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Try, Try Again (pt. 13)

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Chapter 13 (2594 words)

A metallic claw latched itself solidly onto Emmet’s arm and, with a hydraulic hiss, lifted him into a bone-crunching hug.

The dull, leaden feeling in his limbs was quickly receding, but Emmet was still glad for the solid arms wrapped around him, unsure how well he would have been able to keep his numb, noodly legs underneath himself without them. With jerky motions, he looked around at his rescuers.

“Catastrophe? Nova?” He asked breathlessly, a dopey grin smeared across his face. They hadn’t parted on the best terms previously, but his earlier anger paled in comparison to the joy he felt seeing them now. “But how did you guys find me?”

“We saw the whole thing,” Nova explained. “Our glasstroid wasn’t too far from where your ship exploded.”

“KA-BOOM!” Catastrophe added very helpfully.

#lego movie 2 #tlm2 #took me year to get back to this but by god Im gonna finish it #eventually.....

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its Jack’s birthday and I wanted to do something!!!! but my brain rot only allowed me to think of b99 meme… but also wanted wholesome, and this was the middle ground lol

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bro, if this isn’t considered maximum wholesome then I’m scared to see what would be...

#bioshock #jack wynand #jack bioshock #jack ryan #bioshock fanart #bioshock little sister #bioshock 1 #im love this #he is a soft boy #he is a perfect boy #he is a sweater boy

I’ve been on a big Bioshock kick lately, and I decided to make some custom Subject Delta and Eleanor minifigs!

Delta’s helmet, drill, belt, and Eleanor’s hair, were all molded using oven-bake clay and then painted with acrylics. To make Delta a Big Boy larger than the standard minifigure, I stole the extra long arms and legs off a Woody minifig and painted them to match the rest of the body.

The glowing details were done with a special glow-in-the-dark acrylic paint. They look really nice IRL, but I did have to edit the picture somewhat as the original pic was literally just a black square lol

#bioshock #subject delta #eleanor lamb #lego #I kind of wish Eleanor's eyes/eyebrows were a bit darker #but I can always paint over them later if it really bothers me #regardless I'm really happy with how these came out!

Try, Try Again (pt. 12)

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Chapter 12 (2953 words)

There’s this cool movie, the kind that even older kids don’t usually get to watch, where a bunch of evil space aliens show up, eat people, and ruin everything. You know it’s hardcore because the poster has the tagline “In space, no one can hear you scream.”

Now, an angsty teen seeing this poster hanging over the horror movie section of the film store might assume that the screams in question are going unheard on account of everybody getting eaten by aliens.

This however, is not completely true.

#lego movie 2 #tlm2 #rex dangervest #wyldstyle #emmet brickowski #I aint dead just yet #just........incredibly slow

Guess who's been overthinking the Lego Movies again???

Okay, so I've been thinking about Rex - specifically whether or not he would have known that Ourmommageddon was something that could be escaped/corrected.

I have the following beliefs about Rex's original timeline: 1. Ourmommageddon doesn't happen 2. Finn and Bianca don't make up 3. Finn stops playing with Legos altogether

Reasoning is below!

#lego movie 2 #tlm2 #rex dangervest #this train of thought was 100% inspired #by that great Ace Attorney video that was making the rounds a while ago

Try, Try Again (pt. 11)

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I’m stuck in my apartment currently, so I figured there was no better time than the present to write about people being stuck in places :/

Chapter 11 (2534 words)

“Who are you?” Lucy’s voice cut through the silence.

“What do you mean?” Rex asked, a forced smile etched into his face. “I’m Emmet, obviously. Your special best friend.”

“B-but,” Lucy stammered, “your face...”

Rex frowned, reaching a hand up to probe at his jaw. Sure enough, paint flecks came away in his hand, revealing the stubble and defined cheekbones underneath.

“Aw shucks,” he drawled, staring at the paint in his hand. “Guess I can’t fool you anymore.” His voice shifted, now distinctly different from Emmet’s. “My name is Rex Dangervest. Of course, I can’t blame you for being fooled. After all, I do a really good Emmet impression.” His lips twisted into a wide cat’s grin, and he started walking towards her.

#lego movie 2 #tlm2 #rex dangervest #wyldstyle #general mayhem

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Warning! Long ramble about Rex ahead!

I've been doing a lot of thinking about this scene. I'll try my best to organize my thoughts!

(heads up: This is operating under the assumption that (basically) everything that happens in the movies is real.)

To begin with, we gotta address the irony of this line... Like, Rex, you do realize that you're just a piece of plastic too, right? And so is Emmet?

But before I look at that, I wanna touch on the line he says right after that,

"You still wanna go back to the Matrix when you know the truth???"

Now, I haven't seen The Matrix, I'll admit to that. But because it's ingrained in pop culture, I know the gist of it.

But anyway, one obvious truth from it is that once you're aware the world is a simulation, you can never really go back completely, not without sacrifice, because you know it's not real.

Now, call me captain obvious, but by his line there, he clearly can't be referring to his time on Undar--because Emmet hadn't experienced that, nor had he understood when Rex told him about it. I'm convinced he has to be referring to the first movie, and their experience in the Realm of the Man Upstairs.

While he was there in the first movie Emmet saw his world for what it was. He saw Finn playing with Benny's spaceship, hinting at the kind of control Finn had over his world. but Emmet himself interacts with Finn himself.

As far as Emmet knows... He's different. He's not under Finn's control. All of his friends? Things made up by a giant unknown creature. But not him.

He knows the nature of his world, but is still happy to rejoin it, so long as he has a place in it...

But then came Undar.

On Undar he sees, yet again, the absolute lack of control his world has. The moment Finn leaves the picture and Bianca takes over, it's as if he never existed in the first place. He doesn't recognize his friends, because the personalities he'd come to know, literally, the people he knew, were completely gone.

It's there that he realizes that they truly are pieces of plastic.

I can't imagine how fucking lonely that must have felt. To see how little your life truly mattered in the universe, that you could be warped and changed without recognition and be none the wiser, to know who you were was as inconsequential as a thought.

As far as Rex knows, he and Emmet are the only Real ones in existence. The only ones that can retain who they are.

Rather ironic, again, when we see how much Rex changes himself.

So when he says "You still wanna go back to The Matrix?" it's more so incredulity that he, as Emmet, ever wanted to go back, that he ever put any value into the world that was nothing but an illusion.

This could also explain why Rex was so quick to turn on Emmet in Undar. Once he saw Emmet wasn't going to change, was never going to give up on his fantasy world, he had no problem seeking to destroy him. In the Realm of the Man Upstairs, knew he would live on, since he's Real. He could get rid of this failure, further cementing himself as Rex, and move on to the next timeline to try again.

It's when Lucy enters the picture and brings back Imagination that things go to shit for Rex. Outside of the Realm of the Man Upstairs they're under the giant beings' control again. What happens here is out of Rex's ability to change.

And, sure enough, Finn has him disappear.

It's just... So, so fucking sad. Can you just imagine how many nights Emmet must have lain awake during those five years, bearing the weight of his knowledge of the entire world on his shoulders? Knowing everything was an illusion?? His home, his friends, Lucy, all just the product of a child's imagination???

No wonder Emmet was able to move on so easily once Rex disappeared.

It really was easier for him to forget the nature of The Matrix and just rejoin it and be happy. Having to deal with the weight of it would crush and mangle him, the way it had Rex.

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Fun Fact! You’ve just reinvented one of Nietzsche’s best philosophical concepts!

(Second Fun Fact! I wrote a very long paper about Nietzsche and the Lego movies and I am About To Go Back On My Bullshit!)

Basically, Nietzsche believed that all the things in the world were either Real or Illusions. He compared these two using the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus, but for simplicities sake, we’ll just use “Real” and “Illusion”. Real things are anything naturally present in the universe - good things like Nature or Creativity, but also scary things like Death and Entropy and Chaos. Illusions are anything created by humankind - including conceptual things like Justice, Laws, or Money.

Nietzsche believed that humans created and continue to create our world of Illusions “in order to not die of the Truth.” We like to believe that we have control over our lives, and it can be frightening to realize that we really don't. As you mention, Emmet first realizes the Truth of his universe when he sees Finn controlling his friends in the first movie. Then, while stuck in Undar, he has “an awakening[, where he] learned how the universe really works.” As you say, he realizes “the absolute lack of control his world has,” and he chooses to go back to believing in the “Matrix” because that Truth is too terrible to bare.

On some level, all people inherently recognize that society and the rules that govern us are nothing more than concepts fabricated by our own minds. There’s lots of media that explores this kind of idea - with an obvious example being The Matrix! Despite this recognition however, we continue to believe in our Illusions. We are like Emmet in that way. As you say, “he knows the nature of his world, but is still happy to rejoin it.”

Nietzsche compares this continued belief to lucid dreaming, to people “say[ing] to themselves in self-encouragement, and not without success: ‘It is a dream! I will dream on!” This idea is SUPER present in the Lego movies - after all everything is awesome “when you’re living out a dream.”

#tlm2 #rex dangervest #emmet brickowski #Secret Third Fun Fact!#The Lego movies are such a good embodiment of Nietzsche's Dichotomy of Apollo and Dionysus #that I was able to predict the Bins of Storajj without knowing anything about TLM2 #Also #I ran out of room to say this but that bit about Lucy bringing back Imagination #directly correlates with how Nietzsche describes the Apollinian as #a redeeming and healing enchantress #whos approach transforms these horrible reflections on the terror and absurdity of existence into representations with which man may live #ok I need to shut up now #someday I will make a two hour long Unraveled style video where I just get to rant about philosophy and legos #someday

Try, Try Again (pt. 10)

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Very excited to say that this is the last chapter where I have to worry about whether to refer to Rex as “Emmet” or by his actual name...

Chapter 10 (2252 words)

Lucy sat with her back to the cell. The walls were solid steel, and the metal felt cool even through her jacket. It was a reassuring feeling, one of security.

Every feature of the cell was designed to prevent the alien inside from breaking out. There were no windows. The door had been all but welded shut. The walls were much too high to climb, and Mayhem couldn’t exactly fly far considering that her broken wing was in storage upstairs with all the rest of her weapons and equipment.

Mayhem was unarmed. She was contained. By all accounts, Lucy should have felt confident in keeping watch, but the fight earlier had shaken her more than she was willing to admit.

Emmet seemed to have finally really committed to toughening up, but it felt… weird. At first, Lucy had felt relieved, but now this new attitude of his was rubbing her the wrong way, and she just couldn’t understand why.

#lego movie 2 #tlm2 #rex dangervest #wyldstyle #general mayhem #I know its a little silly to feel hype for your own fanfiction #but IT is ABOUT to POP OFF #what can I say #Im always a slut for Dramatic Irony

I know Rick Diggins is a “Click-O Man”, but I wanted to see what he would look like as a genuine Lego boy, so I drew it

Unfortunately, in doing so, the Bastard Man grew too powerful and has now manifested in the Real World

Someone please send help, they’ve found my thumbtacks

#dimension 20 #tiny heist #rick diggins #finally... more minifigures that will make #me feel just incredibly guilty if I ever lose them under something #now I gotta make a therapy office set that I can put them in

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bardic inspiration

Mothen shivered and re-wrapped the thick woolen scarf around his neck. It was not yet quite four hours past noon, but the sky was already dark enough that lamps were being lit across the marketplace, and the wind had picked up a bite. There was a certain feel in the air that told him there would likely be more snow on the way soon.

It had been a good day at the market. This close to the solstice, the marketplace was abuzz with the varied citizens of Lantern Point preparing for any one of the collection of winter holidays celebrated in the city, and consequently the cart full of family goods to sell that they had arrived with had emptied in remarkable time. Mothen had had both coin and time enough to fill the cart back up again with their own purchases while the stalls were still well-stocked. He’d even managed to secure two jars of the pickled fish he and Fhurl enjoyed, which usually got snapped up long before he could make it to the stall.

But it had also been a long day at the market, and though he was well-bundled against the cold, after so long outside in the chill it had begun to find its way through his warm woolen layers and settle under his skin. He was more than ready to be home with his feet warming before the hearth fire and a hot drink in his hands.

There was one more thing still to do before they could set off for home, however.

“Well, that seems to be the last thing on the list,” he said to his son Beah, who was standing in the cart and packing up the last few purchases with great care while an enormous shaggy black dog sat in the seat keeping a calm eye on the proceedings. Their stalwart pony Clara stood patiently in front of the cart, waiting to be hitched. “There’s not anything else we need to get, is there?”

The young halfling looked down over the side of the cart anxiously, wide brown eyes peeping out above the heavy scarf that concealed most of his face. “Da…”

Mothen put a hand to his chin as if he were thinking very hard. “Unless I’m forgetting something? But I can’t think what…”

“Da, you promised.”

“Did I make a promise? Hmm…” Beah was positively squirming by now. Mothen couldn’t hold his straight face any longer. “Ah yes, that’s right! I promised a certain little boy he would get a treat if he helped me out at the marketplace today.”

“I did help,” Beah said, a little uncertainly.

“You did indeed! You helped a great deal. And I always keep my promises.” Mothen reached up and lifted Beah down off the cart. “So, little merchant. Do you know what kind of reward you want for your hard work today?”

“Yes!” Beah took off the moment his boots touched the ground, making with absolute conviction back to the heart of the marketplace. Mothen paused long enough to murmur, “Stay, Clover,” to the dog before following Beah at a rather more sedate pace. He was not concerned about leaving the cart unattended; Clover would brook no interference with it as long as she was on guard, not that most thieves would have bothered in the first place once they saw a halfling-bred guard dog on duty.

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story: “And they were friends”

me, already weeping: “oh my god, they were friends”

#BOY this is that GOOD STUFF #talking about BARDS?#talking about different styles of STORYTELLING??#talking about how both oral tradition and fictional entertainment have VALUE AND WORTH???#wrapping it all up in a WHOLESOME STORY about some WHOLESOME KIDDOS????#you love to see it

OK OK OK I have some THOUGHTS about Tiny Heist ESPECIALLY about the BASTARD MAN HIMSELF, RICK DIGGINS

I am 100% convinced that Justin McElroy is toying with me (pun FUCKING intended) because Rick Diggins is a reference to Rex Dangervest (the main antagonist of The Lego Movie 2) and I CAN PROVE IT

- OBVIOUS NAME PARALLELS! Both have the initials RD, and Rick/Rex is such an obvious slant rhyme that Justin himself uses it in the alias Digginsaurus “Ricks”

- MULTIPLE PERSONAS! Rick Diggins “Man About Town” has the exact same vibes as Rex Dangervest “Man of the Soil” DON’T TRY AND TELL ME DIFFERENT

- EXPOSITION OVERLOAD! Both willing to give their entire life story at the drop of a literal hat

- THE EXACT! SAME! BACKSTORY! Both characters were lost somewhere isolated (under a dryer vs under a car seat), in a “half alive” state, unable to move or escape for a number of years

- THESE TOYS NEED THERAPY! As a result of their shared trauma, both are very nihilistic and have little to no regard for the wellbeing of other characters! Haha! They’re broken inside!

- I’d die for either one and both would let me

thank you for coming to my ted talk

#dimension 20 #tiny heist #rick diggins #rex dangervest #listen #do i care too much about the lego movies? Yes #but i also care about THE TRUTH #I SEE THROUGH YOU JUSTIN

Try, Try Again (pt. 9)

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It’s Rex Time, babey!

Chapter 9 (2069 words)

It had been one week since Rex first landed in Apocalypseburg. One week since he’d taken Emmet’s place and started working to change the way everyone saw him.

The plan was simple - he’d get them all used to the idea of Emmet being tough, perform a few mind-blowing feats, and then when Emmet came back he could just step right into Rex’s newly vacated shoes.

Except that when he came back, he wouldn’t really be Emmet anymore. He’d be Rex by then, so technically he would be stepping back into his own shoes?

Time travel is confusing.

#lego movie 2 #tlm2 #rex dangervest #wyldstyle #general mayhem #whoo! General Mayhem finally makes an appearance!#only to IMMEDIATELY get dunked on #she'll have her moment tho #dont worry

Try, Try Again (pt. 8)

(Cpt 1) | (Cpt 2) | (Cpt 3) | (Cpt 4) | (Cpt 5) | (Cpt 6) | (Cpt 7) || (AO3) Thanks to everyone that left such lovely comments on the last chapter! You guys made my whole week :D

Also, I forgot to mention this last time, but Bonus Points to anyone that can guess why the ship is named the Gemini.... Chapter 8 (3314 words)

ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO

Bianca opened the door with one hand, carefully balancing her newest spaceship in the other. Finn would like this one, she was super sure.

Dad had helped her with the really tricky bits, since some Legos were still too small and finicky for a seven year-old to use, but she had built most of it herself. Plus, she had done all the stickers and decorating as well.

Looking down the stairs, she couldn’t see any sign of her brother. Tentatively, she set the Gemini aside, placing it on top of one of the many shelves lining the side of the staircase.

“Finn?” She called out his name as she flounced downstairs, running a careful hand along the banister. The basement was silent in response, aside from the low rumble of the dryer.

#lego movie 2 #tlm2 #emmet brickowski #rex dangervest #obligatory sad chapter lol #plus a totally not foreshadowing dream sequence #plus a flashback within a flashback wowa #and they said it couldnt be done

Try, Try Again (pt. 7)

(Cpt 1) | (Cpt 2) | (Cpt 3) | (Cpt 4) | (Cpt 5) | (Cpt 6) || (AO3) Just to preface, this chapter will include some OC characters. If you’d like, you can see art of them here. Chapter 7 (3518 words)

Emmet was crouched down, his eyes just barely peeking over the edge of the windowsill. Outside, past the thick, cold glass and a long stretch of the glastroid’s sheer surface, a second ship rested at an awkward angle.

The ship was probably white under all the dust, with long fuchsia fins and blue domed windows. In random places across its surface, faded stickers had begun peeling away from the hull. More interesting than its physical appearance however, was the fact that it appeared to be utterly and completely dead.

#lego movie 2 #tlm2 #emmet brickowski #rex dangervest #featuring some ocs #that i am trying very hard not to feel cringey about #anxiety is fun!

Hey hey, here’s some art for Chapter 7 of Try, Try Again

~*`OC time, babey`*~

Nova and Major Catastrophe

The Gemini

(haha wow i cant draw spaceships)

#wow i have no idea what to tag this as :p #and so #i just aint gonna tag it as anything lol

Fun Burger Chainz headcanons:

He has no idea what his pentagram patch actually means, he just likes it because it’s a goat

He likes beverages (capri-suns, egg creams, etc) so much because solid foods can be painful/difficult to eat with his metal jaw

On that note, I’m sure getting kicked in the head so hard his jaw broke beyond repair has absolutely nothing to do with his lack of intelligence points

Made myself sad :(

Uh, he has a lil’ burger keychain on the keys for his van and everyone likes to comment that it’s “burger chainz’s burger chain” and he always laughs, but the irony flies straight over his head

It was a gift from Vang0

He’s a good boy and I love him very much

(bonus under the cut)

#burger chainz #polygon #overboard #cyberpunk red #pat gill #I was rewatching the overboard ep #and I was really struck by just how much everyone loves burger #including and maybe especially myself #worlds best boy <3

Vang0Bang0 is a very relatable socially awkward garbage boy, but more importantly, he is also MY SON

#vang0 bang0 #polygon #overboard #cyberpunk red #bdg #I changed his hair to look more like brian david gilberts #as in mostly fluffy but shorter on one side #bc it looks better to me than that weird blonde wig #but now I can just say that particular look IS a weird blonde wig that Vang0 wears #mine

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