A Poolverine Sketch For The People !!

Can y’all imagine the pressure Luz is under back in the human world? Like, there’s no magical threat or anything but she’s the kid to an immigrant mother and unless you’re in the situation yourself, I don’t think most people understand what it’s like.

You can’t mess up because then it reflects badly on your parents and how can you disrespect the very people who upheaved their whole lives to move away from their home and families to give their kids opportunities they never had.

Luz and Camilia only have each other.

And Camilia looks tired. Not of Luz, but just in general. This woman has to be mother, father, friend, etc on top of being a nurse. She’s in caretaker mode non-stop.

Luz is smart. She is capable of so much and I’m sure her mom knows that. Yet there’s a disconnect between mother and child. Camilia loves Luz, but I’m not sure she understands her all too well. Camilia has a demanding job that I’m sure keeps her away from Luz a lot, unlike Eda who kind of makes her own schedule and hangs out with Luz 90% of the time. Also, Luz and Eda just get each other. They’re two weirdos who don’t fit into society’s mold of what a normal citizen should be or do or look like.

I’m not saying Camilia is a perfect mom and that her decisions haven’t hurt Luz, because she’s not and they have. What I’m trying to say I guess, is that she’s trying her best.

(Y Luz ama su mami un montón.)

historians will say they were best friends

Look guys, I get that we all love and miss Gravity Falls and the fact that Alex is so closely involved in The Owl House makes jokes about Eda being Stan's ex or King being a reincarnated Bill fun, but can we please acknowledge that these are jokes? Bill Cipher is not actually going to show up. Eda is not going to reminicise on the time she swindled Stan Pines out of all of his valuables by marrying and divorcing him over the course of six hours. Belos' portal is not the same as Bill's.

Gravity Falls was amazing, but it's over now, and The Owl House (and Dana Terrace) deserve more than for us to just regard it as a spinoff of her boyfriend's old cartoon.

i hope luz gets a gun in the next episode. whats lillith gonna do huh? she probably doesnt even know what a gun is.

luz could just walk into the emperors room and shoot that huge ass heart and what are they gonna do? jack shit thats what.

THEY LOOK SO GOOD IM ACTUALLY GONNA CRY

The Dregs | Shadow and Bone (2021)

2020 cartoons really said “no white leads” and I stan

To avoid confusion

Qi Xiaotian/M.K is Chinese. LEGO Monkie Kid takes place in China and is like a sequel to the popular Chinese novel “Journey to the West”

Why Season 2 Of Arcane Felt A Little Off

Let me preface this by saying I adore this show, and I loved this season. I laughed, I cried, and I had a good time watching it. The art direction and animation is a masterpiece. This is probably my favorite show, but I think it's good to critique the things you love and this entire season I felt like I was waiting for something.

For a show titled Arcane, season one had remarkably little to do with the arcane. Yes, there was Hextech and magic, but the show was centered on this class divide between Piltover and Zaun and all the conflicts that stem from this. The very first scene of the show is enforcers killing citizens on the bridge, with Powder and Vi finding their dead parents' bodies. Zilco's reasoning for doing anything he did was because he believed he was helping Zaun, including raising Jinx the way he did. Vi was so passionate about her city and the injustice facing it. Caitlyn witnessing this injustice is what causes her to question the systems she is a part of. Viktor and Jayce (but especially Viktor) created technology with the intention of wanting to improve life for the undercity. Ekko is a revolutionary doing so much to give his people a community and a chance to live their lives. My point is literally every single character is connected by this conflict between the cities.

Now let's take a look at the second season. Where is this part of the story that was so essential to the first season? There's a brief revolutionary beat with Jinx and her followers but once they escape from prison, the show moves on from this and never touches it again. We see Caitlyn's descent into corrupt madness, becoming everything she and Vi wanted to stop. Eventually she realizes how wrong she was but do we see her make any reparations to Zaun specifically for the damage she caused? She gassed the city, poisoning the air even further (with gas that has been confirmed to make people sick in the long run), harming hundreds of innocent people. And Vi, a character so vehemently against enforcers in the first season, goes along with this for how long? Days? Weeks? And only stops when she can visually see the impact of Caitlyn's madness as she almost kills a child in front of her. These characters are flawed and I love that, but we see them get their happy ending without ever truly addressing or helping with what they did to Zaun.

Ekko sees an alternate universe of everything his city could be, everything they all wanted so badly in the first season. Equality, safety, education, food security, and more. He says he is thankful for the reminder and I fully believe he will go forth with this vision in mind, but do we ever see it? And that right there is the problem. We don't know what happens to Zaun in the end, we don't know if things get better. All we see is Sevika on the council but we don't know if that will fix anything since people have stood up for the undercity in council before and it did nothing.

I want to see Ekko rally his people and repair the damage caused by the war. I want to see Vi open up the last drop and make it what it was always meant to be, a place of community. I want to see schools open in the undercity in honor of Viktor and Jayce. I want to see the two cities heal from the damage done to each other. Fuck it, I just want literally any closure on this plotline! Just tack on a 2 minute montage of what happened to this city after the war and I'd feel a little better. But instead this part of the story was completely sidelined throughout the season and ignored entirely in the finale. I'm not someone that thinks every story needs to have a moral, but this show was trying to tell us something! The first season was screaming from the rooftops to beware of privilege, beware systemic oppression, to fight inequality, and I find it really sad that there was no conclusion for that.

I do wish there had been three seasons to give it a smoother transition form politics to magic but it is what it is. Nothing is perfect. This season gave me so much including the best depiction of soulmates I've ever seen in my life so you win some you lose some ig.

THAT SHADOW AND BONE TRAILER WAS AMAZING AND I CAN NEVER RECOVER THANKS my crow babies look so goodddddd

human beach day!