#BUT the parallels baby

[teawreckss]

hmmm cobel inventing/developing the severance procedure as this orphaned child laborer at the OSHA noncompliant ether factory. something something about grief being the motivator for both mark and cobel

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS S1EP1 ↔ S2EP9 (2021-2024)

[bilosan]

3x08 // 5x01 // 8x10

[lemonboyjosten]

— the foxhole court (2013)

— the sunshine court (2024)

[maxanor]

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN + her coronation outfit Season 1, Episode 10, "The Black Queen" Season 2, Episode 4, "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

[cirphu]

Nicholas Galitzine as HENRY & Taylor Zakhar Perez as ALEX RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023), dir. Matthew Lopez 

[mizgnomer]

Parallel photos: The Tennants and the Shebergs

[egophiliac]

like mother, like son, but less wholesome this time?

(I couldn't decide whether or not to put them together, so have them in all the different ways!)

[jerichoes]

Okay. Okay. I promise.

[mirefireflies]

I don't like windows when they're closed, I want to fly where the wild wind blows.

IWTV 1.01 // 2.04 (without text)

[onlymywishfulthinking]

Interview with the Vampire s01e07 // s2 first look

[browneyesbloodyknuckles]

Also sorry I can’t get over the fact that Isha, a child, saw this horrible thing happening to her new found family and in the span of a few seconds decided she was willing to die for them. Not even in a reckless “throwing myself into harm” kind of way but a resolute, purposeful, “this will kill me but it means they live”. Fuck man. Fuck. She’s a baby. She watches bug fighting matches and dyes her hair blue and tried so hard to emulate the person she saw as her hero. She knew she would die and she smiled anyways. Fuck.

[tekitothemagpie]

AFO is legit right tho.

Bakugo carries the same will as Kudo. Protecting his bf from his evil ass. Not a coincidence they look alike.

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Mel and Viktor are both in an Oculorum

The prison the Black Rose have put Mel in is what "Kino" calls an Oculorum, where "According to legend, the ancients built specialized chambers to seal away false prophets." It's unclear whether this place is real and physical, but it certainly seems to be to Mel. It's built like a puzzle box that seems to probe Mel's innate abilities as a mage.

Note that these runes are like yet also unlike Hextech runes with long connected lines and hard angles, like Mel's Art Deco aesthetic, and like the prison itself and its walls.

In Zaun, something was bothering me about Viktor's home - until Jayce blew a hole in the top of the chamber, creating a spiraling tunnel of debris. So now there is a hole in the top of Viktor's chamber with a "tunnel," the same as there's a hole in the top of Mel's Oculorum:

The aesthetic of Viktor's chamber is opposite to Mel's. No squares or hard angles, only circles and fractal-like spirals, curving like Zaun and Viktor's Art Nouveau aesthetic.

But how do we know Viktor's chamber is an Oculorum, specifically? Vi and Jinx give us our biggest hint when they find the wall where their heights were marked as kids:

Which Vi and Caitlyn found in season 1 deep in the undercity, near the Shimmer addicts that Viktor later "cures":

Which was underneath a giant neon Eye of Zaun:

What does the word Oculorum mean?

"ocu" comes from the Latin "oculus," meaning "eye." "Oculorum" means something to the effect of "of the eye." Viktor's chamber stands right by where the Eye of Zaun stood.

Mel is imprisoned while Viktor appears free, but is also in effect trapped. Mel is "the child" the Black Rose was searching for, possibly with magical or even semi-divine heritage. Viktor is a regular man made into a magic user whose religious imagery was not what it appeared to be. Mel and Viktor are both magic users confined to a chamber meant to hold "false prophets."

[shlutmeow]

these sisters & their pretty puppy eyes. i miss them sm, bring them back riot.

[sersi]

1995 vs. 2026 ✨