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Interview with Amanda Overton with “The Gamer” proving what we have all been saying. it was a beautiful moment where Vi FINALLY lets herself be happy

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need to keep them in my pocket and protect them from any harm, art by @ hazzadessine on twitter

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I’ve also been told that if a bird shits on you it means you’re going to be getting unexpected money.

reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle”

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caitlyn: *takes off her top*

vi: 😯

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as someone who has been involved in union organizing through my dad's union since i was literally in second grade, the way that people on tumblr think unions work drives me literally insane

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My Arcane brain rot has not abated. AT ALL.

I'm yours to keep and I'm yours to lose

You know I'm not a bad girl

But I do bad things with you, so it goes

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Vander's flashback sequence here has made so much about this season click for me - the song "Remember Me" has the narrator asking themself to remember who they are, and we see Vander remember Vi, Powder, Mylo, and Claggor, we see him remember Silco, Benzo, and Felicia

and Vander's the most obvious example of this, but this is the scene that made it click for me - these characters are remembering themselves through connecting with other people, whether in their memories or in the present. Jinx connected with Isha, and through it we see her connect with her joy and sisterly love again

Vi, too, has been disconnected from the world since she was thrown in Stillwater, and when she got out, the sister Vi thought she still knew was so far gone her sister might as well have been dead

and Vi began connecting with Caitlyn through her search for her sister, which was a new, tenuous source of hope - and one that she clung to desperately - but was too easily broken by Caitlyn's own grief and fixation on revenge

so Vi was then cut off from everyone she let get close and who she thought she could trust, and it put her in a bad, self-destructive spot

but when Jinx discovers Vander is still alive, she reaches out to Vi, having already begun to remember herself as a daughter and a sister who cares deeply about her family - and Vi ultimately put her faith in Jinx's word that this was Vander - when trust wasn't something Vi gave her the first time they lost Vander

and through that found her father again - found her family again - and she reconnected with the part of herself that was willing to trust the people around her that she loves, was open to reconciling past hurts even if those people have changed

and so, when Caitlyn showed up near the commune and asked Vi why she was down there, having already revealed they were after Vander, Vi was ready to try trusting Caitlyn again with the truth

Caitlyn - as Ambessa pointed out - was also deeply disconnected having lost her mother, her father a shell, pushed away Vi, and Jayce missing. she was easy for Ambessa to manipulate into terrible actions, but reconnecting with Vi was a catalyst for Caitlyn to finally push back against Ambessa's constant infringement on what Caitlyn used to believe were her core principles of justice to help Vi save her father from further manipulation by a warlord

the fact that Jinx saved Caitlyn from Rictus when she once resented Caitlyn for taking her sister's care now that she's helped save Vander in efforts to keep Jinx' family together

and that an armed Caitlyn ran past Jinx right beside her in the fighting, more concerned with Vi's injury than her revenge, after connecting with Vi and seeing how saving Vander, reuniting Vi's family, and cutting the Noxians loose was right thing to do - Caitlyn has started to get back in touch with what really matters

and it all started with a scared little girl who, while running away and hiding from the monsters in Zaun, fell into Jinx's life

and during her time with Jinx, Isha gained her own courage

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THIS. ALL OF IT.

I want to talk about THIS moment. Right before. There's a TON of people misreading Caitlyn's intent because she's using such a playful demeanor after Vi's sorrowful self-deprecation. To be honest, it's the best response she could have had, and the best tactic. Her demeanor serves as a stark contrast to the spiral of self hatred that Vi is going down, and it's an excellent distraction. Caitlyn is stopping her line of thinking, right then and there, and she does it while delivering one of the most romantic and understated declarations of love I've ever seen.

Stay with me here.

Let's be very clear: Caitlyn did NOT come to the cell with the goal of seducing Vi. Not even. How do we know? Aside from several context clues that come before this scene, the way Caitlyn responds to the kiss is very telling:

See how long it takes Cait to even register what the fuck is going on?? She's literally like "oh. OH. we're kissing? WE'RE KISSING." And Vi also OPENS HER EYES very briefly, to check that Caitlyn is as into this as she is, right as Cait settles into the kiss, likely sensing her hesitation/delayed reaction. This scene is NOT Caitlyn seducing Vi. This scene is Caitlyn giving herself to Vi, and Vi choosing exactly what she wants to do with her, which is VERY different.

What does Caitlyn say right before the kiss? She says, "Do you really think I needed all the guards at the hexgates?" Translation: I left Jinx's cell unguarded on purpose. I want you to know that I heard you during our last conversation. I want you to know that I trust you. I want you to know that my love and care for you is more important than my need to sate my grief and desire for revenge. I choose you.

And following: "Sorry to say, you've grown a bit predictable." Translation: I know you. I see you. I knew you would choose this, coming after your sister, and I facilitated the circumstances in which you COULD choose this. You don't choose wrong. You choose love, and I understand that now. I want you to know that I support your choices, and they won't cost you the people you care about, at least not me, not anymore. I know that you'll always choose your sister, and I've made peace with that. What you want is what I want.

That is MONUMENTAL. That's quite possibly one of the most romantic things I've ever seen in media. Because who the hell has the guts to give up their grief and forgive their mother's murderer, all for love? That's a level of sacrifice that not enough people are acknowledging.

People say Caitlyn never changed, never felt remorse, never grew from the bad choices she made. I say wrong. And this was the turning point.

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YES! I posted on Threads on how Vi and Caitlyn were in the light and when Caitlyn makes her confession about Maddie, she moves into the dark. Vi then brings Caitlyn back into the light.

I swear, you could write a dozen English composition essays about the subtleties, parallels and foreshadowing in this show.

Spot the difference

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caitvi + hands (That Scene™ edition)

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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle”

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No, because what do you mean Arcane has completely rewritten the rulebook on queer representation in media, and it did it so effortlessly that it puts so many other shows to shame. Like, how are you going to tell me this animated series—ostensibly a spin-off of a video game—has given us some of the most nuanced, unapologetically powerful sapphic characters ever without reducing them to stereotypes, side plots, or, worse, trauma porn?

Vi and Caitlyn? Their dynamic is ELECTRIC. You’ve got Vi, the rough-edged, fiercely loyal, scrappy brawler with a tender side that could wreck anyone emotionally, and Caitlyn, the sharp, principled, deeply empathetic enforcer with a heart of gold. The way their relationship is built on mutual respect and trust while navigating all the insane, tragic chaos around them? Literal chef's kiss. And not once do we get the tired, lazy "coming out" narrative or the "but what about the gays?" rhetoric. Their queerness isn’t the story—it’s just a beautifully natural part of who they are. And THAT is revolutionary.

And let’s not even stop there. This show handles gender like it’s been waiting for everyone else to catch up. Characters like Sevika, who could give you chills with her sheer badassery and gender-nonconforming energy, exist unapologetically without the narrative ever feeling the need to spoon-feed us explanations. It’s just there, woven seamlessly into the fabric of the world.

So many shows claim to want to "normalize" queer relationships or push the envelope, but Arcane has quietly dominated the space by just writing characters who feel authentic. Their struggles are about class, power, loyalty, trauma, not token representation or forced diversity. This show said, “We’re just going to make some of the most layered, compelling characters you’ve ever seen—and oh yeah, some of them are gay. Keep up.”

Like, the bar wasn’t just raised—it was launched into the stratosphere. What do you mean this level of representation isn’t the norm yet? Arcane said, “We’re not asking for permission to exist. We’re just existing.” And that? That is art.

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DAMN. Ok, I need more of this fic. I feel like Caitlyn wouldn’t have been able to process what happened with Jinx since it’s the same night the council was attacked.

Even in the vast softness of Caitlyn’s bed

(their bed)

Vi felt the jolt. It was either that or the soft, pained exhalation that woke her, but it didn’t really matter. She snapped awake with the sudden alertness she’d been taught by Vander and had honed in Stillwater. Even though she came around in an instant, she still expected to feel a cold concrete floor beneath her aching side and smell the charnel stink of sweat, desperation, and blood. Waking up to soft linens and the clean, fresh smell of sheets washed in lavender water, and *Cait* felt fresh and new every time.

“…no…” Cait mewled. “…no… stop… Jinx… Cupcake! Cupcake she calls me-“

Vi hesitated, unsure whether to wake her. She’d seen plenty of people cry out in their sleep and knew that eight times in ten it was better to let them ride it out instead of waking them in the middle of something that might make them lash out or hurt themselves.

When Cait let out a blood-curdling scream, Vi lept wxross the bed and pressed a hand to her cheek, finding a cold sweat sheening her skin.

“Cait, wake up.”

Caitlyn’s eyes (*eye*, a bitter voice added) snapped open and she looked around, jerking up from the bed, her chest heaving as she drew in ragged, pained breaths.

Vi pulled her into an embrace, wrapping Caitlyn up in her arms and bending her body as much as she could to form a shield around her while Caitlyn desperately hugged her back and buried her face in Vi’s neck.

Sometimes they said more this way than they did by talking. Vi sat up and gently rubbed the back of Cait’s neck with her fingertips and pressed light kisses to the crown of her head, for no other reason than she loved her and she was free to show it.

Finally Cait said, “I had a nightmare.”

“Do you want to talk about it?”

Cait didn’t answer, instead resting her head on Vi’s shoulder while her finger aimlessly traced the tattoo on Vi’s arm, sort of half-humming on exhalation. Vi had learned that Cait wasn’t being rude when she didn’t answer her and that these little things she did to soothe herself were just as important. That Vi could savor Cait’s touches forever was incidental. Vi hadn’t touched her enough and would make up for it for the rest of her life.

“Do you remember the… the tea party.”

Vi swallowed hard. That night had been one of the most painful of her life, when all her sins had marched out of the darkness to revenge themselves on her tenfold. It was the terror she felt when she saw Cait’s eyes that shattered her, but the worst, the worst…

(I paid your girlfriend a visit…)

It hurt to even summon the thought, like touching the edges of a barely healed wound, feeling the scab lift and pull at the raw flesh beneath.

For a moment Vi knew that Jinx was going to lift that lid and Caitlyn’s severed rotting head would be sitting there staring at her with blank eyes and she cringed in horror and fear, a shiver ripping through her.

Cait knew; Vi didn’t have to say yes.

“Did you ever wonder how she knew you called me cupcake?”

Vi shook her head. “I thought she must have heard me. On the bridge maybe or…”

“She might have, but she delighted in making me tell her. I was helpless, terrified. She spent hours hurting me, but she kept saying she wouldn’t kill me because she was waiting for you. She said you’d do it.”

“Did you believe her?”

“No, never.”

Vi let out a long, slow sigh in relief.

“I hurt you. I hit you, but you would never hurt me.”

“We talked about that, Cait.”

“I know.”

There was a brief silence in the dark. First light was beginning to peek through the curtains and soon it would be time to get up. Most nights Vi hated waking now. She wanted nothing more than to spend then rest of her life in soft sunlit moments with Cait, making love under the warming sunlight as often as not.

Cait’s hand worked between them and traced over the scar on Vi’s belly, in the same spot where Cait’s rifle butt had smashed the air from her lungs and left her begging, sent her spiraling into a booze-fueled nightmare of longing where the pain of a fist to her face was the only thing that kept her awake long enough to keep looking for someone to kill her in the ring before the drinking did.

They held each other a little tighter.

“No one is going to get you now,” Vi promised.

“You’re not my keeper, Vi. You mean more to me than what you can do for me.”

“I meant you can hold your own. You took me out, remember? Do you know how many people can say that?”

“You let me win because I’m me.”

Vi shook her head. “Not until I was already face up on the ground. You took down Ambessa.”

“I had help.”

“You’ll have help if someone comes at you again. My help.”

“I told you, Vi, you…”

“No. It’s not because I owe you something, it’s because I love you.”

Vi hadn’t said the words yet, despite all this time, but it shocked neither of them.

“We protect each other, then.”

Vi nodded in agreement. She could see Cait’s eye growing lidded and the tension slit out of her body as Vi lay down with her. She was asleep in a few minutes, snoring lightly against Vi’s neck.

Vi vowed to stay awake, Cait was too soft.

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I love this.

Give em' Nein Hells! Print Available

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STILL CAN'T BELIEVE WE GOT TWO MAIN LESBIAN CHARACTERS EATING EACH OTHER OUT ON ONE OF THE BIGGEST ANIMATED SHOWS EVER AND ON FUCKING NETFLIX !!! CAITVI PAVING THE WAY FOR LESBIANS WE CHEERED

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her brain literally stopped working when she saw caitlyns boobs