#☆ mel yaps .

[lilyyx0]

THEY LOOK SO DKDJJSJSKD TOGETHER

Credits to the creator: olgasnoww (on x)

[kidicaruslover911]

idk what mel was still seeing in jayce when she literally had THE cuntiest victorian cat lady informant that dresses like a 1920s underground cabaret blues singer to ever serve like right next to her

[joejhang]

every insane thing in arcane s2 act 1 in no particular order (spoilers)

CAITVI KISS (they're actually all i think about your honour)

that HUG (i SCREAMED oh my GODDDD)

bro s2 jinx lowk has a different flavour and i'm loving it

jinx and sevika dynamic is actually really funny LMFAO

when sevika's new arm started playing music and jinx was just enjoying herself (HELP she's so unserious)

viktor in his jesus era??? i KNEW i wasn't projecting the religious undertones

mel is going THROUGH IT

ambessa what's goin on

bro...the kid...she's gonna die isn't she

the jinx and vi fight scene took me out actually like bro why r the girls fighting

viktor and jayce divorced (not even that big of a jayvik shipper but i felt this one...the affection that held them together...yeah)

VI you will ALWAYS be my favourite idgaf what the fandom says or thinks about you i LOVE YOU ALWAYS

cait said "i won't change" but she already has GOD TELL THE SAPPHICS TO LEAVE ME ALONE

on that note i WILL be defending caitlyn for everything she does she has so much flavour oh my god

ekko and heimerdinger most unserious characters ever

on a more serious note tho i love ekko i'm soooo interested to see what he gets up to this season

lowk i think jinx is likely to be more favourable towards vi from here on out given how their fight ended and since vi's probably gonna enter her emo pitfighter era post-caitvi breakup and since we saw her betting on vi PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE JUST MAKE UP AND HUG OR SOMETHING

caitvi breakup that no one is allowed to talk about or i'll crash out

bro the way the season started too...that was HEAVY

i lowk like the faster pace this season last season felt like a lot of buildup imo

what is this shady black rose shit

tf actually is the arcane bro

jayce and vik girlbossed a bit too close to the sun and might've woken up some ancient uncontrollable power haha

GIVE ME ACT 2 NOW I'M FOAMING AT THE MOUTH

[dry-yellow-marker]

dating jayce talis headcannons!!

he leaves you for viktor

[jayktoralldaylong]

Now that Arcane is over, I wanna yap about the opening song because it is by far my favourite thing in Arcane when it comes to symbolism and foreshadowing. 🤩🤩🤩

First! We start with the sisters, with Powder LITERALLY being carved out of Vi. 🥺😭❤️💙

It is so iconic that the lyrics launch with Jayce holding the hextech gem stone, to the lyrics "I wake up the sound." Since his invention basically launches the entire plot. 🤩

Then Viktor follows IMMEDIATELY after with "put my ear up to the ground" cause he's coming from the Undercity. He's climbing from the bottom to the top. Also, the way he follows after Jayce's sound with Ear to the ground like he heard Jayce's sound and immediately came to find him. 🥺 Which isn't so far off since he saved the poor guy from suicide.

Then Caitlyn is the stories that are told because she's from a prestigious noble family, and she's trying to find her place.

Heimerdinger has my absolute favourite line. "My back is to the world that was smiling when I turned." Because he is a Councillor, a politician that has existed for 300 years, and when he helped established Piltover, he made sure that everyone was happy. However, he was completely BLIND to all the suffering in the Undercity. So, as far as he knows, everyone is still happy and he's unaware of the suffering going on at his back!

Then follows with Mel, who is the greatest and wealthiest politician in Piltover.

Which contrasts with Vander and Silco who both ran the Undercity at separate points during the story. Vander has the girls in his hands, he's trying to protect them, but Silco completely overshadows that and consumes them.

Then launches into Ekko's "Everybody wants to be my enemy", which I did not get the first time I watched Season 1. But now I understand with him fighting for the less privileged in the Undercity, and Silco framing the Firelights for all his dirty deeds, which makes Piltover target them, so Ekko is genuinely fighting everyone. 😂😭 From Piltover to the Undercity.

Then it expands on our major characters (Jayce, Viktor, Caitlyn) also going through their own struggles and fights that are expanded on that season. [We hit the picture limit 💀]

With the final showdown being between Vi and Jinx, which could symbolise anything from their sisterhood to the different paths they follow.

[kr-starz]

Arcane height estimates since Im bored and I’m yapping just to yap

Jinx - like 5’3

Vi - 5’9 since she’s noticeably shorter than Cait but taller than Jinx and Ekko

Caitlyn- 6’0 since she’s taller than Vi but shorter than Jayce

Ekko - 5’7 shorter than Vi, taller than Jinx

Jayce - 6’3 Tall.

Viktor - 5’9-5’11, shorter than Jayce but is still relatively tall since he’s probably always slouching and sitting down not at his full height

Mel -5’10 Noticeably shorter than Jayce yet still tall

Sevika - 6’1, taller than Vi by a noticeable amount

Silco - 5’6 taller than jinx but only by like half a head.

Vander - 6’5

Ambessa - 6’6 Taller than Jayce by a noticeable amount

[pinkysberg]

is it misogynistic to critique a flawed female character? of course not. is it misogynistic if the only characters you find yourself investing time into actively critiquing are the female characters? i mean, if i were you i'd maybe invest some time into self reflection.

also lets put our intersectionality caps on while we're at it. maybe you find your critiques being levelled more frequently, with more intensity at a queer/gnc presenting character, or a black character, so on so forth.

we can all be flawed and any good character is flawed. that's what makes them interesting. but perhaps we can dedicate more energy into dissecting the misdeeds of dudes in media more often as well. i don't know. how about that?

[snakes-of-the-undercity]

Potentially deep fried take -

Maddie (our adorable pro-martial law ginger) is essentially just topside powder. She’s a girl who’s grown up around violence but in such a way that it seems almost idealistic as she hasn’t seen the real horrors of it. Her idol(s) are viewed as leader figures in regard to her country and her own ‘family’ (Cait/Ambessa & Vi in Maddies case and Vander/Sev & Vi for powder)

Her willingness to commit acts of violence for approval and/or what she perceives as ‘justice’ are also very similar to Powder.

She’s written as disarmingly sweet but also rather ignorant, as is Powder (though for different reasons; Maddies ignorance is to the undercity and the world whereas Powder was ignorant to the intentions and rules of others, both of which has directly or indirectly contributed to major conflicts in the story)

They both think themselves capable of more than they are, as evidenced by Powder killing her entire family ‘only trying to help’ (god I hate that line it makes me want to scream) and Maddie attempting to take on Shimmer knights and joining Caits task force even though she seems to be a new recruit with little remarkable skill.

Maddie also, like Powder, doesn’t seem to care about large-scale problems and more so on what those closest to her think and approve of.

And idk I’m just hung up on the whole ‘idealizing violence without a proper understanding of it because those they look up too have had to use it’ thing ig

[kayberrie]

Sketch dump?

Ofc! Fair warning, they’re all arcane and they’re all super low quality tho.

[mel-amante]

yelling out ‘what is love’ from the window out of nowhere is so funny because you can get a lot of responses and most of them aren’t right . like

‘BABY DON’T HURT ME!!’ ✅

‘whatever joker and batman have going on’ ❌

‘whatever superman and batman have going on’ ❌

‘whatever catwoman and batman have going on’ ❌

‘whatever two face and batman have going on’ ❌

etc, etc…

[androgymess]

ARCANE SEASON 2 YAP FEST, SPOILERS season 2 is rushed, to no ones surprise since netflix put a gun to everyone's head for an early release, but that aside, i do personally enjoy reading between the lines of the show

the jesus (smtimes moses) and judas (ramses can apply too) depiction of viktor and jayce, ambessa's protectiveness over mel making some real sense now, amebessa's foreshadowed death and mel picking up the pieces in the intro etc etc, all good stuff

i LOVE this season dont get me wrong, but the speedrunning and time skips (esp when caitlyn goes through TWO ARCS, IN LIKE, SPLIT SECONDS?) i do fucking hope she has not forgiven jinx all willy nilly after becoming reincarnation of hitler for a good minute there

like PLEASEEE TAKE UR TIME, WE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A SEASON 3 MAN. or atleast let the writers cook up for another 3 years, i LOVED the current two arcs of season 2 but i mourn the lack of fucking dialogue? jayce and viktor barely talking is crazy to me?

relying on songs (which are bangers) to carry the emotional weight of your scenes, we have MORE fight scenes than dialogue between important characters, i loved s1 because the characters...talked, you could fill in the subtext there too, at some point s2's subtext was just me over-reading into every aspect of the show, isha is a plot device at the end of the day, the noxian storyline didn't have enough time to stand on its legs, idk, show me more scenes with caitlyn going further unhinged and drowning in mourning that causes more death to people

plus the black rose stuff is...idk? introduced too quickly, that is one of the main problems with the show, it expects people to get emotionally attached to certain things or characters and neglects alot of its core cast in favor of progression

but when the plot starts progressing without your characters, it makes me as a viewer also lag behind. before anyone comes for my neck, like i said i LOVE seasons 2, i love it enough to be critical of its shortcomings in my humble nobody opinion, i loved not being spoonfed and babied by the show. i can even look past the pacing issues, but the plot devices we got this season is crazy, one offs, first draft storylines as one of my friends said, but eh, better we get arcane than have netflix cancel it.

to wrap this up, they are gonna explore more league storylines, probably in the works already so that is something to look forward to

[zeddylux]

Huge shoutout to that Caitlyn Stan who sent me a nasty message saying I would lose all my followers if I didn't stop "yapping." Babycakes my followers have more than doubled in the last week I think you might just be wrong in your interpretations 😂

[kidicaruslover911]

- so i just saw an hexstrap ad on tiktok. yeah.

yk what hell yeah. ts looked realistic af too. just sucks that it’s so expensive dude.

flying hexgates they said.

[joejhang]

every insane thing in arcane season 2 act 3

ep 7 was a masterpiece truly took me out

lowk really funny the way they cut from the happy, (almost) perfect world au to jayce hallucinating and eating raw meat

TIMEBOMB CANON????? lowk didn't see the appeal of it UNTIL NOW WTF WAS THATTTTT

au powder MY GIRLLLLL

dude they yassified silco in the au too. i'm hearing y'all out this time.

HEIMER???? he was such a real one bro

jayce hallucinating mel and viktor and the two of them being interchangeable/intertwined in his mind. which could mean nothing.

also on that note i KNEW everyone was too quick to judge my boy jayce GOD what an interesting character

the "pretend like it's the first time" thing kind of killed me a bit i might've cried a little

it really just proves WE COULD'VE HAD IT ALLLLLL

killing IS a cycle

jinx w her hair out was something i didn't know i needed

caitlyn and jinx's dynamic is SO YUM i need more of their tense interactions

caitvi argument like five mins into the episode lowk gave me life I LOVE ANGST

jinx and vi continue to kill me slowly

everyone who ever said vi gave up on jinx or was a bad older sister i hope u guys CHOKE on ur fucking words

caitvi sex scene...in a jail cell...bro they were wildin

"i saw someone" "i don't fucking care" SUCH A VI THING TO SAY GODDDD I LOVE THEM

they have sm chemistry god

somehow they made mel's character design even more gorgeous than before tf

viktor was lowk wildin but i don't really care i love that man

ngl i was kinda like "viktor baby what ru doing" somewhere in there but i knew they'd work it out

"i'll miss our talks" "no you won't" HAHAHAHHA SKY'S A REAL ONE

jinx boutta khs and then ekko stops her FOAMING AT THE MOUTHHHHH THEY DESERVED MORE SCREENTIME TOGETHER

i knew maddie was sus.

jayvik canon jayvik canon jayvik canon jayvik canon

honestly it would've been less gay if they kissed

everyone is DOOMED oh my god

jinx swooping in to save the day WHO ELSE CHEERED

lowkey i miss her twin tails but i get why she cut them

JINX AND VI FIGHTING TOGETHER AGAIN UGH SISTERHOOD

"i'm always with you sis" IT REALLY IS ABOUT THEM IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THEM

i actually don't think jinx is dead that scene w cait and the air vents isn't there for no reason

not mad about the open ending tho

SO impressed how they managed to tie so many loose ends together arcane creators you will always be famous

again love the fast pace it does it for me

also cait was looking SO FINE in that last scene i actually gasped when i saw her on screen i love women oh my god

shoutout to caitvi for being the ONLY couple that gets a happy ending in this fucking show

ekko MVP GIVE MY MAN HIS BREAD

[arolegos]

cooking up a ninjago arcane au rn and what if i was evil

[vaseflowerstt]

ok ok ok RANT TIME bc im not ok

• HEIMERDINGER. RIOT. Riot you did NOT. Oh were are BEEFING

• Mel holy shit she’s amazing. Live laugh love Mel

• Ekko!! He did so good I’m so happy he got his own episode (which was a very strange one, but nonetheless)

• Sesbian lex? Thumbnail reaction face the entire time

• Evil Mattie. I TOLD MY FATHER “people think she’s a Noxian spy, which is actually a good theory” and he brushed it off. I WAS RIGHT. I WAS CORRECT. AND SHE DIED.

• Sevika DIDN’T die!! (But at what cost?)

• Jinx. God that was fucking sad. I didn’t think riot/fortiche would actually do it.

• I was a little too happy at Ambessa’s death. Oops

• Viktor succumbed to the League of Legends gods

• CAIT CALLING VI “VIOLET” MY HEART (I cried even harder)

• Jayce, you did good buddy.

Personally, I didn’t really like the ending. But I rarely ever do. I just felt like it was missing something idk.

I’m actually shaking rn