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Percy: Hey, Nico I think I'm running late, do you have the tim-

Nico: Percy, we've been through this. I'm dating Will, I am not interested in you. You're not my type - get over it. It's starting to get sad.

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Blood of Olympus Scene:

Percy: "So... Nico... do you, like, have a crush on me? It's totally fine if, I mean..."

Nico: *Looking past Percy distractedly, and literally drooling at the sight of Will just standing there, golden halo of sunshine enveloping him like a gay angel*

Nico: "Huh? Move out of the way 5, I've got a 10 to talk to"

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will solace saw Nico Walking Corpse Di Angelo looking unwashed sleepless emaciated sunken eyes deathly pale glaring and scowling up a storm ready to pass out any second in his hawaiian shirt and said "is anybody gonna flirt with that freak" and didn't wait for an answer

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I ws thinking that we overuse the word literally as a society (myself included) because we just want to emphasize feelings with our speech and there aren't any cool alternatives. UNTIL NOW! I propose we say "To the max". Like Chappell Roan isn't LITERALLY a girl's girl. She's not possessed by another girl. She's a girl's girl TO THE MAX.

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Nobody:

Literally no one at all:

Michael Caine in a Muppets Christmas Carol: Humbug :<

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why is it always The Machine VERSUS The Flesh. why can't they be yuri. or yaoi. or whatever.

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Arcane is just Oppenheimer meets She-ra (meets League of Legends)

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I love arcane because we saw that every single person (except maybe Ekko) made unforgiveable mistakes. What Jinx did was irredeemable. What Cait did was irredeemable. What do we do with people who make irredeemable mistakes? Where do we put them? Why do we keep pretending like we should puritanically erase all misdeeds? I think that we can look at the TRC in the aftermath of apartheid in South Africa. Obviously one side had more power and committed more atrocities than the other. But, despite there being countless numbers of atrocities, the country acknowledged that more bloodshed, more acts of terror and oppression would never end unless there was radical forgiveness for all sides. While I do not personally believe they were equally blameless, there becomes a point of no return, where there are no winners. At some point we have to accept our losses and walk away and be okay with the fact that sometimes people can be evil.

The whole season was Viktor advocating for a eugenicist's dream world. Everyone, fully evolved, perfect. No more war, or discrimination, disability, or poverty. But throughout arcane, every person fucked up. They fell short, they made stupid decisions, they let the people they loved down. But even though they were extremely flawed, they got to make their own decisions. They chose to do better, Cait lost an eye taking down Ambessa, Vi went back for Jinx again and again after trying to kill her, Jinx fought for Vi, Jayce used Hexcore to create the Machine Herald and then destroyed it. But Viktor's perspectives stemmed from seeing himself as a deficit. This brilliant inventor, and lovely man, who, because of his perspectives as a man with a bad leg, who was born into poverty, joined Piltover and saw the topsiders as the polished, perfect facades they carried around with them and thought he needed to be like them. He wanted to rid himself of his imperfections. These imperfections, which motivated him to want better for people like him. He was driven by empathy, by his own perceived short comings. But in reality, taking away everyone's imperfections leads to these faceless, uniform, manufactured robot people.

Wanting to tweak people, to do away with these imperfections robs them of who they are, their personhood, their identity. Humanity is a condition, and there is no such thing as a normal person, that doesn't exist, especially with circumstances as complex as theirs.

okay. let’s talk about jayce’s monologue, since people are calling him ableist.

for context, not that it matters: I have a significant mobility disability and a progressive chronic illness which, even when managed, can kill me. I’m not in exactly the same boat as viktor since my disease isn’t terminal, but I’ve had very similar experiences to him. this shapes my perception of him and of this storyline.

this is the monologue:

You’ve always wanted to cure what you thought were weaknesses. Your leg. Your disease. But you were never broken, Viktor. There’s beauty in imperfections. They made you what you are. An inseparable piece of everything I admired about you.

first, it should be noted that “what you thought were weaknesses” is not the same thing as “things that are good.” jayce is not saying that viktor’s disease is or was a good thing. what he is saying is that he admired (loved) everything that viktor was, which included the things viktor thought made him a burden or a problem. remember also that jayce almost doomed the world because he couldn’t let viktor die; he would never imply that viktor dying was a good thing.

the next question, then, is whether viktor sees himself as a burden or not. I think it’s implied that he does — it’s certainly not unrealistic to think that viktor might have come to view himself, or at least his disease, as a burden and a flaw. disabled people often view ourselves that way either because of internalized ableism or because society constantly tells us that we’re burdens and that our bodies are abnormal and wrong. viktor displays behaviors that indicate internalized ableism, including hiding the fact that he’s coughing up blood from jayce the first few times it happens and generally refusing to be in the public eye in a way that is self-effacing and not just him being private. yes, he says in act 1 of season 1 that he believes in himself, but he does also call himself a cripple in a dismissive way in that same scene; also, he doesn’t have the disease at that point. arguably the entire scene where he runs despite clearly being in pain is an example of his internalized ableism, but that’s another post.

more evidence for viktor’s perception of himself being negative is that he clearly has a sense that he doesn’t deserve to be loved (specifically by jayce, but maybe also in general). we see this when he asks jayce why he’s still persisting in saving him. we see this with his generally self-effacing behavior. we see this with the fact that in all of season 1, the only person he allows to touch him is jayce, and that the only person he actively touches in the entire show is jayce. viktor is reserved and not good with his emotions, which is a huge part of his arc this season. all of these behaviors point to him having a negative self-perception.

I think it’s important to really consider how jayce perceives viktor and how viktor perceives himself. I don’t think this season handled everything perfectly, but I think they handled this very well. viktor has been written with a fullness and complexity that most disabled characters don’t ever get. him being morally grey doesn’t mean he’s “problematic” or “bad representation.” obviously I’m only one disabled person, but I really love jayce and viktor and I think their story is beautifully written.

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Me, looking at a heterosexual couple suspiciously: "So... which one of you is the head chef and which one is the sous chef?"

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grover goes through so much in tlt like he's 28 years old and every day year after year he has to deal with literal twelve year olds bullying him. stronger than any us marine. this is before we even have to deal with quests.

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Alex: Would u call me selfish?

Magnus: No. Not to your face

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the only valid heterosexual relationship is:

smitten himbo and girlboss that definitely swings both ways

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Percy Getting Shot

Will: Oh my god! Quick, Percy what’s your type!

Percy: Annabeth

Will: ... I meant your blood type

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Magnus Murder Mystery

Magnus: Umm… how did this guy die?

Alex: He died of natural causes

Samirah: Alex, You murdered him??

Alex: Murder is natural

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Mortal: So... do you believe in ghosts?

Nico: Honestly, I think they need to believe in themselves.

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Nico: *is alive*

Nico: What is The Point.

*Will Holds his hand for 0.5 seconds*

Nico: This. This is the Point.