#☆ mel yaps .

[starry-kittens]

Wolf Rodger….My beloved.

I can’t stop thinking about how SILLY WereRodger would be. He would be so so silly pleaseeeeee🙏🙏😭😭😭

(More under the cut)

And when I say WereRodger I don’t mean the cliches I mean this guy has to beat the silly urges off with a stick because. He’s hungry?? Bro is diving in the nearest thing that smells like food and rummage. A stick?? He’s gotta go get that thing, he has to get it NOW ITS ESCAPING.

The funniest part about it is that Rodger is usually so calm and composed that if anyone sees him doing shit like that it’s absolutely MIND BOGGLING to them.

-What do you MEAN Rodger was howling at the moon? Don’t say jokes like that, he would never do that.

-You saw Rodger running off on all fours?? Yeah, Right. Sure pal 🙄🙄

Only a few people know he’s like this, including Toodles who just thinks it’s so cool having a wolf dad (especially with how easy she can win arguments with the wag of a stick lmao) She’s used it him acting wacky sometimes dad just likes to howl at the moon and dig holes in our backyard that’s cool.

I’m considering making a fic about it since I do have a little bit of an idea on a potential story for it. More comic’s about it too probably lmao because I just love Werewolf Rodger and the potential about him.

Bonus funny:

[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

[melit0n]

One of the lines that caught my eye in Emergence was "So tell me what you meant by 'living past your half life'?" In chemistry, a "half life" is the time it takes for a substance to decay to half of its original mass.

Further, half lives are also prominent in physics, specifically, nuclear physics. It has the same definition—amount of time taken for a nuclei to half itself—but is, as its name suggests, focused on how much useful energy is produced via the decomposition.

This also links in with the later lyrics of "space dust for your fuel rods." Fuel rods are used in the control of a nuclear decay reaction within a nuclear power plant. This could be interpreted as either Vessel's lack of autonomy, or Sleep losing dominion.

If it's anything to note, "space dust" can also be radioactive.

So, with this all in mind, living past a half life is, in its basics, working towards rot. Existing as a dead man walking and overtly aware that you are.

To me, this could be in reference to Sleep. It's been emphasised that, while Sleep is one of the oldest Gods, He is a forgotten one; kept alive by rituals and those who are beckoned by song to follow Him. Aka, kept alive and powerful by Vessel.

Sleep has long since lived past His so called "half life," and, in toe, He is, therefore "well versed in the afterlife."

While I don't think it works as well, mainly because I consider the majority of this song to be Vessel having a go at Sleep, instead of vice versa, this could be applied to Vessel as a mouthpiece, too, posing the question of; how long until your humanity disapears? How long does it take until you pass your half life, and begin to speak and see only that which bloodless and broken creatures do?

How long until you aren't even you anymore?

And, when that change happens, which it will, eventually, will you emerge and become "someone new," or stay as you were?

[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.

[mel-as-in-melon]

POV reader gets teleported to the DC universe and she is a huge fan of the Batfamily

(Reader) : Mr. Bruce Wayne

(Reader) : Mr. Dick Grayson

(Reader) : Mister Jason Todd

(Reader) : what is this

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Please don't copy my stuff or translate or post it to another platform thank you

[mellohiizz]

wanted to talk about odyssey duo and my um. view on their dynamic and relationship.

probably going to be a pretty long yap, but i really wanted to talk about them since there's been some talk about them after the last uu video. it caused me to think deeper into their relationship and i wanted to write it down.

(putting it here just in case: not targeted at anyone. just yapping about the codependent silly guys that i hate.)

the thing about odyssey duo, to me, is that yes, they are in some ways unhealthy. they're codependent and messy. but that doesn't mean that they're "toxic" or their friendship is not working.

they're both flawed characters with destructive traits. parrot is dry and unable to express his emotions properly, which leads to misunderstandings over his intentions. wifies is not a saint either, he's stubborn and can get very pushy when it comes to his own decisions. (insisting on dean leaving without explaining anything and trying to do it without parrot knowing, burning the compass to forcefully keep parrot from going to farlands)

but the main thing about them to me is that if you really look into it, they're both trying to make it work. they do care about each other and have both shown it more than once in different ways.

they both did and said things that aren't great. but it doesn't make one or the other good or bad. yes, parrot came out quite cold and uncaring a couple of times, but it doesn't automatically makes him a bad person, or means that he's mistreating, or even 'abusing' wifies in any sense.

if we're pushing it to that point, you could say wifies also used parrot in a sense of wanting to feel human and wanting someone who would 'want him back' without knowing his real self. (im being dramatic with this, obviously)

parrot comes off as uncaring because of how dry and unable to show his actual emotions he seems to be. which is a valid character trait considering how often he just couldn't because of the circumstances. parrot is someone who's very goal oriented. when he needs to focus on something, he locks in. it's the only thing he thinks about and everything else goes to the back of his mind.

which also brings me to the point of the way parrot deals with grief. one thing is how often parrot just couldn't express his grief over losing someone. he grieved luigi, yes, because it was one time he actually was allowed to take a little bit of time to actually process the fact that someone died in front of him. and even then, instead of fully allowing himself to grieve, he had to focus on other things.

same goes for dean. dean's death was pretty much shock value for both parrot and viewers, and parrot tried to grieve him too. but during it, he was interrupted by literally the number one threat at the time.

so of course when another loss comes into picture, parrot doesn't allow himself to grieve him. he acknowledges his loss ("your leader just killed my best friend"), but there was no time for him to actually let himself properly grieve wifies or even allow himself to react. they were in the middle of dealing with the mafia, and he needed to focus on that instead.

we only see the impact wifies' death had on him by the end of the episode. where he does listens. he lights the beacon despite expressing his indifference to them the whole episode. that, once again, shows that he does care.

he was hesitant on letting wifies go through with joining the mafia in the first place. he agreed because he trusted wifies to be safe and know what he's doing. it was already shown to us that wifies is parrot's weak point. he tried so many times to keep wifies away from the danger simply because he didn't want to lose him. back in the video where clown was hunting parrot, there was a very clear parallel between branzy being clown's weak point and wifies being parrot's. the difference in that was parrot knew clown wouldn't have hesitated to kill wifies.

they both changed the ways the go about things for the other. they care, but unfortunately, they were doomed by the narrative. the universe screwed them over by putting them into circumstances where they just wouldn't have worked it out.

in conclusion, because this is already very long, yes, odyssey duo are messy. they're not the healthiest duo, and they do have issues. but they tried to overstep those and work, and that's what i like about them.

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

omg do you have any true meljayvik recs where mel DOESN’T “admit” that jayce loves viktor more because i am in the trenches here

10 Meljayvik Recs for Real Meljayvik Truthers

1.

Explicit

Someone Worth Sharing by fenfyre (Jace)

Classic long-form smut, Mel's role is a conductor-y but the tension feels pretty equal alternatively there is also...

2.

Explicit

A Little Night Music by AllThingsWillPass

a Mel-centric perspective flip on the fic.

3.

Teens & Up

The Sun, The Moon And The Blacksmith by AllThingsWillPass

A Speculative Fairytale esque AU with Mel and Viktor as Gods courting Blacksmith Jayce.

4.

Explicit

Marital Privilege by theneonpineapple

Arcane Legal AU centring, two main relationships, Sevika x Silco and Mel x Viktor and Jayce is there too. This fic really encapsulates the freak shit meljayvik could have going on if we lived in an ideal world.

5.

Explicit

The Rise (And Fall) of Hextech by hextechery (blue_chocolate)

Warning: Unfinished fic and the author isn't sure they'll continue but there's still some really great stuff explored in this one. I mean meljayvik band AU need I say more. (Also the author has a ton of works with melvik, meljay, jayvik and meljayvik, so go wild)

6.

Mature

Breakfast by Reece Bennet (ohmygodsimback)

Domestic Meljayvik with polyamory and conflict resolution I used to pray for times like this.

7.

Explicit

sancta trinitas by manticoremoons

Kinda Meljayvik bible a little.

8.

Explicit

you're holy to me by maevedarcy

Canon divergent poly fix-it one-shot with established Meljayvik

9.

Teens & Up

Green Eye by Dannidorina

Cafe AU!!! with Painter Mel, Barista Jayce and Bioengineer Viktor. Author just updated after a two year absence too happy days!!

10.

Mature

The Moon has Two Sides by Synergetic_Prose

Meljayvik - The beginning of the melvik dynamic - sex positive asexual Viktor.

11. (Because the first two are technically the same story)

Teens & Up

Kiss and make up already! by gavinnersworldtour

Meljayvik married life fic, just really cute. (Part 3 of an everyone lives AU, Author recommends reading the first two parts before this fic)

Now for a shameless self-plug

The Love Club by Me

Modern College AU - WIP but expect very messy throuple nonsense. You might wanna wait for me to upload a few more chapters first because it starts pre meljayvik knowing each other.

[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

[metalmachineherald]

unfortunate news i can’t stop thinking about an au of meljayskyvik. sky died first, in a freak accident. viktor is dying, he knows that. he can feel sky’s presence, her hand on his shoulder. he allows jayce to drag him out of the lab more often, eating just enough to make jayce happy. he sits and watches mel paint more, sinking in the way her hands move on the canvas.

one day, he can’t find the energy to get out of bed, jayce and mel’s tired arms draping over him doesn’t help the situation.

he sees sky, sunlit and lingering by the window. she’s beautiful, looking just as she did that fateful day when she left the lab alone. “are you here to meet me or to ask me up?” viktor’s voice cracks from how quietly he asks. sky doesn’t answer, just gives him that… look, and moves closer.

the sun makes it a bit hard to make out her shadowed expression, but when he squints he can see her mouthing words. ‘it’s wonderful to see you.’ she stands by the side of the bed. viktor can’t feel the weight of his partners arms anymore. “it’s time to pack up.” he can hear her now. janna, he missed her voice.

viktor feels lighter than ever when he sits up and reaches for sky. he feels her skin underneath his touch. the faint calluses of her fingers, the chipped nails, all of it, painfully familiar. he presses a kiss to her palm as she cups his face.

“i’ve missed our talks.” sky’s voice drowns out all the sounds of the world, even jayce’s voice asking him to wake. viktor lets sky lead him into a hug, and he closes his eyes, hugging her back. this time, she doesn’t fade.

[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?

[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

[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…

[kayberrie]

Sketch dump?

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

[mellohiizz]

Wanted to doodle something before I yap, but I can be sane enough to wait. Spoilers, kind of?

Tax duo, man... I was so nervous the whole time that they were going to have a break up, but I was so wrong. Even if they were frustrated with one another, they still stuck together. Wemmbu was being difficult but he was still the first person Eggchan wanted to do something he deemed important.

And no matter how done Wemmbu was with the whole empire thing, and Eggchan ordering him around, he still did everything that Egg told him to and wasn't willing to even consider betraying him and destroying the empire. Because Egg did care about it.

They were having problems and clearly wanted different things but they still kept together through it. Even in the end when Wemmbu was ONCE AGAIN threatened with Eggchan's life, Wemmbu says "I should just let them kill you", but he still drops everything he was told to do without talking back to Jaden.

Because despite everything he's unwilling to let anything happen to Eggchan, and he will always prioritize Egg's life and safety over everything, no matter what.