It depends on the ant but I know black ants around where I live smell minty and chemical-like, like a minty battery.

NO I WASNT ACTUALLY SMELLING THEM ALL DAY but I Could and now…maybe I can’t 😔

The story was like faux-poetic it really did just say shit like dark is light and light is dark but for meta-romance. Still thought it was hot though

Pre-COVID I could smell ants all day, battery acid insects those ants. Now? Haven’t tried, but not hopeful

I also think that the conflation of creative limiting/pandering to the cut-off of potential or a sense of cheapness. isn’t always sound. Sometimes a limit can be the jumping off point to great creativity. And if pandering can be executed well enough to be multidimensional, is it truly cheap?

Honestly I rarely see action scenes as integrated into a complex narrative than Arcane’s. Even in anime, there’s a lot of fluffy “beat this guy to win tournament” fights. But nearly EVERY fight in Arcane has narrative weight behind it. In a way, Arcane already fulfilled its own potential with that

SO TRUE

It’s really funny to me that this was a point of respectability discourse and now people are like “ah whatever” about it like it really did fade so seamlessly that it’s absence wasn’t even noticed. Truly beefing over nothing

I understand, getting high does this like it makes you scared of made-up stuff, like scared of facsimiles of reality