Dissonant Melody: Part #1
Hey everyone! Im really excited to be posting the first 4 pages of an ambitious project~
I have more time to devote to comics this month, so part 2 should be up within a week! My plan is to resolve some things in the present-day Splatoon world, before going into pre-Great Turf War territory. (Edit: fixed a small typo)
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This is a ninjago AU I’ve been working on for months, and I finally finished designing the main cast! It’s named the cyberpunk Ninjago AU because of its cyberpunk themes and aesthetics (not in any relation to the cyberpunk games.) The ninja and a few other side characters from canon Ninjago live in a cyberpunk city named Ninjaglow (yes, pun, funny haha) where there are three main industries;
The Ring Fighters, an industry where different skilled fighters clash for rewards and fame.
Consists of Akita, Kai, Cole and Skylor (also technically Harumi and Zane, but I’ll get into that later.)
The Party Animals, are people in the party industry. They mostly consist of DJ’s and musicians, but anyone can party at the club.
Consists of Lloyd, Harumi and Morro.
The Car Racers, are.. you guessed it, part of the racing industry! In this industry skilled drivers race for rewards and fame.
Consists of Jay, Nya, Pixal and Zane.
So that’s the gist of it, but of course there’s a lot more that needs to be said about this AU, so I created a relationship chart! (Hopefully it’s not so messy that it is illegible)
Please refrain from shipping anyone in this AU unless they are explicitly lovers or have the ambiguous tag!
Now for individual ref sheets with some information about the characters!
I hope you find this AU interesting, as I plan to release more content about it when I have time! Maybe I’ll even open a Q&A for this AU one day if people are interested :]
?????? NATIONAL HERO???
Absolutely Stupid Boys will be Boys Moments in ROTTMNT
(remember one of these boys has a genius level IQ)
Recreating the Amazon box meme with a serving cart and trying to climb stairs with it
Breaking into a botanical garden at night just to smell a corpse flower
Gluing themselves into a ball, complaining about it for a whole episode, then gluing themselves BACK together cause they secretly kind of liked it.
Never forget when they decided to open a fake paper store with salami and the genius level IQ one says “paper is not round”
Encouraging their older brother to lift a bus AGAIN after he passed out doing it the first time
Getting too excited about hanging out with their dad then beating each other up to the point where none of them could go
Deciding TWICE in separate episodes that the best way to stop rampaging robots is to sing at them
Screaming and rapping in a library where they’re strictly punished for making noise
Please feel free to add more. There are. So many.
please i want so badly for this to be their dynamic
Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.
(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)
sibling shenanigans
[id: it is a comic of Nya, Kai and Lloyd from Ninjago. In the first image, Nya is walking towards a couch, looking exhausted. She then throws herself onto the couch, landing face first. As she lays there, Kai peeks in from the side before throwing himself over the couch and on top of Nya, falling on his back. Lloyd then peeks in from the other side, smiling, as Kai looks up at him from where he is laying on top of Nya. Lloyd then throws himself, grinning, belly first and with his arms extended over both Kai and Nya, Kai scoots backwards and looks at Lloyd with wide eyes while Nya’s face, also wide-eyed, is peeking out from between Kai’s feet. The last image is of Lloyd, mumbling a “sorry”, laying on top of Nya with his arms resting curled on her back, Nya is once again face down and she is clenching her fist in pain while Kai is laying on her legs, leaning back on the armrest with one arm on the back rest of the couch, amused./ end id ]
i just love this squid so so much they’re so silly 🫶
robbed…… WE WERE ROBBED
-No one. The whole thing was faked (JUST LIKE THE MOON LANDING) by Pink Diamond herself who was just goddamn sick and tired of dealing with Yellow and Blue’s shit for all of eternity because c’mon, look at them, you’d rather pretend to be dead too.