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moomin posting

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Redraw of this post !! Happy Pride

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thinkfast is so underrated idc 💔💔💔

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i think abt them

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i literally dont remember s11 having 30 episodes WHAATAT

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"You faced destruction with dignity and courage, and you responded with creation and love. There is no greater response."

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I finished March of the Oni in my rewatch;

I LOVE the Oni trilogy genuinely so much, and I love how S10 worked as it’s finale since it truly did come full circle.  The only thing I noticed is that it’s the weakest season of the three of them, but for fitting so much into 4 episodes, I won’t nitpick it too harshly.

While I feel like the Oni were a bit anti climatic given the tone of the season, they still were a terrifying threat.  They had been spoken of and feared for so long, to see them in their glory was incredible, I only wish the season was able to expand on it.  The concept of the darkness alone was horrifying, though for a species known for mass destruction, not much was destroyed.   At the same time, I can see the darkness being the sole destruction work all on it’s own, just because of how ominous and eerie it is, to be consumed and frozen by a darkness you CAN’T stop.  

I will say, my favorite part of this season was Lloyd and Garmadons dynamic.  This is my FAVORITE Garmadon season and they were so funny in a very bittersweet way.   I love the way they handled him grappling with his buried humanity and care in a quiet way, and I like the lack of closure.  It contributes to the tragedy of the situation.

Lloyd being visited by the First Spinjitzu Master and the weight of the whole scene was very special.  The utmost respect given to him by not only his grandfather, but Ninjago's creator, effectively goes to show how impactful Lloyd’s actions were.  It was also very dreamy and ethereal in setting, along with Lloyd only remembering it as a dream sequence since he chose to go back.  It’s so good.

The only other complaint I really had was Cole’s fall and how everyone reacted.  I think it just suffered the shorter runtime of the season, so it couldn’t be expanded on properly.  I just felt like it was very rushed.  It worked enough though, it was still impactful.Overall I enjoyed the season and it was a great and conclusive end to the Oni Trilogy, I just grieve the fact it was more like a 4 part special and not a full length season.  I’m giving it a 9/10.

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holy yapper!! here’s my take on how the tomorrow tea affected Lloyd + the Ninjas ages kinda

I’ll make a proper timeline and whatnot one day, I just did a lot of thinking about the tomorrows tea😭

The Ninja are implied to be teenagers at the start of the series, roughly 15-16. According to the Ninjago Wiki, it was stated at he was less than 10 during RotS, and Jillian Micheals told Brent Miller in an interview that Lloyd was ‘10 years old when he was first introduced and became 14 years old after using the Tomorrows Tea.” <- I have no idea how accurate that is, and since there is no canon specifications of ages otherwise that’s the closest I think we’ll get- and the one I agree with the most.

I’d like to think there was a couple months to half a year at most that took place between S1 and S2; the City had time to recover at the Great Devourers attack and the Ninja were still getting back on their feet after. With that I say S1 and 2 conjoined took a total of a year and a half roughly, so Lloyd would be 9-10, while the Ninja are 16.

When we get to Child's Play and the use of the Tomorrows Tea, Lloyd ages to 14-15 roughly. Wu mentions that because he grew physically older, the countdown to fighting Garmadon has gotten closer. Time and context seems to play a very prevalent role when using the Tomorrows Tea, since it reverse the aging of the Grundle and turned the Ninja back to their original ages. It set things right, where things need to be.

Lloyd was destined to fight Garmadon in the final battle. With all the rush on the villains side; Lloyds age was altered to catch up. I imagine he was aged to be Nya’s age; younger the Ninja, but just old enough to help. That’s the point Lloyd was aged too.

In the episode as well, we see the Ninja still retained their mental ages when they were aged down to children. Because of that alone, I don’t think Lloyd aged mentally because of the tea. It was just physical. The entire season was focused on training Lloyd to be ready to fight Garmadon anyway, so it only makes sense that only his body changed.

As well, after he aged and confronted Garmadon again, every instance he fought him he either hesitated, or couldn’t actually bring himself to hurt his father. It’s a heavy toll on anyone, regardless of age, but in Lloyds case especially, he is a child, it’s a much larger obstacle to overcome. We see Lloyd prioritizes physical training more in this situation, he himself overlooking the fact that just yesterday it was okay for him to do childish things. I don’t think Lloyd realizes that he’s not entirely “older”, and if he did I feel like that wouldn’t change his feelings, if anything it might push him to train harder so there’s nothing holding him back.

That said, I don’t think the tea’s affects are permanent either. Lloyds mindset is still growing, just behind his physical age. I think Lloyd will be “stuck” being 14 until he becomes 14, and once both of his ages line up again, he will continue to age as normal.

Because of the amount of change that happened between S2 and S3, I’m going to say there was at LEAST a year timeskip between the Seasons. The Ninja are now 16-17, Nya at 15-16, and Lloyd, though physically 14, now 11-12 at most.

I don’t like the headcannon that Lloyd doesn’t know his own age or his birthday ( even if it was funny ), but I still imagine he’s still grieving his own childhood, even though he doesn’t have too. I believe it was said somewhere that Lloyd was off training in the first part of the S3 due to his Golden Power, I like to think Lloyd felt the need to dive into his own training, both to distract from what he’s lost, and because of his own belief that, since he’s older, he has to act older. I’m sure this was encouraged by the others / his father too, but not something he was pressured into doing; Lloyd seemed very eager to train late S2 and during S3, I just headcannon that it’s a bit of coping mechanism as well, even if it’s a little bittersweet.

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it was about s3-s4 that i posted this headcannon, now that ive finished s10 ive added more to it

i still headcannon pretty much the same thing- only that in Season 7, Lloyd would be pretty much the physical age he was aged up to be, and the Tomorrows Tea effects begin to wear off ( which is fitting for the season in itself, and thats excluding Wu REVERTING in age in between seasons and rapidly aging until the age he originally was ), which will make him 16 years old at the start of Season 8, and THAT fits perfectly since the Ninja commented on him being 'older.' The tea's effects have finally worn off, he's finally aging!

my headcannon for this will go further and establish that after beginning Season 8, Lloyd is finally free from the Tomorrows Tea effects, his mentality and physicality are both in sync

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i think of wu and cole alot. they hurt me so

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reposting this separately cuz i love s9 finale so much this deserved its own post

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I finished Hunted in my rewatch;

Season 9 was genuinely so good.  Instead of having S8 and S9 battling for the top space I’m merging them both together as one ultimate season, since they are directly hand in hand anyway.  But S9 was one of the best.

What a heavy season.  I LOVED it so.  It carries on what S8 started and took it to the next level.  Everything was dangerously real and serious, and the characters themselves knew the gravity of the situation.   A lot of my thoughts are pretty much the same for S8, since it’s essentially just a part two, though everything good about S8 was just a bit better in S9.

What I LOVE the most was how it portrayed the villains.   S8 gave us complicated, though deliberate and malicious villains, whereas S9 gives us insight into who these villains are.  The groups are split into two different worlds with two different goals, and still experience a similar hardship.

Garmadon and Harumi, although still cruel, both experience moments of hesitation and doubt regarding who they are.  In the scene where Harumi offers herself as his daughter, she pretty much manipulates Garmadon into believing they are in the right when Garmadon begins to doubt, even though he knows only the worst of him has returned.   Harumi has her own doubt when the building collapses, where she couldn’t stand and watch another children go through the same fate of loosing her parents, despite her largest motivator wanting to make others suffer the same as she did.  

And in the First Realm, I wouldn’t even count the Dragon Hunters as a group villains- strictly antagonists.  It was nothing personal at first, their culture and beliefs are their own survival.  Even as it progressed, it was just control and power, which is completely normal, if not necessary, to those that were raised around it.  The Hunters only lived in fear under Iron Barron, who reigned with a selfish hand, and switched up unanimously once they learned the truth.  

Although Iron Barron is First Realm’s “Garmadon” here, he did make a good point to Wu; the world they lived in is cruel, power is everything.  He knows that if he has control and respect, his group grows bigger and stronger, and it allows them to have a chance.  Had this belief not turn him into a selfish leader, he could’ve seen that the dragons didn’t need to turn down such dark ways in order to survive, and he doesn’t learn this lesson until he finally confronts Firstbourne.

Both of which bleed into the seasons biggest themes- unity and collective support.  There is no solo villain, or solo hero.  Every character relies on others on all sides, and it feeds the lessons the season is teaching us.

While it is easy to fall into fear and blind control, there is hope, there is comfort in knowing others around you are besides you.  Throughout the season, Lloyd is blind to see that he still has support after loosing most of his family, and he has to overcome it to help unite the city.  The Ninja still have each other, but they are completely out of their element and the only person they could go too for support is Wu, who can’t help them in the way they’d expect him too.  Instead, it’s the Ninja who are helping Wu, since he doesn’t regain his memories until his elemental power is triggered, and it’s that giving back that gives the Ninja the trust and hope they needed.   Not to mention, the theme of change and transformation is where growth comes in.

In regards to Wu, this was truly a necessary reset for his character.  Wu is so grateful for the Ninja in the end, even when he does regain his sense of self, he credits the Ninja as the ones who taught him all he needed to know, and I find it to being such a beautiful full circle moment.  He is LITERALLY pure of heart no matter how flawed.

And it contrasts with Garmadon so sadly.  The fishing flashback and it’s symbolism so accurately describes them ( and the season itself ) and the situations they are in.  They’re both in the right, they’re both hungry, but whereas Garmadon takes Wu’s bait to utilize all of whats necessary for his own survival, Wu only uses what he has and hopes that good things will come his way without the need to sabotage others for it, and even in their youth, it’s a concept Garmadon couldn’t understand.

Hope expects nothing, power expects everything.  

There is nothing inherently wrong with either side until people start to get hurt, and S9 proves this.

Hunted was so impactful, and the review barely grazes the surface.  I have to rate this a 10/10.

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its genuinely underrated that skylar 1v1 garmadon with his own power and nearly killed herself doing it

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help yall im stuck on the project hail mary

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