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Does a bad ending ruin a good story? A comprehensive guide to my feelings on the Arcane finale
*Spoilers for Arcane season 2*
So. You just finished the show, and you're staring at the screen in bewilderment. Perhaps you’re even with some friends, shouting words of confusion to the rolling credits. Try as you might, you can barely hear them, because a single thought echoes in your mind and pushes away any other:
“What the fuck just happened?”
If this happened to you, then boy oh boy, we're on the same boat. If it didn't, well, I'm glad for you friend! We might not have been looking for the same things from this story. But this is my post, meaning I will give my opinions (which are objectively correct because this is my blog and I'm the mayor here) on everything that Arcane broke and failed to deliver in its last 2 episodes.
Let's start with characters, and why none of it mattered.
Jinx symbolized the fear we all have of not belonging somewhere, of not having anything to call home or anyone to call a family. Her anger stemmed from wanting to carve a place in a society and a world that had so harshly rejected her (i.e., Vi leaving her). Her existence was a huge middle finger to all that refused to let her live, a fight to build herself something wholeheartedly hers (hence her being an inventor). It was proof that despite the world telling her she was better off dead, she would never stop fighting to prove it wrong.
… and she died.
She died, and that means all the suffering she went through to exist simply amounted to nothing. She left nothing behind either, no trace of a legacy, something that would have left her mark on that world. Isha, the child she raised as a daughter, died. Silco, who she taught love and care to, died. Vander, who she brought back from years of trauma and torture, died. Jinx fought so hard to live, and in the end, it was as if she hadn't lived at all.
Viktor is most certainly the character that made me the angriest, because of how attached I am to the person he is in season 1 (and even the first two acts of season 2 to an extent). Everything that made him so beautifully complex… gone, in about 10 minutes. There was NO reason to make him the surprise ultimate villain. Viktor had always, always been a pacificist. That's why he was so adamant Hextech not be used as a weapon. That's why every time there were chances to test hextech to hurt, he tried to learn how it could heal. Yes, his fusion with the hexcore had changed him; but NOT into a man who didn't care for human life. He wanted to help all the hurt done to his people. People like him, living day to day in the undercity, but who had never gotten a chance to crawl out of their hell. His community was about HEALING, not controlling. The very IDEA that he would accept killing innocents and ally with Noxus, the warmongers, is so ridiculous I could genuinely laugh if it didn't make me so angry. The show needed an easy, black-and-white showdown to conclude a story that would have needed so much more time to tell. And they chose Viktor. Because it was the easy way out. It was the perfect foil to the return of the Golden Boy. And that PISSES me off.
There is this really shitty concept in popular media that the handicapped/chronically ill character is always in the pursuit of being “cured” and that they need outside help to realize “that their imperfections make them perfect”. Fuck. You. As someone with chronic illness and who just finished beating blood cancer, fuck you. That realization, that you're you with every part of your being, even the ‘bad’ ones, cannot come from outside. It's YOU who needs to learn it. It's you who needs to discover how your body and your mind are so much stronger than you previously thought them to be. Not your lover, your family, your friends, or God forbid your able-bodied lab partner. You. Others may tell you as many times as they want your illness doesn't define you; it won't matter until you, yourself, have understood why and have accepted it. Having someone swoop in and “fix” Viktor with a “you don't have to change uwu” is just….. so reductive I can barely find the words for it. That was VIKTOR’S path to find, and not Jayce’s role to find it for him.
Also… Viktor wasn't trying to ‘fix’ his leg; he was trying to find a cure to a deadly illness ravaging his body and no doubt the bodies of many in Zaun. The HELL is the message here??? That he should have just rolled with it because the deadly illness was part of him??? Again, as a cancer survivor. Fuck right off.
Of course, I can't just ignore the hideous get-up they put him in at the end. The man who laughed at Jayce's narcissism….you want me to believe… he would put on that fucking edge lord costume and not DIE of embarrassment??? The design makes no sense from a narrative standpoint either: if his cane has become the sceptre, why is he still keeping it? He doesn't need it anymore to walk, and it's a reminder of his weaknesses as a human that he apparently hated so much. Why the hell does he keep it then? And the hexclaw. Where did that bad boy come out from?? Did you all see a secret extra bonus scene where he steals it from the lab, because I sure didn't. It doesn't add anything to his sets of powers either it’s… it's a fucking laser gun. WHY. And oh sweet god that mask… there would have been so many ways of designing a mask more meaningful than the one from LoL. This one is just. A piece of metal he spawned in embryo. Get it? Because he's made of metal now and also hiding his face means no more humanity? Get it?? Of fucking course you do, because this was the easiest and worst possible way they could have integrated the mask.
Viktor and Jayce had a fantastic dynamic in that Viktor had started out as the loner, the underdog scientist from the slums; while Jayce was the leader figure, living in comfort that made him attachingly naive, his face plastered on posters stroking his ego. The shift is delightfully slow, as Viktor gains in confidence and determination to see his invention through no matter what, while Jayce is confronted with harsher and harsher truths about the world he so blissfully ignored. By Act 2, they have fully switched roles: Viktor is now the leader figure, a symbol of the future for the people, while Jayce is desperately alone, both physically in the hexcore anomaly, and mentally in being the only one who has seen the devastating future. Excellent stuff. What would be a great way to push these parallels further and to show the complexity of these characters, and perhaps how they can balance each other out? Well, Fortiche sure didn't know, now Viktor is the bad bad guy and Jayce is mister hero. Zaun bad, Piltover good. All nuance, gone. Proving that indeed, the man from poverty and inequality turns out evil, while the one from comfort and wealth turns out to be the hero of the story. The whole “giving a warm speech to the bad villain about how you care for them, somehow immediately changing their ways, and dying together to save the world” can work well in shounen anime where friendship is magic, or in the Ben 10 live-action movie (yes, that's the plot, I thought that wasn't deep when I was like 7 years old so imagine now), but not in a show like Arcane. Not with the ethical and moral nuances they have accustomed us to.
And now, let's explore...
Plotholes and incomplete storylines galore.
Ekko’s tree and the contamination of Zaun from Piltover? Fuck that. The huge showdown between the two opposite yet sister cities, like Jinx and Vi, that has been built up for two seasons? Fuck that. And for what?
For the Noxus sequel teaser.
Mel’s plotline about finding her mage origins had NOTHING to do with the main plot. Absolutely nothing. It added 0 twists or intrigues to the story, and served no purpose except making her a deus ex machina for a broken ending. All it was there for was to lay the base for a following show on Noxus and the Black Rose. Time that could have been spent either giving Mel a proper arc related to the plot, or giving all the other rushed character arcs more development.
Finally, and I deeply regret having to say this, but… the end of Vi and Cait's relationship was majorly disappointing to me. As an LGBTQ+ person myself, who feels attraction to women, it was a delight to have such a realistically portrayed w/w relationship on screen. Popular media tends to portray m/m relationships as these doomed, sinful feelings between two repressed guys, while w/w relationships are shown to just be all sunshine and rainbows and teddy bears, because two women together are a cute little accessory to have on screen. It’s non-threatening. But not Cait and Vi; their bond was raw, and rocky, with violent lows and passionate highs in a world that seemed to want to keep them apart. Their separation and the introduction of Maddie showed the reality of a w/w relationship, where fights and cheating ARE things that happen, because they're two adult women with different beliefs, objectives, an trauma. Putting them back together, as if nothing had happened, without giving us anything about how their relationship would have evolved from the breakup? I'd never thought I'd say this, but it's too easy. How about Caitlyn's literal descent into fascism??? We’ll just ignore that? Vi will just ignore that?
As with everything else, this last part of Arcane destroys all the complex emotions that exist between these characters, the resentment, the anger, the frustration, built upon years of different social conditioning… gone. Because they had 2 episodes left to wrap it up, and there was no way to make a coherent and natural transition to them getting back together with that kind of time. And can I just say. The decision to have Vi, symbol of Zaun, go down on Caitlyn, symbol of Piltover and enforcers, in a prison cell that has held innocent Zaunites and represents their complete lack of freedom as individuals by a cop state that oppresses them….. yeah, bad. So bad.
And… the multiverse. Yup, they went the multiverse route. Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing: the concept of multiverses itself is interesting in a vacuum, and quite a few properties have managed to make it work coherently. But it has been terribly overused and bastardized in serialized content in the last few years, for the simple reason that it's extremely practical. Why make a new, original series when you already have worlds and characters that are developed, and come with built-in fans? It's a money-saving hack! Why dedicate yourself to an ending that is meaningful in its finality and wraps the story properly when you can just say “It's just one ending in the multiverse!”. It takes away any accountability to the fans, and leaves the door open to a potential other version of the story! The perfect combo!
…except in practice, it comes off as lazy in a medium where that trope is overly saturated (don't start me on Marvel), and like a cowardly way of escaping from the responsibility of really taking the time to craft a good, solid ending to end your story.
So, with all that said: does it ruin Arcane for me? No, absolutely not, and I don’t think it should be for you either. The intricate artistry and raw talent that went into making the first season (and I would say a majority of the two first acts of season 2) is undeniable, and will stay undeniable. Nothing can touch that story. It will forever be one of my favourite pieces of animated media, which is saying a lot because I'm currently getting my master's degree on that topic.
However, it does give Arcane, as a whole rather than two separate seasons/entities, a very bittersweet feeling that is hard to forget. Thinking of what could have been, just if a little more time had been given to the minds behind the masterpiece you so loved… it's its own form of heartbreak. Academics have even compared it to experiencing a form of death of a loved one, before they ever got to reach their fullest potential and live the life they deserved. It may sound dramatic, but the feelings you feel in this moment, watching the horrible end of a fiction you have so much love for, are real. No one can take those away from you. You're allowed to grieve the loss of something that meant a lot to you.
Tldr; No, Arcane is not a bad series because of its rushed and incomprehensible ending. As they say, it's all about the journey, not the destination, even if that's one of the parts we tend to remember the most. And I don't know about you, but this was one of the best journeys I've ever been on.
#reminder this is not an invitation for debate in the comments and reblogs Im just explaining my feelings#God i wish i didnt have to make this post#I believed they could still salvage something until the very end#moral of the whole thing: never trust a goddamn story written by the french#j'ai 100% le droit de dire ca j'ai eu mon Bac L juste pour chier sur le fait que les auteurs francais sont pas capable d'écrire une fin#ET J'AVAIS RAISON#the weight of being a prophet.......#god tagging this is gonna hurt me emotionally but here goes#arcane spoilers#arcane critical#arcane criticism#anti arcane#arcane season 2#arcane finale#arcane jinx#arcane viktor#arcane caitlyn#arcane vi#arcane ekko#arcane jayce#arcane mel#rant#mine#thank you for reading this far fellow tumblr enjoyer i hope you have a good day
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so ive been getting into a certain webcomic
#obviously this is meant 2 be them as adults#also these arent necessarily my 100% hc designs forever it's just what i was feeling in the moment#im most proud of jade (partially bc i had to fucking SCOUR for the meshes 4 her ears and tail)#homestuck#june egbert#jade harley#dave strider#rose lalonde#simblr#the sims 4#ts4#maxis match#maxis mix#show us your sims#ts4 cas#sky.txt
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posting an oc drabble bc i can.
"Have you ever kissed anyone?" They're face to face, hands cradling cheeks and holding waists. "No." It's a lie, he can't tell them the truth. It's not a lie, he didn't kiss back, he didn't want it. "Have you?" A small head shake, "Kinda hard to find someone willing to be your friend, let alone kiss you, when you’re the prince.” “They’re all missing out then.” They nervously giggle, blue skin turning green with a slight blush. “Kiss me?” A simple request, he knows he would do anything for them. Their lips connect, soft and gentle, nervous energy between them.
#rai.txt#oc stuff#technically was written for oc kiss week but im scared of being percived so.#also yes its exactly 100 words. yes its vauge on purpose.#its cas & ro though if u were wondering#ro is he him cas is they them
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idk if blake knows what a tzimisce is but cas is one in my heart, shakes gortcas into my 24/7 wod oc barbies daydream, like grasshoppers into a bearded dragon vivarium
my justifications are Because I Said So and tzimisce and revenants and shit and cas refusing to use vicissitude aligns with extant cas loreTM
raphael is a ventrue and i make too many independent ghouls so thats whats wrong with gortsnatch
*barbie plastic clacksmacking noises*
@nevarroes why am i getting your mail😭
#I'm always happy to receive anons but im a little confused i cant answer questions about his ocs😭#anyways EHHH WRONG!!! cas is textbook toreador smh#raphael as ventrue is right 100% i feel though i could also see both him and gortash as tremere#but i literally havent played the game😭 all im based on is ppls fanart LMAO#gortash would be a thinblood tho#ask#i would argue about cas toreador tho. everything about him screams toreador INCLUDING the lore blake listen to me#anyways. can i get questions about my ocs next thank you🙏
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#eye hell#<- i cant remember if ive said this on this blog yet but thats my WIP tag#we're getting somewhere! all the cas animal eyes are 100% done now so im just doing the BB animals
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I'm sure the answer will come to you in time
#ive been wanting to recreate this screenshot for so long#its not like 100% accurate but im so happy with it#ts4#ts4 screenies#ts4 screenshots#ts4 edit#ts4 scenery#sims 4#sims 4 cas#sims 4 edit#my sims#the sims community#simblr#sim: xyla farrington#zelda totk#the legend of zelda
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After hours and hours of putting on and taking off cas items, he finally has Outfits™ Maybe next time I will venture out of the everyday category. He could use some formalwear
#simoleon#my kiddos#im like. so in love with him#doing his makeup is SO fun#the outfits are too theyre just harder lol#i didnt make these cas poses *for* him but like. i think he owns them.#also outfit number 3 also has a fully exposed ass jsyk.#its his brand.#or it would be if i could have 100%ed ass windows.#sadly its only 50/50
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...or alternatively, if you havent bought one before, how much would you be willing to pay?
#just making sure!#i know prices do differ#ive been to a con earlier this month and while the keychain i bought there was 9$ there were some other shops that had higher prices#i was thinking 8-9 for mine so that the price wouldnt get too scary with shipping included#im 100% sure im gonna be mostly shipping abroad and thats 5$ at lowest in the poland post#....and the poland post takes around 2 weeks to deliver things. meanwhile faster shipping companies charge like 30$ for delivery. so you ca#guess why im opting for slower options.#but im also tempted to go a bit higher because of paypal fees DID YOU KNOW I HATE PAYP
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some sims ive made recently
#sims#sims 4#the sims 4#ts4#ive been caught up playing rune factory lately so havent played much ts4 skdnfkjsdn#*cas#ive been working my way out of sim block tho im still not 100% happy with my simmies yet idk :///
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hi beloved would love to donate but cant find ur link / username would u mind linking it again
paypal is [email protected] . i'll link it in my carrd in for future ref i truly dont mean to spam anybody. tysm ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
#ask#also anybody that lives in [redacted] ((pls dm me because if i get doxxed rn like fr pls i beg😭 ))#knows their way around like CA and the HRA and emergency aid#because we're trying everything#im already on 'temporary aid'#but its like a wh0le mess wid the card and the rehab and stuff#kjdkfj yall im sorry#im keeping a list of things you've helped me pay for so far#mostly wid chica's surgery and her post op#like her physio and her medications and follow up x rays#like im not jk i wud not be so sure my kitty wud recover 100% if it wasnt for yall
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S9E1 Castiel being freshly human, not understanding a thing of what's going on, fully aware that a.lot. of angels would very much like to kill him just.because meets a random angel on the street (Hael) and he's like: LET'S GO SEE THE GRAND CANYON TOGETHER, WOO-HOOO!
#do you understand what i mean?#i haven't really explained anything. just describing#but im looking fir people who understand my vision based on vibes alone#castiel#character of all time#spn s9#supernatural#spn angels#that frigging angel. im not gonna say he's the cause for heaven's eventual demise because angels do have a penchant for killing each others#but i love how he would not hesitate to kill his siblings and still asking/wanting to be one of them#and it's not a contradiction because: angels.but it does show how his connection to the heavenly host is not just about grace#when in s15 he tells dean that he and sam have each other. well. that line is fucking sad#because cas' family is the ultimate “family is hell” dysfunctional family#and i'm not 100% sure he's able to heal this trauma before he dies if i'm gonna be honest#like. who broke the connection? yes and no. more like: is the connection really broken?#cause it doesn't look like it. there's still a sort of spark of hope in castiel when it comes to angels#like he KNOWS there's nothing for him there but he still feels a tiny bit of longing that never goes away#it's heartbreaking really#i really wish the show had developed the “my grace is fading. dean” storyline#it came from nowhere and went to nowhere. it was just there to signal castiel's final self-actualization#but i mean did he really? mmmmmmh not sure about that#first and onlt thing we know is that he went back to heaven and reorganized the place. I MEAN. COME ON.#the relationship between that angel and heaven keeps me awake at night. i love it.#spn s9 is complicated
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the only games ive 100%'d are mysims, mysims agents and kingdoms. those game files came loaded with crack cocaine
#i want to 100 bg3 but i need youtube i cant get immersed unless im a lil tipsy#and stardew valley im at like 80 but CA keeps putting out new updates im overwhelmed#maybe ill just 200 mysims after my ff kick
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noooo why is front locked that's no fun
#🫀.words#Cas popped in to inform me because I was freaking out about everything being quiet#btw when he does that he deadass just teleports in here its wild#but yeah no one can really come in or out#Homelander is nearby but just so he can rush in if he's needed#and CatNap is still circling the area as usual but tbh i really like him now so im actually hoping he comes in here#but yeah its just me and my smoking hot 100 year old chainsmoking substance abusing boyfriend
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15x16 unity makes me absolutely lose my mind every time I watch it. the idea of Cas being perhaps the only being in the entire universe to truly have free will. all because of his love for Dean. it makes him literally THE most fascinating character of all time for me. and the fact that it all happened to a bunch of luck and insane coincidences... I can't say anything about it that hasn't already been said on tumblr but god. it's mindblowing. I am so obsessed with the gay angel you have no idea
#personal#supernatural#castiel#destiel#when i say destiel is the greatest love story of all time i am being 100% serious#i dont even get into shipping i never have#but my god#there will never be another character like cas for me#anyway me and my bf have got despair to watch tomorrow#im not ready
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man I thought I had made it p clear that doing something you know I'm not gonna like and then not Saying something about it was lying by omission. I'm not gonna like it either way but I'd rather still know than get accidently blindsided by it and feel like it's something being Hidden from Me and done behind my back
#my roommate is smoking /eating edibles and he knows i do not like Either One of those Things anywhere near me but ive Stated id still rather#know than not know??? its like being blindsided by unpleasantness. he said that he thought id rather just not know all together. no????#and if that was thr cas then WHY TELL ME YOURE GOING TO THE SMOKE SHOP??? im going to ask WHY ffs#and then being told hes been doing this and me not knowing so im blindsided by it made me go into a pots attack bec it flooded#my body with epinephrine so i got palpations with a 100+ bpm heart rate#and then he just shrugs it off when i said that it felt like i was being lied to by omission. no?????#like hes an adult. do whatever u want but also im his roommate and i want to know whats going on in this fucking apartment#i get a pots attack after a decent day and hes like “oh thats not good” gee you think. its almost like that ciuod have been prevented if you#just told me what u were doing#now im irritable and cant concentrate and i need to take my meds >:/
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real
#this is so mind numbingly exhausting i don't understand how everyone else seems to just do it?#it was such a weird day#started out in a good mood but then boss scolded these two interns cause of a mistake#and like he wasn't shouting exactly but he raised his voice and said so many things like you are so careless im suffering so many losses bc#bc of you outsiders are going to think i don't have a good team and i don't have control over my team#and how we should always note things down because we're so distracted and not serious#and how before going home everyday we should report to him what work we did today#i understand that he's being reasonable (maybe? idk) but it sounded so eerily horribly like my dad i couldn't function properly for an hour#why are men so similar everywhere#why am i SO scared i could feel the disappointment radiating off him and he wasn't even mad at me and i felt like a failure#which is so embarrassing like girl stop you are a 20 year old adult woman you will not cry at your workplace because an angry man triggered#your dad issues#and upar se there was a new intern at work one year younger than me and oh my god he was so annoying#like i talked to him first bc i pitied him like what if he felt alone it was only his second day but boy literally could not stop talking😭#like ok it's kinda cool that this senior di she trusted me enough to be like you teach him this project report this when ive only been#here for 3 weeks but bhai😭 he's so annoying 😭 i have newfound respect for the di how does she handle all 7-8 of us interns i would go#crazy and shout at everyone and tell them to leave me alone 😭 but she's so patient and kind and answers dumb questions 100 times#but she's leaving this office permanently from next month bc of her ca final :( i mean very good for her she deserves better more money#better work hours better office etc. but :(( she's leaving :((#as you can see i have both dad issues and abandonment issues so fun lol
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