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Aabria’s visceral reaction to The Bus is even funnier when you remember The Nasty Bear.

Someone put Aabria reacting to The Bus and The Bear into one of those “No to this, Yes to that” meme formats.

I’d do it but I’m too busy lying flat on my back on the couch eating Cheez-Its at 9 pm.

PS: Its very important that the “Yes to that” photo be that one screengrab of her saluting with a chicken nuggie sticking out of her mouth thank you

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As some of you may have seen, the Project Ghostlight channel got hacked last night to show some crypto currency BS. The team are working on fixing it as we speak. As such, there will be some delays in official videos from their channel getting out this week.

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Get in his face

CW: glitch, gore

..until there's no face left

no but this is illegal you cannot shove a visual parallel the likes of which have not been observed since arcane right into my face and expect me not to go insane about it

anyway I thought I'd add the pictures separately as well

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In case you needed a reminder to never trust the stupid ass ai overview google has:

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omg hey

hey thank you so much for sharing this

I would like to mention btw that learning all this a day after I finally pieced together that there are just as many fears as there are clans feels like being yanked from the ocean floor straight to the surface with no decompression thank you very much

watching ep 6: that Mandible guy's giving me some crazy Michael Distortion energy idk

ep 8: haha funny btw the storyteller was in your walls when you said that

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HE'S A WHA- I mean makes a lot of sense but was this like common knowledge over here

watching ep 6: that Mandible guy's giving me some crazy Michael Distortion energy idk

ep 8: haha funny btw the storyteller was in your walls when you said that

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watching ep 6: that Mandible guy's giving me some crazy Michael Distortion energy idk

ep 8: haha funny btw the storyteller was in your walls when you said that

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HOIST

(Xander tries to pick up Alex, lol)

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The head archivist's to do list

or arts and crafts with Gertrude Robinson

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I made a little fox on a clementine ^^ That's was not easy but very fun to do

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This may be my most extreme skull - a Japanese chin dog. What an absolute mess.

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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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So uhhh… TMAGP 8, huh?