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[lizbethborden]

[autism-swagger]

I think the final couple of episodes of AOS season 3 are incredibly funny if only for the fact that Daisy is soooo fucking anemic and nobody acknowledges it at all.

Look at her. She has been sucked DRY. Somebody get her a cookie and some iron pills stat.

[mollysunder]

The Medarda arc of s2 struggled to be good, because the plot viciously smothered it. You can argue that Arcane was never about politics but you cannot say the Medardas were never explicitly a family defined by politics. So when the show shifted it's priorities from a drama steeped in political conflict where even though the setting was fantastical the stakes were grounded to a shift where magic is the end all be all threat to humanity, the Medardas are rendered largely irrelevant.

In s2 Mel's agency over her own story is both largely stripped from her and poorly communicated. Arcane has Mel abducted from the plot to be the Black Rose's captive. Even when Mel manages to free herself it's not through the traits the audience understands are her strengths, her cunning and social intelligence, it's through an innate instinct that natural to her and indecipherable to the audience.

Ambessa as a character is more or less a villain of convenience, which would be fine if she wasn't immediately following Silco's act. Once Mel is removed from the story Ambessa is largely disconnected from any emotional tension fuels conflict between the characters and previously drove the plot in s1. She's there to play the worse bad guy for Caitlyn and then give Viktor the man power for the Glorious Evolution.

It's frustrating to see the Medardas used the way they are in s2 because when they're together I can see how it could be good. When they're together Mel forces emotion out of Ambessa. In Act 1, Ambessa proved she could do circles around Piltover's court, which could actually put Mel in a tight spot.

Their final scene on paper sounds like a good idea where the true resolution to Mel and Ambessa's story was that Ambessa saw Mel's own ruthless behavior as she not only betrayed Ambessa to the Black Rose, but used her as BAIT to double cross LeBlanc. Ambessa died proud that her daughter killed her the way she did, and that's so cool and tragic, but the execution was a flop.

One, their final fight is completely unimportant to the actual Glorious Evolution, Mel's grief can't even be a highlight because it's interrupted by Viktor's mind trap. Two, their fight didn't rely on any of Mel's actual strengths, just magic and the poorly explained MacGuffin LeBlanc gave her. How did Mel even know it would do that?

It's like the writers had the bones for a great story for the Medardas, but then they're like the world's worst archeologists and fit those bones together in the worst way possible because they were convinced the bones made a stegasaurus instead of a T-rex or something.

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

Something so important to me is Haymitch sobering up at the end of Katniss and Peeta’s game so he could be the advocate he never had at the end of his. He had Effie of course, and she fought tooth and nail for him but she could never understand what it’s like. He made sure those kids never had a reason to doubt their humanity. While he was put in a cage for the capitol to gawk at, and stuck wondering if he should be chained like a wild animal he made sure Katniss and Peeta wouldn’t feel that way. The Capitol went from treating the tributes like wild animals to treating them like pets. Just because they weren’t being kept in cattle cars or cages anymore doesn’t make what they’re doing any better even though it might seem that way and Haymitch could recognize the damage that might still be done in the aftermath of the games. He prevented them from surgically altering Katniss to make her more easily digestible for the Capitol, and from what we know about the Capitol, they don’t need permission for anything, Haymitch had to be on his guard, keeping track of exactly what they were doing and how they were treating the kids under his protection in order to keep them safe. He was behind the scenes at every interview or public appearance, making sure that everything went well. He knows the Snow in a way they don’t, he knows how vulnerable surviving the game leaves you and he wasn’t willing to leave them unguarded.

[nabi-unveiled]

It's Sunday. Which brings me to the question I ask myself every week - how does someone find their own Scooby-Doo gang?

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

What would it be like if people in your community looked out for you?

What would it look like if people outside your most-texted friends and closest family knew you and were invested in your wellbeing and were willing to make deliberate effort to contribute to it?

What would a healthy supportive community, full of a wide variety of people who aren't all necessarily friends, look like?

What would make your community more like that?

What structures or opportunities already exist that might enable that? Are they sufficient? Why or why not? If you don't know what kinds of organizations etc exist in your community, how could you find out? If they aren't sufficient, what could you do to contribute or create new opportunities for relating with each other?

What barriers interrupt opportunities for healthy connection and support in your community? What would effectively addressing those barriers look like?

What would be the easiest possible first step that one busy person could take to start to make your community more connected? Can you think of anything that you personally could do?

What kinds of skills or ideas would be necessary that you can't provide? How could you find people with those kinds of skills or ideas who are also interested in community care and who might be willing to work together?

You're probably marginalized by at least one form of oppression. Most people are. You're probably busy and tired. Most people are. What would make it possible for you to contribute anyway? What would make it possible for other busy tired people to contribute?

If you want your community to care for you—if you need that, as I'm convinced all people do—you might have to figure out how to care for your community first. If you wanted that, how would you start?

[mrehkka]

Read from the top-down, not side to side:

Left strip: the pak is rewarding Dib for taking care of its host 😌

Middle: pak is touched to learn that much love is stored in the Dib 🥺 (Dib views the pak as zim-adjacent and he's not wrong)

Right: that scene from the comics where Dib is begging Zim for poop cola. With blank thought bubbles neither want to actually say, for you to fill in your own blank. I just thought it would be funny if Zim was being a lover boy and the pak is like "NO! Keep it SMALL!" But Dib is ALSO being a little lover boy 😌

[hopethishelpsdotcom]

miss hazelnut enjoying her 2-in-1 lounge scratcher, being cute as per usual

[gideonisms]

"you see I am insane" was such a good answer from harrow. I wish I could respond to people in my day to day life this way but I am always trying to sound careless and nonchalant so they don't ask me if I'm all right to which the answer is no, I've been going insane in different ways for the past decade. but thank you for asking

[sometimesanequine]

can you please explain why you hate the horse breeds you talked about in your last post? i'm curious and don't know a lot about horses

so halter horse breeds are a bit like the modern kennel clubs for dogs. they want cartoonish porportions which inevitably end up hurting the horses health in the long term

im real bad at explaining horse faults as i only draw horses and watch the occasional train wreck that is equestrian drama. i dont have the terminology to explain the faults here tbh, but there are worse specimens than this.

if you want something funny though the photoshop people do for halter aqh stud advertisements are pretty cartoony

[fisheito]

emotional support wolf meets too-shy-to-live sneetah

[fowlblue]

Thinking about that one reblog earlier and like… I guess I can see the idea of Fowl Senior being this cold and cruel crime lord pre-TAI who never spent real time with Artemis and never made an effort to be a father-

But what I think is more interesting is a Fowl Senior who’s first time meeting Artemis ended up with him weeping over his son because he had no idea how to protect him in such a dangerous world.

[greensaplinggrace]

the darkling says “fine, make me your villain” because he is. what’s not clicking

[moeblob]

And then his husband enters his life and is like "do you have toe beans as a dragon? is that a thing? do reptiles have toe beans?" and Sascha looks at him like "I do not know the meaning of those words in that order..."

edit: ...I forgot my own OCs scar (now included)

[maeamian]

Becoming deeply radicalized against the idea of crewed Mars missions, y'know how the Rovers keep sending back better and better data what if instead of that we made an even bigger one and devoted nearly 90% of its capacity to holding a guy in a bubble on top of it instead of sending back useful data, but wait! They'll eliminate like a half hour of latency and also almost certainly contaminate the landing site and possibly the entire planet, so it's not all downside.

[serpentface]

HAUNTING PHOTO TAKEN SECONDS BEFORE DISASTER