#are you kidding me

[1296-very-good-year]

S2 actually doesn't commit to saying Hextech was inherently bad. It's just Jayce + Viktor who were bad.

Heimerdinger, Ekko, and Jayce muse about the possibility that the Arcane itself is an evil corrupting influence. Then they find the anomaly, and Jayce is whisked away to the torment nexus to stew on this possibility. What does he learn there? Let's ask his flashbacks to find out!

He comes to regret kicking Heimerdinger off the council, and his dream of inventing Hextech altogether. It is only after he dismantles his Hextech hammer - and leaves it behind - that he's able to escape the pit.

I have SO MANY problems with this, but I'm going to stick with one here: the omnipotent, all-powerful, timeline-hopping futureViktor is the one leaving Jayce to suffer and learn this lesson.

When a writer (who is all-knowing) creates an all-knowing character, they give themselves the ability to interact directly with their own story and characters. Jayce supposedly needed to learn that Hextech was bad and was always going to go bad. He is forcibly, tortuously taught by the writers that his dream was wrong from the start.

Sounds pretty cut and dry, right? Hextech is bad. HOWEVER:

At the same time, in the same episode that Jayce is learning this, Heimerdinger enjoys 3 years of peace in a Good AU where he learns that actually magic is okay sometimes, and helps Ekko invent a Hextech device that saves the day. Maybe he should have been a more supportive teacher to Jayce after all!

And yet... Jayce is NEVER corrected on his assumption that s1 Heimerdinger was right. He goes off on his suicidal mission fully believing it, and he dies believing it.

There exists no timeline in which Jayce and Viktor are able to get their shit together without ending the world. It wasn't Hextech = bad. It was Jayce + Viktor = bad.

Maybe Hextech is just fine. As long as someone else invents it.

[loveesiren]

I’m gonna crash tf out

[vocaju]

obsessed with raph casually putting donnie aside

[bloodydifficult]

[thanks--for--listening]

John Stirling getting the song rewritten so it’s how Francesca imagined it and then dragging himself to a ball to give it to her when he doesn’t like social appearances is genuinely up there with the most romantic moments in this show

[blaksstr]

Stiles: “You’re the alpha, right? That means you’re like the pack dad. So, technically, you’re my wolf dad now.”

Derek: “I am not your dad.”

Stiles: “You’re right. You’re more like my grumpy older boyfriend.”

Derek: chokes on his drink

[birdy-babe]

Stolas referring to Blitzo using light metaphors <3

[natjennie]

bloodweave goes so crazy because they're both like. what if I spent my whole life in devoted service to a being with the power to unmake me on a whim and was punished horribly for deigning to make a mortal mistake. and what if for the first time in lifetimes I'm finally working out what kind of person I am without their influence and it's scaring me shitless and I have a hunger that aches and aches and aches and reminds me of them every waking moment but at least I have the freedom to decide for myself what I want and what I deserve. and what if that's you.

[raggedy-spaceman]

S02E04 Fun and Games

I'm a mess don't talk to me don't look at me don't touch me. They care. They actually care.

[simplyofthestars]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

THEY'RE FUCKING WITH US

PLEASE SAY THIS IS A JOKE

[daydreamsandcloudnines]

Homeboy so pretty even when he's yappin

I clap my hand everytime I see him. THAT'S 👏 MY👏 SON 👏

Then his beauty just intensifies when he's with Mike

'like you can contain any of this'

[sneezypeasy]

Oh, and one more thing: Can I just point out that the "I dun fucked up, I guess I'ma wait outside your room all night until you'll let me grovel and atone for my misdeeds" is not, and has never been, a platonic trope?

(I mean, we all know who wrote this episode and how she felt about these two as a couple, but it bears mentioning that even administering a heavy dose of Death of the Author here doesn't absolve this scene from being way more shippy than it deserves to be.)

[biboomerangboi]

When I said this was them I meant it!! They are everything to me rn.

[stil-lindigo]

PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUUUUSE TONIIIIGHT

[transparentcatpngs]

can you do my nephew’s cat?

[dranktwocoffees]

he still makes my heart hurt everytime i think about him