#mels talks

[quee-r-code]

guy that makes you sick to your stomach

[ID: a series of Great God Grove screenshots with the character Rick Brick. On screenshots 1-5 he says "Eyeballin' ya, 76% of network audiences would call your face too weird.

And the other 24% would say its too normal

I've got the best eyeballs around. That's why the network sent me to find the next blockbuster show.

Nothing to challenge the audience... nothing to cause controversy...

A UNIVERSALLY APPEALING SHOW! I'm tearing up just thinking about it."

Screenshot 6 features him replying to "Heh, you're sure to make me plenty o' cash!" by saying "I'll make you tons of cash, sir! I promise!"

Screenshot 7 features him replying to "Whoof, I think it's time for some editing." by saying "Chopping up a story is TRUE art. How ELSE do you make it appeal to everybody?"

end ID.]

[monophobix]

the real MVPs of arcane

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

The stewards of the old world are always keen to give you a glimpse of their might... According to legend, the ancients built specialized chambers to seal away false prophets.

The Arcane is waking up.

[magic-is-beauty]

[medeas-chariot]

I'm just going to say that student movements are always powerful because governments fear students. What did they expect from Columbia University? Part of their culture was that students did the same years ago when the Vietnam war was taking place! Look really close to these movements because I feel this is the beginning of the end.

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

Mel and Viktor being drawn to each other but repelling each other at the same time... Ughhh you know I critique the fuck out of the writing sometimes but someone COOKED HERE

[korraofthereef]

PLEASE IM CRYING

[lynsstrange]

Caitvi doing it in a prison cell while Jinx is trying to blow herself up gives the same energy as Mel and Jayce getting some while Viktor was actively dying in season one

[luposlipaphobya]

Falling in love with an outer god

(Just wanted to imagine what it’d look like if Mel took a draconic form in front of Lazuli. I guess it’d be more voidy and nightmarish in game cause of the Fallen Aasimar of the Awful Deep thing, but let’s just say that Mel could also be related to a golden dragon who was also Pelor’s favorite so… 👀 I wanted to try a fairytale/medieval vibe here, kinda happy with how it turned out! Melisande belongs to @the-nothing-maker ❤️)

[linddzz]

I love the theory of JayMelVik. They could be the ultimate power throuple and man Mel would be so good in there. She's already so supportive of her boytoy's weird codependent thing with his lab partner (tbh she's probably like "I didn't realize this was a package deal but I also did not realize that the boytoy Himbo I wanted to politically manipulate is a needy puppy so... sure") Checking in to see how Viktor is doing in the hexcore goo. "He'll come back to us."

It's all there ok! Season2 showed me the wonder that could be Mel going "This is my boyfriend Jayce and this is Jayce's soulmate, Viktor. Jayce and I make out and Viktor and I are frienemies for reasons that don't have anything to do with Jayce and more to do with Viktor's opinions of politicians."

Unfortunately Season 2 also absolutely torpedoed my ability to see Viktor being ok with this. Holy shit this look he shoots between Mel and Jayce when she interrupts them. Holy shit Viktor

This is the angriest he looks in his entire actual villain arc. This is the most murderous he looks. He looks like he just found his man cheating and he's going "actually maybe I will straight up kill his ass" (Viktor she interrupted because you were literally choking him out what is wrong with you)

I think it even goes deeper than just sexual jealousy. I think that codependent nerd labeled her a homewrecker when she made Jayce a councilor and in doing so committed the heinous crime of having Jayce do things outside of the lab more. She took Jayce's attention. She took Jayce's mental energy off the work. The dream. Their dream. At that point banging Jayce was just the sprinkles on top.

But then when I go "I don't think there was as much sexual/romantic jealousy" I remember this. Viktor...my guy...

And it's so one sided. It's so one sided he's so petty with it. Mel is so supportive! she's already viewing them as a pair of brilliant minds! She figured out quick that Jayce comes as a package deal!!

She comes in to ask how he's doing and help support Jayce. she says "he'll come back to us" and worries about what the hexcore is doing to him. and Viktor's stupid little cocoon tries to bite her!! yeah it's likely a reaction to her own latent arcane ability but my take is funnier

He's so petty!! Uncalled for!!! Viktor please you are killing what could be the baddest hottest power triad in Runeterra!

[quee-r-code]

there's no reason for me to be this tickled by "The Nice" but it's so funny to me

[le-fruit-de-la-passion]

Perhaps a Hot Take: I don't have anything against JayVik as a ship, but the amount of people in the fandom who use it as an opportunity to be openly racist and misogynistic towards Mel and Sky, and to feminize/infantilize Viktor as a disabled man make it REALLY hard to enjoy

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Imagining this Viktor sassing Mel. No screen on earth could have handled their power, I fear.

[furiousdiana]

If Jayce is seeing what they would look like in a parallel world where Viktor won because of his hexcorisation...

Then is this... is this meant to be mel? the image appears right when she's up in his face arguing with him.

that's... that's horrifying. plus she chased him off a cliff.

also... that's probably caitlyn. they're missing the same eye, and mel and caitlyn were together in their last moments.

Fucking hell, just when I think the worst timeline couldn’t get any more horrifying...

[srslylini]

do you remember that show, the one that was praised for its narrative and tight knit story, the one that was said to have one of, if not the best, portrayal of: mental health/illness, classism, women, character development, characters in general and show not tell? that one??

well it killed its 3 suicidal characters, sidelined the women in favor of a "bigger story" that forgot its central theme of classism

BY KILLING THE OPPRESSED IN THE CLOTHES OF THE PEOPLE THAT OPPRESSED THEM.

It brought together a lesbian couple in a cell in a prison one of the lesbians was tortured in and depicted it as her kneeling infront of the rich woman because the show loves its show not tell. It brought in new characters and killed them off, they had no overarching purpose in the story.

Yeah that show.