#the beat and the speed of it

[benevolenterrancy]

~ Extremely Unwilling Magical Protagonists Attempt To Outrun The Plot And Not Fucking Die ~

(@takofukkatsumi this tag is from a while ago but it hasn't left my brain -- L-Space got very weird all of a sudden)

[eggsdrawings]

ko-fi request for @/hellish.atrocity on instagram! bakugou being annoyed while hawks is happy and chill

[forgetfulmachineart]

[ID: A two page digital comic going from a dark cool tone to a warmer orange. The first page is in three long horizontal panels. The first is Yuuji Itadori walking with Nobara and Megumi and there is a silhouette in the foreground. In the second panel, Yuuji notices the person with a shocked expression. Thre third panel is Choso Kamo smiling and waving. The second page starts with three panels of Yuuji's expression going from shocked, to smiling with teary eyes, then looking down while smiling and crying. The final panel is Yuuji and Choso hugging with tears barely visible. /End ID]

JJK if Gege had a cardiovascular system

[babykittenteach]

Glass-bottomed ego It's still afloat but can't you see the cracks appearing in the base?

[homkamiro]

Straight sniperscout please 🙏🏽

That's actually an interesting thought!!! Didn't knew which version of straight ship you wanted so I made both

[quiverymango]

Y'know what? Screw it...[WoF-ifies your Fiddlestan]

[zephyrfuse]

KEYS WON NEW SHITTY CALAMARI INKANTAION TIME

(I met sure to include every instrument in the fest as well, played by mr baby keys truly)

[sturnioloho]

slow sex w chris n moaning out the syllables of his full name on every thrust

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

feyre calling her blackouts a mercy, said blackouts causing her lose memories she still hasn’t recovered, only for her to say she actually wanted the guy who did this all to her at that moment. what if i just killed myself

[pippin-pippout]

I mean to be fair, nothing in One Piece cares about the rules of physics, but this is still hilarious.

[thatneoncrisis]

Curious about your issues with the show!! I have my own ofc but always interested In more opinions

spoilers for like. all of the show el oh el

its hard for me to like. properly articulate on the fly but i think its primarily 1. a show that is genuinely trying to build a complicated structure out of the rusted metal and twigs that makes up LoL lore that gets overhauled every like, four years, so often times it feels like a character in arcane will get hard shafted out of a natural arc so they end up where they "should be" in accordance to their league counterpart.

strongest example i have off the dome is violet, where i think in act 1 of arcane shes a really intriguing and well crafted character whos sympathetic and has goals and values you can follow. and then they shunt her off to prison during the time skip and when she comes out shes like. everything she does from that point on just feels Tilted it feels like they gutted out all the parts that would have gotten me from A to Z wrt her going from scrappy kid in the lanes whos like. direct causes of terror and unhappiness in life were from enforcer. to a bitch who joins the enforcers. and its not that i dont think that turnaround is possible, i just dont think they articulated it well with such a truncated amount of episodes split between so many subplots

and then my main Thing 2. uuuh. this is more of like my own issues with this kind of story telling in general rather than an arcane specific issue that i will codify as "liberal progressives attempt to Both Sides the issue of apartheid in their magic story." the creators of the show emphasized that they wanted each character to be morally grey, differnt shades to them and the motivations contextualizing their actions. which is like, fair enough thats just good character writing but i dont think theyre particularly. great at that. especially when trying to marry it to my earlier point about how certain characters essentially have to invert to become their league analogs in some sense. also someone like ekko? not grey. hes just right? he doesnt fuck with enforcers and he doesnt fuck with the kingpin flooding the lanes with shimmer, he just wants to help the people suffering the most. stand up dude.

theres a lot of different levels to which this clashing between intent and execution falls flat for me in arcane but the one ill get into now is silco and vander. from an objective view its a classic story of two close brothers in arms driven apart by ideology/circumstance, weve seen it with professor xavier and magneto, it also reminded me of tchalla and killmonger although they dont have the childhood friends aspect going for them. but the point is its not like a unique idea. two people want to change the world for the better, one of them starts killing civilians about it, the first guy is like hey! maybe dont do that! epic fall out ensues.

and the story is cognizant of the fact that silco IS an antagonist: not just in the sense that he is opposing our protagonists goals, he sold out the children to the enforcers in the first act, he released shimmer onto zaun and keeps a stranglehold on the city with his circle of chem barons like he fucking sucks. and the whole time im watching im noting how his methods to "free zaun" are like, THE thing destroying it. the streets are rampant with nameless mutated homeless people hooked on shimmer he is directly responsible for. and i was kind of waiting for like. a shift within his circle. if that makes sense. obviously people like violet and ekko and caitlyn dont like him but they never did they dont have to be convinced, but to have someone who initially put all their trust into him as the guy to bring zaun into glory and then slowly have to reckon with the fact theyve propped up a mad man who has prioritized power in himself over the initial goal of liberating the city would have whipped ass.

and then it just didnt happen. theres this fascinating thing going on with silco where hes talking mad shit about the likes of vander, oh hes too softhearted, he will never do what it takes to truly ensure the safety and freedom of the lanes bc he cares too much about his damn babies. and then silco finds himself as caretaker of one of those babies. the show meticulously shows me how he cares for her, he softens for her, he lets her tinker in her silly cave all day and blow up cops with harley quinn bombs. so we have three main things to keep in mind with silco:

his primary stated goal is to free zaun from piltovers repressive rule.

his shimmer production is one of if not The thing actively destroying the lanes

he now has Baby, whos safety has become a growing priority for him.

this culminating in the finale where he is presented with the opportunity to hand her over to the authorities in exchange for zauns independence. now THIS could have been a really interesting internal dilemma for him. he is now faced with the exact choice that led vander to becoming "weak" in his eyes. whats one girls life in exchange for his dream finally becoming a reality. but its also an impossible thing to ask because thats his Daughter. so now hes risking scrutiny from his underlings for being wishy washy. ooh intrigue mystery. youd really need some time to steep on his agonies and what hes really willing to prioritizeat this point in his life

and then none of that happens bc hes immediately kidnapped and shot and never has to seriously consider it. he never has to SACRIFICE he always just. has everything he wants. forever. until he dies. powerful chem baron running the show with his army of teen supersoldiers.

another route i considered them being able to do is something more focused on him and sevika. she left vander to join his cause specifically bc she thought vander was weak. as his right hand, she would do anything for silco, including literally giving up her fucking arm when she saved him from the blast in act one. timeskip, now we see she has a fun new mech arm powered by silcos own shimmer, which we are shown the side effects of time and time again. i thought this was leaning into a metaphor about how her emotional dependence on him and his cause was being represented by a chemical dependence on shimmer. like its destroying her physically and mentally but she NEEDS it to work out to know it wasnt all for nothing so shell put up with whatever sketchy bullshit hes got going on, the ends justify the means. and we get like six detailed shots of shimmer being pumped directly into her body i thought for sure they were gonna be like oh this is fucking killing her, like a compound v situation

but shes like. fine. theres no side effects besides a cool scar. shes chilling.

i also thought her antagonistic dynamic with jinx was going somewhere. like if sevika noticed that silco was putting her above what needed to be done for the sake of liberating zaun, and noticing how it mirrored how vander became "weak" and getting that much more pissed about playing second fiddle to a 17 year old. like imagine you get that whole scene where sevika makes it look like shes gonna execute silco, then murders the chem baron who asked her to do it because she trusts him THAT much, then later she hears about jayce's offer to silco and sees him GENUINELY considering leaving the offer on the table JUST for jinx. sorry if i was her id snap. id go crazy id start a coup.

so basically what im saying is. lotta different options to make the characters richer and more grey as they struggle with what they really care about. but the story just kind of shuffles past them and then insists that the bonds were there the whole time you guys jinx and sevika are totally besties now shes a symbol of zaun <3

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

I think dragon crews (especially on heavyweight dragons) should have their own working songs as well.

Call them sky shanties

[bellabrady]

how eddie sprinted from the front of the ambulance that he was driving to the back so he could take over giving cpr to buck

[joinmeinjoy]

Hannibal really didn't get beat up enough in the show, I think. He tormented Will so much but it feels like only half of it was what he did to Will and the other half was what OTHER people did to Will as a result of Hannibals actions.

Will feared walking into an institution and not being allowed to walk back out, and that came true thanks to Hannibal. He feared being psychologically dissected, noted, and studied - all of which happened in the BSHCI. He was put in a prime position to be poked and stared at, to have everyone ever who called him a freak be able to point at him behind bars and go "Look! I was right!". He questioned his own sanity because no one listened to him, and the one person that had was literally the one that put him there! His - dare I say first - friend who made him feel normal and not alone was literally the one to put him in the institute, to make people think they'd been right about Will Graham all along.

And he had to sit there through that, had to wonder if maybe everyone else was right, until he was sure it was Hannibal. But even that was little solace when he realised no one was coming to save him. It's why he turned to the manipulation so quickly and effectively, bc he realised no one else was going to get him out, he had to save himself and literally risk the death penalty while at it.

He had to sit for months through people gloating that they were right all along about how weird he is, at colleagues treating him like a stranger for crimes he didn't commit (and I will admit, it did not look good for him with all the evidence Hannibal planted & his altered mind state), through Alana saying she felt nothing romantically for him both privately and in front of a court. Beaten down already and then being made to feel like you're not even desirable, publicly, because it helps your case. To someone who already has trouble forming any sort of relationship - platonic or otherwise - and only has rapidly fraying connections while in the BSHCI.

And then when he gets out and no one even says the words 'I'm sorry' to him?? theres acknowledgements - I owe you an apology, I should've noticed - but no one actually says I am sorry. They just imply it. He had to sit through months of his worst fears coming true all while feeling like he's going crazy because no one else can see the truth (and it IS the truth!!) and then he doesn't even get real apologies and also now has his shit out there in the public being known as the guy that was arrested for being a serial killer.

So anyway. Hannibal deserves to get run over w a car is what I'm saying. And much more

[greensolsikke]

Feels like a Käärijä gig in your living room

(Käärijä rapping live at Beat Boat in 2022)

Enjoy 23 minutes of yellow rap goofball

[lokh]

i think sport climbing is an underexplored avenue for sport manga