#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]

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

[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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[jayvikyuri]

viktor's cane is white and gold - famously mel's color scheme... which could mean nothing

[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]

-Merry Christmas!💗✨

the tags (↓) are more important!!!

[therealneilperry]

Just my opinion on Mel Medarda and her stans/haters

It’s sometimes hard to talk about Mel, because she’s either hailed as “doing no wrong” or hated for “getting in the way of Jayvik/hurting Jayce” and I think it’s made people either very defensive or very critical of her. But idk I think both opinions r wrong, and people need to start understanding her more.

In s2 Mel puts everything on the line to do the right thing rather than the easy thing, and goes out of her way to make up for whatever past mistakes she may have made. She’s not perfect, but she makes the active decision to be good.

The truth is, she did manipulate Jayce, but she also cared deeply for him. She spoke over Viktor and ignored his decisions when they didn’t line up with her plans, but she didn’t hate him. She was the richest person in piltover and had a seat on the council, both of which are things she didn’t use to help the undercity; but she did still care about the people of piltover. All of these things are true at the same time, and it’s not “hating” to point out a characters flaws, nor can you truly love a character while ignoring their flaws.

[heartnoose]

Mephisto is really the kind of man to take a partner on a date to Costco, where all they do is eat the free samples. They might each get a hot dog and soda combo but only if it goes well enough. Though he still steals his partner’s soda anyways /hj

[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]

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…

[fazedlight]

"What is gender?" and "What is camp?" and "What is sci-fi vs. fantasy?" are all the same-shaped problem in my head.

Everyone knows what they are but no one can explain them to me 😭

[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)

[lae-zels]

now that it has marinated in my head long enough i want to say that i hated what they did to the girls in arcane s2 and the season was shit overall. no amount of jayvik or alternative timeline timebomb can save this shitshow