#merc rambles

[scarlet-streak-rambles]

Ok, so, I'm wandering around Act 3 and I finally find Dammon again in the Lower City--this is my tactician run, so I do a lot of aimless wandering to avoid my problems. I love Dammon and I decided to break into step inside his lovely home to see how he's living. I went upstairs, saw a book and was like, "Oh, maybe it's a diary! I'd love to get to know Dammon and his backstory better!" I walk close enough to see the title and--

D-Dammon?

Dammon?

Man's genuinely out here with one of his only personal belongings being a play so lewd it's been banned, I love him so much.

[mercmorales]

Ok so just asking and don’t feel like your being rushed because your not and take your sweet beautiful time with it but when do you think

Chapter 2: The Reintroduction of an Old Friend will be posted remember just asking do not rush it just take your sweet beautiful time to make it perfect ( like you usually because your a freaking godesss at writing ) alright now that’s all I had to ask bye bye have a nice day/ life / night

I honestly have no set date 😭😭

[mercmorales]

crying

Gojo Satoru visiting Kugisaki nobara while she is in coma, sitting next to her, and talking to her. Gojo Satoru swapping souls with Yuta okkotsu, teaching him everything he knows about his cursed technique. Gojo Satoru hiding Sukuna's last finger to indefinitely postpone Yuji's execution. Gojo Satoru who bore the burden of being a monster, killed all the higher ups alone because he refused to let his students watch such gruesome sights. Gojo Satoru who believed he would win right til the end. Gojo Satoru who died knowing his students had got it from there, that they would be able to save Fushiguro Megumi. Gojo Satoru who let his body be used as puppet after his death. Gojo Satoru who died knowing all his students would be saved.

[fcb-mv33]

“Try and force him to fuck up his breaks” - Landos engineer

“"with max it's crash or don't pass" - Lando

Rotten team with a rotten driver who simply pretends to be Max’s mate to make himself look better

[wolfram-but-art]

he's gona get'cha!!!

i'm late but not not a whole week late which i'll count as a W

zoom ins and also a progress gif because i can

i used textstudio's edotor for all the fonts

C: ok bye please reblog <3

[ihatebrainstorm]

late night thought:

TF One sequel is announced called TF Two, and now suddenly the Transformers people and Team Fortress 2 people are simultaneously confused about why both fandoms stuff are within the same tag

Or the tag "TF TWO/ TF2" starts trending on twitter and the unknowing TF2 community is sad that it isn't about the elusive issue 7 or a new content update

[scarlet-streak-rambles]

Note that none of this is a defense, just me thinking about the character.

I think the main thing about Jayce is that his naivety, ignorance, and/or optimism are things he doesn’t lose until it’s too late while simultaneously being what put him in the position to meet Viktor and make a difference in the world.

1. Naivety

Jayce seems to genuinely believe that everyone who offers to help him has his best interests and goals in mind. To Jayce, Hextech is this wonderful world of opportunities to do good, and other people see that! They just also see ways to achieve their own interests with it. This is not something to say that Mel, Heimerdinger, Caitlyn, etc. are bad people or don’t care about Jayce because they obviously do. The fact of the matter is, though, that each of them have their own interests to protect and Jayce ends up pulled in a million different directions with very little preparation. He learns how to play politics, sure, but with the apparent assumption that all he needs to do is Fix™️ politics and then he can get back to focusing on Hextech instead of it being his new main career. He still believes that everything has a clear-cut solution up until the factory raid he commits with Vi.

2. Ignorance

This one might be better worded as unconscious bias and is best exhibited by his conversation with Viktor on the bridge. He knows Viktor is dying (or at least very sick) and that Hextech could save him. It’s likely he even understands what caused Viktor’s chronic illness and know his background. However, he views Viktor as separate from Zaun because of what he’s heard and subconsciously learned growing up. It’s the privilege of ignorance in the sense that his baseline standard of living never forced him to confront these biases and information as anything other than abstract concepts. When that’s true, it’s easy to see someone you know and care about in the way of “oh, that’s just that person” instead of recognizing the factors behind it. Think like “I can’t even tell you’re disabled” being said as a compliment to someone with an invisible disability (please note that I chose this as my example because that’s my lived experience).

3, Optimism

This loops back around to the idea of there always being a clear and ultimate solution to any problem that Jayce can get to if he just has enough time. For Jayce, it seems like the glass is always either empty or completely full–either there is no solution and everything is futile or the perfect solution is just around the corner. That perseverance obviously pays off when it comes to Hextech but is less helpful when to comes to situations with any sort of ambiguity. Jayce absolutely has empathy and some sort of moral compass–that’s part of why killing the child in the factory shook him up so badly. Optimism might not be the best word to describe this, but it’s some mix of optimism and trust that slowly gets worn down over the course of season one until it’s absolutely shattered in the end of act three and his subsequent experience with the Arcane in season two.

This is all a long-winded way of saying that, in some ways, Jayce is a ‘Big Privileged Piltie’. We’re just used to associating privilege with upper class economy, something easy to do when it comes to Piltover. His simple world view remained sheltered and preserved until it was too late for him to change it. In my opinion, it’s a good reason to dislike him. Jayce isn’t a perfect hero (even though he wants to be) and his failures and ignorance had deadly consequences. However, it’s also a view of the complexity of privilege and intent vs. impact that I find really interesting to talk about–someone can have a good heart and good intentions and still fail to reach a point where they’re able to use those two things to make the impact they want on the world.

the thing about jayce is that I KNOW he's not the big privileged piltie that some people make him out to be but for that very reason I dislike him even more because that makes his aloofness even less justifiable

bro was in his 30s, his best friend was a zaunite with systemically inflicted illness and he still couldnt manage to reach class consciousness

[racingliners]

Lewis Hamilton & Mercedes

12 Seasons, 246 Races

6 World Drivers Championships, 8 World Constructors Championships

84 Race Wins, 78 Pole Positions

153 Podiums, 3949.5 Points

4210 Laps Led, 55 Fastest Laps

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

[mo-gxn]

Wake up mo is here

(i hate all of them /aff)

uncolored and closeups vv

[scarlet-streak-rambles]

Yes and it’s genuinely one of my favorite broader tropes in media–though I am gonna approach talking about it in a non-ship manner to give me broader options for my other examples.

Brief Anime Tangent: In another post I wrote about MHA, I talked about how All Might and Endeavor are the first iteration of the dynamic we see between Deku and Bakugo (along with parallels between characters). Deku learns to balance being a hero and having an independent identity, Bakugo learns to rely on and openly care for people around him while also understanding that individual power isn’t the most important thing. In doing so, they also figured out how to turn animosity and jealousy into an ostensibly healthy and respectful rivalry that pushed both of them to be better heroes. It would have been so easy for them to go down the same paths as All Might and Endeavor, but they managed to learn from the mistakes of the previous generation. Another great example of this is the changes between the three (though one is really unofficial) generations of Soukoku in Bungo Stray dogs: Fukuzawa and Mori, Dazai and Chuuya, and Atsushi and Akutagawa. With each iteration, the characters get better and communicating and trusting/respecting each other, which in turn helps their teamwork and makes them more effective.

When it comes to the parallels between Viktor and Jayce and Silco and Vander, the difference mostly lies in pride and vulnerability. Season two spoilers beneath the cut!

In season two, we see an undelivered/undiscovered letter from Vander to Silco that could have potentially changed the ultimate outcome of their feud. We get to see Vander’s unvoiced remorse and his desire to make amends, and it’s all very heartbreaking and emotional. Of course, Vander never found Silco, so he just ended up leaving it somewhere where he hoped Silco would find it.

In the alternate reality, we do see that Silco and Vander were able to make amends–Silco still has his scar, so we can rule out that as the difference between that universe and the canon one. So, either Silco found the letter or something happened that forced Vander to put aside his pride and continue his search regardless of difficulty, and I think the latter is much more likely. Vi’s death, in my opinion, reinforces the importance of family and caring for those who are important to you, while also directly showing that both Silco and Vander’s methods weren’t getting anywhere. When your child dies and reality hits, ego has to take a backseat. They were more effective working as a team, and this universe showed that perfectly.

For Jayce and Viktor, I think Viktor said it best: what kept them together was affection. When push came to shove, Jayce’s pride wasn’t more important to him than his city and, with the extra information he had from that future version of Viktor, nothing was more important than saving his friend. Viktor still had his pride and an understandable wariness of vulnerability, just like Silco. In that moment, he was not going to be the one to reach out and bridge the gap. Where Vander was unable to get past his pride to do it instead, Jayce succeeded.

Quick question, has anyone talked or thought about the parallels between Jayvik and the Zaundads?

[scarlet-streak-rambles]

Ok so I’m playing Overwatch with my dad, right? I’m Reaper, he’s Ana, so we get that one interaction talking about Soldier:76

Reaper: Tell Jack to stop chasing me.

Ana: I tried. He wouldn’t listen.

Reaper: Isn’t that just like him?

It’s a cool interaction, lets us know what Soldier’s doing since he isn’t really with the recalled Overwatch, awesome. However, there’s one issue: we had a Soldier:76 on our team, so instead of a conversation about an old friend it seemed like Reaper being passive aggressive like a kindergartener. “Tell Jack I’m not talking to him.” “He’s not talking to you either.” “Asshole.”

[mercmorales]

The next part of the ballerina manager is in the works but my WiFi is trying to piss me off

I literally paid the bill MYSELF dpmo.

[ms-scarletwings]

Anyone else noticed these MERCenaries from one of the MPN2 trailers?

And a lot more importantly, the fact that these enemies (which were cut from the final game) have Sanford’s double helix tattoo as a design on the back of their shirts?

Hear me out here, we already have Deimos near certainly being an A.A.H.W. dissenter like 2bdamned. I’m wondering how within the realm of possibility it is that Sanford himself might actually be ex-MERC.

And I’m really liking how much sense it starts to make the longer I think about it. The rowdy, brash attitude of MERC forces… the fact that you fight a ton of them who were working in a facility that processes and manufactures explosives, and Sanford’s special skill explored in the game was demolitions,

Just something I’m gonna be chewing over until I get some evidence to the contrary.

[they-hermes]

creating a rarepair but specifically because you want them to be exes. heres my pitch for dead end and skydive (deaddive) and their failed 2 week middle school relationship dead end still writes cringey poetry about

[mister-ancunin]

It went bang, bang, bang, straight through my heart !

Valentine’s Day sentinalpool chibis !! who knew Cupid had a pistol…?!

Happy val day to everyone ! ଘ(੭◌ˊᵕˋ)੭‪‪ ❤︎‬

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