I Can’t Believe I’m Going To See My Emotional Support Criminals On Screen In Less Than 2 Months

my hidden talents include overthinking, crying at every little inconvenience, romanticising everything and imagining myself in situations that will literally never exist

Prompt #424

In her hand everything seems to become a weapon. 

arcane videoessays bc i love arcane and i love videoesays so

How Arcane Crafted the Perfect Fight Scene (an analysis of the Ekko/Jinx fight in S1)

Jinx Most Mysterius Line Explained (Two Theories) (i cant sum up this video, just watch it)

How Arcane Writes Women (self-explanatory)

This is a Perfect Side Character (an Ekko analysis)

The Color of Fascism: Arcane, Aesthetics and Opressions (study of the usage and meanings of colors in the show)

the dance matters even more than you think (explanation of why S2 E7 was so important)

+little plus if you know spanish: El personaje que lo cambio todo: Isha (how Isha changed everything in Arcane)

if anyone has recs.....

The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

You know what would’ve been so cool? If Fèlix and Chat Blanc were a 2-part episode. It starts off introducing Fèlix, and Adrien remarks to Nino that he’s a little more like his dad, cold and passive to the point of being unintentionally rude. Fèlix gets akumatized for unrelated reasons, but while he’s akumatized he realizes - he recognizes Hawkmoth.

The episode ends with him going back to the house, speaking with Gabriel and saying that he has to leave early. The scene is tense, because Gabriel is obviously suspicious as to why, and Fèlix won’t stop glaring at him. Something finally clicks in Gabriel’s expression, and he smiles.

“Of course” he says, opening the door. “Speak with Nathalie, she’ll see to it that you’re delivered back home.”

Fèlix feels like it’s too easy, something has to be wrong. Why would he let him go so easily? He’s walking toward the staircase to say goodbye to Adrien, when Gabriel calls out to him, asking what he’s doing.

“I’m just going to say goodbye to my cousin.” Fèlix says. “You do speak to each other in this household, correct?”

Gabriel’s mouth twitches.

“Of course. But it would be unwise to disturb Adrien when he should be doing coursework. I’ll have Nathalie let him know you’re leaving.”

And Fèlix glares at him again, because he doesn’t WANT Nathalie to tell Adrien anything. He’s trying to get Adrien out of the house so Gabriel can’t hurt him, and since he was just akumatized he knows Gabriel would use his sweet, unassuming, totally defenseless (wink wink) cousin’s emotions to get what he wants, family or not.

Fèlix grits his teeth, and starts back down the stairs, when he has an idea. He begins speaking loudly, loudly enough for Adrien to hear his voice through his door. He’s hoping that Adrien will be curious enough to open his door, and in his mind he begs that Adrien will be curious enough to take Fèlix aside.

All of this is completely reversed when he gets to the bottom of the stairs, and Gabriel immediately hugs him. Fèlix stiffens, defenses raised. What on earth is he doing?

“It pains me to know that someone of your talent is wasting it.” Says Gabriel. “I need you to know, even though I wasn’t able to be there, I am so proud of the person you have become. I have seen your accomplishments from afar, and you are constantly raising the bar for other children your age.”

Fèlix is speechless, stunned into silence. What on earth is he on about?

Gabriel pulls back, placing his hand on Felix’s shoulder.

“You are truly the son I never had.”

With that, he turns and walks away not even sparing a glance back, leaving Fèlix alone at the base of the staircase.

Fèlix turns, shaking his head, to see Adrien’s door slam shut.

“No!” He yells, racing up the staircase, and banging against the door. “Adrien! Adrien, please open up. This is important!”

No answer.

Fèlix is ready to just knock the door down, when he hears “Dusuu, feathers up.”

The screen goes dark.

Chat Blanc begins and Adrien is crying in his room. Plagg is trying to talk him down, but he knows that Adrien’s number one emotional weakness is rejection. If Plagg thought it was bad with Ladybug, it was a hundred times worse when it was his father. And Plagg knows that Hawkmoth just played his chosen like a damn fiddle.

“Why would he say that?” He whispers, and Plagg can’t answer, even though he knows exactly why.

Plagg tries to offer going for a run, just to clear his mind and escape, but Adrien is so distraught that it doesn’t work the first few times.

Adrien ultimately agrees, transforming and racing out the window. He’s sobbing, the air too cold around him, his stomach twisting as he remembers what his father said.

“You are truly the son I never had.”

He stops, his emotions finally getting the better part of him as he crumples against a gargoyle on Notre Dame. He’s so anxious and angry and upset that he can’t even see straight.

He can’t even see the butterfly heading right for his mask.

He startles when he hears the voice, promising him power in exchange for his and Ladybug’s miraculous. He promises revenge on those who reject him, promises that he will finally be enough for others, promises that he will never feel so alone and helpless again.

Chat Noir doesn’t hear a word.

He recognizes that voice.

'shut up' but like flirtatiously.

Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"

Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective

Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos

The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities

Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona

we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name

MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Envy

The Commodification of Black Athletes

The Lies Of The Lighthouse

The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity

Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games

Time Loop Nihilism

How Bisexuality Changed Video Games

The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)

Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline

The True Horror Of Midsommar

a few more -

You're Wrong About Cyberpunk 2077 | An Overdue Critique (this is such great critique of both the game and the genre)

Disney's Fast Pass: A Complicated History

It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY

Adaptation.

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Here's the YouTube playlist! ill be adding more but that's all so far pls like and reblog xoxo 💕

s’more bear macaroon by douglas x

hey, don’t cry. one half flour one half yogurt knead into dough and fry for easy flatbread and dip in balsamic vinegar, okay?

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