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ROSAMUND PIKE AS ANDROMEDA Wrath of the Titans (2012) dir. Jonathan Liebesman

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You know what hurts?

Not the hate for Vi and Caitlyn—I’ve seen enough ships torn apart to be used to that.

What hurts is why people hate them.

Because it’s rarely about the relationship.

It’s usually because they hate one of the women.

And 9 times out of 10, it’s Caitlyn.

And that stings—not because I need you to love my favorite character. I don’t.

It stings because the reason people hate this fictional relationship is often because it makes them uncomfortable. Not because it's poorly written, but because it's real.

Vi and Caitlyn aren’t a fantasy.

They’re not a glossy paperback romance.

They’re not a Wattpad fic about falling in love at first eye contact, sharing a bed, and bickering once before living happily ever after.

They're messy. They're grown. They're raw.

They don’t start with flirtation. They start with trauma.

They don’t unfold with soft music and love confessions.

They unfold with prejudice, class divide, survival, grief, and deeply repressed feelings.

They’re two adults, with baggage. With lives. With purpose outside each other. And they still, still, choose each other again and again.

No, it’s not perfect. That’s the point.

The relationship between Vi and Caitlyn explores what most media glosses over:

That relationships—real, adult relationships—don’t come prepackaged.

They’re not polished.

They’re not always cute.

They involve misunderstanding, infatuation, devotion, mess-ups, miscommunication, heartbreak, and effort. Real effort.

And if you somehow watched Arcane and missed Caitlyn apologizing, missed the scene where she put down her defenses and tried again—then I don’t know what to tell you.

Media literacy is free.

And this hits even harder because—yes, Arcane is fantasy, but it is grounded in reality.

This is not a magical fairytale kingdom. It’s not a sanitized cartoon world.

It’s oppression.

It’s poverty.

It’s loss, grief, class war, addiction, famine, pollution, abandonment, death.

It’s real-world issues, dressed in animation, told through metaphor, but meant for you to recognize the truth inside it.

Arcane is not made for children. Or rather—it’s not made only for them.

There are themes that kids will not understand. That they cannot relate to.

Like what it means for two grown adults from opposing worlds to find something worth fighting for in each other.

Like what it means to love someone you should hate.

Like what it means to rebuild trust instead of just earning it.

And that’s okay. If you’re 13 and you don’t relate—that doesn’t make the story bad. It makes it honest.

Here’s something that means a lot to me:

Vi and Caitlyn are lesbians.

And that matters.

Because if this were a straight couple—if it were a man and a woman—people would understand this story as “oppressor versus oppressed.” They’d see the complexity, the struggle, the fight to build something real despite everything.

But because they’re lesbians?

Suddenly, people think they should act differently. Like they shouldn’t make mistakes, shouldn’t fight, shouldn’t be messy or imperfect.

Like the story has to be something else.

I love that they’re lesbians because lesbians are allowed to fuck up too.

Without being labeled horrible people.

Without needing to be perfect role models or flawless icons.

Without having their every action scrutinized or twisted.

If a man and a woman acted the same way, he’d be the morally great hero. She’d be the damsel in distress. And everyone would sigh and say, “Aww, true love.”

But because it’s two women?

Suddenly the entire relationship is called terrible.

And I reject that.

We got accurate lesbian representation—not oversexualized, not fetishized, not just there to tick a box.

They didn’t give up everything for one another.

They had lives outside each other. Friendships. Bonds. Goals. Struggles.

They were full people.

So here we are.

A raw, honest lesbian love story that doesn’t center men.

That isn’t perfect, but isn’t evil.

That shows two adults who fuck up, apologize, and try again.

That is real.

That is revolutionary.

And I am here for it.

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Moiraine Damodred | The Wheel of Time 3x08

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Prints

Day one of Handsome Caitlyn week (Prince) I guess? :D

It’s unfair really I feel like at this point no matter what I do she ends up so hot that I’m scared to make eye contact mid drawing If you're asking which one? The answer naturally is yes :)

Dug out this sketch for Tsukamaki by @venomwrites this morning and then my wife said it kind of looked like a magazine cover SO there it is

If you've read the story you know :D If you haven't I highly suggest doing so!

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Sometimes, I think of the sun and the moon as lovers who rarely meet, always chase, and almost always miss one another. But once in a while, they do catch up, and they kiss, and the world stares in awe of their eclipse.

happy belated birthday @gemmascouts ♡

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people are fucking sick

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Caitlyn antis wondering why they’re being called misogynists and racists when there’s a white man who turned into god and wanted to take away everyone’s free will and basically commit mass genocide and another white man that uses innocent children for labor, killed more zaunites than the enforcers probably have from what we can infer with what ekko said “we lost many. Some to enforcers. Most to silco.” And much more and they always wanna speak about privilege and fascism and dictatorship and racism and more but they’re gonna let these two awful white male terrorists crime slide because “they’re oppressed they came from Zaun!”

Dawg.

And? You can still be an awful person and be oppressed there isn’t an excuse.

There can be a gay white person and they can be oppressed because they’re gay but also be an oppressing racist. Being oppressed doesn’t mean you can’t also be an oppressor in some way either.

And then Asian lesbian lady that helped Zaun more than most of piltover ever cared to, made mistakes after going through much much trauma and at the end she still tries to redeem herself even after taking responsibilities for her actions and admitting that no matter what good she does she can never undo her crimes but y’all are all up her ass talking about how awful and horrible and toxic she is wah wah wah.

Yeah I wonder why ppl are calling y’all racists misogynists. It’s not like ur letting white male crimes slide without a care and defending them just like how the real world works unfortunately and then u wanna talk abt real world politics and oppression like you’re making any big changing political statement.

The point of arcane is equality. That’s the point of caitvi’s ship. At the end of the day even after all they’ve been through they see each other as equals no matter what side or class they’re on and the fact that y’all think they can’t date or be together bc they’re not on the same level in class bc it’s “oppressor x oppressed” is literally going against everything y’all claim to fight for. You aren’t fighting for shit. Yall are little pussies and think that bringing fiction into reality is gonna be helpful at all in fighting against classism. If you think caitvi is “oppressor x oppressed” you are apart of the classism and oppression. Sorry not sorry :(

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MOIRAINE AND SIUAN +  looking at each other

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Cozy October 🍁

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the Nynaeve on a spite-fueled journey to fuck up Moiraine subplot is so amusing to me. and Moiraine just "go on then guess you will just have to learn to channel to do that huh!" truly one of the gems of TGH.

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Moiraine Damodred & Rand Al'Thor, The Wheel of Time

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Don't forget to take a look at the announcement of The 13th Depository's first fandom event: Tumblr Weave Weeks. Here's the descriptions of the prompts we'll use. It'll run from Monday, August 4th, to Sunday, August 17th.

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i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

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PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) Dir. Joe Wright