#i haven't done one of these in a while lol

[cloudxgears]

I think it might actually be more about how Vi wants to escape her sense of guilt over Jinx saying Vi was the one who made her, and siding and staying close to Caitlyn allows her to do that. Caitlyn who allows her to just see Jinx as the enemy and allows her to put a barrier up against seeing her as her sister with their shared history so she doesn't have to confront her deeper feelings.

Even when she says, "...Especially when I'm the one who made her" while drinking in Piltover, it sounds like she's starting to feel guilty but also starting to question if she should feel guilty, and the fact that she's drinking as she says it shows that she wants to find any way possible to repress that guilt more than confront it.

And then at the end of Arc1 before the fight she already says she's "done blaming herself for" Jinx' mistakes, which, we don't know how long Caitlyn's team were carrying out their mission but the fact that we haven't really seen Vi overly struggling with a sense of culpability makes me think she is still trying to suppress her guilt and her feelings. She seems to be using Caitlyn as a shield against confronting complex emotions around Jinx in Arc1 and saying she's "done blaming herself" while still having Caitlyn close by as the shield against her guilt shows she hasn't really had a chance to confront those feelings in a real way.

When she says "We should cut the others loose" there is a part of her still wanting to protect her sister and wanting the fight to be personal, knowing it should be personal. And the fact that she looks Caitlyn in the face during that scene and says, "Tell me I'm wrong," shows how much she wants someone to tell her what to do and what to feel, how a part of her knows she's wrong but she isn't ready to take responsibility for what she's doing yet.

Idk man no matter how I spin it most overtones and undertones in Arc1 really do just portray Vi's actions as a lot more about being a lost puppy and needing to escape responsibility for a while and be led. She's insecure for all the reasons I've described before and doesn't know quite what to do. And maybe she is wanting to take it out on Jinx and fall back on the way Caitlyn hates her so she doesn't have to face her more complex feelings about her. Except allowing herself to be led by Caitlyn to escape her feelings over Jinx is what ends up leading her further down a wrong path and now she also has her actions as an enforcer to feel guilty about in Arc2. Like "You'll meet your fate on the road you took to escape it". Everything about Vi seems a lot like that saying. Actually that might just be the saying that sums her up best lol.

Then at the end of the fight she sees the humanity in her sister again when Isha (Powder's mirror) literally jumps between them, literally forcing Vi to see her and look at her, and so Vi's broken out of it, she can no longer distance Jinx from herself the way Caitlyn has been allowing her to; she can no longer just see Jinx as the enemy stranger. Emotional repression denied and now major breakdown incoming lol

[littlemoriflower]

⋆˚✿˖° mori girl summer ࿐ ࿔*:･ﾟ

[misc-obeyme]

MC finds a large sword in Solomon's room and picks it up.

MC: What’s this?

Solomon: That would be Excalibur.

MC: How did you get Excalibur?

Solomon: People are kind of impressionable. I just did a little magic and convinced them I was Merlin.

MC: Uh huh. Lemme guess, you’ve also got the holy grail stashed away somewhere.

Solomon: Er…

MC: Is this what you’ve been doing with your long life? Pilfering significant artifacts throughout human history?

Solomon: Of course not. I’m safekeeping magical objects so they don’t fall into the wrong hands.

MC: I think it’s too late for that.

Solomon: Ouch...

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[st4t1c-d1n40z]

been having cryle brainrot recently

[kaicean]

@weylerweek2023┊day 6: black dahlia 🥀

[dimonds456-art]

Maladaptive daydreaming.

[sysig]

If your almost out of requests I'll send my second allowed one! Didn't want to send a second one at first though to give other people a shot lol

Howsabout.... something something Scriabin with the vibe from the song "This is Love" by Air Traffic Controller? If vibes from songs are allowed ofc xD

Day 13 - I know wrong, I know right, I just love to pick a fight

[rayonago]

this was my peak

[xcziel]

has anybody else thought about how jk could easily manage sofia's parts of slow dance or is it just me?

[icewindandboringhorror]

... why he sit like this

[sensitiveheartless]

...K this is going to sound completely out of the blue, but this has been haunting me today —

[hellogoodbyeitsme]

Zoro and Luffy live action said Zolu truthers aren't wrong and I said thanks

[sojourner-between-worlds]

I normally don't vague post about other people (and I'm not really here, even) but someone in the tag suggested that Jack would make a better Team Leader than Yusei and it made me realize something, in part, about why people think that Yusei is boring.

tl;dr: Yusei isn't boring; he was written as the MC in the wrong genre.

See, Shonen protagonists typically have the following personality traits: loud, brash, hot-headed, sometimes abrasive. Yusei is none of those things, and Jack is ALL of them. Which, I'm sure, is what led that person to say that Jack would make the better leader and what leads so many people (who are mostly only fans of Shonen anime) to say that Yusei is boring. He doesn't fit their expectations of what a Shonen protag is supposed to look like, therefore he's boring.

But the thing is, if you popped him into, say, a Slice of Life, he'd be perfectly at home (well...except for the Trademark YGO Hair anyway) and well-loved by the fan base. I can say this with fair certainty because I've at least never seen anyone say that Natsume Takashi (Natsume's Book of Friends) is boring in any way, and honestly the two of them have very similar temperaments. The difference is, obviously, the genre of their respective stories.

Slice of Life allows for its protags to be softer-spoken, more reserved; Shonen often does not.

It's time people stopped saying that Yusei is boring and just admit that they like loud, brash characters as opposed to quiet ones, and that Yusei just doesn't fit what they expect from a Shonen protagonist.

He's not boring; he was just written for the wrong genre.

[tj-crochets]

The rag rug is awesome! How is it done?

Thanks! The short answer is that it's a braided rag rug, using the braid-as-you-go method. Basically, this tutorial. I am not trying very hard to make sure the strips of fabric are the same size, and I'm not minding the edges of the fabrics being exposed. I'm also using the no-sew method of joining more strips of fabric as I go, and just kind of having fun with it? So far it's turning out well!

[nattikay]

hmmmmmmm ngl kinda think i wanna make a werewolf cowboy :3c

[oveliagirlhaditright]

"Miss You" by Sweetbox. Somewhat inspired by how one of the Buffy writers said that she thought one of the reasons Buffy and Angel really resonated with people in season three, was how even though they truly loved each other, that still wasn't enough to make it work for them. And sometimes that is the case with real life relationships too, of course.