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oh yeah so i watched the new season of umbrella academy. don't ask me anything about it, couldn't tell you what happened

#it's been days and my brain is still scrambled #if someone could please explain it to me that would be great xoxo #um but anyways so glad they decided to throw allison's character development down the drain #the umbrella academy #umbrella academy s3 #tua season three

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What do you think about all the people calling Silco a antihero and a good father?

I hate doing this to villains I actually enjoy, but I think this needs to be said:

No, Silco is not a good person, he's not an antihero, and he's not a good father. He's a complex, beautifully-written villain, but a villain nonetheless.

First of all, he destroyed half of Zaun with shimmer, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds (possibly thousands) and the addictions of many more. He distributed the drug as a cure-all to people who live in an impoverished city that has no hope or opportunities. I quote Ekko, "He flooded the lanes. Didn't care who got hurt." He never had Zaun's best interest at heart, despite manipulatively claiming otherwise. He only cared about his personal enterprise and eventual dictatorship. It was all about power and revenge for him, and he didn't care who got caught in the crossfire. His drug labs were even run by children, all of whom he considered expendable.

On that note, he isn't above killing children either. When Marcus began to defy him, he threatened to kill his daughter and make it look like an accident. When he kidnapped Vander, he purposely let Claggor, Mylo, and Vi break into his base with the full intention of killing them, painfully. Never mind the fact that Vander’s “betrayal” was his own doing because he wanted to rile Piltover with acts of war that would result in Zaun’s annihilation. Vander simply tried to stop him. Not to mention he had zero remorse for the boy Jayce accidentally killed and even taunted his grieving mother. You'd think he'd be able to sympathise with the loss of a child, but no. He's a towering hypocrite, only caring if the loss impacts him directly.

Though I think the biggest aspect most people are overlooking is the fact that he caused Jinx's trauma. Remember, he killed her dad, her brothers, and he tried to kill her sister. Technically Jinx caused the explosion, but why were they there in the first place? Silco. He then lied, knowing full well that Marcus took Vi. He didn't know she was still alive, but that doesn't matter. He let Jinx go on believing her sister abandoned her, which he knew caused her deep-seated issues. When Vi returned, he continued to lie about why she was there, saying she only wanted the crystal, even though Sevika told him otherwise. It wasn't to "protect" Jinx, it was because he was afraid of losing her. It was selfishness.

In the end, Silco became so reliant on Jinx that he wasn't willing to let her go. Not for anything. Not even for her own sanity and wellbeing. In the final showdown, instead of letting Jinx reconnect with her sister--which he knew she wanted--he tried to kill Vi yet again because he realised Powder was clawing to the surface. So many people think Silco was a good father, but he didn't help that child, he destroyed her. Mutated her. He let Jinx feel the pain of abandonment because he was desperate for someone to share his misery. These are not the actions of a "good father". He certainly loved her, nothing he did to her was intentionally malicious, from his perspective, but he's also the reason her mind is so jumbled. Not all love is inherently good.

Moreover, he had no right to get so attached to Jinx in the first place. He stole her. I find it kind of disturbing how many people blame Vi for “abandoning” Powder, when the reality is she didn’t. She was fifteen, she saw her family die (for the second time), and she found out that her own sister, who wasn’t even supposed to be there, was inadvertently responsible. After she punched Powder, she was overcome with guilt and sorrow and walked away to take a break. Powder mistook Vi’s actions as abandonment, but Vi never intended to leave her. The true tragedy is that both Powder and Vi’s reactions are understandable. They were both children and they were both suffering, but there’s only one person to blame for that and it’s Silco.

People like to glorify the "you're perfect" line, but the reason Silco said that is because he molded Jinx into his own personal sense of perfection. He erased Powder's entire identity to create an unstable soldier who would follow his every order, construct deadly weapons, and kill without empathy or reflection. He even convinced her to kill her friends. Jinx wrongfully places her psychosis on Vi's shoulders because of that night in the alley, but what that poor, broken girl doesn't understand is that it's Silco who put her in that situation, Silco who impressed his own trauma onto her, and Silco who encouraged her delusions. Eventually he realised he was wrong, but not until it was too late. Not until she was wanted for his mistakes.

Just like his eye, his love was toxic.

#THIS #nothing but fucking facts #arcane

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spotify users!!! tell me the fourth song in your second daily mix playlist... mine is bbyong by saturday hehehe

#better than me by the brobecks #olay but i haven't heard of half the songs in this playlist #is is that intended?

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Hot hot hot hot chocolate

HEY WE GOT IT

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girls don't want boys, girls want megamind's fucking sick platform goth boots that he wore to fight titan

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if anyone has the nerve to say in chat tomorrow during wilbur's drinking stream "is wilbur drunk" i will literally punt them.

he is drunk. the answer is yes

#wilbur soot #mcyt #text

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happy 18th birthday!! 🥳

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alright I'm over it. i get that jinx is the sympathetic "villain", or antagonist whatever you want to call her, but we've gotta stop blaming vi for everything. it's like everyone's forgetting that vi also has trauma. just because she deals with it differently and comes off as more stable and matured doesn't mean she gets to take the blame for everything that's gone wrong in jinx's life. i just found out people blame vi for leaving jinx on the bridge - stating that it furthered her abandonment issues - without thinking to consider that she was literally almost just killed. i'm sorry that your first instinct would be to help the person that just tried to kill you, even though she's shown time and time again that she's beyond help. like what did you want her to do? neither of them were in a position then to have that discussion. AND ON TOP OF THAT all vi's done from the moment she got out of prison was try and find her sister - even at cait's expense. no matter what vi did in that situation she would've been leaving someone, and seen as the bad guy. it's like no one's able to fucking sympathize with her for one bloody second. whenever jinx does something wrong it's "oh well she's traumatized by her upbringing", but whenever vi makes a mistake it's "she should've been a better sister/leader". that's fucked up. vi isn't a "natural leader", she never asked to be. she was thrusted into a position of leadership at such a young age and did everything in her power to keep powder safe, but she still gets all this shit. maybe the characters in arcane are complex, and there's no clear cut heroes or villains, but that argument is always used at vi's expense. yes of course she's not perfect, just like jinx isn't, but that doesn't mean her every action must be ridiculed.

y'all are really starting to look like silco when you talk about jinx, and that's not something you should be aspiring for.

#don't get me started on why silco was a bad dad #i will go on for days #i'm prepared to have an angry mob come after me for this #vi arcane #jinx arcane #vi and jinx #arcane #league of legends #text

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#just say you hate women and go

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i'm so mad i can't watch the doctor strange 2 teaser because i haven't seen no way home yet hhhhhhhhhh i need more wanda content

#i wanna see wanda murdering bitches #go apeshit bestie #doctor strange in the multiverse of madness #doctor strange #spider man no way home #wanda maximoff #marvel #mcu

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oohh my goddd who cares if people are mainly getting their music taste from tiktok? who CARES if this sixteen-year-old nonbinary kid has a frog hat and a hastily put together pseudo goth wardrobe and a playlist full of mother mother and lemon demon? who careeessss it doesn’t MATTER why are you trying to hard to pull a “I’m not like those other gays, I have real taste” WHO CARES???

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if low-rise pants have a million haters i am one of them . if low-rise pants have ten haters i am one of them. if low-rise pants have only one hater and that is me . if low-rise pants have no hater, that means i am no more on the earth . if world against high-waisted pants, i am against the world. i love #highwaistedpants till my last breath hope this helps

#highwaistedpants #lowrisepantshater

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i was just watching tubbo play beat saber to rap god and i'm realizing that was the first time i've actually heard the song in full. odd experience.

#tubbo #rap god #eminem #beat saber #text

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HAWKEYE SPOILERS (Ep6)

IS LAURA A SHIELD AGENT?? IS THAT WHY SHE SAID “WEVE BEEN SO CAREFUL” IS SHE A SHIELD AGENT

#honestly wouldn't be surprised #she knows too much 🤨 #laura barton #hawkeye series #hawkeye episode 6

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i really hope yelena and kate got a drink. i want them to be friends so damn bad

#yelena x kate /p #yelena belova #kate bishop #hawkeye series #hawkeye episode 6 #marvel #mcu #disney+

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i'd say overall i liked hawkeye, but man did i hate their big kingpin reveal. that guy wasn't intimidating in the slightest. he did nothing to make me fear him, i wasn't worried about any of his threats, and i wasn't convinced that he was this mastermind. he just showed up in the last episode and then died - that was it.

anyways stan maya lopez

#hawkeye spoilers #hawkeye episode 6 #hawkeye series #hawkeye #clint barton #maya lopez #kingpin #marvel #mcu