#i love that song and that scene its so fun

[pumpkinpatchmaniac]

ARCANE SEASON 2 ARC 3 SPOILERS‼️‼️

I noticed this while watching episode 7: “Pretend like its the first time”, not that small of a detail but:

(I’m sorry if it is incoherent i just really needed to get this out.)

During the innovative party scene where Ekko dances with Powder, the song that plays is ”ma meilleure ennemie” by Stromae & Pomme, which translates to ”my best (female) enemy” which clearly refers to Powder, or Jinx.

In the intro begins a small chant where they say

Je t’aime, je t’attends […]

Meaning “ i love you, i am waiting for you” which clearly explains Ekko before coming to terms that Jinx no longer is Powder, since he fell inlove with Powder he keeps waiting for Powder to come back. This mental dilemma of having to accept that even if its the same body, same face its not the same person anymore, which is later supported by the first chorus where Stromae sings

La pire des bénédiction, La plus belle des malédictions

“The worse of all blessings, the best of all curses”, Powder was the best thing that happened to him while Jinx was the worse thing which makes this relationship with her- this connection, both a blessing and a curse.

But what made the scene more interesting was when they danced and the part

Mais ma meilleure ennemie, c'est toi [but my best enemy, that is you.]

Fuis-moi, le pire, c'est toi et moi [flee from me, the worse is you and i]

Mais si tu cherches encore ma voix [but if you keep searching for my voice]

Oublie-moi, le pire, c'est toi et moi [forget me, the worse is you and i]

I know we all wanted Ekko to stay in that timeline and be happy with Powder but remember season 1 where- whilst every Jinx or Vi centric episodes always began with a flashback, the Ekko centric one started from the present. Indicating that Ekko forces himself to always look forward than trying to let the past get to him. For exempel in - please correct me if i’m wrong, season 1 episode 5 when Vi said that she should’ve been there to help Ekko, he only says ”that’s is a good way to drive yourself crazy”. He immidiantly shut down any thought of what could’ve been, indirectly forcing Vi to think about the present. Especially afterwards when Vi talks about getting Powder back when Ekko has already fully acknowledge that there is only Jinx. All of this makes him being in that timeline more difficult for him since it is exactly what he wanted to avoid, being stuck in what could’ve been.

Dancing with Powder just engraves this furthee into him, this is unhealthy for Ekko since it’s the relation ship between him and Jinx. As to reiterate ”if you keep searching for Powder’s, voice, stop, it will just drive you crazy”

Also to refer to the pre-chorus!

First one:

Tu sais c'qu'on dit [you know what they say]

Sois près d'tes amis les plus chers [stay close to your dearest friends]

Mais aussi [but even]

Encore plus près d'tes adversaires [even closer to your adversaries (i.e antagonists, villains)

And the second one

Je t'avais dit : "Ne regarde pas en arrière" [i have told you : “dont look back]

Le passé qui te suit te fait la guerre [the past will follow you and take you to war]

(This is pretty self explanatory)

Additionally, before the kiss scene where Ekko says “can we pretend like it’s the first the first time”, further insinuates the whole, “this is my present even thought it’s a part of your past”.

TL:DR

This scene hurts

(Authors note:

I know it is not a small detail and not that significant but i really wanna acknowledge how every part of the Arcane series have a significance into the story. And honestly i needed to vent. It was so fun last night watching the scene and hearing ”le pire, c’est toi et moi” and just go ”oh, word?”. I am not French but i studied it so it just felt good from that POV too.

Edit: i was not aware that Arcane gets critizied over how litteral the songs are to the scene but i still stand by my point about why i really liked the song and this scene specifically)

[yourwagonisaflame]

best of you being an in universe song is so cute to me. idk why i love that so much

[absurdfish77]

“Sora? Funny… Just hearing that name kinda makes me wanna smile”

“Yeah, That’s how he is”

“Whaddaya know… Riku and Sora, The Sound Ideas you two set free joined together. And when they did, they made a great and powerful harmony”

“Sora can find the brightest part of anything, and pull off miracles like there’s nothing to it. It’s pretty hard to not smile around him”

“Wow! No wonder the music sounded like so much fun”

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing based on the film Girl Shy. It depicts Harold Lloyd's character Harold Meadows sat at his typewriter, paused in thought as his fingers hover above it. His eyes are looking up and his mouth is slightly open, like he's dreaming awake. A thought bubble floats around him like smoke, with the faces of two women in the middle of it. The two have annotations next to them that denote the twenties era stereotypes that they are styled as. The one noted as "the flapper" is smiling and has curly, slightly unkempt hair, with a headband around it. She has lighter makeup than the woman next to her, who has dark lips and eyeshadow and is labelled "the vamp". She has large circular statement earrings and an ornate headpiece atop her smooth updo. Her eyes are downturned, and her expression less approachable. Harold is coloured in greyscale, and so are the ladies, although they have a warmer brown tone, as does the smoke. There's a pinker line of light surrounding them and the writing. The background is a dark brown.]

Inktober - Day 15 (Guidebook)

Film - Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1924)

[imflyingfish]

working in an art gallery and talking to a lot of full time artists has given me CRAZY imposter syndrome btw lmao

[lagaans]

I could live inside the Meryton assembly scenes of p&p forever and ever and ever. The dance tunes they chose are so lively and fun and the scene goes on for a while to where you feel like it exists in a timeless moment and you get to sink into the setting and the characters (which is also such a perfect way to introduce a lot of them and their dynamics with each other only a few minutes into the movie) and feel the music and the joy with them!! Everytime I watch I truly feel like it just will never end in the best way and just sit there with a huge smile on my face 😊

[irregularbillcipher]

watched the musical demon show (don't wanna name it so this post isn't in the tags) at the behest of an IRL friend and i can already tell this is going to be a piece of media where i absolutely cannot stop thinking about it, not because i really love the show as-is, but because it has so many individual components i really like and find incredibly fun or compelling, and i'm so frustrated that it doesn't come together for me

i think the main thing i can say about it as a show, setting aside some of the insensitive choices that were made that i really don't feel qualified to tackle or talk about, is that the entire thing sort of gives off this vibe of someone really excited to show you every single oc they made in high school and college and i very genuinely mean that in both the best and worst ways possible

there are some good hooks for season two though so i will absolutely give them that

[scienc5life]

Went to one of the Will Wood shows and it was really fun! I booked the tickets a while ago and wasn't thinking too much about it until the day of, so I got to be surprised all over again that Shayfer James was opening. Teared up twice during Shayfer James songs (God Forbids and another that's slipping my mind rn), REALLY stoked that I got to hear For the Departed live + pick up Shipwreck as Vinyl. Sad I couldn't get Americanachronism as well but understandable that if you're gonna display just two albums having that and Counterfeit Arcade makes sense.

I wasn't expecting the performance Will Wood brought out when he entered, it was really entertaining and also funny as hell to lead into with Main Character. From how he was saying the rest of the show was much more toned down than usual as he shifted gears and left most of the high energy performer mode. Still though even if the songs performed was the normal set I think it was really fun, he came back out with a really energetic encore and the whole audience was stomping to make the beat, very fun. I left with the impression that he's a good entertainer and would recommend the show to others. Even while sick and full of cough syrup he riffed on that later in the show with a well timed sniff mid lyric calling back to his jokes on it in the middle of "what doesnt kill you makes you stronger". His music has a lot of sounds happening so I expected his shows to be similar, but I really enjoyed it always being him or Shayfer James and a singular instrument. I got to focus on the sung bits and all the little improvisations which was neat. Got the normal album vinyl in blue too which was cool. Also shirts + beanie.

Also preshow praise the lord and pass the ammunition came on so I got to be silly and sway to that in my seat + real good virgin mai tai thank you mystic theater

[gilfrespecter]

Listening to coinstar by the growlers and thinking about mel so hard I get nauseous

Ridiculous stream of conscious in the tags apologies but not really

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: May 10

"The Ghosts of Beverly Drive” by Death Cab for Cutie

[astro-inthestars]

YOOOOOOO WE FUCKIN DID IT!!!! YEAHHH!! We slayed SOOO well!! EVERYONE DID!! The other sections were SO FUCKING GOOD i LOVED it!!! And like, we won first place or whatever i didnt care about that really BUT WE ALL DID GREAT!

Anyways, just got home from my pal's birthday party (more like Hang Out at the mall, we ate out) it was AWESOME! First time inside a Starbucks, and first order ALL ON MY OWN! (HELL YEAH RELIGIOUS REBELLION!!)

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing based on the film Treasure of the Four Crowns. J.T. Striker is the central element of the piece, wearing his expedition suit and with a harness attached. He crosses his arms with a glowing gemstone in each hand, green and bright yellow respectively. Bright flames shoot out of each stone in long pillars. He looks upwards, mouth set and half of his face melting downwards. That section of his face is losing colour and there's blood running down it. His eye on that side is bloodshot. Behind him there's a stone goat head, which has two crowns placed on top. Red ropes, like the ones on his harness, hang down from the ceiling. The background is a warm, olive green. The colour palette is warm and red-toned.]

Inktober - Day 24 (Expedition)

Film - Treasure of the Four Crowns (Ferdinando Baldi, 1983)

[margle]

My top ten and lowest ten episodes, according to @dennisboobs episode ranker. No. 10 is Charlie Work, narrowly beating The Gang Chokes. It took 929 rounds and by the end I was going purely on my first instinct, so there are probably a few episodes that deserve to be in my top ten that are lesser known. The ONLY episodes I couldn't chose between were the first 2. Looking at the last 10, I'm pretty happy with that, though maybe I was a little harsh on A Cricket's Tale and the Gang Does A Clip Show and The Gang Turns Black.

[captainshyguy]

i get the last wish is all the rage and i get why, its a very good movie, but i gotta say, just catching the tail end of shrek 2 today reminded me quite firmly it was easily the one in the franchise i enjoy the most 

[starlooove]

When will Joseph be back from the war

[robyn-goodfellowe]

okay i think i can finally post this without like seizing. twtt endgame song btw. if you even care