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if anyone needs me. i will be in the corner. contemplating the characters

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shimmer family being silly

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brush test with Makima

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makima 🫀

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she gon get me!!!

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yes, thanks for checking in

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I will complain about Arcane all i want.

Season 1 lied and manipulated us into believing that the show was about oppression just to do a complete one eighty in Season 2 and turn into a fascist apologist show that defends oppressors in power and try to make you feel guilty for not feeling sorry for them. Expecting the oppressed to just forgive and forget with the cost of their lives with nothing in return.

We've been duped!

Bamboozled!

We've been speckledorfed!

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Continuing to meme like its s1

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The Green Knight

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truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

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wait till the tumblr girlies find out that in binary star systems sometimes one star will basically eat the other and kill them both - resulting in the most powerful thing a star could ever do in its life.

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what if we explored each other’s bodies [not sex] [i open your ribcage up and start messing around in that thang]

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AU Silco is an abomination and here's why

Disclaimer: I'm not going to touch on his forgiveness line in the context of its implications about the meta, this post will be exclusively focused on how the AU (with the help of the flashback from s2) ruined his character at its core.

Alright. So the thing we're gonna start with is a bit unexpected, but this is a key element that led me to this thought in the first place.

S2 redesigned young Silco and in the flashback he looks like this

Pretty normal stuff, all things considered. It may not be to everyone's taste (meeeee), but in the grand scheme of things it's not that important. Or is it?

Now we come to Exhibit B, Silco's design in the AU.

Oh. That's um. Interesting. Silco in the AU, where he forgave Vander and became a good boy, looks almost exactly like his younger version in s2. Same jacket, vest with a v-cut underneath, even collar of his shirt is positioned exactly the same.

But what is exactly the problem here? Well. Let's go back to Silco's monologue at the opening scene in s1 ep3.

There is a very important part here. "It's funny. You could pass a lifetime without ever facing a choice like that. But it changes you forever".

That is the core element of Silco as a character - Change. Once change has happened, there is no going back. And this point is supported by the show itself throughout season 1. Vi and Jinx changed, so their relationship can never go back to what it was before. Vander changed, so he's not going to fight alongside Silco like before. Hextec and shimmer changed the world, so it can never be the same as before. Mel changed, so she no longer wants to be a part of her family (and its legacy) like before. You get the point.

So why Silco, after such a worldbreaking change that has happened to him, looks exactly the same as his younger self when he never faced the "Have you had enough?" question? When he hasn't yet made a choice that no, he hasn't had enough? It's like all his experiences, all his beliefs and convictions were wiped completely clean, as if saying "what happened to you doesn't matter, actually". You can always change back to the person you were, all that's needed for that is a half-baked "apology" letter, or something else. But it doesn't even matter what was needed for that, the main problem that it happened in the first place. This design right here, and Silco's line about forgiveness, is a spit in the face of everything he stands for. Everything that his character is about.