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A Palestinian boy throws a rock during the first intifada

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Netflix be out there breaking our hearts before thanksgiving 🦃

Should I add the Tyson Paul fight 🤔

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it's so insane that for generations there has existed a type of guy who is convinced that the primary beneficiary of a marriage contract is the woman and not the man

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Yeah! Plus, it's also good for Jayce to be around someone like Ekko.

It's been shown before that Jayce and Viktor are two geniuses, unparalleled in their brilliance—until they find Jinx's equipment. Until they discover how Jinx, someone without a formal Academy education, managed to decipher the runes of the Arcane. It's clear that Jinx is equal, if not an even brighter mind, than Jayce and Viktor in some regards. But another thing these three share besides their intellect is how poorly they handle it.

Jayce and Viktor's ambitions. Jinx's trauma and fears.

Ekko, on the other hand, has been recognized by Heimerdinger—and again, this Zaunite has no formal Academy education as well. Meaning he stands equal to the three previous eggheads.

But while Jayce and Viktor run headfirst into new discoveries without necessarily committing to the legwork of fine-tuning it (understandable, given Viktor's limited time); and Jinx's habit of destruction with her works, Ekko is different because his inventions are, in comparison, tame and humble.

Heimerdinger points out that the Firelights' hoverboards are impractical, yet Ekko manages to point out how the rotating blades are designed specifically for fissure air. He also shows that this tech isn't just for transportation—it's for fun too. It helps give the Firelights identity. It is how they get around, but also their leisure. They play games just as often as they run heists on the hoverboards.

And that really encapsulates Ekko's mentality. Jayce and Viktor are always, always forging ahead for the next big thing. Great things come of them, but as we see with the Wild Rune, also great danger. Jinx is obsessed with destruction and weaponry. Even the arm she builds for Sevika, which was tailor-made for Sevika's gambling habits, is impractical in the day-to-day.

Ekko's hoverboard isn't as eye-catching or as loud as the other's, but it's the piece of tech that humbles Heimerdinger. Brings him down to earth. It's the one piece of tech that was made for the people of the Lanes. Sure, there's dangers to it, but that also reflects Ekko and the Firelights' youth, energy and fearlessness.

Jayce needs that. Him and Viktor enabled each other. Mel guided him to greatness. Heimerdinger cultivated him. But no one yet has been able to properly ground Jayce Talis.

I think, if we get any scenes within Jayce, Ekko and Heimer's experience, it would be nice to see how Ekko imparts a grounded, level-headedness to Jayce that he always needed.

Jayce Talis believed in miracles so profoundly that he pursued them relentlessly. Ekko could never depend on the miracles of the Arcane. He depended on himself, his community, and the grit of every Zaunite that wanted to fight and live for a better world.

am i the only one strangely fond of these two bonding?

i just didn’t expect them to interact but it makes so much sense?

they are both two brilliant, talented guys. one coming from a place of wealth and opportunities, the other familiar with death and destruction only. two sides of the same coin.

also, i kind of want someone more mature to be there for ekko.

both him and powder lost everyone when they were children. but while she had silco before (not a good father figure but still one) and now sevika, ekko had nobody.

he had to grow up fast and learn how to live on his own. he turned out into a good, strong, clever boy. he is a leader and a defender and he’s more than capable of taking care of himself by now.

but he is in fact so young still. his father figure died when he was just a kid and no one ever filled that hole.

so, to have jayce interact with him, sharing his knowledge with him and being humbled by ekko, who shows him the brutal reality the people from zaun are forced to live in is kind of heartwarming.

i don’t know, i am just a softie when it comes to mentor/mentee-father/son-older brother/younger brother dynamics and i’ll hold tightly onto every little moment lmao.

can’t wait to see more of these two :”)

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What I liked best about Jinx and Sevika's first post-Silco talk was how well it implies why their grief is so pronounced. Every complaint the two lodged at Silco was an admission at how dependent Silco had become on them, how much he LET himself be dependent. Silco didn't NEED to let Jinx give him his eye medicine, he was perfectly capable of doing so in season one's first act. The same could be said about Sevika, because while it wasn't nearly as extreme as with Jinx, he didn't need to give her so much responsibility. Frankly it's dangerous for a kingpin to give their righthand so much power (it's supposed to be spread around), and everyone noticed, even idiots like Finn.

That's why their loss is so pronounced, in all the years they dedicated to Silco, he gave up just as much of himself to them. Silco weakened himself and trusted Sevika and Jinx to make up for it. They filled eachother out, they needed eachother, and without him there's just a hole what they all used to give eachother.

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Dan Da Dan manga readers. Hey. You. You fucking. Assholes.

You dickheads promised me this story was Regular Show but Battle Shonen.

You fucking liars. You deceivers. What the fuck was that?! I knew Acro-Silky's backstory was sad, I didn't know it was enough to paralyze me for two hours and have me call my mom just to cry and thank her for everything. Every little thing.

You cocksuckers. You assholes. Thanks for making sure I experienced this episode blind. God, that fucking... That fucking dance was beautiful.

I've seen many similar tragic backstories and plots like this, but I think the reason this hits hard isn't just the fact that it's grounded. This happens to women and mothers and daughters everywhere. It's not just that.

It's the fact that the main plot of this goddamned shonen is girl and boy searching for boy's fucking nuts.

I'm still crying, it hurts. God, it hurts.

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episode seven of dandadan is officially out and its so good perfectly adapting the first chapter to really not pull its punches the fight is great but clearly the priority was acro silkys flashback as it should be beyond that it also ended at the perfect point frankly the ability to really show motion made it hit even harder we think we cried watching this episode more and harder than we did even during our first read

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Had me crying and drooling all over my chicken curry, man wtf was that.

So that new episode of DanDaDan huh

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Percy Jackson is against bullying.

He is however very sad that neither Annabeth, Clarrise or Drew had met Octavian in camp Jupiter, because as much as he frowns on it he would pay any kind of money to see those three tear him a new one for acting like a little bitch he is.

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The Loose Cannon/The Anomaly

Enforcer/Spider-Society

The Punk

The Queer Woman played by Hailee Steinfeld

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refraining from a lot of election joke posting and instead I just donated $55 USD to gaza soup kitchen and i encourage anyone else to consider donating even a couple of dollars to the people who will be affected the most from whatever outcome happens

you can also donate to care for gaza here

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(Part 2 of my other post)

More chaotic Soulsborne/Arcane snippets from my disaster of a dream

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FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT!!

Even if most people are just joking, it bothers me when other people actually think it's all due to a failed relationship when the problem is actually bigger than that. Vi getting to this point isn't because she broke up with Caitlyn. She has bigger, more difficult things going on than just a failed relationship. Adding to that the most painful factor for Vi is when she fights Jinx, which is one of the factors that really affects her. She went from being protective of her sister to "hurting" her sister. (Even though her sister Jinx brought this on herself, but anyway)

"Losing Caitlyn was the last straw, as they say"

Caitlyn was the one who got Vi out of prison, She got her out of the worst place Vi had ever been in. And Caitlyn was the last person Vi could trust and now she's gone.

I mean you can see she wasn't that miserable when she was in prison because she said herself, "The only thing that kept me going, was the thought of getting back to you." Now her sister is gone and Caitlyn is gone, the only two people left in her life. It's only natural that she would come to this point after literally losing everything.

Vi now has no hope no purpose and no one left after all the people she's lost along the way. It's really hard for Vi.

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In honor of new arcane teaser dropping recently, here's a fan art I did in 2021 🌚

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More punks 🤎

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