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my humor might be broken cause I find this trend actually funny

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Thinking about percy dragging nico to his family vacation.. that beach house, full of estelle, sally, paul, percy...and now nico.

Percy makes nico share a room with him, even if they take turns sleeping on the floor. Dragging him out to the beach, to get ice-cream, Nico eating sallys food and eating at least two meals everyday-

Percy gets him tacky gifts from the giftshops (by the end of the week Nico also gets percy a little shark keychain, percy almost cries.)

They arent quite just friends, they just let feelings linger. Sally knows, she watches, and smiles, and looks between the two of them, and Nico looks away because why does she know everything? He accidently called her mama once when she woke him up, and estelle started calling nico her brother three days in.

And everynight, percy and nico walk on the beach. Once or twice, estelle joined to crab hunt, but most of the time it was just them. Nico was a little surprised how cold the beach got at night, and how warm percys hand.

By the end of the trip, neither of them are sleeping on the floor.

It'll take them a little longer to really date, a little longer to accept that they can be loved, but the jackson family vacation always included nico after that year.

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Which path should he choose?

The path of the warrior, the path of the scholar, or the path of the artist?

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So what if GAME Ekko said some lines? LoL isn’t particularly know for a high quality lore either. This Ekko saw This Jinx shoot his girlfriend and kill who knows how many of his friends; Jinx was put to guard the cargo because Firelighters were an impactful threat to her Dad’s business — again, not a romcom kinds of frustrations.

They’re not Romeo and Juliet, being on opposite sides of a conflict were their choices. I don’t know and don’t care to learn LoL versions of them and I don’t need to, I have eyes and I clearly see that animators had a blast, but no one in the room thought to ask “Wait… Is it appropriate to ship a murderer and victim’s family?”

While I’m at it, whose ass was Arcane’s Timebomb pulled from?

I get it, ships are cute, fanart is cool, fics are better than canon. But that’s the problem — Timebomb IS essentially a fanwork. Does is align with canon? No, but it’s fun to think of what kind of couple they’d be.

Ekko hates Jinx. Jinx is annoyed by Ekko, and not in a romcom way, in a “I’ll try to shoot you” kind of way. Reminder: Jinx killed Ekko’s friends AND worked for the guy whose empire Ekko is battling.

S2 is already packed with events, even people who hated its plot agree that it needed more episodes. And seeing that you desperately need more time to unfold the events, you make a decision to waste an entire episode for an AU filler for a ship that doesn’t make sense in the Arcane lore? If you were THAT bored you might as well have tried to write 1 (one) decent plot point.

So. the moral of the story, kids: Don’t fucking follow what’s trendy. By the time I watched S2 multiverse already got old and it came out half a year ago! A tale as old as time, but scriptwriters keep dismissing it: DO NOT touch the time travelling trope if you are not 1000% sure you can master it. It always goes to shit.

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I was gonna say that this is something nico would do to percy, but isn't that quite literally what happened in the books??

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Iconic.

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its awesome that every day is a bunch of peoples anniversaries

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they/them pussy has explosive properties

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Abi PSA 🤪

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While I’m at it, whose ass was Arcane’s Timebomb pulled from?

I get it, ships are cute, fanart is cool, fics are better than canon. But that’s the problem — Timebomb IS essentially a fanwork. Does is align with canon? No, but it’s fun to think of what kind of couple they’d be.

Ekko hates Jinx. Jinx is annoyed by Ekko, and not in a romcom way, in a “I’ll try to shoot you” kind of way. Reminder: Jinx killed Ekko’s friends AND worked for the guy whose empire Ekko is battling.

S2 is already packed with events, even people who hated its plot agree that it needed more episodes. And seeing that you desperately need more time to unfold the events, you make a decision to waste an entire episode for an AU filler for a ship that doesn’t make sense in the Arcane lore? If you were THAT bored you might as well have tried to write 1 (one) decent plot point.

So. the moral of the story, kids: Don’t fucking follow what’s trendy. By the time I watched S2 multiverse already got old and it came out half a year ago! A tale as old as time, but scriptwriters keep dismissing it: DO NOT touch the time travelling trope if you are not 1000% sure you can master it. It always goes to shit.

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Riots are great at providing good music, but it feels like in S2 they focused more on finding great musicians rather than musicians that will provide a vibe fitting the scene. My tinfoil hat theory is that they overhyped how grand S2’s events are and chose artists accordingly. Calling Stromae for a filler episode, for a ship that doesn’t make sense in the Arcane lore is, that’s not even happening in the same universe as Arcane is. Something.

Snakes and Vi&Jayce fighting Chems exist in the same space in my head, I barely remember what footage accompanied Paint the Town Blue or Hellfire or Heavy is the crown. I’m a Stay, I l o s t m y s h i t when I saw Stray Kids on that poster, and for what? A very underwhelming experience (this is where I put the mandatory note that visuals are stunning, the plot isn’t backing Fortiche up). Well, there was Jinx and probably something else too, idk I was too disappointed by where the episodes led to to remember. These songs are too good for what’s happening on the screen and it’s damaging (my) experience, I watched S2 and only after finishing it and looking up the playlist discovered how much Hellfire actually fits my taste.

The soundtrack didn’t seem to fit as well in s2. Hear me out, it wasn’t from the lack of quality in the songs themselves. I was so excited that Ashnikko was brought in for the Jinx song and I thought Ma Meilleure Ennemie (the French song for AU Ekko and Powder) was breathtaking. The songs themselves were such a treat but it was the stuff around them that made them stick out.

What was so magical about many of the songs/montages in s1 was how perfectly the song encapsulated the action of the scene to help amplify the emotion of the animation.

In s2, there was this weird disconnect between what I was seeing and hearing. Most of the time (don’t get me wrong, there were exceptions) the song slapped way harder than what was happening in the scene. The characters just got done saying something pathetic or doing something vaguely out of character and then an amazing song came on to try and hype everything up. Like ‘Paint the Town Blue’ is bad ass! Yet for all the posturing, Jinx does something dastardly to Piltover for all of 30sec in a single episode and then it’s blown off to tangent into the next wild subplot.

Having the songs take the content of the story more seriously than the plot itself does was distracting and it felt more like they were covering for the holes in the writing than working with the writing.

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Imaginary Friends is my newest mini-zine about robotic and virtual pets I like or am fascinated by - and if you'd like to download it for free you can here: https://luciafur.itch.io/friends 🌈🐬

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I think about Circe and calypso a lot. The way we reinterpret them as good women. Because we hate the idea of an evil powerful woman so much, because we don’t want to admit that there is legitimate reading for calypso and Circe both as rapists, because. They can be bad women. Bad people. As monsterous as Polyphemus, as antinoous. They can absolutely be evil, horrible women with a lot of power who do despicable things, who aren’t misguided or mad with love or a cautionary tale about what unmarried women become. They can just be goddesses the same way gods are horrible and awful. It messes me up that we so much HAVE to see them as good people to fit into our worldview. Sure Odysseus sucked. Maybe the people he met did too- there doesn’t have to be a good guy, he’s just the more interesting guy.

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“Katsuki Bakugou, since you’re here, Midoriya Izuku will come here too”

Even funnier when you realise Deku is fleeing the island Ochako is on, entering a life death fight, AND that he’d need to be on the sky casket anyway because Shigaraki, but Shigaraki concluded that Deku will be here because Bakugou. I’m dying as I type this AT THIS POINT YOU CAN’T CONVINCE ME HORI DOESN’T ROOT FOR HMCHKO AND BKDK

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Genuinely

I love labels

I love labels because you have this word you can point to and say "thats how I feel, there are others that feel like that, I'm not alone"

Labels are fucking cool

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The seven + Nico, Will and Reyna🤲🏻🧡💜