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Is there anything so undoing, as a daughter?

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its unreal how all of my favorite characters have exactly the same traits and hobbies and diagnoses as me

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Unpopular(?) opinion, but I’m not really interested in learning what exactly led to Vander’s violent betrayal of Silco, and I think it’s totally possible to have a good flashback-heavy Vander/Warwick storyline in s2 without ripping that particular wound wide open for the audience to dissect.  Not only would a concrete explanation lead to exhausting discourse over who was “right” and probably retroactively undermine the emotional impact of Silco’s story, but also, like … I think the most generous assumption to make rn is that the writers just never intended to expand on this beat, because otherwise it’d be really concerning that a story editor’s explanation of the timeline totally contradicts what we see on the screen.  Even if said explanation was just some long-retracted story idea seeping into an impromptu AMA, I don’t like the idea of having to entertain Word of God like this until the “true” canon is revealed.  We saw glimpses of a conflict that clearly took place long before the bridge incident and were given the space and respect, by canon, to fill in the blanks ourselves — that’s all we really need to understand the tragedy.

That’s not to say that Arcane should never fill in the blanks when the current product is perfectly functional as-is — for example, I really hope we get a glimpse of Kino Medarda and at least learn why he “crossed the wrong man,” even if it’s not necessary information to understand the Medardas and Noxian politics going forward — but I think some of Arcane’s best writing lives in those blank spaces.  It’s part of why the timeskip works so well, how just a few short scenes get us up to speed on the radically changed world and character dynamics.  Sometimes too much context is just a burden, or at least superfluous, and distracts from emotional and thematic points.

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comm for lokichan2004 (on twitter) of her beautiful bardic duo, Lukan and Theo 🎶

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comm for @/mentally__chill on twitter of their hot demon daddy, Alastor,, playing with his food,,, yeah!

(adult ver here, Alastor's toyhouse here)

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hunger.

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🌆 🌆 🌆 (dusk belongs to @velkyr )

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“Callbacks”

a short serraveira comic <3

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comm about Avy, Ang and Astarion on a train trip to see eggplants and eat some cake 🙏😌 for @bunnidarling and @thatcerealkiller (thank you sm again, guys! ❤️)

(eggplant-less ver here)

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copenhagen 🏳️‍🌈💖

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meow

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woof woof

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dublin 🏳️‍🌈

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!!!

this time opening comms i decided to value my time and sanity a bit more, so from June 24th to August 30th i will work only on 1 comm piece per week

which means im opening 10 slots in total this summer. you're free to DM me about comms anytime so i can reserve one of the upcoming weeks for you. we can talk payment details etc further in DMs, so don't be afraid to reach out <3