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Some silly lil more recent doodles of Adri, I might change the fact that they have diff color eyes later tho.. but enjoy!!

This is a really dumb question but I need to know, did Cove cry when he got his tattoos?

He didn't! Cove cries easily from emotions but physical pain/discomfort doesn't get the same reaction.

Saw an ask about an apparent problem of people drawing Qiu whiter than he is and whitewashing. With that in mind, I think you should hold the same standard for Tamarack for artists that draw her darker than she is to outright black. Tumblr and Twitter in general have an obsession with coloring traditionally white/pale characters the complete opposite race or adding details like kinky/coiled hair and see no issue with it but raise hell the moment a poc is one hue lighter. It erases their identity just as much as everyone says whitewashing does but everyone constantly falls back on the "only whites can be racist so changing their identity in art is okay!!" pipeline

Tamarack comes from a German family and is white, so please take the same level of importance when artists "blackwash" her or any other character in your series.

You know generally, I don’t like to use this blog to as a place to act like I’m the best, most correct person in the world and respond to things where I’m simply telling an anonymous person they’re wrong. I’m just someone who has people following me because they like the stories this company makes.

However, this is something that people should know. If our POC players draw our characters having a darker skin tone than they do in-game and/or give them a different hair texture, that’s alright. I’ve fallen off on reblogging stuff on Tumblr but it’d still be liked or reposted on Twitter.

Whitewashing means far more than the literal act of a single individual making someone look white in a fanart. If a trans player wanted to headcanon a cis character was trans, that’s one thing. If a cis person decided to take the only trans character for miles and insist they are, in fact, cis, well that’s another matter entirely. Your experience with your race and your experience based on sexuality or gender aren’t the same things, it’s not a one-to-one comparison at all. But can people who don’t get it at least start to see how there can be a difference in impact here?

The people who are oppressed in this country aren’t hurting you by trying to enjoy the media that most of the time intentionally excludes them. POC weren’t the ones dehumanizing white people in horrific ways. The overwhelming majority of stories and representations of heritages out there have been and still are white people’s already. Anyone reading this who was thinking along the lines of what’s in this ask need to get comfortable understanding and accepting that. And if you don’t, maybe you should find another game because I’m not going to “protect white identities” from being drawn as people of color. In fact, I think it’s actually really nice if our characters are fun and comforting to people of color so much so that they’d like to imagine those characters being included in their own culture. I think it’s strange that someone would be angry about it.

"llOYd chAnGEd sO mUch afTEr tHe ReDEsiGn."

WHAT IS THIS??!???!?

Out of all the aai characters, who will be hated the most? Loved the most?

In your opinion ofc, swag on dude

It's really hard to say. Felix is a strong candidate for both categories. Sungho is a good competitor though for the most loved 🤔

the only reason sungho is competing with felix at all for most loved is because a lot of otome players love white LIs. If he wasnt white, he wouldnt be as loved I'm pretty sure, and it'd be an easy sungho win. Internalized biases are crazy

Inb4 anyone comes in here and says "otome players love mean men!! They dont have to be white!!" I know. But being white/having a pale complexion is a critical factor for a lot of players, whether they're aware of it or not. This is not me telling any of you that you are evil for what you like, just that i think a lot of people dont realize WHY they like what they like, or they arent willing to address that within themselves

In my perfect world, Major is loved the most and turnip (a side character in jerri's route) is hated the most. But i do love all the characters fairly equally

I will take that rabbit and give him found family whether he LIKES IT or NOT.

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PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AND POSSIBLE TRIGGERS AHEAD]

POWDER//JINX:

ANTIGONE:

[i've never doubted that palestine will live.

the US dropped more than 7.5 million tons of bombs on vietnam, laos and cambodia from 1965-75. they destroyed our land, used agent orange, slaughtered villages, separated families, the list goes on.

but we're. still. here.

indigenous people are still here. black people are still here. colonized people are resilient. even if you kill our people, ban our languages, destroy our homes, heritage sites and artifacts, we will always find a way to keep our cultures alive and that has always been true

so much of the west and isntreal's tactics and actions are hauntingly familiar to me as a viet person. its a colonizer's rinse and repeat. and so that's how i know palestine will be free. we've seen this film before]

I think itd be funny if every week, not even for the actual tournament but just for fun, there'd be a Lloyd vs Antigone poll, and each week ppl would get more and more exhausted till there are like 3 voters and Lloyd FINALLY wins . (joking)

@classics and ninjago fandoms this actually sounds like a really funny idea would yall wanna do it [if/when Antigone is eliminated from the actual bracket]???

ok so. the main driving force for the onslaught of lloyd voters was tiktok, not just ppl in the ninjago fandom space. now that those tiktok ppl are gone, the number of lloyd voters is obviously gonna be less. ESPECIALLY considering the size of classics tumblr. i get that there were concerns in the first round bc of the behavior of some of the antigone fans but like. at this point ninjago fans are being unreasonable. take the loss with some grace LMFAO

Instead of answering the several news asks concerned about bots again, I’ll just say here:

The swiftness with which votes have been coming in for this poll seem, in my opinion, perfectly believable. Specifically, I was told of someone watching roughly 150 votes new votes come in over 10 minutes, but in the context of how the rest of the entire competition has gone, to me that just seems regularly plausible. Especially considering how in the first moments of the poll going up, at midnight, it had already garnered 32 votes in 5 minutes. Again, at a time of day when a large percentage of the voters would’ve been unavailable.

Considering the circumstances—people knew about this 2 days in advance, it’s already the talk of both fandoms, everyone voting themselves would tell everyone they know to vote immediately, and everyone knows that this one only has 24 hours—I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion of more fraud.

I don’t want to drag out this war forever, and this was the only solution that seemed remotely fair to both fandoms, in any capacity. So whoever wins this poll, and with whatever speed, that’s the winner. End of discussion.

Sidenote: I do have answers for some other asks I’ve gotten, but I don’t want to post anything else until the poll ends.

Supervised Machine Learning

i see people asking what morro's appeal to the fandom is, and after some thought, i think i realised what it is.

it's the tragedy of his entire story, from start to finish. the helplessness of it all, the grief, the longing, the parts of your past that haunt you forever (ghost pun not intended).

you look at morro and you don't see the big scary monster that the writers painted him as. you see a boy, a child, who spent his entire life pursuing one single goal that was just barely out of reach. you see a child who died for that goal suffocated in toxic fumes, who lost his home and family and safety for that goal.

we don't know why he was cursed. but as if he hadn't been through enough agony, as if the world hadn't broken this child enough, he wound up in a realm flooded with evil. his mind couldn't handle the trauma of what happened. as if he wasn't fixated enough, his desire became stronger.

he wanted nothing more than to prove himself.

you can see it in the way he talks and acts. he doesn't care about taking over. he doesn't care about the preeminent's goals. if anything, dying in that cave on that night made him all the more determined to prove himself worthy.

he had so much anger, so much terrible sadness in him that he didn't know what to do with it. he had to blame someone. the only person he could reasonably reflect his agony onto was sensei wu, the only man to ever help him.

he came back to ninjago years and years later. the person who got the green gi was no more than a little boy, who had never been trained like he was. who never spent years and years of his life pursuing this goal, dedicating everything to it. hell, he didn't even want it?

even his defeat was tragic. you can see him panicking, doing everything he can to escape destiny. destiny will always wrap its chains around him once more though, because he was finally dragged down to the depths. once more, he would fail his goal. once more, he would watch everything he dedicated himself to simply fade away before his very eyes.

he could have saved himself. he could have taken wu's hand, dragged himself onto that dragon and started a new life.

but he didn't want to. i love the “morro takes wu’s hand and redeems himself” aus as much as the next person, but he didn't want to. he made the active decision to shove the crystal in wu's hand and let death take him once more.

because in the end, he'd lost so much that living wasn't worth it anymore. his goal was never going to be achievable. he was never going to be truly happy. he never learned how to stop and appreciate life, how to love himself and reach his true sense of self like the rest of the ninja.

he died before he could reach his true potential, guys. that dragon was not his, it was lloyd’s. he died before he even got the chance.

unlike the ninjago villains both before and after him, morro has genuine emotion and life to his story. he's not bad for the sake of being bad. he's not just another enemy for lloyd garmadon to defeat. he's a kid who got in over his head, who wasted away trying to break free of his own fate. and he failed.

if anyone reading this has seen day of the departed, then you know morro came back only long enough to warn sensei wu of what was coming for him. the other villains immediately picked up their weapons and scurried off to cause mayhem for the sake of it, but morro was different. he changed. he let go of his grief and accepted his role in the world.

he helped the ninja despite his prior hatred for them (although i truly believe it was jealousy fueled by insecurity and grief, not hatred). sure, he taunted wu a little at first, but you could tell that it was nothing more than a little fun. he was a boy again, he was okay again. there was no reason for him to hurt anyone. he's moved on.

no one knows what happened to him in the departed realm, or why he healed and the other villains didn't. i don't think i want to know, though. it doesn't matter. all that matters is the fact that he's better now.

so, yes. unlike the other ninjago villains, morro’s story is so painfully and breathtakingly human. he has emotion and development that no other antagonist like him got to have. or at least, it certainly didn't feel as raw as his did.

would you still love me if i was a giant centipede. would you still love me if i crawled up onto the cave ceilings in the pitch black. would youstill love me if i reached into the darkness to capture and consume a creature twice my size flying through the air. would you still love me if i was poisondos posuinous poisonis poisonous

We still have a chance due to the new announcement from the host of the Antigone VS Lloyd poll! Go check it out and support our boy in green!

that one pose she did reminded me of this

So Here’s What We’re Gonna Do.

Now, if this were any other time of year, I probably would have chosen a different way to settle the Antigone vs Lloyd Garmadon controversy.

However,

The date is November 3rd, 2023. An international holiday is upon us.

I only realized this, this morning. And I feel, as the runner of yet another hydrogen bomb of a tournament on this coming fateful day, we must celebrate appropriately.

So no matter who the votes lay in favor for, come this evening, we’re treating this like we’ve treated ties.

For those new here, when a poll ends the week in a tie, it would be promptly followed by a 24-hour, no-propaganda tiebreaker poll.

On all sides, there is weight to every argument. Perhaps this final sweep was illegitimately executed and Antigone would not fairly win. Perhaps this sweep was the case of Friday being a significant meme in the fandom, coinciding with blogs of large followings reblogging it, making the win perfectly legitimate. Some may even think that despite if the votes are legitimate, the Antigone fandom OR the Ninjago fandom have been unruly and out of line with each other all week, and thus neither deserve it.

Now I, as the pollrunner, am as neutral as I can possibly be in this. But no matter which of these may be true or not true, it’s impossible to make a judgment over this current poll.

So considering the golden opportunity of a day ahead of us, let’s make this fun again, shall we?

No matter the results of current poll, starting at 12am and ending at 11:59pm on November 5th, 2023, we will have another poll to determine the true winner between Antigone and Lloyd Garmadon, to continue into Round 4. No matter the results of this one-day poll, the winner and loser will be final. No changes, no disqualifications, it will end here.

This poll will have no propaganda, attached or answered on the blog.

It will have no replies.

It will have no reblogs.

Only votes.

May the best blorbo win.

Ways to Resolve Antigone vs. Lloyd, In order of Increasing Silliness:

Rehost the vote on a website secure against bots

Regular revote

Either Antigone or Lloyd moves on regularly

Antigone and Lloyd move on as a team

Antigone and Lloyd move on as a superposition; whether Antigone or Lloyd takes their place in each round is up to random chance

Nya, who seems to be the synthesis of Antigone and Lloyd moves on

Respecting Antigone’s win, a character from her source moves on. However, as she is marred by the accusations, someone she hates moves on. Therefore, Creon moves on

Pollrunner moves on

Fuck all of you, Crowfeather moves on

Fuck all of you, Crowfeather moves on

Kawkwksjjdejdjswkwk I already decided what to do but this is too funny not to post. Thank you for the input, julerosemary

skybound doodle. that one place thats just a hole in the ship. why was it like that. it was literally just a hole. who designed this ship. perfect place for a guy at rock bottom tho

You guys I never realized Jays hand was shaking was he was trying to ask Nya to be his yang 🥺

So is it, like, canon that Lloyd will just get up and leave for a bit after traumatic events

'Cus in Shadow of Ronin, which takes place after season 4 where Sensei Garmadon just kinda fades off into the cursed realm, Lloyd just leaves to go chill in a volcano as he works through all of that.

Like, dude just got up and left. I mean, good for him though, he deserves a break for his own sake.

And after the oni trilogy, Lloyd goes off to climb a mountian in that kinda-canon-but-im-assuming-fully-canon novel, Splinter in the blind man's eye.

And there are a couple other smaller examples of him just not being around any of the ninja and just going off places, but there are too many of those cases to count.

So, I'm all for the found family stuff and all that, but I am a firm believer of 'Lloyd runs off to go be alone in the most random ass places to process his trauma then shows up agian like nothing happened'.

Basically this:

Mood board for the past week of my life

@antigone fandom are we actually fucking doing this.

Unless someone can prove to me that this is a legitimate late-game sweep, I’m very tempted to disqualify any votes for this poll coming in after 2am Friday, and give the win to Lloyd. I may have said it jokingly before, but I am the referee. No one is rigging my polls with bots or bribes in my house. This whole war has been fun to watch and mess around with, but the law must be laid.

once again. ITS A FUCKING TUMBLR POLL

@antigone fandom are we actually fucking doing this.

Unless someone can prove to me that this is a legitimate late-game sweep, I’m very tempted to disqualify any votes for this poll coming in after 2am Friday, and give the win to Lloyd. I may have said it jokingly before, but I am the referee. No one is rigging my polls with bots or bribes in my house. This whole war has been fun to watch and mess around with, but the law must be laid.