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oh to be a vampire's chosen in a club that only plays 2000's industrial and darkwave

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I loooove this gif so much

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“why do you have a gap in your resume” idk why is there a gap in your staff. worry about that

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inspired by a friend misspeaking

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what abled ppl think is a massive problem for disabled folks: 13 year old on the internet faking something

what is actually a massive problem for disabled folks: "well you don't LOOK disabled, are you sure you're not faking? I'm not giving you accommodations until you PROVE you're not faking. Please give me, a stranger, your medical info and explain your condition to me in detail so I know you're not faking and only then will I respect or take you seriously"

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Injecting pure estrogen into my bloodstream so I forcefeminize my vampire friend

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wtf did they do to him

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regular dogs

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how do we feel tf2 nation

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Took the composition from the cover of the band's album In Extremo "Quid Pro Quo".

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Cheers

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“It can’t be THAT hard, can it?”

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I cannot wait a minute more. Here is the title card and pages 1-3 of Issue 2. I would have liked to get more done, but in my infinite wisdom, I decided to redraw the next pages. Oh well! Enjoy!

Oh, btw for all of the nerds in the audience (me) if this comic were to take place in the official timeline, it'd be in 1971, aka right before the events of the official comics.

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What a year, huh?

The bots being gone, the 7th comic finally out. It feels like a new era or the end of one. Anyway, I love you TF2. I know the comic is all about letting go, but don't think I'm leaving anytime soon.

This was supposed to be a part of a page, but it became its own thing lmao

____ ko-fi

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One of the things about Viktor that just kills me is just how little autonomy he seemed to have compared to other characters.

He went from, "there is always a choice" to "choice is false"

It might be easy to write that off as the hexcore changing him, and while it did change him, I don't think it's the primary cause of this change.

Throughout Viktor's life so many things happened to him that he had so little say in. He didn't choose to be born in Zaun, which led to his disability and terminal illness. Still he made the most of it. He entered the academy because that was the only way he would be able to rise up and get a better education than his birth would afford him.

In his partnership with Jayce, he was never one for the public, partially because he didn't consider the politics of progress to be important, only the science. But there is also that he absolutely believed that next to Jayce, he would be invisible. He never resented Jayce for it though, he preferred the lab anyway.

A lot of the reason he believed he would be invisible next to Jayce has to do with his insecurities, but he wasn't entirely wrong. Piltover absolutely would have ignored him in favor of Jayce. When Mel was talking to Jayce and Viktor about hextech, she ignored Viktor almost entirely, not out of malice, simply because Jayce was more useful to her. And so the choice to make hextech weapons was taken out of his hands.

It's worth noting that Jayce, had he taken the time to look at things from Viktor's point of view, would be absolutely furious how little say in things Viktor has had. Jayce always respected Viktor and in making decisions, they made them together. But Jayce, especially after he became a councilor, always had the power to go behind Viktor's back, a privilege that Viktor did not really have.

The closest Viktor went to going behind Jayce's back, when he went to visit Singed, he was stopped by Jayce's barricade. Even though Viktor had informed Jayce that he was going to see someone, even though Viktor didn't think it mattered that this person was in the undercity.

There are many instances in season one where Jayce makes decisions regarding hextech without consulting Viktor, simply because he didn't think. Viktor would never have been able to do that.

Viktor couldn't stop his illness from getting worse. No matter how hard he fought against it, he couldn't stop it from limiting his energy and time.

Viktor does everything he can to take his fate into his own hands. He tries to get the hexcore to save his life, and it kills Sky in the process. So he decides to make peace with his mortality, no matter how difficult that may be, because he won't let the hexcore harm anyone else.

Viktor tries to help Zaun by being there with Jayce as he argues for its independence in an effort to do something good with the little time he knew he had left.

But then the council gets hit with Jinx's rocket and Viktor dies. Only to be revived against his will by Jayce, after he had done his best to make peace with his mortality.

Not only does he get revived against his will, everything he ever fought for, his insistence on not using hextech for weaponry, had been ignored by everyone, even Jayce. Zaun was under military occupation.

And then Jayce tries to save the world by killing him, believing that he had already died, but inadvertently leaves him in the hands of Singed and Ambessa to enable his new, cynical worldview to be enacted on the world.

In the end, his name is largely forgotten about.

It's no wonder he came to believe that choice is false. In his life he continuously had choices ripped from his hands. It's no wonder that his motto largely was "ask for forgiveness not permission". He couldn't just wait for permission, even when he would go out and do something before permission was given, often his choices backfired such that everything he worked for was undone.

I stand by that the hexcore was no more mind control than an evil advisor would be. The advisor can push him in a particular direction, but at the end of the day, Viktor can and did overrule the voice many times over, but he was not immune to its influence. But even without mind control, there is something tragic to how little power and autonomy Viktor seemed to have in his life, even while he caused all the events of the show.

(side note: none of this is Jayce slander, his actions are understandable from his perspective, but that doesn't change that many of his actions hurt Viktor or took away Viktor's autonomy)