samtheplatypus

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there is something oh so beautiful about loving a fictional character. to be presented with an idea and wish to know everything about it. to fall head over heels for them, and that love persisting through all their flaws. it doesn't matter that they are fictional; the love is oh so real, and true love knows no bounds.

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I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead

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he got that sass thrown back in his face in approximately 3 minutes (jayvik and the ugly fuck singed as sonic 3)

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i think... this is flirting.

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How to Paint Light by jonhuangart

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This Lucio's birthday falls on a Monday.

Monday = Montag.

Happy Montag Montag to the Arcana fandom

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Two sides of the same coin

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Stobotnik as well

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A little soft Jayvik for my soul. The coffee is cold but the blanket is warm. 🖤

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I was 3 🧍🧍🧍

it used to be 2007 you know

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You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old.

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JayVik because yes

Out of my way gay boy

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Menaces. Me and @linddzz talking about the terrible habits of our favourite twig boys let to this.

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The Arcana + Gravity Falls

So, M6 in the gravity falls style

+ my friend's and my MC because why not

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Can I just say that I really fucking HATE how the majority of the Arcane fandom praising Season 2 is deeply in the mindset of Piltover in reality? Like, it's not even funny, and I don't know where to begin.

I'll just start with Silco because he's this huge metaphorical character who is clearly written as the embodiment of a long list of sociopolitical agendas in the real world. And before I start, pardon my English, since it's not my first language.

I know y'all in the Anglo-American sphere tend to focus more on classism, inequality and police brutality theme. But the way I see it, THAT and every single dialogue plus the specific word choice of Silco & Sevika literally SCREAMS of postcolonial discourse (I guess F. Fanon is most well-known to y'all) and even some part of M. Foucault's philosophy, etc. I'm writing "etc." because the list will go on forever if I describe all these creepy historical parallels between the depiction of Zaun's internal conflict and what real countries that have been (or still are) colonies went through, and what real colonizer propaganda looked like during that time—like how those characters who fight for the nation's independence are the big bad villain and psychotic monsters who need "redemption arc" therapy, while those who cooperate with the oppressors are the good-hearted familial heroes of this story.

So upon reflection, if this fandom were to be a collective intelligence, we should have asked ourselves, "Is this show truly not problematic for portraying such a character as villainous?" and thus, "Is this show thematically implying far-right propaganda?" even before Season 2 presented us with this insane plot that glamorized the militaristic fascist aristocrat proclaiming martial law as a 'romantic revenge arc'.

But what did the majority of the fandom do since 2022? They were so busy shitting on this dead villain, claiming he has done so much wrong that he doesn't even deserve to be praised as a character. So instead of trying to understand where this character's point of view is coming from, they blindly hate him to the point where they are now fabricating a list of crimes that he didn't even commit, editing false information on the fandom wiki profile.

What's more frustrating to me is that I thought the problem was media illiteracy all along, but oh no, I was being way more optimistic than the reality. Now that I’ve read all these interviews from the showrunner and main writer—Linke and Overton—I get the sense of why Season 2 turned out like that. The more they babble on about this show, the clearer it becomes that they don't even acknowledge how messed up their political views are, which are so far-right. Taking the seemingly-centrist line doesn't make you fair, you're just passively siding with the oppressors. And lesbian sex scene doesn't make this show "progressive", in fact, hiding oppressor fantasy behind a rainbow flag makes it even more treacherous.

So yeah, I think critical voices should be much louder than this, but watching the majority of this fandom neglacting problems only to praise the show? I think my hope for humanity kind of get lost more and more as time passes, lol.

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this reminds me of the time in 2025 when someone pushed down the leaning tower of pisa and spacex donated $1.6 billion to fix it

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