Lord Garmadon Is My Spirit Animal

•Aria• Probably jumping up, kicking back, whipping around and spinning •Lloyd Garmadon enthusiast•

[rivalwrites]

93 fun OC asks because why not

Basics:

1. What is their gender? 

2. What is their sexuality?

3. What is the meaning behind their name? Do they have any nicknames?

4. Do they have any siblings? How many? Are they older or younger?  Which sibling are they the closest with? 

5. What’s their relationship with their parents like? What about other relatives?

6. What would they give their life for?

7. Are they in a romantic relationship? With who? How did they meet?

8. What do they believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them?

9. What is their favorite color? Favorite animal?

10. What are some of their talents/skills? 

11. If they could make a mark on history, what would they like it to be? 

12. How old are they? When is their birthday?

13. What do they do for fun?

14. What is their favorite food? How often do they get to eat it?

15. What was something their parents taught them?

16. Are they religious?

17. Where were they born? 

18. What languages can they speak? Where did they learn these languages? 

19. What is their occupation?

20. Do they have any titles? How did they earn them? 

Personality:

21. What is their favorite thing about their personality?

22. What is their least favorite thing about their personality?

23. Do they get lonely easily?

24. Do you know their MBTI type?

25. What is their biggest flaw?

26. Are they aware of their flaws?

27. What is their biggest strength? 

28. Are they aware of their strengths?

29. How would they describe their own personality?

30. When frightened, will they resort to “fight” or “flight”?

31. Does this character ever put somebody else’s needs before their own? Who do they do this for? How often do they do this?

32. What is their self esteem like?

33. What is their biggest fear? How would they react to having to face it?

34. How easily do they trust others with their secrets? With their lives? 

35. What is the easiest way to annoy them?

36. What is their sense of humor like? Give an example of a joke they would find humorous.

37. How easy is it for them to say “I love you”? Do they say it without meaning it?

38. What do others admire most about their personality?

39. What does their happily ever after look like?

40. Who do they trust most? Is that trust mutual?

Physical Profile:

41. What does their laugh sound like? Do they snort when they laugh? How often do they laugh? 

42. What is their favorite thing about their physical appearance?

43. What is their least favorite thing about their physical appearance?

44. Do they have any scars? If so, what are the stories behind those scars?

45. How would they describe their own appearance?

46. How easily can they express emotions? How easily can they hide emotions?

47.  What’s their pain tolerance like?

48. Do they have any tattoos? What are the stories behind those tattoos?

49. Do they have any piercings?

50. How would you describe their style of clothing? How would they describe their style of clothing?

51. What is their height? Weight?

52. What is their body type? Are they muscular, chubby, skinny, etc?

53. What is their hair color? Eye color? Skin tone?

54. What is their current hairstyle? What have been some of their past hairstyles? Which was their favorite hairstyle?

55. What is their alcohol tolerance like? What kind of drunk are they? How bad are their hangovers?

56. What do they smell like? Why do they smell like this? (Is it the things they’re around or a perfume they wear?)

57. How do they feel about sex? Are they a virgin?

58. What is their most noticeable physical attribute?

59. What does their resting face look like? Do they have RBF?

60. Describe the way they sleep. 

Environment: 

61. Which season is their favorite season?

62. Have they ever been betrayed? How did it affect their ability to trust others?

63. What is always guaranteed to make them smile?

64. Do they get cold easily? Do they get overheated easily?

65. What’s their immune system like? Do they get sick often? How do they react to getting sick?

66. Where do they live? Do they like it there?

67. Is their bedroom messy? What about their bathroom? Kitchen? Living room?

68. How did their environment growing up affect their personality?

69. How did the people in their environment growing up affect their personality?

70. How do they feel about animals? Do they have any pets?

71. How are they with children? Do they have any? Do they want any?

72.  Would they rather have stability or comfort?

73. Do they prefer the indoors or outdoors?

74. What weather is their favorite? Do they like storms? 

75. If given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?

76. How organized are they?

77. What is their most prized possession?

78. Who do they consider to be their best friend? 

79. What is their economic situation?

80. Are they a morning person or a night owl?

Miscellaneous:

81. Are they bothered by the sight of blood?

82. What is their handwriting like?

83. Can they swim? How well? Do they like to swim?

84. Which deadly sin do they represent best?

85. Do they believe in ghosts?

86. How do they celebrate holidays? How do they celebrate birthdays?

87. What is something they regret?

88. Do they have an accent?

89. What is their D&D alignment?

90. Are they right or left handed?

91. If they were a tweet, what tweet would they be?

92. Describe them as a John Mulaney gif.

93. What’s the most iconic line of dialogue they’ve ever said?

[raeseddon]

Marty and Masculinity

I think one of the most unheralded aspects of the Back to the Future franchise are the sucker-punches it delivers to toxic masculinity. Marty’s pretty embroiled in it in the beginning and the implication is that Doc has been trying his damnest to leach it out of him like a poison for years.

He tells Marty again and again and again that being “tough” and rising to every dare and challenge isn’t what it means to be a man, let alone an adult. And the irony is that while Marty specifically sets out to change that about his father, he himself is protected from the changing timelines. If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t have risen so easily to Buford Tannen’s taunts in Part III. Marty successfully allowed his father to learn the lesson he himself needed to learn, hoping it would also better him, and it doesn’t. At least in the sense that it’s not a magic bullet. Marty still has to work on deprogramming himself and it’s great how the script writing throughout all three movies never shies away from showing him struggling with it.

The happy ending for Marty isn’t walking off into the sunset with Jennifer– he could have done that anyway whether he cast off the effects of toxic masculinity or not. No, Marty’s true happy ending is freeing himself from a mindset that would literally have destroyed his life.

When was the last time a movie did that?

[freetilltheendoftheline]

I’m having some difficulty seeing this the same way you do, mostly because of what he teaches George. Is he teaching him to be tough, a macho man? Or is he teaching him to stand up for what’s right/fair/just and to fight back? 

I think for me, because I am terrible at reading in between the lines, the “don’t call me chicken!” aspect of Marty’s personality was forced into the 2nd and 3rd movies because “oh crap we are making sequels and now we need to develop these characters uuuuuh Marty doesn’t like being called a coward and Doc is afraid of women yeah!” 

What are the seeds for Marty not liking being called a coward in the first movie? He rose to every occasion - to me that’s a quick temper and a hit before I think reaction. Is that the same thing? I’m just trying to figure it out.

I don’t think Bob Gale and Robert Z. intended to punch toxic masculinity in the gut - not overtly I think. Maybe they did it subconsciously. They certainly did no favors for the female characters. I really cannot get over Bob Gale saying if they knew they were going to make a sequel they would have never put her in the car. It comes off as very “female characters are disposable.” I’m not saying I am invested in the romance that Jennifer and Marty have because they come off as more of best friends who are trying the dating thing. 

[raeseddon]

Toxic masculinity has a lot to do with pushing a very spesific and narrow idea of what it means to be “a man” – an idea that says that men can’t be in touch with their feelings, or be overly sensitive, both of which George and Marty are. They’re both highly empathetic, creative individuals, traits that aren’t seen as expressly masculine.

(As for where Marty’s whole thing about not liking being called chicken comes from– we never see or hear from her but Biff has a daughter, Tiff. It’s been a headcanon of mine for a while that apart from Biff himself and Needles, Tiff Tannen was Marty’s primary bully/agressor. She’d probably both instigate and partisipate in the physical bullying, and then mock him for not being able to fight back because being male, Marty would have been seen as the aggressor. And if he said anything about being bullied by a girl, that’s a further level of emasculation, which really, really fucking sucks when you’re a teenager because everything sucks when you’re a teenage but especially being bullied.)

Also I see Doc’s “fear of women” as an extention of a rather juvenile mindset, as I mentioned in one of my earlier posts. Doc has held on to a singular ideal for himself as a defense mechanism against his own harassment for a really long time, which is that above all he must be true to himself no matter what. But he’s taken that to an extreme that says he can’t really let anyone else in emotionally. Marty is, for a long time the sole exception. Doc just never believed there would be another. It’s a show of just how much high regard he holds Marty in. It isn’t just women, it’s anyone.

I’m aware that this interpretation is reading into things, but regardless, the end result is that by the end of the movies both Marty and Doc have managed to dump a lot of baggage regarding their self-preceptions. Marty’s insecurities no longer cripple him (almost literally), and he no longer believes he has to jump every time someone tries to get his goat and Doc has accepted that Marty doesn’t necessarily have to be the only emotional exception in his life.

[freetilltheendoftheline]

Aaaah okay I see now. I wasn’t sure what you meant exactly by toxic masculinity but I understand now, yes.

(I know of Tiff but what I know of her is head canon/fan fiction writing by other BttF fans. I feel like the comics have done better with explaining this part of Marty’s journey better by giving us some pre-movie story where we can see Needles in full bully mode as opposed to being a jerk that Marty can’t seem to tune out.)

I feel like I read this post…possibly? I just went through your whole tag hahaha. I see what you mean - Doc definitely comes off as a “It’s me and my dog(s) versus the Universe!” which evolves into “It’s me, Marty, and my dog versus the Universe!” which again changes as he is sent to the past where there is no Marty and no dog. 

You’re right that they have both dumped their baggage. It’s pretty awesome regardless.

[chickenmcfly1]

I didn’t realize until I made the post yesterday, but Marty was willing to completely throw away his life and had many reservations about forfeiting form a duel that he had confirmation he was going to die in all to prove that he wasn’t chicken? He was literally willing to die? Like be killed (probably not quickly and easily) at seventeen because he wanted to prove to people that he was good enough? Marty why? who hurt you?

[chickenmcfly1]

Back to the future Analysis: aka an analysis of how George’s behavior really messed up poor Marty’s sense of self worth

One thing that always stuck out to me about Marty McFly is that no matter what, he always stands up for whomever it is around him that needs help. It’s doesn’t matter if it’s defending his mom from Biff, jumping in front of a moving car to save his dad, or sticking by Doc’s side, no matter how much redicule it brings him, Marty defends anyone who needs it. I was wondering what inspired this trait in him.

I think it’s probably hurt that George never stood up for Marty. I mean it’s pretty implied that needles pushed Marty around a lot (though Marty didn’t really let him) and that Marty does not have many friends. it’s established in canon that Marty’s pushed around (literally) by Strickland at school and when Marty comes home and sees Biff, he doesn’t retaliate the way we see Marty do literally every other time in the trilogy he or a loved one is threatened/humiliated which implies Marty has some level of fear, or at least knows (likely from experience, knowing Marty) not to mess with Biff.

I doubt that in any of these situation where Marty is physically or mentally harassed, George has come to his rescue and defended Marty. When Biff is calling Marty a butthead (which definitely isn’t a special occurrence or something notable, but still something clearly makes Marty uncomfortable shown by the way he tenses up, not through the whole scene, but exactly as Biff addresses him), George doesn’t step up and tell Biff to leave Marty alone.

It’s one thing to let someone humiliate you, but to let someone humiliae your 17 year old son? Especially to let someone humiliate 17 year old son who also severely struggles with confidence (and handles it in the complete opposite way, but that’s a conversation for a different day) That’s completely different.

And maybe for a teenager that’s 9 months from being an adult, it’s not as big of a deal, but it’s made clear that George’s behavior has been the same for years and having your parents allow you to be mistreated as a little kid? That must suck. And of course, it’s not George’s responsibility to defend Marty from school bullies and needles. But it’s absolutely George’s responsible to defend Marty from Biff and even Strickland.

I feel like having a parent who lets other people step on you and tells you to avoid confrontation and to just take whatever’s thrown at you, even when you’re being bullied—that would lead to some serious issues because it almost implies that you deserve to be harassed.

It’s because of this that I think Marty is so quick to defend literally anyone who needs it. Because he knows what it’s like to be in a position where you want to be protected and backed up, but nobody’s willing to stick their neck out for you.

[tornadoofcreation]

He also passed on those values about ‘family always helps eachother and defends eachother’ to his kids, seeing as Junior wanted to talk to his father before agreeing to commit crimes with griff, implying that Junior thought Marty would get him out of the situation (bc let’s be real, what 17 year old is going to ask their father if they’re allowed to go on a crime spree with their generational family enemy.) And Marlene literally tries to break her brother out of jail. Like I don’t know if ‘family always defends eachother’ could be taken any farther than that.

[jenniferparkerstanacc]

back to the future as vines

[i-the-throw-away-deactivated201]

“Yes, being in a female dominated field, I do know what it means to be marginalized. “

oh

my

god

omg

oh my fucking god

[freedominwickedness]

The really ugly part is they’ve actually done multiple sociological studies on this, and guess what the result is? Men in female-dominated fields aren’t marginalized at all; they get special treatment and are fast-tracked to the top, getting more credit for their work, faster promotions, and greater pay and benefits than their female colleagues.

Here’s one study. Here’s another. And another.

[momqueer]

^phenomenon known as the glass escalator

[dynastylnoire]

have you ever been around male nurses….mannnn

[sourcedumal]

Men in female dominated fields are entitled as hell. Don’t get it twisted

[greatmardini]

teaching is a female-dominated field but most principals are male

librarianship is a female-dominated field but most directors are male

[lechugaaaaadeldiablitoooo]

Cooking is female dominated but most chefs are males

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

a large percent of hair stylists are women,  but most major hair care brands are owned by men

[tornadoofcreation]

As a competitive flute player and a performance major I can 100% second that while most flautists are women, men, especially boys in auditions and competitions get favorable treatment because judges want them to “know that they are appreciated and stick with it!” It’s just a little representation of a much bigger issue

[tornadoofcreation]

Not to be Star Wars on main but og trilogy Luke is a golden hearted angel that deserved the whole world

[revolutionariess]

characters that go through hell yet still believe in the goodness of humanity, still hope for the best despite everything, refuse to let darkness consume them because someone somewhere is always going to be good are literally my favourite, because they give me that little hope too

[tornadoofcreation]

Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon ^

[tornadoofcreation]

Lloyd: if someone gave me a nickel every time I didn’t know what was happening, I’d be like “why am I getting all these nickels?”

[tornadoofcreation]

Sometimes I wonder why Ninjago felt it was nessescsry to add a weird love triangle between three old people. Like why did you feel that was needed?

[tornadoofcreation]

Cole: just act mature

Jay: okay

*later on date*

Nya: so, what do you like to do for fun?

Jay: . . . taxes

[tornadoofcreation]

He’s come so far and I’m so PROUD of him! From a little brat with a horrible evil laugh, to a hero.

Also, this character means so much to me; I’ve grown up with him and as he grew and matured, I have too, and I think that’s so special

[tornadoofcreation]

Just some Jay Walker to bless your day

You’re welcome :)

[tornadoofcreation]

Just a question? Would you guys like to see content about my Ninjago fan season in addition to regular content, or is that not something you’d be interested in?

[tornadoofcreation]

Haha garmafam sad thought of the day

The moment when garmadon pulls Lloyd out of the cage in the volcano in “the green ninja” and they hug eachother, is probably the first hug both of them have had in years.

[tornadoofcreation]

Lloyd: as master, my new policy is “if you see something, say something”

Jay: I saw a frog on the sidewalk today

Lloyd: excellent. This is what I’m talking about people!

[random-ninjago]

Poll?

I know the Ninjago fandom is pretty small, maybe 500 at most?

I’m going to ask everyone who is an active member of the Ninjago fandom (Not just a side interest, etc.) to PLEASE Reblog this. I want to find out how many people there are.