#caitvi fan kid

[schrodingerspsycho]

I know this is kinda weird for my first Arcane post, but I accidentally gave Vi and Caitlyn a fan kid 😅 the other day we got an order at work and I decided that Vi would like the name, and then this little drabble sprang to life and now they have a son. Idk if I’m ever gonna write any more about him, but I hope you enjoy this fluffy little drabble about them picking the name before all the trauma we’re sure to get in season two ❤️💙

Vi smiled as she walked into the bedroom. Caitlyn was sitting at the desk, still pouring over the files for their latest case even though it was their day off. Her brow was furrowed as she stared down at the many papers strewn across the desk, one of which was dangling over the edge and brushing against her bulging belly. Vi had never seen a more beautiful sight.

“Hey,” she said softly, wrapping her arms around Caitlyn’s shoulders and kissing the top of her head.

Caitlyn leaned back to look at her and grinned. “Hey, you.”

“So I was thinking about names for the baby,” Vi said, sitting back in the armchair and pulling Caitlyn’s desk chair closer. “What do you think about Zack?”

“Zack,” Caitlyn repeated, twirling her pen between her fingers. “I like it. Any particular reason for that name?”

“Not really,” Vi shrugged. “I just like it. It sounds cool.”

“It does sound very cool,” Caitlyn smiled. “Zachary Vander Kiramman. That has quite a nice ring to it.”

“Wait, why does it have to be Zachary? Why can’t we just name him Zack?”

“Well, most people who go by Zack are named Zachary. And you never know, he might end up wanting a name that sounds more professional. Plus we need something to call him so he knows he’s in trouble.”

“What? C’mon, our kid’s never gonna get in trouble! He’s going to be perfect!”

“Vi, he’s a combination of you and me. In what mad world would he be well behaved?”

“Okay, yeah, you’ve got a point there,” Vi chuckled.

“But you’re right about one thing,” Caitlyn smiled, sliding over to sit in Vi’s lap. “Our son will be perfect.”

“Oh, absolutely,” Vi agreed. She placed her hand gently against Caitlyn’s cheek and pulled her in for a kiss. Then she laid her other hand against her belly. “I already love him so much,” Vi sighed, her voice heavy with emotion. “More than I thought was possible. Is that weird?”

“Of course not, darling,” Caitlyn said, running her fingers through Vi’s hair and pressing her forehead against hers. “So do I.”

[makiquas]

Its Butchtober. Bear with me for a second as I rant about children's cartoon ships, butchphobia, the conditional acceptance of butches in sapphic spaces on the basis of desirability, and feeling erased as a butch kid.

It's so funny that I realised early on as a 2000-2010s teen/kid how a lot of so called "sapphics" of social media are really, really anti butch4butch, only by interacting with certain subsets of Catradora and Appledash haters. It may be flippant to connect butchphobia with children's cartoons, but you cannot deny it is there. We finally had two canon butch4butch and masc4masc lesbian animated ships. And the fandoms decided that the best possible reaction to this is to violently hate on the ships for bullshit reasons and write up masterdocs about how the butch character actually looks better with a femme character instead (in both cases–Rarity and Glimmer, who is arguably feminine but not femme, but that's a conversation for another day, how the SPOP fandom waters down gender identities for aesthetics).

This is not just about two cartoon ships; this mindset of seeing two masc lesbians and immediately going "actually they act like bros; but this BUTCHFEMME couple has real chemistry" comes off sounding really, really bad in 2024 when you have no idea how butch identity operates, outside of depicting us as pants-wearing sexually aggressive muscular women. Butches ARE bros, even the ones who kiss each other. Camaraderie and tomboyish swagger *is* a part of their life. It's not our fault you are too fanfic trope-pilled to read these interactions are sexless friendship bantering.

It's also quite concerning, given how there are only a handful of butch4butch books in the market, and almost all of them talk about the stigmatizing of relationships between two butches/studs/masc lesbians. There are many butch lesbians who themselves face internalized butchphobia because of societal standards and expectations of being turned into the "gallant" provider of femmes. Butch and femme are not always inherently complementary, butches can be attracted to other butches, there is no "natural order" model of lesbian/sapphic attraction and your thinly veiled butchphobia is really off-putting, given you guys don't seem to extend that same rhetoric to mascfemme ships like Korrasami or Caitvi, or femme-femme ships like Harlivy.

Here, I must mention relationships like Rei and Kaoru from Oniisama E, or Jess and Lupe from A League of Their Own, who have bucket loads of chemistry but still have some vehement antis only because both the lesbians are masculine. (What's funny is the new wave of lesbian Oniisama E fans are almost all Rei/Kaoru shippers despite the show putting them into two butchfemme pairings.) Something something to be butch4butch is to be failing the tests of palatability and desirability according to conventional models of societal norms. Forever.

Again, one may have valid reasons for disliking these fictional ships (what, I genuinely don't know). But it *is* weird that you guys can watch fifty white fem4fem sapphic shows in a year and read 100+ GL with the same feminine girlish blonde and brunette/pink haired archetype and not bat an eyelid, but conjure a world of made-up "platonic" dynamics just because you read every butch4butch interaction as fundamentally platonic.

A lot of you love to throw around Stone Butch Blues as a catchphrase to educate strangers on the internet about 1950s-70s blue-collar bar culture and USA butch femme history, but how many of you actually know that within the book itself, the lead character acts prejudiced and hates on another butch for being butch4butch? How many of you know that she apologizes to her friend at the end for her hateful remarks? Fun fact: when you ostracize a butch for not fitting into your butch-femme subculture aesthetic, you're no better than lesbiphobic bigots actually.

Anyway, here are some butch4butch resources if you are a baby butch4butch and feel alienated by these kinds of weird rhetoric in online and fandom queer spaces too:

Butch4Butch romance books

My Butch4Butch books masterdoc (**being updated regularly**)

Leo Wilder's Butch4Butch writing (18+)

Butch4Butch photography archive (insta)

Boyish² Butch4Butch yuri anthology (insta)

@milsae Butch4Butch artist (tumblr/insta)

This post is made by a trans masc butch of color. Terfs, racists, biphobes and radfems kindly do not derail or interact.

[littlemissrbf]

Arcane S2 Act 1 Thoughts

(SPOILERS AHEAD IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED IT YET PLEASE FOR YOUR OWN GOOD KEEP SCROLLING)

(you’ve been warned)

Episode 1: Heavy is the Crown

HOLY SHIT THE NEW INTRO FINALLY GIVING THE VIKTOR FANS SOME FOOD

Damn getting straight to it not only did Jayce fail to destroy the hexcore but he’s still weaponizing hextech (Caitlyn’s new rifle) great job buddy way to keep your promises

I genuinely thought Mel was gonna get assassinated during the memorial speech

I fucking love Maddie, she’s so damn adorable and I swear if anything happens to her I’m gonna lose my shit

JUST LET THE LESBIANS BE HAPPY

for someone going through the five stages of grief, Caitlyn looks really fucking hot

Episode 2: Watch it all burn

Damn okay I guess I didn’t want to be happy today jinx burying silco in the water- “have you had enough?” ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

Okay that kid Isha is 100 fucking percent dead probably by the end of act 2

Damn Caitlyn I’m pretty sure using poisonous gas as a chemical weapon is a war crime

Viktor comes out of the hexgoo completely butt naked and Jayces priorities are 1.) full frontal hug 2.) give him something to cover himself with

GODDAMN IT THEY TOOK AWAY VIKTOR’S GORGEOUS GOLDEN EYES

viktor, after going through a near death experience, immediately deciding to quit his job and peace out in the middle of a war is so fucking funny to me

That little gremlin Smeech getting ripped to shreds off screen by Sevikas new arm was the highlight of the episode

Y’ALL VIKTOR JUST BECAME FUCKING ROBOT JESUS

Episode 3: Finally got the name right

I mean seriously Caitlyn, using the Zaun equivalent to mustard gas to assist your raids seems really fucked up

I’m sure a lot of furries were very happy to see Mel’s cat-person informant

OH MY GOD WE FINALLY GOT A CAITVI KISS SCENE :D

Seeing Jayce, Ekko, and Heimerdinger nerd it out in a room was unexpected but actually really nice to see

OH MY GOD SEVIKAS REACTION TO BEING BIT IS TO FUCKING SMILE- GIRL YOU FREAK

Okay but on a serious note the little girl putting herself between vi and jinx was heartbreaking- this is a running theme that started literally at the very beginning of the show with Vi and Powder on the bridge, the wars between Piltover and Zaun are always at the expense of the innocent, specifically their children.

FUCK DAMN IT Caitvi was finally happening and then they go and get divorced why can’t we have anything nice

but actually Vi’s whimpers after being sucker punched in the gut by her now ex gf’s rifle were devastating ( okay that’s all my thoughts be ready to see a shit ton of reblogs )

[letters-to-rosie]

Questions for fic writers. I'm curious.

21. If you wrote a “missing scene” in talk revolution to me / heir (ap)parent, what would it be?

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23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

hellooooooooooo~

21. If you wrote a “missing scene” in talk revolution to me / heir (ap)parent, what would it be?

my writing style involves a lot of writes and rewrites. for those fics in particular, I had a document where I just kinda threw stuff at a wall for several tens of thousands of words before I published anything lol. so we'd be less likely to get missing scenes than deleted scenes

these could include (I forgot about some of these lmao): -Ekko and Powder having sex in his car and talking about not wanting to get caught for public indecency (their sex life in general was different lmao in the old version they spent much less time as friends so they both are unsure about each other in various ways) -an earlier version of the gym scenes (chapter 39) where they were not yet dating and Powder is angsting all the time because she doesn't know what Ekko's feelings for her are -Silco making a grand charitable gesture trying to get Ekko back on page with him and Powder being extremely pissed

for heir (ap)parent, I'm lame and have to publish chapters in order, which means I don't have the next two in order done but I have a handful of other ones mostly ready to go after that lmao. but the whole format of the fic is basically missing scenes and Ekko's backstory with the Beaumonts. one thing that's missing that I really want to add in the future is about how Ekko gains the reputation he has in the city at the start of the main timeline!

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

COWBOY BEBOP AU! for Arcane. I came up with the idea for one and wrote a bunch of notes. I started talking about it two years ago, but the idea for a story to go along with it just evades me.

I also have a couple AUs I started but never got enough on the page to publish. one is a CaitVi modern high school mystery story; one is a Hunter x Hunter "hey look we found this kid by a dumpster now we gotta adopt him" with Leorio and Kurapika taking in a runaway Killua (overdone but I can't help myself); and another is a post-canon Fullmetal Alchemist story that would be about worker uprisings in Xing and Ling and Lan Fan dealing with all of that. with drama!

writer ask game

[shmlnbstrcnd]

Arcane: Season 2 Leaks Rant (Spoilers)

Arcane: Season 2 is only a few days away. I've vagueposted a bit about the leaks, but now I'll go more in depth on my opinions on the first 5 episodes. Spoiler warning:

So many unwise decisions were made writing-wise. It's like they made poor choices at almost every turn.

"Should we focus on concluding the Piltover story arc in its own show before moving on to other regions? Nah, let's bloat the story with Noxus advertising that will eat up valuable screentime and leave a lot of casual fans confused."

"Should we prioritize concluding the arcs of our main cast? Nah, let's cram the story with a multitude of side characters that take screentime away from the characters who need it most. The audience will for sure be more interested in randos like Maddie, Isha, Salo, big enforcer dude, and that sorceress lady, rather than the main characters they grew to love in Season 1."

"Should we give more screentime to other Champions who aren't even close to concluding their arcs (Viktor, Ekko, Vi , Warwick, etc.)? Nah, let's spend a lot of screentime on Jinx meandering about in her lair playing with puppets, scenes which do not drive the story forward."

"It's the final season of the show with only 9 40-minute episodes. Should we massively trim down our bloated script to make sure the important story beats have enough development time, and remove unnecessary fluff? And if not, maybe add more episodes? Nah, let's just try to cram absolutely everything in here as if we have a 20 episode season and not 9. Leave absolutely nothing on the cutting room floor."

In my opinion, this Season 2 could have been greatly improved if they had omitted all the Noxus bullshit. Seriously, shoving Ambessa and Mel's plot in here was a big mistake. Shit takes up a sizable amount of screentime, is incredibly boring, and downright confusing for casual fans who aren't familiar with League. Season 1 received a lot of praise for being extremely compelling for non-gamers, but Season 2 has gone the opposite route. It also eats up valuable screentime that could be used for the Piltover/Zaun characters and narrative. A lot of people wanted Mel to survive because they thought her story could be interesting, but now I'm thinking she should've just been killed by that damn rocket. Along with Salo and that other Councilor lady. Seriously, only 3 people being killed by Jinx's rocket is such pathetic plot armour that undercut all the tension of Season 1's finale cliffhanger. They couldn't even give her a Pentakill🙄 Salo, a terrible minor character, takes up a lot of valuable screentime too.

Also if they omitted the new characters. Maddie is unnecessary. There were more organic ways to provide conflict for Caitvi than another love interest. Isha is unnecessary. There were more organic ways to provide development for Jinx and trigger the Caitvi breakup. Why was a random new kid the reason for their breakup, and not Jinx? The dynamic and conflicts between these three ladies were so perfectly set up in Season 1. Why throw that away and add a new character to achieve something which could've been achieved with pre-existing characters we already know? So Vi was perfectly okay with a girl she knew for 3 days murdering her own sister, but a rando mute kid is where she drew the line? Lol.

Cutting down on Jinx's screentime would also help. It's not like all her scenes were doing her character any favours either. Rather than the active protagonist she used to be who drove the plot forward, she is now relegated to bouncing around, mellow and passive. She had already reached the climax of her arc in Season 1's finale. She chose to be Jinx, hell-bent on destroying Piltover. Why is she still having an identity crisis in Season 2 and suddenly reluctant to fight Piltover? Give that damn screentime to other characters. Vi barely gets any organic development. Her entire character gets reduced to being hung-up on Caitlyn and then her story with Warwick rushed to the extreme. Viktor and Ekko get absolute dust. Again, you have only NINE episodes for your FINAL season. Not 25 episodes in a 10 season show. When you have this little screentime to work with, you have to be willing to part with beloved ideas, cut down on fluff, leave plenty of shit on the cutting room floor. If they weren't willing to do that, then making only 9 episodes and 2 seasons was the wrong choice.

This is a long post but I just wanted to share my personal thoughts on what went wrong and suggestions on how it could have been improved. This is all just my opinion.

[thats-rough-buddy04]

Offical Red and Blue Poll

Who is the best red and blue couple?

Find by clicking link or by searching Red and blue poll

Some Guidelines

Each Poll will last one day and will be linked here

There will a total of four rounds

Who ever wins each poll will continue on and the other will be out

If your suggestion isnt on here or ur fav is not on here, vote for the ur second fav, if I did all the suggestions we would be here for days

please be kind when doing these, it is not that deep

Each group up was randomly generated, so srry if I but two bad bitches against each other

WINNER is TEAM ROCKET!

Final Closed

Zukka vs Wrightworth vs Team Rocket here

Team Rocket and Wrightworth tied so yeah congrats

Srry wangxian you had a good run but your fans were low key kinda rude so I’m not feeling too bad even though I love you, just kidding thxs to everyone that voted!!!! Good luck to the last remaining 3!!!!

Have fun guys!!!!!

SEMIFINALS closed

Wangxian Everyday means everday from MDZS vs Zukka My girlfriend turned into the moon from Atla here

Team Rocket Prepare for trouble! Make it double from Pokemon vs Wrightworth I'm saddled with these unnecessary feeling from Ace attorney here

I'm srry to my Jedtavius fans, I was not expecting the lawyers to win. Soukoku losing badly to Wangxian but Wangxian barely got through the first round makes me think people spite voted for soukoku in order to knock out klance

ROUND 2 Closed

1.SOUKOKU from Bungou stray dogs VS WANGXIAN from Mo dao zu shi here

2. Caitvi from Arcane vs Zukka from Avatar the last airbender here

3. Wrightworth from Ace attorney vs Jedtavius from Night at the Museum here

4. KORRASAMI from Legend of korra VS TEAM ROCKET from Pokemon here

Round one: Polls Closed

Soukoku from Bungou stray dogs vs Klance from Voltron here

Rin and Haru from Free vs Wangxian from Mo Dao Zu Shi here

Caitvi from Arcane vs Renga from Sk8 here

Karma/Nagisa from Assassination Classroom vs Zukka from Avatar the last airbender here

Wrightworth from Ace Attorney vs Ruby/Sapphire from Steven Universe here

Lawlight from Deathnote vs Jedediah/Octavius from Night at the Museum here

Judai/Johan from Yugioh vs Korrasami from Legend of korra here

Sonic/Shadow from Sonic vs Team Rocket from Pokemon here

Not me cackling at klance losing first round

Also please reblog and like so more people will see it ❤❤

I haven't seen a couple of these so if I'm missing something important let me know

[rah-nee-yah]

ok so its been a couple hours since ive watched s2 so here are some more coherent thoughts:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH

caitlyn caitlyn caitlyn. what the fuckkk. ima be honest its real hard being a caitlyn kiramman fan rn. hitting vi with a gun even after knowing her history with the enforcers. thats actually vile dude. and dude the fact she almost hit isha. i cant rn. the fact people were shitting on marcus for shooting at a kid and cait’s done the same. im still holding out for a redemption tho. pls bro. but tbh this made her character super intriguing. excited to see her redemption over act II

ALSO IT LITERALLY JSUT OCCURRED TO ME. cassandra built vents so the undercity could be free to breathe non toxic air. caitlyn just undid all of that. god help me.

vi, jinx, ekko, isha, maddie, and loris deserve the world. love em to bits.

the voice acting dude. top fucking notch.

i love the new intro. its greek tragedy is the best way. they were so foul for having caitvi in there 😭😭

i honestly wouldve loved to see more of every character. but unfortunately thats the problem with forty minute episodes ☹️☹️ (no hate tho i know animation especially arcanes can take a LOOONG TIME)

super excited for the next two acts dude. s2 act i didnt hit as hard as s1 but damn. they still cooked.

also. mel. they cant just leave us hanging like that 😭😭 my wife returns after three years then she dips 😔😔

theres so much i wanna say on the animation but id just keep yapping till the end of time. the woodkid sequence had be clawing at the walls

the fact this is only act i…were in for a WILD ride dude

[toweroftickles]

Who are your favorite underrated ticklees? like characters you think should have more tickling art/fics about them?

Oh, now you’ve done it. You’ve unleashed a tangent. 😂 Buckle up, kids; this word-and-picture vomit is gonna take a while. All 30 slots gettin' used up on this one.

UNDERRATED LEES

Let’s start with Avatar. When the second movie came out I went through a bit of a phase…half the characters in it could go here. The whole Sully clan. The Na’vi are perfectly sculpted ‘lee material - their long bellies, the ribs, the feet - and NOBODY TAKES ADVANTAGE OF IT.

(Literally just think of all the tickle torture they get up to)

Moving on to anime, Studio Ghibli is packed with characters who deserve more tickle attention. My favorites have gotta be Ursula from Kiki’s Delivery Service (I really wanna see content with her, Kiki & Tombo together), Lisa from Ponyo, Fio Piccolo from Porco Rosso, and Young Kiriko from The Boy and the Heron.

(I could watch that gif of Ursula wiggling her toes for the rest of my life)

I'm also a fan of this girl Pipirika from Magi: Adventures of Sinbad. Not sure why. I don't even watch the show.

Then there’s Suki from the other Avatar. Less-popular character in a popular fandom. Crowded out by the rest of the Gaang.

Victoria and Mr. Mistoffelees from Cats 2019. SHUT UP I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK 😖

VICTORIA IS SO PRETTY AND SWEET AND PURE AND THE WAY THEY NUZZLE EACH OTHER AND THIS WHOLE MOVIE IS TICKLE-CODED

I'M NOT A FURRY

Vi and Caitlyn from Arcane/League of Legends. That show (and this pairing) is massively popular online, they are insanely hot together, so WHY is no one making tk content except me? HMMM? These bitches are ticklish as hell and they deserve this.

It’s. Not. FAIR. I am so thirsty for CaitVi content in the leadup to Season 2 the inside of my mouth looks like the Atreides family is going to set up a base camp and harvest exotic spice from the back of my uvula.

Art3mis from Ready Player One. Book Twitter has seemingly made it their life’s mission to demonize Ernest Cline and anyone who loves the novel/movie, so fan content is already a little thin on the ground as it is. But she needs to be put in a tickle machine, stat.

Ben & Gwen Tennyson. OG series; none of that reboot horsehockey. They fight and antagonize each other so much I’m genuinely surprised there was never a tickle torture moment in the show.

From the Nintendo side of things, Imma go with two underappreciated gothic sorceress baddies (Veran from Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Medusa from Kid Icarus Uprising). I'm also very fond of the various "hot ninja lady" iterations of Impa, particularly her orange-and-black ensemble from Skyward Sword.

And both Wii Fit Trainers.

Red Savarin from the obscure Tail Concerto DS game Solatorobo: Red the Hunter. Never played it; he just looks insanely ticklish to me. You know, some characters you can just tell.

Still not a furry.

Let's see now, Disney/western animation...Kida, obviously. Robin Hood & Maid Marian, especially the latter. (I love her giggle so much.) Mowgli is more childhood wish-fulfillment on my part: that insane Jungle Book tickle scene messed me up, and each time my prepubescent self rewound the VHS tape, I played a game with my mind. I kept desperately believing/wishing that this time, it would be different: Baloo would get Mowgli back, or their tickle war would resume later. No such luck. It's about him & Baloo specifically.

The 2004 iteration of Batgirl is my favorite one. Plus she's got a great laugh. XD

The Spider-Verse movies continue to be a Tumblr phenomenon, and yet I have not found a SINGLE solitary tickle post about Rio Morales. Can you imagine how adorable she would be as a lee? ❤️ ((Ticklish moms + older women in general warrant more appreciation.))

I also made this here list a while back. This community can tend to neglect characters who are canonically ticklish, perhaps because the question has been answered already.

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WHEW. Got all that outta my system. XD If any of you are still alive and still reading this, anybody on this list that you agree deserves more tickling fanart/fics? Any thoughts on underrated lees of your own?

[spopsalt]

spop fans: " I hate Scorpia so much, she invades Catra's personal space even if Catra told her many times that she doesn't like hugs or to be touched "

Me on my mind because i'm too scare to reply ( srs ) : Catra literally invade Adora's personal space and did it in a worse way, are this people okay or do they need help ?

no 'cause srs, friend, everytime i saw this i really wanna say something but i'm scare spop fans cancel me for it also idk how people can hate Scorpia for invade Catra's personal space when she did the same to Adora but worse ( maybe worse than Mother Gothel in tangled ). I mean if you are gonna hate Scorpia for doing that at least hate Catra too for it. The truth friend is that it's comfimerd that C//A shippers are blind. Also i don't hate Scorpia she's my second fav character and i hate so much that people dislike her only because she's too friendly ( like why hate the nice/friendly/sunshine character but not the toxic, abusive, gaslighte catgirl ? also i don't understand how the abuse is normalized like something goood, if the series showed that the abuse is wrong making Adora realize that Catra have 4 seasons tried to kill her and her friends, was a war criminal, have torture/gaslight/manipulated her and tries to go to therapy or change and then in s5 make glimmadora canon then it would okay ig ? because it shows to the kids to be careful with the abuse or that if a friend of their is having an abusive relationship that they help them to go out of it but NO! it shows the contrary saying that if you date your sister and abuse her for years that would save the unniverse and it's very disrespectful for the LGTB comunity and for people that have adoptive sisters, people just like it because it's a lesbian ship but shera looks like more a homophobic series when the abuse is normalize and i hate but really hate when they compare it to arcane or other series that are good because their ship for example caitvi/ bubbline/ lumity did it so much better because the creator of those series took their time to develop to make the ship healthy but Nate what he did is just rush everything in the last moment and make the ship looks forzed and bad )

Thanks for the ask! And exactly! Their is so much hypocrisy, if you want to hate Scropia for that fine, (I love scropia but I'm saying its a fair reason), but hate Catra for it too, when Catra does it its way more invaise and not done with good intentions

[sapphosdickandballs]

YOU WATCHED ARCANE S2?????

Okay but what did you think? Ngl I'm obsessed, I'm gonna have To Ashes and Blood on repeat for like, the next week.

I did! I’ve been obsessed all day (watched it this morning) I really like it so far. I’ve got lots of thoughts tbh. Big fan of Caitlyn’s story and what they’re doing with Caitvi (although….my lesbians 😭 they had better get to fuck before one dies) also a big fan of Jinx and Sevika’s new allyship or whatever. And the kid! What’s their name, Isha? I’ve only had them for a second etc etc. Same with Maddie she’s really adorable so far. I’m hoping they do something interesting with her story.

As for the wild runes stuff… that’s the only thing I’m unsure about. Like it could turn out to be really cool or it could just be confusing and clunky. I feel like Arcane is very fast paced, which is really fun to watch, but when you have to explain a whole new thing…. Idk. I have the same opinions about whatever the fuck is happening to Mel and Ambessa but that at least looks super awesome and interesting so. She got shadow realmed lmao

[readbythestarlight]

Tag 9 people to get to know better or catch up with

Thank you for the tag, @imwritesometimes !

Three ships you like - DinCobb (my dearly beloveds), Steddie, CaitVi (Arcane)

First ship ever - god man idek, I was “shipping” little things before I knew what that was. Probably a couple of the characters from my favorite book series?

Last song you heard - uhhhh idk it was something playing in the restaurant at lunch lol

Favourite childhood book - okay so as a kid I adored this series I’ve never met another fan of, called The Seven Sleepers (by Gilbert Morris). It was Christian fic so like no surprise no one’s ever heard of it but anyway. I loved all of them, but I think my favorite had to revolved around the Atlantis journey: The Gates of Neptune.

Currently reading - Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Currently watching - nothing. I’ve been thinking about giving Legend of Korra a go though?

Currently consuming - water (I have not had enough)

Currently craving - brushfire tacos from Torchy’s (habanero salsa and mango bits my beloved)

Zero pressure tags: @jivvin @jigsawsbrokenpieces and literally anyone else plz respond and tag me I want more people I know it’s okay to tag in these things in the future!

[arcanegifs]

Holy translator! Hahahah

WHAT? I didn't see this about hating a scene between them, in fact, I saw an interview on a website in which they said that the people who ship Caitvi would be happy this next season and that in S2 they would focus more on them. Now I'm scared of this possible breakup.

Yes, there are these skins, but I think they will still do something to make the couple official in a more direct way, since Vi has a "broken heart". But I already believe in both of them together, so it's okay, I just want it to come to fruition in the series. My dream of a lesbian in love with the couple.

I'm from Brazil, I don't follow anything specific to the fandom because I don't use Twitter. I only have Instagram and WhatsApp. I really wanted a group about arcane and they are there, by the way, but I never found it. By the way, do you know or understand anything in Portuguese?

Thank you 🥰

In their Reddit AMA, Christian and Alex said that there's going to be a part where CaitVi fans will probably like and a part they will probably hate. I still think it's going to be a breakup again, but we all know Vi's going to stay with Cait because she'll become an enforcer with that Arcane S1 promo. They had a caption of Vi saying, "How does a kid from The Lanes become Piltover’s Enforcer?"

Yeah, last year's Pride event didn't have an explicit story unlike Leona and Diana or Graves and Twisted Fate in the previous years. That, or I probably missed it? I don't think so though. They'll probably have CaitVi more visible as a couple if ever Arcane progresses their relationship. We already have a lot of hints in their Legends of Runeterra voicelines.

Ahhh I see! I'm from Asia, so it's the other side of the world hahahaha. Unfortunately, I don't understand Portuguese.

Tumblr's a pretty good place for fandom if you don't like Twitter. I prefer it more because of the tagging system. I like my fandom stuff to be more organized. That, and I make gifs. Personally, I don't like how Twitter presents gifs and edits in its media format. You can probably check out the Arcane Reddit for better discussion among the community.

[aprillikesthings]

I look at fan art for fandoms/ships I used to be obsessed with and it's this weird nostalgia

Which I think is hilarious because One, the early hardcore days of any given fandom are...kinda rough on the rest of my life, let's be honest; and Two, fandom is so spread out anymore and dissolves into massive discourse so quickly that it's actually kinda hard to enjoy it the way I once did.

(I say that like there wasn't discourse around the k/da server within a month of my starting it--I was coming off one of the worst months of my life so that hit particularly hard at the time. And then later on some dipshit pressured a bunch of long-timers to leave the server out of fear of being harassed. Ugh. Anyway.)

I loved Arcane and would love for more friends of mine to get into it, but I also know I muted a caitvi server I was in fairly quickly because 99% of the members were under the age of 25 and were fresh off the spop fandom and they just do fandom differently than I do. It felt like the "how do you do, fellow kids" meme, and I also knew that once word got out I was a "proshipper" I'd be...side-eyed at best? (For a while I was dipping back in on occasion just to look for good fanart, though. Might do that again at some point.)

(There was apparently at least one more caitvi server of older people that knew each other from Locked Tomb fandom, but ...they all knew each other so I wasn't invited. Alas.)

(Speaking of fandom being spread out more these days. Discord servers for fandom come in two flavors: everyone's invited, which means they quickly become unpleasant/filled with discourse/monopolized by people with bad social skills; or they're invite-only which means if you don't know someone in it willing to invite you, you're screwed. It's shitty but them's the facts.)

I wish I'd felt obsessively fannish about OFMD the way so many of my friends did. ;_: I enjoyed it! I look forward to season two! But it didn't become an all-consuming thing for me, and as so many of y'all know, you can't really control hyperfixations. I'm not the one controlling the on/off switch.

The irony is I do have a hyperfixation right now, my Camino next year, but it's not a fannish hyperfixation so it's not the same. More than half the fun of any fannish hyperfixation is being fannish with other people, that giggly squeeing thing of injokes and meta and fan art and shipping that makes me giddy, plus The Feels I get from good fan art.

I mean, I do get Feels from photographs of spots on the Camino I'm going to be walking through, but it's not fannish! It's a very different kind of Yearning.

Also forums/etc for the Camino are totally not the same thing as fandom forums/etc. Discussing how much you like seeing Character A get railed and how is just not the same as discussing which albergues are better and arguing over whether to use trekking poles.

Also reading tons of Camino memoirs is SOOOO not the same thing as reading fanfiction, bahaha. Although if you often get that feeling of "I want something just like what I just read, but not what I just read," getting into Camino de Santiago memoirs might be for you, lolol

[valenshawke]

5,18,44 for the Arcane asks 🙂

Netflix’s Arcane Ask Meme

5. Do you have any episode that you just didn’t care for all that much?

I wouldn't say I didn't care for all that much as much as I went, "Okay, good, but why is everyone flipping their shit on how amazing this?" And that was episode 1. I mean, it was good. But I really did look at it like an old pilot episode at the end. Good enough to keep me watching, but like... it wasn't the greatest thing since sliced bread. But I kept on watching and it did something that only one other piece of media in recent years (post-graduate school) has done: IT CONSUMED MY SOUL.

18. What was your favorite emotional scene?

Yeah, so I'm not going to answer this as is because I have three and I cannot truly answer this without explaining.

This scene both spoke to me and broke my heart. I don't have siblings, but like two of my friends may as well be given how long we've been friends and I've been on both sides of this where, I've been so angry at one of them I pushed them away and one was so angry at me they pushed me away after a blowout. I guess the difference is while we ended up going quite awhile without contact, we eventually did reconcile. I kinda hope the same for the siblings here. And I can relate to grasping at whatever came next, no matter how detrimental it could be.

Okay, so I can't find the moment before this where Vi is hallucinating and seeing her mother flash in between seeing Caitlyn. Someone pointed out that this is probably the only moment in Vi's life after her parents were killed where anyone showed any level of care or concern like a mother. Not saying Vander didn't care, but not in a way that Vi and Powder's mother showed them. So the injury-induced confusion Vi has that someone is actually gently caring for her is both heartbreaking that she's gone over a decade with any such care but also the realization that she, herself, had to hold this job for the rest of the kids (Powder, Mylo, Claggor).

Look at Vi's eyes. Look at her eyes and the way she looks at Caitlyn in this scene. I remember pausing this scene and walking around my apartment cause the last time I had this feeling with two characters was when I read some pages in Claymore between the character I use for my icon and the main character. I stood no chance at these two idiots not becoming a ship to consume my soul, but this scene burned the embers into non-existence at this point.

44. Any fan theories that you find super interesting? Any that you don’t care for all that much?

I'm much more into the analysis of what has happened and what it means than fan theories on what is going to happen. A lot of this is because we only have nine episodes to work with (I need a bit more) and I know zilch about League of Legends lore. Like, I played 3 minutes of the game in the early 10s and that was about it. In terms of analysis, I like nearly everything @visupremacy has written on CaitVi.

Going further, three of my favorite video essays on CaitVi are by YouTuber Tilda Owen here, here, and here.

Thanks for the asks!

[aikoiya]

The ‘I'm Just Your Problem’ Song, would be perfect for Danny Phantom... I can imagine him singing this to Vlad 👻 + Valerie 🗡️ + His Parents ⚔️: “It's like I'm not even a PERSON, am I? I'm just your problem… Well, I shouldn't have to justify what I do! I shouldn't have to prove anything to you! I'm sorry that I exist, I forget what landed me on your blacklist! But I shouldn't have to be the one that makes up with ALL OF YOU! So... why do I want to?”

Ooo! Now, I've heard part of this song, but not all-the-way through. Admittedly, when Adventure Time first came out, I disregarded it as the newest SpongeBob or Flapjack, which I just... did not vibe with at all. The humor for those were also not my cup of tea in any respects, even as a little kid.

Fairly Odd Parents was better, but I still preferred things like Danny Phantom, Static Shock, Teen Titans, & Jackie Chan Adventures growing up. Stuff that had serious moments as well as humor.

So, that initial impression sort of shaped my idea of the show for a good long while & even after learning that the show had more to it than that, my biases kept me disinterested, I think. Though, I certainly didn't mind a couple of the songs. Like, 'Everything Stays' was really flipping good!

But now, I'm watching Fionna & Cake with my brother, so maybe I'll try watching it?

Admittedly, part of that is the fact that I just don't care for homosexual ships as a lot of the times, shows tend to make their interest in each other clear, which allows me to acclimate to the idea. They also tend to just not develop their relationship in a way that makes me go, "yeah, alright, they're obviously meant to be" the way that Ravecca Sugar did with Garnet. Though, even when shows do develop the relationship, there's no guarantee that I'll be an active shipper or just be like, "Yeah, okay. They make sense, moving on."

Like, in the Owl House, you can tell that they were trying to develop Lumity, but I dunno, it felt weird to see kids doing that & not even questioning themselves. And I'm honestly not very into CaitVi despite it being pretty damn obvious where shit's going. Not sure why I don't care much for that last one, but I just don't. Like, I'm not openly against it, but I also don't ship it.

In fact, I've seen some shows that show zero tangible hints of their gay couples even being interested in each other beyond friendship until they're just suddenly kissing. Which, honestly, that sort of thing tends to put me off of some het couples too.

But, from what I can tell, I'm getting the sense from Fionna & Cake that they evidently developed Marceline & Bubblegum's relationship in a way that would actually make them being together seem reasonable & might make me more for it than I am with CaitVi, though not nearly as much of a fan of it as I am with Garnet.

Either way, we'll have to see.

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[shelbazoidz]

Aye, y'all ready for some emotions? This story is done so I can go back to my regularly scheduled heathen programming. Hope you guys check it out! -> Link