Whatever They Had Between Them In That Episode Is So Meaningful To Me

One thing I hate about modern media creation is this absolutely lazy-ass “explaining in post” that writers feel compelled to engage in on social media and interviews.

The hard pivot from “if there’s textual evidence for your interpretation, it’s valid” to “just ask the creator and integrate that information into your understanding of the text” truly drives me insane. Especially when creators often leave out these details completely because they can just go on twitter and vomit out the information that they failed to cleverly integrate later.

I will be totally honest. I have never once been happy hearing a writer reveal information that wasn’t telegraphed in the story itself. Not fucking once.

STOP BEING SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT YOUR CREATIONS STOP SECOND GUESSING WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO STOP DEBATING IT'S WORTH. LET YOUR ART SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND

Im on gertvi train

if jinx dies i die after her. not by choice tho i'm just not gonna be able to realize process and stand it

ARCANE | Various Early Beat Boards | Seung Eun Kim

Jungs mir is so fucking kalt lol

can we just…appreciate Vi for a second? For all the “let women be feminine” posting I’ve seen, I have literally never seen a butch 100% gender non-conforming female character. There is always a scene where she is forced to wear a dress, where she learns that being girly isn’t that bad. But Vi? She’s so unapologetic about her presentation. She never wears a dress once. Her fighting style isn’t “oh she’s skinny and fast” like most other women fighters on TV: Vi is muscular and punches the shit out of things. She’s angry, commanding, and assertive. We need more female characters like Vi.

Baby girl I'm so sorry for what they did to you

thats his ugly ass 😭😢

he's like an old tattered dog plushie that someone left out in the rain for 3 weeks so you pick it up and give it a nice bath but then you find out there's dynamite inside it

“Vi didn’t get a win in all of Season 2. She lost every fight!”

Vi isn’t made to win fights. Vi blocks with her face. She wins because she takes the hit so other people don’t have to and she gets up again and again and again

Vi saved Cait at the memorial. No, she didn’t land the showy blow with Jayce’s hammer, but Cait would still be dead if she wasn’t there, bare knuckle boxing a shimmer goon

Vi technically beat Jinx in their showdown. But Vi *won* by protecting her sister and the undercity kid

She came out on top in most of the montage brawls. But it wasn’t a win, bc it wasn’t *for* anything. And it didn’t hurt enough until she started blocking with her face again

She was winning the slap fight with Jinx until she sucker punched a child for biting her so that was really a draw at best

She won the fight with War/Vander. She saved Isha’s life with that punch. She went ten rounds with a genetically modified nigh immortal killing machine. She stopped in an act of faith for Jinx. And got her sister and father back. That’s a win.

Vi lost when she tried to bare knuckle box against spears. Pro tip: The greatest boxer in the world will lose against a company of spear fighters. If you’ve just got your hands, you will not win against spears. Accept the L. Survival becomes the W. Bonus, she did protect Jinx from the blast.

And then everyone lost in the final battle. Vi held her own in the first half by surviving. Her and piano man were the only ones not dead by the time the Undercity Armada and Magic Mel showed up. And then everyone lost to the perfection bots except Ekko. and Ekko did arguably cheat a little.

Anyway, had enough of the libel about my angry oil slick and her over designed bitch mittens. Vi won. So many times. When she saved someone she cared about. When she got back up after getting knocked down. Shielding the people she loved.