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It is adorable. And, I'd like to add some things about the dyslexia portion. I'm not dyslexic myself, but I do know that it makes reading and writing difficult, sometimes in specific ways. Scout isn't dumb— he can be naïve sometimes, but he's a quick thinker, clever, and funny.

On Scout's Taste In Women

I was thinking a lot about Scout’s illiteracy today. He struggles with some words, but was able to get the gist of that young reader’s edition of Ghost D.A., so he’s not entirely illiterate but functionally so. Maybe he has a learning disability, like dyslexia. The 60s were not exactly a good time to be a student if you had a learning disability or were just not a rote-style learner.

But that’s digressing already. What I realized is that his illiteracy shines a light on a line from Expiration Date. When he talks about ladies, and how they smell nice and have cute crooked glasses and last but not least, can read.

And that would have been just a joke at the type of woman Scout tends to go for, one that suggests he only goes for dumb girls (falsely, since literacy doesn’t come easy to everyone, and being illiterate is not a sign of a lack of intelligence in the slightest).

Knowing Scout is illiterate, we see that a lady being able to read actually means a lot more than we’d thought.

Miss Pauling’s literacy is something Scout seems to treasure. Maybe admire. Certainly value. Whether it’s because he sees it as a sign of sophistication, intelligence, of simply something impressive to him since he can’t really get the hang of it, the fact that Miss P can read is important to him.

And frankly, I find that utterly endearing.

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Yo uh

Like this if you remember Tf2 

Reblog if you still think it’s cool

Like and reblog if it’s still your fandom and you’ll scream if the 7th comic finally fucking comes out

Edit: It hasn’t even been a week how did this get a thousand notes

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Ahhh I love it! Thank you!

Merry Smissmas @its-called-a-balaclava!!

I had a ton of fun working on this piece!

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@parody-the-emi I was your secret Santa! I hope you like it!

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Do you ever wonder if scout confuses words just to annoy Medic?

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Okay so sniper is really only used to talking on the phone with his parents right? So what if he accidentally ended a call with spy (idk maybe he needed to be picked up at the airport) with “love you”

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❤️🕊

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mission begins in 30 seconds

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Scout/Pauling 

The most important recreation of a picture in my cosplay history and being that shameful Scout that I am.

Scout - me Miss Pauling @daeila picture - letsgoinsane 

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For some reason, I felt the need to draw this educational comic starring Medic explaining the heart symbol because, hey, Valentine’s Day! As far as I know, everything in this is factual (or at least the most likely theory.) I’m too lazy to cite my sources, though, so Google it yerself.

I’m insane for taking the time to draw this, but on the plus side, I’m WAYYYY better at drawing Medic now!

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Joining a fandom that is new to you but well-established is like going to a restaurant with a sign outside that just says “Food served here” and asking for the chef’s special without looking at the menu.

Fifteen minutes later a waiter just comes out like “Uh, who ordered the middle-aged man shrieking ecstatically in German while being pounded in the ass by an enormous Russian?”

And you just have to put your hand up like, “I guess that was me. I, apparently, ordered that.”

(Meanwhile, the cook’s in the back throwing another plate on the counter like “A Red Oni trashcan and a Blue Oni trashcan in a hopeless Foe-Yay spiral, pick it up!”)

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On a rewatch of Expiration Date, something caught my eye. In the beginning, he wakes Scout to take the call. It was a video call, no hands required and noone else was on the road. It was a call he could’ve taken, or made Soldier take. It stands to reason that if Heavy could believe that Spy was Scout’s father, he’d figure out something as obvious as Scout liking Miss Pauling.

Why would he? Well, Scout is a lot less of an asshole when Miss Pauling is around. Spy probably isn’t the only one who’s been defaced with Scout’s drawings.

But, I think even deeper, if you look at scenes in MVM trailer, or Heavy with his family, or his lines with Medic, you’ll see a pattern.

Heavy is deeply loyal, and far more shrewd that most people assume he is. He knows more about the actual business than any of the other mercenaries. Everything from hiding his family from his employers back in Meet The Director, and refusing to open up to the director, which turned out to be a trap, to suspecting Miss Pauling’s intentions before any other mercenary, and doing everything he can to keep them secret. He is a roaring menace on the battlefield, but it is outside of the battlefield where he shows the true depth of his leadership and intelligence.

Being a defense class doesn’t just mean capping a point. He takes care of his team, and he takes care of his family. Whether it means trailing Miss Pauling and Soldier on a doomed mission to intercept Gray Mann’s base, or nudging Scout, a teammate Heavy doesn’t even always get along with that well in the right direction be it his possible family, or love. He watches over his comrades, protecting and guiding them, even at the cost of his own wants and needs, or his own glory.

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Soldier: Why do we water plants?

Heavy: So they grow.

Soldier:…..We should start watering Engie.

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Just realized:

My mom wouldn’t let me play with toy guns as a kid

Now I play with toy mercenaries

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