Cas

[calypso-the-nymph]

Thalia: "Percy! We're supposed to fight Kronos! Where is everybody?" Percy: "Annabeth’s in a coma" Percy: "the Ares cabin is being held captive by Clarisse" Percy: "mr. D's in a club" Percy: "and the Apollo kids are dead." Percy: "any more questions, pinecone face?"

[antiquitina]

he's coping TRUST me he is coping!

[la-rivera]

What yall talking about it the tags with this could’ve happened. It did. Timeline matches up and everything.

Half the Apollon kids died on that punk as bridge after Annabeth got poisoned and before Selena showed up with the Ares cabin. Sadly Mr. D aint at the club cause the best he could’ve do was the suckiest tornado party I’ve ever read about but close enough i say.

[queermaddscientist]

Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you

No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.

[rawringthroughthetwenties]

Ok but this is actually one of the easiest ways to tell what something is made of! I did a textiles degree and one day as part of a class we all went outside with a pile of scrap fabric and set fire to the little pieces and recorded how they burned. We were given a chart that looked something like this to tell what each fabric was (it gets a little tricky is it’s a mix of fabrics though). Why did we do this? There is very little regulation in the textiles industry so a lot of materials are mislabelled as something they aren’t and sold for more than they should be, also sometimes people buy fabric second hand or discounted which doesn’t have any label at all. If you have a fabric you are having doubts about, cut a tiny piece off and do the burn test and you should know pretty fast what you are dealing with. Anyways your fabric store should be lighting things on fire because this means that they are actually checking what the fabrics are and aren’t trying to pass cheap stuff off as more expensive than it is.

[queermaddscientist]

Ooh! I knew it was a standard test but I hadn’t seen a chart as detailed as this thank you!

[infectiouspiss]

every time some annoying prick from the usa says they're going to "europe" and doesn't specify which country they should be automatically banned from the whole continent. are you going to france or lithuania answer quickly i have a gun

[vamptits]

when they say this they should be put in a town randomizer and spawn wherever it spits out. sorry you wanted to go to Amsterdam but you're stuck in (spins wheel) wait holy shit there's actually a village in France called Anus?

[vamptits]

if you say you're going to europe I send you here

[la-rivera]

Y’all realize when they say Europe it’s cause they’re doing a multi country trip so it’s easier to just say the continent in quick conversation. If there’s time the response at least from other Americans is usually oh that’s cool what countries are you going too. Where they will then list their exact plans usually also in order of how they’re visiting. Like y’all don’t gotta be assholes about it.

[casualdistance]

This I love about this video:

Jinx dancing as Powder

Jinx's dancing turning into her landing

Ekko's walking past turning into laying beside Jinx

The way Ekko lays beside her close but not touching in the edge of the shadows

Jinx's reverse suicide fall

Ekko coming out of the shadows to hold Jinx

All the ways Ekko looks at Jinx

I need someone smarter than me to talk about how Ekko is always coming out of the shadows for Jinx.

[la-rivera]

Ok honestly I think the Ekko coming from the shadows could work in so many different ways. Which makes sense cause their relationship is all over the place built on what could’ve been vs what is held together by their own fucking stubbornes.

First layer is they were on separate sides , essentially enemies. And yet they’re also all either has from before (I mean Silco’s there but up to your headcanon wether Jinx remembers him from before the falling out, and even if she does he was gone for years in between) so they’re eachothers constants. Jinx never took the shot and Ekko would always stay back or aim for her weapons unless she pissed him off and he actually went for him (everyone treats him like he’s so level headed but that boys got some anger issues I love him.) So they lived they’re lives separate from eachother which just moments in between.

Second and third play a bit more into the whole appearing from the dark thing.

Jinx doesn’t halucinate Ekko not once. Ok well he’s alive Jinx has hallucinations of Vi when she thought she was alive but simply gone, se hallucinates Isha before she died back when she got taken to Stillwater, she has scribbles for enforcers. Plus he was presumed dead for half of season 2. Ok well she doesn’t feel like she wronged Ekko. Her main nickname for him is ‘boy savior’ which is basically throwing back in his face when he went looking for her and she slapped him, girl killed who knows how many of his firelights and literally came to the realization in episode 8 that killing ain’t mercy. And before she came to the realization she already had weird feelings for him because when he beat her up she was able to look him in the eye and when Vi tried the same thing even though she says she’s glad it was Vi she can’t look. And when he was presumed dead it’s entirely possible she thought she killed him with her murder suicide bomb on the bridge because she only lived thanks to shimmer and chances are she didn’t talk to the firelights to find out he actually disappeared a couple weeks after. We also know she doesn’t get knocked out of her episodes easily she can be aware of dangers but not of what’s going on. Like when she killed Silco she responded to the gun been loaded and shot but had no idea what was happening till she came back. Where as she’s having a crisis about Vi replacing her with a Piltie and Sevika not lying (even if she did lie about VI’s motives Jinx doesn’t know that right now) suddenly here comes the noise of Ekko’s hoverboards out of nowhere like ‘hey girl, if Vi was alive this whole time I was also abonded. Also you know I’m here cause I’m here’ that song was not kidding when Ekko jumps of her ballon to the line you’re not alone look at my shadow right behind you. Jinx has a crisis about being abandoned and here comes not only the guy that was her main constant but the guy SHE left behind. Honestly, it kinda makes sense he knocked her out of her episode. Also thanks to the new music video we get a parallel of her with the flair and Mylo, and Claggor basically all the weight of her mistakes and regrets hoping and praying that not only is Vi alive but will actually come for her and doesn’t hate her vs. this new one of Ekko standing behind her warm and alive singing about how yeah she’s his enemy but he loves her she hurt him and he’s angry but at the end of the day it’s them together and she actually lands her head back onto his shoulder when it’s her turn to sing.

Next comes the most obvious. Ekko may be a fighter we may have footage of firelights using enforcers or at least their uniforms as a punching back. But first and foremast their hideout is about safety and hope and rebuilding. Say what you want about Silco and his willingness to sacrifice Zaun in the name of being free from Piltover him, Sevika, and Jinx are about the actual fight. The firelights were the opposite and we see that especially with her. Powder not dealing well with the death of everyone, here comes baby Ekko sneaking into wherever Silco was living if it wasn’t the last drop yet ‘hey I’m here to rescue you.’ Vi appears for the first time in like 8 years with a Piltie, Ekko appears out of the wood works. Vi and Piltie making their way to piltover and now they’re hugging, Ekko fucking glaring at everyone and then getting shot so now it’s her turn to save the day with little bombs that are his color, look like fir lights from a distance, and tick like little clocks (not symbolic at all.) She tries to kill herself with the same weapon that she killed her family, suprise surpise Ekko’s fucking alive and he has a problem with this plan. Warwick attacks Jinx in her flying hideout, boom Ekko. Like the man has so little screen time and yet he’s always fucking there when she’s in crisis. Unless he’s stuck in an alternate dimension s2 act2 or unconscious like her death. Like bro soulmate type behavior cause wtf.

[jarfullofbubbles]

Going purely off of Ma Meilleure Ennemie Jinx is so comforted by the song and Ekko who's fully willing to engage with her on the same level she sees herself. "Everyone wants to be my enemy" is Jinx's assumptions of how everyone else views her even when Vi proves that she doesn't see her as an enemy, all she can see is her little baby sister. Most everyone else in the series does view her as an enemy, and here's Ekko with a song that acknowledging both sides of her, all the ways in which they are enemies, have hurt each other, the things that Jinx knows she's done and can't bring herself to move on from, and therefor is unable to except anyone who can't also acknowledge them. Ma Meilleure Ennemie is Ekko saying "yes I do hate you, I can't deny out history, but I can't deny loving you either," and ultimately that's what wins out because here he is standing in front of her, willing to play out this dance over and over! for her! because nothing has been able to stop him caring about her!

[la-rivera]

Vi seems to swing back in forth on what level she cares and acknowledges Jinx actions, which is understandable but doesn’t help her cut through Jinx’s view of the world. Probably part of the reason she’s convinced Vi is better without her. Where as Ekko walked in the person who saw her grow up was there for all her crimes in a way Vi wasn’t. She killed his friends, and then tried to murder suicide them on the bridge after he almost beat her face in he knows who and what she is. And yet he walks in like it’s ok I can multitask. Especially in a time she doesn’t know he she is anymore I struggled with Jinx, Ekko been here from the beginning he dealt with on change, he death with au powder, whoever she wants to be now he’ll still be there. Just this time his love over powers his anger so she gets hugs instead of shooting games. And that type of stability is what she needs right now. Not to say Vi isn’t willing or capable but that Jinx doesn’t want to ask for it and doesn’t think Vi would be able to be happy and live her own life as well if jinx let her try.

[ideologyofone]

I’m still obsessed with how Ekko isn’t really shocked when he sees Jinx’s reflection after waking up in the alternative universe, if anything he looks annoyed that she’s there (probably bc she blew him up a week ago idk can’t say for sure though)

Like oh yes of course Jinx is here, likely place for her to be- on the frayed thread I’ve been hanging on by

It’s only when he realizes the reflection is actually Powder that he freaks out

Like he’s completely lost in a shop he recognizes but hasn’t seen in years, in a body that’s his but isn’t, and for a split second thinks okay well Jinx is here so maybe I’m not completely crazy- NOT JINX !!

[anexperimentallife]

[ahasiw-okitowin]

@ people whining about not being able to pronounce this:

Learn.

We learned English.

[theunicornincaptivity]

It’s easy!

Pronounciatipn guide from my Nahuatl speaking SO: chal chut li que e quat le

Something like that.

Way cooler than anything in English that’s for dam sure

[medjoul]

An alternative is Ayollohco Mexihco

pronounced ah-yohl-LOH'-koh meh-SHEE'-koh

source:

Pre-Invasion Nahuas and the Gulf of Mexico

You may have seen a meme suggesting that we start calling the Gulf of Mexico “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl,” as that is what Indigenous peoples of…

[fulcrums501st]

I truly believe a large reason why some people fully believe that Silco was conciously deceiving Jinx and manipulating her for personal gain is because Silco just has an evil sounding voice

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

Okay so we have this huge problem with forgetting about everything that’s happened by the time the next election rolls around so I’d like to keep a running list of things as they’re happening to help remind us when the 2026 midterms roll around. And please add to this if I’ve missed anything.

January 2025:

Donald Trump pardoned 1500 people who participated in the insurrection of January 6th, including those who violently assaulted and nearly killed police officers.

Donald Trump has declared that trans and non-binary people don’t exist.

Donald Trump is working towards firing everyone in the government who isn’t loyal to him.

Donald Trump has effectively fired everyone who he claims is an “illegal DEI hire” …whatever that means

Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization

Congress are trying to pass the Laken Riley Act to, effectively, round up every immigrant in the country, including LEGAL immigrants

Donald Trump removed caps on prescription drug prices.

Donald Trump wants to withhold federal aid to help combat the LA wildfires and help the thousands of people who have been displaced and lost their homes.

The Department of Justice has put a hold on all civil rights cases.

Donald Trump has cut off aid to Ukraine.

Laken Riley Act has been passed by Congress and is awaiting being signed into law by the President. Here’s the breakdown of the votes: House Senate

Donald Trump purged a dozen inspectors general from the federal government and intends to replace them all with people loyal to him.

Pete Hegseth has been confirmed as Secretary of Defense. Here’s the breakdown of how the Senate voted. Note, it was a 50-50 tie that JD Vance had to break.

Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Colombia after the Colombian government turned away two airplanes carrying migrants. Columbia has retaliated by imposing a 25% tariff of its own on US goods.

Donald Trump has also issued a travel ban for Colombian citizens and revoked visas from Colombian migrants coming to the US.

Donald Trump has now backed off the tariffs and other threats against Colombia. Note for future reference: this comes just hours after Trump made the threat in the first place and he and the Colombian president got into a big fight on social media.

Nearly 1,000 migrants were arrested mostly in Chicago on January 26th by ICE and ICE has been told to meet a quota of 75 migrant arrests every day.

Donald Trump rescinded an anti-discrimination executive order from Lyndon B. Johnson

Donald Trump signed an executive order banning trans people from serving in the military and also ordered that people who were discharged for refusing to get mandatory vaccines be reinstated.

Donald Trump has frozen all federal grants to institutions.

After pressure from state governments, activist groups, and the general public, the White House has rolled back some of the freezes on federal funding.

This.

Donald Trump is trying to fire all federal employees who don’t want to return to the office (work-from-home saves the federal government millions of taxpayer dollars in overhead). He also sent an email to federal employees saying that if they’re not loyal to him, they’ll be investigated.

Donald Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act into law.

Donald Trump has said he doesn’t think Palestinians should be allowed to return to Gaza but instead should be sent to Egypt and Jordan.

Also this.

Donald Trump has ordered undocumented immigrants to be sent to Guantanamo Bay

Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand federal funding for school choice programs. [x]

Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that he will deport visa-holding students who protest against Israel. [x]

Donald Trump has blamed DEI for the plane crash that killed 67 people in Washington D. C. [x]

Donald Trump signed an executive order that schools should no longer teach about racism and discrimination. And that schools should only teach history that is “patriotic” [x]

Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna wants to add Donald Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore. [x]

Trump’s Department of Education has called book bans a hoax. [x]

The Department of Justice has barred certain news outlets from receiving information from the Pentagon. [x]

The Trump administration has fired multiple FBI officials who investigated the January 6th insurrection. [x]

February 2025

I’ll keep adding to this list as new things come up and, again, please feel free to add anything I’ve missed. I know that in this world of constant news it’s easy to forget, so let’s give our future selves a little help!

[digitallhell]

i have a folder in my computer called "just in case" where i have important documents saved, like the constitution (since trump REMOVED IT from whitehouse.gov) and books that might get banned

im obviously going to add more, if anyone has any reccomendations please let me know. just wanted to share because i think its a good idea going into these next 4+ years.

EDIT i've also added a clip of elon doing the nazi salute because its taken down a lot of places and likely will be removed everywhere. as well as screenshots of what happened when you searched "presidents in order" (it did not show biden) and "president from 2020-2024" (it showed trump) but have since been fixed

[dustofoliver]

Jinx blowing up the council wasn't she jixing the situation, she didn't jinx anything with that decision.

"They were going to give Zaun independence and peace bla bla bla"

Yes BUT, after years and years and years of abuse, is like begging someone 99 times for good quality of life and because you exploded before asking a 100 time you're the bad guy, they gave peace FAR too late, lots of children's died, people were dead on the streets.

While they had a memorial with golden status Vander had his statue made of garbage they found around, they had casket, did you see that high tech casket Cassandra had? Silco was thrown to the lake, symbolic and beautiful? Yes, unfair? Yes!

That casket would have feed half the underground.

Jinx never jinx anything the system did, "She exploded that building" she wouldn't have exploded anything if the system was fair and her and UNDERAGE, KIDS, brothers and sister had to steal to make money to eat! Silco wouldn't be bad cause the Zaun wouldn't be a trashcan.

And I stand on that, everyone was a victim of the system, the real villain is the council and no one (not even Vander) is 100% innocent.

Vi isn't innocent

Jinx isn't innocent

Silco very much isn't innocent

Viktor isn't innocent

Caitlyn isn't innocent

That's doesn't make them all villains just victims of the cycle

Expect Ekko. Ekko my goat. (He also did bad takes but ekko is ekko)

[la-rivera]

Also it was made very clear that Silco was not going to give Jinx up to Piltover and that man was very willing to go to war in the name of Zaun. Jinx didn’t ruin peace Jayce was a naive idiot who had the council vote for something that was never going to happen because he didn’t realize exactly what he was asking Silco.

[nobodymitskigabriel]

Finished arcane season 1. Main criticism is that this show needs more ekko and jinx.

[la-rivera]

Well have fun with season 2. I don’t know you well enough how you deal with “spoilers” but if you want the authentic experience timebombs had in the month before the release you should google Ekko’s va tweets and answers to season 2 questions. Cause that was time and looking back they make sense but there were a lot of breakdowns in the tiny little minivan of a fandom we were at the time.

[la-rivera]

Does anyone have fics of Ekko being at that doomed tea party

[lustrethings]

And if I see another comment about how Ekko doesn't care about Jinx I'm going to start throwing things that man was in denial and after he fully embraced it he clocked in, he got matching body paint with her, he gave her his jacket, he was watching over her, and he mourned her. Ekko loves her in every universe do you know how insane that makes me

[surrealandhere]

"he clocked in"

Who wouldn't?

And yes, if I see another post saying that Jinx is a psycopath - bla..bla..bla - I SHALL be the one throwing things!

[la-rivera]

Low empathy to people who aren’t “hers” post a shit amount of trauma yes. A ‘psychopath’ no and even if she was as a person with aspd girl could very well have a healthy relationship.

[englandamericaitaly]

You know, the whole "only one child gets to keep their magic into adulthood" rule implies major issues in the past with an overpopulation of wizards. I really want the context for that.

[la-rivera]

Except for the fact that Jerry had already given up his magic when the kids were born. So then wether kids are born wizard doesn’t depend on their parents having won or lost their competition. That’s not population control that’s quality control. And way more fucked.

[suzieloveships]

Frankly, I don't watch or care about teen sit-coms any more but I'm keeping a close look on the wizards of waverly place sequel show simple because I need to know how they are going to handle that family tournament thing as a doubt modern audience, even kids audience, is going to be okay with how mess up it actually was.

because no disney, i didn't forgot the time you created the most broken magic system ever, have multiple characters complained about how broken this system is and how it is keep destroying families but when a group of people that were victims of said system actually spoke out and started complaining loudly the narrative potrait them as stupid, ungrateful brats and the leader of this movement was called "pure evil" by main characters and killed of in a joke

#justiceforStevie

[la-rivera]

Im pretty sure they retconned a bit cause Justin married mortals and he’s still a wizard. So I’m assuming some laws have changed I doubt they’re getting rid of the family competition though which is sucky.

[dramatic-dolphin]

me: i'm adding realism to this medieval fantasy setting

what people think i mean: grime, gratuitous sexual assault and murder, misogyny, child marriage

what i actually mean: everyone reads out loud, women are spinning wool all the time, peasants marry at 20, people wear colors.

[postcards-from-here]

I only have marriage data on people in my family tree (the online genealogy thing has made it like popping bubble wrap for me, so it has been a very useful distraction which has incidentally yielded a lot of interesting info) but there are 2,159 of them thus far and I have it going back 500 years. Which I thought might at least adjust for any changes in social mores.

Based on that 500 years of data (YES I DID A SPREADSHEET)

1. people marry their age-mates

2. they mostly get married no earlier than 18 or 19

3. usually in their early-mid 20s

4. oftentimes it was the woman who was older, if there was a 5+ age gap.

5. Marriage date and when a first child came along were not necessarily in that order (best one is 15 years between kid no 1 and wedding date).

In 1525, the daughter of the local manor-occupier married my ancestor when he was 26 and she was 37. I have a vision of someone saying "Now Susannah, don't you think it's time you got married?" and she said "FINE. Okay, that one's kinda cute." She had kids at ages 40 and 45 and died at 75. In the 16th century. I bet she wore all the colours, did all the reading aloud, and was all about women spinning.

[crazy-pages]

Also

PEOPLE 👏 WORE 👏 BRIGHT 👏 COLORS

[dramatic-dolphin]

people wore bright colors UNTIL the colors faded in the wash, and they really, REALLY liked dyes that didn't fade fast!! because people everywhere like colors! also they passed clothes down in the family when they grew out of it :)

[headspace-hotel]

@postcards-from-here is there any way we can see the spreadsheet or would that be personal info

[la-rivera]

I also went on a genealogy kick and went back a couple centuries. My ancestors weren’t nobility but still had respected titles and doing the same thing I found only one instance where a child was married of to a guy 10 years older. Beyond that it was all 16-20 somethings married to someone their own age.