#I've just watched a masterpiece

[nell0-0]

Me, having just binge-watched The Legend of Zelda: Hero's Purpose

#talk tag #tloz #majorlink #i am in pain #I've just watched a masterpiece #but owwwwwww #my feelings

[aleespace]

They knew what they were doing, didn't they?

#just watched natm 2 for the first time🥲 #the fandom is small but that's alright #how come i've never heard of this masterpiece before? #natm #night at the museum #jedtavius #THE PARALLEL I CAN'T 😭

[skayafair]

Scared Vi

The thing I was finally able to put into a thought and into words after staring at gifs for 2 hours straight: throughout all the post-timeskip Arcane Vi is fucking scared of everything that's going on around her. AND she's on the brink of losing it pretty often. I need to rewatch (no idea when I'll be brave enough to ride this rollercoaster again) but I didn't notice it while watching, because, WELL, there was already TOO MUCH to take in, so some more subtle details escaped me. I've caught that Vi is very vulnerable in her honesty, openness and straightforwardness, but that wasn't all to it, and it bothered me! Because all three don't ooze the vulnerability 24/7 and that's what Vi looks like to me nearly all the time!

So I was wondering.

And here's the answer. She's been suddenly released out of her cell into the world that is now completely unknown to her. Yes the air of freedom is great, and she enjoys it, but at the same time there's always this frightened undertone.

She's constantly on the edge.

Not in the least because when things that used to be familiar, like your home, ones you used to know like the back of your hand, change but not completely, it's the worst trap of all, the most confusing and anxiety inducing. How much of what you remember is still the same? How much changed? Can you trust its exterior even if it looks the same? Or would it betray you in the worst possible moment? How do new things work? How do they work WITH the old things? I've experienced it once coming back to my former workplace that changed quite a lot but no one bothered to fill me in so I was piecing together the information for a YEAR. And I might not be the brightest but I'm not dumb either. I'm pretty good with systems. It was BAD.

So I can't imagine how much worse and disoriented Vi must have felt. And Caitlyn took her out of jail to SHOW HER AROUND. Having no idea how the world Vi used to know so well changed just in several years. So she's on a look out all the time. And her eyes, her expression betrays her put up exterior of confidence and maybe even arrogance, leaking this anxiety and straight up fear almost all the time.

She looks like a frightened, lost little girl. And when she doesn't, she looks like a desperate teenage girl who tries to punch her way out of every problem because she's backed into a corner and that's the only way she knows, even if it never helps. (No seriously, the only time it helped was against Silco's thugs and EVEN THEN they weren't completely dealt with and kept causing problems straight up to the bridge fighting scene. Vi's fists kept her alive and safer but they never SOLVED anything.)  

I think the way she looks just SCREAMS fear and anxiety when she and Powder/Jinx fight back to back after the torch scene. Jinx looks like she's completely in her element, she knows these guys, she's been in situations like this time after time. It's habitual. She's very confident and almost careless there, moves freely, she knows what she's doing. She might even enjoy it. Vi, on the opposite... Vi, who's all about loose body language, free movement and such - nearly curls up into a ball against Jinx's back, keeping her fists and elbows close to herself. Vi NEVER looked like this again, I think. I... believe she was the most thrown off kilter back then. She finally found her most treasured and the only remaining piece of her past - her sister, and sure, lil Powpow changed, she had to survive, but she's still Vi's little sister!

Right?..

Wrong. Powder-Jinx back then is the quintessence of the trap Zaun is to Vi now: familiar pieces are all there, they're recognizable even if a bit changed, but you never know what lurks under the surface.

And gods does Jinx just demolish every last bit of the ground Vi was standing on. It's not even when Jinx goes full on unhinged, it's when she simply starts blasting bullets all around. When she fights and she's confident in what she does. Vi doesn't know this girl. Vi doesn't know this gang flying around. I bet she doesn't even know this TECHNOLOGY because the world made a whole leap technologically while she was stuck in her cell isolated from pretty much everything. It's like a literal time skip for her. And she doesn't know what to trust, so she can't trust anything no matter how much she wants to. And she HAS to want it, because she looked genuinely hopeful fresh out of Stillwater. Before she saw what her home turned into. Silco really did bring the monster out of it, not just himself or Jinx or shimmer junkies. The whole city. So Vi looks small, and frightened, and I think she's even panicking back in that scene.

She's ready to snap at any moment.

It's very interesting to me, because she looks tough and very mentally healthy on the surface but boooy are there mountains hidden underneath.

Vi does snap, actually. Several times. Her voice cracks as she's trying to convince Ekko she's THE Vi, same she used to be. She charges at Sevika TWICE. I think second time was much worse btw. She literally downs a drink IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT - I don't think it was out of mental stability. And, well, the cry in the end. She won, and it helped nothing again. Even her mental state. Another fragile moment with Vi is the way she looks around her sister. Vi is confident and action-charged by nature, she's energetic and isn't shy to take up space. So she never looks small... except when she's around Jinx. She's drowning in guilt, and this guilt is spilling out.

Interestingly enough, scenes when Vi DOESN'T have this scared/guilty/anxious/desperate look is around Cait. She's either playful, or actually confident, or even RELAXED. Which is... wow, all things considered. Part of it is a put up facade, of course, but only in the beginning. The ship sails itself huh...

A lot of people pointed out Caitlyn is about future in Vi's life centered around the past, but I think what's more important is that Cait is about the present. Plus, she's a familiar - an enforcer, a topside - turned unfamiliar in a GOOD way.

Gods once again I'm baffled at the level Arcane is thought through. These are subtle, small details, expressions that aren't exposed or accentuated like many other ones. They are underlying, but once you notice them it's a whole new tapestry unfolding right before your eyes.

As you can see, I'm very normal about Arcane and Vi in particular, yup, totally cool 😌👌✨

#yes I've watched Arcane just like a week ago what of it #sorry if it's been mentioned multiple times by now #I only watched several essays on YT and none talked about this #so #I'm kinda hyperfixated on Vi as you can probably see #this insane amount of work the creative team put into the characters #gods I'm so glad I can witness this masterpiece #arcane #vi arcane #jinx arcane #caitlyn kiramman #caitlyn arcane

[molinaesque]

Something I find funny is how some people hyper focus too much on the new Scrooge and how attractive he is... As if attractive people can't be bad and horrid, and how it's 100x easier to dunk on someone when they're ugly and grotesque (this change already adds a different spin/conversation to the massive pile of other adaptations that are essentially the same). Like if you watch the movie, it doesn't change the fact that Scrooge is STILL an outright asshole of a human being (like the dude threatens to call the cops on some old ladies and performers on top of everything else). You'd have to be absolutely dense or purposely obtuse to just gloss over all that (the movie from what I've been told goes even further in making Scrooge meaner in some aspects as well). I see people just throw around the word "woobify" when the movie doesn't pull any punches in making Scrooge an absolute piece of work (insulting poor children at the start of the movie) and also making him face and realise that a lot of his misery that's been done as result of his actions in the past, are STILL his own actions. Him being a silver fox doesn't change ANY of this. They never make a reference to his appearance other than Past noting how attractive his younger self was and her saying "what happened to you?" as a commentary on how ugly and horrid he's become AS A PERSON, which I find to be a great moment. This being just ONE adaptation that decided to take this approach amongst a countless myriad of more "accurate" adaptations (which is funny because its still practically the same beats, Scrooge is just designed attractively) isn't going to somehow erase all that and frankly isn't the end of the world.

Also I find it hilarious when people say they're woobifying scrooge... when isn't the whole point of his redemption story THAT?? That ultimately his character is woobified in the end in lieu of becoming a good guy?? But no... People just assume they're going to absolve him or somehow misplace him being the villain in the first place JUST BECAUSE HE'S ATTRACTIVE LMAO. Like WOAH how could we possibly forget that the main character of a super famous story that has a surname used as a reference point for being a miserable human being? WOAH, he's handsome?? OH NEVER MIND, MY BAD. I CANT FUNCTION ANYMORE OH NOOOOOO!! HELP ME! I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP FROM HOW HANDSOME HE IS OH NOOOO!! Might as well just say "I want bad man to be ugly and stinky looking so I can keep track of how I should feel about said character throughout the narrative because I'm so focused on tying morality with physical attractiveness".

#scrooge a christmas carol #scrooge: a christmas carol #ebenezer scrooge #Just watch the damn movie guys #I myself thought it was gonna be a B-C tier'd animated movie #But I was wrong #The animations are fantastic the art direction is dope af #The voice acting is great - the songs go HELLA hard (past the first song) #Is it a masterpiece and reinvents the entire Christmas Carol story? NO #But it doesn't have to #And some of y'all need to chill #I hate the word woobify anyway #Such a dumb stupid word #Also I saw a dumb take saying nooo he's a capitalist he can't be hot like???? #Are you people okay??? #That is the most asinine take I've seen in a long while holy shit

[dramaism]

#seventeen #svt #THAT'S INSANE #I'M SO SO PROUD OF THEM I'M LITERALLY CRYING #ngl i've started crying since watching the mv sooooo #but it's so big for them i'm so happy for them #this album is truly a masterpiece it's just so so good #THEY DESERVE EVERY GOOD THING IN THIS WORLD #stan svt my friends #jey talks

[pharawee]

What is it with fandom and people getting super defensive about the things they like?

I had to read with my own eyes just now that apparently if you don't like [insert troubled and manipulative character here] you just don't like characters with flaws and depth... which is certainly a whole take and kind of reminds me of that one Rick and Morty copypasta from a couple of years ago.

Sometimes people just don't like the things you find profound and meaningful and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

#jane watches stuff #there has to be room in fandom for people to be able to criticise things or even just voice their own opinions #without others taking it personally #i've seen this several times this week with several (bl) fandom takes and it's just ?? ???? #just move on? maybe block if you must? #i happen to think chains of heart is a masterpiece #while the general consensus about the show seems to boil down to GLOVES #and that's completely fine more gloves jokes pls

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

i only have three more best picture nominees to watch before the oscars 👀 and i'm leaving the ones i'm most and least excited for til last so i think i'll watch poor things next

#have been ranking/reviewing on my letterboxd but the list is private for now #will share it once i've watched them all #i just saw the zone of interest and i can't fully make my mind up abt it ? #on the one hand it was viscerally disturbing. it really felt like staring into an abyss of evil #and oh my GOD the sound design was a masterpiece whoever did the sound design needs to work on every horror movie from now on #but on the other hand i found it very monotonous and like. pointless? in a way? #like in the first five minutes you realise they're going about their ordinary lives in the shadow of this great evil #and you think oh my god that's awful that's horrific these people are evil #and then the whole rest of the film is just. still that? #idk i just feel like there are other stories that could have been told #one 1 star review i saw started with ''why must i watch the daily lives of nazis?'' and then goes on to explain how this question #is just not really answered by the film. like you watch it it's there but i just don't know. why? #anyway #still making my mind up about the ranking #🧃

[izzymarksthespot]

#guess what i've been rewatching today #honestly though #sleep of the just is a cinematic and scenographic masterpiece #and tom's performance #i could watch him for hours #the sandman #the sandman netflix #dream of the endless #morpheus #sleep of the just #tom sturridge

[whirling-fangs]

[[ I'm watching The Wind Rises for the first time and thinking about how all the surviving KNY characters had to experience the 1923 Earthquake and that some probably got killed in it :')

I need to look at the character location map again but many places would've been destroyed in the fire following the earthquake too, namely the butterfly manor or Tamayo's house.

Although I also figured that the Entertainment District's destruction might have been Gotouge's representation of that historical event, to a small scale... so maybe we can just pretend that the 1923 earthquake never happens and everyone gets their happily ever after :')))) we don't talk about the mark ]]

#mask off / ooc post #[[every time i watch a ghibli film i get exponential inspiration #anyways the movie seems to be an absolute masterpiece from the 20 minutes i've seen so bbl #it's gonna be right up there with porco rosso in terms of favorites i can tell #huh maybe i just really like planes]]

[zathechaosgod]

#for reference i've never made it off the great plateau in botw #im watching pointcrow react to the trailers and just #i'm so torn #i dont even know if ill manage to get through the game #but also it feels Rude to the game itself to not properly appreciate a masterpiece like this #tears of the kingdom

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

Everyone acting surprised that a Sonic game is actually good, meanwhile I'm over here having already enjoyed both Lost World and Forces rolling my eyes at the obviousness of it all

#my posts #sonic series #sonic forces #sonic lost world #sonic frontiers #i remember when i finally got my hands on sonic forces and was like #this is the game everyone is saying is garbage??? this one??? of all games??? #i've played so much worse than this game it's basically a masterpiece my comparison #sonic actually acts like sonic in this one woah #do you know how many sonic games i've played where sonic doesn't even act like sonic #a lot of them #and like lost world was very different from a normal sonic game #and its story ended in a pretty disappointing way #and the villains weren't that interesting #but watching sonic actually have to think about his own actions and their consequences was fun #and a lot of the level design is actually kind of fun??? #idk obviously i have my criticisms but i had a good time #idk i just feel like i haven't really been on the same side as a lot of sonic fans in awhile and it's kinda lonely over here

[nounpolycule]

My toxic trait is like I mean Blink is good but I can't wrap my head around it being the highest rated episode of Doctor Who on IMDb. Top 30 fine but #1?

#it's not my favorite episode it's not my favorite RTD era ep it's not my favorite s4 ep it's not my favorite RTD era ep written by Moffat #it's not my favorite Weeping Angels episode (though I will say that it's the best) it's not my favorite Doctor-lite episode #it's certainly not my favorite episode of TV of all time and I also would say it isn't the best either #I don't think about it unless someone brings it up I don't watch it unless I just watched Human Nature/Family of Blood and let it play #it's not /bad/ it's just. meh. #full respect to people that love it but I don't get why it's above Heaven Sent she is a cinematic masterpiece #actually what I really don't get is The Husbands of River Song being /46 out of 198/???? #how is THORS one of the lowest rated (bottom 5 of 15) episodes that River is in. this is homophobia just like the lack of a 12river kiss. #sorry I saw the post about it being one of the best episodes of TV of all time again & there's people arguing about other things on my dash #& I've taken my meds but not actually started anything & I'm actively avoiding what I need to be doing #thus I am saying things I would not say in a fully public Discord server per usual #also sometimes I see people suggest it as a first ep to watch (not a 'if you only watch 1 ep' but a 'watch this first') which is a dif rant #like I'd show my dad Time Heist because I don't expect him to get into the show but I think he'd enjoy that one #but at the very least go with en episode thet follows the formula if you want to get someone into the shoe #*show #so that they know. whether they'd like the show. #personally I'm a big ''start with Rose'' fan but I have many biases including I don't like consuming media out of order #but like. there is someone I want to make watch s8 and s9 and I'm not necessarily going to make her watch 1-7 first #like Deep Breath (a Doctor's first episode) is a reasonable starting point to me #a Doctor's first episode/a companion's first episode/an era's first episode are what make the most sense to me for a first ep ya know? #bonus for all three. #but like would you start SPN with Changing Channels as a ''do you like the vibes of this show?'' #or Hush or Tabula Rasa for Buffy? (I outsourced that one so if it doesn't get my point across not my fault I am buffyless) #anyway. #someday I'll watch Buffy someday I'll start arguments on the internet about more important things that sharing an unpopular DW opinion #and someday I'll start things on my to do list with less than 3 hours of coaxing #okay have a nice day. 👍 #i speak #kasteraxilkemeryapheshexerindaikyat.pdf

[natdrinkstea]

My friend are you okay (regarding Steven universe)

no <3

#slash l h #that show fucked me up big time!!!!!! #I've not been more deeply or profoundly impacted by media in a While !!! #grits teeth white knuckles fights back tears he is JUST like me fr #i started watching this show FOUR YEARS AGO!!! when i was fourteen (steven's age in the main series) #so it's like. he grew up with me a little? except i Just Now got the chance to finish the show and it's like #IT WAS WAITING FOR WHEN IT WOULD HIT FUCKING HARDEST #it's about LOVE and FAMILY and GROWTH and ACCEPTANCE IN ALL IT'S FORMS #and i hate that people have such fucked up ideas of what this show is bc of how shitty the fandom was!!!!!! #because it's a MASTERPIECE!!!!!!! but there's Idiots who'd call me dumb for thinking that #IT'S GOOD!!! IT'S A GOOD SHOW EVERYONE! IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND COMPASSIONATE AND GENUINELY HILARIOUS #and BEAUTIFUL AND CLEVER AND WELL WRITTEN. AND IT HURTS!!!!!!!! #and it's for FOURTEEN YEAR OLDS. AND ALSO FOR ME SPECIFICALLY #anyway. holy shit girl im So Sorry to do this essay here in the tags lmao you asked a fairly normal question akdkkaks #hope this answers it <3 #ask nat #lasaraleen

[ceruleanpunch]

half the suggested posts I get from following the l*nk cl*ck tag still being boring "ueoeuroepje my gaybies owooooo" text posts even w the new season so close and so much preview content to look at I'm going to backflip through a patio door

#rambles #bastard moment but it's been years of this and I've only managed to drag one friend into fully catching up #normally I'm more of a 'talking about shipping doesn't perclude also having interest in narrative/etc devices' #but it's just like....... you also watched the masterpiece of a pilot that is emma and still have nothing else to comment on

[ritzy-biscuit]

With Rings of Power and having recently watched LOTR extended edition I'm on a Tolkien trip.

I always wanted to paint this on my wall and by God it's about time I did. I took to Photoshop and it looks great, (it's gonna be a little off center but it's ok. Or I could shrink it more). Project is go. My friend told me to do glow paint and that's not a bad idea!

#ritzy rambles #can you believe i've never watched the extended version before! #i can't watch theatrical cut anymore #it's so good #i cried really hard lol #and just before that i had already watched the trilogy and the Hobbit 2 weeks prior #these films will just always make me cry no matter how many times i watch them #masterpieces they are #lotr #jrr tolkien #excuse my wrinkly bed

[dramaism]

me rewatching "just being friendly" mv by msp cast at 2am and wondering for 257463637 time where the heck gmmtv found this whole cast

#so I've been away from tumblr like for 3 days idk i was feeling really bad these day #but look i rewatched their mv and dance performance and it boosted my mood so much!!! #but seriously where did they found the #did they hide them for all this time on purpose??? just to release this masterpiece of the series??? #also when i first watched that dance performance i screamed that LITERALLY EVERY ONE OF THEM CAN SING what the fuck gmmtv #my heart is full like full FULL #also who dressed gemini in that shirt when they were dancing? i want to personally thank you #my school president #jey talks #brb gonna listen to them on spotify 🥺❤️🥺❤️ #can i say that fourth voice in this cover is like syzygwuzvsyswg I'M IN LOVE especially when he's singing the chorus and the beat changes