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aibouart · 2 months

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anyone got the latest monthly challenge thing artists do (like goretober or whatever)

am out of the loop on everything ever would love to take a gander at upcoming or ongoing ones

#my art #sketch #sona #prince #unwise indeed #motivated but cant even draw rn #also work next 4 days in a row #and today i cant commit to anything cuz our washer should be getting fixed within next few hours #its been broken for 2 months #real peasent vibes in my bathtub past 2 months #but at least they fixed our hot water in one week instead of 2 months!#and our heat in 4 days!#real landlord moments over here this winter #also feel free to send asks abt button idk #ive been working on her communitys village #they are river fishers !! live in a forest #gonna draw her pet rock #eventually.........

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stromblessed · 4 months

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Mel 🔆, Viktor 🌌, and Jayce 🔥 symbolism

SUN 🔆

Mel's association with the sun is self-evident and still mostly shrouded in mystery, though her love scene with Jayce is notable, which is overlaid with starry imagery, where her silhouette and her freckled face are compared to the cosmos. The sun is also a star. It's just the star that's closest to Runeterra and has the most influence over the world.

Mel and the Hexcore are the POVs of the scene.

Hexcore and starry imagery is more strongly and consistently associated with someone else, though!

STARS 🌟 / THE COSMOS 🌌

Viktor's blue to purple pipeline is real

But seriously, the starry/swirly shapes point toward distant stars, the cosmos, a galaxy. There is no moon in Viktor's night scenes throughout the season, only stars.

Viktor's character regresses as the season goes on (blue to purple, ready to fall into Shimmer-like magenta as his corruption nears its peak).

His hubris opens him up to some kind of corruption by the Hexcore, or by whatever - or whoever - is using the Hexcore as a gateway, like what Jinx points out. Singed as his mentor plants and encourages the lie that Viktor believes, that he's better off alone and that the ends justify the means.

These perfectly ruinous circumstances lead to him getting Sky killed (Sky like sky blue, like Inspiration, lost as Viktor has lost sight of good in his pursuit of great).

In his running scene, Viktor runs not from left to right, filmspeak for progression - he runs from right to left, as though backstepping.

(And also for the Rocky Balboa reference called out in this brilliant post, but hey, I think it all works)

It's also worth laying the foundation that Viktor is a fantasy interpretation of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor who was fascinated with electricity, radio signals, the cosmos, and [REDACTED for another post probably lol]

If you've fallen down the rabbit hole of League lore like I have, you might have picked up that peoples and warriors who are sun-worshipers are (at least anciently) tasked with hunting down and destroying Void beings, who are eldritch beings associated with the distant stars, or are Runeterrans constructed by the Void Watchers trapped between realms. The sun fights against interlopers from other dimensions or celestial bodies.

Mel and Viktor have the same ideas about risk and the nature of progress, and they are both technically foreigners living in Piltover and pursuing that progress - in two very different (but complementary) ways. They are most likely the two characters whose literal bodies are celestial, imbued with the Arcane. Their bodies are most likely augmented with magical metals.

Yet the arcane imagery that seems to accompany them respectively are diametrically opposed - Sun vs. Void, possibly. (Also, purple and yellow/gold are opposite or complement colors on the color wheel.)

Whether they wind up working together or whether they clash (as Viktor loses himself) or if it's a mix of both, I think Mel and Viktor are destined to collide in season 2.

So where does this leave Jayce?

FIRE 🔥

Fire for Jayce means more than one thing. The first thing that should come to mind is the fire of the forge. Creation and industry. The legacy and hard work of his family.

However, his FIRST imagery with fire occurs when Elora says "Speak of the devil" and Jayce is framed in flames at Mel's fundraising party.

He's similarly framed in the flames of a Molotov cocktail on the bridge between Piltover and the undercity with Viktor, after he's just called the people of the undercity dangerous.

What I think we're being shown here are Jayce's choices. He can use his talents and influence for good - creation and industry - or he can use them for destruction and oppression. A hammer can create.

A hammer can also be a weapon, a tool of destruction:

Fire can quickly burn and spread out of control.

Hey look, blue all the way to magenta in one scene!

And if you know his original League lore, the reason why his rivalry with [REDACTED] crosses the point of no return - fire and destruction. Yeah.

Jayce is interesting because his point position in the Mel-Viktor-Jayce trifecta makes it tempting to assign celestial imagery to him, too. However, adult Jayce is only present with Hexcore, star, and sun imagery when he is sharing a scene with Viktor or Mel respectively.

The show makes it a point that Mel and Viktor are the reasons he is the Man of Progress at all:

Note that Jayce in the center of his Man of Progress posters is backed by a gear (Viktor) and the sun (Mel). If Viktor had not intervened in episode 2, Jayce would be dead or disenfranchised. If Mel had not intervened in episode 3, then Jayce AND Viktor would have been kicked out of the Academy if not imprisoned or exiled, and Hextech with Jayce and Viktor at the helm would not exist.

(This is reaching, but I like to interpret that the circle + notches in the gear shape are like Viktor's star symbolism, but even if that's the big reach that I think it is, Viktor is a machinist, engineer, and techmaturgist with Artificer parents - the gear definitely represents him on a meta level)

The imagery that I believe is Jayce's and Jayce's alone is that of fire. He is terrestrial, using magic contained within tools the way he has always wanted to bring Hextech to every household, while Mel and Viktor are influenced by magic on a whole other level.

Sure would be a shame if Jayce found a reason to choose the path of destruction and be corrupted further, diverging from Mel and Viktor's core values

Sure would be a shame if Viktor's personal choices had consequences that radiated out further than season 1 and he gets put on a disastrous collision course with everything that Jayce and by extension Piltover hates and fears

Sure would be stressful for us if Arcane decided to be a Greek tragedy about it

Though possibly the most important piece of this picture is how Mel - gold like the sun, gold that doesn't tarnish or rust, gold that is an excellent conductor - has already faced the abyss and said NO to her own corruption:

It sure would be something for her to have to watch Jayce and Viktor go down a different path, huh

#arcane #mel medarda #viktor #jayce talis #Theres been a lot of interpretations of symbolism in Arcane but this is where my personal beliefs lie #I take it as matter of fact that Mel survives like Im still flabbergasted that yall think she dies but I suppose we shall see #This post needs to be broken down into like 10 different posts but it's fine weve got 11 months til season 2 to cook its fine #and like 5 of those 10 posts need to be about Jayce alone like there is a lot to unpack and I do not say that lightly #but who I actually want to write about is Mel bc the fandom assuming that shes dead has completely nuked so much #of what the Mel-Viktor-Jayce storyline is trying to say AND what the ENTIRE storyline of all of Arcane is trying to say #I swear to god I will bring the receipts #and I will corrupt you all with my Mel + Viktor agenda on the side ehehehehehe

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kineticallyanywhere · 4 months

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"I shouldn't take up all the emotional space"

Normal I am BEGGING you to take up emotional space

#listen Link is also not okay and I acknowledge that and that concerns me #but also he's FUNCTIONALLY not okay #normal is NONFUNCTIONALLY not okay #Anthony's 'how far can I bend Normal till he breaks' challenge has bROKEN ME FIRST #I CONCEDE ALRIGHT #LEAVE HIM ALONE #AUGH #im actually more fine than ive been in the past about the Holiday Cliffhanger #cause its kinda more of the same? waiting to see if normal will finally pop off this time #gonna simmer for a month in normscary comfort #about how they both pleaded to each other using 'youre just a kid' the PARALLELS #anyway delicious episode and genuinely glad the lego gag was in it we needed that #dndads #dndads 2 #dndads spoilers #me talking

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ra-vio · 2 days

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semester is almost over. im dying

#my oc #rune #mori #i have a project due tomorrow and its finally scared me back into drawing #even though i should be working on this project but im SO SO SO TIRED #i went on an outing like 2 weeks ago the same week that i walked everywhere cause i was desperately #trying to get my taxes done but thats a different story but the point is i was walking a lot and i went on an outing where i stood all day #and then i had to go to class the very next day thinking i was fine but i wasnt.#and that same day after i walked across the city because i absolutely had to pick a thing up. i think the same week i met up with my mom #a couple of times but i was walking the whole way there. my point is that for 2 weeks straight i have been rigorously walking everywhere #and on my feet all the time with little breaks in between and my feet fucking hurt man #i need this semester to be OVER i need to sleep for a MONTH #but i cant because i have to scrape together SOME of this project and finals are next week #this class this project is for fucking sucks. all semester ive been teetering the line between pass and fail #and its not even my fucking fault. im so burnt out so i dont want to do this project. but i might fail if i dont #i need to at least demo it but i have like. one thing done and i dunno what to tell my TA about i #how do i tell my TA and prof that everything is too much for me so i absolutely could work on this project #my laptop is broken so im afraid to use it. the server kept going down last month so i was afraid to use that #so many stupid little things keep piling up and i'd sound really weird trying to explain why i cant do my work #because my desk is on the floor and it makes me really sad so no i cant do my hw. my fave candy has red40 in it so i had to stop eating it #but now i cant do my work because i was using it to help me focus on my hw. LIFE SUCKS BRO #anyway whatever happens. i cant wait to play video games again

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variksel · 2 months

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i feel like im talking way too much about my broken leg rn (which Is Broken Bee Tee Dubs xoxo) and its prolly annoying but my friends i cant help it i can almost start walking again and every time i think about it i genuinely kinda feel like crying lmao

#by my calculations im like. 5 weeks post surgery #which would mean next weeks physical therapy might mean letting me walk at least a little bit again #im genuinly a bit weepy about it im so fucking exhausted man! its been since the end of january!!#i have a list of things i wanna do when i can walk again man lmao every time i grab my sticks im like a few more weeks just a bit longer #vent ig sorry!#anyway @ anyone whos ever had a broken bone did yall feel the same??? like legit so anxious to get back to using ur limb???#i had a broken wrist awhile back too and idk i feel like it wasnt nearly this bad but a broken ankle feels like. thats just My Existance #for the past 2 months #anyway!#vent #positive vent #broken bone #broken ankle #tw broken bones #tw injury

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cannibalisticskittles · 8 months

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between the shit at work and having to spend so much fucking time on hold i'm really gonna lose it

#i spend 7 hours a day in tense conflict-sensing mode so i can spot when a violent kid is showing signs of an outburst #and react as fast as i can to keep the other kids safe #so even on days when nothing technically happens and i successfully deescalate situations so the worst that happens is an argument #im wound tight and paranoid #and now. goddamn it.#i need invoices for school books so i can be reimbursed. better prepare for 2 hours back and forth between hold and repeating the problem #i need to cancel a pickup order because they don't actually have shit ready when they say it is and they say 'itll be out in 5 minutes'#10 times. babes its been an hour. its fine if you really dont have these batteries just give me my money back.#but no. they won't let me cancel it and won't give my money back.#spent half an hour on hold before giving up because i have actual important things to do goddamn it #sent back some picture frames months ago because they were broken on arrival #and months later the refund is reversed and they claim i never sent it back #time to spend..... more time......... on hold.................#and i get emails every FUCKING day about how my college balance hasnt been paid and they're going to drop me #college says its okay; the money just hasnt processed. school that's funding me says it's okay; they def sent the money #every FUCKING DAY i get these emails still. 84 unread threats abt dropping me rn.#i'm tired i'm tired i'm tired #i will persist!! i will fucking persist! but god damn it!!!!!

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prapuna · 1 year

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what they dont tell you about learning music instruments is that you have to practice. unbelievable

#/silly #having so much fun with ukulele #but also i need to remind myself i cant automatically be an expert at anything i just started #like i got this ukulele like 2? 3 months ago?#and accumulatively ive only been practicing for several hours #like one of the songs i can already play & sing are 2econd sight seer. 5 names. those arent nothing #i probably got a head start with guitar but also its been almost 4 years since the guitar broke #also i cant believe ukulele is my cheapest hobby ever i spent zero on these things. the now broken guitar was my cousin's #the ukulele was my brother's until he got a new one #I FOUND 6 PICKS INSIDE A PLASTIC BAG IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRASH BIN #asked around and no one's claimed it so what am i supposed to do. leave it in the trash bin? nah #just realized those arent one song those are two i cant count aku masih tk a #krispeaks #im too shy to talk about ukulele irl wah #belom bisa apa-apa kak cuma modal nggak buta nada

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grantihare · 1 year

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another tiny mordred update : hes taking his pills like a champ, the pill pockets are miraculous fr he even begs for another one after i give him his medicine so its not nearly as bad as when he was on a liquid dose before 🥲 that was rly rough for him so its rly nice that we found a way for him to be okay with the pills

hes still wheezy ofc he only just took his second dose but if its like last time he had meds it might start having an impact by the weekend so im hoping so hard for him 🥹 id love him to be able to have a nice long play day with my partner on their day off

#its such a relief genuinely to have smth to help him like ik im a broken record at this point but #i was in such a major depressive episode for the past couple months bc i felt so so helpless abt it #and i feel so light rn to have him be eager to be medicated and playful again #weve been trying to diagnose this for like 2 months and he started wheezing before then #and thats not so long for us but hes only 8 and a half months old #thats like a third of his entire life unable to have fun like he wants to #im so so happy that he has a diagnosis and a fix for it now #i want so so many energetic years with this little guy and this is a start to that #thinking abt it makes me cry fr /pos #thank u so much to everyone who helped us get here whether thru donations or boosting or kind words/emotional support #i cant wait to be able to post a video of him with zoomies and no panting once this med course is thru #happy things #mordred

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concessionstantinople · 1 year

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One more hour and we will be able to send a silly tiktok video to the other artist in a STILL incompleted trade I'm in to represent its been [in one hour] 43 days but I will wait till the morning bc I am TIRED good NIGHT

#girl last month u were saying you were having tech difficulties while also posting newly made art in a server we r both in #AND taking requests????#like i understand u can make other art thats ok but its been Over A Month and make no attempt to update me on shit #but u dont have to say ur shit was broken. shaking u around.#the last contact they got to me with was over 2 weeks ago and even then they said they were redoing the thing again #cartoonishly pulling at my face. i understand art takes time and whatever. people have their own schedules of stuff.#but im gonna fuckin chew through something atp #i remember they offered another free drawing or whatever since it already passed the beginning month but atp. i do not want it #whateverr. enough in the tags ranting good night #dumby talk #🎉

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grey-tones · 2 years

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i just want to make apple crisp but the guy still hasnt come back to fix our oven....

#its been broken and only somtimes working for like 2 months now???#idk how long but its been a while and not knowing if im going to be able to cook or not is really frustrating #literally itll work fine one day #and the next itll turn on then immidiately turn off

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n-x-black · 1 year

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what is it about winter

#n ; other #for like the past 2 yrs winter has been like The Fall #the early months r like the best and in the late months like the worst shit happens ? bsjsjsksnsjjs #i have reverse seasonal depression so its like . im just at my highest mood while everyone else is either emotionally or literally dying #god gives his hardest battles 2 his weakest soldiers actually #i still love winter tho my bf may have broken up with me but it snowed in november instead of february so that makes up for it #JAKABAJABAKABJABAJABAJAJA #I LITERALLY ..... LOOOVE WINTER

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