#tb posting

[tbposting]

it took a lot of asking but riot finally deigned to discuss the lore of their billion dollar video game franchise

i absolutely called it that riot was going to retcon the Brackern/Hextech connection out of existence, but i didn't call that they'd use Arcane as the excuse to do it with. i thought they'd just quietly retcon it away with the skarner update without offering much explanation.

they say they're going to give seraphine an update to fit the new status of hextech which made me laugh a bit because, like, y'all already retconned her lore to hell and back when it turned out you had severely failed to read the tone of her connection to the brackern and launched her with a story that essentially implies she uses slave labor to be a pop star. I remember fucking marc merrill throwing the writers under the bus on twitter about it like an absolute douchecanoe.

and then, instead of engaging with any of the ways in which seraphine's powers of empathy generation could be incredibly interesting when paired with the brackern narrative that casts them as essentially brutalized victims of colonization for Piltover profit, you just go "uuuuuh, no, wait, she can't hear the brackern actually ha ha ha whoopsie doopsie." like, literally just nerfing her powers, but doing nothing to alleviate the horrible implications. "oh yeah, no, she still uses the enslaved soul of a brutalized species to power her platform, but now she doesn't know she's doing that, which I think we can all agree means the problem is solved."

hopefully they actually give her a new story that engages with her abilities beyond just "she is good at being a pop star" - building on the LoR version of the character, I would hope - but I fear it's more likely they just do the minimum viable edit and just find-delete any reference to consciousness in hex-crystals.

as for skarner himself, well he's Ixtali now so they'll probably still square him up against piltover's colonizing incursions into Ixtal, but more in a "primordial protector of the natural world" kind of way than "lone avenger reclaiming his people's stolen bodies." which, y'know, okay, sure, why not, but I would very much like him to have a more compelling character motivation than "preserve the status quo because nature and balance or something."

my big fear is they'll use the update as an opportunity to make camille a good guy or more sympathetic. like, house ferros made its fortune by selling the souls of a sentient species as batteries, knowingly, and camille was a ideologically committed defender of that decision, and that made her an interesting villain. but they've been humanizing the living hell out of her and i am real worried they're just going to tip straight on over into "oh no the authoritarian enforcer for the bourgeois power structure is sympathetic actually, she's really nice once you get to know her, she's just misguided" and ffffffffff

just... please let camille be evil. let her be a villain, please for the love of god

[cowardlycowboys]

what are u looking at

[goodfellowe]

what if they were crime fighting time travelers?

[tobealonemp3]

the writers had their fingers on the pulse of freaks everywhere

[jellybracelet]

True blood's legacy is everlasting. Every time I wear my velour juicy couture zip up, I look in the mirror and say "I'm mainstreaming"

[s0re-loser]

Been thinking about this everytime I get dressed

[goosefatfries]

📸

[halorvic]

"Do not let anyone convince you that you need to get sick to be healthy."

[i-am-going-to-skream]

Wish john green would come back to tumblr :(

Why’d yall have to bully him? Now am sad :(((

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

N e w t .

[thelockedtombstuff]

Screenshots from my storyboard on chapter 6-7 of Gideon the Ninth.

Very very rough, and my character design is very inconsistent, but I still like them tho

I wanted to capture Harrow's sorrow leaving the ninth house, which is briefly but kinda beautifully expressed in GtN, even through Gideon's bored pov . I feel that the "unrealiable narrator" trope of the first book (also present through all the other books tbh) could risk losing its spark in a potential visual adaptation, but Im pretty sure that you could have a really cheesy score (or mise en scene, like in this case) to undermine the drama enough that it feels like we're witnessing it from Gideon's eyes. But on a second view you could really percieve Harrow's sadness, bypassing Gideon's cringe, and instantly it's not cheesy anymore. Dont know if it makes sense but whatever.

Bonus third house and sixth house during the shuttle falling sequence in canaan house.

[cowardlycowboys]

holiday disease cat

[goodfellowe]

thing

[tobealonemp3]

Bill Compton is the nastiest skank bitch I have ever met. Do not trust him, he is a fugly slut.

[bietrofastimoff23]

this is my king, who survived dragonfire, participated in more than one dragon battle, and being crippled captured dragonstone, destroyed a competitor and won the war. i mean... the more blows the enemies dealt, the more deadly aegon's anger became.

& love that mocking crazy look. the promise of becoming a disaster for everyone.

[kizzys]

NABRIELISE + text posts