#and this is amazing

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

hello yes ouch you r making me think about marcia now. like. i’m thinking abt my friend’s au where she does ballet. like. her keeping ballet so close to her chest and not sharing it with people. when she first started, her parents would come to her recitals but then “it’s just the same thing each time” and “we’re a little too busy right now.” and then when she started dating trip, he came to recitals! but he so clearly didn’t get it and didn’t see why marcia loved it so much and it was just so. awkward. and he never enjoyed it so she didn’t enjoy it so then he just started picking her up from her performances instead. ballet being this little thing marcia keeps safe with her because it’s somewhere she can just. exist and dance and she doesn’t have to worry about all the soc expectations or being trip’s girl or anything. she can move freely when she dances, however she wants.

also. marbit. with marcia’s dancing. it makes me so. sickZ i love them. sorry i’m rambling

AHHHHH YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because ballet is something that she finds so freeing. Because there really aren’t any societal expectations on her. It’s just a question of, do you know your steps and are you telling a story? So suddenly the world isn’t there anymore. There’s no big fears of the world holding her down. No questions of did she do enough to deserve love. No questions of if her boyfriend is going out with her when he’s drunk. No questions of will it go too far this time. It’s just her and the stage and the lights. All that matters is that she can dance. She’s free.

And now I’m thinking about the first recital after she got together with Two Bit, how she had bad experiences with people not caring, making time, or understanding it so she told him not to bother coming. But he knew this mattered to her so no way he’d miss it. So he snuck in. And imagine how much love he felt when he watched her. Not just because she was really talented, but because of how much love and dedication she clearly put into it. It was like he was seeing a secret, more intimate side of her. A part of her that she held closest to her heart. And he loved her for it. So he came to every single one. He was in the front, cheering the loudest. He always waited for her to be done then spun her around because wow, how did he get so lucky?

[jjcocker]

ive been seeing a lot more rh ocs that are like. Related to other characters

[life-needs-things-tolive]

Marisha's upping Sam's game.

[elbiotipo]

I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.

For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.

When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.

[viejospellejos]

Moooola!

[aspirateur-killeuse]

[oferrday]

x.com/jameliz

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

[peachybabyfrog]

[femalefemur]

me @ my mutuals

[bezsenn-osc]

[aigirlsstars]

Cristy Ren

[emj4yart]

Google is cooked

[dutchs-blog]

Restoring The Smallest Clockwork

[astral-herald]

jayce enduring a symbolic rendition of viktor's trauma is so painful and so, so clever.

being stricken down and immobilized through sheer accident or, in viktor's case, a cruelly random quirk that caused his disability.

then physically dragging himself from the lowest level of zaun to piltover, much like how viktor spent his youth reaching toward the promise piltover offered, but only if he could "pull himself up by the boot straps" and get there on his own. socioeconomic forces working against him be damned.

i appreciate arcane reminding us of viktor's origins - the reason he is so called to help people and, eventually, save himself - and putting jayce through the ringer - the contrast between he and viktor's lived experiences is front and center throughout season 1. the writers send jayce, and the audience, on a grueling journey to contemplate those experiences and how they've manifested in these intertwined characters.