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Grief

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about keeping promises

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Arctober Day 10:

Jinx

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i think its pathetic that journalists and even some casual speakers call twitter "X" now. weak fish behaviour. you dont have to play along

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everything they did to jinx this season pisses me off as someone who’s had to deal with long term mental health struggles. that shit doesn’t magically go away if you’re in a different situation or have a better support system. it’s easier to manage if your life isn’t hell, yes, but it’s still very much there. and especially her suicide, or what’s functionally a suicide regardless of whatever future reveals they do, being framed as the only way for her to finally be at peace? what the fuck?

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The way ep 6 could have been jinx taking vi to viktor because of her possible alcohol withdrawal...the way they could've "explored her trauma" then and there...while also having jinx take care of her and vi is being taken care of...broooo

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(Commission work) - Sevika X Margot (arcane)

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It's like we all collectively forgot as a society that friendship and just connection in general takes effort. Even if you meet someone you immediately click with, it takes hanging out about 20 times (!) to become friends. And guess what, some of those 20 meetings might be awkward or unimpressive.

We all want to reap the benefits (having a friend circle, having a partner, getting married) without doing the work (going to events, interacting with people, learning to handle conflict maturely, dating). Myself included. If I could, I'd never leave the house or go on another mediocre date again... except, that's part of the process.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, the cure to the loneliness epidemic is touching some grass and building tolerance for tedious in-person interactions.

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what are we, some kind of league of legends?

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Silco and his terror of a daughter

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A quick Analysis of Grown-Up Mylo and Claggor:

Mylo was always the insecure middle child looking for attention, and we see bits of those traits have survived in the slightly ostentatious way he dresses compared to his siblings, and the sarcastic way he greets Ekko. While everyone else is drinking from old steins, he's waving around a cocktail glass. And of course there's his weedy little moustache, which like all young men his age was grown mostly for the novelty, and because he thinks it makes him look older.

Claggor meanwhile was the awkward second-eldest sibling who often shared Vi's sense of responsibility, but not her confidence or authority. This changed when Vi died, and evidently Claggor has taken over her duties as the eldest. He's leading efforts to clean up the undercity, and was the one who tells Powder to help out Mylo, to give some examples. His manner of dress is also the most practical of his siblings, with accessories chosen not for style, but because they assist in his work.

Lastly, I feel I should touch on how Powder is so quick to play wingman for Mylo. Obviously everyone's matured since they were kids, but this specifically tells me two things:

1. Mylo must have stopped bullying Powder after Vi died, and she now views him quite fondly.

2. Powder understands her brother's bravado is an act, and actively helps him with his lack of confidence.

If I had to guess, Vi's death hit Mylo almost as hard as it hit Powder. Grief often leaves us vulnerable, which is probably what allowed the pair to properly share their feelings and bond as siblings. Nothing builds empathy like personal tragedy, after all.

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I didn’t end up adding much but here

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I personally think it would be extremely funny if The Hunger Games and Mad Max took place in the same universe and America and Australia just dealt with this apocalypse very differently.

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there's a lot of interpretations on the whole "who really made jinx" of it all, but I think at the core of the whole show the real tragedy in that question is that the only person who truly made jinx was powder herself. she made jinx as a defense mechanism and she's kept it up so long that she has no idea how to drop it, and it's hurting her and everyone around her and she knows it and she still doesn't know how to stop, so she's convinced herself that she doesn't want to. in this essay I will,

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theyre called broad shoulders because theyre for women

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Finally, those who subscribed to me because of the Arcane will get what they came for…

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these posters baited me so hard like where did jinx's possessiveness go it just vanished like excuse me i wanted to see that