, what was the point of this Evil Kai AU if it was for a minute and it was resolved so quickly?

They were building this up the entire episode and even before it, so was that all for nothing? Did it not mean anything? What was the point of this anyway?

And then it clicked with me WHY that was.

The problem was that I was only focusing on what's present in the moment and not all around it.

In the moment itself, Kai is holding the staff, it holds too much power, it corrupts him and spills all of is bottled up negative emotions about destiny and the Green Ninja, how he feels about it all being wrong, that he was somehow 'not good enough' compared to a child, and how he should've been the one with all the power all the glory and all the abilities in is veins.

"You had all the power, now it's my turn!"

"Nothing that I don't already feel!"

"I should've been the Green Ninja!"

That's straight up TELLING.

And it makes sense. Kai wanted to be the Green Ninja more than anyone ever since he heard of that prophecy. Ever since he was told he was the Master of Fire by Wu he went from 'do everything for Nya and be a parent' to 'I can be special and worthy in a way I couldn't ever see in myself'. And then it all turned out to be for nothing, Kai being 'special' was all a lie, and the prophecy went to this bratty kid that Kai was tasked to babysit. Then Lloyd would proceed to be very well recognized and Kai was just... the forgotten member that nobody understands the motives of. 'You wanted to take the place of someone who did something sacrificially heroic? How dare you. SELFISH.'

BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT.

This all sounds like a villain origin story that would happen in the season, right?

The build up is all there. The bottled up emotions. Skylor's influence. Chen taunting him in this episode about it and getting into his head about his parents, something that is VERY PERSONAL to Kai.

So if it ended up being just ONE MOMENT and that's it, then this was all for nothing, right?

NO.

Why? Because that's not what this aspect of the episode is about at all.

This was all NOT build up to Kai becoming a villain.

This was about Kai REJECTING that villainous side of him.

He's been 'on the villain's side' at the start of the episode when Chen decided not to enslave him.

Another motif of this episode is what gets said over and over again in the B plot of the episode, that being the prison escape from the Noodle Factory. "The power of positive thinking"

Kai is learning this as well, but it's his own personal battle to come to that. Part of being positive is being positive about yourself.

He's been scolded for being selfish constantly. Again, how dare he want to take someone's place, someone who was better than him in every way and they all knew it. These people are oblivious, they can't read his mind, they're misinterpreting his words, and for some reason nobody apologizes for that.

We've seen him be insecure of his own abilities. When he feels like he can't do something, he goes 'If only I had this ability'. An example being the Digiverse.

Part of the lesson there was that he had to allow himself to have the power he needed to get out of a tight spot. As an old fashion and a devoted brother, makes sense why he'd struggle with this.

And then when Chen gets in his head Kai, it's the same thing again, he's selfish and he wants the power and that's all he cares about.

Everyone is saying you're selfish, therefore it must be true.

And this is the first time Kai ever actually CALLS THE PERSON OUT for accusing him of being one dimensionally selfish.

Yes he falters back when Chen mentions his parents, but that's still a notable step. (And he would continue to call out their accusations in Possession)

The episode consists of Kai being on the villain's side and playing the role of the deceiver. Him being smart by playing the emotions of Chen and Skylor rather than be a logical thinker. (WOW. An episode that doesn't make Kai dumb and instead makes him smart in a way that fits his character. That is sad how rare that's shown anymore.)

And to do that he had to convince everyone that he was on the villain's side and that he has turned.

So THIS moment is not build up to Kai becoming a villain truly, it's a test on this own side of him that he must acknowledge exists. How this way of thinking isn't healthy, it's petty, it's not worth it, and he shouldn't be lingering on something when he himself is capable of so much.

And then NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT HOW KAI WAS THE ONE WHO BROKE THE STAFF AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.

He could just grab the staff again and be corrupted again, and that's it. But HERE, there is no one paying attention to him to tell him what to do.

Which means this is all Kai's choice.

This is Kai CHOOSING to REJECT that villain inside him, and instead proceed to a more positive outlook, one that would benefit everyone.

That's countering all the selfish accusations more than anything else.

As a kid I was confused as to why there wasn't a scene where Kai acknowledged what happened when he was corrupted and how you go from that to 'Kai wants to protect Lloyd'

Him breaking the staff IS that scene. (It's just so fast that it's hard to see on a first couple viewings) He NEVER wants to see himself as that corrupted figure again, and is willingly choosing what role he wants to play now. That's the transition there from that Kai to Possession Kai. (Possession Kai = Best Kai)

This is one of my favorite episodes of the show because of how much justice was done here in so many ways.

Smith family

Fun fact: back in their younger days. Ray and Wu were best friends.

I find it quite wholesome that the friendship extended to the next generation

DoD Update!!!

Chapter summary: The Ninja venture onto the ocean in search of the Dark Island and answers to the whereabouts of the Stone Army, and Garmadon's plot. Rose wages an internal battle.

Or

Rose catches a case of 'Ninja, there's something I haven't told you', Round 2.

Link to the series for those of you new to the story, because this is literally right in the middle of all the action, and you will probably be very confused XD: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2954871

Update to Kai & Nya's backstory!

Chapter summary: Kaylynn talks to someone from out of town...

(I also have some art I made for the fic :D)