#i should have a tag for the queue

[funnyscienceman]

you ever think about how banica literally ate herself to stop the demon possessing her from eating her baby

[funnyscienceman]

"Zaun gave me claws long before you did."

like you guys know warwick is supposed to be a metaphor, right?

and by 'you guys' I am talking to the writers of Arcane S2 (2024), who appear to have forgotten this.

like warwick, in a strictly plot sense, is something that is done to vander. but warwick, in a narrative sense, is supposed to be a metaphor. you understand that, right?

it's a metaphor for the monster within the man?

the hound of the underground?

the way suffering breeds cruelty breeds monsters - the uncaged wrath of zaun?

the sins of his past come back to haunt him?

the violence he tried to leave behind, but never could?

"i knew you still had it in you."?

Sometimes, as he fed in dark alleys on stray gangers, the flash of knives would remind him of an old blade covered in blood. Blood passing from the blade to his hands. From his hands, to everything he touched. Sometimes, he remembered the girl again. And still there was blood. It had always been there, he realized, his entire life, and nothing he did could wash it off. He'd left so many scars that even if he didn't remember his past, the city would. When he peered into the eyes of Zaun's criminals - the gang bosses, murderers, and thieves - he saw himself.

that's the warwick we should have gotten in S2. vander the grey, not vander the unproblematically whitewashed. vander the revolutionary who brought his gauntlets to that bridge to fight for a future; the base violence necessary for change. vander with blood on his hands, just as much as the partner he scapegoated for it; tried to bury in the pilt along with his own guilt; not just vander who felt aw shucks real sorry about the attempted murder that one time. vander the complex. vander who sold out zaun's resistance to ease his own shame. vander the reckoning with his own complicity; his own violence; his own original sin. vander whose murkiness helps vi unpack her black and white worldview, and let go of the rose-tinted past to which she clings; understand jinx, even understand silco; understand that it's not just about Individual Bad People doing Individual Bad Things to Individual Good People, and Individual Good People who have to defeat the Individual Bad People, but that this is something far bigger and far older than any of them, a whole rotten system of misery and oppression that turns people into monsters. that the thing that turned vander into a monster, METAPHORICALLY, happened long before he met singed.

vander the monster, as well as vander the man.

instead, we got whatever this shit is:

[front-facing-pokemon]

[plusultraetc]

[skyrim-forever]

I kind of want to do a gimick thing of a "bad edit of Todd Howard everyday until we get tes vi" but I don't know if I'm ready for that kind of commitment. So have these examples of the vibe:

[mukimokai]

hap lantern rite :0

did i cook

close up:

honestly they make me so sick they should die violently tbh

[solarpunkani]

Am I legally allowed to say that

“Solarpunk started as an aesthetic/literary movement so stop getting pissy when you see a lot of aesthetic/literary stuff in the tags and convos people have about it.”

And

“Solarpunk has and continues to rapidly evolve to include much more than aesthetics and thats great and valid and awesome expanding our aesthetic ideals into tangible work we can do for a better future and better now is fantastic.”

And

“With that being said, you don’t have to diss on the people who post mostly aesthetic stuff, and you don’t have to try and act like solarpunk was Always a Political/Radical Action Movement and had no history as an aesthetic/literary genre in order for your actions to be Valid.”

Are all points that can and should coexist?

[trafficblrpositivityproject]

I am glad people resonated with the ask I answered about my stance on making sure everyone gets positivity. My queue shot up to almost 100 asks (I think I was around 50 before, but I am not sure), and I passed 1000 followers, which is very exciting. (✨0✨)

As always, I am incredibly grateful for the support all of you give me for this blog and keeping it running. Because all of your support for me and each other keeps this blog alive! Thank you for being kind to me and to each other.

[impossible-rat-babies]

vierapril day 1 -- soft

pullin' your face close, wanting the inmost show me im not afraid of you now

anyway the vibe of the patch w the lapis dungeon being the turning point in their friendship to "oh you actually mean a great deal to me" lives rent free in my head 24/7. the start of the mutually inspiring each other to live. we're dragging each other kicking and screaming to live life again.

[gambeque]

therapy sesh

[mirwx]

iteratr :0

i think ive done too much drawing :/

[funnyscienceman]

if anything good came out of arcane season 2 it's my favorite genre of trans homosexuality

[creativesplat]

I would also like to see some miphlink, if that's okay!

I was really struggling with what to draw, and then I remembered your ask from ages ago (dang ADHD brain...) anyway, sorry its such a late answer, but Miphlink inspired by Dicksee's La Belle Dame

[front-facing-pokemon]

[everybodyconga]

here's ANOTHER old thing from 2021 AGAIN...they mice be giants, or the johns as fancy mice :] because i love mice did you guys know that. flans is a black broken merle+linn is some kind of partial brindle champagne thing that i don't fully remember the thought process behind. mayhaps i'll redraw this sometime

[write-it-motherfuckers]