I personally find Jayce and Mel having parallel violent crazy sprees to be very romantic
Do I think s2 is as good as the first (so far): No, the first season was a lot to live up to
Do I still think it's great?: Absolutely, I'm having a blast, it looks amazing, everyone is hot, so many moments are completely iconic and I'm probably going to watch it about 600 more times if I end up liking the next three episodes just as much.
Thinking about the fact that Jayce and Mel touched foreheads in that opening clip from the s2 premiere 🥺
The fact that Salo probably only survived so Jayce could murder him with a hammer a few episodes later is just so fucking funny.
Jayce: Comes out of hexcore hell all disheveled and disturbed, immediately kills a guy.
My toxic ass:
Honestly, what's a little murder between homies?
But seriously where THE FUCK is Ekko!!!!
Oh my God somebody save her!!! She's too pretty for this shit 😭
This man has got me trapped between a rock (utter frustration and despair) and a hard place (horniness)
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This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune
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I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Then bring me luck
the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work
Hey Potato, cure my -ing cold so I can have a good time while away.
Here's the potato. Make what use of it you will. :)
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Lesbians will have a situationship start and end within a day, and then one of them will end up as a dictator. Never trust gays with fucking anything
I trust your humanity, please help me reach $50,000. My family needs it. My brother's wife needs daily injections. Please help us. Asking for help is not easy.
We are besieged in Khan Yunis city, Ma'an area. Please pray for us and help us.
Please contact me on my other account because this account is restricted
There is an update regarding my brother's wife. She and her fetus are in danger and need help. Please help us bring the necessary treatment for her and her fetus so that they can stay well. I trust your humanity.
Thank you all for helping us reach our initial goal! When I first set up the fundraiser, I randomly selected $50,000 hoping the war would end before we could raise half of it… Unfortunately, the war is still ongoing and funds are still desperately needed as aid entering Gaza dwindles, making the little that is available more expensive. Another consideration is that when I transfer money to my bank account and from my account to another bank until this money is gone, the bank takes a 30% cut. So please keep donating, you are literally the reason Ibrahim and Samar’s family haven’t starved to death yet.
Tagging for reach
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Tinfoil out for Rell Medarda
So after my earlier post about the whole Rell/Mel/Ambessa thing, I got to thinking, and now I'm making it everyone's problem.
Spoilers ahead:
In the season 2 opening we get these shots (not all in sequence):
- Ambessa sitting lazily on a couch holding a black rose
- Mel looking uncomfortable surrounded by shadowy hands
- Mel sitting on the same couch, lit so her shadow resembles Ambessa
So, Ambessa is in deep shit with the Black Rose right? They nearly killed her once, they've stripped her of most of her power and influence, and now they've kidnapped Mel. We know Ambessa would do anything to keep her family safe, and that doubtlessly include sacrificing her own life.
The most widespread Rell Medarda theory seems to be that she's Mel's younger sister, with the main counterpoint being that Rell's mom is described as "the heir to a fallen noble house" which doesn't make sense as a descriptor for Ambessa, yeah her house is falling but she's the head not the heir to the house.
And that's when it struck me: House Medarda is crumbling, but so is Mel's own empire. She's losing her sway over the council, her main ally wants to retire from politics, and a civil war is not good for business.
Which is to say nothing of the fact that it's more or less confirmed now that she's got magic, which last i checked is still very much banned in Piltover.
Also there's this promo image of Mel floating around which looks... Distinctly Noxian, at least compared to what she wears in S2A1
Do you see where I'm going with this?
Let's say that by the end of Arcane season 2, Ambessa is dead, house Medarda is in ruins, Mel's own fortune isn't doing much better, and suddenly everyone finds out she's a mage. Who knows maybe she even becomes the scapegoat for everything that happened between Piltover and Zaun.
She's exiled back to Noxus, and has to attempt to rebuild her empire from nothing. Somewhere in the process of doing so she has a daughter. A daughter with a whole lot of magical potential.
Next thing she knows, she's got the Black Rose banging down her door to get their hands on her daughter. Sure it might leave a bitter taste in her mouth to deal with them, but Mel knows business, and isn't there a degree of poetry to the people who ruined her, also being the ones to restore her to power.
"But hold on" you might say "Mel is a kind and loving person, her biggest goal in life is to be different from Ambessa, that sounds nothing like Rell's mom."
Did you know that when Britney Spears wanted her toddlers to calm down, she would give them pacifiers dipped in whiskey, because that's what her parents did to her growing up, and she genuinely didn't realize it was harmful.
Breaking the cycle isn't easy at the best of times, and if Mel is also having to fend off vultures at every turn trying to take what remains of the Medarda fortune, it's easy to imagine her falling into bad habbits.
And wouldn't that just be the most tragic ending for a character like her, who spent so much of her life trying to undo her mother's work, only to end up traumatizing her own daughter and sternly telling her "excellence is measured in sacrifice".
Hey does anyone remember how Rell was forced by her mother to kill her friends one by one in order to make her stronger? How about that scene in season one where Ambessa kills the Ionian princess Mel had made friends with?
I love this theory, but only if they change a lot to make Mel a loving (if flawed) parent. They’ve already changed a helluva lot so they might as well.
You ship Meljayvik because you're looking for a solution to a nonexistent love triangle. I ship Meljayvik because I'm a ho. We are not the same.
Making an explicitly antagonistic relationship romantic in the adaptation feels like as big an example of lore fuckery to me as giving one party a relationship that didn't exist in the source material, especially since other lore characters have been given show-only bonds too. Jinx for instance.
#yet another example of assigning complete neutrality to friendships/familial relationships while considering romantic relationships sacred#you could argue that mel only exists so jayce won't be gay (believe me i've seen it)#but that's kind of insulting for multiple reasons especially to black women#not tagging this because i've already released enough of my brain worms into the wild
I think discussing whether Jayce and Mel might be doomed by the narrative is valid because of the nature of the show. It's a show that likes to hurt us, after all (I think they should end up together for numerous reasons but I can't predict the future). What's not valid at all is to insist that they do not honestly love each other or that they have not consistently been a compassionate and healthy pairing. In fact, I feel like their personal flaws kind of dissolve when they're alone with one another and they become the kindest and most empathetic versions of themselves. I think it's valid if the ship is not your personal taste and you'd prefer something different for them. Not everyone is going to like everything that you like, different strokes for different folks.
It's 1000 percent not valid to claim that Jayce is just using her because he can't have Viktor, who he truly loves but can't be with for whatever reason. It's not valid to say that Jayce has been a terrible friend who is never there for Viktor. It's not valid to say that Mel is (still!) just manipulating Jayce into doing her bidding with her magical coochie and she isn't capable of having true feelings for him. In fact, that first thing and especially that last thing are misogynoir, don't do that.
It's not that you don't like the ship, it's that you can't stop projecting your own feelings onto them and pretending they're facts. I really hope this helps.