#Feels weird to post non-Ninjago art

[lilywily143]

Post-Season 2 Rebonding

[Not Ninjago]

[The text in the top row]

Ivor: I really did number a number on you... didn't I?

Gabriel: Well. Things are better now.

[zaptrap]

Seeing that you've been here since 2012 is INSANE like you've witnessed it all huh. You've seen probably SO many weird and crazy things in this fandom like man that's so cool for you I feel...

ive def seen and participated in a lot of dumbass bullshit over the years LMAO. although notsomuch during the skybound-to-seabound era cuz i'd lost interest for a bit

Random shit I remember off the top of my head (plz feel free to fact-check):

deviantart era: (2012-2013)

that bright green ninjago ask meme

like, literally everybody making self-insert purple ninjas (sometimes orange, teal, or rainbow) and shipping them with their fav ninja

everyone making their own genderbends of the ninja. cole was almost always called nicole or colette lmao

people also naming their accounts (name)-the-ninja (or "teh-ninja", since this was 2012)

there's a non-zero probability that if you were in the fandom during the season 1 era, you're a furry now

naruto crossovers

half-snake ninja aus.........wonder who uh......who could've done that.....heheh (me) (that was my whole deal pre-nindroid!jay lmfao)

everyone posting like, doll-maker things they made of ninjago? especially dragon ones

(me) posting leaked screenshots of season 2 eps that i found on the lego wiki or smth lmao. this is also how i found out zane was a robot. i think i kept posting leaks when i moved to tumblr

legends of chima releasing and i thiiink it was supposed to be a ninjago replacement? like, legitimately? though a lot of people weren't happy about it. "furry gang drug wars" was a phrase used a lot lmfao.

tumblr era (2013-2016 for me) (may overlap with dA era)

everyone losing their minds over the shirtless ninja in ns2 lmfao

that one video of kirby marrow (rest in peace) saying cole was 14

that other vid of like, behind the scenes and it was the ninja's actors but like in-universe? it's where "cole bucket" comes from

also some behind the scenes vid with the actual voice actors lol

thinking back on this, im like 100% sure it was bullshit but when the end of rebooted aired, there was a rumor going around about fans being so upset over zane's death that they carved a snowflake on their stomachs. lots of people were freaking out lmfao

the rise and fall of "fucknoshittyninjagoOCs" (ashamed to say i heavily participated in harassing this blog even if i rlly didnt like the premise.........)

maypong

lots of tension with instagram cuz of all the art reposts. like. tons of reposts. i remember someone blocked me when i said to take something down but then unblocked me the same evening and apologized LOL so

roleplay twitter accounts (twitter was kinda not-as-a lot at the time)

nindroid!jay of course. its so old there was an update that was made in flash lmfao...

absolute fucking shitloads of AUs and headcanons. i dont think this has changed much but like. there were so many lmfao. entire threads

actually there's too many fucking AUs. im scrolling through my main blog and i cant fuckin find anything cuz ITS ALL THESE STUPID AU THREADS THEY AREN'T EVEN LIKE DEEP LMAO

ask-all-the-ninjagians

the absurd screenshot redraws i did. like they were super stupid lmfao. icr which blog they're on but they're on my comp still at least

ninjagians just. being a term used at all lmao

the ninjago fan-tournament during ns4. people would draw/write about their ocs doing whatever prompt was posted and then everyone came together to defeat a big bad snake man

tbh i started naturally losing interest during ns5, and then VERY QUICKLY dropped the show (and therefore fandom) when skybound came out lmao............... so i dont really remember a lot from this era and everything after

and now im back :D

i hope this is insightful! xD

[cboffshore]

Hey Lila :( Forgive me for the non-Skybound or Ninjago ask this time, but how do you handle getting blocked by people because I'm getting very ticked off by it. Like excuse me I guess for sending a nice message about your work and mass liking your posts only to get blocked. This happens so much and it's so inconvenient. Hours of my day, wasted, posts I can no longer reblog, and you're going to follow me from my sideblog and happily go around reblogging stuff that is straight up ironic...I hate getting blocked because I feel like it's a tumblr deactivation risk and I have too much stuff on here, I don't get it. If people hate spam likes so much just say it somewhere geez. There's just as many people saying "oh I'll love you forever if you do" and I can't read every person's mind or go around asking every blog if they're okay with it. That is not what tumblr is and I'm feeling a bit "AITA?" about this.

Honestly... if people have blocked me (and I have no doubt that they do exist), they aren't the kind of people to have TOLD me that I'm blocked. I straight up do not know how many people have blocked me, or when, or why. I'm also the same way: if I block people, I do it relatively quietly. (Aside from obvious spam bots, I only have four blogs blocked - two of which are alts belonging to the same person, so really only three). I also know people who block extremely freely and for very minor reasons, so... maybe you just run into a lot of those types? I'm honestly not sure. Although I will say that I know anti-mass-likers usually say it, and I personally love a good notification blowup from one person.

Got off track there, but how I deal with them is that I don't. I don't know about them, and I don't really care about why they've blocked me, because they haven't told me in a way that would let me discuss it nicely and see what's up. That's on them; I can't help their cases. This is actual footage of me dealing with the people who have me blocked:

I do want to note that my first thought about this ask was that, if you're getting blocked so often that you're worried about getting deactivated, then (and please take this as gently as possible) it could be a you problem. Whether or not that's the mass interaction, I definitely can't say. Again, maybe you just keep bumping into the crowd that hands blocks out like they're throwing candy at a parade, in which case it's a them problem.

I'm assuming you're not DMing people weird threats or stealing art or harassing them in reblogs (and I know you're not one of the alts I've blocked because they never mass liked my stuff, so I further assume you're chill) so I really don't know what to tell you. Good luck, I guess? Inbox and DMs are always open if you've got any further questions, although this might legitimately be more suited to an AITA board, which I am not.