You Still Block With Your Face

Finished first Tav run last night, doing origin next so the Best Girl doesn't miss a single thing 🔥

Baldur's Gate 3 - Karlach 1/?

So well put. 🙌

I am still decompressing from the Arcane finale, and I will be for a very long time, but I just wanted to point out how important Arcane is as a show. Arcane is showing absolutely everyone just what happens when you put genuine care and attention into telling a story, and using the proper mediums to do so. In a media landscape that is saturated with lazy writing, endless parades of live-action remakes, bloated, uninspired CGI graphics, sexism, racism, misogyny, mindless, purposeless violence, hollow characters, weak or nonexistent character arcs, cliched backstories and tired tropes, Arcane has emerged as proof of what storytelling could be.

Arcane has already broken all of Netflix's records, both in the most-watched show on the platform, as well as the highest-rated, and that feels like all the proof we need of what audiences and individuals are starved for. It feels like a revelation of how all of our newfound media technology could and should be used. We don't want animation and CGI to be used just to recreate realism down to the fibers of a shirt or the individual hairs on someone's head. We want animation that is exploratory, revelatory, engaging - animation that shows us a new perspective, that breathes new life into the story it's telling - animation that tells a story in a way that no other form of media could. Beyond the animation, we want a story that means something. We want characters that have depth and nuance, that are morally fallible, even when they're trying to do what's right. We want heroes that are selfish and make mistakes, and we want villains that have a heart and an ocean's worth of depth behind all their villainy. We want stories that leave nothing behind, stories that care enough about the art of the telling that they follow every narrative thread, every character's journey, all the way to the end, bitter or otherwise. We want writers who fight for accurate and fulfilling representation.

And that's what Arcane has given us. I'm not exaggerating when I say I feel like this show has changed me as a person. Maybe that's a little dramatic, but I honestly think it's true. I am in total awe of what they've managed to do in just nine episodes. I am inspired and overwhelmed and hopeful that this is setting the precedent for what storytelling could look like in the future.

So it turns out Netflix has a 0.5 speed function which is great news for screencapping BUT ALSO it means I slowed down THIS scene and-

friends. pals. esteemed colleagues. fellow angst goblins. I just really think we ought to talk about how

Caitlyn starts to curl protectively around Vi just before Vi shoves them both out of the line of fire

I mean LOOK:

I just think it’s neat.

can not get over how the flash of caitlyn that vi sees when she's convinced jinx is about to reveal she killed her is slightly different than the actual shot of the moment she thinks of. top is the original scene, bottom is vi's memory. in her memory caitlyn is looking more directly into vi's eyes, cait's eyes are more open, her lip is pouted just a bit, her brows are less furrowed. vi has been romanticizing this moment over and over in her head. so similar to caitlyn rewinding vi leaving in her head so that she could do it over and make it right. idk i'm just ready to pull my hair out over it all. if she was going to see caitlyn for the last time, she wanted it to be this moment. god.

So cute!

#my heart is warm now #but not dangerously so

I love her your honor

Vi, chaotic disaster (affectionate)

They cheered for the baby and booed everyone else. This is the greatest thing 

(i saw this on twitter but hadn’t seen it on tumblr so i needed to post it. pls watch this)

Gideeeonn (I’ve been reading the first book!!)