#secret of elements

[turtledudeextreme16]

Literally every ninjago season in a nutshell 💀

Credit to original poster (not sure who)

[thefanficcorgi]

I am putting this together by year so the choices are more condensed. Have you been here since the beginning? I’ve been watching since the 2011 pilot was aired on tv. Feel free to put a reply in the comments

Edit: winner is the pilots

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslighter? I hardly know her!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[liauditore]

how many belts and buckles does she need someone save me.

[theartingace]

some studies of 30's menswear (surely unrelated to anything) turned into being sad about Parker I hope we get to hear more about him eventually.

[girlsloveupdates]

FREENBECKY x VOGUE — JANUARY 2024 COVER

LINGORM x VOGUE — NOVEMBER 2024 COVER

MILKLOVE x VOGUE — MAY 2025 COVER

[psychopomp-namine]

this post is about qiao ling. but first, I want to talk about the power rangers of this show.

so. I'm really glad YE2 is putting the triple star warrior mirroring in a more interesting context

because that's clearly the intent and it's not like it doesn't make sense back in S1, but the actual execution of that mirroring seemed shallow at best with just S1 knowledge

(look! qiao ling even bought cake of them in the S2 finale)

I think it's because I couldn't quite place qiao ling's role in this until now. she's the star of wisdom, but she's the one who is the most out of the loop and lacking in knowledge... or so we thought. but with the S2 ending giving her tianxi's ability, and YE2 showing that it's a pattern for her to keep relevant information, then yeah, it's starting to make sense. the triple star warriors really are their character arcs.

star of justice, bringing hope (cheng xiaoshi's kindness being both a strength and a weakness that can either uplift or endanger other people; "even if you don't see hope, it doesn't mean it's not there")

star of courage, conquering fear (lu guang timelooping himself is the most extreme response to fear he has over cheng xiaoshi's death)

star of wisdom, serving knowledge (qiao ling and the burden of knowledge that she keeps from people out of guilt or protection)

and they really do need to overcome all of that to get the good ending.

anyway, I just think it's neat. I thought the triple star warriors mirroring was cute back in S1, but now I love it even more knowing qiao ling's place in all of this. I actually love this trait about her. she is always taking care of other people and has "big sister" vibes. she's the one who actually goes out of her way to find clients for shiguang to help and hearing their clients' troubles, even when she had no idea how their abilities worked. she's the one who truly connected with tianxi and knew how to communicate with her — even better than cheng xiaoshi could, and cheng xiaoshi was the one who actually got to live as tianxi.

it's in her nature to care for others, but it's also her biggest flaw. much like lu guang, in her desire to keep cheng xiaoshi safe in her own way, she hides relevant information from him. and the act of secret keeping causes her to keep doing it out of guilt too — as we've seen in the doudou case. it's a very human trait to have.

it puts the earthquake arc in a new context. a young cheng xiaoshi went to qiao ling, distraught over the possibility that maybe his parents died in the earthquake. young qiao ling, wanting to comfort cheng xiaoshi but also knowing that her parents were advised that it's safer for cheng xiaoshi to not go to bridon, tells him that his parents are probably somewhere "far away" and wasn't caught in the earthquake. this isn't just words for the sake of comfort. she has reason to believe this is actually true.

she's in a tough spot when S3 rolls around, because she should, by then, know about cheng xiaoshi's death, if not possibly everything that happened in bridon (through tianxi's power/memory transfer). unlike lu guang, who is dead set on timelooping himself as a way to fix things, qiao ling is in a precarious spot.

should she honor aunt shao's wish and keep cheng xiaoshi safe, which she also wants? or should she tell cheng xiaoshi information he rightfully should know, thereby allowing him to exercise full agency over his own future, even if that future has the risk of death? and whatever she chooses will affect lu guang too. what is the wise thing to do here?

on that note, others have pointed out how this recontextualizes S1E1 cheng xiaoshi talking about his parents. looking back, it's insane to me that S1E1's opening scene (not the dive rules, the one after the op plays) has cheng xiaoshi saying, "I won't go anywhere until my parents come back. if you drive me away, I'll hang myself here! then your father will never get a new tenant."

(it's looking like whatever he learns in bridon won't carry over to the cheng xiaoshi of S1, but I digress)

he says this, and both lu guang and qiao ling are sitting there calling him a childish idiot, all the while harboring knowledge about his parents that cheng xiaoshi doesn't have. (lu guang also has the extra knowledge of cheng xiaoshi's death and what happened in bridon at this point probably, but this post is not about lu guang)

like... in S1 this could just be seen as a little "haha okay so this is exposition and this is their dynamic" scene but now... man. qiao ling knew all this time, in this scene, where his parents might be. she knew during the earthquake. she knew while they were renovating the shop.

I understand the reasons behind it, and in her eyes it probably was the wise thing to do. but when S3 comes around, should she still keep hiding it, like she did with the doudou case? when she confronts lu guang about his memories, what will she do?

I have hope that she'll bridge the two boys together. we saw how her strength has always been communication and delivering words. she is the person the clients look to. she is the person that gained tianxi's trust and knew how to meet her where she's at. she is the person who knows cheng xiaoshi and lu guang best.

here's hoping that she can overcome her guilt and desire to protect cheng xiaoshi from himself, and become the star of wisdom the show wants her to be

[krilliondollars]

Cider (og image under read more)

I had no idea what to do with this prompt so I gambled guys. 💪

[radiance1]

Danny, thanks to a recent invention his parents made found himself as a tiny fucking whisp (Think of Venti's true form from Genshin Impact, he looks like that). Not only that, when his parents were working on something to turn him back to normal, Vlad just had to be a prick and try and capture him.

Safe to say, he was not fucking impressed.

So he ran into the zone, trying to hide out before suddenly being fucking summoned to some random place in front of a bunch of really dressed people who looked like they were going to a Halloween party but fell into a ditch and then got rained on and slipped in the mud trying to get out of said ditch.

Also, it smelt pretty bad.

Then a group of also oddly dressed people burst through the window and beat them up, with one of them screaming at the others to hold them back while he tries and restart the ritual because it obviously failed.

Which, rude.

He's the one that called for him not that other way around. The prick.

Not wanting to go back he sorta just, floated out of whatever they had going on in and standing off the side as the guy gawked at him before getting punched in the face with some kinda, blasty, thing by some guy in a coat.

Said guy who then proceeded to say that the guys who summoned him obviously botched the ritual to summon the ghost king, as it said prince instead.

Which yea, he's the prince so what.

Which they obviously botched too because that's an ice elemental, a rather weak one by the looks of it but an ice elemental nonetheless.

Which. Wow. Danny has never been so fucking insulted in his life.

So he very obviously had the right to freeze the guy's entire body below the head in retaliation before leaving. He unfortunately got caught by magician lady which, cool, but also like let him go.

He just rolled with it honestly when they brought him to their 'hall of justice' or whatever and being stared at by a round table of what he's starting to think are superheroes.

He'll take being stared down over Vlad any day of the year anyways.

[gl-saveme]

me, remembering that before Thai GL I survived off of one (1) sapphic side plot every 3 years, and even that ended in trauma or random death: i can wait. i am built for this.

also me, after seeing one blurry behind-the-scenes photo of two actresses standing vaguely near each other: 📣 DROP THE RELEASE DATE. RELEASE THE SERIES. I’M IN A GL DROUGHT AND I’M HALLUCINATING.

[thefanficcorgi]

Isn’t it crazy that Ninjago has been around for 14 years. Think about that for a moment and realize how much time has passed since then. How we have seen the ninja grow into the ninja they are today their lows and their highs, how strong they have become and how they have grown so much over these 14 years. So let’s keep on jumping up, kicking back and whipping around and spinning for many more years to come. Cause we are the Ninjago fandom and we will never end because ninja never quit.

[artbyblastweave]

There's a longer post to be made on this topic (which I'm working on) but I think a lot of the MCU is downstream of the writers noticing that a lot of the grandfathered-in genre-standard superheroic elements legitimately didn't make a lot of characterization sense for most of the core Avengers roster, before proceeding to make several films demonstrating exactly why those elements stuck around in the comics for so long regardless of how little sense they made

[crimes-chevalresques]

Is this a safe space to say I don't fuck with the growing pervasiveness of (very visible) cosmetic surgery in the Thai GL industry? I would 100% rather watch a lesbian romance with ugly actresses than actresses who can't breathe through their noses or feel their lips.

People are gonna say "well what did you expect?" I expect entertainment companies to know better than to think they're gonna get a lesbian's money by wasting their own on men's beauty standards. Regular market standards don't pass here.

I need this fandom to shit on cosmetic surgery a little more openly, I promise it's healthy for the feminist ecosystem.

[wardensantoineandevka]

this is relevant to a lot of fanspaces, but I'm feeling it most with CritRole C3 right now, though it applies to a lot of other works too: I feel like a lot of fans mistake "the work had the potential to expound on XYZ themes and tell a narrative about such-and-such with these particular building blocks" for the work actually telling that narrative and working with those themes

the building blocks merely existing in a text does not necessarily mean that the text has that particular narrative at all, let alone is telling that narrative well. a lot of the time, a text has the potential for it but is not using those elements to actually tell that story and is just plain ol' missed opportunity

[girlsloveupdates]

Orm Kornnaphat and Lingling Kwong ranked 2nd and 3rd of Top Key Voices at Paris Fashion Week. They generated $35.5M+ combined in EMV (Earned Media Value).

Freen Sarocha ranked 6th and Becky Armstrong ranked 7th. They generated $24M+ combined in EMV (Earned Media Value).

(via here.)

1. Kim Mingyu (Seventeen)

2. Orm Kornnaphat

3. Lingling Kwong

4. Cha Eunwoo

5. Felix Lee (Stray Kids)

6. Freen Sarocha

7. Becky Armstrong

(via here.)

[yh-hjabs]

I did the “give me 6 Ninjago characters to draw sheet” but I didn’t ask for any I just did whoever came to my head first.

Mr E (S8) @food-u

Faith (S9 + S10)

Young Garmadon (S4 Flashback)

Zane (S8 Flashback + S1 Flashback) @zanezanezane123

Vex (S11, Ice Chapter) @idkwhyimhere5462

Wyldfyre (S16, Dragons Rising)

No Shading, and bad poses + necks. Also I forgot to add something of Wyldfyre. (yet I remembered to draw faint Formling markings on vex?)

I’ll draw anyone who spots any of the 5 references in this drawing a doodle of your choice of character.