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some little jayviks while i chip away at a comic :)

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“There is no prize in perfection - only an end to pursuit.”

I don’t think that this line was supposed to just be about what happened to the Mage’s world as a consequence of Viktor’s own search for perfection - I think if we look at Jayce’s character pre-hexcorized alternative universe, we see perfection, or the want of it everywhere.

Jayce did so many things to be liked - he warped his vision of Hextech to be received well by the council, he became a poster boy to the Piltovian public, he even tried to become a vigilante because he believed that that’s what everyone needed from him.

The Mage telling him of his own experience with perfection, of wanting everything to be within his control at all times and following his vision, was also a wake-up call for Jayce, who’s own vision of ‘perfection’ left him alone and with no true friends he could confide in.

Maybe this doesn’t make a lot of sense, but I hope ya’ll get what I mean.

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PSA: AO3 HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH AI BOT COMMENTS.

Have you seen one of these dipshits? If you post regularly on ao3, chances are YES, but more likely you didn't notice nor suspect it was a bot. Sometimes they start off nice, or even praise you before getting nasty out of nowhere, like so:

But much like Grok, their newest obsession is nazism.

I don't know where they come from, or what purpose this could possibly serve other than suicidebaiting random people in the internet, I guess; but apparently they've started parroting names from real users to send these comments and shifting their general length to go by undetected. Maybe those are scrappers trying to train 'reviewbots' to be sold as part of some scam service promising to give feedback for newbie writers, who the fuck knows.

Here are more examples of the tone and backhanded compliments you can find in these:

If you regularly post on AO3 or interact with writers in it, please pass this along so they don't feel insane receiving bombs in their inbox. This is ridiculous.

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omfg i went snooping and yalll. im.

i think that caitvi kinktober thing shifted to a new blog name. calling it nsfw month now

and im looking at the rules and this change and im CACKLING

THEY LITERALLY TOOK THE KINK OUT OF KINKTOBER AKFKFGKGKHK

moved it to november. this is so fuckin funny to me

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Always the writer, never the reader.

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here we go, the valorant batch is complete with Sova and Chamber!

samples to be made soon~

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People have absolutely, 100-percent talked about this before and articulated their thoughts better than I can, and I'm definitely a few months late to the conversation, but I also want to talk about it because I've been seeing some posts.

I honestly think whether or not the CaitVi ending in Arcane season 2 was "good" or not is contingent on whether or not it was supposed to be a happy ending. Because as far as toxic lesbian romances go? Phenomenal. Horrifying. Look at these lyrics:

"I'm thinking of you when I'm up here higher than god," and, "I'll be thinking of you when you're down there being a doll," obviously from Caitlyn's POV.

Then contrast that with Vi's song, Cocktail Molotov, and how she talks about being "at the bottom. It's a long way down," and, "in the grave," "in the underground," "down and out." She says, "Lock me up. I cannot take it."

And then Jinx does lock her up. She's still at the bottom here. There's been no evening-out of her and Caitlyn's power dynamic. Caitlyn shows up, and Vi lowers herself to the ground at her feet in a prison cell, as Caitlyn's song plays. I did not interpret this as happy make-up sex when I saw it for the first time (although I do think the characters did). To me, this was Vi making peace in her prison.

And what's more insane is that Caitlyn obviously, genuinely cares about her -- just like she obviously, genuinely grew to care about the Undercity in season one, before it hurt her personally.

I love thinking about the parallels between Vi's relationships and Piltover/Zaun relations. Her and Jinx have their falling-out and the bomb hits the council chamber; Vi and Caitlyn have their falling-out and Piltover declares martial law. All the Zaunites cross the bridge to Piltover to help during the invasion. Jinx crosses with them, to Vi. They win, Jinx "dies," Vi stays with Caitlyn, and we don't see Caitlyn revoke martial law. Zaun still has a hell of a fight on its hands. The power imbalance has not been remedied, and it's echoed in Vi and Caitlyn's relationship. I don't think that's bad writing, if it was intentional. If it was supposed to show progress in baby steps. Things still suck, but there's a way forward from here, and we can't give up. This is not a resolution, but the beginning of a path towards a resolution. (I still have issues with this that I will not get into because they're not what this post is about.)

If that was supposed to be the resolution, though. If that was supposed to be a happy ending for CaitVi. If the prison sex scene was supposed to be interpreted by the audience as non-toxic, happy, we're-fixing-our-problems sex. Then I want to know what the fuck was going on in the writer's room.

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I know everyone’s talking about how the cast of Danny Phantom is full of gay and trans characters exclusively to piss of Butch Hartman but let us not forget, Butch’s bread and butter, Fairly Odd Parents…

Timmy’s parents were 100% sure that Timmy was going to be a girl before he was born, as seen in the episode Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker.

Cosmo seems to be the only other one in the know about this, and has baby pictures of Timmy in a dress on hand

Then, in the episode The Boy Who Would Be Queen…

When Wanda does, inevitably, transform Timmy into a girl to teach him a lesson…

Cosmo immediately panics.

AND in the episode “It’s a Wishful LIfe” when Timmy wishes he never existed…

The Turners have a daughter instead.

In conclusion:

Timmy Turner is trans and used the power of one of his fairy godparents to wish that everyone in his life completely forget that he was born and raised female for a portion of his life, including his parents and his other fairy godparent.

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Alex Hirsch you will always be a legend to me

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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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“I still hold onto that she left town with Mel and they found each other, and they're just happily laying in a hammock somewhere...sharing a cigarette.”

- Eve Lindley on where Lest may be after Arcane Season 2

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they are correct

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On a road trip:

Jayce, reading the upcoming sign: “Road Work Ahead”?

Viktor: I sure hope it does

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HELLO GUESS WHAT

sketch of future XinJ3 charm because ofc i got no self-control

(but first I'll finish the other two valo charms!)