#but we shall see I suppose

[sandinthemachine]

the audio 🫡 also this one by the same guy where he keeps saying hi every now and then?, very königcore as well

the purring lmao...that second one is actually really sweet oh my goodness, I'd like to think that's how it goes the first couple of times, getting used to how massive he is. I think he's a lot less well-spoken, but the intent is there as long as he doesn't get too riled up.

I forget who sent this to me but I've been sitting on this one for writing sub könig, and that with the umiko art one of the previous anons sent me...I think that's gonna happen soon

[rollercoasterwords]

know that i have said ch 3 of the zombie fic would be my next priority but. well i have started writing the wolfstar werewolf fighting ring fic instead 😔 realized i can set it in the 80s + give it a little 80s playlist + it's just been haunting me ever since 😔 anyway i am going 2 make everyone a bit of a slut + also ruin. james potter's character. so. this has been a status update 4 the night xoxo

[castysconstellation]

A GL starring Milk and Love?? Bad Buddy and The Eclipse special episodes?? P'Aof directing Last Twilight (which I still think reminds me of Les Intouchables but I digress)?? A couple other cool looking originals??

I'm not excited about everything they announced but gmmtv sure gave us lots to look forward to didn't they?

[farannir]

evermore (2020) lyrics that punched me in the gut and/or embraced me in the warmest of hugs

[riggedbones]

LIVE Turbo reaction. Recreated very painstakingly by yours truly. Tried my very best to recreate the scene faithfully, some notes about what that entailed under the cut along with a version of the gif that hasn't been enlarged.

Thank you to @king-crawler for a version of the clip without any weird interpolation artifacts, made my life 10x easier.

The most accurate thing in this GIF is probably movement and timing. There are potentially a frame or two where I could've incorrectly calculated how far he had moved, but when it comes to when he moves and how he moves, I'm pretty certain about what I have. I had the clip open and frame count visible as I worked, and I am an animator, so I know my stuff.

The sprites themself I would say are pretty accurate? I started from what was shown in these GIFs on the wiki, and I made a fair few corrections since I started working with them. I'm the least confident on the wheels, if you're wondering. It felt like there was something more going on with them in the movie when compared to the GIFs on the wiki, but I couldn't be fully confident.

The colors are 8-bit, which is not how the wiki GIFs' colors were, and honestly I'm not sure if this is more accurate to the movie... but I felt like it was more accurate to the spirit of WiR, you know? Also, imo, love these colors a lot more. Fun fact that I learned! 8-bit color maps don't really have proper greys in them, since they distribute their bits unevenly between red, green, and blue. There were some ways to get around this at the time and it's a bit more complicated than that, but I've already written a couple paragraphs so I'll leave it there. The color map I used was from the hardware Rally-X used since that is the game that likely inspired TurboTime.

The aspect ratio I did a lot of math to get... but I'm still not super confident about it just because it's pretty irregular. I'm not sure if it makes more sense that I've counted something wrong or if its more likely that the animators weren't like, super strict about it lol.

The thing I am the very least confident about is how high up Turbo is on the screen. Nearly no frame of reference for that, so i just tried seeing how many Turbos he was from the bottom of the screen lol. Sometimes that is the best you can do.

[fallenclan]

Sorry if this has already been asked, but how would you say Littleleaf feels about Ravenstar and the whole publicly murdering Sandsnap infront of the clan?

i mean. he doesnt love it

[venice-1987]

Okay, so in season 4 episode 8, Janai starts talking about two of those twin-tailed inferno tooth tigers and the two she is talking about have the color palets of turquios and brown (Embertail), and gold and red (Aegis) (both seen in teaser images for season 7). And Janai says that "Embertail thinks Aegis is cute, but won't admit it yet" so in conclusion, not only will Sorvus be canon in season 7, but Corvus has thought Soren is cute for three seasons, but hasn't admitted it to himself yet.

[suntails]

i want to thank everyone for so much support thus far!!! i'm truly blown away, silver nation is STRONG and POWERFUL!!!

i'll be adding a little nightgown silver sticker to every order as a thank you, and if we somehow get 100 orders before preorders close, i'll add another item <3

[luck-of-the-drawings]

smth smth about 'the thing that the character did that you thought was rly rly funny in the moment is actually linked to a terrible trauma that lies within said character.' or wahtever.

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

i truly cannot tell you how tough and brave i am being to be continuing to work out during the PMS fatigue i am experiencing this week. yesterday's upper body day was like the worst upper body day ever and usually upper body day is my very favorite. now i am even MORE pms-fatigued because Blood Day is even CLOSER and i have to do GLUTES??????? horrible. i am a hero

[fat-psychward-sockgrippussy333]

Y'all are so gross complaining about being inconvenienced... Human beings are being murdered and your ass is oh so inconvenienced- bitch are you dumb?

[stromblessed]

Mel 🔆, Viktor 🌌, and Jayce 🔥 symbolism

SUN 🔆

Mel's association with the sun is self-evident and still mostly shrouded in mystery, though her love scene with Jayce is notable, which is overlaid with starry imagery, where her silhouette and her freckled face are compared to the cosmos. The sun is also a star. It's just the star that's closest to Runeterra and has the most influence over the world.

Mel and the Hexcore are the POVs of the scene.

Hexcore and starry imagery is more strongly and consistently associated with someone else, though!

STARS 🌟 / THE COSMOS 🌌

Viktor's blue to purple pipeline is real

But seriously, the starry/swirly shapes point toward distant stars, the cosmos, a galaxy. There is no moon in Viktor's night scenes throughout the season, only stars.

Viktor's character regresses as the season goes on (blue to purple, ready to fall into Shimmer-like magenta as his corruption nears its peak).

His hubris opens him up to some kind of corruption by the Hexcore, or by whatever - or whoever - is using the Hexcore as a gateway, like what Jinx points out. Singed as his mentor plants and encourages the lie that Viktor believes, that he's better off alone and that the ends justify the means.

These perfectly ruinous circumstances lead to him getting Sky killed (Sky like sky blue, like Inspiration, lost as Viktor has lost sight of good in his pursuit of great).

In his running scene, Viktor runs not from left to right, filmspeak for progression - he runs from right to left, as though backstepping.

(And also for the Rocky Balboa reference called out in this brilliant post, but hey, I think it all works)

It's also worth laying the foundation that Viktor is a fantasy interpretation of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor who was fascinated with electricity, radio signals, the cosmos, and [REDACTED for another post probably lol]

If you've fallen down the rabbit hole of League lore like I have, you might have picked up that peoples and warriors who are sun-worshipers are (at least anciently) tasked with hunting down and destroying Void beings, who are eldritch beings associated with the distant stars, or are Runeterrans constructed by the Void Watchers trapped between realms. The sun fights against interlopers from other dimensions or celestial bodies.

Mel and Viktor have the same ideas about risk and the nature of progress, and they are both technically foreigners living in Piltover and pursuing that progress - in two very different (but complementary) ways. They are most likely the two characters whose literal bodies are celestial, imbued with the Arcane. Their bodies are most likely augmented with magical metals.

Yet the arcane imagery that seems to accompany them respectively are diametrically opposed - Sun vs. Void, possibly. (Also, purple and yellow/gold are opposite or complement colors on the color wheel.)

Whether they wind up working together or whether they clash (as Viktor loses himself) or if it's a mix of both, I think Mel and Viktor are destined to collide in season 2.

So where does this leave Jayce?

FIRE 🔥

Fire for Jayce means more than one thing. The first thing that should come to mind is the fire of the forge. Creation and industry. The legacy and hard work of his family.

However, his FIRST imagery with fire occurs when Elora says "Speak of the devil" and Jayce is framed in flames at Mel's fundraising party.

He's similarly framed in the flames of a Molotov cocktail on the bridge between Piltover and the undercity with Viktor, after he's just called the people of the undercity dangerous.

What I think we're being shown here are Jayce's choices. He can use his talents and influence for good - creation and industry - or he can use them for destruction and oppression. A hammer can create.

A hammer can also be a weapon, a tool of destruction:

Fire can quickly burn and spread out of control.

Hey look, blue all the way to magenta in one scene!

And if you know his original League lore, the reason why his rivalry with [REDACTED] crosses the point of no return - fire and destruction. Yeah.

Jayce is interesting because his point position in the Mel-Viktor-Jayce trifecta makes it tempting to assign celestial imagery to him, too. However, adult Jayce is only present with Hexcore, star, and sun imagery when he is sharing a scene with Viktor or Mel respectively.

The show makes it a point that Mel and Viktor are the reasons he is the Man of Progress at all:

Note that Jayce in the center of his Man of Progress posters is backed by a gear (Viktor) and the sun (Mel). If Viktor had not intervened in episode 2, Jayce would be dead or disenfranchised. If Mel had not intervened in episode 3, then Jayce AND Viktor would have been kicked out of the Academy if not imprisoned or exiled, and Hextech with Jayce and Viktor at the helm would not exist.

(This is reaching, but I like to interpret that the circle + notches in the gear shape are like Viktor's star symbolism, but even if that's the big reach that I think it is, Viktor is a machinist, engineer, and techmaturgist with Artificer parents - the gear definitely represents him on a meta level)

The imagery that I believe is Jayce's and Jayce's alone is that of fire. He is terrestrial, using magic contained within tools the way he has always wanted to bring Hextech to every household, while Mel and Viktor are influenced by magic on a whole other level.

Sure would be a shame if Jayce found a reason to choose the path of destruction and be corrupted further, diverging from Mel and Viktor's core values

Sure would be a shame if Viktor's personal choices had consequences that radiated out further than season 1 and he gets put on a disastrous collision course with everything that Jayce and by extension Piltover hates and fears

Sure would be stressful for us if Arcane decided to be a Greek tragedy about it

Though possibly the most important piece of this picture is how Mel - gold like the sun, gold that doesn't tarnish or rust, gold that is an excellent conductor - has already faced the abyss and said NO to her own corruption:

It sure would be something for her to have to watch Jayce and Viktor go down a different path, huh

[ironunderstands]

*long drawn out sigh of disappointment*

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They didn’t make Jade evil, all her deals are fair exchanges, however they just enable the dumbest motherfuckers on this planet to keep making bad decisions

I’d say she’s on the same morality as a drug dealer. However, her eidolon names still throw me off, so I wonder if they were designed to be intentionally misleading.

It’s not surprising hoyo would pull a bait and switch like this, but it’s still disappointing because why not let her be evil, man

But, this doesn’t mean she’s suddenly a good person, I think enabling other people’s bad behavior for your own gain is still a bad thing to do even if that’s what they want, and it doesn’t really excuse the way she treated Aventurine either.

However, at least from what I’ve seen so far, she doesn’t seem to be as actively damaging as the other content around her suggests, and it seems like her relationship with Topaz is relatively normal, which is both good at bad. Good because I’m tired of the endless ship discourse and I don’t want another arlefuri on my hands. Bad because I think that would be really interesting to explore, but sadly it’s like Aventio and Galladay where you are meant to believe it’s toxic at first, but really it’s not.

Even if I’m not that big on toxic yuri/yaoi, hopefully one day we get a relationship like that if Hoyo is brave enough, although so far they have never done it

also here’s to hoping Jade more villainous in 2.3, please 🙏

[angrybatart]

Stagehand teaching the others about being a traveling spirit. (It's not going well.)

>:D Who else is looking forward to turning the others yellow? Not that I know when they're coming back.

[shinythingsarecool]

NAME DROPPP

Kinda odd that it's specifically them tho - considering that a lot of people have worked there over the years, why them?

[dittoqueeno]

Tea Time with Barbatos