#speaking is resistance

[fairuzfan]

[hopepunk-humanity]

It’s not over. It’s not fucking over. Until they steal the breath from our lungs and the last of us has given up or given in, nothing is finished.

Today’s to-do list:

1) Take care of yourself.

2) Take care of each other.

3) Start planning.

[cheesenchalk]

i never know how to phrase it but something about the way beatles biographers and people in general view paul's reflexive placating persona and determination to smooth things over as manipulative or duplicitous and john's reflexive barbed persona and habit of lashing out as brave and subversive despite both being equally defensive mechanisms to shield themselves from the world that resulted in them saying things that weren't true says more about how we culturally view kindness or friendliness as inherently untrustworthy or flimsy and anger and carelessness as more believable as someone's true nature than it says about either of them in actuality

[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

[hinamie]

色彩 [Shikisai]

[truepapyrusenjoyer]

Beware of the man who came from the other world.

[queervegancryptid]

Came across this a while back. It basically provides a one-sentence summary of the major political news of the day, with each event or topic separated by a semicolon. Then that sentence is broken down and each clause is expanded upon. It also links to several sources for each.

It's a good tool to have in your pocket these days. With so much going on, I wouldn't suggest having only one or two sources for news, but this one I check daily to see what I missed and get an overview of things. It's like Wikipedia that way: a good starting point in terms of getting the broad points, but it shouldn't necessarily be used as a standalone.

One thing I like about it is that there are sources you can click on that corroborate the info there. So you're not just taking the word of some guy on the internet.

[ohgreat-moretapes]

Crazy? I used to be crazy. They locked me in a room, a rubber room with rats- and rats. . . They make me crazy. . .

You sound like somebody I don't remember...

-Tim

(OOC: this is so OOC but @studentfilmyoulying and I have an inside joke headcanon that Jay has this as a vocal stim and accidentally pissed off Tim with it when they first met, so when I got this ask I IMMEDIATELY needed to draw this)

[mettywiththenotes]

Viktor didn't just break up with him. Months later, he then did the equivalent of texting his ex and asking if they could meet up again

[enterthew1red]

[rassicas]

btw guys I've gotten my hands on some bancalawalker pages, specifically the band lore stuff. translations will come soon so be patient<3

[chaiaurchaandni]

4 year old Ahmad Shabat - an israeli airstrike hit him, his parents & 4 siblings; he survived, they didn't - then they hit him & his father's relatives; he survived, they didn't - then they hit him & his uncle; he survived, his uncle didn't - both of Ahmed's legs have been amputated because of injuries. He survives.

i hope Ahmad gets to live. i hope he has a beautiful and fulfilling life. i hope he finds love and safety and comfort and success. i hope he finds happiness. i hope he heals. i hope he continues to survive. in spite of the violence, in spite of the trauma, in spite of the horror. in spite of the world.

[isuggestforcefem]

you seem to be doing a bit more than just "suggesting" forcefem...

Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.

[ivyloveheart]

Do you think that if you were to grab King Candy’s crown and pull it away really far and let go it would slingshot back to his head and knock him out

[romanceddawn]

i was going to put this in my reblog of the last post but i felt like it didnt really fit, but one of my favorite little facts about yugi is that his bangs stick out weirdly because he's always pushing some of them behind his ears (i know this is true because i have really straight hair and the pieces i shove behind my ear still curl and stick literally straight out the same way)

[vrystalius]

Beware, Kokushibo now is equipped with a katana and he is not afraid to use it!!