#and that in itself makes me obsessed with them

[cheralith]

more poly ryusae please 🥺??

characters ; shidou ryusei, itoshi sae || wc ; 715 contains/cw ; fem!reader, she/her pronouns, pre-relationship with shidou, polyamory, a little suggestive at the end haha

ever since the day that shidou had discovered sae's secret little girlfriend, shidou thinks the prodigy has been torturing him since.

because for the first time since shidou joined the team, sae's been letting you tag along with him during practice. it doesn't help that shidou seems to be the only person on the team who didn't know of your existence until only a few weeks ago, considering you're so friendly with the rest of them. hayate goes to give you a friendly shoulder pat, teppei hugs you excitedly, telling you it's been awhile. even aiku goes to ask if you're going to break up with "tensai-chan" anytime soon, to which you only respond with a shallow smile and tell him to have fun at practice.

shidou looks back to sae to see if he's okay with his girlfriend interacting with the team in such a friendly matter, especially since you're such a pretty thing and if you were shidou's girl, he'd hide you away to keep you for himself. but clearly sae's proud of you, despite his countenance not showing it. he knows his girlfriend is beautiful and kind, so charming and delicate—what's not to love?

you're so sweet, so cheery. when you introduce yourself to shidou, he nearly gets flustered by how breathtaking you were in real life; instagram doesn't do you justice. you have these large doe eyes that just ponder up at him and a smile so succulent, it makes him sick. he screws on a crooked smile, one that doesn't seem to be as wide as his normal cheshire-cat one.

"ah, so you're the dolly that sae's been taking care of," shidou says the first time he meets you with a smirk, sticking a hand out.

you smile with your eyes, fixating on the man that you've been eyeing with your boyfriend for quite while in full, amazed at how such a person is standing right there in front of you. a firm handshake exchanges itself between you and him, though shidou has to really hold back on pulling you close to him and kissing those shiny, plump lips of yours in front of the team, in front of sae.

"a pleasure to meet you, shidou-san," you greet pleasantly, feeling your boyfriend's stare on you from behind your head. “sae’s told me a lot about you.”

even your voice is pretty. shidou shivers at the sound of his name falling on your lips, getting jealous that sae's name gets to be echoed from such a voice on a daily basis.

sae lets you sit in the empty bleachers, just letting you do your work quietly as the men practice. shidou wishes that you could take your head out of the book so you can watch the behind the scenes play of his iconic dragon drive in real time; even a sliver of your attention would up his energy tenfold. sometimes, you would poke your head out and watch sae as he dribbles on the field, eyes sparkling with admiration. he wishes you could pay attention to him like that.

he shouldn't feel like this. your sae's girl. it feels so wrong for trying to win the attention of a girl who's in a relationship with japan's top midfielders... but shidou can't help but indulge in the guilt, feeling like he's getting a thrill over it. multiply that by his own lingering obsession towards sae that sae just indulges in, relishing in the attention that the untamed shidou ryusei seems to spotlight on him. the more sae tries to act indifferent towards him, the more shidou enjoys the chase, running off its high.

a pretty girl he wants to ruin and a pretty boy he wants to own in his field of vision. and they're dating? shidou thinks he's won at life.

his cells are getting excited. shidou has to bite his lip from making a rather... carnal sound when he sees you and sae kissing lovingly near the exit of the locker room, your fingers threading through his hair and sae's hands on your hips, thumbs caressing you fondly. shidou draws a shaking, hot breath, his eye twitching... he really doesn't know which person he wants to be more.

unbeknownst to shidou, sae has been plotting the entire thing in his head. shidou turns back to go to the locker room, telling everyone he has some "business" to attend to, and sae, amidst still kissing you, subtly opens one of his eyes, trailing after his figure.

“did it work?” you ask him, slightly breathless through the kiss.

sae merely hums, not breaking from you, with the smallest hint of a smirk visible on his lips.

[bunni-v1]

May I ask your advice on something? I want to make a cookie that will be loved by shadow milk and I toss and turn the idea in my head thinking about his loneliness, but his arrogance in assuming most cookies aren’t worthy of his time makes it difficult. It leads me to building the cookie to be bigger and more powerful/elaborate than him so he immediately recognizes it, but that’s unsatisfying for me. I’d like them to be ordinary, clever of course, observant, and quick witted to not only keep up with shadow milk, but to even outpace him at times in a verbal sparring match. But most ordinary cookies don’t really fit the bill. They usually either worship or fear him depending on personality and self awareness. Both are good and what he needs/uses, but you can’t really be friends with a tool. Makes it hard to think of an ordinary cookie that might have caught his attention. I liked your analysis of what getting close to him pre corruption was and he’s a more viable candidate, but even he on some level looks down upon ordinary cookies that know less and don’t live as long. Namuwiki and regular wiki categorize his corruption as both an obsession with his own power as well as loneliness in a truth that broke him. I think the truth that did so or that at least planted the seed of corruption was: that cookies/people don’t care about the truth. He states as much so many times to pure vanilla to weaken his resolve, his dedication to truth. How cookies willingly/happily turn from the bitter truth to embrace a sweet lie. How cookies were more interested in listening to him speak than what he was really saying. It’s a one two punch realizing the cookies around you don’t really care about the thing that makes you you. And if they do it may only be for selfish gain, not for knowledge in itself. And the real rub is the reason they don’t care is often times due to some form of ignorance or stupidity. I mentioned this to a friend irl and she said,”oh he got bullied before he got corrupted. 💯” Which made me think of the cookies before his fall, who maybe took for granted that 1. The font of knowledge even exists and 2.That he would willingly and happily answer their questions truthfully forever and 3. Would never lose his patience. Because how much do you want to bet that the illusion from the sugar free road he taunted pure vanilla with, the woman yelling at him saying “tell us where to seek healing! Tell us how to be healthy to live in wealth and happiness! Use your power! Share your power with us! Do it if you truly care!” Were words from a cookie in shadow milks past? How many refused to seek the truth themselves, wishing no demanding he provide it for them. And criticizing him if/when he either refuses or lies, like bratty children. “Nothing but empty promises. All a lie.” Give them! Cookies who were so ignorant and stupid wanting to take away the thing that makes him him. Because that’s all he is isn’t he? His power his soul jam. Neither he nor anyone else it seems has seen him beyond his abilities. To who he is as a cookie.

Which is just another layer to his isolation, but all of which to say. Maybe the ordinary cookie who just happens to be curious, innovative, and above all patient and kind is his only balm against such words. And maybe that cookie crumbles under the weight of their deceit. Maybe that helps crumble his resolve. After all the main thing hes running from, the big lie he tells himself is that nothing bad ever happens to him. Because how could it? He’s a god, he’s all knowing, but not all powerful. Thoughts?

I think Shadow Milk's fall is the most interesting, because it could quite honestly be either he fell first or last. I'm a bigger fan of the him falling last theory, because it's very interesting to see how he would react to his friends becoming beasts and realizing he too will shortly.

With the new costume's story we can get a better look into him, and he's a lot like PV. Patient, kind, gentle, intelligent, and more than willing to share his knowledge with cookies. With such knowledge, he is very separate from other cookies. He knows and understands things that other cookies could never dream of.

That much knowledge will weigh on your being, even if you are a god. Especially if it's all you're supposed to be, a fount of knowledge for cookies. I think he does enjoy sharing his knowledge and the truths of the world. He cares for his cookies. How could he not? they are innocent and freshly baked, full of fear and confusion. His knowledge is meant to soothe them.

But, cookies fear what they do not understand. When they start asking harder questions, and he gives them the truthful answer, they don't like it. They lash out and deny the truth, and he realizes they would rather live in a lie than bear the truth. The fact that, even if it's unintentional, the very cookies he loves and cherishes are rejecting him... well, it would devastate anyone.

Shadow Milk Cookie became a beast because he was rejected by his people. He became the embodiment of lies to become what they wanted, rejecting the truth to show them the error of their ways. This is what they wanted, right?

I think that's why he needs a partner who challenges him. They can't just accept everything he does as okay. He doesn't want or need someone who just sits there and affirms him like his minions. His partner needs a backbone and a strong moral compass, the confidence to look at him and say, "Absolutely not."

They also need to have the awareness that he is the master of lies. They need to be able to see through his lies and illusions by themselves because he can't hold their hand all the time. He has this deep aching need to be seen, though he doesn't acknowledge those feelings. They have to be able to crack his shell by themselves and show that they care, and only then will he open up to them.

It's certainly not an easy feat for a normal cookie, but if Ginger Brave and co. can do it, I'm sure his partner can also do it. It takes a special cookie to get the master of deceit tripping over himself, after all.

[traincat]

do you have any new spideytorch fics in current progress? of course no worries if not but i just wanted to ask. i’m absolutely obsessed with your writing and your fics!!

Thank you!

I sort of have two things I started, but haven't made a ton of progress on. I'm a little busy between work and a big bang in a different fandom, so these have been put to the side for now, but looking at them does make me want to finish them.

Fic 1 is a Just Married installment set in the future because I thought amnesia would be a fun trope to play with in the context of that universe. Basically, Peter gets whammied, forgets he ever fake-but-for-real married Johnny, and has to work out his feelings, which is horrible for him.

Peter picked up the framed photo, tilting it towards the light. He and Johnny stood at the center, splattered in -- he hoped it was paint. There was a gaggle of kids surrounding them, including two young brunet boys. One was clinging to Johnny's legs. The other was holding a water gun to Peter's head. “Our twin boys,” Johnny said, his hand pressed to his heart. “Threaderick and Weavon.” Peter nearly dropped the photo. “I’m just messing with you,” Johnny said. “That was from the day Bentley temporarily cloned himself. Which is pretty funny because he’s already a clone.” “It’s impossible to tell if any word coming out of your mouth is serious,” Peter said. “Johnny, I need you to be serious with me. Do we – do we have kids?” “No,” Johnny said, his mouth pressed into an unhappy line. He looked away from Peter. “We don’t have kids.”

Fic 2 is not even remotely presenting itself as serious. Like less so than the spider attracting body butter fic. I don't for a single second believe Peter would let Johnny's mustache from the North run go without comment.

Peter had been accused, by various people in his life, of being a variety of less than flattering things. Neurotic. Overprotective. Mildly overbearing. (“Stalkeresque,” Betty drawled from her desk, shooting him a nasty look. “Not a word, Betts,” Peter said, and kissed her on the top of her head as he dropped off her brown sugar latte. “Parker!” Jonah shouted from his office. “Do you even work here anymore?!” “Adios!” Peter said, and beat it before Jonah could call security.) (the FF come back from idk. space or whatever. I'm not pretending this canon compliant with North's run, I just want to make mustache jokes.) “I’m warning you, Bug,” Ben said. “You’re not going to like what you see.” (what he sees is the mustache. he does not like it.) -- “I don’t get what the problem is,” Harry said, waving a lofty hand in the air. “So he wants to grow a mustache. Let him grow a mustache.” “The problem is it’s hideous,” Peter said. “It’s like looking a dead, blond weasel on his upper lip.” “You liked the mustache I had back in college,” Harry said, stroking the corners of his mouth with thumb and forefinger. He shrugged. “I guess not everyone can pull it off.” Peter decided to break it to him easy. “You know I love you, right, Har?” he said. “You’re my best friend. I’ll always be there for you.” “Aw,” Harry said. Then suspicion dawned on his face. “Wait. What are you getting at?” “I hated the mustache, Harry,” Peter said. (blah blah blah) “Gwen liked the mustache, though, right?” Harry said. “Gwen said she liked it. She said it made me look like a malfeasant.” Peter didn’t bother to ask if Harry knew what that meant. “Gwen paid MJ fifty bucks to shave it off while you were sleeping.” “Huh,” Harry said. He drummed his fingers on the tabletop. “Wow. I haven’t had the urge to get Dad’s Green Goblin gear out of storage in a long time.” “Good talk, Harry,” Peter said. -- Johnny had his waxer on speed dial and a biweekly appointment at New York’s most exclusive salon. There was no way the mustache was going to last. Peter gave it a week. A week and a half, tops. (blah blah blah) “Johnny,” Peter said, taking him by the shoulders. “Sunshine. Firefly. Light of my life.” His gaze dropped to the mustache and then back up to Johnny’s eyes. “Is this war?” “I have no idea what you mean,” Johnny said, but he reached up and twirled one end of the mustache. Sparks danced in his eyes. Peter’s jaw clenched. War it was.

I'm titling this one Mustache You a Question, obviously.

[onaperduamedee]

It feels so special to be able to say about an ensemble show "I'm so excited about Siuan’s story. And Rand's. And Moiraine's. And Nynaeve's. And Egwene's. And Perrin's. And Mat's. And Lan's. And..."

Sometimes it drives me a little feral how proteiform The Wheel of Time is as a story.

Do you like ancient beings who are survivors of a lost civilization and who have an obsession with one of their peers who parted ways like the Doctor and the Master in Doctor Who? We have the Forsaken.

Do you like Akira and the archetype of the both extremely vulnerable and powerful boy who can bring about the end of the world, as a human ticking bomb but also the world's salvation if he and the people helping him make the right choices? Hey, I have some news about Rand al'Thor.

Do you like characters consumed by a crusade that is both theirs and humanity's, against forces beyond their power, raging against and twisting people, stories and fate itself to destroy their opponent like Flint in Black Sails? Moiraine, Siuan and Lan can fit so much dedication and strength.

Do you like younger characters growing into their power and responsibilities, dealing with the aftermath of trauma and taking steps to find themselves and their place in the world like Lyra and Will from His Dark Materials? Egwene and Perrin are waiting for you.

Do you like characters going through a quarter of life crisis and being angry, terrified and vulnerable about it and how life isn't what it was supposed to be for them like we're in a Japanese miniseries about to tear your heart? Nynaeve's journey is right here.

We don't talk about Mat but, trust me, you're going to like this.

Do you like political intrigue? Indiana Jones? Horror? Travelogue? Aragorn? Fashion? Office comedy? High fantasy? Dune? Spy stories? Circus? Magic schools? Murder mysteries? Alternate universes? Monsters? The Wheel of time has all that and more

We're not going to catch our breath for one second before we hit 308

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When light knows dark for long enough, it may see it long enough for itself to become the abyss it has stared at for centuries

It feasts away at anything that comes into contact with it. The shine of stars, the shimmer of light that lives way below the surface and inside of the soul.

The prince of failure knows such concept better than anyone. One as himself, who faced rebirth in the darkness and feasts away at it like the rest of the devils and gargantuans that haunt the grounds of the abhorration.

Pure light like you. . . Oh yes, a taste of the ages that he loves to savour and corrupt slowly, and ever as sweetly at times. He's drunk on the taste of your skin, the feel of your body against his. Demonic urges be the winner of him. You are someone who he has to have.

A pretty new gem to his collection of broken lovers and pretty past time worshippers that have come far and wide to see themselves with the prince who has discarded them long ago and left them nothing but devotees and advocates of his causes. Spreading his cult across different lands like the plague.

You weren't aware of his obsession towards you.

All but a mere inhuman artist in the vast world of 781. A 3rd year attendee of the ECU, with the art class major. His infatuation had grown to grave lengths after conversing with you.

There was something about you. Touch, voice and laugh. Why, they were each and on their own enough to make the flowers of the earth sigh in refreshment. And whenever you walked away from him in the hallways to get to your other classes, he felt this need to reach out and grab you. Preventing you from making another move.

That would not be enough, and he would not wish to damage the foundation of friendship the two of you had built. He craved for something more, however, and his urges got him before sense did.

Such is the life of a rhytaari, who dwells the grounds of the abhorration as not only a demon but a man who strives to have back something pure in his life each time the old breaks.

"Valerius—"

Delicious. . . The panic in your voice was absolutely delectable.

Gently, his knuckles made long strokes down your cheek, to soothe and reassure you that you were going to be alright. You'd looked so beautiful in your sleep, and he was able to be quiet for the most part as he drew the circle around your bed to open a portal straight to his temple in the realm of the abhorred.

He could have taken you simply, sure. With the possibility of dizzying you at the sheer amount of power he uses normally to teleport himself from place to place.

A portal would be easier. Less straining and worrisome on your soul.

"Shhh,"

Shivers shoot up your spine. Nausea cranked up to a max in your gut. Every part of your intuition is screaming at you. About how none of this is normal, about how you need to get up and run.

But run where?

Gods of the realms might as well come laugh you into your face at the notion of trying. You're not getting out of this regardless.

"It shall be alright, I will take care of you."

You thought you knew the man in front of you. Yet from now to when you last saw him. His entire appearance has changed. Gold litters every part of him, be it jewellery or makeup. His hair floats in the most enamouring manner possible. Yet you find yourself too disturbed to care much at the very moment.

"I don't want to do what you want." You let out. Regretting it instantly, as his eyes go from having hopeful glee in them, to darkness that pitted the deep vapour of the abyss.

"You will do what I am doing for you. This is for you." He calmly responds, as his hand shoots up to take hold of your jaw in a firm grasp. It brings you forward into a kiss. Golden lips drunkenly feeding off of the small cries and sobs you let out. The fear makes him feel high.

"You're hurting me—"

"I would never put you to any harm, stop crying." He sneers against your lips, teeth grazing against your bottom lip to bite at it. Your body stiff and for his taking the second his left arm swoops you into it's hold and he tilts back into the portal.

As the both of you fall through skies of red, skies of the damned, he grins at you like a madman. Hearts in his eyes as though you are his most beloved.

You are, to him. Why can't you accept that? He just wants to love you.

"Mine." He cries out in glee, clawing golden wounds into your skin. "All mine at last,"

"None will hurt you here."

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jayce vs. caitlyn: unpacking prejudice

i did a thing. disclaimer: i am not an anti. i like jayce. i like caitlyn. use my post for your anti bullshit and i will be very mad. >:( <- this will be me if you use this for anti character bullshit

um anyway it's kind of long you have been warned.

initial attitudes:

caitlyn: starts with fear and misunderstanding of zaun, but evolves to see the people there as victims of their circumstances and worthy of empathy.

jayce: begins with an elitist, dismissive view of zaunites, seeing them as dangerous, and even his intentions to help zaunites are primarily because he's focused on further progressing hextech.

actions towards zaunites (unfortunately, there's a large difference in the amount of times the two interact with zaunites in meaningful ways that teach us things about the way their deep-seated prejudices affect us, but i tried my best):

caitlyn: acts as an advocate for zaunites, trying to help vi and the people of zaun by using her position to get resources, often running into resistance from piltover's elite. she seems to genuinely care about zaunites as people and not simply another talking point.

jayce: focuses on advancing piltover's technological superiority. the majority of the positive things he says about zaun or wanting things to change for zaunites are tied to his dream for hextech. he focuses more on his accomplishments with hextech than he does about the actual zaunites.

growth and change:

caitlyn: shows significant character growth as she recognizes the struggles of zaun and begins to fight for a better future for both piltover and zaun.

jayce: struggles with his growing realization that his actions have harmed zaun, but remains largely entrenched in piltover's status quo, unsure of how to change it without jeopardizing his advancements with hextech.

caitlyn gradually shifts from viewing zaunites as criminals to understanding their suffering and seeking solutions, whereas jayce's perspective, though beginning with naivety and ignorance, starts to hint at moral doubt but remains heavily influenced by his position in piltover's power structures.

overall, their prejudice against zaunites manifests itself in ways that make complete sense when compared to who they are as characters.

caitlyn is a character who cares deeply about justice and helping people. it stands to reason that she would also care about bringing justice for zaun and not just piltover. she grows to care about the suffering zaunites face and advocates for them constantly. even after her attempts at peace are denied when it comes to jinx, she still cares for all of zaun as a whole. she slips into harmful rhetoric multiple times, but her ideals remain relatively steadfast.

jayce's story doesn't have as much connection to zaun and zaunites in general, which is why he has far less interaction with them. his interactions with zaun are centered around hextech, and because hextech is his primary focus, this means he often makes decisions that will harm zaunites. after his experience in the au, where he sees that hextech will destroy piltover if allowed to advance, he returns with the sole focus of destroying hextech. at this point, his prejudice takes a backseat along with most of his other traits from season 1.

and now the evidence, because i'm obsessive like that :) also pls pls interact i manually went through and timestamped all of these

caitlyn:

says that the undercity is dangerous and should be feared

S1E2 00:00:27 --> 00:00:31 You really went to the undercity to get these? Weren't you afraid?

believes that not everyone in the undercity is violent and that recent violence can be traced back to one errant person

S1E4 00:33:22 --> 00:33:28 Listen, you know how I've suspected there is a single mind behind the undercity's violence?

goes to stillwater to ask inmates questions

S1E4 00:35:38 --> 00:35:40 I need to speak with one of the inmates.

implies that she can't trust vi because she's a zaunite and a prisoner

S1E5 00:03:51 --> 00:03:54 In what mad world would I trust someone like you?

convinces jayce to approve of her releasing vi despite just having voiced her distrust

S1E5 00:04:26 --> 00:04:27 It's for her release.

is visibly upset about the idea of the warden hurting the prisoners

S1E5 00:04:37 --> 00:04:39 How many chats have you had with her?

follows vi to the lanes instead of making her take the bathysphere the way caitlyn originally suggests (also unrelated but it's funny as hell because while she is trying and failing to parkour, the old man is taking the bathysphere, and they get down to the lanes at the same time)

S1E5 00:11:41 --> 00:13:10

despite her protests, allows vi to lead her around and trusts her to do what's been asked of her

S1E5 00:14:50 --> 00:14:54 Unbelievable. I didn't break you out of jail to eat… slop.

again, despite her initial protests, when told to pretend to be a sex worker at the brothel, she does it (although this may just be bc she's whipped)

S1E5 00:22:52 --> 00:23:01 Ah, yes. Matilda. My parents named me Matilda. After my great-grandmother Matilda, the, uh…

saves vi from being killed by sevika (this is also to ensure her ongoing investigation won't be jeopardized, but it's clear she does care about protecting vi and again, the investigation in question is to prove that the violence that's been blamed on all of zaun is actually just one perpetrator. she is showing dedication to getting justice for both zaun and piltover.)

S1E5 00:35:07 --> 00:35:08 [gunshot]

(at this point i had to stop using very many interactions between vi and caitlyn because they are also affected by caitlyn's growing feelings for vi. that said, her interactions with vi are also very telling of her growth as a person and her examination of her prejudices.)

caitlyn acknowledges that zaunites are just as capable of goodness as piltovans. vi talks about how topsiders hurt and judge zaunites and caitlyn genuinely listens to her and actively unpacks her own prejudice

S1E6 00:17:58 --> 00:18:05 It's all right. Despite it all, I can tell… you have a good heart.

while looking for some way to help vi, caitlyn runs into huck. she trusts him to help her find something to heal vi. she gives up her gun to get a potion to help vi. this is significant because it shows that she was listening to what vi said earlier about zaunites not being monsters. she gives up her only weapon and the only thing she has to defend herself

S1E6 00:20:00 --> 00:22:23

after being used by vi (who never told caitlyn that the person she's been hunting is vi's sister), she still stays back and doesn't apprehend or attack jinx, speaking gently to her

S1E6 00:34:51 --> 00:34:53 Your sister is Jinx?

offers herself up to the firelights in place of vi, not knowing anything about the firelights except that they're zaunites and that they kidnapped her and vi (cares more about vi than her fear of what will happen to her if she gives herself up: the fear of zaunites she used to have is now disappearing because she's seen they aren't the monsters she expected)

S1E7 00:19:12 --> 00:19:16 Listen, let her go. I brought her here. It's me you want.

listens to ekko's complaints about piltover's oppression, and she clearly wants to fix things between zaun and piltover. she talks about wanting to end the cycle of violence and keeping zaunites from getting hurt by enforcers. unlike other characters, when she refers to "the city", she means piltover and zaun equally

S1E7 00:22:18 --> 00:22:39 Ekko, it's wrong what's been done to you. You'd be well within your rights to keep [the Hextech gemstone]. I couldn't blame you. But… if you do, this cycle of violence will never stop. This is our best shot at setting the record straight. This city needs healing.

vouches for the zaunites as a whole to marcus, not realizing he's in silco's pocket

S1E7 00:29:22 --> 00:29:26 Sir! I have proof. Silco's behind everything.

defends zaunites to her mother, acknowledges the harm caused by piltovans, and shows interest in changing things for zaun. also refers to zaunites as piltovan citizens and equals, not like a lesser community

S1E8 00:07:27 --> 00:07:38 You know what else reflects on the Council? Its citizens living on the streets. Being poisoned. Having to choose between a kingpin who wants to exploit them and a government that doesn't give a shit.

speaks to the council to defend the majority of zaunites to the piltovan elite, telling them they shouldn't blame all of zaun for the actions of the shimmer drug lords. she also tells them that piltover has failed zaunites

S1E8 00:21:31 --> 00:21:54

when jayce suggests going to the undercity and using force, possibly triggering war, caitlyn protests, saying that there are innocents and good people in zaun

S1E8 00:22:27 --> 00:22:30 There are good people down there.

caitlyn wants to come up with alternative ideas to take down silco and free the people of zaun after the councilors (minus jayce) suggest negotiating with silco

S1E8 00:23:49 --> 00:23:51 I can fix this.

is kidnapped by jinx in a vulnerable position and forced to dress at gunpoint (also likely tortured, as she flinches when jinx gets close to her during the tea party scene and somehow jinx knows that vi calls caitlyn cupcake despite never having heard it herself)

S1E8 00:34:59 --> 00:36:22

jinx gives vi an ultimatum: kill caitlyn or lose powder

S1E9 00:28:44 --> 00:28:49 Send her on her way and-- And you can have Powder back.

watches jinx fire the rocket that ends up killing her mother

S1E9 00:35:25 --> 00:37:06

(unfortunately, i couldn't find timestamped transcripts for season two of arcane, so following citations may be quotes without timestamps, if there are timestamps, it's because i went through the episodes myself to find them)

when salo orders a show of force, caitlyn protests

S2E1 00:06:56 --> 00:06:58 Innocents will be caught in the crossfire.

wants vi to join the enforcers as a symbol that not all zaunites support jinx, later regrets it and tells vi she doesn't have to accept

S2E1 00:12:11 --> 00:12:18 The Council won't stop them. You can show that not all of Zaun supports Jinx. We can show them. Together.

witnesses the attack on the memorial, and as far as she knows, the attack is organized by zaunites

S2E1 00:23:46 --> 00:31:24

calls renni & her goons animals for attacking the memorial

S2E1 00:32:16 --> 00:32:18 What kind of animals?

instead of entering zaun with the full force of enforcers, caitlyn suggests the alternative of taking a specialized strike team into zaun to minimize the harm done to innocents

S2E1 00:35:16 --> 00:35:28 I will lead a strike team into Zaun with three objectives: Locate Jinx, dismantle Shimmer, and neutralize any agents still loyal to Silco.

gasses the hideout jinx is in so they can apprehend her (however, there is nobody in the area except the enforcers, jinx, and later smeech, sevika, and isha)

S2E2 00:22:45 --> 00:26:36

uses the grey (similar to tear gas when exposure is not extended) in targeted locations to locate and take down the chem barons and gain information from zaunites on jinx's possible whereabouts

S2E3 00:00:52 --> 00:02:01

threatens to harm heenot despite him clearly not posing a threat to them (this can also be attributed to the fact that he used to work for smeech, a chem baron, but it can be assumed that because of the circumstances, caitlyn has her guard up against zaunites in general at this point)

S2E3 00:04:13 --> 00:04:15 Tell us how you wound up here.

this one is unrelated despite some people believing it is related to caitlyn's prejudice, so i'll share my interpretation of it. when caitlyn says this line, she isn't comparing vi to zaunites in general. she's saying she thought vi was different from before (before being season 1, when vi begged her to hold her shot when she was about to kill jinx and because she listened, jinx managed to fire the rocket that killed caitlyn's mother). in this moment, vi has just made her hold her shot again, and again this has led to jinx setting off an explosion which harmed innocents in piltover. she says the line about jinx's blood being in vi's veins because she is referring to the fact that because they're sisters, vi will always choose jinx over caitlyn. jinx and caitlyn are similar in that they constantly try to make vi choose between them, sometimes without even realizing. when vi responds by asking caitlyn why she's acting like jinx, it's a response to what caitlyn is saying, but not necessarily what caitlyn MEANS.

S2E3 00:29:19 --> 00:29:26 I keep telling myself that you're different. But you're not. It's her blood in your veins.

is clearly unhappy with the violence instigated by the noxians towards innocent zaunites

S2E4 00:12:21 --> 00:12:25 Was it for my encouragement that your man Rictus was instigating violence?

doesn't want to arrest innocents for no reason and doesn't want violence

S2E4 00:12:47 --> 00:12:49 Arrests require cause.

under her leadership, the noxians and enforcers are instigating needless violence against innocents and rioters alike

S2E4 00:20:05 --> 00:20:13 Enforcers raiding our homes. Noxians down our throats. Innocents getting carted off to Stillwater.

visibly upset about the deaths of zaunites and enforcers alike caused by warwick

S2E5 00:05:03 --> 00:05:54

comments on the experiments that have come out of zaun, referring to the shimmer-fueled monsters, chem tanks, and now warwick (also, the noticeable removal of the word "blood" in her statement leads me to believe that no zaunites had been killed by the enforcers and noxians during the occupation)

S2E5 00:05:54 --> 00:06:08 Months of peacekeeping occupation. Countless operations. Oceans of sweat and tears. I'd begun to think we might finally see an end to Zaun's perverse abominations.

we learn that she outlawed the use of certain cells in stillwater because of the horrible conditions faced by prisoners who were placed in them

S2E5 00:06:30 --> 00:06:40 There are cells buried deep within this prison so devoid of light and fresh air and all basic human considerations that up till now, I have forbidden their use.

expresses regret for allowing ambessa to manipulate her

S2E8 00:11:20 --> 00:11:21 I know!

shows remorse for her actions against the zaunites

S2E8 00:13:05 --> 00:13:07 No amount of good deeds can undo our crimes.

acknowledges that in her pursuit for jinx, she's allowed the harm of innocents, and resents herself for it

S2E8 00:13:18 --> 00:13:22 Hating you, I've hated myself.

by the end, she's still dedicated to changing things for zaun and piltover

S2E9 00:44:37 --> 00:45:12 And though we are doomed to revisit the error of our ways, spark ever more conflicts, our story isn't over.

jayce:

says zaun is dangerous

S1E2 00:00:31 --> 00:00:33 A little danger is worth the risk, don't you think? (referring to going to zaun to collect tools)

shares the credit for hextech with viktor, a zaunite

S1E3 00:08:32 --> 00:08:33 Our Hextech dream.

cares about making everyone's lives easier, including zaunites

S1E4 00:26:05 --> 00:26:12 Things that will bring an end to your hardships. Whether you're the scion of our high houses or an honest laborer from the underground. (referring to new, portable hextech)

S1E5 00:08:55 --> 00:09:00 What about our pledge to improve lives, for those in need? For the undercity?

shows concern for viktor and mentions that the cause of viktor's sickness is one of the things he wants to change with hextech

S1E6 00:06:36 --> 00:06:48 I think it has something to do with gasses in the fissures where he grew up. Exactly the sort of thing we wanted to fix with Hextech. Improving lives. Solving real issues, not just trade disputes.

when viktor suggests that the hextech could be used to extend life and augment physiology, jayce cares only about the effects it will have on viktor (this one's unrelated really but look at their brotherly love /silly)

S1E6 00:15:33 --> 00:15:36 Curing you.

in order to protect hextech, he advocates for policies that will hurt zaunites

S1E6 00:23:03 --> 00:23:04 Then, that's what we'll do. (referring to searching everyone who crosses the bridges, which marcus brings up as an impossible idea)

again, in order to protect hextech, he makes fearmongering comments about zaun so he can get heimerdinger kicked off the council

S1E6 00:24:12 --> 00:24:22 Shimmer is rampant in the undercity. Attacks at the Hexgates and in the Academy Square. Enforcers fear to set foot in the Lanes. All under your watch.

continues to act like zaunites are monsters

S1E7 00:13:37 --> 00:13:40 There are people down there who seem hell-bent on destroying us.

tells viktor that zaunites are dangerous (although he apologizes when he's reminded that viktor is also a zaunite)

S1E7 00:13:51 --> 00:13:53 What diff… They're dangerous.

begins considering the creation of hextech weapons to defend piltover against zaun

S1E8 00:12:31 --> 00:12:34 Your Jayce Talis has turned his eye to Hextech weaponry.

is willing to go into the undercity with force, possibly starting a war, so he can recover the hextech gemstone. ignores protests from caitlyn and other councilors

S1E8 00:22:21 --> 00:22:27 This Jinx has the Gemstone? Then we have to go in by force.

jayce is the only councilor frustrated at the prospect of negotiating with silco instead of using force to recover the gemstone

S1E8 00:22:52 --> 00:22:54

threatens to have vi arrested for approaching him in his forge

S1E8 00:28:20 --> 00:28:22 I could have you arrested.

brings enforcers with him and vi on their mission to the undercity to take down one of silco's drug facilities, which ends up getting a child killed and dozens of child laborers arrested

S1E8 00:30:19 --> 00:38:24

after killing a child, refuses to continue with force, seems to regret harming a relatively innocent person

S1E9 00:00:47 --> 00:00:48 We're done here.

regretting his use of force but needing something to show for his time in the undercity, he negotiates with silco to get jinx and the hextech gemstone

S1E9 00:15:56 --> 00:15:59 Get me Jinx. And I'll give you your nation of Zaun.

he advocates for giving zaun sovereignty (although, in the process, he uses viktor's zaunite heritage as a talking point)

S1E9 00:23:45 --> 00:23:52 My days here are numbered, but I've come with Viktor, my partner and a Zaunite, with one final proposal.

is on the receiving end of jinx's bomb, as well as the other councilors

S1E9 00:36:58 --> 00:37:06

(unfortunately, i couldn't find timestamped transcripts for season two of arcane, so following citations may be quotes without timestamps, if there are timestamps, it's because i went through the episodes myself to find them)

is attacked by renni (the mother of the boy he killed) at the memorial for the deceased councilors, and is nearly killed

S2E1 00:23:46 --> 00:31:24

goes back on his word to viktor and creates hextech weapons for the strike team

S2E1 00:35:20 --> 00:36:15

he and ekko show clear distaste of one another

S2E2 00:20:00 --> 00:20:03

it's discovered that the firelight tree is becoming corrupted because of the overuse of hextech

S2E3 00:14:38 --> 00:14:41 Do you think this could actually be a result of overuse of Hextech?

the failsafe for the hexgates was built in the underground, such that if it were ever to explode, it would destroy the lanes due to its proximity to zaun's utility ducts. without realizing, jayce had designed it so that it would take out the water supply and ventilation systems of zaun, with no negative effects to piltover. despite his claims that hextech could improve the lives of zaunites, it seems he didn't consider them while designing the hexgates

S2E3 00:18:34 --> 00:18:38 So instead of it exploding in your neighborhood, it would blow up in ours.

S2E3 00:18:49 --> 00:18:57 You know, you say we should feel like we're all one people. But whenever it rains, we're the ones that get wet.

(after jayce goes into the au, his outlook on hextech completely changes, so his prejudice against zaunites doesn't come up further. however, it's worth mentioning that he doesn't truly understand the harm hextech can cause until he sees a destroyed piltover, despite having seen and heard of its negative effects on zaun.)

admits that it's unfair to ask the zaunites to fight with piltover after lifetimes of oppression, but still requests their aid

S2E8 00:25:35 --> 00:25:38 Now, this isn't a fair request, but it is our only hope.

[thepunkmuppet]

oooooh I finally realised. my favourite flavour of ship is just straight ships that people would be destiel/sterek/johnlock levels of insane about and would be considered queerbait if they were gay.

[waitineedaname]

mxtx characters who, in my humble butch opinion, should be butch

Luo Binghe: listen. look me in the eyes. in a genderswap situation, Binghe should get to be butch. one of the key themes in SVSSS is gender, and one of the things that distinguishes SVSSS!Binghe from PIDW!Binghe is that he's not the hypermasculine protagonist and instead is allowed to enjoy more feminine things (like being Shizun's housewife). that's why he's specifically called Bing-mei and it's also why im on my transfemme Binghe soapbox all the time, but that's a whole other topic. what im saying is if we're reversing the gender situation, then fem!Binghe in SVSSS should get to enjoy more masculine things. it's what she deserves. she strikes me as the kind of butch that gets a thrill out of doing gentlemanly things like giving SQQ her coat when she's cold. she should be the Bing-di to PIDW's Bing-jie

Shang Qinghua: this one is deeply self-indulgent projection but don't fucking worry about that okay. SQH is a very specific flavor of low effort butch nerd. SQH is the cookie monster pajamas to butch pipeline. SQH cuts her own hair with regular scissors for convenience and Shen Yuan is dying to get her to just buy some goddamn clippers. SQH is running off of four red bulls and spite. She inexplicably has game and she's just as confused about this as you are

Xie Lian: imagine this for me. you go to one of those volunteering events where you're cleaning trash out of a creek or something. there is a woman there in cargo pants or maybe overalls, something with a shit ton of pockets. she has not shaved in months, maybe years. her hair is in the messiest bun possible, or maybe tied back under a baseball cap. she is somehow the most beautiful woman you've ever seen. after taking away all the trash and informing everyone how to sort the recycling, she is picked up by another woman who appears to be the definition of high camp. you leave this encounter feeling like you might have been converted to something. perhaps to lesbianism. this is what an encounter with butch Xie Lian is like.

[vintagerobin]

Are there comics out there where Bruce is abusive towards Dick? Yeah. Would I personally think of Bruce, in general and as a concept rather than as one specific version of himself, as Dick's abuser? No.

[stardestroyer81]

So, guess who's Steven Universe trash now?

After being convinced by my fellow Starfighters to give the series a shot, I've since fallen in love with it only fifteen or so episodes in, and I just had to whip up a design for what my Gemsona would look like! MASSIVE shout-out to @stephysalcido and @minxxikuo for collaborating with me on her design— it wouldn't have been possible without them! 💚✨

[pineappical]

I always thought is very tricky to draw that wrinkle that goes from the nose and around the mouth and still male it look good, but gosh you nail it in every art, super expressive and pretty. Looking at all your drawings 🔍🕵‍♀️ to properly appreciate and study it. But wow really in love with your art style is so expressive and pleasing to look at, and the colors are so pretty 👌👌👌👌

i LOVEEE drawing wrinkles!!! it makes faces soso so expressive and i try to add wrinkles to every character i draw whenever i can. and the fact i also love drawing characters smiling (they make me happy, so i want to be able to share my joy to other people by drawing them smiling too!) which of course makes that wrinkle around the nose and mouth more prominent :-)

im not a person that can draw well from memory, i use references excessively even if it doesnt turn out the same way from the reference im copying from in the end 😊

i drew these out real quick but i have no clue how to explain any of these so i just thought about sharing it with you anyways!

call it "cheating" or whatever, but most of the time i even trace over the reference just to have a base i can copy the expression im trying to draw from. i do art for fun and if it makes my process that much easier then. well!

anyhoo, ignore the fact these are all mr lassos... i just love him a whole bunch 💛

[apolloskazoo]

me after taking 25 whole minutes to write out a two-sentence comment under a fic: I dunno maybe it sounds weird and I shouldn’t comment after all….

[sieglinde-freud]

rereading the cynthia inigo support and im like wow. forgot how cute they were. like ohymgod… what the fuck… EXCEPT THAT ONE LINE AT THE END but like still. wow. i should pair them sometime i forgot cynthia was my favorite vanilla game pairing for inigo for a reason…

[kil9]

taemin fans dont want him to meet and fall in love with them like in the wattpad fics. they want gory criminal-based manga, homoerotic hannibal style, multiple volumes

[cheswirls]

hhhhhhhhhhhh saboace royalty au. ace was crown prince but can’t use magic which is necessary to become king, so he renounces his title and becomes infamous for his eccentric tendencies to play up the illusion that he’s truly not meant for the throne and that his younger sibling has full rights to the title of heir.

sabo is born to a family serving in the royal court, has been a genius magician since he was a child, and is the perfect example of a young man fully educated to serve at the king’s side. which is why he’s allowed himself to be tied down into a loveless political engagement with the king’s heir, putting the whims of his family before his own and resigning himself to become the future ruler’s consort/spouse to legitimize his role as an advisory right-hand man.

but then the heir grows rebellious and denounces the engagement with sabo in public and ace swoops in to save the day (and sabo’s reputation), demanding his father give sabo to him instead. he steals sabo away and challenges his sibling’s right to the throne, intent on earning back the title not for himself, but so he can make sabo (who is heavily qualified to rule) the king - and since they’ll be wed, no one will be able to undermine sabo’s position as he will technically be part of the monarchy that governs the kingdom.

[quillheel]

@playedbetter // lyric starters; without mythologies by the weakerthans.

Maybe the scariest part of seeing Kim with a fever, hot-cold all the time and aching, was less about the fever itself; it was about seeing how that sickness pried back the composure on him like skinning a beetle of its shell, it was less the times he was asleep and more when he was awake; often irritated beneath a reluctance to engage at all and murmuring barely there mostly through the breath of wheezing, it was more about the times he murmured at all.

The Lieutenant's apartment is clean, and maybe it would've reminded you of the Pox if not for the fact you were allowed within it's walls where many weren't, and the various small details that filled itself in on it's own lived in qualities. Clean but imperfect, and unable to escape from the fact of the city you both lived in ━ Revachol whispering on the paint cracked window-sills as summer heat leaked in through them, on the smell of maybe something rotten. gasoline. vaguely something plantlike, like trees bending their leaves up to break up the noise.

There are exactly 11 trees along Kim's street. Maybe you would've noticed in the way here, or maybe not, since Kim invited Harry over after struggling; frustratingly inattentive; throughout the day on a case, and the first time Kim had handed over his place at the wheel of the Kineema so willingly since the beginning of it's service at the station ( it might've been the station's vehicle, one he was lucky to have been able to take with him when transferring over to station 41 after a major amount of string-pulling, ass kissing, and excuses about repairs, but in the end it was always Kim's baby ) to Harry. ━ so naturally, there were many other things to notice when one is entrusted with the golden ticket of a sick man almost begging him not to crash the damn thing than the amount of trees on Kim's street. But there are still 11 trees, and one way or another, you'd gotten home.

And in this home, Kim lays on his back on his couch, glasses removed and eyes covered with a cool wet cloth as a radio plays some random station quietly enough to be unintrusive but still filling a white noise ━ something classical, or at the very least, instrumental. the voices of the piece if you focused on it no more than a distant kind of cloud that wasps over hazily on compressed air waves ━ and occasionally he murmurs to himself, quiet and voice shot. this was the scary part, what he'd say. what it'd tell you. this was the scary part, to hear him through the softest electrical hum...

" si je pouvais, je ferais de toi une rivière déchaînée avec des rapides en colère alimentés en pluie, pour que tu puisses toujours serpenter et pouvoir toujours t'enfuir… " ━ breathe in. ( if i could, i would make you a raging river with angry rapids supplied with rain, so you could always meander, and forever be able to run away… )

sings to himself, rather, here. sings to you? the language hangs on his tongue, syllable after syllable.

" sans lutter… contre les mythes mal interprétés, contre la douleur… " ━ breathe out. ( without contending… with myths wrongly interpreted, with pain… )

he does, sing to you. the only person you can remember who would, regardless of intention. he breathes with the music, and with it comes over with the terror of an honesty so grandiose it becomes small again; marble-like; like an unfulfilled wish he offers out, downy feathered, anyways, because the sentiment matters more than whatever it is now. maybe he doesn't even realize he says it out loud to begin with, but he does, whispers in the gentle shuffle of the apartment's small spaces, composure a dream he hasn't woken into, rarely; rarely, a heart on his sleeve. ( like speaking in your sleep. like honesty when you don't realize it, laid back on the worn cushioning of a couch, allowing himself not to see, allowing himself to merely be, be there. to drive him home. trusting. trusting you. )