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THANK YOU for your point on heteronormativity in Arcane re the world of Runeterra. I always see people go like "well real life homophobia doesn't exist in Runeterra so you're projecting" but like are we forgetting the writers of this Runeterra show are still from real life?? Where homophobia very much exists 😭. Lmao

Yeah, and tbh, I kind of hate that they said it, they should've just said "Queer people are more accepted in Runeterra", Rather than just saying that that type of discrimination doesn't exist there. Because they don't actually understand how deep heteronormativity runs, how it's interconnected with gender issues, amatonormativity etc, and how much it affects society, so they can't even began to try to remove it

Like that is something that needs to be done by a waaay smarter person with way more time and control. I don't think I could do it, I'm not smart enough for that. I'm aware it exists, but I'm not immune to it, my brain has marinated on it for too long to completely remove it

For example, with infamously famous Christian "They're brothers" Linke; I'm not going to say that he doesn't know what heteronormativity is (he probably doesn't know though lmao), but if he knows, I don't think he's aware that he's affected by it or to what extent he's influence by it lmao

Like a fish that doesn't know what water is

I think they should've asked someone who actually knows these things to help them write if they truly wanted to do a world free of heteronormativity, but obviously they didn't lmao

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Tbh as an east asian arcane fan it always makes me laugh when reddit dudebros say "but Jayce called Viktor brother so they can't be in love canonically!!" just because calling ppl brother/sister here is super common even if you're in love, like you can literally flirt with people by calling them bro/sis and continue using this term after getting together. This is not even getting into other cultures where this might be common (only named this one because it's the one i'm familiar with). Like idc about what these reddit dudebros say regardless, it's just funny their golden objective canon point about disproving Jayvik hinges on something that's not even like actually objective lmao.

It's the heteronormativity and the fact that they can't project onto Jayce and Viktor anymore lmao

Honestly I think that if Viktor was a woman, first of all, incels and 4chan dudes would be all over her I don't have any doubt about that

And 2, nobody would question it's a love story, absolutely nobody

But again, heteronormativity; and I don't buy that BS that "Heteronormativity doesn't affect arcane because it doesn't exist in runeterra" like bish, I wish the writers were from Runeterra then, but instead they're from here where heteronormativity does exists and affects our perception of things lmao

Also, they are very much in denial because both Jayce and Viktor were first conceived as power fantasies for them to project onto, so they feel like when we say that Viktor and Jayce are queer, then it must mean that they're also queer

That's also why a lot of people got mad with Viktor's redesign, and I find it such and extremely interesting example of why your target audience matters when making a design

The target audience changed, so that now instead of you being meant to identify with Viktor, you are now supposed to want to be with Viktor, that's the new fantasy and why showing his face matters, also why there are more fanart of some skins than others but I digress lmao

In conclusion, they're grasping at straws because they feel like making Viktor and Jayce queer is a personal attack

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I just wanted to say I completely agree with the conversation you had about Jayce and violence. People have this urge to make him a babygirl, wouldn’t hurt a fly, JUST because in the show he’s shit at fighting.

(IMO, being bad at fighting but choosing to anyway makes you more violent. Vi deciding to defend someone comes from her knowing what it means to get hurt and doing so consciously. Jayce made a Big Fucking Hammer and decided the right answer was to break people’s bones. That is absolutely a desire for violence.)

People who have only seen arcane have this urge to make him helpless and it drives me up the wall. Making him harmless removes so much nuance from the character, both in the game as he’s a scientist who only knows how to communicate through what people expect of him, and the game, where he’s twisted and bent to the will of others through politics. The hammer is a representation of his fall and why it physically disables him.

It is infuriating, and nice to see someone stand up to it. Thank you.

Aw thank you, I don't care about social rules and I'm a very opinionated person, therefore I won't shut up when I have an unpopular opinion even if I know it's controversial lmao

Tbh I think Jayce it's like a personification of "it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail"

A bit on the nose I know, but then again, Arcane isn't exactly subtle with its subtext lmao

He actually reminds me a bit of Vi, because even in the show its mentioned how she has a tendency of "blocking with her face", meaning, she prioritizes attack over defense, and that says a lot about her character

In Jayce's case, I think he has a very bad case of tunnel vision, he focuses on one thing at the time, and only one thing, and it's not like he's not intelligent, it's simply that when he's holding the hammer, why wouldn't he try to hit things first to solve the problems? Like, no he isn't inherently violent, but his extreme focus makes it so that when he's holding his hammer he has difficulty thinking of another non violent solution

Because that's why Viktor is there for. And that's also why I love JayVik so much lmao

I'm not saying that Jayce is a brute and Viktor is the calm one, I'm saying that Jayce probably only thinks straight forward while Viktor thinks sideways; they're both extremely smart, but approach things in different ways, and that's also why they're so good for each other, because when Jayce it's stuck with something Viktor pulls him out of that and helps him see another perspective, meanwhile Jayce helps focus and direct Viktor instead of letting him drift to the side

So, if Viktor had been there with Jayce to help him with the hammer related activities, he might've been able to tell him to calm down and think about another way to do things

And on the other hand, if Jayce had been with Viktor during the Hexcore experiments, he might've been able to find a way to make things work with the Hexcore without going sideways towards the blood and the shimmer

It's quite literally that the problems with these two only began once they separated lmao

Two volatile components that neutralize each other when mixed together

And I think another example of him having tunnel vision was back in S1A1, when he tried to commit suicide, he was so focused on how things should be, so when things couldn't go that way anymore he was completely lost and couldn't find his way out, that was until Viktor showed him the alternative path

That's also why I think people headcanon Jayce as having bipolar disorder, because his pivot from "it's over" to "we're so back" it's so sudden that it seems like a manic depressive episode; though I personally think he fits more with the rigid thinking of autism, but that might be me projecting since I also have autism lmao (low empathy autistic Jayce headcanon my beloved <3)

But as you can see; Jayce being violent is a very interesting part of his character, so I think instead of asking whether or not Jayce is violent, we should ask why is he violent

Also, violence isn't inherently negative, but rather a neutral thing; violence can be used for positive things

And, I find very ridiculous to think that these characters; that are league of legends characters, don't have any capacity for violence; like, I myself don't play LoL, but my friend does and has tried to drag me into hell, I mean, make me play LoL with her for years now; so I've been watching her playing LoL for a long time and I know what the game is about; and as I said before, fighting and inflicting violence it's baked into the very core of these characters, even Viktor and Ekko are designed to fight

Also, might be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Jayce is a bad fighter, he just doesn't have a lot of fighting experience, but I mean, in the fight with Vi, for being his first time to fight with a giant hammer, he doesn't do all that bad

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the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post

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“The blame is on everyone but this wasn’t even about blame” literally it has become commonplace in gay culture to be mean to and degrade women like just because you’re gay doesn’t mean you’re not a man lol. calling a woman a fish instead of a bitch is just a different flavor of misogyny. men always have and always will have privilege and power over women bye

The post was not the place and time to discuss this though was my point. Especially bc the reason I made that was bc for like 2-3 years straight I’ve had just an endless stream of girls being crazy homophobic to me out of nowhere you’ve all been my witnesses. and I was thinking about how 10 years ago if you told me the overwhelming majority of homophobia I’d be receiving would be from women I’d laugh in your face. But this is 100% tied to the wave of terfism that’s just metastasizing right before us. So when I lament on how bad things have gotten between gay men and women only to have girls reblog it to talk about how much they hate gay men it’s like wtf… it’s genuinely weird to me and comes off as if they were really just homophobic to begin with but use this vague cabal of women hating gay men to justify hurling out stereotypes of us being treacherous and “disloyal”. Bc any woman who isn’t just straight up homophobic wouldn’t react that way to a post calling for sisterhood.

And also that last sentence isn’t even really true. These systems of oppression don’t really work that way. This hard line you draw between all men as oppressors and all women as the oppressed just isn’t true all the time. A Gay man can be habitually misogynistic but it’s very possible for a woman to hold more power and privilege over gay people too. And that’s not even touching race. But again that post wasn’t made to help root out the villain when violence is going in every direction but up. Do you really think straight men and gay men are in alliance with each other seriously? Cmon…

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I can’t make pasta any more without mumbling to myself, “wet the drys… then dry the wets…”

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When you make food, do you make a conscious effort to make it look pretty?

Usually yes

Usually no

I don't cook

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sometimes i struggle to use the word ‘bootlicker’ in a negative sense because of sexual desires i will not disclose here

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on their clit like morse code

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on their clit like morse code

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hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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found this on reddit thought id post it here too 👍

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Right click -> save as -> ancient curse

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*puts a disk in u*