#getting pretty predictable

[ruporas]

realizing it’s mutual (ID in alt)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

beautiful woman gets another beautiful skin more at 4

[accirax]

(Whit did, in fact, gaf, but he wasn't about to let anyone know that.)

[snailfen]

just remembered that every day we inch closer to the evil paper arc and started sweating quite a bit. cartoon gulp sfx

[everestgale]

It's Skeptic propaganda time!..

...and for once, it's actually for my Skeptic! Shocking!

Thank you Soul Eater AU (by @pink-november <3) for giving me a reason to let my Skeptic be pretty.

Fun fact: Pink is also the one who came up with this outfit for him! The last picture of Skeptic with a pretty rapier is actually an old drawing from a few weeks ago for a different (magical girl) AU, and this was the outfit they came up with! By their suggestion, I then repurposed it for Soul Eater AU with some minor changes! Thank you Pink for being the official fashion designer for my voices /silly /gen

[xx-owl-xx]

NEWMUSICNEWMUSICNEWMUSIC!!!

[missmouse43]

The finale of You summed up into two emojis:

🍆🔫

[zevzevarainai]

And all I had to do was not fall for you... Which is where my nice, simple plan... fell apart. You-... you're incredible.

[sysig]

Justify away (Patreon)

[maybesomethingunusual]

my bucktommy by the end of season 7 predictions:

- bucktommy holding hands

- one referring the other as “my boyfriend”

- calling each other by pet names

- madney and bucktommy double date

- a scene with bucktommy and bobby together talking or figuring things out or whatever

- them hanging out at each other’s house (could be buck at tommy’s or tommy at buck’s)

- worried buck / worried tommy

[rose-of-the-underworld]

Okay not to be totally out there, but like…..what if Yuko didn’t die and is actually Fakesaw Man?

[unowneyenon]

ok so

shadow milk is in the new update—>pavlova is in this update—>pavlova has practically confirmed wildchip and has been shipping cookies, essentially (and is able to very accurately see a person’s romantic feelings)—> (PREDICTION) THEY INTERACT—>SHADOWVANILLA CANO-*gunshots*

[badkarma1998]

[that-random-ink]

...This aged poorly

So, uhh, let's go over this checklist

1. Windblume Fesival

2. Mondstadt expansion

3. Dahlia (I'm sad)

4. Venti's second story quest (I'm sensing a pattern)

5. Venti rerun (THANK YOU HOYO AAAAA)

But hey, we got some things that weren't listed, like Venti echo AAAAAA and a rhythm game skin, those are cool

Venti nation, how are we feeling? Our bard boy is out of the basement after a year and 4 months (Probably closer to 5 by the time he runs)

[carlyraejepsans]

HELPP i found out about character AIs and im losing it over calling deltarune sans "a more manipulative personality" 😭😭 like whatt we've only seen this man like 2 times

sorry im being a hater hgfjdks but you're the sans understander

lmaoo character.ai, look where the fall of ai dungeon got us, smh. thank you for the compliment though!

[perpetuallyfive]

did you think act 2 had a dip in quality when in comes to writing? i've seen so many people complaining and i can't, for the life of me, understand why, apart from people having these really personal expectations that weren't met (vi's pitfighter era being just the montage, caitlyn not spelling out her inner turmoils, isha's entire existence, jinx being family oriented instead of a freedom fighter, sky is also pissing people off lol), and I'm just so confused bc idk if I'm just easier to please, or if my lack of expectations just allowed me to enjoy the story plain and simple

I think there's a fair chance that many of the people complaining didn't watch season 1 until all three acts were released and aren't used to watching Arcane as a week to week experience; a huge percentage of the people in this fandom only joined it around the time they saw an "oil and water" gif set. No shade, of course. I can understand why people weren't jumping to watch women written by Riot, but that does color how you're going to view the pacing of a season.

This very well might be the first time a lot of those complaining built up expectations of where the story would head next, how they'd watch the struggle play out between Zaun and Piltover, only to see things they wanted to watch in depth get covered in a montage.

The fact that a single montage tells us everything we need to know about where Vi is at and what she's been up to is actually good, economical storytelling, but that's not the kind of thing people are used to in most shows. If you go back and watch the pilot of Arcane, so many things happen in that one episode. You get almost a full season of TV in a single 42 minutes of Arcane. A lot of other shows are just filling time, running in place until one of the two or three big moments for the whole season can happen a few episodes later.

That's not how Arcane works now or ever.

I imagine if some people had watched season 1 week to week — with lots of time to imagine what came next while at the edge of their seat — they would have been upset that we never saw the three youngest girls growing up. Act 1 ends with this huge cliffhanger and then we jump an unspecified amount of time into the future. We don't spend time with Vi in jail, we don't actually see any of the trauma alluded to. We don't see the tension in Caitlyn's relationship with her mom and how that plays out over time, which is a pretty huge part of season 2. We don't see Jinx's transformation into the damaged girl she becomes. All of that happens off screen and is only implied.

The techniques people are complaining about this season are exactly the same as last time, when they loved the show. But if you watched everything all at once before — no time to build up an imagined result that didn't pan out — and were reassured by how much you liked the payoff, then maybe you didn't even notice these things that you can hyper analyze while you wait 7 days for the next drop.

Hell, I saw multiple people surprised that introducing tension into Vi and Caitlyn's relationship has already paid off so well because it led to, you know... tension. Some people are so used to shows not doing anything that they are surprised when actually doing things can turn out to be interesting.

I think a lot of the things you say people are complaining about are probably going to be covered in act 3. Jinx has always been family oriented. She only cared for the found family she had with Vander, and then Silco took that place. She didn't give a shit about anyone else working with him, and actively made their lives harder just for fun. It's going to take some effort and time to move her from that pretty self-interested place she's always occupied to being some kind of freedom fighter risking herself for strangers, and Isha was a vital part of getting her there.

I also think there's a really strong chance that isn't even Sky, but rather a manifestation of her created by the Hextech/Void/Whatever that consumed her using her as a puppet to manipulate Viktor into spreading its influence further and faster. But who knows! There's an entire three episodes left and, again, a single episode of Arcane covers so much and always has. None of us can actually know where the stories will be one episode later, let alone three.

Look, for all I know, this might not pan out. We never know if a show is going to stick the landing one season to the next. But they're not really doing anything differently from last time, so I don't see a reason to panic or complain yet.