Catra

tbh i never got a chance to get used to it because there was honestly too short a window between "becoming obzpc" and "becoming staff" for me to really register it :x

i love it, its got a neat and unique shape and the cockpit design is something ive never seen before, and its got some good and interesting use of parts

lookin fly ok bzpower doesnt support emojis but trust that i put the ok fingers emoji and the eyes emoji

if by "the barenaked ladies song" you mean the vine where the phone rings and its like "its ben" then yea

i just looked on eurobricks and saw the preview and now im DEFINITELY excited, and it solidifies korgots existing place as my favourite defender

did they really? of course, there still needs to be more female characters, but this is pretty exciting for me to hear!

personally i dont care about names, what stands out to me is that they made them all male characters. it seems like any time lego has tried to break away from having monogender elements, it always comes only at the expense of the female characters, writing them to be male instead, rather than trying to make any attempt to keep any sort of real balance. its bara magna all over again, and i dont know about anyone else, but im a bit disappointed. i at least hope that future waves of sets wont make the same mistake of having one explicitly stated female character in a cast of twenty.

i saw the news and i couldnt believe it, even after i saw multiple sources reporting it. hes had a profound personal effect on my life, not just because of the games hes worked on, but also because of the friends ive made over the years through those games. may he rest well.

ron weasley is actually a time traveling albus dumbledore, just google ronbledore

maybe you are simply, tragically, not gifted with the ability to See beyond the mundane then. what a pity.

im blown away by the fact that you singled that out with a "citation needed" comment and not the fact that i said cho chang is an anagram for weasley time prison anyway, its all in the books and quite obvious to anyone who doesnt choose to shroud themselves in veils of tangible ignorance

honestly the boxor is one of my fave titan sets and one of my fave bionicle sets overall ... it looked cool and it had a fun function, AND it came with a mctoran

Headmaster Time Child

ah alliteration, always an amusing activity

"cho chang" is an anagram for "weasley time prison" also, time travel inverts your orientation, so hermione was super mega gay for exactly two hours a day while she used her time-turner in prisoner of azkaban. she will become a late in life lesbian at exactly 53 years old, no sooner

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) today is my third day of being on them btw. i just forgot to post about it here

cripes tek sorry but i gotta say something to this response im sorry, i hope its still relevant since it involves representation and im kinda speaking from my own pov as a trans person so thats what it all revolves around but yeah sorry for the impending wall of text alright look pal as the trans person who came up with the trans tamaru headcanon im at an absolute loss as to why youre feeling the need to nitpick so hard at that specifically. since this is an entry about representation i think im going to put in my two cents, as a trans person > Why? Because I'm a close minded bigot? No not even close. im going to stop you right there and tell you that its not really your place to decide whether or not youre being a good person in this regard because if you just up and decide "oh, im a good person already" then it shuts you out from learning to be an even better person. anyway that said > My reason is the evidence supporting it is incredibly flimsy and had some shotty reasoning (Tamaru's name sounds feminine? So does Takua). it also used nonexistent evidence as well. How do we know Tamaru's body build is more feminine or masculine? All the matoran bodies in MNOG II looked the same only varying in color. How do we know Tamaru tried to make his voice sound feminine? The rest is pretty much fanfiction. youre uh. yeah youre using headcanon material to sit there and shut down a thing thats ... a headcanon ... ? you might think the canon reasoning used is flimsy but? i didnt? also, you cant say tamaru DIDNT do those things. because its all headcanon. fanfiction. we can argue til the cows come home but the fact remains that you cant prove these things didnt happen, and yet youre still adamant on it > To see people embrace something because "OMG A TRANS CHARACTER!!" And ignoring how weak the case for the headcanon is just make it worse. have you ever considered that maybe a lot of the people supporting the headcanon were trans people? we get like almost no positive representation at all? nobody cares about evidence because the headcanon literally isnt hurting anyone ans also, relying on "visible evidence" for someone being trans, even a fictional character, is kinda really bad? because youre sitting here relying on tropes and stereotypes on how trans people should act and thus are basing your entire opinion on that. > Also imo Trans Tamaru implies a Trans character can't be their own character. They have to be a pre-existing character, if we apply this to the real world this is literally the most rotten tripe ive seen all week tbh. just because someone headcanons an existing character as trans it doesnt magically make them a different character youre literally saying "if we apply this to the real world" when buddy guess what, it already does. let me get real irl personal here: i distinctly remember like. a couple weeks ago? i literally heard my mom crying in the other room because she still thinks that because because my brother and i are both trans, she had to "bury her kids". she literally thinks we somehow replaced her old kids or something and like were entirely new people. everyone else in my family is also particularly dead set on calling me by my birthname and referring to me as male because ill always be "their little boy" to them. as if i am an entirely new person i hate to tell you this pal, but that thing literally happens all the time in real life to trans people everywhere anyway, i also hate the fact that youre implying its on the shoulders of people seeking representation to just make their own, because (1) that doesnt always work because someone doing that usually ends up attracting hate from the majority and (2) it should already be up to the creators of popular content to do that as well, because then more people will see it and be able to relate to it than if an independent creator saw it. obviously there are a few exceptions but for the most part, thats what happens i could sit here and make trans ocs all the live long day, and thats all fine and dandy, but ultimately its still entirely up to me to make my own representation, which shouldnt have to happen. especially since ultimately, my ocs arent part of anything. at all. meanwhile, fitting tamaru into a trans narrative, which honestly isnt that hard considering theres barely any actual canon info because tamaru is such a minor character, is better and more satisfying for a lot of people because its an existing and familiar character, so we can feel more like were a part of a story with characters like us > it means a Trans person irl can't make it without the help of a cis person newsflash pal, i can attest to the fact that this literally happens in real life but it isnt because were weak and helpless and try to fit our experiences into fictional characters, its because cis people like to screw us over at absolutely every turn, from major things like yknow, killing us and leaving us homeless and denying us proper care, to minor like trying to speak over us when we try to talk about our experiences and yelling at us when we try to identify with a character because cis writers cant be bothered to give us any proper representation, thus leaving us absolutely alienated and feeling like we dont belong > See how offensive that sounds? So there, before you generalize try looking for pieces of the puzzle and understand the story. yeah that. that is offensive brah and i dont know what youre trying to prove by pulling out something that actually happens and using it to shut us up. it sounds like the person who needs to learn to look at things before generalizing is you, especially since this is an entry about wanting to find representation, and thats exactly what this original post is about? at least thats what im getting out of it god sorry again tek good solid entry very relateable but that comment got to me sorry again because it felt like it missed the entire point of the entry sorry for the absolute wall of text

thank u everyone xoxo

BZPower topics only, please. i take it that also excludes bzp blog posts then too?

my god when did we get this handy dandy new form submission thingy heres the topic for my entry, but since according to the form the topic is optional and isnt required, are we allowed to like, put something else there? for future reference, would i be allowed to use a tumblr post or something for that url? or does it at least have to be a bzp topic

(entry pic, pls excuse the glare from the blacklight) i find pohatus okoto mask being dark orange to be a blessing. however i also have taken its design to be a blessing as well, because ive noticed a faint resemblance to photoks mask. ergo, i decided to build a quick photok for this contest, because i also happen to like photok.

hey jen can we make voriki for this contest i know hes not technically a canon character, but i think he has been very influential as a joke among the fandom and deserves a special honour edit: never mind, i did not realize i was beaten to the punch with this. i shall consider other alternate routes.

some assorted g1 headcanons tamaru is trans - before you sit here and hit me with "theyre robots and gender doesnt work the same way as humans" or whatever, tamaru is also trans in the context of how gender would work in matoran society as well, specifically she would be the matoran equivalent of a trans girlduring the rebuilding ceremony, she decided to rebuild her body specifically using the design for ga-matoran, instead of the one for le-matoran as she was supposed to. she still kept her teal/lime colour scheme, though, which is the only thing that really sets her apart from the residents of ga-koro, which is where she spends a good amount of her time, due to her fear of heights yet passion for swimming, which she is now especially adept at due to her new aquatically specialized ga-matoran frameafter seeing the workers during the miners strike affix candles to their masks and seeing the potential safety hazard, nuparu designed specialized armour additions that workers could affix candles or lightstones to, to eliminate the risk of hot candle wax dripping behind a workers mask vents and burning their facenuparu and a small team of engineers also were the ones to design the rebuilt torsos. given to them by the turaga were designs for the rebuild (the engineers didnt know these were how the matoran originally looked on metru nui), however they decided to deviate from these designs, both because of the limited resources on mata nui and to give the populace more varied bodies that were more suited to their respective environments, such as burlier bodies for onu-matoran, smaller more aquatic forms for ga-matoran, more athletic forms for po-matoran, etc. after initial blueprints were made, they made further alterations to the designs by rebuilding each other as they went along, sometimes completely de-building themselves back to their original small forms if a design seemed like a lost cause. they would often test the actual capabilities of their designs at night when the sun was down and the rest of the island was asleep. these two things combined resulted in many injuries. they would occasionally, but not often, show the turaga their progress, or perhaps vaguely ask villagers of other koro what the ideal build for their environment would be, for advice on how to design the armour.kapura has issues with dissociationlewa suffers from ptsdpohatu still has eye problems after the nui-jaga attack during mnoguhh thats actually all i have right now? i thought i had more and i thought i had some that werent so pre-metru nui specific but oh well. maybe ill get some more later