#But whyyyyy

[mer-acle]

Not Athena pretending to be fine so Odysseus doesn't feel bad for her so he can make the 'right decision', meaning to tell her to get the fuck out of his life bc she believes that's what he really wants (he does not)

Why is she like this godfuckingdammit??

[starful-emporium]

at this point I think advertisers are TRYING to give people misophonia. why are you playing sounds of someone blending and then slurping a smoothie on a fucking credit card ad

[shiloh-official]

(OOC) FUCKING GRIZZLY HAS TUMBLR FUCK WE ARE ALL FUCKED @grizzlyplays GET OUT/j

The Arthur blog is quaking

[joosthead]

i love making myself cry for literally no reason

[almaprincess66]

Guys this is not funny, because why do I get the urge to read Duty and Inclination on the day before my trip when I know I can't bring it along?!?

[rebouks]

I have a theory that Robin has the sight, which is why he's picking up on the house's spooky vibes and also was so confused his mom couldn't hear his head words. I could be off-base, though, it just seems like he might be a bit psychic 👀

INCHRESTING!! but listen ok.. my sims lawyer will be on my case if i open my mouth so...... 👀😶

[zo-lost-and-confused]

Writing is so hard.

The "why" kills me all the time.

"They do x" but why? I'm always struggling with the whys so much. Ugghhhhh

[beehiveofblorbos]

I blocked the tag Marinette Dupain Cheng and that STILL hasn’t stopped miraculous London discourse swarming across my feed. dude I am connected to this fandom on tumblr in the most fringe of ways

[messylustt]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8eP3LR9/

This made me turn my phone down and ponder. CAUSE WHY IN THE FUCK- I can’t, I really….I can’t w Miguel rn.

NOOO why did you do this to me 😭😭

[bellcza]

no wait jonatan is really leaving barça femení at the end of season PLEASE SAY SIKE

[cherrio-krispz]

Absolutely not/j

>:(. How mean scoffs

[starsarehere]

i'm in my romance hating era don't talk to me

[giftixvenenozox]

when i first saw moonlight poster and the cast i was v excited cuz mahershala ali's in it, only to found out he's only at the beginning😭😭😭

[blutprinz]

why I'm upset when he falls asleep? Also why I'm even more upset when he's not paying attention or falls asleep while we're watching a show together?? Am I dumb?????

[naivemortal]

There was a divorce?!???

So the divorce is off????

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Mel's protection should have saved Viktor too, and she's trying to figure out why it didn't

(Editing to add: see this post for details on the Mel's armor/shield theory)

S2 ep1 shows a circle of protected stone where Mel and Jayce were during the explosion. My theory is that Mel's magic armor activated and saved them both. It seems like it casts a sphere of protection around wherever Mel is.

The center of this circle is not Mel's seat - it's Jayce's. She ran to Jayce to save him.

No other Councilors were in range of Mel's protection, so they all got hurt or killed.

But Viktor was, in Jayce's words, "right next to" him. He was easily within Mel's circle of protection.

1) Viktor tried to run and mistakenly left the circle of protection. But are we meant to believe that Viktor, close to dying already and using a crutch, would have outrun Mel?

2) Viktor's augmented body clashes with Mel's

Why does Mel try to touch Viktor in episode 1? It seems like a throwaway moment, but not even Jayce touches him in this scene. So why Mel?

She's curious. And possibly, feeling responsible. She's wondering why her protection didn't work.

Is this Hexcore brand of the Arcane trying to reach out to Mel? Or trying to defend itself from her?

Mel was trying to protect both Jayce and Viktor, which is reflected in how she holds Jayce as well as Viktor's cane when she promises to protect Hextech:

But if, for example, Mel's magic is Solari in origin, and Viktor's is from the Void - or the Arcane equivalent of similar opposing forces - then it's possible that their magic rejects or hurts one another. So Mel's circle of protection either rejected Viktor, or was what hurt Viktor, and not the explosion.