#did he love jinx? yes ofc

[cherrybomb107]

I keep seeing people say Silco was a good father and I’m so confused. We literally saw how he groomed Jinx, isolated her, and helped turn her into the worst version of herself. Just look at the relationships Jinx had with the other characters in season one vs season two. She is SO MUCH BETTER now that he’s not around! Don’t get me wrong, Silco is one of my favorite characters in the show. I loved that evil mf DOWN, so don’t get it twisted! But calling him a good father is insane to me. He’s a lot of things, but a “good father” has never and will never be one of them. This is just my opinion ofc.

And no, I’m not one of those people who thinks he didn’t truly love her and that he only saw her as a weapon. He loved Jinx dearly, and that is a hill I am willing to die on. However, love is not enough to make someone a good father in my book. Especially when that love went hand in hand with enabling Jinx’s worst impulses and not establishing proper boundaries with her. Truth be told, there are two reasons why people still insist on calling Silco a “good father”.

1. They’re attracted to him. I know for a fact if he was genuinely ugly and not in a “sexy evil rat man hehe” kinda way, suddenly everyone would know that grooming children and turning them into weapons is bad. Like be so for real right now, if only for a second.

2. Silco is not the worst fictional father in history, and people confuse “not being the literal worst” with being “good”. It’s like breaking your leg vs dying. Obviously dying is the worst case scenario, so getting off with just a broken leg is marginally better than dying. However, it’s still a major injury. There is a world of difference between “better than” comparatively speaking, and “good”. I think a lot of people are confused about the difference between the two, and think that because Silco was a better father than the absolute worst of the worst, that automatically makes him a “good” father, when that just isn’t the case imo.

Because no way y’all are calling a man who: almost knifed his homegirl’s daughter but stopped himself because he saw himself in her, isolated, manipulated, groomed into becoming a weapon, enabled her, actively encouraged her to her obvious detriment, and projected his traumas onto her a “good father” without a hint of irony. No amount of love he had for her, whoever genuine it was, is gonna make him a “good father”. At least in my book🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️

[hauntingblue]

ARCANE DAY

Episode 4 and 5 in the tags and:

SALO BEING A VIKTOS FOLLOWER??? CRAZY. ALSO BOTH VIKTOR MISSING JAYCE AJDHSKSJ also cait has kinda calmed down... and I am sure she misses vi so I KNOW this is going to happen to her soon.... we aren't getting much of her feelings yet... she's still too onto Jinx to catch up on where ambessa is going...

DID JAYCE JUST KILL SALO??? WHAT HAPPENED IN THERE

Also vander not recognizing vi at first until she gives up fighting.... incredible ALSO vander and silco being miners and vi wearing her gauntlets that were initially thought out for miners.... damn

This is my favourite episode so far....

Episode 6 here:

Sky really being there..... of course she is....

Ambessa training caitlyn.... of course thats her new daughter akdjskms Tunnels in your eyes.... GIRL!!!!!!! THAT'S WHAT YOU DON'T NEED RIGHT NOW also the guy outside is a mage... ambessa is such a hypocrite

Vi and Jinx vs ambessa and cait.... this was always about class war don't get it twisted SINGED!!! TRAITOR!!!!

ARE THEY GOING TO SEE VIKTOR???? I looove how viktors touch on their faces leave "scars" so recognizable

Did isha just take the gem from vi's gauntlets??? Omg I wasn't expecting viktor to build a hippie commune to be honest omg he looks so good.... with the blonde underhairs.... and I do believe that's the same blanket....

And of course viktor knows who vander is.... nvm he diesnt know omg viktor asking for Powder.....

We are getting viktor horsegirl montage.... omg the vander momtage I can't..... omg they wanna stay.... singed is gonna fuck all this up NOOOOO 😭😭😭 they are already there I am going to kms

CAITLYN STOP THIS MADESSS!!! ✋️ CAITLYN!!!!! VI KILL THIS MAN!!! OMG CAITLYN...... mongoose... yeah.... and fuck you too.... CUPCAKE!!!! ABOUT TIME!!!! CAITLYN I SAID STOP THIS MADNESS WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!! And jayce too 😭😭😭 we're never making it out of the fissures

It's such a shame the spit on here won't work like on challengers.... one can only pray I guess

Jinx experiencing the "there's nothing more undoing as a daughter" moment.... incredible

"Your absence provided a vacuum I was able to fill" TO VI???? I KNEW THAT HAND HOLDING IN THE COMMANDER SCENE WAS SUS AKDHKASJ maddie exists and ambessa knows that and still.... it was not filling her mother's void...

YES CAITLYN!!! YES!!!!! VI is so hot I am distracted... ambessa was right.... now what the fuck will jayce fuck up??? Thats the question... NOT ANOTHER CHILD!!! jayce is a menace... the guys smiling at jayce are viktor... maybe the child even....

JINX KILL THAT MAN!!! NVM VANDER KILL THAT MAN!!! JAYCE YOU FUCKING MORON!!!!! JAYCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHEN I GET YOU JAAAYCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Isha what are you going to do omg 😭😭 did she kill vander... another powder... my god another week...

That was such a good fucking episode too.... and caitlyn didn't go insane when finding Jinx that is a step forwards but viktor can't be dead... no fucking way... he was giving himself away for the people and he was going to finally die by saving vander and look at what we got... no wonder viktor hates his guts. Jayce you were so good in act one.... what happened..... alright. Christ.... another week....

[thehollowwriter]

I think we should talk more about the mysgony when it comes to parents in media, and how fathers are favoured and praised for the most the most basic shit while mothers are demonised for making mistakes or being bad. This is gonna be a long one, buckle up.

I hate Mrs Rosehearts as much as the next guy, but it's unfair that Mr Rosehearts is not given similar criticism for allowing his wife to treat Riddle the way he does. I hardly see people bring him up apart from mentioning that Riddle's parents probably have an unhappy marriage, and some people say something along the lines of "poor Mr Rosehearts, struggling with a wife like that".

Of course, we don't know enough about his character to gauge how Mrs Rosehearts treats him, bit it's clear he just passively stands to the side when it comes to whatever Mrs Rosehearts wants to do with Riddle. That itself is very harmful and it's own form of abuse, imo.

The same applies to Alador Blight from the Owl House. He's praised for being a wonderful dad that finally came through and stood up to his "horrible wretched bitch of a wife" (who, if she was a guy, would probably have more people analysing her and trying to find ways to sympathise with her just saying)..

And while, yes, he did stand up to her and that's a good thing, the general consensus is he was a brilliant dad from the start that was held back by his wife's wicked ways. But... that's not true? His first appearance is him telling Amity to stop being friends with Willow. He ignores his children constantly, and, like Mr Rosehearts, stands passively to the side when Odaliah treats her children like her property.

He's a neglectful parent at best and just as concerned with image and status at Odaliah at worst. But... that stuff is just forgotten. Most people just say "we thought he was bad but it turns out he was manipulated by his wife". He is HIS OWN PERSON. You cannot just blame everything on his "evil manipulative wife" (which is also smt that sometimes happens irl when both parents are abusive). He is still fully capable of making his own decisions.

And again, it's unfortunate, but if Odaliah were to be given his treatment or if Alador were a woman, the general response would be "That's sad but not an excuse! I can't believe she was forgiven!"

The worst I can think of atm, is Silco and Vi from Arcane. Now ofc they're not married. But the circumstances are similar.

Silco is praised to the high heavens for being one of the best dads in animation (#1 goes to Doofenshmirtz ofc, which I agree with) and the reasons for this are because he... shows his care, puts Jinx first, and loves her. Wow. Fucking groundbreaking am I right. The bar is soooo high/s

The thing is, Jinx is a child soldier. She works for Silco, protects his shipments of Shimmer, takes out the enemies that need taken out, etc. He found her as a young child, and when we cut to the present, she's murdering people without so much as flinching, even delighting in it, and suffering badly from trauma and hallucinations.

Obviously, Jinx was not given the care she needed, and was instead trained to assist Silco.

Am I denying Silco loves her? Of course not! He clearly does. But that's just not good enough. He's a loving dad, but not a good one. He's not the father that neither Jinx nor Powder needed.

Meanwhile, we have Vi. Vi loves Powder, protects her, cares for her, tries to keep her out of harm, stands up for her, and so on. She cares so deeply for Powder, and you can see it. The moment she got out of prison, her first goal was to find Powder.

However, because she hit Powder once, and shouted at her, she's apparently an abusive monster who never cared about Powder. Reminder, she hit Powder because her entire family was killed in front of her and then she learned Powder was the reason that happened. She was like... 14? And she immediately left to calm down. She did not abandon Powder, she left to take a breather because she realised she was too angry. And when she came back, she was drugged and arrested.

Silco is a grown adult who purposefully flooded the streets of the Undercity with a highly addictive drug, turned Powder into a soldier, and is generally a terrible person, even if he is a three dimensional amd well written antagonist.

Vi started the story as a teenager suffering poverty and discrimination just like Silco, had to deal with her own parents death, then her adoptive family was killed in front of her, and then she was forcefully taken from her sister. And yet, people are convinced Vi is a terrible and abusive sister who never loved Powder?

The only example worse than this, methinks, is Stella and Stolas from Helluva Boss.

Stella is a shitty mother who ignores her daughter, which the the audience is shown via a scene were Octavia is having a nightmare and she tells Stolas to deal with it. She frequently screams and swears at Stolas and throws things at him, with no regard for her daughter's presence or feelings.

This is pretty terrible, right? Of course! Everyone knows Stella is a horrible mother.

Stolas on the other hand, is praised for being such an loving and caring father, who tries his best. He even has a song with Octavia!

Well, he also: openly talks about having sex with Blitz and how much he likes it while she was right there, told her people want her money and her body, generally doesn't pay much attention to her either bc he's wallowing about Blitz not loving him back, and doesn't give her feelings much regard.

And yet, the misogyny extends beyond just Stella because people generally agree that Octavia is ungrateful and doesn't appreciate Stolas enough. They get mad at her for disliking the fact that Stolas is cheating on her mother with an imp who's been nothing but rude to her and ruining their family further, and even mock her for feeling unloved. Hell even Brandon, one of the creators, has allegedly recently called her a "cockblocking slut" which, frankly, is a disgusting thing to say about a 17 year old girl.

Idk man I'm just tired.

[archangeldyke-all]

(I honestly don’t know if my asks are getting in atp but im just gonna keep resending them if they get removed because I’m not a fucking wimp 🗣️‼️‼️)

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Wait no because what if Sevika had a group chat with her coworkers and shit (Smeech, Ran, Renni, Silco, Finn, Signed, Dustin and ofc her lovely gf <3)

And at least once every two weeks there is ALWAYSSS chaos

Like; Sev and Finn could be arguing and then Ran pulls up with the fucking Curse of Ra 💀or Renni just uses the gc as a shopping list since she forgot to open notes and everyone is just like “Ren, wrong app 💀” or someone points out shit from her list HSHJERJD

PLEASE i'm gonna do the roach 'verse gang, because i think it would be insane.

men and minors dni

silco: if any of u have spare cash on u, bring it to my office and leave it on my desk. i'll pay u back tomorrow.

you: jinx, get off of silco's phone.

lock: fuck, that was jinx? i put ten on his desk!

sevika: idiot.

ran: LMAOOOO IDIOT

thieriam: shit, i put twenty bucks on his desk too.

you: jinx! how much fucking money did you steal?!

deckard: she got me too, that fucker.

ran: you are all so fucking stupid.

singed: just checked the office, the cash and jinx are nowhere to be found.

deckard: fuck!

lock: fuck

thieriam: oh fuck, silco's never gonna pay us back.

silco: no, i'm not. you should all know better by now. i would never use 'u' to type 'you'

ran: this is fucking hilarious

sevika: babe, what's for dinner?

you: you, if i'm lucky ;)

deckard: HELLO?? this is the gc??

sevika: stfu deckard.

ran: no but fr, what's for dinner, roach?

you: idk, i'm thinking chicken chili?

lock: ooooh, with cornbread?

you: sure, if you guys want.

lock: yes please!

ran: yes!!!

deckard: oh, yum.

singed: fuck, roach are you free?

you: yeah?

singed: i just sliced my hand open. can you come stitch me up?

you: lmao, i'm on the way.

ran: roach to the rescue!

sevika: put a heart in the chat if i'm the stupidest one in the gang.

deckard: <3

thieriam: <3

ran: LMAOO <3333333

you: <3

you: jinx, give sevika her phone back.

sevika: i'm gonna kill her someday.

sevika: babe, you put a fucking heart in the chat????

you: cant talk, stitching singed up.

silco: i'm sorry for jinx's behavior today. she's upset that she doesn't have her own phone yet.

lock: it's no fuckin fair! u guys get to talk all the time and i have to steal a phone to be in on the chat!

silco: jinx!

you: lmaoo jinx you can come play on my phone.

lock: fine.

lock: shit, i didn't even notice she took it until she gave it back.

sevika: she's a fuckin' weasel.

you: whats up assholes?

ran: hey jinx. what'd you buy with your stolen money?

you: more flamers. a few candy bars. a new jumbo plushy.

lock: you wanna share your candy?

you: no.

silco: jinx, at least share with the man you stole from.

you: ugh fine. they're in the kitchen lock.

lock: sweet!

thieriam: some of us are trying to work, can we please not abuse the work groupchat for not-work purposes

you: put a heart in the chat if thieriam sucks ass!

sevika: <3

ran: <3

deckard: <3

silco: jinx, what did i tell you about that kind of language?

you: i'm not jinx i'm roach.

thieriam: fuck off jinx, roach would never be so mean to me.

lock: <3

you: effective. Power. لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً h  ॣ ॣ ॣ

across from where you're finishing up singed's stitches, deckard gasps down at his phone.

"you fuck!" he exclaims, looking up at jinx where she's sitting beside you. she giggles.

"what'd you do this time?" you ask. she laughs and hands you back your phone, before running out of the lab.

"she shut all our phones down!" he says. "how the fuck did she do that?" he cries.

upstairs, you hear ran and lock's shared groan.

you chuckle and shake your head. "jinx you stupid fuck!" sevika roars from the second floor. you giggle.

"i better go handle that." you say, finishing your final stitch. singed chuckles.

"you better." he says as jinx's squeal floats down to the lab.

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[oodlyenough]

arcane s2 act 1

alright might as well collect my thoughts for posterity

first and foremost: obviously the triumphant cackle i was doing the entire hexcore scene. huge W for me, personally. did it always feel like the most logical and narratively satisfying extension from s1? sure. do i trust television to do the most narratively satisfying thing? no. especially not after fandom spent years of the hiatus trying to convince me otherwise

really all the jayvik scenes were, more or less, exactly what i expected/wanted and very satisfying lmaooo. i knew jayce wouldn't give a fuck about the shimmer or unethical experiments. i win!

other stuff i liked:

in the hiatus i've now seen all of yellowjackets and it has made me fonder of ella purnell and by extension jinx, lol. i love sevika and i think their grudging alliance in the wake of silco's death is a fun direction. jinx finding a random dumpster baby and adopting them immediately, silco would be so proud lmfao

i love caitlyn's dictator arc. i have to be honest i found her disney princess schtick in s1 pretty boring, so this is finally something more flawed and dynamic for me to invest in. yes girl get worse

ambessa rules. i was a little rolling my eyes at the "wow she was pulling the strings all along" reveal, bc it was so obvious and i was sort of hoping they'd do something more interesting with her. but this show has never been subtle. either way it still seems ambessa believes she's protecting mel? so i AM curious about how that plays out

i don't know shit about the league lore around the black rose stuff and don't want to <3 knowing league lore has never improved my arcane experience. but those sequences were very cool and took me by surprise. some good body horror with elora. good luck in the nightmare labyrinth mel!

stuff i liked less:

i think the stylized music video sequences are being a little overused. maybe s1 did them as frequently and I forget? anyhow, the police brutality one really worked for me, because it's the kind of info that def needs to be montaged, and the style was cool and engaging. cassandra's funeral ... i understand why they did it but i didn't like the regular arcane models mixed with the charcoal bgs, i found it distracted me from what was meant to be the emotion of the moment. and the jinx montage i found kind of mid.

i do think the pacing feels as breakneck as ever, to its detriment. i said above the jayvik stuff all played out basically as i wanted, which is more-or-less true, but viktor just be like I Have To Go Now was a bit abrupt. i can excuse a lot of that on the basis that i don't think viktor is really himself anymore because of the hexcore -- very flat emotionally, etc. and i assume we'll see them butt heads again later in the season. but still, the hextech weapons, the nonconsensual hexcoring, etc, would've expected something a little more explosive lol

plus, then we shift from that scene to the Furby Comedy Hour and jayce and heimerdinger having like a nonreaction to each other despite how acrimoniously they parted or how emotionally charged jayce must be sleeping next to viktor's empty cocoon etc... felt whiplash-y to me. but i hate heimerdinger and ekko teaming up to begin with lmao (and ofc ekko directs his frustrations with piltover to jayce, and not the 300 year president furby he has no beef with for some reason)

this extends to vi's decision to pick up the badge, etc. stuff just happens really quick and the fact that the passage of time in the show isn't very clear doesn't really help. i can understand why riot didn't want to spend two decades making five seasons of this show, but 2 seasons will probably feel too short imo.

[sourslip]

man getting to the end of act 1 I can't stop thinking about what things are gonna be like for Vi with everything happening as she goes thru her emo pit-fighter phase. when she got out of Stillwater, she was fueled by one goal- protect/save Powder. She ofc had a want for revenge against Silco, but I think especially with the last episode in S1 it was pretty clear to me at least that she had her priorities pretty straight on that front: Pow first, Silco second.

there was also a very clear pattern of Vi being unable to really, meaningfully adjust to how things had changed in the time she was away: most obvious is how her sister changed and Vi treating her as one-dimensional post-Stillwater (she wasn't just surprised by Jinx's joy committing violence in the S1E6 end fight with the Firelights, she was convinced that wasn't her sister but something Silco imposed on her Powder), and to an extent also with a lot of the Undercity starting to get behind aspirations of independence. And I think this season is shaping up to make that second point more important

Vi has a good heart like Vander said, and she of course was pointing out how much worse life got for people in the Undercity with shimmer and the Chembarons pulling the strings - and that is very much true and Ekko + the Firelights make a good contrast - but I think about how Vi told Vander "I grew up knowing that I'm less than them, that my place is down there. I want Powder to have more than that" and it sounds very much like Vi's internalized a lot of how Topsiders view the relationship between topside and the undercity, but that isn't how most people in the "present" see it in the Undercity.

Whether its Silco, Sevika, the other Chembarons, or Ekko and the Firelights, they don't have shame about being undercity. they don't see themselves as less than topside - they know topside thinks that and hate that, especially Silco, but that's not the same as believing it. I don't mean to say Vi admires topside or doesn't love the undercity she grew up in, but I think there's more than just "having a good heart" that made her focus more on the harm Silco was doing than seeing the potential for independence, and I think it has to do with her sense of identity as a person from the Undercity being stuck in the past

Vander made a choice to "keep the peace" between topside and bottom, but violence is a spectrum and the slow, small, casual violence of class inequality (particularly with environmental classism) the idea that what he's protecting is really is peace as in non-violence is very much open to challenge. what he did protect in effect was a power dynamic between the two - Greyson treated Vander as a leader, but it was clear she expected him to capitulate to the demands of topside. And Vander had to give something.

When Vi tried to take on that responsibility herself, she had a major moment of growth where the true weight of potential violence and conflict hit her and we saw her take on a more tempered protective role, but I think we also saw that view of "Topside/bottom" really crystallize - and she kept that all through Stillwater even when, outside prison, more people in the fissures started to see it as "Piltover and Zaun", not in a hierarchy, but actually separate. Piltover's condescension towards the Undercity wasn't internalized by everyone in the Undercity once Vi got out, it was just a reflection of their arrogance and was getting in the way of them respecting a distinct people that had an incredible ingenuity, its own economies, and its own political systems. Silco having Marcus under his thumb was big organized crime vibes yes, but it was also a reversal of the relationship between Vander and Greyson, and in a way it reflected the changing priorities and national identities of the people in the Undercity; from oppressed and resentful fissure folk, to political adversaries of topside actively involved in pushing for their own independence, and fighting for what they built

I think, as this season its shaping up to look like Jinx is being thrust into the revolutionary role, and the previews of the next act look like that's actually starting to matter to her - or she's now seeing what it means moreso than she did when Silco was around. the lady liberty French revolution painting pose from French animation studio Fortiche Jinx flag part in the intro with the realization/wonder/reverence in her expression makes me think she's now going to take on a leadership mantle that Vi thought she would assume as Vander's protegé, and it means that she won't just be a "loose cannon" throwing a wrench in political machinations anymore, she'll be an intentional, calculating player on the field.

I think S2 act 1 Vi was okay with killing Jinx only because her idea of Powder was like her idea of the undercity - stagnated in the past and ultimately one-dimensional with its inflexibility. but if she starts to see that the people of the undercity aren't just a hurt people rushing into war like she wanted to when she was a kid, but have become a nation with its own identity seeking sovereignty, and if she sees that Jinx now take up that mantle, I think that might shake her a lot. especially with the kid, Isha, attaching herself to Jinx - like Vi saw how panicked Jinx was that Isha threw herself in harm's way - that shook Vi in a few ways, and one of those i think is that Vi saw herself in Jinx for a moment. she saw a powerful woman accepting the risk to her own life be unwilling to risk the life of another, more vulnerable person that clearly had some care and connection to her. I think that split second Vi really saw her sister. she didn't see who she thinks of as Powder in her, and she didn't see who she thinks of as Jinx, she saw her sister. And I think that's going to shake Vi harder than anything.

the writers I saw said that Vi has always been a protector and the next arc will explore Vi without anyone to protect, and I think we can expect to see Vi to go through some painful realizations that the way she has been seeing things doesn't reflect how things really are now. Caitlyn doesn't need protecting in the way Vi had been protecting her anymore, just with bodily safety, now if anything Cait needs protection from further manipulation, but that's another thing. Jinx doesn't need protection from Silco, and maybe Piltover doesn't need protection from Jinx either if Jinx really does begin to temper into a leader, and anyone else Vi might protect doesn't need the protection Vi was expecting herself to give when she was a kid.

Vi seemed to spend a lot of effort repressing her feelings when it came to people that made her feel safe - she cared SO much about Vander, loved him and looked up to him so much, but didn't want to show it and was gutted when he was gone and she was left without someone to protect her. She then spent a decade in a prison system that had officers intentionally targeting her, so again no protection. she made a joke about Caitlyn being her hero when they were in the Firelight's hideout, but given how vulnerable she was in the Oil & Water bedroom scene, I think she was trying to mask being genuinely touched by how much Caitlyn was looking out for her. she got so uncomfortable she lashed out about her parents being killed by enforcers when Caitlyn healed her stab wound in S1, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see her get uncomfortable about having Loris look out for her now. But I think it might also just be the last straw for having her confront some really complicated feelings about wanting to feel safe but never safe enough to let that happen yes I'm still hurt by S2E3 and the betrayal she prob feels and how she expects people to only want or need her when she can protect them the way she thinks they need her to

[fictionalcharactergraveyard]

The gang + Shepards x traditional goth reader whom everyone thinks is a witch, and there are rumors about her

Ponyboy 

low-key thinks about you a lot

at first it’s pure curiosity 

then it turns into daydreaming 

and when he hears you’re a witch 

he’s like “…that’s hot.”

“what?”

“NOTHING.” 

ofc you 2 get paired up for a project 

You guys like some of the same books 

And stargazing 

And Pepsi 

After Darry and Sodapop find out about his crush they tease him and low key set you two up for a date 

it’s so fun 

You guys see a horror movie 

And when you get jumpy you cling to him 

And he does the same to you

And then you two share kisses 

All is fine until he gets home and finds out he has black lipstick marks all over his face

And gets “use protection” talk from Sodapop while Darry tries not to laugh (Soda doesn’t wanna become an uncle yet guys)

Johnny 

he’s in the lot and sees you walking 

He low key panic until you say hi

And he’s obsessed with your voice

You 2 end up talking a bit and you joke about how people think you’re a witch 

He says “I believe it.” 

“Yeah?” 

“I mean, how else can someone be so beautiful?” 

You fs paint his nails 

And play with his hair 

You each end up scaring each others bullies off 

You love kissing his scars

Dally 

Hits on you 

And when you get mad he just laughs 

“Whatcha gonna do? Curse me?”

“I might.” 

Then you walk away

He plays it cool

But he’s low-key like

“Wtf did they do-“

You two run into each other again at a party 

Buck threw and and your friends with his cousin 

He sees you and starts to flirt 

You flirt back bc why not

“Damn Dally, you going for the wicked witch now huh?” One of the guys there says 

Man almost got punched 

You found it hot 

Darry 

You found him very hot 

Daddy issues/j

Yet you didn’t want to flirt 

He fs has a partner 

Or so you thought

Man is STARING 

Loves how you look 

You catch him staring and he tries to recover 

Tries 

You “accidentally” bump into him 

And nearly fall in the process 

He grabs your waist and holds you

Omg he’s stronggg

You act start stammer and are like: “jfc he thinks I’m so stupid-“

And then he just asks you out 

Right then and there 

And you say yes 

🤭

Sodapop 

You go to the DX

And get some snacks 

Sodapop is like “huh, there’s that witch chick” 

And then when you check out and smile

It’s over 

He needs you NOW 

He needed you yesterday 

He gives you free things 

“I can pay-“

“No need. I don’t need to be jinxed now, do I?” 

You giggle 

Man has a goofy smile 

Yaps abt you sm oml 

Y’all are cute FR 

Two-Bit 

Says sm jokes 

Like omg

“Hey! Heading back to the cemetery?” 

“You got any voodoo dolls on ya?” 

“Did you drug me with a love potion, or am I just falling too fast?” 

You try not the laugh but you do

When you 2 kiss man is COVERED in black kiss marks

And doesn’t wash it 

“TwoBit clean it -“ 

“But how am I supposed to show Im under your spell?” 

You make a joke or two and he DIES 

Y’all are so sweet oml 

Steve 

You 2 meet in October 

“Ain’t it a little early for Halloween costumes?”

“Ain’t it a little early to wear Frankenstein masks?”

After a brief starting contest you 2 laugh and you get your slushie in peace

You go to a Halloween party and see him 

He’s not really dressed up

Youre a sexy vampire COUGH

You decide to join in ‘spin the bottle” 

And you land on Steve 

You guys kiss

And again 

And again 

Then you decide “fuck it” and head to his car to make out 

Tim

Man’s cat calling 

It’s an art to him at this point (thanks to dally)

You tell him to shove it

And he starts walking beside you 

“Ain’t your eyes supposed to glow when you’re mad?”

You just stare at him

Then you kick him in the nuts and run 

He gets mad respect for you after that 

Turns out you guys like the same songs 

You guys do (very bad) karaoke 

It’s fun 

Curly 

Met in detention 

You punched a chick 

He jumped a soc 

You guys started talking

And got on like a house on FIRE

It’s scary oml 

You two make out a lot

Pony wants to die 

Y’all PDA 

When he’s in reform you visit and send letters 

He tries to write letters back 

And make them as nice as yours 

He can’t tho 

Angela 

puppy crush FR 

She thinks your so cool

And pretty 

And when you ask her out she’s like

“I’m in heaven” 

After a threatening “conversation “ with Curly and Tim they’re fine with you hanging out 

You 2 do each others make up 

And go shopping together 

And scream to music 

<3 

[nerdieforpedro]

Weekend Update

12/03/2023

Nerdie, you’re making this a thing now?

Yes! I have to keep ya��ll updated on what’s going on.

Well, what did you read this week?

Many wonderful things:

I will again sing the praises of @ramblers-lets-get-ramblin three part series “When My Time Comes Around.” You’ll feel all the emotions and be thankful that you read something that touches you deep in your soul. 😭 She also attacked my heart again on Frankie Friday with bittersweet angst in Tender is the Night. I'm a fan of the melancholic greatness that is Angie.

So...you like reading about sad things?

There's more to it than that. Just go read her fics! Then you'll know.

Tommy Miller fans unite! @musings-of-a-rose is continuing to feed our younger Miller brother delusions with her series “Falling Slowly.” The slow burn romance is one of the trope I really dig. And Gabriel Luna always. 🫠 Dig into some Tommy…

Nerdie, you’re doing so well, don’t jinx it.

I mean, I'm not wrong. Whatever, moving on...

I also read Honey Stained Hands by the sweet and deceptively naughty @undercoverpena too. Seems to be a Joel fix this week. Post-outbreak. The reader manages to make honey and different sweets in Jackson. Telling ya’ll anymore is a spoiler. Go read it!

There’s also another grizzled man this week. Tim Rockford who in the capable hands of the same writer @secretelephanttattoo who brought us Marcus Pike (Doughnut Debauchery) and the reason I’ll never look at doughnuts the same, I’m sure she’ll find many a use for his gun holsters. She began her new series “Undercover.” I’m throughly looking forward diving into more of the chapters as she releases them.

@linzels-blog wrote another Din Djarin fic that is equal parts sensual and sweet. It’s called Safe to Touch. I’m rather fond of our intrepid Mendalorian and him exploring his body with someone he loves is a treat.

Speaking of which, who doesn’t like baked goods? We’re also being fed by @avastrasposts as she starts her A Baker’s Dozen series with Pedro Pascal characters. Her first one is about our favorite trash cuddle panda Dieter Bravo. It’s adorable. 🥰 Such fluff.

Nerdie, you actually read fluff? This is surprising.

What do ya’ll take me for? I told you, 80% smut. This is in the 20%. Geez. 🙄

I will say though, this next one, 100% smut, not watered down, will burn your throat and you’ll love it and want more. You’ll want it other places. 😘

Welp, we knew it was gonna end here eventually.

Yes! @morallyinept had me removing my socks and pants in an effort to cool down, it did not help. I will think of this version of Dieter Bravo when I’m out at night. Heck, maybe as I walk across the parking lot to get in my car after a shift. That honestly would be the perfect time… long story short, wild back alley sex with both Dieter and the reader being complete and utter lust filled humans. It is called, Back Alley Bang if you enjoy Pedro Pascal characters smut, it’s required reading or at least highly recommended.

Anything new for you this week Nerdie?

Session Two of my “Sard’ika Sessions” will be out on early Wednesday AM in EST. Session One and all sessions will be linked to the Sard’ika Sessions Masterlist. I’m currently writing sessions 3 and 4 from my notebook because I wrote them down. Wild what you think of between the hours of 12 mid and 4am.

I finally started writing for our Pickled Peña prompt! I might even have it in on time. If you’d like to join in, see all the details here. I’m on the fence about smut, odd I know. 🤨

I also started a Benny Miller fic (likely fluff with food) and a Christmas fic with Joel and Layla (on OFC I wrote three fics on a few months ago - I love them very much ❤️). Joel and Layla are on my Masterlist.

Anything outside of fanfiction Nerdie? Please say that’s not the only thing you do. 🙄

I have a job you know. I actually worked this weekend. I visited my mom while she had a cold earlier this week. She’s very into Tom Hiddleston. Not a bad choice, I too appreciate his accent and baritone voice. She enjoys his dancing. 🕺🏽 I’d watching Loki with her and finally got her to watch Andor - she liked it but called it “low budget Star Wars” because she didn’t know any of the actors. I swear she’s so goofy. I love her. She also said that Andor grew on her like The Mandalorian and she wants to see more. I may be able to get her on board with both Lunas eventually. 😝

I’ve been working on my Statistics class. It’s difficult but I’m pushing through. 😵

Finally watched two Garrett Hedland movies this week! Country Strong and Four Brothers. The first was bittersweet but I liked it. He did sing a lot which was wonderful. The second one I’ve seen multiple times with little brother (he loved the movie when we were younger.) Garrett looked so young! It was from 2005 though.

Well Nerdie, your week sounds full. Good luck!

Have a great week everyone!

I jammed to while some music while looking at a picture of Gabriel Luna that @musings-of-a-rose sent me because she knows me well and is always willing to share: 😍

One of the songs was:

Stay safe and feel better to all those who are feeling under the weather,

Love Nerdie ❤️

[rah-nee-yah]

my thoughts on act iii:

was it perfect? nope. did i still love it? yes!! its such a pleasure to be able to watch this show now, as the fandom is still alive. im really gonna miss it.

some moments i liked included that cait and mel teamup. theyre literally the opposite of their love interests its so cute. mel carried and thats why shes my girl. also caitlyn eyepatch. damn. so grateful mel saves her from that gingerbread man 🙏🙏 also im so ready for mel if we get a noxus spinoff.

also TIMEBOMB CANON BITCH. OH MY GOD. we got timebomb and caitvi back to back. i was FED. ekko is my fav, and its so sad that he couldnt be with pow/jinx in either universe. hope to see him more in other spinoffs. pls 🤞. hes called the boy savior for a reason guys he carried the battle.

and jayvik. wow. love really did save everyone. just…wow. that animation during their sequence was so beautiful.

ofc we have to talk abt caitvi. i was so shocked the scene was explicit 😭😭 (at least in my teenage opinion) but im so here for it. started watching for these two and now theyre endgame.

and of course jinx and vi. i love them with my whole heart. i think jinx’s fate is like a schrodingers cat situation. is she alive or dead?? (i think shes alive) but we may never know. and ive heard people disappointed by her ending and it does feel like a predictable ending for an unpredictable character. but i think it kinda shows her growth. (in my opinion) like she went to the warehouse in s1e3 to save her family. that was her goal. and now at the end, shes completed her goal. protect the family. protect vi.

and oh my god vi deserves the world. shes been through so so much. and at the end it seems like shes finally gotten some peace. only jinx is gone. its so so sad how in the universes where one sister is happy, the other is gone/dead. but she continues fighting. and i think thats my favorite part about her. vi is such an inspiration and im really gonna miss jinx and vi’s stories. but im so excited to see more.

arcane is definitely my favorite show. uhh yeah. just wow. thanks for reading if u got this far 🫶🫶

[ravenkinnie]

can i just say how much i adore jinx/powder's complicated relationship with violence?? bcs before powder did not enjoy violence. she fears violence. maybe even hated it, because it reminded her of when she walked through the aftermath of war with vi, of her dead mother's lifeless face. she gets into a helpless, immobilizing panic attack at the presence of violence. but she grew up in an environment that conditioned her into thinking that thriving in violence is something she should want for herself and if she doesnt change then she'll be left behind.

i know jinx is known for her destruction and her penchant for violence but where she began before she changed is what has my heart aching for her so much. how did she change from that helpless girl to the woman she is now? whatever the hell were all the things she was willing to go through for silco to disensitize herself for this evolution? idk i just love how much this says how desperate she is to be relevant and how violence in the end has become her asset like she loves violence she loves that she shines at what she was helpless at once before but even more she craves the validation that comes with violence and when she doesnt receive that validation its pure (self-delusioned) betrayal to her and she'll turn that violence against you and then force/manipulate the validation out of you, whatever it takes (not excluding kidnapping, manhandling, a body count, u get it). like its horrifying and heartbreaking what something so simple as desire for acknowledgement and acceptance can do to people and how it changes them.

(yes ofc there's more factors in play but i wanted to talk ab the internal stuff going on within the person herself which to me is one of the most interesting part)

I don't think powder hated violence tbh I think she was just scared to have that violence inflicted on her but like building bombs with nails and shit is finding joy in violence to me shndjd the difference is that fear of being hurt, maybe of having that violence directed at her because she's weak and small and aware that she could not win in a situation like that (which also makes sense why she makes weapons rather than fight with her fists like vi)

but the penchant for violence seems fairly inherent in jinx which I LOVE, this sort of interest and lack of care for inflicting it - its something that I think if she grew up with vi or vander would be nurtured completely different than her growing up with silco, as a means of survival more than a tactic to gain an upper hand, the genuine joy in it would probably be discouraged - vi is shocked and somewhat horrified to me when she sees jinx fighting against firelights but specifically rught before her reaction we see not jinxs capability but her evil joyous little face like when I say jinx fucking loves violence i mean jinx fucking lives violence the way charlie sheen lives cocaine or azaelia banks loves fighting people on the internet. when she's younger, when she's powder, she's also more likely to inflict it on herself like when she has a tantrum and hits herself on the head but jinx as an adult doesn't really do anything to herself as much as now she externalizes it by hurting people and is just careless with her own safety

I like the part of jinxs diary where she says about silco "he's like me" - silco doesnt get violent himself either, like he very much uses other people as his weapons to carry out and take on the violence he considers necessary. I think in a twisted way this would be admirable and aspirational for jinx, something to live up to with her weapons, her bombs and her guns, things she can use the way silco uses other people

[sapphosdickandballs]

Hello! Hope you're having a good day!

For the fandom ask game, I couldn't decide which one to send, so I'm sending two for you to decide: Arcane or Agatha All Along? :)

Both cause I’m cool like that. Arcane first!

my favorite female character - Jinx. Ofc. Second would be uhhh. Mel probably

my favorite male character - My man Ekko!!

my favorite book/season/etc - lmao I don’t think I can answer this til season two is all out yk?

my favorite episode (if its a tv show) - So far it is episode 3 or episode 9 of season 1. Both emotionally devastating

my favorite cast member - I’m assuming this means like. Voice actor. My girl Ella Purnell!!! If I stop talking about how much I love her I’m dead

my favorite ship - Caitvi is number one forever

a character I’d die defending - Allll of the women. All of them. Mel, Vi, Jinx, Cait. Did I say Mel?

a character I just can’t sympathize with - Uhh. Idk. I feel like all the characters are sympathetic it’s something I rlly like about Arcane. Maybe Ambessa? Idk we shall see.

a character I grew to love - Jayce. Dude is growing on me. Like toxic mold. Big fan of him heartbroken and sad tbh.

my anti otp - Like. Jinx/Vi or Jinx/Silco :/

Agatha All Along -

my favorite female character - Rioooo

my favorite male character - Man idk. Billy ig. That is not a very man centric show lmao

my favorite episode - episode 7. It was the most interesting and the most well shot.

my favorite cast member - oof this is really hard. Like I think Kathryn Hahn did a really good job but I also always love Aubrey Plaza and Patti Lupone was iconic. Idk. Probably Kathryn Hahn she should win Emmys for that.

my favorite ship - Agathario always and forever

a character I’d die defending - Agatha. Is she a terrible person? Undoubtedly. Is she also awesome? Yes

a character I just can’t sympathize with - Billy probably. Like idk I was never very into his story once he wasn’t teen anymore. Maybe it’s cause I haven’t watched Wandavision?

a character I grew to love - Definitely Jennifer at the beginning I found her very irritating but she definitely grew on me

my anti otp - Agatha/Billy

[hauntingblue]

Jayce telling vi she won't make it on her own.... okay mr. projector...

[notarabeiia]

Alright last one (not that anyone cares this is just fun to do)

Arcane

Episode 6: baby viktor awww!! He’s so cuteee! He fell over :( oh I hope he doesn’t die, surely they can find a way to survive. Oh pooor viktor :(( I still don’t like Jayce but surely he can do something abt this. Jinx is such a cutie patootie. Vi is ducked uppp! Jinx is so coool I love how long and I want her to kill that chick Stab Stab Stab her me thinks it would be funny. I fear the guy with one eye is gonna kidnap or hurt the ranga baby. Oh I love viktor he is so cute I’m gonna cry if he dies even tho I know he will. oh great now we’re back to the pink and blue gays. Are they gonna kiss or what cuz that’s the vibe I’m getting. But they can do that after Vi sorts out her visions of powder. I wonder what happened to ekko. He was cute, I hope he’s alive. “What you don’t have parents?” Hey Caitlin do me a favour and USE YOUR BRAIN. Okay nvm she was smart. AAAA JINX WANTS TO BE FOUND. SHE WANTS TO BE SAVED. oh wait unless she’s trying to trick them. VI SAW IT. LMAOO JINX KILLED THAT BITCHUH I knew it. Oh wait no she’s alive Aw vi didn’t come :( WAIT YES SHE DID. OH MY GOD REUNIION AWWWWWWWWWW IM GONNA CRY ALL JINX NEEDED WAS SUPPORT. Powder fell down a well 💔 poor jinx oh my god someone get her on some meds. Like asap. Aw NOO she’s alone again.

Episode 7: EKKOOOOO ITS EKKO!!! Jesus he looks so much older. I still love his design. Viktor is gonna make a mistake :( I just know it. “Will it work on plants” oh sweet baby you’re so silly. Jayce is stillll annoying me ✨ damn Mylo is still bullying Jinx even in her hallucinations. Im so happy ekko was back I swear last episode I said I missed him. “I’m from the undercity” cook him viktor. “Vi tells me I can trust you” oh how cuteeee. I love ekkos voice. Poor Jinx being blatantly manipulated someone save her. Also Caitlin is a grade A gaslighter, love her for that. Mel is too lol love them girl issues. I love how Viktor sounds like a vampire. And he’s always spitting facts. I also have a bueaty mark in the same place as him so that’s cool. Oh no he’s making a mistakeeeeee!! Noooo be careful :(( are vi and cupcake gonna kiss goodbye or what. Okay guess they aren’t what a shame. Oh no Caitlin HE WORKS WITH SILCO!! NO. IS EKKO DEAD. ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING PLEASE NO. I’m crying. Woah all the moths were bombs. That’s crazy work. Did Jinx do that. Ofc she did that crazy bitch I love her. Erm guys jinx is behind you. EKKO IS ALIVE. LETS FUCKING GO OH IM SO HAPPY. How old are jinx and ekko. I thought they were abt the same age. Is he trying to hypnotise her. AW THEIR KIDS AGAIN CUTE!! Woah this animation is so COOOOL. I low-key don’t want him to hurt her :( can’t they all be friends again. Nvm she blew them up.

Episode eight: is this Mel? It looks like Mel. OMG SHE CUT HER HEAD OFF. Jesus poor Mel :( and to make it worse she’s sleeping next to an ugly bitch. Did jinx blow herself up? Low-key dumb of her. OH SHE HAS THE DAMN CRYSTAL. dang it jinx. Ew Jayce is puking what a loser. LMAO CAITLINS FACE WHEN HER MUM PULLED A GLOCK ON HER. Yess Caitlin tell those fascists !! She saw homeless people and decided to be an activist. Oh they’re gonna Frankenstein Jinx. That’s cool. Mel’s lore let’s goooo. Who is this twink on the boat. Okay to Vi and Caitlin are in her bedroom with a bed…. Soooo are they or are they not gonna SMOOSH. Oh nvm vi is truama dumping… kissing can wait I wanna hear this. Poor Jinx they’re gonna turn her into a monster. Oh poor baby :( what did he do to her. EKKO IS ALIVE OH MY BABY BOY THANK GOD oh he’s so cute. Also literally why is Mel’s mum dating this teenage twink I feel grossed out. Yo she’s nude and she’s touching Jayce what a freak. Vi and Caitlin ready to give a speech!!! Jayce needs to be put down he’s ANNOYING MEEE. yes VI TALK YOUR MOTHER FUCKING SHITTTT. TELL THEM!!! THOSE ASS HOLE UGH MY GOD. aww Caitlin chasing her on the rain. This is beautiful so romantic. Arguing in the rain. Vi looks like a wet cat. OIL AND WATER. NOOO. I WAS RIGHT THEY LOVED EACHOTHER. NOOO. YO. VIKTOR CAN WALK!! Oh my god I hope it doesn’t turn him into a monster tho if he can keep it under control this is amazing I’m so happy for him. Is viktor naked rn. What is this girl abt to walk in on. OH NO VIKTOR. HOLY SHIT THAT GIRL DISINTERGRATED. NOO I LIKED HER. Don’t call Jayce pretty boy Vi that’s just lying. ALRIGHTTT WE GOT VI FIGHTING FOR REAL AGAIN!! She looks so hot when she’s angry uh I mean this is awesome for the PLOT. Like 90% of the ppl working for silco are children. Child labour love to see it. Woah and now we are in the shower with Caitlin. She should rly wrap up her wound better. Uh oh spaghettio Jinx found her AND SHES STILL NAKED.

Episode nine: Jayce continues to be the most annoying fucker alive. And Vi is still hot. Aw poor Viktor. She was the one who truely loved him, and he killed her. :( I do wish he would put some pants on tho. Bro Mel should be allowed to kill ppl she doesn’t like. Poor thing. Is viktor gonna kill himself. Oh nvm Jayce is here…. Great. I love the detail of Jinx’s drawings all over Silcos office. Will he hand Jinx over.. I wonder. Aye ekko and hermindinger or how ever you spell it. Love them. Yo jinx is back and she’s tweaking out but not the way she normally is. And now Vi is back looking cool as everrr. I don’t like Sevika but she’s fit as. Her hips go crazy. Vi is LOVING her new gloves ong. Aw man now she’s getting wrecked. I thought she had it in her. OH AWW ALL SHE NEEDED WAS VANDERS WORDS. she’s so strong mentally and physically. Plus she just had a lesbian situationship so now she is filled with rage. Oop jinx clocked her shit. Omg sisterly bonding time!! Trauma bond!!! SHES GOT SILCO. I hope she kills him. WHERES CAITLIN. What did she do. LMAOOO jinx tricked her. Omg Vi she looks so desperate to want to cry. Silco is trying soo hard to manipulate her. And Caitlin you are not helping by pulling out a glock. COME ON VI YOU CAN CRACK HER. who did she shoot. YESS SHE DID IT I KNEW SHE COULD. fuck silco I hope she doesn’t like flip on Vi cuz if this. No she chose jinx :( she does love you I promise. NOO jinx come on. She’s legit gonna blow up the city. Aw man I rly wanted to see her get close with Ekko again. Woops jinx is gonna blow up the castle right after they proposed peace. Wait what that’s it no way that’s it wait is Mel gonna survive that what’s gonna happen no way that’s it that that can’t be the nd what the hell how am I going to keep going wjay the hell no NOO WHAT HOW IS THAT THE WND. THAT?? THATS IT?? WHO APPROVED OF THIS.

Watching arcane for the first time; marking my reactions as I go.

(Spoilers obviously)

Episode one: this is so cool, the art style is incredible, Vi is super cool and the one with blue hair is so cute.

Episode two: I don’t like Jayce, don’t know why. This is getting intense, powder is lowkey relatable. I don’t like Mylo, but I like the other boy (dk his name). Vander is cool too, and ekko!! I love ekkos design he’s so cute. So from what I’ve gathered Vi is gonna give herself up for the group.

Episode three: oh my god holy shit this is so fucking intense holy shit. I should have known it was gonna go wrong. OH THANK GOD TBEIR MAKING POWDER STAY HOME. OH MY GOD I JNEW IT WAS A TRAPP! NO POWDER. GO. HOME. PLEASE. HOLY FUCK OH MY GOD. EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG. DONT YELL AT HER PLEASE. SHES JUST A KID. IM FUCKING SOBBING. NO WAY THEY ALL DIED?? PLEASE DONT YELL AT HER SHES JUSY A BABY SJE DIDNT MEAN ITT NOO FUCK NOW SHES GONNA JOIN YHE EVIL SIDE OHH MY GODDD

So… I’m obsessed.

[panic-in-the-multiverse]

The Duel

Pairings: Young!Albus Dumbledore x platonic!student!reader

Requested by: @theseawakes First of all, I just watched the movie and yes, young Dumbledore >>> old Dumbledore. Second, since you're in the mood for it, may I request a Dumbledore x student!reader where the two of them are duelling (for study purposes ofc) and reader accidentally hurt Albus? Nothing serious but r panicked because they just hurt a teacher lol I love your works by the way aaaaa

Warnings: minor injury, reader panicking, idk what more

A/N this is entirely platonic, first of all the student is around 15-17, second of all I don’t write teacher x student romance. And sorry for it being kinda short.

As you pushed open the heavy classroom door that day, you didn’t expect to get in a situation where you would duel your professor. One of the most powerful wizards in the world might you add.

To have extra lessons in Defense Against The Dark Arts had its perks, but this was not one of them. The start of the lesson had started by practicing jinxes. Now it seemed like he wanted you to try and use them in a duel. So here you were about to have a duel against your teacher.

The two of you went into your position opposite of each other. Dumbledore had previously moved all of the chairs and tables with one flick of his wand, so there was no risk of accidentally destroying any of the furniture.

Dumbledore waited for you to start and when you yelled out “expelliarmus” he quickly put up a protection spell and sent a jinx your way. Having just learned the protection spell you said “protego” and the jinx thrown your way got blocked.

This continued for a while until you caught your professor of guard. Sending the “Diffindo” charm at your teacher was never a good idea, but you had run out of spells and said the first one that came to mind. A grin started to come to your face when you realised that you had just won. That was until you saw the state he was in. He was bleeding from his arm where you had hit him with the spell. Accidentally cutting up a part of the sleeve of his white shirt that was underneath the light grey knitted jerkin.

The panic came with the realization. You had just hurt your teacher. It was a wonder of how you were able to run over to Dumbledore (who had fell down due to the force of the spell). At least in the panicked state you were in.

When you came to a stop before Dumbledore you stretched out your hand towards him and helped him up as you asked “are you okay” followed by a bunch of apologies.

Though not long after helping him up you started to ramble. “I promised my parents not to get into trouble and what do I do, I attacked a teacher in class and he got hurt, and now I’ll be expelled, and I won’t be - oh my Merlin I hurt a teacher, I’m going to die - “ your ramble was cut off by Dumbledore’s calm voice as he called out your name.

“Y/N” Dumbledore’s voice rang out through the room. Though it did nothing to help as you continued to ramble on and on. He needed to repeat himself one more time before you looked straight at him “Y/N” your eyes were as big as they could be as the panicked state you were in continued, but you were at least looking at him now.

“You won’t get expelled Y/N” you clearly heard the wrong thing as you continued to ramble. “My parents are going to …… wait what did you say”

Dumbledore’s amused state only grew as you slowly realized what he actually said. It seemed like you needed the confirmation once more and with that he said again “You won’t get expelled nor will you die”

Dumbeldore took your simple “Huh” as your reply as a reason for him to continue. “It was a simple duel Y/N, sometimes you can get hurt, and the spell you cast didn’t hurt me as much as you think it did, it’s just a minor injury, nothing serious, so you don’t need to worry”

With that he could see your facial expressions change. Of course he was right. You had been dueling each other for the last remaining minutes of the class. It was simply a duel, nothing more, and it seemed like you had caught him off guard with your spell, and in the process you accidentally hurt him. He hadn’t been quick enough to cast one of the protection spells. You hadn’t done anything wrong. He had told you in the beginning that this was supposed to make you better. So that you could defend yourself if ever needed.

Your silence made your favorite professor speak up once more. “It is actually quite impressive that you were able to perform that spell without causing too much damage, and defeat me, not many wizards or witches can”

“Oh” it was silent for a while until you said “Does that mean I’m better than you” at that you heard the laugh of your professor fill the room. The twinkles in his eyes and the amused smile that was present on his face showed you that your favorite professor was indeed okay. The injury he got from your spell was not serious, and he was in no pain at all. But wanting to be sure you still asked him on your way out “For real you okay professor”

“Yes, Y/N” the amusement in his voice and smile was still there when he told you once more that he was okay. With that in mind you closed the door and went on with your day. Glad that you wouldn’t die or worse get expelled.

[sourslip]

man getting to the end of act 1 I can't stop thinking about what things are gonna be like for Vi with everything happening as she goes thru her emo pit-fighter phase. when she got out of Stillwater, she was fueled by one goal- protect/save Powder. She ofc had a want for revenge against Silco, but I think especially with the last episode in S1 it was pretty clear to me at least that she had her priorities pretty straight on that front: Pow first, Silco second.

there was also a very clear pattern of Vi being unable to really, meaningfully adjust to how things had changed in the time she was away: most obvious is how her sister changed and Vi treating her as one-dimensional post-Stillwater (she wasn't just surprised by Jinx's joy committing violence in the S1E6 end fight with the Firelights, she was convinced that wasn't her sister but something Silco imposed on her Powder), and to an extent also with a lot of the Undercity starting to get behind aspirations of independence. And I think this season is shaping up to make that second point more important

Vi has a good heart like Vander said, and she of course was pointing out how much worse life got for people in the Undercity with shimmer and the Chembarons pulling the strings - and that is very much true and Ekko + the Firelights make a good contrast - but I think about how Vi told Vander "I grew up knowing that I'm less than them, that my place is down there. I want Powder to have more than that" and it sounds very much like Vi's internalized a lot of how Topsiders view the relationship between topside and the undercity, but that isn't how most people in the "present" see it in the Undercity.

Whether its Silco, Sevika, the other Chembarons, or Ekko and the Firelights, they don't have shame about being undercity. they don't see themselves as less than topside - they know topside thinks that and hate that, especially Silco, but that's not the same as believing it. I don't mean to say Vi admires topside or doesn't love the undercity she grew up in, but I think there's more than just "having a good heart" that made her focus more on the harm Silco was doing than seeing the potential for independence, and I think it has to do with her sense of identity as a person from the Undercity being stuck in the past

Vander made a choice to "keep the peace" between topside and bottom, but violence is a spectrum and the slow, small, casual violence of class inequality (particularly with environmental classism) the idea that what he's protecting is really is peace as in non-violence is very much open to challenge. what he did protect in effect was a power dynamic between the two - Greyson treated Vander as a leader, but it was clear she expected him to capitulate to the demands of topside. And Vander had to give something.

When Vi tried to take on that responsibility herself, she had a major moment of growth where the true weight of potential violence and conflict hit her and we saw her take on a more tempered protective role, but I think we also saw that view of "Topside/bottom" really crystallize - and she kept that all through Stillwater even when, outside prison, more people in the fissures started to see it as "Piltover and Zaun", not in a hierarchy, but actually separate. Piltover's condescension towards the Undercity wasn't internalized by everyone in the Undercity once Vi got out, it was just a reflection of their arrogance and was getting in the way of them respecting a distinct people that had an incredible ingenuity, its own economies, and its own political systems. Silco having Marcus under his thumb was big organized crime vibes yes, but it was also a reversal of the relationship between Vander and Greyson, and in a way it reflected the changing priorities and national identities of the people in the Undercity; from oppressed and resentful fissure folk, to political adversaries of topside actively involved in pushing for their own independence, and fighting for what they built

I think, as this season its shaping up to look like Jinx is being thrust into the revolutionary role, and the previews of the next act look like that's actually starting to matter to her - or she's now seeing what it means moreso than she did when Silco was around. the lady liberty French revolution painting pose from French animation studio Fortiche Jinx flag part in the intro with the realization/wonder/reverence in her expression makes me think she's now going to take on a leadership mantle that Vi thought she would assume as Vander's protegé, and it means that she won't just be a "loose cannon" throwing a wrench in political machinations anymore, she'll be an intentional, calculating player on the field.

I think S2 act 1 Vi was okay with killing Jinx only because her idea of Powder was like her idea of the undercity - stagnated in the past and ultimately one-dimensional with its inflexibility. but if she starts to see that the people of the undercity aren't just a hurt people rushing into war like she wanted to when she was a kid, but have become a nation with its own identity seeking sovereignty, and if she sees that Jinx now take up that mantle, I think that might shake her a lot. especially with the kid, Isha, attaching herself to Jinx - like Vi saw how panicked Jinx was that Isha threw herself in harm's way - that shook Vi in a few ways, and one of those i think is that Vi saw herself in Jinx for a moment. she saw a powerful woman accepting the risk to her own life be unwilling to risk the life of another, more vulnerable person that clearly had some care and connection to her. I think that split second Vi really saw her sister. she didn't see who she thinks of as Powder in her, and she didn't see who she thinks of as Jinx, she saw her sister. And I think that's going to shake Vi harder than anything.

the writers I saw said that Vi has always been a protector and the next arc will explore Vi without anyone to protect, and I think we can expect to see Vi to go through some painful realizations that the way she has been seeing things doesn't reflect how things really are now. Caitlyn doesn't need protecting in the way Vi had been protecting her anymore, just with bodily safety, now if anything Cait needs protection from further manipulation, but that's another thing. Jinx doesn't need protection from Silco, and maybe Piltover doesn't need protection from Jinx either if Jinx really does begin to temper into a leader, and anyone else Vi might protect doesn't need the protection Vi was expecting herself to give when she was a kid.

Vi seemed to spend a lot of effort repressing her feelings when it came to people that made her feel safe - she cared SO much about Vander, loved him and looked up to him so much, but didn't want to show it and was gutted when he was gone and she was left without someone to protect her. She then spent a decade in a prison system that had officers intentionally targeting her, so again no protection. she made a joke about Caitlyn being her hero when they were in the Firelight's hideout, but given how vulnerable she was in the Oil & Water bedroom scene, I think she was trying to mask being genuinely touched by how much Caitlyn was looking out for her. she got so uncomfortable she lashed out about her parents being killed by enforcers when Caitlyn healed her stab wound in S1, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see her get uncomfortable about having Loris look out for her now. But I think it might also just be the last straw for having her confront some really complicated feelings about wanting to feel safe but never safe enough to let that happen yes I'm still hurt by S2E3 and the betrayal she prob feels and how she expects people to only want or need her when she can protect them the way she thinks they need her to

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Hi hi,

Been around the Jinx x reader stuff and I want your view on an idea, due to Jinx's abandonment issues and fear of hurting their s/o or accidentally killing them or them leaving her.

Im curious how Jinx would react when their s/o wants to marry them, ring and all (stolen or not)

Hiii I hope you enjoy because i personally like this idea though. I will do my best as i have said i haven't done this much.

Also i apologize if this is sickeningly sweet i like fluff lol

Off topic 🤔i definitely feel if Jinx were to be the one to propose she would hand craft a ring.

Jinx reaction to their significant other who proposed:

Warnings : none i don't think I'll need any for this one may be wrong don't know lol !well small mention of homicide!

·You would be waiting for the perfect moment. A time where it was no one but you and her.

·Fact is you have been holding on to the ring you stole for her for a while it's been hard keeping it hidden. Her curious nature always makes hiding surprises difficult.

·Silco is still around and you are acquainted with him obviously I mean you're in a relationship with his daughter figure. you would ask him for permission and ofc he said go for it why not and ofc the usual don't hurt my daughter or I'll kill you type stuff not worrying about it because you could never live with yourself if you did hurt Jinx in any way.

·When you finally get that perfect moment to actually propose and get down on one knee. Jinx is in utter shock. Possibly not even sure why you're down there. But that is only for a moment because once she actually notices the ring she knows whats happening

·So much runs through her head at that moment not sure what to do. She has fear but absolute excitement. Her love, her cherished person wants to stay with her forever. But what if you get sick of her. What if... What if... So much doubt and fear is running her head.

·Jinx lowering her head second guessing what she should say. And asks "you won't leave me like everyone else? That's what this means right? But what... What if you get tired of me ?"

·You would stop her right there with reassuring words and comfort. Knowing you love this girl to much to leave her of your own will. Nothing could change your feelings. Telling Jinx this tears well in her eyes dropping into you for a hug.

·lightly Jinx would pull her head from your shoulder and say yes. Asking "only if you promise to not leave me... You can't now you can't Ok?"

·you of course saying yes knowing that doubt, fear, and trauma can't be cleared so easily. But forever knowing that you yourself will love her forever (homicide tendencies and all)

· with this you would say there is no rush for anything. The engagement can be as long as she desires. With a smile Jinx would take the ring quickly laughing. Putting it on her finger and saying "no take backs now you're stuck with me darling"

·Smiling you stand cheerfully knowing you get to be with your one love. And Jinx cheerfully spinning around looking at the ring happy too as she wants to be with you as much as you want to be with her.