#Mel Fair

[blackramhall]

Amsterdam - Written and Directed by David O. Russell (2022)

[showsandstuff]

I am so conflicted about the drama in the arcane fandom regarding Meljayvik because it's all just so messy.

For one, not everyone likes every ship and that is okay. You don't have to like Meljayce or Jayvik, it's okay to only like one of the two or none at all.

But then there is the disposable black gf trope that makes this whole thing tricky. I hate this trope so damn much, it isn't fair. At all.

But then also Mel is SO MUCH more than Jayces lover in the story, like her romantic relationship with Jayce was a tiny part of her character and their relationship with each other as well. So I don't like the idea of reducing her to just that. Mel's arc this season was all about her other qualities, her intelligence, her power and her relationship to her mother, not about her love for Jayce or whatever.

I absolutely love Mel as a character. She went from someone who I thought would be a cunning villain, to this caring and intelligent leader, who will do whatever she thinks is best for her people.

Yet people always reduce her to "the girl that gets in the way of the Yaoi" or "Jayce’s love interest", like no come on?! She never got in the way of anything and she isn't just Jayce’s girlfriend. She doesn't lose her purpose if people don't like her together with Jayce, because that wasn't even what her arc was about! Free my girl!

[rookie-critic]

Rookie-Critic's Top 25 Films of 2022: Honorable Mentions - The Menu (dir. Mark Mylod)

When I saw the trailer for The Menu, I was torn between interest and worry. It looked like it would be a fun thriller, but it also looked like it might be a film making fun of "foodie culture" at the expense of people who just genuinely love food. Thankfully, while it sometimes rides the line of doing so, it ultimately leans more on making fun of people who seek out fine dining and lavish food experiences as a status symbol, coming after patrons and creators in equal measure. Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, and Nicholas Hoult all turn in fantastic performances, as does the whole cast, and the surprisingly comedic tone the film takes make the darkness of the happenings of the plot more tolerable by audience that might otherwise not be able to watch something like this. The climactic moment between Fiennes and Taylor-Joy's characters is one of the more memorable movie moments of 2022, and it caps the film's narrative off with a beautiful bite that I still think about sometimes.

Currently streaming on HBO Max. Read my full review of The Menu here.

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

All the Black Femmes || Arcane

Mel Medarda: Toks Olagundoye, Imogen Faires

Ambessa Medarda: Ellen Thomas

Sevika, Apothecary: Amirah Vann

Shoola, Jules: Mara Junot

Sky Young, (Additional Voices): Kimberly Brooks

Other Additional Voices: Debra Wilson, Kimberly Bailey, Shondalia White

[cl-0v3r]

Riot needs to take this poor woman out of their basement before I tweak out and do it myself

Everyone's been getting baby treatment and all us Mel connoisseurs have been living off of SCRAPS AND A SINGLE POSTER AND ITS NOT FAIIIRRR

Im actually going insane i need her back.

[kurthummeldeservesbetter]

Viktor started topping and Jayce was like well this is not our dynamic at ALL and therefore that’s the moment he was like okay gotta see how I can reverse this back to the way it was

[mollysunder]

Not to sound shallow or anything, but Mel's hair, make up, and the customizations on her jump suit are different than her finale look. Look at one of the last shots of Mel.

Now look at Mel in "Welcome to Noxus".

Even the fabric that's wrapped around her is different. In Arcane, the fabric Mel uses looks luxurious and silky, the kind worn for a fashion statement. Imagine the fabric people wear in music videos explicitly so it can billow beautifully in the wind behind the singer as they pose dramatically, that's that kind of fabric.

In "Welcome to Noxus", Mel has on something shorter, more functional, and just coarser by comparison.

This isn't a serious post btw, just things I noticed. "Welcome to Noxus" is a trailer for LoL not Arcane, it's just interesting to see how Mel's design translates to LoL so she can be more action-oriented.

[houruponthestage]

I’m so curious. Personally, I quite liked episodes 2 and 3. I wonder if the finale will get any votes. 👀

[kat-chan02]

oh. my. god. i swear if i see one more person hating on and complaining about the caitvi sex scene im gonna throw hands!!! it's like they've forgotten that,, you know THERE WAS ANOTHER SEX SCENE IN SEASON 1 ?! don't remember hearing any complaints over that. just because it's a queer couple doesn't mean that people should just hate on the scene. if you weren't mad about Mel and Jayce getting it on,, you shouldn't be mad about Cait and Vi either.

[moonlightflower-queen]

Rip Persephone she only ever got to raise plants

[tikiki05]

“you people cant handle complex/morally gray characters!!1! 🤓”

DUDE. WHAT IF I K*LLED YOU. IF A CHARACTER IS COMPLEX AND/OR MORALLY GREY, THEN WE’RE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW THEIR ACTIONS ARE COMPLEX, AND MORALLY GREY, AND HOW THEY DID BAD THINGS. THAT DOESN’T MEAN WE CAN’T HANDLE THEM. ITS CALLED DISCUSSING AND ANALYZING MEDIA!!!!!!! YOURE THE ONES WHO CAN’T HANDLE THAT!!!!!!

[rhaesaria]

Sorry to talk about the show canon but imagine in season 6, when Sansa reunites with Jon at the wall, she arrives before they brought him back to life, instead of getting there afterward and never even knowing he was dead. You travel to the edge of the kingdom to find your last family member and he was already murdered, you just missed him

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

Audrey Hepburn, in a Givenchy satin robe from Charade and a René Manciny pair of shoes, and her first husband Mel Ferrer at the Warner Brothers Burbank Studios during a break in the production of My Fair Lady in September 1963 Photography by Bob Willoughby

[purple-crusader]

Okay. Wow. That was an intense start for the season ngl. So much stuff happened there, Piltover is turning to facism, Hextech is gonna destroy all of reality, there's some magic entity hunting Ambessa and Mel, Viktor is Jesus now, that fucking werewolf.

But at least I got this before the break up and Caitlyn turned to being a dictator!!

[kinglet1963]

Lisa Ann is WILD for doing this-