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the #1 princess in the world ☀️

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I want to be like you by フキダシコットン on X

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The Ultimate Compilation of Pokémon Cuteness 😢

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Every time she's on screen I start destroying furniture

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[ Guy & Hal & Kyle & John]

Trying to get used to a different drawing tablet and I was softing pinterest for a meme to draw over and saw the guy in the fridge and I was like "guys what if I put Kyle in the fridge..."

And now we're here ! :D

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YES YES YES

After watching s2 and thinking about what could've been better, I couldn't help but think about the fmab finale, which I think had a very satisfactory resolution of conflicts.

As perfectly pinpointed by op, fmab isn't immune to criticism, it had its fair share of problems, but the political conflict was handled so much better. Because the characters who had harmful actions simply recognized that and worked to try to remediate those.

I really like Caitlyn, especially s1!Caitlyn, she's my wife, I love her, but the way she was handled in s2 just threw me off. I wasn't upset about her getting on a dark path, but they had at least two very basic ways of doing it well, and they fumbled:

They could either go on the villain, irredeemable path, which is pretty much self-explanatory. Which is completely fine.

Or, if they really wanted to redeem her, they could make her reflect on her actions, feel guilt, and make her put in the work to make things right (or, at least, a little less wrong).

Instead they chose to go the "oh she did all of those things because she was consumed by revenge and grief, but then Vi called her a cupcake, she let all of those feelings go away (without any self-reflection btw cause who cares), let Jinx go, and now everything is fine :D" route, which doesn't make sense at all.

At the end of the day, she lost her eye, but, out of that, she is back at her privileged life with her girlfriend and doesn't seem to do anything to (at least try to) change or remediate the system that oppressed Zaunites and her actions that supported it.

There's no moment where she faces the consequences for her actions, she doesn't reflect on the wrong she did to Zaunites and feels guilt, Vi doesn't call her out, and no one else does it either.

If they wanted her to be good in the end, they should have made her build up Zaun brick by brick with her bare hands.

It just assassinated her character, s1 Caitlyn had such a compassionate heart and desire to make things right. Why don't have her reflect, realize she was wrong, reclaim that, and actually work to make things right? If you don't want to do that just let her be a villain then 😭

Don't even let me start on the implications the ending that we got had on Vi's character, she would never let it slide like that. Since the beginning, one of her main pillars is fighting against Piltover's oppression and you're telling me that she wouldn't do anything about her own girlfriend corroborating that oppression?

It just felt unnatural

i recently finished watching fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood and it gave me ideas of how caitlyn could've had a better resolution to her character arc. the show definitely has its problems. for example, scar wanting to kill the soldiers responsible for the genocide of ishvalans is portrayed as just him wanting revenge or how the ishvalan genocide is mostly told from the perspective of war criminals, the conflict in fma has a better conclusion compared to arcane.

in fma, characters like roy, riza, and alex all express guilt for what they did during the ishvalan campaign of extermination and believe there should be consequences for what happened. by the end of the show, roy becomes the leader of amestris and talks about helping ishvalans return to their homes and restoring their culture.

what should've happened in arcane was caitlyn feeling guilt over oppressing zaunites and at least try to use her wealth to alleviate the poverty in zaun. caitlyn losing an eye is similar to roy losing his eyesight but the latter is more powerful as symbolism since he acknowledges his role in the genocide of ishvalans and is remorseful about it, the same can't be said for caitlyn.

this is why i don't think caitlyn losing an eye is redemption and is meaningful symbolism. roy becoming blind symbolizes how he was blind to the corruption of the military. in comparison, caitlyn losing an eye doesn't feel substantial since she's never confronted by anyone for what she did to zaun.

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I just wanted to say to the person who wrote in the wiki that Caitlyn is 6'1 with heels: you ruined my day, my week, my life, I NEED my tall girlfriend

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˗ˏˋ sparkle dividers for writing ´ˎ˗

[bonus+] black, white, grey

▸ made by me / free to use / likes, rb and comments are appreciated! / enjoy. *kiss*

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credits to me. feel free to use and save. of course credit would be appreciated but it is not required. I’m just making these for fun <3 p.s. I did not make the sparkle gif itself, just changed the color of it. I have a couple other colors but didn’t include them, I have them in my drafts tho in unfinished story layouts and what not.

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I'm now rewatching young justice and why the hell did dick thought that those ugly ass sunglasses would keep people from finding out his identity? 😭

You're telling me none of them ever heard about dick grayson, adopted son of a billionaire celebrity?

But it's okay, I'll still take his hand in mariage 🙄

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I'm in love with Michiko Aoyama's writing style, it's so comforting and soft

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When I'm scrolling mindlessly on Tumblr and come across a fic that sounds so good, but don't actually have time to read it in the moment

I could should copy link, send it to someone, reblog it, just do anything to actually save it for later, but I'm like "nah, it's gonna be easy to find it again, I'll just remember the tag I was in"

Turns out it's never that easy and ofc I don't fucking remember how I found it

And then I'm left in pain

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A part of me will always be praying for your face in the crowd.

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Mel in her noxian fit

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Chosen of the Wolf

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Lil arcane doodles :)

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Y'all every stop while reading a fic, specifically of Haikyuu or a more slice of life anime/series and realize how lost from the plot it is? Like not in a bad way!! But I'm 30k deep in a fic where the captains get lost hiking in a forest and ushijima and Oikawa are like fighting off a fucking bear while Bokuto is being drowned by a cub, Daichi had a spider bite and Kuroo is panicking that he will be the first to be eaten by everyone else and like it's a good, well written, in character fic but I had to pause two hours in and just, how did we get here??? You know😭?