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FLASHING WARNING

i know im the billionth person to do something like this but whatever!!! whatever !!!!

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I won't swear it, I fail!

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Reminding myself i can do something besides animation 😅

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SPOILERS: Optional Act 5 Content

WARNINGS: Accidental/Non-conventional Self harm.

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Warnings apply here on out!

"Stars!~"

MAN, I'VE HAD THIS IN MIND FOR AGES- As I made my first post about this AU, I mentioned I had a glass equivalent in mind- AND YEAH, I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE THIS SINCE THEN.

I wanted to make the glass equivalent something related to the change belief- Since Sif's isn't only a random piece of glass, it's also connecting back to their belief. And I remembered the key on the first floor and it felt too perfect. In this hypothetical event, you'd just need to interact with the cabinet twice.

I just had to draw it, god forbid I rely only on writing to carry my concepts.

Here's a little snippet from the script that didn't make it in due to how I formatted it tho!!

(Second squeeze.) (…) (CRACK!) Isa: ow ow ow- (The tough shell pieces stab into your skin) Bonnie: WHAT!? Mira: Isabeau! Odile: Ah, so it's still brittle, but the shell is tougher. (Mirabelle takes the shards out, and heals you) Isa: A bit of both then! Bonnie: Za must have done it wrong and hurt himself that way! (Bonnie looks at you and your messy hand.) Bonnie: Ah… Um… Sorry, Za. (You ruffle Bonbons hair. They're trying!)

Just some of Isa's thoughts didn't make it into the comic is all.

MASTERPOST

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happyyy new year guys!!! 🎉🎉🎉 perhaps i will finally draw this year hwjahajakaaja

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i promised you 🦋

(crossposting from x, bsky, & ig)

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A little pre-relationship labru comic based on this headcanon from mayora :D

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Dropping into the Mel convo to add that I don't see how the stans that erase/ignore the Things She Actually Does And Says and claim she was just helping Jayce out of the goodness of her heart can claim that anyone pointing out that she's a billionaire imperialist who manipulated him for her own gain is racist when THEY'RE the ones claiming she spent all of season 1 helping a nonblack man for. idk. reasons. Why is it "better" for her to be a Black woman who supported a man and asked for nothing in return...?

That reading of her makes everything with her mother make no sense. Is she like, just mad her mom is interfering with her ability to Support and Love Jayce? Lmao.

The reading that the text and the inherent set up of the politics of Piltover/Zaun supports is a complex woman with her own personal motivations, wanting to live up to the image of the family she believes shunned her on her own (nonviolent) terms, using the craft of social engineering (manipulation, etc) within the political and economic sphere rather than through weaponry and warfare. She starts to shift due to growing some actual attachment to Jayce, but it's not a perfect switch flip, and then her mother arriving forces Mel to contend with what she had actually been doing by "preparing" the city for her family.

That's infinitely more interesting than "oh she just helped this guy out of the kindness of her pure heart and because he's hot" and also has canonical basis that can be pointed to In The Text. That's a complicated, multifaceted character. The fanon Mel who just helped Jayce because she's a good person is a flat, tired trope.

And personally, I find people who "love" characters but have completely inaccurate readings of them to be far more annoying than people who "hate" characters but understand them perfectly. Love/hate is just a matter of taste. If someone can spend time honestly analyzing a character, that's more important than ten thousand blandly positive comments or tweeted out fanfictions dressed up as appreciation.

Paragraph #2 on this actually blindsided me like I could kiss you on the cheek (consensually) rn I've never been able to properly articulate WHY the take rankled me so much even when I tried to see it from a completely best-possible-intentions perspective. And this gets it. It's like you're not even flattening her into a girlboss caricature, it's worse, you're actually making her a 2D saccharine pastry servant with no will of her own except furthering some man's narrative as his mommy and denying the one massive, defining character conflict Mel has in the entire show: she is her mother's daughter! She IS a wolf in sheepskin!

When you have all this power, all this privilege and resources at your disposal from day 1, and you choose to look the other way - what happens then? Is this really being kinder than her mother? Is this being merciful, or just prolonging a sort of system-wide torture? It's absolutely relevant to how we see kid-Mel in that flashback from s1 too. Her idea of mercy and salvation from her mother's more violent ends is to enslave someone. She puts it in gentle terms and dresses it up fancily as a beneficial thing to both parties, but that is what she is proposing, in the context of the Noxus' hostile invasion of Ionia; they'd chain that princess and mold her in training until she became an useful asset in their service. Is that kindness? Is that good? I don't think Mel is able to answer to this even in her big age during season 1.

She certainly thinks it could be, when compared to death, but it's also a lie she tells herself while she ignores the rest of the world and the place she holds within it. Mel hates getting her hands dirty, because she's never /had/ to do that to enjoy the brilliant spoils of success; her mother loves her enough to make sure she could avoid the bloodshed. She carries the strategist's fallacy of thinking whole wars and countries can be managed from the privileged seats up top, out of touch with the blood and gristle. From up there, when people die you don't see it. You can mark the numbers off as necessary collateral damage in the path to Exponential Growth.

The core assumption that has always bothered me is defining this as 'kindness' without actually examining what it says about her character and the story. She was created that way for a reason. She was clothed in this way for a reason. The first fact we learn about Mel in the first episode she appears in is that she is the richest person in the entire city, and then there is a 10 year timeskip, and she hasn't truly done anything to address or prop up the undercity at all (they are ONE city too, under her own philosophy; Zaun is only a separate entity in the mouths of the zaunites who want freedom.) In that context, when her goal of statecraft clearly is to continue advancing Piltover as much as it can be advanced and do nothing about the screaming bleeding diseased dying hordes below the bowels of her capital - is that goodness? Is that really better than mother? I think Mel's arc is about finding out really quickly and really horrifically that it isn't, and that she played a big part in making a lot of things worse.

It's not that she failed at her job, it's quite the opposite. She succeeded in her mission so incredibly well her mother could swoop into power in a single day and then put another hundred necks to the blade, no sweat, and Mel has to reckon with what that says about her, and what she thought of herself. The power she has obviously always had and never sought to use as it Should have been used.

The idealistic future-path here is that now in full control of her Mother's armies, she's returning to Noxus to challenge the predatory system it perpetuates on a world scale, but only god knows what we'll see come January. And all of this is infinitely more interesting to me than docile fandomized ship accessory n.9999

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arcane package doodles! lots of jayce this time, nature is healing ☺️

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episode 9 deleted scene

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In all timelines, in all possibilities

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We finish this together.

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Thinking about how Jayce stared at his hands as they were beginning to glow, he knew it was over for him that he was going to be sucked into the hivemind. And the last thing he wanted to tell viktor, what he wanted to make sure viktor knew, was that he always thought viktor was perfect just the way he was. That there was beauty in his imperfections, that he was beautiful.

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thinking about viktor talking about fate last act... about being pulled by an invisible hand, and now knowing that it was viktor who also literally orchestrated them to meet and IS the invisible hand my god they are literally each others destinies i cant TAKE IT ANYMORE

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I want for this to happen pls

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can we pretend none of S2 ever happened

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Breakthrough