#she’s a riot

[corviids]

If Saera marries little Viserys, then she would be Aegon IV's mother, which means she would be Daemon Blackfyre's grandmother. (This would also imply that she named one of her daughters after her baby sister which would be adorable)

i mean,,, i’ve always said that my canon divergent fics loop back around to canon :) and i’ve said before that if the blackfyre rebellion happens, it’d be spawned specifically from saera’s bloodline

[thelonelywiz]

writing tip: the best way to make a character complex is to base them off of ur sibling whom you have a complicated relationship with

[thresholdbb]

I was looking through Kate Mulgrew’s Instagram (like you do) and started cracking up at her shaking hands with tiny action figure Janeway

[herstoriies]

TFW you realize Priscilla at her core is actually the comedic relief and comfort character disguised as the female lead

[alonelywaterbottle]

At Family reunion and have to tell people I’m engaged. Telling my lesbian aunt was the best one though.

Me: I don’t know if you heard but I’m enagaged

Her: what no! I don’t use the internet, what’s their name?

Me: her name is [redacted]

Her: her!!! Yes I was right!!! I said when you were a kid you’d be gay, thought I was wrong for a minute!

[gaybuckybarnesss]

INDUSTRY 1.06 "Nutcracker"

[storge]

a life for a life.... Sacrifice oneself for love...

The Double (2024) 1.09

[ruscha]

"What is it about California, that we all came to this place? Maybe it's the sunshine. Maybe it's the friendly people. When you think of the promise of the American Dream, you think of California. But it is just a dream. It's not real."

LEE MOLDAVER in Fallout Season 1 (2024)

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

massages forehead So Ambessa hid Mel away because she was a weapon in the literal sense, a mage. But Ambessa came to Piltover for Hextech? And Ambessa had nothing to say to Mel about her powers having visibly awakened? Even when Mel offered to go with Ambessa, giving her the ultimate opportunity to make Mel a weapon for real? And Ambessa made no attempt to find or retrieve Mel - not just her daughter and the remnants of the family Ambessa professes to love, but also her ultimate weapon - when she disappeared? And Ambessa trusted Singed and Viktor on their home turf - neither of them hiding how insane and self-serving they are with every reason to take over Ambessa's soldiers or just blatantly turn on her as soon as it benefits them - more than she trusted Mel? While Caitlyn (and by extension Piltover) was visibly and clearly falling away from Ambessa's teachings before Ambessa's eyes? (as if getting rid of certain people allows piltover to get rid of fascism but we won't get into All That)

Not only do I struggle to be hyped for Mel's powers beyond how amazing and beautiful she looks, but I can't help but feel like Mel is somehow less powerful in season 2 than she was in season 1, and not in an interesting way. As if Mel's ability to bend all of Piltover politics and economics to her will in season 1 now means nothing in season 2? You can argue that Jinx's attack led directly to Mel losing ground in Piltover - because I expected Mel to have to claw back that power without being able to rely on people who are too easily seduced by Ambessa and authoritarianism, and she would have to get creative to go toe to toe with her mother. I expected pushback to her mage identity that she would have to navigate. But instead this went either unwritten, or was ignored or discarded. Instead Mel is removed from the main plot, cutting her off from what made her the most interesting - only for all of Mel's very real talents, her very real powers and abilities, to be not only translated but REPLACED with magical powers she doesn't know how to control, and by the finale, those magic powers are the only powers that are considered real. Mel takes a backseat to Piltover's governing and decisions, a backseat to Jayce of all people who was not only new to politics mere months ago but made poor governing, strategic, and diplomatic decisions when he had that power. In season 1 Mel stayed off the "throne" but she did pull its strings one way or the other, and she makes no attempt at this in season 2

In my least generous suspicions, Mel was gentled and quieted to capitulate to an agenda for other characters who had to be correct and heroic - or wrong and villainous - no matter what the leadup narrative said, given her powers to help sell the game and set up future shows, and was effectively ejected from the Arcane story with faceless soldiers and a role she doesn't want because she was inconvenient there

[knockknockitsnickels]

I think this is one of my favorite lines from the Wraith route because of (imo) how much the meaning changes depending on if you got there via Spectre or Nightmare. For Spectre, it honestly strikes me as a genuine question. Why are you doing this to her? If you're on the Spectre route, you presumably already know the Narrator can't really be trusted, since you had to reject his reward to get here. What are you hoping to gain from continuing to hurt her? For Nightmare, it honestly just makes me sad. As the Shifting Mound describes her, "She desires only companionship, but the only thing she knows is how to hurt." This line feels like a plea from someone who genuinely doesn't understand why you keep rejecting her. She wants to be with you, but she just can't understand how to do that in a way which doesn't hurt you.

[hollisartsblog]

Finally catching up and watching season 2, have some jinx ;)

[marskid11]

this character showed up for four minutes and is still one of my favorite designs in the series I stg

[kafkaesqueer]

[julietwiskey1]

I genuinely believe that Jinx is still alive. The final shot was of an airship leaving, similar to the first shot of Powder (after the bridge scene) watching an airship go overhead. Powders first spoken line was “one day, I’m gonna ride in one of those things.”

Pair this with Caitlyn holding Jinx’s bomb fragment while looking at ducts leading out of the hexgate. Along with the last memory shown with Jinx being from Vanders POV and not Jinx’s. I think Warwick must of let her go or something, seeing Powder again in the monkey bomb. Whatever was left of Vander let her go.

[kabingo]

forever obsessed with her

[superchaoticcollections]

Behind every 'JINX IS A REVOLUTIONARY' poster is someone who completely disregarded the Firelights and what she did to them.