Evening the Score, page 381
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They could have solved this sooner if any of them bothered to look at a calendar
Hear me out
Ninjago doesn't have the best track record with dates (Wu's lifetime...) and I don't expect DR to be any better at it. But rewatching the season I realized the fact that when Lloyd narrates, he mentions being "alone for weeks" and, in the carnival, recalls not being around many people in a while, nailing down how he was secluded to the monastery during those weeks he woke up alone. This is fine, typical Lloyd behavior, just that when Nya encounters Cole, he says years.
Lloyd has no reason to lie, he doesn't have to make it seem like he was less time around so if he is not lying, and he truly was weeks alone, while Cole spends years lost after the merge? What happened?
And Nya and Kai! Kai woke up early enough, and in the bounty! to be able to map and travel a big part of the new land and try to find his way back, we don't know his side, but considering he pretty much arrived and then left again, had he entered the monastery before? I do believe he was longer out, awake and traveling. Nya also mentions having traveled before encountering the cranglings-- and she was on foot, she's resilient and strong, but for how long can you travel unknown terrain without a vehicle and survive it.
The idea of time getting messed up is plausible, other than reality coming undone and messing up every physics law-Cole is hanging out with what seems to be a kid formling, whose realm is confirmed to move differently time-wise, how could two different time progressions reacted to each other? How did that affect dates? Growing rates? So interesting.
I want to know if dr is planning on going somewhere with this, if not, then it'll be one more concept I'll rotate in my brain like a skewer, its such an interesting concept to me
Its also free trauma for the ninja! Win-Win
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older i get the more i understand supervillains. if i woke up one day with magic powers my first instinct would absolutely be "do crime and cause problems on purpose"
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we used to dye our tongues on purpose using kool-aid and i stood in the sprinklers with the grass already so muddy it was starting to do that thing where your lawn is now quicksand
i think i want to kiss you because you remind me of smoothing out the chalk drawing with gentle fingers. of anthills and feeding birds our leftover lettuce. of getting covered in briars while we picked blueberries from the backyard bush. i think i want to kiss you because it's a bad idea, and i think i want to kiss you because of how water grips the side of a pitcher of iced tea.
you said your life was a toddler's art piece, with paint splatted on your floor, in your mouth, in your hair. i was delighted by that.
i loved the idea of leaving color everywhere.
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Evening the Score, page 376
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I think my favorite wwx misconception/unreliable narrator moment is when he's watching nieyao fall apart during the empathy sequence and the entire time he's like wow... jin guangyao is SO smooth. He's completely manipulated nie mingjue he's sososoooo good at dealing with him. And then you look at the actual situation and literally NOTHING is going like how jgy wants it to go.
Like. Even after the stairs. Wei Wuxian is like "wow jin guangyao knows exactly how to get nmj to do what he wants" and the jin guangyao in question. Is standing there. Literal days after getting kicked down a flight of stairs. By Nie Mingjue. Outwardly blank but inwardly ripping his own hair out like god FUCKING dammit i'm done. I can't do this anymore. Literally nothing else has worked the only solution left is murder. And wwx is like "he's totally in control of this situtation" it's so fucking funny he sees the most basic display of deescalation skills and his mind is fucking blown 🤯 he didn't know people could do that!
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i'm not blaming anyone because there's literally no way you could know but whenever people say "i'm shocked you aren't already a fan of/aware of this pop culture thing" it always makes me a bit sad because. yeah i guess i probably would have been if i'd been allowed to have interests and casual hobbies that weren't constantly scrutinized and only deemed acceptable if they contributed towards my future academic development as a kid. maybe if i'd been allowed to use a computer or phone without my parents constantly breathing down my neck about what i was using them for and punishing me and further restricting my access to the internet if they caught me seeking out any kind of social or recreational interaction there that wasn't pre-approved and regularly checked to ensure i wasn't saying or doing anything that didn't suit their traditional conservative nuclear family sensibilities (or just, like, having fun in a way they couldn't understand tbh). maybe i would have been able to just like. enjoy things. maybe i would have had friends.
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im thinking about how powerful and hilarious it would be if loid gets to save the world not by being an elite super spy, but by simply being a loving family man.
i mean if it somehow gets out that loid is actually westalian, how funny would it be if loid actually evades suspicion just because everyone knows how much he loves his wife and daughter? that no way loid forger could be a spy, because if he was a spy he would’ve stayed on the down low, and he has done far too many things that stand out if only to appease his family? and because everyone is so adamant that he cannot be a spy, people just see him as a man (albeit a westalian man) who is intensely devoted to his ostanian wife and daughter.
and because sxf has established itself to be in a rather wacky world, how funny would it be if loid and yor’s marriage became a symbol of peace between the east and west? that people start taking it as the definitive proof that not only can westalis and ostania live in peace with each other, but that love can healthily bloom between them as well? because the ultimate proof of how powerful that love is, is anya. she’s a bright and happy child! she loves her mama and papa! and she is an elite who made it into eden academy, the very best that ostania has to offer. she is the proof that true and lasting peace between westalis and ostania offers a brighter future for the world’s children. how funny, and ultimately heartwarming, would it be if the mere existence of forger family was enough for people to open their eyes and forget about war?
how funny would it be if there came a situation where loid forger was more important for world peace than twilight. how powerful would it be if there came a situation where love was more powerful than deception.
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