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I saw this bottle of Coke with my sister's name on it and I HAD to buy it and get a photo of her holding it😄😄

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DESPITE LIKING HARRY POTTER I AM AN ALLY TO THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY JK ROWLING CAN BURN IN HELL!!!!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Just in case it’s not abundantly clear where I stand- fuck JK Rowling, and ace/aro people, you are so SO valid and loved.

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I was asked to reblog

With the ides of march fast approaching we must be prepared

Please reblog to make sure everyone is equipped!

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I’m constantly thinking about how Cole is such a balanced mix of his parents. Obviously the first thing is that he looks like both of his parents (resembling Lou earlier in the show and then post-redesign more like Lilly, which is fun if you interpret it as him growing into his mothers features) but it goes past that right into his themes, fighting style, and morals especially.

So, his true potential episode has him lying to his dad and planning to steal the fangblade/blade cup. Everyone kinda knows this as the accidental coming out allegory but it’s VERY compelling to look at Lou’s reaction as him not even really being mad about Cole being a ninja. He seemed angry and disappointed in the fact that Cole wasn’t who he thought he was, in the sense of him not actually wanting to follow Lou’s footsteps and the fact that he was stealing the blade-cup. Lou specifically says these two lines; “I can’t be proud of any son who thinks stealing is right. And I’m not going to wait around to watch you make a mockery of our family’s legacy!” And then after their performance “more importantly I saw you fight. Those serpentine were up to no good, trying to steal the show, and I saw you stand up for what is right!”

(<- direct quotes are taken from this post by razzle-zazzle, which you should read btw, inspired me to finally write these thoughts down.)

(Also it’s worth noting Cole also denounces stealing later lmao, as seen in here.)

This is pretty direct proof that he values doing the right thing, and distinctly doing things the right way (<— also a trait cole VERY much shares). Which is something he did have to relearn and adjust upon understanding his son not doing exactly what he wants doesn’t have to be bad (self promo but this post goes into how Lou’s mindset affected Cole’s btw). The second statement is also very reminiscent of what Lilly says to Cole in MOTM, the “promise me you’ll always stand up for what is right” talk. To tie this together basically while MOTM is a very clear and thorough look at how Cole takes after Lilly, Lou is very present in his moral system too. Additionally, Lou is an incredibly passionate man, and clearly expresses and puts himself into dancing which very much mirrors how Cole treats being a ninja sometimes, and his arc about finding himself.

That segways nicely into the fact that Cole’s fighting style is ABSOLUTELY a mix of the strength and power of his mother, and the gracefulness of his father. You actually see Cole denounce his father’s grace by the way, way early before his true potential moment. He seemed insecure about it, which is certainly some kind of toxic masculinity thing because his younger self did not feel like that.

See, Way Of The Departed;

It compliments his arc about learning who he is, and becoming softer because of it really well. He doesn’t have to be insecure about his dad being elegant, because that isn’t a bad thing. He can learn to love dancing in his own way to, in a way that’s safe and his. He can incorporate it into how he fights, and this is something pointed out by @/razzle-zazzle but the tripple tiger sashay resembles an attack too.

Basically, Cole is both his parent’s child, and they equally influence the person he’s become, but he’s not just an arbitrary mix either. He takes the legacies of both and molds them into his own, for the better. He finds balance! It was always about balance with him.

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Don't forget that Cole (and the others but I believe Cole's would be the worst) likely has moderate to severe PTSD from all the crap the writers put him though. I mean if he didn't unlock his true potential when he did he and his dad would've been crushed by stage equipment, got turned into a ghost, as a ghost if he got wet he would die as in die die, fell at least 100 feet though solid steel and concrete when the rope ladder snapped in March of the Oni, and after the 100 foot fall he nearly gets frozen like Cyrus Borg getting to his Earth Driller just to name a few because he has gone through way more in the series

I looove thinking about where Cole’s traits of anxiety and being so hard on himself came from. Obviously sometimes it genetic but there’s things in his life that could be factors. Namely one is he’s always seemed to carry some strong internal sense of justice. In the flashback scene in motm with Lilly he describes the reason why he got into a fight with another kid being because the other kid was a bully. A trait like that can and does lead to people fixating on their ability to do what they think is right, which he consistently shows he does fixate on. Another thing to note is that he grew up with a combination of a very clearly heroic mother who imprinted her morals and expectations onto him(to be clear, not a bad thing) and then a father who expected too much with too harsh of an attitude. That being expecting Cole to be able to master a dance technique not even grown men could, and when we see him train the ninja in Cole’s true potential episode he’s very harsh with his reprimands and directions. Even the doorbell scene, where he slams the door shut and keeps it shut until Cole does what he believes is the correct way to announce his presence.

It’s also worth noting having a chronically ill and then terminally ill mother throughout childhood is a source of consistent stress, especially on a child’s brain and with the effects it can cause later. Then of course being left alone with his grief as a young teenager because his father became absent in his own grief has it’s own set of effects regarding trust, self esteem, and coping skills with anxiety.

Speaking of coping skills, I find Cole’s specific methods so interesting. He seems to go through this pattern of an initial conflict appearing (his father, ghost-hood and fading, struggling to live up to his mother in MOTM), trying overly hard to not let it affect him / deal with it alone, and then crashing and giving up when he can’t (which he seems to conceptualize as an inherent failure on his part, rather than a failure of support). This ‘giving up’ can also come with a running away or distancing from his loved ones which I think is one part shame and one part being overwhelmed (<- I really think he projects his own ideas of how he should deal with things alone and some kind of Responsibility Complex onto other people and how he thinks they see him) (<- which leads to occasional resentment).

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Cole being the kinda guy to absolutely hate something only to later be obsessed is so real.

Cole and his love for dragons COME BACK TO MEEEEE

If the writers remembered Cole’s love for dragons they would’ve made him squeal after learning that not only is his teammate quarter dragons, but that his sensei and his long term enemy are part dragon.

Imagine Cole cornering Wu in his meditation room to interrogate him about Dragons. Imagine how he could’ve been internally squealing after going to the first realm, he was surrounded, by dragons.

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Happy 14th Anniversary Ninjago

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Happy 14th Anniversary Ninjago

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Happy 14th Anniversary Ninjago

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Happy 14th Anniversary Ninjago

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It's my 4 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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The 4 og ninja together are intelligent dumbass idiots separately they're just intelligent

The og 4 ninja, individually, are smart.

Kai is amazing at strategy, Cole is great at planning, Zane is fantastic as observing, Jay is brilliant at on the spot thinking.

They’re all good at planning and strategy and leader ships roles in their own ways, as shown in the show, and they all are amazingly smart.

But together they’re all idiots.

NEVER put them in the same room, not even Zane is free from the stupidity when they’re together. They literally mimic each other at every chance they get its the funniest shi ever

They’re like a married couple x4 except they all have individual lovers and it makes it so much more entertaining.

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Cole probably gives the BEST hugs too

it’s giving “where ma hug attt”

(i’ll hug you and NEVER let go loml rawr)

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Thank you @dragonsrreblogers1 and everyone who got me to 50 reblogs!