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It's almost funny that no one cared about Jayce's situationship with Viktor but it ended up being everyone else's problem in the end.
#i mean......#vi and jinx got reunited with vander by some miracle just for it to be ripped away from them#hell jinx had the best family moments after a long time before it all went downhill#isha fucking died#basically the warwick situation#and then we have the followers who were PEOPLE who were 'cured' and then died so sinisterly like that#caitlyn ofc has to console vi who has to console jinx who is probably unconsolable#the viktor as a cult leader matter can be bad yes but it doesn't exclude that he had this thing going on with jayce that DOOMED them all#and then there's the preview for act III#also who KNOWS what heimer and ekko had to go through because of those two in the arcaneverse#jayvik#jayce talis x viktor#arcane
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"The division between the two families [the Woodvilles and the Nevilles] and their allies can be seen in the royal charters that they witnessed. Warwick, Rivers and Archbishop Neville of York, while serving as chancellor and afterwards, were fairly constant witnesses to royal charters and consequently often appeared together. This was not, however, the case for other family members and friends. From 1466 to 1469, if Scales or Woodville associates like Sir John Fogge, John Lord Audley or Humphrey Lord Stafford of Southwick witnessed royal charters, then members of the Neville group, such as John Neville, earl of Northumberland, or John Lord Wenlock would not, and vice versa. Discounting the ubiquitous Warwick, Rivers and Archbishop Neville, of the twenty-four charters issued between February 1466 and June 1469, twelve were witnessed by men associated with the Woodvilles, eight by men associated with the Nevilles and two were witnessed by no member of either group beyond the two earls at their heads and the archbishop; only two charters, both from 1466, featured associates of both families.
Such striking segregation of witnesses suggests that something more than simple convenience or availability was at play. [...] The evidence of these witness lists does show the extent of the split between the two groups from early in Edward's [first] reign and of the need for political society to work with that cleavage in the heart of the Yorkist regime."
— Theron Westervelt, "Royal charter witness lists and the politics of the reign of Edward IV"
*This is specifically applicable for Edward IV's first reign; in contrast, the charters in his second reign displayed a great deal of aristocratic and domestic unity and cohesion.
#the woodvilles#edward iv#wars of the roses#richard neville 16th earl of warwick#my post#elizabeth woodville#Obviously I hate the idea of Elizabeth and her family being seen as a social-climbing invasive species who banished the old nobility and#drove Warwick/Richard into rebellion and dominated the government and controlled the king and were responsible for Everything Wrong Ever#but I also dislike the 'revisionist' idea that they were ACTUALLY just passive and powerless bystanders or pawns who kept to their#social “place” (whatever the fuck that means). Frankly speaking this is more of a diminishment than a realistic defense.#the 'Queen's kin' (as they were known at the time) were very visible at court and demonstrably influential and prominent in politics#and as this shows there DOES seem to have been a genuine division/conflict between them and the Nevilles during Edward's first reign#(which DID directly lead to the decline of Neville dominance in England though the maintained honored positions and influence of their own)#Especially since Edward's second reign was entirely void of any such divisions - instead the nobility were united and focused on the King#even Clarence and Gloucester's long and disruptive quarrel over the Warwick inheritance never visibly left its mark on charters#so the Woodville/Neville divide from the 1460s must have been very sharp and divisive indeed#And yes it's safe to say that Elizabeth Woodville was probably involved: whether in her own right or via support of her family - or both -#it's illogical to argue that she was uninvolved (even the supportive Croyland Chronicle writes that Edward was “too greatly influenced”#by her; she and her family worked together across the 1470s; she was the de-facto head in 1483; etc)#Enhanced by the fact that Elizabeth was the first Englishwoman to be crowned queen - meaning that the involvement of her#homeborn family marked the beginning of “a new and largely unprecedented factor in the English power structure” (Laynesmith)#This should be kept in mind when it comes to analyzing contemporary views of them and of Elizabeth's own anomalous position#HOWEVER understanding the complexity of the situation at hand doesn't mean accepting the traditionally vilified depiction of the Woodvilles#Warwick and the Nevilles remained empowered and (at least outwardly) respected by the regime#Whether he was driven by disagreements over foreign policy or jealousy or ambition - the decision to rebel was very much his own#Claiming that the Woodvilles were primarily responsible is ridiculous (and most of the nobility continued to support Edward regardless)#There's also the fact that Warwick took what was probably a basic factional divide and turned it into a misogynistic and classist narrative#of a transgressive “bad” woman who became queen through witchcraft and aggrandized a family of social-climbing “lessers” who replaced#the inherently more deserving old nobility and corrupted the realm - later revived and intensified by Richard III a decade later#ie: We can recognize their genuine division AND question the (false/unfair) problematic narrative around the Woodvilles. Nuance is the key.
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whats your favourite narnia book if you have one
Since I grew up as an autistic christian, I have many Narnia Opinions!
So, my favorite book for it's own reasons is probably The Magician's Nephew. I'm always a slut for worldbuilding and backstory and that novel is basically just only that. Some guy we know from another book goes on an adventure and in the process gets to be involved with the creation of one world and the destruction of another? kick-ass.
Best book to adapt? The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. 1988 BBC version, 1979 Cartoon version, 2005 theatrical? All good, in their own ways. The BBC version is just perfectly 80s and the costumes are amazing (because they are costumes! they did all the monsters by sticking a guy in a big costume and I love it), the cartoon version captures the fucking whimsy of a story where SANTA SHOWS UP AND GIVES EVERYONE PRESENTS and the first person to offer any serious lore about the situation is named MR BEAVER. And the 2005 film has the big battles and CGI and Tilda Swinton as the White Witch which is... so much. I love them all.
But the best book adaptation is the 1990 BBC The Silver Chair. Hands down. It's got Tom Baker's Puddleglum, Warwick Davis playing an owl, 0£ BBC budget greenscreened giants (MULTIPLE TIMES), a group of people discovering IT'S A COOKBOOK and one of them being offended by the cookbook saying they don't taste very good, the bad guy turning into a giant rubber snake. a witch trying to gaslight some humans into believing the sun is a myth, and the ultimate salvation of Eustace Scrubb: a boy who almost deserved being named that.
And since I can't not list basically everything Narnia ever made, BBC's 1989 Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is pretty good too. It's a fun "road movie", in that it's an odyssey into a fictional Mysterious Ocean of Here There Be Dragons.
Lotta hits in that one. It's also got a "collect the macguffins!" plot where they're trying to collect the Seven Lost Lords.
But yeah, it's like... the first Island gets them a lord and they get to end slavery. Next up, Dragon TF island (The dragon is Greed... but it's also just a literal fucking dragon). Next, Gold TF island. Gold, it turns out, makes you go insane in your lust for wealth, even if you're already a Prince of a whole country. The gold is Greed, but it will also just fucking kill you because you'll be turned into gold.
Then it's the island of the ugly invisible one-foot guys and it turns out they cast a spell to turn invisible so no one could see how they're ugly but they're not ugly, they just think they are? and then it goes "HEY LUCY COMPARE YOURSELF TO YOUR OLDER SISTER" and she's like "I'm ugly.... unlike her. Maybe I should use magic to STEAL HER BEAUTY?!" and it's like, wow. Is there maybe a theme here about self-esteem in your appearance? and Clive Officemax Lewis is over there going I'LL NEVER TELL.
Anyway it's got the good line about how the Wizard in charge of the ugly invisible one-footed pogo-idiots is that how he eagerly awaits the day that they can be ruled by wisdom, instead of magic. It's a fun approach to magic: it's something that is a shortcut, a crutch, and it's a poor replacement for Wisdom, even when used by "the good guys". Tell me, Mr. FedexKinkos-Lewis, do you have any opinions on the complicated relationship between Christianity and magic? oh, you do? I never would have guessed!
They also find The Island Where Dreams Come True. They don't land there, they just fish a screaming man out of the ocean who is trying to escape it. The sailors hear it's The Island Where Dreams Come True and are like "wow, I could have my own ship!" and he yells no, you fools, not dreams like your wishes and imaginations, your actual dreams come true on this island.
and everyone agrees: Get us the fuck away from this island and lets never return.
Anyway I'm not gonna talk about THE ENTIRE MOVIE/BOOK but it's got a great weirdness at the end where they reach the end of the world (which is flat. It's okay, this is Narnia, a completely different world with different physical rules than Earth), and it's a waterfall, but a waterfall going up?
It turns out Heaven is on the other side of it. They turn around, but the anthropomorphic mouse is like "ehh, I'll take that journey" and becomes the Elijah of Aslan's Country, their equivalent of heaven.
Narnia, won't you?
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A true off my chest bit about Jinx
It's a little critical of the show, but not hate posting. Just my feelings regarding the handling of Jinx.
I just feel like Jinx's death shows the writers hand in a bad way.
To me act 1 sucks because it felt the most rushed and like it needed to pad and set some things in motions, and most importantly they needed to delay Jinx's suicidality.
By all accounts Jinx should have broken after Silco's death. She should have buried him in the Pilt, walked home, set the place on fire and killed herself.
Instead she needs to be delayed, and she needs to have a reason to be in Stillwater with a lot of Zaunites, so that Singed can do his hiring bid demo with Warwick and score a new employer in Embessa.
It's convoluted, but basically Jinx needs two things :
temporary sanity
a reason to completely blow up later on
And they do both via Isha, the worst character in the whole show as far as I'm concerned.
She's introduced in a bad music video that does a weird job of introducing "sane Jinx". Then she seems to immediately be part of the team, and her attachment to Jinx, with zero set up, made it super out of left field.
It was blatant that she was being set up as a mini Powder to calm Jinx down, and when she blows herself up it's not gratifying if you know she's just a crank/lever being used to flip Jinx into dark and depressed mode.
IMO this could have been handled better (and I'd change a lot of the Zaun situation in Act 1 alongside), but then could have still led to Jinx being "saved" by Ekko.
Instead, I feel like the writers, maybe pressed for time, maybe unwilling to keep the "loose canon" as she was in the new state of the world, chose to kill her off.
Her death is Vi's fault, and I can't help but feel it's manufactured.
I feel like the writers broke Jinx an extra time just to tilt her over the edge and have that emotional scene with Ekko, but then couldn't see how to "excuse her".
Like what she's done is too fucked up, too dark (even if Cait served the city to Noxus on a silver platter, gased zaun, and faced no consequences lol) and she can't be made to move on from the horrors of it all.
It feels like they didn't have the time or will to break the cycle for Jinx. But it feels bad. It feels like it was an "attempt at redemption" death.
WW was an arcane creature by then and they all fucked off with Viktor and Jayce. They could have chosen to keep him innactive. They could have had Vi going with Ekko and relying on him.
The one person who can truly believe in the good in her, because he's literally experienced it in another version of herself. The one guy who could tell her again and again that it's not HER, it's the way the world made things, and that this can change.
I don't see why shy away from that, even implied, especially after Ekko managed to pull her from the brink.
It feels like Jinx is a "too far gone" rabid dog better put down than left loose in their setting.
And I don't really vibe with that. I thought true redemption would be her living. Leading. Her and Ekko could work to better Zaun while Sevika safeguards their interests in the Council.
And Vi could have still cried over WW's body.
#arcane#arcane 2#arcane Jinx#arcane spoilers#arcane 2 spoilers#arcane meta#jinx#ekko#ekko arcane#timebomb#warwick#vander#arcane vi
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I think one of the reasons "Isha is a personification of Jinx's inner Powder" doesn't work for me is that Powder is, as Mylo might put it, a screw-up. Obviously, Powder was a child - possibly not even a tween - and shouldn't have been in the situations she screwed up. But the series basically kicks off because she ruins the heist (and has ruined numerous previous jobs). The big finale of Act 1 is her killing most of her family, further traumatising her sister, by accident. She instinctively kills Silco in the finale of Act 3, the one person who seemed to accept her as she is (read: basically made her uninhibited). Powder's mistakes came at a bigger cost to everyone else, and part of the tragedy/moral ambiguity is that she's a kid who's in way over her head (even now, Jinx is an incredibly traumatised teenager who's been groomed into being a killing machine).
Isha doesn't really have a moment like this. She 'screws up' Jinx's suicide plan, but is 1) keeping Jinx alive and 2) not preventing the gas diversion really a failure? She helps Sevika rally the Undercity together, it's not her fault that everyone gets caught or that Warwick decimated most of the prison population. She sacrifices her life to protect Jinx, which... first of all, why would anyone be convinced that a tiny kid with a tiny gun would protect Jinx from giant super-powered Warwick, even if you didn't believe that Warwick was a Champion and thus has plot armour? But moreover, it's a sacrifice where she's the worst-off for it. And while Jinx utilises Vi's own method of raising her (Jinx nonchalantly checking on Isha after Vi pushes her is basically Vi acting confident in Powder roof-jumping), Jinx is never brought to a point where she lashes out at Isha the way Vi or even Mylo ever did. Isha doesn't really have any flaws of her own nor does she bring them out in any other character (except for maybe Vi, but it's never really about Vi and Isha, it's about one of them and Jinx).
#it mine#arcane#jinx#isha#arcane critical#i'm sorry if this comes off as insensitive or dismissive or cruel#but i think it could've been far more interesting if jinx had lashed out at isha more#obviously not morally better. but arcane isn't meant to be a straightforward 'how to live a good life :)' show. it's not heartstopper.#powder
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OK this is going to be a little long but I need it out of my head so I can function and who knows maybe someone will appreciate the analysis !
Big spoilers for the last two episodes of arcane. You've been warned~
The final of arcane was very beautiful animation wise and does close around two (maybe three) of the storyline started before. But, and that's my problem it completely throw out of the window any and everything about zaun and piltover... in the worst way possible for me.
And that's what we're gonna talk about here.
And now that I know the episode was supposed to be 1h30 instead of 50minutes it makes a lot more sense. Riot, give me at least the storyboard, or the scripts, or the unused voicelines, anything really. Thank you.
So. To put it simply. The entire final is from the point of view of piltover only and yes, that's a problem.
"But Herk, it's a greater evil ! We don't have to discuss about the zaun/piltover situation it's about unification !"
Let's deconstruct that statement shall we ?
First "the greater evil" :
Up until episode 6, Viktor got a thriving and peaceful community going on in a place that was a wasteland before. None of the people here are drones yet (yes they are eerily peaceful, yes it was the beginning of the 'evolution' but at that point they werent yet drones), as proven by vander situation itself :
We clearly see Viktor searching for his personality in the terrible work Singed did on him. And finding him while talking with Sky that this is using is very finite resources but it is worth it.
When warwick says "don't touch my daughter" it's not Viktor talking. It's vander.
He is disagreeing with Singed on using his method and we don't know at that point if people would have died with him if his death hadn't been brutal... which leads me to :
Then Jayce comes around and kills him, starting the chain of events that leads to the final. (Because "you can make me see the glorious evolution is not worth it" becomes "if I murder him it will stop everything." Instead of, i dont know, talking to him and saying "look in my mind". Dumbass.)
We have no clue what could have been (haha) if Jayce had talk to Viktor then. Maybe he could have severed his link with the commune in a gentle way, maybe not. But we don't get to see that. Because jayce jump-start the actual Glorious Evolution.
Now for the "it's about unification" part :
Pilltover has been keeping Zaun under dictatorship for months, wagonning people to prison without as much as a trial (but hey, they didn't use the _worst_ cells yet. Because 10 people in a room with no bed is very human. Fuck you).
Used the "grey" which is basically mustard gas in zaun's street as a way to "keep people safe". Do I really have to say thay it is bullshit or ? (Especially as we see victims of the grey beat up and left IN IT after the enforcers passage !)
And have the confirmation that pilltover is very aware of the gas problem in zaun (even over their enforcers having gas mask instead of. I don't know. Making sure the air is breathable without risk in zaun.)
And all of this for ? Ha yes, allegedly capturing one person. Again, not taking any responsibility in why this person exists in the first place (exploitation for decades > violent repression > murdering her parents > corrupt police making their money with gangs and not caring about it because what consequences? haha we are up they are down).
While using a foreign military to do so.
( "but Cait is grieving!" I don't care. It doesn't justify her putting thousands of people through fascism.)
And we see sevika and zaun trying to defend itself but with limited resources as always and an internal situation extremely messy because of the gangs that are left (chembarons who wouldn't have existed without the corrupted pilltover police doing their bread on it and the council not caring, as ever, just as a reminder).
Now for some details :
In the first two acts we hear "our people"/"our city" to talk solely of piltovians.
Caitlyn and her great "i keep telling myself you're different, but you have the same blood in your veins".
Great to remind us that she does still think people of zaun are not the same breed as her and are filthy to the core by their fucking blood itself no less.
Considering her mother was on the council when the last revolt from zaun happened and so she was part of the people that took the decision to kill all the protesters.. including vi parents. Her statement becomes very ironic on top of being atrocious.
And let's not forget how she forced her into an enforcer costume while saying "I understand your pain"... yeah you don't. Your mom died in a result of the decade of action and inaction of her own council, you're an adult and still have your father. Both vi and jinx parents died trying to get under the heel of their oppressors and when they were children no less. Fuck you.
Jayce and "we build the core of the hexgate in the fissures it's fine" and ekko telling him that they didn't think about zaun water and air supply that go through the fissure and would have been destroyed if the hexgate had a problem.
Because, as always, they don't actually care about the people in zaun.
And bonus point, he doesn't apologize for making the tree and everything else sick. It's just "we didn't thought about that". AGAIN, no ownership of what pilltover is doing to anybody else.
Now that the set is ready let's go back to episodes 8 and 9, through the zaun/pilltover lense.
Jinx is in prison. She does apologize to Cait for her mom.
Cait doesn't even apologize to Vi.
Cait doesn't stop officially the dictatorship or apologize to zaun's people for what she did and left be done to them.
Cait doesn't even take responsibility in giving grace publicly to jinx, no, she let's the responsibility of getting jinx out to vi.
Leaving jinx to be a fugitive still if she actually gets out.
That is NOT owning to one "bad actions". That is being a coward and a hypocrite. And making someone else responsible for whatever happens next (yes she gives vi the choice and leaves her jinx' vendetta in the past gnagnagna, it's still completely self centered and hypocritical).
Jayce, which just murdered a number of people and provoked vander and Isha's deaths, tells people that Viktor is a menace.
For all vi knows he isn't. She saw him help vander and people nobody cared about. There is no reason for her to help here. And there is no reason for zaun people either.
We do not see the inside of zaun, at all.
We get a few people leaving and a few enrolling in the enforcers because... yeah who cares that person beat the shit out of me for month we should fight side by side and die together as one. No. Just no.
For all we know, and is being said to us, Viktor and Noxus want the hexgate. They do not need to do anything to zaun for that. They can literally (and apparently that's what they do) just roll past zaun and go directly to pilltover. The only zaunites we see dead are the ones who fight for pilltover.
Jayce talks solely of pilltover and its "undercity" there is no recognition of zaun or what has been happening for decades.
At least in that scene we see sevika and Scar leave in a :
"Ho yeah ? Noxus that you used against us for all this time is now a menace to you? Tough luck."
"But Herk ! Jayce puts down the barbebwire doors around zaun !!!!"
And that makes it OK? It makes everything before it OK? "I let you out of the camp I made around you so you can fight for me". NO. Just no. Even less considering none of the people who actually took the decision to get the dictatorship running and those gates up owns up to having done it; again.
Side note : it clearly takes a few days between the beginning of ep8 and the actual attack of noxus.
Explain to me why jayce didn't shut down the hexgate at that point, keep using hexteck' weapons and a literal arcane hammer while preaching how bad it is ??!!! That man is stupid but apparently everybody around him is too.
(And Don't tell me "but the hexgate was getting people out" just. Don't. The ships could have just fly away on their own with the hexgate shut down. Come on).
Ekko and jinx have the beginning of a conversation (i love this scene tho) and then we are back with pilltover only.
Fast-forward to the fight and HO WAIT people of zaun arrive "to help" because its a greater evil ! It makes everything fine right ?
No.
And here the details of why for me :
We do not get any closure of the zaunites storylines : Sevika and Scar don't even have a single line together or with jinx and ekko.
Ekko and Scar have been making the tree and their sanctuary one the only safe place of zaun for more than 6 years.
Ekko has been missing for months and we don't even get to see him reunite with the firefights ?? Not even one second ?
Sevika was there for Jinx then Isha during the whole of act 1 and 2 of season 2. But we don't even see them talk or sevika being made aware that Isha is dead.
Yes. Jinx' balloons got elements in honor of Isha and her depression is about that part of her that died with Isha. Sure. And it's very well done _for HER character_.
But what about sevika ? She got a very good arc that kept getting better during the season 2 and suddenly she is a background character that doesn't even deserve to have any feelings?
And it's the same for the firelights. They are here during the fight, we can even spot a few other minor characters of zaun.
But they are props.
They have no feelings or emotions (except angry yelling of fight). You are not here to empathize with them because they don't even exist as characters in that moment.
If you like them already you'll be scared for them (I yelled when I thought sevika would die, not gonna lie) but nothing more.
Jayce and Viktor... very pretty, gay being unable to say I love you and all that BUT ALSO "I'm sure there is still a bit of you in there" / "why do you persist after everything I've done"
I... You KILLED HIM you absolute dumbass of a man. You murdered him and made him lose his humanity THAT HE STILL HAD and then you call to it !?? And then Viktor blames himself
.. I can't even. I know it's because he wants jayce to say he loves him but haaaaaaaaa !!!!
Jayve has always been an idiot but that takes the cake. Most toxic ex ever, Viktor must really love him because for fuck sake xD
Ekko saves the world.
Because jayce is so bad at this and being a self-fulfilling prophecy guy that he condemned the world (like in apparently all realities where that version of the story happens).
Do we see anybody acknowledge it in the aftermath ? Do we see any recognition of a zaunite saving the situation?
Nope.
"The battle of pilltover will long be remember".
Pilltover. Just Pilltover.
Ekko's action or any zaunite's deaths during that war that Pilltover fabricated all through its own action and decisions ?
Erased. Forgotten. Not important in the Grand History. It was only Pilltover all along.
"But Herk. You're unfair, we see the little paper scene at the end ! And sevika becomes a councilor !"
Yeah. We do, and it's still shown in the show that the situation is not actually resolved : just look at the new counsilors' expressions when sevika sits down.
They still think she is beneath them and shouldn't be there... BECAUSE nobody in pilltover acknowledge anything done to zaun. Still.
And I'm glad she is a councilor don't get me wrong. I'm happy we at least get one element for zaun by the end.
But its too little and still with not even a line of dialogue.
Also, why not Ekko or Scar too ?? Sevika was a leader of a certain group in zaun, but Ekko/Scar represent a lot of people too.
So zaun is still not fully there. (And ya know, not too many zaunites come on, one for the show but not too much).
And worse. Nothing is even acknowledged to the public. Listen to the two episodes and notice how nobody say "zaun" in them, it's only undercity/topside and pilltover.
The conflict is totally erased from the narration except for that one dirty look the councilor gives Sevika.
And don't tell me I'm exaggerating because I saw, in less than a week since the final, enough take on how pilltover was absolutely not responsible for anything/zaunites were the sole responsible for their hardships and any act of resistance from them was terrorism (thanks usa), that I know a lot of people sadly took that ending in the most stupidest way possible.
Also, a detail but... Nobody is there to put a paper for Viktor.
He will stay the "Villain" of the story, forever. Because people only got Jayce telling them he was bad and never knowing the actual truth of what happened.
And that's quite disheartening too.
Jayce the piltie was a hero. Viktor the zaunite was a villain. That's it. Who cares Jayce literally provoked Viktor transformation, twice. Who cares the fight happened because of pilltover and their hexteck...
Hell, even then we see Ekko being utterly alone. Thanks for saving the world from a piltovian manufactured war and losing all in the process my guy, nobody said ever in the show.
And Singed, who is a piltovian, gets everything his way while being the absolute worst. Which ya know, forces my respect but also i hate this guy.
Because in case you hadn't realised, even shimmer was made by someone from pilltover ready to sacrifice anyone and first zaunite lives for his goal.
And the final nail in the coffin ? The last sentence of the show.
"But but it's so romantic!!! Its vi saying she's choosing to stay with Cait !!"
Really ? You think saying you're the filth under someone perfect manicure, that no matter how much they wash they can't get out... is romantic ? Damn. I knew about dirty talk but that takes it to another level (this is a joke btw).
But no matter if romantic or not, Cait never apologized to her, zaun or anybody else. She didn't own up to anything she did the entire show.
(And do remember that the whole base of the show happens because of jayce lab having dangerous materials in the middle of town; and because a kiramman was there, the council needed someone guilty from zaun).
What it is on the other hand, is still a comparison between zaun and pilltover.
They are on top, clean, except for the filth that stays under them and they can't get rid of.
And that pisses me off a lot.
Because with those 40 extra minutes we could have had the characterisation of the zaunites.
Sevika learning about Isha.
Ekko reuniting with the firelights.
Zaun actually being shown in danger and why they would help pilltover (where again jayce brings no reason to. Its just his word against everything pilltover put them through).
We could have had just a beginning of acknowledgement from pilltover OR a call out about it not happening by the people of zaun !!!
Ekko calling out Caitlyn (and Vi too honestly) would have been amazing! And a call back to season 1 where she went on about how he should not continue the cycle of violence, the audacity of a bitch I swear.
It could have fixed the problem I have with the ending. And that's really a miss for me...
Even if I did like the episodes in themselves ! They were gorgeous (mind!herald be looking fiiiiine) and the noxus and arcane storylines got finished (arguably the sisters one too). But please gimme what's missing about zaun.
Well. Now that I got it out of my system... I'm gonna go live in ep7 ! XD where my fav characters are all alive and grown up !!! *happy*
Have a good day !!!
Ps : I made a few arcane fancomics centering on the 6years gap between act 1 and act 2 of season 1.
Focusing on claggor, deckard, ekko and the firelights~
Please don't hesitate to take a look if that sounds like something that could interest you ^^
https://www.tumblr.com/lapaduza/767502852257087488/here-comes-a-new-volume-of-my-arcane-au-where?source=share
#arcane#arcane season 2#arcane spoilers#arcane analysis#piltover and zaun#arcane finale#arcane ekko#arcane sevika
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Singed
Now for the part I care about. Singed baby my boi!
First off we stay WINNNNNNNNING!!!!
Everyone else here losing and shit and Singed just stay winning undefeated the goat. He got his daughter. He manipulated everything to ger her and here we are!
Orianna. Ofcourse it has been floating around that orianna was Singed's daughters with her backstory i believe it was originally just some named scientist but as years of lore developed, people slowly started suggesting this random scientist was Singed. Now with Arcane we have gotten fed clues, which were basically confirmation, until we got the best 10 secs of my life where Singed is smiling with his daughter.
Singed is by far the goat of adapting. Who does more with less, who can do more in any situation, who is smarter then Singed? Nobody! I was kind of on the fence but now no apologies Singed is the smartest person in Arcane. In every situation he's placed in, tough situations, often in fields he has no understanding of, he stays on top.
Singed was put into a difficult situation when he say Viktor trying to bring the man out of Warwick and cure the beast. Singed could not have that so you know who enraged Warwick, who fed the best, who let the man die inside so the beast could thrive? Singed because Ambessa's forces would be forced to stop it, mortally wound it which he may been able to do on his own but at a much greater sacrifice. This method is free and costs him nothing.
Then he honestly get's lucky thanks to Jayce, Viktor is severely weaking and requires the nearest smartest person to conversate with and plan with and who is available? Singed. I'm not goign to try to twist that. probably pure luck. But what's not luck? How Singed is able to meld the arcane nature of Viktor with the pure biology of Warwick, a perfect melding of science and magic. My man came up with some shit in hours. The kicker is at this point he didn't care about Warwick. He was like a b plan at this point. Viktor is evolutions end after all and Viktor presents immortality to Singed on a silver platter. When the body fails science will continue. So just as he saw Viktor raise the dead as puppets Singed thought to manipulate that.
I want you to think about this for a moment. A biologist, a chemist was able to look at Viktor and what he has done and within hours/days he was able to deduce how to weave his magic, the arcane field of psychology and possibly souls, to provide his daughter with a vessel. He is transferred her to the steel doll or she is doing what Viktor did and controlling it through some magic bs. Either way holy fuck Singed you truly were a mind to behold.
That massive Shimmer juggernaut plus Jinx give me some new thought's of Shimmer's limitations and possible different variations Singed is able to create and hand out.
I want to point out also that Singed did not simply dodge the consequences of war. There's a simplicity to that that undercuts a fathers love. It is in spite of consequences that he is not present. He has a solution. After what is probably decades of research for the pure purpose of immortality or a cure for his daughter he has a solution. He has it. Despite the possibility that Ambessa would punish him if she won for his abandonment, despite Piltover's enforcers probably coming for him if Ambessa lost, Even as the literaly world around him was falling apart, time and space being ripped apart by arcane, Shells of war, animitronics he helped make literally sucking the soul from people, he said it was all worth it if he could see his daughter once. If he could give her a semblance of a life. If he could only see her smile, he would take whatever consequences after.
That utopia Zaun universe with ekko and Jinx was exactly what i was talking about if Singed is good lol I have some headcannons for that now but you know it's really a side point.
The ending strongly implies Noxus will be the next part of Arcane if the rumors are true and they do continue. So theres a chance Singed will appear again. While he's not Noxian he is an important member of the invasions and war strategies as they abuse his intellegence. How they get there now that his daughter is alive and he certaintly would rather just spend time with her I don't know. But ehh maybe we'll never see him again.
In conclusion singed is the goat. He is winning and that shot fo him smiling is the best moment of Arcane no arguments will be had lol
#☣︎ out of character ☣︎#☣︎ arcane spoilers ☣︎#these are my first thoughts more to come soon#my plane got delayed so got to type it out
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Getting Dumped
Domestic small animals will NOT survive in the wild. The outdoors is no place for animals that get stressed when their hay is the wrong texture. Unfortunately, when shelters are full, people are overwhelmed, and feel there is no other way out, they take to abandoning their animals outdoors. The worst part about these situations is it's very rarely just one. I have countless stories of this happening, so I'll try to limit it, but I want to share the struggles these animals have gone through because of the actions of people.
In July 2023, numerous rescues found themselves at a rest stop on the side of a highway trapping domestic rabbits. There was probably dozens of them. The RISPCA took in 11 of them. I spent an entire weekend pulling ticks off young rabbits, never mind the fleas I found. The smell of these animals feces was horrible, their stomach flora was all kinds of messed up. That was the healthiest of the bunch. One of the rabbits, had a horrific head tilt, it could not walk straight or even stand up straight. Our vet suspected e. cuniculi. If you are unfamiliar with e. cuniculi, count yourself lucky. It's a parasite, which can affect a rabbit's nervous and renal (kidneys) systems, and if not treated soon enough, the damage it causes can be permanent. The parasite is also contagious to other rabbits through urine, which means that if all these animals were possibly housed together in the past, they all had a chance of contracting the parasite. Unfortunately, the treatment for the rabbit with a head tilt did not work, it was too late, and he passed away. All the other rabbits in our custody had to be treated however, and luckily nobody else began showing symptoms. Now it is unknown if the rabbit had e. cuniculi before being released, but there still is always the possibility that the rabbit contracted the parasite from the wild rabbits that it may have interactions with outside. I would also like to mention that the rabbits were not spayed or neutered, nor were they only a single gender. This means that there may have been even more domestic rabbits that may have been introduced into the elements had rescues not intervened. Following their medical treatments and spay/neuters, all 10 of the rabbits that survived were adopted.
Around the same time that the rabbits were found at the rest stop, someone walked into the shelter with a rabbit in a box. She said the rabbit appeared on her back porch. The rabbit's hind leg was mangled, basically facing the opposite direction of what it should of been... Now we have no way of knowing how or why his leg was that way, but truthfully it doesn't really matter. Our veterinarian opted that it would be best to amputate the leg. Today, the little guy (who we affectionately named Tiny Tim) is healthy, happy, and in his fur-ever home as a happy little tripod!
Both these events were in a span of a weekend. It's a reoccuring event though. To briefly just name a few more:
June 2023, nine female guinea pigs dumped at the end of our shelter driveway after hours
July 2023, forty-two Guinea Pigs dumped in the woods of Exeter
February 2024, seven rabbits dumped at the park in Warwick
This post mostly just address the events of large number dumpings, but even the occurrence of single domestic rabbits being found dumped and being picked up as strays but animals controls are continuing to grow in numbers too. So, please, if you are in a situation where you are not able to care for the animal you own any longer, contact a local shelter as soon as you know you are in that situation. The sooner we know you need help, the sooner we can ensure you get help. And don't just limit your ask for help to one shelter. We are all in this together, ask a few for help, one may be able to help sooner than others. Even if you are in a situation with large numbers, we are not here to punish, we are here to help.
#animal rescue#animals#bunny#rabbits#guinea pig#abandoned#dumping#animal welfare#tripod#rhode island#new england
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What Driving While Black Means for Lewis Hamilton
I've seen a lot of disappointment and anger towards Mercedes and Toto today for not protesting a penalty given to Lewis unfairly and saying that the protest wasn't worth it. I totally understand and get it, but what I haven't really seen much discussed is what it truly means to drive while black beyond getting penalized for something other drivers would not.
Driving while black means that Lewis is going to be penalized for things he does that other drivers get away with, but it also means that when he or Mercedes goes to seek justice or rectification for such actions from the authority, they risk retaliation from the parties that are in the wrong.
When Toto says it's not worth it, it really isn't. The reality is that Derek Warrick is a steward this weekend. The reality is that Derek Warwick has power in this situation. The reality is that if Mercedes protests on Lewis' behalf, they risk retaliation and consequences beyond penalty points and losing places/time penalty. The reality is that they will put their race on Sunday in jeopardy if they protest. And remember, a race is worth more points. The choice here is basically take this penalty or ruin the entire race weekend. And it's not really a choice, but it is what is given.
None of it is fair and Derek Warwick should have been recused from being a steward long ago for his past racist actions. But we cannot look at the racism Lewis receives without also looking at the fact that the FIA and F1 gives no way for drivers to speak out or seek justice for wrongs done to them.
As a POC, it's something I've experienced. Someone called me a racial slur in a grocery store. I reported it to the police and the Human Rights Commission. The police said they would send a police officer to my house to speak to me. This officer was not really interested in what I had to say and basically told me to wear headphones while I shop, so I don't have to hear slurs. Yes, they couldn't do anything because it was morally wrong, but not necessarily legally wrong... but I knew I was getting the brush off.
As long as the FIA and F1 is run by people who don't allow POC to voice concern towards their treatment or take action for it, this is what we will see keep happening. But this is also why watching Lewis succeed is so satisfying... because it's in the face of everyone who would want to set him suffer, lose and never be there in the first place.
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Etiquette, Manners and What’s the Point?!
What is etiquette?
In your preparations for coming to study here at Warwick, you might (or might not!) have heard talk of British culture being totally different from what you’re used to, and that you should act a certain way when arriving to study here, but what does all of it actually mean? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! This post and the next is your short n’ sweet crash course on what that politeness is, why we have to be polite in the first place, and what Britons consider to be basic politeness.
So, what’s etiquette? As stated by the Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, etiquette means:
“The formal rules of correct or polite behaviour in society, among members of a particular profession or in a particular area of activity.”
There are many contexts where etiquette plays a crucial role in having smooth interactions with others, and maintaining an image of yourself you want to show to them. Since it can be seen in many contexts, etiquette can vary depending on cultural norms, social settings, and presupposed expectations of a workplace (or in your case, a classroom).
So, why should it be important to you? Learning the etiquette rules of a new cultural setting has been academically proven to help students form positive relationships with those also in that setting. For example, research (page 4) has shown that experiencing the “local norms and patterns of [...] communicative practices” in interaction with locals can help students studying abroad to better understand the cultural norms of the place they choose to study, in turn making it easier to bond over those same norms.
Manners vs etiquette: what’s the difference?
You might’ve heard the phrase ‘mind your manners’ before. This expression is often used as a reminder or a request for someone to behave appropriately or politely in a given situation, that they need to demonstrate respect and consideration of others, which is really important when you’re looking to form and maintain positive relationships with people.
But if manners are also all about being polite, you may be wondering: what’s the difference between manners and etiquette? Whilst the two words are closely related, they do have slightly different meanings. Manners (also stated by the Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries) describes a broader view on socially acceptable behaviours that reflect the consideration and respect expected whilst interacting with others, either in a society or a particular culture. They act as general guidelines for how we’re supposed to treat others, such as making sure to say please and thank you at expected times (see in The British Basics), or not speaking over others when they’re already talking. The concept of ‘manners’ doesn’t change in the same way that etiquette might depending on the context it may be needed in.
Etiquette, on the other hand, looks at appropriate behaviour in specific situations or contexts, such as (what to wear) and email etiquette (how to write to specific people, which we talk about here). You won’t need to think of etiquette as often as you might your manners in general life off-campus. But when learning about each etiquette relevant to you, depending on your course and modules, it may take time to pick it up as each etiquette is specific and ‘specialised’ to its context. This does apply on campus, and you can find out more about classroom etiquette specifically, here.
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All this talk of etiquette and practically no application… don’t worry, the next posts will get into some nitty gritty about what British people (including Warwick students) get up to when it comes to being polite, and impolite, in some cases! Have fun!
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So, I gave this situation a lot of thought and given that it is the end of the year, that marks the ideal time frame to basically reshape the way, I wanna handle the blog and my muses, going forward. These changes include how my roster functions, certain limitations I am going to give myself, concerning the amount of drafts I have, and changes in verses and some alterations on the ask box. Basically, quality instead of quantity is going to be the name of the game, so hopefully, I can better organise my hobbies and interests and hopefully also my eventual career as an author.
That means first of all: Every single thread I have is dropped. I want a completely clean slate thread-wise, however, dynamics, which we established, can absolutely carry over. I am not gonna flush all the hard work, I did with so many of you (you are all amazing) down the drain.
Now, onto what changes. Let's start with the formal bullshit. I am going to limit myself to twenty drafts and try to adhere to this limit. Those drafts will preferably be plotted. That way, I hopefully can avoid getting overwhelmed, but also really dig into the meat of our threads.
That does not mean casual stuff or crack does not happen. It can still happen, but it will occur with less frequency and those things likely won't carry over much. If I happen to send you an rp related meme, then please just have fun with the drabble. I will try to limit how much I continue those threads.
When it comes to my ask box, I will prioritise unprompted asks and scenarios over rp memes. However, I will always accept headcanon-related memes or memes for me the writer. Again, all these changes will be done to limit the effects of being overwhelmed and to keep my rps at a manageable medium.
When it comes to my verses, I am going to do a massive cut in what types of verses I have. Specifically, I am going to stick to the verses, which basically form a narrative throughline. For most verses, this will basically be the pre-canon, the default and the post-canon verse. Ergo the past, present and future of a muse. This is done so I can focus on what I wanna explore instead of spreading myself too thin. After all, it is better to explore an idea and its ramifications in detail as opposed to expanding and adding five half-baked ideas at once.
My muse roster will have a bit of an update on its purpose. Because of the fact that I will lean even more into the concept of storytelling and character development, the split between primary, secondary and tertiary muses still exists. Except, there is going to be a crucial change now. The tertiary muses will now be rebranded as supports and are not technically muses on the blog. Let me explain what I mean.
Because of my desire to be more story-driven, certain characters will serve as the supporting cast for other muses. These characters help propel the plot forward but also give your muse a different perspective on the muse they roleplay with. They might also reveal information, you would not get otherwise. Think of them a bit like NPCs but due to the big role, they play in the muse's life or what they represent for the muse, they have a bigger chance of emerging. Your muses might even meet them before they meet the actual muse. There will also be other classical NPCs, which your muse might meet under very specific circumstances.
Now onto the actual muse roster:
My primary muses (who will be focussed on the whole Zaunite lore and story) are going to be Silco, Jinx and Vi. They are the ones, whose plotting will come the most naturally and easiest for me. Their supports are Sevika and Warwick/Vander.
My secondary muses (who have different thematic stories and lore as they occur outside of Zaun/Piltover) will be Naafiri and Ahri. Writing them might potentially require a bit more plotting and forethought. Naafiri's supporting characters will be Nasus and Rek'Sai. Ahri's supporting characters will be Yasuo, Evelynn and to a lesser extent Vayne.
I hope that these changes I am making will lessen some self-made stressors. Again, I do apologise for basically dropping everything right now. I promise, I still want to write with everybody here. I just need to sort out how I wanna make things work. So please, everybody do not be intimidated by those changes. I promise, that my enthusiasm for writing and roleplaying remains unbroken.
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how did you pick your uni?
I searched up ‘mathematics university rankings’ and chose the top 5
I’m just kidding you can’t apply for Cambridge and Oxford.
In reality I did give lots of unis a go, the first and third in the country just happened to be one’s I really liked. Cambridge is, obviously, Cambridge, it’s jaw droppingly gorgeous, the maths department is the thing of dreams, the college system is literally my ideal living situation, etc. sadly I didn’t get an offer (I did get pooled however, which is literally the closest you can get to an offer without getting an offer. I was good enough to get a Cambridge offer, there were just more people who were better.).
My next choice is Warwick, which is only third in the country for maths 😭😭😭 also incredible! Its campus is the perfect size, has a really cool arts centre, its own cinema, its maths department is also really cool (such… high ceilings 🥵), and the dorms aren’t that bad, some would even call them good! It also lets you have a lot of freedom, for example as long as you take the compulsory modules you can take ANY MODULE IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSITY as additional modules. It means I can formally learn Japanese whilst studying for a maths degree. It also lets you choose to have a year abroad after you got your offer, which is surprisingly quite a rare find. Almost all unis have maths and maths with year abroad as separate degrees, but you can add a year abroad WHILE AT THE UNI, which is really cool since I’m considering taking a year abroad to Tokyo to study maths (I’d have to research it more as someone said that they don’t do Tokyo even though it says on the website but the website was pretty vague so - once (if? No. Once. (Confidence is key!)) I’m a student there I’m sure it’ll be a lot clearer.
My insurance is mathematics (oh yeah I should probably mention that all my applications were for mathematics) at Nottingham, it’s a really cool uni that isn’t as prestigious, still really good, and is a lot more hip and stuff. I like it for many of the same reasons, just less, which is why it’s my insurance!
Basically, I really like challenging myself, so I picked the hardest universities in the country. I also applied for Durham, which is (I believe) the fourth, and I got an offer but honestly I didn’t really look at it much, I much preferred Warwick.
#not to flex#but#*flexes*#text post#maths#mathematics#I mean you asked /j#university#uni#unis#universities#math#ask#ask answered#anon ask#asks#anon asks
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Betrayal in the Wars of the Roses, Volume 1
By Dan Moorhouse
Reviewed July 21, 2023 by Kathy.
Disclaimer! I read many of the chapters in this book while it was still a work in progress.
Betrayal, especially in the history books, is often portrayed in basic terms of black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. Those who betray during times of civil strife, such as the Wars of the Roses, often suffer from this kind of two-dimensional thinking. However, the reality is much more complex and nuanced.
Betrayal in the Wars of the Roses, the first volume of a planned three part series, takes a deeper look at some of the better known betrayals in the Wars of the Roses, examining kinship, patronage, and loyalty, helping to put things into context and showing that good lordship was a two way street, with each side having obligations to the other, and if those obligations were not properly filled…well, then, that’s when things could get sticky.
After an introduction that sets the table, we are provided with chapters on the following “betrayers” – George, Duke of Clarence; Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick; Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset; Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland; Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers; Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby; and Sir Anthony Trollope. Not only are people looked at in this book of betrayals, the role of towns is also studied with a chapter dedicated each to Calais and York.
While a case can be made for each of the above men being guilty of betrayal, in just about every instance there were mitigating circumstances. And in several cases, it was the king (usually Edward IV) who handled situations in what seemed to me a clumsy manner, leaving me thinking, “It’s no wonder he rebelled!” I won’t go into detailing the information presented for each of the men above, but as an example will present the case of George of Clarence. And no, I’m not going to touch the case of umpteen times great-grandfather Thomas Stanley with the proverbial 10 foot pole.
Now George is often described as a petulant, ungrateful younger brother, never satisfied with what he had and always wanting more. Now, maybe that is true, at least in part, but it’s not the whole story. As a young man, George had seen his sister Margaret make a high-status marriage, while his own wishes for an equally prominent marriage were nixed by, who else, his brother the king. He was granted significant wealth but his proposed expenses that included lavish improvements to Tutbury Castle outreached his income. I think today we’d say that George liked living beyond his means. He was appointed Lieutenant of Ireland, an office his father once held, but later had his right to govern as his father had curtailed. There were other issues, but these will do for this example and will show that while some of George’s problems were of his own making, not all of them were, and if these matters had been handled differently by Edward, it is possible that some of the tragedies in George’s life might have been avoided.
In the end, the question of betrayal has to be looked at through the lens of family relationships, which were extremely important in medieval England, who one owed the most loyalty to (kin or king?), and whether the principles of good lordship were observed by all parties. And when it came to loyalty to the Crown, what exactly are we referring to – the institution of kingship, or the individual sitting on the throne?
This book is filled with enough details and quotes from original documents to satisfy the geekiest of history geeks, yet remains readable and entertaining, and it even got me to question some previously held beliefs. So while I may never completely forgive my great-great (etc) grandfather for betraying Richard III, I at least have a better understanding of why he made the choices he did.
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also tbh, re-re-re-re watching arcane season 1 on epsiode 9
im sorry Vi but telling jinx to "remember who you are" isnt going to fucking work :V like you are actively making this situation worse which I know she doesn't understand but like
GIRL YOU'VE BEEN GONE FOR HOW MANY YEARS? YOU STILL THINK JINX IS THE SAME PERSON AS POWDER?? 'REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE'. VI ARE YOU STILL THE PERSON YOU WERE WHEN YOU SLAPPED JINX? NO? THEN STOP TELLING JINX TO BE POWDER :V
ALSO JINX IS LITERALLY BEGGING VI TO STOP BECAUSE ITS HURTING HER. NONE OF THIS IS HELPING HER-
there's probably a bigger message her that like, again is just that and how Vi need sto accept she's changed, and Powder relapsing imo. Cuz I do genuinely think Silco had it right when he accepted Jinx as Jinx, and well Vi literally barely stuck around Jinx constantly trying to make her that child again which wh ythe fuck would jinx want to be brough tback to being a child when thats literally when Vi betrayed her. I don't think Vi realizes the genuine harm she's doing in these scenes but Silco does know since he literally basically raised her.
I really wish we had brought Silco back over Vander cuz IM SORRY IM JUST. NOT CONVINCED VANDER IS BETTER THAN SILCO FATHER-WISE. VANDER DID KINDA JACK ALL WITH POWDER AND MOSTLY WE JUST SEE HIM SPENDING TIME WITH VI AND PUTTING EFFORT AND MORE TIME INTO HER. So it makes sense why vi would want vander back, but idk.
ALSO. VANDER JUST. SUDDENLY ACCEPTING JINX AS JINX. IDK MAN. i know season 2 was rushed but like. Vi took *how* fucking long to accept jinx, and ur gonna tell me vander suddenly is ok with everything despite teh fact he still sees her LITERALLY AS POWDER.
maybe it's just the methods of how they go about it, maybe its cuz by this point jinx has fully accepted her change and is just like "Whatever" with warwick-vander calling her that or idk. IDK. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
i just want silco back ok. he imo felt like a much better father who genuinely did love Jinx
AND WE SEE IN THE AU, HE STAYS WITH VANDER. AND HELPS RAISE HER. WOW. AND WE SEE IN VANDER'S MEMORIES JUST AS VANDER WAS THERE TO HELP RAISE VI, SILCO HAD ALSO PROMISED THEIR MOTHER TO HELP HER AS WELL. AND WE KNOW IF SILCO GOT THE LETTER THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT AND
WHY WE GOTTA BE ROBBED OF THE BEST CHARACTERS. *screams*
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"Fresh Sump Blood" and Taking It One Day at a Time
In Fresh Sump Blood (Green Giant Saga part 8), there's a scene that I look back to today. It's after Zac successfully saves a sumpsnipe orphan girl named Justine from Warwick. She's a 17 year old teenager about to turn 18 and when you turn 18, the orphanage system will try to kick you out. Sump kids rarely get adopted for their uncomfortable, nasty origins, let alone a sump teenager. For a long time, Justine rarely thought she had a future, even imagining Warwick as the wolf from the Kindred, threatening to take her away after a decade of hunting her down.
So when Zac tries to question her emotional state or even give the most basic, milquetoast, unhelpful platitudes to better her situation, of course she snaps at him, thinking he is lecturing down at her like everyone else in Piltover-Zaun. It's only when Zac says that he doesn't know what to do did she ease off, saying that she doesn't know either.
She finishes by asking him if he could just save her from time to time. It won't save her from "every job" but it will allow her to live another day and, sometimes, "that's all any of us could do".
I don't have much reassurances of the current US election results for immigrants, minorities, or LGBTQ peers. Things will get worse before they get better, and a brighter future seems so far away. Like Zac, I don't know what to do in the midst of another disaster Trump presidency and Project 2025 looming over the horizon. I'm sure we can outlive it, but like 2020, I wouldn't be shocked if we lose a lot of people along the way. I think the best we can do is help each other keep living in the present, one day at a time. Given the election results, that shred of empathy is rarer than I thought, but it exists nonetheless.
I assure you that.
(Art by OrlandoFox on Twitter)
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Open Your Future: Free CNA Training Opportunities in Rhode Island
**Unlock Your Future: Free CNA Training Opportunities in Rhode Island**
Are you interested in pursuing a career as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in Rhode Island but unsure of how to get started? Look no further! In this article, we will discuss free CNA training opportunities in Rhode Island that can help you kickstart your career in the healthcare industry. From learning about the benefits of becoming a CNA to practical tips on how to succeed in your training, we’ve got you covered.
### **Introduction**
Becoming a CNA can be a rewarding and fulfilling career choice for those who are passionate about caring for others. CNAs play a crucial role in providing basic patient care and support to individuals in healthcare settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities.
In Rhode Island, there are several free CNA training programs available to help aspiring CNAs receive the necessary education and certification. These programs are designed to prepare individuals for a career in the healthcare industry and provide them with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in their roles.
### **Benefits of Becoming a CNA**
Before we delve into the free CNA training opportunities in Rhode Island, let’s first explore some of the benefits of becoming a CNA:
1. **Job Security**: The demand for CNAs is expected to grow significantly in the coming years, making it a stable and secure career choice. 2. **Fulfilling Work**: CNAs have the opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of patients and their families through their compassionate care. 3. **Career Advancement**: Becoming a CNA can serve as a stepping stone to further your career in the healthcare field, such as becoming a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or a Registered Nurse (RN).
### **Free CNA Training Opportunities in Rhode Island**
#### 1. **The Providence Center**
– **Location**: Providence, RI – **Program Details**: The Providence Center offers a free CNA training program for individuals interested in pursuing a career in the healthcare field. The program covers topics such as basic nursing skills, patient care techniques, and infection control practices. – **Duration**: The program typically lasts for 6-8 weeks and includes both classroom instruction and hands-on training.
#### 2. **Kent County Memorial Hospital**
– **Location**: Warwick, RI – **Program Details**: Kent County Memorial Hospital provides free CNA training to individuals who are committed to learning and growing in the healthcare industry. The program focuses on essential nursing skills, communication techniques, and patient safety measures. - **Duration**: The training program spans over 10-12 weeks and includes clinical rotations at the hospital to gain real-world experience.
### **Practical Tips for Success**
If you’re considering enrolling in a free CNA training program in Rhode Island, here are some practical tips to help you succeed:
– **Stay Focused**: Pay attention during classes and clinical rotations to absorb as much information as possible. - **Practice Patience**: As a CNA, you’ll encounter challenging situations, so it’s essential to remain patient and calm under pressure. - **Seek Mentorship**: Find a seasoned CNA or healthcare professional to provide guidance and support as you navigate your training.
### **Conclusion**
Embarking on a career as a Certified Nursing Assistant in Rhode Island can open doors to a fulfilling and meaningful profession in the healthcare field. By taking advantage of free CNA training opportunities in the state, you can acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to excel in your role and make a difference in the lives of others. Remember to stay focused, practice patience, and seek mentorship along the way to maximize your success in your CNA training journey.
Unlock your future today by exploring free CNA training opportunities in Rhode Island and kickstarting your career in healthcare! Your journey to becoming a compassionate and dedicated CNA begins now.
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