#maggie chen

[t-taxiansgf]

this was the funniest episode i have ever watched lmao 😂

[hazel-makes-things]

[leosdooley]

KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER.

when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities, chen chen // the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde // the worm kings lullaby, richard siken // limer3ence // bleuts, maggie nelson // tonight i can write, pablo neruda // the crucible, arthur miller // when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities, chen chen // untitled, margaret schnabel // waiting room, phoebe bridgers

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

From all of the cast who's best friends with who? Like who would call dibs when teaming up?

Welp:

It's no surprise that Cole's go-to choice is Zane, but beyond the elephant in the room, they are each other's oldest + longest-lasting friend, and know each other best. They often fall into line with one another without even having to ask!

Similar to Cole and Zane, Kai and Jay tend to fall into sync automatically, as despite their tendency to take shots at each other their elements complement one another well and they both know how to get the most out of each other's fighting style.

If Nya and Lloyd weren't already Ride or Die, they'd wind up with one another anyway given how much the Core Four tend to head off doing their own thing a fair chunk of the time. Suits Nya just fine though—although we gotta be careful that Lloyd's enthusiastically destructive tendancies don't rub off on her snknksnk

Antonia probably shouldn't be weaseling her way into anything remotely dangerous, but when she does she's obviously tagging along with Jesse (at least, until Nelson gets into the picture). Jesse never fights it because he knows he's not gonna win shgfdhggd

Sunni's de facto best friend may be Samantha, but whenever she does wind up entangled with some Ninja Things, she's tag-teaming with Miranda (in which they may get distracted talking about Jay or sci-fi topics), and/or Harleigh (depending on the point-in-time...and Harleigh's mood)

This is prolly gonna sound somewhat bizarre, but I plan to have Skylor and Pixal team up often because they are both badass and cool and I desire more of their dynamic. We had a teeny taste in Crystalized and I want MOAR (...at least, once Pixal starts to warm-up to Skylor after, y'know, Skylor's dad tearing her apart and stuff.)

Olivia: Since Nya has replaced me with garbage, I'll just have to take Bridget instead 😤  Bridget: No, no you're nOT—

Brad/Sally/Gene and Chad/Maggie/Meghan all come as packaged set within their trios, though while they're not ~main~ characters, they'll show up often enough during shenanigans to be mentioned and I love their dynamics with one another (despite Chad's group being jerks at this moment in time) but aaaah I'm so excited to use them more—they're not exactly friends but they do eventually see the similarities in one another and it's so fun

Harumi, meanwhile:

[bellszidan]

[theersatzcowboy]

2046 (2004)

Director: Wong Kar-wai

Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu-fai, Kwan Pun-leung

Starring: Tony Leung, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Faye Wong, Carina Lau, Maggie Cheung, Takuya Kimura, and Chang Chen

[nofatclips]

Live version of St. Dymphna by Nicole Atkins from the album Memphis Ice

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[theseimmortalcoils]

Joan Chen as the Empress and Maggie Han as 'Eastern Jewel' in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, 1987. My screencaps.

[cineclub84]

#3 2046 💿

[hazel-makes-things]

[camyfilms]

花樣年華 2000

He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.

[angeldrawsstuffs]

It’s Not Easy Being Chen(?)

Summary: So the whole “Boo Lloyd” scene never fully sat right with me when it comes to my personal interpretation of Chen, so, how about we take a look at that scene form a different point of view, shall we?

Just stand and smile.

Stand and smile.

That’s all Chen needs to do as his history teacher drones on about an award he was nominated for.

He could honestly care less. He knows he’ll win and it’ll become yet another award on his bedroom wall for his mother to scrutinize because it isn’t good enough. Because he isn’t good enough.

But he knows he deserves it. He knows he needs to be kept humble, but at the same time, not too humble. He is an Amber after all.

And Ambers are better.

First Master, he can feel his eyelids growing heavier by the second, every blink a desperate cry for the sweet release of sleep.

But he fights it.

He did this to himself. He always does it to himself.

Chen swears he can hear a chorus of angels singing from above as his teacher bids him farewell and he’s finally allowed to go find Gigi and Maggie, after all, they need to discuss the cheer routine for the football game later tonight.

The cheerleader quickly rushes out of the classroom and into the hallway, while still keeping a straight posture, of course.

After all, his uncles can always correct his slouching.

“Hey Chen, nice one this morning!” A student he doesn’t recognize greets. He nods, not understanding what they mean, but he dares not correct a compliment.

“You really showed Garmadork!” Another cheers as he passed by. Chen simply nods again, while internally his brow furrows.

What in the name of the First Master are they talking about?

“Great song, Chen!”

“Damn, already on Polkify!”

“If you don’t get Garmadork to finally leave this place and run home to his daddy, I don’t know who will!”

Chen catches a wince at the final comment.

Still, he doesn’t know what everyone is on about, he just arrived.

Finally, he rounds the corner and spots Gigi and Maggie, both talking in hushed tones, obviously confused. At least, that’s what he assumes. He’s never been good at social cues, just another thing that makes him unbefitting of his bloodline.

“Gigi! Maggie!” Chen waves, to which his friends look to him, even more confused than before, “How are you this morning?”

The cheerleaders look between each other before looking back at Chen.

“Yes, Chen, we’re… we’re doing well.” Gigi greets awkwardly.

“No, we’re not!” Maggie corrects her girlfriend in hushed tones, “We just saw you! How did you get around the school so fast?! And what the hell was up with that ridiculous song??”

“I was pulled aside by our history teacher right after I entered the building.” Chen explains, his chest tight as his mind races and screams at him that something isn’t right, “I haven’t seen you two until now.”

“Then who was the one who dragged the both of us into that ‘Boo Lloyd’ cheer??” Maggie questions, tone harsh, but Chen knows his friend: she’s not accusing him of wrongdoing, she’s just as confused as he is.

“Boo Llo- what are you talking about? I didn’t-“

“Hey, Captain!” A grating voice bellows from down the hall.

Chen internally groans, he just wants everything to be quieter, he doesn’t want to have the deal with-

“Seith, good morning to you.” Chen greets his fellow member of the cheer squad, mask sliding perfectly in place.

Suddenly, a muscular arm is around Chen’s shoulder no, no touching he doesn’t want anyone to touch him PLEASE NO MORE-, Seith grinning the most faked grin Chen’s seen in his life.

And he knows about fake smiles.

A phone is shoved in his face, on it is a video. A video of…

Himself? Gigi and Maggie as well. The noise of the hallway is too much, and Chen can’t understand the exact words spoken, but he can tell they’re cringey as all hell based on Gigi and Maggie’s reactions in front of him.

“I caught it all on video.” Seith beams, “It’s already all over the school’s Instabook page. Good promo for the game tonight.”

Chen receives a rough pat on the back ad Seith turns to walk away, but, not before he shouts:

“Maybe next time let me join in! I’ll come up with a better song any day!”

And, with that, Seith turns the corner, thankfully vanishing from Chen’s sight, although his ears are still ringing.

“Ugh- his cheer would be worse.” Maggie comments, rolling her eyes to emphasize her point.

Chen doesn’t respond, his mind thinking back to the video Seith showed him. Obviously that wasn’t him. It couldn’t be him! He was in the history classroom all morning! But if it wasn’t him, then…

…

No.

Oh FSM, please no.

He’s been punished enough! He heard their words all night long, he stood on that pedestal and took it all night! Why? Why did he have to come to school and ruin that for him too??

“Pom Pom?” Maggie asks, voice growing in concern.

“Gigi… Maggie… you met me this morning, before now, correct?” He asks in return, turning to face his friends.

“Yeah? What about it?” Maggie responds.

“How… how did I behave?”

“You were different.” Gigi takes over, “You were… well, to put it bluntly, obnoxious.”

Chen’s heart drops.

“Chad.”

The name is like poison in his mouth: foul and with a nasty aftertaste.

“I knew you looked paler! Ugh- and you would never go out of your way to do something that! I should’ve- oh Pom Pom, are you ok?? Did something happen?”

Yes.

“I am not at liberty to disclose that.” Chen replies, smoothening out his hair as he does.

“Come on! What did they do?? Did they hurt you??”

“I have already answered that.”

“Like hell you-“

A gentle, dark-skinned hand appears on Maggie’s shoulder. Gigi slowly moves her girlfriend aside.

“Chen. Are you safe at this moment?” Gigi calmly asks.”

“Yes.” Chen replies.

“That’s all we need to know.” She smiles, loosening the knot in his chest, even if for only a moment.

He can’t believe it- he knows Chad likes to have his fun around the house when Chen comes over, but invading his school life? Actively affecting his reputation? The one thing keeping him alive?

First Master either he’s bored out of his mind or he and Skylor are really out for blood.

If his reputation takes any kind of a hit, especially one that Chad could cause…

Chen knows what the consequences are, and he can’t let that happen. Not for himself, he hardly deserves a place in this world, but for his friends, for his pet, Twig.

He- he can’t leave them behind with no explanation.

“Did- Did he leave the school?” Chen asks slowly, to which Gigi and Maggie exchange worried glances.

“We don’t know.” Gigi responds truthfully.

“Then I must request the both of you search for him within reason. I must head to class so as to not be seen around him.”

“But what if-“ Maggie starts.

“I’ll be fine.” Chen lies states, “Just… please make sure he’s gone. Don’t let him become aware of your knowledge.”

Before his friends can say anything Chen turns and walks away to his first class of the day, inadvertently passing Lloyd on the way, hood up and staring at the ground, seemingly not even noticing Chen’s presence.

If only he could apologize.

But that would be a death sentence.

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

Are there other people who have a crush on Zane? In the show he had a Club with fangirls and in the storie all the other ninjas have someone who likes them or think they're attractive

Short Answer is probably outside of Cole and Pixal, nobody significant would—and I'm assuming you're also referring to characters along the lines of Sunni (Jay), Samantha (Jesse+Lloyd...well, the Green Ninja specifically), Meghan (Kai), Miranda (Jay+Nya but 100% platonically), and Jesse himself (Cole). In which...I suppose you'd be correct in your deduction, but then again, Cole is doing enough pining work for twenty people :d

As for the fangirls, I haven't yet hammered out if their departure to the Dark Island is a public affair (with them making a spectacle of departing as The Ninja) or a private affair (where only people who know the secret would be attending the farewell) And if it's the latter, then there would definitely be no Zane fangirls, alas T-T)9.

Anyway, now I feel compelled to give Zane a personal fan jgfdhgfdfghf (as if I needed another OC...hmm, maybe Sally could work? Just probably in the same vein as Miranda though)

Long Answer is still the same, but with doodle-y diagram!

Table:

Line With Ship Name: Duo has/will date at some point in Time Arrow in One Direction: One-Sided Attraction Arrows in Both Directions: Mutual Attraction That Didn't Pan Out Dotted Line: Very Potent Platonic Feelings of Some Kind Zig-Zagged Line: Adoration (but Negative) Spiral Line: OTHER No Line: Peeps Just Chilling With No Place In This Web

(I probably could've tossed Samantha in somewhere too, and moved Miranda closer to Jay/Nya for another platonic bond buuuut I wanted to draw Bridget~)

Take a picture, this may be the last time I even get close to drawing everyone at once ToT