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guard dog

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Read this. Seriously. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

God of the Hollow is complete!

Huge thank you to everyone who read, left kudos and comments, and reached out to me about my first-ever fiction! At 66k words in two months, it's been a massive undertaking, and I couldn't have done it without support. Special thanks to @rosewinterborn for editing the last two chapters, and to @e11era for cheerleading in my DMs. I really, really appreciate it!

If you like the idea of Jayce being an apprentice to Old Mage Viktor, please check out God of the Hollow! If you have thoughts or questions about the story, please don't hesitate to send asks or DM me @viktorcultist or @arrowviverra!

Cheers!

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Mel Medarda

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PLEASE tell us more about Jayvik being unhealthy about each other, this needs to be talked about more for... scientific reasons (borderline toxic codependency my beloved)

They're honestly such a fun mix of being adorable silly little nerds who could have so many cute domestic scenes, but there is ALSO that Weird About Each Other vibe lurking over them like a sword of codependent damocles, and it's why I'm SO GLAD I waited to see how Season2 played out before I started writing fic with the intent to post it. Romantic, platonic, the shit they do for/because of each other is WILD no matter what flavor their love takes. You see BITS of it in Season one from Jayce when he ousts Heimerdinger, which is done entirely because Jayce believes the Hexcore can save Viktor from his terminal illness and Heimerdinger is in the way of that. Remember that before Viktor gets his prognosis, Jayce was the one proposing Hextech be shut down due to Jinx stealing a gemstone.

There's nothing that has happened to make Jayce less likely to be concerned about the possible danger of Hextech, and the moment where he asks for Hextech to be suspended shows that he's more likely to believe Heimerdinger's cautions. BUT...that goes out the window with no hesitation when he believes it could save Viktor.

And that's the main thread of their devotion to each other, the willingness to put each other before anyone and anything else, including each others wishes. Jayce is at first the most obvious one when he jumps right to breaking his promise to destroy the hexcore so he can save Viktor's life with it. Yeah, he didn't know that it killed Sky at this point, so the betrayal does not seem as dire to him as it would to Viktor at this point, BUT...considering everything else they do, I think knowing about Sky would maybe add like...thirty seconds to Jayce's decision making process. Shooting Viktor isn't just an act to save the world, though that does weigh on him. It's part of saving Viktor from himself, and only done because VIKTOR told him to. It, at first, seems like Jayce is the one with this more unhealthy devotion, where he's willing to put Viktor above everything else, including Viktor's wishes. Viktor is the one who leaves with the goal to pursue ways to actually help people, after all. He is, in that moment, able to put their dream over Jayce. BUT...this moment is Viktor's version of Jayce asking for hextech to be suspended. The snapping point for Jayce was the threat of Viktor dying, remember. (Also Viktor is ready to take Jayce back the SECOND Jayce shows back up. I would bet good money that a solid six-ish months of hearing NOTHING from Jayce spooked him right out of that assertion that their paths had fully diverged lmao) Then we get that phenomenal reveal that Viktor is knowingly dooming timelines, knowingly setting them on a path towards calamity and mutually assured destruction again and again, all with the goal of stopping himself from ending Jayce in a way that keeps their fates connected. Even if that means risking Jayce getting destroyed by him again and again when it doesn't work. And yaknow. Great story. EXCELLENT Literary Romance right there. Definitely not aspirational for real life in the slightest lmaooo

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I was thinking about the anomaly and why things associated with it look the way they do. Especially the scene inside Warwicks mind has a really organic, almost fleshy feel to it. So I crafted a little theory of how the arcane, and by proxy Viktor represents the organic/chaos and Jayce represents the artificial/order (and vice versa, cause they always mirror eachother anyways) This theme mostly shown visually throughout the show and I believe, one time hinted at when Viktor mentions "The sublime intersection between order and chaos." Let's start with THE visual metaphor for order in the show, which is, of course the gear. Why? Because a gear is by default something that does not occur in nature - it's man made, a symbol for tech, machines, and progress. It most prominently appears here:

So when Jinx shoots the cannon into the council chamber, she literally smashes the "order", represented by the gear of the council table, which is later repaired with gold, showing how things can be fixed, but are forever changed by said chaos. I also found it really interesting, that when Viktor and Jayce are floating, Jayce is the one that playfully pushes a gear through the magic - which, at this point, does not corrupt it, showing how the artificial and the organic are in harmony at that moment. Later, Viktor remembers Jayce by the gear, that has by then become corrupted, and when he gets shot, rolls out of his hand, symbolizing the loss of the last remaining piece of this fusion. On the other hand, the corruption of the anomaly has by this point literally become a piece of jayce - and his hammer, formerly artificial and orderly, has been changed into what resembles a butterfly (again, chaos & nature)

Which brings me to the visual representation in their physical appearance: Jayce starts out quite clean looking. His hair, his white coat, the almost geometric lines - everything is perfectly orderly. I also think his proficiency as a tool maker plays into associating him with artificiality and order - literally bending things into shape by force. The gear also appears behind him on the men of progress mug.

Viktor on the other hand is physically impacted by the (cruel) chaos of the natural world - his body is twisted, asymmetrical and also, dying. I think his whole arc in Season 1 has many moments showing how death is inseparable from the natural world - it is, as Singed points out, part of his subjects. I think the colour palette is also important - the hexcore is purple and black, representing death, while the anomaly is very colourful, representing life or maybe even chaos. Both are linked together by this web like structure, that ties in the organic aspect.

Arcane wouldn't be Arcane if things didn't get mixed up at some point. I think chaos, while not manifesting physically in the beginning, was always part of Jayces mind, while Viktor in his, always wished for order/control over his own body. Commune Viktor sort of exists in an in between state - all the imagery surrounding him is very organic - while his body has become hardened and artificial (by Jayces hand no less). The further he gets in the glorious evolution, the more machine like his body becomes - while Mage Viktor seems to have again embraced the organic, as can be seen by the landscapes that surround him.

Overall, I think it's really interesting how the show visually plays with those two elements and making a point of fusing them together many times, in a way that sometimes appears harmonious (aka the commune) but ultimately is doomed to fall apart.

I think even more than chaos and order, it also represents science and nature - how one tries to shape the other, but can ultimately only go so far. If Hextech is the attempt to fuse them, then real Magic transcends them - just like Viktor and Jayce visually fuse together in pieces throughout the show, but then finally transcend together. Updated: I just found another interesting example of this, in this shot. On the left you can see Skys notebook (containing plans to clean the Undercitys air using plants) - contrasted with the plans for hextech weapons and again, the man of progress mug on the right.

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Arcane speed date: Zaun VS Piltover 🔥 🔥🔥

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Jayvik, the missing years 1\2

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You know how it is widely recognized that when Jayce is in the AU, his journey there mirrors Viktors? The damage to his leg, starving and having to climb his way from the bottom to the top of piltover in a broken body?

Well I just realised that Viktors time in the commune sort of mirrors Jayces time as a councilor. Not exactly of course but I think it is interesting how Jayce gains power in S1, while Viktor loses his, but then it is reversed in S2 with Jayce losing everything and Viktor becoming powerful (physically and as the leader of the commune). So just like Jayce becomes the man of progress, because it is what Piltover needs, Viktor becomes a healer, because it's what the Undercity needs.

I also like how Salos presence kind of emphasizes this transfer of power - switching from the council with Jayce in S1 to being in the commune with Viktor in S2. So yes, you could say they are two "sides" of the same coin - but I think it's more like they are both each side of that coin, at different times. (There is also something to be said about Skys presence in S2, when you look at it from this lense, but I have not fully formed my thoughts regarding this yet and will save it for another post)

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This is Viktor, Viktor loves his personal space.

And this is Jayce, he also loves Viktor's personal space

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Spoon 2di vol 120

Art by Utsumi Hiroko

At by Kamoi Tomoyo

Congrats on releasing the OVA!! Please enjoy every single part of it! *caution: the cigarette is just part of my own personal fantasy (It's not lit yet)

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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

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chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

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If any one of my posts is to break containment, make it this one.

Before January 2025, download your favorite fics, especially those with smut or queer content.

If Project 2025 goes into effect (which it very likely will now that we have three red branches of government in the US), they may attempt to restrict the use/sharing of media on sites like ao3.

This particularly applies to fics with smut or any type of queer content, because the official Project 2025 document states, "Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance... has no claim to First Amendment protection... Pornography should be outlawed."

Now, I don't expect ao3 to disappear or go anywhere without a fight, but it's best to be on the safe side these days.

To download your favorite fics:

Go to archiveofourown.org and open the fic you want to download.

At the top right corner, to the right of the 'subscribe' button, is a button that says 'download'. Click it.

A drop-down menu will give you the option to choose the format of your download. Choose your preferred format (.epub and .pdf are my personal favorites -- .epub lets you open a fic in the apple books app and .pdf is compatible with like every device and program out there).

When you click the button for your preferred format, a pop-up window appears confirming your choices. The title of the document will default to the title of the fic, so be aware of that and consider changing conspicuous titles to something ignorable, especially if you share the computer.

You're done! Now do this with all your favorite fics!

Stay safe out there, your favorite characters are rooting for you <3

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Thank you so much for trusting me with this scene SB. This commission was also a very rare bright spot for me to engage with in less than ideal times.

--- Now oh gentle readers go read or reread this gem of a source fic from past SenshiShitennou server Bangs at the AO3 link above! 🥰

a glorious commission from @bowldeepfannish -- the second scene from Last October, my apocalyptic Sailor Moon future fic, starring Nephrite and Endymion.

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Things are hard right now and the art block has been real so I made a little comfort art… enjoy some brooding modern Kunzite from my AUs 🫂

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Shoma Uno and Yuzuru Hanyu with the Olympic rings @ Olympics 2022 FS

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The Lady and the Unicorn  is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries created woven in Flanders from wool and silk, from designs drawn in Paris around 1500. The set, on display in the Musée de Cluny in Paris, considered one of the greatest works of art of the Middle Ages in Europe.

"According to my only wish."

"The lady with the unicorn. Hearing"

"The lady with the unicorn. Touch"

"The lady with the unicorn. Smell." 

"The lady with the unicorn. Vision"

"The lady with the unicorn. Taste"