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"Power demands sad bodies. Power needs sadness because it can dominate it. Joy, in consequence, is resistance, because joy doesn't give up. Joy as a life force leads us in places where sadness never can."

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Arcane season two has a circular narrative and it's vital to understand Piltover's and Zaun's relationship in the beginning and the end of the season:

Episodes one and two start with death: two daughters burying their parent - one on one side of the river and one on the other.

The analogy is practically impossible to miss: Cassandra gets to rest in an ivory coffin after a beautiful floral funeral while Silco is left to decay in the river, and that while it might have been his last wish due to his history with the river, the contrast is impossible to ignore (this also goes for Vander being left on the street - if Singed hadn't come for him that is).

We go ahead with the rest of the season, we are at war, casualties happen, people die. Those people had families, hopes, dreams, even though we didn't know them, and their families mourn them too. That's how we get to the end of season two which happens where? The bridge.

We get zaunites and piltovans coming together on the bridge the thing that both unites and separates them to mourn their dead - except that this time they mourn as equals. The papers intertwine and burn in the same place at somewhat the same time. This is not to say all is forgiven. This is not to say there isn't work to do. But it is to say that work is being done.

Sevika has a seat on the council and more importantly councillors on her side, councillors that understand what is at stake and what everything that is going on means. Of course there is also corruption, nepotism, bigotry. We know this. But she has support and the country is starting to heal - the thing that started on the bridge will be contagious, there is hope.

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"you've never done me wrong except for that one time"

"that we don't talk about because it doesn't matter anymore"

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1 hour 24 minutes y'all

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hear me out: Ronan Lynch in the Undercover ‘Anitomicouture’ Ribcage Leather Jacket

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I don't know if y'all are watching the percy jackson series but Walker Scobell is literally Matthew Lynch. The blond hair, the curls, the blue eyes!! This is Matthew Lynch. Look at these silly pictures!! This is Matthew's camera roll I'm so serious.

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ok ok so, campfire scene:

“His grandfather the king sent the suit prince of armor and told him that if he always wore it, nothing would ever happen to him.”

flash forward, castle scene:

“And you can live in your tower and protect your heart for the rest of your life and nothing will ever happen to you. But Henry, nothing will ever happen to you.”

brb I'm eating my phone

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sometimes i’m normal but then sometimes i think about the endless religious symbolism and parallels in the raven cycle and i want to chew on glass. like something something cabeswater and eden. adam’s name, his being made ‘from dust’, his pursuit of knowledge beyond the circumstances of his birth. ronan being referred to as ‘the snake’: the one who always tempts adam into recklessness. ronan and declan and cain and abel (i wash my hands of him) (i am not my brother’s keeper). gansey’s resurrection, his third birth. ‘important things come in threes?’ ‘or sevens’. ronan and joseph kavinsky and joseph the prophet with their strange dreams that overlap into the real world. dreaming as a form of blasphemous creation. the three fox way women and the holy trinity. aurora lynch and the virgin mary and matthew lynch and the infant jesus - immaculate conception, pure souls without sin. absent yet overly mythologized fathers. i am going to throw up

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high school Alex Claremont-Diaz actually

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rewatching rwrb logging it into for the 100th time letterboxd AGAIN

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""Yes" he said insufferably."

I would give him my firstborn child if he asked.

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Ok but agcd how are you gonna eat ice cream like that what are you a lunatic??

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WE HAVE THE CORNETTO SCENE, I REPEAT, WE HAVE THE CORNETTO SCENE. THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL.

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THEY ARE MAKING ME FEEL THINGS

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Every time a clip comes out I take a little break to do laps around the room so I don't know how I'm going to manage to watch the movie without pacing around or if I am just going to give up and walk around the room like a maniac

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you see sometimes you have to read between the lines because "we just have to keep it very casual, of course" in Henry language can actually mean "I've known that you were it for me since Rio, let's get married yeah?" he just confuses the two because he is silly like that!