#it's a symbol of success

[lightgamble]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.01, 1.02 & 1.03

I'm not him anymore. And, I won't let myself be.

[marronje]

Togachako week day 5: funeral

when togachako lose each other in every. single. universe

[addamvelaryon]

Addam, The Sea Snake’s Heir

Artist: Dottea (twt/bsky)

[satturn]

reign (inprnt)

[milktea-grn]

[thethndr]

had a category 5 autism event at work earlier this morning when i came to an epiphany about chick's character in the first film that now seems... incredibly obvious in hindsight.

basically: it was never just about winning the piston cup for him. it was SPECIFICALLY about beating the king.

i've always agreed with the general consensus that chick held a degree of respect for the king that he didn't reserve for anyone else, which is exactly why we never see chick trash talk him like he does with lightning (other than the fact lightning would often play along) and also why he never pulled any dirty moves against the king up until the end of the movie, despite the numerous opportunities he had to do so.

BUT... i also now realize that this is probably layered. that the reason he held back wasn't just out of respect, but also because he wanted to prove that he could beat the king completely square. he wanted to prove that he had it in him to pull one over the guy he's been riding behind his entire career without using any of his dirty moves, and therein earn all of the same respect, adoration, and glory the king had.

and that's exactly why he cracked at the last minute!! it was literally his last chance; the king's retirement race. he'd have future chances to get the championship, absolutely, but he'd never have the opportunity to surpass the king again. he loses and it'd forever cement him as the guy in the king's shadow. so, last minute, chick cracks, wrecks strip, and gets everything he wanted. but also not.

it's also maybe why he hyperfocuses on lightning afterwards and practically lives to undermine him in any way: because lightning's sacrifice of the championship to help strip, in an INSTANT, earned him the position that chick was gunning for that whole time. and he didn't even have to beat the king to get it!!

tl;dr: i think that playing second banana to the same guy for decades grated at chick more severely than not getting a big trophy did.

[illmoraineakoi]

IS THAT A FUCKING MODEL ROCKET IN THE CORNER

I'M GONNA SCREAM

[tarraxahum]

This was gonna be a reply to a reply but I thought maybe I should just make my own post. Yes this is about Vi again.

It's no secret that "Vi should've fought for Zaun" and the expectation of her being Vander's prodigy and feeling like the plot dropped the ball on her in that regard and the betrayal at the fact that she's living comfortably in Piltover now are. Frequent sentiments in the fandom. Which I get, but also I feel that this line of expectations is. Diverging from who Vi actually is by the end and what she was realistically capable of.

Vi in season 2 is basically running on fumes and because she has no other options. It is a well known thing in irl activist spaces that to participate in any kind of fight for justice you need to take care of yourself, otherwise you won't have the energy to be any kind of useful to your community. Ekko also says this - "It's not enough to give people what they need to survive, you have to give them what they need to live". Vi has been surviving and not living in any shape or form for years, she's exhausted and broken in places. That's no mental state to fight for Zaun or make any kinda change. I think it's extremely realistic and human and hardly a flaw of writing or the character if by the end the only thing she was able to do was collapse into the safety and peace she was offered for the first time in forever (aka Caitlyn). It's clear that in her last scene she's still recovering mentally - Cait seems to be excited to have any sign of life (singing) from her at all, and the "Are you still in this fight?" question is very loaded. (But it's indicated that Vi is very much still in the fight, so? It's really anyone's guess what she'll do once she's healed and remembers how to live. And don't bring up LoL's Vi brutality thing, it's clear they're different characters).

I think in wanting to see Vi stand up for Zaun or be Vander's prodigy we often deny her the flaw of being a breakable human and forget just how much she's held together by duct tape. Just because she was full of this 'fuck Piltover' fire as a kid doesn't mean she is still capable of matching that energy. Sometimes after lots of trauma humans grow up into tired adults who just want to sit down and feel safe regardless of where it happens and how questionable it might look (re: living in Piltover). Not to mention, that even as a child Vi's main reason for fuming at the Topside was wanting safety for her family and herself. Well, now she's all out of family, she's estranged from the community of Zaun thanks to being in prison for 7 years and Silco changing the place so much, and the only person who's offering her safety and not more fighting (which she's exhausted and thoroughly burnt out from!) is Caitlyn, so. How is where she ended up any kind of surprising or a failure of her writing/character?

Yes, a lot of people wanted a revolutionary, no, Vi isn't one. Dare I say, never really was one. At her lowest, when she's got no one left to protect, she's not trying to fill in that void by taking on protecting Zaun and becoming a vigilante or something, no, she spirals. That is not something on her radar, that's not something she's visibly cut out to do, she cares so so much but on a smaller scale. Even the whole shimmer factory debacle was less about Zaun and more about her desire to hurt Silco personally for what he'd done to her family. If Jinx agreed to run away with her back at the tea party Vi would ditch the entirety of Zaun (potentially leaving it to Silco forever since he's still alive at that point) in a heartbeat to keep her sister and save Cait in one move. She puts on an enforcer uniform BECAUSE she cares for Jinx (through convincing herself that at the very least she should take her out of her misery herself rather than leaving it to people who don't care, yes) and Cait both.

Perhaps a hot take, but not becoming a leader despite being good at taking hits to the head and caring about people in general and being a daughter of one does not make Vi a badly written character or a bad person. It just makes her a person. And a character whose arc culminated in choosing herself. And choosing yourself sometimes means leaving the fight to others (perhaps temporarily, considering the final dialogue). And that's okay.

Arcane is tragedy about flawed people, not a feel-good story about a successful revolution and rich people paying for their crap, and it was never going to be. Ergo one of our main character isn't an upcoming hero in shining armor who was allegedly robbed of her potential. She's just a broken young woman who barely knows how to keep her own little life together and her biggest victory by the end is allowing herself to take a breath and live for once. Yes, while her home down there is still in shambles. Yes, that sounds selfish. For some people a bit of selfishness is the greatest thing they can ever learn for themselves.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

I can be totally normal about Eddie failing to ‘talk to god’ in confessions - thereby failing to convince god of his need to get Chris back - and so going invoking the Virgin Mary to get his prayers answered in holy mother of god!

I really can be totally normal about that pipeline!!!

[watchfuldeer]

shawn laib for den of geek "tom and greg are the only succession ending that matters"

[toxicroyjamie]

Roy obviously knows that Jamie admires/respects/looks up to him but I like to think there's some part of him that wants Jamie to think he's like. Cool. On some level he's just a middle aged man who peaked in his 20s and craves validation from his cool gen Z coworker. I'm not like a regular coach I'm a Cool coach

[wayco-roystar]

"Souls are boring."

[wildflowerteas]

the red camellia is undeniably soukoku's flower to me. they bloom in the cold, through snow and winter chill. they're at their most beautiful in the harshest conditions when everything else is dormant or dead. they're a symbol of perseverance and strength and passion. but at the end of the line, they 'behead' themselves when they die, refusing to drop petal by petal, choosing to go when they're still beautiful, refusing to compromise the rest of the tree by rotting on the branch.

[clockworkcheetah]

so i am planning to (hopefully) do a project of dghda characters + flower symbolism. at some point.

will i actually achieve this? who knows! dont look at my track record of starting projects and never finishing them

but hey if there are any flowers you associate with dghda characters lemme know (i have some ideas that im juggling, but there are a shit ton of flowers out there and i know i have personal bias on characters, so yknow)

[waywardted]

What's left for you but lightning?

[freshthoughts2020]

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