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It's always "Jayce's intellect is how he was able to build his own brace from scraps" and never "Jayce stuffed Viktor's brace that he was able to use that knowledge as a basis for constructing his own brace"

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Family group chat ~ <3

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uppies

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It's kind of crazy how the writers of Arcane literally forgot what happened in their own show/didn't know what happened in their own show. There are several examples of this, especially in season two, but right now I'm thinking about Jinx and Silco. Their relationship is often written off as "Silco was a monster who corrupted and groomed Jinx to be a weapon...but he also loved her," by a majority of the fans and even the writers. It's so easy to take a glance at their relationship and deep it as evil and wicked because it's a relationship between both of the villains in the show and it's not a healthy one. But if you dare to look beyond the surface, you will find that so much of their care and value for one another was sewn into the fabric of not only their scenes together, but in the characters themselves.

I think people genuinely forget that Silco raised Jinx. He took in a little girl and raised her. We never get to see all the moments of tenderness and silliness and fondness. Unfortunately, we only ever see the change between Jinx from act 1 to act 2 in season one and her reintroduction is meant to horrify us. The relationship between Jinx and Silco, arguably, is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. But even though we didn't get to see the formation of their bond, it is so evident in everything they do. Every single decision Silco makes post act 1 is with Jinx in mind. Jinx, in a way, looks up to Silco. To some degree she admires him, to the point where if you watch her animations closely you'll see she mimics certain movements and body languages that we only ever see from Silco. That's what I mean by their love is in the fucking fabric of everything regarding them. Yes, a lot of key parts of their relationship is given to us explicitly in season one but there's also so much of it that is buried in the subtext, in the writing choices, in the animation.

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september my transitioning queen <3

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a new dawn!! kanera designs!!!

p sureee (?) heras jumpsuit is described as skin tight but i dont like that for her soooo made it more in line with her usual silhouette

sorry if you saw this before its back now

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Im going to blow them up with my mind

(Closeups under the cut!) (Also Tumblr always kills the quality, pretty please open the images so that u can see them in all their non-compressed glory 😭)

look at Zebs stipes and Kallus' grey hairs or else I explode

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the plot chickens (becomes scared of its own premise)

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cassian’s “who are you?” to syril is not a thanos “i don’t even know who you are” moment. it is not “for me, it was tuesday” or “the axe forgets but the tree remembers”. because cassian didn’t ruin syril’s life. syril upended CASSIAN’S life, and ruined his own in the process. syril stumbled on on the case of two dead beat cops that the empire could not care less about and told him so to his face, but he was so desperate to prove himself as a useful cog in the empire’s machine that he went against his superiors to make a big show out of apprehending someone who was only trying to get back to his normal life. and it goes horribly. syril fucked up, and he’s fired, and he can’t make himself blame the empire so he becomes fixated on andor, his enemy, this big bad master criminal who escaped justice and ruined his life. it’s an obsession. and years later, in the midst of his disillusionment and regret watching the violence on ghorman he helped bring about, he sees him. cassian andor. and all this rage and resentment that’s been boiling under his skin for years overtakes any thought of the innocents dying and he throws himself into fighting cassian with a brutality that is obviously personal. and he almost wins, he has the gun pointed at him, when cassian looks at him with genuine confusion and asks “who are you?” and syril breaks. because he’s spent so long convincing himself that andor is out to get him, and now he sees that this was just as futile as everything else he dedicated himself to. because andor did nothing to him. and he has to die with that realization.

cassian had far more reason to hate syril than the other way around, but syril was completely unimportant to him because he chose the rebellion and love over resentment and the empire

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Posting this drawing before I regret it 😭

The Reflection of Shattered Silco, or whatever you want to call it.

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maddonna and child - leyendecker study

(also would anyone like this as a print)

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A train ride to nowhere

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Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

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redrew an ancient drawing from 2023 that i see on pinterest once a day

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the dark knight