#..............but what if its all redundant

[ratatattouille]

It’s having the power and strength to walk away.

Because the thing about oppression and its cycle of violence is you can always just walk away from it :) damn, wish I knew.

When Ekko suggests they use hextech to fight off Silco, what does Caitlyn say?

"That won't solve things," to which Ekko replies "Easy for you to say, your people aren't dying all around you." Of which Ekko is right :)

Caitlyn never forgives Jinx. But she is able to let her hatred go.

Potato, potata.

And no, Mel doesn’t forgive either.

That's literally what I said :) for someone so against misinterpretation, you struggle with reading simple sentences on most of my posts.

Mel used the Black Rose’s power to strike her mother down, then SAVED her mother from a terrible fate with the Black Rose.

Mel saved her mother by using the Black Rose to . . . kill her mother. That's either a dumb way to conclude Mel's mercy motif, or just one of those other redundancies that ultimately doesn't matter. Still sucks.

I also disagree, season 1 was NOT meant to use the daughters as a demonstration of the consequences of their parents and to critique their philosophies. Season 1 was about how these seemingly small acts of violence snowball and get in the way of resolution and unity.

Not mutually exclusive :) Also, the cycle of violence being perpetuated and imitated by Piltover renders any "both-sides" takes on the political conflict of the show exceedingly stupid. Unity was never an option. Not for Piltover and not for the show.

The great tragedy of Piltover and Zaun is that both cities have the capacity to become a unified and better place, but because of pride, ambition, racism, classism, oppression and hate… it will never be truly unified.

What happens in Season 2, Act 3 is not an "inevitable tragedy" but a contrivance. Jinx's death, the arcane's corruption, the multiverse side-quest, the Black Rose, Felicia, Isha and Warwick . . . stupid-ass contrivances. And the story being a tragedy doesn't make it well-written. It's a poorly written tragedy because of how contrived so many plot points in it were.

You can't have Piltover be the oppressing class and then claim that Piltover and Zaun are both equally complicit in said oppression. That's literally how you get dumbass rhetoric like "heterophobia" and "reverse racism." Piltover is the aggressor, Zaun reacts. Piltover is guilty of said racism, classism, pride, over-ambition and hate. Zaun reacts to it. Silco wasn't like the Piltie Councilors. The Councilors wanted to expand the hextech project to expand their wealth. Silco needed wealth to gain Zaun's independence. Shimmer was always a means for Silco, whereas all the ambitions of the Councilors was to double what luxury they already had.

This is truly one of the dumbest takes on this show I've read so far.

Viktor literally spells out the point in Episode 9. “In the pursuit of greatness we failed to do good.” Hextech was meant to be a boon to humanity, but it ended up a curse.

Another dumbass contrivance courtesy of the writers. In S1, Viktor was talking about how both him and Jayce (like Heimmerdinger warned) got distracted by their own idealism, caught up in the pursuit of recognition, approval, success or experimentation. Both were so busy trying to beat the clock (for different reasons) that they neglected a myriad of blindspots and made mistakes as a result. "Hextech" in S2 is a scapegoat for the sins of Piltover. It was made out to be a curse, where previously it had been a neutral entity, there to be used for good or bad, only becoming extremely bad when Jayce uses it to save Viktor's life (and isn't that curious?). In S1, hextech became bad when it was weaponized (and Jayce, Mel and Vi's characters explore this), however in S2, hextech is bad because . . . well because we have to create an enemy to unite Piltover and Zaun. Not to mention, the Councilors didn't vote for Zaun's independence for the sake of unity. I mean, Zaun was literally becoming independent--hence not a part of Piltover anymore. That was the path to peace. But in S2, we're given a cheap (and unconvincing) plot to reunite these two halves of one nation by making the big bad hextech the threat.

Your problem is that you think my criticisms of S2 are all about whether or not there is any narrative or thematic continuation between S1 AND S2. I don't deny there is, at least on some basic level. MY PROBLEM with S2 is that it's decreased in quality on every front--characters, themes, narrative and cohesion, to the point that a lot of what it tries to communicate becomes incoherent. And I have pointed out many reasons why. The writers made many stupid decisions (e.g. making a story about two cities, one oppressed, one the oppressor, a metaphor for conservatives and liberals) that resulted in the mess we got, esp in Act 3. At best, they tried to do too much. At worst, they tried to rectify the "radical" politics of S1.

Oy, you just won’t SHUT UP will you?

get a grip, lmao

you can head over to the caitvi tag and like all the fanart you want. no one's going to take your precious blorbos away from you. i promise arcane critics aren't a threat. there's like only 5 of us here. you're the majority. you're safe. caitvi is safe. breathe in . . . now out. you won. the shitty act 3 will always exist, and you can re-watch it to your hearts content :)

I love how arcane s2 just nullifies whatever it was saying within the same season or the show in general. “Forgiveness is what breaks the cycle of violence” (—said by Silco) except ALL the families in Piltover that were responsible for Zaun’s desperation returned to the table with the same prejudice, certain to outvote Sevika and maintain the brutal status quo. Also, Mel didn’t defeat Ambessa with the power of forgiveness. Her whole triumph was becoming the fearsome violent Wolf like her mother, wasn’t it? The cycle didn’t break, it just restarted. “The violence endemic to human nature is inescapable” (—said by Viktor) unless you’re Jinx apparently, where you can just hop on a balloon and fly elsewhere, or marry a rich woman like Vi 😘 “Our flaws are what make us beautiful, we are whole as we are/not broken” (—said by Jayce) unless you’re Jinx, then your mental illness is the cause of destruction and your family would be better off without you. “Love (not survival/prejudice) is the motivation of our most horrible actions” because that’s the only reason anyone did good/horrible things—for the daughters! Not for economic gain, personal ambition, or out of survival it was LOVE ALL ALONG (FYI, in Season 1, the daughters were meant to demonstrate the consequences of the actions of their parents and critique their philosophies, NOT be the cause of their parents actions). “Accept the inevitability of change/death” just not when it comes to the status quo. “There’s no prize to perfection and all pursuits must end” cool, but the pursuit was completely worthless apparently so who even cares if it ends at this point? Hextech was apparently created by Jayce and Viktor to be destroyed by Jayce and Viktor whose goal was to make the world a better place. They just made the world worse and fucked off. So now what? Literally what was the point?

S2 wouldn’t be so incoherent if it was having anywhere near the same discussions as S1. The two seasons are talking about very different things with significantly different characters.

[coolnonsenseworld]

A little promo with my little obsession on the side...........

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[pedaleceleste]

did they.. did Dan and Phil compare themselves to chARLIE AND NICK FROM HEARTSTOPPER????. look. I’m not one to go « omg its as if theyve already hardlaunched », I’m really not (bc as an aromantic person I rlly dont think it matters if their relationship is or is not romantic like we can value it for what it is without needing it to be labeled directly and explicitly in alloromantic-allonormative terms ANYWAY ONTO MY MAIN POINT) …

I did pause the video and stare at my wall in disbelief for a full minute though… what a time to be alive, truly.

[dynamitekansai]

wwe: Sami Zayn saved Roman Reigns, Jey and Jimmy Uso from a post match brawl… but tonight was not the way any of them wanted this to go. 😮‍💨👎

[thecherrygod]

currently thinking about when you let kim know you found out about the pale while he was gone, and that if you tell him its terrifying hes like "so trying to spare you from it was a good idea", or that if you tell him its unreal he says how a lot of things are unreal, or that if you ask him where you are he says they are in elysium, but that all of them involve him comparing the pale to water, death, and "the fact we are all stuck behind our eyes, between our ears, talking for all eternity, like every other human being". and then saying heavy topics are not his forte and acting as if he never said that. you cant just say "heavy topics are not my forte" after dropping that. both the caring and trying to protect harry, and that water, death, and having a mind is terrifying/unreal/just how the world is...

[calo-wav]

the freaking mongoose 💥

(mongoose = righteous clarity (or stubborness))

[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

[dirt-str1der]

Saejima and majima are so guys that walk around the city for hours and then ask okay where are we going / idk i was following you / but i was following you

[devilsskettle]

i hate that this website has location based ads now like it's one thing to promote the local grocery store chain to me but i am seeing ads for my workplace now :/

[blueiight]

the thing is abt rosaleen is that shes someone who loves ghastly things & sees herself as someone proximate to that (which is why the brunt of her movie is scattered dream sequences that eventually becomes ‘real’ in that she becomes a wolf + the movie ends with her being awakened to wolves breaking into her bedroom). her favorite person is her grandmother whos viewed by the village as this withering crone regaling her with ‘old wives tales’. the grandmother seeming to warn rosaleen not of the wolves , but how people are mistreated bc of the fear of them not realizing sexual abuse + the hunt is commonplace and not unique to wolves, but something in ‘men’ (the woman who married a werewolf , thought he died, then she remarried, the werewolf was alive, attacks her child, and her second husband beheads the wolf+ slaps his wife for still loving him). the only two stories rosaleen herself recites from her grandmother to her mother + the huntsman are that of outcasted women making the best of their lot — the pregnant witch who turns the nobles into wolves and makes them sing her baby songs, the shewolf who came above and chose the world below. just as rosaleen herself ‘chooses’ the world below, ‘chooses’ the werewolf who hunts over polite society. rosaleen seeing the glass infant that sheds a tear as she applies on red lipstick (and her ‘self’ in the modern world going to sleep with a full face of makeup on, how the fixtures of her tales occupy the room she lays in) and the village encountering the cow that died in childbirth… the girl died, the woman is destroyed, and the shewolf is born thru the demise of the only other she was close to (her grandmother) as she runs off with grandma’s killer away from the villagers trying to save her. the company of wolves movie came out in 1984 , adapted from the 1979 bloody chamber, and featured a werewolf who hunted wolves with a red cape + rifles, and we had a friend whos story in 1985 starts with him donning a red cape + a rifle to hunt wolves, another who suspected him of killing his brother , the only other person that understood him in this world, but ‘chose’ to become a monster with him

[digirainebow]

Jonas essentially just shows up and Alex is like oh I hope he's friendly... And then immediately proceeds to give up her life for him and the fact that you can say something like "that was for Jonas" it's like OUUUGH SHES SO-

when her grief from losing michael makes her not only accept jonas as a sibling right away, but also makes her follow in michael's footsteps by taking jonas out somewhere just to bond and have fun but accidentally loses her life instead 😁✌

[j-esbian]

HOAs are fucking wild. you're telling me that even if i legally own this home, i still have landlord rules. who the fuck cares if i have pets in the house that i own. it's my problem to clean up after them.

and who the fuck cares!!! about the color of my curtains!!!!!!!

[carcarrot]

anyway a different sneaky plan worked out in that i was able to find old listing photos of my dream house and ough..... i need her .....

[bmpmp3]

more fashion dreamer pics! more Dave plus I made my OC Meena (that one of many OCs i made off a dream LOL) as a second muse! i dont have a very close hair colour for her vaguely pinky creamsicle colour i usually paint her with rn so she just has fully pink hair for the time being jhkfldskjrf also raven showed up at my showroom! and some isaac fits because they say shit like %#^[#!{%#% so i always wanna talk to them LOL

can u tell "flirty" was my favourite style in style savvy DS vhjbelkfrfe

[thecherrygod]

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[b4kuch1n]

Hi, I've been inspired by the composition and abstract style of your artwork for a while now, if I made an experimental art piece inspired by your composition style would you want me to credit you as an inspo? or would you just not be comfortable with me using your art as inspiration altogether? (which is fine btw, i don't wanna do smth that would make you uncomfortable)

oh sure! feel free! I don't mind at all lol