Kakaru

All good things end so why not not end things good, a girl once said, .

Chapter Nineteen: Tom Cruise more like Tom Snooze

Thanks for reading, it's been cool. You know where to find me.

jen i was going to make a custom meme for the 10 day anniversary of your birthday happening this year but I found a great picture of a corgi instead

I hope your birthday was good I love you

I'd like to add that I've reported everyone in this thread, including myself

"I don't get this reference," unfortunately.

The National Monument has the same iron content by volume as a single box of cereal, and also a steel factory

Chapter sixteen: Sail with me into the dark

I brought back an old character, hopefully nothing will be loss in translation

Chapter fifteen: The classic three-key-combo

oops it's been a year anyway

Remember the movie "Escape from New York"? It's like that except if everything was different, including the plot and also New York

Chapter fourteen: more like Thomas DEAD-ison haha

did I mention how excited I was when I saw your name finally show up on the entry list

This is great man, you nailed the iconic visual of Papyrus perfectly. The build is clean, concise, and a lot of fun. You've got my vote for sure!

I like the localized color-- The red in the mouth draws the eye in and makes the dark mass of the body more alien. The cluster of teeth on the lower jaw also helps distinguish this as a "world-eater" sort of monster as opposed to a more generic t-rex analogue, which I feel is a nice touch.

Best of luck in the contest!!

~The Groundskeeper~
 

“Though their appearance is often frightening, gourd-sprites are benign plant creatures, generally held in service by prestigious families as caretakers. They are tasked with tending to the local shrubs, caring for family pets, and keeping malevolent forest spirits at bay. A well-kept gourd-sprite is loyal, practical, and can stay in a family’s service for upwards of 200 years.”

Best design I ever stole 10/10 GOTY Needs more gun

Way past wow.  This is better than most of the HG kits they were selling back in the day.

ok wow I forgot I haven't posted anything I've built in the last year, have my other gundam

I don't remember the story but it's piloted by Alyx something and she uses a laser scythe and it's sweet

haha remember when I accidentally started the gundam fad last year and forgot to post this

Who watches sports. Not me. i do not watch sports or sportlike events. What a strange accusation

Chapter thirteen: Staples has basically everything we need

(also I know I go long periods without saying this but I appreciate the bizarre and cult-like support you all have given as I make progressively more and more abstract comics to relax from otherwise serious projects thank you all so much~)

 

 

 

Say what you want. What was done in Lego's service is basically hacking.

 

 

(wow i really had to gut that gif to get it BZP-sized)

 

 

Wow man, I'm really astonished by your super counter argument skills. I don't think I can break this one.

 

How about these counter-argument skills:

The image is fine. It does not break the rules. If you disagree, you can not look at the image and leave this topic. Or you can start your own site and tell people they can't talk about it there.

 

Let's discuss the point of this topic, which is that Bionicle is coming back and we have an official image of a new mask.

 

also real talk though this mask is gorgeous and I absolutely love how cryptic everything surrounding the new masks and the mythology is at this point. It's giving me early-2001 chills all over again

 

 

And we discussed this on Facebook but we really need a fandom name now haha

Please no.

 

I wouldn't mind having a term for BIONICLE fans. It'd give me something else to identify as, and I'm totally cool with that. B)

 

"bionicles"

"bionicle-likers"

"likers of bionicles"

"we brought back bionicle club members"

"men who wear hats"

"fanobioniclos"

"banfanicles"

"fanonicles"

"likebioniclers"

"bikers"

"oakland raiders"

"actual zombie goasts"

"legosfaniclefanbionos"

an entirely new set of staff, everyone here is loser nerds and clearly have not contributed to keeping the forums alive and well even after five years of what should have technically killed this site

(I want a better set database and a thriving comedies forum)

good evening folks and welcome to the bonus round featuring canon characters like black powder Gali and grapeshot Tahu

Chapter twelve: Episode 2 and Episode 2.2

tiny space robots knock everything down, giant space robot puts it all back

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIXBOSS I GOT YOU THIS PICTURE OF A FISH AND A BIRD LOOKING EQUALLY SURPRISED

 

it's too obvious to ship my friend

 

 

I personally don't believe their characters have the proper chemistry to survive in a healthy relationship together, particularly contrasted against the idea of Kopaka and Gali. Plus literally everyone has been trying to ship them for the past 14 years because of the myth that opposites attract (fire+water) and this makes for good relationships, which it generally doesn't in realistic terms.

(also just a heads up: image-only posts, whether or not they have text, are still considered spam around here because people end up posting reaction gifs instead of contributing to discussion)

Greg repeatedly said that the Matoran Universe inhabitants, lacking biological reproduction, had no need for romance. Personally, I think that was just an excuse. Greg's own stories occasionally featured romantic subtext, with the most prominent example being Matau and Nokama (arguably, Onewa and Krahka or Balta and Dalu would also apply). I think the actual reason for the "no romance rule" was to neatly avoid having to deal with shipping-related questions from fans. He already got his fair share of ridiculous questions as part of the Ask Greg topic, and a willful ignorance of romance kept him from having to address relationship questions altogether. If that was the true motivation, it seems to have worked—fanfic writers were free to ignore the rule at their leisure, but the lack of officially sanctioned couples DID keep Bionicle from having any of the shipping wars common in other fandoms. Don't get me wrong; I think the rule was wrong-headed and I often missed the early romances in Bionicle like Macku and Hewkii. And I'd like that rule to go away now that Greg's interaction with fans is more limited. But I understand what a canny move the rule was in getting the most out of fan interactions while avoiding the sensitive issue of romance.

Nail on head. The problem really is as simple as Greg avoiding a complex issue with a few poorly-chosen words.

I'm just pointing out what the official answer is, since the question was specifically directed at Greg's actions, and I have the words of Greg conveniently on hand. In this case, it does not necessarily imply that the official answer is logically sound or even endorsed by me.

 

Personally I like the idea of a universe platonic given the ridiculous amount of romance plots in even the most unrelated-to-that stories, but given the amount of romantic hints 2001-05, I'm not sure this story qualifies, or even should qualify.

 

I also ship Gali and Kopaka (which is a far better pairing than Tahu and Gali)

 

it's too obvious to ship my friend

 

 

No biological reproduction = no need for romance.

 

But that's irrelevant. Are you telling me that people who can't sexually reproduce can't love?

 

No, that's ridiculous. But the biological imperative behind that is what makes romantic love, as interpreted by Greg in that post, and in this universe that imperative does not exist, ergo, no romantic love.

 

Boy oh boy.

I'm not going to jump right into this but I have to just say this.

No, biological imperative makes neither romantic nor sexual love. It just doesn't. Sexual reproduction has nothing to do with love, romantic inclination, or sexual desire. Greg decanonized all of this rather than face the quagmire that is the romantic spectrum. When it comes down to it, he didn't want to simply say "bionicles don't reproduce because they don't have genitals" but he skirted around the issue with the now infamous "romance isn't canon" quote, despite there being obvious allusions to relationships of the sort in canon (and non-canon) material.

I ship Hewkii and Macku like any sensible person. I also ship Gali and Kopaka (which is a far better pairing than Tahu and Gali) and I ship Krahka and Onewa by popular demand.

also Tren Krom and Roodaka because WHO DOESN'T

The marketing team at the time believed their market was primarily young boys and created an unrealistic ratio based on their idea of what would or would not sell to that market. It's more a product of its time since we know that the ratio is an aritificial element of a vicious cycle that conditions boys to believe their toys should be "boy themed", and "boy-themed" toys sell better to boys as a direct result of this.

I'd rather see a 3:3 gender ratio and I genuinely believe the impact on sales would be practically negligible, but I doubt the marketing and development departments are willing to be the ones to take such a progressive step. It's too bad.

They only had six elements because those were the ones represented in physical 2004-2005 sets. The story team wrote six elements on Metru-Nui because that's what was in the sets, and kids want to read stories about the characters they bought. There could be more elaborate ideas but in the end it boils down to a practical story devised to suport a basic marketing idea.

That said, it was stated that the island was segregated into primary elemental districts, but matoran of other elements were shown living in other districts. If tertiary elements existed in the matoran population of Metru-Nui, they were never explicitly denied, they simply weren't mentioned.