Using My Pookies For Lighting Study

Today the Israeli occupation committed a new massacre in the Shujaiya neighborhood, killing more than 50 martyrs and more than 30 people missing until this moment. It destroyed 8 houses at once over the heads of their inhabitants. Please, my family and I do not want to die. Please help me so we can escape. Please I need your help with a donation so that my family and I can escape from the war zone here. Are you waiting for me and my family to die or what? If you do not find me on Tumblr, know that I was killed by bombing from the Israeli occupation.!!!

I do not know why everyone is ignoring me until now. I am living the worst days of our lives here. We are in dire need of your donations. Your donations will expedite my departure and my family from Gaza!

arcane had to nerf mel by making her british

Kinda obsessed with those early concept art of Mel that came out recently, especially that half suit version, so here is my interpretation of it (I kinda mixed that design and elements of her final one). She just looked so gorgeous, I couldn't resist 🙂‍↕️✨

I think it's kinda interesting how Mel doesn't really fit into the disposable black girlfriend trope and yet a lot of fandom still treats her like she does.

The poor writing with Mel puts her in the independent black woman stereotype (even though she was very much not independent) more than the disposable black girlfriend trope. It doesn't take Jayce loving Mel to have some sort of epiphany about Viktor. It takes him literally having to eat raw lizards with a shattered leg in the depths of a cave, and the epiphany he has isn't even a positive one. He doesn't have to be "freed" from Mel or dispose of her to be with Viktor—they were torn apart by circumstance and he had a moral obligation to be with Viktor.

Basically what I'm saying is that if you need to discredit and disrespect a character in order to make your ship work you need to do some self reflecting.

But I've participated in ship wars and I'd rather just talk about the whole "independent black woman thing" because it has to do with her as an individual, rather than as a part of a pair or an obstacle.

"Mel is a queen" she's not. She's stunning and an amazing character but she very much is not. Mel is so dependent on other people. She needed the council to work in her favour in order to achieve her personal goals. She needed Jayce and Elora to be vulnerable with. It makes Ambessa's treatment towards her all the more hurtful; she needed her mother, and her mother's approval, and was punished for it. I don't think we actually take the time to comprehend how devastating it would be to be, what, 19-20 years old and be exiled because you were too soft for your mother, only to be told years later that it was actually because your she loved you and she didn't want to (if my mother told me she kicked me out because I weakened her I'd probably instantaneously die of a broken heart). Obviously it was more complex than that, but Mel is the child in this situation; she is not going to see it through Ambessa's eyes nor would she want to.

Mel likely got really good at feigning independence but I doubt that, with the way she grew up and the service she would've been able to afford in Piltover, she even knew how to cook. I'm sure she depended on other people not only for the major aspects of her life but also just to keep her basic needs in order. And she's not strong either; because she was raised in Noxus she can likely fight with knives and swords, but it's not like she was this phenomenal mage when she got her powers.

I hope the Noxus show doesn't pretend that she's some strong and independent person, because that's not what Mel has ever been. She's smart and savvy and shrewd but not independent. I love her so much but I'd rather see a real portrayal of her—probably struggling not only with her magic but with trying to stand up on her own—than the fake solo act it's easy to pretend that she is.

hits them with my yuri beam

If Amanda is in that writers room there is a 75% or larger chance she’s gonna make Mel a single mom and its gonna SUCK

Amanda calling MelJay "boring" and it makes me wonder what she thinks a "not boring" ship for Mel would look like. I'm almost scared to imagine it.

Huntin!

nobody’s life is getting guarded when miss medarda is out and about

i will shoot myself

credit

At the Dressing Table