#the algorithm knows me

[beastandwolverine]

Why yes, pinterest. I would enjoy eating Wolverine for dessert.

[blisteryfingers]

Randomly came across this picture on instagram and tell me if this isn’t the most Valjean/Cosette-core image ever

[nephilimeq]

This is literally what my fyp on TikTok looks like most of the time, and I am not complaining! The algorithm knows me far too well, and shows me exactly the men that I want to see 😁😍❤️😜

[between-the-pages-ofa-book]

I love when my daylist is 99.9% Taylor Swift songs and the 1 song that isn't sung by Taylor Swift is a Sabrina Carpenter cover of a Taylor Swift song.

[egophiliac]

did this as a quick scribble at like 1 AM last night and...immediately lost all motivation to ever clean it up. ( ᐛ ) but I had to draw my son being the fanciest little flower boy who ever threw petals down an aisle. oh my god.

[opossumpitcher]

conspiracy theory there are no tik tok refugees on Tumblr it's just Tumblr users who left and are coming back

[comickergirl]

Tired: Middling live action adaptation of your favorite YA series. Wired: Gorgeous, lovingly-crafted graphic novel adaptation of your favorite YA series.

[moregraceful]

they're both draft eligible [okotoksoilers]

[glossoholicc]

"Relate"

[asgardian--angels]

mage viktor discourse again on twitter and all i can say in my little corner over here once again is, I don't know why the entire fandom takes it as canon that mage Viktor failed to save every world he manipulated.

Canon does not provide evidence of this. This is fanon speculation. It's a fine headcanon to have, but everyone talks about it like it's canon when it isn't. Canon is ambiguous about the outcome of the timelines mage Viktor altered. The little nods we are given point, in my opinion, towards the opposite conclusion, that he successfully averted destruction.

I've written meta on this before but in summary:

1) 'In all timelines, in all possibilities' is worded precisely, it's not 'out of all timelines'; the implication is that every time, Jayce brings Viktor back from the brink, not just in our timeline. 'Only you' doesn't refer to our timeline's Jayce, it refers to all Jayces. Jayce always brings him home. If Viktor continuously put the fate of each timeline in Jayce's hands and Jayce failed over and over, I don't think he'd say those words. And the way he says them matters. His words are tinged with wonder, not sorrow. As if over and over again, he is shown that Jayce saves him, and it continues to amaze him. He doesn't sound defeated, like this is the next in a long line of Jayces he's sending off to die. The feeling is that Viktor's faith in Jayce has not been misplaced.

2) If mage Viktor doomed every timeline, there would be hundreds (or more) mage Viktors. All running around manipulating timelines. I highly doubt the writers wanted to get into that kind of sticky situation. The tragedy of mage Viktor is that he is singular. Alone. Burdened with the responsibility of the multiverse. The emotional gut punch of his fate is ruined if other timelines led to the same outcome, and from a practical standpoint, having multiple reality-bending omniscient mages would rip apart the fabric of the arcane.

There are other points, such as there being only one corrupted Mercury Hammer and our Jayce is the only one to receive it, and the fact that if mage Viktor is as omniscient as he is implied to be, he could easily step back into other timelines and correct course, because it's highly unlikely he could sit still and watch things go down in flames. But these things can be argued elsewhere.

While I love conversations about mage Viktor's motives and selfishness vs altruism, the writers & artbook have expressed that Jayce and Viktor care greatly about Runeterra and want to fix their mistakes to save it, and that their reconciliation is symbolic of Piltover and Zaun coming together as well. Yes, they make disastrous decisions towards each other, making choices for the other or without the other, which has negative consequences for their relationship and for Runeterra - but I think fandom pushes their selfishness even past what's canon sometimes, as if their entire goal hadn't always been to selflessly help the world around them. Their final reconciliation is about bridging the gap that grew between them - the pain and grief and secrets, betraying themselves and each other - to mutually choose each other openly and honestly. Part of the beauty of their story, as expressed by the creators, is that in their final moments, they chose each other and took responsibility for their actions by sacrificing themselves to end what they started, together - and that choosing each other saved the world. TPTB have stated this - that Jayce and Viktor are the glue holding civilization together, and when they come back to each other, they can restore balance. It's when they're apart, when they hurt each other and miscommunicate, when they abandon their commitment to each other and their dream, that the greater world suffers. Their strife is mirrored in the story-world at large.

Mage Viktor is framed as a solitary penitent figure, damned to an eternity of atoning for his mistakes. He paid the ultimate price and now is forced to live his personal nightmare of exactly what he was trying to avoid for himself with the glorious evolution. The narrative clues we're given point more in the direction that he saves timelines rather than dooms them. If Viktor's actions kept killing Jayce, the very boy he couldn't bear to not save each time, it would undermine these narrative choices. Yes, Viktor couldn't stand to live in a world where he never meets Jayce, so he ensures it keeps happening. But in that same breath, he couldn't bear to see a world where his actions continue to destroy Jayce and destroy Runeterra. His entire arc in s2 is born of his selfless desire to help humanity, help individual people. He would not lightly destroy entire worlds. That's his original grief multiplied a thousandfold, and narratively it would lessen the impact of the one, true loss he did suffer, his own Jayce. It wouldn't make sense for him to be alright with damning other timelines to suffer the same catastrophic tragedy that created him. I mean, maybe I'm delusional here, but is that not the entire point? Because that's what I took away when I watched the show.

As I said, I love discussions about mage Viktor, as there's a lot to play with. All I wish is that the fandom at large would not just assume or accept the Mage Viktor Dooms Every Timeline idea as canon, when there is nothing in the actual canon that confirms this. Maybe people need to just, go back and rewatch the actual episode, to recall how mage Viktor is presented to us, and what it's implied we're supposed to take away from his scenes, and separate that from the layers of headcanon the fandom has constructed.

[vanhelsingapologist]

Publishing has always been a fucking nightmare, but now it’s a layer of hell. It’s not enough that writers be good at what they do. Writers have to maintain an active social media presence and cultivate a following. Be available.

They have to be conventionally attractive enough to look good enough to see on a screen, aesthetically pleasing, kind, funny, up-to-date on trends, socially aware but not so controversial that they turn off a brand from California from slapping their discount code on a video promoting a book.

They have to do all of this with no media training, with little help from the companies that are supposed to be doing this for them.

Of course, a lot of this isn't possible for say, the 40-something mother of two who teaches English at a school and writes on the side. She’s boxed out of an already complex industry that already has enough walls.

On some level, I think authors have always marketed themselves a little, but we’ve reached such a crazy point where we’re demanding the author become the influencer. Accessibility in publishing has narrowed from an inch to a sliver. And that inch was hard enough to get in as is.

[jellybracelet]

[phizzyfrog]

Idk if anyone has noticed this yet (took me a 3rd playthrough to notice) but at the beginning of the game as Catfish is narrating you can see Huggin’ Molly hidden in the mountain in the foreground of the storybook, she’s watching Lacey as she drives home to Hazel 🥹🥹🥹 and its crazy bc I was wondering post-game how Huggin’ Molly knew that Lacey was in danger but playing the game again with wiser eyes really helps answer some ‘plot holes’ *heavy quotations*

And you know what, thats why I don’t trust game reviews anymore, especially by angry anti-woke white men

Anyway, PLEASE PLAY THIS GAME, and then play it again and again and again; and if you’re playing for free on Xbox Game Pass and if you can afford it, please buy the game!

[fifi-goes-to-hollywood]

(Source on screen)

Bojan is wearing My Voice My Choice t-shirt! 🩷

Sign My Voice My Choice initiative (European Union citizens only!)

[perfectus-in-morte]

“get a load of this guy”

yeah that’s exactly what I’m trying to do 😮‍💨

[spearxwind]

part of my new years resolution is to stop watching so much slop on youtube so I have unfollowed all the slop channels that I did still follow and i refuse to click on any videos that might remotely be like that.

im so fucking tired of "the x situation is y" being everywhere for the most milquetoast nonsense that happens i would rather watch something else like people's lovingly crafted animations or video essays that have actual thought put into it. I encourage everyone to do the same <3

It actually has become just so effortless in general instead of doing any little bit of research for anything that happens its all 'heres this situation that is actually a random article title that i read, and here are clips of me on stream reading it verbatim' id rather just get a screen reader thank you