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Liking sci-fi is such a weird thing because it's such a broad category I'm not even sure I can definitively say I DO like sci-fi. Like. Star Trek and Rain World are both things I like that you could call sci-fi, but they are both INCREDIBLY different in plot, tone, theme, and even the ideologies they're based on. I think the only thing they really have in common is exploration of unknown alien worlds
Jayvik 🤝 Wrightworth
Gay ships even straight men seem to be into
I love rain world gourmand. Perfect creature. They took the appealing simplicity of the slugcat and made it round. No notes. Reblog if you agree
Wizard man... With the wizard plan... Take my wizard hand... Lead me to wizard land...
Branching out into the furry community with a basic ass dog
The angel cassiel, pre-fall
He had a delicious meal of tomato ketchup!
A hellhound, of a sort...
My character Cupid. He's not as friendly as he seems...
what did i mean by this.
imagine going to burger king and you're like can i have a chicken wrap which isn't a burger nor on the menu but isn't an unreasonable thing to order and they're like sorry we don't serve wraps but we can introduce you to our burger guy who makes the best burgers and then you go to the burger guy and he's like yeah i can make a burger and a wrap but i think you should go to the sushi bar next door because. i'm gonna fuck the wrap?
One of the most deeply compelling relationships in Arcane is between Silco and Sevika. There is a level of dedication and devotion there that would ordinarily be seen in romantic partners, with her even doing the 'pushing your loved one out of the way and taking a critical injury in their place' thing, but what their relationship is based on isn't mutual affection of any kind (though there may or may not be some there) but ideology. I wonder what that dynamic would translate to in other AUs, like a modern one.
The visuals of Arcane are amazing, but the one personal nitpick I have of them is that they seem to play by the opposite of anime rules. You know how in any screenshot of an anime (not all of them, but a lot of them), you can immediately tell who the main character is because they have the lost interesting (or at least weirdest) character design, like this?
In Arcane, it's the opposite. The most interesting designs are often reserved for characters who never have speaking lines, exist for one scene, or who have a short arc and then end up dying. It's like the further away you get from main character status, the more interesting your character design gets. It's not like the designs of the main characters are BAD, mind you, I think not every character design has to be elaborate to be good and I love several of them, but it's always kind of a pity when an amazing character design appears and you know you're only going to see them for five seconds.
Particularly I'm thinking of the councillors and the chembarons, that guy with the gold jaw, transgender cat lady, fish guy, and probably some others I forgot. I hope in future arcane shows the character designs get weirder, because if they pushed it enough I think we could end up with the wildest cast of characters of all time.
Hmmm. That would be interesting, actually. A stepmother-type character who never actually tells rapunzel they have to stay in the tower, only that they should, for their own good. Now that I think about it, does the stepmother ever actually say rapunzel has to stay in the tower or is that just implied? I'll have to re-watch the movie.
I kind of like the idea of a timebomb rapunzel au because jinx has such ridiculously long hair so it's easy to imagine visually, but the stepmother character would logically be silco, but that doesn't really make sense to me because 1. His problem in season one is everyone kept saying PUT A LEASH ON THAT GIRL SHE'S EXPLODING THINGS and he was like no. She can do whatever she wants. Even to the point where it was actively detrimental to his own revolution. So basically I can't imagine him trying to keep her in a tower. He's not the healthiest of guardians but that's not really something he'd do. Secondly, I don't think he COULD do that if he tried. Keeping someone in a tower does not work if they find a way to explode the tower
I kind of like the idea of a timebomb rapunzel au because jinx has such ridiculously long hair so it's easy to imagine visually, but the stepmother character would logically be silco, but that doesn't really make sense to me because 1. His problem in season one is everyone kept saying PUT A LEASH ON THAT GIRL SHE'S EXPLODING THINGS and he was like no. She can do whatever she wants. Even to the point where it was actively detrimental to his own revolution. So basically I can't imagine him trying to keep her in a tower. He's not the healthiest of guardians but that's not really something he'd do. Secondly, I don't think he COULD do that if he tried. Keeping someone in a tower does not work if they find a way to explode the tower
Jayvik as soulmates not because they're connected by fate but because if fate separates them they'll tear the universe apart finding one another again
Aheem heem... Whimper
Do u guys think it's okay to reuse poses? I've got two drawings, one of an OC and one of a character from a show, and they're in the same pose because I thought it suited both of them - like, basically, I drew my oc, thought 'hey, this pose has a lot of anxious energy and would work really well for crona from soul eater', and then just traced right over my own drawing, but I'm worried doing this might be seen as cheap somehow. It would also be nice to be able to use the same pose for two drawings because as much as I like drawing my own characters, fanart gets more notes, so this way I get to draw my character but then also use all the effort I just put in to make something that'll actually get a little attention.
Vague doodly concepts for a rain world scug. They subsist entirely on water and and karma flower nectar, feeding from a little proboscis-like tongue which can also be shot quickly from their mouth as a defensive weapon. Despite being called 'noodlefish', they actually compete with the noodlefly for resources and thus have a hostile relationship with them. Though they have the same walking speed as a normal scug, they have high swim speed and internal gills that help them actually breathe in water. Their campaign takes place between Rivulet and Saint.
I was working on trying to make a prettyboy dwarf in Inquisition and I think I just made dwarf Dorian. Dwarfion.
The problem with canon CaitVi isn't that it's 'toxic'. Plenty of the relationships in Arcane are unhealthy and yet remain compelling. Silco and Jinx undoubtedly have an unhealthy parent/child relationship but it's still interesting. JayVik and Timebomb have unhealthy aspects to some degree. (Most relationships in the show are lime this, lbr.)
The problem is that the way CaitVi is unhealthy comes off as either clunky or unintentional. Like, the dirt under your nails line could be interesting as a line halfway through the series to show Vi's codependence and attachment toward Caitlyn to the point where she undervalues herself, but instead it comes at the end, and it feels like the vibe is supposed to be romantic, but instead it comes across as self-demeaning, and as the final conclusion of their relationship... a little unsatisfying.
That, and I ship Vi and Jinx in a very platonic sense; all of season one was the tale of two sisters, and I think Jinx was more important to Vi than Caitlyn ever was, and the fact that she now thinks Jinx is dead... The last scene should be her mourning with Ekko, the only other person who might understand what Jinx meant to her.
You might say this would make her 'bad rep' or something because the lesbian ship doesn't become endgame or whatever, but the thing is: representation isn't necessarily about ships. Vi would still be a lesbian or bisexual if her and Caitlyn broke up forever (and so would Caitlyn). They've already very firmly established that throughout the series.
Keep in mind I'm not anti-CaitVi at all and I still think they could have become endgame, but like... As it is in the show, they haven't really convinced me it's a viable long-term relationship and I can see them easily breaking up at some point after the credits roll, and the most important thing to note is that if that was intentional I don't think it would be as bad, but I don't think it WAS intentional.
Essentially, what this reads to me is the writers attempting to tell a certain type of story in which Vi and Caitlyn getting together is positive for the series, the sweet in the bittersweet ending of Arcane and Vi's arc, and failing to communicate that effectively.
I had a sudden vision: two psychics burdened with prophetic visions who illustrate what they see in their chosen mediums. Yves paints exclusively in blue, while Tim's tool of choice is a ballpoint pen. Yves' technical skill far surpasses Tim's, as someone said to have been born a prodigy, but Tim finds that art soothes his endless anxiety and as such enjoys art much more than Yves does and is much less prone to artist's block. One day they both have visions of the end of the world, and so it's up to them to figure out what happens and how to stop it. Also, Tim has a massive and painfully obvious crush on Yves, but Yves is far too jealous of Tim's quick improvement to realise it.
Yeah, I've heard, which is why s2 feels like a bunch of interesting multi-chapter fanfic concepts squeezed into one season. But even so, it IS technically possible to write a story this way. You have to do it a lot in video games - certain levels and quests and other gameplay features will be made and you have to write around those. It's definitely a more difficult way to write a story, but it's possible (although why you would write a story like this when you AREN'T beholden to video game writing restrictions is beyond me) and one of the reasons I find video game writing kind of interesting. It's like a creative exercise.
Thing is, one of the things you have to do in that case is put in additional scenes that make the scene you HAVE to include make sense. Like, if the scene you want to include is x character disappearing to another dimension, that's fine, but you then also have to add a scene where people react to that and start looking for them, since that would be the natural consequence. You still get to have your cool scene, but then the scene you added reinforces the connective tissue between your cool scenes.
The thing that baffles me in season two is they just didn't do that. That's why I'm so confused - putting in a scene I think is bad on a critical level is one thing, but choosing not to put in something that would be so obviously natural to include is baffling. It probably was an intentional writing choice, but not including such an obvious action -> consequence element makes it seem like they just forgot. I get that they were trying to resolve everything in one season so they had to be picky about what scenes they included, but if you ask me, following up the disappearances of several people is more important to me than than flashbacks or new plotlines.
Besides, if they DIDN'T want to write in such a way that would require extra scenes to properly connect all their different ideas together, then they should have included less ideas in the first place. Each act in s2 feels like it should have been a season by itself. It's harsh writing advice, but sometimes you really do have to kill your darlings. The writers do this a lot with individual scenes...
(See: them not including any jinx or sevika interactions after act 2 because somehow they felt like all the other scenes had already said anything that needed to be said, completely disregarding that having two characters bond for two whole arcs and then never talk onscreen again is weird.)
...But they seem unable to do this with any of the bigger concepts they want to play with, like the noxus invasion or hexcore brainwashing everyone. I say this as a viktor and mel enjoyer (not that mel ended up having anything to do with the noxus plotline anyway), but removing either one of those plotlines would have left the rest of the season a lot more room to breathe.
Anyway, it also wouldn't be so bad if this was just one character they did this with, but every single time a character goes missing (which includes Sky as well, now that I think about it) it sets up the expectation that surely at SOME point, SOMEONE is going to start looking for one of them, and then that expectation is never fulfilled. That's why I can't just call it bad but WEIRD. Like, why would you do that? It makes it seem like nobody cares about them. Actually, no, to be fair, the firelights do make a mural for ekko, so good on him for being the only missing person anyone actually cares about, I guess.
There's some stuff in arcane s2 that's bad, like, on a critical analysis level, but there's also some stuff that happens that's just plain weird. Like, did you notice any time someone disappears in s2, nobody goes looking for them? Jayce, Ekko and Heimerdinger go missing and nobody ever mentions it. Same for Mel. It makes it seem like they were only gone for two seconds, but they were definitely gone long enough to notice.
There's some stuff in arcane s2 that's bad, like, on a critical analysis level, but there's also some stuff that happens that's just plain weird. Like, did you notice any time someone disappears in s2, nobody goes looking for them? Jayce, Ekko and Heimerdinger go missing and nobody ever mentions it. Same for Mel. It makes it seem like they were only gone for two seconds, but they were definitely gone long enough to notice.
stop making stupid as fuck posts where viktor uses his cane to beat people up. it actually drives me insane. viktor is one of the most nonviolent poeple in arcane. he is ideologically against it. a major part of his arc is that he does not want his inventions, which he made to aid people, to be used for violence. and you're having him use his disability aid for violence. literally think about this for more than five seconds.
i'm glad people like bayker but i cannot get past the concept of a baker who snuffles and sniffs all over my pastries
OC meme redraw except for some reason I put a stupid amount of effort into it
