you’re stuck in a time loop, repeating the same day over and over and each time you die and wake up that morning. you think you’ve tried every combination

but one day something is different, you escape the time loop after years of trying. you get therapy, meet new people. you find a partner, and move in together

and you’ve lived so much since the loop it’s almost a forgotten memory, like a summer spent indoors due to your depression even longer ago.

it was a lifetime ago.

you and your partner grow old, and you lay side by side together, and you know it’s your time, but it was a good life, you were happy.

the alarm goes off. it’s morning again. you’re 20 years old again.

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coffee break

we flushed those plumbers down the toilet, now time to school those summer vacationers... do it for them!! ninjas never quit!!!!!!

literally cannot get over the fact that the watermelon bros have the same fuckin' smile...LIKE

LOOK AT THEIR SMILES MY FROZEN HEART IS MELTING

LOOK AT THEM. I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE

Ninjago fans will find the most convoluted and stupid story lines with barely explored relationships and characters and then make the most gutwrenching piece of art youve ever seen.

Recently watched a video compilation of buster keaton's stunts and I'm now seeing how much inspiration there was for rgb there! they both have SUCH energy. The more of your work and inspirations I see the more I realize you are a real-life cartoon character.

oh 100% Keaton is a huge influence in SO much of my work. If you haven't watched his films I highly recommend it (I suggest that you start with the 2 reelers, aka the short films, or Sherlock Jr. if you want a feature I adore that film), it's impossible to say just how much he inspires my art tbh.

I think something can be made with the fact that Nya and Lloyd are/have been dragons (Lloyd 1/4th, Nya turned into one), and then there’s just...Kai, who is already the only guy on the team with no supernatural transformations. His theme is quite literally fire, and he’s never had his dragon scene. It’s hilarious.

I’m aghast this hasn’t been utilized more. RGB enjoyers, we’ve got the older brother of two little dragon siblings! The guy who loves to be protective is trying to protect huge-ass dragons. Tell me you don’t see the potential

okay so. I am very very recently into The Property of Hate. I am caught up, and rereading bits and parts, while attempting to find blogs that still actively talk about/post about it. I'm quite new, so there's a good chance I have just missed it, but these are some things I have noticed/wondered that I haven't seen talked about.

1) Theory: The eyes on (the top half of) the butterfly's wings are RGB's eyes. Reasoning: In "Iris," on pages 455 and 456, we see the butterfly glare at RGB while asking if he cares who they (the butterfly) once was, and he says no. It then cuts him, and we get a brief flashback of, presumably, human RGB telling someone (whoever the butterfly used to be? Or his reflection, perhaps?) that he hates them, with the same glare. This is also, I believe, the only time we ever see his eyes in a flashback. Further, the butterfly is widely believed to be Hate, and it would make sense that his own hatred (of this other person? of himself?) is what "blinded" him. ESPECIALLY if it blinded him to his own potential. More on that later.

2) Observation: Negative seems to wear actual spats, as opposed to having them be part of his shoes. Relevance: Mod once said in answer to an ask about RGB's suspenders that nothing about him is genuine, it's only meant to appear that way, and cited his not-actually-spats as one example. If Negative does indeed wear real spats, does that make at least part of him more "genuine" than RGB?

3) Theory(?): Negative means no harm to Hero, and in fact cares a great deal about her. Reasoning: He's clearly intelligent, not just violent toward whatever is closest, because in his first appearance he protects Hero, rather than going after her himself. If the Fears were no match for him, why waste time fighting them if he wanted to hurt her? She would have been the weakest target, not the Fears. Then, in the desert, after creating the giant rose to protect himself and Hero, once he looks up and notices her, the eye on his screen looks teary, like it's watering up. (Pg 355) And wouldn't you cry if a child you wanted to protect came back into a deadly storm for you? In addition, I saw a post somewhere reasoning that the House of Lead belongs to Negative, and in that post the OP theorized that Negative wanted Hero to tell RGB about him. If he were antagonistic, or had literally any ill will toward Hero, that wouldn't make any sense.

Miscellaneous thoughts and rambling:

RGB calls himself "an unreliable narrator at best" during the same conversation/monologue/story he says that he is a failure, that the only thing he ever does is fail. ("After all, I died, didn't I?" -pg 472) And it seems that way, based on his history with heroes, sure. He fails pretty much all of his goals in the story (even ones like "don't get attached"). But if we go based on a number of meta things, we can easily reason that that isn't true, and he is, in fact, an unreliable narrator of his own life. For one, he was almost certainly an actor or entertainer of some sort. That in and of itself is a form of success. But beyond that, we have Mod's "The Face of Television" art, which implies he was VERY successful. There is also the "I was in Brooklyn when I found out" art of Dial looking at obituaries in the newspaper. Why would the obituary of a failed British actor be in an American newspaper? He had to have been someone well-known. Finally, on page 433, all the way to the left, among the static, you can see, "-reaking news tonight --as famed --tertainer". All of this heavily points toward RGB being, not a failure, but instead highly successful when he was human. Rather, I think the "failure" part comes from how he viewed himself. Unable to look in the mirror, to stand himself at all, to think of himself as anything more than a projection-- empty, hollow. And isn't that exactly how he ended up? I think that he played into Hate's hand because he did, in fact, have hatred-- but it wasn't the kind she could use against others directly, because he doesn't hate others; He hates himself. He hates himself so strongly that, even after selling his memories, he still truly believes that he is, at his very core, a failure.

Maybe Negative is the part of him that believes in himself??

Also:

I never see anyone talk about the recurring shapes/symbols in RGB's flashbacks/dreams. I'm mentally calling them: Box (or possibly Casket), Hands, Iron, Teardrop, Rectangles. They appear on pages 335 and 456, at least. Possibly others. Really really curious what they represent.

Anyway I'm sure I'm missing a lot of well-known fandom stuff but. I just needed to put my thoughts together and dump them into a public space.

my stuff came in! lil haul + a closeup

(@/keedweedloser on insta :3)

SO I was rereading tpoh instead of sleeping (you know, as you do) and realized that it kinda looks like Negative is crying in the fourth panel?

It could just be an abstract way to draw his eye, but those look a lot more like tears than swirls to me.

It could be unintentional, but food for thought anyway.

I had a dream about the next gimmick of the life series. it didn't have a name, Grian's voice became jumbled when he would say it, but if I had to name it I'd call it Ladder Life or some joke about the climb of life.

it started in a super flat world, no structures, and in the center was this giant structure that went up so high you couldn't see the top.

it was made of layers, very huge squares, the bottom being the largest.

the gimmick was all of the resources you would need would be on different layers, and you had to find a way up. you could tower up a side, break through the next layer, etc.

but, every so often these layers would get smaller, and smaller, until the tippy top at build height which was only a few blocks wide. some of these layers, as you got higher, may also have obstacles right like ice or falling blocks.

the life system still worked the same.

however, depending on the stage of your life, you'd be allowed to do different things

greens could climb up and down between levels as much as they wanted, though at a certain point up there was a barrier that, if a green tried to cross it'd knock them back, possibly far enough for them to fall all the way down

yellows have pretty much unlimited movement up and down, with no limits except for like the top 10 layers or so.

reds would respawn at the green-yellow barrier and reds can ONLY climb up, or fall down an edge and clutch in some way, then they can go back up. they can also access those top layers.

tango had built a player launcher to skip layers up, and some people tried to cheat the system. others would just climb up the ladders and try to play it safe. some tried to own whole layers and charge people to pass.

the final battle was between two reds, Joel and Martyn on the tippy top layer. Martyn knocks Joel off and thinks he's won, but the death message never comes. Instead Joel got the Caves and Cliffs achievement, and he water clutched at the bottom.

Martyn has a choice, to follow or wait. Martyn decided to fall a few layers, and a few more. He has no idea where Joel is or what layer he's on, so he peers over edges looking, ready to take another leap down when suddenly he's smacked off, and with little preparation he falls, and a death message is in chat.

Joel whoops and hollars and starts celebrating, not noticing the layers below him quickly disappearing, until the ground is swept below his feet and he falls.

HEYYYY

HIII HELLO!!!!!!!!!! im miz B] urmmm any pronouns idm + im a minor! i've been a fan of ninjago since i was like 7 and its only gotten worse 💔

i've been posting ninjago stuff on tumblr since around 2020 BUT. my old blog is TOO CRINGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!! so i've started anew🔥💯

some quick info😎: my faves r the rgb siblings duhhhh, i almost definitely adhd, and ermmmm. Hm. idk

ANYWAYS! always down to making new friends so dont be scared to message me <33 ALSO DO NOT interact if u ship lloyd x ninja ewww i just!!! threw up! in my mouth A little

sooo uh have a great day<3 or night idk

i'm rusty, lol

god, i miss having this man devour my brain

my friend pointed this out but she doesn't use tumblr i'll post it in her stead

they translated this as "me, the other you" but it actually says "the other me" and it doesn't make sense if they're two people. if this was mikoto talking about john, he would say "mou hitori no boku", if this was john talking about himself he would just say "ore"

when you say "mou hitori no ore" in this context, it's like, "the other ore" will take it all on

(and whats up with the red lights in the bg huh)

headcannon that nya and kai used to help lloyd with his hair, like brushing it and styling it since he couldnt do it on his own with how long it is too, so he got used to someone else doing his hair for him

after the merge when lloyd met kai again, before kai went away lloyd asked him to do his hair one final time incase something happens. lloyd's hair was so messy and tangled from all the failed attempts, so it took a while

then when kai left, he had no choice but to learn on his own