nin-bing-o!

Applications Open!

Welcome back to our favorite event! The Zine of Elements continues onto its next stage, Applications! From now until December 14th at 6:00 pm EST, anyone is welcome to apply to participate in the zine.

Artist form || Writer form

You are welcome to apply as both an artist and a writer, but depending on the amount of interest, you may only be accepted as one or the other.

Thank you all for your support so far! We're excited to see what you have in store for us.

For more information on our zine, check out our pinned post. If you don't have the time to apply now but would like to be reminded to do so later, you can drop your tumblr username in this form to be notified twenty-four hours before the forms close.

Welcome to the Zine of Elements!

Zine Information Doc || FaQ || Updates || Interest poll || Add yourself to the alert list || Application form TBA

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Zine of Elements! This fanzine project is centered around celebrating the LEGO Ninjago TV series’ various lesser-appreciated elemental masters through fanfiction and fanart. Applications for the project will open in three weeks (Nov. 24, 2024) so follow this blog and read on for more information!

What is the Zine of Elements?

The Zine of Elements (ZoE) is a free, digital SFW fanzine hosted by @21st-century-ninja (Fabro) and @curiositythecryptid (Lis). Over the course of three months, 25 artists and 6 writers will work together to bring the background elemental masters to life!

The ZoE is a canon-focused zine, which means that contributors will be asked to create works that fall beneath the canon umbrella (see the Zine Doc for more details). While the ninja are allowed to be background characters in any works created, they cannot be the subject matter, as this is a zine dedicated to the lesser-seen elemental masters.

Woohoo! We've made it to the first stage of fic fest: prompting period! If you have an ao3 account, you can now officially head over to the prompting page to share your ideas with the world!

Don’t have an ao3? You can also submit prompts through this google form (only use this option if you don't have an ao3 account.) Prompting will run from April 6th to April 27th.

Remember:

Prompts must be SFW

Prompts can be about any aspect of ninjago, including but not limited to seasons 1-16, DR, books, comics, or the movie!

If you do submit a prompt about dragons rising, please write DR SPOILERS at the top of your prompt

Want to participate in the event but writing for your own idea and not someone else’s? There will be an option for self-prompting when claiming opens.

In celebration of prompting opening, there's also a silly little gif prompting game over here! Screenshot and share your results and what ideas might spawn from them.

Don't know how to prompt? The forms, both of them, are pretty self-explanatory, but if you want a more detailed breakdown, click that read more.

schedule || ao3 prompting form and collection || claiming form || dropout form || prompting without ao3 form || updates tag

What's a fic fest?

A fic fest is an event not unlike a secret santa in which fic writers create a story based on someone else’s prompt. The twist here is that instead of some mod assigning you a recipient, you get to choose the prompt that you write! Prompts are submitted by the community (writers and non-writers alike) on ao3, and over a period of two months writers will create a fic based one of those prompts.

How do I participate?

There are two ways to participate in the fest: prompting and claiming/writing. No sign up is required for prompting, and you can decide at any time within that two-month period whether or not you're going to write. You can participate in just prompting, just claiming/writing, or both!

Kai thinks about what Lloyd said at the beginning of their conversation. How many people have pretended to be this kid’s friend, only to stab him in the back? He doesn’t have anyone.

And, well, Kai happens to have a friend group dedicated to hating Garmadon anyway, so there’s only one natural conclusion to be drawn here.

Lloyd needs to join the Secret Ninja team.

or:

tasked by Green to find new recruits for the team, Kai finds his eye drawn back over and over again to one particular person. Now if only Green would get over whatever issue he has with Lloyd Garmadon joining.

        📃 Lloyd & Kai, Lloyd & Kai & Nya, Everyone         📃 Rated T, G content         📃 Secret Identity, Identity Reveal, Angst and Fluff         📃 Movie!verse         📃 5682 words, complete         📃 read on ao3 here!

sliding in two days late with a birthday boy fic!!! movie!verse bc man I love these kids :D  I hope you enjoy!

Excerpt and ninbingo board under the cut; the prompts were confrontation and reveal!

Kai starts to notice him more and more often.

There’s probably a principle or something to it.  Now that Kai has Lloyd Garmadon on his mind, he can’t help but see him everywhere: in the back of his classes, against the hallway walls, in the shadows of the school.

And he’s not even doing anything out of the ordinary!  He’s still doing his normal routines, his normal routes; nothing has changed but he’s suddenly realizing just how easily Lloyd Garmadon fades into the background of everything.

so basically Kai and Lloyd consistently fight over snickerdoodles (its a sibling thing)

— @ninjago-bingo

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"DAD!"

Lloyd, the Green Ninja.

Lloyd, the one chosen by Fate.

Lloyd, the one who has to see his beloved father undergo a painful, tragic transformation.

His father is being possessed by the Overlord.

His father is in pain, in agony, he is screaming in anguish.

And Lloyd, the Green Ninja, is destined to defeat this father of his.

It hurts. His stomach feels sick, he wants to run to his dad and hug him, tell him it's okay, that he's there for him. But he can't.

It's Lloyd destiny to defeat his dad. Perhaps it means killing him.

Tears are streaming both of their faces.