#watch arcane

[birdibunni]

are we still sisters?

[jamglii]

hey guys, please dont kill me bu uh, i never saw jakvik as a romantic relationship DONT SHOOT DONT SHOOT

it's not like i cant see why people say they are violently in love with each other but somehow i never got that vibe? i guess i js happened to look on the more brotherly side of things sorta like silco and vander, plus im sorta kinda a mel x jayce shipper but that's beside the point

in any case im pretty sure the authors purposefully made there rls up to interpretation, which is why in some points of the storyline we get these sort of 'oh and btw im in love with you' vibes ( talking abt the "viktor, my gawd" scene LOL) and in other parts we dont, ( mostly when they fight ) but yeah

anyways watch arcane ppl, i could talk abt this show hourrrssss

[summerbluelily]

Fight with them. Fight for them.

Arcane Characters I Stand in Solidarity With [pt. Season 1]

Arcane Characters I Stand in Solidarity With [pt. Season 2]

Arcane Characters I'll Stand in Solidarity With Regardless

[fangdoesstuff]

annual bi monthly hyperfixation change I LOVE ARCANE I LOVE ARCANE I LOVE IT SO MUCH OH MY HHH

sO. time for LONG POST.

I have been sleeping on Arcane for a while. I didn’t know much about it, it looked cool but I just wasn’t sure about it since it was based on League and I’ve never played, didn’t know what I would be getting into. Anyway I watched it all in one sitting. HOLy. SHIT. I already knew the animation was peak and the music was amazing, but just holy crap man. I didn’t know the EXTENT of it.

The texturing of all the models and the backgrounds and the animation is stylized ALL THE TIME, EVERY SINGLE FRAME OF THE SHOW. But the plot. OH MY GOD the PLOT. I didn’t know at ALL what was happening in this show less than a day ago besides what everyone was posting about the new season. Nothing. I didn’t expect such a beautifully well written and entertaining and gut wrenching masterpiece.

The characters are so endearing, every single one. They all have deep development and tragedy etched into them. Everything connects. It’s a dangerous dance of sorrow and anger blinding decisions and love guiding people onto the paths of their lives whether bad or good.

I can’t believe I have been SLEEPING on this ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE. Every shot is beautiful, every line delivered with such passion, the music, the choreography, all of it. It definitely uses its budget to the limits and it is so revolutionary for animation.

I am so freaking sad that i’m only getting into it now right before it ends but im also so happy that i got into it while theres still content for it right now. But yeah still very sad i slept on it.

ANYWAYS EVERYONE WATCH ARCANE NOW WATCH IT WATCH IT ITS SO GOOD MWAH CHEFS KISS TYPE SHIT OKAY PLEAAAAASEE

[egberts]

every song on the arcane soundtrack was written for the show... I'm shook. i thought these were just regular songs that somebody chose to put in but every song in all the different genres they used? quaking

[hersterical]

I’ve been seeing a lot of people talk about how the characters could have avoided their fates if they had just done something different (usually gay sex) but that defeats the whole purpose of the inevitability of it all. I’m not being clear, let me try again.

The decisions each character makes are theoretically easily avoidable, except that these choices that doom them are the same choices that are inherently tied to who they are and if they did not make those decisions then they would no longer be the same characters on a fundamental level. Take Goncharov himself as an example.

The decisions that sealed his fate can basically be summed up as his desire to create a legacy that transcends time and will essentially immortalize him. (Don’t tell me you didn’t notice the weird amount of portraits and statues he had of himself, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg) It’s this drive that leads to him never truly opening up to Andrey, allowing his relationship with Katya to deteriorate, send Ice Pick Joe to kill and kill over and over again until Joe loses every trace of his humanity, and underestimate Mario. Any one of these decisions seem stupid and avoidable, except that would mean betraying his desire to transcend time and break the clocks. That would then mean that Goncharov would lose the thing that would have made him Goncharov. He never would’ve taken over Naples, never would’ve been the man to gain such loyalty from the rest of the characters, and probably never would’ve even have made it out of Russia. Would his story have been less tragic? Yes. Would that have been enough? Not for Goncharov

I feel like I’ve made my point, but I’ll do this for a few more characters just for fun

Ice Pick Joe was SO CLOSE to breaking the cycle of violence! I was screaming at the screen. It would have been as easy as stepping on that train and never looking back. But he didn’t do that. Why? Because of his commitment. He’s started something and he was going to see it through to the end even if it killed him. If it weren’t for that commitment he wouldn’t be Ice Pick Joe. He wouldn’t have worked so hard and crossed all the lines that he did in order to send money to his family. He would’ve given up all those many years ago when he found himself in a hopeless situation without a weapon, but it was that very commitment that lead him to picking up an ice pick of all things, cross lines that no one else was willing to cross, and get the job done. It may have killed him in the end, but he only got to be where he was because of who he was and what made him Ice Pick Joe was his commitment.

Katya’s problems all would’ve been solved if she had just ran off with Sofia and never looked back. It’s a little bit more difficult to put her fatal flaw into words, but it’s very similar to Joe’s. Whereas Joe’s flaw was commitment, I’d say Katya’s is loyalty. It seems like the same thing but while Joe is motivated by duty and responsibility, Katya is more motivated by genuine passion and belief. She wants everyone to believe she is the ice queen, and she does usually make her decisions based off of sound logic, but what gives her the motivation to do so are her strong emotions. She truly believes that Goncharov is capable of achieving what he sets out to do and after so many years by his side she will see him accomplish that lasting legacy even if she finds the idea to be self-aggrandizing. She also put in so much work herself into building up the crime family in Naples. She sacrificed her home in her beloved Russia in order to make a home here and she is not going to throw it out the window. She also believes that Sofia could never truly be happy away from her home town, so her loyalty to Sofia means that Katya would never make the selfish decision to take her away from Naples even without Goncharov. Katya ran away from home to marry Goncharov, she ran away from Russia to Naples, she’s (figuratively) running away from her marriage through her relationship with Sofia, she is not going to be running away from her new home. She’s lost so much of herself over the years, staying loyal to the things that she can is the only way she can regain her identity, not realizing until it’s too late that the most important person for her to be loyal to is herself.

Sofia’s fatal flaw is her honesty. She gets what she wants because she is unapologetically honest about what it is she truly wants and goes after it with determination and drive. Everyone who knows her knows that they can trust her to never lie to them. It baffles dishonest people who she’d rather avoid if she could, and attracts fellow honest people that she knows she can rely on. Just because she’s honest doesn’t mean that she isn’t able to notice when other people aren’t so it’s a pretty good system. It doesn’t cause her any real trouble until Katya is both entranced and overwhelmed by Sofia’s sincerity and depth of feeling for her. Sofia’s usually pretty good at knowing just how honest she needs to be, but not with Katya. Sofia has a want, expresses the want, and will honestly pursue that want for as long as there’s a glimmer of hope for her to achieve it. This openness and ability to acknowledge uncomfortable truths is what makes the rejection and betrayal shatter her so completely. Sofia’s honesty is what makes her Sofia and her honesty is what destroys her

Andrey’s fatal flaw is his greed. Not just his greed for money, but his greed for power, status, recognition, and (Goncharov’s) attention. Unlike Goncharov, Andrey doesn’t care about how he’s remembered so long as he gets the life that he wants now. Goncharov tries to defy time by trying to become immortal (as if he wasn’t gay enough already, I’m only now seeing all of the Dorian Gray parallels), Andrey tries to defy time by fully embracing the present. While this greed has served him well for most of his life and has gotten him so close to where he wants, it can’t quite get him all the way there with Goncharov. So his greed leads him to other places. This leads him to make decisions that are good for him in the short term, are what ultimately lead to his death. Greed made Andrey who he was, but also made all of the betrayal and pain in his path inevitable. There was no way for Andrey to avoid his fate because his greed made his death necessary and without his greed Andrey would not be Andrey

Long story short, Goncharov is a modern Greek tragedy

[bamf]

[celestialdefender]

@b-nxx lures me in with this league of legends show singing it’s praises and now I’m left a shell of a person after being emotionally invested in fictional characters from a moba