#rubbish.

[skeleton-squid-b0y]

you have GOT to remember when watching the new doctor who that the question is not is this good. doctor who is only ever actually 'good' once a season at most. THE ONLY QUESTION IS is it fun, camp, and has aliens. also remember the worst doctor who showrunner is always the current doctor who showrunner. now go watch the new episodes as god intended like you're ten years old and still remember how to experience joy and whimsy.

[heartsoftruth]

btw don’t come in my asks with your 🤬🤬🤬 and insult me and my English when I’m not even a native.

Even more when you can’t even type 2 sentences in Dutch without Google translate; let alone answer an ask in it.

[shiftythrifting]

free

[reality-detective]

Alan Jones completely destroys The Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Hoax. 🤔

[slack-wise]

Gomi Pit

[violecov]

((Finwe and Feanor (and baby Nolo) go on a long walk)).

This took me way longer than expected :00 . Anyway, here is a slightly ~Winter~ themed story.

Hope you guys like it!!

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

happy it will be the ides of march in a matter of hours tuesday

[chungledown-bimothy]

i did not know that media literacy could be this bad what the actual fuck

[alexandriad]

yet another greeku ancient greek miku

[bread-wizards]

When you bust out the heroics to save your boy and he misses it

[jeena-says-hi]

Third life au where everything is the same but when Ren becomes the red king, he wears these:

[jayktoralldaylong]

Alright, there's something I'd like to talk about, and let's come at it with an open mind. When Season one of Arcane ended I was 99% sure that Mel was not going to make it to this season. I was praying for every kind of miracle that could happen just to keep that beautiful goddess on screen but she was the first line of contact for that bomb.

Now that everything has been revealed, I want to talk about that bomb.

Ironically, Season two episode one starts with the exact same shine of gold that ended season one.

See, season one:

Season two:

And when the smoke clears we can see her leaning really close to Jayce, like she got blasted towards him.

Now, looking at the seat arrangements from Season one, I can actually see it a lot better now that I'm taking a second look. We can see that she is standing directly in the line of fire, Jayce is standing to her left and Viktor is sitting in his chair, Jayce's chair. Just about everyone sitting by her right died, Salo is sitting furthest away from the blast, opposite her. He probably saw it just a few seconds before she did.

And when she wakes up, all groggy and out of focus, her hands are on his shoulder. They been there, she did not just put them there, she already had her hands on him. Protecting him.

But what I really want to pay attention to, is the look on Mel's face when she and Jayce take in the damage.

The entire place burned down. Realistically, not a single person should have survived that, especially not unharmed.

Then the damage starts sinking in (Don't look at Jayce, look at Mel):

Look at Mel, as they look around the room of injured Councillors.

Jayce is panicking, full on panicking, he's had his nerves rattled, he's never seen anything like this (unlike Mel who, if the audience remembers, grew up in Noxus). And the sweetest thing is how she follows him around, trying to comfort him, while he's trying to shake Cassandra awake.

And she stays right there by his side, until her mother pulls her away (foreshadowing about their duties pulling them apart perhaps?)

Now, imagine you were in the middle of a disaster, a terrible disaster, and you had the power to save every single person in that room, but you did not know this because no one ever bothered once telling you that you had powers. However, in that moment, you did indeed save one person, without knowing, without even thinking. Who did Mel save?

She saved Jayce. (The craziest thing about that.....is that.... Viktor was literally right beside him. He was right beside Jayce OMG 😭����).

Watching this scene, I cannot imagine the amount of guilt that threatened to swallow Mel whole ever0y time she saw the aftermath of what happened and a small part of her brain would nag her that she could have prevented it, that she could have protected Jayce's friend.

So why Jayce? Why ONLY Jayce?

"Because she loves him."

Obvious answer, two plus two equals four, but this is Arcane we're talking about, there is more to this simple equation and it is plain to see in their reactions in the aftermath.

Jayce is devastated. He is new to war, he does not know shit about it, it scares him to see all the people that he respects flattened like they are nothing. The Piltover Council means something to Jayce.

To Mel, they are colleagues. They are.... people with names and faces and power. They are people she would help on a normal day, but at the first sign of danger she clung to one person.

Jayce was Viktor's first friend, and he was Mel's too. He was the first person to tell her that she was not crazy. The first person to strangely believe in her dreams, to pour out affection not out of arrogance but genuine care that he was not ashamed or even hesitant to show her. He fought for peace when she began to doubt. When she felt unstable, his naivete and pure heart steadied her.

Mel loved Jayce. Loved him so much that she did not freak out when he was tweaking cause of the Arcane. So much that she fought for him when he was getting outright dominated by his ex. 💀💀 And while it is not the space shattering world changing soul bonded union of javik, I think it is beautiful that Mek loved Jayce.

I think it's ironic that the brotherly love that people keep trying to achieve with Jayce and Viktor was represented so well with Jayce and Mel. I think it's iconic that a male and female character that banged on screen can go their separate ways without a dramatic breakup and without losing the entirety of their care for one another (cause some of it was definitely damaged after their individual trauma).

What I'm trying to say is that Mel loved Jayce. The love was there. Call it romantic or platonic or whatever but she cared about him more than she cared about anyone in that room when that bomb went off.

And it just twists something in my heart....that Jayce was so loved by the two people that meant so much to him. That he gave all of his heart out and they gave everything back because of how selfless his love was. Everyone says Viktor and Mel are out of Jayce's league but they both keep putting him first. (⁠T⁠T⁠) They just cannot resist that all encompassing love of his. It saved Viktor, and it saved Mel who finally found her truth, and lost him to find it.

[shiftythrifting]

Incredible find on my local marketplace. We are tragically lacking a yard to put it in or it would be taken already

[ratatattouille]

arcane season 1 was like "this is a story about zaun" and then season 2 was just the writers gaslighting us with "no it was actually always about piltover" and that is why the finale couldn't stick the landing

[eviesqueezie]

darry grips the side of the counter, knuckles turning white to match his pale face. the nausea was rising up his throat slowly but steadily, threatening to spill bile and unspoken words he would eat he die than speak.

“dar?” pony takes a step towards him, darry can tell him apart from the rest of the gang by his footsteps. soft and delicate in the way that darry knew would change eventually. he was holding onto them with a tight grip for as long as he could. “you- you okay?”

he could hear the silent tears in his voice, the hoarseness of his throat. he’d been crying non-stop once the shock had faded. when he’d cried himself to sleep, soda had moved to darry’s room and done the same in his.

who’s arms would darry cry into?

“yeah. yeah, i’m fine. go back to sleep, it’s late.”

his voice doesn’t sound like his own, too strong and steady. he wasn’t strong nor steady anymore, he was weak and shaking. lightheaded and dizzy, wobbling off balance.

“darry..” his voice trails off as he launches himself into his arms, darry barely catching him. but when he does, he holds on tight. both boys’ bodies shake, darry can feel his shoulder grow wet with tears. “i’m scared, i’m so scared darry. i’m sorry, please, god i’m sorry.”

darry shakes his head, pulling him in closer.

“it’s not your fault, baby.”

pony sighs, knees buckling as they both fall to the floor slowly.

how problematic is fear? darry would ask himself in his diary, months and months ago. he could answer it now, with wet cheeks and a bleeding bitten lip. problematic enough to destroy your mind, to torture you from the inside out and rip your heart apart from the valves to the veins. he had lost that diary months ago, though.

was pony asking himself the same question in his own diary? darry prayed, hoped and wished he wasn’t.

he would do anything, to make him feel different to how darry felt. make him soar like those birds in those documentaries his father had always loved. soar like a bird, happy and free.

darry would be chained down, legs sawed in half and arms buried in the sand- if it meant ponyboy could soar.

he would make sure of it.

[feathercreates]

becky lemme smash please (a.k.a. I found a Satin Bowerbird bower down by my local creek and was a little bit inspired. XD) Stickers, pattern goodies and more can be found on my Redbubble store here!