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The angst is coming and there’s nothing you can do about it

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it's a depressing app but I still use it everyday

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each year congress people should be required to go on a field trip where they each get dumped in the middle of a random u.s. town & handed a phone with google maps & forced to find their way back to washington solely through the use of local public transportation systems.

to be clear i don't think this would improve our political reality in any way, but it would be fun to watch

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Unreliable narrators are one hell of an idea. You can just write whatever, and if a reader points out "hey the way this scene happened should not be physically possible if it's done the way this character described it", you can just be like "yeah I don't trust that fucker either."

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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I do need to fix his wings so i can properly hold him w/o it hurting but other than that he’s my perfect son

i just saw the httyd live action movie last night with my friend

no spoilers but OMG IT WAS SO GOOD

I LITERALLY STARTED CRYING DURING IT

I ALSO GOT THE TOOTHLESS BUILD A BEAR HES SO CUTE ISTG

YAYAYAYA!!!!!

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Monstrosity was so good!

Obviously the 15 minute timer limited it in terms of story, but guys….this was just a PREVIEW to what we could be getting out of a more “adult geared” Ninjago story.

For what it’s worth, Monstrosity was a beautiful character study for Kai and his motivations as a character. It gave us a very vulnerable version of his to look at, something we don’t really get to see in the main show a lot due to his personal beef with showing weakness. (also, rest in power Bug Kai, you were a fun headcanon for like a month)

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Random buggy Kai thought bc I was working on my clay bug earlier

Centipedes live in dirt, old logs, leaf litter, and under rocks because it’s dark and damp.

So I feel like after being buggified, Kai has an inexplicable urge to scurry under rocks and return to the dirt

Like imagine Kai just starting at a big rock, hearing voices saying ‘return….return to the dirt Kai….’

And then he randomly disappears for like 6 hours, and reappears covered in dirt.

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knowing Kai I personally find it very believable that the canonical reason he didn't become a bug post-land-of-monsters is because the centipede just spat him back out.

It tried to eat him to continue the universal fire cycle or whatever and he was so vile it coughed him up like a hairball. He's spent so long surrounded by inhuman teammates and villains that his genetic structure built up an immunity and turned him into the equivalent of a poisonous toad. That and I think eating him in general would be like trying to consume a box of matches left to get mold in the dirt for a month.

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Ninjago-memes here will you and centipede Kai and moth Kai join me in lighting ai on fire

HECK YEA

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Fixation so strong I dedicated a sketchbook page to it

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AU where Kai became a centipede sooner or was always a centipede. Nya's still fully human, but Kai was always bug and was adopted. And Ray gave his new insectoid child the Fire Element because like that's his kid and should feel as such! Nya being born some time later. Nya knows Kai is a bug, nobody else does (yet) somehow, not even Krux lol

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Is dis guy bugs

This took forever because I kept redoing things. I've stared at it so long that the two elbows on one arm just look normal to me. The best part of this was looking at reference pics of centipedes. Appreciate your local centipede today!!!!!!

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Before we all become sad Kai didn't turn even a LITTLE bit buggy, may I remind that the previous fire elemental clearly hatched from that egg and then turned into the centipede. Kai was also, if you recall, in an egg.

I have no idea what this means. Did he fight through being bugified by escaping the egg? Did it not properly take hold of him through his sheer drive of I Will Find My Friends? Would he have only 'hatched' when the current centipede died, thus allowing him to become the new one? Does this mean he's going to slowly turn into a bug over time? Is he legitimately immune to non-human elements after all this time????? Answer me Doc Wyatt

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RGB siblings in realm of Monsters

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*Kai absolutely destroying a giant beast 100x the size of him*

*Nya and Lloyd actually watching in horror as they watch their brother who is tiny compared to the monster attack like he knows what hes doing*

Lemme get the hcs out, During his time in the Land of Monsters he didn't sleep like at all. So he started getting auditory and visual hallucinations, and if he were ever to go back to the land of Monsters (and in this scenario he did) he wouldn't be able to sleep or really properly keep himself together because he'd be too stressed about Lloyd or Nya experiencing the horrors like him. Or worse, either of them finding out how much being in the Land of Monsters has changed him. Both mentally and physically,

*bug kai bug kai bug kai bugkaibugkaibugkaibugkai*

I fully hc that his bug traits would manifest out of stress or bottling up for too long. So being thrust back into the place that caused you to go through mental anxiety physical agony, along with you barely surviving your last fight and both your siblings are here with you in the danger zone inexperienced with the horrors that are in the Land of Monsters.

Internally Kai would probably be like

Oh shit, oh fuck, keep it together, you've been going this long, kill this thing, keep family safe. Can't die here, or I'll never see them again. They're right here with me of course I'll see them again. Unless they die here then your to blame and you'll never see them again. Can't slip too far gotta keep it maintained fuck my back hurts, and my arms, the whole centipede hybrid shit is not gonna hide well if I keep this up. Can't let the others worry about me, that's what I'm supposed to do.

So Kai immediately is pushing himself three times as hard to keep triple the amount or people alive rather than just one.

Lloyd and Nya notice instantly how Kai is mentally deteriorating from being here, they watch him close himself off and be over protective. Both of them are super concerned but as soon as they try to confront him about it he changes the subject or they get interrupted.

They enter a cave system for the night, rest they need it if they want to survive, Kai he sits down lighting the fire and starts keeping watch. Lloyd watches as he droops in and out of sleep sitting there and offers to take the watch for the hundredth time. Kai about to shake his head get interrupted by Nya who backs up Lloyd saying Kai Needs to rest. A bit of back and forth goes ahead before Kai finally caves. Laying down on a cloak he had set up for Lloyd.

Kai is out pretty quickly the exhaustion of multiple days kicking in. It's during the middle of the night when he wakes up in excruciating pain, Bugkaibugkaibugkaibugkai unfortunately he wasn't able avoid Lloyd noticing. From Lloyds perspective he saw his brother sleeping badly rolling around talking to himself. Then watched him sit up super suddenly and strangle off a scream.

Understandably Lloyd would be concerned. Kai the stubborn dumbass he is would get up and head deeper into the cave where they have no light. He cant let his family see what hes become. He gains his bug traits, mandibles multiple sets of legs from his back rest around his torso.

Kinda just setting him up for failure when he forgets that Lloyd can see in the dark. Lloyd understandably will probably let out some noise of shock cause like *his brother is a fuckin bug for some reason???? And didn't think to mention it before now??????* then Kai all angsty would be like

"you weren't supposed to see me like this.... Im a monster."

And Lloyd would be like

"Kai your not a monster, you may look different but you're still you."

"I'm not the same kai, I've been keeping up the facades for almost a year now. I changed here and I hate it."

"Kai please look at me, You are my brother and I know that because you've always been there even now you've been trying so hard to Keep Nya and I safe. No matter if you were human or not, You're still Kai to me."

Then they hug it kai finally gets the comfort he deserves and Lloyd gets to help his brother for once. Then in the morning they're obviously gonna have to explain to Nya why the hell her brother looks like he is cosplaying a centipede cross garmadon cause of the extra arms/legs.

She also concerned hugs her brother, but later she'll smack him over the head for constantly hiding he's in pain/suffering.

Cut scene 1

Kai: I'm not human anymore, I'm a monster.

Lloyd with his glow stick hands and eyes: bitch what does that make me???

Cut scene 2

Kai: I'm a monster how could anyone love me.

*Lloyd recalling the entire team* "dude no one cares if ur human, Zane is a robot, turned into water, Jay turned into a snake, Cole was a ghost, I'm fucking oni dragon and human. It was bound to happen at some point."

Ksi "Yeah ur right"

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Having friends who like Ninjago but aren’t online that much is so funny. Like, wdym you don’t know about “bug Kai”???