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Not gonna lie this gives Hello Fellow Kids energy. Just a little...

Made this as a little gift for the 100k subs on youtube! But have been thinking on doing an animatic/animation reel too. Probably gonna do it after New Years tho!

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https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/fb2/ANG/Events/2024/Welcome_to_the_Omegaverse__Zine_.pdf

This is a masterpiece. Everyone needs to read this.

This is the uni of Germany's oldest city, founded in 16 BC...

The knot sits deep people

You are telling me... that the Universität Trier, a German UNIVERSITY, that first opend in 1473

Has an accessible file on the Omegaverse?!?!?!

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You are telling me... that the Universität Trier, a German UNIVERSITY, that first opend in 1473

Has an accessible file on the Omegaverse?!?!?!

EXPLAIN YOURSELF, UNI TRIER!!

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I know we hate long posts on this site but here's a quick collection of everyone official I could find supporting JayVik and a Viktor who fucks

Interview with Fortiche animator Andres Derakhshani spilling the tea on what the story team intended and examples of his loud support for JayVik as a romantic couple [twt screenshot source) — The TLoU episode he's referring to is episode 3, which depicts a beautifully written explicit sexual and romantic gay relationship

2. Fortiche animators Camille Leto and Côme Roy making and sharing their own (Mel)JayVik art [source] / [source]

3. Viktor's character designer Monteiro

4. Riot games creative director is a hardcore JayVik shipper (all she's been posting lately is JayVik art -> https://x.com/riotmoosey)

5. Fortiche animator FeeReroo on Twitter endorsing JayVik art and posting their own

6. Official League of Legends TikTok

7. Jayce's voice actor

8. Mel's voice actress (she also likes a lot of JayVik fanart on insta)

9. Official League of Legends account for the UK, Ireland & Nordics

10. Official Netflix Geeked account

11. Official Arcane account

12. Official Netflix Poland & Netflix Brazil (thanks @midnightcatharsis)

Bonus: Viktor's voice actor reading fanfic

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Jayce has two hands and he seems like the kind of man to be very happy to use them....

If not, I also have two and won't mind stepping in :D

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Jayce has two hands, no need to fight

𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧

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Oh Viktor... same girl, same

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Very very very experimental doodle of a possible Poseidon design for those in my ask box requesting to see my take wahaha

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My childhoods ruined

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This is what I hope I look like (but I know I don't)

meeee

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We deserve all the fixits!!!!!

Thank you to every artist who provides those!!!!

Lil fixit? Jayvik comic

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Can you give me the address? I would very much like to live there!

A Visit from Above✨

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They are soulmates, your honor.

I agree, it doesn't really matter in which case, their storyline was beautiful and the fanart that came out of it is gorgeous.

All I know is they love each other and I can happily with that. Ao3 can do the rest when I crave a certain continuation!

I've mentioned it before, but their final scene was so incredibly intimate and I think an actual kiss or actual canon romantic or sexual act would've taken away part of the intimacy and this ambiguity leads to much more wide spread interpretations and head canon coninuation, fanart, fanfics etc.

Their final scene gave me everything I wanted from them in the show

asking sincerely. do you see a romance between jayce and viktor? do you think they ended up being something romantic at the end?

With apologies I am going to only half talk about the thing you are asking me, since I have something else on my mind and you happened to hit the button that makes me vomit it into words.

Coming at this from an aromantic perspective, I obviously don't experience the state of absurd obsessive delusion that you bizarre romantic freaks fetishize so feverishly*, but I am often annoyed by the idea that friendship and romance are either opposites or mutually exclusive. From my perspective, the boundary between the two is at best thin, and more realistically not actually a boundary at all except by cultural construction.

*i am taking an excessively hostile, crass tone for my own amusement i do not mean this seriously please be normal at me, weird allo freaks

I won't get into my full feelings about the end of Arcane, but it seems perfectly plain to me that the script, the imagery and the animation presents Jayce and Viktor as two halves of a whole, not opposing forces but alike to yin and yang: opposites which each contain the other. And at the climax of the show, the greatest peril to life and peace in the narrative is resolved by these two men literally joining their bodies and souls together, and going into eternity holding one another for comfort and strength. They are quite literally soulmates, quite literally the most important people in one another's lives.

I don't think that that kind of intimate emotional connection between men must necessarily be either romantic or sexual - I am aromantic, and plenty of ace people exist, and there is nothing in our natures excluding us from intense connections of love with other people of any gender.

I also think it is willfully ignorant (and genuinely homophobic) to act as though these deep connections are mutually exclusive with sex and romance. As though if Viktor and Jayce fucked nasty and made out sloppy style, suddenly their intimacy is less pure or valid, or tainted somehow.

"If these two men who are emotionally close to one another also fuck or get romantically involved, then friendship is dead, murdered on the floor by a dick-shaped knife; vile sexuality corrupts and debases the true, pure and virtuous love of ✨friendship✨" <- This shit is homophobic at a baseline, queerphobic in general, and frankly as an aromantic man I find it pretty fucking insulting as well.

What, are my friendships with other men just inherently more pure and divine, more meaningful and true than a gay man's can ever be, because I will never suffer the vile temptation of adding romance to my affection? Is that how I should think of myself? And is an aroace man more pure than me still, the only source of TRUE male friendship that a man can ever experience, free from the pustulant corruption of sexuality and romantic desire?

You get this pathetic defensiveness (especially from men, but other genders aren't immune) wherein sex and sexuality and romance between men is perceived as a threat to men's right and ability to experience deep connection to each other. But the emotional castration of men comes not from people imagining sex and romance as a component of our relationships - it comes from people who insist that our emotional lives must be ruled by strict binaries. Sex and romance, OR ELSE friendship. Deep romantic connection OR ELSE deep platonic connection. Pick one and do not dare to imagine both, nor act as though the boundary between them is something that we built by cultural fiat, and which can be dismantled just the same.

And yes, yes, yes, I know there are cultural forces literally illuminati-style conspiring to systemically erase the entire existence of explicitly romantic, sexual male love from media, and I know that homophobic puritanism is on the rise and there are material concerns and a real necessity for explicit representation in fiction, yes I know. Everything is more complicated than a tumblr post can cover, I am not trying to Solve Rainbow Capitalism™ over here, I am trying to express frustration as an aromantic man that this stupid fucking binary keeps getting culturally reinforced by both my enemies and my well-meaning allies, when I think the binary is what's fucking killing us in the first place.

So anyway. My position is that Viktor and Jayce can be entirely aromantic no-homo friends, and they can fuck nasty in the throes of mutual need and obsession, and I refuse to entertain the idea that there is an irresolvable contradiction between those things. Each of those can contain the other, or become the other given time and circumstance.

What the imagery, storytelling and script of Arcane makes clear is that Viktor and Jayce love each other more than life itself. To say that that love must be shoved into the box of either "platonic" or "romantic" is to miss out on almost everything that is beautiful about love. It can be both and neither! It can be a secret third, ninth or fifteenth thing that they haven't invented a tag for on Ao3 yet.

They are giving each other whatever the spiritual mind-ghost equivalent of sloppy backshots are on the ethereal plain forever, they are the most romantic lovers in the cosmos, and they are also the most chaste and platonic life-partner friends you have ever seen, effortlessly intimate and unashamedly tender. They are men who love one another, in every way that love matters.

You can pick whichever interpretation brings you joy, and resonates with what your heart needs, the text of the show is eminently and explicity open to it, and anyone who says otherwise either failed to pay attention, or refused to pay attention on purpose.

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Wdym when I was 12???? I still do that today

I'm a broke college student, all I can pay for are low quality slime tutorials

Something so funny about theatre is that half of all theatre kids are criminals. When you were 12 you watched a recording of Hamilton that someone took on their iPod touch? Fucking jail.

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Jacob, gimme life, I need it

JACOB CUSTOS 1/??

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So many lives could've been saved... but so many iconic moments would've been lost

No no let him talk

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What have you done to me Arcane?!?!

“oh yes, i am very reasonable and normal about this subject!!”

*proceeds to mass reblog any related content*