With Pavitr Having His Hair Out Of The Mask, And Hugging Gayatri When He Saves Her, And Having The Worst

What’s your favorite western animated movie

Believe it or not, the answer is still "the first movie I remember watching" after all this time. It was absolutely the formational experience. Every time I return to The Emperor's New Groove, I grow more aware of how much my current preferences were shaped by it. Protagonists more defined by their flaws than their virtues, reframing of jokes for drama, egomania as a character flaw, 4th wall humor, comically unreliable narrators, constantly bickering duos, radically dynamic equivalence in translation, Yzma's and Kronk's specific brand of manzai. All of these I love and have talked about loving here in this blog come from 4-year-old me having a great time watching a monarch become a llama.

that line in s1 ep9 where cole says "hence my father thought a 7-year old could" just stuck with me

i wanna draw little cole about to go on stage, nervous, wearing his royal blacksmith outfit

i wanna see lilly comfort him after he fell

i wanna see lou walk away from the audience after he had tried doing the triple tiger sashay, cole seeing and getting sad, but it's ok bc he just went up to go comfort cole after he had gotten off the stage

i wanna see little cole's quartet

reminder jay and cole went out like a married couple to buy toys for wu, failed miserably, and decided to bring him a motorcycle instead

Are you a “I don’t check my notifications. I have 2538 unread emails” mentally ill and/or neurodivergent person or a “ I have to check all my notifications because that little red bubble in the right corner of every app fucks with my vibe” mentally ill and/or neurodivergent person?

The sillies!! Still trying out new brushes

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So theres this theory circulating that Cole is red-green colorblind, right? Due to that one joke in MotM where he mistook the Skull of Hazadur as glowing red instead of green. And ive also seen a lot of people speculate that it came as a result of the green scar over his eye that was left behind when he passed through the Rift of Return. So basically the theory goes that from season 7 onward, Cole cant distinguish reds and greens. Which is funny, when you consider that he has a red teammate and a green teammate.

And Crystalized suggests that the ninja color-code themselves in part bc they cant tell each other apart otherwise, so Cole perceiving Kai and Lloyd's gis as the same color presents four different possibilities:

Cole is the only person on the team capable of telling who's who without relying on the color of their gi, and is disappointed by everyone else's incompetence

Cole straight up hasnt noticed. He just thinks Lloyd decided to copy Kai and dress like him as younger brothers are prone to do. A bit inconvenient in combat but hey, he can learn to work with this

Once the team discovered his colorblindness, Kai and Lloyd did their best to make their gis noticeably distinct so Cole wouldn't get confused. Then everyone else caught on and liked the idea of personalized gi styles and decided to follow suit, which is why everyone's gis begin to look less uniform and identical later in the series as opposed to, like, their team look in seasons 4-6

Cole can't actually tell Kai and Lloyd apart but is just really, really good at guessing.

I've tried this THREE TIMES silly dreamzz animation here TW FLASH SPOILERS AHEAD.

IT WORKS I think.