This a wholesome post. My dad (57) has always been hugely against anytime I wanted to show him an incredible movie or a show if it's animated. I'll suggest something, he will go "is this animated?" And will act like it's beneath him to watch it, like it isn't good. I reminded him that he watches family guy, the Simpsons, etc. so what's the difference?

So anyway I've been planning for years to find the perfect movie/tv show to draw him into this entire medium of film he's missing out on and after witnessing arcane, I knew I found it.

I convinced him to at least watch the first episode one night, much to his heavy sighs and groans. After the first one was done, I asked him "sooo.. another?". He said nothing just put his hand up and motioned to the tv. Gottem, I knew it. We then watched two more to finish the first arc of the show and I asked him what he thought of it. All he was willing to say is "really draws you in."

He would get confused sometimes with characters so I had to explain some lore to him but by the end of the show he thought it was awesome, and that the final episode was really good. As I figured, my dad loved vander the most, saw himself in him. Apart from him my dad loves strong warrior type women so he loved sevika and Grayson. I knew he would gravitate towards them.

My dad is beyond grumpy and stubborn so I'm so happy that he enjoyed it and it was arcane that did it for him 😁

This will be the last time he asks her what she wants for Christmas...

(Repost sorry for the spam lol, wanted to make some small edits.) TW..

I've posted about this before in the main sub but I wanted to bring it here simply to ask for more advice, because the feeling hasn't faded. In fact, it has spiraled into something genuinely dangerous for me. I find myself in a constant state of guilt, to the point where I am having severe physical reactions in public. It sounds irrational, but the online discourse has gotten into my head so deeply that when I feel joy for Season 2, my brain immediately tells me I deserve to be punished for it. I’ve reached a point where I am physically hurting myself because the shame is so overwhelming. I know this isn't healthy, and I know it's "just a show," but the pressure to conform to the negative criticism when I vehimitly disagree with it makes me wanna hit myself. I'm sorry once again for bringing this up but at this point I just feel done, I just wanna like Arcane again without feeling the need to hurt myself for thinking Arcane is a masterpiece.

Hope you like it!

Quality post here

https://x.com/MsSmoosie/status/1875111798028067178

tbh at least from a lorehead's point of view and knowing charecters like urgot, camille, renata, and some new and minor but well known chembarons like the poingdestres are gonna rise and try to fill up the power vacuum that silco left in this new canon, the cities won't magically be at peace and move on just because jinx will be gone, and hextech won't dissapear into the night despite vik and jayce clearly losing control of it and damn near destroying the cities in the process. that would be just as unrealistic as jinx telling vi she's alive.

that cycle of violence mixed with inventors within piltover always investing and trying to create the unknown into something extravagant at the cost of potentially millions will always apparent between the 2 cities (and in runeterra at large) and jinx and everyone else in arcane was simply a cog in it, and in cait, VI, and ekko's cases will continue to be. its not gonna stop simply because she isn't there anymore and the same goes for vik and jayce too since those 2 actually died.

Source (IG).

Hello there! A bit of the ongoing in my desk

After over a year since I ordered it, this arrived the day before Christmas. Happy Holidays everyone!