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Caitlyn and Cassandra stans, Jayce stans, caitvi stans, Piltover & Council defenders are NOT welcomed here. It is NOT safe for you here on my page, bro.

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Having Vander be almost the sole reason the sisters reconcile is

convenient, cliche and unreasonable. At least have the sisters TALK properly to each other & try understand what happened all those years oml

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November 2021 me: Was season 2 worth it??

Me now:

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Caitvis who are Caitlyn centered are quick to cry out that The hate against Caitlyn is rooted in misogyny despite the fact there is a LOAD of valid reasons to dislike her. but they are also QUICK to reduce Maddie to nothing but a faceless fuck toy for Caitlyn to project vi onto, y’all cannot complain and reduce a group of POC feeling discomfort and hate towards Caitlyn for committing crimes THEIR communities go through to just being raging “misogynistics” who are just male centered and then turn around and speak like fucking incels

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"The grey didn't affect civilians, Caitlyn only used it against the chembarons!"

And I don't think they deserved to be warcrimed either, now what?

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i hate that arcane completely reworked caitlyn's racial identity in a way that conveniently distances her from being a fully white aristocrat, especially in s2. caitlyn was always depicted as white in league of legends, and in arcane season 1, they suddenly made her half-ionian by giving her an ionian father while her mother, cassandra, remained fully white (yeah nobody seriously thought cassandra looked ambiguous). whatever. it didn't bother me much. but then, in season 2, cassandra is suddenly half-ionian, which means caitlyn is three-quarters ionian instead of just half.

obviously this change wouldn’t even be an issue on its own, but it happens right when caitlyn takes on a more explicitly oppressive role in piltover: endorsing martial law, reinforcing state violence, and benefiting from systemic power. and right as this happens, the show suddenly makes a point to emphasize that caitlyn is "less white"???

ik some people will think that i’m reading too much into it, that i can’t prove it’s a deliberate attempt to soften how the audience perceives her. i mean, making her not fully white doesn't absolves her of being part of an oppressive system. but you can’t deny that this retcon is being used to shut down discussions about caitlyn’s privilege and complicity, or to even harass people over jokes. some fans literally act like she can’t be an oppressor now because she’s being reframed as "not white." obviously, this is ridiculous, not to mention historically dishonest because there's a long history of asian groups participating in and benefiting from oppressive regimes like imperial japan’s colonial rule and blablabla ... simply having asian ancestry doesn’t mean someone can’t uphold or benefit from systemic oppression. but that’s exactly how this change is being used, as a shield to deflect any critique of caitlyn’s role in piltover’s power structure.

and with arcane’s sudden shift from a story about oppression and politics to a marvel-tier spectacle, plus the fact that caitlyn’s main writer is white, plus the pattern where the piltover elites we follow are now people of color (jayce and caitlyn, when they were white in LoL, or mel, who didn’t even exist before), while the white oppressed characters get to stay white and the other major oppressed poc (ekko and sevika) are just missing in s2 ... well, is it really not a deliberate attempt from the writers to soften how we perceive her? idk, you do the math.

anyway, imo this change isn’t some meaningful character development. it’s just optics management.

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Who Caitlyn gassed btw

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So you're telling me the two people most responsible for the internal degradation of zaun (besides silco) are from piltover...?

Chross (the chembaron who zaunite trafficked children) and singed (creator of shimmer)... The potential this storyline could've had, man

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i’ll never understand ppl having this weird need to humble people for literally anything and everything, it’s so strange.

being a symbolism enjoyer should humble you because at the end of the day no matter how eloquently you articulate it youre essentially saying "i love it when things have meaning"

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Ok I’m sorry but does anyone else feel like Timebomb came entirely out of left field??? There was zero indication of any romantic feelings between the two in season one, and, even in season two, all of Ekko’s chemistry is with AU Powder - not Jinx! They hardly even interact in season two! Not to mention there is never, at any point, any sort of implication that Jinx reciprocates Ekko’s feelings. At best, it’s a one-sided crush between Ekko and a version of Jinx that he wishes she was. I genuinely do not see them together. I honestly don’t think the writers did either, it feels so forced. A lot pisses me off about season two but this is one of the most annoying writing choices and I feel like no one is talking about it.

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Living in a post-Arcane Season 2 world is so surreal because when I see people who appreciate the characters as much as I do I have to stop and wonder if they like the same characters as me, or do they like the uncanny meat-puppets of the characters season 2 was about?

Short version is if they go crazy over the Vi and Caitlyn sex scene then it's the second one.

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Still thinking about the "I keep telling myself that you're different" line btw. She kept telling herself that Vi wasn't really a Zaunite. That she's different from them. That's why Vi ending up with Caitlyn in Piltover without any friends (ex. Ekko) is so horrid - Caitlyn succeeded in erasing the Zaun parts of Vi

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its getting to the point that i truly believe that the arcane fandom thinks butch is when a girl wear pants because how are you gonna say you love butches, love vi, but then strip a butch of their identity all so they can fuck a dictator cop?

"Vi doesn't care about Zaun/Zaunites she only cares about family!"

"You're wrong to interpret the scene of Vi being upset about Gert dying! It's not about Gert being a Zaunite and dying for her oppressors! She saw the blue hair and thought of Jinx!"

"Vi wouldn't fight for Zaun since they all turned on Vander!"

the last one doesn't make any sense, considering Ekko and Babadette told Vi what happened after Vander's death, and she literally met people who are against Silco (THE FIRELIGHTS)

Vi is scene as butch due to her protectiveness for those she loves, her desire to rebel against the system and fight for her and everyone's freedom, and much more. Like please pick up a gotdamn book on butchness, ANY BOOK. Because the way s2 handles Vi is so anti-butch that it astounds me that self-proclaimed "butchfemmes" think that this is good representation.

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This video so perfectly encapsulates everything that pisses me off about season two. Please watch it.

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i try not to post super bold statements because i know some people would call it "bad faith" but dismissing other people's opinions because of their own experiences as poc, queer, disabled or part of a marginalised/targeted group isn't very good faith either no? it devalues the space in a fandom for neutral criticism of the show.

if a person of colour says a character of colour wasn't handled well, they have a reason to say that.

if a queer person says a queer character wasn't handled well, they have a reason to say that.

if a disabled person says a disabled character wasn't handled well, they have a reason to say that.

and if anyone from any group that even remotely relates to the oppression of zaun says that the show didn't handle the politics of oppression well, they have a reason to say that.

slapping the claim of "this is a bad faith argument" on any of such critiques takes away from the importance of listening to people's experiences and relating it to the characters made to represent them.

also, i'm personally not a fan of the repetition of "bad faith" because media is not completely set in stone. there will always be parts of a story where things remain open to interpretation and how a person chooses to interpret it is often reflective of their own experiences and backgrounds. dismissing them simply because the show is fiction and therefore not political or aligning with your own values is unfair because art is always ALWAYS inherently political. you cannot have a show, especially one like arcane, and refuse to call it political without it being indicative of your own political standing.

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And if I say Caitvi was detrimental to Arcane as a whole?

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I wonder if the Caitlyn lovers are embarrassed about the fact that they’re so out of touch.