It's A Wonder Brainy Doesn't Have A Traumatic Brainy Injury- I Know Cartoon Logic And All, But Like.

okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

@lloydskywalkers’s fics got me unlocking emotions I didn’t know existed

I made an animatic about The Collector and King and being friends, and I thought I'd share it here :) I hope you like it! I'm really proud of it

Here's a little scene from the end card that I'm quite fond of

Lloyd relaxing inside during a soft autumn evening rainstorm

Next im gonna explain where he got his scars, it's gonna be a little graphic, so don't read past here if you're sensitive to that

His scars are the mixed result of bullying and fighting his dad- the 'oy' his right hand is bc of someone carving 'garmaboy' into his forearm with a rusty knife, and the facial scar is from someone throwing a broken glass bottle at him in the street. The one on his left hand is bc he fucked up his wrist in a fight and opened up a huge gash. He probably just failed miserably to throw a sword at garmadon's mech to disable it, and ended up with it in his wrist.

Okokok

The Lego Ninjago movie, but instead of everyone immediately dropping their hatred of Lloyd when they find out he's the green ninja, they instead come to hate the green ninja, and accuse him and the others of teaming up with Garmadon to prolong his attempted takeovers and therefore increase overall destruction over time to make it even easier for him to conquer Ninjago in the long run

The whole 'people see a monster' speech likely completely ignored

And so Lloyd is back to square one, but now he hasn't got his beloved secret identity to hide behind anymore

I mean these people despised him for absolutely no reason other than his last name, to the point that a song about him being bad became a number one hit even though most people didn't even know him, and they always blame him for damages etc instead of the person actually doing the damage - Lord Garmadon himself

They completely overlooked the fact that they'd all be dead/imprisoned if Lloyd was actually evil and allied with his dad

It's not a stretch to believe that majority of Ninjago wouldn't give a damn if he was the green ninja, because it's still Lloyd Garmadon, who they've hated for 16 years, far more and far longer than they've loved the green ninja. I think it's reasonable to assume most of them wouldn't readily drop their hatred and bullying because of a speech. They wouldn't want to admit they've spent their whole lives believing something that's completely wrong, so they'd likely find ways to twist it, as many people do these days when faced with evidence that disproves their ideas

Idk if that makes sense, but like- I think it would be a rather interesting idea to explore (might be writing a fic about it at some point lmao)

The Ninjago fandom is so cool to me cause it has the most popular crack ships I have ever seen. Like I have never been in a fandom where the craziest (/pos) ships can gather so much attention.

Like, yes, Lloyd is in love with that one kid at Darkley’s that was in one episode, Garmadon is in love with the TV camera man, the angsty ghost villain is in love with Zane’s lil brother, and Harumi is in love with a werewolf from another dimension.

bro. bro thats kinda messed up

I present to you: my children, Collie and Colin

Collie is the human, he's Welsh and lives in the Rhondda valleys, he's quite quiet and shy, but very friendly

He's 21 and is a Zoology graduate, and plans to do a PhD in herpetology, studying newts. He chose newts because of a small pond near where he grew up, where he'd go to find newts before putting them back. (This is based on a pond near my grandparents where I'd go to find newts)

Colin is the dog, she's also quite shy and standoffish, tends to bark at strangers but cowers the moment they approach

She loves going with Collie to the pond, and gets incredibly muddy

I'm writing a story about them and the pond, and I'm quite excited about it :) if you read this, thank you, I appreciate you listening to me ramble about my characters