#cause the arcane brainrot is too real

[ohstarkovalina]

I'm rewatching arcane s2 (as one does) and I've been struck with the thought that Cait's grief is so inherently selfish and tone deaf.

Vi lost her parents at the hands of enforcers, and even if she's initially weary of Cait, she gives her the benefit of the doubt - she looks at her as a person first, and at her badge second.

And so many of the other people from the Undercity, who have lost so much and so many at the hands of Piltover, all give Cait the benefit of the doubt. They all put their grief to the side.

And then Cait loses her mother and all of sudden she asks Vi to become an enforcer? "now i understand how easy it is to hate them"? "It's her blood in your veins"?

She was only able to understand the Undercity's plight so long as she was safe in her privilege and didn't suffer for it.

I'm all here for her character arc, don't get me wrong, this is super interesting to watch, but I'm not entirely sure there's going to be a path of redemption for her.

[padawan-crevette]

You know how sometimes a piece of media, or even a specific character, will happen just at the right moment?

Well you see, the thing is, sometimes you'll only realize after days or weeks (or months, years even) of blissful brainrot the impact it's actually had on you. This is what happened to me after the Arcane finale. (It's all good things, I promise. Putting this under the cut because it's a whole lot of rambling.)

Lately I've been interacting with this fandom (and especially the jayvik side of it) more than I have with any other in the last few years, and it's mostly in the wake of that finale. More specifically the jayvik storyline. Especially the last talk Jayce and Viktor have. I keep talking about disability and internalized ableism, about both of them taking care of each other, and about how Viktor in s1 is singlehandedly responsible for me finding a mobility aid that works with my fucked joints. And yet it took until today for me to realize the impact it's all had beyond this, beyond the sheer love and delight I've felt looking at all the good content out here.

Winter is hard, cold weather makes my joint pain worse than usual, but since it lasts for months I tend to reevaluate my baseline and push too far too often. I forget how much pain is too much, I forget that thinking "I should be able to do this" doesn't mean "I should actually do this" or "I am physically capable of doing this". Even when I want to do the thing. I'll remind my partners and friends to rest when they need, but forget that it also applies to me, that just because I may need some form of rest every day it doesn't make it any less real or necessary.

I look at Viktor and say "his disability does not make him any less worthy of love", I think of Jayce fixing his leg brace and go "he does it because he cares and out of love", I listen to what Jayce says and think "he's right, Viktor needs healing but not fixing", I look at Viktor realizing he didn't need to change to be a beautiful person. And then after days of rotating these two in my mind like a sparkly rotisserie chicken, today a coworker very naturally and very kindly takes my disability into account and I catch myself thinking "I don't deserve this, I should be able to do it anyway, if I can make myself walk there it doesn't matter if I'm in pain, nobody sees the pain so it's irrelevant". And it's like everything grinds to a halt.

Stupid jayvik brainrot making me sit down and take a long hard look at ableist thought patterns I hadn't even noticed. And I say this with all the love in my heart, truly.

I'm not quite sure this has a point beyond just wanting to share, but I'm feeling a whole lot of big emotions about it and I think that's pretty fitting considering what caused it in the first place.

Sometimes a character tricks you into aggressively loving yourself through them, and really, I think that's pretty great.

[aldakat31415]

I just finished arcane and damn the victor brainrot is real. I think i might write alot of fics on him.. tho jinx is amazing too.

Like just imagine this genius man sitting at his desk working furiously and you bring him tea or something and then your eyes lock. Both of you know exactly what happened at that moment, but you cant put it into words. His face flushed over in red, he can't take his eyes off of you. But you hand him the drink and he looks down, you walk away. Both of you still feel the tingling of your skin from where your hands touched.

Or you and jinx running around the undercity causing chaos, when you run too fast on a building and almost fall of the side. She screams as she runs towards you, grabbing onto your hand before you plummet to the ground. Both of you look at each other, you can see the sheer terror in her eyes, before she breaks the contact laughing. You could tell it was forced though. She pulls you up, and you keep walking, but everything seemed different.

[jadetea-writing]

19 Nov 2021

ARCANE BRAINROT ROUND…idk i can't count

Predictions on silco&jinx

I'm not 100% sure, but I feel like Jinx is going to turn on Silco REAL fast. The lines in the act 3 trailer make it sound like he's going to try to tap her to make hextech weapons… but all those voicelines are from act 2

"if jinx turns on silco, why does vi want revenge?"

1. Even if Jinx is no longer working for silco, he still did irreparable damage to her (in Vi's eyes, at least, I ain't gonna discusd silco's parenting here—that's a whole bucket o worms)

2. I suspect we're going to see "causes mayhem and destruction for attention"!Jinx in act 3, and Vi might assumr that Jinx is blowing shit up—which makes it harder for Vi to take he r in quietly—on Silco's orders

I don't remember which trailer, but I remember hearing a Caitlyn voice like "She's too far gone"—which both matches an in-game voice line, i think, and signals that Jinx is going to do some more shit

(although Caitlyn already knows that Jinx is responsible for the deaths of multiple enforcers, so she oculd be referencing that)

ACT 3 IN TEN ISH HOURS!! I'm going to get less than my ideal amt of sleep if i stay uo to catch it, but I'll be dying if I wait until aftet work to watch it on sat

[akampana]

Anime asks 19 and 26

Hi!!!! ヾ( ˃ᴗ˂ )◞ • *✰

edit: i forgot to say i answered 26 recently so ill just answer 19 huhu

19. Favorite Anime Ships

oh god okay here we go. I'll do 5 cause there's no way I can discuss them all. Non-Fate since you already know my opinion on that. (harem au go brrrrrrrrr)

1. C.C. and Lelouch from Code Geass

I'd like to start off my list with my favorite Witch and Warlock. Lelouch's little harem was a pretty cool sideplot to one of the best animes I've ever watched and I've always liked how each of his heroines liked an aspect of him. (Kallen liked Zero, Shirley liked Lamperouge, while C.C. liked the real him without either mask, Lelouch Vi Brittania)

But the connection between him and his green-haired partner in crime was just divine. Their fateful encounter began a powerful alliance that could floor entire nations. She gave him the power he needed in the hour of his greatest need and he found out her true wish. I always like pairings with strong themes and they do that for me. I cant word out everything i feel for these two rn but god, I will never be over them.

2. Gajeel and Levy from Fairy Tail

I don't think there's ever been a shounen manga that had me scouring through pages just to find the tiniest clues about a ship. That's what Gajevy did to me. These two had the best enemies to lovers arc because step-by-step you get to watch Gajeel's redemption and Levy's struggle to be stronger side-by-side. Even if they weren't the main focus of Fairy Tail, just seeing these two slowly go from being awkward, to developing a friendship, to catching feelings, to BEING SEEN IN MANGA PANELS WITH THE TINIEST GLIMPSE OF A BLANKET WITH THE SAME PATTERN, to confessing, to that blushy whisper in the final chapter. Yeah. They're great. Best ship in Fairy Tail.

3. Shion and Yayoi from Psycho-Pass

I really like when relationships are just you know, running in the background like its nobody's business and I have to claw for crumbs and this is that. Like, when the bed scene dropped showing the two hottest women of 2012 with EACH OTHER my jaw dropped along with it. *inhales* *exhales* Psycho-Pass just delivers on bloody every aspect, I swear.

4. Hyuga x Riko x Teppei from Kuroko no Basuke

And again with the ships running in the background like its nobody's business, my GOD I went down a rabbit hole with this one. I was really enjoying Riko's dynamic with Hyuga I thought they were kind of great together parenting the rest of the team and then boom Teppei arrives and she's the only one that calls him by his first name and OHOHHOHOHO what is this that I sense is it HISTORY??? and yes it is, they used to date. So while I was crying relating to the athlete angst (i was a swimmer, not a basketball-er but yknow) going on I was also checking to see glimpses of the interactions of these three, like full on looking in backgrounds and stuff. Off the top of my head S1 EP21 dropped a TON of shipping fuel for me, with the way both Hyuga and Teppei's reactions to her cooking. Look me in the eye and tell me they don't love her. I dare ya. plus Teppei and Hyuga have a healthy relationship with each other too. It's a very subdued love triangle and it lasts the whole time, I love it.

5. Vi and Cait from Arcane

Wanted to add something more recent, so guess what I just watched. HAHAHAHAwheeee. Brainrot. You ever see two characters whose eyes connect ONCE and sparks fly. Yep, that's exactly how I felt when I saw these two. Every second of screentime delivered. Every interaction was with purpose. Arcane didn't have that many episodes, so to showcase a relationship so strongly in essentially the latter half, was great. Watching them was a joy, and for anyone who hasn't checked this out yet, yáll should watch Arcane, even if you don't play League. (I don't, but my friends pushed me to watch and yep. Loved it.)

Thank you for the ask! :D

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