Listen man I love Mel as much as the next guy, and honestly the manipulation just makes her better. However, it's pretty important to acknowledge that she did do that. Like, she manipulated Jayce and Viktor. This is an important plot point. And I'm not saying she didn't genuinely like Jayce, because I think she did, but that was not a healthy relationship. And I think this is difficult for a lot of people to process because Mel's a woman and Jayce is a big, buff man - but that doesn't change the fact that there is a power imbalance in that relationship. And I know a lot of relationships in Arcane are fucked up, and I do acknowledge that they could have a discussion about the exploitation that happened and then move forward with a healthy relationship - but that didn't happen, and it's out of character for both of them. I think some anti MelJay people dislike the ship because of underlying racism and misogyny, but it's not a healthy relationship in the first place and I don't see anybody talking about that. Not to mention in the last part of season 1, Mel explicitly excludes Viktor from the discussion about weaponizing hextech. She tells Jayce, while right next to Viktor, that it's his choice if he wants to make the weapons.
Apparently yjh (helped) raise lgy while kdj was gone, I found out about this and began (artistically) vomiting all over my screen
I really like when these two interact. Especially their early-orv interactions. Lgy wanted desperately to dump ice down yjh’s shirt while yjh was trying to concoct plans to steal custody of lgy from kdj
When you accidentally say the q word (quest) and your knight starts gently clanking from their happy wiggles like now you've done it, you have to send them into the dragon's lair or their helmet ploom will droop and they'll start waxing sad poetic in the moonlight
It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?
You can tell a lot about the health of a civilization by their warning signs. Places with a lot of dumb folks will have very broad, very dumb warnings in public. "No feeding the birds." "Stop swimming in this drainage pond." That kind of thing.
Advanced civilizations have very precise signs. They've covered the bases of their regular, run-of-the-mill idiots, and now they're working hard to cover that other end of the bell curve: the talented idiot. When I was in Germany last time, there was a big warning sign that consisted of a 76-letter-long word that means "stop bothering this particular goose, Sven." I don't know who Sven was, but the goose looked pretty calm. It worked.
Now, I have a secret to tell you. You can just make your own signs. There's no law against it, except perhaps "littering," and the municipal sign factory doesn't have very good security. If you show up there past close and put in the door code that you shoulder-surfed off one of the employees returning from lunch a week prior, you have all night to fuck around with their sign-printing machine, making the most official-looking placards you can think of.
Is this wrong? I don't think so. It's a public space, and being able to put up an aluminum sign that says wacky crank shit is your right. For instance, just last week, I banned pickup trucks from parking by the playground. The cops figured out something was going on, because they didn't get any calls for toddlers getting backed over for a couple of days and sent a patrol truck to investigate. Took my sign right down.
What I discovered after that is that nobody keeps records of what signs are supposed to be there. Why would anyone put up a sign for no reason? They cost money, after all. The city is now suing the shit out of that officer for stealing the "no trucks" sign, thanks to an anonymous tipster who called in the theft. Guy wearing a reflective vest came by and put like four more of them up after the lawsuit made the news, just out of spite. I'm not entirely sure if he's actually a city worker; we ran into each other at 3am at the sign factory and just grunted. He was working on some really crazy signs about not feeding a particular swan. Probably German.
Mello didnt survive death note because he wasnt autistic enough
i love reading the reviews for disco elysium because it's like
⭐️ - genuinely the most dogshit game i've ever played in my entire life. i clicked the options for my politics and it called me a fascist fucking stupid commies i hate you i hate you i hate y
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - kim made me so horny i had to do breathing exercises to calm down
⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 - i died from the chair