#actually kinda digging it

[sketchyandsketches]

decided to train bg skills since i'm often too lazy and i did a more sketchy illustration and I'm lowkey loving it despite it defo not bbeing my usual style

anyway, have Luke in his caveshrine

[floweroflaurelin]

We’ve seen Gem, so here are the Scotts!

When it comes to Smajor, I wanted him to be Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss all in one… For Impulse I wanted him to be the friendliest guy you’ve ever seen 🥰

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[annymaght]

Something I wanna talk about with Kenji's character in Chaos Theory is the recurring theme of Claustrophobia.

Mickieart, who designed the interior of Kenji's trailer, said that they designed it to feel minimalist but also claustrophobic.

(By mickieart on Instagram)

When Kenji has his panic attack after losing his dad, he tries to open the door despite the car not having even stopped yet.

Claustrophobia is a really strong way to convey Kenji's emotional state.

He feels trapped in his current life, having lost Brooklynn, then Darius when he hid from everyone, and his dad is in a halfway house. Not only does he feel isolated, conveyed geographically, but he can't escape that mindset that everyone around him is disappearing and he can't reach them, either because of death or resentment.

He must also feel trapped in the feelings he still has for his father, that he still loves him even after everything, which is why he lives so close to him. But of course these feelings haven't quite risen to the surface yet.

So when he dies, those feelings boil up and he becomes even more claustrophobic than before.

Kenji trying to open the door in that scene is a small action that speaks volumes. Amazing.

[avelera]

Viktor and Jayce both need to take some non-STEM classes

I'm joking but also a little not-joking that this is in fact, a theme in the show.

In Season 1.08, Ambessa meets Jayce for the first time after he's become a councilor. One of the first questions she asks him is, "Do they teach military history at your Academy, Mr. Talis?"

Jayce takes this as a set up for an insult against him. He's rattled by the bathhouse and braced for a fight. He's so riled, in fact, that he completely misses what Ambessa is probing him for there.

Ambessa wasn't setting him up to make him feel small, like Jayce feared, she wanted to know if he had a military history background or even the beginnings of the skills needed as an engineer to understand or counter some of the political manipulations she's about to pull on him.

Jayce answers: I'm not sure.

Not only has Jayce never taken a military class, he as a scientist doesn't even know if his school offers it.

That made him easy pickings for Ambessa. She wouldn't even need to be subtle, she could use the most basic tricks in the book against a proud young man with only a scientific background and know he wouldn't even begin to have the tools to pick up let alone counter what she's doing to him.

And then we get to Viktor in S2. Now, I think "How much of Cult Leader Viktor is even Viktor?" is a fair question. But the whole Machine Herald ethos he seems to be working towards in his inner monologue in 2.06 is yet another example of "Won't someone PLEASE make these boys take some sort of liberal arts class? An ethics course? SOMETHING?"

Viktor is working his way (Hexcore influence or no) to the conclusion that many frustrated young activists have hit upon when their activism doesn't work.

He tried to help people. But people didn't want to be helped or didn't cooperate with the way he wanted to help them.

His conclusion? Clearly it's the people who are wrong. It's the people who need to be changed.

To quote Pratchett, "“People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.”

And of course, once you start to see people as the problem, that people need to be fundamentally changed, added, or subtracted from, when you treat people as things, that is when the real evil begins.

You have to accept people as they are and work within those bounds, because otherwise you have to change people and that pretty much always leads to the sort of atrocities that the Machine Herald seems gearing up to do. Namely, add and subtract away the people, or the characteristics of people, that don't fit his vision for the world.

And all I can think is: won't Piltover Academy please for the love of god make your tech bros take some goddamn history and philosophy classes please??

[fraternum-momentum]

fucking kill me

[petrodragonicapocalypse]

losing my mind over stu's outfit last night bro really had us believing that the only clothes he packed for tour were 2 tank tops and a couple pairs of jeans for 13 shows and then on the 14th he randomly decided to cosplay a bottle of pepto bismol

[rocketbirdie]

Cloud Strife

1 in 3 chance for each played 7 to create a Planet card when scored.

[dusty-siltstrider]

In my quest to keep myself distracted from the temptation of watching leaks I finally started digging into league Machine Herald lore and how come none of y'all never told me league lore is actually amazing wtf

Like not only is jayvik the funniest shit ever with this new context but also Viktor is genuinely very conflicting and my brainrot for him has only increased. Watched a 20 min video and I was actually captivated.

Bro really helped a sad kid by giving him a treat and a brain implant and telling him to go beat the shit out of his bullies. He canonically heats up food with his goofy shoulder arm. Man fell into depression and got even more depressed over the concept of being depressed. He drinks choccy milk. Jayce saw him as a friend and Viktor thought he was "flamboyant and arrogant." I adore him. We are all league Viktor on this day.

[deerspherestudios]

I kept thinking about what if Mychael found the MC’s cat. (Kinda imagine him treating said kitty like one of his chickens)

Idk I feel like animals would just love him (like he’s a Disney princess or something hehe)

[luckyartdrawer]

One shot collection :3

Ch 1. Fashion/Model AU

vvvv Summary, extras, and yapping (as usual) below! vvvv

Sun and Moon are not related and have more of a rivalry and frienemy dynamic. They're definitely close to one another, but get on each other's nerves easily, especially over you! ;)

If you don't like love triangles, this might not be for you. I'd say it's closer to a true love triangle (where it's reciprocated on all sides) but it's the stage where everyone is just friendly with each other.

⚠️ Warning!: There is some suggestive dialogue and heavy flirting, as well as minor use of cussing and slightly suggestive actions. This is SFW, just a bit spicy.

Sketch

i was so proud of the arms that I took a progress screenshot-

I adore these goobers so much. They got such a good dynamic but I got no story for themmmmm AAA

Still, wanted to draw them. Killing two birds with one stone by putting the fic with the art lol. I might do that with all the one shots, since it's unlikely to be repetitive work...

Hm

I might sneak back to this post and clean up the art when no one is looking heheehe-

It's just really late when I'm posting and I wanted to get something out for comment day. Gonna make sure to do my part in both aspects ✨

Still working on my other fics btw. I'm just dedicating myself to at least almost finish some of em before I start posting regularly again. <3

[zipzaptoastainthebath]

i really love how the whole tss fandom never stopped drawing virgil with purple hair. Thomas hasn't had it for a long time but it lives on forever in the way we all got so attached to virgil with the purple hair

[eggsistential-breakdown]

he's got the power of observation! very quick and dirty ian done to destress between skimming dozens of papers trying to find something i could reasonably replicate by myself this semester. based off that one marypsue post about how if he inherited any abillities it would be that always watching shtick

[tekstelart]

He has consumed my life I'm not sorry

[juustozzi]

this time it's alright to let things go.

[somnimagus]

you are worth all the struggle and bloody mess

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