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Okay so i read Hook, Line, Sinker the other day and I just had to tell you, its one of the best fics over ever read. Made me cry on multiple occasions and has fundamentally altered my brain. I'm obsessed. Thank you (and @triskadancer)

Thank you so much! ❤️🥰 Nothing makes me happier than my readers' tears!

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blorbovember day 9: angst

can this girl ever CATCH A BREAK!!!

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hi i just want to let you know hook line and sinker is a BEAUTIFUL fic and i am absolutely in love with it. (fun fact that is THE fic that made me start writing for vijinx)

in light of this, do you happen to have any songs/a playlist for the two of them? i’d love to pick your brain for music that fits them or makes you think of them :)

Hi, thank you so much! :) How heartening to hear!

In case you missed it or haven't read that far yet, chapter 11 is actually my and Triska's playlists for HLS Vi and Jinx. Triska made Vi's playlist, and I made Jinx's. We're very proud of them!

For canon-flavor ViJinx, I recommend:

Irresistible - Fall Out Boy ft. Demi Lovato

Dopamine - The Used

Promises I Can't Keep - Mike Shinoda

Tongues & Teeth - The Crane Wives

Happy listening! <3

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guys. caitlyn hitting vi at the end of ep 3 is heartbreaking for SO many reasons. it's a deep betrayal for vi, who wasn't expecting that kind of violence from her, from anyone but her, it was yet another enforcer hurting her, it was caitlyn (potentially) hitting vi on the wound she herself once sold her own rifle to help heal, the same weapon she hit her with, but most importantly,

it's also heartbreaking because vi has dropped everything to be the person she thought caitlyn needed; a pillar, a shoulder to cry on, a soldier, a killer; a betrayer of her own people. she became the same opressor that hurt her community, that killed her parents, that haunted her for the years she spent in stillwater. she became all of that, because she thought that caitlyn needed it.

vi has completely, utterly betrayed herself, and it still wasn't enough for her to stay.

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So if I were to take away from this moment something deeper than “man Sevika's a freak”, I'd point out that we've seen the same tactic not long before.

What does this say about Caitlyn? She's fighting dirty. She's fighting like a cornered rat. She's fighting like a Zaunite.

And first of all there's hypocrisy. Caitlyn's been calling these people animals and monsters and whatnot but when placed in an identical situation she responds identically. Case in point: getting so mad at Jinx for terrorizing people out of grief that she goes ahead and starts to terrorize people out of grief. Sevika's expression afterwards is mostly “joke's on you I'm into that” but there's some surprise there too — you wouldn't expect that move from a Piltie.

Then there's desperation. Because she needs revenge; she needs it or she'll never ever forgive herself for what happened. So she'll throw away her morals and her dignity and just do whatever it takes to achieve the goal, whether it means chomping on someone like a feral raccoon or becoming a military dictator… which puts her in the same mindset as Zaunites, all of whom are desperate to survive and a lot of whom could never afford morals and dignity in the first place.

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caitlyn's garden of violets

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I'm WHEEZING at arcane twitter's general consensus on this moment

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mess is a bit of an understatement

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Promise me you won't change.

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even a worm will turn.

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summary of act 1

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happy arcane s2 eve to all who celebrate!! wahoo

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hi hi yes hello,, first off i just wanna say i LOVE your art.

second, this is kinda weird but i just joined the arcane fandom not too long ago, & it was literally only because i saw vijinx art. like all of my mutuals are into arcane & i never bothered to get into it UNTIL i saw fanart of vijinx a few months ago. something abt it just intrigued me. i honestly never cared for caitvi.

however i wouldn’t consider myself a pro shipper, in fact i’d deny that. this is the first time i’ve enjoyed anything like this & i have no idea why. however i do like hardcore dynamics, for example, ellie/abby from tlou. but of course something like vi/jinx is more “extreme”. well in my opinion.

i’m coming to you because i’ve been stalking a lot of vijinx shippers and i really admire their content, especially yours. it’s such a guilty pleasure of mine. but i’m too scared to interact with anyone, even on an alt. so i just decided to stay anonymous.

i was just wondering if you ever felt guilty the first time you started shipping them? i’d honestly envy you if you haven’t. and how & why did you start shipping them? feel free to rant abt them for as long as you’d like.

i’ve been hearing stuff abt how they weren’t always sisters, like in the early league days. i wish it just stayed that way because it bothers me to not be able to talk abt my favorite ships publicly without being ridiculed for it. but a fucked up part of me is glad that they became sisters. holds more weight, you know. i understand the appeal entirely.

i’ve also even been secretly drawing them but i definitely do not have the balls to post them anywhere😭

ANYWAY, i’m yapping, but just let me know anything about your experience with them, how you view them n stuff. and if you have any advice to give me or any other information pls feel free. thank u so much

ps. i’m totally reading ur fic in a bit

Aww, hey there anon! Thanks for reaching out, always nice to meet another ViJinx fan :) I'm glad you enjoy my art, and I hope you'll like my fic as well! (Also, if you'd like to send me your art privately, I totally promise not to show anybody. <3)

I got a little rambly in my answer there, so I'll put it under the cut.

Honestly, I only call myself a 'proshipper' because this is what modern fandom lingo dictates. I don't really gel with a lot of elements of 'proshipdom', if you will -- there seems to be some broad agreement that if you like Some messed up aspects in your fiction, you must like All of them. And I really don't! I ship ViJinx because I love their specific dynamic, not just because I'm hot for every taboo topic by default. I probably would've shipped them just as much if the show had just made them close childhood friends, for example. But I also have no issue with fictional incest ships, I think they can be fun and juicy.

Like you, I've always been really drawn to problematic and intense lesbian relationships. I like CaitVi plenty, and I think they're going to get a lot messier in S2, which I'm excited for. But ViJinx is just an insanely compelling dynamic. I love the toxic codependent yuri shit. I love the tenderness and the violence, their shared past that now feels completely inaccessible to them both, Jinx's obsessiveness, Vi refusing to give up the image of Powder she's clung on to for years... man, this shit just rocks, okay. I'm not gonna pretend that it doesn't.

I've never felt any guilt about shipping ViJinx, tbh. I'm a fandom oldbie, by which I mean I was around before the morality police took over, and everyone understood we were just here to mash Barbies and have a good time. I've shipped several incest pairings before this, and I've always had a blast doing it. And so help me god, I don't intend to stop now, even if my Twitter blocklist is twenty miles long. I just immediately cut out anyone who tries to start shit, and chill with my fellow weirdos. It's a pretty small circle, but it's a nice time!

If you do decide to make an alt at some point, I recommend doing so on Twitter, as I've been able to find more active ViJinx shippers there. I could rec you some nice people to follow. :) Thanks for reaching out!

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Hi there! I just finished reading the latest chapter of HLS and it’s such a brilliant work of fiction I felt the need to ramble about it to you; I hope you don’t mind. Right off the bat I think the largest reason why I’ve grown so attached to this series is because I relate so so badly to Jinx/Powder, Ofcourse I relate to her canon character in arcane/league, but this is an entirely different level of personal. All the way from the instinctive self harming to her music and fashion taste. It’s all so deeply personal to me, it’s as if I’m watching myself from a third person view. I may be a bit biased since I relate to her so much but I still have the eyes and mind to see and admit that you’ve absolutely nailed her characterisation. The story telling of HSL is just superb, so realistic and just so deeply human, all the ups and downs in life even in a day-to-day basis (especially with a relationship as unique as Vi and Jinx) it’s by far the best take on an modern arcane AU I’ve ever seen as well as all the issues mentioned, the way Vi and Jinx deal with trauma so differently, the reality of adoptive parents and “troubled teen camps” (by the way, was the inspiration for Valenworth taken from The Elan School of 1970?) anyway, its a few hours into the early morning and I can’t think much except I love love love this fic and all its portrayals, I hold vi and jinx so dear to me and I cannot wait for the next chapter. I hope and pray you guys grant them a happy ending <3

Hi! Thank you so much for the lovely message, I really appreciate it. Jinx is my special little princess, so it means a lot you enjoy her characterization and find it relatable. <3 Yes, Valenworth is in fact based on Elan School, good catch! I hope you'll continue enjoying the fic as it progresses! :)

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A Toast to Better Times

Just a little Vi and Powder

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WIP :U Jinx is so. so. fun.

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Game of tag: Part 1  Part 2 [Part 3]

sorry Vi, for putting you through many awkward positions.. you’re only gonna suffer for another 6-10 pages I think /o\