#Show theorys

[plushs-stuff]

Kinda hard to see but in the first opening of shrikes room in episode one of Monkey wrench you can see a photo of shrike and I assume a group of old friends.

Makes you wonder if they'll come up, perhaps they had a falling out? We know that Shrike used to work for League of Aligned worlds aka L. A. W, specifically in the navy of L. A. W. which I find very interesting because at multiple points Shrike expresses a lot of sustain for L. A. W. Like in episode one when Beebs brought up the news of Lady kara supposedly killing another wealthy law supporter Shrike says

" Probably deserved it. Supporting Laww and all..oh and speaking of miserable!"

I don't think we can come to the conclusion that his prior career did not align with his preferences of chaos, cuz we all know shrike loves to fight and shoot a blaster. So taking all that into accountability he probably stopped for some other reason.

It could just be his somewhat easy to anger personality but in the photo he does not look happy, like at all. Though his friends look the exact opposite.

In episode two the guys actually even take a job presented to them as being from " L.A.W." well until it was proven otherwise. But at some point Beebs references something Shrike said before the job, before the start of the episode. About not trusting the job they're currently taking, agreeing with what he said and claiming he might be right. This aligns with Shrikes not so savory history with L.A.W and what he might assume or expect of the organization.

Shrike also then states the above which is interesting to mention he talks about holding a gun in relationship to L.A.W caring or not caring about you, from someone who fought in L.A.W Navy.

This shows L.A.W probably isn't afraid to get their hands dirty.

Also in episode two when they finally do apprehend the crazy scientist lady and turn her into L.A.W, one of the L.A.W workers forgets a certain line I assume you say when arresting someone in the L.A.W organization. Shrike is then there and able to repeat the whole saying where he could not. Although in a very unenthused tone of voice.

After, the blue guy offers shrike to help in the arrest, Shrike looks very disgusted at this idea and then immediately denies walking away annoyed,

" Nah Amigo, That ain't my thing no more."

Again GO WATCH MONKEY WRENCH it is amazing and beautifully animated, I know it's hard for me to get into a show when you have to track it down but Monkey wrench is available free on youtube! And you don't have to worry about the plot picking up when in their first two episodes a lot of action, comedy and world building are included!

Again creator credits to: @monkey-wrench-zeurel

[arcanefanpage]

SHE’S ALIVE!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL! THE AIRSHIP AT THE END!!! THE GLITCHY END CREDITS!! THE AIR VENTS!!! THE GLITCH! CAITLYN’S SMIRK AT THE END!!!

[helly-ena]

ether as severance + “the courtship of kier and imogene” (relationship parallels)

(just so we’re clear, while the kier-imogene dynamic is clearly paralleled with helena and mark, it is also reiterated in cobel and mark, dr mauer and gemma, and even burt and irving to some extent; season 2 has also made it a point to show us that helena and cobel are both victims in their own ways while being perpetrators. it is not a black and white situation and misogyny will get you blocked.)

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[bean-spring]

Hot take and not to be a killjoy or the shipping police but people treating Viktor or Jinx's aroace headcanons as if they were canon is not the revolutionary take people think it is.

Headcanons are always all right but we have to acknowledge that they are somehow damaging when they apply to stereotypes. It might not be the case for everyone but most of the time people unconsciously assume that disability/mental illness=asexuality. These headcanons erase the freedom of attraction from people who are already seen as unable to have sexual/romantic experiences/desires, when it's completely untrue and harmful.

You can headcanon Viktor and Jinx as aroace, but I have seen people changing their minds once Viktor is no longer disabled (s2 with all of his other forms) and Jinx is no longer as mentally ill (alternate universe Powder). And it speaks wonders of how people see these characters.

"I never thought about Jinx being able to feel romantic/sexual attraction until s2!" To believe she's actually only capable of that when she's not "damaged" is incredibly disturbing. Especially since Jinx has always had a bit of a flirty personality too.

"I've always seen Viktor as asexual, I don't know why!" That's fine. You can headcanon him as ace. But I believe there is a reason behind it, most of the time, if for some inexplicable reason the "vibes" of the disabled character are making you think he's ace.

I say all of this being aroaspec myself, by the way. Headcanon all you want but going to people's posts commenting how "it's weird for you that they have romantic/sexual plots when they're clearly aroace" is not a win at all. It's a headcanon, after all, and it should be treated as such, and that's fine. But it also is damaging to spread stereotypes like these.

Of course the disabled character is asexual. Of course the mentally ill character is aromantic. It's not as revolutionary as you might think, tbh.

Fandom is not activism and it's all right to have any headcanons you want BUT some of them are filled with damaging stuff and perhaps we should look into ourselves more before treating these assumptions as something canon.

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[therealantlerqueen]

[ughhhdavid]

[newttxt]

more goofy-silly sabokoby ☺️

[keferon]

......So originally I wanted to make just a sketch of the hug scene but mhmgkhllgkh here we are haha

Based on Mistakes on mistakes until

+ close ups of their eyes because I sprinkled them with the tiny extra details

[artificialroux]

travis repeating "it's okay, it's okay" to the duck the same way he repeated that to javi when he realized neither of them pulled the queen card.

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x05 - “Blisters and Bedrock” ↳ "Hextech isn't a miracle. It's a curse."

[plushs-stuff]

Im gonna be posting a lot of monkey wrench easter eggs over the next few days BUT I went through episode one again and as directed to us a few times by @monkey-wrench-zeurel I looked at the news segment in episode one

As we learn from episode two Shrike loves Terran cartoons being silly animated adventures set in a western cowboy like setting. Soon after the conversation gets diffused by the fact the Terran are apparently responsible for the "Galactic wide cataclysm"

But who cares! Right? I mean apparently they also invented pizza and also cartoons! They're a big part of history!

Hm. Maybe a little too big.

The biggest kicker of all would have to be something I also spotted in episode one

When the dudes get to Oberon there're quite a few featured wanted posters and if you pause and read you can see a wanted poster for actual Terran with images!

As you can see these guys are pretty hated, especially with the big red X some one has put over both of the Terran. Even listing that " if you sight anyone from the Terran species you are to report their location to the L. A. W. Enforcement immediately"

They want all of them dead so badly they're listed at 1,000,000 pixels for capture. They aren't wanted dead though, and are instead listed as being executed. From everything I've seen so far I don't really trust these L. A. W. guys who seem to have a lot of power

But obviously as you can see Terran are probably Humans.

It would make sense with the things they are related to but we can't exactly rule out that in the universe some other species didn't make certain things.

What I do find interesting, is that the cartoon shrike loves so much is called " EL BANDITO" which is spanish, as we often hear Shrike speak. So if Terrans were just humans who live on earth that would make sense.

We know that Terran have been around for a pretty long time being a big part of history and everything. As you can see in the news broadcast the year of episode one is 4029 which is about 2,026 years in the future. (not good at math)

Obviously technology is very advanced now and everything is in a Sci-fi space setting, so I find it interesting Shrike has VHS tapes when at this point that technology would be like an ancient 2nd millennia BC historical artifact.

Last thing I'll note is that the Terran both have purple gunk on then so that's a question to ask.

And if you haven't already, go watch Monkey Wrench! It's beautifully animated and it's only just a youtube show so it needs all the help it can get to do great and really get out there!

Credits to the creator: @monkey-wrench-zeurel

[yreez]

[hirakiyois]

you're laughing. beloved network tv show 911's resident single dad with repressed homosexuality is dating three people at once and you're laughing.

[sockiepuppetry]

The dark lore of transformers animated