#And a break

[cl-0v3r]

Mel is alive, but at what cost

Mel was nearly killed TWICE, her mother began being a struggle, she'd been thrown aside and trying her best to stop her, her boyfriend is not doing well, neither is anyone else (can't blame them) and the fact that she hadn't cried or spoke much about this situation to anyone a single time?? She IS upset about every single thing, yet she stays strong and enduring every bit of torture. The most she did was tell Jayce that Ambessa put her palm on the table, and let him know that she is going to push for hextech. That's it, nothing remotely related to her feelings.

The fact that she was constantly looking at Caitlyn, being able to understand her grief and knew she was in pain?? Mel knows this feeling. She'd went through it.

And in the end SHE has to pay the price of her mothers incompetence.

The intro is very much foreshadowing, we know the hands represent black rose/LeBlanc.

This is what happens in act one, she gets kidnapped by them. The lyrics do correspond to the characters as well (not just Mel, everyone.)

"Tell you you're the greatest" plays as a petal of the black rose floats down the screen, I think it adds significance to the power this organization holds, possibly the Medardas greatest foe.

"But once you turn, they hate us" both Ambessa and Mel were present in this line, I think its foreshadowing for when Ambessa switches up for whatever reason and goes against both Piltover AND Zaun. And Mel WILL go through change as well, a change that could hurt her relationship with others, and receive interest from others too.

"They hate us" could be read individually too, I feel like its a sort of "realization" ?? Perhaps Ambessa WASN'T the one that switched up, maybe Piltover switched up on them, and maybe Mel JUST got out of wherever she's taken to, and saw the mess Ambessa had done to her city??

I think this represents ACT TWO.

The hands pull away and it sort of looks like Mel is fighting back, a "get away from me" type of scream. you know what this reminds me of??

Don't mind me just pushing my Jinx/powder-Mel parallel agenda

Here is when i think Mel truly learns about LeBlanc/BR, she curiously and slowly goes to grab the rose, she learns about the history between her Mother and them, Kinos death, and most of all, learns about HERSELF. The lyrics speak otherwise.

"Pray away, I swear

I'll never be a saint, no way"

This feels like a parallel to caitlyn of sorts if that makes sense. Caitlyn had done everything to try and stop the council from attacking the Undercity, she kept her mouth shut when Jayce asked about Jinxs grenade, she was willing to protect Vi and the undercity, but how many times has she been tossed around? She'd been burned, exploded, kidnapped (god knows what happened during that time) and hit in the face by the same person, her MOTHER died because of the same person. She has every right to go insane. And she is hunting ONE person, which is Jinx. Although she is harming the people around her along the way.

What if Mel goes through a similar situation? Her mother pushed for war in her city, she dragged the enemy along with her even if she didn't mean to, she manipulated everyone around her INCLUDING Jayce, she LITERALLY got Mel hurt from the chembarons attack and killed so many people during a MEMORIAL to get her hextech weapons, Elora is most likely DEAD, not to mention whatever happened in the past between them. And the thing is, this will NEVER end throughout the entire season.

And what if she learns what she is? That she's 'blessed' by Kindred? The fact that the wolf is quite literally in her blood?

I feel like the "ill never be a saint, no way" also sort of indicates Mel will realize she'll never be able to push for peace and mercy like she always hoped for no matter what, and she comes to accept that as much as it hurts. But not like how ambessa accepted the wolf, but she sort of realizes she needs to push a little violence, towards nobody but the one and only, Ambessa "fine, if you want me to be like you, I guess I'll be like you towards YOU." Type of acceptance.

I think its also related to Mels new outfit too, she's dressed like her mother, in red and all of that. I will still stand by the idea that she has plans to decieve, but she will do something she doesn't want to do.

Mel was left with no choice, that lyric sounds like realization, acceptance, but also like a plea at the same time, an "I'll never be who I wanted to be" because in the end, she's still a Medarda, she's still her mothers daughter, she still has violence in her veins, she will never not suffer from the weight her name holds, and she will never escape it either, its like a shadow.

The Characters won't be themselves at their core this season. And those vital parts of their characters that represent them are no longer there in the intro, they all have given up what makes them, THEM design wise. (e.g.) Vi without her tattoo, Viktor hiding his identity with the mask. And the thing is, they did that to themselves because they do self-harm, they're changing themselves because THEY want to, they're forcing themselves to do that, they think they're undeserving and they're erasing their past selves.

But Mel? Mel doesn't have her gold accessories, Jewelry, or her Armor, she'd been stripped bare and hidden away because of the brutality of her name. She pays the price her mother brought to HER city. She's forced to change herself against her will, because nobody is giving her a chance to push for her ideals.

This entire theory never ends, and with all of this? I kinda do see Mel actually committing Matricide, it lifts the "Ambessa will die" theory further.

[edenfenixblogs]

I was having a rough night so I went to my favorite funny website IsMercuryInRetrograde.com

I’m not a huge believer in astrology, but the website only has two pages:

If it’s in retrograde it says yes, which feels weirdly validating.

If it’s not in retrograde it just says “No, something else must be bumming you out,” which always gives me a little chuckle.

Fun silly website. Yay.

Except this time

YES. SOMETHING ELSE IS BUMMING ME OUT.

The fact that unless I lock myself in a room with only pre-written or pre-recorded material that I’ve already read or watched and know is safe I CANNOT GO TWELVE FUCKING HOURS WITHOUT HEARING ABOUT THIS FUCKING WAR.

It’s killing me. There are no breaks. I open any website or social media app and it’s an immediate bombardment of info about the war. I go watch a YouTube video and then there’s a fundraiser at the end.

I flip through channels and see news about an antisemitic attack or a bombing in Gaza or Rafah.

I leave notifications on and get a text from a friend who sees a “rape is resistance” sticker on her walk home from school.

I go to look for pride merch and see watermelon merch mixed in as if war is some kind of gay accessory. I look through a fandom tag and see cartoon characters in a kids cartoon drawn with Palestinian flags.

It’s fucking endless. It’s insane. I just wanted a few days without having to think about all of it so I could recharge and I haven’t even been able to go a continuous 12 hour stretch without something or someone shoving the whole thing in my face.

It’s not healthy to live like this. I already have PTSD. And I’m trying with all my might not to retreat fully within myself but this is fucking killing me.

And I am someone who is pro peace and pro ceasefire and pro Palestinian welfare and anti-Likud but also anti-antisemitism. I do nothing but promote interfaith and intercultural organizations devoted to fostering peace. I want this war over.

And yet I’m fucking stuck in this perpetual hellhole of awful news and constant imagery about war and death and antisemitism and Palestinian suffering. And it’s too much. Why can’t I even go 12 hours. It’s killing me.

The fucking mercury in retrograde website‽ YES. SOMETHING ELSE IS BUMMING ME OUT AND ITS YOU.

[lunylune]

"Will it not break your hearts, when inevitably... the child grows to know only rage?"

"Did you prove your parents right, or did you prove your family correct?"

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I drew this when stress-tested came out because I have a lot of feelings about Gorgug fighting so hard for people to see him as he is. I think Gorgug knows rage is a part of it, and his protective instinct builds from that. But he knows other people don't know that. Many people only see what he bring to the table as a barbarian.

And with everything that happened in the nightmare forest i can't help but wonder how the world would have remembered Gorgug if he did die on that first day of school, the kid who got detention on the first day for fighting another kid.

Gorgug knows he is more, but the pressure of making the world understand that might just break something.

(No worries i'm working on a follow up :D )

[cumforts69]

I just realised that the true damsel in distress has actually been Mu Qingfang all along. He got kidnapped multiple times by BOTH Bingmei and Bingge, in their respective universes

[mushyblushyredhead]

(Late) TickleTober 2024 🎃

♡ Aug’s TKTober2024

Day 27: Non-Human Parts

⚠️ Warning for some footer tickles

❣️ Not my OC ❣️

A/N: And that’s a wrap for TKTober! This year was really fun, but hopefully next year I’ll get more done on time 😭

The adorable Cody Parker who belongs to @pocky-dragon ! I couldn’t resist drawing this spooder bean!

[deliciousnecks]

he really got rid of him. he got rid of him in the way that he quickly kicked him out of his life and moved on, as if their friendship and weird behavior towards each other was never there, as if it had never existed or had any value to him. While nandor is left to grief what they once had, guillermo seems to have forgotten all about it, and has moved on. nandor was not expecting him to be his familiar, he only wanted to still be present in guillermo's life, but guillermo made sure to close all those to this possibility, and in the eyes of nandor, probably made it seem that yeah, maybe all this devotion was just there because of what nandor could offer guillermo, which was to make him a vampire, with this gone, guillermo has no reason to keep that connection, he has no more use for nandor, therefore, he got rid of him.

[riseriot]

Poor Chikn.

(Demigod and regular Chikn Nuggit below the cut.)

(Based off of screenshots from recent episodes.)

(Mah boi is distressed.)

[strewwwberry]

Just read up to the latest chapter and I'm absolutely obsessed (｡♡ ‿ ♡｡)

Petition for more ming fan centred fanfics frfr

(If you have any fic recs please drop them 😋)

Also here's some shifty fanart sketches of ming fan from this fic I did - my interpretation 🫶

[void-king-art]

[hualianjpeg]

shout out to yanqing for having this sort of sad sopping wet dog vibe during the majority of jingliu's companion mission

[lemonina00]

Outlines ✔️ coloring ✔️ details and background ✔️

Here he is🥰, Lindon's true MVP🎖️, with his fancy knives and his strawberry blonde hair🤩. Such a cutie🫠! I was torn between giving him his scouting outfit or his battle armor 🤷‍♀️ and eventually I went with the first option because I want his fighting days to be over🥹! At least for a while! He absolutely deserves a break, doesn't he?💯 Don't know how Charlie R. did it, but Vorohil now lives rent-free in my head😅🤗!

[phantom-yogurt]

I finished Link Click S1

[wickedwitchofthewesninski]

Client: I'll have a martini, dry

Desmond Miles, on his first day bartending after escaping a cult, looking at all the wet ingredients under the bar counter: uuuhh... I don't know how to tell you this, buddy...

[doodle-do-wop]

Y'all ever think about how Sophie, a girl who grew up reading, doesn't really get to read anymore? Like yeah, she reads when she needs to, for school or Neverseen research, but she'll never be able to pick up her favorite books, or read human classics. She will never be able to touch well worn covers, or smell the ink of a fresh new book.

Nobody will understand when she talks about her favorite childhood fairytales, or human mythology. Her friends won't be able to read those books either.

Idk it just makes me really sad when I think of all the things she left behind in the forbidden cities.

Yeah Shannon mentions occasionally all of what Sophie left behind but I don't think even Shannon realized just how much Sophie gave up the moment she became a citizen of the Lost Cities

Sophie didn't just give up one life, she gave up her entire life.

She was a child

She was twelve years old

She was barely starting to grow up and she lost all those years in what was basically an instant. Yeah Sophie willingly went along but now Sophie's childhood home is gutted and carved into some random spot in Mysterium (whatever it's called)

Sophie has barely had any time to be a kid anymore and she's still a child. She's barely a tween! Yes her weird ass elf birthday says she's nine months older but nine months won't change the fact that Sophie Foster died that day at the museum.

Sophie Elizabeth Foster is gone

Only the Moonlark seems to remain

She was a child who probably loved to read fantasy books where the main character found a home, a group of friends to call family, a place where they finally belonged. Narnia, the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings. Sophie has mentioned these books.

All have heros who find magic and suddenly belong.

But Sophie doesn't get to have that.

She was a child

She still is a child

[roe-and-memory]

straying away from what i usually post….. have some fall guy … tell me what you think stares with big eyes