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Why do the ninja switch to one shoulder plate armor

Man I can't even tell you cuz I hate the one shoulder plate thing (esp on Lloyd) but unless I can somehow make it look good/ be reasonably practical I'm not drawing that

(i only draw the Core/DR fits like that because I haven't 'officially' reduxed them yet; it's just for quick recognition :P)

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Evil clones lowkey have it worse y'know. Oh yeah they get to be goofy and flamboyant and torment the hero with their darkest reflection and give the reader/viewer a glimpse into the popular "let's make blorbo evil" fanon thing, but like. At least other types of clones (though tormented by 'I'm not a real person just a copy') are at least sometimes made out love y'know. Like Astro Boy was made bc his dad wanted his kid back. Even lab clones are made for a purpose. Evil clones? Sorry bro your creator just realllllly hates this one specific guy so go beat him up. You actually have zero hope of becoming your own person, because your narrative purpose is to die when the hero overcomes themself. You are a dark mirror to be killed and that's it that's who you are. Worst part is no one will miss you. Creator? Saw you as disposable, will call you a failed experiment and move on to Death Laser #37. You had no friends. The only thing they get is a cool color scheme like damn it must suck to be an evil clone

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The ninja or cole at least are graduating soon so it’s college going to be a thing?

What sort of college will they be going to then and what will live for them be like

Both Cole and Zane are indeed on track to graduate during Season 3!

...their beyond school plans are actually intricately tied into their S3 plotlines so I can't speak tooooo much on it yet (but it's literally in the first chapter of Book 4. the whole chapter is almost completely just them actually) BUT let's just say Zane has an opportunity presented to him by Borg, and Cole's feeling some of that 'holy shit what am I supposed to do with my life now' paralysis while also not wanting to lose out on his crush friendship with Zane.

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Who the FUCK taught Brad how to drive

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Sorry if this question has already been answered, but what was Great Devourer's original name before she bit Garmadon (though I imagine FSM named her GD because she's cute and he loved to play with her like, "Who's our Guardian-Who-Will-Destroy-My-Successor-If-They-Are-Evil? You're good girl!" )

If Jesse were able to use Outlier Effects, what would they be?

Would it be easier for the former EM of Surprise to practice 'manual' magic like Fungus, Aspheera or Gandalaria?

We know that an element can be created, but can it be destroyed/taken out of existence by someone like Source Dragons or even the Overlord?

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Not canon at all, but I've dabbled with her "real name" being 'Terminus' or 'Telos'; something that means 'end' to parallel 'Genesis' and 'beginning'.

2. Something close to these

3. Technically any Inheritor or even any Descendants of Surprise would have a natural inclination towards practicing magic, so....yes? *glances warily at Harumi resurrecting the dead*

4. Source Dragons, maybe. Overlord...well, he's certainly capable of 'eliminating' the Green Element, at least

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Ok soo , I know that a lot of people headcanon villain Lloyd to wear like a lot of gold like a crown , rings and stuff ...

Hear me out on this ... Lloyd wearing golden jewelry made out of the golden weapons would be kinda bad'ass tho right

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Do you perhaps have an art fight account?

Excellent timing, I just posted this yesterday!

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I've already said that my number one piece of writing advice is to read.

But my number two piece of advice is this: be deliberate.

Honestly this would fix so many pieces of bad writing advice. Don't forbid people from doing something, tell them to be conscious and deliberate about it. This could help stop people from falling into common mistakes without limiting their creativity. Black and white imperatives may stop a few annoying beginner habits, but ultimately they will restrict artistic expression.

Instead of "don't use epithets": "Know the effect epithets have and be deliberate about using them." Because yes, beginners often misuse them, but they can be useful when a character's name isn't known or when you want to reduce them to a particular trait they have.

Instead of "don't use 'said'" or "just use 'said'": "Be deliberate about your use of dialogue tags." Because sometimes you'll want "said" which fades into the background nicely, but sometimes you will need a more descriptive alternative to convey what a character is doing.

Instead of "don't use passive voice": "Be deliberate about when you use passive voice." Because using it when it's not needed can detract from your writing, but sometimes it can be useful to change the emphasis of a sentence or to portray a particular state of mind.

Instead of blindly following or ignorantly neglecting the rules of writing, familiarize yourself with them and their consequences so you can choose when and if breaking them would serve what you're trying to get across.

Your writing is yours. Take control of it.

It probably sounds like I'm preaching to the choir here because most of my mutuals are already great writers. But I'm hoping this will make it to the right people.

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hi! I know you've talked before about writing oneshots/writing only the scenes you're interested in, however, at this point in my life, I have a bunch of incomplete wips that I've posted only one chapter for, even if I've written more but not a full next chapter for, and I do want to finish these! and a few oneshots which have been rather lightning-in-a-bottleish as in the process of getting the idea to writing it all down in one session happens over the course of one day. How do I shift my 1/2

thinking so that I don't create new multiple chapter projects but also work on my prior long projects and figure out how to do oneshots that aren't waiting for inspiration to strike? 2/2

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So on the one hand, writing oneshots and multichaps at the same time is kind of how I roll? But I also don't really know "how" I do it. I'll share my process, and maybe that will help?

Basically, I love a oneshot. Short fics, my beloved. I can write 800-1500 words in an hour or less, and that's honestly my favourite way to do it.

I write my multichap chapters in a way that's very similar to how I write oneshots. I go into the chapter with a goal of hitting the next plot beat in there somewhere. I start close enough to it that I know it won't take me long to get there, and I end the chapter almost as soon as that beat has been hit. That means that every chapter of a multichap work still gives me that rush of feeling like I've finished something.

I usually only have my story planned two or three beats ahead of time, so I also get to keep the inspiration going - so long as I know what my end game is. I'm always writing to that end point, but I leave my options open for how I get there. If I plan too much, it feels like the story has already been written. That's when I lose interest and give up.

Writing this way means that I'm always writing oneshots. It's just that some of them are closely connected to each other and the rest aren't. Slotting another oneshot in is easy enough between chapters because everything I'm writing has a similar workflow to it.

I don't know if that process sounds appealing or not anon, but if you get desperate enough maybe you'll give it a shot.

Otherwise, let's open this up to others. How do you keep up with multichapter works while also giving yourself room to write oneshots?

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My partner critiques my fics in memes, I felt this on a very personal level.

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Finally something I'm actively working on:

As a cacophony of ‘boos’ ring out from the less-than-satisfied crowd, the Ninja pitifully try to reassemble the Raider in quick order, but some people are a little too worked up to focus— “Augh, we’re never gonna catch up!” Kai yells while bashing a fist against the roof. “Unless the rest of the racers spontaneously combust!” Jay gives him a horrified look. “My parents better not spontaneously combust...?!”

this week's word is...

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and share the sentence containing it. Reply, reblog, stick it in the tags, tag us in a new post, or keep it private. All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome.

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if its not a spoiler, whats lloyds elemental outburst like, then? am very curious...

Lloyd's Outburst, rare as it is, is most commonly triggered by intense Anger, but as mentioned, can still be caused by any emotion. It generally comes in two variants—to avoid spoilers, we'll call them the "Everything" Variant and the "Nothing" Variant.

The "Everything" Variant is something like an "emotional overstimulation", when there's too much going through Lloyd's head to contain. Which, while that sounds like the average Elemental Outburst on paper—well, when you're Lloyd and you've already got a ton of thoughts and feelings on your mind in a "normal" moment, having those thoughts/feelings pushed to a point where they consume/become everything is on a whole other level.

The opposite of this, the "Nothing" Variant, could be called "emotional understimulation", and it's something of a defense mechanism where all those intense feelings get repressed so hard that Lloyd can't feel them, yet they're still present, compressed into a singularity of emotion. Despite sensing nothing, there's still a lot of raw energy/emotion in that singularity (magnifying tenfold to boot from being compressed), thus an Outburst can occur for Lloyd in this state too.

Another way to compare these (and to better connect it to Lloyd's element) is that the "Everything" Variant is like Kinetic Energy; everything's moving so fast until it gets to a point where you can't focus on anything else, while the "Nothing" Variant is like Potential Energy, where the process of compressing emotions is actually making them more potent, despite the fact that nothing is actively happening (or being felt).

Currently the closest example of his Outburst I can provide (without it actually being a full Outburst) is probably when Lloyd burns down the monastery. The "Everything" Variant happens before the act and is what leads to the act; the "Nothing" Variant is what happened after the deed was done (preventing him from feeling guilty—or feeling anything—about it in the moment).

I'd describe both of these physically too, but then I'd be giving a little too much away for right now, ahaha. Just know both cases are very...explosive.

(And there's actually better, probably more easily remembered names for these, but like I said, spoilers)

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i love when a character is just. emotionally doomed. but like pretty about it.

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So can Zane tell the difference between a dream and a vision? Or could he mistake one for the other?

Yeah, as to Zane, a 'dream' and a 'vision' have different vibes to them. As Zane's visions always come true, though don't occur very often, when he gets them he kinds 'lives' in them, or they 'feel more real' to him. Usually with a sense of de ja vu afterwards...or a sense of foreboding, given how extreme the vision is.

His dreams, meanwhile, tend to be 'fuzzier', or include elements of plausible deniability in them, unlike his visions which are very much within the realm of possibility. He tries to explain this difference to Pixal who's just like ????? at ALL of it (until she gains some of her own humanity and then comes to at least Understand what a dream is)

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What would each if the Ninja see when they have nightmare? For some I guess it's obvious like Jesse and Lloyd probably has a bunch to choose from

lmao Lloyd's nightmares are straight up tied to plot (and yeah we're JUUUST about to get back to THAT, wheeeee), and Jesse certainly has a few choice options. ...then there's these fools:

Jay: You guys have bad nightmares too, right?

Cole: Yeah, I hate the ones where I deceive myself into thinking my mom's still alive, and I spend one last really nice day with her, and then the dream forces me to relive the day of her death and then I wake up and reality hits. Which is like having two terrible dreams back to back with no breather whatsoever and an extra punch to the throat.

Cole: But it's chill.

Jay:

Jay: Oh.

Cole: Yup.

Jay:

Jay: ...I dreamed I got both my hands stuck in a pickle jar. Again. They were calling me 'Pickle Boy' and everything.

Cole:

Jay: DON'T TELL ME THAT WOULDNT BE AWFUL???!!?

Cole: Maybe for the pickle jar

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Zane: I had a horrible dream last night!!!!

Lloyd: Oh no, what happened?!

Zane: Everything was pitch black and quiet and I was alone with only the consciousness of my own echoing thoughts...!

Lloyd: I think...you just...didn't have a dream at all?

Zane: ...THAT CAN HAPPEN?!

. . .

Nya: Don't you hate when you have dreams that take place while you're at work at everything's going wrong and you're just helpless to stop it? Yet it's like 'hey, just another day at work!' Like man, can't even escape the drag while I'm sleeping...!

Kai: Why have nightmares in your sleep when you can live one at least once every other week of your life? Stay winning! *sunglasses*

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i’m not writing characters i’m writing small haunted poems that walk around and occasionally fall in love