#songles

[mollysunder]

The Medarda arc of s2 struggled to be good, because the plot viciously smothered it. You can argue that Arcane was never about politics but you cannot say the Medardas were never explicitly a family defined by politics. So when the show shifted it's priorities from a drama steeped in political conflict where even though the setting was fantastical the stakes were grounded to a shift where magic is the end all be all threat to humanity, the Medardas are rendered largely irrelevant.

In s2 Mel's agency over her own story is both largely stripped from her and poorly communicated. Arcane has Mel abducted from the plot to be the Black Rose's captive. Even when Mel manages to free herself it's not through the traits the audience understands are her strengths, her cunning and social intelligence, it's through an innate instinct that natural to her and indecipherable to the audience.

Ambessa as a character is more or less a villain of convenience, which would be fine if she wasn't immediately following Silco's act. Once Mel is removed from the story Ambessa is largely disconnected from any emotional tension fuels conflict between the characters and previously drove the plot in s1. She's there to play the worse bad guy for Caitlyn and then give Viktor the man power for the Glorious Evolution.

It's frustrating to see the Medardas used the way they are in s2 because when they're together I can see how it could be good. When they're together Mel forces emotion out of Ambessa. In Act 1, Ambessa proved she could do circles around Piltover's court, which could actually put Mel in a tight spot.

Their final scene on paper sounds like a good idea where the true resolution to Mel and Ambessa's story was that Ambessa saw Mel's own ruthless behavior as she not only betrayed Ambessa to the Black Rose, but used her as BAIT to double cross LeBlanc. Ambessa died proud that her daughter killed her the way she did, and that's so cool and tragic, but the execution was a flop.

One, their final fight is completely unimportant to the actual Glorious Evolution, Mel's grief can't even be a highlight because it's interrupted by Viktor's mind trap. Two, their fight didn't rely on any of Mel's actual strengths, just magic and the poorly explained MacGuffin LeBlanc gave her. How did Mel even know it would do that?

It's like the writers had the bones for a great story for the Medardas, but then they're like the world's worst archeologists and fit those bones together in the worst way possible because they were convinced the bones made a stegasaurus instead of a T-rex or something.

[eadbh]

I'm so glad we invented train station platforms to give mankind a place to cry

[reegis]

are you in any other fandoms than the Mechs 0:?

i feel like at least one of these is pretty obvious jsjsj i dont know how to like things a normal amount so it’s limited to only a few at a time

[ikarus-angel]

DAY 27. - WARMER

[1951 - Somewhere in the Snow]

[borealnyx]

And here's my dune: prophecy review.

Very starwars prequel coded(kind of positive but not really), but not toxic or gay enough

[mayas-illusion]

A quick sketch of Maya in a potantial performance dress!! :D

[zerothesonic]

guys does anyone know where to watch sonic 3 online… i cant just watch it once please im dying here help a guy out please

[thelaithlyworm]

So I've been working through a copy of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, and on the one hand I've been enjoying the non-streamlined plot structures -- sometimes you'll get a whole-ass story with multiple generations, sometimes it's maybe half a page of a weird anecdote that has no explanation -- nobody sat and told Pu Songling that a three-act structure or a particular wordcount was mandatory and there's just a lot of variety. Keeps me amiably guessing.

And on the other... how varied the monsters are.

Maaaaybe the beautiful girl let into the house is really a fox and the next few weeks will involve everyone slowly dying.

Or maybe the beautiful girl let into the house is really a fox, and the other beautiful girl let into the house a month later is really a ghost and they will end up having an argument over who was draining the protagonist's life force and then dig up some medicine to make him feel better and then get married except the ghost girl kinda inadvertently steals a living body and then the fox dies but she reincarnates and they find her again a few years later and everybody cries and they live happily ever after with their polycule complete once more...

Variety, you know?

[vieraslaji]

kertokaa mulle pari suomalaista yritystä joilla on sanaleikiksi muodostamakelpoisia nimiä pliis, kello on 2.56 ja haluun kertoo Toys-R-Us:n kaltaisen vitsin mun mielenterveydestä

[mechaffeine]

Me: oh i love [character] i love to see [character] in [media] 💛✨💫💛✨💫

Me literally every time [character] opens xer mouth to talk:

[thorninyourpaw]

you ever so attention deprived that you start crying because you posted a picture on twitter that nobody wanted to look at that you thought maybe might finally make someone look at you again

[planetwaving]

things i bravely did not buy at the record store :

things i did buy :

[bobardo]

ok lowk I was listening to agora hills and. my god.

boxer!carmy is busy training again. he's on a *fucking roll,* actually, and he doesn't plan on unwrapping his knuckles at any point now. his phone's left in the locker at the gym, and his entire focus is on this motherfucking punching bag that he's taking *swings* at. he doesn't need the training, but god, does it feel good.

and he misses *multiple* calls from his cub. okay, maybe it isn't that much- maybe two or three calls, but she does leave one voicemail.

"baby, can you call me back? I miss you. it's so lonely in my apartment-"

and baby, you know he is THERE. straight from the gym to her apartment in a matter of minutes. doesn't matter if her apartment is a little ways across town, or that there is *so much fucking* traffic. no, he's gonna be there for his girl.

after all, a good cooldown is essential to finish off a good workout.

you already know this is 🍓non

no stoooop ur so right he would drop literally everything!!! and he’d alr feel sooooo guilty for missing her calls so when he gets there and she’s all pouty and on the verge of tears and “where tf were u bear?” he feels like such a shitty bf ☹️😭😭😭

can js imagine her trying to give him the cold shoulder, all “no, took too long, don’t wanna see u anymore.” but they BOTH KNOW she’s lying so he js stays and wraps her up in his big beefy sweaty arms, crowding her space until “yuck! bearrrr, ur all stickyyy.” but he js peppers her face w kisses and drags her into the shower w him so he can f*ck that attitude right outta her 😁😁😁

[pseudoirony]

full offence!! but when pearls father saw her in her mothers pretty dress and cried

[muirneach]

daniil dead. karen murdered in a ditch. and yet andrey remarkably managing to win from a set down. like what the hell man thats not how this goes

[waterlogged-detective]

I need to actually write doe more seriously on here so i can do great mouse detective bullshit with him