Medusa And Her Gargoyle Gf

day 3 - one bed only

"Huh, we got the same fortune again?"

OK since the person I was replying to isn't somebody I want to get into a discussion with ill make my own post about it. Little rant on the aesthetics of arcane vs writer intention ahead based on the use of child labour in the show.

Child labour in Zaun is normalised. Although it's less recognisable to the viewer as such because we're more used to child labour being as being depicted in factories or mines, all of the zaunite kids in act one s1 are child workers. Ekko works in Benzos shop, repairing and selling things. Vanders kids work as thief's, Oliver twist anyone?

Child labour is a feature of industrial boom historically, as well as the result of wealth inequality. Silco and the other chembarons further wealth inequality in Zaun and make use of child labour, but they invented neither. Zaun is Piltovers industry, the majority of factories and mines down there will be owned by Piltovans because that's a major source of wealth.

We never see the piltover owned factories even though logistically they must exist. Narratively there's no place for them to have shown this, however it does seem like the show goes out of its way to show the poor treatment of children and workers by the other Zaunites but leaves Piltovers hand in it unspoken. The most I have here is Silco speaking on the poor working conditions they had and Jayces lack of surprise in seeing children working, both in the factory and when ekko sold him goods. However, realistically Piltover would absolutely be hiring child workers in zaun and would have been the main contributer to the need for child workers to begin with.

I'm mostly making this point for two reasons. One because I've seen Silco criticised as the source of child labour in zaun which I think dumbs down what actually leads to child labour existing. The fact is, with wealth inequality at a severe level, children are forced to work to sustain their family, if not Silcos factories there would be work elsewhere or they would go hungry. This isn't me justifying his use of child labour, I'm only saying the issue would still exist without him because the root cause goes further back than him.

Two, because I've seen people arguing about the strike team and whether or not children would have been caught up in the factory raids. I don't think the writers intended for the strike team to have gassed child workers, I think it's an oversight on their behalf, but yes, even with the most strategic raids children would have been caught in the gray.

I've then seen people claim the children and the workers deserved that and I'm not even going to bother getting into that, babies first exposure to exploitation much?

Anyway, all of that is to say these arguments can go on forever because there's a discrepancy between the aesthetics of zaun and what the writers want us to believe about Piltover. The aesthetics tell us that Zaun is impoverished and exploited, that it's reminiscent of victorian England, it has casual police Brutality hidden in montages. When you think about the implications it gets messy and you realise that some of our good guys are complicit in some nasty things. I personally think that's good story telling.

But then you get to the writing itself and what they're telling is another story. That zauns issues are more caused by zaunites, that the piltover council has very little to do with their problems, that the strike team cannot possibly have hurt civilians because that would make Vi and Cait TOO morally gray. I see this as pretty lame writing, frankly.

This allows for people to be arguing on the show based on completely different perspectives. I completely get why people argue the strike teams efforts were necessary and caused very minor harm, because the writers intend us to take that away, to the extent of only showing a child harmed by the gray when Jinx reverses it. But logistically tons of Zaunite children would have been caught up in the gray too, its just glossed over because the writers don't want us to consider it.

HOLY SHIETTTT

ummm… Gangster AU? Ahhahaha idk I just wanna draw delinquent Beka and Yura XDDD and pls Yura didn’t even have bandages on his body or face ((because Beka was the one who protect him uwu))

I wanna see Beka kicking some ass

'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now

If you didn’t read the books you wouldn’t know…

Draco Malfoy personally made the Potter stinks buttons and nobody could fix them to say Harry was cool and shit, if they tried it would only make the insults worse You wouldn’t know Draco Malfoy was always right behind Hermione in grades You wouldn’t know Draco was seriously the most animated person at school and acted out everything. You wouldn’t know Draco got deeply offended when people didn’t laugh at his jokes You wouldn’t now Draco created the Weasley is our King song, tune and all. (Probably in the shower or something because he’s such a weenie) You wouldn’t know Draco and Ron got into a fist fight in their first year You wouldn’t know about the huge knock down drag out between Draco, Harry and the rest of the Slytherin and Gryffindor quidditch team in their fifth year. (Harry  and Draco just fucking tackle each other rand start whooping each others asses and it’s amazing.) You would miss out on basically everything Draco says and does. He’s a walking gold mind and It’s upsetting the movies didn’t devote a few seconds for any of his shit (Azkaban did an okay job) You wouldn’t know about the Weasley is our king buttons he made in fifth year either You wouldn’t know Draco didn’t actually try and fight a Hippogriff he was just petting him and offhandedly said that he was ugly. He didn’t sprint over to him, he actually did all the bowing and what not. If you didn’t read the books you wouldn’t know that Draco is the most annoyingly smart and artistic little shit you’ve ever heard of.

Back to being too lười for everything :)

So I coloured in this gif just to see how it’d look….

Otabek from the Kubo exhibition - he always look so princely, somehow.

For more artwork from this exhibition:

Framed artwork

Podium family

Cup of China flight

Young Victor at 15

Young Yuuri

Young Yurio

Headshots

Otabek

Christophe

Phichit, Leo and Guang Hong

JJ Leroy

Georgi

Milla

Emil and the Crispinos

Seung Gil

Minami

Coaches and media

Nishigoris and Katsukis

Source: (x)

What My Friends Think I Learned From Writing Fanfiction:

Human anatomy

What I Actually Learned From Writing Fanfiction:

How to build a flamethrower

Tajikistani geography

Proper cravat tying

How to convert from warp factor to mph

17 synonyms for “pining”

Sindarin verb formation

How to start a fire with laboratory solutions

Every poisonous plant found in Jamaica

Minor battles of the Crimean War

How to play the sousaphone

What a jabot is

How long it takes to fly from Jakarta to Bern

How to spot a forged painting

How to perform CPR on a dragon

Angst-written rivalries of 20th century British writers

22 French curse words

How to clear your search history so the NSA won’t think you’re a crazy terrorist who needs to perform CPR on a sousaphone-playing French dragon wounded in a chemically-induced explosion during the Crimean War

I danced with you in a nightmare

I was dragging you across the floor