lost in the desert

this is a mel medarda appreciation post. reblog if you love mel medarda.

i’ve mentioned somewhere before (i think) how mel’s romantic overture in s1e5 is also heavily tied to her expression of self-worth—i will first prove myself as a wily and resourceful ally in this den of snakes who will bring you closer to your wildest dreams and only then will you love me will i make my move—so i also wonder if in her early years in piltover, she’d had a similar experience with romance with someone who “guided” her through piltover’s elite circles and then had a messy falling out when mel quickly outgrew the need for mentorship like she would soon outgrow her ties to house ferros through hextech, and with her becoming the richest woman in piltover (pre-hextech even) by the start of season 1 there is definitely room for some fascinating short-lived doomed romance before she meets and falls in love with jayce

I'm probably gonna get yelled at for saying this but sometimes something isn't a real problem in fandom, you just learned a Japanese word describing a general fandom practice and got scared and decided it meant "The Bad Ones" of that practice

OP is correct and smart for saying this. this is related to/a subset of how people are about non-fandom foreign words, too, like how people say "Christians worship God (good), Muslims worship Allah (bad and scary)" when gues swh. gu. guess what. gues s w hat Allah mea. guess what the word "Allah" means--!!