#i wish someone saw me like that

[demaparbat-hp]

She will (and he'll let her)

[buggachat]

(random s5 finale musings) tbh I don't think Marinette chose to keep The Secrets™ from Adrien because Gabriel asked her to. I feel like Marinette keeping secrets like that is so consistent with her character; she hates giving people bad news, she hates rocking the boat, she hates upsetting people, she always chooses to keep any 'controversial' information to herself for as long as she can get away with (examples: bubbler scarf, telling Queen Bee she was benched, confessing to Adrien, warning Chat Noir about Scarabella or Rena Furtive, never told Chat Noir about Chat Blanc, etc) that I just totally believe she would've done it either way. She was even already having nightmares about Adrien hating her for finding out she defeated his father, so I feel like Gabriel's request was moreso giving her a go-ahead than it was a primary deciding factor, yknow?

[anyataylorjoys]

seeing so many fellow creators' gifsets getting under 180 notes with an average reblog to like ratio of 1:3 is so disheartening. less and less people are putting out content cause it seems that no one cares anymore.

If you truly care about supporting creators at all, I encourage everyone to have a tracked tag in this economy whether you make content or not, you probably have mutuals who would love to share things with you and can't.

[hplonesomeart]

@scimagic Uhhh made this because I just think they’re dynamic is neat. Also completely agree with the Puzzle headcanon super fun silly and very on point. As we speak he is clinging for his dear life :))

I really enjoy seeing the illustrated storyline you have unfolding between the two and figured it would be nice to see this motorcycle sequence in motion. So tadaa here it is! In animated form! Now your obligated to make a full length written novel in-depth about their relationship /j

Sincerely though thanks for the creative inspiration and keep on being a swagger artist 👍✨

[lunarcrown]

I forgot to tag it (fixed) but that scar and grian angsty comic is actually a part of a lil idea we had called “feathers and rot au” !!

[francy-sketches]

rhaenyra could say 'I wish I was a man with dick and balls' and hotd twitter would still be like 'umm she just means she wants freedom and respect but otherwise she is a FEMININE WOMAN stop making her into a man you weirdos'

[wishchip106]

he’s gaming

[demigods-posts]

I've seen a lot of discourse about Virginia Kull's portrayal of Sally Jackson in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series, and I'd like to say that I loved her. Don't get me wrong. I love Sally from the original book series, and I, too, would fight the God of War on her behalf. But something that I enjoyed about Virginia's portrayal of Sally that we don't get in the books is the character depth. We don't hear much of Sally's backstory in the TV series, apart from a couple of flashbacks with younger Percy and that scene with Poseidon (Toby Stephens). However, those scenes do an excellent job of showing us that alongside being Percy's mother, Sally is also a young woman who fell in love with a man she could not be with and is enduring the natural consequences of having Percy. She struggles to communicate with him when she's frustrated, gets teary-eyed when she lies to him to prolong the inevitable, and actively sacrifices her happiness to ensure his safety. Virginia Kull's portrayal of Sally Jackson reinforces the character's humanity, imperfections, and determination, and it's everything to me.

[mentally-ill-for-bes]

The Birth and Death of a Dream: Viktor and Jayce parallel

Spoiler Arcane season 2 arc 2 below the cut.

To be honest, I didn't realize the parallel between both scenes until I noticed the emphasis on the broken pieces of the weird Arcane shell in s2 act 2. Seeing the scenes side by side just makes you realize how many composition parallels exist. However, these are also completely opposite scenes.

In both scenes, Jayce has the same (or a very similar) look in his eyes; which is basically terror. In s1 scene, he's scared of not achieving it and it ending terribly wrong; in s2 he already knows everything involving the Arcane is terribly wrong, and still, he's terrified of the Arcane and what it has done with Viktor, because he does not longer recognize him.

The most obvious parallel here is how Viktor lets go the little piece I don't know what it's called. But it's not simply that he's letting go an object that held an important memory for him and Jayce. It's about letting go the Hextech dream. In s1 scene Jayce touches the little thing and moves it to Viktor, and he grabs it. Jayce literally invites him to be part of his Hextech dream, which Viktor accepts.

But as I said before, the S2 scene works not only as a parallel but as a complete opposite. The S1 scene is under a blue atmosphere; the color is associated with Hextech. In the S2 scene, the atmosphere is yellow, and the blue lights are few. The Hextech dream has changed; the Arcane has corrupted it.

So, while the s1 scene symbolizes Jayce and Viktor achieving Hextech and building a dream together, s2 scene means the assassination of it.

However, why it isn't necessarily bad?

Because Hextech has changed so much that's unrecognizable. In the same way that in s1 the crystal is blue and solid and in s2 the crystal (in Jayce's hammer) isn't longer any blue, it doesn't even look solid, with all the holes and that.

When Viktor lets go of the little thing it's not necessarily about letting go Jayce, it's about letting go Hextech. And with it, the dream he shared with Jayce.

It's sad; yes, but it isn't necessarily bad. Jayce killing Viktor (most importantly, killing the Hexcore) also symbolizes him letting go his dream and the work of his life. It is also sad, yes, but it shows amazing character growth and maturity. He justified the use of the Hexcore to keep Viktor alive at his side when it clearly changed Viktor into something unrecognizable.

And it's the same with Viktor, he lets go the Hextech dream, but why was he climbing into it? Because he justified it with the "help" he was providing to the people. But this is not different to what Jayce did to him, mixing him with the Arcane leaving something physically and emotionally unrecognizable.

He lets go the little thing because he's dying. But what if he also lets it go because he sees how the Arcane has made Jayce someone unrecognizable ("That's not Jayce")? They both realize the Arcane has changed the other at such an intrinsic level that's no longer worth it.

The little thing symbolizes their shared dream, but also themselves. It has a completely corrupted side but, the other side besides being a cleaner is still starting to get corrupted.

Because both Viktor and Jayce have been touched by the Arcane, Viktor has accepted it and used it for what he thinks is good, Jayce doesn't. But still has been touched by it.

The gemstone is in his skin but it has been corrupted, he's corrupted, less than Viktor but corrupted at the end of the day.

Most important, the thing that symbolizes his dream is corrupted and it's in his skin. He cannot remove the gem as he did with the bracelet, he cannot remove the corruption inside him Arcane has left. He has intrinsically changed, his dream (what defined him as a character) has changed too and he cannot get rid of it. Jayce won't be the same ever.

This change, this transformation of Jayce is represented through his physical appearance, he's older; yes. But he's also contradicting what has defined him form season 1.

Season 1 episode 1 is incredibly important for Jayce because without showing him the show gives us key points about his character.

He's privileged: He has a real Valdiani and all

He works in his appearance: For the nose hair trimmer

He's an inventor

And, what we see in season 2 is this:

A man who no longer worries about appearance and whose clothes are totally destroyed, the clothes that he used as an inventor. His change is less evident than Viktor's, who literally dies and wakes up as something different. But I dare to say that Jayce (as a character) has died too, waking up as something different, just as Viktor's.

Edit: Something something about that his hammer is corrupted and totally butterfly-shaped. The fact that show emphasizes the hammer as a family symbol and that his mother is a constant presence in his life. It's about changing the purest parts of him until there's nothing left. I'm sorry but if you people weren't too busy hating on him, you would be DELIGHTED by this character.

Besides. I would like to point out how in s1 they are both floating in the air due to the Hexcore magic.

But in s2 scene, Viktor is the only one floating in the air while Jayce has the feet on the earth. When Jayce shoots him he doesn't only create a hole in his chest; the place where the Hexcore entered into Viktor's body. He also brings Viktor back to earth. In s1 they were both floating amazed, now Jayce is no longer amazed by it and in consequence, brings Viktor back to earth, actually and metaphorically.

And I think that has to be something about both of them realizing the risks of the Arcane.

And, if you're interested, a brief analysis of wtf is happening with jayvik this season here

[skitskatdacat63]

I think a lot about this painting that was, presumably, given to Fernando at the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix, which there is just zero explanation for it, other than these pics:

Where is it now????? It better be hanging up in a place of honor in one of his houses istg!

But what makes this better is that after he crashed out from that race, he tweeted a samurai quote 😭 I like to imagine him just nonsensically mumbling samurai quotes while staring at this painting in despair

[moonlitkissing]

It's that time of night when calling up a friend and asking for casual sex feels like a good idea

[lemongogo]

[stacytea]

[pluralhottakes]

I don't see the issue in believing that your alters are multiple people or not, but saying that it's "anti recovery" to believe that they are is genuinely one of the most idiotic things i've heard. i don't see why it's a problem? i know so many systems who consider themselves multiple people, who are doing perfectly fine in healing, without needing to see themselves as just "multiple parts of one person". Alters can be so completely complex, they can be so different that you'd genuinely see them as completely different people, because they are different people to that system. This is coming from a plural who sees their parts more as just different parts of themself, by the way. Believing your alters are just multiple parts of one identity is completely fine, but claiming that it's "anti recovery" for others to believe that they're multiple people is one of the shittest things you could do. Just let people do what they want, there isn't anything wrong with that? I definitely see that systems can quite literally have what is basically multiple fully formed identities, fully formed people.

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[desire-mona]

having a real lesbian moment tonight (im wishing i was dan and phil)

[tryingonametaphor]

just watched this video on why the women of arcane feel like well rounded characters and i just kept going 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

then i thought about mike’s monologue and how some people genuinely believe that was good writing for el’s arc

like, imagine elora dying and mel needing to hear jayce tell her that he loves her for her to help her friend. imagine thinking that’s a well written character arc for a woman.

if the entire nina plot was 1 step forward, that monolgue was 2 steps back for el’s character. in that moment, her love for her best friend who was dying in front of her should’ve always been enough. period.

this is why i’ll never accept that monologue as a solution to mlvn’s relationship problems. it was oddly placed, badly executed, and framed suspiciously. plus will had to push mike to do it as if all of this wasn’t insulting enough to el’s growth.

i’ll genuinely be disappointed with season 5 if they try to convince me that mike saying ily is what el needed to save max. i trust the writers to not do that because they’ve shown us that the women in ST don’t need men to save them. certainly not with a big cheesy love monologue.

el just has the misfortune of being in a loveless relationship that the audience seems to think is exactly what she deserves.