#the people in that video are probably all dead

[arcane-ish]

I think the videos definition of what centrist means is way too broad, but I think the message of Arcane is centrist even from the normie definition of centrist (ie good people on both sides, even bad people have good aspects, even good people can go bad).

Arcane is absolutely a show by pretty mainstream people written for a very mainstream audience. Which is precisely why they probably think of themselves as pretty lefty, because they likely live and work in a very mainstream if not actively conservative context and within that context they would be considered as doing lefty things by having a lesbian sex scene, designing Vi for a lesbian gaze or insinuating that Jinx and Silco aren't all bad.

It's of course not up to snuff to a hard leftist audiences, but again, why would you ever think you were the target audience? All the election results show that these views are pretty niche and even within the context of target audiences: the first and foremost target audience of Arcane were male gamer League of Legends fans. And I don't think that the writers were trying to gussy up that audience, but I think that audience was still very much on their mind (it's there in a lot of Christian interviews in particular). "Will the League gamers be mad at us if we design Vi to be not male gaze sexy? Better sweeten the deal for them with cool fight scenes!"

I'm just still genuinely floored why some of those hard leftists fans would rally around Vi? The text of the show is aggressively soft on Piltover in season 1 and Vi is one of the major mouthpieces of it!

It's just so weird to me how in the leftist ideology Vander is the evil traitor pig for ... making a deal with enforcers so they hopefully mostly leave Zaun alone. And Vi meanwhile makes deals with enforcers to go hunt down a fellow Zaunite, killing fellow Zaunites for being guards in Silco's factory and getting slews of people arrested for having jobs in Silco's factories.

All while constantly saying things that sound like what her biggest problem is not that Piltover oppreses them but that there isn't more intervention from Piltover!

Caitlyn: "I suppose topside is to blame for all your misfortunes." Vi: "No. Not all of them."

Vi: "It's where the kind of people you topsiders don't want to think about, wind up."

Vi: "One dead kid? There's hundreds more where he came from, thanks to Silco, and thanks to people like you who stuck their heads in the dirt."

Like at least Vander still carried on Silco's ideology that Piltover and Zaun should be largely seperate.

Vi is constantly talking like the big problem is that Piltover doesn't think enough out Zaun doesn't look enough at the problems of Zaun. (and yes Caitlyn says the same thing "Even though we failed her in countless ways, she risked everything to show me what life is really like down there." and "It's a misunderstanding.", "This city needs healing.") Both Caitlyn and Vi are mouthpieces for "Piltover and Zaun just need to kiss and make up". Vi is a key voice of "Piltover's problem is that it's uninformed and inconsiderate, not that it's oppressive and exploitative".

I think the writers thought that it was just obvious that Piltover is nice/better... they just forgot to actually put that into the text for the most part. But in their heads I wouldn't rule out that it's a conflict between like hard left (Silco/Jinx) and normie left (Piltover) versus actual fascists (Noxus/Ambessa). Because they are normies they of course don't buy into the idea that the normie state of being is the same as fascism (but also forget that most normie left doesn't include bridge riot/massacres and that little accountability as the Arcane setting has, but that Piltover just isn't a democracy, it's a merchant oligarchy, which might be progressive within the setting where most places around are active monarchies, but it's still pretty unjust for most contemporary people).

I actually think that season 1 veers way closer to a soft leftie fairytale where "Piltover and Zaun needs to just make up" and Jinx is the misguided, indocrinated girl who needs to be brought back.

Despite its messy politics, season 2 is actually way more against that fluffy narrative in how it takes Jinx's side, puts Silco into the good AU and of course shows Caitlyn going dark.

I just think they thought of it as their appraoch to balance where they portrayed Piltover and Caitlyn as mostly good/wellmeaning while showing Zaun's dark side and now they show that Caitlyn/Piltover can also have "a weak moment" and go dark.

They don't see that as "Piltover was fascist in season 1 and in season 2 they double down", they probably genuinely thought Piltover was mostly fine and understanding in season 1.

And yes, they generally demphasized Jinx's violence in season 2 as they make her a hero, but again, yes they are centrists/normies, so that's what they do when they make somebody a hero. Because they are not leftist edgelords enough to lean into "yes she's a sadistic terrorist and we're gonna lean into that and celebrate that". Because again, mainstream people producing for a mainstream audience. It just isn't statistically feasible that you would have like hundreds of employees who have exactly that point of view being given 100 million dollars and not a single person in the process (we know that Arcane was extensively shown around within Riot for years) would have objections.

People really wanted to believe into a 10 year 100 million dollar secret sting operations by leftist to sneak in hard left talking points to troll both their financiers and the mainstream audience? That's just not statistically feasible and imo the worldbuilding in season 1 was way too Piltover friendly and generally not that interested enough in hard world building for me to buy it was written by people with a keen eye and hard opinion on the world.

Normies wanting just a little flavor of rebellious and revolution is fully in character. It's the people wearing the Che Guevara t-shirt because it looks cool and feel rebellious but don't know a lick about his politics or know any of his actions or would subscribe to all of the if they did.

I think Arcane still feels leftie but as a "conversation within the left" not as a heroic tale of the heroic hard leftists against the evil oppressors or a tale that takes the position that soft or normie leftists are exactly the same as actual oppressors and fascists. Which again not surprising since the people working for big gaming companies and mainstream tv are much more likely to be normie leftists.

But the idea that hard left and normie left have a discourse and hash out their differences is a fairly leftist audience topic. And yes since it's being written by people from the normie left it is more likely to be wistful or hopeful about reconciliation.

And again if you read it more as a mid lefty tale, season 2 in particular actually shows quite a bit of restraint. Because we don't get a clean happy ending where Vi&Cait make up with Jinx and live happily ever after and we can see Jinx be cool with Piltover and vice versa. Yes we get that moment where Jinx and Cait have a conversation but it's hardly happy preppy kiss and make up. Because we don't get to see Piltover and Zaun characters together in the AU and have that presented as the better world. We don't see Ekko singing Piltover's praises.

(heh, I remember our discussions specifically where based on the content of season 1 I was convinced that Arcane would stay on its full on normie course and you were the big believer that Arcane would pivot to Jinx as the main hero while I thought that Amanda wouldn't let them stray from Vi as the main; so I clocked Arcane as fully normie in season 1 and you had more faith. And since I went in with normie expectations, for me season 2 was a lot less normie than I expected. Like things I thought were at least feasible in season 2 that didn't happen:

Vi and Cait do heroic things for Piltover and Zaun as enforcers showing how good enforcers are

general gesturing at how Cait will reform the enforcers as sheriff

Ekko being pro-Piltie (more active team up or defending them)

Silco being painted more negatively (either the reason for the Betrayal being that he was too dangerous or more blame being thrown at him for the state of Jinx or the state of Zaun after his death)

It being portrayed as this grand tragedy from Vi's point of view that Jinx is unrecoverable Granted it can be seen as part of their pro-Piltover stance that they don't even the bare minimum of Piltover acting nice they can just stay in power without bothering to even try to be nice)

Again, I don't think that Arcane was every written as a political allegory. I think it was primarily written as letting characters bounce off each other in an interesting setting. And yes they wanted the characters be influenced and informed by the settings, but I don't think they ever thought hard about what the implications would be for the settings. I think they were mostly thinking about characters being put in interesting situations. Not tight world building or delivering a thought out political message. They have a message but it's a very generic emotional one (ie circles of violence bad, don't judge people, all kinds of people have good sides and bad sides).

I do still think a good chunk from the revolutionary flavor comes more from the art team than from the writing team. So the idea that it's more aesthetics than substance has some merit.

This is a really good video that also shaped my thoughts on season 1.

[freetalessimian]

Quick question that no one will know. WHERE TF ARE THEY??

You can already see weapons. Theres also an arch, so maybe the mountain used to have a building???

I just want to know where it is and the lore 😭 why did Mac choose this mountain, whats the history behind it. Was it just because it was secluded? I can’t imagine it’s THAT far from the city because Mk would have been more cautious if so right?

(Yeah ill just go on a field trip with my new sketchy mentor to who know where😄 thats not a terrible idea at all. Im the Monkie Kid)

Oh yay, dead people already, great signs. Also did Mac make them climb all those stairs? Man, he was really pushing Mk to his limit. Did he climb with Mk? Was it just awkward silence or was it a checkpoint thing like a video game 😭 just occasionally hes there again like (Great job just a little further 🙂)

I NEED TO KNOW. What battle was held here? Was it from the jttw, or just a random battle? Was it specific to Macaque or Wukong in anyway? Theres swords and spears littering the ground. And skeletons. It was definitely a battle ground. I believe we’ve only seen a few of these? So they’re might be clues in flashbacks?

Perhaps its Sandy’s or maybe Macaque’s? Both have spears in the ground. Though we don’t have many clues as to where the battles took place besides that Sandys flack back happened on a mountain but the place probably wasn’t a factor as it was triggered by the situation. And Macaques you can see a mountain range

I couldn’t really find anything that matches. However if this were the case and THE battle really happened on this mountain it’d be quite interesting, but would surprisingly give me a lot to work with to make a timeline.

For instance if either battles happened on that mountain then it would have had to of been after the main jttw, or after Sun Wukongs circlet was removed. As I believe it is closer to his mountain, or at least the city which he would not have been near during the journey westwards, as we know his island in the east, near the dragon of the easts palace.

I think Wukong in lmk either continued the pilgrimage without the circlet or they wrote most of the scenes to take place after, like the Samadhi fire. As we can see the group is still together, and Tripiaka is still their master. But Wukong is NOT wearing the circlet, so this probably takes place after. So that means other chapters could have been rewritten to be after the main journey west, and the groups just stuck together? Or perhaps get back together to do errands for the celestial realm like in this scene with Nezha.

Its not a crazy assumption to think that Macaques defeat and possibly death took place after the main jttw or when Sun Wukong returned home as we see Dbks defeat/death also took place after. Perhaps Wukong was just tying up loose ends 😃

Oh I ran out of photo room but In Macaque’s flashback Wukong isn’t wearing the circlet there either.

Makes me wonder just how much of the journey to the west they altered in Lego Monkie Kid, was the Lady Bone Demon’s defeat even in the early chapters? Was Macaques death before or after hers? THERE IS SO MANY LORE QUESTIONS, That if I got the answers to them It would change even more of my inner timeline than you’d expect.

[devilheartsblog]

i’d love to know your hot take on gantlos and why he’s the most complex villain?

Yes. What I really mean by that is mostly based on his personality, but I’ll talk about the other stuff too.

So Winx villains. We love them until they get annoying. And none of them are particularly deep. All of them are after power: The Trix and the Dragon Flame, Darkar with the Codex, Valtor with becoming the most powerful sorcerer, Selina thinking Eldora’s lame, the list goes on and it’s a standard.

First thing that differs the wizards is they’ve already won with how Earth is magicless, until Roxy sprouts some wings and they become dead set into making her a memory. Then the Winx interrupt, one thing leads to another and the wizards want the White Circle off of the Winx. Sure it COULD give them power but last time they exploded out of a video game so it’s again to secure no magic on earth which is a unique motive other than the Earth Fairies being homicidal.

Now onto Gantlos….I’m not gonna pretend he’s not the worst. We’re talking about the Wizard of destruction who has a vendetta against a dog. Of course he sucks. But on top of treating every stranger like a threat he jumped in front of a train to protect Ogron.

Sure it could be so that Ogron doesn’t die too early for plot convenience and Icy and Tritannus did the same BUT LOOK-

Yep it’s not just Ogron. Anagan was gonna fall to his death and Gantlos yoinked him out of there. I don’t think there’s any other Winx villain that did that, they’d just leave or make a snarky quip while the other one picks themselves back up. Especially since the villains can fly. So bro did this by instinct. I dunno why the writers chose that because they’re the same people who write him being ambushed by Ratatouilles whole lineage.

And one last thing I want to point out is this line from episode 22

…How does he know about fairy law? And why? Either way this writer’s head-cannon making it into the script just makes him more of a character than he needs to be. (Fyi I took that screenshot from the wiki scripts which are pretty accurate so there)

So to recap, bro wants to keep his winning streak and is a dick to everyone but if you’re his friend he’d die for you and probably tell you all the fairy facts he memorized. And that’s a brief summary of why I love this chainsaw with a German Shepherd’s personality.

I’m also pretty sure I’m the only person to know everything about this character in canon, I haven’t even gotten to the part where his friends disrespect him. But maybe that’s a future post idk. Anyways thanks for reading!

[kerri-but-horny]

I just cranked my hog to something that was probably bugchaser crap. I want to jump into a spike pit.

[theevilcactus]

What's the origin of your blog title?

I was an angsty teenager who liked cacti and I needed a blog title. There was really no deeper meaning behind it, but I'm attached now.

OTP(s) Shipname:

I don't really have one specific OTP right now, but a couple of my top ships historically have been Whouffle (when I was in high school) and Hannigram (in the first couple years of college). I'm currently very much enjoying James/Alyssa (the end of the fucking world) and Polypalooza (from PIBE), but I wouldn't call either of those my OTP.

Favourite colour:

Green! I like all shades, but I'm especially fond of overly bright lime green. Eyesore levels of green.

Favourite game:

If we're talking video games, it's easily The Sims 4. If we're talking physical games, like board or card games, probably Fluxx. (Star Fluxx if you want to be specific.)

Song stuck in your head:

Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)

Weirdest habit/trait?

I can't stand having the volume on an odd number. It needs to be even. No matter what. Even is 10 is too quiet and 12 is too loud, I will not put the sound on 11. I will put up with any level of inconvenience from the even numbers if it means avoiding having to put it on an odd one.

I don't know if that's actually that weird, but my mom seems to think i is.

Hobbies:

Reading & writing fanfiction, making a bunch of characters in the sims that I'm never actually gonna play, occasionally hiking.

If you work, what's your profession?

Unemployed, unfortunately. In the process of looking for a new job.

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be?

Writing novels. It's a damn hard field to break into, though, if you want to actually make enough money to live on. Even harder if you're like me and seemingly unable to actually finish writing a novel.

Something you're good at:

Writing. I'd better be good at it, I've been writing fics since I was 8 and I literally majored in creative writing in school.

Something you're bad at:

Being social, responding to texts within a timely manner

Something you love:

My silly little shows. Also, my cat.

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff:

Pretty much any of the shows/books/movies I've ever been super into (I tend to get very obsessive about them and rewatch the same episodes constantly). Or Greek mythology.

Something you hate:

The texture of the inside of a tomato.

Something you collect:

I guess you could say I collect books, but that's less of a deliberate collection and more of an accident. Earrings maybe?

Something you forget:

Pretty much everything, I'm very forgetful.

What's your love language?

Does parallel play count? Just existing in the same space as each other but each doing our own thing

Favourite movie/show:

My #1 favorite movie is Fear Street: 1978, closely followed by the Harley Quinn Birds of Prey movie. My favorite show is probably either Gotham or Survivor.

Favorite food:

Bread. I could eat a good loaf of bread all damn day, especially if there's herbed oil or butter or something to dip it in. Also, the specific combination of brie & blackberries & honeycrisp apple slices.

Favorite Animal:

Cats, maybe? I'm also currently very fond of toucans and orchid bees.

What were you like as a child?

Shy and anxious and very annoying about Warriors cats. And smart.

Favourite subject at school?

English/literature.

Least favourite subject:

Chemistry specifically, but other science classes were ok. Math if we want to be more general.

What's your best character trait?

My creativity

What's your worst character trait?

I'm a bit of a coward

If you could change any detail of your life right now, what would it be?

I'd have enough moneyyyyyyy to never need to work again

If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet?

I'd be more interested in various places/eras than specific famous historical people. I'd want to see ancient Greece or maybe some dinosaurs.

tagging @alpacasandravens @poolboyvmprmansion @cherrych4 @panic-wizard-sex-walrus @empir2 @cosmicoceanfic and @ anybody else who wants to do it

Get to know your mutuals!!!

cheers @stevie-marigold for tagging me!

What's the origin of your blog title?

doccy who! plus me mum always used to say i have telescopic arms. personally i think they're a normal length

OTP(s) Shipname:

johnlock, i will forever be a johnlocker no matter which version of those freaks we're talking about

Favourite colour:

orange <3

Favourite game:

factorio! i greatly enjoy the spagetti of it

Song stuck in your head:

antmusic by adam and the ants

Weirdest habit/trait?

darling everything i do is deeply weird, couldn't do something normal if i tried

Hobbies:

writing, reading, nuisance making, music enjoying, getting in the way, and various wool-related crafts

If you work, what's your profession?

im the imp who sits in your camera and paints the pictures for you (im out of blue btw)

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be?

id invent hexopostcards, which are hexagonal postcards and only have pictures of six sided things on. if a thing has more than six sides than you've got to have the seventh+ side(s) off the edge of the postcard. if it has less than six you have to draw where the rest of the sides could feasibly be. then id retire

Something you're good at:

answering questions truthfully

Something you're bad at:

eating dog food

Something you love:

doing jigsaws

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff:

doccy who. i just do that anyway

Something you hate:

jigsaws that have too much sky so its all just blue (doesn't include my starry night puzzle)

Something you collect:

vinyls, posters, things ill use someday, names, ideas of things to write

Something you forget:

my best friends birthday. i have it written down and i still forget consistently

What's your love language?

circular gallifreyan

Favourite movie/show:

oh theres so many. doccy who and torchwood, sherlock, merlin (im really from a specific time going by those answers) loads of films too but, to say an obscure one to make me sound cool, mcfarland usa

Favourite food:

the souls of the damned. failing that pasta

Favourite animal:

@zelda-wheelz

What were you like as a child?

weird nervous about everything and a nerd

Favourite subject at school?

maths! don't ask me to remember a single thing from my alevels though

Least favourite subject:

drama. hated acting in front of all those eyes

What's your best character trait?

i like to think im quite nice

What's your worst character trait?

asking @zelda-wheelz the answers for half these questions

If you could change any detail of your life right now, what would it be?

id move

If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet?

george michael, so long as i can bring my mum

tagging: @captainfairygodmother @b1uetrees @by-gray

[raelle-writing]

Was it even Jin's video that got posted???

I've been staring and trying to make sense of the angles in Keng's office for the past hour so I decided to do a write up and see if I can make sense of it... something is WEIRD.

WARNING: this post contains screenshots of SA, all those will be below the cut:

So when we as the audience are shown the shots of Keng and Non, we're shown two different angles. The first one, when Jin first opens the door, is of Keng and Non's legs. The second is of their heads/faces.

In earlier episodes we're shown a bit more of the layout of Keng's office, shown here:

But the angles just... don't make sense? When you analyze them. Like for example, here's what we see in episode 6 when Non comes to see Keng. The angle shown is of Non leaning decently far into the room, and then still only being able to see Keng above the barrier

When the video is uploaded to social media, we see this as the thumbnail, which appears to be shot at a low angle BETWEEN the two barriers. But that angle doesn't make sense when shot from the door.

You can see it in this shot of Jin recording, it looks like the extruding corner is in the way of whatever he's shooting.

Not to mention, in the shot of Non showing up to that office, the book shelf is pretty obtrusive of the view of what's happening. It seems like, in order for the shot of their heads to be what's shown in the thumbnail, the person would've had to be further into the room

Add on to that, the couch itself is way too small for someone to be able to see around the barrier one way AND the other way. So basically it was impossible for someone at Jin's angle to see BOTH the legs around one end of the barrier AND the heads around the other.

With the corners, the bookshelf, and the angle in mind, it seems to me that the only angle it makes sense for Jin to have seen and recorded without going further into the room is that of the legs, not their faces...

Especially since he records low, but the thumbnail picture is basically the same height as the couch... which to me, looks lower than where Jin is holding the camera

Conclusion: ????

Honestly I'm not sure. Maybe this was just BOC getting clever with their angles and shooting and they didn't think people would dissect the layout of the room this hard. I AM sure that Jin could only reasonably see the legs or the faces and not both.

And as I said above, the angle of the door and bookshelf and barriers lead me to believe that Jin could've only really seen their legs But then that brings up the question of how did Jin even know it was Non? He's angry enough that it seems like he did... unless he's angry in a completely different direction and is mad that a teacher is taking advantage of a student, but that doesn't seem to fit either, since the anger on his face seems personal...

Plus I want to bring this back. Top saw Keng and Non together and texted Tee that he knew where Non got the money. They could've guessed or spied on them to guess what Keng asked for in exchange. And who has the money to set up a hidden camera JUST to screw over Non? Por. I'm not saying that's definitely what happened, but Por HATES Non and wanted to get rid of him. I don't doubt Por/Top/Tee would hesitate to release that tape of Non if they got the opportunity...

I'm definitely grasping at straws, but something about this whole situation doesn't feel right. Jin isn't shown to post the video himself, in fast there's discrepancies from what's shown on his computer screen vs what's shown of the person uploading the video.

Changing a computer from light mode to dark mode is incredibly easy so I don't know why they would've left a mistake like that instead of fixing it in post-production. Plus it looks to me like Jin is looking at the already-posted video and crying over it, not that he's posting it himself (first screenshot is from the BTS for this episode btw).

I've been on the "Jin didn't post the video" train the entire time for a couple of reasons:

Jin isn't shown to click the button, only sit at his laptop, cry, and then eventually spill alcohol on it and short it out. If the writers wanted us to hate Jin then they would've just shown him posting it so that we could deal with the fact that he's a shit person. They didn't do that, so I don't think that Jin posted the video.

Because in episode 4, Flukes yells at Tee that he knows what they did, and he names both the broken camera AND the released video... but Jin wasn't present in this scene. Why yell it at Tee if Jin is the one who both took the video and posted it?

But with the question of all the angles shown and the doorway and bookshelf it makes me wonder... was the video even Jin's?

[marstonandson]

after the worst heist they’ve ever had (arguably worse than blackwater, considering the losses) charles smith, a wanted man in a world that already hates him, volunteers himself as a distraction to allow the others to board a boat and escape

he walks right past lawmen, drawing them toward him ON PURPOSE, for these men that he met only some number of months ago. somehow he escapes this pursuit. somehow he boards a stagecoach and makes it all the way back to shady belle. for all he knows, that sacrifice is for nothing. for all he knows, everyone he tried to help died or were captured

but he worries about everyone else. he helps sadie get the rest of the gang to a safe place. they go to collect hosea and lenny’s bodies and give them a proper burial. he’s probably thinking about arthur and the others the entire time, but he doesn’t stop once, because these people need his help, too. as long as charles is breathing, he will be selfless. he will fight for everyone else no matter what the circumstances

[puhpandas]

as someone who isnt super excited for sotm for certain reasons I am really glad that like. it's clear that since ruin theyve been setting up for carnival and sotm IS carnival. so now that carnival is finally coming out, afterwards theyll be moving on to other plotlines since the main villain stuff is sorted out

I'm just rlly happy to finally see a clear direction for how the story is gonna be playing out with like "okay these games were leading up to this so after this will be open possibilites" instead of like. absolutely no info about each upcoming game and being left guessing before it releases and just having to wait and see what's in it and if anything you're looking forward to will be in it

it feels like they have a plan and a solid direction for what they're trying to do and after carnival releases thatll be all that buildup coming to fruition. & we already know from the Scott interview that theres another release 'beyond sotm' that's 'super exciting' so maybe thatll be focusing on another big currently untouched (which is basically all of them) plotline, or even the big campaign game that dawko has been calling security breach 2

[kairithemang0]

My favorite thing to do is go through old starkid fan videos and just know every line by heart no I'm not obsessed wdym I'm very normal

[goblin-enjoyer]

*draws something for the first time in a while. “Man I suck at drawing! Maybe go back to being good at it if I draw more!”

*doesn’t draw

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“Oh I got a neat idea for a drawing! Surely I have gotten better by now!” Loop post

[awek-s]

well…… I don’t really know where to go from here 🫠

[irascible-iridescent]

Oh my god they are cloning them. This is why the crew is so expendable. They have a technology to clone them so easily that recovered body only costs 5$. This is why on every new planet everyone are back on the ship even if they all died like nothing happened.

[stump-salsa]

Thinking back to 2021 when I had to sit in school fists clenched eyes watering teeth grinding as I listened to everyone quote invader zim right in front of me and I couldn’t say anything because they only knew the quotes from tiktok.

[inakanotori]

AAA - ダイジナコト "Smiling outside, crying inside, sometimes I can't tell the difference"

[korattata]

oh so this game is meant to be started right after waking up from a nap while you really don't want to be awake, cool. perfect for right this moment.

[orcelito]

It's been a month and a half and I'm still not even over Cassy yet, idk how I'm supposed to live with my uncle being dead too