#vi is totally oblivious to Cait

[creations-of-the-dreamlight]

Cait vi college au but Vi doesn’t even go to college she just works at the coffee shop nearby. Omg it’s coffee shop x college au and I love it.

Overachieving Caitlyn coming in all the time as it’s her chill focus calm spot like the chimes in s2. She just so happens to schedule it exactly when the cute pink and black haired dommy mommy is behind the counter and every second Caitlyn isn’t doing work she is Thinking.

[hella1975]

You are the only fucking one with normal opinions about arcane and I Wish you were there to see when everyone’s tiktoks were full of nothing about arcane and everyone being feral over silco and his nasty ass and Viktor who is. Fine. The best of the topsiders but still involved in an overall boring plot unless it was about himself and his disability which were the only interesting parts on the top end. Or Vi and Cait and I Don’t Like Cait very much. Like she’s Fine but god she’s fucking dumb sometimes and doesn’t know when to shut up and I don’t like her in the game either. I wish we saw more Ekko in the show tho.

How do we feel about the thought of Ekko and Jinx’s fight feeling like Zuko and Azulas. Second part could you imagine if they interlaced the Zuko and Azula scene with them play fighting as kids like arcane did? I wouldn’t have survived that actually. Or the parallels of Jinx and Vi to Vander and Silco and the siblings who care for each other despite despite despite. Also! So many people were mad at Vi for hitting Jinx but that whole scene was a very human response? She (accidentally) killed like their whole family? She just had a big fight? I’m sure her adrenaline is through the fucking roof and people forget she’s also a child at this point. She immediately regretted it and walked away to calm down and then got picked up before she could come back and help or fix things. Like obv that’s not the best thing she could do but I don’t think she was in the head space to gentle parent her sister. I have so much to say about this show and everybody else had such different opinions on the whole thing 😩

OMG OMG YES EXACTLY okay i have several things to say about like. all of this so im bulletpointing lmao

silco - WAIT WERE WE SUPPOSED TO LIKE SILCO??? WHAT??? like even in a 'villain who was justified' or even 'villain you can sympathise with if not justify' i just genuinely wholeheartedly dont like him. looking at an incredibly mentally ill girl and saying she's perfect is not a redemption. putting drugs into your own streets and getting your own people addicted to the point of being loyal to you is not a redemption. there is literally nothing good about his character. im pretty sure i put in the tags the first time i really saw him that basically his anger towards topside was 100% justified and even his desire to use extreme measures after so long being ignored, but you totally lose that the moment you turn on your own people. like okay mr manipulating class traitor of the year respectfully i was not upset when you died

viktor - i was soooo disappointed by viktor's character bc i genuinely REALLY wanted to like him like i was so intrigued by his disability and i love that he's a nerd and an underdog and can be abrasive at times and i thought there was SO much potential with him being from the undercity, but he was just so so passive and half the time i was just angry at him and shouting at the screen. like he's watching these toffs who dont know anything about the undercity - and havent even been there - discuss the future of people JUST LIKE HIM and he just allowed it. he only cared about his inventions and maybe that will be explored in season 2 bc it seems like they're taking a narrative where it shows his obsession to the point of detriment (what happened to that assistant that fancied him) and he'll possibly change for the better but as of right now he's just completely forgotten his roots and only remembered the undercity when it benefited his inventions. he went off with 'in the pursuit of great, we forgot to do good' though like i'll allow him that much that quote fucks stupendously

cait - same hat as viktor i REALLY wanted to like her bc it seems like we might actually be getting queer rep and i dont want to hate 50% of the couple but my god is she ignorant. and actually ignorance isn't the problem it's not a crime to be oblivious and it's not her fault she was born into a better life than vi, but it was her insensitivity with her ignorance that bugged me like girl just SHUT UP SOMETIMES MAYBE???? like it's very easy to look at a situation you haven't been in and go 'i would never have said that in a million years' but i can still safely say that if i was in the slums surrounded by victims of horrific addiction who have been turned on by even their own people and now live in the most extreme clutches of poverty, and i was there with a girl raised in this environment who only knows how to fight and has been beaten down again and again and has spent the past few years in prison, something im intimately aware of as the person who BROKE HER OUT, then i wouldnt go 'i think this is a good time to be accusatory about her homelife actually'. like literally what the fuck was the thought process. and it wasn't a one time thing she did it ALL the time i genuinely dont know how vi didn't hit her she's so lucky she's hot

zuko and azula - WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS TO ME MY GODDDD like that tiny snippet of them playing in the palace garden as kids except it's an entire scene of parallels to them in the agni kai. despicable

vi hitting jinx - i actually laughed out loud when i read that people are apparently getting aggy about the fact vi hit jinx. i have to assume people making those takes dont have siblings. i have hit my sister for far less and can guarantee if she accidentally killed all my loved ones then she'd be getting an awful lot more than a slap to the face. siblings fight. it's literally a universally accepted fact. it's not FUN or GOOD but it still happens and 99% of the time it's over shit much less serious than what these two were fighting over. touch grass

[ao3feed-piltovers-finest]

Hi. I went through all of your own personal recs, and they've all been top notch. So now I'd like to ask if you read BDSM stuff? If so, would you be inclined to rec any of the ones you personally liked? Love what you're doing here, keep up the good work. Thanks!

Hey there.

Okay, well... this one’s going to be a bit of a doozy, since...

I've got to be honest and say that no, I don't tend to indulge that much. Not because of aversion (or whatever) it's just, well - how do I put it...

[feel free to scroll down to TL;DNR, to skip the unsolicited waffle ;]

Personally, I lean towards whatever has good characterisation, solid character development and dynamics. More often than not it's just short, elliptical pieces with high emotional resonance. Or heavy, angst-ridden drama. While BDSM tends to center mostly around smut, which... of course I do not mind (on the contrary of course, I am a red-blooded human after all ;) but if it veers off into humiliation and degradation, which quite often it does - it's just not my cup of tea. Especially if it clashes with one's s own idea of the character conception, their background, psychology and their motivations. Meaning, ie. do you really truly believe Vi would be into that, after Stillwater? Relinquishing control, pain and all - that's one thing, but - humiliation? Degradation? Whether being on the giving  (no, I’m not trying to start another top/bottom discussion here, I swear :) or the receiving end? While on the other hand, there's lots more to be deconstructed about sheltered and yet quite rebellious Cait (obliviously privileged and almost naively kind-hearted at the same time) but that would take a thread of its own, and I'm already waffling too much, so... you see my point there, I hope? :)

[TL;DNR skip]

Therefore, to conclude - if it’s the smut-based BDSM is what you’re looking for, then - no, I am unfortunately unable to offer any personal recommendations of the sorts at this point. But on the other hand, if it’s a (very well written) plot/drama based story with some quite distinctive elements of what you’ve asked for - that you would be interested in, I’ll be free to handpick this one:

   Debase You on Holy Days by @xanthinriff

It’s a love-hate story (they’re exes, met as teens) that takes depiction of the social/class system of Piltover/Zaun to the next level. In a way, it’s a much more believable “oil and water” narrative, how things would more likely go down between an elite topsider and a trencher, ultimately incompatible - and thus doomed from the get-go? Now, if we’re being honest, I personally had a bit of a conflicted relationship with this one because some of the dynamics (the weight of their history that directs the power shifts, anger and pain that are heartbreaking and cathartic at the same time) might be frustrating and/or confusing at times, causing some of the character motivations/choices to appear perplexing (thus also precipitating the shift of your sympathy/understanding?) but the tension, angst, conflict and ultimate pain and suffer are... stiflingly palpable. Simply because the way it’s written, it goes straight for the jugular. It’s elliptical and evocative, and fleshes out this intense, dark, desolate universe amazingly well.

Now, while it might not be the BDSM you were asking for (I assume?) the physical side of their relationship contains a lot of the (unhealthy, mind you) elements of such nature. One of them is filled with vengeance and violence, the other with darkness and corruption (to paraphrase) so the sex is hot, but totally messed up, designed to depict a deeper story (about betrayal, disillusionment, guilt, pain - and ultimately love?) and hence will probably make you feel uncomfortable - rather than giving you that low-down tingle?

Aaaand... right. To wrap up this unrequested review - in the end, were this about some other ships (shows/fandoms I indulge/d) then yes, sure - I’d be able to rec some (healthy, plausible) BDSM. But here, now - coming quite empty-handed does not mean that those fics do not exist, just that I may have missed them?

So...

If any of you out there (yes, you - come on, I know you're reading this ;) can help both Anon here and myself - please DO send us any of the reviews/recs, for the stuff YOU personally appreciated? I do clearly see what kind of stuff gets most of the notes on this page, and what clearly gets you going, soooooooo... 😜

And as for you, Anon, again - not sure what exactly you were looking for, but this one will definitely be worth your while. So if you take to it, let me know? And of course, as always - do grab a moment to drop a note to the author. It’s them who deserve all the encouragement and notes of appreciation.

Cheers. 🌈💖