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"And so it is made clear to me, as it should be to us all: That magic which fuels itself by harming others, by the letting of blood, is hated by the Maker."

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mermaid x fisherman zaundads au!!

explanations/lore below

ok so merman Silco's design is based on betta fish. feel free to look up sick betta pics to see where I was going with damaged Silco design. there's no design for Vander yet mostly cus it's not too different from his canon outfit

so uhm. instead of trying to drown Silco Vander was choking him and not letting him go back in the water hence the damaged gills. there IS a reason (not a valid one tho. not a valid one) Vander assaulted him. might sketch a mini-comic for that later

Silco can speak but when they first meet he's young and doesn't know human language. also mermaid language includes sounds like whistling and clicking and "Silco" is what Vander thinks his name is (he's very close tho)

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Commission art for @viktorniliforv !! It was a challenge and a pleasure to draw!

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Behold his glory

Daily Affirmations:

Cosmic Machine Herald is the most beautiful being

Cosmic Machine Herald is exempt from wrongdoing

Cosmic Machine Herald will free us from suffering

Cosmic Machine Herald will save us from ourselves

My soul belongs to Cosmic Machine Herald

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Tea time with your future little sister 😌

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There was an interesting thread on Bluesky dissecting Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's relationship

TL:DR - It seems like Gaiman has been exaggerating the level of closeness between them for YEARS

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finally get to post what i did for @bg3womenswrongs shout out to my favorite womans wrong

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Wow i can't wait to see the movie

Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

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caitlyn: *takes off her top*

vi: 😯

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Time travelling to Purgatory

i had a thought. what if the journey that ekko, heimerdinger and jayce had could symbolize travelling through purgatory. I'm an Italian Studies major so this will be full on Dante style.

Frst up is Heimerdinger. He goes the furthest into the past because his punishment is to see the part of the world that he failed to help. We know that Heimerdinger is one of Piltover's founders, dude's over 300 years old and he's also immortal. He takes pride in Piltover's accomplishments without magic, so he's more than reluctant to accept Hextech. Ironically, the way in which he let zaunite problems run so deep is the reason Viktor immeadiately thinks that this risky new technology he helped his new buddyboy invent is the ony way to help fellow zaunites and himself. l'm in no way calling Viktor selfless, but he couldn't have known that old men divorce cancellation would surprisingly solve the cities' problems.

Unlike Hell, Purgatory is all about time. You can earn your right to ascend to Heaven only after many years of contemplating your sins. This is exactly what happened to Heimerdinger. He's watching a new Zaun get born and clearly reminiscing on all the ways he failed the Zaun in his timeline. How he neither helped the people who lived there, nor understood them.

There's also an obvious teacher-student trope going on with Heimerdinger and his pupils. His role is not only that of a penetant sinner, but also of a mentor. In "Divine Comedy", Dante's guide through Hell is Virgil, a Roman poet to whom Dante looks up to. Virgil explains the whole hierarchy of Hell and the structure of Purgatory, but at a certain point he can't go further. As soon as they reach Earthly Paradise, which is technically still in Purgatory, Virgil announces that he cannot proceed, because it's forbidden. Virgil goes back to his softcore first level punishment in Hell for good people who weren't Christians. Dante is very distraught by that. Although Virgil clearly didn't die again, it still must have felt just like losing his beloved teacher. There's a similar scene between Ekko and Heimerdinger. He knows that he can't and shouldn't proceed further, so he sacrifices his life for his best student, which obviously saddens Ekko. Heimerdinger dies as a symbol of the old world, a world that is no more.

Jayce is also punished with time to contemplate his mistakes. His thoughts when he's looking at the fire are full of regret. He lost his way, he stopped doing what he thought was right, he let his dream become corrupted. "Divine Comedy" starts with Dante telling us that he's lost his way as well, both literally and metaphorically. It's the reason the entire plot happens.

Jayce has a nasty fall right at the beginning of his extadimensional journey. This is also a punishment of sorts. His hammer, aka the hextech weapon he swore not to make, fractures his leg in a brutal way. After that he's forced to climb up. Movement in Purgatory has the same direction. It's a mountain that you have to climb to reach Paradise. Jayce ends up reaching a Paradise of sorts. The best place in this dead world, that is. The contrast between the highest point in Piltover is stark. It's a vibrant, colorful, peaceful place, unlike the grey wasteland of metal corpse puppets below. Just like Dante, Jayce meets his long lost love in Earthly Paradise. Both Viktor and Beatrice show our heroes what to do next and help them leave Purgatory.

Might be a controversial opinion, but here goes. I don't believe Ekko felt as if he was in a good place where he could stay forever. I wholeheartedly disagree with teary posts such as "he was so strong to leave Heaven behind". How is that Heaven? It looks good enough at first sight, but imagine waking up in a world full of dead people. Sure, getting some closure is nice, but that's the only way to talk to them again. Imagine seeing your dying city thrive and knowing you would never have that in your world. I don't think Ekko was particularly strong for leaving. He could have indulged in that little fantasy for a bit, but he never lost track of what was important. It wasn't his world to live in, so he had to leave. And that is also torture.

Ekko meets his loved one in this world as well. Powder has a pendant in the form of a rose with two people's faces engraved in its petals. Vi and Ekko, two people she loves the most. Rose and love are deeply connected in Dante's work. The last cantos of "Paradise" tells us about a giant glowing rose that stands at the centre of the world. It's glorious, resplendent, beautiful, divine. I can't put into words how cathartic reading that last part is. Believe me when I say that the major part of Paradise is dedicated to describing and proving in a manner that is almost scientific how and why love is at the centre of everything. Love, quite literally, is the reason the Sun shines and the Earth exists.

Ekko loved Jinx, so he came back to her. Jayce loved Viktor, so he came back to him. Love saved the world. Just like in "Divine Comedy", this isn't an idle thing to say. It's a fact.

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some sketch attempts at capturing the essence of V while suffering from a severe case of the jayvik illness.

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for love

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I’m going to be so honest guys i don’t rlly know how tumblr works but here is my jesus and judas inspired jayvik art

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you do realize zaunite au viktor is basically kaz brekker right. it's important to me that you know it

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The Neil Gaiman situation sucks so bad. When I was 14-17, there wasn't an author I liked more. I remember a time when my friend and I agreed to meet at a metro station at a certain time. I ended up lying to my friend that I'm a little late, although I arrived on time, because I just had to finish "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". I was straight up hiding from her underground, leaning on a marble wall and choking back tears. Now I see how he's been a disgusting piece of shit all along and it sucks so bad