Color Wheel Challenge: Little Nightmares Edition!

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MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ARCANES ENDING BELOW:

Now, this is off topic for my blog but I'd like to shed light on something.

Arcanes ending. Namely the end of Jinx's character arc is what I believe to be one of the finest pieces of writing in the modern world with no exception. When Jinx is born at the end of 103 we see what happens to someone who heals wrong, we see the kind of monster they become when they aren't nurtured and given a proper environment to heal in. Powder becomes a monster known as Jinx who goes on to commit multiple acts of terrorism against Piltover. The way she feeds into this idea of being a monster as a way of lashing out at the pain she's felt from being "abandoned" by Vi is so incredibly realistic and relatable that it begs the question what has happened in the writers lives that allow them to understand such a transformation so thoroughly.

Then, at the end of season 1 we see Powder/Jinx finally embrace her new self with no more qualms about her identity, truly and finally one. Without any need to hold back anymore, she does something truly unforgivable and without redemption in the form of 9/11ing Piltover. Even in this moment though, she screams and cries in pain at how her old life is well and truly gone. The emotional turmoil of what she's done and what she's doing is too much to handle. To violently tear a new life out from the broken and beaten body of your old one is something no soul should have to do, but she does, and she makes it relatable.

Once we see her again in season 2, she has become much more lucid and comfortable in her own body as Jinx, the hallucinations have subsided for the most part and her inner turmoil is appropriately dealt with. Additionally she has a goal in mind now, she's chosen who she is and she knows what she wants to do: Kill Vi. The new life she has built for herself is purposeful, deliberate, no more a mish mash of two clashing ideals.

She wants to solidify her role as a monster once and for all, which ends in an epic battle between her and her sister, and at the very end of the fight right before she's taken out for good? A single soul sees the value in her life and risks everything to protect her. A child. Everyone, even Jinx is shocked by this because how could anyone ever love an ugly, broken thing like her? Let alone risk their life for her? The shock this instills in everyone buys Jinx enough time to escape with the kid, Isha. Imagine performing such horrible, inconceivable actions with no remorse and being full of such hatred, and then one person decides you're worth it. Just one person decides you are worthy of love and that they do love you and want you around. Can you imagine how that would shatter your world view? Being full of such self hatred and hatred for the world around you only to be shown warmth even in those times? This is exactly what happens to Jinx.

When we see her next, some time has passed, and she's even begun to drop the name Jinx. Her new friend, Isha, and her have begun a new life together and they look out for each other. The way Jinx describes her new life is "like I'm looking through glasses, except I can't tell if everything's blurry or clear." And what's clear to us as the audience is that Jinx is FINALLY healing. She is finally beginning to find some peace after all she has been through, and all it took was ONE soul, one singular person to love her even after all she had done. We go on to see her reunite with her sister, and somewhat with her father. We get to watch her slowly rebuild the life that was stolen from her and reconnect with those she lost, and those she hurt. This represents hope and change, rebirth and love, that maybe your sins aren't who you are. That you can change and love and be so wonderfully you with those who love you!

Isha dies. Isha, Jinx's anchor to the world, dies protecting her. Yet again Jinx loses everything. Her father is taken from her yet again in the process and the exact trauma that shaped her into Jinx is entirely recreated. Except, this time? There's no insanity. There's no hallucinations and mania. There's no rage or hate or flames or explosions or chaos or screaming. It's just sad. Nothing but sorrow fills Jinx up as she loses her one and only friend. She intends to kill herself at this point. She looks back at her life and sees how everyone she gets close to dies, gets hurt, or she in some way is preventing from being happy. That she alone is the perpetuator of a cycle of violence that has plagued her families lives for years and years. So she decides to give them closure. She tells Vi she can stop feeling bad for being happy and move on, she tells Cait she didn't know her Mom was in the explosion, and she leaves. Nothing more, just leaves. Doesn't tell anyone what she's going to do, she just does it. The intense guilt she feels is palpable in every breath she takes, it's clear she just wants to quietly leave this world without hurting anyone, just this once. Then the time finally comes, to end her life and finally be free of it all. Only to be stopped. One more remnant of her old life comes back and convinces her to stick around a little longer. Somehow, she agrees, but we all know that this is only temporary. The guilt someone feels after doing something so terrible, so unforgivable, can't be cleansed by a single conversation. She hates herself and just wants to stop hurting people, but she still has a small spark, something in her that has hope she can do good. So she delays her death to try one more time to be kind.

Next we see her, she's got a new look and is fighting alongside Vi, instead of against. She acknowledges their connection and at a pivotal moment, takes the fall. She saves her sisters life and "sacrifices" herself in the process. At the very last moment, she understands that there's another way out of her pain and hurting everyone around her instead of dying. She fakes her own death to everyone and escapes the country quietly. She tells no one and quietly escapes, with everyone having the closure of her death.

No more chasing her, no more thinking of what she might be plotting, no more hoping the old her will return. It's just over.

Her final action in Arcane is one of kindness, and healing to those she hurt. It is not redemption, but it is understanding. She accepts she is a bad person and may very well still hate herself, however she at the very least opens herself up to a new life far from those she hurt. And I think that's beautiful.

Anyway this is just my personal interpretation of the ending, I'm open to new ideas and down to discuss though! Btw I didn't proof read this so if it seems messed up anywhere that's why.

If you told me that AI wrote the script for season 4 of The Umbrella Academy I’d almost believe you. But I don’t think even AI could’ve messed up it up as much as the writers did. Someone must have a secret vendetta against the fans or something because in what world was that a good season? Or even a good way to end a show? I’m so blown away by the talent that was wasted, the character growth, the hardworking actors, the fans who’ve waited so long. The only thing that comes to mind when trying to articulate how let down i felt is comparing it to the ending of Game of Thrones.

Netflix has had so many loyal fan/customers despite how quickly they cancel shows. I myself use my friends account as we are at each other’s houses quite frequently anyway. But if I had my own account still (I unsubscribed after they cancelled tv shows after the strikes) I think I’d have canceled it for sure after this. I’m no expert by any means at marketing or producing shows, but something has got to change. Or at least I think so, maybe they’re still making money by the millions and don’t care about quality? I’m just confused as to how this happened.

I myself have never read the comics, can someone tell me if this is anything similar to what happens in those? I feel like there has to be some explanation for how badly the season was handled. Let me know if I’m missing something!

I like to think they hang out in the fort and Kinger tells stories about Queenie

Speedpaint under cut, CW flashing lights

WHY SHE HIT HER WITH THE BI FINGER GUNS IM FUCKFING CRYINGGGG 😭😭

i'm not the only one who thought the new firefly trailer is a /whole/ lot like evangelion right-

artwork-minus-poster under the cut! and some other things. anyway yeah hope someone likes this! actually kinda proud of this but also they all look so similar how do i distinguish these four-

look guys come on it's evangelion- ooohhh i should have added fireflies- no i took like 5 hours plus to do this. nooo. artwork here:

Cute cottagecore AU where the minors get shrunken down into tiny little people, and decide that, for their safety, they should probably head somewhere far away from here. 

So they pack their stuff up, bundle up a normal sized Michael, saddle a pig, and ride off into the sunset, where they eventually find a distant flower forest, bordered by a dark oak forest, and settle down.

They build a big, cozy cottage for Michael, and all have their own little areas inside, since they no longer take up much room. 

Tommy builds a small burrow under the house, accessible with a trap door. It leads outside to a large dark oak, which has been hollowed out near the bottom for him.

Purpled’s got a spot in the loft, hidden in the walls, and accessible through a little mouse hole in the corner.

Tubbo and Ranboo have a tiny little house in the kitchen, built into one of the bottom cabinets, so they’re closer to Michael. 

Anyway, basically just the four being tiny fairies, and raising Michael together. They have a little mushroom and flower garden out back, Purpled teaches Michael how to farm. Tubbo tames a bunch of bees, that he rides around everywhere, and they protect him and let him into their hive. He’s also got ghost Squeaks to tell him stuff, and a little baby fox named Russet that helps him in the garden, and the two steal from the berry bushes all the time.

Tommy befriends a parrot and a raccoon that have both adopted him, and assist him in crime. Ranboo can often be found sitting on a dirt block held by an Endermen while he talks with them and gives them a flower, and Purpled brought Dogchamp, and now rides him around and puts stuff in the pouch around his neck. 

Tommy sews normal clothes, for both them and Michael, but also little outfits made of the flowers too, which works out surprisingly well, and they make tiny versions of tools and stuff. The cottage is basically filled with what looks like doll-house furniture, but functional. 

Maybe they even meet other tiny people, and have a little community or something.

It just sounds cute, that’s all.

Hysteric Sasuke

I can revise this moment… FOREVER

It's probably better to send a draft for understanding.

AU where Tubbo is Bad’s nephew.

Bad is the child of Pestilence, and a demon of the royal family. He had two younger sisters, the twins Phoe and Demio.

Demio would venture out sooner than either of her other siblings, and come to feel an attraction for businessman Schlatt, when the two met during her time in the Overworld. They had a brief relationship that resulting in Tubbo.

Demio originally raised Tubbo herself, until an incident left her fatally wounded. Knowing she would die, she used the last of her time to get a three year old Tubbo to Schlatt’s doorstep, along with a letter to explain things to her family, though the latter wasn’t found until years later.

Three years later, his business would spiral, and Schlatt would abandon Tubbo on the side of the road, where the SBI would find him, and take him in.

Bad would eventually come to the mortal realm himself, looking for Demio. He would meet Skeppy, and the two become inseparable. 

Bad eventually has Sapnap with a blaze hybrid, who abandons the child on his doorstep, and Skeppy helps him raise him.

Phoe would take the throne herself, not wanting her brother to be dragged back to it, and come to find she enjoyed leading her kingdom to victory and prosperity. 

Jump a few years later, and the SMP is happening, but several things are different.

Sapnap is more careful with Tubbo. He feels a strange connection to the other, but believes it to be because Tubbo has diluted demon blood, and is unaware of their actual relation. He still takes his first life in the control room, but it was unintentional. Sapnap aimed for him under the belief that his demon blood would make him tougher.

Unfortunately for Sapnap, Tubbo takes mostly after his father, and didn’t inherit much from his mother besides an affinity for magic, her dark horns, and an enjoyment of chaos. 

Bad figures out he’s Deimo’s child sometime after Doomsday, and promptly just about has a heart attack.

Demons under thirty are still considered nestlings(with Sapnap being an outlier), and Tubbo is barely seventeen, so it takes a great deal of effort to not just cart him off to a room in the mansion and keep him there so he can’t get hurt anymore.

Puffy is Schlatt’s sister, and that makes Dream and Foolish Tubbo’s cousins. Dream never realizes it. Foolish does, about a week after meeting him.

Younger Tubbo has multiple times just, completely unintentionally, shooed away the sickness from Tommy, and, on one occasion, Wilbur. He doesn’t even know he’s doing it, he just wanted it gone, and so it went.

Tommy hasn’t got sick for years because of this, but it’s not until his heritage comes to light that anyone makes the connection.

Techno only fought Tommy in the pit because after he killed Tubbo, the voices were in an uproar and uncontrollable. They only stopped when Tubbo said he forgave him, and Techno’s been wary of him ever since.

Pestilence is a very doting mother and grandmother, surprisingly.

Bad isn’t effected by the Egg. Tubbo still is, but it isn’t able to control him, which is why it acts so cruel to him instead.

Sapnap starts teaching Tubbo some magic as a way to bond, even before he knows they’re cousins.

Tubbo ends up being the source of a minor feud between both sides of the family. Long story short, both Bad and Puffy want custody, and Foolish and Sapnap are arguing over who’s his favorite cousin.