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Simpler times

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Arcane season 2 ep 7 missing scene

in all timelines, in all possibilities… I’ll wait until the day we save each other again.

(Woowee, this one take a while. There’s actually… a few extra pages, but it’s going to take forever before I can post it so…take this for now.)

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au influenced by backrooms

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Ties Interest Check - Preorders

Hi everyone! I will launch very soon the ties preorders and I want to know how many of you are interested!

You can fill the form here!

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so tired of these gay freaks

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Because i've seen a bunch of fics infantalizing Viktor, making him frail/incompetent, and the like, here is how to write a cane/crutch user with chronic pain, a bad back and a bad leg, from a guy with Fibromyalgia and pots.

Canes! should be around the hip/waist height. there are many different types of canes. for drawing and ideas, check out @cowsabungus for guides! Cane users are not frail, and many cane users can put their canes down for a moment, or longer.

Crutches! the type of crutch Viktor uses is an underarm crutch, however, as he only uses one, and he uses it full/most of the time, it will fuck his back and shoulders a bunch. If you're writing/drawing a modern au especially, Viktor would probably use forearm crutches, and 2 of them

Behavior! Firstly, canes are made of metal, and some of them can even be used as nun-chucks. they are excellent weapons, and a lot of cane users will jokingly/seriously hit people with their canes, or do the equivilent of "i'm not touching you" with their canes. Secondly, weaponized incomepetence. this can show up in many ways, for example, viktor may hand his cane/crutch to jayce, walk a few metres and then screech out [in public] 'HOW COULD YOU? GIVE THAT BACK?', or fall dramatically. other stuff, such as calling every minor incovenience ableist [something i LOVE to do], making people carry their shit for them, and using disability privleges to get a seat on a train and etc, are very common in disabled people, including me.

Actual usage. A person with a shit leg will usually put more weight on their good leg, so a support will either go, on both sides to even it out [such as a rollator/walker or crutches], on the good leg [not that common, don't do this w crutches, or on the bad leg, allieveating pain.

chronic pain. chronic pain sucks, and it often skews with your perception of pain. here are some examples. Footless Jo on YT [fibromyalgia], nearly died from a kidney infection because she thought the pain was normal, my friend E had a concussion and didn't realise for 3 days because of her migraines, and i once dislocated my knee, and didn't realise because i was used to pain.

braces. braces do not alleviate pain completely, but they help a LOT. KT tape is a godsent as well, same with compression items and heat packs.

Every disability is different, and each circumstance is different. Please dm/shoot me an ask for specific scenarios, fic help, questions and advice!

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🦋Playground Part 1🦋

The nsfw pages are now available for free on Gumroad! So if you're impatient, you can read the whole first part of the story in one go 💗

▶️ Here is the link: https://ellenchain.gumroad.com/l/playground_part1

I will still upload all the pages here bit by bit (the tame version 🙃)

Part 1 means that the story is not finished yet; there is still a lot to cum 🍆💦

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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

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heartbreak

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Comfort.

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As a disabled person a lot of the 'Viktor's disability made him who he is, it's an inescapable part of himself, you're a bad person if you strip him of them' makes me feel kind of unwell.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not immune to internalised ableism - something Viktor suffers from in the show- something a lot of less abled people suffer.

BUT- let's look at a couple of things together so I can explain what I'm saying here:

Viktor's Heraldic form features his leg and back brace fused to him. In this aspect they're possibly the only thing that ties Viktor to what the Herald becomes- his last recognisable physical feature (other than the mask).

Viktor's astral form lacks all and any physical disability that we can see. We can assume Viktor chose one of these forms. He did not choose the other. One of these forms was foisted upon him. Jayce stripped his bodily autonomy in the act of bringing him back. It was a selfish choice and one that is aptly explored further on.

"You always wanted to cure what you saw as weaknesses- your leg, your disease. But you were never broken, Viktor. There is beauty in imperfections, they made you who you are."

We are defined by our experiences, by our hardening and toughening up under circumstance. Viktor's experiences shaped him. His disabilities shaped him, as they shape me- as they shape all disabled people.

But please don't confuse that with 'Your disabilities define you.'

I need to impress here that his point is, "All of the bad culminates in who you are, and who you are is beautiful."

As long as this is explored with respect, as long as writers and artists don't sleep on the fact that his disability will always be an inextricable part of his history and his psyche I personally have absolutely no issue with people exploring a more able-bodied version of Viktor. Nor do I see it as ableism. Rather a continuation of his story.

There are right and wrong ways to go about doing this. Remember: If in doubt just...consult a disabled person. There is more nuance to this than 'erasure bad'.

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Arcane butterflies tattoo designs

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Viktor is literally art nouveau

I was looking at Viktor's design in league of legends and it hit me, Viktor in Arcane IS Art Nouveau

Not literally but yes literally in a way lmao

Let me walk you through my thought process

I was looking at the league of legends design, and I thought that the fact that Viktor still had hair was weird if the whole point of Viktor is human bad machine good, then why does he has something as human as hair?

Then I thought about the Arcane Herald design, and it actually made more sense that this Viktor still had hair, why? Just look at his robots

The first thing that called my attention was their shoes, because those aren't normal heels, no, those are heelless heels! and let me tell you

1) Viktor isn't straight (no straight man would know and like those shoes, you can't fool me)

2) That's like the worst shoes you could ask for to fight/run in, do you know how easy is to fall with those shoes? No, they aren't practical, those shoes are merely for visual pleasure

And it doesn't seems like Viktor would be the kind of man that would put looks above functionality but then you think about how his designs in general have a very heavy preference for art nouveau; which, is also very much beauty over function

His robots have the asymmetry, A flowing organic shape, a preference for a feminine figure, the reference to flora on the patterns. They're are art nouveau bots and theres no way to deny that, and Viktor's Herald design is too, to some extent

Again, preference for a feminine figure, flowing organic shapes, his staff looks like a tree (kinda), asymmetry to some extent (not as much a his robots), hair (very important). You can reasonably say that it was at least inspired by art nouveau

Then we have the design of his room/house in the commune, it's pretty much art nouveau inspired too. I've seen some people say that Viktor made this to reference the Hexgates because he missed Jayce, but now I'm thinking, what if it wasn't that he missed Jayce, but more that the Hexgates were originally his design

And listen, I know I know, both worked on the hexgates, both should be credited equally, but realistically, I think it's fair to say that both of them probably had different levels of involvement on different things? So what if Viktor was the one with the original idea for the outside design and Jayce then added the art deco elements? Then Viktor repeated it on the commune with a more art nouveau style simply because he likes it?

And you might ask. Why does it matters? Why does the fact that Viktor likes art nouveau means that he's the personification of art nouveau?

Well; now to the point, I studied a little of art history on college, and I was a bit obsessed with art nouveau back then, and you know what was the goal of it?

Art nouveau was made to bring art to the common person, to have every day objects being a piece of art. It was supposed to get art away from the rich and to give it to everyone. But it failed

And you know why Art Nouveau failed and was quickly abandoned?

Two things, 1) it was too expensive, and 2) World War 1

So ironically Art Nouveau ended up being too expensive to reach the people they wanted to help so it stayed a rich people thing, and then it had to be abandoned almost completely because of WW1; there weren't enough materials to make it and a lot of people that became poor because of the war didn't have the money to spend on it

It was very short lived even when it made a big impact on history (That reminds me of someone)

Now compare art nouveau's history to what happened to Viktor (And Jayce)

They wanted to make magic accessible to the common people, to help; but it ended up being so that Hextech only helped people in Piltover to get richer while people in Zaun got worse and worse

Then something happened, a war, and both Viktor and Jayce had to abandon their dreams

Add to that the name art nouveau means new art, and in Spain it was called "Modernismo" Why? Because it wanted to be the future of art, young, refreshing, a bright future different from the past. Who else wanted to be the future of something? Men of progress who?

Viktor (and Jayce to some extent but I think he's more art deco lmao) IS Art Nouveau. It's his story

(And funnily enough, you can find art nouveau in Zaun, but I don't remember ever seeing art deco in Zaun, while it's the main thing on Piltover)

(Also also, I have some thoughts about Jayce being Art Deco, but that's for maaaybe later lmao)

Listen I'm a death of the author guy, I'm going to find meaning on my own. But either someone in the art department had to know the history of art nouveau and made a point of making it Viktor's main style (because it is Viktor's style, like I showed before), or it's just an extremely funny and fitting coincidence

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