Don’t Mind Me 🫣

21 yo/ black 🇳🇬/ she-her/ Uni student🎓/ Engineering ⚙️ Currently hyperfixated on Arcane League of Legends. Mel-defender. I will indulge any analysis on the Medarda family. Arcane is my personality for now until I get bored.

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨

[aprillilypegasi-edits]

{Song: Yellow - Coldplay | Scenepack: 404scenepacks on Insta | CapCut for PC}

surprised i haven't edited them yet - this has been on my ideas list for a bit <3

[oinkoink04]

And their colors are yellow ✨✨✨✨

[melmedarda]

THEMES 002: “Betrayal”.

“I am your family. Everyone else betrays us.”

⸻   2/?  OF THEMES IN ARCANE

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Adding Jayce and Viktor to the idea of betrayal. In S2 ep 2 when it’s revealed that Jayce didn’t destroy the hexcore as promised AND started making weapons.

Silco, Viktor, and Jinx || Vander, Jayce, and Vi

Always seemed parallel to me

[aurelion-solar]

K'Sante & Tope - Wild Rift Pride Month Art 🌈

[oinkoink04]

🚨🚨EUPHORIA SPOILERS!!!🚨🚨

Ok I don’t watch the show and don’t plan to. I heard about Alimo and his back story of his mom and I came across this post on Reddit. And I feel like it rly just serves itself as proof hyperbolized, about misogynoir in fandom spaces.

Alimo is a guy that human trafficked desperate young women, gets them raped, drugged, and kills them. Laurie is a white woman that’s a racist and a nazi…yet the person that’s apparently the “most hated villain”…scams ppl. So in the battle of human trafficker vs nazi vs scammer…her scamming is where ppl draw the line.

It reminds me of arcane. How the fans can overlook, justify, and even romanticize Viktor’s villain arc of killing ppl, having Jayce suffer in the ravine, choking him to death, setting a little boy in a mission to undo his mistakes. How the fans can overlook and justify Silco and his active killing against the firelights and ruining Zaun with shimmer…but then Mel is the worst of the worst for “manipulating” Jayce…that’s the line they just can’t cross.

[theladykalliope]

Post canon Jayce would constantly wonder if Viktor was actually psychopathic or if the hexcore was doing a number on his psyche. Because it's only after the war is said & done and everything settles that he will begin to face the damage done to his mind, body, and soul that came from sitting in that ravine for months on end with an infected leg, living off live critters while losing his mind.

Imagine him constantly going back & forth in his head. The friend he built hextech with, went through every scientific breakthrough and failure with him, and the man who watched him starve in that hole are different but the same. Imagine the broken trust and the depressive episodes that would follow, because how could you form new bonds or trust the people that you love after going through something like that?

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The reason why Jayce’s trauma and Viktor’s evil acts are dismissed are bc the arcane fandom is split into 2 ppl

1. JV-shippers that are Victor-centrists/apologusts that find Jayce’s trauma either arousing or see it as a payback for Viktor. Viktor can do no wrong, that’s why to them, Viktor can’t be blamed at all for his acts in S2, bc apparently he was just a puppet.

2. Non JV-shippers. So therefore Jayce’s trauma doesn’t exist at all bc Jayce doesn’t exist at all. Jayce is only relevant bc of his proximity to a white man.

[theladykalliope]

Post canon Jayce would constantly wonder if Viktor was actually psychopathic or if the hexcore was doing a number on his psyche. Because it's only after the war is said & done and everything settles that he will begin to face the damage done to his mind, body, and soul that came from sitting in that ravine for months on end with an infected leg, living off live critters while losing his mind.

Imagine him constantly going back & forth in his head. The friend he built hextech with, went through every scientific breakthrough and failure with him, and the man who watched him starve in that hole are different but the same. Imagine the broken trust and the depressive episodes that would follow, because how could you form new bonds or trust the people that you love after going through something like that?

[souls-699]

Drawing out your wife is a fun thing to do🤭

[oinkoink04]

Conservatives will laugh and mock women’s sports, make fun of them, think they can beat the women athletes simply bc they have a penis, don’t respect the sport at all but once the topic is “trans women in sports”, suddenly they become all feminist and concerned about the very thing they laugh at…

[melmedardasworld]

[oinkoink04]

They are THAT couple

[inksilvery]

winner of the patreon poll

[winterdoves]

when people say meljay 'grew apart', i'm left scratching my head a lil honestly because they're rather close to each other in season 2 when they are allowed to be in scenes alone and even in scenes apart, their relationship matters. mel spends act 1 trying to stop ambessa from weaponizing hextech to protect jayce (and viktor)'s dream from being tainted and ironically fails when jayce makes weapons for caitlyn. mel is also targeted at the memorial service because renni wanted to hurt jayce like he had hurt her by killing her son.

then mel gets kidnapped, is mentally and physically tortured by leblanc (the location she talks with kino is nothing but an illusion - the reality is that she's bound up the same chains she was in when elora died).

meanwhile jayce is sent to another timeline where he ends up massively injured and left to suffer alone in a hole. they both come out of these experiences serverly traumatized:

jayce shoots viktor and lashes out at mel

mel tries to seek comfort from jayce but only retreats further into herself after the council room scene even after her apologies. she's also slapped by her mother upon returning as well.

did mel and jayce naturally 'grow apart' or did they go through traumatic experiences neither had processed? that's not even getting jayce's lines in league:

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Ive learned to take arcane fandom’s takes on MelJay with a grain of sand bc its clear they just don’t like/ don’t care for MelJay and have contradicting takes.

They say they broke up, but then also say they were a hookup or never dated.

They say they grew apart, but also say their relationship was superficial. Or that Mel didn’t rly care for Jayce or Jayce prioritized Viktor.

Most MelJay takes from the arcane fandom is in bad faith bc they don’t like them or don’t even care about them enough to actually watch their scenes.

[420technoblazeit]

have you seen the whole Tyler catastrophe and wilbur soot thing...

i havent posted about this bc i dont think anyone should really give wilbur soot any attention anymore but it's fascinatign to me that there are white trans guys out there like tyler who immediately turn around and treat women like shit once they transition it baffles me really. i cant fathom the idea of watching shelby's statement and coming to the conclusion that the insane escalation of wilbur's behavior wasn't with the intention of doing harm. i hate white tenderqueers get your head out of your ass you can't just go UwU we just need to listen to each other and spread love not hate you guys!!! in response to everything. by god this person is so fucking annoying

[luna-azzurra]

Quick Tips for Writing Time Skips

°˖➴ SHOW THE EVIDENCE, not the time!! don't say "three months later" and have everything exactly the same. Show the evidence: the houseplant is dead now, there's a new coffee shop, their hair is longer, the season changed, the relationship shifted

°˖➴ People don't pause their lives!! during your time skip, other characters didn't freeze. They got new jobs, started dating someone, developed opinions, had experiences. When we come back, there should be GAPS in what your POV character knows

°˖➴ Anchor it with a CONCRETE detail!! "The last time she'd been in this room, there'd been snow on the ground. Now the garden outside was screaming with roses." Give the reader something tangible to mark the passage

°˖➴ What DIDN'T happen is interesting!! "Six weeks and still no word from him" or "Another year of birthday candles she didn't make wishes on" sometimes the time skip is defined by absence and waiting

°˖➴ Compress boring stuff, expand important stuff!! "The trial took three months" can be one sentence. But the five minutes after the verdict? That might be three pages. TIME IS ELASTIC in fiction, use it!!!

°˖➴ Characters should FEEL differently about the skip !! time passing changes perspective. Something that felt devastating last year might feel trivial now. Or vice versa. What seemed certain became a mistake. SHOW THE SHIFT

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Me liking and saving these knowing damn well I won’t use it😭

[stealingpotatoes]

i feel like i don’t post enough/any of my mel doods so here’s some of my recent faves

(links // tip jar!)

[dailycaitvi]

[anoniomee]

Happy International Women's Day!✨✊