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500 Kudos! Wow! 106 bookmarks!!! 20k hits!!!! holy smokes, guys! you all rule! Thank you so much for the patience. I'm mostly settled into my new home so I should be picking up the next chapter soon. I love yall xoxo
also i went through and fixed a ton of typos. definitely overdue lol i had typos marked from like 2023.
Heyo! I just wanted to say I rediscovered OBNL after starting my recent rewatch of Ninjago and I'm so happy to see the fic still being updated!! I saw you had a discord server dedicated to OBNL and I was wondering if you're still accepting people into it? I'd love to interact with more fans of you work :D!
Hey! Welcome back!
Ofc! The more the merrier. Hereâs the link: https://discord.gg/A6Xf8rxr5
Check out the OBNL'verse community on Discord - hang out with 12 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
What are the general characteristics of the serpentine in OBNL? Do they have eyelids? Are they exclusively carnivorous? Do they have a plantigrade or digitigrade leg structure? Do they have sensory pits near their eyes? Can they hibernate? Do they experience indeterminate growth? Etc.
Hey! Thanks for the ask! Worldbuilding and weird biology questions are always welcome!
A large part of my Serpentine biology hcs comes from 2 underlying principles in my AU: 1) Humans bit by Fangpyre become fully Serpentine themselves, not just green snake creatures like the Fangpyre-bit vehicles and 2) Humans becoming Serpentine is a common enough phenomenon that all living Serpentine by the start of S1 canon have some degree of Turned (former human) blood in their ancestry.
The original Serpentine who came to Ninjago (hoo boy, not going to get into that one right now, thatâs a whole other lore deep dive), may have had more exclusively reptilian features, but when they started Turning humans, more human-like features started to creep into the gene pool.
For instance, I hc OG Serpentine as having the lower half of their torsos being pure snake. Two-legged Serpentine didnât start happening until human Turnings.
(This is how I justify Aspheera and Char having tails despite not being generals- they lived in a time where Turned traits havenât yet become widespread enough to affect the overall phenotype of the general population.
Conversely, the modern Anacondrai have retained their tails because their blood has remained the most ancestrally pure. Turnings rarely, if ever, result in new Anacondrai.)
Although not true mammals, some of the human traits I assign to Serpentine are
Plantigrade stance
Warm-blooded. While their metabolism runs slower the average human, they are not impacted by cold the way reptiles are. Serpentine are capable of hibernating, but itâs not a deep sleep. Itâs more similar to torpor experienced by bears, where body temperature remains relatively high and can wake up and move around when necessary (Hence the Hypnobrai rousing fairly quickly when Lloyd stumbles into their tomb)
Yes eyelids
Yes they can eat other foods besides meat. While Serpentine are primarily carnivorous, their bodies can digest plant matter when needed. They can also taste/crave sweet, a holdover speculated to arise from their post-human biology.
No indeterminate growth. Serpentine undergo a rapid maturity process, hitting puberty at around 12, adulthood at 30, and living until theyâre 250-300 years old.
As for sensory organs, I do see the tribes as having different abilities when it comes to that. For instance, Constrictai have an electromagnetic sense that enables them to find their way around underground while Fangpyre can sense heat and are especially sensitive to the rush of blood in a potential targetâs arteries and veins.
Curious to learn more worldbuilding? Youâre always welcome to join the OBNL Discord server! Weâre a pretty small, laid-back group, but youâll find plenty of fun theories, projects, and more!
To the people wondering about Wax and Wane, the next chapter is in progress still! It's probably going to be a shorter one since it's been a huge challenge to write. I'm not going to be revealing any major spoilers because I still intend on finishing the story when I can, though! It's just going to be a while.
I appreciate everyone's patience. I know it's been an absurdly long wait. But I've been trying to get my foot in the door to get a full-time job as a designer for the LEGO group, so that's been taking up a lot of my creative juices right now.
This story still means a lot to me though. And I love you all so much for all the support!
Check out my new horror oneshot boy
So I just finished watching S3 in its entirely for the first timeâŠ
First time those little alien bugs came on screen I was like, AKCFLGLGSK- itâs Fabroâs THING!
Hey all!
Itâs not remotely Ninjago-related, but I wanted to share what Iâve been working on lately. For the month of February, Iâve been participating in the Storytelling Collectiveâs âFlash Fiction February 2025â challenge.
Per the website, âThe prompts this year are inspired by one of the most visionary writers of all time: Olivia E. Butler. Each prompt is based on a notable line, word, or quite used in Butlerâs work. Youâre encouraged, but not required, to use the prompt to guide your fiction!â
Iâve chosen to write a series of drabbles all set in an original fantasy world filled with murderous Mermaids and Selkies who are sworn to defend humanity.
Itâs very different from âNew Life,â so YMMV, but if anyoneâs interested in checking it out, I upload it whenever I finish a prompt to AO3!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62766178/chapters/160691410
returning with an unserious post as usual
HOW DID I MISS THIS
if you have a niche sport/job/hobby itâs your sacred duty to make the most specific incomprehensible AUs with the characters you like. no more coffeeshop aus no more college aus you have to put those guys in a microbial lab. your fave is a high school english teacher. that show is about bowling now sorry. THIS IS MANDATORY!!!
PREV ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE
https://archiveofourown.org/works/35168689
I actually wrote this while I was still in school XD hm maybe now that I actually have a job I should make a sequelâŠ
Pfft this makes me really wanna write a dumb one shot where where all the ninja work in a small regional rehab hospital.
If I had to assign them roles, I guess itâd beâŠ
Nurse Kai. Occupational Therapist Cole. Speech Language Pathologist Jay. Respiratory Therapist Zane. MD student Nya. Wu gets to be CEO, I guess.
Itâs giving St. Denis Medical
"You'll suffer! I'll get out eventually, but you'll suffer! You'll suffer for the rest of time!"
"Thatâs fine!"
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
im overdue for reblogging this
sorry about that!
in other news:
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you do an amazing job at capturing all the detail! i love how you draw cole's anchor marks poking out from under his hair and how they look like worn tear trails! i love that you included all the ghost scars that the ninja got from this fight! Their expressions are amazing, and you do SO WELL at working with a physical medium! to anyone that doesn't know, getting photographs to look THIS GOOD is crazy hard! your marker work is gorgeous and detailed, and you just. augh. you captured the moment so well!!!! thank you so so so so much!!!!!!!!
Just a quick little quiz about all the Ninjago elements from the Tournament of Elements, the Tournament of Sources, and all the others in be
Guess who blacked out for four hours and awoke to an elemental power uqiuz?
Yes it contains all the elements.
Yes even Surface Tension.
With only ten questions, this quiz is a breeze! Go ahead and give it a spin, and don't forget that our applications are open until December 14th!
whats the obnl discord like? I have fanart in need of sharing but i'm also shy as fuck and havn't actually watched all of ninjago yet
Hi there! Iâm glad you asked!
The OBNL Discord server is pretty chill! Thereâs a handful of people on it, with varying levels of engagement on it. Some people just like to lurk, and some days, itâs basically just me and Ironskink brain rotting in front of an audience.
We have a bunch of fun channels such as #brainstorm-and-spitballin for random ideas, #artist-caves for fanart, and #general for non-OBNL stuff if you just wanna chat/share outside projects. :) Thereâs also a few spoiler-y channels if thatâs more your speed.
New folk are always welcome and adkflgoyk I am always FERAL about fan art- Iâd be honored if you felt like sharing your fan art with me. The link to the discord server is on my AO3 profile page but if youâd prefer, you can also reach out and DM me separately.
Thanks for the ask! Let me know if you have any other questions!
(Also, sshhh, donât tell anyone, but I havenât watched all of Ninjago either!)
I like how in obnl that by telling Jay that he's like, 'human enough' or whatever Sensei Wu actually just made things worse because now Jay is going to internalize that shit and decide that he's only a good person as long as he behaves human even if it's small things that most certainly have no baring on morality.
It's like a newly turned vampire feeling bad for sinking their fangs into an apple, that's an apple bro, you did not do anything at all immoral. but there's this strict black and white dichotomy stuck in your head, this sort of logic that on a verrrrry surface level first glance might make some sense but as soon as you think about from an actually logical standpoint it's gonna fall apart. it's just that people stuck with that black and white thinking aren't gonna have that mindset broke so easily
weird comparison but similar vibes as like, conservative queer people, like trying to go 'I'm one of the good ones!' and trying to conform to standards and norms as to make the people around you more comfortable. just not a very healthy approach things.
need someone to talk some fucking logic into him, I feel like the first master saying the thing with Nya was the closest so far. as someone that had to deal with some internalized transphobia I think a thought that tricked me into treating myself kindly was reminding myself 'i wouldnt think that about literally anyone else' or 'i wouldnt say that about a friend'.
Iâm glad youâre enjoying the story and that itâs resonating with you!
I donât think thatâs a weird comparison at allâJay in my fanfic has a lot of internalized prejudice he struggles to unpack, just like some people in real life struggle with internalized transphobia, racism, ableism, or misogyny. Overcoming internalized bias has always been a key theme of OBNL since I started writing this story as a high school kid, even if I wasnât fully aware of or able to articulate the theme as such at the time. All I knew was that writing such a character was incredibly therapeutic for me (And only years later realized why as I started to acknowledge and confront my own internalized biases XD) Now that Iâm older and fully aware of it, I definitely lean heavily into that theme!
I was so excited when you mentioned Wuâs behavior was problematic. Like, âYES! This person get it!â One sub theme I knew I wanted to explore when I came back from my hiatus was how even well-intentioned people and beliefs can cause harm. My intent is to write Wu (and the rest of the team) as someone who generally cares about about Jay, but his own negative biases and beliefs prevent him from actually helping Jay in the way he needs to be helped. Jayâs âIâm not like other Serpentineâ mindset (which is inspired by girls who fall prey to the toxic âIâm not like other girlsâ phenomenonâšđ ) is a crutchâitâs a short-term fix that forces him to box away part of who he is, and not actually accept himself.
And hoo boy⊠Youâre right. Eventually, thatâs all going to come to an ugly head. Unfortunately, not in this story, most likely. But if you wanna see Jay actually confront some of these mindsets (and get a little closer to self-acceptance and make some Serpentine friends along the way) stay tuned for the sequel!
There will be a grumpy Skales, Fang-kwon-do lessons, and a certain Island Snake Weeb whoâs a bit *too* interested in this snake ninja galore!
I asked a friend to go pick some mint while I went to the greenhouse to get lemon balm, for our herbal tea, and soon after she left she called from the garden "How do I tell the mint and stinging nettle apart in the dark...?" then immediately added "You're about to say the mint smells minty while the stinging nettle stings. Don't!!" and it made me smile and I wished I could take a screenshot of these words, just to keep a little written trace of this uneventful evening. Sure I can write it down (as I am doing), but then I felt wistful about all the other trivial exchanges I don't get to archive. I know with texts and such a lot of them are in written form nowadays and can be saved, but I've always wanted to save everything. I think from now on I'm going to ask my friends to take a monastic vow of silence when they come to my house so they'll have to write everything down, preferably on stone tablets so computer issues and house fires can't make their words disappear. Yes. This way I will finally become cool and laid-back about memory and loss and the ephemeral nature of existence.
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Fic Rec Week 2024!
It's that time of the year again, folks :D Fic fest week this year will run from July 21st to July 27th!
Read on for more information and ways to interact with the event. Looking forward to some great fics this year!
Hey not to be a hater or anything but anytime I picture the ninja and their humor I can only ever picture the most 2010's type of shit. I cannot picture Lloyd unironically saying sigma or skibidi or Jay saying rizz I am simply incapable. Like I'm sure it's funny as fuck but in my brain it does not compute
not to be a hater hater but have you considered that this is because it's a show many of us have been watching since we were growing up saying 2010s shit and that we're just Aging?
Definitely think itâs an Aging thing but consider this:
I donât think of any of the OG cast as saying any of the current teenage slang, but the new ninja? Oh, absolutely.
Wyldfyre demands fanum tax from her friends and Sora has 100% described Jordana as âtweaking.â New era new slang. The OG crew is just as bewildered by it as many IRL 20+ somethings are.
A King Candy-ass man tries to ruin the ninjaâs lives (and Morroâs unlife) with his rock collection.
-The Lost Souls Trilogy by DietCokeIsLife
