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[denkilightning]

S3P2 spoilers!!! spoilers!!!

it was so upsetting to see Jay obviously hurt and angry (“they lied too. tons.”) and actually kind of opening up the ninja and lloyd just. no lie going “well anyway” ??

jay made clear the whole season he was there for MONEY. He tried to leave MULTIPLE times and each time lloyd got him to stay but promising more money. Jay made sure his intentions and why he we there was never a question, so when he wasn’t getting the money he was promised, he opted to leave, and for some reason, he was blamed for that? They repeatedly tell him they’ll pay him which cements in his head that this is a FAIR trade, he’s Not Getting used, until he eventually realizes he literally is. Nobody fucking told him that they want him there because they love him? Sure he wouldn’t have believed them, but we see through the season that he’s slowly growing fond of them. Getting him to slowly believe that they care through positive reassurances would’ve totally avoided all of that— but no??? They just kept reinforcing the fact that they want him for his help by offering him more and more money (and lloyd says “it’ll be good to have more help” and nya says “especially ninja help” to which jay replies “not a ninja, but i can’t pass up more money.”)

Not one attempt to make him believe he’s wanted and loved, just bribing him with money and getting upset when he leaves because he’s not getting the money. absolutely crazy work. fantastic writing but crazy for the ninja.

He told them straight up, to their FACES, that he doesn’t trust anyone but himself anymore because he keeps getting used and lied to. Not even an implication, he straight up says it. And for some reason this wasn’t a point of concern for the ninja?

Granted it was only nya and lloyd there, (not counting wyldfyre since she doesn’t really know him or care for him like the others) and lloyd could be semi-excused since he’s always had a penchant for being bad at comforting people (exhibit a: arin and his parents) and was overall pretty distant this season due to stress. But nya?????? Oh man. it feels as though she was more focused on getting him to like her back rather than the fact that jay only memories are of being lied to and abused.

Also, when jay opens up to the ninja about his immediate circumstances post merge, being that he was a) alone b) amnesiac c) scared d) and he trusted the first people who found him and claimed they knew him, and they were disappointed in him? What? He didn’t even remember his own name!!! he was disorientated and alone?? Of course he would latch onto the first person he saw. He didn’t know a single thing about himself.

It was genuinely just so upsetting to watch. Sure he’s cruel now, and has lesser morals, but it’s not like he’s going around killing people senselessly. (he acknowledges that a full blown massacre could fail and wouldn’t work and came up with a better plan, which worked perfectly mind you, and the ninja were still doubting him the whole time). Nya spent a little time with him painting and dancing and when it didn’t fix his soul or his memories, for some reason JAY got blamed for that? I’m not sure how that logic got there when Jay repeatedly shown the other ninja, post-bonding in lee, that he isnt fixed (i.e going to kill lee, leave the residents, etc) and all that happened afterwards…christ. i have no words

Whenever he does something cruel or doesn’t believe them or snaps, they equate it to jay shattering his soul, not that he’s been mindlessly used and abused and manipulated for quite literally his whole life (to him) and is lashing out in distrust. But when he does something good (i.e, painting, sneaking around,) it’s immediately credited to him being a ninja.

There’s no middle ground at all, and to be honest i don’t blame jay for leaving at all. i understand for nya emotions were running high for her and she was lashing out too (she obviously feels bad for what’s happening given that she was talking to herself the next episode about how she doesn’t need jay). but to be honest if i was jay i wouldn’t join these fuckass ninja either 😭

jay is literally doing everything theyve asked him to and theyre still kicking him in the teeth for it AND HE STILL FUCKING TRIES OPENING UP TO THEM

HES TRYING HE IS TRYING TO BECOME FRIENDS HES LITERALLY USING THE SAME TACTIC BUT REVERSED TO SEE IF THEY WANT HIM TO OPEN UP

because he did the same thing with zeatrix in p1 where he goes 'this target must be pretty important' so she opens up and he does the same thing with the merlopian admin agent when he asks her about the ethnic dances and hes reversing it by saying admin lied a fuckton looking genuinely hurt and No One. Picks It. Up.

hes actually trying to be good he just never had a single person be genuinely kind to him so him trying is well meaning but mean worded and hes trying so hard and they just kick him over and over again.

literally how badly you have to fuck up for the person that has Nothing To Lose And Has Never Known Kindness to realise how badly youre treating them and Leave

yeah if i were him i wouldve just blown up the roof of the monastery portal and left them there to die cus fucking hell

before s3p2 when i used to talk about how the ninja will like the idea of jay more than actual jay I Thought I Was Reading It All In Bad Faith And Negatively Exaggerating And Somehow Theyre Even Worse.

[layaart]

hello besties I'm at Wellington Armageddon today, 26F

[stood-onthecliffside]

fave TTPD lyrics? this week?

now, pretty baby, i’m running back home to you fresh out the slammer, i know who my first call will be to another summer taking cover, rolling thunder he don’t understand me splintered back in winter, silent dinners, bitter he was with her in dreams gray and blue and fights and tunnels handcuffed to the spell i was under for just one hour of sunshine years of labor, locks and ceilings in the shade of how he was feeling but it's gonna be alright, i did my time now pretty baby, i’m running back home to you fresh out the slammer, i know who my first call will be to camera flashes, welcome bashes get the matches, toss the ashes off the ledge as i said in my letters, now that i know better i will never lose my baby again my friends tried, but i wouldn't hear it watch me daily disappearing for just one glimpse of his smile all those nights you kept me going swirled you into all of my poems now we're at the starting line, i did my time now, pretty baby, i’m running  to the house where you still wait up, and that porch light gleams to the one who says i’m the girl of his american dreams and no matter what I've done, it wouldn't matter anyway ain’t no way i’m gonna screw up now that i know what's at stake here at the park where we used to sit on children's swings wearing imaginary rings but it's gonna be alright, i did my time

[bylerweek2025]

the question is: how do i write a masquerade scene when mike canonically recognizes will by his breathing LMFAO

That's a difficult task. I am sure you'll come up with amazing ideas. 👀 There's plenty of time to think.

I personally don't have any ideas, right off the bat 😂

[goodomensedit]

Hi guys, as I Don’t know how to do screenshots/gifs, I wanted to ask you about something small but cute I noticed:

In Episode 5, round about minute 13 we are in Nina’ Shop and she is erasing the abusive messages of her partner from the board. In the upper left corner, rights under “Menu” seems to be a little heart staying “C+A” - or is is just me imagining things desperately? 😂🙈

hey!

huh, now that you say that... i couldn't stop thinking about it too

[livesincerely]

on my hands and knees for a take a shot snippet 😭 i just know this fight is gonna take me out

Ask and you shall receive! But brace yourself

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“Jackie, stop,” Davey says, his voice shaking. “I know you wouldn’t, it ain’t like that—“

“Then what’s it like, Dave?” And now Jack can feel his own eyes starting to sting, a lump forming in his throat. “Explain it to me. Because I don’t understand.”

Davey’s mouth parts, his features drawn and pale.

“I… I can’t,” he breathes, the refusal nothing but a sigh on the wind.

“…You can’t,” Jack repeats quietly, and he feels something crack and crumble, deep inside. “You can’t? Wha⁠— What the fuck am I supposed to do with that, Dave? Huh?!” His voice breaks as it all comes pouring out of him, a geyser of feeling that’s finally erupted. “Am I supposed’ta jus’ sit around with my thumb up my ass, waitin’ for you decide I’m good enough to talk to again?”

“Jack⁠—”

“‘Cause that’s the thing, ain’t it, Dave? Jack spits. “It’s not that you can’t explain it⁠⁠—Race and the rest of ‘em, they all know damn well what the fuck’s goin’ on with you, don’t they? It’s that you won’t explain it to me. Not even when I’m down on bended knee, worried outta my skull, beggin’ ya to let me in.”

And then, because he couldn’t keep in even if he tried: “Why can’t you trust me anymore?”

Davey makes a noise in the back of his throat, low and wounded. 

“Jack, I⁠— It’s not that simple⁠,” he says, his eyes wet and pleading, and the fact that even now, Jack can’t hardly stand to see him cry, is infuriating.

“Seems pretty fuckin’ simple from where I’m sittin’,” Jack says, forcibly hardening his heart. “If you don’t want me around anymore, then that’s⁠— that’s fine. You ain’t the first an’ you won’t be the last. But I thought you’d at least have the decency to say it to my fuckin’ face instead of draggin’ it out like this.”

He shoves himself to his feet, his arms and legs trembling faintly. “Message received, okay?” he says with a bitter scoff. “Loud an’ clear.”

“Jackie, wait!” Davey’s fingers clutch at his forearm, his hands clammy and frantic. “You don’t⁠— It’s not that I don’t want to tell you⁠—”

“Then tell me!” Jack shouts as he whirls back around. “For fuck’s sake, Dave, you’re acting like I broke your heart!”

And Davey looks absolutely gutted⁠—cracked open, exposed, and raw—and he staggers back a half step, dropping Jack’s arm like he’s been punched in the gut.

Jack stops dead in his tracks. The frustration that had been swirling inside him, the churning froth that threatened to capsize everything in its wake, flickers and dies like a candle being snuffed out. Icy cold seeps through every crack and crevice of him, down into his lungs and out through his veins, freezing him right to the bone.

Silence. Gaping and unfathomable. Then:

“I think you should go,” Davey whispers. 

Jack’s throat clicks, the chamber jammed. 

“…Dave,” he starts, hushed, hardly daring to breathe, suddenly and impossibly aware of just how brittle the space between them has become. “Davey, did I break your heart?” he asks.

Davey swallows so hard it looks painful, like he’d rather choke it all down than let another word escape. “Please go.”

“Are you in love with me?”

“Jack,” Davey says, his voice utterly shattered. “Stop it.”

But Jack can’t. He doesn’t know how.

[vikvyr]

hey uhhhh can you elaborate on your clouds Gordon agenda??? I am immensely interested

aaa hi!! this is one of my conspiracy theories that clouse and cliff gordon are related!!

not to plug myself but ive talked about it a lot on my non-art blog @/denkilightning and by a lot i mean A LOT

to quickly summarise:

they LOOK extremely alike. like COME ON. (also the fact JAY IS RIGHT FUCKINF BEHIND CLOUSE IN THAT PIC)

along with the fact their names start with the same fucking letters??

in the season we meet clouse garmadon explicitly says there are some things they (g and wu) dont want them to know. like thats the line word for word.

in the same season we have clouse literally fucking save jay and heal his leg. in their fight jay accidentally blows them up but after that clouse captures him hes completely fine ergo clouse mustve saved him And healed him.

and theres a specific script used in exactly two places: clouses book and cliffs book. only those two

[flyingfabio]

hi! I'm so sorry you don't enjoy posting on here anymore :( I was always looking forward to your Fabio and/or Tony gifs and enjoyed them a lot!!

Wishing you all the best!! <3

don't be sorry! it's like this. i'm sorry about the gifs though... the truth is i like doing gifs! but i've found myself less and less motivated to open photoshop nowadays. i've spent hours and hours learning how to make gifs and making them. i've become pretty good at it and partly thanks to that i know my way around photoshop which is a good skill to have. now i want to develop other skills and spend less time in front of a screen, and because my job doesn't grant me the amount of free time i would like, i have to make choices... but you know what maybe in some time i'll have the urge to gif (fabio and tony) again and i'll dug out this blog from the grave, never say never. i do appreciate your message though, i wish you all the best too <3

[castlle]

"Are we really doing this?" :)))

"Your choice, Diana." Frank took a sip of his beer, he already handed over a pot of marigolds over to her when he walked in. "Look, I'm not gonna push if you don't want to. We can still have a nice dinner. If it's too soon, we can just talk."

[tiredwiredanduninspired]

Glennry

Ask and you shall receive my friend

Homie is it gay to kiss your friend while you smoke weed?

[lovesickgoose]

For the love of fuck. Harry's hand on Jean's uniform.

Fixing it. Messing it up. Pulling at the collar. Tugging at his shirt. Pushing him away. Pulling him in. Anything

[denkilightning]

Ninjago S3P2 Spoilers

What kills me about Jay in P2 is that he's not even that different; he's not cold or unrecognizable. He's literally Early Seasons Jay, but with his negative traits more pronounced because he's now an adult with confidence issues. Jay always had quick, out of the box ideas that actually DID work (the fact that Nya questions his intelligence so much when most of Jay's plans always worked is frustrating but anyway-), Jay always had these aggressive reactions where he snapped at people (literally the second episode of S1), and Jay ALWAYS prioritized his family over the greater good.

But the ninjas still have this idealized version of Jay where he's just three things: dumb, cute, funny, and that's it. It's even more obvious because the anecdotes everyone tells about him in the first two seasons of DR are just Jay doing something stupid or funny. And now every time Jay breaks that image, it's solely because of the shatterspin, and if he does anything good, it's only because he was a ninja before, even though he already had many talents before becoming one, like painting.

I HOPE we see him receive an apology for all of this. The guy deserves a sincere compliment and words of encouragement when he inevitably comes back to help them in episodes 19-20, because throughout the entirety of P2, Jay hasn't received a single act of sympathy for his trauma or kind words other than those referencing him being a ninja.

YES YES YES i literally teared up at some point in s3 BECAUSE HES EXACTLY LIKE OG JAY

in their minds jay is literally just a bimbo manic pixie dream girl and the moment he actually acts like a person, Pretty Much Exactly Like He Was Before Just More Scared, they act like hes a monster

Literally the scene where they actually start fighting lee is THE highlight for this because what jay gets berated for, wyldfire gets praise and non-verbal approval for.

morro ras or wu come back and defend or comfort your kid because at this point im 100% RAS treated him with more compassion and empathy than the ninja have all season.

even at the end of s3p1 when cole asks 'still no memories?' its like hes talking OVER jay and hes the only one who sounds idk fucking Sad about it. everyone else sounds mildly annoyed

and btw i dont know if yall noticed but nya called jay offscreen A PARANOID EGOIST. which jay On Screen Calls Out Her For.

jay literally changed everything about himself, risked everything and did every job right for both admin and ras and all he got for that was a kick in the teeth from Every Single Person Around Him

someone had to save jay and still has to, and the person saving him Is and Will Continue To Be Jay Himself because even the ninja who love the memory of him so much aint gonna do shit about it.

because all in all, after all jay went through Hes Doing An Excellent Fucking Job Of Keeping Himself Together And Actually Doing Kind Things For Others.

[cafefakevz]

Slight trigger warning for politics. I won't go deep into this and might or might not make a vent post on my own blog later regarding the absolute shitshow going on in Germany. I am also a queer person of color and I really don't feel well at all. That's why I wanted to reach out here and gently remind everyone to check in with each other and pray for everyone's safety. Write to your friends even if it's just a little thing. Make something pretty for your blog. Answer to that text you never got back to. Send that prompt you wanted to send but were too shy to. If you don't feel like socializing maybe just like a post from a stranger you've never interacted with and that's it. Be kind to each other, it's very much needed these days.

[stood-onthecliffside]

Hello friend, it’s been quite some time. Enjoy the prompts below, feel free to tag as many people as you want!

Tag someone you’d love to experience Surprise Songs with live and tell me what songs you want to hear

Tag someone to dance with during the Eras Tour 1989 Set

Tag someone you’d fly across the world to see Taylor with

Tag someone to listen to Taylor’s next album for the first time with

Tag someone that would come up with an excellent Debut Set for Taylor

Tag someone to do the Fearless guitar spin with

Tag someone who makes beautiful art for Tumblr (art of any kind, graphics, drawings, gifsets, etc)

Tag someone to meet Taylor with

Tag someone to have a sleepover with

I will be back soon! 

Signed… BlogRecAnon

I HAVE MISSED YOU SM BESTIE! hope you're doing well <3

Tag someone you’d love to experience Surprise Songs with live and tell me what songs you want to hear: honestly all my hoaxers but if i had to choose @damndorothea @sunflowervolum-6 @iwantsweetrevenge for dont you x hoax x peter, and this is me trying.

Tag someone to dance with during the Eras Tour 1989 Set: @1989tv @jewishrizahawkeye @biawstenknight @pubwegf @solongllondon pack those dancing shoes y'all

Tag someone you’d fly across the world to see Taylor with @sunflowervolum-6 @anywherethesedays @sadgirlautumn @itolduthings @noproof-youjustknow

Tag someone to listen to Taylor’s next album for the first time with: @ofthemessyoumade @pengillys @cryptidspacewitch @tolerateit @ithk

@hope-ur-ok @ofbetterbodies @taylortruther @likeadevils @itolduthings

Tag someone that would come up with an excellent Debut Set for Taylor: @coldasyou and @heystephen

Tag someone to do the Fearless guitar spin with: @thenighttrain @knuckles-bloody-for-me @myvirtuesuncounted @daenerys-targaryen

Tag someone who makes beautiful art for Tumblr (art of any kind, graphics, drawings, gifsets, etc): there are so many! honestly such a talented bunch @clarabowmp3 @hope-ur-ok @ofthirtynine @cellphonehippie

@tolerateit @itolduthings @cowboyslikeme @ciwyw2 @bymine

@tayloralison @bougainvilea @mcheung @reputayswift @didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live

@shortnsweetgf @finnickodaiir @ofthemessyoumade @cruellesummer etc etc (tumblr is so weird it won’t let me @ without space 😒)

Tag someone to meet Taylor with: this is such a loaded question help! @sunflowervolum-6 @hozierswift

Tag someone to have a sleepover with: everyone!!!!!

[bylerweek2025]

hiya! what exactly is byler week? i have been in the fandom for years and have heard of the past byler weeks, but i don’t quite understand how it works

Hello Anon 💚

Thank you for the ask, first of all.

Byler Week is a fan event that's seven days long and takes place in a random week of the year. I have personally chosen the week between March 17th and March 23 so that Will's birthday is included 🤭

For each day there are some prompts and to participate you have to create some form of content (gifs, video edits, fanart, fan fictions etc,...) that matches one of the prompts for that day. You can take part to one or to all of the seven days, it's really up to you.

You post your content on the selected days and tag it with a chosen tag to help the event organizer to find your post and reblog it.

Soon I'll post all the prompts and rules, so, if you're interested please stay tuned. 💚

Have a wonderful day!!!