rates that are bad.

the. well frankly these ppl make him look like his mom is about to sell him to one direction.

It’s so awkward when people try to claim Jayce’s trial in Arcane didn’t have underlying themes of ableism because it’s like. What do you think it means when someone is deemed unfit by the government. Did you think the Council wanted for Ximena to ground him or something 😭

Vanco.

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real hannibal fans eat the poster

secondedddddd 🥺

oh my god his madame X swag......

VANCO

FOUND IT

EMEERGENCY does anyone have that "yesterday i ate 2 yogurts normally" screencap

THIS is what I mean when I say we *must* examine our "preferences" to find where any implicit, subconscious biases influencing those preferences lie, so that we can dismantle them & subconscious isms (in Jayce's case, racism) at the same time!

ppl haaaaaate the notion that he might have thoughts in his head imho this goes hand-in-hand with the whole "viktors the smart one jayce is the himbo" thing

the fact of the matter is that even when we make the "just bc hes more masculine doesnt mean he cant be trans" argument in defense of trans jayce we take for granted *that* he is those things rather than questioning *why* we assume those things, and that often comes down to the fact that hes brown.

why do we take it for granted that hes the "more masculine" one. why is he by a VAST vast margin depicted as huge & shredded. etc. im not arguing that criticism of the trend is bad, its frustrating to see the character i project transgenderly onto depicted as Absolutely Cis the majority of the time

if ur criticism of the discrepancy of trans (often transmasc) portrayals of j & v doesnt take into account the fact that jayce is brown. u are only halfway there.

Oh are we still talking about tropes we will deploy at a moment's notice, good, how about one man lighting another man's cigarette. you'll not pry that one from my iron grip

Celebrating Jayce from Arcane's birthday by eating a lizard straight off the ground

someday i am going to draw my stupid little (sprawling, hours of thought put into this, help me) jayvik jsamn au

"post pit jayce" -viktor in the comments on jayces insta. thanks everybody for coming to my joke.

-- speculation about whether jayvik were in love, how much is dramaticized, whether vanco were playing it gay. 15 years post-fact vanco are married and they get interviewed about the enduring reception of the movie etc etc.

already yapped about it elsewhere but heres the idea. metafiction type fic. vanco are actors who starred in a biopic about jayvik, who lived likeeee 80-ish years before the movie was made. movie is either a hit or a cult classic, either way lots of scholarship abt it and specifically--

i am shrimply built different ive never projected onto viktor a single day in my life but i saw one (1) fanart of jayce before even watching the show and said "oh are we trans and suicidal king?"

they really said lets introduce him with his o-face

😭 SORRY it is so very rarely going in that direction here at badrates dot gov

for sure, it would be a stretch to say they wouldnt.

shoves my head through the laptop screen. what if.

oooo was thinking that its a direct reversal of vi's death but if it was by enforcer then it would be a parallel to felicia's death... thinking emoji.

-- silco put in a word with someone-or-other and convinced the council to extradite him to zaun to face justice.
vander either lets him go with a warning that if he sees his face or hears his name or even sees a fucking hammer again he'll kill him, or he uncuffs him and fights him there.

"no. but neither were you."
they dont speak again for some amount of time but then all of a sudden there are plans in motion. vander goes to talk to silco and finds him all business-mode with something to show him-- jayce, not strapped to a chair but cuffed and gagged. after the council's ruling --

oh heads would roll 10000% and if either or both of them made it out alive it would be a miracle. this is def a world where theres a statue of both of them.