#anyway. GOODNIGHT

[noisyghost]

(I started sketching this design nearly immediately after season 2 ended but just now had some time to clean it up so. Excuse me rambling out loud here)

TLDR; I actually really liked the initial design + direction for Warwick-Vander (I <3 human faced werewolves)! But the show design kinda felt like a transitory state between Vander and Warwick to me, so I wanted to try my hand at blending his Arcane design with his in game design. Like a "what would he look like if the transformation kept going" kinda thing. There's a few things I'm not fully settled on, but Im mostly satisfied :)

(rambling under the readmore, its 3 am as i type this lol)

When season 2 first started, I sort of had it in my head that the narrative would have Vander "die" for Warwick to finish the transformation into his final form, forcing Vi and Jinx to finally say goodbye together. Well! That didn't happen lol. I mean. Vander did "die", but whatever was left behind isn't really Warwick. I'm not quite sure what they were going for, either with him or with how Jinx "dies", its all just a little messy when i feel like there was a more obvious narrative conclusion.

Visually i think the final design in the show is cool removed from context, but it doesn't really make sense to me in regards to the story. Like. Warwicks whole thing is that he curbs his violent impulses by killing "bad guys" in the undercity. League lore is a hot fucking mess and I don't even go there so I get that they (the writers) were playing fast and loose but I can see why so many Warwick fans were less than pleased with where the show leaves him, because it doesn't really feel like the same character outside of his initial experimentation.

In my own idea palace, Jinx fakes her death and leaves Warwick to be Zaun's new mascot. Having this literal monster that eats bad guys and saves innocent people in the process become a new symbol for Zaun feels like a no brainer to me. Imagine the iconography they'd make for this thing! And it brings Vanders whole schtick back around; he still "dies" but the Literal Memory of him lives on in Zaun, still protecting the people he cared about most. You get the bittersweet ending of Vi and Jinx having to move on because hes not really their dad anymore, but their memory is what keeps Warwick "human", still with Zaun even if Vi is doing Piltover shit and Jinx is off exploring the world.

Idk! I know the implication that Jinx faked her death is there, but whatever happens to Warwick seems to be like they didnt really have the time to fully explore the ideas they were going for, so a couple characters just got kinda left floating at the end there. If Ekko and Jinx werent going to run away together, I wanted to see Ekko befriending Warwick so they could fight to make Zaun a better place.

I have more coherent ideas than this but it's 3 am when im typing this so sorry if im not eloquent enough to properly explain what im thinking. Ekko and his weird dog that used to be his uncle. Imagine.

[thedeathdeelers]

you know what could’ve been really really funny?

if julie and the guys managed to perform one more song after stand tall before they vanished

and they choose to play My Name Is Luke

and suddenly you get trevor’s entourage excitedly being like “omg they’re covering your song how sweet!” while he’s shitting himself staring at Luke who is staring right back singing “MY name is LUKE!!!!” aggressively a him

[ashipiko]

do you guys ever just wanna doodle and end up launching yourself into your own doom

[cowabinah]

[orpheuslament]

people with massive saviour complexes will look at an extremely damaged person whos been carrying a fuckton of baggage all their life convince themselves they can fix them somehow & then get mad when it inevitably does not work

[lazlolullaby]

Terry McGinnis: Talk! What did you do to the cookie recipe! I got the chocolate chip walnut down but the other one is killing me!

Alfred Pennyworth, undisturbed: I don't know what you mean. It's all written down.

Terry: yes, in metric, and the eggs were weighed to the miligram for some reason! I chilled the dough, rolled them, chilled again to stop spread. I accounted for the Manor's colder ovens too!

Alfred: ...you said tea cookies, yes? Shortbread sandwiches with strawberry preserves?

Terry: yes. Bruce still talks about them. He can't make them either.

Alfred: Well. Even Master Bruce never quite understood the precision of proper British baked goods. Come along.

*opens up a pantry. Hands Terry a package of Jammy Dodgers*

Alfred: I suppose you will have to do legwork into an international market and research if any brands survived or changed their recipes for the next fifty years.

Terry: I'm going to go back to the future, resurrect you, then kill you.

[strawburrychainsaw]

Lovely Complex has its faults but something about the way the female characters are written feels so authentic & that sauce is kind of rare with shojo anime imo. The way Risa makes weird faces that are not seen as cute and annoys herself with how many emotions she feels and has her self consciousness anger and delight flip flop on a dime. the way she will be so determined about feeling one way and then it'll just crack and she'll go shooting in the opposite direction. It really genuinely does remind me of being a teenager, in all the terrible and beautiful experiences it's made up of, without trimming the ugly bits away. I appreciate it.

[compress1repress]

was supposed to go to bed but the tldr of that fic is that the first half is just patrick being like "you want to fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid" and art's so mad because it's true

[bubblegum-gf]

I can’t believe we’re gonna get real fucking rtcler. (dubiously)

[stpansy]

muting these things like a soldier donning armor🫡🏳️‍🌈

[davidcassidy]

going back to sleep in a min but mat baynton and his character details man. the difference between how ariel holds a gun (i.e. with confidence & a bit of a constant "i'm gonna shoot motherfucker step back" vibe) vs how jamie holds a gun (a lot more apprehensive, very evidently not used to the feeling of it)

it's like. jamie could've held a gun in the same way and i probably wouldn't have picked up on it until i got really really bored. but he didn't because he's a bank manager from Slough, Berkshire so he just doesn't hold guns really!!! he almost looks scared of it! he hated pointing it at layla and you can tell!

but ariel's been everywhere ever three times over and he's dealt with them a lot so he knows how to hold them and how to point them and how to shoot them and he knows what he's doing. and theres that scene of him holding a gun to spike and that awkwardness that jamie has is just Not there

there was sm thought put into things like how these characters would interact with a weapon. it's not just their personalities/upbringings; so many things about the twins and their body language is different – and then ariel points this out in the vault scene. and it's so cool. ariel & jamie nobody is doing the evil twin trope like u two

[orthoceras]

why is my room so humid :(

[scionshtola]

the magicians…remember the magicians??

[saintmoss]

is there anyone out there that feels anything at all toward me. am i anything beyond a neutral entity in anyone’s life

[poison-into-positivity]

as a rule i try not to get too invested in celebrities but I just think rhys darby deserves the world

[possum-tooth]

uh oh he called me a girl time for bed