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Everything between Jayce and Viktor can really be traced back to their childhood inciting incidents and it’s killing me.

Jayce: a miracle saves him and his mom, forever imprinting him with the certainty that miracles do exist, they can be controlled, he can save his loved ones no matter how awful things get, if he can just be smart and bold and quick enough.

Viktor: he saw the horror of what Singed had done—of forcing a creature to live against its will, of the degradation and terror of being fundamentally changed. For a while he thought he understood Singed, when he decided that he was willing to throw away all his principles to survive his own body. But he didn’t, really. He didn’t understand. There was still a line he would not cross. He wanted to die human.

It’s fitting, then, and unspeakably tragic, that Jayce is the one who played Singed’s role in the end. Because you can’t ask Jayce to let a loved one go, when he knows there’s a miracle that can save him, the solution is right there, it will work if you will just let him try—and so he forces a change onto Viktor against his will. He traps him into the Arcane, takes apart and reassembles his body, strips him of his selfhood and humanity. All so that Viktor will live. Singed wasn’t talking about the desperation not to die—he was talking about the desperation not to lose someone you love.

And so Viktor is…changed. He lives, whether he wants to or not.

And so Jayce loses him anyway.

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yeah no I lost 99% of my respect for Caitlyn when she immediately went for bio war crimes as a trauma response, there's no amount of dead mums that can justify that

maybe the show will give her some semblance of redemption for that, but she's gonna have to work HARD for that

i think there is something to be said about the way a lot of popular western media (both within fiction and outside of it, now that i think about it) uses the pretense of nuance to obfuscate existing power dynamics.

the example i'm mulling over at the moment is netflix's Arcane, which depicts a pretty straightforward conflict between a brutally oppressive ruling class and an underclass that is out gunned, out manned, and lacks even the means to support its own population. despite this, the show takes a very even-handed "everybody's flawed" approach to how it portrays this conflict, one that seems to be increasingly popular in popular western media. this makes for a compelling story, the show takes the time to make sure we understand all the characters involved, their motivations, their flaws, their hopes, their dreams etc, but i think when people engage with that kind of narrative uncritically, they tend to miss the forest for the trees and get lost in pointless debates over which characters were more in the right or who's actions were more justified by their trauma etc. this kind of weightless, individualist approach seems to always lead to the same conclusion: that changing society is scary and traumatic and everybody is too flawed to be trusted with leading such a shift. how convenient that this always seems to benefit those already in power.

i'm thinking about this in regards to the reactions to the latest developments in the story of Arcane, which sees caitlyn supporting a military dictatorship, in part as a response to the trauma of losing her mother in jinx's terror attack. the reactions are pretty typical fandom discourse about whether or not her actions are understandable given what she's going through as a character, but what no one seems to be considering is that she's only able to undergo this change in the first place because of her class position, not just as a member of the wealthy elite of the overcity, but also as a respected member of the overcity's law enforcement. see, while the individual characters involved might be complex, the moral dimensions of the overall conflict really are not. one side has all the power and resources, as well as a vested interest in keeping the other side subjugated to maintain its dominant status quo. just because the dominant side is populated primarily with skinny attractive people a who're shown to be doing their best with the situation and the other are mostly grotesque caricatures of poverty stricken degenerates doesn't mean this is a difficult choice.

it remains to be seen how the actual show will play out, but i can't help but see it as continuing a trend of what i can only describe as a kind of smug liberal nihilism, crafting a brutal class conflict only to revel in the horrific spectacle of it all, basking in the complex moral greyness of its protagonists, uninterested in taking an actual stance. there's a point when nuance becomes a form of cowardice, imo

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it's so funny that viktor isn't even on the council and he shows up to meetings anyway because jayce wants him there. i like to think that jayce asked if he could come one day and nobody had the heart to say no and eventually they just stopped mentioning it. like yeah here's the man of progress, the greatest inventor in the city, leader of the council and symbol of the future. and also his twink boyfriend who's here for emotional support

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V For Vendetta (2005) Dir. James McTeigue

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V For Vendetta By Eisner-nominated artist, Matías Bergara

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i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

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"Oh dear god, you fancy Tanith."

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Grey I have no clue if you’re taking requests regarding the Skulduggery work as of late (if not, you can ignore this) but I’m so curious on what your interpretations of Billy-Ray Sanguine and Anton are /pos /nf

Absolutely DELIGHTED to be asked to draw something relating to Skulduggery!👏👏👏

Here’s Billy Ray Sanguine! Texas serial killer, I adore this bastard, he’s always fun to have around! No matter what side he’s on.

And Anton Shudder! Spooky hotelier! Part of Skulduggery’s old gang! He’s a good guy, he just forgets to smile.👌

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Just some doodles, as I continue to wait for my books. 🙏

I like this version of Tanith, but China could use more refining.

Not quite beautiful enough for my taste.🙏❤️

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Mature and professional detectives. 🫶

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idc if it's not a person. if your icon is a sunrise, you're a sunrise now.

poll about swapping with prev's icon here

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Had a bit of a hard day, but I still wanted to draw something, so here’s some cold hugs!🙏💕

(But Im fine, honestly! If I’m drawing that means I win, not the problems✌️)

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Another cute scene with the besties.🫶

it’s so cute how much they hug in these books. And I’m counting Val needing to hang onto Skulduggery while he flies them places.😂

This is from Dying of the Light, I’m trying to not draw anything too spoiler-y … it’s hard though, SO much stuff happens!

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Grell art dump alert (with bonus Will and Ron!), "one of these days" is in fact right now because I couldn't resist

Some or maybe most of these I have actually posted on tumblr before but I didn't reblog them here before deleting my old blog?? I looked and looked but those posts are gone ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

These span from 2020 to 2021 with the newest being at the start etc, I didn't feel like subjecting you all to the truly old ones lmao

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Nobody’s gonna buy ur 599$ marketable plushie stop tryna sell it to us -_-

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Dummys

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Sillies