Caitlyn! She Is A Very Serious Person You See

before you stab someone: THINK!

how can you make it Tender?

how can you make it Homoerotic?

how can you make it Implicitly intimate?

how can you make it Noticeably a metaphor for sex?

how can you make it Kind of gay?

Arcane’s race blindness is a curse honestly. The Piltover cast (counsel and enforcers) are mostly characters of color, while the main characters from Zaun are mostly white (except Ekko and Sevika).

That leads to takes that Mel is racist towards Viktor (or any other white Zaunite character). Which is wack

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i don’t think we talk about the loss of bodily autonomy that came with black rose’s expansion of mel’s sigils enough

mel’s experience of getting the tattoo was, sans the secret magic dad and free part, pretty reflective of my own—the excitement, the rebelliousness, the satisfaction of seeing your skin marked by something you chose that is beautiful

and then the black rose arrives, and while still beautiful, i can’t emphasize enough that this a huge shift—the lines run over her whole body, even her face. they’re permanent and they were not mel’s choice—that gold she thought of as her jewelry and armor is now an impossible to escape reminder of trauma and death

i don’t know, there’s such a potential for a unique brand of body horror here

girls night out 📸

modern Melsky

some lestvika for me and the other 3 shippers

I think the Arcane fanbase as a whole is very quick to clock Mel's manipulative tactics & condemn them without ever asking themselves why it is she acts that way. They either go 'problematic girlboss go queen' or 'what a horrible conniving bitch!' and move on, and it's been bugging me for a while.

Mel is the daughter of a Noxian Warmonger, raised in a 'might makes right' sort of environment that encourages violence as the means to settle conflict. The strong are always the winners, the losers must die. What made Mel such an outcast is primarily her resistance to such violence. Mel, at her very core, doesn't want to hurt people. We see this when she insists to her mother in that flashback to her childhood that they should spare that girl to "show the people that we are merciful," as she puts it.

To Mel, manipulation is the only way to avoid violence. Being too directly honest, not appealing to people, can be dangerous. It can lead to bloodshed. And if you look at things through her perspective in that sense, it's kind of obvious why she's constantly utilizing her cunning to get her way- because the only other way would actively put lives in danger. Mel's conniving nature is quite literally a coping mechanism that's followed her to Piltover, fortunately for her that makes her a very formidable politician.

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

gta caitvi

babe i hear the ice cream truck

She’s literally 3 apples tall