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me as a writer

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meljay doodle

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The way vi is holding cait's arm

From: star_ry_eyed (twitter)

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I chose to draw the kagebros for @unnbatteryacidd!! Here is Ritsu trying Shigeo's new hobby, and I'm sure the opposite would happen too :)

Thank you @mp100secretspirit for this event!

Closeup on the bottom ft judgmental Ritsu, my fave:

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I guess I'm misremembering the Romeo and Juliet conversation, then. You can tell me what your takeaway was after we agreed that how the characters interact with the family divide is the main story of R&J, and how that relates to Arcane. (Genuine question. If you still disagree please say why, and I'd be interested to hear why you suddenly stopped replying.)

2. Genuinely never said you delete posts

3. "The cycle of violence was the arcane." Piltover and Zaun have been like this for a long time, symbolized by the very literal division between them (Piltover being physically above, and Zaun being physically below). Piltover and Zaun were built to get AWAY from magic, and until Hextech, held true to that. So the arcane did not create the cycle of violence - only heighten it/speed it up.

4. My list was just some cycle-of-violence-related ideas, not "things I require Arcane to do for me to consider it good." Btw every single one of them was a "step in the right direction" type of idea, not something that would have solved their classism, but I do admit all taken together they're pretty feel-good. I agree with some of your points against the list, disagree with others, but as I said I don't think Arcane should have done 100% of all of those things to be good. Please respond to my sentence with "ten minutes" near the end, as that is my main point there. I am not interested in hearing nitpicks from this point onwards.

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Okay two things:

1. That’s NOT the lens of season 1? Season 1 discusses the political issues between the cities, sure, but that’s more SETUP and SET DRESSING than anything else.

But whatever, let’s say you’re right. Let’s say that Season 1 actually IS supposed to be about the oppression and inequality between the two cities.

What’s the end of Season 1 say then? Because the end of season 1 is the council agreeing to make Zaun independent and Jinx blowing them away and getting rid of all opportunities to better the two cities. If the show is all about the oppression, what does Jinx blowing up the council when they’re ready to NOT oppress the city anymore mean???

The reason you’re struggling with viewing Arcane through this lens is because it’s NOT the intended lens and it doesn’t match with what the show is doing.

But that also brings me to my next point:

2. If you’re viewing it through this lens, then you understand that you can view it through DIFFERENT lenses, right? Like that’s the basis of most modern day media criticism and analysis isn’t it? Take a work of art and use different lenses to critique it and see how it fares.

So if you agree that lenses can be swapped… why the heck do you struggle with the idea of viewing Arcane through a different lens? Why does it have to ONLY be viewed through this one narrow lens you’ve decided on? Could you also not view it through a queer lens? Or through the lens of civil rights? Or women’s rights?

Or how about… you view it through the lens of the “cycle of violence” which is what the show was INTENDED to be viewed through? Why is that so hard?

If a particular lens isn’t working to view it through, why are you blaming the writers for that? Why wouldn’t your first thought be “hey, maybe I was wrong and this isn’t the lens the show was meant to be viewed through? Maybe I should try another one and see if that’s better?”

You guys all BAFFLE me.

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"Season 1 discusses the political issues between the cities, sure, but that’s more SETUP and SET DRESSING than anything else."

Aw man, I thought we already agreed the class differences are not just set dressing. Or maybe I misunderstood what deleting my comments on your post meant, and you totally still had points to push back with...

"If the show is all about the oppression, what does Jinx blowing up the council when they’re ready to NOT oppress the city anymore mean???"

It means that Piltover cannot make the right choice now, after so many wrong choices, and simply distance themselves from the ways they've hurt Zaunites.

If the show was truly intended to be viewed through the cycle of violence between Piltover and Zaun, I would have liked to see them continue to focus on that in season two. And even if they still decide to go with an all out war between Piltover and Zaun vs. Noxus, here are some things I would have liked to see to actually address the cycle of violence set up in season one:

Zaunites being allowed into Piltover readily AFTER the fight

At least a montage of enforcers removing the police barriers in Zaun

Working together to clean up Jinx's spray-painted gas in Piltover

The younger generation of Piltover/Zaun being friendly with each other (so even if the current generation can't resolve their differences easily, there is hope for the future throughout the whole population)

A montage of working together to rebuild/clean Zaun and getting Piltover doctors to help Shimmer addicts

Scenes of the enforcers AFTER the fight interacting with Zaunites in different, and less harsh ways

Scenes of Zaunites forming a tentative peace once they realize the enforcers are no longer as cruel, and not being as distrustful

More Zaunites being enrolled in schools like the Piltover academy

Not every single one of these, of course, but you get the idea. No, one conversation between Jinx/Cait + Sevika being a councilor is not enough... because ten total minutes of screentime is not a satisfying ending to what is the "entire point of Arcane" in your opinion.

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Okay two things:

1. That’s NOT the lens of season 1? Season 1 discusses the political issues between the cities, sure, but that’s more SETUP and SET DRESSING than anything else.

But whatever, let’s say you’re right. Let’s say that Season 1 actually IS supposed to be about the oppression and inequality between the two cities.

What’s the end of Season 1 say then? Because the end of season 1 is the council agreeing to make Zaun independent and Jinx blowing them away and getting rid of all opportunities to better the two cities. If the show is all about the oppression, what does Jinx blowing up the council when they’re ready to NOT oppress the city anymore mean???

The reason you’re struggling with viewing Arcane through this lens is because it’s NOT the intended lens and it doesn’t match with what the show is doing.

But that also brings me to my next point:

2. If you’re viewing it through this lens, then you understand that you can view it through DIFFERENT lenses, right? Like that’s the basis of most modern day media criticism and analysis isn’t it? Take a work of art and use different lenses to critique it and see how it fares.

So if you agree that lenses can be swapped… why the heck do you struggle with the idea of viewing Arcane through a different lens? Why does it have to ONLY be viewed through this one narrow lens you’ve decided on? Could you also not view it through a queer lens? Or through the lens of civil rights? Or women’s rights?

Or how about… you view it through the lens of the “cycle of violence” which is what the show was INTENDED to be viewed through? Why is that so hard?

If a particular lens isn’t working to view it through, why are you blaming the writers for that? Why wouldn’t your first thought be “hey, maybe I was wrong and this isn’t the lens the show was meant to be viewed through? Maybe I should try another one and see if that’s better?”

You guys all BAFFLE me.

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stopping for hot cocoa in the middle of holiday shopping

Merry Christmas @yukisloser !! I hope you like this and have a good new year !

& thank you to @mp100secretspirit for organizing this event

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Having aesthetic attraction to a character without a trace of any romantic or sexual feelings attached is so strange

It's like there's a guy (gn) on my screen. I like how he looks and the way he moves. I don't want to have sex with him, I don't imagine myself dating him or something of that sort. There's no physical reaction at all.

But there's this ephemeral urge to, I don't know, simultaneously gnaw on him like a bone, study him under a microscope, encase him in chrome and put in my living room, and watch him do the same gesture that ticked me on a loop for approximately three million times?

Does that make sense??

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That Arcane AU episode

S2E7, Pretend Like It's The First Time, is my favorite and most hated season 2 episode. I like it because it mirrors S1E7, The Boy Savior, my (and most people's favorite) episode: Ekko-centric, Silco stealing the show, gorgeous emotional choreography between Ekko and Jinx, a microcosm of its season's themes, etc.

I hate it because it is a microcosm of its season's themes and said themes contradict S1E7.

Let's talk about what The Boy Savior showed us:

Vi rediscovering her community and agency with the Firelights. For the first time in the series, Caitlyn is prisoner and Vi is the one with power over her, but Vi chooses to vouch for Caitlyn so that the Firelights ease up on her and agree to give the Hextech core back to the Piltover Council. This shows Vi and Caitlyn as equals with power and influence in two different realms that they use to move together towards a common goal. (Compare that to S2 where Vi is fully dependent on Caitlyn and contributes almost nothing in their mission to capture Jinx.)

Powder vs Jinx. Ekko tells Vi Powder is dead and only Jinx remains. Vi argues with him saying she can still save Powder. We see the seed of doubt she planted in Ekko sprout when he hesitates to kill Jinx on the Bridge of Progress when he sees Powder in her. (Inadvertedly, Vi saved Jinx's life here. Both Ekko and Vi are wrong because Jinx IS Powder.)

Zaun vs Jinx. Chem-Barons want Silco to hand over Jinx so that the Enforcers will lift their blockade. Sevika tells Silco Jinx is a liability in their mission for an independent Zaun. Silco refuses to hand over Jinx (because it's not a choice between Jinx or Zaun — Jinx IS Zaun, but that's a post for another day).

The Enforcer's brutality is shown in full force. Viktor argues with Jayce for ordering a blockade on the undercity. Ekko calls out Vi for the Enforcers treating people in the undercity like animals.

Why Silco fights for Zaun. He gives a whole speech about suffocating in the toxic fumes of the mines to reestablish his dominance and reaffirm Sevika's loyalty. He reminds them that just because they've had a taste of fresh air, it doesn't mean they should forget that they still all come from the dirt.

Jayce's moral spiral in the name of progress. He's tormented by his betrayal of Heimerdinger, calls on Enforcers to terrorize the undercity, alienates Viktor, and eventually makes the choice (with Mel's urging) to weaponize Hextech.

Ekko vs Jinx. The quick 3-minute scene on the Bridge of Progress did so much for Arcane's reputation. If you asked me what Arcane is about, I would point to that scene. It showed who Ekko is. It showed who Jinx is. It showed the history and relationship between them. It is a commentary on Zaun and its children. Every frame is literally a well-conceived painting. It placed Ekko and Jinx as foils — Ekko is what could be if everything went right and Jinx as what happened when everything went wrong.

Let's talk about what Pretend Like It's The First Time showed us:

Only Powder grieves Vi. Whether purposefully or otherwise, the episode paints Vi as someone who would have been better off as a child martyr. Mind you, in the original timeline, she was presumed dead at about the same age, but I suppose a teen languishing in prison doesn't have the same impact as a public tragedy with a visibly gruesome corpse. Vi's previously established connection with her community is diminished. They DID already mourn her and thought they lost her, and their grief was memorialized through a mural because they cared for HER. In S2, Ekko only paints a mural of Vi to placate Powder, implying that her sister was the only one to truly mourn Vi's passing.

Everyone is free to move to and from the Bridge of Progress. Where are the Enforcers? Why are they gone? Who's keeping out the undercity folks sick from mining gas from mingling with the topsiders? The episode doesn't care.

Silco's life is made better by forgiving Vander. This makes it seem that Silco turned to a life of crime out of spite for one person, when S1E7 had him make a whole monologue why he built his Shimmer empire in the first place. They were being poisoned in the mines — did him and Vander making up clear up all the toxic waste in the undercity? How? When they were younger and working together, Zaun was still polluted, so what's different now?

Perfection is either pretending problems never existed in the first place or everyone turning into lifeless statues. Ekko's version of a perfect world and Viktor's version of a perfect world are both heavily sanitized dystopias utopias that ignore history and come at the cost of sacrificing innocent people. The episode never interrogates this.

Ekko and Jinx. I love Stromae but that dance sequence does not live up to S1E7 at all. The animation consists of blurry and choppy frames — an unimaginative way to simulate the feeling of being in love. Ekko apologizes to Powder for being "consumed" by all the ways the undercity wasn't perfect and "giving up on it" WHEN HE NEVER DID. Maybe he gave up on trying to save Powder, but he kept fighting for the undercity. His flaw was (understandably) looking down on Jinx as an enemy and seperate from the undercity rather than someone who shared their plight. What Ekko had to overcome was seeing everyone as deserving of saving and not just establishing another gated community. He shouldn't have seen Jinx deserving of love only when she was Powder. He should have seen Jinx as Jinx (mental illness, full of shimmer, uncontrollable) and came to the realization she's still one of them.

TL;DR: The Boy Savior was supposed to throw the nickname in Ekko's face because instead of saving Jinx, he was already counting her out as a "necessary sacrifice" for their community to move forward. S1E7 tackled with the idea of having "necessary sacrifices" in the name of progress. Give them this problem child and save Zaun, give up on your sister and move on with your life, just sell out this person that no one cares about and is only a burden on society and everything would be hunky-dory. Silco said no, Vi said no, Ekko said yes and then hesitated (which still led to her death if Silco hadn't saved her). But the message is clear — you do not better your society by sacrificing a scapegoat. Jinx is a product of the evils of her environment, not the cause of it. Class solidarity and all that, something something we are closer to the homeless and the drug addicts than we are to the politicians and billionaires.

However, S2E7 affirmed that, yes, sometimes children do have to die and we do have to sacrifice people for the world to be a better a place. What a mess.

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My Opposite.

‘the arcane stirs within you’.

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saving art from a ship i 𝓓𝓞 𝓝𝓞𝓣 𝓛𝓘𝓚𝓔 because it’s the only time people will draw my favorite character 😞

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Merry Christmas buddy daddies nation ‼️‼️🎁🎄

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> capa teste // thanks @nanjokaoru !! 💖✨ (dear boyfriend)

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"I'm already gone, so why not save yourself?"

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I'm sick *cough cough*

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fuck it. robot daughter.

WIP

i haven't drawn anything in a while because i've been studying for an exam i have to take in jan. so i was nervous to come back and try drawing again bc i was worried i'd be washed. but i don't think i am, so that's good