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some stuff i never finished and probably never will 😻

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No because what do you mean they were best friends as kids and Ekko had a crush on her, and then he tries to ‘rescue’ her from Silco but she doesn’t want to go with him and they end up on opposing sides as enemies and he insists that ‘Powder is gone, only Jinx is left’ but he paints a mural for Powder as one of the people they’ve lost and when he has the chance to kill her he can’t bring himself to do it because he still cares about her and she tries to blow them both up because she views death as mercy and wants to die with him and then he gets sent to another universe where she’s still Powder and he falls in love with her all over again and he goes back to his universe convinced he can save her and he has to watch her kill herself over and over again before managing to convince her to live and join the fight and they do and he wears her paint and then she just… dies anyways and now he’s lost her for like, the NINTH TIME

Arcane writers you will start coughing in 10 days

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Episode 4 sevika…….. i’ve been unwell about it

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they didn't kiss but their destinies are intertwined forever. they didn't kiss but in every universe they find each other and only jayce can make viktor understand his faults. they didnt kiss but jayce doomed viktor to his fate as the machine herald and then saved him. they didn't kiss but their love literally saved the world

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im sick guys

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"You were never broken Viktor, there is beauty in imperfections. They made you who you are."😔😔😔

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do you and bro ever just explode into a bisexual kaleidoscope

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jayce enduring a symbolic rendition of viktor's trauma is so painful and so, so clever.

being stricken down and immobilized through sheer accident or, in viktor's case, a cruelly random quirk that caused his disability.

then physically dragging himself from the lowest level of zaun to piltover, much like how viktor spent his youth reaching toward the promise piltover offered, but only if he could "pull himself up by the boot straps" and get there on his own. socioeconomic forces working against him be damned.

i appreciate arcane reminding us of viktor's origins - the reason he is so called to help people and, eventually, save himself - and putting jayce through the ringer - the contrast between he and viktor's lived experiences is front and center throughout season 1. the writers send jayce, and the audience, on a grueling journey to contemplate those experiences and how they've manifested in these intertwined characters.

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okay I’ll say it nicer:

australia was colonised according to the myth of terra nullius (or empty land). ever since the very early days of colonialism, the land has been framed as something untameable and unliveable. this has justified acts of violence against the first peoples here, in that they are seen as non-people. it has justified the destruction of sacred land in the goal of making australia look more european. (an example: our capital city contains a man-made lake that is now nothing better than a fetid carp pond. it’s disgusting and unnatural). basically, the idea of “taming australia’ has justified endless harm

“everything in australia is weird and dangerous” is not just some silly meme phrase, it is something that arcs back to the very beginning of white settlers laying claim to ‘australia’. and personally I am very sick of seeing it thrown around like it means nothing

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Like literally in every timeline Jayce saves Viktor. It always ends in death but it also always ends with them together.

They stopped one another from killing themselves and then they died together.

Mutual ambition that lead to mutual love that ultimately lead to mutual destruction but throughout it all it was the love that was mutual and that's what matters more than anything

what the fuck is this

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jayce’s final conversation with viktor was sooooo. It was never about this grandeur or “glorious evolution” it was always about that boy in the undercity, playing with his boat and having to look up at the other kids. It was always about the kid with the bad leg wanting to play with everyone else. So he tried to change himself, make himself perfect—but the burden of change was never supposed to be his. He shouldn’t have to be perfect in order to be loved. And Jayce saw this, told Viktor, “you were never broken.” And Viktor, now a twisted, gnarled thing, warped in his pursuit of perfect, looks across his sea of failure and asks, “why do you persist?” Because he’s not perfect now: he’s grey and damaged and evil, right? But the answer is so obvious. It was never about Viktor being broken, or perfect, or a so-called Herald to Jayce. As long as Viktor is Viktor, Jayce won’t leave. Because he promised. He promised.

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do you ever see something and just. get hit with the most visceral and distilled emotions over the nature of humanity

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give this graphics designer a raise

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I just thought this thread on character creation in RPGs was neat.