A nice little detail I noticed tonight.
They bar the door with Viktor’s cane, so when the Enforcers break in, the cane breaks too.
And then the next thing we see is Viktor floating, with his amazed smile, his childlike wonder.
There’s this sweet, almost bittersweet implication that he’s transcended his body, just for a moment.
He won’t feel so free in his body again for years, until he drops his crutch and runs on the docks.
The ways that their partnership is imprinted on his body, and the stages of it reflected through his body—how he finds freedom and joy that first night; how he’s wasting away during the period when Jayce’s attention was elsewhere; how Jayce reconstructs him through love and it’s too much for him to take; how Jayce’s body comes to mirror his; how they’re both bodiless in the end, and free, like it’s taken them years of suffering to reach the purity of that first free moment again—will always be so moving to me.
Arcane is a story written on Viktor’s body.
3/02 I see what you did there!
This is so cute n beautiful, I'm loving Snake's freckles and Aoi's eyebrows
If you did one on May the 3rd my dream would come true. Not many great aoipei fanarts out there ;_;
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Oh he so does. Joking about it is just the most comfortable way for him to reveal that. And yeah, he probably over exaggerates it for comic effect, but still. My hc is, my MC likes to tease him while they're chilling on the bean bags by resting her feet on him and watching him blush. The moment Bobby realizes she's totally cool with his fetish, there's no turning back for him. From that point their fun time in the hideout always starts with a foot massage :)
Okay but real talk, the important random question is:
Does Bobby really have a foot fetish or is it just a goof he latched into or some alternate third option?
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...as opposed to the outside, where you'd normally expect to see the jewel of a wristband like this. It's a simple fact that still carries so much weight:
Of course, one thing it signifies is simply how it's not for show, not an adornment, but instead something deeply personal to Jayce.
Beyond that, however, there is just something so symbolic about keeping a memento directly on top of your veins like this. Where you might feel for a pulse, or - you know - cut in order to end your life (Jayce's suicide attempt just so happens to be the only time he takes it off, too - he doesn't even take it off during sex).
And while it's not something I noticed consciously for the longest time, everytime Jayce rubs his thumb over the crystal, as he so often does... he is inadvertently also baring his wrist and tracing his lifeblood; his heart, his "whole life".
Jayce is quite literally carrying the stone, the beauty and the dreams it represents cased in gold and close to his heart.
And I don't know about you, but I can just never get over how - even though he won't know it for many years - what this gem really is at the end of the day, is the bond Jayce shares with Viktor across time and space made manifest. Given to him by Viktor in order to set them on their path to each other.
At which point, when Jayce does find out, it is then fully embedded into his body and his very essence; to be - at long last - dug out of his veins, gifted to and shared with his own Viktor during their final moments.
I don't know, man... the layers of symbolism with these two sometimes actually makes it more difficult to write these posts because there is just so much to consider. For instance, in this topic alone we have:
The crystal representing the mage who saved him,
who is also Viktor,
but also representing Jayce's dreams of bringing the magic that the mage i.e. Viktor brought to his life to the world,
those dreams being Jayce's "whole life"
and something of which he is immediately eager to share ownership with Viktor
after Viktor validated those dreams by returning the wristband to Jayce,
being the only other person to have held said wristband,
which in itself is again a symbol of their bond,
and -
You see the issue here? I feel like I can never truly get to the bottom of every facet I want to talk about in any of these posts (while still remaining coherent, that is).
Then again, I guess all that really means is that you are cordially invited to dig deeper if you wish to.
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"It's not a theory..!"
Or well, technically, what I want to highlight here is the chronology of 3 different lines - notice something?
Viktor: "I wanted to talk about your work... this HexTech theory of yours."
Jayce: "It's not a theory..! I've seen with my own eyes what magic can do, the lives it could save. You've no idea how beautiful it is."
Viktor, later: "This HexTech dream of yours has the potential to do that."
It's no coincidence that the wording around it is identical, with the difference being that Viktor immediately caught on and understood what the idea of HexTech truly meant to Jayce.
No wonder then, really, that Jayce promptly stared like Viktor hung the moon and decided right then and there that this was theirs, now.
(By the way: by virtue or vice of being a series about underrated moments, I don't think I in good conscience will be able to make one singular separate post about the line "Our HexTech dream." - however I will get creative and use lines that connect back to it, don't worry.)
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What is this hand to waist ratio.
He could wrap them around my throat twice with fingers that size.
being 25 is like: im dying. im living my best life. im a failure. my life hasnt started. everything interesting has already happened to me. im achieving my dreams. im cutting my hair with kitchen scissors. im starting a skincare routine. im a corporate professional. im a sellout. im out of groceries. i have too many groceries. i am never going to be successful. i am going to win a hugo award before im 30. im crazy. im boring. i need to finish this essay. i need to finish this story. i need to start a newsletter. i need to start tweeting more. i need to stop tweeting. i need to ghost all my friends. i need to tell my friends i love them. i need to find a new apartment. i need to take out the trash. i am the trash that needs to be taken out.
I love my interpretation Enthir as the college’s weed man. Yes he can get you the elder scrolls equivalent of a nuke. But he can also get you some good kush
does that mean
she has been pGReNant bef o r e?
she/her, 28, ENTP, 7w8, nerdy bisexual mess. I open Tumblr twice a year to repost my current brainrot related things only to disappear again
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