You Are A Product Of All Those Who Came Before You

Msmxrvel -> Battinsonns

obsessed with this miserable little white man

I have joined my friend in this endeavor

milf-ahsoka —> thebctman

Agency is important to Viktor as a character, as someone who not only rejects the fragility of the organic body on the basis of his personal hangups about labor and emotional turbulence, but also in that he is always willing to use his own body as a test subject.

In Arcane, canonically, the judgement cast upon him for being visibly disabled has been an obstacle in his career in a way that doesn't grant him the privilege or funds needed to work on projects geared towards improving the lives of those bearing the brunt of prolonged work in industrial labor. His body is a front that people are unwilling to see past.

In his masking there is of course a sense of hiding his true self in a very literal interpretation, but this mask can be seen as liberatory: He is the one choosing the version of himself people see, and it does not diminish whatever is behind it. In body-modding there is a choice of what to show, what to hide, what to keep and enhance, what to reject.

The hexcore arc has been described as him being used as a flesh puppet, and this is in direct contradiction with Viktor's defining characteristics circling around the concept of control (of one's image, of one's flesh, of one's living circumstances, of one's emotions). I imagine that possession of this sort is body horror to someone like him, the vulnerability of himself as an organic, fallible human a door to this loss.

Where the hexcore uses organic tissue to grow, the inorganic becomes a symbol for reclaiming one's agency. Viktor and Jayce are scientists, engineers - in times of hesitation and grief, they do what they do best. I imagine machinery to be an opposite to the arcane: Metal is reliable and human where the arcane is unpredictable and beyond the confines of humanity as a species.

To bring yourself back to the body you rejected, that rejected you, you must go back to being human, and what's more human than invention, creation, a product of the earth sculpted by human ingenuity?

In our factory, we made hammers. You always save yourself. There is always a choice.

I'm WHEEZING at arcane twitter's general consensus on this moment

oh their fights gonna be nastyyy

This season of arcane is about switching roles.

It's about growing up to the be the thing you hate, the thing you feared, the thing you worshipped, the thing that would save you, and it's about the roles of people being repeated, reversed, flipped, and it is fascinating.

The most obvious one is Vi, who finds herself in a situation where the choice she makes - and it doesn't feel like much of a choice, but remember there is always a choice - is to become an inforcer. Even if it's only temporary, even if it's only to track down Jinx, she does it. She puts on the uniform and the badge and raids the arcade hideout, just like the inforcers did when she was younger, and this time Jinx has no one to turn too, this time she is scared of Vi. Vi has become the monsters that hunted them.

And then there's Caitlyn, who stares down at the city, who was willing to shoot even though she might hit a child, who is mad with grief and rage and who understands now why it is so easy to hate them - and she puts on the coat, and she looks like Silco. Because she is drowning, because she feels afraid, and hateful and angry and destroyed, and she is willing to lead the forces against the other side, no matter the cost.

What really gets me though, is the parallel of Viktor and Jayce's transformations. Jayce has become Viktor, has slept in the lab, has become obsessed with hextech and Viktor's equations and notes and finding something to help him. He wants to quit the council, he wants to spend all his time with Viktor in the lab. Jayce has become what Viktor needed to save him. And Viktor, in turn, now looks like the mage that saved Jayce as a child, with his cane as a staff and his blue cloak, Viktor has become the magic Jayce has always been looking to create.

This show makes me INSANE

R.I.P. Cormac McCarthy

Literally only ten pages into The Road and I can already tell this book is going to destroy me like what the fuck:

Can I ask you something?

Yes. Of course you can.

What would you do if I died?

If you died I would want to die too.

So you could be with me?

Yes. So I could be with you.

One thing i will never stop recommending people is the book the road by cormac mccarthy

That book absolutely recked me to peices and ive never been the same

The writing style is so beautiful and so sad like i cried for hours after i finished it and i never usually cry reading so if you ever get the chance and want to be deeply disturbed by a book please read it this book is honestly so different to other books like it you will feel for the characters so badly

I literally wanted no harm to come to them

Anyways the road is such a good book that once you pick up you wont be able to put down (especially if you want a book you will cry reading)

me watching the season finale;

Oh fuck you-

They are pals and family to me now

The finale isn't real it can't hurt me

Oswald Cobb:

✔ supports women pushed aside by their patriarchal family

✔ supports victims of flooding

✔ gives employment opportunities to disadvantaged youth

✔ supports sex workers

✔ is polite and affirming to trans women

✔ loves his ma and supports her without infantilizing her

✔ is sensitive to people struggling with mental health stigma

✔ supports imprisoned people and strives to give them opportunities

✔ supports grieving family and helps them recover their murdered family member's body

told myself i'd update this after the finale but i haven't yet figured out how to spin some of the shit he did there lmao

The Bat Signal — The Penguin 1.08

CATWOMAN AND BATMAN RETURN BEING SET UP IN THE PENGUIN FINALE FOR BATMAN PART 2