#based opinion

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

If 9 or 12 are your favourite doctors i automatically assume the majority of your doctor who opinions will be correct

[octozay]

I FUCKING HATE FLUTTERCORD!!!!!!!!

[fetusbaconegg]

hate new YA's and romance cover art :( They do not give you enough idea about what you're about to read. That's why fandom spaces are so much better because there's tags and proper descriptions

Based

[kerrste]

I can’t beleive they just walked around like this for the whole movie

[fixing-bad-posts]

I guarantee kink is part of pride, we need kink at pride.

[proxycrit]

(I point. Gently, in the voice of somebody who’s mind touched by the outer gods, i whisper truth in your ears:

Your honor the horses are now lesbians

(Anyways here’s the designs)

[pixieswashere]

First off Agree with EVERYRHING on Sky being handled as always. We should've have gotten a proper backstory and respectful interactions with Viktor, to a character who was set up to have had a close relationship with both Jayce and Vik. I personally and honestly don't think this will be the end for her....for the rumors spreading about her being extracted by Singed theory.

Now maybe I'm talking absolute nonsense and revealing some of my personal ideas ive cooked up (braincells TED talk rn) but them refusing to developing Sky for the obvious reasons was also a missed opportunity bc we could've had her as as the character of The Gray Lady of the Glorious Evolved in Arcane since she is apart of Viktor's cult lore as well.

NOW HEAR ME OUT (promise it's not THAT stupid as usual....)

From the lore, I personally researched The Gray Lady and she is a diety/figure of sorts that the cult of Viktor worship from what i have searched go to her every Progress Day by sacrificing something in return for her blessings. Now again I could be talking my ass off (per post as usual), bc Camille is called The Gray Lady too BUT

BUT here's the thing that is only a moniker she goes by/she took for herself and if we were to use logic....it makes no sense that Zaun would be worshipping a Milf Piltover intelligencer who kills Zaunites and anyone who stands in her path to keep them from revolting Piltover's opression. (Even tho she kinda-)

Then there is Janna, who is also a good contender for this title per evidence and the obvious option but she was already an ancient diety known in Zaun....and both in Arcane and LoL lore she is only known by Janna...she never went by the Gray Lady and its clear by lore the Gray Lady is so heavily tied to the cult of the Glorious Evolved and in the show no one mentions Janna as the Gray Lady.......and what does the Hexcore/our Jesus Twinks powers do.....sacrifice/heal.....which means SKY IS A GOOD COMPETITOR FOR THIS TITLE AND LORE- LIKE OMG PLS

WE CAN STILL HAVE A SKY CHAMPION. But that's just a theory.....a game-

The tragedy of Sky is that we never got to truly know her.

There's not that many scenes where's she's alive, and all they reveal to us is that's she's from Zaun, she's an assistant in the lab, she has some feelings for Victor and there's some idea she wanted to share with him shortly before unexpectedly dying. All this is pretty much seen from an outsider perspective.

The only scene where she's alone is the couple of seconds while she walks to the lab, where Viktor experiments with the Hexcore. The only character she has more than one interaction with is, again, Viktor, who doesn't seem to be very close to her, keeping the distance of a professional relationship, never showing any deeper interest (he call's Sky 'miss Young' even though she adresses him as 'Viktor', and either dismisses or doesn't pick up on her inviting him to leave the lab together that one evening).

When he finally sees her as another person, learning something personal about her, her dreams, from her journal, she's already dead, and all that's left is a second hand source of who she was, to construct an image of her.

According to her writings, her vision is similar to Viktor and Jayce's , as it was in the beginning. After the experiment with the Hexcore goes so horribly wrong, and with the separation between Jayce and Viktor, I think it makes sense it's something Viktor would latch on to, something that could lead him back on the 'right' track of 'helping' people, as he always wanted.

If we're going with the idea that the Sky we see in the space scape(?) is not some ghost, or a soul, but a projection, an avatar of the Hexcore, it truly chose the perfect face.

On one hand, Sky represents a vision, a cause that Viktor can get behind, but also the guilt he has for accidentally getting her killed, a complete opposite of what he ever wanted, which makes a great persuasion tool. And since he didn't know her very well personally, there's much room to adjust and tweak her personality, speech pattern, facial expressions, as needed, because he might not know if it's correct, but neither if it's wrong.

She does act more confident around Viktor in the space-scape, like a partner, more than a colleague she has feelings for (as we've seen previously, she did seem a little nervous talking to him when she was alive). There's also the detail of her ghost form not wearing glasses anymore, though I don't have any particular analysis of that.

In conclusion, the pastel-ghost Sky that haunts Viktor is, in my opinion, a mix of his projection and the Hexcore leading him where it needs him, taking advantage of the blank canvas it has access to thanks to Viktor not forming a closer bond to her before her death. She still has an impact on the narrative and Viktor, or rather, the idea of her has. But neither Viktor or us really knew her, and we never will.

[bobcat-art]

mo dao zu shi? don’t you mean

Jiu Jiu’s Bizarre Adventure

(thank you @princess-of-purple-prose for the image description!)

[pinbones]

I've seen a few posts about women and pants now and many of them are very good, and not to nitpick those posts or downplay religious sexism or anything, but I have to emphasise:

Somebody who DOESN'T live in a controlling religious country/cult/family is also affected by sexism. We all know that, right? Secular parts of the first world also have opinions about how women dress, including when it comes to trousers, especially in childhood and in institutions like schools and the workplace

Me and many people my age (20s) remember being forced into skirts, punished and shamed by parents & teachers & peers & possibly then bosses about what we wear not being feminine enough, and it wasn't by deeply religious sects. Many updates to dress codes are very new and sexist views are still in place in many institutions. Normalised societal misogyny wants women (and people they want to treat as women) to dress femininely, down to what KIND of pants they're allowed to wear (compare a pink top and jeggings to mens jeans and tell me these two women are treated the same. Hating women in pantsuits is still a sexist office joke today, and even those outfits are feminine compared to male suits, which raise eyebrows when worn by women). The women I know who wear trousers regularly are literally otherwise feminine, and all wear dresses to events.

I know trousers have become much more normalised over the past few decades in secular society (yay!! the result of many many years of effort and lawbreaking) but let's not be absolute when we talk about the pants concept lol. Especially within a larger conversation about female/transmasc/intersex/transfem masculinity and social perceptions, especially in an age of rising fascism

[raineyraven]

man i feel bad for fans of the httyd movies who haven't seen the shows, especially race to the edge. like they don't know that the riders left berk and lived on an outpost together to go adventuring and fight dragon hunters as a team. they don't know that snotlout and astrid and fishlegs and the twins got character development. they don't know how cool and interesting the villains in the shows are compared to the movies. they don't know that the riders are filled with love and loyalty to each other and they bicker and train and play card games with each other and have sleepovers together and will risk their lives for their friends and their dragons in a heartbeat. imagine that.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Congratulations to TEAM CHEESE for winning the popular vote on the Charcuterie poll!

[linkemaus]

Not to be that person, but if Kamala Harris were a white man with the exact same ideals, positions, and beliefs, it wouldn’t have even been a competition. Realising that the worst thing you can apparently be is a woman, is truly devastating.

[kjscottwrites]

And, importantly, share some recs!

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

i had a friend who was raped as a teenager and had a really strict mum who did not let her go out so she was really lonely. when she turned 18 she started going clubbing and since we live in a city with a big fetish scene, she started going to the kinky venue. since she was young, naive and very pretty, she was immediately roped in by older men who did bondage shootings with her and everything. she started working in the club. to me, she was clearly groomed, but she works in a fetish shop now and is fully immersed in the scene

i have a friend who answered a job ad for a secretary when she was abroad and she and her friend ran out of money but when they arrived there it was a brothel. they both prostituted themselves for several months. they were only 18. she still talks highly of that brothel, how clean and safe it was, and wants prostitution to be legal

i read the gut wrenching biography of a thai woman who ran away from home, whose parents refused her education and treated her brother very preferably while openly hating her, and entered prostitution in sex tourist destination pattaya at only 13. she was paid by men in their 50s first for her virginity, then to piss on her. she exited at 19 and developed psychosis. she defends sex buyers, hates feminists and wants prostitution to be legal

do you see where im going with this? brainwashing is real. despite the obvious facts, the grooming, the system that pushed and pulled them, the men taking advantage of them; they defend it. so yeah, we shouldnt dismiss firsthand testimony and personal experience, but always take it with a grain of salt, always contextualise, always see it as one part of a bigger picture. liberals dont do that and have duped too many people into not doing it either. „if thats her choice its none of our business“ fuck you!

[n1clownlightshipper]

I don't even have AO3 (or ever plan on getting that shit) but yeah, just keep that shit to yourselves man 😭 there's no need to post it,,...

people just got WAYYYYYYY too comfortable oversharing stuff on the internet...,,,

why is it so hard for people on ao3 to just. not post smut??? didn't the creators of regretevator say they were uncomfortable with smut of their characters???????

i don't care if somebody is writing smut just don't post that shit. respect the creator's boundaries please

i know right holyfucj i am NOT interested of abook that is just a mannequin and a wall having say gex