#gang orientation

[mollysunder]

On Silco and Molatovs

I still think about how the creators of Arcane wanted the opening scene to be a young Silco throwing a molotov cocktail during the Day of Ash on the bridge. It's supposed to be implied that Silco's actions were the trigger for why that day escalated to such violence and death. But honestly, all it does is vindicate the success of Silco's leadership in Zaun.

Most of the problems Silco faces in Act 2 & 3 are practically the same challenges Vander faced, but worse. His kid blew up a building and intentionally murdered people while doing it. The operation he had his kid go on got interrupted by a rival gang of young people with the objective literally up in flames. Piltover's putting (economic) pressure on Zaun to find the culprit on the Progress Day attack. Silco also has to put up with upstarts attempting to undermine his leadership position as tensions starts to mount. In spite of all the pressures Silco faced, he was able to manuever around them all a lot better than Vander did.

Let's take Jinx's hexgem heist for the first example. One building robbed and vandalized, another building set on fire and bombed, and six enforcers killed. Yet the only enforcer that was in Zaun for that escapade was Marcus, because Marcus couldn't treat Silco like Grayson treated Vander.

When the kids accidentally blew up the Kiramman building during their heist, no one died, but enforcers were flooded into Zaun, because Grayson saw it in her capacity to do that. Even when Grayson goes to calmly speak with Vander, she's still flanked by aggressive underlings who consistently escalate tensions. Grayson, as the Sheriff Vander trusts, either can't control the enforcers in her charge or is incredibly lax with how they operate, and that's because Grayson had no incentive to be genuinely effective.

Grayson and Vander operated on knowledge where both assumed Piltover's forces had the upperhand on Zaun and could demolish them. No matter how cordial Vander and Grayson were to eachother, Grayson held the cards in that dynamic. There was nothing Vander could do if Grayson just changed her mind about keeping enforcers out of Zaun. Grayson just believed it was for the good of both cities to avoid further bloodshed (that Zaun risked) by delegating responsibility of Zaun to Vander. They manage to work together essentially through Grayson's grace, rather than Vander's own legitimacy as a leader.

Marcus however, must actually attempt restraint because both he and Silco have actual stakes in their relationship. So Marcus enters Zaun ALONE to figure out a solution with it's defacto leader, Marcus is just upset about it the whole time. Frankly that's why I think Jinx intentionally caused as much loud and obvious damage because she KNEW she would get away with it, she still kind of has (she isn't in Stillwater). Jinx has been with Silco for at least seven years, she knows he's got Marcus in bind that's only getting tighter, and knows Silco won't hesitate to throw someone (the Firelights) under the bus for it, unlike Vander.

And even when passage through the bridge is shut down and Zaunites are out in anger protesting, no one dies. Some Zaunite there literally threw a molotov cocktail at the enforcer line and yet violence on the scale of the Day of Ash didn't transpire, because Silco put them, specifically Marcus, in a position where the had to be restraint. In every aspect of Vander's leadership that's about real material gain, Silco has managed to succeed where he failed. Practically every act of aggression at Piltover under Silco's regime never saw the same level of retribution that Vander's did. Sevika chose Silco over Vander because she believed he truly was a more effective leader, and she was right! In the end, she didn't betray Silco because he easily outpaced all the other contenders.

Tldr: Whenever the writers bring up Silco's faults, sometimes it just makes him look better than his counterparts in terms of skill and effectiveness. Silco managed to get Zaun treated like a separate nation faster than Vander could have dreamed.

#arcane silco #arcane #silco #jinx arcane #vander arcane #grayson arcane #arcane meta #zaun #i feel like a lot of people based their opinions on silco and vander as leaders based on vibes alone #like some argue vander was more community oriented #and I'm like... based on what #we saw his gang operate at his base of operation which is the The Last Drop

[allieinarden]

I think it’s fun how Marge is always asking “if you love me then why don’t you love my sisters?” while Homer is more “if you love me then why don’t you hate my dad?!”

#they both are family-oriented but both were treated pretty badly by their own families and they coped in the opposite way you gotta love it #The Simpsons #Marge thinks your spouse should help you placate your family and Homer thinks your spouse should help you fight them #It’s a modern episode but when the family gets mad at Abe on Homer’s behalf Homer is crying because this is what he’s really always wanted #he loves Abe he doesn’t want to be out of touch but he would really just like his family to righteously gang up on the man sometimes #he’s such a jerk to Patty and Selma and Marge doesn’t even appreciate it. Why doesn’t she appreciate how hard he’s abusing her abusers

[communistkenobi]

I’m sorry mutuals but aragorn is mid to me. I feel nothing when I look at him. when I saw him in a gifset just now I had to google his name bc I forgot it

#boromir and mr samwise gang make some noise!!!!! #tbis is not a discourse post I truly don’t care or have beef with anyone I just feel like I cannot participate in Aragorn hype #maybe he’s cooler in the books #lol that just reminded me I’ve read the first 100 pages of the book and then stopped bc I wanted to read orientalism first #and then I got distracted and stopped. I should keep reading

[leaftilde]

Hi, i just found your Work on Literotica, and just wanted to say how cool your Stuff is. As a fellow Asexual, i often struggled in the Past with my own Relationship with Kink. Seeing another Asexual write these wonderful Stories puts my Mind at ease. Just wanted to say thank you, for writing such good Stuff.

Hurray! Thank you so much <3

Yeah, being ace but liking kink is a wild ride. When I started writing my smut, I didn't really understand where I was at, and I didn't see many people repping the idea that folks could be ace and still be aroused by stuff. Slowly I kinda figured it out, sorta, and I hope that I can be an example for others who feel lost in similar waters, or recognise a familiar signpost on their own journey!

#ace gang #wish i got a less opaque orientation at character creation

[zosonils]

she put herself on the y axis and then got mad that she was on the y axis

#she fell over shortly after this [her own fault] #uncropped portrait orientation photo sorry gang but she is not optional #temposting

[potions-and-wares]

relationship so sweet and good and healthy it makes you realize you're aromantic

#osha rambles #whoops! #bro i tried reassuring someone that their feelings were valid #and they hit me with the #osha have you ever had a crush before??? #whoopsies!! #turns out i couldn't distinguish between platonic and romantic #because i didn't actually feel romantic attraction!! #glad we figured that one out gang! #aroace #i think #for now #the identity im going with is lesbian/t4t oriented aroace #babe wake up #new osha lore j dropped

[echthr0s]

this image was in what was explicitly a Saw post so I'm stealing the image to make my own post to say: this is Saints Row

#canonically even. it's not even a shitpost that's just literally what it's like to play a gang-oriented game that has a dildobat in it #but also i just think my boss's car would look exactly like this but maybe with more sextoys than guns. #.claudio #general oc tag

[vanilla-voyeur]

Very amused every time someone discovers the ultimate way to do OOP in its truest, most polymorphic, most object-oriented form and its just immutable classes with public instance variables and no methods and no inheritance being transformed through singleton classes with no instance variables and one side-effect-free method, potentially taking a function as a parameter or returning another single method class. Brother you just reinvented functional programming.

#codeblr #progblr #object oriented programming #OOP #functional programming #Algebraic data types. Pure functions. Higher order functions. Closures. The gangs all here #And then whenever you tell them that what they did. they say its like functional programming but different because its polymorphic #Literally had a conniption when robert martin said he discovered clojure was actually an oop language because #it was better at polymorphism than java #This is without knowing the subtype polymorphic features in clojure

[thebrightgreenscream]

Listen. I know how it sounds if you're not aspec but the "ace discourse" really fucked me up. I was a pretty young teenager when the ace community was suddenly *bombarded* by harassment and violent threats and just... the most vile things anyone could think of to throw at us. because they thought that we were cringe or w/e and that made it ok.

#greener screams #brought to you by the 'still struggles to talk about being ace' gang #i didnt feel like my orientation was something horribly wrong with me until someone else decided i needed to #and now I'm still uncomfortable in lgbt+ spaces. and im still running into ppl who regurgitate that shit unquestioningly #and 'oh no its not about /you/ its about /those/ aspecs' makes me different? that i cant feel comfortable opening up that part of myself? #that im quiet? is it easier to 'accept' me when you can ignore that my orientation even exists? #i dont even know

[desi-lgbt-fest]

do you accept submissions if they have mixed-race couples in them? my 2 favorite OCs vasu and addie are in an interracial relationship and i want to write stuff about them for submitting to the fest

(vasu's indian-american and addie's chinese-american)

I don't see why not! I suppose we would leave it up to you to discern how it would appeal to desi queerness and the fest prompts. Either way, we would love to see it on our blog =D

#mod navi #hey gang as long as it's south asian orientated and gay asf it belongs here 100%

[shions-chin-scar]

I always thought Shion was in Bonten but was killed early on during their rise to power. Then Mochi took his place. Shion is the type of man to really get high of power and it probably caused him to be a bit too relaxed and careless as well as be too cocky for his own good.

Yup, that's exactly my theory too (though I don't think Mocchi "took his place" so much as "took over" whatever his duties were after his death, along with the Haitanis since they were all executives)

We all know how much being a Black Dragon president got to Shion's head, regardless of his leadership being widely seen as a time of decadence for the gang and his humiliating defeat against Mikey and co., so being part of Japan's most promising criminal organization? He'd absolutely get even more careless and cocky

Even from the beginning, he was probably too unhinged and rage-prone to be much of an executive anyway. Not very bright and ruled by emotion, too short-sighted, too quick to anger and act without thinking of consequences. There are so many reasons he could never make it in the criminal world

#asks #tokyo revengers #shion madarame #there's genuinely something so tragic about him being one of the most gang-oriented characters in the entire series yet also having a #personality that basically dooms him from the start in that lifestyle #like. his dream was to be izana's right hand. his favorite place to be is tenjiku. his special skill is using brass knuckles. #all he's known since he was 13 if not younger is violence and gangs and crime #he can't fit in with regular society and he also can't fit in with the underworld because he's constantly in Fight Mode and lacks the #intelligence and impulse control that are necessary to survive #i just want him to have his happy ending but i can't see a way to make it happen #please surprise me wakui

[green-meanies]

Ever notice in a lot of fics when the boys are older, Arturo is always the one who becomes a father? I wonder why that is.

My guess is because Arturo is the only one who canonically has a father, or any mention of a family. He had a good relationship with his dad, so that often gets transferred to himself as he gets older, if that makes sense? Like, he seemed to have a good dad so he has a chance to be a good dad as well, that seems to be the logic

#it also gives the impression that Arturo is more family-oriented than the others #I haven’t seen many fics of the gang being older #but then again it’s been a hot minute since I read most ggg fics so maybe I just don’t remember #prank calls #Lil Arturo

[strrwbrrryjam]

gamerbros: "arthurs this big tough alpha man, the man who'll shoot you for even coming near him, the man who homophobic, racist and sexist"

arthur: *gently picks flowers*

*baby talks all horse + dogs + cats*

*says quack quack when a duck is mentioned*

*sketches everything he comes across*

*journals*

*writes poetry*

*comforts people in distress*

*goes out of his way to help strangers, no matter how long it takes to help them*

*volunteers to escort and protect a females suffrage march*

*is a theater kid*

*is emotionally vulnerable*

*talks about his feelings with the women of the camp*

*cares for children*

*gets flustered when the women he loves talk to him*

*writes A❤️M in his journal*

*compliments his fellow gang members, even the men*

*is respectful to everyone, no matter their race, gender, orientation*

and more!

#rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 arthur morgan #arthur morgan #strawberry speaks

[circusinarun]

@somerandomdudelmao made a cool comic called "marble sky" with aliens! So i made one too :]

This is KRAZ! Little jerk, riot and pain in the ass.

(On human ages he's around 14-16)

And as a total little jerk he needed his own gang to mess with everyone on this ship. I believe no one likes them, because of their loud, chaotic and destructive behavior.

Only Ecliptica (and Sculptor...*read till the end*) can deal with him, because of her status and height (well... Tbh I would do the same for my own good)

And i think he and his gang would be the ones who mocks and messes with Oscar the most, because of his unawareness of alien nature. (And Oscar would think that this is how they show affection... My poor, sweet baby.)

"HAHA! I STOLE THE SKINNY CREATURE!"

And one more fact about him. He's partially disabled. He has a scar on the two of his locators, which cause his small awareness of the surroundings, clumsiness and fucked up orientation in the space. And when i mean fucked up, i mean fucked up. He easily can bump into a wall at full speed, accidentally break things, miss a thing he wants to grab a few times, but it doesn't stop him from causing chaos.

As they say... "Never mess with Sculptor..."

#my art #traditional drawing #sketch #nail art #marble sky #marble sky oc #Kraz #alien oc #aliens #space #somerandomdudelmao