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Vax getting out of the orb:
#critical role#critical role spoilers#vax'ildan#meme#loki marvel#i'm not caught up#but i like to spoil myself
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well i sure fuckin hope so
#jjk manga#jjk spoilers#jjk 144#I'm not caught up#this is where i am#but you know#i see things#chiamangacaps
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I know you're all excited but can you guys tag your fucking spoilers please?
#sable's brain junk#griping#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#i'm not caught up#and I HAVE FILTERS BTW#but nobody's tagging so they're useless
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I'm telling all of my Danganronpa friends to read Project Fiction.
I just finished Chapter 14, and I'm taking time out of my super headachey, not feeling great day to tell you, very loudly and very strenly, to read Project Fiction.
Trust me, you'll love it.
#musings#fic recs#i was going through it slow#and then like#hit a chapter on friday? i think?#and have just been power moving through the next...several#i'm not caught up#but BOY yabashiri's take on junko is fascinating and intricate and a downright joy to read#(the fic is good - more than that - i love the story so far and the takes on character#and MIU UGH MIU IS FANTASTIC#but i know those of you i interact with are...as a whole you're junko people#junko and ryoko and matsuda#and this is me telling you in no uncertain terms#GO.#READ.#NOW.)
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half a warm-up doodle, half consoling myself because I have thrown so many keys at him and yet he refuses to come home. >:( please sir...your stats are so good and your elements are ones I need...please...
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#i did unexpectedly pull a dorm ace and thus FINALLY complete my collection of dorm heartsboys#so some good came out of it at least!#but i'm down to 20 keys now and i gotta think about that kalim card#i had suspected we might have a kalim ssr coming up and i told myself i would be okay without him when i was planning out my key usage#but uhhhhh then i saw the illustration...#guys#guys it is SO PRETTY#i love stripey sensei and i want him for both aesthetic and strategic reasons#but kalim is over here looking SO sparkly#i'm like a magpie caught between a set of keys and some shiny bottlecaps#WHY must i be forced to make DECISIONS
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Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara
They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them
But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd
The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>
#zutara#zuko#katara#atla#book 2 au#my art#i mentioned in my last book 2 au post that i wanted to include short hair katara into it and y'all were so supportive of it!! 😭😭😭#so this is how i think it would go#it would happen as katara is trying to evade one of zuko's fire balls#she manages to avoid it but since her hair is long it still caught on fire#she'd be pissed so she water whips the hell out of zuko#and then promptly forgets about it akfhkakdkakdj#even after the sparring session she still hasn't remembered cause 'oh no zuko's in pain i have to help him!'#it isn't until zuko even mentions it that she remembers#zuko thinks she's more calm than i thought she would be after burning her hair so he mentions it to her#little did he know katara just forgor aldjlakdkaljd#n e ways zuko does feel bad so she offers to help fix it up for her#i think after the haircut katara would find herself looking in mirrors when there are any around cause 'zuko thinks i'm beautiful?? really?#zuko doesn't know this tho and he thinks katara is till sad about the unwanted haircut so he keeps telling her that she looks beautiful#and katara just keeps losing it aldjlakdlald#in conclusion they are idiots your honor
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"papa, i wanna match with mama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! ! ! !!! ! ! ! " >> lmao loid under the cut
yep, this dude's a goner
#tbh i'm not caught up in the manga buuut tooooo cuuutteeeee!!!!!!!! I COULDN'T SCROLL PAST#sososososososoo cuuteee#anya forger#starlight anya#spy x family#spy family#sxf#loid forger#agent twilight#yor forger#yor briar#thorn princess#loidyor#twiyor#anya sxf#spy x family manga#anime#anime art#pjseveryday#illustration#art#fanart#sketchbook#digital illustration#spoilers
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you know you have a permanent piece of my medium-sized american heart
#art#interview with the vampire#louis de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt#claudia#i'm caught up. i crazy now
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Me, after taking a time machine to 1994: "Yeah, you should convince Paramount to release Generations a little bit earlier. Yeah, on November 5th. Why? It'll be really funny in about 30 years. Just trust me. The fans'll love it, I promise."
#society if we'd had canon spirk on the 5th of november:#and don't you tell me spirk isn't canon. HUSH. i'm experiencing childlike wonder. don't you take that from me.#star trek#tos#spirk#st unification#unification#i'm supposed to be asleep right now but shhhh#i'm too caught up in the euphoria of new spirk hand holding
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Yuuji, Fushiguro and "Murder is Okay" Maki from Jujutsu Kaisen! Guess what I've been binge reading these last 2 days.
#fanart#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#to be true I'm still not quite sure what to think about the series#as in it hasn't captured me that much yet#maybe it will once I've caught up?#it's fun drawing different characters for a change though#itadori yuuji#megumi fushiguro#maki zenin
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dear god please just give the pirates their quiet seaside inn and the angel and demon their little cottage in the south downs before I lose my mind completely
#Good Omens#aziracrow#OFMD#Our Flag Means Death#blackbonnet#I'M FINE#I'M DOING FINE#anyways I just caught up on OFMD#if you couldn't tell
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Jayce and the fallacy of the butterfly effect in Arcane's narrative
If Jayce's symbol is the butterfly, then my theory is that we're going into a full "butterfly effect" narrative in Act 2. Either we'll watch it happen, or we'll only see Jayce come out the other side of it changed by the experience, knowing - or more importantly, THINKING he knows - what to do to change the future. Literally, to "defend tomorrow."
tl;dr: Jayce will encounter the butterfly effect in season 2. Viktor and Mel both foreshadowed this in season 1. I think Jayce will fixate on Viktor and will believe that stopping or changing Viktor either in the past or the present - most likely the present - will mean he can save the future. I believe this will lead to an even worse tragedy and may have the same effect as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ekko's approach to changing the future by sticking closer to the present - considering only tiny increments of time to alter more immediate future outcomes - will be the superior approach. I also think that Jayce attempting to change the future will create the conditions that push Viktor to become the Machine Herald.
One of the most common reactions even the casual viewer had to Arcane season 1 was this: "If [character] had just done this one small thing a little differently, [tragic event] wouldn't have happened!"
Arcane has been called a Greek tragedy for the main reason that because of how well built up the characters' personalities and reasonings are, there's no other way season 1 could have gone. There was no stopping the multiple tragedies that occurred, because with one event leading to another, the chain of seemingly inevitable events goes too far back to identify what one singular event caused everything, what one character made what one decision to put our characters on the terrible paths they walked.
Arcane is about to investigate this idea in its own narrative, and I think that Jayce will be the character to stumble into the flawed idea that you can change one event, or stop one character, and change the future for the better. This is because Jayce struggles with a few very interesting character flaws, one of them being that he believes himself to be the main character, and it is therefore his responsibility to intervene, be a hero, and fix things.
Viktor and Mel both foreshadow Jayce's future encounter with the butterfly effect.
Recall that Viktor said: "There is always a choice."
Jayce sees choices in black and white, believes that he has no other options but to go along with what he's persuaded and pushed into, and acts too boldly with too much power multiple times.
Recall that Mel said: "We can't change what fate has in store for us, but we don't have to face it alone."
Jayce tries to solve big problems on his own, and though he delegates to Enforcers and the like, Jayce relies on his reasoning and his alone to make important decisions if he doesn't simply become persuaded - usually through strong emotions like fear - by other characters. In addition, since Mel is specifically talking about Viktor's plight here, it's worth mentioning that while Jayce did say that he would help Viktor in acts 2 and 3 of season 1, Jayce does wind up leaving Viktor to face his fate alone. When Jayce tries to change that fate in s2 ep1, ep2 shows that only tragedy can come of this as well.
Viktor and Mel's statements here are not contradictory. Viktor makes the point that you can always make a choice. In context, he's literally referring to the classic "secret third option," because given a choice between aggression and passivity, war and surrender, Viktor chooses to defuse the bomb instead. Mel, interestingly, seems to believe that destiny is fixed in a broad sense, and she operates as a politician and diplomat and investor who navigates that line of destiny in the most optimal way possible. In reality, in context, she is referring to the fact that Viktor can't change the way he was born and so he has no way to change his fate and therefore must face it, which is true - she's only missing the information that Viktor actually does have the means to change his illness and his body. Her wisdom still applies however, because he'll have to accept the hand that fate deals him after he makes that choice. Will he face it alone, or not?
There is always a choice, there's even secret third options, because having a fate doesn't mean that you are doomed to make only one possible series of choices. What it does mean is that each choice comes with a hand that fate deals you. It is impossible to know what all of these branching choices and consequences are in advance, and it is just as impossible in hindsight - the branches are too complex and the end outcomes are all equally meaningful, just different. If Arcane season 2 is to be a tragedy, it may show us that each possible outcome is still tragic if you fall for the fallacy of the butterfly effect.
Jayce is counseled by some of the wisest, cleverest characters with the deepest life experiences in Arcane, but he hardly ever takes that counsel to heart. If he does, he still acts on that counsel in flawed ways that have unintended consequences. This will come to a head in season 2.
Viktor and Jayce both have a butterfly following them around in season 1. The butterfly effect refers to one small seemingly insignificant event changing the course of history, and changing that event therefore changes history. Viktor bled over the railing of a Hexgate in season 1:
And Heimerdinger sees what we can only assume is Viktor's blood contaminating (?) the Hexgate in s2 ep3:
This might be the seemingly unimportant "inciting incident" that Jayce (and Heimerdinger and Ekko) settle on as something that should be avoided or erased by changing the past (if they time-travel with Ekko, for example).
I doubt that, if this is what this crew chooses to fixate on, it will be the only event that is considered as something to change. But let's take this and run with it for the sake of discussion.
As silly as it sounds, how do you stop Viktor from allowing his blood to come into contact with the arcane? Stop Viktor's involvement with the Academy entirely? Don't invent Hextech at all? But what if someone else invents Hextech besides Jayce? What if future tragedy befalls Piltover because it didn't invent Hextech?
The possibilities and what-ifs could branch on forever. But because Jayce is who he is, and because his tragedy with Viktor is still raw and recent and frightening, I think Jayce's butterfly effect experience will have to do with Viktor.
My personal prediction is that the timeskip between s2 ep3 and ep4 will be Jayce experiencing a timeline where Viktor, taken over by the Hexcore, brings about an apocalyptic event similar to what Heimerdinger experienced in his past. Either Jayce and co. can't go into the past to change the present, or Heimerdinger and/or Ekko advise strongly against it to avoid a paradox. This will lead to them re-entering the canon Arcane timeline before this apocalypse, but still after the timeskip. Jayce, believing that destroying Viktor and his cult will save the future, and believing that resurrecting Viktor was Jayce's mistake to fix, attacks him. But the consequences don't unfold the way he hopes, because trying to change fate once the cards have already been dealt has led to tragedy before.
The butterfly is a symbol of something other than just the butterfly effect - change, evolution, and rebirth. If the butterfly symbolizes the butterfly effect for Jayce, then I think it has a different meaning for Viktor - the change and rebirth meaning.
I've always found it very interesting that we see a similar-looking butterfly on Progress Day... but made of metal.
Every time Viktor's situation changes, he adapts and evolves. If Jayce attacks him, if his cult is destroyed, if the Hexcore is causing Viktor to decay, if all of these things happen at once - he'll just evolve again, and I think the Machine Herald is the next step. And the Machine Herald will be a triumph for Viktor, but Jayce will believe that he's created something even worse. The resulting feud will be a personal nightmare for both of them.
I think this still allows Viktor to use his own agency to choose to become the Machine Herald (the MH will probably be the "secret third option" that saves Viktor, or there will be a secret third option that ends the feud) while still allowing Jayce to be offended and horrified at whatever the Machine Herald represents or is trying to do in the undercity. Introducing the element of time travel allows Arcane to explore the meta concept of tragedy and fate that season 1 was built on while showing that you can't "solve" a tragedy, because there are other terrible possibilities lurking behind alternate choices. Especially if what you're trying to change is singular people or events and not systems of power.
This is why Ekko's approach with his Z-drive will be superior to Jayce's sweeping attempt at changing the future. Ekko's goal has always been societal change. He creates his own punk society in the undercity, more progressive and successful than anything Vander or Silco ever created, and a better bastion of safety, hope, and progress than what Heimerdinger founded in Piltover. Trying to change systems by going back in time is most likely futile. But taking what Ekko has already built in the Firelights, curing his tree, and fighting for the Firelights' survival bit by bit by optimizing the present with the Z-drive shows that:
It's more worth it to focus on becoming wise (Ekko's mask is an owl) and making choices you won't regret
It's best if you don't face your fate alone (act as a collective and take care of each other)
Consider every option, not just the obvious black and white choices
Maintain and fix what you've already built instead of abandoning it once things get difficult
Adapt as needed if the choices you made lead to dark consequences, and once again, stick together and take care of each other when the bad times do come
That's my Act 2 but, ultimately, my season 2 prediction based on the butterfly symbolism we've already seen. Ekko's involvement is what will give the series the at least partial happy ending that the creators have referred to. I personally don't think that the Viktor/Jayce feud will end quite so well, but maybe, they will still survive.
#arcane#spoilers#arcane s2#arcane spoilers#jayce talis#ekko#viktor#viktor arcane#long post#meta#jayvik#arcane meta#heimerdinger#I'm positive that Mel will be deeply involved with this too considering her comments on fate#honestly the thought of her being caught in the Viktor/Jayce feud is terrible to contemplate so I'm just gonna pray for my girl#I did not like the time travel implications when i first watched act 1 but after thinking about this i feel way better about it#Another reason I think this will come down to Viktor is because Heimerdinger has distrusted Viktor since season 1 and he will focus on him#Ekko will see the faults in focusing on one person#Jayce is least likely to survive all this considering how fast the consequences of his actions are catching up with him#but there could also be a chance here of viktor choosing to spare him - if only to curse him with the Defender/Herald feud forever idk#anyway i am feral for season 2 so far can't you tell
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Sketch portraits ✨
I've done a few icons as a part of the current Sketchtober piece, I will be posting them in batches like this - so let's call this one "Sketch VII" XD These were for the great JuniperCreature, dogstar.art Lustylamb and Yagotado!
#portrait#icon#fantasy#anthro#painting#digital art#I'm mostly posting this not to just share the art#but also let you know I might be super slow with replying for the next 2-3 days - I planned to catch up with all socialising once I'm back#but I caught a bad cold there and my brain is not braining. X D#I'm gonna spend the next few days in bed and hope for the best 👉👈
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Some kofis
Imposter receiving love and affection from their S.O's for Ai
Nagito and Dante (OC) bitching for Angie
Roughed up but victorious Fuyuhiko for Star Murmur
Kuzusouda for Moth
#ultimate imposter#nagito komaeda#fuyuhiko kuzuryu#kazuichi souda#kuzusouda#An art#Last of the kofi I think I'm caught up now!#BTW when ppl tell me they share my art in discords....I'm v curious to know what is said....
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They probably had wayyy more sleepovers than they let on. And then didn't tell the others
#im about halfway through s1 so please please please. dont spoil anything in the notes#i normally wouldn't be interacting with the fandom until I'm caught up but i drew this and didnt feel like keeping it to myself lol#mispelled draws#misp draws#fantasy high#dimension 20#d20 fantasy high#fantasy high freshman year#fantasy high season 1#fantasy high fanart#kristen applebees#riz gukgak#fig faeth#fig fantasy high#riz fantasy high#kristen fantasy high#designs might change as i go#Kristin's doesnt feel fully right#ill play around
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"I'm just saying maybe you don't understand. You're always the one who leaves."
3x16 / 8x08
#i told you i was coming back for more#i started the show a month ago maybe and caught up before 8x06 and IMMEDIATELY started a rewatch from the beginning#i'm currently on s04 again (just watched the lone star ep)#which is a show i also watched in between there somewhere#please give buck Some Peace#buddie#911edit#evan buckley#911#mine: gif#mine#911 fox#911 abc
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