#jinx's night out

[birdthebanana]

Been wondering where Jinx has been all these years. Is it okay this feel this strongly over the Google Doodle-verse?

(From 30/11/2024)

[bwootster]

So… Arcane.

[helena-thessa]

Okay wait ..

I was paying so much attention to the dialogue of what Ekko was saying to try and reach Jinx in the opening of season 2 episode 9, I totally missed what actually caught her real attention and convinced her to stop and listen: she sees her little wind-up monkeys powering Ekko’s tech.

His arm was covering them when he sat down after the first few attempts to stop her, but once she tries to jump and he leaps toward her, they’re clearly visible. While he’s saying “.. no matter what happens in the past, it’s never too late to build something new”, the camera cuts directly to her looking at her own contribution to his Z-drive.

Her inability / ability to fix things is integral to who she is as a person. I forgot at first that the first arc of season 1 in our introduction to Powder is all about her failing to make the wind-up monkey bomb work properly, until it does but then kills the people she loves and makes Vi disown her (so she has reason to believe).

Making it even more clear what motivates Jinx, we learn in season 2 when she engineers a new arm/weapon for Sevika that she just wants to fix things if she can.

Then Ekko shows up in this pivotal moment— her enemy, one of the few who knew her as Powder and knows alll the terrible things she’s done— and he’s using tech inspired by her (unbeknownst to her, built with her). !!

Sure I read into the romance of it, but more importantly, it’s of personal significance to Jinx that she sees proof that she can create and build something that works. Something of such value (possibly goodness?) that even Ekko would use it.

Speaking of paying attention to the actual words though, knowing that the show creators write the music lyrics and/or maintain strong creative control on the content of the lyrics, it’s so painful and beautiful that the song playing as she tries to kill herself has these lyrics:

This world is a wasteland where nothing can grow / I used to have strength, but I ran out of hope / I know it's my fault that I'm here all alone

When we damn well know Ekko made a way for things to grow— his tree!— and then she is very much not alone when he shows up to stop her and believe in her. Honestly, so beautiful.

[helielune]

and stalling only goes so far when you've got a head start

[ennabear]

hey team… consider this: western sevika au… inspired by ethel cain songs (not the actual lore of preacher’s daughter)… fluff and smut and a tiny bit of angst/pining… ends with a happy found family (including caitvi + jinx and isha, maybe some of sevika’s family because she deserves it)… reader and sevika are both scary mean outlaw cowboy butches but they’re soft for each other… yay or nay…

[nakedinm4nhattan]

happy new years (the universe better send me a whimsical girlfriend in 2025)

[hypnagogics]

i wanna show yall this rn because i'm excited about it tbh...it's gonna be cheesy and fluffy and silly. (can you tell i have way too much fun in picsart- that means i genuinely can't tell if the header thingy looks atrocious, cringe sure but legit can't decide just how bad). the imagine that inspired this.

[hoofpeet]

why don't you like Colorado?

Also, what typeface do you use for your comics?

I switch between Bell MT and Poor Richard every once in a while!! And for Colorado-- this state would probably be nice to live in if it wasn't literally impossible to find stable housing-- I'm probably biased here because we've been having an ESPECIALLY rough go of it but . Both times we looked for apartments here the search took 3+ months to secure a place, with ~2,100 a month apparently being kinda low for this area. The majority of my coworkers are either currently looking for a place or were evicted/priced out of their last places so . TL;DR The housing situation is a literal nightmare around here

[copyquat]

Arcane Act 2 Thoughts :D

Ok first of all fuck you for those last few minutes ;-;

Seeing the family reunited was so ;-; I knew it wasn’t gonna last but even then I was so happy for them.

I got so unbelievably hyped when I realized Singed’s plan like OMG that was so well done.

We still don’t know where Ekko and Heimerdinger are, and I’m not entirely unconvinced Ekko might rewind what happened this episode given that the frame before cutting to black seemed to freeze for a sec but idk yet… if they dont do that why’d they have to do that to Isha ;-;

Jayce and Viktor my boys ;-; I think Jayce might be in the right tho, if a friend of mine is right and what Vik is doing is connected to the void, given Jayce’s visions/hallucinations of seeing Vik’s followers as something much different I think what we’re seeing rn might be an illusion or false image everyone is being made to see and what Jayce sees in his flashes might be what they are actually being turned into. Like Jayce is clearly seeing something everyone else isn’t, the only question is whether he’s being manipulated by something evil or everyone else is, at least to me.

Tldr loved it and HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT A WEEK AHIDOEMJWJSIND

[b4kuch1n]

what if I draw her actually in time for the mid autumn festival

[tetzoro]

omigieeee good morning and happy wednesday friendz ! the sun is shining out today and i’m sensing good things on the horizon !! chopper is here to say don’t forget to drink water + unclench your jaws !! 🤍

[cranberrymoons]

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[ssaltlicker]

Arcane fans will look you dead in the eyes and tell you they cant support caitlyn and vi because its “abusive” and then ship ekko with the terrorist that murdered his entire peace group, viktor with the man that murdered him, and think silco was any kind of good person

[streetlizard]

wtf

[pagesofkenna]

My main takeaway is that season 2 was less cohesive of a storyline than season 1 and the ending underwhelming, but i think thats mainly due to being two or three seasons wrapped up into one, and im glad both that we got on-screen lesbian sex and that my main confusion ('wait, why are they fighting? Arent they both being tricked by the same thing?') was cleared up with a 'yes. Correct'