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starlooove · 3 days ago

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Ok it’s not letting me like officially tag her but @camel-kong’s tags gave me the inch I needed to bitch about the au episode. Ppl talking about who died or what impacted it or what the real change was are blowing me bc the REAL au has to be that it’s a world where the council would care about a dead kid from zaun. I was talking to my brother about this and for the changes to be so significant the real alternate universe had to be that the explosion blew up the entire block and everyone in it and maybe a councilor was visiting that day if we’re stretching - bc ur telling me they stopped the production of hextech over jayce? Over VI! Like yes they weren’t aware of its true potential or whatever but even a weapon of that magnitude means more than one dead kid especially a dead kid from the UNDERCITY!! The au just doesn’t work for me bc it affords the council and piltover in general a benefit of the doubt that they not only haven’t earned - but have proven time and time again they don’t fucking deserve. Like it’s the equivalent of saying if politicians knew how bad poor poc felt they’d stop- like hello?

#I’ve been saying #when ppl respond to arcane dropped the ball on the classism plotline with it wasn’t supposed to be resolved they’re missing the point #i was gonna say they defanged classism and the classists but that’s not even correct bc the cruelty and double standards are shown #It’s not defanging it’s showing it to you and spinning it as not that bad #like ppl talk about the thesis of the show being how far will we go for love and yeah but they act like any criticism of the vehicles used #to explore that is missing the point and it’s not #okay put classism on the backburner sure but the sheer effort or lack thereof it takes to have ppl reach conclusion that one death is the #turning point #It’s butterfly effect yeah but that’s not how classism works #the butterfly is maybe a council member getting a hug as a kid that they didn’t in the regular verse and now they’re nicer #and if IVE said it once I’ve said it a thousand times #i dont like shows using bigotry to explore other things and then not properly dealing with the bigotry #ok colonialism is the vehicle for familial issues #the familial issues are dealt with so the dictator is the quirky uncle sitting at the dinner table grumbling about how glorious everything #could’ve been?#AFTER showing oppressed groups being absolutely brutalized?#It’s a bias I don’t think they even realize #that oppressed bodies Can just tank more on screen and it doesn’t matter it’s kind of sick #and Im tired of ppl using love care and community to Dodge these conversations #sometimes there is love there and we can’t show it bc we’re worried about trying to fucking survive #sometimes there is love there but it cannot overshadow the physical conditions under which we exist.#sometimes there can’t be love there bc you fundamentally see me and mine as less.#sometimes the love isn’t real bc since birth me and mine have seen you and yours as more #Uhm anyways ty for letting me yap I’ll prolly talk about this a million more times ty floodgates

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