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she strogan my beef til i’m off

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little yellow boat on the great big ocean

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little yellow boat on the great big ocean

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Reblog if you've read the Mysterious Benedict Society

i need to find this elusive fandom

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Mermay 2025 by Miriam Presas

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solidarity with osha. i love a good railing

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Vi: she oinked poison in your ear and you just ate it!

Caitlyn: ..... what the actual fuck are you talking about Vi?

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Mosaic from Pompeii; circa 100 BC.

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A cruise ship and an old lobster boat, sharing the wharf

Ships with height differences. Reblog if you agree

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Die Mimik der Tethys (The Expressions of Tethys) is a high sea buoy (last was in Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, 2024), that is suspended in space and moves synchronously to another buoy in the Atlantic Ocean near Nantes. Continuously transmitting motion data via satellite to its relocated double, the information guides eight electric motors and cable winches, which precisely reproduce the buoy's movement in the ocean. The buoy functions as a hypnotising machine that inevitably leads to the idea of waves lapping around inside the exhibition space, creating an ocean in the minds of people.

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Idea sent by @macfanatic, thanks for it <3

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Reblog if you've found friendship because of your fandoms.

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sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

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This is what Caitlyn normally looks like when she's aiming her gun

Now here's what she looks like aiming at Jinx in s2e3

She is incredibly distorted. She looks unhinged (because she is). Not only is her eye enlarged, it's also segmented into pieces, fractured. It's illustrating her mental state. And it's so notably different from fall the other times we've seen her take aim.

For all the characters in Arcane, their weapons are part of their personalities. Caitlyn being a sniper is an illustrtion of her clear-sightedness. She notices details, she's deductive, she can use reason to figure things out.

In this shot, that's all gone. Her vision, normally so clear, is all fucked up. Not only is she in a bad state emotionally, she's also not processing things rationally.

I think it's a really cool shot that makes great use not only of the props in the scene, but also of visual language that the show has built up with Caitlyn.

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As promised: Caitlyn Kiramman youngest captain in the Piltover Coast Guard

…Those pants are definitely not standard issue tho - she probably has to get them altered

Also this is supposed to be a side by side situation so as you can see Caitlyn is suuuuper busy with her duties… so so busy :)

You cant blame her - the new deckhand is uh mildly infuriating

If you want to read more about what they get up to go check out @garchankdefender s coast guard AU Blisters and Barnacles

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AAAAAAAAAAAAA :D :D :D

WELL THIS IS A DELIGHT

Legs

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My Most Epic Typo

In the evenings, I'm horrible for straight-up passing out mid-activity... my body just says "nope, sleep time" and I deactivate.

This has occasionally resulted in falling asleep while my fingers are still moving on my keyboard, creating some of the most outrageous, glorious typos I have ever seen.

This is one of my best. Important to note: this was a fantasy setting with no refridgerators to be seen.

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this is where I nodded off. I woke up, and bravely continued:

They were regular pulsing of white light from the tower itself, btu all around there were bursts of orange and read and blue, and eachone ddi dtd stratch fo Ihave no idea what I’m wriintg good gravy I’m so tired

Go to bed on time, kids!

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Now that a lot of the dumbass discourse cloud has died down - or maybe I've just blocked the right people - I just want to articulate a bugbear of mine about a lot of S2 Caitlyn takes more specifically:

Caitlyn does not lose sight of her protective impulses, or impulses towards fairness and justice, for Zaun, during her peak cape era. Nor does she, having taken her first hit this painful, simply disregard or forget her compassion for Zaunites. These traits are as strong or maybe stronger than they were in S1.

That's the whole point.

She still believes she is acting in everyone's best interest. She believes the end justifies these means for everyone. She believes doing this is better for Zaun and Piltover.

This is a really important distinction. She isn't lashing out in a Hulk Rage at Jinx's hometown; she is doing this stuff because she thinks these means are justified by the ends. For everyone.

The reason the difference matters is because this is a really confrontational and difficult thing to grapple with as a viewer, but it's an important thing exactly for that reason.

Caitlyn is complicit in bad things that hurt people because she believes they're for their own good.

This is a completely human, relatable thing to do - but it makes people really uncomfortable to see it play out, to the point they're not even quite able to look it in the eye.

They want her to be a pettily angry Disney villain because it is simple and clean. We all understand what it's like to lash out in anger, and would recognize it in ourselves again, even if we did it anyway. We can recognize the impulse to be cruel or vengeful for the sake of it whether we are inclined to indulge it or not.

And we can choose not to quite easily - it is after all one of the most important lessons we spend our childhoods learning.

But it is a far more unsettling thing to be told "You can do something terrible even though it feels right, you can do something terrible even though you mean well" - because the natural implication of that is "...You could even be doing it right now".

That doesn't absolve her. There were ways for her to know better than this. She doesn't have any good choices when it comes to the Strike Team stuff, sure - but she does have choices after that point, when the trolley tracks aren't so few, and that's where she falls down.

Her failure then is in not thinking to continuously evaluate her decisions in their own terms, as she goes. In not continuously confronting herself with each individual step and its necessity; in letting herself be led out to sea just because her feet were already wet.

And it is in not being ready to see and hear somebody who can see her trajectory much more clearly from their vantage point than she can from hers.

What she did wrong wasn't losing sight of Zaun's own humanity or simply disregarding it, nothing as easy as that; it was losing sight of the fact she doesn't always have the tools to recognize what actually Serves and Protects that very thing, now, this time, today.

This is a far more valuable story, imho, than the "Oh she stubbed her toe and turned mean :( ".

What are you doing right now just because it was right last time? Because it feels right? Because you're sure it's for their own good?

Are you sure there isn't a way to know better...?

Are you trying to find out?