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more traditional art

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the aformentioned apple trend

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⋆☀︎.☁︎‎‎⋆.

HL2 Ep 1 turned 19 years old, god time flies. To celebrate it, have a render of Gordon and Alyx. (I shipped them since I was a kid huehahdFJE) I know I'm late but who cares?

Reblogs are appreciated!

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Waned to pick my color pencils back up for a long time, finally had a reason to do it. Mwah!

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Alyx and Gordon boxing them oranges on a supply run

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I haven't been in the fandom long but after learning of the Freemance wars, I have something to say.

The interpretation that Gordon Freeman is grooming Alyx Vance or is a predator in some way is laden with misogynistic undertones when you take the time to think about it.

"Surely this grown woman cannot make decisions for herself about who she likes. She must be being manipulated by a white man! We have to protect her from herself!"

It's deeply infantalizing and horrifically misogynistic. Alyx is 24 years old. Dr. Freeman is physically and mentally 27 years old. The notion that she is being manipulated completely strips her of her autonomy.

Does a woman choosing to like a man scare you? Does it scare you so much that you have to turn against her and make her out to be a helpless and naive victim in order to make it better? Pathetic.

It's not protective. It's sexism packaged as modern sensibility and completely deprives a grown adult woman of her agency, sexual autonomy, and maturity.

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Move Gordon its my turn.

Ps. Hope this aint hella vivid cuz what i see on my monitor is not the same on phone so i end up tweaking it a lil so hopefully anyone with oled type of screens dont get blinded by how saturated it would be💀

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haven't seen this be done with them before im taking the freemance risk

this trend thingy

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Happy birthday to me 🎉🎉🎉

Now I'm 21 lol

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근데 이 둘이 진짜 맛있음 걍

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Alyx Vance appreciation post bc despite being a main character with her own game, she doesn't get enough love ❤️💕❤️💕❤️

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A nice proper Alyx!

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Would be cool if people stopped trying to assign random male figures to alyx as her father figure. Eli is literally still alive.

Kinda uh weird to skip over that and , maybe unintentionally???, assign her white ass men as her dad when her actual father is alive.

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Yeesh, I hope one day Half Life 3 come out, and Valve will make a Freemance kiss scene (and maybe something more, hehehe) and all freehouners explodes 😈

These people are going to be very disappointed.

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Shipping Gordon and Alyx ✨🥰❤️‍🔥😎💘

Shipping Gordon and barney 🤢🤮☠️🤡

Shipping Gordon and Alyx 🤮

Shipping Gordon and Barney 🤯✨🎉❤️‍🔥

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I was bored, heh...

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I ship Freemance because Alyx Vance is a well written interesting character and her affection for Gordon feels believable because SHE is believable as a person. You have to lay that foundation first. They have to be believable people for them to believably care about someone.

I can feel her affection for Gordon because I can feel her humanity as a person. She's not just some person with 7 whole lines of dialogue in the whole game and disappears after episode 1.