Will Ja Nicht Sagen Das Ich Krasser Bin Als Merz, Aber Ich Hab Noch Nie Nen Wahlgang Zum Kanzler Verloren

Every single frame of this show could be put in a museum

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Time to wake up every morning and wonder: "Is Paralives out yet?".

Slaves who escaped were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

Jewish people who escaped the Nazis were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

The law is a horrible judge of morality.

(Arcane season 2 spoilers)

(Seriously massive spoilers)

(scroll past because the title will spoiler you already)

I can prove Jinx is alive

with a lot of knowledge and deductions

This is based off of a few other theories which I will link respectively.

This theory begins with another theory: Powder made it to our universe.

In the scene where all of these papers fly up, a head with her hairstyle is visible and... in animation, no accidents happen. (Excluding the possibility the animators are sadistic fucks) This means that Powder traveled through universes. So far, so good.

Now, it's very likely she used the machine which Ekko and Heimerdinger rip left behind for this since she helped build it yadayadayada. We can't know for certain the way this machine works, but I would suggest that it works in the same way the Arcane travel that brought these three there in the first place worked since... when Ekko gets back, it all slots into place and he's back in his body. More on this later.

One characteristic of this way of interdimensional travel is that you can't travel to a dimension where you are dead, the explanation for why Jayce doesn't come with the others to the 'happy end' dimension (or the Arcane has its own will and brought him where he landed because of it but that's boring) because in this one, Vi died, the council prohibited the hextech experiments completely so Viktor didn't come to him and... well. (I unfortunately didn't find where I read that his death is why he isn't in this dimension, but I did somewhere).

This means that in order to travel into a dimension, you need to be alive in this very dimension. NOW if Powder traveled to our dimension, that means that Jinx must have been alive at the time of her travel and since we saw Jinx sacrifice herself for Vi when she was very much herself, this means she must've survived the fall so Powder could travel there and take over her body. Also, we see Powder in the end scene and since she'd take over Jinx' body when she travels dimensions, Jinx' body must've been alive at the end of the story.

Now. What does this mean for Jinx? Where is she?

She is alive, that much is clear now, but where is her psyche if her body is controlled by Powder?

There are two options really, and it boils down to how inter dimensional travel works.

Option 1: when you travel to a different dimension, you take over your other selves' body and they just kinda get knocked out. This would mean that while Ekko was in the other universe, parallel!Ekko was just kind of nowhere. This doesn't make that much sense to me since it would mean there's a forward and backward direction for travelling.

Forward means you stack a soul on top of another one, backward means that the soul gets sent back. It's kind of possible, but a bit dull and rough around the edges. Also, this would mean the machine Ekko and Heimerdinger built is specifically designed to bring them BACK which means Powder couldn't have used it to travel forth so... it's a bit scuffed.

Option 2: Symmetrical travel. When you travel to another universe, the soul from that universe possesses YOUR body in turn. This means that the way forward and the way backward is exactly the same, the minds get switched and the direction doesn't matter. This would more easily allow Powder to use the machine to travel forward into another universe since it's the same procedure as travelling backwards. A way to prove this would be to check if Ekko's or Heimerdinger's body have been active in OUR universe while they were there. Actually, now that I think about it, this would mean there IS still an alive Heimerdinger in our universe. This theory makes more sense to me, though, again, that would mean there's someone controlling your body in your universe while you're controlling theirs.

Now, this means that, option 1: Jinx would just be KO while Powder has control of her body BUT option 2 would be: Jinx is in the 'happy end' universe while Powder is in ours which is also just a lot more interesting.

Maybe I'll check if I can find proof for option 2, but this is it in the meantime. BUT anyway, Jinx is alive! And this also means Ekko COULD still get his happy end (I made this theory for him, poor boy deserves a happy end), with Jinx or with Powder.

I feel like there are so many people in writing spaces who seem to believe storytelling is metaphysical somehow instead of a very mundane and practicable skill and craft.

like that poll about whether a story needs meaning. I think it's so odd to be talking about whether a story "needs" meaning because it implies this image of writers pulling an already extant story from the sea and, like a lobsterman checking for eggs, deciding whether to throw it back to the waves based on whether or not it has "meaning."

the very simple reality of it is that stories are a form of communication. it is a use of language. whenever you are communicating something to someone using language, that person will be processing your words to understand your meaning. that is how language works.

if you're telling someone about your day, for example, you choose what events to include and exclude from your retelling. say you want to emphasize the bad parts of your day because you're feeling upset and you're talking about your day so someone will understand why you're upset. so you mention how your boss spoke to you and how you missed the bus and how you stained your one good shirt you wear to interviews when trying to find a better job. you might mention the person who offered you cover under their umbrella at the bus stop as a moment of compassion and relief contrasted with the rest of your day. but you probably leave out the details about scrolling through instagram on your lunch break or your conversation with a coworker about filling out a maintenance request because even though these were part of your day, neither are really important to the point you're making, and it would only obfuscate what you're trying to communicate. we communicate with storytelling all the time.

you can choose to just write and never interrogate why you're saying the things you're saying to other people. but I don't know why anyone would recommend it as a practice. especially in contexts in which you're tying your writing to your identity in any way, because then you're not remotely prepared for people's response to what you say to them. it's like getting blackout drunk or very high before giving a speech to a bunch of strangers. sure, it's theoretically possible that completely absent any inhibition or planning or self-aware intention or desire to communicate something you might say good things that you would be proud of later, but it's not likely. and even if it's possible, why would you want to surrender control over what random ideas and values and life experiences you share with all these people? terrifying! why gamble with that instead of being intentional?

the alternative is simply being intentional about what you actually want to say and what emotions you want your audience to be left with. intentional with what narratives you share and why it starts where it starts and ends where it ends. what images you want to repeat and why you want to connect the emotional scenes you connect. which characters you introduce and why their perspectives or actions are needed to convey what you're trying to convey. think about who and what is important to get what you're trying to say across.

all the intention and planning in the world is not going to necessarily ensure that people will understand what you are trying to communicate from reading your story. they might still interpret it completely different than how you meant it, bring their own meaning to it, assume things about you and your values from their own interpretation of it. that happens all the time, and it usually doesn't feel good, but that's art.

a lot of the craft of writing is learning how to best minimize that happening. how do you convey your meaning accurately to the most readers possible? how can you learn to evoke the emotions you're meaning to evoke from other writers who are successful at making you feel emotions they want you to feel? those things are at the core of what you are learning when you are honing your writing skills.

to refuse to engage with that at all is completely alien to me--what is the point if there is no point? why listen to someone tell you about their day if they don't even care why they're telling you what they're telling you?

all communication is imperfect--we can never understand exactly what someone else intended to convey. but good communication is trying our best to make the gap between what one person wants to communicate and what the other person interprets as small as possible. storytelling, and learning to do it well, is just another form this takes. it's language.

More thoughts on the QSMP 2 (?) teaser

After posting a more detailed analysis covering many different aspects of Quackity's newest teaser, I still have some thoughts about the final few messages which I just want to share here.

MESSAGE FROM THE FEDERATION. [4.30] WE SHALL BE RETURNING SHORTLY. THERE IS WORK TO COMPLETE. YOU WILL HEAR FROM US. [05,00,25]

What I find confusing here is the two... lets call them items.

I assume [4.30] is a time stamp where 4 is the month, april and 30 is the date. This means that here, it is talking about the day the message was broadcasted. The day the teaser was released. Quite obvious so far.

The second 'time stamp' is a lot more cryptic though. [05,00,25]

The easiest assumption is that it's may 2025, but here, the date is the 0th??? This would mean that we HAVE already heard from them. Or maybe the 0th of may is just april the 30th. It could hint towards something being hidden in the video, something we need to find, but I think that is somewhat of a reach. This isn't an ARG (I would guess), you can't wait for a few nerds to take the video apart until you can start with your project so I don't know, but I'll keep my eyes out.

There are even more differences between the two items than I initially thought.

[4.30] and [05,00,25]

1. And most obvious, one has two numbers while the other has three.

2. One uses a dot to divide them, the other uses commas.

3. One has a leading zero (05 and 00), the other doesn't (4).This makes me think that the second is not a date at all. If it is though, it could be the 25th of May (unconnected but it could also be the arrival date of the French streamers to the island which is also in May). But if it was a date, it would be formatted like the other one because it IS like the other one.

This leads me to believe it is something different.

1. A time stamp in the video (the fifth minute and .25 seconds), but I checked and there's nothing out of the ordinary. Just the normal screen and classical music.

2. A location where we receive their messages. Unlikely since this is probably not an ARG. If it is, I wouldn't know where to start searching.

3. A duration. 5 months (and 25 days) is unlikely, wayy too long. 5 weeks and 25 hours too, since there should be something in May. 5 days and 25 minutes, possible but why the specific minutes? Also, this would explain why the date at which the message is sent is at the top, so you know from where to count. Still, if it was a duration it would've just been formatted as [05:00:25], no?

The truth is, I have no idea.

Would you be willing to upload your Owen fanart from the collaborative piece on Twitter here? I saw it on Twitter recently and thought it was gorgeous, would love to be able to reblog it on Tumblr

(I apologize if you're not interested in doing that, I hope you have a nice day either way)

of course !!!

this is a part of a collab piece over on Twitter featuring some of OwengeJuiceTV's most popular characters! I was asked to draw outsiders owen!

May the fourth be with you!!! 💫✨