#mel says stuff

[karmelarts]

so much of the horror genre is informed by the metaphor of queer/transness as monstrousness. especially emphasizing the amount of horror that depends on the audience's repulsion at seeing a human body changing into a new, other body. I Saw the TV Glow is about the horror of NOT transitioning. the horror of static. the horror of looking into yourself and being terrified of what you see. the horror of seeing who you are and choosing to do nothing about it. the horror of looking away. and by god is it terrifying.

[brownfrogs]

Hanzo running his fingers through Cole’s growing silver hair and Cole def gets fussy about it but Hanzo appreciates each new gray strand he finds…

[giarossin]

mel [to viktor]: you're the professor's assistant jayce: NO, he's my partner

marcus: kiramman girl had a prisoner released on your order jayce: NO, we've got i covered viktor: you promised to destroy the hexcore jayce: NO,

[melissa-titanium]

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[sarcasticbeanie]

Paces around in a circle. Something something erasure of women (and very apparent w women of color) within fandom spaces, relegating them to support roles, villainous roles, or even making them tools of the narrative or just forgetting about them. And then when people point that out fans start calling them homophobic for not shipping the gay guys. Please that’s not what this conversation is about I’m head in hands. Man I hate it here. Sometimes even canon does this! I’m going to explode.

[limonjarritos]

The way Ekko's the one to deliver the final blow to Viktor and Jayce. To become the antithesis of what they had wrought. Hextech was meant to help but it continued to oppress, it facilitated in eugenicist ideals.

The disparity in equality, the divorce of humanity.

Ekko had been in the community helping it, trying his best, unifying. I'm not sure where I'm going but I just really enjoy this scene.

[brown-bear-64]

Honestly the best way I can describe the 2nd season of Arcane is written by extremely competend writers who bit off way more than they could chew. Especially in that short of a timeframe.

It's possible that it was a higher up decision for future League shows, but the focus on the Black Rose & magic worldbuilding took away focus from the core cast and the narrative of 2 cities/sisters opposed to one another. They desperately needed at least 3 more episodes

The writers are competent, but they made some deliberate choices I don't like and pulled focus from things I believe they should've left in focus. It feels like the entire narrative of the show got changed between seasons, and maybe it was always the intention and I should rewatch the entire show front-to-back without a massive hiatus in-between them for me to get it, but from my current standing... It could've been more, and the things that they did focus on and give time to were really good. It's just that the show lost its priorities and primary narrative along the way

[mel-loly]

-“Get ready, your adventure has just begun, Albrecht.”

[eternalera]

i feel like im the only one who has actually never seen mel hate online. well... at least with her relating to jayvik cause like even in s1 before me or ANY of my friends shipped jayvik (we started after their divorce lol-) we just all sorta agreed that he thing with jayce was weird asf cause if you switched their genders then its a man using a women to exploit them and along those lines... yeah it gets a lot more fucked up and stuff. and thats why we kinda hated her. but we hated her for like her manipulative tactics and all kinda agreed like 'amazing character love her design, pretty asf but shes kinda a bitch-'

and now im seeing people say that thats misogynistic FOR NOT LIKING A CHARACTER FOR THEIR ACTIONS. like this was BEFORE any of us shipped jayvik and now its just like... ????? like i get there are some people out there like that but to just assume that oh everyone must like this well thought out character (cause she is well thought out, i liked her a lot more in s2 and think she does get better) or else they hate all women is just... ?????

idk i just dont get it (i am saying this AS A WOMAN)

[whatsfourteenupto]

Fourteen has taken up watercolour painting again. They really like painting little scenes from town

[karmelarts]

this isn’t normal. this isn’t how life is supposed to feel. if you don’t think about it it can’t hurt you. I found our hearts and they were still beating. there is still time.

[brownfrogs]

all those years of sexual repression hitting Hanzo like a semi truck and now he can’t hold hands with Cole without gettin a obvious boner

[fazedlight]

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but the idea that Kara would eventually tell the world she's Supergirl is a good ending (if written well). Having the constant looming stress of "if I get outed, everyone I love will get fucking murdered" is... a heavy burden, and I think she's been through enough hardship in her life.

But in order to do that, you need to address two things...

General xenophobia

It's a Super Life

The show sort of does address xenophobia. We go from "aliens aren't real [except Superman]" (which is a weird stance in the pilot but oh well) to "aliens are real" to "aliens are a major threat" (season 4) to "building acceptance" (season 6). Acceptance is never sudden and total, but things can shift over time where it's safer to be out now than decades ago, and that's what happens in the show with being alien. I think they could've done better here (especially in highlighting Kara's stress to give us a better sense of why being able to be out is important), but they tried.

But they never touch It's a Super Life. In Kara's mind, her secret coming out can get everyone killed! Everyone she loves! And the thing is, it's so easy to fix. Mxy can't really rewrite time - if he could, "Mr. & Mrs. Mxyzptlk" would've gone much better for him. He's just a trickster god who took the obvious route (lying) to making his friend feel better. Problem solved.

But they didn't touch on that, which makes the finale decision BIZARRE.

Of course, revisiting It's a Super Life poses a problem in the writing. For a lot of the rift, we saw a really beautiful saga of "two flawed people, driven by their different traumas, caused each other a lot of pain". It's a Super Life was part of the shift away from that complexity. The showrunners just couldn't handle it.

But with better writing... we can end up in a world where Kara feels safe and happy, and finally free of that weighty burden that she might suddenly lose everything again.

[blujayonthewing]

gnome culture emphasizes playfulness and a good sense of humor partly because gnomes are physically small and vulnerable and tend to settle in wild places with a lot of hazards and if they had to take every completely real threat to their safety seriously while also Taking Them Seriously they'd just be paralyzed by fear

[roseofspades]

I feel like we all brushed passed the scenes of jayce in the void realm surviving in the cave real fast because what the fuck was that. His progressively rotting leg. The scenes of him eating whatever those bugs were or whatever. Creepy as fuck. How did he even survive that what the hell.

[heartnoose]

Sanji being canonically hairy is the best thing about him btw. It’s actually his only saving grace. Every other aspect of him is deplorable but all of his crimes shall be acquitted bc he’s hairy.