Your bodyguard? His gardener.

i have myriads of fandoms which i go in and out of frequently, but my heart and soul will always belong to Tolkien and his works. Maishmikh Gabiluglabufarinlugbu. i am not in any way, shape or form a quality blog, but feel free to make my day and talk to me. this is a no judgement zone.

[giveemhales]

Everyone is getting into the Shane and Troy of it all so I am jumping in to add my own headcanon. I think Shane HATES Troy. And I think he actually hates him even more after he comes out. Like I think he always hated Troy the way he hated Dallas Kent and the dozens of other players who spewed slurs at him on the ice. But that was hatred bordering on indifference. He knew he was better than them and the slurs were just a desperate attempt to get under his skin because they couldn’t beat him with skill alone. Troy and those other players are nuances that he does not spare a thought about off the ice.

But once Troy joins the centaurs and becomes Ilya’s friend and then has then has the audacity to come out? As if that erases everything he’s done? Watching people accept and forgive him when Shane was the one taking the brunt of Troy’s treatment? Watching Troy come out at a pride night and celebrate with his team and fall in love when Shane has put himself (and Ilya) through hell remaining in the closet for nearly a decade because of the pieces of shit like Troy? Is still actively going through that hell?

And then when Troy actually becomes best friends with Ilya and Shane joins the team and Shane is expected to be friendly with him? Oh he is fuming. He does not give a fuck that Troy is a better person now and it was his own fears/internalized homophobia making him behave that way. Shane was gay and in an actively hostile environment and you know how often he said slurs in his career? Never. Ilya is in a closeted relationship and from a country where homosexuality is criminalized and you know how often he said slurs? Never. Same with Scott Hunter. The fact Troy was gay the whole time makes it feel like a betrayal. Troy knew what it was like to be othered, and that didn’t stop him.

Shane is so tired of having to bear these responsibilities he never asked for. He’s so tired of taking the blame for his own pain. He’s tired of being the Asian role model who doesn’t get to get angry. Who has to grin and bear it. He never had the option to behave like Troy, so all his internalized homophobia was only ever pointed inward. Troy took the easy way out and he still got the happy ending Shane fought tooth and nail for. It’s not fair.

And now Shane is finally out. He’s finally on a team with his husband with players who support him. But fucking Troy Barrett is there. And he just has to grin and bear it.

EDIT: if you love this idea, check out the fic I wrote ft. Shane crashing out at Troy

[amalkova]

At first there was nothing, and then - a pencil stroke

[amalkova]

Extra Jumbo, farm fresh Mumbo

[doomsbury]

to all of those people who don't like boromir i'd like to remind you that boromir died with his honour intact. unlike isildur, face down in a river with arrows piercing through his back, corrupted and afraid. he fought as a son of gondor, protected what he knew was pure and died with the blessing of the king of men. he died laying in the arms of a king. his king. he may have been swayed by the power of the ring but in the end he fought and faced it. in the end his heart was true to his people. those of gondor—his home. and those of the fellowship—his friends. he died as a brother, a friend, and a hero.

[torturedbitchesdepartment]

is this anything

[dilftanger]

2014:

2024:

The Nod | for @patrichornkissed

[suiheisen]

what if we were teammates of 19 years who said things like "i remember watching you play in latvia, thinking how lucky i was that i was going to be your teammate" and "sid saved me" and "only for pittsburgh, always with sid" and "i just always liked him from the start. always have. always will"... and we were both boys

(and what if sports reporters wrote alpha/alpha romance about us. what then.)

[missingpucks]

me giggling when my crush tells a joke

[literally-irreverent]

in every single hrpf fic, regardless of team fandom, there is a moment where the writer is like

[eternityinalake]

Round 2 Game 3, 5/2/16: Chin hooked on shoulder! Chin hooked on shoulder!

[erumelde]

[idrilka]

ALL PHOTOS ARE CURRENTLY PART OF THE SMITHSONIAN CAPTAIN AMERICA EXHIBIT. 1. Cpt. Steve Rogers and Agent Margaret “Peggy” Carter (Italy, November 1943). 2. Members of the Howling Commandos. From left to right: Cpl. Jacques “Frenchie” Dernier, Cpl. Timothy Alyosius “Dum Dum” Dugan, Lt. James Montgomery Falsworth, Sgt. James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes (Poland, February 1944). 3. Cpt. Rogers and Sgt. Barnes return from the HYDRA labor camp (Italy, November 1943). 4. The Howling Commandos. From left to right: Pvt. James Morita, Cpl. Jacques “Frenchie” Dernier, Cpl. Timothy Alyosius “Dum Dum” Dugan, Lt. James Montgomery Falsworth, Sgt. James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes, Pvt. Gabriel “Gabe” Jones (Italy, November 1943). 5. The Howling Commandos (Italy, November 1943). 6. Cpt. Steve Rogers and Sgt. James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes (Italy, November 1943). [part i]

[idontknowhowtoplayguitar]

Lotr headcanon, having lots of patches on your clothes is fashionable in the Shire. The more patches, the cooler you are. Especially if it's a lot of different fabrics. It's common to trade patches with friends and family, and it's usually treated with high sentimental value. It's like carrying a piece of someone with you.

While the hobbits are on the quest, their clothes get holes and such. This leads Sam and Frodo to nab small things from the other members of the fellowship, like handkerchiefs or anything too worn for use, to use as patches. Merry and Pippin aren't so courteous, and cut pieces from the fellowship's clothes while they sleep.

Of course, the hobbits exchange patches amongst themselves while traveling, and they never go anywhere without a needle and some thread. Sam is the best at sewing. Pippin is not allowed around needles.

Boromir notices this, thinks it's adorable, and leaves things out purposely for the hobbits to use. Eventually, he asks about it, and they convince him to do the patches, too.

Aragorn also notices and thinks it's adorable, but doesn't bring it up to them. He's secretly flattered to find pieces of his rag on Frodo's pants. He asks Boromir about it instead.

Legolas doesn't notice. His clothes are elven-made, and the scissors refuse to cut it.

Gimli notices the random holes in his clothes, and the things going missing, but doesn't realize it's the hobbits. He brings it up to Legolas, who immediately convinces Gimli that he's crazy and it's all in his head.

Gandalf notices, obviously, and he doesn't mind until Pippin tries to cut his cloak while hes asleep. He proceeds to wake up and yell at him until dawn.

After Boromir dies, Aragorn takes his cloak, and sews pieces onto his clothes. These are the only patches he has.

Bilbo has a set of clothes with patches from the dwarves, from his own adventure. He told them about the tradition, and they all gave him pieces of fabric to use. He can still recount which patch belonged to who.

[viktorthemachineherald]

What actually happened to Jayce and Viktor in the end? And why didn’t Ekko’s Z-drive destroy everything within its blast radius?

TL;DR: the only timeline that could have worked was the one where Viktor gives Jayce the Acceleration rune, where Ekko invents the Z-drive, and where Jayce saves Viktor and gets his partner back.

Something we’ve seen pointed out is that the world rune that worked in this timeline was the Acceleration rune, which has the function of transportation through time and space. 

Ekko’s Z-drive was built by inverting Jayce’s Acceleration rune (this is important later).

We know from his experiments that the limit for reversing time is only 4 seconds. Any further back and it causes catastrophic harm to his surroundings. It’s implied that the further he overextends his Z-drive, the more disastrous the damage and radius of effect.

In the final battle against Viktor, we see Ekko overextend his Z-drive far beyond 4 seconds. Then, he yeets it at Viktor, whose mask is shattered from the impact.

We know that turning back time beyond 4 seconds causes catastrophic destruction of the surrounding areas: Jayce and Viktor, and perhaps countless others should have been caught up in the blast. But instead, we see something different:

Time stands still for a moment, courtesy of the boy who shattered time. 

Now things happen all in a manner of seconds: In the astral plane, we see Viktor comment on the anomaly that Ekko has created.

It’s something that Viktor as smart as he is, couldn’t have conceived— leave it to Ekko (and lest I forget, Heimerdinger and alt-Jinx) to show them all up.

This is debatable, but I firmly believe that Viktor with his awareness of all time and space, could have escaped or even survived the explosion.

It’s only Jayce, the only person who could show him what he showed him, that gets through to him in the end and convinces him to give up his Glorious Evolution.

"In all timelines, only you can show me this". Ekko is the catalyst but Jayce was the key.

Jayce returns the Acceleration rune to Viktor which kicks off a chain of events. The souls under Viktor’s control are freed from his grasp. Back in the real world, and back to the explosion, we see the following happening almost simultaneously: 

The blast from the Z-drive extends from Viktor’s reach to Jayce’s

The Acceleration rune embedded in Jayce’s wrist starts to glow from being activated by Jayce and Viktor in the astral plane

Jayce and Viktor are absorbed into the gem and the gemstone blips out of existence 

Recall that the Z-drive was created through an inversion of the Acceleration rune. To multiply something by its inverse, is to divide it by itself. The Acceleration rune multiplied by the Inversed Acceleration rune, cancels out the effect of the other: nullifying both the anomaly from the Z-drive but also the rune.

This explains why there was no larger explosion. Viktor and Jayce (who chose to stay) sacrificed themselves and took themselves out of the equation. Jayce and Viktor were the anomalies— just like the Z-drive should not have existed, neither should have Hextech.

Through all the timelines and permutations of runes that Viktor tried, the only combination that could have worked was in the timeline with the Acceleration rune. It couldn’t have worked if it was any other rune, if Ekko had never invented the Z-drive, or if Jayce had never convinced Viktor to give up his path of destruction, and got his partner back.

In short: Boy Savior saves the day; Love Wins

[rhinedottirau]

"There is no prize to perfection. Only an end to pursuit. In all timelines...In all possibilities...Only you can show me this."

[valberryboar]

I’ve seen people post this expression of Viktor but I haven’t seen anyone post the ‘for what’ afterwards. It’s so cute 😭

[beefharlot]

Rewatching Arcane after the finale is kind of insane in hindsight like take this scene for example

Jayce defending hextech/magic to Viktor, based on his childhood experience of him and his mother being saved from a snowstorm by a mage, who we now know was Viktor. Saying “you’ve no idea how beautiful it is” to Viktor, about Viktor. It’s been about Viktor this whole time.

Also a fun bit of foreshadowing because Viktor DOESN’T know how beautiful it (it being he) is. The actions Viktor took in s02 were motivated by him wanting to improve the lives of others, but his view of what “improving” the lives of others is deeply rooted in his own view of himself and his internalized ableism (which smarter and more eloquent people than me have explained on here already so I won’t go on about it). It took seeing Jayce’s POV of him to bring him back to his humanity. “There is beauty in imperfections. They made you who you are, an inseparable piece of everything I admired about you” Like AU Viktor said to Jayce, “Only you can show me this”. Man what the fuck