#crystallisation

[savagegood]

“Did you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster? I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.” “We have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We won’t stop until we find some place safe, okay? We’ll go. Together. No matter what we do, we can’t change the way people see us.” “You changed the way you see me... Didn’t you?

NIMONA (2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022

#please watch it #it's beautiful... from the animation to the message and the way it crystallises anxieties struggling with gender and the prejudices faced #such a lovely healing watch and i'm glad it's out there #nimona #nimonaedit #nd stevenson #nimona spoilers #comics #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #nonbinary #riz ahmed #chloe grace moretz #long post #ballister blackheart #genderfluid #*op

[thefourpillars]

11 Ajmak 4 Tz'apin Q'ij - The Final Closing Day

11 Ajmak 4 Tz'apin Q'ij - The Final Closing Day - completes these days of introspection and retreat. Whilst this is the day when we can see the dawn of the new year coming, it may also be the most difficult day. It is the day when we start the process of emergence from the chrysalis.

The final closing day completes these days of introspection and retreat. Whilst this is the day when we can see the dawn of the new year coming, it may also be the most difficult day. It is the day when we start the process of emergence from the chrysalis. The energy of the day 11 Ajmak brings an essence of forgiveness and acceptance. This is not a simple or straightforward forgiveness, this is…

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#Acceptance #Ajmak #Crystallisation #Forgiveness #Wayeb

[ninjautistic]

I don't remember this but HOLY FUCKING SHIIIIIITT LLOYD WAS CONFIRMED TO BE AT LEAST 9 YEARS OLD HERE AND HE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT??? JESUS FUCK

#This might be proof that lloyd is quite jacked #i mean lloyd literally cracked the entire floor split open under ONE fucking FIST #and in dragons rising lloyd literally blocked the empress' sword on her big mech with his tiny ass gold sword #and lloyd also literally lifted and threw kai across the ship in dragons rising too.. #and in the magazine comics (not entirely canon sadly) lloyd threw a big ass enormous fucking vengestone mech in his oni form with his HANDS #ANNNNDDD lloyd can even handle the power of the source dragon in dragons rising.. #ANNNNNDD the original ending for crystallised was gonna be about lloyd lost in his oni form and beating the overlords ass and rule ninjago.. #in which apparently the ninja save him from the power of FRIENDSHIP #lloyd literally fell on piles of glass and wasn't bothered by it #HE WAS 9 AND HE FELL ON PILES OF GLASS WITH NO HESITATION!?!?! #fucking OUCH #and yet wu says lloyd is “the wise one” fuck that shit he should become a GOD #lloyd literally risked to sacrifice his life to the three dragon cores in dragons rising like holy fucking shit I'd marry him #if lloyd was a villain I'd fucking root for him so hard I'd be on my knees they should make it happen PLEASE PLES PLEASEE #sorry i love lloyd hes my wife #ninjago #ninjago fandom #lloyd garmadon #lloyd montgomery garmadon #lloyd garmadon ninjago #ninjago lloyd #lloyd ninjago #ninjago lloyd garmadon

[registered-morro-simp]

Big fan of how the writers seem to be forgetting that Lloyd is part dragon

"Dragons can be ninja??"

Lloyd:

"They're not dragons ):<"

Lloyd:

And also "If anyone should be trained by a dragon it should be ME I'm basically half dragon" you know who's actually half dragon wyldfyre?? YOU KNOW WHO??

Like if the dragons in s9 can smell the oni on wu then surely these dragons can smell the dragon on Lloyd

#he went full oni in crystallised let him go full dragon #ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #dragons rising spoilers

[garden-bug]

#I think I’ve started making ninjago memes like this is a thing for me now #ninjago #ninjago funny #ninjago Lloyd #ninjago harumi #ninjago crystallised #ninjago march of the oni #ninjago sons of garmadon #llorumi #unserious #ninjago meme #ninjago memes #lego ninjago

[artschoolglasses]

Death and Crystallisation, Edvard Munch, 1909

#death and crystallisation #Edvard munch #munch #1909 #1900s #20th century #drawing #art #sketch

[r0bee]

Seen people talking about how Lloyd and Kai fans are winning with Dragons Rising but barely anyone is talking about Nya fans. As a Nya fan I need to acknowledge that I'm winning so hard rn my girl is finally getting the screen time she deserves

#Ngl I think the choice to make her one of the 3 original ninja to be back first and going on missions/training a protege is forcing the #writers to treat her like the main character she is #Bc sometimes she still feels like an afterthought to the writers/not as much a part of the team and like yeah she became a ninja a bit later #but come ONNNN. She'd been a ninja for the majority of the original show and yet she still gets less merch and seems more likely to get #benched (eg. Crystallised like I get why she couldn't go straight back to having powers and stuff but come on) #Idk I just feel like it's the misogyny. Where is the Nya merch if there was more I'd know bc I'd own as much as possible #ninjago #ninjago nya

[communistkenobi]

conversations about representation have always felt so navel-gazing to me, in part because those conversations tend to remain at the level of individual characters. the focus is on representing individuals as meaningful examples of the groups they belong to - to have “good” representation is to see some component(s) of your social identity reflected back at you by a character without those being the only traits of those characters. To measure representation you first look to see if there are visual or descriptive markers of identity - skin colour, gender, sexual attraction, ability - and then, once that evidence is established, one looks at how characters interact with and contribute to the narrative. does this gay character have a romantic partner? does this black character have interiority not related to their relationship to white characters? is this woman character motivated by something other than a desire to impress men? The goal is to avoid stereotypes, to be an anti-stereotype.

And so you ‘solve’ representation through the adequate presence of these characters. But I think this is an inherently individualistic and anti-liberatory way to approach representation, because it views minorities as individuals who can be cut from the social fabric of real life and transported into different fictional universes while leaving their identities fully intact. The presence of a disabled character does not also require the inclusion of structural ableism in the narrative, their individual presence is enough to represent disability. And so their presence in the narrative seems to emerge from nowhere - you don’t judge representation by looking at how the narrative represents and thinks about historical structures of race, gender, ability, you judge it by the amount of characters who contain those social markers. It means social identity exists primarily within the individual. There is no historical perspective given to characters, no acknowledgement of the fact that identity is dialectic and socially mediated. to paraphrase Gramsci, history impresses upon you an infinity of traces without leaving an inventory, and I think when discussing representation, people judge the quality of representation by those traces - race, gender, ability, sexuality, religion, etc - but ignores the inventory, the origins of those things, the social processes that produce race, produce gender, constantly and everyday. And so you get these characters that feel dislocated, alien to themselves and other people, because they express an identity that appears to have no origin point in the fictional world, no social backing. They are essentialised to what they “are” deep down inside. Characters are not made racial, not made gendered, not made disabled by the universe they exist in, they simply “are” those things.

And if narratives do tackle those histories, they tend to represent them primarily through misery. You know a character is gay because they get called slurs. You see a black character experience racism. You recognise a character is a woman by the fact that she is sexually assaulted. The history of their identities is represented as individual acts of violence or trauma, as if misogyny or racism are narrative objects themselves that occasionally collide with the characters to remind the audience that the authors take history very seriously. If an author is especially serious, they will get individual sensitivity readers to confirm or deny the authenticity of the social identity being expressed on the page; much less often you will hear of authors who rigorously consult, for example, books like Orientalism to ensure the structure of their work is not reproducing Western (and ultimately racist) conclusions about the world they are creating. Representational politics begins (and frequently ends) at the level of the individual. And so you get queer characters who endure homophobia or transphobia, but whose ultimate wish is to enter into a monogamous marriage and reproduce the social unit of the nuclear family, or the black character who finally finds community in a group of all white people that aren’t racist to their face. That’s not tackling history, that’s just allowing these character to be momentarily exempt from it. the historical norms and hegemonies present in the narrative are disconnected from the characters themselves. this is why you can have “good representation” in stories that are fundamentally racist or misogynistic or heteronormative (see: ofmd). If representation is only housed in your characters, if you view representation as a discrete trait that you can add more or less of, you are not thinking about the social identities that you are representing in a systemic way - you are, in effect, producing tokens.

And I think that sense of dislocation is part of what motivates people to cringe away from stories primarily billed as having “a diverse cast” or filled with “queer characters” or whatever, even when they are otherwise desperate for those things (excluding from this discussion the people who dislike the mere appearance of characters who are not strong white men, a perspective that is not worth entertaining). I do not want to watch stories that smash characters and identities together like barbie dolls, that treat race or gender as something to “tackle” in a B plot or a “police brutality episode” like you get in a show like Brooklyn 99. I do not want a character creation screen. Identity should, ideally, be part of the structure of the narrative, not a thing you merely choose to “include.” Which is much more difficult, of course - it requires a robust political imagination, but it’s a problem that is possible to solve.

#effortpost #media #book club #been thinking about this for a while and it’s slowly being crystallised in my brain #also not bashing sensitivity readers inherently. I just think that thinking about representation as something that can be ‘confirmed’ by #individual members of a minority group creates problems #because minorities are not a monolith #and the realm of personal experience kind of inherently limits your ability to think about these things #at the level of systems of structures

[nicolloyd]

short comic based on skywalker syndrome by @lloydskywalkers! (tw for blood, dismembered arm and choking under the cut)

ok this took SO long but i finally got it done so i hope you enjoyed it! i recently read this fic (i know im late to the party) and it was just way too good so i had to draw it, seriously tho if you havent already plspls check out lloydskywalkers their fics are just sooo good ive read almost every single one

you can kinda see where the quality dips on this but nevertheless i hope its still alright, its a miracle i stuck with it throughout honestly its only my second time drawing an actual comic and its like 30 drawings long

if you have any criticsm pls share it with me! ive been trying to get better at expressions so i know i have room to improve!

#lloydskywalkers pls come back i need you to write like 20 fics on seavound and crystallised #they were seriously so good i wonder what happened #they were literally the reason i joined tumblr in the first place #ninjago #lloyd garmadon #art #ninjago lloyd #ninjago fanart #ninjago art #my art #ninjago nya #nya smith #nya jiang

[lloyd-007]

Firebound au

I love these kinds of aus so much, like the whole idea that one of the ninja can be lost to there elements is so interesting to me but heartbreaking for everyone around them. Like just imagine one day there here and the next they’re gone well technically they’re still there but not at the same time.

In my au so far it’s more focused on the aftermath, how the ninja handles what happened to there brother and filling what I feel the show missed out after what happened in seabound like we barely got to see how the rest of the ninja handled it like all we had was a time skip to a whole year later when they had mostly accepted what happened ( well not Jay). How would it had been if it was someone else and not Nya? What if it was Kai instead, how would this affect the team? Most importantly Nya and Lloyd? What about Kai and Nyas own parents?? And can’t forget about Skylor , how would this affect the team and overall what about Kai?

In my opinion Nya wouldn’t waste the chance to get kai back like that’s her brother, the one that literally raised her. He’s isn’t  just a brother he’s literally a parent to her and Same with Lloyd. The ninja would probably go down a different state of grief, Lloyd without a doubt would be depression, Nya would be denial, it takes them longer to accept what happened to Kai and Lloyd starts to lose control of his powers a little. They both lash out at people who want to help, but just as Nya starts to accept what happened to her brother something happens to Lloyd ( no spoilers).

And kai is there to help them but he’s mad at them he doesn’t understand why he’s even mad at them, he doesn’t even know them. Lloyd argues back, and something snaps in kai causing him to somewhat come back but he’s still stuck as his element, his minds is half gone half foggy he’s sometimes unsure of what’s happening around him but at least it can’t get any worse.. right.

#kai jiang #kai smith #ninjago au #ninjago kai #nya jiang #nya smith #lloyd garmadon #Firebound #aftermath au #rip Kai #nah I feel like the writers are to scared to write about the ninja feeling intense grief SO #kai angst #idk if I’ll ever carry on with this idea #need motivation fr #anyways how y’all beeeeen it’s been a hot minute #Kai might get a little re-design #a little scared to post this not gonna lie😭 #also gonna have to finish off crystallise first- #it just needs a little…. reshaping.. TO THE SALON

[songjay-ay]

Tfw your girlfriend dies so you grow a beard and become an outcast and talk to her through glasses of water

#I dont like this one actually #but content is content #jay walker #ninjago #Lego ninjago #ninjago crystallised #jay ninjago #digital art #fan art #art

[ninjautistic]

LEGO UPLOADED A DREAMZZZ X NINJAGO VIDEO AND IT'S 22 MINUTES LONG, THE PROBLEM IS THAT ITS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO WATCH IN FINLAND AND ITS FINNISH

but someone uploaded the video already and I only watched it FOR HIM 💚💚💚💚💚

HERES THE LINK TO THE VIDEO (ITS NOT ENGLISH THOUGH!!)

UPDATE: Lego deleted the video, but luckily someone still uploaded it 💀

#sorry i just love lloyd #hes my wife #i love him sm #btw this video is about crystallised slander.. good to know the writers of ninjago even agree on how bad that season was 😭 #ninjago #ninjago fandom #lloyd garmadon ninjago #lloyd montgomery garmadon #lloyd ninjago #ninjago lloyd #ninjago lloyd garmadon #lego ninjago #lego dreamzzz #dreamzzz #lego

[theatlasrealm]

If somebody says one more time that Kai deserved to not only get kicked but also beaten up by jay in that one fight scene in crystallized I will THROW HANDS. No, I DO NOT hate jay. But I DO HATE tommy anderson

we know why jay acts the way he does. we have information about his past. we have an entire season about him and how he perceives himself (sky bound). Nadakhan literally pointed out that jay uses jokes to cover up insecurity. His true potential showed that he was insecure about being himself (until nya talked to him etc). We got like three seasons of him being the hero and saving entirety of Ninjago.

We were given Information about Cole’s past. We saw his childhood with his gorgeous mom. We saw in his true potential how he desperately wanted to be accepted by his dad. We saw Zane’s past. We saw how he sacrificed himself for the Ninja, understanding and acting upon the same words Kai had told him, “it’s about family, not numbers”. The writers could dive into Zane more, but we got something. And we also got some Nya, why she’s a perfectionist, why she isn’t that verbal, why she’s Independent; Kai said so himself, after all. Even though I wish we saw her talk with Nyad more, we still got her. And the entire series is about our boy Lloyd. And even though every one of them could be explored so much more, we got something. And for a few ninja, we got a lot of something’s. But not Kai. Rarely Kai.

Kai’s true potential was protecting someone. And I loved that, I did. But that’s it. If anything, it literally points out that no, he is not selfish. We never got a season truly revolving around Kai’s childhood struggles/trauma. Why is he reckless? Why is he protective? Why does he never cry? While the other ninja have their spotlights, Kai never had his. He is such a complex character (that ninjago refuses to dive into) and that’s why I love him so much.

I know. I know Kai can be rude to Jay sometimes, and bully him, but if it came down to it, Kai would die for him. Because this is the man that makes his sister happy, because jay does mean a lot to kai. Kai doesn’t show it - frankly, he doesn’t show a lot of things. And I know this doesn’t entirely excuse the way he acted toward jay before, but why. I want to know why he acts like that. But the writers never dwelled on it. Jay is allowed to confront and express his feelings about how Kai for ‘bullying’ him, but not like this ( by the way, idk if I guys noticed but lately Kai has been complimenting/hyping jay up a lot now.)

And when jay, who is grief stricken, leads him self to believe only he loved nya in the entire world, kai is allowed to get angry. Kai is allowed to feel anger towards someone acting like no one else loved nya when Kai raised her. Protected her. Did everything for her. Just because we did not see as much of Kai grieving as we did of Jay, does not mean Jay was more upset. For all we know, Kai was dying on the inside. She was his sister for gods sake.

Kai did not “deserve” that kick. And if you genuinely think that, i honestly do not know what to tell you.

#lego ninjago #ninjago #kai ninjago #jay ninjago #nya ninjago #lloyd ninjago #zane ninjago #cole ninjago #ninjago seabound #ninjago crystallised #smith siblings #jaya #kai smith #cole brookstone #nya smith #jay walker #zane julien #lloyd garmadon #atlasysis

[garden-bug]

#ninjago crystallised #ninjago crystallised spoilers #ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago cristophern #Christophern is a character ok #or I guess the whole point is that he isn’t but anyways #ninjago garmadon #lord garmadon #lloyd ninjago #lloyd garmadon #ninjago lloyd #images from Pinterest link to board in my blog intro post

[winterwyrd]

Experiencing the thing where you leave a concert and the fans flood the nearest station but it's the lord of the rings musical staged in the middle of nowhere and all of Newbury station is filled with people you recognise from the theatre, elf ears and all

#my life is crystallising into before and after i watched this #lord of the rings the musical #it was so good i need to see it again

[ice-emperor-zane]

my funny little guy doing what might be his first smile in months 💖

#lego #ninjago #lego ninjago #zane julien #zane ninjago #ninjago crystallised #ns16 spoilers