Look I Don't Wanna Sit Here And Get Up On My Soapbox And Start Being Preachy But I Just Find It Funny

Look i don't wanna sit here and get up on my soapbox and start being preachy but i just find it funny how certain sections of the fandom treats TB and by extension Ekko and how that ultimately just shows an underlying problem in shipping culture that honestly only seems to have gotten worse.

TB is such a impactful ship at least in my opinion because i feel as though this is one of the rare occasions where a ship staring a black character is not only loved and praised but also has a view in the mainstream. Most of the time black character when involved with shipping are either cast aside, mistreated or used as a stepping stone for the white character to find their "True Love" so to see TB be loved and praised is genuinely such a amazing and important thing to see and how some of this community reacts to them has shown me that despite this love there is still a major problem with Anti-Blackness.

Now I'm not saying that you have to ship TB or that your Anti-black/racist if you ship them with other characters but from some of the stuff i've seen it seems like its less about the fact that you don't like ship and more about the fact that you don't like Ekko and specifically you don't like Ekko with Jinx. The way some people try remove the importance Ekko has in Jinx's life at this point comes off a malicious. We have people out here describing Ekko as "some random black boy she knew" and it's like okay that's such a one layered look at their relationship and when he is granted the privilege of being apart of her life by some people his role is minimized and relegated to "oh well he is there and he was a small part of it but her ACTUAL motivation was...." and listen, you could make the argument that he wasn't the only thing that spurred her into action but to sit here and act like he didn't have a large impact on her and her subsequent call to action is just lame.

Now S2 in general can be looked at as the blame for why his impact is questioned by some people and i won't lie and not act like seeing them in a couple more scenes together wouldn't have been nice and just seeing Ekko in general more wouldn't have been nice but considering the fact that this community loves to analyze things to the bone i just find it a bit odd how apparently this specific relationship is looked at on such a surface level by some people. Ya'll will sit here and analyze eye movements but then call the bridge fight "just a cool scene" and ignore the weight and impact of it. Ya'll will sit here gush about this loving and deep connection Jinx forms with Isha who she's known for no less then 3 months but apparently her childhood befriend/enemy/crush/lover is just a open and shut book.

One thing that really bothers me as well and I'm gonna use Mel in this section is that her and Ekko are not allowed to be loved. What i mean by this is that the love that their respective partners have for them is always called into doubt. Jayce's love for Mel is doubted because "Well she manipulated him" and that she was just using him and Jinx's love for Ekko is doubted by "oh well she's to mentally unstable to feel that way towards him" and "she tried to kill him" as if a good 85% of the arcane cast hasn't tried to kill or at least physically harm the people they care about. Ekko and Mel are not allowed to be yearned after and loved by the two of the favs of the show despite the fact they are are in fact yearned and loved by these favs. Jinx is over here drawing hearts around this man every chance she gets, her voice lines in game towards him, drawing his symbol on her stuff. Jayce despite all the chaos automoically going to check on Mel and see if she's okay, his voice lines towards her in game and yet despite all this, some of the fandom just can't seem to fathom that their favs are in love with a black character.

Idk man, maybe I'm reading to deep into this all and maybe I'm just yelling into the void but i just find it odd how all these doubts and excuses and reasons for why it wouldn't work only seem to get brough up for ships that involve a black character and a usually white fav.

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Somebody end me. Of course the official Jinx Figurine has the Loose Cannon wearing the Boy Savior's fucking jacket.

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Somebody fucking push me off a goddamn cliff, I can't take this shit anymore.

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3 months ago

Plot twist- imagine jude didn't come back to Elfhame not bcz she was upset but because she had found this cute friend group (that consists of both males and females) who taught her stuff about the world like buying groceries or playing video games

Cardan, storming into the mortal world: SO THIS IS WHY YOU WON'T COME HOME?

Jude, literally getting icecream with her friends: Wha-

Cardan, gesturing to the males in the group: MEN? YOU IGNORE MY LETTERS FOR OTHER MEN? IS WHAT I HAVE NOT SATISFACTORY ENOUGH?

Friend group: ooohhh

Jude: Cardan you're embarrassing me

Friend group: Jude, who is he?

Cardan, having a literal fit: SO SHE DIDNT MENTION ME EVEN ONCE

Jude: no wai-

Friend group: not that we've heard

Jude: Cardan maybe you should shut up now

Cardan, lifting up his hand furiously, showing off his ring: I'm her HUSBAND

Friend group: goes absolutely crazy

It would be such a cute dynamic and at the same time so hilarious because Cardan would CONSTANTLY have meltdowns at the thought of her choosing another man over him and her friends would just be laughing and oohing on the side like an audience to a play while Jude just sat there with a throbbing headache

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8 months ago

I'll be living my boring life then randomly get giddy bc I remember timebomb is canon!!! 🗣️🫀

I swear if ekko dies in s2 I'm gonna lose all my good morals.

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2 months ago

Immaculate fanfic potential.

The coach's kid who only wants to be good enough to hit the ball x the all star player who the coach adores.

Get on this people.

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tryingnotkillanyone

8 months ago

Black cat and orange cat, grumpy and sunshine, musician friend and gamer friend, pink and blue duo ✨

In my head they are bestiez and no one can convince me otherwise tbh

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tryingnotkillanyone

4 months ago

Ok I'm like grasping at straws here and not getting my hopes up but Kerri Maniscalco mentioning she would like recs for second chance romances gives me a tiny bit of hope that maybe we'll get the Pride and Claudia/Lucia second chance romance that I long for!! Hoping praying crossing fingers! I want it so bad!

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tryingnotkillanyone

1 year ago

Valerie: "This ghost everyone chirring about destroyed my whole life! I am miserable and poor because of him!"

Valerie: *sigh*

Valerie: "At least, i have you, Danny. My good, definitely not dangerous boyfriend who's helps me every time!"

Danny: *about to cry*

Danny: "Y-yeah, lucky you and me both"

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tryingnotkillanyone

1 week ago

I've always liked the idea of Kya II being able to see spirits, like Jinora (and Iroh in the og show) did. Maybe not as clearly as Jinora, or she didn't have as special bond with them, but it just feels so very convenient that she somehow deduced that Jinora can see spirits simply by seeing a child chase something invisible. Like talk about a lucky guess.

Tenzin: You have to trust me. I can help you. Kya: There might be another way. Jinora, is there something you want to tell Korra?

Now, I imagine there are two paths this headcanon could follow.

One is rather sad, where Kya manifests the gift, but never tells Aang because he's too focused on training Tenzin. And so Kya doesn't really do much with her spirituality.

But the other, and more cheerful (and the one i find more plausible) is that Kya did tell Aang about her ability and he tried to to train her in the traditional way airbenders were, however it didn't work, as Kya herself has admitted that she struggled with memorising the theoretical and historical aspect of it.

Obligatory "yeah i bet you couldn't keep them straight you beautiful sapphic" joke

Which is why Kya didn't consider herself a viable spirit guide for Korra in B2. Tgough she clearly did internalise some of Aang's teachings, like mediatation and a nomadic lifestyle. Perhaps her journeys led her to more spiritual places, who knows. I also think that, while focused mostly on the physical and chi, healing through waterbending appears to be a decently spiritual discipline, which may be why Kya excelled in it.

Big fan of her signature move, the "scan em like a big xerox machine"

Also, piggybacking off this, I always thought that the reason Kya ans Bumi succumbed to the Fog of Lost souls quicker than Tenzin was bacause they're both more spiritually attuned than him. Sort of an open door policy on spiritual influence, good and bad.