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poeticsandaliens · 3 days ago

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Aight so I keep seeing these discussions about what the Arcane creators did and didn't say and whether that means Jayce and Viktor are canon platonic or romantic or some secret third thing and I would like to make a case for ignoring irrelevant things that writers say in an attempt to clarify their creation. And I say these words as a writer who peppers my AO3 shit with random endnotes commenting on my creations, which you can feel free to throw in the trash.

I'm not arguing that we should all just clamp down our ears and go lalalala, nor am I arguing for full-on Death of the Author. I just think if a storyteller has to clarify a textual detail in an interview or on Twitter (looking at you Joanne) then it doesn't actually matter. Because if the creator CARES that much about how we as an audience interpret that detail they should put it into the fucking text. If it matters that much to the text it should be in the text. And if it's not in the text then it doesn't really matter and I'll go on interpreting. This especially goes for taxonomizing murky relationships. We often desire taxonomy, but ambiguity can say compelling things about the way we navigate human connection.

Like there're shades of gray to this. But specifically with respect to Arcane I'll argue that a creator actually gets no bearing on whether you read Jayce and Viktor as erotic or platonic or whatever. Because they chose to tell a story about the power of love and part of that archetype is its slipperiness. Love to the point of literal cosmic singularity. Soul-bonding shit. It doesn't matter to the text whether they're having filthy lab sex in our imaginations.

Normally I wouldn't write a little thesis about it, but I adore love stories where love is hard to pin down. And this reminds me of Achilles and Patroclus. Classicists will argue forever about whether or not they were fucking, and we'll get into historical context, and Athenian traditions that post-date them, and so on. And it's a fun conversation but it's also deeply not the point. I read Achilles and Patroclus as a complicated slippery relationship where war and love and lust get their wires crossed and you've known someone so deeply for so long you can't HELP but cling to them body and soul. But what's so interesting is that clinging body and soul can be any combination of sexual/erotic/platonic/worship/etc. I read them quite erotically but what matters to me in the end isn't whether they're fucking it's how wholly and wildly they loved each other. What matters isn't the taxonomy; it's that when Patroclus died, Achilles dragged Hector's mangled corpse behind his chariot in a fit of grief and feral rage.

Anyway I feel very normal about this.

#anyway #arcane #jayce x viktor #arcane s2 spoilers #achilles #patroclus #the iliad #jayvik #i'm doing fine #obviously

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spicypussywave · 1 year ago

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Do people actually think OF is ruined? There is one more episode but we're not giving it a chance now? I thought everyone who's watching trusted Jojo and team with the show

#genuine qs bcs i don't understand how it's all ruined now?#we wouldn't even know it had been edited if they didn't tell us about it?#the only annoying part i found was Cheum's character #but idek if it's part of their plan #idg where they didn't give justice to the characters #only friends #only friends the series #naomivents #also it's fine to listen to feedbacks bcs you don't want it to be hated in the end #why risk the show by ignoring the feedbacks #we literally wouldn't have known about it #jojo was the writer AND directer #(correct me if im wrong)#so saying HE doesn't know his character enough is ????

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musical-chick-13 · 2 months ago

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This is the only thing I'm going to say about the election until it's over:

Anyone who did not vote for Harris or who attempted to dissuade people from voting for Harris, you are indirectly responsible for whatever shit Donald Trump does if he gets elected. That blood is primarily on his hands, yes. But it is also on yours. I hope you can live with that because I sure as hell wouldn't be able to.

#'but gaza' trump wants TO OBLITERATE THEM. HE LITERALLY WANTS THERE TO BE NOTHING LEFT OF GAZA AT ALL. WHY DO YOU THINK #I DON'T WANT HIM IN POWER?????#yeah I said I wouldn't election post I lied sorry.#I know most of you don't actually care what happens to american citizens because we're all Violent Hypocrites who should kill ourselves #and somehow every single civilian is responsible for the actions of a military and government that comparatively few of us are actually par #of but FUCKING HELL. You don't care about THE PEOPLE OF GAZA??? Because that's what you're telling me if you're in favor of #doing anything OTHER than the most likely path to get trump out of politics. which is voting for the candidate DIRECTLY OPPOSING HIM.#the thing about america being an empire that needs to die. is that before it dies. it is still affecting the rest of the world.#I can't make you care about me and my loved ones. but I am IMPLORING you to have some fucking compassion for all the people #who are going to be DEEPLY negatively affected elsewhere if trump gets into power.#THEIR HARM. THEIR DEATHS. ARE ON /YOU/ IF YOU DID ANYTHING TO FACILITATE TRUMP'S VICTORY IF THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.#I don't believe most of you actually have any amount of the sympathy and compassion for others you claim to have.#I don't think any of the causes you throw yourself behind are actually meaningful to you. I don't think any of this is based on a #genuine desire to build a better world. I think you just want your Internet friends to think you are a Good Person.#if I see anyone. ANYONE. acting like a trump presidency is what we 'deserve'. or that it's necessary to 'teach [xyz] a lesson'#I am NEVER speaking to you again I don't care how long I've known you.#us politics #I am a disabled queer woman. almost everybody I love is also disabled and queer. you think we're acceptable collateral damage fine.#but don't cry that I'm being a bitch if I say that that makes me not trust you and not want to have anything to do with you.

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vaguely-concerned · 2 months ago

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fnsdkfnsjkdfaskdjfaskjdl taash' level 1 bond description (the 'associate'/'contract killer'/'fellow necromancer' sort of blurb under their level on the companion screen) is just 'Here'. taash. you have to understand. I know you don't give a fuck, but to me, you are perfect

#they're literally just here #god forbid enbys do anything: the character. I have known them personally for five minutes and I would lay down my life for them #dragon age: the veilguard #dragon age #dragon age: the veilguard spoilers #dragon age spoilers #taash #this got such a good laugh out of me I've been having a real slow cumbersome morning of it but this brought me back to life #I brought harding with me on this one (as a treat! meet your future spouse and also congrats on them jesus christ)#and i imagine rye running around like '...y'know. I miss lucanis. when he isn't here.' and harding is patiently like 'yeah we know'#and then the note you pick up about the grey warden upset to be parted from their... buddy? unless... at the reassignment #PEAK accidental environmental storytelling going on here. rye automatically assuming they'd go in quietly and stealthily for an ambush #and taash just jumping out. you have been working too much with someone on the same wavelength as you babyboy you forget these things #I'm creating emergent narratives you wouldn't believe out here #the contrast of how rye's whole little goth deal looks in cutscenes in the necropolis vs. under the bright rivaini sun tho fhdskjfsa #out of their element but game to give it a shot. I'm good with sand the necropolis has a lot of sand

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icicleteeth · 7 months ago

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I want so badly to delete that tweet about the post EW patch yellow quest chain so bad because I've been flooded by the most hair tearing out of my skull I-Did-Not-Ask gotchas and um akshullies ever since it was made. But from a lot of replies, it has spread awareness for a lot of people to find the quest chain, so I hope it still does that because they are good quests and they're not the easiest thing to find!! I want to explode!!!

#like i guess it's my fault i should have known this happens any time you talk about anything involving msq on ffxivtwt #but at the same time i just can't fathom it. like jfc if i see a post liking something that i dont like i just scroll #i wasn't even saying i think post patches are good im literally just saying if they put the actual story relevant backstory in the post #patches instead of the filler sludge we got then maybe the patches wouldn't have felt so. filler.#and im sorry im a fellow yellow quest enjoyer too i know how unpopular they are. anyone who says doing yellow quests is the norm are wrong

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alullinchaos · 9 months ago

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wait off topic if I change Cinder's semblance for my rwby canon-adjacent au.... would this be controversial editing to warn people that the tags are novel length but that i love them and also @graythegreyt pls read them when u have a chance

#wick lore #i have asked myself this question with almost every character but for cinder i was thinking abt her dustweave (?) clothing #dustweave. dust infused. something like that #her v1 outfit that has the design on the sleeves that lights up when she sends out fire. that's her using fire dust that's in the cloth #but as far as i know this is a detail that literally never comes up again like we never see anyone else with clothing like this #so i asked myself. what if that was her semblance instead. that she had the ability to sew dust into cloth #how hard would it be for the girl modelled after cinderella to know that her semblance required her to do domestic labor to be used #thus explaining why it doesn't show up in later volumes because once she gets the maiden powers she thinks she doesn't need it #idk i think making her semblance be 'she can heat stuff up' and thus making her semblance indistinguishable from maiden powers #for the entirety of the series. is a bit of a waste. bc semblances say a lot about characters right #i know there's a point to be made about like. it manifested as that at that time because cinder has always been angry etc etc #but wouldn't it hurt from a different narrative angle. to have her semblance be dustweaving. when she doesn't have any money #no money to buy dust with but a semblance that makes her a skilled and incredibly rare craftsperson but can she bear to sell her skills #when they've been used against her for so long? when all she's known is hard work and grit and sweat? when it's probably dangerous?#anyway i think im about to hit the limit for tags but. lmfao. the possibilities!!! also the association between handsewing and the HOME!#something she's always wanted but never had. a safe place to sit by a fire that she doesn't have to tend and do her work...#also like the possible tension with mercury bc she's wishing her semblance was more offensive + merc's like BE GRATEFUL YOU HAVE ONE???#i headcanon that mercury has a semblance though. that he has silver eyes and his dad took those from him by making him hate the world #...anyway #goodnight

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autumnrory · 2 months ago

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i've been going into the liam tag from time to time the last year where both his fans and people who hated him were Weird about him well before there were any allegations so i would get curious, i don't even remember what started it (maybe it was merely looking for photos that update accounts wouldn't post), but i normally try to avoid going into anything but edit tags for people i enjoy bc there are so many nonsense takes

and of course happening to go through today before the news broke bc i wanted to see what was being said about the abuse as i've only gotten bits on twitter and of course there were many posts rightfully calling it out and all but there's that weird mentality which i was getting a lot more of from twitter but some on here where they're like??? celebrating it and girlboss-ing and i'm just like. okay it's great that you're believing a victim but you're making light of it by talking about it like it's just another stan thing, i have seen that time and time again when this kind of stuff comes out and if people already thought that person was annoying or whatever they're just like "oh yes! i knew it! their career is ruined haha!" and it's like. you clearly don't actually care about the horrible things this person has done and just want to brag that you somehow ~knew~ a stranger's vibes were off and it's so beyond gross like you could use that energy to support a person's victims and instead you'll just try to prove you stan the right people and never the wrong ones or whatever

#and then there were. weird ones #some apparent larrie who didn't seem to like either louis or harry #literally the post that popped up was talking about louis knowing he can't stand on his own bc he can't sing like #has he not very much proven he can stand on his own #he's not as famous post 1d as say harry but i doubt he wants to be lol even harry doesn't want to be #he stays off social media and just gets papped sometimes like both clearly thrive on stage just in different ways ya know #so that was just unnecessary and a block #and then someone else not defending liam or anything but talking about how they're probably all horrible to women #and niall and harry apparently cheating on gfs (never heard anything about that not that i think harry's relationships have been real #and it took me a while to realize when talking about niall having songs written about him they probs meant hailee but #idec what those songs are and if they reference cheating so whatever i think i'm out of the loop on rumors and stuff #where i used to always know what was going on with 1d like i wouldn't have even known about liam if not for the fyp on twitter #bc truly i just don't follow people who post about their personal lives anymore not a choice or anything just that the og 1d blogs are gone #but i was like okay even if any of THAT is true why on earth would you put that on par with abuse. why.#cheating is sooooooooo fucking shitty and i truly hate it but like not the same???#oh and saying niall is a bad person for taking a selfie with him even though none of us know what he knew esp at that point like #most of this seemed to be coming out right after the concert like come on #there's just sooooooo much all around of people pretending they know these people personally #both to defend and criticize and it's just like please i love 1d so much i always will #but man like believe victims always but also don't blindly believe every other random rumor you hear #or that you know exactly what's going on behind the scenes bc you don't and you never will #oh and ofc someone wondering about his other exes like tbf we don't know how much addiction and whatnot came into play #so yeah it might not all be recent developments but are you really gonna ask about danielle who as an adult dated 17 year old liam

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skrunksthatwunk · 5 months ago

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household enemy to the yyh watchthrough number one is the olympics. it's taken us a week to get two episodes into the gamemaster fight

#out of three. please the third episode's what makes it okay im fighting for my life out here #it is NOT for lack of trying on my part but theres only a brief window of time when the olympics is not happening #and as it turns out the watchthrough is Not my mom's first priority (how dare she etc)#i do feel slightly bitter that we've gotten through two eps of band o brothers in the same time #we are fighting for the same timeslots yet somehow the hour long show's gotten a leg up??#you don't have time for a 23 min ep but DO for a 60 min one?? explain the math to me please #idk how to explain the vague feeling of betrayal bc it Does Not make sense Nor matter in the slightest #but cmonnnn we were doing so well. and my little bro's starting up school again soon and my dad's gotta go back to work #sometimes eventually (<- hes on medical leave) and my grandparents are coming over next week We're Losing Time Soon #ughhh if i'd known the olympics were happening (<- somehow completely oblivious to this) i'd have accounted for #my mom getting whisked away by the land of synchronized divers and shot putters and whatever the hell #happens in the summer olympics (<- only pays attention to winter olys)#bc that always happens. and *i* have to go back to school in Some Amount Of Time Im Too Scared To Check (p sure it's late aug though) and #when that happens i'll (hopefully) be stuck across town which means we won't be able to do it any time besides the weekends #and i don't wannaaaaa #i know this is the least important problem anyone's ever had like i get that i know but #it's important to me that they sit down and watch this with me. and watching it pull apart and being #the one who's easily the most invested it makes me look all desperate when i ask them for their time and they can't give it #we can only pull this off neatly in the summer and we were so close and now we're losing it right at the finish line #i don't want life to get in the way of this little bubble i've fought so hard to make y'know #and it's childish and embarrassing and whatever but i just want them to have fun with me with this thing i care about a lot #but i can't do that bc my mom needs to watch the judo matches at Every weight class #even though she's recording a lot of them? i don't understand but whatever i know it's her thing im just moping about it ig #i want it to be as perfect an experience for them as possible and it's slipping away from me #and i don't wanna leave this project unfinished when i start school y'know. sighh #i think they might feel like i only want them around when we're watching stuff. whcih is weird bc that's like #The Singular Way we family bonded literally my whole life so idk why they wouldn't get that when reversed #but either way that IS how i wanna spend time with them. i want them to understand this thing that's become a part of me #and i wanna talk With them about it. and so far it's been fun in a way it's never been before. my mom at least seems to really like it #and i want it to Keep going well bc if we lose momentum im worried they'll start finding it tedious. sighh

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starpros-sunshine · 3 months ago

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You know. I'm part of the fraction "to each their own and let people handle their lives however they see best fit". But I do feel the need to say that I have seldom seen such an idiotic assumption as that breaking up with someone four days before someone's birthday when you also want that someone to do something for their birthday even though you know you and your soon-to-be-ex will both have to be there won't end with that person just not doing anything with anyone for their birthday. Partially because nobody wants that kind of awkwardness after a fresh breakup and also because the soon-to-be-ex has the lovely habit of wallowing in self pity and making everything about how they have it so bad. You know I just think in such cases you should've waited a week with the breakup. I don't care how much you want to fuck that other guy but I really think you should've waited a week.

#delete later #sigh why always me...#can't somdone else get the complicated people for once #annoying #the soon-to-be-ex complained today in the group chat that nobody wouod ever go to a pub with him #when that is literally not the case #we would all go? he just never asked? and anytime someone else wants to go party or jusz out 90% of the time the answer is no?#I've known that guy for 13 years now and somehow it just does not get easier #like? anytime someone else asks him it's always “no i don't want to” but then you complain about how nobody would want to do anything #the call coming from inside the house is all I'm saying #'' oh but I couldn't go anyways I wouldn't fit“ ''why? nobody cares about random strangers thats usually not how people work''#'' thats not true'' ''they literally don't care though.'' ''not when that person looks 13'' ''yeah no they still literally wouldn't care''#''they would'' ''they wouldn't. people never do. why would they make an exception for you?'' and then no answer to that #because you can't argue against that anymore without having to confront the fact you're wrong #but then I'm getting told im not empathetic enough #i know i lack empathy I'm aware but I do make an attempt for serious situations. i just don't think stuff like that is serious.#especially when i once mentioend i think my father thinks I'll end up living off of state wellfare and become a disappointment #and the only reply to that was ''how did he arrive at that really likely assumption?'' my brother in christ do not complain to me about lack #of empathy I'm not the one telling people their fears of becoming the family disappointment are well founded and realistic #I'm not even going to excuse that through some ''oh autism'' stuff like no thats just tactless and mean #or all the condescending comments whenever i go out to ''party''#it's just drinking with some people i know it's not really partying #but I'm not the one looking down on people for experiencing stuff #contrary to popular assumption I'm actually really cool and i know that. that's why people ask me to do stuff with them.#because i don't say no 99% of the time and then complain that nobody would ever want to do something with me when that's just plain wrong #i also totally get why she wants to break up #how do you actively refuse to meet your partners friends for half a year and expect that to not become an issue.#how do you actively say you're not interested in doing anything for your partner and expect that to last #how do you whine about being a bad partner but never attempt to do better #i wish i could defend him here but i can't that dude is a horrible boyfriend

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here-there-were-dragons · 3 months ago

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post on the large hadron collider reminds me one of the many many many many many crazy things my mother believes wholeheartedly is that she and a worldwide community of people have the ability to literally see the future, and that the only reason it "doesn't work anymore" (which she is inconsistent about claiming) is because when the lhc was turned on (she insists it happened in the year 2000-i do not care enough to verify) it corrupted the timeline and ruined all of her fucking psychic future sight by setting us on The Wrong Timeline with it's... evil particle energies i guess. and then she goes on a paranoid rant about how the lhc is an act of hubris that's going to end mankind by ripping holes in reality and creating microblackholes or something and how she can "tell when it's on" because "things go a little funky" and her future vision "whites out again". i wonder what the hell she thinks is going on in stars all the time if she thinks the universe is that damn fragile.

she also seems to somewhat believe in the idea that every time you die your consciousness just gets transported seamlessly to a timeline where you didn't. and thinks that she regularly hops timelines and realities because she's "one of the rare 0.1% that's less attached to this reality and more to another one". at least when she's not blaming inconsistencies with reality vs her perception on everyone else except her being malicious, defective, and stupid. which she increasingly does now, since i guess her "heir to princess anastasia" delusion currently holds more appeal to her than the "psychic dream princess between dimensions" one. or more likely is just that she still 100% is in on both and i've just managed to tell her to shut the fuck up enough times that she doesn't talk about the psychic dream princess one unless she feels she has an opening to dump it in and force me to hear about it anymore. and believe me, she is ALWAYS looking for kinks in the armor to force that shit into ANY interaction

#she has also several times extremely unambiguously threatened to beat me to death for calling her psychic soul energies thing a religion #and has at least twice openly threatened to throw a heavy glass cup at my head and/or smash it on my head over this #the fact that this bitch can say things like that and still think SHE'S the justified one is astounding #have i mentioned before she also believes she's literally genetically not human?#yeah.#she thinks she's “the next step in evolution” towards the superior evolved next human species #which she insists is called “Homo Supremus”#and furthermore insists this is absolutely definitely 100% a widely-known thing that all scientific communities agree on #i have no fucking clue where she got ANY of that from #because when i google it i can't even find mention of anything like that on *conspiracy sites*#she used to rant about this for hours in the car on the way to and from the grocery store when i was a kid #she would also constantly make us late to said grocery store because she insisted on spending 20+ minutes putting on makeup #for the slightest simplest shopping mall trip #as if makeup has ever done anything but make her look like a desperate bloated corpse #of course it was always our fault we were late places for not getting ready fast enough while she spent hours waffling around #and wouldn't even start trying to put on her damn makeup until we were all already sitting out in the car

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emometalhead · 8 months ago

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#having a day full of mixed feelings #I suppose this is how life goes #I'm officially done with my Bachelor's degree as of today #obviously I'm proud of myself for the accomplishment and I was excited to be celebrated today #it was a long and difficult road and there were many times where I didn't think I'd live to see it through but I made it #I'm the first person in my family to get this degree and I was really looking forward to having today be my day #I had a really lovely morning and then things kind of waned #there were a few arguments. someone I spent the day with repeatedly made negative comments about something I care about #it felt awful. I know it was intended as more of a playful jab than anything but I directly asked for the comments to stop and they didn't #it especially hurt that it was a fandom thing and the person is so invested in their own fandoms yet they felt it fair to step on mine #even though I've never done that to them #then people kept talking over me and acted like I was wrong for trying to interject to finish my own sentences #also as I said in the last post I was deeply upset by how my family members spoke of my 12 year old cousin #she's just a kid and some of our close family members have such a nasty opinion of her. she's so young and she's had a rough few years #but it seems like no one except my brother and I are willing to give her any grace #I think everyone else has forgotten what it feels like to be a kid and feel as if the world is against you #on a more positive note. I had a decadent slice of chocolate cake. it was heavenly #unfortunately I was really too in my head to fully enjoy it #literally every day for 3 weeks I've been talking about the lunch I planned to have today #I knew exactly what meal and dessert I wanted from the restaurant. it's my absolute fave and isn't available at any other local restaurant #I was totally starving by time we got to the restaurant. we were out all morning and I ate a tiny breakfast in anticipation of this meal #when we got there we found out they removed what I planned to order from the menu. I was devastated.#I know it's stupid but like this was the one part of my day that I've had planned for MONTHS and I've been thinking about it for weeks #we had a 40 minute car ride where I mentioned my excitement for the food no less than 10 times so this crushed me #also I'm just really picky in general and typically restaurants only have one or two things I'm able to eat #I offered to just eat the dessert while everyone else ordered food because they were all really hungry too but they wouldn't allow it #we left the restaurant and I still feel horrible for walking out. if I had known the item was removed we wouldn't have even gone there #it happened so recently though and I feel dumb for not even thinking to check the menu online beforehand #so we went to another restaurant and I barely ate anything and now I have no appetite for dinner and I feel bad for ruining the afternoon #even though it's my day and my celebration and I feel like I'm entitled to a slight amount of unreasonableness

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heyitsphoenixx · 9 months ago

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#personal vent incoming to just get off my chest don't be weird about it #i've known since i was a kid that my dad was overtly abusive but #just in the last 3-5 months i've learned my mom was and currently is almost just as abusive #but she's just covert about it instead #all of my adolescence was about surviving my dad who was so obviously a monster that he was almost easier to deal w in a way by comparison #this is. what an utter mind fuck #there's also like. no member of my family that i can turn to for help #bc they're either just as bad or my mother has ruined any relationship i might have w them over time #and i also fear being a burden #so i'm making a plan to get out but god it's overwhelming thinking about doing it all alone #and the thought that it might take years to actually get out or get healthy #she's kept me isolated from any support for so long #and im afraid any family that could possibly help wouldn't fully understand or they would be just as bad as her #and it feels impossible to progress at all bc im living w her and literally filed as her dependent on taxes #like ik this is gonna be the hardest thing to escape in my life and i've already escaped a lot #but this time i have to largely on my own #is v scary #and she's conditioned me to believe that i can't make any right decisions on my own without her #and that anything i do is always 'backwards'#makes it that much harder to make a clear plan #her work schedule is so inconsistent that it makes getting therapy online (since i don't have a license or car yet) nearly impossible #to do it without her or my brother listening #that i've just felt trapped for years #but. i can Tell i'm getting better now and rapidly. more than i've been for a v long time #so the process is just beginning and i think even she can tell #which is also dangerous #but ik i can do this its just the amount of time and effort and organizing behind her back and doing it alone thats v overwhelming #but anyway #we stay silly

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happistar · 2 years ago

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I think this is our only known photo of what the Squip's The Play costume looks like??

It's from some Two River Theater promotional content I found while digging around. The audio is different since it's just playing a bunch of clips w/ general reviews and stuff, but from the few seconds we see, it's Jeremy shocked at the empty shoebox which happens in The Play.

Can't really tell if the Squip's costume is different or not though from its one in The Pitiful Children, since it's kinda far away. It looks similar, but the shoulders 100% look different, like it has added shoulder pads or something. Also its more glowy??? Might just be the lighting though.

The rest of the costume looks the same. Same weird coat and cut sleeves with wire-like tassles.

Comparison photos I used underneath the cut

The one screenshot of The Play