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Hello! I'm getting ViJinx Week going this coming January. :) Here's the list of prompts. I'll also be doing it over on Twitter, where I'm generally more active, so feel free to check it out there!

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hey, just I wanted to say that I've been obsessed with hook, line, sinker for the better part of the week and I am in awe over how wonderfully the characters are written and all the drama is structured. Especially coming from Arcane s2 where Vi and Jinx's relationship felt completely sidelined, the way they are portrayed and developed here truly feel like a masterclass. Thank you for all this and I'm really excited for what the future brings!

Thank you so much, it means a lot! ❤️ Triska and I are deeply unwell about those two, so I'm glad it comes across in the fic, haha. I hope you'll enjoy the next chapter (coming... SOONISHLY!!), and have a lovely day! 🌸

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So, I really like your fic, it's excellent, and I wanted to recommend this song, I'm from South America, and the song is in Spanish by Shakira I don't know if you know her, she is very good, but the point is that I think the lyrics go a lot with the characters, that love that leaves you without reason haha. I leave you the link to the song with English subtitles and the video clip that is also very good, the song is called ciega sorda muda (Blind deaf mute) and is from 98

English lyrics: https://youtu.be/Pw0lY9nml04?si=fikE0VlBXn_Tw5Nf

Videoclip: https://youtu.be/B3gbisdtJnA?si=XNf1Jw1zt6cV_ATj

It doesn't go with the musical aesthetics of the fic but I think it goes with what the characters feel (? I don't know hahaha

Thank you, I'm glad to hear you like it! ❤️

Thanks for the song rec, I definitely see how the lyrics relate to their relationship in the story. It's so catchy, too! 😄

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I just finished reading Hook, Line, Sinker, and omg I’m completely obsessed!! I’m so bad at articulating myself, but I want you to know I’m so in love with this fic, the way you’ve portrayed Vi and Jinx as characters, and their relationship with each other. I love both the intense and soft moments between them, and I can’t wait for the next chapter! Personally, as much as I had a blast watching season 2, I was disappointed with the way Vi and Jinx’s relationship was presented as opposed to season 1, so it makes me so happy to read fics and once again see that intense bond between the two of them however it ends up being portrayed. I’m really pleased that you’ve gotten so many lovely comments as you deserve them all!

Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!! I have various grievances with season 2 myself, but let me assure you, Vi and Jinx in HLS are always going to be completely insane about each other. <3 Have a lovely day!

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Hello, how are you? I come from the FF in ao3 of Vi and Jinx. The truth is that I like it a lot, especially how you portray Vi, she is a character that I like a lot and with sympathy a lot and how she was treated in S2 it was very painful. At least she deserved an apology from Cait and not to lose his sister. Now I really wanted to ask you how it was for you to write this fic, I see a lot of hatred of the fandom for the relationship of the two of them and with the issue of incest, I myself never read something like that and I fell for a mistake in your fic that is beautiful, how was it for you to write about the two of them and the thing of incest? I really hope you can continue with the fic because it's great.

Sorry for the mistakes, English is not mi first language.

Hi, thank you for the message! I'm glad you enjoyed the fic, even if it wasn't your usual thing. :)

How was writing the fic for me? If you mean in terms of fandom reaction: lovely! We've received so many sweet comments, and basically zero negative ones. Fanfiction is safer than fanart, in a way, because you have to go to the effort of seeking it out, and then actually sitting down and reading it. The average hater wouldn't bother.

I've also been active on Twitter in recent months, where there's a pleasantly-sized ViJinx community, but also definitely much more vitriol and hate from so-called antis. At the moment, it doesn't bother me too much. I block ViJinx haters on sight, so I don't see much of them anymore.

If you mean in terms of how I, on an emotional level, feel about writing incest... I feel great! Lmao. It's never been a big deal for me, fiction is fiction and I'm here to have fun. Imbalanced, codependent and toxic dynamics have always been my thing, so me shipping ViJinx was only to be expected. I don't feel guilty about it or anything, because I know it's not real! And I think people making a big stink over it are really rather silly.

Thanks for reaching out, and I hope you have a nice day :)

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of course the show that is fundamentally centered around two sisters and their tragedies becomes centered around men and said sisters are sidelined and their arcs are pushed to the sidelines and all the phenomenal care that went into their characters went down the drain. ​one’s arc is literally “the traumatized / mentally unwell character’s happy ending is committing suicide because they are simply too broken to heal and be happy” trope, and her mental instability is forgotten. the other is reduced to a mere plot device, has no agency of her own, and her trauma and anger is treated like a complete and utter joke for the sake of a shitty ship, and because the writers literally, point blank, were bored with her. it’s so sad because the tragedy of these sisters is so utterly devastating, so encompassing and so intricately woven into the narrative. but make it about two men i suppose?

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Another commission I got from the lovely Ham! This one is to go with chapter 9 of Hook, Line, Sinker. My soul needed healing after S2, and Ham's art always provides🥹 She threw in a bonus tiny Jinx, too!

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Hook, Line, Sinker || Vi & Jinx Playlists

@triskadancer and I made these to accompany our ViJinx AU fanfic. While these are also available on the fic's AO3 page, I wanted to toss them up here for backup!

Illustrations by HAM (commissioned).

Jinx: Spotify | YouTube

Vi: Spotify | YouTube

Happy listening!

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hi! I came here from the "Hook, Line, Sinker" fic and I wanted to say I love how you portray them! Jinx especially, she's my favorite Arcane character so there's a bias there, but god I love how competent and smart she is, but also self-conscious and attention-seeking? You encapsulate Jinx's personality so well. Since season 1 came out I imagined Jinx as almost infatuated with her sister, so I love her obsession with Vi in the fic, and Vi's love and obsession with her too. It's lovely and after Arcane S2, I cannot wait to see more of this fic, if you are planning to continue? I hope you do. But I'm sending you much love either way.

And on a different note, is Jinx's hair strawberry blonde in the fanart you've shared?? I love that for her, and makes sense she'd have 'pale' eyelashes then, which I noticed on their first-time scene.

Sending spoons and love and encouragement!

Hi, hello, thank you! I'm really glad you enjoy the story and Jinx in particular, she is my special baby girl. I definitely intend to continue it! Had a super busy month and was distracted by season 2 on top of that, but keep your eyes peeled for an update in the coming weeks. 👀

I actually deliberately avoid mentioning hair color in the fic, because I feel ridiculous incorporating goofy anime hues into a more realistic setting. But when I draw them in the AU, I like to depict Jinx's hair as naturally straw-brown and Vi's as more auburn or copper. :) Thanks for the message!

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Three years.

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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