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Jinx's hallucinations, or lack of them, are retrospectively a glaring symptom of the problems season two has.
She barely has them, and there's really no reason why that I can think of. Her mental health hasn't gotten any better, and even if it had, these things don't just disappear. And why would you get rid of them? They're a big part of her character. The only thing I can think of that makes sense is the writers just... Forgot. Or someone was laid off who was the real brain behind the operation. Or something that vital to her character was just removed for some incomprehensible reason. And that's what the rest of season two feels like, really. There's so many things that were just forgotten or ignored it doesn't seem like any of the same people were involved at all.
its my birthday i get to pick the mindless fluff
Promo pic for my jayvik fanfic The Healer! Summary:
Healing magic - the ability to stitch yours or someone else's wounds together with a touch - spreads, ironically, like a disease. Get healed by someone, there's a small chance you'll become a healer yourself. Perhaps this was intended by a higher power to be a nice gesture. Someone helps you, and then gives you the power to pay it forward.
For Singed, this was an exploitable loophole.
OR: Viktor finds another way to live.
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My star trek OC, Mephistopheles, and his boyfriend Allan (belonging to @joenasx), plus their cowboy AU versions, courtesy of tahoyakiii!
My problem with star trek species redesigns is people always redesign the wrong ones. Ferengi? Cardassians? Vorta? Some of the most interesting aliens in the show and for some reason I keep seeing redesigns of them. You know who really needs a redesign? Betazoids and El-Aurians. Truly the most boring alien designs in all of Trek. Trill and Bajorans too, but I have seen a few redesigns of them, though I always wanna see more. Give me more redesigned Betazoids and El-Aurians!
Not to mention Shimmer is clearly addictive. You know what would happen if the supply for a drug like that suddenly and rapidly dwindled?
Addicts would die of withdrawal.
Those who didn't die would have to spend their life savings getting a fix from the few people who might manage to manufacture Shimmer for themselves or have some left over, who I'm gonna call Shimmer Scalpers. People would kill and rob other people who had Shimmer. Conmen would make fake 'shimmer' to sell to desperate people, then leave them to die and run with all the money.
Eventually, one of the chembarons would probably find out a way to mass produce it and then take control of the lanes, and chances are they might even be worse than Silco, because they might not even care about any cause except their own profit. It takes a privileged, immature mindset to think that removing Shimmer will just make all its problems go away.
Hindsight is 20/20, but I don't think you needed to be psychic to guess that destroying ALL the shimmer supply was a bad idea.
In Act Three it took three whole doctors to save Vi's life after she gets slashed by a Noxian blade across the chest. Yet in s1 it took a single drop of shimmer to save Vi from the deep stab in the gut Sevika gave her without any other form of medical intervention.
There's just a really gross sense of irony that Caitlyn and Piltover at large took away Zaun's main source of medical care (as controversial as it may be), and then put it's people through a meat grinder battle while withholding such care.
It doesn't help that the meat grinder battle was useless ploy for Jayce to get close to Viktor and so a lot of people, specifically Zaunites, died for nothing.
Healing magic - the ability to stitch yours or someone else's wounds together with a touch - spreads, ironically, like a disease. Get healed by someone, there's a small chance you'll become a healer yourself. Perhaps this was intended by a higher power to be a nice gesture. Someone helps you, and then gives you the power to pay it forward.
For Singed, this was an exploitable loophole.
OR: Viktor finds another way to live.
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Jayvik nation pls check out my fic 🙏
Excerpt from a Jayvik fic I'm writing
My problem with people saying two people (two men usually) have a relationship that goes beyond platonic and romantic and can't be labeled is this is always used as a reason why they can't kiss or whatever as if those two things are mutually exclusive
My other arcane hot take is that if anyone in the jayvik pair is asexual, it's jayce. Have you ever actually seen that man initiate a sexual encounter in the show? No. He just rolls with it when it happens. Mel kissed him first. He never takes the lead. He's either a sub, asexual, or possibly both. Also? His name rhymes with ace. I rest my case.
My hot take is that Viktor is not ace, or more specifically, that he was never written to be. You can't write a character as asexual if you don't even know what the word means. That would be like serving me a latte with oat milk instead of soy and saying it IS soy because all of them are just Alternative Milks to you. You got the thing confused with another thing because you don't actually know anything about either of them and as such, no, I do not believe either of them informed your writing process at all.
My hot take is that Viktor is not ace, or more specifically, that he was never written to be. You can't write a character as asexual if you don't even know what the word means. That would be like serving me a latte with oat milk instead of soy and saying it IS soy because all of them are just Alternative Milks to you. You got the thing confused with another thing because you don't actually know anything about either of them and as such, no, I do not believe either of them informed your writing process at all.
Jayce never actually saw any of viktor's attempts to fix himself (e.g. Viktor transmuting his leg) so I don't even know where he got the impression viktor was trying to fix his imperfections. The most he saw was viktor trying to cure himself of a terminal illness. I would say his resilience and determination to take agency over his own failing body is much more part of his character than his lung cancer
Viktor has some kind of mind-reading power, right? That's how he knows random stuff, like that Jinx's old name was Powder.
And Jayce was sent back to our main dimension BY Viktor to persuade Viktor not to do any glorious evolution shit because it doesn't work (because it starts an apocalypse for some reason).
So instead of immediately blasting Viktor, why didn't he just... Let Viktor read his mind so he could understand the consequences of his actions? If I'm not mistaken, didn't he end up doing that in the end anyway?
It's not like he doesn't know it's an ability Viktor has. The other Viktor would have told him. So...???
I think some people are reblogging this under the assumption that I'm talking about the live action httyd movie and not act three of arcane season two. Truth be told the live action httyd looks like such a nothingburger of a film I forgot it existed
Really feeling the same pain as when httyd3 came out right now. They should invent a finale to my favourite things that are good
Really feeling the same pain as when httyd3 came out right now. They should invent a finale to my favourite things that are good
The moral of the arcane season two act three is that if you're suicidal you should just go ahead and kill yourself
In my years in this fandom I've seen a lot of posts that assume Viktor deeply resented Jayce for the time they've spent on hextech or angrily imply he's 'sick of being jayce's assistant' (that's not his job, they're Partners, people.)
so today I bring you a very relevant reel of Viktor in his natural habitat utterly happy in his zone and proud of the work they do together btw. Actual stars in his eyes, if you even care
Tamagotchi style game but it's just you adopting young Viktor and giving him enough food and adequate healthcare and enrichment (building weird shit) so that he grows up a happy and healthy boy
So does he not fight in the pits in the pit fighter AU? I've been lied to. Swindled. Bamboozled. Hornswoggled.
I love the way the pit fighter viktor makeup looks but unfortunately other than the superficial aspect of it I simply cannot get down with a pit fighter viktor au. Get that sick man outta the ring
I love the way the pit fighter viktor makeup looks but unfortunately other than the superficial aspect of it I simply cannot get down with a pit fighter viktor au. Get that sick man outta the ring
Hottest Arcane Character Polls
This poll is not part of the tournament, but does that make it any less meaningful? I don't think so. Reblog for sample size.
(so this is the final we *would have gotten* if there hadn't been that last-minute Vander surge. let's make this count)
Viktor vs. Ekko
The jayvik to meljayvik to melvik pipeline